Month: December 2022

(Natural News) In the waning days that they remain in control of Congress, Democrats are set to ram through a one-year spending bill worth $1.7 trillion that runs 4,155 pages — without members having a chance to read it, which has become par for the course with our dysfunctional Legislative Branch.

And worse, there are going to be more than a few Republicans who will vote for it, including several who are retiring and on their way out the door because their districts or their states are getting massive influxes of taxpayer cash.

As reported by Breitbart News, the military-industrial complex gets the lion’s share of the money:

The bill would fund the government through September 2023 and would boost defense spending by $76 billion, totaling $858 billion. Domestic spending is $773 billion.

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The Barents Observer previously reported about Russia’s announced warning zone in the Norwegian Sea, strategically located in the waters between the GIUK-Gap and the Bear Gap.

Now, the Norwegian Joint Headquarters confirms that shooting indeed took place.

“Anti-air weapons were used,” says Lt. Col. Ivar Moen, spokesperson with the Norwegian Armed Forces.

“This was announced and conducted in accordance with the procedures in a professional way,” he notes.

Moen says both artillery and short-ranged anti-air missiles were used. The activities were observed by the Norwegian Coast Guard vessel “KV Nordkapp”.

The Norwegian and Russian vessels communicated bridge to bridge.

The nuclear-powered battle cruiser “Pyotr Veliky” is the Northern Fleet’s command vessel and was sailing together with the destroyer “Severomorsk”. After the shootings far out in the Norwegian Sea, the battlecruiser sailed closer to Norway and is Tuesday morning some 90 to 100 nautical miles west of Andøya, one of the airbases in northern Norway in use during NATO’s Cold Response exercise.

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Republicans hoping to seize control of the House in November are already setting their sights on what is, for many of them, a top priority next year: impeaching President Biden.

A number of rank-and-file conservatives have already introduced impeachment articles in the current Congress against the president. They accuse Biden of committing “high crimes” in his approach to a range of issues touching on border enforcement, the coronavirus pandemic and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

Those resolutions never had a chance of seeing the light of day, with Democrats holding a narrow control of the lower chamber. But with Republicans widely expected to win the House majority in the midterms, many of those same conservatives want to tap their new potential powers to oust a president they deem unfit. Some would like to make it a first order of business.

“I have consistently said President Biden should be impeached for intentionally opening our border and making Americans less safe,” said Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.). “Congress has a duty to hold the President accountable for this and any other failures of his Constitutional responsibilities, so a new Republican majority must be prepared to aggressively conduct oversight on day one.”

The conservative impeachment drive is reminiscent of that orchestrated by liberals four years ago, as Democrats took control of the House in 2019 under then-President Trump. At the time, a small handful of vocal progressives wanted to impeach Trump, largely over accusations that he’d obstructed a Justice Department probe into Russian ties to his 2016 campaign. The idea was repeatedly rejected by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), not least out of fear that it would alienate voters in tough battleground districts.

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And yes, it was as cringey and creepy as it sounds.  It was also disturbing to watch two of the architects of evil gloat and giggle over their treatment of President Trump.

CNN reporter Jamie Gangel led the conversation.

Gangel:

“I want to talk about how the two of you navigated working with former President Trump.”

With a chilling giggle, Schumer replied:

“We had a good time.”

Gangel:

“Was there a strategy when you went into a meeting? Was there a good cop/bad cop?”

Pelosi:

“So I’m thinking, ‘How is he going to begin?’ Is he going to quote the Constitution, American history, [a] poet, the Bible?”

Mocking Trump, Pelosi continued:

“‘You know, I won the popular vote.’ And I said, ‘Mr. President, that’s just not true.’”

Speaking of the first government shutdown, Schumer gleefully shared:

“We sort of set him up, instinctively. We didn’t plan this.”

Pelosi gushed:

“Chuck was masterful. He was masterful.”

Schumer:

“She set him up so I could go in for the kill.”

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HONG KONG (LifeSiteNews) — Catholic journalist and outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison on a conviction of “fraud,” a verdict that has drawn international condemnation and rebuke, with the U.S. calling the charges “spurious” in a public statement.

READ: US gov’t condemns Communist China’s guilty verdict against Catholic publisher Jimmy Lai

Jimmy Lai, 75 and founder of the pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, was sentenced on Saturday, Dec. 10, with Wong Wai-keung, the administrative director of Apple Daily’s parent company Next Digital. Wong was sentenced to 21 months in prison and Lai to five years and nine months. According to news outlet Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP), the judge also imposed “an eight-year disqualification order to Lai and ordered the media tycoon to pay HK$2 million in fines.”

As HKFP reported, Cédric Alviani, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) East Asia chief urged Lai’s release, stating, “Illegal demonstration, fraud, national security crimes — the diversity of the charges held against Jimmy Lai, and the staggering severity of the sentences imposed on him, show how desperate the Chinese regime is to silence this symbolic figure of press freedom in Hong Kong.”

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Another test run conference of a new global pandemic sponsored by Bill Gates and the usual suspects—is there anything to fear or are the globalist plotting new world events? A New Zealand child is forcibly removed from his parents who want the child to receive unvaxxxed blood, but will the outcry be enough to retract government overreach? Authorities in Brazil face a full-blown revolt over alleged election fraud—who is in the right and which side will ultimately win? In the US, pro-abortion forces in the federal government continue their crack down on pro-lifers, yet if the last 50 years are any indication, pro-lifers will remain defiant.

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(Natural News) In early 2021, those of us in Texas survived the Texas freeze-out which obliterated 1) The power grid, 2) Fuel supplies at gas stations, 3) Water pipes, 4) Cell towers, 5) Roads, 6) Grocery stores, 7) 911 services response.

Now another big freeze is looming over North America and parts of Western Europe, expected to plunge temperatures well below the seasonal average beginning around Dec. 22nd in North America.

The Epoch Times is reporting that NERC (North American Electric Reliability Council) is expecting power blackouts across vast regions, including Texas, the Great Lakes and New England, adding:

Meanwhile, a “large portion” of the U.S. power grid is at risk of insufficient electricity supplies during peak winter conditions, the agency concluded in the same analysis.

In other words, it’s about to get cold and dark, all while vegetable prices have exploded by 38% in just the last month, and 80% in the last year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Actress and activist Alyssa Milano was roundly mocked on social media over the weekend for trading in her Tesla, produced by new Twitter owner Elon Musk, for a Volkswagen. Milano announced she made the move because of “white supremacy”, seemingly unaware that Volkswagen was the brainchild of Adolf Hitler and owned by the Nazi regime.

“I gave back my Tesla. I bought the VW ev. I love it,” Milano tweeted. “I’m not sure how advertisers can buy space on Twitter. Publicly traded company’s products being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesn’t seem to be a winning business model.”

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I work hard to avoid promoting conspiracy theories. They’re too easy to adopt as explanations for all sorts of strange events and are highly implausible in most cases.

They require extreme amounts of intelligence, coordination and competence that, quite frankly, the alleged conspirators simply aren’t capable of.

Usually, stupidity is a perfectly good explanation especially when it comes to politicians and other public officials.

Even when elite coordination is apparent it’s not necessarily a conspiracy at work. It may just be the case that like-minded individuals are pursuing a common goal.

Elites mostly went to a fairly small group of top schools and took similar courses taught by a tight-knit group of academics. They came up through the ranks in the same government agencies and multilateral institutions.

With that much in common, it’s no surprise they think alike and share the same globalist goals. At the same time, some conspiracies are real. It’s naïve to believe otherwise.

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