Thursday, 13 February 2020








MY NEWS PUNCH F. DEJAHANG ➜⇢➤ 12-02-2020 PART 1

For one, the information industry can easily muddy the waters of the understanding, thanks to their arsenal of weapons of mass confusion.’
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NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON BBC-CNN-FOX NEWS, FR 24, ITV-SKY-EURO NEWS, ITV…
BNP/MKO/Fascist/Racist), what majority of western audiences like don’t, because of cultivated stupidity…  that those murdered by Trump’s expeditionary forces in the last few days, were those most responsible for the destruction of the Bolton/ Saudi-inspired terrorists like ISIS / DAESH/…….full news➜⇢➤  https://www.edocr.com/user/drdejahang02

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Great Investigative Piece on Syrian Rebel Mercenaries in Libya Hired by Turkey


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Trump was duped by Takfiri, Wahhabi Terrorist

I discuss Trump’s firing of impeachment witnesses, insider attacks in Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Trump fired EU Ambassador Sondland and NSC Ukraine expert Vinland. Both men testified in the House impeachment hearing providing Democrats with great soundbites and little evidence.
In Afghanistan, two US soldiers were killed by an insider attack. The attack is further proof the war is failing.
Iraq says the attack that Trump used as an excuse to assassinate Soleimani was carried out by ISIS and not a Shia militia group. If the Iraqi military and intelligence are correct, then Trump was duped by jihadists into a conflict with Iran 

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raqis Question US Claim Iran-Friendly Paramilitaries Were Behind Attack on US Base


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Israel Charged with War Crimes and Genocide. Complete 2013 Judgment of the Kuala Lumpur Tribunal The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC) versus the State of Israel
This text was first published by Global Research in November 2013, following the indictment. 
The government of Israel headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has committed extensive crimes against humanity. President Trump in his “Deal of the Century” has endorsed this criminal agenda directed against the people of Palestine. 
World public opinion is largely unaware of the fact that in July 2014, the State of Israel was the object of a historic judgment by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT).  
“From 1948 and continuing to date the State of Israel (hereafter ‘the Defendant’) carried out against the Palestinian people a series of acts namely killing, causing serious bodily harm and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction. … Such conduct constitutes the Crime of Genocide under international law including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide 1948 (‘the Genocide Convention’) in particular Article II and punishable under Article III of the said Convention. It also constitutes the crime of genocide as stipulated in Article 10 of the Charter of the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War.” 


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Iran Attack on Two US Bases, the “Evil Empire” Strikes Back. The Casualties?  Iran's Retaliation Against the US
After their excessive and macabre display of delight and satisfaction, and even celebration, over the killing of Solemani, the White House was tight-lipped about Iran’s almost immediate retaliatory missile attack on two US bases in Iraq, with Donald Trump soon claiming only a bit of physical damage, announcing on Twitter a day after the attack, “No Americans were harmed in last night’s attack by the Iranian regime. We suffered no casualties.” Trump also stated there was no significant damage to the bases.
CNN initially reported that there were only casualties among Iraqi personnel but then quickly dropped the story altogether, initially stating “After days of anticipation, Tehran’s zero-casualty retaliation came as a relief to many. (1) At the time, Iranian officials maintained that the US had suffered least 80 dead and perhaps 200 wounded in the attack. https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-star-wars-trilogy-evil-empire-strikes-back/5702528


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China, Iran and North Korea Are Almost Encircled by 500 US Military Bases

US president Donald Trump‘s approval ratings, at 49%, are now at their highest ever level since his assumption to office three years ago (1). Trump is a heavy favourite to be re-elected in November, a likelihood which the ever-growing number of Western bookmakers unanimously agree upon, with Bernie Sanders a somewhat distant second favourite.
It should be clear to anyone by now, that the Western media campaign against Trump over the past four years has been an utter and complete fiasco. Trump’s acquittal in the impeachment trial now constitutes another blow to his enemies.  https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-iran-north-korea-almost-encircled-500-us-military-bases/5702990

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The Cave, Lying Sadists, and Rabid Dogs of War  The Cave was a massive underground headquarters
The Cave ( الكهف )was an underground prison discovered by the Syrian Arab Army after the liberation of East Ghouta from NATO supported al Qaeda — specifically the ‘Faylaq Rahman‘ sect of the malignant sociopaths. As previously with Aleppo, prior to the liberation of East Ghouta the rabid western dogs of war howled to protect the criminally insane occupiers, barked about humanitarian catastrophe, and then promptly became irrevocable amnesiacs (the same madness is currently yelped about the last terrorists of Idlib, who will also soon be permanently forgotten).
Channel 4 has outdone itself in war criminal propaganda against Syria. Giddy over its Bafta Award for fraudumentary, greedy to win an Oscar, and arrogant enough to attempt to inflict emotional blackmail on the UN, it has released one of the most ludicrous videos since the foreign war of terror was unleashed on the Syrian Arab Republic in 2011. https://www.syrianews.cc/channel-4-white-helmet-collaboration-to-destroy-syria/

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Democracy?
Although the United States is allegedly a democracy with a rule of law, it has taken 17 years for public pressure to bring about the first grand jury investigation of 9/11. Based on the work of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth led by Richard Gage, first responder and pilots organizations, books by David Ray Griffen and others, and eyewitness testimony, the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry has presented enough hard facts to the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York to force his compliance with the provisions of federal law that require the convening of a federal grand jury to investigate for the first time the attacks of September 11, 2001.
This puts the US Justice (sic) Department in an extraordinary position. Every informed person is aware that elements of the US government were involved either in the perpetration of the 9/11 attacks or in a coverup of the attacks. There will be tremendous pressures on the US Attorney’s office to have the grand jury dismiss the evidence as an unpatriotic conspiracy theory or otherwise maneuver to discredit the evidence presented by the Lawyers’ Committee, or modify the official account without totally discrediting it. We can have hopes that the United States can establish the true story of its own Reichstag Fire, but I am not holding my breath that the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York can stand up to the powerful elements in the Deep State that perpetuated or covered up the 9/11 false flag attacks or that he is inclined to try. What the 9/11 truthers and the Lawyers’ Committee have achieved is the destruction of the designation of 9/11 skeptics as “conspiracy theorists.” No US Attorney would convene a grand jury on the basis of a conspiracy theory. Clearly, the evidence is compelling that has put the US Attorney in an unenviable position.  https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/01/04/9-11-finally-the-truth-comes-out/
Iranian People Vow Harsh Revenge for Assassination of Gen. Soleimani
Iranian People Vow Harsh Revenge for Assassination of Gen. Soleimani, Efforts to Expel US from Region TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian people participating in the February 11 rallies on Tuesday underlined in a final resolution their determination to take a harsh revenge for the US assassination of IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, stressing efforts to expel the American army from the region.
"We see serious determination to take a harsh revenge for the martyrdom of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, [Deputy Commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)] Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and their comrades as a general command for the Iranian people," the resolution said.
"We declare that we will not sit silent until we expel the American occupiers from West Asia completely and wipe out the fake child-killer (Zionist) regime," it added. 

