[ZeroHedge] "On January 29, 2021, the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer
...GOP mega-donor who led a pro-Trump super PAC in 2016. She apparently now has decided to buy the newspaper, so to speak...
decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parler. I did not participate in this decision," wrote John Matze in a statement obtained by Fox Business. "I understand that those who now control the company have made some communications to employees and other third parties that have unfortunately created confusion and prompted me to make this public statement."
"Over the past few months, I've met constant resistance to my product vision, my strong belief in free speech and my view of how the Parler site should be managed. For example, I advocated for more product stability and what I believe is a more effective approach to content moderation," Matze's statement continues.
"I have worked endless hours and fought constant battles to get the Parler site running but at this point, the future of Parler is no longer in my hands," he continued. "I want to thank the Parler employees, the people on Parler and Parler supporters for their tireless work and devotion to the company. They are an amazing group of diverse, hardworking and talented individuals and I have the utmost respect for them. Many of them have become my second family."
1. Front-end i.e. UX, value to users, delightful experience, high-engagement features, etc: necessary for growth and valuation i.e. business viability.
2. Back-end i.e. stability, scalability, extensibility, using but not becoming beholden to AWS etc.: necessary for security and sustainable growth i.e. business viability.
Gotta have both.
Sounds like this founder CEO neglected #2. Sayonara. That's rock n roll, bro.
#2
A Great Actor...
His role in a Dirty Harry movie came across as if he had actual done it in life prior to acting.
But his quotes seem to contradict the stated political position he was a Liberal loving socialist. I get the general feeling he may have toed the Hollywood political line for career reasons.
Either way, his quotes...
#1
"We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society."
#2
"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."
#3
Good ones NN2N1.
I always liked this HH line from Wall St. - "Man looks into the Abyss, and there's nothin' staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character, and that's what keeps him out of the Abyss."
[House Beautiful] If you're a fan of Dick and Angel Strawbridge and their international hit series, Escape to the Chateau, then you'll be thrilled to know that the duo have signed a new two-year deal with Channel 4.
There will be two new eight-part series of Escape to the Chateau, a second series of Escape to the Chateau: Make, Do And Mend, and a further new series featuring Dick and Angel which is currently in development.
The slate of new shows is a result of Two Rivers Media and Chateau TV (Dick and Angel's independent production company) securing a major two-year programming deal with Channel 4 to supply new programmes under the 'Chateau' brand.
[Victory Girls] What price can you put on history? Right now, it looks to be about $3.4 million, and could likely be higher.
The only painting that Winston Churchill created during World War II — he was just a little busy during that period of time — was of a landscape in Marrakech. Churchill painted it as a gift to President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the Casablanca Conference in 1943.
[IsraelTimes] The United States joins Russia in extending the two countries’ last remaining treaty limiting their stockpiles of nuclear weapons, two days before the pact was set to expire.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says in a statement the US would use the five years of the New START treaty’s renewal to pursue limits on all of Russia’s nuclear weapons. That’s after the Trump administration pulled out of two other such deals, as part of a broad withdrawal from international accords.
The countries last week announced plans to extend the agreement, even as the Biden administration has stepped up criticism of Russia over the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, its involvement in a massive hack and other issues.
"Especially during times of tension, verifiable limits on Russia’s intercontinental-range nuclear weapons are vitally important. Extending the New START Treaty makes the United States, US allies and partners, and the world safer," Blinken says. "An unconstrained nuclear competition would endanger us all."
The treaty, signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama teachable moment... and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits the number of US and Russian strategic nuclear weapons.
The outgoing Trump administration made a late bid to extend the treaty, but Russia rejected its conditions.
The treaty was due to expire Friday. Both houses of the Russian parliament voted unanimously last month for the extension, and President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... signed the bill.
That was after President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Candidate for president in 2020. The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... and Putin talked and agreed on the extension, part of a quick round of diplomacy by the less than month-old US administration to keep the treaty going. The extension doesn’t require formal congressional approval in the United States.
The Biden administration will also work on control measures for China’s smaller but growing arsenal of nuclear warheads, Blinken says.
