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Obama-appointed Federal Judge Blocks North Carolina Voter ID Mandate
[image: obama-appointed-federal-judge-blocks-north-carolina-voter-id-mandate] A federal judge dealt a blow to North Carolina's latest voter ID rule, issuing an injunction in a case brought forward by the NAACP.
The Poet: Manuel Bandeira, “Be Like A River"
*“Be Like A River"* “Be like a river that flows Silent in the middle of the night Not fearing the dark of the night, Reflecting any star that is in the sky. And if the sky fills with clouds, Clouds are water, like the river, so Reflect them too with no regret In the silent depth.” - Manuel Bandeira, Brazilian poet
This Day In Iraqi History - Dec 29
1979 US placed Iraq on list of State Sponsors of Terrorism for backing Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal and others 1981 Syria said it would start talks with Iran to try to end Iran-Iraq War 1988 Iran-Iraq agreed to joint commission to implement ceasefire to end war (Musings On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War) (Musings On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War) (Musings On Iraq book review *The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988*) (Musings On Iraq book review *Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988*) (Musings On Iraq book review *The Iran-I... more »
Three why questions
Tell me why, three why questions have not sunk into more people’s minds about the Ukraine mess caused by the US president? – Why did people who heard the “perfect” phone call try to hide it? – Why does the … Continue reading →
BLOOMBERG ISN'T MY CANDIDATE, BUT HE'S PROBABLY RIGHT ABOUT THE ELECTION
I don't want Mike Bloomberg to be the Democratic presidential nominee, but I'm glad that he's out there spending boatloads of money on advertising that's specifically anti-Trump: On Facebook and Google alone, where Mr. Bloomberg is most focused on attacking the president, he has spent $18 million on ads over the last month, according to Acronym, a digital messaging firm that works with Democrats. That is on top of the $128 million the Bloomberg campaign has spent on television ads, according to Advertising Analytics, an independent firm, which projects that Mr. Bloomberg is likely ... more »
Chapter 31 The Hampstead 2 Whistleblowing Kids Expose Satanic Cult’s MK Ritual Abuse-Child Porn Operation
*The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.* FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover The Hampstead pedophile scandal is different in a number of ways from all previous ones covered in this book. Instead of dozens, scores or hundreds of victim-survivors coming forth to report their abuse, in the small high-end community of Hampstead in North London, only two childre... more »
Why hasn’t Schiff released the Intel IG testimony covering 8 hours?
What is Schiff hiding? . . Most all the testimonies have been released by Adam Schiff. However, there is one glaring testimony omission – that of Intelligence Inspector Atkinson. In the video above, Ratcliffe began: …On pages 53-73, the Inspector General’s testimony confirms the following: That the whistleblower made statements to the Inspector General under the penalty of perjury that were not true and correct. That the whistleblower first made statements in writing under the penalty of perjury that were not true and correct. The whistleblower then made statements under the penalty ... more »
"Are You Feeling Invisible? How To Overcome It And Feel Seen Again"
*"Are You Feeling Invisible?* * How To Overcome It And Feel Seen Again"* by Sherrie Hurd "I’ve been in this place – feeling invisible, and it’s actually worse than being bullied. How can we deal with this? Maybe as a child, I didn’t feel completely invisible because I remember hiding from abuse. But as a young married adult with a baby, I did feel this way. I remember nights alone with my infant son, wishing his father would come home. But even when he was home, I still felt invisible. I tried to do all the things a good wife should do, but it was never enough to keep a healthy mar... more »
The Left is now calling for the abolition of the police
One of the crucial realities that we have to face in America today is that the left is actually insane. They deny science they don't like, that human life begins at conception and that men can't become women, and in doing so they deny reality itself; which is a good definition of insanity. Since the source of the left's policies is often academia those policies are produced in an environment that has nothing to do with reality. For example influential members of the left are calling for the abolition, not reform, of police departments. That's right they're saying that America would... more »
The Case For US Missile Defense