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Iraqi Officials Say ISIS—Not Iran—Behind Attack Trump Used to Justify Soleimani Assassination
 (CD— In a “bombshell” revelation that calls into question one of the Trump administration’s stated justificiations for assassinating Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani—a move that nearly sparked a region-wide military conflict—Iraqi intelligence officials told the New York Times that they believe ISIS, not an Iran-linked militia, was likely responsible for the Dec. 27 rocket attack that killed an American contractor at an air base near Kirkuk, Iraq.  https://theantimedia.com/iraqi-officials-say-isis-not-iran-behind-attack-trump-used-to-justify-soleimani-assassination/

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The world’s first laboratory-grown presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg
“We cannot risk dividing Americans’ future further, saying that you must either be for a revolution or you must be for the status quo,” Buttigieg said. “Let’s make room for everybody in this movement.”
This is a talking point that the tightly scripted and focus group-tested Buttigieg has been repeatedly regurgitating all month, so it’s worth taking a look at.  https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/02/10/puppet-pete-says-revolution-and-the-status-quo-arent-mutually-exclusive/


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Global arms trade
Global arms trade is a nearly 200 billion business and the US drives nearly 80% of it The world spends nearly $3 trillion a year on arms, and the United States drives the bulk of the globe’s weapons trade — about 79%, according to figures compiled by the U.S. State Department.
The State Department’s World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers report published in December 2019 is the latest U.S. assessment of global military spending from 2007 to 2017. http://tiis.org/index.php/2020/02/10/global-arms-trade-is-a-nearly-200-billion-business-and-the-us-drives-nearly-80-of-it/


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he Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump

Billionaires Are Soaring, Poor Kids Are Losing More
The plight of impoverished children anywhere should evoke sympathy, exemplifying as it does the suffering of the innocent and defenseless. Poverty among children in a wealthy country like the United States, however, should summon shame and outrage as well. Unlike poor countries (sometimes run by leaders more interested in lining their pockets than anything else), what excuse does the United States have for its striking levels of child poverty? After all, it has the world’s 10th highest per capita income at $62,795 and an unrivalled gross domestic product (GDP) of $21.3 trillion. Despite that, in 2020, an estimated 11.9 million American kids — 16.2% of the total — live below the official poverty line, which is a paltry $25,701 for a family of four with two kids. Put another way, according to the Children’s Defense Fund, kids now constitute one-third of the 38.1 million Americans classified as poor and 70% of them have at least one working parent — so poverty can’t be chalked up to parental indolence.   http://tiis.org/index.php/2020/02/04/the-shame-of-child-poverty-in-the-age-of-trump/


MY NEWS PUNCH F. DEJAHANG ➜⇢➤ 12-02-2020 PART 2
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The indispensable nation and its non-existent democracy! By Daniel Patrick Welch
I have to start by saying that I really find it depressing and almost embarrassing to find myself back in this time frame of commenting on the quadrennial farce the Americans call an “election process.” It really is terrible. And what the Iowa debacle shows to the world is that there is no limit to the hypocrisy of the American consciousness or the American ruling class when it comes to accusing everyone else of having rigged elections, bad systems,… https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/02/11/618408/The-indispensable-nation-and-its-nonexistent-democracy


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Media darling Pete Buttigieg was in unit that worked with the CIA in Afghanistan  While Buttigieg’s campaign denies allegations he was a CIA asset, military records reveal Mayor Pete was in a unit that worked with the spy agency in Afghanistan. By Alex Rubinstein

After The Grayzone published an article about Pete Buttigieg’s roster of endorsements from CIA veterans and coup plotters, and another about his mysterious trip to Somaliland alongside a friend who now works for a US government regime-change agency, Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign issued a public statement denying that he ever worked for the CIA.  https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/07/pete-buttigieg-cia-afghanistan/

The insider: How national security mandarins groomed Pete Buttigieg and managed his future Pledging to “end endless wars,” Pete Buttigieg claims he has “never been part of the Washington establishment.” But years before he was known as Mayor Pete, an influential DC network of military interventionists placed him on an inside track to power. By Max Blumenthal                                                                                                                        https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/  


 

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DEMOCRACY?

Billionaire pro-Israel Buttigieg backer Seth Klarman funds group behind Iowa’s disastrous voting app  Behind the app that delayed Iowa’s voting results is a dark money operation funded by anti-Bernie Sanders billionaires. Its top donor Seth Klarman is a Buttigieg backer who has dumped money into pro-settler Israel lobby groups.

By Max Blumenthal At the time of publication, 12 hours after voting in the Democratic Party’s Iowa caucuses ended, the results have not been announced. The delay in reporting is the result of a failed app developed by a company appropriately named Shadow Inc.  
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An accurate Study by academic Marc Owen Jones shows extensive  Saudi campaign using fake Twitter accounts with the help of twitter to fan sectarian hatred in the Lebanon protests and in particular to target Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan #Nasrallah   

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Forty days have passed since the martyrdom of the commander of the Quds Force, Lieutenant General Hajj Qassem Soleimani
Tehran - Forty days have passed since the martyrdom of the commander of the Quds Force, Lieutenant General Hajj Qassem Soleimani, deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Units [PMU] in Iraq, martyr Hajj Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and their companions.
The occasion coincides with the 41st anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran led by Grand Ayatollah His Eminence Imam Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini. The timing is not a coincidence. Martyr Soleimani was a soldier in the march of this revolution, and the birth of the resistance front was the result of the Islamic Revolution that thwarted the Zionist-American project in the region.
The blessed Islamic Revolution once again directed the nation toward Palestine. Since February 11, 1979, the course of history changed when the American project was thwarted. The sons of the resistance front have managed in recent years to defeat the great fateful plans that aimed to divide the region and restore American hegemony over the Middle East. 
https://www.english.alahednews.com.lb/51544/597

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UAE Withdraws Some Troops From Yemen, Sudan Plans the Same

Despite the support of the U.S. and some European countries, the Saudi-led coalition has not achieved its goals in Yemen, after five years of war.
United Arab Emirates (UAE) has started withdrawing its forces from Yemen, where it took part for five years in the brutal Saudi-led intervention against the Houthis in the impoverished country.   https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/UAE-Withdraws-Some-Troops-From-Yemen-Sudan-Plans-to-Do-the-Same--20200210-0023.html

