Daily News Roundup
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Kevin Downey Jr, contributor to PJMedia: Communism comes disguised as virtue. Rarely does a despot announce, “I’m here to control every aspect of every life I chose not to murder,” though Schwab is pretty upfront about his planned fascism. Actually, Hitler was too. Look for communism masquerading as morality in the forms of: Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, “Trans rights”, Climate Change, ESG–Environmental, Social and Governance.
J.B. Shurk contributor to American Thinker: Our whole human story is a repeating pattern in which power accumulates, empires emerge, power corrupts, divisions grow, and empires come crashing down. Anyone who thinks an international oligarchy of corporate behemoths, central banks, and Intelligence Community spy chiefs will succeed where the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Carolingian, Byzantine, Ottoman, Yuan, Ming, and British empires all failed makes the mistake of giving today’s power brokers more credit than they deserve. nternational oligarchies commanding unbeatable militaries and hoarding unparalleled wealth are nothing new. The “unbeatable” are always beaten.
Associated Press: The world population is projected to be 7.9 billion people on New Year’s Day 2023, with 73.7 million people added since New Year’s Day 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. That marks a 0.9% increase in the world population over the past year. During January 2023, 4.3 births and two deaths are expected worldwide every second, the Census Bureau said.
Paul Gottfried contributor to American Greatness: . . . I don’t think the alliance between the surveillance state and what looks like an increasingly lunatic ruling class can last. At some point, unless I’m mistaken, the more pragmatic but not conspicuously moral elements of the government that are driven by a lust for power but not woke ideology will turn on their unhinged allies. Exactly what form this will take is not yet clear.
Vincent McCaffrey contributor to American Greatness: We are now in the midst of the generation that will end in 2035. But maybe all of this angst is for naught. Given the falling birthrate and the collapse of family and of religious wisdom, never mind the rise of absolute government, there will be nothing to worry about in another generation or two anyway. Indeed, this might be the “last” generation.
Monica Showalter contributor to American Thinker: To hear of abandoned equipment going for a hundred-plus bucks on eBay is a scandal to us, and a gold mine to America’s adversaries, such as Russia, Iran, and China. Wouldn’t Viktor Bout have a grand old time now that he knows he can get what he wants for his master, Putin, just for a trip to eBay. No dangerous plane travel through fourth-world savannas required.
Bob Unruh contributor to World net Daily: The U.S. government is asking educators to measure their commitment to the leftist ideologies of the LGBT movement, and is offering ways to help them make sure they are better “allies” to the radicals pushing for students to be sexually disoriented. It is the Centers for Disease Control that posted online its LGBTQ “Inclusivity in Schools: A Self-Assessment Tool.”
Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Democrats and their media are demanding that George Santos, a newly elected Republican congressman from New York, resign for having invented his entire backstory. If lying about your past is an impeachable offense, there wouldn’t be a single politician in D.C. And damn few Democrats.
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Walsh: Paul Sperry Unpacks The Trump-Hillary Double Standard
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch obtained evidence that a computer contractor working under the direction of Hillary Clinton’s legal team destroyed subpoenaed records that the former secretary of state stored on a private email server she originally kept at her New York home, and then lied to investigators about it. Yet no charges were brought against Clinton, her lawyers, or her paid consultant. The leniency accorded to Clinton contrasts with recent moves by Attorney General Merrick Garland to aggressively investigate former President Trump and his lawyers for allegedly obstructing investigators’ efforts to locate subpoenaed records at his Florida home. Legal experts say the apparent double standard may provide a useful defense for Trump and his legal team. The treatment of Clinton included a deal with her defense team that required the FBI to, in effect, obstruct its own investigation.
Read more: https://conservativebrief.com/hillary-standard-69398/
Glebova: Trump Campaign Reveals Plans For 2023
The campaign is rolling out “top-level teams in early voting states” and expanding its “massive data operation” to “wage an overwhelming campaign that’s never been seen before,” the former president’s spokesperson, Steven Cheung, told the Daily Caller.[…] Trump has released videos on freedom of speech, the Omnibus and the Jan. 6 Committee’s final report, promising in his first video that he would ban the federal government from censoring the “lawful speech of American citizens” in one of his first acts. […] “I think we’ll have better choices … than my old running mate,” said Pence. “I think America longs to go back to the policies that were working for the American people, but I think it’s time for new leadership in this country that will bring us together around our highest ideals.”
GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET) & TRANSHUMANISM (HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED
Schachtel: Exclusive: Davos 2023 will feature BlackRock & TikTok CEOs, with WEF demanding more censorship and tyranny
The World Economic Forum is a fanatical political organization masquerading as a neutral entity, with specific policy goals that involve centralizing power into the hands of hand-picked global elites as the only means to save the earth from a claimed climate emergency. The annual Davos conference acts as an ultra exclusive in-person narrative and ideas exchange for this hand-picked ruling class. The WEF is led by frontman and president Klaus Schwab, who advocates for a “green transition” through his misleadingly named “stakeholder capitalism” agenda, which amounts to technocratic tyranny. Movements such as The Great Reset, Build Back Better, and the ESG agenda were pieced together by WEF “stakeholders” at previous Davos confabs. The Dossier has obtained an early, partial list of both events and confirmed speakers for Davos 2023. The programme for Davos 2023 includes events such as: “Why We Need Battery Passports” “Leading The Charge Through Earth’s New Normal” (Featuring Al Gore) . . .[…] Speakers for Davos 2023 include: . . .
Read more: https://dossier.substack.com/p/exclusive-davos-2023-will-feature
Malone: Keeping up with the WEF
Get your tickets now (snark) for DAVOS 2023, held January 16-20, 2023. The event is fast approaching! The topic for this year’s event: Cooperation in a Fragmented World Under the theme ‘Cooperation in a Fragmented World’ , the Annual Meeting will bring together more than 2500 leaders from government, business and civil society, at a pivotal time for the world. The Covid19 pandemic . . . […] The title and description of Davos 2023, describe an organization under pressure. Let’s take the win. I think we are making an impact… Of interest is that the WEF no longer lists Twitter on their Social Media list of accounts to follow. How far the mighty have fallen (or risen, depending on your point of view). […] Inquiring minds want to know, who is organizing the winter Davos 2023 “party”: The WEF Davos page links to the list of World Economic Forum Board of Directors – The Forum is chaired by Founder and Executive Chairman Professor Klaus Schwab. The board of trustees is a “who’s-who” of the top CEOs in the world, combined with a few high ranking politicians and academics.
Read more: https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/keeping-up-with-the-wef?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Jordan Schachtel independent journalist tweeted on 12/26/22: In 2020, President Trump went to Davos and told them all to their faces that they subscribed to an evil ideology. Love him or hate him, he became enemy number one of the ruling class.
Watch the Trump 52 second clip: https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1607488058848313349?cxt=HHwWioCwhe33-M4sAAAA
THE CORRUPT INTELLIGENCE/ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS
Chaitin: Revealed: Ray Epps Claimed He Believed Capitol Was Open To Public On January 6
Ray Epps, a mysterious January 6 figure some theorized to be a federal informant, told congressional investigators he believed the U.S. Capitol was open to the public on the day of the riot. The assertion appears in a long-awaited transcript released Thursday by the House January 6 Committee, which released its final report last week. Epps, a self-proclaimed supporter of former President Donald Trump who raised concerns about the 2020 election, was asked about January 5, 2021, video footage showing him urging a crowd to “go into the Capitol” the next day. Epps said “yes” when asked if he was under the impression that the Capitol would be open on January 6, the day lawmakers met to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. He again said “yes” when the word “open” in this case was described as “like, open to visitors, like anyone could walk in.”
War Room: Malone’s New Book Exposes How Big Pharma And Biomedical Administrative State Put Profits Over People
Tony Lyons: Dr. Malone’s New Book “Lies My Government Told Me” Exposes How Big Pharma And The Biomedical Administrative State Put Profits Over People
Watch the 3:17 minute interview:https://rumble.com/v22yyty-malones-new-book-exposes-how-big-pharma-and-biomedical-administrative-state.html
TWITTER CRIME FILES
Citizen Free Press: The Fauci Files are coming… https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/elon-musk-the-fauci-files-are-coming/
BIDEN’S MANDATORY COVID VACCINATIONS
Lauren Gardner contributor to Politico: Once heralded as game-changers for Covid patients considered at risk for getting seriously ill — one was used to treat then-President Donald Trump in 2020 — monoclonal antibodies are now largely ineffective against current Covid variants. Easier-to-administer antiviral drugs, such as Paxlovid, have largely taken their place but aren’t safe for all immune-compromised people because they interact with many other drugs.
