U.S. Air Force named the F-15EX fighter jet ‘Eagle II’ during a naming ceremony at Eglin Air Force Base, April. 7. During the ceremony, the Air Force’s newest fighter aircraft has officially been named Eagle II. The official designation of F-15EX fighter aircraft announced Lt. Gen. Duke Z. Richardson, the Military Deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology. – ADVERTISEMENT […]
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Mischievous internet trolls signed an open letter to governments that urges a policy of ‘Focused Protection’ towards the COVID-19 pandemic in place of a blanket lockdown, with amusing hoax names like “I P Freely”. Dozens of ridiculous fake names appeared on an open letter urging governments to adopt a “herd immunity” strategy towards COVID-19. Leading signatories of the public Great Barrington Declaration, named after the US town […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/0a/1080122018_0:213:2048:1365_1200x675_80_0_0_4177b6588f22ef49e7a30526312b45be.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/society/202009261080576896-who-will-be-karens-of-the-future-graphs-show-possible-meme-names-for-different-decades/ The catch phrase: “I want to speak to the manager!”, alongside “white privilege” and constantly complaining – this is what the name “Karen” has absorbed in recent years, becoming a byword for online mockery of entitled and annoying white women. Reddit user T1m_Burr analyzed data from the US Social Security Administration to try to determine what names will […]
Love him or hate him, one can’t ignore him: every time Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation, from his “bhakts (followers)” to his critics, everyone is glued to the screen and closely listens to everything he says. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is known to make a grand event out of even small developments, turned 70 on Thursday. On this occasion, he is […]
64 days to remove the most unfit (and bizarre) president in history https://t.co/IJizgWZ8zs — Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) September 1, 2020 This text is here only to facilitate wordpress opening the tweet properly VT Editors is a General Posting account managed by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff. All content herein is owned and copyrighted by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff ATTENTION READERS Due to the […]
The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DoJ) identified the police officer who shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake as Rustin Sheskey. Sheskey has been a police officer with the Kenosha Police Department for seven years. According to a DoJ press release, there is no body camera footage of the incident, as the Kenosha Police Department does not have any body cameras. During an investigation following the incident, Blake admitted […]
The debate on renaming streets that refer to Germany’s colonial past has been going on for many years and recently gained momentum following global protests against racial discrimination and police brutality, which were sparked by a death of a black man in the United States, who died at the hands of a white police officer. Authorities in the German capital Berlin said they would change the […]
Since he was in elementary school summiting flagpoles, eating his lunch at the top of basketball hoops, and wriggling his way up the exposed seams of brick buildings, Kai Lightner has been a fearless climber. The 20-year-old professional from Fayetteville, North Carolina, has tackled some of the hardest routes in the world, ascending the formidable Era Vella in Margalef, Spain, when he was just 15. Still […]
One of the flies in question was apparently named after Marvel author Stan Lee because the creature’s “black eyes and bristly white whiskers resemble the famous comic book creator”. A number of previously unknown species of predatory insects that were discovered in Australia ended up being named after popular comic book characters – and one famous comic book author – by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial […]
President Trump meets with the family of slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen on Thursday. Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Pool/Getty Images President Trump meets with the family of slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen on Thursday. Pool/Getty Images The U.S. Army on Thursday named its five-person civilian panel that will conduct a review of the culture at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, following the […]
We had ANG LEE in Thursday’s puzzle, which makes a crossword writer feel good. Why? Because I was able to use both the director’s first *and* last names in the grid. You see first *or* last names all the time in crosswords, of course, so it’s fun to surprise the solver with a full name. It wasn’t that tough to fit ANG LEE in there, however, […]
Fans sit in the stands before the start of a game between the New York Giants and Washington Redskins at FedEx Field in 2019 in Landover, Md. The Redskins, and other teams, are reviewing their names. Patrick McDermott/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Fans sit in the stands before the start of a game between the New York Giants and Washington Redskins at […]
US President Donald Trump threatened to veto this year’s proposed $740 billion defense bill if it includes an amendment requiring the Pentagon to rechristen bases named after Confederate leaders. However, the president is unlikely to veto anything regarding the military, award-winning foreign correspondent Jon Jeter told Political Misfits. “I will Veto the Defense Authorization Bill if the Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren (of all people!) Amendment, which will […]
Critics have described the Black Lives Matter movement as a “scam” and questioned the point of a move by a Major League Soccer team which has replaced player names with the names of black victims of police brutality. Philadelphia Union players wore the names of victims on the backs of their shirts when they played New York City FC in the MLS is Back Tournament in […]
