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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- October 26, 2020
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 6 hours ago
*Image:* Pennsylvania National Guard (Photo by Lt. Col. Angela King-Sweigart) *NPR:* *How Police, National Guard And Military Are Preparing For Election Day Tensions* Nov. 3 promises to be an Election Day unlike any other, and public safety entities say they're preparing for tensions and the possibility of violence. Poll workers are usually the first line of defense in case of disputes between voters, though they may be backed up by private security guards. Some local election authorities say they'll be adding guards, and Washington state's King County says it will post guard...
The missing COVID virus—answering critics’ objections
Shalom, From the Trenches World Report - 7 hours ago
Jon Rappoport For months, I’ve been providing evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not been proven to exist. Several recent objections to my analysis have... The post The missing COVID virus—answering critics’ objections appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Oklahoma State University Renames Two Buildings After First Black Student
Arrman Kyaw, Diverse - 7 hours ago
Oklahoma State University has renamed two buildings on its Stillwater campus after civil rights pioneer Nancy Randolph Davis, the school’s first Black student, ABC 8 News reported. The OSU Board of Regents gave the approval Friday to rename its Human Sciences and Human Sciences West buildings to Nancy Randolph Davis and Nancy Randolph Davis West. […]
The Tory Attack on Unionlearn
Phil, All That Is Solid ... - 7 hours ago
We're in the middle of a pandemic. Jobs are evaporating and many won't be coming back once a semblance of normality resumes. With millions out of work, a lot of people are looking at retraining to switch careers. In any normal country, the tertiary education sector would be there to provide new skills packages and courses to help manage this transition. Unfortunately, this isn't our lot. We live in Tory Britain. Unionlearn receives £11m/year from the government for widening access to retraining and education opportunities via trade unions. And by any measure, the scheme is an amazi...
A very spiritual Sunday
Norma, Collecting My Thoughts - 5 hours ago
Yesterday I attended two different church services, and one political gathering that opened with prayer and closed with the Doxology. I was so tired I went to bed at 8 p.m. and slept until 4 a.m. That's rare for me. I started with the 7:30 Mass at St. Andrew about 2 miles away. I enjoyed the beautiful music, all the scripture--Psalm, Epistle, Gospel, the Nicene creed, and The Lord's Prayer. I don't remember what the Homily was about--they are usually quite short. Then at 9:30 I went to Grace Fellowship which is about a mile north of our home, on the same street. Very friend...
Beatrice Rangel: Is Bolivia Treading a New Path to Democracy?
Latin American Herald Tribune - 5 hours ago
After correctly predicting the outcome of Bolivia’s presidential election last week, former Venezuelan Minister of Ministers Beatrice Rangel tells us what lies ahead for the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
Private Equity's Boogeyman?
Leo Kolivakis, Pension Pulse - 5 hours ago
Jon Foley of Reuters reports that Joe Biden is private equity’s tax boogeyman: Private equity’s recipe for creating riches has two main ingredients: debt and tax perks. Joe Biden wants to turn the second one into a fond memory. If the Democrat becomes U.S. president after the election on Nov. 3, his tax plans could undermine buyout barons’ business model and pit shareholders, clients and employees against one another. *The Carry Trade * *At the heart of Biden’s assault on companies like Blackstone and KKR is capital gains tax. The levy on profit from selling assets is currently l...
Widely cited COVID-19-masks paper under scrutiny for inaccurate stat
Ivan Oransky, Retraction Watch - 6 hours ago
You probably read a story or heard a news report over the past few days saying that if nearly all Americans wore masks to prevent COVID-19 spread, 130,000 lives could be saved by the end of February. That’s what a paper published on Friday says. But it turns out that figure sounds twice as good … Continue reading Widely cited COVID-19-masks paper under scrutiny for inaccurate stat
L'Inde et les Philippines entament des négociations sur un traité d'investissement
bilaterals.org - 6 hours ago
26-Oct-2020 L'Inde et les Philippines ont entamé des négociations sur un nouveau traité bilatéral d'investissement alors qu'il y a eu une reprise récente de l'engagement économique.
India, Philippines negotiate on bilateral investment deal
bilaterals.org - 6 hours ago
26-Oct-2020 India and the Philippines have begun negotiations on a bilateral investment agreement as they want to further boost their economic ties.
Invasion du marché tunisien par les produits turcs….jusqu'à quand ?
bilaterals.org - 6 hours ago
26-Oct-2020 Les appels se sont multipliés de la part des investisseurs et des organisations nationales à l'Etat pour qu'il révise les termes de l'accord de libre-échange avec la Turquie.
