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Did Prince Philip Get the COVID-19 Vaccine Before He Died?
Nur Ibrahim, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
The royal consort was 99 years old at the time of his death.
France declares ‘Farming Disaster’ after record cold – Blizzard in Belgium
Robert, Ice Age Now - 11 hours ago
The emergency support comes after freezing weather caused significant damage to crops. Farmers across France will receive government support after the agriculture minister acknowledged the damage the cold had wreaked on crops; with the cold set to continue across the country. Minister of Agriculture Julien Denormandie confirmed a state of “calamité agricole” – or farming ... Read more The post France declares ‘Farming Disaster’ after record cold – Blizzard in Belgium appeared first on Ice Age Now.
It’s About Intent
Larry-Lambert, Virtual Mirage - 11 hours ago
Intentions? (1) Is thinking that Russia or China want to physically invade the US less tethered to reality than Q-Anon? It does justify ever larger military budgets that feed the DC Beltway. And even with that, there’s nothing like a war, continually expending material to feed the beast. (2) At the same time […] The post It’s About Intent appeared first on Virtual Mirage.
Did Joe Biden Say 2nd Amendment is a ‘Phony Argument’?
Nur Ibrahim, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
Social media users misrepresented the president's remarks on proposed gun violence prevention measures.
Northern Ireland riots continue. British and Irish leaders call for calm
The Duran, The Duran - 11 hours ago
Northern Ireland riots continue. British and Irish leaders call for calm The Duran: Episode 936 Northern Ireland riots: 14 police officers injured and three 14-year-old boys arrested during Belfast disorder Northern Ireland riots: 14 police officers injured and three 14-year-old boys arrested during Belfast disorder A further 14 police officers have been injured as violence […]
8 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia on Saturday, April 10
Tim Bousquet, Halifax Examiner - 11 hours ago
Eight new cases of COVID-19 are announced in Nova Scotia today (Saturday, April 10). Six of the new cases are in Nova Scotia Health’s Central Zone — three related to travel outside Atlantic Canada and three that are close contacts of previously announced cases. Two cases are in the Western Zone — one is related […]
Too Much? BBC Gets Complaints over Prince Philip Coverage
AP News, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
The broadcaster received so many complaints alleging its reporting was excessive that it set up a special website page for viewers to register objections.
Philip’s Funeral April 17 at Windsor Castle; Prince Harry to Attend
AP News, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
Prince Philip’s royal ceremonial funeral will take place April 17 at Windsor Castle — a slimmed-down service amid the COVID-19 pandemic that will be entirely closed to the public.
Was a Boxing Match Planned for DMX and George Zimmerman?
Nur Ibrahim, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
The late rapper was quoted saying he would “beat” the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
These things can happen to you watching cable!
<b>bob somerby</b>, the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2021* *Major star, unabashedly bawling her eyes out:* As our nation slides toward the sea—as Putin chuckles about all the winning—remarkable things can happen to you as you watch "cable news" broadcasts. For starters, consider what seems to have happened on CNN yesterday afternoon. In Minneapolis, testimony was being taken from the medical examiner who conducted the official autopsy of the late George Floyd. Under direction examination by special prosecutor Jerry Blackwell, the medical examiner, Dr. Andrew Baker, said this: BLACKWELL (4/9/21): You didn't me...
Corporate Versus Public Control Of Science And Technology
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” Louis Pasteur said that in 1876. Today it would be more accurate to say that science belongs to the corporations and investors that have the money, power, and savvy to secure patents and bring new developments to global markets, a change that threatens human and planetary health. As illustrated by the pharmaceutical industry’s windfall profits despite its failure to date to get Covid-19 vaccines to the poorest nations and the poorest in wealthy nations, Pasteur’s observation that bringing science to the world is “t...
Is This What Barn Owls Look Like ‘Naked’?
Madison Dapcevich, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
We think they’re hootiful!
Sin of omission: Warm water beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” is GEOTHERMAL
CFACT Ed, CFACT - 12 hours ago
Scientists have yet to reveal any amount of regulation, taxation and redistribution sufficient to cool a volcano. The post Sin of omission: Warm water beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” is GEOTHERMAL appeared first on CFACT.
Bessemer – A Big Step Forward
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
Workers at the Amazon fulfillment center have voted in a National Labor Relations Board election to ascertain if a majority of those voting wish to be represented by a union. Votes are being counted. Should a majority of workers vote for the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Workers, Amazon should agree to recognize the union and bargain with them. I say “should” because Amazon may find ways to challenge the vote, appeal its result or force the union into court to get the law enforced. All people who value worker rights have their hopes on an election win for the union at Amaz...