Russian speaking separatists in southeastern Ukraine violated the ceasefire several times over the last two days, according to data supplied by the Ukrainian language daily lb.ua
Shots were fired using RPG launchers, automatic grenade launchers and small arms in Avdievka in western Donetsk February 1st.
The separatist formation said to be responsible was Vostok, a combined arms formation that has been in existence since 2014.
Other violations from the separatists' side took place in Pyshchevyk settlement.
Russians claim ceasefire violations in Donetsk
According to postings in Russian reserve FSB Colonel Igor Girkin on his VKontakte page, a civilian was critical wounded by tank gunfire near Gorlovka Monday evening.
The victim was identified as R Grigory Vitalievich, 47.
Another post claims the Ukrainians used 120mm mortar fire in two other nearby settlements. Another post said that five houses were damaged in Signalnoye settlement.
An undocumented minefield was located near the settlement of Zolote, according to data supplied by Lugansk separatist officials.
At least 40 antitank mines were found near the forward zone of the Ukrainian 80th Airborne Assault Brigade.
The report goes on to note that the brigade was suffering from a variety of disciplinary problems especially with food services.
According to a separate report, coal and powerline wires were stolen from the residents of Zolote, two days ago. Additionally, a few farm buildings were dismantled in the area.
News reports from Ukraine say that the country is suffering a shortage of coal during harsh winter weather.
The Lugansk and Donetsk regions both have a plentiful supply of coal.
[REGNUM] Representatives of the US Republican and Democratic parties have submitted to the US Congress a bill providing for the introduction of new sanctions against Russia due to the situation with Alexei Navalny , the press service of Florida Senator Marco Rubio said .
The document was named "Draft Law of 2021 on holding the Russian Federation accountable for malicious activity." It provides for sanctions against Russian officials who allegedly violated international law. Senators called the imprisonment of Alexei Navalny as a pretext for imposing sanctions. Russia is also accused of using "chemical and biological weapons."
As reported by IA REGNUM , earlier the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the United States does not need a reason to impose new anti-Russian sanctions. In her opinion, the American side will always find a pretext for putting pressure on Russia.
#2
Oh for f--k's sake, why are we continuing this charade?
What gave sanctions achieved for us?
In what way, if at all, has Russian behavior been curbed by these stupid and crude punitive measures?
What good does it do to reduce Putin's loot by 60 or 80% when he still has at least $10 billion in liquid assets stashed away?
Sanctions only punish the ordinary Russian family. Now the Russians despise us. Putin's more popular than ever.
[Greg Jarrett] An incredible insight into the powerful and strong gains for U.S. manufacturing has been released by The Institute for Supply Management, an association of purchasing managers. As reported by the Associated Press, the managers "said Monday that its manufacturing index rose by 3.9 percentage points to a reading of 59.3% last month, up from 55.4% in September." The Biden effect oughta f*ck this up
The report claims October gains are "the highest level in two years" even with the coronavirus impeding the country. "It was the highest level for this closely watched barometer of manufacturing health since September 2018. Any reading above 50 signals that manufacturing is expanding" writes the AP. The numbers are of particular importance because the gauge fell into recession numbers from March through May of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the country shutdowns.
October’s gains are reflected in "key areas such as employment and inventories" and of the 18 industries covered in the report, "15 reported expansion in October with strong growth in fabricated metals, food and beverages, chemicals and computers and electronics" reported the AP. Chair of the ISM manufacturing survey committee credited the strong demand coming "out of the spring lockups in such areas as home construction and auto sales."
Many economists and fiscal conservatives are concerned about the country being forced back into lockups to thwart the spread of COVID. "Manufacturing rebounded strongly with fewer restrictions on economic activity and stimulus efforts but the path forward will be more difficult as the economy continues to cope with the pandemic," said Gus Faucher, chief economist at PNC Financial.
[Reuters] U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 93 cents, or 1.7%, to settle at $55.69 a barrel, the highest since Jan. 22, 2020, after touching a high of $56.33 earlier in the session.
Brent crude futures rose $1, or 1.7%, to settle at $58.46 a barrel, the highest since Feb. 21, 2020.
