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Russian Jet Fighters, Bombers, And Helicopters Fly Over Moscow’s Red Square During Victory Day Parade (May 9, 2021)
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago
*RT:* *WATCH: Russian warplanes shine in fly-over at Victory Day parade in Moscow despite gloomy weather * Russian jet fighters and helicopters of all shapes and sizes flew over Moscow’s Red Square on Sunday, as Russia celebrated victory over Nazism in WWII. There were worries that the aircraft would be grounded due to the cloudy weather, but the planes were cleared for flight at the last moment. *Read more *.... *WNU Editor:* My favorite part of the above video was how they filmed the four SU-57 in formation over Moscow (see video below).
Gregory Mannarino, AM 5/9/21: "Markets, A Look Ahead: A False Flag Event Has Occurred"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 11 hours ago
Gregory Mannarino, AM 5/9/21: *"Markets, A Look Ahead: A False Flag Event Has Occurred"* - https://traderschoice.net And so... "Cyberattack Forces Shutdown Of Largest Gasoline Pipeline In United States"
SOCIALISM SUCKS! SOCIALISM DOESN'T SUCK ENOUGH!
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog - 11 hours ago
I'm back. Thank you, Yas, for some great work while I was away. I just spotted this in my neighborhood: This isn't unprecedented -- Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA and other right-wing groups like to sneak around and make their presence felt this way on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, after which they delude themselves into believing that they've successfully redpilled the libs. (They haven't -- Donald Trump got 12.3% of the Manhattan vote in 2020.) But consider the slogan "Socialism Sucks." This is meant to convey the notion that liberalism (which is what right-wingers mean wh...
Tweets Of The Day
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 11 hours ago
Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: 🇮🇳 India's rocketing records 🇪🇸 Party-time in Spain 🇩🇪 Freedom for fully vaccinated Germans 🇫🇷 France 'playing politics' with virus 🇷🇴 Jabs with Dracula ⚰️ Almost 3.3 million fatalitieshttps://t.co/NqrcQHLN8q pic.twitter.com/qy2TEaObOr — AFP News Agency (@AFP) May 9, 2021 Clashes erupted between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police outside the Old City of Jerusalem as tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers prayed at al-Aqsa Mosque on Islam's holy night of Laylat al-Qadr https://t.co/JPvjuIMuwM pic.twitter.co...
How about some good news for a change?...(must see video)
Adrienne, Adrienne's Corner - 11 hours ago
*brought to us by Michael Matt of The Remnant Newspaper - and we thank him! * *Resistance is not futile!* *STUPID IDEAS: Why The Great Reset Will Fail* *From The Remnant: * Hey, remember 'contact tracing'? Whatever happened to that? Joe Biden's mask mandate never happened, either. What gives? Even Team Gates is falling apart. Did the lunatics at Davos jump the shark? In this edition of The Editor's Desk, Michael J. Matt talks good news. With mask mandates collapsing all over the country, and Blue state governors losing in court, there's an opportunity to push back against the COV...
This Day In Iraqi History - May 9
Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 11 hours ago
1935 Iraqi air force dropped flyers telling tribes to end revolt in Diwaniya or govt would punish them Tribes refused Govt started bombing area Martial law declared Rumaitha Gen Sidqi put in command of putting down revolt (Musings On Iraq review *Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970*) 1941 Germany announced aid package for Iraq (Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria) 1941 German diplomat arrived in Syria to organize arms shipments to Iraq 1941 Start of 100 German and 20 Italian airplanes landing in Syrian bases to fight ...
UK faces electric shock: Reliance on Europe for power could land Britain in big trouble
HiFast, Climate Collections - 12 hours ago
Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Offshore wind farm [image credit: Wikipedia] Please Monsieur, can we have some extra power today? ‘Non! – unless you agree to my latest terms and conditions’. Replacing power stations with intermittent renewables has exposed weaknesses others are already showing a willingness to exploit.– – –The fishing row which saw…
BBC, Free Media, and Julian Assange
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 12 hours ago
A video in which Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev is interviewed by Orla Guerin has resurfaced; the interview took place in November 2020. (The BBC version.) Revealing is what is not seen in the BBC version. When Aliyev held up the mirror to Guerin’s “accusation” that there was no free media in Azerbaijan, the BBC responded by censoring Aliyev’s reference to Assange.
Marx on technology
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 12 hours ago
The longest chapter in Capital is the fifteenth, on “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry.” At almost 150-pages, it’s really a book in itself, a staggeringly dense and expansive discussion that could easily standalone—not only as a brilliant exegesis of capitalist machinery, but also as a sweeping social history of technology. At its broadest reach, the chapter is a vivid demonstration of historical materialism in action, of Marx’s method put through its dialectical paces. As ever with Marx, his footnotes aren’t to be passed over glibly: they’re worth studying, pondering over for the ...
