Worth Reading

How It Stops, How It Ends

America: Breaking Bad - Again 

Trump - Venezuela

Why Trump Underestimates the Challenge of Reviving Venezuela’s Oil 

Maybe but I'd guess the real reason is that Trump doesn't understand anything. 

He just bullshits. 

 

 

Bari Weiss

US news CBS now openly working for Zionist Israel. 

Jerusalem Post on Bari Weiss.

'The New York Times' tried to cancel Bari Weiss. Now she's running CBS - comment

Media owners shape the prism through which you will be consuming your news. They influence the culture, the hiring, the risk tolerance, what stories get pursued, and which ones get killed. Everyone knows this. Nobody likes admitting it because it punctures the myth of editorial independence. 

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It's definitely also the fact that she's an American Jew and an American Zionist who's doing more for Israel than most of us.

Trump - Corruption

Corrupt as hell. 

Anonymous crypto gambler made $436,000 on Maduro capture

 

Venezuela

Well, I guess we won't be talking about Epstein for a few days. 

World reacts to US bombing of Venezuela, ‘capture’ of Maduro

Defrauding America

 

Below is a non-exhaustive list of individuals who defrauded the American public, U.S. financial institutions, and taxpayer-funded systems out of billions of dollars through bank fraud, securities fraud, Medicare fraud, insurance fraud, and foreign-influence schemes.

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— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) January 1, 2026

Links

Two good ones from Ian Welsh

The Accelerating Nature Of Financialization Collapse 

2025 Is The Year The US Empire Acknowledged The End of Hegemony 

Nuclear Power

A good article on SMRs.

SMRs Explained: Real-World Economics, Fuel Bottlenecks, and the Race to Scale 

A few thoughts.....

• I'd guess the US is years away from implementation due to regulation and NIMBY-ism.
• We made a deal to work with Kazakhstan to help them build one even though we haven't done it yet? NIMBYism at work.           
• They'll be a push to change the way we think about them from "Small Nuclear reactors" to "long lasting batteries".   
• Looks like they'll be pushing for old coal generation sites to house them. 
• It sounds like the next tech market bubble. 

 

Misinformation

A stupid headline from CNN. (no link. Fuck CNN)

Trump makes radical changes many of which affect the the economy from tariffs to ICE arrests, attacking US cities, firing government workers, starting new wars and the economy which was going pretty good shudders. 

And today, CNN confirms that only now is Trump responsible.

  

Trump Corruption

And the Republicans wanted to hang Hunter Biden for a few thousand.

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches