(Zero Hedge) Breaking a 5-day silence over its response for the US killing of General Qassem Soleimani, on Tuesday Iran said it was assessing 13 scenarios to inflict a “historic nightmare” on the US. “Even if the weakest of these scenarios gain a consensus, its implementation can be a historic nightmare for the Americans,” Ali Shamkhani, the head of Iran’s national security council, was cited by Fars news agency, adding that, “For now, for intelligence reasons, we cannot provide more information to the media.”
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Biden Caught In ‘Flat-Out Lie’ Over Bin Laden Raid
(Zero Hedge) Joe Biden can’t seem to get his story straight regarding the 2011 Bin Laden raid, in which a team of SEALs stormed into the terrorist leader’s Pakistan compound, killed him, then dumped the body in the ocean in accordance with Islamic principles.
“No More Threats” – Trump Warns Iran “52 Targets Will Be Hit Very Fast & Hard”
(Zero Hedge) Following Saturday’s [sic] mortar attacks, and bellicosity from various Iranian (and Iran-backed) leaders, President Trump has responded in words (for now), warning Iran in three short words: “no more threats!”
Iraq General Denies Unconfirmed Reports Of “Massive Explosions” At US Military Base In Iraq
(Zero Hedge) Update: according to WaPo reported Mustafa Salim the Iraqi 7th division commander has “completely denied” any attack took place:
Trump Jabs Dems Over Iran Reaction, Rages That ‘Killer’ Soleimani “Should Have Been Taken Out Years Ago!”
(Zero Hedge) Update (0900ET): President Trump has expanded his comments this morning, switching focus to Soleimani’s terrible deeds…
2020 Just Began, And Weird Things Are Already Starting To Happen All Over The World
(Michael Snyder) Many of us are expecting 2020 to be a very unusual year, and it certainly didn’t take long for the weirdness to start. In this article I am going to share several examples of this weirdness with you, and I have a feeling that this is just the beginning of what we are going to experience over the next 12 months.
Christopher Steele Used John McCain To Funnel Claims To James Comey: Report
(Zero Hedge) A Joe Biden event on Sunday at a New Hampshire Middle School gymnasium was interrupted by two protesters, who assailed ‘quid pro Joe’ with accusations of being a ‘pervert’ and making money in Ukraine.
BUSTED: Twitter Scrubs Viral Trump Retweet Of Alleged Hoaxblower’s Name; Blames Glitch Before Banning User
(Zero Hedge) Twitter blamed a computer glitch after President Trump’s retweet of a post containing the name alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella mysteriously disappeared from his timeline. After ‘fixing’ the issue and restoring the retweet, the user was simply bannedfrom the platform so that nobody could see the tweet, which quickly went viral.
No Rule of Law: CBC Deletes Trump Scene From Home Alone 2 Broadcast
(Justin Deschamps) Permit me to go on a rant I’ve been wanting to dispense for some time. You’ll see how it relates to this story when you’re done reading.
BUSTED, Maddow Meltdown: In Defense To OAN Lawsuit, Host Argues Her Words Are Not Facts
(Zero Hedge) Back in September, we reported that TV network OAN had filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow for the time the host said that OAN “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.”
Hillary Clinton’s Six Foreign-Policy Catastrophes
(Eric Zuesse) Though Hillary Clinton will, of course, be the direct topic here, we are now in the primaries-season for the 2020 elections, and almost all of the contenders for the Democratic Party nomination — and especially Biden, Buttigieg, and all of the others, except for Sanders and Gabbard — are foreign-policy clones of Ms. Clinton and of her former boss Mr. Obama.
Explosive: Epstein “Admitted To Me He Was A Spy”, Ex-Biz Partner Warns “He’s Got Prince Andrew Pinned To The Wall”
(Dylan Howard) Steven Hoffenberg was arrested by FBI agents in Arkansas in 1996, after regulators accused him of defrauding investors. The former business partner of Jeffrey Epstein in Towers Financial spent 18 years in jail for the largest Ponzi schemes in history prior to Bernie Madoff’s crimes. But the notorious sex criminal got away scot-free. Why? In a series of new and exclusives conversations, Hoffenberg reveals the real reason he evaded justice in one of America’s largest Ponzi schemes—he was an international spy.
BREAKING: House Democrats Mull Second Impeachment
(Zero Hedge) House Democrats may conduct a second impeachment of President Trump, according to lawyers for the Judiciary Committee.
The Fake Impeachment: Pelosi’s Botched Ploy Helps Trump Towards Victory
(Joaquin Flores) And so it came to pass, that in the deep state’s frenzy of electoral desperation, the ‘impeachment’ card was played. The hammer has fallen. Nearly the entirety of the legacy media news cycle has been dedicated to the details, and not really pertinent details, but the sorts of details which presume the validity of the charges against Trump in the first place. Yes, they all beg the question. What’s forgotten here is that the use of this process along clearly partisan lines, and more – towards clearly partisan aims – is a very serious symptom of the larger undoing of any semblance of stability in the US government.
Mass Shooting In Chicago House Party Leaves 13 Wounded, Where’s The Media Outrage?
(Zero Hedge) AP News is reporting that an overnight mass shooting in Chicago’s South Side left 13 people wounded, four are in critical condition on Sunday morning.