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NOTABLE QUOTES

Lee Smith author, investigative journalist, and contributor to Tablet Magazine: It seems Barr’s contempt for the president he served blinded him—along with the class of people to which he belongs, Democrats and Republicans alike—to an essential fact: A whole-of-society industry designed to shape elections and censor, propagandize, and spy on Americans was never simply a weapon to harm Donald Trump. It was designed to replace the republic.

Glenn Ellmers contributor to The American Mind: It remains to be seen if the administrative state will win the fight it started half a century ago. There is no certainty one way or the other. Either Trump or DeSantis—or someone else—could triumph or fail. One thing we know for sure is that no president will succeed unless the American people do their part by proving that the American experiment is not yet finished.

Daniel Greenfield contributor to FrontPage Magazine: We can see the ravaged country all around us, the depopulated cities, the erosion of public safety as a fundamental duty of government, and the prospect of slavery to the leftist state. This is what David Horowitz has been warning us about for over a generation. And it’s here. The Left has clearly and unambiguously laid out its plans for a totalitarian state that will eliminate free speech and criminalize political dissent, that will control every detail of our lives from food to transportation to education, that will destroy our past and our nation. The Democrats, even men who were portrayed as “moderates” like Joe Biden, have fully signed on to the agenda of packing the Supreme Court and the Senate, eliminating the filibuster, and federalizing control of elections around the country in order to rig them with ballot harvesting and fraudulent mail votes. They have racialized our politics, poisoned our dialogue and claim the authority to urgently crack down on political dissent using government agencies aimed at policing “misinformation”. This is not the final outcome of their plans, only the very beginning. Armed with this agenda, the Constitution is only a few votes away, one election, from becoming a dead letter. That is why this is truly the ‘final battle.’

Rod Thomson contributor to American Greatness: When Republicans finally controlled both chambers, and had a president willing to shake things up, they did not bother to broach the subject of dismembering the federal leviathan was never seriously broached. In fact, everyone got more money, a lot more money, particularly the IRS, which will now be training its recently funded 87,000 additional agents on the use of firearms and hiring based on a willingness to use them. Awesome. But we should be worried instead about who will manage the House? Congressional Republicans sometimes talk the good talk about the threats facing America: a rogue FBI; an open southern border; national violent crime surges; a sickening level of debt that will smother our children; a few whispers about COVID authoritarianism. But what will they do?

Julie Kelly contributor to American Greatness: The newly-appointed head of the FBI’s Washington, D.C. field office warned this week the agency’s work on January 6 cases will continue for “months and years to come.” Attorney General Merrick Garland released a statement to commemorate the second anniversary of the “attack on the Capitol” with a similar sentiment. “Our work is far from over,” Garland said, boasting how the prosecution “continues to move forward at an unprecedented speed and scale.” And why shouldn’t it? After all, 18 GOP senators voted to pass the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill last month, which included a $3.5 billion raise for the Justice Department, millions of which will be spent on hiring more government lawyers to prosecute January 6 cases. The FBI won a $570 million boost, bringing the bureau’s total annual budget to more than $11 billion. Nothing like feeding the wolves eating your herd.

Rep. Bob Good (R-VA): Past history is the greatest indicator of future results. And there’s nothing from Kevin McCarthy’s past that tells you that he’s the right person to fight [the radicals in the Democrat Party]. I think I might have said this to you yesterday, but we saw this anger and this intensity and this toughness on display in a Republican conference meeting yesterday morning where he essentially declared war on the 20 0f us and really made threatening remarks, and really got very emotional, and very intense. And, you know if we had seen that same kind of fight directed at Democrat policies, directed at the Biden Administration, directed at the Democrats controlling both Houses of Congress, over these past 2 years or even the 12 years he’s been in leadership, we’d probably be in a different situation we find ourselves today…America’s hungry for leadership.

Dorothy Gable contributor to American Thinker: Bad enough the GOPe campaigned against good candidates, bad enough they pulled funding from others, bad enough they have allowed the political imprisonment of J6 protestors to go unchallenged, bad enough they continued to capitulate to the Democrats — but when they allowed the passage of the omnibus bill, tying the hands of the 2023 House of Representatives — they went too far. Good for the small group willing to risk all for principles too often trampled for short-term gain and self-promotion. For us to see conservatives stand up and fight, fearing nothing, encourages us. Let us not fail to pray for them and a wiser, braver 2023 House of Representatives.

John Kasich (R-OH) former Ohio governor and a senior contributor to CNN tweeted: A block of House Republicans should get together with Democrats to pick a speaker to run a coalition government, which will moderate the House and marginalize the extremists.

John Leake & Dr. Peter McCullough contributors to THE EPOCH TIMES: The sheer brutality of hospital chiefs and their attorneys, who fought tooth and nail against the administration of ivermectin to dying patients, must surely be the most morally repugnant story in modern medical history.

William F. jasper journalist and senior editor of The New American: World-government shills plan to replace traditional religions with a new global eco-ethic, co-opting trusted world leaders to promote their depopulationist agenda.

Alex Newman contributor to The News America: The plan for restructuring the world under the guise of saving mankind from climate change, known as Agenda 2030, was adopted by the UN in 2015. UN General Assembly boss Peter Thomson described it at the time as the “masterplan for humanity.” The roadmap for global tyranny comes complete with 17 “Sustainable Development Goals” to govern and reshape every area of life on “Mother Earth.”

Kenneth Schrupp: contributor to The Federalist: . . . medically assisted suicide is a Democrat-supported issue and has been adopted in 10 Democrat states and is being pushed for in more. Should Democrats gain enough votes to pass universal health care in Congress, they’ll have enough votes to approve assisted suicide.

