CHINA - Demonstration flights of the J-10B and J-20 jets at the latest airshow are testimony to China’s technological prowess. It no longer needs to copy foreign products and can make weapons unmatched in some areas, experts say.
ISRAEL - Israel’s outgoing defense minister has slammed the security cabinet for capitulating to Hamas and terrorism, blaming politicians for feeding a “monster” that will soon match the power of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
ISRAEL - Within minutes of the announcement in Israel last night that a ceasefire had been reached between Hamas and Israel, enraged residents of the southern city of Sderot took to the streets. Home to approximately 25,000 people, including many immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Morocco, Sderot residents have borne the brunt of Hamas rockets for more than a decade now. They are fed up. The ceasefire, some of these residents said, will last a few days or maybe a month before Hamas starts shelling again. For the Israeli government to capitulate after a 24-hour period in which almost 500 Hamas rockets pummeled Israeli civilians, this was altogether too much. It was also a “red line” for Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who announced his resignation earlier today in a dramatic press conference at the Knesset.
EUROPE - President Emmanuel Macron wants to create a “European army” in order to share France’s permanent seat in the UN Security Council, as well as its nukes, with Germany, the head of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen said. Macron wants to use the coveted “European army” to share the “place in the Security Council” and the French “nuclear arsenal” with neighboring Germany, Le Pen told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
USA - US President Donald Trump has arrived in California to survey the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state's history. The Camp Fire, in northern California, has killed at least 76 people. More than 1,200 people have been reported missing… Adding to the misery, scores of people have become sick after outbreaks of the norovirus at shelters, and the air quality in northern California has been rated the world's worst. Heavy rain is forecast next week that could douse the flames but also bring mudslides and floods on hillsides stripped of vegetation. The Camp Fire is now about 55% contained but fire officials say they may not have it fully under control until the end of the month.
UK - The Commons fell silent on Thursday when prominent Tory backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg threatened Theresa May directly and claimed he will write a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister over her controversial Brexit draft agreement. Rumours have continued to swirl in Westminster that the tally of Conservative MPs who have submitted letters of no confidence in Mrs May is about to reach the 48 threshold needed to trigger a vote on her position. Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg put the question directly to the Prime Minister during her address to MPs on Thursday.
UK - Pressed to give his analysis of the situation, Mr Farage told the programme: “…this is awful! We have agreed to give the European Union something between 40 to 60 billion sterling ($50-75 billion).” Mr Farage explained that Britain would be withdrawing from the treaty that makes it an official member of the EU in March 2019; under May’s plan this withdrawal would be immediately followed by entering a new treaty which would hold a wide variety of powers over the United Kingdom, which would leave the nation unable to command its own destiny.
UK - The morning after the night before was shaping up to be a rough one for British Prime Minister Theresa May. On Wednesday night, she won her cabinet's backing for her draft proposal on how the UK should pull out of the European Union. On Thursday morning, May's Brexit secretary, the man who led her negotiating team in Brussels to hammer out that draft, quit. He said he could not "in good conscience support the terms" of the deal he helped to craft. Dominic Raab, the second of May's Brexit secretaries to quit the role in as many years, said the draft agreement reached with Brussels would effectively leave Britain beholden to the rules and regulations of the European Union and even give the EU the power to stop the UK from extricating itself down the road.
UK - The Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey said the Brexit deal "does not honour the result of the referendum" in another major blow to Prime Minister Theresa May. She tweeted her resignation letter alongside the caption: "Earlier this morning I informed the Prime Minister I was resigning from her Cabinet." It comes just moments after the sensational resignations of Brexit Scretary Dominic Raab and the Northern Ireland minister Shailesh Vara.
UK - Brexiteers plotting to topple Theresa May faced a ferocious Tory backlash on Thursday night. On a dramatic day at Westminster, hardline Eurosceptics went public with their bid to oust the Prime Minister, following the resignation of Dominic Raab, Esther McVey and two junior ministers over Brexit. Jacob Rees-Mogg confronted Mrs May in the Commons before holding an extraordinary Press conference outside Parliament, saying he had submitted a letter of no confidence in her. Another 15 MPs also announced they had submitted letters in a bid to reach the threshold of 48 needed to trigger a confidence vote. But angry moderate Tories rallied round the Prime Minister and warned the Eurosceptics that they could bring down the Government, damage the economy and jeopardise Brexit if they pressed ahead with a coup.
USA - Star Wars actor Mark Hamill says that it is time for women to “take charge completely” of politics because centuries of male-dominated rule by government has led to “poor results.” Retweeting a photo of six new members of Congress, most of whom are far-left Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, Hamill suggested that men had delivered “middling-to-poor” results over the centuries that they have been in charge. “For centuries, men have had their chance to rule government with middling-to-poor results,” Hamill wrote. “Who’s ready to let women take charge completely? Just women. I know I am.” Hamill’s suggestion comes a week after the midterm elections, which saw a record number of women elected to the House as Democrat’s regained control of that chamber.
ISRAEL - Moshe Lion’s already-declared victory in the race to become Jerusalem’s mayor became official Wednesday night as the final votes were counted, with him coasting past rival Ofer Berkovitch. When the count was finalized, Lion was confirmed as the winner by 3,765 votes, with 50.85% of the votes cast (112,744) to Berkovitch’s 49.15% (108,979). Lion enjoyed the backing of both Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and ultra-Orthodox faction Shas, and part of United Torah Judaism, leading to charges of backroom dealing on the national level to secure him the position. Berkovitch, meanwhile, has led the vanguard of the secularist flank of the city with his Hitorerut party.
EUROPE - Former UKIP leader and MEP Nigel Farage demanded Angela Merkel apologize for ruining German communities with her disastrous open border migrant policy. Farage reminded technocrats currently pursuing an EU army that the European Union was initially set up to stop German domination of the continent. He then launched into Merkel, who was sat nearby looking on with a somewhat nonplussed expression.
USA - With the longest war in US history now dragging into its 17th year, Americans are looking at a massive bill. Total costs of the War on Terror now approach $6 trillion, according to a new report – to say nothing of the human costs.
USA - Our sun has been behaving very strangely, and this unusual behavior is really starting to affect our weather patterns. There have been virtually no sunspots in 2018 as solar activity has dropped to alarmingly low levels. As a result, our atmosphere has been cooling and shrinking, and experts are warning that we are heading for a bitterly, bitterly cold winter. And even though the official start of winter is well over a month away, winter weather is already sweeping the nation. On Wednesday morning, the temperature in San Antonio plummeted to just 23 degrees, and that absolutely shattered the old record… It isn’t supposed to snow in mid-November in Texas.
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