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Today, workers are subjected to an unprecedented level of workplace surveillance and control. From voice monitoring to tracking applications, these systems are being introduced into workplaces that are already stacked against low-wage workers, creating an environment ripe for exploitation. Surveillance gives corporations more power over workers. When combined with automation that dictates the pace and type of work, it results in a more dangerous, punishing, and precarious workplace. The post End Worker Surveillance appeared first on PopularResistance.Org.

By Paul Homewood h/t Tallbloke There has never been any disagreement that hydrogen can replace natural gas for heating homes. It has always been a question of cost and scalability. New research by Imperial College has gone into the detail, the first study I have seen to do so. It also looks at whole system […]

Where’s Hunter? “I’ll give you something that really verifies it,” Giuliani said. “The very morning this came out, Hunter Biden’s lawyer called the merchant, and asked him if he could have the hard drive back,” he said. “We have email evidence of that. So if the lawyer is asking for the hard drive back —… Continue reading →

*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2020* *The limits of human discernment:* "The American people are pretty sharp!" Upper-end pundits have always known that they should make such statements. "Man [sic] is the rational animal," Aristotle is said to have said. These standard bromides help shape the lens through which we view human conduct. According to experts, it may be time to set this framework aside. Last evening, on NBC Nightly News, Lester Holt ran a report by Kate Snow about people in the Pittsburgh suburbs who believe in QAnon. To watch that report, click here. A more extensive version...

Adding to the suspicious behavior is the fact that a number of these Chinese vessels are known to have a history of involvement in illegal fishing activities. The post Is China sending “dark vessels” to fish near the Galapagos Islands? appeared first on CFACT.

“I am troubled by evidence suggesting that Ms. Bronfman repeatedly and consistently leveraged her wealth and social status as a … Continue reading →

At least 12 people lost their lives after heavy rain and flooding hit Dar es Salaam, Tanzania overnight Tuesday to Wednesday, October 13 to 14, 2020. The deaths occurred in Ilala and Kinondoni Police Zones, Dar es Salaam Special Zone Police Commander Lazaro...... Read more »

*Kris Osborn* *J-20, Asia* Does this make sense in the age of AI and advanced computer technologies that could aid any Chinese pilot? Is there a chance that a two-seat 5th-Generation Stealth fighter might bring some additional advantages to multi-role air combat? The answer to this seemingly complex question might, at least at the moment, seem somewhat vague. One answer may be as ambiguous as it is true--maybe. The question is taking on new relevance in light of rumors that the Chinese PLA Air Force is engineering a two-seat J-20 stealth fighter, according to a recent report i...

*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* The prospect of a Nazi atomic bomb is sobering, but German scientists themselves doomed the project to failure. *Key Point*: A steady stream of fleeing European scientists provided a relatively clear picture of German advances, or lack thereof, to Allied intelligence services. The most nightmarish of World War II alternative history scenarios is the one in which Nazi Germany acquires atomic weapons. In fact, by the spring of 1945, when America’s massive nuclear program was reaching its culmination, the Nazi atomic program consisted of ...

*Robert D. Kaplan* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] As we enter an age of great power conflict, imperialism lurks behind the scenes as an organizing principle of geopolitics, difficult as it may be to admit. NEVER BEFORE has imperialism been so condemned as now. European colonialism continues to constitute a raw and living memory in the collective minds of its hundreds of millions of victims and their descendants, even while each and any aspect of racism is noisily condemned in the United States. Empire, in other words, has come to represent the world-historical face of raci...

*Caleb Larson* *Security, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2014%3Anewsml_GM1EA911BDK01&share=true] These new technologies will keep Japan’s submarines relevant for a long time to come. Japan’s manufacturing heavyweight Mitsubishi Heavy Industries just launched the Japanese Navy’s first new diesel-electric attack submarine. The new class, known as the Taigei-class, is intended to supplant the older Sōryū-class as Japan’s premier attack submarines. Here’s what we know so far. One of the more notable technologies that Japan’s new Taigei-class...

