Passed House (Senate next):
Last Action: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
Explanation: This bill passed in the House on January 14, 2019 and goes to the Senate next for consideration.
H.Res. 41: Rejecting White nationalism and White supremacy.
Legislation Coming Up: This resolution has been added to the House’s schedule for the coming week, according to the House Majority Leader. More information can be found at http://bit.ly/2g091ss.
Last Action: This resolution is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on January 14, 2019. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.
Judge Blocks New Birth Control Exemptions Nationwide, Thank God

A federal judge in Philadelphia blocked new Trump administration rules, slated to take effect today, that would exempt some employers from providing health insurance that covers birth control.
Los Angeles Teachers Strike to Defend Public Schools from the Privatizers
January 14, 2019 / Barbara Madeloni
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Last spring a teacher uprising swept the red states. Today it reached the West Coast, as the 34,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles began a long-anticipated strike in the nation’s second-largest school district.
Teachers, parents, students, and community supporters hit the picket lines in their fight against the budget cuts and privatization being pushed by the school board and Superintendent Austin Beutner, a former investment banker.
Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico – Volume 8, Number 4—April 2002 – Emerging Infectious Diseases journal – CDC – 25 million deaths in Mexico 1519-1576
The native people of Mexico experienced an epidemic disease in the wake of European conquest (Figure 1), beginning with the smallpox epidemic of 1519 to 1520 when 5 million to 8 million people perished. The catastrophic epidemics that began in 1545 and 1576 subsequently killed an additional 7 million to 17 million people in the highlands of Mexico (1–3). Recent epidemiologic research suggests that the events in 1545 and 1576, associated with a high death rate and referred to as cocoliztli (Nahuatl for “pest”), may have been due to indigenous hemorrhagic fevers (4,5). Tree-ring evidence, allowing reconstructions of the levels precipitation, indicate that the worst drought to afflict North America in the past 500 years also occurred in the mid-16th century, when severe drought extended at times from Mexico to the boreal forest and from the Pacific to Atlantic coasts (6). These droughts appear to have interacted with ecologic and sociologic conditions, magnifying the human impact of infectious disease in 16th-century Mexico. The epidemic of cocoliztli from1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In ab
DRC Ebola total climbs to 644 led by spike in Katwa cases | CIDRAP
Also, a US health worker who was possibly exposed was released from monitoring.
Source: DRC Ebola total climbs to 644 led by spike in Katwa cases | CIDRAP
Fed up with myths, these American Jews are challenging their Israel education
For Michal, a pro-Israel program in Israel was the tipping point, and the first time she considered that not everything she had been taught about Israel was true. “Aish HaTorah, [the organization] that runs Hasbara Fellowships, were teaching us talking points: here is a template for advocating for Israel on campus, here are the points your opponents will use, and here is how you turn it around on them and humiliate people in the process. Then they would have us practice — one person would play the aggressive pro-Palestine advocate and we would have to use the arguments they gave us. I remember being so embarrassed because I just couldn’t do it. I’m a really bad bullshitter. They’re using the word ‘apartheid,’ and I’m supposed to say ‘there are Israeli Arabs in the cabinet.’ I couldn’t memorize all those steps and then spit them back out like I was supposed to do.” “What tipped me off was when they took us to Hebron. You walk there and it’s a ghost town with [Palestinian] shops boarded up. There is a barrier in the main street that separates Palestinians from Israelis. And you have menacing settlers. Something felt off: it was the first inkling I had of ‘is this really necessary in
Source: Inoreader – Fed up with myths, these American Jews are challenging their Israel education
Abbas arrives in New York to assume chairmanship of the Group of 77 + China
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President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in New York on Monday and is set to formally assume the Group of 77 and China. A ceremony will be held on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly. The PA President is also scheduled to meet with the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the UN Security Council president and other world leaders.
The Group of 77 is the largest intergovernmental organization of developing countries in the United Nations, which provides the means for the countries of the South to articulate and promote their collective economic interests and enhance their joint negotiating capacity on all major international economic issues within the United Nations system, and promote South-South cooperation for development. G-77 was established on 15 June 1964 by 77 developing countries, and its members have increased to 134 countries later. The organization recognized Palestine as a member state in 1976.
On 27 September 2018, the Group of 77 and China met in New York and unanimously named Mahmoud Abbas to take over its presidency in 2019, replacing Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the chairman for the year of 2018. In October, the UN General Assembly passed a draft resolution submitted by Egypt to appoint Palestine as the head of G-77 and China.
Trump: ‘great potential’ for expanded U.S., Turkey economic development
waffle shop open for business – 45 figures if he is open to selling out everyone else must be too. President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Monday he saw “great potential to substantially expand” economic development between the United States and Turkey, after threatening on Sunday to devastate Turkey’s economy if they attack Washington’s Kurdish allies in Syria.
Donald Trump says he ‘never worked for Russia’
Why would you deny what you never did, unless you did it and want to cover it up.?

President Donald Trump directly addressed reports that intelligence officials had concerns about his ties to Russia. Trump said questions about his involvement with Russia were “a disgrace” and reports about it “a hoax.”
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