A new exclusive from The Daily Beast titled "White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance" reports that the White House press corps is being pressured to provide briefing questions ahead of time in a way that makes even mainstream media journalists uncomfortable.

"While it's a relief to see briefings return, particularly with a commitment to factual information, the press can't really do its job in the briefing room if the White House is picking and choosing the questions they want," one White House correspondent told The Daily Beast. "That's not really a free press at all."

"It pissed off enough reporters for people to flag it for the [White House Correspondents Association] for them to deal with it," another source reportedly said.

While Obama's deputy press secretary Eric Schultz calls the move "textbook communications work" designed to ensure that Biden's press secretary has answers ready instead of having to "repeatedly punt questions", clearly the reporters on the job feel differently.

"The requests prompted concerns among the White House press corps, whose members, like many reporters, are sensitive to the perception that they are coordinating with political communications staffers," writes the Beast.

Tucker Carlson warns Democrats' suppression of dissent, divisive rhetoric will lead to scary repercussions. Labelling multiple millions of Americans 'terrorists', establishment spokespeople are signalling intent to launch a 'war on domestic terror'.

They won the presidency! They won the Senate! They ousted a 'dictator'! So why are they doing this?

They know that they are illegitimate rulers, and they know that the American people know that they are illegitimate leaders. This knowledge eats at them, spurring them to institute increasingly draconian measures because - in a self-fulfilling prophecy - they fear losing control.

It is quite clear that there was massive, brazen fraud in the 2020 US presidential election. Anyone who watches the various hearings held in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania can come to no other conclusion. There appears to have been little to no attempt to even hide the fraud. Republican observers were brazenly intimidated, harassed, and kicked out of counting centers for challenging questionable ballots, which is their right under law. There were multiple methods of fraud: running ballots through the counting machines several times, counting mail-in ballots that arrived after the polls closed, suspicious and indeed impossible jumps in the number of votes for Biden, the number of votes in precincts and counties exceeding the number of registered voters, large number of deceased and out-of-state voters, among other methods. The process was so blatant that it is very likely that the ultimate goal was not just to deny US President Donald Trump a second term but to undermine Americans' faith in the electoral system and polarize society such that the American democratic covenant is broken forever.

Who among us became so spoiled that they sought to undermine our electoral system and irrevocably split an already divided society fraying at the edges? It was operatives in the network of liberal American and globalist Big Tech operatives and philanthropists such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, 'philanthropist' George Soros, and Twitter's Jack Dorsey, among many, many more acting through the Obamas, Clintons, Bidens, the Democratic Party, and its supporters and allies. It was an attempt to once and for all rid the new global oligarch-leftist order from annoying and quaint Americans, who dare remain constitutionalists and free market conservatives and their allies such as former President Donald Trump. This is clear from the campaign against 'white supremacism' and 'domestic terrorism' by those who supported BLM and Antifa terrorism last summer and have been financing them for years. That so many Americans are willing to support or tolerate this electoral fraud and all that has begun with it (the deployment of violent racist street thugs of BLM and Antifa, Big tech censorship, employment repression, and soon much more of the same) for the sake of an election victory speaks volumes about the decay and decline of America's constitutionalist political culture. The U.S. now faces the very serious prospect of a long, dark night under censorship, state repression, and state terrorism led by the 'Democratic' Party carried out in alliance with and on behalf of the global Big Tech elite.

15 years have passed since the history of the British "spy stone" in Moscow. Despite the fact that later the former head of Tony Blair's chancellery admitted the use of this device by the special services of the United Kingdom, British agents and potential targets of their recruitment did not seem to show any more conspiracy.

At the disposal of RT were footage of a meeting between Navalny's associate - FBK * executive director Vladimir Ashurkov - with an employee of the British embassy, ​​whom the FSB considers an MI6 agent. As the FSB officer noted, "the MI6 embassy station continues to actively participate in work with the Russian opposition, support various NGOs by giving them grants." With details - RT correspondent Murad Gazdiev.

Espionage is a dirty word. But everyone does it. This is not an easy matter. However, a big risk is a big reward. If you can pull it off, you have won the jackpot and no one will ever know. But if you screw up ... of course, you won't end up in shame.

Google-owned YouTube took down several videos from the channel of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). The videos were from a Senate hearing on coronavirus treatments, featuring a doctor testifying about the use of the medicine Ivermectin in cases of the Chinese virus.

In public comments, Sen. Johnson said YouTube's decision to take down videos of the hearing was an attack on freedom of speech.

"Google's YouTube removed two videos of doctors testifying under oath at my US Senate hearing on early treatment of COVID," reported the Senator on Twitter.

