Madonna‘s full speech from the Women‘s March On Washington to protest Donald Trump‘s and Republican‘s misogyny.

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“Let’s march together through this darkness and with each step know that we are not afraid, that we are not alone, that we will not back down, that there is power in our unity and that no opposing force stands a chance in the face of true solidarity. And to our detractors that insist that this march will never add up to anything, f*** you. F*** you.“

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In his first full day in office, Donald Trump is expected to meet with and thank officials at CIA headquarters in Virginia on Saturday morning.

The meeting follows the intelligence community‘s findings that the Russian government interfered with the presidential election with the aim of helping Mr Trump win the presidency. Russian officials have denied such allegations.

Die Köpfe der Nordamerikaner bekommen ihren politischen „Durchblick“ über eine gleichgeschaltete Konzernpresse vermittelt, so wie die Deutschen auch und werden somit immer unfähiger eigene Ideen und Gedanken zu entwickeln. So wird man zur leichten Beute für Dummschwätzer wie Trump, der glaubt, sich seinen wirtschaftlichen Erfolg allein mit seinen Geistesblitzen „erarbeitet“ zu haben.

President Trump National Prayer Service – Imam Mohamed Magid Muslim Call to Prayer 1/21/2017

The first verse he read was from Surah Al-Hujarat, in which God says:
„O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you.“
The second verse he read was from Surah Ar-Rum:
„And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those who have knowledge.“

Mattis, wearing a dark suit and overcoat, was greeted Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as they shared a handshake and laugh. The two men have known each other for years, serving together as senior Marine Corps officers before Mattis retired as the four-star chief of U.S. Central Command in 2013.

In a 14-page opinion issued by the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, government lawyers said that the president’s special hiring authority exempted White House positions from federal laws barring the president from appointing relatives to lead a federal agency. The White House, the department said, is not technically an “executive agency.”

In Washington werden Hunderttausende Teilnehmer, darunter auch Prominente, zum sogenannten Frauen-Marsch erwartet.

The measures include the expansion of surveillance laws in Belgium, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe that allow for wiretapping and other surveillance activities — often without judicial warrants.

“Taken alone these individual counterterrorism measures are worrying enough, but when seen together, a disturbing picture emerges in which unchecked powers are trampling freedoms that have long been taken for granted,” John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s Director for Europe, said in a statement.

In a new report, members of the European Parliament have made it clear they think it’s essential that we establish comprehensive rules around artificial intelligence and robots in preparation for a “new industrial revolution.”

Ein technischer Fehler führt dazu, dass der Scheinwerfer hinter dem Rednerpult ausgerechnet dann ausfällt, als Biden über die Errungenschaften der liberalen Demokratie spricht: „USA, Nato, die Länder Europas, wir sitzen alle im gleichen Boot. Als älteste Demokratien dieser Welt haben wir die Verantwortung, die Probleme zurückzudrängen, die vor uns liegen.“