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The recent exchange of fire over the Israeli-Lebanese border -- Palestinian groups in Lebanon firing three rockets, Israel responding with the tank fire and aircraft strikes, and Hezb’allah firing a salvo of about twenty of its own rockets -- caused a good deal of geopolitical analysis focused largely on the intentions of Hezb’allah, on the state of Lebanese economy and politics, and on the newly-sworn Iranian president. But there was also a sideshow: "Lebanese Druze intercept truck with rockets meant for Israel." This offers a fascinating window into a situation in Lebanon, and into the thinking of Hezb’allah, and of...

For decades now, it has been fashionable to condemn, discredit, or deconstruct anything generally understood to be Western. Most recently, this has been accomplished by associating racism with whatever aspect of Western civilization is under scrutiny. Classical music, literature, grammar, and even gardening have all been attacked for being tainted by the colonialist enterprise or for being suffused with white supremacy. I want to take a look at a seemingly trivial example of this phenomenon in order to consider what it reveals about our historical moment and its intellectual underpinnings. While this example of cultural demolition hails from Britain and...

The AP reported (emphasis added): Key elements of the first federal technology standards for voting equipment in 15 years should be scrapped because language that would have banned the devices from connecting to the internet was dropped after private meetings held with manufacturers, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. The lawsuit against the U.S. Election Assistance Commission [EAC], filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., claims those meetings should have been open and that changes to the draft standards should have been shared with the commission’s advisory and standards boards. The lawsuit seeks to have those changes set...

US President Joe Biden has ordered B-52 bombers and Spectre gunships to target Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan who are advancing towards three key cities. The Cold War-era strategic bomber first flew in the 1950s but is still used due to its 70,000lb payload and range of more than 8,000 miles. They are being supported by the AC-130 Spectre gunships which are armed with a 25mm Gatling gun, a 40mm Bofors cannon and a 105mm M102 cannon - which can provide pinpoint accurate fire from the air. The Taliban have been advancing across Afghanistan after the US-led coalition pulled out of...

I hope that I am wrong, but my guess is that Andrew Cuomo will ride out this latest threat. He may be damaged, but in the end, he will prevail. The fate of politicians caught in a scandal is nearly always in the hands of their own party. One reason that parties exist is to protect their members. In the eyes of most Democrats, Governor Cuomo’s value to the party is the only consideration. He has been one of their COVID superstars, and his daily press conferences were viewed as the anti-Trump response for the nation. His “leadership” was worth...

@BernieSpofforth Italians burning their proof of vaccination passes. They refuse to comply with the creation of a two tier society, one that doesn’t protect anyone, it simply discriminates. #NoVaccinePassports #COVID19 Clip...

“In a new interview for Palabras y Verdades, La Quinta Columna clarified the doubt about the percentage of graphene oxide in the vaccination vials. When they talked about it being present in 99% or almost 100%, they were referring specifically to what is obtained after analyzing the contents employing the spectroscopy technique. It is not that the whole vial is graphene, but that when the liquid is purified, the signals obtained from this filtrate show that it is 99.5% graphene.That said. Yesterday we learned that Argentine researchers have analyzed a vial of Moderna’s vaccine and also found graphene oxide in...

ransomnote: scroll down to read descriptive abstractKR20210028062A Physiological Saline Containing GrapheneGlobal DossierApplicantsKIM HAN SIK [KR] 김한식; KIM, HAN SIKInventorsKIM HAN SIK [KR]ClassificationsIPCA61K33/44; A61K9/00; A61P25/16; A61P25/28;CPCA61K33/44 (KR); A61K9/0019 (KR); A61P25/16 (KR); A61P25/28 (KR);PrioritiesKR20190109223A·2019-09-03; KR20200021959A·2020-02-24; KR20200024681A·2020-02-27; KR20200028666A·2020-03-06ApplicationKR20200045648A·2020-04-16PublicationKR20210028062A·2021-03-11Published as20210028062-Abst-en (epo.org)NoticeThis translation is machine-generated. It cannot be guaranteed that it is intelligible, accurate, complete, reliable or fit for specific purposes. Critical decisions, such as commercially relevant or financial decisions, should not be based on machine-translation output.ABSTRACT KR20210028062A[0001a]The present invention relates to an injection solution, physiological saline solution, glucose solution, and Ringer's solution placed in a blood vessel and subcutaneous tissue of the human body...

"How flimsy it is!" wrote Emile Zola in his public letter to French president Félix Faure. "The fact that someone could have been convicted on this charge is the ultimate iniquity. I defy decent men to read it without a stir of indignation in their hearts and a cry of revulsion, at the thought of the undeserved punishment being meted out." The year was 1898. The man convicted of espionage was Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army General Staff officer who was then rotting away on Devil's Island to which he had been sentenced for life. The evidence of Dreyfus's guilt...

