Chinese Navy installs new turbo generators to power electromagnetic weapons
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 11 hours ago
[image: Chinese Navy installs new turbo generators to power electromagnetic weapons] China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has begun installing new turbo power generators on its warships. With four times the capacity of existing power plants, the new generators will enable new technologies, such as electromagnetic catapults and railguns, to be deployed as well. The China State Shipbuilding Corporation’s (CSSC) 704 Research Institute announced recently that its 20-megawatt power generators had entered service, the Global Times reported. That’s enough electricity to light up a ...
Israel sends message to Hezbollah about targeting its members in Syria: Al-Hadath
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 11 hours ago
BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:20 P.M.) – On Saturday, the Israeli government sent a new message to Hezbollah in Lebanon via the United Nations, the Palestine-based Al-Hadath publication reported. Al-Hadath quoted Israeli sources as saying that “the occupation government has sent a message to Lebanese Hezbollah, through the United Nations, in which it said that it will refrain from targeting Hezbollah elements in Syria once and for all.” The Al-Hadath sources said: “Any attack by Hezbollah against Israeli targets will be matched by a strong and focused response against six sensitive targets ...
Watch the historic SpaceX splashdown — 2:42 PM EDT, Sunday August 2nd
CFACT Ed, CFACT - 11 hours ago
America has regained the ability to launch manned space missions for the first time since the space shuttle, with a private company leading the way. Never underestimate the power of free enterprise. WATCH HERE LIVE The post Watch the historic SpaceX splashdown — 2:42 PM EDT, Sunday August 2nd appeared first on CFACT.
Iran announces the production of a new satellite
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 11 hours ago
[image: Iran announces the production of a new satellite] BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:00 P.M.) – The Iranian authorities announced on Saturday, that the “Zafar 2” satellite is now being prepared and will be completed within months. President of the Iranian University of Science and Industry Jabbar Ali Zekhri said in a statement to the Fars News Agency that the “Zafar 2 satellite is now being prepared by 93 Iranian scientists and it is expected that we will need several months to complete the project”. Continue reading Iran announces the production of a new satellite at AMN - Al-Masdar News ...
Syrian President addresses army on 75th anniversary of its founding
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 11 hours ago
[image: Syrian President addresses army on 75th anniversary of its founding] BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:00 P.M.) – On Saturday, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad addressed the Syrian Armed Forces on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the army. In his speech , President Al-Assad said: “*Men of heroism, determination, and determination. Today, I address you with feelings of pride and appreciation on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Syrian Arab Army, and I salute you in salutations for the well-to-do heroes, the protectors of the...
The Daily "Near You?"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
Highland, Indiana, USA. Thanks for stopping by!
"It Is Easy..."
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
"It is easy to overlook this thought that life just *is*. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be , is every bit as strong as ours-arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on. Lichens don't. Like virtually all living things, they will suffer any hardship, endure...
"Life is Looking Out a Window"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*"Life is Looking Out a Window" * by David Cain "The other day my friend noticed aloud that she probably knows my face a lot better than I do. I suppose it’s true - I only see it a few minutes a day in the mirror, or occasionally in a photograph. But she sees it almost every time either of us says anything to each other. Of course, I’ve been seeing my face my whole life, much longer than any of my friends have been around. But our faces are constantly changing, and we only see them in certain contexts: primping, shaving, examining blemishes, checking for cars behind us. A person’s ...
New method helps predict big solar flares
The Watchers » Latest articles - 10 hours ago
Scientists developed a new physics-based technique that successfully predicted seven of the Sun's largest flares from the past solar cycle, out of a set of nine. With further improvement, the new model could be used to inform forecasters of these intense...... Read more »
The Poet: David Whyte, “The Sea”
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*“The Sea”* “The pull is so strong we will not believe the drawing tide is meant for us, I mean the gift, the sea, the place where all the rivers meet. Easy to forget, how the great receiving depth untamed by what we need needs only what will flow its way. Easy to feel so far away and the body so old it might not even stand the touch. But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside toward the place to which we go washing over our worries of money, the illusion of being ahead, the grief of being behind, our limbs young rising from such a depth? What would th...
