Florida man charged with impersonating a security member for Trump’s Marine One…
January 11, 2020
[Brandon] Magnan approached a security checkpoint near where the helicopter was housed and showed credentials that indicated he was a law enforcement officer with the United States Marine Corps. He made it past another checkpoint before a sheriff’s deputy there noticed that Magnan was not wearing a Marine Corps uniform. When confronted, Magnan told officers he was a retired member of HMX-1. However, the court documents show Magnan was dishonorably discharged about 10 years ago after being convicted at a court-martial for “serious offenses.”
Prominent US Universities Failed to Disclose $1.3 Billion in Foreign Funding…
January 11, 2020
China, Qatar and Russia were some of the sources of foreign funding that went unreported.
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For example, Qatar gave over $340 million to Northwestern University to promote a partnership between Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and Al Jazeera and to help train future “journalists.”...Low-Fat Diet Linked to Lower Testosterone Levels in Men…
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January 11, 2020
Eleven dead and hundreds of thousands without power as storms and tornadoes sweep across parts of the US south and east, bringing snow, hail and hurricane-force winds….
January 11, 2020
Russian navy ship ‘aggressively approached’ US warship…
January 11, 2020
“Farragut sounded five short blasts, the international maritime signal for danger of a collision, and requested the Russian ship alter course in accordance with international rules of the road,” according to the command.
The Russian vessel “initially refused” but ultimately altered its course and the two ships opened distance from each other, 5th Fleet said...
Anti-Government Protests Have Taken Hold In Iran…
January 11, 2020
Live look at the protests in Iran where the people are chanting “death to the dictator.”
pic.twitter.com/r60nK7LFAb— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 11, 2020
#BREAKING: It is taking place now in #AmirKabir University of #Tehran, thousands of students are protesting against #Iran's Islamic Regime & #IRGC over shot-down of Flight #PS752 of #Ukraine International Airlines by a Tor-M1 SAM system of #IRGCASF. pic.twitter.com/dN8bUK4U3v
— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) January 11, 2020
#BREAKING:Special Pasdaran Unit (Brigade) of #Iran's Islamic Regime Police is now brutally suppressing protesters in #Hafez street of #Tehran. Shots fired & tear gas is used to disperse the students & people who were protesting against the regime over shot-down of #PS752 by #IRGC pic.twitter.com/jflUML6jp8
— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) January 11, 2020
Vermont’s GOP governor reaffirms commitment to accepting new refugees after Trump executive order allowing governors to opt out of doing so….
January 11, 2020
He also offered an invitation for refugees to come to Vermont should any state take Trump up on his offer... He wrote that the state has welcomed almost 8,000 refugees since 1989 primarily from Bhutan, Burma, Bosnia, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan and Vietnam. Scott also indicated that he actually hopes to resettle more refugees, according to the letter obtained by the Burlington Free Press.
US Tried (And Failed) To Kill Soleimani’s “Guy On The Ground In Yemen”…
January 11, 2020
US officials now say they also attempted to kill Islamic Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Abdul Reza Shahlai on the same day (Jan.2), but failed. "The highly classified mission against Abdul Reza Shahlai in Yemen shows that recent U.S. operations against Iran were more ambitious and multifaceted than the air strike last week that the Trump administration said it undertook to kill Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad," writes the WSJ... Shahlai is considered by the US to be behind attacks on US troops in Iraq, including abduction and killings of five American soldiers in the city of Karbala in 2007, and is currently active in Yemen allegedly training and supplying the Shia Houthis in their attacks on the Saudis.
Hungary Takes On the Feminist Goliath—and Wins…
January 11, 2020
In an effort to restore curricular and administrative sanity to university education, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party have passed legislation to abolish Gender Studies as an area of official study. Hungary’s Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen has stated that such programs “ha[ve] no business in universities” as they represent “an ideology, not a science,” with a market profile “close to zero”...
ABC: FBI begins to investigate Epstein, then feds strike a ‘secret’ deal with him: Part 6…
January 11, 2020
Victims’ attorney Brad Edwards said he was about to present his case when he learned federal authorities had allowed Epstein to take a plea deal on much lesser charges. He served 13 months in jail.
Texas becomes first state to refuse refugees under Trump order…
January 11, 2020
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas on Friday became the first governor in the United States to refuse to accept refugees under an executive order requiring local jurisdictions to actively opt in to the federal resettlement program.
Iran’s Green Movement opposition calls on Iran Supreme Leader to step down…
January 11, 2020
A leader of Iran’s opposition Green Movement, Mehdi Karroubi, calls on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the top authority in the Islamic Republic, to step down over the handling of the shooting down of the Ukrainian airliner...
Tulsi Gabbard refuses to blame Iran for shooting down the Ukrainian plane; implies that it’s Trump’s fault…
January 11, 2020
Putin & Merkel Urge All Parties Back To Iran Deal – Vow To Preserve “By All Means”…
January 11, 2020
"Germany is convinced that Iran should not acquire or have nuclear weapons," said Chancellor Merkel...
Yang did not meet polling thresholds to take part in the Iowa debate…
January 11, 2020
He claims the lack of polls conducted since the previous debate gave little hope for him to advance...
“I’d Like To See Them Call Me”: How Trump Used An Encrypted Swiss Fax Machine To Defuse The Iran Crisis…
January 11, 2020
"We don’t communicate with the Iranians that much, but when we do the Swiss have played a critical role to convey messages and avoid miscalculation," a senior U.S. official said...
In Shocking Rebuke To Beijing, Taiwan’s Pro-Independence President Wins Landslide Re-election…
January 11, 2020
All of that paranoia about Beijing's meddling in the Taiwanese federal election was apparently for nought. Because Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has officially secured re-election to a second term in office, sending a clear signal to the mainland that voters have endorsed her confrontational approach to dealing with Beijing...
Serial slugger arrested again hours after release under New York state’s new bail reform law…
January 11, 2020
Eugene Webb, 26, was arrested Friday night for aggressive panhandling near a bank entrance in Greenwich Village, just one day after he was hauled in for allegedly slugging a 23-year-old woman in the face so hard that two of her teeth were knocked out. Webb, who police say is homeless, also attacked a second woman near Grand Central Terminal just hours after the Wednesday attack, punching the 35-year-old and kicking the back of her head...
Declassified Ufo Report Documents ‘Green Circular Object’ Over Soviet Experimental Missile Range…
January 11, 2020
An intelligence report newly declassified by the CIA sheds new light on a nearly 50-year-old UFO mystery, revealing details gathered from an experimental missile range in present-day Kazakhstan. The report not only includes unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), but rumored Cold War "laser weapons."
The UFO sighting took place in 1973 and was first revealed to the public in an "Intelligence Information Report" released by the CIA in 1978. Heavily redacted, the declassified version of the document contains only a single paragraph, detailing an encounter with a UFO at a location called "Site 7."...
Department of Energy picks New York over Virginia for site of new particle collider…
January 11, 2020