USA - Arguing he incited an “armed rebellion” against the US, the Democrat-dominated House has voted to impeach President Donald Trump again. But with his term expiring in a week, it is unclear when the trial will proceed. After several hours of debate on Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to formally impeach the president over the January 6 unrest at the US Capitol, when a group of Trump supporters broke into the building and interrupted the joint session of Congress meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 US presidential election.

USA - The rushed proceedings against Donald Trump are not about accountability, but a politicized act of theater that will deepen the ideological chasm which divides America today and drag us ever closer to the suicide of the Union. One hour into the two-hour debate, it became abundantly clear that President Donald Trump was destined to become the first American President ever to be impeached twice.

UK - The attempted seige of the Capitol may be over, but symbols of the hate groups behind the violence remain. What is the Confederate flag? Why is it offensive? Many on this side of the pond may have not been familiar with the Confederate flag until its re-emergence in recent years thanks to the emboldening of the Far Right by outgoing President Donald Trump. Lawless mobs descended on the Capitol in Washington DC last week to attempt an insurrection on the democratically elected incoming US Government, headed by Joe Biden. Rioters inside and outside the building were carrying one of the most infamous symbols of racism and extremism in modern-day America: the Confederate flag. The flag, colloquially known as the Stars and Bars, is emblematic of the ideal of whiteness and social and political exclusion of non-white people in America.

USA - The Biden administration is embracing "systemic racism" as a matter of official policy. "Our priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to resources needed to reopen and rebuild." — President-elect Biden — Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) January 10, 2021. So, White people to the back of the bus. More Democrat racism. Let the healing begin!

USA - From the day that I started to write about globalization 45 years ago, my co-author, the late Professor Antony C Sutton, drilled into my brain “Follow the money, follow the power.” This has served me well throughout the years. Today, we must also add, “Follow the DATA, follow the power.” Of course, data is money and it is the addiction of Technocrats everywhere.

USA - Catholic League president Bill Donohue said Monday that Big Tech’s censoring of Parler is “the most serious assault on freedom of speech we have ever seen by private companies in American history.” Amazon, Google, and Apple are not silencing those who actually promote violence but rather “conservative voices in general,” Dr Donohue notes. More generally, the left is attempting to use last Wednesday’s riots as an excuse to pillory the 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, Donohue suggests, rather than punishing the actual perpetrators of the violence. “They are a true menace to democracy: they are using Trump as a pretext to stifle the free speech of decent Americans,” he states. The storming of the Capitol building is also being irresponsibly exploited by those on the left to specifically indict Christians, Donohue observes.

EUROPE - Less than seven years after British Eurosceptics were laughed at for expressing concerns about a coming European Union army, the bloc has revealed the official uniform of its new ‘standing corps’, as the first of 10,000 recruits prepare to deploy to the field. Frontex, the European Union’s combined border force and coastguard, revealed the new uniform in a social media post on Monday, showing off the navy uniform complete with EU-flag identification patches and military side cap. The force said: “For the first time, the European Union has its own uniformed service – the European Border and Coast Guard standing corps.” The “troops” of Frontex in their own European uniforms comes less than seven years after Brexiteers were told they believed a “dangerous fantasy” for saying the European Union was moving towards having its own armed forces — of which the paramilitary Frontex is the first phase.

USA - Joe Biden became a fast friend of the LGBTQ community as vice president in 2012 by stating his support for same-sex marriage in a television interview even before his boss, President Barack Obama, did. That same year, outside an Obama-Biden campaign office in Florida, it was Biden's unexpected support for the transgender community that elevated his status from an LGBTQ ally to a champion. When the mother of a Miss Trans New England pageant winner asked Biden if he would help transgender people, she later told reporters, Biden whispered that it was the "civil rights issue of our time." Since then, Biden's views on the LGBTQ community have become clearer and louder. Now advocates say the 78-year-old will be the nation's most pro-LGBTQ president ever. He and Vice President-elect Kamala D Harris have promised an ambitious slate of actions that would go beyond reversing what LGBTQ advocates have called President Donald Trump's "discrimination administration."