*Grover G. Norquist* *economy, Americas* [image: Joe Biden] Democrats may be aiming at “the one percent” but the collateral damage of shooting at Jeff Bezos is measured in hundreds of millions of people. If former Vice President Joe Biden wins the presidential election and Democrats hold the House and win the Senate, then the economic policies of the United States for the past four years will change dramatically. *What does that mean?* The short list: if you are a taxpayer, then your taxes will go up. If you are one of the tens of millions of independent contractors, then your ...

*Kris Osborn* *U.S. Army, * [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2016%3Anewsml_D1AETCDDEOAA&share=true] What if a ten-ton tracked robotic vehicle, traversed rugged, high-risk terrain, adjusted to emerging enemy threats, blocked enemy advances and identified hostile targets? What if then, it sent back combat-sensitive reconnaissance vehicles to follow on manned armored units—all without needing human intervention? What if a ten-ton tracked robotic vehicle, traversed rugged, high-risk terrain, adjusted to emerging enemy threats, blocked enemy advances ...

New activity/unrest was reported for 1 volcano from October 7 to 13, 2020. During the same period, ongoing activity was reported for 16 volcanoes. New activity/unrest: Klyuchevskoy, Central Kamchatka (Russia). Ongoing activity: Aira, Kyushu (Japan) | Dukono,...... Read more »

NBC/ABC *The Wrap:* *Early Ratings: Biden’s ABC Town Hall Tops Trump’s on NBC * Initial Nielsen numbers don’t include MSNBC viewership or time-zone adjustments And the (ratings) battle of the Thursday town halls goes to…former Vice President Joe Biden and ABC! For now, at least. On ABC, Biden drew 12.7 million viewers from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. On NBC alone, Trump got 10.4 million viewers in the same time slot. Including the full 9 o’clock hour for Biden, the ABC event’s viewership average was 12.2 million. Biden also beat Trump among adults 18-49, with a 2.6 rating to the presi...

Twitter and Facebook had moved quickly to limit the spread of a story published by the conservative-leaning New York Post, which cited unverified emails from Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son that were reportedly discovered by President Donald Trump’s allies.

This weekend, under the banner of ‘Solidarity Knows No Borders’, groups in more than 20 locations across the country joined us to take action to demand an end to the Hostile Environment.

[image: photos]A cop broke multiple laws by sharing nude photos of a victim — instead of helping her — and she was murdered as a result. He will face no charges.

Bulk of Voters Continue to Back Barrett’s Supreme Court Confirmation 48% say the Senate should confirm Ginsburg’s replacement; 31% say it should not . Morning Consult October 14, 2020 As the Senate Judiciary Committee considers Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, new Morning Consult/Politico polling shows support for her confirmation remains sturdy. Forty-eight percent of registered voters in the Oct. 9-11 survey said the Senate should vote to confirm Barrett as a Supreme Court justice, up 2 percentage points fro...

The “Silencing” Of America?… How I Learned to Live in American Political Apartheid as a Banned Unperson In a Virtual Internment Camp… By Ralph Fucetola JD I am one of the thousands of freedom advocates banned by Facebook this week. After about ten years as a loyal Facebook user, as Admin for a half-dozen groups … Continue reading Into The Darkness – The Great Facebook Purge of 2020…

The “Silencing” Of America?… How I Learned to Live in American Political Apartheid as a Banned Unperson In a Virtual Internment Camp… By Ralph Fucetola JD I am one of the thousands of freedom advocates banned by Facebook this week. After about ten years as a loyal Facebook user, as Admin for a half-dozen groups … Continue reading Into The Darkness – The Great Facebook Purge of 2020…

Former White House counsel Don McGahn speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February of 2018. (Gage Skidmore, https://flic.kr/p/23ATPNo; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) On Aug. 31, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the House of Representatives had asserted no valid cause of action in seeking judicial enforcement of a congressional subpoena issued to former White House counsel Don McGahn. The majority in a divided panel (2-1) acknowledged Congress’s constitutional authority to compel the production of inf...

Do you think big brother won’t be watching? In their Democratic Party Manifesto Platform, Democrats vow that they will recruit at least 100,000 contact tracers to identify people at risk of contracting or spreading the coronavirus. One-hundred thousand snitches who will be watching your every move. _____________ Democratic Party Manifesto Platform, pages 5 thru 10 ... Read more Democratic Party Platform – Pages 5-10 The post Democratic Party Platform – Pages 5-10 appeared first on Ice Age Now.