Mark Wauck Substack: Last night, in a comment, I indicated that I—and I’m far from alone—do not regard the Speaker impasse as the real story in US politics. The real story remains the Omnibus Spending bill, by which McConnell stabbed the Republican Party in the back. I don’t know what the full story is here, but I’m convinced that this move was part of the war for a Global Reset that will defeat the MAGA agenda, which is nationalist in spirit. McConnell has declared himself, openly throwing in with the Globalist Elite. He has funded the Zhou regime until October, which they hope will be time enough. That should suggest major moves coming up.

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Ellmers: Monster Slayers Wanted

The MAGA movement represents the third and (I believe) final attempt by the American people to preserve the last sliver of self-government. The first and second attempts were Nixon’s re-election in 1972 and the Reagan presidency. Nixon, like Trump, had to be utterly neutralized in politics by the deep state when he devoted his re-election campaign to decentralizing federal authority and reining in the bureaucracy. (Reagan was spared this fate to some degree, because his focus on the Cold War diverted much of his attention away from the domestic battle.) Today, Trumpism has been destroyed officially but not literally, to adapt a phrase. Unlike Nixon, Trump refuses to sign his own political death certificate. So let’s consider the possibility that he still has a chance. To the degree he has not already alienated a critical mass of MAGA voters, the best case for re-electing him is two-fold. First, he is in the strongest position and has the greatest motivation to finish the fight. Certainly, there are arguments against this proposition. I will get to those, and the case for Ron DeSantis, in a moment. Second, the act of sending Trump back to finish what he (or rather, we) started would send the unmistakable message that it is the people—not the beltway bureaucracy, or the tech giants, or the Washington Post—who choose the president. […] Of course, Trump is undisciplined and vain and has an uncanny knack for stepping on his own… toe. But it’s vital to remember that he isn’t a normal politician and should not be regarded as one. In fact, there are no normal politicians anymore, at least not at the federal level. We need to be unconventional in thinking about what’s necessary in this post-normal, post-constitutional regime. We can’t judge either Trump or DeSantis, or any other contender who may emerge, according to the old standards.

Donald J. Trump’s 1/5/23 Truth Social video vowing war on drug cartels : https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109637437277879310

The Revolver News Trump Interview

It had to happen, and it did: The Revolver News Trump interview. Revolver’s Darren Beattie had a 46 minute phone call with President Trump to discuss Ray Epps, the Fedsurrection, “disaster” Mitch McConnell, CIA’s role in JFK assassination, Fauci, Elon Musk and Twitter, Michael Jackson and much more.

Listen to the 46:22 minute interview: https://www.revolver.news/2023/01/the-revolver-news-trump-interview/

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET) & TRANSHUMANISM (HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Newman: The UN’s New World Religion

The UN’s climate agenda threatens not only nationhood and freedom, but also religion. The UN’s religion, on full display at the climate conference in Egypt, should alarm all people of faith. […] Amid the cacophony of important events, discussions, schemes, and grandiose policy proposals to reshape civilization at the 27th annual UN “climate change” summit, the religious agenda stood out as far more significant. It has been in the works for many decades, of course, as readers of this magazine know well. But the public emergence of a new and supposedly improved system of morality and ethics, underpinned by the growing global alliance of religious leaders and movements, is now coming out of the closet. Some of it was almost surreal. As tens of thousands of political and business leaders from around the world gathered on the Sinai Peninsula for the UN summit, self-proclaimed religious leaders — from pagans and Muslims to Christians and Jews — walked up what is said to be Mount Sinai (some scholars say the biblical Mount Sinai is likely in Saudi Arabia) with green tablets described as the new “Ten Commandments.” The assembled faithful launched the “Sinai Climate Partnership” and kicked it all off with a “climate repentance” spectacle, with the figures purporting to represent various religions repenting of their carbon-dioxide emissions and other environmental “sins.” […] The plan for restructuring the world under the guise of saving mankind from climate change, known as Agenda 2030, was adopted by the UN in 2015. UN General Assembly boss Peter Thomson described it at the time as the “masterplan for humanity.” The roadmap for global tyranny comes complete with 17 “Sustainable Development Goals” to govern and reshape every area of life on “Mother Earth.” The UN already got all of its nearly 200 member governments on board with the program, which the regime in Communist China played a “crucial role” in creating, according to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda organs. The Great Reset-peddling World Economic Forum, meanwhile, signed a “strategic partnership” with the UN to bring the global business community in line on imposing the UN agenda upon humanity. Megabanks around the world, working with the UN, are working to force it on firms large and small. That means business and government are firmly on the bandwagon.

THE CORRUPT INTELLIGENCE/ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS

Lee Smith: How the FBI Hacked Twitter

After journalist Matt Taibbi published the first batch of internal Twitter documents known as the Twitter files, he tweeted that the company’s deputy general counsel, James Baker, was vetting them. “The news that Baker was reviewing the ‘Twitter files’ surprised everyone involved,” Taibbi wrote. That apparently included even Twitter’s new boss, Elon Musk, who added that Baker may have deleted some of the files he was supposed to be reviewing. Baker had been the top lawyer at the FBI when it interfered in the 2016 presidential election. News that he might have been burying evidence of the spy service’s use of a social media company to interfere with the 2020 election, is rightly setting off alarm bells. In fact, the FBI’s penetration of Twitter constituted just one part of a much larger intelligence operation—one in which the bureau offshored the machinery it used to interfere in the 2016 election and embedded it within the private sector.

