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NYT editorial board endorses Warren, Klobuchar for Democratic nomination for president | 19 Jan 2020 | The New York Times editorial board on Sunday night endorsed both Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) for the Democratic nomination for president. The dual endorsement, a break in convention for the Times [a Deep State rag], comes just two weeks before the first primary contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, where Warren has remained a top contender while Klobuchar has struggled to break out of single-digit support. "In a break with convention, the editorial board has chosen to endorse two separate Democratic candidates for president," reads the Times's endorsement.

Trump lawyers respond to articles of impeachment: 'Constitutionally invalid' | 19 Jan 2020 | President Trump's legal team on Saturday issued a full-throttle defense to the articles of impeachment, refuting the substance and process of the charges while accusing House Democrats of engaging in a "dangerous attack" on the right of the American people to freely choose their president. "This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election -- now just months away," the legal filing said. "The highly partisan and reckless obsession with impeaching the president began the day he was inaugurated and continues to this day." "The articles of impeachment are constitutionally invalid on their face," the seven-page filing continued.

'Europhysics News' Article on WTC Demolitions Surpasses One Million Views | 19 Jan 2020 | Could it be the most widely read scientific article of all time? What we can say for sure is that "15 years later: on the physics of high-rise building collapses" the five-page feature in the August 2016 issue of the European Physical Society's Europhysics News by Dr. Steven Jones, Dr. Robert Korol, engineer Tony Szamboti, and AE911Truth's Ted Walter -- has been read, and continues to be read, by a massive number of people... It authoritatively lays waste to the official account of the World Trade Center's destruction -- the most blatant and consequential scientific fraud ever perpetrated on the world. It is also one of the few times that a reputable scientific organization has had the courage and integrity to provide a forum for the issue.

How five members of Joe Biden's family got rich through his connections | 19 Jan 2020 | Political figures have long used their families to route power and benefits for their own self-enrichment. In my new book, "Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite," one particular politician -- Joe Biden -- emerges as the king of the sweetheart deal, with no less than five family members benefiting from his largesse, favorable access and powerful position for commercial gain. In Biden's case, these deals include foreign partners and, in some cases, even U.S. taxpayer dollars. The Biden family's apparent self-enrichment involves no less than five family members: Joe's son Hunter, son-in-law Howard, brothers James and Frank, and sister Valerie.

Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and other coroporatist groups aim to sink bipartisan fix to 'surprise' medical bills | 19 Jan 2020 | Conservative Corporatist groups are gearing up for battle with GOP leaders over bipartisan health care legislation that lawmakers view as one of the few election-year bills that has a shot at making it to President Trump's desk. A broad swath of free-market conservative groups is crony capitalism dirt-bags are mobilizing to oppose a measure that would ban the so-called "surprise" medical bills patients sometimes receive from hospitals and providers when their services aren't covered by insurance... About a dozen right-leaning corporatist groups have come out against the bill, including some of the most well-known fiscally conservative corporate welfare organizations in Washington, like Club for Growth and FreedomWorks. The groups join a high-dollar fight launched last year by hospitals, insurance companies, doctors and private equity groups that are all trying to tilt the measure in their favor.

Dozens Killed in Houthi Attack on Yemeni Army Barracks - Reports | 18 Jan 2020 | Yemen has been locked for years in an armed conflict between government forces led by President-in-exile Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and the armed Houthi opposition faction. Despite a peace accord signed in Stockholm in 2018, tensions have reportedly been escalating in recent months. The Yemeni Houthis pounded a military training base in the Yemeni city of Marib on Saturday with missiles, killing at least 30 servicemen, according to Saudi media. According to a local military source, the attack killed 24 soldiers and injured 20 others.

U.S. Dept of Interior Warned Cell Tower Radiation Harmful to Birds in 2014; Studies Show 5G Also Causes Health Problems | 17 Jan 2020 | Wireless "WiFi" radiation is microwave radiation. Research has determined that all sources of wireless radiation (including from cell phones and cell towers) is harmful to birds as well as other animals, insects, nature, and humans. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Interior wrote a letter about their concerns regarding exposure to birds. (See Environmental Health Trust for letter published here.) According to research, exposure to 5G millimeter wave radiation also harms birds and other life forms. The Environmental Health Trust has additional info on the health effects of 5G.

