(Reuters) - Testimony by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen planned for Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee has been postponed as he recovers from a recent surgical procedure, an attorney for Cohen said.
"The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has accepted Mr. Cohen’s request for postponement of tomorrow’s hearing due to post surgery medical needs," Lanny Davis said in a statement to media. "A future date will be announced by the Committee."
Cohen’s surgery was on his shoulder, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Cohen, who is set to go to prison on March 6, had been subpoenaed to appear before the Senate committee, one of two main congressional panels investigating whether Russia interfered in the U.S. 2016 presidential election.
Trump has said repeatedly there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia and has called Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation a witch hunt. Moscow denies meddling in the election, despite U.S. intelligence agencies’ conclusion of Russian interference.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] In an undercover video released Wednesday, a former technician for a tissue-harvesting company details how an aborted baby was kept alive so that its heart could be harvested at a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party. facility, raising more legal questions about the group’s practices.
Holly O’Donnell, a former blood and tissue procurement technician for the biotech startup StemExpress, also said she was asked to harvest an intact brain from the late-term, male fetus whose heart was still beating after the abortion.
A StemExpress supervisor "gave me the scissors and told me that I had to cut down the middle of the face. And I can’t even describe what that feels like," said Ms. O’Donnell, who has been featured in earlier videos by the Center for Medical Progress, a pro-life group that previously had released six undercover clips involving Planned Parenthood personnel and practices.
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Do you want me to end this place now? Or wait for the better time like when 20,000 more people are done this way?
[NYPOST] President Trump later Monday is expected to sign an executive order instructing the federal government to prioritize and dedicate resources to artificial intelligence, the White House said.
The initiative, titled "Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence," urges "bold, decisive actions to ensure that AI continues to be fueled by American ingenuity, reflects American values and is applied for the benefit of the American people," a senior Trump administration official said in a background briefing Sunday evening.
In his State of the Union speech last week, Trump called for "investments in cutting edge industries" and the AI initiative is aimed to boost America’s leadership in the field.
The plan leaves the funding details up to Congress but directs federal agencies to assist workers in getting AI skills through fellowships, apprenticeships and training programs and computer science education.
The White House will offer guidelines to federal agencies but also instructs the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop regulations for creating "reliable, robust, trustworthy, secure, portable, and interoperable AI systems."
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So all those occasional cortexes can be a little more reliable?
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A very belated response to aggressive Chinese investments in software, hardware, and training data for their own military and surveillance AIs.
China has established an elite corps of patriotic young researchers, opening highly sought after paths for teens and college aged students in this area. It would be a major mistake to underestimate how far ahead they are on the verge of becoming, including with quantum computing methods that will overturn the field entirely.
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China has established an elite corps of patriotic young researchers, opening highly sought after paths for teens and college aged students in this area.
As opposed to Silicon Valley's approach which is to hire H1B workers from India and China.
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During an interview Monday on "The Breakfast Show," Sen. Kamala Harris was asked if she smoked weed in college.
Harris replied, "I have. And I inhaled. I did inhale. It was a long time ago, but yes. I just broke loose. I think [marijuana] gives a lot of people joy. And we need more joy in the world." The 2020 presidential candidate added that "it was a joint."
Next, "Charlemagne the God," co-host of "the world’s most dangerous morning show," asked her what music she listened to while getting high. She replied, "Definitely Snoop, Tupac for sure."
There was only one small problem with this answer. A quick google search tells us that Harris graduated from Howard University in 1986 and University of California Law School in 1989. Snoop and Tupac weren’t making music back then.
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But, "as I recollect"™ is Mueller quality testimony...
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I don't see any problem. She clearly meant she continued to smoke while Snoop and Tupac were playing. Perhaps she never stopped smoking weed.
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If you consume enough dope of one kind or another, don't be surprised if you experience things that haven't happened -- yet, or will never happen. Her statement makes sense to me, but SHE makes no sense here.
[American Mirror] Mexican flags were waving at the rally of failed Senate candidate Robert "Beto" O’Rourke tonight as he denounced the effort to build a wall to protect America.
[FOXNEWS] What a difference a year made for Joseph Alcoff.
...that’s Joseph "Jose" Alcoff, also known as Jose Martin when on television pushing socialism and as Chepe in his more violent Communist mode, who along with Philly Antifa leader Thomas Keenan and Thomas Massey was arrested after viciously attacking a couple of Marines for being in the wrong place ...
