Important Takeaways:
- A new wildfire broke out in Ventura County late Monday night as thousands of firefighters in California continued their work to extinguish other deadly blazes that have scorched thousands of acres of land in the Los Angeles area since last week.
- The wildfire, which is called the Auto Fire, ignited in Ventura and was about 56 acres with 0% containment.
- This new fire comes as forecasters issued a “Particularly Dangerous Situation” Fire Weather Warning in Southern California due to dry conditions, low relative humidity and the return of dangerous Santa Ana winds.
- [Meanwhile] Nearly 1 million people in portions of New York and Pennsylvania are under a Lake-Effect Snow Warning as more winter weather blasts the Northeast.
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- Experts are on red alert after uncovering a ticking time bomb in Antarctica that would reshape the continent and dramatically increase sea levels worldwide.
- More than 100 volcanoes lie beneath the surface of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is ‘particularly vulnerable to collapse, yet its position atop an active volcanic rift is seldom considered,’ the study noted.
- As the ice sheet melts, the amount of mass pushing down on the surface decreases, which creates an uplifting effect in the subsurface.
- This, in turn, allows magma chambers deep within the continent to expand, which speeds up the processes that lead to an eruption by putting stress on the chamber walls and releasing gas trapped inside the magma.
- When volcanoes erupt, this drives more melting at the surface, and the process starts over again.
- The researchers modeled this phenomenon using over 4,000 advanced computer simulations, finding that surface melting speeds up the process that initiates the first stages of an eruption by tens to hundreds of years.
- Some of the chambers released enough heat to melt more than three million cubic feet of ice a year.
- If the ice sheet completely collapsed, sea levels could rise a catastrophic 190 feet.
- This would completely submerge entire coastal cities such as New York, Tokyo and Shanghai, rendering them uninhabitable.
- Luckily, scientists believe that apocalyptic scenario is still a long way off.
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- During a special message at The Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida, Rabbi Jonathan Cahn gave a timely word regarding Trump’s future.
- Cahn notes that at this event, Donald Trump was going to be present, and he had been given the honor as one of the faith leaders to speak and meet with the president.
- Cahn explained to the president that he was called for the purpose of walking in an anointing like Jehu to bring hope and godliness back to the nation.
- “He called you according to the template of Jehu, the warrior king,” says Cahn. “He called Jehu to make His nation great again. Jehu came to the capital city with an agenda to drain the swamp. Jehu forged an alliance with the religious conservatives of the land. So it was your destiny to do the same. To come to power Jehu had to prevail against the nation’s former first lady. So to come to power you had to prevail against the nation’s former first lady. Jehu overturned the cult of Baal by which children were sacrificed. So God chose you to overturn America’s cult of Baal, Roe v. Wade, by which millions of babies were sacrifices, and you set it in motion on a day that was appointed from ancient times to cause a nation to turn away from its sin.”
- Cahn says that God had it planned all this time for Trump to walk in this same anointing and destiny as Jehu to help save America. However, Cahn gave Trump a warning, a caveat, of what the Lord needs of Trump to fulfill His plans through him.
- “For that to happen, you must seek Him with all your heart, follow Him with all your might,” Cahn says. “Jehu was born to make his nation great again by turning it back to God. So were you. America can only be great again if America turns back to God. You are a trumpet of God, and the trumpet can only fulfill its purpose if it’s filled with a breath of the one who holds it up and blows through it. God is the One who lifted you up, and He wills that you be filled with a breath of His Spirit.”
- Cahn warned Trump that this means being completely devoted to the Lord in all of his ways.
- “God is calling you to go all out for God, for Him, and if you do, then what follows will be the greatest and most glorious part. Then you will do what no president has ever done. You will be the vessel God used to bring America back to touch history and to change the world. For the Lord has spoken, ‘Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart. Now arise and shine, for your light is come and the glory has risen upon you,’” Cahn prophesies in the video.
- Cahn further said he believes this truly could be the last opportunity for America to have a revival, and we as the people of God must be praying for Donald Trump right now.
- “We need to pray for the president, that God will touch him and have His way, and that he will, this time, go all out for God, and we need to pray for revival as never before because only that can save the future.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed during an interview on Sunday, a week before he steps down, that China has penetrated America’s water treatment plants, electric grid, and other critical civilian infrastructure, and is lying “in wait” for an opportunity to cyberattack at a time and place of its choosing.
