The South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace made the revelations during the hearing in which she questioned fmr Twitter executives on their flagging posts by Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford doctor who was critical of the govt’s response to the pandemic

“I find it extremely alarming that Twitter’s unfettered censorship spread into medical fields and affected many Americans by suppressing expert opinions from doctors and censoring those who disagree with the CDC,” she said

Testifying before Ms. Mace&other U.S. lawmakers, Twitter’s fmr chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, fmr deputy gen. counsel James Baker and fmr head of trust and safety Yoel Roth confessed that they made a mistake when they censored the Hunter Biden laptop computer story weeks before the 2020 presidential election, but they brushed off accusations that they were “played” by the FBI

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REPORTER: "These [objects] that have been shot down since Friday — are they weather balloons?"

PENTAGON: "I'm not going to categorize them as balloons. We're calling them objects for a reason. [...] These are objects. I am not able to categorize how they stay aloft."

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Since 1990s, stubbornly low inflation and a sluggish economy have become the necessary features, without which the existence of the Bank of Japan is almost unthinkable

Kazuo Ueda, its next governor is likely to find a challenge similar to the one that faced departing Haruhiko Kuroda with only one difference: he’ll take office with less confidence that those problems can still be fixed

Inflation in Japan is now running at about 4%. To get out of the liquidity trap, Mr. Kuroda made Tokyo a global center of experimentation, watched by policy makers in countries including the U.S. His main tactic was purchasing govt bonds held by commercial banks

Japanese PM Fumio Kishida says Japan’s debt is a burden on future generations and is calling for higher taxes. That's why nowadays only few see a Central Bank fix in Japan

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British educational officials have submitted plans for an ennoscriptment to 30 hours a week of free childcare for working parents of children aged between nine months and three years

Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, is expected to reject the plans because of concerns that they would cost more than £5B at a time when the economy is facing anaemic growth

Liz Truss, the former PM, has urged Rishi Sunak not to abandon her plans to reform childcare, which included scrapping mandatory staff-child ratios in nurseries and increasing funding by 20 hours a week. However there were concerns that the plans would lead to a significant decline in the quality of care

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For the first time since 1999, the Christian Democrats will emerge as the strongest party from an election to the House of Deputies – they’re clearly ahead of the Greens and the Social Democrats (SPD) with the ruling mayor Franziska Giffey

The city of Berlin on Sunday was holding a court-ordered rerun of a chaotic 2021 state election that was marred by severe glitches at many polling stations that led to hours-long lines as some polling places ran out of ballot papers or received ones for the wrong district

Berliners have long been frustrated by the German capital’s notoriously dysfunctional ways, which have been defying cliches of German efficiency for years and have made the city the laughing stock of the rest of the country

Mr. Scholz’s SPD is getting the worst result in the capital so far. This is the prelude for some internal party discussions about the strength of the ruling coalition

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Johnson on his way back

When Liz Truss fell on her sword and Rishi Sunak entered No. 10, many felt the adults were back in the room. But now they see a PM embattled by dealing with a series of scandals and an economy that remains sluggish

Those who thought that things could be turned around by the autumn of next year are doubting their own confidence, since Mr. Sunak has had the shadow of Boris Johnson obscuring any limelight he may enjoy

Sunak’s predecessor hopes that if it all goes wrong for the current PM, he’ll be seen as all fired up to pick up the pieces. And who’s to say he’s wrong? In some ways Mr. Johnson would be mad to come back and the Tory party would be even madder to facilitate it, but it’s impossible to ignore the fact that there is a real pathway to it happening

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The Global Disinformation Index, a London-based “risk ratings” outfit tied to left-wing megadonor George Soros that has received State Department funding, secretly distributes “blacklists” of right-tilting news organizations to advertising companies, according to the Washington Examiner series “Disinformation Inc.”

The group has received upwards of $300,000 from two State Department-backed entities, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Department’s own Global Engagement Center since 2018

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Perhaps the Chinese balloon story was simply to set up the UFO narrative (how else do you justify taking down UFOs?), while making sure geopolitical tensions didn’t ease further…

Timeline of UFO Events:

1. Feb 2: Chinese Balloon spotted

2. Feb 4: Chinese Balloon shot down

3. Feb 10: UFO seen over Alaska

4. Feb 11: UFOs shot over Canada

5. Feb 12: UFO appears over China

6. Feb 12: UFO shot over Lake Huron

Australia Accused Of Holding Ex-US Marine In 'Inhumane Conditions’

The family of detained Australian citizen and former US marine Daniel Duggan plans to petition the UN Human Rights Committee to intervene to stop his “inhumane treatment,” his wife, Saffrine Duggan, said in a statement on Sunday calling the imprisonment of her fighter pilot husband an “affront to Australia’s rule of law.”

