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Trump legal team: Impeachment article is in 'violation' of Constitution, calls on Senate to acquit

Tyler Olson
Fox News
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 19:36 UTC
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President Trump speaks on Capitol Hill January 6, 2021
Trump legal team denies that the former president violated the oath of office

Former President Donald Trump's legal team on Tuesday filed its response to the House article of impeachment ahead of next week's trial, denying wrongdoing and calling for the Senate to acquit Trump of the charge.

The answer denies that Trump violated his oath of office while also saying that he was protected by the First Amendment in response to claims he incited an insurrection.

"It is denied that the 45th President of the United States ever engaged in a violation of his oath of office," the Trump legal team brief says. "To the contrary, at all times, Donald J. Trump fully and faithfully executed his duties as President of the United States, and at all times acted to the best of his ability to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, while never engaging in any high Crimes or Misdemeanors."
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Bad Guys

Netanyahu pushed new settlements hours before inauguration 'with malice' for Biden

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:20 UTC
BIDEN NETANYAHU
© ISRAELI GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE.
JOE BIDEN AND BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IN NEW ORLEANS IN 2010
Just hours before Joe Biden was sworn in 12 days ago, Israel moved ahead with 100s of new illegal settlement units. That included opening construction bids on 1200 units in the "doomsday settlement" of Givat HaMatos, so-called because putting Jewish-colonist housing on this hill south of Jerusalem would forever separate Bethlehem and the West Bank from Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. So it would doom the "two-state solution," according to liberal Zionsts who fight the settlement project.

Benjamin Netanyahu went ahead with Givat HaMatos five hours before inauguration with "malice aforethought" and "antagonism" for Biden, Jerusalem expert Daniel Seidemann told the Israel Policy Forum last week.

"He chose the timing. He did it with malice aforethought," Seidemann said.

Netanyahu is wed to the Trump plan that allows Israel to annex much of the West Bank, Seidemann says, and so he sought to "stick it to a Democratic president," much as he had sought "altercations" with Barack Obama over settlements in 2010-2012 and with Veep Joe Biden in 2010, in Biden's case announcing new settlements as Biden arrived in Israel.
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9-11 Research: Evidence of insider trading on United and American airlines stock


9-11 Research
Thu, 16 May 2019 18:14 UTC
9/11 explosion twin towers wtc
© New York Times
Pre-9/11 put options on companies hurt by attack indicates foreknowledge

Financial transactions in the days before the attack suggest that certain individuals used foreknowledge of the attack to reap huge profits.1 The evidence of insider trading includes:
  • Huge surges in purchases of put options on stocks of the two airlines used in the attack -- United Airlines and American Airlines
  • Surges in purchases of put options on stocks of reinsurance companies expected to pay out billions to cover losses from the attack -- Munich Re and the AXA Group
  • Surges in purchases of put options on stocks of financial services companies hurt by the attack -- Merrill Lynch & Co., and Morgan Stanley and Bank of America
  • Huge surge in purchases of call options of stock of a weapons manufacturer expected to gain from the attack -- Raytheon
  • Huge surges in purchases of 5-Year US Treasury Notes
In each case, the anomalous purchases translated into large profits as soon as the stock market opened a week after the attack: put options were used on stocks that would be hurt by the attack, and call options were used on stocks that would benefit.
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White House reviewing whether Trump should continue receiving intel briefings

Jonathan Easley
The Hill
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:22 UTC
CIA Top Secret
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The White House is conducting a review to determine whether former President Trump should continue receiving intelligence briefings now that he has left office.

Speaking at the White House press briefing on Monday, spokeswoman Jen Psaki said President Biden's national security team is looking into the matter.

"It's something that is under review," Psaki said.

Former presidents typically have access to intelligence briefings after leaving office.

Comment: Trump understands the value and purpose of these intel reports, so he probably wouldn't read them even if he still had access to them.

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Israel claims Iran will have enough enriched uranium for 1 nuke in 6 months, twice as long as Biden admin estimate


Reuters
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:48 UTC
Blinken
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Newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken concludes his first press briefing at the State Department in Washington, U.S., January 27, 2021.
Israel's energy minister said on Tuesday it would take Iran around six months to produce enough fissile material for a single nuclear weapon, a timeline almost twice as long as that anticipated by a senior member of the Biden administration.