ADD TWO LETTERS, INDUCE OUTRAGE
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog - 12 hours ago
Here's the headline of a Reuters story: Now here's the headline of a *New York Post* story based on the Reuters story: Notice the key difference? Reuters says the Biden administration is considering payments to "Central America." The *Post* says the payments are going to "Central America*ns*." The main difference in the wording is two letters. The difference in right-wing outrage is incalculable. The Reuters story says: The United States is considering a conditional cash transfer program to help address economic woes that lead migrants from certain Central American countrie...
The End Of Development
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 12 hours ago
When I was in high school, my economics class read The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs. The book is a passionate appeal to help those living in the worst poverty in the world. Sachs writes that we should not worry too much about the people in second-to-last place, such as the poorly paid workers in labor-intensive industries who were then the focus of considerable debate and activism on U.S. college campuses. Sweatshop workers, Sachs conceded, were on the bottom rung of the ladder. But subsistence farmers were not on the ladder at all. Once we helped them get a foothold, they coul...
Intelligence Report Equates Anarchists With Right-Wing Militias
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago
Mainstream Democrats are in a hawkish mood when it comes to “domestic terrorism.” That is bad news for the left. Immediately upon taking office, President Biden “tasked the director of national intelligence, in coordination with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, with compiling a comprehensive threat assessment on violent domestic extremism,“ according to The Washington Post. This request was prompted by the right-wing attack on the Capitol on January 6. The resulting report, “Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021,” was submitted on March 1, and ...
Iraqi PM confirms death of high-ranking ISIS commander in special operation
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 14 hours ago
[image: Iraqi PM confirms death of high-ranking ISIS commander in special operation] BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:00 P.M.) – The Iraqi Prime Minister of Iraq, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, said this week that the Iraqi security forces had killed the second most senior person in the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) terrorist organization. According to a statement issued by his office and published by the Iraqi News Agency, the Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, confirmed that the security forces had killed the second highest ranking commander in the te...
On unconventional circumstances
Unknown, Accidental Deliberations - 11 hours ago
Like 2,000+ other members across the country, I've been participating in the NDP's convention over the course of the weekend. And with one day in the books, I'll take note of a few of the differences between this and traditional in-person conventions - as well as the effects they've had on the party's effort to connect people in advance of an election anticipated in the near future. On the plus side, it's always a plus to hear direct perspectives on what's happening at different levels of government. That said, it's been striking how narrow the list of invited speakers in two resp...
This Grenade Launcher Was Built to Kill Enemies Behind Cover
Kyle Mizokami, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Kyle Mizokami* *Grenade Launcher, * While successful, the high-tech infantry weapon was the victim of a lengthy development period, ballooning costs, a perceived lack of utility. *Here's What You Need to Remember: * The capability to engage enemy troops behind cover is useful but anything that does that and nothing else is impractical from an infantryman’s perspective and an expensive niche weapon unaffordable even by the U.S. Army. The U.S. Army has officially terminated the “Punisher.” The XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System, or “Punisher,” was designed to engage e...
Daily Express Pushing To End Meat Eating
Paul Homewood, NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 12 hours ago
By Paul Homewood This week the newly Green Express has been trying to persuade us to stop eating meat: It found that seven percent of us are vegetarian, three percent vegan with another four percent pescatarian – people who will eat fish but not other meat. Another nine percent class themselves as […]
Gaetz Faces House Ethics Probe; Federal Investigation Widens
AP News, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, who has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, has retained two prominent New York attorneys while facing a Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls.
‘Clear the Capitol,’ Pence Pleaded, Timeline of Riot Shows
AP News, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
New details about the deadly U.S. Capitol riot are contained in a previously undisclosed document prepared by the Pentagon for internal use that was obtained by The Associated Press.
FROM THE FIELD: Solar energy powers COVID-19 treatment
Global Issues News Headlines - 12 hours ago
In some of the poorest parts of the world, where there is no access to a reliable electricity grid, the UN is equipping hundreds of health facilities with solar technologies, allowing them to avoid power outages and save lives. Read the full story, “FROM THE FIELD: Solar energy powers COVID-19 treatment”, on globalissues.org →
Russia Has a Massive Amount of Tactical Nuclear Weapons. Why?
