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The National Interest24 minutes ago
This Army Division Handed America Victory After Victory*Warfare History Network* *History, * “Full victory—nothing else.” *Key Point: *Up to 80 percent of the airborne troops, men whom Eisenhower took a special interest in visiting on the eve of the invasion, might be lost to enemy action over the coming days. In one of the most recognized photographs taken by U.S. Army cameramen during World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, is addressing men of E Company, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), 101st Airborne Division, in England on June 5, 1944, just hours before their jump into ... read more
War News Updates1 hour ago
Only 6 Of 58 Top Positions In The Pentagon Have Been filled
*Politico*: *Top Pentagon weapons office faces vacancies as the military rushes to focus on China* *The Biden administration has been slow to announce nominees for the 58 Senate-confirmed positions at the Pentagon.* The Pentagon is facing a leadership vacuum in the office tasked with buying and modernizing its weapons and developing new technologies, even as the Biden administration pushes through its first budget and launches sweeping reviews on strategy and nuclear policy. Stacy Cummings, who has been performing the duties of undersecretary of defense for acquisition and su... read more
Small Dead Animals1 hour ago
July 18, 2021: Reader TipsThis evening we learn all about the insanity that are British phone numbers. Your most fascinating tips of the past day would be appreciated! read more
Manhattan Contrarian1 hour ago
Another Manhattanite Mugged By Reality: The Case Of Maud Maron* Further to Jane’s post a couple of days ago about the political conversion of her friend Jackie (“Interview With Jackie,” July 14), I thought that readers might be interested in a similar story involving a somewhat more public resident of Manhattan named Maud Maron. Maron was the subject of a post by Bari Weiss at her Substack site on July 12, with the title “A Witch Trial at the Legal Aid Society.” * Maron’s story gives a good indication of just how difficult it is to think independently and break free of the Manhattan groupthink, particularly if you want to have any kind of publ... read more
The National Interest1 hour ago
Most COVID Deaths in England Now Are in The Vaccinated*Christian Yates* *Coronavirus, United Kingdom* The explanation is simple. More vaccinated people are dying of COVID than unvaccinated people, according to a recent report from Public Health England (PHE). The report shows that 163 of the 257 people (63.4%) who died of the delta variant within 28 days of a positive COVID test between February 1 and June 21, had received at least one dose of the vaccine. At first glance, this may seem alarming, but it is exactly as would be expected. Here’s a simple thought experiment: imagine everyone is now fully vaccinated with COVID vaccines... read more
The National Interest1 hour ago
How American Tanks Helped the British Beat Back Hitler in Africa*Michael Peck* *Tanks, Africa* The M-3 Grant was a decent weapon that came just in the nick of time. *Here's What You Need to Know*: The genesis of the Grant sprang less from inspiration and more from desperation. Why were Rommel's tanks blowing up? As the Desert Fox's panzers churned through the Libyan desert in May 1942, they were confident of victory. For more than a year, despite being outnumbered by the British Eighth Army, the German armor had time and again emerged victorious. Now the Afrika Korps was on the offensive against the British fortified line at Gazala, aiming ... read more
War News Updates1 hour ago
Fans And Players Flee Nationals Park After Gunshots Outside DC Stadium*Daily Mail:* *BREAKING: Fans at a Washington Nationals baseball game RAN to take cover SATURDAY NIGHT after four people WERE shot outside the stadium's third base gate.* * There were four people shot outside of the Washington Nationals stadium * Two victims were found outside the stadium along the third base side and two more victims were found in area hospitals * DC Police said there's no ongoing threat at this time * There are no details about the shooting or the victims' conditions * The Nationals and Padres were in the sixth inning when the gunshots rang out Fans a... read more
War News Updates1 hour ago
Why Is the U.S. Media Silent On The Guardian's Report That Putin Approved A Plot To Have 'Mentally Unstable' Trump Win In 2016?
