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					<description><![CDATA[After a 100 year break, a cargo sail boats are once again crossings the Atlantic. In October 2025 a 136 meter long French built RoRo Neoliner Origin, arrived in port of Baltimore with 5,300 tons of cargo of Renault vehicles and French liqueurs. The Neoliner Origin is equipped with auto sail systems and anti-drift controls. During the stormy crossing the ship suffered damage to its semi-rigid sail. The crew relied on the second sail and auxiliary motor to continue their voyage.]]></description>
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	A</span>fter a 100 year break, a cargo sail boats are once again crossings the Atlantic. In October 2025 a 136 meter long French built RoRo Neoliner Origin, arrived in port of Baltimore with 5,300 tons of cargo of Renault vehicles and French liqueurs. The<a href="https://www.offshore-energy.biz/neoliner-origin-the-worlds-first-sailing-roro-vessel-is-finally-here/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.offshore-energy.biz/neoliner-origin-the-worlds-first-sailing-roro-vessel-is-finally-here/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Neoliner Origin is equipped with auto sail </a>systems and anti-drift controls. During the stormy crossing the ship suffered damage to its semi-rigid sail. The crew relied on the second sail and auxiliary motor to continue their voyage. The plan is to maintain monthly Trans Atlantic crossings at a speed of 11 knots an hour.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Anglican Schism</h2>



<p>After 491 years after it broke away from Catholic Church the Anglican Church is itself breaking apart. The schism begun with a 2008 warning letter from Anglican’s traditional wing -Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) and in October 2025 it became a break, a schism if you will.<a href="https://livingchurch.org/news/news-anglican-communion/gafcon-meeting-could-alter-the-anglican-communion/" data-type="link" data-id="https://livingchurch.org/news/news-anglican-communion/gafcon-meeting-could-alter-the-anglican-communion/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Forty-two million, or 85% of all practicing Anglicans are part of the GAFCON</a>. The recent appointment of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, a liberal woman was the final straw for the church’s traditionalists. The GAFCON bishops who hail from outside of Europe have condemned the ever progressing drift of “advocating liberalized sexual or moral teaching” and “abandoning of scriptures” by the Archbishop of Canterbury. GAFCON states that they represent the traditional doctrine of Anglican church and that liberal, Canterbury centered north have strayed into schism. Honduras belongs to IXth Province of the Episcopal Church and is not part of GAFCON.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Bye Bye Nuclear</h2>



<p>Germany continues to blow itself up into economic irrelevance, as on October 25, its last two nuclear cooling towers were destroyed in Bavaria. Since 2017 Germany has shut down all of its 10 nuclear reactors. According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, in 2023, the<a href="https://militarnyi.com/en/news/man-accused-by-germany-of-blowing-up-nord-stream-and-released-by-poland-gives-his-first-interview/" data-type="link" data-id="https://militarnyi.com/en/news/man-accused-by-germany-of-blowing-up-nord-stream-and-released-by-poland-gives-his-first-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> US Navy has blew up three of four German-Russian Nord Stream pipelines</a> in a case of biggest since WWII industrial sabotage. This inter NATO sabotage has broke off the inconvenient for NATO German-Russian energy cooperation. This sabotage has helped Germany’s economy to continually contract since 2023 and now its energy costs are the fifth most expensive in the world. At 38-44 US cents/kWh, Germany’s consumer energy prices is around 5% more expensive than Roatan’s.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Trump frees JOH</h2>



<p>On December 1, 2025 the ex-Honduran President<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/01/honduras-human-rights-environment-activists-impunity-juan-orlando-hernandez-pardon-trump" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/01/honduras-human-rights-environment-activists-impunity-juan-orlando-hernandez-pardon-trump" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Juan Orlando Hernández was pardoned by President Trump</a> and few people seem to understand why. The Honduran head of state was arrested in 2021 and extradited to US where he was convicted of drug smuggling charges and sentenced to 45 years in jail JOH, but served just 19 months. JOH was extremely pro Israel in his eight years as Honduran president, to the point that in 2021 he converted to Judaism with his entire family. According to Israeli media JOH received assurances from influential Israeli officials that they would act on his behalf in an event of extradition to the US. It looks like while Israelis couldn’t fight JOH’s extradition during Biden they did secure his pardon during Trump. JOH is one of several Jewish criminals pardoned by Trump, including Joseph Schwartz, Philip Esformes and Joe Lewis. Israel is likely eyeing JOH as someone key<br>in implementing the Isaac Accords in Honduras.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Honduran Elections Fiasco</h2>



