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Armenia releases footage of downed Azerbaijani helicopter: video

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 11 hours ago

[image: Armenia releases footage of downed Azerbaijani helicopter: video] BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:30 P.M.) – Onn Tuesday, the Armenian Ministry of Defense released a video of the wreckage of a helicopter belonging to the Azerbaijani Air Force in the Karabakh region. Commenting on this video, the Armenian Ministry of Defense spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan stated that the Armenian Igla air defense system shot down two Azerbaijani helicopters. In the video below, the Armenian Ministry of Defense showed the remains of an Azerbaijani helicopter that was shot down in the Karabakh region this m...

Halifax council candidate plagiarized another candidate in response to Examiner questionnaire

Zane Woodford, Halifax Examiner - 11 hours ago

A candidate for Halifax regional council plagiarized a candidate from another district in responding to the Halifax Examiner’s questionnaire. As first reported on Twitter by Frank Magazine, District 7 candidate Craig Roy lifted his response to our question about affordable housing from District 10 candidate Kyle Morton’s website. Here’s a comparison of the two candidates’ […]

Israel not ruling out preemptive strike against Iran: Netanyahu

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 11 hours ago

[image: Israel not ruling out preemptive strike against Iran: Netanyahu] Israel has not ruled out a preemptive strike against Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned during a memorial service on Tuesday for those who fell in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, an Arab-Israeli military standoff. “A preemptive strike is a difficult thing to do. I know that if Iran wants to base itself in the north, we are ready to fight them. This is a direct lesson of the Yom Kippur War”, noted Netanyahu, asserting that they “will do everything in order to protect the State of Israel; we are not ruling o...

Azerbaijan threatens to destroy Armenia’s S-300 missile system

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 12 hours ago

[image: Azerbaijan threatens to destroy Armenia’s S-300 missile system] BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:50 P.M.) – The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry threatened on Tuesday, to destroy Armenia’s S-300 missile systems, which are being transported towards Karabakh. “According to our information, the S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems that protect the airspace of Yerevan have been removed from combat service and are heading towards the occupied territories,” Azerbaijani Defense Ministry spokesman Waqif Darkahli said at a press conference . He added, “We announce that it will face the fate of the Arme...

Biden Promises to Transform Transportation; the Technology Is Not Ready

IER, IER - 12 hours ago

According to Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden’s Clean Energy Plan: “Biden will also transform the energy sources that power… The post Biden Promises to Transform Transportation; the Technology Is Not Ready appeared first on IER.

The Need for Clarity After Schrems II

bbrooker, Lawfare - 12 hours ago

(Claudio Rousselon; CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) On Sept. 28, the U.S. government issued a white paper (available on the U.S. Department of Commerce website) titled “Information on U.S. Privacy Safeguards Relevant to SCCs and Other EU Legal Bases for EU-U.S. Data Transfers After Schrems II.” This document provides detailed information about U.S. privacy standards governing foreign intelligence collection. We released it in order to help maintain the free and lawful flow of commercial and government data from the European Union to the United States. On J...

Iran confirms its air defenses shot down foreign drone in East Azerbaijan

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 12 hours ago

[image: Iran confirms its air defenses shot down foreign drone in East Azerbaijan] BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:30 P.M.) – On Tuesday, the Iranian air defenses shot down a drone near the city of Malakan in the East Azerbaijan province, amid the ongoing tension between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Nagorno Karabakh region. Military sources said on Iranian state television, “The Iranian defenses shot down the enemy drone while it penetrated the country’s airspace in the northwest part of the country in East Azerbaijan province.” The sources did not specify the identity of the drone that was sh...

Egypt launches its 4th sub, becomes 1st Arab nation with submarine corps

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 12 hours ago

[image: Egypt launches its 4th sub, becomes 1st Arab nation with submarine corps] BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:25 P.M.) – The Egyptian Armed Forces announced that the naval forces celebrated the launch of their fourth German-made S-44 model (209/1400) submarine, which will soon join the naval arsenal. The army said that this submarine was built at the arsenal of the “Thyssen Krupp” company in the German city of Kiel. They said that it is the last of four German submarines, three of which have joined the navy according to the specific timetable, as the specialized and technical crews working ...

Turkish F-16 shot down Armenian Su-25 over Armenia: Yerevan

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 12 hours ago

[image: Turkish F-16 shot down Armenian Su-25 over Armenia: Yerevan] BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:00 P.M.) – The Armenian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that a Turkish F-16 fighter shot down an Armenian Su-25, stating that its pilot was killed in the incident. The Armenian Defense said that the Turkish fighter took off from Ganja Airport in the territory of Azerbaijan, and was providing air support for the Azerbaijani army strikes on Armenian sites near the city of Vardins. They added that the Turkish aircraft shot down the Armenian plane over Armenia’s airspace, pointing out that it violat...

Biden ‘Secret Earpiece’ Rumor Sounds a Lot Like False Claims Made About Clinton in 2016

Dan Evon, Snopes.com - 8 hours ago

Snopes cannot predict the future, but we can recognize false claims we have debunked in the past.

So Much for Income Tax Privacy

Jacob G. Hornberger, null - 8 hours ago

[image: undefined] How many times have we been told that the information we send to the Internal Revenue Service in our federal income tax returns is guaranteed to be kept confidential? So much for that myth, as President Trump can now attest. The New York Times somehow secured a copy of Trump’s income tax returns and is excitedly telling the world what they contain. One thing is for sure: If the president of the United States can’t keep his income tax returns private, no one else can either. From the very start of Trump’s quest for the presidency, the mainstream press has been ob...

What We WON'T Hear In Tonight's Debate

Daniel McAdams, null - 8 hours ago

Thrilla in Manila? Hardly. Tonight's presidential debate has many hanging at the edge of their seats, but it's not because they are interested in a serious philosophical discussion about the direction of the United States, a country clearly in crisis. Will Biden show up? Will Trump bring his bombast? How many punches will fly? But the debate will be marked more by what is NOT said by the candidates. Also today, Fauci and CDC Director Redfield declare war on Dr. Scott Atlas. Watch today's Liberty Report:

Philadelphia Firefighters Endorse President Trump – Philadelphia Precincts Block Trump Poll Watchers…

sundance, The Last Refuge - 8 hours ago

Earlier today the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Fire Fighters broke with the International Association of Firefighters and backed President Trump for reelection over Joseph Biden. However, in a repeat of 2008 -where Philly members of the Black … Continue reading →

What’s Going On At Guantanamo Bay Prison?

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 8 hours ago

The interior of an unoccupied communal cellblock is seen at Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. (Reuters) *FOX News:* *Political poison: What’s going on in Guantanamo Bay?* Down to just 40 inmates, the future of Guantanamo Bay could change under a Biden administration. While once front and center of U.S. election campaigns, the politically noxious topic of the 19-year-old Guantanamo Bay prison has made little dent on this year's election cycle. Yet it still remains open, sparsely populated by alleged terrorists at a high cost to the...

Trump Administration Wants To Know How Fast Its Nuclear Weapons In Storage Could Be Pulled Out If The START Treaty Is Over

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 9 hours ago

Marshall Billingslea, special U.S. presidential envoy for arms control, and Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Takeo Mori pose for a photo ahead of their bilateral meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Tuesday. | POOL / VIA AFP-JIJI *Japan Times: **White House wants to know how fast nukes could be pulled out of storage, report says* As talks over extending the last remaining strategic arms control agreement between the U.S. and Russia remain deadlocked, the Trump administration has reportedly asked the military to assess how quickly it could pull nukes out of storage...

Democracy in our Digital Age

JB, Balkinization - 9 hours ago

On Friday, September 25, I participated in a panel on Democracy in our Digital Age sponsored by hosted by the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism and its director and grand impresario, Richard Albert. The speakers included Kate Klonick (St. John's University), Vivek Krishnamurthy (University of Ottawa), and myself. Here is a video of the discussion.

Anticipating the Debate

Larry-Lambert, Virtual Mirage - 10 hours ago

I don’t know how creepy, senile, corrupt old Slow Joe Biden will do on the debate stage. You know that they will pump him full of drugs to keep him alert for 90 minutes. If he just makes it to the end, the donkeys will declare a victory. If the drugs cause him […] The post Anticipating the Debate appeared first on Virtual Mirage.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/29/2020

Lambert Strether, naked capitalism - 10 hours ago

~ Today's Water Cooler ~

Does Bret Stephens' column make any sense?

bob somerby, the daily howler - 10 hours ago

*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2020* *The thinking of one Trump voter: *Does Bret Stephens' column make any sense in today's New York Times? Stephens interviews a New York City woman (he calls her "Chris") who's going to vote for Trump. She was "enthusiastic for Bernie Sanders in 2016," Stephens writes—and not only that, she's a lesbian! Despite all this, she's going to vote for Donald J. Trump! Stephens seems to think that Democrats have something to learn from this particular voter. Personally, we'd like to see Trump voters interviewed much more often. We'd like to see such interviews...

NHS: Issues uncovered

barovsky, The New Dark Age - 10 hours ago

The NHS is being reorganized, but under the radar. Contracts signed, but without scrutiny and NHS staff are working hard to reduce delays, but plans to expand the number of staff could be buried because of the Chancellor's postponed spending review. Some of the issues that must be uncovered, and are in this week's analysis, news and explainers.

Did Obama Get Caught ‘Spying’ on Trump’s 2016 Campaign?

