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  • Eskom slowly dying. ( South Africa )

    08/20/2023 4:21:06 PM PDT · by george76 · 19 replies
    Daily Investor • ^ | 16 August 2023
    Renowned economist Dawie Roodt said Eskom’s generation and distribution divisions are slowly dying, similar to South African Airways (SAA) and the South African Post Office (SAPO). Roodt made these comments during a Firstpathway Partners webinar on how the United States has emerged as a secure sanctuary for many South Africans. “Only the transmission part will remain, and the rest of Eskom will just slowly die and come to an end,” he said. Roodt previously explained that Eskom is completely bankrupt. “It has been operationally and financially run into the ground. It does not work anymore,” he said. Eskom currently owes...
  • MYSTERIOUS SOUTH ATLANTIC ANOMALY IS “DEEPENING,” RECENT GOVERNMENT REPORT SAYS

    03/28/2023 8:54:46 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 29 replies
    /thedebrief.org/ ^ | MICAH HANKS
    The South Atlantic Anomaly is a location in the southern Atlantic where the innermost portions of the natural zone of energetic charged particles encircling Earth, known as the Van Allen radiation belt, makes its closest approach to the planet. The resulting outflow of energized particles produces a higher yield of ionizing radiation detectable by satellites orbiting Earth. Our planet’s geomagnetic field undergoes constant changes that result from the activity occurring in the Earth’s core, which current models aren’t capable of easily predicting. Because of this, the World Magnetic Model can only offer a good estimate of the Earth’s geomagnetic activity...
  • Syria violence uproots displaced families again

    12/26/2019 8:27:42 AM PST · by mac_truck · 2 replies
    AFP via Yahoo News ^ | 12/22/2019 | Omar Haj Kadour
    Maaret al-Numan (Syria) (AFP) - Thin mattresses, children's toys, a gas heater: Abu Ismail packed a pick-up truck with scant belongings before fleeing a northwest Syria town nearly emptied of residents by recent regime attacks. "I don't know where I am going, if I will find a house for my family, or what will happen to us," the 42-year-old father of seven told AFP, plumes of smoke rising around him. Tens of thousands of people like Abu Ismail have fled the Maaret al-Numan region, located in jihadist-held Idlib province, since December 16, following a rise in air strikes, according to...
  • Syrian army deploys to Manbij area after Kurdish calls to deter Turkey

    12/29/2018 8:40:31 AM PST · by mac_truck · 30 replies
    Reuters ^ | 12/28/2018 | Ellen Francis
    BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army deployed forces near Manbij in northern Syria on Friday, a war monitor and a U.S. official said, after the Kurdish YPG militia urged Damascus to protect the town, where U.S. forces operate, from the threat of a Turkish offensive. Manbij, which U.S.-backed forces captured from Islamic State in 2016, has emerged as a focal point of new tensions after U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces whose presence has effectively deterred Turkey. After a Syrian army announcement declaring government troops had entered Manbij, Turkey-backed Syrian rebels stationed in nearby territory said they...
  • US-backed SDF forces say they regain villages seized by Syrian army

    04/29/2018 4:11:27 PM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 34 replies
    Middle East Eye (some Reuters content) ^ | Last update: Sunday 29 April 2018 21:01 UTC | none stated
    US coalition jets hit attacking forces believed to include Iranian-backed militias operating in Deir Ezzor area: Diplomat US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they expelled Syrian troops who briefly took control of a string of villages in oil rich areas east of the Euphrates River near the Iraqi border on Sunday.SDF forces led by the Kurdish YPG militia said they launched a counter-attack against Syrian troops backed by Russian forces, adding they were driven "far away" from four villages they had seized earlier in the day."Our forces regained the initiative," they said in a statement.It did not say if the...
  • Syrian Army Reportedly Discovers Secret Chemical Plant Used by Militants

    04/12/2018 12:18:38 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 34 replies
    Sputnik Nuze ^ | April 12, 2018
    The Syrian army has uncovered a clandestine plant in Eastern Ghouta that was used by the terrorists to produce military-grade agents, with equipment of Saudi origin and materials presumably made in Western countries having been found at the building, local media reported on Tuesday. The plant is located in al-Shefounieh town in the area of Duma. Among other toxic chemicals, chlorine was found at the site, the SANA news agency reported, adding that the papers of the Jaysh al-Islam militant group were also discovered. A Syrian field commander said that high-tech equipment was found at the plant, which indicates that...
  • Amid media blackout, ISIS recovers and continues its attacks on the road of Tehran – Beirut

    04/01/2018 5:13:33 PM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 19 replies
    20 days of attacks leave about 200 dead of the regime forces (Syrian SAA) and their allies (Quds & Iranian Militias) in the capital Damascus and Deir Ezzor Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the “Islamic State” organization continues its military operations west of Euphrates, targeting the regime forces and their allies, on the strategic road of Tehran – Beirut, amid a media blackout about these attacks which were started after the recovery of the “Islamic State” organization successively starting from the capital Damascus on the 13th of March 2018 until Deir Ezzor, until today the 1st...
  • Africa PHENOMENON threatens to FLIP Earth's magnetic field, taking the poles with it

