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Keyontae Johnson’s Collapse on the Basketball Court Highlights Economic Injustice for College Athletes

cmaadmin, Diverse - 11 hours ago

When Keyontae Johnson, a 21 year old basketball player, agreed to play NCAA basketball at the University of Florida, he had no idea about the trauma that he would experience. Keyontae contracted COVID-19 in August and after passing physical screenings, he collapsed while playing basketball. He was then diagnosed with a rare heart disease that would impact him for the rest of his life. He was also placed in a medically induced coma as doctors fought to save his life. Luckily for Keyontae, he was able to recover and is back on the sidelines at the University of Florida while managing h...

U.S. Department of Education Updates College Scorecard

Arrman Kyaw, Diverse - 11 hours ago

In the interest of transparency, the U.S. Department of Education is updating College Scorecard to have it provide prospective students with “information on how well borrowers from individual colleges and universities are progressing in repaying their federal student loans, as well as how overall borrower cohorts are faring at certain intervals in the repayment process,” […]

NCAA Indefinitely Delays Vote on Student Athlete Compensation Rules

Arrman Kyaw, Diverse - 11 hours ago

The NCAA Division I Council has indefinitely delayed a vote on college athlete compensation rules, ESPN reported. The council said it needed more information before voting about whether student athletes could earn money for their name, image and likeness (NIL) State legislatures have passed laws that will make it illegal for schools in their states […]

University System of Georgia Chancellor Dr. Steve Wrigley to Retire

Arrman Kyaw, Diverse - 11 hours ago

University System of Georgia Chancellor Dr. Steve Wrigley will be retiring on July 1, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Wrigley’s departure comes as the system of 26 colleges and universities works on recent initiatives to increase graduation rates, to offer degrees in subjects to help workers seeking jobs or promotions in high-demand careers and to provide […]

University of Utah President Dr. Ruth Watkins to Step Down and Will Lead Strada Impact

Arrman Kyaw, Diverse - 11 hours ago

University of Utah President Dr. Ruth Watkins – the school’s first female president – is stepping down at the end of April, she announced Tuesday, ending her tumultuous three-year tenure, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. She will next lead education nonprofit Strada Impact, where her work will center on increasing student degree completion. “I believe […]

The CovID-19 Plandemic PerpZ are Playing a Deadly Game with Your health - Anonymous Canadian "Vaccine Panel" is new "Lord High Executioner"

greencrow, Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 57 minutes ago

*Execution by Vaccination* Good morning Readers. History tells us that the Executioners, back in the days of the Death Penalty, were all anonymous. This was for obvious reasons. Here in the modern era of mass execution via compulsory vaccination...the executioners are also anonymous. The headline below, as an example, identifies the executioners only as a "Vaccine Panel". Now I ask you...WHO are the members of the "Panel"? Are we allowed to know? Are we allowed to peruse their medical certifications? Here they are making a crucial "life or death" decision that affects US AL...

Severe floods and landslides damage more than 10 000 homes in West Java, death toll rises to 21 with 19 missing, Indonesia

The Watchers » Latest articles - 9 hours ago

Severe weather in West Java, Indonesia, has triggered severe flooding that damaged more than 10 000 homes, according to the disaster management agency BNPB. Rescue efforts continue as of January 13, 2021, to retrieve missing people after landslides hit Sumedang...... Read more »

"Opening the Gates of Hell"

CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 9 hours ago

*Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here* *"Opening the Gates of Hell"* by Bill Bonner "Some things are possible. Some are impossible. And some are just stupid." – Bill Bonner WEST RIVER, MARYLAND – "Somewhere in this once-great nation, a real revolutionary – young, angry, determined, and smart – practices before the mirror… searching for the right pose… looking for the right words…to express the outrage of those left behind, forgotten, dissed, and used by a corrupt elite. And sometime in the future, his hour come ’round at last, this Lenin will slouch towards Washington…But the feds…...

Parler’s Loss Has Been Signal’s Gain in App Store Rankings

Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 9 hours ago

*Stephen Silver* *Parler, Americas* The new most popular free app on the Apple App Store following the siege at the U.S. Capitol is the encrypted messaging app Signal, which is produced by the company of the same name. Parler, the alternative social network that has been accused of hosting many of the discussions related to last Wednesday’s Capitol insurrection, is currently offline after it was removed from Apple and Google’s app stores, and also had its web hosting pulled by Amazon Web Services. As a result, the new most popular free app on the Apple App Store is the encrypted...

Tech Industry Revenue Seen Rising 4 Percent in 2021, CTA Says

Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 9 hours ago

*Stephen Silver* *Tech Profits, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_RC1E4A968330&share=true] The coronavirus pandemic has largely been good to tech businesses. During the virtual International CES this week, the Consumer Technology Association announced its annual forecast for the consumer electronics industry. CTA says that the industry—defined as “retail sales revenue for the technology industry”—will reach $461 billion in the U.S. in 2021. That would represent a 4.3 percent increase over 2020, which was a record year. CTA,...

Japan’s Type 74 Tank was a Bust

Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 9 hours ago

*Peter Suciu* *History, Asia* Development of the tank was slowed because the designers sought to introduce innovations that proved to be too complex. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Given that it took fourteen years to develop, it is not surprising that the Type 74 was essentially obsolete by the time it entered service. Some 893 of the tanks were produced, and while it was due to be replaced by the more modern Type 90, with the end of the Cold War the 700 Type 74s remained in service until at least 2006. As an island nation that hasn’t taken part in a major conflict since th...

EXPLAINED: The Finest World War II Squad Guns

Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 9 hours ago

*Peter Suciu* *World War II Squad Guns, World* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2011%3Anewsml_GM1E75M019201&share=true] Now these are the kinds of weapons the modern, mass armies of the Axis and Allies needed. The concept of a “squad automatic weapon” was not new to the Second World War, and was in fact developed a generation earlier in the mud-soaked trenches of the First World War. The French were actually the first to deploy such a weapon, the largely disparaged Chauchat. While it suffered from design flaws it was still an innovative weapon. ...

Study: Harmful Toxins Found in Marijuana Smoke

Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 9 hours ago

*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Marijuana Smoke, Americas* High acrolein levels may be a sign of a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. People who smoke marijuana may have higher levels of toxic chemicals in their blood and urine, according to a new study conducted by scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The research, which was published in *EClinicalMedicine*, discovered that two of those chemicals—acrylonitrile and acrylamide—are considered to be toxic at high levels. The team, however, found that exposure to acrolein—a ...

Ranked: Which World War II Semi-Automatic Weapon Was the Best?

Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 9 hours ago

*Peter Suciu* *World War II Semi-Automatic, World* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2015%3Anewsml_GF10000190033&share=true] It is a classic showdown between Axis and Allies. There is no denying that the United States military’s M1 Garand was truly the best of the main battle rifles used in the Second World War. Whereas the other powers largely relied on bolt action rifles that were essentially little improved versions of what had been carried in the trenches of World War I, the American soldier and marine had some semi-automatic firepower. Yet th...

Bolsonaro Attempted to Sabotage Anti-Covid-19 Measures, Says Human Rights Watch Annual Report

Arkady Petrov, The Rio Times - 9 hours ago

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The negative action of President Jair Bolsonaro's government concerning the Covid-19 pandemic and record deforestation in the Amazon are highlights in the chapter on Brazil in the 2021 World Report of Human Rights Watch international NGO, released this Wednesday morning, January 13th. The document, in its 31st edition, assesses the […] The post Bolsonaro Attempted to Sabotage Anti-Covid-19 Measures, Says Human Rights Watch Annual Report appeared first on The Rio Times.

Section Three and (Not) Bills of Attainder

Mark Graber, Balkinization - 9 hours ago

Americans and Congress have recently discovered Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment as a means for ending the present and possible future rule of Donald Trump. My contribution is here. Andy Coan, Gerard Magliocca and Bruce Ackerman have written fine pieces. Section Three declares ineligible for state and federal office any person who has “engage(d) in insurrection” against the United States. If the events of January 6, 2021 were an insurrection against the United States and if Trump participated (important ifs), then as of that date Trump and every other participant i...

Afghanistan

Larry-Lambert, Virtual Mirage - 10 hours ago

This Day in History – 1842 Elphinstone’s Army was Massacred On January 13, 1842, a British army doctor reached the British sentry post at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong Anglo-Indian expeditionary force that was massacred in its retreat from Kabul. He told of a terrible massacre in the Khyber Pass, in which […] The post Afghanistan appeared first on Virtual Mirage.

Shapers of Slavery: The Plan

Noor al Haqiqa, SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS - 10 hours ago

By winter oak January 9, 2021 “What we are watching is a change in control and an engineering of new control systems. So think of this as a coup d’état”. So says Catherine Austin Fitts in an excellent recent video interview about what lies behind the Covid-19 agenda. It was removed by YouTube after 2.7 million views but at the time of writing was still available on vimeo. The global ruling elite are trying to install “economic totalitarianism”, she warns, a new way of ordering the world based on technocracy, transhumanism and complete control over every aspect of our lives. Sh...

Did OnlyFans Delete Trump’s Account After Capitol Attack?

Dan MacGuill, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago

The subscription-based, video-sharing service is best known as a platform for sex workers and pornography.

Meet the world's smallest giraffes that were born with dwarfism

White Wolf, White Wolf - 10 hours ago

The average height of a giraffe is around 18 feet, but scientist stumbled upon two that are half the size. Conservation scientists discovered a Nubian giraffe in Uganda that is nine feet, four inches tall and then an Angolan giraffe that stood just eight and a half feet. Baffled by both observations, the researchers could only come to one conclusion – dwarfism. Also known as skeletal dysplasia, the condition results in abnormalities bone development and is characterized by a shortened and irregularly proportioned anatomy. The dwarfism is known among humans and captive animals due to...

PBS Lawyer Resigns After Being Caught in Veritas Sting

AP News, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago

Michael Beller, a contracts lawyer in PBS' general counsel office, was recorded offering political opinions in what appeared to be a barroom conversation with a woman.

Lee Camp: America Condemns One Violent Mob While Celebrating Another

Lee Camp, MintPress News - 11 hours ago

Where is the corporate media's disgust for the courtesans of corporate destruction that wreak violence on Americans daily? The post Lee Camp: America Condemns One Violent Mob While Celebrating Another appeared first on MintPress News.

In case you're wondering why parcels and packages are still slow...

Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 11 hours ago

... it's for a very simple reason, according to The Loadstar. The torrent of parcel movement in the US has changed direction, as consumers return millions of goods ordered online in the run-up to the holidays. John Haber, president & CEO of parcel logistics consultancy Spend Management, described it as a ‘returns tsunami’ – a reference to the “parcel tsunami” analysts had predicted for online orders shipped during the peak. “Last week was the busiest week in returns in history,” he said. However, Brian Bourke, chief growth officer of Seko Logistics, said: “I wouldn’t call it...

Shrewd and the Senseless: Tweeps Who Get It and Others Who Are Useful Idiots

Teodrose Fikremariam, null - 11 hours ago

This entire article is a dedication to the slimmest of minorities, by that I’m referring to the truly awakened denizens on Twitter. In a wasteland The post Shrewd and the Senseless: Tweeps Who Get It and Others Who Are Useful Idiots appeared first on .

HSBC Bank Say They May Close Accounts Of Those Refusing To Wear Face Masks

James Allard, OYE Alternative News - 12 hours ago

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Trump Impeachment 2.0: Necessity Or Farce?

Daniel McAdams, null - 10 hours ago

After the January 6th mob ruckus inside the US Capitol building, the US House, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, rushed to put together articles of impeachment (again) for President Trump. Trump, they claim, led an insurrection on that day and must be held accountable. Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley recently wrote in The Hill of the dangers of lowering the bar for impeachment. Do the House Democrats have a point that Trump must be removed from office days before he is removed from office, or is Impeachment 2.0 as much of a farce as Impeachment 1.0? Watch today's Liberty Rep...

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/13/2021

Lambert Strether, naked capitalism - 10 hours ago

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, again the extraordinary volume of material and my (thanks, Tim [snarls]) Apple-driven workflow woes have me behind the eight-ball. I will sort through more material and write a continuation of yesterday’s essay, hopefully by 3:00PM. –lambert Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this […]

M1 Abrams: Why Father Time Hasn't Killed This 'Old' Tank

Mark Episkopos, The National Interest - 10 hours ago

*Mark Episkopos* *M1 Abrams, Americas* [image: https://nationalinterest.org/tag/m1a2-sep-v4-abram] In fact, even more upgrades are on the way. The M1 Abrams has proven to be a remarkably long-lived and versatile main battle tank (MBT), spawning dozens of variants over its four decades of service in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. The M1’s latest rendition is the M1A2C, an upgrade packed with modern features to sustain the M1 platform into the coming decades. But an even more advanced M1 revision looms on the horizon. Whereas some M1 variants are geared for a specialized purpose ...

