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Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson[5] (born May 16, 1969)[6] is an American conservative television presenter and political commentator who has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016.
Carlson became a print journalist in the 1990s, writing for The Weekly Standard. He was a CNN commentator from 2000 to 2005, and co-host of the network's prime-time news debate program Crossfire from 2001 to 2005. He would later host the nightly program Tucker on MSNBC from 2005 to 2008. He has been a political analyst for Fox News since 2009, appearing as guest or guest host on various programs before the launch of his current show. In 2010, Carlson co-founded and served as the initial editor-in-chief of the conservative news and opinion website The Daily Caller, until selling his ownership stake and leaving in 2020.[7] He has written two books: a memoir titled Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites (2003) and a political book titled Ship of Fools (2018).

An advocate of U.S. president Donald Trump, Carlson has been described by Politico as "perhaps the highest-profile proponent of 'Trumpism' and willing to criticize Trump if he strayed from it."[8] He is also said to have influenced some key policy decisions by Trump.[9][10] As of 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight is the most-watched cable news show in the United States.[11] Carlson's controversial statements on raceimmigration and women have led to advertiser boycotts against the show.[12][13]

A vocal opponent of progressivism, Carlson has been called a nationalist.[14] Originally a proponent of libertarian economic policy and a supporter of Ron Paul, Carlson would come to criticize the ideology as being "controlled by the banks" and became an active adherer to protectionism.[5][15] He espouses anti-interventionalist views, and has renounced his initial support of the Iraq War.[5][16]

Tucker: None of Biden's actions help law abiding Americans
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Tucker Carlson examines the new president's top priorities on his first full day in office
CNN Roundly Debunks Tucker Carlson’s COVID-19 Tracker
Fox News host falsely claimed the network had “dutifully removed” its coronavirus ticker after President Joe Biden had taken office.


Jan. 26 - CNN called out Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Friday for lying that the network had removed its COVID-19 tracker after President Joe Biden had taken office.

On Thursday’s episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host trotted out the right-wing talking point that the media only really reported on the coronavirus pandemic as a way to criticize former President Donald Trump when he claimed:


It is Joe Biden’s first day in office, and you know what that means? CNN can finally take that COVID death ticker off the screen. There’s no reason for it now. It’s not like you can blame Joe Biden for some Chinese virus that escaped from a lab in Wuhan. Huh. It wouldn’t be fair. Come on now. CNN dutifully removed it this morning. COVID deaths? Settle down, America. It’s just a bad flu season.

Watch Carlson’s comments below and read a transcript of his falsehood on the Fox News website here...    more



Tucker Carlson stands up for QAnon supporters

Jan. 27 - Over the weekend, the Hawaii Republican Party ventured into some fraught territory: defending adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Its Twitter account cast them as patriots who were “largely motivated by a sincere and deep love for America,” and it blamed the media for being too sensational about it. A top official later resigned over an “error in judgment” in posting the thread.

On Monday night, though, a similar argument made its way onto the airwaves, courtesy of one of the most popular prime-time shows in cable news.


Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson decided to take his own swing at defending QAnon supporters, in a way. Like the Hawaii GOP, he didn’t promote or subscribe to the wild and baseless theory about a mass pedophile ring in the U.S. government, but he cast its adherents as victims of looming persecution, denied basic civil liberties. As with many things on his program, it boiled down to a familiar argument: The mainstream media and powerful forces are trying to silence people and control what you think — that, to use the modern parlance, they’re being “canceled.”     continue to read

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Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and the other Fox News pundits are coming to an uncomfortable realization
The commentators of the Trump era are scraping by with the likes of Josh Hawley right now, but it’s becoming obvious that without power, all they have left are vague emotions

Feb. 4 - ..."14 days in, his opponents on the right are utterly outraged by his actions, specifically at the supposedly “dictatorial” way he has conducted himself during his short time on the job.

What they are referring to is almost 40 executive orders and executive actions Biden has signed, as is his prerogative as commander-in-chief. Yes, it’s a relatively high number for an early presidency, but he‘s got some way to go before catching up with Franklin D Roosevelt’s 3,728.

Many of Biden’s orders specifically repeal ones issued by his predecessor, among them the travel ban that brazenly targeted Muslim countries – imposed by executive order a week into Trump’s presidency – and the 45th president’s wild moves to enforce deregulation and order the building of the wall on the Mexican border.

