Three flagship European Space Agency (ESA) projects have or will reach critical milestones this month, both on Earth and in space. On the ground, the Agency’s upcoming Ariane 6 launcher’s solid rocket boosters passed their final test firing while the James Webb Space Telescope — a partnership with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency — completed environmental testing and is on track for launch next year. Meanwhile, the ESA/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) BepiColombo mission to Mercury will make a course-altering flyby of Venus on 15 October. Ariane 6 The final qualification firing of the new P120C solid rocket booster that […]
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Long before The New York Times began its review of the reporting in her critically acclaimed podcast, the paper was aware of deep concerns about star correspondent Rukmini Callimachi’s work, including from the family of James Foley, the American journalist brutally killed by ISIS in 2014. “She left our family with a lot of pain from her un-professionalism and lies,” James’ brother Michael Foley told The Daily Beast in an email. Last Friday, Canadian law enforcement arrested Shehroze Chaudhry, a 25-year-old Canadian man who claimed for years that he had worked as an executioner in the Islamic State. Chaudhry became a […]
It’s been three years since Donald Trump fired James Comey, but the bureau’s actions and the investigation that occurred under his leadership have been plaguing the Trump administration without end. Former FBI Director James Comey admitted that the bureau made “embarrassing” and “concerning” mistakes when it obtained court warrants to spy on former Donald Trump aide Carter Page, but defended the FBI’s 2016 investigation into alleged links between the Trump campaign and Russia. “This was an investigation that was appropriately predicated, and that had to be opened, and it was – in the main – conducted in the right way”, Comey […]
Senate hearings in Washington have laid bare the failures of the FBI investigation, showing there was never any evidence of ‘collusion’, and it was all a campaign to ‘get Trump’. The US Senate Judiciary Committee questioned former FBI Director James Comey during a hearing this week over the recent Horowitz report. That report on the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe laid out significant omissions in how the FBI handled its investigation. Wednesday’s hearing focused particularly on court warrants obtained by the FBI under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page, which Committee Chair Lindsey Graham characterized […]
Former FBI Director James Comey arrives to testify during a closed House Judiciary Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 17, 2018. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Former FBI Director James Comey arrives to testify during a closed House Judiciary Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 17, 2018. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Trump’s allies are embarking on a new gambit in their long political war over the legacy of the Russia investigation on Wednesday — one that goes beyond simply finding fault with federal law […]
This is a preview of Right Richter, our newsletter about the extreme right wing. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox, sign up for it here. The election is less than 40 days away. Donald Trump is refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. And now the Trumpworld hunt is on for material that can be used to discredit any election results that show Joe Biden winning the election. On to this week’s newsletter! This week: James O’Keefe and associates circle voter registration groups. Bogus ballot “destruction” story blows up on the right Liberal groups fear election infiltration from […]
James Baldwin debated William F. Buckley in February 1965. Khalil Muhammad and David Frum are reimagining that debate for the 2020 March on Washington Film Festival. Jenkins/Getty Images and Evening Standard/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jenkins/Getty Images and Evening Standard/Getty Images James Baldwin debated William F. Buckley in February 1965. Khalil Muhammad and David Frum are reimagining that debate for the 2020 March on Washington Film Festival. Jenkins/Getty Images and Evening Standard/Getty Images In February 1965, two of America’s most towering public intellectuals faced off at the University of Cambridge in England. They were there to debate the proposition: “The […]
While Ret. Marine General James Mattis was reportedly surprised by the question about anti-Daesh strategy directed at him by Ivanka, Donald Trump himself appeared “proud” by her move. Ivanka Trump expressed an interest in a certain aspect of the country’s foreign policy shortly after her father got elected president, The Mercury News reports, citing “Rage”, a new book by veteran American investigative journalist Bob Woodward. According to the newspaper, this particular episode occurred when retired Marine General James Mattis arrived at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club on 19 November, 2016, where he was invited by Mike Pence to talk with […]
