Monthly Archives: April 2016

Obama guides the world…

"President Barack Obama faced a furious backlash overseas this morning over his 'downright hypocritical' decision to urge Britain to stay in the European Union. In a highly controversial intervention in the EU referendum campaign, Obama pleaded with British voters not … Continue reading

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Current Affairs | 88 Comments

IS is working on a drone force

  "“Some of the bad guys are fiddling around, trying to improve the performance,” she said. “It may be a very basic, ‘actually take off’ kind of improvement, but it says that there is some level of active work in … Continue reading

Posted in Science, The Military Art, weapons | 45 Comments

Here’s A Health Unto Her Majesty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6vtKWWHxts pl

Posted in Current Affairs | 27 Comments

Syria War Digest – 20 April 2016

   Various interesting developments in the news today: A major R+6 offensive is shaping up with a lot of Russian artillery being moved forward to support an effort to capture Jisr al Shugur in Idlib Governorate.  A number of the … Continue reading

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Current Affairs, Iran, Middle East, Russia, Syria | 42 Comments

Sadly …

It appears to me that we have lost Confused Ponderer as a guest author.  After he suddenly stopped posting I pulsed his e-mail several times and have received no reply.  He always told me he was German but the only … Continue reading

Posted in Ukraine Crisis | 39 Comments

Syrian election results.

"… the polling hours in Damascus, which suffered a lot from the fighting, had to be extended until 11 pm to accommodate all the voters. There were even polling stations set up by the government in recently liberated Palmyra and … Continue reading

Posted in Current Affairs, Middle East, Syria | 31 Comments

“Socialism in America” By Richard Sale

  Most people live life day by day. They are too busy and harassed to ever form a general outlook about the human existence that they are part of. Their ideas have no intellectual scope. Their minds manifest little or … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 85 Comments

“Saudis warn of economic reprisals if Congress passes 9/11 bill” – TTG

(CNN) Saudi Arabia is warning it will sell off billions in American assets if the U.S. Congress passes a bipartisan bill that would allow victims of 9/11 and other terrorist attacks to sue foreign governments. Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir … Continue reading

Posted in Saudi Arabia, TTG | 132 Comments

“Iraq Government Collapse Likely…” ISW

"Iraq Prime Minister Haidar al Abadi faces new calls for his resignation as a rump parliament of roughly 131 members, falsely claiming a quorum, has begun to ouster its sitting leaders. The rump Council of Representatives (CoR) barricaded itself in … Continue reading

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Iraq, Middle East, Policy | 43 Comments

It is now clear. HC and Rice knew the truth…

  "Judicial Watch announced today it has obtained new documents from the Department of State containing the telephone transcripts from the evening of September 11, 2012, in which then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton informs then-Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil that … Continue reading

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Middle East, Politics | 79 Comments