Among those furious at Biden’s straight-out-the-gate signing spree is none other than Josh Hawley, the Missouri Senator who continued to formally object to Biden’s election even after the Capitol was attacked by Trump supporters.

Hawley — who these days is shouting as loud as he can to anyone who’ll listen that he is “being silenced” — vented his outrage earlier this week to millions of viewers on the right’s go-to morning grievance platform, Fox and Friends. Perhaps he’s worried that the reported Fox News ratings slump will become so bad that there literally won’t be any viewers left"...    source

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

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Department Spokesperson Ned Price introduces Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken before he delivers remarks to the media at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on January 27, 2021.
State Department's 1st openly gay spokesperson sends signal to the world, advocates sayBut his appointment must be followed by action to protect LGBT rights, they say.

Jan. 3 - Just over two decades ago, President Bill Clinton had to use a recess appointment to install the first openly gay U.S. ambassador over Republican senators' opposition. Now, on Tuesday, the State Department's new openly gay spokesperson will hold his first daily press briefing.

That the voice of the Biden administration on the world stage, whose words will be analyzed in foreign capitals and provide direction for U.S. diplomats overseas, will be a gay man is unremarkable, which is itself a remarkable thing.

It also sends a potent message to foreign LGBTQ activists, especially those fighting in countries where same-sex relationships are still criminalized.     more details



Edward "Ned" Price (born 1982) is the spokesman for the United States Department of State. He has served as a political advisor and is a former intelligence officer who worked at the United States Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 until February 2017. On February 20, 2017, Price published an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, outlining his decision to retire from the CIA rather than work in a Donald Trump administration. This piece stirred widespread controversy...

Concerns related to Jared Kushner
In an article published in Politico on July 14, 2017, Price expressed concerns related to the appointment and continued hold of a security clearance of President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. In the article Price reviewed the extensive vetting that he had experienced to gain a security clearance, which lasted approximately a year, and compared that to the security clearance granted to Kushner. Discussing the recent disclosures of the developing information related to Kushner's apparent involvement in a Russian attempt to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, Price said, "I am confident in saying that my clearance would have been immediately revoked had I, as a career CIA officer, been accused of a fraction of these activities."




U.S. State Department spokesperosn Ned Price.

U.S. urges China to stop pressuring Taiwan

Feb. 3 - Washington, Feb 2 (CNA) The United States has urged Beijing to stop putting pressure on Taiwan in multiple spheres in response to a senior Chinese official's comment that Washington should respect Beijing's position on Taiwan.

"We urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic and economic pressure against Taiwan, and instead engage in meaningful dialogue with Taiwan's democratically elected leadership," said State Department spokesman Ned Price Tuesday at his first daily press briefing.


Price was responding to a remark by Yang Jiechi (楊潔篪), a politburo member and head of the Chinese Communist Party's foreign affairs office, made during a speech before the U.S. National Committee on United States-China Relations on Monday.      more details



Trade to be part of Joe Biden's China strategy, not driving force: Ex-USTR official

The Biden administration would be pressured to engage on trade in the Asia-Pacific region by pacts such as the Regional Cooperation Economic Partnership (RCEP) in Asia, and China's Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) with Europe, said Cutler, who is currently vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute.

Feb. 3 - Trade will be a part of President Joe Biden's overall negotiation policy with China, but it won't be the driving force in Sino-U.S. relations, as it was under former President Donald Trump, a former official at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said on Wednesday.

"There are fundamental differences on a host of issues between the United States and China that will be difficult to resolve," Wendy Cutler, former assistant trade representative at the USTR, told the Reuters Global Markets Forum.     more details

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, October 29, 2019.
Iranian foreign minister asks Europe to co-ordinate US return to nuclear deal

Javad Zarif calls on EU foreign policy chief to take role in deciding what Tehran and Washington must do before talks


Feb. 2 - Iran's foreign minister has asked the EU to co-ordinate a return of Washington and Tehran into a nuclear deal, after a standoff on who will act first.

President Joe Biden has voiced support for returning to the accord, from which his predecessor Donald Trump withdrew, but has insisted that Tehran first return to full compliance by reversing measures it took to protest against reimposed sanctions.

Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who had demanded an end to sanctions before Iran acts, offered a way forward.

"You know clearly there can be a mechanism to basically either synchronise it, or coordinate what can be done," he told CNN International.

Mr Zarif said that EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell should play a role as co-ordinator of the Iran deal, which included Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China.

