Putin Grovels in Israel About a 'Holocaust' that Never Happened, In Front of a People Who Genocided the Russians

The Russian president achieves peak absurdity. Why did he do it? He could easily have found some pretext for staying home. A Germanophile and former high level intelligence officer, It is highly unlikely that he doesn't know the truth.

Despite the chummy facade, he is no friend of Israel. He completely wrecked their plans to destroy Syria, and he is a military ally who provides air cover to Israel's mortal enemy, Iran.

Within hours of President Putin issuing a grovelling censure of ‘Nazi Germany’ and rubber-stamping the official holocaust spin, the news story was removed. To our credit, we did unearth his statements by traipsing to Israeli media.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Holocaust ‘one of the most terrible chapters of human history and remembering it is our shared responsibility to the past and the future. The crimes committed by the Nazis, their deliberate, planned, and final solution to the Jewish issue, is one of the darkest and most shameful pages of modern world history’.

That is pretty rich coming from the world’s No 1 denier of the Bolshevik Holocaust proven responsible for up to 70 million martyred Christians.

https://russia-insider.com/en/putin-grovels-israel-about-holocaust-never-happened-front-people-who-genocided-russians/ri28215

Bus Carrying Covington Catholic Students Leaving March for Life Involved in Deadly Crash

A bus carrying Covington Catholic students who attended the March for Life in DC was involved in a deadly crash on Saturday morning.

One of the mothers of a student who was involved in the viral incident between students and a Native American activist last year told the Gateway Pundit that the bus carrying the students was hit head on. She said that a teacher was injured, a student had a bloody nose and the driver of the other vehicle died.

None of the students were seriously injured, but the driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene. Their name has not yet been publicly released.

The crash happened around 7:20 a.m. in California, Kentucky.

WLWT reports, “according to witnesses on the scene, a southbound car somehow entered the northbound lanes of the highway, striking the charter bus head-on.”

“I saw a car come across the median and head toward me,” Ricky Lynn, a witness who was also driving north, told WLWT. “I was able to get out of the way.”

The Archdiocese of Covington was in the caravan of four busses carrying students and chaperones, and performed a final blessing over the deceased driver.

“This morning, a bus carrying students and chaperones home from the March for Life in Washington, DC was involved in an accident. EMT personnel and the Campbell County police have been at the scene and are handling the matter. Please join us in praying for everyone involved in this accident,” the Archdiocese said in a statement.

Students from Covington were badly slandered by the media during the March for Life last year, when they were bullied by adult activists. CNN has settled a lawsuit with student Nick Sandmann, but the amount of the settlement was concealed from the public.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/bus-carrying-covington-catholic-students-leaving-march-for-life-involved-in-deadly-crash/

Beware of the Scheming Trotskyists

The Third International, also known as the Communist International (COMINTERN), existed between 1919 and 1943 to battle against the forces of fascism that took hold in Europe, Asia, and Latin America following World War I. It replaced the Second International, formed in Paris in 1889 among world socialist and labor parties. The Second International was replaced in 1923 by the Labor and Socialist International (LSI), representing many of the world’s social democratic parties. Infighting between the Third International and LSI resulted in the international left being unprepared to deal with the rise of the fascist Axis Powers.

When the Third International and LSI finally decided to cooperate against the fascist forces involved in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939, it was too late. With only the Soviet Union, Mongolia, and Tannu Tuva as members of the Third International and Leon Trotsky forming the rival Fourth International in 1938 in France, the fracturing of the world’s leftist forces resulted in the fascist Axis seizing control of most of Europe and a large part of Asia. The Third International suspended operations in 1943 and the LSI collapsed in 1940.

Trotskyists showed themselves all too willing to accommodate fascist forces, particularly during the Spanish Civil War, to isolate the Soviet Union. The deception of the Trotskyists led to the motto, “Never trust a Trot,” being heard at progressive political and labor gatherings around Europe, Australia, and North America.

Today, the progressive and democratic forces around the world face a situation not seen since the 1930s in Europe and Asia. Global fascism is on the march and the left is found engaged in factionalized rivalry in the face of a united neo-Axis front not seen since the 1930s.

