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)

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230117/kremlin-enlargement-of-russian-army-to-15-million-caused-by-wests-actions-1106425545.html

The security of Russia must be unconditionally ensured, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. | Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has held a meeting with the senior leadership of the Russian Armed Forces concerning the implementation of President Vladimir Putin's decision to increase the military's size 1.5 million. 💬 "This is due to the war that the countries of the collective West are waging, a proxy war that includes both elements of indirect participation in hostilities and elements of economic war, financial war, legal war, going beyond the legal field, and so on. Such measures are related to this. The security of our country must be unconditionally ensured," Peskov told reporters. ● Putin's decree on the enlargement of the Russian Army came into force on January 1, 2023. According to the document, the staff strength of the Russian Armed Forces is set at 2,039,758 people, including 1,150,628 troops. According to Shoigu, changes in the Russian army, including an increase in its number to 1.5 million military personnel, will be implemented from 2023 to 2026.

■ ‘Doomsday Weapon’: Russian Nuclear Sub Will Reportedly Get Advanced Torpedo Drones in ‘Near Future’

Link: https://t.me/intelslava/43453

Link: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-american-centers-for-disease

Having failed to eradicate a virus, the public health agency will now try to eradicate viral ideas. | Remember PREDICT, the research programme funded by the US Agency for International Development and carried out in partnership with EcoHealth Alliance and Metabiota, with the goal of identifying potential emerging pandemic pathogens? Well, the Centers for Disease Control now propose to take a similar approach to our thoughts. They’ve solicited grant applications from researchers pledging to “develop a public health tool to predict the virality of vaccine misinformation narratives.” The successful applicant will receive a million dollars over two years.

Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/faa-quietly-updates-requirements-pilot-ekgs-indicating-pilots-hearts-no-longer-normal-attributed-vaccines/

A report from the FAA admits that the EKG’s of Pilots are no longer normal. This report has been hidden by the FAA. | Steve Kirsh released a report today where he shares some very, very disturbing information about the health of Americans and pilots flying us all around the world. According to Kirsch: 💬 After the vaccine rolled out, the FAA secretly widened the EKG parameter range for pilots so they wouldn’t be grounded. It looks like the vax gave at least 50M Americans heart damage.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230118/us-justice-dept-wanted-to-involve-fbi-in-search-for-biden-classified-docs-reports-1106451677.html

The US Department of Justice considered but abandoned the idea of involving FBI officers to monitor the process of searching for classified documents in the possessions of US President Joe Biden, American media reported on Wednesday, citing sources. | Instead, the two sides agreed that Biden's personal lawyers will inspect his homes and inform the Justice Department as soon as they find any other potentially classified records and organize their seizure by law enforcement agencies, the report said. The sources were cited as saying that the decision to leave the FBI out was in order to avoid complicating the probe's further stages , as well as due to the fact that Biden's attorneys agreed to cooperation with the investigation and handed over the retrieved classified papers promptly. ● On January 9, US media reported that the president's personal attorneys discovered 10 classified documents pertaining to Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom at a Biden think-tank's office, prompting a federal probe into the matter. A second batch of classified documents was discovered in the garage of the Biden residence in Wilmington, Delaware, while another one-page document was found in an adjacent room. ● Congressman Paul Gosar told Sputnik that Republican lawmakers will investigate the matter as a serious felony, which is punishable with a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-13-no-trains-no-planes-no-automobiles-no-gas-de-civilization-democrat-utopia.html

A damning indictment of the Net Zero political project has been made by one of the world’s leading nuclear physicists. In a recently published science paper, Dr. Wallace Manheimer said it would be the end of modern civilisation. Writing about wind and solar power he argued it would be especially tragic “when not only will this new infrastructure fail, but will cost trillions, trash large portions of the environment, and be entirely unnecessary”. The stakes, he added, “are enormous”. | The author notes that the emphasis on a false climate crisis is becoming a “tragedy for modern civilisation”, which depends on reliable, affordable and environmentally viable energy. “The windmills, solar panels and backup batteries have none of these qualities,” he states. This falsehood has been pushed by what has been termed a climate industrial complex, comprising some scientists, most media, industrialists and legislators. Furthermore, he continues, this grouping has “somehow” managed to convince many that CO2 in the atmosphere, a gas necessary for life on Earth, one which we exhale with every breath, is an environmental poison. Much of Dr. Manheimer’s interesting paper debunks many of the fashionable nostrums surrounding politicised ‘settled’ climate science. It is an excellent read. Discussing some of the contrary opinions that debunk obviously false claims, he says it is “particularly disheartening” to see learned societies make definitive claims when so much contrary information is readily available. He points out that over the last 10,000 years, the Earth has almost certainly been warmer. There have been warmer and colder periods, just like today.

