Saturday, August 08, 2020

8 August - Blogs I'm Following - 4 of 5

10 pm MDT

Out Of The Blue-- The REAL Blue-- Marquita Bradshaw

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
Tennessee is one of the reddest states in the union. Every statewide elected official is a Republican. The state Senate consists of 28 Republicans and 5 Democrats and the state House has 73 Republicans and 26 Dems. Of the 9 members of Congress, there are 7 Republicans, a Democrat representing strongly blue Memphis and a reactionary Blue Dog so far right in Nashville that the Republicans aren't bothering to even run anyone against him. In 2016, Trump beat Hillary 1,517,402 (61.1%) to 867,110 (34.9%), winning 92 of the state's 95 counties. Tennessee is the most recent state to c... more »

Greenland’s Summer-Melt Season looks to be Over, almost a full MONTH ahead of Schedule

Cap Allon at Electroverse - 16 hours ago
Each year, from early-June to August's-end, Greenland's SMB is negative--i.e., the ice sheet is in its summer melt season and loses mass. This year, however, things have played out very differently... The post Greenland’s Summer-Melt Season looks to be Over, almost a full MONTH ahead of Schedule appeared first on Electroverse.

Israeli army chief claims Iranians killed in IDF attack in southern Syria

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago
[image: Israeli army chief claims Iranians killed in IDF attack in southern Syria] BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:00 P.M.) – On Friday evening, the Israeli Chief of Staff, Aviv Kochavi, revealed the nationality of the cell that the Israeli army targeted last week in the occupied Syrian Golan. Israeli media quoted Kochavi, during his meeting with the Magellan unit, as saying that “the cell that the army targeted in the Golan is Iranian,” pointing out that the “Israeli army will continue to work to prevent the establishment of this axis on the northern front. Continue reading Israeli army chief ... more »

Massive fire sweeps through Lebanese mountain region: video

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago
[image: Massive fire sweeps through Lebanese mountain region: video] BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:45 P.M.) – The National News Agency in Lebanon reported on Friday evening that a massive fire broke out in the Jabal Mashgarah area. The agency reported that the army, civil defense and locals rushed to scene of the fire, despite the difficult conditions due to the ruggedness of the area. They added that the fire expanded due to the winds, noting that the flames reached many homes on the outskirts of the town from Jabal Mashgharah near Al-Mansheya neighborhood in Al-Haret Al-Fawqa, in addition to... more »

Trump says if he wins election he will make deals with Iran, North Korean ‘very quickly’

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago
[image: Trump says if he wins election he will make deals with Iran, North Korean ‘very quickly’] BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:00 P.M.) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday, that if he wins the elections, Washington will quickly enter into agreements with Iran and North Korea. “If and when we win, we will make deals with Iran very quickly, we’ll make deals with North Korea very quickly,” Trump said during a press conference in the U.S. state of New Jersey. He added: “If I hadn’t won the 2016 elections, our country would be at war with North Korea now.” Relations between Iran and Ame... more »

Turkey offers to rebuild Beirut Port after explosion

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago
[image: Turkey offers to rebuild Beirut Port after explosion] Late on Tuesday, a powerful explosion took place at the port of Beirut, killing at least 154 people and injuring about 5,000, per the latest estimates. Turkey is ready to help rebuild the port of Beirut, which has been destroyed by a massive blast, Turkish Vice-President Fuat Oktay said. Turkey’s port of Mersin, on the Mediterranean, is ready to assist the port of Beirut, he added. Beirut was severely hit by the massive explosion late on 4 August, with over 150 people killed and some 5,000 others injured, according to th... more »

Russian air defense system deployed to strategic Libyan city: video

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago
[image: Russian air defense system deployed to strategic Libyan city: video] BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:40 A.M.) – A new video widely shared on social media shows a Russian air defense system being moved into a strategic city in Libya. According to the video, the Russian-made Pantsir-S1 system can be seen being transported near the strategic port-city of Sirte, which is where both the Libyan National Army (LNA) and Government of National Accord (GNA) forces have been amassing troops for several weeks. In this instance, however, the Pantsir-S1 system is being deployed by the Libyan Nationa... more »