The schism between so-called “Independent Socialist” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders and traditional pro-labor Democratic candidates like former Vice President Joe Biden is the result of nothing more than a continuation of the Trotskyist program to divide and conquer social democratic and labor forces, even if such disruption aids the rise of fascist totalitarian regimes. The history of such Trotskyist maneuvers, including the back-to-back presidential bids of Sanders, a committed Socialist Worker’s Party member and Trotskyist until 1992 when he supported his first Democratic candidate for the White House, opens the door for fascist takeovers. Sanders’s present campaign to divide and conquer the Democratic Party, of which he is not a member, ushers into possibility a fascist government coming into existence in a second Trump administration. Where will Bernie Sanders be then? Maybe, like his hero Trotsky, he might find asylum beyond the “Southern Wall” in Mexico.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/25/beware-of-the-scheming-trotskyists/

Rush Limbaugh: FISA court admits Carter Page Warrants Were Fraudulent…But Dems Want You to Believe Trump Abused Power

“Where are we? The Democrats and their media buddies would rather pretend that Donald Trump abused power in a phone call with the president of Ukraine and sweep this under the rug,” Rush Limbaugh said on his nationally syndicated radio program. “The initial and original operation of this coup — this silent coup designed to get Donald Trump — has never been able to stand the weight of truth and authenticity.”

“The entire pretext for the so-called investigation of Donald Trump for colluding with Russia — the FISA warrants that opened up the spying — have now been admitted to as fraudulent,” Rush Limbaugh said. “The FBI and the FISA court now admit that they abused their powers, and all of the people involved in getting those FISA warrants applied for and signed off on — whether they’ve admitted to it or not — have now been caught up in abuse of power and fraud.”

https://saraacarter.com/rush-limbaugh-fisa-court-admits-carter-page-warrants-were-fraudulent-but-dems-want-you-to-believe-trump-abused-power/

Mosul, Epicenter of ISIS Conflict, is a Devastated Iraqi City

As Iraq this month faces the threat of new conflicts — including a proxy war between the U.S. and Iran — the shadow of the last conflict runs long.

Two years ago, the Iraqi prime minister declared victory over ISIS, but parts of Ninewa and Anbar are still in ruins, some 1.5 million people remain displaced and families have only begun to grieve for the tens of thousands killed.

Nowhere is this devastation more apparent than in Mosul, Iraq’s second city and the epicenter of the ISIS conflict. The World Bank has estimated that losses to the Mosul housing sector alone are estimated at $6 billion.

And as revealed in a new report from the Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights and Minority Rights Group International, 35,000 claims for reparation for deaths, injury or destruction of property have now been lodged by victims of the ISIS occupation and the “liberation” battle.

Interviews with civilians on the ground uncover a complex picture of loss and abandonment. The population who suffered under the occupation feel they were doubly punished by the devastating conflict waged to end it. Yazidis, Christians and other minorities who were forced to flee still remain largely displaced, despairing at the fact that no-one has been brought to justice for the crimes committed against them.

In such circumstances, individual reparations are essential, not least for reconciliation, a concept much-invoked by international missions in Iraq but rarely specified. Without formal recognition for the loss they have suffered and practical help to rebuild, civilians cannot move on.

As one interviewee explained: “The compensation payments will never bring me back the loved ones I lost, nor will they allow me to rebuild my house as if nothing happened. But they will help us all to rebuild the city and bring back life into it.”

But among those claiming reparations, long-standing frustration is turning into growing resentment. The claims have been made under Iraq’s Law 20 which established a system for awarding compensation to ‘the victims of military operations, military mistakes and terrorist actions.

Over 420 billion Iraqi dinars ($355 million) has been awarded under the scheme since it was first established 10 years ago, but it has been overwhelmed by the scale of claims from the ISIS conflict. Claimants in Mosul complain of cumbersome bureaucratic procedures and pay-outs are agonizingly slow.

Meanwhile, the U.S.-led Coalition against ISIS appears to have washed its hands of responsibility. During the nine-month battle the Coalition supported Iraqi forces mainly from the air, and it was Coalition bombardment which, along with ISIS vehicle-borne IEDs, was responsible for most of the material destruction of the city.

The monitoring group Airwars has conservatively estimated that between 1,066 and 1,579 civilians were killed by Coalition air and artillery strikes during the battle for Mosul. Local estimates are much higher. The Coalition describes all civilian deaths caused by its action as ‘unintentional’ and refuses to accept any liability for violations for which reparations should be paid.

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/25/mosul-epicenter-of-isis-conflict-is-a-devastated-iraqi-city/

Time once again to remember what the 'Holocaust' is really for

To give a free pass to Jewish supremacy everywhere in the world!