Inflation and financial risk
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 12 hours ago
Is inflation coming back in the major capitalist economies? As the US economy (in particular) and other major economies begin to rebound from the COVID slump of 2020, the talk among mainstream economists is whether inflation in the prices for goods and services in those economies is going to accelerate to the point where central banks have to tighten monetary policy (ie stop injecting credit into the banking system and raise interest rates). And if that were to happen, would it cause a collapse in the stock and bond markets and bankruptcies for many weaker companies as the cost of ...
Poll shows favorite Castillo drop and Fujimori rise in Peru’s presidential runoff
Latin America News, The Rio Times - 11 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A new poll this Sunday, May 9, showed the decline of presidential candidate Pedro Castillo to 36.2% of voting intentions and the increase to 30% in favor of presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, in the upcoming second round of the presidential elections in Peru. The Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP) survey […] The post Poll shows favorite Castillo drop and Fujimori rise in Peru’s presidential runoff appeared first on The Rio Times.
2 Catholic Bishops at Odds over Biden Receiving Communion
AP News, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
There’s a deep gulf between Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego.
Miniature root vegetables and dandelion leaves ‘to replace potatoes and lettuce because of climate change’
Paul Homewood, NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 11 hours ago
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Jackanory comes from Kew Gardens today! Potatoes and lettuce will have to be replaced in the UK by small, mustardy root vegetables and dandelion leaves as a warming climate means we cannot rely on traditional crops, Kew Gardens has said. Horticulturalists and scientists at […]
Rio police operation: “One of the biggest rights violations I have ever seen,” says public defender
The Rio Times, The Rio Times - 11 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Men arrested in the Civil Police operation that left 29 dead in the Jacarezinho community, a Rio de Janeiro favela, on Thursday, May 6, the most lethal in the history of Rio de Janeiro, reported in a custody hearing having been beaten, threatened and forced by police officers to carry […] The post Rio police operation: “One of the biggest rights violations I have ever seen,” says public defender appeared first on The Rio Times.
Did NBC Fire Donald Trump From ‘The Apprentice’?
Jordan Liles, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
Trump's famous catchphrase on the reality TV series was, "You're fired."
Kodak Agfa Presents : Egypt’s Spring Flowers Show 2021
egyptianchronicler@gmail.com (Zeinobia), Egyptian Chronicles - 12 hours ago
Happy Belated Sham El-Nassim to all Egyptian Chronicles Last Monday we celebrated Egypt’s oldest feast that we inherited from the ancient Egyptians themselves. We celebrated Shamu or the Season of the Harvest. [image: From Egypt's Spring Flowers Show 2021] A partition in Egypt's Spring Flowers show On this occasion, Kodak Agfa proudly presents a collection of photos from Egypt’s Spring Flowers Shows 2021. Yes, Egypt held its oldest exhibit in its modern time once again in March 2021 after it was suspended in 2020 due to coronavirus. Organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Agric...
China Says Most Rocket Debris Burned Up During Reentry
AP News, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
People in Jordan, Oman, and Saudi Arabia reported sightings of the Chinese rocket debris on social media.
Monetary Policy Won't Stop Inflation, Physical Growth Will
Benjamin Deniston, LaRouchePAC.com - All Posts - 12 hours ago
As inflation surges—in basic commodities, used cars, home prices, etc., the response coming from inside the Beltway is doomed to fail. Monetarist tools, whether it be government spending or adjusting money supply and interest rates, miss the twin elephants in the room: an out-of-control speculative bubble, reignited since the 2008 crash, and the collapse of real physical production, fueled by the pandemic shutdowns and green policies.
Picture Of The Day
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago
Russian servicewomen march in formation during the Victory Day military parade in the Red Square in Moscow *WNU Editor:* The above picture came form this post .... *Vladimir Putin denounces return of 'Russophobia' during show of might at annual Victory Day parade to celebrate 76th anniversary of victory in WWII* (Daily Mail). More pictures here .... *WWII’s Lessons, Combat Robots and Russia’s Women Warriors: Highlights From the Moscow Victory Parade* (Sputnik).
$3,600 Stimulus Check (For Parents) Is Coming on July 1st
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Child Tax Credit, Americas* The child tax credit was recently increased in size and should help many families with multiple children pay their bills. *Key point: *The expanded child tax credit provides a benefit per child. Here is how it could be distributed monthly or on a single sum. More Americans are quickly finding out that it is not just $1,400 coronavirus stimulus checks that make up a huge part of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan. The most notable within recent weeks is the new $3,000 or $3,600 child tax credit, which aims to keep struggling...
