Link: https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/swiss-health-insurance-data-shows

Increasingly "the science" reconfirms what more and more of us are seeing with our own eyes (yet "our free press" won't report it—though they WILL, if this clip from Fox News is a sign of change) | According to Helsana, a major Swiss health insurance company, since 2016 the number of patients receiving cancer treatments has decreased. However, something changed in 2021 and 2022. In 2021, Helsana’s data shows there was a dramatic increase of 73% compared to 2020 in the number of patients receiving cancer treatments. And the high number of cancer patients continued in 2022 with an increase of 74% compared to 2020. Switzerland began its mass covid vaccination campaign on 23 December 2020.

Link: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/top-israeli-minister-to-carry-plots-for-gaza-to-washington

Israeli Minister Ron Dermer will visit the US to discuss future plans for the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip with officials from the Biden Administration. | Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer is expected to visit Washington on Tuesday, to meet with White House and State Department officials regarding the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, Axios reported citing two unnamed Israeli and US officials. ● Heading the US delegation will be Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden's chief advisor, accompanied by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and some members of Congress, a senior Israeli official informed Axios. ● Dermer is known to be Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest confident, according to Axios. His trip to the US comes at a "high-intensity phase" of the Israeli war on Gaza, where the Biden Administration and Israeli officials look to debate future steps regarding the down-scaling of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

■ Mission Creep: Netanyahu Singles Out ‘Three Prerequisites’ for Israel-Palestine Peace
■ Israel ramping up war effort – Netanyahu (RT.com)
■ Israel Executing ‘One-State’ Solution with US Help (Salman Rafi Sheikh)
■ Netanyahu Outsmarted by ‘Wily’ Biden? No, Biden Is the One Being Played (Alastair Crooke)
■ 'Israel’s' war on Gaza: War of ethnic cleansing (Jamal Kanj)

Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20231226/biden-tells-reporters-to-cover-the-economy-the-right-way-1115812028.html

The economy has not plunged into a recession as many predicted it would, but voters still aren’t giving the Biden administration high marks on the economy. | US President Joe Biden told the media to report on the economy “the right way” according to a transcript released by the White House on Sunday. Biden is facing record-low poll numbers for a President at this stage in their term, including low marks on the economy, despite high job numbers and slowing inflation. Unemployment is at just 3.7%, which is just above the pre-pandemic unemployment level of 3.5%, which was a record low. Annual inflation has also dropped from a record-breaking 9.1% in June 2022 to 3.5% in November. espite these seemingly strong numbers, Americans have not expressed confidence in the economy or Biden’s handling of it. According to a November poll, only 32% of Americans approved of Biden’s handling of the economy.

■ News That The U.S. Regime Blocks From The Public (Eric Zuesse)

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/589657-confiscating-russian-assets-dollar-cataclysm/

The unprecedented step would push countries to use alternative currencies, Robert Shiller has warned | According Shiller, seizing the assets would give the global community, especially countries which, like Russia, “convert their savings into dollars and thus entrust them in the reliable hands of Uncle Sam,” grounds to doubt the US currency💬 “If America does this to Russia today… then tomorrow it can do this to anyone. This will destroy the halo of security that surrounds the dollar and will be the first step towards de-dollarization, which many are increasingly confidently leaning toward, from China to developing countries, not to mention Russia itself.” “I can’t convince myself that this [confiscation of Russian assets] is the right way,” he explained. “In addition to the fact that this will be confirmation for the Russian leader that what is happening in Ukraine is a proxy war, it could paradoxically turn against America and the entire West,” Shiller explained, adding that the situation would likely turn into “a cataclysm for the current dollar-dominated economic system.”

Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20231226/saudi-arabia-not-interested-in-joining-us-led-red-sea-coalition-against-houthis---reports-1115812231.html

Saudi Arabia has no interest in taking part in the new US-led coalition to safeguard commercial traffic in the Red Sea from Houthi attacks, prioritizing domestic security and economic development instead, The New York Times reported, citing US and Saudi officials. | The kingdom views the prospect of peace on its southern border "a more appealing goal" compared to joining any naval action after eight years of war with the rebel movement that drained Saudi coffers and helped drive Yemen into one of the world's most acute humanitarian crises, the newspaper reported on Monday. ● The US has initiated Operation Prosperity Guardian, a multinational naval coalition to protect Red Sea commercial traffic from Houthi attacks. As of now, over 20 countries are on board, with notable participants including the UK, Canada, Greece, and Australia. [...] Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, whom the report described as the kingdom's "de facto" ruler, wants to transform [Saudi Arabia ] into a business hub by 2030 and seeks to resolve conflicts and soothe tensions across the Middle East, including through a rapprochement with Iran, its regional rival.