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Why Big Brother Fears Qassem Soleimani: He’s the Che Guevara of the 21st Century He was the 21st century’s most accomplished military leader—and a deeply spiritual man. Before they killed him, they didn’t even want you to know his name. After martyring him, they realized their mistake—and pulled out all the stops to stop you from finding out that he was a great man, a modern-day Che Guevara.  https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/02/09/why-big-brother-fears-qassem-soleimani-hes-the-che-guevara-of-the-21st-century/

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Australia has produced extraordinary journalists across three generations: Wilfred Burchett (deceased in 1983), John Pilger (80 years old but still active) and Julian Assange (48 years old, currently in London’s Belmarsh prison). 
Each of these journalists made unique contributions to our understanding of the world. Although Australia is part of the western world, each of these journalists exposed and criticized Western foreign policy. 
https://www.mintpressnews.com/three-extraordinary-australian-journalists-that-spoke-truth-to-power/264753/ 

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Journalist Abby Martin Sues State of Georgia Over Law Requiring Pledge of Allegiance to Israel 
“This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure.” — Abby Martin 
by Alan Macleod   
https://www.mintpressnews.com/abby-martin-lawsuit-state-georgia-over-bds-law/264798/


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HuffPost UK Editor Works with Censorship Program  The Huffington Post has relied on Western government officials and organizations funded by Western governments to viciously smear anti-war academics as “useful idiots” of Russia, claiming they are being “used” by the Kremlin.
Ironically, HuffPost UK has done this while its own editor-in-chief actively collaborates with the British Ministry of Defense in a program that censors journalism on behalf of “UK military and intelligence operations,” in order to protect “national security” interests.  https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/10/huffpost-uk-editor-works-with-censorship-program/
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Julian Assange Wins 2020 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award
Imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been awarded Consortium News‘ 2020 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award for courage in the face of an unprecedented attack on press freedom.
By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News
Julian Assange, the imprisoned and maligned publisher of WikiLeaks, has been awarded the 2020 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award by the board of the Consortium for Independent Journalism, publishers of Consortium News. 
Assange is incarcerated in a maximum security prison in London awaiting a hearing later this month on an extradition request by the United States. He has been charged 0n 17 counts under the U.S. Espionage Act of possessing and publishing classified material that revealed prima facie evidence of U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.  https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/10/julian-assange-wins-2020-gary-webb-freedom-of-the-press-award/

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The United States of America’s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions

This is an updated and revised version of the full cover-story that appeared in the important publication, garrison: The Journal of History and Deep PoliticsIssue 003.  Issue 004 is due out this week and I urge readers to purchase it.  You will read articles there that you will find no place else, brilliant, eye-opening analyses of issues that the MSM will never touch. 

While truth-tellers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning sit inside jail cells and Edward Snowden lives in exile in Russia, the American people hole up in an illusionary dwelling constructed to reduce them to children afraid of the truth.  Or is it the dark?  This is not new; it has been so for a very long time, but it has become a more sophisticated haunted doll’s house, an electronic one with many bells and whistles and images that move faster than the eye can see. We now inhabit a digital technological nightmare controlled by government and corporate forces intent on dominating every aspect of people’s lives. This is true despite the valiant efforts of dissidents to use the technology for human liberation. The old wooden doll houses, where you needed small fingers to rearrange the furniture, now only need thumbs that can click you into your cell’s fantasy world.  So many dwell there in the fabricated reality otherwise known as propaganda.  The result is mass hallucination.  https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/02/05/%e2%80%a2-the-united-states-of-americas-doll-house-a-vast-tapestry-of-lies-and-illusions/?fbclid=IwAR1PILcFAtOf3WSBrKo_7Ql-R0X835DSkT2fBZRW7RWtoaTZq4fvNXOK_io


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Multiple Depts Caught Not Only Ignoring Rape Kits, But Destroying Them With No Investigation Plymouth, MN — Illustrating the careless and utterly ineffective nature of many police departments in the United States is the fact that rape kits go untested from coast to coast. However, one recent and particularly egregious case out of Minnesota shows just how brazen police can be in ignoring rape victims. Police in Plymouth, Minnesota aren’t just ignoring the rape kits, they are destroying them without investigation.  https://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-depts-destroying-rape-kits/

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Fake Democracy, Fake News, Fake Polls, and Now, Fake History
Donald Trump, who believes everything that is real is fake and everything that is fake is real, has delved into another academic discipline for which he believes he is an eminent expert. After promulgating his own fake weather forecasts, political opinion polls, and news, Trump has now proclaimed his own fake history. After abandoning to invading Turkish forces the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) forces, who have been allied with US Special Forces battling the Islamic State caliphate jihadists in Syria, Trump stated, “They [the Kurds] didn’t help us in the World War II, they didn’t help us with Normandy, as an example.”

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Fake Democracy, Fake News, Fake Polls, and Now, Fake History,  Fake Applause

 “Fake AF”: Buttigieg Campaign Mocked for Adding Fake Applause to CNN Town Hall Clips

“Pete Buttigieg steals elections from the multiracial working class AND inserts artificial audience applause into his videos."  https://themindunleashed.com/2020/02/buttigieg-campaign-mocked-fake-cnn.html
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The Torture Machine, Racism and Violence in Chicago  The Torture Machine, Racism and Police Violence in Chicago, by People’s Law Office and longtime National Lawyers Guild attorney Flint Taylor, is a meticulously detailed and authentic, truly appalling story of shame and disgrace to the city of Chicago, its political and police administration establishments, and numerous judges of the Cook County criminal courts; an account of dozens of cases in which black men from the South Side were sent to state prison—and a number to Death Row—on the basis of confessions extracted from them by police torture. For more than a decade, during the 1970s and 1980s, a group of Chicago Police Department (“CPD”) detectives, under the command of Lieutenant Jon Burge, regularly arrested black men as suspects in various serious criminal cases and brought them to Area Two HQ for “questioning,” which consisted of aggravated physical abuse until they would agree to confess under duress. Just about every suspect confessed under these conditions.  https://mronline.org/2020/02/11/the-torture-machine-racism-and-violence-in-chicago/

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 “Shocking” Animal Abuse Violations Found at US Government Research Labs
The information comes thanks to a FOIA request from PETA.   According to AFP, a number of animal welfare failures took place across a 22-month period from January 2018 to October 2019 at the laboratories of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The information comes thanks to a FOIA request from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
The organization reports that there were a total of 31 incidents of abuse across several laboratories performing various experiments for scientific medical research.  https://themindunleashed.com/2020/02/shocking-animal-abuse-us-labs.html


