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The entire British cabinet of the Conservative Party government meets the Prime Minister's country home Checkers Friday to find a common approach to Brexit negotiations with the European Union. British Prime Minister Theresa May flew to Berlin Thursday to get the blessing of German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her 'third way' plan to handle goods at customs in the UK after Brexit is supposed to occur in March of next year. The Brexit Minister in her cabinet has written a letter saying the customs plan is unworkable and Brexit supporters see it as a betrayal of the voters who approved...

Punctuated by a massive ground barrage and numerous air strikes late Wednesday (July 4th) the Assad regime forces of the Syrian Arab Army and supporting militias relaunched their offensive in the Deraa region. Today (July 5th) pro-government sources say the town of Saida was taken back from opposition forces enabling the government troops to move southwards towards the Jordanian border including the Nassib crossing on the M5 highway. But intense fighting continues to the northwest of Deraa city at Tafas, where an ISIS affiliated force is resisting the government offensive. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that there must...

There were plenty of organized fireworks displays at designated locations tonight but many more unofficial ones everywhere...... British anti-terrorism police are investigating a new incident which resembles the one that caused a row with Russia earlier this year. They say that two people have been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok....... The Syrian government opened up a barrage of missiles and rockets and shells tonight across the Southern Deraa countryside, a reboot of the offensive against jihadist opposition forces that rejected Russian mediation efforts. Fierce fighting with numerous casualties is being reported in social media..... There was a heated debate...

At the end of March, 1776, following the year-long Siege of Boston, General George Washington and the Continental Army drove the British out of Boston, following their stunning victory in the Battle of Dorchester Heights, one of the true masterstrokes of the War of Independence. But the British just went to Halifax to regroup, and to gather reinforcements for a real assault, to follow that summer. In June, the expected redeployment of British troops began, as his forces headed south, bound for New York, to meet with other reinforcements he had called for. General Washington knew what was coming. In...

On July 4, we remember the founding or our nation, we must also remember that our freedom is not free, and thank those that sacrificed so much, on our behalf. The poem below, recalls the sacrifice of 2 Navy Seals in Benghazi, deliberately and willfully abandoned by Obama/Hillary.. We remember them with honor & memorialize their memories, along with multitudes of other brave American heroes. May they R.I.P. Wendy Gilmore-Pollak A SHORT POEM YOU WON'T FORGET ! "A bump in the road" .... remember that callous statement ? I do recall President Obama / Hillary Clinton referring to the Benghazi...

Op-Ed: Independence Day is not an act of Congress By William Haupt III | Watchdog.org 23 hrs ago “You’ll never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve ‘your’ freedom.” – John Adams If you’ve paid attention to the U.S. calendar of official holidays, then you’ve noticed some holidays are fixed like Christmas, which is always Dec 25. You are also aware others are flexible as to which date they fall upon. Memorial Day falls on the last Monday in May and Labor Day falls on the first Monday in September. And it’s no coincidence Washington’s birthday and...

(LATE NEWS: US SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM-REPUBLICAN-SOUTH CAROLINA MADE A SURPRISE VISIT TO NORTHERN SYRIA MONDAY TELLING LOCAL JIHADIST-OPPOSITION LEADERS HE WILL URGE PRESIDENT TRUMP TO CONTINUE US MILITARY PRESENCE IN SYRIA) Link to:..... "Al Jazeera reported that there were explosions in a weapons warehouse belonging to the Syrian Army in #Daraa" Paul Antonopoulos Pro-Syrian Government Twitter 7/3/2018 "Syrian opposition sources report big explosions on Tuesday at ammunition depots serving Iranian militias fighting for the Assad regime in a region held by Syrian government forces near the Deraa-Damascus highway." Israeli "DEBKAfile" report 7/3/2018 The propaganda war is certainly on in Syria...

Opposition forces in the town of Bosra al-Sham, southeast of Deraa city, laid down their arms over the weekend and Russian military moved in as part of a 'reconciliation' agreement. The Syrian government media says that at least 10 other villages, mostly southeast of Deraa city, were close to signing agreements with the government with jihadist opposition forces set to lay down their arms. The number of refugees said to have been displaced by the Syrian government offensive continues to increase. A UN official (Mohammed Hawari) in Jordan says there are now 270-thousand refugees, last week the number was said...

"Israel by this statement marks out a security zone based on the 1974 disengagement lines for accomodating the tens of thousands of Syrian refugees massing on its borders as well as rebel forces retreating from Quneitra. This zone covers 235 sq km. between southern Golan and Mt. Hermon...." "DEBKAfile" June 1, 2018 Israel cancelled a security cabinet meeting planned tonight to discuss 'preparations for war' but increased the strength of its forces on the Golan Heights border with Syria. (One reason for cancellation may have been a meeting between Israel's Defense Avigdor Lieberman and the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu...

