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NOW! Blockade at Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana
. . THREE PEOPLE ARRESTED AS ABOUT 50 PEOPLE PROTEST PIPELINE ARRESTS UNDERWAY AT BAYOU BRIDGE PIPELINE, LOUISIANA "You can't drink oil! Water is Life!" Water Protectors chant as police move in to arrest young people who blocked construction today. 12:30 Central Time, Monday, Feb. 28, 2018 Louisiana Bucket Brigade was live. 13 minutes ago · Law enforcement
“And Now the Schiff Memo”
*“And Now the Schiff Memo”* by James Howard Kunstler “The excruciating quandary President Trump presents to the nation is dragging the sad remnant of the thinking class ever-deeper into a netherworld of desperation, paranoia, and mendacity that may exceed even their own official fantasies about the enemy in the White House. Everything about the lumbering, blundering occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue drives his Dem/Prog opponents - or #Resistance, if you will - plumb batsh*t: his previous incarnations as a shady NYC real estate schmeikler, as a TV clown, as a business deadbeat, a... more »
Is the Military Drawing Up Plans for Nationwide Gun Confiscations?
As usual. satire is mistaken for reality when it reflects something the reading audience fears will be happening.
This may sound weird but I am really looking forward to the 2018 White House Correspondent's Dinner.
Courtesy of Variety: *Michelle Wolf, the headliner at this year’s White House Correspondents Association Dinner, says that she doesn’t plan to hold back on her material, even if President Donald Trump attends the event. * *“What is the fun in holding back?” she told Variety on Friday. “I feel like you are not doing a job as a comedian. If you are willing to say something about someone, you should be willing to say it on Twitter, to their face, whatever. So I think if you want to say something you got to step up and say it.” * *Wolf was announced as the featured entertainer at th... more »
Join the NRA...
*today.* As soon as I post this, I will head over to the *NRA website* and officially join. HELP FIGHT THE SOCIALIST WAVE"President Trump's election, while crucial, can't turn away the wave of these new European style socialists bearing down upon us … How about Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Bill DeBlasio, Andrew Cuomo, Corey Booker, Christopher Murphy and Keith Ellison … they hide behind labels like 'Democrat,' 'left-wing,' and 'progressive' to make their socialist agenda more palatable, and that's terrifying."—Wayne LaPierre *We are not helpless in the current assault on our ... more »
BREAKING: Collins examines the latest sex stories!
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2018Latest dispatch from the realm:* Gail Collins stopped trying years ago. But she still writes her regular column. This Saturday, her regular column concerned the latest sex stories. She started with "the Pennsylvania district where Republican Tim Murphy, a strong anti-abortion conservative, had to resign after he got caught urging his lover to have an abortion if she got pregnant." From there, she moved to "the district next door, where the former lover has announced she’s running against a Democratic incumbent." Next came last week's "special election fo... more »
‘Disinformation’ on alleged chemical weapons use may sabotage Syrian ceasefire – Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that Moscow considers it likely that there will be further “disinformation” about the alleged chemical weapons used in Syria, which he said may sabotage ceasefire agreements in the country. Lavrov made the statement at a press conference held alongside his Portuguese counterpart Augusto Santos Silva in Moscow on Monday. […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Breaking: Syrian Army scores new advance in East Ghouta
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:50 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) scored a new advance in the East Ghouta region of Damascus this afternoon, following a fierce battle with the Islamist rebels of Jaysh Al-Islam. Led by the Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army was able to achieve this advance along the Shifouniyah-Hawsh Dawahra axis after […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
‘It’s high time to stop this hell on earth’ – UN Security General on Ghouta
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:40 P.M.) – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres welcomed the recent adoption by the UN Security Council of a 30-day ceasefire across Syria, at the 37th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. Despite welcoming the resolution, however, Guterres said that “Security Council resolutions are only meaningful if they are […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Russian MoD announces corridor to be opened in East Ghouta allowing civilians to leave (video)
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:30 P.M.) – Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu announced an order by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to allow civilians to leave Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, in a statement delivered from Moscow on Monday. The minister stressed that the decision follows the recently adopted UN Security Council resolution […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Turkish-backed rebels open first supply route to northern Aleppo
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:55 P.M.) – The Turkish-backed rebels have opened their first supply to the strategic city of ‘Azaz in northern Aleppo after successfully capturing much of the Aleppo Governorate’s border with Turkey. Led by the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the Turkish-backed rebels managed to seize the last towns under the control of the YPG […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Jihadist civil war spreads to strategic base in southwest Aleppo
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:45 P.M.) – The jihadist civil war taking place in northern Syria has spread to one of the largest bases in the southwestern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate. According to pro-opposition activists, Jabhat Tahrir Souriya (Ahrar Al-Sham/Nouriddeen Al-Zinki alliance) attacked Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham’s positions at the key Regiment 46 base near the Idlib […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
EU adds two Syrian ministers to sanctions list, total sanctioned now 257
The Council of the European Union on Monday added the Syrian Minister of Industry and the Minister of Information to the anti-Syria sanctions list, bringing the total number of targeted persons to 257, the Council said in a statement. “On 26 February 2018, the Council added the Minister of Industry and the Minister of Information […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Russian jets carry out several airstrikes over northern Hama (video)
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:10 P.M.) – The Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a large number of airstrikes over the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate, the Syrian military reported today. According to the Syrian military, the Russian Aerospace Forces primarily conducted airstrikes over the towns of Kafr Zita, Al-Lataminah, and Al-Saiyad. These airstrikes were conducted in […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Over 135 former rebels surrender themselves to Syrian gov’t in northern Homs (video)
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:00 P.M.) – Over 135 former rebels surrendered themselves to the Syrian government in northern Homs on Monday, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported. According to the SANA report, the former rebels surrendered themselves to the Syrian government forces in the districts of Talbiseh and Al-Rastan. Most of these rebels had previously […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Macron to Erdogan: Syrian ceasefire must apply to Afrin operation
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed the new UN Security Council resolution on the Syrian ceasefire as well as Ankara’s operation in Afrin in a phone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday. During the conversation between the two leaders, Macron stressed that the 30-day ceasefire “covered all Syrian territory, including Afrin, […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
HTS captures largest Ahrar Al-Sham military camp in northern Syria
BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:35 P.M.) – Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham has taken control of Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham’s largest military base in northern Syria after a short battle today. According to HTS’ official media wing, their forces captured the Khirbet Bantanta Military Camp in the northern Idlib after a series of fierce clashes. In addition to capturing the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Syrian Army scores fresh gains in Nusra-held Harasta
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (4:40 P.M.) – The battle to re-take a key rebel-controlled suburb along the Damascus-Homs highway heats up with the government troops making new advance. Today, the Syrian Army’s elite 4th Division managed to control large swathes of Harasta orchards including a complex network of tunnels that stretch out to the proximity of al-Beirouni […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Breaking: Putin orders daily 5 hour ceasefire in East Ghouta
BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:10 P.M.) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a daily five hour ceasefire in the East Ghouta region of Damascus that will allow civilians time to reach safety. According to a military source in Damascus, the Russian President’s ceasefire will take place each day from the hours of 9 A.M. – 2 […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Massive censorhip of Infowars
My mirror selfie for this week as Jared Kushner looks set to lose his security clearance due to new developments in the Russia probe. Hats off to John Kelly! https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/24/report-jared-kushner-security-clearance-faces-new-delay-white-house-advised-new-information-delay-ja/369806002/ Kushner was sitting beside my nemesis US ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt when Alexis Tsipras met with Donald Trump on October 16th 2017, one day after […]
Numbers Matter: China's Three 'Navies' Each Have the World's Most Ships
*Andrew S. Erickson* *Security, Asia* [image: China Coast Guard vessels patrol past a Chinese fishing vessel at the disputed Scarborough Shoal, April 5, 2017. Reuters/Erik De Castro] Numerical superiority allows China’s second and third sea forces to flood the maritime gray zone in ways that its neighbors, as well as the United States, may find very hard to counter. As a friend’s five-year-old puts it, “China has three navies: the regular navy, the police navy and the sneaky navy.” Each of these three sea forces is the world’s largest of its type by number of ships—at least by so... more »
Have You Seen the Future?
