Daily News Roundup
NOTABLE QUOTES
J.B. Shurk contributor to Conservative Playbook: When the federal government runs on hypocrisy, it has no energy left for principle. When it betrays its own foundations in liberty, it forsakes its status as the “leader of the free world.” And when it is silent about the terrible human catastrophes caused by communism in the not so distant past, a painful truth becomes evident: instead of successfully exporting American freedom to China and Russia over these last thirty years, it is their raw tyranny that has been imported here at home.
Bruce Thornton contributor to Frontpage Magazine looking back at 2021 and forward to 2022: Whatever the causes or the varieties of stupidity, this year we’ve seen it dominate the culture. Will we see the policies of stupidity implode like most episodes of mass delusion, and common sensereturn to our culture, schools, and politics? Or will this stupidity and the policies it spawns continue until our country is fundamentally transformed, and our unalienable rights and political freedom further weakened? November 8, 2022 will be the day those questions are answered.
Benjamin Braddock contributor to American Greatness: The solution is not some national divorce or civil war. The solution is for the Right to stop being rank amateurs when it comes to politics and governance. Purge the grifters and incompetents. Bring back the old sharks and have them train a new generation in the art of election warfare. And once in power, actually use that power to purge or destroy the institutions responsible for brainwashing so many of our countrymen. The Right has to articulate and act on a positive vision for America and break out of this learned helplessness that we find ourselves in as we point and object while the other side steadily achieves their goals. We have to learn from the Left in order to defeat it.
James Howard Kunstler contributor to Blue State Conservative: The government’s actions around the Covid-19 event look more and more to be deliberately and maliciously intended to harm lives and cause social and economic breakdown. In the last weeks of 2021, federal public health officers even blocked shipments of monoclonal antibodies around the country, despite their proven efficacy. The CDC scheduled the use of PCR tests for Covid-19 to end on December 31, after declaring them unreliable in August. Why the five-month lag? (To keep case numbers jacked up, that’s why.)
President Biden on 1/4/22 again scolded the unvaccinated then implored parents to vaccinate children who statistically have close to zero risk of dying from COVID: “So there’s no excuse! No excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. So we gotta make more progress. And for patients who still haven’t gotten your kids vaccinated, please get them vaccinated. Look out for their interests here. It’s the best way to protect them. And for parents with kids who are too young to be vaccinated, surround your kids with people who are vaccinated. And make sure you’re masking in public so you don’t get COVID and give it to your kids.”
Rachel Gutman contributor to The Atlantic writes that the pandemic of the vaccinated is here: Each fully vaccinated person might still be at minimal risk of getting seriously ill or dying from COVID this winter, but the vestiges of normalcy around them could start to buckle or even break. In the worst-case scenario, highly vaccinated areas could also see “the kind of overwhelmed hospital systems that we saw back in 2020 with the early phase in Boston and New York City,” Samuel Scarpino, a network scientist at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute, told me. If only a small percentage of Omicron infections lead to hospitalization, the variant is still spreading with such ferocity that millions of people could need a bed.
Lindsey Tanner, Mike Stobbe & Philip Marcelo contributors to AP News:In another dispiriting setback for the nation’s efforts to stamp out the coronavirus, scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots.
Laura J. Wellington contributor to American Thinker: We spend millions of dollars a year “keeping it natural.” We pay a premium for organic food, including for our pets. We diligently scour labels in search of harmful chemicals that may penetrate our homes or bodies. And “green living” has become more than just a passing fad. Putting it mildly, our nation has become obsessed with the goodness of nature and the best it has to offer in everything, especially our health. So why is it so hard for some to believe that natural immunity to COVID-19 in all its forms is superior to that of a man-made vaccine, especially one whose ingredients won’t be divulged today, nor for the next seventy-five years?
Veronika Kyrylenko contributor to New American: The evidence of the “immunological self-attack is without precedent,” wrote the doctors, continuing, “Because vaccination was the single common denominator between all cases, there can be no doubt that it was the trigger of self-destruction in these deceased individuals.” The likelihood of people suffering such adverse effects will only increase with the number of additional booster doses taken, conclude the authors.