*Michaela Dodge, Daily Signal:* *Sobering Film on Nuclear Attack Shows Need for More Nuclear Defense Spending* The Heritage Foundation’s documentary “33 Minutes” may not be the most cheerful holiday season film, but its warning to the American public about the risk of nuclear attack could not be more timely. In recent months, North Korea’s missiles have grown in range and capability. The most recent missile it tested, the Hwasong-15, can reach anywhere in the continental United States. This is a deeply alarming development. When the documentary was first released in 2007, and the... more »
Futures not yet... A poem by Hugh Mann
*It's almost 2020 and we, humanity, are on the verge of a new beginning, a gigantic geopolitical paradigm shift, an era of peace and prosperity without the NWO Globalist banksters.* *The sun dawns, a new future dawns, a new, boundless future without the Satanically evil NWO tyranny, plots wars and the private banksters looting us all.* *In the spirit of spanning time by scanning rhyme, I offer the following:* *HAIKU TICK-TOCK 1* *The present taunts us* *with thoughts of the haunting past* *and daunting future.* *HAIKU TICK-TOCK 2* *The present begets* *many poignant past regrets... more »
Lixada Stove Review
A brief review of 2 Lindal fitting stoves from Lixada. Continue reading →
Another Horrific Anti-Semitic Attack in New York – Five Jews Critically Wounded During Machete Attack…
New York has a serious anti-semitic problem with escalating violence against Jewish people of faith. Last night a 37-year-old attacker, Grafton E. Thomas (pictured below), targeted a home and synagogue in Rockland County, severely injuring five people before fleeing the … Continue reading →
SUNDAY SCREENING: ‘Imprisoned: The Man at the Party’ (2019)
*SUNDAY SCREENING* | A heartbreaking but incredible story of persecution and redemption.
Episode #308 – ‘OPCW Leaks, 2020 Harbingers’ with guest Tareq Haddad and more
*SUNDAY WIRE* | with 2019 now coming to a close, we look back at the year that was, and ahead to what looks to be a wild 2020.
Musical Interlude: Medwyn Goodall, “Cloudburst”
Medwyn Goodall, “Cloudburst”
The Daily "Near You?"
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"Truth..."
“The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true. All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault. In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher J... more »
“The Fourth Turning: Of Time, Turnings, Stars & Wars”
*“Of Time, Turnings, Stars & Wars”* by Doug "Uncola" Lynn "Like nature, history is full of processes that cannot happen in reverse. Just as the laws of entropy do not allow a bird to fly backward, or droplets to regroup at the top of a waterfall, history has no rewind button. Like the seasons of nature, it moves only forward." - Strauss and Howe: “The Fourth Turning”, First Edition, page 255 "Contemplating the concept of time can be quite confounding, to say the least. In the extreme, considering the paradoxical nature of time’s passage will stretch the mind causing thoughts to inve... more »
No sign of any out of court settlement, NWO push ahead with plan to murder me in Larisa even as Ebola medical martial law plot falls apart
*How to deal with irrational, beastial people who have hijacked our governments to carry out crimes on a vast scale?* *Did someone mention lethal force? What else is left? And what is easier than for China, miliaries, intelligence services and the public to get together and deal with the private banksters and Illuminati royals and start a new era of state central banks, debt cancellation, prosperity and peace?* *Let's make 2020 the year of a decisive paradigm shift!*
Iowa Is Ready To Swing Away From Trump And Help Elect Bernie President
Iowa is a swing state-- and in 2016 it swung hard against the Democrats, primarily because the party fielded a status quo candidate who offered hard-pressed workers just about nothing and because Trump made them all kinds of (since-unfulfilled) promises. Trump’s victory was was a ten-pointer-- 800,983 (51.15%) to 653,669 (41.74), winning 93 of the state’s 99 counties-- but it was much more a rejection of Hillary than an embrace of Trump or Trumpism. Earlier Trump had been beaten by Cruz in the caucuses-- 27.64% to 24.3%. Hillary and Bernie had essentially tied-- 49.84% to 49.59%. ... more »
The NWO dinosaurs are facing extinction due to events happening too fast for them to grasph
*A Deutsche Bank analyst has noted that things are speeding up, and that could explain why the NWO Globalists of the lowest 1% of intelligence in populations cannot discern in the "barrage of flashing read headlines, news and events "coming at you" so fast that one can no longer discern what is signal and what is noise."* *https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/life-comes-you-too-fast-one-bankers-striking-explanation-why-nothing-makes-sense-any-more* *How else to explain that the Queen, Prince Charles ambled like dinousours before the "extinction event" to church again in Sandringham to... more »
"If It Exists..."
