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Houthi drone boats strike oil tankers in the Red Sea

6 days ago -

This incident underscores the challenges facing the United States-led Operation Prosperity Guardian, aimed at protecting southern Israel by curbing the Houthis' activities in the Red Sea. President Joe Biden previously acknowledged that U.S. strikes in Yemen were not stopping Houthi attacks on global shipping but vowed to continue them nonetheless.

The footage of the attack was released by the Houthis, who have been targeting commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of ...

Tokyo to provide $3.3 billion loan to Kyiv using frozen Russian assets

8 days ago -

This figure represents approximately six percent of the substantial loan agreed upon by the Group of Seven (G7) nations during their summit in Italy in June.

At the summit, G7 leaders reached a consensus on utilizing interest from the frozen Russian assets to finance a $50 billion loan intended to assist Kyiv in acquiring weapons and rebuilding damaged infrastructure. (Related: EU okays transfer of $1.5B to Ukraine drawn from frozen Russian assets.)

Japanese authorities ...

New AI-powered in-vehicle camera technology will assess driver intoxication

10 days ago -

The new system, which seeks to reduce drunk driving accidents, was presented in a paper published on April 9 at a joint conference by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Computer Vision Foundation.

According to the presentation, the in-development AI algorithm utilizes a single color camera to monitor variables such as gaze direction and head position. It incorporates 3D and infrared footage of the driver's face, rearview videos showing driver posture, ...

Record number of homes for sale seeing substantial price DROPS as housing market falters

12 days ago -

Up until now, those in the top one percent with plenty of cash on hand have been gobbling up real estate like it is nobody's business, creating record-high home prices that the other 99 percent can no longer afford. We are starting to see cracks at the top, though, as even the richest among us are no longer purchasing homes at sky-high prices, which could mean a housing collapse is soon on the way.

Widely recognized among economists and financial experts as the most tangible ...

Small islands that climate change alarmists warned would disappear are actually growing, study shows

24 days ago -

However, new research shows that many of the low-lying island nations that have been cited as being in danger of disappearing due to climate change aren’t going anywhere at all – with most of them still the same size as before and some of them even getting bigger.

In the study, aerial photographs from the mid-20th century were compared to modern satellite images – and the climate change crowd will be hoping their findings don’t get much airtime. Of the 709 islands they assessed ...

World Meteorological Organization: Hurricane Beryl, now the earliest Category 5 storm on record, sets the tone for a “very dangerous” hurricane season

22 days ago -

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned Tuesday, July 2, that Hurricane Beryl has become a Category 5 storm and is setting the tone for a "very dangerous" hurricane season.

Hurricane Beryl tore through Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean. The aftermath of the hurricane left households without power and is predicted to hit Jamaica by July 4 and the Cayman Islands later in July.

Clare Nullis, a WMO spokesperson, told reporters in ...

China hires Western military aviators to prepare for Taiwan invasion

25 days ago -

The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), acting on behalf of the FVEY, issued a joint bulletin on June 5 about the ongoing attempts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to enlist current and retired Western service members.

The goal, as outlined by NCSC Director Michael C. Casey, is to shore up the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) aerial combat skills through covert recruitment channels operated by private firms with obscured ties to the PLA.

These ...

Climate change is a $100 trillion wealth transfer from the poor to the rich

a month ago -

(Article republished from ElizabethNickson.Substack.com)

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Predator or Prey?

Ever asked yourself why six million have poured through the Southern border in the last 8 months? Oh, I know, in search of economic freedom, oppression by their home governments, or oligarchs, drugs, death squads, crime etc. Same with Africa. But again, why do they risk so much to leave homelands that almost certainly, most of them love. The idea of ‘place’ ...

Insurance giant Allstate loses $1.4 billion in May from catastrophe insurance claims

a month ago -

Allstate, headquartered in Illinois, suffered around $1.4 billion in pretax catastrophe losses in May. This amounts to around $1.1 billion in payouts after tax. This is triple what it paid out in catastrophe insurance in April, when losses amounted to around $494 million pretax, or $390 million after tax.

Catastrophe insurance is purchased by businesses and residences that wish to protect their property against natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes....

The epic bulls##t of catastrophic climate change

a month ago -

(Article republished from ElizabethNickson.Substack.com)

Got a message back!

It read, “Elizabeth, I am sure Robert would fix whatever harm he caused, can you explain?”

No problem, I said.

1. In British Columbia, we had the largest industrial forest in the world

2. It paid for education and universal ‘free’ health care.

3. The environmental left decided to shut it down.

4. The reason for their protest was that the government, as was ...

Taiwanese president warns military cadets about China’s relentless threat to Taiwan’s national sovereignty

a month ago -

Lai gave this warning while speaking to military cadets during the 100th founding anniversary of the Republic of China Military Academy in Kaohsiung, during which he revealed that the paramount national goal of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the annexation and "elimination" of Taiwan. Lai, who has been labeled as a "dangerous separatist" by Beijing, claimed that the significant threat mainland Chinese forces pose should urge cadets not to succumb to defeatism. (Related: China ...

