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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - Some messenger services never get old!

2 months ago
... Notice also that Washington’s obtrusiveness is hinted at too since Maverick tells Charlie that she probably knows more about the case than he does, given that she has security clearance. Simultaneously, she doesn’t abuse this privilege by snooping on Tom Cruise’s family life. (It’s like watching Blade Runner, Deckard refusing to look into Rachel’s […]
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) – A call to arms or sober reminder of days past and gone? Who cares when you’re having this much fun!

2 months ago
I finally watched Top Gun: Maverick (2022). Even the most cynical reviewers out there liked it, and I grew up with the original 1986 movie, so naturally, I had to watch it, and in a cinema too.[1] And to be completely objective, I re-watched the original shortly afterward to pair up the two films to […]
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China apparently planning attacks on US aircraft carriers

9 months ago
Satellite images show China has built mock-ups of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer in its northwestern desert, possibly as practice for a future naval clash as tensions rise between the nations. China has upgraded its military massively in recent years, and its capability and intentions are increasingly concerning to the United States as […]
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Iran claims it foiled US navy attempt at piracy in Gulf of Oman

9 months ago
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said Wednesday they had thwarted an attempt by the U.S. Navy to seize a tanker in the Sea of Oman carrying its oil. The sequence of events was initially reported by state television, without specifying the date. In a statement on its website Sepahnews, the IRGC later suggested that the […]
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In bizarre twist of fate US blocks Americans flight from Afghanistan

11 months ago
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday denied U.S. landing rights for a charter plane carrying more than 100 Americans and U.S. green card holders evacuated from Afghanistan, organizers of the flight said. "They will not allow a charter on an international flight into a U.S. port of entry," Bryan Stern, a founder of […]
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Murderous rampage targets Asian-Americans as rivalry with China grows

1 year ago
Before the COVID-19 pandemic began last year, Kyung Cho noticed people sometimes gave him odd looks or asked if he spoke English. These days, Cho said, attitudes toward Asian-Americans like him have become far more hostile. “It’s gotten worse,” the 50-year-old handyman said as he shopped at an Asian grocery store in an Atlanta suburb […]
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Many Faces of Eve: Mackenzie Davis on the State of America’s Female Union! - PART III

2 years ago
By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD   CONTINUED from yesterday...   A Parting of Genders, a Meeting of Minds? When I began to dream up this article some time ago I’d stumbled onto a fan of MD’s on Twitter, a fellow Arab, Nayli Yasmeen (@nayli_yasmeen), and we got to talking about future SF roles she could […]
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Majority vote against renewed Iran sanctons, Pompeo snubbed at UN

2 years ago
The United States was further isolated on Friday over its bid to reimpose international sanctions on Iran with 13 countries on the 15-member U.N. Security Council expressing their opposition, arguing that Washington’s move is void given it is using a process agreed under a nuclear deal that it quit two years ago. In the 24 […]
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SUMMARY, ANALYSIS, PUBLICATIONS, AND ARTICLES

2 years ago
The Heritage Foundation looks at the peace deal for Afghanistan.  They note, “most importantly, talks within Afghanistan between the government and the Taliban will take place March 10.  This is the most crucial stage in the peace process. It does not matter what the U.S. agrees to with the Taliban; what matters most is what […]
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Trump meets with Uighurs in afront to China

3 years ago
U.S. President Donald Trump, who has made religious freedom a centerpiece of his foreign policy, met on Wednesday with victims of religious persecution from countries like China, Turkey, North Korea, Iran and Myanmar. Trump counts evangelical Christians among his core supporters and the State Department is hosting a conference on the topic this week that […]
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U.S. General Considered Nuclear Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show

4 years ago
President Johnson with Gen. William Westmoreland in South Vietnam in 1967.CreditCreditYoichi Okamoto/Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library By David E. Sanger Oct. 6, 2018 WASHINGTON — In one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam War, the top American military commander in Saigon activated a plan in 1968 to move nuclear weapons to South Vietnam until […]
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A U.S. Aircraft Carrier's Historic Vietnam Port Call Sends a Message to China

4 years ago
For the first time since the Vietnam War, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is paying a visit to a Vietnamese port, seeking to bolster both countries’ efforts to stem expansionism by China in the South China Sea. Monday’s visit by the USS Carl Vinson, accompanied by a cruiser and a destroyer, brings more than 6,000 […]
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The Latest: Trump and Putin cross paths again in Vietnam

5 years ago
The Latest on President Donald Trump’s trip to Asia (all times local): 12:30 p.m. President Donald Trump is crossing paths — again — with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump and Putin chatted Saturday as they strolled to a brief photo op at the Intercontinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort in Danang, Vietnam. Chinese President Xi Jinping […]
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White House implements new Cuba policy restricting travel and trade

5 years ago
The administration Wednesday announced tight new restrictions on American travel and commercial exchanges with Cuba, implementing a policy announced by President Trump five months ago to reverse Obama administration normalization with the Communist-ruled island. Under the new rules, most individual visits to Cuba will no longer be allowed, and U.S. citizens will again have to […]
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Drilling ship leaves Vietnam oil block after China row

5 years ago
The drilling ship at the center of a row between Vietnam and China over oil prospecting in disputed waters in the South China Sea has arrived in waters off the Malaysian port of Labuan, shipping data in Thomson Reuters Eikon showed on Monday. Drilling by the Deepsea Metro I ship was suspended in Vietnam's Block […]
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