Back in my youth, soldiers tended to be neither seen nor heard, and, apart from on Remembrance Day, much the same could be said of military veterans. In those days, just about any man aged over 50 had served in the armed forces during the Second World War. When almost …
Read More »Captain Tom & Navalny’s WW2 veteran defamation cases show how Britain & Russia remain haunted by spectre of victory over Nazis
Back in my youth, soldiers tended to be neither seen nor heard, and, apart from on Remembrance Day, much the same could be said of military veterans. In those days, just about any man aged over 50 had served in the armed forces during the Second World War. When almost …
Read More »‘Fund them & lose in slow motion’? Twitter reads into CIA veteran’s advice to use Iraqi-Afghan playbook on DOMESTIC ‘extremists’
The modest proposal was put forward by Robert Grenier, who served as the CIA’s station chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001. He was later appointed the CIA’s Iraq mission manager and then director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center from 2004 to 2006. Grenier has been making media appearances following …
Read More »Captain Sir Tom Moore, 100-year-old WWII veteran who raised millions for NHS, hospitalised after testing positive for Covid-19
Moore, known to the public as Captain Tom, has been fighting pneumonia for the past few weeks, while also recently being diagnosed with Covid-19, his daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, wrote on Twitter. The veteran was taken to Bedford Hospital as he needed “additional help” with breathing, she said. However, Ingram-Moore specified …
Read More »Who will be Russia’s next president? Veteran nationalist Zhirinovsky names eight possible candidates to eventually succeed Putin
Famous for his passionate, patriotic rhetoric and confrontational style, Zhirinovsky is often mocked as a clown by the media and intelligentsia, but is Russia’s most popular political figure outside of the government. A recent Levada poll put his ‘trust rating’ at 13 percent. That’s more than four times higher than …
Read More »Novice AI defeats veteran F-16 pilot 5:0 in DARPA’s dogfight contest (VIDEO)
DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program pitted AIs developed by eight companies – including the military industry giant Lockheed Martin – against each other, before the winner went up against a human pilot in Thursday’s AlphaDogfight trials competition. Identified only by his callsign ‘Banger,’ the DC Air National Guard pilot …
Read More »In Bashkiria killed 100-year-old veteran of the great Patriotic war
In Bashkiria killed 100-year-old veteran of the great Patriotic war Ivan Nesmeyanov. This is stated in the message of regional Department of the TFR. A criminal case under the item “in” parts 4 articles 162 of the criminal code (“Robbery), paragraph “h” of part 2 of article 105 of the …
Read More »In Russia, victory Day has released a “beer tank”, and a soft doll in the form of a veteran
Many Russians toy in the form of the participant of the great Patriotic war seemed to many blasphemous. The Network broke the scandal because of the toys that were released in Russia on 9 may. In particular, some online stores offer soft doll “Veteran”. “The toy is made from soft-touch, …
Read More »In kiyevshchina the veteran, the ATO has committed suicide
Two years ago the man returned from the ATO area. In Chupyra village of the Belotserkovsky district, 36-year-old man committed suicide, having been blown up by a grenade. About it reports management of national police in the Kiev region on Friday, may 10. It is noted that two years ago …
Read More »In Russia, the ambulance refused to hospitalize the veteran
The veteran died. Died veteran from New Urengoy Vladimir Nikolenko, who paramedics refused to take to the hospital. According to first Secretary of the city Committee of the Communist party Alexander Schmal, death contributed to the July scandal with the medics when the ambulance refused to take the veteran to …
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