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Shakuntala Gaikwad, tested positive for Covid-19 a few days ago. She was isolated at home but her condition deteriorated due to old age, following which the family decided to move her to a hospital in Baramati. On May 10, the elderly woman was taken to Baramati in a private vehicle. The family tried to secure a hospital bed for her in Baramati but were unable to. As they waited in the car, the woman fell unconscious and stopped moving. The family assumed that the woman had died. They also informed their relatives about the last rites. The family took her...

AFRICA could become a massive battlefield in a war between China and the United States as the President Xi Jinping stakes claim to the continent, experts warned. The Communist Party is quietly expanding into the eastern part of Africa as it sets up military bases and expands its influence through infrastructure projects across in at least 11 nations. Experts told The Sun Online that Africa could be the theatre of a potential land war between the US and China as fears of conflict continue to simmer between two of the world's largest military powers. Both sides have military bases just...

HUMAN SHIELDS: Arab-Islamic Terrorists' Use of Its Own Civilians

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (A bigger uptick in first shots today - second day in a row - May be a noteworthy change) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 344,503,395 (20,195,100 J&J) Administered: 273,545,207 (9,654,031 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 157,485,596 Fully Vaccinated: 123,282,685

The grassroots effort to punish Gov. Brian Kemp largely fizzled at key Republican meetings across the state this weekend even as record crowds of activists continued a relentless focus on former President Donald Trump’s lies about Georgia’s election results. Fury over Trump’s narrow defeat combined with anger at President Joe Biden’s administration helped bring a surge of new faces to the weekend meetings, held in 13 of Georgia’s 14 congressional districts. Many speakers repeated Trump’s false claims of widespread election fraud in Georgia, which have been repeatedly debunked. ***At least a half-dozen districts passed resolutions condemning Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan...

More than 2,000 soldiers parachuting from 20 aircrafts landed in darkness just miles from Vladimir Putin's borders in Estonia, Romania and Bulgaria during a secret part of the sensitive war games, called Swift Response. Russian forces had tracked the planes - which included six US C-17s carrying 200 British Paras - with interception units on the Baltic border. They then mounted a mass jamming operation aimed at forcing commanders to abandon the exercise. But the effort failed when the US deployed three special C-130 Hercules "air interdiction" aircraft , codenamed "Ghostrider" and packed with directional infrared countermeasures and a team...

Hi All, In an argument in a telegram thread and I am being slammed by people saying Trumps economy was worse than all other President's since Hoover and then they linked a Forbes link...anyone have any info I can present?

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th May, 2021) Former US President Ronald Reagan's adviser on Russia, Suzanne Massie, has traveled to Moscow to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin for a Russian passport. The 90-year-old is considered one of the most significant figures in the late Cold War period of US-Soviet relations. "I devoted many years of my life to bringing the peoples of the United States and Russia closer to one another. It is utterly important and necessary for me today to stay in Russia in order to continue my cause. If President Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] finds it possible...

Perhaps it was the way he carried himself in an unassuming and humble manner, but day after day hundreds of Air Force Academy cadets would pass this janitor in the hall oblivious to the greatness that was among them. In the mid-1970s, William Crawford might spend one day sweeping the halls and another cleaning the bathrooms, but it was a day approximately 30 years prior that would create for him a special place in the history of war. In 1943 in Italy, the only thing Private William Crawford was cleaning out was German machine gun nest and bunkers. Under heavy...

A West Alabama man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to shooting and killing a man. Hernan Diaz Diego of Mexico City, Mexico was shot and killed in April of 2019. His body was left in the middle of a Pickens County Road. Authorities say Zocimo Hernandez and Diego knew each other and got into an argument. “This was purportedly Diego believing that Hernandez had placed a voodoo curse on him,” said 24th Judicial Circuit District Attorney Andy Hamlin.

Police said a 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl, whose names weren’t immediately released, were found dead in the apartment. The two bodies were under a blanket and boxes and “there were significant injuries to their bodies including numerous lacerations, incised wounds and some amputations, consistent with a violent attack and defensive wounds,” said Sgt. Steven Carbajal, a Tempe police spokesman. A meat cleaver with a 6-inch (15-centimeter) blade was found inside a bag with blood-stained clothing in her vehicle, according to Carbajal. “There were several pieces of information/evidence that led detectives to believe that the cleaver was the weapon...

A woman has been charged with abusing her neighbour during a confrontation over a pungent smell that was emanating from her house. Jamila Abdi was accused of abusing Zamu Mohammed Ramadhan in public On December 2 at Makina area in Kibera Sub-County Among other unprintable words, Jamila (accused) is said to have abused the complainant that she was a walking corpse awaited by other dead bodies and that she was a pig and a dog who had been introduced into prostitution. Subscribe to our newsletter and stay updated on the latest developments and special offers! This was after the complainant...

"Whittle's jet engine design was a paradigm shift from the piston engines that were used in aeroplanes until that point," he said. "To understand a jet engine required a different understanding of aerodynamics and thermodynamics. A lot of very distinguished British engineers could not get their heads around that. As Whittle and his young family stood outside their Warwickshire home to witness the November 1940 bombing raid on Coventry, he was in despair. "He was born and bred Coventry," said Ian. "It was awful for my father. On 15 May 1941, Whittle and a party of interested engineers and RAF...

CHINA has issued its deadliest warning yet as Beijing warned that the US will be "defeated" if the two superpowers go to war amid a tense stand-off over the South China Sea and Taiwan. China has pledged to rapidly defeat the US in a military conflict in one of the country's most explicit warnings yet. China's Global Times, which is seen as a Government news outlet, published an editorial revealing the threat in response to joint military drills carried out by the US. The US joined drills with Japan, Australia and France this week in an intended show of force...

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Report: Time magazine gave journalist $20,000 per month to host progressivist parties during Vatican IIThe U.S. secular TIME magazine hosted luxurious gatherings throughout the 1962-1965 Vatican II sessions with numerous influencers in order to push the Council in a more progressivist direction, according to this report.May 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Robert Moynihan, a veteran journalist and Vatican expert, has published an article (Moynihan Letter #26) in which he relates what a Time magazine journalist revealed to him in 2004. The now-deceased Robert Blair Kaiser told Moynihan that he was sent by Time’s Clare Booth and Henry Luce to the...

Back-to-back tornadoes killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured, authorities said Saturday. Eight people died in the inland city of Wuhan on Friday night and four others in the town of Shengze, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east in Jiangsu province, local governments said. The first tornado struck Shengze about 7 p.m., damaging homes and factories and knocking out power, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The Suzhou city government, which oversees the town, said in a social media post that four people had died and 149 others had minor injuries. Shengze...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending the continued use of masks and social distancing in schools after issuing new guidance last week that stated vaccinated people do not need to wear masks. On Saturday, the CDC released an Operational Strategy for K-12 schools in which it pointed to data that suggest schools that abide by mask mandates and social-distancing requirements have been able to safely remain open. In the post clarifying mask guidance for schools, the CDC argued that schools need to make efforts to remain open as a way to combat "systemic health and social...

Did the Associated Press, the venerable American agency that is one of the world’s biggest news providers, collaborate with the Nazis during World War II? A report and new counter-report on this subject offer a few striking lessons—not just for students of history but for anyone concerned with the way news coverage shapes our perception right now.A paper last year by the German historian Harriet Scharnberg titled “The A and P of Propaganda” and published in Studies in Contemporary History makes the case that beginning in the mid-1930s, the AP’s photo office in Germany made compromise after compromise to keep...