Politics

The Drone Panic By Howard Bloom In the middle of November, roughly four weeks ago, the first of a deluge of reports appeared complaining of large numbers of drones the size of SUVs hovering at night with their lights on over New Jersey.  Later more of these reports came in from New York State and Connecticut.  And
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Sunday December 8th the world was hit with a massive surprise.  The government of Syria had fallen.  Syria’s dictator for life, Bashar al-Assad, had fled to Moscow.  In a mere eleven days, rebels had swept through the cities of Aleppo and Hama and had taken Syria’s capital, Damascus.  Syria had been in the hands of dictators from
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By Howard Bloom Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election.  In a landslide.  How did he do it?  And what will it mean to the country?  First, how did President-elect Trump pull off this triumph? He used three levers.  Lever number one is publicity.  Trump began to seek publicity 50 years ago. His mentor, the mastermind of
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By Howard Bloom  The headlines say that as of October 30th’s polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck.  But is that true?   In FiveThirtyEight’s Recent Polling Average Update, which pulls together roughly a hundred national and state polls, Harris leads Trump, even though her edge is a slender 1.8%. In the Cook Political
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By Howard Bloom This is the most abnormal election of your lifetime and mine.  At this moment, a mere eleven days before we go to the polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck.  A Wall Street Journal poll issued Wednesday night, October 23, says Trump is leading by two percent.  In England,
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Iran and Israel are arranging their pieces on the chessboard before Israel retaliates against Iran’s October 1st attack. In that attack, you remember, Iran assaulted Israel with the biggest number of ballistic missiles in history—200 by Iran’s count, 180 by the Western media’s. On Wednesday, October 9, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had his first
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Sue Gray has resigned from her position as Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Number 10 has announced. Ms Gray has instead been appointed as the prime minister’s envoy for nations and regions. Morgan McSweeney, the party’s former campaign director who masterminded July’s election landslide, will replace her as the prime minister’s chief of staff.
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The government is bringing in guidance around donations because the public’s expectations are “so much higher” for Labour than for the Tories, a minister has said. Peter Kyle, the science secretary, insisted that despite the continued backlash over the freebies row that has engulfed Sir Keir Starmer’s government, “none of the rules had been broken”.
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Northern Ireland’s first minister Michelle O’Neill has apologised after two Sinn Fein officials provided the British Heart Foundation (BHF) with references for a former employee who was under investigation for child sex offences. Ms O’Neill, the party’s vice president, reiterated her “anger and disgust” that the press officers provided the employment references for 42-year-old Michael
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By Howard Bloom  Iran has mounted the biggest ballistic missile attack in history.   It claims it launched 200 ballistic missiles at Israel Tuesday night, October 1st.  181 appeared in the night skies over Israel.  They were shot out of the heavens by Israel’s Arrow3 missiles, a part of Israel’s remarkable air defense system, the Iron Dome.  There
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The BBC has cancelled an interview with Boris Johnson after Laura Kuenssberg accidentally sent the former prime minister her briefing notes. Kuenssberg, who presents the broadcaster’s Sunday politics show, said “there’s no point pretending it’s anything other than embarrassing and disappointing”. Revealing the error on X, she said she had been preparing to interview Mr
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