JANUARY 6

Kelly: January 6: A Day That Will Live in Alchemy

The FBI investigated Scott and Holly Christensen for more than 14 months; agents interrogated coworkers, scoured social media accounts, reviewed hours of security video from inside the Capitol building and body cam footage from law enforcement, and issued a search warrant to confirm the couple’s whereabouts that day. “According to records obtained through legal process served on AT&T, cellphones associated with [the Christensens] were identified as having utilized a cell site consistent with providing service to a geographic area that included the interior of the United States Capitol building, on January 6, 2021, from 2:43 EST to 3:51 EST. AT&T records confirm that both devices belong to Scott CHRISTENSEN of Puyallup, Washington,” an unidentified agent on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force wrote in a November 2022 criminal complaint. So, what exactly did these alleged “domestic terrorists” do? […] For that uneventful jaunt through a public building that posed a threat to no one, the Christensens will now be destroyed by the Department of Justice, the federal court system, and the news media.

Hoft: A Mother Cries for Help: Young Son Charles Smith Has Been Sentenced to 41 Months for Touching a Huge Sign that Ray Epps Hurled at Capitol Police

Charles Bradford (Brad) Smith was a 24-year-old young patriotic American when the FBI raided his family’s home in September 2021. Brad has been held in the FCI Elkton Federal Correctional Institution in Lisbon, Ohio. He was sentenced to 41 months in prison for touching a sign and for several made-up charges by the DOJ-FBI. On January 6, 2021, Brad Smith stood outside the US Capitol. At one point a giant Trump sign passed over him and he touched it for a couple of seconds. Brad was one of dozens of individuals who touched the giant Trump MAGA sign that was hurled at police. But Brad did not act alone. Ray Epps also hurled this sign at police and it was all caught on video. […] Marshal Neefe, a 25-year-old Pennsylvania man, has been incarcerated for over a year since his arrest on September 13, 2021 for his actions on January 6, 2021. As The Gateway Pundit reported on Thursday, Neefe and his friend Smith were accused of participating in hurling a massive trump sign at police, via reporting at American Gulag. […] But Marshall Neefe was not acting alone. Ray Epps was helping Marshall Neefe and others lift the Trump sign and hurl it at police. […] But Ray Epps is a free man. He was never arrested and the FBI actually removed his image from their most wanted list.

THE FIGHT FOR U.S. HOUSE SPEAKERSHIP

Hoft: Rasmussen Reports Survey Results – Less Than Half of GOP Voters Want McCarthy as Speaker

According to Rasmussen Reports, the results are in on whether the GOP believes Kevin McCarthy should be the next Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Less Than Half of GOP Voters Want McCarthy as House Speaker according to Rasmussen Reports. Overall, only a third of voters believe McCarthy should be Speaker.

Ballasy: House adjourns after 11th failed vote to elect McCarthy speaker, deal reportedly in the works

The speaker election started Tuesday but McCarthy has fallen short of reaching the simple majority threshold needed to win in the 222-212 GOP-led House. The eleventh vote saw him secure 200 votes, while Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., secured 212. Former President Donald Trump received one vote, while Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern took 7. Twelve Republicans voted for another candidate. Reports have begun to circulate that the holdout Republicans have been asked to review a prospective deal that is now “in writing,” with Republican South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman confirming it.

Sundance: Tucker Carlson Asks Why Does Everyone in DC Want to Demonize, Attack and Eliminate the House Reform Group

During his opening monologue tonight, Fox News host Tucker Carlson outlines the attacks against those opposing Kevin McCarthy for House Speaker. Tucker Carlson asks why the visibility of democracy in action ends up with DC insiders claiming the American political structure is going to collapse just because Kevin McCarthy is not being anointed as House Speaker.

Watch the 8:58 minute monologue: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/01/05/tucker-carlson-asks-why-does-everyone-in-dc-want-to-demonize-attack-and-eliminate-the-house-reform-group/

Farah: Why not Trump?’ for House speaker

He said it – finally. Steve Bannon said it. It was more than a question. It was a PLEA! Regarding the failure to elect a House speaker, Bannon said: “Why not Trump? Why not Trump?” […] “I would like to get Mark Levin and all the constitutional republicans to join us in this cause. Because you’re not going to have the constitutional republic if they still have ability to spend us into oblivion while they take all of the value and the they take all of the wealth. And that’s the system we have. … So my vote now is ‘why not Trump?’ If you need a nasty piece of work in the room negotiating, give me the nastiest. And Trump is a beast. Why not Trump? Why not Trump? Why not? Why not?”

Read more/Watch the 2 minute Bannon video: https://www.wnd.com/2023/01/not-trump-house-speaker/

Citizen free Press: Matt Rosendale | DC nasty little secret…

Watch the 4:11 minute Rosendale speech on the House floor: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/matt-rosendale-dc-nasty-little-secret/

War Room: Frank Gaffney: No Deal Or Package Can Rebuild The Trust That McCarthy Destroyed With His Lies

Watch the 6 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2412yq-frank-gaffney-no-deal-or-package-can-rebuild-the-trust-that-mccarthy-destro.html

War Room: Eli Crane Delivers Inside Baseball From The House On What’s To Come

Watch the 4:40 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2411se-eli-crane-delivers-inside-baseball-from-the-house-on-whats-to-come.html

War Room (1/4/23) Bob Good: Post McCarthy, Battle Of Debt Ceiling

Watch the 14:37 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v23y76c-bob-good-post-mccarthy-battle-of-debt-ceiling.html