- Asked on CBS’s 60 Minutes about Chinese penetration of U.S. cyber and infrastructure, Wray said China’s cyber program is the largest in the world and has stolen more of Americans’ personal and corporate data than every nation combined. Then, he added:
- But even beyond the cyber theft. There’s another part of the Chinese cyber threat that I think has not gotten the attention publicly that it I think desperately deserves. And that is Chinese government’s pre-positioning on American civilian critical infrastructure. To lie in wait on those networks to be in a position to wreak havoc and can inflict real-world harm at a time and place of their choosing.
- Wray said China has already infiltrated malware into critical American infrastructure.
- “Things like water treatment plants. We’re talking about transportation systems. We’re talking about targeting of our energy sector, the electric grid, natural gas pipelines. And recently we’ve seen targeting of our telecommunications systems,” he said.
- Wray said China has also been listening into Americans’ calls.
- Joshua Steinman, former National Security Council senior director for cyber security during the Trump administration, posted on X:
- This enrages me. I left them with the tools they needed to confront this. And it appears those tools went unused for four years. Total mismanagement.
- Wray called stepping down “one of the hardest decisions” he has ever made, but said he had little choice after President-Elect Donald Trump made it clear he would be replaced.
- Trump has nominated Kash Patel, former deputy Director of National Intelligence and Pentagon chief of staff for the role.
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- Both the outgoing Biden administration and President-elect Trump’s people are pushing hard for a hostage deal and ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Many in Israel see reports about this possible deal as excruciating.
- The ceasefire-hostage deal is still up in the air, but the U.S. is talking optimistically.
- Media reports indicate 33 hostages would be released at the start of the deal, but Israel’s government is not sure how many of those will be live hostages.
- The release of more would be negotiated in later stages. Israel appears ready to sign the deal, but whether Hamas will is unknown.
- Some hostage families and their allies have marched in Jerusalem to protest any deal that doesn’t free all the hostages at once and in which Israel gives up hope of crushing Hamas in Gaza.
- Protester Tamar Gesundheit appealed, “Please President Trump, do not pressure us to give into Hamas. Pressure them to give into us.”
- Meanwhile, the fighting continues in Gaza, and the Houthis fired missiles at Israel again overnight.
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Important Takeaways:
- 2025 has been quite a chaotic year already. On New Year’s Eve lightning struck four of the most iconic buildings in our entire country, on New Year’s Day we had terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, Justin Trudeau stepped down just a few days later, and now we are in the midst of the worst fire disaster in U.S. history. Meanwhile, a lot of other really weird stuff has been going on in the sky above our heads. For example, a “once-in-a-lifetime comet” that only comes around once every 160,000 years is about to be visible from our planet…
- If you’re a fan of skygazing, make sure you have your eyes to the skies this evening.
- A once-in-a-lifetime comet is set to become visible for the first time in 160,000 years – and you don’t want to miss it.
- The comet, called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), was discovered by the ATLAS survey system, and has been slowly approaching the inner solar system.
- Scientists are telling us that those living in the southern hemisphere will have the best chance of viewing it with the naked eye.
- On top of everything else, the Sun is starting to behave very strangely once again.
- All over social media, people are talking about an absolutely enormous coronal hole that spans “1/4 of the circumference of the Sun”…
- A huge coronal hole spanning 1/4 of the circumference of the Sun is opening, allowing unusually fast solar winds to head towards Earth, #NASA announces.
- So far, the mainstream media in the western world is not really talking much about this story, but I did find a news outlet overseas that is discussing it…
- NASA reported that a massive coronal hole recently opened across the Sun’s circumference, further letting out an alarmingly fast stream of solar wind reaching speeds up to 800 km/s, towards the Earth causing concern and panic across social media.
- The matter in question also sparked debate among scientists about its possible effect on Earth, since it can lead to geomagnetic storms causing disturbance for satellite operations and electrical systems. Moreover, these geometrical disturbances can also result in lower magnetic latitudes.
- Most people have no idea how large the Sun really is. Approximately 1.3 million Earths could fit inside of it, and even the smallest change to the Sun has dramatic implications for our climate.
- It isn’t a mystery why global weather patterns have gone completely nuts. The Sun has been behaving very strangely, and I believe that this will be an enormous story during the years ahead.