Israel is wary of the Biden administration's intent to reenter the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal and has long opposed the agreement. Washington argues that the previous Trump administration's withdrawal from the deal backfired by prompting Iran to abandon caps on nuclear activities.

Speaking last month a day before he took office as U.S. secretary of state, Antony Blinken said that the so-called "breakout time" - in which Iran might ramp up enrichment of uranium to bomb-fuel purity - "has gone from beyond a year (under the deal) to about three or four months". He said he based his comments on information in public reporting.


Comment: That's hardly reliable intel.


Comment: Iran has made it pretty clear, drop the sanctions and the warmongering, and they've no need to be provocative; however, with Israel and the Biden administration it's only likely to get worse:

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Biden asks Supreme Court to cancel asylum, border wall arguments


Newsmax
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:20 UTC
The Supreme Court in DC.AFP via Getty Images
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The Supreme Court in DC.
President Joe Biden's administration on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to cancel upcoming oral arguments and delay further action in two pending appeals that were filed by his Republican predecessor Donald Trump over U.S.-Mexico border wall funding and the so-called "remain in Mexico" asylum policy.

The court is scheduled to hear arguments in the two cases on Feb. 22 and March 1, respectively.

The Biden administration has already announced plans to discontinue construction of the border wall and suspend the asylum program. That action potentially makes the cases moot.
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Bad Guys

How DJT lost the White House, Chapter 1: All the President's Teams

Patrick Byrne
DeepCapture
Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:13 UTC
horses pulling different directions cross-purposes Trump legal team

A fitting metaphor
I am going to refrain from saying too much about mine and Sidney Powell's relationship. For one thing, over time it became something like I was working for her, helping her get answers to questions. Then, if I recall correctly, she became my lawyer. Whichever it was, in time the relationship became something for which privilege surely applies. One cannot selectively waive privilege, and just share things one wants to share while claiming "privilege" on the others. I know that. But what I can say is that our relationship started with me walking in off the street as a volunteer with information, and so I can talk about that phase of the relationship, but in time it became formal enough I will not be able to say more.

Mayor Giuliani, however, never became my lawyer, and I will not be so constrained in my accounts, as my ultimate purpose (my only real purpose), is to deliver to the public as honest a rendering as I may construct of the events between November 3 and January 6. It seems like a historically worthy thing to do.

For my part, though they thought of me as an entrepreneur, I introduced myself to them as the proprietor of this website, Deepcapture.com. I pointed out that back in 2008 it had won numerous awards for its business investigative journalism, and had also been voted the best journalism regarding corruption within the United States. I may have done other things in life but in addition, I'm a journalist, and I have the rights any journalist has. This means I can investigate what I want to investigate, I don't have to reveal how I learn things, and if I feel like sharing some of my findings with lawyers like Sidney and Rudy, it is no different than the dozens of other times this website has investigated things and shared its findings with lawyers, or even with law enforcement.
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Stormtrooper

Myanmar's military takes power in coup, detains Suu Kyi


AP News
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:23 UTC
Aung San Suu Kyi
© AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File
FILE - In this May 6, 2016, file photo, Aung San Suu Kyi, left, Myanmar's foreign minister, walks with senior General Min Aung Hlaing, right, Myanmar military's commander-in-chief, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar military television said Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, that the military was taking control of the country for one year, while reports said many of the country’s senior politicians including Suu Kyi had been detained.
Myanmar's military staged a coup Monday and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi — a sharp reversal of the significant, if uneven, progress toward democracy the Southeast Asian nation has made following five decades of military rule.

An announcement read on military-owned Myawaddy TV said Commander-in-Chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing would be in charge of the country for one year. It said the seizure was necessary because the government had not acted on the military's claims of fraud in November's elections — in which Suu Kyi's ruling party won a majority of the parliamentary seats up for grabs — and because it allowed the election to go ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic.

The takeover came the morning the country's new parliamentary session was to begin and follows days of concern that a coup was coming. The military maintains its actions are legally justified — citing a section of the constitution it drafted that allows it to take control in times of national emergency — though Suu Kyi's party spokesman as well as many international observers have said it amounts to a coup.

Comment: According to people in Myanmar, during the coup, all the communications were disrupted.
There have been unconfirmed reports in the media that the military took over the channel..


Multiple reports on social media suggested that phone networks have suffered wide-ranging outages.




Myanmar Times reporter John Liu tweeted that mobile internet and phone services were disrupted.