ISIS, Reborn: The Islamic State’s African Revival is a Lethal Blind Spot

Jordan Cope, The National Interest - 10 hours ago

*Jordan Cope* *ISIS Africa, Africa* With four burgeoning safe havens, ISIS has revived in Sub-Sahara and could be deadlier than ever. Before 9/11, many forget that Osama Bin Laden largely made a name for himself in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Sudan, he conceived his Islamic Army Shura, laying “the groundwork for a true global terrorist network” known as Al Qaeda. There, Bin Laden largely began to call for jihad against Western forces and gained the prowess to export terrorism against American targets, hence Al Qaeda's attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, just two years a...

Health Official: UK Now Entering ‘Worst Point’ of Coronavirus Pandemic

Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 10 hours ago

*Ethen Kim Lieser* *UK Coronavirus, Europe* With more than three million cases, the UK recently became the fifth country worldwide to reach that grim figure, according to the latest data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The United Kingdom should prepare for the “worst point” of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as even more cases and deaths will likely be seen in the coming weeks, England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty warned. “We’re now at the worst point of this epidemic for the UK,” he said Monday in an interview with the BBC. “In the future, we will have the vaccin...

History Mystery: Why Did Hitler Target Poland in 1939?

Warfare History Network, The National Interest - 10 hours ago

*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* The decision to invade Poland was one in a series of risky moves that led to World War II. *Here's What You Need to Know*: Hitler’s great gamble for a Nazi invasion of Poland succeeded at the cost of 48,000 casualties. Historians often compare Adolf Hitler to a gambler. He kept making risky bets that paid off time and again—until they didn’t. Poland was one example because it led to general war. What brought Hitler to take this risk? With the benefit of hindsight it is seen as enormous, but what did the situation look like to the Germa...

Streaming Rules, Cable Drools: Cord-Cutting to Continue in 2021

Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 10 hours ago

*Stephen Silver* *Technology, Americas* The coronavirus has accelerated cord-cutting trends that were already underway, to a point where less than 50 percent of U.S. households today have a cable subscription. One of the more notable trends in entertainment consumption in the pandemic year of 2020 was that trends towards cord-cutting, which had been growing for many years, began to accelerate significantly. Millions of Americans got rid of pay TV throughout the year, especially in the first half, which sent many of the companies owning cable and satellite services scrambling to ...

Upgrade Time: Meet the New M1A2SEPv3 Abrams Tank

Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 10 hours ago

*Kris Osborn* *Security, Americas* [image: The military may well acquire thousands of the high-advanced new Abrams variant.] The military may well acquire thousands of the high-advanced new Abrams variant. The Army is making a massive, $4.62 billion buy of the emerging, upgraded variant of the Abrams tank, signaling continued confidence in the value of heavy armor and bringing a wide sphere of new combat attack-enhancing technologies. The concept with the M1A2SEPv3 Abrams variant, also known as the M1A2C tank, is to bring new technologies, firepower, computing, high-fidelity se...

SpaceX further tests Startship SN9 rockets. Test flight coming?

CFACT Ed, CFACT - 10 hours ago

SpaceX is testing the rockets of Starship SN9. Keep an eye for the test flight to follow. Starship may be the ship that will carry Americans back to the Moon and on to Mars. We are living a renaissance moment for Americans in space. WATCH NOW The post SpaceX further tests Startship SN9 rockets. Test flight coming? appeared first on CFACT.

Is President Trump's Approval Rating Cratering In His Final Days? My Analysis Of The Polls Says No

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 10 hours ago

United States President Donald Trump's account: Jim Bourg/Reuters *WNU Editor:* It is interesting to watch and read the debate that is ongoing over President Trump's approval numbers. On the one hand there is Rasmussen's Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (the only pollster who is doing daily polls) showing President Trump's approval numbers ranging from 46% to 49% since last week (*link here*). Their methodology on how they conduct their tracking poll has not changed since the election, and it should be pointed out that Rasmussen was one of the most accurate pollsters in predictin...

Was an ‘Anti-Antifa’ Shirt Worn at US Capitol Riot?

Dan Evon, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago

To be clear, the word antifa is short for anti-fascist.

Louisiana Woman Convulses Uncontrollably after Being Injected with the Experimental Pfizer COVID Shot – “I can’t stand to see my mom this way it makes me want to cry knowing I can’t do anything to help her.”

AdminM, Medical Kidnap - 10 hours ago

Brant Griner of Lake Charles, Louisiana has posted a video of his mother on his Facebook account convulsing uncontrollably after receiving the experimental Pfizer COVID shot. "This is what the Pfizer covid19 vaccine has done to my Mom. Everyone please pray for her. She was admitted to the hospital. And be cautious about taking the vaccine. I'm sure it is good for some people but you need to think about is this vaccine worth taking? It's not for me. Please share this post we need help finding answers. Update 1-12-21: Mom Is getting even worse today and still don't have any answers f...

Did YouTube Bar Trump From Posting New Videos to His Channel?

Dan MacGuill, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago

The outgoing president found himself frozen out of online platforms for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Italian Navy Cavour Aircraft Carrier To Start F-35B STOVL Aircraft Qualifications With The U.S. Marine Corps Next Month

David Cenciotti, The Aviationist - 10 hours ago

The Cavour aircraft carrier will carry out F-35B STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) qualification off the U.S. East Coast. The Italian Navy Cavour aircraft carrier is about to start qualification with the new F-35B, [...] The post Italian Navy Cavour Aircraft Carrier To Start F-35B STOVL Aircraft Qualifications With The U.S. Marine Corps Next Month appeared first on The Aviationist.

Virginia looks poised to legalize adult-use cannabis market

Jeff Smith, Marijuana Business Daily - 11 hours ago

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration announced an adult-use cannabis legalization plan that would impose a 21% excise tax and provide some licensing preferences for individuals and entities harmed by the war on drugs. Adult-use marijuana sales would begin Jan. 1, 2023, under the proposal, which looks as if it has a good chance of succeeding […] Virginia looks poised to legalize adult-use cannabis market is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs

Today’s demonstrators have no real goals beyond snapping that protest selfie

Geopolitics101, Covert Geopolitics - 11 hours ago

A revolution needs two elements to succeed: ‘people power’ conspicuously disrupting normal life, and demands that differ from the current regime’s. Without those, it’s a theatrical, easily hijacked mob: see the US since 2001. While the US was founded in a revolution, somewhere along the way its inhabitants forgot how to successfully stage one – … Continue reading Today’s demonstrators have no real goals beyond snapping that protest selfie →

“Shakespeare in Love” and the Humanity of Business.

Alberto Mingardi, Econlib - 11 hours ago

I’m reading Tom Stoppard’s biography by Hermione Lee. I never thought I could read 900 pages on a subject previously unimportant to me with such delight. It is a marvelous book. Stoppard’s life is interesting and eventful, it provides a good glimpse into the world of culture and entertainment in the last quarter of the […] The post “Shakespeare in Love” and the Humanity of Business. appeared first on Econlib.

Shale: Where does Energy on our Planet Come From?

GCD, ClimateCite Corp - 12 hours ago

Shale Magazine featured the ClimateCite article “Where does Energy on our Planet Come From” in their Jan/Feb 2021 issue. Download PDF This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it.

New York appears better positioned than before to legalize $2 billion-plus recreational marijuana market

Jeff Smith, Marijuana Business Daily - 13 hours ago

Facing massive budget woes and legalization in neighboring New Jersey, politicians in New York are set to take another crack at legalizing a recreational marijuana market that could generate more than $2 billion in sales – and this time, the odds look better. Gov. Andrew Cuomo renewed the pledge last week to legalize recreational marijuana […] New York appears better positioned than before to legalize $2 billion-plus recreational marijuana market is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs

Open Borders and the Environment

Bryan Caplan, Econlib - 14 hours ago

My Open Borders neglects two major worries about immigration. The first is contagious disease; I did not see that one coming, though I try to remedy my oversight here. The second omission is less excusable. Somehow I failed to address immigration’s environmental effects. Here’s what I should have said – and what I will say […] The post Open Borders and the Environment appeared first on Econlib.

Trump Supporters Put On Federal “NO FLY” List

Galen, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago

Real Raw News Update: Acting DHS Sec. Chad Wolfe resinged Monday evening, serveral hours after we broke this story. Not sure if there’s a connection,... The post Trump Supporters Put On Federal “NO FLY” List appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

US Capitol Special Agent David Bailey Who Murdered Ashli Babbitt is a Brazilian Immigrant and Black Lives Matter Militant

Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago

Redpilled Media Earlier today, REDPILED Media released an exclusive report identifying Ashli Babbitt’s killer as US Capitol Special Agent David Bailey — the same man... The post US Capitol Special Agent David Bailey Who Murdered Ashli Babbitt is a Brazilian Immigrant and Black Lives Matter Militant appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

Does a Photo Show Rep. Boebert With Insurrectionists on US Capitol Steps?

Dan Evon, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago

This is not the first controversy to surround U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert since the U.S. Capitol riot.

Louisiana Woman Convulses Uncontrollably after Being Injected with the Experimental Pfizer COVID Shot – “I can’t stand to see my mom this way it makes me want to cry knowing I can’t do anything to help her.”

Brian-Admin, Health Impact News - 11 hours ago

Brant Griner of Lake Charles, Louisiana has posted a video of his mother on his Facebook account convulsing uncontrollably after receiving the experimental Pfizer COVID shot. "This is what the Pfizer covid19 vaccine has done to my Mom. Everyone please pray for her. She was admitted to the hospital. And be cautious about taking the vaccine. I'm sure it is good for some people but you need to think about is this vaccine worth taking? It's not for me. Please share this post we need help finding answers. Update 1-12-21: Mom Is getting even worse today and still don't have any answers f...

Massive Blackout in Iran Days After Similar Reports from Pakistan, Vatican

Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago

IBT – by Johnlee Varghese There are multiple reports of a massive power outage that is being reported across Iran, sparking conspiracy theories of a... The post Massive Blackout in Iran Days After Similar Reports from Pakistan, Vatican appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

ONE PISSED OFF DOCTOR – MASKS ARE KILLING YOU – TAKE THEM OFF NOW!

Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago

Jim Fetzer January 12th, 2021. Dr. Eric N: “You have to understand, the system is set up to kill people right now.” … “It is... The post ONE PISSED OFF DOCTOR – MASKS ARE KILLING YOU – TAKE THEM OFF NOW! appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

Pollsters say, Public Opposes Impeachment

Alexander Mercouris, The Duran - 11 hours ago

Pollsters say, Public Opposes Impeachment News Topic 16: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll – Rasmussen Reports: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, Sponsored by SLANTED from Sharyl Attkisson, for Wednesday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove. The latest figures include […]

UNIVERSE – Sabbath

Hal Apeeno, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago

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Green New Deal ideologies, fantasies and realities

Robert, Ice Age Now - 11 hours ago

“Your life, living standards, country and planet will take a big hit under the Green New Deal,” writes Paul Driessen. Electricity costs would double, triple, quadruple – or much worse. __________ “We’re now barely a week away from a Biden Administration that is focused like a laser on “dangerous manmade climate change” and replacing fossil ... Read more The post Green New Deal ideologies, fantasies and realities appeared first on Ice Age Now.

Greenwald DEBUNKS Parler Jan. 6 narrative. Protestors used FB & Twitter

Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 11 hours ago

Greenwald DEBUNKS Parler Jan. 6 narrative. Protestors used FB & Twitter ****News Topic 247***** How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered. How Silicon Valley, in a Show […]

Big Tech Cleans House! – Everything We Want You To Think

A Reader, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago

AwakenWithJP Jan 12, 2021 The post Big Tech Cleans House! – Everything We Want You To Think appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

The Future of the Coronavirus? An Annoying Childhood Infection

Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 12 hours ago

New York Times – by Apoorva Mandavilli As millions are inoculated against the coronavirus, and the pandemic’s end finally seems to glimmer into view, scientists... The post The Future of the Coronavirus? An Annoying Childhood Infection appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

Hancock (2008) – Call Me A**hole One More Time Scene

Mark Schumacher, From the Trenches World Report - 12 hours ago

Movieclips Jun 5, 2017 Hancock – Call Me A**hole One More Time: Hancock (Will Smith) visits Ray (Jason Bateman) to get help with his public... The post Hancock (2008) – Call Me A**hole One More Time Scene appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

Alex Jones Hangs Himself … AGAIN!!

