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>>12466688 GOP Lawmakers Block Pelosi’s Effort to Force Traitor VP Pence to Invoke 25th Amendment

>>12466704 Turkey launches probe after WhatsApp’s updated terms see users’ data shared with parent company Facebook

>>12466716 Washington Monument Closed Thru Jan 24 Due To "Credible Threats" To Disrupt Biden Inauguration

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>>12466733 NY State Bar Association moves to expel Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani

>>12466741 Steven Mnuchin took further action against Russian-linked actors

>>12466748 Hacker reveals massive Parler data leak: ALL users’ messages, location info and even driver’s licenses may have been exposed

>>12466768 Parler Sues Amazon for Antitrust Violation, Other Damages

>>12466802 DJT joins clouthub

>>12466836 House Democrats introduce article of impeachment against Donald Trump

>>12466837 Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said that he knows who planned the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and that the incident bodes ill for America's future.

>>12466852 William Burns, ex-envoy to Russia who accused Putin of using judo-like tactics to ‘sow chaos’ in US, named as Biden’s CIA director

>>12466877 Cops, Kids, Reporters & Activists Were Murdered As Democrats Incited 2020 Riots

>>12466905 Wall Street Banks Freeze Political Donations After Capitol Hill Riots, Threaten Pro-Trump Politicians with Blacklisting

>>12466923 Foreign assets were just seized from Ukraine?!

>>12466954 Thousands of Law School Alumni Sign Unconstitutional Petition to Disbar Cruz, Hawley

>>12466981 ‘Capitol Hill is the 9/11 Moment of Social Media’ — EU Commissioner Calls for Govt Control of the Internet

>>12467006 FBI says armed protests being planned in all 50 states

>>12467007 Migrant Caravan Heading to U.S.A.

>>12467023 SPEAKER PELOSI IS AWOL?

>>12467067 Pompeo countdown, and now he tweets a zero, this morning:

>>12467106 AMAZING! They magically already have a 20,000 page domestic terrorism bill ready

>>12467181 Dozens of US diplomats condemn Trump for inciting deadly violence at the Capitol

>>12467323 Rep Coleman has Rona

Army Investigates Fort Bragg Soldier for Attending Rally That Ended in US Capitol Breach

Army officials at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, are investigating a psychological operations captain for her involvement in the Washington, D.C., rally that led to the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol last week.

In the aftermath of the riot, Army officials pledged to investigate whether any soldiers joined hundreds of Trump supporters in pushing past law enforcement officers to enter the Capitol and smash windows, damage offices and force lawmakers to halt their official count of Electoral College votes in order to shelter in place.

"I can confirm our command is investigating the involvement of Capt. Emily Rainey at the Capitol on Jan. 6," Maj. Dan Lessard, a spokesman for 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne), said in a statement to Military.com.

Rainey, who is assigned to the 4th Psychological Operations Group at Bragg, told The Associated Press on Sunday that she had a right to attend the rally.

"I was a private citizen and doing everything right and within my rights," Rainey told the AP.

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy agreed to a request from Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., for any soldiers suspected in the breach of the Capitol to receive fast-tracked investigation and courts-martial, according to a readout Crow released of his call with McCarthy on Sunday.

Rainey said she led 100 members of Moore County Citizens for Freedom, a self-described nonpartisan network that promotes conservative values, to Washington to "stand against election fraud" and support President Donald Trump, the AP reported. Trump has repeatedly alleged there was widespread fraud in the Nov. 3 election but has not produced proof of his claims.

This is not the first time Rainey has been in the spotlight. In May, she posted a video online of her pulling down caution tape at a playground that was closed under North Carolina’s COVID-19 restrictions, the AP reported.

Police in Southern Pines, a community about 30 miles west of Fort Bragg, charged Rainey with damage to personal property over the incident, after letting her off with warnings twice before when she tore down the tape closing off the playground, according to the AP.

Rainey officially resigned her commission as an officer in October and is scheduled to leave the Army in April, Lessard told Military.com.

Rainey said she attended the Trump rally while on leave and didn't advertise that she was an Army officer, the AP reported.

"I told my bosses before I went that I was going, and I told them when I got back," she told the AP, adding that her group did not enter the Capitol and left the city long before the 6 p.m. curfew that was imposed after the riot.

Members of the U.S. military are permitted to take part in political organizations and events while out of uniform, but the Pentagon prohibits active-duty service members from sponsoring partisan organizations.