Jessica Lee, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed his predecessor, or unidentified political opponents, "spied on our campaign illegally" numerous times.

The Pharma Loaded U.S. Soldier, Part 2: The Footprints Behind the Military Suicide Epidemic, and The Way Forward

Angela Braden, Children's Health Defense - 10 hours ago

By Pam Long In Part 1 of this series, we explored data related to the apparent risks associated with the suicide rate of military personnel with the realization that it’s not only trauma from combat that contributes to risk, but also the pharmaceutical load on soldiers and specific problematic medications. What is the total load […] The post The Pharma Loaded U.S. Soldier, Part 2: The Footprints Behind the Military Suicide Epidemic, and The Way Forward appeared first on Children's Health Defense.

Report: Bad Day For Julian Assange

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 10 hours ago

Today was the worst day for the defence since the start of the trial, as their expert witnesses failed to cope with the sheer aggression of cross-examination by the US Government and found themselves backing away from maintaining propositions they knew to be true. It was uncomfortable viewing. It was not that the prosecution had in any way changed their very systematic techniques of denigrating and browbeating; in fact the precise prosecution template was once again followed. It goes like this. undermine academic credentials as not precisely relevant humiliate by repeated memory t...

The Sound Of Settled Science

Kate, Small Dead Animals - 10 hours ago

Revisiting the surface stations; A new study published in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing presents clear-sky surface UHI (SUHI) intensities for 497 urbanized areas in the United States by combining remotely-sensed data products with multiple US census-defined urban areas. The SUHI intensity is the difference in surface temperature between the built-up… Continue reading →

Worldwide Grief: Death Toll from Coronavirus Tops 1 Million

AP News, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago

Now, 8-1/2 months after an infection doctors had never seen before claimed its first victims in China, the pandemic’s confirmed death toll has eclipsed 1 million.

“Unusually severe” spring storm brings snow to New Zealand beaches and travel chaos

Robert, Ice Age Now - 10 hours ago

The storm was “very unusual in how widespread the severe weather is” and was a significant weather event, a release from the Met service said. The service described the storm as “the worst of the season” and said it was the result of a low-pressure system moving up the country from Antarctica. The National Institute ... Read more “Unusually severe” spring storm brings snow to New Zealand beaches and travel chaos The post “Unusually severe” spring storm brings snow to New Zealand beaches and travel chaos appeared first on Ice Age Now.

ENERGYCAST: Is carbon capture technology viable?

Jay Dauenhauer, CFACT - 11 hours ago

An advocate for carbon capture states his case. Let's take a listen. The post ENERGYCAST: Is carbon capture technology viable? appeared first on CFACT.

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Robert, Ice Age Now - 11 hours ago

I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw this sign in someone’s yard yesterday. I hope it can also lighten your day. The post appeared first on Ice Age Now.

Margin Of Fraud

Kate, Small Dead Animals - 11 hours ago

BREAKING: @IlhanMN district Ballot Harvester "I still have to pay Al-Shabaab(Al-Qaeda) to leave me alone." "Al-Shabaab(Al-Qaeda) is demanding one thousand dollars from me." "The judges(Election) are getting paid. They are corrupted" #CashForBallots pic.twitter.com/0GWlLuov6t — James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) September 29, 2020

How Will Russia Respond to the U.S.-China Cold War?

Jeffrey Mankoff, The National Interest - 9 hours ago

*Jeffrey Mankoff* *Security, Europe* On the most basic level, the interests of Putin’s Russia are more aligned with those of China than with those of the United States, and the prospect of a deeper and more enduring U.S.-China confrontation will enhance the importance of that entente in both Beijing and Moscow. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s July 23 speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library confirmed that the Trump administration is pivoting to a policy of open confrontation toward China. Describing a struggle for freedom with China’s ruling Communist Party as “the missi...

Kim Jong-Un's Apology: Can It Spark a Diplomatic Breakthrough?

Daniel R. DePetris, The National Interest - 9 hours ago

*Daniel R. DePetris* *Diplomacy, Asia* However unprecedented an apology may be, it will have little effect over the long-term if the two Koreas don’t take the next step. Kim’s statement is a small olive branch, but the opportunity will slip away if the United States doesn’t do its part to facilitate it. It’s not every day North Korea’s Kim Jong-un sends an apology letter. But this is exactly what happened this week after a South Korean official on the high seas was approached by a North Korean naval vessel and killed. “I am deeply sorry that an unexpected and unfortunate thing ha...

America Has a Shameful Double Standard on Human Rights

Amitai Etzioni, The National Interest - 9 hours ago

*Amitai Etzioni* *Security, Asia* The fact that the United States is keen to avoid annoying the Myanmar military, in the hope of getting this nation to join the Indo-Pacific anti-China coalition, should not have stopped the United States and its allies from condemning the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas. The double standard that has long plagued U.S. human-rights policies has changed. It is no longer based on whether a nation is aligned with the communist block that was led by the Soviet Union; now, China and its allies are pilloried, while those that are courted to become part...

Sony’s 65-Inch X900H Series HDTV: Can It Take on OLED or QLED?

Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 9 hours ago

*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Technology, * The new series looks good and comes at a good value. If you’re in the market for an HDTV option that is more off the beaten path—namely not Korean giants Samsung or LG—make sure to do your research on Sony’s 65-Inch X900H Series. This HDTV beauty isn’t one of those much-praised OLED or QLED panels, but you’re still going to be on the receiving end of amazing picture quality, all the while staying under $1,400. For a value-oriented consumer, that is a great trade-off. Boasting true 4K Ultra HD resolution, the X900H Series utilizes a backlighting...

Video Shows Russian S-400 Missile Hitting Its Own Launcher

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 10 hours ago

*Eurasian Times:* *New Viral Video Shows Russian S-400 Missile Hitting Its Own Launcher – Watch Now* The Russian military along with six other militaries have been engaged in intense combat exercises in Russia’s southern military district, named the Kavkaz-2020. However, an interesting video has surfaced over social media, showing the firing of the S-400 Missile Defence System. The video shows the firing of two missiles under an air defence simulation scenario, where the first missile successfully fired and completed its boost phase. While, the problem starts with the second missi...

"Old Three Toes — The Giant Penguin of Clearwater Beach, Florida"

Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 10 hours ago

That's the title of an article at the always interesting Old Salt Blog. It brings us a piece of folklore I'd never heard before. On a morning in February 1948, a local beachcomber was walking the beautiful white sand beach in Clearwater, FL, and was shocked to find large three-toed footprints in the sand coming out of the Gulf of Mexico. The tracks were large, 14 inches long and 11 inches wide, made a deep impression in the sand, and were widely spaced. Whatever made the tracks appeared to be heavy and very large. The tracks went on for close to two miles before returning to the w...

Rankings Find UChicago Best, DePauw Worst Campuses for Free Speech

Arrman Kyaw, Diverse - 12 hours ago

A 2020 list focused on free speech on college campuses found that the University of Chicago ranked highest, followed in sequence by Kansas State University, Texas A&M University, University of California, Los Angeles and Arizona State University, the FIRE reported. The 2020 report titled, “What’s the Climate for Free Speech on America’s College Campuses”? was […]

Georgetown Football Player Wanted for Murder Arrested

Arrman Kyaw, Diverse - 12 hours ago

U.S. Marshals arrested a Georgetown University football player in Georgia after authorities said he was wanted for murder in D.C., FOX 5 reported. Dijon Williams was found and arrested at a private residence in Gwinnett County. He is now in a federal holding facility and a search warrant is being executed on the residence, according […]

James O’Keefe DROPS A MOAB! — Project Veritas Releases EXPLOSIVE Video of Ilhan Omar Connected Harvester EXCHANGING CASH FOR BALLOTS! –VIDEO

j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago

Originally posted on FRINGE CULTURE: News You're Embarrassed to Admit is True: *This is not meant to be anti-Muslim. Arabs are the most misrepresented ethnic and religious demographic on earth. True Muslims actually believe in Jesus as the Messiah & will return with the Mahdi. The prophet Muhammad even comes from a divine bloodline…

Project Veritas Exposes Massive Ballot Harvesting Fraud in Minneapolis

j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago

09/29/2020 ~ Ann Corcoran Watching this video will make you literally want to throw up it is so frightening and disgusting. Frightening because it shows how easy it will be for our government to eventually collapse if the fraud is not stopped and punished immediately, and disgusting because it shows that the ‘new American’ Somalis … Continue reading Project Veritas Exposes Massive Ballot Harvesting Fraud in Minneapolis →

The Election Has Already Been Hijacked

j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago

Originally posted on John W. Whitehead, Constitutional Attorney: “Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.” ― Herbert Marcuse Republicans and Democrats alike fear that the other party will attempt to hijack this election. President Trump is convinced that mail-in ballots are a scam except in Florida, where it’s safe to vote by mail because…

Colorado caught asking illegal aliens, dead people to register to vote

j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago

Originally posted on The Searchlight: As the 2020 presidential election approaches quickly – it’s only six weeks away – the state of Colorado’s Democratic administration has been caught sending postcards to illegal aliens and dead people asking them to vote. Source: Colorado caught asking illegal aliens, dead people to register to vote

Watch Live! Ballot Harvesting And Election Theft: How the Dems Plan To Steal The White House

j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago

Originally posted on KNOWIN: https://www.infowars.com/watch-live-grassroots-lockdown-resistance-rising/

