My first encounter with the Sirius Patrol came after I’d delivered a speech at a conference in Nuuk, Greenland, in 2019.
A young man wearing Danish military camouflage approached me. He was tall and lean, with a weather-beaten face and piercing blue eyes.
“You’re right about the Arctic being a dangerous place,” he said. “Last winter, I travelled by dog sled along the coast of northeastern Greenland.”
Olabode Shoniregun’s application to stay in the UK was rejected last summer but he has still received free accommodation and state support
A US asylum seeker has been living in Britain with free accommodation and benefits for more than a year in the first case of its kind.
The man from Las Vegas fled to this country claiming he was being persecuted because he is black, Jewish and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
If you control space, you control the Earth
Donald Trump’s desire for Greenland is not just about access to oil, minerals and control of the new strategic and commercial corridors opening in the region. It’s also about data. Specifically, the most important data in the world.
For decades, Pituffik Space Base – formerly Thule – in Greenland has been central to US space defense and Arctic strategy. It’s the US military’s only base above the Arctic Circle and their most northerly deep-water port and airstrip. It’s home to the 12th Space Warning Squadron. Its massive AN/FPS-132 radar has 240 degrees of coverage surveying the Arctic Ocean and Russia’s northern coast, especially the Kola peninsula where it has concentrated its strategic nuclear weapons.
The high north is on the approach route for Russia’s ballistic missiles as they head for the US mainland. When a Russian rocket blasts off, especially if unannounced, Pituffik reacts to data from the Air Force’s Space Based Infrared System, which detects the rocket’s heat signature from its engines during take-off.
The Defense Department said it plans to overhaul Stars and Stripes, the storied military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial independence, to rid it of “woke distractions” and refocus coverage on “warfighting.”
Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesperson, announced the plan in a Thursday morning post on X.
“The Department of War is returning Stars & Stripes to its original mission: reporting for our warfighters,” Parnell wrote, using the Trump administration’s preferred name for the Defense Department. He wrote that the Pentagon will “modernize” the publication and “refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale, and adapt it to serve a new generation of service members.”
Donald Trump is considering placing tariffs on countries that do not support his plan to annex Greenland.
The US president has been vocal about his aspiration to acquire the Danish territory, repeatedly saying that he would buy it, and failing to rule out military action to take the island by force.
“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security,” Mr Trump said during a roundtable at the White House on Friday.
A bipartisan group of members of the US Congress has been visiting Denmark to show support in the face of increasing pressure from President Donald Trump for the US to annex Greenland – a semi-autonomous region of Denmark in the Arctic.
The 11-member delegation met MPs as well as Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and her Greenlandic counterpart Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
Group leader Senator Chris Coons said their trip was to listen to the locals and take their views back to Washington “to lower the temperature”.
The pampered offspring of Iran’s ruling elite are living the American Dream as the country’s brutal regime kills protesters by the thousands — and fed-up Iranians in California and across the US want them out.
Two explosive online petitions have been gaining steam as they call on the US government to immediately deport Eissa Hashemi and Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani — the children of current and onetime prominent Iranian government figures enjoying the comforts of the “Great Satan’’ as opposed to the oppressive streets of Tehran.
OTTAWA — The Arctic is no longer a margin. It is a hinge. It anchors nuclear deterrence, opens future maritime routes, and holds resources vital to global economies.
Over time, NATO Arctic countries have deployed forces, conducted exercises, and invested in infrastructure, but these measures have not kept pace with Russian and Chinese activity, evolving operational risks, and shifting environmental dynamics. Russian under-ice submarine operations, Chinese dual-use activity, and growing pressure on Arctic infrastructure are expanding as ice coverage shifts and navigable waters increase.
🚨SOMETHING IS WRONG IN CANADA, OKAY?
We went from this 2023 report which concluded that China "undermines our democratic institutions and our fundamental rights and freedoms.”
To Mark Carney discussing "security" with the Communist Party of China
in under 2 years! pic.twitter.com/Sb3gN5PBeK
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) January 15, 2026
In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the “ravages of mob law” throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant “mobocratic spirit” threatened to sever the “attachment of the People” to their fellow countrymen and their nation. Lincoln’s opposition to anarchy of any kind was absolute and clarion: “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.”