Finley: Are Vaccines Fueling New Covid Variants?
Public-health experts are sounding the alarm about a new Omicron variant dubbed XBB that is rapidly spreading across the Northeast U.S. Some studies suggest it is as different from the original Covid strain from Wuhan as the 2003 SARS virus. Should Americans be worried? It isn’t clear that XBB is any more lethal than other variants, but its mutations enable it to evade antibodies from prior infection and vaccines as well as existing monoclonal antibody treatments. Growing evidence also suggests that repeated vaccinations may make people more susceptible to XBB and could be fueling the virus’s rapid evolution.
Read more: https://archive.fo/qUJbI#selection-287.0-321.333
Downs: Celebration of a New Year Brings With It Yet Another Reminder From Bidens to Get Vaccinated
As Breaking 911 highlighted on Sunday, part of the Biden’s message to Americans aired on ABC News had to do with the vaccine. In the name of telling people to “especially take care of your health this year,” the first lady implored people to “go get that COVID vaccine and get your flu shot.” The president, very much appearing as old as he is, chimed in to share something indecipherable.
War Room: BREAKING: 28% Of Americans Personally Know Someone Who Died From COVID-19 Jab
Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports talks to host Steve Bannon about the new poll that shows 28 percent of Americans know someone who has died after taking the Covid-19 vaccine. “The numbers I’m about to release, I want to tell everyone it just took a few thousand dollars… A few weeks ago we very clearly answered that the vaccines are not safe. 57 percent of American have concerns about major side effects… 41 percent of vaccinated Americans had a side effect…. We asked people, do you know anyone whose death you think may have been caused by side effects of the Covid vaccine. 28 percent of Americans say yes.”
Watch the 11:44 minute interview: https://warroom.org/2023/01/02/breaking-28-of-americans-personally-know-someone-who-died-from-covid-19-jab/
Watch the 10:27 minute Rasmussen Report made video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoIOZRXESlI
(Of interest) Citizen Free Press: GB News: 1,000 excess deaths per week in Britain…
Watch Nigel Farafe’s 8 minute interview with the former head of the UK trade team: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/1000-excess-deaths-per-week-in-britain/
War Room: BOMBSHELL: Ed Dowd Reports Of Disability Rate Increase Directly Related To COVID-19 Jab
Watch the 10:29 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v22suk8-bombshell-ed-dowd-reports-of-disability-rate-increase-directly-related-to-c.html
(Covid vaccine related?) McFarland: 17-Year-Old Gillette Basketball Player Dies Unexpectedly On Monday
Max Sorenson suffered a medical event at his home Monday and was pronounced deceased at Campbell County Memorial Hospital, Paul Wallem, Campbell County Coroner told Cowboy State Daily on Thursday. […] Williams said it’s his understanding so far that Sorenson’s death was a “freakish medical situation.”
BOOK RECOMMENDATION: “CAUSE UNKNOWN”: THE EPIDEMIC OF SUDDEN DEATHS IN 2021 AND 2022 BY EDWARD DOWD
Dr. Mercola: ‘Cause Unknown’: Former BlackRock Manager Details ‘Epidemic of Sudden Deaths’ in New Book
Story at a glance: In his new book, “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022,” former BlackRock fund manager Edward Dowd details data showing the COVID-19 shots are a crime against humanity. Insurance industry research in 2016 concluded that group life policyholders die at one-third the rate of the general U.S. population, so they’re the healthiest among us. Group life policyholders are those employed with Fortune 500 companies, who tend to be younger and well-educated. In 2020, the general U.S. population had higher excess mortality than group life holders, but in 2021, that flipped. Ages 25 through 64 of the group life policyholders suddenly experienced 40% excess mortality, compared to 32% in the general population. In short, a far healthier subset of the population suddenly died at a higher rate than the general population. […] Dowd has now published a book, “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022,” in which he details the data showing the shots are a crime against humanity. “When this product [the COVID shots] came to market, I was very suspicious because I know a lot about health care,” Dowd says. “I was on Wall Street and I used to analyze health care stocks. I knew that normal vaccines took seven to 10 years to prove effectiveness and safety. “This was an experimental vaccine, a nontraditional gene therapy that had never been tested on humans. I read the literature on the animal tests and they were an abomination.