MY NEWS PUNCH F. DEJAHANG ➜⇢➤ 12-02-2020 PART 3
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Another nail in globalist coffin? Sinn Fein scores big win in Ireland (Video) Amid the storm that lashed Ireland and Britain yesterday came political winds of change with the potential to transform both countries: Sinn Fein’s record-breaking election results.
Seasoned commentators ran out of clichés as the story unfolded from counts across the country: spectacular, unprecedented, unbelievable, unimaginable, incredible. Their surprise was echoed by the shocked spokespeople for the two parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, which have dominated Irish politics since it gained independence from Britain a century ago. https://theduran.com/another-nail-in-globalist-coffin-sinn-fein-scores-big-win-in-ireland-video/

It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”

ihadists given Turkish uniforms as Russian and Syrian troops close in on IdlibWahhabi/ Takfiri terrorist fighting in Syria’s Idlib province are wearing Turkish army uniforms and have been provided with military equipment as Russian and Syrian government troops edge closer to victory.
At least five Turkish soldiers were killed today and another five wounded during artillery attacks, Turkey’s Ministry of Defence confirmed. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/jihadists-given-turkish-uniforms-as-russian-and-syrian-troops-close-in-on-idlib?fbclid=IwAR3lV7AJIfpbh1AT4AOR1CIHPJ_LAFMSm49fvO8pX8fvSqABjgJRe-m-VqI
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Turkish military presence on Syrian soil aimed at saving terrorists: Damascus News   /   Syria
Turkish military presence on Syrian soil aimed at saving terrorists: Damascus
Tuesday, 11 February 2020 1:59 PM  [ Last Update: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 2:21 PM ]

A Turkish military convoy of tanks and armored vehicles passes near the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, near the Syria-Turkey border, on February 8, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
The Syrian government has strongly condemned Turkey’s deployment of more military reinforcements to militant-held areas in the country’s embattled northern provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, emphasizing that such actions will fail to save terrorist groups that are targeting civilians in the war-ravaged Arab country.
“The Turkish regime continues its aggression against the sovereignty and integrity of Syrian lands through further deployment of forces to Idlib and its countryside as well as Aleppo countryside, targeting populated areas and some military points in a bid to save its proxies from terror outfits who have been defeated in the wake of Syrian army advances,” an unnamed official source at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates told Syria’s official news agency SANA on Tuesday.  https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/02/11/618411/Turkish-military-presence-on-Syrian-soil-aimed-at-saving-terrorists:-Damascus?fbclid=IwAR1n3JK4P7RFoMTqHICaa6ZGwGE0ruBVMPmZA9NvLAuwAPtSU_lSC2PPvlc

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US agreed to counter Iran in Iraq while Israel fights it in Syria; Israeli "defense" minister

Defense minister also expresses opposition to mainly relying on bombing Iranian arms shipments to Hezbollah, saying ‘for every convoy you hit, you miss five’ By Nati Yefet and Judah Ari Gross
February 10, 2020 "Information Clearing House" -  Jerusalem and Washington have divided up the fight against Iran, with Israel taking responsibility for countering the Islamic Republic in Syria and the United States in Iraq, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said Saturday.
Last Thursday, Bennett returned from a working visit to Washington, in which he met US Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other senior American officials.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52963.htm

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How Low Can Israelis Go?
By Finian Cunningham
February 10, 2020 "Information Clearing House" -   Not only is Israel bombing neighboring Syria in acts of aggression, the Israeli air force is compounding its criminality by using civilian airliners as cover for their assaults.
That’s the assessment from Russia’s Ministry of Defense which says flight data shows that an air raid by four Israeli F-16 warplanes this week near Damascus deliberately put in danger a civilian airliner with 172 passengers onboard.
Russian MOD spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said the Israeli jets effectively hid behind the radar signal of an Airbus A-320 as it approached Damascus international airport in order to launch airstrikes on targets near the Syrian capital.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52964.htm

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Written by Larry C. Johnson
Tuesday February 11, 2020
In the wake of the latest Hollywood buffoonery displayed at the Oscars, I think it is time for the American public to denounce in the strongest possible terms the rampant hypocrisy of sanctimonious cretins who make their living pretending to be someone other than themselves. Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix and Barbara Streisand pop to mind as representative examples. All three are eager to lecture the American public on the need for equality and non-discrimination. Yet, not one of the recipients of the Oscar gift bags worth $225,000 spoke out against that extraordinary excess nor demanded that the money spent purchasing these "gifts" be used to benefit the poor and the homeless. Nope, take the money and run.  http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/february/11/hollywood-goes-full-blacklist-and-fails-to-grasp-the-irony/

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Written by Jacob G. Hornberger
Tuesday February 11, 2020
Last December the Washington Post published secret Pentagon documents showing the official lies that have undergirded the US war on Afghanistan for the past 18 years. The opening paragraph of the article puts the matter bluntly: “A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.”  http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/february/11/us-lies-and-deaths-in-afghanistan/

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Kurdish experts say the reason why the Turkish military patrol did not go on the route in northern Syria From Syria, reports have come that Syrian government forces have completely taken control of the strategically important section of the M5 highway between Aleppo and Sarakib (Serakib). Intensive advance along the highway did not allow the militants to maintain their positions, which they had been trying to strengthen over the past few days.

Meanwhile, Turkey continued to transfer military equipment to Syria. A column of equipment, which included several tanks and armored vehicles, some time ago entered from the Turkish settlement of Chilveguzyu (near Reyhanla). This is another Turkish convoy that uses the Reyhanli-Idlib highway. 
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The Clinton Machine Will Do Anything to Stop Bernie Sanders
The botched Iowa caucuses have raised many legitimate questions about the Democratic establishment, but to understand the point we’re at now, it’s necessary to think back several years. According to Grayzone journalist and editor Max Blumenthal, Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer’s guest on the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence,” part of the backlash Bernie Sanders is currently experiencing as he attempts to transform the Democratic Party dates back to Bill Clinton’s presidency. https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/02/09/the-clinton-machine-will-do-anything-to-stop-bernie-sanders/?fbclid=IwAR0sKuKHjUcVqSzNiXnZ1MwYVDxxZEfiTFkhocxx-ncrpjEGKyloIey3VLo

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Bloomberg says black neighborhoods are 'where the real crime is' in newly surfaced audio A newly surfaced audio recording of Michael Bloomberg in 2015 defending the racially controversial police tactic of “stop and frisk” went viral on Tuesday just as voters headed to the polls in New Hampshire’s presidential primary.
In the recording of a speech that the former New York City mayor gave at the Aspen Institute, Mr. Bloomberg is heard saying that the way to confiscate guns from young black males is to “throw them up against the walls and frisk them.”
“Ninety-five percent of murders — murderers and murder victims — fit one M.O.,” Mr. Bloomberg is heard saying. “You can just take a description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16-25. That’s true in New York, that’s true in virtually every city…. And that’s where the real crime is. You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of people that are getting killed.”  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/11/bloomberg-says-black-neighborhoods-are-where-real-/

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AG Barr blames 'rogue DAs' for rise in violent crime in big cities  Attorney General William P. Barr on Tuesday slammed “rogue DAs” he said are sabotaging the sanctity of the criminal justice system by bringing lesser charges or pleading down cases in order to keep people out of prison.
Mr. Barr, in a speech to the Major County Sheriffs of America, said the “self-styled ‘social justice’ reformers” are contributing to a recent rise in violent crimes in some of the country’s largest cities, defying an overall nationwide trend toward safety.
“These DAs think they are helping people, but they end up hurting them. These policies actually lead to greater criminality,” he said. “By allowing young lawbreakers entirely off the hook the first time — or the second time or even the third time — these DAs are potentially placing them on a conveyor to further and heightened criminality.”

