Important Takeaways:
- President Donald Trump has announced a new artificial intelligence company called Stargate, which will be a collaboration between some leading U.S. tech figures.
- Trump used his first full day in office to announce the $100 billion project alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, signifying Trump’s close relationship with Big Tech.
- What Is Stargate?
- Stargate is a new project designed to maintain the U.S. as the global leader in artificial intelligence. Backed by a $500 billion investment over four years, Stargate plans to build AI infrastructure across the U.S., creating thousands of new jobs and doubling down on American advantages in AI development.
- With $100 billion already set for immediate deployment, the project will focus on re-industrializing the U.S. while enhancing national security and developing transformative AI technologies.
- The project will be based in Texas, where the construction of 10 new data centers has already begun.
- Stargate will prioritize AI advancements in industries such as healthcare, where the technology could revolutionize patient care through improved diagnostics, earlier disease detection and even potential cancer vaccinations.
- Who Is Part of Stargate?
- Stargate is a collaborative effort between some of the most prominent global players in technology and investment.
- The initiative consists of top U.S. tech companies, including SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX.
- Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank, will serve as Stargate’s chairman.
- Key technology partners in the project include Arm, Microsoft and NVIDIA, all of whom will contribute to designing and operating the computing systems needed to maintain AI infrastructure.
- Altman emphasized the significance of Stargate, calling it “the most important thing we do in this era”
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Important Takeaways:
- “From Hamas’s perspective, they are making a major comeback as a dominant force in Gaza,” Dr. Michael Milshtein, a senior researcher at the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University…
- “Their situation is not bad. It’s terrible for us to say this because we wanted to see a battered, beaten, and maybe even barely existing organization. Yesterday, the education system in Gaza announced that schools will soon reopen, even though 85% of schools no longer exist. 6,000 Hamas police officers have been deployed throughout the strip, making it clear to everyone who is in charge and signaling that there’s no point in talking about the ‘post-war era,'” he said.
- … in their view, the price was worth it. In their count, 50,000 died, and the destruction of Gaza is the justified price for the harm caused to Israel and for their national pride. I’m not justifying them, but that is their narrative, and it’s time we understand that,” he added.
- Blinken spoke about 4,000 new recruits to Hamas, and that’s just from the past few months. They will use the near future to rebuild. This means organization structures, new appointments of commanders, and attempts to locate weapons’ wherever possible.”
- Mission accomplished?
- Yesterday, Hamas waved one of the major symbols of this statement – the commander of Beit Hanoun, whom we thought we had killed, ended up being still alive.”
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- A snowstorm of historic proportions walloped the Gulf Coast this week, delivering travel-snarling snow from Texas to the Carolinas and breaking records that have stood for more than a century.
- “This is a once-in-a-lifetime event for a lot of these folks down there,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tom Kines said.
- Even for seasonal snowfall so far, Lafayette, Pensacola, New Orleans & Mobile are beating Salt Lake City, New York City, Sioux Falls, Des Moines, Boise, Flagstaff, Albuquerque, and Reno.
- AccuWeather’s preliminary estimate for total damage and economic loss from the snow, ice and extreme cold in the South is $14-$17 billion. “This has been the worst winter storm to hit the Gulf Coast in decades,” AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter said. “Businesses have been forced to shut down. Supply chain and shipping logistics have been disrupted severely. With the cold remaining in place, the impacts and interruptions from this winter storm will be felt for days to come.”
- As the storm evolved and intensified along the Gulf coast, a blizzard warning was issued for southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas, including the coastline. “It was the first blizzard warning issued along the Gulf Coast of the United States,” AccuWeather Meteorologist and Digital Producer Jesse Ferrell said.
- …the state of Florida also preliminarily broke its all-time snow record for any storm, with 9.8 inches at Milton, located in the Florida Panhandle
- Rumbles of rare thundersnow echoed near Lafayette, Louisiana, on Tuesday morning as heavy snow blanketed the region. By 2 p.m. CDT, 9.5 inches of snow had been reported in Lafayette, with 10.5 at Rayne, Louisiana, the highest report from the state. The 13.4 inches measured at Grand Coteau, Louisiana, could challenge the state 24-hour snowfall record of 13 inches measured at Colfax in 1960 if confirmed.
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Important Takeaways:
- Firefighters fought to maintain the upper hand on a huge and rapidly moving wildfire that swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles and resulted in more than 50,000 people being put under evacuation orders or warnings.