USA - People are going to be 'super unhappy' with big tech as 'the de facto arbiter of free speech'. Elon Musk, who became the world's richest man last week, is against Big Tech censorship. In response to a Babylon Bee article titled "Evil Fascist Dictator Censored And Voted Out Of Office," Musk tweeted on Monday: "A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech." Last week, he noted how only three people control what the world is allowed to say. We're currently witnessing the President of the United States losing the ability to process payments online and getting banned from every tech site imaginable.

USA - Over the years, the big tech companies have made enormous amounts of money by monetizing discussions about politics. But now that Twitter and Facebook have silenced President Trump and have deeply alienated large portions of their user bases, their stock prices are tumbling. I figured that this would happen, but I didn’t anticipate that it would happen this rapidly. To be honest, what we are witnessing is nothing short of breathtaking. For example, at one point on Monday Twitter’s market value had fallen by five billion dollars…The executives at Twitter may not have liked it, but President Trump was their number one draw by a very wide margin. And it is very bad business to kill off your number one source of income, but that is exactly what Twitter just did. In addition to permanently banning Trump, Twitter also decided to ban approximately 70,000 of his followers. Those bans have alienated millions of other users, and that is a major problem. Meanwhile, investors are bailing on Facebook as well. In fact, at one point on Monday Facebook’s market cap was down 33.6 billion dollars…

USA - 'Unity and healing' kicks off with mass arrests and big tech purging of dissidents - is this what a "peaceful transition of power" looks like? Already some MAGA rioters have begun to learn about the power of facial recognition software, geolocation, and crowdsourcing. And, in a few weeks, the power of fully mobilized Federal law enforcement. Those who only lose their jobs (as some already have) will be the lucky ones.

USA - Army and Air National Guard members deploying to Washington, DC to help guard the capital and stay through the January 20 inauguration will have access to lethal weapons at their commanders' discretion, Guard commanders said Friday. "There's no hiding the fact that soldiers and airmen do have lethal force with them," Army Brigadier General David Wood, joint staff director of the Pennsylvania National Guard, said at a virtual roundtable with defense reporters. "How those rules of the use of force are engaged is just dependent on the scenario and in that situation. We are going to try to deescalate as much as we can [before taking up weapons]," Wood said. "The way we deploy it will depend on the situation and the commander's intent." The Associated Press reported earlier that Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy will make decisions in the coming days on whether Guard units will be armed on the District's streets.

USA - Joe Biden announced that he is working on a bill to go after “domestic terrorism” with a redefinition of the term, to go after the “ideologically-inspired". Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media are cracking down on any non-approved narratives. Twitter locked President Donald Trump’s account and then released it after about a day or so. Then Democratic Senator Joe Manchin (Democrat for West Virginia) and others are calling for Trump to be pulled. Now as we just reported, Twitter has banned the president permanently. Twitter is now literally doing the bidding of the Democrats. Facebook and Instagram already suspended Trump for at least two weeks and possibly permanently. Shopify even pulled MAGA goods from their online stores. Because MAGA hats are apparently evil now. Now word comes from Joe Biden that he is working on a bill to go after “domestic terrorism” with a redefinition of the term, to go after the “ideologically-inspired".

USA - It is quite ironic that many of those that are always telling us that we need “diversity” in our society are also some of the strongest voices against a “diversity of viewpoints” on social media. The founders of this nation wanted to make sure that nobody would ever take the right to freedom of speech away from us, and that is why it was enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, courts have greatly eroded that right over the last several decades, and now we are facing an all-out assault on freedom of speech that is unlike anything that we have ever seen before. And once freedom of speech is completely gone, all of our other rights will soon follow, because there will no longer be any way to defend them.

GERMANY - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has concerns that Twitter's “problematic” suspension of Donald Trump's account, in the wake of last week's assault on the Capitol, is an encroachment on freedom of opinion, her spokesman said. Steffan Seibert said on Monday that it was right for social media companies not to “stand back” when content inciting violence was posted online, such as by ‘flagging’ it, as Twitter has previously done to several of the US president's tweets.