*Julian Rose* - Is it a future free from the grip of relentless psychopathic control freaks?
Four Major Charities Rocked by Epidemic of Sex Abuse, Including Crimes Against Children
[image: charities] Four major government and church-backed charities are being exposed for rampant sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, and sexually abusing children. The post Four Major Charities Rocked by Epidemic of Sex Abuse, Including Crimes Against Children appeared first on The Free Thought Project.
Teacher Says FL Shooter Was in Full Body Armor, Face Mask, and She Thought He Was a Cop
[image: body armor] A teacher who witnessed the Florida School shooting said she saw the shooter firing a barrage of bullets down the hall and she immediately thought he was a police officer because he was wearing full body armor. The post Teacher Says FL Shooter Was in Full Body Armor, Face Mask, and She Thought He Was a Cop appeared first on The Free Thought Project.
Cop Runs Over 58yo Woman, Then Issues HER a Ticket While She’s In The Hospital
[image: road] A police officer traveling through a neighborhood ran over a woman and then issued her a citation for improperly walking in the road. The post Cop Runs Over 58yo Woman, Then Issues HER a Ticket While She’s In The Hospital appeared first on The Free Thought Project.
Killing a Parasite — Canceling Student Debt, Part 1
*For families under age 35, growth in student debt outstrips by far the growth from any other debt source, including mortgage and credit card debt (source).* *by Gaius Publius* *In America today, 44 million people collectively carry $1.4 trillion in student debt. That giant pile of financial obligations isn’t just a burden on individual borrowers, but on the nation’s entire economy.* In the world of parasites, the job of the parasite is to benefit from the harm it does to the host, but not to kill the host, at least not until the parasite is done with it: In biology, parasitism i... more »
RED NATION 'Greater Chaco Is Not for Sale! Stop Trump's Colonial Land Grab'
Greater Chaco Is Not for Sale! Stop Trump’s Colonial Land Grab .Shye Antonio stares at the face of death for her community: oil extraction. Photo by Kendra Pinto by The Red Nation https://therednation.org/2018/02/26/greater-chaco-is-not-for-sale-fighting-trumps-colonial-land-grab/ Reposted with permission at Censored News Trump’s war on the planet and Indigenous peoples has now
Climate confusion from “Popular Science”
Popular Science magazine has a new "news" video and transcript out that truly qualifies as what is now called climate fiction or cli-fi for short.
LISTEN Black Mountain Birdsingers at Ward Valley Spiritual Gathering 2018
Photo by Ian Zabarte, Western Shoshone Listen to Black Mountain Birdsingers at Ward Valley Spiritual Gathering at Ground Zero, Feb. 26, 2018 Recorded live by Earl Tulley, Dineh Censored News and Spirit Resistance Radio https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5_XTSYd3ZeWM20yT3hNQUVJT1IwSmhCbGYzMThaZ0prdWJZ/view Song copyright Black Mesa Birdsingers Photo copyright Ian Zabarte
Argentina: UFOs Over a Rural Service Station in Entre Rios
*Source: AHORA (Argentina)Date: 02.26.2018A report by Elias Moreira Aliendro* *Argentina: UFOs Over a Rural Service Station in Entre Rios* The mysterious lights were recorded and shared on social media, where cybernauts were consulted as to their opinion of what the objects might be in an effort to arrive at a logical explanation. What could be involved here? See the photos. Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) were seen last night over the rural region of El Quebracho, Department of La Paz, over the premises of a local filling station. The lights that could be seen and recorded... more »
Media Ignore Real Hero in Florida Shooting: Unarmed Off-duty Police Officer Heinrich
[image: media-ignore-real-hero-in-florida-shooting-unarmed-off-duty-police-officer-heinrich] In the Florida shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Jeff Heinrich was a hero. It's a shame so few know about him and his actions that ghastly day.
Russian Media: Russian 5th-Gen Fighter Deployed To Syria For Radar Test
© Sputnik/ Sergey Mamontov *RT:* *Russian 5th-gen fighter deployed to Syria for radar test, latest leaked details claim * New details have emerged on the deployment of Russia’s most-advanced fighter jets to Syria. The state-of-the-art Su-57s are in the region to test their electronic warfare and radar capabilities, an insider has said. Last week, the Russian Defense Ministry reportedly moved four Su-57s, which have been built for trials, to Khmeimim Airbase in Syria. The deployment was seemingly confirmed by Israeli satellite images and footage taken from the ground, but neither t... more »
Rex Tillerson May Be Finally Settling in at the State Department
*Curt Mills* *Politics, North America* [image: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens to the translation during a news conference with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in Amman] After a fraught first year, and though he is still far from popular, the secretary has won fresh plaudits and has quietly built new support both at Foggy Bottom and among key Republicans. A State Department official, a holdover from the John Kerry era, tells me of his newfound respect for Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump’s once-beleaguered chief diplomat. Tillerson is “tough,” “reasonable” and a ... more »
Is McMaster Breaking with Trump's Foreign Policy Vision?
*Dave Majumdar* *Politics, North America* In contrast to the president’s own prior statements, McMaster recently championed international institutions that form the basis of the liberal institutional world order. National security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster laid out a vision of the international order at the Munich Security Conference that stands in stark contrast to President Donald Trump’s campaign promises. Where Trump had campaigned on what some might describe as a nationalist foreign policy that puts America’s interests first and foremost, McMaster championed an unabash... more »
One Thing North Korea Has That the South Doesn't: Google Maps
*Keshia Badalge, Cullen Fairchild* *Security, Asia* South Korea's own map and transport apps are great—as long as you can read Korean. Google Maps has charted new worlds for travelers: unknown terrain becomes easily navigable in an instant, making it possible to drive from Luxembourg to Latvia without having any familiarity with the route. It has become the go-to app for getting all sorts of directions – unless you are in South Korea. The host country of the Winter Olympics does not allow Google Maps to provide driving and walking directions. In fact, it is the only country in ... more »
Xi Jinping Could End up Being 'President for Life' in China
*Asia Times, Gordon Watts* *Politics, Asia* Communist Party's proposal would end the fixed two-term rule and allow him to stay on in power beyond 2023. President Xi Jinping looks certain to stay on in power beyond 2023. The final roadblock to him retaining his position as the leader of the world’s second-largest economy appears to have been removed by the ruling Communist Party of China. In a terse 35-word statement on Sunday issued by Xinhua, the mouthpiece of China’s government, the CPC, announced: *The Communist Party of China Central Committee proposed to remove the expres... more »
The Navy Will Be Getting 14 More F/A-18 Super Hornets (That Will Fly through 2040)
*Kris Osborn* *Security, North America* The Navy budget gives the service its long-sought after F/A-18 Super Hornet increase by adding 14 fighters. The Navy budget gives the service its long-sought after F/A-18 Super Hornet increase by adding 14 fighters and more than $1 billion in procurement funds – all as part of a sweeping effort to increase the F-18 fleet size, meet mission requirements, accommodate new technologies and ultimately fly alongside the F-35C through the 2040s. Given the recent war-driven op-tempo involving global deployments and air strikes on ISIS, most of the... more »
The February 2018 Air War between Israel, Syria and Iran Was Brief and Violent
*Tom Cooper* *Security, Middle East* An Iranian drone incursion provoked a devastating Israeli response. Many of us woke up on the morning of Feb. 10, 2018 to news of air-to-ground clashes between the Israeli Air-Space Force and the forces of the Bashar Al Assad’s regime in Syria and its allies from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. An unmanned aerial vehicle operated by the IRGC was shot down over Israel. Then one of the IASF’s F-16s crashed – apparently shot down – over Israel. The Israelis launched a series of air strikes that their ministry of defense later claimed had... more »
Game of Trolls: The Sinister Face of Facebook
[image: game-of-trolls-the-sinister-face-of-facebook] Facebook, which was sold as a medium wherein citizens could counter government propaganda, now provides tools to governments to squash dissent.