Hal Apeeno, From the Trenches World Report - 12 hours ago

HighImpactFlix January 11th, 2021. The post Alex Jones Hangs Himself … AGAIN!! appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

Fort Capitol: Hundreds of National Guard troops sleep with their rifles on Congress stone floor to safeguard Biden inauguration

A Reader, From the Trenches World Report - 12 hours ago

Daily Mail Hundreds of National Guard troops are sleeping on the stone floor of the US Capitol as security intensifies in Washington DC and the... The post Fort Capitol: Hundreds of National Guard troops sleep with their rifles on Congress stone floor to safeguard Biden inauguration appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

Citing the American Revolution … Baraga County Officials Revolt Against State COVID Orders

Hal Apeeno, From the Trenches World Report - 12 hours ago

Michigan Cap Con – by Tom Gantert Several Baraga County commissioners, plus the sheriff, prosecuting attorney, clerk, and treasurer of the Upper Peninsula county, have... The post Citing the American Revolution … Baraga County Officials Revolt Against State COVID Orders appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

House Impeachment Report Partly Based on Media Stories

Alexander Mercouris, The Duran - 12 hours ago

House Impeachment Report Partly Based on Media Stories News Topic 15: Document: Article of Impeachment and House Judiciary Report – Lawfare Document: Article of Impeachment and House Judiciary Report The House Judiciary Committee has released a report to accompany the article of impeachment against President Trump that will be voted on tomorrow, Jan. 13. Both […]

Heavy snowfall in several regions of Morocco

Robert, Ice Age Now - 12 hours ago

Snow depths for the last 24 hours in Morocco Here are the snow depths recorded on Tuesday, January 12, by the general direction of meteorology: Province of Ifrane: Bakrite Kechla: 80 cm Ifrane city: 75 cm Ifrane-Aero: 40 cm Michlifen: 70/65 cm Azrou: 25 cm Habri: 75/70 cm Jbel hayane: 90/80 cm Timhdit: 60cm Dayet ... Read more The post Heavy snowfall in several regions of Morocco appeared first on Ice Age Now.

Uganda bans Twitter for election meddling. Twitter CRIES "censorship"

Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 12 hours ago

Uganda bans Twitter for election meddling. Twitter CRIES “censorship” ****News Topic 246***** BASED: Government of Uganda Bans Twitter From Country After Censorship, Election Interference BASED: Government of Uganda Bans Twitter From Country After Censorship, Election Interference – Big League Politics The encrypted communications app Telegram has surpassed 500 million active users, the platform announced on […]

Police lose control with maskless father in Northern Ireland supermarket

Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 12 hours ago

Police lose control with maskless father in Northern Ireland supermarket ****News Topic 245***** What happens when you don’t wear a mask in Northern Ireland… What happens when you don’t wear a mask in Northern Ireland… Imagine seeing this a year ago Boris Johnson has completely lost the plot… When you don’t wear your mask in […]

HSBC Threatens to Close Accounts of Customers Who Refuse to ‘Mask-up’

NEWS WIRE, 21st Century Wire - 11 hours ago

*21WIRE* | Are we now seeing the final steps of an extreme social engineering agenda being implemented?

Hong Kong records its coldest temperature since 1988, large scale crop damage reported

The Watchers » Latest articles - 11 hours ago

Hong Kong has registered its coldest temperature since 1988 as the mercury in Ta Kwu Ling hit 0.9 °C (33.6 °F) on Wednesday morning, January 13, 2021. According to The Standard, temperatures plummeted below the freezing point in some parts of New Territories...... Read more »

Making US Propaganda Exceptional Again: Mike Pompeo’s Voice Of America Speech

Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof - 11 hours ago

During the final days of Donald Trump's presidency, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo renewed his efforts to incite greater conflict between the United States and Iran. He also used Voice of America (VOA) to broadcast a speech that a group of whistleblowers described as "political propaganda." The post Making US Propaganda Exceptional Again: Mike Pompeo’s Voice Of America Speech appeared first on Shadowproof.

Will Senate Republicans Start President Trump's Impeachment Trial This Friday?

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago

*Reuters:* *As House deliberates, Senate Republicans mull starting Trump impeachment trial Friday* WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. House of Representatives moved on Wednesday toward a vote on impeaching President Donald Trump, Republican leaders in the Senate weighed whether to launch a trial on Friday on whether to remove him from office, a source familiar with the deliberations said, though no final decision was reached. The internal Senate discussions were unfolding as the Democratic-controlled House sped toward impeaching the president for his role in last week’s siege o...

Five Republicans Voting For The Impeachment Of President Trump?

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago

The House voted 223 to 205 in favor of a resolution that urges Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove President Donald Trump from office after he incited Wednesday's Capitol Hill riot. GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger voted alongside Democrats *Daily Mail:** BREAKING NEWS: House starts debate on impeaching Donald Trump for 'incitement of insurrection' after GOP's Liz Cheney says she will vote to impeach - and even Republicans who will vote against slam Trump as 'reckless' * * The House of Representatives started debating impeaching President Donald Trump for a ...

Did PGA of America Ban Trump Golf Courses for Life?

Nur Ibrahim, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago

Professional golf distanced itself from U.S. President Donald Trump after the Capitol riot.

Scientists May Have Detected a Signal That Could Change Astronomy Forever

zedie, SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 11 hours ago

Scientists May Have Detected a Signal That Could Change Astronomy Forever https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpep5/scientists-may-have-detected-a-signal-that-could-change-astronomy-forever?utm_content=1610462058&utm_medium=social&utm_source=motherboard_twitter

Hundreds Of Armed National Guard Troops In The Capital Building (Photo-Gallery)

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago

*Daily Mail:* *Fort Capitol: Incredible Congress scenes as hundreds of National Guard troops sleep with their rifles on stone floor as lawmakers step over them ahead of Biden inauguration * * The troops, who descended on DC in the wake of last week's MAGA mob riots, were spotted cradling their weapons as they slept on the floor of the Capitol on Wednesday morning * Lawmakers entering the building walked by the sleeping troops as they lined the hallways * The National Guard has been authorized to send a total of 15,000 troops to Washington to help safeguard the capital ahead of ...

Did Rep. Pramila Jayapal Go Maskless in Congress?

Dan Evon, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago

Rumors swirled after a pro-Trump mob broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Red Flags Everywhere Because Humans are Not Rational

Majia's Blog, Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago

I am a student of history and philosophy. Grounded in these traditions I have concluded that although individual people and small groups are capable of *reason*, too often other impulses drive human behavior. I believe that the capacity to be reasonable in the best Enlightenment understanding of that concept, depends upon enabling social/economic circumstances that temper other impulses that derive from desperation, fear, anxiety, anger, greed, thanatos, etc. Unfortunately we are now in a time when enabling social/economic circumstances are fracturing and the institutional supp...

‘Israeli aggression against Syria will not stop until real confrontation’: Hamas

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 12 hours ago

[image: ‘Israeli aggression against Syria will not stop until real confrontation’: Hamas] BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:30 P.M.) – The Hamas Movement issued a statement on Wednesday that condemned the recent Israeli airstrikes on the Deir Ezzor Governorate of Syria. In a statement carried by the Palestinian Media Center and Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Hamas said that “the Israeli aggression against Syria will not stop, except with a real confrontation to the occupation,” The spokesman for the Hamas Movement, Hazem Qassem, described the Israeli airstrikes on eastern Syria as a “renewed cri...

Covid-19 under Apartheid: How Israel Manipulates Suffering of Palestinians

Ramzy Baroud, MintPress News - 12 hours ago

While Israel’s behavior is not entirely surprising, it is consistent with the sordid reality of military occupation and institutional racism, it is also self-defeating. The post Covid-19 under Apartheid: How Israel Manipulates Suffering of Palestinians appeared first on MintPress News.

Airbnb to Block, Cancel DC Bookings Ahead of Inauguration

AP News, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago

The decision was in response to various local, state and federal officials asking people not to travel to Washington, D.C.

 A Nation Imploding: Digital Tyranny, Insurrection and Martial Law

John Whitehead, MintPress News - 12 hours ago

This is what we have been reduced to: A violent mob. A nation on the brink of martial law. A populace under house arrest. A techno-corporate state wielding its power to immobilize huge swaths of the country. And a Constitution in tatters. The post A Nation Imploding: Digital Tyranny, Insurrection and Martial Law appeared first on MintPress News.

Iranian scientists urge IRGC to shoot down intruding US B-52 bombers

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 13 hours ago

[image: Iranian scientists urge IRGC to shoot down intruding US B-52 bombers] Hundreds of Iranian scientists have urged the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force to destroy any US warplanes, especially B-52 bombers, and American warships if they trepass Iran’s borders, the FARS news agency reports. In a letter to IRGC Aerospace Commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh signed by 840 university professors, they reportedly referred to him as the “Conquerer of Ayn al-Asad”, in an apparent nod to the IRGC Aerospace Force’s missile strikes on a US airba...

Saint Anthony Fauci: The Hidden History

Alexander Rubinstein, MintPress News - 13 hours ago

What the media won't tell you about Dr. Anthony Fauci. The post Saint Anthony Fauci: The Hidden History appeared first on MintPress News.

Iraqi court issued arrest warrant for Donald Trump after meeting with Iranian officials

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 13 hours ago

[image: Iraqi court issued arrest warrant for Donald Trump after meeting with Iranian officials] BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:00 P.M.) – The Iranian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the arrest warrant issued by the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council against the American President, Donald Trump, was announced after close follow-up by Tehran and the concerned authorities. Last Thursday, the Rusafa District Investigation Court in Baghdad issued an arrest warrant against President Trump, on charges of assassinating the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, and hi...

Palestinian and Israeli forces trade attacks in southern Gaza

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago

[image: Palestinian and Israeli forces trade attacks in southern Gaza] BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:30 P.M.) – On Wednesday, the borders of the Gaza Strip witnessed a round of mutual bombardment between the Israeli army and the Palestinian forces. The Israeli army spokesman, Avichay Adraee, said via his Twitter account that an Israeli tank had bombed two Hamas sites, in response to a double-fire attack on an engineering vehicle belonging to it from the Gaza Strip. Adraee said the Israeli vehicle was carrying out a leveling operation at the western end of the security fence at the southern en...

The Coronavirus Games: A Geopolitical Spy Story

bpriestap, Lawfare - 14 hours ago

Army Spc. Angel Laureano holds a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., Dec. 14, 2020. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando) *The coronavirus pandemic offered an opportunity for cooperation and coordination among nations. Early on, the World Health Organization (WHO) in coordination with other organizations, created a worldwide cooperative initiative, including the COVAX effort to provide a vaccine to developing countries. Most nations chose to support or participate in this effort—the United States being a notable exception. But outsid...

Assessing the Vulnerabilities Equities Process, Three Years After the VEP Charter

awilson, Lawfare - 15 hours ago

On Nov. 15, 2017, the White House released a charter for the administration’s once-shadowy Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP). Advocates initially hailed this as a welcome first step to reforming the much-criticized VEP. But three years later, as the Trump administration comes to a close, the government has failed to deliver on its promises of greater transparency. Established by the Obama administration, the VEP outlines the procedure through which the government weighs various considerations in determining when to disclose software vulnerabilities and when to exploit them f...

Congress Can Affirm What “Except In Cases of Impeachment” Means

Corey Brettschneider, Balkinization - 9 hours ago

My latest with Jeffrey K. Tulis in the Washington Post Monkey Cage on why Congress should clarify limits on pardons directly connected to "cases of impeachment." This is the latest in our argument against the traditional interpretation of that phrase. We were prompted to write it partly by Rep. Clyburn's discussion of our favored approach in this debate. We wanted to affirm the important role Congress plays in this debate.

Greg Hunter, "Expect the System to Go Down"

CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 10 hours ago

*"Expect the System to Go Down"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter says be prepared for major financial instability. Holter contends, “This is the biggest financial bubble in all of history by far, by orders of magnitude. So, it doesn’t matter who is running the show, the wheels are going to fall off. The question in my mind is whether it’s going to go down under the rule of law or not under the rule of law. Under a Left regime, there is a rule of law for everyone else and no rule of law for them.” How bad is the global debt p...

Renewable Energy Transition Key to Addressing Climate Change Challenge

Global Issues News Headlines - 11 hours ago

BONN, Germany, Jan 13 (IPS) - 2021 is going to be critical, not only for curbing the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, but also for meeting the climate challenge. But as Dr Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) was clear to point out, the climate challenge is essentially an energy challenge. And as large polluters continue to commit to targets of net zero emissions by 2050, the world could -- in theory -- potentially address the climate challenge. Read the full story, “Renewable Energy Transition Key to Addressing Climate Change Challenge”, o...

Can the World Tackle the Food Insecurity Crisis in 2021?

Global Issues News Headlines - 11 hours ago

Jan 13 (IPS) - The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity and disrupted food systems and food supply chains in developed and developing countries alike. In the United States, millions of Americans struggle to put food on the table. Around the world, according to the United Nations over 270 million are hungry, and this is expected to continue to increase. Read the full story, “Can the World Tackle the Food Insecurity Crisis in 2021?”, on globalissues.org →

Why is Resistance Common in Antibiotics, but Rare in Vaccines?

