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Is a Pacific NATO the Only Way to Counter China?
Kris Osborn, The National Interest - 16 hours ago
*Kris Osborn* *NATO, Asia* A combined U.S., Japanese, Australian, and Indian military force might deter China in terms of sheer numbers, not to mention coordinated air and sea operations. What if India, Australia, Japan, and the United States formed an “Asian NATO” collective security alliance to improve prospects for stability and more effectively deter or counter Chinese operations in the Pacific theater? It could happen and is already being explored by Pentagon leaders, diplomats, and politicians familiar with the threat conditions in Asia. Certainly, the countries are alread...
The Story of How America Assassinated the Man Who Planned Pearl Harbor
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 16 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *History, Asia* A Japanese search party hacked through the jungle until they found Yamamoto’s plane. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *The irony was that Yamamoto was not the worst of America’s enemies. He was no pacifist, but nor was he as militaristic as the hard-core Japanese hard-liners. Yamamoto opposed the 1940 alliance with Nazi Germany, which he feared would drag Japan into a ruinous war. Some sixty-eight years before U.S. special forces killed Osama bin Laden, America conducted an assassination of another kind. This time, the target wasn’t a terrorist....
F-117 Nighthawk Could Still Fight (Just Not Against China or Russia)
TNI Staff, The National Interest - 16 hours ago
*TNI Staff* *Security, * It helped propel America’s stealth journey to greatness. *Here's What You Need to Know*: Not only is the subsonic light bomber optimized to defeat high frequency radars, it also does not have the ability to map out threat emitters and manage its signature in real time like the F-22 and F-35. Nor does it have the performance to survive when it is detected and confronted. Now is a good time to look at the evolution of stealth starting with the Lockheed Martin *F-117 Nighthawk*. That aircraft was retired in 2008, but would the F-117 still be useful today? ...
February Weather Present & Past
Paul Homewood, NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 16 hours ago
By Paul Homewood Last month we looked back at January weather in 1941, 1951, 1961 and 1971, to see how it compared with this year. Time to take a look at February. Overall both temperatures and rainfall in England were close to average. (Note the Met Office are still incorrectly using 1981-2010 as the baseline). […]
Random Thoughts about Life with Covid
Age of Autism, AGE OF AUTISM - 16 hours ago
By Cathy Jameson I have had lots on my mind but have little time to write. So this week, I’m putting some screenshots of what others have shared into a post. Enjoy the pictures, and share on your own platforms...
Poetry please
Craig, Is the BBC biased? - 16 hours ago
This morning's *Sunday *programme on Radio 4 was "a special programme to celebrate International Woman's Day. It was classic *Sunday *in its unremitting bias. Instead of me expanding on this yet again, here are some other people's takes (and Sluff is spot-on): *I* *Sluff*: Jaw-dropping unceasing bias on Toady on Sunday today featuring not only more join-the-dots failings but also a BBC favourite tactic – something highly biased masquerading as something apparently innocuous. The list was so long I cannot remember everything. It was a showcase for every Left wing cause. Try ...
"How It Really Is - The Left Has Lost It's Mind"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 16 hours ago
And then appears this gem of mind boggling idiocy... *"Coca-Cola Staff Told In Online Training * *Seminar ‘Try To Be Less White'"* Pardon the language, but *WTF* Coca-Cola? Buddy Brown, "We Gotta Be LESS WHITE"
An Incestuous Threesome: The Media, Democrats, and Big Tech
Robert, Small Dead Animals - 17 hours ago
Laurie Segall is a 35 year old woman who refers to herself as a “journalist”. She worked for a decade at CNN, founded dotdotdotmedia.com in December 2019, and now provides segments for CBS’s 60 Minutes. Carefully listen to the questions posed by Segall when she interviewed the mother of the January 6th “Shaman”. Carefully read… Continue reading →
Extensive damage in New Caledonia after passage of Tropical Cyclone "Niran"
The Watchers » Latest articles - 17 hours ago
The center of Tropical Cyclone "Niran" passed just south of New Caledonia on March 6, 2021, causing extensive damage to the power grid and vegetation across the island. At least two people were injured and more than 20 000 left without power. Niran was...... Read more »
SUNDAY SCREENING: Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva (2009)
NEWS WIRE, 21st Century Wire - 17 hours ago
*SUNDAY SCREENING* | A story of the unlikely relationship between Reagan and Gorbachev and how their chemistry soothed east-west geopolitical tensions.
