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According to the National Defense Management Center, Moscow detected three targets approaching the state border. Four planes - two MiG-31 and two Su-35 fighters - were scrambled to escort the American aircraft.
"The Russian fighter crews identified the aerial targets as B-52H strategic bombers of the US Air Force Global Strike Command and escorted them over the waters of the Bering Sea," the center said.
After the bombers turned around, the Russian fighters returned to their home airfield, and there was no reported violation of state borders.
The Boeing B-52 bomber, also known as the Stratofortress, is a long-range, jet-powered plane first introduced in the 1950s.
Last week, Russia's Ministry of Defense scrambled two Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets after a US Navy Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft flew over the Black Sea, approaching the country's border during NATO's Sea Breeze multinational naval exercise.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently approved a Capitol Police request for eight Persistent Surveillance Systems Ground - Medium (PSSG-M) units. The system provides high-definition surveillance video and is enabled with night vision. The system does not include facial recognition capabilities. The Pentagon said:
"This technology will be integrated with existing USCP camera infrastructure, providing greater high definition surveillance capacity to meet steady-state mission requirements and help identify emerging threats."The technology allowed U.S. troops fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to monitor large areas 24/7 through extremely high-resolution cameras.
Some privacy rights advocates have raised concern that Capitol Police are getting into the business of spying on Americans.
In a statement issued on Thursday, one of Moscow's top diplomatic representatives, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, blasted American "impudence" for suggesting that the demonstrations were a result of the Cuban government's own mistakes. Instead, she described the approach a part of "yet another political staging."
"Washington's cynicism is shown by the fact that throughout the entire period of the existence of revolutionary Cuba, it purposefully pursued a strategy of strangling the country, discriminating against its people and destroying the economy. Their thinking here is simple - it has already been repeatedly deployed by Washington in different situations. But in every case, there is the same goal - sparking 'color revolutions' in response to unwanted regimes."The approach, the official added, hinges on applying sanctions and provoking tensions by worsening the socio-economic situation in the country.
The 29 June episode of The Long View was presented by Jonathan Freedland. He looked at the history of state-sponsored hijackings following a recent well-documented incident in Belarusian air space, involving a Ryanair plane en route from the Greek capital, Athens.
"There is a big nasty complex game being played behind the scenes to make the articles say what somebody wants them to say," Sanger said this week, blasting the current community culture at Wikipedia. "There are all kinds of tricks that people can play to 'win' it."
Sanger, who launched — along with Jimmy Wales — the world's premier website for reference materials, has become a vocal critic of his brainchild. He jokingly called himself "ex-founder," referring to both his criticism and Wikipedia's attempts to distance itself from his person. This week he talked about what he sees as a problematic change in the online encyclopedia to Freddie Sayers, the host of UnHerd magazine's show Lockdown TV.
Comment:
- Larry Sanger is right, Wikipedia is now the establishment thought police - just look at my entry on there
- Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger says online encyclopedia scrapped neutrality, favors lefty politics
- Wikipedia exposed: Bullying and harassment tactics of activist editors in a wiki war- a case study
- Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-friendly competitor

The Greek-Cypriot fishing port of Kato Pyrgos lies on a remote section of the island's north coast close to the UN-patrolled ceasefire line with the breakaway Turkish-Cypriot north
The Cyprus government said it was preparing a protest to the United Nations over the incident, which it said was the first of its kind.
But a Turkish diplomatic source denied that either the Turkish or the Turkish Cypriot coastguard had fired on any Greek Cypriot vessel.

Was Yair Lapid (left) acting as a salesperson for Israel’s weapons when he visited Europe this week?
Israel's foreign minister was on a mission to "reboot" relations with Europe.
But behind his fresh facade lurked something rotten and sinister.
Lapid wasn't simply visiting to charm those EU representatives who are always impressed by smartly dressed liberals. He also paid a trip to the headquarters of NATO, a military alliance dominated by the US.
Comment: Elbit's UK plant has been a particular target of that country's Palestine support groups:
- Palestinian activists slam UK arms company over profiting from Israeli war crimes
- Courageous UK protest group 'shuts down' factory that supplies Israel arms
Disrupting the root of Israeli military power is a focus in other countries too:
Elbit's capabilities have only grown from 2014:
Yes, friends, a storm is coming. It has been coming for the last 16 months. And GloboCap is steering right into it. I, and many others like me, have been tracking its relentless advance like a self-appointed International Pathologized-Totalitarian Hurricane Center (you know, like the one in Miami, except all the meteorologists are "conspiracy theorists"). We have documented all the propaganda, the lies, the manipulation of statistics, the abrogation of constitutional rights, the New Normal goon squads, the corporate censorship, and all the rest of the roll-out of the new official ideology and the totalitarian measures deployed to enforce it.
Our efforts have not been in vain, but they have not been successful enough to change the course events are now taking ... a course of events that has always been clear, a course that every totalitarian movement needs to take to get where it's going. You can't remake entire societies into quasi-totalitarian systems without civil unrest, chaos, rioting, war, or some other form of cataclysm. Brainwashing the masses is all fine and good, but, at some point, you need to goad the people who are resisting your new totalitarian "reality" into getting unruly, so you can crack down on them, and transform them into official enemies, which appears to be what is happening currently.
The US government is done playing "good cop" with regard to the "vaccine hesitant." The Biden administration, which recently opted to send 'volunteer' vaccinators door to door in what may be the most ill-thought-out public health campaign in US history, doesn't just want to meddle with your body anymore - its plans to control "misinformation" you may send by SMS text message indicate it's intent on controlling your mind as well.
White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci is leading the crusade, blaming "Fox News or whomever" for crafting the vision of "a bunch of federal workers knocking on your door, telling you you've got to do something that you don't want to do." Fauci clarified that it wasn't government officials, but "trusted messengers who are part of the community". Noticeably, he didn't address the "doing something you don't want to do" part - a telling oversight in the minds of those who are convinced the campaign is indeed a coercive one and those who've been paying closer attention to who makes up the door-to-door vax packs.
Comment: See also:
- France's mandatory 'health pass' with government-issued QR codes for access to everyday life is the start of a dystopian nightmare
- US investment giants buying up neighborhoods, MSM telling us we should rent - this 'new normal' spells the death of the American Dream
President Trump then released the letter on Monday he received from former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, William McSwain.
In the letter McSwain shared the following:
Comment: See also:
- 'American Hustle': Party insiders tell the true story of how Philadelphia elections work
- Turncoat Barr: Trump challenging election legitimacy 'precipitated' Capitol siege
- AG Barr: There's no reason to appoint special counsel for Hunter Biden probe
- Trump legal team slams Bill Barr after US Attorney General nixes DOJ investigation of election - Updates
- Trump isn't ruling out replacing Bill Barr in a second term: 'I'm not happy, considering all the evidence I have'













Comment: Psychopathic diplomacy: The tyrant and its prey.