Tuesday, March 02, 2021

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Iceland – Huge earthquake activity “More than we’ve ever seen before” – Video
Robert, Ice Age Now - 11 hours ago
“Reykjavik Eartquake – Iminent Volcanic Eruption – Unprecedented Situation” ” More than a thousand tremors registered overnight.” “The worst news is that it is next door to the capital of Iceland.” “Eartquake activity has been huge.” The swarm of earthquakes that began Wednesday in Southwest Iceland shows no signs of abating. More than a ... Read more The post Iceland – Huge earthquake activity “More than we’ve ever seen before” – Video appeared first on Ice Age Now.
Not all Republicans are racist
Keith, musingsofanoldfart - 11 hours ago
The following is a comment I placed on our friend Jill’s post called “Republican Party – the party of bigots,” which can be linked below. She is referencing an editorial by columnist Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post. To say … Continue reading →
Nailed it as normal.
Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago
Nailed it as normal. pic.twitter.com/2eKnFS29iS — Tony (@Mrtdogg) March 1, 2021 The post Nailed it as normal. appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Opinion: Anti-vaccine extremism is akin to domestic terrorism
Galen, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago
Washington Post – by Richard Pan Vaccines don’t stop viruses. Vaccinations do. This common public health saying means a vaccine does no good if we... The post Opinion: Anti-vaccine extremism is akin to domestic terrorism appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Covid vaccine side-effects causing local schools to make back-up plans
Mary, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago
Valley News Live – by Bailey Hurley FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) – After several teachers called out sick this morning due to the side... The post Covid vaccine side-effects causing local schools to make back-up plans appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Porter Christensen – “Universal Acceptance”
Galen, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago
B’nai B’rith Int’l Feb 2, 2021 Porter Christensen of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah submitted his winning entry for the “Students Speak Out Against... The post Porter Christensen – “Universal Acceptance” appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Legal team wants ‘second Nuremberg tribunal’ to try global lockdown promoters for crimes against humanity
Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago
Leo Hohmann Should the technocrats who pushed governments to lockdown their citizens be tried for crimes against humanity? One prominent German lawyer, who is also... The post Legal team wants ‘second Nuremberg tribunal’ to try global lockdown promoters for crimes against humanity appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Michigan National Guard Troops in DC Hospitalized After Democrat Run City Repeatedly Feeds Them Raw, Undercooked Meat and Meals With Metal Shavings
Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago
Gateway Pundit – by Kristinn Taylor More than a dozen Michigan National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C. have been sickened, with some hospitalized, after... The post Michigan National Guard Troops in DC Hospitalized After Democrat Run City Repeatedly Feeds Them Raw, Undercooked Meat and Meals With Metal Shavings appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
CNN.com Gaslights Readers on Failed Ocean Predictions – Now Claims Opposite
James Taylor, Climate Realism - 12 hours ago
Just one year after climate activists and their media allies spread fear with claims that global warming is causing the world’s ocean currents to speed up, CNN.com is now claiming the opposite – and claiming scientists predicted a slowing of ocean currents all along. CNN’s attempt at “Gaslighting” (a term derived from the 1944 movie […] The post CNN.com Gaslights Readers on Failed Ocean Predictions – Now Claims Opposite appeared first on Climate Realism.
"The Great 2021 Bimodal Cusp Catastrophe: What Will Prevail? Freedom or Tyranny?"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 7 hours ago
*"The Great 2021 Bimodal Cusp Catastrophe: * *What Will Prevail? Freedom or Tyranny?"* by Clive Maund "2020 will go down as the year that the New World Order (NWO for short), after many years of building up to it, declared full on war against the rest of humanity, and since this war kicked off with an unprecedented “shock and awe” campaign it definitely got off to a flying start. The main problem from the point of view of humanity at large is that at least half of it doesn’t realize that it is targeted for annihilation or slavery, and so it collaborates with the enemy in hastening i...
Cable TV Is Dying. Could Home Broadband Be Next?
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 10 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Cord Cutting, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC17C7C61B70&share=true] The death of cable continues, although the return of sports last fall helped slow the trend down. We all know that households eliminating cable and other pay-TV has a been rising trend, one that only accelerated with the coronavirus pandemic. But how prevalent was the trend in 2020? According to a new report from analyst firm MoffettNathanson, as cited by Fast Company, “the penetration of U.S. households paying for traditional TV ser...
CDC Warns Covid-19 Variants Pose 'Real Threat' To Vaccine Progress
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 10 hours ago
*BBC: **Covid-19 variants pose 'real threat' to vaccine progress, CDC warns * The spread of highly contagious coronavirus variants is threatening to fuel a "potential fourth surge of cases" in the US, a top health official has warned. The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said she was concerned by recent Covid-19 data. Dr Rochelle Walensky said about 70,000 new cases a day had been recorded last week - "a very high number". There were nearly 2,000 deaths a day in the same period, she added. *Read more* .... *Update #1:* CDC chief warns of 'pot...
Did Dr. Seuss Draw Racist Cartoons?
Nur Ibrahim, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago
The children’s book author and artist is being scrutinized for a series of illustrations.
The confidence man
Scott Sumner, Econlib - 10 hours ago
A few months back, Alex Tabarrok criticized the delay in approving the new vaccines: I am getting very angry at people like Anthony Fauci who say that FDA delay is necessary or useful to alleviate vaccine hesitancy. Fauci told Fox News that the FDA “really scrutinises the data very carefully to guarantee to the American public […] The post The confidence man appeared first on Econlib.
Alaska’s interim cannabis chief gets permanent appointment
Omar Sacirbey, Marijuana Business Daily - 10 hours ago
Glen Klinkhart, who has served as interim director of Alaska’s Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) since 2019, was given the job on a permanent basis. Klinkhart’s installment as full-time AMCO chief was made official Monday by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. The governor appointed Klinkhart as interim director of the agency in November 2019. Klinkhart, who […] Alaska’s interim cannabis chief gets permanent appointment is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
Can QAnon Survive Another ‘Great Disappointment’ on March 4?
David Mikkelson, Snopes.com - 10 hours ago
Apocalyptic movements rarely simply dissolve when prophecies are seen to fail.
Dr. Suess Is Now Too Sensitive For Twitter
tonyheller, Real Climate Science - 10 hours ago
Over the past year, government, the press and social media have stripped Americans of their freedom, money, mobility, livelihood, reliable energy supply, right to choose their leaders in a fair election, due process, free speech and the right to self-defense. … Continue reading →
What Role Can South-South Cooperation Play in Post COVID-19 Recovery?
BEIJING, Mar 02 (IPS) - Five years ago, at the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the United Nations, world leaders adopted the ambitious Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. The Agenda was to be accomplished through the achievement of 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030: eradicating poverty, ending hunger, addressing climate change – just to name a few. Read the full story, “What Role Can South-South Cooperation Play in Post COVID-19 Recovery?”, on globalissues.org →
Demographic Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic: An Overview
NEW YORK, Mar 02 (IPS) - The demographic impact of the coronavirus one year after being declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020 has been enormous. The picture that emerges is one of significant consequences on the levels and trends of the key components of demographic change: mortality, fertility and migration. Read the full story, “Demographic Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic: An Overview”, on globalissues.org →
How the Grinch Stole Western Civilization
Kate, Small Dead Animals - 11 hours ago
We warned it would come to this. SIX Dr Seuss books will stop being published after Joe Biden canceled the author over claims of “racist and hurtful” imagery. The president skipped a tradition and did not mention Dr Seuss in his Read Across America Day proclamation after the racism claims.[…] Following the racism… Continue reading →
Dante's Hell: Emergency Room Sees Surge of Seniors AFTER CovID-19 Vaccination - PLUS Stephen Lendman on "The Mother of all False Flags"
greencrow, Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 11 hours ago
*Dante's Hell* Good morning readers. Yesterday was truly a hellish day in the blogosphere. The revelation that *the perpZ are attempting to take over the national militaries* using the *WHO Emergency "Hell*th" *Act* was a demonic twist that I didn't see coming. After writing my last post about this yesterday, I needed to lie down as if I had just completed a triathlon. How do we know we've reached the outer rims of hell [as depicted by Dante in the drawing above]? Well, we know we're in a war when *the oldest and the youngest [the low hanging fruit] in society *are finished off...
