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1. https://www.instagram.com/p/BiqoEjfn1Qr/ 2. 146,911 likes tessamaethompson Hi. marlaluster Good question in this post. Given the situation either seems quite fitting n kind of the same. Hmmmmm. Id say "real", id wish to know. It is a #hoaxreality so this is quite a flaming post as in red hot n close to the edge. Maybe there will be a follow up. Thatd be really just quite extreme thing given that stuff is pretty ugly these days which are #postapocalyptic. _nixkiii @luxxa.a 👏👏👏 21 HOURS AGO 3. https://www.instagram.com/p/ByOlD0FhsBF/?hl=en 4. https://www.instagram.com/p/BdeHkL3HMi6/ 5. https://www.instagram.com/p/BIt1Gi8jTda/ 6. https://www.instagram.com/p/BH6PVOCDWs3/ 7. TOP STORIES Fox News · 19 hours ago Russia withdraws key defense advisers support to Maduro, seen as major setback The Hill · 4 hours ago Trump: Russia says it has removed 'most of their people' from Venezuela | TheHill NBC News Venezuelan ex-oil workers go on hunger strike as desperation increases 9 mins ago The New Yorker Venezuela’s Two Presidents Collide 13 hours ago Wall Street Journal The Case for Force in Venezuela 1 day ago Reuters Lima Group and EU urge more international involvement in Venezuela 4 hours ago CBS News Trump says Russia told U.S. "most of their people" have left Venezuela 3 hours ago Bloomberg Citgo Gets U.S. Subpoena Related to Venezuela Bribery Probe 6 hours ago The Telegraph Russian arms manufacturers pull out of Venezuela over late payments 9 hours ago Al Jazeera 'One choice': The strain of shipping to Venezuela 1 day ago The Epoch Times Russia Withdraws Most of Its People From Venezuela, Trump Says 2 hours ago VOA News Russia Pulls Military Personnel Out of Venezuela, Trump Says 3 hours ago PEOPLE ALSO SEARCH FOR Canada Venezuela embassy 8. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/world/russia-withdraws-defense-support-to-venezuela.amp 9. WORLDPublished June 02, 2019 Last Update 19 hrs ago Russia withdraws key defense advisers support to Maduro, seen as major setback By Thomas Grove | The Wall Street Journal Continue Reading Below Russia has withdrawn key defense advisers from Venezuela, an embarrassment for President Nicolás Maduro as Moscow weighs the leader’s political and economic resilience against growing U.S. pressure. Russian state defense contractor Rostec, which has trained Venezuelan troops and advised on securing arms contracts, has cut its staff in Venezuela to just a few dozen, from about 1,000 at the height of cooperation between Moscow and Caracas several years ago, said a person close to the Russian defense ministry. The gradual pullout, which has escalated over the last several months, according to people familiar with the situation, is due to a lack of new contracts and the acceptance that Mr. Maduro’s regime no longer has the cash to continue to pay for other Rostec services associated with past contracts. Russia has been among Maduro’s biggest international supporters, but the winding down of Rostec’s presence shows the limits of Russia’s reach in the South American country at a time when Moscow is facing economic difficulties—in part due to the impact of U.S. sanctions—at home. Venezuela has been one of Moscow’s largest customers in South America. Continue Reading Below CANADA SUSPENDING OPERATIONS AT EMBASSY IN VENEZUELA 10. https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/policy/international/446684-trump-says-russia-has-removed-most-of-their-people-from-venezuela%3famp 11. The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night that Russia had withdrawn from the South American country key defense advisers who had been supporting embattled President Nicolás Maduro. The Journal reported that Russian defense contractor Rostec cut its staff from about 1,000 to just a few dozen advisers. The personnel had been training Venezuelan troops. Trump had previously called for Russia to "get out" of Venezuela, but said following a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month said the Russian leader was "not looking at all to get involved in Venezuela." 12. The newspaper said the pullout of the Rostec personnel escalated in the last several months with the lack of new contracts and the realization that the crisis-ridden Maduro government no longer has enough money to pay for services tied to past Rostec contracts. Trump, on a state visit to Britain, announced the Russian pullback in a Twitter comment. A month ago, U.S. officials spoke publicly about what they felt was the impending overthrow of Maduro as tens of thousands of people protested against his government in the streets of Caracas. But military support for Maduro held steady, except for a small number of defections to Guaido, leaving Maduro in power. 13. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.voanews.com/amp/4944072.html 14. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.theepochtimes.com/russia-withdraws-most-of-its-people-from-venezuela-trump-says_2949030.html/amp 15. The drawdown by Rostec is also a sign that American sanctions are working around the world. Maduro’s regime has been crippled by increasing U.S. sanctions, cutting off its ability to pay Rostec. In the meantime, an increasingly difficult economic situation in Russia, linked in part to the U.S. sanctions on Moscow, contributed to Rostec’s strategic decision to pull out of the region. Venezuela has not paid for Rostec’s services for months, according to a source. The last contract Rostec fulfilled was for the construction for a helicopter training center for military helicopters in March. Rostec denied the Journal’s report. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have both 16. https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/06/03/venezuelan-central-bank-admits-economy-crashing/ 17. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/world/1135671/venezuela-crisis-vladimir-putin-news-russia-nicolas-maduro-washington-caracas-spt/amp 18. Venezuela FURY: Putin hits out at claims of Russia abandoning Maduro Nicolas Maduro and Vladmir Putin Nicolas Maduro and Vladmir Putin (Image: GETTY) VLADIMIR Putin’s ambassador to Venezuela has rejected claims that Russian state defence contractor Rostec had withdrawn key advisers from Caracas. By KUMAIL JAFFER PUBLISHED: 15:16, Mon, Jun 3, 2019 UPDATED: 15:30, Mon, Jun 3, 2019 Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Google+Share with EmailShare via Whatsapp The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Rostec – who train Venezuelan troops and offer advice on weapons contracts – cut their numbers to just a few dozen as crisis grips the nation. While there were up to 1000 staff in Caracas, the report goes on to say that a loss of trust in Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was a key factor in the mass withdrawal. However, in response to the article, Russian ambassador to Venezuela Vladimir Zaemsky told Russian news outlet Sputnik: "This is another piece of 'news' which has absolutely nothing to do with reality. ADVERTISEMENT 19. Brazil snubs Venezuelan opposition envoy as doubts rise on Guaido Anthony Boadle Photo FILE PHOTO - Venezuelan opposition representative Maria Teresa Belandria, who was received as her country's official ambassador to Brazil, smiles after a news conference in Brasilia, Brazil February 11, 2019. REUTERS/UESLEI MARCELINO BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil withdrew an invitation to the envoy for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to present her diplomatic credentials, she said on Friday, and the government in Brasilia said it would decide later whether to accept them. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro still recognizes Guaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela, his spokesman said. Guaido's envoy, Maria Teresa Belandria, played down the idea that the snub reflected 20. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-brazil/brazil-withdraws-diplomatic-invite-to-venezuelan-opposition-envoy-idUSKCN1T11T1

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The Most Important Brexiter Isn’t Boris Johnson