"We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough we live with the consequences. To be truthful I am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists I have not discovered it." - David Gemmell
"Strange Is Our Situation..."
“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others… for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.” - Albert Einstein *"The World As... more »
2019 Was An Important Year In Submarine Developments
The launch of Russia's special mission submarine Belgorod was one of the major submarine stories of 2019. The boat is significant both because of her size, and her roles. She is subject to much speculation in the West. H I Sutton *Forbes: **2019 Was An Important Year In Submarine Developments * The world submarine scene is changing fast, and 2019 feels like it has been start of a sharp rise in the rate of development. Perhaps because of a lull following the end of the Cold War, or because of the dawn of the next industrial revolution, things are hotting up. From the perspective o... more »
"Get Up Off Your Knees!"
*"Get Up Off Your Knees!"* On your knees you may live to see another day, but you’ll never live to see better days. by Robert Gore "Zoos are among the saddest places on earth: magnificent but confined creatures on display for gawking crowds, prevented from living out their biological destinies, fed their daily rations, and domesticated beyond where they could ever return to the wild. You have to feel pity and sorrow for these innocent prisoners; they’d flee in a heartbeat if they could. Humans have made themselves inmates - whether of a zoo, prison, or asylum is hard to say, likel... more »
FBI fires new warning shot at NWO eugenicists, announces investigation into Ghislaine Maxwell and associates as clique attempt Ebola medical martial law
*The FBI has said it is investigating Ghislaine Maxwell, friend of Nat Rothschild and Prince Andrew and of course, eugenicist Jeff Epstein...* *https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50927651* *Corrupt thoughthe top tier of the FBI verifiably are, there is a limit to how far they can cover up this clique when they are threatening the USA with an Ebola false flag and a risky Merck jab with an FDA license.* *The mid and lower tiers of the FBI know how much easier it is to remove the corrupt higher ups than deal with the headache of Ebola.* *The FBI have been following the inform... more »
A Nuclear ICBM Could Hit America in Under An Hour (Millions Dead)
*Michaela Dodge* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] Here's what one movie says we can do about it. *Key point:* The threat of nuclear annihilation is ever-present. The Heritage Foundation’s documentary “33 Minutes” may not be the most cheerful holiday season film, but its warning to the American public about the risk of nuclear attack could not be more timely. In recent years, North Korea’s missiles have grown in range and capability. The most recent missile it tested, the Hwasong-15, can reach anywhere in the continental United States. This is a deeply alarming development. ... more »
How The Confederacy Tried To Turn The War Against Ulysses S. Grant
*Warfare History Network* *History, * Did it work? By the end of the winter campaign of 1861-1862, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had shattered the Confederate defenses in northwest Tennessee with a combined land and water attack on Forts Henry and Donelson, forcing General Albert Sidney Johnston to abandon his bastion at Nashville and retreat southward. Johnston eventually halted the retreat and began to concentrate his forces at Corinth, Miss., a key railroad junction just south of the Mississippi-Tennessee border. From there he would be able to protect the Memphis & Charles... more »
Game Of Thrones Had Their Own F-35s, M1 Abrams, And S-400 Super Weapons
*Sebastien Roblin* *Security, * Military comparisons between Westeros and real life. *Key point: *Today, U.S. military strategy is preoccupied with the similar threat posed by advanced surface-to-air missile systems such as Russia’s S-400, which can theoretically strike relatively larger targets from up to 250 miles away. In addition to well-realized characters and shocking plot twists, one of the compelling aspects of The *Game of Thrones* series is that it situates itself in a rules-based fantasy world. Success or defeat are not determined by a character’s likeability or virtu... more »
Israel's Navy Has A New Long-Range Torpedo That Can Kill Any Navy
*Robert Beckhusen* *Security, * Bad news for its enemies. *Key point: *The Israeli navy currently possesses five submarines, three Dolphin-class and two Dolphin 2-class attack submarines, with a third Dolphin 2currently under construction. Submarines and torpedoes are among the most closely-guarded and sensitive topics among navies. True to type, a recent announcement by the Israeli navy about the adoption of a new torpedo came with few details. But it appears to be an interesting torpedo — more advanced, with state-of-the-art technology. The Kaved will become the Israeli navy’s... more »
China's Stealth Fighters Need One Thing to Dominate
*Robert Beckhusen* *Security, Asia* Good pilots. *Key point: *China’s air force doesn’t match the United States, because for most of recent history, it didn’t need to. China has the third largest air force in the world and may surpass the United States within the next 15 years. But in an aerial shooting war with the U.S. Air Force, Beijing will need more than aircraft — also fighter pilots with well-honed skills capable of facing off with some of the best jocks in the world. Right now, Chinese pilots struggle. Underdeveloped tactics and training regimens which discourage initi... more »
Did Britain Buy The Wrong Tank At The End Of The Cold War?
