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Chinese tech companies could face trouble in Europe

Buffet buys back $5.1 billion in Berkshire stock as coronavirus hits operating earnings

John Brennan escapes prosecution in Durham probe

NY attorney general seeks to dissolve NRA

Trump and Macron discuss sending aid to Lebanon

Trump threatens executive action if no deal is reached in coronavirus stimulus talks

Bill Maher confronts ex-Clinton advisor about Epstein allegations

Police will be escorted to and from new Swedish No-Go police station

California sorts through coronavirus data as glitch stymies policy decisions

Jerry Falwell Jr. asks for indefinite leave of absence from Liberty University

President Trump says he’ll defer payroll tax until end of the year through executive action

Biden: Trump lying about safety of potential coronavirus vaccine

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TikTok threatens legal action against Trump executive order

Coronavirus relief talks grind to a near halt, dimming chances of a deal

State Department lifts international ‘Do Not Travel’ advisory

Obama: Coronavirus opportunity to change ‘how wealth is distributed’

U.S. unemployment fell to 10.2 percent in July

Coronavirus updates: Russia offers Philippines potential vaccine, key model predicts 300,000 U.S. deaths

Lebanon investigating possibility of ‘external interference’ in blast probe

Claim: Some PA Democrats fear NRA lawsuit helps Trump

Judge dismisses Republican lawsuit seeking to block proxy voting

Pfizer agrees to manufacture Gilead’s coronavirus drug remdesivir

Portland mayor accuses rioters of attempted murder

Andrew Cuomo pleads with rich New Yorkers to return to city


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Poll shows Trump’s coronavirus approval at all-time low

Wearing masks is now the most important thing for the economy, Fed’s Kaplan says

New Christopher Steele evidence strengthens Durham prosecution

25,000 academics say U.S. citizenship is an ‘artificial distinction’

California investigating Google for possible antitrust violations

Already in economic meltdown, Lebanon endures blackouts 20 hours a day

Poll: Overwhelming majority want to keep police funding at current levels or increase it

Supreme Court, 7-2: House cannot force Trump to provide tax returns

Hannity gives Trump another chance to lay out his second-term agenda

Coronavirus live updates: Italy to extend state of emergency, Nevada rolls back reopen for bars

Report: U.S. Attorney Durham under  pressure to conclude investigation by end of summer

Ethiopia’s week of unrest shows 239 dead, 3,500 arrested

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John Kerry: We are way behind on climate change

5G broadband is an existential threat to cable companies, but execs and investors aren’t worried

Chinese tech groups writing UN facial recognition standards ...

Trump still has not released aid to Lebanon

U.N. Chief warns of ‘point of no return’ on climate change

Winter storm snarls post-Thanksgiving air travel

Focus on early release of convict in London stabbings ...

Islamist militants hack to death 12-year-old Christian boy in Cameroon

Doug Collins wants Adam Schiff to testify in front of House Judiciary Committee

China wants rollback of tariffs in phase one trade deal with US, Chinese state media says

Unusual tornadoes confirmed in Arizona ...

NBC’s Todd accuses GOP Senator of pushing Putin talking points

Strife

There seems an epidemic of unrest around the world. The globe is aflame with strife against tyrannical regimes. Demonstrations and riots of all types are breaking out all over. To sample these venues, click on the hyperlinks below:

Hong Kong— Fox News Story

Venezuela — CNN Story

London — The Irish Times Story

Barcelona — US News Story

Ecuador — KIVITV Story

Lebanon — AlArabiya Story

Chile — The Guardian Story

The reason for all these altercations? Perhaps plastic straws or climate change?

Bedfellows …

Make strange politicians. On Saturday George Clooney, 53, and Amal Alamuddin, 36, got married in a glitzy wedding in Venice, Italy … to the bitter disappointment of thousands of female wanna-bes around the world. It seems that this match-up had political overtones as Clooney, an uber-left, Israel-hating, Obama-loving, environmentalist, movie actor, and Alamuddin, a Lebanese-born, Israel-hating, human-rights attorney; share most of the same political views. Clooney is now also rumored as having his eye on running for governor of California in 2018 and an Arab bride would obviously round out his diversity credentials in this hotbed of mindless liberalism … see: Breitbart Story.

I have seen most of the swooning reports of these nuptials and I have yet to notice any indication that Alamuddin was sporting a beard.

Afterthought: I also have yet to see any mention of George Clooney's parents at this wedding ... strange?

A Coalition of Ten?

In a well-researched article, the New York Times traces the problems that President Obama has bought upon himself in his decision to initiate his non-war on ISIS. In particular, during his televised statement on 9/10/14, he stated that he was forming a large coalition in this effort. Already Great Britain and Germany have publicly declined to participate and this article also details his dearth of support in the Arab world … maybe not Egypt, maybe not Jordan, maybe not Lebanon, not Turkey, not Syria, maybe Saudi Arabia, and Iran is probably excluded from consideration. Yes, I suspect that a few of smaller emirates might be bribed into signing up (among Qatar, Kuwait, Dubai, Oman, UAE, and Bahrain) and maybe even the Vatican City, Liechtenstein, and Monaco, but real coalition partners might be difficult to corral. 

Poor lonely John Kerry … traveling the world in search of real coalition partners. (I realize that this is pretty petty criticism of Obama, but then this is the same type of pooh-poohing that George W. Bush suffered when he put together 46 nations into the Coalition of the Willing in Operation Iraqi Freedom.)

This article also briefly tries to decode the complex animosities between the Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam and how this rift complicates the problem of America’s dealing with this dire ISIS threat. It is too easy for America to appear to favor one or another of these sects. (I personally believe that Obama’s heart is with the Shiites … and this is why he abandoned Iraq to President Maliki and his thugs … giving rise to the current ISIS problem.) And lastly this article takes an oblique swipe at Obama’s empty claim in his TV address ... with a revealing graph which shows the ten-year trend of U.S. drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia relative to Pakistan. Clearly President Obama was then guilty of a bit of rhetoric bluster.

Anyhow, read the article for yourself. It is the kind of pure journalism of which the New York Times used to be famous … see: NY Times Article .

Afterthought: For more analysis on this problem see: CS Monitor Story.

Zipped Lips

Christians are being persecuted all over the Middle East and Africa. Coptic Christians in Egypt have been killed and had their churches burned down by the Muslim Brotherhood. In Nigeria, hundreds of Christian girl students have been kidnapped, raped and worse by the Boko Haram, another radical Muslim sect. In Syria and Iraq, Christians have been threatened with death unless they convert to Islam or emigrate … and there ISIS, the most brutal of Muslims, has taken to crucifying Christians to inflict maximum terror.  Lebanon, once a predominately Arab Christian country, is now controlled by the most brutal Muslims who kill Christians for blood sport.

All this specified genocide and much more is happening all around this region (see: Breitbart Listings) whilst the president of the United States plays golf, attends Democrat fund raisers, and can’t seem to undo the zipper on his lips to utter even the merest of condemning remarks. I can't help but ponder why ...