U.S. SUPREME COURT

Markin: A Mulligan for the Supreme Court

Many would argue that the Supreme Court had a terrible “first shot” in regards to the election of 2020, when they refused to become involved in the many issues raised by the Presidential election. Perhaps the most notable of these was Texas vs. Pennsylvania, in which the State of Texas asked that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin not be allowed to certify their 2020 election results because changes in their election procedures made by courts, governors, and election officials violated the Constitution, which rests the power to define the “times, places, and manner” of federal elections solely in the hands of state legislatures, an argument commonly referred to as the “Independent State Legislature” (ISL) theory. The Court refused to consider the case, not on the merits of its argument, but on a technicality, claiming that Texas had not demonstrated a “judicially cognizable interest” in the manner in which another state conducts its elections. As a result, we have seen nearly two years of the rapid destruction of our nation, including fiscal irresponsibility that is led to staggering inflation, a steady decline in the stock market, enactment of policies that have reduced us from energy independence to a nation that must look to countries such as Venezuela and Iran to meet our basic needs and, perhaps most frightening, the politicization of the Department of Justice (including the FBI) into organizations resembling a third-world police state. Fortunately, there are cases currently before the Supreme Court that offer them the opportunity for a “do-over.” The most creative and far-reaching of these is Brunson v. Adams, in which . . . The other case is Moore v. Harper, in which . . . […]

JUDICIARY

Gerstein: Appeals court blocks Jen Psaki deposition in social media lawsuit

A federal appeals court has blocked efforts by Republican-led states to force former White House press secretary Jen Psaki to testify about efforts by the Biden administration to urge social media firms to take down certain kinds of posts or bar users from posting. The order on Thursday afternoon from the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is another not-so-veiled rebuke to District Court Judge Terry Doughty, who has been overseeing the suit the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana filed last year claiming that the administration’s pressure on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube was so intense that it amounted to censorship. The three-judge appeals court panel said Doughty failed to give adequate weight to longstanding legal principles calling for depositions of current and former senior government officials to be limited to instances where they are truly essential.

Miller: Federal appeals court backs Florida school district that blocked transgender student from using boys bathroom

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a Florida school district’s policy that separates school bathrooms by biological sex. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced its 7-4 decision on Friday, ruling that the St. Johns County School Board did not discriminate against transgender students based on sex, or violate federal civil rights law by requiring transgender students to use gender-neutral bathrooms or bathrooms matching their biological sex. The court’s decision was split down party lines, with seven justices appointed by Republican presidents siding with the school district and four justices appointed by Democratic presidents siding with Drew Adams, a biological female, who sued the district in 2017 after not being allowed to use the boys restroom.

Whedon: South Carolina Supreme Court declares state constitution includes right to abortion

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the State Constitution includes a right to abortion, overturning the state’s ban on the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy. […] In a 3-2 ruling, the justices determined that the state law violated a constitutional provision asserting that “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures and unreasonable invasions of privacy shall not be violated.” They did, however, add the caveat that the right to an abortion “was not absolute, and must be balanced against the State’s interest in protecting unborn life.”

Messerly: Idaho Supreme Court upholds near-total abortion ban

The Idaho Supreme Court upheld multiple state laws prohibiting abortion in the state on Thursday, ruling that there is no implicit right to abortion in the state’s constitution. In a 3-2 decision, the court ruled that three state laws — prohibiting abortion at conception and after six weeks of pregnancy, as well as a Texas-style civil enforcement measure — are constitutional as the state has a “legitimate interest in protecting prenatal fetal life in all stages of development, and in protecting the health and safety of the mother.” Under the Idaho ruling, abortion will remain prohibited in most cases except if necessary to save the pregnant person’s life or in cases of rape and incest.

THE FIGHT FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY

(12/28/22) Judicial Watch and New York City Settle Federal Lawsuit on Voter Registration Clean-Up after City Removes 441,083 Ineligible Names from Voter Rolls

Judicial Watch announced today that it is settling a federal election integrity lawsuit against New York City after the city removed 441,083 ineligible names from the voter rolls and promised to take reasonable steps going forward to clean its voter registration lists Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in July against New York City after it failed to clean voter rolls for years. The lawsuit, filed under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), pointed out that New York City removed only 22 names under the federal law over six years (Judicial Watch v Valentine et al. (No.1:22-cv-03952)).

Hoft: 2022 Election: Colorado Secretary of State Sent 31,000 Registration Cards to Foreigners

In September of 2022, the State of Colorado sent postcard mailers to 31,000 foreigners asking them to register to vote. ERIC played a role in this problem because they can access licensed Colorado drivers. Their process obtains DMV information to determine which people are EBU (Eligible But Unregistered). Under their ERIC agreement, Colorado is forced to contact these people and solicit them to register. Jena Griswold, an activist Democrat, is the Secretary of State for Colorado. She knows foreigners are breaking the law if they register to vote. Upon hearing this news last October, The Public Interest Legal Foundation conducted an investigation to find out who was responsible. PILF released their report Thursday . . . PILF is currently in litigation with Secretary of State Griswold. In December 2021, PILF sued to see the records showing how ERIC alerted the SOS office to deceased voter registrants. This lunacy of soliciting of foreigners and the role ERIC plays is another reason States should cancel their ERIC agreements. They would be best working with Omega4America and their advanced fractal technology that can prevent dirty voter rolls. Why has Ronna and RNC never substantially funded PILF so they could greatly expand? Why has the RNC never replicated PILF efforts on the grand scale we need? [NOTE: ERIC is Soros founded and funded for the purpose of “cleaning” voter rolls.]

ARIZONA 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION UPDATES

(1/4/23) War Room: Kari Lake: Hobbs Knows “When She Took Her Oath That She Stole The Election”

Listen to the 7 minute Lake interview: https://rumble.com/v2414q2-kari-lake-hobbs-knows-when-she-took-her-oath-that-she-stole-the-election.html

Neff: Some County Political Committees Failed To Perform Duty To Post Election Hand Counts

Pinal County’s election meltdown has brought more focus on an important post-Election Day activity that is not being held in some counties due to a lack of participation by local political parties. According to state law, a limited hand count of early ballots and polling place ballots is to be conducted in every county after each countywide primary, special, general, and presidential preference election. The purpose is to compare the results of each county’s machine-tabulated count to the manual hand count to assure each county’s tabulation equipment accurately counted votes. […] Public records show three counties were unable to perform a hand count of the 2022 General Election due to one or two of the local parties not fulfilling their statutory duties.

