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Twitter has permanently suspended the account of Jim Hoft, founder of the popular conservative website The Gateway Pundit, for reportedly violating the social media giant’s “civic integrity policy.”

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— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) February 6, 2021

HR127, known as the Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act introduced by Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18], is, without a doubt, the most tyrannical gun control bill ever proposed.

Like all gun control measures, this bill would hit the poor and minority communities the hardest. Its massive scope would also turn tens of millions of legal, law abiding gun owners into felons overnight.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is already cashing in on her notoriety, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in small donations from Trump supporters.

“Never before has a Republican been under attack like me since the Democrats tried to impeach and remove President Trump from office,” she wrote in a fundraising email.

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It has been well over a month since the US began shipping and distributing coronavirus vaccines, and the process has been fraught with conspiracy theories and transgressions. This past week, maskless anti-vaccine protesters arrived at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, disrupting the site’s vaccination process for about an hour.

Imagine a place where private companies get to effectively separate from the surrounding area and create their own towns, raise their own taxes, and create their own laws – all while still using American dollars.

Such a place would bring a whole new meaning to the phrase “company town.”

Just imagine an Apple-ville, Google-town, or PornHubtopia, but instead of rising out of Silicon Valley, the companies may need to trek out to the Nevada desert.

Source : Politico, Joshua Posaner et Hans Von Der Burchard

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Le plan de vaccination de l’UE était « inadéquat », selon le dirigeant bavarois.

Markus Söder s’adresse aux médias. Photo Pool par Rainer Keuenhof via Getty Images

Source : Thinkerview, Youtube

Source : Thinkerview, Youtube, 29-01-2021

Writing in the U.S. Naval Institute Journal, Admiral Charles A. Richard warned that the military must “consider the possibility of great power competition, crisis, or direct armed conflict with a nuclear-capable peer” and update and modernize its approach to its two principal adversaries.

“There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with Russia or China could escalate quickly to a conflict involving nuclear weapons,” he wrote, demanding that the United States “prepare for the conflict we prefer, instead of one we are likely to face.”

Reading Time: < 1minute House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is trying to play it down the middle, punishing neither QAnon conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene nor anti-Trumpist Liz Cheney.

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Environmental activist Greta Thunberg sparked a criminal police investigation in India after she accidentally tweeted – and quickly deleted – a cheat-sheet of “Suggested Posts” regarding the ongoing violent farmers’ revolt, according to the NY Post, while the list was archived by Breaking 911.

Activists at New York college appeal verdict enabling censorship.

Yesterday, the Democrats’ House impeachment managers formally invited former President Trump to testify “either before, or during” his Senate impeachment trial (and face cross-examination). Questions would specifically focus on his role in “inciting a mob”  – as the Democrats put it – to “attack” the Capitol on Jan. 6.

In today’s video, we break down Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC talking about carrying out drone strikes against Americans.

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Movie at the Ellipse: A Study in Fascist Propaganda (DonkeyHotey)

From Just Security: “On January 6, Trump supporters gathered at a rally at Washington DC’s Ellipse Park, regaled by various figures from Trump world, including Donald Trump Jr. and Rudy Giuliani. Directly following Giuliani’s speech, the organizers played a video.

In a critical endorsement for so-called “immunity passports,” Sweden plans to join Denmark and the United States by this summer in requiring that travelers, especially international travelers, to carry so-called immunity passports proving they’ve either been vaccinated or recently tested or both, according to Bloomberg.

Our returning guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, John Kiriakou, was a 15-year CIA veteran. Then he blew the whistle on the CIA’s use of torture under the Bush administration. As a result, he became one of the very few Americans ever charged with violating the Espionage Act. Ultimately, he pleaded guilty under another statute: to disclosing the name of a fellow CIA officer to a reporter. The reporter never revealed the identity of the operative.

House Democrats on Thursday voted to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) of her committee assignments after arguing that her past support of QAnon disqualified her from holding them.

Lawmakers voted 230-199 to remove Greene from the House education and budget committees, with 11 Republicans joining the Democrats, after the GOP declined to take action themselves, according to The Hill.