*David Axe* *Security, Europe* Politics trumped military concerns. *Key point:* Was this a big mistake? At least that’s the opinion of one retired army officer who during his 20-year career helped to assess tank designs on behalf of U.K. policymakers. When the Ministry of Defense in 1987 decided to replace its existing Chieftan and Challenger I main battle tanks, *according to* Stuart Crawford, a regular officer in the Royal Tank Regiment, the obvious choice was Germany’s own latest tank. “Leopard 2 was our recommendation,” Stuart wrote at U.K. Defense Journal. “And obviously w... more »
India Is Slowly Becoming One Of The World's Aircraft Carrier Leaders
*Robert Farley* *Security, * And more aircraft carriers are coming soon. *Key point: *The carriers make the Indian Navy the preeminent force in the Indian Ocean, better able to command the area than any foreign competitor. With one large carrier in service and another on the way, India has become one of the world’s pre-eminent naval aviation powers. How did the program come about? Where is it going? And what is the strategic rationale for India’s massive investment in aircraft carriers? *The Origins of India’s Carriers* Despite considerable economic challenges, India took carrie... more »
"Everything Is Awesome! 12/29/19"
*12/29/19* • "Congress Gives America a Special Christmas Present: Higher Taxes" • "Jim Rickards Warns that Tsunami of Debt Could Upend the Economy" • "Closing in on the Greatest Crash in History" • "'Worst Market In 30 Years' - 400,000 Commodity Railcars Sit Idle Amid Industrial Recession" • "Market "Melt-Up" Continues" • "Cracks Are Showing On The Surface Of Once "Safe" Top Tier Malls" •"2020: The Year Of The Oil Bankruptcies" I know, I know... I'm sick of it too, but we have to know. Help yourself...
India Wants To Modernize Its Submarine Fleet
Indian Navy’s Scorpene submarine INS Kalvari being escorted by tugboats as it arrives at Mazagon Docks Ltd, a naval vessel ship building yard, in Mumbai, on 29 October 2015. File photo: Reuters *NDTV: Press Trust India:* *Navy Plans To Build 24 Submarines, 6 Of Them Nuclear Powered: Report* *The Navy, in its report tabled this month, stated that there are presently 15 conventional submarines and two nuclear submarines in its fleet. * New Delhi: To strengthen its underwater fleet, the Indian Navy plans to build 24 submarines, including six nuclear attack submarines, a parliamentary... more »
China should pay attention to the members of the Illuminati families in the super dangerous Order of the Golden Fleece, include Japanese emperor
*Incidentally, Napoleon and Wellington were both made members of the Golden Fleece order. Wellington was made a member just ahead of the Battle of Waterloo, when he defeated Napoleon and when the Rothschild banksters made a financial killing by speculating on the outcome of the battle. Was the battle fixed by them via a secret, freemason order? And were Napoleon and Wellington enlisted through bribery or blackmail?* *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Golden_Fleece#Living_members_2* *Wikipedia lists some of the living members of this super evil NWO freemason lodge, most of w... more »
Flashback to 1934 when Adolf Hitler wanted the British and German Illuminati royals to be united in marriage
*Scheme would have made bankster engineered WW2 more difficult to explain to public.* F*rom The Express* *The British Royal Family have never been able to escape the spectre of their unsavoury historical Nazi connections. In “17 Carnations” by royal biographer, Andrew Morton, the author describes how Adolf Hitler viewed Prince Edward's lovers as "serious contenders" for royal marriage. As part of his grand diplomatic strategy after he became chancellor in 1933, Adolf Hitler encouraged marriage between German aristocrats and their European counterparts.* *Andrew Morton reveals, Hit... more »
History of monetary unions shows that the banksters intended the eurozone to go bankrupt. The solution is a financial reset
*Zerohedge speculates that the UK may leave the EU in October, triggering a debt meltdown of the eurozone unless the entire eurozone's financial system is reset and lending is targetted to the sourthern European countries to make them competitive again.* *https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-macron-and-johnson-negotiate-hard-brexit-october* *Swiss banker Andre Kistler said the biggest problem that Europe now faces is the euro currency itself. The euro countries are very different, he says, and that difference has been made worse by the strait jacket of the euro. The sourthern... more »
Ukraine, Russia-Backed Rebels Swap Prisoners In Move To End War
