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DOB -- The New ID
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by Tom McLaughlin  
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Lindsey Graham: Senate Intelligence 
Committee will call Ukraine whistleblower
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by Daniel Chaitin
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Senate Intelligence Committee plans to call the whistleblower whose complaint was the impetus for impeachment proceedings against President Trump, according to a top Republican senator... With impeachment headed to a likely acquittal next week, Sen. Lindsey Graham described on Sunday how Republicans in the chamber are gearing up for investigations on three fronts. "The Senate Intel Committee under Richard Burr has told us that they will call the whistleblower," the South Carolina Republican said on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures. "I want to understand how all this crap started," he added. The impeachment effort began to take root with the emergence last year of a whistleblower complaint raising concerns about a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the American leader pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens and other Democrats. The complaint, which the intelligence community inspector general determined to be urgent and credible, was submitted by a CIA analyst whose identity has never been publicly confirmed. Republicans have accused House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, who is now the lead impeachment manager, of being "complicit" with the whistleblower because the person met with a House Intelligence Committee aide seeking guidance before filing the complaint and because the California Democrat recruited two former National Security Council aides who worked alongside the CIA official some believe to be the whistleblower at the NSC in the scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump administrations. "If the whistleblower is a former employee of — associate of loose lips liar-Joe Biden, I think that would be important. If the whistleblower was working with people on scumbag/liar-Schiff’s staff that wanted to take Trump down a year-and-a-half ago, I think that would be important. If the scumbag/liar-Schiff staff people helped write the complaint, that would be important. We’re going to get to the bottom of all of this to make sure this never happens again," Graham said...
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US seeks normalization of 
ties between Israel, Arab states
By OMRI NAHMIAS
{ jpost.com } ~ The US is actively pursuing normalization between Israel and numerous Arab countries in the Middle East... a senior White House official told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday just a day after the Arab League rejected the administration’s new peace plan. “We are getting close on our work on normalization,” the official said.  The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive relations between the White House and Arab countries, said that three measures were currently on the agenda: non-belligerency agreements with Israel, direct flights between Israel and Arab countries, and allowing Israel officials to attend events in Arab countries. "We have been working behind the scenes to get it ready," he said.  Last week, ambassadors from Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates attended the unveiling of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan, often referred to as the “Deal of the Century.” Their attendance was seen as a warming of ties between Israel and the Arab world. The remarks from the US official came in wake of the Palestinian decision to reject the administration's peace plan. A few media reports indicated frustration among Arab countries from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' decision not to take a call from President Donald Trump just days before the White House ceremony. However, the official noted that moving forward with normalization between Israel and Arab countries is not a step meant to replace the peace plan. "It's an initiative led by Jared Kushner, together with his work on the peace plan," the official said. "It is a separate track that the team has been working on for a while. After we released the plan, we saw that the reaction in the Arab street is very moderate and that many of the Arab leaders were ready to do it," the official continued. "When only Turkey and Iran said that they are against the plan, people in the Arab world realized that a line had been drawn."  The official wouldn't say when the first agreement would be reached. "We don't like to set timelines, but there is a ton of momentum," for official added.   https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-seeks-normalization-of-ties-between-Israel-Arab-states-616261 
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 U.S. Universities Set up Front-Line 
Defenses to Keep Coronavirus at Bay
by ijr.com ~ On its sprawling campus in America’s heartland, thousands of miles from China, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has taken aggressive steps... to keep the fast-spreading coronavirus away from its classrooms and students. The school, with one of the highest percentages of Chinese students among U.S. universities, has suspended academic programs in China for the spring semester and banned students from traveling to the country for academic-related matters. It has advised faculty and staff to follow federal travel advisories that, as of Friday, warned against going to China. “We want to take all of the precautions we can so, in the worst-case scenario, we keep our community healthy,” said Robin Kaler, associate chancellor for public affairs at the University of Illinois, 135 miles (217 km) south of Chicago, where the first human-to-human transmission of the disease in the United States was confirmed last week. More than 350,000 Chinese students are pursuing higher education in the United States and 10,000 American students are enrolled in academic programs in China. The sheer number of the students, many of whom have traveled to their home country in recent weeks, makes schools a potential incubator for a widespread outbreak in the United States, given the close proximity of dormitory life. “Colleges and universities are very much on the front line of those because of our role as global institutions,” Sarah Van Orman, chief health officer at the University of Southern California (USC) said. “The challenge is making sure that we are being prudent without overstating the risk.” In dealing with the new outbreak, officials at U.S. colleges and universities can draw from their experiences with previous public health scares, including the 2003 outbreak of the SARS coronavirus...