"And It Is Still True..."
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 17 hours ago
"And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together." - Robert Fulghum
New NASA satellite data prove carbon dioxide is still GREENING the Earth
Paul Homewood, NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 18 hours ago
By Paul Homewood Satellite data shows the per cent amount that foliage cover has changed around the world from 1982 to 2010. https://phys.org/news/2013-07-greening-co2.html Scientists have known for many years that increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) have helped boost green foliage across the world’s arid regions. Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), […]
Sunday morning music
Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man - 18 hours ago
The other day I was idly browsing through MeWe, and came across a music video posted by my friend and fellow author and blogger, Cedar Sanderson. It was by the Russian folk rock group Otava Yo, of whom I'd never heard before. I found it amusing and musically intriguing. It's called "The Tale of Ivan". According to the video's YouTube page, the lyrics translate as follows: Oh Ivan, my dear Ivan, where you've been all night? Where you've been all night? You haven't been to your darling's place... Haven't been to my darling's place, didn't see my pals, my sweet girl, don't b...
Globalist Asset The Dalai Lama Gets COVID-19 Vaccine & Urges Public To Get Vaccinated
James Allard, OYE Alternative News - 19 hours ago
The post Globalist Asset The Dalai Lama Gets COVID-19 Vaccine & Urges Public To Get Vaccinated appeared first on OYE Alternative News.
Major February global temperature drop reveals the real climate control knob
Joe Bastardi, CFACT - 19 hours ago
What drives temperature? The post Major February global temperature drop reveals the real climate control knob appeared first on CFACT.
ICYMI: In Like A Turducken Edition (3/7)
Peter Greene, CURMUDGUCATION - 16 hours ago
So it's March, and we're beginning the celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Last Time We Did That Normal Thing. Really looking forward to that. In the meantime, I am continuing to work out the balance between all my old gigs and the new one handling the Hey Look At This blog for the Network for Public Education, which you should definitely check out, but which will definitely share some overlap with this regular Sunday piece (and my Twitter account) but you can decide how you want to stay caught up on stuff. I'm just going to keep flinging it out into the void. So here ...
"If Only You Knew "
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 17 hours ago
*"If Only You Knew " * by Teresa Marchese "This morning, I saw a young man, hanging dead from a tree. It started out as a typical morning. It was 6:45 am. I brought the "toys" today; weights, bars, balls and boxing gloves, to have my clients work at stations. I run Rock Solid Fitness, a women's outdoor fitness club, at San Francisco's Land's End. We run trails and hills and stairs on this rocky park of cypress and redwood. But this morning, the first client to arrive begged for a "wimpy" workout, so we headed out to Land's End trail. It was a beautiful morning, and I thought some ...
T28: The Heaviest American Tank of World War II Smashed Nothing
Caleb Larson, The National Interest - 17 hours ago
*Caleb Larson* *Security, Americas* The tank had just two problems: an underpowered engine—and the end of the war. The Army hoped that the T28 would help smash through Nazi Germany’s Westwall, the German counterpart to France’s Maginot Line. The massive *Westwall* was a nearly four hundred-mile-long defensive line, made up of tank traps, bunkers, and pillboxes that would have hindered an allied attack on the German heartland. Anti-tank obstacles like Czech hedgehogs, sections of train rails welded together to stop tanks, or dragon’s teeth, square concrete pyramids intended to sl...
