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Joe Biden wants to rejoin Iran nuclear deal, but it won’t be easy
Despite Trump's pressure campaign putting Iran in an economic straitjacket, Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei has kept the door open for a US reentry

Nov. 18 - President-elect Joe Biden has promised to move quickly to rejoin the nuclear deal with Iran so long as Iran also comes back into compliance. But that vow is easier said than done.

While Biden’s pledge pleased the deal’s other signatories, who were angry that President Donald Trump withdrew from it two years ago, returning to the way things were maybe impossible, complicated by both Iranian and US politics. Trump, even as a lame duck, is moving quickly to increase US sanctions against Iran and sell advanced weapons to its regional enemies, policies that would be difficult for a new president to reverse.     continue to read

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden waves as he leaves the Queen Theater after receiving a briefing on national security with advisors in Wilmington, Delaware, November 17, 2020.

Analysis | Biden's First Presidential Miracle: Palestinian Resumption of Coordination With Israel
Biden’s advent will probably be felt in the coming months as the Palestinians cease their self-righteous entrenchment and their refusal of any ties with Israel or the United States


Nov. 17 - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden harvested Tuesday the first fruits in the Middle East of his election victory: The leadership of the Palestinian Authority took advantage of the transition in Washington scheduled for January 20 to justify the renewal of security and civilian coordination with Israel in the West Bank. The Israeli security establishment heaved a sigh of relief over the decision to renew the ties, the lack of which in recent months it had called “a bone in the throat.”

The deterioration in relations between Israel and the PA was the result of Donald Trump’s clear preference for the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu throughout the president’s almost four years in office. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gradually cut back ties with the United States and Israel in response to American and Israeli actions.     continue to read

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THE TRUMP APPOINTEE BLOCKING BIDEN’S TRANSITION IS REPORTEDLY TRYING TO LINE UP A NEW JOB FOR 2021
Emily Murphy won’t release crucial resources to Biden’s transition but she is apparently “inquiring about employment opportunities” for herself next year when Trump is ultimately out of office.

Nov. 17 - While Donald Trump is obviously solely responsible for the psychotic and mortifying postelection tantrum he’s been throwing for the past two weeks, a shit fit akin to watching a fellow supermarket shopper ram his cart into a display of Diet Coke and smash a dozen glass jars of pickles on the ground because he was told the store is closing in five minutes and he can’t stay any longer, his enablers aren’t far behind him when it comes to doling about blame for this global embarrassment. Obviously that includes senators like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham and other spine-lacking Republicans but also an appointee whose name few people outside government knew as of last week: Emily Murphy.

...Biden told reporters on Monday, stressing the need for his transition team to get access to the government’s plan for distributing a future COVID-19 vaccine. “A vaccine is important. It’s of little use until you are vaccinated. So how do we get the vaccine, how do we get over 300 million Americans vaccinated? What is the game plan? It is a huge, huge, huge undertaking to get it done,” Biden said. “If we have to wait until January 20 to start that planning, it puts us behind over a month, month and a half. And so, it’s important that it be done, that there be coordination now. Now or as rapidly as we can get that done.”)....     source

November 16, 2020
Campaign 2020
President-Elect Biden & Vice President-Elect Harris in Wilmington, DE
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris spoke about their economic recovery plans in Wilmington, Delaware. Their remarks came after a meeting with business and labor leaders. During the news conference, President-elect Biden also warned that if the Trump administration does not coordinate soon with the Biden-Harris team concerning vaccine distribution plans, more people could die. Other topics discussed included global trade, student loan debt forgiveness and working with Republicans to get things done.

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Nov 17, 2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Nov. 16, 2020

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US surpasses 11 million COVID-19 cases just 6 days after it recorded 10 million.
US COVID-19 infection numbers grow by one million in just six days

Nov. 16 - The US surpassed 11 million coronavirus cases on Sunday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, as states across the country moved to enact restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the virus.

The latest milestone comes just six days after the US recorded 10 million cases, per Johns Hopkins data.

It is the fastest the US has added one million new cases since the pandemic began.

At least 45 states have reported more new infections this past week compared to the previous week, according to Johns Hopkins University.

"We have this firestorm of coronavirus all across the country," emergency medicine physician Dr Leana Wen said.
"It's not one or two hotspots, the entire country is a hotspot of coronavirus infection."     source

Andrew Cuomo spoke at Riverside Church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Sunday
We will bring legal action to protect New Yorkers': Gov Cuomo threatens to sue Trump administration if the president blocks distribution of a COVID vaccine to his state

Nov. 15 - Andrew Cuomo on Sunday threatened to sue the Trump administration if they withhold a vaccine for his state, telling a Manhattan congregation that 'enough people have died and enough injustice has been done during COVID.'

The New York governor and Donald Trump are engaged in an escalating war of words over the coronavirus vaccine.

Cuomo has said that, given Trump's mishandling of the pandemic, he appointed an independent panel of experts to certify the vaccine once it becomes available and reassure New Yorkers that it was safe. Several others states, including California, Nevada and Oregon, are doing the same.