■ Red Sea Deployments: Canberra Says No (Binoy Kampmark)

Link: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/12/23/bury-julian-assange-heart-at-wounded-knee/

"I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee." (Stephen Vincent Benét)

Declan Hayes | [...] | And then there is Julian Assange. Remember him, that random Australian dude MI6 still has banged up in Belmarsh Prison because he was shocked into action, as we all should be, by America’s war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and far too many other places to adumbrate here.

Julian Assange should be spending Christmas at home with his wife and children, waiting for Santa to climb down their chimney (whatever!), scarpering back up it and letting Julian settle in to read, for the time of year that is in it, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (download the book here), which deals not only with the American Army’s December 29 1890 slaughter of the Lakota Indians but with many of the other Yankee campaigns of genocide against their own indigenous populations that preceded that notorious war crime.

Not that Yankee war crimes or their mutilation of the dead stopped there; because war crimes are what they do, there will be no tears shed within the Beltway for today’s Palestinian Baby Jesuses and Virgin Marys, who don’t even have a donkey’s stable to rest in, nor a Julian Assange-style journalist without an Israeli bullseye on his back to tell their tale. Even British MP Layla Moran, whose relatives are Gazan Catholics, is completely powerless to save their lives. As Finian Cunningham recently wrote about the Israelis mowing down their own, why not? Why not, in the words of Dostoevsky (sorry Russophobes), commit horrible crimes when there is no punishment, no moral compass to guide them?

Link: https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/summary-of-everything-and-quick-links

Overall characterization of what is going on: the federal and most of the state governments are gone and captured. Whatever is running the federal gov agencies (e.g. HHS) really intends to kill you, or at least substantially injure you, damage your reproductive capacity and repossess your assets in the process. The aim is to reduce the population and terrorize the survivors enough to establish a totalitarian control over much of the world’s territory. Nobody is coming to save you, your survival and that of your children is in your hands only. Do not comply.

■ American Domestic Bioterrorism Program (Katherine Watt)

Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/pope-francis-faces-growing-worldwide-pushback-against-his/

If you think that fierce opposition to the latest initiative by Globalist Pope Francis – namely, the blessing of same-sex unions – is limited to the Conservative American bishops led by Joseph Strickland, think again. | All over the world, prelates and faithful alike have vigorously opposed the new directives from Francis, as a growing number of Catholic bishops in Africa and Europe are publicly voicing their rejection of the new document by the Vatican. ● The issue is yet another polarizing initiative in Francis’s quest to remake the Catholic Church according to his ‘very peculiar’ vision of the institution.  ● The document entitled ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ states that blessings can be offered to people in same-sex relationships if they are not confused with the ritual of marriage. While the document reaffirmed that marriage is a lifelong union only between a man and a woman, many conservatives in the Church fear that the move is ‘a step toward the Catholic church accepting homosexuality’.

Link: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/jack-smiths-special-counsel-status-unconstitutional-former

Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese and top constitutional law scholars are asking the Supreme Court to reject special counsel Jack Smith's petition in the case against former President Donald Trump because they say Smith's appointment as special counsel is unconstitutional to begin with. | In a voluntary brief filed Wednesday in support of neither Trump nor Smith, the legal experts asked the Supreme Court to dismiss Smith's request for the high court to rule on whether former President Donald Trump had immunity from prosecution on charges that he allegedly worked to overturn the 2020 election. Smith lacked the authority to ask the Supreme Court to rule on the case, according to the 32-page brief written by Meese, Boston University Associate Law School Dean Gary Lawson and Northwestern University Law School Professor Steven Calabresi.

■ ‘Stunning’ New Supreme Court Filing Seeks to Strip Special Counsel Jack Smith of ‘Illegal’ Authority (News Addicts)

Link: https://newsaddicts.com/biden-admin-blames-climate-change-unvaccinated/

President Joe Biden’s administration has published a report that blames “climate change” on unvaccinated Americans. [...] According to the NCA-5, people can do more to “save the planet” by yielding to the government’s pandemic protocols. The report also states that climate-driven changes in ecosystems increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases by altering the interactions between humans, pathogens, and animals. Additionally, the NCA 5 claims more than 50 percent of identified pathogenic illnesses are exacerbated by climate change, especially those originating in animals or vector-borne diseases.

Link: https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/madonna-in-a-coma-celine-dion-has

Madonna in a coma; Celine Dion "has lost control of muscles"; Jelly Roll "extremely sick," missed "Voice" finale'; Bret Michaels cancels show "due to illness"; Teddi Mellencamp "facing major surgery". NYC anchor Kaity Tong (non-smoker) diagnosed with lung cancer; KC quarterback Mason Martin has "significant brain bleed"; Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts reported injured "due to an illness"

Link: https://tass.com/world/1723983

The ruling is based on the 14th amendment to the US constitution, which prohibits those who took part in an insurrection from being elected the US president. | The Supreme Court of the US state of Colorado ruled to ban former US President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot, according to an electronic document uploaded to the court’s electronic database. The ruling is based on the 14th amendment to the US constitution, which prohibits those who took part in an insurrection from being elected the US president.

