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Biden Picks Negotiator of Original Iran Deal Robert Malley to Repeat the Same Thing, Get Different Results

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Jewish Press: Robert Malley, the Obama administration’s negotiator of the historic Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) deal with Iran who is also an expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, is President Joe Biden’s pick to be his special envoy for Iran, the NY Times reported Thursday citing two senior State Department officials.

According to the Times, Malley will be “responsible for trying to persuade Tehran to rein in its nuclear program — and stop enriching uranium beyond limits imposed by a 2015 deal with world powers — and agree to new negotiations before the United States lifts its bruising economic sanctions against Iran.”

The Times then commented demurely: “It is far from clear if the strategy, as directed by Mr. Biden, will succeed.”

And so, the Biden administration has succeeded in erasing President Trump from an entire section of US foreign policy. Read More

Davos Great Reset: French Prez Macron Declares Modern Capitalism ‘Can No Longer Work’

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Breitbart: At the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) virtual Davos Agenda summit on Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron declared that in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus modern capitalism “can no longer work”.

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a video conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris on January 26, 2021, as part of World Economic Forum (WEF) which usually takes place in Davos, Switzerland. - The Davos Agenda from January 25 to January 29, 2021, is an online edition due to the …

Appearing before a question and answer session conducted with ‘Great Reset’ architect and founder-chairman of the WEF, Klaus Schwab, Mr Macron said that while capitalism has historically driven down poverty globally, he claimed that it came with the cost of furthering inequality.

“We will get out of this pandemic only with an economy that thinks more about fighting inequalities,” Macron said.

“The capitalist model together with this open economy can no longer work in this environment,” he added.

The French president pronounced that capitalism has resulted in a “deep moral and economic crisis” in which “hundreds and thousands of people throughout the world had this feeling of losing their usefulness.”

Macron said there were “two kings in this system—shareholders and consumers,” and that capitalism has failed to support labourers and has been detrimental to the environment. Read More

Biden restores foreign aid to abortion by repealing Mexico City Policy

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LifeSite News: The Biden administration announced Thursday the impending repeal of the Mexico City Policy, restoring foreign aid to organizations involved in abortion and guaranteeing thousands of additional babies will be killed worldwide.

The White House has announced that President Joe Biden will soon be issuing a “Presidential Memorandum to protect and expand access to comprehensive reproductive health care,” which “immediately rescinds the global gag rule, also referred to as the Mexico City Policy, which bars international non-profits that provide abortion counseling or referrals from receiving U.S. funding.”

Shortly after taking office in 2017, former President Donald Trump’s Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA) policy not only reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which under previous Republican presidents had applied to groups that committed abortions, but took the additional step of expanding it to groups that promote or discuss abortion.

The action resulted in international abortion providers Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes losing millions of dollars because they refused to drop abortion in order to qualify for the money. Marie Stopes also had to close hundreds of operations across Africa. At the same time, reviews by the State Department found that most recipients have complied with the new rules without issue, leaving the distribution of legitimate foreign aid unharmed.

The new Biden memo “also directs the Department of Health and Human Services to take immediate action to consider whether to rescind regulations under its Title X family planning program.” Read More

Biden administration to restore aid to Palestinians

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BBC:US President Joe Biden’s administration will restore aid to the Palestinians that was cut by his predecessor Donald Trump and reopen diplomatic missions.

The acting US envoy to the UN, Richard Mills, told the Security Council that Mr Biden supported a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

To help advance one, he said, the US would “restore credible engagement”.

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Palestinians broke off contacts with Mr Trump’s administration and rejected his peace plan as biased towards Israel.

The plan, unveiled a year ago, envisaged recognising Israeli sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Jordan Valley, and Jerusalem remaining Israel’s “undivided capital”.

It also proposed the creation of a Palestinian state in about 70% of the West Bank, all of Gaza, and with its capital on the fringes of East Jerusalem. Read More

Twitter will allow some users to ‘fact-check’ tweets by others

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LifeSite News: Continuing the trend of Big Tech censorship, Twitter announced on Monday that it would begin allowing certain users of its social media platform to “fact-check” tweets, with the ability to add notes if they discern the content to be “misleading.”

To this end, Twitter has created Birdwatch, a “community-based approach to misinformation.” The users who are selected to be part of the community watch will be asked “to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading and write notes that provide informative context.”

Jack Dorsey and Twitter employees

Twitter envisages that the new initiative will enable them “to respond quickly when misleading information spreads.”