On Monday, the 37-year-old has a court date in connection with charges he’s facing in Philadelphia that include aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation for allegedly being part of an Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... mob in November that attacked two Marines, Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, both Hispanic. Alcoff and two others charged in the attack have pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." But while Democratic officials are distancing themselves from Alcoff now, until recently he was a well-connected, aspiring political player in Washington who may have even had a hand in key policy proposals.
His endorsement apparently mattered when several congressional Democrats in February 2018 issued blurbs with his quote backing their bill on regulating payday lenders.
As the payday campaign manager for the liberal group Americans for Financial Reform, Alcoff participated in congressional Democratic pressers, was a guest on a House Democratic podcast and met with bigwigs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2016 through 2018.
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The fascist Antifa is the replacement for the KKK.
[WashingtonTimes] Just hours after apologizing for making comments deemed anti-Semitic, Rep. Ilhan Omar retweeted a thread defending her claim that campaign contributions from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee buy support for the group's positions.
Ms. Omar praised the writer, Ady Barkan, who told of being a staffer on a long-shot congressional campaign in 2006 when the candidate agreed to take stances on two issues in exchange for a maximum contribution from AIPAC.
"Your courage can't be matched. I am often in tears thinking about how you won't be with us in this fight and how I am going to miss your presence and courage. In solidarity my friend, in solidarity," Ms. Omar wrote to Ady Barkan.
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Anti-Semitic? No, she is flat out rabid anti Jewwwww like any pIslamic fundamentalist. Moohamhead's slaughter of Jews in Medina comes in continuance. (Pork be upon her)
Of course our local Moscow on the Mississippi Pravda Twin Cities fraud media is having to cover the story but covering up the rest of the story. No mention on her past racism. In fact the buzz word here is "trope".
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What I have been able to find out about Ady Barkan:
- He states he is in late stage Parkinson.
- He states he is Jewish and born in Israel
- Although he states that AIPAC contributed to his candidate, this doesn't compute because AIPAC doesn't contribute to individual candidates. If you look into Ady's twitter stream, you see that people have checked this out and no one has been able to identify the 'maximum contribution'.
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[NBCNEWS] Cory Spartacus Booker U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes. He is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone... 's voice is shot. Standing on stage before hundreds of potential voters in the state that boasts the pivotal first-in-the-nation caucus, Booker, in a raspy voice that normally booms, is adamant his message of love, hope and unity can win him the Democratic nomination and, ultimately, the presidency.
"They're going to say, 'Oh my gosh, more candidates talking about love and hope; oh my God, how are you going to beat Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... with that?'" the New Jersey senator, 49, told the packed venue at his last event in the state following a two-day blitz through five other cities in below-freezing temperatures.
"I want to see that man out of the White House, but I was called to dream bigger than that. ... This is a test to see how much we can unite America," he said. "I am Shartacus!"
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I wonder what he'll call people he thinks are deplorable.
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...well, 2020 looks like its becoming a clear choice between international communism and American nationalism. They have no problem calling you fascists and Nazis, have no restraints calling them communists.
[MAIL] Donald Trump's job approval rating among likely U.S. voters hit 52 per cent on Monday in a daily tracking poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports, the polling organization he uses most frequently to promote himself.
That number is his highest since March 6, 2017, less than seven weeks after he took office. It has been even longer since Trump's 'strongly approve' and 'strongly disapprove' numbers weren't under water. They were even at 39 per cent on Monday.
Overall, 47 per cent of likely voters disapprove of Trump's Oval Office performance. That's a low water mark since November 2, 2018.
Monday's numbers came from surveys conducted during the three weekdays following the president's State of the Union address. It's not unusual for presidents to get a polling 'bump' after the high-profile annual address.
Trump could use the groundswell now more than ever: A Friday deadline looms for the White House and congressional Democrats to hash out a budget deal to avoid a second government shutdown.
Asked what Monday's numbers mean, a senior Democratic House aide confided on background: 'I don't know yet if it's horrible, but it sure isn't good.'
The White House, however, seemed pleased. Trump himself tweeted an image of this story at the top of The Drudge Report, an influential news aggregation website.
Last week's most overlooked news was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealing herself as a champion of the "Reconquista" war against Europeans. The Mexican Reconquista movement is an openly admitted effort by Hispanic activists to take "back" California (Southern especially), New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas through immigration and activism. This is one of several driving forces behind allowing illegal immigration.
Ocasio-Cortez (D-Venezuela) dominated news on February 7 appearing at a rally to abolish or defund the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The same day, Ocasio-Cortez joined other liberal Members of Congress in unveiling her "Green New Deal" (green evidently referring to envy, not the environment).
