(2020-02-05). Rare medical case reveals woman is growing hair from her GUMS (PHOTOS). rt.com 
Researchers have released details of a curious case of the ultra-rare medical condition known as gingival hirsutism, or 'hairy gums.' Only six such cases now exist in medical literature. | In 2009, a 19-year-old woman seen by doctors at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli in Italy presented with hairs as thin as eyelashes protruding from the soft parts of her gums, just behind her upper front teeth. | The physicians trawled through the medical literature and only encountered five other cases, all men, dating back to the 1960s. They conducted hormone tests and determined that the woman had polycystic ov…
(2020-02-05). Russian armor turret STARS at Indian arms expo, watch it IN ACTION during field test. rt.com 
Among the advanced weapon systems on display at DefExpo India 2020 is the Russian 57-mm gun turret. Action video of the shell-spewing death machine, which can target low-flying drones, was published by the producer. | The turret, or Automatic Artillery Weapon System AU-220M as the manufacturer prefers to call it, is a remotely controlled module armed with a 57mm main gun and a 7.62mm machine gun, full of sensors, stabilizer devices and other equipment. | The developer, a research subsidiary of Uralvagonzavod, says its product will be put on Russia's future infantry fighting vehicles and other light armor to…
(2020-02-05). Pluto's beating 'frozen heart' is in charge of its weather — study. rt.com 
New research shows that not only does Pluto's unique "frozen heart" actually control the dwarf planet's weather systems, it does so with a "beat." | When NASA's New Horizons mission captured footage of the dwarf planet in 2015, scientists found that, contrary to popular opinion at the time, Pluto did in fact have some physical features on its landscape and was not just a barren, flat and frozen wasteland. | Instead, the dwarf planet boasted a vast heart-shaped structure, named Tombaugh Regio (after the astronomer who discovered Pluto), which new research shows actually controls Pluto's atmospheric circulation…
(2020-02-05). US antitrust law is all about 'who is paying who' — editorial director of research institute tells Boom Bust. rt.com 
Top antitrust official at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Makan Delrahim removed himself from an investigation into alleged anticompetitive practices at Google over a potential conflict of interest. | RT's Boom Bust talks to Jeffrey Tucker, the editorial director of the American Institute for Economic Research, about what's behind this antitrust saga. | "All these things are battles between interest groups," says Tucker, adding "It's like Google versus Google's competition." He explains that "the government machinery there is just to resolve the fight between the two, pick the largest with the biggest pocke…
(2020-02-05). Dossier 25: People's Polyclinics: The initiative of the Telugu communist movement. mronline.org 
Under the shadow of the Charter of the United Nations (1945) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), countries are obliged to guarantee the right to health. The 1946 Constitution of the World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as 'a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of […] |
(2020-02-05). Shanghai shutdown: Chinese city to suspend ALL sports events as coronavirus fears increase. rt.com 
Sports authorities in Shanghai have recommended that ALL sporting events in the city be suspended until further notice while the the city deals with the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. | The recommendation from the Shanghai Sports General Association has instructed all sports bodies to suspend their planned events until the threat of the coronavirus has disappeared. | The SSGA said in a statement that sporting bodies should "formulate a plan for epidemic prevention to avoid internal infections," and said that organizations should, "also implement a daily hygiene management system and strengthen health education…
(2020-02-05). VIDEO: The "Lock Step" Simulation Scenario: "A Coronavirus-like Pandemic that Becomes Trigger for Police State Controls" globalresearch.ca By now, those following the novel coronavirus epidemic are familiar with Event 201, the pandemic
(2020-02-05). Trump Ups Nuclear Ante with 'Mini-Nukes' Deployed on Subs to "Deter Russia" globalresearch.ca The United States has added a 'low yield' nuclear weapon to its submarine arsenal in a controversial first in decades, after the Trump administration called for its deployment as part of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review in order to "deter …
(2020-02-05). EU Rejects Trump Middle East Peace Plan, Annexation. globalresearch.ca The European Union rejected Tuesday some of the proposals outlined by U.S. President Donald Trump for the Middle East, prompting an angry response from Israel, which has actively supported the U.S. plan. | Following deliberations of the 27 members, the European …
(2020-02-05). Exxon's Exploitative Oil Deal in Guyana Will Deprive the Country of Up to $55 Billion. globalresearch.ca Exxon's exploitative oil deal with Guyana will cause the country to lose up to US$55 billion, according to a new Global Witness investigation based on an OpenOil analysis. | The new report, …
(2020-02-05). US Policy Vs. Iran: Apex Desperation. globalresearch.ca In Washington's losing battle to maintain hegemony in the Middle East at the expense of the actual people and nations that exist there — it has resorted to high-level assassinations, unilateral strikes against targets within sovereign nations against the expressed …
(2020-02-05). Trump's SOTU 'Red Meat' Speech: US Political Crisis Now Deepens. globalresearch.ca Donald Trump delivered a State of the Union speech that revealed his election 2020 strategy, designed to roil and mobilize his political base, and to declare to the Democrats that his political war with them …
(2020-02-05). US Deploys New Low-Yield Nuclear Submarine Warhead. globalresearch.ca The US Navy has now deployed the new W76-2 low-yield Trident submarine warhead. The first ballistic missile submarine scheduled to deploy with the new warhead was the USS Tennessee (SSBN-734), which deployed from Kings Bay Submarine Base in Georgia during …
(2020-02-05). Duh, Jared! So Who Built the PA as a 'Police State'? globalresearch.ca Maybe something good will come out of the Trump plan, after all. By pushing the Middle East peace process to its logical conclusion, Donald Trump has made crystal clear something that was supposed to have been obscured: that no US …
(2020-02-05). Students Shouldn't Have to Choose Between Groceries and Therapy. thenation.com Students Shouldn't Have to Choose Between Groceries and Therapy…
(2020-02-05). Germany: IYSSE again represented in the Student Parliament at Berlin's Humboldt University. wsws.org According to the preliminary results, the IYSSE received 3.7 percent (90 votes) in this year's elections on January 29-30 and will have two representatives in the new Student Parliament.
(2020-02-05). Right-wing extremist Professor Jà∂rg Baberowski physically assaulted socialist student. wsws.org Baberowski attacked Sven Wurm, a student parliament deputy for the IYSSE, on January 30 at Humboldt University in Berlin. Wurm had caught the Professor in the act of tearing down and destroying election placards. The incident was captured on video.
(2020-02-05). People's Park Forum: The Displacement Plan. indybay.org UC Berkeley: MLK Jr. Student Union Ballroom (2495 Bancroft Way)…
(2020-02-05). WATCH: Bernie Sanders Responds to Trump's Third State of the Union Address. commondreams.org The Democratic presidential candidate spoke from an event in New Hampshire, just a day after the Iowa caucuses. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-02-05). Astronaut Parmitano Hands Over ISS Command to Roscosmos' Oleg Skripochka – Video. sputniknews.com There is currently an international crew of six on the ISS, but on Thursday, Russia's Alexander Skvortsov, Italy's Luca Parmitano and Christina Cook of the US will return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft.
(2020-02-05). Ted Bundy's Brain Removed, Examined After His Death in Desperate Search of Crucial Clues. sputniknews.com Bundy, who confessed to the murders of 30 women in the mid-to-late 1970s, was executed by electric chair in Florida in January 1989, but has remained a household name in US popular consciousness ever since.
(2020-02-05). More Bad Brexit News as Main Driver of Economy Continues to Slump. globalresearch.ca There's a fundamental belief amongst many well-known economists that the bank-led financial crisis in 2008 that brought austerity then led to societal wide anger that brought us Brexit. The recovery from that crash is now well known to have been …
(2020-02-05). Liberté, égalité… créativité? RT looks at France's most inventive forms of protest (VIDEOS). rt.com 
Ever since the yellow vest protests kicked off in 2018, the French government has been besieged by weekly, increasingly creative protests as the populace expresses its fury with flair. | The pension reform protests followed, set into motion by President Emmanuel Macron's attempts to consolidate 42 separate pension schemes into a singular, points-based plan. Over the past several months, everyone from hospital and transport workers to teachers, lawyers, and firefighters have taken to the streets across France to protect their pensions and their futures in ever-more creative ways. | Law & disorder | Lawyers acro…
(2020-02-05). Waste and Failure in Cyber Charter Schools. dissidentvoice.org 
While waste, corruption, and failure have plagued the segregated and nontransparent charter school sector for decades, privately-operated-owned cyber charter schools, even by the admission of the most dogmatic supporters of charter schools, are the worst of the worst. The academic performance of cyber charter schools is consistently abysmal; they have a very high failure rate. …
(2020-02-04). Twitter cites 'Iran & Israel state actors' after suspending researcher who exposed new user-data flaw. rt.com 
