South China Sea High Tension – US / UK / China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9RXQko521I
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In embattled Venezuela, residents line up for hours to get clean water
The scene in Venezuela‘s capital of Caracas is dire: a long line of people searching for clean water during the country’s daily power outages. Children and adults alike can be seen carrying jugs as residents prepare to make a dangerous trip underground. On Tuesday night, desperate residents climbed down a manhole that covered an emergency pipe…
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All US diplomats have left Venezuela: Mike Pompeo
US Secretary of State says Washington remains committed to supporting opposition leader Juan Guaido over Nicolas Maduro. Pompeo said the diplomatic staff would continue to work from outside Venezuela [Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters] The United States has withdrawn all remaining diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Caracas as the crisis in Venezuela deepens. “Today, all US diplomats remaining in Venezuela…
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70 million are in the path of ‘bomb cyclone’ set to strike the central US, bringing snow, hail and rain
(CNN)An intense and ferocious winter storm — a “bomb cyclone” — is expected to bring hurricane-force wind gusts, blizzard conditions and a flood threat across a swath of the US heartland Wednesday. A bomb cyclone occurs when there is a rapid pressure drop, falling at least 24 millibars (which measures atmospheric pressure) over 24 hours…
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Merkel says Germany will set own security standards after US warning on Huawei
Germany will define its own security standards for a new 5G mobile network, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday. Washington earlier warned that it would scale back data-sharing with Berlin if China’s Huawei was allowed to participate.“We are defining our standards for ourselves,” Merkel said. “We will also discuss these questions with our partners in Europe, as…
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Huawei 5G battle opens rift between U.S. and Germany
The Huawei logo, taken from the firm’s Istanbul office. Photo: Serhat Cagdas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The U.S. has made its first threat to curtail sharing intelligence with an ally if that government ignores U.S. warnings about Huawei 5G equipment, the Wall Street Journal reported. Why it matters: This is no small threat. The warning to Germany…
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Dems Back Illegal-alien Voting for Good Reason: Illegals Vote Democrat
The Democratic Party — or at least the hard-bitten leftists who run it in the House of Representatives — doesn’t care whether illegal aliens vote in American elections. They proved it on Friday when they voted against a GOP measure that would have put the House squarely against permitting illegals to vote. But the party…
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40 years of Iranian threats against Israel and few pay any attention
Getty Images Last month a conference in Warsaw brought together high ranking officials from 60 countries, called to discuss the current chaos in the Middle East, and to zero in on the threat posed to the region by the regime in Tehran. This year, as Iran observes the 40th year of its revolution, its geostrategic objectives remain unchanged. But…
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U.S., Russia Remain World’s Top Arms Exporters
WASHINGTON — The United States remained far and above the rest of the world as the globe’s leading arms exporter, with Russia a distant second, a leading research group says. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a March 11 report that the gap between the United States and the rest of the world widened…
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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 8 March 2019
Greetings from Tyler, It is Friday afternoon and as we’ve learned, big news often drops sometime in the evening. There will probably be something that should have been addressed in the update, but was intentionally kept until the evening for whatever strategic reason. That may be the case, but there’s no shortage of matters…
