• 2020: The Year The System Showed Its Real Face

    2020: The Year The System Showed Its Real Face Authored by Paul Rosenberg via FreemansPerspective.com, (Originally published September 28, 2020.) As we grew up, nearly all of us were inundated with stories of our glorious national fathers, our beautiful democracies, and so on. And being young, we for the most part believed them. The system gave us our prosperity, our comfort, our medicine, our sense of importance. Soon enough we learned that the system was also stupid and...

  • Ukraine to Receive More Patriot Systems to Bolster Air Defense

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday said European Union (EU) leaders are planning to provide Ukraine with seven additional Patriot air-defense systems, according to Bloomberg.Scholz's comments come as Russia continues to bombard Ukraine with missile and drone strikes, many of which striking residential areas and energy infrastructure.The U.S.-made Patriot is considered among the most effective air-defense systems in the world and has been credited with intercepting Russia's supposedly...

  • Iranian officials: Air defense systems fired at suspicious object

    After reports emerged from several Iranian media outlets regarding the explosions heard in Isfahan, a senior Iranian army commander in Isfahan stated that the sound of explosions was caused by the firing of air defense systems at a suspicious object. According to IRNA, Siavosh Mihandoust, the commander of the Iranian army in Isfahan, said: “The […]

  • Multistate 911 outage shows fragility of systems, experts say

    A major 911 outage Wednesday showed the urgent need for increased modernization and regulation of the emergency system, experts in telecommunications and public safety told NBC News. On Thursday, Lumen Technologies, a telecommunications company based in Louisiana, said in a statement that "some customers in Nevada, South Dakota, and Nebraska experienced an outage due to a third-party company installing a light pole — unrelated to our services." The outage left millions in multiple states...

  • Drone and Missile Warfare Tests Supply-Strapped Defense Systems

    Drone and Missile Warfare Tests Supply-Strapped Defense Systems (First column, 8th story, link) Related stories:Iran vows to hit Israel with 'never before used' weapons'Tel Aviv is our battleground'Restraint or retribution? Jewish state dilemmaDigital 'sleuths' fuel misinformation

  • Why supporting Ukraine is ‘main priority’ for Norway’s defense chief this year

    “I have more sense of urgency in 2024 than I had in 2023” about how quickly Russia can rearm its military, Norway’s Chief of Defense, Gen. Eirik Kristoffersen, told Breaking Defense.

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    Israel's strike on Iran: Crisis shows how badly Iran and Israel understand each other

    After decades of rivalry, the rival Middle East powers have both

  • Video: Ukraine Destroys Russian Air Defense System With Attack Drone

    Ukrainian forces took out one of Russia's "Strela-10" Arrow air defense systems in a drone attack on Sunday, according to Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR).Video of the attack was shared to Telegram on Tuesday by HUR, which said that fighters of Kyiv's special operations unit detected the defense system along the front lines. The roughly 30-second footage shows the moment that Ukraine's first-person-view (FPV) drones struck the system, which went up in smoke after getting struck."On...

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    Crews battle fire on Main Street in Plymouth; The Flying Monkey evacuated during show

    Fire crews responded Saturday night to the scene of a large fire on Main

  • Israel targets air defense system in Syria, state news agency says

    Israel carried out a missile strike targeting an air defense unit in southern Syria, causing material damage, state-run SANA news agency quoted a military statement as saying Friday.

  • Georgia defensive portal additions put together strong G-Day showing

    Georgia added a pair of SEC defenders to its defense by way of the portal

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    'Bad Faith' documentary shows us the evil of Christian nationalism. So did a bomb threat at my library.

    On a recent Saturday, a couple of hours before my wife and I took our youngest son on his weekly trip to our public library in Durham, North Carolina — an outing we all love —someone threatened to blow up the place. A neighbor told us later that she knew something was wrong when police cars pulled up with flashing lights. Officers entered the front doors, spoke to the manager briefly, then cleared the building, which remained closed for the rest of the weekend. According to news reports, the...