“Following the money”
Journalists shows the ICE protest signs are not made by random grassroots Americans
No. After the protest is done, the organizers recollect all the signs and load them into vans ready for the next protest
The ICE protests are PAID and ORGANIZED pic.twitter.com/Mgv9i0X8c4
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 13, 2026
President Donald Trump has again threatened to invoke a rarely used 19th Century law, this time to deploy the military to Minneapolis, Minnesota where thousands continue to protest against the large presence of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
The demonstrations have intensified after an ICE officer fatally shot a protester, Renee Good, in her car last week. This week, federal law enforcement shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis in a move federal officials say was self defence.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that “if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT”.
Federal agents used pepper spray to push through an ANGRY crowd that tried to block their vehicles in a Somali neighborhood in Minnesota.
I'm all for using pepper spray to disperse an angry, violent mob.
How about you??
pic.twitter.com/ojdRgTyoEk— Mila Joy (@Milajoy) December 31, 2025
I’m about to sign up to be an ICE agent just so I can pepper spray these fools lmao I’d be just like this 😂⚡️❤️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/rH1D06dggT
— Based_Blondie (@Based_BLONDIE) January 10, 2026
President Trump announced early Wednesday that his administration will strip federal funding from sanctuary cities and states, in line with policies he promoted on the campaign trail.
“EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY FIRST, NO MORE PAYMENTS WILL BE MADE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO STATES FOR THEIR CORRUPT CRIMINAL PROTECTION CENTERS KNOWN AS SANCTUARY CITIES,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social.
What a President.
Hours before U.S. Army Delta Force commandos captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife during a nighttime raid in Caracas, an anonymous trader, using a newly created account on the prediction market Polymarket, wagered more than $30,000 that Maduro would be out of office by Jan. 31, 2026. The trader walked away with more than $400,000 in profit.
This was no ordinary bet on sports, weather, entertainment or trivia. It was a wager on matters of war and peace — among the gravest decisions a government can make. The “prediction” was timed with such pitch-perfect precision that it drew heavy media scrutiny and put prediction markets squarely in the spotlight. The transaction bore the hallmarks of insider trading. While the identity of the trader remains unknown, the mere possibility that a government insider could have pocketed more than $400,000 should be reason enough for Congress to act.
Panic at the WAPO!
Canadian soldiers won’t be joining their European allies for a show of military force in Greenland.
Danish Armed Forces have begun deploying troops to the Arctic island in response to American insistence that it needs Greenland to bolster national security in the north. The Danes are being joined by small numbers of troops from European countries, including France, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Britain.
WASHINGTON—The State Department will indefinitely pause immigrant visa processing for 75 countries as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to block low-income foreigners from immigrating to the U.S.
The pause takes effect starting Jan. 21, and will halt visa issuance to people looking to immigrate permanently, typically through marriage, family ties or work sponsorship. It doesn’t block people from obtaining tourist or temporary work visas.
The countries affected span the globe and include many in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Visa processing will now be paused for Russia, Thailand, Morocco, Colombia and Brazil, among others, according to a State Department official briefed on the plan.
President Donald Trump has once again threatened to bust out the Insurrection Act, to quell the violent, organized mob actions against federal law enforcement in blue cities, abetted by the TDS-riddled despots in their “sanctuary” fiefdoms who imagine they are more powerful than the federal government. The situation is making it impossible for the government to go about its business, enforcing the law.
🚨 BREAKING: Anti-ICE rioters tied a TOW ROPE to a weapons locker in a federal vehicle and RIPPED IT OUT with a pickup truck, as Minneapolis PD REFUSED to respond
THIS IS UNSUSTAINABLE
DHS agents are SITTING DUCKS
WE NEED MARINES HERE NOW! Locals are BEGGING for relief, 47! pic.twitter.com/v88fqedOOV
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 15, 2026
High school students at the anti-ICE rally in Minneapolis just made an amazing ad FOR deportations
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 15, 2026