F-4 Phantom Fighter: The Old Plane That Just Won't Retire
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 17 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *Security, Asia* The Phantom had more than its share of flaws, and detractors to point them out. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *My theory is that the Phantom is beloved not just because it was successful, but because it wasn’t supposed to be. Of all mankind’s works of destruction, jet fighters tend to be the most aesthetically elegant, whether the compact grace of an F-16 or the slender symmetry of a French Mirage 5. There is no particular reason for the world’s love affair with the F-4 Phantom. Beautiful it was not, nor graceful, nor aesthetic. The Phantom ...
North Vietnam’s Victory Was Just a Matter of Time
Robert Farley, The National Interest - 17 hours ago
*Robert Farley* *Security, Americas* Airpower could neither destroy North Vietnamese commitment to unification nor sufficiently strengthen the Saigon regime’s ability to control its own territory. *Here’s What You Need to Remember: *With the advent of a new air campaign against ISIS, American involvement in the Iraq War appears to have rekindled. If we take the assurances of the President seriously, this iteration of the war will not include American ground forces, instead concentrating almost exclusively on airpower. Effectively, the Obama administration has decided to rely o...
What Colonel John Boyd Would Warn About China Today
James Holmes, The National Interest - 17 hours ago
*James Holmes* *Great Power Competition, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_RC162F105510&share=true] The PLA Navy is clearly trying to attain dominance throughout the Western Pacific. *Key point: *Beijing is putting its money and industrial capacity into building a large, modern fleet. That is a threat that America needs to get to work on countering. What to do in the South China Sea? Ask a fighter pilot. One in particular: the late U.S. Air Force colonel John Boyd. Colonel Boyd would exhort U.S. officialdom to grasp the strate...
The Air Force Could Defeat North Korea, But How Many Planes Die?
TNI Staff, The National Interest - 17 hours ago
*TNI Staff* *Security, Asia* How many deaths are worth defeating Kim? *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Any sort of attack on North Korea would be a gamble with the lives of thousands if not millions of South Korean and Japanese lives. As such, a diplomatic solution is far more preferable to a war than might end poorly. In the event a war were to break out on the Korean peninsula, American airpower would play a key role. Initially, the burden would likely fall to the Pentagon’s fleet of stealth aircraft including the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and ...
"Our Answer..."
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 17 hours ago
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life - daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." - Viktor Frankl
The Poet: William Stafford, "The Gift"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 18 hours ago
* "The Gift"* "Time wants to show you a different country. It's the one that your life conceals, the one waiting outside when curtains are drawn, the one Grandmother hinted at in her crochet design, the one almost found over at the edge of the music, after the sermon. It's the way life is, and you have it, a few years given. You get killed now and then, violated in various ways. (And sometimes it's turn about.) You get tired of that. Long-suffering, you wait and pray, and maybe good things come - maybe the hurt slackens and you hardly feel it any more. You have a breath without pain. It ...
Yes, Export Bans on Vaccines Are a Problem, But Why Is the Supply of Vaccines so Limited in the First Place?
Jerri-Lynn Scofield, naked capitalism - 18 hours ago
Italy has blocked vaccine exports to Australia, which now must reconsider its opposition to proposed global solutions to unblock supply.
Health Benefits of Cats Claw
Stranger in a Strange Land, Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago
*Cats Claw Benefits* *Cats Claw is a vine commonly known as Una de Gato and is used traditionally in Peruvian medicine for the treatment of a wide range of health problems, particularly digestive complaints and arthritis and to treat wounds, stomach problems, cancer, and more. It has only recently caught the attention of western herbalists and researchers. Today, mainly by word of mouth, it has become one of the best selling herbs in the USA.* Since the 1970s, studies and research have been carried out by scientists in Peru, Germany, Austria, England and other countries, to find ...