A wild week in conservation and energy news: Here’s what you missed
Gabriella Hoffman, CFACT - 12 hours ago
A wild week of news: Rep. Haaland's confirmation hearing, H.R. 803 passes & debate over wilderness area desingations re-emerges, and the brewing war between Big Wind & condor conservation. The post A wild week in conservation and energy news: Here’s what you missed appeared first on CFACT.
Thought Crimes
Larry-Lambert, Virtual Mirage - 12 hours ago
First, let’s discuss the playbook: Orwell used Nineteen Eighty-Four to explore the dangers of authoritarianism and totalitarian forms of government. Orwell was deeply suspicious of the tendency of governments to become self-perpetuating oligarchies, and he saw how easily people’s worst tendencies could be subverted to the will of an authoritarian regime. Orwell, 1984: “The thought police would […] The post Thought Crimes appeared first on Virtual Mirage.
Israeli firm employs high-tech to cook up meatless ribeye steak
Adam Houser, CFACT - 12 hours ago
Bill Gates: "I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference." The post Israeli firm employs high-tech to cook up meatless ribeye steak appeared first on CFACT.
Security In Iraq, Feb 22-28, 2021
Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago
Security in Iraq continued to go in two different directions in February. The Islamic State’s winter hiatus continued into the fourth week of the month. Pro-Iran groups however are ramping up their operations. There were 13 security incidents reported in the media from February 22-28. Four of those were by groups aligned with Tehran leaving just nine by the Islamic State. Three convoys carrying supplies for the U.S. were hit with IEDs laid by pro-Iran factions during the week. That happened in Babil, Baghdad and Diwaniya. More importantly rockets were fired at the Green Z...
This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 2
Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago
1981 Islamic Conf Organization met with Saddam Said he wanted ceasefire in war and wanted to know what Khomeini wanted 1984 Iraqis used mustard gas against Iranians to try to turn them back in Basra marshes Was able to gain bridgehead on South Majnoon island (Musings On Iraq review *Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986*) 1986 Iraq made another attempt to retake Faw Peninsula in Basra Failed (Musings On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War) (Musings On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War) (Mus...
Statement by William Happer Before the U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
GCD, ClimateCite - 12 hours ago
February 25, 2009 I believe that the increase of CO2 is not a cause for alarm and will be good for mankind. Download PDF This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it..
Russian military uncovers cave used by Turkish-backed forces in southern Idlib
[image: Russian military uncovers cave used by Turkish-backed forces in southern Idlib] BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:40 P.M.) – Explosives experts from the Russian armed forces destroyed an empty cave in the Syrian Governorate of Idlib this week, where the Turkish-backed forces established a field hospital. The commander of the Russian engineering forces, Colonel Roman Bismartni, said, “It is one of the most equipped places that our forces have found.” He continued, “In this cave there was a modern hospital fully equipped to receive outpatients and carry out complex operations, and allowed to...
Who’s zooming who?
Philip Moscovitch, Halifax Examiner - 14 hours ago
News 1. Vaccine website crashes, phone lines overwhelmed Yvette d’Entremont reports on what happened yesterday when Nova Scotians tried to sign up for vaccines for people over 80. She writes: A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Wellness said in an email that CanImmunize (the third party platform overseeing the booking) alerted them earlier […]
Will state legislatures keep rolling over for tyrannical governors?
Daniel Horowitz, null - 11 hours ago
[image: undefined] Even if one believes government has the legal right and the scientific backing to destroy our lives over a virus, shouldn't such decisions be made by a legislative body? This is a simple proposition anyone who supports representative democracy should rally behind, yet 10 months into the greatest government display of control of our lives, we continue to have health departments making the most consequential decisions of all time without legislative input. Governors continue to tell legislatures to mind their own business, and the response from most GOP-dominated le...
White House Rules Out Helping Canada & Mexico With Covid-19 Vaccine Supply
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago
*CBC:* *Biden spokesperson rules out helping Canada, Mexico with vaccine supply before all Americans are inoculated * *'The administration's focus is on ensuring that every American is vaccinated,' Jen Psaki tells reporters * The White House spokesperson today ruled out sending vaccines to continental partners like Canada and Mexico, saying U.S. President Joe Biden is committed to getting every American vaccinated before sharing doses with other countries. During a White House press briefing today, Jen Psaki was asked if Biden was considering sharing part of the U.S. COVID-19 v...
Royal Navy Tracked a Russian Submarine in the English Channel
Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 11 hours ago
*Peter Suciu* *Security, Europe* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_RC1995ACC2A0&share=true] Both Russia and NATO have stepped up their patrols in recent years. Last week the British Royal Navy tracked the Russian Navy’s *Kilo-class* diesel/electric attack submarine RFS B-237 *Rostov Na Donu* (*Rovtov-on-Don*) as the boat transited from the North Sea and through the English Channel. The submarine, which was surfaced during its voyage near the United Kingdom, is attached to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and is reportedly headed back to t...
FBI Says Rioters Weren’t Fake Trump Protesters
AP News, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
Some Republican members of Congress have suggested that left-wing protesters dressed up as Trump supporters to attack the Capitol, despite no evidence of that.
MBS: White House Makes False Claim That ‘US Does Not Sanction World Leaders’
NEWS WIRE, 21st Century Wire - 11 hours ago
*Antwar.com* | Psaki 'circles back' after getting fact-checked by CNN.
Romney Knocked Unconscious in Fall, but ‘Doing Better’
AP News, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
The Utah Republican said the accident happened when he was spending time with his grandchildren in Boston.
CYBERWAR is imminent & will affect ordinary Americans, claims CEO of company that ‘discovered’ SolarWinds hack
Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 11 hours ago
RT Cybersecurity firm FireEye has warned Americans that they’ll be targeted by the next big cyberattack, whether they know it or not. Disrupted supply chains... The post CYBERWAR is imminent & will affect ordinary Americans, claims CEO of company that ‘discovered’ SolarWinds hack appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
UK Holiday Firm Had ‘Undesirable Guests’ List of Irish Names
AP News, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
The list kept by Pontins, which was displayed on a staff intranet site, contained about 40 largely Irish names, including Cash, Delaney, Gallagher, Murphy and O’Brien
The Truth About the Democrats Plan to Save the Economy
Adam Michel, The National Interest - 11 hours ago
*Adam Michel* *economy, Americas* Democrats know that their wage-mandate policies will hurt workers and force businesses to make tough and unnecessary trade-offs with Americans’ livelihoods, such as moving jobs overseas or replacing full-time employees with part-time contractors. First, the Democrats’ $15 federal hourly minimum wage mandate was ruled out by the Senate’s parliamentarian because it didn’t conform to the rules of the Senate for passing reconciliation bills with a 50-vote threshold. So, Democrats pivoted to a new, even worse plan. They wanted to tax businesses that ...
Who’s Got At Least One Covid-19 Vaccine Shot In The World?