"It's not clear at this time whether she broke any laws or regulations with her travel to the Capitol," Lessard said in the statement. "That's why we are gathering all of the facts surrounding this case so we can determine whether actions are appropriate."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/11/army-investigates-fort-bragg-soldier-attending-rally-ended-us-capitol-breach.html

Egypt collects $383,691 worth of fines in one week from mask violators

Egypt has collected six million Egyptian pounds ($383,691) worth of fines in one week from people found not to be wearing a face mask, reports the state-run Al-Ahram.

Over 125,000 people have been issued fines and roughly 121,000 have paid; 4,577 have been referred to the prosecution over their unpaid fines.

The news comes shortly after the Interior Ministry announced that it had referred 1,112 people to the public prosecutor after they refused to pay the 50 Egyptian pound ($3.19) fine for not wearing a mask.

In 24 hours, 20,986 people were fined for violating the mask regulations, and over 16,000 businesses were shut down.

A week ago, the government announced that people caught without a mask in public indoor spaces would be fined or prosecuted.

It was one of a series of preventative measures issued to stem the spread of coronavirus, including the cancellation of weddings, funerals, festivals and other mass gatherings.

The hospitality industry has been told to reduce to 50 per cent capacity and shops have been issued shorter opening hours.

Many Egyptians questioned whether the health minister, who was caught on camera at a wedding at a time that is thought to be after the new regulations were brought in, would also be fined.

Hala Zayed was wearing a mask but she was surrounded by huge numbers of guests who were not.

Zayed recently came under intense scrutiny after she initially denied that there was an oxygen shortage in hospitals after an entire ICU ward died when the pressure dropped too low.

She later announced that certain measures would be taken to ensure this didn't happen again.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210111-egypt-collects-383691-worth-of-fines-in-one-week-from-mask-violators/

Israel and the shameful, dangerous final days of Donald Trump

Few leaders were closer to the disgraced president than Netanyahu. Few nations consider themselves to have benefited more from his policies. We’re already seeing the consequences

Few if any national leaders were more closely allied with the disgraced US President Donald Trump, inciter of last week’s assault on the Capitol in Washington, on American democracy, than Benjamin Netanyahu.

Few if any nations would consider themselves to have been greater beneficiaries of Trump-backed policies than Israel, even though Israelis were deeply conflicted over the man now nearing the end of his White House term in such ignominy.

The implications of these two facts are already being felt, and will continue to resonate in the coming days, weeks, months and years. And not for the good.

Netanyahu nurtured his relationship with Trump — so heavily financially backed by their mutual supporters, the Adelsons — from the get-go, celebrating the anticipated volte-face from the administration of the loathed president Barack Obama.

The prime minister had openly battled Obama, all the way to lobbying against the president in the US Congress in a failed effort to prevent the US-led appeasement of Iran in the 2015 JCPOA, and resisted Obama’s efforts to strong-arm Israel into relinquishing overall security control of the West Bank. In stunning contrast, the joint efforts of Netanyahu, his key aides and like-minded empathetic figures in the Trump administration helped ensure that the 45th US president — whose direct role and interest in any of this is open to debate — withdrew from the Iran deal and presented a vision for Israeli-Palestinian peace as comfortable as anything Israel could ever expect.

More

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-and-the-shameful-dangerous-final-days-of-donald-trump/

Twitter Loses $5 BILLION in Market Share as Stock TUMBLES After Platform Bans President Trump

It looks as though Big Tech is learning a very staunch financial lesson on your Monday morning. Twitter has now lost over $5 billion in market share since opening bell on Monday, as the tech giant faces major backlash after banning President Trump.

The massive fall is following the platforms banning of President Donald Trump, General Michael Flynn, Lin Wood, Sindey Powell, and a slew of other high profile conservatives the site banned in the last 72 hours.

Banning the leader of the free world is not only a violation of the 1st amendment, but part of yet another coup by big tech corporations and the Democrats to try to illegally remove Trump from office.

The President who had more than 88 million followers gave the platform a massive influx of supporters and revenue from their tweets and content.

Twitter stock has fell by 12% so far and counting, the share-price decline wiped $5 billion from Twitter’s market capitalization.

