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Iran is believed to have deliberately avoided U.S. military casualties during retaliatory missile strikes on bases housing American troops in Iraq, following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general, according to U.S. and European government sources familiar with intelligence assessments. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Wednesday the Iranians were thought to have targeted the attacks to miss U.S. forces to prevent the crisis from escalating out of control while still signaling Iranian resolve in response to the U.S. killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq last week.

VIDEO My big takeaway from watching the funeral of that "gentle poet" Qasem Soleimani in Iran was that Martha Raddatz, despite being made to wear the Iranian version of the Handmaid's Tale outfit, will come back to the USA with nary a word of criticism about that. Meanwhile liberals hypocritically continue portraying President Trump and conservatives of not so secretly wishing to impose a Handmaid's Tale type of dystopian future on America while we actually have a REAL LIFE Handmaid's Tale existence in Iran that they are reluctant to criticize.

While President Trump didn’t speak to the nation last night, despite reporting to that effect by CNN (Read CNN Reported Trump Would Speak to the Nation Last Night Once Again Getting It WRONG), he did speak just a short while ago. The subject was Iran.The video is cued to the beginning to the beginning of President Trump’s statement Key PointsBefore President Trump uttered the official greeting of the speech he said, “As long as I am President of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.”Iran’s nuclear program clearly is a major issue with President...

Last night was full of drama. Iran let off contemptible and laughable Potemkin attacks on two facilities that housed a small number of US personnel (the installation with the most US personnel, Balad airbase, was not hit) #BREAKING: Operation #Soleimani = Propaganda!#IRGC just wanted to raise morale of its personnel tonight! According to spokesman of #CENTCOM, #IRGC|ASF launched 10 (Fateh-313) missiles at Ain al-Asad without causing any harm to anyone & 5 (Qiam-1) at #Erbil among them 4 are lost! pic.twitter.com/MybSWsEPJm— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) January 8, 2020 Then, victory celebrations, led by regime thugs, spontaneously broke out #BREAKING: While #IRGC...

At CNN's Climate Town Hall, which set out to save the world by having ten of the 2020 Democrat presidential candidates, their staffers, drug dealers, and mistresses fly out to appear in the fake news network's facilities, Senator Bernie Sanders proposed saving the planet by killing the children. A concerned questioner at a forum being held in a green mega complex built on the site of a former slaughterhouse, appropriately enough, urged Sanders to discuss the importance of "educating everyone on the need to curb population growth." "Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday condemned President Trump's decision to impose further economic sanctions on Iran, saying that the move was not a "measured response" in the wake of escalating tensions in the Middle East. During a public address from the White House, Trump announced that the U.S. would implement "punishing" sanctions on the Iranian regime as it evaluated a response to Tehran's overnight missile attack on Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops. The attack followed a U.S. airstrike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, one of the most powerful officials in Iran and the leader of its elite Quds...

Screenshot from this video  As we reported, MSNBC spread an unverified rumor from Iranian media about the Iranian missile strikes on U.S. forces killing 30 Americans. Now they couldn’t verify and said so, but ran with it anyway. It was of course picked up and spread everywhere on social media. At about the same time, U.S. officials were releasing their initial reports and saying that there had been no casualties. So of course, what did MSNBC run with? The Iranian propaganda. Chris Hayes tried to justify running it, claiming they told everyone it was state media and unverified. Somehow...

Virginia Democrats have introduced a revised ban on so-called “assault weapons” that requires existing gun owners to register their firearms with the state, and also bans outright the possession of magazines that can hold more than ten rounds as well as a ban on suppressors and “trigger activators”. According to the legislative summary by Delegate Mark Levine, HB 961:

An archaeologist has admitted that around 1,400 cuneiform tablets might have been stolen from Irisagrig, a 4,000-year-old lost Sumerian city in modern day Iraq. While the robbers obviously know the location of the ancient city, the authorities don’t! In a Live Science article we learn that ‘only looters have the location’ of this ancient city and perplexed archaeologists said this haul of newly examined tablets describes not only the palace of Irisagrig and the animals kept on the grounds, including lions and dogs; but that they also detail a festival held in a temple dedicated to a god of mischief....

Saturday Jan 11, 2020, 12:00pm Arkansas Defense Force La Loma Mexican Grill 790 Cash Rd SW Camden, AR 71701 https://www.facebook.com/TheArkansasMilitia//_____________________ Monday Jan 13th 10am Hearings on fake Refugees Arkansas State Capitol MAC building Room A https://www.facebook.com/events/arkansas-state-capitol/hearings-on-more-refugees-placed-in-arkansas/605010280071943/_____________________________ Tuesday Jan 14th special election tax increases all across the state 2020-01-14 Stuttgart School Special Arkansas County 2020-01-14 2020 Gurdon Mill Election Clark County 2020-01-14 2020 SP HSC Election Cleburne County 2020-01-14 2020 SP ETB School Millage Columbia County 2020-01-14 VALLEY VIEW SCHOOLSPEC Craighead County 2020-01-14 2020 school election Jackson& Poinsette County 2020-01-14 2020 SPECIAL SCHOOL ETB Lafayette 2020-01-14 WHITE HALL SP ELECTION Jefferson...

