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U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Strain From Trump’s Tariffs and Spending Cuts
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Russia’s economy is doomed
90% of medicines and 85% of medical equipment is imported. Russia has been unable to identify domestic suppliers. -
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BREAKING NEWS Gene Hackman, wife and their dog found dead in their New Mexico home, authorities say
I'm selling my rental in Washington state, and Washington state law requires carbon monoxide alarms regardless of whether ir not gas is available to the dwelling. -
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The Controversy Over Islamophobia and Grooming Gang Investigations
All that matters is any scum that commits a sexual crime receives the proper judicial process and subsequent jail time. If in that process someone who follows a certain ideology is offended. Too bad. -
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Trump insider: "Zelensky's 'Best Bet' is to Leave for France 'Immediately'"
It was a lot more complex than people would suppose. There is not doubt Iraq had a pretty advanced chemical and biological capability. I attended briefings about what the British military knew abut Halabja. It was sobering. The British had tracked Iraqi Air Force sorties over the town, and there were many. They knew the Russian aircraft lacked the ability to carry enough of the type of munition that was being dropped, so the Iraqis had to switch to old ex-RAF Hawker Hunters. They knew the exact time the bombing runs were carried out. From studying the filmed corpses and the time stamps of Iranian journalist's on the scene videos, they quite quickly came to a presumptive determination that Sarin and VX figuredmin the mix (because of the time that elapsed between the attack and unprotected Iranians entering the town). Earlier I worked in the same university department in the UK where British police turned up to take a number of Iraqis into custody in 1990. They were microbiology students with strong research interests in aflatoxin, a really potent class of fungal nerve toxins. The head of the Iraqi programme trained at East Anglia, which has a particularly strong plant protein department, and close links with a Food Research Institute, which I know from first hand experience, had some interesting knowhow. Post Desert Storm, there were Congressional inquiries into so-called Gulf War Syndrome, whcich I suspect was a combination of the results of exposure to untested vaccines and some pretty terrible environmental conditions in Kuwaut. I was struck by the account of members of a Marine unit who were specialist CBRN operators. As the Iraqi Army collapsed, they left behind ammo dumps. These two operators testified coming across one such site, that they reported as well ordered. They knew it was well ordered because it had been set up just the same way as the US military do. That similarity allowed them to identify so-called special munitions, likely chemical rounds, 155mm variety. 15 years on, the thing that occupied the Western intelligence was being blindsided again. Iraq had a CBRN capability, but did it have a CBRN readiness. Personally, I think Saddam never gave them up, but he hid them, expecting that one day the Americans would just leave. The best aircraft he had, he didn't use to try and defend Iraqi skies or destroy American armour.They flew to Iran or were buried, to fight another day. The Arab dictator needed a symbolically powerful military, not really toprotect from external threats but to protect from internal threats I'm of the mind the capbility is buried, those who buried it are long dead. 120 years after ww1, the British and Americans are still finding Lewisite caches. Someone knew where they were stored, the paperwork has gone. eg a big dump was found in Florida, along with a radioactive lab, when clearing a site for new housing. For the radioactive lab, they had to find some old boys from a nursing home to explain what had happened (a big spill in the 50s, so the building was evacuated, shuttered and forgotten about). We will eventually find the stuff, but long after I'm dead. -
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Thailand's New 300-Baht Tourism Tax: Aid or Hindrance?
The sum of 300 baht is nothing.
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