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Close the Border? Only If You Are An Idiot.

It would be fun to simply blow away Trump's threat to close down the U.S. border with Mexico. A video by Randy Rainbow would be perfect (I'm hearing "Border Lies")…

Hate Has No Reason. Stop Looking.

Stop trying to find reason. The murderer who slaughtered 50 praying Muslims in two New Zealand mosques loves to hate. It's the only emotional motivation he possesses. There may be…

Words to Remember

16 Mar 201919 Mar 2019

Pay attention. Take this extremist ideology & terror threat seriously. Be wary of politicians, academics & media heads who give it a platform and spout it under the guise of…

Salaam سلام‎ to Christchurch

I am profoundly sad for the Muslim community and their friends in Christchurch. Please let there be peace. سلام

Russia

A Country Taken Hostage by Cyber Threat

13 Jan 20192 Apr 2019

Foreign actors have launched ever intensifying and targeted cyber attacks against the U.S. government and major corporations for years. Just in 2018 these assaults included: malware detected in major home/office…

Abandoning Kurdish Allies Shows Once Again That Trump Hates Women

24 Dec 20181 Feb 2019

Only days after Trump announced the immediate and full withdrawal of American forces in Syria, the president of Turkey acted to destroy the allies abandoned by Trump. These are the…

The Enemy Is Dead. The Enemy Is Near.

19 Sep 20184 Apr 2019

@Norad_Northcom photo of one of the two Russian Aerospace Forces Tu-95MS BEAR-H bombers (plus two Su-35 escorts) and one of the two F-22A Raptors that intercepted them west of mainland…

Meanwhile in Berlin

24 Aug 201814 Feb 2019

Last Saturday, the president of the Russian Federation traveled to Berlin at the invite of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. By all appearances, the two heads of state engaged in civil…

About Those Expelled Russian Spies

20 Apr 201820 Feb 2019

Once again Christopher Steele's dossier runs parallel to news reports, this time potentially implicating Donald Trump's circle in covert intelligence gathering for Kremlin spies. As reported by CNN, a bevy…

Everything But Putin

5 Mar 201829 Dec 2018

He's unglued. He's mad at Jeff Sessions. He's upset over Hope Hicks. He's angry with Mueller. He's frustrated about Jared Kushner. He was gunning for a fight. These are the…

The Areti/Itera Matryoshka, Part 1

29 Jan 20189 Jan 2019

The building that carried the Itera International Energy nameplate is the central hub for hundreds of corporations with an interlocking, core group of principals. Now known as Areti (Itera spelled…

Julian Assange’s Future Status Uncertain

10 Jan 201829 Dec 2018

Last month, the government of Ecuador deleted the Twitter account of Julian Assange. That move looks like a prelude to its complete ejection of the Wikileaks founder. As reported in…

Ecuador Silences Assange

25 Dec 20174 Apr 2019

Today, a lot of people logged in to Twitter and saw "Julian Assange" trending somewhere between "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Birthday Jesus." What's the buzz? His account was removed. Or…

The Texas Chemical Plant Cluster

31 Aug 20176 Oct 2018

If you listened to this morning's pre-dawn press conference about the Arkema plant in Crosby, you may have heard an important question. A member of the press asked if local…

Harvey Brings New Threat with Chemical Plant

31 Aug 20177 Oct 2018

The fire chief called them "pops." The company said they were "explosions." Semantics aside, there was an event this morning at the French-owned Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas. Explosions…

Mandatory Evacuation Order in Ft. Bend County Will Be Modified

31 Aug 20177 Oct 2018

Very early this morning, the Army Corps of Engineers ordered mandatory evacuations for a huge swath of neighborhoods near the Barker Reservoir in Ft. Bend County, Texas. However, hours later,…

Three Missiles and a Pardon: Timing Is Everything

26 Aug 20171 Jan 2019

While most pundits pursue the theory that Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio is a deviously-timed event under cover of a major hurricane, there is a another reason for the timing…

Russian Oil Comes To Florida – Part 1

2 Aug 201728 Jan 2019

In 1991, a married couple from Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia immigrated to the United States. They left their home on the banks of the Volga River to settle at…

Nuclear Warfare…

A Close Call in the Sea of Japan?

30 Jul 20177 Oct 2018

When the North Korean ICBM splashed down into the Sea of Japan on 28 July it wasn't alone. A U.S. guided missile destroyer was sailing in the same waters, accompanied…

A Nuclear Missile and A Muted Trump

30 Jul 20177 Oct 2018

The ICBM launched on 28 July by North Korea presents the most dangerous threat yet to the United States - and the president's response was the most restrained, least belligerent…

Nuclear Warfare…

No More Psychic Numbness

25 Apr 20177 Oct 2018

Back when nuclear proliferation was rampant and nations detonated warheads across the globe, back during the Cuban Missile Crisis and later, the reactor meltdown in Chernobyl, back when anti-nuke groups…

Low Ranking State Rep Meets High Ranking Russian Official Over DPRK

5 Apr 201729 Jan 2019

On the morning of 4 April, North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan. As news broke of this provocative incident, it was easy to miss a…

The Reality of War

15 Nov 20151 Jan 2019

On 14 November 2015, the day after the terrorists attacked Paris, I woke with a feeling of nausea. That dull sensation was prompted by an existential fear. For the first…

World Leaders Show Solidarity with Paris

14 Nov 20151 Jan 2019

France is strong, even if it is wounded. Pres. Francois Hollande [Video] French President @fhollande reacts to #Parisattacks https://t.co/I4PdHhrmLL https://t.co/AbftDgSjAC — euronews (@euronews) November 14, 2015 L'Europe solidaire avec…

Airlines Respond with New Cockpit Rules

27 Mar 20151 Jan 2019

In the wake of the Germanwings Airbus A320 catastrophic crash on 25 March, the airline industry in Europe and Canada is changing cockpit regulations to what's called the…

Vulnerable, Part I

26 Mar 20151 Jan 2019

Let me start this post by asking my readers two questions. Do you agree that hacking is possible? Do you agree that airplane flight systems are computerized? If you're a…