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NOTABLE QUOTES

Scott Johnson co-founder of Powerline: The trade of WNBA star Brittney Griner for Russian “Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout amounts to the best deal of its kind since President Obama traded Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban leaders held at Guantanamo.

Lincoln Brown contributor to PJ Media: The really great thing about what Rich, Elder, and Carson are doing is that it is quintessentially American. They looked at the state of affairs and said, “To hell with this, we’re starting our own bank.”

David Kelly contributor to New American: In June of this year, the European Union (EU) placed a ban — beginning in 2035 — on the sale of new cars with combustion engines. But with winter and potential energy shortages coming, one EU nation, Switzerland, is working on a plan that could ban electric vehicles (EVs) from being used for nonessential journeys. That plan exposes the lie that EVs can be a reliable replacement for gas and diesel-powered transportation.

Tristan Justice contributor to The Federalist: Endorsed predominantly by Democrats — much like abortion up until birth — euthanasia has been legalized in Oregon, D.C., Hawaii, Washington, Maine, Colorado, New Jersey, and Vermont. There’s even a growing movement on the left to participate in a “voluntary human extinction,” which is contributing to low birth rates today. President Joe Biden’s coronavirus adviser, Ezekiel Emanuel, who was also the architect of Obamacare, has argued for years that Americans should die by 75. He’s 65 now, so let’s hope he enjoys his 10 remaining years.

Casy Chalk contributor to The Federalist: Public schools’ embrace of radical gender ideology provokes the question: If they can’t differentiate boys from girls, what wisdom can they impart?

Selwyn Duke contributor to American Thinker: Today, the cultural air we breathe is toxic. And since culture shapes politics and morality shapes culture (Washington warned, “Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people”), we should consider whether we’re surfeiting the substrate of tyranny with our tongues.

Judi McLeod is the founder & owner of Canada Free Press: Advent 2022 comes as the perfect time for a stumbling humanity to come out of the darkness and into the light. The flickering flames of the three purple and one pink candle of Advent Wreaths in millions of churches and homes are ever so quietly but strongly showing the way to the Truth and the Light. Fear not the grotesque ugly dark shadows now clearly visible on the way to the Light. Recognize them for what they are, and keep walking resolutely past them as steadfastly as the donkey that carried God’s chosen Mother to her cousin Elizabeth.

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

Powell: The Parallel Universe of the CCP and the World Economic Forum

For decades Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) has been recruiting and cultivating corporate and political leaders from all over the world to embrace a vision and plan for a complete social, political, and economic transformation—a “Great Reset”—which is nothing short of a communist “New World Order.” This plan calls for the end of sovereign states; the end of private property and the remaking of the economy based on environmental, social, and governance rankings; the replacement of oil and gas with so-called green and sustainable sources of energy; the transformation of agricultural production; the replacement of traditional money with social credit score-linked digital currency; and the requirement of universal health passports—to name some of the key WEF objectives. […] For Schwab, China is the model . . .[…] The CCP has now accomplished: . . . Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-parallel-universe-of-the-ccp-and-the-world-economic-forum/

JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE

Grayer, Cohen, Brown: First on CNN: January 6 committee considers criminal referrals for at least 4 others besides Trump

The panel is weighing criminal referrals for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, right wing lawyer John Eastman, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the sources said. The committee has not officially decided whom to refer to the Justice Department for prosecution and for what offenses, sources said. The four individuals who are among those under consideration, and whose names have not been previously reported, provide a window into the panel’s deliberations. Another source cautioned that while names are being considered, there is still discussion before names are finalized.

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE

Greenfield: FBI Tipped Off About Gay Nightclub Shooter’s Plot in ’21

“An arrest affidavit mentioned Aldrich’s plans to conduct a mass shooting and bombing” In November, I asked a very basic question about why the gay nightclub shooter was even on the loose considering what had happened in ’21.

