China Offers to Ramp Up US Imports: Bloomberg China has offered to go on a six-year buying spree to ramp up imports from the United States in order to reconfigure the relation between the two countries, Bloomberg reported on Jan. 18, citing people familiar with the matter. By raising annual goods imports from the United States by a combined value of more than $1 trillion, China would seek to reduce its trade surplus, which last year stood at $323 billion, to zero by 2024, one of the people told Bloomberg. It was unclear how the offer differed from what China pledged when U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in Buones Aires in December 2018. At that meeting, China offered more than $1.2 trillion in additional commitments on trade, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said. Reuters reported on Jan. 9 that U.S. officials used three days of trade talks with Chinese counterparts in Beijing to demand more details on China’s pledge to make big purchases of American goods. China offered similar commitments, albeit on a smaller scale, during talks in Washington last May. The Bloomberg report on Friday helped drive a rally on Wall Street where main stock indexes were on track for their fourth week of gains, in part on hopes the United States and China would strike a deal to end a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. The two sides have imposed tit-for-tat tariffs that have disrupted hundreds of billions of dollars of commerce. While increased purchases of U.S. goods have been part of the talks, American negotiators have also focused on issues that would require structural change in China. Those include finding ways to end the misappropriation of intellectual property from U.S. companies and halting industrial subsidies. Halfway through a 90-day truce in the U.S.-China trade war agreed to on Dec. 1 when Trump and Xi met during the G20 summit in Argentina, there have been few details provided of any progress made. On Tuesday, a Republican senator said U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer had told him he had seen no progress on structural issues. More https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-offers-to-ramp-up-us-imports-bloomberg_2771126.html Bye Bye Trade War? China Plans $1 Trillion Buying Spree to Reduce US Trade Deficit Image https://www.ccn.com/bye-bye-trade-war-china-plans-1-trillion-buying-spree-to-reduce-us-trade-deficit/ https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4808183.html#4808803

#marchforlife The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction forbidding Texas from stripping Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funds. The decision is also significant for its harsh criticism of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. The case will return to a federal trial court, where Planned Parenthood will have another chance to secure an injunction against Texas. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction forbidding Texas from stripping Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funds Thursday, while stridently criticizing the abortion provider for its rhetoric and medical practices. “Planned Parenthood’s reprehensible conduct, captured in undercover videos, proves that it is not a ‘qualified’ provider under the Medicaid Act, so we are confident we will ultimately prevail,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement after Thursday’s ruling. The case arose after a pro-life group called the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood violating medical and ethical standards codified in federal law and state regulations. Texas terminated its Medicaid provider agreement with Planned Parenthood shortly thereafter, citing infractions documented in the videos. In turn, Planned Parenthood asked a federal court to restore its Medicaid funding. Thursday’s ruling — which related to a jurisdictional issue in that case — is especially striking for its numerous rebukes of Planned Parenthood. Judge Edith Jones, a Ronald Reagan appointee, delivered the opinion. The most noteworthy reprimand in the decision is a graphic depiction of post-abortion fetal remains taken from a CMP video. A small arm is visible in the picture. Texas cited the manner in which Planned Parenthood disposes of fetal remains as one reason for terminating its Medicaid eligibility. In another instance, the decision accuses Planned Parenthood of breaking federal law banning partial birth abortions. The ruling highlights a CMP video in which an administrator called Dr. Tram Nguyen said doctors at one facility could evacuate an intact fetus — thereby breaking federal law — provided they sign a form that they did not “intend” to do so. That procedure allows researchers to recover organs like the thymus or the liver. Later in the opinion, the panel chides Planned Parenthood for failing to address Nguyen’s comments in court filings. “The plaintiffs’ briefing with regard to the substance of the discussions contained in the videos is curiously silent,” the decision reads. Planned Parenthood has denied it intentionally alters abortion procedures for impermissible reasons. The panel also dismissed Planned Parenthood’s claim that the CMP videos were “deceptively edited,” a soundbite that redounded across the press after the tapes first appeared. “The record reflects that [the Texas Office of Inspector General] had submitted a report from a forensic firm concluding that the video was authentic and not deceptively edited,” a footnote in the decision reads. “And [Planned Parenthood] did not identify any particular omission or addition in the video footage.” Finally the panel accused the judiciary of politicking on abortion cases. Ordinarily, providers like Planned Parenthood must challenge Medicaid termination decisions in an administrative forum and state court before seeking a federal court’s intervention. By allowing Planned Parenthood to skip directly to federal court — as the trial court did here — the 5th Circuit said judges are engaging in ideological favoritism. https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/17/fifth-circuit-planned-parenthood/ https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4808968.html#4809029

