The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly closed its investigation into Sen. Richard Burr’s (R-SC) sale of upwards of $1.72 million in stock ahead of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Burr, the senior senator from North Carolina, was informed on Tuesday by the DOJ that its investigation into his “personal financial transactions” would not result in insider trading charges, according to the New York Times. “Tonight, the Department […]
After a 36-year career in the CIA the Trump-appointed director of the agency, Gina Haspel, has stepped down a day before Joe Biden’s inauguration. She took up the top post in 2018, replacing Mike Pompeo who moved to Secretary of State, and was the first woman to ever be named director. Her retirement is being reported as “widely expected” given tensions within the administration down to the […]
President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security has pledged to tackle “domestic extremism,” amid growing calls in the press to treat those who stormed the US Capitol as homegrown “terrorists.” Biden’s DHS hopeful, Alejandro Mayorkas, told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that he would address the issue of domestic extremism if confirmed for the role, while insisting he would empower […]
During his presidential election campaign, Joe Biden attacked Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, saying that the kingdom should be regarded as “a pariah”. The US administration is expected to cut the selling of arms to Saudi Arabia, but more targeted steps against the crown prince may also be taken, including financial sanctions. Source link
Over the long weekend, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem reacted on Twitter to a post about grocery-style food bank in a Texas school that seeks to reinforce the dignity of needy students and families by enabling them to shop with credits earned through good deeds and acts of service. “There is no such thing as a free lunch,” Noem wrote, quoting conservative economist Milton Friedman, who […]
A man holds a desert locust in his hand in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Farmers in central Kenya fear the locusts will strip vegetation from the rangeland where their livestock graze. Fredrik Lerneryd/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Fredrik Lerneryd/Getty Images A man holds a desert locust in his hand in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Farmers in central Kenya fear the locusts will strip vegetation from the rangeland […]
Trading action in the bitcoin market slowed Tuesday while ether’s price broke new ground. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $36,483 as of 21:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Climbing 0.85% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $36,029-$37,876 (CoinDesk 20) BTC below the 10-hour but above the 50-hour moving averages on the hourly chart, a sideways signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Bitstamp since Jan. 15.Source: […]
Turkey may start to ease some Covid-19 related restrictions in the second half of March, Hurriyet has reported. A vaccination programme was started in the country last week after the Sinovac vaccine was approved. Health workers were among the first to be vaccinated. The Turkish authorities are now drawing up plans for how to proceed with the virus measures further down the road later in the […]
President Trump is expected to announce as many as 150 pardons on Tuesday night before midnight. Among the names being mentioned are Steve Bannon, Joe Exotic and Julian Assange. Earlier today reports came out that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell threaten President Trump with impeachment if he pardons Julian Assange.This looks an awful lot like blackmail. McConnell is interested in protecting the Swamp. That was always […]
As this epic adventure of Donald J. Trump’s presidency winds to a spectacular close, I am reminded as I have been so many times over the past five years just how inadequate we sad scribes in the political press have been at capturing it all — this, the Greatest Political Show Earth has ever seen. It was once said of newspaperman H.L. Mencken — the so-called […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday issued a determination labeling the People’s Republic of China a genocidal regime over their inhumane treatment of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region. In a statement released on the eve of Inauguration Day, the Secretary of State explained the Chinese Communist Party has been brutally repressing the human rights of Uyghurs and other religious minority groups inhabiting the region […]
Authored by Michael Tracey via mtracey.medium.com (emphasis ours), Downtown Washington, DC is currently under what essentially amounts to military occupation. Streets are locked down, guarded by Army vehicles and blocked off by huge, garish checkpoints. Vehicular traffic is limited to motorists who can show papers demonstrating that, as one Guardsman told me, they are conducting “legitimate business.” (Apparently this includes Uber drivers and food delivery workers.) […]
(Natural News) A tweet from Patrick Byrne (scroll about halfway down the page to the 12:00pm entry) alleges that Charles Lieber, a professor at Harvard University, has been arrested for committing treason with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Lieber was allegedly given $50,000 per month from China for “living expenses” along with a $1.5 million lump sum payment for his work not just with the Wuhan […]
Russia's Foreign Minister has demanded that the US and Israel should not target sites connected to the Syrian regime. Sergey Lavrov made his comments during a press conference in Moscow on Monday. Lavrov revealed that his country has asked Israel to provide information about the alleged security threats emanating from Syrian territory, in order to address the matter. "If Israel is forced, as is claimed, to […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Don Sutton, a Hall of Fame pitcher who was a stalwart of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rotation spanning an era from Sandy Koufax to Fernando Valenzuela, died Tuesday. He was 75. The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, said Sutton died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, after a long struggle with cancer. The Atlanta Braves, for whom Sutton […]
