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Morrison staffer apologises as Turnbull book publisher plans to refer memoir leak to AFP
Senior cabinet ministers confirm they "received and deleted" a pirated copy of Malcolm Turnbull's new memoir which the publisher says originated from Prime Minister Scott Morrison's office.
How a regional bookshop is thriving in the age of ebooks
Paul and Karen Morgan decided to sift through their local second-hand bookshop to kill some time, but they walked out having bought the whole shed and its contents of 60,000 books.
'Delightful' WA results see one new case of COVID-19 recorded as Perth dries up
Western Australia's COVID-19 total rises by just one with a 60-year-old man contracting the virus in the Goldfields, as Perth records zero new cases for the first time since the state's testing regime began.
Doulas adapt to help navigate birth and death during the pandemic
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Social distancing rules have forced childbirth and end-of-life doulas to change their practices to help support families while staying safe.
Music stars perform from home for Lady Gaga's livestream concert to fight coronavirus
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Australian artists Keith Urban and Delta Goodrem join some of the world's biggest music artists performing at home for an eight-hour, livestreamed concert to support frontline healthcare workers and the World Health Organisation.
Midnight Meme Of The Day!
*by Noah Sunday Thoughts:* A reminder for you while you are stuck at home playing with the buttons on your remote: TV gameshows are the Devil's workshop. They fool you into thinking you are actually learning something when you could be developing your mind. But, go ahead, look at your four choices and choose your blasphemy carefully. Or, express what's left of your free will and just turn off the TV. Take up painting or sculpture! Pay a visit to the DownWithTyranny Book & Music store! Enrich your mind! But, please, for the good of your immortal soul, no more damn, stupid gamesho... more »
Must Watch! Greg Hunter, "Coming: A Time When Money And Bonds Are No Good"
*"Coming: A Time When Money And Bonds Are No Good" * By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Money manager and economist Michael Pento says the Federal Reserve has only massive money printing left to try to save the economy from the current and ongoing debt implosion. There is going to be lots of fresh cash needed. Pento runs down a list of just few of the things the Fed will need to spend money on and says, “We all should know more than 22 million people have lost their jobs in the last four weeks alone. That’s 22 million people, and the unemployment rate, according to me, is heading up... more »
Arms from Yemen will Fuel Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Arms from Yemen will Fuel Conflict in the Horn of Africa Publication: Terrorism Monitor By: Michael Horton The Jamestown Foundation Arms trafficking via the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea has a long history. However, the wars in Yemen and the vast number of arms and materiel provided by Saudi Arabia and the United […]
Australian Daily Wind Power Generation Data – Saturday 18th April 2020
By Anton Lang ~ This Post details the daily wind power generation data for the AEMO coverage area in Australia. For the background information, refer to the Introductory Post at this link. Each image is shown here at a smaller size to fit on the page alongside the data for that day. If you click […]
NY Times Now Whining Trump Won’t Play Dictator: ‘Ceding…National Leadership’ On Virus
By Clay Waters ~ Make up your mind! The New York Times, which has criticized Donald Trump for playing dictator during the coronavirus pandemic, is now criticizing him for “ceding any semblance of national leadership on the pandemic” on Saturday’s front page: “Right-Wing Protests Find Megaphone in Trump.” Michael Shear and Sarah Mervosh’s highly partisan […]
Checklist Of Green Deal Cost Elements
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Green Deal proposals are springing up around the world. The core concept is zero CO2 emissions via decarbonization. The proponents of these Green Deals deliberately avoid cost estimates because the costs are horrendous. To help force these huge costs out into the open I have developed the following simple checklist […]
Trump’s Attack On VOA Over COVID-19 Shows Need For New Agency Chief
By Helle Dale ~ At his April 15 press conference, President Donald Trump launched into a fierce attack on the Voice of America, the U.S. government’s broadcasting entity that reaches out to the world in 47 different languages and is a part of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The president called the VOA’s coverage […]
The Measure of a Man
IN MEMORIUM – Command Sergeant Major Bennie G. Adkins, US Army His Medal of Honor citation in part reads: “During the thirty-eight hour battle and forty-eight hours of escape and evasion, fighting with mortars, machine guns, recoilless rifles, small arms, and hand grenades, it was estimated that Sergeant First Class Adkins killed between 135 […] The post The Measure of a Man appeared first on Virtual Mirage.