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Days Of Palestine - Ramallah
A minor Palestinian prisoner told his lawyer that he was severely beaten when he was moved from one prison in Israel to another, said the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission on Saturday.
It said in a statement that Muhammad Ahmad Hadi, 17, from Bethlehem, was severely beaten and tortured after he was transferred from Ofer prison to Damoon and then to Jalameh.

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Opinion -Arab Oil Money Is Running Out, and Chaos Will Likely Follow
Cash from the Gulf states has been smoothing over the roughest edges of the region’s failed economies. But the oil that paid for it won't last much longer
Around the world, they are known as the GCC, for Gulf Cooperation Council. But in the Middle East, a more apt acronym for these rich petro-states might be ATM. Since at least the 1970s, Saudi Arabia & Company have spread their wealth around the region, buying friends and influence, and putting out fires.
Oil wealth is such a given that Donald Trump’s Peace to Prosperity Plan unveiled last month, nonchalantly assumes that the Gulf Arab states will foot much of the $50 billion in aid to get the State of Palestine on a firm economic footing. Indeed, keeping the GCC’s wallets open is probably the main reason why the White House thwarted Netanyahu’s annexation plans.  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-arab-oil-money-is-running-out-and-chaos-will-likely-follow-1.8511319?fbclid=IwAR3TWgC_uNarpjwkYg0z1ugVDqEpytlii2MOHiZgml44y654WdeOlQKuL4I
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Former American Drone Operator: ‘US Military Worse Than Nazis’  WASHINGTON, D.C. – A former US drone operator is speaking out against the atrocities he admits he was forced to inflict during his time in the US Armed Forces (more specifically the United States Air Force) and says the American military as “worse than the Nazis”.
Brandon Bryant was enlisted in the US Air Force for six years. During his time with the military, he operated Predator drones, remotely firing missiles at targets more than 7,000 miles away from the small room containing his workspace near Las Vegas, Nevada, according to The Independent. https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/02/former-american-drone-operator-us-military-worse-than-nazis/

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The Strategic Aspect Of Bashing China's Re-education of Uyghurs
The New York Times reports on China's re-education program for Uygurs in Xinjiang, who are in danger for falling to Islamist extremism. The report is part of a larger U.S. campaign to instrumentalize the issue as a pressure point against China. It is a strategic issue for both sides.



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 ‘Chinese strategists believe that the U.S., with the help of its Turkish, Saudi and Pakistani friends, was and is behind the Islamic and ethnic  radicalization of the Turkic population in the province. It is not by chance that Turkey transferred Uyghur Jihadis from Xinjiang via Thailand to Syria to hone their fighting abilities. That the New York Times publishes about the Xinjiang re-education project, and also offers the report in Mandarin, will only confirm that suspicion. China is determined to end such interference.’  

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U.S. Warms Up Old Spy Story To Warn Of Foreign Espionage
The Washington Post is warming up an old crypto story:
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machines for U.S. troops during World War II. Flush with cash, it became a dominant maker of encryption devices for decades, navigating waves of technology from mechanical gears to electronic circuits and, finally, silicon chips and software.
The Swiss firm made millions of dollars selling equipment to more than 120 countries well into the 21st century. Its clients included Iran, military juntas in Latin America, nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, and even the Vatican. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/02/us-warms-up-old-spy-story-to-warn-of-foreign-espionage.html#more

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February 5, 2020 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - US policy versus Iran has reached new heights of desperation and new lows in terms of undermining international law and norms. In Washington's losing battle to maintain hegemony in the Middle East at the expense of the actual people and nations that exist there - it has resorted to high-level assassinations, unilateral strikes against targets within sovereign nations against the expressed will of the governments presiding over them, all while exposing what appears to be growing American military, political, and economic impotence.

In sharp contrast, nations like Russia and China have made gains as Washington's flagging fortunes create a power vacuum in the region. Rather than replacing the US as regional hegemons themselves - Moscow and Beijing are extending their multipolar concept into the Middle East - assisting nations in rebuilding themselves after years of US-engineered and led conflict, warding off additional conflict the US is attempting to use to reassert itself in the region, and allowing nations to stand on their own and pursue their own interests independently of the traditional spheres of power established during the age of empires. 

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Trump’s Brink of War with Iran Spun on a Lie
raqi military intelligence has found that almost certainly the rocket attack on a U.S. base in December which killed an American contractor was carried out by the Islamic State terror group – not an Iranian-backed Shia militia, contrary to what Washington has been claiming.
The rocket attack on the base in Kirkuk in northern Iraq on December 27 led to a spiral of violence which brought the U.S. to the brink of war with Iran last month. For a few days, the world held its breath in dread of a war which could have engulfed the entire Middle East and beyond. 
“I Will Put an End to Endless Wars:” Is Pete Buttigieg As Antiwar As He Claims? Former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg has developed a habit of putting out clever, catchy phrases as part of his bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination. On Friday he released an image of himself reading, “The shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue,” something that was immediately panned by his detractors. Former Democratic candidate Marianne Williamson remarked, “If I had said it, there’d be jokes about my being on acid. And I would never have said it.” Unconcerned by his critics, this weekend Buttigieg was at it again, claiming that, “I will put an end to endless wars.”  https://iranian.com/2020/02/11/i-will-put-an-end-to-endless-wars-is-pete-buttigieg-as-antiwar-as-he-claims/
God, gas and heroin. Now, the fight’s over water  https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-06/afghanistan-and-iran-battle-over-water-with-spies-bribes-and-threats
Almost One Decade after the 2011 Peaceful Uprising: The Gov's Heavy-handed Grip Suffocates Democracy in Bahrain The sheer number of opposition leaders, political activists and human rights defenders behind bars, on trial and in exile; nine years after the eruption of the pro-democracy uprising, suggests that Manama has conspicuously succeeded in silencing its critics and in trampling on the hope of freedom.
Amid the ineffective international criticism, Bahrain's abysmal record on freedom of speech, assembly and the right to a fair trial has dreadfully been in the rise.
On daily basis, conversely, hundreds of peaceful citizens turn out for demonstrations persistently demanding democratic political reforms, formation of a more representative cabinet and the release of +4000 political detainees, after enduring decades of structural inequalities, corruption and repression.  https://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/bahrain-uprising/3877-heavy-handed-grip-suffocates-democracy.html
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The Astana Deal
Syria Imposes the Astana Deal by Force, as Turkish-Russian Tensions Rise  Since 2012 the M5 Damascus-Aleppo had been under the control of jihadist forces. The Syrian Army has now liberated the M5 Damascus-Aleppo road and over 140 cities, villages and strategic hills. Turkey and the Uzbeks, Uighurs and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly al-Nusra) failed to protect their fortified positions, abandoning them and retreating towards the area surrounding Idlib.
This is the first time the Turkish Army has been shelled by the Syrian Army. Five Turkish officers were killed at Taftanaz military airport, the base used by Turkey and its jihadists gather. Ankara was forced to send its own army onto the battlefield to compensate for the weakness of its jihadist allies on the ground.
The liberation of the 432 km of the M5 from jihadists was stipulated in the Astana agreement signed in October 2018, a stipulation which Turkey failed to honor since then. The Syrian government carried out three major advances towards the M5 since then, but this time the decision to recover it was final. This is a Syrian-Russian message to President Erdogan that time is running out for Idlib. The Turkish-Russian bras-de-fer is also reaching beyond the Syrian borders. It is also evident in Ukraine and Libya, where Turkey is seeking a major role.  https://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/syria-crisis/3881-imposes-the-astana-deal-by-force.html