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In the highly entertaining Channel 4 drama about the 2016 referendum campaign “Brexit: The Uncivil War,” Benedict Cumberbatch, playing the mastermind of the Vote Leave campaign, is sometimes found crouched in the narrow pantry where he retreats to think. It’s not hard to picture the real Dominic Cummings doing just that.Cummings is no mere political curiosity. Though unelected and without a seat at the cabinet table, he is U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s most important adviser. A master of the focus group and the targeted digital ad, he will play a critical role in any early election or second referendum on Brexit.The Johnson-Cummings pairing could be largely a matter of short-term expedience. Johnson wants a proven hand to carry out his “do or die” Oct. 31 Brexit pledge and win an election. But it could also be about something beyond Brexit. At the heart of the new government are two ambitious men possessed by a sense of history, some would say grandiosity, and an appetite for taking big gambles.For Cummings, Brexit is a means to a greater end: a complete overhaul of the machinery of government. This might have been started long ago, but Margaret Thatcher, that icon of the British right, didn’t go far enough in Cummings’s view. She shied away from reforming the civil service, whose inefficiencies Cummings finds maddening. He wants to finish the job he started with Vote Leave by using insights from the world of computing, physics, warfare and sport. If he stays beyond Brexit, Cummings will have to prove his ideas aren’t some utopian vision.But there’s a paradox: The political upheaval caused by Brexit may have opened the door to change, but the chaos of a no-deal Brexit could make the very reforms he seeks impossible to implement.No Ordinary BrexiterCummings cannot be confused with your garden variety no-deal Brexiter. He notes in one of his many, lengthy blog posts that he is “not a Tory libertarian, ‘populist,’ or anything else.” That explains his deep disdain for the “narcissist-delusional” group of hard-core Brexiters in the party. For them, leaving the EU is an ideological necessity and a mark of tribal loyalty. He isn’t one of that tribe, or any tribe. He even went so far, in a twitter exchange in 2017, as to say the referendum may have been a mistake.Most political advisers operate in the shadows, but Cummings is the subject of an endless stream of profiles; in a country that worships eccentricity, he is a journalistic gift that keeps on giving. He also invites inspection. His wide-ranging, occasionally breathless writings provide a dizzying tour of the innovators, historical figures, athletes and scientists who have informed his thinking. His political philosophy incorporates insights from Prussian Otto von Bismarck, interface design wizard Bret Victor, physicist and computer scientist Michael Nielsen, T.S. Eliot and many more.To imagine a Cummings-led takeover of the British state, visualize a room resembling a NASA launch control center in which Bismarck is huddled with, say, a crack team of designers and coders on loan from Apple. Bismarck, the “blood and iron” chancellor who distrusted democracy, is important. Cummings also singles out for praise the Chinese Communist Party for its “use of proven systems management techniques for integrating principles of effective action to predict and manage complex systems at large scale.”For the cadres of civil servants orbiting Downing Street, some might find Cummings’s own verdict of their world makes for uncomfortable reading:Critical institutions (including the senior civil service and the parties) are programmed to fight to stay dysfunctional, they fight to stay closed and avoid learning about high performance, they fight to exclude the most able people.His writings reveal strong views on education reform (he has written controversially that policy-makers too easily discount the role of genetics in achievement), immigration (doesn’t like the low-skilled type) and European agricultural subsidies (thinks them absurd although apparently a farm he co-owns benefits handsomely from them).We don’t know much about what he thinks is the right fiscal policy in an ultra-low interest rate borderline recessionary environment. He’s said little about whether U.S.-style regulations necessary for a trade agreement are an acceptable substitute for EU-style rules.OODA Loop Indeed, policy specifics seem less important to Cummings than design problems and engineering effective decision-making systems in government. He’s a big fan of the OODA loop, the decision-making cycle developed by the late military strategist and Air Force fighter pilot John Boyd. The sequence – observe, orient, design and act – enables the practitioner, originally fighter pilots, to stay one step ahead of their opponents, constantly taking in new information and using it.Doing the OODA loop well requires clear-eyed awareness of your own blind spots, something Cummings sometimes seems to lack. In his blogging days, he would occasionally respond to reader comments. But when readers questioned whether his views smacked of utopianism, or asked for a few examples of where changes he proposes had been road-tested in government, he didn’t reply.He cannot, however, be accused of thinking small. Think of him as a cross between Steve Bannon and Dick Cheney. Cummings would like to harness the extreme preparation and concentration of people like solo free climber Alex Honnold. This ideal of the super-athlete civil servant feeds into his view that selection for politics and government should be like winnowing the great from the also-rans in music or sport. That sounds appealing, but of course the French train up an uber-elite for government roles and still wound up with the gilets jaunes and stubbornly high levels of unemployment. Held in contempt of parliament earlier this year, he appears bent on undermining elected lawmakers by persuading his boss to ignore constitutional convention in pursuing a no-deal Brexit. He is not one to sacrifice his agenda on the altar of careerism either. Indeed, former Prime Minister David Cameron once called him a “career psychopath.” So as long as Cummings is around, it’s fair to say that the Johnson Plan is the Cummings Plan.Homer Simpson MomentHis opponents, particularly on the left, paint him as self-important, hypocritical and a caricature of the mad genius rather than the real thing. After former Attorney General and anti-Brexit lawmaker Dominic Grieve said he was arrogant and didn’t understand the British constitution, Cummings snidely replied, “Mr. Grieve, we’ll see what he’s right about.” “Not since Homer Simpson sat on a sofa trying to get to grips with the mystery of his own obesity while simultaneously eating donuts, can any TV viewing audience have had irony spoon-fed to them with such generous ease,” wrote the Independent’s Tom Peck.The bigger Homerian irony is Brexit itself. Cummings’s entire theory of remaking government is based on the criticism that, as he put it, “most of everybody’s day is spent just battling entropy – it is not pursuing priorities and building valuable things.” What exactly does he think people’s days will be spent doing when they confront tariffs and new regulatory barriers to trade? When they spend time and money duplicating EU bureaucracies or finding new sources of funding for scientific programs? Entropy indeed.If not an ideologue, he is at least an idealist and they can easily flame out once in power. His very critique of the hierarchical, fixed mind-set machinery of government suggests he would find the plodding experience of overhauling a bureaucracy, as opposed to the adrenaline rush of directing a referendum or election campaign, highly frustrating if he got the chance. The civil servants he wants to turn into decision-making Olympians may not play along. It’s not enough for revolutionaries to have vision, they also need charisma.Known for his brash style, Cummings doesn’t hold back on those he deems lesser beings, once referring to David Davis, the former