President Joe Biden has marked Thursday, Jan. 9th as a national day of mourning to honor the death of former President Jimmy Carter. Biden called on the American people to assemble on Jan. 9 “in their respective places of worship” to pay homage to Carter. “I invite the people of the world who share our grief to join us in this solemn observance,” Biden said in a statement following Carter’s death.

Biden said flags will be at displayed at half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and half-mast on all naval vessels for a period of 30 days from the day of his death. On previous national days of mourning, like after the deaths of former Presidents George H. W. Bush in 2018 and Gerald Ford in 2006, federal offices and stock markets were closed in the U.S.

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Let me explain something. MKUltra is currently used in prisons. This is the “hole” at MCC in New York City. When I heard Epstein was put in this place, I wrote it was only a question if he would commit suicide BEFORE or AFTER a plea. Oh yes. He hung himself, had no bunkie, was on suicide watch, guards fell asleep, and the camera didn’t work. A perfect storm. My own lawyers warned me to be careful; they would try to kill me. How is that for legal advice? I knew Epstein would be dead based on where they put him. I was in the cell across from where he supposedly committed suicide – yeah! ON CIVIL CONTEMPT, no less – not criminal. This is a jail – not a prison. No outdoor yard or Bocce courts.

A plea of guilty means NOTHING. You are given the choice of trial and 120 years since you will NEVER get a fair trial in NYC, or you plea and take 5 years. Claiming these January 6th prisoners plead guilty is only because they and their families are threatened. That is our legal SYSTEM. Will Trump investigate? I seriously doubt it. The Deep State controls the country, and nobody in DC will challenge them so much for We the People.

Judge Rakoff, when he retired, wrote a book on how the government ROUTINELY forces innocent people to plead guilty all the time. I have written that I do not believe in the death penalty as being the worst punishment. That is life imprisonment. Two death row inmates who Biden commuted their sentences just rejected it. I would do the same. Trump is DEAD WRONG on the death penalty. It is NEVER a deterrent. That is pure bullshit.  Make it the choice of the inmate – life or death. Many would choose death over being tortured mentally for the rest of their lives. You want a deterrent, a prosecutor should suffer the punishment he imposes on an innocent person. Now, you will start to clean up the legal system.

More than 50% of the people in federal prison are innocent. The guilty go free because they know the game. You implicate and bring in as many people as you can and you go home. I met priests in prison who thought they were being kind and wire money to China. He thought to help a family, and the person was a drug dealer who asked him to please help his family. A superintendent of an apartment building was given 17 years because drug dealers said he would let them know if the police were entering the building. They tried to give the death penalty to a 26-year-old who, when asked where Joe was, replied he was over there, and they killed him. The prosecutors are the worst people you will ever meet. They wanted the death penalty on that kid just to win one in NYC for once – not the shooters.

To survive these MKUltra Tactics, you MUST turn it into a game like the TV series Survivor. They would throw me in a cell that was so hot that my underwear was too much to wear. They throw you into a cell that is so cold you see your breath and deny you any clothing but your underwear. Sleep deprivation is also a favorite. You have to turn it mentally into a survivor game. Ok, I beat that one – what’s next? They threw me in with the terrorists from the first World Trade Center attack. A Muslim cannot be seen naked. They would come and order you to take off all your clothes and claim the guy is behind them with fresh clothes that never came. No heat. I told the kid to put on the blanket. He said no, they told him it was made of pig hear. I told him they were liars. There is no such thing. It is wool. He finally believed me. All the time, my family tried to see me, but they told them I was not there.

This is why the US Conviction Rate approaches 99% in USA

Fair Trials Do NOT Exist

And there is ABSOLUTELY Nobody who will defend the people there.

Court Appointed Lawyers are there to get you to plead only!!!

Politicians turn a blind eye, and the ACLU will NEVER even respond

to a plea for help

Do not Donate to Them or Wikipedia – It’s All Bullshit

Never let your daughter marry a prosecutor!

All I ever heard was: Where is the code?

Germany is on track to meet its climate change initiatives at the expense of its economy. To look at the overall health of the European Union, we may look directly at Germany – the leading European economy.  A climate think tank Agora noted that Germany lowered its emissions by 3% in 2024 on an annual basis due to its declining economy.

Germany shed 656 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions last year, a 48% reduction since 1990. The nation is seeking to reduce emissions by 65% in time for Agenda 2030 compared to 1990 levels. Agora director Simon Mueller admitted that Duetchland’s economic downturn is responsible for the lowered emissions, yet that is STILL not sufficient to meet the cap stipulated under the Climate Protection Act. “If Germany does not take action in these sectors, there is a risk of fines being imposed by Brussels,” Mueller said.

