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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

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Rush Limbaugh Announces Advanced Lung Cancer Diagnosis

On Monday, talk radio took a devastating blow as syndicated conservative Rush Limbaugh announced on air that he had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

Limbaugh, a pioneer of the talk radio format, said upcoming treatments would impact his broadcasting abilities in the future.

Transcript as follows (courtesy of RushLimbaugh.com):

Ladies and gentlemen, this… This day has been one of the most difficult days in recent memory for me because I’ve known this moment was coming in the program today. Now, I’m sure that you all know by now, I really don’t like talking about myself, and I don’t like making things about me other than in the usual satirical, parodic, joking way.

I like this program to be about you and the things that matter to all of us. The one thing that I know that has happened over the 31-plus years of this program is that there has been an incredible bond that has developed between all of you and me. Now, this program’s 31 years old, and in that 31 years, there are people — you hear them call all the time — who have been listening the whole time. They’ve been listening 30 years or 25 years.

I just had somebody say they’ve been here three years. But, whatever, it is a family-type relationship to me, and I’ve mentioned to you that this program and this job is what has provided me the greatest satisfaction and happiness that I’ve ever experienced, more than I ever thought that I would experience. So I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn’t have to tell you.

It’s a struggle for me because I had to inform my staff earlier today. I can’t escape… Even though people are telling me it’s not the way to look at it, I can’t help but feel that I’m letting everybody down with this. But the upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, diagnosis confirmed by two medical institutions back on January 20th. I first realized something was wrong on my birthday weekend, January 12th.

I wish I didn’t have to tell you this, and I thought about not telling anybody. I thought about trying to do this without anybody knowing, ’cause I don’t like making things about me. But there are going to be days that I’m not gonna be able to...

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The Cadillac Of Lies And Deceit...

Lying In State

Megadeth

What we are witnessing is the decline of western civilization
Crushing our potential and piling it on, how will history portray us?
Attack the family, attack their faith and dreams
Attack the body and the head will fall

A lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?
The enemy of truth is lying there in state

Another day, another manufactured crisis keeping the people distracted
There's no one playing by the rules anymore, how will history portray us?
A broken backbone with nothing left to lose?
That hate the sight of all the ones that do?

A lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?
The enemy of truth is lying there in state

A shiny new agenda, birthed from a depraved mind
Of failing us on purpose, to culturally sanitize
Its opiates for the masses under cloak…

The Audacity Of The Corrupt...

Watching Congenital Liar Adam Schiff Pontificate And Lie While Acting Like He Is Working In The Best Interest Of America And Americans Is So Distasteful To Me, And Then To See The Propaganda Leftist Media Act Like He Is Some Kind Of A Hero Is So Alternate Reality To The Truth, It Makes You Realize Just How Hard We Have To Work To Bring All Of These Actors To Justice.

The Failures Of Government Should Not Warrant More Government...

#kylekashuv

US scientist recruited by China pleads guilty to lying to government

A former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist accused of lying about his contact with a Chinese recruitment program pleaded guilty last Friday to one count of making a false statement to the U.S. government.

Turab Lookman of Santa Fe accepted the plea as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors that includes dismissal of two other charges.

Lookman will be sentenced at a later date, probably within 60 to 90 days, federal prosecutor George C. Kraehe said.

He could face up to five years in federal prison and be fined as much as $250,000.

Lookman, who was 67 when he was arrested, admitted to lying to a LANL investigator in 2018 about his contact with a program that prosecutors said had been “established by the Chinese government to recruit people with access to and knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property.”

U.S. Magistrate Judge B. Paul Briones told Lookman that the 10-month sentence the defendant had discussed with attorneys was “on the low end” and would not be binding to the U.S. District Court judge who will decide whether to accept the terms of the plea deal.

The FBI arrested Lookman after he was indicted in May 2019 on three counts of making false statements about being recruited by and applying to participate in China’s Thousand Talents Program for personal compensation.

“The laboratory proactively recognized this issue and since then has worked cooperatively with federal law enforcement and will continue to assist as appropriate during the sentencing phase,” lab spokesman Kevin Roark said in a statement Friday.

Lookman joined LANL in 1999 and was named a laboratory fellow in 2017, one of the laboratory’s highest scientific honors. He has authored two books and more than 250 academic articles.

His indictment came as tensions escalated between the U.S. and China over intellectual property disputes and a mounting trade war. U.S. officials have accused China of extensive intellectual property theft, including for high-tech military weaponry that raises national security concerns.

China has worked in the past decade to boost its status as a superpower, creating several recruitment initiatives such as the Thousand Talents Program to lure top-level scientists in high-tech fields, partly by offering large research grants. The White House has called Thousand Talents a threat to the U.S.

The Thousand Talents Program is cited as one of China’s most successful efforts at appropriating rival countries’ high-tech research. China’s applications for new patents have grown almost fivefold to 1.5 million since the program was...