Jersey's BIT with the UAE and reflections on investment treaty practice in non-sovereign autonomous regions
bilaterals.org - 6 hours ago
26-Oct-2020 Most recently, Jersey has joined Hong Kong as another non-sovereign entity that negotiates its own BITs. Jersey is set to sign its first BIT with the UAE later this year.
Séoul et Pékin discuteront d'étendre le champs de leur ALE bilatéral
bilaterals.org - 6 hours ago
26-Oct-2020 La Corée du Sud et la Chine ont débuté leur neuvième série de négociations afin de renforcer les liens dans les secteurs du service et des investissements.
Why India should challenge the Vodafone-India BIT award
bilaterals.org - 6 hours ago
26-Oct-2020 The scope of consent to arbitration is an important issue that needs to be finally settled - not least because it could have multi-billion dollar implications for India in respect of other cases involving challenges to India's taxation measures by foreign investors.
Coronavirus Deaths Are Rising Again in the US, As Feared
AP News, Snopes.com - 6 hours ago
Cases are climbing in practically every state, despite assurances from President Donald Trump that “we're rounding the turn, we're doing great.
COVID: An Extraordinary Crisis, but Ordinary Political Patterns
Josh Busby, Duck of Minerva - 6 hours ago
This is a guest post from Tana Johnson, an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her publications include the book Organizational Progeny: Why Governments Are Losing Control over the Proliferating Structures of Global Governance. COVID-19, which disregards national borders and threatens all countries, is a “problem without a […]
A Flesh-Eating Parasite is Making its Way to North America Thanks to Dogs
Victoria Wagner, Christopher Fernandez-Prada, Martin Olivier, The National Interest - 6 hours ago
*Victoria Wagner, Christopher Fernandez-Prada, Martin Olivier* *Public Health, North America* Recently, veterinarians in the U.S. and Canada have been detecting Leishmania in imported dogs: the disease has been detected in dogs in 18 states and two provinces. Our laboratory received reports of at least 10 in Québec within the span of a year. Soon after, we were presented with a case ourselves: a dog imported with suspected “fight wounds” later diagnosed to be Leishmania. *Leishmania* is a flesh-eating parasite that affects millions of people each year, in 98 countries and territo...
American Protests Can Find Inspiration in the Former Yugoslavia
Keith Brown, The National Interest - 6 hours ago
*Keith Brown* *Politics, Americas* For defenders of democracy, Yugoslavia is a reminder of the power of simple, direct questions to expose authoritarianism. Americans protesting police violence may find inspiration in the activism of Macedonian citizens in the last years of Communist rule in Yugoslavia. In August 1987, Communist party leaders imposed, without local input, a major infrastructure project on the village of Vevcani: to redirect water from its springs to other settlements. The villagers saw the lack of consultation as a betrayal. They also viewed the loss of control o...
How to Fight Domestic Abuse During the Coronavirus Lockdown
Eileen Walsh, The National Interest - 6 hours ago
*Eileen Walsh* *Public Health, World* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC2DQH90R5DP&share=true] The lockdowns have taken a terrible toll in more than one way. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage on across the US and the world. Yet significant questions remain, not only about finding a cure, but about finding relief from the problems exacerbated by the reaction to COVID. We know lockdowns have resulted in serious negative consequences — jobs lost, marriages destroyed, children denied valuable socialization and education. But for ...
Hunting Rifles and Guns: Which Is the Best?
Kyle Mizokami, The National Interest - 6 hours ago
*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2015%3Anewsml_GF10000214058&share=true] These are pretty good and they are well-reviewed by gun owners. *Key point: *These sporting rifles have many different options, but also come with some restictions. Here are some of the best out there. The field of modern sporting rifles—semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazines—has exploded in popularity over the past decade. The expiration of the Federal 1994–2004 Assault Weapons Ban and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fueled an i...
New Discoveries about This Protein Could Speed COVID-19 Vaccine Research
Rajesh Khanna, Aubin Moutal, The National Interest - 6 hours ago
*Rajesh Khanna, Aubin Moutal* *Coronavirus, World* COVID-19 has crippled health care systems and economies worldwide. Extraordinary efforts are underway to develop vaccines and other therapies to combat this virus. But for these efforts to succeed, understanding how the virus enters cells is critical. When it comes to how the coronavirus invades a cell, it takes three to tango. The dance began with the ACE2 receptor, a protein on human cells that allows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to enter and infect the cell. But now enter a new dance partner – another protein –...