■ JUST IN: Colorado GOP Will Withdraw From Primary, Convert To Caucus System If Trump Ballot Decision Stands (Trending Politics)
■ Will the Deep State actually assassinate Donald Trump? (LifeSite)

■ 'Banana Republic Nonsense': GOP Bashes Colorado Court Ruling to Boot Trump off Ballot | Leading GOP presidential contender, Donald Trump, has been disqualified by the Colorado Supreme Court from the state's 2024 primary ballot, sparking indignation among Republicans. In a 4-to-3 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court has removed Trump from the 2024 primary ballot. This action was taken using the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause, citing his role as president in 2021 in inciting the January 6 Capitol protest in DC. This ruling has unleashed intense outrage among the Republican camp.

Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20231220/ex-pentagon-analyst-putin-sends-strong-message-to-nato-amid-ukraine-conflict-1115693929.html

Russian President Vladimir Putin told a Defense Ministry meeting that the activity of NATO has sharply increased and outlined Russia’s new capabilities to deter the threat. What message does he send to the West? | Addressing the top brass on December 19, President Putin highlighted that the aggressive nature of NATO is no longer hidden. However, Russia is capable of protecting its sovereignty, the president pointed out, referring to new weapons systems, substantial increase in military production, and modernization of the nation's strategic nuclear forces. 💬 "[The Russian president] is sending a serious message to NATO, proving as we have seen before, that Mr. Putin is usually the only adult in the room, and he tells the truth clearly as he sees it," Retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense, told Sputnik.

Link: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/12/19/716630/Yemen-Red-Sea-will-turn-into-graveyard-US-led-coalition

Yemen’s defense minister has denounced the formation of a US-led maritime task force in the Red Sea to protect the passage of merchant vessels bound for the Israeli-occupied territories, cautioning the Western alliance that any assault on Yemeni soil will have dire consequences. | The Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7. The relentless Israeli strikes against Gaza have killed at least 19,453 people, most of them women and children, in Gaza. Another 52,286 individuals have been wounded as well. ● Reports revealed that Israeli shipping companies have already decided to reroute their vessels in fear of attacks by Yemeni forces.

■ U.S. defence secretary makes unannounced visit to USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier defending Israel (CTV News)
■ Netanyahu tells Biden Israel will act militarily against Yemen's Houthis if US won't: report
■ Malaysia Blocks Israeli Shipping Firm over Gaza Atrocities (Tasnim News Agency)
■ Who Are Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Attacking Israeli Ships? (Declassified)
■ Red Sea’s Gateway of Tears… As Usual, Uncle Sam’s Euro Vassals Pay the Price (F. C.)

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/589295-biden-approval-rating-record-low/

 ● The Monmouth University poll released on Monday showed that Biden’s approval rating has dropped ten percentage points in the past five months and is at its lowest level since he was sworn in as president. The percentage of US adults who disapprove of his performance has more than doubled since he took office in January 2021, to 61%. ● The latest polling results come at a time when Biden is falling behind former President Donald Trump in his bid to win reelection in 2024, as voters are increasingly concerned over inflation and an illegal immigration crisis. Just 31% of Americans believe Biden is paying enough attention to the most pressing issues, compared with 65% who say he’s not doing enough, the Monmouth survey showed. ● Only 26% of US adults approve of Biden’s immigration policies, while 28% think he is doing an adequate job handling inflation. When asked about the state of their own finances, 44% of respondents said they were struggling, double the percentage recorded during Trump’s presidency. Only 12% said their financial situation was improving.

Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12875433/Car-smashes-Joe-Bidens-motorcade-leaving-president-looking-stunned-secret-service-agents-draw-weapons-driver-outside-campaign-HQ-Delaware.html

Car smashes into Biden motorcade – president is bundled away by Secret Service as agents draw guns on driver outside Delaware campaign HQ | The tight security that surrounds "President" Biden and his wife was breached in spectacular fashion on Sunday night after a car collided with part of the presidential motorcade that was parked up in Wilmington, Delaware. In what could be sheer coincidence [sic], the crash occurred at the very moment Biden was walking out of a building and onto the sidewalk to get into his own armored car. The crash appeared to come out of the blue and saw the Secret Service hurriedly bundle Biden into his own armored vehicle. Meanwhile, armed agents drew their weapons on the driver who had rammed into the SUV that was being used to close down a street while Biden had been attending a nearby campaign event. The president and the First Lady had just emerged from the Biden-Harris 2024 headquarters in downtown Wilmington just after 8pm when the collision happened.