Brexit secretary, as “thick as mince, lazy as a toad and vain as Narcissus.” (Davis didn’t make it into Johnson’s cabinet.) As reports filter out of special advisers being fired without warning, one wonders whether he’ll inspire enough loyalty to carry through his grander plans.For now, though, it’s Johnson’s confidence that gives Cummings’s ideas wings. If he helps deliver Brexit and win an election that will no doubt secure him a sainthood among Brexiters. He reportedly postponed a surgery to join the government until the end of October, so who knows how long he’ll stick around.Cummings himself might find a short stay wholly unsatisfactory though. That would make him more like a skilled coder who follows his boss’s brief, or even just a hired gun, than the design revolutionary lionized in his writings.To contact the author of this story: Therese Raphael at [email protected] contact the editor responsible for this story: Stephanie Baker at [email protected] column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Therese Raphael writes editorials on European politics and economics for Bloomberg Opinion. She was editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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1. http://www.justjared.com/2019/05/23/chris-hemsworth-bumps-into-ex-isabel-lucas-while-grabbing-coffee-in-australia/ 2. Chris Hemsworth and Isabel Lucas are friendly exes! The former couple bumped into each other while grabbing coffee on Thursday afternoon (May 23) in Byron Bay, Australia. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Chris Hemsworth The duo appeared to chat for a few minutes before being joined by Chris' younger brother Liam. Chris and Isabel met on the set of Home and Away and reportedly dated between 2005 and 2008. Chris has been married to Elsa Pataky since 2010. 3. TOP STORIES Time Magazine · 2 hours ago Venezuelan Guards Open Fire and Kill 23 Inmates in Uprising The Hill · 1 hour ago Russia's dangerous new ploy: US trading Ukraine for Venezuela | TheHill Reuters Twenty-nine detainees killed in Venezuela police station cellblock riot 40 mins ago Public Radio International Venezuela’s ex-military deserted Maduro hoping for a revolution. Now they’re on the brink of homelessness. 2 hours ago Fox News Rights group: 23 inmates killed in Venezuelan jail riot 3 hours ago Syracuse.com Oppose Trump's coup attempt in Venezuela (Commentary) 6 hours ago WPLG Maduro invites Huawei to set up 4G network in Venezuela 3 hours ago NBC News Maduro says U.S. seeks to destroy Venezuela state-backed food program 8 hours ago Washington Post When money in Venezuela stopped functioning as currency, this photographer turned it into art 12 hours ago The New York Times Venezuela’s Opposition Leader Juan Guaidó May Negotiate With Maduro 2 days ago Miami Herald Key lawmaker wants U.S. to invade Venezuela to counter Cuba’s influence 2 days ago Bloomberg Venezuela Talks in Oslo Hinge on Maduro Accepting a New Vote 1 day ago More News 4. https://www.google.com/search?q=venezuela&oq=venezuela&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3j35i39j0.2839j1j9&client=ms-android-mpcs-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#scso=_z3boXPCbA-Kiggew2Y6YDg41:86.85713958740234.85713958740234 5. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/maduro-says-u-s-seeks-destroy-venezuela-state-backed-food-n1009676 6. I dont want this way of things here. This is not possible to exist that some people are able to be okay as others are not because some people to not be okay really means that a place is where people cannot be okay. #uninhabitablehere #idontsupportthis #havesandhavenotsisanoppressedrule #endtheruleofthedevil #inequalityisevil #anoppressedrule #celebrityismisevil #winnersandlosers #idontwantthishere #idontwantmyfacetobemessedup #idealistic #idealistheonlywaythingscanbe #ignoredvoices #evilrule #illuminati #alieninvasion #illuminatihoax #thisisnotpossibletoexist #okayasothersarenot #happywhenyouarenot #aliensaresupposedtobesuperiortopeoplehere #aliens #hopingfortheendofthis #dangeroushere #homelessness #anaristocracyhere 7. https://youtu.be/l2mtebeR3rA 8. https://www.newsweek.com/high-school-graduation-daughter-deceased-chair-1435188 9. A mother whose late daughter would have graduated Friday has claimed a sheriff’s deputy told her she’d be arrested if she tried to attend the ceremony. Myka Williams told local station WXIX that Grant County High School was no longer planning on keeping a chair empty at the ceremony to honor her daughter, Courtney Thompson. Courtney had picked out her freshman classes, but died before actually attending the high school as a student. However, her mother said she had played softball for the school in the seventh and eighth grade. 10. https://marlaluster.tumblr.com/post/185118402870/the-devil-keeps-pressing-stuff-im-supposed-to-be 11. https://www.instagram.com/p/BxyCktjHJqo/?hl=en 12. 33,215 likes behatiprinsloo NAMIBIA 🌍 @savetherhinonamibia #etosha debxodeb 💥 iskandr_a Princess of Zulu 2 DAYS AGO 13. @daniel_korte thats a weird thing to say. A weird seeming intention. Very disgusting here where weird figures are hanging out n are disguised doing weird things n others simply subjected to it n at the mercy of this weird place where so much is supposed to mean something other than it means to someone. A weird picture w your account as your profile, youre not wearing a shirt n you look like youre supposed to be something not okay but then thats not really what youre supposed to be seen as by some supposed people that are normal. 14. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx2yjMLl-J_/?hl=en 15. TOP STORIES Washington Post · 11 hours ago Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked but declines to delete it NBC News In latest attack, Trump tweets edited video of Pelosi tripping over words 1 day ago New York Magazine Nancy Pelosi Slowed Down 800 Percent Is Hauntingly Beautiful 16 hours ago The Wrap Fox Business Under Fire for Edited Nancy Pelosi Video That Trump Retweeted 18 hours ago Washington Post Trump shares heavily edited video that highlights verbal stumbles by Pelosi and questions her mental acuity 20 hours ago Full Coverage 16. https://www.google.com/search?q=nancy+pelosi+drunk&oq=nancy+pelosi+drunk+&aqs=chrome..69i57.12592j1j9&client=ms-android-mpcs-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 17. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/nancy-pelosi-slowed-down-800-is-hauntingly-beautiful.html 18. Nancy Pelosi Slowed Down 800 Percent Is Hauntingly Beautiful By Brian Feldman@bafeldman Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images You might not think of Nancy Pelosi, the 79-year-old Speaker of the House, as a musician, but after this amazing discovery, you will. Pelosi recently went viral in conservative circles when footage of her, supposedly inebriated but actually just slowed down to three-quarter speed, made the rounds. But here’s what we discovered when we slowed down the audio even more: She sounds just like Sigur Rós! It’s true that slowing Nancy Pelosi’s speech down to about 75 percent of normal makes her sound a bit drunk. But color us astonished to find out that when you take audio of the lifelong political activist who has represented California in the House for more than 30 years and reduce the speed by a factor of eight, it sounds like an unreleased track from the blissed-out Icelandic band with more than half a dozen albums to their name. Take that, conservatives. Of course, we can’t take full credit for this discovery. Back in 2010, a redditor messing around with Justin Bieber’s “U Smile” accidentally created an “ambient/drone masterpiece” when he slowed the track down using a program called Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch. Soon, slowing down tracks to ambient speed was sweeping the nation 19. Engadget › 2019/05/24 › facebo... Web results Facebook is fact checking the 'drunk Nancy Pelosi' video, but won't remove it - Engadget 11 hours ago · Facebook won't remove a viral video that purports to show Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nacy Pelosi ... Deadline › 2019/05 › facebook-... Facebook Says It Won't Remove Unflattering Nancy Pelosi Videos From Its Platform ... 