UK Column News Special: Care Home Whistleblower
JayTe, The Duran - 19 hours ago
From UKColumn.org The UK Column was recently contacted by an experienced Care Home manager. The individual was deeply concerned about the effects of Covid 19 and vaccinations, on both staff and the elderly, within care facilities across the country. Finally their personal concern had reached the point where they felt the need to speak out […]
Russia will play a pioneering role in maintaining peace in the Armenian region”, says Armenian journalist
Steven Sahiounie, The Duran - 19 hours ago
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Several thousand protesters have gone to the streets in Yerevan in the latest stage of a political crisis created by the aftermath of the armed conflict that erupted last year in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Moscow brokered a ceasefire agreement which saw significant territory handed over to Azerbaijan, but […]
The Only Way Forward is AMERICA FIRST
FreeSpeechFan, The Duran - 19 hours ago
by Noor Bin Ladin The leader of the Free World has spoken. And no, I don’t mean Joe Biden, who has yet to hold his first press conference since January 20. I am of course referring to President Trump and his triumphant return last Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “Do you miss me […]
Inflation Moving VERY FAST and It Will NOT Stop.
Dewey Fernfield, The Duran - 19 hours ago
source / The Money GPS $GPS China ‘Worried’ About Bubbles in Property, Foreign Markets – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/china-worried-about-bubbles-in-property-foreign-markets archive Inflation 2021: Malnutrition and Hunger Fears Rise as Food Prices Soar Globally – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-01/inflation-2021-malnutrition-and-hunger-fears-rise-as-food-prices-soar-globally archive Food prices have begun to rise very sharply (index) No Title No Description Fast-food menu prices have soared […]
Death By China
FreeSpeechFan, The Duran - 19 hours ago
source Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America Paperback – Nov. 10 2015 by Colonel Qiao Liang (Author), Colonel Wang Xiangsui (Author) A sobering and fascinating study on war in the modern era, Unrestricted Warfare carefully explores strategies that militarily and politically disadvantaged nations might take in order to successfully attack a geopolitical super-power […]
State Media CBC blames 1980s American radio and Donald Trump for public mistrust of journalism
FreeSpeechFan, The Duran - 19 hours ago
source On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, we looked at a CBC “editor’s note” from a guy named Brodie Fenlon: Canadian trust in journalism is wavering. Here’s what CBC News is doing about it. Here’s a bit of what Ezra had to say about the article: “So people in Canada don’t trust […]
New Left Media March 2021
Phil, All That Is Solid ... - 19 hours ago
We're in the third month of the new year already and new media projects are springing up everywhere! Give them some of your time, and if you like them support them! 1. Amplify Stroud (Twitter) (Blog) 2. Ann Narkeh Media (Twitter) (Meme Factory) 3. Good Sense (Twitter) (Podcast) 4. INCURSIONS (Podcast) 5. JohntheDuncan (Twitter) (YouTube Channel) 6. Labour in Exile (Campaign Group and YouTube Channel) 7. Labour Organiser (Twitter) (Journal) 8. LEFT/OVER (Twitter) (Podcast) 9. RUPTURE Radio (Twitter) (Podcast) 10. Ten Thousands Posts (Twitter) (Podcast) 11. The International (Ma...
Russian Surface Warships
Larry-Lambert, Virtual Mirage - 20 hours ago
I have only set foot on two Russian warships. Admiral Vinogradov – 554, an Udaloy-class destroyer of the Russian Navy; it is currently active with the Russian Pacific Fleet. It is named for Admiral Nikolai Ignatevich Vinogradov. The second ship was the Boevoy (Militant), a Sovremenny class, guided missile destroyer, Soviet designation Project 956 Sarych (vulture). I’ll share my perspectives, taken […] The post Russian Surface Warships appeared first on Virtual Mirage.
International Women’s Day, 2021 - Women Must Continue To Claim Power & Challenge The Unseen Barriers
Global Issues News Headlines - 18 hours ago
NEW DELHI, India, Mar 06 (IPS) - The following opinion piece is part of series to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day, March 8.Power is an intriguing concept and it means different things to different people. In simple words, power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get what you want. Power distribution is usually visible in most societies when there is a clear and obvious division between the roles of the men and expectations from women. One can’t talk about power without talking about patriarchy - in which men always hold the power and women are largely...
