Vol VII No. 743 - Part 4

ICH: Putin Threatens US Soil If Missiles Deployed in Europe Click to teach Gmail this conversation is important. Inbox x ICH Newsletter emailtom@cox.net via informationclearinghouse.ccsend.com  1:52 PM (4 hours ago) to me View the newsletter in your browser http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?pre  Not For Profit - For Justice 100% Non Commercial, Fearless, Forthright & Independent  February 20/21, 2019 "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." -  Ralph Waldo Emerson "No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens   Important Update Our email address has changed. ichnewseditor@outlook.com     Please submit articles and inquiries to the address above. Peace and Joy Tom   Op-Ed Mapping the American War on Terror   By Stephanie Savell Now in 80 Countries, It Couldn't Be More Global.   - Continue ====== Pompeo, Pence & the Alienation of Europe   By Patrick Lawrence If the objective was to further isolate the U.S., the two officials could not have done a better job last week, writes Patrick Lawrence.   - Continue ====== Venezuela Under Washington's Gun   By Paul Craig Roberts Western civilization lies dominate all aspects of domestic and international policy. Truth has been stamped out. ..   Continue ====== Venezuela and the Left   By Gabriel Hetland Our response should be guided by three principles: non-interventionism, self-determination, and solidarity with the oppressed.   - Continue ====== Trump's Demagoguery Goes Off the Rails   By Finian Cunningham For Trump to proclaim he is spearheading freedom for the entire Western hemisphere is a sign that his megalomania is spectacularly out of control.   - Continue ====== A step towards presidential dictatorship   By Patrick Martin Trump is seeking to treat the US-Mexico border as a major military battlefield, with immigrants and refugees cast as "invaders"   - Continue ====== This Is What the Beginning of a Real Israel Debate Looks Like   By Ben Ehrenreich Omar was right about AIPAC, and accusing her of anti-Semitism was opportunistic and absurd.   - Continue ====== UK Democracy and the Corrupt Seven (Eight)   By Craig Murray If you want to understand that the UK truly is not a functioning democracy, consider this.   - Continue ====== Women's Critical Role in Saving the Environment   By Cesar Chelala More women than men prefer to choose a lower standard of living with fewer health risks than a higher standard of living with greater health risks.   - Continue ======   Putin Threatens US Soil If Missiles Deployed in Europe   By teleSUR Our missiles will target U.S., not just countries where their missiles are stationed: Putin.   - Continue HARD NEWS   MIDDLE EAST Iraq: 5 Islamic State militants killed in clashes with tribal fighters in western Iraq Iraqi border guards find bodies of six people kidnapped by Islamic State Bomb blast kills two Iraqi children in Anbar province Syria: Trucks carrying women, children leave ISIL enclave 3 children killed as Houthi-fired shells land on popular market in Yemen Propaganda alert:Iran-al Qaeda alliance may provide legal rationale for U.S. military strikes The Cult-Like Group Fighting Iran: Members of the Trump administration have been providing support to a political sect that aims to topple the Iranian regime in Tehran. Iran's Rouhani says U.S. sanctions are 'terrorist act' More U.S. hypocrisy: Donald Trump rushing to sell Saudi Arabia nuclear technology: Experts worry tech transfer will allow Saudi Arabia to produce nuclear weapons Iran decries US 'hypocrisy' over planned nuclear sale to Saudi Arabia Germany's ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia is having a bigger impact than expected Ahead of Saudi visit, China seeks 'deeper trust' with Iran Secret deal struck for Australian weapons systems bound for Saudi After Israeli anchor calls out brutality of 'occupation', political leaders land hard on her Israel Approves 464 New Squatter Homes In Occupied Jerusalem US court reopens Palestinian lawsuit against billionaire Israel donor Adelson AFRICA Egypt: Execution of nine men shows 'absolute disregard for the right to life' ASIA 8 militants killed in S. Afghanistan clash 4 including 2 civilians killed in militants attack in Afghanistan Pakistan urges U.N. to intervene over Kashmir tension with India Saudi Arabia Is Investing $20 Billion in Pakistan. Here's What It's Getting in Return Iran Says Suicide Bomber Who Hit Revolutionary Guards Was Pakistani Trump: 'I'm in no rush' in negotiations with North Korea Chinese tech a threat? Europe weary of Washington's 'nonsense' allegations against Huawei EUROPE Watch; Putin delivers annual address to Russia's Federal Assembly VIDEO of Russian Poseidon underwater nuke drone 'field-test' released by MoD Putin promises hard cash, tax breaks and mortgage relief for families with more children Ukraine president signs amendment on committing to join NATO and the European Union In Rebuke to U.S., Germany Considers Letting Huawei In: German government is leaning toward letting Huawei Technologies Co. participate in building the nation's high-speed internet infrastructure despite U.S. warnings about the risks posed by the Chinese tech giant, according to senior German officials. EU illegal migrant arrivals fall but stronger borders needed: Fontex With 37 days until Brexit, why are UK politicians defecting?: Conservative and Labour rebels are trying to form a new brand of British politics. Jeremy Corbyn's Labour is a crucial ally in the fight against anti-Semitism UK to record highest levels of child poverty by 2022: Report The Final Version of the EU's Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet GLOBE Twenty-five years in prison for Protecting the Planet?: That is the possible fate of seven Catholic anti-nuclear activists awaiting trial