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Watch The X22 Report On Video 2 videos found Ep 3807b – [DS] Infiltrated Congress Back In 1929,Stage Has Been Set To Return The Power To The People Ep 3807a – Trump Ready To Make A Move On The Federal Reserve For Gross Incompetence pt> Click On Picture To See Larger PictureThe WSJ is predicting higher electricity costs in 2026. Trump is bringing down the cost of energy and implementing new energy sources. Electricity increased because of the the green new scam. Trump is now going after the Federal Reserve for gross incompetence, this will lead to exposing the Fed’s criminal activity. The [DS] infiltrated Congress going all the way back to 1929, the continued to present day. They made it so they have the ability to control those people they install. There are no term limits, this allows these people to stay in their positions for a very longtime. Trump is now setting the stage to return the power back to the people. This is much bigger than a few arrests.   Economy Average Electricity Rates by State, What Do You Pay?  Hawaii and California have the highest rates. Idaho the lowest. Average Residential Electricity Rates by State   Electricity Cost 10 Lowest States Be Prepared to Keep Paying More for Electricity The Wall Street Journal says Be Prepared to Keep Paying More for Electricity Source:  mishtalk.com  RECORD-HIGH: A New Milestone for Retirement Savers has been Reached Under President Trump! Fidelity dropped their latest data: The number of 401(k) millionaires has SURGED to an ALL-TIME HIGH of 654k! That's up 10% from Q2 and a MASSIVE leap forward. pic.twitter.com/90ofjGsXr9 — Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) December 30, 2025 BREAKING: President Trump is about to launch a MAJOR LAWSUIT against Fed Chair Jerome Powell for "GROSS INCOMPETENCE" DO IT! Jerome has to go. "The guy's just incompetent. Nothing you can do about it. We're gonna probably bring a lawsuit against him." pic.twitter.com/jGN93gOcMQ — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 29, 2025  Trump claims the project has overrun by $4 billion (he mentions $4.1 billion total for “a few small buildings”), calling it the “highest price in the history of construction.” He contrasts this with his own White House ballroom project, which he says is under budget and ahead of schedule despite its cost doubling to $400 million from an earlier $200 million estimate.  Yes, discovery could occur—if the case advances past initial hurdles. This would allow Trump’s side to subpoena Fed documents, emails, financial records, and testimony related to the renovations. This could effectively let them “look into” specific aspects of what the Fed has been doing, such as budgeting, contracting, and project management for the HQ overhaul. Discovery rules under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are broad, potentially uncovering internal Fed communications or decisions tied to the alleged incompetence.    Trump could request a GAO investigation into the HQ project overruns. Political/Rights Longtime Democrat George Clooney and His Family Ditch America, Move to France, and Secure French Citizenship Hollywood elitist and longtime Democrat activist George Clooney has officially joined the growing list of wealthy, left-wing celebrities who preach “American values” while quietly distancing themselves from the United States. Clooney, along with his wife, Amal Alamuddin Clooney, and their two children, has reportedly obtained French citizenship through a naturalization decree. The couple’s 8-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander, were included in the process.  Clooney went on to explain that he feared raising his children in Los Angeles. “I was worried about raising our kids in L. A., in the culture of Hollywood. I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life. France—they kind of don’t give a shit about fame. I don’t want them to be walking around worried about paparazzi. I don’t want them being compared to somebody else’s famous kids.” Source: thegatewaypundit.com The artists who are now canceling shows were booked by the previous far left leadership. Their actions prove that the previous team was more concerned about booking far left political activists rather than artists willing to perform for everyone regardless of their political… — Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 30, 2025 beliefs. Boycotting the Arts to show you support the Arts is a form of derangement syndrome. The arts are for everyone and the left is mad about it. Hey guys, all those insane “refugee assistance” grants I’m always tweeting? The @GOP is about to supercharge the funds. https://t.co/5Ytgkjendt — Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) December 30, 2025   DOGE Geopolitical New Report Appears to Confirm Covenant School Shooter Audrey Hale Bought Guns With Student Loan Money The FBI has just released more pages from the manifesto of Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale, which suggest that she bought the guns used in the 2023 shooting with money she had from a Pell Grant. Hale’s parents suggested this two years ago and this report appears to confirm that. The Tennessee Star reports: Latest FBI Release of Covenant School Manifesto Files Appears to Confirm Trans-Identified Killer Bought Guns with Pell Grant Money The FBI on Monday released another 230 manifesto pages written by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the biological female who identified as a transgender man on March 27, 2023, when the 28-year-old killed six at the Covenant School in Nashville, the Christian elementary school she once attended. This latest journal appears to have been written sometime in late 2021, and includes lengthy sections