History Proves Counting Donald Trump Out Is a Big Mistake
Aram Bakshian Jr., The National Interest - 6 hours ago
*Aram Bakshian Jr.* *Donald Trump, Americas* There are polls pointing in every direction of the compass, but the current trend in many has Trump closing the gap or inching into the lead in crucial swing states. History seldom repeats itself verbatim. But it often offers variations on a theme. Consider the case of “The Buffoon versus The Man with the Resume.” I refer to a presidential campaign in which a crude, controversial and widely disliked incumbent president faced off against an experienced challenger with a long record of public service and a cozy relationship with the coa...
Tyler Cowen Doubles Down
David Henderson, Econlib - 7 hours ago
I criticized (here and here) a recent article that Tyler Cowen wrote in Bloomberg about COVID-19 and lockdowns. Last week he doubled down by raising the issue of the elderly. The title fits his theme, is “Yes, Covid-19 Is More Serious for the Elderly. So What?” Cowen starts with an analogy to 9/11. (Everything in the […] The post Tyler Cowen Doubles Down appeared first on Econlib.
Bizarre Fruit Found in the Midwest is the Strongest Against Cancer Cells on Two Continents, Study Finds
Nick Meyer, AltHealthWorks.com - 9 hours ago
Tropical fruits provide some of the best nutrition and disease-fighting power of any foods on Earth, but if you live in the Midwestern part of the United States or other less-than-tropical areas, you probably have only eaten them through shipments from out-of-state. But there’s at least one lesser known tropical-style fruit that may be growing in your backyard right now, even if you live in a traditionally colder climate. The Paw Paw fruit is not very well known among the mainstream, but people have enjoyed it, and the myriad health benefits it provides, for many decades. Also calle...
Navajo elderly turned away in cold, waiting for hardship applications
Unknown, CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago
Nenahnezad, New Mexico Chapter House TodayThrowing peanuts at Navajo elderly is demeaningBy Brenda NorrellCensored NewsNavajo elderly waiting in the cold today found out that the Navajo chapters only received 25 applications for hardship assistance or less. Some chapters received no applications and disabled elderly are being turned away.The Navajo Nation had promised that today was the day for
Why America First Is Here To Stay, Even if Donald Trump Is Defeated
Michael Lind, The National Interest - 6 hours ago
*Michael Lind* *Donald Trump, * Whether or not this is Donald Trump’s last year as president, the near-certainty of new episodes of reckless overreach by American foreign policymakers means that is not the last the country has seen of his America First policy. The extent to which White nationalist identity politics has informed Donald Trump’s America First nationalism can be debated; while it has played some part its role has been greatly exaggerated, as the slowly increasing Republican share of the black and Hispanic vote in 2016 and 2018 and shrinking share of the White vote s...
Twitter Reveals Further Election Misinformation Measures
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 6 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Twitter, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2016%3Anewsml_S1AEUIXLWVAB&share=true] Will these measures work or only make things worse? Major social media platforms, especially Twitter and Facebook, have been heavily criticized over the last four years for not doing enough to stop misinformation during the 2016 election. In the 2020 election, Twitter, at least, has been doing quite a lot, although observers differ on whether or not it’s doing the right thing. First, Twitter took steps to eliminate what’s known as “copy pa...
Can Cable and Satellite Companies Make Peace with Cord Cutting?
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 6 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Technology, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2014%3Anewsml_GM1EA5J0G4201&share=true] If companies accept the inevitable, perhaps they can prepare and shift their strategies to survive. For the last several years, trends have had customers of cable TV dropping that service, in exchange for paying only for Internet and using streaming services and other alternative means to enjoy entertainment. And with the coronavirus pandemic, those trends have accelerated, with more people staying home, and choosing to no longer depen...
Russia's YAK-38 Forger Was One Revolutionary Fighter Jet
Mark Episkopos, The National Interest - 6 hours ago
*Mark Episkopos* *Russia, * Just for the wrong reasons. One of the most innovative fighters of its time, the Yak-38 (NATO reporting name “Forger”) was meant to mark a new chapter in Soviet naval doctrine. Instead, it succeeded only in exposing the crippling limitations of early VTOL aircraft technology. In the decades following the Second World War, Soviet naval strategists took an increasing interest in aircraft carriers as a tool of maritime power projection and forward deployment. But the Soviet Union, much unlike its U.S. counterpart, was a land power; as such, the Soviet N...
