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According to Cindy Harper of Reclaim the Net, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has not named the social networks it has paid. This development comes on the heels of news confirming that the bureau paid Twitter at least $3.5 million. FBI representatives talked to Fox News and revealed that the sizable Twitter payment was a “reimbursement” for expenses and costs of its requests. The FBI revealed that the group had paid other social media platforms apart from Twitter. Fox News pressed the FBI to reveal the names of other companies it had paid for these activities. In the end,...

A climate cult company called “Make Sunsets” wants virtue signaling companies to pay it to pollute the skies and dim the sun, cooling planet Earth and causing ocean levels to plummet as the world’s life-giving water is locked up in ice. The company’s CEO is literally named “Iseman” (Iceman) like some sort of globalist villain out of a Batman movie. He admits in a statement to MIT Technology Review (link below) that his operation is a kind of “cult” and says that it is “morally wrong” to allow full sunlight, warmth, ocean habitats and liquid water to persist on planet...

Glenn Greenwald dropped the latest updated in the Twitter Files saga on Tuesday night, showing Americans that Twitter was far from the only Big Tech company or social media service in on working with the US government and agencies within it to censor dissidents. Posting about that in a Twitter files thread, Greenwald said “For the crime of reporting that the US Security State agencies are heavily involved in Big Tech’s censorship regime, and for confessing that he found this deeply disturbing, liberals have spent a full week saying that @mtaibbi has mental health problems and needs therapy.” A post...

Pondering the end of the world turns out to be a 21st-century preoccupation. Doomsday has never seemed nearer than now. “Polls conducted in 2012 across 20 countries found over 14% of people believe the world will end in their lifetime… The general public believed the likeliest cause would be nuclear war, while experts thought it would be artificial intelligence. Only 3% of Britons thought the end would be caused by the Last Judgement.” People who proclaim they “trust the science” are especially sunk in gloom. For example, Greta Thunberg’s message to young people is “you are not going to reach...

On the menu today: I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it appears someone is attacking the electrical power grid of the Seattle area, which comes after a series of similar incidents elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest as well as in Florida. And the FBI never caught the guy who attacked the electrical grid down in North Carolina earlier this month. Shooting up a power substation is apparently the latest fad. Electric BoogalooPicture it: It’s Christmas, you’re about to prepare a big meal for the whole family, and the power...

The FBI is gaslighting the American people over the stunning—if unsurprising—evidence that it engaged in a conspiracy with Big Tech to silence wrongthinkers in violation of the First Amendment, as the Twitter Files have revealed. Meanwhile, in attacking those who refuse to be gaslit, the bureau is also telegraphing that it would respond to Congress investigating its hyper-politicization and weaponization with relentless information warfare. The gaslighting comes in the preeminent law enforcement agency's "move along, nothing to see here" response to the Twitter Files.... ...The FBI used allegations of "foreign interference" as a cover to pursue domestic wrongthink....Authorities also apparently...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 22The Parable of the Wedding Banquet 22 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. 4 “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed his vow on Tuesday to "work tirelessly" with Group of Seven partners to "repair, replace and defend" Ukraine's energy supply throughout the winter as the country faces more attacks from Russia. "We will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes," Blinken wrote Tuesday in a tweet. "A tough winter lies ahead for Ukrainians, and we will work tirelessly with the G7 and other partners to repair, replace and defend Ukraine's energy infrastructure." (snip) The initial shipment of equipment from the United States, to help restore Ukraine's infrastructure damaged in ongoing Russian...

Want to see what China's island bases in the South China Sea look like? Take a look at some of the startling images taken by Getty Images photographer Ezra Acayan in October. They show airfields, radar installations, and military aircraft and warships stationed in the Spratly Islands, which are about 400 miles from the Chinese coast. Beijing has used both natural and artificial islands to build up its military capabilities in the area....

...An executive summary of the committee’s final report released on Monday provided readers with the committee’s theory of the case against Trump.... ...But there are a number of reasons these particular charges are likely a legal overreach.... ...The threshold for criminalizing speech is a high hurdle to clear. The seminal 1969 Supreme Court case on the matter, Brandenburg v. Ohio, established that it is not criminal even to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government before a group of armed and menacing members of the Ku Klux Klan. Indeed, the courts have spent decades making it more difficult to...

How long can the alliance between the surveillance state and what looks like an increasingly lunatic ruling class last? Victor Davis Hanson’s recent mordant comments about the degree to which the FBI will go to influence elections and its shameless defense of this interference caused me to think about the surveillance state’s endgame. These somber thoughts came, not incidentally, after I had immersed myself in reading about the possible (perhaps likely) CIA involvement in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As Jim Douglass shows in JFK and the Unspeakable, a work to which Tucker Carlson recently referred in...

See link above A glimpse into the operation of a Ukrainian sniper position, posted by War Translated on his youtube channel. The video is of a sniper in his position by a window checking on the position of friendlies via radio. The thump thump thump sounds of gunfire and explosions can be constantly heard in the background.

The Biden administration's enthusiasm for bad ideas like masks, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates was accompanied by a grotesque urge to censor dissidents. Who says the FBI and its allied wokester government agencies were the only ones using Twitter as a proxy censor to shut down American political discussion? Turns out that the White House had its snoot in that trough, too, particularly on the matter of COVID-19 information. That's what independent journalist David Zweig found in his examination of the Twitter Files, in its COVID-19 edition. According to the Washington Examiner: The White House pressured Twitter to suppress tweets that...

Russian fighter Topaz on artillery shell hunger and discipline of the mobilised Posted on 28 December 2022 | in Russian Accounts | by WarTranslatedWarTranslated: The Russian volunteer Topaz, who is a member of the nazi Rusich unit along with his friend Aleksey Milchakov, is active on Telegram. On 27 December he posted a text describing the serious shell hunger in the Russian forces and made a conclusion that the situation is becoming critical if measures are not taken to cope with the lack of shells.He also points the attention of readers to the fact that the mobilisation program has not...

The Supreme Court sided with a group of Republican states asking that the Title 42 immigration policy remain in place until the court can hear the full arguments from the litigants. The ruling was issued Tuesday afternoon after a vote of five to four, with Justice Neil Gorsuch siding with the liberal wing. The lawsuit was filed by Republican attorneys general from 19 states, led by Texas, that were protesting the end of the Trump era policy on the basis that it would result in a massive wave of illegal crossings at the border. Title 42 has been called the...

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Alabama passed its Constitutional Carry bill or (permitless carry) in 2022. The bill does not go into effect until January 1, 2023. I consider Alabama’s Constitutional Carry to have been established in 2022. Including Alabama, there are 25 states, half the states in the Union, with Constitutional (permitless) carry laws in effect. Constitutional Carry is defined by the state government as not requiring a permit to carry a handgun, concealed or openly, in most public spaces.In 2023, there are two prime candidates to pass Constitutional Carry bills. They are Florida and Nebraska.Two Decades of Constitutional Carry Progress Governor Ron DeSantis...

Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA): "Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."

Russian soldiers called up to fight in Ukraine will be able to store their frozen sperm in a cryobank for free, according to a leading Russian lawyer. Russian Union of Lawyers head Igor Trunov told state news agency Tass the health ministry had responded to his appeal for a free cryobank, and changes to compulsory medical insurance. Russia mobilised 300,000 reservists after a string of setbacks in Ukraine.

In the Chelyabinsk region, a drunken mobilized man beat a commander to death. By decision of the Magnitogorsk garrison military court, he was taken into custody for two months. This was announced on Wednesday, December 28, in the press service of the court.