MY NEWS PUNCH FD  PART 4
NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON BBC-CNN-FOX NEWS, FRANCE 24, EURO NEWS 
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL China: US NGOs Encourage Violent Riots in Hong Kong
 December 19, 2019  orinocotribune China, Hong Kong, NED, NGO for Imperialism and Regime Change, USAID
China denounces that several US NGO’s have been instigating so that violent protests did not decline in Hong Kong; a habitual practice of these entities. As revealed by the Chinese newspaper Global Times on Tuesday, there is evidence of new contacts between protest activists in Hong Kong and members of US non-governmental organizations, with the alleged purpose of encouraging the continuity of violence.  https://orinocotribune.com/china-us-ngos-encourage-violent-riots-in-hong-kong/?fbclid=IwAR0zokc6cfmH8Ou54iAupol31dKKmoMmF4VDIWXJal3cViQb6nCUroWQgyM

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Climate Crisis Threatens a Third of Plant Species, Endangering Food Supply  Botanists have made a new census of terrestrial plants — only to find that with nearly 40% of them rare, or extremely rare, this may put food at risk. And a second team of researchers, in a separate study, has established that some of these rare or vanishing species could include the wild relatives of some of the planet’s most popular vegetables.  The two studies matter. The first underlines yet another reason for new and determined conservation strategies to preserve the extraordinary natural variety and richness of life — the shorthand word that scientists use is biodiversity — already under pressure from the explosion in human numbers, the destruction of natural habitats and the looming catastrophe of climate change driven by rapidly rising global temperatures.  https://truthout.org/articles/climate-crisis-threatens-a-third-of-plant-species-endangering-food-supply/

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Gazan Girl Fights Cancer Alone at West Bank Hospital. Israel Won't Let Her Parents Join
Miral Abu Amsha, a 10-year-old suffering from leukemia, is undergoing chemotherapy in a Nablus hospital by herself. And she’s not the only patient in that situation The look on Miral’s face says it all: the anguished features of a little girl, a study in pain. There are balloons in the room, dolls on the bed, and a grandmother by her side – but Miral’s face bespeaks suffering. Occasionally, she is on the brink of tears, but holds back in order not to cry in front of strangers. But at some point, she can no longer contain herself and begins to weep. She’s sitting on the bed, the chemo tube attached to her arm, dripping the liquid directly into her vein.  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-won-t-let-this-gaza-girl-s-parents-visit-in-hospital-where-she-fights-cancer-1.8292205?fbclid=IwAR2FVDzU8_H8SyAz5w8kEeoNUwfD99PqPyZYEVNQEqldnSMsXqdsE6mPnHE

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL US Sanctions: Alliance with Russia Allows to Guarantee Come Medical Treatments (Sanctions Kill)
Caracas (Sputnik) – Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said that agreements with Russia make it possible to guarantee some medical treatments that cannot be imported through traditional laboratories due to the US financial blockade. “Given the criminal financial blockade imposed by the United States, which prevents the importing of medicines from traditional laboratories, the close strategic alliance between Russia and Venezuela has become a safe way to guarantee the supply of various health treatments,” the chancellor wrote on his Twitter account. https://orinocotribune.com/us-sanctions-alliance-with-russia-allows-to-guarantee-come-medical-treatments-sanctions-kill/


➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Strange Things Are Happening In The Waters Along The West Coast, And Fish Are Starting To Disappear Something is causing the waters just off the west coast to heat up dramatically, fish are dying off in staggering numbers, birds that feed on those fish are also dying off rapidly, and scientists have discovered 15,000 holes in the ocean floor off the coast of California.
Oh, and scientists don’t know for certain why any of these things are happening. Unfortunately, the mainstream media is not emphasizing this crisis, and so most Americans don’t even know what is going on. But the truth is that what we are facing is extremely serious. In fact, officials have taken the “unprecedented” step of shutting down the federal cod fishery in Alaska for the year because of the lack of fish. We are seeing things happen that we have never seen before, and this is definitely going to affect our food supply. https://www.zerohedge.com/health/strange-things-are-happening-waters-along-west-coast-and-fish-are-starting-disappear?utm_campaign&utm_content=ZeroHedge%3A+The+Durden+Dispatch&utm_medium=email&utm_source=zh_newsletter&fbclid=IwAR3i28jZaLJpUHHT2Lbke1Fxn6nAAgtw-orWd80cfNTR_IAnYPMbgGRjKXw