- The Hughes Fire broke out late Wednesday morning and in less than a day had charred nearly 16 square miles (41 square kilometers) of trees and brush near Castaic Lake, a popular recreation area about 40 miles (64 kilometers) from the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires that are burning for a third week.
- By Wednesday night, about 14% of the Hughes Fire had been contained.
- Red flag warnings were extended through 10 a.m. Friday in LA and Ventura counties. Officials remained concerned that the Palisades and Eaton fires could break their containment lines as firefighters continue watching for hot spots.
- An evacuation warning was issued for Sherman Oaks after a brush fire broke out on the Sepulveda Pass near the I-405 Freeway. The blaze was first reported just after 11 p.m. Wednesday, but the Los Angeles Fire Department announced early Thursday that forward progress had been stopped at about 40 acres (16 hectares) and the evacuation warning was lifted. No structures were damaged and no injuries were reported, fire officials said, but firefighters remained at the scene.
- More than 31,000 people have been ordered to evacuate from the Hughes Fire, and another 23,000 are under evacuation warnings, LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said. There were no reports of homes or other structures burned.
- More than 4,000 firefighters were assigned to the fire, he said.
- To the south, Los Angeles officials began to prepare for potential rain even as some residents were allowed to return to the charred Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas. Gusty weather was expected to last through Thursday and precipitation was possible starting Saturday, according to the weather service.
- “Rains are in the forecast and the threat of mud and debris flow in our fire-impacted communities is real,” Supervisor Kathryn Barger said during a Wednesday morning news conference.
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Important Takeaways:
- The United States Catholic bishops reasserted Thursday that fighting abortion is the “pre-eminent priority” for Catholic voters, since protecting human life is the first duty of the law.
- “Abortion directly attacks life itself, takes place within the sanctuary of the family, and destroys over a million lives annually in the United States,” states the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities as part of its “9 Days for Life” campaign.
- The prelates go on to note that the Declaration of Independence “boldly affirms that first among our inalienable rights is the right to life, given to us by the Creator.”
- But despite being so solemnly proclaimed, “the right to life is today threatened and often denied, particularly at the moments when life is most fragile,” they observe.
- “Our laws should — first and foremost — protect life,” they declare, and yet even with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, “many states still do not recognize children in their mothers’ wombs as persons and still claim that abortion is a right.”
- As Breitbart News reported, abortion was the leading cause of death globally in 2024, with a record 45 million unborn babies intentionally killed in the womb.
- In the course of the year, 8.2 million people died from cancer, 5 million from smoking, 1.7 million of HIV/AIDS, 1.35 million from traffic fatalities, and 1.1 million from suicide, while 45.1 million died from abortion.
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Important Takeaways:
- With the burning of both the Pacific Palisades and most of Altadena (a town just north of Pasadena), over 15,000 structures went up in smoke, sending plumes of toxic ash into the air that included lead, asbestos, and many other chemicals. According to the New York Times, the neurotoxin lead reached 100 times “average levels even miles from the flames,” while levels of chlorine reached 40 times the average
- The fire’s aftermath could lead to greater damage to brains and nervous systems from the lead in the air, especially in children, with chemicals like chlorine potentially damaging the lungs. A previous study showed that the 2018 Camp fire may have killed as many as 12,000 Californians prematurely due to the effects of toxic smoke and ash in the air.
- According to Axios, standard air quality measurements do not take into account the particles in the air like lead, asbestos, and other chemicals.
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Important Takeaways:
- The $417 billion in economic losses represents a 15% increase above the decade average. The record high of $154 billion in insured losses surpasses the recent 10-year average by 27%. Despite these significant insurance payouts, a substantial protection gap remained, with $263 billion, or 63% of total losses, left uncovered, the report found.
- The year was marked by several record-breaking natural disasters. For the first time in history, 21 separate incidents resulted in multi-billion-dollar insurance claims, surpassing the previous record of 17 set in 2023 and 2020.
- The insurance industry’s response to these challenges will play a key role in shaping future premium costs and coverage availability. As annual loss volatility continues to be influenced by climate risk, insurers must balance the need for financial stability with their critical role in providing protection against increasingly unpredictable natural catastrophes.