U.S. tests Minuteman III nuclear ICBMs amid heightened geopolitical tensions

a month ago -

The launches, which occurred at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, involved Minuteman III missiles armed with dummy re-entry vehicles instead of live nuclear warheads.

Amid heightened geopolitical tensions, the Department of Defense emphasized that these tests were not in response to any specific world events. Rather, they were part of ongoing efforts to ensure the safety, reliability and effectiveness of the United States' nuclear deterrents, with over 300 similar ...

Failing Washington Post attempts to get Grayzone editor jailed with error-filled smear piece

2 months ago - Though The Washington Post was forced to retract the first sentence and central premise of its nothingburger ‘expose’ targeting The Grayzone, pro-Israel operatives are using the malicious hit piece to demand a federal investigation.

(Article by Max Blumenthal republished from  TheGrayzone.com)

The secret is out. Starting in 2020, for a period of less than a year, and well before ever joining the staff of The Grayzone, journalist Wyatt Reed appeared multiple times on PressTV, ...

Tens of thousands of GMO mosquitoes released in Djibouti to “fight malaria”

2 months ago -

The mosquitoes being released are male Anopheles Stephensi mosquitoes, who do not bite. They target female mosquitoes, which are the only ones that can bite and transmit viral diseases like malaria; the GMO insects carry a gene that effectively kills female offspring before they can reach maturity. Meanwhile, the male offspring can survive, but the company behind the technology claims they will die out eventually.

The Stephensi mosquito species that is behind Djibouti's ...

Joe Biden refuses to disclose his free stays at vacation homes of Democratic megadonors in his ethics disclosure form

May 24, 2024 -

In 2023, Biden took at least four vacations to the homes of wealthy Democratic megadonors, none of which were listed as gifts on Biden's financial disclosure reports. The annual paperwork over financial disclosures must be submitted by all federal officeholders from judges to presidents under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. (Related: Working hard or hardly working? Biden spent at least 39% of his presidency on VACATION.)

"If there is a deliberate omission of a gift, ...

Polish spy master claims Russia planning to test NATO response by INVADING neighboring countries

May 12, 2024 -

Speaking to the Polish-language publication Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Brig. Gen. Jaroslaw Strozyk specifically mentioned scenarios including possible Russian incursions into the Estonian city of Narva, right on the border with Russia, or possibly even seizing control of strategic Swedish islands in the Baltic Sea. (Related: Putin plans to annex breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria)

Despite these ominous possibilities, Strozyk pointed out that recent Western support for ...

US forming anti-China ‘squad’ with Japan, Philippines, and Australia

May 06, 2024 -

(Article by Dave DeCamp republished from News.Antiwar.com)

The defense chiefs of the US, the Philippines, Japan, and Australia met in Hawaii on May 2 and issued a joint readout that used harsh rhetoric against China’s claims to the South China Sea and the East China Sea, two areas where the US has vowed to intervene if the maritime disputes turn into shooting wars.

“The Ministers and Secretaries expressed serious concern about the situation in the East and South China ...

Approximately 13,000 islands around the world have increased land mass over two decades, disproving claims of climate alarmists about rising sea levels

April 12, 2024 -

In the past few years, climate alarmists have insinuated that manmade climate change would swiftly drive shoreline erosion and island disappearance due to rising sea levels. But this Chinese study, published in the Journal of Coastal Research, has debunked these claims. (Related: Climate alarmists hype sea level rise by 2050, claim it could be 50 times greater than actual data.)

The study, which highlights the impacts of climate change and human activities, examines surface ...

Another container ship “loses power” in NYC harbor right before Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

April 10, 2024 -

A similar series of events to what happened with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland, a container ship reportedly "lost power" in Upper New York Bay just before the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge that connects the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

In this case, the container ship was stopped from crashing into the bridge after a New York City tugboat captain informed Captain John Konrad, CEO of gCaptain, that the 354-meter APL QINGDAO container ship ...

Report finds China uses fake accounts and AI-generated content to manipulate public opinion (but so does the U.S. government and the CDC)

April 10, 2024 -

According to the report, titled "Same targets, new playbooks: East Asia threat actors employ unique methods," Chinese Communist Party-affiliated actors have been actively engaging in deceptive practices on social media platforms. These actors have been posing contentious questions on divisive American domestic issues to gauge public sentiment and potentially influence the outcome of the upcoming presidential election. These efforts aim to gather intelligence on key voting demographics ...