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price was about $45 before the election; variety of causes: US consumption up, Saudi production down, Biden policy
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Copper
Gold
Crypto
= BUY
Get ready for hard times. Gonna make the 1970s look like a picnic.
#4
Up front Biden did not turn the whole KeyStone Pipeline YET just stopped the KeyStone XL Phase 4 part?
If he had turned off the whole KeyStone Pipeline, he would have turned off one of the top 3 US Major Crude pipelines. A Pipeline that already provides 830,000 barrels of Alberta tar sands oil per day to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas and Southern Illinois.
If those Environmental Idiots in DC had they would have reduced Gas and Diesel output as follows:
Reduced Gasoline production by: 16,600,000 (16.6M) Gal. a day.
Reduced diesel fuel production by: 9,960,000 (9.96M) Gal. a day
Remember the Russians started a Crude Oil Price War back in April 2020 ($20 a barrel) just as the Pandemic mortality rates were Peaking.
Looking at a Oil Price Chart 2000-2021
adjusted for inflation: (OIL PRICES)
$55 to $85 seems to be the normal range over the last 20 years (eliminating spikes).
[MILITARY.com] STUTTGART, Germany -- The U.S. is no longer actively preparing to move nearly 12,000 troops out of Germany, putting an initiative proposed by the Trump administration on ice while the Pentagon reviews it, the top American general in Europe said Wednesday.
The plan, which called for relocating U.S. European Command from Stuttgart to Belgium, returning the Vilseck, Germany-based 2nd Cavalry Regiment to the U.S. and a host of other moves, would have been one of the largest repositioning of forces in Europe in decades.
"At this very moment, every single one of those options, they are all on hold. They will all be reexamined from cradle to grave," U.S. European Command's Gen. Tod Wolters told reporters.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has begun "a very thorough review" of the proposed drawdown, which was announced in July by his predecessor, Mark Esper, Wolters said.
Then-president Donald Trump had ordered the Pentagon to come up with a plan to reduce the U.S. military presence in Germany, saying that there were too many American troops in the country, which he repeatedly said was not investing enough in its own defense.
#3
I look at Wolters and all I can see is a chest full of fruit salad. Sound and fury signifying nothing. I like the Aussie way of doing things. If you had a ribbon on your chest you actually did something to deserve it.
'Good Conduct Medal'....shouldn't ALL conduct be good? Why should meeting the minimum standard for normative behavior and performance be recognized? It should be expected !
#5
A left over from the WWII and draft era Army. There is a lot of stuff still on the books from the same period that needs a lot of 'editing'.
Don't get me started on awards boards (if you don't trust your subordinate commanders to dole the awards out why do you give them command?) and rotation awards by rank.
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My sister was on a jury and wanted to know if the veteran, the defense was hyping his service, had a Good Conduct Medal, or not. Her first husband was a Marine Staff Sergeant so it was a "character thing" that she wanted information on...
The sultan has found his next target group as he continues to shrink the number and categories of Turks permitted to be found still acceptable instead of sheep for shearing to benefit the Turkish sultinate..
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... denounces student protesters as "terrorists" and vows to crack down on demonstrations opposing the appointment of a government loyalist to head Istanbul’s most prestigious university.
Students and faculty members of Bogazici University have spent weeks protesting Erdogan’s Jan. 1 appointment of Melih Bulu, an academic who once ran for parliament as a candidate for Erdogan’s party. They have called for Bulu to resign as the university’s rector and for the university to be allowed to elect its own president, saying the appointment was an affront to academic liberties.
Scores of students have been detained amid the protests, some taken away following raids of their homes.
"I do not accept these youngsters, who are members of terrorist groups, as sharing our country’s national and moral values," Erdogan says in a video address to thousands of ruling party members who are holding regional congresses.
"Are you students... or are you turbans who try to raid the office of the rector and occupy it?" he asks.
Erdogan goes on to say that his government would not allow mass anti-government protests like the ones that swept across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... in 2013. The protests were sparked by the government’s construction plans at Gezi Park, adjacent to Istanbul main Taksim square.
"This country won’t be a country dominated by terrorists. We will never allow it," the Ottoman Turkish leader says. "This country won’t re-live incidents such as the Gezi events at Taksim."