Woah: This Footage Shows Some Impressive Flying From the F-35
Mark Episkopos, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Mark Episkopos* *F-35, Americas* [image: F-35] The F-35 can do a lot of pretty cool tricks, but is it really enough for the modern battlefield? *Key point: *The F-35 is neat, but it has nothing on the F-22 in terms of flying capabilities. Will this matter in a future war? Fresh off a major personnel shakeup, the new F-35A demonstration team has an ambitious performance lineup in store for the 2020 season. In a potential preview of the team’s fresh routines for its upcoming shows, a highly-circulated 2019 video depicts Capt. Andrew "Dojo" Olson performing an impressive series of...
Peru administered two million vaccinations among its population
Latin America News, The Rio Times - 12 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Peru has reached this Saturday the two million vaccines against covid-19 applied among its population. During a day dedicated to the immunization of adults over 70 years of age in Lima. "Today, we surpassed the two million vaccines applied, and I am happy that it has taken place in this […] The post Peru administered two million vaccinations among its population appeared first on The Rio Times.
The Bulls are Getting Exhausted—The Bears are Coming
Unknown, The Conservative Socrates - 12 hours ago
In November 2016, Paul Krugman said in an article that now that Trump is the president, he expected the stocks to plunge. He offered a bleak prognosis for the future: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.” Krugman’s analysis of stock prices was obviously effected by his low opinion of Trump and the conservatives, but when I read his article, I thought that it would be a good thing if the stock prices in major economies were to crash and remain at a low level for at least two years. I have been rooting for a crash in the world markets since 201...
Victory Day Parade In Moscow (Video)
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago
*WNU Editor: *The first video has no translation. I prefer to watch the parade live and in Russian. The second video has an English translation.
São Paulo government puts 22 small airports up for auction and plans new regional routes
Richard Mann, The Rio Times - 12 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The government of São Paulo has scheduled the auction of 22 regional airports for July of this year and included important units that are either at a standstill or unable to be expanded, such as the terminals in Ribeirão Preto, Presidente Prudente and São José do Rio Preto. The expectation […] The post São Paulo government puts 22 small airports up for auction and plans new regional routes appeared first on The Rio Times.
Grab Bag
E.M.Smith, Musings from the Chiefio - 12 hours ago
A Grab Bag of Stuff, open discussion. Continue reading →
Video of Man Attacking Actor to ‘Save Jesus’ Resurfaces on TikTok
Jordan Liles, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
The TikTok video was captioned: "Me going back in time to help Jesus."
For Victory Day: It’s Time to Think About Finally Winning WWII
Matthew Ehret, The Duran - 12 hours ago
76 years ago Germany surrendered to allied forces finally ending the ravages of the Second World War. Today, as the world celebrates the anniversary of this victory, why not think very seriously about finally winning that war once and for all? If you’re confused by this statement, then you might want to sit down and […]
Was Morgan Freeman on ‘The Electric Company’?
Dan Evon, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago
The Oscar-winning actor's roles have ranged from detectives to God to children's show disk jockeys.
How the U.S. Government Can Learn to See the Future
jciocca, Lawfare - 14 hours ago
A U.S. Marine surveys the area near the Afghan Uniform Police Headquarters in Kajaki, Afghanistan, on March 31, 2013. Photo credit: Sgt. Bobby J. Yarbrough via DVIDS/Public Domain Editor’s Note: *Intelligence assessments are made under tremendous time pressure with imperfect information, so it is no surprise that they are often wrong. They can be better, but the intelligence community often fails to use the best analytic techniques. Julia Ciocca, Michael C. Horowitz, Lauren Kahn and Christian Ruhl of Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania explain the current deficienc...
What’s The Valneva COVID-19 Vaccine, The French Shot That’s Supposed to Be ‘Variant Proof’?
Adam Taylor, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Adam Taylor* *Coronavirus, Europe* The hope is vaccines using this technology would be able to provide protection for longer, rather than keep being reformulated to get ahead of these new variants. A COVID-19 vaccine from French company Valneva has yet to complete clinical trials. But it has caught the eye of governments in the UK, Europe and Australia. One of the vaccine’s main selling points is its apparent ability to mount a more general immune response against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, rather than rely on the spike protein to do this. This means the vacci...
Trump’s Facebook Ban Upheld – But The Future of The Oversight Board Is in Doubt
The Conversation, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*The Conversation* *Technology, America* How long will the board that upheld the ban on President Trump continue to exist in its current form? Referred to by some as Facebook’s “supreme court”, the oversight board tasked with reversing or upholding Facebook’s content moderation decisions has ruled that the social media company’s ban of Donald Trump should be maintained. The board upheld Facebook’s January 7 decision to ban then-President Trump from posting content on Facebook and Instagram, after his social media activity was partially blamed for inciting the violence at the Jan...
Bonus Stimulus Check Coming? “Plus-up” Stimulus Payments, Explained.