Sebastien Roblin, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Sebastien Roblin* *Russia Nuclear Weapons, Europe* Russia’s non-strategic nukes are premised on U.S. conventional military superiority. The United States and Russia still actively deploy 230 and 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons respectively—arsenals which are not regulated by treaty, unlike strategic nuclear weapons. But calling them “tactical” and “non-strategic” weapons is arguably a misnomer. As former Defense Secretary James Mattis once told Congress, “I don’t think there is any such thing as a tactical nuclear weapon. Any nuclear weapon used any time is a strategic game-cha...
Why Kim is Smiling: North Korea Has Hidden Air Bases
Kyle Mizokami, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Kyle Mizokami* *North Korea, Asia* [image: North Korea] Pyongyang has many tricks that it would use to try and survive or win another war. *Key point: *North Korea appears to have built many underground bases and tunnels too. How might they be used in the event of an armed conflict? North Korea, one of the most secretive countries in the world, is no stranger to building underground military facilities. Whether a tunnel dug under the demilitarized zone designed to pass thousands of troops an hour, or bunkers to accommodate the regime’s leadership, North Korea has built extensiv...
Democrats Want $2,000 Stimulus Checks Every Month Until COVID Is Over
Rachel Bucchino, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Rachel Bucchino* *Stimulus Checks, * A recent poll released by Data for Progress revealed that 65 percent of Americans backed monthly $2,000 payments throughout the pandemic, and over two million people have signed a Change.org petition calling for them. A growing number of congressional Democrats are calling for recurring stimulus checks until the coronavirus pandemic is over, in addition to the three direct payments sent out to millions of Americans within the last year. Democrats are unlikely to rally support for the measure, as the party’s efforts to gut the filibuster will...
Why Battlecruisers are A Really Stupid Warship Idea
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 12 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *Battlecruiser, * Battlecruisers were eggshells armed with hammers, which exactly describes modern warships. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Just one hit, as we saw with HMS Sheffield and USS Stark, can sink or cripple a ship. Even if it doesn't sink, the sensors, computers and electronics would likely be so fried or jostled that the ship would effectively be incapacitated "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today," said Admiral Beatty as he watched his battlecruisers blow up one by one at the Battle of Jutland. The words were classic Bri...
This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 10
Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago
1941 London ordered India to send forces to Shaiba air base in Basra and Basra City (Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria) (Musings On Iraq review *Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941*) 1941 British expeditionary force put together in India to be sent to Iraq to deal with PM Gaylani 1941 PM Gayalni convened parliament and asked it to pick new Regent Selected Sharif Sharaf veteran of Arab revolt and relative of Hashemite family 1941 PM Gaylani gave speech at parliament that...
"Today’s Inflation Is Deliberate… and Disastrous"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 13 hours ago
*"Today’s Inflation Is Deliberate… and Disastrous"* by Bill Bonner "As I’ve been describing in recent Diaries, the financial markets are beginning to realize that the coming inflation is not “cyclical”… It is structural. The distinction is important. Cyclical inflation is more or less benign. It is a feature of the business cycle. As the economy heats up, demand grows for consumer products and the raw materials to make them. This is a healthy trend, but it engenders an immediate feedback loop. That is, the demand for financing increases. Businesses need financing to boost output an...
Is the ‘Train Tackles Bendy Tracks’ Video Real?
Jordan Liles, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago
Someone might want to put in a maintenance request.
Kerry Lunges Into India With Anti-BRI Agenda Bringing Green Suicide for All
Matthew Ehret, The Duran - 13 hours ago
Originally published on the Strategic Culture Foundation As the China-Russian-Iran alliance continues to gain new momentum spreading win-win cooperation and development across Asia, Africa and the World, the dying unipolar system run by detached militarists, financiers and technocrats is doubling down on its weird mix of 1) a “scorched earth” offensive threat to “dissuade” China and Russia […]
This Is CNN
Kate, Small Dead Animals - 13 hours ago
They all look alike to CNN: CNN used a photo of the wrong Asian golfer in a story today …
Did Prince Philip Say ‘Take the F—ing Picture’ in a Video?
Nur Ibrahim, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago
Apparently the irascible royal consort had a bit of a potty mouth.
Volcano eruption: St. Vincent’s government asks for patience to the population waiting to be evacuated
Latin America News, The Rio Times - 14 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, has called for patience from the population in the area near the La Soufriere volcano that erupted yesterday, Friday, and welcomed the fact that so far no deaths or injuries have been reported. Several neighboring nations such as St. […] The post Volcano eruption: St. Vincent’s government asks for patience to the population waiting to be evacuated appeared first on The Rio Times.