By Carolyn Yeager

ON MONDAY, JANUARY 27, THE MEDIA WILL ONCE AGAIN play up the United Nations-created “International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust”, commonly known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. This will be only the 15th anniversary of this commemoration, but the 75th anniversary of what it specifically commemorates – the day the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was "liberated" by the Soviet Red Army.

I heartily encourage you to go to jan27.org beginning on Thursday the 23rd to see the new articles presented there "in Honor of the Revisionists Who Introduced Sanity to the Auschwitz 'Death Camp' Narrative.” Support Revisionism! There are innumerable reasons why it is in your own interests to do so. For example:

Three years ago, in May 2017, I put up a very important post, as it turned out, warning about the IHRA – the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – and explained why it was dangerous. It would be well to re-read the whole post at this time [and also here and here]. What follows is the part about the IHRA that appeared at the end:

IHRA working definition of antisemitism being pushed

Then there's the latest new definition of antisemitism that is being pushed on everyone.– this one put out by an organization called the 'International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.' This is a globalist group that started up in Sweden (ostensibly) in 1998, for the purpose of “expanding Holocaust education worldwide.” This is their non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism:

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

Does this clarify anything? No, it does not. What is it's purpose? I don't know but it is currently being pushed in the UK with the help of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. It goes on to explain:

Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. Antisemitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Jews for “why things go wrong.” It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.

Further specific definitions include:

Antisemitic discrimination is the denial to Jews of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries.

Just this month, the Slovenian delegation to the IHRA issued a public statement condemning an incident of Holocaust denial – in late April Bernard Brščič "denied the Holocaust" in a TV interview. Oh, horrors. The delegations are generally made up of Jews and this is the kind of reporting they do.

https://carolynyeager.net/time-once-again-remember-what-holocaust-really

WUHAN CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC BIOENGINEERED: Who’s behind it, why now and why China?

A Complex Psyop Perpetrated to Distract,

Enforce Mandatory Vaccinations and Coerce China to Comply with American Demands

Everything Points to Biowarfare Being Used Against China by the Western Powers Which Seek to Contain Her Growing Power and Influence in the World

Given the multiple and serious woes that China has suffered from during 2019, it comes as no surprise that the Western powers would now resort to bioweaponry.

WEAPONIZED CORONAVIRUS: “Bioengineered as a self-replicating weapon system”

If there’s one last hit to the economy that China doesn’t need right now, it’s a global pandemic that ‘supposedly’ originated in Wuhan, the sprawling capital of Central China’s Hubei province (see map below with the red marker identifying Wuhan).

See how Wuhan is located right in the center of China’s highly productive southeast region—the economic powerhouse of the nation. This strategic location was selected for the biological attack because of the easily engineered vectors of disease dissemination as depicted by the map above. Paralyzing China’s economic and financial sectors is, after all, a primary goal of this essentially Anglo-American black operation. See: Why the coronavirus is a real threat to China’s economy

In light of the US-staged Hong Kong protests, U.S. tariff regime against China, threat of economic sanctions against nations working with Huawei, CIA-inflamed Xinjiang conflict involving the Muslim Uyghurs, provocative sailing of US Navy warships through the Taiwan Strait, transparent political prosecution of Huawei’s CFO, ravaging of China’s pig farms by a bioengineered virus, etc., the Chinese government has been under withering attack since 2018.

When so many debilitating assaults are suspiciously happening at once, what can China do except deal with them in a manner so as to expose the true culprits. However, China is not likely to do that in the case of this intensifying bio-war being waged by the West.

SARS conspiracy theory

The original SARS pandemic that took place in China after the turn of the millennium was also well-known in bio-medical circles as a naked act of biowarfare. Like this year’s coronavirus bio-attack in Wuhan, the bioengineered SARS outbreak also involved a highly coordinated campaign of propaganda and disinformation. See: Is the new ‘deadly China virus’ a covert operation?

However, the administration of Xi Jinping is much too concerned about the panic that would inevitably result if the populace was informed of a full-blown bioweapon attack. The precipitating chaos would simply overwhelm the government in Beijing which is already on serious overload because of the endless interference by the Anglo-American Axis.

The SARS outbreak that occurred from 2002 to 2003 has already shown that China is not willing to release the hard scientific evidence that proves the premeditated release of a bioengineered coronavirus.