"Another body blow to freedom of speech and expression. Very sad and scary. Where does this end?"

It's time to admit it now. Trump fought the Borg, and the Borg won. Not that he engaged the Deep State skillfully or systematically. He didn't. Was it his fault? Not entirely.

Few Americans suspected exactly how systemic the rot was. Trump certainly didn't. Or else he would have responded to the Russia collusion hoax by disbanding the FBI. Then building a new agency from scratch, with lawmen from small towns in the South. Chuck Schumer warned Trump that the Deep State would have its revenge, and so it did.

Trump should have his revenge before leaving office. He should pardon Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. He should not just declassify every document that could cripple or expose the Deep State. He should demand the files in person, and hand walk them to Wikileaks. Then make sure they're safely on servers in friendly countries like Poland and Hungary.

Unelected, Unfireable, Implacable

Neither he nor we wanted to admit what now is obvious about our country. Namely, where virtually all of the power to spend our tax money, prosecute citizens, redeploy our soldiers, or pursue crucial policies lies. It lies in the hands of unelected, unfireable bureaucrats. Worse, those career employees think as a collective. They act in exquisite unison like a colony of termites. So do the leaders of massive corporations, including media and social media giants. Together they make up the Hive Mind which sees American freedom as a rusty, embarrassing relic. Something like a segregated water fountain.

I do not know whether the decline of Washington's interest in the Arab world and its problems will be a curse or a blessing. Only time will tell, but it is a fact that we are looking at the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf moving down the Biden administration's list of priorities. The "special" relationship between the two sides is changing; this could be the end of America's love affair with the region.

There are several reasons for this new reality. Some are linked to the Arab countries, while others have no relation to the Arabs and do not affect them directly.

America's interest in the region began in the first half of the 20th century, but was really established post-Second World War in connection with two things: oil and Israel. US interest increased in the latter part of the century with the emergence of other, no less important, variables: Iran and its military and strategic ambitions; political Islam and its influence on the streets; and some elements of the latter turning to violence and cross-border terrorism.

Anything that remotely promotes the interest of the nation will be ostracized as racist and working to the advantage of white supremacist tendencies.

In a brutal display of presidential powers that would have made Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un green with envy, Joe Biden rammed through a raft of pro-globalist executive orders just hours after being sworn in as president.

For those U.S. voters who were more obsessed with removing Donald Trump than seriously questioning who or what would replace him, they got their answer shortly after Biden made it through his locked-down inauguration where the soldiers outnumbered the guests by a margin one would not expect to find during a democratic pageant.

Following a subdued masked ball and strained photo ops, Biden was whisked from the Capitol straight to the Oval Office where he was tasked with signing off on executive orders - 17 in fact, followed up later by a baker's dozen. The swiftness of the bureaucratic blitzkrieg, impressive for a 78-year-old president who campaigned mostly from his basement, was as shocking as what the 46th POTUS put in motion. In a matter of minutes, and without a precious drop of democratic debate, Biden diverted the future course of America forever.

International troops plan to stay in Afghanistan beyond the May deadline envisaged by the insurgent Taliban's deal with the United States, four senior NATO officials said, a move that could escalate tensions with the Taliban demanding full withdrawal. On condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, one of the officials told Reuters:

"There will be no full withdrawal by allies by April-end. Conditions have not been met. And with the new U.S. administration, there will be tweaks in the policy, the sense of hasty withdrawal which was prevalent will be addressed and we could see a much more calculated exit strategy."

The administration of then-President Donald Trump signed an agreement with the Taliban early last year calling for the withdrawal of all foreign troops by May in return for the insurgents fulfilling certain security guarantees.

Trump hailed the accord - which did not include the Afghan government - as the end of two decades of war. He reduced U.S. troops to 2,500 by this month, the fewest since 2001.

Plans on what will happen after April are now being considered and likely to be a top issue at a key NATO meeting in February, the NATO sources said. The positions of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are becoming increasingly important after the alliance was sidelined by Trump, diplomats and experts say.

It was a short-lived fascination for the Fauci fanboys and girls: Double-mask, no, triple mask, no quadruple mask — it could save a life!

Here is a sample of the latest stupidity. Due to the latest strains of COVID-19, we may need to put on more masks, or something. Behold:

It has led some public health experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden on COVID-19, to recommend layering up on masks or opting for a more protective N95 mask when going out in public.

Masks cover the mouth and nose to limit respiratory droplets and virus particles from getting in or out, Fauci, who also is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, explained on NBC's "Today" show.