Brian Williams get's it huugely wrong: No the GDP didn't go down by 32%
trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 10 hours ago
On MSNBC's *11th Hour* nightly news show Brian Williams said: *“The GDP from April through June dropped a staggering 32.9 percent. Put another way, that’s a loss of fully one-third of our output of goods and services as a country.”* The truth is that the GDP declined by 9.5% in the second quarter but the government reports an annualized rate. Hence if Williams had said the GDP declined by 10%, not 32% he'd have been right. Why would Williams get it so wrong? Well one reason is that reporters in American generally aren't all that well informed. Especially people in the #FakeNews m...
The "Resistance" shows that Democrats are fascists.
trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 10 hours ago
Depending on your age you probably think of different things when you hear the term "resistance": - The French resistance fighting Nazi occupation - The people in the Soviet Union who fought against tyranny - The Germans who tried to kill Hitler In every case though resistance was about fighting a tyranny not a democratically elected government. Like him or hate him Trump was elected according to the laws of the United States just like Obama was. Conservatives hated Obama's policies as much as Democrat's hate Trump's but we followed the law and we didn't "resist". Democr...
AOC says that a saint is a monster: St. Damien edition
trinko, Conversations about the obvious - 10 hours ago
While conducting a virtual tour of statues in DC AOC said the following about St. Damien: . @AOC calls the statue in the US capitol building of Father Damien, a canonized saint in the Catholic Church, a part of “white supremacist culture.” Father Damien died of leprosy after spending his life serving others who had the disease. pic.twitter.com/NVnfCN7EVK — John Gage (@johnrobertgage) July 31, 2020 So AOC is saying that a man who spent his life with lepers, when there was no cure for the disease, and who eventually died from leprosy is a "white supramcist" colonizer. Talk about...
Latest Polls Show Trump Closing on Biden
Bob Adelmann, rss - 11 hours ago
[image: latest-polls-show-trump-closing-on-biden] When efforts by the mainstream polls to skew their results in favor of Biden are taken into account, Biden’s lead has vanished.
Judge Sullivan does as ordered & drags Flynn case into August (Video)
Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 11 hours ago
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 618.
The Russians Are(n’t) Coming!
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 11 hours ago
In America’s Emerald City these days, if there’s even a hint of a war-wind-down, imperial-deescalation, or military budget-cuts, Washington’s (non-dribbling) Wizards have a ready response: Russia! Indeed, these military’s magicians have a far-simpler and more effective playbook than the city’s aptly-named NBA franchise. Since President Donald Trump’s election year, basketball’s Wizards are a meager 148-162; the Wizards of Warfare are essentially undefeated – not a single war hath ended. The first-place War Wizards rely on two go-to moves to maintain militarism The post The Russian...
Border Patrol Agents Raid No More Deaths Migrant Aid Camp
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 11 hours ago
The humanitarian group No More Deaths said an aid camp it operates for migrants crossing the desert was raided and then surrounded by Border Patrol agents. The group said the move as an escalation of tensions at a time when the aid they provide is vital. Byrd Camp is located near Arivaca and serves as a medical aid site for people passing through one of the deadliest desert corridors of the borderland. No More Deaths volunteer Emily Saunders said Border Patrol usually allows activities there to continue. But in late July, agents entered the property and arrested a migrant receivi...
Nicaragua Targeted For US Overthrow In 2020-21
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 11 hours ago
The US has launched a brazen, criminal and arrogant plan to overthrow Nicaragua’s government. A well orchestrated plan financed by the United States to launch a coup d'état in Nicaragua over the next two years was leaked in a document from the US embassy and presented July 31, 2020 by Nicaraguan journalist William Grigsby on his political analysis program "Sin Fronteras", on Radio La Primerísima. The new coup plan is in response to the fact that the US realizes President Daniel Ortega will likely win the November 2021 elections. The post Nicaragua Targeted For US Overthrow In 202...
‘We Are On The Cusp Of Something Great’
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
Since the nation erupted after the May 25 police killing of George Floyd, Black organizers and community members have been working around the clock to channel mass protests into tangible victories. Nikita Mitchell, 26, is national coordinator of The Rising Majority, formed in 2017 by the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition that includes Black Lives Matter. Rising Majority is led by Black people and people of color, and brings social movements together in an anti-racist, anti-capitalist Left for radical democracy. The post ‘We Are On The Cusp Of Something Great’ appeared first o...
Are Russia And US Different When It Comes To Election Meddling?
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
On this week’s installment of “Scheer Intelligence,” Robert Scheer challenges guest David Shimer on the fundamental conclusions of his new book, “Rigged: America, Russia and 100 Years of Covert Electoral Interference,” regarding the “intentions” for US covert operations versus those of the Soviet Union/Russia. Excerpted and lauded in the New York Times and elsewhere in the mainstream media, “Rigged” outlines covert operations in various countries by both nation-states, including American interference in 1970s Chile and post-World War II Italy, among others, but has been best revie...
Wilford Brimley, ‘Cocoon’ and ‘The Natural’ Actor, Dies at 85
AP News, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
The mustached Brimley was a familiar face for a number of roles, often playing characters like his grizzled baseball manager in “The Natural” opposite Robert Redford’s bad-luck phenomenon.
Shelf-life stability: Here’s what cannabis-infused product makers need to know
Margaret Jackson, Marijuana Business Daily - 13 hours ago
Shelf-life stability is no less important to cannabis business owners than it is with traditional food products or dietary supplements. Shelf-life stability: Here’s what cannabis-infused product makers need to know is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
COVIS-19 cases under control in Sweden.
drinkingwateradvisor, The Drinking Water Advisor - 14 hours ago
“The Health Agency of Sweden says that since hitting a peak in late June, the infection rate has fallen sharply. That’s amid an increase in testing over the period. “The curves are going down and the curves for the seriously … Continue reading →
An Anti-Trump Wave Is Going To Change Both Houses Of Congress In November
DownWithTyranny, DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago
You've probably been reading about how a Mitch McConnell to cling onto power in the Senate has been telling his colleagues to run as fast and as far as they can from Trump and his collapsing reelection campaign to save their seats. "While this may give some senators the flexibility to draw a distinction between themselves and the President," reported CNN, "it also forces them to walk a tightrope. Trump remains enormously popular with the Republican base, and any attempts to undercut him risks alienating those voters. 'These vulnerable senators can't afford to explicitly repudiate ...
St. Louis Prosecutor Tries, Fails, to Prosecute Cop Wilson in Michael Brown’s Death
R. Cort Kirkwood, rss - 11 hours ago
[image: st-louis-prosecutor-tries-fails-to-prosecute-cop-wilson-in-michael-brown-s-death] St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell announced yesterday that he could not prove that Officer Darren Wilson committed a crime when he shot and killed Michael Brown in 2014.
"At Last, The Answer..."
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
"At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom." - Richard Bach, “Nothing by Chance”
"Are You Loving Your Servitude?"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
*"Are You Loving Your Servitude?"* by Jim Quinn “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” - Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World" “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothi...
Phytoplankton blooms on the rise across Arctic Ocean
The Watchers » Latest articles - 11 hours ago
NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites captured a majestic shot of blooms of phytoplankton showing up in higher concentrations across the Arctic Ocean this summer. Every summer, parts of the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas lose their ice cover and bask in ample...... Read more »
Five Reasons You Need to Get Vaccinated
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 11 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Health, * For much of the past two decades, medical experts and public health officials have been combating growing misconceptions about vaccine safety. Here's why you shouldn't listen. For much of the past two decades, medical experts and public health officials have been combating growing misconceptions about vaccine safety. Despite the fact that numerous studies have found no evidence to support the notion that vaccines cause autism and other chronic illnesses, proponents of the anti-vaccine movement continue to refuse to vaccinate their children and them...
Sunday Morning Links
Unknown, Accidental Deliberations - 12 hours ago
This and that for your Sunday reading. - Jen Gerson rightly argues that we should be closing bars - and otherwise limiting dangerous contacts within our communities - in order to ensure safer school environments for students this fall. And Jana Pruden discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has forced people to rethink what's most important - even as corporations and governments try to push us back toward a profit-focused *status quo ante*. - Doug Nesbitt highlights how WE fits into a pattern of charities which substitute upper-class noblesse oblige for solidarity, while Shree Parad...
Search Called Off For 7 Missing US Marines And 1 Sailor When Their Amphibious Assault Vehicle Sank Off The Coast Of Southern California
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago
A search for 8 service members has been called off and all are presumed dead, after their amphibious assault vehicle sank in a deep section off the coast of Southern California. Marines with Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team, are picture during the search *Daily Mail:* *Seven marines and a sailor are presumed dead as search is called off two days after their amphibious assault vehicle sank in 600ft-deep water off the Southern California coast* * Search for eight service members has been called off and all are presumed dead * All were missing after their amphibious assault vehi...