*NBC: **Ukraine, Russia-backed rebels swap prisoners in latest sign of peace efforts* The exchange was agreed upon by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin during peace talks in Paris earlier this month. The Ukrainian government and Russian-backed separatist forces held a prisoner swap in the country's war-ravaged east Sunday in the latest sign of efforts to ease tensions between the two warring sides. The exchange was agreed upon by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin during peace talks in Paris earlier this month. Th... more »
Forecasting (Sunday Sermonette)
Where do I see myself in a year? I don't know. I don't have 2020 vision. I will toss the runes though. Welcome to the Sunday Sermonette. The race for *5G dominance* in the world between China and the US will continue as we enter the (new) Roaring Twenties. The economics of tariffs and trade will likewise be huge as *BREXIT* moves forward and new treaties between the US and Great Britain will be written. It will be a huge and dynamic opportunity for both nations. The US economic engine under President Trump should continue to roar and that's good for the nation and the world - per... more »
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. - Paul Thacker discusses the importance of addressing the climate crisis as a health issue. CBC takes a look at a few of the ways a deteriorating climate is affecting Canada. And Taylor Noakes points out the central role a national public transit strategy can play in both reducing carbon pollution and adapting to a changed climate, while the Guardian's editorial board points out the desperate need to shift away from car culture as it stands. - Tim Richter highlights how Edmonton's Housing First policy is reducing both immediate and long-term... more »
WATCH: 3 Injured as Cop Opens Fire on Crowded Street Trying to Kill a Dog
[image: dog]A trigger happy and reckless cop opened fire in a crowded area outside of a store to attempt to kill a dog—striking bystanders in the process.
‘You Don’t Throw Stuff at People’: Multiple Cities Ban Throwing Snowballs, Threaten Fines
[image: snowball]Multiple cities across one state have banned snowball throwing in public places such as parks and public streets, threatening citizens with fines.
"$206 Trillion Debt – Prepare For Stock Market Crash, Bank Collapse, Economic Collapse In 2020"
*"$206 Trillion Debt – Prepare For Stock Market Crash, * *Bank Collapse, Economic Collapse In 2020" * by Epic Economist "The economic collapse is already here. It’s already here; they’re just not televising it. There are not telling you about it. If you look at central bankers, they’ve never been right about any stock market crash, any depression, any recessions ever. Bank failures are happening all over America. The bank collapse has started; for weeks now the Fed is bailing out the rotten bankers left and right. The Fed is easing restrictions, easing laws to eliminate what bankers... more »
More Madness In Minnesota: Leftists Hijack Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
When the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota (yes, another tale of progressives thrashing around in our upper midwest) mounted a stage production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” last week, the producers decided to include a glossy full-color insert into the program. And what, you ask, is in that insert? Why, the Native American version of the “1619 Project”: a full-on bashing of American history that is centered on this comment: “Colonization, history and racism cast a deep shadow over our perspective of land, life, culture and people. We have been exiled to a place of... more »
Mark Helprin, 1994: “Diversity Is Not A Virtue”
While doing a year-end purge of old paper files, I came across a photocopy I made in 1994 of an article by Mark Helprin. Thanks to the internet, I found this essay online. This article ran as an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Helprin is a conservative essayist, a novelist, and also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations … one might say that Helprin is covering all the bases but, at the same time, is keeping his powder dry for the coming conflict with the globalists. Helprin must have had a well-tuned time machine, because he … Continue reading →
ICYMI: Almost A New Decade Edition (12/29)
Yep, soon anything from the 1900s will be "a long time ago." But we can meditate on how experience fades into the dim past some other day. Right now we'll just worry about last week. Here's some of the worthwhile reading; it's a short list because holiday time. Remember to amplify the stuff that speaks to you! How Ibram X. Kendi's Definition of Antiracism Applies to Schools If you don't know Kendi's work yet, you should catch up. Here KQED takes a look at how it applies directly to schools. Start thinking about racism before you get back from vacation. The Stories We Were Told A... more »
Why I would use hypersonic missiles now if I were China...