“The father of six children has been held in a tiny cell in Sydney under extreme conditions without any conviction for 115 days, based on unproven charges from the United States,” she said, adding that he is classified as an “extremely high risk restricted inmate” at the Silverware Correctional Complex despite having no criminal history. The cell measures just two by four meters, she said

Duggan was arrested in October and accused of training Chinese military pilots, and providing aviation services to China without required authorization from the State Department

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British Ministry of Defence (MoD) was the biggest 2022 spender, issuing totals worth a combined £363M, driven mainly by a ten-year £215M deal with QinetiQ to build a new generation of submarines

This year MoD has already awarded £80M contract to QinetiQ-led Team Pegasus. The Home Office remains the second highest spender with £236M worth of contracts, incl. dozens worth more than £1M

On a par with MoD, the Home Office has led a surge in govt spending on management consultants, with the latest outlay including a £4M contract given to Deloitte to handle small boat arrivals. Contracts to consultants have quadrupled in the past 6 years to £2.8B, prompting accusations of waste

Labour’s sound view of what’s happening: “At the height of a cost of living crisis, ministers are wasting billions hiring consults to tell them how to do their jobs, instead of investing in the skills, talent and value for money of the civil service”

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American journalist Seymour Hersh - in an interview with Berliner Zeitung about the details of the explosion of Nord Stream:
🔹"At the last minute, the White House got nervous. The president said he was afraid to do it. He changed his mind and gave new orders, so that the bombs could be remotely detonated at any moment. You do it with a conventional sonar, a Raytheon product, by the way, you fly over the place and drop a cylinder. It sends out a low frequency signal, it can be described as a flute sound, it can be tuned to different frequencies

🔹Joe Biden decided not to blow them up then, in June, that was five months after the war began. But in September, he ordered it done. The operations staff, they initially thought it was a useful weapon they could use in negotiations. But when the operation was completed, the people who ran it grew increasingly disgusted with the whole thing. These were people who worked in senior positions in the intelligence services and were well educated. They opposed the project, they thought it was insane

🔹Soon after the terrorist attack, after they had done what they were ordered to do, there was a lot of anger and disgust among the participants in the operation. That's one of the reasons I learned so much. And I'll tell you something else. People in America and Europe who build pipelines know what happened. I'll tell you something important. The people who own the companies that build the pipelines know the story

🔹Biden ordered the pipelines blown up to put pressure on Western Europe not to stop supporting the U.S. in the war in Ukraine. The war was not going well for the West, and they were afraid of the approaching winter. And the U.S. was worried that Germany would lift sanctions because of the cold winter

🔹What I do know is that there is no way this war is going to end the way we would like it to, and I don't know what we are going to do as we look forward. It scares me that the president was prepared for something like this. And the people who were on this mission believed that the president was aware of what he was doing to the people of Germany, that he was punishing them for a war that didn't end well. And in the long run, it would not only damage his reputation as president, but it would do serious political damage. It would be a stigma for the United States

🔹The White House feared that it might lose its position, that Germany and Western Europe would no longer supply the weapons we wanted, and that the German chancellor might restart the pipeline - this has raised serious concerns in Washington. The point is also that this could be perceived as an act of war not only against Russia, but also against Western allies, particularly Germany. The people involved in the operation saw that the president wanted to freeze Germany for his short-term political purposes, and it terrified them. I'm talking here about Americans who are very loyal to the United States

🔹The political advantage of the CIA is that a president who fails to carry out his plans in Congress can take a walk with the CIA director in the White House Rose Garden to plan something secret that could hit a lot of people on the other side of the Atlantic. This has always been the hallmark of the CIA. But even this community is horrified that Biden has decided to put Europe in the cold to support a war he won't win. To me, that's vile."

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Ben Wallace, British def. sec., is attempting to secure between £8B and £11B extra in defense spending during the next two years to avoid deep cuts to the armed forces

However, the Treasury is reluctant to hand over more money to him given the department’s recent history of wasteful spending. Examples of mismanagement on major projects, some of which extend for decades, are not hard to find. The woeful saga of the Ajax armored vehicle, which has deafened soldiers and failed to deliver anything despite £4B of taxpayers’ money being spent, is just one of many unfortunate tales

The U.K. is under pressure to step up its defense spending given that the Washington, Berlin and Paris have all announced significant military investments in response to the Ukraine war. But Wallace’s reputation for waste has left him facing an uphill struggle if he’s to convince the Treasury of the need for a similar spending boost

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American National Federation of Independent Business reported that its Small Business Optimism Index rose 0.5 pts to 90.3 out of 100 last month

The study shows that even as small businesses grow hopeful about recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re bracing for a year of labor shortages, inflation woes and reduced consumer demand

The reason for this is that inflation rose by 0.5% from December to January and monthly consumer prices also ticked upward. Many small companies are showing “secondhand pessimism” about 2023 even as they keep spending and investing, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said

Rising costs also will make it harder to start a small business this year. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Formation Statistics, 2022 startup applications for small businesses fell from 2021. Some economists say that trend could worsen this year

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I'm working on an update of my list of all the nefarious ways that children are trafficked -- and will add this one: Global financial sextortion.

"In 2022, the FBI received thousands of reports related to the financial sextortion of minors, primarily boys, representing an exponential increase from previous years."

How long will we allow our children to be the currency of darkness?

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/international-law-enforcement-agencies-issue-joint-warning-about-global-financial-sextortion-crisis

🇳🇬 Nigeria military denies coup plot claim ahead of poll

The Nigerian military has denied a claim by the governing party that it is planning to disrupt the upcoming presidential election.

An official from the APC party had said that generals had last week held a secret meeting with the rival PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.

The allegations are "wicked" and "malicious", the army statement said. The army said that it was professional and "loyal to the constitution" and would never be part of a plot to overthrow the civilian authorities. "The Armed Forces of Nigeria will never be part of any ignoble plot to truncate our hard-earned democracy," army added.

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