Fined by Brussels. There you have it, folks. The globalists running the EU are comfortable decimating the economy of Europe to achieve their true objectives. Wind and solar energy production in Germany accounted for 55% of consumption in 2024. Brussels and Agora seem to believe this shows that the climate policy is working at intended.

Economy Minister Robert Habeck, a Davos man, has championed these climate change objectives as well. He admitted in an interview with Spiegel that “since 2018 there has been no real growth in Germany. ” Habeck’s official title is Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. One must question why economics and climate protection are paired in such a forced manner when one counteracts the other.

“Nationalism is on the rise and this is a dangerous trend,” said Habeck in March of last year, adding that the energy transition will only succeed “if we stick together.” We do not need to read between the lines to see what the establishment wants out of the EU. Habeck clearly stated that combating climate change “means a free world order.”

“Economic growth won’t be possible if we don’t act,” Habeck said, insisting that Germany’s climate virtues will attract business. He blamed economic woes on reliance on “cheap Russian gas and the Chinese market,” clearly stating globalization is the ideal for economic growth. He does not want “economic independence” for Germany, instead opting to support Brussels. “The old world is gone, a new world is rising,” Habeck declared. “This is a new world where the economic question alone can’t be the political leading question.”

A new world order where economic independence no longer exists. These people fail to understand what once made Germany a great economic superpower. As I have also warned many times, Germany has clung to the old mercantile economic model, keeping taxes high to prevent inflation and manufacturing products to sell to everyone else to bring home the profits. Now, the establishment is ruining the auto industry, which contributed to 17% of GDP in 2023, all in the name of climate change. They permitted energy costs to soar 300% by demonizing Russian energy. This lethal combination means that Germany’s entire economic model is under assault from every direction.

With cheap Russian gas no longer viable and exports to China declining, the war policies of the EU coupled with the economic crisis created by climate change and the cost of funding unproductive migrants, the prospects for the economy of Europe are pointing toward somewhat hard times into 2026. This will most likely contribute to tensions and pointing fingers at Russia to justify war being pushed by NATO.

Psychological warfare is far more powerful than bullets. The government has been studying methods of brainwashing for decades. Perhaps the most infamous studies fall under the MKUltra program that the CIA conducted from 1953 to 1964 on unsuspecting victims who did not know they were participating in a brutal study. The MKUltra experiments have been shrouded in mystery after CIA director Richard Helms and longtime MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb destroyed the majority of the evidence. However, newly declassified documents shed light on the extreme human rights abuses carried out by the US government.

MKULTRA began in 1953 amid the Cold War era. The US government allegedly wanted to learn mind control tactics that they believed the Soviet Union and Chinese governments had already mastered. Furthermore, the CIA was interested in the experiments carried out by Nazis on those held in concentration camps during World War II. Operation Paperclip was the prelude to MKUltra, beginning in 1945, when the CIA began investigating torture and brainwashing methods used by the Third Reich. In fact, 1,600 Nazi scientists were recruited by the US government and encouraged to continue their work on American citizens. Those scientists also looked into ways to carry out biowarfare by weaponizing the bubonic plague. There were other studies such as project Artichoke and Bluebird that took place before the CIA developed the infamous MKUltra experiment.

(Sidney Gottlieb)

Richard Helms, the Assistant Deputy Director for Plans at the CIA, proposed the MKUltra project as a “special funding mechanism for highly sensitive CIA research and development projects that studied the use of biological and chemical materials in altering human behavior.” How could the government manipulate the human brain? The government wanted to find a “truth serum” to use on POW and their own citizens. CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb partnered with pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly to produce the psychedelic drug LSD to carry out these brutal experiments.

Participants were taken from prisons, addiction facilities, juvenile detention centers, and even the US military. No one knew they were taking place in the study. The CIA provided researchers with an unlimited budget and often created fake foundations to provide TSS grants. Doctors from universities across the nation were recruited and they particularly enjoyed studying patients already in health or mental hospitals.

To manipulate human behavior, researchers fed their subjects LSD and other mind-altering drugs and attempted to reprogram their minds. They looked to pharmaceutical companies to develop additional drugs that could “promote illogical thinking, would help individuals to endure ‘privation, torture and coercion during interrogation” and attempts at “brain-washing.” The experiments often lasted for weeks on end. The National Security Archive (NSA) explains:

“’The CIA conducted terrifying experiments using drugs, hypnosis, isolation, sensory deprivation, and other extreme techniques on human subjects, often US citizens, who frequently had no idea what was being done to them or that they were part of a CIA test.

‘These records also shed light on an especially dark period in the history of the behavioral sciences in which some of the top physicians in the field conducted research and experiments usually associated with the Nazi doctors who were tried at Nuremberg.’”

Sleep depravation, electroshock treatments, radiation, and auditory harassment were among the countless tactics used during this program. There are countless tales from survivors of the horrors they experienced, but the true extent of this program is too extensive to explain here. The newly declassified documents are 1,200 pages in length and are only a fragment of the truth.