Twitter, in a post so reassuring it's alarming, says it stopped possible state-backed actors in Iran and Israel from exploiting its features. But the only clear 'actor' may be a lone researcher who reported the bug six weeks ago. | "Iran, Israel and Malaysia suspected of exploiting Twitter phone number security flaw," read a headline on Sky News. "Twitter: Israel, Iran may have accessed users' phone numbers," warned the Jerusalem Post. | So what did those bad privacy-violating ayatollahs in Tehran and intrepid privacy-defying IDF hackers do this time? They exploited Twitter's "contact upload" feature to match…
(2020-02-04). Twitter cites 'Iran & Israel state actors' after suspending researcher who exposed new user-data flaw. rt.com Twitter, in a post so reassuring it's alarming, says it stopped possible state-backed actors in Iran and Israel from exploiting its features. But the only clear 'actor' may be a lone researcher who reported the bug six weeks ago. | "Iran, Israel and Malaysia suspected of exploiting Twitter phone number security flaw," read a headline on Sky News. "Twitter: Israel, Iran may have accessed users' phone numbers," warned the Jerusalem Post. | So what did those bad privacy-violating ayatollahs in Tehran and intrepid privacy-defying IDF hackers do this time? They exploited Twitter's "contact upload" feature to match…
(2020-02-04). Hardcore jihadist resurfaces in France using… EU-paid student exchange program. rt.com 
A man who represented one of the most brutal jihadist groups in Syria has been arrested in France. Bizarrely enough, the suspected war criminal apparently freely enjoyed the benefits of the EU student exchange program. | Last week, several human rights groups celebrated the arrest of a man named Majdi Mustafa Nameh, a humble 30-something student. He is better known under his nom-de-guerre, Islam Alloush, which he used while serving as the spokesman for the jihadist group Jaysh al-Islam. He resigned in August 2016, after giving an interview to an Israeli researcher. | Following his arrest in Marsaille, the man…
(2020-02-04). 'Reverse' solar panels could generate power during the NIGHT, scientists working on prototype. rt.com 
The Achilles' heel of solar energy has always been its inability to generate energy when the Sun is down, but now a team of researchers believes we could soon have solar panels that work 24/7, but… there's a catch! | Using specially designed photovoltaic cells, scientists now think we could theoretically generate an additional 10 percent or more of the energy produced during the day during night time hours by using the heat lost from the panels as they cool to squeeze out a little extra juice. | These night time photovoltaic cells would work using the same basic principle as normal solar panels, only in reve…
(2020-02-04). A real kick in the butt! Cigarettes continue emitting harmful chemicals for DAYS after they're stubbed out, study shows. rt.com 
Cigarette butts continue to release harmful chemicals into the air for far longer than anyone could have imagined, new research conducted for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shows. | Even when a cigarette is extinguished and becomes cold, the butt will still emit harmful compounds; in just the first 24 hours, a stubbed-out butt will produce 14 percent of the nicotine that an actively burning cigarette would. | While many will be aware of the dangers of second and third-hand smoking (where residues embed themselves in fabrics and linger on walls and furniture) the invisible toxins emitted by butts lon…
(2020-02-04). Raab mix-up as he says PM launched climate summit alongside Richard Attenborough. thecanary.co 
Dominic Raab hailed Boris Johnson's launch of a key climate summit alongside Richard Attenborough — only to be reminded he had got the wrong Attenborough.The foreign secretary looked a little flustered in the Commons after being informed about the mix-up before insisting there are "so many fantastic Attenboroughs" in the country.Johnson was joined by David Attenborough at the launch of the UN COP26 summit at the Science Museum in London.The Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) and David Attenborough (Chris J Ratcliffe/PA)Actor and Oscar-winning director Richard died in August 2014, and was the older brother o…
(2020-02-04). Coronavirus Pandemic: Economic Disruption. China Bashing and Hate Campaign against Chinese-Americans. globalresearch.ca The coronavirus pandemic is being used to smear China and its leadership. | The WHO has set the stage. A Global Emergency after a three hour committee meeting in Geneva was launched on January 30. | At the time this far-reaching WHO …
(2020-02-04). "Hybrid War" and Its Impacts on Latin America. globalresearch.ca This is the full English-language original version of the interview that Andrew Korybko gave to Argentinian journalist Santiago Mayor, who then published a shortened form of it in the Buenos Aires newspaper "Tiempo Argentino". | 1. In your book about …
(2020-02-04). Muddling Democrats: Chaos in the Iowa Caucus. globalresearch.ca Whatever the claims by the Democratic pollsters on the ground, the party has all the work to do ahead of selecting a candidate to make a fist of it come November. Pity for them, then, that the opening in Iowa …