With nearly 300 miles of coastline, the Hawaiian islands that make up Maui County face the threat of sea level rise from all sides. It's that assault that has formed the foundation of a lawsuit Maui filed this week against 20 fossil fuel companies seeking compensation for the rising costs of climate change. The lawsuit alleges that the companies, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips, knew their products produced warming greenhouse gases that threatened the planet but hid those dangers from Maui's people and businesses to maximize corporate profits. The post Mau...

In 2018, one of the biggest demands of immigrant rights activists was “Abolish ICE.” The rallying cry intensified in part due to the Trump administration’s border policy, which separated parents from children and horrified the world. Just a few days ago, leaked tapes of the first lady exposed her indifference toward the policy in 2018, and reminded us of the administration’s complete disdain of the humanity of people seeking asylum. Today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is still targeting and detaining hundreds of thousands of people, and separating loved ones from thei...

The American CEO of Costco was granted a special exemption from Canada’s mandatory 14-day COVID-19 quarantine to attend the openings of the grocery chain’s newest outlets, a CBC News investigation has learned. Craig Jelinek and another top company executive, Joe Portera, travelled to Canada aboard a private Gulfstream jet in late August for a… Continue reading →

The latest news and notes from Saskatchewan's 2020 election campaign. - Nicholas Frew reports that a majority of Saskatchewan's voters are willing to fund a reduction in class sizes. And PressProgress highlights how Scott Moe is insisting that the public health measures required in every other indoor space be waived in order to allow for classrooms to remain overcrowded and underfunded. - Jen Quesnel, Winter Fedyk and Tammy Robert offer their take on this week's leadership debate. - The Canadian Press reports on the NDP's outreach to - and support among - voters who have suppo...

Congress members, perhaps eager for campaign donations from wealthy pro-Israel donors, continue finding creative new legislation to slip Israel even more US tax money on top of the $10 million per day it already receives. Welcome to the latest batch of bills designed to keep Israel front and center – bringing the total pieces of pro-Israel legislation for this session of Congress to NINETY.

Assorted content to end your week. - Chris Giles reports that even the IMF is warning governments not to engage in avoidable austerity. And Richard Kozul-Wright and Nelson Barbosa write that governments face a choice between investing in a recovery now, or facing years of stagnation and uncertainty - which is particularly worth noting as a deficit hyena demands to be kept in power in Saskatchewan due precisely to his refusal to invest in people: [I]nflationary hawks and deficit hyenas are once again warning of dire consequences if fiscal consolidation – “austerity” to the general ...

*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2020* *The absence of the logicians:* What happened last night happens so rarely that it should be memorialized. Last night, Savannah Guthrie asked the commander-in-chief a perfectly sensible question. And yes, it actually happened: When the commander didn't answer her question, she asked her question again! In fact, depending on the way you want to count, she asked her question as many as seven times. Here's how the extended exchange began. You almost never see what happened next: GUTHRIE (10/15/20): *Well, let’s talk about testing because there’s a little...

The new radars were also employed recently in a cruise missile defense exercise. Northrop Grumman announced that its AN/APG-83 SABR (Scalable Agile Beam Radar) Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar has reached the Full Operational [...] The post The APG-83 AESA Radar Reached The Full Operational Capability With The U.S. Air Force Air National Guard appeared first on The Aviationist.

Doug Denley; Instead of talking about a trivial increase of a couple of dollars, Ontarians should be paying attention to the $4.7 billion the provincial government is borrowing this year to keep power bills artificially low. Ontarians are getting a rebate of 33 per cent off their real power costs. Pretending that power rates are… Continue reading →

The US has recently been stepping up its military and political activities in several areas. In addition to the Pentagon’s main focus on the Middle East and Afghanistan under the guise of combating terrorism and on Europe in order to “control Russia”, the last two years has seen a notable […]

SAGE made – and continues to make – two fatal errors in its assessment of the SAR-CoV-2 pandemic, rendering its predictions wildly inaccurate, with disastrous results. These errors led SAGE to conclude that the pandemic is still in its early stages, with the vast majority (93%) of the UK population remaining susceptible to infection and that, in the absence of more action, a very high number of deaths will occur.