Almost lost amidst this furor were Ocasio-Cortez's comments that immigration laws should not apply to indigenous people: As reported in the UK's Daily Mail -- with full video shown:
But she vowed Thursday to defund ICE completely and claimed Latinos should be exempt from criminal proceedings and immigration laws because they are descended from Mesoamerican cultures that preceded the United States.
'We are standing on native land,' she claimed, speaking just outside the U.S. Capitol. 'And Latino people are descendants of native people. And we cannot be told, and criminalized, simply because for our identity or our status. Period." [emphasis added]
[USAToday] A Pennsylvania newspaper has dropped a syndicated cartoon after it says a reader discovered a vulgar comment against President Donald Trump hidden in the corner.
"A reader brought to our attention that one of the syndicated comic strips which appears in the Sunday Butler Eagle may contain a hidden message which was apparently placed there by someone in the creative department of the creator of the comic strip or the syndication which controls it," said Ron Vodenichar, Eagle publisher and general manager said in an article on the newspaper's website.
The message, written in the lower right panel of the daily cartoon begins with "We fondly say go ..." followed by an expletive directed at Trump. The full strip can be seen here.
The cartoon, which encourages readers to color it in, was drawn by Wiley Miller for the strip "Non Sequitur." Sunday, Miller acknowledged the message in his comic, tweeting "Some of my sharp-eyed readers have spotted a little Easter egg from Leonardo Bear-Vinci. Can you find it?"
The Pennsylvania paper announced it will be dropping the nationally-syndicated strip distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication from its Sunday comics, citing that it does not publish the F word in its family publication.
"Non Sequitur" publishes in more than 700 newspapers nationwide, according to the company's website. The company did not immediately reply to a request for comment. I dug Sundays comix from the let's pretend we're recycling bin, and, sure enough, there it was. The scribble was removed from the website copy, but, well, too late!:
[Freedom Watch] Sen. Kamala Harris directly confronted critics Monday who have questioned her black heritage, her record incarcerating minorities as a prosecutor and her decision to marry a white man.
In an interview with The Breakfast Club hosts DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God that aired Monday, the show's hosts asked the California Democrat to address a series of derogatory memes that have circulated on social media. One of the hosts cited a meme that said Harris is "not African-American" because her parents were immigrants born in India and Jamaica and she spent her high school years in Canada.
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Turning on people of mixed race? You would know none of this by watching Atlanta media broadcasting. Mixed race couples are virtually everywhere, at least on the television.
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her mother (the Indian) was a physician and cancer researcher; her father (the Jamaican) was a University professor
her husband (Doug Emhoff) is a lawyer, it is his second marriage; they met on a blind date; when Kamala began her run for the Senate he sold off all his stock holdings (lots of financial and energy companies, Monsanto, Caterpillar); also he is Jewish
her sister Maya Harris is a commentator on MSNBC and previously worked for Hillary
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So she's one of those Oreos? [black on the outside, white on the inside] Or a coconut?
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They turn on each other when color is different. They discriminate strongly if you are too black. Then when you are too white you are butchered for magical potions(in Africa). Race issues are what they live for these days. Never satisfied always unhappy. Look how abrasive they are in the hearings. They don't care. Its all for show.
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Off color, (pun intended) but the products in a certain section of the cosmetics aisle are all for skin lightening and hair straightening, not the other way around.
Story in there somewhere...
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As an addendum to the above, except for very extreme cases, so called wh*ggers concentrate more on the clothes, moves and jive talk than on the skin or hair.
Story there somewhere, too...
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You are suggesting Rachel Dolenz is one of a kind?
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#9, Talcum X seems to feel the bad Fairbanks mustache is darkening enough...
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Just leaked, the unkindest of cuts,
Depicting, with big padded butts,
K.'s AKA sisters
In blackface as misters
Lip-synching the Fat Boys' "My Nuts!"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] In an undercover video released Wednesday, a former technician for a tissue-harvesting company details how an aborted baby was kept alive so that its heart could be harvested at a 
...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party.
[NYPOST] President Trump later Monday is expected to sign an executive order instructing the federal government to prioritize and dedicate resources to artificial intelligence, the White House said.
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
[WashingtonTimes] Just hours after apologizing for making comments deemed anti-Semitic, Rep. Ilhan Omar retweeted a thread defending her claim that campaign contributions from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee buy support for the group's positions.
U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of 
[USAToday] A Pennsylvania newspaper has dropped a syndicated cartoon after it says a reader discovered a vulgar comment against President Donald Trump hidden in the corner.