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago
WNU Editor's 94 year old mom getting a Moderna vaccine shot. March 2, 2021 *Visual Capitalist*: *COVID-19 Vaccine Doses: Who’s Got At Least One?* With COVID-19 vaccine rollouts well underway in some countries, a return to ‘normal life’ could come sooner than later. That said, many jurisdictions have experienced serious delays and supply shortages that have made it difficult to distribute COVID-19 vaccine doses to their populations. As of mid-February, 130 countries had not been able to begin vaccinating at all. This interactive chart from Our World in Data tracks the share of p...
Democrat support for Cuomo collapses. More allegations sink Emmy award winning Governor
The Duran, The Duran - 12 hours ago
Democrat support for Cuomo collapses. More allegations sink Emmy award winning Governor The Duran: Episode 901 ‘The Governor Must Resign’: Democratic Congresswoman Calls For Cuomo To Step Down ‘The Governor Must Resign’: Democratic Congresswoman Calls For Cuomo To Step Down Update (0820ET): While several New York State Democratic lawmakers have called on Cuomo to resign […]
Third Woman, a photo & a creepy video. Andrew Cuomo's problems got a lot worse
Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 12 hours ago
Third Woman, a photo & a creepy video. Andrew Cuomo’s problems got a lot worse ****News Topic 310***** Third Woman Accuses Cuomo Of Sexual Harassment — And There’s A Picture ‘The Governor Must Resign’: Democratic Congresswoman Calls For Cuomo To Step Down Update (0820ET): While several New York State Democratic lawmakers have called on Cuomo […]
Sarkozy Jailed For Corruption: Path Eased for Macron
Alexander Mercouris, The Duran - 13 hours ago
Sarkozy Jailed For Corruption: Path Eased for Macron News Topic 63: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail for corruption Sarkozy found guilty of corruption and influence peddling but is unlikely to spend time in prison Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail for corruption When the verdict came, it reduced the Paris […]
Data Disaster: A Call for an Investigation into the CDC's Conduct During Covid-19. Share it!
Penny, Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours ago
* Worthwhile. You can listen. No need to view. Various round table discussions in one presentation. * *hatip yaya, again.* *Youtube*
Into Titan’s Haze
Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams - 13 hours ago
I can remember when I first read about the experiment that Stanley Miller and Harold Urey performed at the University of Chicago in 1952 to see if organic molecules could be produced under conditions like those of the early Earth. It was a test of abiogenesis, though that wasn’t a word I knew at the […]
Typical progressive politics - govern to your own interest group and screw everybody else
Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 13 hours ago
I note the Governor of Colorado and the Democratic Party administration there are doing their best to anger and alienate the second-largest industry in the state. Governor Jared Polis infuriated farmers and ranchers by issuing an anti-meat proclamation making March 20, 2021 “Meat Out Day.” ... The Polis proclamation is taken nearly word-for-word from the radical vegan Farm Animal Rights Movement’s (FARM) MeatOut.org website, and recites a litany of supposed evils of meat and benefits of a vegan lifestyle and even invokes “reducing our carbon footprint” and preventing animal cr...
Chris Hedges: The Age of Social Murder
Chris Hedges, MintPress News - 13 hours ago
The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial. The post Chris Hedges: The Age of Social Murder appeared first on MintPress News.
Navalny being sent to "Red Zone" prison camp outside of Moscow
Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 13 hours ago
Navalny being sent to “Red Zone” prison camp outside of Moscow ****News Topic 310***** Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Sent to Notorious Prison Camp Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Sent to Notorious Prison Camp The lawyer for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny confirms that his client has been moved from a Moscow jail to one […]
Twitter searches for revenue, looks at subscriptions, pay to read tweets
Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 13 hours ago
Twitter searches for revenue, looks at subscriptions, pay to read tweets ****News Topic 309***** Tech CEO says Twitter needs to go ‘all in’ on subscriptions Tech CEO says Twitter needs to go ‘all in’ on subscriptions Twitter’s days as a completely free platform could be ending. According to comments made by CEO Jack Dorsey at […]
Whither the Trump Financial Documents Cases?
QJurecic, Lawfare - 16 hours ago
President Donald Trump speaks at a Students for Trump and Turning Point Action in Phoenix, Arizona on June 23, 2020. (Gage Skidmore, https://flic.kr/p/2jf92wg; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) Remember Donald Trump’s tax returns? For all of Trump’s presidency, the mystery of his finances tantalized journalists: Given that he never released his tax returns during the 2016 campaign, what might he be hiding? After Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in 2018, various House committees began digging for access to Trump’s taxes and other f...
Have a Drone? Russia Wants To Make Sure They Can Kill It.
Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 11 hours ago
*Peter Suciu* *Security, Europe* The new mobile Zashchita system will help take out enemy drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have the potential to be a force multiplier to be used against an adversary on the battlefield. However, just as attempts are being developed to utilize drones as an offensive weapon, there are now efforts to counter drones. Last week, the Russian-based Ruselectronics Group, which is part of the state tech corporation Rostec, announced that it has developed a new mobile system, dubbed the Zashchita, to counter unmanned aerial vehicles. “A ...
The U.S. Military Used B-17 “Drones” That Bombed Nazi Germany
Warfare History Network, The National Interest - 11 hours ago
*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* [image: By U.S. Air Force - https://media.defense.gov/2006/May/30/2000572033/-1/-1/0/050406-F-1234P-057.JPG at gallery page, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4504643] A human pilot still needed to guide the planes and so had to hastily bail out before getting close to target! *Key point: *The plane was not a full drone, but more of a suicide bomber without a pilot staying in the plane to the end. Here is how this experiment worked (but also literally at times sadly backfired). When it came to advanced mil...
America Built Fake Cities to Hide Its World War II Airplane Factories
Warfare History Network, The National Interest - 11 hours ago
*Warfare History Network* *History, Americas* [image: By United States Army Air Forces - Thompson, Scott (2011), Final Cut: The Post-War B-17 Flying Fortress and Survivors (4th Edition), Pictorial Histories & Aero Vintage Books ISBN-10: 1575101564, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php] The cities and villages sat on top of the secret workshops and was meant to fool Imperial Japanese pilots into thinking they were not worth bombing. *Key Point*: The idea was a good one, but one that proved largely unnecessary. Thankfully, Imperial Japan was never able to launch...
Gallipoli: 200,000 Allied Casualties (A Winston Churchill Failure)
Warfare History Network, The National Interest - 11 hours ago
*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* [image: By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R36225 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5368395] Churchill had high hopes to knock the Ottoman Empire out of World War I, but his plans were dashed. *Key Point*: For eight long, terrible months the Entente powers tried to keep and expand their beachhead. In the end, the invasion was given up and Turkey emerged triumphant. In the English-speaking world, most students of military history would be hard-pressed to identify the time, place, or antagonists of t...
No, Tom Selleck Isn’t a Spokesman for CBD Oil Products
Jordan Liles, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
We unraveled the mystery behind online advertisements that featured Cannabidiol, or CBD, oil products that featured Tom Selleck, Drew Carey, Tom Hanks, Randy Jackson, and Halle Berry.
Palm oil in focus as Swiss vote on trade pact with Indonesia
bilaterals.org - 12 hours ago
02-Mar-2021 Swiss voters will decide on a free trade agreement with Indonesia on Sunday, with lower tariffs on palm oil imports the main issue in what the polls predict will be a tight referendum.
There is no alternative
bilaterals.org - 12 hours ago
02-Mar-2021 La focalisation sur l'huile de palme – censée être produite «durablement» pour bénéficier des baisses des droits de douane – aura surtout brouillé le débat autour de l'accord entre les quatre pays européens de l'AELE et l'Indonésie.
Chile resumes in-person classes after a year’s absence
Latin America News, The Rio Times - 12 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Chilean President Sebastian Piñera inaugurated the 2021 school year on Monday, after more than a year without in-person classes in the country, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "The return to classes is a necessity, something fundamental. Of course we have to do it while protecting health, which is the first priority […] The post Chile resumes in-person classes after a year’s absence appeared first on The Rio Times.