Texas Supreme Court: Biden’s Texas Political Director Accused of Illegal Ballot Harvesting

j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago

September 29, 2020MaddMedic Demo Rats…..Cheating is all they have!!! ― ஜ ۩ Whiskey Tango Texas ۩ ஜ ― Major Scandal Has Implications For The Biden Campaign (Patrick Howley) The Joe Biden campaign’s Texas Political Director has been formally accused of helping to run an illegal ballot harvesting operation, according to two separate affidavits filed Monday … Continue reading Texas Supreme Court: Biden’s Texas Political Director Accused of Illegal Ballot Harvesting →

Ballot Harvesting Scam Exposed

j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago

Originally posted on Call Me Stormy: US Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, is connected to a ballot harvesting scam. It’s a cash for ballots scheme. Project Veritas exposed the dirty business, led by a ballot harvester whose “car is full” of absentee ballots. How many other Democratic Senators and Congressional Representatives are involved in similar schemes?…

Project Veritas Releases Another Ilhan Omar Video Showing Cash for Votes Harvesting Scheme — Nwo Report

j, Wake Up To The Truth - 12 hours ago

Originally posted on Life, Death and all between: https://www.youtube.com/embed/MV7oDl8yDZkfeatureoembed?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Source: Matthew Boyle Project Veritas released another video on Monday night showing a ballot harvester in the district of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) paying cash to people to get their ballots. James O’Keefe, the founder and president of Project Veritas, called the video “an explosive piece…

Lilly Endowment Inc. Awards Vincennes University a $2.5 Million Grant

Dynahlee Padilla, Diverse - 13 hours ago

Vincennes University in Indiana was recently awarded a $2.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help fund various programs according to WTWO News/MyWasbashValley.com. Initially, the grant was created via Charting the Future for Indiana’s Colleges and Universities, an initiative to strengthen higher education attainment and resources across the state. The grant will provide opportunities […]

FLASHBACK: Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer Uncovered Minneapolis Ballot Harvesting Scheme in 2018

j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago

Originally posted on Nwo Report: Loomer discovered the fraud years ago. Source: Shane Trejo Last night, James O’Keefe of Project Veritas released a bombshell video indicating that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) may be leading an illicit ballot harvesting scheme intended to influence the results of the upcoming elections in November. The shocking video can be…

How My Mind Was Changed: Thoughts On the 2020 Election

j, Wake Up To The Truth - 13 hours ago

Originally posted on Musings On The Right: If you clicked on my somewhat purposefully deceptive title in the hopes that I will be voting for your candidate, you will be disappointed. Neither candidate seems fit for power, but I do want to quickly outline how my views have changed on politics since the last election,…

LSU Experiences Record Enrollment Despite COVID-19

Dynahlee Padilla, Diverse - 13 hours ago

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, enrollment at Louisiana State University (LSU) has reached an all-time high for the fall semester, according to The Associated Press. In fact, more than 34,000 students are taking courses via in-person or online through the Baton Rouge campus. The flagship university also broke records for the third-straight year with its freshmen […]

When a flu epidemics wasn't the end of the world: 1995-1996

Luboš Motl, The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago

Covid-19 has been compared to the swine flu, SARS, Hong Kong flu, Spanish flu, and others. I was told about a rather high number of flu fatalities in Czechoslovakia of the early 1980s. But only yesterday, I was reminded about something that I should totally remember but I don't. In 1995-1996, within just seven weeks, 11% of Czechs (over 1.1 million) contracted flu. The number of cases with complications was about 90,000 while 12,000 people died (although some later studies claimed that the number was just 5,000, still high). With Covid-19 in 2020, after six months, 635 Czechs died wi...

An Update On China’s Aircraft Carrier Program

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 10 hours ago

The Jiangnan shipyard showing carrier 003 under assembly. Weibo *Rick Joe, The Diplomat:* *003 and More: An Update on China’s Aircraft Carriers* Over the past year, disparate elements of the Chinese Navy’s carrier development program have continued to progress and come together. As another year passes, additional developments in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) carrier program continue to be sighted and confirmed, in spite of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, geopolitical tensions between the United States and China show no sign of easing. Media inte...

Study identifies second alignment plane of solar system

The Watchers » Latest articles - 10 hours ago

According to a new study published in The Astronomical Journal, comet motions indicate that the solar system has a second alignment plane. The discovery has implications for models of how comets originally formed in the solar system. The study, led by Ariuka...... Read more »

U.S. Marines And Navy Will Be Dependent On Conducting Multiple Missile Strikes In Its New Pacific War Plan

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 10 hours ago

ANGLICO 5 Marines spot a target for USS 'Antietam''s Tomahawk. U.S. Marine Corps *Forbes: **U.S. Marines Lobbing Cruise Missiles—A Preview Of Pacific War* It’s no secret that that Pentagon has a new, island-hopping war plan. One that could help it to roll back Beijing’s land-grabs in the China Seas. On Sept. 20, the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy showed off one tactic that could be critical to the plan. Marines slipped ashore on an uninhabited island near Guam. They picked a target on a military bombing range and relayed the coordinates to a Navy cruiser. Minutes later, a Tomaha...

Rand Paul and Tulsi Gabbard Team Up to Unplug the President’s ‘Internet Kill Switch’

The Free Thought Project, The Free Thought Project - 11 hours ago

[image: internet]The executive branch technically has the authority under a World War II-era amendment of the Communications Act of 1934 to seize control of the internet. That's scary.

U.S. Warship Breaks Navy Record For Longest Stint At Sea

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago

A woman photographs the USS Stout as it sails past the Statue of Liberty during the parade of ships for Fleet Week in New York City on May 20, 2015.Brendan McDermid / Reuters file *NBC: **U.S. missile destroyer ship breaks Navy record for longest stint at sea* The USS Stout reached 208 days at sea Sept. 26 as the Navy has imposed restrictions on port visits to protect sailors from the coronavirus. A U.S. guided missile destroyer ship has broken the record for the longest consecutive number of days at sea for a military surface vessel, the Navy said Tuesday, underscoring the effect...

Researchers solve mysterious storm patterns on Jupiter's south pole

The Watchers » Latest articles - 11 hours ago

Since first spotted by NASA's Juno space probe in 2019, a collection of swirling storms arranged in an unusually geometric pattern has been a mystery to most scientists. A new study may have uncovered how the strange weather forms and why the storms behave...... Read more »

The U.S. Army Has Big Plans for Electronic Warfare

Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 11 hours ago

*Kris Osborn* *Security, * A program helps bring together different options for defending against enemy EW attacks. The Army is working quickly with industry to pursue massive, far-reaching weapons integration with electronic warfare (EW) systems to improve defenses, prevent enemy jamming and identify and disrupt enemy communications. Part of bringing this to fruition is related to ongoing Army work to rapidly improve EW weapons by drawing upon increased artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. One Raytheon effort, developed to align with Army requirements, uses anal...

Onyx Boox Note 2: The Best Big Screened eReader You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Richard Douglas, The National Interest - 11 hours ago

*Richard Douglas* *Technology, Americas* Take a closer look at the design and features of this Onyx Boox Note 2. Onyx has long made a name by providing big-screen devices to people who want to read pages that look too cramped on Kindles and Kobos. The Boox Note2 eReader is a second-generation e-note and it expands upon the original in a variety of significant ways. *Design and Hardware * The Note 2 is a slim, light tablet at 9.84 by 7.0 by 0.27 inches (HWD) and 13.33 ounces. It is black plastic, and the flat-front E Ink screen has a sizable bezel around it. The screen is 10.3-i...

V-280 Is Coming: Get Ready for the Army’s New Air Assault Aircraft

Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 11 hours ago

*Kris Osborn* *Security, Americas* Bell Helicopter’s V-280 Valor, an industry aircraft now being flown by Army pilots as part of an ongoing competitive process through which the service will select its new Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, could soon replace the Army’s Black Hawk helicopter. It flies faster than three hundred knots. Pilots can see through the walls like it is Wonderwoman’s invisible jet. It can network targeting data, control nearby drones from the air and fire a new generation of weapons. It is designed to “hover” and maneuver like a helicopter, with an abilit...

Small and Mobile: The Future of the U.S. Marine Corps is in the Making (Thanks to China)

Caleb Larson, The National Interest - 11 hours ago

*Caleb Larson* *Security, * A new experimental Marine regiment is pioneering a new Marine Corp force design. The threat of an expansionist China—now the world’s largest naval power—is forcing the United States Marine Corps to reevaluate how it conducts business. During the Marine Corps’ Modern Day Marine event, held virtually this year due to the ongoing pandemic, one of the Marine Corps’ top brass explained just what exactly is being done to modernize the Corps for a future fight in the Pacific. *Fortune Favors the Bold* At the center of the USMC’s force redesign is the Hawai...

V-22: This UAV Could Be the Future of the U.S. Marine Corps

Caleb Larson, The National Interest - 11 hours ago

*Caleb Larson* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.bellflight.com/products/bell-v-247] A drone version of the V-22 could help deliver supplies to ships and bases far-flung throughout the Pacific. Bell Textron, the manufacturer of the iconic V-22 Osprey transport tiltrotor, is pitching a new tiltrotor platform to the United States military, and this one would be unmanned. *Tiltrotor Heavyweight* The success of the V-22 platform, in service with the Marine Corps, Air Force, Navy, and the Japan Self-Defense Forces, is something that Bell would no doubt like to replicate. In a...