Will other tech companies realize that banning one of the most popular President’s in history is a bad career move? Or will they continue to try to ban conservatives and end free speech in America?

https://thedcpatriot.com/twitter-loses-5-billion-in-market-share-as-stock-tumbles-after-platform-bans-president-trump/

Is America’s Future a Civil War?

Paul Craig Roberts reposted on the Saker by permission

source: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/01/10/is-americas-future-a-civil-war/

As a person who grew up in the glorious aftermath of World War II, it never occurred to me that in my later years I would be pondering whether the United States would end in civil war or a police state. In the aftermath of the stolen presidential election, it seems a 50-50 toss up.

There is abundant evidence of a police state. One feature of a police state is controlled explanations and the suppression of dissent. We certainly have that in abundance.

Experts are not permitted forums in which to challenge the official position on Covid.

Teachers are suspended for giving offense by using gender pronouns.

Recording stars are dropped by their recording studios for attending the Trump rally. Parents ratted on by their own children are fired from their jobs for attending the Trump rally. https://www.rt.com/usa/512048-capitol-riot-employees-fired/ Antifa is free to riot, loot, intimidate and hassle, but Trump supporters are insurrectionists.

White people are racists who use hateful words and concepts, but those who demonize whites are righting wrongs.

Suppression of dissent and controlling behavior are police state characteristics. It might be less clear to some why dictating permissible use of language is police state control. Think about it this way. If your use of pronouns can be controlled, so can your use of all other words. As concepts involve words, they also can be controlled. In this way inconvenient thoughts and expressions along with accurate descriptions find their way into the Memory Hole.

With the First Amendment gone, or restricted to the demonization of targeted persons, such as “the Trump Deplorables,” “white supremacists,” “Southern racists,” the Second Amendment can’t have much life left. As guns are associated with red states, that is, with Trump supporters, outlawing guns is a way to criminalize the red half of the American population that the Establishment considers “deplorable.” Those who stand on their Constitutional right will be imprisoned and become cheap prison labor for America’s global corporations.

Could all this lead to a civil war or are Americans too beat down to effectively resist? That we won’t know until it is put to the test.

Are there clear frontlines? Identity Politics has divided the people across the entire country. The red states are only majority red. It is tempting to see the frontiers as the red center against the blue Northeast and West coasts, but that is misleading. Georgia is a red state with a red governor and legislature, but there were enough Democrats in power locally to steal the presidential and US senate elections.

Another problem for reds is that large cities—the distribution centers—such as Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles—are in blue hands as are ports and international airports. Effectively, this cuts reds off from outside resources.

What would the US military do? Clearly, the Joint Chiefs and the military/security complex are establishment and not anti-establishment Trumpers. With the soldiers themselves now a racial and gender mix, the soldiers would be as divided as the country. Those not with the Establishment would lack upper level support.

Where are the youth and younger adults? They are in both camps depending on their education. Many of the whites who went to university have been brainwashed against themselves, and regard white Americans as “systemic racists” or “white supremacists” and feel guilt. Those who did not go to university for the most part have experienced to their disadvantage the favoritism given to people of color and have resentment.

https://thesaker.is/is-americas-future-a-civil-war/

Organizations Linked to Chinese Military Are a Cash Cow for American Colleges

Universities received $88 million from CCP entities behind cyber attacks and espionage

Chinese military-linked entities, including those behind extensive cyber attacks and espionage, funneled at least $88 million into U.S. universities over the course of six years, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of federal records.

Some of America's most prestigious universities have cashed lucrative checks from Chinese institutions that directly threatened national security. Duke University operates a joint-campus in China with Wuhan University, a public university that repeatedly carried out cyber attacks on behalf of the Chinese military. Northwestern University and the University of California Irvine have together received more than $4 million in research funding from an entity controlled by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, a Chinese defense contractor that used stolen designs of American F-35 fighters to build planes for the Chinese military.

Institutions controlled by the Chinese government—state-owned enterprises, state-controlled public universities, government-controlled nonprofits, and other sources—collectively donated at least $315 million to American colleges between 2014 and 2019. More than a quarter of the contributions—27 percent—came from either state-owned defense contractors or public universities that closely partner with the Chinese military to conduct defense research.

The expenditures indicate that the Chinese government is a much bigger player in U.S. academia than previously thought. State-backed entities often avoid scrutiny as their government ties are not immediately obvious. The $315 million sum, based on federal disclosures, is likely a conservative estimate of Chinese influence peddling on campus. A Department of Education audit found that U.S. universities failed to disclose more than $6.5 billion in foreign funding from China and other countries in recent years.

