The Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced on 25 February that it has chosen Lockheed Martin’s heavy-lift CH-53K King Stallion as a new Israel Defense Force᾿s (IDF) transport helicopter, replacing the current “Yas’ur” (CH-53) model. On Thursday, the Ministry press release said that Defense Minister Gantz accepted the recommendations presented by IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, and Defense Ministry Director-General Maj. Gen. (Res.), Amir Eshel, to select Lockheed Martin CH-53K helicopters as the IDF’s new heavy-lift aircraft. “It is essential to the IDF’s ability to carry out a wide range of operational activities. The new helicopter […]
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The legendary VH-3 Sea King Presidential transport helicopter, better known as Marine One, is one step closer to its retirement, according to the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command. In a statement Friday, the Naval Air Systems Command said the Fleet Readiness Center East recently completed work on the last T58-GE-400B presidential helicopter engine supporting the Marines at Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1) who provide executive transport of the President, Vice President, Cabinet, and foreign dignitaries. The current version of the presidential helicopter FRCE supports, the VH-3D Sea King, is scheduled to be replaced by the newer VH-92A presidential helicopter in 2021. – […]
The ratings are in, and it appears as if Democratic presidential nominee and former US Vice President Joe Biden’s Thursday night town hall attracted more viewers than that of US President Donald Trump, whose program was simulcast across three networks. Early Nielsen television ratings released on Friday revealed Biden attracted 13.9 million total viewers to his town hall on Thursday night, versus Trump’s 13.1 million, Bloomberg reported. While the former vice president’s event was only broadcast via ABC, Trump’s town hall could be viewed on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. An estimated 73.1 million viewers tuned into the September debate between Biden […]
A 100-year-old statue of a black king has been banned from the nativity display of a cathedral in southern Germany after some in the parish called it “racist and disgusting”. Others, though, say it shouldn’t be removed or hidden. The Evangelical Church District of Ulm in the south of the country announced on Sunday that it would remove the three Wise Men from Christmas displays at Ulm Cathedral this festive season. The statues include the figure of King Melchior, whose dark black skin, large red lips and hunched posture have been called “racist.” The move comes amid an on-going race debate […]
British coal drove the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century but the last deep mine, at Kellingley in Yorkshire, closed in 2015. But now plans are afoot to build a new pit in Cumbria, which could start producing coal as early as 2022. Climate change activists are urging government minister Robert Jenrick to block plans for Britain’s a new deep coal mine, the first to be built for 55 years. On Friday, 2 October, Cumbria County Council’s planning committee voted in favour of an application to build the mine, Woodhouse Colliery, on the site of a former sulphuric acid factory in Whitehaven […]
VT: Despite the endless denials, the GOP is still MEGA, Sheldon Adelson and the Epstein/Mossad circle, sans Epstein, dead, missing or whatever. The backstory behind Trump’s cartel in Washington began during Reagan. This is that story. Editor’s note: Donald Gregg, National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush was tasked with silencing those involved. He turned to the CIA. The Franklin Scandal was only one aspect of a much larger “call boy” operation moving children and teenagers, picked up from Boys Town, Catholic orphanages and off the streets, and housed in Washington and New York primarily. President Ronald Reagan and the Bush […]
It took nearly two hours for Carole Baskin to get thrown to the tigers. It was an excruciating wait. Like a big cat stalking its prey, the Dancing With the Stars producers waited a full 117 minutes before going in for the kill, stringing along the scores of new lookie-loo viewers who, judging by the sudden social media interest in the creaky 29th season premiere of the show, were tuning in for a reality-TV snuff film: the televised humiliation of the year’s most notorious TV star. They got just that, too. Baskin’s paso doble, danced with laughable predictability to Survivor’s “Eye […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0a/1080417607_50:0:1320:714_1200x675_80_0_0_af5713e5d0f3efb8bade01cfe39bf1b6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202009101080417099-heres-to-the-mighty-jungle-king-watch-what-indias-famous-bengal-tiger-gets-for-lunch/ With all of India’s lions confined to the forests of Gir in Gujarat state, jungles are ruled over by tigers. In all their glory, India’s Bengal Tigers are world famous for their majestic and larger than life personas. Tourists from around the globe flock to Indian jungles to catch a glimpse of these tigers in their natural habitat. Susanta Nanda, an officer from the Indian Forest Services (IFS), posted a thrilling video on Twitter showing a rare sight of a Bengal Tiger, dragging a hunted calf for lunch. In the caption, Nanda revealed that […]
