ISS Astronauts Told To Prepare For Possible Evacuation As Air Leak Worsens

US, Philippines Launch Their 'Biggest Ever' Balikatan Drills With Large Japanese Contingent Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US and the Philippines on Monday launched what’s being billed as the "biggest ever" Balikatan Exercise, an annual military drill that, for the first time, includes a significant contingent of Japanese troops as Tokyo increases its military activity in the region, ramping up tensions with China. The drills are scheduled to take place from April 20 to May 8 and will involve more than 17,000 troops, including about 1,400 Japanese military personnel. US Army photo Importantly, exercises...

Navy's Green Laundry Initiative Weakened A $15 Billion Carrier Authored by Mike Fredenburg via The Epoch Times, The $15 billion USS Ford was forced to cut short its deployment due to a 30-hour laundry fire that did millions of dollars in damage. And it has been revealed that even while it remained on station in the Gulf, Ford could not generate combat sorties for two days due to the raging 30-hour laundry fire that drove some 600 sailors out of their sleeping quarters. Thirty hours to get a laundry fire under...

Fear Is Overwhelming Us Authored by Guy de la Bédoyère via DailySceptic.org, Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannise in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror or to beset life with supernumerary distresses. Samuel Johnson in the Rambler (1761) No-one’s disputing that very hot weather can be challenging, even dangerous, for some people. But I’ve been fascinated by the news coverage of the heatwave over the last...