TAX BOMBSHELL. Biden used tax loophole to avoid paying $500K on $15M income

Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 12 hours ago

*****News Topic 52***** Biden Dodged $500K In Taxes By Exploiting Loophole https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-dodged-500k-taxes-exploiting-loophole

Didn’t take long — Omar under the microscope of the law

Uriel, 'Nox & Friends - 12 hours ago

WHEN JOURNALISM PROPERLY CARRIES OUT THE JOB IT IS CONSTITUTIONALLY SUPPOSED TO DO POSITIVE THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN –##– Police investigate ballot harvesting plot designed to assist Ilhan Omar Law Officer News Investigative News September 29, 2020 MINNEAPOLIS — A police investigation has been launched into the alleged ballot harvesting plot helping progressive “squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar. “ALLEGATIONS OF VOTER FRAUD BEING EVALUATED,” the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) announced on Twitter Monday, hours after President Trump called for an investigation into the “misdeeds.” “Th...

Another Activist’s Kidnapping Offers Opponents of Iraq’s PM Opportunity To Criticize Him

Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago

Sajjad al-Iraqi is the latest activist to be kidnapped (Sajjad al-Iraqi-Facebook) On September 19two young activists Sajjad al-Iraqi and Basim Falaih were attacked by men in two pick-up trucks in Nasiriya, Dhi Qar. Falaih was shot while Sajjad was kidnapped. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi sent the Counter Terror Service to find Iraqi. This event caused a huge amount of controversy. On the one hand demonstrators demanded that Iraqi be released. Local tribes and pro-Iran Hashd factions have used it to criticize the premier. The next day demonstrato...

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 29

Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago

1915 British forces took Kut Suffered 1200 casualties 1917 2nd Battle of Ramadi ended with Ottomans losing city to British 1980 Iraq took Geilan Zarb across from Maysan (Musings On Iraq review *Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts*) 1981 Iran retook Abadan 2nd largest city in Iran 2000-3000 Iranians 600-1500 Iraqis died 5000 Iranian wounded 2500 Iraqis captured Opened road to allow supplies and reinforcements to western Iran Iraqi forces withdrew to Khorramshahr 1986 Heavy Iraqi air strikes on Kharg Island Iran oil terminal (Musings On Iraq interview with autho...

How Does A Virus Win?

News Staff, Science 2.0 blogs - 12 hours ago

To estimate infection rates of viruses like SARS-CoV-2, immunologists use a basic reproduction number, known as R0 (pronounced “R naught”) - an expression of the number of people likely to catch a disease from one contagious person - and a Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) model. Yet as we have seen, those are only telling part of the science story. Coronavirus is in the same family as the common cold and for many COVID-19 will be just like the cold, and can spread like the cold. But when it comes to successful transmission, viruses only win they can optimize their aptitude to surv...

Tuesday Morning Links

Unknown, Accidental Deliberations - 13 hours ago

This and that for your Tuesday reading. - The Economist highlights the public health steps governments need to be taking while we wait for vaccines and therapies to make the spread of COVID-19 a less severe risk. - Pete Evans discusses the stress and anxiety placed on CERB recipients due to the Libs' choices both to let it expire, and to prorogue Parliament rather than putting a reliable alternative in place. And Bryan Eneas talks to Peter Gilmer about the need for Saskatchewan to increase its own contribution to the standard of living for people on social assistance - rather t...

THE ERA WHICH WAS: When DJT paid the AMT!

bob somerby, the daily howler - 13 hours ago

*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2020* *The NYT's sleight of hand: *Walter Cronkite wasn't crazy. Neither was David Brinkley. In 1965, Cronkite anchored the CBS Evening News. Huntley co-anchored NBC's evening news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report. Brinkley's co-anchor was Chet Huntley. He didn't seem to be crazy either. None of these fellows did. In 1963, these network news programs had been expanded from 15 to 30 minutes per night. Essentially, this was all a person could watch when it came to TV news. In short, there wasn't a lot of TV news in 1965. Even better, the people who an...

And, the beat goes on – more Republican defections

Keith, musingsofanoldfart - 14 hours ago

I have written several pieces about the groups of and individual Republicans who have come out against Donald Trump in support of Joe Biden. The Lincoln Project, Republicans for the Rule of Law, and Republican Voters against Trump are a … Continue reading →

Saskatchewan Election Contest: Updated with Correction

Kate, Small Dead Animals - 8 hours ago

Meili at left, Moe at right. The Sask Party holds 46 seats and the opposition NDP has 13. There are also candidates running for the following: Buffalo Party, Progressive Conservatives, Green Party, and Saskatchewan Liberals. Further details at CBC. Update with correction. There are actually 61 seats to distribute, as two were vacant at dissolution.… Continue reading →

US Intensifying Plans To Move Its Main Military Base At Incirlik To Greece

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago

A U.S. Air Force (USAF) C-5 Galaxy Outsize Cargo Transport Aircraft lands at Incirlik air base in Adana, Turkey, August 10, 2015. (Reuters) *Arab News:* *US intensifying plans to move military assets from Incirlik to Greece* * The US is considering Souda Bay on the Greek island of Crete as an alternative to Incirlik * Erdogan has also threatened to kick the US military off Incirlik air base if Congress imposes sanctions on Turkey NEW YORK: The US is exploring plans to relocate some of its important assets from the Incirlik air base in Turkey to Greece. Secretary of State Mike Pomp...

Austria: Thoughts on the legitimacy, sustainability and future of ISDS in times of crisis

bilaterals.org - 11 hours ago

29-Sep-2020 By acknowledging the procedural and substantive weaknesses of ISDS, this article will touch upon proposals for reform.

Vodafone vs India: Who ‘committed' the ‘original sin'?

bilaterals.org - 11 hours ago

29-Sep-2020 In the sorry saga of the Vodafone tax dispute, how did we get here? The original error lies with India's tax laws.

US-China trade: soybeans, corn and cars surge, but Beijing still not close to meeting demands of deal

bilaterals.org - 11 hours ago

29-Sep-2020 Despite the spending spree during the summer months, China is nowhere near meeting the overall targets set out in the phase one trade deal.

Mongolia joins China to become seventh member of Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement

bilaterals.org - 11 hours ago

29-Sep-2020 Mongolia joins founding members Bangladesh, India, Laos, South Korea and Sri Lanka as well as China, its biggest trading partner.

UK and EU pharma call for medicines to be prioritised in Brexit trade talks

bilaterals.org - 11 hours ago

29-Sep-2020 They have both emphasised the need for trade talks to mitigate medicine supply chain disruptions following Brexit.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Wants You to Donate to Naked Capitalism

Yves Smith, naked capitalism - 11 hours ago

We are delighted to have Nassim Nicholas Taleb support our fundraiser.

Wisconsin Student Newspaper Fires Columnist After Writing Column Opposing The Defunding Of Police

Jonathan Turley, null - 11 hours ago

[image: undefined] We have been discussing a crackdown on some campuses against conservative columnists and newspapers, including the firing of a conservative student columnist at Syracuse, the public condemnation of a student columnist at Georgetown, and a campaign against one of the oldest conservative student newspapers in the country at Dartmouth. Now, The Badger Herald, a student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin Madison, has dismissed columnist Tripp Grebe after he wrote a column opposing the defunding of police departments. What was equally disturbing was how the ratio...

A Brief Primer on Corporate Accounting and Taxes

admin, Coyote Blog - 11 hours ago

From reading various comments on Trump's taxes, it is clear to me that many people do not understand even the basics of corporate accounting and taxes. I sometimes forget, as the owner of a medium-size business, that everyone does not live and breath this stuff. The following is meant to illustrate a few concepts I […]

Is US Military Training In Africa Helping Tp Spawn Coups?

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago

CCO Public Domain *Lee J. M. Seymour and Theodore McLauchlin, Phys.org/The Conversation*:* Does U.S. military training incubate coups in Africa? The jury is still out* Military officers overthrew Mali's government in a coup d'état on August 18, 2020. Among the more worrying aspects of the coup is the fact that a number of the officers involved had received foreign training, most notably from the United States. In fact, this was the second time in eight years that US-trained officers in Mali had launched a coup. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one civilian government to a coup ...

Rapper Lil Yachty Arrested for Driving 150 MPH in Ferrari

AP News, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago

Georgia State Patrol arrested rapper Lil Yachty after he was allegedly caught driving more than 150 mph on an Atlanta highway.

Did Biden Promise ‘Fewer Fires, Floods, and Hurricanes’ If Elected?

Madison Dapcevich, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago

In a September 2020 address, Biden called Trump a “climate arsonist” and “climate denier.”

The Children Are Our Future

Kate, Small Dead Animals - 12 hours ago

Unfounded UN Report On Venezuela Used As Regime Change Tool

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago

The United Nations Human Rights Council issued a report* by the Independent Mission to Determine the Facts in Venezuela (Independent Mission), which accuses Venezuela of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment committed since 2014.” The veracity, timing, and political intent of this report is best understood in the context of a campaign led by the U.S. to overthrow Venezuela’s democratically elected government of President Nicolás Maduro and before him of Hugo Chávez. Venezuela is a historically petroleum exporting nation and has consequently suffered from the crash in the internat...