Source : Consortium News, Joe Lauria

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William J. Astore nous dit que dans l’enfermement intellectuel collectif de l’Amérique, le militantisme pour la paix est une aberration, alors que l’acceptation d’un État de guerre est une seconde nature.

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’interdire

Frédéric Taddeï reçoit Marie-Françoise Bechtel, ancienne directrice de l’ENA, Philippe Blanchet, professeur à l’université Rennes II, Alain Joyeux, président de l’APHEC, et François Dubet, sociologue, professeur émérite à l’Université de Bordeaux.

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’interdire, 25-01-2021

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents arrested a group of Iranians who illegally crossed into the US Monday evening.

CBP said five women and six men were nabbed near San Luis, Arizona, on a bridge near County 21st Street and the Salinity Canal. Agents detained the group shortly after illegally crossing the Mexico–U.S. border.

The Department of Homeland Security issued last week a nationwide terror alert lasting until April 30.

The alert warns of potential terrorist attacks from Americans who are “ideologically motivated” and have “objections to the exercise of government authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives.”

The language used in this alert suggests that millions of Americans are potential terrorists.

On Thursday afternoon President Biden gave a much anticipated and wide-ranging speech laying out his foreign policy agenda during a visit to the State Department. As expected much of it was a repudiation of Trump’s “America First” vision – though without mentioning Donald Trump by name. His address to State Department diplomats and staff was centered around the theme of his words: “America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy.”

House Democrats have formally asked former President Trump to testify under oath during next week’s Senate impeachment trial, according to a Thursday report from the Associated Press.

Destruction of Khirbet Humsa is part of plan to seize more Palestinian land.

In today’s video, we do a deep dive on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the national security state creating a counter-insurgency against free expression in America.

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New US administration remains hostile to nonviolent campaign for Palestinian rights.

What Went Wrong With America’s $44 Million Vaccine Data System? (Dana)

From MITTechnology Review: “Unless you’re in one of the few states using it, you may not have heard of VAMS [the Vaccine Administration Management System, built by the consulting firm Deloitte].

Some 70 years after emancipation, a team of unemployed writers and journalists located over 300 formerly enslaved African Americans, captured their unvarnished stories about life under slavery, and took photo portraits of many of their subjects.

A San Francisco artist who mocked Twitter ‘blue check’ elitism was forced to put a disclaimer on a satirical website, which encouraged ‘thought leaders, athletes and famous actors’ to apply for a blue “Verified Badge Crest” on the exterior of their homes – letting everyone know how important one is.

Face à la virulence de la pandémie, la vaccination contre la Covid-19 s’accélère de jour en jour dans le monde. Plus de 98 millions de personnes ont déjà reçu leur première injection au 1er février 2021 et environ 9 millions les 2 injections. Mais ce n’est rien à côté des milliards d’autres qui restent à vacciner. Avec une population mondiale estimée à 8,4 milliards d’individus, l’objectif de vacciner 70% de la population implique que 5,9 milliards de personnes devront être vaccinées.

Source : Consortium News, Vijay Prashad

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Dix ans se sont écoulés depuis qu’un homme appelé Mohamed Bouazizi s’est immolé par le feu dans la ville tunisienne de Sidi Bouzid, commence Vijay Prashad.

The Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube has demonetized numerous independent media accounts, a jarring escalation in the steadily intensifying campaign against alternative news outlets online.

In today’s video, we break down news that sickness cases are now suddenly plummeting. Why could that be?

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After more than a year and plenty of excuses, a team of World Health Organization (WHO) experts has finally entered the lab in Wuhan, China, which has been at the center of much speculation surrounding the origins of COVID-19.

