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The National Interest16 hours ago
Will a South Korean Aircraft Carrier Shake Up the Asia-Pacific?*Sebastien Roblin* *Aircraft Carriers, Korean Peninsula* Seoul announced it would build an aircraft carrier in July 2019 after years of study. The ship would be paired with a $2.7 billion order for twenty F-35B Lightning stealth jump-jet fighters, complementing sixty land-based F-35As. *Here's What You Need to Remember:* Overall, the Korean carrier program appears more motivated by competition with the navies of Japan and China, both of which are bringing multiple carriers into service. The shift to the larger CV-X design may have been aimed at matching the heft of Japan’s forth... read more
PrairiePundit16 hours ago
Israel targets Iranian weapons shipments*Legal Insurrection:* *Israel Said To Hit Main Syrian Port, Destroying Iranian Weapons Shipment Bound For Hezbollah* *Defense Minister Benny Gantz: “Israel will not allow Iran to stream game-changing weapons to its proxies and to threaten our citizens.”* Iran's proxy war against Israel takes a well-deserved hit. This is more evidence that Iran should not be trusted with nuclear weapons. read more
PrairiePundit16 hours ago
The abortion pandemic*Breitbart:* *Abortion Leading Global Cause of Death in 2021 with 43 Million Killed* This is sad. read more
War News Updates16 hours ago
Happy New Year!*WNU Editor:* Happy New Year! May 2022 be a major improvement. And a special thanks to all of you for visiting this blog. read more
Organizing Notes16 hours ago
Sunday songPrairiePundit16 hours ago
Trump lists Biden screw-upsKyle Becker: ... THE MOST ANTI-WORKER, ANTI-FAMILY, ANTI-AMERICA PRESIDENT EVER: Joe Biden inherited the most secure border in history, the fastest economic recovery on record, historically low gas prices, hard-won American Energy Independence, a domestic manufacturing renaissance, and a nation poised to flourish like never before—all thanks to the America-First agenda of President Trump. It took less than 12 months for Biden and the extremists in his party to turn it all into crisis, chaos, misery, and woe. It’s no wonder Biden is ending his first year with his approval ratings... read more
The Free Thought Project16 hours ago
If We Don’t Want 2022 to Mirror 2021, We Need to Continue to Openly Disobey Unscientific COVID Tyranny[image: narrative]No amount of definitions can be changed, boosters mandated, or lockdowns enforced that can keep the establishment's ship from sinking. read more
PrairiePundit16 hours ago
Biden's vaccine mandate becomes threat to national security*Dailywire:* *‘Political Purge’: Marines Speak Out As Vax Mandate Forces Dozens Out Of The Corps* ... “There’s something fundamentally wrong at this point with our nation’s leadership. We are facing an unconstitutional edict that I think is very targeted as a political purge, taking out some of the best and brightest soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardians from the Space Force,” one major with 17 years of service under his belt told Fox News. Others said that the Marine Corps appeared to be making examples of those who pushed back, saying, “the louder I speak the tight... read more
PrairiePundit16 hours ago
New York uses racism to determine who gets anti-viral medicationBreitbart: New York state’s Department of Health (DOH) announced recently that non-white people should be prioritized over white people for anti-viral pills in short supply. The DOH announcement, dated December 27, said limited supply of oral antivirals will “require providers to prioritize treatment for patients at highest risk for severe COVID-19 until more product becomes available.” Under a list of eligibility requirements for oral antiviral treatment, it said one requirement should be “have a medical condition or other factors that increase their risk for severe illness” an... read more
Komando.com19 hours ago
Tech smarts: How to know if someone blocked your callsYou won't get any official notice if someone blocks your number — but you can make an educated guess. read more
Gangsters Out Blog8 hours ago
2022: Civil Liberty and the dream that was once RomeThis year the theme is civil liberty. I'm using the movie gladiator as an allegory. In the movie, Marcus Aurelius sits Maximus down and discusses his dying wish. He knows his power hungry son is not a moral man and wants Maximus to take charge and hand the republic over to the people like George Washington did. In our analogy, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is Marcus Aurelius, Justin Trudeau is his son Commodus and Maxime Bernier is Maximus. We realize the movie Gladiator is fiction but we will use it to reveal a similar struggle in our day. In the movie, Commodus was insecure and wanted... read more
The National Interest16 hours ago
