Link: https://thinkcivics.com/u-s-will-hit-its-debt-limit-thursday-start-taking-steps-to-avoid-default-yellen-warns-congress/

■ Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress that the U.S. will reach its statutory debt limit next Thursday, and asked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to either suspend or increase the debt limit.
■ Yellen wrote that the Treasury Department will begin “taking certain extraordinary measures to prevent the United States from defaulting on its obligations.”:
■ She told McCarthy, “It is unlikely that cash and extraordinary measures will be exhausted before early June.”
■ “Failure to meet the government’s obligations would cause irreparable harm to the U.S. economy, the livelihoods of all Americans, and global financial stability,” she warned. More

Link: https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/federal-full-data-set/

Seventy-two senators and 302 members of the House of Representatives cashed a check from the pharmaceutical industry ahead of the 2020 election representing more than two-thirds of Congress, according to a new STAT analysis of records for the full election cycle. | Pfizer’s political action committee alone contributed to 228 lawmakers. Amgen’s PAC donated to 218, meaning that each company helped to fund the campaigns of nearly half the lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Overall, the sector donated $14 million. ● The breadth of the spending highlights the drug industry’s continued clout in Washington. Even after years of criticism from Congress and the White House over high prices, it remains routine for the elected officials who regulate the health care industry to accept six-figure sums. ● The findings, published in a new STAT examination of the drug industry’s political giving, also come on the heels of an extraordinary year for the pharmaceutical industry. In 2020, the federal government leaned heavily on drug makers to develop Covid-19 vaccines at lightning speed — helping to rehabilitate the industry’s reputation and political credibility in the process.

Link: https://expose-news.com/2023/01/03/japans-excess-deaths-4x-higher-after-pfizer-booster/

In 2020, during the “pandemic,” Japan had fewer all-cause deaths than all the previous 9 years. On 1 December 2021, Japan started administering the third dose, or “booster shots,” of Pfizer-BioNTech. At the end of 2022, 83% of Japan’s population was “fully vaccinated.”  | During 2022, Japan experienced the highest number of excess deaths in 11 years. Excess deaths were approximately four times the number of those in the years 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. ● Japan is a compliant nation of people, achieving way above average covid “vaccination” rates compared to the rest of the world and the rest of Asia too. But it’s strange that they would be so zealously compliant to “protect” themselves from a disease that had absolutely no excess mortal impact. ● In fact, immediately after the covid “epidemic” in 2020, Japan had the most significant period of seasonal deficit in ten years in terms of mortality after no excess mortality whatsoever. And yet, in the aftermath of the mass mRNA experiment (to protect them against a virus/disease that they did not need protection from), they have experienced higher seasonal excess and lower seasonal deficit ever since.

■ Covid Vaccines Are 'Obviously Dangerous' and Should Be Halted Immediately, Say Senior Swedish Doctors

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230113/what-is-known-so-far-about-classified-docs-found-at-joe-bidens-home--former-office-1106267825.html

After it was revealed on January 12 that a fresh batch of unaccounted-for classified documents had been found in the possession of US President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced he had appointed a special counsel, Robert Hur, to lead the investigation into the "mishandling" of secret papers by POTUS. | Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on January 12 that he had appointed Special Counsel Robert Hur to oversee an investigation into “possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or other records discovered at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and the Wilmington, Delaware, private residence of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.” AG Garland added that Hur, former US attorney for Maryland, would receive "all the resources he needs to conduct his work." As the investigation of the potential mishandling of sensitive documents by Biden begins, here is what we know so far.

■ Biden Aides Reportedly Uncover Second Batch of Classified Docs in POTUS’ Private Office

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230112/us-intelligence-chief-publishes-report-revealing-dramatic-increase-in-ufo-sightings-since-2020-1106263834.html

■ UFO sightings on the rise – Pentagon

Link: https://thinkcivics.com/the-creepy-cult-surrounding-the-gas-stove-panic-gets-exposed/