How Not to Live One’s Life - Philip Mountbatten (1921-2021)
Robert Ingraham, LaRouchePAC.com - All Posts - 15 hours ago
His Royal Highness Sir Philip Mountbatten (nee Battenberg) is dead. Also known as Philip Andrew of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderberg-Glücksburg; His Royal Highness Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark; the Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich; Knight of the Order of Australia; and Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council;—and, finally, husband of Queen Elizabeth, Philip’s life serves as an absolute antithesis to all those who seek to live a virtuous life and contribute something positive to future generations. His too-long parasitic existence is also ...
Book Review: The Revolution Won’t Be Stopped
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago
Republican strategist Karl Rove often advised his clients to attack not the enemy’s weaknesses but its strengths. The bipartisan US foreign policy disinformation machine has taken Rove’s advice with tedious devotion. So, to attack Nicaragua, the machine’s fabrications and propaganda have targeted some of that country’s strengths: gender equity, Indigenous rights and autonomy, democracy, sovereignty, and a successful response to the pandemic, as well as the Sandinista government’s great popularity. This should not surprise. It’s the same Rovian method used against Nicaragua’s frien...
Indigenous Group Launches Campaign Against New Voting Bills
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago
An advocacy group for Native Americans is putting up billboards in various states to oppose measures that it says would increase voting restrictions. The campaign launched by the Global Indigenous Council comes as more state legislatures are considering voting laws like the one in Georgia that sparked corporate backlash. Tom Rodgers, president of the Global Indigenous Council and an enrolled Blackfeet tribal member, said the goal of the campaign is to draw attention to bills that would limit the number of available polling stations and ballot drop-off spots, calling the measures e...
The GOP Needs Its Very Own 'Infrastructure' Plan
Pedro Gonzalez, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Pedro Gonzalez* *Infrastructure Bill, United States* The Republican Party must do more than merely denounce the “American Jobs Plan,” or it risks falling further out of touch with its constituents. It must offer its own constructive vision for infrastructure to rebuild America. President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure bill, the so-called “American Jobs Plan,” received a hostile reception from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell last week. “This is not going to be, apparently, an infrastructure package,” McConnell told reporters after Biden briefed him on the bill....
Will China Be the First to Field a True Naval Railgun?
Peter Suciu, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Peter Suciu* *Railguns, * The railgun race is officially here. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *The problems aren’t so great that railgun research has been abandoned. Far from it in fact, and the Chinese are getting closer to fielding a true railgun, while the United States Navy has continued to see the potential for such a weapon on its stealth warships *—*even if the expected rate of fire would be just ten rounds per minute. While the concept of “directed-energy weapons” originated on the pages of pulp novels in the late nineteenth century, another weapon technology that s...
Is the United States Military Really as Strong as Everyone Says?
Richard Douglas, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Richard Douglas* *U.S. Military, * Yes, and here are the reasons why. The quick answer is yes, we do have the most powerful military of all time. At this point, there’s really no question about it, but it’s surprisingly not just about the size of our military. We have some of the most powerful and advanced military technology the world has ever seen. How do we have the status of the most robust military? It’s certainly not by manpower. That title belongs to China, which has 2.19 million active soldiers compared to the United States with only 1.4 million. The answer lies in our ...
These U.S. Navy Battleships Returned to Service an Insane 3 Times
Kyle Mizokami, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Kyle Mizokami* *U.S. Navy, Americas* [image: U.S. Navy] These mighty warships had long and impressive careers even during the Cold War. *Key point: *Battleships do not really make sense anymore. However, they still look impressive and serve as potent symbols of power projection. The Second World War marked the end of the Age of Battleships. Aircraft carriers, with their flexible, long range striking power made battlewagons obsolete in a matter of months. American battleships, once expected to fight a decisive battle in the Pacific that would halt the Japanese Empire, were inste...
Senate Filibuster’s Racist Past Fuels Arguments for Its End
AP News, Snopes.com - 14 hours ago
Senators and those advocating for changes to the practice say the procedure that allows endless debate is hardly what the founders intended, but rather a Jim Crow-relic whose time is up.