about the weapons the killer planned to use to commit a mass shooting at a school sometime that year. Following multiple pages full of weapons to purchase, the journal includes a page labeled “Account Savings Record,” which appears to reference the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). It also records multiple payments received from Nossi during the period when Hale attended the Nossi College of Art and Design in Nashville. “FASFA [sic] grant checks started at $2,050.86,” wrote Hale at the top of the entry. The page then lists a series of apparent ledger entries, starting with, “$2,656.87 (x3 checks from Nossi).” The next ledger entry states, “+$530.00 (x1 check Nossi) ($3,186.87).” This reference to Hale’s federal student aid, located in the writings next to her entries about guns she considered buying, appears to corroborate the claims made by her parents to Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) detectives in 2023, when they told law enforcement their child purchased the firearms using federal Pell Grant money.  Source: thegatewaypundit.com Overdoses are plummeting in America. It's not just fentanyl — cocaine and meth overdoses are falling too. Something is going right. https://t.co/MGKcadkdr7 pic.twitter.com/3gUzoBm7zi — Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) December 28, 2025 War/Peace NOW – Trump on polls showing half of Gazans would be willing to leave Gaza: "I think it would be a great opportunity, but let's see if that opportunity presents itself. But we're helping the people of Gaza a lot. So is Israel, by the way." pic.twitter.com/k1gDrvBJdV — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) December 29, 2025 "Based on the fact that Hamas pledged, they swore that they were going to disarm. Now, if they're not going to disarm, those same countries will wipe out Hamas." – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/mYIBfZzCV0 — The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 29, 2025 Trump clarifies that if Hamas do not disarm like they promised, that any number of the 59 countries who signed onto the peace deal, will completely wipe out Hamas.  Protests Erupt Across Iran As Angry People Flood Streets  The mullahs have ruled in Iran since 1979. So you had millions that went to helping to prop up the terrorist state. But the Iranians are a persistent people, it would appear, especially when you hurt them in their wallets and make it challenging to survive. We’re at another one of those moments in history where hope has sparked again in the country, and people are in the streets, calling for change. Nationwide strikes and protests by merchants continued across Iran, with shops shuttered in major commercial hubs including Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, Lalehzar Street, Naser Khosrow and Istanbul Square. Demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans calling for the downfall of the ruling clerics and demanding the leadership step aside. Video circulating online showed protesters inside a major shopping complex in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar chanting, “Have no fear, we are all together,” while hurling insults at security forces and calling them shameless.   Source: redstate.com Crushed by inflation, soaring living costs, and a future stolen by the regime, Iranians are back in the streets to protest. In a chilling echo of Tiananmen’s Tank Man, one man defiantly sits down before the riot police. Desperation has met courage. Funds have been cutoff to the Mullahs/DS. They will lose control in the end and the people will rise up and take back their country. Cyber attacks ‘tipping point’ warning issued after Harrods and M&S targeted Cyber attacks surged into prominence in 2025, inflicting significant financial damage on major British businesses and exposing widespread vulnerabilities across the economy. High-profile targets included automotive giant Jaguar Land Rover, retail stalwart Marks & Spencer, and luxury department store Harrods, underscoring how firms of all sizes are susceptible to sophisticated digital threats. Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, articulated his belief that cyber attacks represent one of the most substantial threats to UK financial stability, stressing the “critically important” need for collaborative defence. He stated: “Cyber attacks are far from new, but 2025 has shown just how deeply cyber risk is intertwined with economic stability and business continuity.” Source:  uk.news.yahoo.com  President Trump Responds to the 91-Drone Attack on Putin’s Residence in Novgorod region During an impromptu press availability beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump responded to a question about a drone attack against the personal residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Trump noted that he was informed of the attack by President Putin during an early Monday phone call between the two leaders. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denied the accusation that Ukraine carried out this particular attack.  The attack took place while Zelenskyy was in Florida meeting with President Trump. U.S. media have said the attack on Putin may be a lie; however, with physical evidence from the defense operation, it is less likely Russia just made up the attack.  At this moment in the conflict, Putin doesn’t need domestic propaganda. CONTEXT: British intelligence previously confirmed their participation in the successful Ukraine drone attack against long-range Russian bombers.  That operation, highly controversial at the time, was previously confirmed by President Trump saying the U.S. was not informed in advance. The “coalition of the willing” has also expanded.  