LEADS
How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
White House rejects report that US was behind Nord Stream sabotage
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230208-white-house-rejects-report-that-us-was-behind-nord-stream-sabotage
Edward Snowden Rubbishes US Denial of Role in Nord Stream Gas Line Bombing; Cites Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961
https://www.ibtimes.sg/edward-snowden-rubbishes-us-denial-role-nord-stream-gas-line-bombing-cites-bay-pigs-invasion-68971
The claim by a discredited journalist that the US secretly blew up the Nord Stream pipeline is proving a gift to Putin
https://africa.businessinsider.com/politics/the-claim-by-a-discredited-journalist-that-the-us-secretly-blew-up-the-nord-stream/060dsht
Kremlin Endorses Report on U.S. Involvement in Nord Stream Sabotage
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/02/09/kremlin-endorses-report-on-us-involvement-in-nord-stream-sabotage-a80187
Kremlin: World should learn truth about Nord Stream blasts
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-world-should-learn-truth-about-nord-stream-blasts-2023-02-09/
Russia accuses Nord Stream blast investigators of cover-up
https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2023/02/09/russia-accuses-nord-stream-blast-investigators-of-cover-up/54218
TikTok Reveals Russian Disinformation Network Targeting European Users
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-09/tiktok-reveals-russian-disinfo-network-targeting-european-users
Jeff Gerth's Undisclosed Dissemination of Russian Intelligence
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/02/08/jeff-gerths-undisclosed-dissemination-of-russian-intelligence-product/
How the Case of Arrested FBI Agent Charles McGonigal Is Tied to a Russia-Linked Influence Effort
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/how-the-case-of-arrested-fbi-agent-charles-mcgonigal-is-tied-to-a-russia-linked-influence-effort/
Exclusive: The FBI's McGonigal labyrinth
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-charlie-mcgonigal-labyrinth-oleg-deripaska-russia-trump-allison-guerriero-2023-2
'Weaponization' subcommittee holds hearing on alleged FBI politicization, attacks on civil liberties
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/09/house-republicans-weaponization-government-hearing/11214634002/
New arrests show why the coming MAGA house attacks on the FBI endanger law and order
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3850863-new-arrests-show-why-the-coming-maga-house-attacks-on-the-fbi-endanger-law-and-order/
What the Partisan Conflict Over Ilhan Omar Means for China-US Relations
https://thediplomat.com/2023/02/what-the-partisan-conflict-over-ilhan-omar-means-for-china-us-relations/
Balloon ‘panic’ intensifies push against China in Washington
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/9/balloon-panic-intensifies-push-against-china-in-washington
China’s Spy Balloon Proves The U.S. Homeland Is Vulnerable
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/02/chinas-spy-balloon-proves-the-u-s-homeland-is-vulnerable/
China Now Has More ICBM Launchers than the US
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/stratcom-china-more-icbm-launchers-than-us-not-more-missiles-warheads/
Japan Considering US Missile Deployment to Counter China: Report
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/02/09/japan-us-missile-deployment/
Russia supplied missile that collided with MH17, international investigation finds
https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/02/russia-supplied-missile-that-collided-with-mh17-international-investigation-finds/#
How Russia Decides to Go Nuclear
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/how-russia-decides-go-nuclear
Why Hasn’t Putin Used Nuclear Weapons?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-hasnt-putin-used-nuclear-weapons
Is Withdrawing From Treaties the Nuclear Weapons Industry’s Business Plan?