Arab tribesmen clash with US-backed forces in eastern Syria

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago
[image: Arab tribesmen clash with US-backed forces in eastern Syria] BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:20 A.M.) – Tensions are on the rise in eastern Deir Ezzor, where the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have found themselves as the recipients of attacks launched local Arab tribesmen near the border of Iraq. According to a report last night, the Al-Akidat tribesmen attacked members of the Syrian Democratic Forces near the town of Dheban in eastern Deir Ezzor, resulting in a series of clashes that lasted for a short while. Continue reading Arab tribesmen clash with US-backed forces in... more »

Five hours into Beirut Port investigation, first arrest was ordered

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago
[image: Five hours into Beirut Port investigation, first arrest was ordered] BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:10 A.M.) – The public attorney in Lebanon, Ghassan El-Khoury, ordered the arrest of the Director General of Customs, Badri Daher, against the backdrop of the Beirut Port explosion, which killed dozens and injured thousands. According to the National News Agency, after an investigation that lasted more than five hours concluded, El-Khoury gave the signal to arrest Badri Daher and keep him under investigation, and to pursue investigations into the circumstances of the Beirut Port explosion... more »

Syria commemorates highly-decorated commander of Palestine Liberation Army

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago
[image: Syria commemorates highly-decorated commander of Palestine Liberation Army] BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 A.M.) – A large motorcade carrying the remains of Major General Mohammad Tariq al-Khadra, who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Palestinian Liberation Army, was seen in Damascus on Friday, as it made its way to the final resting spot for the highly-decorated officer. According to a source in Damascus, the funeral procession began at the Tishreen Hospital, where General Khadra was pronounced dead at the age of 79 this week. Continue reading Syria commemorates highly-decorated c... more »

Will Mail-in Voting Work? The New York Primary Has Some Scary Insights

Fred Lucas at The National Interest - 16 hours ago
*Fred Lucas* *Politics, * The New York primary on June 23 had more than 10 times as many absentee ballots cast as in a normal primary, The New York Times reported. The more than 84,000 mail-in ballots that were disqualified in the June 23 primary in New York—where two congressional nominations were just decided this week—underscore prospective problems posed by the universal mail-in voting being called for by liberal politicians for the November elections in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The massive problems with the primary in New York’s 12th Congressional District raise a... more »

Links 8/8/2020

Yves Smith at naked capitalism - 17 hours ago

Medical Experts Wary of "Warp Speed" Coronavirus Vaccine

Ethen Kim Lieser at The National Interest - 17 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Health, Americas* Amid a global rush to find a cure, medical experts are becoming more worried that Food and Drug Administration regulators will likely face enormous political pressure to quickly approve a vaccine. As potential coronavirus vaccines are entering late-stage human trials, scientists and public health officials are now beginning to temper their enthusiasm with caution. The United States’ vaccine initiative, called Operation Warp Speed, has a goal of producing 300 million doses of a safe and effective vaccine by January. And if this endeavor is ac... more »

Will the Air Force Get Lasers for the F-35 Stealth Fighter?

Kris Osborn at The National Interest - 17 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2012%3Anewsml_LM1E85A0K0L01&share=true] It could happen and it would be a game-changer. *Key Point: *It is hard to miniturize lasers, but the work is being one. Once possible, this will let jets shoot down enemy missiles and planes. The Air Force will one day fire high-tech laser weapons from drones and fighter jets to destroy high-value targets, conduct precision strikes and incinerate enemy locations from the sky. The first airborne tests are expected to take place by 2021, Air... more »

The F-35 Can Function as a Long-Range Drone, Aerial Relay Node, Missile Tracker or Surveillance Plane

Kris Osborn at The National Interest - 17 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Security, * In recent years the Pentagon has increasingly been developing the F-35 for a wide swath of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. Tracking ballistic missiles in space, finding incoming anti-ship missiles and offering forward video-datalink images of enemies from safe stand-off distances are all missions perhaps not typically thought of for the F-35. However, in recent years the Pentagon has increasingly been developing the F-35 for a wide swath of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. The idea would be ... more »

Mommy. Simon is home. Alec Baldwin & Robert Kennedy Jr Video Chat About Pediatric Health

Age of Autism at AGE OF AUTISM - 17 hours ago
Here's a trip down memory lane, the kind of road that leads you to back to the future. When I look at Alec Baldwin, I am transported back to the late 90s, sitting on my couch in Doylestown, Pennsylvania watching... more »

