One of President Trump’s final moves in the White House was to turn back a rule he implemented that blocked former staffers from taking jobs at lobbying firms in Washington for five years after leaving their government jobs. Trump at the time said the move would limit the revolving door in D.C., which includes staffers...
Tag: jan 26 2021
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BIDEN’S INAUGURATION: AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE?
Just weeks after the riots that rocked Capitol Hill, President Biden was sworn into office during an inauguration unlike any other in modern history – with a sparse crowd and some 30,000 military troops deployed throughout the city. The media and political hysteria leading up to Inauguration Day was that pro-Trump extremists would overrun the...
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BIDEN PRESIDENCY = OBAMA 2021
George Carlin, America’s late, great comedian, so accurately noted, “It’s one big club, and you ain’t in it.” With the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, “Our Gang” is back in town. The facts are in the faces and the numbers. ...
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ITALY’S CONTE PREVAILS IN CONFIDENCE VOTE, NOW RESIGNS
Last week, Giuseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, managed to survive a confidence vote in the country’s Senate, but he will have to work with a brittle government going forward. Failing to win an absolute majority, he won the vote by a 156-140 margin. Conte appealed to the ministers and told them that a government...
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BIDEN RECOGNIZES VENEZUELA’S GUAIDÓ AS PRESIDENT
Fading fast and unable to gain momentum, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó got a much-needed boost last week from President Biden after it was announced the U.S. will continue to recognize him as the country’s rightful president, Reuters reported. Guaidó has suffered a string of political losses since President Trump anointed him the president of Venezuela in...
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BLINKEN: KEEP U.S. EMBASSY IN JERUSALEM
Antony Blinken, President Biden’s nominee to lead the state department, said last week that the U.S. will keep its embassy in Israel located in Jerusalem, which he called the capital of Israel, AntiWar.com reported. Blinken was asked by Texas Senator Ted Cruz during a confirmation hearing about the policy put into place during the Trump administration in...
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ISRAEL TO BUILD MORE “SETTLEMENTS”
Last Tuesday, in violation of international law, the Israeli government approved 2,600 housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the final hours of Donald Trump’s presidency – a sign that Tel Aviv senses a new direction in U.S. policy during President Biden’s administration. The Associated Press, citing the anti-settlement/non-government organization “Peace Now,”...
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UGANDA’S ELECTION LOSER CLAIMS VOTER FRAUD
Bobbi Wine, the top opposition candidate in Uganda’s presidential election, has been an outspoken critic of the country’s election while under armed house arrest. The Wall Street Journal reported that Wine called the 14 January election a “coup” and a “mockery of democracy.” Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni reportedly won the election by securing 58 percent of...
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ETHIOPIA AND SUDAN: TENSIONS RISING
Tensions are simmering between Ethiopia and Sudan over territory along their border, which threatens to engulf Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, into another major conflict as it fights with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Deutsche Welle, the German paper, reported last week that the tension over the land goes back to when the border was...
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TEACHING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO TEACH ITSELF
Technologists and ethicists have long pondered the consequences of the moment when technological development is wrested from human control and taken over by technology itself, with computers writing their own programs and designing their own descendants. Engineers at Cornell University have made it more interesting to think about that now. The researchers gave an artificial...