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Main purpose of Iranian war games was to protect islands: IRGC Navy
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 11 hours ago
[image: Main purpose of Iranian war games was to protect islands: IRGC Navy] BEIRUT, LEBANON )7:15 P.M.) – The Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Navy, Rear Admiral Ali Reza Tangsiri, said on Friday that this week’s military exercises, which was dubbed the “Great Prophet 14”, was geared at protecting Iran’s islands in the Persian Gulf. Tangsiri said on that the main purpose of the recent military exercises has been to protect the Persian Gulf islands and deterring those who sow insecurity in the region. Continue reading Main purpose of Iranian war games was t...
Turkish fighter jets arrive in Azerbaijan as Armenian military goes on high alert
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 11 hours ago
[image: Turkish fighter jets arrive in Azerbaijan as Armenian military goes on high alert] BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:00 P.M.) – Turkish F-16 fighters arrived in Azerbaijan on Friday to participate in the joint land and air exercises between the two countries. The Turkish fighters were received during a military ceremony before their participation in the air exercises between the two countries bearing the name “Turkish-Azerbaijani Eagle 2020”, the Anadolu News Agency reported. These exercises have caught the attention of neighboring Armenia, as the latter’s Ministry of Defense informed Sp...
Greece issues first statement about alleged purchase of Turkish drones
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 11 hours ago
[image: Greece issues first statement about alleged purchase of Turkish drones] BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:40 P.M.) – On Friday, the Greek Ministry of Defense commented on the news reported about the purchase of drones from Turkey. “The Ministry of National Defense flatly denies the rumors and unconfirmed information reported by foreign media that claimed that the Greek army intends to purchase Turkish-made drones.” According to the Greek Ministry of Defense, there are “targeted leaks” that have appeared in the foreign and Greek media since the end of May, but have not been confirmed. Co...
No truth to Egyptian military deploying to Syria: source
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 12 hours ago
[image: No truth to Egyptian military deploying to Syria: source] BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:00 P.M.) – The Turkish media reported this week that dozens of Egyptian military personnel arrived in Syria, despite no official statement from either Cairo or Damascus about such a deployment. According to an army source in Damascus, the reports about the Egyptian military deploying to Syria are fabricated, pointing out that there would be no need for them to be in Syria at this time. The news about the Egyptian military sending dozens of soldiers to Syria first surfaced in the Turkish media, as ne...
US slams Iran and Venezuela as ‘alliance of pariah states’
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 12 hours ago
[image: US slams Iran and Venezuela as ‘alliance of pariah states’] The new grocery store, which features over 2,000 products from Iran, was made possible after the Islamic Republic sent half a dozen cargo ships carrying fuel, food, medical supplies and spare parts for Venezuela’s oil industry to the South American nation last month, in defiance of US pressure. US acting assistant secretary for the US State Department’s bureau for Western Hemisphere affairs Michael Kozak expressed irritation over the opening of the first Iranian supermarket in Venezuela. Continue reading US slams I...
Israeli military buildup along Lebanese border is largest since 2006 War
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 12 hours ago
[image: Israeli military buildup along Lebanese border is largest since 2006 War] BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:45 P.M.) – An Arab newspaper revealed on Friday, a significant Israeli military presence along the Lebanese border, stating that this is largest building up since the 2006 War. According to the Kuwait-based Al-Rai newspaper, the situation along the Lebanese border is witnessing “the largest mobilization of the Israeli military on Lebanon border since 2006.” The article said that the Israeli army kept its forces on high alert, and that the border forces were reinforced with advanced ...
Armenian military placed on high alert along Azerbaijan border
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 13 hours ago
[image: Armenian military placed on high alert along Azerbaijan border] BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:30 P.M.) – The Armenian Ministry of Defense announced on Friday, that the Armenian military forces on the border with Azerbaijan are on high alert, as part of the sudden inspection of the high military leadership and the conduct of military exercises by neighboring countries that may threaten the country’s public safety. “According to the 2020 combat training plan, the Central Military Command conducted a surprise examination regarding the combat readiness of the forces,” Shushan Stepanian, a ...
Iran reveals new information about explosion at nuclear facility
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 13 hours ago
[image: Iran reveals new information about explosion at nuclear facility] Tehran does not consider that an incident that occurred on Iran’s Natanz advanced centrifuge plant in early July was the result of a drone or missile attack, Mojtaba Zonnour, the head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian parliament, said on Friday, adding that a reason should be found within Iran. “The investigation has shown that a source of the blast on the Natanz nuclear facility in the Isfahan province was caused by internal elements,” Zonnour said, as quoted by local news a...
Pessimism surges, but many insist African free trade will take off
bilaterals.org - 9 hours ago
31-Jul-2020 Initially planned to take place on 1 July 2020, the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has been indefinitely postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Covid-19: A Global Threat to the Nervous System
Majia's Blog, Majia's Blog - 9 hours ago
Direct excerpt: Koralnik, I.J. and Tyler, K.L. (2020), COVID ‐19: A Global Threat to the Nervous System. Ann Neurol, 88: 1-11. doi:10.1002/ana.25807 ABSTRACT: In less than 6 months, the severe acute respiratory syndrome‐coronavirus type 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) has spread worldwide infecting nearly 6 million people and killing over 350,000. Initially thought to be restricted to the respiratory system, we now understand that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) also involves multiple other organs, including the central and peripheral nervous system. The number of recognized neurologic man...
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/31/2020
Lambert Strether, naked capitalism - 10 hours ago
~ Today's Water Cooler ~
Debate: Is ‘Russiagate’ a CIA Hoax?
Eric Zuesse, The Duran - 10 hours ago
Eric Zuesse There now is a public debate regarding whether or not ‘Russiagate’ was/is a CIA-generated hoax, instead of (as it has been reported) a Russian Government hacking operation. Whatever it was, did spark massive U.S. economic and other sanctions against Russia, and is therefore important in today’s U.S. international relations. Had the CIA actually […]
"How It Very Well May Be"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
"I’ll tell you how it goes: Donald Trump will stand aside and yield to the military, to some general or committee of generals, and the country will be under martial law until the election is sorted out or re-run. And by then, the election may be the least of our problems, with tens of millions out-of-work, out-of-business, penniless, homeless, and hungry. That’s when they’ll truly be selling postcards of the hanging, as the old song goes. Then comes America’s Bonaparte moment. Yes, things can get that weird." - Jim Kunstler, 7/31/20
Do Taller People Have a Heightened Risk of Catching COVID-19?
Madison Dapcevich, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago
A non-peer reviewed study suggested that height may influence a person's likelihood to become infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Ten Years ago in Lakeside, Ohio
Norma, Collecting My Thoughts - 10 hours ago
Bob and Phil on a bike ride in Lakeside, July 31, 2010.
"We Are Experiencing Economic Devastation On A Scale That America Has Never Seen Before"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*Empty streets of Manhattan...* *"We Are Experiencing Economic Devastation On* *A Scale That America Has Never Seen Before"* by Michael Snyder "For a very long time we have been warned that a U.S. economic collapse was inevitably coming, and now it is here. Fear of COVID-19 and unprecedented civil unrest in our major cities have combined to plunge us into a historic economic downturn, and nobody is exactly sure what is going to happen next. On Thursday, we learned that U.S. GDP was down 32.9 percent on an annualized basis last quarter. That officially makes last quarter the worst q...
"When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Get Punked"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*"When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Get Punked"* by Jim Kunstler "Did you happen to view the Attorney General being assailed by lunatics in the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday? It kind of looked like a scene from the French Revolution acted out by a road company touring Alice in Wonderland. Mr. Barr stolidly endured their orchestrated calumnies as though he had larger matters on his mind. Do not suppose it will end there, or end well for this shabby claque of mutts and harpies. There is the rectified essence of your Democratic Party circa the awful year 2020, spreading its poi...