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Important Takeaways:
- Trump on Monday evening signed an executive order that read:
- National security is also damaged by the publication of classified information. Former National Security Advisor John R. Bolton published a memoir for monetary gain after he was terminated from his White House position in 2019. The book was rife with sensitive information drawn from his time in government. The memoir’s reckless treatment of sensitive information undermined the ability of future presidents to request and obtain candid advice on matters of national security from their staff. Publication also created a grave risk that classified material was publicly exposed.
- To remedy these abuses of the public trust, this Order directs the revocation of any active or current security clearances held by: (i) the former intelligence officials who engaged in misleading and inappropriate political coordination with the 2020 Biden presidential campaign; and (ii) John R. Bolton.
- Trump also revoked the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed a letter calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation — which was used as justification to suppress reports about it just days before the 2020 presidential election.
- Bolton served as Trump’s third national security adviser, after Gen. (Ret.) Mike Flynn and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) H.R. McMaster.
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Important Takeaways:
Letter from a terrorist to the world is written by Jerusalem Jane to reveal the horrendous reality and deep trauma facing the Jewish people and Israel.
- For years, we slaughtered thousands of Jews in horrific terror attacks, including Holocaust survivors and babies; then we slaughtered even more Jews because we are never satisfied with how much blood we shed in those attacks.
- In 2011, two of our terrorist brothers, armed with four knives, entered the Itamar community and entered the Fogel family home.
- They went from room to room and brutally murdered most of the family. They stabbed 10-year-old Yoav multiple times, then strangled and stabbed 4-year-old Elad.
- They proceeded to stab the parents to death, and in the act of killing them, these evil terrorists heard the cry of the Fogel’s three-month-old baby Hadas. With utter cruelty and no mercy, they murdered her with a strong stabbing to her head that penetrated her tiny skull from side to side. We celebrated their demise, and congratulated our jihadist brothers.
- Yes, our brothers also butchered Jewish fathers on Independence Day by chopping them down with axes in front of their small kids. We gleefully carry out attacks that include shooting, ramming, stabbing, rocket attacks, and everything possible that we can imagine to kill Jews.
- Over the years, we fired more than 40,000 rockets into Israel from Gaza; we have repeatedly set Israel on fire with hundreds of arson kites and balloons with the support and cheers of the civilians in Gaza.
- Then we attacked on October 7th, 2023, and commit war crimes that are the most heinous atrocities since the Holocaust by murdering more than 1200 people, burning people alive, decapitated hundreds of people, or mutilated many of them.
- Those we didn’t kill outright, we kidnapped and brought into Gaza. We also carried the bodies of other Jews as ransom or negotiation pawns in dealing with Israel.
- These captives were then tortured, starved and raped.
- How many of those captives are actually dead or dying? We won’t disclose that. We want the stress of uncertainty to take a toll on the family of these captives.
- Oh and yes, our fellow terrorists in Hezbollah helped out with over 15,000 rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel.
- We are also aided by hundreds of ballistic missiles launched from our friends in Yemen and Iran, which has sent Israelis running for their lives to bomb shelters over and over again.
- We drive 100,000 Israelis out of their homes, and cause them to be refugees in their own country while destroying many of their homes. We love bringing relentless terror and uncertainty against them, we believe they deserve every moment we rob them of their peace!
- Meanwhile, we play the victim and get people all over the world demonstrating in the streets of their own countries for us, and ultimately supporting us in our wholesale slaughtering of Jews. We have successfully convinced the UN and EU to pour billions of dollars into our hands to educate and train our children to murder the Jews.
- Many of our doctors, teachers, Imams, journalists and aid workers are actually terrorists being paid by UNRWA and among other sources, both in Gaza and The West Bank.
- As matter of fact, we are deeply embedded in UNRWA, and we use their facilities to serve our agenda. Our schools’ books are nothing but lies, hate and propaganda against Israel, which is subsidized and supported by UNRWA.
- Our heroes are terrorists who brutally murder Jews; and those who are martyrs for our cause; are honored by actually naming public squares and streets after them. We regard them as role models for our children, and we gladly glorify them.
- We pay them or their families (when they are martyred) to murder the Jews, we have paid billions of dollars with money streaming in from western countries who must be both deaf and blind to our hate against the Jews, since they are willingly sponsoring their murder.
- We glorify death while the Jews celebrate life, so we fully take advance of that. So, now we get thousands of our most esteemed and cold-blooded terrorists free for the exchange of innocent civilians that we kidnapped and sodomized for more than year.
- Meanwhile, the world is going to pour billions of dollars into Gaza so we can rebuild after the massacre we committed on October 7th. Yes, it pays to be terrorists murdering the Jews.