The following excerpt from Wikipedia explains some of the background of SARS—the Severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic that took place primarily in mainland China and Hong Kong, but also in Canada and other countries.

http://themillenniumreport.com/2020/01/wuhan-coronavirus-pandemic-bioengineered-whos-behind-it-why-now-and-why-china/

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There are relatively few military bioweaponry labs in the world that have the capability to create such a fatal and infectious virus. Thus, when the truth is confirmed about the Wuhan flu, there will be only a few culprits who are behind these assaults against the Chinese people. In reality, should this Wuhan coronavirus outbreak become a full-blown epidemic in China it could represent an attempt to commit genocide. Likewise, if it becomes a bona fide pandemic, it could ultimately be labeled a crime against humanity.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

It’s of paramount importance to understand that there really is a vast and highly organized New World Order conspiracy to foist a One World Government on the world community of nations. See: Is this Bill Gates’ long-awaited excuse to usher in global governance?

There are several main pillars of this New World Order agenda, one of which is being stealthily put into place by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Likewise, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are slowly erecting one of the primary social media pillars as is Tony Dorsey at Twitter and Susan Wojcicki at YouTube. Bill and Hillary Clinton are using the Clinton Foundation to take advantage of poor countries around the world while surreptitiously laying the foundation for future exploitation on a mass scale just as George Soros & Sons are deceitfully creating new societies via geoengineered climate change, multiculturalism and cultural marxism. The crucial point is that all of these high-paid globalists are intimately connected to each other and covertly working to advance the same nation-destroying U.N. agendas. See: PEDOGATE: Epstein cofounded Clinton Global Initiative, Bill Gates hung out with Epstein AFTER conviction

Fabricating global crises is at the very core of these various NWO sub-agendas. Two of the ‘scariest’ manufactured catastrophes are those that severely impact the biosphere (e.g. global warming) and undermine human health (e.g. deadly pandemics). In this way, false pretexts are being cunningly constructed to justify the establishment of an all-powerful One World Government. Toward that end, the NWO globalist cabal knows that they must first sufficiently manufacture consent so that the people demand a totalitarian form of global governance to manage these public health disasters and environmental catastrophes.

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US Military Helicopter Crashes in Philippine Sea, All Five Crew Members Rescued - Navy

All five crew members of a US military MH-60 Seahawk helicopter that crashed in the Philippine Sea off the coast of Japan on 25 January have been rescued and are in a stable condition, the US Navy reported.

According to a statement published by the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet, three crew members were transported to Naval Hospital Okinawa in Japan for observation, while two people were transported to the USS Blue Ridge vessel for treatment, the Navy reported.

The helicopter crashed at approximately 17:15 local time (08:15 GMT), according to the Navy's statement. A joint US and Japanese search and rescue operation consisting of both Navy and Coastguard personnel located the crew members and brought them to safety.

Japan Air Self-Defence Force, Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force, Japanese Coast Guard, USS America (LHA 6), USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) and the US Air Force all participated in the search and rescue, according to the Navy.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/202001251078137956-us-military-helicopter-crashes-in-philippine-sea-all-five-crew-members-rescued/

Judge Naplitano on Trump: “Ample And Uncontradicted Evidence For His Removal”

There is no better example of Fox News’ transition from an opposition news network into just another Left-wing mainstream hack show than former Judge Andrew Napolitano.

In an op-ed published Thursday, Napolitano claimed that there is “ample and uncontradicted” evidence that President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office.

“What is required for removal of the president? A demonstration of presidential commission of high crimes and misdemeanors, of which in Trump’s case the evidence is ample and uncontradicted,” he wrote.

Continuing, the former New Jersey Superior Court judge said the Constitution describes justification for impeachment as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

“However, this use of the word ‘crimes’ does not refer to violations of federal criminal statutes. It refers to behavior that is so destructive of the constitutional order that it is the moral equivalent of statutory crimes,” the judge wrote.

Napolitano then noted that there are “valid, lawful, constitutional arguments for Trump’s impeachment that he ought to take seriously.”

He also chided Republican senators who have said they are ready to acquit the president — which is based on their perception that the House never had any legitimate evidence to impeach Trump in the first place.

“Whoever may have whispered that into his ear is unworthy of sitting as a juror and has violated the oath of ‘impartial justice’ and fidelity to the Constitution and the law,” Napolitano wrote, apparently tone deaf to the fact that Democratic senators nearly to a person had already predetermined they would vote for removal.

Napolitano then goes on to cite a finding by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) earlier this month in which the ‘non-partisan’ entity determined that Trump had violated U.S. law when he temporarily withheld military aid from Ukraine — the centerpiece of Democrats’ impeachment.