Downey, Jr.: FBI Bigwig Quietly Steps Down Just Before New Congress Probes Begin

Leaving big-league politics is a lot like comedy: It’s all about timing. FBI master-blaster Steven D’Antuono, the top official at the Washington, D.C., FBI office, quietly announced via his LinkedIn page that he had left the Bureau the day before. “After a 26-year, 10-month career with the FBI, I chose to retire,” D’Antuono stated. “Yesterday was my last day.” No warning? No Glen Deveron and Montecristo send-off? Huh. […]

Republicans from the House Judiciary Committee have named D’Antuono and eight other FBI bigwigs as people who have some prompt ‘splainin’ to do. Read more: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/12/08/fbi-bigwig-quietly-steps-down-just-before-new-congress-probes-begin-n1651924

JUDICIARY

Piper: ‘Epidemiologists of last resort’: Appeals judges wary of vetting science on COVID vax mandates

he chances that the Supreme Court will consider COVID-19 vaccine mandates in higher education appeared to narrow Monday, judging by oral arguments in a challenge to Michigan State University’s mandate by current and former employees with natural immunity.6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges expressed skittishness about wading into scientific debates over natural versus vaccine-induced immunity and even closely reading the medical literature the plaintiffs introduced. One of them fretted about acting as “epidemiologists of last resort” rather than letting mandates be “thrashed out in the state legislature.” Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/epidemiologists-last-resort-appeals-judges-wary-vetting-science-covid-vax

THE TWITTER FILES

Emmons: BREAKING: Twitter Files part two released, exposing ‘secret blacklists’

With the simple tweet “Start your engines…” Matt Taibbi announced the second dump of Twitter files, which were then tweeted out by Bari Weiss. “Thread: The Twitter Files Part Two,” Weiss tweeted. “Twitter’s secret blacklists.” Many users have long speculated that Twitter employees held secret blacklists and would shadow ban and suppress content from those accounts they deemed unpalateable. Read more: https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-twitter-files-part-two-released-exposing-secret-blacklists

Young: BREAKING: Jack Dorsey LIED about shadow banning, Twitter Files reveal

Bari Weiss: Thread: The Twitter Files Part Two: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601007575633305600.html

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

Martel: China Launches Persecution Wave Against Lawyers Seeking to Help Protesters

Attorneys who have volunteered to help represent people who participated in the nationwide protests that began in late November in China say that police have begun persecuting them, raiding their offices and limiting their social media access, reports revealed on Tuesday. […] As the world’s attention centers on the alleged good news, the Communist Party’s repressive forces are attempting not just to silence protesters, but scare the country’s lawyers out of representing them in court, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Tuesday. [Note: Reminds me of Biden’s Democrat Party Lawfare.] Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/12/07/china-launches-persecution-wave-against-lawyers-seeking-to-help-protesters/

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA

(H/T PC) Durden: TSA Plans Nationwide Rollout Of Biometric Machines For Airport Travelers

The TSA is quietly testing a biometric machine called the next generation of Credential Authentication Technology (CAT) to verify the identity of travelers via their face. CAT scans the traveler’s photo ID and then compares that with the Secure Flight database. […] The controversial tech is currently opt-in for passengers (at the moment). It’s so controversial that several cities, such as San Francisco, have banned it.

There’s a lot to worry about if TSA is given the green light for a nationwide rollout next year. One thing is, how can anyone trust this federal agency to handle biometric data properly? Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/tsa-plans-nationwide-rollout-biometric-machines-travelers-airports

The Post Millennial: BREAKING: House passes bill to end vaccine mandates for military personnel in defense package

The bill has led to some controversy due to its rescinding of the Covid vaccine mandate for military personnel. On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the move by Republicans in Congress to scrap the mandate is a “mistake.” Read more: https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-house-passes-bill-to-end-vaccine-mandates-for-military-personnel-in-defense-package

Griffin: Non-binary Biden nuclear official Sam Brinton accused in second luggage heist

A Biden energy department official who allegedly stole a woman’s suitcase from a Minneapolis airport in September has been accused of another luggage heist at a Las Vegas airport. A felony warrant on grand larceny charges was issued for Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, 8 News Now reported Thursday.