… by Preston James Traditionally, the business of starting wars has been a long arduous process of geopolitical and economic manipulations and numerous provocations. With the development of the War on Terror, it has become much faster and easier for the folks that really run things to start wars so they can make huge war profits and further expand and centralize the governments they control in order to gain even more totalitarian power. The idea of declaring a ongoing “forever war” with no end ever, against a single concept began with the War on Poverty under LBJ. This idea of fighting […]
The James Webb Space Telescope — a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) — has successfully completed a critical pre-flight milestone and test that paves the way for continued final testing of the most complex telescope ever built. At present, James Webb remains on track for a launch from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5 rocket No Earlier Than 31 October 2021. The three-way partnership between NASA, ESA, and CSA, follows large-scale, international partnerships for space-based telescopes of the past and results in sharing of the financial […]
Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was arrested last Thursday after allegedly personally profiting from fundraising for the proposed Mexico border wall, which he initiated following his leave from the White House in 2017. Former FBI director James Comey has described Steve Bannon as being “in a world of trouble” on Sunday after the former Trump campaign organiser and White House adviser was arrested and charged with taking donations from southern border wall fundraising. “It’s another reminder of the kind of people this president surrounds himself with”, Comey said in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. “At this point they […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107853/39/1078533991_0:121:2930:1769_1200x675_80_0_0_d2b67211edb185b6f0a619c45fa60865.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/viral/202008231080256355-james-comey-says-he-regrets-being-involved-in-2016-election-after-being-mocked-by-hillary-online/ The former head of the FBI said he thinks “it’s time for more women to be leaders in this country”, and that he hopes that “more women get elected to office”. Former FBI Director James Comey has addressed an apparent viral jab delivered to him on Twitter by ex-Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton earlier this week. After Comey tweeted a picture of himself wearing an “Elect More Women” t-shirt, accompanied by a caption saying that “we need more women in office”, Hillary replied with a GIF of herself smirking, with The Hill […]
NBA superstar LeBron James may be unflappable under pressure on the basketball court, but he looked far from comfortable when a reporter asked him to give his assessment on a book he was supposedly reading. James posted a series of photos to his Instagram account showing him reading the autobiography of Malcolm X while on a fitness bike, while offering the accompanying caption, “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today- Malcolm X.” James even brought the book with him to a media session, where one reporter decided to ask him what he […]
Lebron James is the latest professional athlete to trash the US, its history and its national anthem. Lebron and his fellow NBA multi-millionaires continue to kneel for the anthem of the country that gave them the opportunity to play basketball for a living. Advertisement – story continues below And recently Lebron told reporters he’s reading “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” Unfortunately, when he was asked a simple question about the story, Lebron gave new meaning to the phrase ‘dumb jock.’ TRENDING: SHOCK VIDEO: “Mom! Call 911!” – Biden Supporters Attack 7-Year-Old Boy Outside DNC Convention For Wearing Red MAGA Hat This […]
Former FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith is expected to plead guilty to altering Carter Page evidence to support the FISA warrant used to spy on the Donald Trump campaign in 2016. 38-year-old Clinemsith altered an email from CIA investigators used to request a FISA warrant and renewals on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. Carter Page previously worked as a source for the CIA, however Clinesmith falsely said Page was “never” a CIA source. According to Durham’s charging document (and also in IG Horowitz’s report), “certain individuals” on the Crossfire Hurricane were told in an August 2016 memorandum that Page was a CIA […]
James Murdoch tendered his resignation from the Board of Directors of News Corporation, the parent company of FOX News. Rubert Murdoch stepped down as the CEO of FOX in June 2011 and handed the reins over to his son James. James Murdoch’s wife Kathryn Murdoch is an outspoken leftist who works for the Clinton Climate Initiative. The resignation went into effect today. TRENDING: Ghislaine Maxwell Documents Unsealed: Allegations Against Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Others — FBI Knew Had Evidence of the Crimes for Years Yahoo.com has more on the resignation. In a filing to US regulators, he said he also disagreed with some “strategic […]