Quote of the Day
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. — G. Gordon Liddy
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC : ‘Norway Was Warmer 1,000 Years Ago’
“What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know, it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain *** H/t @WEschenbach THE post title is obviously a parody. However, it happens to be a factual one, albeit politically incorrect. OUR very ‘warm’ friends at National Geographic have inadvertently proven […]
After Omaha Beach And Iwo Jima, The Higgins Boat Is Returning To America
*Michael Peck* *Security, * The Higgins Boat meant any open beach could serve as a debarkation point for sufficient troops, vehicles and supplies to create a meaningful bridgehead. *Here's What You Need To Know: *The Navy wants “connectors” that can ferry material to the landing zone. “This platform would enable the delivery of smaller land vehicles, weapon systems, fuel bladders, water, and electric generation equipment,” according to the Navy research proposal. From Omaha Beach to Iwo Jima, the great amphibious invasions of World War II were made possible by a humble plywood b... more »
Horror in Soviet Ukraine: Why the Fight Against the Nazis During World War II Was so Terrible
*Peter Suciu* *History, Europe* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC1FDDD08B80&share=true] The Eastern Front was a special kind of hell. *Key point: *Most Germans died fighting on the Eastern front. The war between the two titans of Europe would cost millions. In 1941, the northwestern corner of the Ukraine was not what one would call tank country. With the exception of a few narrow, poorly maintained highways, movement was largely restricted to unpaved roads running through terrain dominated by forests, hills, small marshy rivers an... more »
The U.S. Navy Smashed Japanese Invincibility At This Battle
*David H. Lippman* *History, Asia* [image: USS Boise (CL-47) arrives at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in November 1942 for repair of battle damage received during the 11-12 October Battle of Cape Esperance. U.S. Navy Photograph.] 'A three-sided battle in which chance was the major winner.' Both sides needed reinforcements.For the Japanese and the Americans in October 1942, the battle for Guadalcanal was turning into a bottomless pit, demanding more and more scarce resources—in the air and at sea and, most importantly, on the ground. Control of the malarial, jungle-clad island and ... more »
General Macarthur Won the Battle of Biak—but at What Cost?
*Warfare History Network* *History, Asia* [image: By U.S. Army Signal Corps officer Gaetano Faillace [1] - This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 531424., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia] A terrible toll. In April 1944, General Douglas MacArthur’s Southwest Pacific forces took a giant 600-mile leap along the north coast of New Guinea with their landing at Hollandia. That invasion took the Japanese completely by surprise, and most of the few Japanese present near ... more »
The F-35 Can Go 'Beast Mode' To Take Down Different Threats
*Mark Episkopos* *Security, Americas* The F-35's beast mode boasts a whopping maximum of fourteen AIM-120 missiles and two smaller AIM-9X missiles for air missions. *Here's What You Need To Remember:* The F-35 is compatible with several weapon layouts to accommodate a wider range of tactical scenarios. As the name implies, stealth loadouts are designed to minimize radar cross-section in a “first day of war” setting where the enemy's anti-air systems are operating at full capacity. Recently leaked video sheds light on one of the F-35’s possible weapons configurations, previously ... more »
Could Britain's Type 26 Destroyer Bring The Royal Navy Back From Atrophy?
*David Axe* *Security, Europe* It cost $1 billion. *Here's What You Need To Know: *The Royal Navy in 2019 possesses just 19 escort ships, including 13 Type 23 frigates and six Type 45s. The Royal Navy may already have identified a possible replacement for its Type 45 destroyers. A version of the new Type 26 frigate, which should enter service with the U.K. fleet in the mid-2020s, ultimately could replace the air-defense-optimized Type 45s beginning in the 2030s. The prospect of developing an air-defense variant of the Type 26 offers some hope to the United Kingdom’s beleaguered ... more »
Who Was Behind the Nazi and Imperial Japanese Broadcasts In English?