These World War II Assassin Weapons Could Kill Without a Trace*Travis Pike* *World War II, United States* Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar… but sometimes a pen is a gun. *Here's What You Need to Remember:* One of the more famous OSS Weapons is the Stinger pen gun. This covert gun looked like a pen and could be carried quite discreetly. The Stinger pen gun was designed to be disposable. It fired a single .22 Short round, and users discarded it after it was fired. The Office of Strategic Services was a joint intelligence and operations agency founded by the Americans during World War 2. It served as a precursor to the CIA and was ran by a ma... read more
PrairiePundit17 hours ago
Good luck with that!*Penn Live:* *IRS reminds taxpayers that they have to report any income from crime, such as dealing drugs* Will the IRS then disclose the illicit business to local law enforcement or will it become a knowing accessory to the crime? read more
The National Interest17 hours ago
Navy SEALs Use This Pull-Up Workout to Stay Battle Ready*Frumentarius* *Navy SEALs, United States* There is a reason almost every military unit in the world does pull-ups as a fundamental part of their PT regimen. *Key Point:* Pull-ups are essential to building strength, require no expensive, specialized equipment, and offer scalable and customizable options for beginners up to advanced pull-up practitioners. If you are looking to join the military, or are a current service member thinking of attempting a transition to a special operations unit, then you probably need to improve your pull ups. Hell, if you’re just trying to find a w... read more
The National Interest17 hours ago
India's Balakot Airstrike Reveals Precision Guiding Challenges*Marcus Hellyer, Aakriti Bachhawat, Nathan Ruser* *Security, Airstrikes, Precision Ordinance, Asia* Despite the proliferation of precision weapons, actually completing the strike ‘kill chain’ is still difficult. *Here's What to Remember: *One explanation for the miss is that the SPICE 2000 bombs were incorrectly programmed to fly precisely into GPS points that were, say, 33 metres above their intended targets (the buildings on top of the ridge line). They performed as programmed and then continued on their trajectories until they struck the valley beneath. Ever since the stunning... read more
PrairiePundit17 hours ago
Texas gets injunction against Biden vaccine mandate*Fox News:* *Texas AG gains federal injunction against another Biden vaccine mandate* *Federal ruling halts COVID-19 protocol conditions for funding Head Start programs* The Biden requirements among other things required two-year-olds to wear masks and adult supervisors to be vaccinated. read more
Cairns News17 hours ago
Labor Premier Palaszczuk prods a sleeping gianthttps://rumble.com/vrkxko-the-vintage-apron-capalaba-central-29-december-2021.html This gutsy cafe owner in Capalaba Centre and his patrons know their rights and stand on solid ground while ordering errant cops from the premises. Eventually the cops give in. Credit to them. No credit to the ALP/LNP duopoly for supporting Covid tyranny. Capalaba Central shopping centre, in what is the largest regional shopping […] read more
PrairiePundit17 hours ago
Antifa privilege*PJ Media:* *Antifa Rioter, Arrested Three Times for Assaulting Police, Has Case Dismissed* With Antifa, the Democrats have found an insurrection they support. Antifa has become the militant wing of the Democrat Party, replacing their former militant wing the KKK. read more
PrairiePundit17 hours ago
The Australian Covid insurrection* Hal Turner:* *Old Parliament House in Australia BURNED! Vax Protesters Warn: Current One is Next* The government lockdown policies in Australia are extremely unpopular. read more
musingsofanoldfart17 hours ago
A little bit of this and that for 2022Happy New Year everyone. May your resolutions last longer than your hangover. I have celebrated New Year’s in a number of ways, but this old soul is less inclined to stay up until midnight these days. Living on the east … Continue reading → read more
PrairiePundit17 hours ago
The anti-freedom left*Epoch Times:* *BLM and CRT Movements Comprise a Gigantic Step Backward’: Leftist Professor of Media Studies* They are both totalitarian movements that seek to control others. BLM is basically a criminal support movement that sponsors riots when a black accused of a crime resists arrest and attacks the police. They ignore black-on-black killings. Those lives do not matter to this group. CRT is made up of racist thought police who accuse others of racism. read more
PrairiePundit17 hours ago
A border wall for Arizona?*Washington Examiner:* *Arizona GOP governor candidate taunts Biden with vow to build border wall* ... On her campaign website, Lake says she is “committed to finishing the wall” and says, as governor, she would “direct the Arizona National Guard to deploy along the border and assist Border Patrol for as long as it takes to get control of this disaster.” (Kari) Lake adds she would also call on sheriffs to “deputize Arizonans” to enforce state directives. ... That would leave New Mexico with the only completely open border but its border is a treacherous desert. The Feds have ... read more