WATCH: Cop Gets Special Treatment After Gunning Down Mentally Ill Man & His Parents in Costco
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 12 hours ago
[image: costco]Despite gunning down an unarmed non-verbal mentally ill man and his parents in Costco, police showed up and didn't even handcuff the shooter — and off duty cop.
Severe flooding damages roads, hundreds of houses in northern Morocco
Heavy rains triggered severe flash flooding in the city of Tetouan in northern Morocco on Monday, March 1, 2021, leaving 275 houses damaged, as well as dozens of vehicles and infrastructure. The dramatic situation in Tetouan made rounds on social media. Roads and...... Read more »
Brazil’s financial market maintains economic growth forecast at 3.29% in 2021
Latin America News, The Rio Times - 12 hours ago
[image: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Paid-TV services] RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian financial analysts maintained their 2021 economic growth forecast at 3.29 percent of expansion in gross domestic product (GDP), after several weeks of decline, while keeping the estimate at 2.5 percent for 2022, the Central Bank of Brazil reported on Monday, February 1st. According to the bank's weekly survey of […] The post Brazil’s financial market maintains economic growth forecast at 3.29% in 2021 appeared first on The Rio Times.
History Lesson: Why So Many Americans Died to Take Iwo Jima
Warfare History Network, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Warfare History Network* *History, Asia* [image: By Photo 26-G-4140, U.S. Department of Transportation. U.S. Coast Guard. Office of Public and International Affairs - This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identi] The Allied-controlled island would save the lives of many bomber crews whose planes were damaged and needed to quickly find an airfield. *Key point: *Damaged warplanes could not travel far. Instead of crashing or risking not being found after bailing, these bombers could now lan...
More Than 87,000 Scientific Papers on Coronavirus Published So Far
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Coronavirus, * Amid the yearlong coronavirus pandemic, scientists and researchers worldwide indeed have been working at breakneck speed. Amid the yearlong coronavirus pandemic, scientists and researchers worldwide indeed have been working at breakneck speed. A new analysis has revealed that through October last year, more than eighty-seven thousand scientific papers about the novel coronavirus were published globally. “It is an astonishing number of publications—it may be unprecedented in the history of science,” Caroline Wagner, co-author of the study and as...
TIMES AND TOWN: Lucky Luke (French) as the day's top report!
<b>bob somerby</b>, the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021* *Is this performative virtue?:* Last Monday morning, the analysts woke us to say that the Times was possibly at it again. Scrolling through Monday's "Today's Paper" listings, the youngsters had reached the International section—and there, they'd been brought up cold. Perhaps somewhat oddly, the featured report in that section carried this capsule account: *Lucky Luke, the Comic Book Cowboy, Discovers Race, Belatedly* A few of the youngsters were wondering how a comic book cowboy discovering race could possibly be the biggest topic in international events ...
United Nations Denies Its Own Data While Claiming Climate Food Crisis
James Taylor, Climate Realism - 13 hours ago
The United Nations is seeking to drum up money and power with a new article claiming global warming is causing a food crisis in Central America – in defiance of the UN’s own data showing record crop production in the region. The UN last week published a February 23 article titled, “Climate crisis and economic […] The post United Nations Denies Its Own Data While Claiming Climate Food Crisis appeared first on Climate Realism.
How Do You Like My Socks?
Kate, Small Dead Animals - 13 hours ago
Prime Minister’s remarks updating Canadians on Canada’s Plan to Mobilize Industry to fight COVID-19 — June 9, 2020 Over the past few months, our government has helped companies re-tool their manufacturing facilities and massively scale-up production to meet the demands of this crisis. And I want to thank every entrepreneur and every worker who… Continue reading →
NYPD Cop’s Deathbed Confession Implicates FBI and NYPD in the Assassination of Malcom X
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 13 hours ago
[image: malcolm x]"For 10 years I’ve carried this confession secretly in fear of what could happen to my family and myself if the government found out what I knew."
Watch CFACT’s one hour CPAC climate panel
CFACT Ed, CFACT - 14 hours ago
Kevin Sorbo, Marc Morano, James Taylor & Craig Rucker expose the Climate Hustle. The post Watch CFACT’s one hour CPAC climate panel appeared first on CFACT.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Kate, Small Dead Animals - 14 hours ago
The hunter becomes the hunted. On February 5 this year, one week after an article about me appeared in the Daily Beast, The New York Times announced that I would be leaving. At my departure, I was the paper’s lead reporter on the Covid-19 pandemic. I had been at the Times since starting as… Continue reading →
How One Assassination Led to World War I and Millions Dead
Warfare History Network, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Warfare History Network* *History, World* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2014%3Anewsml_PM1EA7E16TA01&share=true] The war was fought over dumb reasons and it did not achieve its lofty aims. *Key point: *Years into the deadly conflict many had forgotten that it was a far-away act of political violence that had sent the whole world on fire. Given the consequences and the build up to the World War II, the Great War was arguably not worth it. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, v...
The F-35 Might Be the Deadliest Nuclear Bomber Ever (We Have Video)
Caleb Larson, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Caleb Larson* *F-35, * Late last year at the Tonopah Test Range, a flat, dusty area 160 miles northwest of Las Vegas, an F-35 flying at supersonic speed dropped a B61-12 nuclear bomb onto the desert floor at an altitude of 10,500 feet. Late last year at the Tonopah Test Range, a flat, dusty area 160 miles northwest of Las Vegas, an F-35 flying at supersonic speed dropped a B61-12 nuclear bomb onto the desert floor at an altitude of 10,500 feet. Luckily, the B61-12 was an inert training bomb and did not explode. The high-speed test lasted for about 42 seconds and was a success. A...
6 Dr. Seuss Books Won’t Be Published for Racist Images
AP News, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago
“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement that coincided with the late author and illustrator’s birthday.
The U.S. Marines Want to Kill Submarines
Caleb Larson, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Caleb Larson* *U.S. Marines, * In comments given to Proceedings, the U.S. Naval Institute podcast, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. David Berger gave further details about how the Marine Corps will help the U.S. Navy hunt submarines. In comments given to *Proceedings*, the U.S. Naval Institute podcast, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. David Berger gave further details about how the Marine Corps will help the U.S. Navy hunt submarines. The strategy revolves around EABs, or Expeditionary Advanced Bases, small, low-cost bases in far-flung remote locations at sea. EA...
Tony Blinken Has Fumbled ‘Khashoggi Ban’ Sanctions
Michael Rubin, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Michael Rubin* *Security, Middle East* Anthony Blinken fears cutting ties with the crown prince because the king’s dementia renders him unfit for the rigors of rule. Prince Mohammed bin Salman may be odious, but Saudi Arabia has no other ruler. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a new visa policy named for murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi against the backdrop of the Biden administration’s declassification of a report fingering Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of the dissident journalist. Known as The Khashoggi Ban, it “allows the State Depa...
The U.S. Air Force is About to a New Hypersonic Missile
Caleb Larson, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Caleb Larson* *Hypersonic Weapons, * [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC2MPI9KIM8T&share=true] The powerful Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon is a good step foward to getting a hypersonc missile into service. Though the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon lacks the speed and range of other hypersonic missile projects the Air Force is currently working on, its small size could allow it to arm a wide variety of fighter jets. The U.S. Air Force’s new Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon will undergo rocket booster testing later this wee...
CEO Admits That Cable TV Is Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Technology, * Dexter Goei is the CEO of Altice USA, the fourth-largest cable provider in the U.S., and he made some eye-popping comments in a recent interview about the future of his industry. Dexter Goei is the CEO of Altice USA, the fourth-largest cable provider in the U.S., and he made some eye-popping comments in a recent interview about the future of his industry. Speaking with CNBC’s Alex Sherman, Goei was asked if he envisions a day when cable TV, “as we know it, doesn’t exist.” “Yes. For sure,” he answered. “Everything is going to be IP-based, and then...