A lawsuit from Wisconsin was brought against the funding of election administrators, alleging that Zuckerberg’s grant money was tantamount to bribery, arguing it would be used to unevenly boost voter turnout in Democratic districts. The judge ruled in favor of private funding.

From Jenna Orkin Prosecutors Nationwide Say They’ll Refuse To Press Charges For Abortion Even If Roe V. Wade Is Overturned US Army wants industry to keep COVID safety rules in place, even after the pandemic ends For The First Time, Physicists Have Achieved Superconductivity at Room Temperature Head Of Oxford University Vaccine Team Says Face Masks, Social Distancing Will Continue Until NEXT SUMMER Hollywood Is Dying, And The Elites Don’t Care… The Most Important Global Forecast That You’ve Never Heard Of The CRISPR story: How a basic research discovery changed science and led to...

Eric Worrall | Oct. 14, 2020 Photo: Dr. Willie Soon h/t Dr. Willie Soon / James Delingpole / Breitbart; A group of high profile scientists, including Dr. Willie Soon, have published a meticulously referenced study which discuses the pros and cons of various CO2 reduction strategies. The abstract of the study; Energy and Climate Policy—An Evaluation of Global Climate Change …

*Pipeline politics are a core topic here. This interview provides some interesting background.* *Yes, I listened. Twice.* Link *“The Crash of Flight 3804”, Charlotte Dennett’s new book, chronicles her decades-long investigation into the death of her father, the highest ranking American intelligence officer in the Middle East, in a mysterious plane crash in Ethiopia in 1947 on his return from a secret mission to Saudi Arabia for the Central Intelligence Group; the intrigue and treachery of Middle East oil pipeline politics throughout the 20th and 21st centuries; the Berlin to B...

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 (IPS) - Despite the World Food Programme (WFP) being awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its work in addressing global hunger, sustainable food systems expert Emile Frison believes a lot more needs to be done. This includes the rethinking of approaches to agricultural production, establishing deeper relationships between consumers and producers, and taking a wholistic approach towards socio-economic factors. Read the full story, “Q&A: Food Systems need to Mimic Nature”, on globalissues.org →

RIJSWIJK, the Netherlands, Oct 16 (IPS) - Food is high on the political agenda. The need to make food systems more resilient to external shocks like climate change and Covid-19 is now well acknowledged among states and other actors. Green, healthy, and inclusive food systems should become the new normal. But to make this happen we need to reshape the entire food system, with citizens driving bottom-up innovations. Read the full story, “Food Citizenship: Innovative Partnerships for Healthy Food Systems”, on globalissues.org →

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Oct 16 (IPS) - More than half a year after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, governments are continuing to waste precious time and energy restricting human rights rather than focusing on fighting the virus. Read the full story, “Amid COVID-19, What is the Health of Civic Freedoms?”, on globalissues.org →

Oct 16 (IPS) - Nine months into the pandemic, Europe remains one of the regions worst affected by COVID-19. Ten of the 20 countries with the highest death count per million people are European. The other ten are in the Americas. This includes the US, which has the highest number of confirmed cases and deaths in the world. Read the full story, “What Developing Countries Can Teach Us About How To Respond To a Pandemic”, on globalissues.org →

Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? ?Misuse of the EM-DAT disaster database is not confined to the corrupt UN. Readers may recall an IPPR report, trumpeted by Roger Harrabin, which ludicrously claimed that “since 2005, the number of floods across the world has increased by 15 times,…

Russia poses the biggest state-based threat to the UK but China is the growing long-term challenge, the new head of MI5 Ken McCallum has said. More from this interview here: https://t.co/n8gSnuRCdg pic.twitter.com/b6JdUUUiqP — SkyNews (@SkyNews) October 14, 2020 *Zero Hedge:* *Britain's New Spy Chief Says China's "Covert Activities" Biggest Long-Term Threat * In a rare public interview, the new chief of Britain’s domestic security service MI5 has vowed "to do more" in taking on China at a moment fears of 'Russian interference' in UK elections has been supplanted by what's increas...

