The Australian military has confirmed that it has selected the Boeing AH-64E Apache as its armed reconnaissance helicopter to replace the Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) from 2025. On Friday, Defence Minister Linda Reynolds announced that the replacement for the Tiger ARH would be the Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian. “The Australian Army’s armed reconnaissance capability will be strengthened following the selection of Boeing Apache Guardian to […]
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The Russian Armed Forces are looking to replace its heavy rocket artillery systems, including Bm-30 Smerch and BM-27 Uragan self-propelled multiple rocket launcher systems by late 2027. In a statement presented by the Russian Armed Forces, Chief of Russia’s Missile Troops and Artillery Lieutenant-General Mikhail Matveyevsky said that new Tornado-S large-caliber multiple launch rocket systems will fully replace operational Smerch and Uragan systems in the Russian Forces […]
On Tuesday, Canada’s International Test Pilots School (ITPS)has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Korean Aerospace Industries to promote the KAI FA-50 for tactical and adversary training. According to a pilot’s school news release, the ITPS views T-50 / FA-50 supersonic advanced trainers and light combat aircraft as the most optimal replacement for its aging fleet of Aero L-39 used for tactical […]
Tokenized staked ETH is going to replace ETH itself. Ethereum is finally set to shift from a proof-of-work infrastructure to proof-of-stake. The end result of this upgrade will effectively take ETH out of circulation, replaced by a tokenized version of itself. Tim Ogilvie is the CEO of Staked, which runs staking infrastructure for institutional investors, exchanges, custodians, and wallets. He is appearing at CoinDesk’s invest: ethereum […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/05/1080675929_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_bae20338f9827488150739a8fde32fc7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010101080728610-ankara-says-karabakh-ceasefire-important-step-but-cannot-replace-sustainable-solution/ ANKARA (Sputnik) – The newly announced ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh is an important development, but it cannot replace a comprehensive solution to the long-lasting conflict, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. As a result of the 10-hour talks in Moscow, which continued into the early hours of Saturday, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to cease hostilities in conflict-torn Nagorno-Karabakh starting […]
House Democrats have tabled a bill to establish a Congressional panel to exercise powers under the 25th Amendment to remove the president if he or she becomes mentally or physically unfit to hold office. Donald Trump has claimed Democrat moves to set up a panel to judge the US presidents’ capacity to govern is aimed at removing an “out of it” Joe Biden if he is […]
Bitcoin is unlikely to replace the greenback as a global reserve currency any time soon, according to one of the most highly regarded analysts in foreign exchange. “Backing the dollar is the world’s biggest, deepest and the most transparent government bond market,” Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex and author of the book “Making Sense of the Dollar,” told CoinDesk in a video […]
After taking the summer off and hosting the virtual Emmy Awards on Sunday, Jimmy Kimmel is back in his Hollywood theater this week. And the late-night host has a theory about why the Republican Party is so eager to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the 2020 election. Kimmel began his monologue on Tuesday by recognizing National Voter Registration Day. “If you don’t register, […]
There’s a Jewish tradition that someone who dies on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, must have been a tzaddik, a righteous person. After all, God waited all year to carry out the decree. Perhaps that offers some comfort to those mourning the loss of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Hebrew name, Yita Ruchel bat Tzirel Leah), who finally succumbed to cancer at the age of 87, […]
Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to reporters about the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg upon arrival at New Castle County Airport in Delaware. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to reporters about the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg upon arrival at […]
On 3 June, the US Air Force issued a request for information to industry, to conduct market research on available technologies as well as conceptual designs for a new drone. Several US defence companies have lined up to present their concepts of a new stealthy drone amid the US Air Force’s efforts to replace the MQ-9 Reaper drone, Defense News reported on Thursday. The Air Force has […]
Chadwick Boseman’s hometown is already working on a statue dedicated to the late actor—but it will not replace the Confederate monument that still stands in the town square. After the actor’s tragic death from colon cancer, fans began signing a petition calling for Anderson, South Carolina, where Boseman was born and raised, to replace the Confederate statue that claims the soldiers who fought for the South […]
For a long time now, officials in Moscow have spoken of a desire to see Russia become the world’s fifth largest economy, measured by purchasing power parity. The Kremlin believes 2020 will be the year it finally happens. Putin’s chief economic advisor Maxim Oreshkin said on Monday that estimates from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and post-pandemic GDP projections suggest Russia is poised to meet the […]
The Air Force Command of Ukrainian Armed Forces has confirmed that the country is reviewing the future of its combat and training aircraft, a role currently filled by L-39 Albatros. On Agust. 14, service reported that Armed Forces officials are considering reducing the number of ageing L-39 aircraft and replacing them with Brazilian EMB314 Super Tucano turboprop trainer aircraft. “The Super Tucano aircraft was considered during […]
A former vice president of a top Chinese bank has argued that digital currency should replace fiat in the nation’s financial systems. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. […]
Seattle lawmakers are attempting to completely defund the city’s police department and replace it with a new “civilian-led” public safety system in response to ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. The Seattle City Council has already come under fire this week for proposing a 50 percent cut to the police department’s budget — a proposal that prompted hundreds of citizens to express their concerns during a council […]
First Minneapolis, now Seattle. Seattle City Council on Friday moved to abolish the entire police department and replace it with a Marxist “civilian led Department of Community Safety & Violence Prevention.” In the proposed legislation, the city council asserted that the Seattle Police Department perpetuates “racism and violence” and upholds “white supremacy culture.” “The Council is committed to confronting structural and institutional racism as a fundamental […]