Ross: ‘Flat Out Violation’: Democrats Broke Federal Law With Payments to Illegal Immigrant, Experts Say

Democrats paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a consulting firm operated by an illegal alien, which experts say may have violated campaign finance laws. Antonio Valdovinos, the owner of the Arizona-based La Machine Consulting, has made his status as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient central to his personal narrative. He boasts of his “undocumented” status on his firm’s website and produced an off-Broadway musical,”¡Americano!,” about life as a “Dreamer.” Valdovinos’s immigration status could cause a problem for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which paid his firm, La Machine Consulting, $500,000 to canvas in three battleground states ahead of the 2022 midterm election. The Federal Election Commission classifies DACA recipients as foreign nationals for the purposes of campaign finance laws, and says that foreign nationals cannot “directly or indirectly” participate in the “decision-making process” of any campaign or political committees’ election-related activities.

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

Committee On The Present Danger China: Webinar | Organ Genocide: The CCP’s Industrial-scale Murder of Its Unwanted

Here’s a safe rule-of-thumb: Any regime that systematically murders its own people is unlikely to treat those of other nations any better. It is an especially vital to heed this admonition when the regime in question is determined to dominate the rest of the planet. Consequently, the Chinese Communist Party’s vast and growing practice of forcibly harvesting the organs of those it perceives as opponents is not just a horrific crime against humanity. It is a foretaste of what the CCP has in mind for, among others, Americans, as well. The CCP is also exporting the practice to others.

Read more/Watch the informative and disturbing. presentation: https://presentdangerchina.org/webinar-the-ccps-organ-genocide/

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: TRANSFORMING FOREIGN POLICY

(Biden’s War) Durden: Ukraine Rejects Putin’s Christmas Truce Proposal As “Hypocrisy” & “A Trap”

Within a mere hour after President Putin declared there would be a 36-hour ceasefire for all Russian forces along the line of contact in observation of Orthodox Christmas, Zelensky’s office has issued a firm rejection, calling it “hypocrisy” and demanding that all Russian troops must leave occupied territory immediately. Zelensky advisor Mykhailo Podolyak announced on Twitter, that Russian forces… must leave the occupied territories – only then will it have a “temporary truce”. Keep hypocrisy to yourself.

(Biden’s War) Reuters: US to Send 50 Armored Combat Vehicles to Ukraine

On Wednesday President Joe Biden said that sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine was being considered to help fight Russia’s invasion. The latest security package for Ukraine is expected to be unveiled on Friday, the officials said. The armored vehicle with a powerful gun, which is manufactured by BAE Systems Plc, has been used as a staple by the U.S. Army to carry troops around battlefields since the mid-1980s.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA

McCoy: The Real Biden Unsealed?

One of the last actions of the outgoing Democratic majority in the House of Representatives was the House Ways and Means Committee’s vote to release six years’ worth of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. They had finally caught their white whale after more than six years of the real estate mogul turned politician refusing to disclose them. But like the dog that caught the car, the Democrats and their media sympathizers now are not sure what they have, nor are they sure what to do with it. So far, there has been no revelation of criminal activity, improper financial activity with Russia, or anything remotely reaching the nefarious plots of a Lex Luthor supervillain. Once again, their narrative is falling flat. The House Republicans, meanwhile, are promising a series of investigations into the Biden Administration, various federal agencies’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the FBI’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop. But, if they wanted to grab it, there was much more low-hanging fruit. Republicans could, for example, consider the unsealing of Joe Biden’s U.S. Senate records currently stored at the University of Delaware and some of his vice presidential records held at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, D.C.

Timiraos: Fed Minutes Show Officials Feared Markets’ Rallies Could Hinder Inflation Fight

Federal Reserve officials offered uncharacteristically blunt words of warning to investors that cautioned against underestimating the central bank’s determination to hold interest rates at higher levels to bring down inflation. Minutes of the Fed’s policy meeting last month, released Wednesday, highlighted the tricky communications task that has vexed the central bank over the past six months. The Fed’s rapid rate increases last year have fanned investors’ hopes that inflation will slow quickly over the coming year. In the run-up to the December meeting, longer-term bond yields tumbled, reflecting both optimism about a speedy decline in inflation and fears of a recession this year. But many Fed officials are anxious they won’t be able to defeat inflation unless they can slow the economy by tightening financial conditions, such as by raising borrowing costs or lowering stock prices.

Judicial Watch: Al Qaeda Plans Plane Attacks Using “New Techniques and Tactics” as Air Marshals Keep Getting Sent to Mexican Border

While the nation’s Federal Air Marshals (FAM) are busy on the Mexican border providing illegal immigrants with welfare checks, transportation, and other basic services, Al Qaeda is planning attacks in the U.S. involving planes, according to high-level Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources. Judicial Watch obtained from government sources a copy of the new intelligence alert, which was delivered on December 31, 2022, at 12:23:52 Greenwich Mean Time. The caption of the widely circulated warning reads: “Al-Qaeda says upcoming attacks on US, possibly involving planes, will use new techniques and tactics.” The threat could not come at a worse time, as the Biden administration leaves aircraft at risk by sending 150-200 FAM monthly to the southern border to help deal with what it calls “a surge in irregular migration.”