The Western Conception of Concentration Camps
Unknown, The Conservative Socrates - 14 hours ago
The idea of concentration camps was conceived in Europe, in the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment, as a tool for indoctrinating the masses. The Enlightenment philosophers and politicians believed that by teaching right kind of philosophy and by applying sufficient amount of coercion, it is possible to transform men into better beings who are motivated by reason, science, and logic, and who cannot be swayed by the irrational forces of religion, tradition, and monarchism. They thought that people could be herded into large correction facilities where they would be kept for ...
Kids Held at Gunpoint, Tiny Teen Girl Ripped From Car By Her Hair Over Minor Traffic Stop
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago
[image: traffic]Small children were held at gunpoint as a 105-pound teen girl was ripped from her car and assaulted by police over a minor traffic violation.
Network In Defense Of Humanity Rejects Aggressions By Armed Groups
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago
The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity, in view of the confrontations that began on March 21 between the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and irregular armed groups in La Victoria, Apure State, near the Colombian border, declares: -It is an insistently repeated historical fact that irregular armed groups from Colombia, sometimes with the complicit tolerance, sometimes with the connivance, and sometimes with the declared support of the government of that country, crossing into Venezuela’s borders to commit common crimes and destabilize the...
Diners Chant “Get Out” as Health Officials Try to Shut Down Restaurant
A Reader, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson A video out of Vancouver shows diners chanting “get out!” as health officials try to shut down a... The post Diners Chant “Get Out” as Health Officials Try to Shut Down Restaurant appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Nearly 40% of Marines have rejected coronavirus vaccine as Dems call on Biden admin to make shots mandatory for troops – reports
A Reader, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
RT Just shy of 40 percent of Marine Corps service members have refused to take the coronavirus jab, new data provided to the media shows.... The post Nearly 40% of Marines have rejected coronavirus vaccine as Dems call on Biden admin to make shots mandatory for troops – reports appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Four gray whales have been found dead in California’s Bay Area within eight days
Galen, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
CNN Gray whales are visible just twice a year in California as they migrate from the southern tip of the West Coast up toward Alaska... The post Four gray whales have been found dead in California’s Bay Area within eight days appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
White House considering cash payments to Central Americans to stem migration
Galen, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
New York Post – by Gabrielle Fonrouge It’s pay to stay away. The Biden administration is considering sending cash payments to Central Americans in a... The post White House considering cash payments to Central Americans to stem migration appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
HEROIC Ohio Restaurant Owner Wins Case Over Fraudulent Mask Order
Martin Hill, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
No Mask Info HEROIC!! Mandy Close, owner of Cattleman’s Restaurant in Savannah Ohio, sued the REPUBLICAN governor Mike Dewine & Ohio health department over their... The post HEROIC Ohio Restaurant Owner Wins Case Over Fraudulent Mask Order appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Time to get shot – vaccine shot that is
Keith, musingsofanoldfart - 16 hours ago
It is my time to get the first of the COVID-19 vaccines today. While I am an old fart, I am only now qualifying by age and one other condition, that hypertension thing. So, I will be participating in a … Continue reading →
Hank III – Moonshiner’s Life
Hal Apeeno, From the Trenches World Report - 1 day ago
Cryptocowboi Dec 16, 2011 From Rebel Within…in memory of Popcorn Sutton, R.I.P. The post Hank III – Moonshiner’s Life appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
THE BIGGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE HOUSE IN THE WORLD – ‘THE ONE’ – EXCLUSIVE HOUSE TOUR
Mark Schumacher, From the Trenches World Report - 1 day ago
ProducerMichael Apr 7, 2021 The biggest and most expensive house in the world is a 105,000 square foot modern masterpiece in Bel Air created by... The post THE BIGGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE HOUSE IN THE WORLD – ‘THE ONE’ – EXCLUSIVE HOUSE TOUR appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Homeless encampment venice beach cleaning starts temporary housing in parking lot
Mark Schumacher, From the Trenches World Report - 1 day ago
German in Venice Apr 7, 2021 The post Homeless encampment venice beach cleaning starts temporary housing in parking lot appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Thank Goodness they BANNED BUMPSTOCKS!
Mark Schumacher, From the Trenches World Report - 1 day ago
Reno May Apr 2, 2021 Good thing they banned bumpstocks. America is way safer now. The post Thank Goodness they BANNED BUMPSTOCKS! appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Marines vs. Army: Who Has the Better Bullet?
