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India's Indigenous Aircraft Carrier Ready to Assist Russia-Made Vikramaditya by 2021 - Navy © AFP 2019 / Manjunath KIRAN 16:44 08.07.2019 New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s first domestically built aircraft carrier, the Vikrant, is expected to commence basin trials in 2020, Indian Navy’s Vice Admiral A.K. Saxena said on Monday. Currently, the Indian Navy is operating a single aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya - formerly known as the Admiral Gorshkov. Vice Admiral Saxena confirmed that construction of the carrier is underway, at a brisk pace, and delivery to the navy for induction with Eastern Naval Command is expected in 2021. “Construction is...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump The story by Axios that President Trump wanted to blow up large hurricanes with nuclear weapons prior to reaching shore is ridiculous. I never said this. Just more FAKE NEWS! 5:25 AM · Aug 26, 2019

<p>In the early hours of Wednesday, reports emerged in the Syrian media that the IDF had launched a number of missiles at a Syrian mountain close to the Israeli border.</p> <p>Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said on Wednesday that Israel conducted “electronic warfare” in a bid to suppress Syria’s military radar installations.</p>

Israel Makes Airstrikes at Lebanon-Syria Border - Reports © AP Photo / JACK GUEZ 03:49 26.08.2019 Three Israeli airstrikes targeted the Lebanese-Syria border area early on Sunday, local broadcaster reported. Israeli airstrikes have hit Lebanon's border with Syria east of the city of Zahle, Lebanese An-Nahar TV reported. There was no immediate statement from Israel on the matter. Yesterday, Syrian state television reported that the country's air defence intercepted several Israeli missiles over Damascus before they reached their targets. Israeli military later claimed that Israeli aircraft struck Iranian forces near Damascus to prevent a drone attack on Israel. Israel has...

A North Carolina homeowner was handcuffed and detained after his home security alarm called the police. According to WTVD, Kazeem was in his boxer shorts in the foyer of his house starring down the barrel of a Raleigh Police officer's gun. "This was one of the most humiliating experiences of my life," said Kazeem. Kazeem says a friend spent the night and tripped the alarm unknowingly.

Panic Grips UK Beaches as Toxic Sea Incident Leaves People Coughing and Struggling to Breathe Tee Cee 10:49 26.08.2019 Twelve days earlier a number of people on a UK beach in West Sussex suffered bouts of vomiting in the wake of a toxic plume sweeping the area, with a sunken warship investigated as a likely cause of the incident. Three UK beaches have been on alert over a mysterious “toxic sea” incident, The Independent has reported, with emergency services in Essex summoned to Frinton, Walton, and Clacton on Sunday. An investigation is currently underway after numerous incidents of beachgoers in...

A video posted online and viewed more than 36,000 times shows security guards forcibly removing a group of transgender women and gay men from a bar in downtown Los Angeles Friday.... The bar's spokesperson said that an escalated verbal altercation broke out among two groups of guests at Las Perlas. "Our manager on duty asked both groups to leave as the safety and security of our patrons and employees is our top priority and we have zero tolerance for this type of behavior in our establishments," the statement read. "The guards removed the guests that were not compliant with the...

U.S. MarinesUS Marines Will ‘Have Problem Getting Out' of Venezuela Alive if They Enter, Key Maduro Ally Warns 17:36 28.07.2019(updated 17:47 28.07.2019) On Saturday, Venezuela’s armed forces reported that US aircraft had violated the country’s airspace, continuing a trend seen since January, when opposition figure Juan Guaido proclaimed himself ‘interim president.’ Earlier, the Pentagon said that a US Navy ship would be moving “very close” to Venezuela in the coming days, sparking invasion fears. Venezuela is prepared to wage “absolute war” with the US if Washington makes a decision to attack it, Diosdado Cabello, president of the Constituent Assembly and...

Progressives’ ghoulish glee over the death of an old man turned into barely constrained panic when, later that day, it was revealed that their heroine Ruth Bader Ginsberg was just treated for pancreatic cancer yet again. Their disgraceful joy at David Koch’s passing was yet another reminder of the harsh truth that leftists want you dead or enslaved. Koch’s sin was that he disagreed with liberals (though, in important ways, also with conservatives). For that, these cretins danced around like idiots celebrating his succumbing. And they’ll celebrate when you die too. Always believe people who tell you they hate you...

Syrian government forces have made fresh military advances towards President Bashar al-Assad’s goal of reclaiming “every inch” of the country in an offensive that has intensified fears of a humanitarian disaster in the northern Idlib province. Opposition fighters withdrew last week from the key town of Khan Sheikhoun, another strategic concession to Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers, who have torn up a ceasefire deal protecting the rebels’ last major pocket of territory. As the country’s bloody civil war grinds into its ninth year, Assad is widely acknowledged to have emerged triumphant. ...Caught in the middle of the fighting,...

