Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘I’m Cancer-Free’

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced this week that she is cancer-free after her latest treatments for pancreatic cancer.

“I’m cancer-free. That’s good,” Ginsburg told CNN’s Joan Biskupic.

The 86-year-old Supreme Court justice underwent three weeks of radiation treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in August 2019 after doctors discovered a cancerous tumor on her pancreas during a routine blood test.

“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today completed a three-week course of stereotactic ablative radiation therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City,” the court’s statement read at the time.

It continued:

The focused radiation treatment began on August 5 and was administered on an outpatient basis to treat a tumor on her pancreas. The abnormality was first detected after a routine blood test in early July, and a biopsy performed on July 31 at Sloan Kettering confirmed a localized malignant tumor.”

The statement added that Ginsburg maintained an “active schedule” and confirmed that the tumor was treated, leaving “no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body.”

“Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans. No further treatment is needed at this time,” the statement added.

Ginsburg has struggled with her health in recent years, fighting cancer on more than one occasion.

As Breitbart News detailed:

Ginsburg, the liberal face of the Supreme Court, has fought cancer on and off for roughly two decades. She underwent a procedure to remove malignant nodules from her left lung on December 21st of last year. The cancerous growths were discovered while receiving treatment for a fall in her office. Ginsburg missed the court’s oral arguments for several days in February, participating in cases using transcripts — a first in the justice’s 25-year tenure on the bench.

Ginsburg has experienced several health issues in recent years. The justice underwent cancer surgeries in 1999 and 2009 and broke her ribs in at least two separate occasions. In 2014, Ginsburg had a stent inserted into her heart.

Ginsburg spoke to the public about her health scare during an appearance at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC, in late August, telling the crowd, “As this audience can see, I am alive… and I’m on my way to being very well”:

“For one thing, I love my job,” Ginsburg added. “It’s the best and the hardest job I’ve ever had. It has kept me going through four cancer bouts. Instead of concentrating on my aches and pains, I just know that I have to read this set of briefs.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/08/ruth-bader-ginsburg-confirms-she-is-cancer-free/#

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Developing: Local Iranian Claims to Take Photo of Missile Part Near Ukrainian Passenger Plane Crash Site in Tehran

The first footage was released this morning at the crash site of the Ukrainian plane that that went down outside of Tehran moments after takeoff on Wednesday morning.

An Ukrainian Airlines plane carrying 180 passengers and crew crashed Wednesday morning just minutes ago after takeoff from Tehran, Iran!

This comes on the same night that Iran fired a dozen missiles at US bases in Iraq.

Al Hadath Dubai News reported a missile took down the Ukrainian flight.

(Tweets were translated)

Al Hadath: Preliminary images of the Ukrainian plane suspected of being hit by an Iranian missile

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/developing-local-iranian-claims-to-take-photo-of-missile-part-near-ukrainian-passenger-plane-crash-site-in-tehran/

Quant Giant AQR Announces More Job Cuts, Blames "Challenging Market Conditions"

Even the quant firms that emerged as stars of the asset management industry over the past decade are struggling heading into the 2020s.

Quant firm AQR Capital Management, which was founded by billionaire Cliff Asness, is firing up to 20% of its global workforce after investors again pulled money in 2019 during another year of sub-par returns, according to Bloomberg.

The problem with having consecutive years of underperformance in 2018 and 2019 is that 2018 ended with a vicious selloff in December that left benchmarks in the red for the year, while 2019 ended with double-digit returns and stocks at record highs. If your hedge fund can't outperform in down markets, and it can't outperform when the S&P 500 is up 30%, then how can you justify LPs paying 2-and-20?

Several firm insiders spoke to the New York Post's Thornton McEnery, telling the tabloid the reporter that "it's bad here" - referring to inside AQR's Greenwich headquarters, where up to 20% of the firm's headcount was reportedly getting "chopped." A spokeswoman for the firm insisted that the real number was between 5% and 10%.

The firm's troubles are clearly bothering its founder, who recently quit twitter, presumably because he was tired of being called out.

Known for his volatile temper, outspoken political beliefs and his odd love of superheros, Asness was known for his frequent twitter spats with industry rivals, members of the business press, and outright trolls.

But on Dec. 30, Asness abruptly deleted his Twitter account, which had amassed more than 40,000 followers. This comes after Asness told an audience at an investment conference back in April that "I do not enjoy managing people, and they do not enjoy being managed by me," according to the New York Post.