1973 Iraqi, Syrian and Jordanian forces attacked Israeli positions but were turned back 1991 Turkish army launched ground assault into Kurdistan to attack PKK (Musings On Iraq review *The Kurds, A Modern History*) 2001 CIA Dir Tenet met with UK officials and agreed no Iraq-9/11 connection (Musings On Iraq Review *The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary*) 2002 Iraq held elections where Saddam voted president for another 7 years 2002 Iraq renewed offer for new UN inspections after US rejected deal (Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat) (Mu...

I didn't watch the dueling townhalls (apparently some NBC affiliates didn't carry Trump's), but heard some summaries this morning on the radio. Samantha Guthrie on behalf of Democrats and NBC asked 43 questions and the audience asked 10. Is that a townhall? She asked 4 or 5 questions about white supremacists which the President answered and has answered so many times you can see it's a hate theme for Democrats not an honest question. And she continued to reword the questions. No one ever asks Biden about the violence of BLM and ANTIFA, because he thinks their violence is just an i...

Harris asked Judge Barrett, “Do you believe climate change is threatening the air we breathe and the water we drink?” The post Climate change dogma lives loudly within Kamala Harris appeared first on CFACT.

I was interested to read that a South Korean shipyard has received approval in principle for a large container ship powered by ammonia. It's the most recent use of ammonia as a fuel, but far from the only one. A Chinese shipyard has also received initial approval for such a design. However, no operational, production-line ammonia engine has yet been built; the concept has only been tested on a smaller scale. I'd never thought of ammonia as an engine fuel, so I did some research. Ammonia was first used as a fuel in the 1870's and 1880's. It seems ammonia doesn't combust ev...

A red line was crossed on October 14, 2020, in the ongoing coup being conducted by Democrats, and Never-Trump Republicans, joined by deep state military and intelligence officials, against the President of the United States and the Republic for which we stand. They are acting at the behest of the world’s new imperial financial oligarchy, the modern British Empire, which rose to power in the wake of August 15, 1971, when then–Secretary of the Treasury to be George Shultz destroyed the post-war Bretton Woods monetary system, substituting a casino economy in its stead. They are deter...

Does the treacherous Australian Broadcasting Corporation think China will spare them when their troops start moving into Sydney and Melbourne? ABC support of everything bad in America has shamed all Australians. Write to Trump and offer him our apologies for the ABC”s war on Trump and tell him most Aussies support the US. Their troops […]

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News 1. Investigating cops, and non-investigating cops Yesterday, at the post-cabinet scrum with reporters, Justice Minister Mark Furey told me that the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) has agreed to investigate police action related to the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun. Last month, SIRT Director Felix Cacchione told me that in his opinion the Assoun […]

They had nothing to hide, but they hid it anyway. Following months of requests from the Halifax Examiner, the municipality has made a consultant’s report into police resources public. And while the report is somewhat heavily-redacted, it contains nothing to justify keeping the entire document under wraps. The report by B.C. consultants perivale + taylor […]

16-Oct-2020 Korean Deputy Foreign Minister will visit Mexico for talks with his counterpart and other officials over economic cooperation, including the resumption of bilateral free trade talks.

16-Oct-2020 Uruguayan Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have met in Washington to discuss deepening commercial ties, the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry said

16-Oct-2020 Apart from being the first trade and investment agreement signed between the United States and Fiji, the US-Fiji TIFA is also the first Agreement signed by the US with a Pacific Island Country.

16-Oct-2020 The United Kingdom and Côte d'Ivoire signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Thursday, maintaining existing trade arrangements.

*Kris Osborn* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2011%3Anewsml_GM1E73716YV01&share=true] It allows the military to discern different electronic warfare signals and to find the enemy while remaining concealed. The U.S. Army is moving quickly to build multi-functional, cyber-enabled electronic warfare (EW) applications into large and small combat platforms, including Stryker vehicles, helicopters, devices for the dismounted soldier and even small drones. Some of these are increasingly enabled by an emerging software-based techn...