MY NEWS PUNCH FD  PART 5
NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON BBC-CNN-FOX NEWS, FRNACE 24, EURO NEWS 
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Concerning the Creation of the Evangelical Theological University  Venezuelan sociologist Cecil Perez asks if the recent announcement violates the secular nature of the Venezuelan educational system.
By Cecil Gerardo Pérez “The church, through its top most hierarchy, intends to obtain supra-constitutional privileges and openly ignore the secular character of the Venezuelan state.” Hugo Chávez, July 18, 2010. It is (once again) time to open the debate about government policy for university education, to evaluate the creation of so many new universities and what kind of policies they follow. What is happening in the university sector is concerning. The last two new universities founded (the International University of Communications and, above all, the Evangelical Theological University (1)) have set off alarm bells. We need to go beyond the official announcements to address the issue of the connection between politics, religion and the state, [taking as a reference point the announcement that the President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro, approved the creation of the Evangelical Theological University of Venezuela on Thursday, December 5].   https://orinocotribune.com/concerning-the-creation-of-the-evangelical-theological-university/

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Lying About Inflation
Won’t Make It Go Away http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Afghanistan War – The Crime of the Century “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lute’s cluelessness was shared by virtually everyone involved in the war. http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/afghanistan-war-the-crime-of-the-century

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Why "Narrative Control" Is A Fool's Errand  What a fascinating time. Thanks to the advancement of communications technology, more and more people are challenging "official" narratives, perhaps like never before. Authoritarians that seek to dominate everyone else, always have a single fantasy that they strive for.
 The authoritarian wants to make his proclamation .... everyone hears it ... everyone accepts it ... no one questions it ... and everyone obeys.  http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/why-narrative-control-is-a-fools-errand


➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Cuts Stake in Company by More Than 90%
Former CEO has sold more than $2.5 billion in stock in recent weeks
Travis Kalanick’s ride at Uber Technologies Inc. is nearing an end.
The co-founder of the ride-hailing giant has sold more than $2.5 billion of stock in the past seven weeks, more than 90% of his stake—a pace that if continued could see him sold out entirely in the coming days. Mr. Kalanick, the former chief executive, was pushed out of that role by investors in 2017.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-co-founder-travis-kalanick-cuts-stake-in-company-by-more-than-90-11576964824?mod=hp_lead_pos2

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Mainstream Media on OPCW Leaks – The Good, Bad and Downright Ugly  Since early this year when it was revealed that OPCW top management had undertaken censorship of their scientific staff’s reporting on investigations into the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018, there has been relative silence from the mainstream media, with the exception of a few. Given that this story is surely the stuff of a Pulitzer Prize, one has to wonder at their reluctance to cover the issue. Instead, mainstream media journalists and their social media cohort have worked to attack and discredit anyone who is challenging the West’s official narrative on the OPCW report.  https://21stcenturywire.com/2019/12/20/mainstream-media-on-opcw-leaks-the-good-bad-and-downright-ugly/

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL This is Genocide: The U.S. Senate’s Armenian Gambit vis-à-vis Turkey Now that Donald Trump is inhabiting the White House, the waning of the U.S. as a global power is all but accelerating. Some countries though still seem to attach a lot of importance to American words and actions. The Republic of Turkey, currently ruled by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (or the Prez) and his Justice and Development Party (or AKP) appears to be a case in point.  https://21stcenturywire.com/2019/12/20/this-is-genocide-the-u-s-senates-armenian-gambit-vis-a-vis-turkey/

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Turkey threatens to recognise Native American genocide over US stance on Armenian genocide TURKEY’S President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to recognise the genocide against Native Americans in retaliation for the United States’ resolution on Armenia. Last week, the US Senate voted in favour of a largely symbolic Bill recognising the Armenian genocide by the Ottomans. The long-standing ruler of Turkey responded last night by threatening to recognise the killing of Native Americans by European settlers, saying the deaths of millions of indigenous people should also be viewed as genocide.  https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/turkey-threatens-recognise-native-american-genocide-over-us-stance-armenian-genocide