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Plus-Up Payments, Americas* [image: Plus-Up Payments] These plus-up payments help folks who actually qualified for the entire stimulus amount but were previously incorrectly denied due to out-of-date income tax information. *Key point: *It can pay (literally) to submit your income taxes. If the IRS has the correct information, it can find out if you really do qualify for a stimulus and then get that payment to you. In recent months, the IRS has been sending out $1,400 stimulus checks, and at the beginning of April, it began sending another type of check, called ...
Sunday Supplemental
Larry-Lambert, Virtual Mirage - 13 hours ago
General Housekeeping Red Mist (the novel), a collaborative SciFi work with Jules Smith, is complete and the editing process is near completion. I received an e-mail asking when it may be out. That’s a slightly more complicated question because I am trying to get it published by an established publisher rather than going […] The post Sunday Supplemental appeared first on Virtual Mirage.
Cancer Cure?: How One Type of RNA Could Be The Future of Treatment
The Conversation, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*The Conversation* *Global Health, * [image: Cancer] Some long non-coding RNAs make it easier for cancer cells to multiply. Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things. So, in order to treat or cure almost any disease or condition – including cancer – you first need to have a fundamental understanding of cell biology. While researchers have a pretty good understanding of what each component of a cell does, there are still things we don’t know about them – including the role that some RNAs molecules play in a cell. Finding the answer to this may be key in developing ...
Chip shortage affects the whole world – and Brazil imports 90% of what it consumes
The Rio Times, The Rio Times - 13 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus (covid-19) has caused a breakdown in the production chains worldwide, causing several factories to face shortages of raw materials and products. In Brazil and worldwide, one of the main components in shortage is the semiconductor chips, responsible for conducting electrical currents and used […] The post Chip shortage affects the whole world – and Brazil imports 90% of what it consumes appeared first on The Rio Times.
Death toll soars to 50 in school bombing in Afghan capital
Mary, From the Trenches World Report - 13 hours ago
Yahoo News KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Grieving families buried their dead Sunday following a horrific bombing at a girls’ school in the Afghan capital that... The post Death toll soars to 50 in school bombing in Afghan capital appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Inside the California hotels housing hundreds of migrant families who are provided with free meals, clothing, and even transportation to their final destination – under $500,000-a-month government scheme
Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 13 hours ago
Daily Mail An Iranian couple fleeing religious persecution, a Venezuelan mother escaping political violence, and an Ecuadorean family who just want a better life: these... The post Inside the California hotels housing hundreds of migrant families who are provided with free meals, clothing, and even transportation to their final destination – under $500,000-a-month government scheme appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
China’s Intentionally Out-of Control Rogue Rocket Crashes Near the Maldives; China Plans Many More
miningawareness, Mining Awareness + - 13 hours ago
As though worrying about tornados, hurricanes, and earthquakes weren’t enough, China’s dropping rocket debris, apparently by design, and China plans … Continue reading →
POLICE STATE: Watch the moment a SWAT team arrests a Canadian pastor
Norm, From the Trenches World Report - 13 hours ago
Rebel News May 8, 2021 They hunted him down like he’s a terrorist. Police cars swarmed him as he drove home from his church. They... The post POLICE STATE: Watch the moment a SWAT team arrests a Canadian pastor appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Canada’s Covid Vaccine Weekly Harm & Injury Report: 50 Deaths This WEEK - Health Canada Okay's Child Experimentation
Penny, Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours ago
*As has always been the case the weekly report information is used here. The data is up to and including April 30th/21- Even though that is not correct, due to the every constant two week lag.* **There have been a total of 4,548 reports (33.9 reports per 100,000 doses administered) up to and including April 30, 2021. Of the 4,548 reports, 748 were considered serious (5.6 reports per 100,000 doses administered).* *33.9 reports of adverse effects per 100,000. Let’s say 34 because that’s what it is. Nearly 6 in every 100,000 shots result in serious adverse effects. Of course what ...
Covid-19: Brazil registers 63,400 new cases and 2,200 deaths (May 8)
The Rio Times, The Rio Times - 13 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil registers 421,316 covid-19 deaths so far. In 24 hours, 2,202 deaths and 63,430 new cases were confirmed. In total, 15,145,879 cases have been diagnosed in the country. The number of people recovered totaled 13,677,668 - 90.3% of the total number infected with the new coronavirus. There are still 3,706 […] The post Covid-19: Brazil registers 63,400 new cases and 2,200 deaths (May 8) appeared first on The Rio Times.
