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[The Canny Wolf @NoSoySheep]

The U.S. Recession and Inflation of 2022: How We Really Got Here, by @NoSoySheep https://t.co/IPl1cikNHw

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

For years, a single line, “It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation,” slammed the lid on the possibility that COVID-19 resulted from a lab leak.

That line is contained in the seminal paper “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which was published in the prestigious journal Nature and co-authored by Kristian Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, Ian Lipkin, Edward Holmes, and Robert Garry.

Contrary to what the authors wrote in Nature, recently released Slack chats and emails show that they considered a lab leak plausible, if not likely.

One author, Kristian Andersen, even called the possibility of a lab leak “so friggin’ likely.”

Why was the lab-leak hypothesis dropped?

Everything changed after the authors participated in a February 3 call with THREE BIG PLAYERS: Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, and Jeremy Farrar.

After that telephone call, the authors’ belief that COVID-19 could have resulted from a lab leak died.

Following the February 3 call, the authors published their Proximal Origin paper in March 2020, and it became the deciding factor in shutting down the lab-leak debate.

THE PAPER WAS A BIG PLAYER COVER-UP ORCHESTRATED BY FAUCI, COLLINS, AND FARRAR.
https://t.co/wGviUkTITX

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Read this Fauci diary entry closely. Officials would not admit the vaccine was not stopping spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates. That is not science. That is a cover-up to justify coercion.

[The Canny Wolf @NoSoySheep]

@HunterBiden You just wish it was you

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

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[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

It is now a time for choosing: The era of trying to be the reasonable voice inside is over. Anyone with an ounce of integrity should follow the lead of @joekent16jan19 and resign with honor or take immediate public steps to forestall disaster

If you do not we will not forget

[Matt Gaetz @mattgaetz]

What is happening in Patagonia?

[Mark Cecchini, CFP® @markcecchini]

COMMANDER: We’re fighting for freedom. And part of that freedom… is the freedom to retire with dignity. So we’re going to start accounts called 401(k)s.

SOLDIER 1: What’s a 401(k)?

COMMANDER: It’s a retirement account. You put money in, it grows tax-free, you take it out when you’re old.

SOLDIER 2: So I don’t pay taxes on it?

COMMANDER: Well, you pay taxes later. When you withdraw.

SOLDIER 2: So it’s not tax-free.

COMMANDER: It’s…tax-deferred.

SOLDIER 2: What’s the difference?

COMMANDER: You pay taxes later instead of now.

SOLDIER 1: What if I want to pay taxes now?

COMMANDER: Then you do a Roth 401(k).

SOLDIER 3: What’s a Roth?

COMMANDER: You pay taxes now, and it grows tax-free.

SOLDIER 2: That’s what I thought the first one was.

COMMANDER: No, the first one you pay taxes later.

SOLDIER 1: Which one’s better?

COMMANDER: Depends on your tax bracket in retirement.

SOLDIER 1: …How would I…know that?

COMMANDER: You don’t. You just guess.

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SOLDIER 4: What if I don’t have a 401(k) through my employer?

COMMANDER: Then you open an IRA.

SOLDIER 4: What’s the difference?

COMMANDER: One’s through your job, one’s on your own.

SOLDIER 4: Can I have both?

COMMANDER: Yes.

SOLDIER 4: Should I?

COMMANDER: Maybe.

SOLDIER 3: Can I do a Roth IRA?

COMMANDER: Only if you make under a certain amount.

SOLDIER 3: What’s the limit?

COMMANDER: Changes every year.

SOLDIER 2: What if I make too much?

COMMANDER: Then you do a backdoor Roth by putting it in a Traditonal first.

SOLDIER 2: …Is that legal?

COMMANDER: Surprisingly, yes.

SOLDIER 1: What’s a backdoor Roth?

COMMANDER: You contribute to a traditional IRA, then convert it to a Roth…but watch out for “pro rata”.

SOLDIER 1: Why wouldn’t I just contribute to the Roth directly?

COMMANDER: Because you make too much money.

SOLDIER 1: But this way I can?

COMMANDER: Yes.

SOLDIER 1: That feels like a loophole.

COMMANDER: It is. But the IRS is cool with it.

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SOLDIER 5: I just changed battalions. What do I do with my old 401(k)?

COMMANDER: You roll it over.

SOLDIER 5: Into what?

COMMANDER: An IRA. Or your new 401(k). Depends.

SOLDIER 5: On what?

COMMANDER: The funds. The fees. Whether your new plan accepts rollovers.

SOLDIER 5: What if I just take the money out?

COMMANDER: You’ll pay taxes plus a 10% penalty.

SOLDIER 5: What if I’m 59?

COMMANDER: Penalty.

SOLDIER 5: 59 and a half?