SP500 Volume 2,614,680,522 Avg. Volume 4,088,701,935 DOW Volume 372,049,964 Avg. Volume 378,100,967 NASDAQ Volume 2,178,760,971 Avg. Volume 2,445,733,548 Volumes are better except on SP500. A trillion dollar injection from china certainly helps that. Still below average all across the boards. That money finds it way to other markets as I mentioned when the first round started a few nights ago. It always does. NFLX twice it's daily volume. Dead company walking. That did nothing on 2x average. Not a good sign if you are long. See pic CTL* had a big volume day CenturyLink, Inc. (CTL) 15.83+0.49 (+3.19%) Volume 16,023,010 Avg. Volume 12,701,898 *Insider sales reported today had Temasek dumping about $255m as a 10% holder. https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4808968.html#4809178

Stage setting or something else?? Trump 'startled' to learn his attorney general pick Bill Barr was best friends with Robert Mueller and moaned to aides after confirmation hearing that he didn't realize they worked closely Donald Trump was 'startled' after watching William Barr's attorney general confirmation hearing on Tuesday after he spoke about knowing Robert Mueller The president told his aides that he didn't realize their work overlapped so much Trump stiffened at hearing the pair have a close relationship after Barr was AG for George H.W. Bush Trump re-nominated him and the Senate Judiciary Committee probe this week Democrats grilled him repeatedly on views about Special Counsel Mueller Barr vouched for Mueller and said he won't be 'bullied' into anything wrong As attorney general, Barr could fire Mueller and bury his report on Russia But Barr and Mueller are longtime friends whose wives share a Bible study 'I feel like I'm in a position in life where I can do the right thing and not really care about the consequences,' he said Donald Trump was 'startled' after watching William Barr's attorney general confirmation hearing on Tuesday, after the 68-year-old spoke about his tight friendship with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The president complained to his aides that 'he didn't realize how much their work overlapped or that they were so close' when he nominated him, according to CNN. After watching Barr speak at the Senate Judiciary Committee, POTUS was caught 'off-guard' and 'bristled' as he had to listen to details of their history but he later calmed himself by putting their familiarity with each other purely down Washington business. More https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6605789/Donald-Trump-startled-attorney-general-pick-Bill-Barrs-friendship-Robert-Mueller.html https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4808968.html#4809014

https://youtu.be/nJGoYSkzaeQ MEXICO OPENS BORDER to a THOUSAND Illegal Migrants in Caravan Traveling to US Border The Mexican government opened its southern border to a thousand illegal immigrants in a caravan to the United States. The border was wide open to the caravan as it continued its way to the United States. Mexican authorities did nothing to stop the illegal migrants on their way through Mexico. Nancy Pelosi and Democrats want this on the US southern border — open borders and no border wall. FOX News reporter Griff Jenkins was at the Ciudad Hildago checkpoint on the Mexican border and witnessed the open border. Griff said he did not see a single federal agent as the caravan walked into Mexico. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/mexico-opens-border-to-a-thousand-illegal-migrants-in-caravan-traveling-to-us-border-video/ https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4806641.html#4806703