Cesare Beccaria: Unknown to Us, Influential on Our Founders
[image: cesare-beccaria-unknown-to-us-influential-on-our-founders] In the fight to preserve the Second Amendment, the writings of Cesare Beccaria are quite enlightening. They were quoted by our Founding Fathers.
Slovakia turns into Sicily
*...if not Calabria...* On Sunday, a 27-years-old Slovak investigative journalist Mr Ján Kuciak and his roughly 23-year-old girlfriend Martina Kušnírová (who planned a wedding) were found dead in his home in Veľká Mača, a village in the center of Western Slovakia. The journalist employed by the web Aktuality.sk (owned by Ringier Axel Springer) was shot into his chest, she was shot into her head (after she tried to run away and hide). Cartridges were arranged around the dead woman to suggest a Mafia-style assassination – it's a message to others, "don't look into it again". The bod... more »
Florida investigation can’t ID culprit who falsified data in retracted PNAS paper
When the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences retracted a gene therapy paper in December, it declared that some of the data had been falsified and mentioned a research misconduct investigation. But the notice said nothing about who was responsible. Via a public records request, Retraction Watch has obtained investigation documents from the University … Continue reading Florida investigation can’t ID culprit who falsified data in retracted PNAS paper
Is There Such A Thing As A List Of The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech In The USA?
By Catherine J. Frompovich The Association of Mature American Citizens (Amac), posted the article, “The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech: 2018,” which sounds overtly... more »
CBSNews.com “8 Dumb Things to Boost Your Cancer Risk: #5 Keeping the Keypad Turned Away.” Cell Phones Emit More Radiation Through Their Backsides.
By B.N. Frank Last month, CBSNews.com posted “Cell Phones & Cancer: 8 Dumb Things to Boost Your Possible Cancer Risk” #5 on their list: “Keeping... more »
A solid investment if you know what you’re getting: Why continued support for UN peacekeeping is good policy for the US
The following is a guest post by Jay Benson and Eric Keels. Jay Benson is a Researcher at One Earth Future (OEF), with research focusing on issues of peacekeeping, civilian protection and intrastate conflict. Eric Keels is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Global Security at the Howard H. Baker Center and a Contractor with the OEF […]
This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 26
1917 3 British gunboats fired upon by 4 Ottoman ships at Nahr-al-Kalek, Wasit 3 Turkish ships sunk and 4th captured 1983 Iran’s Op Fajr al-Nasr in Maysan to seize Basra-Baghdad road ended 1991 Saddam announced withdrawal from Kuwait Iraqi army started pulling out 1991 Saddam called on Iraqis to applaud the army for fighting 30 countries Claimed Iraq won and it was a great victory 1991 US 3rd inf Div attacked 52ndArmored Div 17 Div Adnan and Tawakalna Divs 1991 Battle of 73 Easting US 2nd Arm Cav Rgt fought Iraq’s Tawakalna Div 1991 Battle of Norfolk US 1st A... more »
Histrionics over Arctic temperatures & sea ice extent: implications for polar bears
Originally posted on polarbearscience: Panic over Arctic temperatures got smeared across news networks last week, so I think a bit of perspective is in order, including an assessment of what this means for polar bears and their prey (because some of the hysteria is being amplified from that corner). The region causing all the kerfuffle…
So when does an adult become an adult?
Calls by several groups and individuals (including President Trump) to raise the legal age for purchasing a firearm to 21 are making headlines at present. The problem is, buying a gun is just one part of being an adult, and it's neither the most risky nor the most politically awkward one. At the same time, some are calling for the voting age to be reduced to 16. Tell me; if someone's not mature enough to own a gun until they're 21, what makes you think they'll be mature enough to vote - arguably a far graver responsibility - when they're 16? Riddle me that! There are all sorts ... more »
Donald Trump used photo of recovering Florida school shooting victim in email asking for campaign donations.
Courtesy of CNN: *President Donald Trump's re-election campaign used a photo of a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, shooting in an email Saturday that asks its recipients to donate money to the campaign. * *The email contains a photo of 17-year-old Madeleine Wilford in a hospital bed surrounded by her family, Trump and the first lady. The President visited Wilford on February 16, two days after the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which left 17 dead.* *"The nation has turned its attention to the senseless school shooting in Parkland, Florida," the email reads. * ... more »
Kremlin-Linked Audio Recordings On The Armed Clash With Americans In Syria Are Leaked
*Polygraph:* *Zakharova Downplays Armed Clash with Americans in Syria, Kremlin-linked Audio Recordings Contradict Her Story* Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova is the only Russian government official who has publicly confirmed that five people, “presumably” Russian citizens, were killed in an armed clash with U.S. forces near Deir el-Zour in Syria. Opposition leaders inside Russia, as well as Russian and Western media reports, dispute Zakharova’s comments. Polygraph.info has obtained audio recordings from a source close to the Kremlin who said the Russian casu... more »
Russia Overtakes China in Gold Reserves Race to End US Dollar Dominance
Russia Overtakes China in Gold Reserves Race to End US Dollar Dominance by https://www.rt.com/ The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) boosted its holdings of gold by almost 20 metric tons last month, with reserves reaching 1,857 tons. It has increased its holdings every month since March 2015. – Russia is now among the top five gold […]
KIPP Co-Founder, Mike Feinberg, Fired for Sexually Abusing Middle Schooler
Always an advocate of a kind of heedless "let the stallions run" mentality for charter school administrators, Michael Feinberg was fired last Thursday for sexually abusing a KIPP student in Houston in the late 1990s, where Feinberg was the principal of the only KIPP school in Houston at the time. The KIPP home office carefully avoided pointing that this was a middle school, grades five through eight. According to KIPP Houston, which now manages 28 schools in the Houston area, the KIPP home office learned in 2017 about Feinberg's sex crimes against a KIPP child in the late 1990s. ... more »
Global Warming: A Case Study in Groupthink–Booker
By Paul Homewood Christopher Booker summarises his new paper for the GWPF, Global Warming: A Case Study in Groupthink: As it is now 30 years since the great alarm over global warming first burst onto the world, it might seem hard to believe that science could now come up with anything that […]
Sabotaging Russia at the Olympics
The circumstances surrounding the two Russian doping cases at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics are strange and suspicious More The post Sabotaging Russia at the Olympics appeared first on The Duran.
We Don’t Want to Scare People But...It’s Cold, Very Cold. Snow. Wind.
*Remember the days when the cult of AGW, which rebranded itself to the cult of “Climate Change”, when AGW was a fail, told us all winter was a thing of the past. * *Snow will be just a distant memory... How wrong they were.When I’d saved this article yesterday the headline started out “We don’t want to scare you but- Snow, Strandings and Mobile Phone Outages. Different Headline Today- Same Winter Storm.Cripes Rome, Italy is covered in snow. Yes, Rome, Italy!* *And in case we've all forgotten: The climate always changes. Always has. Always will.* *As stated so many times. Where I liv... more »
Recent infighting costs jihadist forces several fighters
BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:55 P.M.) – The recent jihadist infighting has cost Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and Jabhat Tahrir Souriya several fighters in the last seven days, pro-opposition activists reported on Monday. According to opposition activists, at least 156 jihadist combatants have been killed in the last seven days, including 94 members of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Gulf crisis upends fiction of a separation of sports and politics
The Gulf crisis that has pitted World Cup host Qatar against a United Arab Emirates-Saudi Arabia-led alliance for the past eight months is showing up the fiction of a separation of sports and politics. Regional and international soccer bodies seeking to police the ban on a mixing of sports and politics are discovering that it […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
New footage of alleged Israeli-made weapons found in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
Warehouses filled with weapons and ammunition, including those manufactured in Israel, have been discovered by Syrian servicemen in the Al Boukamal and Al Mayadin areas of the Deir ez-Zor province following its liberation from Daesh militants. The Syrian state-run news agency SANA has released new footage showing the cache of rockets, mortars, tank shells and […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Lebanese President accuses Israel of ethnically cleansing Palestine
BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:50 P.M.) – Lebanese President Michel ‘Aoun accused Israel of ethnically cleansing Palestinian lands, while criticizing the latter’s recent decision to collect taxes from holy sites. “Israel’s decision is systematic targeting what’s left of the Christian presence in the Occupied Lands,” Aoun said, adding that Israel is resorting to the ethnic cleansing of […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Militants preparing chemical weapons provocation in East Ghouta: Russian MoD
The leaders of the militant groups are preparing provocation with the use of poisonous substances in the Eastern Ghouta enclave in order to accuse Damascus of using the chemical weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry said late on Sunday. “Evidence has shown that the leaders of illegal armed formations in the Eastern Ghouta are preparing a […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Islamist rebels ambush government troops while advancing in East Ghouta [+Video]
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (2:30 P.M.) – Up to 15 Syrian Army soldiers were killed in an ambush executed by the Islamist rebels in Eastern Ghouta region as the government troops attempted to advance in longtime-rebel bastion. According to rebel sources, a Syrian Army unit was storming Hawsh al-Dwahrah town when successfully ambushed by the Saudi-backed Jaysh […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Latest battle map of Turkish-led Operation Olive Banch
BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:10 P.M.) – The Turkish-backed rebels scored a new advance in the Afrin region of Aleppo, today, following a short battle with the Kurdish-led YPG forces. Led by the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the rebels seized the town of Qarmanlaq in western Afrin after the Turkish Air Force hammered the YPG’s positions for […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Breaking: Russia declares Jaysh Al-Islam legitimate target in East Ghouta, Idlib
BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:40 P.M.) – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on Monday that any group allied with the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham is considered a legitimate target. “In the East Ghouta and Idlib province, a number of groups considered ‘moderates’ by western nations, such as Ahrar Al-Sham and Jaysh Al-Islam, continue to […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
HIDING BEHIND THE CHILDREN WELL: Mainstream elites prove useless again!