Supp: If States Followed The Science, They’d Emulate Europe To Protect Kids With Gender Dysphoria

Recognizing the failure of the “gender-affirming” approach to achieve improved outcomes — and spurred by the lawsuit of a young woman who was prescribed puberty-blocking drugs at just 16 years old — countries such as Sweden, Finland, and England have made a clear U-turn away from some or all of these questionable protocols. After thoroughly reviewing the reliable evidence, these countries concluded that the risks of “gender-affirming care” far outweigh any potential benefits. Instead, they are returning to psychological and psychiatric care as the starting point for addressing gender confusion in children — a model known as “watchful waiting” — noting that gender dysphoria in teens could be just a “transient phase” which should not be mishandled with radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries. Nationally in the U.S., however, the “gender-affirming care” model is emphatically pushed as the only acceptable standard of care.

(H/T DM) Gallatin: EPA Reinstates Dubious Waterway Regulation

As 2022 was coming to an end, the Biden administration quietly reinstated a controversial Obama-era regulation that serves as little other than a giant government power grab. The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers effectively resurrected the dubious redefinition of the “waters of the United States” found within the 1970 Clean Water Act. Recall that during the Obama administration, the EPA broadly expanded the definition of “waters of the United States” to include nearly any body of water — virtually down to the size of a puddle. The definitional change was a massive expansion of the EPA’s regulatory power over Americans’ private property, with especially significant negative implications for ranchers and farmers. […] This new definition, which goes well beyond simple surface water, also includes such topographical features as gullies, creeks, and ravines — essentially anywhere water may at some point flow.

Simonson: Biden Seeks To Solve Border Crisis—by Making It Easier To Enter the United States

Migrants from Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela will have an easier time entering the country thanks to President Joe Biden’s new immigration plan, which he says will stymie illegal border crossings. The United States will accept up to 30,000 migrants from those countries under a “humanitarian parole” program, Biden announced on Thursday. Migrants who qualify for the program will be able to travel directly from their home countries to the United States after applying to the program through a mobile app, rather than declare asylum at the southern border after crossing from Mexico. Biden in the fall implemented a pilot version of the program for Venezuelans.

(Push back from Florida) The Center Square Staff: Biden’s expanded immigration parole program already faces legal challenge

The immigration parole system President Joe Biden says he’s expanding is already being challenged in court by a lawsuit brought by Florida, arguing the administration’s abuse of it is illegal. The trial is set to begin Monday, a day after the president is scheduled to visit El Paso. The Texas border city’s Democratic mayor declared an emergency last month after the city and the region experienced a humanitarian crisis due to record illegal entries. On Thursday, the president announced he was expanding a “legal immigration” plan including using an existing parole system to allow an additional 360,000 illegal foreign nationals to be released into the United States. He made the announcement on the same day U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II in the Northern District of Florida Pensacola Division granted final requests made in a case brought by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody before the trial begins next week.

CLIMATE EMERGENCY: IT’S POLITICAL

Raw Egg Nationalist: The Day After ‘The Day After Tomorrow’

Climate apocalypse porn is a lever to impose a radical economic agenda. […] It’s hard not to marvel at the absurdity of thinking the entire population of one hemisphere of the globe might be rapidly, and successfully, evacuated to the other in the event of a major disaster. The film requires a suspension of disbelief that no amount of CGI could ever lessen. Are we really supposed to believe that hundreds of millions of people—let alone hundreds of millions of Europeans and people of European descent—would be housed and fed in new lands, among vastly different people, many of whom bear open historical grudges, willingly and with good cheer? Really? Really? Funny thing is, though, that less than 20 years after the film was released, this idea is starting to gain currency as a genuine answer to the Climate Crisis, albeit with some important qualifications. The direction of travel has now been inverted—south to north—and now the enormous migration must happen in advance to prevent unnecessary loss of life when the real climate catastrophe happens (which, of course, we can be certain it will). This is the argument of Gaia Vince’s Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval. “Our only way to survive the coming ‘species emergency,’” Vince claims, is “a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken.” But while the book is, frankly, mad—one of the most bizarre I’ve ever read—I also think it’s a book we need to contend with. As well as being deeply revealing about the modern liberal mind—its biases, hopes and hates, and its resentment-fueled fantasies—there are also good reasons to believe that some of what Vince advocates may actually end up happening.

Morris: Weather Isn’t Climate … Unless It Is

We humans love to talk about the weather. And rightly so: It’s by far the number-one conversation starter around the world. The weather is the one thing that all people — no matter their background, language, place of origin, or level of intelligence — can talk about because everyone experiences it. We simply can’t escape the weather. Yet in the past several decades, the leftist ecofascists have hijacked the conversational topic of weather. They’re convinced that humans are destroying the planet, and in recent years their conversation has gotten even more desperate. We’re now told that we have less than a decade to drastically change our behavior. Or we’re doomed. The Left, in its attempt to push the climate catastrophe agenda, now frames just about every adverse weather event as proof of detrimental climate change. […] Short-term reporting on daily temperature fluctuations is a favorite for the environmental Left in pushing its narrative. Except, of course, when that data doesn’t go its way.

THE CORRUPT MEDICAL CARTEL HAS BLOOD ON ITS HANDS

(H./T AA) Leake: Ivermectin’s Mechanism of Action Against SARS-CoV-2 Described

Shame on the hospital systems that systematically denied patients (and their begging families) this FDA-approved, Nobel prize winning, wonder drug. Researching our book—The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex—was often a distressing and maddening experience. The systematic lying about hydroxychloroquine to suppress its use in the outpatient setting was infuriating. However, for me, the most upsetting stories were about people who died in hospital after being systematically denied ivermectin. The sheer brutality of hospital chiefs and their attorneys, who fought tooth and nail against the administration of ivermectin to dying patients, must surely be the most morally repugnant story in modern medical history.

