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By treating Black Lives Matters protests differently than other large gatherings, public officials and health experts have exposed themselves as hypocrites. We’re told a second wave of coronavirus infections is coming. As businesses open back up and states relax lockdown orders, the number of new cases is ticking up in a handful of states. We’ve heard warnings in recent days from the Centers for Disease Control and various public health experts and elected officials that a new series of lockdowns might be necessary.What these experts and officials don’t seem to realize is that Americans will never comply with their lockdown...

A recent Foreign Affairs essay predictably gives the public a false binary choice, blames the current administration, and defends the foreign policy establishment. Who do you think is responsible for the current coronavirus foreign influences fiasco? If you ask the Washington foreign policy establishment, the answer is evident. It is President Trump’s disdain for “the foreign policy establishment” that has led to this current crisis.This is their same answer for every problem humanity has faced since 2016. If only we listened to the establishment! If only they learned their lesson in 2016. Apparently not, if you go by the Foreign...

CNN anchor Jake Tapper has now deleted a tweet where he advised his followers to seek expertise on Syria from a 7-year-old living in Turkey https://t.co/koWk7YG0FK

Iran 'is seeking N Korea's nuclear expertise' By Con Coughlin Last Updated: 2:20am BST 17/04/2007 Iran and North Korea have appointed high-level delegations to deepen co-operation between the two countries on nuclear weapons technology, according to diplomatic sources in Beijing. The countries are keen to seal a deal before North Korea starts to close its controversial Yongbyon reactor under the terms of an agreement with the United States and regional powers in February. N. Korea's Yongbyon reactor The Feb 13 accord was negotiated after North Korea conducted a successful test of a nuclear warhead at the end of last year....

FAIRCHILD AFB, Wa., Nov. 16, 2005 — Explosive ordnance disposal personnel worked hand-in-hand with multiple federal agencies at the Grand Coulee Dam, Oct. 4 - 6, for an exercise titled "Watchful Sentinel." "The focus of the exercise was to evaluate Special Response Forces standard operation procedures, along with coordination between the Special Response Forces and supporting agencies, via a series of realistic events," said U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Burleigh, explosive ordnance disposal craftsman, 92nd Civil Engineering Squadron. "Some of the calls we respond to involve ordnance left behind in a deceased veteran's war chest. Other times, we may...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2005 – A new Army National Guard program is helping attract young people with native language skills and cultural expertise into the military to support the global war on terror. The new program focuses on recruiting native speakers in 20 languages and dialects, most spoken in the Middle East, into the Army's 09L "translator aid" career field, Army Capt. Bill Greer, national program manager, said during an interview today with the Pentagon Channel and American Forces Press Service. The active Army began seeking out native Middle Eastern recruits two years ago to help support the war on...

WASHINGTON, July 21, 2005 – The European Union lifting its arms embargo against China would bring "serious and numerous" consequences, according to a Defense Department report released this week. The European Union has embargoed arms sales to China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. In the past year China has run an intense lobbying effort to have the ban lifted, a move strongly opposed by U.S. officials. "We think the Chinese would be able to obtain in Europe a lot of military or dual-use technologies that would be of great qualitative benefit to them," a senior DoD official said July...

Why qualifies Ron Reagan (not a junior) to jabber about politics on pMSNBC ? Because he is the "biological" son of his father? I was born in a hospital - but that doesn't make me a doctor!

Every time the writer sees, hears or reads about another American becoming a casualty in Iraq, he cannot help but see the faces of the Democrat Candidates and their cohorts rising in the plumes of smoke that invariably accompany a roadside ambush. Those candidates knew, or being smarter than the rest of us, should have known that the remains of Hussien’s defunct regime and “foreign fighters” were encouraged by their rhetoric. Of course they did, and they didn’t care! Remember, and never forget, the left, American or otherwise, and the Bathists who are latter day Marxists, have the same political...

The public is now assaulted by news and pretend-news from many directions, thanks to the now infamous "information superhighway." But the ability to transmit words, we learned during the Citizens Band radio fad of the 70’s, does not mean that any knowledge is being passed along. One of the verdicts rendered by election night 2004 is that, given their lack of expertise, standards and, yes, humility, the chances of the bloggers replacing mainstream journalism are about as good as the parasite replacing the dog it fastens on.

Saddam's Nuclear Quest: 1980 - 1991 Jonathan Rhodes September 22,2002Saddam Hussein built an extensive procurement network to develop nuclear weapons in the 1980's. Having confirmed Iraq's intention of producing plutonium based nuclear weapons material at the French built Osiraq reactor, Israel preemptively destroyed the reactor on June 7, 1981, before the first nuclear fuel was loaded and the reactor went "hot." Saddam then changed course away from plutonium and towards enriched uranium.Project 182 originated in 1984/85 after France decided against rebuilding the Osirak reactor. The Project 182 reactor was intended to be a natural uranium - heavy water type....

<p>The Democrats and the New York Times are making hay with a recently released Energy Department document that reveals Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham met with top executives of energy-producing companies while preparing an energy report released last spring.</p> <p>In what is written as a "news" story on Page One, as distinguished from an op-ed piece on the editorial page, New York Times reporters relate that Mr. Abraham met with "energy industry executives, trade association leaders and lobbyists" but "did not meet with any representatives of environmental organizations or consumer groups." They add: "Many of the executives were leaders of corporations that were among the most generous financial supporters of President Bush's presidential campaign and the Republican Party."</p>

Israelis with military or security experience seem to have the inside track with U.S. corporations and government agencies looking for anti-terrorism expertise. Boston's Logan Airport - which came under heavy criticism because it was the departure point for the jetliners that brought down the World Trade Center - hired a former security director for Israel's El Al Airlines in October. In New Jersey, where authorities were faulted for poor intelligence operations after it was learned that several suspected terrorists lived and worked in the state, Gov. James E. McGreevey recently appointed an Israeli as his special counsel on homeland security....