Outside the Ukraine regime, the current group making up the “coalition of the willing” includes: the U.K, France, Germany, Canada and Australia.  It is worth noting the additions are all part of the British commonwealth (U.K, Canada, Australia).   I suspect the British did it Source: theconservativetreehouse.com No one wants defensive stocks: Global defensive stocks are now just 17% of world market cap, near the lowest since the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble burst. This percentage has fallen -7 points since the end of the 2022 bear market. To put this differently, consumer staples, health care,… pic.twitter.com/ykNUxEjrza — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) December 30, 2025   and utilities have materially underperformed the broader market over the last few years. This has been fueled by the outsized gains in the US technology sector. A similar pattern occurred during the 1990s, while the opposite took place during the 2008 Financial Crisis, when global defensive stocks outperformed. Defensive sectors are lagging. Medical/False Flags [DS] Agenda Soros family reportedly donated more than $71,000 to Letitia James campaigns Leftist billionaire George Soros and members of his family have donated more than $71,000 to political campaigns supporting New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James since 2019, according to a report published Sunday by the New York Post. The report, citing campaign finance records, said the total includes $31,000 contributed toward James’ 2026 reelection bid. Soros personally donated $18,000 in July 2024, while his daughter-in-law, Jennifer Soros, contributed $13,000 in May. With earlier donations included, Soros and his family have provided James with roughly $40,000 more since 2019, the Post reported. The figure does not include the indirect support James has received through left-leaning organizations backed by Soros. The report said Soros’ Open Society Foundations have given more than $865,000 to the New York branch of the Working Families Party since 2018. Source:  rsbnetwork.com  Can someone tell the Somali-Democrat fraudsters in Maine to stop wasting their time deleting website pages? We’ve been at this for ten months. We have it all archived and ready to hand over to whoever might want it. — Steve Robinson (@SteveRob) December 29, 2025 During the VP debate last year Tim Walz bragged about making it easier for people to get into the childcare business. Walz: "We have to make it easier for folks to be able to get into that business and then to make sure that folks are able to pay for that. We were able to do it… pic.twitter.com/hXGun6e6fe — MAZE (@mazemoore) December 28, 2025 in Minnesota.” Yes Tim, you sure did make it easy for people to open childcare businesses. They don’t even need to provide childcare to get paid. FLASHBACK: If Somali fraudsters can't rely on a Democrat judge to vacate a jury's guilty verdict they simply start bribing jurors. Last year Federal prosecutors charged five defendants with bribing a juror during the Feeding Our Future fraud trial. Abdimajid Mohamed Nur… pic.twitter.com/S8NUdq1gZ5 — @amuse (@amuse) December 29, 2025  admitted to the scheme and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the underlying fraud, with nearly $48 million ordered in restitution. Separate sentencing remains pending for the bribery conviction. NEW: The Quality Learing Center in Minneapolis is now "trucking" in children after Nick Shirley's viral video, according to the New York Post. The Post reports that the parking lot at the infamous Quality Learing Center is now "bustling with kids." "We’ve never seen kids go… pic.twitter.com/K578UTvLXG — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 30, 2025   in there until today. That parking lot is empty all the time, and I was under the impression that place is permanently closed,” a local said. About 20 kids were seen “streaming in and out” of the center, according to the Post. “You do realize there’s supposed to be 99 children here in this building, and there’s no one here?” Shirley said in his viral video. The owner’s son, Ali Ibrahim, claims Shirley came before they opened and is blaming their graphic designer for messing up the sign. “What I understand is [the owners] dealt with a graphic designer. He did it incorrectly. I guess they didn’t think it was a big issue,” Ibrahim said To explain away @nickshirleyy's viral video, a commissioner of the MN Department of Children, Youth & Families @MinnesotaDHS announced at a presser that the "Quality Learing Center" in Minneapolis had already shut down permanently last week. But today, the Somalis brought in many… — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 30, 2025     children for the cameras. "The Somali community is critical. In my own election I wouldn't be in office without the help of the Somali community. Somali voters came out in very large numbers and were able to register people to vote. Very recently several thousand Somalis were naturalized as U.S.