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2018Part 1—Precocious little 15:* On the front page of yesterday's New York Times, Jack Healy profiled the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He focused on the problems with which they're dealing in the wake of the recent mass shooting at their large public school. Online, the headines above his report suggest what those problems may be: *Outspoken and Precocious, Florida Students Struggle With Loss When the Cameras Turn Off* Even as they raise millions of dollars and plan nationwide rallies to stop gun violence, students at Marjory Stoneman... more »
World News Briefs -- February 26, 2018
*BBC:* *Syria war: New UN truce plea as deaths in Eastern Ghouta mount* The UN has renewed its appeal for an immediate truce in the besieged Syrian rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area, amid reports of more deaths in air strikes. The UN Security Council demanded on Saturday that all parties cease fighting for 30 days "without delay". But the Syrian government's ally Russia said the truce would begin only once they had agreed how to implement it. It came as activists reported that nine civilians were killed in a government air strike on the town of Douma. At least 541 people have been k... more »
DONALD TRUMP'S CULT OF THE AMATEUR
Yes, the president is really weighing the idea of putting his own pilot in charge of the FAA: The president’s personal pilot is on the administration's short list to head the Federal Aviation Administration. Trump has told a host of administration officials and associates that he wants John Dunkin — his longtime personal pilot, who flew him around the country on Trump Force One during the campaign — to helm the agency, which has a budget in the billions and which oversees all civil aviation in the United States. Staffing the government with relatives, cronies, and unqualified subor... more »
An End to Geopolitics; An End to the British Empire's Bestial Concept of Man
On Feb. 24, the Congressional Democrats issued their response to the devastating exposure that the FBI, the Department of Justice and their partners in crime have endured as a result of the Nunes memo and related reports—emphatically including *EIR*'s dossier fully exposing Britain's Mueller operation. The ten-page Democratic memo was nothing but an unabashed defense of the FBI, the DOJ, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, based on shameless lies and sophistry that would have made Thrasymachus and Callicles proud. But remember who and what Mueller et al. are actually defending, th... more »
India and China Are Building up Their Air Power on the Border. What Happens Next?
*Zachary Keck* *Security, Asia* A prelude to a crisis? China and India are engaging in an air force buildup along their shared border. This week, Chinese state media outlet *Global Times* reported that Beijing has been deploying more advanced jets along its border with India. “China is upgrading its Western Theater Command in order to confront any threat from India,” the *Global Times* reported, citing images posted by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). “The pictures posted on the English version of the PLA website show a J-10 fighter jet and J-11 fighter jets conducting aeri... more »
How Hitler Died: The Battle of Berlin Sealed Nazi Germany's Fate Forever
*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* The thousand year reich ended up not even making twenty years. It began with what a German colonel called “a dull, continuous roar of thunder from the east.” The Soviet bombardment was so immense in Berlin’s eastern suburbs, houses shook, pictures fell from walls, and telephones rang. Berlin civilians heard the rumbling, saw the shaking buildings, and knew the hour had come. On ration queues, women and girls listened “in dread to the distant sounds of the front,” and asked each other if the Americans would get to Berlin ahead of the Sov... more »
As Many as 321,000 People Could Die If North Korea Nuked San Francisco
*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, North America* And it would be the start of World War III. The recent revelation that North Korea has intercontinental ballistic missiles put America on notice: within a few short years, or even months, the entire continental United States will be within range of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons. While practical counterforce targets—such as bomber and missile bases—exist, there is also an argument to be made that Kim Jong-un would target major American cities to inflict maximum damage. One of those cities would almost certainly be San Francisco. San Franci... more »
From Farce To Tragedy
I came upon this clip by pure happenstance. And then it hit me. In 1970, Americans turned on their televisions to laugh at the foolishness Archie spouted. Nearly fifty years later, he's moved upmarket and uptown. Now a significant number of Americans believe he's a font of wisdom. From farce to tragedy.
How Facebook's advertising algorithm allowed the Trump campaign (And the Russians) reach far more people, for far less money.
Courtesy of Wired: *Like many things at Facebook, the ads auction is a version of something Google built first. As on Google, Facebook has a piece of ad real estate that it’s auctioning off, and potential advertisers submit a piece of ad creative, a targeting spec for their ideal user, and a bid for what they’re willing to pay to obtain a desired response (such as a click, a like, or a comment). Rather than simply reward that ad position to the highest bidder, though, Facebook uses a complex model that considers both the dollar value of each bid as well as how good a piece of clic... more »
Chemistry journal retracts highly criticized paper
A chemistry journal has retracted a nanoparticle paper following heavy outcry from readers, who alleged the paper contained signs of obvious manipulation. After the paper appeared in 2017, one critic lamented it contained “obviously fabricated” images, and asked the journal to retract it. Another suggested the presence of one image merited “an instant lifetime ban.” … Continue reading Chemistry journal retracts highly criticized paper
“95 is the new 80”
That’s a quote from American hero General Chuck Yeager – the first person to break the sound barrier, and to fly at Mach 2 (he’s on Twitter, which is where he announced his achievement). We know that we’re living longer, despite the fact that we are eating bad food. If we look in the rear mirror, the […] The post “95 is the new 80” appeared first on UnHerd.
Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- February 26, 2018
Flickr *Dave Majumdar, Business Insider:* *U.S. Military Battle with Possible Russian Mercenaries: 'Our Strikes Were Done out of Self-Defense'* The Pentagon is reiterating that a battle in Syria that allegedly left some number of Russian mercenaries dead was purely an act of self-defense on the part of U.S. forces. Indeed, the Pentagon still does not know exactly who it is that American forces targeted during their retaliatory strike on Feb. 7. “Our strikes were done out of self-defense,” Pentagon chief spokesperson Dana W. White told reporters on Feb. 22. “We were very clear abou... more »
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - J.W. Mason reviews Yanis Varoufakis' *Adults in the Room* with a focus on how damaging austerity was forced on Greece by other governments. And Jan Rovny comments on the need for Europe's left-wing parties to adapt to the precarious economy and evolving social structures. - Laurie Monsebraaten reports on some of the early results of Ontario's basic income trial - including the predictable health benefits of income security. But in a signal as to how the corporate sector views individual financial security. Rob Davies reports on the UK's ... more »
New Day Dawning For The Democratic Party? Maybe... Maybe Not
There was mixed news out of the California Democratic Convention in San Diego yesterday. On the one hand, the bell was loudly tolling for the *Ancien Régime* as a majority of state party delegates clearly told neoliberal incumbent Dianne Feinstein that it was time for her to retire. The progressive in the race, state Senate President, Kevin de León, took 1,508 votes (54%) in the endorsement process to Feinstein's 1,023 (37%). (Feinstein put a $5 million check from her own bank account into her campaign warchest.) The rules require 60% for a party endorsement so there will be no e... more »
Cowardice and betrayal of trust in Broward County
By now, I'm sure most of my readers are aware that four Broward County deputy sheriffs - including the school security officer - cowered outside the Parkwood school buildings and refused to go in to confront the shooter as he was murdering 17 of his former classmates. (I won't name him. He doesn't deserve to be remembered as a human being. Let his name be forgotten.) When it comes to the deputies' conduct, I don't think anyone has said it better than my friend and comrade Lawdog. I'll go so far as to say that there is no dishonour in turning in your badge after the Academy if y... more »
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*Damore, Diversity, and Disruption at PSU* I held my breath as the protesters stood up and began their walk-out. “Please, let it be peaceful,” I said to myself. In the weeks leading up to the event, we had received threats of violence. One person on social media said he would bring explosives. The university administration found the threats credible enough to send a team of armed campus police to patrol the lecture hall. As the protesters neared the exit, a woman suddenly lunged for the audio equipment, pulled leads out indiscriminately, and knocked some of the equipment to the fl... more »
Cops Are Taking People’s Firearms, Selling Them to Make a Profit and It’s 100% Legal
[image: seized] An investigation has revealed that in several states, police are selling the firearms they have seized back to the public to generate revenue, and in some cases, those guns are being used for other crimes. The post Cops Are Taking People’s Firearms, Selling Them to Make a Profit and It’s 100% Legal appeared first on The Free Thought Project.
Household Credit - Forgetting the Lessons of the Great Recession
With some experts predicting as many as four interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve during 2018, one aspect of the economy should be concerning to central bankers, that of personal debt, an issue with a direct relationship to the last recession. According to the New York Fed's own Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit for the fourth quarter of 2018, household debt balances have achieved another record as shown on this graphic: *For the fourteenth quarter in a row, aggregate household debt rose in Q4 to $13.15 trillion, an increase of $193 billion on a quarter-over-qu... more »
In A Decade AI & Robotics Will Dominate The Defense Industry
© U.S. Pacific Command *PR Newswire*: *AI & Robotics to Dominate the Defense Industry* Artificial Intelligence & Robotics are going to dominate the expenditures in de defense market the next decade, this is the conclusion from the new market study launched by MarketForecast.com. Enormous potential of Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision and Robotics among other technologies are going to dominate the defense industry for the next 10 years. The global Artificial Intelligence & Robotics in the Defense industry market, is valued at US $39.22 billion in 2018, is projected grow ... more »
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*NEW BOOK just out* The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change by Marc Morano It's a very comprehensive coverage of all the issues associated with the global warming theory From the blurb: Less freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change gives a voice -- backed by statistics, real-... more »
Understanding the US political divide, one word cloud at a time
Michael Carolan, Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Affairs, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University at Politics + Society – The Conversation - 17 hours ago
There's a new way to reveal America's political divide. One researcher finds the differences between groups that are normally crudely described as 'right-left' can be better explained by word clouds.
Washington has meddled in elections before
William M. LeoGrande, Professor of Government, American University at Politics + Society – The Conversation - 17 hours ago
Decades ago, the CIA created a secret department dedicated to spreading anti-communist propaganda around the globe. A scholar explains how it is comparable to Russian meddling through social media.
Barry Gardiner in Customs Union Flip-Flop per Guido Fawkes
Guido Fawkes https://order-order.com/2018/02/26/barry-gardiner-squirms-customs-union-flip-flop/ reminds us of Labour's chosen spokesman, Barry Gardiner, on Brexit. First from The Guardian last year: 'Other countries such as Turkey have a separate customs union agreement with the EU. If we were to have a similar agreement, several things would follow: the EU's 27 members would set the common tariffs and Britain would have no say in how they were set. We would be unable to enter into any separate bilateral free trade agreement. We would be obliged to align our regulatory regime wit... more »
Here Are 5 Key Differences Between Delta Force And SEAL Team 6
Delta Force is part of Joint Special Operations Command, which targets high-value individuals and terrorist groups. US Army *Mike Dowling, Business Insider/We Are The Might*: *5 key differences between Delta Force and SEAL Team 6* SEAL Team 6, officially known as United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), and Delta Force, officially known as 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D), are the most highly trained elite forces in the US military. Both are Special Missions Units (SMU) under the control of the secretive Joint Special Operations ... more »
ROTHSCHILDS; SPIES
There is a belief that many of the top spies, whether in the CIA, MI5, MI6, MOSSAD or the KGB, work for a secretive cabal. Rothschild 'spied as the Fifth Man' | The Independent . *David Floyd.* In the UK, Sir Christopher Floyd, styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Floyd, is a Lord Justice of Appeal. He is the son of *David Floyd* and Hana Floyd (Hajka Goldmannová). *David Floyd* *passed secrets to the Russians during the 1940s while employed at the British Embassy in Moscow.* After being posted to Prague, David Floyd had a relationship with a woman called Hajka (Hana) Goldmannová, ... more »
"The World’s Funniest Money”
*"The World’s Funniest Money”* by Bill Bonner From south of the border, we get a peek into ‘how to make a bad situation worse’. ‘Venezuela Launches Its Own Cryptocurrency,’ reports The Wall Street Journal. ‘The cash-strapped nation - which is experiencing hyperinflation, an increasingly worthless physical currency, and widespread food and medicine shortages - took the first step in its plan to raise billions of dollars by launching a presale of the digital currency, named the Petro… An initial coin offering is expected in March.’ Not interested in the world’s funniest money, issued... more »
Toilet Paper Shelves... just wiped clean
My local supermarket is bare of toilet paper. The Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2018 is real (BBC): Toilet paper getting more expensive is a direct result of rising raw material costs globally, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs. Forest fires in Canada and disruption to production in Brazil are among the factors being blamed. And as a result, the price of short fibre pulp, used to make toilet paper, now costs about $800 (£600) per tonne, compared with $650 a year ago, it said. *But one of Taiwan's largest toilet paper suppliers, YFY, says the situation is more drast... more »
Turkey to deploy special forces to Syria’s Afrin – Deputy PM
On Saturday, the UN Security Council adopted the resolution stipulating a 30-day ceasefire in Syria. However, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag has said that the truce won’t affect Ankara’s ongoing operation against terrorists in Afrin. Turkey will deploy army and police special forces in Syria’s Afrin with the aim of “successfully completing the operation […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Erdogan seeks extradition of Syrian Kurdish leader arrested in Prague
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes that the Czech Republic will extradite the former leader of a Syrian Kurdish political party, he said in a speech from Urfa on Sunday. “Now the head of the PYD (Democratic Union Party), is captured. This is our wish that Czech Republic will give him back to us”, Erdogan […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
HTS militants kicked out of strategic town in west Aleppo
BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:25 P.M.) – The jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham have been kicked out of the strategic town of Darat ‘Izza in western Aleppo after several days of fighting with the rebel alliance of Jabhat Tahrir Souriya. Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham was active in Darat ‘Izza for a long time before they were officially […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Turkish-backed rebels take control of another town in western Afrin
BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:05 P.M.) – The Turkish-backed rebels took control of another town in the Afrin region after a short battle with the Kurdish-led YPG forces. According to pro-opposition activists, the Free Syrian Army captured the town of Qarmanlaq after the Turkish Armed Forces heavily bombarded the YPG’s positions in western Afrin. Turkish-backed rebels have […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Syrian Army resumes offensive in large East Ghouta suburb
BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:55 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) resumed their offensive in the East Ghouta suburb of Harasta this morning after a successful start on Sunday. Led by their 4th Mechanized Division, the Syrian Arab Army stormed the defenses of Faylaq Al-Rahman and Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham in Harasta, attacking the last buildings under […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Possible reason for deployment of Russia’s 5th generation Su-57 to Syria revealed
Four state-of-the-art Russian Su-57 stealth fighters, which have reportedly been deployed to Syria, will not be engaged in active combat, according to Kommersant, a Russian daily. The newspaper Kommersant cited military sources as saying that the Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jets were deployed to Syria to test radar systems and electronic warfare. The Su-57s will […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Chinese Social Media Users Massively Criticize Plans For President Xi Jinping To Remain As President Indefinitely
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a joint press briefing with French President Emmanuel Macron, not shown, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China January 9, 2018. REUTERS/Mark Schiefelbei/Pool *Reuters:** China launches propaganda push for Xi after social media criticism* BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s plan for President Xi Jinping to remain in office indefinitely has sparked social media opposition, drawing comparisons to North Korea’s ruling dynasty and charges of creating a dictator by a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist. The social media reaction late on Sund... more »
"Resilience" New Movie On "Adverse Childhood Experiences"
Note: My Dad grew up in the height of the depression. He was in first grade in 1929. His Dad was an immigrant cobbler from Italy. He had nine brothers and sisters - hungry brothers and sisters. And yet, he...