AQR had about 900 employees globally before the cuts. The firm also began 2019 with a spate of job cuts, with Asness reportedly letting go of 10% of staffers. But this year's layoffs will be bigger.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/quant-giant-aqr-announces-more-job-cuts-blames-challenging-market-conditions

Swedish Church to Replace LGBT Eden Painting with Jesus in High Heels Art

The St. Pauli church in the Swedish multicultural city of Malmo will replace a controversial pro-LGBT altarpiece with another work depicting Jesus Christ in high heels.

Swedish priest Helena Myrstener told media that the original painting, which was taken down because some claimed it depicted transgender individuals in a negative light, will be replaced by a print of another work by the same artist which depicts a transgender Jesus at the last supper, broadcaster SVT reports.

The painting, entitled Paradise, is the creation of Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin and depicted a scene from the Garden of Eden with same-sex couples and transgender figures.

The painting stirred controversy as it was hung at the altar of the church. But it was the depiction of a transgender figure with the serpent — and therefore the association with evil and temptation — which outraged activists and led to the painting being removed.

The artist behind the piece reacted negatively to the move, saying: “The Church of Sweden has until today had problems with transgender people, so to give the appearance that they now care about transgender people is a step, but it was devious to remove the painting. They will be ashamed of this history.”

Wallin went on to reject the interpretation that the painting associated transgender people with evil or temptation and added she would create a new altar painting for the church.

In the meantime, the church will be hanging another artwork at the altar, entitled The Communion, from Wallin’s Ecce Homo collection. A take on Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper, the work depicts Jesus Christ as a crossdresser surrounded by transgender figures in place of the Apostles.

Sweden’s state church is well-known for its progressive liberal stances which have seen lesbian Stockholm archbishop Eva Brunne claim she has more in common with Muslims than conservative Christians.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/08/swedish-church-replace-controversial-lgbt-painting-painting-jesus-high-heels/

McConnell Lays Down the Law and Sets Pelosi Straight on Impeachment, ‘No Haggling, We Will Not Cede Our Authority to House Dems’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) laid down the law on Wednesday and told off House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure. We will not cede our authority to try this impeachment. The House Democrats’ turn is over. The Senate has made its decision. This is for the Senate, and the Senate only, to decide,” McConnell said in a tweet.

Fox News reported that Pelosi told colleagues in a letter that she will not give the articles of impeachment to the Senate unless McConnell ‘immediately publishes’ his resolution and accused the Senate Majority Leader of making “misleading claims” about the Clinton impeachment to justify his strategy.

“Sadly, Leader McConnell has made clear that his loyalty is to the President and not the Constitution,” Pelosi wrote. “Leader McConnell has insisted that the approach under consideration is identical to those of the Clinton trial and that ‘fair is fair.’ This is simply not true.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that the Senate has the votes to move forward with phase one of the impeachment trial.

“Fifty-one senators determine what we do and there will be, I’m sure, intense discussion, once we get past phase one, about the whole witness issue,” McConnell said, while also insisting that the Senate first receive the articles from the House.

Even Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein is fed up with Pelosi’s delay tactics and demanded the articles of impeachment be delivered to the Senate.

“If we’re going to do it, she should send them over,” Feinstein said blasting Pelosi. “I don’t see what good delay does.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/mcconnell-lays-down-the-law-and-sets-pelosi-straight-on-impeachment-no-haggling-we-will-not-cede-our-authority-to-house-dems/

Newspapers Resort to Projection, Ridicule to Swindle Virginians out of Their Rights

“Let’s talk reality and fantasy in Virginia,” Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak instructs her readers in a Monday opinion piece that does exactly that, although, not as she intended (at least with those informed enough to recognize who’s projecting magical thinking). Naturally, she has to ease into her thesis with a few horror stories, just to get her marks properly primed.

So Dvorak tells them about a motorist whose car was hit by celebratory New Year’s Day gunfire shot off by criminal morons who ignore police warnings. She recounts a woman shot in a “domestic dispute”—but fails to mention the “alleged” perp was a convicted felon and “prohibited person. She similarly fails to mention that the “alleged” cop blaster fleeing a traffic stop “has a long record of being pulled over—and arrested.” And unsurprisingly, when recounting the tale of the Lynchburg McDonald’s attack, suffice it to say she did not see fit to remind readers of all the “gun laws” the suspect disregarded.

“Shattered glass, shattered bones, shattered lives,” Dvorak “solemnly” intones with faux moral authority. “This the reality of gunfire in Virginia. Yes, Virginia, you have a gun problem.”

Really? Virginia is the headquarters home of the National Rifle Association, and a cursory scan of the news feeds turns up no evidence of any of its five million heavily-armed yet peaceable members shooting guns in the air, or at their wives, police officers or fast-food workers (and you know there’d be screaming national headlines if they had). It would seem, at least to someone grounded in reality, that Virginia’s problems are not with the “progressive” fantasy that guns cause anything.