(Matthew Livelsberger's passport was found at the scene. Yet another terrorist who brought his indestructable passport along to commit a crime.)

Oddly, the first 1,000 victims were taken from US military bases. New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar and Las Vegas bomber Matthew Livelsberger were both stationed at Fort Bragg’s military base in North Carolina. Coincidentally, they carried out their attacks back-to-back, although those who knew the men claim they had no indications that either could commit such crimes. Ryan Routh, the man who attempted to assassinate Trump on the golf course, also has ties to Fort Bragg and visited over 100 times. One could go down a deep rabbit hole looking into each individual scenario. You need not be a conspiracy theorist to admit something does not add up. Congresswoman Anna Luna Paulina is requesting information on Jabbar and Livelsberger regarding their connection to the Fort Bragg military base. Others who are not afraid to be labeled conspiracy theorists may soon begin asking questions, too.

Did anyone believe that the government simply gave up on developing methods of psychological and biological warfare? The government actively funds agencies that study biowarfare and successfully carried out perhaps the largest psyops in history with COVID and the accompanying restrictions. There are endless examples of the government carrying out experiments on large portions of the population. The terrifying part is that no one knows they are participating. This is worth taking a closer look.

Foreign concept but there are people who enjoy big government and welcome additional taxation. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) held a celebration to kickoff New York City’s new congestion toll fees. That’s right – people gathered around a sign announcing the “Congestion Relief Zone” at 60^th Street and held a countdown as if it were New Year’s Eve.

Motorists entering Manhattan at 60^th Street or below will be charged $9 if in a car or SUV, $14.40 for non-commuter buses, $21.60 for big rigs, and $4.50 for motorcycles. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority needs to cover a $33 billion budget deficit, and per usual, the people are on the hook for the bill. The MTA is seeking to generate $68 billion over the next five years, and this congestion tax is one of many new fees coming to NYC area as the new toll tax is expected to generate a mere $15 billion.

Governor Kathy Hochul is utterly clueless. She plans to bribe families with an “inflation refund” by shelling out $500 checks to households in a move that will cost the state $3 billion. We saw this fail during the pandemic when citizens earning beneath a certain threshold were bribed to stay complacent. Hochul said she would not raise the income tax in 2025, but nothing is ever off the table.

“Your tolls pay for: better transit, cleaner air, safer streets, a livable NYC. Thanks!” one resident shared on a sign that they brought to the opening ceremony. Seriously, these people have no idea what they are celebrating. Commuters who cannot afford the tax will be forced to take the trains which are notoriously unsafe. In fact, there was a stabbing on the Metro-North on the very day that the congestion relief zone was implemented.

Rideshare programs have been lobbying for this tax for years. Uber paid $2 million from 2015 to 2019 to encourage congestion taxes. Lyft personally donated $18,500 to Kathy Hochul’s campaign to champion congestion taxes. Both companies plan to raise fees to cover the cost of the tax. “We spent millions of dollars funding message testing, research, lobbyists and grassroots organizing to help those that have been fighting for congestion pricing for decades,” Uber admits in a statement on its website, later stating, “We do this because we are a for-profit company and good, robust, public transportation is good for business, reducing the need for car ownership and increasing use cases for Uber.”

“Congestion relief” is political rhetoric. It’s NEW YORK CITY — one of the busiest cities in the world! Goods and people must still enter the city, and these fees quickly add up. The people are on the hook for the budget deficit and the people are also on the hook to cover the fees that will ultimately be passed down to consumers. It is absolutely astounding that there are people who cheer higher fees as a result of government mismanagement.

This piece of Rhetoric demonstrates that the politicians of Canada may have forced Trudeau to resign as the head of the Party; this is correct insofar as Canadians have no right to vote for their Prime Minister – who is selected by the politicians – never the people. Under a parliamentary system, all the people can do is throw out the party. I agree that Trump’s comment that Canada could become the 51st state is absurd. I like her offer better. California, Oregon, Washington States and New England should join Canada. That is a fantastic solution.

To solve the migrant problem, we create an easement to Saskatchewan, so all the people crossing the border with Mexico can freely travel to Canada through California for free healthcare that my Canadian friends say they have to get on a waiting list. We get rid of the crazy Blue states, and Newsom can join the Canadian Parliament, and they would love to make him PM. The Libs have not learned their lesson. They just think Trudeau is the problem. But Canada has been run out of Davos, and just look who they will make PM. They have decided that it was not the far-left agenda and carbon taxes, just Trudeau. They have a carbon deal with California, so Newsom can be their PM. Trudeau did NOT resign voluntarily – he was forced out, which does not change the agenda.

This may come to a head in the Weeks of Feb 17th/24th