Liz Cheney Will Lose her GOP House Chair Not Because She Voted to Impeach Trump But Because She Plotted Against Him
Alexander Mercouris, The Duran - 14 hours ago
Liz Cheney Will Lose her GOP House Chair Not Because She Voted to Impeach Trump But Because She Plotted Against Him ***EXCLUSIVE*** SuperU/Odysee/Locals
Time Magazine Confirms Ukraine Closed Opposition TV Stations To Silence Discussion of Hunter Biden
Alexander Mercouris, The Duran - 14 hours ago
Time Magazine Confirms Ukraine Closed Opposition TV Stations To Silence Discussion of Hunter Biden Exclusive: Ukraine Releases ‘Shock’ Call With Giuliani As Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial Begins Exclusive: Ukraine Releases ‘Shock’ Call With Giuliani As Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial Begins The call, a transcript of which was obtained by TIME, provides the clearest picture yet […]
EU – China Trade Deal crumbles. Germany ready to go solo & trade with China
The Duran, The Duran - 14 hours ago
EU – China Trade Deal crumbles. Germany ready to go solo & trade with China The Duran: Episode 964 EU denies it has suspended efforts to ratify China investment deal EU denies it has suspended efforts to ratify China investment deal Fate of proposed treaty suffers another blow as EU trade chief is reported saying […]
International Law v ‘Rules Based Order’; Wang Yi and Lavrov Battle Blinken at UN
Alexander Mercouris, The Duran - 14 hours ago
International Law v ‘Rules Based Order’; Wang Yi and Lavrov Battle Blinken at UN News Topic 145 Chinese FM puts forward four propositions for practicing true multilateralism Chinese FM puts forward four propositions for practicing true multilateralism Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi chairs the UN Security Council’s high-level videoconference briefing on “Maintenance […]
Trudeau calls critics of his Internet Censorship plan “TIN FOIL HATS”
Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 14 hours ago
Trudeau calls critics of his Internet Censorship plan “TIN FOIL HATS” ****News Topic 401***** Justin Trudeau dismisses critics of internet censorship bill as “tin foil hats” Justin Trudeau dismisses critics of internet censorship bill as “tin foil hats” Bill C-10 is accused of being designed to silence Canadians online.
Pharmageddon – Plague of Corruption: Covid-19
miningawareness, Mining Awareness + - 14 hours ago
“DR JUDY MIKOVITS – PHARMAGEDDON” (Interview, First published at 07:24 UTC on May 4th, 2021) Link: https://www.bitchute.com/video/JOxcEPPVS8kJ/ Press Release re … Continue reading →
Sweden stops PCR tests as Covid-19 Diagnosis
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 14 hours ago
The PCR technology used in tests to detect viruses cannot distinguish between viruses capable of infecting cells and viruses that have been neutralized by the immune system and therefore these tests cannot be used to determine whether someone is contagious or not. RNA from viruses can often be detected for weeks (sometimes months) after the illness but does not mean that you are still contagious. There are also several scientific studies that suggest that the infectivity of covid-19 is greatest at the beginning of the disease period.
The Brazilian Livestreams Guide for Sunday, May 9, 2021
Beatriz Miranda, The Rio Times - 1 day ago
LIVESTREAM: Diogo Nogueira (online) – Diogo Nogueira will celebrate this Mother's Day with a lively samba session. The show will be livestreamed at 12 PM on Nogueira's Youtube channel. Diogo Nogueira – live on Diogo Nogueira's Youtube channel. Check the event for further details. The post The Brazilian Livestreams Guide for Sunday, May 9, 2021 appeared first on The Rio Times.
China's VT-4 Tank Is for Sale, But Is Anybody Buying?
Charlie Gao, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Charlie Gao* *Technology, Asia* How does the VT-4’s technology stack up against Russia’s T-90S, America’s M1 Abrams export models or the Leopard 2? *Here's What You Need to Remember: *While the capabilities of the VT-4 are not revolutionary in any way, it is a solid tank for its price, that will likely have good support from the manufacturing base in China. While China’s primary tank is the ZTZ-99, its military industry (in the Western tradition) has also developed completely original designs for export. One of the designs that’s achieved considerable success is the VT-4, which...
Why Joe Biden Isn’t Pushing Hard for Another Stimulus Check
Trevor Filseth, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Trevor Filseth* *Stimulus, Americas* However, while Biden did not commit to further stimulus checks—in the form of direct payments to Americans—he did promise to implement a number of other economic proposals. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Polling suggests that the plan’s proposals are broadly popular among Americans, possibly putting pressure on uncertain legislators to approve them. In U.S. politics, nothing is certain, but the American Families Plan seems like a decent bet. Although it is too early to say, the answer seems to be that there will not be a fourth round of...
U.S. Military Leaders Are Worried about the Proposed 2022 Budget—Here’s Why
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *Military Budget, * Even with an Afghan drawdown, there would be absolutely no sensible basis upon which to reduce the size of Army end strength. Senior Army leaders may be showing some concern about the yet-to-be-announced 2022 budget request, adding that they would rather not be forced to choose between “better weapons and more soldiers” due to competing budget demands and planned expenditures. The question, cited in an article from Defense One, quotes Acting Sec. John Whitley as telling Congress “I think there is a lot of risk in the budget.” The article also su...
Non-Nuclear EMP Weapons: How to Deter China's Growing Military Might?
