Rachel Maddow Called Out By WaPo Columnist For Shamelessly Peddling Fake News…
December 26, 2019
Maddow began using the dossier to smear Trump in March of 2017... An emboldened Maddow claimed that while the "baseline" dossier claim that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election had yet to be proven, "all the supporting details are checking out, even the really outrageous ones."... Based on the conclusions reached by both the FBI and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Maddow was peddling conspiracy theories... "She seemed to be rooting for the document" ... Maddow ignored that the Mueller report debunked the dossier's key allegation a literal conspiracy theory... And while Wemple says these are legitimate points, Maddow's track record on the dossier is abysmal...
El Chapo’s Son Gives Away Cars To Sinaloa Locals At Christmas Party…
December 26, 2019
Pennsylvania Dioceses Offer $84M to 564 Clergy Abuse Victims…
December 26, 2019
The settlement represents a chance at a fresh start, but Zernhelt said the compensation funds also allow the dioceses to get off easy. “I feel that it’s a shield for the church to get a discount on paying the victims,” he said...
Online sales hit record highs in the shortest holiday shopping season since 2013…
December 26, 2019
Overall retail sales grew 3.4% year-over-year while online sales spiked 18.8% over the same period, the report said.
50 Million Dollar Ethereum Stolen from Famous Crypto Money Exchange…
December 26, 2019
After realizing the cyber attack, Upbit transferred the funds from the hot wallets to the cold wallets, thus preventing the attack from reaching much more grave dimensions. Stating that they provide information to the necessary units about the incident, the South Korean company said that the transactions on the stock exchange were suspended for at least two weeks. Thus, Upbit became the eighth crypto money exchange in 2019, which suffered the wrath of hackers...
Japan hangs Chinese national convicted of 2003 murder, marking first execution of a foreigner in 10 years…
December 26, 2019
Wei Wei, a 40-year-old former language student, was hanged Thursday after he and two other Chinese accomplices were convicted of killing Japanese businessman Shinjiro Matsumoto, his wife and two children 16 years ago...
Mazda3 bug activates emergency brake system for no reason – 35k vehicles are being recalled to fix the issue…
December 26, 2019
US Sent 4 Spy Planes to Korean Peninsula After Kim’s ‘Christmas Gift’ Threat…
December 26, 2019
The U.S. aircraft were detected by Aircraft Spots, an aviation tracking site, according to a report by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency. The site claims that four U.S. planes -- identified as RC-135W Rivet Joint, E-8C, RQ-4 Global Hawk and RC-135S Cobra Ball -- flew their missions between Christmas Eve and early Christmas Day...
Trump stock market rally is far outpacing past US presidents…
December 26, 2019
The S&P 500 has returned more than 50% since President Trump was elected, more than double the average market return of presidents three years into their term, according to Bespoke Investment Group. Historically, years three and four garner the highest market returns for U.S. presidents. The S&P will have to gain about 6% in 2020 to beat the average presidential return.
TOM FITTON: MAGIC! FBI “finds” 30 new Clinton emails but DOJ can’t explain to federal judge how it happened!…
December 26, 2019
DeVos, DOJ Slam Campuses Behaving As “Mini Police States”…
December 26, 2019
- The DOJ and Betsey DeVos have spoken out against a Mississippi community college accused of threatening to arrest students for attempting to discuss marijuana legalization on campus.
- The school defended itself to Campus Reform, insisting that the allegations are “unproven.”
Army liberates a number of villages in Idleb countryside after fierce battles with terrorists…
December 26, 2019
The reporter added that the clashes also resulted in killing a number of terrorists and injuring others, in addition to destroying their equipment and vehicles while the whole remnant groups fled away towards Ma’aret al-Nu’aman...
Dozens of Israelis being arrested, some jailed in Europe for smuggling khat drug…
December 26, 2019
Sima Duvdevani, head of the Foriegn Ministry’s department for Israelis aboard, told Channel 12 that the smuggling trend is found in almost every European country and that large amounts of khat are involved... “Today, we understand that the Europeans aren’t so forgiving of the phenomenon,” she said. “We are talking about more lengthy prison sentences of three or four months, half a year.” Israelis have been jailed in Britain, France, Germany and other countries. One Israeli citizen has been sentenced to ten years in prison in Turkey, Duvdevani said...
Researchers Demonstrate Chip-to-Chip Quantum Teleportation…
December 26, 2019
The results showed extremely high-fidelity quantum teleportation of 91%. In addition, the team was able to demonstrate some other important functionality of their designs, such as entanglement swapping (required for quantum repeaters and quantum networks) and four-photon GHZ states (required in quantum computing and the quantum internet)...
Nasdaq Hits 9,000 for First Time Ever…
December 26, 2019
U.S. CyberCom contemplates information warfare to counter Russian interference in the 2020 election…
December 26, 2019
One option being explored by U.S. Cyber Command would target senior leadership and Russian elites, though likely not President Vladimir Putin, which would be considered too provocative, said the current and former officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity. The idea would be to show that the target’s sensitive, personal data could be hit if the interference did not stop, though officials declined to be more specific...
Space Debris Is Now a Big Problem | VICE…
December 26, 2019
Iran Blocks Mobile Internet Access to Prepare for Another Crackdown on Protesters…
December 26, 2019
Reuters saw all the signs of a fresh crackdown in response to calls on social media for another round of protests, including state media claims that weapons have been seized from subversives supported by the United States and more complaints from the Tehran regime that protests are being organized by agents of hostile foreign governments. Eyewitnesses report ominous deployments of Iranian troops in urban areas to intimidate potential protesters...
Israeli national, 26, arrested after trying to cash $1M check from husband, 77,
December 26, 2019
Lin Helena Halfon was arrested at Tampa International Airport on Dec. 16 for allegedly stealing $666,666 from her husband Richard Rappaport. A Tampa bank had refused to cash a $1 million cashier’s check a month earlier...
‘This Is A Revolution’: Bannon And Navarro Discuss China, Economic Nationalism, And 2020 Outlook…
Peter Navarro predicts a boom year in 2020 for the American Economy...
December 26, 2019
'The party of the working class...'