In May a new book claimed that Bill Clinton had an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam. The New York Post reported: Bill Clinton had an affair with British-born socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of helping recruit underage victims for notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to a blockbuster new book. The ex-president — who denies cheating on wife Hillary Clinton with Maxwell — […]
Jackie Robinson and Daniel Boone President Donald. J. Trump’s Executive Order on the building of a garden park with statutes of American heroes. Last night on July 3rd, 2020, President Trump delivered an unforgettable speech on a Friday night at Mount Rushmore National Park in South Dakota. The president defined the current battle between good and evil in America today. President Trump vowed to defend America, […]
Earlier, US President Donald Trump tweeted that would veto the defence authorisation bill if it contains an amendment calling for changing the Confederate-related names of US military bases. The US House Armed Services Committee voted for the amendment to the annual defence policy bill that envisages stripping Confederate names off of military bases and other property within one year. The amendment, offered by Representatives Anthony Brown and […]
…by Jonas E. Alexis It was about 9:30 p.m. when several police officers got a call to go to a convenience store at South First Street and Glenfield Drive, Texas. It was related to a 29-year-old Gabriel Cobarrubias, who “used his car to block another vehicle that was parked at the store.”[1] Cobarrubias, who was driving a red Infinity, was obviously asked to move his car, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107973/75/1079737575_0:138:2048:1290_1200x675_80_0_0_df152a3f47903bf3a35667dbce4abd4c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006281079737604-scottish-police-names-glasgow-knife-attacker-shot-by-officers/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Police have named the attacker shot by officers during a stabbing incident in the Scottish city of Glasgow as Badreddin Abadlla Adam. “The man who died after being shot by armed officers during the incident in West George Street, Glasgow, on Friday, 25 June, can now be named as Badreddin Abadlla Adam, 28, from Sudan. The […]
Planned Parenthood will announce Friday that its new permanent president and CEO is Alexis McGill Johnson, the renowned civil rights and social justice activist who’s been acting as interim president since the organization fired its former leader, Leana Wen, in 2019. The nation’s largest family planning provider was originally going to wait to announce a new president until after the November election, as Johnson had committed […]
The agency will name its Washington, D.C., headquarters after the pioneering scientist whose Space Race-era contributions gained recognition in the 2016 film Hidden Figures. (Image credit: Robert Nye/NASA via AP) Source link
Submitted to VT by the Washington Post Ty Seidule, retired U.S. Army brigadier general and professor emeritus of history at West Point, writes in Washington Post Opinions: Ten Army posts named during World Wars I and II honor men who fought for the Confederate States of America against the United States of America. These men committed treason to create a country dedicated to human enslavement. The posts […]
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe announced Wednesday afternoon that he will be exposing where Antifa money is coming from. The footage exposing Antifa money will be released Thursday. “They name names,” O’Keefe said. Tomorrow @Project_Veritas will expose where the ANTIFA/RefuseFa money is coming from…in their own words… THEY NAME NAMES. Stay tuned…#DarkMoneyExposed pic.twitter.com/SD0Qype2FN — James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) June 10, 2020 TRENDING: Antifa Releases List of Demands […]
Former FOX News reporter put up a series of tweets this weekend on the ongoing Obama spygate scandal. According to Housley the scandal involves corrupt officials from both parties and he suggests that the case is moving swiftly and that these three men are in the crosshairs: H. R. McMaster, Rod Rosenstien and deceased US Senator and Trump-hater John McCain. Adam Housley: The corruption runs deep […]
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Joe Biden’s camp is rushing to do some damage control after it was revealed on Wednesday that Biden sought to unmask General Flynn on January 12, 2017 — the same day David Ignatius published his WaPo article about Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Last week Acting DNI Richard Grenell declassified the list of Obama officials involved in the unmasking […]
Iran’s Fars News and Turkey’s Anadolu, both of which tend to represent the government’s official view, highlighted a report that asserts the US mistakenly revealed the name of a Saudi official linked to 9/11 hijackers. “The FBI leaked the identity of a Saudi official at the Saudi Embassy in Washington who allegedly supported two al-Qaeda operatives during the incident,” Fars News reported. A mistake was made […]
The Libra Association has named HSBC Chief Legal Officer Stuart Levey as its first chief executive. The Facebook-created consortium announced Wednesday that Levey would be joining “later this summer” and will be overseeing its efforts to “combine technology innovation with a robust compliance and regulatory framework.” He has been at HSBC since 2012. He oversaw sanctions enforcement through the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control and […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to lead a panel on post-pandemic “reform” of health and education systems, despite criticism for taking other billionaires with conflicts of interest on board. Schmidt will head a ‘Blue Ribbon Commission’ tasked with “reimagining” New York’s existing systems of healthcare and education, Cuomo announced on Wednesday during his daily coronavirus briefing. The decision to place […]