<p>Honduras is no stranger to creative presidential coups and Hondurans were served yet another electoral fiasco in their November 30 elections. After around 12 hours of counting, on December 1, 57% of presidential votes were counted and National Nasry “Tito” Asfura was 515 votes ahead of Liberal Salvador Nasralla. The counting was inexplicably suspended with a “technical tie” and it took another 23 days to finish courting the remaining 43% of the votes. In the end, the Colombian based Grupo ASD [Grupo Asesoría en Sistematización de Datos Sociedad por Acciones Simplificada], which won the election counting bid, counted 3,793,868 cast ballots, with 5.2% of them being blank or null. In recent Honduran elections the invalid votes have been between 6% and 8% in 2013 Honduran elections. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/24/honduras-nasry-tito-asfura-declared-president-donald-trump-backed" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/24/honduras-nasry-tito-asfura-declared-president-donald-trump-backed" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nasry “Tito” Asfura was declared a winner</a> by 27,026 votes, or below 1% of the vote. If the voting inconsistencies weren’t enough there was plenty of foreign interference in 2025 Honduran elections. President Trump meddled in just two days before the vote with a tweet threatening to suspend US aid: “If he [Asfura] doesn’t win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad.” Brad Parscale, a former Donald Trump campaign manager and registered Israeli government agent has become part of making sure Tito Asfura won the elections. Nasralla and president Rixi Moncada’s Libre party called it the 2025 elections an “electoral coup.”</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[After insistence of IMF and a visit of Marco Rubio, President Bukele folded and withdrew Bitcoin’s status as El Salvador’s official currency. In December 2024 El Salvador took out a $1.4 IMF loan and in exchange agreed to reduce Bitcoin purchases, removed mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin for merchants and withdraw option to pay taxes in Bitcoin. ]]></description>
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	A</span>fter insistence of IMF and a visit of Marco Rubio, President Bukele folded and withdrew Bitcoin’s status as El Salvador’s official currency. In December 2024 El Salvador took out a $1.4 IMF loan and in exchange agreed to reduce Bitcoin purchases, <a href="https://dig.watch/updates/most-bitcoin-firms-in-el-salvador-are-inactive" data-type="link" data-id="https://dig.watch/updates/most-bitcoin-firms-in-el-salvador-are-inactive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">removed mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin</a> for merchants and withdraw option to pay taxes in Bitcoin. The number of El Salvadorian who used Bitcoin for transactions fell from 26% in 2021 to 8% in 2024.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Greenland’s Shift</h2>



<p>President Trump has repeatedly called for acquiring Greenland to be part of USA. As US pressure mounts Danish rule in Greenland that dates 200 years could be coming to an end. Greenlanders are not happy with their <a href="https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-12/greenland-inuit-danish-birth-control-iud-campaign" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-12/greenland-inuit-danish-birth-control-iud-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Danish government after a policy of forced sterilization of girls </a>without their or their parents consent has come to light. Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world, surpassing that of the runner up Guyana by almost a factor of three. If US managed to acquire the world’s biggest island it would jump from being the fourth largest country in the world with 9.8 million square kilometers to being the second largest with 12 million square kilometers. US with Greenland would surpass China and Canada and place just behind Russia with 16.4 million square kilometres.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Solar Disaster</h2>



<p>The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located in California’s Mojave Desert, is set to close after just 11 years of operation and a cost of $2.2 billion. The facility is the world’s largest thermal solar power plant with 173,000 heliostats that focuses sunrays onto a 459 foot tower. The 4,000 acre folly is proving not only an energy failure by not delivering nearly enough GWh projected, but also as an ecological disaster on a massive scale. The “eco” solar plant had killed turtles by the thousands and insects by the millions. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-energy-ivanpah-birds-tortoises-mojave-6d91c36a1ff608861d5620e715e1141c" data-type="link" data-id="https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-energy-ivanpah-birds-tortoises-mojave-6d91c36a1ff608861d5620e715e1141c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ivanpah also became world’s biggest animal incinerator</a> as the facility created a death trap for birds with its heliostat mirrors burning to death tens of thousands of falcon, owls and warblers as the flew by its mirrors.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Honduras Elections</h2>



<p>On Sunday March 9, Honduras held its every four years primary elections. While Liberal party’s Salvador Nasralla beat Jorge Cálix, the ruling Libre party’s Rixi Moncada, w<a href="https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-money-influence-2025-election-honduras/" data-type="link" data-id="https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-money-influence-2025-election-honduras/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ho is currently Secretary of National Defense</a> and Secretary of Finance, easily beat Rasel Tome. National’s party Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry Asfura beat Ana García de Hernández, the wife of US jailed ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández. General elections are scheduled for November 30 to determine the next president and 128 deputies.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">El Salvador’s Prisons</h2>



<p>El Salvador’s prison experiment with its gang members has made a left turn. On February 4, after a one day visit from US’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador’s president Bukele agreed to house violent criminals currently held in US jails regardless of their held nationality. This agreement has little precedent around the world. Some of these criminals will be Salvadorians that are MS-13 gang members, others would be the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members, and also U.S. citizens and legal residents with no US nationality. <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/trump-americans-el-salvador-prison-bukele" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/trump-americans-el-salvador-prison-bukele">They are planed to be housed in El Salvador’s</a> CECOT maximum security mega-prison that houses 15,000 currently, but has a capacity for 40,000.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Panama Drama</h2>



<p>Upon taking office in January 2025 president Trump criticized Panama for allowing China a growing influence over its strategic waterway canal. According to sources <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/23/politics/panama-canal-history-trump/index.html">Trump has ordered the military to draw up</a> a plan how it could seize the canal. US acquired the rights to build and operate the canal, but in 1974 sold it to Panama for $1 and its control ceased in 1999. US and Panama agreed however to defend the canal against any threat to its neutrality allowing for a unilateral action to be taken to reestablish it. In March the Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. allowed a US based Black Rock-led consortium to purchase Panama Canal ports Port of Cristobal and Port of Balboa for $22 billion.</p>
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