Link: https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/01/utah-doctor-allegedly-destroyed-vaccines-gave-fake-shots-to-children/

A Utah plastic surgeon, his neighbor, and two others are facing charges after allegedly giving people fake vaccination cards and destroying government-provided COVID-19 vaccinations. | Dr. Michael Kirk Moore Jr., 58, and his neighbor, Kristin Jackson Andersen, 59, have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to convert, sell, convey, and dispose of government property, conversion sale, conveyance, and disposal of government property and aiding and abetting. The Plastic Institute of Utah Inc., along with office manager Kari Dee Burgoyne, 52, and receptionist Sandra Flores, 31, faces the same charges. ● According to court documents, Moore and his co-defendants allegedly ran a scheme out of Plastic Surgery Institute of Utah Inc. to defraud the United States and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The documents say Moore and Andersen were members of a private organization seeking to “liberate the medical profession from government and industry conflicts of interest.”

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/570237-us-navy-seal-killed-ukraine/

Washington says the Iraq and Afghanistan veteran was a deserter from the American military | The US Navy confirmed on Friday that a member of the elite SEAL force was killed in eastern Ukraine, but said that Naval Special Warfare Operator Daniel Swift was in “active deserter status.” Swift died on January 18 from injuries sustained in combat with Russian forces, an unnamed US Navy official told reporters in a background briefing. Swift’s service record shows that the Oregon resident enlisted in 2005 and received medals for taking part in the Global War on Terrorism, and the campaigns in both Afghanistan and Iraq, according to Time magazine. He was listed as going absent without leave (AWOL) in March 2019.

Link: https://t.me/PutinDirect/86

■ The long expected Russian offensive in Ukraine has begun | The Ukrainian army, egged on by its U.S. controllers, had put most of its resource into the static defense of the Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) - Soledar sector of the eastern front. An insane number of Ukrainian brigades, though many partially depleted, were concentrated on that 50 kilometer long front. This left other sectors nearly empty of Ukrainian troops. ● The attacking Russian force is the 58th army of the Russian Federation. These are not lightly armored, air deployable VDV forces like those who fought around the Hostomel Airport airport near Kiev. These are not militia of the Donbas republics seen on the eastern front. These are not Chechen forces storming Mariupol. These are not the Wagner mercenaries surrounding Bakhmut. This is the real Russian army, the Red one, with all its heavy resources and capabilities to wage combined arms warfare. (MoA)

Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/570251-norway-fine-russian-sailors-uniform/

Norwegian police said the clothes could be mistaken for official military attire | Police in Norway have fined two Russian sailors for wearing camouflage work uniforms, which were deemed likely to distress residents, local media reported on Friday. Last week, police in the city of Kirkenes in Norway's northern province of Finnmark said that they had “carried out immigration checks on Russian sailors” wearing clothes 💬 “that could easily be mistaken for military uniforms.” ● Speaking to the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, law enforcement officers confirmed that the two men were fined 5,000 Norwegian krone ($500) for wearing the clothes while walking around the city. ● Lawyer Bernt Heiberg told Dagbladet that the Russians should not have been fined. “The way the case is presented, I think that the police went too far by issuing a fine for something that does not appear to be punishable,” he stated. He added that the uniforms could hardly have been mistaken for official, even considering that they had a Russian flag on them. Heiberg also noted that “he has never seen anything like it,” advising the Russians to take the case to the court. Both sailors have accepted the suggestion, according to the outlet.

Link: https://tass.com/world/1565297

Earlier, John Kirby presented some satellite photos that allegedly prove, according to the US, the fact of arms shipment from North Korea to the Wagner PMC | The US handed over information allegedly proving arms shipments from North Korea to Russia, US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby announced at a briefing on Friday. 💬 "As we have stated previously, the arms transfers from the DPRK are in direct violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions. So today, we shared information on these violations with the Security Council's DPRK Sanctions Committee panel of experts. We will continue to raise these violations at the Security Council alongside our allies and partners," Kirby said. ● Earlier, Kirby presented some satellite photos that allegedly prove, according to the US, the fact of arms shipment from North Korea to the Wagner PMC. In December 2022, Kirby claimed that DPRK shipped weapons to the Wagner PMC and plans new shipments. Meanwhile, UN Secretary General spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that the UN does not have information about the alleged arms shipments from DPRK to the PMC.