The Guardian on Thursday published an explosive report (above) based on the supposed Kremlin documents, but nearly all US outlets have refrained from covering the story *Daily Mail: **Why have the left-wing US media stayed so strangely silent about sensational UK newspaper story claiming Putin approved plot to have 'mentally unstable' Trump win in 2016?* * Guardian on Thursday published story based on purported Kremlin document * Document claims to show Putin ordered campaign to support Trump in 2016 * A day later, the New York Times, CNN, NBC and ABC remain silent on the stor... read more
The Rio Times2 hours ago
Brazil’s Bolsonaro should be released from hospital this Sunday -medical teamRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Surgeon Antonio Luiz Macedo, responsible for operations on the abdomen of the president, said today that President Jair Bolsonaro should be released this Sunday (18). According to him, there is still no way to predict the exact time when the president will be released. "The digestive system is already working," […] The post Brazil’s Bolsonaro should be released from hospital this Sunday -medical team appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 22 hours ago
Musical Interlude: Sarah Mclachlan, "In The Arms Of An Angel"Sarah Mclachlan, "In The Arms Of An Angel" read more
Covert Geopolitics2 hours ago
Britain Plans Covert Special Forces Operations Against Russia & ChinaThe UK Special Forces are about to concentrate on some new covert counter-state tasks with a focus on Russia and China, Royal Marines Brigadier Mark Totten revealed to the Times. The British Royal Marines are to take over some of the “traditional” roles of the nation’s special forces units – the Special Air Service (SAS) … Continue reading Britain Plans Covert Special Forces Operations Against Russia & China → read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 22 hours ago
"A Look to the Heavens"
"What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Although details remain uncertain, it surely has to do with an ongoing battle with its smaller galactic neighbor. The featured galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its collisional partner is known as Arp 273. The overall shape of the UGC 1810 - in particular its blue outer ring - is likely a result of wild and violent gravitational interactions. This ring's blue color is caused by massive stars that are blue hot and have formed only in the past few million years. The inner galaxy appears older, redder, and threaded with co... read more
The Rio Times2 hours ago
Foreign powers and UN turn their backs on Haiti’s prime minister Claude JosephRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Foreign powers and the UN turned their backs on Haiti's interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who has been at the helm of the country since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise ten days ago, by announcing on Saturday their explicit support for one of the rivals contesting him for power. […] The post Foreign powers and UN turn their backs on Haiti’s prime minister Claude Joseph appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 22 hours ago
Kahlil Gibran, “The Farewell”
*“The Farewell”* “Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you. It was but yesterday we met in a dream. You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky. But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over, and it is no longer dawn. The noontide is upon us and our half waking has turned to fuller day, and we must part. If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.” - Kahlil Gibran... read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 22 hours ago
The Poet: Mary Oliver, “October”
*“October”* "There’s this shape, black as the entrance to a cave. A longing wells up in its throat like a blossom as it breathes slowly. What does the world mean to you if you can’t trust it to go on shining when you’re not there? and there’s a tree, long-fallen; once the bees flew to it, like a procession of messengers, and filled it with honey. I said to the chickadee, singing his heart out in the green pine tree: little dazzler little song, little mouthful. The shape climbs up out of the curled grass. It grunts into view. There is no measure for the confidence at the bottom of its e... read more
balance102 hours ago
virus update; nations raped/pillaged by big pharmaSouth Africa 16/177= 9% increase/day https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-africa/ ……………………………………………… India 10% increase/day but infections went way down *https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/* ……………………………………………….. Brazil 53/760= 7% increase/day https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil/ ……………………………………………… Russia 25/435= 5.7% increase/day https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia ………………………………………………………. UK 51.6/751= 6.9% increase/day https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk …………………………………… USA ... read more
Climate Collections3 hours ago
Old-school data suggests hurricanes in the Atlantic are not more frequent than in the pastOriginally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Image credit: sanibelrealestateguide.com Quote: ‘No evidence’. Not more intense either. Reports claiming otherwise were greatly exaggerated or at least ill-informed, it seems (as well as being frequent, and intensely irritating). Climate alarmists will not be amused. – – – Researchers affiliated with several institutions in the United States have… read more
Covert Geopolitics3 hours ago
Forced Vaccination and the Road to “Digital Tyranny”: Agenda ID2020 RevisitedA group of “citizens” of the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest to our Milky Way, but still about 2.5 million light years away from planet Earth – People of Peace – wanted to visit Mother Earth, the beautiful blue planet. They must have heard lots of good things about our planet, many light years back. The Andromeda people’s … Continue reading Forced Vaccination and the Road to “Digital Tyranny”: Agenda ID2020 Revisited → read more
Econlib5 hours ago