If you’ve been on social media the last day or so, you’ve probably noticed there’s a moral panic occurring over gas stoves. According to Democrats far and wide, they are dangerous, cause asthma, and must be banned by the federal government. | As RedState reported, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed that line on Tuesday, resulting in much mockery given she herself has a gas stove. But what’s astonishing is that amidst her absolute certainty on the topic, she had never even mentioned the issue prior. In other words, in the span of just 24 hours, Ocasio-Cortez saw some questionable study, promoted it on the internet, gained legions of supporters for her position, and then tried to pretend that everyone else had been ignoring her desperate calls. As Charles W. Cooke notes, it’s cultish behavior. Is there anything the New York congresswoman could say that her army of simps wouldn’t agree with? And none of them even gave a second thought as to whether what she was saying was true or made any sense.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230113/lisa-marie-presley-sole-child-of-elvis-dead-at-54-following-cardiac-arrest-1106265406.html

The singer-songwriter's death came just two days after she appeared at the Golden Globes alongside her mother, Priscilla. The 2023 installment of the award ceremony included nominations - and awards - for the Baz Luhrmann-directed film "Elvis." | Lisa Marie Presley has died at the age of 54 after suffering a cardiac arrest on the morning of January 12. She had been placed in an induced coma following the incident. The death was confirmed by Lisa Marie's mother, Priscilla, in a statement to the People weekly magazine.

■ The Independent: "Anger over conspiracy theorists' attempt to link LM Presley's death to vaccines"
■ COVID-19 Vaccines Can Cause Sudden Cardiac Deaths
■ HALF the US thinks it "likely" that "vaccination" has caused many deaths

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230111/biden-aides-reportedly-uncover-second-batch-of-classified-docs-in-potus-private-office-1106234806.html

Following reports earlier this week of the discovery of several classified files among the personal papers at US President Joe Biden’s private office, his aides have reportedly uncovered a second batch of documents in another office used by the president. | The reports, which appeared in US media on Wednesday afternoon and were credited to “a person familiar with the matter,” claimed that more classified documents had been found in a different location than the private office where the first batch of documents had been found. The reports gave no indication as to the number or degree of classification of the files, the precise location of their discovery, or the time of their discovery. 💬 The previous report, which only hit headlines on Monday, was based on a discovery made in early November. Aides to the president found 10 classified documents among a group of other personal files and reported them to the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The files were dated to the time period when Biden was US vice president and allegedly concerned Iran, the United Kingdom, and Ukraine. ● The White House has confirmed the discovery of a “small number of documents” marked as classified at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, saying on Monday that Biden was cooperating with NARA, and that Attorney General Merrick Garland had appointed a US attorney to look into the matter.

■ Snowden: Biden Seems to Have 'Absconded' With More Classified Docs Than Whistleblowers
■ Snowden reveals ‘real scandal’ around Biden docs
■ GOP calls for Biden special counsel grow amid classified document discoveries
■ Biden: 'Surprised' to Learn Classified Records Were Found at His Private Office (01.11, 2023)

Link: https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/university-housed-biden-think-tank-pressed-doj-end-fbi-program

The University of Pennsylvania, the Ivy League institution which collected tens of millions of dollars from China while paying Joe Biden and hosting his foreign policy think tank, successfully pressured the Biden Justice Department to end an FBI counterespionage program targeting Beijing's increasing influence within U.S. academia. | Attorney General Merrick Garland shut down the FBI's so-called China initiative in February 2022 shortly after more than 160 members of the University of Pennsylvania faculty signed and made public an open letter demanding the program be shuttered, on the grounds that it amounted to racial profiling. The faculty letter was part of a larger university battle against the program.

Link: https://legitgov.org/harvard-medical-school-offers-course-about-healthcare-lgbtqia-infants-curriculum-offering-lessons

It's run in conjunction with several Boston-area hospitals --The hospital's affiliated included Mass General and Boston Children's Hospital --In 2022, the children's hospital said kids know they're transgender in the womb | Medical students at Harvard are being taught how to care for infant patients who identify as LGBTQIA+, according to a publicly available course description. Students at the school, considered one of the foremost medical schools in the world, will be given: "Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan, from infants to older adults." In Western medicine, an infant is considered from birth to 12 months old. According to the description for Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, and Sex Development, students will work in both hospitals and communities with LGBTQIA+ youth.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230110/whats-behind-bidens-sudden-interest-in-the-long-term-us-border-crisis-1106205695.html