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If Trump's plan is not apartheid, then what is?
By Fareed Taamallah
As a Palestinian farmer who owns land in Area C, surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements, I stand to lose a lot from US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”.

I live and work in Ramallah, while my farm is located in my hometown of Qira in the Salfit region, between Ramallah and Nablus. Under the Trump plan, it would become stuck in a kind of no-man’s land between artificially created bantustans. 
History of cultivation
Trump’s “peace” plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is entirely biased towards Israel and has been rejected by Palestinian leaders, gives Israel a green light to annex illegal West Bank settlements. It divides the Palestinian territories into a series of bantustans linked by tunnels and bridges, with no viable strategy for a contiguous Palestinian state.
From the maps provided in Trump’s plan, it is not clear whether my hometown would be annexed to Israel, or whether it would be an isolated island among annexed Israeli settlements. In both scenarios, it would be difficult for me to cultivate the land I inherited from my father, who, in turn, inherited it from his father. 

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Israeli army razes Palestinian livestock market in al-Khalil
The Palestinian municipality of al-Khalil province said that the Israeli occupation army bulldozed on Tuesday Souk al-Halal, a livestock market, in Wadi al-Samen area in the east of al-Khalil city. According to the municipality, the market is an important cattle auction hub for Palestinian citizens and provides them with their livestock needs  The municipality affirmed that this market belongs to it, considering such Israeli measure as a flagrant violation of international treaties and agreements. It appealed to the international community to necessarily assume its legal and moral responsibility towards this Israeli violation. https://english.palinfo.com/42810

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Between efforts to censor information critical of Buttigieg on social media and harass independent media outlets and their reporters at his rallies, it appears that a concerted effort is underway to control the narrative around the DNC primaries by Whitney Webb   After the scandal surrounding the recent Iowa Caucus, the 2020 presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg claimed victory and benefited substantially from the contested outcome by surging in the polls ahead of the New Hampshire primary, which is set to take place on Wednesday. Buttigieg’s victory lap and post-Iowa boost were largely regarded with scorn by supporters of other candidates for obvious reasons, including the fact that chaos of the Iowa caucus was largely caused by a software application with ties to Buttigieg’s campaign. In the lead-up to the Democratic primary event in New Hampshire, several disturbing instances have emerged of paid Buttigieg staffers aggressively targeting independent media outlets and progressives while Buttigieg supporters — employed by Facebook as “fact-checkers” — directly censored others in independent media.  https://www.mintpressnews.com/buttigieg-campaign-aggressively-targeting-progressive-activists-media/264834/
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Mega-Billionaire Bloomberg's $350 Million Ad Spending Blitz Is 'What Plutocracy Looks Like'
"Money is not speech. Bloomberg's attempt to buy the presidency is a corruption of our democracy."
In a staggering milestone in what critics have characterized as an effort to buy the Democratic nomination, billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg has already poured more than $350 million of his own personal wealth into television, digital, and radio advertising since launching his 2020 presidential campaign last November.
"This is what plutocracy looks like," author and environmentalist Naomi Klein tweeted Monday in response to a CNN graphic comparing Bloomberg's ad spending to that of his 2020 Democratic rivals. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/11/mega-billionaire-bloombergs-350-million-ad-spending-blitz-what-plutocracy-looks
Israeli Blocking of Palestinian Exports to Jordan Shows Reality of Apartheid that the Kushner Plan Would Only Cement  https://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-blocking-palestinian-exports-jordan-reality-apartheid/5703432

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Selected Articles: Gulf of Oman Attack: False Flag Towards Iran War? “It appears that Mike Pompeo has a hard time kicking his old habits.  He appears to be as smug about lying as a CIA operative as he is as Secretary of State.  Categorically blaming the Iranians for the recent oil attack tankers has left allies scratching their heads; and perhaps leaving foes thinking: “Thank God my enemy is so stupid”!  https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-gulf-oman-attack-false-flag-towards-iran-war/5680780

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Trump lair > Bloomberg lair & Bloomberg lair > Trump lair
Mike Bloomberg Claims He Cut Stop and Frisk by 95 Percent — After Increasing It Seven Fold  Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg has been facing mounting online criticism over his mayoral record on stop and frisk, a tactic used by the New York Police Department in what critics — and, eventually, a federal judge — said was a biased manner. This week, a five-year-old recording emerged of Bloomberg obliquely defending the program. In response, the Bloomberg campaign released a statement on Tuesday misleadingly claiming that he simply inherited the policy and later reduced the practice. 

