[We The People Speaking] THEN (January 2021) and NOW (January 2023)
UNITY, then: On inauguration day, January 2021, we listened intently and with hope as our new President spoke to the nation about his plan for unity.
Now: As we look back on the last two years, we (about 70 million voters) recall vividly being repeatedly called racist, white supremist, domestic terrorists and MAGA extremists by President Biden in particular and many Democrat leaders in general. Unity?
ENERGY, then: Our nation was energy independent for the first time since 1957.
Now: We beg for oil from Saudi Arabia, they say "no" and we prop up the Venezuela dictator by rejuvenating their oil production industry.
GASOLINE, then: We could buy a gallon of gas in most places for about two bucks.
Now: The national average is $3.51 per gallon down from a high of $4.96. And, no Mr. President the rise in U.S. gas prices was not caused by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. By then, February 2022, the price had already increased by 78% to $3.57 a gallon and steadily rising.
INTEREST RATES, then: Interest on a 30-year mortgage averaged 2.5%.
Now: 6.5% and probably rising in 2023.
INFLATION, then: 1.4%.
Now: 7,0% (down from a high of 9.1% June 2022. A few hours after being inaugurated, President Biden signed an Executive Order that created instant turmoil throughout the oil and gas industry. As a result, by 6 June 2021 the average price of a gallon of gas had doubled which was a trigger to drive inflation. Everything we buy, at some point comes out of a truck that is burning increasingly expensive fuel. The inflation rate continued to rise with the increasing cost of gas and diesel fuel.
HOME SALES, then: Sales in 2020 hit the highest point since 2006.
Now: Sales last year were the slowest in a decade.
[CHD.TV] The pressure is on — to get vaccinated or be labeled ’mentally ill,’ to abide by the mainstream narrative or be censored, to comply with standards or have your small business shut down. Watch ’Financial Rebellion’ this week to hear more on these topics. Don’t miss it!
Stay on for the "Neurotechnology, Nanotechnology, Mind Control & Directed Energy Weaponry" and of course the 'cashless society.'
[Epoch Times] The Chinese high-altitude balloon that passed over the United States at the start of February "did a lot of damage," according to Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
In an interview on CBS’s "Face The Nation" program, McCaul said the Chinese balloon was a "sophisticated spy balloon" that "went across three nuclear sites" as it floated over the United States from Jan. 28 to Feb. 4. McCaul specifically noted the balloon passed over nuclear bases in Montana, the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), and a base that hosts nuclear bombers in Missouri.
"The fact is, whether it be the hypersonic weapon they’ve made that circled the world and landed with precision, to the spy balloon, we have to stop selling them the very technology that they use in their most advanced weapon systems that they can turn against us," McCaul added.
Recent reports have indicated the Chinese government has bought U.S.-produced software products for use in its hypersonic missile programs. In recent years, U.S. officials have accused Chinese spies of stealing key technologies, and lawmakers have been considering laws to curb China’s access to sensitive U.S. defense programs.
U.S. defense officials have said they "mitigated" the balloon’s intelligence-gathering capabilities during its transit over the U.S., though they did not specify what means were used to block or reduce the balloon’s ability to transmit sensitive data back to China.
"They say they mitigated it but my assessment, and I can’t get into the detail of the intelligence document, is that if it’s still transmitting going over these three very sensitive nuclear sites, I think if you look at the flight pattern of the balloon it tells the story as to what the Chinese were up to as they controlled this aircraft throughout the United States going over those sites," McCaul said. "In my judgement it would cause great damage. Remember, a balloon can see a lot more on the ground than a satellite."
[LettersFromAustraloa] Sydneysiders turned out in their thousands on Monday to hear about the unfolding mRNA disaster from renowned visiting US cardiologist Peter McCullough and critical care physician Pierre Kory.
The Darling Harbour convention centre was full by 7pm but still people bustled up the escalators to find the last back-row seats upstairs while a fine Irish folk band played Botany Bay.
It felt more like a rebellion than a talk. The visiting US stars didn’t disappoint, and they were mobbed like rock stars.
But the bombshell of the evening came from the conference opener - a doctor from Queensland called Melissa McCann who dropped fact bombs left and right that were hidden from the public for the last two years, uncared about by corporate media.
Just take this one.
Pfizer proof-read a draft media release from Australia’s drug regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) before its release.
Pfizer, the “drug sponsor” of the mRNA injections, got to “review” the draft media release.
It’s worth remembering that more than 95 percent of the TGA’s budget comes from industry including Pfizer. Pfizer pays their wages (and reviewed a media release) - and the TGA regulates their products.
We now know this thanks to Dr McCann, because the emails are there on the Freedom of Information disclosure log on the TGA website, number 4073.
They were reviewing the press release because it turns out their vaccine killed 23 elderly and frail people in Norway, because it causes vomiting and other ‘mild’ side effects that are deadly in the elderly.
Do you remember that in the TV ads? Nobody told my frail 90-year-old aunt that she had a risk of dying from fever, nausea and diarrhoea the five times they injected her with the mRNA product.
But the TGA knew, and so did Pfizer, because FOI disclosure 4073 show the emails they sent about it to Professor John Skerritt.
Now thousands of Sydneysiders also know, thanks to Dr Melissa McCann’s brilliant talk. She also told everyone about the class action soon to begin for the so-far unrecognised injured and bereaved.
Letters From Australia has asked the TGA via the Department of Health media unit for a response and will include it once received.
And that was just one of the truth bombs to fall.
There were too many to detail here, I am now transcribing my notes.
Next up was Dr Pierre Kory, president of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), a group of doctors that came together in the pandemic to develop covid early treatment protocols.
He painted a detailed picture of how Big Pharma companies have corrupted the Big Five medical journals, how they are shaping science by choosing through funding which studies get done and don’t get done. He showed how they crushed Ivermectin because it would have torpedoed vaccine and paxlovid profits with a cheap, safe alternative.
[YouTube] If the words British history conjure up images of Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, Boudica, Mary Seacole, The Beatles and the Blitz, you’re squinting at a small spec of the history of humanity of these Isles. Even if you go back to the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD, or even further to the Iron Age or the Bronze Age, you’re still only looking at 1% of humankind’s story in this land.
This is a 900,000 year old story of ice ages, glaciers and hunter gatherers. Of lions, hyenas, hippos, rhinos and woolly mammoths. Of archaeological discoveries like Cheddar Man, who was once thought to be the oldest Englishman who ever lived.
The story of the First Britons is a story of a species that would come and go many times before calling this land home. A story that has travel, and the movement of people, at its heart.
So what do we know about these early migrants to Britain’s shores? Travel writer Noo Saro-Wiwa talks us through the story of the First Britons, while Dr Selina Brace explains how her team at the Natural History Museum were able to extract DNA from Cheddar Man.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Epoch Times] The Chinese high-altitude balloon that passed over the United States at the start of February "did a lot of damage," according to Rep. 
U.S. defense officials have said they "mitigated" the balloon’s intelligence-gathering capabilities during its transit over the U.S., though they did not specify what means were used to block or reduce the balloon’s ability to transmit sensitive data back to China.