“The Government Accountability Office — a nonpartisan entity in the federal government that monitors how the feds spend tax revenue — has concluded that Trump’s request for a favor was a violation of law because only Congress can impose conditions on government expenditures. So, when the president did that, he usurped Congress’ role and acted unlawfully,” Napolitano wrote.

Like most other mainstream media, however, Napolitano has conveniently left out the fact that right after the GAO released its well-timed legal finding — on the eve of the impeachment trial — the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which actually disperses foreign aid, came out with an alternate legal opinion stating clearly that the president did not violate the law.

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2020/01/25/judge-naplitano-on-trump-ample-and-uncontradicted-evidence-for-his-removal/

Over the Target: Marsha Blackburn Draws Ire of Trump Foes as She Exposes Key Impeachment Figure Vindman

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has drawn fire from across the anti-Donald Trump political spectrum the past few days as she has publicly challenged the fake establishment built around key impeachment figure and Democrat witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.

Vindman infamously testified in his full military uniform–despite the fact he does not wear it to work at the National Security Council (NSC)–before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) during the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry stage last year helping build their case to pass articles of Impeachment before Christmas. The “impeachment managers,” the top Democrats that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has appointed to argue the Democrats’ partisan case for removing President Trump from office before the U.S. Senate, have repeatedly invoked Vindman’s testimony over the course of this week, where Democrats have finally finished their opening arguments after three long days of that and a previous late night on Tuesday in the Senate where they used a series of meaningless amendments to buy more time to press their case on the Senate floor.

But it is a series of tweets from Blackburn that have infuriated the president’s enemies, Never Trumpers and Democrats alike, where the freshman U.S. senator and conservative firebrand from Tennessee–a strong ally of the president–has called for the truth to finally come out about Vindman and others’ role in orchestrating this entire impeachment charade from the beginning.

Everything Blackburn has said about Vindman is factually accurate.

On Thursday, Blackburn began a tweet thread–one of many she’s done this week exposing the left on this impeachment case–by questioning the image that the establishment media and Democrats have painted of Vindman being patriotic:

As she points out, Vindman was reprimanded earlier in his military career for badmouthing the United States in front of Russian military officials.

“Before he was detailed to the White House, Vindman served in the U.S. Army, where he once received a reprimand from a superior officer for badmouthing and ridiculing America in front of Russian soldiers his unit was training with during a joint 2012 exercise in Germany,” RealClearPolitics’ Paul Sperry wrote on January 22.

So, clearly, the facts behind Blackburn’s first tweet were factually accurate.

Then, a few minutes later, she added a follow-up tweet questioning whether–as HPSCI chairman and Pelosi-designated “impeachment manager” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed on the floor of the Senate this week that Vindman was not “vindictive”–Vindman’s decision to circumvent his chain of command to leak the contents of the president’s call with Ukraine’s president was “vindictive.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/25/over-the-target-marsha-blackburn-draws-ire-of-trump-foes-as-she-exposes-key-impeachment-figure-vindman/

Financialization & Central Banking Have Cemented Declines in Fertility Rates, Births, & Eventually Depopulation

Summary

Nations with 56% of world GDP have declining annual births and childbearing populations, nations with 35% of GDP have declining births but still rising/flat childbearing populations, nations with less than 9% of world GDP have rising births and childbearing populations.

Detailed below are 1950 through 2040 annual births, female childbearing, and female post-childbearing populations of worlds largest economies.

Utilizing UN World Population Prospects 2019 data.

In the wake of the great financial crisis of 2009, ZIRP/NIRP were utilized, federal deficit spending soared, asset prices skyrocketed, employment rose to record levels…but strangely fertility rates and total births have continued falling. Actually, collapsing. Record wealth has been accompanied by record low birth rates and unwillingness to have children, suggesting that those reaping the gains of the asset-price-pallooza are not of childbearing age. The policies since 2009 have rewarded asset holders for being asset holders and penalized young, poor, and those without assets…for being without assets.

Simply put, costs of living and assets have risen far faster than incomes. Rent, daycare, insurance, education, healthcare, etc. etc. have taken a progressively greater share of income leading to fewer and later marriages, fewer and later children, and a general unwillingness to reproduce. All this has led to collapsing populations of young (and now young adults) among the nations that consume over 90% of the worlds exports and ultimately means collapsing demand while excess capacity is set to soar.

So, today I show that of the top 50+ global economies, 6 have rising annual births and childbearing populations, 9 have falling annual births but still have a rising or flat childbearing population (the precursor to depopulation), 35+ have falling births, a falling childbearing population, are in secular decline, and depopulating from the bottom up (negative birth rates coupled with declining childbearing populations). Essentially, global consumer bases are collapsing from the young up, and this situation is only accelerating…and more debt, more QE, more interest rate cuts are only pushing birth rates and total births lower.

