Important Takeaways:
- Axial Seamount, a massive underwater volcano located nearly 300 miles off the Oregon coast, is showing signs of an imminent eruption.
- This 3,600-foot-tall volcano, which spans 1.25 miles across and sits 4,626 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean’s surface, is currently experiencing significant swelling and rumbling, indicating a buildup of magma.
- Volcanologists predict an eruption before the end of 2025, but despite its activity, scientists remain unconcerned.
- Situated along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, a chain of undersea volcanoes extending between Oregon and Alaska, Axial Seamount is a young shield volcano – a broader volcano with a low profile.
- Its resemblance to Mauna Loa, Earth’s largest active volcano, and the typical non-explosive nature of shield volcano eruptions, lessens the concern among volcanologists about the imminent eruption.
- ‘When Axial Seamount erupts, it’ll look a lot like a Hawaiian lava flow eruption,’ he said. ‘It’s not an explosive eruption, but calm effusions of lava flowing out of the caldera and across the seafloor.’
- Although shield volcanoes are not typically associated with explosive eruptions, their flowing lava can still cause substantial destruction.
- However, Axial Seamount, residing thousands of feet beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, is underneath an immense amount of pressure by the water column above it.
- ‘Deep submarine eruptions are inhibited by the tremendous water pressure of the ocean,’ Poland told Cowboy State Daily.
- ‘Even explosive eruptions struggle against the ocean.’
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Important Takeaways:
- China’s “artificial sun” reactor has broken its own world record for maintaining super-hot plasma, marking another milestone in the long road towards near-limitless clean energy.
- The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor maintained a steady, highly confined loop of plasma — the high-energy fourth state of matter — for 1,066 seconds on Monday (Jan. 20), which more than doubled its previous best of 403 seconds, Chinese state media reported.
- Nuclear fusion reactors are nicknamed “artificial suns” because they generate energy in a similar way to the sun — by fusing two light atoms into a single heavy atom via heat and pressure. The sun has a lot more pressure than Earth’s reactors, so scientists compensate by using temperatures that are many times hotter than the sun.
- Nuclear fusion offers the potential of a near-unlimited power source without greenhouse gas emissions or much nuclear waste. However, scientists have been working on this technology for more than 70 years, and it’s likely not progressing fast enough to be a practical solution to the climate crisis. Researchers expect us to have fusion power within decades, but it could take much longer.
- EAST’s new record won’t immediately usher in what is dubbed the “Holy Grail” of clean power, but it is a step towards a possible future where fusion power plants generate electricity.
- East is a magnetic confinement reactor, or tokamak, designed to keep the plasma continuously burning for prolonged periods. Reactors like this have never achieved ignition, which is the point at which nuclear fusion creates its own energy and sustains its own reaction, but the new record is a step towards maintaining prolonged, confined plasma loops that future reactors will need to generate electricity.
- “A fusion device must achieve stable operation at high efficiency for thousands of seconds to enable the self-sustaining circulation of plasma, which is critical for the continuous power generation of future fusion plants,” Song Yuntao, director of the Institute of Plasma Physics responsible for the fusion project at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told Chinese state media
- The data gathered by EAST will support the development of other reactors, both in China and internationally. China is part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) program, which involves dozens of countries, including the U.S., U.K. Japan, South Korea and Russia.
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Important Takeaways:
- Scientists say AI has crossed a critical ‘red line’ after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.
- Scientists say artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed a critical “red line” and has replicated itself. In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves.
- “Successful self-replication under no human assistance is the essential step for AI to outsmart [humans], and is an early signal for rogue AIs,” the researchers wrote in the study, published Dec. 9, 2024 to the preprint database arXiv.
- In the study, researchers from Fudan University used LLMs from Meta and Alibaba to determine whether a self-replicating AI could multiply beyond control. Across 10 trials, the two AI models created separate and functioning replicas of themselves in 50% and 90% of cases, respectively — suggesting AI may already have the capacity to go rogue. However, the study has not yet been peer-reviewed, so it’s not clear if the disturbing results can be replicated by other researchers.