PrairiePundit17 hours ago
Biden brings US worst year everPaul Bedard: All of the hope in President Joe Biden’s 21-minute inaugural address, which promised “unity, unity,” has not only evaporated in his first 11 months but left people feeling that 2021 was “one of the worst years ever,” according to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey. In the poll previewed by Secrets, likely voters said that they not only believe the year was a bust, but that a majority feel 2022 will be bad also. ... - 74% said 2021 was a fair to poor year, with most, 48%, calling it poor. - Just 23% called it a good to the best year ever, with just 2% dubbing ... read more
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT18 hours ago
Wind Power Drops By A Third In Q3By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public The latest energy trends data have been published by BEIS: It is quite shocking to see that wind generation has fallen by 38% for onshore and 24% for offshore year on year. This is despite new capacity being added. We are familiar with short term drops […] read more
The National Interest18 hours ago
North Korea's Artillery Would Fire the First Salvo of a Future War*David Axe* *North Korea, Korean Peninsula* A North Korean artillery barrage could inflict as many as 250,000 casualties in Seoul alone, RAND reported, citing a U.S. Defense Department estimate. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Much of Pyongyang’s artillery is in range of the Seoul Greater Metropolitan Area, which begins just 25 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas. Some 10 million people live in the Greater Seoul Metropolitan Area and another 15 million reside just outside of the metropolitan area. Years back, North Korea on May 4, 2019 test-fired ... read more
The National Interest18 hours ago
In 2017, a Neutral Country Landed a Jet on a U.S. Aircraft Carrier*David Axe* *F/A-18 Super Hornet, Finland* The Finnish air force operates some 62 Hornets, 62 F/A-18Cs and seven F/A-18Ds — the latter a two-seat variant — for a total of three squadrons. That is the same type of fighter that touched down onto the Abraham Lincoln. *Here's What You Need to Know*: The landing is interesting because Finland, like neighboring Sweden, is an officially neutral country and is not part of NATO, and the country during most of the post-war era navigated a fine line between East and West. That is still true, mostly. On March 17, 2017 in the Atlantic, a figh... read more
The National Interest18 hours ago
Three Strange Weapons Fielded by U.S. Marines in World War II*Travis Pike* *World War II, Pacific* While these unique weapons were used heavily during the early stages of World War 2, the military loves standardization. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *Paramarines and Marine Raiders were no stranger to unique weapons, and the Johnson Light Machine Gun might have been one of the best at the time. Today’s Marine Corps may be on the bleeding edge of military rifles, optics, and sound suppression devices, but in the Pacific theater of World War II, many Marines were forced to rely on dated or unique weapons unlike any you’d find in its sis... read more
The National Interest18 hours ago
The Department of Defense Must Prioritize Hypersonic Missile Procurement*Kris Osborn* *Hypersonic Missiles, United States* The Department of Defense needs to increase its production of hypersonic weapons and continue to search for disruptive technologies. *Here's What You Need to Know: *China’s recent test of a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle has received a massive amount of attention. The Department of Defense needs to increase its production of hypersonic weapons and continue to search for disruptive technologies. Volume matters when it comes to hypersonic weapons for both tactical and strategic reasons. The only real way to prevent a l... read more
The National Interest18 hours ago
Against This Plane, the SR-71 Blackbird Would Have Stood No Chance*Trevor Filseth* *SR-91, * “Although I expect few in the media to believe me,” Ben Rich wrote in 1994, “there is no codename for the hypersonic plane because it simply does not exist.” *Here’s What You Need to Remember: *The fate of high-speed spy planes declined sharply after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The SR-71 Blackbird, which first took to the skies in 1964, was for decades the world’s fastest plane, setting an official record of 2,193 miles per hour—more than three times the speed of sound—over straight and level flight in 1976. An... read more
The National Interest18 hours ago
A Strong Air Force Is Key to Stopping a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan*Kris Osborn* *Taiwan Invasion, Taiwan* If allied air superiority is quickly established and the Chinese Air Force is less dangerous than its naval and ground forces, there may indeed be hope that a major invasion could be stopped before reaching the shores. Given that Taiwan is merely one hundred miles off the Chinese coast, this is a tall order. *Here's What You Need to Know: *Any successful Chinese invasion would require air and sea superiority. Several Pentagon reports and think tank studies have raised the question of whether Taiwan could quickly be taken over by China, cre... read more
