Ex-CIA Engineer Goes on Trial for Massive Leak. Joshua Schulte allegedly gave WikiLeaks a trove of documents revealing secret hacking programs…
February 3, 2020
In 2017, WikiLeaks released more than 8,000 pages of secret materials—which the antisecrecy organization called “Vault 7”—detailing the CIA’s cyberespionage arsenal, including the agency’s playbook for hacking smartphones, computer operating systems, messaging applications and internet-connected televisions. Federal prosecutors say the defendant, Joshua Schulte, stole the documents when he worked in a CIA unit that designed the hacking tools...
U.S. factories expand for first time since July…
February 3, 2020
The Insitute for Supply Management, an association of purchasing managers, said Monday that its manufacturing index rose to 50.9 in January from 47.8 in December. Anything above 50 signals expansion... But new orders, production and export orders all grew last month. Factory hiring dropped for the sixth straight month but at a slower pace than it did in December. Factories, the ISM said, were struggling to find workers at a time when the unemployment rate is at a 50-year low 3.5%.
South London Terrorist Released Early Despite Pledging Allegiance To ISIS…
February 3, 2020
String of terror offenses included encouraging his girlfriend to behead her “kuffar” parents...
Jill Biden Says Family Friendship with Lindsey Graham Is over after ‘Hurtful’ Ukraine Comments…
February 3, 2020
Eight Iowa Counties Have Total Registration Rates Larger than Eligible Voter Population – at Least 18,658…
February 3, 2020
India To Probe Wuhan Institute Of Virology…
February 3, 2020
The Indian government has ordered an inquiry into a study conducted in the Northeastern state of Nagaland (close to China) by researchers from the U.S., China and India on bats and humans carrying antibodies to deadly viruses like Ebola... The study came under the scanner as two of the 12 researchers belonged to the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, and it was funded by the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). They would have required special permissions as foreign entities... “The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) sent a five-member committee to investigate. The inquiry is complete, and a report has been submitted to the Health Ministry”...
Closing arguments begin in Senate impeachment trial
February 3, 2020
Synthetic Activist Greta Thunberg is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for a second year in a row…
February 3, 2020
Two politicians in Sweden have nominated the teenage campaigner for the 2020 prize for her work to raise awareness of the climate crisis. Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling, of Sweden's Left Party, said the 17-year-old 'has worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis'.
Greece: Turning optimism into sustainable growth “It’s official – the Athens Stock Exchange was the best performing equity market in Europe last year”…
February 3, 2020
Across the board, foreign investors are putting their money in Greek assets from stocks and bonds to real estate and helping to drive foreign direct investment in Greece to record highs...
Hackers are hijacking smart building access systems to launch DDoS attacks. More than 2,300 building access systems can be hijacked due to a severe vulnerability left without a fix…
February 3, 2020
Rush Limbaugh reveals advanced lung cancer diagnosis…
February 3, 2020
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh revealed that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. On his radio show Monday, Limbaugh, 69, also said that he would likely miss some time on the program while he undergoes treatment.
An aspiring rapper sought fame and fortune. So he had a hit man kill his mom to inherit her savings, prosecutors say…
February 3, 2020
Brexit trade deal clash: UK and EU begin sparring over rules…
February 3, 2020
The European Union and Britain clashed over a post-Brexit trade deal on Monday with Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisting he need not sign up to the bloc’s rules and Brussels warning of tariffs and quotas unless he did...
Joe Biden snaps at Savannah Guthrie after she asks about Hunter Biden…
February 3, 2020
.@JoeBiden snaps at @SavannahGuthrie after she asks about Hunter Biden: “You’re saying things you don’t know what you’re talking about!” pic.twitter.com/4O4LmLNenb
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 3, 2020
CDC “Preparing For Coronavirus Pandemic” As It Confirms 11th US Case In California: Virus Updates…
1st patient diagnosed with coronavirus in U.S. released from hospital...
February 3, 2020
number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the US is starting to increase at a concerning pace, and moments ago, the CDC confirmed in a telebriefing that there are 11 cases in the US. More ominously, the CDC said that the new Coronavirus case is close contact of other California case, and was spread person-to-person... Late last night, while most of America was watching the Superbowl, the New York Times published a scathing story recounting what it's like on the ground in Wuhan right now. The truth is that all of the warnings of alleged 'conspiracy theorist' have more or less turned out to be correct. Supply shortages are still making it impossible for China to diagnose every case of the virus.
Steve Bannon: Democrats are not going to stop trying to impeach…
February 3, 2020
"... we need to have the whistle blower, we need to have the number two whistle blower, we need to have Adam Schiff as a fact witness, we need hunter and Joe Biden. I think we need Brennan, we need all of them. And here's the other thing we ought to do, President Trump oughta declassify all these reports. He ought to go back to Rosenstein's, the 40 subpoenas at the house under Devin Nunez forted to Rosenstein, he ought to get all of those subpoenas, and all those people ought to be called as witnesses. We need an apparatus that's official to go about this to protect the office of the president..."
Ukraine: Recordings show Iran immediately knew jetliner had been hit by a missile…
February 3, 2020
A leaked recording of an exchange between an Iranian air traffic controller and an Iranian pilot purports to show that authorities immediately knew a missile had downed a Ukrainian jetliner after takeoff from Tehran, killing all 176 people aboard, despite days of denials by the Islamic Republic... In Tehran on Monday, the head of the Iranian investigation team, Hassan Rezaeifar, acknowledged the recording was legitimate and said that it was handed over to Ukrainian officials.
MISTRIAL? Calls for Schiff to petition Chief Justice rise as Trump legal team’s conflicts of interest surface…
February 3, 2020
Such a move is neither considered in the Senate rules adopted for the trial nor has ever been attempted before at either of the two other impeachment trials in U.S. history. However, the revelation that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone was in the room when Trump personally ordered John Bolton to push Ukraine into launching investigations into Democrats — as the then-National Security Advisor claims in his upcoming book — implicates a principal member of the president’s defense team as a material witness in the accusations against Trump...
The Defense Department Wants to Use the Atmosphere as a Sensor…
February 3, 2020
DARPA's Defense Sciences Office will soon hold a proposers day to initiate its new Atmosphere as a Sensor—or AtmoSense—program.
“AtmoSense seeks to develop the scientific understanding to exploit signatures for geolocation of natural sources that disturb the Earth’s atmosphere, which are fundamentally different than those relied upon by direct observation approaches,” officials wrote...
Bernie Screwed Again – CNN/Des Moines Register Refuse To Publish Final Poll Showing Bernie Sanders Leading Iowa…
February 3, 2020
It’s somewhat of a tradition for The Des Moines Register to publish the final poll of the campaign season on the Sunday before the Iowa caucuses. Except this year, they refuse to publish the results citing a “polling problem“.
The CNN/DMR cover story is that one pollster may have pronounced Buttigieg name incorrectly. However, everyone knows the real reason... Bernie has a big lead...