Duke: Soviet America? Military Official and Cops Bully Mom for Concern Over Her Child’s School Sexualization

It’s a shocking story. Imagine you complain on Facebook about your child’s school curriculum. You then get some feedback: An army officer calls you an “extremist” and writes that military “leadership have had the Security Forces working with multiple state and local law enforcement agencies to monitor” your situation. Sure enough, the local police chief then pressures you to delete your social media post. You might wonder if the scene of this incident, which did occur, was China or Russia. Except for one thing: Your complaint was about your 7-year-old daughter being exposed to “pansexuality,” something that, for all of Beijing’s and Moscow’s faults, you’d never find in their schools. In fact, this happened in these United States of America. Read more/Watch the 5 minute interview: https://thenewamerican.com/soviet-america-military-official-and-cops-bully-mom-for-concern-over-her-childs-school-sexualization/

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CHILD MUTILATION, CHILD SACRIFICE, CHILD SEXUALIZATION

Duke: Seared Souls: How We Abuse Our Children

I must confess that with the way many of my fellow adults behave today, it can make me ashamed to be one. I almost sometimes feel as if I want to apologize to the children for the example the contemporary grown-up world now sets. We often lament, and rightly so, how disrespectful many modern youths are, yet a prerequisite for commanding respect is being respectable. There is little respectable about modern American culture.

Whether or not communist activist Willi Münzenberg (1889-1940) actually said: “We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks,” he might as well have. It’s not just that adults now show children indecent images in sex education’s name, rubber stamp elementary school Satan clubs in deference to “religious freedom” and tell kids they can switch sexes just by willing it. It’s also what the “good” people fighting these abominations often do. Read more at American Thinker.

BIDEN’S COVID VACCINE MANDATES

War Room: Dr. Harvey Risch: Ages 64 And Below Made Up Less Than 2% Of The Total COVID Infections

Watch the 10:48 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v1zokl8-harvey-risch-ages-64-and-below-made-up-less-than-2-of-the-total-covid-infec.html

War Room: Episode 2358: Our Public Health Officials Are In Cover Up Mode

Edward Dowd is interviewed regarding his testimony in Senator Ron Johnson’s Covid hearing. Steve Cortes is also interviewed. Watch the 48 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v1znbul-episode-2358-our-public-health-officials-are-in-cover-up-mode.html

War Room: Dr. Malone: The COVID Jab Should Not Be Considered As Vaccine Under New Legislation

Watch the 8:30 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v1znaa7-dr.-malone-the-covid-jab-should-not-be-considered-as-vaccine-under-new-legi.html

BIDEN LEAVES U.S. MARINE BEHIND

Greenfield: Biden Saves Woke WNBA Player, Leaves Ex-Marine Behind

If only the ex-Marine had been a black woke lesbian who hated America. WNBA player Brittney Griner used to ‘take a knee’ or boycott the National Anthem. “I honestly feel we should not play the National Anthem,” the woke player whined. “I’m not going to be out there for the national anthem.” Instead, she went to Russia and was busted for illegal drugs. While Griner was using her freakish height to build a career of putting an orange ball through a net and getting new tattoos, Paul Whelan was serving in Iraq after a career in law enforcement.

Both Griner and Whelan appear to have made mistakes in their lives. And both ended up being held hostage in Russian prisons. But there were fundamental differences between them.

Saavedra: Top Democrat Senator Blasts Biden Over Releasing Terrorist For Griner: ‘Deeply Disturbing Decision’

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed President Joe Biden Thursday for releasing notorious terrorist Viktor Bout in exchange for Brittney Griner. Griner, who has a criminal record in the U.S. stemming from a domestic violence incident several years ago, was arrested in Russia back in February on drug charges, charges to which she pled guilty. In exchange for Griner, Biden released Bout, a Russian weapons trafficker who was convicted on terrorism charges back in 2011 for trying to sell tens of millions of dollars worth of missiles to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for the purpose of shooting down U.S. Military helicopters. Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-democrat-senator-blasts-biden-over-releasing-terrorist-for-griner-deeply-disturbing-decision

Daily Wire News: KJP Gushes Over Griner’s Release: An ‘Important Role Model’ For ‘LGBTQI+ Americans And Women Of Color’

