FOCUS: Davos 2018

Super Blue Blood Moon? It’s A Lunar Eclipse At Perigee, but It Sounds Like the Morning After Too Many Spicy Wings.
Huffington Post – A ‘Super Blue Blood Moon’ Is Going To Light Up The Sky. Here’s Where To See It.

Trump Looks To Follow Reagan’s Footsteps
Reuters – Trump seeks $25 billion for border wall, offers ‘Dreamer’ citizenship

Apparently, Top Secret Clearance Is Easier to Get Than a Job at McDonald’s
NBC News – Report: Felons, people under foreign influence got national security clearances

Who Else Remembers How Powerful Prohibition of Alcohol Made the Mafia?
Reuters – The Refinery Racket – Mexico’s drug cartels, now hooked on fuel, cripple the country’s refineries

Dwarfed Only By the Legendary Saturn V, Falcon Heavy Is Fired Up For First Time
Forbes – SpaceX Falcon Heavy Will Launch ‘In A Week Or So’ After Successful Static-Fire Test

Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital Helps To Carve Up Another American Icon
NBC News – Toys R Us, hobbled by competition, will shutter 180 stores

This Is What Happens Without Intelligent Regulation and Enforcement
Wall Street Journal – Big Pharma Suppliers Are Dumping Toxic Waste in the Environment, Investor Alleges

Don Blankenship’s Corporate Policies Led To 29 Deaths. Now He’s Running For the Senate.
Don Blankenship for U.S. Senate – Beckley Town Hall Meeting with Don Blankenship, Candidate for U.S. Senate
Washington Post – Coal exec jailed after accident killed 29 miners is out and tweeting that it’s not his fault

Burger King Demonstrates One Possible Effect of the Net Neutrality Repeal

Things Go Missing On A Regular Basis in Washington DC. Funny, That.
Fox News – FOX NEWS FIRST: Exclusive – DOJ begins recovering missing FBI texts

Donald Trump Finally Gets Admission to the Big Club
Associated Press – Trump in Switzerland to play salesman at economic summit

Julian Assange, Detained In Violation of UN, Is In Bad Shape
The Guardian – Julian Assange’s health in ‘dangerous’ condition, say doctors
United Nations – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arbitrarily detained by Sweden and the UK, UN panel finds

First of A Six Part Series On Unintended Consequences of Empire
The Intercept – Blowback: How U.S. Drones, Coups, and Invasions Just Create More Violence

Russia Changes Tactics on Decentralized Currencies
Reuters – Russia ready to regulate, not ban cryptocurrencies

China Doesn’t Care For Your Pesky Ethics Committees
The Independent – Monkeys cloned in world first, scientists reveal

US Expands Sanctions On North Korea. North Korea Flouts Sanctions.
Time – U.S. Takes Aim at North Korea’s Shipping and Oil With New Sanctions
The Telegraph – Japan accuses Dominican Republic tanker of passing fuel to North Korea

North Korea Pushes For Closer Ties With South Korea
Reuters – North Korea sends rare announcement to all Koreans, calls for unification
BBC – N Korean hockey players arrive in the South for joint team