8 hours ago · The video in question shows Pelosi speaking in a slurring style that some claim shows her as drunk or not well. Supporters claim it ... HuffPost › entry Facebook Refuses To Delete Fake Nancy Pelosi Video That Makes Her Seem Drunk | HuffPost 12 hours ago · Facebook is refusing to take down a video altered to make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appear to be drunk, highlighting a gaping hole in the ... The Guardian › us-news › video › may Real v fake: debunking the 'drunk' Nancy Pelosi footage - video | US news | The Guardian 15 hours ago · Footage of the Democratic House Speaker was edited to make her appear drunk or unwell, in the latest incident highlighting social media's ... The Guardian Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters 20 hours ago · Real v fake: debunking the 'drunk' Nancy Pelosi footage - video. Facebook says it will continue to host a video of Nancy Pelosi that ... Page Navigation More results 20. 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1. http://www.justjared.com/2019/05/23/chris-hemsworth-bumps-into-ex-isabel-lucas-while-grabbing-coffee-in-australia/ 2. Chris Hemsworth and Isabel Lucas are friendly exes! The former couple bumped into each other while grabbing coffee on Thursday afternoon (May 23) in Byron Bay, Australia. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Chris Hemsworth The duo appeared to chat for a few minutes before being joined by Chris' younger brother Liam. Chris and Isabel met on the set of Home and Away and reportedly dated between 2005 and 2008. Chris has been married to Elsa Pataky since 2010. 3. TOP STORIES Time Magazine · 2 hours ago Venezuelan Guards Open Fire and Kill 23 Inmates in Uprising The Hill · 1 hour ago Russia's dangerous new ploy: US trading Ukraine for Venezuela | TheHill Reuters Twenty-nine detainees killed in Venezuela police station cellblock riot 40 mins ago Public Radio International Venezuela’s ex-military deserted Maduro hoping for a revolution. Now they’re on the brink of homelessness. 2 hours ago Fox News Rights group: 23 inmates killed in Venezuelan jail riot 3 hours ago Syracuse.com Oppose Trump's coup attempt in Venezuela (Commentary) 6 hours ago WPLG Maduro invites Huawei to set up 4G network in Venezuela 3 hours ago NBC News Maduro says U.S. seeks to destroy Venezuela state-backed food program 8 hours ago Washington Post When money in Venezuela stopped functioning as currency, this photographer turned it into art 12 hours ago The New York Times Venezuela’s Opposition Leader Juan Guaidó May Negotiate With Maduro 2 days ago Miami Herald Key lawmaker wants U.S. to invade Venezuela to counter Cuba’s influence 2 days ago Bloomberg Venezuela Talks in Oslo Hinge on Maduro Accepting a New Vote 1 day ago More News 4. https://www.google.com/search?q=venezuela&oq=venezuela&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3j35i39j0.2839j1j9&client=ms-android-mpcs-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#scso=_z3boXPCbA-Kiggew2Y6YDg41:86.85713958740234.85713958740234 5. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/maduro-says-u-s-seeks-destroy-venezuela-state-backed-food-n1009676 6. I dont want this way of things here. This is not possible to exist that some people are able to be okay as others are not because some people to not be okay really means that a place is where people cannot be okay. #uninhabitablehere #idontsupportthis #havesandhavenotsisanoppressedrule #endtheruleofthedevil #inequalityisevil #anoppressedrule #celebrityismisevil #winnersandlosers #idontwantthishere #idontwantmyfacetobemessedup #idealistic #idealistheonlywaythingscanbe #ignoredvoices #evilrule #illuminati #alieninvasion #illuminatihoax #thisisnotpossibletoexist #okayasothersarenot #happywhenyouarenot #aliensaresupposedtobesuperiortopeoplehere #aliens #hopingfortheendofthis #dangeroushere #homelessness #anaristocracyhere 7. https://youtu.be/l2mtebeR3rA 8. https://www.newsweek.com/high-school-graduation-daughter-deceased-chair-1435188 9. A mother whose late daughter would have graduated Friday has claimed a sheriff’s deputy told her she’d be arrested if she tried to attend the ceremony. Myka Williams told local station WXIX that Grant County High School was no longer planning on keeping a chair empty at the ceremony to honor her daughter, Courtney Thompson. Courtney had picked out her freshman classes, but died before actually attending the high school as a student. However, her mother said she had played softball for the school in the seventh and eighth grade. 10. https://marlaluster.tumblr.com/post/185118402870/the-devil-keeps-pressing-stuff-im-supposed-to-be 11. https://www.instagram.com/p/BxyCktjHJqo/?hl=en 12. 33,215 likes behatiprinsloo NAMIBIA 🌍 @savetherhinonamibia #etosha debxodeb 💥 iskandr_a Princess of Zulu 2 DAYS AGO 13. @daniel_korte thats a weird thing to say. A weird seeming intention. Very disgusting here where weird figures are hanging out n are disguised doing weird things n others simply subjected to it n at the mercy of this weird place where so much is supposed to mean something other than it means to someone. A weird picture w your account as your profile, youre not wearing a shirt n you look like youre supposed to be something not okay but then thats not really what youre supposed to be seen as by some supposed people that are normal. 14. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx2yjMLl-J_/?hl=en 15. TOP STORIES Washington Post · 11 hours ago Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked but declines to delete it NBC News In latest attack, Trump tweets edited video of Pelosi tripping over words 1 day ago New York Magazine Nancy Pelosi Slowed Down 800 Percent Is Hauntingly Beautiful 16 hours ago The Wrap Fox Business Under Fire for Edited Nancy Pelosi Video That Trump Retweeted 18 hours ago Washington Post Trump shares heavily edited video that highlights verbal stumbles by Pelosi and questions her mental acuity 20 hours ago Full Coverage 16. https://www.google.com/search?q=nancy+pelosi+drunk&oq=nancy+pelosi+drunk+&aqs=chrome..69i57.12592j1j9&client=ms-android-mpcs-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 17. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/nancy-pelosi-slowed-down-800-is-hauntingly-beautiful.html 18. Nancy Pelosi Slowed Down 800 Percent Is Hauntingly Beautiful By Brian Feldman@bafeldman Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images You might not think of Nancy Pelosi, the 79-year-old Speaker of the House, as a musician, but after this amazing discovery, you will. Pelosi recently went viral in conservative circles when footage of her, supposedly inebriated but actually just slowed down to three-quarter speed, made the rounds. But here’s what we discovered when we slowed down the audio even more: She sounds just like Sigur Rós! It’s true that slowing Nancy Pelosi’s speech down to about 75 percent of normal makes her sound a bit drunk. But color us astonished to find out that when you take audio of the lifelong political activist who has represented California in the House for more than 30 years and reduce the speed by a factor of eight, it sounds like an unreleased track from the blissed-out Icelandic band with more than half a dozen albums to their name. Take that, conservatives. Of course, we can’t take full credit for this discovery. Back in 2010, a redditor messing around with Justin Bieber’s “U Smile” accidentally created an “ambient/drone masterpiece” when he slowed the track down using a program called Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch. Soon, slowing down tracks to ambient speed was sweeping the nation 19. Engadget › 2019/05/24 › facebo... Web results Facebook is fact checking the 'drunk Nancy Pelosi' video, but won't remove it - Engadget 11 hours ago · Facebook won't remove a viral video that purports to show Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nacy Pelosi ... Deadline › 2019/05 › facebook-... Facebook Says It Won't Remove Unflattering Nancy Pelosi Videos From Its Platform ... 