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« Reply #600 on: January 31, 2020, 08:43:41 am »

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Senate poised to acquit Trump as witness motion appears doomed

news.yahoo.com - Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump's hopes for a speedy acquittal by the Senate received a boost on Thursday as Democrats suffered a setback in their efforts to introduce new witnesses at his …

Democrats to ask Chief Justice Roberts to rule on witnesses amid fading hopes of winning vote

abcnews.go.com - Democrats are increasingly looking to get Chief Justice John Roberts involved in the debate over witnesses in the impeachment trial as Republicans claim they have the votes to block testimony from fo…

US warns against China travel, as virus death toll hits 213

news.yahoo.com - Beijing (AFP) - The United States told its citizens to avoid China after the World Health Organization declared a global coronavirus emergency, as the Chinese death toll rose Friday to 213 and total …

Cuba is Testing Products Against Cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease

mintpressnews.com - The Cuban government has announced that it is testing new medical products against a range of chronic illnesses, including cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. The Caribbean country has becom…

Corporate Media Are the Real ‘Sanders Attack Machine’

fair.org - As the Iowa caucuses approach, corporate media are beginning to panic. “Running Bernie Sanders Against Trump Would Be an Act of Insanity,” insisted Jonathan Chait in New York magazine (1/28/20). The …

Alan Dershowitz for the Defense: L’État, C’est Trump

newyorker.com - An hour into the Senate trial of Donald John Trump on Wednesday, the emeritus Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz came to the floor to answer a question from a former Harvard law student, Senator T…

To Unravel the Plot Against Marie Yovanovitch, the Senate Needs to Hear From Lev Parnas

theintercept.com - Lev Parnas, the indicted Donald Trump donor who helped Rudy Giuliani press Ukrainian officials to smear the president’s political rivals, arrived in Washington on Wednesday to offer himself as a witn…

The New York Times Endorsement Has Often Been a Boost for the Unendorsed

fair.org - The New York Times’ recent endorsement (1/19/20) of both Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination seems to have stirred up as much anger as when Time (1…

No Man Is An Island? ❧ Current Affairs

currentaffairs.org - Just go with me here: one day, you wake up tied to a bed, in a room you’ve never seen before. You feel woozy, and when you try to speak, the only thing that comes out of your mouth is a series of inc…

Cops: Customer Threatened Stylist During Haircut

thesmokinggun.com - JANUARY 30--As he was getting his hair cut at Great Clips, a North Dakota man warned a stylist that he would kill her if “you don’t make me look beautiful,” according to court records. Police say Mic…

Postal Worker Rented Storage Unit To Hold All The Mail He Failed To Deliver

thesmokinggun.com - A time-strapped United States Postal Service worker who was unable to complete deliveries on his Virginia route rented a $49-a-month storage unit into which he dumped about 5000 pieces of undelivered…

Bellingcat - Truth in a Post-Truth World

ff.hrw.org - “In citizen journalism…trust is generated not by the brand name or the glory of the institution, it’s generated through transparency.“ – Jay Rosen, film subject, Bellingcat – Truth in a Post-Truth Wo…

How do I know if I might have coronavirus? 5 questions answered

theconversation.com - Editor’s note: The new coronavirus, 2019 n-CoV, continues to spread in China, and cases are being diagnosed in many other countries, including the U.S. In some of those countries, including Germany a…

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Learns of Coronavirus Death Toll in China and His First Thought Is It’ll Bring Jobs Back to America!!

theroot.com - Whenever Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross thinks about anything, it’s always through a prism of whiteness and opportunity. Learning that a deadly disease is on the verge of causing a pandemic, …

Trump’s border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months

washingtonpost.com - Debris is caught against closed floodgates on border fencing Jan. 7 in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Lukeville, Ariz. Such floodgates need to be left open during the summer. (Carolyn Van…

The Universal Law of the Climate Debate: Nobody Ever Change their Minds.

cassandralegacy.blogspot.com - "For those unfamiliar with Oreskes, she received a degree in geology and subsequently became a practicing geologist. Later, she returned to Cal Berkley for a PhD in history of science. After this she…

Trump will insist NHS pays more for drugs in trade deal, says ambassador

theguardian.com - Donald Trump will put the interests of corporate America first and demand that the NHS pays higher prices for US drugs in a free-trade deal with the UK, the outgoing British ambassador to Washington …

Militia group raids villages in eastern DRC after army crackdown

theguardian.com - A militia group has launched a series of bloody attacks in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, plunging the country further into instability after months of violence and political tensi…

Change climate policy now to avert oil market crisis, warns thinktank

theguardian.com - The oil industry is at risk of a global market shock that could halve the value of fossil fuel investments if governments delay setting policies to tackle the climate crisis, according to new analysi…

Why We Should Ban Facial Recognition Technology

nymag.com - Of the many unsettling aspects to Clearview AI, a shadowy facial-recognition-software company providing users access to a database of 3 billion photographs scraped from social media and video streami…

Brexit Is Finally Happening on Friday, But the Drama Is Far From Over

nymag.com - Three and a half years after U.K. voters narrowly approved a referendum to quit the European Union, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal cleared its last parliamentary hurdles last week and rec…

‘Absolutely horrific’: Trump preparing to roll back restrictions on US military use of landmines

intrepidreport.com - President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to roll back established constraints on the U.S. military’s ability to use landmines overseas despite the weapon

Pipeline or a pipedream: Israel, Turkey hydrocarbon conflict is brewing in the Mediterranean

intrepidreport.com - Massive natural gas discoveries off the eastern coast of Israel and Palestine is slated to make Tel Aviv a regional energy hub. Whether Israel will be able to translate positive indicators of the lar…


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