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/01/19/nikki-haley-on-2024-i-can-be-the-new-leader-america-needs/

Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, said Thursday on FNC’s “Special Report” that she believes she could be the new leader America needs when asked about a potential 2024 presidential run. | Anchor Bret Baier asked, “When do you make a decision if you are going to run for president?” Haley said, 💬 “Well, I’m not going to make an announcement here, but when you’re looking at a run for president, you look at two things. You first look at ‘does the current situation push for new leadership?’ The second question is, ‘am I that person that could be that new leader?’ Yes, we need to go in a new direction. And can I be that leader? Yes, I think I can be that leader. I was — as governor, I took on a hurting state with double-digit unemployment, and we made it the beast of the southeast. As ambassador, I took on the world when they tried to disrespect us, and I think I showed what I’m capable of at the United Nations. So, do I think I could be that leader? Yes, but we are still working through things, and we’ll figure it out. I’ve never lost a race. I said that then, I still say that now. I’m not going to lose now, but stay tuned.”

■ 13 Times Nikki Haley Stood Up for Israel at the UN (And AIPAC): While U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations invariably offered their backing to Israel at the UN, Nikki Haley seemingly made the Israeli cause a personal obsession. Haley was the darling of AIPAC policy conferences twice, telling the lobby earlier this year: “When I come to AIPAC, I am with friends. And at the UN, we don’t usually have very many friends.”

Link: https://news.antiwar.com/2023/01/19/extremely-dangers-russia-reacts-to-us-plans-to-help-attack-crimea/

The State Department appeared to confirm that the US is in discussions with Ukrainian officials on a potential offensive against the peninsula | Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to the US, responded to Price’s comments and the reports, likening the plans to potential “terrorist attacks” and warning of escalation. 💬 “The State Department, through out-of-touch assertions that ‘Crimea is Ukraine’ and that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can use American weapons to protect their territory, is essentially pushing the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia,” Antonov said, according to a press release from the Russian Embassy in the US. “Hearing such remarks from Washington, the criminals in Kiev will once again feel complete permissiveness. The risks of conflict escalation will only increase,” he added. ● Over in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the US delivering weapons for attacks on “Russian soil” was “extremely dangerous.” The Times report said that the Biden administration previously avoided supporting strikes on Crimea due to the risk of escalation, but that concern of Russia resorting to nuclear weapons has waned in Washington even though the risk clearly still exists. 💬 “Naturally, the very discussion of the acceptability of supplying Ukraine with arms which would allow strikes to be delivered on Russian soil … is potentially extremely dangerous,” Peskov said. “This will mean taking the conflict to a whole new level which certainly will not bode well in terms of global European security.” ● The US reasoning for being less concerned about escalation is based on the fact that Russia hasn’t used a nuclear weapon up to this point. But Moscow has shown a willingness to massively escalate the war in response to attacks on Crimea.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230119/us-authorizes-25-billion-in-new-ukraine-military-aid-including-bradley-stryker-vehicles-1106506824.html

The Biden administration is authorizing a new $2.5 billion military aid package for Ukraine, including Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and Stryker armored personnel carriers among other equipment, the Defense Department (DoD) said in a statement. | The package includes 59 Bradley and 90 Stryker vehicles, as well as a variety of artillery, anti-armor and small arms munitions, the statement said. The previous aid package included 50 Bradley, bringing the total to more than 100. The Thursday package is the second-largest announced by the Pentagon, increasing the US' security aid to Ukraine to some $26.7 billion since the start of the special military operation.