*Chuck Lyons* *History, * [image: Fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster William Joyce, known as Lord Haw Haw, lies in an ambulance after his arrest by British officers at Flensburg, Germany, on 29 May 1945. He was shot during the arrest. Imperial War Museum/Bert Hardy.] Lord Haw-haw, Toyko Rose, and Axis Sally. Mildred “Midge” Gillars was born in Portland, Maine, took drama lessons in New York City, appeared in vaudeville, worked as an artist’s model in Paris and a dressmaker’s assistant in Algiers, and taught English at the Berlitz School in Berlin before—motivate... more »
Soviet Surprise: How Imperial Japan Was Beat at the Battle of Nomonh An
*Warfare History Network* *History, Asia* [image: By soviet reporter - former image source [1]; current image source [2], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7903819] Say goodbye. General Georgi Zhukov had arrived at the Mongolia-Manchuria border in the early morning hours of June 5, 1939, after a grueling three-day trip from Moscow. He insisted on immediately questioning the Soviet defenders and touring the site of the recent border clashes with Japanese troops. Peering through his field glasses at the small figures scurrying about on the east bank of... more »
Oflag XVIIA: Escape From a Nazi Prison Camp
*Jacqueline Vautrain Collins* *History, Europe* [image: Carte de situation réalisée en mai 1945 par Jean-Louis Vernier, prisonnier durant la seconde guerre mondiale à l'Oflag XVII-A. Extrait du carnet ramené de captivité. Wikimedia Commons/Emmanuel Vernier. CC3.0] One of the most daring jailbreaks in history. Spring had finally arrived in the mountainous area of the Austrian Waldviertel, land of long winters and short summers. Timid clumps of grass were showing up here and there in the meadows, at one time verdant, but now barren surfaces. In the distance, light green growth soft... more »
Why the Battle for Iwo Jima Was Especially Hard and Bloody
*Warfare History Network* *History, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC222F9A7UGS&share=true] Imperial Japan was dug-in and ready to fight to the death. *Key point:* Taking the island was a step towards invading Imperial Japan itself. And yet the high cost led many to wonder if it was worth it. Roughly seventy years ago, on February 19, 1945, thousands of American Marines hit the beaches on the Volcano Islands in the Pacific, starting what we call today the Battle of Iwo Jima. Taking the small island, encompassing only about e... more »
China's JF-17 'Thunder' Jet Has One Big Advantage Over Stealth F-35s
*Charlie Gao* *Security, Asia* Its cost. *Here's What You Need To Know* A poor nation can field a relatively modern fighter for a very low price. It is yet to be seen whether it can actually perform at its price point in combat, but Pakistan seems to be satisfied with what the JF-17 can do in trials. China’s JF-17 “Thunder” multirole fighter is one of China’s most successful aerospace exports. While it was designed from the outset to be an export fighter, its road to service was very rocky, involving decades of development and even American involvement at some points. Design wis... more »
"On the Consequences of COVID-19"
*"On the Consequences of COVID-19"* by Casey Research "Editor’s note: In yesterday’s Conversations With Casey, our founder, Doug Casey, revealed why he believes the coronavirus hysteria is overblown – and how the government’s response will ruin our economy. Today, we continue our conversation with Doug, and hear his thoughts on the long-term social and political implications of this “manufactured crisis”… *Daily Dispatch:* Doug, yesterday we talked about the hysteria surrounding the coronavirus and what effect it will have on the economy. Following up on that, how does that all pla... more »
Tweets For Today
LATEST: As of 10 a.m. ET, April 18, there are 699,766 confirmed coronavirus cases in the US, and 36,689 deaths. https://t.co/qv6iQrU6Rb pic.twitter.com/Z8SGhDiLK3 — NBC News (@NBCNews) April 18, 2020 Russia suffers record coronavirus rise in cases as Moscow mayor says he has enough beds for two weeks https://t.co/IcqyQxun1L — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) April 19, 2020 Let's see: - decreasing supply increases prices. - unemployed people have less money to buy food. What does history tell us about this combo? https://t.co/7Ozcfj4Hn2 — cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) April 19, ... more »
You Wouldn’t Have To Knock People Off Their Pedestal If You Didn’t Put Them There In The First Place
Whenever I see someone online repeatedly gushing with enthusiastic praise about me and my writing, I don’t get flattered by it. I don’t get any kind of ego tickle out of it at all; I just quietly say to myself, “Ah shit. You’re gonna get […]
Wageningen calls for Listeria project partners
A Dutch university has called on food industry partners for a project aiming to develop preservation strategies against Listeria monocytogenes. The project will support the sector by developing hurdle strategies for the pathogen and design models to describe the combined additive, multiplicative and synergistic effects of their combinations. This should enable manufacturers to maximize product... Continue Reading
Homestead Creamery recalls unsalted butter for Listeria contamination
The Wirtz, VA- based Homestead Creamery Inc has recalled unsalted butter because of the potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail, or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. The recalled butter was distributed to distribution partners, through home delivery service, and the... Continue Reading
April 19th – 2020 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day #1186
In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and … Continue reading →
Sunday April 19th – Open Thread
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those … Continue reading →
NEC Director Larry Kudlow Discusses USA Economic Reopening…
National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow appears on Fox News to discuss states and counties using the White House three-phase plan to reopen the economy.