Here Are The Top Highlights From Ghislaine Maxwell’s Unsealed Court Records
WakingTimes, Waking Times - 10 hours ago
*Tyler Durden* - A release of documents in the Ghislaine Maxwell cases implicates many powerful people in this international pedophilia and sex-trafficking cover-up.
Fauci Optimistic COVID-19 Vaccine Will Be Widely Available
AP News, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago
“I believe, ultimately, over a period of time in 2021, that Americans will be able to get it,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said, referring to the vaccine.
Love, Loathing, and Loss: America’s COVID-19 Response and the View from Canada
Josh Busby, Duck of Minerva - 10 hours ago
This is a guest post from Jennifer Mustapha and Eric Van Rythoven. Mustapha is an Assistant Professor at Huron University College in London, Ontario and studies the politics of the War on Terror, globalization and development, and Southeast Asian regional relations. Rythoven (PhD) teaches International Relations and Foreign Policy at Carleton University, Canada. His work […]
The latest from the riots - fireworks converted into bombs and embedded with shrapnel
Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 10 hours ago
The extremists behind the riots in many of our cities are now escalating matters. They haven't succeeded so far in taking control of the streets, so they're using more powerful weapons. Seattle PD confiscated a van earlier this week that proved to be filled with improvised stop strips, large fireworks bundled together to form improvised explosive devices, and other munitions. One example from the many photographs taken of the van's contents: Yes, bundles of large fireworks like that are *highly* explosive. It's accurate to describe them as IED's, in the same sense as those ou...
Review The One Percent Doctrine, Deep Inside America’s Pursuit Of Its Enemies Since 9/11
Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 10 hours ago
*Suskind, Ron, **The One Percent Doctrine, Deep Inside America’s Pursuit Of Its Enemies Since 9/11**, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Simon & Schuster, 2006* *The One Percent Doctrine, Deep Inside America’s Pursuit Of Its Enemies Since 9/11* by Ron Suskind was meant to be an insider’s account of America’s War on Terror during the first term of the Bush administration. Suskind argues that while the White House made some considerable strides after 9/11 such as overthrowing the Taliban, rounding up many Al Qaeda members some of its tactics like spying on Americans’ domestic co...
This Day In Iraqi History - Jul 31
Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 11 hours ago
1924 MP Chalabi rejected quotas in new parliament for minorities claiming everyone would be represented 1928 Red Line Agreement allowed British Dutch French US Turkish oil companies to jointly control Turkish Petroleum Company Would lead to Iraq Petroleum Company 1982 Iraq claimed it crushed Iranian Op Ramadan to seize Basra Retook most lost territory (Musings On Iraq review *Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986*) 1983 Iraqi army took 8,000 men from Barzani clan and executed them Retaliation for KDP taking part in recent Iranian offensive in...
A Modern Perspective
Larry-Lambert, Virtual Mirage - 11 hours ago
The Police “The Runaway” 1958, Saturday Evening Post Oh, how the media’s view of the police has changed. You need to ask yourself why that happened. What is the Democrat Party’s motive behind “defund the police” and their current war on municipal police agencies across the nation? We know that the FBI promoted a […] The post A Modern Perspective appeared first on Virtual Mirage.
Springer Nature retracts paper that hundreds called “overtly racist”
Adam Marcus, Retraction Watch - 11 hours ago
Less than two weeks after publication, an essay on poverty and race which critics decried as “unscholarly” and “overtly racist” has been retracted. The essay, by Lawrence Mead, of New York University, appeared in the journal Society on July 21. It immediately drew the ire of hundreds of academics and advocates who, in a pair … Continue reading Springer Nature retracts paper that hundreds called “overtly racist”
Some of Epstein Docs Unsealed – Lie Bombs explode
Uriel, 'Nox & Friends - 11 hours ago
Epstein Docs Unsealed, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Dershowitz Named The Hill Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti July 31, 2020 . A trove of court documents from a 2015 civil defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell shows that Jeffery Epstein’s alleged madam was in touch with the convicted sex offender despite claiming in vain during a bail hearing that she hadn’t been in contact with him for more than a decade. FBI Vault Files: Epstein 1-22 2nd Circuit Orders Jeffrey Epstein Records Unsealed: Scribd Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean Luc Brunel ...
Court Docs: Clinton on Epstein Sex Isle With Two “Young Girls"
R. Cort Kirkwood, rss - 12 hours ago
[image: court-docs-clinton-on-epstein-sex-isle-with-two-young-girls] Virginia Giuffre, the most prominent and outspoken victim of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, disclosed some time ago that former President Bill Clinton visited the disgraced Wall Street moneyman’s private island in the Caribbean.
Reflections on Science and Society
Peter Boettke, Econlib - 12 hours ago
At Grove City College in the 1980s we had required courses which were dubbed “Key Courses” – you had to take survey courses in Religion and Philosophy, Social Science and History, Science, and the Creative Arts. My Religion and Philosophy course was a year long, and the professor, Professor Reed Davis (now at Seattle Pacific […] The post Reflections on Science and Society appeared first on Econlib.
Russia Loved America's Worst World War II Fighter
Sebastien Roblin, The National Interest - 10 hours ago
*Sebastien Roblin* *History, Europe* History can be surprising... and ironic. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *Ironically, the designers at Bell created a fighter that poorly fit the operational needs of the U.S. military, but that worked just fine for the low-level tactical air war waged by the Soviet Union. That just goes to show that application is as important as design in the success of a combat plane. It just so happened that it fell to Soviet pilots to maximize the potential of a much maligned American fighter. The P-39 Airacobra may be the least loved American fighter...
“It Looked Like it Was His Insides Coming Out." First Dog to Test Positive for Coronavirus in U.S. Dies
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 10 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Health, * A seven-year-old German shepherd from Staten Island, New York—the first dog to test positive for COVID-19 in the U.S.—has died after a three-month-long illness, according to National Geographic. A seven-year-old German shepherd from Staten Island, New York—the first dog to test positive for COVID-19 in the U.S.—has died after a three-month-long illness, according to National Geographic. The dog, named “Buddy,” started to experience breathing issues beginning in mid-April, which was about the time when his owner, Robert Mahoney, contracted the virus....
Russia's Torpedoes Range from Old and Obsolete to Nuclear Armed
Caleb Larson, The National Interest - 10 hours ago
*Caleb Larson* *Security, Europe* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2017%3Anewsml_RC1E7E938290&share=true] Watch out U.S. Navy. Russia boasts one of the largest, most diverse submarine fleets in the world. Both diesel-electric and nuclear propulsion make their submarines deadly. But it’s not just the submarines themselves that are so dangerous—it is their torpedoes as well that pack a punch. Here is a selection of some of the most dangerous in Moscow's arsenal. *Futlyar* The Futlyar is one of Russia’s newest torpedo designs. This advanced torpe...
Nuke the Channel Tunnel? Britain Had a Crazy Last-Ditch Plan To Stop a Russian Invasion
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 10 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *History, Europe* [image: An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska (SSBN 739) off the coast of California. March 26, 2008. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ronald Gutridge/Released)] Only nuclear weapons would be powerful enough to get the job done. *Here's What You Need To Remember:* The Channel Tunnel removed Britain's most important natural defense. It would have to go. If Soviet tanks ever blitzed across western Europe to the shores of the English Channel, the English had ...
China's Crazy Plan To Secretly Buy This Old Soviet Aircraft Carrier Paid Off
Robert Farley, The National Interest - 10 hours ago
*Robert Farley* *History, Asia* And today China has better carriers. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *China’s aircraft carrier program was not dependent upon the acquisition of Varyag. There was sufficient organizational will within the PLAN and the Chinese government to pursue an aircraft carrier program. However, Varyag (now Liaoning) undoubtedly accelerated the Chinese program, and clearly structured how that program has developed over time. In 1998, a Chinese businessman bought the incomplete hulk of a Soviet aircraft carrier. Fourteen years later that hulk became Liaoni...
Could This Year's New iPhone Be Delayed?