■ According to the Pentagon, the full $2.5 billion arms package includes the following: (MORE)
■ Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Announces $2.5 Billion More in Ukraine Military Aid (Breitbart)
■ Treasury Announces Start of 'Extraordinary Measures' as US Hits Debt Ceiling (Sputnik News)

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230120/biden-on-mishandling-classified-docs-i-have-no-regrets-1106509506.html

US President Joe Biden has said he has "no regrets" over the mishandling of classified records dating back to his time as vice president that were recently found in his private office and garage. | The American president spoke on the classified documents revelation during a Thursday news conference in California. The day's commentary marked the first time Biden has spoken on the matter since the US Justice Department (DOJ) assigned a special counsel to investigate the records. ● Earlier this month, the US government publicly acknowledged it undertook an investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified materials after his lawyers discovered sensitive documents at the president's think-tank office and his residence. The newly surfaced findings revealed the series of documents had been found by Biden aides on four separate occasions, dating between November 2022 - just before the US midterm elections - and last weekend.

■ Biden Says ‘No Regrets’ Over Decision Not to Tell Public About Classified Documents (The Epoch Times)

Link: https://t.me/thecradlemedia/5328

Link: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/proof-strokes-are-caused-by-the-covid

Steve Kirsch: I bet $1M that the vax causes strokes. Any takers? They knew this at the very start of the vaccination campaign if they were paying attention to the adverse event reports. I'll show you how they knew. | Executive summary: The COVID vaccines cause strokes. There is no doubt about it. In fact, I’m so sure of this, I will bet anyone $1M that I got it right and the CDC got it wrong by dismissing the signal. I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is. Are any of the drug companies willing to do that? If they don’t, you should be worried. Very worried. Surely there is someone at the CDC or FDA who will take my bet? If not, then why not admit the truth: that they have absolutely no confidence at all when they claim that the COVID vaccines don’t cause strokes and there is nothing to worry about. Will anyone in the entire world take my bet? Of course not. You have to ask yourself, why not? Don’t you believe the CDC? Apparently, NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD believes them. In this article, I’m going to prove to you I’m right.

■ CDC Knowingly Left Serious Adverse Events Off Post-Vaccination Surveys, Documents Show

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/569819-whole-russiagate-was-a-lie/

An academic study has confirmed there was no Russian conspiracy to elect Trump | Donald Trump’s time as president was dominated by years of mainstream news headlines declaring that his unexpected victory was attributable to Saint Petersburg’s Internet Research Agency (aka 'The Russian IRA'). The company reportedly corralled online networks of bots and trolls that perpetuated pro-Trump propaganda in a bid to get the outsider elected at the Kremlin’s request. This narrative quickly became widely accepted among US liberals, and remains entrenched today – but a new study decisively shows it to be false. ● The paper, published in the respected academic journal Nature, investigates the exposure of Twitter users to alleged activity on the social media platform by the IRA during the 2016 US election, “and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior.” ● The study’s findings speak for themselves. For example, 70% of purported IRA-connected posts during that campaign were seen by just 1% of the network’s users, “who strongly identified as Republicans.” Coverage of these posts was moreover “eclipsed by content from domestic news media and politicians.” The academics also found “no evidence of a meaningful relationship” between exposure to these tweets, and “changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.”

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230119/report-us-considering-providing-ukraine-with-weapons-to-strike-crimea-1106475695.html

The Biden administration is reportedly considering providing Ukraine with the weapons necessary to target the Crimean Peninsula, an area that has proven instrumental for Russia's operations during the ongoing special military operation. | The administration believes Kiev's position in future negotiations will be improved if the Ukrainian military can threaten Russia's control of Crimea, though such a move may increase the risk of escalating the conflict, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. 💬 Administration officials are reportedly discussing with their Ukrainian counterparts the use of US-supplied weapons, including High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and Bradley fighting vehicles, to cover targets like the main land bridge that connects Crimea with the rest of Russia. ● The Biden administration has so far been reluctant to provide Ukraine with the long-range missiles that Kiev would need to attack Crimea out of fear that such a move could provoke Russia and widen the conflict, according to the report.

