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Country music in the 1970's great memories of good times listening to the country sounds on the radio and that's how I spent do much of my teenage years a unique experience for some of us back then. The "Dictatorship of Covid 19" continues with all the negative effects of a totally disrupted society that is nowhere near back to real normally. I am reminded of a movie I saw at a religious festival back in the 1980's made in 1981..... Democrats And Republicans Want Social Distancing And Masks, Others Never Supported Those Or Any Other Restrictions Related To The...

Economic conflict between the United States and China and Russia on full display today but first.... Protesters in Maryland's capital of Annapolis today urging a full reopening of the state..... Protesters are Pennsylvania's Capitol Building in Harrisburg today pushing for a reopening of the state.... German authorities afraid as mass protests are set in major cities like Berlin, Munich and Stuttgart Saturday in opposition to the government's coronavirus policy... The United States imposing tighter chip controls on the Chinese tech firm Huawei...... Its also been announced that Taiwan Semiconductor will be opening a factory in the United States.... A German...

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly condemns Orthodox Jewish bonfires that have drawn large crowds in Israel tonight..... The lines are being drawn here in Pennsylvania over a regulated re-opening of business in the state... Four south-central Pennsylvania counties with Republican majority commissioners (Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York) setting this Friday as the date for moving to a 'yellow' phase but Wolf warning of consequences including loss of state funding.... Interpol has issues a 'red notice' for the arrest of the wife of a US diplomat accused by British police in the killing of a motorcyclist in 2019..... An...

The coronavirus death rate in the US is just over 1.25 percent of cases but first.... North Korea firing two short range missiles Saturday morning local time.... Saying the fight against Islamic State has made progress and out of concern for the coronavirus pandemic the US-led coalition in Iraq is reducing its military presence... At least two dozen Afghan police and military killed with others missing following an attack by Taliban connected forces.... The troubled US aircraft maker Boeing is getting a bailout from the federal government.... Moving to distance herself from the situation is the former UN Ambassador and...

Breaking News: Syrian air defenses engaging targets early Monday morning in Hama province near Masayaf in northwestern Syria.... The Iranian Foreign Minister pointing at outside forces being behind the British seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar earlier this month that led to Iran's seizure of a British oil tanker Friday... "It's clear they're glorifying a violent assault on Tommy Robinson designed only to desensitize the public in case he's murdered in there. They don't want you to care" That's the message from Tommy Robinson's spokesman Avi Yemeni in response to Sunday tabloid reports..... The Battle of Brexit and...

The Yellow Vests protest continues for a 27th week where protest remains restricted at key locations like the presidential palace, the Champs-Elysees and the Notre Dame Cathedral..... 15,500 Yellow Vests estimated by the government today but the Yellow Vests "Yellow Number" is 40,497 with a higher number expected to be released Sunday. 1600 protesters marched through the streets of Paris. But in Reims and Nancy there were tense moments with an injured protester found lying on the ground in Reims....

By the numbers the government in France said 18,900 Yellow Vests protesters today while the Yellow Vests came in with 40,291 estimated at 155 locations. "The Yellow Number" on Facebook says its count comes from the "streets and roundabouts (traffic circles)" 1460 protesters estimated by the police in Paris today. The procession wrapping up at the Place de la Nation. The full "Sputnik" video from Paris...... In Lyon today protesters in Yellow Vests joined by a youth protest demanding action on "climate change". The video from Lyon shows some Yellow Vests but also includes police and protesters not wearing Yellow...

Both sides counted lower number of Yellow Vests for Week 21 of the protest. The police say that 4000 protested in Paris. The police calculated that in Paris today they checked over 14,900 people in connection with today's protest. On the ring road around Paris a brief blockade by protesters today then police arrive using tear gas and flash bang rounds with projectiles thrown back their way.....

"Today #MaduroRegime killed unarmed civilians of their own country to keep food & medicine from entering They they celebrated murder & burning of trucks carrying aid as a victory The world & those inside #Venezuela will reflect on what happened today & it will give rise to action" US Senator Marco Rubio On Twitter 2/23/2019 From the moment that Interim President Juan Guaido designated today, February 23rd, as the day for humanitarian aid to be brought into Venezuela it was obvious that this day was going to be a day of confrontation between the opposition forces and the Maduro government....

"Today with Alessandro Di Battista we made a leap in France and we met the leader of the Yellow Waistcoats Christophe Chalencon and the candidates of the list RIC....." Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and Five Star Movement Leader Luigi Di Maio Tweet 2/5/2019 The leadership of one of Italy's ruling parties was in Paris Tuesday meeting with Yellow Vests leadership and candidates running on a "Yellow Vests" list in this May's elections to the European Parliament.....

