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10/30/2022

Nigerians Must Remain Calm, Says Buhari Amid Terrorists Threat In Abuja

According to Buhari, UK and US travel advisories also state there is a high likelihood of terror attacks in many Western European nations. Indeed, the UK and US advice to their respective citizens for travel to one another’s countries contain the same warning. Unfortunately, terror is a reality the world over. read more

10/28/2022

JetBlue Adds To Its Qatar Airways Codeshare Agreement

O SimpleFlying New York-based low-cost carrier JetBlue is reinforcing its relationship with Qatar Airways by expanding on a codeshare partnership that evolved from a previous collaboration.

Schumer caught on hot mic telling Biden that Georgia's Senate race is 'going downhill' for Dems

Yahoo! News - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was overheard Thursday telling President Biden that the potentially pivotal race for U.S. Senate in Georgia appears to be "going downhill" for Democrats.

10/27/2022

London Offices Can't Catch a Break in This Economy

All the bad trends afflicting the UK converge in the capital’s office sector. But investors are being overly pessimistic. cont'd

The Complicated American Dream

Hello. Today we look at the US middle class ahead of the congressional elections, Saudi Arabia’s boom and labor-market conundrums in the US and UK. cont'd

10/26/2022

Driverless taxis are about to hit Los Angeles. How will Waymo's impact affect the city's changing streetscape?

Driverless taxis are about to hit Los Angeles. How will Waymo's impact affect the city's changing streetscape?: Waymo has already eked out footholds in Phoenix and San Francisco and will need a permit from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand its West Coast operations into what it says is a now $2 billion market. The Public Utilities hurdle and technically complicated mapping process aside...

10/22/2022

To save world peace, it is urgent for Switzerland to become neutral again

It is embarrassing enough that Sergei Lavrov asked Swiss President Ignazio Cassis in New York at the UN for Switzerland to return to neutrality. One read more

U.S. urges Mexico not to buy Chinese scanners for the border

Yahoo! News TIJUANA, Mexico - As the Biden administration revamped security technology at the U.S.-Mexico border this year, officials learned of an unexpected national security threat developing on the other side of the Rio Grande. The Mexican government was preparing to purchase hundreds of millions of dollars of Chinese scanning equipment for its own checkpoints.

10/18/2022

U.S. to issue new cybersecurity requirements for critical aviation systems

WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. transportation security agency said Wednesday it plans to issue new cybersecurity requirements for some key aviation systems after several U.S. airport websites earlier this week were hit with apparently coordinated denial-of-service attacks.

10/12/2022

Eritreans in fear as military call-up intensifies over Ethiopia's Tigray war

BBC News - Eritrean authorities have intensified military mobilisation and are hunting down draft dodgers across the country, as the war in neighbouring Ethiopia escalates, multiple Eritrean sources have told the BBC.

Jesse Kline: Armed Forces admit there's no one left to use its rusted out gear

MSN - In case anyone hadn’t noticed, our military is in crisis. For years, we’ve heard stories about how Ottawa’s chronic neglect of the Canadian Armed Forces has left it with outdated hardware — sidearms that belong in a history museum, Cold War-era fighter jets, second-hand subs that even the most unscrupulous of used car salesmen wouldn’t try to hock — but a recruitment deficit exacerbated by the pandemic and a series of sexual assault scandals has exposed an even bigger problem: even if we had state-of-the-art equipment, there’s no one there to use it.

10/11/2022

Tulsi Gabbard says she is leaving the Democratic Party

Tulsi Gabbard says she is leaving the Democratic Party.

In a video posted to Twitter, the former U.S. congresswoman from Hawaii — who mounted an unsuccessful campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — said she can “no longer stomach” the direction that “woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country.”

10/10/2022

Hurricane Ian

Help with promises of more came with President Joe Biden's Wednesday afternoon visit to hurricane-ravaged Southwest Florida. cont'd

10/08/2022

The Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier just left port

The USS Gerald R. Ford is off on its first deployment. Here's what to know about this next-gen ship. read more

The Navy Now Has Three Deadly Stealth Destroyers

10/04/2022

Shareholders in Spirit AeroSystems Holdings (NYSE:SPR) have lost 71%, as stock drops 9.4% this past week

It's not possible to invest over long periods without making some bad investments. But you have a problem if you face massive losses more than once in a while. cont'd

10/01/2022

$4-million verdict for LAPD captain over fake nude photo shared by cops

A jury awarded a female Los Angeles police captain $4 million in damages Friday in her sexual harassment lawsuit against the city over a nude photograph that was doctored to look like her and shared around the department. read more

LAPD investigating report of George Floyd photo circulating with caption ‘You take my breath away’

Kenya floods leave 70 dead as truck is swept away in deluge

CNN - At least 70 people have died from countrywide flooding in Kenya, a government spokesperson said Friday as authorities ordered more ev...