California Governor Warns More Rolling Blackouts ‘Very Likely’; 3.3M Homes Statewide Brace For Power Outages

SACRAMENTO (CBS SF/AP) -– With California in the grips of a historic heatwave, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed an emergency proclamation aimed at freeing up energy capacity even as power executives warned of additional statewide rolling blackouts. Newsom warned … Read More

EU-Italy delegation in Tunisia to discuss slowing migration

Tunisian Interior and Prime Minister-designate Hichem Mechichi, right, greets Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio at Tunis Carthage airport in Tunis, Monday. (AP) Talks to focus on broader European aid to fight the poverty and joblessness that fuels it TUNIS: … Read More

Gen. Keane: Russian troops likely to invade Belarus if pro-democracy president assumes power

posted in: News, Russia

Keane says Belarus’ location is ‘very strategic’ to Putin who wants to increase Russia’s ‘sphere of influence’ Belarus’ location is “very strategic” to Russian President Vladimir Putin who “wants to increase the sphere of influence of Russia in the region, in Eastern Europe in particular and … Read More

China Is Getting Mired in the Middle East

posted in: Far East, News

By striking a major partnership with Tehran, Beijing risks not only angering other regional partners but also getting entangled in complicated security and political issues. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during … Read More

China’s anti-Trump election meddling raises new alarm, as DNI calls country biggest threat

‘China poses a greater national security threat to the U.S. than any other nation,’ DNI says. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News that China poses “a greater national security threat” to the United States “than any other … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 14 August 2020

posted in: News, Weekly Update

Greetings from Tyler, It’s been ages since we’ve had even the slightest whiff of good news.  But in the last 24 hours something has happened that the media has no choice but to tell us.  Within a week or so … Read More

Black Lives Matter Chicago Organizer Defends Looting: ‘That’s Reparations’

posted in: News, United States

A Black Lives Matter Chicago organizer has defended the mass looting that took place in the city early Monday, calling it “reparations.” Ariel Atkins spoke outside a police station in the South Loop on 18th and South State Street on … Read More

Black Lives Matter crowd demands Seattle homeowners ‘give up’ property: ‘We coming for it’

‘Economic justice for black people…. needs to look like land transfer in my opinion because land is wealth.’ Black Lives Matter activists in Seattle demand homeowners give up their property as a form of reparations, Aug. 12, 2020. The march … Read More

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