Ekaterina Blinova | President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pledged to use “innovative approaches” to tackle illegal immigration on January 9, according to the White House. Why did it take so long for Biden to start dealing with the US border crisis? 💬 “President Biden has had two years to try to solve this problem, and it has only gotten worse,” Jessica M. Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Washington DC-based Center for Immigration Studies, told Sputnik. “We can only conclude that he does not want to solve it; in fact, he does not consider it to be a serious problem at all. Allowing unprecedented numbers of illegal migrants into the United States to remain indefinitely apparently is his actual objective, no matter the consequences for the communities that are forced to accommodate the new arrivals, no matter the difficulty for those Americans and legal immigrants who must compete with the migrants for jobs and services, no matter the national security and public safety risks, and no matter the dangers to the safety of the migrants. All that matters is having more migration, legal or illegal."

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230112/us-aviation-authority-blames-damaged-database-file-for-catastrophic-nationwide-flight-shutdown-1106238861.html

Critics say the episode is just the latest debacle that suggests Pete Buttigieg is ill-equipped and under-prepared to helm the US Department of Transportation. | The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) claims a “damaged database file” is to blame after thousands of flights were canceled or delayed Wednesday following a catastrophic failure of a computerized aircraft advisory system. 💬 “We are continuing a thorough review to determine the root cause of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage,” the FAA wrote Wednesday night in a post on Twitter. “Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file.” ● NOTAM provides pilots with vital updates on weather conditions, runway closures, or other information that may be needed to ensure passengers’ safety. ● There is “no evidence” the system’s failure was the result of a cyber attack, the FAA says. ● An advisory issued by the administration Tuesday indicates that NOTAM was out of service as early as Tuesday night. With flights beginning to pick up Wednesday morning, the FAA took the extraordinary step of halting all domestic flights at 7 a.m., and the system wasn’t restored until nearly two hours later. However, the chaos didn’t end there. The hourslong stoppage had a ripple effect on not only the flights that were immediately affected, but also on other departures scheduled for the rest of the day.

■ FAA outage traced to "damaged database file"
■ FAA says US flights 'gradually' resuming after computer system failure grounded domestic take-offs
■ Russia Helped Foreign Aircraft as US Flights Were Grounded Due to System Failure

Link: https://principia-scientific.com/sudden-death-the-no-1-cause-of-death-for-under-65s-in-2021/

Believe it or not, it’s now the No. 1 cause of death for this age group. Is there a silent epidemic that’s impairing and destroying your immune system (and literally obliterating 90 percent of your DNA repair mechanism)? And, what extreme remedies can reverse the attack? | Evidence showing the COVID shots are a public health disaster keeps mounting. In late December 2022, Steve Kirsch1 and Jessica Rose,2 Ph.D., both published Substack articles detailing some of the latest evidence showing the shots are destroying people’s immune systems and have triggered an avalanche of turbo-charged cancers. ● Kirsch’s article3 features results from a recent survey he conducted. It included four questions: age, whether the deceased was jabbed or not, year of death and cause of death. While the number of responses is low, major insights can still be gleaned by looking at the trends.

Link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1498491107902062592.html

Most fascinating thing about the Ukraine war is the sheer number of top strategic thinkers who warned for years that it was coming if we continued down the same path. No-one listened to them and here we are. Small compilation of these warnings, from Kissinger to Mearsheimer.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/569723-peru-protests-police-death/

An angry crowd torched a patrol car a day after 17 civilians died in a clash with the authorities | The government in Lima confirmed on Wednesday the death of the first police officer since protests over the ouster of President Pedro Castillo began last month. Protesters in the southern city of Juliaca ambushed a patrol car after 17 local civilians were killed the day prior in a confrontation with police. ● Officer Jose Luis Soncco Quispe’s burned remains were found near the patrol car that was attacked on Tuesday morning, Peru’s Interior Ministry said. His partner, Ronald Villasante Toque, was injured and flown to a hospital in Lima. In a telephone report to headquarters, he said over 300 people had launched a “savage attack” on the police vehicle. ● Initial reports also claimed that the attackers had seized the officers’ body armor and weapons, including two service pistols and an AKM assault rifle. However, the police later said the weapons were found inside the torched patrol car.