1Iran Deploys Naval Destroyer Armed With Cruise Missiles to Secure its Ships in Gulf of Aden - / Fars News Agency, Hamed Jafarnejad 11:05 26.08.2019(updated 11:38 26.08.2019) Get short URL2210 The reported move comes just a day after an Iranian Navy commander voiced readiness to escort the oil tanker Adrian Darya (formerly known as the Grace 1), which had been released by the authorities in Gibraltar earlier in August after more than a month-long detention despite US appeals to seize the vessel. According to Iran's English-language broadcaster Press TV, Iranian authorities have deployed a naval destroyer armed with long-range cruise...

The SNP government hopes a motion making the parliament's opposition to no deal in all circumstances could be agreed unanimously. ...The motion is expected to say: "That the Scottish Parliament agrees that the UK should in no circumstances leave the EU on a no deal basis". Scottish Brexit Secretary Mike Russell said the UK government appeared to be "actively pursuing" a "catastrophic no deal". "It is essential that the Scottish Parliament has the opportunity to have its say while there is still time to stop this disaster from happening," he said. ...Donald Cameron, a Scottish Conservative MSP, said they agreed...

Subtitle: July 20th. Since the delegates in Convention determined yesterday that State legislatures would appoint electors to the Executive office, the next logical question was, “how many?” Elbridge Gerry (MA) motioned a starting point, an initial number of electors per state for the first election and suggested, NH 1, MA 3, RI 1, CN 2, NY 2, NJ 2, PA 3, DE 1, MD 2, VA 3, NC 2, SC 2, GA 1. Notice the semi-federal nature of Gerry’s electoral vote allotment. Yes, more populous States had more electors, but their allotment nowhere near approximated the existing population ratio amongst...

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Jeffrey Epstein paid for his closest aide Ghislaine Maxwell pilot's license and then bought her a $4 million executive helicopter to ferry young girls to his private Island, DailyMail.com can reveal. The pedophile splashed out on the top of the range Sikorsky S-76C - nicknamed Air Ghislaine 2 - so she could transport a tranche of girls to Little St James in the US Virgin Islands. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7360597/Jeffrey-Epstein-paid-Ghislaine-Maxwell-pilots-license-ferry-girls.html

The top three Democratic candidates for president in 2020 are lengthening their leads over their 10 rivals in the Real Clear Politics polling average, but former vice president Joe Biden maintains his comfortable lead over Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. RCP has Biden about 13 points ahead of Sanders and Warren, and 21.4 points or better ahead of the rest of the pack, not one of whom is polling, on average, above eight percent. His lead in state polls is anywhere from under two points to more than 20. The message for his revivals remains this: Consistent polling shows...

Statewide and district offices Governor Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (R) Retired Supreme Court Justice Bill Waller Jr. (R) Here's a good comparison of their positions "On The Issues" Abortion Bill Waller: Pro-life; and healthcare is a right-to-life issue. Budget & Economy     Civil Rights     Corporations    Tate Reeves: Government shouldn't pick winners and losers. Bill Waller: Level playing field on taxes, to avoid special company deals.     Crime     Tate Reeves: Blue Lives Matter: public safety workers in protected class. Drugs Education     Tate Reeves: Public charter schools in failing districts. Bill Waller: Pay...

One of history’s greatest investors, Warren Buffet, turned a group of textile mills into a massive global powerhouse conglomerate with his ability to find sound companies in which to invest. Serious investors everywhere look to the Buffets throughout the history of share market investing for insights. Buffet’s partner at Berkshire Hathaway talks about the need for investors to become “learning machines.” Here is what he had to say about a key ingredient of Buffet’s success: If you watched Warren Buffett with a time clock, I would say half of all the time he spends is just sitting on his ass...

China signaled on Monday it was now seeking a "calm" end to its ongoing trade war with the U.S., as Asian markets crumbled and China's currency plummeted to an 11-year low following the latest tariffs on $550 billion in Chinese goods announced last Friday by the Trump administration. News of the possible opening in negotiations came shortly after President Trump threatened to declare a national emergency that would result in American businesses freezing their relationships with China. Trump's tariff barrage on Friday was a response to China imposing its own retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. goods. At the...

In the wake of recent terrorist attacks, liberal politicians preach taking guns away from everyone except people whom they control, like the police. Conservatives advocate putting guns into the hands of good guys. In the process, we are losing sight of our deadliest enemy: radical Muslims. Liberals tell us our most deadly enemy is the white male. Liberals have popular phrases to summarize this enemy, such as "white privilege" and "toxic masculinity." If they really hate white males so much, they should stop using the electric light bulb, made practical by Thomas Edison; nuclear power, whose theory was developed in...