Ian Easton, the senior director for the Project 2049 Institute think tank, said that the Chinese donations to American universities could pose a grave threat to national security.

"It is imperative that the U.S. government dams up the torrent of CCP-linked money currently flowing into our education system. For U.S. national security, the implications of a continuation of the current arrangement are grave," Easton told the Free Beacon.

The Free Beacon combed through nearly 1,000 Chinese donations to U.S. universities logged in a Department of Education database, reviewing each donor to see whether it is formally owned or controlled by the Chinese government. The review found that 198 separate Chinese government entities funneled money to dozens of U.S. universities.

The biggest regime-backed donors were Chinese universities, which collectively donated more than $192 million to U.S. colleges. These donations funded a wide variety of projects, but more than 40 percent of the money came from institutions that have been identified as close research partners of the Chinese military by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's China Defense Universities Tracker.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/organizations-linked-to-chinese-military-are-a-cash-cow-for-american-colleges/

Capitol Police chief sought DC National Guard help before riots – but was denied by supervisors: report

Steven Sund is now speaking out following the deadly riots

The U.S. Capitol Police chief who was in charge during last week’s deadly riots reportedly asked his supervisors ahead of time for permission to request that the D.C. National Guard be on standby if the situation spiraled out of control – but was denied.

Steven Sund, who resigned from the position as of Friday, revealed the plea this week in an interview with The Washington Post.

"If we would have had the National Guard we could have held them at bay longer, until more officers from our partner agencies could arrive," Sund told the newspaper, describing how the deadly Jan. 6 storming of Capitol Hill by a pro-Trump crowd might have unfolded differently.

The Washington Post reports that on the Monday before the riot, Sund asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request the Guard be placed on standby in case he needed hasty backup.

But Sund told the newspaper that House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving rebuffed the idea, arguing he was uncomfortable with the "optics" that such a move would bring in advance of Wednesday’s protest. Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger told Sund that he should informally reach out to his contacts at the Guard and ask them to "lean forward" and be on alert, he added.

Sund said he followed Stenger’s advice and called the head of the D.C. National Guard that night, who allegedly told him he believed he could get 125 personnel to the scene quickly if needed. The police chief then briefed Irving and Stenger on that information Tuesday and Stenger said the backup – which also included an offering from the Metropolitan Police Department to potentially lend a hand – seemed sufficient, according to Sund’s interview with The Washington Post.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/capitol-police-chief-sought-dc-national-guard-help-before-riots

Kissinger: Return to Iran deal could spark Middle East nuclear arms race

“I don’t believe that the spirit [of the Iran deal], with a time limit and so many escape clauses, will do anything other than bring nuclear weapons all over the Middle East."

The new US administration should not return to the spirit of the Iran deal, which could spark an arms race in the Middle East, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said Monday at a Jewish People Policy Institute online conference.

He criticized the 2015 Iran deal, which President Donald Trump left in 2018. President-elect Joe Biden seeks to return to it if Iran agrees to comply again with the agreement’s limitations on its nuclear program.

“We should not fool ourselves,” the 97-year-old diplomat, consultant and author said. “I don’t believe that the spirit [of the Iran deal], with a time limit and so many escape clauses, will do anything other than bring nuclear weapons all over the Middle East and therefore create a situation of latent tension that sooner or later will break out.”

The current leaders in Iran “don’t seem to find it possible to give up this combination of Islamist imperialism and threat,” Kissinger said. “The test case is the evolution of nuclear capacities in Iran, if these can be avoided.”

“I do not say we shouldn’t talk to them,” he added.

Dennis Ross, a former adviser to presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, interviewed Kissinger at the JPPI farewell event for its founding director, Avinoam Bar-Yosef.

Ross asked Kissinger what he would advise Biden and his administration to do to take advantage of the Abraham Accords, in which four Arab states normalized ties with Israel.

“We should not give up on what has recently been achieved in these agreements between the Arab world and the Israeli world,” he said. “I would tell the incoming administration that we are on a good course.”

The accords “have opened a window of opportunity for a new Middle East,” Kissinger said. “Arab countries understood that they could not survive in constant tension with parts of the West and with Israel, so they decided they had to take care of themselves.”