https://truthout.org/articles/is-withdrawing-from-treaties-the-nuclear-weapons-industrys-business-plan/
For Defense Industry to Surge Production, Here’s What It Needs, Leaders Tell Congress
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/defense-industry-surge-production-needs-leaders-tell-congress/
Future of defense spending a hot topic among Republicans
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/congress-republicans-defense-spending-cuts/
Trump’s last Defense secretary takes on the ‘American war machine’
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3850009-trumps-last-defense-secretary-takes-on-the-american-war-machine/
Russia and Ukraine Have Incentives to Negotiate. The U.S. Has Other Plans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/opinion/russia-ukraine-us-tanks.html
The U.S. effort to arm Ukraine starts in Scranton, Pennsylvania
https://www.grid.news/story/global/2023/02/06/the-us-effort-to-arm-ukraine-starts-in-scranton-pennsylvania/
Britain to train Ukraine combat fighter pilots
https://www.defensenews.com/training-sim/2023/02/08/britain-to-train-ukraine-combat-fighter-pilots/
Zelensky Calls for More Help for Ukraine in EU Meeting
https://www.wsj.com/articles/zelensky-calls-for-more-help-for-ukraine-in-eu-meeting-11675950731
EU to target disinformation and more exports in next Russia sanctions
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-target-disinformation-export-sanction-package-ukraine-russia-war/
Why Are Sanctions Failing in Russia?
https://inkstickmedia.com/why-are-sanctions-failing-in-russia/
Lifting sanctions on Syria after devastating earthquake
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/02/08/lifting-sanctions-on-syria-after-devastating-earthquake/
U.N. aid convoy enters Syria as toll from Turkey, Syria quakes passes 17,000
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/09/turkey-syria-earthquake-death-count-updates/
Turkey's president Erdogan acknowledges ‘shortcomings’ in government’s response to earthquake
https://www.euronews.com/2023/02/09/turkeys-president-erdogan-acknowledges-shortcomings-in-governments-response-to-earthquake
Why did so many buildings collapse in Turkey?
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/2/9/why-did-so-many-buildings-collapse-in-turkey
POLITICS and FLEAS
The Hunter Biden investigations, Act I
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2023/02/08/the-hunter-biden-investigations-act-i-00081949
Ex-Twitter execs deny pressure to block Hunter Biden story
https://apnews.com/article/technology-politics-united-states-government-us-republican-party-business-6e34ad121a1e52892b782b0b7c0e59c3
Twitter Execs Testify That Their Election-Meddling Decisions Were Even Flimsier Than Previously Claimed
https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/09/twitter-execs-testify-that-their-election-meddling-decisions-were-even-flimsier-than-previously-claimed/
Ex-Twitter Officials Confirm to Congress: Trump, Not Biden, Has Tried to Censor Tweets
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-twitter-officials-confirm-to-congress-that-trump-not-biden-tried-to-censor-tweets
House Oversight Committee Is Fighting Twitter Censorship the Wrong Way
https://reason.com/2023/02/08/house-oversight-twitter-hunter-biden-laptop-aoc-speech-censorship/
GOP divided over whether heckling Biden hurts them
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3850194-gop-divided-over-whether-heckling-biden-hurts-them/
Father of fentanyl victim says Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘crossed the line’ heckling daughter’s story at SOTU
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fentanyl-marjorie-taylor-greene-biden-state-of-the-union-b2278920.html
GOP Took 'White Trashdom' to Next Level at State of the Union: Carville
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-took-white-trashdom-next-level-state-union-carville-1779988
‘Only in Mississippi’: White representatives vote to create white-appointed court system for Blackest city in America
https://mississippitoday.org/2023/02/07/jackson-court-system-house-bill-1020/
Admitted white supremacist pleads guilty to El Paso Walmart shooting charges
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/crime/2023/02/08/patrick-crusius-pleads-guilty-el-paso-walmart-shooting-hate-crime-charges/69881963007/
Man Who Shot Blanks in California Synagogue Charged With Hate Crime
https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-shot-blanks-in-san-francisco-synagogue-charged-with-hate-crime
‘Shame on You’: Joe Rogan Slammed for Promoting ‘Despicable’ Antisemitic Trope About Jews
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/02/08/shame-on-you-joe-rogan-slammed-for-promoting-despicable-antisemitic-trope-about-jews/