South Korea Discovers No Evidence of Flu Vaccine’s Role in Reported Deaths
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 6 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Flu, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2009%3Anewsml_GM1E5AR1DP301&share=true] This is good news as flu season hits the country. Despite fifty-nine people reportedly dying after receiving a flu shot in South Korea, health officials there say the vaccinations will continue as scheduled because no link was found between the vaccine and fatalities. However, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) has said that a separate investigation will be launched to take a closer look at thirteen of the fifty-nine deaths....
Did Dem Voters Receive ‘Vote for Trump or Else’ Emails Linked to Overseas Servers?
Madison Dapcevich, Snopes.com - 7 hours ago
The 2020 presidential election was rife with misinformation campaigns aimed at increasing voter distrust.
Third Stop – Battleground Pennsylvania: President Trump Make America Great Again Rally – Martinsburg, PA – 4:30pm EDT Livestreams..
sundance, The Last Refuge - 7 hours ago
The third stop of President Trump’s march on Pennsylvania takes place today as our president holds a Make America Great Again Rally at Altoona-Blair County Airport in Martinsburg, PA. Anticipated start time is 4:30pm EDT [Livestream Links Below] Trump Campaign … Continue reading →
Post-election 2020: Two studies say all hell to break loose
Uriel, 'Nox & Friends - 7 hours ago
My son brought the information below to my attention. First, because it was a look at what might be happening in the near future. Second, because it provided a detailed sort of game plan the LEFT Socialist will be employing at and after the General Election. PAY ATTENTION. I just posted the companion article that goes more into detail on the 79 Days Report. –##– Post-election 2020: Two studies say all hell to break loose American Thinker Bill Livingstone Blog October 26, 2020 Two recent reports, when combined, paint a dark pathway for America in the coming weeks, a nation … Continue ...
Boeing Loyal Wingman Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Performs First Taxi Test
Stefano D'Urso, The Aviationist - 8 hours ago
The Artificial Intelligence-powered Loyal Wingman Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Royal Australian Air Force will be also independent from runways. Boeing Australia recently announced that the Loyal Wingman unmanned aircraft developed for the Royal Australian [...] The post Boeing Loyal Wingman Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Performs First Taxi Test appeared first on The Aviationist.
Are the ‘World’s Spookiest Mushrooms’ Real?
Dan Evon, Snopes.com - 8 hours ago
We're not sure how to objectively rate a mushroom's spookiness level, but we can verify the authenticity of these images.
Trump’s poll numbers rise yet again
Robert, Ice Age Now - 8 hours ago
Approval ratings up. White House Watch Survey up., Florida poll numbers up. It may have to do with The Biden Family Green New Swindle Deal. Monday, October 26, 2020 Today’s Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, sponsored by Liberty Nation, Conservative News Where Truth Matters, shows that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job ... Read more Trump’s poll numbers rise yet again The post Trump’s poll numbers rise yet again appeared first on Ice Age Now.
No, Chick-fil-A Isn’t Giving Away Gift Baskets
Bethania Palma, Snopes.com - 8 hours ago
A post circulating on Facebook falsely offers a Chick-fil-A gift basket.
Did Biden ‘Admit’ to Voter Fraud?
Dan MacGuill, Snopes.com - 9 hours ago
Was the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee caught red-handed confessing to large-scale voter fraud less than two weeks before Election Day? Hardly.
Scientists Remove 98 ‘Murder Hornets’ in Washington State
AP News, Snopes.com - 9 hours ago
A small group of Asian giant hornets can kill an entire honey bee hive in a matter of hours.
And the Award for the BIGGEST COVID-19 MEDIA LIAR GOES TO......CTV [owned by the Bronfmans]
greencrow, Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 9 hours ago
*World Class Liars - CTV "News"* Can *YOU* count the lies? I will number them in *RED* below: From yesterday's CTV News by: Brooklyn Neustaeter, CTVNews.ca Writer @bneustaeter Contact Published Sunday, October 25, 2020 1:4Thanksgiving, fewer restrictions contributing to Canada's surge in COVID-19 cases, experts say TORONTO -- Experts say there are a variety of factors contributing to Canada's recent surge in record breaking COVID-19 cases including Thanksgiving celebrations, *(1)* fewer restrictions *(2)* and increased testing capacity.*(3)* Dr. Matthew Oughton, an infectious di...
Azerbaijani Army captures town in southern Karabakh
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 9 hours ago
[image: Azerbaijani Army captures town in southern Karabakh] BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:00 P.M.) – The Armenian Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that the Azerbaijani Army captured a town inside the southern part of the Karabakh region last night. According to the Armenian Minister of Defense, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, the Azerbaijani Army captured the town of Qubatlu after clashing with the Artsakh Defense Army (ADA) on Sunday night. “Yes, the enemy captured Qubatlu last night,” Hovhannisyan said in response to a question about the situation in Karabakh. Continue reading Azerbaijani Arm...
