CHRISTMAS IN MOSCOW: Russia is reeling from the sanctions. Anger at the war has the citizens marching in the streets of Moscow against Putin. The collapse of the Kremlin is imminent

Russia is reeling from the sanctions. Anger at the war has the citizens marching in the streets of Moscow against Putin. The collapse of the Kremlin is imminent pic.twitter.com/t2L4GTbkKl

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 31, 2023

OPEN BORDERS: Maryland Democrats want to limit voting for a school board seat to illegal immigrants. Citizens would be prohibited for voting in the school board election. Should illegals be able to vote and citizens prohibited from voting?

OPEN BORDERS: Maryland Democrats want to limit voting for a school board seat to illegal immigrants. Citizens would be prohibited for voting in the school board election. Should illegals be able to vote and citizens prohibited from voting? pic.twitter.com/VSkj8dNH1u

— @amuse (@amuse) January 1, 2024

Believe it or not, on New Year’s Eve, we still celebrate the ancient Roman religion/myth of Janus, who presided over the beginning and end.

Thank you to Martin Armstrong @ Armstrong Economics.

Believe it or not, on New Year’s Eve, we still celebrate the ancient Roman religion/myth of Janus, who presided over the beginning and end. So one face looked at the past, and the other the coming new year.

In fact, January is named after Janus. He also represented the beginning and end of the conflict. 

In ancient Rome, the Temple of Janus stood in the Roman Forum with doors on both ends, and inside was a statue of Janus, who is always represented as the two-faced god. The doors of his temple were open in times of war and closed to mark peace. This represented that things could change politically during a war.

Janus, therefore, represented war and peace. This may be particularly true as the Neocons are determined to usher in World War III. They are scheming to create war BEFORE the election just in case Trump wins overwhelmingly to trap him into a war that he cannot negotiate his way out of. The critical periods in 2024 will be January, April, and July/August 2024.

So when we celebrate New Year’s Eve, we say goodbye to the past and look forward to the future, a concept stemming from Janus. So much of today is traditions extending back thousands of years and terms like your Achilles’ Heel, named after the Greek warrior who died at the battle of Troy. 

It was said that when he was born, his mother dipped him in a sacred river to protect him but held him by his heel, which the water never touched. He was shot in his heel with an arrow and died. This statue shows him pulling the arrow from his heel as he died.

The Greeks were masters in creating stories handed down through the centuries—even the state of New Jersey in Latin in Nove Caesaria – the land of the new Caesar. 

Even Christmas Day, December 25th, was the feast day of the ancient sun god – Sol.

Our Republican comes from Rome, and Democracy comes from Athens. Legal Codes go back even before Babylon.

So when we celebrate New Year’s Day, let us hope the doors are slammed shut rather than wide open.

25 yr old pizza delivery man runs into burning house, saves four children who tell him another might be in the house. He goes back in, finds the girl, jumps out a window with her, and carries her to a cop

The follow-up is incredible. Read this story. He was 2 mos sober from meth when he saved those kids. Now he’s a dad and nearly 2 yrs sober. Separately, over $600K was raised in a GFM for him. Hero who deserves all the good he gets in life. https://t.co/VkJcRTBNvx

— Lauren Lee Malloy (@LaurenLee_915) January 1, 2024

JOHN PILGER, 1939-2023

John Pilger's documentaries are historically significant exposés of the cruelty and connivances of US empire, in which he gave voice to resistance movements still struggling for their sovereignty.

Films like his 1983 "Nicaragua, a nation's right to survive" inspired my own work,… pic.twitter.com/xWUiF5RVH2

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) December 31, 2023

Veteran Australian journalist John Pilger has died in London, aged 84.

Key points:

John Pilger's family have remembered him as "the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner"

The journalist and documentary-maker won an Emmy, a BAFTA and the Sydney Peace Prize during his career

He was highly critical of Western foreign policy and Australia's treatment of its Indigenous peoples

His family announced his death in a post on social media, saying Pilger's journalism and documentaries were "celebrated around the world".

"To his family, he was simply the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad, and partner," they wrote.

Pilger is survived by his son Sam and daughter Zoe.

Sam Pilger wrote on social media platform X: "I am heartbroken, but also so very proud and grateful to have had such an amazing Dad. He was my hero."

John Pilger grew up in Sydney's Bondi, before working as a reporter for the Reuters news agency and as a foreign correspondent for Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper.

In his 20s he became the first person to have won Britain's Journalist of the Year award twice.

He later moved to the United States, where he reported on the social upheaval of the late 1960s and 1970s, including the assassination of Robert Kennedy, for which he was present.