Undiplomatic reporting from the BBC's Mark Lowen
Craig, Is the BBC biased? - 20 hours ago
The BBC News website's report on the historic meeting in Iraq yesterday between Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has so far undergone 15 revisions. The most dramatic changes came from BBC's Rome correspondent Mark Lowen, whose 'Analysis' got him into trouble. Here are three chronological snapshots (courtesy of Newssniffer): *I* *Profoundly symbolic* *Analysis* *by Mark Lowen, Rome correspondent* Today's meeting has been years, even decades, in the making: an encounter between the leader of the Catholic Church and one of the most powerful figures in Shia Islam. ...
Ash rises up to 10.7 km (35 000 feet) a.s.l. after 10th paroxysm at Etna volcano, Italy
The Watchers » Latest articles - 20 hours ago
A rapid increase in the amplitude of volcanic tremor at Etna volcano started at 01:30 UTC on March 7, 2021, leading up to an increase in Strombolian activity at the SE crater around 03:30 UTC and 10th paroxysm since February 16. The Aviation Color Code was raised to...... Read more »
Mystery As Reality
Fr. Stephen FREEMAN, OrientalReview.org - 20 hours ago
C.S. Lewis once discussed the question of how angels (and such things) could pass through a wall. His response was intriguing: he suggested that they could do so not because they were less substantial, but because they were more substantial. Just as a rock is more substantial than water or air, […]
Why Is Biden Investigating America’s Supply Chains?
Bruce Yandle, The National Interest - 20 hours ago
*Bruce Yandle* *Economics, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2021%3Anewsml_RC285M9TSH5V&share=true] The Administration’s political response to worries over the U.S. supply chain raises some important problems. In late February, President Joe Biden—motivated perhaps by difficulties obtaining protective medical gowns and masks during a pandemic and a recent semiconductor shortage that disrupted American auto production—signed an executive order calling for an across-government, 100-day review of supply-chain performance for a number of cri...
Economic Strangulation: How To Crush China for Good in a War?
Sean Mirski, The National Interest - 20 hours ago
*Sean Mirski* *U.S. Navy, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_RC146BBA9B00&share=true] The U.S. Navy could not simply encircle China like it could with Cuba. *Key point: *China would no doubt resist a blockade. Also, the law of supply and demand would undermine any American enforcement effort. The mounting challenge presented by China’s military modernization has led the United States to review existing military strategies and to conceptualize new ones, as illustrated by the ongoing debate over AirSea Battle (ASB), a new concept ...
The Battle of Shanghai: A Hellish World War II Preview
Christopher Miskimon, Warfare History Network, The National Interest - 20 hours ago
*Christopher Miskimon, Warfare History Network* *History, Asia* The 1930s was a decade full of World War II’s antecedents. *Here's What You Need to Know*: The battle began with small skirmishes and riots between various Chinese elements and local Japanese in Shanghai, some civilian, some military, mostly Japanese marines based near the International Settlement. Longstanding enmity meant the situation would eventually boil into open fighting, and now it did. The 1930s was a decade full of World War II’s antecedents. Fighting broke out at various points around the globe during this...
Eager to Avoid Conflict, the Chinese Navy Is Learning from the Old Soviet Navy
Lyle J. Goldstein, The National Interest - 20 hours ago
*Lyle J. Goldstein* *Security, Pacific* China is learning from the Soviet Navy's successes and failures. Could China improve and do something different when dealing with U.S. naval patrols? *Key point: *Chinese analysis concludes that the Soviet Navy dealt with U.S.-related situations in a patient and professional manner worth emulating. The “sail by” of *USS Lassen* within the 12 nautical mile claim line of the new Chinese facilities on Subi Reef in the South China Sea occurred without major incident last week. Despite some fiery Chinese rhetoric, war has not broken out and th...
Large eruption at Sangay volcano, ash to 12.2 km (40 000 feet) a.s.l., Ecuador
The Watchers » Latest articles - 20 hours ago
A large eruption started at Sangay volcano, Ecuador at around 04:00 UTC on March 6, 2021, producing a volcanic ash column up to 12.2 km (40 000 feet) above sea level, according to the Washington VAAC. Strong ashfall was reported in Chimborazzo: Pallatanga, Chunichi,...... Read more »
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