Normalizations with Israel show that the four states taking part “have come to the conclusion that their national interests transcend their ideological interests,” said the secretary of state and national security advisor to presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the 1970s. “So they have decided, and Israel has advocated, that they should pursue their interests and come together, and they will take into account Arab concerns where they clash.”

That idea “has worked out very well,” Kissinger said, adding that he always opposed the idea of finding “all-out solutions” to peace in the Middle East, advocating for the US “to work out the solutions that we can because they can build on themselves.”

The Palestinians need to give up on their “ultimate aims” and look for possible interim achievements, Kissinger said.

Bar-Yosef is leaving the JPPI after 18 years as president and founding director. The institute formulates policy recommendations for the government of Israel and Jewish organizations in areas such as Jewish identity, religion and state in Israel, fighting antisemitism and Jewish demographic trends.

His successor is Yedidia Stern, a law professor at Bar-Ilan University and longtime senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/kissinger-return-to-iran-deal-could-spark-middle-east-nuclear-arms-race-655007

Dozens of policymakers have violated their own COVID rules over the past year, new list shows

Politicians, officials have been caught traveling, socializing without masks.

Dozens of policymakers and public health officials have flouted their own coronavirus mitigation rules over the past year, according to a list recently published by the influential conservative Heritage Foundation.

The list "shows the continuing hypocrisy of local, state, and federal officials who violate their own coronavirus mandates, policies, or other restrictions," Heritage argues.

Many entries on the list, which are drawn from news reports from around the country, highlight instances in which political leaders, after having mandated COVID restrictions on citizens for months, temporarily abandoned the newly imposed rules in order to join and/or praise the Black Lives Matter-led protests and demonstrations that occurred following the death of George Floyd last year.

In one instance, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — who for a time mandated some of the strictest COVID-19 lockdown policies in the country — violated her own COVID-19 orders by participating in a densely packed march in suburban Detroit. Whitmer's orders at the time dictated that, though protesting was allowed, participants "must adhere to social distancing measures," something the governor herself did not do.

In another much-publicized case, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was caught at a dinner party without a mask and without remaining distant from other participants.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, meanwhile, was caught dining indoors in Maryland while restaurants in his city were closed for indoor dining.

John McAdams, a political science professor at Marquette University, told Just the News that "trust in public officials is pretty low, so finding them to be hypocrites who won't obey the rules they want to impose on others is no surprise to most Americans."

"But one real consequence will be supporting and stiffening resistance to rules and restrictions a lot of people feel are repressive," he continued. "People's willingness to obey government mandates is heavily dependent on believing the people imposing the mandates are operating in good faith."

"In fact," he added, "a fair number of people, regardless of whether they agree with the health experts, will be inclined to defy the mandates, as an act of resistance against those officials."

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/dozens-policymakers-have-violated-their-own-covid-rules-over-past-year

U.S. Propaganda Engine’s CEO Found To Allegedly Be Extremely Corrupt

Twitter even went so far as to mute the official @POTUS Twitter account, while Trump is still in office.

This censorship is so extreme, that even Russian neo-liberal opposition in confusion. While the most of opinions showcased claim that any censorship ‘in the name of democracy’ is allowed and it is fine to cancel Trump and his supporters, at least some voices have noticed that the situation is not so simple. MSM-promoted Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny even twitted that Trump should not be censored. At the same time, the Western-funded Russian opposition still have find no courage to question the result of the US presidential election itself despite multiple evidence of vouter fraud because this may lead to the losing of funding from Washington. So, now supporters of the Russian opposition know that the election rigging ‘in the name of democracy’ is allowed.

2. Of course, during his time in the office, Trump has been writing and saying very irresponsible things. And paid for it by not getting re-elected for a second term.

— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 9, 2021

4. In my opinion, the decision to ban Trump was based on emotions and personal political preferences.

— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 9, 2021

Of course, Navalny tied it to himself and the situation in Russia, which is still showing – he claims that Russia heavily censors him and he is the “arch-enemy of evil overlord Vladimir Putin” and now, the United States does the same to Trump? According to Navalny, such a precedent would be exploited by the enemies of freedom of speech around the world and that whenever someone needed someone silenced, they would say “‘this is just common practice, even Trump got blocked on Twitter.’”

Navalny’s criticism is also interesting, since Trump has been accused of allegedly being an ally of Vladimir Putin more than once.

Regardless, among praises of Trump’s ban on MSM, in addition to various pieces condemning his supporters as domestic terrorists, there’s another notable development.