… https://t.co/08pvXRmTL2 — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 29, 2025   citizens.” – MN AG Keith Ellison POLITICAL VIOLENCE: The letter from Vince Luther Boelter, the assassin appointed to public office by Gov Tim Walz, to FBI Director has been released: Dear Kash Patel, My name is Dr. Vince Luther Boelter Ed.D. I am the shooter at large in Minnesota involved in the [illegible]… pic.twitter.com/wHODr0OWo8 — @amuse (@amuse) December 30, 2025  shootings the morning of Saturday June 13th at approximately 2:30am and 3:30am, in around [unclear] that I will probably be dead by the time you read this letter. I wanted to share some info with you that you might find interesting. I was trained by U.S. Military people off the books starting in college. I have been on projects since that time in Eastern Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Africa. All in the line of duty what I thought was right and in the best interest of the United States. Recently I was approached about a project that Tim Walz wanted done, and Keith [unclear] was also aware of the project. Tim wanted me to kill Amy Klobuchar and Tina [unclear]. Tim wants to be a senator and he doesn’t trust [unclear] to retire as planned and this is meant to stay in the last mile with Amy & [unclear] gone. Tim would get one of the open senate seats, and [unclear] was to be VP, and Keith Ellison would be rewarded with a lucrative governing position. I told Tim I wanted nothing to do with it and that I didn’t call off that plan I would go public. He said he would call it off himself if I didn’t play ball. Then he set up a meeting with me and [unclear] and [unclear] to take care of me when I refused. They had some people waiting to kill me. I was able to get away by God’s mercy. So I went back a short time later and shot back at [unclear]. You should notice how I didn’t fire me rounds at any police officers and by God I have plenty of opportunity. Ask for the report on how many weapons and ammunition I had with me. Cops were pulling up right next to me in unmarked vehicles and I had an AK pistol across my lap. And I could have left a pile of cops dead but I did not. Short burst towards law enforcement. You can ask them. Because I snapped the police and chose not to see them hurt. But it may end up my wife and kids next time. I won’t give them a pass. If you think I’m making this up just get on the phone and tell Tim you have a few questions for him. Then ask Tim Walz if he knows me and see what he says? If he says he doesn’t know me, or never met me, look in the files and you will see that Tim personally approved me to be on his Governor’s workforce. Bridges are the business representatives. He is probably trying to destroy that note but it is public record. Then ask Tim Walz why they kept the shots silent from the media when they first happened. Not a word in the press and I. Why? They needed to get their stories figured out. So everyone was on the same page about what happened. Tim is probably crapping bricks right now because I’m still at large and he knows what I can disclose and that I know about all the buried skeletons are. So I will be shot on sight you can bet on that. If you want me to turn myself in it need to be directly to you and then I need to be held at a military prison or in the Middle East, or at least on a ship. These guys have military backgrounds and can get to anybody. I am willing to spill all the beans. I just want my family safe. They had nothing to do with this and are totally innocent. This was a lone person What is @GovTimWalz hiding? Consider this your notice, Tampon. pic.twitter.com/9tCgXNzGKu — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 30, 2025 Tim Walz is trying to bury the evidence of Somalian money laundering. His government website showing all the daycare licenses is having a mysterious “outage”. They are freaking out.   A major reason that things have gotten so crazy for the center-left is that because they were able to enforce consensus so easily socially they stopped feeling the need to justify policy empirically. Appreciating empiric reality is a major break that keeps things from going off… https://t.co/W9o3NZPGi9 — Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) December 29, 2025 Standard practice. But when you ask to send pictures of who is being helped or try to talk to the parents, they ghost you. And the wiring instructions are to wealthy accounting firms … https://t.co/jQgwydM8zL — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2025 Trump fires 17 government watchdogs at various federal agencies President Donald Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs at various federal agencies late Friday, a Trump administration official confirmed to Fox News, as he continues to reshape the government at a blistering pace. Trump dismissed inspectors general at agencies within the Defense Department, State Department, Energy Department, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Department of Veterans Affairs and more, notifying them by email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office, the Washington Post first reported. “It’s a widespread massacre,” one of the terminated inspectors general told the Post. “Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists, and that undermines the entire system.” Source: foxnews.com Trump has been in office for 11 months. The Trump US Attorney has been in control of the Minneapolis Office less than that. These are programs the Biden DOJ did not investigate — they investigated “Feeding our Future” only. So the investigations of 13 other federally funded welfare programs started from scratch.   MINNESOTA FRAUD: @NickShirleyyy’s work has helped show Americans the scale of fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota. @TheJusticeDept has been investigating this for months. So far, we have charged 98 individuals – 85 of Somali descent – and more than 60 have been found guilty in… — Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 29, 2025 THREAD It’s not just daycares… Somalis in Minnesota have been setting up fake medical centers and fraudulently diagnosing their children with autism to systematically steal billions of taxpayer dollars through Medicaid. Medicaid autism claims:2018 – $3 million2023 – $399 million pic.twitter.com/Mg4anQmoLp — Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) December 29, 2025 Trump admin can share immigrants’ Medicaid data with ICE, judge rules https://t.co/KjcqsKaop9 — POLITICO (@politico) December 29, 2025 Months ago, the Trump