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The first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people's immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday. The shots are poised to begin key final testing. "No matter how you slice this, this is good news," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's top infectious disease expert, told The Associated Press. (Excerpt, please click on link for full story, and a five minute video)

Moscow: Russia's fifth-generation fighter plane will be ready in 2007, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force Vladimir Mikhailov said Tuesday. "Work to build the fifth-generation plane is going according to schedule," he said. Mikhailov said, however, that the project had encountered some financial problems after civilian aircraft were produced using the money allocated in the budget for the fighter planes. "Clearly, the development of aviation technology will depend on specific military and economic conditions, determining the progress of reform in the Russian armed forces and the country's aircraft construction industry. However, Russia will continue to be a leading aircraft-building power,"...

Have any of you read about JR Nyquist's theories on the real axis of evil (Russia/China/Iran/North Korea)? The theory goes the Soviet defectory Anatolyi Golytsin claimed in 1961 that there was a long-range strategy to form alliances against the west deceive the west into disarming vis-a-vie fall of the Berlin wall, etc. I was curious to see what you folks think of this. If you look at todays headlines Nyquist's theory seems to make sense. It does, at least to me, look plausible that a long-range deception is at work. The terrorism we have seen since 9/11 could be a...