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 10 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Technology, * You might want to hold on to your old smartphone for now: Apple on Thursday confirmed that its 2020 iPhone lineup will probably be delayed past September. Amid a blockbuster earnings report that saw the company post-double-digit revenue gains and also announce a 4-to-1 stock split, Apple on Thursday confirmed that its 2020 iPhone lineup will probably be delayed past September. “Last year we started selling new iPhones in late September, this year we expect supply to be available a few weeks later,” Apple CFO Luca Maestri said on the company's ear...
Ban Tik-Tok and Zoom? Two Senators Want To Investigate Chinese Links To These Apps
Matthew Petti, The National Interest - 10 hours ago
*Matthew Petti* *Security, * A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators are calling on the Justice Department to investigate Tik-Tok and Zoom “reported violations of Americans’ civil liberties and of their close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.” A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators are calling on the Justice Department to investigate Tik-Tok and Zoom “reported violations of Americans’ civil liberties and of their close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.” The two apps have come under fire for their connections to Beijing as U.S.-China tensions heat up. India’s recent decision to ban d...
Why Policymakers Shouldn't Listen to Madeleine Albright
Doug Bandow, The National Interest - 10 hours ago
*Doug Bandow* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2005%3Anewsml_RP2DSFIWIDAB&share=true] She may have been a major figure, but her policy prescriptions are unhelpful. Madeleine Albright is back with a new book to sell. Interviewed in by the *New York Times* magazine, she reminds us how she continues to live in the past. Unfortunately, that’s what made her advice as UN ambassador and secretary of state so uniformly bad. When in office she announced that “My mindset is Munich.” Yet Adolf Hitler was sui generis, the unappeasable, f...
America Was Planning Its Own Nuclear Pearl Harbor Against Japan
Steve Weintz, The National Interest - 10 hours ago
*Steve Weintz* *Security, Asia* Fortunately, it didn't happen. Less than a year after the formal end of World War II the United States tested its new superweapons in peacetime. Operation Crossroads in 1946 at Bikini Atoll tested the effects of nuclear weapons on naval fleets and harbors. While burrowing through the vast Manhattan Project archives historian Alex Wellerstein turned up evidence that Bikini wasn’t the first Pacific island in the atomic crosshairs. Another atoll may have been the earliest target considered by the Manhattan Project. For a time before the bombings of ...
FDA Will OK Coronavirus Vaccine if Found Safe and 50% Effective
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 10 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Health, * White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, noted earlier in the week that he hopes the vaccine will boast an efficacy level of at least 60%. The Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that it will fully clear a coronavirus vaccine if it is deemed safe and at least 50% effective—meaning that the vaccine will reduce an individual’s risk of COVID-19 infection by 50%. “We all want a vaccine tomorrow. That’s unrealistic. And we all want a vaccine that’s 100% effective. Again, unrealistic,” Dr. Ste...
Climate change ‘driving UK’s extreme weather’-Claims Harrabin
Paul Homewood, NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 11 hours ago
By Paul Homewood Harrabin promotes the Met Office’s ludicrous claim that “climate change is driving UK’s extreme weather”: Climate change driven by industrial society is having an increasing impact on the UK’s weather, the Met Office says. Its annual UK report confirms that 2019 was the 12th warmest year in a series from […]
The People’s Space Odyssey: 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams - 11 hours ago
I’ve never known anyone as passionate about science fiction movies as Larry Klaes. His features on films ranging from The Thing from Another World to 2014’s Interstellar have proven hugely popular. Today Larry looks at Peter Hyams’ 2010: The Year We Make Contact, a film with (and this is putting it mildly) big shoes to […]
Rhode Island governor to renew push for adult-use cannabis legalization
Solomon Israel, Marijuana Business Daily - 11 hours ago
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo will continue trying to legalize adult-use marijuana in the state. She sees legal recreational sales as a possible revenue generator, she told Cranston TV station WJAR on Friday morning. “I was in favor of it last year, so I’m continuing to be in favor of it,” Raimondo said during a […] Rhode Island governor to renew push for adult-use cannabis legalization is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
Ohio Pharmacy Board Reverses Ban on Hydroxychloroquine
Raven Clabough, rss - 12 hours ago
[image: request-ohio-pharmacy-board-reverses-ban-of-hydroxychloroquine] The Ohio Board of Pharmacy was compelled to reverse its unwarranted rule prohibiting the sale and dispensing of hydroxychloroquine in the state after Governor Mike DeWine (R) intervened.
Woke up this morning
sue, Is the BBC biased? - 12 hours ago
I* half* think it’s inappropriate to make flippant comments about this topic, but you know me. (You actually don’t, but ..) I woke up this morning* old*. An old person. Well, that’s been happening a lot lately. I’m that judge who didn’t know what the Beatles were. Also, I didn’t know exactly what Grime is. (I do now because I’ve looked it up.) Grime is a genre of electronic music that emerged in London in the early 2000s. It developed out of earlier UK dance style UK garage, and draws influences from jungle, dancehall, and hip hop. Typically characterized by a minimal, prominent rh...
Patagonia – Record snowfall – Sheep and cows buried alive
Robert, Ice Age Now - 12 hours ago
Historic snowfall could destroy sheep farming in the area for years. Five feet (1½ m) of snow and temperatures around 20 degrees below zero. Can you imagine even trying to walk through snow up to your chin? This climate combo, which has been taking place for 20 days in the region, left livestock farming in ... Read more Patagonia – Record snowfall – Sheep and cows buried alive The post Patagonia – Record snowfall – Sheep and cows buried alive appeared first on Ice Age Now.
Noble Uncertainty: Next Gen Gaming Customizing Psychological Experiences Using Newtonian Laws
News Staff, Science 2.0 blogs - 13 hours ago
Right now, we can play video games and feel like we are 'in the game' but it's still a lot of suspension of disbelief. If you can only see 40 degrees while driving a car in a game that's nowhere close to your peripheral vision in the real world. Next generation gaming, beyond better graphics, requires establishing new relationships between game progress and entertainment experience. Chess is a much different experience versus another person than it is a computer, as is Poker. Many less experienced people play far more conservatively versus people because computers don't feel real. A...
Arizona’s 2020 Elections in the Wake of the Coronavirus
sdanielpour, Lawfare - 13 hours ago
A sign reading, "Vote Here/Aquí, Maricopa County Elections Department." (Flickr/sean hobson, https://flic.kr/p/7Zju8N; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) Lawfare* is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the nation confronts the challenges that the coronavirus pandemic poses for election administration. Through student-driven research, tool development, and direct services to j...
Announcing a New Series on Healthy Elections
npersily, Lawfare - 13 hours ago
A member of the Kentucky National Guard sanitizes a voting station in Lawrenceburg, Ky., June 12, 2020. (Photo by Capt. Cassandra Mullins) *We are pleased to announce a new partnership between Lawfare and the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections project, designed to bring Lawfare readers an up-to-date stream of granular and detailed content related to election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. * *The Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the nation confronts the challenges that the coronavirus pandemic poses for electi...
Advances and Setbacks in CRISPR Genome Editing and Base Editing for Tyrosinemia
zedie, SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 21 hours ago
https://patientworthy.com/2020/07/29/advances-setbacks-crispr-genome-base-editing-tyrosinemia/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Patient%20Worthy&utm_content=Advances%20and%20Setbacks%20in%20CRISPR%20Genome%20Editing%20and%20Base%20Editing%20for%20Tyrosinemia
Trudeau gives historic "Checkers Speech". Except that, instead of a Dog, It's his Mother.
greencrow, Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 4 hours ago
*Trudeau Testifies before Canadian Federal Parliamentary* *Finance Committee July 30, 2020* *Amazing Polly* gave Canadians as good an insight as any as to what is really going on in Ottawa regarding the WE Group Charity Scandal. She describes the WE Charity as a corrupt cover for encroaching Communism...steadily and relentlessly infiltrating and brainwashing Canadian youth with the active support of the corrupt Liberal government and the mind-controlled Canadian *Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.* To use the latest "buzzword" being tossed back and forth like a football between the c...