8 hours ago · The video in question shows Pelosi speaking in a slurring style that some claim shows her as drunk or not well. Supporters claim it ... 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TOP STORIES China Is Spying On Israel to Steal U.S. Secrets Foreign Policy - 5 hours ago This is China's playbook to pit EU countries against each other Business Insider - 7 hours ago The New York Times Company China Pledges Openness in Hopes of Reaching a Trade Deal 5 mins ago CNBC Trade war 'uncertainty' is affecting the world's top chemicals firm, and it wants a quick deal 8 hours ago CNBC Italy's Di Maio tries to reassure Washington after becoming first EU country to join China's massive Belt and Road initiative 2 hours ago South China Morning Post Italy agrees to return Chinese cultural relics in goodwill gesture 6 hours ago Reuters U.S. official denounces 'choreographed' visits to China's Xinjiang 12 hours ago BBC News Italy joins China's New Silk Road project 6 hours ago Wall Street Journal China’s Huge Bond Market Is Coming to an ETF Near You Soon 4 hours ago CNBC A trade deal could come in weeks, but it won't remove 'contentious' issues, says former US diplomat 9 hours ago Quartz China private rocket company OneSpace attempts orbital launch 1 day ago Bloomberg China Officials Tap Lower Tariffs, Debt Sales to Aid Growth 13 hours ago PEOPLE ALSO SEARCH FOR Italy joins China Belt and Road Blast in China chemical plant US China trade talks More News Web results China - Wikipedia Wikipedia › wiki › China 2. https://www.google.com/amp/s/foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/24/china-and-russia-are-spying-on-israel-to-steal-u-s-secrets-putin-netanyahu-xi-haifa-ashdod-iai-elbit/amp/ 3. ARGUMENT China Is Spying On Israel to Steal U.S. Secrets Benjamin Netanyahu ignored the intelligence operations of Beijing and Moscow for too long. Now, the Israeli government is finally paying attention, but it could be too late. YOSSI MELMAN MARCH 24, 2019 Featured image Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks with soldiers as he stands near a naval Iron Dome defense systeminstalled on a Sa'ar 5 Lahav Class corvette of the Israeli Navy fleet, in the northern port of Haifa on Feb. 12. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) This month, Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) will present the cabinet with its recommendations on foreign investments in Israel. Because of the sensitivity of the issue, no one in the cabinet is prepared to talk about the elephant in the room. Nevertheless, it is clear that the policy review and the report are primarily focused on China. In the past decade, Beijing has increased its economic and military investments and interests in the Middle East, including Israel. The Israeli government ignored China’s behavior for too long, but lately it has begun to pay attention. The National Security Council has to reconcile two contradictory policies, both of which are important to the Israeli economy and its national-security interests. The first is a policy embraced by all government across the political spectrum for decades: encouraging foreign investment, privatization of national assets and utilities, and the expansion of international markets for Israeli goods. In recent years, like many other exporters, Israeli firms have looked eastward to the growing and developing economies of Asia—and China’s in particular. A recent survey by the Israeli intelligence community that is not in the public domain shows that Chinese investment in the Middle East rose by 1,700 percent between 2012 and 2017. Altogether, the Chinese have invested $700 billion in the region. Nearly half of it is in the energy sector, $150 billion in research and development, $113 billion in industry, $103 billion in transportation, $68 billion in the military field, $4 billion in financial loans, and only $155 million in humanitarian aid. From 1992 to 2017, China’s bilateral trade with Israel has grown from $50 million to $13.1 billion, making it Israel’s largest trading partner in Asia and its third-largest trading partner in the world after the European Union and the United States. In the first half of 2018, China’s imports from Israel reached $2.77 billion, an increase of 47 percent compared with the same period in 2017. The second policy is to defend national and strategic assets and infrastructure from being controlled and taken over by foreign governments and corporations, even if they are not hostile to Israel. Because of its high-tech economy, Israel also faces the delicate problem of foreign spying and theft of its advanced technologies and know-how. Russia and China have in recent years enhanced their espionage efforts in Israel, particularly to obtain access to both state-owned and private-sector Israeli tech companies, and through them to the United States, a close ally of Israel. China has targeted Israel’s two largest arms exporters, Israel Aerospace Industries 4. Lucifer I Jesus am Lucifer, the light, & the love of heaven on earth. Love conquers all, this dimension is the lake of fire, a trillion, trillion stars of fire, Satan rules this dimension, he is a liar, and that is why this dimension is full of lies. No man gets to heaven without love. Love me, and you will join me in heaven, if you do not, you will live in pain, and confusion here for eternity. 1 month ago 4 Omni Fortuna r/im14andthisisdeep 1 month ago 9 danny harrity If we all start eating plant based you could probably tack on 5. Some repeated items on clipboard. Oops. Oh well. But whew some scary things surfacing, like Lucifer speaks in a comment on Youtube. I support free speech. No need to have these things to the recesses of the minds of these people to be crazy, ie mentally ill. Go head n get these things out to the open. Its racist here n it worships the devil. And it shouldnt be the practice n the way be hidden as that it is the say so of some supposed people among, they are hiding who they are n this restriction on speech is making these people cozy n its attacking people that dont ignore stuff n cant pretend stuff doesn't exist that does. Very bad situation, very attacking, very strangely sacrificial of these people that would prefer not tp hide everything. Those people are being sacrificed here. 6. https://youtu.be/Zf8PWSQaEwY 7. Sly Cooper In 120 years from now there will be a completely new set of humans on this earth 1 month ago 2K ApeX D34ST Sly Cooper I bet by that time ageing could have been able to have been slowed down meaning longer lives, so I'd say 140 years 1 month ago 87 D Ramos By 2040, I say major technological advances will take place transforming our way of life. And the way we age. 1 month ago 54 JR Dulin Sly Cooper http://truthism.com/ 1 month ago 2 Junior Farias Well, it all hinges upon the countries relation 1 month ago 2 Clay Old Since we're stating completely obvious things: Water is wet. Fire is hot. And you are not intelligent. 1 month ago 18 Jon Wayne @D Ramos only the ultra rich will get that 1 month ago 2 Lucifer I Jesus am Lucifer, the light, & the love of heaven on earth. Love conquers all, this dimension is the lake of fire, a trillion, trillion stars of fire, Satan rules this dimension, he is a liar, and that is why this dimension is full of lies. No man gets to heaven without love. Love me, and you will join me in heaven, if you do not, you will live in pain, and confusion here for eternity. 1 month ago 4 Omni Fortuna r/im14andthisisdeep 1 month ago 9 danny harrity If we all start eating plant based you could probably tack on another 20 years 1 month ago 5 DA OG POTATO Clay Old exothermic fire? 1 month ago 300 Subscribers With 0 Videos? In about 100 years all the people who comment on this will be dead, RIP love you all 1 week ago 164 Νάντια Lol 8. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCUovGVmudc3uWGzqnhEaztQ 9. The eyes never lie. Elsa pataky and Chris Hemsworth. 2,963 views exciteme69 1,088 subscribers Published on Feb 27, 2019 "It's funny when it's your husband. For me, sexy is the inside of someone. 