Administration began the process of seeking welfare records for immigration enforcement purposes but were sued by 21 blue states (the states enroll for federal programs, shockingly) and immediately blocked by the courts. This ruling is long overdue. https://t.co/NwIPEwC0FF — Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 30, 2025  These states both issue driver's licenses to illegals and allow illegals same-day voter registration with those licenses. CaliforniaColoradoHawaiiIllinoisMarylandMinnesotaNevadaNew MexicoUtahVermontVirginiaWashington Notice anything about those states? Voter Fraud. — C3 (@C_3C_3) December 30, 2025   President Trump’s Plan I mean, they are spoon-feeding it to us at this point. All of the messaging from Trump’s administration indicates that 2026 will be a gear shift. With troops in position to deal with public backlash starting January 1st, whatever they have planned, the window is about to open. https://t.co/5xfudbHaQ6 pic.twitter.com/6aW8MCNYAm — Clandestine (@WarClandestine) December 30, 2025 The National Guard is building a “quick reaction force” (QRF) of some 23,500 troops trained in crowd control and civil disturbance that can be ready to deploy to U.S. cities by early next year, according to a leaked memo reported by multiple outlets Wednesday.  The Oct. 8 memo, signed by National Guard Bureau Director of Operations Maj. Gen. Ronald Burkett, orders the Guard from nearly every U.S. state, Puerto Rico and Guam to train 500 service members. States with smaller populations such as Delaware will have 250 troops in its force, while Alaska will have 350 and Guam will have 100, Task & Purpose reported. Attorney General Pam Bondi Directs DOJ to Investigate Obama-Biden Era ‘Lawfare’ as Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy Attorney General Pam Bondi has confirmed that the Department of Justice is actively probing what she describes as a decade-long pattern of government weaponization and “lawfare” under the Obama and Biden administrations. Bondi has directed U.S. Attorneys and federal agents to treat these actions as an “ongoing criminal conspiracy,” potentially allowing prosecutors to bypass statutes of limitations and hold high-ranking officials accountable for alleged election interference and civil rights violations. Source: thegatewaypundit.com  child-like illogic. And if you want to jump in and comment on whatever your particular axe to grind is and how disappointed you are that axe did not get ground in 11 months, please refer to the preposterous, child-like illogic mentioned above. The Dissolution The contract is broken. The republic is memory. The signal remains. —EKO Republican Congress holds both chambers and does nothing. No subpoenas. No hearings. No investigations. The conservative influencers who should be screaming about a coordinated coup… — Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) December 29, 2025 Look at the structure itself. 435 representatives for more than 300 million citizens. One voice per 700,000 people. The founders envisioned one per 30,000. That ratio was frozen in 1929, locked by the Permanent Apportionment Act, ensuring the number would remain manageable. Manageable for whom? One hundred senators. 535 total legislators controlling the direction of the largest economy in human history. You do not need to purchase a nation. You purchase 535 people. Or fewer. Buy the committee chairs. Fewer still. Buy the leadership. A few dozen individuals, properly leveraged through money or blackmail (it’s actually both), steer everything. The bottleneck is artificial. Engineered for efficient capture. The Federal Reserve arrived in 1913, transferring monetary sovereignty from the people to a private banking cartel. That same year, the 17th Amendment removed state legislatures from Senate appointments, severing the balance between federal and state power. The intelligence apparatus emerged after World War II as a parallel government operating beyond electoral accountability. The administrative state metastasized into an unelected fourth branch writing rules with the force of law. Layer upon layer. Each generation inherits chains from contracts they never signed, bound by compromises made long before their birth. Yes, the Founding Fathers intended for the House of Representatives to expand as the population grew. The U.S. Constitution’s Article I, Section 2 established an initial apportionment ratio of no more than one representative per 30,000 inhabitants (with each state guaranteed at least one), implying that the total number would increase based on census results every ten years. the framers expected regular adjustments to maintain proportional representation as the nation expanded.  James Madison, in Federalist No. 58, directly addressed concerns that the House might not grow, arguing that the Constitution’s mechanisms—such as decennial reapportionments—would “augment the number of representatives” over time, and that political incentives (e.g., larger states pushing for increases) would ensure it happened.  This intent is further supported by the proposed (but unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment from the original Bill of Rights, which aimed to set a formula preventing the House from becoming too small relative to the population.  