US Navy Mocks Iran In Saying They Are 'Experts' At Building Ships To Be 'Targets'
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago
The US Navy mocked Iran for being 'experts' at building a target ship in an Instagram post that showed a bogus American aircraft carrier with a bullseye on it *Daily Mail: **US Navy mocks Iran in meme by claiming they are 'experts' at building ships to be 'targets' after they carried out a missile attack on dummy American aircraft carrier* * The US Navy called out Iran for being 'experts' at building a target ship in a social media post that showed a bogus American aircraft carrier with a bullseye * The Instagram post Wednesday comes after Iran built the replica vessel and had its...
Does Rep. Louie Gohmert Have Coronavirus because He Did Not Wear a Belt?
Adam Dick, null - 11 hours ago
[image: undefined] “Rep. Louie Gohmert, who often went without a mask, tests positive for the coronavirus.” That is the headline for a Wednesday NBC article regarding United States House of Representatives member Louie Gohmert (R-TX) having tested positive for coronavirus. Similar headlines seeking to make a connection between Gohmert’s test result and Gohmert not wearing a mask were used throughout much of the media. For example, headlines read “Louie Gohmert, who refused to wear a mask, tests positive for coronavirus” at Politico and “Texas Republican Rep. Gohmert Tests Positive F...
The Charter of the United Nations: Ideals for Shaping Our Reality
Global Issues News Headlines - 11 hours ago
NEW YORK, Jul 31 (IPS) - "Reconciling the requirements of the ideal with the possibilities of the real": this is how Georges Bidault, Minister for Foreign Affairs and head of the French delegation to the San Francisco Conference, summed up the objective pursued by the drafters of the Charter of the United Nations. On the still living ashes of the Second World War, the fathers of an Organization charged with developing friendly relations between nations, promoting human rights and economic and social progress were less utopian than visionary. They understood that the community of S...
Modern Tools, Age-old Wisdom: on India-Sri Lanka Relations
Global Issues News Headlines - 11 hours ago
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jul 31 (IPS) - The unique India-Sri Lanka relationship, de jure, is between equals as sovereign nations. But it's asymmetric in terms of geographic size, population, military and economic power, on the one hand, and social indicators and geographical location, on the other. It is steeped in myth and legend, and influenced by religious, cultural and social affinities. Read the full story, “Modern Tools, Age-old Wisdom: on India-Sri Lanka Relations”, on globalissues.org →
Southeast Asia Has a Chance to Build Back Better Post-Pandemic
Global Issues News Headlines - 11 hours ago
Jul 31 (IPS) - Southeast Asia's response to the coronavirus pandemic has been efficient, but some areas such as data privacy, measures to go back to normalcy after lockdown is lifted, and resources for migrant or transient populations will need addressing. Read the full story, “Southeast Asia Has a Chance to Build Back Better Post-Pandemic”, on globalissues.org →
Corporate Bailout or Cash Transfers for All, including Children?
Global Issues News Headlines - 11 hours ago
BEIRUT, Jul 31 (IPS) - The Covid-19 pandemic seems to have spared children from the direct health effects of the virus but the crisis has affected their social and economic rights directly and indirectly beyond what we could have foreseen. And there's no doubt that children who come from more vulnerable backgrounds will feel the long-term impact of the pandemic and the measures taken to prevent its spread the hardest. Read the full story, “Corporate Bailout or Cash Transfers for All, including Children?”, on globalissues.org →
Milton Friedman’s Energy Insight for Today
Robert L. Bradley, Jr., IER - 11 hours ago
Old foes admitted it was best to debate Milton Friedman when he was not in the room. And in this… The post Milton Friedman’s Energy Insight for Today appeared first on IER.
What's Wrong With The Florida Democratic Party?
DownWithTyranny, DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
*FDP chair Terrie Rizzo-- Not just Florida's but America's fate could be in her hands* On February 18, just in time for the March presidential primary in Florida, the secretary of state reported that there are currently 5,103,540 registered Democrats, 4,823,917 registered Republicans and 3,619,456 No Party Affiliation voters. And yet... the Florida legislature is made up of 73 Republicans and 46 Democrats in the House and 23 Republicans and 17 Dems in the Senate. Those are weird disparities for a 50/50 state. Obviously, you can blame it on gerrymandering and you would be correct... ...
Russia's Fighter-Maker Sukhoi Is Gearing Up To Build The Su-57
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago
Sukhoi *Forbes: **In Russia’s Far East, A Stealth Fighter Factory Spins Up* It’s one thing to design a warplane. And other thing to build it. That’s a truism Russian fighter-maker Sukohi is learning—or relearning—as it tries to fill the Kremlin’s order for 76 Su-57 stealth fighters. Sukhoi builds the twin-engine Su-57 at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft plant in the Russian Far East. The factory previously built the non-stealthy Su-35—and learned some hard lessons. Now, several years after building the Su-35, managers at Komsomolsk-on-Amur are setting up Su-57 production in the pla...
Italy’s Senate strips Salvini of immunity, in effort to prevent Italexit (Video)
Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 12 hours ago
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 614.
Will Entropy Define the New World Paradigm?
Matthew Ehret, The Duran - 12 hours ago
Originally Published on the Strategic Culture Foundation I recently wrote a lengthy analysis of lesser-known side to George Soros that I believe people who are serious about geopolitical topics should pay closer attention to if they wish to avoid falling prey to some very dangerous ideological traps being set in our path as we transition into a […]
Australia leads way taking on Tech with mandatory code
Uriel, 'Nox & Friends - 12 hours ago
Australian news media to negotiate payment with major digital platforms Tech giants will be forced to pay Australian media companies for their content or else they will be ushered into binding arbitration if parties cannot agree within a three-month window. The move comes as the tech giants fend off calls around the world for greater regulation, and a day after Google and Facebook took a battering for alleged abuse of market power from U.S. lawmakers in a congressional hearing. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s draft code of conduct sets out mandatory negotiating cond...
The FDA and (Misplaced) COVID Testing Priorities
SafeSpace, 'Nox & Friends - 12 hours ago
Douglas Holtz-Eakin is an economist, at one time the Director of the CBO, and chief economic advisor to John McCain’s POTUS campaign team. Holtz-Eakin’s American Action Forum publishes “The Daily Dish”, a reliable source of straight talk on the American economy and the deadly financial impact the various virus stimuli packages are having. A few days ago, he posted an analysis of the FDA’s proposed COVID testing regimen … which reveals that it will be too slow, too expensive, and as a result useless in practice. And OF COURSE there is a proven, cheaper method of getting the same resu...
As The System Collapses, Can America Rediscover Its Cameralist Roots?
Matthew Ehret, The Duran - 13 hours ago
From the Rising Tide Foundation Everyone knows of the American Revolution and Declaration of 1776. Very few people know of the deeper historical currents and networks of republicans stretching across space and time that made this revolution happen and upon whose ideas, a system came into being which was named “The American System of Political […]
Funny Friday Part II
Ragnar, 'Nox & Friends - 13 hours ago
Some of these may not be Funny, but they are relevant to today’s current situations…..On to the MEME’s… Well, hope these made your day…..I just had too many this week for the comments section, I won’t be doing this every week…. ~Ragnar (RFXtFR)
Twitter Says Hackers Used Phone to Fool Staff, Gain Access
AP News, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago
The embarrassing July 15 attack compromised the accounts of some of its most high profile users, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and celebrities Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian West.
A Small Tribute to a Mighty Big Man: RIP Herman Cain
SafeSpace, 'Nox & Friends - 13 hours ago
Herman Cain ran for President in the GOP 2012 Primary. Imagine for a moment that he had won: A successful American entrepreneur, a humble yet knowledgeable man, a black southerner who believed with every ounce of his soul in evaluating people by merit and not by preconceived racial stereotypes. I supported Mr. Cain in 2012, seeing him as the antidote to four more years of Barack Hussein Obama’s smug animus and progressive dislike of everything that makes America, America. I also thought that a GOP President Cain would shut down most of the redistributionist arguments and racial lies...