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) tweeted: “Today, I submitted the transcript from the @joerogan experience podcast episode #1757 with Dr. Robert Malone to the Congressional Record. Big tech wants to restrict your access to this information- but they cannot censor the Congressional Record.”
Tom Basile contributor to Washington Times explains the success of “Let’s Go Brandon” It’s not a slur, but a clarion call of real people facing the real challenges of our age. Perhaps best of all, it was born out of the pure serendipity of American life, improbably created yet embraced by millions.
Tim Finnerty contributor to The Pipeline: . . . let’s focus on the bright side — Europe’s governing class is cracking under the pressure of sky-high energy rates and are being forced to admit that their current way of doing things just isn’t working. If this reclassification actually goes through, activists will have a real fight on their hands when they try to change it back in a few years time. And officially classifying natural gas and nuclear as green energy is likely to take so much wind out of the green movement’s turbines that it could eventually cease to exist.
PRESIDENT TRUMP
Sundance: President Trump Cancels January 6th Mar-a-Lago Presser
Smart move, following his instincts. President Trump was scheduled to deliver press remarks on January 6th, earlier today he cancelled them. Given the continued effort by the DC political establishment, the intelligence branch, corrupt officials, Lawfare aides and the media stenographers writ large, to exploit the J6 events for mid-term political interests, it makes sense to allow them to suck their own oxygen. WH Occupant Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and likely a host of more credible Sesame Street costumed characters, are all scheduled to deliver a performance in DC to commemorate the solemn anniversary of the most cataclysmic threat to our nation’s Republic in the history of mankind
Read more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/04/president-trump-cancels-january-6th-mar-a-lago-presser/
GREAT GLOBAL RESET
Allen: Davos Man and Open Borders
You could say Parag Khanna is the quintessential “Davos Man.” This silver spoon globe-trotter, a specialist in globalization, wants to change the world forever, openly advocating a mix-and-match “Civilization 3.0” under a decentralized world government. And he couldn’t care less how you feel about it.
The term “Davos Man” was coined by Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington in a 2004 article entitled “Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite.” Huntington said that these people made up a very small percentage of Americans and were transnationalists who “have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite’s global operations.” Parag Khanna certainly fits the description. He wants to see young people in the global South move en masse to the decrepit North. He wants technocratic elites to manage this human flow using digital passports, artificial intelligence analysis, and top-down social engineering. He wants to erase national borders and re-map the planet according to infrastructure connectivity. He wants mega-cities to come alive with smart sensors and our bodies to swarm with nanobots.
Read more: https://warroom.org/2022/01/04/davos-man-and-open-borders/
2020 ELECTION
Solomon: Georgia opens investigation into possible illegal ballot harvesting in 2020 election
eorgia authorities have launched an investigation into an allegation of systematic ballot harvesting during the state’s 2020 general election and subsequent U.S. Senate runoff and may soon issue subpoenas to secure evidence, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed to Just the News.
Georgia law strictly prohibits third-party activists from picking up and delivering ballots on behalf of voters, a tactic called “harvesting” that liberal organizers have tried to get legalized in many battleground states without success. The U.S. Supreme Court this summer rejected Democrat efforts to overturn an Arizona law that outlawed harvesting in the battleground state. […] According to interviews and documents reviewed by Just the News, Raffensperger’s office received a detailed complaint from conservative voter integrity group True the Vote on Nov. 30 saying it had assembled evidence that scores of activists worked with nonprofit groups to collect and deliver thousands of absentee ballots, often during wee-hour operations, to temporary voting drop boxes distributed around the state during the pandemic. […] The group also said it interviewed a Georgia man who admitted he was paid thousands of dollars to harvest ballots in the Atlanta metropolitan area during the November election and the lead-up to Jan. 5, 2021 runoff for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats, which were both captured by Democrats and ended GOP control of Congress. The group has yet to identify the cooperating witness to state authorities, referring to him in the complaint simply as John Doe.
Read more: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-opens-investigation-possible-illegal-ballot-harvesting-2020
U.S. SUPREME COURT
Kolkey: Regulation Without Representation
On Friday, the Supreme Court will consider cases to hear in the coming term, among them National Pork Producers Council v. Ross. Arising out of the Ninth Circuit, Ross asks a question central to our constitutional system: Leveraging its immense market power, may a single state (California) usurp Congress’s authority over interstate commerce by enacting a regulation that forces the restructuring of an entire U.S. industry, in this case the national pork products industry? The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to . . .