(2020-02-04). Democrats Impeach Trump for Withholding Arms to Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca On December 18th, Donald Trump became the third U.S. president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives. The second to be indicted before completing a first term, the 45th commander-in-chief must now survive a Senate trial before …
(2020-02-04). Realizing 'Just Transitions': The Struggle for Plant Conversion at GM Oshawa. globalresearch.ca On November 26, 2018, General Motors announced a number of plant closures in North America, the largest of which is in Oshawa, Ontario. The Oshawa facility, once the largest auto complex on the continent, was to end all its assembly …
(2020-02-04). New Zealand's Hidden Role at the Biggest US Bombing Base in the Middle East. globalresearch.ca A recent issue of Air Force News revealed that a senior NZDF officer served a six-month posting at the Qatar base, placing New Zealanders at the heart of the main targeting and bombing center in that region, writes Darius Shahtahmasebi…
(2020-02-04). Most Popular Articles in January. globalresearch.ca …
(2020-02-04). The Syrian Arab Army and Allies are Fighting the "Real War on Terror" globalresearch.ca Probably the most hideous propaganda to be spewed by the establishment media cartel in the West is that which portrays the Syrian Arab Army as some kind of militia, "Assad's gang", disconnecting these defenders of homeland from the people they …
(2020-02-04). America's Long War: Is the Draft Coming Back? globalresearch.ca During recent increased US-Iran confrontation, so many people viewed the Selective Service website to find out about the draft that the website crashed. People were right to be concerned about a return of the draft. | With the ongoing military conflicts …
(2020-02-04). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
(2020-02-04). Sanders Defeats Rivals in Iowa? Results Delayed. globalresearch.ca According to We Are Iowa, early results show Sanders ahead of rivals in the race for the state's 41 Dem delegates. | Addressing supporters Monday night, Sanders slammed Trump, saying "we cannot continue to have a president who is a pathological …
(2020-02-04). Trump Green Lights Greater Israel. globalresearch.ca Many interested parties have already weighed in on President Donald Trump's "Deal of the Century." Even though it sounds like a phrase that a used car dealer would use, the "Deal" is dead serious in that it effectively denies …
(2020-02-04). The Future of Palestine: Trump Attempting to Consolidate the Balfour Declaration. globalresearch.ca There are two schools of thought as to whither the fate of the newly revealed proposed settlement to the protracted Palestine problem. One espoused by Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Inspector, that it is an …
(2020-02-04). Palestine — "Deal of the Century" — or Fraud of the Century? globalresearch.ca Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demolished President Trump's "Peace Plan" or, as the Donald called it, "The Deal of the Century", calling out "Jerusalem is not for sale", warning that the "conspiracy deal will not pass. The Palestinian people will reject …
(2020-02-04). Chinas neues Coronavirus: Eine Untersuchung der Fakten. globalresearch.ca Die westlichen Massenmedien haben das neue Coronavirus behandelt, das in der Stadt Wuhan in Zentralchina seinen Anfang nahm, aber abgesehen von immer wiederkehrenden kleinen Details und dem unvermeidlichen China-Bashing wurde nicht viel Licht auf die Umstà§nde geworfen. Mein erster Kommentar …
(2020-02-04). Video: Human Shields: Turkish Forces Suffer Casualties in Syrian Army Attack on Idlib. globalresearch.ca Turkey and the United States are employing active diplomatic, media and even limited military measures to contain the Syrian Army offensive against terrorists in Greater Idlib. | On January 31, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened the Damascus government with a military …
(2020-02-04). 80 Percent of Irish Voters Want a United Ireland. globalresearch.ca A poll, carried out on behave of the Sunday Times by a UK company, has shown that 80 percent of Irish people want a united Ireland and 40 percent believe they will see this happen within a decade. | The Sunday …
(2020-02-04). The Shame of the Century: Kushner's Deal Is Dead on Arrival. globalresearch.ca Imagine a lawsuit being tried in a courtroom. The case is coming to a close, and one side is sure of their position of being 'in the right', and then the opposing side offers a 'deal' to settle the case …
(2020-02-04). Trump's "Deal of the Century": Turning West Bank "Cantons" into Mini Gaza Extermination Zones? globalresearch.ca The Trump proposal, based on Israel's wish list, appears to be designed to slowly exterminate most of the Palestinians living under Israeli control by creating "cantons" — reservations — that will mimic Gaza's isolation and lack of access to necessities …
(2020-02-04). Why Economics is an Impossible Science (In One Paragraph). counterpunch.org In a word, Economics is an Impossible Science because by its own definition the determining conditions of the economy are not economic: they are "exogenous." Supposedly a science of things, it is by definition without substance, being rather a mode of behavior: the application of scarce means to alternative ends so as to achieve the