the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. --- Albert Einstein

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TheWatchMaker retweeted
Russian man plays the guitar in Sochi, Russia tonight after Ukrainian drone strikes
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Dramatic footage filmed by Israelis on board the Dubai-TLV flight shows the wounded Emirati pilot lying on the floor next to the Omani co-pilot who stabbed him and tried to hijack the plane, with Israeli passengers keeping watch outside the cockpit.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE INCIDENT ON BOARD THE DUBAI-TEL AVIV FLIGHT Israel is treating the incident on the flydubai flight FZ 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv as a "terror incident." According to Israeli officials, shortly after entering Jordanian airspace, the Omani co-pilot stabbed the Emirati pilot and attempted to take control of the plane by force. The pilots are not from Russia and Ukraine, as initially believed. During the altercation, the pilot transmitted a general emergency signal and then another emergency signal that indicated possible hijacking, as the aircraft was diverted towards Saudi Arabia and plunged 14,000 feet (approximately 4,200 meters) in a single minute, before landing at Tabuk Airport in northwestern Saudi Arabia. Israeli passengers and the flight crew who heard the altercation coming from the cockpit managed to subdue the co-pilot, whose intent remains unknown at this stage. It is unclear what the pilot was attempting—whether to hijack the plane to Israel, crash it into the ground, or carry out a 9/11-style attack. What is clear is that he wanted to hijack the plane and that a major disaster was averted, an Israeli official said. The 150 Israeli passengers are currently waiting to be shuttled to Israel, as flydubai says it has sent an alternative plane. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz cancelled a visit to southern Israel and are holding security discussions.
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
This Mi-17 helicopter at CIA Headquarters brought the first Americans into Afghanistan just 15 days after the 9/11 attacks. On the 25th anniversary of its historic mission, CIA restored the aircraft to its 2001 paint scheme.
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
Russia bombed the Dobrobut Medical Center in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, this afternoon, setting the facility ablaze.
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
Horrific scenes out of Kyiv this morning as Russia used a jet-powered drone to blow up Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences. People are escaping through windows as the building burns. Just like they target kindergartens and schools, now they are bombing science.
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
The Russians struck Dobrobut Medical Center in Kyiv today, setting it on fire
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
Yes, China is planning to fill the vacuum. That is what the multiple aircraft carriers are for. Zhang Wenmu (2004): China’s eastern security boundary must extend to the mid-Pacific, i.e., 150 degrees east longitude, to ensure sustainable security; if China’s security boundary …
Replying to @NewshamGrant
Asserting that “vacuum’s get filled” is hardly a compelling critique. Why do you have so little faith in the ability of Asian countries to balance? You offer little evidence they can’t. And how exactly do you plan to change first island chain bases from targets to assets given what we just watched in the Middle East? You can call my report fantastical and suggest that I’ve never looked at a map but refusing to grapple with the limits of U.S. military power and the lessons of its failure against Iran is equally deluded. That you think this is China’s dream plan suggests you also don’t really understand the complicated view China has of U.S. military presence in Japan and Korea, as a restraint on the militarization of these powers and the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
There is now an entire generation alive which doesn’t have its own memories of 9/11 This video is for them. It shows what it looked like when Islamist terrorism arrived in the USA Never forget…
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
In a March 1972 speech at the UN, the PRC representative claimed that U.S. and Soviet trawlers fishing just outside the maritime boundary of other countries should be condemned as "superpower maritime hegemonism." Today the PRC conducts the same activity at a scale never imagined
Replying to @RushDoshi
But how is Fletcher defining "hegemony"? Especially if he says that "China is no different and can be expected to be no different" from the United States?
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
Indonesian special forces have recovered the body of American pilot Nicholas F. Goselin, who was killed after armed separatists attacked his aircraft shortly after it landed at a remote airstrip in Indonesia's Papua region. His remains are being transferred to the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta for repatriation, with the State Department assisting his family.
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
BREAKING: The moment Iranian state television announced the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This moment will go down in history.
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
此视频提供安全联系中央情报局的全套步骤。以下有几个在进行安全联系之前及在过程中务必考量的事项。中情局想知道中国的真相,我们正在寻找知道并能告知真相的人。
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Iran’s clerical rulers face their toughest challenge in decades, but despite nationwide protests and mounting foreign pressure, analysts say the Islamic Republic’s security elite shows no sign of cracking reut.rs/49FUKut
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
Khamenei’s terrorists are spraying Iranians with bullets in the streets. This footage broke through the digital blackout using an Iraqi SIM. Volume up.
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
A young Iranian man who just crossed the border from Iran into Turkey records a message for the world He says that people outside of Iran have no idea just how many protesters have been murdered by the Islamic regime He says that they’re shooting at people’s chests all the time
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TheWatchMaker retweeted
Huge protests tonight in #Iran capital #Tehran. Some estimates that 1 million people are out. @realDonaldTrump & @PahlaviReza actions push the people to protest.
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This is video that may have emerged from Iran on January 13 but was actually described as taking place on January 8 x.com/borzou/status/…
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