Read more at Real clear Politics.
Nobles & Grayer: January 6 Committee chairman wants to speak directly with Mike Pence
Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, wants Pence to voluntarily speak with the panel about what he witnessed on January 6 and the conversations he was privy to in the days leading up to it, which could provide extensive insight to the panel’s investigation. “I would hope that he would do the right thing and come forward and voluntarily talk to the committee,” Thompson told CNN in an interview Tuesday. A spokesperson for Pence declined to comment on Thompson’s remarks.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/politics/mike-pence-january-6-committee/index.html
Zuckerman: New York Times telegraphs the left’s intent to use the January 6 anniversary to repress conservatives
With tomorrow the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 Capitol incursion, the New York Times is preparing the soil to plant seeds for a crop of hatred and repression of ordinary conservatives. The title of the unsigned editorial in The New York Times, January 2, is “Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now,” but a chilling assertion in the fourth paragraph justifies the inference that The TImes means: “Every Day is Hunt Down Conservatives Day Now.” The fourth paragraph of this editorial, that should be a passage in a political thriller, not bizarre, commentary on political reality opens: “It is regular citizens who threaten election officials and other public servants[.]” The following paragraph is no less execrable in mindset: “In short, the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends.” Remember, The Times is referring to “regular citizens,” not to the violence committed by Antifa and BLM in the cause of societal transformational reform to the Repressive State.
Read more at American Thinker.
Lord: The Real Insurrection: The BLM Riots
Riots? What riots? Insurrection in American cities in 2020? Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. Thus it is with the Stalinesque show trial that is the January 6 Committee. As my colleague Melissa Mackenzie illustrated yesterday, “the Democrats are running their committee like a criminal trial.” It is indeed blatantly unconstitutional and no one is attempting to stop them. Why? What is particularly telling about the hysteria over January 6 is that infinitely worse riots took place across America in 2020 — a series of genuine and decidedly violent insurrections in the name of Black Lives Matter — and there is nary an investigation in sight. […] The political seers are predicting a Red Wave in November. If that comes to pass and Republicans take back the House, the very first thing on the agenda should be an investigation of the January 6 Committee, its members, and staff. Not to mention that an investigation into the massive violence that swept through American cities in 2020 should be opened pronto.
Read more: https://spectator.org/the-real-insurrection-the-blm-riots/
Shurk: Propaganda And Gaslighting: How Our Government Is Handling January 6 Like China Handled Tiananmen Square
Two symbolic events in the struggle for human freedom over oppressive government transpired last month with barely any notice from the American media. The first was the thirty-year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The second was the Chinese Communist Party’s removal of monuments commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre that occupied sacred ground on Hong Kong university campuses, including a replica of the famed “Goddess of Democracy” statue that was erected in the square just before Chinese military forces killed, kidnapped, or crippled thousands of students and workers pleading for individual liberty. It is a sad testament to how far the United States has fallen as a nation once synonymous with freedom that neither event caused much of a stir among the pampered princelings of D.C.
Read more: https://conservativeplaybook.com/2022/01/04/propaganda-and-gaslighting-how-our-government-is-handling-january-6-like-china-handled-tiananmen-square/
Wu & Cheney: Jan. 6 committee seeking phone records from Sebastian Gorka
The select panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has issued a subpoena for the phone records of pro-Trump commentator and radio host Sebastian Gorka, who previously had not been known to be of interest to the committee.Gorka filed suit Tuesday, accusing the committee of overstepping its authority and asking a court to block Verizon from turning over the records. According to the lawsuit, Gorka has not been asked by the committee to answer questions or provide any other documents. He says he had been asked to speak at a Jan. 6 rally meant to be held in front of the Supreme Court, but his speech was canceled and he said he was merely a spectator for other events that day.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/04/sebastian-gorka-jan-6-committee-526534
Elordi: Capitol Police Chief Says Force Is Still 400 Officers Short Ahead Of Jan. 6 Anniversary
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said the force has addressed many issues this year but has struggled to maintain its numbers as the force hemorrhaged officers following the events of January 6. “The one thing that we have not been able to fix, so to speak, are the staffing issues and we’ve lost over 130 officers that have left through either retirements or resignations after January 6,” . . .. […] Since he took the helm, the Capitol Police has attempted to address some of the issues that were blamed for January 6. That includes new equipment for officers, expanding training sessions with the National Guard, and better mental health services for officers among other improvements. “The fact that we have the authority to call out the National Guard, the fact that we have formal processes in place to get additional resources from area law enforcement agencies, is a big improvement, and we believe it would have prevented something like January 6 from happening,” the chief said.
Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/capitol-police-chief-says-force-is-still-400-officers-short-ahead-of-jan-6-anniversary
FAUCI’S VIRUS: IT’S POLITICAL
Gelernter: Is Comparing COVID Restrictions to Nazism Ever OK?
People wearing a yellow star to protest vaccine mandates may bother some people. They don’t bother me even one tiny little bit. People accuse them of trivializing the Holocaust. That’s a shallow and backwards interpretation: If anything, these protesters are overestimating the dangers of our current situation. They’ve chosen the Holocaust precisely because they see it as the deepest human catastrophe they can think of. If you ask me, they take the Holocaust very seriously indeed. […] Obviously we’re not living in Germany in 1944. No one is suggesting we are. But some parts of the world (like China) already look like Germany under Hitler. And a lot of the world looks like Germany before Hitler. That is cause for concern, and ample justification for historical comparisons.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/04/is-comparing-covid-restrictions-to-nazism-ever-ok/
Zemple: Health ‘Experts’ Finally Admit Masks Control People, Not Viruses
We’ve been censored. Hollered at by Karens in the grocery store and sometimes even outdoors. We’ve been lectured, demonized, scoffed at, and called murderers and rubes — all for the sin of ignoring mask security theater and daring to show the lower half of our faces in public. That’s why it’s just remarkable to hear the experts now admit that the same face coverings required in so many establishments and localities are not stopping any virus from spreading. […] The gaslighting is enough to drive anyone absolutely mad, but with the experts’ admission that most of our masks aren’t cutting it, they’ve also admitted something far more consequential. These masks and the mandates that accompany them have never been about controlling a virus. They’ve always been about controlling people.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/05/health-experts-finally-admit-masks-control-people-not-viruses/
Barkoukis: After Firing Unvaccinated Healthcare Workers, Rhode Island Allows ‘Insane’ Policy Amid Staffing Shortages
Months after Rhode Island enforced a vaccinate mandate on health care workers in the state, resulting in hundreds of workers being let go, the state is allowing Covid-positive employees to continue working if there is a severe staffing crisis at their facility. Employees at the state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital received a memo on Friday detailing the conditions under which Covid-19 positive health care workers can remain on the job. If employees have been exposed or are asymptomatic they can report to work “in crisis situations for staffing” if they wear an N95 mask. Health care workers at other hospitals and skilled nursing home facilities in the state can also continue working amid a staffing crisis if they are “mildly symptomatic.” […] “This is insane,” responded Fox Business Network’s David Asman. “Vaccine mandates caused dangerous staff shortages at hospitals. So now those hospitals are allowing Covid-infected staff to fill the void. That’s the kind of slavish observance of meaningless totalitarian rules we saw under Stalin.”
Read more: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/01/04/rhode-island-healthcare-workers-n2601340
Kunstler: Crimes Against Our Country: The Tyranny Of Our ‘Health Authorities’
The year of sickening global psychosis ended with virologist and vaccine-uberspecialist Dr. Robert Malone truth-bombing the Internet with three hours of straight talk about the US health authorities’ campaign to destroy the lives of at least half a million US citizens (so far) and, leading by example, to harm multiples of that number of innocent people across all of Western Civilization. Podcaster Joe Rogan assisted skillfully in an interview that is finally rocking the world out of an epic consensus trance. (Listen.) By health authorities I don’t just mean Dr. Anthony Fauci, the designated National SARS-CoV-2 Coordinator, or his accomplices in the Dept. of Health and Human Services agencies, CDC, NIH, NIAID, etc., but also the purblind US medical establishment of actual doctors in clinical practice, researchers, hospital administrators, and pharma executives who acted with a collective stupid malevolence not seen since the crematory-stuffers of the Nazi bureaucracy carried out their final solution.
