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FPI  / March 4, 2019 To achieve the goal of “a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases” within 10 years, New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal says the United States must “totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail … […]

FPI / March 4, 2019 Those looking to catch up on sleep by getting some extra shut-eye on the weekend may be in for a rude awakening, researchers say. Weekday sleep loss had negative effects on people’s metabolism and “catch-up” sleep on the weekend did not reverse it, HealthDay News reported, citing a recent study published in the journal […]

FPI / March 4, 2019 A slogan repeated in Chinese state media says, “Once you lose trust, you will face restrictions everywhere.” People with poor social credit scores were banned from buying plane or train tickets 23 million times in 2018, a Chinese government report said. China’s National Public Credit Information Center reported that people […]

FPI / March 4, 2019 Lynne Patton, an official in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, was thrust into the spotlight during last week’s Michael Cohen hearing when Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib accused Republican Rep. Mark Meadows of using Patton, an African-American, as a “prop.” Patton brushed off Tlaib’s tactics, saying she didn’t have […]

FPI / March 4, 2019 Kim Jong-Un’s special green train returned to North Korea from Vietnam “at a much faster pace” than the trip to Hanoi, a report said. The North Korean leader’s train bypassed stops in China after speculation that Kim would stop in the port city of Guangzhou or possibly in Beijing to […]

FPI / March 4, 2019 By Sol W. Sanders Once again Canada is proving its credentials as a loyal and effective ally. This time, against enormous pressure – including the taking in effect of Canadian hostages in China – it is adhering to its consular undertakings with the U.S. The row is over the detention […]

FPI  / March 3, 2019 The Unites States may be nearing a point “comparable to 1860,” about one year before the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, some pundits and historians are saying. “How, when, and why has the United States now arrived at the brink of a veritable civil war?” Victor […]

FPI / March 1, 2019 In her quest for climate justice, Green New Deal author Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a “duty” to go vegan, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). “Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has laudable, ambitious goals, and PETA encourages her to take a fresh look at the evidence and make sure […]

FPI / March 3, 2019 [For Digital and Electronic Media Only] During a March 2 speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in which he said special counsel Robert Mueller was trying to take him out with “bullsh–,” President Donald Trump also called out Democrats for hypocrisy on his firing of FBI Director James […]

FPI / March 3, 2019 While much has changed in the region since his final trip to Asia in 1993, former President Richard Nixon’s advice on North Korea may be instructive amid President Donald Trump’s current efforts, a columnist noted. Nixon’s “primary regional concern at the time was, of course, China, around which everything else […]

FPI / March 1, 2019 “Once you give someone something it’s hard to take it away … then you get Venezuela,” Rick Harrison, star of the History Channel hit show “Pawn Stars”, told the CPAC conference on Feb. 28 in a speech on the “stupidity of socialism.” “The majority [of] people in this room know […]

FPI / February 28, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump said talks in Vietnam with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un collapsed after Kim had demanded sanctions relief in return for shutting down some, but not all, of the North’s nuclear sites. “Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that,” Trump […]

FPI  / March 1, 2019 The U.S. electric grid is an easy target for nuclear and solar attacks, panelists at a recent Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Operations Committee roundtable discussion said. “We are still incredibly vulnerable,” committee chair Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, said during the Feb. 27 discussion on protecting the U.S. power […]

FPI / February 28, 2019 Pakistan has an opportunity to build relations with a willing Israel to counter India, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said. “There is a need to break the alliance between India and Israel, and Pakistan could do it very easily,” Musharraf said at a recent news conference, according to Karachi-based newspaper […]

FPI / February 27, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher On Feb. 23, Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) fighters scrambled to intercept a People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Shaanxi Y-9JZ electronic intelligence (ELINT) aircraft flying over the Tsushima Strait. Thus started a new year of JASDF intercepts of Chinese military aircraft. There were 345 […]