The Next Steps In Eviction Defense

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago

Oregon - Here in Portland, there are signs that the movement for Black lives and the movement for actually affordable housing are increasingly intersecting in all kinds of ways. Among the networks engaged in popular education and resistance organizing efforts around housing issues, you’ll find groups normally focused on the massive problems of killer cops and institutional racism, such as Don’t Shoot PDX. Outside of the home of a family facing foreclosure in North Portland on Mississippi, you’ll find people who have long been involved with the daily protests that have been goin...

Venezuela: Democracy Versus Blockade

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago

On December 6 there will be elections in Venezuela to elect all the deputies to the National Assembly (NA), an event of extraordinary political transcendence. But before going into that subject I will mention the elections that will be held in several Latin American countries in the coming months, all of them are very important in the dispute for our America between the right-wing and the popular forces. On October 18, general elections in Bolivia, where Evo Morales’ MAS is the favorite to win in the first round, but the big question remains whether the same oligarchic and racist ...

Natural Gas Fracking Under Fire In Pennsylvania

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago

In a blistering report on Pennsylvania’s 12-year experience with hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a special statewide grand jury said public health and the environment have suffered and the state’s environmental and health agencies, rather than acting as watchdogs, had a “culture of inadequate oversight.” “When it comes to fracking, Pennsylvania failed,” said Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who convened the Investigating Statewide Grand Jury that listened to scores of witnesses and reports of investigators over two years. The post Natural Gas Fracking Under Fire ...

Assange Faces ‘Torturous’ Months In Tiny Cell If Extradited

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago

The 49-year-old is fighting extradition to the US on charges related to leaks of classified documents allegedly exposing war crimes. Assange’s defence have claimed he is a “high” suicide risk, having already spent 16 months in top security Belmarsh jail in south London. On Monday, the Old Bailey heard from witnesses with experience of the Alexandria Detention Centre in Virginia, Assange’s likely pre-trial destination if he was extradited. The court heard that due to his high profile and his perceived national security risk, he could be placed in an administrative segregation (ad s...

US Accountant Found Guilty In Panama Papers Case

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago

A U.S. accountant who helped American residents evade taxes in a case exposed by the Panama Papers investigation has been sentenced to more than three years in prison. Over a sometimes choppy internet connection on Thursday, federal judge Richard M. Berman in New York sentenced Richard Gaffey, 74, to jail. Gaffey, a Massachusetts-based accountant, previously pleaded guilty to eight crimes, including conspiracy to commit tax evasion and defraud the United States. From 2000 to 2018, prosecutors said, Gaffey worked with others, including lawyers at the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fon...

I Doubt The Tax Returns Will Lose Him Any Votes, But They May Send Him To Prison-- And Wouldn't You Prefer That Anyway?

DownWithTyranny, DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago

*Lawless Zone by Nancy Ohanian* Will the *NY Times* blockbuster from Sunday night matter election-wise. It will matter to some people, but those people have by and large already decided they're not voting for Trump. Maybe there are some Republican businessmen and women who dutifully pay their taxes and will resent Trump enough to sit out election day-- though I wouldn't bet on that being too many. At best the stories that will emanate from him being a tax swindler will knock Trump off his game and keep him rattled and on the defensive. In his Bloomberg News oped yesterday, Trump...

Don’t Underestimate the Power of the Putdown in a Presidential Debate

David Mikkelson, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago

Delivering a comeback can be a potent political weapon, deflecting criticism, hammering home a point and even leaving an opponent speechless.

Christopher Walken Crusades Against Global Corporate Behemoth, Monsanto, in New Film ‘Percy’

Angela Braden, Children's Health Defense - 11 hours ago

By Jeremy Loffredo It’s not everyday Hollywood actors lend their celebrity to criticize corporate behemoths like Monsanto. Yet that’s exactly the case with the upcoming independent film ‘Percy,’ starring Christopher Walken and directed by Clark Johnson. The movie hits theaters Oct. 9 and is based on the true story of a legal battle between the […] The post Christopher Walken Crusades Against Global Corporate Behemoth, Monsanto, in New Film ‘Percy’ appeared first on Children's Health Defense.

World Bank Report: The Covid-19 Pandemic Has Pushed 38 Million Back Into Poverty In East Asia

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago

The World Bank said the East Asia and the Pacific region this year is projected to grow by only 0.9 per cent, the lowest rate since 1967. Photo: Reuters *CNBC:* *East Asia poverty could rise for first time in 20 years due to the pandemic, World Bank says* * The number of people living in poverty in developing East Asian and Pacific countries could increase for the first time in 20 years, a World Bank forecast showed on Monday. * The bank said as many as 38 million more people could fall below below the poverty line this year, including 33 million who would have escaped poverty if...

Papua New Guinea: Bougainville Elects Former Revolutionary Leader as President ahead of Tough Talks on Independence

Global Issues News Headlines - 12 hours ago

CANBERRA, Australia, Sep 29 (IPS) - Ishmael Toroama, a former revolutionary leader and fighter during the decade long civil war which engulfed the remote islands of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the 1990s, has been elected the autonomous region's new President ahead of high-level talks about its political future. Read the full story, “Papua New Guinea: Bougainville Elects Former Revolutionary Leader as President ahead of Tough Talks on Independence”, on globalissues.org →

Kuwait's Ruler Has Passed Away At The Age Of 91

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago

*CNBC:* *Kuwait Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah dies at age 91* * Kuwait’s emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, was the oil-rich country’s leader since 2006. * He had been its top diplomat for 40 years, including during Saddam Hussein’s invasion. Kuwait’s emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, who ruled over his oil-rich country since 2006 and had been its foreign minister for 40 years, including during Saddam Hussein’s invasion, has died. He was 91. He is expected to be succeeded by his 83-year-old half-brother, Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al...

‘Historic’ $20M Settlement Awarded After Cop Put Handcuffed Man in Cruiser, Shot Him 7 Times

Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 12 hours ago

[image: handcuffed]The family of a man who was handcuffed, placed in a cruiser and then murdered by a cop has received a historic $20 million settlement.

Tucker Carlson: Why Amy Coney Barrett drives Democrats "completely insane"...

Adrienne, Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago

* I think we all know why, but it's nice to hear Tucker say it - and we thank him.* Listening to some of the vile things the commie/libtards spew is beyond horrendous. "*What greater thing can you do than raise children*?" ACB Indeed! Don't miss the Project Veritas reports on Ilhan Omar's voter fraud *Part One* *Part Two* And, guess what? It's going on in Houston too. *Biden’s Texas Political Director Implicated in Massive Mail-In Ballot Harvesting Scheme in Harris County* Watch the latest video at foxnews.com

Kuwaiti Ruler Sheikh Sabah Has Died at 91

AP News, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago

In a Middle East replete with elderly rulers, Sheikh Sabah stood out for his efforts at pushing for diplomacy to resolve a bitter dispute between Qatar and other Arab nations that continues to this day.

Atlanta BLM founder arrested for allegedly spending $200K from donations on new house & swag

Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 13 hours ago

*****News Topic 51***** Atlanta BLM Founder Arrested After Spending $200,000 In Donations On House, Entertainment, & Suits. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/atlanta-blm-founder-arrested-after-spending-200000-donations-house-entertainment-suits

Many Superfund Sites Are Dangerously Threatened By Climate Change

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago

Barrett, Texas - Fred Barrett thought he'd wait out Hurricane Harvey at his home in this town outside Houston, founded by his great-grandfather in 1889. He prepared for heavy rain, wind and flooding. But when the murky brown San Jacinto River jumped its banks, flooding Barrett's neighbors and an ominous cluster of four hazardous waste Superfund sites nearby, Barrett worried the catastrophic 2017 storm could fill his community with deadly toxins. The most notorious of the sites, the San Jacinto Waste Pits, was smashed by 16 feet of water that undermined a concrete cap covering the...

Ceremony To Stop A Pipeline

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago

A group of Secwepemc people held a canoe and kayak ceremony Saturday morning in Kamloops in opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project drilling under the Thompson River. The journey began at Adams Lake and the group kayaked and canoed their way to the Mission Flats area for a potluck dinner and games. “Families from our Secwepemc Nation came together for the No TMX Canoe and Kayak Journey today to be in ceremony and offer prayers and protection for our clean water and our wild salmon," says Anushka Nagji, a Secwepemc activist. The post Ceremony To Stop A Pipel...

Harry and Meghan Markle meddle in US elections with bizarre video plea

Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 13 hours ago

*****News Topic 50***** Harry and Meghan Markle’s US election plea ‘may have violated Megxit deal terms’. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/harry-meghan-markles-election-intervention-22749422

Project Veritas Second Shoe Drops – definite Omar connection on video

Uriel, 'Nox & Friends - 13 hours ago

FIRE OMAR then DEPORT or PUT HER IN PRISON! Omar Connected Harvester SEEN Exchanging $200 for General Election Ballot.”We don’t care illegal.” Project Veritas September 18, 2020 . . ENOUGH SAID………………….. –Uriel–

Two Cases of Transverse Myelitis (Serious Neurological Disorder) in Astra Zeneca Covid Vaccine Trials -

Penny, Penny for your thoughts - 14 hours ago

Two previous reports: - Astra Zeneca Covid Vaccine Study Paused After One Serious Illness- Transverse Myelitis - Astra Zeneca Definitely Expedited The Covid Vaccine Review Process As Trials Resume The latest *AstraZeneca, Under Fire for Vaccine Safety, Releases Trial Blueprints* *Experts are concerned that the company has not been more forthcoming about two participants who became seriously ill after getting its experimental vaccine.* *Experts have been particularly concerned about AstraZeneca’s vaccine trials, which began in April in Britain, because of the company...