Celia Souque, Louis du Plessis, The National Interest - 11 hours ago

*Celia Souque, Louis du Plessis* *Coronavirus, * Should we be worried about the new vaccines losing efficacy? Luckily, the novel coronavirus has a proof-reading mechanism that reduces the errors it makes when replicating its genome, and means mutations occur much less frequently than in flu viruses. Antibiotic resistance is a worldwide problem to the extent that there is a grave risk that common infections will soon become untreatable. Meanwhile, vaccines developed nearly a century ago still protect us from deadly diseases. What might explain this difference? Bacteria have evolv...

South Korea Working on $360,000 Video Room for North Korea Talks

Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 11 hours ago

*Stephen Silver* *South Korea Video Room, Asia* The report comes after the president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, announced that he would meet with North Korean president Kim Jong-un, “anytime, anywhere.” The room, however, was in the works prior to Moon’s speech, NK News said. Back during the Cold War, the leaders of the United States and Soviet Union famously communicated using a special hotline. It was known colloquially, at least on the American side, as “the red telephone,” although the communications device was actually neither red nor a telephone. Now, the government of S...

Takeovers: A Tidal Wave of Business Buyouts is Coming in 2021

Karl Schmedders, Patrick Reinmoeller, The National Interest - 11 hours ago

*Karl Schmedders, Patrick Reinmoeller* *Business, * The coronavirus pandemic has jeapordized many business models and condemned others completely. Luxury goods giant LVMH has completed its US$15.8 billion (£11.6 billion) mega-deal to buy famous American jeweller Tiffany & Co. LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, originally agreed to pay US$16.2 billion for Tiffany in 2019, but the market has sufficiently changed since the pandemic that it was able to talk down the premium. It’s just one example of the fire that the COVID-19 pandemic has ignited in many industries. There has been a su...

How Big Was the Crowd That Stormed the Capitol?

Steve Doig, The National Interest - 11 hours ago

*Steve Doig* *Politics, The Americas* It is difficult, if not impossible, to estimate the size of the crowd that stormed Capitol Hill because there is no aerial imagery. *Editor’s note: Stephen Doig is a data journalist and journalism professor at Arizona State University. In this interview, he explains good techniques for estimating crowd sizes, and why the absence of aerial imagery makes it difficult to estimate the size of the crowd that stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday.* *What’s your estimate for how many people were in the crowd that broke into the Capitol?* I can’t readi...

Japan Will Buy a Lot More F-35 Stealth Fighters

Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 11 hours ago

*Kris Osborn* *Japan F-35, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC1663188DB0&share=true] The move comes and Tokyo seeks to modernize its air force in the face of North Korea and China. Japan has decided upon making a massive, $23 billion F-35 stealth fighter purchase as part of a specific and decided strategic plan to counter Chinese and North Korean threats in Asia and replace its aging, yet high-performing, fleet of F-15J fighter jets. In total, Japan appears to be buying nearly seventy F-35As and forty-two F-35Bs as part of a ...

Review Iraqi Statesman, A portrait of Mohammed Fadhel Jamali

Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago

*Almond, Harry, **Iraqi Statesman, A portrait of Mohammed Fadhel Jamali**, Salem: Grosvenor Books, 1993* Mohammed Jamali had humble beginnings growing up in Baghdad under the Ottomans. What changed his life was going to a secular school that opened the door to a university education, international travel and then joining the Iraqi government under the monarchy where he worked in the Education Ministry, was the Foreign Minister several times and even held the prime ministership for a short period. *Iraqi Statesman, A portrait of Mohamed Fadhel Jamali* is a biography of his life...

This Day In Iraqi History - Jan 13

Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago

1916 Ottomans retreated 10 mil up Tigris after defeat of Battle of Sheikh Saad and were beaten again by British at Battle of Wadi 1968 6 ministers from Pres Arif’s govt resigned after anti-govt protests demanded return to democracy 1972 Bakr govt said it would take power away from Iraq Petroleum Company 1983 Report China was supplying both Iraq and Iran with weapons during Iran-Iraq War 1987 Iran Op Karbala 5 Used night attack to advance 2 miles towards Basra city Caused 1000 Iraqi casualties Iran accused Iraq of using poison gas to repulse attack Iranian casualties so...

DSA’s Moment Of Truth

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago

Now that Democrats control the House, Senate, and the Presidency, expectations have been raised around covid relief, rent relief, a Green New Deal, cancelling student debt and Medicare For All. Covid has especially elevated the demand of Medicare For All: the trillion dollar healthcare industry that annually leaves tens of thousands of uninsured dying unnecessary deaths — while bankrupting hundreds of thousands more — has proven a historic failure in the face of the pandemic, while pushing millions more into the realm of the uninsured. The totality of the disaster is similar to a ...

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Jenna Orkin, From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 13 hours ago

From Jenna Orkin School board locks teachers out of virtual classrooms, threatens to dock pay if they don't report to class Bronx State Senator Who Chairs Crime Victims Committee Surrenders To Police For Allegedly Choking Wife 2021: More troubles likely Dodger Stadium to halt COVID-19 testing, shift to vaccination site Exxon’s Mega Oil Finds In Guyana Are Just The Beginning Twitter blocks 70,000 QAnon accounts after US Capitol riot Sheldon Adelson, Republican kingmaker and casino magnate, has died at 87 What is Gab? The far-right social media site that Google and Apple banned and tha...

Capitol Police Show Why We Need To Defund The Police

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago

On January 6, we witnessed the vast double standard for how Black Lives Matter protest is treated versus how white-supremacy-as-mob is treated. This wasn’t just a matter of police refraining from mass beating and arresting participants in the pro-Trump storming of the Capitol: Numerous police appear to have actively supported the mob, and to have defended it after the fact. First, it’s important to clarify that what happened on January 6 was not a protest. Protest is about seeking redress for wrongdoing — this was backlash. Redress was the November 3 democratic process and recrimi...

An Apology For A Massacre

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago

Greensborough, NC - Public accountability for their actions often awaits evildoers who hurt people. For many who spilled onto the streets in a mood of relief, jubilation and celebration at the election news of a soon-to-be outgoing president, a day of reckoning for the nation had come. Only weeks earlier, a Southern city cautiously enacted its overdue moral reckoning with an apology for a massacre. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous proclamation, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice,” is an applicable lens for these events. On November 3, 1979...

Corporations #Resist Trump By Cutting Funding For Republicans

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago

Dozens of large corporations are stopping all donations to the political parties and their politicians in the wake of the right-wing storming of the Capitol last Wednesday. In many cases, they’ve targeted specifically the 147 Republicans who refused to certify the Electoral College vote. The latter group includes MasterCard, American Express, Dow Chemical, and others Even Blue Cross Blue Shield, whose PAC has supported Republicans in every election since 1996, withdrew money from members of Congress who challenged the election results. And it’s going even further: an internal em...

Armenian soldier badly wounded after unprovoked attack by Azerbaijani forces

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago

[image: Armenian soldier badly wounded after unprovoked attack by Azerbaijani forces] BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:20 P.M.) – The Chief of Presidential Staff of the Artsakh Republic, Artak Beglaryan, announced on Wednesday that a soldier was badly wounded in an unprovoked attack on their forces by the Azerbaijani army. “Azerbaijan today violated the ceasefire in the central direction of the frontline & heavily wounded a soldier of #Artsakh#Karabakh Defense Army, as reported by @Karabakh_MoD,” Beglaryan said via his Twitter account. . “This is a serious violation & should be investigated & rea...

The Capitol Insurrection, A View from Inside

Kate, Small Dead Animals - 14 hours ago

“We did it, we did it. We showed them that this is our house.” This is essential viewing for a full understanding of what happened at the Capitol on January 6th. The interview lasts over 2 hours, and covers a number of topics. It’s helpfully timestamped by topic at the Youtube page. (Click on the… Continue reading →

Iranian army announces a new move in the Red Sea

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago

[image: Iranian army announces a new move in the Red Sea] BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:40 P.M.) – On Wednesday, the Iranian army announced a new move in the Red Sea, which would enable it to protect Iran’s interests in this region. The Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Muhammad Bagheri, said on Wednesday, as reported by the Tasnim News Agency: “We will conduct maritime patrols in the Red Sea.” According to Bagheri, the new patrols will enhance the Iranian military’s ability to secure its maritime waters and monitor the activities of their enemies. Continu...

‘Dangerous escalation’: Ethiopian warplane enters Sudanese airspace

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago

[image: ‘Dangerous escalation’: Ethiopian warplane enters Sudanese airspace] BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:20 P.M.) – On Wednesday, Khartoum announced that an Ethiopian military plane had penetrated Sudanese airspace, describing the incident as a dangerous escalation, and warned of “serious consequences.” The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement: “In a dangerous and unjustified escalation, an Ethiopian military aircraft penetrated the Sudanese-Ethiopian borders, which could have serious consequences and cause more tension in the border region.” The statement added: “The Sud...

The Office and Ozark Were Streaming Champions in 2020, Nielsen Says at CES

Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 12 hours ago

*Stephen Silver* *Technology, Americas* Nielsen has pointed out that the streaming audience has become more fragmented. In a briefing at the virtual CES Tuesday, Nielsen provided a report about streaming in 2020, the year the pandemic caused streaming usage to skyrocket. The report, delivered by Nielsen’s senior vice president of product, strategy and thought leadership Brian Fuhrer, both looked at trends in viewership, and the most popular shows overall. The biggest trends, according to Nielsen, were that overall streaming is growing, both kids movies and episodic releases “wi...

Sorry Trump, But Capital Punishment Doesn't Deter Murder

David P. Barash, The National Interest - 12 hours ago

*David P. Barash* *Criminal Justice System, The Americas* It is tempting to think that severe penalties would effectively reduce crime, with the most extreme penalty – death – reducing the most serious crime, notably murder. But there is simply no compelling evidence that it does. Three more federal inmates are slated to be executed before the end of President Donald Trump’s term, though the first received a stay hours before she was slated to die on Jan. 12. Ten have already been put to death since the Trump administration announced in July 2019 that it would resume executions ...

Trump's Challenges to Democracy Will Be a Major Problem for Biden

James D. Long, Victor Menaldo, The National Interest - 12 hours ago

*James D. Long, Victor Menaldo* *Politics, The Americas* The biggest threats to democracy Trump poses won’t emerge until after he exits the White House – when Biden will have to face the Trump presidency’s most serious challenges. When a mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and stopped Congress from certifying Joe Biden as the nation’s next president, it was scary – and fatal for at least five people. But it did not pose a serious threat to the nation’s democracy. An attempt at an illegal power grab somehow keeping Donald Trump in the Oval Office was never likely to happen, l...

Repeating History: The U.S. Capitol Raid is Not the First of Its Kind

Max Cameron, The National Interest - 12 hours ago

*Max Cameron* *Politics, * Variations on this script have been played out in Peru (1992), Russia (1993) and Guatemala (1993). The storming of the United States Capitol may have failed to disrupt the certification of the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, but it enacted a script favoured by coup-mongers around the world. All that was missing was the intervention of the armed forces. The inaction of the Capitol Police contributed to the security breach, but the Pentagon remained above the fray. The melée in Washington looked like the early stages of what in the Latin Ameri...

The F-35 Stealth Fighter Still Has 871 Problems

Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 12 hours ago

*Kris Osborn* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2014%3Anewsml_GM1EAB40SIQ01&share=true] The military and defense contractors have struggled to get the plane in full working order, although improvements have been made over the years. Lockheed is working with the Pentagon to repair some of the software glitches and technical challenges with the F-35 stealth fighter jet, despite reporting very high mission readiness rates, successful combat performance and effective technological functioning. Citing a yet-to-be-released report fr...

Apple’s ‘Major Announcement’ Is Not a New iPhone

Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 12 hours ago

*Stephen Silver* *Technology, Americas* Apple will be supporting the Propel Center, which it described as “a first-of-its-kind global innovation and learning hub for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs.)” The company will also launch an Apple Developer Academy in Detroit, as well as what it described as “venture capital funding for Black and Brown entrepreneurs.” Apple, earlier this week, had teased what it described as a “major announcement,” one that was not related to any type of product. On Wednesday, that announcement came: Apple announced a series of projec...

CES: Execs From Amazon, HBO Max, Starz Talk the Tech of Streaming

Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 12 hours ago

*Stephen Silver* *Technology, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC1D7984E090&share=true] How did these companies make it through the coronavirus and where will the future take them? One of the biggest stories in tech in 2020 was the rise of streaming services, and the migration of content to streaming platforms. This was expected even before the pandemic, but once Americans were stuck at home for months at a time, the trends accelerated. That was the topic of a panel at CES on Tuesday, called “Streaming’s New Era,” in whic...