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Iran satellite launch fails to reach orbit
Iran's space program suffered another setback on Sunday (Feb. 9).
The nation launched a communications satellite called Zafar 1 atop a Simorgh rocket at 10:45 a.m. EST Sunday (1545 GMT; 7:15 p.m. local time) from Imam Khomeini Space Center in northern Iran, the Associated Press reported. But Zafar 1 didn't make it all the way to orbit.
"Stage-1 and stage-2 motors of the carrier functioned properly and the satellite was successfully detached from its carrier, but at the end of its path it did not reach the required speed for being put in the orbit," Defense Ministry space program spokesman Ahmad Hosseini told Iranian state television, according to the AP.  https://www.livescience.com/iran-satellite-launch-failure-zafar-1.html
2 Russian satellites are stalking a US spysat in orbit. The Space Force is watching. A U.S. spy satellite is being trailed by two Russian satellites, according to the commander of the U.S. Space Force
Yesterday (Feb. 10), Gen. John "Jay" Raymond, the Space Force chief of space operations, revealed to Time magazine that a pair of Russian satellites have come extremely close, within 100 miles (160 kilometers) of the U.S. spy satellite. 
"We view this behavior as unusual and disturbing," Raymond told Time magazine. "It has the potential to create a dangerous situation in space." 
Raymond said that the U.S. government has reached out to Moscow about the close range of the satellites, expressing concern "through diplomatic channels." https://www.livescience.com/russian-spacecraft-stalking-us-spy-satellite-space-force.html
New pattern uncovered in mysterious 'fast radio bursts' from deep space One of the universe's deep mysteries just got a lot stranger. Astrophysicists have discovered a clue that could help explain why, every once in a while, superfast bursts of radio waves flash across Earth from deep space. But the clue — a repeating 16-day pattern in one of the bursts, undermines one of the most popular theories for where the bursts are coming from.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have likely happened for billions of years. But humans only discovered them in 2007, and have detected only a few dozen of them since. And in June 2019, astronomers finally tracked an FRB to its home galaxy
But no one knows what causes them. Because these bursts are so rare, unusual and bright — considering that they're visible from billions of light-years across space — physicists have tended to assume they come from a cataclysmic event, such as the collision of stars. https://www.livescience.com/mysterious-fast-radio-burst-pattern.html
When did the universe 'wake up'?  It was a big moment for our cosmos when the first stars awoke, but it's an elusive one for scientists.
In new research, however, a team of astronomers has identified some of the oldest galaxies ever seen. These objects were already fully formed when the universe was just 680 million years old, according to the scientists, who also found evidence that these galaxies were flooding their surroundings with extreme ultraviolet radiation.
That flood formed gigantic bubbles, where the neutral gas became energized and ionized, offering astronomers the first direct image of a major transformational epoch in our universe.  https://www.livescience.com/when-did-universe-wake-up.html

The Sun Is Spitting Out 'Lava Lamp Blobs' 500 Times the Size of Earth  The sun's corona constantly breathes wispy strings of hot, charged particles into space — a phenomenon we call the solar wind. Every now and then, however, those breaths become full-blown burps.
Perhaps as often as once every hour or two, according to a study in the February issue of the journal JGR: Space Physics, the plasma underlying the solar wind grows significantly hotter, becomes noticeably denser, and it pops out of the sun in rapid-fire orbs of goo capable of engulfing entire planets for minutes or hours at a time. Officially, these solar burps are called periodic density structures, but astronomers have nicknamed them "the blobs." Take a look at images of them streaming off of the sun's atmosphere, and you'll see why. [The 12 Strangest Objects in the Universe]
"They look like the blobs in a lava lamp," Nicholeen Viall, a research astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and co-author of the recent study, told Live Science. "Only they are hundreds of times larger than the Earth."  https://www.space.com/the-sun-is-burping-lava-lamp-blobs.html


Two invisible stars are bending space-time deep in the Milky Way n summer 2016, astronomers watched a star 2,500 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation flash to life as if preparing to explode in a fiery supernova. The next day, however, the star dimmed back to normal again — no fuss, no kaboom. Within a few weeks, the strange cycle repeated itself: The star suddenly brightened, then dimmed again within a day. Over the following year, the cycle occurred again and again, repeating five times within 500 days.
"This was a very unusual behavior," Łukasz Wyrzykowski, an astronomer who studied the strange star at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, Poland, said in a statement. "Hardly any type of supernova or other star does this."



Space-time is swirling around a dead star, proving Einstein right again The way the fabric of space and time swirls in a cosmic whirlpool around a dead star has confirmed yet another prediction from Einstein's theory of general relativity, a new study finds.
That prediction is a phenomenon known as frame dragging, or the Lense-Thirring effect. It states that space-time will churn around a massive, rotating body. For example, imagine Earth were submerged in honey. As the planet rotated, the honey around it would swirl — and the same holds true with space-time.
Satellite experiments have detected frame dragging in the gravitational field of rotating Earth, but the effect is extraordinarily small and, therefore, has been challenging to measure. Objects with greater masses and more powerful gravitational fields, such as white dwarfs and neutron stars, offer better chances to see this phenomenon.   https://www.livescience.com/einstein-general-relativity-frame-dragging.html


One of Antarctica's fastest-shrinking glaciers just lost an iceberg twice the size of Washington, D.C.  Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, has just lost another huge chunk of ice to the sea, continuing a troubling trend that has become a near-annual occurrence in the last decade.
Scientists at Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth observation program, have been closely monitoring the glacier since large cracks appeared near its edge in October 2019. Yesterday, those cracks finally cut a chunk of the glacier away (a process known as calving), releasing a giant jigsaw puzzle of fresh icebergs into the nearby Amundsen Sea. In total, the icebergs measure about twice the size of Washington, D.C., in area (more than 130 square miles, or 350 square kilometers), according to The Washington Post.
On its own, the recent calving event is not entirely surprising or particularly threatening to global sea levels; calving is a normal part of life for ice formations with sections that float on the water, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. Because ice at the edge of the glacier was already floating, this ice will not directly contribute to sea level rise when it inevitably melts. https://www.livescience.com/pine-island-glacier-calving-retreat.html


Cuttlefish Have Complex Cognitive Abilities – Can Make Decisions Based on Future Expectations When cuttlefish know that shrimp — their favorite food — will be available in the evening, they eat fewer crabs during the day. This capacity to make decisions based on future expectations reveals complex cognitive abilities.
“It was surprising to see how quickly the cuttlefish adapted their eating behavior — in only a few days they learned whether there was likely to be shrimp in the evening or not. This is a very complex behavior and is only possible because they have a sophisticated brain,” said Pauline Billard, a Ph.D. student in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology and Unicaen, France, and first author of the report.
Cuttlefish foraging behavior can be described as either selective or opportunistic. Observing the European common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, when the researchers reliably provided one shrimp every evening, the cuttlefish became more selective during the day and ate significantly fewer crabs. But when they were provided with evening shrimp on a random basis, the cuttlefish became opportunistic and ate more crabs during the day.  https://scitechdaily.com/cuttlefish-have-complex-cognitive-abilities-can-make-decisions-based-on-future-expectations/
‘Zee Burst’ – Ghost Particles Studied Through Ultra-High Energy Events

TOPICS:AstrophysicsIceCube Neutrino ObservatoryParticle Physics  With ‘Zee burst,’ physicists propose new resonance beyond the standard model.

