The Navy sent another warship through the Taiwan Strait over the weekend, which also included an unconfirmed visit to the island by the officer in charge of intelligence gathering in the Indo-Pacific region, according to wire and Navy reports.
Daily Archives: 23. November 2020
U.S. missile destroyer USS Donald Cook heads for Black Sea
U.S. Navy ships regularly patrol in these waters in support of their NATO allies Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania and partners Ukraine and Georgia.
Our Coalition
MPP has been on the front lines with game-changing allies as co-sponsors or endorsers of important actions aligned with our platform. We’ve driven convoys to support the Women’s March on the Pentagon and the Poor People’s Campaign, stood on the picket lines with teachers in California, and supported the National Democratic Independent Farm Workers Union’s boycott of Driscolls’ Berries, among many other actions.
Here are a few examples of when MPP has joined forces with powerful allies to create change:
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Surprise! America Is Getting Another Psycho For Secretary Of State
The State Department was meant to be the counterpart to the War Department, focusing on diplomacy and peace. What ended up happening as the US government morphed into a globe-spanning empire dependent on endless violence and aggression is that the State Department wound up focusing more and more on manufacturing interventionist narratives on the world stage to gin up international support for starvation sanctions, proxy wars and war coalitions.
So in practice the US ended up with two war departments: the DoD and the State Department. Which is why you’ve seen the nation’s Secretaries of State becoming more and more jingoistic and psychopathic, to the point where some sort of antisocial personality disorder is almost a job requirement for the position.
Bundestagsdebatte zur Personenkennziffer „Die verfassungsrechtliche Kritik ist insgesamt vernichtend“
Was er dabei unter den Tisch fallen ließ: Mit dem Urteil schuf das Bundesverfassungsgericht das Grundrecht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung. Danach verstößt es gegen die Menschenwürde, also den ersten Paragrafen des Grundgesetzes, staatliche Persönlichkeitsprofile der Bürger:innen anzulegen.
A Long-Forgotten CIA Document From WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light Today on U.S. Politics and Wars
The Agency knew that their best asset for selling their wars was Barack Obama — the same reason so many in the security state were eager to get rid of Donald Trump.
Vodafone meldet massive Störungen bei mobilen Daten und Telefonie
Die Meldungen kamen aus nahezu allen Regionen und Großstädten Deutschlands, von Berlin über Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, München, Stuttgart oder Köln bis zum Vodafone-Firmensitz Düsseldorf
Saudi UN ambassador: Nobody ‘naive enough’ to rejoin Iran nuclear deal – including Biden administration
He added: “If there is a new deal in which Saudi Arabia is involved in the discussion and which covers the shortcomings of the previous deal, such as Iran’s hydromantic behavior in the region and the issue of the missiles and the supply of weapons to rebel groups and so forth, then we will be all for it.”
It seems pretty clear Netanyahu would want this meeting leaked, just a couple of days after calling on Biden not to rejoin JCPOA. This will be a very long two months.
Saudi Foreign Minister‘s tweet denying the meeting with Israeli officials was rather polite and shows that Saudi Arabia is in a stage where they are preparing their own public opinion, @i24NEWS_AR ‚s Ali Waked tells @benitalevin
Zweite Stufe des Berliner Mietendeckels tritt in Kraft
Rund 340.000 Haushalte, so schätzt der Senat, dürften dann weniger Wohnungsmiete zahlen als bisher. Das Mietendeckel-Gesetz regelt die Obergrenzen. Sie hängen vor allem vom Baujahr des Hauses ab, aber auch von Ausstattung und Lage.
‚I‘m so thrilled that you‘ve cracked it!‘: Prince William congratulates Oxford scientists via Zoom as their Covid vaccine is proved to be 90 per cent effective
– The Duke of Cambridge hailed the team‘s ‚amazing achievement‘ this morning
– Three Oxford professors told how the vaccine is based on decades of research
– It emerged this month that William caught coronavirus in April but didn‘t reveal it
AstraZeneca to seek FDA authorization for vaccine based on foreign trial data
The company halted its U.S. trial in early September over safety concerns, after a trial participant reported neurological problems. The study resumed earlier this month after FDA concluded that no evidence linked the volunteer‘s symptoms to the shot.
AstraZeneca shares slip after analyst says vaccine will struggle to get green light in US – live updates
SVB Leerink analyst Geoffrey Porges said the treatment may never gain approval from US regulator the FDA, and said Astra had highlighted results from a “relatively small” number of patients.
Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine: everything we know so far
No mRNA vaccine has ever been approved by regulators, but the Oxford approach has been used in vaccines given safely to thousands of people of all ages for diseases ranging from TB and malaria to Mers (another coronavirus) and Ebola, for which it is now being used in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Oxford opted for the chimp virus because it has the potential to generate a strong immune response and, since it cannot grow in humans, it should be safe.