Tensions flared this week after a group of students were arrested over a poster, which was displayed at Bogazici University, that depicted Islam’s most sacred site with LGBT rights flags. The students were arrested over the weekend on charges of inciting hatred and insulting religious values.
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Somewhere there must a SDPP office with a large salaried staff that's job is to Track, Develop disseminate NEWS-SPEAK, PC naming conventions and Redefinition of words.
[NPR] When it comes to domestic extremists such as those who stormed the Capitol, a longtime CIA officer argues that the U.S. should treat them as an insurgency.
That means using counterinsurgency tactics — similar in some ways to those used in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Robert Grenier served as the CIA's station chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001. He went on to become the CIA's Iraq mission manager and then director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center from 2004 to 2006.
"We may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency within our own country, perpetrated by our own countrymen," Grenier wrote in The New York Times last week. And without national action, he argues, "extremists who seek a social apocalypse ... are capable of producing endemic political violence of a sort not seen in this country since Reconstruction."
In an interview with All Things Considered, Grenier discusses what that national action would mean.
#3
OF course who decides what is 'extremism'? Facebook? Twitter? The Media? The FBI? The CIA? The President?
Why is month-long riots, violence, targeting police and others with actual lethal weapons, and burning down actual buildings not an insurgency but being *invited* into the capital building is, by police, is?
#5
The rioting, looting, attack on the capital and bloodshed were very likely sanctioned by the DS and left. Conservatives and the Right were held responsible. The parallels to the Kristallnacht cannot be written off as a coincidence.
History Channel excerpt: In the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht, the streets of Jewish communities were littered with broken glass from vandalized buildings, giving rise to the name Night of Broken Glass. The Nazis held the German-Jewish community responsible for the damage and imposed a collective fine of $400 million (in 1938 rates), according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Additionally, more than 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to the Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in Germany–camps that were specifically constructed to hold Jews, political prisoners and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state.
#7
Gaslighting all around. Who does the government coddle and why?
Michael Yon who has been on Antifa like Andy Ngo on rice had this observation:
Michael Yon: ‘Agent Provocateur’ Tactics Were Seen at Jan. 6 Capitol Protest
The throng of people who stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6 during the joint session of Congress was led by Antifa and its agent provocateurs who guided Trump supporters into the Capitol building, Michael Yon, a war correspondent who has covered hundreds of protests, told The Epoch Times’ Crossroads program.
Yon was on the scene but did not go inside the Capitol. “I was outside the building, watching the activities out there,” he said.
There are different elements of Antifa, and the one seen at the Capitol was described by Yon as an “A-Team” of Antifa’s special forces used only to carry out special actions. This is a different element than the Antifa groups that were seen in riots in Portland or in the occupied zone there, he explained.
“They’re well trained, they’re well organized, they show up with the gear that they need. They’ve got the statements ready to say … They come out, they make great statements for the camera, sound bites. These guys are professionals,” Yon said about Antifa’s A-Team.
Antifa uses agent provocateurs with a typical tactic of showing up at a protest wearing their enemy’s clothing, waving their enemy’s flags, and doing things which are commonly called “false flag operations,” said Yon, who has deep insights into Antifa and their tactics.
Agent provocateurs may come to an already arranged protest and harness the energy of the gathering or they may also arrange a protest under the false flag of their enemy, Yon said. But in this case, Trump supporters had a real rally.
After President Donald Trump gave a speech at the Ellipse, his supporters marched over 30-45 minutes to get to the next rally at the Capitol building. At that time, Yon started seeing some people guiding the crowd. Those people who were saying “come forward, keep coming … go over the wall,” were agent provocateurs (APs), Yon said.
The APs had taken down the bike rack barriers set up for the rally attendees at the Capitol and used those to make ladders to help protesters go over the wall, Yon said. He saw APs waving huge Trump flags and saying: “This is your job. This is your chance. Stand up for your country.”
“He who has the microphone has the power,” Yon said. “Once people get riled up, they’ll do it. Because we’re humans and we will go with the herd,” he added.