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Important Takeaways:
- According to Harris Faulkner on Fox News, the Trump administration already found about 75,000 to 80,000 of those kids that were missing under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
- Faulkner: “Trump has told me about all of this, and it will focus on those missing children, hundreds of thousands of them that we know. That number has already started to come down from 300,000. They’ve found about 75,000 to 80,000 of those kids already.
- If they can get the list of these guys, four full days in office for Trump—if they can get the list of where some of those kids have been and they’ve been identifying it since the election, going after them and trying to find those little ones—what in the world was Biden’s administration doing?!
- What was Secretary of Homeland Security, Mayorkas, doing when he said to the committees on Capitol Hill, ‘We don’t know where those kids are. I’ll look into it.’ No, dude, you obviously had a better way to find them, and you didn’t do your job. I can’t believe they impeached him and didn’t remove him.”
- An investigation by Muckraker exposes the Biden-Harris administration’s trafficking of humans and children and the pathway of the hundreds of thousands of children that are trafficked into the United States with the federal government’s help.
- We discovered that while in federal government custody, some children asked to be sent back to their home country, but are instead taken away in the middle of the night and sent to sponsors who they do not know. It is also well documented that this program has placed children in the hands of criminal organizations such as MS-13, as well as labor and sex trafficking rings,” says Muckraker CEO Anthony Rubin.
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Important Takeaways:
- Most Americans realize that the federal government is drowning in debt and that inflation is out of control. But very few Americans can coherently explain where money comes from or how our financial system actually works. For decades, bankers that we do not elect have controlled America’s currency, have run our economy into the ground, and have driven the U.S. government to the brink of bankruptcy. The Federal Reserve is an institution that was designed to drain wealth from U.S. taxpayers and transfer it to the global elite. Have you ever wondered why a sovereign nation such as the United States has to borrow United States dollars from anyone? Have you ever wondered why a sovereign nation such as the United States does not even issue its own currency? Have you ever wondered why we allow a group of unelected private bankers to run our economy?
- The truth is that our financial system is centrally-controlled and centrally-managed by a group of banking oligarchs who oversee a constantly expanding debt spiral which could come crashing down at any time. If the American people truly understood how our system works, they would be protesting in the streets right now. The following are 11 reasons why the Federal Reserve is bad…
- 1 – The Federal Reserve was created as a way to enslave the U.S. government. In fact, the Federal Reserve System literally could not function without U.S. Treasury bonds. Government debt is at the very core of the system, and our federal government is now trapped in a debt spiral from which it can never possibly escape because the system is operating exactly as it was designed. Our national debt has been rising at an exponential rate, and that will continue to be the case until either the current system collapses or we adopt an entirely new system.
- 2 – The individual Federal Reserve Banks are not “federal” at all. In fact, on the official website of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, it is openly admitted that Federal Reserve Banks “are not a part of the federal government” and that private banks “hold stock in the Federal Reserve Banks and earn dividends”…
- 3 – Why does the Federal Reserve issue our currency? The U.S. Constitution explicitly gives Congress the power to issue our currency…
- [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; . . .
- 4 – The Federal Reserve creates money out of thin air. I asked Google AI about this, and this is what I was told…
- Yes, the Federal Reserve (Fed) creates money out of thin air by increasing the money supply. This process is called “creating money out of thin air” because it involves adding funds to the economy without printing currency.
- 5 – The Federal Reserve devalues our currency. Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, the U.S. dollar has lost more than 96 percent of its purchasing power. The truth is that just a two percent inflation rate will wipe out half of your purchasing power within a single generation.
- 6 – The Federal Reserve manipulates the U.S. economy by setting interest rates. By moving rates higher or lower, the Federal Reserve has the power to create economic growth or to destroy it. They have the power to inflate massive economic bubbles and to pop them. Most Americans believe that our presidents “run the economy”, but the truth is that the Federal Reserve has far more control over the economy than the White House does.