*News round up from China* - *China reforms interest rate policies to lower rate and boost economy* - *China's central bank continues crackdown on cryptocurrencies* - *China poised to release a digital yuan which does not need currency reserves (to be issued using the single entry book keeping system as a service?* - - *China compels big pig farmers who have emerged from the ebola disease pig crisis to help small farmers to restart businesses, expects pork production to return to previous levels next year* - *China lowers tariffs on pork, semi conduct... more »
Is President Trump's Impeachment Escalating The New US-Russian Cold War?
*Zero Hedge:** Cohen: How Impeachment Is Escalating The New US-Russian Cold War* *Summary of Broadcast Produced by Yvonne Lorenzo:* As the New Cold War gathers up speed and escalates, we are entering a “fact free world” as allegations are made that are proved not to be true are promoted; for example, the allegation that the DNC was hacked by Russia has been officially debunked—no one could name the seventeen intelligence agencies, the Coast Guard was one. The notion of the hacking was cooked up by two agencies: by the DNI’s head James Clapper and Brennan at the CIA. Nevertheless,... more »
Why Are The Democrats So Eager To Damage America’s Children?
Millions of Parents Of Vaccine-Damaged Children Want To Know… Opinion By “Deplorable, Smelly, WalMart Shopper” Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen We live in interesting times… The valiant “Anti-Vaxxer” community, operating across Planet Earth, dedicated to saving humanity from the clutches of the Big Pharma globalist conspiracy, smashing their way through Big Pharma’s propaganda machinations, have made, … Continue reading Why Are The Democrats So Eager To Damage America’s Children?
Big Ben to ring in new year with a new look after facelift
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Big Ben, situated within London's Palace of Westminster, will ring in the United Kingdom's new year with a blue face, after extensive works to restore the iconic landmark.
China – US trade deal phase one complete. Phase two may take years (Video)
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 417. More The post China – US trade deal phase one complete. Phase two may take years (Video) appeared first on The Duran.
Sunday morning music
Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani was an 18th-century Italian composer. Not much of his output is remembered today, but his Sonata for Flute in D Minor is one of them. It's a light, pleasant piece that makes easy listening. I hope your post-Christmas digestion is recovering from the overload - just in time for the New Year celebrations next week! Peter
London Tops Global Study for World’s Worst Microplastics Pollution
London tops four cities examined for microplastics pollution; still early days for assessing this pollution's impact on human health.
China Is Nearing Completion Of Its Own GPS Network
*Gizmodo:* *China Set to Launch Its GPS Competitor Next Year* China is close to launching the last two satellites that will complete BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System—the nation’s rival to the United States’ Global Positioning System. Ran Chengqi, a spokesperson for China’s Satellite Navigation Office, shared the status of the program on Friday at a rare media event, according to the Associated Press. Ran told reporters that this month China launched satellites that comprised the core of the navigation system, enabling the network to provide global service. *Read more* .... ... more »
Will Russia Annex Belarus?