German And French Arms Producers Want To Reduce Us Of US Technologies In Military Production
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago
FILE PHOTO: Two German Eurofighter jets © Reuters / Sabine Siebold *RT:* *German & French arms producers want to reduce use of US technologies in military production – report * France and Germany want to cut their technological dependence on the US – a NATO ally – and rely more on their own products when it comes to manufacturing military equipment, according to German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Military producers in Germany and France are reportedly attempting to phase out US technologies in helicopter construction, making a new assault rifle for the German Armed Forces (Bundesw...
The Heart Of The Matter In The South China Sea
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
When the USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz carrier strike groups recently engaged in “operations” in the South China Sea, it failed to escape cynics that the US Pacific Fleet was doing its best to turn the infantile Thucydides trap theory into a self-fulfilling prophecy. The pro forma official spin, via Rear Admiral Jim Kirk, commander of the Nimitz, is that the ops were conducted to “reinforce our commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, a rules-based international order, and to our allies and partners.” Nobody pays attention to these clichés, because the real message was deli...
Grading the U.S. Air Force's Arctic Strategy
James Holmes, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*James Holmes* *Security, arctic* In a sense the U.S. military could take advantage of role reversal in the Arctic, making the theater a laboratory for anti-access American style. Hostile forces may operate off U.S. seacoasts and will need managing if so. Fielding armaments able to reach out from land in concert with seagoing forces, and devising and practicing the necessary joint tactics, could let U.S. commanders glimpse the methods deployed by red teams around the world. And getting in the red team’s mind is a crucial step toward defeating it. Behold! The U.S. Army and Air For...
ICYMI: August Already Edition (8/2)
Peter Greene, CURMUDGUCATION - 12 hours ago
So, here are some things to read. *Is the push to reopen schools really a plot to dismantle them? * Accountabaloney listens to some bonus content from Have You Heard that lays out how DeVos has set up a pandemic win-win for herself. *Worst Year Ever * Nancy Flanagan reflects on the year and wonders if it couldn't actually mark a good change for education? *How the child care crisis will distort the economy for a generation*. Politico takes a look at the ripples that are going to spread from the pandemic crisis in child care (which is just a more severe version of the child care c...
The Space Wars Have Begun
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
“Space is now a distinct warfighting domain,” says the U.S. Defense Space Strategy. Last week, corporate media repeated U.S. military propaganda: that Russia had “tested new technologies that could lead to so-called ‘killer satellites’” (ABC); the U.S. and Britain “accused Russia of testing a weapon-like projectile in space that could be used to target satellites in orbit” (BBC); “the US has publicly accused Russia of testing an ‘orbit weapon’” (CNN); “The launch could represent a step towards the militarisation of space”(Sky News); and so on. The post The Space Wars Have Begun a...
Wagner mercenaries busted in Minsk, as Belarus elections heat up (Video)
Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 12 hours ago
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 617.
The Spirit of Apollo-Soyuz Is Alive… With the Russia/China Space Alliance
Matthew Ehret, The Duran - 12 hours ago
Originally published on the Strategic Culture Foundation Forty five years ago, Cold Warriors in the Pentagon and CIA shook their fists angrily at the stars- and for good reason. On July 17, 1975 the first international handshake was occurring in space between Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and American astronaut Thomas Stafford as the first official […]
Billionaires Push To Reopen Schools Without A Plan
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
Schools in the U.S. provide students with much more than an education. They provide child care, meals (for 14 million students), medical services (mostly for students with disabilities), psychological counseling, supervised physical activity and social connections. There are more than 135,000 educational institutions and 56.6 million students in grades K through 12. Since 2014 the majority of all public school students have been children of color. (National Center for Education Statistics) While all parents want their children to be able to return to school, more than two-thirds ...
On Medicare And Medicaid’s 55th Birthday, Let’s Expand Benefits
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. This crowning achievement was both the culmination of a decades-long effort to attain guaranteed universal health insurance and the first step in the quest for Medicare for All. In the 55 years since the legislation was signed into law, both programs have proven their worth. Before Medicare, about half of seniors lacked health insurance. They were an illness away from bankruptcy. Today, 99.1 percent of Americans 65 and older are insured, thanks to Medicare. The post On Medicare And Medicaid’s 55th...
Racism Is A Public Health Crisis
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago
Being black is bad for your health. And pervasive racism is the cause. That’s the conclusion of multiple public health studies over more than three decades. “We do know that health inequities at their very core are due to racism,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. “There’s no doubt about that.” More recently, research has shown that racial health disparities don’t just affect poor African Americans, but they also cross class lines, Benjamin said. “As a black man, my status, my suit and tie don’t protect me.” The post Racism Is...
SUNDAY SCREENING: House of Numbers, Anatomy of an Epidemic (2009)
21wire, 21st Century Wire - 14 hours ago
*SUNDAY SCREENING* | The shocking story of a dubious epidemic gone awry.
Episode #335 – ‘Still Loving Your Muzzle?’ with special guests
21wire, 21st Century Wire - 14 hours ago
*SUNDAY WIRE* | Strap yourselves in and lower the blast shield – this is your brave new world…
3 Studies Suggest Pandemic Fear Porn & Response Lead to More Depression: Ends Don't Justify the Means
Penny, Penny for your thoughts - 7 hours ago
*What I’d call a “no shit sherlock” or a “no brainer” .Considering the 24/7 fear porn with lock downs (imprisonment), social isolation and impoverishment the results were obviously going to be Trauma, Anxiety and Depression * Tame the Fear Monster..... *Fear* *Fear is an emotion induced by perceived danger or threat, which causes physiological changes and ultimately behavioral changesFear is closely related to the emotion anxiety, which occurs as the result of threats that are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable.It was proposed that a person learns to fear regardles...
North Korean Redefectors: Why Escape North Korea Only to Return?
Mark Episkopos, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Mark Episkopos* *Security, Asia* As Seoul grapples with how to respond to North Korea’s increasingly sophisticated missile arsenal, a different kind of threat South Korea’s (ROK) security continues to go unaddressed: North Korean redefectors. As Seoul grapples with how to respond to North Korea’s increasingly sophisticated missile arsenal, a different kind of threat South Korea’s (ROK) security continues to go unaddressed: North Korean redefectors. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters recently that a 24-year-old man, identified only with the surname “Kim,” crawled ...
Americans Are Addicted To U.S. Federal Government Handouts
Chris Edwards, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Chris Edwards* *Politics, Americas* When the economy recovers from the current crisis, policymakers should turn their attention to cutting subsidies and freeing the nation from top‐down cash and controls from Washington. This year is an extraordinary one for government subsidies. More than 150 million people received $1,200 stimulus checks. More than 25 million people have been receiving the $600 a week boost in unemployment benefits. Almost five million businesses and nonprofits have received aid through the PPP program. All this and other recession‐related spending is imposi...
Research offers new clues about where and how subduction starts on Earth
The Watchers » Latest articles - 12 hours ago
An international team of researchers published a new study providing new clues about how and where subduction begins on Earth, the process behind the deadliest volcanic eruptions. The Earth's largest earthquakes and most explosive volcanoes occur at subduction...... Read more »
Closing the stable door
Craig, Is the BBC biased? - 13 hours ago
You'll probably remember the controversy provoked by the BBC's reporting of the "largely peaceful" Black Lives Matter protests in London on Saturday 6 June - the protests where a policewoman was injured after her horse bolted. I see that the BBC has now issued an official 'correction/clarification': *News at Ten* *BBC One and BBC News Channel, Saturday 6 June 2020* We reported that a policewoman was injured after she ‘knocked herself off her horse’ in our coverage of Black Lives Matter protests in central London. It would have been better to have said that the policewoman had come ...
Japan's Ruling Party Proposes New Weapons To Give The Military The Ability To Directly Strike Targets In Other Countries
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 13 hours ago
*Reuters:* *Pacifist Japan ruling party proposes strike capability to halt missile attacks* TOKYO (Reuters) - Pacifist Japan took a step closer to acquiring weapons able to strike North Korea on Friday after a ruling party committee approved proposals to consider acquiring strike capability to halt ballistic missile attacks. Giving long-range munitions to Japan’s Self Defence Forces is a controversial issue for a country that renounced the right to wage war after its defeat in World War Two. The proposal is also likely to anger China and Russia, which could fall within range of ...
Would Donald Trump Ditch the GOP and Start His Own Party in 2024?
Rachel Bucchino, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Rachel Bucchino* *Politics, * Imagine this: Donald Trump loses the 2020 election and runs again in 2020 under his own party. Don't think it can't happen? History says it could. The presidential election of 1912 was one of the only cases where one of the top-two competitors didn’t represent a major political party -- the Democrats or the Republicans. Although a Democrat took the White House, a member of the Bull Moose Party trailed behind, receiving nearly 30 percent of the popular vote. Former president Theodore Roosevelt served from 1901 to 1909 as a Republican but decided to...
NATO War Planners Knew That Russia Would Conquer Most Of Europe
Robert Farley, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Robert Farley* *Security, Eurasia* But could they hold it? *Here's What You Need To Remember: *The RAND wargame suggests that Russia could take the Baltics, and perhaps hold them, for a while. Moscow would begin to pay costs very early in any conflict, however, as NATO forces moved against Kaliningrad, Transnistria and other Russian holdings. A recent RAND wargame on a potential Russian offensive into the Baltics brought talk of a “new Cold War” into sharp focus. The game made clear that NATO would struggle to prevent Russian forces from occupying the Baltics if it relied on th...
In 1983, The Soviet Union And America Narrowly Avoided Nuclear War
Paul Dibb, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Paul Dibb* *Security, * Top secret documents tell the tale. *Here's What You Need To Remember: * The U.S. government has just released one of the most worrying reports about the risk of nuclear war in the Cold War and the dangers of miscalculating Soviet intentions. The top-secret document was released in October 2015. It’s a damning report made by the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) in February 1990 about the U.S. intelligence community’s poor knowledge and lack of understanding of the USSR during the 1983 nuclear war scare. *Strategist* readers will r...
Would Michelle Obama Run for President in 2024?
Rachel Bucchino, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Rachel Bucchino* *Politics, * If Biden is elected in November, it’s likely that he won’t run for a second term considering his age. So, depending on the political and economic state of the country from the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, is there a chance that Obama would run for president in 2024? There’s been on and off speculation over whether former first lady Michelle Obama could ever be presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s running mate on the presidential ticket in November. As one of the most admired women, according to Democrats, the party views her as the ...
Did a Fifty Year Old Russian-Made Missile Hit Israel's Cutting-Edge F-35 Fighter?
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *Security, Middle East* [image: An Israeli Air Force F-35 fighter jet flies during an aerial demonstration at a graduation ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim air base in southern Israel, December 27, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen] The F-35 has become such a symbol of U.S. technological prowess—or incompetence—that any rumor that an F-35 has been damaged or shot down in combat will draw attention. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *The evidence is tenuous, but it says a lot about the F-35's image. Did a Russian anti-aircraft missile hit one of Israel...
The Messy (Un)truth Behind Donald Trump’s Latest Conspiracy
Jorge González-Gallarza Hernández, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Jorge González-Gallarza Hernández* *Politics, Americas* No, the EU wasn’t set up to free ride on America. It does so anyway. Beltway blobsters were on the edge of their seats Tuesday last week as Donald Trump went off-script from prepared remarks at the Rose Garden. “The EU was formed to take advantage of the U.S.,” he asserted amidst a markedly Trumpian *tour d’horizon* that included attacks on Joe Biden and blows at China for cheating on trade and the WHO. “I know that. They know I know that, but other presidents had no idea,” he added. Needless to say, “take advantage” is the...
Untitled
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 13 hours ago
A protester shouts pro-China slogans outside the US consulate in Chengdu. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters *Lily Kuo, The Guardian:* *'China is powerful now': Beijing's aggressive global stance sparks wave of nationalism * *As China comes under attack abroad, nationalist sentiment at home is being stoked – at the expense of other voices* For days, the US consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu was not just a site for curious onlookers but for residents eager to express pride in their country. Some waved the Chinese flag while others set off fireworks. In one video, a woman said ...
NO JAIL for Cops Found Guilty of Torturing Innocent Disabled Man in His Own Front Yard
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 13 hours ago
[image: disabled]Despite graphic video and the fact that they were found guilty of assault, three cops who violently beat an innocent disabled man in his own yard will not go to jail.
The Exaggerated Threat of Oil Wars
emeierding, Lawfare - 14 hours ago
The USS Montgomery navigates near a Panamanian-flagged drillship in the South China Sea on May 7, 2020. Photo credit: U.S. Navy photo by Naval Aircrewmen Helicopter 3rd Class Christopher Fred. *Editor’s Note: That states go to war to seize natural resources, especially oil, seems like a truism. However, Emily Meierding of the Naval Postgraduate School argues that such wars for oil are in reality exceptionally rare. In this post, based on **her new book**, she explains that the costs and risks of such conflicts are almost always too high for would-be aggressors to pay.* *Daniel By...
Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 214 – 2020
Hifast, Climate Collections - 14 hours ago
Originally posted on sunshine hours: ? South / North ? ?
U.S. Senators McSally-Collins-Romney Tried to get a Few Months or Even a Week (McSally) Extension of the Supplemental Unemployment Insurance but Pelosi-Schumer Refused
miningawareness, Mining Awareness + - 14 hours ago
If Democrats don’t recall that it is still citizens who vote them in or out and not non-citizens, they will … Continue reading →
Cops Refuse to Safely Arrest Man in Court So They Can SWAT Raid His House Later on LIVE PD
John Vibes, The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago
[image: live pd]Police deliberately passed up a chance to peacefully arrest a man while he was in court so they could stage a dramatic SWAT raid for LIVE PD.
Untitled
Jenna Orkin, From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 14 hours ago
From Jenna Orkin Could America split up? Navajo Nation Sees Farming Renaissance During Coronavirus Pandemic “Never Seen a Decline of this Magnitude” – ExxonMobil, Crashed by Covid, gets taste of looming Electric Vehicle Crisis The World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is Finally Being Built Revealed: super-rich donate to Cuomo as he rejects tax hikes for billionaires How to Dodge the Sonic Weapon Used by Police (Popular Mechanics)U.S. urges Pakistan to act after American charged with blasphemy shot in court 260 campers test positive for COVID-19 after stay at a Georgia YMCA camp What We...
Lebanon: ‘We’ll Defend Ourselves Against Israeli Attacks’
mosesman, Socio-Economics History Blog - 17 hours ago
Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization
Unknown, The Conservative Socrates - 14 hours ago
If people rely on the ideas of Marx, and his intellectual descendants, the Frankfurt School, on love and relationship to make their domestic life a success, most homes will become a place as sordid as a divorce court. They leftists are utopians; they have little awareness of the psychology of real human beings. (This post is related to my reading of Herbert Marcuse’s* Eros and Civilization* (1955) which is a frankly utopian book, as it proposes a new future where the population is ensnared with free love and strange sexual positions to prevent outburst of rebellions and maintain soci...
Gove & Cummings: They think they’re above the law
barovsky, The New Dark Age - 14 hours ago
Several weeks back we issued judicial review proceedings against Michael Gove for his decision to award an £840,000 contract to associates of his and Dominic Cummings, without any advertisement or competitive tender process.
That Will Not Change
Owen Gray, Northern Reflections - 14 hours ago
Donald Trump lied about the virus. Now he's lying about the economy. Robert Reich writes: The recovery has been very strong,” Donald Trump said on Monday. Then the commerce department reported the US economy contracted between April and June at the fastest pace in nearly three-quarters of a century, which is as long as economists have been keeping track. The drop wiped out five years of economic growth. The comeback “won’t take very long”, he reassured Americans on Thursday. But every indicator shows that after a small uptick in June, the US economy is tanking again. Restaurant ...
Sunday Sermonette
Larry-Lambert, Virtual Mirage - 15 hours ago
The man is looking at invading Soviet tanks. August 1968. Czechoslovakia was invaded by Soviet, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian armies, because Czechoslovak government wanted to adopt democratic changes, which wasn’t supported in Moscow. Arizona – Still a Free State You never know how long it will remain free, though. A lot of […] The post Sunday Sermonette appeared first on Virtual Mirage.
NFAC’s Brainless Weapons Demonstration (Grand Master Jay “Sgt Mjr” Yeah Right….)
Ragnar, 'Nox & Friends - 15 hours ago
From Ninety Miles From Tyranny: via Heavy Duty Country. Video about 5 minutes. In the video, Grand Pappy Jay or whatever he calls himself makes a complete ass of himself. He doesn’t even understand the weapon he is carrying….These idiots wouldn’t last 5 minutes in an actual firefight….They’d be shooting each other….like they did in Louisville. Remember the about 11,000 weapon parts seized by Customs and Border Patrol? Remember where they were seized? Louisville, KY…..Interesting coincidence that the NFAC was “protesting” in Louisville….. I’m gonna have to check out this guy on youtu...