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Alleged Al Qaeda Leader Arrested In Arizona, 
Where He Taught Driving School
by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ A man who the Iraqi government says was the leader of an Al Qaeda cell who took part in the murders of two Iraqi police officers was arrested Thursday in Phoenix... where he reportedly taught driving school.  Authorities arrested Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, 42, following an extradition request from Iraq, federal prosecutors said Friday. An Iraqi judge issued a warrant for Al-Nouri’s arrest on May 12, 2019 on charges that he took part in the premeditated murder of two police officers in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2006.  Prosecutors said that the Iraqis believe Al-Nouri was a leader of the Al Qaeda cell in Fallujah, a stronghold for the terrorist group, which Osama bin Laden led at the time. A complaint against Al-Nouri unsealed Friday says that he led an Al Qaeda group on a mission to kill Iraqi police officers. The group allegedly ambushed and murdered officer Issam Ahmed Hussein on June 1, 2006 and officer Khalid Ibrahim Mohammad on Oct. 3, 2006. Al-Nouri will be held in federal custody until his extradition hearing, where a judge will review information the Iraqis provided. It is unclear when Al-Nouri came to the U.S. He ran A-Plus Driving School in Phoenix,  according to The Arizona Republic. Business records show that Al-Nouri formed the company on June 22, 2016. How did he ever get into the USA.
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A Global Catastrophe: "260 Million Christians Experience High Levels of Persecution"
by Raymond Ibrahim
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The global persecution of Christians has reached unprecedented levels: "260 million Christians experience high levels of persecution" around the world... notes the recently published Open Doors World Watch List 2020, an annual report that ranks the top 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted for their faith. Additionally, "2,983 Christians were killed for faith-related reasons. On average, that's 8 Christians killed every day for their faith": "9,488 churches or Christian buildings were attacked," and "3,711 Christians were detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned." Note: All quotes in this article are from the World Watch List 2020 report. Dictatorial paranoia continues to make North Korea (#1) the worst nation. "If North Korean Christians are discovered, they are deported to labor camps as political criminals or even killed on the spot." Otherwise, and as has been the case in all statistics and reports on the global persecution of Christians, not only does "Islamic oppression" remain the chief "source of persecution" faced by Christians in seven of the absolute ten worst nations, but 38 of the 50 nations composing the list are either Muslim-majority or have a sizeable Muslim population. The overwhelming majority of these Muslim nations are governed by some form of shari'a Islamic law. It is either directly enforced by government or society or, more frequently, both, though societies — family members in particular — tend to be more zealous in its application. Brief summaries of the seven Muslim nations making the top ten follow: Afghanistan (#2), In Somalia (#3), In Libya (#4), Pakistan (#5), In Sudan (#7), In Yemen (#8), In Iran (#9), Africa...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15507/christians-persecution-global-catastrophe 
Alarm sounded on brand-new 
and even scarier EMP threat
by wnd.com ~ Triggering a devastating electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack that could kill millions is easier than many believe... according to a report by the Military Cyber Professionals Association.  But the report describes another method of generating an attack as the "poor man's EMP nuke." An "amateur or terrorist" organization could easily generate an EMP that would disable the infrastructure or the electric grid through devices such as a Tesla coil or a Marx generator. Invented in 1891 by Nikola Tesla, the coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. A Marx generator is an electrical circuit, first described by Erwin Otto Marx in 1924, that generates a high-voltage pulse from a low-voltage DC supply." Another device that can be an EMP source is the camera flash. This device may be an issue if a terrorist connects it to the wiring of a fly-by-wire jet," the report said. EMP is a high energy, short duration discharge of radio frequency energy that can disable electromechanical devices. "It's particularly toxic at lower energy levels to microprocessors and computers," the report said. "It can be created by a hydrogen bomb explosion at an altitude far above the surface of the Earth. A Marx generator or Tesla coil can also generate it. Other sources of EMP can be naturally occurring phenomena: Lightning, solar flares, and coronal mass discharges from the Sun can also produce EMP," the report said. The threat from an EMP has been proven, the report noted. In 1962, the starfish hydrogen bomb test knocked out 300 street lights and telephone service in Hawaii, 890 miles away. "A potent coil can be built for about $2000 within the means of any amateur or terrorist. The ground connects the whole electrical system, and there is no remediation if you create impulses into the ground system. When you open a circuit breaker with 3-phase power, it does not disconnect the ground," the report said. That should be a worry...  https://www.wnd.com/2020/02/alarm-sounded-brand-new-even-scarier-emp-threat/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking   
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DOB -- The New ID
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by Tom McLaughlin  
{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ What’s your date of birth? That’s increasingly how the world knows you. Mine is April 7, 1951. Even to get meals in the hospital they ask me for my DOB. I spent most of last week there for a chronic medical condition you never heard of: Buerger’s Disease. That’s not to be confused with Berger’s Disease which is a kidney problem. Mine, with the “U,” manifests in blood vessels. I get aneurysms and blood clots —so far all in my left leg — and I’ve had seven bypasses over the past 35 years all in the same place (so far), inside my left knee.  