When Corporate Power Is Your Real Government, Corporate Media Is State Media
Caitlin Johnstone, Caitlin Johnstone - 14 hours ago
The New York Times published an astonishingly horrible article the other day titled “Latin America Is Facing a ‘Decline of Democracy’ Under the Pandemic” accusing governments like Venezuela and Nicaragua of exploiting Covid-19 to quash opposition and oppress democracy. The article sources its jarringly propagandistic […]
Three MARS Probes Now Aloft—Inspiration to Clean Up the Mess on Earth
adam, LaRouchePAC Feed - 14 hours ago
[image: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, July 30, 2020, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (NASA/Joel Kowsky)] Early yesterday morning, 10 milliseconds before schedule—the NASA Mars probe Atlas V 541 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, and performed its initial flight sequences flawlessly, beginning its seven- month mission to Mars. (Landing date, Feb. 18, 2021). The other two Mars spacecraft are likewise en route—the Chinese and U.A.E. launches, both earlier in Jul...
Court Documents On Ghislaine Maxwell And Jeffrey Epstein Were Publicly Released On Thursday
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago
*Reuters:* *Ghislaine Maxwell documents are released, including Jeffrey Epstein emails* NEW YORK (Reuters) - Documents about dealings between Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were publicly released on Thursday by a U.S. court, where the British socialite faces criminal charges she aided the late financier’s sexual abuse of girls. Among the materials released were email correspondence between the pair in early 2015, including an email in which Epstein told Maxwell she had “done nothing wrong.” U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska had ordered the documents’ release by Thursday...
1 US Marine Dead And 8 Missing After Amphibious Vehicle Accident During Training Off California Coast
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago
*Daily Mail: **One Marine dead and 8 missing after amphibious assault vehicle accident off the coast of southern California* * One Marine has died, 8 others missing after amphibious assault vehicle accident * The incident happened off the coast of Southern California on Thursday * Vehicle took on water at 5.45pm while 15 Marines and one sailor were inside * Search and rescue efforts underway with support from Navy and Coast Guard * One Marine was taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla where he died * Other two injured were hospitalized - one in critical condition and one stable ...
Florida’s largest police union endorses Trump in unanimous vote
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago
Fox News Jul 31, 2020 The Florida PBA makes its first endorsement in eight years; PBA President John Kazanjian explains ahead of his meeting with the president. via Florida’s largest police union endorses Trump in unanimous vote – YouTube
Portland mayor is putting politics over public safety: DHS Secretary
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago
Fox News Jul 31, 2020 Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf tells ‘Fox & Friends’ that Portland saw little criminal activity overnight after Oregon state and Portland police stepped in. via Portland mayor is putting politics over public safety: DHS Secretary – YouTube
Health Checkpoints, Biometric IDs, Vaccine Ink Injections: Media Reveals Orwellian ‘New Normal’ on the Horizon Due to COVID-19
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago
This is the right crisis needed to implement the new world order. Jul 30, 2020 Shane Trejo The late plutocrat and engineer of globalism David Rockefeller once said at a United Nations dinner: “All we need is the right crisis and the people will accept the New World Order.” With COVID-19, it seems that the … Continue reading Health Checkpoints, Biometric IDs, Vaccine Ink Injections: Media Reveals Orwellian ‘New Normal’ on the Horizon Due to COVID-19 →
Anti-Lockdown Activists Charged with Felonies After Being Accosted by Officers at the Michigan Capitol
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago
This is retribution. Jul 30, 2020 Shane Trejo Two freedom activists have been hit with felony charges, with another receiving a misdemeanor charge, after they were accosted by officers while trying to report on the Michigan state legislature several months ago. Big League Politics reported on how Michigan United for Liberty leader and citizen … Continue reading Anti-Lockdown Activists Charged with Felonies After Being Accosted by Officers at the Michigan Capitol →
Tick, Tick, Boom, Boom, Time’s Up, Obama Goons?
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago
July 30, 2020 By J.B. Shurk Remember, remember! This third of November, The Democrats’ Russian collusion plot; I know of no reason Why the Democrats’ treason should ever be forgot! There’s something happening here. People with titles are beginning to say out loud what people without titles have been saying for four years — that Barack … Continue reading Tick, Tick, Boom, Boom, Time’s Up, Obama Goons? →
DUELING DISPROPORTIONS: Times fact-check drives Storyline!
bob somerby, the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020Do misperceptions matter?:* Is it possible that misperceptions might arise from the way the mainstream press has been covering fatal shooting at the hands of police officers? (As a point of fairness, it should be said—not all such deaths involve police misconduct. We would assume that most do not, though we've never seen an attempt to study that question.) At present, the press corps tends to cover some such deaths in great detail, but only if the victim is black. Is it possible that misperceptions can arise from this remarkable practice? Beyond that, might ...
No Longer Possible to Be a Democrat and Support Free Speech
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago
July 21, 2020 By J.B. Shurk For freedom’s sake, be offensive. Not rude. Not malicious. But free enough with your thoughts that they are still your thoughts and not the programmed left-speak that is constantly in flux but thoroughly enforced. A generation ago, Americans would preface a potentially offensive statement with a quick declaration — “this isn’t politically correct, but” … Continue reading No Longer Possible to Be a Democrat and Support Free Speech →
Why a Canadian hockey team's name recalls US Civil War destruction
Christopher J. Young, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Director of the Center for Innovation and Scholarship in Teaching and Learning, and Professor of History, Indiana University, Politics + Society – The Conversation - 12 hours ago
A 21st-century hockey team is connected with Gen. Sherman's Atlanta campaign and the destructive journey to Savannah.
Obama and Biden delivered “failure and betrayal” to the people of this country
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago
Donald J Trump Jul 31, 2020 Senior Advisor Stephen Miller: Obama and Biden delivered “failure and betrayal” to the people of this country. via Obama and Biden delivered “failure and betrayal” to the people of this country – YouTube
World Shocked By Bill Gates Statements On COVID-19 Vaccine
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago
Special Reports Jul 30, 2020 Bill Gates and Anderson Cooper navigate through a cringe fest of stutters and pauses as they talk about Jeffery Epstein, COVID-19 origins, conspiracy theories, vaccine hesitancy. via World Shocked By Bill Gates Statements On COVID-19 Vaccine
Big Tech Continues To Toy With Congress
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago
Will they ever be held accountable? Jon Bowne | Infowars.com – July 30, 2020 The lords of Silicon Valley had been summoned yet again, only to continue their gaslighting of the American people after years of relentless bullying of small businesses, the totalitarian dominance of the public square, and aiding foreign enemies, terrorists, pedophiles, and … Continue reading Big Tech Continues To Toy With Congress →
Austin Mayor Cries About There Being “Too Many Guns” After Protest Shooting
j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago
Jul 31, 2020 Jose Nino Last weekend was rather explosive for Austin, Texas after an armed protester was killed during a protest. A man was driving near a protest in Austin when he saw Garrett Foster accompanied by his wife, who was in a wheelchair, approach his car. Foster allegedly aimed an AK-47 at the … Continue reading Austin Mayor Cries About There Being “Too Many Guns” After Protest Shooting →
Join the Summit for Civil Rights right NOW
Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig, Cloaking Inequity - 13 hours ago
Leading a panel on discrimination, civil rights and segregation in 10 minutes. Join the Summit for Civil Rights right NOW https://umn.zoom.us/j/93992286381 Chairman @bobbyscott is currently speaking. Event all day today online.
Why I don’t Publish in Peer-Reviewed Journals
RiskMonger, The Risk-Monger - 13 hours ago
When activists like USRTK's Gary Ruskin pay for academic cred, you know the peer-review process is broken.