John Rossomando, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*John Rossomando* *China, Asia* It behooves the U.S. military to move the development of non-nuclear EMPs to near the top of the list of next-generation wonder weapons. In the event of war with the People’s Republic of China, the United States and its allies will face a larger Chinese force fighting largely on its home turf. It will require the development of weapons systems that can disable multiple targets within a set range. Non-Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse (NNEMP) weapons could have such a promise when it comes to knocking out Chinese radars, warships, and military installat...
160,000,000 Stimulus Checks: How the IRS Send Out Billions of Dollars
Trevor Filseth, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Trevor Filseth* *Stimulus, * How did the IRS do it? The first stimulus check, sent out in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, ultimately distributed 160 million payments amounting to roughly $270 billion to American families. It was one of the most popular measures of President Trump’s pandemic response, and data suggests that it played a key role in keeping many families from financial emergency in the early days of the pandemic. Interestingly, however, of the 160 million payments sent out, 1.25 million – totaling $2.1 billion – were either never claimed or were returned...
Two More Rounds of Stimulus Checks Could Really Help: The Odds
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Fourth or Fifth Stimulus Check, * Most of the data points to the fact that the U.S. economy is now on the fast lane to a full recovery, even though the pandemic hasn’t been fully contained yet. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *It appears that many Washington lawmakers have taken note. Last month, nearly two dozen Democratic senators pressed Biden to include recurring direct payments in his “Build Back Better” legislation. Over the past couple of months, more than one hundred sixty million coronavirus stimulus checks—valued at $384 billion—have been disburs...
These Five Bombers Have Enough Firepower to Wipe Out Whole Nations
Robert Farley, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Robert Farley* *Bombers, * It takes a lot of work and money to make a good bomber. Here are some countries that pulled it off. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Most of the early Cold War bombers were expensive failures, eventually to be superseded by ICBMs and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Bombers are the essence of strategic airpower. While fighters have often been important to air forces, it was the promise of the heavy bomber that won and kept independence for the United States Air Force and the Royal Air Force. At different points in time, air forces in the Unit...
We’ve Got the F-22 Stealth Fighter Doing Some Impressive Flying on Tape
Mark Episkopos, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Mark Episkopos* *F-22, Americas* [image: F-22] The F-22 is one of the finest warplanes with some excellent engines to boot. *Key point: *The newer F-35 may be flashy and high-tech, but the F-22 is better at flying. Here is what one such stealth fighter recently did to prove that. Earlier this month, the F-22 Raptor demonstration team marked Veteran’s Day with a breathtaking promotional video. Coming in at just under three minutes long, the video opens with a slick reel of Maj. Joshua “Cabo” Gunderson getting ready for take-off. The video sets a new standard for production val...
May 17 IRS Tax Deadline: All Of the Details (And Benefits?)
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Tax Deadline, United States* [image: Joe Biden Stimulus Money] The deadline was pushed because due to the coronavirus pandemic and the IRS being busy sending out stimulus checks. But now it's looming once more. Following a push by Congress this spring, the IRS agreed to delay the tax filing deadline from the traditional date of April 15 to more than a month later, May 17. This move, which followed a similar delay during the coronavirus pandemic last year that pushed the deadline back all the way to July, was meant to give Americans more time to get their taxes t...
Will Congress Act to Give Americans More Stimulus Money?
Stephen Silver, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Stephen Silver* *Fourth Stimulus Check, * Most Americans spent their stimulus money to pay down debt. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *More people are using it to pay day down debt than they did when they received stimulus checks in 2020, as far fewer families are in genuine crisis mode today than they were in the opening months of the pandemic. Ever since the launch of the American Rescue Plan, and its $1,400 checks, there has been a call for another round of stimulus checks, which would be the fourth since the start of the pandemic. The Biden Administration, while not taki...
If The F-14 Tomcat Had Been a Bust, What Would Have Filled the Void?
Robert Farley, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Robert Farley* *F-14, The Americas* But what if the problems that plagued the program in the 1960s and 1970s had proved insoluble? How would the Navy have filled the gap? *Here's What You Need To Remember: *The Navy eventually worked out the problems with the F-14, and the Tomcat became a superlative air defense fighter. Eventually, it even gained a ground-attack mission. The temperamental nature of the design, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the success of the Super Hornet made the Tomcat superfluous by the 2000s, however, and the Navy now lacks a long-range interceptor. ...
Death From Above: Why Russia’s Tu-95 Bear Bomber Still Matters
Sebastien Roblin, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Sebastien Roblin* *Russian Air Force, Europe* [image: Russian Air Force] The Tu-95 might still be flown using propellers, but do not let that fool you regarding its might. *Key point: *The Tu-95 is a powerful warplane that can carry a variety of weapons. In fact, it is also Russia's nuclear bomber. Few aircraft are as distinctive as the massive Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear,” a four-engine Russian strategic bomber and maritime patrol plane with a gigantic unicorn-like refueling probe, giving it the appearance of a monstrosity lurching in from prehistoric times—or at least from shortly af...
