Новости за 10.09.2019

Editor's Note: This is classic NYTimes fake news, operation Mockingbird bull-ticky. From yesterday's Times, their article states as fact something that supposedly was told to CNN by some mysterious unnamed 'officials', quotes James Clapper, of all people, as a reliable source, and well, if CNN says so, it must be true. This is such lousy journalism that even the disgraceful incompetence and gullibility of the NY Times staff doesn't begin to explain it. The only explanation is that this is planted info... Читать дальше...

The remarks come a week after the Trump administration’s reactivation of ‘Space Command’ – a DoD unit aimed at ‘defending America’s vital interests in space.’ President Trump has called outer space “the next warfighting domain,” possibly putting the US commitment to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty into question.

The Democratic presidential candidates are gearing up for a lengthy town hall event on CNN covering climate change, where they will discuss a range of plans that will entirely upend the U.S. energy sector.

Russian Helicopters Holding and Yandex.Taxi have signed an agreement to develop an air taxi network in Moscow, which is to start operating in 2020.

One might be forgiven for thinking that the foreign policy of the United States is some kind of theatrical performance, like a comic opera, with new characters appearing on stage willy-nilly and then being driven off after committing an incredible faux pas only to be replaced by even more grotesquely clownish figures. Unfortunately, while the musical chairs and plot twists contrived by a Goldoni or Moliere generally have a cheerful ending, the same cannot be said about what has been taking place in the White House. Читать дальше...

The US has been arming Islamic radicals since the 1980's Soviet-Afghan War (at least). Over the last few years, US arms and equipment kept turning up in the hands of ISIS. 

This past week was an interesting exercise in false expectations and assumptions. Once again, trade war theatrics were used to stall a stock market plunge as insinuations of a possible “deal” were made by Donald Trump, followed by China's claim that maybe, just maybe, they would not immediately issue a new round of tariffs right now, but possibly tomorrow, or in a month...

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«India is tuned towards interaction with Russia in the Arctic,» says the joint declaration signed by Modi and Russia’s Vladimir Putin during this week’s Russian-Indian Summit in Vladivostok.

James McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834, although he would later claim St. Petersburg, Russia as his birthplace, saying "I do not choose to be born in Lowell".

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