Musical Interlude: Neil H, “The Remembering”
Neil H, “The Remembering”
"A Look to the Heavens"
"What caused this outburst of V838 Mon? For reasons unknown, star V838 Mon's outer surface suddenly greatly expanded with the result that it became the brightest star in the entire Milky Way Galaxy in January 2002. Then, just as suddenly, it faded. A stellar flash like this had never been seen before- supernovas and novas expel matter out into space. *Click image for larger size.* Although the V838 Mon flash appears to expel material into space, what is seen in the above image from the Hubble Space Telescope is actually an outwardly moving light echo of the bright flash. In a light e... more »
"Angels and Demons"
*"Angels and Demons"* by The Zman "What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The general consensus among physical anthropologists is that religion co-evolved with language. By religion, they mean belief, not the highly complex and abstract stuff we now think of as religion. Early humans probably started with supernatural ideas about the forces controlling the parts of the natural world they could see. Then maybe more abstract ideas about what ha... more »
"The Meaning of Human Life"
*"The Meaning of Human Life"* By Van Robison "What is wrong with the human mind and heart that human beings grind their teeth at one another? The history of mankind is an ocean of blood, death and destruction and why? Virtually no one on planet earth in the world of politics or the world of religion has ever had the answer or solution. Everyone points the finger at others, but never at themselves as problem makers. No one looks in the mirror, but rather makes the claim that they are “fighting terrorism.” Who has military bases by the hundreds the world over and why? If you are a p... more »
Picture Of The Day
Mortuary employees transport the body of a person in an elderly residence in Brussels, Belgium, April 14. REUTERS/Yves Herman *WNU Editor:* The above picture is from this photo-gallery .... *World races to contain coronavirus pandemic* (Reuters).
UK Non Medical Labs Could Be Empowered To Do 10 Million PCR Tests For COVID-19 Every Day - Testing Entire UK Population Weekly
The proposal is to select a small town of 200,000 people. While the rest of the UK follows the exit strategy proposed by the government, this small town will experimentally use a much stricter strategy. Everyone in the town gets tested for Covid-19 - whether they have symptoms or not. This is voluntary but they assume 90% compliance. Letter with signatures here: - Expert Public Health Covid-19 Forum Article in the Lancet: - Universal weekly testing as the UK COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy The authors sent this proposal to the UK government on the 10th April. read more
Free Download: Carl Jung, "The Red Book"
*Click image for larger size.* "Carl Jung: The Holy Grail of the Unconscious" By Sara Corbett "This is a story about an over 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say “Liber Novus,” which is Latin for “New Book.” Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If you didn’t know the book’s vintage, you might confuse it... more »
"Fate..."
“Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.” - Gregory David Roberts, “Shantaram”
Black Elk, "Earth Prayer"
*"Earth Prayer"* by Black Elk “Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All things belong to you - the two-legged, the four-legged, the wings of the air, and all green things that live. You have set the powers of the four quarters of the earth to cross each other. You have made me cross the good road and road of difficulties, and where they cross, the place is holy. Day in, day out, forevermore, you are the life of things. ․ Hey! Lean to hear my feeble voice... more »
"Spring in a Pandemic"
*"Spring in a Pandemic: Mary Shelley on What Makes Life * *Worth Living and Nature’s Beauty as a Lifeline to Regaining Sanity"* by Maria Popova "Half a century before Walt Whitman considered what makes life worth living when a paralytic stroke boughed him to the ground of being, Mary Shelley (August 30, 1797–February 1, 1851) placed that question at the beating heart of "The Last Man" - the 1826 novel she wrote in the bleakest period of her life: after the deaths of three of her children, two by widespread infectious diseases that science has since contained; after the love of her l... more »
'Day one is going to be a bit confusing': Qld Premier urges parents to be patient with the new school routine
Queensland parents are asked to exercise common sense and contact principals if they're unsure about whether they can send their child to school when term two resumes tomorrow.