for their action on April 4, 2018, the largest base of its kind in the world. Your phone and TV are tracking you, and political campaigns are listening in Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret' AMERICAS Venezuela Denounces Terrorist Attack On PDVSA:Yesterday we listened to the war allocation by the U.S. President, and his call to violence, and now we start to see that violence and terrorist attacks," Cuba denies military in Venezuela, charges U.S. readies intervention Venezuelan troops to remain on border to prevent threats - minister Russia warns Venezuela's Guaido against inviting US invasion Diplomatic staff appointed by (fake president) Guaido 'takes over' Venezuelan Embassy in Costa Rica Finian Cunningham: Trump's bid for regime change in Venezuela is starting to look like a fatal overreach. US Media Ignore - and Applaud - Economic War on Venezuela Look: Leaked Photos Reveal Border Facility Overloaded With Refugees McCabe says 'it's possible' Trump is a Russian assetJustice Department preparing for Mueller report as early as next week Mueller report may be 'anti-climactic,' says ex-intelligence director Recession looms as subprime borrowers default loans:  Prof. Richard Wolff discusses the "very, very painful" circumstances of those facing unemployment, dwindling savings, and a deteriorating quality of life for American workers. US debt hits record under Trump, Republicans mum Amazon paid ZERO to Uncle Sam last year! : Despite posting profits of over $11 billion last year, the online shopping empire didn't pay a single penny in federal taxes in 2018. Americans shocked by impact of new tax law: "My jaw hit the floor": The first tax filing season under the new federal tax law is proving to be surprising, confusing - and occasionally frightening Feds share watchlist with 1,400 private groups:  Prompting concerns from civil libertarians that those mistakenly placed on the list could face a wide variety of hassles in their daily lives. US Supreme Court Rules To Limit States' Ability To Seize Property, Impose Fines Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine: Must Watch Video Peace and Joy Tom Feeley Cost Of War   Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590" Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,801 Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,430  Total Cost of Wars Since 2001   $$4,741,935,480,734 https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/? 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The company initially mentioned the odd event in passing on their Facebook page and subsequently provided additional details after their UFO revelation garnered considerable interest from people online. Learn more. Mysterious Mounds: In the first half of Tuesday's show, author and researcher L.A. Marzulli discussed his research into mysterious mounds found all over North America, as well as his ongoing work on the Nephilim, giants, aliens, and the supernatural. There are thousands of these ancient mounds, and some are very large like Cahokia in the Midwest which contains over 500,000 tons of earth. How that much earth was hauled together is a mystery, and he suspects ancient giants played a part in the transportation of it. Some Native Americans told the white settlers that they didn't know who built the mounds as they were already present when they got there, Marzulli recounted. Get the full scoop here. Are You a Coast Insider? Sign up now to listen to last night's intriguing program plus five years of show downloads in the archive. Star Seed People: In the latter half of Tuesday's show, psychic medium Christian von Lahr presented his contention that many humans are "Star Seeds," inhabited by souls that come from alien or other worlds. As a kind of sacrifice, these individuals, he explained, chose to reincarnate here as a mission to save humanity from annihilation. These people were the prophets of old, he continued, and often feel different from others though they sometimes don't understand why. One way von Lahr can confirm whether a person is a Star Seed is by viewing their spirit guides, who appear alien in nature, with unusually shaped heads. Read the full recap here. 'Lake Monster' Sparks Panic in China: Sightings of a strange-looking fish lurking in a Chinese lake sparked something of a panic as residents were warned to avoid swimming at the spot due to the monstrous creature. The odd reportedly began earlier this month when a worker at the Baiyun Lake Park noticed a curious beast of some kind emerge from the water. The mysterious creature was described by the park ranger as being six-and-a-half-feet long and possessing the back of a turtle, but the head of a snake. Read more. Today in Strangeness: On this date in 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling the globe three times at more than 17,000 mph. In 1934, the Utopian Society in Los Angeles started a chain-letter campaign proclaiming that "profit is the root of all evil." Yowie Hair Found on Fence? A cryptozoologist in Australia believes that he may have recovered hair from the elusive 'Bigfoot of Down Under' known as the Yowie. David Taylor reportedly made the discovery during an expedition over the weekend in a national park in Queensland. The proverbial Yowie hunt hit pay dirt when he stumbled upon a barbed wire fence that had seemingly been mangled by someone or something quite sizeable. Learn more. Detecting Deception & Unexplained Phenomena: In the first half of Wednesday's show, an expert in deception detection, Peter Hyatt, will discuss the scientific process by which deception is detected and his analysis of statements made by recent newsmakers. Followed by writer and illustrator Timothy Renner talking about paranormal and unexplained phenomena including missing persons, people found dead in the woods, Bigfoot, cryptids and more. 