Freedom is Regulation, Florida EditionA spokeswoman for the Florida governor’s office said Norwegian’s stance discriminated against children and individuals who can’t be vaccinated, and noted the state’s legal efforts against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s sailing restrictions and protocols. “Apparently Norwegian prefers the shackles of the CDC to the freedom offered by Florida,” the spokeswoman said in […] The post Freedom is Regulation, Florida Edition appeared first on Econlib. read more
Gangsters Out Blog57 minutes ago
Anniversary of China's persecution of the Falun Gong
I attended a rally today at the Vancouver Art Gallery commemorating the 22nd anniversary of the Communist Party of China's persecution of the Falun Gong in China. It was nice to see their marching band back. One mother made a call for her daughter Yang Jinya to be released from prison and one daughter made a call for her mother Tang Huafeng to be released from Prison. Both are political prisoners in China who were imprisoned for their religious beliefs. I spoke with one practitioner who said many people here in Canada think Communism and Socialism is good. We are here to say no ... read more
The National Interest2 hours ago
Dead in the Water: Has Russia’s Nuclear-Powered Battlecruiser Met Its End?*Mark Episkopos* *Russian Navy, Europe* Kirov-class battlecruisers were intended to operate alongside a class of dedicated modern aircraft carriers, heralding a new era of Soviet global power projection. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *The grand strategic visions driving the *Kirov*-class project collapsed alongside the Soviet Union. The ill-fated *Admiral Kuznetsov* became the only carrier of its line, and is now undergoing major repairs following a series of catastrophic incidents including an onboard fire and collapsed drydock. The post-refit handover of Russia’s *Admiral... read more
The National Interest2 hours ago
Army Engineers Digital Fibers for Soldier Wearable Computers*Kris Osborn* *U.S. Army, * This technology can store information in memory, sense and analyze data in real time. Army scientists are engineering mobile, lightweight digital fibers into soldier uniforms to generate power, gather crucial time-sensitive sensor data, and take new breakthrough steps toward deploying a wearable computer. The digital fibers, which are sewn into clothing, can store information in memory, sense and analyze data in real time. The first fibers with digital capabilities were developed by researchers at the Army’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at t... read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 22 hours ago
"How To See Things As They Are"
*"How To See Things As They Are"* by David Cain "I’m in the back room of a coffee shop right now, switching between writing and another mental exercise: pretending I’m not here. I don’t mean I’m wearing a disguise, or hiding behind a potted plant. I’m doing a perspective-shifting practice that I’d recommend to anyone: now and then, wherever you are, look at the scene in front of you as though it’s happening without you. From any seat, or standing spot, anywhere - in an office, a breakfast diner, a public square, a waiting room - see your surroundings just as they’d be if you weren... read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 22 hours ago
"We Are Never Deceived..."
"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 22 hours ago
The Daily "Near You?"
Valdez, Alaska, USA. Thanks for stopping by! read more
The National Interest3 hours ago
Can South Korea Build an ‘Iron Dome’ to Protect Against North Korean Artillery?*Sebastien Roblin* *South Korea, * If South Korean citizens expect an impenetrable artillery shield, then they risk being disappointed. South Korea’s Defense Minister Suh Wook announced on June 28, 2021, plans to spend 2.89 trillion won ($2.6 billion) developing an equivalent of the Iron Dome air defense system used by Israel. Just a month prior, Israeli Iron Dome batteries allegedly shot down 90 percent of the roughly 1,500 unguided rockets fired by Hamas that were bound for populated areas of Israel, out of a total of 4,300 that were launched. Yet a Korean Iron Dome system mi... read more
The National Interest3 hours ago
Cruelty: Not Every American Effort in the Pacific Was Victorious*Michael Peck* *World War II History, * The fall of Corregidor forces us to ask a tough question: what went wrong? The answer is pretty much everything. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *And then there was silence. “Tell Joe, wherever he is, to give ’em hell for us,” said the radio signal. “My love to you all. God bless you and keep you. Sign my name, and tell mother how you heard from me. Stand by.” And then there was silence. On the morning of May 6, 1942, U.S. Army Sgt. Irving Strobing sent the last message—to America, his family and his brother Joe—from the fortress of Co... read more
Small Dead Animals3 hours ago
It’s called JackassFor a reason. read more
The National Interest4 hours ago
Survivor: How the Old A-10 Warthog Has Overcome Every Enemy*Richard Douglas* *U.S. Air Force, A-10, Americas* The A-10 Thunderbolt, also known as the Warthog, has made quite a name for itself since it was put into use by the United States Airforce. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Despite its cult following, many defense leaders are looking to replace the aging A-10 with the highly-advanced F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet. This appears to be the plan, even though each F-35 quite a bit more expensive than the A-10. You’re probably familiar with the A-10 warplane’s signature sound: a loud, buzzing burst of machine-gun fire from th... read more
The National Interest4 hours ago
Check the Numbers: Why Americans Say They Aren’t Returning to Work*Stephen Silver* *Employment, * Some huge fraction of the American population is getting some much money from “overly generous unemployment benefits" that they have decided they’re better off staying on the sidelines *Here's What You Need to Remember: *As of earlier this month, there were 9.2 million job openings, per the Department of Labor. However, continuing jobless claims plunged by 145,000 to roughly 3.34 million. It’s a talking point that’s been stated again and again for the last several months: America has a labor shortage, and the reason for that shortage is that “nobo... read more
Welcome Back to Pottersville4 hours ago
Insurrection, My Fat Ass!