Link: https://leohohmann.com/2023/01/16/biden-signs-onto-declaration-of-north-america-dna-with-canada-and-mexico-is-the-planned-north-american-union-making-a-comeback/

Biden signs onto ‘Declaration of North America (DNA)’ with Canada and Mexico: Is the planned North American Union making a comeback? | Joe Biden met last week in Mexico City with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for the 10th North American Leaders’ Summit. The three leaders signed onto a document that appears to be a prelude to a North American Union, which the globalists talked a lot about during the George W. Bush presidency. It looks like the push toward a merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico may be back on the front burner if this written declaration of intent is any indication. ● The document has attracted very little media attention since it was released on January 10, as the mainstream corporate press focuses instead on classified documents found in Biden’s office and home. When major news happens there’s almost always a misdirection play meant to divert our eyes. ● The North American leaders, dubbed the “Three Amigos,” committed their countries to six “pillars,” all of which were taken straight from United Nations documents Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030.

■ The Fruit Of Trump’s USMCA: White House Issued “Declaration Of North America” (DNA)

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/16/chamber-commerce-globalist-agenda-immigration-free-trade/

The United States Chamber of Commerce detailed its globalist policy agenda for the year, including advocating for more overall immigration regardless of its impact on the nation’s workers along with inking new free trade deals regardless of the impact on American jobs. | Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark delivered an annual address, laying out the group’s agenda for the year on behalf of the multinational corporations that it represents in Washington, DC. ● As part of that agenda, Clark endorsed unlimited immigration to the U.S. where employers can import as many foreign workers as possible whenever “they need it” by blowing the lid off caps to employment-based visas. ● Previously, Clark demanded that Congress double legal immigration levels — a plan that would bring in a record more than two million foreign nationals a year.

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/16/communist-china-always-in-step-with-davos-spirit-ccp-media/

China has “always” been “in step with the Davos Spirit”, according to a newspaper which serves as a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece. | An editorial published by the Global Times, wholly owned by the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the People’s Daily, has given full-throated endorsement to this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in the elite ski resort of Davos, Switzerland. 💬 “It should be underlined that China’s propositions and voices are always in step with the Davos Spirit and have provided a strong support for it,” said the editorial, indicating that the communist regime in Beijing (Peking) is in lockstep with the nexus of globalist political leaders, ultra-rich plutocrats, and representatives of sprawling non-governmental organisations who are convening in the Swiss Alps. ● Indeed, the Global Times stressed that “[s]ince 1979, China has never missed a WEF [summit]” — 1979 being the year Communist China began taking development assistance from the United Nations — adding that not only is “the Davos Spirit with openness and cooperation as core [sic] is also resonating with China” but that “China’s ideals and achievements also made the Davos Spirit more dazzling.

■ Klaus Schwab and George Soros BOW-OUT of World Economic Forum Conference
■ How the Davos elite took back control (Thomas Fazi)

Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/dr-harriet-skepdoc-hall-staunch-critic-anti-vaxxers-alternative-medicine-dies-suddenly-sleep/

Dr. Harriet “The SkepDoc” Hall, an author of a science medicine blog slamming the anti-vaxxers and critic of alternative medicine, died suddenly in her sleep last week. 💬 “This is Kirk Hall, Harriet’s husband. I know Harriet’s work was followed and admired by many of you. It is with great sadness that I must tell you my beloved wife passed away quietly and unexpectedly in her sleep last night,” Harriet’s husband wrote on Facebook. “At this moment, she would probably simply ask you to have a kind thought for her, be kind to each other and continue to support her belief in the truth,” the post added. ● After her passing, many speculated that the Covid vaccination played a role in her sudden death. Back in 2021, Dr. Hall announced that she received her third dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine.

■ "Sudden Deaths" Continue to Explode at the Beginning of 2023 (January 15th, 2023)

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/569969-cia-chief-secret-meeting-zelensky/

Bill Burns reportedly warned Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky that he might be assassinated [if he didn't follow orders] | CIA chief Bill Burns reportedly made a secret visit to Ukraine in January 2022, a month before Russia’s offensive against Kiev started, and told President Vladimir Zelensky that Moscow was plotting to assassinate him. ● The clandestine meeting between Burns and Zelensky came to light in a soon-to-be-released book by author Chris Whipple on Joe Biden’s presidency, Business Insider reported on Monday. The trip came at a time when the Ukrainian president was publicly dismissive of US claims that Russia was poised to attack Kiev and was arguing that the warnings were creating “panic.” While Zelensky had been reluctant to believe US intelligence assessments of a likely Russian offensive, he was immediately “sobered” and “taken aback” by the claim that he personally might be targeted.