Read more: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cause-unknown-book-edward-dowd-sudden-deaths-cola/
YOUTUBE VIDEO RECOMMENDATION: “THE VEIL OVER SOCIETY GOT REMOVED FOR A MOMENT”
Harris: New Video Explores How the Pandemic Unveiled the Worst Among Us
The video begins, (without quoting Shakespeare), by proposing that, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” It then segues into a straightforward review of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research in 1971, it was a real social experiment in which some college students were assigned to play guards while others were to be prisoners. It is most notable for the fact that although it was supposed to last two weeks, it had to be terminated after only six days because the “mistreatment of prisoners escalated so alarmingly.” After acknowledging that the experiment was flawed and its conclusions controversial, the narrator begins comparing what happened during the experiment to what happened during the pandemic: . . .
Read more/Watch the 37 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfbHMPkmvtE&t=1753s
ALL EYES REMAIN ON ARIZONA
Conradson: BREAKING: Internal Source Says “Significant Miscount” In Abe Hamadeh’s Recount Nets Hamadeh With Hundreds of New Votes In Race Called by 511 Votes
The Gateway Pundit reported that Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee F. Jantzen tossed out Abe Hamadeh’s election challenge in the Arizona Attorney General race against Democrat Kris Mayes. The judge denied the challenge based on testimony from Hamadeh’s lawyer, Tim LaSota, acknowledging that based on the ballot inspection (a small sample of ballots), his client would not be able to get over 511 votes needed to overcome Mayes. However, Charlie Kirk tweeted earlier that hundreds of new votes were discovered for Abe, and corrupt Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is attempting to hide this discrepancy from the public.
ADI Staff Reporter: Pinal County Recount Discrepancy “Shocking,” Fight In AZ Attorney General Race To Continue
On Thursday, the results of the recount of three general election races in Arizona were finally released, and they showed a much larger discrepancy than was expected. Most notably, the Attorney General’s race narrowed to a margin of just 280 votes between Republican Abe Hamadeh and Democrat Kris Mayes.
Despite the fact that the change in total votes was so large, and that there was also a failure to perform a random hand-count of a sample of the ballots that generated the new results, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge declared Mayes the winner. [..] Hamadeh is expected to appeal a ruling made in his election challenge case.
CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY
Reuters: Chinese jet came within 10 feet of US military aircraft, US says
A Chinese military plane came within 10 feet of a US air force aircraft in the contested South China Sea last week and forced it to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision in international airspace, the US military said on Thursday. The close encounter followed what the United States has called a recent trend of increasingly dangerous behavior by Chinese military aircraft.
Read more:https://nypost.com/2022/12/30/chinese-jet-came-within-10-feet-of-us-military-aircraft/
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA
Shurk: Government by Gimmick Won’t Last
The system’s too powerful! You can’t beat a “big brother” police State! The globalists control all the money and have all the leverage! I’ve heard every reason under the sun why individual liberty will continue to lose out to the rapidly advancing technocratic surveillance structure extinguishing Western freedoms today. I say, “So what?” The bigger they come, the harder they fall. […] When we are overwhelmed by those who choose to torment us, we tend to unfairly reward them with even more semantic power by referring to them as an ever-shifting, all-knowing, globular “they” that cannot be tamed, let alone specifically named. Individual politicians, companies, institutions, and agencies end up looking so invincible that they are treated as omniscient gods. Well, they are not divine; they are just ordinary men and women who have acquired tremendous wealth and power over others; and they exist at the top of society’s artificially constructed hierarchical pyramid only so long as society chooses. Their authority is neither fixed nor eternal; it disappears the moment enough ordinary people recognize the illusion of power as mere delusion. They control the news, social media, the banks, the food supply, the flow of gasoline, and they’re set to use the excuse of tracking our “carbon footprint” as a means to monitor and control us throughout our lives. Well, that sounds scary, but those aren’t exactly new powers being wielded for the first time in history. […] What is more powerful than the people who appear so powerful? Ideas.