Mr Borrell should lay out "the actions that are needed to be taken by the US and the actions that are needed to be taken by Iran", Mr Zarif said.


US Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week warned that the return of the nuclear deal would "take some time" as Iran first needed to "come back into compliance".     source


Demonstrators scuffle with law enforcement officers during a rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Saint Petersburg, Russia January 31, 2021.
Kremlin dubs some protesters ‘hooligans & provocateurs,’ says appeal for US sanctions proves Navalny’s team are ‘foreign agents’


Feb. 2 - Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has defended the police’s decision to take tough measures to detain and disperse supporters of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny at rallies across the country over the weekend.Speaking to journalists on Monday, Dmitry Peskov said that the demonstrations attracted “quite a large number of hooligans and provocateurs,” which, he argued, explained the violent clashes with authorities. However, he added, the use of force had to be carefully monitored, even if it was necessary in the face of “illegal actions.”

The Kremlin press secretary added that there was no prospect of dialogue with those causing unrest in the streets and that the minority responsible for violence should be dealt with “in full strictness of the law.” “As for other people,” he added, “there are all the tools for expressing your point of view within the law at your disposal.”     source
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US Foreign Policy and Great Power Politics

Feb. 2 - ..."The most significant shift involved U.S.-China relations. China changed by adopting a far more aggressive foreign policy, antagonizing its neighbors from India to Mongolia to Vietnam and other Southeast Asian states. China even managed to rouse the ire of Australians and Canadians. Beijing under President Xi Jinping appears to have no interest in a charm offensive. Through the provocative maneuvers of its fighter jets and warships, China has stoked genuine concerns in Japan and Taiwan.

While China became more aggressive, America under Trump changed from viewing China as a peer competitor to seeing it as an outright threat. Trump also upended long-standing American policies through his near indifference to human rights abuses, his interpretation of the national interest that lessened the utility of traditional alliances, and his extreme undervaluing of diplomacy as a key tool in foreign affairs. He also made America more susceptible to being played by rivals, from the Taliban to Pakistan to North Korea"...     source

Sunday, January 31, 2021

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Thousands detained in Russia amid rallies for Alexey Navalny

Feb. 1, Moscow (CNN)Record numbers of protesters were detained in Russia on Sunday, as demonstrations erupted across the country in support of detained opposition leader Alexey Navalny.

At least 5,045 people were detained, with more than 1,600 in Moscow alone. That marks a record-high in detentions since 2011, when OVD-Info, an independent site that monitors arrests, started recording such figures.

Among those detained on Sunday was Navalny's wife, Yulia Navalnaya, who was later released.Navalny's team has said that the "next stop" for demonstrations will be on Tuesday, when a Moscow court considers Navalny's case on fraud charges and establishes whether his suspended sentence should be replaced with a real jail term.

"Today's protest is over, but we continue to fight for Alexey Navalny's freedom," the team posted on their Telegram channel at 6:20 p.m. local time.

Navalny was detained on January 17, moments after arriving in Moscow, following months of treatment in Germany after being poisoned in August 2020 with nerve agent Novichok. He blamed the poisoning on the Russian government, an allegation the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.

Protests across country
Earlier on Sunday, supporters of Navalny said they were planning protests in at least 120 cities across the vast country, starting at noon local time in each location.     continue to read


Alexei Anatolievich Navalny[b] (Russian: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj]; born 4 June 1976) is a Russian opposition leader, politician, lawyer, and anti-corruption activist. He came to international prominence by organizing demonstrations and running for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Putin's government. Navalny has been described as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most" by The Wall Street Journal.[3] Putin avoids directly referring to Navalny by name.[4] Navalny was a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member. He is the leader of the Russia of the Future party and the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).[5]

Navalny has more than six million YouTube subscribers and more than two million Twitter followers.[6][7] Through these channels, he publishes materials about corruption in Russia, organizes political demonstrations and promotes his campaigns. In a 2011 radio interview, he described Russia's ruling party, United Russia, as a "party of crooks and thieves", which became a popular epithet.[8] Navalny and the FBK have published investigations detailing alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian officials. In March 2017, they released the documentary He Is Not Dimon to You, accusing Dmitry Medvedev, the then prime minister and former president of Russia, of corruption, leading to mass protests across the country.[9] In January 2021, following Navalny's arrest and the release of the documentary A Palace for Putin which accused Putin of corruption, mass protests across the country were held.     continue to read

Police officers detain a man during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021

Alexei Navalny: More than 5,000 arrested across Russia as tens of thousands protest


Feb. 1 - Russian police arrested more than 5,000 people on Sunday at protests to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Protests took place in multiple Russian cities, from Siberia and Russia's far east to St Petersburg and the capital, Moscow, in the biggest show of public dissent in Russia in years.