Don’t Be Fooled: The 2020 Election Has Already Been Decided

John Whitehead, MintPress News - 14 hours ago

Voting booths have already been hijacked by a political elite comprised of Republicans and Democrats who are determined to retain power at all costs. The outcome is a foregone conclusion: the Deep State will win and “we the people” will lose. The post Don’t Be Fooled: The 2020 Election Has Already Been Decided appeared first on MintPress News.

Forget Covid – Bubonic Plague cases in China

Uriel, 'Nox & Friends - 14 hours ago

LET’S IGNORE THE PREHISTORIC MONSTER IN THE ROOM I find it significant that the WHO and the CDC are totally downplaying the spread of Bubonic Plague in China happening now BUT continue to push COVID as the major pandemic killer across the world today. CDC – Plague was first introduced into the United States in 1900. Between 1900 and 2012, 1006 confirmed or probable human plague cases occurred in the United States. Over 80% of United States plague cases have been the bubonic form. In recent decades, an average of 7 human plague cases are reported each year (range: 1-17 … Continue read...

Whining about CERB

Philip Moscovitch, Halifax Examiner - 14 hours ago

News 1. Partial victory in aerial spraying fight Those fighting against aerial herbicide spraying of forests won a victory this year. But how much of a victory was it? In her latest for the Examiner, Joan Baxter looks at the early conclusion to this summer’s spraying program. Baxter notes that of the 43 sites across […]

Coronavirus Global Death Toll Passes 1 Million

zedie, SOMEONE SOMEWHERE - 17 hours ago

Coronavirus Global Death Toll Passes 1 Million https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/coronavirus-global-death-toll-1-million?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bffbbuzzfeed&ref=bffbbuzzfeed

Brown Pelican’s Enormous Pouch Laceration Repaired

Dr. Rebecca Duerr, International Bird Rescue – Every Bird Matters - 1 day ago

Remember Pink the Pelican back several years ago and its horrible pouch laceration? Another Brown Pelican patient has suffered an even worse sliced pouch. On August 30, 2020, a mature adult female Brown Pelican was found near the Ventura harbor in Southern California with an enormous pouch laceration – including both sides of her pouch […]

Russsian Army To Receive A New Combat Outfit And Weapons By The End Of This Year

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago

Russian troops carry the new "Baby Kalashnikov" AK-12 rifle during the Victory Day parade in Moscow. Credit: Sputnik. *National Interest:* *Russian Army to be Equipped With New Weapons by End of Year* The Russian military has also been adopting the Ratnik, “soldier of the future” combat outfit. It utilizes lightweight body armor designed to protect up to 90 percent of a soldier’s body. Despite the fact that there isn’t really all the much of 2020 left on the calendar, there are now claims in Moscow that the 70 percent of the Russian Armed Forces will be equipped with brand-new and...

Saudi Arabia Busts Terror Cell That It Claims Is Backed By Iran

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 13 hours ago

*Al Jazeera:* *Saudi Arabia says it took down ‘terrorist cell’ trained by Iran* Riyadh says it busted a ‘terror cell’ that had received training from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, seizing weapons, explosives and arresting 10 people. Saudi Arabia says it has taken down a “terrorist cell” that had received training from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, arresting 10 people and seizing weapons and explosives, while Tehran says the allegation is a “complete fabrication”. A Saudi spokesman for the presidency of state security said in a statement published on the state-run Saudi Press Agency...

Don't underestimate the power of the putdown in a presidential debate

Chris Lamb, Professor of Journalism, IUPUI, Politics/Election '20 – The Conversation - 13 hours ago

A politician who wields a comeback with skill can use it as both a bludgeon and a shield, damaging the opponent without hurting their own popularity with voters.

Partisan Supreme Court battles are as old as the United States itself

John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College, Politics/Election '20 – The Conversation - 13 hours ago

Many Supreme Court nomination battles depended on whether the president's party also had control of the US Senate.

Why there is no ethical reason not to vote (unless you come down with COVID-19 on Election Day)

Scott Davidson, Professor of Philosophy, West Virginia University, Politics/Election '20 – The Conversation - 13 hours ago

'I don't like the candidates,' 'I don't know enough to make a decision,' 'I don't want to give this election legitimacy' – an ethicist takes on nonvoters.

Assange’s Fifteenth Day At The Old Bailey: Solitary Confinement And Parlous Health Care

Binoy KAMPMARK, OrientalReview.org - 13 hours ago

September 28. Central Criminal Court, London. Throughout the sham process formally known as the Julian Assange extradition trial, prosecutors representing the United States have been adamant: the carceral conditions awaiting him in freedom’s land will be pleasant, accommodating and appropriate. Confronting 17 charges under the US Espionage Act and one […]

Africa Is Losing $89 Billion Per Year Through Tax Evasion And Theft

War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 13 hours ago

*Reuters:* *Illegal money flows from Africa near $90 billion, U.N. study says* GENEVA (Reuters) - Africa is losing nearly $89 billion a year in illicit financial flows such as tax evasion and theft, amounting to more than it receives in development aid, a U.N. study showed on Monday. The estimate, in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) 248-page report, is its most comprehensive to date for Africa. It shows an increasing trend over time and is higher than most previous estimates. The report calls Africa a “net creditor to the world,” echoing economist...

Are we facing higher inflation, or even hyper-inflation, in the near future?

Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 13 hours ago

That's a very serious question. We're in a very difficult economic situation right now in the USA, and one of the consequences might be - not "will be", necessarily, but *might* be - hyper-inflation, as seen in the Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe during the past century. At the very least, a severe bout of inflation is not unlikely, even if it doesn't reach hyper-inflation levels. In an attempt to counter the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic and its (mis)management, the Federal Reserve is printing money (not necessarily on paper, but by creating funds out of nothing in it...

Washington Mom Fights to Get Son Back Who Was Wrongfully Taken Away Due to Her Medical Cannabis Treatment

Brian-Admin, Health Impact News - 14 hours ago

A Washington couple, Sophia Rosas and Sean Kilkenny, of Bremerton, have been fighting for their two boys for the last 2 years. Not knowing how to speak for herself in court, Sophia was allegedly manipulated and coerced by her public defender to do what the CPS social workers at the Washington Department of Children, Family and Youth (DCYF) told her to do. But now Sophia has found her voice, learned how to file her own court documents, and she says since she began representing herself, “Everything is changing so fast!” Prior to firing her attorney, Sophia says that she felt coerced ...

Erdogan risks everything in conflict with Armenia (and Russia) as world condemns Azerbaijan

The Duran, The Duran - 14 hours ago

Via RT (https://www.rt.com/russia/501967-karabakh-conflict-russia-turkey-relations/) Azerbaijan has never forgotten its 1990s humiliation at the hands of Armenia. Now stronger than its sworn enemy, and emboldened by Turkish support, Baku’s assertiveness is creating a headache for Moscow. Russian president Vladimir Putin once complained that communist leader Vladimir Lenin had placed a ‘time bomb’ under Russia. He had in […]

China’s Threat of Force in the Taiwan Strait

RPedrozoGuest, Lawfare - 14 hours ago

A view of Taiwan's Kaohsiung Harbor, which faces the Taiwan Strait. (Flick/Formosa Wandering, https://flic.kr/p/9aCnHR; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) *On Sept. 18 and 19, People’s Liberation Army combat aircraft on 40 occasions intentionally crossed the median line in the Taiwan Strait that separates mainland China from the island of Taiwan. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen immediately condemned the provocation as a “threat of force.”* *The center line in the Taiwan Strait (also known as the median line, middle line or Davis Line, named after Brig. Ge...

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JR, GREENIE WATCH - 14 hours ago

*Is corn ethanol still necessary?* By Rick Manning With the election around the corner, the D.C. swamp is hard at work. Various special interests are trying to make their pet issue look like an election asset or liability. One interest group working overtime is the biofuel lobby. The federal Renewable Fuel Standard – or RFS – is often falsely labeled as a “pro-farmer” energy policy that helps the Heartland. In reality, the RFS has become a tool for lining the pockets of the global agribusiness complex at the expense of real American farmers. It also puts domestically manufactured...

Orwellian Othering

Bryan Caplan, Econlib - 14 hours ago

I recently characterized “diversity and inclusion” as a deeply Orwellian movement – doublethink all the way: Out of all the major political movements on Earth, none is more Orwellian than “social justice.” No other movement is so dedicated to achieving the opposite of what its slogans proclaim – or so aggressive in the warping of language. For […] The post Orwellian Othering appeared first on Econlib.

Democrats hate Obamacare except when they love it: ACB edition

trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 15 hours ago

The current medical system that Americans are living under is Obamacare. Obamacare was passed on a strictly party line vote by Democrats with not one Republican in the House or Senate voting for it. We were told it was the wonder of the ages; that Democrats had finally fixed American healthcare. That was in 2009. What's interesting is that for the entire 2020 campaign Democrats, the same ones who gave us Obamacare, are saying that our current health system, Obamacare, is horrible and must be eliminated immediately. The Democrats who gave us Obamacare, which they now say is a horr...