Two other frontrunner vaccines, from BioNTech (developed with Pfizer) and Moderna (developed with the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), perform well, according to interim results from phase 3 human trials, achieving more than 90% efficacy. These are based on technology that is new to the vaccine field. Both use genetic material called mRNA, or messenger RNA, which tells human cells how to make coronavirus spike proteins.
Wie Impfstoffzulassung in EU funktioniert
„Unser Plan ist es, die Impfstoffe innerhalb von 24 Stunden nach Zulassung an die Impfzentren zu liefern“, sagte Slaoui in einem Interview mit CNN. Er rechne daher damit, dass bereits am 11. oder 12. Dezember mit den Impfungen begonnen werden könne. Voraussetzung ist eine Notfallzulassung des Impfstoffs.
Studienergebnisse von AstraZeneca: Britischer Impfstoff wirkt zu 70 Prozent
Das Ergebnis bleibt zwar hinter den Werten der Präparate von Pfizer/Biontech und Moderna zurück. Wenn man aber zunächst nur eine halbe Dosis verabreiche und erst einen Monat später eine volle, dann erreiche der Impfstoff eine Effektivität von 90 Prozent, lässt AstraZeneca wissen. Er soll zudem deutlich preiswerter sein, sich sehr viel leichter lagern und weltweit transportieren lassen als andere Vakzine.
Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
he University of Oxford, in collaboration with AstraZeneca plc, today announces interim trial data from its Phase III trials that show its candidate coronavirus vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-2019, is effective at preventing COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and offers a high level of protection.
“It always seems impossible until it‘s done.”
Nelson Mandela
Everything’s Impossible Until Someone Does It
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Gantz Announces Commission of Inquiry Into Submarine Affair That Has Plagued Netanyahu
The submarine affair has become a central element in the protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where demonstrators have carried inflatable submarines inscribed with slogans like “S.S. Investigation.” Protesters are calling for a commission of inquiry into the affair, as well as calling on Netanyahu to step down in light of his corruption charges.
Netanyahu Secretly Flew to Saudi Arabia, Met MBS and Pompeo, Israeli Sources Say
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia and met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Israeli sources said Monday.
Mossad chief Yossi Cohen also attended the meeting, which took place in the city of Neom, according to the sources.
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Transition Highlights: Biden Plans to Name Blinken, Sullivan and Thomas-Greenfield to Cabinet
Together, Mr. Blinken and Mr. Sullivan, good friends with a common worldview, have become Mr. Biden’s brain trust and often his voice on foreign policy matters. And they led the attack on President Trump’s use of “America First” as a guiding principle, saying it only isolated the United States and created opportunities and vacuums for its adversaries to fill.
Flournoy supported the war in Iraq & Libya, criticized Obama on Syria, and helped craft the surge in Afghanistan. I want to support the President’s picks. But will Flournoy now commit to a full withdrawal from Afghanistan & a ban on arms sales to the Saudis to end the Yemen war?
VIDEO: Top Biden advisors Flournoy and Blinken promise smarter, more secretive permanent war policy
Since the 1990s, Flournoy and Blinken have steadily risen through the ranks of the military-industrial complex, shuffling back and forth between the Pentagon and hawkish think-tanks funded by the U.S. government, weapons companies, and oil giants.
Under Bill Clinton, Flournoy was the principal author of the 1996 Quadrinellial Defense Review, the document that outlined the U.S. military’s doctrine of permanent war – what it called “full spectrum dominance.”
Künftige US-Regierung: Biden will wohl Blinken als Außenminister
Der designierte US-Präsident stellt sein Team zusammen. Übereinstimmenden Medienberichten zufolge soll Antony Blinken künftig die amerikanische Außenpolitik steuern. Er diente bereits in der Obama-Administration.
Giuliani distances Trump campaign from attorney Sidney Powell
The Trump campaign on Sunday sought to distance itself from attorney Sidney Powell after she made a series of increasingly convoluted and baseless allegations of widespread nationwide election fraud.
Powell, who also represents former national security adviser Michael Flynn, had appeared with campaign lawyers at press events as recently as last week.
Six-nation joint military exercise starts in Egypt
The military exercise, participated by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain and Sudan, will last till Thursday, said a statement released by the Egyptian forces.
CARD: Militarisierung Weltraum
Im CARD-Prozess soll der Bedarf für europäische Rüstungsprojekte eruiert werden. Im jetzt vorgelegten Bericht wird u.a. eine umfassende Militarisierung des Weltraums gefordert: