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Gangsters Out Blog11 hours ago
Fatal shooting in RichmondCTV is reporitng that "Police are on the scene of a shooting in Richmond that killed one man. The incident, which happened in an agricultural area of the city, one kilometre east of 17130 Cambie Road – near a cranberry farm – appears to be targeted, say Richmond RCMP." “(There was) a report of a deceased male located by the public,” says a statement from Sgt. Patrick Damgajian. Police were called to the scene around 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, and found the man in a ditch. “Officers located a deceased male who may have been killed during what appears to be a shooting incident,” the stat... read more
Gangsters Out Blog12 hours ago
COVID Is Over In Norway Declares National Health Chief
Great Game India is reporting that "The Covid-19 pandemic is over in Norway, according to one of the doctors leading the response against coronavirus in the rich Scandinavian country." Preben Aavitsland, chief physician in the infection control division at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, tweeted on Sunday a graph showing Norway with its lowest level of hospital admissions since the end of last summer and wrote: “That is the pandemic over with.” Bonnie Henry's lies are statistically impossible. Great Game India is also reporting that "Health Canada, the department of t... read more
The National Interest12 hours ago
Experts Once Wanted to Use Nuclear Weapons to Make Tunnels*Steve Weintz* *Cold War History, * It's not the craziest idea to come out of the Cold War. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Nuclear weapons were a new weapon that many thought could have had industrial uses. However, nukes turned out to be too expensive and dangerous to use for mining or tunneling. Digging out deep underground complexes or undersea bases could be expedited the Atomic way, in an alternate universe where the wildest ideas of the 1950s, 60s and 70s came to pass. Although our own timeline relies on mega-engineering for transportation, energy and architectural in... read more
The National Interest12 hours ago
A Submarine Plus a Battleship: The Ultimate Weapon Never Built?*Steve Weintz* *Submarines, * A century ago submarines presented as much of a challenge for naval war planners as drones do today. Like airborne and surface stealth decades later, underwater stealth was a game-changer—but how to use it? *Here's What You Need to Remember:* The British Admiralty appears to have kicked off the idea with its extraordinary response to reports of the Kaiser’s new *U139*-class subs, which packed 5.9-inch guns. In 1916, the Committee on Submarine Development chose to mount 12-inch guns—battleship guns—on submarines. A century ago submarines presented as... read more
The National Interest12 hours ago
A Ballistic Missile Submarine Shortage Could Spell Disaster for the U.S. Navy*Kris Osborn* *Submarines, * What good are America's nuclear submarines if they have nothing to fire? *Here's What You Need to Remember:* The new Columbia class, which at the moment will likely consist of twelve boats, is expected to be fully delivered by 2042, arriving at a pace of one per year from 2033 through 2042. The U.S. Navy now has as many as fourteen Ohio-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines and has already begun to build a new fleet of advanced, next-generation Columbia-class boats to replace them, yet the pace of their arrival raises the question as to wh... read more
The Last Refuge13 hours ago
President Trump Releases Statement on Insufferable Senate Spending Bill Falsely Disguised as InfrastructureAs customary, K-street wrote the legislation, that’s why the Senators had to vote cloture to continue debate before the bill was even written. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a host of Wall Street multinationals actually wrote the bill and the UniParty politicians are now tasked with selling it. That’s the way the process is […] The post President Trump Releases Statement on Insufferable Senate Spending Bill Falsely Disguised as Infrastructure appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more
Halifax Examiner13 hours ago
Hundreds rally for Owls HeadSeveral hundred people filled Victoria Park on Saturday afternoon to protest the Liberal government’s handling of Owls Head and to call on their fellow Nova Scotians to make their discontent known at the ballot box. Sporting Save Owls Head shirts or hats and holding signs aloft, the ‘Save Owls Head’ rally was frequently acknowledged by […] read more
The National Interest14 hours ago
Russia's T-72 Tank is Old But Shows No Sign of Stopping*Peter Suciu* *Russian Tanks, * Even as Russia has announced plans for the T-14 Armata to enter service later this year or possibly early next year, it will upgrade all of its operational T-72 tanks, which will allow them to remain in service. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *More than 20,000 of the tanks have been built—and it has seen use in numerous conflicts beginning with the Iran-Iraq War and remains in service today. The Soviet-designed T-72 main battle tank (MBT) first entered production in 1971, and it entered service two years later. More than 20,000 of the tanks ha... read more
The National Interest14 hours ago
‘Defund the Police’ Is a Problem. Not Prosecuting Criminals Is Worse.*Pedro Gonzalez* *Defund the Police, United States* Example: In St. Louis, prosecutors in the office of Attorney Kim Gardner failed to appear at a series of pretrial hearings for accused murderer Brandon Campbell. Consequently, a judge dropped the murder charges against him. The Democratic Party has spent months retreating from its progressive incantations about defunding the police after discovering, to their surprise, that most Americans are yet fond of their unmolested person and property. Unfortunately for Democrats, Missouri Rep. Cori Bush has ruined their egress from a me... read more
The National Interest14 hours ago
The Plight of the Foreign Policy Realists*Sumantra Maitra* *Foreign Policy, Americas* Ideas won’t matter if there is no America to preserve anyway. The International Institute for Strategic Studies recently published an article titled Misplaced Restraint: The Quincy Coalition Versus Liberal Internationalism in Survival, its house journal. The article’s authors, Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, fire broadsides at what they call a profoundly deficient “understanding of the wellsprings of American success in the twentieth century,” by a group of domestic libertarians, foreign policy realists, and anti-imperialist left... read more
Musings from the Chiefio14 hours ago
Some Interesting Conservative LinksRan into a Traditional & Conservative portal on the radio, that led to further links of interest. Continue reading → read more
Accidental Deliberations14 hours ago
Saturday Afternoon LinksAssorted content for your weekend reading. - Holly Yan examines the growing medical recognition that children need to be protected from COVID-19 (and particularly the Delta variant). David Holtgrave et al. highlight why we need to be increasing our testing and monitoring - not abandoning the effort as the UCP has chosen as part of its "just give up" philosophy. Alessia Simona Maratta reports on Quebec's move to implement a vaccine passport - and the resulting increase in vaccination rates. Eleanor Murray and Ruby Barnard-Mayers discuss when it will be safe to remove mask mandates ... read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 214 hours ago
"Is the U.S. Going Bankrupt? This Is All An Illusion"*Full screen recommended.* Dan, iAllegedly, PM 8/7/21: *"Is the U.S. Going Bankrupt? This Is All An Illusion"* "The Economy is a very bad illusion that we are living through. We are told unemployment numbers that were supposed to believe a good one in fact everything is horrific in the economy." read more
The Rio Times15 hours ago
El Salvador confirms circulation of three Covid variants “of concern”RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Minister of Health of El Salvador, Francisco Alabí, confirmed this Saturday (7) that the "worrying" variants of Covid-19 - Alpha, Gamma and Delta - are circulating in the country. Alabí said that the Health Ministry sent 100 samples to a laboratory in Panama, whose study revealed the circulation of […] The post El Salvador confirms circulation of three Covid variants “of concern” appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 215 hours ago
Musical Interlude: Prelude, "After the Goldrush"Prelude, "After the Goldrush" (Studio version) Prelude, "After the Goldrush" (Live version) Prelude comprise Irene Hume, Brian Hume, Ian Vardy. read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 215 hours ago
"A Look to the Heavens"
"A gorgeous spiral galaxy some 100 million light-years distant, NGC 1309 lies on the banks of the constellation of the River (Eridanus). NGC 1309 spans about 30,000 light-years, making it about one third the size of our larger Milky Way galaxy. Bluish clusters of young stars and dust lanes are seen to trace out NGC 1309's spiral arms as they wind around an older yellowish star population at its core. Not just another pretty face-on spiral galaxy, observations of NGC 1309's recent supernova and Cepheid variable stars contribute to the calibration of the expansion of the Universe. Stil... read more
The Rio Times15 hours ago
Peru’s traditional exports rise 25% above pre-pandemic levels in first half 2021RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Peru’s traditional exports accumulated a value of US$20.5 billion during the first six months of 2021, a figure 25.6% higher than the pre-pandemic level recorded in the same period of 2019, as reported this Saturday by the Central Reserve Bank (BCR). The issuing agency detailed that only last June this […] The post Peru’s traditional exports rise 25% above pre-pandemic levels in first half 2021 appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
Michael West16 hours ago
Energy to Waste: Australia moves on plastics yet falls short in world recycling race[image: global waste, plastic] As petrochemical giants plan to double new plastics production and the bulk of Australian plastics are tipped into landfill, not recycled, Luke Stacey checks out how other countries are tackling the plastics crisis versus the Coalition Government's 2025 National Packaging Targets and waste export bans. read more
The National Interest14 hours ago
Great Power Clashes Will Reshape America*Mark N. Katz* *National Security, Americas* The end of the U.S.-dominated unipolar world order is something that has been predicted—even advocated—for many years. At the end of the bipolar Cold War era that was dominated by the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, many people either hoped or feared that a new unipolar world dominated by the United States had come into being. From the beginning of the twenty-first century, though, the ability of the United States to act as a unipole was challenged by several factors. These included: *America’s inability* to p... read more
The National Interest14 hours ago
Guilty as Charged: Americans Facing Fines and Jail for Social Security Fraud*Stephen Silver* *, Americas* A New York case is part of a rash of recent indictments and convictions of people who have improperly collected Social Security benefits or stolen them from others. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Sentencing has been scheduled for the end of November. The defendant faces “up to 10 years in prison, up to 3 years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000 as a result of his conviction.” He has agreed to pay restitution. A New York man has pled guilty to federal charges that he improperly collected $33,812.00 in Social Security retiremen... read more
The National Interest14 hours ago
Listed: Russia’s 5 Current and Prospective Hypersonic Weapons*Mark Episkopos* *Hypersonics, Europe* Russia has quietly become one of the world's foremost developers of hypersonic weapon technology. Russian president Vladimir Putin’s 2018 state-of-the-nation address unveiled a raft of new offensive hypersonic systems. In the years that followed, Russia became one of the world’s foremost developers of hypersonic weapons technology. But what exactly does the Kremlin have to show for its efforts? Here is a list of all current and prospective Russian hypersonic weapons. *3M22 Tsirkon* 3M22 Tsirkon, also known as Zircon (NATO reporting name SS-... read more
The National Interest14 hours ago
Would Nuking Vietnam Have Won the War for America?*Steve Weintz* *Vietnam War, * In 1966, they investigated just that. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *Nuclear weapons still engender deep contradictions. The most powerful weapons ever devised serve no other purpose but to prevent their use by others. By February 1966, frustration with the U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam rose high enough to spur talk of going nuclear. Throughout the Vietnam War, such talk was mostly just that, but in 1966, it worried certain people enough to gin up a classified study of tactical nuclear weapons use in Southeast Asia. The study's ... read more
CURMUDGUCATION14 hours ago
FL: Bullying By Mask
Florida (state motto: Death to public education!) has been leaping to capitalize on the current COVID disaster, as witnessed by this extremely on-point headline: *Florida Will Pay for Parents to Move Kids Into New Schools if They Experience ‘COVID-19 Harassment’* That's a very apt way to characterize a voucher program--the state will pay you to pull your kid out of public schools. You may have been wondering how Florida made the leap to a voucher for covid harassment, but the fact is, they were already halfway there. Florida already has the Hope Scholarship, a voucher program t... read more
Small Dead Animals15 hours ago
So What About Aids?With everyone all worked up about possibly getting the china virus from the great unwashed masses one wonders about another more lethal disease. The criminal law does not require disclosure of HIV in every case. The criminal law should not apply to persons living with HIV who have engaged in sexual activity without disclosing their… Continue reading → read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 215 hours ago
Chet Raymo, “Caught In The Middle”
*“Caught In The Middle”* by Chet Raymo "It doesn't take a genius to recognize that human males have a propensity for intergroup violence, and that the killing is often accompanied by rape. One need only read the newspapers. The only question is to what extent these tendencies are innate or culturally inculcated. Nature or nurture? Or both? A new book, "Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World," by population biologist Malcolm Potts and science writer Thomas Hayden, dishes up a bit of both. The violence is in our (male) genes, they m... read more
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 215 hours ago
Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up for 8/7/21"
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up for 8/7/21"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "What ever happened to the door knocking campaign from the Biden Administration to get the unvaxed, vaxed? It appears to be replaced with a tyrannical panicked push to get everyone vaxed right now. Kids, pregnant women, military and anyone unvaxed. Get vaxed or get fired. Legal cases are forming every day, and will religious exemptions save the day? Pay no mind to science or constitutional rights. Never mind the silly Nuremberg Code of 1947 that came out of the forced science experiments by Nazis doctors, they han... read more
Small Dead Animals15 hours ago
Alberta vs OntarioA couple of nice charts in here on all cause mortality. This decentalized mindset served Alberta well during the C19 response. Public health regulated lightly and despite a few significant missteps, none were fatal. Public health objectives were presumably met and that afforded a quiet glide path to exit a non-pandemic pandemic. Enter Ontario, the… Continue reading → read more
The Rio Times15 hours ago
Human Rights Commission asks to locate 95 missing migrants in Mexico’s TamaulipasRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) recommended Mexican authorities locate approximately 95 migrants who disappeared while in transit in the northern state of Tamaulipas in 2019. In a statement, the body called on Tamaulipas authorities, the Attorney General's Office (FGR), and the National Migration Institute (INM) to improve protocols for […] The post Human Rights Commission asks to locate 95 missing migrants in Mexico’s Tamaulipas appeared first on The Rio Times. read more
The National Interest15 hours ago
Will Lawmakers Say Yes to the Stimulus Checks?*Stephen Silver* *economy, Americas* The big question is whether such a measure would have the majority support or even filibuster-proof support in Congress, and it is very unlikely that it would. *Here’s What You Need to Remember:* In order to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, three rounds of stimulus checks were passed, which among other measures put money into the pockets of Americans. And while there have been both popular petitions and letters from members of Congress calling for the distribution of more checks, it has looked fairly certain for a while now that there isn’... read more
The National Interest15 hours ago
U.S. Fighter Jets are Facing a New Threat: Chinese Hackers*Kris Osborn* *Cybersecurity, Americas* This possibility is increasingly realistic given the alarming pace at which enemy cyber attackers are leveraging new technologies to innovate previously unknown or impossible methods of intrusion. *Here's What You Need to Know*: Many networks, weapons systems and sensors increasingly rely upon data bus technology, which both massively improves functionality and simultaneously increases the need to fortify cyber defenses as attacks run the risk of having a larger impact. What if an armored combat vehicle was rapidly into battle through rigor... read more
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