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More than a year ago, in the small British town of Salisbury, agents of the GRU (military intelligence of Russia) poisoned a former Russian double agent and former GRU colonel, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, who came from Moscow to visit her father. (For simplicity, we will use the well established abbreviations of the GRU, KGB, etc., even if their current names are different.) Skripal was recruited in 1995 by Pablo Miller, a British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, better known by the acronym "MI6") agent in Madrid. MI6 assigned Skripal his spy nickname: "Forthwith." After a successful espionage service...

You might think there isn’t any news here: “I’m not for impeachment.”But you aren’t allowed to reach that conclusion on your own, leave that determination to your betters. “This is news,” she added. “I haven’t said this to any press person before. But since you asked, and I’ve been thinking about this, impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it.”  MCN The important point here is not that Pelosi is calling...

Just over a year after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida where a gunman claimed the lives of 17 students and teachers, gun violence and the prevalence of violent crime in the United States remain hot button issues in American society. Undoubtedly, the US has remarkably high rates of violent crime compared to other developed nations in Europe and Asia, especially in certain regions, but what is the underlying cause behind these numbers? Could it be the nationÂ’s lax gun laws and the ease of acquiring a firearm, or is there another explanation? Is this about gun...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) 1 Samuel 14 Jonathan Attacks the Philistines 23 Now a detachment of Philistines had gone out to the pass at Mikmash. 14 1 One day Jonathan son of Saul said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let’s go over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But he did not tell his father. 2 Saul was staying on the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree in Migron. With him were about six hundred men, 3 among whom was Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was a son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas,...

A friend e-mailed the link to this GQ profile of Tunde Wey, a Nigeria-born New Orleans chef, described by my friend as “the Ta-Nehisi Coates of food.” Oh? Dour and militant? That sounds like fun. Read on: Perhaps you’re looking for a story about how Food Brings Us Together. About how even in These Dark Times, we can always gather around The Table to experience the healing Power of Food. If so, I’m sorry. Those are the kinds of platitudes that Wey, who is a prolific texter, might respond to with one of his favorite emojis: the little face laughing...

A New York City bar has issued a statement distancing itself from a bartender who was filmed refusing to serve a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) visor.Want daily pop culture news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here for Yahoo’s newsletter.A statement posted to the Facebook page for Jake’s Dilemma, located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, responded to outcry over footage posted by Dion Cini. Cini claimed on March 7 that he was “kicked out” of the bar for wearing a red MAGA visor. His video shows a male bartender confirming that he won’t serve an irate...

It was a made-for-social-media moment for Pete Buttigieg. In Philadelphia last month on his book tour, Mr. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a Democratic candidate for president, fielded an unlikely question from the audience: “Would you support a packing of the courts to expand the Supreme Court by four members?” The inquiry elicited titters from the politics-hungry crowd that appeared surprised by the question. But not from Mr. Buttigieg. “I don’t think we should be laughing at it,” he said. “In some ways it’s no more a shattering of norms than what’s already been done to get...

Britain has banned all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircrafts from flying in its airspace following the Ethiopian Airlines disaster om Sunday. The decision made by investigators comes after the fatal Ethiopian Airlines Boeing Max 8 crash shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa led to the deaths of 157 people onboard. The UK is now among Australia, Singapore, China, Indonesia and Malaysia who have banned the aircraft. A spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority said: 'As we do not currently have sufficient information from the flight data recorder we have, as a precautionary measure, issued instructions to stop any commercial passenger...

The Fox News Channel on Sunday condemned host Jeanine Pirro’s remarks on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) use of a hijab and said the issue has been dealt with directly. ... “I’ve seen a lot of comments about my opening statement from Saturday night’s show and I did not call Rep. Omar un-American. My intention was to ask a question and start a debate, but of course because one is Muslim does not mean you don’t support the Constitution,” Pirro said. “I invite Rep. Omar to come on my show any time to discuss all of the important issues facing America...