MY NEWS PUNCH   PART 6
NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON BBC-CNN-FOX NEWS, FRANCE 24, EURO NEWS 
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Published on
By Common Dreams
'Everything is Burning': Australian Inferno Continues, Choking Off Access to Cities Across Country and
"These fires are likely to continue to spread well past Christmas." By Eoin Higgins, staff writer  Australia is on fire.  The country on Saturday saw delayed flights on the second day of a national state of emergency due to raging brushfires near every major city and choked out smoke conditions.  Australian reporter Saffron Howden used a map from the Government of Western Australia to show how the blazes have ringed the entire continent. "My god," Howden tweeted. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/21/everything-burning-australian-inferno-continues-choking-access-cities-across-country

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Waiting for Ali… Beirut – On December 21, Ali al-Nimr turns 25 while on death row in Saudi Arabia. It will be his 7th birthday in prison after being arrested in February 2012 for participating in a peaceful pro-democracy rally in the Kingdom’s Eastern Province.
Ali was just 17 when he was arrested in his Saudi hometown of Qatif on February 14, 2012 after Saudi authorities rammed their vehicle while he was riding his motorcycle. That was the day when everything in Ali’s life changed forever! That Ali was the nephew of reformist Shia cleric and protest leader Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who was executed in January 2016, made his case more difficult; he stood accused of joining a terrorist organization, throwing Molotov cocktails and arson. Ali is one of three Saudi Arabian young men known to be on death row who were arrested and charged with crimes allegedly committed when they were minors. https://www.english.alahednews.com.lb/50956/269

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Trump and Company Keep Confessing  After returning from a recent trip to Ukraine, Rudy Giuliani deployed an interesting tactic for the president’s personal lawyer: Confessing to the conduct for which Trump is being impeached.  In public statements over the past week, the former New York Mayor flatly admitted that he had pushed Trump to fire former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch because he thought she would complicate his effort to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch investigations aimed at helping Trump politically. “I believed that I needed Yovanovitch out of the way,” Giuliani told the New Yorker. “She was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody.”  https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/trump-giuliani-ukraine-russia-confess/

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL How False Flag Operations Are Carried Out Today  False Flag is a concept that goes back centuries. It was considered to be a legitimate ploy by the Greeks and Romans, where a military force would pretend to be friendly to get close to an enemy before dropping the pretense and raising its banners to reveal its own affiliation just before launching an attack.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2018/april/26/how-false-flag-operations-are-carried-out-today/


➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Meet the whistleblower taking a stand against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane
 (Photo Felix Dlangama He is a senior investigator and union shop steward who worked directly with Mkhwebane in the early months of her tenure. Now he has broken down a wall of secrecy to reveal explosive details of Mkhwebane’s alleged improper conduct – and of her battle against union officials who tried to hold her accountable.   https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-12-21-exclusive-meet-the-whistleblower-taking-a-stand-against-public-protector-busisiwe-mkhwebane/


➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Next? After Iraq, Saudi Social Media Bots Deployed to Influence Lebanon Protests Less than a month after exposing the involvement of Saudi Arabian social media bots in the protests that engulfed Iraq, today’s analyses revealed the same electronic hands behind provoking hatred during Lebanon protests. A study published by Tansikeyah News on Tuesday revealed that 78% of the accounts using hashtags to incite hatred in the Lebanese society were Saudi. Additionally, Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies and Digital Humanities Marc Owen Jones studied the suspicious hashtags that were used during the still ongoing protests in Lebanon. https://www.english.alahednews.com.lb/50221/385?fbclid=IwAR236hIXJMb4v2tOQOoUsCxtX8qcZoJ6BGXoX6rT3E-B_Y9V_gvWU2yXrP0