This Mother’s Day, Recognize Care Work Powers Our Economy
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago
Mother’s Day is, at its core, about care. When we select Hallmark cards and order flower deliveries, we’re honoring the care provided by moms and other maternal figures. This Mother’s Day, though, marks more than a year into a pandemic that threw the disparities in our care system into stark relief. Women left the workforce in staggering numbers to attend to COVID-related caregiving responsibilities at home. This was disruptive for individual families and the economy at large. So this year, while of course we should celebrate our mothers, there’s much more to be done. Honoring our...
Young Woman Stops to Help Man Hit By Car, Drunk Cop Drives Up and Kills Them Both
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 13 hours ago
[image: drunk]An officer drunk on a motorcycle plowed over a young woman helping another man and killed them both.
On Contact: How Joe Biden Is Not FDR
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to history professor and author Paul Street about the Biden administration and its continuity with the Democratic and Republic administrations’ policies and programs to benefit the elite and corporate interests, rather than working-class Americans. The post On Contact: How Joe Biden Is Not FDR appeared first on PopularResistance.Org.
To Dismantle A Gas Pipeline And Sell It As Scrap Metal
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
Loma de Bácum, Sonora: A gigantic metal pipe can be seen at the bottom of a hole in the earth. The family of Carmen GarcÃa look into the hole which was dug by the people of Loma de Bácum to remove the gas pipeline. The people used an excavator they seized from the company IEnova, affiliate of the United States transnational, Sempra Energy. The company was building the gas pipeline without the approval of those who live there. A consultation was never carried out. So, after an assembly, the entire community went to where the pipeline was being laid. There, they excavated and cut ou...
Platform Co-op Plans Revolution For Online Tutoring And Teaching
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
With schools across the world shutting due to Covid-19, e-learning has become an increasingly popular option around the world – but while this has increased platform revenues, teachers’ pay has stayed the same. “Last year, during lockdown, I decided to start something different,” says John Hayes, co-founder of MyCoolClass, an international teacher-owned platform co-op set for launch next month. He hails from California but has been living in Warsaw, Poland, for nearly six years while working as an ESL teacher, in language schools and online. After speaking with other freelance tea...
Activists In Mississippi Challenge Constitutionality Of Anti-Strike Law
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
A political time bomb is ticking in Greenville, and the explosion could transform the state’s public education environment for decades to come. Last Monday and Tuesday, between 13-20 bus drivers for the Greenville Public School District — some of the lowest paid employees in one of the most under-resourced school districts in one of the most under-resourced regions of America — skipped work to protest reduced pay and what they called poor work conditions. As far as anyone knows, this was the first organized work stoppage in Mississippi public schools since 9,429 teachers walked ou...
Bill Gates, The White Man’s Burden And Modi Government’s Vaccine Debacle
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
The incompetence of the Indian government is starkly visible in its handling of the current COVID-19 crisis. It fares even worse on the vaccine front. Its belief in the ideology of free-market capitalism is that the market will magically produce whatever we need. This is why it starved the 7 public sector vaccine manufacturing units (Down to Earth, 17 April 2021) of any support. And also gave the public sector vaccine, Covaxin, developed by ICMR and National Institute of Virology to a private company, Bharat Biotech on an exclusive basis. It also believed that Serum Institute of I...
Social Justice Fail? Affirmative Action and the ‘Diversity’ Dilemma
NEWS WIRE, 21st Century Wire - 16 hours ago
*CBS News* | Exploring the issue of Affirmative Action within the present polarized political climate in the US.
COVID Prevention and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Bryan Caplan, Econlib - 14 hours ago
Douglas Allen of Simon Fraser University has a working paper that builds on “Life-Years Lost: The Quantity and the Quality,” one of my blog posts from last year. Most of his paper critiques other researchers’ cost-benefit analyses of COVID policy, but Allen spends a whole section applying my method to Canada: As of March 2021 […] The post COVID Prevention and Cost-Benefit Analysis appeared first on Econlib.
State Passes Revolutionary Bill to Finally Ban “No-Knock” Warrants
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago
[image: no-knock]The bill to ban no-knock raids had so much support that it passed without a single 'no' vote in both the House and the Senate.
Vaccine Waiver Pledge Tests Biden-World’s Pharma Ties
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
Several of President Joe Biden’s most powerful appointees and advisers have had business relationships with pharmaceutical giants lobbying the administration on COVID-19 and intellectual property issues, according to documents reviewed by The Daily Poster. Those ties — and Biden’s longtime alliance with pharmaceutical industry interests — could prove particularly relevant as drug companies now try to defang any new waiver of patent rules that might reduce their profits and facilitate the wider distribution of vaccines to COVID-afflicted countries. Last summer, Biden broke with his...