Terminator is a must-have tool for Linux administrators. It’s a terminal emulator that supports multiple terminals via tabs, but also by dividing up its window with horizontal and vertical splits. The user documentation is a bit sparse, in fact what you see in the man page is what you get. In this post I’ll take you through the features that I think make Terminator the best terminal emulator around.Split panes This is terminator’s killer feature. Having multiple terminals in one window allows you to have a lot of information on screen and quickly switch between different sessions. E.g. you could...

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Of all Belisarius’s victories, the defeat of the great Gothic host under King Vittiges which had besieged Rome from February of AD 537 through March of AD 538 must rank as his greatest feat. In this, he was able to defend successfully a gigantic city that had been considered indefensible against a siege while outnumbered at least 20 to 1 – and maybe more. March 12 is the date commonly given for the break-up of the siege, when the remnants of the great Gothic army pulled up stakes and retreated for Ravenna. For the previous few months, they had...

ISIS claim they are being subjected a 'holocaust' as the US-backed forces rain down shells on their last enclave in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces have accused the terrorists of using women and children as human shields at Baghouz. But a purported IS audio recording is calling for revenge across the globe as the last desperate fighters claim they are the victims of a 'holocaust.' The SDF have made painstaking efforts to evacuate thousands of women and children, but said no others had tried to flee as they resumed bombardments on Sunday.

[Catholic Caucus] Malta Priest Supports Homosexuality on TV News: World News Fr. Kevin Schembri, at the behest of Abp. Scicluna, tells talk show that God makes people gay VALLETTA, Malta (ChurchMilitant.com) - A priest in Malta has spoken out in approval of homosexuality, with apparent approval from his bishop. On an episode of Maltese talk show Xarabank that aired March 8, a Catholic priest trumpeted the idea that gays are born that way. On the Friday night talk show, Fr. Kevin Schembri said about being gay, "It cannot be something bad, because He created it. God created it, and He created it in His plan." Xarabank...

Joe Barnard has spent the last three years pioneering DIY landing technologies for amateur rockets and now the aerospace industry is paying attention. SHARETWEET by Daniel Oberhaus | Sep 21 2018, 8:00pm Image: Joe Barnard / BPS Space SHARETWEET To call Joe Barnard an “amateur” rocketeer is something of a misnomer. As the founder of Barnard Propulsion Systems (BPS), a small business making flight hardware for other amateur rocketeers, the 25-year-old Nashville resident is working on cracking propulsive landings for model rockets. This is the same principle that allows SpaceX to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rockets...

It is good to know that the Democrats are against hate. The next thing you know they’ll be against war, crime and broccoli. Faced with condemning freshman U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a Muslim Somali American, for her anti-Semitic remarks last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi caved under pressure from a group of freshmen members and went bland. Instead of punishing Omar, Pelosi rewarded her. She also emboldened her by removing her name from the stand alone, specific resolution condemning her for her hateful anti-Semitic remarks in a resolution so watered down to be rendered meaningless

The NHL says it is investigating the possible use of a homophobic slur during the Tampa Bay Lightning's 6-2 victory against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday night.

A federal court has ruled that a lawsuit challenging Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healeys 2016 “crackdown” on so-called “copycat assault weapons” can continue. (Screen snip, YouTube, Comcast Newsmakers) A U.S. District Court judge in Massachusetts has denied a request from anti-gun state Attorney General Maura Healey to delay a lawsuit challenging her efforts to stop sales of so-called “copycat assault weapons” in what amounts to a victory for the four firearms retailers involved in the lawsuit, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation. According to the Worcester Telegram, U.S. District Judge Timothy S. Hillman’s eight-page ruling rejected Healey’s contention that the...

Rep. Ilhan Omar said no comparison is possible between President Trump and former President Barack Obama — one of them is subhuman. The Minnesota Democrat said in an interview with Fox News in a congressional hallway that her criticisms of Mr. Obama last week for the “caging of kids” along the U.S.-Mexico border and the “droning of countries around the world” don’t mean he is like Mr. Trump. ....“One is human. The other is really not,” she said.

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