10 senators who voted against USMCA --Eight Democrats, one Republican and one independent voted against the revamped North American trade deal | 16 Jan 2020 | The Senate approved the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, also known as "new NAFTA," 89-10 on Thursday, giving the Trump administration a big win as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says her fellow Democrats perfected the deal. Here are the eight Democrats, one Republican and one independent who voted against the USMCA:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass.
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
 

Senate passes USMCA, giving Trump back-to-back trade wins | 16 Jan 2020 | The Senate passed President Trump's United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade in a bipartisan vote of 89 to 10 Thursday, giving the president his second major trade win in as many days. The vote took place just before impeachment articles were presented in the Senate. The USMCA, which replaces the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, now goes to the White House, allowing Trump to fulfill a key 2016 campaign goal. USMCA largely keeps most of NAFTA intact but adds provisions aimed at ending outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to Mexico, limiting the use of supply chains abroad, and opening up Canada to more U.S. farm goods, such as dairy products.

US allows Chevron to keep drilling in Venezuela for 3 months | 18 Jan 2020 | The Trump administration has granted Chevron a special license to keep drilling oil in Venezuela despite a ban on American companies doing business with President Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government. The Treasury Department late Friday renewed until April 22 the license for Chevron and four other U.S. service suppliers that are among the last American companies operating in the oil-rich South American nation. It's the fourth time the U.S. has exempted the companies from the Venezuela ban.

CDC to screen at three US airports for signs of new virus from China | 17 Jan 2020 | More than 100 staffers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being deployed to three US airports to check passengers arriving from Wuhan, China, for fever and other symptoms of a mysterious new virus that's killed two and infected dozens in China, the CDC announced Friday. It's a highly unusual step. The last time the CDC did routine passenger health screening was during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, according to Dr. Martin Cetron, director of the CDC's division of global migration and quarantine.

New Chinese virus 'will have infected hundreds' | 18 Jan 2020 | The number of people already infected by the mystery virus emerging in China is far greater than official figures suggest, scientists have told the BBC. There have been more than 60 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, but UK experts estimate a figure nearer 1,700. Two people are known to have died from the respiratory illness, which appeared in Wuhan city in December. "I am substantially more concerned than I was a week ago," disease outbreak scientist Prof Neil Ferguson, said.

Libya civil war: UN envoy Salamé says foreign intervention must end | 18 Jan 2020 | The UN's Libya envoy Ghassan Salamé has called on foreign powers to stop interfering in Libya's civil war. On the eve of peace talks in Berlin, Mr Salamé said foreign support of proxy groups in the conflict had created a "vicious cycle" of violence. But Mr Salamé told the BBC that he was optimistic about the negotiations. It comes after nine months of conflict between the powerful General Khalifa Haftar and the UN-backed government in the capital Tripoli. A truce was announced earlier this month between Gen Haftar and the Government of National Accord (GNA).

Pelosi hands out commemorative pens, Dems slammed for gloating as House delivers Trump impeachment articles | 16 Jan 2020 | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew criticism Wednesday for handing out commemorative pens -- with her name on them -- after signing a resolution to transmit two articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate for trial. To critics, the tone of the event seemed celebratory -- a far cry from December, when Pelosi wore black and insisted on the House floor it was a "solemn" day before the Democrat-controlled body voted to impeach the president on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress allegations. Later, she even cut short two rounds of cheers from Democrats when the articles were adopted.

Pentagon to place new restrictions, monitoring on foreign military students | 17 Jan 2020 | The Defense Department announced Friday that it will implement new guidelines for vetting foreign students attending U.S. military programs and impose new restrictions following last month's deadly shooting at an air base in Pensacola, Fla. The new restrictions include banning international military students from possessing firearms and limiting access to government property and travel while off duty. The new guidelines come after 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a member of the Royal Saudi Air Force, opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Dec. 6, killing three sailors and wounding eight others.

Chief Justice John Roberts swears in senators for Trump's impeachment trial --Earlier Thursday, the lead House manager in the trial, Rep. Adam Schiff, read the two articles of impeachment against the president on the Senate floor. | 16 Jan 2020 | Chief Justice John Roberts and the nation's senators were sworn in Thursday afternoon for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. After being sworn in himself as presiding judge for the trial a little after 2 p.m. ET, Roberts asked the senators to "solemnly swear" to "do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws." The senators said "I do" together, and the clerk called senators up to sign the impeachment oath in groups of four.