In April, US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that he would consider pardoning the Oklahoma celebrity exotic animal park owner, Joseph Maldonado-Passage, best known as Joe Exotic or the ‘Tiger King’, who was sentenced in January to 22 years in prison in a murder-for-hire plot and for violations of wildlife laws. The convicted private zoo owner at the centre of Netflix’s breakout series ‘Tiger King’, Joseph Maldonado-Passage, better known by stage name Joe Exotic, sent a handwritten pardon-request letter to US President Donald Trump, to be delivered to the White House on Thursday, CBS News reported. In […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/06/1080384407_0:181:2000:1306_1200x675_80_0_0_8aeb75fe231f985d9a66b6c6afc54145.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009061080384390-saudi-king-tells-trump-kingdom-willing-to-reach-permanent-and-just-solution-to-palestinian-problem/ Tensions have risen in the region after the UAE and Israel reached an agreement that will make the Emirates the third Arab country in modern history to establish diplomatic ties with the state of Israel. US President Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz have had a phone conversation during which the Saudi monarch expressed the Kingdom’s willingness to reach a “permanent and just solution to the Palestinian cause to bring peace”, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Sunday. He added that it is the starting point for the Kingdom’s efforts and the […]
Despite being allies, the US Republicans and the Swedish Moderates appear to have conflicting opinions about Donald Trump and his ways, as both former and current Moderate party leaders have endorsed his Democrat rival Joe Biden. Former Swedish Prime Minister and long-time Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt has ventured that US President Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy, underscoring a risk that the country will turn into a full-blown dictatorship if Trump gets re-elected. In a televised debate by national broadcaster SVT with Christian Democrat Johan Ingerö, who is also critical of Donald Trump, Reinfeldt suggested that Donald Trump […]
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Actor Chadwick Boseman, star of Marvel superhero hit ‘Black Panther,’ has passed away at the age of 43 after a years-long battle with colon cancer, which had progressed to stage four. “It is with immeasurable grief that we can confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman,” reads a statement from the actor’s family, shared to his Twitter account. “A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much.” It was the honor of his career to bring King T’Challa to life in Black Panther. Before taking on the role of the […]
From the age of 5, he has rubbed shoulders with the most feted and feared world leaders, from the Obamas and two successive popes to Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin. By 7 he had been gifted a handgun made of gold by Dmitry Medvedev, who was Russia’s president at the time. This week, Nikolay Lukashenko, the youngest son of the “last dictator in Europe,” came of age during the worst period of his father’s reign. With 100,000 protesters demanding Alexander Lukashenko’s resignation and free and fair elections in Minsk, the 15-year-old flew over the crowds in a helicopter, all dressed up […]
Social activist and writer Shaun King was ridiculed without mercy for a brazen about-face on his support for Kamala Harris, quickly cozying up to the senator after she became Joe Biden’s VP pick, despite criticizing her for years. King treated his 1.1 million-strong Twitter following to a lengthy defense of Harris soon after she was declared Biden’s running mate on Tuesday, dubbing her “the most progressive candidate among the credible finalists for VP.” Though a look through some of King’s pronouncements on Harris over the years reveals a long string of attacks over her less-than-progressive stances on criminal justice, he took […]