Charlie Gao, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Charlie Gao* *U.S. Marines, Americas* [image: U.S. Marines] Not all ammunition is the same and different types and calibers come with important tradeoffs. *Key Point*: In the 1980s, both services shared the same ammunition. Those bullets were deemed insufficient, but the Marines and Army ended up choosing different ammo to replace the old kind. In Mark Bowden’s book, Black Hawk Down, he describes an incident where a soldier’s CAR-15 5.56mm carbine failed to put down an enemy combatant despite multiple hits to center mass. The ammunition used by the soldier was the M855 “green-t...
USS New Jersey Battleship: A Massive Gun Disguised as a Warship?
Kyle Mizokami, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Kyle Mizokami* *Battleships, Asia* It fired over 21,000 rounds in Asia. *Here's What You Need to Remember:* New Jersey was inactivated in 1969. The old battlewagon would be reactivated just twelve years later as part of an effort to bring the U.S. Navy battle fleet up to 600 ships. USS New Jersey is now moored in Camden, New Jersey, where she serves as a floating museum. As the war in Vietnam reached its crescendo, the U.S. Navy prepared to recommission one of the most powerful ships ever to serve in the fleet. USS New Jersey, an Iowa-class battleship, was reactivated to provid...
A Nuclear Powered Jet? It Would Have Been a Flying Chernobyl.
Steve Weintz, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Steve Weintz* *Nuclear Energy, Americas* At the onset of the Atomic Age, military planners and scientists envisioned nuclear energy powering everything. *Here's What You Need To Remember: *More promising and nearly as cool are the nuclear powerplant for airships and another for hydrofoils. The nuclear airship based on a Goodyear base plan could fly at 85 miles per hour a mile up in the air for a very long time, its crew separated from the reactor by 200 feet of lighter-than-air structure. Ah, the Atomic Age, when nuclear energy seemed the ticket to a future of limitless possibi...
Editor's Note
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
Saturday is when I do all my chores around the house. Blogging will return later this evening.
How Many Times Do President Biden And Former President Obama Talk To Each Other Each Week?
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
President-elect Joe Biden is greeted by former President Barrack Obama as he arrives during his inauguration as U.S. President in Washington, DC, U.S., Jan. 2021. (EPA Photo) *NYPost*:* Psaki says Obama, Biden talk regularly but refuses to say how often * White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday said President Biden and former President Barack Obama talk “regularly” but refused to say how often to avoid “violating” the privacy of their friendship. The relationship between Biden and his boss of eight years has been a point of intrigue in Washington. Obama lives only ab...
Voting Systems Connected to Internet
Ron Clutz, Science Matters - 14 hours ago
More discoveries regarding computer voting systems used in the 2020 US elections. Patrick Colbeck reports Modem Chips Embedded in Voting System Computer Motherboards. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. H/T Gateway Pundit While all of the attention has been focused upon manipulation of election results via software, there has been very little attention paid to hardware. […]
Expect The Chinese Navy To Be Operating Full Time In The Indian Ocean Soon
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
Image: China Mil (Photo by the People’s Daily) *Christopher Colley, War On The Rocks: **A Future Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet?* The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is now the largest navy in the world. This development, announced in the U.S. Department of Defense’s 2020 annual report on the Chinese military, appears to demonstrate a determined strategy in Beijing to develop a powerful blue water fleet. Both Chinese and outside naval experts speculate that the PLAN may have an Indian Ocean fleet in the near future. Supporting this possibility, multiple Chinese sources have ...
India Objects To U.S. Navy’s Assertion Of Navigational Rights Within India’s EEZ Sans Consent
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 15 hours ago
*India Tribune:* *US Navy sails in Indian Exclusive Economic Zone; asserts it is right, India’s claim wrong* *India conveys concerns to US* In what could lead to serious questions on the India-US relations, the US Navy has announced that it has ‘asserted’ navigational rights in the Arabian Sea and inside India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), without requesting India’s prior consent. The 7th Fleet of the US Navy has made an announcement about one of its warships saying “USS John Paul Jones (it) asserted navigational rights and freedoms approximately 130 nautical miles west of...
Nothing Was Inevitable
Guest Blogger, Balkinization - 15 hours ago
For the Symposium on Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis (Knopf, 2020). Martin J. Sherwin Many thanks to Professors Stephen Griffin, Sanford Levinson, Jeremi Suri, and Amanda L. Tyler for their generous comments and keen insights, and a special nod to Professor Jack Balkin for hosting this symposium. *Gambling with Armageddon* is divided into two books, the second of which focuses on the Cuban missile crisis. Understandably it was the primary subject of the reviews. But before addressing those reviews, I want ...
