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Congress overrides Trump veto of defense bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress on Friday overrode President Donald Trump’s veto of a defense policy bill, a first by lawmakers since he took office nearly four years ago, ensuring that the measure becomes law despite Trump’s rejection.

In an extraordinary New Year’s Day session, the Republican-controlled Senate easily turned aside the veto, dismissing Trump’s objections to the $740 billion bill and handing him a stinging rebuke just weeks before he leaves the White House.

Trump lashed out on Twitter, saying the Senate missed an opportunity to eliminate protections for social media platforms that he said give “unlimited power to Big Tech companies. Pathetic!!!″

Trump also slammed lawmakers for rejecting his call to increase COVID-19 relief payments to $2,000: “They want to give people ravaged by the China Virus $600, rather than the $2000 which they so desperately need. Not fair, or smart!″

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•Trump Derangement Syndrome

Millions of Americans fled from cities during pandemic and have no plans to go back

Americans packed up and moved out of big cities by the millions over the past several months amid the COVID-19 pandemic and are not planning on returning, meaning some smaller communities and suburban areas will look very different for the foreseeable future.

In October and November, according to real estate site Redfin, top destinations included Sacramento, Calif., Las Vegas, Phoenix, Austin, Texas, and Atlanta.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

NYSE Begins to Delist Chinese Telecom Giants in Compliance With Trump’s Order

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced on Dec. 31 that it is in the process of delisting three Chinese telecom companies with ties to the Chinese military.

The three state-owned companies—China Mobile Ltd., China Telecom Corporation Ltd., and China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd.—will see their securities suspended from trading between Jan. 7 and Jan. 11, according to a statement. The delisting proceedings were made in compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order (E.O.) 13959.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Warns ‘Someone Inside’ US Could Take Revenge for Soleimani

On Thursday, Abdolrahim Mousavi, commander in chief of the Iranian Army, reiterated sentiments previously made by other officials that there was no one in the US political or military hierarchy of equal worth to Qasem Soleimani, the Quds Force commander slain in a US drone strike in early January 2020.

Actors within the United States may independently “respond” to Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s assassination, Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, the officer who replaced Soleimani as commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force, has said.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•Iran, USA

Beekeepers brace for next round with Canada’s ‘murder hornets’

The year 2020 is not one that beekeepers in Washington state and the Canadian province of British Columbia are likely to forget in a hurry. Since the spring, experts in both states have been gripped by fears of Vespa mandarinia, a hulking insect whose voracious appetite for honeybees and stealthy spread could pose a threat to the region’s vulnerable ecosystem.

While the eradication of an Asian giant hornet nest in Washington in October was a success, officials to the north in Canada have dealt with a number of setbacks in their own bid to eradicate the hornets.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•"Mother Nature Hates You", WTF?

Protesters vandalize St. Patrick’s Cathedral early New Year’s Day

About 150 protesters blocked traffic in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral early on New Year’s Day — and someone marred the facade of the church with graffiti during the demonstration, according to cops.

Police responded to a disorderly group of protesters at 51st Street and Fifth Avenue around 1:30 a.m., cops said.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Feds enlist IBM to help design gun buyback program

OTTAWA – The Trudeau government has awarded a contract to IBM Canada to support the development, design and implementation of a buyback program for recently prohibited firearms.

The contract is worth almost $1.2 million, according to an award notice posted on a federal information portal.

The Liberals outlawed a wide range of firearms in early May, saying the guns were designed for the battlefield, not hunting or sport shooting.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•Gun Control, Gun Rights

Cheezus… We’re not even through day one of the New Year

Okey Dokey.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•WTF?

Germany’s “Shameful” Two Years on the UN Security Council

Germany’s two-year term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council ended on December 31, 2020. The German Foreign Ministry, in a self-congratulatory compilation of its supposed achievements to “strengthen the international order,” declared that Germany now deserves to obtain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

A closer examination of Germany’s voting patterns at the UN over the past several years, however, reveals a troubling double standard on a range of issues, especially on human rights, which the German government claims to be “a cornerstone” of its foreign policy.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•Germany, United Nations

Canada’s Vaccine Delays Latest in ‘Pandemic Management Failures,’ Says Drug Company Exec Behind H1N1 Vaccine Rollout

Canada is lagging significantly behind other G7 countries in its vaccine rollout—the latest in a series of critical “pandemic management failures” by the federal government, says the former CEO of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline.

Before retiring in 2012, Paul Lucas served as president and CEO of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Canada for 16 years. He was intimately involved in the production and distribution of the Canadian vaccine for the H1N1 pandemic in 2009, which was developed in the GSK vaccine factory in Quebec City, rolled out, and administered to millions of Canadians within several months.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Science Says Lockdown Stress Makes Our Brains Want to Party

One of the things that my friends and I have been discussing throughout the various quarantines and lockdowns is the fact that we all seem to want to go do something as soon as the government tells us that we can’t. I mean, almost immediately.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

New Year’s Eve in Cologne: 5 years after the mass assaults

As a social worker, Franco Clemens has experienced a lot. But nothing prepared him for what happened on New Year’s Eve five years ago. It happened “in multicultural Cologne, of all places, a melting pot of integration,” he reflects. The night began seemingly harmlessly.

Just as in years past, a crowd assembled in the square in front of the central railway station, right next to the city’s landmark gothic cathedral. Nothing unusual for the city in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia. But this time, a throng of about a thousand young men was forming in the crowd. Most of them were from the North African-Arabic region.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Viewers slam BBC for ‘forcing politics’ into New Year’s Eve that featured ‘woke’ BLM fist salutes, and a climate change lecture – while NO ONE sang Auld Lang Syne

Many watching on TV were outraged and said the show was ‘ruined by politics’ after Thames bridges were turned blue and yellow in a tribute to the EU as the UK finally left and 300 drones made the shape of a BLM fist and a turtle with Africa on its shell during a climate change lecture by Sir David Attenborough – but ended with no Auld Lang Syne.

The BBC helped with the planning of the broadcast, which the Mayor’s office said: ‘Looked ahead in hope to 2021, including sending a message to European Londoners that they will always have a home in our city’.

Related – Racist reveal’s herself.

‘How VERY 2020 of you!’ Erica Joy challenging ‘allies’ to ring in 2021 with a nice dose of racism AND sexism does NOT go well, like at all

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", WTF?

Virginia’s ‘teacher of the year’ backtracks on ‘joke’ calling for McConnell’s ‘neighbor’ to attack Senate leader

Virginia school teacher Rodney Robinson, named National Teacher of the Year in 2019, came under fire and later apologized for a Twitter message suggesting US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should be attacked by a neighbor.

Robinson tweeted on Thursday that he had made a “bad joke” and that “no one should be assaulted.” The apology came a day after he had asked, in a since-deleted tweet, “Who are Mitch McConnell’s neighbors? I’m just saying Rand Paul’s neighbor did what a true Kentucky hero should do. It’s your turn to step up.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2021January 1, 2021•0•Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives