China’s BYD Overtakes Tesla as World’s Top EV Seller
January 2nd, 2026Via: DW:
Annual sales figures for 2025 show Tesla has lost its crown as the world’s top electric vehicle seller to Chinese rival BYD.
Elon Musk’s Tesla reported a bigger-than-expected fall in fourth-quarter deliveries on Friday and delivered 1.64 million cars in 2025, down nine percent from the previous year.
On Thursday, BYD said it sold 2.26 million battery-powered cars in 2025.
Related: China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities
Mamdani: We Will Replace The Frigidity Of Rugged Individualism With The Warmth Of Collectivism
January 2nd, 2026Ep. 77 The Cultural Revolution is here. Just ask Xi Van Fleet. She's lived it twice. pic.twitter.com/5xFS0T5hA9
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 26, 2024
Book: Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning by Xi Van Fleet
Also…
“The Warmth Of Collectivism” from space, North Korea vs. South Korea
Via: Real Clear Politics:
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. If our campaign demonstrated that we yearn for solidarity then let this government foster it. Because no matter what you eat, how you pray or where you come from, the words that most define us are the two we all share, New Yorkers.
Trump: “If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters…”
January 2nd, 2026"If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters…" pic.twitter.com/7AMfBuYUKt
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) January 2, 2026
Via: ZeroHedge:
President Trump has just become the first sitting US President to explicitly warn that the United States stands ready to directly intervene in Iran if Tehran authorities begin killing peaceful protesters, as he wrote Friday that Washington “will come to their rescue”.
In a brief early morning post on Truth Social, he wrote: “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.” He gave no further details what course of action this might take, but it’s a pretty clear and provocative message to Iranian leadership – or comes very close to saying something akin to the ‘Ayatollah must go’.
Abandoned IBM Advanced Business Institute
January 1st, 2026Via: The Proper People:
Jay Anderson on Limited Hangout UFO Disclosure
January 1st, 2026Via: Project Unity:
Related: Joe Rogan Experience #2430 – Jay Anderson
ASML and Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Machines
January 1st, 2026Via: Veritasium:
Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Just Played On Russia’s Doomsday Shortwave Radio Station
December 30th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
“Swan Lake” just played on the Doomsday radio station?
UVB-76, known as the Buzzer or the Doomsday station, is a mysterious shortwave broadcast that has been on the air since the 1970s.
Its purpose has never been officially explained, and conspiracy theorists spend hours… pic.twitter.com/cCNhXFhhhJ
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) December 30, 2025
X users are reporting that a mysterious Russian shortwave radio signal, nicknamed “The Buzzer” and informally known as the “doomsday radio station,” that has been continuously broadcasting since the late 1970s, has just transmitted the classical piece Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
UVB-76 is transmitted on 4625 kHz and is occasionally interrupted by Russian voice messages, often containing names, numbers, or coded phrases. These voice messages are rare, irregular, and often nonsensical, making the transmission of Swan Lake highly abnormal.
Western military analysts associate UVB-76 with Russia’s military communications and strategic command infrastructure. It reportedly remains operational as a fail-safe in the event that satellites, fiber, or cellular networks are disrupted.
Trump Says U.S. Attacked Facility in Venezuela
December 30th, 2025Update: CIA Drone Carried Out First Known Land Strike On Venezuela
Via: ZeroHedge:
The CIA is reported to have carried out a bombing operation within Venezuelan territory, CNN and The New York Times report in follow-up to President Trump touting that the US had knocked out “a big facility”.
CNN while citing unnamed sources, reports that the CIA conducted a drone strike on a remote dock along Venezuela’s coastline, after the US suspected the site was being used to store and transport illegal drugs, and which were supposedly bound for America.
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Via: The War Zone:
Trump first made the claim of the attack inside Venezuela last week during a phone call with WABC radio in New York.
“I don’t know if you read or you saw, they have a big plant, or a big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from,” Trump told John Catsimatidis, the billionaire Trump supporter who owns the radio station. “Two nights ago, we knocked that out. So we have hit them very hard, but drugs are down over 97%. Can you believe it?”
Related: U.S. Special Operations Aircraft Deploy To Puerto Rico
Irish Government to Push for European Union to Ban Anonymous Social Media Accounts
December 30th, 2025Via: Breitbart:
The left-wing Irish government has vowed to push for the European Union to prohibit the use of anonymous social media accounts in what may set the ground for another battle over free speech with the Trump administration in the United States.
Ireland will take over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union for a six month term starting in July and looks set to push for more restrictions on the internet, namely the imposition of ID-verification for social media accounts. The move would effectively end anonymity on social media, which critics have warned will hinder dissidents from speaking out against power structures.
Speaking to the Extra news outlet, Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris said that anonymous accounts and so-called disinformation are “an issue in relation to our democracy. And I don’t just mean ours. I mean democracy in the world.”
OpenAI Testing Advertising Integrated Into ChatGPT Responses
December 30th, 2025Hallucinations + Ads = Profit?
Via: Digital Trends:
OpenAI is still exploring “ChatGPT ads,” even after earlier signs it had cooled on the idea to keep improving response quality. The Information reports the company is considering sponsored content that could be prioritized so it shows up inside ChatGPT answers.
That matters for one simple reason: if paid placements are surfaced in the same space as advice, it can shape what you click and buy. It also doesn’t mean ads are definitely coming. Companies test features constantly, and this is about concepts and mockups, not a launch.
OpenAI also acknowledged the direction in a statement to The Information, saying it is “exploring what ads in our product could look like,” while stressing it wants to protect user trust.
