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- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
Monthly Archives: January 2020
If Trump is removed, will the Speaker of the House not be the Sovereign?
After the War of Independence from Great Britain, the US had a very different form of government than the present one. This government functioned under the Articles of Confederation. This government had been formed in 1775 and had served the … Continue reading
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 16 JANUARY 2020 by Patrick Armstrong
THE GREAT RESHUFFLE. I do expect Putin to retire and assume him to be working on a succession plan to keep the team's aims in operation. He's due to go in about four years. I would not be surprised if … Continue reading
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RUSSIAN RESHUFFLE by Patrick Armstrong
(Written on the evening of. So subject to reconsideration/revision/outright denial as we learn more.) I didn't expect any of it. Neither did anyone else, whatever the so-called experts outgassing on the US Garbage Media may be pretending. I don't know … Continue reading
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Michael Flynn seeks to withdraw his guilty plea
By Robert Willmann Hamstrung by the rules of procedure and evidence during the processing of his federal criminal case, Gen. Michael Flynn (ret.) came into a precarious position, even after getting new lawyers in June 2019. In August 2019 he … Continue reading
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News of the day – 15 January 2020
1. It appears that the number of anti-government protestors in Tehran has been under 1,000 for the last three days. CNN reported that the riot police outnumbered the protestors last night. This means that the chimera of revolt spread by … Continue reading
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How many Iranians on the streets of Tehran?
I am trying to determine how many Iranians have been in the streets of Tehran protesting against the Islamic government the last few nights. The only number I have seen is 1,000 on Sunday night. Write and tell me off … Continue reading
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Could We Agree On A New Constitution? – Republished 14 January 2020
This question has recently re-surfaced in the context of Democratic candidates' for 2020's evident desire to make serious changes to the US Constitution with regard to the electoral college, the supreme court and similar matters. The US Constitution can legally … Continue reading
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Starlink consumer services – TTG
I found an interview with SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell done last October in which she revealed much about Starlink as a consumer business. SpaceX has been testing Starlink on an Air Force contract for the last year and has demonstrated … Continue reading
In re Starlink
"Dear colonel, Will Starlink handle traffic other than e-mail?2. Will Starlink have a giant business office to deal directly with customers?3. If Starlink handles all the kinds of traffic that the present internet transmits, who will be the content … Continue reading
Box Score on airliner shoot down deaths: Iranians -176, USS Vincennes – 290
(USS Vincennes) OK pilgrims, we are told today that there are mobs in the streets of Tehran protesting the shoot down of the Ukrainian airliner. 176 were killed. We are carefully not told (thus far) how many Iranians are mobbed … Continue reading