As plans to transfer Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s mummy to the new Grand Egyptian Museum from his tomb in Luxor surfaced in May 2020, many feared the disturbance of Tutankhamun’s resting place could trigger the legendary “curse of the pharaohs”. Egyptian teenage Pharaoh Tutankhamun, who was buried in the Valley of the Kings some 3,000 years ago, is to many the epitome of Ancient Egypt. The enigma surrounding his life and death, as well as the numerous deaths surrounding the discovery of his mummy and attributed to the “curse of the pharaohs” has unfailingly fired people’s imaginations. Tutankhamun, who took the throne […]
Juan Carlos I, the former king of Spain has gone into exile. He abdicated power in 2014 after breaking his hip on an African elephant hunting safari where it emerged he was killing big game with a woman who was not Queen Sofia. The former monarch is concurrently under investigation for financial mischief in Spain and Switzerland. Juan Carlos I’s abdication just six years ago scandalized the Spanish nation after it was revealed that the hunting foray in Botswana was subsidized by a Syrian-born Saudi businessman named Mohamed Eyad Kayali, who remains a key advisor to Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al […]
A Connecticut man has been arrested for using a samurai sword to decapitate his landlord, a professional bridge player, over a rent dispute, authorities said this week. Jerry David Thompson, 42, was charged with murder Monday after his 64-year-old landlord, Victor King, was found dead in the kitchen of his Hartford home on Sunday afternoon during a welfare check, the Hartford Police Department said. Since his arrest, Thompson has refused to speak about the crime to authorities or a public defender, claiming he is a sovereign citizen. He is currently being held on a $2 million bond after his Tuesday arraignment […]
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Burger King has pledged to do its bit to combat global warming by attempting to reduce cow farts through dietary changes – but only for a limited time. The move was instantly mocked on social media as superficial pandering. “Cow farts & burps are no laughing matter,” the restaurant chain tweeted on Tuesday, declaring that it will be changing its livestock’s diet “to reduce emissions” by around 33 percent. The company aims to achieve this target by adding some lemongrass to the animals’ menu. The seriousness of the decision was perhaps undermined by the country music video accompanying the tweet, which […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107475/64/1074756423_0:120:1280:840_1200x675_80_0_0_08273ce3d48d34a758a48da95ba30f22.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202007131079867331-watch-15-foot-giant-king-cobra-coming-dangerously-close-to-rescuer-in-south-india–video/ New Delhi (Sputnik): The monsoon season has finally arrived in India after a months-long scorching summer. Along with rains, come the reptiles which are frequently being seen in residential areas and buildings. Recently, a giant monitor lizard was spotted in the capital Delhi. A 15-foot-long king Cobra entered a village in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The forest department subsequently came to rescue the giant reptile and release it back into the wild. A video of the incident shows the rescuer first picking up the cobra with his bare hands and placing it on a hook. The […]
Archaeologists in Turkey may have finally identified the remnants of an ancient metropolis on the Konya Plain in the south of the country. The discovery happened when a local farmer told them about a strange inscribed stone that was half-submerged in a nearby irrigation canal. The stone block recorded information about a 3,000-year-old victory that provides tangible historical evidence for the demise of King Midas, he of the famous “Midas Touch.” The stone itself was discovered and translated last summer by scholars from the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute as part of an international project to survey a large Bronze and […]
Beyoncé, who voiced the character of Nala in last year’s animated remake of The Lion King, is releasing a visual album based off the music from its accompanying soundtrack. Black Is King will premiere on Disney+ at the end of July. Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP Beyoncé, who voiced the character of Nala in last year’s animated remake of The Lion King, is releasing a visual album based off the music from its accompanying soundtrack. Black Is King will premiere on Disney+ at the end of July. Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP A new visual album written, directed […]
Ten days after Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot by an Atlanta police officer after he fell asleep in his car in a Wendy’s drive-thru lane, friends and family of the 27-year-old will honor his life at the church where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached. Beginning at 3 p.m. ET, the public viewing Monday at Ebenezer Baptist Church will serve as the start of a two-day memorial service for Brooks, whose June 12 death has sparked widespread outcry, the resignation of Atlanta’s police chief, and criminal charges against the two officers involved. The service will be livestreamed by the church. “Ebenezer […]