    03/08/2018 10:41:30 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 101 replies
    Express.co.uk ^ | Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | Sakura Evans
    New research shows the most significant weakening is happening under Africa which has been dubbed the 'South Atlantic Anomaly' (SAA). As well as giving us our north and south poles, the magnetic field blankets the Earth, protecting it from solar winds and cosmic radiation. The forcefield has weakened significantly over the past 160 years and scientists now suggest it could be in the process of flipping. Such a change would be a switch in magnetic polarity and would see compasses point south rather than north. Scientists believe such an occurrence has actually happened several times in the history of our...
  • Map: The Battle for Aleppo – the “Mother of all battles”

    02/02/2016 4:42:33 PM PST · by BeauBo · 39 replies
    SouthFront (Russian) ^ | 02.02.2016 | Peto Lucem
    On February 1, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) launched their long awaited offensive in the northern Aleppo countryside... (The Syrian Arab Army) SAA would also be able to cut the last supply routes running from the Turkish Border south towards Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and the country’s former commercial hub. The battle’s scale and importance led observers to name the struggle for Aleppo, The mother of all Battles. Both war parties know the side which captures Aleppo wins more than just a city. This side will win Syria’s north and therefore – most probably – the war.
  • THE COLT SINGLE ACTION ARMY (Arizona's New State Gun)

    04/30/2011 2:46:42 PM PDT · by marktwain · 17 replies · 1+ views
    sixguns.com ^ | JOHN TAFFIN
    It was a grand Thanksgiving Day. Family, good friends and good food, in this case Spanish style all the way with Enchiladas, Burritos, Chili Rellenos, Rice Ortega, and Spanish Rice. If the first Thanksgiving Day was not celebrated this way it should have been. After dinner, we reached for the Smith K-22, Ruger Single-Six, and Smith & Wesson 422 for some enjoyable plinking and also to have my daughter and son-in-law brush up on their shooting and handling of handguns as the final step , having already finished the safety and liability course, before applying for their concealed weapons permits....
  • Serve America Lets Congress Take Another Bow

    04/07/2009 1:41:28 PM PDT · by keep your powder dry · 8 replies · 569+ views
    Passed the House, Passed the Senate, and outlawed Religion for those in 'volunteer' programs: last week, the House passed the Serve America Act (SAA), which will triple the number of federally funded "volunteer" positions, create a "Clean Energy Corps" to weatherize homes, and make September 11th a "National Day of Service." Like many federal assaults on the taxpayer, the SAA is a bipartisan offense: It passed by huge margins in both houses. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, the primary sponsor, got a standing ovation after the vote was in, and co-sponsor Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican, gushed that "the whole Kennedy...
  • Spectator to genocide: U.S. Marine captain in Darfur ends up mapping crimes in progress

    03/29/2005 4:37:15 PM PST · by Caleb1411 · 16 replies · 1,001+ views
    WORLD ^ | 4/2/05 | Priya Abraham
    Brian Steidle's only weapons against mass killing were his pen, paper, and camera. The former Marine captain catalogs what they caught in Darfur, Sudan, with quick-fire urgency: toddlers with their faces smashed in, men castrated and left to bleed to death, charred bodies of villagers locked in huts later burned down. Charged only with monitoring ceasefire violations in the war-wracked region, he soon grew weary of playing spectator to genocide. So after six months, the 28-year-old Mr. Steidle returned to the United States a month ago and launched his own offensive to stop the killing. In mid-March he criss-crossed Washington,...
  • US reportedly offering deal to neutralize Hezbollah

    05/30/2003 7:15:40 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 21 replies · 230+ views
    The Daily Star ^ | May 30 2003 | Nicholas Blanford
    ‘$500m on table’ if Beirut complies The United States is reportedly making a fresh attempt to strike a behind-the-scenes deal to neutralize Hizbullah, offering the government half a billion dollars if the resistance is dismantled and Syria pulls its troops out of Lebanon. The offer is reportedly being conveyed by Darryl Issa, a Republican congressman for California, and Democrat Robert Wexler during a visit to Beirut Friday, the daily As-Safir said Thursday. The two congressmen will also travel to Damascus to discuss the offer with Syrian officials, the paper said. The daily quoted sources in the US Congress as saying...
  • Argentina's Congress Names Duhalde as President (compete & detailed article posted)

    01/01/2002 8:22:58 PM PST · by Jack Black · 22 replies · 835+ views
    Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 1/1/2002 | By Alistair Scrutton
    Argentina's Congress Names Duhalde as President By Alistair Scrutton BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Argentina's Congress on Tuesday appointed Eduardo Duhalde, a populist powerbroker in the Peronist Party, as the new president until 2003, with the task of ending recession and social chaos in Latin America's third-largest economy. Duhalde, a stocky 60-year-old who became the fifth president in two weeks, faces a nation plagued by bloody protests and looting as bankruptcies and unemployment grow and Argentina heads for a record sovereign debt default. ``My commitment from today is to finish with an economic model that has brought desperation to the ...
  • Lebanese judiciary summons Michael Aoun for investigation

    10/05/2003 3:20:32 AM PDT · by piasa · 2 replies · 203+ views
    ArabicNews.com ^ | 10/4/2003
    The Lebanese judiciary summoned Lt. Gen Michael Aoun for investigating him over statements he delivered before the US Congress and considered by the Lebanese judiciary as damaging to Lebanese- Syrian relations. A Lebanese judiciary source said that the investigation judge in Beirut assigned the Lebanese embassy in France to notify Aoun who lives in exile in Paris since 1991 that he has to be present before the investigation judge on October 14 and in case he refuses to be notified, the notification will be hung on the door of the house where he lives. Aoun acted as a witness before...