Read more at American Thinker.
Rubin: Danny Werfel Poised to Return to IRS and Lead Its $80 Billion Transformation
Danny Werfel spent most of his public-sector career deep in the details of federal government operations and his private-sector career in the behind-the-scenes world of consultants. His next turn will be in the harsh political spotlight. Mr. Werfel, President Biden’s pick to run the Internal Revenue Service, aims to return to the job he had for seven months in 2013 as acting commissioner. If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Werfel will be charged with executing the controversial $80 billion expansion of the agency that lawmakers approved in an effort to boost enforcement and modernize aging technology.
Read more: https://archive.fo/PxLVI#selection-103.5-103.81
Carney: Republicans rage over White House plans to slow investigations
House Republicans are fuming over a recent White House move that will slow roll their investigations, but leaders say it doesn’t change their game plan. While the House GOP has spent weeks detailing its planned investigations into the Biden administration now that the party has a majority, the White House has stayed mostly silent on strategy. That changed Thursday morning, when White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber announced he plans to effectively reset the clock come Jan. 3 and ignore the long list of investigative requests already sent by Republican Reps. James Comer of Kentucky and Jim Jordan of Ohio — the incoming chairs for the Oversight and Judiciary Committees, respectively.[…] “At every turn the Biden White House seeks to obstruct congressional oversight and hide information from the American people,” Comer said in a statement.
Pearce: ICE Says It Can’t Find Records On Nearly 400,000 Illegal Immigrants It Should Be Monitoring
The Department of Homeland Security agency made its admission in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). TRAC had requested information on 377,980 illegal immigrants in ICE’s Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation. […] “ICE’s response that they could no longer find records on immigrants in [ATD] that they had previously released came as a shock, particularly after they informed us recently that they had been misleading the public for several months by releasing extremely inaccurate ATD data. The agency really needs to come clean. The American public deserves to have accurate data about the ATD program,” TRAC assistant Professor Austin Kocher told the DCNF.
War Room: Anthony Aguero Reports On Bombshell Footage Of Migrant’s Destructive Effects On American Cities
Watch the 6:32 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v22sni6-anthony-aguero-reports-on-bombshell-footage-of-migrants-destructive-effects.html
VDH: The New, New Antisemitism
The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon—perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. A new antisemitism followed from the campus leftism of the 1960s. It arose from and was masked by a general hatred of Israel, following the Jewish state’s incredible victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. That lopsided triumph globally transformed Israel in the leftist mind from a David fighting the Arab Goliath into a veritable Western imperialist, neocolonialist overdog. On campuses, Middle-East activism, course instruction, and faculty profiles are now virulently anti-Israel—and indistinguishable from anti-Jewishness. […] Yet now a dangerous new, new antisemitism is trending, predominantly among African-Americans—especially prominent politicians, celebrities, and billionaires. The old trope that blacks inordinately were prejudiced against Jews due to past inner-city stereotypes of exploiting Jewish landlords has been recalibrated. It is now repackaged by black elites claiming that their careers are overly profitable to and orchestrated by “the Jews.”
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/28/the-new-new-antisemitism/
Showalter: Abandoned U.S. military equipment now turning up on eBay
Amazing what you can buy on eBay these days. […] . . . you can also buy a HIIDE or SEEK II military scanner which comes with complimentary database full of thousands of iris scans and fingerprints of U.S. service members, U.S. collaborators, and al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists dating from the Afghanistan War. Apparently, such devices were among the $7.1 billion’s worth of abandoned equipment in Afghanistan in Joe Biden’s disastrous military pullout last year. And now they’re turning up for sale on eBay. According to the New York Times: . . .
Read more at American Thinker.