- 7 – The Federal Reserve also controls the national money supply. They can pump trillions of dollars into the economy or pull trillions of dollars out of the economy without being accountable to anyone. This can have absolutely disastrous consequences. For example, inflation started getting wildly out of control after the Federal Reserve dramatically increased the size of the money supply during the pandemic.
- 8 – The Federal Reserve has become far, far too powerful. Our financial markets swing up and down whenever a Fed official makes an important statement, and every man, woman and child in the entire country is directly affected by the decisions that the Federal Reserve Board makes. Ron Paul once told MSNBC that he believes that the Federal Reserve has actually become more powerful than Congress…
- “The regulations should be on the Federal Reserve. We should have transparency of the Federal Reserve. They can create trillions of dollars to bail out their friends, and we don’t even have any transparency of this. They’re more powerful than the Congress.”
- 9 – The Federal Reserve is dominated by Wall Street and the New York banks. The New York representative is the only permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee, while the other members rotate. The truth is that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has always been the most important of the regional Fed banks by far, and in turn the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has always been dominated by Wall Street and the major New York banks.
- 10 – The Federal Reserve has completely eliminated minimum reserve requirements for our banks. Fractional reserve banking has always been a way that the bankers have conned the public, but now they have gotten rid of minimum reserve requirements altogether. This is literally insane.
- 11 – The Federal Reserve is not accountable to the voters, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is flaunting the fact that he cannot even be fired by President Trump…
- Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had a clear, direct response when asked during a press conference Thursday if he would step down if asked to do so by President-elect Trump.
- “No,” said Powell, whose term as chair ends in 2026.
- When asked to elaborate and if he would be legally required to leave, he again said, “No.”
- Powell later said it is “not permitted under the law” for the president to fire or demote him or any of the other Fed governors with leadership positions.
- Nobody knows what is really going on inside the Federal Reserve, because we aren’t allowed to see.
- Unfortunately, the truth is that they desperately do not want light to be shined on the elaborate “shell game” that they are running
- The system that we have now is clearly not working. The Federal Reserve was supposed to guarantee that our system would be perfectly stable, but in reality, our system has become much more unstable.
- It is time for different thinking.
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Important Takeaways:
- The world’s most active volcano is at it again as scientists with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said Kilauea resumed its eruption Wednesday, marking the fifth such episode since it began back in December.
- According to scientists, the most recent activity began within Kaluapele (summit caldera) with small “spatter fountains” just before 3 p.m. local time, with lava flows beginning minutes later.
- As of the most recent update provided by the US Geological Survey (USGS), current eruptive activity included small dome fountains of 16-33 feet that were feeding a short lava flow from the north vent.
- Scientists said each episode of lava fountaining since the initial eruption began on Dec. 23, 2024, has continued between 14 hours and eight days, with eruptive episodes being separated by pauses lasting from less than 24 hours to 12 days.
- The HVO said it would continue to monitor Kilauea and would issue updates Thursday or if significant changes were to occur.
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Important Takeaways:
- Taking place at the Conrad Abu Dhabi, Etihad Towers between January 28 and 30, 2025 the 7th International Rain Enhancement Forum (IREF) invites the world’s leading experts, researchers, policymakers and weather scientists to discuss a range of topics related to cloud seeding and rain enhancement programs.
- The conference, which boasts more than 65 headline speakers, will include such fascinating topics as the use of Artificial Intelligence, the deployment of drones, the potential efficacy of new cloud-seeding materials, limited-area climate interventions, hybrid AI-physics models, and completely novel approaches
- “The 7th edition of IREF represents a landmark event in the global dialogue on water sustainability and weather enhancement, focusing on key topics that will shape the future of rainfall enhancement applications, particularly the transformative potential of AI and other technological breakthroughs.”
- To date, the UAEREP has been able to rain down Dhs82.6 million on 14 research projects, which have yielded the precipitation of eight patents, with a further three pending registration.