BIDEN’S COVID VACCINATION MANDATES

Zhang: More Than 270 Sudden Deaths in US Athletes After Vaccination: Peer-Reviewed Letter

Authored by structural biologist Panagis Polykretis, and board-certified internist and cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, the letter’s cited data found that from 2021 to 2022, at least 1,616 cardiac arrests or other major medical issues have been globally documented in vaccinated athletes, with 1,114 of those being fatal. The global data also showed that between 2021 to 2022, former and current American athletes made up 279 of the mortalities. Athletes have a lower chance of cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death as compared to nonathletes. A 2016 U.S. study calculated that nonathletes, compared to athletes, have a 29 times higher chance of sudden cardiac death. One of the reasons is because “athletes are screened out for the common causes of sudden death on the playing field,” McCullough told The Epoch Times.

Citizen Free Press: Three Mass police officers die ‘suddenly’ in past week…

Massachusetts State Police: This week has been a difficult one in the Massachusetts Law Enforcement community. Three active-duty Law Enforcement Officers, all from South Shore communities, passed away suddenly within the last seven days. One of whom, 25-year-old Officer John F. Santos of The Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department, would have been a member of the Massachusetts State Police 88th Recruit Training Troop. He would have undoubtedly served a long and distinguished career with this department. On Wednesday, December 28, 2022, Officer Santos passed away at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston after succumbing to a Brain Aneurysm. […] On Thursday, December 29, 2022…

Piper: Harvard Med research on mRNA vax spike protein undermines fact-checkers, COVID censorship

act-checkers and Big Tech lost another round with purported COVID-19 misinformation this week, when an American Heart Association journal published research suggesting the spike protein used in mRNA vaccines can harm some people. The peer-reviewed study in Circulation reviewed 16 adolescents and young adults hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital or Boston Children’s with post-vaccination myocarditis from January 2021-February 2022. All had “markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein” in their blood, “unbounded by antibodies.” The Harvard Medical School researchers affiliated with the hospitals did not find free-floating spike in 45 “healthy, asymptomatic, age-matched vaccinated control subjects,” despite “essentially indistinguishable” antibody profiling and T-cell responses between the two groups. […] More than a year ago, Swedish researchers reported in the peer-reviewed journal Viruses that SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein “significantly inhibits DNA damage repair,” so it might be “safer and more efficacious” to phase out the full-length spike in COVID vaccine development.

EDUCATION INDOCTRINATION

Ludwig: Thought Control and Morality on Campus

Throughout the campus of a major urban university, two signs dominate. They are found inside and/or immediately outside every elevator on campus. One sign is a list of eight sexual harassment behaviors that are rejected and deemed despicable by the university. The other sign pertains to discrimination and lists 21 areas of potential discrimination that will not be tolerated by the university. Thus, there are 29 despicable behaviors that are verboten. None are defined by the warnings, but the seriousness of breaching any of these prohibited behaviors is clear. Anyone who has “encountered” any of these behaviors is given an office to call, and a telephone number. No specific punishments are mentioned for engaging in any of these behaviors. The Old Testament had Ten Commandments as the cornerstone of morality, and 613 commandments overall. The New Testament has two great commandments plus . . . But quotes from the Old Testament moral law or from the New Testament are not seen on campus. In the p.c. environment of higher education, we do not even see quotations from Buddha, Confucius, Muhammed, or even . . . Instead, we see these 29 harshly stated no-no’s that will define the good campus citizen from the one who is anti-social and against the envisioned social norm.

FEMINISM’S WAR ON WOMEN

Greenfield: Feminists Wear Pink to Support Trans Man Who Killed Ex-Girlfriend

While dating Beverly Guenther, the murder victim, he had repeatedly assaulted her, and later stalked her, broke into her home and threatened her. Beverly obtained an order of protection against him. A police officer had walked her from her job to her car for a week. Once feminists would have condemned the system for failing her, instead they’re denouncing it for executing her killer. Scott not only killed a woman, he stole her gender. His prison makeover into Amber, mouth decorated with an uneven slash of rose pink lipstick and hair held back in ringlets, began with an official taxpayer-funded gender transition three years ago. Now that same grotesque serial killer visage stares from pro-crime posters brandished by sympathizers. “Save Amber,” they beg. On social media, feminists took selfies wearing pink nail polish to protest Scott’s execution. A number of them gathered in the rain outside waving pink signs, “#ClemencyforAmber.”

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY & OPINION

Bartee: USDA Greenlights First-Ever Honeybee Vaccine

Honeybee populations have declined precipitously in the past few decades at increasing clips, which is not just bad news for honey production. Complete honeybee extinction would collapse the global food supply and potentially starve billions, as the insects are responsible for pollinating $500 billion worth of crops worldwide annually. Per results from a survey conducted by Bee Informed Partnership, American beekeepers “lost 45.5% of their managed honey bee colonies from April 2020 to April 2021.” Habitat loss, pesticides, and parasites all contribute to these declines. An American biotech firm has gained regulatory approval for a potential remedy for at least one of the maladies afflicting the global honeybee population, a bacterial infection called American foulbrood disease.

Mediate Staff: Cable News Ratings Wednesday January 4: Tucker Carlson Wins the Younger Viewer Demographic

Biryukov: Governor Murphy signs bill requiring media literacy lessons in schools

New Jersey will soon require students of all ages to be taught research skills, critical thinking, and other methods that can help them spot misinformation online. Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed a bill that requires the Department of Education to create guidelines on media and information literacy for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. “Our democracy remains under sustained attack through the proliferation of disinformation that is eroding the role of truth in our political and civic discourse,” the governor said in a statement. “It is our responsibility to ensure our nation’s future leaders are equipped with the tools necessary to identify fact from fiction.”