BIDEN’S ENFORCERS: CORPORATE AMERICA
Barkoukis: GM Sparks Outrage for Giving Grant to Organization That Promotes Transgender Ideology in Schools
General Motors gave money to an organization that provides elementary schools with books that promote transgenderism, a 2021 Social Impact Report from the company shows. The grant was given to the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s “Rainbow Library Program,” which sends schools books that “feature LGBTQ+ characters, history, and themes,” its website states. The GM report touts the group’s “innovative program” that “also provides ongoing support and professional guidance for educators to create inclusive, supportive and identity-safe classrooms nationwide.” In addition to the Rainbow Library Program, GLSEN also offers resources for students and educators, such as its “Trans Action Kit,” which . . . […] The move prompted calls for boycotts of GM on social media.
Read more: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/01/03/gm-transgender-n2617805
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
Greenfield: A Foreign Billionaire Funds Dems’ Hunter Biden Defense
If you have any doubt whatsoever that CFA is an American organization, its home page is decorated with a flag draped over a barn. The ‘O’ in its logo even includes flag symbolism. CFA has announced that it’s “forming a council of proud Americans” to fight Republican investigations into the foreign business dealings of Hunter Biden and the rest of the Biden clan. Waving the flag to cover up the intimidation of elected officials investigating dirty deals with Chinese and Russian oligarchs is a new low even for Biden and his cronies. Will Hansjörg Wyss, the Swiss billionaire allegedly backing CFA, be on the council of proud Americans? It would be awkward for the foreign tycoon to sit on a “council of proud Americans” since he is not, as far as even the media has been able to determine, an American citizen. Instead, he appears to be living in America under an investor visa. That hasn’t stopped the wealthy European from using his fortune to drastically influence American politics with the complicity of the IRS, the FEC and the rest of the government. This wouldn’t be the first time that Wyss, who was accused of getting rich while killing patients, . . .
Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/a-foreign-billionaire-funds-dems-hunter-biden-defense/
CLIMATE EMERGENCY: IT’S POLITICAL
Kornick: ’60 Minutes’ uses failed doomsday biologist to predict ‘mass extinction’ of humanity
Club for Growth senior analyst Andrew Follett wrote, “’Biologist’ Paul Erlich has been consistently wrong about every prediction he has ever made…And yet media outlets keep having him on…” Media strategist Gabriella Hoffman commented, “Preservationist environmentalism like this poses a grave threat to people and nature. This thinking undergirds most climate alarmism too. Giving credence to Paul Erlich should instill doubt in one’s credibility.” “90 years old and still crazy (60 Minutes spelled his last name incorrectly, of course, their usual attention to detail). Ehrlich said humanity was done in the 1970s. We were not done. We will not be done anytime soon, either,” Washington Examiner columnist Nathan Wurtzel tweeted. “When a 90-year-old man tells you there are too many people, you’re allowed to ask why he’s still sticking around,” Substack writer Jim Treacher joked.
Sturman: The Antarctic Ecosystem—Reasons for Optimism
We’re warned that Antarctica’s adjoining Southern Ocean is caught in an irreversible descending spiral, where life is scarce and on the verge of collapse. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the choice is clear: Radically reduce fossil fuels over an aggressive timeline or be complicit in the planet’s destruction. This distortion and selective manipulation of data and its use of public shaming are the tools of inquisitions, not rational scientific inquiry. Contrary to the incessant media barrage that predicts Antarctica’s demise, my personal experience during a three-week visit in November to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Island, and the Antarctic Peninsula reveals a different and more optimistic story. The beaches and ocean are teeming with life as hundreds of thousands of penguins, seals, and pelagic birds compete for space on the crowded shorelines during this breeding season.
Read more at American Thinker.
