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Travis Air Force Base and surrounding land in Solano County, Calif. Image: Google Maps Since 2017, a shadowy Silicon Valley company has bought up 52,000 acres of farmland around Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, Calif., totaling about $800 million.Flannery Associates is a company run by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former Goldman Sachs trader. Beyond that, nothing much is known of the company except that some of the most famous names in Silicon Valley have invested in a project being promoted by Flannery. Some backers include Marc Andreessen, Powell Jobs, Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, LinkedIn co-founder Reid...

It would appear that Zelensky has lost favour with the west and is on the way out. His government is falling to pieces, numerous high-profile resignations are now frequent. It all started with the death of his internal affairs minister when the chopper carrying him with 9 others (presumed NATO) was shot down presumably by his own. The EU looks to be scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to ammunitions, all of the old stores have been bled dry. Apparently, the EU/Germany will not be handing over planes at this time. The German chancellor was recently reminded...

Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv is now fully “encircled” by Russian troops — leaving no way out for millions of citizens facing “a humanitarian catastrophe,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Sunday. The former heavyweight boxing champ told The Associated Press that it was now impossible to evacuate the city “because all ways are blocked.”

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) liberated the village of Baghous on the shore of the Euphrates River. SDF fighters advancing in rural Deir ez-Zor in the Operation Jazeera Storm have encircled all the ISIS-occupied areas east of the Euphrates. The fighters have liberated the village of Baghous on the shore of the Euphrates River Sunday afternoon. In addition to its strategic importance, the village is located on the highway linking to Hajin town, the last settlement held by ISIS at Syrian-Iraqi border. The final phase of the Operation Jazeera Storm was launched by SDF on May 1st to liberate the remaining...

Bethlehem to be encircled in steel as 'security fence' snakes its way around holy city By Justin Huggler in Bethlehem 20 December 2003 "We're not celebrating Christmas this year," says Yaqub Kasis, a member of Bethlehem's dwindling community of Palestinian Christians. It should be a time of celebration for the city where Christ was born. Unlike last year, this Christmas there are no Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem's streets and the tanks have gone. "This Christmas is quieter than before," Mr Kasis says. "But it's worse. It's worse because of the wall." Israel's "security fence" has arrived in Bethlehem. It snakes...

BAGHDAD AIRPORT, Iraq, April 6 (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces are "just about there" in a bid to control all roads to Baghdad, a U.S. commander said on Sunday. U.S. military maps seen by Reuters showed that the sole main road still to be secured on the 18th day of the war was Highway 2, leading north to the oil city of Kirkuk. "We're just about there," Colonel Will Grimsley, commander of the 1st Brigade of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, told Reuters correspondent Luke Baker when asked if U.S. forces controlled all access to the capital. "Look at it from...