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi, Russia, December 7, 2019. Reuters *Business Insider/Washington Examiner: **Western allies are worried Russia could take over a neighbor to keep Putin alive and in power* * Russia's neighbors are worried that Moscow could annex Belarus in an effort to keep President Vladimir Putin in power. * Such a move would allow Putin to circumvent term limits, and put Russian forces within striking distance of a major NATO weak point. Western allies fear that Russia will gain sovereignty over Belarus, a for... more »
A Con For The Ages
Paul Waldman writes that Donald Trump is the Whiner in Chief: Trump weaves a narrative of constant victimhood, telling his supporters not only that they are besieged and brutalized, but also that no one is more a victim than him. There has surely never been a president who spent so much time complaining — the media aren’t good enough to me, I’m not getting the credit I deserve, the Democrats don’t give me due process, my toilet isn’t powerful enough, it’s unfair, it’s unfair, it’s unfair. The latest -- and most absurd -- example of Trump's whining occurred this week when he comp... more »
Why Russia Doesn't Fear America's F-35 Stealth Fighter
*Michael Peck* *Security, Europe* Americans are horrified when their soldiers don't receive the most cutting-edge equipment. Russia is willing to sacrifice sophistication for simplicity. *Key point: *Technology is technology, but war is war. Surprise! America's F-35 stealth fighter is too complicated and expensive, claims a Russian military expert interviewed by Russian media. Hard to believe, isn't it? Yet while the Sputnik News interview might be dismissed as tendentious at best and propaganda at worst, it perfectly illustrates how Russia and the West view weapons technology. ... more »
Send the Marines! Mexico's President Has An Idea To Take Down The Cartels
*Caleb Larson* *Security, Americas* Mexico's marines. *Key point: *President López Obrador has made the creation of the National Guard the centerpiece of his new security strategy. Compared to their counterparts in the United States, the United States Navy and Marine Corps, the Mexican Navy is small— around sixty-six thousand. The Mexican Naval Infantry, their Marine Corps, is even smaller— numbering only about eighteen thousand. In contrast to the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy, the Mexican Navy’s main missions have typically been coastal protection, w... more »
China's DF 41 missile, capable to reaching the US, UK in just 30 minutes
*China's hypersonic missiles can also be positioned in the mountainous border region it shares with India...* https://swarajyamag.com/insta/chinese-army-augmenting-its-position-digging-tunnels-denying-indian-troops-movement-near-disputed-region-of-ladakh *DF-41* *From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia* *Jump to navigationJump to search* *DF-41* *Type ICBM* *Place of origin China* *Service history* *In service 2017* *Used by People's Liberation Army Rocket Force* *Production history* *Manufacturer China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT)* *Specifications* *Mass ~80,000 kilograms (... more »
Russia launches hypersonic missile able to travel at 27 times the speed of sound (China should keep its missile defence shield up against Illuminati Trojan horse Putin)
M*OSCOW (AP) — A new intercontinental weapon that can fly 27 times the speed of sound became operational Friday, Russia's defense minister reported to President Vladimir Putin, bolstering the country's nuclear strike capability.* *Putin has described the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle as a technological breakthrough comparable to the 1957 Soviet launch of the first satellite. The new Russian weapon and a similar system being developed by China have troubled the United States, which has pondered defense strategies.* *The Avangard is launched atop an intercontinental ballistic mi... more »
What I've Been Reading Recently
We have sallied forth through a tumultuous election and come out the other end battered and bruised, and come what may here are the list of books I've read this last quarter. *Abaddon's Gate* by James SA Corey *The Age of Revolution, 1789 - 1848* by Eric Hobsbawm *Reading Capital* by Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar *The Noise of Time* by Julian Barnes *A Major Crisis?* by Werner Bonefeld, Alice Brown, and Peter Burnham *The Silence of the Girls* by Pat Barker *Stonemouth* by Iain Banks *The Concept in Crisis* edited by Nick Nesbitt *Land of Love and Ruins* by Oddny Eir *Footsoldier... more »
UK judges issue ruling opening the door for UK spies to assassinate the Queen and other NWO Globalists in the public interest
*British operatives can kill in the line of duty without fear of prosecution as long as they persuade police and prosecutors it was in the public interest, UK judges ruled last week.* *The ruling opens the door for British spies and agents to kill the NWO Globalist kingpins such as the Queen, Prince Andrew, Charles, Philip, William, Boris Johnson, Nat Rothschild with impunity.* *Operatives will be able to prove the assassinations were in the public interest.* *Specifically, they will be able to prove that this clique has intensified their plans to wipe out the UK population using... more »
James Pattinson creates hometown joy as Siddle departs
For years James Pattinson has been a presence in Australian cricket through his absence, but on a day when fellow Victorian Peter Siddle departed for good, the imposing pace bowler made his physical presence felt at the MCG, writes Geoff Lemon.
Samoa lifts six-week state of emergency after bringing measles outbreak under control
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The Samoa Government ends aggressive measures, including closing schools and restricting travel, after a vaccination program helps contain the outbreak of the virus which killed 81 people and infected more than 5,600.