LONDON — U.S. combat jets and a destroyer are to join the British Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier on its maiden operational deployment to the Asia-Pacific region later in 2021, after officials formally approved the deployment Tuesday. British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and U.S. acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller co-signed a joint declaration approving the deployment of U.S. Marine and U.S. Navy assets as part of […]
Authored by Glenn Greenwald via greenwald.substack.com, The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting “terrorism” that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began nearly twenty years ago. This trend shows no sign of receding as we move farther from the January 6 Capitol […]
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser set a chilling standard for what might make someone a terrorist threat, saying soldiers in the US capital must vow “allegiance to their mission” of guarding President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Bowser spoke to reporters on Tuesday regarding the thousands of National Guardsmen being brought to the District of Columbia from all across the nation to help provide beefed-up inauguration security in the […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also accused the Chinese Communist Party of “crimes against humanity against the predominantly Muslim Uighurs and other members of ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.” The alleged crimes date back to March 2017. Source link
The main synagogue of a Brooklyn ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect hosted yet another mammoth wedding in defiance of COVID-19 rules Monday, with thousands of mask-free revelers in attendance. Celebrations continued into Tuesday. The son of Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, the head of the Bobov Hasidic sect, was married before thousands of men, per screenshots of the event. Hundreds of celebrants flew in from Europe and Israel for […]
Steven Brandenburg, the pharmacist accused of tampering with hundreds of doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, is facing a misdemeanor charge of attempted criminal damage to property. Ozaukee County Sheriff/AP hide caption toggle caption Ozaukee County Sheriff/AP Steven Brandenburg, the pharmacist accused of tampering with hundreds of doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, is facing a misdemeanor charge of attempted criminal damage to property. Ozaukee County […]
President Trump formally declassified a large trove of Russiagate documents Tuesday evening over objections from the FBI. The declassified documents are expected to be released by Wednesday. President Trump said he received the materials in a binder on December 30 and decided to declassify and publicly release the documents. “I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible,” the […]
Israel does not intend to resume normal relations with Turkey and send its ambassador back to Ankara unless the Turkish government closes a Hamas office in Istanbul. The office is alleged to be run by the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement. "[President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan would be happy to return our ambassador to Ankara, but what we are interested in is Hamas activity […]
The New York Times first reported that Burr would not be facing federal charges. Burr dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars in stocks earlier this year while he was receiving briefings about the virus due to his perch on the Senate’s health committee. When the full extent of the economic devastation caused by the virus began to set in, the stock market plummeted. Last May, federal […]
CNBC anchor Shepard Smith, also a former Fox News personality, accused some of his former Fox News colleagues of spreading “disinformation” in an interview with CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour. Discussing his role as a straight news anchor on Fox News, Smith said, “If you feel like the Fox viewers were getting mis- or disinformation, I was there to make sure that they got it straight. There were […]
ANKARA, Turkey — Six suspects were detained in Turkey in an alleged fraud scheme involving defense industry contracts, the government announced. The detentions, reported by the government on Jan. 12, came after a joint covert operation by the Turkish police force and the National Intelligence Organization, or MIT. The suspects are charged with selling classified and secret data pertaining to defense industry programs. The chief prosecutor’s […]
By B.N. Frank Decades of research has determined that exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and Radio Frequency (RF) Radiation is biologically harmful. Children seem to be particularly vulnerable to it. Common sources of RF radiation include “Smart” and/or wireless technology: cell phones, cell towers, personal and “Smart” home appliances, devices and, wearables (see 1, 2), utility “Smart” meters (electric, gas, and water), WiFi routers, and more. […]
Medical inventor and author David Martin proves that the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are not vaccines by medical definition and how Big Pharma is using national and state emergency authorizations to force these untested gene therapies onto the population. References • It is unlawful under the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 41 et seq., to advertise that a product or service can prevent, treat, or […]
Via HumanEvents,com, In a CNN interview, Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-9) made the egregious accusation that because of its conservative majority, 75 percent of the National Guard might be inclined to attack during Joe Biden’s inauguration. .@RepCohen on his concerns w/ the National Guard securing the Inauguration: “The [National] Guard is 90 some-odd percent male; and only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden … […]
(Natural News) Left-wing rioters, who participated in violent insurrection throughout the summer of 2020, were exposed online and on camera, bragging about infiltrating the Save America March on January 6th and turning it violent. A left-wing activist named John Earle Sullivan was exposed on video inside the Capitol, bragging “we gotta get this shit burned,” “it’s our house motherf*uckers,” “we are getting this shit,” and “we […]
Following the mayhem in the US Capitol on January 6, the outgoing US President Donald Trump has found himself in the middle of a whirlwind, as the biggest US social media companies suspended his accounts on almost every platform, particularly Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and most notably Twitter. Source link