Neighborhood security, resident style
Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 13 hours ago
I note that, as predicted in these pages some time ago, Minneapolis residents are being forced to provide their own security, now that their police force is being demoralized, demonized and downsized. Police say crime has surged in the months since Mr. Floyd's May 25 killing, in which a now-fired officer was captured on video with his knee on Mr. Floyd's neck for an extended time. Shootings more than tripled in June to 75 from 24 a year earlier. In the first half of July, there were 43 shootings, compared with 29 in all of July 2019. Police say the increase in crime follows a patte...
UKC News: Silicon Valley, Big Pharma Team-up to Censor COVID Content Online
21wire, 21st Century Wire - 14 hours ago
*UKC News* | Co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen with the end of week news round-up.
Afghanistan admits to 3,500 military deaths in 2020: Reverberations of Obama
Lee Jay, Modern Tokyo Times - 14 hours ago
Afghanistan admits to 3,500 military deaths in 2020: Reverberations of Obama Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The government of Afghanistan acknowledged that over 3,500 security forces have been killed since February peace talks. These talks resulted in a frayed peace agreement between America and the Taliban. However, on the ground, the […]
How a War in the South China Sea Between China and America Could Start
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Security, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC2F0I90TY37&share=true] Could a small “clash,” incident, or brief exchange of fire between American and Chinese forces in the South China Sea quickly lead to a dangerous “all-out war? Could a small “clash,” incident, or brief exchange of fire between American and Chinese forces in the South China Sea quickly lead to a dangerous “all-out war?” Many experts, observers and officials seem to share the concern, given the rapid escalation of hostility between the two major ...
China and Iran are about to Become Allies—Here’s What We Should Do about It
Barry Pavel, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Barry Pavel* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] The United States should undertake a global strategic review, with all of its allies and partners in the democratic world as well as those that play by the rules, to develop a more effective collective strategy for dealing with China in the post-coronavirus era. “Two ancient Asian cultures, two partners in the sectors of trade, economy, politics, culture and security with a similar outlook and many mutual bilateral and multilateral interests will consider one another strategic partners.” So begins a new secret bilateral agreemen...
When the Lasers Strike: How the U.S. Military Wants to Protect Its Planes and Bases
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Security, Asia* [image: By US Air Force - usaf.mil, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70220960] A lot of high-tech advances will be needed to clear an airspace or defend fixed locations alike airfields and ports. The U.S. Air Force is looking at innovative ways to counter a new generation of enemy weapons such as lasers, anti-satellite systems, long-range missiles and advanced air defenses. One way the Pentagon hopes to deal with these weapons is by sharpening its focus on emerging methods of networking, sensor detection and countermea...
Amazon Posts Blowout Earnings Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Economics, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC23HE9X7CCL&share=true] A lot of people have been streaming more and buying things from home. At close on Thursday, Amazon was trading at $3051.88 a share, and had a market capitalization of about $1.522 trillion, making it the third most-valuable company in the world, behind only Apple and Microsoft. Amazon, like Apple, is now worth more than the entirety of all of the public companies in South Korea combined. After the bell, Amazon released Q2 quarterly numbe...
Could This New Fighter Plane from France Carry India's Nuclear Weapons?
Caleb Larson, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Caleb Larson* *Security, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_RC17CDF812B0&share=true] With the help of the French aerospace firm Dassault, India is becoming better-equipped for high-altitude combat. The first five of the Indian Air Force’s new Dassault fighters recently landed in India after a two-day flight from France. The fighters, from Dassault’s Rafale line, were piloted by Indian pilots and will enter service with India’s “Golden Arrow” squadron. According to Dassault, the pilots underwent extensive training in France alo...
These Nazi Pilots Were Germany's Version of Kamikaze Pilots
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *Security, Europe* Sonderkommando (Special Command) Elbe was a special unit of volunteers that deliberately collided into American bombers. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Perhaps the best answer is that organized suicide is the ultimate admission of failure in war. Japan and Germany didn't choose this method out of efficiency or idealism. They did it because they had so botched their war efforts that they couldn't think of anything better. April 7, 1945, should have been just another high-explosive day over Nazi Germany. That morning, as they had done on so ...
China Is Now Working On a Deadly Kamikaze Drone Army
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *Security, Asia* [image: A military vehicle carrying an unmanned aerial vehicle (UVA) travels past Tiananmen Square during the military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of People's Republic of China, on its National Day in Beijing, China October 1, 2019. REUTERS/Thoma] Like drones in general, loitering munitions can be hard to detect and shoot down, especially the smaller models. *Here's What You Need To Remember:* U.S. ally Israel first taught China about suicide drones. Now Beijing is looking for its own. China’s military is looking to buy suicide dr...
Hong Kong Postpones Elections by a Year, Citing Coronavirus
AP News, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago
The city of 7.5 million people has had a surge in coronavirus infections since the beginning of July.
High Level Cop Arrested for Using City Network, Google to Run Child Porn Ring While On Duty
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 13 hours ago
[image: child]While on duty and getting paid by the citizens he allegedly "protects," a Senior Dallas officer was using government computers to upload child porn.
“Swing” Voters Are Staying With Trump, Says Liberal Pollster
Bob Adelmann, rss - 13 hours ago
[image: swing-voters-are-staying-with-trump-says-liberal-pollster] That "swing voters" are staying with President Trump so far gives Trump supporters comfort.
US Navy's First Black Female Tactical Jet Pilot Gets Her 'Wings Of Gold' Today
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
*Photo: *Swegle, who broke through the glass ceiling earlier this month when she completed her training at naval flight school, is to receive her wings during a ceremony on Friday *Daily Mail:* *First black female fighter pilot in 110 years of naval aviation to receive her 'Wings of Gold'* * Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle, the first black female US Naval officer to become a tactical jet pilot, will receive now her 'Wings of Gold' * Swegle, who completed her training at naval flight school earlier this month, is to receive the coveted insignia during a ceremony on Friday * She is the firs...
Google manipulating search algorithm to engage in “election interference”
drinkingwateradvisor, The Drinking Water Advisor - 14 hours ago
“Gaetz asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the company’s alleged manipulation of its search algorithm to censor conservative voices. After questioning Pichai, the Google CEO admitted that the search giant allows for manual manipulation of its search algorithm. “click here
Contact Tracing: US Supreme Court Already Has Ruled that Tracking People by Cellphone Is Unlawful
KrisAnne Hall and Dr. Pamela Popper, Need To Know - 14 hours ago
Government officers must have express permission from each person or a warrant for every individual to use cell data to track people, otherwise it is an unlawful search and seizure. Dr. Pamela Popper is asking anyone whose cell phone has been used to contact trace them to reach out to her to participate in a lawsuit.
The Biden Rule: “No Men Need Apply!”
Patrick J. Buchanan, rss - 14 hours ago
[image: the-biden-rule-no-men-need-apply] There is a real possibility that, this coming week, Joe Biden will be selecting the 47th president of the United States. First, no white men need apply. Second, no man of any race, color or creed will be considered.
The Real Face Of The European Union (III)
Vladislav B. SOTIROVIĆ, OrientalReview.org - 14 hours ago
Part I, Part II The Franco-German axis An Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) is the formal procedure for negotiating amendments to the founding treaties of the EU. Under the treaties, an IGC is called into being the European Council and is composed of representatives of the Member States, with the European Commission, […]
Black Trump Supporter Fatally Shot Outside His Milwaukee Business
KLTV, Need To Know - 14 hours ago
While no official motive has been announced, some believe the murder was politically motivated because he was pro-Trump. There is video of a masked suspect, but he has yet to be identified.
Detroit Police Chief Explains How He Has Prevented Riots
Fox News, Need To Know - 15 hours ago
Police Chief James Craig says his city kept the peace because they decided at the beginning that “We weren’t giving up ground to the radicals.” He credited the residents of the city, who he said stood with the police. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has supported the city’s police department.