(By Cyril Blubberpuss, Conservative-American.) *I*f there were Republican dictionaries," I said to a homeless man on 5th Avenue just before I tore off his surgical mask,.""I'd make owning and reading them mandatory!" You know, if I was a dictator like Hitler or Stalin. Which I *don't* want to be, so you liberal pinheads reading this septic tank of a left wing blog better not try to make hay out of that. The point I'm trying to make is that we'd better reacquaint ourselves with the English language that we invented and was stolen by the English. That includes relearning the *real* ... read more
Cairns News4 hours ago
Life is hard for logical people right nowBy JON ROLFE Me at the Supermarket: Why is there plastic on the payment keypad? Cashier: to protect people from Covid. Me: but isn’t everyone touching the plastic keypad the same way they would the regular keypad? Cashier: no words. Confused look. Me: Why Don’t you pack the grocery bags anymore? Cashier: Because of Covid -19 to reduce the […] read more
Komando.com5 hours ago
Delete this secret ID hiding on your phone that gives away your personal details
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Medical Kidnap5 hours ago
CDC Director Lies to America Announcing Latest “Pandemic” – “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated”
"Pandemic" is the new word the Globalists love to use for controlling the masses through fear. And why not, since they had such great success in using it last year to destroy tens of thousands of businesses, drive record rates of suicide among children, get hundreds of millions of people to wear face masks and stay home, simply by naming a "virus" and using the magic word: PANDEMIC. And while this "COVID-19 Pandemic" was raging and supposedly killing hundreds of thousands of people, determined simply by a PCR test of "positive" for this "killer virus," almost nobody seemed to noti... read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 25 hours ago
"Welcome To The 21st Century Sequel Of The Catastrophic 1600s"
*"Welcome To The 21st Century Sequel* * Of The Catastrophic 1600s"* by Charles Hugh Smith "As the chart above on 'how systems collapse' illustrates, the loss of stabilizing buffers goes unnoticed until the entire structure collapses under its own weight. • Disruptive extremes of weather: check • Rising geopolitical tensions with no diplomatic resolution: check • Multiplying scarcities in essential commodities: check • Domestic disorder accelerates as extreme positions harden into irreconcilable conflicts: check Welcome to the 21st century sequel of the catastrophic 1600s, an extended... read more
The Rio Times5 hours ago
Brazilian Central Bank buys 41.8 tons of gold to bolster reservesRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - After years without substantially changing the amount of gold in the international reserves, the Central Bank headed by Roberto Campos Neto bought 41.8 tons of the metal in June. With this, the volume of gold that is part of the reserves jumped 52.7% in just one month, to 121.1 tons […] The post Brazilian Central Bank buys 41.8 tons of gold to bolster reserves appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
Modern Tokyo Times6 hours ago
Western European floods leave at least 170 deadWestern European floods leave at least 170 dead Kanako Mita and Sawako Utsumi Modern Tokyo Times Western European floods are known to have killed at least 170 people. In Germany, the figure is now 133 deaths. Hence, search and rescue missions are ongoing in several nations, notably in areas hit the hardest in Belgium and […] The post Western European floods leave at least 170 dead first appeared on Modern Tokyo Times. read more
LaRouchePAC.com - All Posts6 hours ago
LPAC Shorts: Defeat The Left’s Drive Towards Fascism—Join the America First RevolutionExposing the drive towards fascism coming from the left. The shift in the Republican party away from RINO establishment control. The growing movement under Trump of America First. The party of the working men and women. read more
Assyrian International News Agency4 hours ago
How Turkey Treats Its Historic ChurchesA viral social media video showed a group of young Turkish men dancing on top of the Saint Takavor Armenian Church in Istanbul on July 11. Turkish media reported that while some individuals played music and partied on the pedestrian road in front of the church, three people from the group climbed over the entrance gate of the church and started dan read more