Armenia is ready to compromise but won’t surrender: PM
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 10 hours ago
[image: Armenia is ready to compromise but won’t surrender: PM] Armenia is ready to make concessions for the sake of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict but will never agree to capitulate, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Monday. “I want everyone to understand clearly that Azerbaijan doesn’t want any compromises to resolve the problem. It wants capitulation of Karabakh. We are ready for mutual concessions, even for such concessions that would be painful for us, but the Armenian people will never be ready to capitulate,” he said live on his Facebook account. Contin...
Palestinian Archbishop condemns Macron for ‘insulting Muslims’
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 10 hours ago
[image: Palestinian Archbishop condemns Macron for ‘insulting Muslims’] BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 P.M.) – The Archbishop of Sebastia of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Atallah Hanna, condemned the “hate speech” towards Muslims from French President Emmanuel Macron. Archbishop Hanna said in a post on his official Facebook page that, “On the basis of our Christian values and our Christian affiliation to the most ancient church in this world, we express our condemnation, disapproval and rejection of any attack that affects religious symbols in all religions,” and added that “insult...
Russian attack causes massive losses within ranks of Turkish-backed forces
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 10 hours ago
[image: Russian attack causes massive losses within ranks of Turkish-backed forces] BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:45 P.M.) – The Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a devastating attack over the northern region of the Idlib Governorate on Monday. The Russian attack, which was carried out during the morning hours on Monday, targeted the training camp and headquarters of Faylaq Al-Sham, a militant group backed by Turkey. The Faylaq Al-Sham training camp was located in the Salqin countryside, which is located in the northern countryside of Idlib near the Turkish border. Continue reading Russi...
Trump's Dark, Dark Winter For America
DownWithTyranny, DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
Sunday morning, Trumpist chief of staff Mark Meadows, a former neo-fascist congressman from North Carolina (whose district is about to be flipped by Moe Davis), was on *State of the Union* fighting with Jake Tapper about the pandemic. As U.S. daily cases have spiked into the 80 thousands on both Friday and Saturday and as the death toll hurtles towards a quarter million, Meadows admitted the Regime isn't really trying to defeat the pandemic the way countries like China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan have. Trump seems so passive about anything that isn't related to lining his o...
US-Brokered Ceasefire In Nagorno-Karabakh Has Collapsed
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 8 hours ago
*Reuters:* *U.S.-backed truce crumbles as Nagorno-Karabakh fighting resumes* BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) - A U.S.-backed ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh was in jeopardy on Monday as Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces renewed fighting in the mountain enclave, defying international efforts to end a conflict that has killed hundreds in the last month. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said in a televised address that he wanted to resolve the conflict “by political and military means” after both sides accused each other of breaking a truce agreed hours earlier in Washington. Speaking live...
New COVID-19 Security Measures Will Make Health a Prerequisite for Travel
Raul Diego, MintPress News - 8 hours ago
As the multi-sector, global response to the coronavirus tightens the noose around civil liberties, CommonPass stands out as one of the most appalling and dangerous attacks on basic human rights in the name of public health. The post New COVID-19 Security Measures Will Make Health a Prerequisite for Travel appeared first on MintPress News.
Are 50 Cent, Ice Cube and young Black men the supporters who will enable Trump's return to the White House? Not exactly
Sam Fulwood III, Fellow, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University, Politics/Election '20 – The Conversation - 8 hours ago
Despite the attention paid by the press when two Black hip-hop artists signaled their support for Donald Trump, they do not represent swelling enthusiasm for Trump from young, Black men.
Chile abolishes its dictatorship-era constitution in groundbreaking vote for a more inclusive democracy
Peter Siavelis, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, Wake Forest University, Politics/Election '20 – The Conversation - 8 hours ago
After a year of unrest Chileans voted decisively on Oct. 25 to replace their constitution, a relic of the military dictator Pinochet. Civilians, half of them women, will write the new constitution.
Will There Be Civil Unrest After The US Presidential Election?
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 8 hours ago
Washington National Guard members stand outside the former Macy’s building near Westlake Park on June 1 as protesters gather before marching in downtown Seattle. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times) *Seattle Times:* *Military, police in Washington state prepare for possible civil unrest after election* As tension builds toward Election Day, law enforcement officials in Washington and elsewhere are preparing for the prospect that this year’s long, hot summer of unrest won’t end on Nov. 3, regardless of who wins the presidency. If anything, officials worry that pressure will only bui...