“Brittney is more than an athlete, more than an Olympian, she is an important role model and inspiration to millions of Americans, particularly the LGBTQI+ Americans and women of color,” Jean-Pierre said. “She should never have been detained by Russia. And we are, I am, deeply proud of the work that the president has done, this administration has done, to get her home.” Read more/Watch the video: https://www.dailywire.com/news/kjp-gushes-over-griners-release-an-important-role-model-for-lgbtqi-americans-and-women-of-color

A CHURCH IN CRISIS

War Room: The Catholic Church And Federal Government Are Working Together To Perpetuate The Southern Border Migrant Trafficking Network, Ben Bergquam Reports

Real America’s Voice journalist Ben Bergquam talks to host Steve Bannon about the massive funding provided by the Biden administration to a variety of NGOs including Catholic Charities to facilitate the movement of illegal immigrants into the United States and throughout the country. This segment begins with video of immigrants being ushered into a Catholic Charities building in McAllen, Texas, just across the street from the bus station that ships immigrants across the country. “This is human trafficking, and it’s being brought to you by Joe Biden and the open borders left.” Watch the 6 minute interview: https://warroom.org/2022/12/08/the-catholic-church-and-federal-government-are-working-together-to-perpetuate-the-southern-border-migrant-trafficking-network-ben-bergquam-reports/

OTHER NEWS

Chastain:Even With Help From Biden the Baby Formula Shortage is Expected to Last Until Spring 2023

Reckitt, which makes Enfamil, thinks the baby formula shortage will continue to spring 2023.The shortage began earlier this year when an Abbott Nutrition plant shut down in Michigan “due to reports of infants being hospitalized after consuming products from the facility.” President Joe Biden’s administration tried to help with “Operation Fly Formula.” But the government hasn’t made any shipments since September. Do you mean the government intervention doesn’t help? This libertarian is totes shocked! Read more/Watch the 4:17 minute interview: https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/12/even-with-help-from-biden-the-baby-formula-shortage-is-expected-to-last-until-spring-2023/

Downey, Jr.: Why Are Black People Still Voting for Democrats? It’s Magic!

But identity politics wasn’t enough to get Warnock elected. His opponent, Herschel Walker, is just as black. Yet black voters went mostly for Warnock. Why? Because black folks are still dedicated to the Democrats, which is amazing considering how the Democrats have mistreated black people for 400 years. HOUDINI-O-RAMA! The Democrats’ greatest magic trick was getting black people to forget who enslaved them, who imposed Jim Crow laws on them once they were free, who voted against Civil Rights for years, who made them sit at the back of the bus, and who turned firehoses on their children for trying to get an education. Read more/Watch the 5 minute Prager U video: https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2022/12/07/why-are-black-people-still-voting-for-democrats-its-magic-n1651558

Zeisloft: Vanguard Backs Off From Climate Crusade. Al Gore Furious.

Former Vice President Al Gore lambasted Vanguard following the company’s decision to sever ties with the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative on Wednesday. Companies joining the initiative must promise to move portfolio companies closer to eliminating net carbon emissions by 2050 or sooner. Vanguard opted to withdraw from the project in order to “provide the clarity our investors desire about the role of index funds and about how we think about material risks, including climate-related risks,” according to a statement. The pivotfrom Vanguard occurred hours after lawmakers in the state of Texas announced a hearing . . .Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/vanguard-backs-off-from-climate-crusade-al-gore-furious

Letkeman: Reports: Five Power Stations in Washington, Oregon Attacked in November

The reports of the Northwest substation attacks come less than a week after a similar attack occurred at two substations in North Carolina that left tens of thousands of residents without power over the weekend. The FBI acknowledged that it is aware of the recent substation attacks in Washington and Oregon, according to an agency memo sent to Washington law enforcement officials, KING 5 reported. Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/08/reports-five-power-stations-in-washington-oregon-attacked-in-november/

LaChance: Story of Paul Pelosi Attack Disappears From Mainstream Media

Some details in the case even seem to be getting shielded from the public: .

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