(As goes California, so goes the rest of the country) Chamings: California’s ban on around 70,000 vehicles takes effect this week

The final rule in a set of regulations adopted 15 years ago takes effect this week, banning some 70,000 big rigs from California roads. A set of clean air regulations implemented by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in 2008, and later signed into law as Senate Bill 1, states that any diesel vehicles weighing over 14,000 pounds and built before 2010 are banned from operating on California roads as of Jan. 1, 2023. […] The trucking industry has largely pushed back on ban, especially in light of recent supply-chain issues across the country. “You can’t take that big of a percentage of the vehicles off the road,” Joe Rajkovacz, director of government affairs for the Western States Trucking Association, told KCRA. “With the slowdown in the economy, it remains to be seen what the impact will be.”

Sahadi: Federal Trade Commission proposes banning noncompetes for workers

The FTC’s reasoning: Such agreements, which affect millions of rank-and-file employees and independent contractors across industries, in addition to business executives, have suppressed competition, wages and entrepreneurship. “Research shows that employers’ use of noncompetes to restrict workers’ mobility significantly suppresses workers’ wages — even for those not subject to noncompetes, or subject to noncompetes that are unenforceable under state law,” said Elizabeth Wilkins, Director of the Office of Policy Planning. “The proposed rule would ensure that employers can’t exploit their outsized bargaining power to limit workers’ opportunities and stifle competition.”

Meridian police chief, mayor respond to Labrador’s decision to dismiss charges of Meridian woman

New Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador moved to dismiss trespassing charges in the case against Sara Brady, a Meridian woman who went to a closed playground in April 2020 and asked police to arrest her. Brady was one of several parents who took their children to a playground at Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park, which had been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Brady and others argued with Meridian police officers about the constitutionality of the decision. Brady then turned, put her arms behind her back and asked the officer to arrest her. “This case should have never been prosecuted. It has been a profound waste of precious taxpayer resources,” Labrador said. “Going forward, we will focus the people’s resources on prosecuting child exploiters and other serious criminals—not mothers who take their kids to the park.”

Columbia News: Hillary Rodham Clinton to Join the Columbia Community

The former U.S. Secretary of State will hold two appointments as a professor of practice at the School of International and Public Affairs and a presidential fellow at Columbia World Projects.

INTERNATIONAL

WND News Services: Queen Elizabeth’s chaplain sounds alarm on King Charles: ‘Christianity is under assault’

The former chaplain to the late Queen Elizabeth II is speaking out about King Charles III’s multifaith and multiculturalism, warning that those ideas could spell the end of the British monarchy. Gavin Ashenden, who served as Elizabeth’s chaplain for nine years, told GB News after the king’s first Christmas speech, “I think that if this slow movement into multiculturalism and multifaith goes on, we’ll lose the monarchy because, in the end, I don’t think it will be true to itself.”

Hayward: THE DAILY CHART: CHINA IN THE GREENHOUSE, BUT NOT THE DOGHOUSE

The Times of London reports that the official climatistas are mad at Britain for opening its first new coal plant in decades to help alleviate it current energy crisis: UN climate chief aims dig at Britain over coalmine

The UN’s new climate change chief has issued a thinly veiled criticism of the British government’s decision to approve its first coalmine in decades after calling for an end to the polluting fuel at international climate talks.

Yet somehow the new UN chief climatista is silent about this . . .

Ashton: Ontario math teachers to attend retreat to learn Indigenous, ‘non-Eurocentric mathematical knowledges’

The event is called Exploring the Power and Potential of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Mathematics and is being hosted by the Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA). Math educators and leaders from across Ontario are being given the opportunity to “deepen their understanding of incorporating Indigenous knowledge systems to enhance – and transform – the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students.” Throughout the two days, educators will explore how “mathematics, along with other subjects, are not exempt from colonial bias and harmful practices that lead to inequities in student achievement.”

Schrupp: Universal Health Care Ends With The Government Telling You To Kill Yourself

Democrats’ universal health care fantasy must be stopped so we can save our citizens from health care shortages and suicide. Today, Canadians are experiencing a three-word addition to what Ronald Reagan called the nine most terrifying words in the English language: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you kill yourself.” Soon after the announcement that Canada would expand its medically assisted suicide program to include those with mental illness, the popular Canadian department store chain Simons issued a new advertisement celebrating the policy. The video features a woman saying, “Last breaths are sacred; you just have to be brave enough to see it,” over a montage of her being wheeled to places of natural wonder. The department store’s logo is featured prominently at the end of the commercial. […] But maintaining a low-cost, easy-access, government-run health-care program in a large, democratic country with a growing dependent-to-workforce ratio just isn’t working out for Canada. Low pay for medical professionals, who still have to pay for college and medical school, has created an acute shortage of doctors in a country that once boasted one of the best doctor-to-population ratios in the world.

Piper: Pioneering medical group chief floats ‘shared pathophysiology’ between vax injury, long COVID

The first woman to lead the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and former member of Parliament testified about post-vaccination damage in her immediate family as part of an Australian parliamentary inquiry into long COVID and repeated infections. […] “Regulators of the medical profession have censored public discussion about adverse events following immunisation” by threatening the licenses of doctors whose statements “‘might undermine the government’s vaccine rollout,'” Kerryn Phelps, professor at Western Sydney University’s NICM Health Research Institute, wrote in her submission to the Australian parliamentary inquiry. […] The former AMA president criticized Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration, its counterpart to the U.S. FDA, for not following up on her adverse events report or proactively tracking vaccine injuries.

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