MY NEWS PUNCH PART 7
NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON BBC-CNN-FOX NEWS, FRANCE 24, EURO NEWS 
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Inside Journalist Tareq Haddad’s Spectacular Departure from Newsweek
Tareq Haddad’s exposé of the corruption and collusion at the heart of modern journalism is something long-discussed by academics, but rarely does such a clear example present itself. by Alan Macleod  It’s Manufacturing Consent meets Operation Mockingbird; in a long exposé essay that doubles as a goodbye to the profession, Newsweek journalist Tareq Haddad explained why he was very publicly quitting his job at the New York-based magazine. “Journalism is quickly dying. America is regressing because it lacks the truth,” he wrote.
The trigger for his decision was management suppressing his story on the bombshell news that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) hid a mountain of evidence suggesting the 2018 Douma Attack was staged, thus paving the way for more military intervention in Syria. But below the surface, it was about far more than that; Haddad’s essay described how journalists are worked to the bone and how media drives the public towards war, coordinating smears against politicians who stand against it. But most spectacularly of all, he alleges that there is a network of hundreds of government assets working as high-level editors in newsrooms across America, even naming the one at Newsweek. https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsweek-journalist-tareq-haddad-quits-corruption-journalism/263667/?fbclid=IwAR0njSKZYa_gXM-sgx6lE2ekF4J-ldqJDZEuduI057Vxy2cmkTgcLzFil3E

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL After the Afghanistan Papers, a big question: Will America ever give up its love affair with war? Facing the Washington Post's huge Afghanistan exposé honestly requires asking some dark questions about America Unusual times demand unusual measures. If you value Salon's original reporting and commentary, we urge you to support it — by supporting our writers directly. Right here, right now, you can make a financial contribution to help make David Masciotra's work possible. All funds go directly to writers. https://www.salon.com/2019/12/21/after-the-afghanistan-papers-a-big-question-will-america-ever-give-up-its-love-affair-with-war/

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NIAGRAR FALLS  Niagara Falls Engineers found some…..In The Niagara Falls When They Drained The Water https://twentytwowords.com/engineers-drained-niagara-falls/


➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Lebanon’s House Speaker Lectures Hale on ‘Israeli’ Responsibility for Violation of 1701  During a 30-minute visit to Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri, US Assistant Secretary of State David Hale was lectured that his country’s ally: “‘Israel’ is solely responsible for the breaches of Resolution 1701, not the last of which being the drone flights over the southern suburbs.” The very short meeting included a discussion of the latest political developments in Lebanon, mainly the cabinet formation. Hale claimed that Washington does not interfere in the nomination of the Lebanese premier although it has been crystal clear over the period of the unrest engulfing the country.  https://www.english.alahednews.com.lb/50960/385

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Half of the 10 highest paid YouTubers are gamers, and it's proof of the video game industry's influence on pop culture   https://www.businessinsider.com/international?r=US&IR=T
Misinformation, hacking, and imploding startups: 18 books to read in 2020 that puncture Silicon Valley utopianism https://www.businessinsider.com/hacking-and-imploding-startups-18-books-puncturing-tech-utopianism-2019-12?r=US&IR=T



➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Freedom Rider: Propaganda and the Defeat of Jeremy Corbyn  If Corbyn can be defeated with a libel it can work just as well on Sanders. “Corporate in both countries behave in similar fashion and make a mockery of any claims of a free press.”  One year ago this columnist wrote about the Integrity Initiative, an arm of British intelligence masquerading as an NGO. “The Integrity Initiative is a means of undermining the sovereignty of the British people by manipulating them with lies. It engaged in numerous efforts to libel Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and prevent him from ever being elected prime minister.” There is no claim of precognition here, just an effort to connect the dots regarding those forces that make the word democracy a sham and a lie. https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/12/20/freedom-rider-propaganda-and-the-defeat-of-jeremy-corbyn/


MY NEWS PUNCH FD   PART 8
NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON BBC-CNN-FOX NEWS, FRANCE 24, EURO NEWS 


➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL 2019 That was certainly pretty scary … but then, the whole year was pretty scary.
The Year of Manufactured Hysteria That was certainly pretty scary … but then, the whole year was pretty scary. https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/12/20/the-year-of-manufactured-hysteria/