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Vascular surgeons take veins from other places and make them into arteries to get around the clots but I’m running out of suitable veins. Last week, my new surgeon used plastic to firm up an aneurysm and a fabric tube to channel blood. This incision is fifteen inches long. There are scars up and down both legs from groin to ankle. Nearly all of us have something we struggle with. This is my thing.  
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My brother, Dan 
The only other person I ever knew with Buerger’s Disease was my brother and he was dead at 57 by which time he’d lost all his fingers and both legs above the knee. He couldn’t stop smoking and it’s tobacco products that accelerate the disease. I could, so I still have all my parts. For that, I’m grateful. Blood is still getting to my foot — today — so it’s still alive. I’m learning to stay in the day and today is good. I’m getting around with a walker; soon I’ll graduate to a cane; then to a limp. After that I hope to resume running — not too far. I don’t get enough blood down there to go far, but I can still go few hundred yards before cramping up. I hate doing it, but it feels good afterward.
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Between three and four million people were born in the USA during 1951. Divide 3.5 million by 365 and you get 9589 born on April 7, 1951. At my 50th high school reunion last fall, I learned that about a third of my class of 1969 are dead. That would be 3164 of the 9589 Americans born on my birthday leaving 6425 — approximately how many Americans born on 4/7/51 are alive today. Darn few of them are named McLaughlin, so, that’s how I’m known: “McLaughlin 4/7/51.” At 68, I’ve lived about 25,000 days. How many more? I don’t go there. I stay in this day.  
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I’m asked about my birthday so often I’ve started making light of the question. “You don’t have to get me anything,” I answer. “Just a card or a happy birthday on Facebook is fine.” At least dozens, maybe a hundred times lately, I’ve been asked if I’m allergic to anything. “I’m developing an allergy to Democrats,” I’ll quip. Some people chuckle at that, but most declare vehemently: “No politics! That’s off limits.” “Okay,” I say, “How about humor? Is that off limits too?”  
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Another thing I’ve been asked a lot is: “Have you had any anxiety or depression lately?” First I just look at them for a second, then say, “Only when I watch the debates.” Most let that go without getting upset.  
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My brother and I were each diagnosed with Buerger’s Disease when we were 33 years old. He was born April 1, 1955 — almost exactly four years after I was. We had identical surgeries by the same doctor at Mass General. We were even in the same room four years apart. I stopped smoking but continued going to pool tournaments at smoky pool halls and my disease progressed. My aneurysms and clots diminished only when I gave that up too. My brother couldn't quit tobacco and ultimately died after enduring 52 separate amputations. From him, I learned the power of addiction.
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Me in the middle. Dan second from right. 
 Near his end, he was contacted by one of the Florida attorneys involved in the multi-billion dollar tobacco settlement of 1998. Though Buerger’s Disease is rare, it’s very easily linked to tobacco in all forms and he wanted to represent my brother in another lawsuit. For him to appear in court minus so many of his parts would, of course, be dramatic, and the tobacco companies would likely settle long before that. He wanted me to join the suit but I refused. That caused a rift between us. I always knew smoking was bad and so did he. No one forced us to do it. The suit was thrown out, but not because of his death. The attorney could have continued on behalf of his estate. It was because of something to do with the statute of limitations between when he was diagnosed and when his suit was filed.
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I have a cemetery plot and a stone engraved with my birthdate. Someone else will arrange to engrave the next date. No hurry.  
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