Up to 25 Percent of U.S. Colleges May Close Soon
January 23rd, 2026Good.
And this should be done at the high school level:
The initiative seeks to overhaul the university’s general education curriculum, expand access to internships and apprenticeships, and provide students with micro-credentials tied to skills valued by employers.
Via: The College Fix:
Higher education is approaching a period of profound disruption, and many colleges may not survive, Arthur Levine, the newly appointed president of Brandeis University, said during a recent event.
Levine estimated that between 20 and 25 percent of colleges will close in the coming years, while community colleges and regional universities move increasingly online.
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Levine said he is attempting to respond to these issues through his “Brandeis Plan to Reinvent the Liberal Arts.”
The initiative seeks to overhaul the university’s general education curriculum, expand access to internships and apprenticeships, and provide students with micro-credentials tied to skills valued by employers.
“The liberal arts have always been practical,” he said, noting that early American higher education was designed to prepare students for professional and civic leadership. Under the new plan, Brandeis aims to redesign general education to better align with the demands of a global digital economy.
Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization
January 22nd, 2026Via: The White House:
Sec. 2. Actions. (a) The United States intends to withdraw from the WHO. The Presidential Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations signed on January 20, 2021, that retracted the United States’ July 6, 2020, notification of withdrawal is revoked.
Pentagon Orders More Active-Duty Soldiers to Prepare for Deployment in Minnesota
January 22nd, 2026Via: Independent:
Hundreds more active-duty soldiers have been given orders to prepare for possible deployment in Minnesota, amid ongoing tensions and concern that Donald Trump may invoke the Insurrection Act to quash anti-immigration enforcement protests.
The Pentagon has ordered members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, to be on standby, sources familiar with the matter told MS NOW.
Scientists Mimicking the Big Bang Accidentally Turn Lead Into Gold
January 22nd, 2026Via: Independent:
While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after the Big Bang, physicists working on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland incidentally produced small amounts of gold.
Extremely small amounts, in fact: a total of some 29 trillionths of a gram.
Trump Speech at World Economic Forum
January 21st, 2026Via: AP:
More: Bullet Points of Speech
Russia Restores Mothballed Soviet-Era Jets As Plane Shortage Worsens
January 20th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
Russia has throughout nearly four years of its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine been largely successful in weathering constantly expanding US and EU sanctions. While isolated, its economy has stayed afloat, but it has been forced into desperate measures as sanctions take a toll on some key sectors.
Russian newspaper Izvestia reports that Russia’s commercial airline industry is having to call back aging, decommissioned planes in an effort to sustain passenger traffic. Soviet-made planes which are several decades old are being restored to service.
“The plan involves nine Tupolev Tu-204/214 jets, one Antonov An-148 and two Ilyushin Il-96 widebody planes delivered to carriers including Red Wings,” The Moscow Times says of the Russian media reports.
“Ten of the 12 aircraft, which are reportedly up to 30 years old, have already been returned to service, Rostec told Izvestia,” the report continues.
China to Launch 200,000 Satellites for ‘Mega-Constellation’
January 20th, 2026Via: Daily Mail:
China has applied to launch almost 200,000 satellites into space, sparking concerns that the nation seeks to build a ‘mega-constellation’.
On December 29, a newly formed body called the Institute of Radio Spectrum Utilisation and Technological Innovation filed applications for two satellite constellations.
Each of these enormous collections of spacecraft, dubbed CTC-1 and CTC-2, would contain 96,714 satellites spread over 3,660 different orbits.
If completed, China’s new mega-constellation would dwarf even SpaceX’s bold ambition to put 49,000 Starlink satellites in orbit.
Together, CTC-1 and CTC-2 would be the largest assembly of satellites ever put in orbit, and would effectively lock competitors out of a region of low-Earth orbit.
With Chinese authorities remaining quiet about the satellites’ intended use, experts have raised concerns that the constellation may pose a security or defence threat.
As reported by China in Space, the Nanjing University of Aeronautics claims that the satellites will focus on: ‘Low-altitude electromagnetic space security, integrated security defence systems, electromagnetic space security assessment of airspace, and low-altitude airspace safety supervision services.’
This suggests the constellations may play a similar role to the SpaceX Starshield satellites used by the US military for secure tracking and communications.
Monday Morning in Los Angeles…
January 19th, 2026I sometimes have Conner playing in the background as I read through headlines…
Gunfire at Los Angeles street takeover, Monday morning. pic.twitter.com/gYEMVDVYNa
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) January 19, 2026
Just a little slice of life in Los Angeles that won’t be reported anywhere.
Canada: Trudeau’s Emergency Powers Ruled Illegal
January 18th, 2026Via: The Daily Bell:
The Trucker Protest was “No Threat To National Security.”
The Federal Court of Appeal has determined that the Liberal government improperly and illegally invoked the Emergencies Act (Canada’s equivalent to martial law) to disperse the convoy demonstrations in downtown Ottawa in February 2022. This ruling, issued on Friday, rejected the federal government’s challenge to a 2024 lower court judgment that declared former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the act unjustified and a violation of demonstrators’ rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The three-judge panel emphasized that, despite the inconvenience and disruption caused by the protests, these events did not rise to the level of a genuine threat to national security. The judges stated that cabinet lacked sufficient reasonable grounds to conclude such a threat existed, thereby failing to meet the strict statutory requirements for invoking the legislation.
“There was no evidence that the lives, health or safety of the people living in Ottawa were endangered (as annoying, stressful and concerning as the protests were),” the decision noted.
Time To Reload On This Commodity: Ammo
January 18th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
The precious metals landscape in recent times has been nothing short of record-breaking. New highs in gold and silver, but some of that momentum has been blown off on Thursday after a softer tone from President Trump on Iran eased safe-haven demand. Platinum, palladium, and other metals, such as copper, also cooled today, but one strategic commodity has yet to move higher in the metals bull run.
That one strategic commodity that has yet to break out from multi-year lows is ammunition.