- So let’s keep a close eye on the sky, because the weirdness that we have seen so far is only just the beginning.
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Important Takeaways:
- A magnitude 6.2 earthquake rattled a region of southwest Mexico on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
- The tremor was about five miles from Coalcoman de Vazquez Pallares, a municipality of around 20,000 people about 372 miles west of the capital Mexico City. The quake struck at a depth of 53 miles.
- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on social media platform X that the national emergency services had reported “there are no new developments and are initiating review protocols” in Coalcoman.
- Mexico lies on five tectonic plates that make it one of the world’s most earthquake-vulnerable countries, particularly on the Pacific coast.
- In 1985, an 8.1 magnitude quake centered on the Pacific coast ravaged much of central and southern Mexico, killing thousands and causing severe damage in Mexico City.
- A 7.1-magnitude quake on September 19, 2017, killed 369 people, most of them in the capital.
- On the same day in 2022, central Mexico was hit by another quake, just hours after millions of people had taken part in a mock earthquake safety exercise.
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Important Takeaways:
- Los Angeles County is facing “critical fire conditions” after firefighters have for days battled deadly wildfires that have razed entire neighborhoods, and the situation is expected to worsen this week.
- The National Weather Service issued a rare “Particularly Dangerous Situation” Red Flag Warning that’s due to start early Tuesday into Wednesday for parts of L.A. County and Ventura County, warning that winds will be high enough to cause “explosive fire growth.
- The death toll rose to at least 24, per the L.A. County medical examiner’s Sunday evening update. Another 16 have been reported as missing, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said during a Sunday briefing.
- More than 100,000 residents remain under evacuation orders and over 12,000 structures have been destroyed.
- The Kenneth, Sunset and Lidia fires have been 100% contained, Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a Sunday update.
- The Hurst Fire was at 89% containment Sunday evening, per Cal Fire.
- The Palisades and Eaton fires, the biggest of the blazes, were 13% and 27% contained, respectively.
- Newsom announced he’s deployed a further 1,000 California National Guard personnel to the Los Angeles area, taking the number assisting in firefighting efforts to 2,500.
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Important Takeaways:
- A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook parts of southern Japan on Monday.
- According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake was reported about 7 miles to the east-southeast of Miyazaki just after 9 p.m. local time (7 a.m. ET) at a depth of about 30 miles.
- Miyazaki, located on the island of Kyushu, sits about 560 miles to the southwest of Tokyo.
- According to the National Weather Service’s National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, there is no threat of a tsunami for the U.S. West Coast, Alaska or Hawaii.
- There is no immediate word on damage or injuries.
- The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a Tsunami Warning for waves of 3 feet in height for parts of the southeastern shores of Kyushu and Shikoku.
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- “Unfortunately, the Chinese Communist Party is just filthy all over there. They control the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal — both the Atlantic and Pacific ends,” Johnson said, describing the current scope of Chinese influence.
- “Lots of reports about China cozying up to Panama, having more and more influence over how the canal is operated, and 40 percent of all American container loads that leave our country go through the Panama Canal. It is an asset that is uniquely important to us,” he said, explaining that “73 percent of all the traffic in the Panama Canal is American traffic, either imports or exports, overwhelmingly American energy, liquefied natural gas and American agricultural products.”
- “And as you noted, we used to control the thing until 1999,” he said, asserting that he believes President-elect Donald Trump “should have the ability to go evaluate whether or not we can get a willing buyer, willing seller situation.”
- Host and Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle noted that he witnessed the Chinese influence firsthand when visiting the canal in 2017.
- “I think most of, if not all of the ships were all carrying Chinese flags. I was just blown away by it,” he remarked.
- “Well, and you’re right to bring up how many ships are flagged with the Chinese flag,” Johnson responded, although he explained that the scope of the issue is much bigger.
- “And this is not just a problem for the Panama Canal. It’s a problem for supply chains. Generally, during COVID, you had Chinese carriers who were discriminating against American goods at our own ports,” the congressman said, revealing that 60 percent of U.S. container loads that were going back to Asia “were going back empty at a time when American ag[ricultural] products were rotting on the dock, literally rotting on the dock. They were doing that purposely.”
- “My bill, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, passed last Congress, was signed into law and really forced the Chinese to start to treat us more fairly
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