Stefano Montanari and Antonietta Gatti answer Questions about Their Research into Nanoparticle Contamination of Vaccines
Note: The temps are heating up in Italy as vaccine mandates have created havoc and agita for families. And most recently, two scientists had their offices raided and data, computers, etc. confiscated. Here they are below talking about their research....
The Daily Show identified one of those "crisis actors" the Right Wing is always talking about.
CRISIS ACTOR EXPOSED: Why is @FoxNews paying a fake victim? #TammyMustGo pic.twitter.com/nVjhXAdwMC — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 22, 2018 Wow! I have to admit I'm surprised. I didn't think they actually existed.
The Reason That We Don't Trust Our Intuition.....A Quotation from Antonio Sebastian
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Russians Remember Murdered Russian Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov
*VOA:* *Thousands Commemorate Murdered Russian Opposition Leader Ahead of Elections * A month ahead of presidential elections, thousands of Russians rallied in the capital city of Moscow Sunday in honor of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered on this day three years ago. In a rare sanctioned opposition gathering in Russia's capital, many carried flags, portraits of Nemtsov, placards and flowers in frigid temperatures as low as minus 14 degrees Celsius. Moscow police, who are often accused of underestimating opposition crowd sizes, said that 4,500 people attended the ral... more »
UnPacked Shorts – Could automation lead to labour shortages?
The “Make America Great Again” baseball cap is in fact a trucker hat… Trump knew exactly what he was doing when he chose it – in most American States trucking is the most common profession. And yet there’s now a shortage in truckers. In this UnPacked short, Peter Franklin, Charlotte Pickles and Sally Chatterton discuss […] The post UnPacked Shorts – Could automation lead to labour shortages? appeared first on UnHerd.
Fear of economic AND social loss drove Germany’s AfD
A new study from the Hans Bocker Foundation found that half of voters backing the populist Alternative for Germany party in last autumn’s election did so out of fear that they were losing their social or economic status. This fear pertained even if workers were employed and had currently steady incomes. Perhaps the most telling […] The post Fear of economic AND social loss drove Germany’s AfD appeared first on UnHerd.
Building the Wall
Provisional plans for President Donald Trump to host his Mexican counterpart in Washington have been put on hold. Truth be told, President Trump is not popular in Mexico. The postponement of plans to meet this month or in March followed a testy telephone call between the two leaders last week, the Washington Post reported, citing information from U.S. and Mexican officials. *It's a simple thing to have Mexico pay for the WALL*. Mexicans sent home $26.1 billion from January to November 2017, according to figures released last year by the central bank of Mexico. That's the most ever r... more »
Whistle-Blower On Russian Railways Corruption; Trump VP Pence Link To Russian Railways
Much of Russia literally runs off of Cummins engines, which is based in Trump VP Mike Pence’s hometown in Indiana. … Continue reading →
Russian Cadet Schools Are Back In Vogue
Vladimir Putin's specialist military cadet schools for girls are set to get a major boost - teaching youngsters (pictured) with frilly white bows in their hair to handle rifles, pistols and grenades *Daily Mail*: *Putin's military cadet academies where Russian schoolgirls are taught to handle rifles, pistols and grenades are to get major boost* * Russian defence minister and close Putin ally Sergei Shoigu wants to build a cadet school for girls in Crimea * Existing schools teach 10 to 17-year-old girls to handle weapons, cook, clean, sew and fight terrorists * Make-up and mobile p... more »
15 yr old Mohammad Tamimi arrested after being shot in the head by Israeli forces
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (10:00 A.M)- Fithteen year old, Mohammad Tamimi -cousin of Ahed Tamimi, currently in Israeli detention- has been arrested by Israeli forces during the early hours of this morning, he was shot in the head two months prior to this. Mohammad Tamimi was in coma for several days, before under going major surgery – […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Pro-Turkey Kurdish militia to join Operation Olive Branch against YPG in Afrin
The “Kurdish Falcons” brigade, formed by the “Al-Hamza Division” members of the Syrian Free Army, will join the “Olive Branch” operation in Syrian Afrin on Monday, Anadolu reported. According to the news agency, the brigade will include 400 Kurds and 200 Arabs who have completed special forces training. They will take part in the siege […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
US Coalition kills 29 civilians in Deir Ezzor just days after US envoy slams Syrian gov’t at UN
BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:25 A.M.) – The U.S. Coalition killed up to 29 civilians inside two towns in rural Deir Ezzor this past weekend, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Sunday evening. Citing local sources, SANA claimed that the 29 civilians were killed after the U.S. Coalition bombed the rural Deir Ezzor towns of […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Iraq sentences 16 Turkish women to death for links with Daesh
The central criminal court of Iraq has sentenced 16 Turkish female citizens to death for involvement with the Islamic State (Daesh) terrorist group, the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq said in a statement, obtained by Sputnik on Sunday. “The central criminal court of Iraq, after reviewing the case of 16 Turkish citizens, have confirmed the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Syrian Army breaks through jihadist lines to enter key district in Harasta (video)
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:55 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army kicked off the first phase of their Harasta offensive on Sunday, striking the entrance to the key Al-Ajami District in the western part of the suburb. Led by the 4th Mechanized Division and Republican Guard, the Syrian Arab Army managed to break through the stiff defenses […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Turkish-backed rebels seize 23 percent of Afrin since January 20th
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:30 A.M.) – The Turkish-backed rebels have seized a large chunk of the Afrin region since they began operations in this part of the Aleppo Governorate on January 20th. According to the Turkish General Staff, their forces and allies have captured at least 23 percent (537 square kilometers) of the Afrin region after […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Putin to Macron, Merkel: Syrian truce doesn’t apply to anti-terror ops
In the wake of the adoption of a UN resolution establishing a 30-day truce throughout Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the state of affairs in Syria’s East Ghouta region with France’s President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the humanitarian situation in the region has recently rapidly deteriorated. During the phone conversation between […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
URGENT: Crisis as Gaza services cut down by 50%
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (9:00 A.M)- Gaza is in a state of panic as Municipalities announced a 50% cut-down on services, this comes following Nizar Hijazi -head of Gaza City municipality- announced with other prominent Gazan figures, ‘a state of emergency’. Head of Rafah Municipality, Sobhi Ridwan, said in a statement: “The donors who used to pay […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Jaysh Al-Islam forces able to halt Syrian Army’s progress in East Ghouta – map
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:05 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) caught the Islamist rebels of Jaysh Al-Islam off guard in the East Ghouta, yesterday, seizing at least three towns and one large hilltop in the eastern part of this farming region in Damascus. However, by mid-afternoon on Sunday, Jaysh Al-Islam was able to halt the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Jihadist rebels strike Syrian Army troops with US-made missile in East Ghouta region
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 A.M.) – The jihadist rebels struck a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) bulldozer in the East Ghouta region of Damascus, yesterday, pro-opposition groups reported. Led by Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham, the jihadist rebels destroyed the Syrian Army bulldozer with anti-tank TOW missile at the Harasta front in the East Ghouta region. Below is the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Mass exodus of villagers from Jandaris into Afrin as Turkish forces advance
BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:40 A.M.) – The city of Afrin received a mass exodus of villagers from the nearby Jandaris region as they fled the advancement of Turkish forces and bombardment of their homes on Saturday. Turkish forces seized a number of sites at the Jandaris axis over the past week, according to local media. Villagers […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Asking Jesus
This is an important insight that I need to share with everyone. To start with, those following my efforts, know that we now understand that all life and each of us is operated by a spirit body that is physical and formed from second tier matter scaled at the level of the electron. Thus our subconsious is our in house spirit body having a conversation through our third tier physical body that the spirit body operates like a machine. The information density of this spirit body is millions of times greater that possible for our chemical systems in our cells. The take home though i... more »
Here Comes The Yield Shock---The Beltway Borrowers Are Going Berserk