Media silence now understood by the global public as a propaganda technique, Zerohedge laments the Douma chemical weapons scandal has discredited the MSM
*Globalist insider Zerohedge focuses on the way media silence on the lies of the OPCW about the Douma chemical attack is discrediting it.* *But much bigger "non stories" are the Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell scandal and also my story, dear readers, and case Delta 15 218.* *The MSM media silence is, in fact, in direct proportion to the importance and public interest of story, and the public is waking up to that fact.* *Chinese media also seem to be infiltrated by NWO Globalists and use the same technique of blanket silence to keep vital information out of the... more »
Story of the day – Christmas Day In The Morning (Pearl S. Buck)
Originally posted on Stella's Place: Because giving at Christmas is always better than receiving, isn’t it? He woke suddenly and completely. It was four o’clock, the hour at which his father had always called him to get up and…
CHINA DECOUPLES FROM US GPS NETWORK, READIES FOR CRUSHING STRIKE AGAINST GLOBALISTS
*China announced Friday that it had launched 33 satellites to form its new global positioning system (GPS) network independent of the US system with two other satellites to be added in the next three months.* *The decoupling of China's communications network from the USA opens the way for China to use its hypersonic and March rockets to destroy US satellites, shut down communitions and cripple the NWO Globalists capacity to mobilise their assets to defend themselves* https://www.businessinsider.com/china-long-march-5-test-launch-success-moon-mars-missions-2019-12 *Other assets, ... more »
Secrets Revealed: America Almost Stockpiled Nuclear Weapons In Iceland
*Michael Peck* *Security, Europe* Why didn't it happen? *Key point: *We still don’t officially know which nations had U.S. nuclear weapons on their soil. If Miss Manners were a diplomat, she would tell us how rude it is to place nuclear bombs in the territory of our allies without being invited to. But it turns out that in the 1950s, the United States considered deploying nuclear weapons in Iceland without telling the Icelanders, according to declassified documents published by the watchdog organization National Security Archive. “At the end of the 1950s the U.S. Navy ordered th... more »
This Is The DX-12 'Punisher' Shotgun. We Answer Your Questions.
*Charlie Gao* *Technology, Americas* The two-step opening process the DX-12 requires is slower, requires a more difficult motion with the thumb, and requires two hands. *Key point: *While the DX-12 Punisher shotgun concept may appear aesthetically pleasing, practically every aspect of its design has been done better by existing shotguns on the market today. A render of a double-barrel shotgun by “HARDWAR3 INDUSTRIES” got some attention last year due to its futuristic design and boxy shape, which some say resembles the ubiquitous Glock pistols. But unlike the pistols it has been ... more »
The Navy Is Planning To Use Drone Swarms In the Next Big War
*Kris Osborn* *Security, * The concept is to call upon newer levels of autonomy enabling weapons systems to search for enemies, track their movements and then target them -- all while humans perform command and control as safer ranges. *Key point: *Armed surface drones, it seems self-evident, could bring a substantial force protection element to surface warfare. The US Navy is beginning to arm surface drone boats with guns, rockets and mobile missiles to overwhelm enemies with swarming attacks, protect sailors at farther stand-off ranges and coordinate maritime strikes across di... more »
Inchon: How MacArthur Turned The Tide Of The Korean War
*Warfare History Network* *Security, Asia* General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower termed the victory “a brilliant example of strategic leadership,” while General Carl A. “Tooey” Spaatz called it “one of the most, if not the most, significant military operations in history.” *Key point: *On the very eve of the landings [MacArthur] noted, “I alone was responsible for tomorrow, and if I failed, the dreadful results would rest on Judgment Day against my soul.” Late in the evening of June 25, 1950 U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was at his Maryland farmhouse reading when a cal... more »
Six Tons of Cocaine Seized in Uruguay
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The authorities are speaking of the largest blow to the drug trade in the country's history. The sale value of the seized cocaine is estimated by the authorities at US$1 (R$4) billion. The Navy has posted a picture of the find on Twitter. It is possible that the amount of […] The post Six Tons of Cocaine Seized in Uruguay appeared first on The Rio Times.
From Bolsonarism to Fundamentalism: Three Divisions Within Brazil’s Extreme Right
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Jair Bolsonaro is approaching his one-year term as President of the Republic. During this time, the virtual space that harbors Bolsonarism, and which was a key component of his campaign to come to power, has undergone some changes and has become divided. The far-right-wing ideology is still there, intact and […] The post From Bolsonarism to Fundamentalism: Three Divisions Within Brazil’s Extreme Right appeared first on The Rio Times.
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