Coles workers demand better protection against coronavirus after hand sanitiser switch
Workers say the supermarket giant is not providing them with the best possible protection against coronavirus after their complaints were dismissed by the head office.
The Egyptian Arms Industry Never Lived Up to Its Potential
*Peter Suciu* *Security, Latin America Middle East* Why? In February, Egypt's Minister of State for Military Production Mohamed al-Assar announced a new three-year plan to boost the local manufacturing of weapons to increase the capabilities of its military and achieving self-sufficiency. In addition, a major goal for Egypt is to become an arms exporter to its African neighbors. However, Egypt has attempted this before, so will this time be any different? Besides Israel, Egypt is the only Middle Eastern nation with a significant arms industry, one that dates back to 1949 when i... more »
Coronavirus Is Pushing Afghanistan Toward a Political Crisis
*Arif Rafiq* *Security, Middle East* [image: Reuters] Afghanistan has imposed lockdowns of varying effectiveness in most of its provinces. But lockdowns also have negative economic and public health externalities. Ordinary Afghans, like the poor worldwide, face a choice between dying by the coronavirus or dying by poverty. Fate has been cruel to the average Afghan over the past four decades. The country’s story, from the Soviet invasion to today’s Taliban insurgency, is well-known. Now, as the United States is in the midst of a phased withdrawal and a civil war looms, so too does... more »
The Geopolitical Cost of Battling the Coronavirus Separately (China Will Win)
*Daniel P. Vajdich* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] The United States and Europe must join forces to pursue a united coronavirus campaign, otherwise, China and other competitors will emerge from this crisis substantially more capable of affecting dynamics around the world to the detriment of the transatlantic community. While the politics of foreign assistance are challenging, especially at a time of domestic crisis, the United States and Europe cannot afford to be outdone by the coronavirus diplomacy of China and other competitors. Europe has realized this and is moving fo... more »
Is NATO Still Necessary?
*Sharon Tennison, David Speedie, Krishen Mehta* *Security, Europe* [image: Reuters] There will inevitably be other global challenges that countries will face together over time. However, NATO at seventy is not the instrument to address them. The coronavirus pandemic that is ravaging the world brings a prolonged public health crisis into sharp focus—along with the bleak prospect of a long-term economic crisis that can destroy the social fabric across nations. World leaders need to reassess expenditures of resources based on real and present threats to national security—to reconsid... more »
How Donald Trump Should Make China Pay for Coronavirus
*James Holmes* *Health, Asia* Suppose, for the sake of argument, that Chinese researchers did release the coronavirus into the populace, spawning effects we have all come to know personally and intimately. And let’s assume it was an inadvertent release. That is a safe assumption. What should Trump do about it? Huh. All the best people assured me that only conspiracy theorists could entertain the possibility that the coronavirus might have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan. Wuhan, the city where the outbreak started. From a laboratory where the staff was known to be working on c... more »
Oil Boom? Russia Moves Closer to Privatizing Rosneft
*Stratfor Worldview* *Economics, Europe* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_UP1EE7P0UKOLS&share=true] It would certainly make the company more efficient. The Russian government no longer has a majority stake in Rosneft for the first time in the energy giant’s 27-year history. On March 28, Rosneft announced that it had sold all of its assets in Venezuela as part of a deal with the wholly government-owned company, Rosneftegaz. The sale is designed to shield the company’s Venezuelan operations from further U.S. sanctions, while still all... more »
Deathmatch Beneath the Waves: An Inside Account From the Crew Of the USS Seal
*Ron Smith* *History, Asia* [image: USS Seal (SS-183) Seen from almost directly astern, while off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 24 March 1943. Official U.S. Navy Photograph.] World War II's spookiest theater. BACKSTORY: *In World War II, the American submarine force was inordinately small—just 252 total boats, compared to the more than 1,100 deployed by Germany and over 600 built by Japan. Yet, the American subs, most of which saw service in the Pacific, accounted for 54.6 percent of all Japanese naval and merchant ships sunk. However, in compiling these statistics, the... more »
Meet the Creepy Unsolved Mysteries Of the World War II Doolittle Raid
