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Pentagon deploys 100 Marines in Chinooks to reinforce under-siege US embassy in Baghdad after it was attacked by pro-Iran mob in retaliation for US airstrikes on Hezbollah, as President Trump warns Tehran it will be held 'fully responsible'

• American soldiers inside the embassy have fired tear gas, stun grenades and warning shots at hundreds of fighters who broke down the compound gate and set fires within the complex on Tuesday

Just out: My official letter to #USGovt of 1 Nov 2019 explaining why continued detention of @xychelsea is not a lawful sanction but an open-ended, progressively severe coercive measure amounting to torture & should be discontinued & abolished wit

I think we are in for one hell of a crazy ride in 2020, anything could happen.

It's that time of the year when predictions run rampant. Here's mine:

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. ~ Neil Gaiman

And you lucky guys have a day longer to anticipate the wishes you wish for.

I was going to plant a swan plant this evening for the monarch butterflies, but thought to wait until tomorrow, because several years ago I heard a sentiment that expressed something that makes much sense to me, and I’m sure to you as well. It was something like, “on new years day do something purposeful to honour the new year, with the hope that it will have meaning in the future”.

This new poll is bad news for Biden and the Democratic establishment, and good news for Bernie and all insurgent candidates.

December 30 is day 364 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Prickle-Prickle, The Aftermath 72, 3185 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.2.5 by the Mayan Long Count

Senator Mitch McConnell, as majority leader, gets a salary of $193,400 from the U.S. taxpayer. But he fails to do his job. Consider the oath of office that McConnell, and every civil servant, takes:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Well, it seems McConnell fails to "faithfully discharge the duties of the office." Here are four notable cases.

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending so much money on television spots across the country, $119 million so far, that it’s causing ad rates to soar.
With such a naked attempt to buy the election, news like this isn't all that surprising.