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The past week has been a particularly good one for vegans, as a variety of brands and restaurants announced new ventures into the plant-based food space. From burgers to ice cream to salty snacks, the market is about to be flooded with so many new animal-free noms — check out the ones we’re most excited to try! SUSTAINABLE BABIES 101: HOW TO STAY "GREEN" AS A NEW PARENT Babies require a lot of stuff. Stuff adds up (expense-wise and also from an accumulation standpoint). It may feel like bringing a baby into the world couldn’t possibly be done while leading a zero-waste lifestyle. If the sheer size of your baby registry is already causing panic, maybe a more minimalistic, sustainable approach is the option for you. Sure, babies need things, but there is almost always a sustainable alternative.  *********************************** Top News: 'Corruption Game' Goes Viral, WaPo - CIA May Have Killed RFK, More Click to teach Gmail this conversation is important. Inbox x PEERS emaillist@peerservice.org via aweber.com  Tue, Feb 19, 4:02 AM (1 day ago) to me Join the 14,748 informed, caring subscribers to this list (two emails/week) Subscribe here The Mission of WantToKnow.info: To provide our readers with reliable, verifiable information on major cover-ups, and to serve as a call to work together for the good of all This message is also available online at this link. We're US $1,400 in the red for the year. Please support this important work and make a donation. Support us by using this amazon.com link at no extra charge to you. Dear friends, Explore below key excerpts of revealing news articles on Twitter's most viral political video ever being Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's recent description of the "corruption game" of US government during a Congressional hearing, a Washington Post article revealing that the CIA may have used an infamous hitman to kill Robert F. Kennedy, Purdue Pharma's secret plan to massively profit from both opioid drugs and drugs that treat opioid addiction, and more. Read also wonderfully inspiring articles on one young man's use of his limbless body for break dancing, a dance group of women in wheelchairs called the Rollettes, the healing impact of military veterans practicing and teaching yoga, and more. You can also skip to this section now. Each excerpt is taken verbatim from the major media website listed at the link provided. If any link fails, see this page. The most important sentences are highlighted. And don't miss the "What you can do" section below the summaries. By educating ourselves and spreading the word, we can and will build a brighter future. With best wishes for a transformed world, Fred Burks for PEERS and WantToKnow.info Good News! We've done a beautiful redesign of our PEERS website. I invite you to take a look. And our new WantToKnow.info subscribers section now has 216 members from 24 countries and 36 U.S. states and counting. There are some great posts on UFOs, weather modification, autism, and more. Come join and find out who lives near you on our member map and contact them. For more and how to join, see this webpage. Special note (sources may be less reliable): Watch courageous Catherine Austin Fitts discuss the missing $21 trillion from US government coffers and what we can do about it. If you want to understand why the US government is targeting Huawei in China, it has to do with 5G technology, as described in this informative MIT article. Read about and/or listen to three people whose lives were saved by treatment with psychedelic treatments. Listen to a great 10-minute video interview with amazingly inspiring Zach Bush, MD, talking about big picture transformation on planet Earth. Quote of the week: "This is a great tool of evil: get two or more different cultures fighting the evil in their opponents. That way both sides lose and evil wins, even though it was the target in the first place."  ~~  Peter Moon Video of the week: Watch the awesome five-minute video which has gone viral in a big way of new US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showing how incredibly easy it is for a president and members of Congress to be thoroughly corrupt with practically zero oversight due to a fundamentally flawed legal system. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Corruption Game’ Speech is Now the Most Viewed Twitter Video of Any Politician February 12, 2019, Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-corruption-game-speech-now... A viral video of New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez using a "Corruption Game" to highlight the need for campaign finance reform during a House Oversight Committee hearing last Wednesday has become the most viewed video of any politician in Twitter history. In her "corruption game," Ocasio-Cortez launched into a "lightning round" of questions for a panel of ethics experts in a bid to demonstrate just how easy it is for corrupt lawmakers - and even, hypothetically, the president of the U.S. - to avoid accountability under current government ethics laws. The 29-year-old lawmaker was able to highlight how a political "bad guy" would be able to enrich themselves and advance their interests "even if that means putting [their] interests ahead of the American people." Her examples ranged from taking "special interest dark money" from corporate PACs to fund a campaign to using hush money payments to make potential scandals disappear and writing laws that benefit donors and then buying stocks in their companies for personal financial gain. "So," Ocasio-Cortez said, in summary: "We have a system that is fundamentally broken. We have these influences existing in this body, which means that these influences are here, in this committee, shaping the questions that are being asked of you all right now. Would you say that that's correct?" "Yes," one expert, Walter Michael Shaub Jr. ... who previously served as the director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, responded. Note: Don't miss this most revealing video at the link above. