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“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”

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DFT – Oil Up On China Reopening And US SPR Refill

DFT – Bloomberg Warns, Hawkish Tightening May Cause Global Recession

DFT – Covid Restrictions Hit Chinese Aluminum Hard

DFT – Chinese Air Travel Picks Up As Zero-Covid Goes Away

DFT – French Energy Crisis Worsened As Repairs On Reactors Stretch Out

Kari Lake’s election case will go to trial, Katie Hobbs to testify.

Twitter Files #7 detail how FBI launched an operation to get Twitter to kill the Hunter Biden story after they heard about it through illegal surveillance on Rudy Giuliani. The piece couches a lot of people as pushing back on FBI, like Roth, but what that really is, is everyone trying to cover their ass, and make their actions look legal in the event there is an investigation. Everyone who was in any of these critical positions, did not just get there as a blind normie who grew up thinking we elected our leaders, and American government had checks and balances. I would bet every one was working as a ground surveillance operator from the time they were kids. They were all on the same page, just none wanted to let another leave him holding the bag if an investigation happened.

Latest ‘Twitter Files’ show FBI bullied executives over not reporting ‘state propaganda’ enough.

FBI paid Twitter $3.4 million in US tax dollars for administration costs related to the staff’s time spent working with the FBI.

First Draft News, a now-defunct nonprofit that left-wing billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations funded, played a key role in Twitter’s preparation to shut down the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, according to internal documents published by author Michael Shellenberger as part of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files.”

Ron Paul Institute – ‘Twitter Files’ make it clear: We must abolish the FBI. 

On Twitter:

Facebook currently employs at least 115 people, in high-ranking positions, that formerly worked at FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS:

17 CIA
37 FBI
23 NSA
38 DHS

Roger Stone says, when asked who killed Kennedy, Richard Nixon said, “Let me put it this way. Lyndon and I both wanted to be president. The difference was I wasn’t willing to kill for it.”

Some think Elon’s poll asking if he should leave as Twitter CEO was a honeypot for bots on the platform.

DOJ spied on House Intelligence Committee investigators during Russia probe, subpoenas show, using a grand jury to obtain Google email, phone data for at least two top investigators for panel’s Republican chairman, Devin Nunes.

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Monday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that former President Donald Trump was already “constitutionally disqualified from holding office, having participated in insurrection.”

The January 6 Committee approved criminal referrals against Trump.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took aim at former President Donald Trump when asked about his reaction to the House Jan. 6 panel’s criminal referral of the former president to the Justice Department on Monday – “The entire nation knows who is responsible for that day. Beyond that, I don’t have any immediate observations.”

California Democrat Ted Lieu donated over $50,000 of his campaign money to Stanford University before his son’s acceptance. A Twitter account had posted about it back in August of 2021 and was immediately suspended

DOJ to charge ABC News journalist who “fell off the face of the Earth” after FBI seized classified documents from his laptop in home raid.

Historical flashback – Operation CHAOS, the CIA program that spied on Americans.

DOD office moving ahead in mission to identify ‘anomalous phenomena.’

Lawmakers unveil sprawling spending bill that would keep the U.S. government open through next fall and includes billions for Ukraine.

Stacey Abrams’ campaign is $1 million in debt — despite raising more than $100 million in her second straight unsuccessful Georgia gubernatorial bid​, according to a report Monday. Think any of that is lining her pockets?

Andrew Cuomo and Kellyanne Conway dine together on Upper East Side.

Since the fall of Kabul, Biden has provided $1.1 billion to the Taliban in Afghan aid and looted $3.5 billion from money awarded to the families of 9/11 victims in a lawsuit against the Taliban and put in a “trust fund” to provide “humanitarian aid.”

Biden extends China’s beneficial access to US markets – Labeled an “insane and treasonous” move.

There has been a 4070% increase in VAERS miscarriage and stillbirth reports after the mRNA shots were rolled out.

Video of a transparent, crawling demonic figure in ‘haunted’ woods. Could be a CGI edit. But we file it away, because Tom Baurle and the book Chameleo said there were invisibility technologies.

Arrested Antifa ‘terrorist’, 22, is son of millionaire Maine SURGEON: Grew up in gigantic $2m Kennebunkport mansion and sailed on parents’ stunning yacht.