Joe Biden channeled Trump and avoided taxes by making a Subchapter S corporation

trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 15 hours ago

The NYT is making a huge deal about the fact that Trump uses perfectly legal techniques enshrined in tax law that I'm fairly sure Joe Biden voted for to minimize how much taxes he pays. Given that Bill Clinton used to claim a $2 deduction for every pair of used underwear he donated to charity it's hard to see how any Democrat, like the NYT, can condemn Trump for using the tax law too. Actually since there is no way that Clinton's used underwear was worth $2 in the 1980s Clinton wasn't avoiding taxes by using the law but evading taxes by lying about the value of the underwear. Wh...

Why "pro-choice" people aren't.

trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 15 hours ago

Some abortion advocates will get upset and say pro-lifers are lying when they say that abortion advocates are not "pro-choice" they're pro-abortion. Here are a few reasons why pro-aborts are pro-aborts not "pro-choice" Many pro-aborts either approved of or refused to condemn the forced abortion policy of China where women are forced to have abortions whether they want to or not; no choice for the mother. Many pro-aborts approve of the HHS mandate that requires people who oppose abortion to provide abortion coverage for their employees; no choice for Christians. Many pro-aborts appr...

Watch: Armenia scores direct hit on Azerbaijani drone

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago

[image: Watch: Armenia scores direct hit on Azerbaijani drone] BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:10 P.M.) – The Armenian forces managed to shoot down an Azerbaijani drone that was flying over their positions in the Karabakh region. Footage captured from the area showed the moment that the Armenian missile hit the Azerbaijani drone, causing a powerful explosion over Karabakh. !function(w,d,a){if(!w[a]){var s=d.createElement('script'), x=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];s.type='text/javascript'; s.async=!0;s.src ='//widgets.ad.style/native.js';x.parentNode .insertBefore(s,x);}w[a]=w[a]||function(){...

More than 3,000 mercenaries have left Libya: LNA

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago

[image: More than 3,000 mercenaries have left Libya: LNA] BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:00 P.M.) – The Director of Moral Guidance in the Libyan National Army, Major General Khaled Al-Mahjoub, stated this week that the mercenaries deployed to Libya by Turkey had begun to leave the western region of the country. According to Mahjoub, more than 3,000 mercenaries, mostly Syrian nationals, departed from Libya, but he did not provide any more details regarding his claim. At the same time, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that many Syrian mercenaries had already begun returning to...

Those Rare Decays Of Kaons

Tommaso Dorigo, Science 2.0 blogs - 15 hours ago

Particle Physics deals with the study of the elementary constituents of matter, and the interactions that they withstand. When a non-insider hears of elementary particles and the experiments that study them, probably their mind goes to experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN's giant accelerator of protons and heavy ions that produced the collisions used by the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2012 to discover the Higgs boson. The association with LHC and the Higgs particle is very likely because that discovery took the media by storm when it was announced, and rightly so. read more

Iran allegedly shoots down unknown drone in East Azerbaijan province

News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 16 hours ago

[image: Iran allegedly shoots down unknown drone in East Azerbaijan province] BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:15 P.M.) – The alleged Telegram channel of Iran’s Young Journalist’s Club (YJC) reported that the Islamic Republic’s air defense forces shot down an unknown unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over their East Azerbaijan Province on Tuesday. “The follow-up of the Young Journalists Club shows that the defense of the Iranian Armed Forces shot down an invading drone over Malekan city in the east Azerbaijan province,” the channel reported. The channel posted a photo of the alleged downing of the d...

LG’s 65-inch C9 Series OLED: Pricy But Amazing Picture Quality

Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 13 hours ago

*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Technology, Americas* It is a lot of money, but it gives you all of the great features you could want and will not disappoint. If you’re in the market for a new HDTV and already have done your homework, you’ve likely heard about all of the amazing visual goodness that OLED TVs offer. There is surely no refuting those claims—they’re 100% true. One particular OLED option that checks off all of those top-notch image-quality boxes is LG’s 65-inch C9 Series. And not surprisingly, it doesn’t come cheap, as it is currently being retailed for $2,200. The C9 Series f...

North Korean Military Modernization: How Should America Respond?

Harry J. Kazianis, The National Interest - 13 hours ago

*Harry J. Kazianis* *Security, Asia* North Korea is now a nuclear-armed state that could soon—or already has—the capability to strike the United States with ICBMs. The National Interest and the Center for the National Interest’s Korean Studies Program asked Gordon Chang, Dr. James Holmes and Bruce Bennett in a recent online panel what happens next. North Korea’s seemingly rapid ascent to *de facto* nuclear weapons state with long-range missiles that threaten the U.S. homeland was no accident. Through decades of testing, countless starts and stops, and billions of dollars of r...

North Korea's Ground Forces: A Bloated, Backward and Crippled Mess

Mark Episkopos, The National Interest - 13 hours ago

*Mark Episkopos* *Security, Asia* The DPRK’s army consists of 1.2-1.3 million active personnel with around 6 million more reservists, 6,000 tanks, up to 15,000 artillery pieces and much more. However, this is one really old and backward military force. North Korea’s defense budget occupies a staggering 23% of its GDP, by far the highest proportion of any 21st-century country. The DPRK’s massive military outlays have gone, in no small part, towards sustaining the fourth-largest standing army in the world. There is little question that North Korea’s prodigious ground forces are, an...

At The UN, Pakistan's Imran Khan Went All-In On Human Rights

Syed Ali Zia Jaffery, The National Interest - 13 hours ago

*Syed Ali Zia Jaffery* *Security, Asia* The major chunk of Khan's speech was focused on outlining Pakistan’s foreign policy intentions in relation to Jammu and Kashmir, the Afghan imbroglio, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Last week, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Addressing the UNGA for the second time, Khan delved on a range of issues, including money laundering, climate change, and his government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. However, the major chunk of the speech was focused on laying bare...

Shareholder Capitalism’s Ugly Legacy

Yves Smith, naked capitalism - 14 hours ago

Debunking some of Milton Friedman's destructive ideas, such shareholders, who only have residual claims in a company, ought to come first.

Washington Mom Fights to Get Son Back Who Was Wrongfully Taken Away Due to Her Medical Cannabis Treatment

Brian-Admin, Medical Kidnap - 14 hours ago

A Washington couple, Sophia Rosas and Sean Kilkenny, of Bremerton, have been fighting for their two boys for the last 2 years. Not knowing how to speak for herself in court, Sophia was allegedly manipulated and coerced by her public defender to do what the CPS social workers at the Washington Department of Children, Family and Youth (DCYF) told her to do. But now Sophia has found her voice, learned how to file her own court documents, and she says since she began representing herself, “Everything is changing so fast!” Prior to firing her attorney, Sophia says that she felt coerced ...

It's Here

Owen Gray, Northern Reflections - 14 hours ago

The second COVID wave has arrived in Ontario. And things are not going well. Bruce McArthur writes: On Monday, Ontario recorded a pandemic-record 700 new COVID-19 cases, and the premier said the second wave had arrived, and he announced a plan to hire 3,700 new front-line health-care workers, from, personal support workers to nurses, to deal with a surge. It's not easy, waiting to be saved in Ontario. The alarm bells have been blaring for weeks, and Ontario’s hapless chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams, is still calling 700 cases a “wake-up call” as if it wasn’t ...

AG Agrees to Release Grand Jury Tapes in Breonna Taylor Case

AP News, Snopes.com - 14 hours ago

Kentucky’s attorney general has agreed to release the recordings of the secret grand jury proceeding that considered charges against three officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

Reclaimed Space Sprouts From Uprising’s Embers

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago

Minneapolis, MN – Without waiting for permission, growers began planting vegetables and herbs in an empty lot on Lake Street and 17th Avenue. Their aim was to reclaim the dormant land on behalf of the community who lived nearby, in whatever way they saw fit to put it to use. ‘Lake Street Open Growth Space‘ was the name chosen for this squatted garden. A ‘squat‘ is a reclamation of neglected or unused privately-owned property to transform it into a public commons. In August, we interviewed several volunteer organizers at the Open Growth Space (OGS). The post Reclaimed Space Sprou...

Sheriff & DA Arrested for Destroying Video of Cops Killing Man on ‘LIVE PD’ Over Bright Headlights

Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago

[image: video]The sheriff is accused of destroying video in the investigation into the man's death "with the intent to impair their availability as evidence in the investigation."

Not Just the President, Trump’s Tax Returns Expose How the Political Elite Have Rigged the System

Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago

[image: system]Democrat and Republican elites have both supported and pushed a system which benefits a few while extorting the many.

Climate “emergency” means house arrest

Peter Murphy, CFACT - 14 hours ago

A regional transportation agency in California recently approved a far-reaching societal makeover plan that offers a glimpse into the very near future of America. The post Climate “emergency” means house arrest appeared first on CFACT.

Grand Juror Files Suit To Release Transcript In Breonna Taylor Case

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago

In a motion filed late Monday afternoon, the juror also asks a judge to allow fellow jurors to give up their confidential status if they wish and speak freely about the controversial case that saw one of three Louisville police officers who fired their weapons at Taylor's apartment indicted on felony charges. "The full story and absolute truth of how this matter was handled from beginning to end is now an issue of great public interest and has become a large part of the discussion of public trust throughout the country," Kevin Glogower, the attorney for the juror, wrote in the fil...

