January, 2020

What appears to have happened is that twitter received a complaint from the website best known for making cat slideshows, Buzzfeed, in which someone called Ryan Broderick writes that Zero Hedge "has released the personal information of a scientist from Wuhan, China, falsely accusing them of creating the coronavirus as a bioweapon, in a plot it said is the real-life version of the video game Resident Evil."
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Unlike Bloomberg, or anyone else in the mainstream media, we don't plan on "rethinking" any of our articles just to curry favor with the powerful and we certainly will continue our own "investigative efforts", even if it means we lose some of our inbound traffic.

Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), emerging from a Senate GOP conference meeting, said senators now will return to the impeachment trial at 11 a.m. Monday to deliberate with a final vote on convicting or acquitting Trump set for Wednesday. “There was some feverish discussion,” Braun said. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of GOP leadership, said the trial will wrap by Wednesday

According to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office, Florida Highway Patrol troopers were following a black SUV when it fled through two security check points on the property, Friday, at around 11:40 a.m. Officers fired shots at the vehicle as it headed towards the main entrance of the estate... It remains unclear if there are any injuries. Based on a preliminary investigation, investigators believe the vehicle approached the checkpoint at a high rate of speed and did not appear to brake in any way, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition in anonymity in order to discuss the investigation... Officials are working to determine which department fired the shots at the vehicle.

A California woman, Sochil Martin, has told the federal agents and California prosecutors that the men who ran her church recruited her as a high school teen in Los Angeles to become a “sex slave” for the leader of the Light of the World Church, which claims to have five million members in the United States, Mexico and 50 other countries around the world.

...in half a year, $363,277.28 of her campaign's total reported disbursements went to her alleged paramour's firm, one that seems to have not existed prior to the last election cycle. In fact, of the $677,913.44 that the E Street Group reported receiving from campaigns to the FEC for the entirety of its existence, a majority, $369,551.02, came from Ilhan For Congress...

The Air Force had 137 suspected suicides last year, the highest number since the service began tracking suicide in 2008, officials said Friday. The 2019 figure includes active duty, reserve, guard and Air Force civilians and compares to 103 suicides across the service in 2018 , a 33 percent increase...

Combat commanders will now be able to “employ advanced, non-persistent landmines specifically designed to reduce unintended harm to civilians and partner forces,” the statement read...

This article does a good job in defending that idea that the coronavirus was man made and got out from the lab it was made in about 20 miles from the wet market it is thought to originally mutated and jumped from animal to human with possible code from HIV inserted as well.

President Trump's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien recently told NPR, "We'll probably have about 60 to 70 staffers who've gone back to their home agencies." That will effectively downsize the NSC by nearly a third from the staffing levels when O'Brien took the helm in September, bringing the total to just over 100 people. The council is composed of employees on rotation from various national security agencies such as the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, and Defense Department...

The announcement that George Soros will commit $1 billion to create the Open Society University Network (OSUN) has flooded the mainstream media and the internet in the last several days... There is some confusion in the rationale for creating OSUN. Soros himself is the source of this confusion. On one hand, he writes in his articles that the goal of OSUN is to help educate “young people and promote ‘personal autonomy.’” On the other hand, he also stresses that he wants to use education to “fight nationalism, climate change, and to promote the ideal of open society.” These two orientations are at cross-purposes. Fighting nationalism and climate change and promoting an “open society” are clearly political in their orientation. The title of Soros’s article devoted to OSUN is “How a Democratic Counteroffensive Can Win”, which also points to the political nature of this new venture. When politics is infused in education, the result is usually indoctrination...

Several candidates indicate they are displeased with the decision...

The 250-foot (76-meters) SS Cotopaxi was sailing from Charleston, South Carolina, to Havana when it disappeared along with its 32-person crew. But a team of underwater explorers and maritime archaeologists have identified the wreckage of the ship about 35 nautical miles off the coast of St. Augustine.

The Santa Clara Public Health Department said an adult man who lives outside of San Francisco tested positive for the virus... The patient contracted the virus in Wuhan and has been isolated at home since, county officials said at a press conference Friday.

Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine until last spring when she was ousted following a disinformation campaign by the president's private lawyer, is retiring — not resigning.

The former Smallville actress has been named as a defendant alongside founder Keith Raniere and other top members in a new lawsuit charging the personal development company of being a Ponzi scheme, conducting illegal experimentation on humans and exploitation of its female recruits. It claims that Mack, Raniere and 13 other individuals “exerted power over the plaintiffs; took their money; made it financially, physically and psychologically difficult, and in some cases impossible, to leave the coercive community; and systematically abused plaintiffs physically and emotionally.”