Over 2,400 Americans died that Sunday morning as the 1st Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the dreaded Kido Butai, struck the Pacific Fleet at anchor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. One US battleship, the Arizona, was destroyed outright. Another, the Oklahoma, damaged beyond repair. Six others were …
Read More »Judge blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors
The vaccine mandate was set to go into effect on January 4, but is now facing a nationwide halt thanks to the decision by a federal judge in Georgia. The case in question, Georgia v. President Joe Biden, also includes plaintiffs from the states of Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, …
Read More »Putin and Biden wrap up video meeting after 2 hours of talks
The much-anticipated video “summit” on Tuesday touched on a number of topics, including the American accusation that Russia is amassing troops to “invade” Ukraine, which Moscow has dismissed as “fake news.” READ MORE: First images released from crucial Putin & Biden summit (VIDEO) Contact at the highest level was “badly …
Read More »Amazon down for thousands worldwide
There have been over 20,000 outage reports for the main Amazon site and 11,000 for AWS. The Downdetector heatmap shows the problem is most acute in eastern US. As a lot of web infrastructure uses AWS to operate, outages have been reported on other services, from the McDonald’s app and …
Read More »Papers reveal what CIA did to captives in Afghanistan
In a recent legal filing, the lawyers of Abu Zubaydah – the Guantánamo Bay detainee almost tortured to death by the CIA, held without charge by the US for nearly 20 years – urged that their client be released, given Washington’s wars in Afghanistan and with Al-Qaeda are finally over. …
Read More »First images released from crucial Putin & Biden summit (VIDEO)
Speaking via a secure video link on Tuesday, Biden told Putin that “we didn’t get to see one another at the G20 – I hope next time we meet we do it in person.” The Russian president only spoke virtually at the October meeting of world leaders, the Kremlin then …
Read More »Pentagon to tell commercial firms how to tailor products for military use
The new approach was touted by Heidi Shyu, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, during a panel discussion on Saturday. In “a lot of these commercial companies, their product is commercial. But if we can work with them upfront early in the design stage, we can leverage their …
Read More »EU health agencies advise on how to achieve ‘good levels’ of antibodies
In a joint statement, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said that “the combination of viral vector vaccines and mRNA vaccines produces good levels of antibodies against the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) and a higher T-cell response than using the same vaccine …
Read More »Two killed in shooting at Moscow government building
Writing on Twitter, the city’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin explained that the shooter had been detained. “I offer my condolences to the victims and the families of the victims,” he wrote. “Doctors are doing their best to help the wounded.” The incident took place at a multi-functional public service center in …
Read More »Raab ‘proud’ of Kabul evacuations, blames chaos on US
Speaking to Sky News’ Kay Burley on Tuesday, Raab hailed the evacuation of British nationals and allied Afghans from Kabul as “an absolutely heroic and Herculean effort.” “We did everything we could,” he argued, adding that the airlift was “a record that those involved, particularly those working on the ground, …
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