Untitled
jonjayray, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 15 hours ago
*Oh, So a School District's Stance on Re-Opening in the Fall Is Grounded in County-Level Support of Trump* The panic porn over coronavirus has spilled into the school debate. Districts are neck-deep in debate as to whether they should re-open, despite the fact that young children aren’t really impacted by this virus. The reaction has been overblown. In fact, there’s more data that suggests the lockdowns we were subjected to did more harm than good. And now, we have the doomsday peddlers saying our kids shouldn’t learn for another year. Okay—they’re not really saying that,...
Lawsuits and Supreme Court Decision Regarding Contact Tracing
Uriel, 'Nox & Friends - 15 hours ago
Pamela Popper July 29, 2020 Legality of COVID mask demands: . . “We’ve seen too many instances of blatantly unconstitutional orders or selectively enforcing executive orders that violate Americans’ God-given freedoms. The Constitution remains the law of the land, even in the midst of a pandemic; elected leaders would do well to remember that. Congress must defend freedom by holding governments accountable for upholding Americans’ rights.” Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) press release You can find Pam on BitChute under the channel WellnessForumHealth Check out https://makeamericansfreeag...
Vaccines Made These 5 Devastating Diseases Far Less of a Threat
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Health, * Is this how we will look at Coronavirus someday? Within the past century, it is no secret that vaccinations have revolutionized global health and saved millions of lives. These days, with the novel coronavirus wreaking havoc across the globe, much of the world is collectively crossing their fingers so that an effective vaccine could be developed as soon as possible. It appears that several companies are already making great headway, and a vaccine could be given the go-ahead in just several months. Know that humankind has been in this situation befo...
Why Do Coronavirus Face Mask Mandates Make People So Angry?
Gwilym David Blunt, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Gwilym David Blunt* *Politics, * They believe mask mandates sacrifice individual liberty to a collectivist notion a “greater good”. Several hundred people assembled in London’s Hyde Park in July 2020 to protest rules making face masks mandatory in shops and supermarkets to help control the spread of COVID-19. This was not an isolated event. Similar protests have occurred in many places around the world in reaction to the prospect of “mask mandates” – especially in the United States. These protesters are not without allies. “Anti-maskers” have elicited support from prominent fig...
Listen: These Audio Tapes Tell What It Was Like to Fight in Vietnam From a B-52
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *History, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C1998%3Anewsml_PBEAHUMJBAF&share=true] It was a difficult and dangerous operation. *Key Point: *The B-52 was a deadly weapon, but they were also often shot down. Here's how America tried to use them to win and (when that failed) to compel peace. The big Strategic Air Command bombers were President Richard Nixon’s big stick to compel North Vietnam’s leaders to sign a peace agreement, and finally, finally get the United States out of a conflict that most Americans just wanted to forget...
Red Flags Soar As Big Pharma Will Be Exempt From COVID-19 Vaccine Liability Claims
Ragnar, 'Nox & Friends - 15 hours ago
From ZeroHedge: Excerpts: Last week we warned readers to be cautious about new COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting how key parts of the clinical trials are being skipped as big pharma will not be held accountable for adverse side effects for administering the experimental drugs. A senior executive from AstraZeneca, Britain’s second-largest drugmaker, told Reuters that his company was just granted protection from all legal action if the company’s vaccine led to damaging side effects. “This is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in … four years the vacci...
Untitled
JR, GREENIE WATCH - 15 hours ago
*Greenie son resigns from News Corp board* *Good riddance to James. Lachlan is more balanced, like his father, so the publications will not change noticeably* James Murdoch has resigned from the board of News Corp over a disagreement with its editorial coverage of politics and environmental issues in a move that severs his ties to his family's global media empire. Mr Murdoch, the younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, said he would step down as a director of the owner of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Australian and the right-wing Fox News cable television n...
COVID Vaccine During Pregnancy?
Age of Autism, AGE OF AUTISM - 15 hours ago
By Cathy Jameson I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw an article suggesting that pregnant women should be first in line to get the undeveloped, untested, unlicensed COVID vaccine when it becomes available. Other vaccines are strongly recommended for...
Latin America’s Covid-19 Death Toll Surges Past 200,000
Newsfeed, The Rio Times - 15 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Reuters) The death toll in Latin America from the novel coronavirus passed 200,000 on Saturday, August 1st, a Reuters tally showed, underlining the region’s status as one of the global epicenters of the pandemic that is testing governments to the limit. Apart from the United States, Brazil and Mexico have […] The post Latin America’s Covid-19 Death Toll Surges Past 200,000 appeared first on The Rio Times.
Posts