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing government corruption news articles from reliable major media sources. CIA may have used contractor who inspired ‘Mission: Impossible’ to kill RFK February 9, 2019, Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/02/09/cia-may-have-used... Robert A. Maheu was such a colorful character that it’s widely believed the television show “Mission: Impossible” was based on him and his private investigative agency. As an ex-FBI agent, the CIA asked him to handle jobs it wanted to steer clear of, such as lining up prostitutes for a foreign president or hiring the mafia to kill Fidel Castro. For more than 15 years, Maheu [was] on monthly retainer to “The Agency,” CIA records show. Maheu was the right-hand man to Howard Hughes as Hughes ... helped finance CIA operations. A new book alleges that Maheu may have performed another mission for the CIA: the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Maheu would have had access to the CIA’s experiments in hypnosis and mind control. That would have enabled him to frame Sirhan Sirhan as a patsy for the slaying of Kennedy, while other gunmen actually fired the fatal shots, argues author Lisa Pease, who spent 25 years researching her book, “A Lie Too Big to Fail." Sirhan’s lawyers in 2010 accused the CIA of hypnotizing Sirhan and making him “an involuntary participant.” With Maheu’s contacts throughout the CIA and organized crime, he is “the most credible high-level suspect for the planner of Robert Kennedy’s assassination,” Pease wrote. Chief among that evidence is the autopsy finding that Kennedy was shot point blank in the back of the head, while Sirhan was in front of Kennedy. Witnesses at the scene of the shooting were adamant that Sirhan never got close enough to fire at close range. Not long after the trial, a ballistics expert examined the three bullets recovered from the scene and found that they did not match Sirhan’s gun. Note: The entire article at the link above is chock full of excellent information which leaves little doubt that RFK was not assassinated by one man. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on the Kennedy assassinations from reliable major media sources. Then explore the excellent, reliable resources provided in our Media Information Center, which show how the media has been complicit in covering huge stories like this and many more. Purdue Pharma sought secret plan to become 'end-to-end pain provider,' lawsuit alleges January 31, 2019, CNN News https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/31/health/purdue-pharma-unredacted-lawsuit/index.html Pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma LP secretly pursued a plan, dubbed "Project Tango," to become "an end-to-end pain provider" by selling both opioids and drugs to treat opioid addiction, all while owners on the board - members of one of America's richest families - reaped more than $4 billion in opioid profits, according to a lawsuit newly unredacted. The suit says the company and its owners, the Sackler family ... engaged in a decade of deception to push their pharmaceuticals, namely the painkiller OxyContin, on doctors and patients, publicly denying what internal documents show they privately knew to be true: that the highly addictive drugs were resulting in overdoses and deaths. Purdue examined selling overdose antidotes, including Narcan, as "complementary" products to the same doctors to whom it sold its opioids, the lawsuit claims, and although the company maintained a ledger of doctors it suspected of inappropriate opioid prescriptions and other forms of abuse, dubbed "Region Zero," it continued to collect revenue from those doctors. The Sacklers paid themselves more than $4 billion in opioid profits between April 2008 and 2018. In 2017, there were 47,600 opioid-linked drug fatalities in the United States. The unredacted complaint also says consulting firm McKinsey & Co. played a crucial role in advising the company on how to push its product on doctors and boost its profits. Note: Many doctors also profited from excessive prescribing of dangerous opioids. And according to a former DEA agent, Congress helped drug companies fuel the opioid epidemic. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing Big Pharma corruption news articles from reliable major media sources. Sen. Bernie Sanders will ask why a once-free drug now costs $375,000 February 4, 2019, CNBC/Reuters https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/04/sen-bernie-sanders-will-ask-why-a-once-free-drug... U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders plans to send a letter to Catalyst Pharmaceuticals on Monday asking it to justify its decision to charge $375,000 annually for a medication that for years has been available to patients for free. The drug, Firdapse, is used to treat Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS), a rare neuromuscular disorder. The disorder affects about one in 100,000 people in the United States. The government is intensifying its scrutiny of the pharmaceutical industry and rising prescription drug prices. Both the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, controlled by Republicans, have begun holding hearings this year on the rising costs of medicines. In the letter dated Feb. 4, Sanders asked Catalyst to lay out the financial and non-financial factors that led the company to set the list price at $375,000, and say how many patients would suffer or die as a result of the price and how much it was paying to purchase or produce the drug. For years, patients have been able to get Firdapse for free ... through a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) program called "compassionate use." The program allows patients with rare diseases and conditions access to experimental drugs outside of a clinical trial when there is no viable alternative. Florida-based Catalyst received FDA approval of Firdapse in November, along with exclusive rights to market the medication for several years. In December, Catalyst announced it would price Firdapse at $375,000 a year. Note: Read how a major drug price increase nearly bankrupted the city of Rockford, Illinois. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing Big Pharma corruption news articles from reliable major media sources. Family outraged over life-changing treatment going from free to $375,000 a year February 7, 2019, NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/family-outraged-over-life-changing... When Will Schuller was an 18-year-old senior in high school in Overland Park, Kansas, something puzzling was happening. He was “big into running at the time” and seemingly in good health, but ...Will struggled to walk from the school parking lot to his classes, and he couldn’t exercise. Around Christmas 2014, Will was diagnosed with Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS), a rare neuromuscular disorder. LEMS is “a chronic autoimmune disorder that affects strength and muscle fatigue ability,” said Dr. Ted M. Burns, a professor of neurology. There is a drug to treat LEMS that up until recently was free for patients through an FDA program called “compassionate use.” When Schuller got the drug, called ... 3,4-DAP, he instantly felt better. Since 1992, 3,4-DAP, was made by Jacobus Pharmaceuticals, a small New Jersey company, until a different company, Catalyst, recently received the exclusive rights to the drug. Catalyst added a preservative, renamed it Firdapse, and is now charging north of $375,000 a year for the life-changing drug. Will's parents said doctors ... warned them about an impending price increase, but they never imagined it would start costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. “We're paying ... less than that,” said Bob Schuller, Will’s dad. “But everyone's premiums are going to go up as a result of this. So it's a cost to the entire system.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., sent a letter to Catalyst on Monday demanding an explanation for the new price of Firdapse, calling it "a blatant fleecing of American taxpayers." Note: Read how a major drug price increase nearly bankrupted the city of Rockford, Illinois. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing Big Pharma corruption news articles from reliable major media sources. Australia banking inquiry: 'Scathing' report calls for industry overhaul February 4, 2019, BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47112040 A national inquiry into Australia's scandal-plagued financial sector has proposed sweeping changes in an attempt to end rampant industry misconduct. The Royal Commission spent 12 months investigating wrongdoing by some of the nation's biggest institutions. Prominent scandals included the charging of fees for no service - sometimes to dead customers. The government said it would act on all 76 recommendations made by the inquiry. The Royal Commission - Australia's highest form of public inquiry - came after a decade of scandals that shook confidence in the country's largest industry. After the report was made public on Monday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the public had paid an "immense" price for the misconduct. "It's a scathing assessment of conduct driven by greed and behaviour that was in breach of existing law and fell well below community expectations," he said. The Royal Commission received more than 10,000 public submissions. It interviewed over 130 witnesses in public hearings. The report made 76 recommendations for reform, including: More than 20 unidentified cases to be referred on to regulators, resulting in possible criminal or civil prosecutions; There should be an overhaul of the sector's sales culture to reduce conflicts of interest; Regulators need to more regularly prosecute breaches, or lose some of their powers. The government has been criticised for initially resisting the probe, which it later described as "regrettable but necessary" action to restore public trust. Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing banking corruption news articles from reliable major media sources. What the CIA Tells Congress (Or Doesn’t) about Covert Operations: The Barr/Cheney/Bush Turning Point for CIA Notifications to the Senate February 7, 2019, National Security Archive https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2019-02-07/what-cia-tells... Attorney-General nominee William P. Barr figured prominently in arguments to limit CIA responsibility to provide notification to Congress about covert actions during the 1980s, according to a review of declassified materials published today by the National Security Archive. As the Iran-Contra scandal played out, Barr, who held senior posts at the Justice Department, provisionally supported the idea of the president’s “virtually unfettered discretion” in foreign policy and downplayed Congress’s power. The issue of notification of Congress about imminent clandestine activities was at the heart of the Iran-Contra scandal when President Ronald Reagan and CIA Director William Casey specifically ordered that lawmakers be kept in the dark about the infamous, covert arms-for-hostages deals with Iran. Barr was by no means alone in pushing these views, the documents show. Other notable proponents during the Iran-Contra aftermath included then-Congressman Dick Cheney and John R. Bolton, who was also at the Justice Department. After Cheney became defense secretary he continued to press for extraordinarily broad Executive Branch authority, advising then-President George H. W. Bush to veto the Senate’s intelligence appropriations bill on the grounds it “attacked” presidential prerogatives – resulting in the only known such veto since the CIA’s creation. Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing intelligence agency corruption news articles from reliable major media sources. Ilhan Omar should be more radical about Israel, not less February 12, 2019, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/12/ilhan-omar-us-israel-policy... Representative Ilhan Omar is not a vicious antisemite, she is one of few good things about Congress. But she was wrong to suggest this week that America only supports Israel because a powerful lobby buys off US politicians. The American state needs no conspiracy or blackmail to encourage it to do damage around the world. When Democrats dissent on foreign policy, they usually insist that America is a gorgeous dream poorly applied by foolish leaders. Since her election last year, Omar has opened the door to a different, taboo argument. Her interventions over Venezuela and the southern border broke from the Democratic script and caused controversy by hinting that the aims and not only the means pursued by the American state frustrate the achievement of human freedom. By endorsing the global Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, Omar moved well beyond those Americans who criticize Benjamin Netanyahu’s excesses confident that Israel, their old ally, remains a noble endeavor now in need of ... counsel from Washington. There is an important Israel lobby in America, and it does a great deal of harm: America’s biggest pro-Israel lobby group is ... Christians United for Israel (CUFI). The lobby makes a just peace harder, and we should not fear condemning it; Democrats lining up to suggest even mentioning it is intrinsically antisemitic show just how cynically, how dangerously Israel’s supporters sometimes see antisemitism as cheap political football. Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing government corruption news articles from reliable major media sources. The Global Con Hidden in Trump’s Tax Reform Law, Revealed February 6, 2019, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/opinion/business-economics/trump-tax-reform... President Trump reserved a few minutes of his State of the Union address to praise his tax reform law, which turned a year old last month. Mr. Trump ... promised Americans that drastically lowered corporate tax rates would bring home large sums of capital that had been stashed overseas and finance a surge of domestic investment. The White House argued they wanted a system that “encourages companies to stay in America, grow in America, spend in America, and hire in America.” Yet the bill he signed into law includes a sweetheart deal that allows companies that shift their profits abroad to pay tax at a rate well below the already-reduced corporate income tax. Now that a full year has passed since the tax bill became law, we have hard numbers. There is no wide pattern of companies bringing back jobs or profits from abroad. The global distribution of corporations’ offshore profits ... hasn’t budged from the prevailing trend. Eliminating the complex series of loopholes that encourage offshoring was a major talking point ... but most of them are still in place. The craftiest and largest corporations can still legally whittle down their effective tax rate into the single digits. (In fact, the new law encourages firms to move “tangible assets” - like factories - offshore). Overall, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act amounted to ... sleight of hand. According to the Treasury Department’s tally for fiscal year 2018, corporate income tax receipts fell by 31 percent, an unprecedented year-over-year drop in a time of economic growth. Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on corruption in government and in the corporate world. Key Article From Years Past Patents Over Patients April 1, 2007, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/opinion/01moss.html We could make faster progress against cancer by changing the way drugs are developed. In the current system, if a promising compound can’t be patented, it is highly unlikely ever to make it to market — no matter how well it performs in the laboratory. The development of new cancer drugs is crippled as a result. The reason for this problem is that bringing a new drug to market is extremely expensive. In 2001, the estimated cost was $802 million; today it is approximately $1 billion. To ensure a healthy return on such staggering investments, drug companies seek to formulate new drugs in a way that guarantees watertight patents. In the meantime, cancer patients miss out on treatments that may be highly effective and less expensive to boot. In 2004, Johns Hopkins researchers discovered that an off-the-shelf compound called 3-bromopyruvate could arrest the growth of liver cancer in rats. The results were dramatic; moreover, the investigators estimated that the cost to treat patients would be around 70 cents per day. Yet, three years later, no major drug company has shown interest in developing this drug. The hormone melatonin, sold as an inexpensive food supplement in the United States, has repeatedly been shown to slow the growth of various cancers when used in conjunction with conventional treatments. Early this year, another readily available industrial chemical, dichloroacetate, was found by researchers at the University of Alberta to shrink tumors in laboratory animals by up to 75 percent. However ... dichloroacetate is not patentable, and the lead researcher is concerned that it may be difficult to find funding from private investors to test the chemical. Potential anticancer drugs should be judged on their scientific merit, not on their patentability. Note: To explore several cancer cures which have shown dramatic potential, yet are not being studied for lack of funds due to inability to patent the process, click here. Why are these very promising treatments not being fast-tracked as the expensive AIDS drugs were? For a top MD's revealing comments on this, click here. And for why the media won't feature these promising cancer treatments in headlines, click here. Inspiring Articles Man born with no limbs is now a talented break dancer January 30, 2019, Metro.co.uk (One of the UK's most popular websites) https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/30/man-born-with-no-limbs-is-now-a-talented-break... 19-year-old Gabe Adams was born with Hanhart syndrome, a rare medical condition characterised by underdeveloped limbs, mouth and jaw. In Gabe’s case, none of his limbs grew at all. At school Gabe tried out for the dance team as a way of making friends – discovering he could use his limbless body to his advantage in the art of break dancing. After graduating from high school he has continued to prove his independence, moving out of the family home and embarking on a career as a motivational speaker. From a young age Gabe started using a wheelchair but his parents were determined that their son would be as independent as possible. At school Gabe would wedge a pencil or pen between his shoulder and cheek to write in class. ‘The day of the dance tryouts they called us all in a line and they said, “okay dancer remember to full out extensions and point your toes”. What am I gonna point? My nose!? ‘I am just standing there in front of the judges and then I see girls do the spins and I am like, “I can do that”, so I do the spins. ‘The next day at school and I hear two girls talking behind me and they say: “They are only gonna put him on the stage because he is handicapped’”and that crushed me. ‘I ran to the dance coach and I said “please do not put me on the team because you feel sorry for me”, and she said: “I would not put you or anybody else on the team because I felt sorry for them, you get a spot on this team because you deserved it”. ‘And that was just a huge opening moment for me.’ Note: Don't miss the incredibly inspiring video at the link above. Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring disabled persons news articles which will inspire you to make a difference. Dance group of women in wheelchairs inspires young girls with disabilities January 17, 2019, CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-rollettes-dance-group-of-women-in-wheelchairs... You've heard of the Rockettes, but have you heard of the Rollettes – a dance troupe of women in wheelchairs? The Los Angeles-based group was founded by Chelsie Hill, who always wanted to be a dancer, and wasn't going to let her paralysis stop her. "In high school, I got into a car with a friend who was drinking and we ended up hitting a tree head-on," Hill [said]. She decided that despite the tragedy, she was going to continue doing what she loved. She danced with her high school team in her wheelchair, and when she graduated, she was inspired to show other girls with disabilities they could dance, too. "I found this group of girls on social media who all had spinal cord injuries and I invited them to my hometown to dance with me. It was such an amazing experience," she said. The group put on a show in Monterey, California, where Hill grew up, and the Rollettes were born. Right now, there are six dancers on the team who perform competitively together. Not only does Hill coordinate this small group of dancers, but every year she holds a dance camp for women around the world. Girls of all ages attend the camp and learn how to dance in their chairs. For Hill, it's not just about teaching others the art of dance, it's about giving them a space where they feel like they belong. "I had a girl say it was the most empowering thing that she rolled into a room and everyone was at eye-level. I want people to come into that room feeling so normal, so empowered so that they can go out in the world and conquer anything," Hill said. Note: Don't miss the inspiring video at the link above. Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring disabled persons news articles which will inspire you to make a difference. Yoga and Veterans: A Different Kind of Warrior January 19, 2019, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/yoga-veterans.html To casual observers of either military service or the practice of yoga, the path from Oorah to Om may not seem obvious. But the intersection of yogi and veteran is natural if unexpected. Many members of the military now often include yoga ... as an element of their workout routine, and veterans turn to the practice for therapeutic applications. The Department of Veterans Affairs has successfully used yoga to help treat opioid addiction and post-traumatic stress. “A lot of vets have post-traumatic stress,” said Thierry Chiapello, who served in the Marines and now teaches yoga at the National Defense University in Washington. “By lengthening the exhalation of breath, this gets people out of those fight-or-flight instincts that drain you,” he continued, putting them in a mode of “rest and recovery that definitely is associated with less aggressive behaviors.” Christian Allaire experiences the service-driven life of yoga through his work for the Veterans Yoga Project, which provides yoga to roughly 1,000 veterans and their families per week as well as trains prospective teachers. “We will have four or five people in a conference room