Tempest: Inside the UK's Plans for a 6th Generation Stealth Fighter
Caleb Larson, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Caleb Larson* *Tempest, * Though quite a bit of work remains to be done on the Tempest, the domestic stealth option may allow the UK to field a credible stealth capability at a more affordable price. London is hedging its stealth bets by attempting to field not just the F-35—the domestically developed Tempest stealth fighter will also swell the Royal Air Force’s fleet. *From the Harrier Jump Jet to the F-35B* The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force just received three brand-new F-35B stealth fighters, the defense publication Jane’s reported. The three new fighters are to be based...
Russia's Stealth Drone Could Be a Battlefield Terror: Here's Why
Caleb Larson, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Caleb Larson* *Stealth Drone, * The Okhotnik platform, Russian for ‘Hunter’ is a large, unmanned, single-engine aerial vehicle of a flying-wing design, intended to perform both reconnaissance and intelligence gathering as well as fly combat missions. Russia’s Okhotnik heavy unmanned aerial vehicle completed flight tests, RIA Novosti, a Russian state-owned news agency reported late last year. Quoting a defense sector source with knowledge of the flight trials, RIA reported that, “from the strip of the military airfield of the Center for Combat Training and Combat Use of the Russ...
Tank Monster: Russia's T-90 Just Keeps Getting Deadlier by the Day
Mark Episkopos, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Mark Episkopos* *military, Europe* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2013%3Anewsml_GM1E99Q1RZB01&share=true] The T-90M is an important upgrade that Moscow hopes to roll out across 400 of its tanks. Russia’s Army has received another shipment of modernized T-90M “Proryv” main battle tanks (MBT’s). Russian state news outlet TASS reported that a new batch of T-90M tanks was shipped to an unspecified division of Russia’s Armed Forces by the manufacturer, Uralvagonzavod (a subsidiary of Russian defense giant Rostec), earlier this week. The first T-90M...
China's Military Vows To 'Not Lose A Single Inch' Of Ancestors' Lands In Asia
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 13 hours ago
A map published by the U.S. Department of Defense shows several territorial disputes involving China, as of January 1, 2020. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE *Newsweek:* *China Military Vows to 'Not Lose A Single Inch' of Ancestors' Lands in Asia * China's armed forces have vowed not to cede any ancestral lands, nor annex any new ones, amid the protracted territorial disputes pitting powers against one another in Asia. "We cannot lose a single inch of the lands we inherited from our ancestors," the Chinese Defense Ministry's Information Bureau said in a statement published Monday in re...
Musical Interlude: Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 14 hours ago
*Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"* ○ “Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.” - Gary Zukav
Take local action to support the Nuclear Ban Treaty!
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 14 hours ago
Join us in taking action to encourage your local council to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, by joining the ICAN Cities Appeal
The Ethiopian Sojourner Truth: Meaza Gidey’s Defense of Tigray
Teodrose Fikremariam, null - 14 hours ago
We don’t have to see eye to eye or concede 100% with someone as long as we agree on foundational principalities. As long as one The post The Ethiopian Sojourner Truth: Meaza Gidey’s Defense of Tigray appeared first on .
"Economic Market Snapshot AM 3/2/21"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 14 hours ago
*"Economic Market Snapshot AM 3/2/21"* ○ "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - John Maynard Keynes *○* "Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity... Only the consequences are real - to *you*! *Your guide:* Gregory Mannarino, AM 3/2/21 *"Markets: Critical Must-Know Now Updates”* - https://traderschoice.net/ ○ "The more I see of the monied classes, the better I understand the guillotine." - George Bernard Shaw ○ *MarketWatch Market Summary, Live Updates* - https://www.mark...
Number of Injuries Reported to CDC After COVID Vaccines Climbs by Nearly 4,000 in One Week
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 14 hours ago
2 March 2021 — The Defender Between Dec. 14, 2020, and Feb. 18, 2021, 19,907 reports of adverse events were submitted to VAERS [USA], including 1,095 deaths and 3,767 serious injuries. By Children’s Health Defense Team The latest data made public by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) … Continue reading Number of Injuries Reported to CDC After COVID Vaccines Climbs by Nearly 4,000 in One Week
The American Colony of Australia
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 15 hours ago
Western media portrays Australia as a beautiful nation with independent people and a close ally of the United States. But the American Empire has no allies, only vassal states. Australia became a colony of the American empire in 1975 after an Anglo-American coup. Australians noticed nothing since Australia had been an British colony since its inception and dispatches military forces when ordered to fight empire wars.
Putin Laid it All Out: “The So-called Policy of Containing Russia”
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 15 hours ago
This past Wednesday, at a very important meeting with the FSB board, President Putin laid it all out in stark terms: We are up against the so-called policy of containing Russia. This is not about competition, which is a natural thing for international relations. This is about a consistent and quite aggressive policy aimed at disrupting our development, slowing it down, creating problems along the outer perimeter, triggering domestic instability, undermining the values that unite Russian society, and ultimately to weaken Russia and put it under external control, just the way we are w...
Biden Breaks Campaign Promise On MbS Punishment – Psaki Lies To Hide That – Guardian Fakes Quote To Hide Psaki’s Lie
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 15 hours ago
During his campaign President Joe Biden promised to punish Saudi Arabia's clown prince Mohammad bin Salman for ordering the murder of the Muslim Brotherhood propagandist Jamal Khashoggi. Like with most of his other campaign promises Biden of course never had the intention to follow through on that.
NOAA Rewriting Earth’s History
tonyheller, Real Climate Science - 13 hours ago
In 1989, the head of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center said that earth cooled from 1921 to 1979. Now they show lots of warming during that period. Analysis of warming since 1881 shows most of the increase in global temperature … Continue reading →
Deadly snowfall leaves 94 injured, hundreds of cars trapped in South Korea
One person was killed while 94 others sustained injuries as heavy snowfall engulfed South Korea's northeast region, authorities reported Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Hundreds of vehicles were trapped on some parts of a highway along the east coast, while more than...... Read more »
US Air Force's Plan To Dodge Chinese Missiles Means Dispersing Forces Away From Major Bases
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
An eight-plane formation over Guam during exercise Cope North 21, February 9, 2021. US Air Force/Senior Airman Duncan C. Bevan *Business Insider:* *The US Air Force's plan to dodge Chinese missiles means new jobs for airmen who keep fighters flying * * With an eye on China's growing missiles, the US Air Force is training to spread its forces out. * Dispersed operations means airmen will be spread thin, so the Air Force is training them to do more. The US Air Force's efforts to disperse its forces have gained new urgency as the Chinese military grows in size and reach, but oper...
Vernon Jordan, Activist, Former Clinton Adviser, Has Died
AP News, Snopes.com - 14 hours ago
After stints as field secretary for the Georgia NAACP and executive director of the United Negro College Fund, Jordan became head of the National Urban League, becoming the face of Black America’s modern struggle for jobs and justice for more than a decade.
My Social Media Experiment: A Self-Assessment
Bryan Caplan, Econlib - 14 hours ago
Early last year, I foresaw the epistemic horrors of the impending 2020 election, so I made this pledge. I am ceasing intellectual discussions on social media until March 1, 2021. I will continue blogging and promoting my own work, but will not engage until then. Here's why:https://t.co/bPAdhuxFpg — Bryan Caplan (@bryan_caplan) January 24, 2020 Near […] The post My Social Media Experiment: A Self-Assessment appeared first on Econlib.