NetBlocks, an NGO which tracks internet disruptions and shutdowns, reported a plunge in connectivity levels in Myanmar on Monday morning, saying that they dropped to around 50 percent of ordinary levels as of 8:00 am local time.


Myanmar's military will rule the country for one year and according to their statement, in that time they will organize "fair" elections and then will allow the winner to rule the country.
Myanmar's military has seized power, saying it will be in charge for one year while declaring a state of emergency due to what it sees as a rigged election won by the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, now reportedly under arrest.

The military, known as the Tatmadaw, doubled down on its allegations of voter fraud in the November general election, citing the civilian government's failure to investigate the allegations as one of the reasons behind the move. The Tatmadaw also aired its grievances over Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy party's refusal to postpone the election due to the coronavirus pandemic, as demanded by the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and 24 other parties.

The military has yet to clarify the status of Suu Kyi, who was, along with Myanmar's president, Win Myint and several other high-ranking officials, reportedly detained earlier on Monday.
After many years under the military ruling in the country, with this coup, in Myanmar history is repeating one more time.
A statement released by the NLD and signed by Suu Kyi denounced the military's actions as an attempt to "put the country back under a dictatorship," and called on the people of Myanmar to reject the move.

The military, known as the Tatmadaw, has not commented on the whereabouts or status of Suu Kyi, who was, along with Myanmar's president, Win Myint, and several other high-ranking officials, reportedly detained earlier today. A spokesperson for NLD said the party's leader was "taken" and escorted away.
Violent protests emerge in front of Myanmar's embassy in Bangkok. They were demanding from their government not to endorse and legitimize the coup in Myanmar. Police break up the protest using force.
Thai police have broken up a protest rally staged by the opponents of a military coup in neighboring Myanmar. The activists gathered outside the country's embassy in Bangkok.

Some 200 Myanmarese expats and local Thai activists gathered for a spontaneous protest outside Myanmar's embassy, the Bangkok Post reported, citing police. They held flags of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD), whose leader Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested by the military on Monday, as well as photos of Suu Kyi.

Students were seen distributing leaflets denouncing the coup. The Myanmarese constitute the largest migrant group in Thailand.

"Thailand must not endorse and legitimize this coup - as well as the coup government," opposition network We Volunteer (WeVo), whose members participated in the protest, said in a statement.

Police soon arrived to break up the rally. Armed with batons and shields, the officers pushed the small crowd away. Some protesters responded by throwing traffic cones, sections of a metal fence, and smoke bombs.


According to the news website Prachatai, three people were arrested. Thai legal monitoring group iLaw said there were injuries among protesters and police.


Myanmar's military have arrested senior government officials, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint, and the heads of the country's region. The armed forces claimed that the November 2020 general election, which was won by the NLD, was rigged, and declared a state of emergency for one year.


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Sheriff

'Largest threat to US national security are US cops,' says Biden's new State Department spokesperson

Ari Hoffman
The Post Millennial
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 02:29 UTC
Jalina Porter

In a 2016 Facebook post, Jalina Porter, the newly named deputy spokesperson for the US State Department under the Biden administration wrote that American police posed the largest national security threat, greater than that of ISIS, because they ‘killed’ Black Americans.
In a 2016 Facebook post, Jalina Porter, the newly named deputy spokesperson for the US State Department under the Biden administration wrote that American police posed the largest national security threat, greater than that of ISIS, because they 'killed' Black Americans.

According to the The Washington Free Beacon, Porter wrote in the post, "The largest threat to US national security are US cops. Not ISIS, not Russian hackers, not anyone or anything else. If ya'll don't wake up and rise up to this truth, the genocide against Blacks in America will continue until we are near extinct. That's not the world I seek to live in or create for myself and those around me."
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Oscar

US voting rights activist Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Terje Solsvik, Gwladys Fouche
Reuters
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:09 UTC
stacey abrams
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Stacey Abrams is seen speaking on screen at the Wisconsin Center on the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. August 18, 2020.
U.S. voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.

Abrams, whose work was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the U.S. presidency, joins a long list of nominees, including both former President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, former White House adviser Jared Kushner.

"Abrams' work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights," said Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway's parliament.

Comment: Once Obama won, the Nobel Peace Prize lost all its esteem and meaning. Literally all of it. They might as well give it to a rock at this point.

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