- The UAE carries out nearly 300 cloud seeding missions annually as part of its efforts to enhance rainfall.
- The statistical randomization experiment conducted during the summers of 2004 and 2005 demonstrated that cloud seeding can enhance precipitation by 15 per cent in a turbid atmosphere. This enhancement ratio could potentially reach up to 25 per cent in a clean atmosphere.
- The UAE uses environmentally friendly materials (hygroscopic materials) in flares that contain natural salts such as potassium chloride and sodium chloride. Lately, the country has started using novel nanomaterials (hygroscopic and hydrophilic materials) that have exhibited greater efficiency than conventional materials in enhancing precipitation.
- The first attempt at cloud seeding took place in February 1982 over a specific area to the west of the country under the management of Abu Dhabi Municipality. During this time, numerous experiments were performed without any scientific bases.
- The UAE cloud-seeding program started at the end of the 1990s. By early 2001, the program was cooperating with well-known organizations such as the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Colorado, USA, as well as the Witwatersrand University in South Africa and the US Space Agency, NASA.
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Important Takeaways:
- In signing the pardons, Trump said what the Biden Administration had done to them was “ridiculous.”
- “Twenty-three people were prosecuted, they should not have been prosecuted – many of them are elderly people – they should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this,” he said.
- Earlier in the day, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) delivered a speech on the Senate floor calling the pro-lifer prosecutions a “dark period of our history” and “a grotesque assault on the principles of this country.”
- He supported Trump’s plan to pardon the pro-life prisoners, saying, “He can right the wrongs that this last administration perpetrated. . . He can, again, renew the commitment that is found right there in our Constitution. That commitment to honor liberty of conscience. To honor the right to follow God, to live out our faith peaceably—which is exactly what these pro-life prisoners, still prisoners, were doing.”
- The Thomas More Society recently sent a letter to President Trump contending that the defendants they represent had been “unjustly imprisoned.”
- According to the Daily Signal, the Thomas More Society had requested pardons for the following people: Joan Bell, Coleman Boyd, Joel Curry, Jonathan Darnel, Eva Edl, Chester Gallagher, William Goodman, Dennis Green, Lauren Handy, Paulette Harlow, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, Jean Marshall, Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, Justin Phillips, Paul Place, Paul Vaughn, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, Calvin Zastrow, Eva Zastrow, and James Zastrow.
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Important Takeaways:
- NATO’s perennial cycle of eastward expansion has been disastrous for European security, and “spells the beginning of the end of NATO as we know it,” Michael Maloof, senior former Pentagon analyst previously underscored.
- A launch of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) weapon at a height of about 200 miles from a satellite to explode a nuclear device up in orbit would knock out all the electronics of NATO countries, including the US, Michael Maloof, former Pentagon senior security policy analyst, told Sputnik.
- “Look, in the United States alone on the East Coast, 70% of the US population relies on the Eastern grid. Around 90% of all US bases rely on energy from the local community grids. If those are knocked out, there’s no communication. And the United States is not geared up for that,” he added
- Looking ahead, he predicted that fissures could tear the alliance apart.
- “NATO’s going to probably begin to fracture and splinter into more regional defense alliances in the years to come,” Maloof speculated, suggesting that it might begin with the Scandinavian countries and then spread to the Eastern European countries.
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Important Takeaways:
- Schools urged to close, tornados incoming, ‘phenomenal’ 45ft waves heading our way
- The UK is bracing itself for Storm Eowyn – the first named storm of 2025 – bringing tornados and ‘danger to life,’ forcing all schools to shut in Northern Ireland.
- Forecasters have now described Storm Eowyn as a one in a hundred-year event after upgrading their weather warnings to cover the entire British Isles.
- Now the Met Office has issued a red alert for strong winds in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland where gusts of up to 100mph are likely. Following the highest category warning, all schools in Northern Ireland have been told to close tomorrow when the worst of the storm is expected to land tomorrow.
- There are also yellow and amber warnings in place across England, Scotland and Wales.
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