Japan will not sign the United Nations Nuclear Ban Treaty based on geopolitics
Lee Jay, Modern Tokyo Times - 8 hours ago
Japan will not sign the United Nations Nuclear Ban Treaty based on geopolitics Sawako Utsumi and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Japan is protected by the nuclear umbrella of the United States. Hence with Northeast Asia being a major area of competing militaries that have nuclear weapons, then naturally Japan refuses to join the […]
Segregation, Privatization, and Taxation
Peter Greene, CURMUDGUCATION - 8 hours ago
The New York Times ran a piece yesterday about a school board voting mess in Sumter County, Georgia (that's the county of Plains, home of Jimmy Carter's peanut farm). The story itself is an instructional look at how yet another white minority is trying to keep their hands on the levers of power, resulting in a district that is 70% Black run by a board that is 70% white. But Nicholas Casey has down a great job with that story, and you should go read it. At one point in the story, Casey talks about the creation of Southland Academy in 1966, yet another segregation academy opened in...
Obama-Era Officials Call for More Government Control of Your Facebook Feed
Alan Macleod, MintPress News - 8 hours ago
Facebook content is already partially curated by government-linked think tanks, but for Samantha Power and others, that is simply not enough. The post Obama-Era Officials Call for More Government Control of Your Facebook Feed appeared first on MintPress News.
What the Great Reset Architects Don’t Want You To Understand About Economics
Matthew Ehret, The Duran - 8 hours ago
Originally published on the Saker It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Vice President of the World Bank Carmen Reinhardt recently warned on October 15 that a new financial disaster looms ominously over the horizon with a vast sovereign default and a corporate debt default. Just in the past 6 months of bailouts unleashed by the […]
Duke Reports 17 New Positive COVID-19 Tests
Dynahlee Padilla, Diverse - 8 hours ago
Between Oct. 17 and Oct. 23, Duke University reported 21 new positive coronavirus test results out of 15,378 total tests, according to data from the University’s COVID-19 testing tracker. Out of 13,563 student tests, 17 resulted in positive. The positivity rate is now 0.125%, according to The Chronicle. Nine students tested positive of 131 tests […]
The Word From the Trenches – October 26, 2020
Henry Shivley, From the Trenches World Report - 9 hours ago
Join in on the conversation. Call (712) 770-5597 then enter 220029#, press *6 to mute and unmute. (If you are unable to get through call... The post The Word From the Trenches – October 26, 2020 appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Microsoft will forcibly open some websites in Edge instead of Internet Explorer
Shalom, From the Trenches World Report - 9 hours ago
ZDNet – by Catalin Cimpanu Big changes are coming to Internet Explorer. Starting next month, users trying to access certain websites will see IE refuse... The post Microsoft will forcibly open some websites in Edge instead of Internet Explorer appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Ohio Valley University Court-Ordered to Pay Food Vendor $1.2 Million Over Unpaid Bills
Arrman Kyaw, Diverse - 9 hours ago
A circuit court judge awarded more than $1.2 million to Ohio Valley University’s food vendor over unpaid bills, the Parkersburg News and Sentinel reported. Wood County Circuit Court Judge Jason Wharton made the decision Oct. 13. in a July lawsuit against OVU by Aladdin Food Management Services LLC. According to the lawsuit, OVU failed to […]
Climate crisis shattered: doubt no more
Richard Treadgold, CCG - 9 hours ago
What a delight it is to republish this story from CFACT by David Wojick. As he says, “burning fossil fuels … Continue Reading →
Remington Arms, oldest U.S. gunmaker, to lay off 585 employees in New York, union says
Hal Apeeno, From the Trenches World Report - 9 hours ago
Yahoo News Almost 600 employees at the Remington Arms plant in Ilion, New York, were told Friday that they would be terminated effective Monday, the... The post Remington Arms, oldest U.S. gunmaker, to lay off 585 employees in New York, union says appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
This is Why Israel’s Mass Protest Movement Will Never Lead to Change
Miko Peled, MintPress News - 9 hours ago
Though seldom reported in the US, thousands are taking to the streets every week in Israel demanding that Netanyahu step down, but carefully crafted coalition agreements and the political reality in the country promise to keep him in the PM’s seat for the foreseeable future. The post This is Why Israel’s Mass Protest Movement Will Never Lead to Change appeared first on MintPress News.