Saturday snippet: The atomic bomb, Hiroshima, and choices

Peter at Bayou Renaissance Man - 17 hours ago
I've quoted before from George MacDonald Fraser's magnificent World War II memoir, "Quartered Safe Out Here". It's one of the finest memoirs by a British enlisted man to come out of that conflict, ranking right up there with Eugene Sledge's "With The Old Breed", perhaps the best American enlisted memoir of the war. Fraser's memoir is even more eloquent because he was one of the great raconteurs of British literature after World War II, in journalism, fiction and screenwriting. He was one of the best authors of his generation, and it shows in his retrospective look at his war... more »

Brazilian Magazine: Queiroz Wrote Michelle Bolsonaro 21 Checks Totalling R$72,000

Iolanda Fonseca at The Rio Times - 17 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - According to Crusoé magazine, the payments made by the former adviser to Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, Fabrício Queiroz, starting in 2011, included at least 21 checks for Michelle Bolsonaro, a fact that conflicts with President Bolsonaro's version that Queiroz had paid his wife only one check. The magazine obtained this information […] The post Brazilian Magazine: Queiroz Wrote Michelle Bolsonaro 21 Checks Totalling R$72,000 appeared first on The Rio Times.

After R$100 Million Donation, Brazil Will Have Domestic Covid-19 Vaccine Factory

Richard Mann at The Rio Times - 17 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A consortium of Brazilian companies and foundations will donate R$100 (US$20) million to equip and finance a national Covid-19 vaccine factory. The vaccine to be produced will initially be that developed by Oxford University together with the British pharmaceutical laboratory AstraZeneca. The partnership was closed between Ambev, Americanas, Itaú Unibanco, […] The post After R$100 Million Donation, Brazil Will Have Domestic Covid-19 Vaccine Factory appeared first on The Rio Times.

Paraguayan Prosecutors Request Suspension of Lawsuit Against Ronaldinho Gaucho

Lachlan Williams at The Rio Times - 17 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Paraguay's Prosecutor's Office (MP) has lodged a request for a stay of proceedings against Ronaldinho Gaúcho and his brother, Assis. The two have been in Asunción for five months, accused of the use of forged passports to enter the country. The MP's request is expected to be examined The post Paraguayan Prosecutors Request Suspension of Lawsuit Against Ronaldinho Gaucho appeared first on The Rio Times.

Landslide in Rio’s Mangueira Area Affects 12 Homes

Xiu Ying at The Rio Times - 17 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A landslide in the upper part of the Mangueira favela in the north zone of Rio de Janeiro affected 12 homes in the early hours of August 7th. According to the city government, the Operations Center activated teams from the Civil Defense, Social Assistance, the Geotechnical Institute Foundation (Geo-Rio) and […] The post Landslide in Rio’s Mangueira Area Affects 12 Homes appeared first on The Rio Times.

Brazil is Nearing the 100,000 Reported Death From the Novel Coronavirus (August 7th)

Adele Cardin at The Rio Times - 17 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil is nearing the 100,000 reported deaths from the novel coronavirus. In the past 24 hours, 1,079 deaths have been recorded, bringing the total lives lost to 99,572. The data is from the Ministry of Health. The number of cases is also nearing the three million mark. Over the past […] The post Brazil is Nearing the 100,000 Reported Death From the Novel Coronavirus (August 7th) appeared first on The Rio Times.

Trump’s Cryptic Warning: Now You See Me…Now You Don’t

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 17 hours ago
TruNews was live.8 hrs · Trump’s Cryptic Warning: Now You See Me…Now You Don’t Today on TruNews we discuss the President’s cryptic message about rich unknown enemies threatening his future, and possibly, his survival, and we address the major move by Jerry Falwell Jr. to take an indefinite leave of absence from the helm of …

Tucker Carlson Announces George Floyd Fatally Overdosed with Fentanyl and A Lawsuit Is Brought to Force Release of HCQ to the Public

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 17 hours ago
Tucker Carlson Announces George Floyd Fatally Overdosed with Fentanyl and A Lawsuit Is Brought to Force Release of HCQ to the Public by Paul Craig Roberts, https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ YouTube Censors took down Tucker Carlson’s George Floyd broadcast. Here is a link to the Fox News site with Carlson’s broadcast: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6178223265001?playlist_id=5198073478001#sp=show-clips – A Related Double-Header Today Tucker …

Palestinian Woman Killed by Israeli Fire During West Bank Clash

mosesman at Socio-Economics History Blog - 17 hours ago
Palestinian Woman Killed by Israeli Fire During West Bank Clash by https://www.aljazeera.com/ Palestinian health ministry says Dalia Samudi was in her home when she was hit by a live round. A Palestinian woman has died of a gunshot wound after being shot near the site of clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli troops in the …

Another Day

Larry-Lambert at Virtual Mirage - 18 hours ago
Since Emilie is the Headliner Today – this meme is for her. Mask-Up! No, Fredd, this won’t work with your boxers, but if you’re going to try it at the airport, we don’t want photos. Identify the Stealth Ships This is a worthy challenge for you sharks. The way that I […] The post Another Day appeared first on Virtual Mirage.