The U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO Michael Pack was accused of funneling more than $4 million to his private documentary company through a not-for-profit that he also controls.

He was appointed by Trump, and he was just discovered to be quite corrupt, when Trump is exiting office and it is likely time for a new state-funded propaganda.

According to an NPR report, five recent chiefs of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – appointed under Democratic and Republican administrations – jointly warned President-elect Joe Biden that Pack poses “a long-term threat to the credibility and professionalism of the five networks” he oversees.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is to appear on VOA on January 11th, and whistleblowers used the chance to accuse Pack, since there’s only 9 days for Trump in office, and likely Pompeo is following close.

Pack will be replaced promptly as well. He reportedly attempted to extend his time in his executive seat by cooperating with “conservative allies” that will steer Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. The not-for-profit broadcasters are all funded by the federal government through USAGM.

Those networks, along with VOA and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, collectively reach more than 350 million people across the world each week.

“They historically have demonstrated American pluralism by providing balanced coverage of news events and robust political debate, regardless of how it reflects on current government officials. The broadcasters are also intended to serve the citizens of nations which do not allow journalists to operate freely.”

Turns out they were just lining somebody’s pockets and now a new propaganda engine is needed, which is also not conservative.

Pack did the same with three other non-profit networks funded by USAGM and made himself board chairman over Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; Radio Free Asia; and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks.

https://southfront.org/u-s-propaganda-engines-ceo-found-to-allegedly-be-extremely-corrupt/

China Advances In Europe As Unipolar World Collapsing Together With United States Political System

On December 30th, the EU and China approved a comprehensive investment agreement, despite a request for talks on the issue by the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron joined EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel in a video conference to conclude negotiations over the deal, which removes a number of barriers to European companies’ investment in China.

This deal was years in the making, and the US was apparently entirely left out.

Negotiations had repeatedly stalled since they began in 2013.

According to reports, Chinese negotiators had a sense of urgency after Biden was elected and attempted to close it, successfully as it seems.

The deal is a diplomatic victory for Beijing and a domestic one for President Xi Jinping.

In Washington, it will be seen as a snub to the incoming Biden administration, which urged the EU to wait.

“Before President Biden has even taken the oath of office, the well has been a bit poisoned in transatlantic relations,” said Theresa Fallon, director of the Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies, a think tank in Brussels.

The deal has also been criticized by politicians in Europe because of concerns over forced labor and other human rights abuses in China, and for preempting any discussions with the Biden administration on a joint approach to Beijing.

“After four years of the Trump administration, which characterized the EU as ‘worse than China,’ there is a growing anti-American sentiment” among EU leadership, Fallon said, “meaning ‘we don’t want to do what the U.S. says.’ “

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying tweeted that the agreement “demonstrates China’s determination and confidence to advance toward a higher level of opening up.”

https://southfront.org/china-advances-in-europe-as-unipolar-world-collapsing-together-with-united-states-political-system/

Did Pelosi Just Reveal the Motive Behind Her Desperate Last-Minute Attacks on Donald Trump?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has urged Vice President Mike Pence to use the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump. She threatened to impeach Trump if he did not. Pelosi gave members of Congress a roadmap on two such measures on Sunday.

Why is she so insistent on these desperate attempts to remove Trump, who will leave office in ten days, anyway? While some of Trump’s statements during the Capitol riots were beyond the pale, the president has since condemned the rioters and promised to support a peaceful transition of power.

If Pence and the Cabinet use the 25th Amendment, declaring that Trump is unable to fulfill his duties as president, Trump will have an eight-day period to remain president before he is removed. If the House of Representatives votes to impeach Trump, the Senate would almost certainly not remove Trump before January 20. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will not reconvene the Senate until January 19, effectively dooming impeachment while Trump is in office.

Both the 25th Amendment and impeachment would also set horrible constitutional precedents. Democrats appear set to impeach Trump for allegedly inciting the Capitol riots — even though the president never told his supporters to break into the Capitol or engage in violence. This would set a precedent that Congress could impeach a president if the majority party interprets aggressive rhetoric as incitement to violence. If the Cabinet uses the 25th Amendment, it would set the precedent that a Cabinet could declare a president mentally unfit, removing him or her even if he or she were able to carry out the duties of president.