Joe Rogan: ‘The idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous’
https://www.jta.org/2023/02/07/politics/joe-rogan-the-idea-that-jewish-people-are-not-into-money-is-ridiculous
FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS
Israel-Palestine: CIA chief warns current tensions resemble Second Intifada
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-cia-warns-tensions-resemble-intifada
Israel to push forward with settlement expansion despite US call for pause
https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/02/08/israel-to-push-forward-with-settlement-expansion-despite-us-request-to-pause/
Israel steps up Jerusalem home demolitions as violence rises
https://apnews.com/article/politics-israel-government-palestinian-territories-jerusalem-bab35518d9b80ce4c7d1513edb163e2d
Demolishing Muslim Properties in India
https://inkstickmedia.com/demolishing-muslim-properties-in-india/
PM Modi, Netanyahu discuss ways to bolster relation between India and Israel
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/pm-modi-netanyahu-discuss-ways-bolster-relation-between-india-israel-2332284-2023-02-08
In Israel, India, and Elsewhere the Civilization State is Taking Over
https://time.com/6250892/israel-india-and-elsewhere-the-civilization-state-is-taking-over/
‘They Want to Set Women Back 500 Years’: Israel’s Rabbinical Courts Now Set to Enjoy ‘Horrifying’ Power
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-02-06/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/empowering-rabbinical-courts-in-israel-they-seek-to-set-women-500-years-backward/00000186-2686-dd37-add7-eee638550000
Coalition bill would ban mixed prayer anywhere at Western Wall, nix egalitarian plaza
https://www.timesofisrael.com/coalition-advances-law-to-nix-egalitarian-western-wall-plaza-curb-women-of-the-wall/
New bill proposes penalty for immodestly dressed women at the Kotel
https://www.jpost.com/western_wall/article-731045
Iranian press review: Conservatives offended by seeing belly buttons in public
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-conservatives-offended-belly-buttons-public-press-review
PANDORA'S BOXCUTTER
Lasers, spaceflight, surgery, nuclear power and the secrets of Mayan civilization: How Russian scientists changed the world
https://www.rt.com/russia/571060-day-of-russian-science/
4 Things Science Has Predicted That We Still Haven’t Discovered
https://www.cracked.com/article_36877_4-things-science-has-predicted-that-we-still-havent-discovered.html
Star Trek And The Journey From Science Fiction To Pseudoscience
https://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/pseudoscience-star-trek
Sanjay Gupta Investigates Fictional ‘Zombie Fungus’ Featured on HBO Hit Show The Last of Us — CNN’s Corporate Partner
https://www.mediaite.com/uncategorized/sanjay-gupta-investigates-fictional-zombie-fungi-featured-on-hbo-hit-show-the-last-of-us-cnns-corporate-partner/
THE MEDIA SCRUM
NewsNation Reporter Arrested for Trespassing During Ohio Governor’s Press Conference (Video)
https://www.thewrap.com/newsnation-reporter-arrested-ohio-governor-press-conference/
NewsNation reporter released from jail after arrest
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/newsnation-reporter-arrested-ohio-news-conference/
Appeal for release of French journalist jailed in Afghanistan
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20230206-appeal-for-release-of-french-journalist-jailed-in-afghanistan
ODDS, ENDS
‘Let Him Go’: the maternal instinct – caring light or consuming flame?
https://mercatornet.com/let-him-go-the-maternal-instinct-caring-light-or-consuming-flame/83034/
Mom’s voice holds a special place in kids’ brains. That changes for teens
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mom-voice-kid-brain-teen-neuroscience
Lower attention to ‘motherese’ may help diagnose autism early
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/mental-health/3847431-lower-attention-to-motherese-may-help-diagnose-autism-early/
Lawsuits Allege Tylenol or Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy Increases Autism Risk
https://www.legalscoops.com/lawsuits-allege-tylenol-or-acetaminophen-use-during-pregnancy-increases-autism-risk/
From Nazi Blitzkriegs to ADHD Treatment: What Stimulant Drugs Can and Cannot Do
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/09/from-nazi-blitzkriegs-to-adhd-treatment-what-stimulant-drugs-can-and-cannot-do/
Did the Nazis Try to Assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin in Tehran in 1943?
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2023/02/did-the-nazis-try-to-assassinate-fdr-churchill-and-stalin-in-tehran-in-1943/
The Soviet Erotic and Today’s Misbegotten Effort to Kill Eros
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/08/the-soviet-erotic-and-todays-misbegotten-effort-to-kill-eros/