Religious Data Platform ‘Targets Vulnerable People’ For Recruitment To Radical Right

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago

Katharina Gellein: Charles was the special adviser to the UK's Select Committee on fake news that started in 2017, and I wanted to make a film about fake news. Charles was the first person to walk through the door in Parliament and sit down and say to the MPs: "Cambridge Analytica." This was when everybody was sort of at the level of, "Oh, isn't Facebook a nice thing and isn't that good?" And then of course, shortly after that, [Cambridge Analytica whistleblower] Chris Wiley came with his evidence and the whole case just blew the doors open. The post Religious Data Platform ‘Targ...

The Vedic View of Infinity

Unknown, The Conservative Socrates - 15 hours ago

The *Brihadaranyaka Upanishad*, which is believed by scholars to have been composed in the eighth or seventh centuries B.C., and is traditionally attributed to the Hindu Vedic philosopher Yajnavalkya, has a discussion of the concept of infinity. Here’s a hymn in which infinity is being discussed: *पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते ।* *पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥* (purnam adah, purnam idam purnat purnam udachyate; purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavasisyate.) Translation: “Fullness is there, fullness is here, fullness from fullness proceeds; when fullness is taken f...

Tens Of Millions More Expected To Lose Employer-Based Insurance

Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago

While for-profit health insurers have reported record-high earnings this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, small companies across the U.S. are reporting difficulty paying premiums for their employees—and tens of millions of workers are expected to lose their employer-based health insurance by the end of the year, even if they keep their jobs. The New York Times reported on Monday that although some small businesses were able to use funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to cover their employees' health benefits, nearly a third of employers reported to Harvard Business ...

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Jenna Orkin, From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 15 hours ago

From Jenna Orkin Barrett pick draws attention to small religious group Ballot harvesting is not illegal in Minnesota, however. A district court in the state denied a Republican motion to stay a temporary injunction against a law that made it illegal for anyone to help more than three people vote. Project Veritas has a history of dubious claims and doctored videos. Wall Street is set to start trading in a new commodity: Water Gallup - Bias in Others' News a Greater Concern Than Bias in Own News Ex-Deutsche Bank Gold Traders Found Guilty in Spoofing Trial Turkey's Erdogan calls on Armen...

Upcoming Global Network Space issues 'Zoom' events

Bruce K. Gagnon, Organizing Notes - 15 hours ago

*Air Force Space Command HQ at Petersen AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado* * Two ZOOM Webinars* *1st Zoom event * Global Network leaders discuss ‘Space domination’ during Keep Space for Peace Week *October 8, 2020 on Zoom* *10am (EST), 3pm (BST), 6pm (KST), 12midnight (AEST)* How can we confront the rapidly increasing militarisation and possible weaponization of space? When the US Space Force was established last year President Trump said that it marked “a big moment” and that there was “going to be a lot of things happening in space. Because space is the world’s newest ...

All Eyes Might Be on The Temple Mount After The UAE-Israel Deal

mosesman, Socio-Economics History Blog - 16 hours ago

All Eyes Might Be on The Temple Mount After The UAE-Israel Deal by DOUGLAS ALTABEF, https://www.jpost.com/ , 26 Sep 2020 Part of the avowed rationale for the accords was to create enhanced access for all Muslims to worship at al-Aqsa Mosque. – When he dedicated the Temple he built on Mount Moriah, King Solomon prayed …

What’s Behind the Fed’s Project to Send Free Money to People Directly

mosesman, Socio-Economics History Blog - 16 hours ago

WOLFSTREET.com A lump-sum payment in digital dollars for all Americans during a recession or to raise inflation as an alternative to QE and negative interest rates, which have failed. end

America's B-1B Bomber Fleet Was Just Massively Updated

Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 14 hours ago

*Peter Suciu* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2001%3Anewsml_RP2DRIOXAVAA&share=true] Integrated Battle Station represents an exciting leap forward in the modernization of the famous bombers. An eight-year-long project to install the Integrated Battle Station (IBS) on the B-1B Lancer fleet has been completed ahead of schedule, the United States Air Force announced. A total of sixty of the late Cold War-era aircraft went through the modification process, which began in late 2012. It was reported to be the largest and most comp...

World War III: How the Swedish Air Force Would Have Survived a Soviet Attack

Caleb Larson, The National Interest - 14 hours ago

*Caleb Larson* *History, Europe* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2014%3Anewsml_GM1EA411LIC01&share=true] The Swedish Air Force designed the Flygbassystem 90 to be unbeatable. Although Sweden does not share a border with Russia, the Scandinavian country is a mere 500 kilometers—or about 330 miles—from Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania. Kaliningrad, also Russia’s westernmost point, remains ice-free in winter and thanks to these two geographical features, the formerly German territory hosts t...

Russia Just Received Another S-400 Air Defense System

Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 14 hours ago

*Peter Suciu* *Security, Europe* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2015%3Anewsml_LR2EB590O4FOE&share=true] This anti-air system is one of the finest ever made and Moscow knows it. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had received the third S-400 Triumf missile air defense system regiment set last week. The Almaz-Antey Air and Space Defense Corporation JSC handed over the missile system ahead of time. “Within the framework of its obligations under the state defense contract, the Almaz-Antey Air and Space Defense Corporation JSC handed ...

Donald Trump Doesn’t Care About Africa

Yohannes Gedamu, The National Interest - 14 hours ago

*Yohannes Gedamu* *Security, Africa* The continent has never been a priority in Trump’s foreign policy agenda. America’s Department of State recently suspended $130 million worth of aid to Ethiopia because of “a lack of progress” on negotiations pertaining to the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the River Nile. According to state department officials, the decision to cut aid came as a result of a direct “guidance” from President Donald Trump. Estimates show that almost half of Ethiopia’s budget is linked to foreign aid. The country depends on economic assist...

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jonjayray, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 14 hours ago

*How ‘Systemic Liberalism’ Failed Public Education in America* Liberalism and its big government underpinnings have become systemic in American culture and institutions, with a profound impact on the nation. In large part, an increasingly biased media, Hollywood, Big Tech, and academia have driven the left’s rise in prominence. Freedom of thought, tolerance, and inclusion, once foundational principles of liberalism, have been replaced by social conditioning and disdain for, and suppression of, opposing views. Public education is a prime example. Impact of Unionization In 1916, t...

Migrating tornadoes found to be more dangerous and deadlier in the Southeast, U.S.

The Watchers » Latest articles - 14 hours ago

Migrating tornadoes that are increasingly occurring in the southeastern United States have been found to be more dangerous and twice as deadly as twisters elsewhere in the country, according to an analysis by the Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E News). A...... Read more »

Australian Daily Wind Power Generation Data – Monday 28th September 2020

TonyfromOz, PA Pundits – International - 15 hours ago

By Anton Lang ~ This Post details the daily wind power generation data for the AEMO coverage area in Australia. For the background information, refer to the Introductory Post at this link. Each image is shown here at a smaller size to fit on the page alongside the data for that day. If you click […]

Increase in frequency of severe cyclones over the North Indian Ocean

The Watchers » Latest articles - 15 hours ago

From 1981 to 2017, statistics show that an average of five cyclones developed over the North Indian Ocean per year. However, recent studies indicate that there has been an increase in the frequency of cyclone formation from 2017 to 2019. As a result, there was also...... Read more »

‘It would be wrong' – Varadkar puts brakes on Mercosur deal

bilaterals.org - 15 hours ago

29-Sep-2020 Ireland's Prime Minister has indicated that he will not be bringing the Mercosur trade agreement for ratification to the Parliament this year or for the foreseeable future.

EU negotiators willing to work on legal agreement with UK - The Times

bilaterals.org - 15 hours ago

29-Sep-2020 European Union negotiators have signaled that they are willing to begin work on a joint legal text of a trade agreement with the UK.

Change afoot at Ontario Cannabis Store with new CEO, board members

Matt Lamers, Marijuana Business Daily - 15 hours ago

The Ontario Cannabis Store has its second interim chief executive in the space of one year, after the province’s exclusive cannabis wholesaler announced the sudden departure of CEO Cal Bricker on Monday. Bricker held one of the most important jobs in the Canadian cannabis industry – a role that will now be filled, at least […] Change afoot at Ontario Cannabis Store with new CEO, board members is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs

Patriot Humor – Blame

PA Pundits - International, PA Pundits – International - 15 hours ago

BlameThink About ItWhat Mind?Cast Your Vote!Taking Credit, Shifting BlameBill ClintonNot AlikeBrett Kavanaugh’s AccuserIf Wishes Were HorsesIllegitimate?An Election YearGet ReadyJoe BidenSigns of the TimesVote RepublicanThe Shadow KnowsCartoons Read more excellent articles at The Patriot Post

COVID-19 vs. Seasonal Influenza - Which is the Bigger Killer?

A Political Junkie, Viable Opposition - 15 hours ago

In a recent posting, I took a brief look at how government data clearly shows the real story behind the COVID-19 pandemic. In this posting, I will take a look at government data, in this case, from Canada, and compare deaths from seasonal influenza (2018 season) to deaths from COVID-19 by age range. Given the penchant of the mainstream media andn its over exuberance to propagate fear, the real, unreported data may surprise you. Here is a graph showing the number of deaths from seasonal influenza and pneumonia as reported by Statistics Canada which you can find at this link: Here...