* Guest: Becky Akers – a free-lance writer and historian whose work has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, Barron’s, the New York Post, American History Magazine, the Independent Review, Military History Magazine, the Ottawa Citizen, lewrockwell.com, forbes.com and many other publications and websites – beckyakers.wordpress.com.
* Becky Akers is also an Author: Halestorm, Abducting Arnold. the revolutionary new novels. Buy them before They’re banned!
* Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued an apology late Monday after Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all went down for several hours.
* More than five hours, the company’s family of apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were unavailable to the billions who use them. A cascade of mistakes made during maintenance on Facebook’s network caused the outage that took its services offline – Not!
* Lawmakers in the hearing explored the role that Facebook’s algorithms play in amplifying problematic content.
* Ex-Insider Frances Haugen, Says Facebook Hid Efforts to Hook Users.
* Meet In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s Venture Capital Firm – James Corbett of The Corbett Report.
Hour 2
* Facebook mysteriously goes down after whistleblower tells all.
* The Government has secretly ordered Google to track certain searches, The Washington Examiner reported – Google has defended its response to the warrants and claims it is protecting its users.
* Obama Signed Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law.
* Are You An Enemy Combatant?
* National School Boards Association: Angry Parents Are Domestic Terrorists, Biden Must Stop Them With FBI, PATRIOT Act – The NSBA wants the DHS, FBI, Secret Service, and Department of Education to investigate people who show up at school board meetings.
* Parents Refuse To Be Intimidated By Biden’s Attorney General Labeling Them Domestic Terrorists.
* Why Is The Post Office Stockpiling Ammo? Why Is the Post Office Buying Bullets? – Bloomberg.
* Why Are Federal Bureaucrats Buying Guns And Ammo? $158M Spent By Non-Military Agencies – Forbes – Education Department is just one of 53 federal administrative agencies purchasing guns and ammunition since 2006.
* Sen. Rand Paul: When Fauci was asked if Americans would be able to spend Christmas together, he said we would have to wait and see – He thinks he’s the authority on where you spend YOUR holidays – He thinks we’re just waiting for him to make OUR personal decisions.