▪️French Prime Minister Jean Castex, who received two doses of the vaccine, tested positive for Covid-19.
▪️After the destruction of the US energy sector, Biden will release 50 million barrels of oil from the country’s strategic reserves.
▪️Darrell Brooks intentionally drove his car into a Christmas parade in Waukesha and is charged with 5 counts of premeditated murder.
▪️The White House Vaccination Coordinator, Dr. Bechara Chukayr, will leave his post on Monday.
▪️According to the UN, more than a million children in Afghanistan are on the verge of starvation.
▪️India is preparing a bill on the regulation of cryptocurrencies, which will help the central bank to create an official digital coin, but will ban all private cryptocurrencies.
▪️The judge in charge of the sex trafficking case, Gilane Maxwell, excluded two expert witnesses whom her lawyers wanted to call as a defense, including an expert on the misconduct of the prosecutor’s office.
▪️Helsinki and nearby cities recommend returning to remote work, as well as expanding the use of masks.
▪️Bloomberg: “The pandemic has turned global trade into chaos. The California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have become a clear example of what is happening to global supply chains.”
▪️Lawyer and economist Peter Navarro: “Millions died because the “sociopath” Fauci hid details about the laboratory in Wuhan from the Trump administration.”
▪️In the Kursk region in Russia, pregnant women are promised to pay 5,000 rubles for vaccination. The Prime Minister of the country calls for increasing the rate of vaccination of the entire population, since “collective immunity” has still reached the required level.
▪️The Turkish lira has fallen to a historic low after President Erdogan promised victory in the “economic war for independence.” Current cost: 13.44 per dollar.
▪️China has managed to accumulate more than half of the world’s corn and other grain reserves, which has led to a sharp increase in prices across the planet.
▪️Specialists from the Tokyo Institute of Medical Sciences are working on the creation of a coronavirus vaccine that gives lifelong immunity.
▪️Leader of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is running for a second term as the head of the organization without hindrance.
▪️The US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigic and the head of the US Federal Aviation Administration Steve Dixon asked AT&T and Verizon to postpone the planned deployment of fifth-generation high-speed mobile networks (5G) on January 5 due to possible risks to aviation.
▪️An interim report on the verification of stolen elections in Texas at the first stage has been published – it shows 700 thousand registered voters who are not eligible to vote.
▪️The mobile operator T-Mobile removes links to conservative articles if you send them by text message.
▪️The number of journalists participating in White House briefings has been reduced to fourteen socially distanced reporters due to concerns about Omicron.
▪️A fully vaccinated US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin tested positive for Covid-19.
▪️YouTube starts deleting high-profile interviews about the vaccine with Dr. Robert Malone and Joe Rogan.
▪️More than 4,000 flights were canceled on New Year’s Weekend due to staff shortages caused by Omicron and Biden’s vaccination mandates.
▪️The Los Angeles Public Schools canceled their vaccination mandate after 30,000 children refused to be vaccinated.
▪️Member of the House of Representatives Lauren Bobert promises to hold Twitter accountable for banning Marjorie Taylor Green. Previously, a popular member of the House of Representatives among conservatives, Green was blocked on Twitter.
▪️An attempt has been made on the Prime Minister of Haiti. One person was killed and several were injured. The Prime Minister himself was not injured.
▪️Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Lutsenko said that Russian President Putin has dirt on Ukrainian President Zelensky.
▪️The wave of Omicron infections will come to an end by February 20, 2022, it is assumed that this is the last mutation of coronavirus infection, said Greek professor Demosthenes Sariannis.
▪️France headed the EU Council.
▪️The Prime Minister of Sudan announced his resignation.
▪️Former Twitter director Jack Dorsey: “Bitcoin will soon replace dollars.”
▪️The website of the Israeli media “Jerusalem Post” was hacked and damaged.
▪️The majority of German residents (57%) no longer trust the Covid figures provided by the government, according to a new survey by INSA (BILD). Only 32% of people still trust official information.
▪️German Finance Minister Lindner says that the pandemic must be overcome, in particular, with the help of the “value of freedom”.
Now Germany is chairing the G7, the parliament will soon discuss the issue of mandatory vaccination of the population.
▪️The UAE prohibits unvaccinated citizens from leaving the country from January 10.