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Last week, the statue of Robert the Bruce, a Scottish king who lived in the 14th century, was spray painted with the word “racist”. Despite the timing of the vandalism, many now speculate that Black Lives Matter activists had nothing to do with the graffiti. Netizens are currently debating online whether the defacing of the Robert the Bruce statue in Borestone, Scotland could have been an act of trolling, a provocation aimed at discrediting the Black Lives Matter movement or an act of genuine ignorance. The monument was vandalized with “racist king” lettering signed by “BLM”, while a nearby rotunda was […]
Already strained relations between Israel and Jordan, one of the two Arab nations that maintain official diplomatic ties with the Jewish State, risk deteriorating further amid the looming Israeli take-over of a third of the West Bank. Jordan’s King Abdullah II has turned down attempts by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak over the phone, Palestinian agency Maan News reports, citing an unnamed Jordanian official. King Abdullah has also refused to set a specific date for a future meeting with Netanyahu’s coalition partner, Benny Gantz, who is making overtures to coordinate Israel’s plans regarding the West Bank, according to the […]
This is the Democrat Party leader and the likely nominee for President of the United States. Advertisement – story continues below Joe Biden today told a crowd of supporters that George Floyd’s death was bigger than the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Joe Biden: “Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Joe Biden: “Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact the George Floyd’s death did.” 👀 pic.twitter.com/b9LzB9bbNq — ForAmerica 🇺🇸 (@ForAmerica) June 11, 2020 TRENDING: “I Should Never Have Been There” – Gen Mark Milley Stands with the Mob […]
A statue of Belgium’s notorious colonialist King Leopold II has been removed from its location in Antwerp to be relocated to a museum, days after it was defaced with graffiti amid worldwide Black Lives Matter protests. A spokesman for Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever said the Leopold statue will now “become part of the museum collection” and “because of the renovation work planned for 2023 in the square in which it was placed, the statue will not be replaced.” This Congolese man is staring at the severed hand and foot of his 5 year old daughter – punishment for not collecting […]
Amid ongoing anti-racism protests in the US, two petitions have been launched in Belgium demanding the removal of statues depicting King Leopold II. Estimates suggest the late monarch’s brutal Congo rule left some 10 million dead. The petitions, launched several days ago, have already attracted nearly 40,000 backers. The campaigns demand the removal of all statues of King Leopold II, who ruled the country between 1865 and 1909. While for Belgium itself he was a constitutional monarch, Leopold was also a brutal oppressor of Africans. The king was the founder – and sole owner – of the so-called ‘Congo Free State’, […]
The only member of Congress known for lamenting the decline of white Americans and making racist remarks about the size of immigrants’ calf muscles is out of a job next year. Rep. Steve King was defeated in a five-person primary Tuesday by a fellow Republican, Iowa state Sen. Randy Feenstra, who had received support from a national GOP establishment that finally invested deeply in an effort to oust King. Their success brings to an end the two-decade congressional career of a man who managed to make himself a notorious national figure and persona non grata within the GOP even during the […]
Rep. Steve King, shown here during a news conference in August 2019, faced criticism for his comments on abortion, including when he questioned whether there would be “any population of the world left” if not for births due to rape and incest. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Neibergall/AP Rep. Steve King, shown here during a news conference in August 2019, faced criticism for his comments on abortion, including when he questioned whether there would be “any population of the world left” if not for births due to rape and incest. Charlie Neibergall/AP After years of incendiary comments on race […]