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TOP STORIES How a Pop Star Who Sings Love Songs Like It's 2014 Topped China's Charts Bloomberg - 12 hours ago China's soybean demand has been hit by swine flu, raising doubts about Beijing's trade promises CNBC.com - 12 hours ago The New York Times Company Lighthizer Says ‘Major Issues’ Are Unresolved as China Talks Drag On 20 mins ago The Washington Post China’s ban on the Boeing 737 Max inspires others, ramps up pressure on U.S. regulator 4 hours ago CNBC If you invested $1,000 in Alibaba when it went public, here's how much you'd have now 14 hours ago Wall Street Journal EU, in Major Shift, Moves to Confront China’s Growing Assertiveness 1 hour ago The Daily Galaxy China Close to Launching Its “Artificial Sun” –‘Limitless Clean Energy’ 5 hours ago Inkstone ‘One more Christian, one less Chinese’: official vows to rid faith of Western influences 10 hours ago Reuters Deal or no deal, U.S.-China trade talks may end in weeks: Lighthizer 5 hours ago Bloomberg Fear of Trump Walking on Xi Haunts China as Trade Talks Near End 17 hours ago ABC News US envoy calls China's Muslim camps 'horrific,' wants probe 12 hours ago Slate What Will Really Determine the Winner of the U.S.-China Rivalry Over A.I.? 4 hours ago PEOPLE ALSO SEARCH FOR 3. https://www.google.com/search?q=china&oq=china&aqs=chrome.1.69i60j69i59l2j69i60l2j0.1829j1j4&client=ms-android-mpcs-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#scso=_dBOIXLuoD82-gge_jLCYDg31:134.85714721679688.23809814453125.42857360839844 4. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.inkstonenews.com/society/senior-protestant-official-china-vows-further-sinicize-religion/article/3001291 5. A senior Chinese official who oversees state-sanctioned Christian churches has pledged to rid the Protestant faith in China of any Western “imprint,” calling for further “sinicization” of religion. Xu Xiaohong, chairman of the National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, a government-controlled body that runs state-approved Protestant churches, on Monday attacked what Beijing perceived as “Western influence.” “[We] must recognize that Chinese churches are surnamed ‘China,’ not ‘the West’,” Xu told delegates to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. “The actions by anti-China forces that attempt to affect our social stability or even subvert the regime of our country are doomed to fail,” he said. 6. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-03-12/for-xi-jinping-a-vexing-question-can-donald-trump-be-trusted 7. Skip to content Bloomberg Subscribe Economics Fear of Trump Walking on Xi Haunts China as Trade Talks Near End Shawn Donnan and Kevin Hamlin March 11, 2019, 10:17 PM EDT Updated on March 12, 2019, 5:00 AM EDT Beijing plays coy on summit, uncertain it can trust Trump Trump battling his own reputation for last-minute surprises The Rise of Asia Is Being Challenged by the U.S., Says Hao Capital’s Liu Donald Trump regularly touts the strength of his personal relationship with Xi Jinping, talking about the Chinese leader in the sort of warm terms U.S. presidents normally reserve for longstanding allies. Yet as the world’s two largest economies inch towards a trade agreement designed to define and reorder their economic relationship for years to come, one question looms large: Does Xi trust Trump enough to get on a plane and seal the deal? Trump and his aides have for weeks been pushing for Xi to agree to a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, the president’s club and resort in Palm Beach, Florida, to finalize a deal as soon as this month to end a dispute that has cast a shadow over the global economy. Trump himself has said that it’s only when the two leaders meet that the final details can be ironed out. China's National People's Congress (NPC) - Second Plenary Meeting Xi JinpingPhotographer: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Chinese officials, however, have long been wary of putting Xi in a position where he might be embarrassed by an unpredictable Trump or forced into last-minute concessions. “That is the real conundrum for Xi,’’ said Eswar Prasad, an expert on the Chinese economy at Cornell University who regularly meets with senior officials in Beijing. “The concern about being snookered by Trump at the negotiating table is a real risk for Xi.’’ Read More: Trade Truce Too Little Too Late as Exports Slump China’s worries are flipping the U.S. script on its head. As Trump claims to be the first American president to stand up to Beijing, his aides have built a possible deal on a foundation of distrust. In their view, a China that has for decades lied and cheated its way to economic success cannot be trusted to live up to any commitments unless a deal has teeth. “That’s the fundamental question,’’ Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, told Congress on Feb. 27. “What the president wants is an agreement that number one is enforceable.’’ Officials in Beijing insist they’ve played by international rules and just want to be sure Trump won’t again kill an agreement at the last minute. Trump has rejected at least two deals brought to him since he first hosted Xi at Mar-a-Lago in April 2017: One struck by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for China to cut steel overcapacity, and another negotiated by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last year. Both would’ve averted a trade war. The latter one was particularly jarring for Xi, who faces pressure in China to avoid giving up too much in a deal with Trump. Vice Premier Liu He came to Washington as Xi’s special representative, and declared to China’s state-run media that a trade war had been averted. After Trump backtracked, talks stalled for months until the two leaders met in December at the Group of 20 summit in Argentina. Read More: Burned Once by Trump, China’s Xi Wary About Fresh Trade Talks Last month, Trump’s decision to walk away from his Hanoi summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un without a deal only reinforced China’s concerns about the president’s unpredictability. Donald Trump with Kim Jong Un in Hanoi on Feb. 27.Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Former Commerce Vice Minister Wei Jianguo argues that because the U.S. and China are great powers Trump would never walk away from Xi as he did Kim. The consequences would be too great. “It is important to boost confidence in a slowing global economy,” Wei said. There are parallels for the Chinese. In 1999, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji faced a nationalist backlash after a last-minute change of course by the Clinton administration threw a deal for China’s accession to the World Trade Organization into doubt. Erin Ennis, who tracks the negotiations for the U.S.-China Business Council, said a Trump snub of Xi this time around would be an order of magnitude greater than any previously. Then again, she said, “I don’t think the Chinese are the only government in the world that is not entirely sure what they are getting when they send their head of state into a meeting with the president of the United States.’’ Daily Talks Trump has for months pushed to sign a deal, and that has fundamentally changed the dynamics of negotiations. In recent days both sides have held daily conference calls. China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday that Liu, Lighthizer and Mnuchin decided on arrangements for the next stage of trade talks, without providing more details. China last week revised an offer on intellectual-property protection, one focal point of the negotiations, according to people briefed on the offer. It has also pledged to increase purchases of American goods by $1.2 trillion over six years and to open its market in some key sectors, raising hopes that it might finally allow U.S. firms to compete in forbidden areas such as cloud computing. As a deal gets closer, Chinese officials also want the U.S. to agree that any commitments go both ways, particularly on enforcement. The U.S. wants China to agree not to retaliate against any punitive measures Washington might apply if Beijing doesn’t meet its commitments. But Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen over the weekend countered any enforcement mechanism would have to be “two-way, fair and equal.” Wang ShouwenPhotographer: Fred Dufour/AFP via Getty Images ‘Judge, Jury’ “I’m not sure if China would ever allow the United States to be the judge, jury and sheriff on these issues and that seems to be the core of what the U.S. is asking for,’’ said Wendy Cutler, a former senior U.S. trade negotiator who heads the Asia Society Policy Institute. Trump could see political benefits from walking away from a deal. He’s already facing questions about the quality of the agreement and whether the trade war he started -- and the economic damage it has brought in farm states in particular -- will prove to have been worth it. Some hawks inside his administration also fear Trump is being led into a bad deal with a China that will remain a growing strategic threat. Still, both presidents have their reasons to settle their differences. Trump is under pressure to prove his “America First’’ trade policies can deliver, the evidence for which is mixed so far. Since 2016 the U.S. trade deficit -- Trump’s own favorite metric -- has blown out by almost $120 billion, or more than 20 percent. Meanwhile, a successful summit in Mar-a-Lago would enable Xi to silence his own domestic critics, said Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute at the University of London. "If he cannot get some kind of a ‘decent’ deal with Trump and the economy continues to slide, the pressure on Xi will build up," he said. — With assistance by Jenny Leonard, and Miao Han (Updates with Xinhua report on trade talks under "Daily Talks" subhead.) SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share Tweet Post Email Trending Now Technology What Is the Boeing 737 Max and Which Airlines Fly It?: QuickTake March 12, 2019, 4:20 AM EDT Business Boeing Losing Premium Over Airbus on Groundings: 737 Max Update March 12, 2019, 2:25 PM EDT Business Boeing Drops Most Since 2001 as Second 737 Crash Grounds Flights March 11, 2019, 9:48 AM EDT 8. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/44abbd4c-44db-11e9-b168-96a37d002cd3 9. US-China trade dispute US trade chief warns that China talks could fail Robert Lighthizer says right to raise tariffs if there are violations must be maintained Robert Lighthizer: 'I’ll work as hard as I can, and the president will tell me when the time is up, or the Chinese will' © Bloomberg March 12, 2019 5:34 pm by James Politi in Washington US President Donald Trump’s trade chief has warned that negotiations to end the tariff war with China were at risk of failing, saying “major, major issues” needed to be resolved before an agreement was reached, and he could not “predict success at this point”. Speaking before the Senate finance committee on Tuesday, Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative, said that talks with Beijing had intensified and probably entered their “final weeks”, as the two countries haggle over structural reforms and enforcement provisions. But Mr Lighthizer indicated that a deal could not be taken for granted. “We’re either going to have a good result or we’re going to have a bad result before too long, but I’m not setting a specific timeframe and it’s not up to me,” Mr Lighthizer said. “I’ll work as hard as I can, and the president will tell me when the time is up, or the Chinese will,” he added. Mr Lighthizer said he and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, spok 10. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/millions-would-die-check-out-chinas-nuclear-war-plan-against-america-46842 11. Report Advertisement 1 The National InterestOpen Menu Millions Would Die: Check Out China's Nuclear War Plan Against America Share on FacebookF Share on TwitterL Share on LinkedInI Subscribe to RSSR Print March 12, 2019 Topic: Security Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: ChinaMilitaryTechnologyWorld Nuclear Weapons Could this happen? by Lyle J. Goldstein Playing Now Elsewhere, I have, moreover, documented Chinese discussions of tactical nuclear weapons for anti-submarine warfare, as well as the importance of nuclear-tipped submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCMs) for strategy in the late Cold War. Let’s hope that these are just academic discussions in the Chinese context and do not reflect actual weapons under development. When one reads enough Chinese naval literature, diagrams of multi-axial cruise missile saturation attacks against aircraft carrier groups may begin to seem normal. However, one particular graphic from the October 2015 issue (p. 32) of the naval journal Naval & Merchant Ships [舰船知识] stands out as both unusual and singularly disturbing. It purports to map the impact of a Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) strike by twenty nuclear-armed rockets against the United States. (This first appeared several years ago.) Targets include the biggest cities on the East and West Coasts, as well as in the Midwest, as one would expect. Giant radiation plumes cover much of the country and the estimate in the caption holds that the strike “would yield perhaps 50 million people killed” [可能造成5000 万死亡]. The map below that graphic on the same page illustrates the optimal aim point for a hit on New York City with a “blast wave” [火风量] that vaporizes all of Manhattan and well beyond. That makes the North Korean “threat” look fairly insignificant by comparison, doesn’t it? But what’s really disturbing is that the scenario described above envisions a strike by China’s largely antiquated DF-5 first generation ICBM. In other words, the illustration is perhaps a decade or more out of date. As China has deployed first the road-mobile DF-31, then DF-31A and now JL-2 (a submarine-launched nuclear weapon), China’s nuclear strategy has moved from “assured retaliation” to what one may term “completely assured retaliation.” Report Advertisement Indeed, the actual theme of the article featuring those graphics concerns recent reports regarding testing of the DF-41 mobile ICBM. The author of that article, who is careful to note that his views do not represent those of the publication, observes that when a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson was queried about the test on August 6, 2015, the spokesperson “did not deny that the DF-41 exists” [并没有否认‘东风’41 的存在]. The author also cites U.S. intelligence reports, concluding that four tests have now been conducted, including one that demonstrates multiple-reentry vehicle (MIRV) technology. The author estimates that DF-41 will finally provide China with the capability to launch missiles from north central China and hit all targets in the U.S. (except Florida). With the goal of better understanding the rapidly evolving strategic nuclear balance between China and the U.S. and its significance, this Dragon Eye surveys some recent Mandarin-language writings on the subject of Chinese nuclear forces. To be sure, a flurry of Chinese writings on the nuclear balance did follow after the September parade in Beijing that highlighted Chinese missile forces. Perhaps the most remarkable revelation from the parade was the unveiling of the DF-26, a new, longer-range anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM), based on the revolutionary shorter-ranged cousin, the DF-21D ASBM. In fact, the November 2015 issue of the aforementioned journal ran a series of articles on the DF-26. In those articles, the weapon is described multiple times as a “nuclear conventional dual-purpose” [核常兼备] weapon. The major thrust of the article in that issue on the impact of the DF-26 on nuclear strategy seems to be to try to debunk the argument that China’s deployment of this new type of missile is “destabilizing.” Like their American counterparts, Chinese strategists seem to be increasingly practiced (at least in a domestic context) at selling the argument that more and new types of weapons enhance deterrence and thus strategic stability. Report Advertisement Despite the developments related above, the balance of opinion in Beijing seems