Burglar caught red-handed in Robert Deniro’s house. Recidivist burglar (female) uses a pipe to pry her way into DeNiro’s basement, works up to his Christmas tree, and was about to clean him out, when cops who supposedly were following her, followed her in and caught her red-handed. Not that NYPD couldn’t do that, or wouldn’t do that, but in this environment, I tend to think they are not being allowed to do that, given the push is on to jack up crime as some sort of facet of the psyop. Much more likely is the same Cabal surveillance which makes Cabal assets untouchable by plebes, so they can be free to fuck over America (like Ed Buck had next door), was watching the tech from next door, saw foot traffic approaching DeNiro’s residence, sent in foot surveillance and vehicular to get a closer look, saw her breaking in, called for Police, who are under orders to give Cabal-surveillance priority, and they then handled the bust. And to explain how it went down, they claimed the NYPD had her under surveillance. It also shows, as the subways, and alleys of New York or Chicago turn into a meat-grinder, all those cops who are no longer allowed to fight regular crime, are getting pulled back and turned into a quick-reaction private security force for the small group of Cabal elites who are fucking everything up to begin with. Also, this is what should have happened with Paul Pelosi, if DePape had actually been a stranger breaking in.

Kevin McCarthy received some disparaging words from his former mentor, former Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.), who called his former “protege” a liar whose words cannot be trusted. “Thomas explained how McCarthy sold out Donald Trump after major corporate donors threatened to abandon their donations to congressional Republicans if they voted against certifying the 2020 election.”

Washington state proposes two measures, the first calling for a ban on the sale of military-style assault weapon, the second to ensure gun makers and dealers take steps to prevents weapons they are selling, from getting into the possession of “dangerous individuals.

President Joe Biden shared a story Friday of conversations he had with his father and uncle when he was elected vice president, although both were dead at the time he claimed he had the exchanges.

Sanctuary counties making private deals with ‘abolish ICE’ groups to protect criminal illegal aliens.

Top LGBT group GLAAD criticizes Disney for not promoting homosexuality enough.

Just 18% of US households are ‘nuclear families’ with a married couple and children, down from 40% since 1970s and the lowest since 1959.

Latest fire at a food processing plant – Fire breaks out at Saginaw county grain elevator – Fire could burn for another week.

Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates invest in brain chip company rivaling Musk’s Neuralink.

Mystery surrounding Republican Rep.-elect George Santos who flipped a House seat on Long Island: There are ‘no records’ at big banks where he said he worked, college he said he attended, or of properties ‘wealthy’ candidate says he owns. He is the first openly gay non-incumbent Republican and the first Brazilian-American elected to Congress. He was blackmailable which is why they let him run. I would not be surprised they did their walk-in, letting him know, like with David Patterson. But he seemed uncomfortable with becoming a puppet, so they called up their reporter at the Times, and this is how it went.

Toyota Chief says ‘silent majority’ has doubts about pursuing only EVs.

Montreal Police Department sensationally BANNED its police officers from wearing the image of Saint Michael, their patron saint.

Russia launches fresh wave of 35 drones hitting Kyiv energy hub – as Zelensky begs the West for more air defense supplies.

Dec. 19 saw the first Ukrainian strikes inside Russia with advanced US missiles that President Joe Biden promised the Ukraine leader a week earlier. It is a report, but this Debka site has been known to run questionable reports in the past.

American Conservative – Washington Is Prolonging Ukraine’s Suffering — Washington’s refusal to acknowledge Russia’s legitimate security interests in Ukraine and negotiate an end to this war is the path to protracted conflict and human suffering.

The UK government’s plan to deport migrants to Rwanda is lawful, the High Court has ruled.

Harvey Weinstein found guilty of three out of seven counts he was facing in a Los Angeles sex-assault and rape case.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday granted an 11th-hour request by more than a dozen Republican-controlled states to temporarily pause a lower court ruling that had ordered the end of a COVID-19 border restriction known as Title 42.

64% of independents doubt Joe Biden’s mental fitness; 72% say he’s too old for Presidency.

Donald Trump takes 5-point lead in head-to-head with Biden in a hypothetical 2024 presidential matchup, the most recent Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll found.

Trump on elections: Republicans ‘have no choice,’ ‘We have to fight’ like Democrats to outdo them with mail voting, ballot harvesting.

Washington DC labels Donald Trump an “Enemy of the State” – Meanwhile Americans shrug and say “Yup, that’s why we voted for him.”

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