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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Key Republicans signal openness to Bolton testimony in impeachment trial

Not holding breath – holding out for bigger bribes?

After the revelation that the ex-national security adviser’s book implicates Trump, senators Romney and Collins spoke out

After a bombshell report about John Bolton’s forthcoming book, key Republican senators moved on Monday towards supporting testimony from the former national security adviser in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

On Sunday night, the New York Times reported that the manuscript version of Bolton’s memoir, The Room Where It Happened, contains the claim that the president told Bolton in August 2019 to keep withholding nearly $400m of security aid to Ukraine, until officials in Kyiv helped investigate Trump’s political rivals.

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China coronavirus: Hong Kong medical experts call for ‘draconian’ measures in city as research estimates there are already 44,000 cases in Wuhan | South China Morning Post

Expert calls for measures to limit people’s movement, school closures, work-from-home arrangements and cancellation of mass gatherings.
— Read on www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3047813/china-coronavirus-hong-kong-medical-experts-call

Open Thread | Back to Healthcare

While you were watching the Impeachment Trial, stuff was happening in the area of healthcare:

 

 https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1220715945003560960

BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with Trump in not hearing case to repeal entire ACA before election.

This is justice delayed. Case goes to same judge who decided to repeal ACA in the first place. https://t.co/qlVIjfBmRI

— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) January 21, 2020

I want you never to forget that the 2018 Elections SAVED the American Social Safety Net. Make no mistake about that…if the Democrats hadn’t of won, they would have been well on they way to gutting it to pay for the GOP Tax Scam.😠

Medicaid block grants are a scam. And, a way to try and CUT MEDICAID😠😠😠

NEW: Trump admin will announce its Medicaid block grants on Thursday at event billed “Transforming Medicaid: A New Opportunity for Better Health.”https://t.co/FYv5SpvZ2V pic.twitter.com/9v3WXkFffg

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) January 25, 2020

 https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1220031348804591616

Once again….

How did you think that they were going to try and pay for the GOP Tax Scam?!?

UK sovereignty in jeopardy if Huawei used for 5G, US warns

Think Trump and Saudi’s must have investments in competitor – this has to do with illegal profits to Trump and allies, I think

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Mike Pompeo makes last-minute plea to ministers ahead of ‘momentous’ decision

Britain’s sovereignty will be in jeopardy if the UK allows Huawei to develop its 5G infrastructure, the US secretary of state has warned.

In a last-minute plea to senior ministers, who are expected to decide on Tuesday whether to use the Chinese company, Mike Pompeo described the decision facing Britain’s national security council as “momentous”.

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