COMMANDER: No penalty.

SOLDIER 5: …The half matters?

COMMANDER: The half matters.

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SOLDIER 3: What’s a mega backdoor Roth?

COMMANDER: Okay. So. Your 401(k) has a limit of how much you can contribute.

SOLDIER 3: Right.

COMMANDER: But the total limit including employer contributions is higher.

SOLDIER 3: Okay…

COMMANDER: So if your plan allows ~after-tax~ contributions, you can put in more, then convert that to Roth.

SOLDIER 3: Does my plan allow that?

COMMANDER: I don’t know. You have to ask Betsy.

SOLDIER 3: Will Betsy know?

COMMANDER: Probably not.

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SOLDIER 2: Can I deduct my IRA contribution on my taxes?

COMMANDER: Are you covered by a retirement plan at work?

SOLDIER 2: Yes.

COMMANDER: Then only if you make under a certain amount per year.

SOLDIER 2: What’s the amount?

COMMANDER: Depends if you’re married.

SOLDIER 2: What if my wife has a plan but I don’t?

COMMANDER: Different limit.

SOLDIER 2: What if neither of us has a plan?

COMMANDER: Full deduction.

SOLDIER 2: So it’s better to not have a 401(k)?

COMMANDER: No…

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SOLDIER 1: Can I just keep my money in a sock?

COMMANDER: You could. But inflation will slowly destroy it.

SOLDIER 1: What’s inflation?

COMMANDER: (sighs)…

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Fed "independence" is a myth, a story.

It is the moral cover which justifies its grotesque state-sanctioned near-monopoly power over the most important market in the world: money.

The Fed is never "independent" of the banking establishment. It is of, by, and for the banks. The Fed is the banking establishment's greatest accomplishment.

And because modern banking is an appendage of the state, so too is the Fed its most potent tentacle.

Nobody should really care about how much the Fed spent on its building renovations. What a distraction!

The Fed's crime is not an embellished construction project, but the systematic coercive distortion of money rates across the global economy for the past century.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇦🇷 "I have no doubt that imperialism and Zionist are working together on something for Latin America."
— Galeb Moussa, Dir. Islamic Center Buenos Aires

"We are all being educated for short-term thinking. Those who rule the world, within which I include the Zionist movement, think long-term."
— Adrián Salbuchi, Argentine political analyst & author

"If you add up all these facts.... the alarm bells should be going off in Argentina."
— Juan Gabriel Labaké, Argentine lawyer & politician

[Tony Martin @mrtonymartin]

I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

🚨 URGENT
Two days ago I was contacted by a high-ranking employee of the French Government. After determining this person’s position and proximity to the French couple, I have deemed the information they gave me to be credible enough to share publicly in the event that something happens.
In short, this person claims that the Macrons have executed upon and paid for my assassination. Yes, you read that correctly. More specifically, that the green light was given to a small team in National Gendamarie Intervention Group. I am told there is one Israeli that is on this assasination squad and the plans were formalized.
Again, this person provided concrete proof that they are well placed within the French government apparatus.
Further to this point, this person claims that Charlie Kirk’s assassin trained with the French legion 13th brigade with multi-state involvement.
Journalist Xavier Poussard’s life is also at risk. This is deadly serious. The head of state of France apparently wants us both dead and has authorized professional units to carry this out.
I ask that every person RETWEET and share this.
I do not know who in the American government can be trusted, since this source claims our leaders are aware. But I have more specific information which is definitively verifiable, should they care to reach out to me.
To the brave official in France who did this because they were so moved by the evil of Charlie’s public execution to risk their own life— May God bless you. Truly.

Let all be revealed.

[Martyr Made @martyrmade]

The FBI and CIA must be abolished, and their necessary functions should be distributed to other agencies. Such powerful, secretive institutions must have the implicit trust of the people, or else our political culture is irreparably corrupted by endemic suspicion.

Reorganizing the functions of the FBI would be relatively easy, but the CIA would put up a fight. The only way to rein in the CIA is to lock in support from the DoD. The Pentagon has shouldered the blame for one catastrophe after another because of CIA operations gone bad. For example, the DoD was resistant to Obama’s CIA-led war against the Assad regime from the start. Bob Gates resigned as SECDEF because of it. He was replaced by CIA chief Leon Panetta, who was charged w/keeping the DoD in line as new CIA chief David Patreus led the dirty war in Syria. For years, DoD personnel were forced to arm and train the very jihadists who’d been killing their friends in Iraq. When Russia and Iran spoiled the party, anonymously-sourced (CIA-planted) editorials began appearing in the corporate press demanding that Obama order the US military to salvage the CIA’s clandestine war. The DoD had no intention of doing that. DoD personnel charged with training jihadists in Jordan were already in near-mutiny over it, and DoD forces steadfastly remained in the northeast, working with the Kurds against ISIS and simply refusing to aid the international jihad against Damascus. In at least one instance, DoD-backed forces engaged in combat w/CIA-backed jihadist militias. When CIA clandestine operations go sideways, they always run to the Pentagon to bail them out. US military personnel are the ones killed, and they are the ones blamed when the cleanup proves impossible.