■ Support for Nazism in Davos (Stephen Lendman)
■ At Davos, Zelensky Tells Western Backers to Speed Up Arms Deliveries (Antiwar.com)
■ NYT: US Considering "Helping" Ukraine Strike Crimea (Antiwar.com)
■ US may assist Ukrainian strikes on Crimea – NYT (RT.com)
■ Washington is pushing Kiev to commit terrorist attacks in Russia — Ambassador to US (TASS)
■ Moscow Will Destroy Any Western Weapons in Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to US Says (Sputnik News)

Link: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/01/05/cnn-recruits-washingtons-worst-warmonger-the-instant-he-leaves-congress/

CNN has shattered the speed of light in its haste to recruit former representative Adam Kinzinger to its punditry lineup the millisecond he left congress. | Kinzinger, who prior to being redistricted out of his House seat received handsome campaign contributions from arms manufacturers Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman, was arguably the most egregious warmonger on Capitol Hill. Nobody in congress lobbied as aggressively to start World War Three as Kinzinger did last year. He was the loudest voice in the US government publicly advocating a no-fly zone over Ukraine in the early weeks of the war, an idea that was slammed by the mass media as it would necessarily have entailed the US military shooting down Russian war planes and aggressively tempted nuclear war. [H]e tried to advance a bill authorizing hot war against Russia if Moscow crossed specified red lines in Ukraine but couldn’t get cosponsors because even his fellow congressional hawks thought it was too insane.

Link: https://www.axios.com/2023/01/19/new-zealands-jacinda-ardern-resign-february

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will step down as leader on Feb. 7 and the country will hold an election on Oct. 14, she abruptly announced on Thursday. | Ardern rose to global prominence for her response to the country's worst mass shooting, the 2019 terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques, after which she led Parliament in passing sweeping gun control measures. She was praised for her leadership during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ardern's ruling Labour Party was re-elected in a landslide in October 2020, but it's since slipped behind the opposition National Party in the polls amid concerns New Zealand is heading into a recession. While her popularity has waned, Ardern has consistently remained the country's preferred prime minister in polling against National leader Christopher Luxon. ● She became a target of [so-called] "fringe conspiracy theory groups" after implementing some of the world's toughest [most dictatorial] COVID restrictions and introduced a major "vaccination" drive to get 90% of eligible New Zealanders vaccinated against the virus [injected with an untested mRNA product], which included vaccine mandates [dictates] that have since been lifted. [This is the Axios for you. Full of shit. Read with care!]

■ Lockdown Queen Jacinda Ardern Announces Resignation as New Zealand Prime Minister (Breitbart)

■ New Zealand Totalitarian Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Announces She Will Resign and Step Down | After destroying all individual freedoms in her idyllic island country, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Wednesday that she will resign and step down on Sunday. Ardern had proudly declared free speech a "weapon of war" at the United Nations. She told Kiwis not to talk to their neighbors. Ardern insisted her party trailing in the polls the the rival National Party ahead of the upcoming election had nothing to do with her decision to step down.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230118/wef-staff-fear-forum-will-die-with-unaccountable-davos-boss-schwab-1106459702.html

The annual World Economic Forum, which is meeting again this week in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos, has been led since its founding in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, who many have likened to a sinister James Bond villain. | Current and former World Economic Forum (WEF) staff have accused its founder of hiring "nobodies" to make himself irreplaceable. ● The group of anonymous whistle-blowers fear the 82-year-old German economist will "die with his boots on" leaving no-one able to take the helm of the annual gathering of the world's financial and political elites in Davos, Switzerland. Schwab, author of The Fourth Industrial Revolution and COVID-19: The Great Reset, has controlled the WEF since its founding in 1971.

💬 "In most organisations the next generation of top leadership is faintly visible at the higher levels of management," they continued, "but at the WEF Klaus has surrounded himself with such a group of nobodies at the top that it’s hard to see how any of them could be taken seriously by anyone of consequence inside or outside the organisation."

■ Global political elite skipping Davos (RT.com)

Link: https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/arizona-legislation-would-abolish-state-income-tax

Although Arizona’s state income tax recently dropped to one of the lowest in the nation, a rookie lawmaker disagrees with the concept of having an income tax at all. | Rep. Austin Smith, a West Valley Republican, filed House Bill 2395. He said taxpayers have struggled to make ends meet due to the current economic environment. 💬 “With millions of Arizonans suffering to make ends meet due to the devastating effects of Democrats’ hyperinflation and rising interest rates, I can’t think of a better time to get government out of the wallets of taxpayers by eliminating the income tax altogether,” Smith told The Center Square. ● The state collected $9.3 billion in individual income and withholding tax in fiscal year 2022, according to information from the state Department of Revenue. The figure represents a sizeable portion of the state’s total $27.8 billion in gross revenue from that fiscal year.