A Remarkable Journey
Owen Gray, Northern Reflections - 14 hours ago
Most certainly, Abraham Lincoln would be disgusted. The Republican Party -- the party that freed the slaves -- is now the Party of Donald Trump. Former Republican speechwriter Michael Gerson writes: One of the poisonous legacies of Donald Trump’s presidency has been to expand the boundaries of expressible prejudice. Through the explicit practice of White-identity politics, Trump has obviated the need for code words and dog whistles. Thus his strongest supporters during the Jan. 6 riot felt free to carry Confederate battle flags and wear “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirts without fear of...
Untitled
Jenna Orkin, From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 14 hours ago
From Jenna Orkin Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia,” leaked docs reveal The Assassination of Malcolm X: Ex-Undercover Officer Admits Role in FBI & Police Conspiracy Shooting reported on first day of on-site learning at Arkansas middle school Hundreds of schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria, government official says Finland Had a Patent-Free COVID-19 Vaccine Nine Months Ago — But Still Went With Big Pharma UNITED STATES COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATIONS, 2018-2020 Stormwater Could Become an Important Water Source — If We Stopp...
Elder Care Company “Home Instead” Transfers Reported Thief to Another Client; Endangers Client Welfare and Violates Own Contract
Yves Smith, naked capitalism - 14 hours ago
How the agency Home Instead has mistreated my 93 year old mother and will be reported to the State of Alabama for elder abuse.
CBS video footage shows Iranian attack on US forces at Ain Al-Assad base in Iraq
[image: CBS video footage shows Iranian attack on US forces at Ain Al-Assad base in Iraq] BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:10 P.M.) – CBS published new scenes documenting the moment Iranian missiles landed on the Ain Al-Assad military base in Iraq, in response to the assassination of the Quds Force commander, Major General Qassem Soleimani, on January 3rd, 2020. The channel said that a drone filmed the scenes, which show Iranian ballistic missiles landing on sites at the second largest military base hosting US forces in Iraq. During an interview on the 60 Minutes program, Army Major Robert Hales...
Roscoe's Rascals
PTA Blues, Roscoe Reports - 14 hours ago
* “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”― Kahlil Gibran*
Boeing's Australian-Made Loyal Wingman Air Combat Drone With AI-Driven Targeting System Completes Its First Test Flight
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
*Warzone/The Drive:** Australia's Potentially Game-Changing Loyal Wingman Drone Has Flown For The First Time * *Boeing Airpower Teaming System is set to revolutionize how the Royal Australian Air Force fights and the drone's export potential continues to grow* Known as the Airpower Teaming System (ATS), Boeing Australia's new loyal wingman drone for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has taken to the sky for the first time. It's not clear exactly when the flight took place, but it occurred at the high-security RAAF Base Woomera and its surrounding range complex. The flight w...
Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council warns of Marib falling to Houthis, calls on Biden to end war
[image: Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council warns of Marib falling to Houthis, calls on Biden to end war] BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:45 P.M.) – The head of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council in Yemen, Aidaroos Al-Zubeidi, said on Tuesday that “US President Joe Biden can help end the 6-year-old war in Yemen by supporting the UN-sponsored referendum on the independence of the south.” Al-Zubaidi said, in an interview with the British newspaper, The Guardian, that “the referendum will show 90% support for the independence of southern Yemen, and it should take place exclusively insid...
In Peru, forcible sterilization case against Fujimori goes to court
Latin America News, The Rio Times - 15 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is on trial for his role in a 1990s government program in which many Indigenous women in poor communities say they were forcibly sterilized, and some died or suffered serious injuries because of infection. The judicial process led by Judge Rafael Martínez began Monday, March […] The post In Peru, forcible sterilization case against Fujimori goes to court appeared first on The Rio Times.
EP #8 – 21WIRE LIVE: ‘The New Space Race’ with Brian Berletic
NEWS WIRE, 21st Century Wire - 15 hours ago
*21WIRE LIVE* | Latest edition of our new talk and current affairs show.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Government-Mandated Child Abuse
A Political Junkie, Viable Opposition - 15 hours ago
Maybe it's what little remains of the optimist in me, but I keep thinking that surely people will take their governments to task over the massive losses of civil rights that we had (or thought that we had) just one short year ago. Unfortunately, such does not appear to be the case; things just keep getting more and more Orwellian. There is a prime example of government overreach in the COVID-19 era from the Region of Peel which consists of the municipalities of Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga with a population just under 1.4 million people located to the west of the Greater ...
Hegel and Derrida: On Prefaces
Unknown, The Conservative Socrates - 15 hours ago
Hegel philosophically confronts the problem of prefaces in the Preface to his book *The Phenomenology of Spirit*. The preface, Hegel posits, is not the pre-face—it is not something that is written before the book; it is a retrospective event, something that can be better described as a post-face, or a text that has been written after the book is complete. Hegel asks the reader not to take his Preface seriously, because the serious stuff is in the book which follows: “In the case of a philosophical work... such an explanation seems not only superfluous but, in view of the nature of th...
Pentagon claims 1 ‘Iran-backed’ fighter killed during east Syria strike
[image: Pentagon claims 1 ‘Iran-backed’ fighter killed during east Syria strike] Last week’s US strike at the presumed facility of “Iran-backed” militia on Syria’s territory near the border with Iraq killed one fighter and injured two others, according to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. He added, however, that the numbers are still being gathered and might change in the future. The airstrike was conducted at night between 25 and 26 February in Deir ez-Zor province bordering Iraq. According to the comparative satellite imagery published after the attack, around 10 buildings were destr...
The Supreme Court is rethinking qualified immunity
Admin, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
Yahoo News Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court provided the most recent signal that it’s rethinking the doctrine of qualified immunity — a rule the... The post The Supreme Court is rethinking qualified immunity appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Declassified Footage Shows Iran Rain Down Missiles on US Airbase?
mosesman, Socio-Economics History Blog - 17 hours ago
RT The Pentagon has declassified drone footage showing an American airbase in Iraq taking a missile pounding after the Iranian military decided to enact revenge for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani. The footage was captured on January 8, 2020 by an American drone buzzing over the base, some five days after Soleimani was killed …
Keiser Report | QE Cantillon Confirmed | E1665
mosesman, Socio-Economics History Blog - 17 hours ago
RT In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the head of the NY Fed confirming there is evidence that quantitative easing and low interest rates are causing the wealth gap to rise via the Cantillon Effect. In the second half, Max talks to Stephen Flood of GoldCore.com about the case for …
Revolutions and the Bible - Os Guinness
Norma, Collecting My Thoughts - 11 hours ago
At the 2020 Wilberforce Week-end (named for William Wilberforce, famous abolitionist) sponsored by the Colson Center), Os Guinness discusses the deep divisions in modern America. The roots go back to the 5 revolutions of the modern era--England (1642), United States (1776), France (1789), Russia (1917) and China (1949). The first two were Biblical (Exodus), and the last three were anti-Biblical. The French Revolution was based in atheism and was extremely anti-church. Today our current "revolutionaries" follow the French model. Utopian. The American Revolution is based on the idea th...
What? 64% of Russians Believe Coronavirus a Bioweapon
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Coronavirus, Europe* Distrust of public officials and narratives remain high amid the rushed Sputnik V vaccine and international sanctions on Russia. A new survey has revealed that nearly two out of three Russians believe that the novel coronavirus is a manmade biological weapon and that less than a third are willing to get vaccinated with the Russian developed Sputnik V shot. Conducted by the Levada Center polling agency in late February, the survey further showed that the findings reflect a growing public distrust toward authorities, largely fueled by the l...