at a V.A.,” he said. “There might be an Iraq war vet in his 20s, a Korean War vet in his 80s, some can barely move, some may be missing limbs and the teacher’s job is to create space. Maybe all they can do is raise their hands above their heads, but we are creating a ritual.” Note: Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring news articles which will inspire you to make a difference. From Finland, an Intriguing School-Reform Model December 12, 2011, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/education/from-finland-an-intriguing-school-reform-model.html Pasi Sahlberg, a Finnish educator and author, [said that in] his country, ... teachers typically spend about four hours a day in the classroom, and are paid to spend two hours a week on professional development. At the University of Helsinki, where he teaches, 2,400 people competed last year for 120 slots in the (fully subsidized) master’s program for schoolteachers. “It’s more difficult getting into teacher education than law or medicine,” he said. Dr. Sahlberg puts high-quality teachers at the heart of Finland’s education success story. Ever since Finland, a nation of about 5.5 million that does not start formal education until age 7 and scorns homework and testing until well into the teenage years, scored at the top of a well-respected international test in 2001 in math, science and reading, it has been an object of fascination among American educators and policy makers. Finlandophilia only picked up when the nation placed close to the top again in 2009, while the United States ranked 15th in reading, 19th in math and 27th in science. In Helsinki, the Education Ministry has had 100 official delegations from 40 to 45 countries visit each year since 2005. Dr. Sahlberg said a turning point was a government decision in the 1970s to require all teachers to have master’s degrees — and to pay for their acquisition. Finland scorns almost all standardized testing before age 16 and discourages homework, and it is seen as a violation of children’s right to be children for them to start school any sooner than 7, Dr. Sahlberg said. Note: The US continues to push for more testing, while Finland shows that less testing and homework gives better results. For an excellent article on this in the Washington Post, click here. For more astounding facts on Finland's education success, click here. We're $1,600 in the red for the year. Kindly support this important work. Donate here. What you can do: Contact your media and political representatives to inform them of the important news articles above. Urge them to study and bring publicity to this vital news. Invite them to read these articles and explore the links included. Explore an index to the most revealing major media news articles sorted by topic. 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Inbox x Coast to Coast AM <coast-pr.radio@e.iheart.com> Unsubscribe Mon, Feb 18, 7:09 AM (2 days ago) to me Coast to Coast To view this email as a web page, go here.               Weekend Edition  February 18, 2019  Coast Insider Audio Inside the World of Doppelgangers: Aaron Sagers is an expert in the field of paranormal-themed entertainment, and most recently published an article examining the myths behind Jordan Peele's upcoming horror movie Us. On Saturday's show, he joined Ian Punnett to dive into the research he did for the article which explores doppelgangers (a look-alike or double of a living person) in folklore and paranormal pop culture. Irish and Scandinavian folklore speak of a doppelganger as something presenting itself as another person for nefarious purposes, Sagers explained, adding it could also be a version of oneself. Doppelgangers portrayed in movies include Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where the newly created double eliminates the original, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which ponders the duality of good and evil and the fractured self. Get the full scoop here. The Federation & Nerdy Podcasts: In Saturday's first hour, Russ Haslage talked about working with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to launch The Federation, a 501(c)3 charitable organization. "Our, shall we say, prime directive is to go places and help people," Haslage said. He also spoke about his geek radio ODYSY platform. Joshua Tracey joined later to discuss his podcast, We Just Nerd Here, which is featured on ODYSY. Find out more here. Are You a Coast Insider? Sign up now to listen to last night's intriguing program plus five years of show downloads in the archive. Legends of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid: Butch Cassidy was a notorious train robber, bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch gang in the American Old West. 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It's a great way to catch free hours of recent and past shows including vintage Art Bell, plus complimentary episodes of George Noory's TV show, Beyond Belief.  Today in Strangeness: The dwarf planet Pluto was discovered on the same day in 1930 as a cow flew-- in an airplane, that is. The creature known as Elm Farm Ollie was milked in mid-flight, with her milk sealed in paper containers and dropped by parachute over St. Louis. Psychic Paramedic / UFOs & the Paranormal: Paramedic and medical intuitive Sarah K. Grace has spent over a decade merging her career as a paramedic in some of California's busiest 911 systems with her innate gifts. In the first half of Monday's program, she'll discuss the paranormal experiences she's had at accidents and crime scenes. Followed by American occultist, ceremonial magician, and ufologist Allen H. Greenfield, who has recently focused on contacting angels and UFO beings by using occult spells and rituals. 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