However, the House was permanently capped at 435 members by the Apportionment Act of 1929, diverging from this original vision. Trump has been in office less than a year. The expectations set in posts like the one below are ridiculous. Did you trust Trump enough to vote for him? Then let the man cook. The idea that he would have this 100% wrapped up with a bow in less than a year is preposterous,… https://t.co/24xoZJ9vVl — Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) December 29, 2025   attempt instead chase smaller game, run interference, attack each other, send you down rabbit holes, and offer limited hangouts that lead nowhere. The silence is bipartisan. The silence is the tell. If your enemy acts and your ally does nothing despite holding every lever of power, you do not have two sides. WAIT… THERE’S MORE… Let’s do a thought exercise: Let’s say the first day after inauguration, the US MIL did no-knock raids and perp-walked Obama, Hillary, Brennan, Comey, etc. How do you think that would have gone? With the border still insecure, violent gangs/sleeper cells still embedded within… — Clandestine (@WarClandestine) December 29, 2025   our walls, with Antifa and radical Islamic terrorist groups still at large, without Trump’s people in position, without the public being informed of the treasonous conspiracy, without the wars around the globe being settled, without rogue Deep State elements like Iran’s nuclear capabilities being shut down, all while the public are extremely emotionally charged after the election cycle and have been repeatedly brainwashed to believe that Trump is Hitler about to unleash a military dictatorship… There’s levels to this shit. Many variables must be accounted for and many pieces must be in place before we can do something of this magnitude. But if you’ve been paying attention, you’d see that much of these things have already been taken care of over Trump’s first year. I’m more optimistic than I’ve ever been, and frankly I don’t understand how people don’t see what Trump is doing. The price to pay for striking early, could result in mass civilian casualties, the entire operation will be ruined, the Republic will fall to the Deep State, and all of us will be tax/labor slaves forever. We can’t afford to miss. Everything must be perfect, and Trump is putting the pieces into place to make it happen.

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Main routes of the Silk Road on a relief map, with city and country names labeled. Full Map. Source: Wikipedia   The Han and Tang dynasties changed global history by introducing new tools to the world. The powerful empires provided technologies that would eventually alter civilizations, from the Middle East to Europe. Historians refer to their main contributions as the Four Great Inventions of ancient China which are namely printing, papermaking, gunpowder, and the compass. The innovations reached the Western world through the vast networks of the Silk Road. But beyond the four inventions, other technologies also flowed from China to the rest of the world and made long lasting impacts.   Paper Making Qing-era print depicting Cai as the patron of papermaking, 18th century. Source: Wikipedia   The court official Cai Lun first presented the paper-making process to Emperor He in 105 CE. He manufactured the sheets from a mixture of hemp and tree bark, alongside old rags and discarded fishing nets. The imperial government soon kept the process a secret for many years, while other nations struggled with bamboo and expensive silk. The secrecy, however, ended after the Abbasid Caliphate defeated the Tang army at the Battle of Talas in the year 751.    The defeat led to the capture of Chinese artisans. It was these prisoners who revealed the papermaking techniques to their captors, effectively ending the secret. A paper mill was opened in the city of Samarkand by 751 CE. Another followed in Baghdad in 794 CE. Paper soon replaced papyrus throughout the Islamic world by the middle of the 9th century. It eventually reached Italy by the end of the 13th century, where the first documented paper mills were established around the 1270s.   Printing Technology The frontispiece of the Tang-era Diamond Sutra, the earliest extant printed text bearing a date of production, 868 (British Library). Source: Wikipedia   Printing technology followed a similar journey across the trade routes of the ancient world. The British Library currently holds the oldest dated book which craftsmen created with woodblocks on May 11, 868. The technology that included woodblocks spread from China to regions like the Uyghur Kingdom and Tibet through cultural exchange, along the Silk Road. Merchants from the Islamic world would later discover the technology in Central Asia. The region, however, did not widely adopt the printing of books until several centuries later.   Gunpowder Earliest known Gunpowder recipe from the Wujing Zongyao, Song Dynasty 1044 From Wikimedia Commons; with Putting the Miraculous elixir on the Tripod, Chinese by Yi Zhenren 1615 From historytoday.com   The invention of gunpowder resulted from experiments by Tang alchemists who sought an elixir for immortality. Ancient Daoist texts from the mid-to-late 9th century warned readers not to apply heat to mixtures of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal. Military applications were soon developed, with the definitive formula appearing in a manual called the Wujing Zongyao in the year 1044. Notably, a Syrian scholar named Hasan al-Rammah recorded various gunpowder mixtures in his book on war machines in the late 13th century. The evidence indicates that the knowledge had reached the region on the same caravan routes that merchants used for silk by that time.    The Compass Chinese geomantic compass c. 1760 from the National Maritime Museum in London. Source: Wikipedia   The magnetic compass serves as perhaps one of  the most important tools for global history, and traces its origins to the Han era. Chinese diviners used spoons made of lodestone that pointed south on bronze plates as early as the 1st century BCE for geomancy (fortune-telling) purposes rather than for navigation. Merchants and geomancers, at the time, used needles that floated on water during the Song Dynasty in the 11th century.   