Getting coffee while black
Stephen Kimber, Halifax Examiner - 14 hours ago
On the morning of Jan. 24, 2017, Gyasi Symonds, a provincial Department of Community Services caseworker, did what many of us routinely did in pre-pandemic times. He went for a coffee. What happened during and immediately after his coffee break that day will seem anything but routine to many of us. If you’re among my […]
The Way We Were
Owen Gray, Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
The pandemic entente between Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau is over. Susan Delacourt writes: This back-and-forth is a sign that the 2020 entente between the Ford and Trudeau governments is probably over. Gone are the days when Ford and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland held late-night “therapy” calls and when the Ontario premier lavished daily praise on all Ottawa was doing to help out with the pandemic. Ford has recently released an ad demanding that Trudeau close Canada's borders to international travel. This week, at one of his daily briefings, Trudeau responded: Trudeau...
Hundreds Of Palestinians Protesting Evictions In Jerusalem Are Injured
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago
More than 200 Palestinians were wounded and at least one partially blinded over night in East Jerusalem when Israeli police fired rubber-coated steel bullets and stun grenades at thousands of people who were protesting Israeli settlers and security forces' ongoing effort to dispossess Palestinians of their land in the occupied territory. Israel's violent oppression of Palestinians, which has intensified in recent days, continued Saturday. "What's happening in Jerusalem and Palestine more broadly is not a 'clash' or a 'scuffle,' but a state-sanctioned campaign of Israeli violence a...
ICYMI: Mother's Day Edition (5/9)
Peter Greene, CURMUDGUCATION - 15 hours ago
Honestly, it has been kind of a rough week here, and it's not getting better any time soon. So whatever else you do today, make sure you hug a loved one and let them know you care. Time is relentless and remorseless. Humans do not have to be. Here's some reading from the week. *Teacher Evaluations (Hammers and Nails)* Blue Cereal Education with a story of what teacher evaluation looks like in the field, and why sorting everything into hammers and nails is a problem of its own. *The Great (Unemployed and Underpaid) Transformation* Nancy Flanagan takes a look at what has changed, ...
Untitled
Jenna Orkin, From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 15 hours ago
From Jenna Orkin This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent California’s population drops for the first time in its history, according to new state dataScientists may have found a new coronavirus rapid-testing method: Bees Ransomware attack leads to shutdown of major U.S. pipeline system Poll: Nearly 50 Percent of Americans Think Some Social Distancing Measures Permanent China building massive power farm near US Air Force base in Texas Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame Texas Senate approves bill allowing people to carry...
We Must All Want To Join Together So That The Clamour of a Huge Crowd of Human Beings Can Be Heard - The Wisdom of Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Stranger in a Strange Land, Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago
*Kingdom of God - for it to come, a huge crowd must ask for it* *Does everyone have to be a lawyer, a philosopher or a scholar to join in a revolution, a strike or a street demonstration? No, but all must be present and united as one – the learned and the ignorant, the skilled and the unskilled, the weak and the strong – so as to emerge victorious! We see this kind of thing in the newspapers and on television every day, but we have not managed to interpret it. ‘But what is there to understand?’ you will ask. Many things, but in particular the quantity of people gathered to make ...
New $1,400 Stimulus Check Coming Soon? Why Americans Are Still Hurtiing.
Rachel Bucchino, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Rachel Bucchino* *Stimulus Payment, Americas* [image: U.S. Politics] Many folks are still in need and are hoping on yet one more set of stimulus checks to help them pay their bills. *Key point: *The economy is slowly roaring back to life. Could yet more government spending and direct relief help speed up the recovery? While many Democrats are calling for another round of stimulus checks, one reason why seems clear: Americans are in massive debt. In fact, fifty percent of stimulus payment recipients from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan are using their most recent chec...
India’s Coronavirus Disaster Could Have Global Repercussions
Rory Horner, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Rory Horner* *India, Asia* The UN secretary general, António Guterres, has hailed India’s vaccine production capacity as “one of the best assets the world has today”. With rich countries having bought up the majority of the world’s COVID-19 vaccines, the rest of the world has relied on India – one of the world’s largest vaccine producers and exporters – to increase access to doses. But now India’s exports – which include supplies for Covax, the global vaccine-sharing programme, as well as bilateral donations and commercial agreements branded under its “vaccine friendship” progra...
Capitalism Is A Misanthropic, Dystopian Religion
Caitlin Johnstone, Caitlin Johnstone - 15 hours ago
Listen to this article: Capitalism is a misanthropic, dystopian religion. By “capitalism” I mean this or any other possible system wherein mass-scale human behavior is driven by the pursuit of capital. By “religion” I mean organized collective faith-based belief system. In times past the dominant […]
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