There are plenty at the Pentagon who resent this and would gladly support a permanent solution. Turn the CIA into an office full of desk-bound dweebs reading foreign newspapers and NSA intercepts, and providing reports to the President. Move *all* of CIA’s operational functions to the Defense Intelligence Agency, where it will be led by uniformed personnel w/better understanding of their obligations to the American people, and who will more carefully consider the consequences of bad intelligence and clandestine operations, since they are the ones who will have to deal with them. CIA has spied US politicians, framed them for crimes, smeared them in the press, interfered in elections, and any politician that might move against CIA knows they’ll go even further. Full support from the Pentagon is necessary if the CIA is to be brought under control, because it’s the only institution w/the weight to overcome the CIA’s inevitable retaliation.

Even if you are a defender of FBI & CIA, you should agree that institutions w/their power and culture of secrecy can only exist with the implicit trust of the people, and that, with their actions from MKULTRA to COINTELPRO, from Watergate to RussiaGate, they have lost the trust of nearly everyone. Breaking them apart would be a good start to a long process of rebuilding trust.

[John Goddard @nonestlex]

My grandfather bought an apartment from Blackrock on a 200 year mortgage.

1 bed, 1 bath, no car.

My family has been paying it off for 80 years now. We're nearly half way there.

We're so grateful that we're not renting.

And in just 2 more generations, we'll own it outright.

We've only paid $8.6 million in interest. The apartment was $500k initially.

The apartment's downtown, near GloboCorp where my grandfather used to work.

He died at his desk and they forgot to tell us about it.

We found out a few weeks later, only because Blackrock starting chasing us for mortgage payments.

Sometimes I get sad knowing that I won't see the apartment paid off in my lifetime.

But I know we're building Generational Wealth, so that's OK.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

A year ago Donald Trump had seemingly accomplished the impossible. He had pulled off the greatest political comeback in US history and, what was even more impressive and seemingly impossible, he won the culture and the youth. The Democrats were completely discredited after years of lies and destruction.

Donald Trump came into office with record high approval ratings both for him personally and for his agenda. Wokeism and progressivism had been defeated and a new America First coalition seemed unbeatable.

Last night the Democrats had a great night. This comes after weeks of MAGA being in a full political civil war. Trump currently has his lowest approval ratings. He’s about as popular as George W Bush after two disastrous wars and an economic crash. The youth has abandoned him and many of the lefts wokest activists are reasserting their control over the culture, now under the promise of socialism.

How did this all happen? How did this administration blow such an incredible opportunity to roll back the destructive forces that threaten this Nation’s very survival?

Ask yourself honestly, no matter where you come down on the issue: what is this all about. What is the MAGA coalition arguing about? Why have the youth abandoned Trump? Why do cultural giants like Joe Rogan, Theo Von, Andrew Schultz and a bunch of gen z streamers with 10 million followers all speak poorly about Trump today when they were doing that Trump dance last year?

The answer to all of this is Israel. Like it or not, that’s the truth. Instead of America First, we got Israel first instead.

If MAGA is serious about avoiding President AOC, if they actually see that as the threat that I do, then we must embrace Tucker Carlson’s vision that he laid out on my show: be the America First movement.

Or we can follow Mark Levin’s plan of canceling all of the most popular voices and running on the most discredited unpopular neocon wars.

Your choice MAGA

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

A million seconds ago was October 11th
A billion seconds ago was 1993
A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 B.C.

The US national debt is now rising by $1 Trillion every ~180 days.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

When MLK was assassinated on April 4, 1968, RFK had to break the news to his campaign workers, many of whom were black.

This was 4 years after his brother's murder. RFK would be assassinated just 2 months later.

Political violence then was worse than now. Here's what he said:

[Casual Geopolitics @Casualgeopol]

You can burn an American flag but not an Israeli one.

You can boycott an American company but not an Israeli one.

You can protest America but not Israel.

Your taxes give Israelis free healthcare but not Americans.

This is America in 2025.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

"People enjoy knowing that they are suffering"
This should put to bed the idea Israelis just don't know about Palestinian suffering. They know and many celebrate it. The dehumanization of Palestinians is so deep.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“American taxpayers who are desperate for a better life here in America, they need to hand over billions of dollars to the Israeli government and the IDF. And we need to shut the F**k up about any of our critique. AIPAC is evil..”

—Ana Kasparian American Journalist