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"McConnell will never do what needs to be done"
That's part of news release today from President Trump regarding Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The former president responding to McConnell's criticism from the Senate floor last Saturday following the vote to acquit Trump at the impeachment trial.
McConnell casting blame on President Trump for the January 6th incident at the Capitol.
Trump adding in his news release in part:
Mitch is a dour, sullen and unsmiling hack and if Republican senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again"
POPULIST PRESS
AMIDST AN ELECTION CAMPAIGN AND THE CORRUPTION TRIAL OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, A SECURITY CABINET MEETING TONIGHT IN ISRAEL.
THE INFORMATION REVEALED TO THE PUBLIC IS THAT THE MEETING IS AN "EMERGENCY" ONE AND THAT IT REGARDS A "SENSITIVE SECURITY MATTER". DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THE MEETING SAID TO BE CENSORED...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...LATER WORD IS THAT A MATTER RELATED TO SYRIA WAS UNDER DISCUSSION OF A 'HUMANITARIAN' NATURE...YNET NEWS...SECRET TALKS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND RUSSIA SAID TO HAVE BEEN UNDERWAY...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
A rabbinical court judge in Israel suspended for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
ISRAEL CONSIDERING LEGISLATION TO MAKE THE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE MANDATORY FOR TEACHERS. THE UNVACCINATED TEACHERS WOULD EITHER HAVE TO TEACH REMOTELY OR PUT ON UNPAID LEAVE...YNET NEWS
The US says it will "hold accountable" those responsible for an attack on an northern Iraqi airbase Monday night that killed a foreign civilian contractor and wounded a US soldier and four others. A previously unknown group is claiming responsibility for the attack identifying itself as pro-Iranian objecting to "the American occupation...BBC NEWS...Iran's foreign minister rejects any attempts to link the attack to his country...PRESS TV IRAN
Two Russian naval vessels in Iran for naval exercises. Iran says the maneuvers will be held in waters north of the Indian Ocean...PRESS TV IRAN
THE US WILL NOT BE SENDING A REPRESENTATIVE TO A MEETING IN SOCHI RUSSIA WHERE SYRIA WILL BE DISCUSSED. VARIOUS PARTIES TO THE SYRIAN CONFLICT WILL BE AT THE "ASTANA" MEETING BUT A RUSSIAN OFFICIAL SURMISES THAT THE US HAS NOT DECIDED WHAT ITS POLICY WILL BE IN SYRIA AS OF NOW...TASS
A woman is alleging that she was raped in Australia's parliament. The attack said to have occurred in the office of Defense Minister Linda Reynolds in March of 2019.
The woman spoke with police in April of that year but declined to make a formal complaint out of fear for her career. She is also saying that she was attacked when she met with senior staff at Reynolds office to discuss the alleged rape.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison offering up an apology and promising investigations...REUTERS-STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE...The woman alleging the rape, Brittany Higgins, says it happened after a night of drinking when she ended up sleeping on a couch in the defense minister's office...NEW YORK TIMES/STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE
ISRAELI POLITICIAN GIDEON SAAR NO LONGER WORKING WITH AMERICAN ADVISORS CONNECTED TO THE 'LINCOLN PROJECT.' SAAR HOPING TO DEFEAT PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU'S LIKUD PARTY WITH HIS "NEW HOPE PARTY" DRAWN FROM THE RANKS OF THE LIKUD....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
US politics and a Democrat member of Congress suing former President Trump and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi alleging that Trump and Guiliani conspired to incite the people who came into the US Capitol on January 6th....REUTERS-METRO US
Concern for the welfare of Princess Latifa, the daughter of Dubai's ruler. She was forcibly returned to the United Arab Emirates in 2018 when she tried to flee. Latifa said that her father was holding her hostage, but now communication has been lost...
BBC NEWS
World Health Organization investigators say that COVID-19 appeared to be more widespread in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December of 2019 than originally thought. More than a dozen different strains of the virus were in existence at the time...CNN
North Korea trying to get its hands on information about the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. That according to South Korean intelligence officials discussing a North Korean hacking operation...BBC NEWS
CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR TONIGHT VIA WORLDOMETERS SHOWING 63,398 NEW POSITIVE TESTS IN THE USA FOR THIS TUESDAY, DOWN FROM 95,542 LAST TUESDAY.
WORLDWIDE THE NUMBER OF NEW POSITIVE TESTS TODAY 342,151 DOWN FROM 377, 795 LAST TUESDAY.
That's the way it really is Tuesday February 16th, 2021 Day 338 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 338 of America and the World held hostage.
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