European-grown cannabis flower variety now available to German pharmacies
Alfredo Pascual, Marijuana Business Daily - 15 hours ago
Berlin-based CanPharma is believed to be the first company to offer in Germany “a German brand of medical cannabis flower sourced from a non-Canadian (owned) production facility,” the firm’s chief financial officer told Marijuana Business Daily. According to CFO David Attwood, the flower is produced in Europe in an EU-Good Manufacturing Practice-certified facility. He declined […] European-grown cannabis flower variety now available to German pharmacies is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
Republican Radio Show Host Herman Cain Died, COVID-19 Is Said to Be Cause of Death
AP News, Need To Know - 15 hours ago
Mr. Cain had battled colon cancer, and it is unknown what other illnesses he may have had or what toxic medications he was taking. Mr. Cain attended the rally for President Trump in Tulsa on June 20th and would have been tested for coronavirus there. It is presumed, therefore, that he tested negative that day.
Home Rental Vs Home Loan: As Interest Rates Drop, What Is Preferable?
Arkady Petrov, The Rio Times - 16 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Owning a home is still the dream of millions of Brazilians. With the recent reduction of the basic interest rate, known as SELIC, the rates of real estate financing have also dropped in recent years. In 2015, when the SELIC stood at 14.5 percent per year, the average rate of […] The post Home Rental Vs Home Loan: As Interest Rates Drop, What Is Preferable? appeared first on The Rio Times.
Quelle Surprise: NYT Article on U.S. Contact Tracing Deficiencies Doesn’t Fall for Big Tech’s Claim that Effective Contact Tracing Requires an App, But Fails to See What Good Health Care Has to Do with It
Jerri-Lynn Scofield, naked capitalism - 14 hours ago
NYT piece on contact tracing doesn't see what good health care has to do with why some of these efforts elsewhere have worked well.
De Blasio says that schools should be open but he won't open them
trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 14 hours ago
The Democrat mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, plans to provide child care for 100,000 students in the fall but keep schools closed most of the time with students attending school only 1 or 2 days a week. Given that we know from a study in LA that Blacks and Latinos do far worse with distance learning than white and asian kids keeping the schools closed is clearly a racist policy. But more importantly child care settings are more prone to spreading disease than a classroom where for most of the time kids are sitting in desks 3 ft apart. If you're going to shove kids into child car...
Planned Parenthood's NY abortion mill cancels Margret Sanger but continues to prey on Blacks
trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 14 hours ago
Everyone who has studied the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margret Sanger, knows that she was a virulent racist and eugenicist. She sent a complementary note to Hitler about his eugenics policies, though not about the Shoah. Here's a few more examples of her racism: - She said *“We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”* - She favored forced sterilization of the "unfit" - She gave a speech to the KKK - She wrote *"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it”*; note she was ...
NATO Navies Now Conducting Exercises To Hunt For Russian Submarines
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
Royal Navy frigate HMS Kent with Allied warships, including USS Roosevelt, left, at the end of Dynamic Mongoose, July 9, 2020. British Royal Navy/LPhot Dan Rosenbaum *Business Insider:* *In the North Atlantic, NATO navies are practicing to take on a wave of Russian submarines* * In July, NATO navies conducted exercise Dynamic Mongoose, testing the abilities of their ships, subs, and aircraft to hunt enemy submarines. * The US and its allies are increasingly focused on anti-submarine warfare, but countering all the subs a country like Russia or China could field in a war would stil...
UK Students Fighting For Universities To Cut Ties With Israeli Apartheid
Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
Apartheid Off Campus is a newly-formed student network fighting to sever the ties between UK universities and the Israeli occupation. “University students are in a powerful position to campaign in support of Palestinians and against the structures of racism by both challenging/exposing these links and forcing their universities to divest from complicit companies, as well as making their institutions commit to being APARTHEID FREE,” reads the group’s website. Research recently released by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign shows that UK universities continue to invest over $580 mi...
Malheur Occupation 2016: Excessive Force Claim Against Governor Brown; Her 2020 Argument Re Federal Courthouse Similar to Peaceful Protestors She Literally Got Shot Of In 2016
miningawareness, Mining Awareness + - 14 hours ago
During the Malheur Occupation in 2016, Oregon Governor Brown demanded that the Federal Government do something promptly regarding the peaceful, … Continue reading →
McNeil is fighting the wrong battle
Philip Moscovitch, Halifax Examiner - 14 hours ago
News 1. Cabinet roundup: Masks, schools, borders, and the Yarmouth ferry Jennifer Henderson participated by phone in yesterday’s post-cabinet meeting. (Eight “major” news organizations were allowed to take part in person; the Examiner was not included.) In her roundup, Henderson says the province has still not set a date for opening to the rest of […]
How AFRICOM Is Working To Destabilize Africa
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
This episode we were joined by the editor of the Pan African Newswire, Abayomi Azikewe. Mr. Azikewe gave detailed critical analysis regarding the ongoing imperialist wars waged on Africa by way of Western nations like the US and France. This is an absolute must listen for anyone interested in humanity, peace, justice and an end to western aggression and imperialism on the Global South. This is a MUST LISTEN! The post How AFRICOM Is Working To Destabilize Africa appeared first on PopularResistance.Org.
Cop Back on Duty Less Than 60 Days After Executing Unarmed Kneeling Man From Inside Cruiser
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago
[image: executing]Despite video of the officer executing an unarmed man on his knees, the officer is reportedly back on full duty, ready to kill again.
Supreme Court Just Made The Case For Medicare For All
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
This July, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that President Trump, who does not have a uterus, was quite right to object to Obama-era rules under the Affordable Care Act that allowed Americans who do have uteri access to free birth control through their employer-provided health insurance plans. Specifically, NPR reports, the Supreme Court upheld a Trump administration rule that “would give broad exemptions from the birth control mandate to nonprofits and some for-profit companies that object to birth control on religious or moral grounds.” The post Supreme Court Just...
Texas Man Charged With Assaulting Deputy U.S. Marshal With Hammer During Weekend “Protests” in Portland
miningawareness, Mining Awareness + - 14 hours ago
How long has he been in Portland? Is he on vacation with unemployment plus an extra $600 PER WEEK COVID … Continue reading →
Statement by FBI on the Situation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge 2016
miningawareness, Mining Awareness + - 14 hours ago
“Oregon Militia Standoff | 1 Dead, 1 Wounded” Link: https://youtu.be/-bDwBm95Hec “Oregon militia shooting: FBI releases LaVoy Finicum shooting video” He … Continue reading →
Oregon Governor Kate Brown Letter to Obama in 2016 Demanding That He Remove Malheur Protestors
miningawareness, Mining Awareness + - 14 hours ago
They were armed but peaceful. Armed used to mean violent intent. Today it’s considered peaceful “rights” and “protest”. Now she … Continue reading →
More Like Mackenzie King?
Owen Gray, Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Michael Harris believes that Justin Trudeau has -- in Joni Mitchell's words -- "skated away" down the river: Rather than skewering the PM with these serious accusations, the finance committee merely gave him a chance to stick pins in the flotation devices bouying this political brouhaha. And stick pins he did. First, and most important, Trudeau testified that he never spoke to representatives of WE, and only learned of the charity’s involvement in the massive volunteer grant program on May 8. That was the date cabinet received the recommendation from the public service that WE was...
What Has Happened To Police Filmed Hurting Protesters?
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago
It has been almost two months since a Los Angeles Police Department patrol car accelerated into Brooke Fortson during a protest over police violence. She still doesn’t know the name of the officer who hit her or whether that person is still policing the city’s streets. The officer did not stop after hitting Fortson and instead turned around, nearly hitting other demonstrators in the process, and sped off. The LAPD almost surely knows who the officer is. The squad car’s number is clearly visible in one of the multiple videos that captured the incident. The post What Has Happened T...