Here Comes the Post- 'Invasion' Crackdown

Jacob G. Hornberger, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] Just as thunder follows lightning, you can rest assured that Democrats, the Deep State, and the mainstream press are going to use recent events at the Capitol to crack down on civil liberties. Why let a good opportunity to expand governmental power go to waste? Why, some of these people are even alluding to such things as a “fascist” attempt to take over the government, a “putsch,” and the “Reichstag Fire.” And why not? They know that Hitler was able to use the terrorist firebombing of the Reichstag to get the Enabling Act passed, which gave him “temporary,” emer...

Can Burns Change the CIA?

Ray McGovern, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] In nominating former Deputy Secretary of State William Burns to be CIA director, President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a highly experienced diplomat to lead a hydra-headed agency. But, if past is precedent, the highest hydras who head calcified fiefdoms at CIA can be expected to resist any real control from the top. They are more likely to try to co-opt top management or make end runs around it. This is not new. Most senior CIA operations officers, in particular, have never been comfortable with meaningful supervision, lest it lead to reining them in or impinging...

In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, They Rejected Lockdowns

Jeffrey A. Tucker, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] The Asian flu of 1957-58 was a deadly pandemic with a broader reach for severe outcomes than Covid-19 of 2020. It killed between 1 and 4 million people worldwide, and 116,000 in the US in a time with half the population. It was a leading contributor to a year in which the US saw 62,000 excess deaths. Globally, it might have been five times as deadly as Covid-19, as measured by deaths per capita. It was unusually lethal for younger people: 40 percent of deaths had occurred among people younger than 65, whereas the average age of death Covid-19 is 80 with only 10-...

Ron Paul Speaks Out On Social Media Dominance

Daniel McAdams, null - 12 hours ago

The ongoing purges and restrictions of social media accounts by Big Tech are continuing, with Ron Paul's own main social media outlet having been restricted yesterday for a vague charge of "violation of community standards." In today's Liberty Report Ron Paul reflects on the dominance of social media and Big Tech in our daily discourse and how we can still promote peace, prosperity, and liberty. Watch today's Liberty Report:

Ron Paul Posts Criticism of Censorship on Social Media Shortly Before Facebook Blocks

Jonathan Turley, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] We have been discussing the chilling crackdown on free speech that has been building for years in the United States. This effort has accelerated in the aftermath of the Capitol riot including the shutdown sites like Parler. Now former Texas congressman Ron Paul, 85, has been blocked from using his Facebook page for unspecified violations of “community standards.” Paul’s last posting was linked to an article on the “shocking” increase of censorship on social media. Facebook then proceeded to block him under the same undefined “community standards” policy. Paul, a ...

The Biggest Scam in History

Jacob G. Hornberger, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] Soon after US officials declared their “war on terrorism” some 20 years ago, I wrote that this new war was likely to last longer than the “war on drugs.” There is a simple reason for that: the supply of “terrorists” would be endless, for two reasons: (1) the US government’s deadly foreign policy of interventionism to kill “terrorists” would inevitably generate a constant supply of terrorists who would be seeking to retaliate; and (2) the US national-security establishment would wield the omnipotent, non-reviewable power to determine who is a “terrorist” (or a “bad...

Wednesday's Other Story

Matt Taibbi, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] Just before the madness at the Capitol broke out Wednesday, news came from London. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who seemed Monday to be the luckiest man alive when a judge denied an American request to extradite him, was now denied bail on the grounds that he might “fail to surrender to court to face” the inevitable US appeal. He goes back to legal purgatory, possibly a worse outcome than extradition, which might be the idea. We sell politics in American media as a soap opera, and the personalities make for lively copy, but properly following the bouncing bal...

The ‘War On Terror’ Comes Home

Ron Paul, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] Last week’s massive social media purges – starting with President Trump’s permanent ban from Twitter and other outlets – was shocking and chilling, particularly to those of us who value free expression and the free exchange of ideas. The justifications given for the silencing of wide swaths of public opinion made no sense and the process was anything but transparent. Nowhere in President Trump’s two “offending” Tweets, for example, was a call for violence expressed explicitly or implicitly. It was a classic example of sentence first, verdict later. Many Americans...

Innocent Man Tasered, Nearly Killed for ‘Dirty License Plate’ — Taxpayers to Be Held Liable

Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 12 hours ago

[image: license plate]After a cop faced no consequences for tasering and nearly shooting a man over dirt on his license plate, the taxpayers will be held accountable instead.

91yo Blind and Deaf Woman Calls 911 to Report Intruder, Cops Show Up, Shoot Her 9 Times, Killing Her

Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 13 hours ago

[image: woman]A 91-year-old legally deaf and blind woman called 911 to report an intruder and when police showed up they dumped at least 9 rounds into her.

"Efforts to castrate hippos are not as easy as you would think"

Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 14 hours ago

That's the sub-headline to an article in the Washington Post that had me laughing out loud. I'm an old Africa hand, after all. I know just how deadly dangerous hippopotami can be - I've written about it before. However, it seems Colombia has not (yet) learned that lesson. In the 1980s, drug kingpin Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippos onto his private country estate. Now dozens of its wild spawn roam the wetlands north of Bogota, the largest invasive species on the planet. *. . .* How much trouble could they cause? So reasoned Colombian officials charged with dismantling [Pa...

Wednesday Morning Links

Unknown, Accidental Deliberations - 14 hours ago

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Bruce Arthur calls out Doug Ford's choice to blame his constituents rather than himself and his government for a gross lack of leadership in trying to limit the damage from COVID-19. John Michael McGrath discusses the reality that no level of restrictions will stop the spread of the coronavirus as long as governments aren't ensuring people have social supports to tide them over in order to avoid taking risks. PressProgress focuses on Ford's refusal to offer paid sick leave in particular as an obvious step to protect the public wh...

(Anti-)social media fuelled the failed coup; what should we do about that?

Ethan Lycan-Lang, Halifax Examiner - 14 hours ago

News 1. The pandemic has revealed problems with how we provide long-term care, but it hasn’t revealed long-term solutions As terrible as this pandemic has been, it’s at least made us rethink the way we do things, from the way we work to the way we regulate housing. One area that clearly needs work is […]

With unilateral censorship of a sitting US president, Big Tech has proven it’s more powerful than any government

Helen Buyniski, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] Big Tech’s moves to muscle President Donald Trump off social media have been heralded by some as victory. But a corporate-run state with politicians serving as mere figureheads amounts to the very fascism they claim to oppose. The smug, palpable air of "mission accomplished" emanating from Facebook, Twitter and Google in the weeks after the media called November’s election for Democrat Joe Biden has been hard to ignore. Thanks to an iron grip on the political narrative and the heavy-handed suppression of any influential dissenting voices, these insanely wealthy c...

Thoughts on a 'Right Wing Insurrection'

Karen Kwiatkowski, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] January 6th was crack cocaine for the mainstream media, Democratic politicians, and some of their most ardent supporters. As the high wears off, the post high paranoia will be a problem. Mistrust of those around you, envisioning of enemies and evil doers behind every door, corner and mask, cowering under your congressional auditorium seats, well, we’ve all seen the pictures and the videos. It’s scary out there! Beyond the images of regular people sitting, boots on desk, in the Speaker of the House’s office, and beyond the lethal shooting of an unarmed protester ...

How the White House COVID Task Force Sunk the Trump Presidency

Jordan Schachtel, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] President Trump took in the early days of 2020 from a position of incredible strength. At the beginning of the year, no serious analyst would have told you that he was in major jeopardy of losing the 2020 election. The American economy was booming, we had solid employment numbers, no major international crises, and the president was setting up a bold agenda for his second term to further “drain the swamp” and bolster his domestic policy priorities. Election fraud was always a potential factor to be monitored, but there was no massive, unprecedented mail-in voting ...

I Hate Federal Commissions, But Americans Need One To Look Into The 2020 Election

Jonathan Turley, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] Below is my column in USA Today on the need for a federal commission on the 2020 election. While I opposed the challenge and the call for the ten-day commission, I do believe that a real commission is warranted. Indeed, the violence Wednesday only further shows the deep divisions in this country over these lingering questions. However, there must be the commitment to a real commission — not another placebo commission Here is the column: I hate federal commissions. I have always hated federal commissions. Federal commissions are Washington’s way of managing scand...

The Capitol Riot Wasn’t a Coup. It Wasn't Even Close.

Ryan McMaken, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] On Wednesday, a mob apparently composed of Trump supporters forced its way past US Capitol security guards and briefly moved unrestrained through much of the Capitol building. They displayed virtually no organization and no clear goals. The only deaths were on the side of the mob, with one woman—apparently unarmed—shot dead by panicky and trigger-happy Capitol police, with three others suffering nonspecific “medical emergencies.” Yet, the media response has been to act as if the event constituted a *coup d’etat*. This was “A Very American Coup” according to a hea...

MSM Already Using Capitol Hill Riot To Call For More Internet Censorship

Caitlin Johnstone, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] The United States received a very small taste of its own medicine today as rioting Trump fanatics temporarily forced their way into the nation’s Capitol building, and now the whole nation is freaking out. I am being generous when I say that America was given a very small taste of its own medicine; unlike the horrific coups and violent uprisings the US routinely orchestrates in noncompliant nations around the world, this one stood exactly zero chance of seizing control of the government, and only one person was killed. I am also being generous when I say the riote...

What's Really Behind The Capitol Hill Chaos?

Daniel McAdams, null - 12 hours ago

Was it "treason"? A "coup attempt"? What happened on Capitol Hill yesterday? There is plenty of speculation about out-of-control Trump supporters - and Federal prosecutors are champing at the bit to begin prosecuting. Were there violent infiltrators who led the charge? Were there any other strange factors that deserve attention? We take a look at some of the various reports and examine the question "cui bono?" - who benefits? Watch today's Liberty Report:

Whatever is Wrong with Mike Morell?

Steve Brown, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] Obama – er, Biden - pushed hard for the removal of Syria’s Assad and engineered US destabilization of Syria partly at the behest of Israel in 2011 and 2014 , in part to allow Israel free reign to annex the Jordan Valley and West Bank, in tandem with Israel's long-standing annexation of the Golan. Yes, the Israeli Nile-to-Euphrates agenda is alive and quite well, not just among Israel’s 3rd templars, but within Biden’s proto-expansionist regime in the DC wings, too. Now, what's that again about Russia Russia? Biden’s Russia, Russia? There’s just one problem for the...

The Charge of Treason and the Danger to Democracy

James Bovard, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] Historian Henry Adams observed a century ago that politics “has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” Nowadays, politics seems hellbent on multiplying hatred. And few things spur hatred more effectively than tarring all political opponents as traitors. [Note: this article was submitted one day before protestors stormed the capitol building.] Having seen how the charge of treason had been horrendously abused in British history, the Founding Fathers crafted a narrow definition of treason in the Constitution: “Treason against the United States, shall...

'Buckle Up!' - Schumer Hyperactive After Dem Senate Victory!

Daniel McAdams, null - 12 hours ago

Soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has Tweeted out this morning "Buckle up!" after Democrats appear to have won both Georgia US Senate seats. Shellshocked Republicans now face losses in both Houses of Congress and at the White House. Also today, Assange denied bail by UK judge - even though he faces no UK charges. Finally, as Iran hawks watch the sands of the Trump Administration run out, will their endless provocations finally bring their long-desired war? Today on the Liberty Report:

Memorandum: How The 2020 Election Could Have Been Stolen

Claes G. Ryn, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] As a citizen who is also a political scientist, I have tried to do due diligence to assess what happened in the recent election. Who won what and at what level and what does it mean? And what about the charges of vote fraud? People keep asking me what I think, and I decided to write down the conclusions I have reached to date and on what grounds. Because charges of vote fraud have called the outcome of the presidential election into question, I have paid particular attention to them. This memorandum is not written to persuade. It merely records my findings and re...

With no lockdown or mask mandate, Florida has roughly same hospitalization level as 2018 flu season

Daniel Horowitz, null - 12 hours ago

[image: undefined] We are being told that our liberties must be suspended in order to keep hospitals from reaching apocalyptic levels. But what if those levels are just above normal and not anywhere near apocalyptic levels? And what if these lockdown measures do nothing to keep the levels down anyway? Well, if there is anywhere we can cross-check this hypothesis, it would be in Florida, where there is no lockdown or mask mandate. In fact, people are flocking there from out of state to enjoy vacations and host conferences and even to live. Naturally, we'd expect hospital levels to be...

Parler ban exposes Big Tech cartel. Rep. Nunes calls for racketeering investigation

The Duran, The Duran - 12 hours ago

Parler ban exposes Big Tech cartel. Rep. Nunes calls for racketeering investigation The Duran: Episode 854 “This Was A Coordinated Attack”: Parler CEO Speaks Out After Amazon Boots From AWS, Vows To Rebuild ‘From Scratch’ “This Was A Coordinated Attack”: Parler CEO Speaks Out After Amazon Boots From AWS, Vows To Rebuild ‘From Scratch’ […]

Swamp mad rush prevent Trump 2024 Presidential run

The Duran, The Duran - 13 hours ago

Swamp mad rush prevent Trump 2024 Presidential run The Duran: Episode 853 Trump Warns Democrats: Impeachment “Witch Hunt” Is “Causing Tremendous Anger” Trump Warns Democrats: Impeachment “Witch Hunt” Is “Causing Tremendous Anger” Update (1015ET) : For the first time since the Capitol riots, President Trump spoke briefly to a small pool of reporters at The […]

Principal Lawyer at Public Broadcasting PBS we’ll put them into the re-education camps.” Beller: “Enlightenment camps.