When 1,000 Allied Bombers Reached Berlin, Hitler Knew That Nazi Germany Was Lost

Warfare History Network at The National Interest - 18 hours ago
*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* In some sense, what the bombing mission did to Hitler was almost worse than killing him. They drove him underground. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *Debris and rubble were strewn everywhere, smoke emerged from government buildings, and bomb craters holed the streets. Hitler was now forced to move permanently into the Führer Bunker located beneath the garden of the New Reich Chancellery. The Führer would see daylight again on only two occasions for the remaining weeks of his life. He was widely regarded as America’s best pilot, he w... more »

Why Does the MLB Refuse to Cancel its Season Despite Positive Tests?

Norbert Michel, Doug Badger at The National Interest - 18 hours ago
*Norbert Michel, Doug Badger* *Health, * Major League Baseball so far has resisted demands to cancel its season, preserving the hope that reason may yet prevail in our pandemic response. If you’re not convinced that Americans have been sold a distorted view of COVID-19 risk, consider Major League Baseball. Most of the league’s players are among the 46 million Americans between ages 25 and 34. A total of 992 people in this age group have died with COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a mortality rate of 2 per 100,000. The Centers for Disea... more »

The Reason the Worst Civil War Generals All Fought in Texas

Warfare History Network at The National Interest - 18 hours ago
*Warfare History Network* *History, Americas* [image: Wikimedia Commons] Both sides used the Western Theater as dumping grounds. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *Generals like Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman moved east, where their skills would be most useful. Less competent generals moved west, where they could do little strategic damage. Strategically isolated in from the South, geographically isolated from the Far West, and separated from the Union plains states by the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), Texas was a backwater whose ultimate fate depended on t... more »

Benefits of lowering LDL called into question

drinkingwateradvisor at The Drinking Water Advisor - 18 hours ago
DuBroff R, Malhotra A, de Lorgeril M. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine . doi:10.1136/ bmjebm-2020-111413 “Drug treatment to reduce cholesterol to new target levels is now recommended in four moderateto high-risk patient populations: patients who have already sustained a cardiovascular event, adult … Continue reading →

The Sexual left with Michael Voris

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
Sexual evil is a reality. Yet most of the population has been persuaded to give the whole range of sexual variation a pass. Those who object soon get shouted down. The trouble is that sexual issues are truly complex and difficult and demand personal discipline to survive. Today the most unthinkable perversions are been touted as somehow morally acceptable. How this could be continanced is unimaginable. In fact a whole range of private perversions supplied criminally have been outed into public view. We are going to see such evil defined and powerfully demolished as it is c... more »

Soros Infuses $116K Into McCloskey Prosecutor’s PAC Days After Charges Filed

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
Yee! Just when you thought criminal justice in the USA could not get worse, along comes george soros to demonstrate another angle. The whole charade against the govenor was criminally inspired prosecution. Skip any evidence and make it up as you go to gain the upper hand. By the time process catches up you are past the goal posts and can change the rules. Perhaps we shoiuld hang Mr Soros and dream up a charge next year to hang him with. We are confronting true tyranny. *Soros Infuses $116K Into McCloskey Prosecutor’s PAC Days After Charges Filed* *August 4, 2020* *by ... more »

COVID Crazy: Philippines to Require Commuters to Wear Face Shields AND Masks

NEWS WIRE at 21st Century Wire - 18 hours ago
*21WIRE* | Increased restrictions on peoples' rights and freedoms - all under the guise of a 'public health.'

Tucker: ‘America Was a Very Different Country 7 Months Ago’

NEWS WIRE at 21st Century Wire - 18 hours ago
*21WIRE* | Are U.S. leaders now taking cues from communist China?