From 2009, been at it a long time. Pay to Play House Speaker Nancy Pelosi moves in a rarefied world of high society and high-level politics — and nothing underscores that fact quite like her plans for the August recess. Pelosi will spend next weekend quietly tending to top party donors and political allies at a series of private events in Northern California. The two-day “issues conference” starts next Friday night with a dinner for roughly 170 guests on the back lawn of Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar home in the fashionable Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco. The following day, Pelosi will shepherd her guests to a Napa Valley winery with buildings designed by world-famous architect Frank Gehry; the speaker and her husband, investor Paul Pelosi, own a nearby vineyard worth between $5 million and $25 million, according to her annual financial disclosure report. There’s nothing unusual about leaders using recess to fund- and friend-raise. Before leaving town last week, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor raked in $1.1 million for fellow Republicans at a lobbyist-heavy fundraiser on Capitol Hill. And Pelosi’s staff notes that her California session will involve more than just schmoozing with the wealthy and well-connected. The speaker will lead policy discussions on health care, energy reform and the economy, among other topics. Scheduled to speak are Obama adviser David Axelrod, CNN commentator and former Clinton adviser James Carville and Mark Zandi, an economic adviser to Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign who has been providing advice to the Obama White House. More than a dozen other House Democrats will be in attendance, too, including Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey, a key player on the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee; Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller of California, Pelosi’s closest ally in the House; Xavier Becerra of California, vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus; and Joseph Crowley of New York and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, two up-and-coming Democrats who have previously found themselves in Pelosi’s doghouse but are moving to get back into her good graces. The weekend event is technically not a fundraiser. In the parlance of fundraising pros, it’s known as “donor maintenance,” a “thank you” from Pelosi to those who have given generously to her and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. To be invited, one must have raised money for the DCCC, been a longtime friend of Pelosi’s or contributed $30,4000 to the DCCC this cycle. The maximum an individual may give to a national party committee in any one year. A donation to the DCCC of that size qualifies a donor to be part of the “Speaker’s Cabinet,” a fundraising program that gives supporters expanded access to Pelosi. In addition to the annual Napa weekend, Pelosi also will personally provide at least one more private briefing for these maxed-out donors. According to campaign reports filed by the DCCC, at least 170 individuals, as well as a handful of Native American tribes, reached that maximum donation threshold as of June 30. San Francisco and Bay Area bigwigs are prominent among the collection of big DCCC supporters, including Ann Getty Earhart, an heiress to the Getty oil fortune; Elizabeth Fisher, whose in-laws founded The Gap, the retail clothing giant; and Eugene Eidenberg, a former Carter White House staffer who is now a San Francisco venture capitalist. Paul Pelosi owns up to $50,000 in stock in the investment firm that Eidenberg helped co-found, Granite Ventures, according to Pelosi’s annual disclosure report. https://www.politico.com/story/2009/08/pelosis-plan-wine-dine-big-donors-025859 https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4804341.html#4804765

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-richest-nancy-pelosi-vineyard-story.html >>4805909 → (lb) >Stephen Kautz says creating the wine caves was the first step in building the Ironstone Winery and destination venue in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Murphys. In addition to storing wine, the caves are used for dining and special events. I was looking for this but only found Napa valley. Maybe POTUS is saying Pelosi smuggles people and drugs underground I think this is related to DJT tweets - NOTABLE even Well done anon "Learn our comms" https://qmap.pub/read/504 https://qmap.pub/read/1113 https://qmap.pub/read/1225 https://qmap.pub/read/2524 https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4805854.html#4805977

This emphatically does not rule out the shutdown trap hypothesis that I presented. It will take some time for reorganization plans to be prepared, but once they are revealed after the 30-day deadline is reached, the "shutdown furloughs" become "administrative furloughs," and the RIF layoffs are possible. As the anonymous senior Trump administration official whom I quoted yesterday noted, in the absence of bureaucrats with time on their hands and no inclination to help the Trump agenda, a lot is getting accomplished. As that process continues, after the 30-day mark is reached, it will be possible to create a downsizing plan, identifying units that could easily get by with a fraction of their current staff, or even be reorganized out of existence. The head of the OMB, Mick Mulvaney, currently does not have a lot of spare time, serving as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and as interim White House Chief of Staff (a 24/7 job in its own right). But if he is on board (and why wouldn't he be?), he could well designate a team to prepare quick plans for downsizing, now that the various agencies have seen how little they need so many of the furloughed bureaucrats. That would make the furloughs qualify for RIFs. Of course, there would be a dispute on when the clock starts ticking on the 30 days – with the original "shutdown furlough" or from the date of the hypothetical downsizing plan I mention. If the latter – a delayed start of the clock ticking – then the pressure on the Democrats to cave in and end the shutdown would amp up. Imagine if Schumer and Pelosi started hearing from federal bureaucrats waiting to be RIFed if another 30 days go by. Would they be willing to say to them that it's more important to have no border barriers than for their jobs to be preserved? They would have a time bomb of layoffs of government employees, a huge Democrat constituency, affecting many individual members of the House with large numbers of federal employee constituents. I can imagine quite a few House Democrats bolting from Pelosi if she persists in the shutdown, refusing to talk or compromise. If this plan is followed and a downsizing proposal is officially revealed, Trump either gets an end to the shutdown or gets to downsize the federal bureaucracy. Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/omb_issues_guidance_on_reduction_in_force_layoffs_due_to_partial_shutdown.html#ixzz5cy3WRaUA https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/omb_issues_guidance_on_reduction_in_force_layoffs_due_to_partial_shutdown.html?fbclid=IwAR0RTAomJ6VwWbxBLuFn-XRDD7VSrLmL6eWoS-HDaf2lTdJ4zgLvqYlZTbU https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4804341.html#4804428