US Democratic Party Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was blasted on Twitter for proposing that police officers be swapped with mental health staff at schools. Many argued online that the idea would make the schools even less safe. Omar tweeted that “over-policing doesn’t make them safer – it criminalizes Black and brown students.” Along with fellow Representative Ayanna Pressley, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Murphy, she proposed a […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed earlier this month that her liver cancer has returned. The 87-year-old revealed in a statement on Friday that she began a course of chemotherapy to treat a recurrence of cancer on May 19. Advertisement – story continues below “Immunotherapy first essayed proved unsuccessful,” she said. “The chemotherapy course, however, is yielding positive results.” Ginsburg said her most recent scan […]
(Author Joe Hoft lived in Hong Kong for nearly a decade and provides this first hand perspective) China took control of Hong Kong, the former British colony, in 1997. Ever since that time, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the small group that runs China, has attempted to control the tiny country. This has escalated over the past year. The CCP agreed to a 50-year plan to […]
Communist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant (Socialist Alternative) gave a victory speech Tuesday night after passage by the city council of the so-called Amazon Tax in which she vowed to overthrow the United States, replacing the government and society with a “socialist world”. Sawant, 46, immigrated from India as an adult with a B.S. in computer science from the University of Mumbai received in 1994. Once […]
Despite seeing a major exodus of advertisers over some of the statements made during his prime time show, Carlson is seeing the number of viewers going through the roof, with conservative Republicans being his primary audience. Famous conservative Fox News host, Tucker Carlson, could be the top choice for Republican presidential nominee in 2024, if he decides to run for office, Politico reported, citing accounts of […]
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 […]
Since the onset of the wave of Black Lives Matters protests, numerous monuments to historic figures proclaimed “racists” and “slave traders” have been vandalised or demolished across Europe. In a new twist to the crusade against undesirable monuments sweeping Europe, a case for removing the statues of one of Sweden’s arguably best-known kings and replacing him with teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was made. Citing riots […]
A new poll revealed that Democrats want to replace the senile Joe Biden with the New York Governor who killed 5,800 people in nursing homes. Democrats want Andrew Cuomo over Sleepy Joe Biden. The New York Post reported: A majority of Democrats want to nominate New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for president instead of Joe Biden, according to poll results shared exclusively with The Post. The […]
Minneapolis has officially voted to abolish the existing policing system in favor of a ‘public safety’ model. Hailed as transformative in the wake of protests, the suggestion is still vague on details. A resolution jointly co-authored unanimously approved by all 12 city council members acknowledged that “no amount of reforms will prevent lethal violence and abuse by some members of the Police Department,” thus virtually declaring […]
Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar has joined a growing call to disband the Minneapolis police force, arguing it is “beyond reform” after the killing of George Floyd. Critics have pilloried the suggestion as dangerous and “asinine.” The congresswoman took to Twitter on Friday to endorse an op-ed penned by a Minneapolis councilman, which urged the dissolution of the city’s police department and “start fresh” after years of […]
Digital currencies could supersede bank accounts as low-interest rates make them increasingly obsolete. That’s the view of Massimo Buonomo, the UN’s global blockchain expert, who added that digital currencies, particularly central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), could soon “eliminate the need for a bank account” altogether. Speaking on an online panel discussing the future post-coronavirus global economic order on Thursday, Buonomo said banks and credit cards have […]
Central bank digital currencies might one day replace commercial banks. But that comes with risks, according to new research from the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia. The 32-page research paper – titled “Central Bank Digital Currency: Central Banking for All?” – investigated the implications of an account-based central bank digital currency (CBDC), focusing on its potential competition with the traditional maturity transformation role of commercial banks. “The […]
India 08:09 GMT 01.06.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): Two major Indian airlines – IndiGo and GoAir – have come under scrutiny since their Airbus A320 Neo aircraft, powered by American Pratt & Whitney engines, reported a series of technical failures last year. The deadline for replacing the engines has since then been extended multiple times. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has granted three […]
The Race To Replace A Dying Neoliberalism By Walden Bello, Foreign Policy In Focus. May 20, 2020 The Race To Replace A Dying Neoliberalism2020-05-202020-05-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/doors-to-choose-from-shutterstock-e1589987674504.jpg200px200px Above: Doors to choose from Shutterstock. The world’s prevailing socio-political models aren’t going to survive this pandemic. What’s going to replace them? The morning will comeWhen the world is mine.Tomorrow belongs to me! From Cabaret In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three […]
Pivot To Peace Must Replace US Pivot To War With China By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance May 10, 2020 Pivot To Peace Must Replace US Pivot To War With China2020-05-102020-05-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/us-china-fists-and-weapons-from-the-financial-times.-1-e1589134846611.jpg200px200px Above: US and Chinese Fists and Weapons face-off from the Financial Times. The Trump administration, in seeking to divert attention from its bungled response to the COVID-19 pandemic and mishandling of the economic collapse, […]
US 15:32 GMT 06.05.2020(updated 15:33 GMT 06.05.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107918/06/1079180662_0:0:3069:1727_1200x675_80_0_0_3302eb80897e8c9c16972230e5a2dd70.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005061079218872-top-3-candidates-who-could-replace-joe-biden-as-democratic-nominee/ Following his denial of sexual assault allegations and speculation about the poor state of his mental health, former Vice President Joe Biden may have fallen out of favour with some Democratic voters, recent polls have shown. But if the party is to select a new challenger to Donald Trump, […]