"My Russia is in prison!" a dozen demonstrators gathered in Vladivostok chanted, according to images published by the local branch of the organisation of the Russian opposition leader.
"There are few people this time because the police and the riot police had blocked the place in advance," 25-year-old protester Andrei said. "But as you can see, no one is afraid".
Other chants targeted Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Over 5,000 people have been detained by police across Russia's 11 time zones, according to monitoring group OVD-Info.     continue to read
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Friday, January 29, 2021

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Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational corporation founded in 1886 that develops medical devices, pharmaceutical, and consumer packaged goods. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is ranked No. 37 on the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. Johnson & Johnson is one of the world's most valuable companies.

Johnson & Johnson is headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the consumer division being located in Skillman, New Jersey. The corporation includes some 250 subsidiary companies with operations in 60 countries and products sold in over 175 countries. Johnson & Johnson had worldwide sales of $70.1 billion during calendar year 2015.[6] Johnson & Johnson's brands include numerous household names of medications and first aid supplies. Among its well-known consumer products are the Band-Aid Brand line of bandages, Tylenol medications, Johnson's Baby products, Neutrogena skin and beauty productsClean & Clear facial wash and Acuvue contact lenses. Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical arm is Janssen Pharmaceutica.[7]

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Jan 30, 2021
Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine 72 percent effective in U.S., one-on-one with Dr. Anthony Fauci, and family speaks out after daughter body-slammed by school resource officer.



President Joe Biden tours the COVID-19 vaccine center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Jan. 29, 2021, in Bethesda, Md. 

Biden administration readies battle plan as Covid variants reach the U.S.

Biden’s quest to beat back the pandemic is at a critical juncture.


Jan. 30 - New research suggesting that several Covid-19 vaccines are less effective against a variant first found in South Africa has increased pressure on President Joe Biden’s administration to speed inoculations and enforce basic public health measures like wearing masks.

Johnson & Johnson said Friday that its hotly anticipated vaccine was 66 percent effective overall at preventing moderate and severe illness. But that figure dropped to just 57 percent in South Africa, where a more transmissible Covid-19 variant called B.1.351 dominates. Vaccine makers Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax also revealed this week that their shots show reduced potency against the variant.     continue to read

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Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C., Hotel Has Turned Into A ‘Dead Zone’ Since He Left Office, Report Says

Jan. 30 - ..."According to Reuters, that the lender had grown weary of the bad publicity that came with the scandal-prone commander-in-chief, and would be coming to collect the roughly $340 million in outstanding debt to the Trump Organization. The outlet added that the bank could ultimately seize some of the company’s real estate assets if they were unable to pay in full."...

...Since Joe Biden was sworn in, Trump moved out of the nation’s capital and into his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where he had spent a considerable amount of time during his four years in office.     source





Donald Trump now official lives at his high-priced country club Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida.
Donald Trump facing eviction from Mar-a-Lago over rule breach

Jan. 30 - ...Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago on January 20, skipping the inauguration for President Joe Biden.

"This matter is under legal review by our Town Attorney, John 'Skip' Randolph," Palm Beach Town Manager Krik Blouin told CNN via email, adding that "Mr. Randolph is reviewing the Declaration of Use Agreement and our Code of Ordinances to determine if former President Trump can live at Mar-a-Lago."

CNN has reached out directly to Randolph but he has not responded for a request for additional information. It was unclear when the review would be done but Blouin said that the issue may be an agenda item for the upcoming town council meeting scheduled for February 9. An agenda for the meeting has not been publicly posted yet.
The Trump Organisation insisted in a statement to CNN in December, "There is no document or agreement in place that prohibits President Trump from using Mar-A-Lago as his residence."

Many once-loyal members of Mar-a-Lago are leaving because they no longer want to have any connection to Trump, according to the author of the definitive book about the resort.

"It's a very dispirited place," Laurence Leamer, historian and author of "Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump's Presidential Palace," told MSNBC. He said members are "not concerned about politics and they said the food is no good"...     source

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