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Monthly Archives: January 2019
Kansas Lawmakers Defect to Democrats as G.O.P. Struggles in Suburbs
Four moderates from the Kansas City metro area have changed parties in the last month, reflecting a national realignment on a key partisan battleground.
Pence Tells Venezuelans That U.S. Backs Efforts to Oust Maduro
Pence wants to run for President of Venezuela? “We stand with you,” Vice President Mike Pence wrote on Twitter a day before planned mass protests.
The U.S. Should Return to Unesco
Just as the United Nations cultural organization reforms, America and Israel quit. That makes no sense.
‘A Hate Contagion’: From School Bathrooms To Parked Cars, Swastikas Surge In NY & NJ Since 2016 Election
The incidents rarely lead to arrests, and they baffle many public officials who have yet to figure out how to stop the scourge.
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Hussen lashes out at Conservatives’ ‘half-baked’ border plan

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen is defending the Liberal approach to asylum seekers, insisting the Conservatives’ proposed alternatives are “half-baked” and impractical.
North Korea: secret missile HQ uncovered as nuclear summit nears
But Bromance rolls on because both think it makes them look like leaders – not!

Revelation comes weeks before Kim Jong-un is due to meet Donald Trump to discuss denuclearisation
Experts have revealed an undeclared site that reportedly serves as the headquarters of one of North Korea’s ballistic missile programmes, weeks before the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and Donald Trump are expected to meet to discuss denuclearisation.
The Sino-ri site, one of 20 North Korea is suspected of failing to declare, houses medium-range Nodong missiles that could be used in nuclear or conventional attacks on South Korea, Japan and the US territory of Guam, according to the report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington.
Labour calls for vote in Commons on holding second referendum

Proposed amendment is significant shift in policy towards people’s vote on Brexit
Labour has said the Commons should be able to vote on whether to hold a second referendum in an amendment the party submitted on Monday night to Theresa May’s Brexit update.
It is the first time the party has asked MPs to formally consider a second poll, although the carefully worded compromise amendment did not commit the party’s leadership to backing a referendum if such a vote were to take place.
France summons Italian envoy over ‘hostile’ Africa remarks | World news | The Guardian – Current Italian Fascists pretend that Italy did not colonize of Eritrea, acquire Libya and Somalia, and invade and conquer Ethiopia!
Italian deputy PM blames migrant crisis on France’s ‘colonisation’ of Africa
Source: France summons Italian envoy over ‘hostile’ Africa remarks | World news | The Guardian
Dyson to move company HQ to Singapore

CEO says plan is more about ‘future-proofing’ business than anything to do with Brexit
Sir James Dyson, the British billionaire inventor and outspoken Brexiter who called on the government to walk away from the EU without a deal, is moving the headquarters of his vacuum cleaner and hair dryer technology company to Singapore.
The Dyson chief executive, Jim Rowan, said the move from Wiltshire to Singapore had “nothing to do with Brexit” but was about “future-proofing” the business. The move of Dyson’s legal entity from the UK to Singapore “will happen over the coming months”, meaning it could take place before Brexit.
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