In a memo from July 2020, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper released a list of flags permitted to be displayed at US military bases. Missing from the list was the LGBTQ pride flag, which Esper compared to the confederate flag. Prior to the ban, embassies raised the flag during pride month on the official embassy flagpole. During the hearing, Blinken also confirmed that he plans to appoint an envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQ persons, a position created by Barack Obama in 2015 that wasn’t filled during the Trump presidency.

“Biden is the first US president to openly embrace a full range of queer rights, including transgender equality,” Outfront magazine reported.

The stock market is relatively simple: you buy a stock and if the stock goes up in value then you make money since it's worth more than what you paid for it. Short selling, however, operates on the exact opposite principle. Instead, under this scheme, short sellers make money when stocks go down in value. In a nutshell, short sellers borrow another’s stock and then sell them, betting that they will go down in value so they can buy them back later for cheaper and then return the share to its original owner while keeping the difference for a profit. It’s a fairly straightforward process that happens all the time on Wall Street.

Hedge funds believed that with brick and mortar shops closing up all across the world because of the Covid-19 pandemic, GameStop would be no different. After all, large online retailers like Amazon are where the real growth potential is because of the overhead involved with physical stores. It’s merely a consequence, hedge fund managers would say, of a process that started well before the global pandemic.

So hedge funds moved to drive GameStop’s stock (GME) down, profiting as they continued to short sell before Redditors took notice and mounted a pushback. They purchased as many GME shares as possible to drive up the price, knowing that these hedge funds still had unaccounted shares to buy back. It meant that these hedge funds would be left paying huge sums for GME shares and hemorrhage cash without a choice.

This is exactly what happened. According to data from S3 Partners, short sellers have so far lost more than $5 billion on GME, including huge losses of $917 million on Monday and $1.6 billion on Friday. Melvin Capital, the hedge fund mentioned in the introduction of this article, had to take on a $3 billion bailout from two other hedge funds, Citadel and Point72.

1. The stock market is nothing but one giant fraud. The entire market is corrupt and rigged from the ground up. The fraud is systemic, designed into every tendril of the market.

2. The Fed is a fraud. All the Federal Reserve has accomplished in 13 years of goosing the stock market is unprecedented wealth and income inequality as the fraud of the Fed has boosted the fraud of the market, which has fatally undermined America's social and economic orders.

3. America's system of governance is a fraud. What can we say when powerful politicians are worth over $100 million and are active participants in the most speculative excesses of the stock market, Buying More Than $1 Million In Tesla, Disney And Apple Calls In December? Do we even need to ask where their interests lie?

The market's bleeding but it can't possibly die, can it? Yes it can, and yes it will: truth is fatal to fraud, and the truth has escaped and is now free. We can't unsee what's behind the curtain.

She tweeted: "The British do not want to give the EU ambassador in Brussels the same diplomatic rights as the ambassadors of European countries. "After all, the United States is not a separate ambassador from Texas either. The EU is not a state and should not be treated as such. And the EU must not build a state."

The European Commission condemned the move and said its 143 delegations and staff in other parts of the world had been accorded a status equivalent to countries' embassies. A spokesman argued “nothing has changed” since Brexit. But, leading Brexiteers used the spat as ammunition to point out it exposed the European Union's ambition to become a superstate and to be treated like a country rather than a 27 nation trading bloc.

“EU: We have a flag, anthem and currency and must be treated as a superstate by the UK.” Former EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier warned the UK should be “very careful” over its approach to ambassadors.

Politico reported on the bill in at least six states and included talking points favored by LGBT activists who deny the reality of two sexes, ie “sex assigned at birth” and “limiting opportunities for transgender athletes”: The left-wing American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) stance is included in the Politico article.

“While bills attacking trans youth have no chance of passing in the US House, the rhetoric behind them emboldens political attacks on trans youth that are moving forward in Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota and potentially other states,” Chase Strangio, deputy director for trans justice with the ACLU, said in a statement to Politico.

Zuckerberg praised Biden and his political agenda. “I thought President Biden’s inaugural address was very good,” Zuckerberg said. “In his first day, President Biden already issued a number of Executive Orders on areas that we as a company care quite deeply about and have for some time,” he said. “Areas like immigration, preserving DACA, ending restrictions on travel from Muslim-majority countries, as well as other Executive Orders on climate and advancing racial justice and equity. I think these were all important and positive steps.”

In the same January 21 meeting, Facebook’s Head of Global Affairs Nick Clegg addressed the international backlash that resulted from then-President Trump’s suspension from the platform. “There has been quite a lot of disquiet expressed by many leaders around the world, from the President of Mexico to Alexei Navalny in Russia, and Chancellor Angela Merkel and others saying, ‘well this shows that private companies have got too much power...’ we agree with that,” he said.

“Ideally, we wouldn’t be making these decisions on our own, we would be making these decisions in line with our own conformity, with democratically agreed rules and principles. At the moment, those democratically agreed rules don’t exist. We still have to make decisions in real-time.”

Never mind sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia.... I’ll leave the list there, because it grows almost daily (just choose a word and slap ‘phobia’ or ‘ism’ on the end). There’s something else we should all now be worried about: speciesism. We should all be careful with our language and make sure it’s animal-friendly. For example, never say: you eat like a horse, you dirty dog, you laugh like a donkey, you’re just a big dumb ape. Because all these phrases are deeply, deeply offensive to, er… animals.