■ Peru Mourns ‘Massacre’ of 17 as Calls Grow for US-Backed ‘Coup Regime’ to Step Down

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230111/biden-surprised-to-learn-classified-records-were-found-at-his-private-office-1106211331.html

US President Joe Biden said during a news conference in Mexico City that he was briefed on the classified documents found at his private office in Washington, adding that he was surprised to learn there were government documents in his possession from his time as US vice president. | Biden said [this] during a joint conference with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts on Tuesday: 💬 "I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office, but I don't know what's in the documents. My lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were. I've turned over the boxes. they've turned over the boxes to the [National] Archives and we're cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review and which I hope will be finished soon." ● The White House confirmed on Monday that a "small number" of documents with classified markings had been found at the Penn Biden Center inside a locked closet on November 2, 2022, in Washington, DC. The documents dated back to the commander-in-chief's days as vice president under the Obama administration.

■ Damaging 5-Year-Old Video of Biden Surfaces After Bombshell Classified Documents Story
■ Classified Biden Documents Contain Information Relating to Ukraine, Iran
■ Biden classified memo drama reignites concern about first family’s ties to Beijing, China influence

Link: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/wedtrump-shocked-evidence-fbi-role-social-media-censorship-rigging

Former president still respects FBI even after raid, Russia collusion but wants bureau out of censorship and politics. | Former President Donald Trump still has a reverence for the FBI, even after the Russia collusion debacle and Mar-a-Lago raid. But he's adamant the bureau needs to be banned from meddling in elections by pressuring social media firms to censor Americans' opinions. ● In a wide-ranging interview Tuesday with Just the News, America's 45th president said it was "shocking to me" when Twitter released internal files showing the extent of FBI efforts to censor content during the 2020 election, including the creation of a command center in San Francisco just for that mission. 💬 "You always want to love the FBI and all you know it stands for, the image of what it stands for," Trump told the John Solomon Reports podcast and "Just the News, No Noise" television show on Real America's Voice.

■ In Trump’s Tax Returns, We See the Evil of the Income Tax (Ron Paul)
■ FBI Gaslights America Over Twitter Files (Ben Weingarten)

Link: https://abc7news.com/california-weather-updates-gilroy-flooding-montecito-evacuations/12684983/

Another powerful storm is moving into Southern California after forcing thousands to the north to evacuate, prompting dozens of water rescues, causing widespread damage and bringing to 14 the tally of people killed in the state's parade of storms in recent weeks. | More than 11 million people in western Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties were under a flood warning Tuesday morning, while some 34 million people across California -- about 10% of all Americans -- are under flood watches as the risk of mudslides also shifts to the Los Angeles and San Diego areas. Tuesday's storms are just the latest in a wave of atmospheric rivers to thrash the West Coast in recent weeks. The stormy parade has led to dangerous flooding and mudslides and prompted evacuations across the state, with much of California getting 400% to 600% above-average rainfall totals in that time. Over 24 hours as of Monday night, 2 to 7 inches of rain had fallen across much of the state's lower elevations.

■ At Least 17 Dead In California Floods As Almost 165,000 Homes Are Without Power (Articles)
■ Biden declares emergency in US state (January 10th, 2023)

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230110/peru-mourns-massacre-of-17-as-calls-grow-for-us-backed-coup-regime-to-step-down-1106209437.html

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230109/europe-nato-pumped-tens-of-billions-of-dollars-of-arms-supplies-into-ukraine---kremlin-1106161472.html

The EU and NATO have supplied "tens of billions of dollars" worth of arms to Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. | Last week, US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz released a joint statement announcing commitments of infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron, in turn, promised his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, to supply Kiev with an unspecified number of AMX-10 RC armored combat vehicles. 💬 "It hardly makes sense to speak only of France's decision. We know that collective Europe, the North Atlantic Alliance, and the United States have pumped tens of billions of dollars into Ukraine through the supply of arms

■ Russian (Senator) Says Russia "At war with all of NATO" (01/09/23)
■ Zelensky Thanks US for Over $3 Billion Arms Package, Calls It an ‘Awesome Christmas Present’