This Is What a Dogfighting Helicopter Looks Like (Kind Of)
David Axe, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*David Axe* *Security, * One Marine recently said the AH-1’s air-to-air role could expand, thanks to the introduction of the F-35B stealth fighter. *Here's What You Need to Remember:* The U.S. Marine Corps’s AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter possesses a little-known capability. In addition to attacking ground and sea targets, they’re capable of fighting other helicopters—and, in a pinch, even fixed-wing warplanes. The U.S. Marine Corps’s AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter possess a little-known capability. In addition to attacking ground and sea targets, they’re capable of fighting other...
The Big War: Israel Can't Assume it Can Crush Iran in a Conflict
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *Security, * What does all this prove? *Here's What You Need to Remember: *While Iran has a larger military, a bigger population and more military manpower, that wouldn’t help much in a conflict with Israel, which doesn’t share a border with Iran, which in turn means that big Iranian armies have nowhere to go. Iran’s armed forces ranked thirteenth in the world, according to GlobalFirepower.com’s 2018 rankings, which apparently combined various statistics to assemble a composite military power rating (0.3131 for Iran, with 0.00 being a perfect score). Israel ranke...
Battleships: This Picture Is What An Obsolete Warship Looks Like
David Axe, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*David Axe* *Security, * And we need to let them sail into history. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *Battleships excelled at shore-bombardment, anti-aircraft defense and action against other battleships. But what do they have to offer for comtemporary military endeavors? And then, very quickly, the battleship became practically obsolete. *Why* is a complex question — one that University of Kentucky professor Robert Farley,an occasional War Is Boring contributor, addresses in his new tome *The Battleship Book*.’ “The world reached ‘peak battleship’ in 1918,” Farley writes, “...
Tanks: The Best Deterrent To Great Power Conflict (Like World War III)?
David Axe, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*David Axe* *Security, * Heavy ground forces are best at deterring war and boosting a country’s overall influence in the aftermath of a crisis. *Here's What You Need to Know*: A RAND study underscores the importance of armored vehicles near potential war zones. Heavy ground forces are best at deterring war and boosting a country’s overall influence in the aftermath of a crisis. But the heavy forces, which include armored vehicles such as tanks plus artillery and air-defense systems, merely should be near a conflict zone, not in it. That’s the conclusion of a February 2020 study...
Official: Merck to Help Produce Rival J&J’S COVID-19 Vaccine
AP News, Snopes.com - 14 hours ago
Officials have said J&J faced unexpected production issues with its vaccine and produced only 3.9 million doses ahead of its receiving emergency use authorization.
Police Claimed Man Died in Crash But Video Shows They Beat Him to Death
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago
[image: beaten]The family of a Louisiana man was told by police that he died in a minor fender bender but new video shows he was beaten to death by cops.
Japanese Government Asks China To Stop Imposing Anal Swab Tests For COVID-19 On Japanese Citizens.
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
FILE PHOTO. © Global Look Press / Frank Hoermann / SVEN SIMON *ABC News (Australia): **Japan asks China to stop performing anal swab tests for COVID on its citizens * The Japanese government has asked China to stop imposing anal swab tests for COVID-19 on Japanese citizens. Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government has not received a response from officials in Beijing about whether they would change the testing procedure. Mr Kato said Japan would continue to ask China to alter the way of testing because of the damage it caused to those who have to undergo the pro...
Tweets Of The Day
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
Virus update: •Report: Pandemic fueled global attacks on health workers. •Asian-Americans reflect on attacks during pandemic. •China's vaccines have swept much of the world. •Israeli leader slammed on vaccine diplomacy. Follow all @AP coverage: https://t.co/3sVjjZ0iIP — The Associated Press (@AP) March 2, 2021 France WILL give AstraZeneca jab to over-65s in humiliating U-turn for Emmanuel Macron https://t.co/V04dge1d3R pic.twitter.com/CUJq43hCT3 — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) March 2, 2021 NEWS BULLETIN AT 1200GMT 🇲🇲 Myanmar security forces fire live rounds and tear gas at pr...
Canada Revenue Agency has fined cannabis firms CA$1.3 million since adult-use market launch
Matt Lamers, Marijuana Business Daily - 15 hours ago
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has issued cannabis-related fines totaling 1.3 million Canadian dollars ($1 million) since adult-use marijuana was legalized in October 2018, Marijuana Business Daily has learned. The nearly two-dozen penalties for violations of the Excise Act include one large levy of approximately CA$500,000, according to the CRA, which collects taxes and administers […] Canada Revenue Agency has fined cannabis firms CA$1.3 million since adult-use market launch is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
HEROES ARE BAD FOR YOU
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog - 15 hours ago
My feelings about Andrew Cuomo are the same as my feelings about the Lincoln Project: I have no guilt about praising what Cuomo did for a certain stretch of the pandemic because he never became my hero. He'd been a left-centrist governor who fought to keep progressives out of power. It was clear that there were far too many deaths in state nursing homes early in the pandemic for Cuomo to be regarded as an unblemished public health hero. And yet he did rally the state for a while. By fall it seemed that we really had crushed the curve. In a country run by Donald Trump, he seemed to b...
8th paroxysm starts at Etna volcano with very strong ash emission, Italy
The 8th paroxysmal eruptive episode since February 16 has started at Etna volcano around 13:00 UTC on March 2, 2021. The Aviation Color Code was raised to Red at 12:39 UTC. In VONA released at 13:17 UTC, Etna Volcano Observatory reported very strong ash emission...... Read more »
Modern day slavery--labor, sex and children
Norma, Collecting My Thoughts - 15 hours ago
Our book club selection today was "7 men and 7 women," by Eric Metaxas. Two of the individuals, William Wilberforce and Hannah More were English abolitionists. Amazing stories--and few people know of them, nor did most people of their era (18th century) know about the evils of slavery. Same thing is happening today. There's more slavery today than in the 18th century. Candace Owens interviews Tim Ballard who is fighting sex slavery--of children. The fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world is selling people. Most people don't know that. Now you'll have no excuse. Candace and...
COVID-19 update
Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 15 hours ago
The good news is that, after more than three weeks fighting COVID-19, both Miss D. and myself have now officially tested negative for the disease. Her boss had said that she couldn't return to work unless and until that happened, due to the risk of infection, and I can't blame him. She tested negative before I did, but I had a worse dose of Kung Flu than she did, so that's not surprising. (When we both first caught it, about a year ago, I had an easier time than she did, despite being in poorer health and with more potential co-morbidities. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme...
LA Schools To Launch Microsoft COVID-Tracking App So Children Can Attend Classes
A Reader, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden The Los Angeles school district is launching a Microsoft-developed a COVID-tracking app for children, which allows students to schedule... The post LA Schools To Launch Microsoft COVID-Tracking App So Children Can Attend Classes appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Biden Set To Inflict Wounds On Eurasia
M. K. BHADRAKUMAR, OrientalReview.org - 15 hours ago
Mikhail Gorbachev in a special interview to the Tass news agency on Monday gave a poignant message to the Kremlin by calling for the strengthening of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Collective Security treaty Organization and for mending relations with those former Soviet republics which are “at odds” with […]
$35 Trillion Buys A Lot Of Corruption
Video Rebel, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
Video Rebel’s Blog The World Economic Forum has told us that at the End of the Great Reset in 2030 “you will own nothing but... The post $35 Trillion Buys A Lot Of Corruption appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Marijuana cultivators should rethink how they measure water use, new report says
Andrew Long, Marijuana Business Daily - 17 hours ago
As demand for water increases and the supply remains limited, marijuana cultivators might need to change the way they think about and measure their use of this precious resource, according to a new report compiled by three organizations. Early efforts quantified facility water use by focusing on gallons per plant. But that model doesn’t take […] Marijuana cultivators should rethink how they measure water use, new report says is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
View from inside the gut of the empire
Bruce K. Gagnon, Organizing Notes - 13 hours ago
- I'm reading a fascinating book about two Americans who moved to China during Mao's rise to power following WW II. A woman named Joan Hinton (who was a nuclear physicist and worked on the Manhattan Project) and her dairy farming husband Sid Engst. She was offered a teaching job in China but turned it down and worked on a dairy farm with her husband near the Mongolian border. While pregnant Joan was attending Lamaze classes in Beijing. (Lamaze was created by the former Soviet Union.) Fascinating read. The book is called 'Silage Choppers & Snake Spirit...