FreeSpeechFan, The Duran - 13 hours ago

PBS Principal Counsel Lays Out Violent Radical Agenda; Says Americans Are ‘F*cking Dumb’ … ‘Go to White House & Throw Molotovs’ … ‘Put [Children] into Re-Education Camps…Watch PBS All Day’ … ‘COVID Spiking in Red States…[Red State Voters] Are Sick & Dying’ Michael Beller, PBS principal counsel: “We go for all the Republican voters and […]

Increase in popular anger in Deir Ezzor in Syria

khalediskef, The Duran - 13 hours ago

An increase in popular anger in Deir Ezzor following the assassination of the most prominent figures of the “Al-Akidat” tribe. The public anger increased in the towns and villages of Deir Ezzor countryside, after the assassination of Sheikh “Taliyoush Diaspora”, one of the most prominent faces of the “Al-Akidat” tribe, and his son yesterday, by […]

Big Banks, Moneyed Elites, and Blockchain

steve_brown, The Duran - 13 hours ago

Only the central banks of Venezuela, Iran, and Singapore publicly disclose that they hold Bitcoin, at present.* Recent experimentation by major central bank players has excluded blockchain technology in their evaluation of cryptocurrency, which is different from blockchain. There is nothing wrong with blockchain, it is a superior technology ideally suited to distributed secure transactional […]

🔴 LIVE: President Trump Delivers Remarks in Alamo, TX at the 450th Mile of New Border Wall 1/12/21

FreeSpeechFan, The Duran - 13 hours ago

source Right Side Broadcasting Network LIVE: President Trump Delivers Remarks in Alamo, TX at the 450th Mile of New Border Wall 1/12/21 Subscribe to RSBN for more LIVE streams and Breaking NEWS: http://bit.ly/2gDGbkh Donate to RSBN and help keep us on the air: http://rsbn.tv/donate Follow us on Twitter for breaking news updates: http://twitter.com/RSBNetwork Like us on Facebook […]

Prepare For A Tsunami of Mega Inflation! Central Banks Have Triggered the Wave

Dewey Fernfield, The Duran - 13 hours ago

source / The Money GPS The Fed has expected their fake inflation measures to finally achieve their goal of 2% or more at some point in the near future. While most developed nations have been unable to achieve anywhere near their inflation targets by printing excessive amounts of fiat garbage currency, that certainly won’t stop […]

"Moderna Hits The Jackpot With Covid-19 Vaccine"

Penny, Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours ago

*P**retty amazing for a company that had produced literally nothing prior to this coronavirus.* *Korean biomedical review * *Moderna said it has achieved sales of more than $11 billion from its Covid-19 vaccine this year and expects to show robust performances through next year. * image from article provided for the conference. *Moderna has recorded $11.7 billion in Covid-19 vaccine sales in the New Year. (Moderna)"Backed by the vaccine's strong presence in the global community, the company has already signed advance purchase agreements (APAs) worth $11.7 billion with custome...

Wholeness is surely worth striving for

Bob Dinn, balance10 - 8 hours ago

1) As we continue our dissertation concerning the mechanization concept, studying how the mechanical sense can be avoided and the infinite creative grace of God expanded as a mighty fiat of life in the consciousness of the individual, we are firmly aware of many of the pitfalls to be avoided by the aspirant. Hence we must point out the dangers of automatic reflection from the subconscious to the conscious mind; for the conscious mind does ever implant its thoughts--whether outworn, transient or deeply engraven--into the great chamber of subconscious knowing. ...

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All News Pipeline Feeds - 12 hours ago

The Truth About America’s Kristallnacht

TheDarkMan, The Duran - 13 hours ago

One of the most foolish claims made in the ludicrous war of words directed at Donald Trump and his supporters is that the recent invasion of the Capitol building was America’s Kristallnacht. That claim was made by none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger’s father was a member of the Austrian Nazi Party; embarrassed by this, […]

A new “Israeli” aggression targets areas in northeastern Syria

khalediskef, The Duran - 13 hours ago

“Israeli” planes carried out today, Wednesday, dawn, large-scale bombing operations targeting sites in the city of Deir Ezzor and Albu Kamal near the Syrian-Iraqi borders, in a new attack described as the most violent against eastern Syria. A Syrian military source said: “At exactly 1:10 am today, the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression against […]

Misogyny in the Capitol: Among the insurrectionists, a lot of angry men who don't like women

Mona Lena Krook, Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Women & Politics Ph.D. Program, Rutgers University, Politics/Election '20 – The Conversation - 13 hours ago

With obscenities and violence, rioters at the Capitol left an obvious message: angry contempt for women.

US COVID-19 Deaths Hit Another One-Day High at over 4,300

AP News, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago

The death toll from COVID-19 in the United States is closing in fast on the number of Americans killed in World War II

Karma bites back and Twitter whines

Uriel, 'Nox & Friends - 13 hours ago

Sometimes when people think they are the “god of right”, Karma pops up to bite them in their nether region after they have grown “too big for their britches.” For instance Twitter thought that their word was law on the erasing of Trump and everyone associated with Trump from their social media platform. Others in other countries. however, disagree strenuously even if they did not like Trump. According to Aljazeera, here are some of the quotes concerning objections: German Chancellor Angela Merkel: “This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the ...

THINGS HAVING FALLEN APART: Our Town is shocked all over again!

<b>bob somerby</b>, the daily howler - 13 hours ago

*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2021* *Disappearing what Mary Trump said:* Yesterday, we were struck by Greg Sargent's analysis at the Washington Post. Sargent even used a key word. He seemed to say that he'd found the commander-in-chief's recent conduct "shocking:" SARGENT (1/12/21): As *shocking new revelations emerge about President Trump’s depraved and malevolent response to the violent siege of the Capitol*, it’s becoming clear that this event will require a much bigger reckoning than we may have first thought. *Impeachment may be only the beginning of what’s truly required, if we a...

Unite with the Bill of Rights

Admin, From the Trenches World Report - 14 hours ago

TuckerOnly Jan 12, 2021 The post Unite with the Bill of Rights appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

A Perfect Storm

Owen Gray, Northern Reflections - 14 hours ago

Yesterday, Ontario premier Doug Ford issued a stay at home order. But Bruce Arthur writes that it's too little, too late: Tuesday, Ontario’s scientific modelling painted a picture of COVID-19 catastrophe — of an unfolding long-term-care home massacre, of hospitals that run out of room, of a virus variant that could set everything on fire — and an hour later the premier walked out and said the system was on the brink of collapse. And all that was true. And then Doug Ford issued an incomplete stay-at-home order that he said took five hours of cabinet debate to decide on, which sound...

COVID Vaccines “Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction” says Wyoming Medical Doctor and Manager for Wyoming’s State Public Health Department – Transcript

Mary, From the Trenches World Report - 14 hours ago

Health Impact News Dr. Igor Shepherd is a medical doctor/manager for Wyoming’s State Public Health Department/Preparedness Unit, and is on the Covid response team. He... The post COVID Vaccines “Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction” says Wyoming Medical Doctor and Manager for Wyoming’s State Public Health Department – Transcript appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

This is apartheid: Jewish supremacy from the River to the Sea

contact@ifamericansknew.org, Israel Palestine News - 14 hours ago

B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories – believes that "apartheid" is the only word to describe the accumulation of policies and laws in Israel devised to entrench control over Palestinians.

Caitlin Johnstone: FYI Trump’s latest Yemen move is far worse than the Capitol riot

Galen, From the Trenches World Report - 14 hours ago

RT – by Caitlin Johnstone While the Capitol riot is being hysterically compared to Pearl Harbor and Kristallnacht by the political/media class, the Trump administration... The post Caitlin Johnstone: FYI Trump’s latest Yemen move is far worse than the Capitol riot appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

White House Climate Change Information Briefs

Paul Homewood, NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 14 hours ago

By Paul Homewood Further to today’s post on John Christy’s Climate Change Information Brief, it appears the Climate Mafia are already fighting back. Roy Spencer, who wrote one of the papers, reports that David Legates has already been fired by White House OSTP Director and Trump Science Advisor, Kelvin Droegemeier, who Spencer accuses […]

Biden’s Choice to Lead DOJ’s Civil Rights Division: “Melanin Endows Blacks with Greater Mental, Physical and Spiritual Abilities”

Galen, From the Trenches World Report - 14 hours ago

Gateway Pundit – by Cristina Laila Kristen Clarke, Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, believes black people are superior to... The post Biden’s Choice to Lead DOJ’s Civil Rights Division: “Melanin Endows Blacks with Greater Mental, Physical and Spiritual Abilities” appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

PBS lawyer fired after championing ‘REEDUCATION CAMPS’ for children of Trump supporters in latest Project Veritas sting

Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago

RT Hidden camera footage of PBS exec Michael Beller, in which he appears to wax poetic about ‘deprogramming’ Trump supporters’ kids and celebrates their parents’... The post PBS lawyer fired after championing ‘REEDUCATION CAMPS’ for children of Trump supporters in latest Project Veritas sting appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

The Moderna and Pfizer not a vaccine but a gene therapy technology

A Reader, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago

David Martin World Jan 12, 2021 On the menu this week – discussing the legal definitions of vaccines, and whether the products currently being marketed... The post The Moderna and Pfizer not a vaccine but a gene therapy technology appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

Hillary Clinton Labels Trump Supporters “Domestic Terrorists” Who Need to be Tracked and Surveilled Following Chaos at US Capitol

Galen, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago

Gateway Pundit – by Cristina Laila Twice failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is waging all out war on Trump supporters. Clinton labeled Trump supporters “white... The post Hillary Clinton Labels Trump Supporters “Domestic Terrorists” Who Need to be Tracked and Surveilled Following Chaos at US Capitol appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

Bezos, Dorsey, and the CIA: Transferring American Wealth to China

SafeSpace, 'Nox & Friends - 15 hours ago

You noticed that the AntiFa/BLM mostly peaceful protests primarily targeted small businesses, especially those in enterprise zones. You noticed that states and cities controlled by Democrat regimes went into protracted lockdowns, “to stop the spread of the virus”, and that those lockdowns destroyed small businesses. And you noticed that online sales of products ranging from discretionary items to groceries have boomed. Do you see the pattern? Daniel Greenfield did. Here are excerpts from two of his recent posts that put it in clear sight. The first was published in October 2020, jus...

Big Tech Cleans House! – Everything We Want You To Think

A Reader, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago

AwakenWithJP Jan 12, 2021 The post Big Tech Cleans House! – Everything We Want You To Think appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

Mexico City Restaurants Defy COVID-19 Shutdown

Latin America News, The Rio Times - 13 hours ago

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (AFP) Hundreds of restaurants in Mexico's capital reopened Monday, January 11th, in defiance of the city ban on non-essential activities meant to tackle a surge in coronavirus cases. Restaurateurs in Mexico City warned that they faced a stark choice - flout the suspension order or risk going out of business. […] The post Mexico City Restaurants Defy COVID-19 Shutdown appeared first on The Rio Times.

Royaume Uni-Afrique : 16 pays trouvent un accord post-Brexit

bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago

13-Jan-2021 Seize pays africains ont signé un nouvel accord commercial avec Londres. Objectif : préserver l'accès au marché britannique à des conditions fiscales avantageuses.

Ukraine plans to negotiate on free trade area with China, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia

bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago

13-Jan-2021 Ukraine has started preparations for negotiations on new agreements on a free trade area (FTA) with Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia and China, Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture Ihor Petrashko has said.

EU will not ask China to sign forced labor ban before ratifying investment deal, says French minister

bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago

13-Jan-2021 France will insist on a ‘calendar' for Beijing's reforms instead.

UK to start talks with EU on finance cooperation this week

bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago

13-Jan-2021 The UK will begin talks with the European Union this week on how regulators will cooperate over financial services now Brexit has been completed.

Libre-échange : Israël entend conclure un accord avec le Maroc

bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago

13-Jan-2021 Une aspiration partagée par les hommes d'affaires de son pays qui pourraient visiter le Royaume du Maroc prochainement.

Israel aspira a un acuerdo de libre comercio con Marruecos, según Amir Peretz

bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago

13-Jan-2021 Israel aspira a firmar un acuerdo de libre comercio con Marruecos ahora que ambos países han decidido retomar sus relaciones diplomáticas con la próxima apertura de oficinas de enlace en Rabat y Tel Aviv.