Nobody has actually asked the animals, of course. Hang on two secs while I quickly test this theory on the dog... Nope. She just wants a biscuit. Happy as ever. Stop wagging your tail, you greedy little pig – you’re gonna get as fat as a cow. This comes hot on the heels of PETA declaring meat-eaters are “human supremacists”. And again, I quote because it’s better than satire: “Speciesism is the human-supremacist belief that one species is more important than another.”

"In some areas they are already de facto competing with the state,” Putin said during his address to the Davos virtual economic summit. The Russian leader said it is unclear where the line is between a “successful global business” and “attempts to crudely, at their own discretion, control society”. “We just saw it all in the United States,” he added, referring to riots earlier this month in Washington led by supporters of then US President Donald Trump.

Moscow earlier this week accused US tech giants of interfering in Russia’s internal affairs, in particular during anti-government protests led by supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Saturday. Ahead of the rallies, Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor ordered several online platforms, including YouTube and Instagram, to delete posts by users calling for protesters to attend demonstrations.

We are watching the government arrest hundreds of people not just for violence but for trespassing and negligible crimes at the Capitol when many of them were let into the building by the police. We are seeing the billboards and technology being used to hunt people down, as the most violent Antifa rioters are never arrested. No, this crackdown is not being driven by a concern for security and a sense of justice.

Well, now it’s confirmed that the government itself is rapidly headed toward criminalizing the speech of Trump supporters. The government is treating Antifa’s violence like speech and our speech like violence. What starts with bad behavior by Trump supporters (while ignoring what the other side does) will not end there.

There are some really distasteful ways people use their freedom of speech – sometimes in a serious way or sometimes in a joking way – but the First Amendment was not written to protect benign speech. To arrest only one side of the divide for social media memes at a time when officials are letting cities burn is very concerning. And it opens a very slippery slope for the government to prosecute people for saying anything that the government believes is harmful. Is it that hard to envision an FBI agent knocking on your door and saying, “You just wrote information telling people masks don’t work and to stop wearing them. You are engaging in fraud and are an accessory to murder!”

“I would very much wish to avoid the building of blocs,” Merkel said in comments reported by POLITICO, adding: “I don’t think it would do justice to many societies if we were to say this is the United States and over there is China and we are grouping around either the one or the other. This is not my understanding of how things ought to be.”

Merkel also said that she was “so satisfied” with the €120 billion EU-China investment pact, hailing so-called concessions from the CCP such as increased transparency on state subsidies in China as well as the EU gaining “more predictable access to… state-of-the-art technology” in China. The European Commission has described the deal as the “most ambitious agreement that China has ever concluded with a third country”.

Now that they have the attention of world leaders and backing from a plethora of multinational globalist organizations, the World Economic Forum and their leader are pressing forward with the first leg of their plan, promoting “stakeholder capitalism.” His new book, which Schwab co-authored with fellow WEF executive Peter Vanham, aims to bring the term to the mainstream.

It isn’t a new concept. Schwab has been promoting it since 1971. Over the past 50 years, he’s gathered supporters and disciples of his Neo-Marxist vision to champion the cause of tearing down the financial foundations of the western world in hopes of replacing them with a singular revamped form of communism. They’re appealing to the populist mentality of capitalism that benefits everyone equality, abandoning the shareholder capitalism that has been proven to work for all financial levels of society. Invariably, the shortcomings of shareholder capitalism can be traced back to government intervention.

Klaus Schwab is quickly emerging as the most dangerous man on the planet. His push for Neo-Marxism disguised as “equity” under “stakeholder capitalism” will turn the world into Venezuela if it’s not stopped quickly.

“Now, one of the area’s probed is a religious belief and 10 years ago, 59.3 percent of those who chose to answer the question identified as Christians. That was a drop of over 12 percent from 2011. Now this year, it’s expected the numbers will fall below 50 percent because far more of the elderly follow a faith than young people. But although younger people may not belong to a form of religion, the key messages of Jesus - love, acceptance and forgiveness are still highly relevant today.”

Mr Campbell asked Louise Davies, the director of Christians on the Left, a socialist society, about whether Jesus was the Son of God and the origins of the Gospels. Mrs Davies said: “I think the danger of taking the Son of God out of the argument is that we have to morally work our way to the presence of God."

“If we are a good person, then we can earn that but that is not the Christian message. The Christian message is that we accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour and at that moment we are in Communion with God. I think to strip the Christian message of that and it’s just teaching, it's ‘oh my goodness’ there is an access to strength, joy and hope that everybody can have but it comes through the Lordship of Jesus Christ.”

Mrs Davies said that you cannot get to Heaven regardless of “how much good we do” and stressed it “is the relationship with Jesus Christ” which “makes the way”. She continued: “But also when we focus on the teachings of Jesus, we ignore the Crucifixion, the death, the resurrection of Jesus and without that, that is the moment that changed history."

“You know we wouldn’t be here now discussing this subject because you’ve got Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the writers of the Gospels. They walked with Jesus, they saw the miracles, saw the teaching.”

But in a stark throwback, Mr Campbell hit out at Mrs Davies and said: “No, it wasn’t written by people who were there with Jesus. It wasn’t, according to most biblical scholars.” Philosopher Julian Baggini agreed and said: “No serious biblical scholars accept that. It might be a bit of a strong thing to say but it's true."

“I am always a bit surprised when I find people claim these were eyewitness accounts, there is no historical evidence of that. I think that's the whole point, we don't know what historically Jesus has said. We have some ideas of the teachings which may or may not be authentic but it's all hypothesis." Nicky Campbell concluded by admitting: "Well, there is some historical evidence, a bit."