US Envoy for Iran Brian Hook Steps Down, Replaced by Elliott Abrams

NEWS WIRE at 21st Century Wire - 18 hours ago
*21WIRE* | Judging by Abrams recent exploits in Venezuela, this move is not particularly encouraging for Iran.

Bill Gates warns of “climate disaster”

Peter Murphy at CFACT - 18 hours ago
Gates predicts the “death toll from climate change” will equal the pandemic by 2060. The post Bill Gates warns of “climate disaster” appeared first on CFACT.

American Left Silence on China Helps Lay Foundation for the U.S.’ New Cold War

barovsky at The New Dark Age - 19 hours ago
When it comes to China, Democracy Now, Jacobin, The Nation and others on the imperial-minded US ‘left” are allies of white supremacy.

What Does NATO Have To Do With a Dispute Over Church Property In Montenegro?

Nicholas Labecki at The National Interest - 19 hours ago
*Nicholas Labecki* *Politics, Europe* [image: The clergy and believers of the Serbian Othodox Church rally against a religion law adopted in neighboring Montenegro, in Belgrade, Serbia, January 8, 2020. REUTERS/Marko Djurica] The dispute over the future of Orthodoxy in Montenegro is intertwined with Montenegro’s attempts to formulate closer ties with the West, something that has generated fierce opposition from Russia. *Here's What You Need To Remember:* The fight over Serbian Orthodox Church property is as much about national identity as it is about theology. Historians of the ... more »

Meet Operation Silberfuchs: How Hitler Tried to Cut off Stalin's Murmansk Port

Warfare History Network at The National Interest - 19 hours ago
*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* [image: By Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive (sa-kuva.fi) - Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive (sa-kuva.fi), Copyrighted free use, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51171269] Berlin's failure would let Moscow keep importing badly-needed supplies. *Key Point: *This ice-free port would prove vital to the Soviet war effort. Hitler tried to seize it, but was unable to succeed. As Adolf Hitler began to formulate his grandiose plans for the conquest of the Soviet Union, he considered the far northern operation area little more ... more »

Will Trump's "Space Force" Actually Work?

Peter Suciu at The National Interest - 19 hours ago
*Peter Suciu* *Security, Americas* [image: Wikimedia Commons] A new study by the RAND Corporation suggested that as currently planned the new service could actually be too small to adequately support its mission. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *While perhaps the Space Force mission still needs to come into focus, this is still the early days for the newest branch of the service, and it should be seen as the beginning with a lot more yet to come. "To boldly go where no one has gone before" may have been the motto of TV's *Star Trek*, but for now at least that isn't the missio... more »

The Definition of WWII Courage: Meet the Submarine HMS Upholder

Warfare History Network at The National Interest - 19 hours ago
*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* [image: By Beadell, S J (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer - This is photograph A 18836 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2356027] This spunky submarine did its bit for the Royal Navy to put an end to Hitler's plans. *Key Point: *This submarine helped as best it could. Unfortunately, despite the valour of its crew, it was lost with all hands. She was a tiny vessel, not really designed for the dangers and hardships of war in far pl... more »

The US Shouldn't Be Outraged that Russia Is Probing Its Airspace

David Axe at The National Interest - 19 hours ago
*David Axe* *Politics, Eurasia* [image: Reuters] The next time a Russian bomber appears near the U.S. coast, remember that American bombers are just as likely to appear off the Russian coast. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *Mutual displays of aerial might by nuclear-capable warplanes is a routine, if chilling, fact of life for the United States and Russia. Six Russian Tu-95 heavy bombers and several Russian Su-35 fighters probed U.S. air-defenses on May 20 and May 21, 2019, prolonging a period of aerial tension between the Moscow and Washington. U.S. Air Force F-22 stealth ... more »

Trump Lame Duck Bodes Well For International Security

M. K. BHADRAKUMAR at OrientalReview.org - 19 hours ago
The commencement of the lame duck period of the Donald Trump presidency is marked by the departure of two high-ranking officials of the US state department in the last two days. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a surprise announcement on Thursday that the US Special Representative for Iran Brian […]

Larry Wilkerson: The Danger of War With China is Real and Insane

Yves Smith at naked capitalism - 20 hours ago
Col. Larry Wilkerson explains that China and the U.S. must work together on the climate crisis, but the militaries and security states on both sides make that impossible.