Israel plans a free trade agreement with Morocco, Amir Peretz says

bilaterals.org - 13 hours ago

13-Jan-2021 Israel aspires to sign a free trade agreement with Morocco, Israeli Minister of Economy Amir Peretz said.

No, Biden is Not a Centrist

Cal Thomas, The National Interest - 13 hours ago

*Cal Thomas* *Politics, United States* A cursory review of his stated positions reveals as much. One of many things that will distinguish a President Joe Biden from his predecessor is that the incoming president is likely to speak less in public, mostly because of how he garbles his thoughts and words. The most recent example was when he called Peter Doocy of Fox News a “one-horse pony.” Translators are still working to decipher that one. Another difference will be trying to figure out who Biden really is and what he means by self-identifying as a “centrist.” Whether or not one ...

The New B-21 Stealth Bomber Will Change Warfare Forever

Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 13 hours ago

*Kris Osborn* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2003%3Anewsml_PBEAHUOQRCZ&share=true] Here is how this plane will change warfare and be able to adapt to new technologies as they are invented. The new Air Force B-21 stealth bomber will soon take to the skies for its first official test flight in coming months, yet the now fully-built next-generation platform is still poised to benefit from continued innovations and yet-to-exist technologies. Its missions will need operational command and control, its weapons systems and comput...

Just Sick: How Hate Symbols Were Used During the US Capitol Riot

Jonathan D. Sarna, The National Interest - 13 hours ago

*Jonathan D. Sarna* *Politics, The Americas* Anti-semitic and racist slogans and symbols, captured on television and retweeted on social media, demonstrate that some of those who traveled to Washington to support President Donald Trump were engaged in much more than just a doomed effort to maintain their hero in power. One of the many horrifying images from the Jan. 6 rampage on the U.S. Capitol shows a long-haired, long-bearded man wearing a black “Camp Auschwitz” T-shirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones, and under it the phrase “work brings freedom” – an English translati...

COVID-19 Shows the Power of Social Norms to Police Behavior

David Mednicoff, The National Interest - 13 hours ago

*David Mednicoff* *Coronavirus, The Americas* Developed in what critics say was an absence of strong national leadership, behaviors like mask-wearing and social distancing have been policed, by and large, by people themselves. Through much of the last year, COVID-19 has propelled many people to accept and follow new patterns of behavior. These include wearing a mask in public, attempting to socially distance and restricting groups to smaller numbers. Developed in what critics say was an absence of strong national leadership, these behaviors have been policed, by and large, by pe...

"Economic Market Snapshot AM 1/13/21"

CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 13 hours ago

*"Economic Market Snapshot AM 1/13/21"* *○* "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - John Maynard Keynes *○* "Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity... Only the consequences are real - to *you*! ○ Gregory Mannarino, AM 1/13/21: *IMPORTANT UPDATES:* * Bitcoin, Crypto, Stocks, Market, Debt, MORE* - https://traderschoice.net/ ○ "The more I see of the monied classes, the better I understand the guillotine." - George Bernard Shaw ○ *MarketWatch Market Summary, Live Updates* - ...

New Brazil Data Shows Disappointing 50.4% Efficacy for China’s CoronaVac Vaccine

The Rio Times Staff, The Rio Times - 13 hours ago

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Chinese-developed Coronavac COVID-19 vaccine has demonstrated a 50 percent efficacy following tests in Brazil, the organization in charge of its production in the South American country said on Tuesday, January 12th. Coronavac has been given to frontline health care workers in close contact with coronavirus patients. The Butantan Institute […] The post New Brazil Data Shows Disappointing 50.4% Efficacy for China’s CoronaVac Vaccine appeared first on The Rio Times.

Analysis of Ashli Babbit Shooting Videos Suggests Coordinated Actions by Leftists

Crossroads, Need To Know - 14 hours ago

John Sullivan, the founder of InsurgenceUSA, who is affiliated with Black Lives Matter and held an anti-Trump rally just before the the event at the Capitol, was at the scene when Ashli Babbitt was shot. He shouted that she was dead, and the analyst said it was to perhaps cause a violent reaction by Trump supporters.

Investigation into Why Miami Doctor Died After Getting Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine

WPLG Florida and Sputnik, Need To Know - 14 hours ago

Dr. Gregory Michael, 56, died 16 days after being vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine. Pfizer says they don't believe that there is any direct connection to their vaccine. Dr. Michael's wife said that he was a vaccine advocate. She believes his death was 100% linked to the vaccine as there is no other explanation.

White House Reports that President Trump Declared Emergency in Washington, DC

White House and American Outlook, Need To Know - 15 hours ago

A wall, which Democrats previously claimed doesn't work, and is racist, now surrounds the Capitol building. As many as 15,000 troops were deployed. Big Tech platforms are banning all content with the phrase 'Stop the Steal' as no one is allowed to question the fraudulent presidential election results.

Examples in History of Protesters Taking Over Federal Buildings

Jon Rappoport and AllSides, Need To Know - 15 hours ago

ABC News said the leftist protesters “gathered" when they stormed the Hart Senate building in 2018. This week, however, ABC wrote that Capitol Hill pro-Trump protesters were a “mob" who “broke into the Capitol" via an “invasion," quoting DC Mayor Muriel Bowser as saying it was “textbook terrorism."

"How It Really Is"

CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 15 hours ago

Censorship And The Arbiters Of Truth

James Allard, OYE Alternative News - 16 hours ago

The post Censorship And The Arbiters Of Truth appeared first on OYE Alternative News.

What Does the Closest Brown Dwarf Look Like?

Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams - 14 hours ago

I keep hoping we’ll find a brown dwarf closer to us than Alpha Centauri, but none have turned up yet despite the best efforts of missions like WISE (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer). If there’s something out there, it’s dim indeed. Of course, I wouldn’t be surprised at finding rogue planets between us and the nearest […]

Lessons From A Decade Of Student Activism In The UK

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago

Ten years ago, tens of thousands of students flooded the streets of London protesting against fees, cuts and demanding free public education in the biggest student demonstration in British history. They took over the Conservative Party headquarters, hanging red and black flags from the rooftop and surrounding the building with barricades. The demonstration marked the rebirth of the British student movement and the beginning of a new generation of activists that would confront marketization and austerity over the coming decade. Though students could not stop the further commodifica...

COVID-19 : Panama Announces a Gradual Reactivation After 10 Days of Quarantine

Latin America News, The Rio Times - 14 hours ago

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (CNN Spanish) The government of Panama announced on Tuesday the gradual reactivation of economic activities after a total quarantine that began on January 4 and ends this Thursday, January 12th. According to the Minister of Health, Luis Francisco Sucre, the measure managed to reduce the positivity of covid-19 tests by […] The post COVID-19 : Panama Announces a Gradual Reactivation After 10 Days of Quarantine appeared first on The Rio Times.

How Progressives Supreme Court Packing Could Destroy America

Thomas Jipping, The National Interest - 14 hours ago

*Thomas Jipping* *Politics, United States* The Executive and Legislative branches would be weakened. Political parties and candidates have different positions on issues, but should at least support the fundamentals of our system of government. Sounds simple, right? So how did court-packing become a serious topic for discussion? Packing the federal courts would destroy not only the independence of the judiciary, but also the unique way that the U.S. Senate has participated in the legislative process for more than 200 years. That’s why control of the Senate will determine whether ...

Can You Get Fired for Storming the Capitol?

Elizabeth C. Tippett, The National Interest - 14 hours ago

*Elizabeth C. Tippett* *Politics, The Americas* Most workers aren’t protected for what they do on their own time. Can you be fired for joining a violent mob that storms the Capitol? Of course you can. Among the jarring images of white insurrectionists who broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was a man marching through the building holding a Trump flag with his work ID badge still draped around his neck. It didn’t take long for internet sleuths to zoom in on the badge and alert his employer, Navistar Direct Marketing, a Maryland direct mail printing company. The company promptl...

Why Are Progressives Supporting the Death Of U.S. Cities?

Samuel J. Abrams, The National Interest - 14 hours ago

*Samuel J. Abrams* *Politics, United States* Why is it acceptable to suggest that families and high-income earners—whose tax dollars support institutions, infrastructure projects, and city budgets—should get out of cities and leave those left behind to rot? As the nation enters 2021 with hopes of healing divisions, Vox published a story with the drop headline, “Young families and wealthy people are decamping for the suburbs — which might make cities more pleasant for everyone else.” This is exactly the continued nonsense from the left that continues to polarize our discourse, and...

WHO Warns Mutant Coronavirus Variants to Stress Hospitals

Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 14 hours ago

*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Health, Americas* “The more the virus spreads, the higher the chance of new changes to the virus,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday during a press briefing in Geneva, Switzerland. A more contagious coronavirus variant—known as B.1.1.7 and first identified in the United Kingdom—has the potential to stress hospitals worldwide if its spread isn’t quickly suppressed, the World Health Organization warned. Currently, several U.S. states and dozens of countries have identified the new variant, which has been reported to be between 50 percen...

How Self-Proclaimed 'Prophets' Gave Religious Motivation for the Capitol Hill Attack

Brad Christerson, The National Interest - 14 hours ago

*Brad Christerson* *Politics, The Americas* Many white evangelical leaders have provided religious justification and undying support for Trump’s presidency, including his most racially incendiary rhetoric and policies. In addition to symbols of white supremacy, many of the rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 carried signs bearing religious messages, such as “Jesus Saves” and “In God We Trust” while others chanted “Jesus is my savior and Trump is my president.” In a video interview, one of those who breached the Senate floor describes holding a prayer to “consecrate it to Jesus” soon...

War Of The (Financial) Worlds

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago

Sometimes things only make sense when seen through a magnifying lens. As it happens, I’m thinking about reality, the very American and global reality clearly repeating itself as 2021 begins. We all know, of course, that we’re living through a once-in-a-century-style pandemic; that millions of people have lost their jobs, a portion of which will never return; that the poorest among us, who can withstand such acute economic hardship the least, have been slammed the hardest; and that the global economy has been kneecapped, thanks to a battery of lockdowns, shutdowns, restrictions of ...

Building Class Power By Fighting For The Common Good

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago

As activists orient to the post-election landscape, we’re having lots of conversations about building power for the long term. We’re taking stock of the types of power we need and how they can reinforce each other – narrative, organizing, mobilizing, and electoral power, to name a few. And despite the decline in union membership and strength, workers’ collective bargaining power also offers a means of making gains for broader communities. “Bargaining for the Common Good” (BCG) makes this real. Unions that adopt a BCG framework incorporate community demands alongside their workplac...

Running Gun Battle in Mexico Leaves 9 Gunmen, 1 State Police Officer Dead

Latin America News, The Rio Times - 14 hours ago

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A series of running gunbattles in Mexico’s most violent state left nine suspected gunmen and one state police officer dead Monday, January 11th, authorities said. The shootouts in north-central Guanajuato state started before dawn near the hamlet of Santa Rosa de Lima, the stronghold of a gang of the same […] The post Running Gun Battle in Mexico Leaves 9 Gunmen, 1 State Police Officer Dead appeared first on The Rio Times.

US Carries out Its 1st Execution of Female Inmate Since 1953

AP News, Snopes.com - 14 hours ago

Lisa Montgomery was the 11th prisoner to receive a lethal injection there since July when President Donald Trump, an ardent supporter of capital punishment, resumed federal executions following 17 years without one.

Brazilian Agribusiness Exports Grow 4.1% in 2020

Latin America News, The Rio Times - 14 hours ago

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil's agribusiness exports, one of the mainstays of the economy, grew 4.1 percent in 2020 compared to the year before, topping 100 billion U.S. dollars for the second time on record, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply said on Tuesday, January 12th. Agribusiness exports last year totaled 100.806 billion […] The post Brazilian Agribusiness Exports Grow 4.1% in 2020 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Join the call for peace in Yemen

Bruce K. Gagnon, Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago

There are less than two weeks until the *World Says No to War on Yemen Global Day of Action *and we need your help reaching every corner of the globe! Please share this event as far and wide as you possibly can. You can start by sending it to your mailing lists and putting it on your website, sharing it on your social media accounts, reaching out to fellow organisations and even just talking with your friends and family. Over 230 organisations from 17 countries have signed up for a call to action against the war on Yemen so far, making this the biggest international anti-war co...

EVERYTHING IS A PLOT TO FRAME POOR, INNOCENT PATRIOTS

Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog - 14 hours ago

John Solomon, the great friend of Rudy Giuliani whose Ukraine stories for *The Hill* were the framework for the Trumpian counternarrative during impeachment, now suggests at his site Just the News that the Capitol riot might have been a Reichstag fire plotted by Nancy Pelosi: The FBI admitted Tuesday it received information ahead of the Jan. 6 tragedy suggesting some participants were planning a "war" on the Capitol, including killing officers and distributing maps of the complex. It alerted Washington D.C. law enforcement through the joint terrorism task force alert system. It als...