Trump Officials Actively Lobbied to Deny States Money for Vaccine Rollout Last Fall (DonkeyHotey)

From Stat: “Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout last fall — despite frantic warnings from state officials that they didn’t have the money they needed to ramp up a massi

Once it became clear – just a few seconds after AOC first rage-tweeted about RobinHood refusing to let “the people” trade more shares of $GME and $AMC before adding that she’d support a public hearing on what had just happened – that all the key players in the “WallStreetBets”/”Gamestop” trading saga would soon be dragged in front of Congress like 

Due to the ongoing pandemic, Georgia Senate runoff elections, and forthcoming Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet has seen significant delays. These impediments are increasing the likelihood that Biden’s Cabinet will experience the slowest confirmation in recent history. 

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On 20 January 2021, I announced this contest: http://normanfinkelstein.com/2021/01/20/journal-january-19-2021-essay-context-100-00-prize/

Below are the submissions, followed by the name of the lucky winner.  I will also include the Judge’s comments:

Dans le cadre de nos projets de développement du site et de ses contenus, nous recrutons un apprenti (contrat d’apprentissage) pour une durée d’un an.

En termes de profils, nous recherchons principalement quelqu’un issu d’une filière amenant à un niveau Bac+5 – Master, scientifique ou littéraire, diplôme d’école de commerce, diplôme d’ingénieur, etc.

Avec sa plume incisive, Eric Juillot vous propose aujourd’hui un tour d’horizon des dernières nouvelles venant de Bruxelles.

Une magnifique déclaration d’amour servile de Charles Michel, le « président » du conseil européen, au nouveau président américain : Les États-Unis et l’UE « doivent former ensemble le socle de la liberté, de l’égalité, et d’un ordre international basé sur des règles[1] ».

With Amazon and Google, together representing a whopping $3.1 trillion in market cap almost as large as the entire Russell 2000, set to report earnings after the close Bloomberg noted that some investors were nervous that anything but a massive beat, well in excess of expectations would be required to avoid a dip in the Nasdaq (recall last week’s drop in AAPL and TSLA stock following stellar earnings reports).

In today’s video, we give you a major geopolitical news update including how China is striving for hegemony and what, if anything, the Biden Administration is doing about it.

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A new exclusive from The Daily Beast titled “White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance” reports that the White House press corps is being pressured to provide briefing questions ahead of time in a way that makes even mainstream media journalists uncomfortable.

Republicans Launch ‘Stop Stacey’ to Defeat Abrams in Georgia 2022 (DonkeyHotey)

The author writes, “A new outside group launched on Monday to target Democratic activist and former gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, who is all but certain to challenge Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia next year in a rematch of their 2018 election showdown.

Prepare yourself for more obfuscation and confusion dressed up as ‘science’ by President Biden’s chief medical adviser.

At 48 minutes into the WaPo discussion below, Fauci was asked about double-masking. His response, given his recent flip-flopping may surprise you.

Post-Trump normalcy will not last in Palestine.

Sixteen hundred years ago, Hohokam peoples inhabiting the area now known as Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southwestern Arizona left behind pottery, art, and petroglyphs. Sixteen hundred years from now, archaeologists will likely find the area littered with steel and concrete — remnants of Donald Trump’s border wall. 

Source : SCMP, Jun Mai
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Source : Consortium News, Sarah Esther Lageson, Elizabeth Chiarello

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Le ministère américain du travail garantit le droit à la vie privée aux entreprises faisant l’objet d’une enquête, une précaution raisonnable qui n’est pas accordée aux Américains ordinaires, affirment Sarah Esther Lageson et Elizabeth Chiarello.

Thousands of Orthodox Israelis poured into Jerusalem’s streets to attend two separate funerals Sunday despite the country’s ban on large public gatherings, according to AP News.

The first funeral procession was for Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, who died at the age of 99 after contracting COVID-19 three months ago.

Good news (and bad news) America!

The good news is that today saw a milestone of sorts reached with more Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine than have tested positive for the virus…

Source: Bloomberg

In the latest outrage provoking example of police overreach and brutality to go viral, the Rochester Police Department in New York are under scrutiny after last Friday officers responded to a family disturbance call which ended up in the police pepper-spraying a deeply distraught 9-year old girl as they tried to detain her.

The Charging Bull statue in Manhattan’s Financial District has become the sight of protests amid a wider financial rebellion happening online.