Yon also saw Trump supporters saying, “there is Antifa here.” When Antifa started attacking the police, protesters at the rally the supporters said, “that’s not us, that’s Antifa,” Yon continued. He witnessed protesters in front of him saying, “there’s Antifa here. They’re doing this. Antifa are making us look bad, be careful.”
He also saw on an Epoch Times video “a guy with a Trump sticker on the back of his helmet starting to break the window with a truncheon” while another person who appeared “to be a Trump supporter comes to bear hug him and grab him back.”
“These are clear agent provocateur actions,” Yon said adding “It’s an old technique that goes back centuries.”
On that day, he observed that when instigators were leading protesters into action and breaking down doors, many Trump supporters were saying “don’t break anything, don’t steal anything.”
The Epoch Times has many videos showing how Trump supporters tried to stop the destruction or breaking things during the Jan. 6 protest.
#9
DW "Grenier added that after the fall of Kandahar in December 2001 "I thought that some effort should have been made to reach out to some elements within the Taliban leadership to provide them with assurance that there would be some future for them in Afghanistan. But there was absolutely no interest from the American side in doing that. At the time we did not realize how important an opportunity it was, or how grave the consequences of our failure to seize that opportunity would ultimately be. I think we missed a major opportunity at that point."
About negotiations with Taliban leader Mullah Omar's deputy, Mullah Osmani, Grenier said: "I tried to convince [Mullah Osmani] to move Mullah Omar aside and to seize power himself to do what needed to be done – both to bring Bin Laden and his key lieutenants to justice but also to save the Taliban movement." Grenier said the negotiations failed because "Mullah Omar had too much control over his own people, and there was no way that Mullah Omar could be convinced himself to turn over Bin Laden."
#10
Mr. Grenier makes no mention of the coup and impeachment that began the day Mr. Trump took office.
A good place to start might be to bring justice to those who took part in the ongoing four year coup.
75-80 million Trump supporters is not what I'd call an insurgency. It is a large-scale popular movement. Because there are questions about election-rigging and corruption in the election process, it would have been good to air all this out. It never really has to this day. If there was no corruption and it was an honest election, supporters would support the outcome. However, nothing points to an honest election. Laws were broken in the name of Covid-19 to get Biden over the finish line. This has never been addressed.
#11
Yon didn't say a large number of Antifa were there. He said small groups of provocateurs (“A-Team”) came with a plan and equipment to make their voices be heard outsized to their numbers. “They’re well trained, they’re well organized, they show up with the gear that they need. They’ve got the statements ready to say … They come out, they make great statements for the camera, sound bites. These guys are professionals,” Yon said about Antifa’s A-Team.
Antifa uses agent provocateurs with a typical tactic of showing up at a protest wearing their enemy’s clothing, waving their enemy’s flags, and doing things which are commonly called “false flag operations,” said Yon, who has deep insights into Antifa and their tactics.
After President Donald Trump gave a speech at the Ellipse, his supporters marched over 30-45 minutes to get to the next rally at the Capitol building. At that time, Yon started seeing some people guiding the crowd. Those people who were saying “come forward, keep coming … go over the wall,” were agent provocateurs (APs), Yon said.
Also jibes with an ex-FBI agent seeing a bus full of Antifa unloading before the rally.
#12
Trump rallies and patriot gatherings have long been an anathema to the left and Deep State. Direct assaults on Trump rallies would have been immediately put down by the Secret Service. This was a well coordinated 'off-set' free of Secret Service intervention. It was very likely long in the making. I suspect those arrested will eventually be released without charges or penalties.
#14
The use of left-wing agent provocateurs have been a part of the left's playbook for a long time. They glom onto peaceful rallies and turn them into violence riots. This to be what happened at the Capitol.
Trump never had any of these problems at his rallies prior to this one as they were very controlled and any such trouble makers were removed.
Antifa/BLM have not been condemned by the Dems and it appears, they support these Marxists. One should look into the Color Revolutions abroad and follow the money that supports them. Here too, left wing money is funneled into collection points like Act Blue for distribution to left-wing causes and political campaigns.
I saw a young girl a few months ago who was working at a McDonalds. She was wearing a BLM tee shirt. At the time, I wondered how much she knew about BLM. Recently, on a news report, I saw a huge BLM sign painted on the top of a building in D.C. near the Whitehouse.
