January, 2019

With presidential approval, the United States Central Intelligence Agency has maintained a secret channel of communication with North Korea since at least 2009, according to The Wall Street Journal. Many were surprised in 2018, when the then CIA director Mike Pompeo made a sudden visit to Pyongyang to speak with senior North Korean officials. But according to The Wall Street Journal, the CIA channel with the North Koreans had been there since at least 2009 and Pompeo simply “re-energized it” after being instructed to do so by the White House.

A military official in South Korea said that the military base is among the few nuclear development sites Seoul and Washington have been monitoring jointly for quite some time.

The German ban on the airline takes immediate effect, a foreign ministry spokesman said.

...thousands of angry Greeks gathered outside the Parliament in Athens on Sunday to protest an agreement between the Greek government and the government of Macedonia that aimed to put to rest a long-simmering conflict between the two neighbors over - of all things - the formal name of the former constituent of Yugoslavia.
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Nationalist Greeks, who have long objected to Macedonia claiming the name "Macedonia" (which is also the name of a province in Northern Greece), have been infuriated by the deal. Many believe that the use of the name Macedonia implies a territorial claim on the Greek province.

Macedonia will always be Greek. This grand plot by globalists like George Soros - who has for years interfered in the northern Yugoslavian countries' political and education system - will fail.

“We have the bone marrow, which produces the blood cells, and when you need them, you need them urgently. But how do they get out?” said Svetlana Komarova, who studies bone biology at McGill University in Montreal.

Sure, textbooks showed entrances and exits, but they were enormous arteries and veins at the ends of bones — an impractical route if the body needs a quick burst of the cells forged within our marrow. But in a paper published Monday in Nature Metabolism, a team of German immunologists announced they’d found a whole network of tunnels that explain the escape.
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That might help explain how immune cells could flood so quickly into the bloodstream — but it also has other implications.

Seven years after Germany scrapped conscription, its defence chief has said employing EU citizens is "an option" to fill expert posts.

Germany aims to increase its military by 21,000 personnel by 2025.

It has also pledged to raise its defence budget from 1.2% to to 1.5% of its gross domestic product by 2024, in the face of criticism from President Donald Trump that it does not meet the Nato target of 2% of GDP.

The technology giant appears to be quietly building laser satellites for global communications.

Two new observatories on the peak of Mount Wilson in California could house Facebook’s first laser communications systems designed to connect to satellites in orbit.

How expensive is it to charge at home per mile? The math should be pretty straight forward, take what electricity costs in your area and multiply it by the kWh size of your battery. For instance, if you have a Model S P90 and live in Minnesota, $0.1148 * 90 = $10.33 to charge to full at home.

Source: Solar-Estimate.org

But of course, it all depends on where you live. Different states and regions have different prices per kilowatt.

The US defence firm is competing with Boeing’s F/A-18, Saab’s Gripen, Dassault Aviation’s Rafale, the Eurofighter Typhoon and a Russian aircraft to supply the Indian air force with 114 combat planes in a deal estimated to be worth more than $15 billion.

The WTO's appellate body announced Friday that it was dismissing Mexico's claim, saying the U.S. had justly denied Mexican tuna products the use of its "dolphin safe" label.

Though the label is not mandatory for tuna products to be sold in the U.S., denying Mexico the label, as the WTO itself observes, "constitutes an 'advantage' on the US market for tuna products."
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U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a statement released last October, "The Trump Administration is committed to defending U.S. rights to enforce environmental measures that protect wildlife and facilitate fair trade."
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"The WTO has delivered a US victory in what looks to be the final & decisive battle of a long war between the US & Mexico over the US Dolphin Safe label."

The Vatican may learn the hard way that the Communist Chinese government does not honor its agreements. Beijing may attempt to extort even more concessions from the Vatican, just as the Chinese regime demands ever more surrender of sovereignty from western companies that do business in China.
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Pope Francis has surrendered partial control of the Chinese Catholic Church to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). His Holiness agreed to grant the Party considerable authority over personnel matters. After decades of refusing to give China the right to appoint Catholic bishops, as a condition for normalization of relations, the Vatican finally conceded to the regime's demand to allow the CCP a decisive role in the selection of bishops to head Catholic dioceses.

Just when you thought your blue-pilled perception of the world couldn't take another red-pilling reality check - after Buzzfeed's lies and mainstream media's Covington Catholics chaos - it turns out that the man wondering quietly across the concourse before 'not being accosted' by young MAGA-hat-wearing teens is not some hapless native American...

Also, Nathan Phillips Allegedly Lied About Being A Marine Combat Veteran During The Vietnam War...

This is big news because in addition to the industrial use of glyphosate, the retail sale of glyphosate direct to consumers for use on home lawns and gardens is also a huge business.

Researcher finds nearly 200 Chrome, Firefox, and Opera extensions vulnerable to attacks from malicious sites.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for February were issued last week, and local officials are cautioning recipients to budget their use.

What it means is, as of Jan. 16, those who receive SNAP, commonly referred to as food stamps, may have had two months’ worth of food dollars on their account.
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A provision in federal law allows for the release of an additional month’s worth of SNAP benefits within 30 days of a partial government shutdown, which started Dec. 21.

Called Chematica, the software platform does something called “retrosynthesis,” similar to the kind of reverse engineering that takes place when an engineer dissects an existing product to see how it works. In the case of Chematica, this process is based on a deep knowledge of how chemical interactions take place. It has around 70,000 synthetic chemistry “rules” coded into its system, along with thousands of additional auxiliary rules prescribing when particular reactions occur and with which molecules they’re compatible. An algorithm then inspects the massive number of possible reaction sequences in order to find another way to the same finish line.

But guess what; Merck has bought this company, to protect and (probably) lengthen their patents. This is just wrong. This should have been released as open source / patent free tech. It would be life/world changing technology.

Fox News has barred a TV monitoring service from recording its broadcasts and allowing customers to search for and play back relevant segments.
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TVEyes may not be well known, but it and similar companies perform an important service: allowing journalists to keep tabs on the dozens of hours of content broadcast on news channels each day. That’s particularly important when it comes to Fox News — a channel known for scare tactics, slanted coverage, and being watched by President Donald Trump.

We highlighted the last part as it threw off the rest of the article. It's as if all other media outlets aren't known for the exact same things. But they had to throw that in there to appease their SJW demographic. Unreal. SMH.

These fines always seem so small VS the daily profit of these mega corps. But the more important part about this verdict is that they actually have to stop with these practices now. And that is going to hurt them a lot.