*Rachel Bucchino* *Stimulus Deal, * Negotiations for the next coronavirus relief package have been halted for months, as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have failed to reach an agreement. The longer talks remain inconclusive, the more people enter poverty. A new study shows that the poverty rate is higher now than at pre-coronavirus levels, suggesting that Americans can expect the rate to climb if Congress doesn’t act swiftly and strike a deal. The poverty rate increased from February to September 2020, from 15 percent to 16.7 percent, ...

*Scott Lincicome* *Coronavirus, Americas* Each of the vaccines that the United States has secured appears to be heavily reliant on globalization to produce the final doses at the absolute maximum speed and scale. Last week, the *Wall Street Journal* examined government efforts to secure early access to doses of the most advanced COVID-19 vaccines, and how this access could prove to be a game‐​changer for these economies in 2021. As shown in the following *WSJ* chart, many governments have contracted with multiple pharmaceutical companies in order to ensure that they have access ...

*Peter Suciu* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2012%3Anewsml_TM3E88E0ORO01&share=true] These weapons will let America keep up with Russia and China. Last week the Russian military successfully test-fired a Tsirkon hypersonic missile, which was fired from the frigate *Admiral Goshkov* and it hit a target at sea 450 km (roughly 280 miles) away. This is certainly a concern to U.S. military planners as hypersonic weapons have the capability to unleash massive destruction. Able to travel at five times the speed of sound and with t...

*Kris Osborn* *Robots, * The U.S. Army sees the future of warfare changing dramatically--and is making some big adjustments. It’s called a “wet gap crossing,” the point wherein armored forces, infantry and tactical vehicles need to cross a body of water such as a river while on attack. This naturally occurring circumstance, often encountered in combat, not only causes logistical challenges for maneuvering forces but also increases vulnerability to enemy attack. How quickly could a mechanized unit build a bridge? What if a known route had to be abandoned due to changing threat...

*Warfare History Network* *History, Middle East* [image: Wikimedia Commons] That Israel used her air force to strike the first blow was not a matter of chance; the Israelis had plotted and planned that strike for nearly two decades. It was 7 o’clock Israeli time, three hours after dawn on Monday, June 5, 1967. The summer season’s daily thick morning mist was just lifting from the coastal areas, across the breadth of the humid Nile Delta, and along the Suez Canal. The air was calm and the angle of the sun rendered visibility throughout the coastal region as good as it was going to...

*Mark Episkopos* *Hwasong-15, Asia* The new so-called Hwasong-16 ICBM has some obvious problems and has never been flight-tested. This is why we shouldn't overlook another missile that was also paraded on October 10th. North Korea unveiled a new “monster” ICBM earlier this week at a military parade commemorating the 75th anniversary of the North Korean Workers’ Party. The tightly choreographed reveal was met with fevered interest from a large subset of western observers, who concluded that the so-called ‘ Hwasong-16’ jeopardizes South Korean security and could even pose a “direct...

*Peter Suciu* *Russia, Europe* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_RC1518D08440&share=true] The command and control aircraft will help Moscow fight back during a disaster and is similar to a plane that America has. In early 2016 the Russian government announced it would build a third-generation Airborne Command Post that would be operated by the Russian Air Force and based on the Illyushin II-96-400 wide-body commercial aircraft airframe. The first of these was apparently delivered on August 1, 2016, but it is unclear if had actually e...

U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to share a piece of satire as if it were genuine news.

[image: accountant]Two officers have been charged with manslaughter after video showed them execute an unarmed accountant, shooting him three times in the head.

The study, which was not peer-reviewed, found that four treatments tested — including remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine — had “ little or no effect" on whether or not patients died within about a month or whether hospitalized patients recovered.

“We want to address the concerns that there could be many unintended consequences to journalists, whistleblowers and others in ways that are contrary to Twitter’s purpose of serving the public conversation,” said Vijaya Gadde, the company’s head of legal, policy, trust and safety.

Originally posted on Mining Awareness + : If Democrats don’t recall that it is still citizens who vote them in or out and…

*Defense One:** A 21st-Century Reality Is Dawning on NATO * In today’s security environment, non-kinetic threats pose as grave a danger as kinetic ones. Last week, Jens Stoltenberg delivered a remarkable speech in Bratislava. It could have been one of the speeches one so often hears from officials at security conferences, one about how the West should buy more tankers and fighter jets so as to better deter Russia. Instead, NATO’s Secretary-General spoke about ports, electricity grids, and telecommunications. “Our militaries cannot be strong if our societies are weak, so our f...