Later, Arab traders described Chinese ships that utilized magnetic needles for guidance, with records appearing by the mid-13th century. The English scholar Alexander Neckam mentioned the device in 1190, long after Chinese sailors had started using it extensively.   What Other Impactful Inventions Spread from China? Chinese Jingdezhen porcelain moonflask with underglaze blue and red. Qianlong period, 1736 to 1796. Source: Wikipedia   The extensive trade routes of the Tang Dynasty carried a revolutionary product that rivaled the importance of the Four Great Inventions – porcelain. Skilled workers in the Xing and Yue regions used distinct clay formulas and intense heat to produce porcelain bowls and vases. Items were not only waterproof, but also appeared hard and smooth to the human eye. Observers in distant nations marveled at the white objects because the items were much stronger than their own heavy pottery. Aristocrats across Europe desired porcelain for reasons that extended well beyond the utility of the items.   A family secured a position within the highest social circles only if it served their guests in the finest china. Monarchs valued the secret knowledge of production just as much as they appreciated the beauty of the final products. Its appeal was so strong that it once compelled Augustus the Strong, the King of Poland, to imprison a young alchemist named Johann Friedrich Böttger in 1701, forcing him to find its formula. After the formula for hard-paste porcelain was successfully discovered in Europe in 1708, the Meissen porcelain factory was established in 1710. The formula was kept secret by the government for many years.

  Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is a European city full of rich history, which began in the 13th century. The city is extremely walkable and has many sites that can be visited on foot. Though 48 hours may seem like a short time to visit a city with such a long history, many stops can be made in this time using this Warsaw travel guide.   1. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 2023. Source: Denise Brown   The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier resides in Warsaw’s city center in Józef Piłsudski Square and is located on the former Saski Palace grounds. In 1923, the President of the Republic of Poland, Stanisław Wojciechowski, established a committee to create this monument in remembrance of those who died from 1914 to 1920. The committee appointed Stanisław Kazimierz Ostrowski, a famous Polish sculptor, to create the monument. Once construction finished, a draw was held in April 1925 to determine that the remains of an unnamed soldier from the 1918-1919 Lwów battlefield would be exhumed and laid to rest in the tomb. The inaugural ceremony took place from October 30 to November 2, 1925. Over the years, plaques have been added to remember fallen soldiers, dating from 972 to 1963.   When visiting today, one will see an eternal flame burn inside the tomb. To ensure the tomb’s protection it is guarded by soldiers 24 hours per day, year-round. On the top of each hour there is a changing of the guard where visitors can witness soldiers marching in to exchange watch duties.   2. The Royal Castle and Old Town Warsaw The Royal Castle in Old Town, 2023. Source: Denise Brown   The Duke of Masovia founded the city of Warsaw in 1280. Present-day Old Town Warsaw occupies a space that grew throughout the 13th to 20th centuries. In the 14th century, a wooden structure and a brick tower were constructed. This site is what is known as the Royal Castle today. By the 16th century, King Zygmunt III Vasa had hired a team of Italian architects to remodel the Royal Castle into a royal residence.   Beginning with the Swedish Wars in the 17th century, the Royal Castle suffered interior and exterior damage for many years. In 1944, Nazi troops destroyed the castle during the Warsaw Uprising. In 1980, the Royal Castle and Old Town Warsaw were granted UNESCO World Heritage status. This status was designated because of the large-scale restoration and reconstruction of 85% of the historic city after the Uprising.   There are many ways to visit this World Heritage Site. Visitors can simply choose to stroll the Old Town streets, stopping at restaurants and shops along the way. During the winter season, Old Town hosts its own Christmas market, complete with handcrafted art booths and an ice skating rink. The City Wall is one of the most unique and stunning sites to see in Old Town. Records show that construction began on the original wall in the 14th century, likely started by the Duke of Mazovia.   The detailed medieval architectural wall was destroyed during the 16th and 17th centuries. However, the walls were reconstructed along with the rest of Old Town after The Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Visitors can enjoy a free, self-guided walking tour of the City Wall through the Museum of Warsaw’s website. The Royal Castle is also open inside for visitors, with an audio-guide tour Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.   3. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Synagogue Exhibit in the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, 2023. Source: Denise Brown   The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews has a core exhibition that allows visitors to explore the 1,000-year history of the Jewish community in Poland. The exhibits are immersive and contain many hands-on elements. In one exhibit, guests can try their hand at making their own print in the printing house. In another, visitors find themselves inside a recreated synagogue full of colorful animal symbols representing justice, wisdom, and more. The museum features many personal accounts, both written and oral. It can take two or more hours to experience this fascinating place, so keep that in mind when planning a visit. An audio tour guide is available in many different languages.   