Above photo: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters. China’s commitment to enhancing social cohesion is an example of what a society should strive to do. But racism endemic to the U.S. prevents it from taking the same steps. Mainstream U.S. media frequently depicts China as a “closed off” country that treats ethnic minorities with contempt and oppression. The New York Times took this baseless accusation further in an op-ed published on September 9 that claimed China was closing itself off from the world and rejecting the English language. No verifiable proof was offered beyond reforms to the education system that seek to address economic and social […]
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Fairfax-based Azure Summit Technology Inc. was awarded a modification to a previous contract from the U.S. Navy to support the AN/ZLQ-1 V2 Common Chassis for the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft, Persistent Maritime Unmanned Aircraft Systems, and Submarine Sensor Systems Programs. The deal, which was a modification to a previous contract, was worth almost $22,3 million and covered production, repairs, engineering services and integration of the AN/ZLQ-1 V2 Common Chassis Derivative Systems digital signal processor, digital tuner modules, switches, as well as maintenance, product improvement and testing. Under the terms of the agreement, the contract value will increase from $48 to […]
Finnish defense contractor Patria has announced that it signed with Finland and Latvia agreement on developing common armoured vehicle system. The purpose of the product development agreement is to develop, in line with the common requirements of the countries, the prototype Patria 6×6 vehicle manufactured by Patria Land Oy to a common armoured vehicle platform, with an armoured personnel carrier and a command and control vehicle. The agreement makes it possible to build a comprehensive approach to develop common maintenance, logistics, training solutions or product development packages. The purpose of the R&D agreement is to develop a common armoured vehicle system, based on […]
Last year, English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen revealed that Pamela Anderson’s cameo in his 2006 movie about a Kazakh journalist travelling to the US resulted in the Baywatch bombshell’s marriage with American rap star Kid Rock falling apart shortly after the film’s release. The official title for Borat 2 has been revealed after reports that English comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen test-screened a sequel to the 2006 comedy hit “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”, the news outlet Collider reports. The sequel is titled “Borat: Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107896/04/1078960490_0:0:1201:676_1200x675_80_0_0_a7e15917d1a2e25dd6190311e143c19e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009171080494028-turkey-russia-failed-to-reach-common-position-on-syrias-idlib–source/ ANTALYA, Turkey, September 18 (Sputnik) – According to the source, Turkey refused to leave checkpoints on the territories controlled by the Syrian army as well as reduce the number of its troops in the region and withdraw heavy weapons. The negotiations between Turkish and Russian military on the situation in the Syrian province of Idlib have not resulted in any agreements, with Moscow having disagreed with Ankara’s proposal to transfer the Syrian cities of Tall Rifat and Manbij under the Turkish control, a Turkish source familiar with the situation told Sputnik. “The meetings between […]
Common Ground Collective Teaches Us About Surviving Crisis Together By Shane Burley, Waging Nonviolence. August 26, 2020 Common Ground Collective Teaches Us About Surviving Crisis Together2020-08-262020-08-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/commonground.png200px200px Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, the Common Ground Collective’s uncommon success offers lessons on how to build effective mutual aid projects today. It started in Malik Rahim’s kitchen, as the waters from the broken levees continued to flow through New Orleans’ lower 9th Ward. A small group of activists from the city and Austin, Texas, including former Black Panthers, began scratching down notes and trying to figure out exactly what they could do to provide […]
By Phil Butler for New Eastern Outlook and VT When I read this week that Princess Ivanka Trump telling American workers they need to eat cake, I’ll admit still being surprised by the Trump White House. According to the reports, Ivanka told the country’s laid-off workers to consider alternative career paths because their old jobs won’t be coming back. For those of you in disbelief like I am, Ivanka Trump has unveiled a new jobs initiative titled “Find Something New”. She revealed her genius plan to make America even greater, at a virtual roundtable with IBM executive chairman Ginni Rometty, and […]
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Introduction: American so-called democracy is a mess. Some would say a joke. The votes are counted, allegedly, by black-box machines. Only about half the population bothers to vote. Of those naive enough to vote, most are brainwashed by big money into pulling the lever for one of the two totally corrupt major parties. If they accidentally elect someone with principles, like JFK or RFK or Paul Wellstone, we all know how that ends. And then there is the Electoral College. Some complain that it isn’t democratic enough because it gives people in states with lower populations more voting power. Others say […]
Doctor Robert Hariri was on with Judge Janine last night and he confirmed what we have been saying for months regarding the severity of the coronavirus and its impact on children. Dr. Robert Hariri, Celularity Founder and CEO, joined Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night on Justice with Judge Jeanine. When asked about the mortality of the China coronavirus, Dr. Hariri said this: The first information we got from China was terrifying. If you remember early on we thought this might be a virus that could have a mortality of 5 or 10 percent. That means somebody you know is going […]
Florida’s government has ordered all public schools to reopen for in-person instruction in the fall and laid out requirements schools must meet if they wish to provide remote learning. The Tallahassee Democrat reported Monday that the edict was issued by the state’s education commissioner, Richard Corcoran. Local health officials can override his decision based on the rate of new coronavirus cases in their counties. “All school boards and charter school governing boards must open brick and mortar schools in August at least five days per week for all students,” Corocoran said, according to the newspaper. We’ve reported for months that the China coronavirus […]
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the whole world is coming to realize that Iran has been “lying” about its nuclear activities, and called for “paralyzing sanctions” to be imposed on the Islamic Republic over its alleged breach of the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran has “become the most dangerous country in the Middle East,” Lieut. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, Israel Defence Forces’ Chief of General Staff said Sunday, the Jerusalem Post reports. “[Iran] is located in the third circle [in relation to Israel],” Kochavi said, referring to the country’s geographic proximity, “but is highly effective in influencing the first and […]
Water is central to the ongoing search for life and potentially habitable worlds within the Milky Way. According to NASA planetary scientist Lynnae Quick, there could well be far more such ‘waterworlds’ than we previously thought. Typically, when examining potential candidates for study, and potential colonization, astrophysicists and astrobiologists will seek out worlds located in the ‘Goldilocks’ zones of their stars – just right for liquid water to exist somewhere on the planet. We are currently aware of around 4,000 such exoplanet cousins to the watery moons in our solar system, Saturn’s Enceladus and Jupiter’s Europa, elsewhere in the galaxy. In […]
FIFA has responded to a threat to boycott US football matches by President Donald Trump, urging the world to “say no to racism and violence” after the latest row over athletes who take a knee during the American national anthem. Trump tweeted that he would stop following US soccer after learning that a policy requiring players to stand during the national anthem had been dropped, insisting: “I won’t be watching anymore!” He then renewed his persistent criticism of high-profile stars who make the symbolic move in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, retweeting a claim by Florida Republican Matt Gaetz that […]
Where the Virus Is Growing Most: Countries With ‘Illiberal Populist’ Leaders By David Leonhardt and Lauren Leatherby New York Times The four large countries where coronavirus cases have recently been increasing fastest are Brazil, the United States, Russia and Britain. And they have something in common. They are all run by populist male leaders who cast themselves as anti-elite and anti-establishment. The four leaders — Jair Bolsonaro, Donald J. Trump, Vladimir V. Putin and Boris Johnson — also have a lot of differences, of course, as do their countries. Yet all four subscribe to versions of what Daniel Ziblatt, a government professor at Harvard […]