Tokyo Olympic torch relay to add another Fukushima reactor town | 18 Jan 2020 | The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games torch relay is likely to pass through the town of Futaba, which hosts the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan, as the government plans to lift the mandatory evacuation order for the town on March 4, sources familiar with the matter said Friday. The town of Okuma, a co-host of the nuclear plant, was already included in the first day of the torch relay. Fukushima Prefecture aims to highlight on the global stage its reconstruction from the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986. Organizers announced in July 2018 that Fukushima would be the starting point for the torch relay in the country.

Who's Who on Trump's Legal Team for Impeachment Trial | 17 Jan 2020 | President Donald Trump’s legal advocates for his Senate impeachment trial will include a pair of well-known attorneys who have vigorously defended Trump on television and played roles in some of the most consequential legal dramas in recent history. Among those assisting White House counsel Pat Cipollone and longtime Trump attorney Jay Sekulow on the defense will be Ken Starr, the independent counsel who investigated former President Bill Clinton. Former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz also will play a role.

Virginia's Ralph Northam to ban guns from Capitol grounds, officials say | 14 Jan 2020 | Fearing a repeat of the deadly violence that engulfed Charlottesville [a false flag, six ways to Sunday] more than two years ago, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) plans to declare a temporary emergency Wednesday banning all weapons, including guns, from Capitol Square ahead of a massive rally planned next week over gun rights. That's according to two state officials who were briefed on the plans but not authorized to speak publicly about them...Northam's planned announcement comes days after Democratic leaders used a special rules committee to ban guns inside the Capitol and a legislative office building. That ban did not include Capitol grounds, which are under the governor's control and are where a huge number of gun-rights advocates are expected to rally Monday.

Trump says Second Amendment is 'under very serious attack' in Virginia ahead of gun-rights rally | 17 Jan 2020 | President Trump on Friday declared the Second Amendment is "under very serious attack" in Virginia amid a contentious gun debate in the commonwealth and ahead of a controversial gun-rights rally in Richmond on Monday. "Your 2nd Amendment is under very serious attack in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia," the president tweeted. Thousands of gun-rights advocates are expected to attend a rally organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League Monday.

Adam Schiff Sued by Physicians Group for Censoring Vaccine Debate --Schiff contacted Google, Facebook, and Amazon, to encourage them to de-platform or discredit what Schiff asserted to be inaccurate information on vaccines | 17 Jan 2020 | On Jan 15, 2020, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, along with Katarina Verrelli, on behalf of herself and others who seek access to vaccine information, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs allege that Defendant [Deep-State scum-bag and Grade 'A' sociopath] Adam Schiff has abused government power and infringed on their free-speech rights. "Who appointed Congressman Adam Schiff as Censor-in-Chief?" asks AAPS General Counsel. "No one did, and he should not be misusing his position to censor speech on the internet." In February and March 2019, Rep. [D-Calif.] Schiff contacted Google, Facebook, and Amazon, to encourage them to de-platform or discredit what Schiff asserted to be inaccurate information on vaccines. He then posted the letters and press release on the House.gov website.

Eleven US Troops Were Injured in Jan. 8 Iran Missile Strike | 16 Jan 2020 | Nearly one dozen American troops were wounded in Iran's Jan. 8 missile attack on Iraq's al-Asad air base. This week, they were medically evacuated to U.S. military hospitals in Kuwait and Landstuhl, Germany, to be treated for traumatic brain injury and to undergo further evaluation, several U.S. defense and military officials have confirmed to Defense One. Senior military and Trump administration officials had said on Jan. 8 that 11 Iranian missiles had caused "no casualties, no friendly casualties, whether they are U.S., coalition, contractor, et cetera."

Russian MPs confirm Mikhail Mishustin as new prime minister after cabinet resignation | 16 Jan 2020 | Mikhail Mishustin has been ratified as next Prime Minister of Russia by MPs, after the cabinet resigned on Wednesday. Vladimir Putin had earlier proposed Mishustin, formerly head of the Federal Tax Service, as a candidate. In an overwhelming vote on Thursday, 383 lawmakers supported Mishustin's candidacy. Not a single MP cast their vote against the Prime Minister, but 41 MPs -- members of Russia's Communist Party -- chose to abstain, RIA Novosti reported. Later in the day, Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree appointing Mishustin Prime Minister. He will now have to suggest his picks for ministers and deputy Prime Ministers, as set out in the Constitution.