The National Interest5 hours ago
Hitler Built an Elaborate Series of Bunkers During World War II*Warfare History Network* *Nazi Germany, Europe* Most of the remains of that era are now long gone. *Here's What You Need to Know*: The elaborate system of underground quarters and hallways in the mountains of Bavaria was never fully completed. The swinging beams of searchlights and the wail of air raid sirens had preceded the crash of the guns. Then had come the rain of bombs. It was the night of August 25, 1940, and Berlin was undergoing its first air raid. It was not a heavy air raid by later standards, but it told Berliners, and indeed all Germans, that Reichsmarshall Hermann... read more
The National Interest5 hours ago
America Has Lost a Proxy War against Pakistan*Wesley Jefferies* *Afghanistan Exit, Middle East* How America turned the "good war" into a "dumb war." When President Joe Biden declared the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan after twenty years of fighting, he declared that the original objectives for the invasion had been achieved. “We were attacked, we went to war with clear goals,” he gravely intoned. “We achieved those objectives. Bin Laden is dead and Al Qaeda is degraded in Afghanistan, and it’s time to end this forever war.” Curiously, he omitted where exactly the founder of Al Qaeda had met his end. The reactio... read more
The National Interest5 hours ago
Satellite Photos Show That China Is on a New Warpath*Peter Huessy* *Nuclear War, Asia* Is this serious stuff that should grab the attention of U.S. leaders? In 1962, a spy in the old USSR provided Great Britain’s intelligence service information that the Soviet Union was placing nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. This intelligence included photographs of the planned installations. Britain passed that information on to the United States, which used U-2 spy planes to search for evidence of this collaboration. This scouting mission revealed that the missiles were in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy announced the news on Oct. 22, 1962, th... read more
The National Interest5 hours ago
Why Amphibious Ready Groups are Needed in Pacific to Counter China*Kris Osborn* *Navy, Asia* This kind of tactical mission scope would also prove critical should some kind of confrontation emerge in the South China Sea. As formations which can launch fifth-generation stealth attacks from the ocean, dispatch heavily armed ship-to-shore vehicles loaded with Marines and weapons, operate Osprey Tiltrotors for troop transport behind enemy lines and command fleets of surface, air, and undersea drones, U.S. Navy Amphibious Ready Groups (ARG) could almost operate as adapted, tailorable, multi-mission Carrier Strike Groups. This would be particularly t... read more
The National Interest5 hours ago
Undersea Drones are Taking Navy Submarines to the Next Level*Kris Osborn* *Underwater Drones, * Newer, more advanced computer algorithms allow submarine commanders to operate sensors with much greater degrees of resolution and return-signal image fidelity. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *From a tactical circumstance, given that attack submarines and nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines are likely to conduct large amounts of clandestine patrols, it seems as though an ability to avoid having to surface would bring an extraordinary operational advantage. Could newer kinds of AI-enabled undersea drone data processing and analysis ... read more
The National Interest5 hours ago
Armed to the Teeth: Why Beijing’s Missiles are Pointed Nearby China*Caleb Larson* *Chinese Military, Asia* According to CSIS, China has “the most active and diverse ballistic missile development program in the world, upgrading its missile forces in number, type, and capability.” *Here's What You Need to Remember: *What China lacks in international reach is made up for big time in regional capabilities, especially anti-access/area denial capabilities. Regional adversaries—and U.S. Navy—should beware. China’s missile arsenal can threaten regional adversaries like Taiwan and Japan, or global competitors like the United States—on their own territ... read more
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