Early in the morning of Tuesday, March 14th, two Russian Su-27 jets harassed a $32 million American MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone that was gathering information on the nearby Ukraine War from the air above the international waters of the Black Sea 75 miles from Russian-held Crimea. The two Russian jets reportedly toyed with the drone
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Twenty years ago in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, four children–Latavia Washington McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown, and Eric Williams–were inseparable friends. According to Zindell Brown’s sister, they stuck together “like glue.” Latavia is now 33 and the mother of six children. When she decided to get her figure in shape with a three to five
March 1st, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on H.R. 1153, a bill to give the president “the power to ban…. TikTok.” And not just to ban TikTok. Giving the president the power to ban any app from “a foreign entity that is ‘subject to the influence of China’.” This is just one in a four-year
February 24th marks a year since the troops of Vladimir Putin first invaded the Ukraine. And new developments are emerging rapidly. The war in Ukraine is becoming a piece in a new great game. A chess piece in a new faceoff between the great powers. On Wednesday February 22nd, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi[i] visited Vladimir Putin in
According to a headline from England’s Daily Mail, “American adults now spend more time watching Netflix and other digital platforms than viewing traditional TV for the first time ever.” The information for this story and a dozen others like it come from a press release put out on the morning of February 15th by Insider
On February 6th, a constitutional amendment was introduced in the California Legislature by Assembly Member Isaac Bryan. Bryan’s amendment would give voting rights to people in prison on felony convictions. Two days later, David Cruz, an ex-felon who spent thirteen years in state prison and then helped organize a non-profit called Initiate Justice, held a
Two Iranians in their early twenties have just been sentenced to a longer period of time in jail than a murderer. What in the world could they have done to deserve this punishment? Social networking. On October 26th, the two Iranians, Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiancée, Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, posted a video of themselves dancing in
On January 25th, Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, announced that Donald Trump will be reinstated on Facebook and Instagram. Clegg is not just any old corporate executive. He is the former deputy prime minister of England. Trump’s account was suspended for two years on January 7th, the day after the violent events of January
On January 3rd, a new study on teens and social media hit the headlines in places like StudyFinds.org and the New York Times. The headline in StudyFinds was scary: it warned of a “social disaster.” And it explained that “Children who frequently check social media face significant brain changes.” But the headline was wrong. Dead wrong. Here’s
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on December 14th that “Russia’s Yars intercontinental ballistic missile has been loaded into a silo at the Kozelsk missile formation in the Kaluga Region in central Russia,” southwest of Moscow. With a 7,500 mile range, the Yars rocket is able to hit the United States. The Yars carries multiple independently targetable
On April 14th, roughly six months ago, Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Then he pulled out of the deal. Now he is pulling back in again, offering to buy Twitter at the original price if Twitter will drop a lawsuit it filed against him after he backed out. Meanwhile folks on
Two new polls show that since the beginning of the Covid pandemic on March 11, 2020, some of us have had trouble sleeping. There are two main things keeping us awake. We are worried about the state of the world and its impact on us. And our mate in the bed next to us is
At 1:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time on September 7th, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, 60 miles north of Santa Barbara, California, the US Air Force Global Strike Command launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile stripped of its nuclear warhead. The Space Force says that the point of the test is to prove that “the
First, let me give you the hidden bottom line of this story. If you are a man or a boy, nature has cut your lifespan off at the knees. Now for the news. On August 31st, the CDC dropped some startling statistics about your probable lifespan and mine. Life expectancy in America has gone down
Howard Bloom has been named One Of The Best TV/Radio/Podcast Hosts on the Planet by Hollywood 411 News, just below Bill Maher and just above Jimmy Kimmel. Howard Bloom has been called the Einstein, Newton, and Freud of the 21st century by Britain’s Channel 4 TV. One
On the morning of August 10th, in Aurora, Colorado, Margarita Flores Velasquez opened the door to her bathroom and discovered her 13 year old grandson, Jose, bent over with his head in the sink. She recalls, “I said ‘Jose, Jose,’… I tried moving him. He was limp, cold, his mouth and fingers were purple.” She
Nancy Pelosi’s August trip to Taiwan has not been scheduled yet, but it has already become much more than a diplomatic and fact-finding visit. Tweets Hu Xijin, the former editor of one of China’s leading official media outlets, the Global Times: “It is certain that the mainland’s response to Pelosi’s visit will …involve shocking military
On July 20th, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, told the Russian news outlets Tass, RIA Novotni, and Sputnik that Russia wants to take the war in the Ukraine much farther than the territories that Russia now controls in the Donbas and Luhansk regions. Russia wants to move south, west, and north to the regions of