Read more: https://thebluestateconservative.com/2022/01/04/crimes-against-our-country-the-tyranny-of-our-health-authorities/
BIDEN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL MANDATE
Kyrylenko: Study: Most of Vaccinated Die Because of Vax-induced Autoimmune Attacks on Their Own Organs
A recently published study suggests that nearly every COVID vaccine recipient who died within seven days to six months after inoculation likely died because of vaccine-induced autoimmune damage. A paper entitled “On COVID vaccines: why they cannot work, and irrefutable evidence of their causative role in deaths after vaccination” was published by Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D. and Arne Burkhardt, M.D., both Germany-based and widely published scientists in their fields. The findings were presented during an interdisciplinary symposium on COVID shots’ safety and efficacy on December 10, and if they received the attention and regard they deserve from health authorities, the vaccination campaign would be arguably stopped today. […] Why would one’s immune system go wild and attack something it is designed to protect? […] In a subsequent video, Dr. Bhakdi underlined that four out of 15 deceased were only vaccinated once, and yet died. At the same time, with every booster taken, the immune system “gets more aggressive,” while the vessel tissues become “leaky” due to the previous attacks. And this is how the viral mRNA gets into the organs.
Read more: https://thenewamerican.com/study-most-of-vaccinated-die-because-of-vax-induced-autoimmune-attacks-on-their-own-organs/
Downey Jr.: Michigan Getting Pummeled by COVID After Firing Unvaxxed Healthcare Workers
Michigan’s Henry Ford Health System (HFHS), which owns five hospitals in the Detroit metro area, is getting battered by new cases of the Bat Flu. HFHS has roughly 32,000 employees, and 686 have tested positive for the Chinese Sneeze in the past seven days. That’s roughly 2% of their staff.
But wait, this is omicron. Almost no one dies from it. What’s the problem? HFHS also closed 97 beds, roughly 5% of their 2,000 total beds, due to “staffing shortages.” Reminder: HFHS fired 400 workers last October for not getting vaccinated. This clownish decision came after they were hit by “unprecedented staffing challenges, only exasperated by this pandemic.” […] HFHS recently shortened the quarantine time for sick employees down to seven days and is considering going to a mere five days. Or they could hire all the workers they fired…Needless to say, HFHS is still pimping the vaccine that isn’t really a vaccine.
Read more: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/01/04/michigan-getting-pummeled-by-covid-after-firing-unvaxxed-healthcare-workers-n1546890
CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY
Winters: Chinese Communist Researcher Stole U.S. Monoclonal Antibody ‘Secrets’… In 2015.
A third scientist employed by GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets – including the science behind COVID-19 treatments – to boost a competing, state-funded Chinese pharmaceutical company. Lucy Xi, along with three co-defendants, established the Chinese pharmaceutical company Renopharma with funding from the Chinese Communist Party to supposedly research and develop anti-cancer drugs. The team, however, used the company as a vessel to steal information from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in the United States.
Read more: https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/04/ccp-pharma-stole-gsk-antibody-secrets/
Bannons War Room: Xi’an Variant Has Now Spread To Neighboring City
“War Room” foreign correspondent Ben Harnwell reports on the latest news out of China about a dangerous outbreak of a possible new covid variant that has people bleeding from their eyes. This is happening just 300 miles away from the Beijing Olympic games, which are supposed to happen next month. In Part 2, host Steve Bannon blasts NBC and other corporate entities for supporting the Olympics being held in China while that nation is conducting genocide against the Muslim population in Xinjiang province.
Watch the two 3 minute videos: https://warroom.org/2022/01/04/xian-variant-has-now-spread-to-neighboring-city/
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA
Smythe: Joe Biden Has Spent Over 25 Percent of his Presidency on Vacation.
Joe Biden has spent 95 of his 348 days President on vacation, mostly in Delaware. That equates to a quarter of the Biden regime’s first year in office, at the time of writing, being spent doing anything other than being President during one of the most crisis-ridden times in modern human history.
Read more: https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/04/joe-biden-has-spent-over-25-percent-of-his-presidency-on-vacation/