Iowa Rep. Steve King is facing a fierce primary challenge from fellow Republicans, after years of incendiary comments about abortion, immigrants and Islam. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Neibergall/AP Iowa Rep. Steve King is facing a fierce primary challenge from fellow Republicans, after years of incendiary comments about abortion, immigrants and Islam. Charlie Neibergall/AP With everything going in the country — from the unrest in many cities after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — it’s easy to have missed that there are elections being held. But several states have […]
UFC featherweight champ Alexander Volkanovski has become the latest man to seek a lucrative showdown with notorious Irishman Conor McGregor, with the Aussie calling out his rival for a contest on the fabled ‘Fight Island’. Volkanovski, who was crowned featherweight champ in December after unseating longtime ruler Max Holloway, said he would relish the prospect of a meeting with McGregor at the as-yet unnamed island location where UFC boss Dana White says he will hold a series of events in June and July. “Who wouldn’t take that fight [against McGregor]?” Volkanovski told Australia’s 7 News. “You would be an absolute fool […]
After being repeatedly broadsided by Washington’s incendiary regime-change rhetoric, Tehran is now returning the favor. Iran’s Foreign Ministry seems to be urging Americans to “rise up” against their government. The ministry tweeted out a photograph of a black demonstrator, fist in the air, standing defiantly in front of a group of riot police. The image is accompanied by a quote from civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up & live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created […]
Rep. Steve King at a townhall in Hampton, Iowa, in Summer 2019. Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio Rep. Steve King at a townhall in Hampton, Iowa, in Summer 2019. Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio Weeks before the 2018 midterm, President Trump stood before a packed arena in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and singled out Rep. Steve King — then running for his ninth term. “[King] may be the world’s most conservative human being,” Trump said to a crowd of cheering supporters. Now, Republican Rep. Steve King is fighting to hang onto his seat. Republican leaders stripped […]
On 20 April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political rival, Benny Gantz, clinched a coalition agreement empowering the Jewish state to start the de-facto extension of sovereignty over some West Bank territories, in line with a peace plan unveiled by US President Donald Trump in January. In an interview with the magazine Der Spiegel on Friday, Jordan’s King Abdulla II warned Israel of a “massive conflict” with the Hashemite Kingdom if the Jewish state proceeds with its extension of sovereignty over certain areas of the West Bank in the coming months. “Leaders who advocate a one-state solution do […]
India 12:24 GMT 15.05.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): The past few weeks have divided locked down idle Indians into gangs of YouTubers and TikTokers. Both of the video platforms are quite popular in India, with over 265 million and 119 million users respectively. However, the latter is more often blamed for “cringeworthy content” that it spills on social media. One of India’s “most popular” YouTubers Ajay Nagar, who also goes by the name of CarryMinati and has over 16 million subscribers, recently uploaded a video of himself roasting TikTok “star” Amir Siddiqui who has 3.4 million followers on the Chinese […]
With so many cryptocurrencies and “blockchain solutions” it’s remarkable, yet unavoidably clear, that Bitcoin is still the most exciting project to watch in this space. In the shadow of the coronavirus crisis, small groups of people use this censorship-resistant money to fundraise for emergency medical equipment, secure their savings and conduct international business. The godfather cryptocurrency still represents 64% of the crypto market. Although it appears such usage is still an extreme outlier compared to speculative trading volumes, there are people who turn to bitcoin because it’s the only accessible tool that works in their particular circumstances. This post is part […]
Singer Little Richard making peace sign and wearing an outlandish outfit as he prepares to perform at Wembley Stadium, 1972. (Photo by Rosemary Matthews/Keystone Features/Getty Images) Rosemary Matthews/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rosemary Matthews/Getty Images Singer Little Richard making peace sign and wearing an outlandish outfit as he prepares to perform at Wembley Stadium, 1972. (Photo by Rosemary Matthews/Keystone Features/Getty Images) Rosemary Matthews/Getty Images Little Richard, the self-described “king and queen” of rock and roll and an outsize influence on everyone from David Bowie to Prince, died Saturday. He was 87 years old. His death was announced on his official […]