■ Biden Unhurt As Car Crashes Into Presidential Motorcade Vehicle (Conservative Brief)

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/589188-poll-young-americans-say-give-israel-to-hamas/

A survey has found that two-thirds of US adults under age 25 see Jews as “oppressors” | Over half of US adults from ages 18 to 24 believe the ongoing crisis in Gaza should be resolved by abolishing the state of Israel and turning it over to Hamas and the Palestinian people, a new poll has found. ● The Harvard-Harris poll, conducted this week and released on Friday, showed that 51% of young Americans believe the Israeli state should be “ended,” compared with 32% who favor a two-state solution. Just 17% said Arab countries should absorb the Palestinians to resolve the conflict. Among all age groups, six in ten Americans call for a two-state deal, while only 19% want Israel to be given to the Palestinians.

Link: https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-war-in-gaza-its-not-about-hamas-its-about-demographics/

Mike Whitney | We’ve been told repeatedly that the goal of Israel’s operation in Gaza is to “defeat Hamas”. But is that true? We don’t think it is. | The real objectives relate to an issue that is never discussed in the media, but is the primary factor driving events. Demographics. As we all know, Israel’s long-term plan is to incorporate Gaza and the West Bank into Greater Israel. They want to control all the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. The problem is, however, that if they annex the occupied territories without disposing of the people, then the Palestinian population will equal or exceed that of the Jews which would lead to the demise of the Jewish state. That is the basic problem in a nutshell.

■ Israeli sniper kills in 'cold blood' mother, daughter in Gaza church (PressTV)
■ "Palestinian Terror Operative" Means Anyone Still Alive (Moon of Alabama)
■ Israeli forces bulldoze Palestinian tents, crushing people alive (Middle East Eye)
■ 'Israel' commits new massacre in Jabalia, dozens martyred across Gaza (Al Mayadeen)
■ Watch: Israeli children sing, “We will annihilate everyone” in Gaza (11/21/23)
■ Death and Destruction in Gaza (John J. Mearsheimer)

Link: https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-destroyer-shoots-down-14-terrorist-drones-over-red-sea

A U.S. Navy warship shot down more than a dozen "terrorist" drones fired by Iranian-backed Houthi "terrorists" forces based in Yemen that were operating over the Red Sea on Saturday as attacks against U.S. forces and large commercial shipping vessels continues to escalate. 💬 “In the early morning hours of December 16 (Sanna time) the US Arliegh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS CARNEY (DDG 64), operating in the Red Sea, successfully engaged 14 unmanned aerial systems launched as a drone wave from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement. “The UAS were assessed to be one-way attack drones and were shot down with no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries. Regional Red Sea partners were alerted to the threat.”

■ World's Largest Container Shipping Company - Halts all Red Sea transit (Harold Turner)

Link: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/death-and-destruction-in-gaza

■ Death and Destruction in Gaza (John J. Mearsheimer) | I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history. ● What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no meaningful military purpose. As J-Street, an important organization in the Israel lobby, puts it, “The scope of the unfolding humanitarian disaster and civilian casualties is nearly unfathomable.” [...] First, Israel is purposely massacring huge number of civilians, roughly 70 percent of whom are children and women. The claim that Israel is going to great lengths to minimize civilian casualties is belied by statements from high level Israeli officials. [...] Second, Israel is purposely starving the desperate Palestinian population by greatly limiting the amount of food, fuel, cooking gas, medicine, and water that can be brought into Gaza. Moreover, medical care is extremely hard to come by for a population that now includes approximately 50,000 wounded civilians. Not only has Israel greatly limited the supply of fuel into Gaza, which hospitals need to function, but it has targeted hospitals, ambulances, and first aid stations. [...] Third, Israeli leaders talk about Palestinians and what they would like to do in Gaza in shocking terms, especially when you consider that some of these leaders also talk incessantly about the horrors of the Holocaust. Indeed, their rhetoric has led Omar Bartov, a prominent Israeli-born scholar of the Holocaust, to conclude that Israel has “genocidal intent.” Other scholars in Holocaust and genocide studies have offered a similar warning. ● To be more specific, it is commonplace for Israeli leaders to refer to Palestinians as “human animals, ”human beasts,” and “horrible inhuman animals.” And as Israeli President Isaac Herzog makes clear, those leaders are referring to all Palestinians, not just Hamas: In his words, “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” (More)

■ Biden Intends To Keep Participating In The Incineration Of Gaza (Caitlin Johnstone)
■ Most of Israel’s October 7 claims about Hamas brutalism are fabrications (Ethan Huff)