"I am 18 years old, a non-violent man. I hope you will recognize your fault" Louis Boyard Tweet Following His Injury By Police "Flash Bang-Flash Ball" Shot 2/2/2019 Directed At French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner Louis Boyard is the president of a high school union in France, the UNL. Today he was hit by flashbang shot and transported to a hospital during the Yellow Vests protests. Boyard says he was shot in the foot. The government claimed 10,500 protesters in Paris but a count done by an independent firm for BFM-TV put that number at 13,800. 33 arrests reported in...

"A catastrophic failure of leadership @Theresa May. If she has any sense of honor she will resign" That is the tweet of "Mr. Brexit" Nigel Farage in face of Prime Minister Theresa May's huge defeat in the House of Commons..... Al-Shabab Islamic terrorists based in Somalia say they are behind the attack on a luxury hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya that killed at least 24 people including one US citizen.... In the African nation of Zimbabwe opposition Pastor Evan Mwarire is under arrest following three days of protest against rising fuel prices..... The Russian Interfax News Agency quotes its sources...

Good Morning. The third attempt to form a new Swedish government since last September's General Election is underway this week..... The British Prime Minister Theresa May making her final pitch for her controversial Brexit plan considered a sellout to the European Union by those who campaigned for a total separation from the EU when Brexit was approved in the June 2016 referendum..... The leading political party in the polls in France right now, the National Rally led by Marine Le Pen, held a national convention over the weekend to roll out its list of candidates for the European Parliament elections...

(COMMENT AND ANALYSIS) "I think there's now a genuine danger that we may end up having a second referendum on the EU. Huge forces are working on this, and will try to get their way in the weeks to come. Prepare for an ambush" Peter Hitchens-"Mail On Sunday" Column 1/12/2019 "I think what they're going to do to us is they're going to extend Article 50. I think in time they will be able to force a second referendum upon us. I'm not certain of that, but they may. And we have two. I have two, you have two choices....

"Very sad day & night in Paris. Maybe its time to end the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris Agreement and return money back to the people in the form of lower taxes?.." President Trump on "Twitter" 12/8/2018 "Yellow vest protests show that Europe has failed on democracy, human rights and freedom" Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks today 12/8/2018 The "yellow vests" protest today has drawn strong reactions from the President of the United States all the way to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan denounced "chaos" caused by protests and "disproportionate force" used on protesters and took the opportunity...

The liberal media trashed Cliven Bundy back in 2014 for using a word that Dr. Martin Luther King used profusely until his murder: "Negro" And the "conservative media" ala Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin also headed for the exits over the matter. But this week the liberal media decided to "come to Jesus" and give Cliven, Ammon and Ryan Bundy some attention for their views on immigration because it appeared to help their anti-Trump cause. But as pointed out in a previous post Ammon Bundy's call for a "process" to be followed to allow some of the migrants...

The third attempt to form a government in Sweden since September's General Election failed by a 195-154 vote. The leader of the Moderate Party, leading party of the "Right" bloc, Ulf Kristersson proposed a government led by the Moderates and the Christian Democrats. In the end only the Sweden Democrats joined those two parties in support of his government with the "Left" bloc against and the two other "Right" bloc parties, the Center and Liberal parties, voting against the government. Now back to square one with perhaps the Social Democrats or the Center Party getting a shot a trying to...

President Trump rallying massive crowds in Macon, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee ahead of the mid-term elections. The Republicans are planning a final rally tonight in Cape Girardeau, Missouri with talk show host Rush Limbaugh coming back to his hometown.... A very interesting political development in the UK over the weekend with Friday's revelation by London' top cop of a criminal investigation involving members of the Labor Party.... In Germany politicians in the government parties, the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, are calling for the government's domestic intelligence agency to monitor the anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany.... In Japan the party...

"a plot gone awry" President Trump's latest comment on Khashoggi's murder to "USA Today" US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin was in Saudi Arabia Monday meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. A spokesman for the Treasury Department said economic and counter terrorism issues were discussed as well as Iran, but that the Khashoggi murder was also discussed. The fact that Mnuchin traveled to Saudi Arabia was fascinating after he had pulled out of an investment conference starting there today. Mnuchin is in on the Trump Administration's priority of aligning key nations like Israel and Saudi Arabia against Iran in the...

The Saudi government came out with its version of what happened to Jamal Khashoggi overnight. The Saudi government media reports that a fight took place inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2nd..... A man who is called a "Muslim hate preacher" and a supporter of ISIS, Anjem Choudry, has been released from prison in the UK halfway through his sentence.... In London at within the last hour (7AM Eastern US) Leicester Square was the scene of a rally by the "#IAmSoliderX" Movement..... The Justice Department is accusing a woman from St. Petersburg, Russia of interfering in the 2018...