*Susan Zimmerman* *History, Asia* [image: a pair of alert escorts follow the USS Hornet to protect her lethal cargo of B-25 bombers. 18 April 1942. U.S. Air Force.] Because the success of the raid depended entirely on the element of surprise, there was a code of silence so widespread that paper trails were often nonexistent and information cryptic. April 18, 1942, will forever live in American military glory as the date of the Doolittle Raid––a gutsy, never-before-attempted combat mission to fly North American B-25 Mitchell bombers off the deck of an aircraft carrier and attack ... more »
The Inside Story of Hitler's Last Stand Against Stalin At Berlin
*David H. Lippman* *History, Europe* [image: Soviet soldiers attack Jelgrava. 16 August 1944. L Dorenskiy. Public domain.] The end of an evil empire. It began with what a German colonel called “a dull, continuous roar of thunder from the east.” The Soviet bombardment was so immense in Berlin’s eastern suburbs, houses shook, pictures fell from walls, and telephones rang. Berlin civilians heard the rumbling, saw the shaking buildings, and knew the hour had come. On ration queues, women and girls listened “in dread to the distant sounds of the front,” and asked each other if the Am... more »
The Pentagon Had A Plan To Build A Command Bunker 3,500 Feet Under Washington D.C.
A map showing the locations of, left to right, the Pentagon, the State Department's headquarters, and the White House. The DUCC would have been located underground somewhere between these buildings underneath the Potomac River. Google Maps *Warzone/The Drive: **The Pentagon's Plan To Build A Secret Super Command Bunker 3,500 Feet Under Washington D.C.* Unlike any fortification on earth, the Deep Underground Command Center was intended to withstand multiple direct hits from giant nukes on Doomsday. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the topic of "continuity of government," plans in p... more »
Trump And Republican Death Cult Governors Are Following Japan's Lead In Opening Up Business Way Too Early
Shinzo Abe's right wing government opened up for business too fast-- just as Trump is planning to do-- and bullying easily-bullied governors into doing. What's happening in Japan is what's going to happen in, for example, Florida and Texas-- both of which are eager to open up again. COVID-19 infections have been spiking in Florida like mad. Joel Franco of WSVN has been tracking the progression of the pandemic in Florida since it began. Friday he announced the biggest single day jump. Mind you, as of this writing, the curve in Florida and Texas is steepening, not flattening. In Flo... more »
The Inside Story On The Dog That Helped Catch Osama bin Laden
*Maureen Callahan, NYPost:* *Inside story of Cairo, the dog that helped catch Osama bin Laden* When Navy SEAL Will Chesney first met a military working dog named Cairo, he didn’t know this canine would be The One: a fearless warrior with a soft side, an attack dog who would know the difference between a baby and a bad guy, the lone non-human US soldier to raid Osama bin Laden’s compound in 2011. Nope. Back on that fateful day in 2008, after Chesney decided to become a dog handler, he took his first instruction seriously — these dogs weren’t like pets. They were lethal weapons. De... more »
Coles staff say switch to non-alcohol hand sanitiser puts them at risk
Workers say the supermarket giant is not providing them with the best possible protection against coronavirus after their complaints were dismissed by the head office.
Turkey's coronavirus cases overtake Iran to become new epicentre in Middle East
Turkey's confirmed coronavirus cases have risen to 82,329, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca says, overtaking neighbouring Iran for the first time to register the highest total in the Middle East.
Wildlife carers, vets call for faster and better prepared wildlife rescue after bushfires
Wildlife injury from megafires overwhelmed volunteer responders who now call for strategies to be included in government response planning.
The NT is the only jurisdiction in Australia without a COVID-19 death. And it wants to keep it that way
Tomorrow marks two weeks since the last positive test for COVID-19 in the NT. One medical expert says that's 90 per cent good government planning and 10 per cent good luck.
'Right to repair' taken up by the ACCC in farmers' fight to fix their own tractors
The competition and consumer watchdog has launched an inquiry into whether tractor manufacturers are failing farmers who want the right to repair their own machinery.
Sydney aged care facility at centre of COVID-19 cluster records second death
An elderly man becomes the second death within 24 hours at the Newmarch House aged care facility, where an infected staff member was the catalyst for an outbreak of coronavirus.
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