Physicists at Washington University in St. Louis have proposed a way to use data from ultra-high energy neutrinos to study interactions beyond the standard model of particle physics. The ‘Zee burst’ model leverages new data from large neutrino telescopes such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica and its future extensions.
“Neutrinos continue to intrigue us and stretch our imagination. These ‘ghost particles’ are the least understood in the standard model, but they hold the key to what lies beyond,” said Bhupal Dev, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences and author of a new study in Physical Review Letters.  https://scitechdaily.com/zee-burst-ghost-particles-studied-through-ultra-high-energy-events/

Stephen Hawking’s Quantum Black Hole Hypothesis Supported by Gravitational Wave Echoes  Echoes in gravitational wave signals suggest that the event horizon of a black hole may be more complicated than scientists currently think.
Research from the University of Waterloo reports the first tentative detection of these echoes, caused by a microscopic quantum “fuzz” that surrounds newly formed black holes.
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space-time, caused by the collision of massive, compact objects in space, such as black holes or neutron stars.
“According to Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, nothing can escape from the gravity of a black hole once it has passed a point of no return, known as the event horizon,” explained Niayesh Afshordi, a physics and astronomy professor at Waterloo. “This was scientists’ understanding for a long time until Stephen Hawking used quantum mechanics to predict that quantum particles will slowly leak out of black holes, which we now call Hawking radiation.
“Scientists have been unable to experimentally determine if any matter is escaping black holes until the very recent detection of gravitational waves,” said Afshordi. “If the quantum fuzz responsible for Hawking radiation does exist around black holes, gravitational waves could bounce off of it, which would create smaller gravitational wave signals following the main gravitational collision event, similar to repeating echoes.”  https://scitechdaily.com/stephen-hawkings-quantum-black-hole-hypothesis-supported-by-gravitational-wave-echoes/
Researchers Create ‘Intelligent’ Interaction Between Light and Material – New Form of Computing  McMaster and Harvard University researchers create ‘intelligent’ interaction between light and material, establishing a promising new platform for computing.
A collaboration between McMaster and Harvard researchers has generated a new platform in which light beams communicate with one another through solid matter, establishing the foundation to explore a new form of computing.
Their work is described in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on February 6, 2020.
Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, an associate professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at McMaster, explains that the technology brings together a form of hyrdrogel developed by the Harvard team with light manipulation and measurement techniques performed in her lab, which specializes in the chemistry of materials that respond to light. https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-create-intelligent-interaction-between-light-and-material-new-form-of-computing/

An ancient galaxy grew massive — then oddly stopped making stars  Even galaxies burn out if they work too hard.
A galactic monster in the early universe quit forming stars after ferociously churning them out for hundreds of millions of years, researchers report. Why it slacked off is unclear, but the answer might teach astronomers a thing or two about how the earliest galaxies grew and evolved into the stellar metropolises that surround us today.
The light from this galaxy, designated XMM-2599, took nearly 12 billion years to reach Earth. So astronomers see the galaxy as it was just 1.8 billion years after the Big Bang. By that time, the galaxy had bulked up to a mass of about 300 billion suns, new observations show, making it three times as massive as similar known galaxies from that epoch.
The galaxy appears to have gotten so hefty by cranking out stars at a rate of over 1,000 solar masses per year for several hundred million years. But then, the star making suddenly stopped, astronomer Benjamin Forrest at the University of California, Riverside and colleagues report in the Feb. 10 Astrophysical Journal Letters. By comparison, the Milky Way produces a paltry two to three stars per year.  https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-galaxy-grew-massive-then-oddly-stopped-making-stars

How thin, delicate butterfly wings keep from overheating
Living parts such as veins have protective structures that keep them cooler than
Delicate butterfly wings are pretty cool — literally, thanks to special structures that protect them from overheating in the sun.  
New thermal images of butterflies show that living parts of the wing — including veins transporting insect blood, or hemolymph, and scent patches or pads that males use to release pheromones — release more heat than surrounding dead scales, keeping the living areas cooler.
Small changes in body temperature can affect a butterfly’s ability to fly, as muscles in the thorax must be warm so that the insect can flap its wings fast enough for takeoff. But because the wings are so thin, they heat up faster than the thorax and can rapidly overheat.
People might think that scale-covered butterfly wings are “like a fingernail, or a feather of a bird, or human hair — they are lifeless,” says Nanfang Yu, an applied physicist at Columbia University (SN: 5/23/08). But wings are also equipped with living tissues crucial for survival and flight, and high temperatures will make the insect “really feel uncomfortable.”



Stick-toting puffins offer the first evidence of tool use in seabirds
Two birds observed four years and a sea apart turned sticks into feather scratchers   Annette Fayet was scanning a colony of Atlantic puffins off the coast of Wales when something caught her eye. A puffin, gently bobbing on the sea, held a stick in its orange-black bill. Then, the seabird used it to scratch its back.
“I was surprised and excited,” says Fayet, an ecologist at the University of Oxford who studies puffin migration. Puffins (Fratercula arctica) had never been seen using tools. In fact, no seabird had.
Fayet recorded the unusual behavior in her notebook, but it would take four more years before she got photographic evidence. In 2018 on Grimsey Island in Iceland, one of her motion-sensitive camera captured a puffin snatching a stick from the ground and using it to scratch its chest feathers. 
Those observations, described December 30 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, represent the only known example of a bird in the wild using a tool to scratch itself.  https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stick-toting-puffins-offer-first-evidence-tool-use-seabirds

Millions of monarch butterflies flutter to the mountains in Mexico every October  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN8-pNnvJ5s 


Monarch Butterflies Migrate 3,000 Miles—Here's How
The colorful insect's migration across the North American continent is one of the greatest natural events on Earth.  Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies leave their summer breeding grounds in the northeastern U.S. and Canada and travel upwards of 3,000 miles to reach overwintering grounds in southwestern Mexico.
But unlike birds or wildebeest that also embark on epic migrations, these individual butterflies will never return. (See National Geographic's amazing photos of monarchs.)
Why won't they make it all the way back? How do they know where to go in the first place?  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/10/monarch-butterfly-migration/
Mystery solved: How monarch butterflies navigate from Canada to Mexico each year Researchers believe they have discovered how the internal compass is used by the monarch butterfly to determine their south-west flight when they migrate each autumn.
Scientists have never understood how the monarch's brain receives and processes information about its location and where they should fly.
But now it is hoped this discovery will help scientists understand how they navigate and locate their food.
Each year monarchs turn their orange, black and white-mottled wings toward the Rio Grande and migrate more than 2,000 miles to the warmer climbs of central Mexico.
Their journey is repeated instinctively by generations and has continued even as monarch numbers have plummeted due to loss of their sole food source - the milkweed plant.  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/15/mystery-solved-how-monarch-butterflies-navigate-from-canada-to-m/






















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