Link: https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/2020_the_year_the_tree_of_liberty_was_torched

“The people are unaware. They’re not educated to realize that they have power. The system is so geared that everyone believes the government will fix everything. We are the government.”—John Lennon. No doubt about it: 2020—a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year for freedom—was the culmination of a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decade for freedom. Government corruption, tyranny, and abuse coupled with a Big Brother-knows-best mindset and the COVID-19 pandemic propelled us at warp speed towards a full-blown police state in which nationwide lockdowns, egregious surveillance, roadside strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, censorship, retaliatory arrests, the criminalization of lawful activities, warmongering, indefinite detentions, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, police brutality, profit-driven prisons, and pay-to-play politicians were accepted as the norm.

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/texas-energy-crisis-hits-sixth-day-spreads-mexico

First, PowerOutage.US shows only 350k customers are without power, a far cry from the millions just one day ago.

Link: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/515928-reparations-african-americans-us/

A new hearing on giving reparations to African Americans in the US has reignited discussion. But all reparations really are, are a distraction from other issues that could be solved to help black communities.

Link: https://rense.com/general96/eos-are-only-legal-if.php

"Basis in the United States Constitution... The U.S. Supreme Court has held that all Executive Orders from the United States president must be SUPPORTED BY THE CONSTITUTION, whether from a clause granting specific power or by Congress delegating such to the executive branch." I am interpreting the above statement as depending on the specific Executive Order's CONTENT as it compares to the confines of Constitutional law.

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-biden-either-lying-or-mentally-gone

Breaking a one month silence Wednesday, President Trump appeared on a number of cable news channels, hinting at a 2024 run, a potential launch of his own social media platform, and slamming Joe Biden for lying about the coronavirus vaccine rollout.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/515820-germany-bans-sunglasses-hats/

Saxony became the first region in Germany to ban hats and sunglasses on masked drivers. “Wearing a hat and sunglasses in addition to a mask that covers the face and mouth makes [the driver] unrecognizable. So that’s not allowed,” Saxony’s Interior Minister Roland Woller said.

Link: https://anti-empire.com/new-york-businesses-now-fleeing-to-florida/

New York businesses are now following New Yorkers, moving to Florida in droves amid New York’s continued coronavirus lockdowns and a declining state economy., Dozens of New York City restaurants have suddenly opened Palm Beach outposts, “escaping” the icy weather and severe COVID-19 restrictions,

Link: http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2021/02/texas-perfect-storm-how-third-of-lone.html

Freezing temperatures knocked a third of the state's generating capacity offline, greatest forced blackout in U.S. history. Texas the only contiguous state with its own power grid, not linked to other states so cannot borrow power from them, a system the state implemented to avoid federal regulation. The unique system, avoids regulation in favor of market incentives, facing backlash for allowing power generators to shirk preparations for a once-in-a-decade winter storm.

Link: http://www.hideoutnow.com/2021/02/facebook-has-attacked-sovereign-nation.html

Prime Minister Morrison said: 'Facebook's actions to unfriend Australia today, cutting off essential information services on health and emergency services, were as arrogant as they were disappointing,.'stopped some government messages being shared, including emergency services, providing essential information on Covid, fires, and help for victims of domestic violence. Charities, foodbanks and at least one missing persons page were also in the ban.

Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/breaking-democrat-leaders-ny-state-senate-move-strip-governor-cuomo-emergency-powers/

New York Senate Democrats moved on Wednesday to strip Governor Andrew Cuomo of his Emergency pandemic powers after news broke the FBI and US Attorney in Brooklyn are reportedly investigating Governor Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes amid the Covid pandemic..

Link: http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/02/exclusive-government-slams-facebook-for.html

Facebook has been blasted by the Australian Government for making it easier for paedophiles to get away with sharing child abuse material on the platform - on the same day as the company's 'disgraceful' decision to block Australian news.

Link: https://humansarefree.com/2021/02/spain-pfizer-shots-halted-after-46-nursing-home-residents-died.html

Most residents became extremely ill shortly after the shots. It is believed many came down with COVID-19, despite being “vaccinated against it.”

Link: http://www.scoopyweb.com/2021/02/exclusive-colourful-hedge-fund-boss.html

Pierre LaGrange, 48, used taxpayers' hand-outs to pay some of the 65 staff at his upmarket clothes firm, Huntsman. He was involved in an amicable £160million divorce from the mother of his three children in 2010 after coming out as gay after falling for a flamboyant male fashion designer, he took a former US Presidential aide as his husband.

Link: https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1024593-africa-has-terrorism-famine-disease-but-biden-wants-them-to-focus-on-being-socially-woke?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=3CBxZ7_XWJVMPwlfPETsrRVMPzicviGg0jM0.A

The Biden administration has brought back a variety of priorities from the Obama times, increasing involvement worldwide to include conditioning U.S. foreign assistance on protections for gays and lesbians, even though there are more imminent problems to solve.

Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/joe-biden-kills-keystone-pipeline-home-promotes-pipeline-taliban/

Canceling the Keystone Pipeline costs over 11,000 construction jobs and 42,100 jobs throughout the US during the construction process according to the US State Department. At the same time Joe Biden is promoting a pipeline project for the Taliban...

Link: https://sputniknews.com/us/202102181082118384-faecal-monitoring-may-help-track-covid-19-variant-spread-in-the-us-media-says/

Public health experts in the United States suggest that the spread of COVID-19 variants in the country can be tracked by analysing sewage,

Link: https://www.activistpost.com/2021/02/techno-censorship-the-slippery-slope-from-censoring-disinformation-to-silencing-truth.html

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”― George Orwell. Depending on how the government and its corporate allies define what constitutes “extremism, “we the people” might all be considered guilty of some thought crime or other..

Link: https://www.activistpost.com/2021/02/wearable-patch-would-issue-stress-alert-by-measuring-cortisol-in-sweat-what-about-stress-caused-by-the-device.html

Cybersecurity and privacy risks, health risks associated with Bluetooth and other wearable technology, including devices prescribed for medical purposes . Apple Halo wristband monitors body fat, emotions, and more. Fitbit introduced new watches with sensors to monitor stress levels.

Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/515851-latvia-fine-watch-illegal-tv/

Earlier this month, local media reported that the Seimas, the Baltic nation’s parliament, had adopted a bill in its final reading that will criminalize people for watching unauthorized broadcasts,. dozens of Russian television channels for which signals can be picked up from across the border.. More than one in three Latvians speaks Russian. .

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/515939-israel-covid19-certificates-vaccination-green/

Israel’s health minister has confirmed the country plans to stop unvaccinated people from working in certain jobs but failed to elaborate on what they might be, adding anyone found forging vaccine certificates will be jailed.