This makes for sobering reading. Worse it is were a miscall can produce real damage. And I am seeing such miscalls taking place here and there and in Canada in particular, but only because i am watching that closely. the mind set is the same in the USA. Are we really understanding California and New York? The USA needs to desperately unleash a housing boom and Trump needs to massively reform the USA government which he has thankfully begun, but begun only. All this needs to be wrapped around ending poverty before our civilization crumbles and starts shedding the living.. ... more »
Trump -- Middle American Radical
This is a valid label and certainly one that describes my leanings as well. The classic labels siply do not apply when they have been hijacked by academics with their own clostured axe to grind. We are experincing a full on assault against the progressive vision which is actually Fascism revisited or its twin sister Communism. That it could even become sufficintly emergent as to be seen is a surprise in itself. You would think decisive defeat after defeat would cure this follyfrom our body politic, but the problem has been a lack of a considered counter philosophy based on fou... more »
New Tesla Model 3 Battery Line Could Increase Output By Factor Of 4
However you wish to look at it, the EV will now match the long established ICE in terms of cost. Thus global expansion has become plausible and can be expected to roll out during the next five years. Tooling isobviously reasy as well. The economic advantage can now be expected to steadily shift in favor of the EV. Inasmuch as surge oil production is unsustainable, this is actually well timed. Thus by 2025, expect to pay a significant premium for an ICE and also expect to see leasing become strictly EV. Longer life spans alone will power that as EV's can charge out lower lea... more »
In 1953 North Korea Used 1920-Style Planes to Fight America
A Polish built CSS-13, msn 0094. Displaying at Old Warden. 02-10-2011 ( Wikipedia) *Sebastien Roblin, National Interest*:* In 1953, North Korea Used 1920-Style Planes to Fight America. They Did a Lot of Damage. * On the night of June 16, 1953, the Associated Press reported on “a boiling mass of flame, mushrooming like an atomic bomb, shoots skyward from a burning fuel dump, set afire at the South Korean port city of Inchon.” The fire “lighted the sky for more than 20 miles” and took three days to put out, having consumed 5.5 million gallons of fuel. The perpetrators of this devasta... more »
Midnight Meme Of The Day!
*by Noah* With all of the Russian cyber attack news, the mass shooting and NRA news, not to mention the coverage of a bunch of babbling, drooling asylum escapees called CPAC, that we've been getting in the past couple of weeks, I thought it would be good if we not forget that there are other anti-American forces at work out there and we should never take our eyes off them. One of those is obviously our current Speaker Of The House, the psychopathic Paul Ryan. While we focus on other things, this walking, talking, P.O.S. is still making his plans to damage as many American lives a... more »
Report: Someone Is Assisting North Korea's Missile Program
North Korea claimed on 29 November that its new Hwaseong-15 ICBM (seen here being test-fired) is capable of striking anywhere in the United States. *Jane's 360:* *North Korean ICBM design shows external influence* North Korea’s ballistic missile programme made unprecedented advances during the course of 2017. Markus Schiller and Nick Hansen examine the new Hwaseong-15 and determine that it is evidence of external support to North Korea’s missile development. *Key Points* * Based on the design of the missile and its first stage engine, Jane’s assesses that it is highly likely that ... more »
Tonight's Ebook Is Winston Churchill's 'BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS'
Winston Churchill (Wikipedia) *WNU Editor:* Tonight's ebook is by Winston Churchill titled : "BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS". The link to download* the ebook is here*.For more works by Winston Churchill, *go here.*
European Union harbors Russian fugitives from justice
How is it that so many fugitives from justice are apparently able to find such sanctuary in European countries, including EU member states? More The post European Union harbors Russian fugitives from justice appeared first on The Duran.
Tweets For Today
Italian election dominated by immigration debate https://t.co/0TRbt4Uemb — BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 26, 2018 Desperate search for missing Nigerians https://t.co/KuD4OAiee0 — BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 26, 2018 Highlights from the Munich Security Conference https://t.co/LWz8pynN3g pic.twitter.com/6vcAGet0Rq — Defense News (@defense_news) February 26, 2018 Macron's proposal for a draft is a self-inflicted political albatross that the president won’t—or can’t—let drop. https://t.co/L30neFUytl — Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) February 26, 2018 Air Force: KC-... more »
Dirty Cop - Sheriff Israel
We now know that 18-23 reports were ignored by the police and FBI regarding the alleged school shooter, and that an armed school guard with a bullet proof vest hid while the slaying took place. Also... Although no trees were harmed during the creation of this post, a large number of electrons were greatly inconvenienced
Exploring The Reasons For Ethiopia’s Latest State Of Emergency
The security situation is made all the more pronounced by the fact that some of the ethnic minority groups opposed to the government are armed and reported to receive assistance from Ethiopia’s neighboring foe Eritrea. The post Exploring The Reasons For Ethiopia’s Latest State Of Emergency appeared first on OrientalReview.org.
Syrian Army uncovers massive weapons depot belonging to ISIS in Deir Ezzor (video)
BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:00 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) uncovered a massive weapons depot belonging to the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in the Deir Ezzor Governorate this past weekend. The weapons depot was located inside of a town near the strategic city of Al-Mayadeen in rural Deir Ezzor. This weapons supply depot contained a […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Czech Foreign Ministry expects talks with Turkey on PYD ex-leader extradition
On Sunday, Muslim was reportedly arrested in the Czech capital. The decision to detain him was made on February 24 by the Interpol’s office in the Czech Republic on the basis of Ankara’s request. Prague said that the decision on his arrest will be taken by the Czech court, while the Turkish side will be […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Video footage of the Syrian Army starting their East Ghouta offensive
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:00 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) kicked off their long awaited offensive in the East Ghouta, Sunday, targeting the eastern part of this region located outside of Damascus. Led by the Tiger Forces and 4th Mechanized Division, the Syrian Arab Army’s offensive got off to a successful start, when their units […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Israeli Air Force blames crew of F-16 jet for being downed by Syrian missile
On February 10, the Israeli army said that its helicopter had intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria and that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) had struck Iranian targets in Syria. The Israeli moves prompted a response fire from the Syrian air defense systems downing the Israeli F-16 aircraft. Both crew members – a pilot […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
Eighteen year old Gazan fisherman shot dead by Israel
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (4:40 A.M)- Yesterday, in early morning hours, Israeli gunboats open fire upon an un-armed Gaza fishing boat, killing an 18 year old fisherman. Eighteen year old, Ismail Saleh Abu Rylan, was shot dead whilst fishing within the distance Israel deems acceptable to sail in. Israel – which has for 11 years illegally besieged […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز
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Ivanka Trump, U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter and senior White House adviser, and Kim Yong Chol of the North Korea delegation attend the closing ceremony. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson *WNU Editor: *The above picture is from this photo-gallery .... *Pyeongchang Olympics closing ceremony* (Reuters)
Israel Blames Crew Error On Why One Of Their F-16s Was Shot Down Over Syria
© Israeli Air Force / Facebook *Reuters*: *Israel air force finds crew error to blame for jet's downing by Syria* The downing of an Israeli F-16 fighter jet earlier this month by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile resulted from a “professional error” by the crew, the Israeli military said on Sunday. Its investigation found that an anti-aircraft missile shot down the Israeli warplane while it was returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria on Feb. 10. It was the most serious confrontation yet between Israel and Iranian-backed forces in Syria. The chain of events b... more »
Why Is He Still President? Elton John, Eminem And Tom Steyer Want To Know
Today Tom Steyer started running his new Impeach Trump minute-long TV ad. It's good one, based on Putin-Gate. He debuted it at the California Democratic Convention in San Diego yesterday. Guess what... people loved it. "We need to stand for our principles," he said on the convention floor, "that means confronting the man who has no principles: Donald Trump." You know who agrees? Eminem... who was interviewed by Elton John in the new issue of *Interview* magazine. Sir Elton: Let’s talk about “The Storm,” which is an example of someone actually getting off their ass and saying some... more »
East Ghouta: the last great battle of the Syrian war?