Link: https://nationalfile.com/penn-state-professor-asks-students-to-watch-gay-porn-to-learn-how-to-be-bisexual/

Professor Sam Richards told students 'we are all at some level nonbinary' and called on all heterosexual students to 'watch gay or lesbian porn and see how quickly you feel aroused.' | A Pennsylvania State professor sparked controversy by encouraging his students to watch gay or lesbian pornography to help lend way to bisexual attraction. In an intro-level sociology class titled “Trans Issues, TERFs, and The Binary,” Professor Sam Richards told students “we are all at some level nonbinary” and called on all heterosexual students to “watch gay or lesbian porn and see how quickly you feel aroused. And how you can’t control that. You’ll realize that, ‘Oh, d—, I could be sexualized by people who are like me,'” Daily Mail reported.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/570043-us-arms-israel-ukraine/

The move has stoked concerns among officials in Israel, which has so far refused to send weapons to Kiev | The US military is supplying Ukraine with hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds pulled from stockpiles based in Israel, according to the New York Times. The Pentagon is reportedly “scrambling” to find munitions as Ukrainian forces continue to exhaust their arsenal. ● The Pentagon has drawn from a 💬 “vast but little-known stockpile of American ammunition in Israel to help meet Ukraine’s dire need for artillery shells,” the Times reported on Tuesday, citing multiple unnamed Israeli and American officials. While it’s unclear when the deal was struck, Israel has agreed to allow Washington to source some 300,000 155-millimeter rounds from warehouses on its territory. “About half of the 300,000 rounds destined for Ukraine have already been shipped to Europe and will eventually be delivered through Poland,” the Times added. ● Though the stockpile in Israel is intended for use in America’s Middle East conflicts, several of which continue on a simmer, the Pentagon has been forced to seek new weapons supplies as Ukrainian troops reportedly blow through around 90,000 shells per month – twice the rate produced by the United States and Europe combined.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/570042-china-us-syria-oil-theft/

American “occupation troops” stationed in Syria are “looting” the country’s resources, Beijing said | China has blasted the United States for its “banditry” in Syria, claiming that Washington’s years-long military occupation and the “plundering” of Syrian resources have placed the country on the brink of a “humanitarian disaster.” ● Addressing reporters during a press briefing on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin was asked to comment on recent reports in Syrian media that US forces had transported a large quantity of “looted oil” from Syria to Iraq earlier this month. 💬 “We are struck by the blatancy and egregiousness of the US’s plundering of Syria… Such banditry is aggravating the energy crisis and humanitarian disaster in Syria,” he said, citing Syrian government statistics purporting that “over 80% of Syria’s daily oil output was smuggled out of the country by US occupation troops” in the first half of 2022. 💬 “Whether the US gives or takes, it plunges other countries into turmoil and disaster, and the US gets to reap the benefits for its hegemony and other interests,” he added. “This is the result of the US’s so-called “rules-based order.”” ● On January 14, Damascus’ state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that “a convoy consisting of 53 tanks loaded with stolen Syrian oil” were brought from the country’s Hasakah province to US “bases in Iraqi territory,” noting the operation was carried out alongside local Kurdish militants which have long received American backing. The outlet also stated that 60 additional trucks smuggled stolen oil and wheat into Iraq earlier this month. ● US forces were first sent to Syria in 2014, beginning with a contingent of special operators followed by more conventional ground troops the next year, most embedded with Kurdish fighters in the country’s oil-rich northeast. Though then-President Barack Obama maintained the deployment was focused only on combating Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists, Washington had long intervened in Syria’s war against jihadist groups, sending and overseeing countless arms shipments to rebels seeking to overthrow the government in Damascus beginning as early as 2013. (PHOTO)

■ China urges U.S. to stop plundering Syrian oil resources (SANA)
■ US occupation continues to loot oil from Syria’s Al-Jazira region (SANA)
■ American forces transport 53 tanks loaded with stolen Syrian oil towards Iraq (Dearborn News)
■ US occupation steals 53 Syrian oil tankers, smuggles them to Iraq (almayadeen.net)