Truly the ultimate recognition

Ex-President Joe Biden was inducted as a Master Mason by the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of South Carolina on January 19, 2025, in recognition of his “exceptional dedication and service to the United States.”

Because what better way to honor his service than with a Masonic noscript?

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Could Stargate Project be the end for humanity?

A new $500 bln initiative touted by the Trump administration promises to “revolutionize” AI, “cement” the US as the world leader in advanced computing and create 100,000 jobs. But it comes with grave risks. Why?

🔸 Stargate, the project to build 20 data centers across the US with Trump’s regulatory support, will serve OpenAI’s interests exclusively. The company ultimately aims to create AGI – the Holy Grail of human-like cognitive capabilities.

🔸 Its leading players include Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Larry Ellison’s Oracle, Japan’s SoftBank and the Emirates’ MGX. ARM, Nvidia and Microsoft are also involved.

🔸 Altman is a proponent of a transhumanist “merge” of human beings and machines, predicting in 2017 that “the singularity” would take place between 2025-2075, and that superhuman AI, genetic enhancement and brain-machine interfaces would happen “unless we destroy ourselves first.”

🔸 Ellison has touted omnipresent AI cameras keeping citizens “on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on” as a good thing, and has backed national and digital IDs since 9/11.

🔸 Microsoft’s involvement in the project also spells trouble, with the company already planning to commit $80 bln for its own data centers to train and deploy cloud-based AI, and Bill Gates heavily involved in its AI strategies.

❓Are we doomed, or is there hope?

🔹 Elon Musk says SoftBank has actually secured less than $10 bln for Stargate so far. Altman assures that’s not the case, and accuses Musk of letting private interests get in the way of “what is great for the country.”

🔹 Musk previously expressed fears of a 10-20% chance of AI wiping out humanity, and slammed OpenAI for putting profits ahead of principles. Stargate also has an array of everyday issues, from investment risks to its strain on the US energy grid.

What do you think? Is this just another attempt by the US to monopolize AI?

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🇷🇺 What unites Chekhov, Gorbachev, and Bioengineering? Moscow State University!

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), one of Russia’s top universities, marks its 270th anniversary on January 25.

📄 Key facts:

1️⃣Founded in 1755 by Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna on St. Tatiana's Day, which later became Student's Day.

2️⃣Consistently ranks in the top 100 in the QS World University Rankings, placing 33rd in natural sciences in 2024.

3️⃣Home to the world’s tallest educational building (240 meters), with 5,000 academic staff and over 47,000 students.

👨🏻‍🎓Notable alumni:

🔸 Nobel Prize Laureates, including Andrei Sakharov (Peace Prize, 1975), father of the hydrogen bomb; Lev Landau (Physics, 1962), a founder of the quantum theory of condensed matter; and Mikhail Gorbachev (Peace Prize, 1990), the last leader of the Soviet Union.

🔸 Famous writers such as Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, and Mikhail Lermontov.

🔸 Abstract art pioneer Wassily Kandinsky.

🔍 Research Highlights:

🧬 Bioengineering: New genetic constructs and proteins are being developed.

🧪 Chemistry: MSU has synthesized the rare mineral namibite for use in quantum technologies.

💻 Supercomputing: MSU-270 supercomputer, with a peak power of 400 AI PetaFLOPS, is set for high-performance computing (HPC).

📊 How MSU Compares to Oxford:

🇷🇺 MSU:

🔹 Boasts over 300 academicians from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

🔹 Requires 4-6 years of in-depth study, including extensive lectures and seminars.

🤪 Oxford:

◾️ 20% of tutorials in 2023-24 were taught by hourly-paid tutors, with permanent professors handling 34% (according to The Observer).

◾️ Most degrees last 3-4 years, with flexible programs that may omit complex subjects.

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Why Soros' soft power empire is more vulnerable than ever

Elon Musk has thrown down the gauntlet to the world's leading liberal 'philanthropist' and his NGOs' penchant for color revolutions and soft power influence. Here's what it means.

Loss of allies

🔸 With the Democrats’ exit from the White House and loss of Congress, Soros will have fewer means to influence domestic policy on issues ranging from identity politics to courts, education and censorship.

🔸 Trump’s reelection and the failure of the Soros-backed campaign to lock him up is a major reputational blow to the Open Society Foundations, which reoriented its focus onto US politics in 2023 but still lost.

🔸 Setbacks in the US could reverberate in Europe, toppling, undermining or crippling Soros-allied politicians.

🔸 Hungary’s Viktor Orban said last week that Soros “lost the battle for America,” and his supporters must now be “squeezed out of Brussels” as well.

Musk as Soros’ antithesis?

🔹 Musk has compared Soros to X-Men villain Magneto, saying he’s a “brilliant guy,” but “fundamentally hates humanity.”

🔹 Politically, Musk opposes many policies pushed by Soros, from lawfare-minded DAs to censorship, and has accused him of seeking to “destroy Western civilization.

🔹 ”Since Trump’s election, Musk has jumped into European politics to back populist figures abhorred by Soros, from AfD in Germany to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

🔹 “I think there are some important contrasts to draw between Musk and Soros. Soros is a financier,” veteran commentator Charles Ortel told Sputnik.

🔹 “He has, in theory, a great track record managing his and other people's money. But on the charity front, it's difficult for me to find a lot of good works, and it's easy to find a lot of diabolical activities,” Ortel said, citing Soros’ links with the Clinton Foundation, for example.