Minneapolis: ‘Umbrella Man’ Was A White Supremacist
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago
A masked man who was seen in a viral video smashing the windows of a south Minneapolis auto parts store during the George Floyd protests, earning him the moniker "Umbrella Man," is suspected of ties with a white supremacist group and sought to incite racial tension, police said. A Minneapolis police arson investigator said the act of vandalism at the AutoZone on E. Lake Street helped spark a chain reaction that led to days of looting and rioting. The store was among dozens of buildings across the city that burned to the ground in the days that followed. The post Minneapolis: ‘Umbr...
Private Feds Cash In On Unusual Contempt Case
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago
Manhattan — With trial still months away, taxpayers have paid more than a quarter-million dollars to a private law firm deputized by a federal judge to convict an environmental attorney of misdemeanors. That is only one of the many oddities of United States v. Steven Donziger, a criminal contempt case against a lawyer defending a more than $9 billion verdict that he helped Ecuadorean villagers obtain against Chevron for oil contamination in the Amazon rainforest in 2011. “So — the punchline is: The government has spent $254,930 to date prosecuting a misdemeanor,” Donziger’s atto...
Atomic Bomb Survivors Transformed Our Understanding Of Radiation’s Impacts
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago
Hiroshima, Japan - Kunihiko Iida wants the world to know that the atomic bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago next month are still claiming lives and causing suffering. Iida was 3 years old in August 1945. His father had died in battle; he was living with his mother and her parents in a house 900 meters from Hiroshima’s hypocenter, the spot right beneath the detonation. The blast crumpled the house. The family fled the city, but Iida’s mother and older sister soon died from their injuries, a fact the little boy didn’t grasp. The post Atomic Bomb ...
Yale Professor of Epidemiology Endorses Anti-Covid Drug Hydroxychloroquine
Newsweek, Need To Know - 15 hours ago
As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to
Watch ‘America’s Frontline Doctors’ Press Conference that Was Banned on Social Media
Frontline Doctors and The Hill, Need To Know - 15 hours ago
The goal of the press conference was to combat groundless fear that has overwhelmed Americans over COVID-19. Dr. Simone Gold said there is effective treatment available for COVID-19, especially during the early phase of the illness.
"Covid-19 Pandemic Updates PM 7/31/20"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*"Covid-19 Pandemic **Updates PM 7/31/20" * *- Frequently **Updated* Please visit these sites often for the very latest ○ *"Americans Will Be Living With The Coronavirus For Decades"* ○ *7/31/20* By David Leonhardt *"Kids and the coronavirus: *A new study suggests that children can carry at least as much of the coronavirus in their noses and throats as adults - suggesting they are likely to spread the virus, as well. “Kids don’t get visibly sick very often, and even when they do, only rarely go on to have complications or to die,” my colleague Apoorva Mandavilli explains. “But many ...
Historic Space X news conference 10:45 AM ET, will Hurricane Isaias delay reentry?
CFACT Ed, CFACT - 14 hours ago
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are scheduled to return to Earth August 2nd, but may be delayed by Hurricane Isaias approach to Florida. Watch their press conference HERE LIVE: July 31, 2020 at 10:45 AM. The post Historic Space X news conference 10:45 AM ET, will Hurricane Isaias delay reentry? appeared first on CFACT.
"Economic Fantasy Update 7/31/20"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
*"Economic Fantasy Update 7/31/20"* Chronicling the most enormous fraud and theft in human history, down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity... Deceptive resemblances to reality by these arch-criminals are total lies. Only the consequences are real, to YOU, never *them.* ○ *"The more I see of the moneyed classes, * *the more I understand the guillotine."* - George Bernard Shaw ○ *7/31/20* *○* Gregory Mannarino, *AM* *7/31/20:* *“**Stock Market Caution Advised: This Is Why**”* - https://traderschoice.net/ ○ ○ *MarketWatch Market Su**mmary, Live Updates* - https://www.marketw...
Heavy rain, damaging floods and mudslides hit western Georgia
The Watchers » Latest articles - 14 hours ago
Heavy rainfall triggered damaging floods and mudslides in a number of municipalities in western Georgia on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. About 2 000 residents were cut off after roads were inundated, 400 families were left without water supply, and 10 bridges were...... Read more »
There Are No Balls and Strikes in Constitutional Hardball
Guest Blogger, Balkinization - 14 hours ago
For the Symposium on Mark Tushnet, Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law (Yale University Press 2020). D. A. Jeremy Telman Critical theory encourages skepticism with respect to master narratives. Mark Tushnet has contributed as much as anybody to the introduction of critical theory into legal scholarship, and yet for the first two-thirds of his new book he provides a master narrative of the jurisprudence of the Roberts Court from the perspective of his critical realism. Tushnet’s account, like all such accounts, avails itself of literary ...
Watch the Front Line Doctors
Norma, Collecting My Thoughts - 14 hours ago
Watch in small batches. This is three hours. https://youtu.be/Mk3mu0S-1Ak These front line doctors are the ones seeing patients; they are being stalked by Big Tech and their employers. The woman chairing the group, Dr. Gold, and introducing speakers has been fired for going against the Biden Party Line. The way the pandemic is being handled is insane, according to the first speaker. If you have cancer, you're not told to go home and live in isolation until you get worse. What we're hearing from CDC/Dr. Fauci is advice from one or two specialties--epidemiology and virology. There...
Epstein Docs: Bill Clinton on ‘Pedo Island’ w/ ‘Young Girls’, FBI Told About Child Rape and Did Nothing
The Free Thought Project, The Free Thought Project - 15 hours ago
[image: epstein]Bombshell accusations are in the release Epstein docs accusing Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Alan Dershowitz of sex crimes. Even Trump received an honorable mention.
Knowledge, Intelligence, Creativity, Wisdom
Unknown, The Conservative Socrates - 15 hours ago
Knowledge is effort. Intelligence is focus. Creativity is instinct. Wisdom is character.
THE BEAM IN HER OWN EYE
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog - 15 hours ago
Peggy Noonan, even though she's no fan of Donald Trump, rejects the call by some Never Trumpers to "burn down" the Republican Party. Now various of [Trump's] foes, in or formerly of his party, want to burn the whole thing down—level the party, salt the earth where it stood, remove Republican senators, replace them with Democrats. This strikes me as another form of nihilism. It’s bloody-minded and not fully responsible.... Many if not most of those calling for burning the whole thing down are labeled “Never Trump,” and a lot of them are characterologically quick to point the finger ...
Russia's New Heavy Flamethrower Battalion May Violate International Law
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *Security, * Calling these weapons “flamethrowers” seems a bit of a misnomer. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *One complication with using thermobaric weapons is international law. While these weapons are not expressly prohibited, Human Rights Watch argues that they are so indiscriminate that they would kill not just soldiers, but any civilians in the target zone. Heavy flamethrower battalions are coming to the Russian army. The goal is to use incendiary weapons – devastating physically and psychologically – to clear enemy troops from cities, bunkers and tunnels...
Deeply Negative Interest Rates
A Political Junkie, Viable Opposition - 15 hours ago
Back in May, Donald Trump has tweeted this: As long as other countries are receiving the benefits of Negative Rates, the USA should also accept the “GIFT”. Big numbers! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2020 ...and with the Federal Reserve pretty much emptying its inventory of monetary policy tools when it did this: ...and with the economy needing some sort of intervention to prevent an even deeper and longer economic contraction, it looks like the Fed will have to use hitherto untested and experimental monetary medicine to get the economy back on its feet once the COV...
Nova Scotia cabinet round-up: Mandatory masks, open borders and more
Jennifer Henderson, Halifax Examiner - 15 hours ago
Premier Stephen McNeil’s cabinet met Thursday and took questions from reporters afterward. Here’s what they talked about: Masks mandatory as of today Health Minister Randy Delorey was asked how his department intends to enforce a new policy requiring most adults and children over age 2 to wear a non-medical mask when they are inside public […]
Rent debt and evictions info & solidarity meeting
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 15 hours ago
Are you in debt to your landlord? Are you worried about eviction? Have you faced housing issues during the pandemic?
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