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https://econimica.blogspot.com/2020/01/financialization-has-cemented-fertility.html

Former Head of World Health Organisation’s Health Emergencies Programme Has Died Suddenly

A prominent Australian doctor who led the World Health Organisation’s Health Emergencies Programme has died suddenly.

Doctor Peter Salama was a medical epidemiologist who led research and published extensively on vaccine-preventable diseases, HIV and war related mortality and violence.

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Prior to his work with WHO, Dr Salama led UNICEF’s global response to the Ebola crisis, worked with the US Centres for Disease Control, and worked with Doctors Without Borders in several regions including Asia and Africa.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/76090/former-head-of-world-health-organisations-health-emergencies-programme-has-died.html

HTS Denies Syrian Army Advance In Southeast Idlib, Reports “Heavy Clashes”

Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) denied on January 25 that the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) had advanced in the southeastern Idlib countryside.

In a statement to the Iba’a news network, a source in the group claimed that the towns of Abu Jurif, Tell Khatra, Kherbet Daoud, Kursiyan, Deir Gharbi, Taqanah, and Mustyif hilltop are still under their control.

Earlier, pro-government sources, known to be highly-credible, said that the seven areas were captured by the SAA. HTS’ source, however, said that “heavy clashes” are ongoing there.

“Heavy clashes” is the term usually used by HTS to justify its defeats. The group never acknowledges its real losses.

The SAA resumed its large-scale ground operation in southeast Idlib a day ago. Now, army troops are 3 km away from the operation’s main target, the city of Maarat al-Numan, which is the biggest urban center in the region.

https://southfront.org/hts-denies-syrian-army-advance-in-southeast-idlib-reports-heavy-clashes/

Gantz to meet separately with Trump on peace plan Monday

Netanyahu and Gantz had originally been expected to meet with US President together, which Gantz opposed for political reasons

Blue and White leader MK Benny Gantz will meet with US President Donald Trump in a one on one meeting in Washington DC this Monday.

An invitation had originally been extended to both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gantz to meet together with the US president, but Gantz and his advisers opposed the idea for political reasons.

Gantz said on Saturday night that he had now accepted an invitation to meet with Trump alone.

“In coordination with the US administration I have accepted the personal, separate, and respectful invitation of President Trump to meet with him personally on Monday, as head of the biggest political party in Israel and I thank him for this important invitation,” said Gantz at a press conference.

During his comments Gantz described the US as “a true friend of the State of Israel” and said that the long-term alliance between the two countries was built on shared values, and joint interests.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Benny-Gantz-speaks-ahead-of-expected-Deal-of-the-Century-release-WATCH-LIVE-615338

Hubert Dupigny Convicted In Manhattan Federal Court Of Sex Trafficking Offenses

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/hubert-dupigny-convicted-manhattan-federal-court-sex-trafficking-offenses

Trump legal team goes on offense in impeachment trial, accuse Democrats of 'massive' election interference

Donald Trump's lawyers defended the president against articles of impeachment Saturday morning arguing it’s the Democrats trying to interfere in elections by seeking to remove Trump from the 2020 ballot for doing “absolutely nothing wrong.”

White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said Democrats have no case and are doing damage to democracy by trying to undermine the will of American voters.

“For all their talk about election interference, they're here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in American history,” Cipollone said in his opening remarks to the Senate. “And we can't allow that to happen."

Cipollone continued: “It would violate the sacred trust that the American people have placed in you and have placed in them. The American people decide elections. They have one coming up in nine months.”

Saturday was the first chance Trump’s lawyers had to refute the House’s case of impeachment and they came out making a forceful case that there are no grounds to remove Trump from office. Not only are Democrats asking the Senate to undo the results of the 2016 election but to tear up all ballots in the 2020 election with Trump’s name, Cipollone charged.

“They're asking you to do something that no Senate has ever done and they're asking you to do it with no evidence. And that's wrong,” Cipollone said.

Billed as a teaser for next week's argument, Trump's legal team gave a 2-hour preview of their legal argument. All told, they'll have three days and up to 24 hours to launch their defense - the same amount of time as House managers – but Cipollone told senators up front they would be "respectful" of their time and make their presentations shorter and less repetitive than Democrats.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-trumps-legal-team-launches-first-day-of-impeachment-defense