Year: 2022

Protesters confront riot police at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2020. (Video screenshot)

A partisan congressional committee this week blamed President Trump for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol that left an unarmed protester dead at the hands of police, asking the Department of Justice to investigate and charge him with four crimes.
However, a new report from the House GOP suggested that outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her staff were more culpable than they’ve ever admitted.
“January 6 should have never happened,” Rep.

A few of the globe’s largest economies are investigating ways to get around the U.S. dollar as a result of its excessive strength and new weaponization.
Countries Leaving the U.S. Dollar
Also toying with de-dollarization are smaller countries, including at minimum 12 in Asia. Corporations across the globe are trying to sell a previously unheard-of proportion of their debt in different currencies out of concern for some more dollar solidity.

No one believes the U.S. dollar will be supplanted as the primary exchange medium anytime in the near future.

In a comment to reporters on Tuesday, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) accused the FBI of interfering in two consecutive U.S. presidential elections and said “somebody should go to jail for all of this.”
Hawley’s press secretary Abigail Marone tweeted a clip of Hawley’s comments to the press.

.@HawleyMO: The FBI deliberately interfered not one, but two separate presidential elections… there have got to be repercussions for that.
We’re going to have to have a conversation about the future of the FBI and what it’s doing in our democracy. pic.twitter.

Roskomnadzor says foreign non-profits funded “information stuffing” in an attempt to destabilize society

Over 157,000 fakes and calls for anti-war rallies have been blocked by Russia’s media watchdog since the start of Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine, Roskomnadzor reported on Thursday.
The regulator noted that what is called “information stuffing,” or dumping inaccurate and misleading information online, was carried out in American social media networks using the resources of foreign non-profit organizations in an attempt to destabilize Russian society.

More than 1,500 flights were canceled across the United States by Thursday morning as a massive winter storm upended holiday travel plans with a triple threat of heavy snow, howling winds and bitter cold. “This is not like a snow day when you were a kid,” President Joe Biden told reporters at a White House […]
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“Against all odds, and doom and gloom scenarios. Ukraine didn’t fall. Ukraine is alive and kicking,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
President Zelensky of Ukraine stood before Congress last night, declaring that Ukraine had more than enough of its own soldiers, and more than enough courage to beat Russia. And that all he was asking for from us was to send more weapons.
Cantwell: Congress on aiding Ukraine, Equal pay for US sports teams
“We have artillery. Yes. Thank you,” Zelenskyy said. “We have it. Is it enough? Honestly, not really.

What is this cringe. pic.twitter.com/fAbO7Vy6VD
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 22, 2022

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