Jayaraj: Our Killer Green Energy Infatuation
The obsession with wind turbines puts millions at risk of freezing to death in their homes. An Arctic bomb cyclone dropped a sudden chill on the United States, delivering the coldest Christmas in decades. The nationwide death toll was reported to be more than 60, with at least half of the fatalities in upstate New York. Some of the dead did not have heating. Power outages put millions of lives at risk when utilities experienced a sharp surge in demand that couldn’t be met. One of the reasons utilities have become increasingly ineffective at coping with adverse winter conditions is their adoption of wind and solar as major energy sources. Wind and solar are notorious for their intermittency—able to produce electricity less than 40 percent of the time—and often fail completely in winter storms. Many utilities could have been better prepared to handle the demand if they had not been investing time and energy in so-called renewables.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/29/our-green-energy-infatuation-is-a-killer/
OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY & OPINION
Green: Guess What the Tylenol Shortage and the Fentanyl Surplus Have in Common
There’s a nationwide shortage of Tylenol and other common pain medications. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of Fentanyl coming in through America’s porous southern border for anyone who wants to get high — or dead. […] One reason for the shortages is a spike in demand caused by the annual flu season, COVID-19, and unusually high RSV and strep infections in kids who didn’t get a chance to develop natural immunity during the lockdowns and mask mandates.
Fairbanks: Incoming Democrat Congresswoman is Married to DACA Recipient Who Could Face Deportation if DREAM Act Doesn’t Pass
The newly elected politician, Delia Ramirez, 39, is a US citizen — but her new husband, Boris Hernandez, came to the country illegally when he was 14-years-old. Ramirez, of course, appears to support extreme open borders policies. DACA is an unconstitutional Obama-era policy that he enacted in 2012, which allows people who came to the US illegally as minors to obtain work permits and be shielded from deportation. […] “This is very personal for me. It is time – it is past time that we deliver on the promise that we have made to our Dreamers,” she continued. “I am the wife of a DACA recipient. I am the daughter of Guatemalan working immigrants. I know firsthand the challenges and constant fear our families live every single day. We have to end this.”
Drey: Transgender Boxing Category To Be Introduced In 2023
Mauricio Sulaiman, the council president, told The Telegraph he believes it’s time for the sport to address issues of “safety and inclusion.” “We are going to put out a global call for those who are interested in 2023, and we will set up the protocols, start consultation and most likely create a league and a tournament,” Sulaiman said.
Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-boxing-category-to-be-introduced-in-2023
Schneider: US Census Bureau redefines meaning of ‘urban’ America
Around 4.2 million residents living in 1,140 small cities, hamlets, towns and villages that lost their urban designation were bumped into the rural category. The new criteria raised the population threshold from 2,500 to 5,000 people and housing units were added to the definition. The change matters because rural and urban areas often qualify for different types of federal funding for transportation, housing, health care, education and agriculture. The federal government doesn’t have a standard definition of urban or rural, but the Census Bureau’s definition often provides a baseline. “The whole thing about urban and rural is all about money,” said Mary Craigle, bureau chief for Montana’s Research and Information Services. “Places that qualify as urban are eligible for transportation dollars that rural areas aren’t, and then rural areas are eligible for dollars that urban areas are not.”
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/1000-places-bumped-rural-category-urban-change-95932119
A LOOK BACK AT 2022
Purnell: 10 Wins In 2022
Staring down the end of 2022 burdened by rumblings of nuclear war, news of collusion between corrupt intelligence agencies and Big Tech to silence Americans, and the threat of a rabid Justice Department that’s trumping up charges against peaceful pro-lifers, plenty of Americans may feel they’re closing out the year with less hope than they began it. Radicals are trying to trans the kids, and conservatives’ most powerful officeholder is Mitch McConnell. But darkness in this world is nothing new, and until Heaven comes to Earth again, we will have battles to fight. The year of our Lord 2022 brought several promising developments, and a few honest-to-goodness wins.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/27/10-wins-in-2022/
Saavedra: 7 Of The Worst Political Predictions Of 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, it’s worth taking a look back and revisiting some of the worst political predictions that were made this year. The following are seven of the worst predictions that were made, according to an exhaustive list that was compiled by Politico: 1. Sam Bankman-Fried: “I don’t think I will be arrested” Bankman-Fried, 30, made the prediction on December 12. The disgraced founder of FTX was arrested later that same day after U.S. prosecutors charged him with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering. 2. President Joe Biden on inflation at the end of 2021: “I think it’s the peak of the crisis.” Biden predicted on December 10, 2021, that the inflation crisis had peaked and that things would get better from there. The 7% rate that month surged for many months after that, including to a staggering 9.1% in May 2022.
Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-of-the-worst-political-predictions-of-2022
Kelly: Unsung Heroes of 2022: Whitmer Fednapping Defense Attorneys
While Twitter CEO Elon Musk is gradually exposing the depth of collusion between the FBI and Big Tech; the unsung heroes continuing to defend the individuals targeted in the Whitmer caper have done as much, if not more, to show the American people the truth behind this irredeemably corrupt agency.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/30/unsung-heroes-of-2022-whitmer-fednapping-defense-attorneys/
Laad: The most revolting people of 2022
This ignominious list includes attention seekers, pretenders, hypocrites, frauds, and so many more. This list is in no particular order of importance. Democrats Due to Biden’s misgovernance, the U.S. has suffered high inflation, a crime an uncontrolled influx of illegal aliens, and the mass smuggling of illicit drugs. The Democrats then passed a bill called the Inflation Reduction Act, which had nothing to do with inflation, but amounted to a high-spending version of the green new deal. When they found time for it, they focused on Ukraine. The Democrats used compromised government agencies to target political opponents. Every rule that was once considered sacrosanct was and is being violated. They are attempting to turn the U.S. into a one-party socialist dictatorship. The Democrats from Nancy to AOC may feign empathy, but their sole focus is, was, and always be power and enrichment. […] Liz Cheney . . .
Read more at American Thinker.
INTERNATIONAL
Berrien: Netanyahu Returns To Power, Sworn In As Prime Minister Of Israel
“This new government is determined to restore governance, peace, and personal security to the citizens of Israel,” Netanyahu said on Thursday when he was sworn in. He addressed critics in Israel and abroad who have attacked his coalition for including staunch nationalists including Bezalal Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, saying, “I hear the opposition’s constant laments about ‘the end of the state’ and even ‘the end of democracy.’”
Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-returns-to-power-sworn-in-as-prime-minister-of-israel
(Typical NYT bias) Nicas & Spigariol: As Lula Becomes Brazil’s President, Bolsonaro Flees to Florida
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to take the reins of the Brazilian government on Sunday in an elaborate inauguration, complete with a motorcade, music festival and hundreds of thousands of supporters filling the central esplanade of Brasília, the nation’s capital. But one key person will be missing: the departing far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. Without him, there will be no ceremonial passing of the presidential sash on Sunday, an important symbol of the peaceful transition of power in a nation where many people still recall the 21-year military dictatorship that ended in 1985. […]
Mr. Bolsonaro had questioned the reliability of Brazil’s election systems for months, without evidence, and when he lost in October, he refused to concede unequivocally. In a sort of farewell address on Friday, breaking weeks of near silence, he said that he tried to block Mr. Lula from taking office but failed.
Norton: NHS bosses want interview panels to justify why they have hired a white person over candidates from ethnic minorities
A policy at the Royal Free in north London requires staff to compile reports justifying why the successful candidate was deemed ‘more suitable’. They must write to the trust’s chief executive with evidence on how they scored the non-white applicant and come up with suggestions on how the candidate can improve for next time. Frustrated staff say the system is a ‘tick-box exercise’ that is adding yet another level of bureaucracy to an already creaking NHS. […] On Saturday the Mail revealed how the NHS is offering more than £1million of ‘woke non-jobs’ in hospitals and trusts at a time when it desperately needs more cash for patient care. [Note: National Health Service is the U.K’S socialist healthcare system.]
Habib: Is the UK Turning into Something Extremely Different?
- In 2013, British journalist Vincent Cooper wrote: “By the year 2050, in a mere 37 years, Britain will be a majority Muslim nation.”
- Religion seems a far more important part of life for Muslims than for other Britons: it appears central to their sense of identity. According to a report from 2006: “Thirty percent of British Muslims would prefer to live under Sharia (Islamic religious) law than under British law…. Twenty-eight percent hope for the U.K. one day to become a fundamentalist Islamic state.”
- The question is: What teachings are the Muslims across the world, including in the UK, receiving from studying the Quran?
Read more: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19262/uk-different