Democrats want you to suffer so you'll vote for them. That's why despite pediatricians saying that it's more harmful for kids to be kept at home than to reopen schools Democrats are pushing to keep schools closed. We now know that people younger than 40, which means most parents of young children and of course young children themselves, are no more at risk from the China virus than they are from the flu. But keeping kids out of school increases psychological harm not to mention making it harder for abuse of kids to be detected. In response to that Democrats say that kids will ki...

*WNU Editor*: These guys are nuts.

Joe's son-in-law, Dr. Howard Krein, is part of a company that's investing in companies whose products address the China virus. He's also a daily briefer who tells Joe Biden about health policy related to the China virus. So he's investing in companies and then telling Joe what policies should be implemented. Clearly no problem or conflict of interest there...not. Essentially Joe's getting his advice on which approaches to use to address the pandemic from a relative who stands to make a lot of money if the solutions he recommends to Joe are accepted. But like the $3.5M Hunter Bid...

For the Balkinization Symposium on Alexander Keyssar, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? (Harvard University Press, 2020), and Jesse Wegman, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College (St. Martin's Press, 2020). Franita Tolson Scholars tend to paint the Electoral College as some irrational mechanism that made little sense in 1787 and makes even less sense today. Perhaps that’s true, but the sheer number of times that we have tried—and failed—to fix the Electoral College leads one to wonder if the problem is not the College; instead...

In Texas Democrat mayoral candidate Zul Mirza Mohamed has been arrested on 109 counts of felony voter fraud. His scheme was based on filing fake requests for ballots for nursing home residents and having the ballots sent, not to the nursing home, but to a P.O. Box he'd set up. No wonder Democrats are talking about Biden winning Texas if Democrats are going to go all in for voter fraud like this. But if you go to the link for the story you'll find that the local CBS news affiliate never mentions that Zul is a Democrat. I had to do a Duck Duck Go search to find out that Zul is a D...

Let's enter the wayback machine and return to 1956. In September, Justice Sherman Minton retired from the Court. Minton was a Democrat named to the Court by President Truman. His health was poor, though he lived until 1965. Apparently Justice Minton retired when he did because he had reached fifteen years of overall judicial service and was therefore entitled to a full pension. Justice Minton was no fan of President Eisenhower and supported Adlai Stevenson in the upcoming presidential election. Still, he did not see any issue in retiring shortly before the election and giving Eise...

It’s extremely foolish to let monopolistic tech oligarchs have this unprecedented influence over the flow of information. I shouldn’t have to keep saying this, but here we are. If online censorship keeps tightening, the internet will cease to be an information-democratizing tool of the people […]

[image: headlights]A father of three was pulled over for driving without his headlights on, seconds later he would be shot six times and die.

What could possibly go wrong? The legislation, which passed the General Assembly and has been sent to Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to be signed into law, bans law enforcement officer from stopping vehicles for driving without headlights, driving without working tail lights or brake lights, or driving with expired registration unless it has been expired… Continue reading →

We know that President Hillary Clinton would have handled the coronavirus pandemic much better than President Trump, although she would have struggled with Republican accusations that she was a mass murderer because of a death toll many times smaller than the one we've had under Trump. But I believe that even another Republican would have done a better job than Trump. Here's Chris Christie, just out of the hospital: Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor who was recently battling a coronavirus infection, said on Thursday that he was “wrong” not to wear a mask at an event hon...

New evidence in the case contradicts the narrative, as video shows that another man, Jeremiah Elliott, a BLM Antifa leader wearing a 'Black Guns Matter' t-shirt, was harassing the patriots, leading critics to question whether the shooting was a coordinated effort.

Twitter and Facebook censored the NY Post after it published a report about emails that revealed how Hunter Biden had introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at Burisma. A year later, Biden pressured the government of Ukraine to fire the prosecutor who was investigating the company.

US Attorney John Bash, who left the department last week, had concluded his review without criminal charges or any public report. The deep state has protected itself again.