US Warns It'll Destroy Potential Iranian Long-Range Missile Shipment Delivered To Venezuela
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 9 hours ago
US Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela Elliott Abrams *FOX News:* *US threatens to destroy Iranian missiles shipped to Venezuela * *US warns it'll destroy potential Iranian long-range missile shipment delivered to Maduro regime * EXCLUSIVE: The United States is warning it will destroy potential Iranian long-range missile shipments delivered to the Maduro regime in Venezuela, a senior administration official tells Fox News. "The transfer of long-range missiles from Iran to Venezuela is not acceptable to the United States and will not be tolerated or permitted," said El...
Is Democrat US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden's Campaign In Trouble? Or Are They Just Running Out The Clock Because They Are Confident Of A Massive Election Landslide?
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 9 hours ago
*Daily Mail*:* Did you mean me, Joe? Trump puts the boot in after Jill Biden has to whisper his name under her breath when 'Sleepy' Joe tells virtual rally: 'We need to stop four more years of George' (but did he mean Bush Snr or Jnr?) * * Trump tweeted this morning: 'Joe Biden called me George yesterday. Couldn't remember my name. * 'Got some help from the anchor to get him through the interview. The Fake News Cartel is working overtime to cover it up!' * Biden last night appeared to say that 'George' was president, perhaps a reference to George W. (2001-09) or maybe George...
Foreign Interference is a Strategy, Not a Tactic
lrosenberger, Lawfare - 12 hours ago
Hong Kongers protest China's extradition bill in late 2019 (Studio Incendo, https://flic.kr/p/2gt7jkr; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). In partnership with the Stanford Internet Observatory, Lawfare is publishing a series assessing the threat of foreign influence operations targeting the United States. Contributors debate whether the threat of such operations is overblown, voicing a range of views on the issue. For more information on the series, click here. Geopolitics over the next several decades will be defined by competition between democracies and a...
Study: 57% of Californians Likely to Take Coronavirus Vaccine
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 8 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Health, Americas* [image: Reuters] The intent to get a vaccine has fallen from 72 percent in May—a sizeable 21-percentage point drop. The share of respondents who would definitely get a vaccine now sits at just 21 percent. As scientists are eyeing the finish line in the months-long race to develop a viable coronavirus vaccine, a new study has revealed that 57 percent of Californians would likely roll up their sleeves for a shot if it were available today. The study, which surveyed more than seventeen hundred individuals and conducted by the Public Policy Inst...
Killing Hitler: How the Allies Tried (and Failed) to Do in the Dictator
Warfare History Network, The National Interest - 8 hours ago
*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* [image: By USAF - USAF, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3288408] There were many plots on the infamous leader’s life. *Key point: *Unfortunately, Hitler would only finally die when he committed suicide. However, during the war plenty of Allied plans and patriotic Germans tried to do him in. Adolf Hitler believed in Vorsehung (providence). The German leader felt that if anything was going to happen to him, such as assassination, there was nothing he could do about it. He had been selected by fate to achiev...
Coronavirus: Teachers in North Korea are Teaching in Students’ Homes
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 8 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Health, Asia* [image: Reuters] North Korea reportedly closed its borders early in 2020, and reports last week stated that the nation had recently announced an Emergency Quarantine Law. The introduction of the law, couched in hypothetical terms about a potential pandemic, names three types of warnings-first-class, special-class and “super-class.” Reports out of North Korea earlier this month stated that due to a coronavirus outbreak that likely originated at the Workers’ Party Foundation Day on October 10, the start of school has been delayed until November 1. It...
HMS Electra: The Little World War II Destroyer That Could
Warfare History Network, The National Interest - 8 hours ago
*Warfare History Network* *History, World* [image: Wikimedia Commons] Like so many modern weapons, Electra was obsolete before she was launched. War clouds gathered rapidly once Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Allied demands that Hitler withdraw his armies went unheeded. On September 3, Great Britain reluctantly declared war. Berlin then issued orders to all U-boats to begin hostile action against English shipping. Passenger liners were not to be touched. Meanwhile, in Liverpool passengers boarded the liner SS *Athenia* for passage to North America. The unescorted l...
"Bad moon rising," Schaller said!
<b>bob somerby</b>, the daily howler - 9 hours ago
*MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2020* *Did Schaller get it right?:* Long ago and far away, we knew Tom Schaller a tiny tad. As happenstance had it, we even sat together at a press table when Al Gore testified before a congressional committee about climate change. We'll guess that it was the 2007 event described in this news report. We mention Schaller because Charles Blow quotes him in today's column. In our view, Blow could use some help with using his indoor voice, and with his use of key words like "some" and "all." But we agree with the Timesman concerning Schaller's assessment: BLOW...