Didn’t Get Your $1,400 Stimulus Check Yet? See If You Even Qualify
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Stimulus Checks, United States* The payments phase out much more quickly than in previous rounds The Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Treasury have announced via their latest update that more than twenty-five million coronavirus stimulus checks worth $36 billion have been disbursed this week to cash-strapped Americans. To date, this fourth batch of stimulus checks now brings the total number of payments to 156 million worth $372 billion. In all, about 85 percent of stimulus checks sent so far have been direct deposited in bank accounts, the IRS noted. While ...
America's First Fleet of Flying Aircraft Carriers (Well, Let Us Explain...)
Kyle Mizokami, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Kyle Mizokami* *Aircraft Carriers, Americas* The flying carrier concept had its advantages and disadvantages compared to the “traditional” seagoing carrier. *Here's What You Need to Know*: The 1920s witnessed a bold military experiment. Nearly a hundred years ago the U.S. Navy asked a question: if airplanes can fly through the air, why couldn’t a vessel carrying them fly through the air as well? The result was the Akron-class airships, the only flying aircraft carriers put into service in any country. Although promising, a pair of accidents—prompted by the airship’s limitations...
The Ugly Truth about America’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System
Peter Huessy, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Peter Huessy* *Security, Americas* America could soon be stuck with a half-century-old technology that has serious technical, cost, and inventory challenges. The disarmament community has suddenly switched gears and brought to a halt its decades-long effort to eliminate America’s intercontinental ballistic missiles. Today, it has embraced the fifty-year-old Minuteman III ICBMs (MM) it has and wants to cancel the new Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) replacement scheduled to be built at the end of this decade. What’s the trick? At least a dozen expert studies show that MM ...
North Korea's Secret Weapon to Break America in a War (Not Nukes)
Kyle Mizokami, The National Interest - 15 hours ago
*Kyle Mizokami* *North Korean Army, Asia* [image: North Korean Army] These tanks are some of the best that North Korea has; and that is saying something. *Key point: *North Korea is not known for having a cutting-edge military. However, the 105th Amored Division would be a real threat. In any future war on the Korean Peninsula, U.S. and South Korean forces would encounter a familiar foe: the Korean People’s Army (KPA) 105th Armored Division. Equipped with North Korea’s most modern tanks and armored vehicles, the 105th Division’s mission is to rapidly exploit any breakthrough in ...
Russian-made Su-30MKM fighter jets fly over US aircraft carrier: photos
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago
[image: Russian-made Su-30MKM fighter jets fly over US aircraft carrier: photos] BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:00 P.M.) – US sailors photographed the flight of a Russian-made Su-30MKM fighter flying over the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt during a training exercise with the Royal Malaysian Air Force. The US Navy’s official Twitter released a photos of the Royal Malaysian Air Force Su- 30MKM fighter flying over the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier in the South China Sea on April 7th. “When can’t meet face to face, meet in the Sky! Continue reading Russian-made Su-30MKM fighter jets ...
Massive Child Sex Ring Busted at State Youth Facility—Hundreds of Kids Tortured and Raped
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project - 15 hours ago
[image: facility]As a half-dozen arrested have been made, more than 200 child victims have come forward alleging horrific torture and rape at the tax-payer funded facility.
Different Dictionaries
Owen Gray, Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Democrats and Republicans speak two different languages. Michelle Cottle writes that each party has its own dictionary. Consider the different definitions of the following terms: *Bipartisanship*. This seems straightforward enough. If both political parties support a proposal, it’s bipartisan, right? Not so fast. There has been much debate of late about which team members count. If a majority of Republican voters and a majority of Democratic voters favor a bill, does that make it bipartisan? Democrats, and especially the Biden White House, say yes. Or is an idea only bipartisan if...
New Leaked Video Footage Shows ‘Pyramid UFOs Swarming US Navy Destroyer' In 2019
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 15 hours ago
*FOX 8: **Images leaked from Pentagon investigation show UFOs swarm above Navy destroyer* Amazing images have been leaked from a secretive Pentagon investigation of UFOs. The Task Force has been gathering evidence for a comprehensive report for Congress which is due in June that includes photographs and videos of UFO encounters with U.S. military assets, including Navy destroyers off the southern California coast. Part of the report is to educate other military and intelligence officials about the nature of the UFO mystery. The new images were gathered by the Task Force a...
