The Show Is Streaming Live At The Following Platforms (Show Will Be Archived For A Few Days):

1. Variant News At dlive.tv: https://dlive.tv/variant_news
2. Variant News On Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/variant_news
3. Variant News On Trovo.live: https://trovo.live/variant_news

Topics For The Show:

The Facts For Christmas:

• • Jesus And Christmas
    • Birth Place Of Jesus – Time And Place
      
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NZ5ZEO8t8E
    • Nativity Of Jesus
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus
    • Why Is Christmas on December 25th (Paywall?)
      • https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/12/24/why-is-christmas-on-dec-25-it-wasnt-always/
  • Commercialization
    
    • Christmas, by the numbers: 5 facts about holiday season spending
      • https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/christmas-holiday-season-shopping-retail-gifts/
    • Shop ’till you drop: a brief history of Christmas shopping
      • https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/christmas-shopping-history-commercial-victorian/
  • Christmas Holiday Origins
    • Christmas Holiday
      
      • https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christmas
    • Who is Santa Claus?
      
      • https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/santa-claus
  • Christmas Traditions
    • https://www.history.com/news/christmas-traditions-history
    • https://www.paesana.com/blog/feast-of-the-seven-fishes-an-italian-american-christmas-eve-legacy
    • https://www.momondo.com/discover/christmas-traditions-around-the-world
    • https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-12-li-6697-story.html

Current Events and Bizarro News:

• Apple / CCP Deal in 2016
  
  • https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/12/07/apple-made-secret-5-year-275b-deal-with-chinese-government
  • https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/07/apple-ceo-tim-cook-secret-deal-with-china/
• The Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability: Overview, detection, and remediation
  • https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/log4j-log4shell-vulnerability-overview-and-remediation/
  • Log4Shell & Log4j Explained – ThreatWire
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFB6JKTs5U (starts at 55 to 6:00)
• Bizarro News
  • https://ground.news/article/santa-claus-isnt-coming-to-town-covid-sparks-st-nick-shortage_f170cc
  • https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1984582211623
  • Watch “Mike Nesmith & Frank Zappa – The Monkees” on YouTube
    • https://youtu.be/dLXVz5fms10