Saturday, April 13, 2019

In the news, Tuesday, April 2, 2019


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from Bill Downs, War Correspondent  blog

1964. Defense Secretary McNamara on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
On August 6, 1964, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara held a press conference to discuss the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the US military action that followed. Bill Downs reported live from the Pentagon.

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from China Xinhua News (Beijing)
official state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China

Uganda is harnessing the power of mobile phones as a driver of its economic growth under the country's Vision 2040, which aims at the country's transition from a low-income country to one with a competitive upper middle class.

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from The Christian Post
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American nondenominational Evangelical Christian newspaper in Washington, D.C.

Testosterone being given to 8-y-o girls, age lowered from 13: doctors
Medical doctors and a mom of a trans-identifying child are urging the government to shut down medical operations that are harming children. Their efforts to resist the medicalization of gender has led them to discover that government-funded research now allows wrong sex hormones such as testosterone to be given to girls as young as 8.

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

World Not on Cusp of Energy Revolution: Study
Climate campaigners claim battery technology will soon make renewable electricity available to all with little or no fossil-fuel backup. However, the expense would be formidable. It costs less than $1 a barrel to store oil or energy-equivalent quantities of natural gas and coal, but battery storage of the same amount of energy “costs roughly $200.”

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from Media Research Center (MRC)
(& CNSNews.com & NewsBusters)  RIGHT BIAS, MIXED
nonprofit media watchdog for politically conservative content analysis based in Reston, Virginia


Talking heads on liberal cable news are finally warming to calling the situation on the U.S.- Mexico border a crisis, at least since former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson blessed that term on the March 29 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe.  But some of us are old enough to remember a time – barely two months ago – when cable hosts were screaming to high heaven that there was no such border crisis.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia

Moscow May Offer China, Turkey Export Variant of New Su-57 Fighter - Reports
Despite Beijing having its own fifth-generation fighter, Russia may soon approve sales of the Su-57 to China - and other countries like Turkey, which has shown interest and recently lost access to the US’ F-35 over another Russian weapons deal. Last week, Rostec director of international cooperation and regional policy Viktor Kladov was quoted by Jane's Defense Weekly as saying that in the coming weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin may sign off on sales of the Su-57E, an export variant of Sukhoi's new Su-57 stealth fighter.

Chinese Woman With Malware, Tech Devices Bluffs Her Way into Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
A Chinese woman carrying a thumb drive with malware, as well as multiple passports and electronic devices, was arrested at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday while US President Donald Trump was there. She bluffed her way past security multiple times before being caught, according to court documents. Yujing Zhang, 32, got through multiple layers of security at the US president's West Palm Beach resort over the weekend by pretending she didn't speak English well, was confused about her destination, and was there to attend a US-China international event.

Washington, Manila Considering US Rocket System to Counter China - Report
Officials from the US and the Philippines are reportedly in talks to discuss the possible deployment of the American high-mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS) in a bid to counter China's continued militarization of artificial islands in the South China Sea.

‘Blood Money’: Slain Saudi Journalist’s Children Getting Payouts From Riyadh
Jamal Khashoggi’s four children ‒ two sons and two daughters ‒ have been given homes and receiving ongoing financial compensation from the Saudi government since their father was slain inside a Saudi consulate last year, The Washington Post reported.

Declassified Nazi Papers REVEAL ‘How to Take Over a Democratic Country’ (PHOTOS)
The stash of top-secret Nazi documents were seized during a large-scale raid by British Special Forces on Norway's Lofoten Islands in March 1941. A rare copy of covert Nazi papers, which were recently discovered in the archives of the National Library of Israel (NLI), shed more light on life under the Nazis in occupied Norway during the Second World War, the NLI’s Shai Ben-Ari said in his article published in the Haaretz newspaper.

WATCH Turkey, China Test Electromagnetic Weapons
Electromagnetic railguns are among the world's most futuristic new weapons; they can fire projectiles at hypersonic speeds and reach far-away targets without relying on gunpowder or other chemical propellants. The Turkish defence industry has released a video showing a test of the country’s newest electromagnetic railgun, the Sahi 209 Block II, which came amid reports that the successful test of a similar electromagnetic weapon had been announced by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy. Developed by the Turkish company Yeteknoloji AS, the railgun is capable of firing 35-mm shells at a distance of 50 kilometres (31 miles), according to the Defence Blog news website.

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