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BANGKOK, Thailand -- China is constructing seaports at two sites where
the U.S. 6th Fleet deploys, in Haifa next to Israel's main naval base
and Ashdod near Tel Aviv, prompting concerns about China's military
potential in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East.
"The civilian [Chinese] port in Haifa abuts the exit route from the
adjacent [Israeli] navy base, where the Israeli submarine fleet is
stationed and which, according to foreign media reports, maintains a
second-strike capability to launch nuclear missiles," Israel's Haaretz
media reported.
"No one in Israel thought about the strategic ramifications," Haaretz
said in September.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke visited Haifa on
October 25 in support of the 6th Fleet which is headquartered in
Naples, Italy.
Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) signed the Haifa contract in
2015, began construction in June, and is to operate the Bayport
Terminal for 25 years starting from 2021.
SIPG signed memorandums of understanding with U.S. ports in Seattle,
The Democratic Party has nowhere to go but left.
The 2016 Sandernista groundswell and the Rainbow Tsunami of 2018 have marked a historic shift.
The diverse wave of millennial activists that has poured into the Congress is unprecedented. And the public support for real change – a Green New Deal – is undeniable.
The real message: the three-decade triangulation of the Clintonista New Democrats has been transcended.
The faux mantra from bloviating experts, petulant pundits, and high-priced consultants has been droning on since the coming of Ronald Reagan: the Democrats must forever tack right to attract “swing” conservatives in the “mainstream middle” between the two parties.
But in the Age of Trump, such voters are all but extinct. The middle ground has cratered. The swing constituency (if it ever existed) has disappeared into the abyss. What matters now is excitement, commitment, clarity, and REAL CHANGE ... none of which can come with a corporate/compromised agenda.
It is now widely understood that my ancestor Sally Hemings, an enslaved black woman, was the intimate companion of Thomas Jefferson for nearly four decades.
Monticello, the Virginia plantation operated as a museum by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, acknowledged as much with a new exhibit last year: Hemings’ living quarters. The exhibit presents as fact that Hemings gave birth to at least six of Jefferson’s children.
– Op-Ed by Robert D. Kaplan, The New York Times, January 1, 2019
Medical writer and vaccine immunology expert Vinu Arumugham has written one of the best articles concerning the issue of vaccine toxicology that I have ever read. It should help every altruistic person who is as concerned as Vinu is about the pandemic of vaccine injuries to better articulate what are the various mechanisms of action of vaccine poisoning when he or she is trying to talk to dubious – and conflicted - pediatricians that order cocktails of toxic vaccines to be injected into their tiny, immunologically-immature infant patients. It should also empower the legions of traumatized parents who have seen their previously healthy babies die or become acutely and chronically ill after being injected with cocktails of vaccines at their “well-baby” exams. This article should embolden these now-activist parents when they try to educate the ineducable and when they try to obtain justice and/or apologies from their indoctrinated, rigidly pro-vaccine physicians who commonly refuse to listen to reason and also typically try to fire the iatrogenically-afflicted families from their practices. Please study this document and then forward it widely. Gary G. Kohls, MD – 1-3-2019
Circle the wagons!
Apparently what’s under assault is war itself, or so the Establishment believes, in the wake of the shocking announcement by the president that he plans to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops now deployed in Syria and 7,000, or half, the U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
No, can’t do that! Can’t do that! This screws everything up. “. . . we must be resolute and unambiguous in our approach to those countries whose strategic interests are increasingly in tension with ours,” writes Defense Secretary Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis in his resignation letter to Donald Trump over the issue.
I usually try not to pay too much attention to the ubiquitous and repetitious, end-of-year summaries that media outlets feel compelled to publish in the week leading up to New Year’s Day. Not a lot of original journalism gets done during the last week of the year. The week after Christmas is vacation time for a lot of newspapers’ employees. Recycling old news reports from the past year is something even a newspaper’s unpaid interns can do.
In many ways it is painful to reflect on the year 2018; a year of vital opportunities lost when so much is at stake.
Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant strides backwards while passing up endless opportunities to make a positive difference in our world.
Let me, very briefly, identify some of the more crucial backward steps, starting with the recognition by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in January that the year had already started badly when they moved the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight, the closest it has ever been to ‘doomsday’ (and equal to 1953 when the Soviet Union first exploded a thermonuclear weapon matching the US capacity). See ‘It is now two minutes to midnight’.
The Offense was an alternative music fanzine published by Tim Anstaett that appeared between April '80 and March '82, according it its Facebook Event page. Anstaett covered the punk and alternative music scene in Columbus from 1982 through 1989. Some Columbus-ites will remember the campus scene when Crazy Mama’s was the place to be.
The Offense was “…one of the longest-running and most prolific punk fanzines of the midwest. The fanzine was one of the primary sources in the US for information on post-punk and goth acts of the time as well, with features on Nick Cave, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Wolfgang Press, and other acts. This run includes the rare unnumbered Cave Report issue, a one sheet issued to report on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' visit to the Midwest,” writes www.divisionleap.com.