Crystal Geyser bottled water maker admits dumping arsenic in Californian water --Local authorities who sampled local water quality found arsenic concentrations above hazardous waste limit | 16 Jan 2020 | The California company that produces Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring bottled water pleaded guilty to illegally dumping water that contained arsenic. Parent company CG Roxane LLC and two contracted firms were previously charged in 2018 with failing to disclose information relating to the presence of arsenic in wastewater that was being transported from the bottling plant in Olancha, California. A court case last week led to the firm agreeing to a $5 million fine for the transportation and storing of hazardous waste, federal prosecutors said. According to authorities, the waste was created by the filtration of arsenic from Sierra Nevada spring water at CG Roxane LLC'S facility in Owens Valley.

Judge upholds weapons ban for rally at Virginia capitol | 16 Jan 2020 | A Virginia judge has ruled in support of a state of emergency Gov. Ralph Northam (D) put in place on the state capitol Wednesday to temporarily ban guns ahead of a rally scheduled for Monday. Northam declared a state of emergency citing "credible intelligence from our law enforcement agencies of threats of violence." After he made the emergency declaration, the organizers of the really, the Virginia Citizens Defense League and Gunowners of America, filed an injunction. They argued that prohibiting them to assemble with firearms is a breach of the Second Amendment and freedom of speech.

Air Force announces health study at Pease Air National Guard Base amid concerns about cancer | 15 Jan 2020 | (Portsmouth, NH) Officials at an Air National Guard base in New Hampshire announced that the Air Force will conduct a study amid concerns about exposure to carcinogens at the base. The occupation health study will take place at the Pease Air National Guard Base and will be conducted with assistance from the Air National Guard surgeon general, the Portsmouth Herald reported Sunday.

China, U.S. sign phase-one trade deal | 16 Jan 2020 | China and the United States formally signed their phase-one economic and trade agreement here on Wednesday, with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. President Donald Trump inking the papers in the White House. U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chief of the Chinese side of the China-U.S. comprehensive economic dialogue, show the signed China-U.S. phase-one economic and trade agreement during a ceremony at the East Room of the White House in Washington D.C., the United States, Jan. 15, 2020. (photos)

Pelosi names 7 impeachment managers to present case against Trump at Senate trial | 15 Jan 2020 | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled the impeachment managers for President Trump's upcoming Senate trial, naming the lawmakers who will prosecute the House's case against the president on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The impeachment managers are: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff; House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler; Rep. Zoe Lofgren; Rep. Hakeem Jeffries; Rep. Val Demings; Rep. Jason Crow; and, Rep. Sylvia Garcia... Pelosi delayed naming the managers for weeks, hoping to extract concessions from Senate Republicans over calling witnesses and admitting evidence before transmitting the articles to the upper chamber. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rebuffed those efforts, saying the Senate would dictate its own procedures.

Trump touts US-China phase one trade deal as 'landmark agreement' | 15 Jan 2020 | President Trump signed a partial trade deal with China on Wednesday, touting the pact -- which will ease nearly two years of tensions between the economic powerhouses -- as the "biggest" in history. "This really is a landmark agreement," Trump said at the White House. The deal, part of what is expected to be a broader pact, includes, among other aspects, a commitment from Beijing to purchase $200 billion of U.S. goods over the next two years in exchange for an agreement from the U.S. to suspend planned tariffs on Chinese products. (The U.S. will maintain levies on about $375 billion worth of merchandise.)

Russian government resigns after President Putin's state-of-the-nation address proposes changes to the constitution | 15 Jan 2020 | Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has announced that the entire government is resigning in a surprise statement released shortly after President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual state-of-the-nation address. Accepting the resignation, Putin thanked the ministers for their hard work and asked them to function as a caretaker government until a new one can be formed. Medvedev and Putin had met for a work meeting to discuss the state-of-the-nation address earlier on Wednesday, the Kremlin said. Medvedev explained that the cabinet is resigning in accordance with Article 117 of the Russian Constitution, which states that the government can offer its resignation to the president, who can either accept or reject it.