Newcastle United’s latest signing Ki Sung-yueng may be one of the better known faces in his native South Korea – but that doesn’t make him immune from completing his national service for his country. Back in the summer of 2016, the 29-year-old had to ditch his luxury items and complete his mandatory military service which every male between the ages of 18-30 must do - and usually for 18 months. This is due to the volatile relations between South Korea and North Korea - although in April 2018, both countries signed the Panmunjom Declaration with the hope of ending the...

There were demonstrations across the United States Saturday in opposition to immigration policies separating families in detention..... President Trump, who has issued an executive order to suspend family detention separations, responded on Twitter saying.... In Portland, Oregon police revoked a permit for a 150 member Patriot Prayer group march when it came under attack by an Antifa group twice its size, declaring a riot...… Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has closed his country's ports to boats carrying migrants that are run by Non Governmental Organizations..... Mexican voters go to the polls in hours to elect candidates for 18,000 offices led...

The recent Trump-Kim summit was an “invaluable opportunity” to show that Singapore is on the right track in building the capabilities of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) to respond to present-day security needs, said Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen. Amid the prevailing and multi-faceted threats of terrorism, the different security agencies performed credibly in ensuring the success of the meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on 12 June, said Dr Ng, who was speaking to reporters on Friday (29 June) ahead of SAF Day on Sunday. Calling the summit a rare opportunity in...

Air strikes and ground attacks continued on Saturday in Deraa region with Syrian army forces making gains to the east and the southeast of Deraa city and also northwest of the city. The advances on the east side of Deraa bring Syrian army units to within ten miles or less of the Jordanian border. The Syrian 4th Armored Division is pressing an attack into the city of Deraa itself backed by Russian air strikes. Link to:...…… While there's talk of a reconciliation agreement between the United States backed Free Syrian Army with the Assad regime, the Saudi and Qatari backed...

LANSING, Mich (WLNS) - The economy in Lansing is poised to get a big boost. Loc Performance Products, a manufacturer of complex mechanical systems, fabricated structures and armor products for defense and commercial industry, is planning to add 700 jobs to the its Lansing production facility. The company has landed several large defense contracts and is now plans to purchase or build a new facility. CEO Lou Burr says the Lansing plant makes hulls for military tanks. The $96.5 million project has won a Michigan Business Development Program grant of $7 million to help move the plan forward. Burr says...

President Donald Trump says he will announce his Supreme Court nominee on July 9th......... Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told President Trump by phone that Canada had no choice but to impose retaliatory tariffs....... Comcast customers across the country experienced a major service outage today impacting tens of millions of customers........ The European Union says its reached agreement on a common policy to deal with migrants......... European Union President Donald Tusk is warning the British government that time is running out for an agreement on Brexit....... Alternative for Germany co-leader Alice Weidel is offering the Christian Social Union party...

South Korea, one of the few nations that conscripts all able-bodied men into military service, will now allow conscientious objectors to substitute the required two years with community service. South Korea’s constitutional court ruled Thursday that men who refused to serve needed an alternative, Reuters reports. But it also ruled that objecting to serve violated the constitution. Up until now, those who refused the mandatory military service for men between the ages of 18 and 28 faced up to three years in jail and risked social stigma. The system has recently made international headlines as soccer fans called for South...

"A monitoring group reported that five children were among those who died when aircraft identified as Russian bombed Musayfira, east of the city of Deraa" BBC story 6/28/2018 "Israel sends 300 tents, 13 tons of food, 15 tons of baby food, 3 pallets of medical equipment and medicine and 30 tons of clothes across the border as 120,00 Syrians flee from the Deraa area...." "ynetnews.com" 6/29/2018 "Once again the USA has publicly distanced itself from Syrian jihadi rebels against the Assad state....This sounds familiar. On March 30, 2017 the US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, formally and openly abandoned...

SEOUL – The US Army’s headquarters in South Korea, located in the capital Seoul since the end of WWII, has moved to a $11bn base in the rural south – away from mass protest rallies and the North’s guns. The new United States Forces Korea (USFK) headquarters was opened on Friday at Camp Humphreys, a base near the town Pyeongtaek, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of Seoul, where the HQ was stationed for more than 70 years....

The announcement that President Donald Trump wanted to create a “Space Force” that would serve as a co-equal branch of the Armed Forces brought a wide range of reactions. Some experts believed we needed it to defend U.S. interests above the clouds, including protecting our satellites and preventing orbital bombardment by China or Russia. Others posited it as a dangerous step toward the irrevocable militarization of space. And some said it didn’t matter, either because the unilateral expansion of the armed forces is beyond the scope of presidential power, or because Trump says he’s going to do a lot of...

(THE LATEST 830 AM EASTERN: Many opposition units are laying down their arms in a half a dozen or more towns in the Daraa countryside accepting the Russian brokered deal and some Syrian soldiers have reached the Jordanian border southeast of Daraa city,) There were several airstrikes overnight in the town of Na'eema in the Daraa region with the 12 hour truce planned overnight not applying to all areas of southwestern Syria according to a Twitter post. Land attacks were also reported on the west side of the city of Daraa by dawn Friday June 29th with ground forces advancing...