Even so, Pelosi revealed her plans in a letter to fellow members of Congress on Sunday. She announced that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-N.Y.) will request unanimous consent to bring up a resolution calling on Pence to activate the 25th Amendment. Without unanimous consent, the House will bring up the resolution on Tuesday. The resolution calls on Pence to respond within 24 hours. If he does not respond, the House will consider impeachment.

In an interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl, Pelosi explained why Democrats are so desperate to impeach Trump.

“There is a possibility that after all of this, there’s no punishment, no consequence, and he could run again for president,” Stahl said.

“And that’s one of the motivations that people have for advocating for impeachment,” Pelosi responded.

Stahl noted that not much time remains in Trump’s term and impeachment would draw out.

“I like the 25th Amendment because it gets rid of him, he’s out of office, but there is strong support in the Congress for impeaching the president a second time. This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that,” the speaker replied.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/01/10/did-pelosi-just-reveal-the-motive-behind-her-desperate-last-minute-attacks-on-donald-trump-n1328906

'Unity And Healing' Kicks Off With Mass Arrests And Big Tech Purging Of Dissidents

(Eliot Cohen was an architect of the Iraq war at the Project For A New American Century.)

Especially after the violence at the Capitol, it is past time for social media companies to take responsibility for the hate & disinformation on their platforms. The #StopHateForProfit coalition is calling on companies to #BanTrumpSaveDemocracy. More here: https://t.co/sRCfOzFtaq pic.twitter.com/LVFb9Opo4H

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) January 8, 2021

Proud of our #StopHateforProfit coalition - @ADL @NAACP @ColorofChange @FreePress @LULAC @CommonSense @Slpng_Giants @NHMC @Mozilla - & the companies, celebs & orgs who supported us. Thank you @SachaBaronCohen whose vision ignited this movement. There is more work to be done.

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) January 9, 2021

We cannot allow the historic & horrific events of the past 48 hours to fade without significant consequences. In our 100+ years of history, @ADL has never called for the President of the United States to be removed from office. Today, that changes. https://t.co/QWPplt3h6z

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) January 8, 2021

President-elect Biden on whether Capitol rioters should be treated as domestic terrorists: "Yes … They're a bunch of thugs, insurrectionists, white supremacists, anti-Semites … and they're terrorists — domestic terrorists." pic.twitter.com/BpPnuSmE3L

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 8, 2021

The House must as an immediate step pass a domestic terrorism statute, with a focus on white supremacist terrorism, and send it to the Senate.

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) January 9, 2021

Pelosi: Rioters chose their "whiteness" over democracy https://t.co/tZmLDZZIOa pic.twitter.com/HESAAVWylr

— The Hill (@thehill) January 10, 2021

Whiteness is at the core of the insurrection https://t.co/ov33J3e8uO via @voxdotcom

— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) January 9, 2021

The man seen smiling and waving at the camera while carrying the lectern of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been arrested in Florida. Jail records show Adam Johnson is being held on a federal warrant. https://t.co/FM81q1m6l8

— Farrah Yvette (@farrah_yvette) January 9, 2021

Adam Johnson has a wife and five kids. He didn't actually steal the podium, he just clowned around a bit for a laugh and placed it in another room.

A West Virginia lawmaker and a man who broke into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and posed at a desk were among those arrested on charges related to the siege at the Capitol, officials announced on Friday. “We are far from done,” said an FBI official. https://t.co/wGXZzz3qau

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 8, 2021

Proud Boys Hawaii founder Nick Ochs arrested for unlawful entry at Capitol https://t.co/3SnGMoTJlm

— Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷) (@JoyAnnReid) January 9, 2021

Jake Angeli, Capitol rioter in horned helmet, arrested by Feds https://t.co/qY0m5DHXru pic.twitter.com/EDGzGT7te0

— New York Post (@nypost) January 9, 2021

It turns out the feds can arrest "rioters" really quick if they actually want to!

Great! Now disbar him!https://t.co/uGG5uX7A7x

— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) January 8, 2021

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61994

Michigan Bans Open Carry of Guns Inside State Capitol in Wake of 6 January Chaos

Michigan has moved to ban the open carry of guns inside the state Capitol following recent mob violence in the building of the federal legislative body, as crowds of protesters stormed the Congress on Wednesday, 6 January.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202101111081734406-michigan-bans-open-carry-of-guns-inside-state-capitol-in-wake-of-6-january-chaos/

15,000 National Guard Deployed To Safeguard Capitol, FBI Warns Of "Armed Protests" Across Nation

pdate (1301 ET): Politico's Lara Seligmandit reports Gen. Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, said the US Department of Defense had approved a plan to increase Guard troops in the Washington Metropolitan Area by 9,000, for a total of 15,000 to support the inauguration.