Jihadi defeat in East Ghouta would spell the end of the regime change war in Syria More The post East Ghouta: the last great battle of the Syrian war? appeared first on The Duran.
Women In Saudi Arabia Can Now Join The Armed Forces
A woman checks a weapon exhibited at an event to celebrate the selection of Abha as the capital of Arab tourism for the year 2017, in Abha, Saudi Arabia April 20, 2017. Mohamed Al Hwaity / Reuters *RT:* *Saudi Arabia will now allow women to join its armed forces * The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will now allow women to apply for military service in a historic move. The decision comes as part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 social program launched by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Women in governorates including Riyadh, Makkah, al-Qusaim, and al Madina can apply for the rank of... more »
Syria’s East Ghouta Militants Hold Civilians Hostage, Plan ‘Chemical’ Provocations – Russian MoD
RT Published on Feb 25, 2018 Militants in the Eastern Ghouta district of Syria are indiscriminately shelling the capital, Damascus, according to Russia’s Defence Ministry. That’s despite the United Nations voting on Saturday to implement a ceasefire. end
Trump’s Precarious Hope for Middle East Peace
Trump’s Precarious Hope for Middle East Peace by Tom Rogan, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ President Trump, as he prepares to unveil his peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has all the instruments for a deal. But he lacks the materials to see it built. – While running for president, the businessman quickly came to see Middle East peace as […]
‘We Can’t Continue to Run the World’: Ron Paul
‘We Can’t Continue to Run the World’: Ron Paul by https://sputniknews.com/ Former Texas Congressman and leading libertarian thinker Dr. Ron Paul has shared his views on President Trump’s job as president after his first year in office, the situation in Syria and the renewed debate on gun control in the wake of the Florida school shooting. […]
US and Allies Look to Military Intervention in Venezuela
US and Allies Look to Military Intervention in Venezuela by W. T. WHITNEY, https://www.counterpunch.org/ The Bolivarian social and political movement first led by former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and holding state power since1999 has long faced U.S. assaults. They’ve ranged from U. S. support for an unsuccessful military coup in 2002, backing for violent street disturbances, U.S. […]
Gaza: A Concentration Camp of 2 Million People. The Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians by Zionist Israel
Gaza: A Concentration Camp of 2 Million People. The Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians by Zionist Israel by Jean Shaoul, http://www.defenddemocracy.press/ Israeli forces attacked 18 targets in the Gaza Strip belonging to Hamas, which controls the besieged enclave, in the second such action over the weekend. The strikes followed an explosion during a demonstration of Palestinians […]
US Not ‘Touching’ Al-Nusra Terrorists (Al Qaeda) in Syria: Russia
PressTV Published on Feb 23, 2018 Russia’s top diplomat describes al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat Fateh al-Sham formerly known as Nusra Front as the main problem in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, criticizing the US-led coalition for NOT targeting the terror group. Sergei Lavrov was speaking during a joint press conference alongside his Uzbek counterpart Abdulaziz Kamilov in Moscow. Lavrov also […]
Globally Top-Respected Experts on Middle East Warn Syrian War May Produce WW III
Globally Top-Respected Experts on Middle East Warn Syrian War May Produce WW III by Eric Zuesse for The Saker blog, https://thesaker.is/ Abdel Bari Atwan, the retired editor-in-chief (1989-2013) of the pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi and author of widely respected books on the Middle East, headlined on February 18th, “A superpower confrontation could be triggered by accident in Syria” and […]
Second Florida Survivor Family Now Alleging CNN Scripted Narrative to Push Gun Ban
Second Florida Survivor Family Now Alleging CNN Scripted Narrative to Push Gun Ban by Jack Burns, https://www.activistpost.com/ In their alleged attempt to control the narrative on the tragic shooting in Parkland, Florida last week, CNN has been accused of scripting the very testimonies from survivors to propagate their agenda. While CNN denied doing this to Colton Haab yesterday, […]
“Shocked And Outraged”: Four Broward Deputies Waited Outside School As Children Were Massacred
“Shocked And Outraged”: Four Broward Deputies Waited Outside School As Children Were Massacred by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/ Coral Springs police officers were “stunned and upset” to learn that four Broward County Sheriff’s Deputies were stationed outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and had not entered to face an active shooter, sources with the Coral Springs, […]
EU Split: Just 12 Leaders Invited to Swanky Pre-Summit Dinner, And Here’s Who Was Snubbed
EU Split: Just 12 Leaders Invited to Swanky Pre-Summit Dinner, And Here’s Who Was Snubbed by REBECCA PERRING, https://www.express.co.uk/ THE Belgian prime minister hosted a fancy dinner for his European colleagues last night ahead of today’s EU Summit – but while Brussels heavyweights Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron got an invite – others were snubbed. – Charles […]
Gerald Celente: I am Betting On a Weaker Dollar in 2018
Gerald Celente: I am Betting On a Weaker Dollar in 2018 by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Early Sunday Release) Top trends forecaster Gerald Celente predicted a 10% correction in the stock market for 2018. It already happened. What are his updated predictions for the rest of the year? Celente says, “What brought the markets down was the fear of […]
‘Get ISIS and Go Home’: Trump Bucks Pentagon & State Dept. on Ultimate US Goal in Syria
Perhaps, the Donald has not sold out 100% to the Illuminist MIC after all. ‘Get ISIS and Go Home’: Trump Bucks Pentagon & State Dept. on Ultimate US Goal in Syria by https://www.rt.com/ President Donald Trump appeared to dash the hopes of interventionists and contradict his own administration officials, by declaring that US troops’ mission in […]
Could Iran And Israel Go To War Next Year?
A U.S. Air Force F-16 takes off during a joint international aerial training exercise hosted by Israel and dubbed "Blue Flag 2017" at Ovda military air base in southern Israel November 8, 2017. Picture taken November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen *Raymond Tanter & Ivan Sascha Sheehan, National Interest*: *Iran and Israel Could Go to War Next Year* If Iran uses its Iraqi Shia Militias, Afghans, and Pakistanis, as well as its own forces in attacks on Israel, there is likely to be war between Israel and Iran by 2019. See *How Iran Fuels Syria War*, Iraqis: twenty thousand Shia from ten... more »
The Navy's Electromagnetic Railgun Is Both Alive and Dead
*Task and Purpose, Jared Keller* *Security, North America* It just won't be on a naval vessel anytime soon. The Navy will continue to fund research and development efforts related to the service’s much-hyped electromagnetic railgun but will likely not pursue a shipboard tactical demonstrator, according to sources briefed on the matter, a development that will likely condemn the more than $500 million project to a R&D limbo as the Department of Defense focuses on other directed energy programs. A special “Innovative Naval Prototypes” line item in the Navy’s fiscal 2019 budget pr... more »
Revealed: Hitler's Secret Plan to Assassinate Winston Churchill, FDR and Stalin
*Warfare History Network* *History, Middle East* Could it have happenned? In German it was called Operation Rösselsprung, which translates to “Long Jump.” Its goal was to kill or kidnap the Allies’ “Big Three” leaders––Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt—when they met in Tehran, Iran, in November 1943. That the plan did not succeed is attributable to smart intelligence work, a drunken disclosure, and a bit of good luck. Perhaps no operation was more audacious or had greater consequences to the w... more »
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