The program is currently in the pilot stage of development. Americans using Twitter who have not violated the platform’s “Rules and Policies” are eligible to join the program. While Twitter will be starting with 1,000 community users for now, the hope is to extend the program to 100,000 users.

Anybody can attempt to sign up for Birdwatch at the official website.

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Rally gains steam as market rebounds from worst sell-off in 3 months, Dow up 500 points

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CNBC: U.S. stocks climbed on Thursday following a sharp sell-off on Wall Street that saw the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffer their worst drop in three months.

The S&P 500 rose 1.4%, led by health care and utilities, while the blue-chip Dow gained 500 points, or 1.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.0%.

The Collapse of American Airlines Stock Has Created an Opportunity

Shares of American Airlines surged more than 15% after the carrier posted better-than-feared quarterly results. The company, the most-shorted U.S. airline, saw it shares keep ripping higher as hedge funds and other short sellers rushed to buy shares to cut their losses.

Wall Street suffered steep declines on Wednesday. Read More

Israel vaccinates imprisoned terrorists against the Coronavirus and the PA ‎spreads libels

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Palwatch: While the State of Israel has begun to vaccinate the Palestinian terrorists being held in ‎the Israeli prisons against the Coronavirus – and is doing so even before millions of ‎Israeli citizens have been vaccinated – the PA, for its part, is using the event to once ‎again raise the recurring libel that Israel is conducting medical experiments on the ‎terrorists.‎

The PA’s claims that Israel is neglecting the imprisoned terrorists, both medically and in ‎other ways, and conducting medical experiments on them are nothing new. This is a ‎libel renewed regularly by the PA, and intensifies whenever a terrorist dies of an ‎illness in prison.‎

It goes without saying that there is no basis to these claims.‎

The vaccination of the terrorist prisoners against the Coronavirus is no different. Ever ‎since the vaccine arrived in Israel, the PA and its agents have been demanding that ‎Israel not only vaccinate the terrorist prisoners but also agree to international ‎supervision over the process due to baseless concern that Israel will take advantage of ‎the vaccination to conduct “medical experiments.” ‎ Read More

Remember When Joe Biden Said “You Can’t Legislate By Executive Orders Unless You’re A Dictator”

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Zero Hedge: During a town hall broadcast by ABC News just over a fortnight before the election, Joe Biden was discussing his tax proposals when he declared that in order to see them implemented he would need votes and approval from Congress.

First Images Of Israeli F-35 Stealth Jets Operating Within Lebanese Airspace

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Zero Hedge: For the first time, two Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth jets were spotted over Lebanon.

A reporter posted the images via Lebanese television station, Al-Manar TV. The fighter jets were initially believed to be McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles, but after careful review, they appear to be Israeli Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth jets.

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According to Al Jazeera English, Israeli jets have carried out some of their biggest bombing missions in Syria, apparently striking Iranian targets over the last month. The bombardment has shocked Lebanese residents as Israeli jets use the country’s air space to access Syria.

“Israel does not violate any bilateral agreement with any regional power if its planes invade Lebanese airspace, whereas in Syria it has an agreement with Russia and it’s more complicated for them,” Sami Nader, a Lebanese political analyst, told Al Jazeera.

“On the one hand, Israel is violating Lebanese sovereignty,” Nader added. “But on the other Lebanon has not adhered to its international commitments either, because according to the UN resolutions, Hezbollah is supposed to be unarmed but it very much has its weapons.“

Now it becomes clear why the Israeli stealth jets were spotted over Lebanon. Read More

GameStop rally is warning that market bubbles have gone mad

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New York Post: In the 1630s, it was tulips. In the 1990s, it was Netscape and Pets.com. Later, as we all know, it was housing. Today, the warning sign flashing “danger,” signaling that the stock market has lost its mind, is GameStop.

GameStop is a video game retailer that has been priced at about $3 to $10 a share for much of the year. But in the past few days, individual investors have driven the share price above $300.

Many of these buyers are using Robinhood, an app that lets anyone trade stocks without a commission. Because of the pandemic, people have plenty of time on their hands, and are looking to make cash, and it’s fueled a spectacular rise in individual day trading.

Why are they buying ­GameStop? Well, some of the commentators on ­“WallStreetBets,” the Reddit ­message board driving the frenzy, believe it’s a good company.

But mostly they’re out to hurt the big guys. Read More