impressively moderate on the prospects for a major nuclear buildup by China. In the allegedly nationalist forum of Global Times [环球时报], one commentator from the China Institute for International Studies (associated with the Foreign Ministry), for example, offered a few illuminating comments about a year ago in an expert forum entitled “ How Many Nuclear Warheads Are Enough for China? ” He is evidently concerned that “We have heard some new voices calling to ‘build a nuclear force appropriate for a great power.’” Instead, he argues that China must continue to focus on building a “small, elite and effective nuclear forces” [精干有效的核力量]. Likewise, a former vice-director of the Chinese Navy Nuclear Security Bureau offers that China is a medium-sized nuclear power, which should learn from the experience of Britain and France and deploy no fewer than four submarines carrying nuclear weapons (SSBNs)—far fewer than operated by either Russia or the United States. Yet one can still find in that same analysis ample concern among Chinese specialists regarding new directions in U.S. military capabilities that could threaten China’s deterrent. Another concern amply evident in Chinese writings concerns tactical nuclear weaponry. Most of this reporting of late concerns a recent upgrade to the American B-61 nuclear bomb . A full-page graphic in the same issue that discusses the DF-41 missile tests offers many specifics on the B-61, including its “dial-a-yield” [威力可调技术] feature that enables the operator to choose destruction on a scale ranging from fifty to 0.3 kilotons. That same month, in the magazine Aerospace Knowledge [航空知识], a “centerfold” featured the SS-26 Iskander, a Russian short-range tactical nuclear weapon. Elsewhere, I have, moreover, documented Chinese discussions of tactical nuclear weapons for anti-submarine warfare, as well as the importance of nuclear-tipped submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCMs) for strategy in the late Cold War. Let’s hope that these are just academic discussions in the Chinese context and do not reflect actual weapons under development. As one can see from this discussion, there is ample reason for anxiety with many new Chinese nuclear systems now coming online, as well as substantial reason for optimism. As an author who frequently rides China’s high-speed rail [高铁], I am acutely aware that astronomical sums of money spent on that system could just as easily have been spent building an enormous arsenal of nuclear weaponry. That was not done and it’s certainly good that Chinese leaders have their priorities straight. American strategists need to keep this Chinese restraint in mind, especially as they weigh both new, expensive weapons systems (missile defense augmentation, the new strategic bomber, SSBN-X and also prompt global strike) and a set of measures to counter Beijing within the maritime disputes on its flanks. Lyle J. 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The RAND Corporation, who carried out the simulation, claimed US land, sea and air forces would be reduced to rubble in the outlandish scenario. Nonprofit research organization RAND Corporation reported the war-game showed US armed forces facing substantial losses, despite repeated attempts to overcome both Russia and China's military muscle. RAND analyst David Ochmanek said: "In our games when we fight Russia and China, the US gets its a** handed to it. RELATED ARTICLES World War 3: First footage of NAUSEATING Russian HALLUCINATION gun Putin REFUSES to respond to letter from son of Salisbury victim "We lose a lot of people. ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads “We lose a lot of equipment. “We usually fail to achieve our objective of preventing aggression by the adversary." The simulations showed the US see major setbacks in all five battlefield domains. PROMOTED STORY 14. 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In China, they’re closing churches, jailing pastors – and even rewriting scripture Read more In a speech on Monday, Xu Xiaohong, the head of the National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China, said there were many problems with Christianity in the country, including “infiltration” from abroad and “private meeting places”. “It must be recognised that our movement’s surname is ‘China’ and not ‘Western’,” Xu said, according to remarks reported on Tuesday by the United Front Work Department, which is in charge of co-opting non-communists, ethnic minorities and religious groups. “Anti-China forces in the west are trying to continue to influence China’s social stability and even subvert our country’s political power through Christianity, and it is doomed to fail,” he said, speaking to parliament’s largely ceremonial advisory body. “For individual black sheep who, under the banner of Christianity, participate in subverting national security, we firmly support the country to bring them to justice.“ Only by eliminating the “stigma of foreign religion” in China’s Christianity can its believers benefit society, he added. “Only by continually drawing on the fine traditions of Chinese culture, can China’s Christianity be rooted in the fertile soil of Chinese culture and become a religion recognised by the Chinese themselves,” Xu added. “Only by continuously carrying forward and practising the core values of socialism can our Christianity truly be suited to socialist society.” 'We are scared, but we have Jesus': China and its war on Christianity Read more China has been following a policy it calls the “Sinicisation” of religion, trying to root out foreign influences and enforce obedience to the Communist party. 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We will see that Satan is saying that he is the representative of Earth! So what we have here is a system of government for the Universe that God Himself oversees. Apparently this was an important event. In this meeting the sons of God are presenting themselves before the Lord. It seems that all who were there, except one, had a right to be there. At least we don't have any record of God questioning their presence. The whole point of this part of the story is that Satan was not invited. When God asked Satan why he was there, he essentially answered: from walking around on the Earth. 17. invited. When God asked Satan why he was there, he essentially answered: from walking around on the Earth. Is Satan claiming ownership? I think so. Remember, this intergalactic war is over the question of ownership of the throne of Heaven. Satan wants the throne. Apparently, Satan is starting a legal process that he thinks will allow him to take over one planet, the Earth. In the meeting, Satan seems to 18. allow him to take over one planet, the Earth. In the meeting, Satan seems to conclude that he either owns or he rules our world. He is actually claiming rulership of the Earth in that meeting! That is why I think he went to the meeting. He sees himself as the leader of the whole planet Earth. This meeting most likely is a meeting of the leaders of the Universe with God; So Satan felt he had a right to be there. We can determine this point of rulership further from the following discussion: Then the LORD said to Satan, Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? So Satan answered the LORD and said, Does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face! And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person. So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD. Job 1:8-12. 19. In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:9-10 We are still praying for God's will to occur on earth as it is in Heaven. We are praying for this because His will is still not yet happening fully. Jesus has not yet taken authority of our world. Yes, that is right. Satan is still the ruler of this world. Death and destruction are still occurring all around us. Jesus still has not taken our world away from Satan. We know that is true because we are still here! However, Jesus especially talked about Satan, that he will be cast out and judged. Now is the 20. 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