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"This is truly pure evil. Pfizer was given the go-ahead this week from the CDC to give the experimental COVID vaccine to children. Children have a greater chance of drowning, dying in a car wreck or dying from the flu than from the coronavirus. Children are not forced to take the flu vaccine. More children in Chicago have been shot this year than died from the coronavirus across the country. But Pfizer sees a new market potential of one billion humans for their experimental product. And they’re going for it. Pfizer released this disturbing ad telling children they’ll get superpowers...

Twitter video US President Donald Trump on Wednesday released a new video message in which he praised the antibody cocktail made by the biotech company Regeneron which he received while in the hospital after testing positive for COVID-19. “They gave me Regeneron and it was, like, unbelievable. I felt good immediately. I felt as good three days ago as I do now,” said Trump, who added that he is trying make Regeneron and similar drugs available to everyone. “These are things that nobody even thought of a few months ago. I view these, I know they call them therapeutic, but...

Could This Be the End of Global Superpowers? Recent events indicate that we will likely soon be living in a superpower-free world. The old bipolar order, in which the United States and Soviet Union competed to promote their ideologies, uphold their allies, and subvert their enemies across the globe, is long gone. For the last two decades, the United States acted as the sole global superpower, with Russia and China as possible rivals. But neither of them is really up to that challenge, and in recent years even the United States’ influence is fading. Russia, China, and the United States...

Pat Buchanan regularly serves as Morning Joe's lone conservative in the show's self-described 10:1 ratio of lib to conservative guests. But Buchanan this morning demonstrated that he is anything but a Republican partisan. Sounding more like Barney Frank after a bad night's sleep, Buchanan blasted President George W. Bush, claiming 43 "broke the Republican party and frankly he broke the United States as a superpower." View the video here.

I was sitting thinking about superpowers and what I would do with them. I was recently asked if I could have any three superpowers, which ones would I choose and what would I do with them. I was interested if anybody else ever was asked this type of question and how they would respond. For the record, I would choose the ability to fly, unlimited strenght, and invincibility. There are lots of different superpowers, but if you had to choose 3, which ones would you choose and why?

Each year spent in the Kremlin makes the Motherland's President stronger, endowing him with more superpowers unbeknownst to man. Putin can find out your home address just by looking at your comment on any website.

Summary: Controversies over the war in Iraq and U.S. unilateralism have overshadowed a more pragmatic and multilateral component of the Bush administration's grand strategy: its attempt to reconfigure U.S. foreign policy and international institutions in order to account for shifts in the global distribution of power and the emergence of states such as China and India. This unheralded move is well intentioned and well advised, and Washington should redouble its efforts.

The foreign ministers of India, Russia and China were meeting Wednesday in the Indian capital in a bid to strengthen relations and to explore cooperation on issues such as counterterrorism and energy security, Indian officials said. The meeting between India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and their Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing is part of efforts by the three countries to forge a trilateral forum to work more closely on regional security issues, the officials said. "This will be the second stand-alone meeting of its kind," said Navtej Sarna, external affairs ministry spokesman. The foreign ministers...

The history of the United States is the history of confrontation, even conflict, with the other great powers of the earth. At the dawn of the 19th century, the young Republic found itself confronted with the two great powers of that world, Britain and France. We fought them both. Everyone knows about the War of 1812, but perhaps we’ve forgotten the quasi-war with France from 1798 to 1800; during those years the U.S. Navy seized some 80 French vessels. By the beginning of the 20th century, America had made its peace with Britain and France—although many in London, as late...

World Powers in 2030? a shift in the balance of power continues Those who grew up during the Cold War may have trouble keeping up with shifts among major world powers. Some still think that Russia will reemerge as a superpower, even though it is not even one the world's top 15 economic powers. One may dismiss Japan as a major military power, not realizing that it is the world's second largest economic power whose military spending exceeds that of China. The respected Economist magazine recently published: "World in Figures, 2004." Data has been extracted from this book to provide...

Two big anniversaries this year mark turning points in Australia's strategic history. Two hundred years ago, Nelson destroyed Napoleon's navy at Trafalgar. For nearly a century afterwards, Britain's naval supremacy made Australians secure from the European rivals that seemed, back then, our only potential threats. Then in 1905, 100 years ago, in the straits of Tsushima, the Russian fleet was destroyed by Japan's new navy. It was the first time an Asian power had defeated Europeans at sea. Australia was shocked. We might in future face threats from Asia. Britain, now challenged by Germany, might not be there to help....

Ready to take your fandom to the next level? MTV has opened applications for a new reality show, the premise of which will involve a group of fans who have designed their own super hero characters. Here’s the rub though – the finalists will live together in a house as their hero, and compete against celebrity villains for the grand prize – having their character published in a comic book. According to the production company, a “Legendary Comic Book Creator” As the production company is being mum about further details, it’s unclear if this show is the previously announced teaming...

Putin's nuclear show blows up in his face By Julius Strauss in Moscow (Filed: 18/02/2004) Russia's biggest military exercise since the collapse of communism flopped yesterday, ruining an attempt to project Vladimir Putin as a global leader and reaffirm the country's status as a nuclear superpower. With Mr Putin and a host of military officials watching from the nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk, two intercontinental ballistic missiles went wrong during a firing from a submarine believed to be the Novomoskovsk. They were aimed at Kamchatka on the Pacific coast. A malfunctioning satellite was blamed. Putin promised that Russia will again be a...

Later in the year, a new reality show, "Who Wants to Be a Superhero?" will be airing on the WB network. Non-super-powered regular folks who have notions about being a superhero will appear in costumes before a panel of celebrity judges who have played onscreen superheroes. (Can anyone say "Adam West?") The semi-finalists will get a "superhero makeover" and competent in various stunts that mimic comic book feats. The winner will have his or her idea developed by the creative team of Stan Lee, the father of modern super-heroes, possibly culminating in an actual comic book. I haven't thought about...