The March of The Deplorables – President Trump’s Army Has Chased Biden Off Campaign Trail…
sundance, The Last Refuge - 9 hours ago
In early October a large number of Latino supporters for Trump in Miami-Dade county Florida surprised the Biden-Harris campaign by swarming a local Kamala Harris event. It happened again… and then again… And then by mid October the organically occurring … Continue reading →
Another Australian miner sues another poor country, this time Barrick’s Porgera in PNG
Patricia Ranald, Michael West - 9 hours ago
[image: Investor State Dispute Settlement action, ISDS] Investor State Dispute Settlement processes in trade agreements hit the headlines when US multinational Philip Morris tried to sue Australia over its tobacco plain packaging laws. Australian mining companies are increasingly using ISDS processes and are being awarded billions based on dubious calculations of potential lost profits by unaccountable international tribunals. Patricia Ranald reports.
79 Days to Inauguration
Uriel, 'Nox & Friends - 9 hours ago
79 Days to Inauguration Task force Report A Project of the Claremont Institute and the Texas Public Policy Foundation Mission: Saving Western Civilization Executive Summary: Purportedly aiming to make sense of this fraught election year, in early August, the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) released a report suggesting that President Donald Trump would not likely leave office without an unprecedented struggle. The TIP, a self-proclaimed“bipartisan” group of some 100 people, was entirely composed of those utterly opposed to President Trump. Their purpose wasn’t so much gaming out p...
The Unique Challenges Faced By HBCU Students During COVID
cmaadmin, Diverse - 9 hours ago
Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell has been a leading advocate in higher education for students returning to in-person learning only when it is safe to do so. So while it was no surprise when he announced that our school’s classes would continue remotely because of COVID concerns, our students, as well as those at other Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), suddenly faced obstacles that students learning remotely at many other schools may not have encountered.
Exclusive: Russian Echoes Abide in Still-Active ‘Pennsylvania for Trump’ Facebook Group From 2016
Jordan Liles, Snopes.com - 9 hours ago
A likely Russian administrative account had been active in the swing state group since well before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and only disappeared in October 2020 after we contacted Facebook with questions.
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania to Remove 21 Academic Programs Over Next Few Years
Arrman Kyaw, Diverse - 9 hours ago
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania will remove 21 academic programs over the next few years, the Erie Times-News reported. Programs without students enrolled will end right away, while other programs – with as many as 30 students enrolled – will stop after the students complete the program. “Moratorium basically means no new students will be admitted […]
Virginia Military Institute Superintendent Peay Resigns
Dynahlee Padilla, Diverse - 9 hours ago
General J. H. Binford Peay III of Virginia Military Institute (VMI) resigned after his 17-year tenure, due to a report in The Washington Post about Black cadets and alumni facing racism. Now, state officials have ordered an outside investigation into VMI. Gov. Ralph Northam expressed his concerns in a letter written with other state officials […]
Lunar Gateway
Larry-Lambert, Virtual Mirage - 10 hours ago
Plugging a space station (Lunar Gateway) into orbit around the Moon makes a lot of sense if you’re going to put a permanent base on the surface. I’m sure that it will grow in time in much the same way as the International Space Station has. The timetable for this orbiting Lunar station is the […] The post Lunar Gateway appeared first on Virtual Mirage.
74 Percent of MS-13 Gang Members Charged Were In United States Illegally
Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 10 hours ago
Washington Free Beacon – by Alex Nexter Seventy-four percent of MS-13 gang members charged by federal prosecutors between 2016 and 2020 were in the country... The post 74 Percent of MS-13 Gang Members Charged Were In United States Illegally appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
PA county request for DoJ election assistance sets the House Dems off on witchhunt
Uriel, 'Nox & Friends - 10 hours ago
Justice Department working with county on ballot investigation On September 24th, it appears according to the Citizens Voice that the Luzerne County Pennsylvania election board decided that they needed to contact the Department of Justice for some reason concerning ballot concerns. For the most part, all levels of the area enforcement and the DoJ had not in any way made clear what caused the concern and why the DoJ was called in. Stefanie J. Salavantis is the local District Attorney who had been re-elected to the position for a second term in 2015. It was she who had contacted the …...
In Stunning Display of Popular Will, Protests in Bolivia to Chile Force Public Reckoning of “Chicago Boy” Economics
Alan Macleod, MintPress News - 10 hours ago
Like in Bolivia, the strength of public opinion in Chile was so immense that the government, led by Chile’s richest man Sebastian Piñera, immediately conceded. The post In Stunning Display of Popular Will, Protests in Bolivia to Chile Force Public Reckoning of “Chicago Boy” Economics appeared first on MintPress News
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