Trump, angered by the slight, said that New York won't get any vaccine.     continue to read

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The U.S. Cardinal Crusading Against the Catholic President-Elect
If there is one person who doesn’t want Joe Biden to be president more than Trump, it is American Cardinal Raymond Burke.

Nov. 16 - ...The difference between the pope’s reaction to Trump and Biden could not be more stark with the pope and Trump clashing on a number of occasions. In February 2016, Francis said anyone who wants to build walls is “not Christian” when asked about the southern border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Francis also criticized Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord and expressed concern over when Trump undid President Obama’s move to restore trade and travel with Cuba.

Steven Millies, associate professor of Public Theology and director of The Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union, has studied Catholicism in the American political spectrum for 30 years. He points to other up-and-coming Catholics in the Democratic Party including Julián Castro, Ted Lieu, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as beacons of light. He says the Biden presidency provides a moment of “opportunity to promote the diversity of Catholic social teaching rather than seeing it through the preeminent, singular lens of abortion.”...     source

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Would a Same-Sex Couple Really Be Welcome in a Church?

I went undercover to find out the answer.

Nov. 15 - Back in 2007, the Barna group conducted a survey among 16–29 year-olds, asking non-Christians about their perception of Christians. The study explored twenty specific images related to Christianity, including ten favorable and ten unfavorable perceptions. Among young non-Christians, nine out of the top ten perceptions were negative. 87% of those surveyed said Christians were judgmental, 85% said Christians were hypocritical and 78% said Christians were out-of-touch. Above all, Barna discovered that the most common perception of Christians among non-believers was that Christians were anti-gay with 91% of non-Christians saying they believe that Christians showed excessive contempt and unloving attitudes towards homosexuals, and made homosexuality a bigger sin than anything else.

That was 13 years ago though. These days I am assured by many of my church-going friends that Christian churches are much more accepting of members of the LGBTQ community. “Trust me,” they say. “Everyone is welcome at my church.” Apparently, a lot has changed since Barna released the findings of this research. Or has it?      source

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What Trump Hopes To Accomplish Before Leaving The White House

Nov. 14 - On January 20, 2021, Donald Trump will leave office at the end of his presidential term, coup permitting. Here’s what President Trump hopes to accomplish over his final two months in office.

• An unfathomably high amount of document shredding.
• Sunrise yoga on the National Mall.
• Finally follow through on campaign pledge to stand in middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody.
• Hold yard sale to raise money for legal battles and recounts.
• Award Twitter user @920274749_000 the Presidential Medal of Valor for unwavering support over past four years.
• Humor the hapless boys and girls in intelligence by listening to even one morning briefing.
• Honor the teachings of his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
• Install ultrasonic alarms to torment Joe Biden’s dogs 24 hours a day.
• Get his father’s ghost to say one kind thing.
• As presidential tradition goes, leave the country in a worse place than he found it.

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Lindsey Graham fires back after top Democrat demands no more hearings for Trump's judicial nominees
'We have confirmed over 220 and look forward to confirming even more'

Nov. 14 - Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, fired off the perfect response after Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) asked Republicans to stop confirming President Donald Trump's federal judiciary nominees.

What's the background?Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote Graham on Thursday requesting he stop conducting hearings on Trump's judicial nominees to allow media-declared president-elect Joe Biden to fill the court vacancies instead.
"Now that the 2020 election has concluded, it is clear that the American people have overwhelmingly rejected a second term for President Trump. President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris are already implementing their transition plan," Feinstein said.   continue to read

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White House News (白宮消息) | Nov. 14, 2020

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020
President Trump News Conference on Operation Warp Speed
President Trump provided an update on his administration’s Operation Warp Speed COVID-19 vaccine initiative. The president said the vaccine would be ready for distribution in the coming weeks to high-risk Americans, frontline workers and the elderly. He added that the vaccine would be available to the general population as soon as April 2020. The president also discussed the economy and coronavirus restrictions stating, “this administration will not go, under any circumstances, to a lockdown.” He was joined in the White House Rose Garden by Vice President Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and the heads of Operation Warp Speed.

He's back: Donald Trump emerged from hiding in the White House to dismiss a wave of COVID as the result of testing

Donald Trump breaks days of silence to troll New York's Andrew Cuomo by saying he will refuse to send state breakthrough COVID vaccine until governor agrees it's safe - and says 'time will tell' if he can stay in power

Nov. 14 - President Donald Trump appeared publicly for the first time in eight days Friday for an event billed as an update on 'Operation Warp Speed' - and used it to threaten to refuse to send a new COVID vaccine to millions of Americans because of a political feud with New York's Democratic governor.

The president came out into the Rose Garden, 26 minutes late, and called his coronavirus response the 'single greatest mobilization in U.S. history.' The number of people in hospital from COVID as he spoke was estimated to be 67,000; 153,000 people were diagnosed with it Thursday.
 
Then Trump said a COVID vaccine would be available to the general public – 'except for New York,' where he is feuding with Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo. The state has a population of 19.5 million.

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