■ Top US general inspects Ukrainian troops [in Germany]

Link: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/blackrock-loses-1-5-trillion-plans-500-layoffs-while-continuing-to-embrace-leftist-agenda/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usa

The layoffs will be the first for the major investment firm since 2019. | Major investment firm BlackRock, which has drawn substantial backlash for embracing controversial left-wing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ideology, has reportedly lost $1.5 trillion and plans major layoffs. ● BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and president Rob Kapito made the announcement in a memo sent to employees and viewed by Business Insider. 💬 “Taking a targeted and disciplined approach to how we shape our teams, we will adapt our workforce to align even more closely with our strategic priorities and create opportunities for the immense talent inside the firm to develop and prosper,” the executives wrote. ● The world’s top asset manager, BlackRock manages almost $10 trillion in investments. Its holdings include Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/569950-egypt-gas-field-discovery-eu/

Italy’s Eni plans to develop the field with US major Chevron | Italian energy major Eni has announced the discovery of a new offshore gas deposit in Egypt at the Nargis-1 exploration well, which is located in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea’s Nargis offshore area concession, the company said on Sunday. ● The Nargis-1 well is part of Egypt’s 1,800-square-kilometer Nargis offshore area concession operated by the US oil and gas giant Chevron. Both companies own a 45% stake in the exploration project, while a 10% stake belongs to Egypt’s Tharwa Petroleum Company SAE. ● The volume of reserves in the well are being evaluated, Egypt’s state-owned EGAS said, adding that it would work with Chevron and the other partners to start production as soon as possible. ● Eni has been present in Egypt since 1954, where it operates through the subsidiary IEOC. The company is currently the country’s leading supplier, with hydrocarbon production reaching approximately 350,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

The 53rd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum will take place in Davos on Monday and will continue through January 20. | The main issues on the agenda of the forum will be energy and food crises, high global inflation, investments in emerging technologies, as well as current geopolitical risks for the world's economy. ● High-ranking officials from across the globe, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, South Korean President President Yoon Suk Yeol, Colombian leader Gustavo Petro and others, are expected to take part in the event. ● A delegation from Russia will not participate in the meeting for the second year in a row since organizers decided not to invite Russian representatives in response to Moscow's ongoing military operation in Ukraine.

■ Who pays for Davos? (World Economic Forum)

■ What is the WEF Meeting in Davos and What Should Be Expected From It This Year? | Why is WEF Hated in Some Corners? | While the WEF has been praised by some for serving as a platform where decision-makers can meet and talk through problems affecting the world, and offer hints about where elites want to take their companies, countries or even the entire planet, in other corners, particularly among the conservative and libertarian Right and the anti-liberal Left, the WEF is treated with varying degrees of disdain, annoyance and distrust. There are several reasons for this.

Link: https://www.axios.com/2023/01/15/house-republicans-biden-investigation-documents

The classified documents found at President Biden's former office and his Delaware home have provided fresh fodder for Republicans who have vowed to unleash a torrent of investigations into the president. | Republicans have pledged to use their subpoena power to launch investigations into Biden, with some probes having the potential to lead to his impeachment, the New York Times reports. Among the areas being targeted, Republican lawmakers have said they want to investigate Biden's family and its business connections, the origins of COVID-19 and immigration.

■ White House Has No Visitor Logs for Biden's House in Delaware: Counsel's Office
■ What members of Congress are saying about Biden document probe
■ Third set of classified documents found at Joe Biden’s home, White House counsel reveals

Link: https://www.axios.com/2023/01/16/mlk-day-states-confederate-holidays-slavery

States where MLK Day is shared with a confederate holiday in 2023 | Ten states — all in the American South — celebrate Martin Luther King Day and observe at least one confederate holiday during the rest of the year. Why it matters: All U.S. states honor MLK every year. But the number of states also honoring the Confederacy highlights the country's struggle to reconcile its racial past. What's happening: Alabama and Mississippi celebrate MLK and Robert E. Lee, the losing Confederate general and slaveholder, on the same day.