Each Moment A Stepping Stone - A Quotation by M.N. Hopkins

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago
*Each moment a stepping stone, each moment a cure, in each moment you allow yourself this Gift of Grace to Man to enter into your being. You weaken the grip of ego and experience freedom through touching heart to Heart.* *© **M.N. Hopkins* *To read more of my poems & quotations, please click on the link below:* *Poems & Quotations by M.N. Hopkins* *or visit:* *Pinterest*

Armenian Su-25 jet flew ‘within striking distance’ of Azerbaijani forces: Russian media

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 20 hours ago
[image: Armenian Su-25 jet flew ‘within striking distance’ of Azerbaijani forces: Russian media] BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 A.M.) – The Armenian Air Force deployed one of their fighter jets to an area where the Azerbaijani military was present along the border recently, the Russian publication, Avia.Pro, reported on Friday. According to the Russian publication, the Armenian Air Force deployed its Su-25 jet within striking distance of the Azerbaijani forces, following an attack by the latter on Armenian drone within its airspace. “According to sources, the reason for raising the combat a... more »

Russian Iskander missiles ‘crush’ enemy defenses: video

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 20 hours ago
[image: Russian Iskander missiles ‘crush’ enemy defenses: video] BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:50 A.M.) – The Russian channel “Zvezda” published a video of the launch of “Iskander-M” missiles during a special operational exercise in the Kapustin Yar training ground in Astrakhan province. The footage shows the preparation of the system’s crews for firing, as well as the firing of a missile at the virtual enemy targets. During the exercise, the crew trained to change the position of the systems to combat readiness. Continue reading Russian Iskander missiles ‘crush’ enemy defenses: video at AMN ... more »

Russian Su-35 jets scramble to intercept US strategic bomber

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 20 hours ago
[image: Russian Su-35 jets scramble to intercept US strategic bomber] BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:40 A.M.) – The Russian National Defense Monitoring Center announced on Friday, that three Russian Su-35 fighters intercepted a U.S. strategic bomber over the waters of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk in the western Pacific. The statement read: “Three Sukhoi (35S) fighters of the Air Defense Forces of the Eastern Military Region took off alternately, in order to intercept the aircraft.” The statement said that Russian combat aircraft “have identified the aircraft as an American-made B-1B bomber belonging t... more »

Hezbollah leader denies group had any weapons at Beirut Port

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 20 hours ago
[image: Hezbollah leader denies group had any weapons at Beirut Port] BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:30 A.M.) – The General-Secretary of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, denied in a televised statement on Friday, that his organization had any weapons at the Port of Beirut, against the background of the big explosion that occurred last Tuesday. Nasrallah said that Hezbollah does not have any weapons at the Port of Beirut, ‘categorically’ denying that his party has any “weapons, rockets, guns, bombs, bullets or a nitrate warehouse.” Regarding the allegations of some media outlets that the part... more »

Taiwan deploys F-16 jets with anti-ship missiles amid China’s island invasion exercise

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 20 hours ago
[image: Taiwan deploys F-16 jets with anti-ship missiles amid China’s island invasion exercise] Taiwan’s Republic of China Air Force launched two multirole F-16 fighters fitted with anti-ship missiles from Hualien Air Force Base this week following reports that forces from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would be holding drills simulating the capture of the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands, which Beijing calls the Dongsha Islands. The Dongsha Islands are located in the northern part of the South China Sea, a body of water which contains many contested islands and reefs c... more »

The Daily Brief 2020-08-07

News Desk at AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 20 hours ago
[image: The Daily Brief 2020-08-07] This is a summary of *21* AMN articles on the following subjects: *Iran, US, France, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Idlib, Syria, Turkey, Russia, , Aoun, Beirut, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Gaddafi, Libya, Cyprus, Aleppo, China, Euphrates, Gaza, Palestine, Macron, Bolton, Trump*. Categories covered in this brief: Iran, Lebanon, Syria, World-News, North-Africa, Turkey, Middleeast, Palestine Let us know how you like this brief in the comments below. — The AMN Live Team Table of Contents - Elliott Abrams named special envoy to Iran despite role in Iran-Contra ... more »

Mendacious Media Enables Climate Alarmism

Hifast at Climate Collections - 20 hours ago
Originally posted on PA Pundits - International: By Peter Murphy ~ I have been a news junkie since high school. Media bias favoring left-of-center public policies and politicians is nothing new, yet this 40-year-plus reality never gets shopworn. The flagrancy of skewed news coverage to favor one political agenda and oppose another is worse than…

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