South Korea fires warning shots at Russian military aircraft South Korea says its jets fired hundreds of warning shots at a Russian surveillance plane that entered its airspace on Tuesday. Officials said the plane twice violated the airspace over the Dokdo/Takeshima islands, which are occupied by Seoul but also claimed by Japan. South Korea’s …
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Jul 22 2019
In Other Improbably Coifed Racist Xenophobes…
Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson is as likely to avoid an Irish backstop as fly to the moon by Simon Jenkins, The Guardian Mon 22 Jul 2019 Build that wall! Build that wall! So Donald Trump’s fans roared their support for his xenophobic rants. So scream fans of Boris Johnson’s no-deal Brexit. He wants walls against …
Jul 22 2019
Six In The Morning Monday 22 July 2019
‘Where were the police?’ Hong Kong outcry after masked thugs launch attack Police accused of doing nothing to stop suspected triads storming train station and beating people including women and children Lily Kuo and Verna Yu in Hong Kong Mon 22 Jul 2019 06.45 BST Pro-democracy activists and lawmakers in Hong Kong have accused the police of standing by as men dressed …
Jul 21 2019
Six In The Morning Sunday 21 July 2019
A whole nation just got hacked By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Updated 0417 GMT (1217 HKT) July 21, 2019 Asen Genov is pretty furious. His personal data was made public this week after records of more than 5 million Bulgarians got stolen by hackers from the country’s tax revenue office. In a country of just 7 million people, the scale …
Jul 20 2019
We Came In Peace
One of the interesting things about Star Trek is that it’s not an economy based on scarcity. Within the limitations of energy (and there is a whole lot of it even if you don’t think it’s quite enough to stop Implosion to a New Singularity) and ingenuity one may just say to the Computer, “Make …
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