Iran launches new uranium enrichment centrifuges
News Desk, AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - 15 hours ago
[image: Iran launches new uranium enrichment centrifuges] Tehran has started up new uranium enrichment centrifuges, Iranian state TV reported on Saturday. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani officially inaugurated the cascades of 164 IR-6 centrifuges and 30 IR-5 devices at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant. The news comes after the JCPOA’s signatories convened in Vienna to discuss the possible return of both Iran and the US to compliance with the nuclear deal. While Washington expressed a wish to reverse its 2018 withdrawal from the deal by the Trump administration, but noted tha...
Truth Commission Details Horrible Crimes Akin To Native American Genocide And Slavery
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago
With a new Cold War heating up between the U.S. and Russia and China, Witness for Peace Southwest, Addicted to War and CodePink organized a Truth Commission on the original Cold War on March 21st, which brought together the testimony of historians, activists and others who lived through the period. Following a hearing three years ago, the Zoom event was hosted by Frank Dorrel, publisher of the popular anti-war text Addicted to War, and Rachel Bruhnke, a high school Spanish teacher and member of Witness for Peace Southwest. In her opening remarks, Bruhnke emphasized that the Cold W...
Food is a weapon
Bruce K. Gagnon, Organizing Notes - 15 hours ago
How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest guard become Monsanto’s worst nightmare? THE SEEDS OF VANDANA SHIVA tells the remarkable story of agro-ecologist Dr. Vandana Shiva, how she stood up to the corporate Goliaths of chemical agribusiness, rose to prominence in the environmental movement, and inspired an international movement for change. See www.vandanashivamovie.com for more information.
Vincentians waking up to extremely heavy ashfall and strong sulfur smell, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
The Watchers » Latest articles - 15 hours ago
Vincentians are waking up to extremely heavy ashfall and strong sulfur smell which have now advanced to the capital after powerful explosive eruptions started at La Soufriere volcano on April 9, 2021. The last eruption of this volcano started on April 13, 1979 (VEI...... Read more »
Venezuela detains Sinaloa cartel members in clash at Colombian border
Latin America News, The Rio Times - 15 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Venezuelan forces detained members of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel during clashes with armed groups near its western border with Colombia, a top Venezuelan military official said on Friday. Venezuela’s military on March 21 launched an offensive against what officials called irregular Colombian armed groups in the western state of […] The post Venezuela detains Sinaloa cartel members in clash at Colombian border appeared first on The Rio Times.
Mexico expects “constant and growing” waves of migrants from Central America
The Rio Times Staff, The Rio Times - 15 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Mexico will register “constant and growing” waves of migrants in the coming years, the country’s foreign affairs secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Thursday, April 8, and suggested that the United States should allocate US$2 billion in development aid annually to stem the tide. Ebrard said that Mexico has proposed to invest […] The post Mexico expects “constant and growing” waves of migrants from Central America appeared first on The Rio Times.
China Report Says US History Is Littered With 'Humanitarian Disasters' Caused By Military Interventions
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 15 hours ago
*The Hill: **China says US has caused humanitarian disasters through military interventions* A Chinese state-backed human rights research organization is accusing the United States of a history of military interventions that it says have caused repeated humanitarian disasters. The China Society for Human Rights Studies said in a new report published Friday, titled "Severe Humanitarian Disasters Caused by U.S. Aggressive Wars against Foreign Countries,” that the U.S. has “waged 201 armed conflicts among the total 248 that occurred in 153 regions of the world from the end of Worl...
Bolivia extends border closure with Brazil for another 7 days
Juan Martinez, The Rio Times - 15 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Bolivia has extended the closure of its border with Brazil for a further 7 days. The information was confirmed late on Friday afternoon, April 9, by the Bolivian Ministry of Health. According to the agency, the border closure is due to concerns regarding the entry of the Brazilian P1 variant […] The post Bolivia extends border closure with Brazil for another 7 days appeared first on The Rio Times.
Argentina decries UK military operations in the Falkland Islands
The Rio Times Staff, The Rio Times - 15 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - "Argentina rejects in the strongest terms the carrying out of military maneuvers, and the launching of missiles in particular, in Argentine territory illegitimately occupied by the United Kingdom," the Argentine Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Complaint to the United Nations For the government of President Alberto Fernández, these maneuvers […] The post Argentina decries UK military operations in the Falkland Islands appeared first on The Rio Times.
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