Dvorak presses on, raising the tired old “developed world” canard that cherry-picks countries to exclude those with restrictive disarmament edicts and high rates of violence. She also seems to think her case is bolstered by mentioning the Virginia Beach massacre, all the while ignoring the gun owner victim who wishes she had listened to her instincts instead of obeying the city’s “gun-free zone” mandate.

Instead, she represents Bloomberg Astroturf as grassroots and praises the infringements being enabled by elitist money and politically manipulated immigration demographics, including:

“There are measures to ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, bump stocks and silencers. There are proposals to require background checks on all firearms sales and transfers, as well as limit handgun purchases to one a month. And there is a move to adopt the same kind of ‘red flag law’ in at least a dozen other states that allow law enforcement to temporarily remove guns from people deemed a threat to themselves or others, thwarting domestic violence shootings and suicides.”

You know, effectively neuter the militia of the whole people, supposedly guaranteed by the federal and Virginia constitutions and deemed “necessary to the security of a free State.” That and go full Queen of Hearts (What could be more preposterously un-American than “Sentence first. Verdict afterward”?).

“It’s pretty common sense,” Dvorkak absurdly insists. Plus, she gives a nod to farmers and Fudds, while advancing the indefensible meme that the Founders risked it all to hunt ducks.

But we gun owners are the ones not living in reality, she charges.

“The gun guys are scared out of their minds that someone’s going to come and take their guns. (Again, fantasy),” she asserts.

https://www.ammoland.com/2020/01/newspapers-resort-to-projection-ridicule-to-swindle-virginians-out-of-their-rights/

Susan Rice staunchly defends the Obama administration sending billions to Iran

The former national security adviser criticized President Trump for re-imposing 'crippling sanctions' on the regime

President Barack Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, defended the Obama administration's decision to send billions of dollars to Iran through its Iran Nuclear Deal, after she was asked about President Donald Trump saying Wednesday that Iran went on a "terror spree" with the funds the regime received under the deal he has since withdrawn from.

What are the details?

President Trump addressed the nation Wednesday morning about the Iranian missile strikes on Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops the night before. During his speech, the president announced additional economic sanctions against the Iranian regime, citing a litany of aggressions by the country in recent months.

"Iran's hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran Nuclear Deal was signed in 2013, and they were given $150 billion not to mention $1.8 billion in cash," the president said in his address.

"Instead of saying 'thank you' to the United States, they chanted 'death to America.' In fact, they chanted 'death to America' the day the agreement was signed. Then Iran went on a terror spree funded by the money from the deal and created hell in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq."

President Trump added, "The missiles fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration."

Rice was on MSNBC to react to President Trump's speech, and was asked by host Andrea Mitchell to "fact check the $150 billion that went to Iran after the nuclear deal was signed."

"First of Andrea, as you know and as you were discussing with your colleagues, this is another series of despicable lies by President Trump," Rice replied. Appearing to dodge the question, Rice said "the fact that…three years after taking office he remains obsessed with President Obama just shows President Trump's extreme weakness and insecurity."

Rice went on to adamantly defend the Iran Nuclear Deal coordinated by the Obama administration, claiming, "In the years since the signing of the deal in 2015, up until President Trump's unilateral withdrawal abandoning our allies against the advice of his advisers, there were no proxy attacks by Iranian proxies on U.S. personnel in Iraq. There were no efforts by Iran to attack our drones in the Persian Gulf or attack shipping."

The former national security adviser added, "President Trump decided recklessly to withdraw unilaterally from the nuclear deal and to impose so-called 'maximum pressure' — crippling sanctions — and it was in the wake of that that we found ourselves in this escalatory cycle that's led to where we are today."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/susan-rice-staunchly-defends-the-obama-administration-for-sending-billions-to-iran

This dude is nervous af, should re-grow the mustache

PLUNGING: Oil Prices Drop Like a Rock After President Trump’s Speech

The price of oil went down after President Trump’s speech this morning in response to Iran’s retaliatory air strike against two Iraq military bases where U.S. troops are housed.

The speech also had a converse effect on stocks as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit highs, Reuters reports. Additionally, the Dow Jones saw an uptick of nearly 200 points.

Sebastien Galy, senior macro strategist at Nordea Asset Management in Luxembourg, told the wire service that the movement indicates that investors are betting on a de-escalation in middle East tensions.

“The impact on global risk assets will probably moderare from here as we are likely past the worst pat of the crisis,” John Vail, chief global strategist at Nikko Asset Management in Toyo, told Reuters. “Neither side wants a war.”

https://thedcpatriot.com/plunging-oil-prices-drop-like-a-rock-after-president-trumps-speech/