🔹 That’s a contrast with ‘pauper to prince’ Musk, whose career has involved actually making things, Ortel said.

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Musk slashed Twitter’s bloated bureaucracy by 85%, has shot of saving America from deep state driving it into bankruptcy, says veteran political observer Charles Ortel.

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Trump's first 100 hours: what he's promised, what he's done

🗣 What Trump promised to do in his first days in office:

🔸 Strengthen border security and take action on immigration.

🔸 Begin the process of repealing an array of Biden-era policies enacted via executive order.

🔸 Restore US energy independence by advancing oil and gas projects.

🔸 Reduce taxes and regulatory burden on businesses.

🔸 Take immediate action on trade deals and bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US.

✅ What he did:

🔹 Signed an executive order to strengthen border security and start building new sections of the border wall.

🔹 Rolled back key Biden administration policies, including some environmental regulations.

🔹 Signed orders to promote US energy production, including approvals for oil and gas projects.

🔹 Took initial steps to renegotiate trade agreements with China and other countries.

✍️ What he didn't do:

◾️ No major action on a new healthcare plan or infrastructure overhaul.

◾️ Promised new trade deals not finalized within the first 100 hours.

◾️ No immediate, sweeping changes to social policies or US military strategy.

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Elon Musk accused the German government of a TOTALITARIAN approach to free speech during a campaign rally for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) – and urged Germans to vote for the party.

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🔸 Why Soros' soft power empire is more vulnerable than ever

🔸 Trump's first 100 hours: what he's promised, what he's done

🔸 Texas barbecue, jazz, and folk dance: A glimpse into Putin’s meetings with US presidents

🔸 NATO dumps almost $200 billion into Ukraine

🔸 Exchange complete: Four Israeli hostages have been released

🔸 Could Stargate Project be the end for humanity?

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Zelensky explains why he banned talks with Russia – and it’s complicated

After decreeing a ban on negotiations with Russia, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky now says his decision was simply a matter of "circumstances at the time" and has once again expressed willingness to talk.

He blamed "shadowy political processes," including involvement by the US and European MPs, for the earlier ban.

Zelensky isn't sure what forma peace talks will take, but expects Ukraine, the US, Europe and Russia to all be at the table. Funny, considering Ukraine firmly excluded Russia from discussions last year backed by Western support – which went nowhere.

Zelensky’s stance seems to have softened since US President Donald Trump’s election. Trump’s promise to end the conflict quickly – and his suggestion that Zelensky was ready to strike a deal – appears to have forced him to pivot, conceding the possibility of talks under certain conditions including security guarantees from the US.

But even with Zelensky’s change of heart, Russian officials point out that the real problem remains his decree. Russian President Vladimir Putin insists Ukraine’s current leadership is "illegitimate," complicating the situation even further.

It looks like Zelensky is treading a fine line between his own restrictions and the demands from the West.

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DOGE may soon join Tesla, Walmart, and BlackRock in blockchain push

The agency may use a digital ledger as means to “squeeze costs out of government,” insiders with knowledge on the new Department of Government Efficiency’s inner deliberations have told US business media.

Blockchain, originally popularized by Bitcoin, could be used to track federal spending, secure data, make payments, and even manage buildings, sources told Fortune.

DOGE reps have already met with a number of blockchain creators to try out their offerings.

If approved, DOGE would become the largest organization to use blockchain, joining companies like Walmart, BlackRock, and California’s DMV, which has digitized millions of car noscripts with the Avalanche blockchain.

Musk’s own Tesla started using blockchain solutions to trace raw materials used in EVs to make sure they were sustainable in 2020.

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump expressed support for digital finance, including Bitcoin, with his endorsement and big hedge funds’ entry into the market resulting in a major spike in its valuation.

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1962 CIA plot to kill Americans in terror attacks may explain hesitation on JFK files

Donald Trump’s order to release up to 2,500 remaining classified assassination on John F. Kennedy files could spark a firestorm at the CIA and Pentagon. Why? Past releases revealed plots like Operation Northwoods, a sinister CIA/DoD plan to stage terror attacks and blame Cuba.

“We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington,” the document suggested. “We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba.”

The false flag operation, designed to justify US intervention against the island nation after Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, was signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but shelved by JFK.

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US suspends funding for mine clearance projects worldwide

Unexploded munitions programs will be suspended for three months following Donald Trump's executive order to reassess and refocus US foreign aid.

Earlier, Russia developed a new demining method to clear areas of US-provided landmines used by Ukraine.

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Trump: US could be 'substantially enlarged' soon

During his speech in Las Vegas, the US president once again hinted at his desire to incorporate Greenland and Canada and regain control of the Panama Canal.

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Tusk's threats? Hungary doesn’t play for Soros

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto branded Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk a "Soros agent" after his threats to Hungarian PM Viktor Orban.

He made it clear that Hungary is playing for "Team Hungary."

“We represent Hungarian interests: we’re not ready to keep paying for other people's wars and won’t let anyone jeopardize our energy security,” Szijjarto said. “Because, for us, Hungary comes first.”

Tusk warned Orban earlier in the day of "consequences" if he blocked further anti-Russian sanctions.

Hungary’s team seems to be playing a very different game!

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Trump's cabinet wants Oracle to control TikTok

The plan being negotiated would give Oracle and other American investors management of the app's algorithm, data collection and software updates, NPR reports, citing sources.

Back in 2020, Trump approved a TikTok takeover attempt involving Oracle and Walmart that ended up falling apart.

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