Deployment of Guard troops in DC come in the wake of deadly riots at the Capitol building last Wednesday and ahead of the Presidential Inauguration on Jan. 20 that could incite another wave of violence.

In a separate report, ABC News cites a report from the FBI that armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols ahead of Jan. 20. The agency notes far-right, anti-government, Boogaloo group, could be planning violence ahead of the inauguration.

ABC's Aaron Katersky said the FBI has "received information about an identified armed group intending to travel to Washington, DC on Jan. 16. They have warned that if Congress attempts to remove POTUS via the 25th Amendment a huge uprising will occur."

Katersky said, "A group is calling for "storming" state, local, and federal government courthouses and administrative buildings in the event President Trump is removed prior to Inauguration Day."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/washington-monument-closed-thru-jan-24-due-credible-threats-disrupt-biden-inauguration

Retired Naval Academy goat mascot Bill 33 has died

The Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The United States Naval Academy has announced that goat mascot Bill 33 has died.

The Capital Gazette reports that the announcement was made Thursday.

The fuzzy Angora goat was affectionately known as “Blue Eyes” and would have been 14 years old next week.

The goat was the team mascot from 2008 to 2015. He stood out not only for his startling eyes, but also for horns that stretched longer than any goat in his herd.

Bill 33 played a central role in an Army-Navy prank that had gone too far in 2012. He was kidnapped from his home at Maryland Sunrise Farm in Gambrills. There were other so-called goatnappings. But that one prompted the academy to keep the mascot’s location secret to the public.

Bill 33 suffered from health issues caused by old age and was humanely euthanized when it became clear that his condition would not improve. He is survived by successors and current goat mascots Bills 36 and 37.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/01/11/retired-naval-academy-goat-mascot-bill-33-has-died/

6 Bodily Tissues That Can Be Regenerated Through Nutrition

It may come as a surprise to some, especially those with conventional medical training, but the default state of the body is one of ceaseless regeneration. Without the flame-like process of continual cell turnover within the body – life and death ceaselessly intertwined – the miracle of the human body would not exist

In times of illness, however, regenerative processes are overcome by degenerative ones. This is where medicine may perform its most noble feat, nudging the body back into balance with foods, herbs, nutrients, healing energies, i.e. healing intention. Today, however, drug-based medicine invariably uses chemicals that have not one iota of regenerative potential; to the contrary, they almost always interfere with bodily self-renewal in order to suppress the symptoms against which they are applied.

Despite the outright heretical nature of things which stimulate healing and regeneration vis-à-vis the conventional medical system which frowns upon, or is incredulous towards, spontaneous remission in favor of symptom suppression and disease management, over the course of the past few years of trolling MEDLINE we have collected a series of remarkable studies on the topic…

Nerve Regeneration – There are actually a broad range of natural compounds with proven nerve-regenerative effects. A 2010 study published in the journal Rejuvenation Research, for instance, found a combination of blueberry, green tea and carnosine have neuritogenic (i.e. promoting neuronal regeneration) and stem-cell regenerative effects in an animal model of neurodegenerative disease.[1] Other researched neuritogenic substances include:

Curcumin

Lion’s Mane Mushroom

Apigenin (compound in vegetables like celery)

Blueberry

Ginseng

Huperzine

Natto

Red Sage

Resveratrol

Royal Jelly

Theanine

Ashwaganda

Coffee (trigonelline)

There is another class of nerve-healing substances, known as remyelinating compounds, which stimulate the repair of the protective sheath around the axon of the neurons known as myelin, and which is often damaged in neurological injury and/or dysfunction, especially autoimmune and vaccine-induced demyelination disorders. It should also be noted that even music and falling in love have been studied for possibly stimulating neurogenesis, regeneration and/or repair of neurons, indicating that regenerative medicine does not necessary require the ingestion of anything; rather, a wide range of therapeutic actions may be employed to improve health and well-being, as well.

[View the first-hand biomedical citations on these neuritogenic substance visit our Neuritogenic Research page on the topic]

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2021/01/6-bodily-tissues-that-can-be-regenerated-through-nutrition.html

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