James Murdoch has resigned from the board of his family’s news behemoth, News Corp, due to disagreements over editorial content published by the company’s notoriously right-wing outlets, The Daily Beast has confirmed. “Mr. Murdoch informed the Company that his resignation was due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions,” a company statement said. The move comes a little over six months since Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son issued a stunning rebuke of his family’s media empire and its promotion of climate-change skeptics during Australia’s bushfire crisis. “Kathryn and James’ views on climate […]
Houston Rockets star James Harden has denied he was making a ‘political statement’ after he received criticism online for being pictured wearing a face covering which appeared to endorse the pro-police ‘Blue Live Matter’ movement. Harden sported a mask featuring an American flag along with a thin blue line, iconography which has come to be known as support for the ‘Blue Lives Matter’ campaign – a group some cite as being contrary to the wave of ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests currently prevalent in the United States. The images were released by both the Rockets and the NBA Twitter accounts, and were immediately greeted […]
Houston Rockets star James Harden has sent Twitter users into convulsions after being pictured in a mask appearing to bear a ‘thin blue line’ symbol which signifies support for the police. The Rockets’ official Twitter account shared the image of star guard Harden attending training inside the ‘NBA Bubble’ at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, as the league gears up for a restart after the Covid-19 hiatus. “Mask Up,” read the caption accompanying the image. The official NBA account also shared a picture of a masked Harden alongside an image of the star with his famous beard, this time uncovered. […]
With Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump by this much, would his vice presidential pick even make a difference? Political strategist James Carville joked that Biden could win even if he chose Sarah I-can-see-Russia-from-my-house Palin as his running mate. On Tuesday’s episode of The New Abnormal by The Daily Beast, Carville tells hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson the simple strategy Biden needs to win. “Attack, attack, attack. Attack from the right, attack from the left, attack from the center, attack everywhere,” he explains. We also hear from The Beast’s Erin Banco on the “parallel conversations” surrounding COVID-19 within the Trump […]
Porn star Kendra Lust appears to still be interested in rumored former flame James Rodriguez after sending the Real Madrid star a personal message on his birthday – and astonished fans reacted with a deluge of jokes and memes. Married American actress Lust, who has starred in hundreds of adult films, was originally linked to Rodriguez when eagle-eyed fans on social media spotted that the pair had followed each other in 2018. The former webcam model and stripper then tagged Rodriguez in a video of her twerking in a gym, although the relationship between the pair appeared to have gone quiet […]
The Phoenix Police Department is under fire after several officers were caught on video surrounding a parked car on July 4 and threatening a man inside before unloading at least ten gunshots in a gruesome incident that has sparked renewed protests. James “Jay” Porter Garcia, 28, was fatally shot while parked in a sedan outside his friend’s one-story Maryvale home, a police spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Beast. In a now-viral video captured by a bystander, at least four officers can be seen surrounding his car—two with their guns drawn—after responding to an aggravated assault call. “Hey, stop fucking moving. I […]
James Cooper is a professor of law at California Western School of Law in San Diego where he teaches International Business Transactions and International Law. He has consulted for Los Pinos, Mexico’s executive branch, and the U.S. Department of State. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) goes into force today. The trade pact replaces the much-maligned North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which went into effect on Jan. 1, 1994 and laid the foundation for a vertically integrated marketplace on our continent. By reducing tariffs on many goods and services, North American companies were able to develop transnational vertical supply chains and better […]
Johnny Depp’s legal team is now seeking “disclosure of all communications over a particular period in 2016” between Heard, Musk and Franco. Lawyers representing Hollywood star Johnny Depp have announced that his ex-partner Amber Heard had affairs with several celebrities while still in a relationship with him, Sky News reports. These revelations were made as it is being decided whether Depp’s High Court libel case against The Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, will go ahead. According to the media outlet, the people with whom Heard had the “extra-marital affairs” were none other than SpaceX […]
Lebron James told Bloomberg Businessweek that the NFL owes Collin Kaepernick an apology for criticizing his kneeling his protests during the National Anthem. This is the same NBA player who sided with Chinese Communists over Hong Kong Democracy protests. He’s not the most enlightened individual. TRENDING: UPDATE: RADICAL LEFTIST GROUP Threatens Christian Prayer Rally Planned on Saturday to Save the Iconic St. Louis Statue in Forest Park The Hill reported: NBA star LeBron James on Thursday said the National Football League still owes Colin Kaepernick an official apology for how the league responded to his kneeling protests during the national anthem. […]