>>4805224 https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1086281836509216768 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/426002-pelosi-cancels-afghanistan-trip-after-details-leaked-by-white-house

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https://youtu.be/YzSKnxEHb3g Many notables in lead in to potus by acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan. Mentions DEWs hypersonic tech VP speaks at 7:30 Potus 11:30 ... offense and defense Detect and destroy any missiles launched, anytime and anyplace Southern border pitch 15:00 Missile defense 18:15

Re-post from yesterday. (revised) How many normies get the implications of POTUS cancelling Pelosi / Schiff trip? >>4797130 → (pb) CONTEXT = Is important for (Meaning) & (Relevance) Today POTUS cancelling Pelosi CoDel (Congressional Delegation) [Clandestine] trip to → Brussels > Egypt > Afghanistan = was, well… I'm at a loss for words. I venture to say; those not "awake", or put another way; not aware (like we are) of (The Plan) that has been playing out → will miss the (Significance) of todays move by POTUS. Meanwhile; those who have been diligently following this entire process - picking up crumbs, digging, memeing, praying, analyzing, consulting with other anons on rabbit trails, and those who have lurked and absorbed the 40,000 ft view = Can grasp at least part of the (Significance) of what POTUS did today. DJT promised to give our Country, our Republic back to us. In the past, swamp creatures like Pelosi, Schiff, noname et al took secret trips like the one they were about to take, on OUR$'s, and actively acted against We The People & the USA. We had no way of knowing in the past due to (classification) > Treason of the highest order. Today DJT kept a promise. He (Outed) them. He sided with (us), not (((them))). He deftly blocked their seditious move. Q told (us) there would not be a repeat of their shenanigans in Syria. Remember, at least part of the (Significance) of today is: POTUS said no more of this = (pic's related) And no more → "Here, you want to buy some missiles NK?" Arms Traitor = Nancy Pelosi +++included >>4802984, >>4803030, >>4803502 How Many Normies Get The Implications Of POTUS Cancelling Pelosi / Schiff Trip? https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4802781.html#4802984

Anons dig and find Pelosi meets with Khalid bin Salman, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the United States of America https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4793538.html#q4793681 https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4793538.html#q4793731

>>4802781 (OP) Space Preservation Act of 2001 Psychotronic, sonic, and tectonic weapons; PLUS chemtrails, WOW >https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/107/hr2977/text The text of the bill below is as of Oct 2, 2001 (Introduced). 107th CONGRESS H. R. 2977 (2)(A) The terms ‘weapon’ and ‘weapons system’ mean a device capable of any of the following: (ii) Inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person)– (II) through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations; (ii) chemtrails; (iv) plasma, electromagnetic, sonic, or ultrasonic weapons; (vii) chemical, biological, environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons. Mr. KUCINICH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned >https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/us/davis-police-officer-corona-sonic-waves-letter/index.html Gunman who killed officer left a note accusing police of hitting him with 'sonic waves' >https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/sonic-attacks/537714/ What Are Sound Weapons? Attacks on Americans in Cuba are calling attention to how inaudible sound waves can alter moods and perceptions. >http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25460/now-massive-plumes-of-chaff-are-lighting-up-radar-over-maine-and-florida-too Now Massive Plumes Of Chaff Are Lighting Up Radar Over Maine and Florida Too https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4802781.html#4802844

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is reviewing its gift acceptance policies after new information that members of a prominent donor family behind sales of the prescription opioid OxyContin covered up the drug’s dangers, The Met told The Daily Caller News Foundation. A Tuesday court filing claims members of the Sackler family knew Purdue Pharma, the company they own, routinely failed to notify authorities that OxyContin was being abused and sold illegally, reported The New York Times. More than 40,000 people died of opioid-related drug overdoses in 2016, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and about half of those deaths involved legally obtained prescription meds. https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/01/17/sackler-family-met-museum/

>>4790418 → LB Not sure but here's more treaty related news… Merkel and Macron getting cozy with a new treaty in Aachen. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/17/france-and-germany-plan-to-sign-a-new-treaty-in-aachen Whenever he says direction words my almonds get activated… Need to look at the map. https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/4790379.html#4790477