A man shelled out $60,000 for a “priceless, rare” piece of pop culture history — a single Pokemon card — and is now suing because it vanished from a Queens shipping depot, according to court papers obtained by The Post. Pokemon-loving plaintiff Marwan Alkhaja, 38, of Dubai says in his Brooklyn federal-court suit that he bought the “Trainer No. 3’’ card online from a US seller on eBay in August 2018. “This is not ‘just a Pokemon card,’ ” Alkhaja’s lawyer, Mark Zaid, told The Post. “Nothing that is mid-five figures is ‘just a card,’ and it is one of...

This has been a masterful display on the part of Donald Trump and a shameful one on the parts of democrats and the left wing media. Once more he plays chess to their checkers. “Assassination!” spits Chris Matthews. Trump is on the verge of a 9-11 attack on Iran!, screams Ed Markey “This could very well be war!” cries Elliot Engel“Endless war!” wails Chuck Schumer NY Times: Soleimani is like Martin Luther King! Richard Engel of NBC is scared to death that Trump might taunt IranThat jerk Seth Moulton: “Maybe Trump will kill Putin next!” Iran mounted an attack in response to the termination of Soleimani –...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have called for a ceasefire to end the conflict in Libya. The two leaders are seen to back rival sides in a conflict being fought in an increasing number of states. After talks in Istanbul, Mr Erdogan and Mr Putin said the ceasefire should come into force at midnight on Sunday.

SACRAMENTO — California will open vacant state land to emergency shelters for homeless people under an executive order that Gov. Gavin Newsom intends to sign Wednesday. The order, which Newsom announced ahead of his annual budget plan due this week, would also create a fund to pay rent and build affordable housing for homeless people. The governor will propose to start the fund with $750 million in taxpayer money, which the Legislature would have to approve. With the homeless population surging by double-digit percentages in many cities across the state, and California coming under fire from President Trump for its...

Another quarterback is leaving school early for the NFL. Georgia’s Jake Fromm announced Wednesday that he will forgo his senior season in Athens and declare for the 2020 NFL draft.

"What we’re doing is a means to an end. Now you agree with the end, don’t you? Well then you must agree with the means. You can’t have one without the other." Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) is the story of a mentally unstable woman (played by Kim Stanley) who believes that she communicates with the dead. Her hubris demands that she control and improve her fate, so she turns to crime as a means of satisfying her goals. Myra’s plan, which she believes is the idea of her dead child, Arthur, is worked out matter-of-factly to the...

HIV patients lose immunity to smallpox even though they were vaccinated against the disease as children and have had much of their immune system restored with antiretroviral therapy, according to a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Called HIV-associated immune amnesia, the finding could explain why people living with HIV still tend to have shorter lives on average than their HIV-negative counterparts despite being on antiretroviral therapy. The study follows other research recently published in the journals Science and Science Immunology that found the immune systems of children who contracted measles similarly "forgot" their immunity against other illnesses...

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are stepping back from their roles as senior members of the British royal family and plan to work towards becoming "financially independent," the couple announced on Instagram on Wednesday. "After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year" they wrote, explaining that they hope to "carve out a progressive new role within this institution." "We intend to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen," they said.

Give the Murdochs credit for knowing how to make a splashy debut. Their UK-based tabloid The Sun launched its US version today, called The US Sun, and keeps its tabloid sensibilities intact with an exposé of Bill Clinton’s journey on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet. No one alleges that specific improprieties took place on the 2002 flight, and in fact their key source describes Clinton as “a great guy.” However, anytime you’re explaining your photo ops with Ghislaine Maxwell and an Epstein victim, you’re losing: BILL Clinton poses side-by-side with suspected pimp Ghislaine Maxwell – as the pair board pedophile...

A series of photographs taken at sunrise during the December 26th solar eclipse has gone viral on social media because it gives the appearance of “red devil horns.” The Sun reports that amateur astrophotographer Elias Chasiotis was on holiday in Al Wakrah, Qatar, waiting for sunrise when the eclipse was believed to be most visible in the Persian Gulf. Click on The Sun’s article and you will see Chasiotis’ complete series of photos as the sun rose during the eclipse. The Sun ✔ @TheSun Incredible ‘red devil horns’ sunrise photos captured during rare solar eclipse mirage over the ocean 🌝...