Three-year-old Mekhi James had just gotten his first barbershop haircut when he became one of 104 people shot in Chicago on Father’s Day weekend. “It hurts! It hurts!” Mekhi cried out after a bullet struck him in the back. The gunfire had come from another car as the boy’s stepfather was driving him home on Saturday. The stepfather sped instead to Western Suburban Medical Center. Mekhi proved to be beyond saving and became one of 14 gunshot victims in the city who died, four of them juveniles. Source link
James Gandolfini might have played a terrifying mobster on TV, but his co-stars say he was “more like a hippie”—with one major exception. Apparently, he once vowed to beat the baked ziti out of Harvey Weinstein. Gandolfini’s Sopranos co-stars Steve Schirripa and Michael Imperioli—who played Bobby Baccalieri and Christopher Moltisanti—recalled the episode on the Joe Rogan Experience, as first reported by The Hollywood Reporter. Despite what some viewers might have thought, they agreed that Gandolfini was nothing like Tony Soprano. “He was very laid back,” Imperioli said. “He wore Birkenstocks and a bandanna on his head.” Schirripa added that Gandolfini, a […]
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) confirmed on Sunday that he’ll attend President Donald Trump’s upcoming campaign rally in Oklahoma, adding that despite the state’s rising coronavirus cases he has yet to decide if he’ll wear a face mask during the event. During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, Lankford was asked by anchor Jake Tapper about the Tulsa rally, which will be held this Saturday in an arena that has canceled all other events through July due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed over 115,000 Americans. “CDC guidelines say that you shouldn’t go into a packed arena indoors,” Tapper […]
Sometimes even a mild-mannered vegetarian like Arthur Gregg Sulzberger can feel obliged to spill blood. For Sulzberger, better known as A.G., the past 10 days—in which he tried to quell an unprecedented staff revolt at The New York Times over a bellicose, racially toxic op-ed by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, and essentially fired his editorial page editor, James Bennet—have amounted to both his most searing crucible and the defining moment of his young tenure as publisher of the 169-year-old newspaper. “I really lament the loss of a talent that I respect and admire more than you could know,” Sulzberger, 39, told […]
The saying “Better late than never, I guess” has never felt so apt. After 18 years and 25 seasons, The Bachelor has finally announced the first black lead for its flagship series, Matt James. It’s a positive, if long overdue sign that the franchise is beginning to take its race problem seriously. But as longtime fans of the franchise well know, it’ll take more than one black lead to make amends for this franchise’s past failures on race. That The Bachelor is only now announcing its first Black lead, amid widespread Black Lives Matter protests in response to the murder of […]
New York Times opinion editor James Bennet on Sunday announced that he has resigned, effectively immediately, following an internal revolt over Republican Sen. Tom Cotton’s “Send in the Troops” column published last week. The newspaper announced that Katie Kingsbury, will step in as an interim opinion page editor through the election; and that Bennet’s deputy editor Jim Dao is being reassigned back to the newsroom. In a statement, Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said: “James is a journalist of enormous talent and integrity who believes deeply in the mission of The Times. He oversaw a significant transformation of the Opinion department, which […]
Wednesday night on Fox News, Laura Ingraham defended New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees’ right to an opinion about Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players kneeling during the national anthem. Noting that Brees is a “person” who has “some worth,” she said, “I mean, this is beyond football, though. This is totalitarian conduct. This is Stalinist!” This is the same Laura Ingraham who told LeBron James in 2018 to “keep the political commentary” to himself and “shut up and dribble.” On Thursday, James used Ingraham hypocrisy to make the point that #BlackLivesMatter activists have been trying to make for years. “If […]
James O’Keefe and Project Veritas released their investigative report on the domestic terrorist group Antifa on Thursday morning. Antifa is a violent left-wing Communist faction that uses a black bloc tactic where they dress in black from head to toe and cover their faces with black masks. The tactic is meant to make it more difficult for police to identify those who break the law during a riot. Portland has one of the largest and most active populations of Antifa members in the United States. The left-wing terrorists previously took over directing traffic and harassed elderly motorists. Antifa recently came out […]
