We are engaged in a new dual Cold War with Russia and China and I believe President Trump’s engagement strategy at Helsinki was intended to keep that war from becoming hot, which serves no party’s best interests.
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History somehow isn’t moving toward its predetermined end, and this has driven Western liberals completely mad. The theatrical overreaction to Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki is just the latest proof. Before the Trump-Putin summit, pundits warned that Trump might recognise Crimea as Russian territory. He did nothing of the sort. But he did give Putin the benefit of the doubt when the Russian leader, in a carefully chosen phrase, said the ‘Russian state’ had not interfered in the 2016 election.
Israel and Turkey are again on a collision course. The official reason, at least this time, is not the blockade on Gaza or the diplomatic peace process with the Palestinians, but the Temple Mount. Israel’s Security Cabinet is supposed to devote one of its upcoming meetings to the activities and growing influence of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Temple Mount. Erdogan maintains this influence via a series of nonprofit associations that he funds, headed by the Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency…
On Tuesday, Netflix announced a set of new films and TV series to be released in the near future, one of which is called “American Jesus.” The controversial film is about a twelve-year-old boy who discovers that he has been reincarnated as Jesus Christ. Netflix has recently come under fire for hosting child pornography on its platform and for streaming a vulgar episode by Michelle Wolf, who claims that God blessed abortion. While not many details have been released regarding the new show “American Jesus” the description reads that it is about a twelve-year-old boy who uncovers that he has been reincarnated as Jesus Christ. “He can turn water into wine, make the crippled walk, and, perhaps, even raise the dead.”
From SIRI to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence is increasingly encroaching into our everyday lives. And technology is threatening to kick-start an autonomous weaponry arms race, with machines already able to select and engage targets without human intervention. Cyber security expert Dr Roman Yampolskiy has revealed exclusively to Daily Star Online how mankind stands on the brink of catastrophe by pursuing such technology. “AI presents a greater risk to humanity than nuclear war”, he explains.
The creation of babies whose DNA has been altered to give them what parents perceive to be the best chances in life has received a green light in a landmark report from a leading UK ethics body. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics said that changing the DNA of a human embryo could be “morally permissible” if it was in the future child’s interests and did not add to the kinds of inequalities that already divide society. Recent advances in genetic technology have given scientists the tools to rewrite the DNA bound up in living cells, letter by letter. With the procedures in hand, scientists can in principle tweak the genetic code in sperm, eggs and embryos, and change dramatically how future children develop…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has joined the investigation into the sonic incidents that have injured U.S. diplomats and have confounded U.S. officials and scientists since first discovered last year in Cuba. Ambassador Kenneth Merten, an acting principal deputy assistant secretary of State, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday that the CDC has joined a task force created by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that is investigating the unexplained health incidents. The addition of CDC reflects the ongoing trouble the United States is having trying to determine the cause of the incidents that have left more than 25 Americans and U.S. personnel experiencing headaches, hearing loss, and other mysterious ailments in Cuba and China.
An archaeological dig in Gibraltar may have Biblical significance, indicating that whales were far more common in the Mediterranean than previously thought. If confirmed, it will lend credence to the story of Jonah’s encounter with a large fish, identified by Biblical commentaries as a whale, while giving hope that the pre-Messianic return of whales may still take place. Academics from the Archaeology Department at the University of York in northern England, reported their discovery of ancient whale bones in the university newsletter on Wednesday. The bones were discovered in the ruins of five Roman fish processing factories located at the strait of Gibraltar…
A single ghost-like subatomic particle captured on Earth could finally help solve a cosmic mystery that has left scientists baffled for more than a century. The high energy neutrino – the first of its type ever detected – was traced four billion light years to its source, a distant elliptical galaxy with a giant black hole at its heart emitting jets of light and radiation aimed directly at Earth. Known as a ‘blazar’, this galaxy was the smoking gun that led astronomers to finally unravel the 100 year-old riddle around the origin of high energy cosmic rays…
On July 3, Netanyahu addressed a letter to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, saying that lawmakers could visit the Temple Mount once every three months. The first of the ministers to implement his “right” to visit the site after Netanyahu’s decision to lift the ban was Uri Ariel, the minister of agriculture and a member of HaBayit HaYehudi. Ariel has made no secret of his yearnings for a third Jewish temple to replace the two destroyed ones. “We hope and pray for Tisha B’av to be a day of happiness and for the temple to be rebuilt, so that there will be no more fasts and we will be able to bring all the sacrifices that we read about in this week’s Torah reading,” Ariel said. “God willing, a kohen’s [Jewish cleric] blessing will be bestowed on all those ascending the Mount.”