Is the BBC biased?18 hours ago
“We're not supposed to have opinions, but...”I listened to *Correspondents Look Ahead - Looking Ahead to 2022 *on Radio 4 last night. What I didn't know is that the BBC World Service has an equivalent called *BBC Correspondents Look Ahead. *A parallel section from each programme got be thinking again about BBC groupthink. Here's the passage from the Radio 4 programme: *KATYA ADLER - *I'm going to try and be positive and say that there is more environmental awareness. I like the fact that...we're not supposed to have opinions, but I do like the fact that it was young people that put the environment on the political agenda. ... read more
naked capitalism18 hours ago
Links 1/1/2022UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page19 hours ago
Cave diving: One of the most dangerous sports in the world?UnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page19 hours ago
Dolphins and whales are thriving in UK waters despite pressure from human activitiesUnderwaterTimes.com - Front Page19 hours ago
Shark fishing in Hawaii will be banned beginning New Year̢۪s Day 2022Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 219 hours ago
"2022: More Stupidity, More Arrogance, More Evil, More Rebellion"*"2022: More Stupidity, More Arrogance, * *More Evil, More Rebellion"* by Robert Gore "Chaos will reign as the future upends the past. Chaos doesn’t lend itself to prediction. Stupidity, arrogance, and evil ultimately destroy themselves, but their rampage was unabated in 2021. A group of stupid, arrogant, and evil people are using a virus and its variants to shepherd the world into a scheme of totalitarian global governance. This was conspiracy theory when the virus first surfaced; now it’s nakedly obvious reality. The one redeeming feature of the year was that more people saw the ... read more
Age of Autism The Rebel Alliance!19 hours ago
Happy New Year
Our journey has been arduous to say the least. I’m proud of everyone in the AofA community for never giving up the fight. We are still standing and outstanding indeed. Happy 2022. Related Stories - Dr. Fauci’s Twelve Days of Christmas - Christmas Eve 2021 - The Militarized Response to a Public Health Crisis Doomed Us read more
Cairns News19 hours ago
Archbishop denounces Covid vaccines as ‘absolutely immoral’ strongly opposes vaxxing five year oldsby Kev Moore Catholic Archbishop Vigano Denounces The Coronavirus Vaccine: ‘There Is a Duty To Refuse It’ https://russian-faith.com/news-trends/vigano-denounces-coronavirus-vaccine-there-duty-refuse-it-n6163 “Revelations from Pfizer executives have recently been released showing that the mRNA gene serums contain aborted fetal material not only for the production of the original vaccine, but also for its replication and production on a vast […] read more
Komando.com19 hours ago
How to find your phone when it’s lost (even if the battery is dead)When it comes to finding your phone, there are better ways than shouting for someone else in the house to call you. read more
Small Dead Animals20 hours ago
It Was Great Being A Liberal In 2021Don’t worry, office budgets balance themselves. read more
naked capitalism20 hours ago
Dare I Disagree With David Ignatius?The Blob's wishes for the new year, as told by David Ignatius. read more
naked capitalism20 hours ago
During a COVID-19 Surge, ‘Crisis Standards of Care’ Involve Excruciating Choices and Impossible Ethical Decisions for Hospital StaffHospital staff are bracing themselves for overload....if they aren't there already. read more
Global Issues News Headlines20 hours ago
First Person: Combatting stereotypes to prevent violence against women in AzerbaijanAzerbaijani activist Maryam Majidova is fighting to improve gender equality in her country, and address the daily challenges faced by women and girls. Read the full story, “First Person: Combatting stereotypes to prevent violence against women in Azerbaijan”, on globalissues.org → read more
The National Interest20 hours ago
How America's F-14 Tomcats Saved Iran from Destruction*Trevor Filseth* *F-14, * The F-14’s superiority quickly became apparent; it reportedly racked up at least fifty air-to-air victories in the first six months of the Iran-Iraq War, with only one aircraft damaged in return. *Here’s What You Need to Remember: *By the end of the Iran-Iraq War, the plane had made at least two hundred kills, losing only eight to enemy action. Throughout its history, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat has been operated by exactly two nations: the United States, which retired the aircraft in 2006 in favor of the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet; and Iran, which continue... read more
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