James Baker Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the man who authorized Robert Mueller to rove around unchecked for a two year ‘Trump-Russia investigation’ testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning. Rosenstein told Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) that he NEVER discussed a plot to wear a wire to remove President Trump using the 25th Amendment. However, there is evidence to the contrary. Somebody is lying. TRENDING: It’s a Cult: Thousands of Whites Grovel in Front of Blacks Begging For Forgiveness (VIDEO) In October of 2018, then-Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) called for Rosenstein to step down following explosive testimony from […]
A young black protester was shot dead outside a bar in Omaha as unrest across the nation engulfed the Nebraska city—and the white bar owner was reportedly in custody. The victim was identified as 22-year-old James Scurlock, whose father called for justice as the city braced for another night of chaos. “Last night I lost a son, my wife lost a son, my kids lost a brother,” the grieving dad, who has the same name, told reporters at the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation Visitors Center, “His daughter lost a father. All because he decided to protest against racism. There’s a lot […]
James Clapper is a serial liar. In April 2019 former DNI Clapper said Bill Barr’s accusations that the Obama administration was spying on Trump was “stunning and scary.” Then the following month, in May, he admitted it was true. I missed this from last Friday — Clapper on whether the FBI spied on the Trump campaign: “Well, yeah, I guess it meets the dictionary definition of spying.” pic.twitter.com/vNK6HpgTIe — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 7, 2019 James Clapper also claimed in his memoir that General Michael Flynn “had been compromised by Russia.” TRENDING: BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Deep State FBI Asked George Papadopoulos’s Wife, […]
Submitted to VT by the Washington Post James Mattis, retired four-star Marine Corps general and former defense secretary, writes in Washington Post Opinions: On Memorial Day this year, we may be keeping social distance from one another, but that cannot detract from the sense of closeness, the sense of community and the sense of shared sacrifice that we feel for one another on a day when we come face-to-face with the human cost of freedom. What do we owe our fallen and their families on this day? Remembrance, for sure, yet we also owe a keen awareness of what they fought […]
For over two decades, Laura Smith has been fighting for justice against the man who sexually assaulted her 5-year-old son. While she was on a late-night grocery run in May 1993, Mattieo Condoluci, a former nightclub bouncer who she had just moved in with, sexually assaulted her son. When she returned to their home in Ormond Beach, Florida, she found her son in the bathroom violently crying, Smith told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “I knew something was instantly wrong,” Smith said, recounting how Condoluci tried to claim her son had just “wet the bed.” “My son had never wet the […]
G, here is my take on the CV op. Your articles, especially the one today are excellent. Sad thing is that few are capable of accepting much truth ever so most goes on deaf ears since you have burst many false hopes in T and most cannot live without hope, they would rather believe a lie and feel better. NEO: Pandemic exposes US as only Bioweapons Superpower Years ago I was briefed by several high ranking former Intel who knew how these ops were conducted. The most surprising part was that the cover up teams are usually comprised of two or […]
This post contains spoilers for Dead to Me Season 2. Maybe it’s the surreality of, well, everything lately—or maybe it’s just aged like the fine wines all of its characters toss back by the bottle. Whatever the reason, Dead to Me Season 2 hits even better than Season 1—fighting off a sophomore slump with a fresh batch of twists, dramatic ironies, and, most importantly, some more Christina Applegate angsting out to metal. Perhaps this season’s smartest move, however, is a trope pulled straight out of Soapy Dramas 101: Bringing James Marsden back to play his own twin. Series creator Liz Feldman […]
LeBron James has been accused of using the death of a young black man in Georgia to “build a brand” and “sh*t stir,” after the NBA icon suggested African Americans were “being hunted” in a tweet about the tragedy. Footage appeared this week of the death of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, who was killed on February 23 while out running just outside Brunswick, according to authorities in Georgia. Arbery had reportedly been chased down by father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, who were reportedly armed and suspected Arbery of being the person behind a series of break-ins in the area. After […]
The FBI released a statement on the new Flynn documents produced to Flynn’s attorney casting doubt on Mueller’s prosecutor Brandon Van Grack’s compliance with a court order to produce “Brady” material. On Tuesday FOX News reported on Prosecutor Brandon Van Grack’s failure to produce all evidence including favorable evidence on General Flynn to his attorneys. The Bureau said Tuesday in a statement, “the FBI previously produced those materials to the Inspector General and U.S. Attorney Durham.” It is unclear when the new Flynn documents were given to Horowitz and Durham. TRENDING: Shelley Luther Sentenced to Seven Days in Jail for Opening […]