SR-71 Blackbird: The Fastest Plane on Earth Was Super Expensive
David Axe, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*David Axe* *Security, * High performance often comes at high cost. *Here's What You Need to Remember:* It took an army of people just to prepare the aircraft. Twenty years after its final retirement, the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane still is the fastest and highest-flying aircraft ever. In 36 years of service with the CIA, the U.S. Air Force and NASA, the 50 SR-71s and A-12, FY-12 and M-21 variants flew missions over the Middle East, Vietnam and North Korea and supported important research. "It still looks like something from the future, even though it was designed back in the 19...
There's a Reason China's Military Drones Come So Cheap
David Axe, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*David Axe* *Security, Asia* But the Chinese drones seem to be going out of style. *Here's What You Need to Remember:* Everyone wants drones these days, but sometimes it is worth buying American. That's what some countries are finding out the hard way. China’s CH-4 killer drone appears to be falling out of favor with some of its major operators. *This first appeared in August 2019 and is being reposted due to reader interest.* The Iraqi air force is down to just one operational CH-4 out of a fleet of around 10, according to an August 2019 report from the U.S. inspector-general...
Slaughter? What If Hitler Used Chemical Weapons on D-Day?
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *History, Europe* It could have turned out differently. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Even if D-Day had failed, the war would have continued. Despite Hitler's hopes that defeating D-Day would persuade the Allies to seek peace, the Soviet armies would have continued to march on Germany, and the Allies would have eventually mounted another invasion. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's face was grim but composed as he read a short message to the assembled group of reporters on the morning of June 7, 1944. *"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gai...
Deathmatch: How Do China's Fighter Jets Compare to the U.S. Air Force?
David Axe, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*David Axe* *Security, Asia* The Chinese air force is developing a two-tier fighter fleet. *Here's What You Need to Know*: Despite China's rapid improvement of its fighter force, it's still smaller and less modern than is that of its main rival. While observers focus their attention on China's new J-20 stealth fighter, the Chinese air force steadily is improving and building more copies of an only slightly less sophisticated fighter: the J-10. Much like the U.S. Air Force with its mix of stealthy and non-stealthy fighters, the Chinese air force is developing a two-tier fighter f...
How the U.S. Navy Moves Killer M1 Abrams Tanks to War
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *U.S. Navy, * [image: M1 Abrams Tank] And those capabilities will now be enhanced thanks to new investments in new Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) vessels Moving 70-ton Abrams tanks across the ocean at 35knots, transporting 600 tons of cargo 1,200 nautical miles, and delivering Special Operations Forces from a “sea-basing” tactical vantage point are all missions now being performed by the Navy’s growing fleet of Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) vessels. While officially termed “non-combatant” ships, EPF ships are not themselves armed with weapons but instead b...
Pearl Harbor, 2021: Could China Hit the US in a Surprise Attack?
David Axe, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*David Axe* *Security, * Forward-deployed U.S. forces in Japan and Guam would be a key target. *Here's What You Need to Remember*: It would be risky, but U.S. forces are more vulnerable than you think. The U.S. military must find ways of defeating any attempt by China to launch surprise strikes using non-nuclear weapons, analyst Sam Goldsmith argued in a new article for *Naval War College Review*. “China likely would aim to confine itself to the use of conventional weapons during any potential high-intensity conflict with the United States—particularly given that China already p...
China Task Force: How the U.S. Military Is Planning to Take on China
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *China Military, Asia* [image: China Task Force] The Pentagon’s newly established China Task Force is now formally underway, a move that introduces the prospect of strategic and operational military adjustments in the Pacific intended to ensure stability and counter Chinese provocations. The Pentagon’s newly established China Task Force is now formally underway, a move that introduces the prospect of strategic and operational military adjustments in the Pacific intended to ensure stability and counter Chinese provocations. One area of likely focus is the ongoing ...
What Can the U.S. Air Force Learn from the Failure of the YF-23?
David Axe, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*David Axe* *History, Americas* Buying F-23s instead of F-22s wouldn’t have changed the recent arc of U.S. history. *Here's What You Need to Know*: The YF-22 and YF-23 were very different airplanes, each with its own design trade-offs and approaches to achieving the fast-far-stealthy requirement. The mystique that today surrounds Northrop Grumman’s YF-23 *isn’t entirely healthy*. It reflects a tendency in many Americans to look for technological solutions to human problems. Buying F-23s instead of F-22s wouldn’t have changed the recent arc of U.S. history. It wouldn’t have stop...
The Army Is Eager to Get Its Hands On These 5 Weapons
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *Security, * We are witnessing a gradual disappearance of Cold War weaponry. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *The Army plans to mount directed energy weapons -- lasers -- on the Stryker, which can engage targets more quickly than missiles, and don't run out of ammunition (except for electricity). The U.S. Army already fields an impressive array of weapons. But as the U.S. Army prepares itself for potential conflicts against high-tech Russian and Chinese armies, the Army is working on a slew of new systems ranging from tanks to missiles. The result will be the g...
A Japan-China Naval War: Joe Biden's Nightmare?
Kyle Mizokami, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, Asia* Until recently a naval war between Japan and China was not a serious proposition. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Increasingly, China has the ability to take on the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Adding more aircraft carriers, more cruise missile submarines, or better training—all easily achievable conditions—could shift what is now a precarious balance decisively to the Chinese side. Until recently a naval war between Japan and China was not a serious proposition. As recently as the 1980s, China was a “green water” navy barely capable o...
NATO Is Now Using the F-35 To Make Old Fighters Even Deadlier
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *F-35, Europe* [image: By MSgt John Nimmo Sr. - http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imageRetrieve.action?guid=4170659e3b70500a211e98d9638c14ef920dd823&t=2, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49689119] Italy, Norway, Poland, The Netherlands, the U.S., and the U.K. are all increasing joint 4th-Gen aircraft-F-35 interoperability exercises with one another, as the Pentagon looks to strengthen NATO ties and increase its Russia-oriented deterrence posture throughout the European continent. Italy, Norway, Poland, The Netherlands, the U.S., and the U....
Picture Of The Day
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 15 hours ago
Demonstrators take shelter behind a barricade and some vehicles as riot police officers stand in front of them during a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer *WNU Editor: *The above picture caem from this photo-gallery .... *Protests continue after the bloodiest day since Myanmar military coup started* (Reuters).
L'accord sur les indications géographiques entre la Chine et l'UE entre en vigueur
bilaterals.org - 15 hours ago
02-Mar-2021 100 indications géographiques de chaque côté, impliquant des boissons alcoolisées, du thé, des aliments et des produits agricoles, ont été placées sous protection.
Opinion: Are Venezuelan refugees worth less than those from Syria and South Sudan?
Contributing Reporter, The Rio Times - 15 hours ago
By Rafael Osío Cabrices RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) The Brookings Institute, a U.S. think tank, has been following Venezuela for many years, and has been claiming since 2020 that Venezuela's refugee crisis is severely underfunded. The most recent update by its analysts acknowledges a change of pace in the Venezuelan mass migration due […] The post Opinion: Are Venezuelan refugees worth less than those from Syria and South Sudan? appeared first on The Rio Times.

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