• More student revolts to come? Soros pitches $1bn ‘education’ project to fight climate change & ‘dictators’ like Trump, Xi and Modi
  Billionaire George Soros has unveiled a new ambitious project: creating a global university network that would save the world from climate change and rescue democracy itself from ‘dictators’ like US President Donald Trump.
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• ‘Spygate’ update: At least two FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page were ‘not valid’ DOJ says
  The top US spy court has revealed that at least two of the four warrants for spying on a Trump campaign adviser are now considered to have been improperly obtained, and all information gained from them is being restricted.
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• China coronavirus infections soar to 830, with 25 deaths as WHO says it’s too early to declare global emergency
  The World Health Organization (WHO) held off designating a new fast-spreading coronavirus as an international health threat, but did deem it a crisis within China, where the pathogen has infected some 830 people and killed 25.
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• Voice of mummified Egyptian priest heard for first time in 3,000 years
  A mummified Egyptian priest dead for millennia has been granted the gift of gab after scientists used 3D printed vocal cords to recreate his voice, fulfilling the priest’s dying wish to be heard from the afterlife.
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• Anchors aweigh: White House announces crackdown on ‘birth tourism,’ to jeers, cheers, and confusion
  Mothers-to-be traveling to the US to give birth in order to obtain automatic American citizenship for their children may find themselves denied visas under controversial new rules aimed at curbing ‘birth tourism.’
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• Trump to release ‘great’ Israel peace plan ahead of Netanyahu visit, warns that Palestinians ‘may react negatively’
  US President Donald Trump will finally unveil his ‘great’ plan for peace in the Middle East before Israeli leaders visit Washington next week. While the Palestinians may not like it, it will be good for them, Trump said.
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• ICYMI: Living Greta Thunberg’s zero emissions dream in real life
  Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has upped the ante, telling the elite at Davos that they must urgently drop carbon emissions to “real zero.” But living a carbon-free life is exhausting, as ICYMI’s Butchy found out.
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24 January 2020

• World’s Super Rich Meet in Davos to Discuss the Climate Change Problem they Created

  Research has shown that the people most responsible for a warming planet were disproportionately the same people attending

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• Brazil’s Right-Wing Gov’t Charges Journalist Glenn Greenwald with Cybercrimes

  The Brazilian government's actions immediately drew parallels with how Western governments have treated whistleblowers and

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• In the Name of “Security” Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding

  Despite the fact that the U.S. is retreating from the Middle East, lacking strategy and future vision, lawmakers are

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• Bolivia: As Elections Near, US-Backed Interim Gov’t Mobilizes Military, Arrests Opposition Leaders

  Interim President of Bolivia Jeanine Añez has ordered troops to the streets and forced opposition candidates to organize

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• India Puts Capital on Lockdown as Protests Against Discriminatory Laws Rage on

  India's government is cracking down, imposing martial-law like conditions amid massive protests against the government's

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• MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid Invites Quack Body Language Expert on to Trash Sanders

  MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid has a history of strongly racist and homophobic remarks. She was one of the chief proponents of the

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• Sleepless in Cairo: Egyptians Reacquaint Themselves to Life In a Dictatorship

  Ahmed Tharwat returns to his home country of Egypt to find that Egyptians, once vibrant and full of optimism, have returned

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