- We are grateful that we are always getting rewarded with billions of dollars, along with sympathy from the world while the Jews who are being attacked and murdered in the most horrific ways are always being blamed, condemned and charged for war crimes. This is in spite of the fact that we committed these war crimes while trying to commit a genocide on Oct 7th.
- Among our other efforts, we have stolen hundreds of trucks of aid in Gaza, actually more many tons of aid was delivered into Gaza but we lied to the world and said people were starving and Israel was blocking aid – just like we lied and didn’t disclose that about 20,000 of our terrorists brothers were killed in Gaza. Instead, we just told the world that all those casualties were civilians, which they believed.
- Just like when we lied about Israelis bombing hospitals, when in fact, one of our rockets misfired, yes all the lies we told from “The health Ministry in Gaza,” AKA Hamas was believed and shared by mainstream media around the world. We can tell them anything, and they believe us.
- We also turn the Gaza strip into the biggest terror nest in the world, thanks to all the hundreds of millions of dollars we received in aid that was used to build the most sophisticated tunnel system throughout the entire Gaza strip. Every other house had tunnel shafts in them and we store a lot of weapons and rockets in our children’s bedrooms. They are our future, can’t you see?
- Mosques, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, playgrounds, UNWRA facilities were all used to store our weapons and we had command centers in many of these places as well. We also use civilians as human shields, and most of the people in Gaza support us 100%. Conversely, we abuse and murder the people who don’t support us in Gaza.
- As for this battle we fight against our oppressive occupiers, we are actually shocked when we see how the Israeli Army is so humane and in advance of their military operations, tells people to evacuate and move to a safe zone before they come after us, the vile terrorists as they call us.
- Why in the world is the IDF caring about the civilians in Gaza when they are supporting us, the freedom fighters named Hamas, when we in fact don’t give a hoot about any civilians? We need them to be casualties so we can blame Israel.
- Oh well, thousands of our terrorists’ friends are now being set free for a small group of innocent civilians that we abused. We can’t wait to welcome among others our brothers from Hamas, such as Wael Qassem and Wisam Abbasi, they were responsible for attacks that caused dozens of casualties, including bombings at Café Moment in Jerusalem, the Sheffield Club in Rishon Lezion, and the Frank Sinatra Cafeteria at Hebrew University in the early 2000s.
- Yeah, we are actually very good at murdering the Jews whether they’re standing at a bus stop, shopping in the supermarkets, driving in busses and vehicles, or sitting outside a home for the elderly, like when we recently brutally murdered 83-year-old Ludmilla Lipovsky, she was actually a holocaust survivor.
- We are also good at murdering Jews in the privacy of their own homes like Dafna Meir, who was killed when a Palestinian teenager repeatedly stabbed her at the entrance to her home in Otniel in front of her 3 children.
- To top all this off, we also have 50,000 children inside Gaza at military boot camps every summer to learn how to liberate Palestine and murder the Jewish people, and yes, we are good at indoctrinating our children with pure hate towards the Jews. That’s why our children are reading “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler.
- Terror against the Jews pays off, big time, and with this investment in our children, it will keep on paying us well.
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Important Takeaways:
- Although the agreement may put an end to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, it does not, in any way, reflect a shift in the radical and dangerous ideology of the Islamist group, as outlined in its 1988 Covenant. The document quotes Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood organization (of which Hamas is an offshoot), as saying: “Israel will arise and continue to exist until Islam abolishes it, as it abolished what went before.”
- The main points of the Hamas Covenant state:
- The Palestinian issue is a religious-political Muslim problem, and the conflict with Israel is between Muslims and the Jewish “infidels.”
- All Palestine is Muslim land and no one has the right to give it up.
- An uncompromising Jihad must be waged against Israel, and any agreement recognizing its right to exist must be totally opposed.
- The ceasefire-hostage deal does not require Hamas to disarm or cede control over the Gaza Strip…. The terrorist group seems to be convinced that the deal will enable it to keep control of the Gaza Strip and prepare for more massacres of Jews.
- Shortly after the ceasefire-hostage deal was announced on January 15, Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya made it clear that his group intends to pursue its Jihad against Israel.
- The new US administration, to avoid more violence and bloodshed, must insist that Hamas be removed from power.
- This can only be accomplished by applying pressure and sanctions on Hamas’s Qatari and Iranian sponsors.
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