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Small business busters war ….Walmart’s Secret Weapon to Fight Off Amazon: The Supercenter  Walmart is betting on a future where its giant stores will quickly get groceries to your door, replace the doctor’s office and rent out computing power to passing drones and autonomous cars After years of internal debate about how to compete with Amazon.com Inc., Walmart Inc. boss Doug McMillon took the stage at a recent strategy meeting and revealed the centerpiece of his plan to thrive in an e-commerce era: giant stores.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/walmarts-secret-weapon-to-fight-off-amazon-the-supercenter-11576904460?mod=hp_lead_pos10

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Just 100 Companies Will Sign Humanity’s Death Warrant
The 100 corporations actively suffocating us in a blanket of global warming emissions are the same ones that run our government. They have wrapped their tentacles around our politicians, the regulatory agencies and the criminal justice system.  https://www.mintpressnews.com/just-100-corporations-causing-most-climate-change/262383/
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL 'Eye-Popping': Analysis Shows Top 1% Gained $21 Trillion in Wealth Since 1989 While Bottom Half Lost $900 Billion
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/14/eye-popping-analysis-shows-top-1-gained-21-trillion-wealth-1989-while-bottom-half?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1DaA7ybb6oK8SeQg7i7tdIqs5OnULcpnbiWmphFA65hcr-u5j9br3y0Iw

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Western Democracy and “Oh yes, he is!.. Oh no, he isn’t!..” Trump Impeachment… Slapstick Diversion From Reality  Fittingly for the jolly season, the House of Representatives’ vote to impeach Trump was more pantomime than serious politics. “Oh yes, he is!.. Oh no, he isn’t!..” and so it went on for nearly 10 hours of to-and-fro between Democrats and Republicans. Eventually, the finale came when black-clad Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi hammered the gavel, announcing President had been impeached – only the third-ever in two-and-half centuries of 45 presidents.  https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/12/20/trump-impeachment-slapstick-diversion-from-reality/

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Measuring the World's Most Generous Countries Residents in a mix of wealthy and developing countries that span various cultures are ranked as the most charitable.  Which countries’ residents are considered the most generous in giving to others? It’s a question worth considering at the end of the calendar year, when people are most likely to donate to charities. Citizens in the United States are among the most generous in the world, according to an evaluation of global survey data. But depending on how that data is interpreted, countries in the Asia-Pacific are as charitable as the U.S., with two ranking ahead of America. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-12-20/the-worlds-most-generous-countries

MY NEWS PUNCH FD  PART 9
NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON BBC-CNN-FOX NEWS, FRNACE 24, EURO NEWS 
➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL Citizens in the United States are among the most generous in the world.  Why than…The Homeless Are Dying in Record Numbers on the Streets of Los Angeles record number of homeless people — 918 last year alone — are dying across Los Angeles County, on bus benches, hillsides, railroad tracks and sidewalks. Deaths have jumped 76% in the past five years, outpacing the growth of the homeless population, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the coroner's data. https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2019-04-23/homeless-dying-in-record-numbers-on-the-streets-of-los-angeles?src=usn_fb&utm_source=usn_fb&fbclid=IwAR3GJIdNJylacLcpl-MNCyVsIHf-Dgs_yHSKcSzEP4NveV1Ti8qkmS0RuCQ

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL MintPressNews  https://www.youtube.com/user/MintPressNews

➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL What has happened to the old India?  Modi wants to remould India as a Hindu nation, destroying any remnant of civil society/humanity, kindness…. Death toll hits 9 as citizenship law protests spread in India Fresh clashes between Indian police and demonstrators erupted on Friday after more than a week of deadly unrest triggered by a citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim. Three protesters were shot dead on Thursday, taking the death toll to nine in the wave of anger that is emerging as a major challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The law making it easier for persecuted minorities from three neighbouring countries to get citizenship but not if they are Muslims, has stoked fears that Modi wants to remould India as a Hindu nation, which he denies. https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/12/20/614134/India-Friday-prayers-curfew-protesters-Narendra-Modi?fbclid=IwAR2CUp1y_dyjBK2t3g8RkUioxWnsV-2MdJDxKj1ojw3iKLDX0klPq_VzxyM


➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH   ➽=ALL This is the price we now must pay for our greed and horrific treatment of animals. African swine fever: Fears rise as virus spreads to Indonesia