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- July 2021 was the second-highest total July for National Instant background Check System (NICS) checks on record. The highest was in July of 2020. The number of checks done in July of 2021 was 2,860,476. The number in July of 2020 was 3,639,224.July 2021 was also the second-highest July for gun sales on record, with the highest having been last year, July of 2020, as well. The July 2021 gun sales were 1.84 million. The calculation of the number is approximate, consisting of handgun checks + Long guns checks + Other guns checks + 2.5 x multiple sales...

For the millions of us around the world who have looked forward to Daniel Silva’s books each summer for the last twenty-one years, this new one he's written, The Cellist, represents an ending, and a sad one at that. The writer that for all those years taught his readers about the art of art restoration interwoven with the storied career of his main character, Gabriel Allon, a member of Israel’s Mossad, has become so addled by his hatred of President Trump that this book reads like a tired screed from Media Matters, a group committed to destroying all things even...

@chiproytx Every Republican who supports this bill should be run out of town. No quarter. Stop telling me that “less bad” big government is a win for me. It is not. #ChooseFreedom @FreedomWorks This "infrastructure" bill is a liberal spending wish list. #ampFW

Recently, three major drug distributors and one drug maker reached a settlement proposal with attorneys general from a bipartisan coalition of states that would require the companies to pay approximately $26 billion to settle claims over their role in the nation’s opioid epidemic. Commentators have been quick to compare the recently unveiled terms to the 1990s tobacco lawsuit known as the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). They claim this is the “second-largest cash settlement ever, trailing only [the MSA].” Beyond the obvious of $26 billion being only 10.6 percent of what tobacco companies have paid out, the opioid lawsuit is nothing...

House Democrats have hired former GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman to serve as an adviser to the Jan. 6 select committee, the panel chair announced late Friday. Riggleman brings a background in intelligence and online extremism to the panel having served as a U.S. intelligence officer prior to his time in Congress. Riggleman sought a second term last cycle but lost the GOP primary despite receiving an endorsement from then-President Donald Trump. Since leaving office, Riggleman has become increasingly critical of the former president. Democrats believe Riggleman's background will aid their probe as they seek to examine the circumstances surrounding the...

Just when you thought she couldn’t possibly do anything dumber, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) wants to cancel Americans’ utility debt, and she totally redeemed herself. No, this is not a joke. This is America in 2021. Tlaib, a founding member of the so-called Squad, has introduced a bill that would literally eliminate Americans’ outstanding debt on water, electricity, internet, etc. According to Tlaib, “Utility shutoffs—from water to electricity to broadband internet—leave our most vulnerable communities without essential life-sustaining services and are especially unacceptable during a deadly pandemic.” She added, “Low-income Michigan families pay more than 30 percent of their household...

By the time you read this column, Alta Fixler may no longer be with us in this world. Alta is a 2-year-old who is severely disabled. Born premature, she showed no signs of life until doctors resuscitated her and put her on a ventilator. After spending her entire exitence on life support, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital has now decided that her time is up, at the objection of her parents. And the parents are running out of options. The Fixler family are Hasidic Jews with Israeli citizenship. They want to bring her to Israel, where doctors are willing to see...

Skip Transport Inc., one of the first electric scooter companies to operate in San Francisco, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to the San Francisco Business Times. The company was originally founded as Waybots Inc. before launching as Skip in 2018 with seed funding. In August 2018, Skip was one of only two scooter companies (the other was Scoot) allotted one-year permits to operate in San Francisco. But by the end of 2019, the company's scooters were no longer permitted to operate in the city, which may have something to do with several incidents of their scooters bursting into...

Caracas (AFP) - Working at her vegetable stall in Caracas, Marisela Lopez wonders what she's going to do with the sudden flood of cash customers have been unloading on her. Venezuela announced Thursday it would knock six zeroes off its currency -- the third time in 13 years it has redenominated the bolivar. Faith in physical bank notes is at an all-time low, and people want rid of them. "We also have to quickly get rid of the cash because if we keep collecting the cash, what next? What will we do with the banknotes?" said Lopez, 34. The new...

EW JERSEY -- New Jersey will require all students, educators, staff, and visitors to wear face masks inside of school buildings, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Friday. Murphy said the requirement applies to the start of the 2021-2022 school year, regardless of vaccination status. The executive order Murphy signed pertains to public, private, and parochial preschool, elementary, and secondary school buildings. Skip Ad While the COVID numbers in the Garden State are not as bad as many other states, cases there are five times higher than they were a month ago: about 1,000 new cases per day and climbing. The governor...

“One man with courage is a majority.” This is widely attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but some sources say he might not be the source. No matter, it’s a great quote and serves as a reminder that in doing the right thing, one might motivate others to join the cause. We might be at a tipping point. The corrupt, corporate, state-controlled media are having an increasingly difficult time hiding the installed administration’s failures on the “dinner-table” issues that affect every American: our discarded energy independence and the resulting rising gas prices (adding to ever-rising inflation), just about all things COVID and,...