The museum is open for visitors Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm. The museum is closed on Tuesdays.   4. Warsaw Ghetto Wall Warsaw Ghetto Wall Fragment, 2023. Source: Denise Brown   At the start of World War II, one-third of Warsaw’s population was Jewish. In October 1940, walls were built, creating the Warsaw Ghetto. Jewish citizens were isolated inside the walls on the pretense that this would protect Warsaw’s other citizens from a typhus epidemic. The walls were 3 meters high and topped with barbed wire. In reality, the reason behind the segregation was related to the Third Reich’s anti-semitic policies. In April 1943, 2,000 Nazi soldiers entered the ghetto to liquidate it. The Jewish inhabitants fought back in the 29-day Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which was ultimately suppressed. The majority of the Jewish population in the Warsaw Ghetto were killed or deported to various concentration camps.   Echos of the wall can be seen throughout the city. Sidewalk plaques mark wall boundaries. Remains of the wall itself can still be seen at 62 Złota Street. The remains seen here originally marked the area of the original Jewish quarter. On the backside of this portion of the wall is an entrance to a Remembrance Garden that features green space and exhibition panels with photographs and information about the Warsaw Ghetto. This area also includes a granite cube with a sculpted map of the ghetto’s boundaries. Other remnants of the wall can be found throughout the city, many still containing markings from the fighting during the 1943 uprising.   5. Holy Cross Church Inside of Holy Cross Church, 2023. Source: Denise Brown   Holy Cross Church is an active Catholic Parish with a rich history that attracts visitors from all walks of life. The church’s history begins in the 16th century. It started as a wooden structure that was destroyed during the Swedish Wars. During the late 1600s, royal architect Jakub Bellotti completed rebuilding the church in the same spot in 1696. Over time, additions were made until the church was destroyed during The Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The church was reconstructed between 1945 and 1972.   One of the biggest draws is the heart of Frédéric Chopin. This famous composer was born in Zelazowa-Wola, a village six miles outside of Warsaw, in 1810. Chopin studied in Warsaw but moved to Paris later. He lived out the remainder of his life in Paris, but on his deathbed, voiced that he would like to be buried in his home of Poland. While his body was buried in Paris, his heart went to Poland for burial and is now located under a monument inside of Holy Cross Church. Other notable things to see in the church include Warsaw’s largest organ, a monument to Polish Pope John Paul II, and an urn with the remains of Nobel prize-winning author Władysław Reymont.   Visitors can explore the church Monday through Saturday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and Sundays from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm.   6. The Warsaw Rising Museum Warsaw Rising Museum, 2017. Source: Adrian Grycuk, Wikimedia Commons   The Warsaw Rising Museum opened in 2004 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising. According to the museum’s website, the museum is “a tribute of Warsaw’s residents to those who fought and died for independent Poland and its free capital.”   The museum’s main exhibition focuses on everyday life and resistance during the occupation. The exhibition includes photographs, film, and audio recordings of first-hand accounts before, during, and after the Warsaw Uprising. In another section, the exhibition focuses on the Allied airdrops. It includes a replica Liberator B-24J Bomber and official texts from the Germans and the Allies. The museum also features rotating temporary exhibits.   The Warsaw Rising Museum is open for visitors Wednesday through Monday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. An audio-guide tour is available in multiple languages.   7. Museum of King Jan III’s Palace in Wilanów The Museum of King Jan III’s Palace in Wilanów, 2015. Source: Dennis Jarvis, Flickr   The Museum of King Jan III’s Palace in Wilanów is the oldest Polish art museum. The museum opened in 1805, but the Palace started as the residence of King Jan III, who reigned from 1677 to 1696. The main floor consists of a tour through the royal baroque-era residence. Many paintings, statues, antique furnishings, and period decor can be found on this floor. The first floor houses the Gallery of the Polish Portrait. Portraits feature monarchs and royal families, participants in national uprisings, and other people honored by Poland. The museum’s mission is to “shape civic attitudes and patriotic responsibility for the national, cultural, and natural heritage.”   Guests can visit the museum by taking a bus from downtown Warsaw. The museum is open from January 8 to December 15 daily from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The park and courtyard are also available to visit throughout the year, however, the timing shifts depending on the season. The museum grounds cover more than 90 hectares and include Baroque gardens, a nature preserve, and landscape parks.   Old Town Warsaw, 2023. Source: Denise Brown   Warsaw contains many historic sites. Featuring a recreated Old Town designated as a World Heritage Site, numerous museums covering history and art in the area, and relics of the past that can be seen just walking around town, Warsaw is a popular destination for tourists interested in Eastern European history.