#18
How many times does it need to be said: DISBAND THE CIA. Create a new narrowly focused agency, and parcel out much of the functions of the current CIA to other agencies. Tear down the vertical structures, and discharge anyone in a position of authority that has become involved in this sort of overt domestic political activity. The do the same for NSA, give most of its functions to NRO and DIA, and FORBID domestic activities under penalty of law with harsh mandatory minimums.
I have been posting that the CIA needed to be cleaned out with a flamethrower for over a decade here (and privately in classified circles prior to my final debrief).
Brennan and people like him are the largest threat to our freedom and our nation. Trump's biggest mistake was not shitcanning the lot of them.
#20
You mean the CIA is going to pay me to grow Poppies and offer protection money so long as Europe the west coast gets affordable heroin? Get the ol' al-Sadr Mysteriously Gets Away phone call?
[TimesNowNews] Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg who has nothing to do with farming or India
had shared the tool kit today at 5:19 pm on Twitter. The tweet has now been deleted.
New Delhi: Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has deleted her tweet where she had shared Google documents on how to support and protest against the farm laws globally.
BJP leader Kapil Mishra shared contents of Greta's global farmers' strike tool kit saying they were prepared for riots on January 26th in advance.
[AlAhram] The ruling at the International Criminal Court will be the first dealing with crimes by the LRA, New York-based Human Rights Watch said
War crimes judges on Thursday deliver their verdict in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier turned top commander in the Lord’s Resistance® Army, a rebel group known for extreme violence and forcing women into sexual slavery.
Ongwen, 45, faces 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and could be imprisoned for life if convicted. Judges will not address sentencing on Thursday.
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Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Armaments maker Sig Sauer Inc. announced its final delivery of prototypes to the U.S. Army for the Next Generation Squad Weapons systems this week.
The Army plans to select one of three firms -- the other two are Textron and General Dynamics -- to manufacture the new weapons system in the first quarter of fiscal 2022.
Fielding of the weapons is expected to start in late 2022, according to the Army.
The Sig Sauer system includes hybrid ammunition with a lighter weight cartridge, a belt-fed light-weight machine gun, a rifle and suppressors, the company said Tuesday in a press release.
RELATED Marines officially roll out new M18 handgun
#4
whether it would be possible to make a standard format AR upper that could use that ammo
My guess is compatibility w/ the AR format is why the Army went with a "hybrid" plastic case with exposed bullet instead of fully telescopic cased ammo.
[NPR] The U.S. Department of Justice is dropping its controversial lawsuit brought by the Trump administration against Yale University, in which it accused the school of illegally discriminating against white and Asian American applicants in its undergraduate admissions process.
Justice Department lawyers submitted a four-sentence "notice of voluntary dismissal" to the U.S. District Court in Connecticut on Wednesday. A Justice Department spokesperson confirmed to NPR that it had dismissed the lawsuit "in light of all available facts, circumstances, and legal developments."
"The department will further review this matter through its administrative process," the spokesperson added. "The lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice, meaning that neither the United States nor the court has made any final determination in this matter."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ZeroHedge] "On January 29, 2021, the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer 
[House Beautiful] If you're a fan of Dick and Angel Strawbridge and their international hit series, Escape to the Chateau, then you'll be thrilled to know that the duo have signed a new two-year deal with Channel 4.
[Victory Girls] What price can you put on history? Right now, it looks to be about $3.4 million, and could likely be higher.
...Candidate for president in 2020. The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
Russian speaking separatists in southeastern Ukraine violated the ceasefire several times over the last two days, according to data supplied by the Ukrainian language daily lb.ua
[REGNUM] Representatives of the US Republican and Democratic parties have submitted to the US Congress a bill providing for the introduction of new sanctions against Russia due to the situation with Alexei Navalny , the press service of Florida Senator Marco Rubio said .
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
[NPR] The U.S. Department of Justice is dropping its controversial lawsuit brought by the Trump administration against Yale University, in which it accused the school of illegally discriminating against white and Asian American applicants in its undergraduate admissions process.