2020 Ends With Almost Ten Million Fewer Jobs Than Before The Recession

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago

On January 8, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the last jobs report of 2020, which is also the last jobs report we will receive while Trump is president—a presidency that has ushered in tragedies ranging from historic job losses to armed insurrection. The report showed that jobs fell by 140,000 in December—an unequivocal disaster for the state of the economic recovery. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the inadequate federal response, job growth waned throughout the fall and fell outright in December. The year ends with 9.8 million fewer jobs than before the pandemic recessio...

New Mexican Economists Warn: Change Course Now

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago

Later this month, New Mexico lawmakers will have another chance to fix an economic problem that has plagued the state for decades. “For at least 40 years people in the state government and the Legislature have known that they are overly dependent on oil and gas for state revenue,” says Jim Peach, regents professor of economics at New Mexico State University. Right now, more than 40% of the state’s income relies on the boom-and-bust fortunes of oil and gas. Now, according to a trio of New Mexico’s leading economists, the time has come to change course. “Like it or not, we’re at th...

On His Way To Prison, Activist Advocates For COVID-19 Prisoner Release

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago

On Thursday (Jan. 14), Patrick O’Neill will report to the Federal Correctional Institution near Elkton, Ohio, to serve a 14-month sentence for breaking into a nuclear submarine base as part of a symbolic nuclear disarmament action he took up with six other Catholic pacifists more than two years ago. But on his way to prison, O’Neill has taken up a new cause: protecting inmates from COVID-19. Some 329,298 prisoners across the United States have tested positive for the coronavirus and about 2,020 have died, according to the Marshall Project, the online journalism organization focus...

Bruce Willis Asked to Leave Pharmacy After Refusing to ‘Mask-up’

NEWS WIRE, 21st Century Wire - 15 hours ago

*Page Six* | Dissenter: Die Hard star simply walks out without making his purchase.

“Arctic Not Freezing”

tonyheller, Real Climate Science - 15 hours ago

During October, a well known climate researcher just across the border in Colorado sounded the alarm that the Arctic wasn’t freezing this winter. The press got hysterical. Arctic sea ice extent is highest for the date in the last five … Continue reading →

Category 5 atmospheric river brings flooding rain and strong winds to Oregon and Washington, U.S.

The Watchers » Latest articles - 14 hours ago

An exceptional atmospheric river rated Category 5 (AR 5) is soaking the Pacific Northwest, bringing flooding rain and strong winds in parts of coastal Oregon and Washington, where up to 8 600 customers were left without power on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. Threats of...... Read more »

Constitutional Revolutions and Revolutionary Constitutionalism

Guest Blogger, Balkinization - 14 hours ago

For the symposium on Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn and Yaniv Roznai, Constitutional Revolution (Yale University Press, 2020). Stephen Gardbaum I am delighted to participate in this book symposium on Gary Jacobsohn and Yaniv Roznai’s *Constitutional Revolution* and to think further about the fascinating subject they have written so persuasively and authoritatively about. This is an outstanding book, full of rigorous, clear, and systematic analysis of a much-used but rarely focused-on concept and supported by a wealth of comparative examples and in-depth case studies. Overall, its essen...

The Conservative Way: Peace and Stability at any Price

Unknown, The Conservative Socrates - 14 hours ago

A civil war or revolution is not the conservative way. Conservatism was founded in eighteenth century Britain as a reaction to the great violence of the French Revolution. The British conservatives wanted to have a political system in which there is no risk of a revolution or civil war and peace and stability is guaranteed—they opted for the conservative model which, based on the teachings of Edmund Burke, works by finding a compromise between the demands of the political groups, who demand adherence to tradition, and those who demand rapid transformation. It is against the conserva...

The Gerald Ford Dilemma

Gerard N. Magliocca, Balkinization - 14 hours ago

In a way, what we will see unfold in the coming months is comparable to the considerations that led President Ford to pardon Richard Nixon. Whatever you think of that decision, Ford's rationale was, in part, that putting an ex-President in the dock would be a huge distraction and would only deepen divisions in the country. Of course, Ford was talking about a criminal trial and not an impeachment trial. Nobody in 1974 thought that Nixon was still a viable candidate for office, hence there was no serious discussion of impeaching him after he resigned. Still, an impeachment trial rais...

If Big Tech Can Ban Certain Political Views So Easily, Why is Child Porn Rife on Their Platforms?

Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago

[image: big tech]If big tech can so easily wipe a political view from the internet in hours, how is it that child pornography is allowed to flourish on their platforms?

Springer Nature journal retracts BMI, honesty paper

Adam Marcus, Retraction Watch - 15 hours ago

More than five months after outraged readers demanded that a Springer Nature journal retract a paper linking body mass index to honesty, the publication has been pulled. The journal now says that a post-publication review of the article found that the data don’t support the authors’ conclusions — which is another way of saying that … Continue reading Springer Nature journal retracts BMI, honesty paper

On Telegram, the Paramilitary Far Right Looks to Radicalize New Recruits Ahead of Inauguration Day

Katie, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago

Telegram – by Ryan Devereaux, Sam Biddle In the wake of last week’s deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol Building, a publicly accessible chat group... The post On Telegram, the Paramilitary Far Right Looks to Radicalize New Recruits Ahead of Inauguration Day appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.

NYC to Terminate Trump Contracts After Capitol Insurrection

AP News, Snopes.com - 15 hours ago

The Trump Organization operated a number of venues and sites in New York City parks.

Trump on Verge of 2nd Impeachment After Capitol Siege

AP News, Snopes.com - 15 hours ago

Trump, who would become the only U.S. president twice impeached, faces a single charge of “incitement of insurrection.”

Son of tribal leader accuses US and SDF of assassinating his father for opposing occupation

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago

[image: Son of tribal leader accuses US and SDF of assassinating his father for opposing occupation] BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:00 P.M.) – Ahmad Atliyoush, the Director of Social Affairs and Labor in Deir Ezzor Governorate and the son of the late Sheikh Atliyoush of the Al-Akidat (Al-Aqidat) Tribe, who was assassinated on Monday, at his home with his son and his guest, said that “his father paid the price for his steadfast national stances rejecting the presence of all kinds of occupation and armed militias supported by these colonial powers that steal the country’s goods.” Atliyoush blame...

Dark Times Under Way In America

Leonid SAVIN, OrientalReview.org - 15 hours ago

The year 2021 began with some dark, watershed moments for the US. On 1 January, Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced a new bill that represents the next step in the abolition of traditional family values and sex (gender) differences. The pronouns “he” and “she” will no longer be […]

Iran and South Korea agree to continue talks on releasing seized tanker

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago

[image: Iran and South Korea agree to continue talks on releasing seized tanker] BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:45 P.M.) – South Korea and Iran reached an agreement on Wednesday to “continue their talks on the early release of a Korean ship seized there and to settle the problem of frozen Iranian assets in Korea.” The Korean Foreign Ministry stated, in a press release, that “through multi-faceted consultations with senior Iranian officials, South Korea and Iran will work together to reach quick and constructive solutions regarding the pending issues based on the long friendship between the two ...

Greece launches joint military exercises with US and Cyprus in Mediterranean

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago

[image: Greece launches joint military exercises with US and Cyprus in Mediterranean] BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:40 P.M.) – The Special forces of Greece, Cyprus and the United States are conducting joint exercises in the marine area off the naval base in Souda Bay on the island of Crete, in southern Greece. According to Greek media, the tripartite exercises were designed to enhance cooperation between the forces of the three countries, and these exercises were planned by the Greek National Defense General Staff. It should be noted that Greece and Cyprus have conducted several military mane...

Colombia President: International Community Must Aid Poor Nations to Secure Vaccines –

Latin America News, The Rio Times - 16 hours ago

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Reuters) The international community must help low-income countries overcome weak positions in bilateral negotiations to secure coronavirus vaccines if global herd immunity is to be achieved, Colombia’s President Ivan Duque said on Tuesday, January 12th. Although processes such as the COVAX mechanism - coordinated by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) […] The post Colombia President: International Community Must Aid Poor Nations to Secure Vaccines – appeared first on The Rio Times.

Can I Be Fired For Attending the Capitol Protest?

Unknown, Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 16 hours ago

I'm hearing a lot of muttering about free speech rights relating to the Capitol protest/attempted coup last week. A number of people have been fired by employers after storming the Capitol, and they are complaining about their rights being violated. So this raises the question: *Can I be fired for attending the Capitol protest?* Short answer is yes, with some limited exceptions. But if your question is: *Can I be fired for storming the Capitol?* The answer is yes, yes, a thousand times yes. The difference is attending a protest versus engaging in clearly illegal activity. Tho...

Colombia’s Capital Bogota to Impose Quarantine on Six More Neighborhoods

Latin America News, The Rio Times - 16 hours ago

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Colombia’s Bogota will impose strict two-week quarantines on six more neighborhoods starting next week, Mayor Claudia Lopez said on Tuesday, January 12th, as the city moves to control a second wave of coronavirus. The districts of Bosa, Ciudad Bolivar, Puente Aranda, Rafael Uribe, San Cristobal, and Usme will enter quarantine […] The post Colombia’s Capital Bogota to Impose Quarantine on Six More Neighborhoods appeared first on The Rio Times.

Large US military convoy enters Syria from neighboring Iraq

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago

[image: Large US military convoy enters Syria from neighboring Iraq] BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:00 P.M.) – A large U.S. military convoy was seen entering northeastern Syria on Wednesday, marking the second time in five days that the International Coalition has brought in reinforcements and supplies. According to local reports, dozens of U.S. military trucks and vehicles entered Syria’s Al-Hasakah Governorate via the Al-Walid Crossing that links the Levantine nation with Iraq’s Nineveh (Ninawa) Governorate. The U.S. convoy was said to have consisted of several vehicles that were transportin...

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Diagnosed with Coronavirus

Latin America News, The Rio Times - 16 hours ago

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Former Bolivian President Evo Morales tested positive for the coronavirus and is getting treatment to combat symptoms, according to a statement issued by his office late on Tuesday, January 12th. “He is currently stable and is receiving medical attention,” the statement said, without providing details on his symptoms. Last week, […] The post Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Diagnosed with Coronavirus appeared first on The Rio Times.

Wednesday Caption 2Fer

Ragnar, 'Nox & Friends - 17 hours ago

I found a couple that I thought were good for some 1 liners…. THAT WAS THE CAPTION….THAT RIGHT THERE IS FUNNY… THIS WEEKS DE-MOTIVATOR….APTLY TITLED…. ~Ragnar (RFXtFR)

Sudanese military helicopter crashes near Ethiopian border

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 17 hours ago

[image: Sudanese military helicopter crashes near Ethiopian border] BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:30 P.M.) – A Sudanese military plane reportedly crashed on Wednesday in the Sudanese state of El-Gadarif, which borders Ethiopia. “A warplane belonging to the Sudanese armed forces fell at the Al-Shawak Airport (40) kilometers east of the state of Gedarif, which borders the state of Ethiopia,” a source told Sputnik Arabic, adding, “The crew survived the accident, but the plane was completely burned.” The area where the plane crashed is located 25 kilometers from the city of Gadarif in eastern Suda...

"Covid-19 Pandemic Updates 1/13/21"

CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 15 hours ago

*"Covid-19 Pandemic Updates 1/13/21"* ○ - https://www.zerohedge.com/ *JAN 13, AT 4:45 AM:* "Disneyland Becomes 'Mass-Vaccination Super-Site'" ○ *January 13, 2021:* "Things are likely to get worse before they get better. The virus is spreading so rapidly that hospitals are struggling to keep up. About 130,000 Americans are hospitalized with Covid symptoms, more than double the number two months ago. The strain on hospitals raises the possibility that many patients will not receive the best available treatments. Los Angeles has recently had to ration oxygen. And Esteban Trejo, an exe...

Russia Sending Weapons of War to Disputed Kuril Islands

Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 15 hours ago

*Peter Suciu* *Kuril Islands, * The status of the islands has continued to sour relations between Moscow and Tokyo. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *After the war, 17,000 Japanese civilian residents were deported, while those captured Japanese soldiers were interned in Siberia and many didn't return home until 1950. Today 19,000 Russian citizens lived on the island chain, and given the impending arrival of tanks it isn't likely they'll be leaving anytime soon. Since the end of the Second World War seventy-five years ago, the Kuril Islands have remained under Russian administr...

PBS Lawyer Fired from His Job After Project Veritas Expose

Project Veritas and Zerohedge, Need To Know - 15 hours ago

Before the presidential election, Project Veritas recorded PBS attorney Michael Beller, saying that, if Biden loses, people should "Go to the White House and throw Molotov cocktails..." and that "Even if Biden wins, we go for all the Republican voters, Homeland Security will take their children away..."