https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1008371491/confederate-general-remains-memphis-moved

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's polarizing presence has hung over Memphis since he moved here in 1852 — his legacy cemented by a giant statue that loomed over all who passed his gravesite in a popular park.

Now the former slave trader's remains are set to be moved to a new Confederate museum in Columbia, Tennessee — another milestone in the effort to remove statues, monuments, and now the remains, of Confederate leaders from public spaces.

As workers prepared to dig up his grave earlier this month, a white man waved a rebel flag, sang "Dixie" and launched an expletive-laced tirade at Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer. Sawyer, who is Black, plucked Confederate flags off a chain-link fence surrounding the site as George Johnson paced behind her on a concrete platform.

When he cursed at her again, Sawyer replied: "It's not your property," and turned toward reporters gathered for the June 1 news conference.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2021/06/19/better-late-than-never-looks-like-calif-officials-are-finally-taking-trumps-advice-on-forest-management/

There’s a book that could be written about how many things Trump was right about that the kneejerk “if Trump said that it can’t be true” media and Dems automatically discounted as false.

And alot of it got people KILLED IMOP

https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/06/20/news/world/us-cuts-military-aid-to-iraq-kuwait-saudi/1803914

KUWAIT CITY: The Pentagon said Friday (Saturday in Manila) it was cutting the number of troops and air defense units deployed to the Middle East, confirming a Wall Street Journal report that eight Patriot batteries were being moved out from the region.

The move comes as President Joe Biden's administration seeks to ease tensions with Iran after they heated up in 2019 and saw a strong escalation in the US military presence across the region.

The Wall Street Journal said the Patriot anti-missile batteries were being removed from Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and that a separate anti-missile system, called Thaad, was being transferred from Saudi Arabia as well.

Pentagon spokesperson Commander Jessica McNulty said that some of the units were being redeployed to other countries and some were returning to the United States for maintenance.

She would not say where the redeployed units were being moved to. "This decision was made in close coordination with host nations and with a clear eye on preserving our ability to meet our security commitments," she said in an email.

Did they just accuse Politico of working for the Russians

https://www.mil.gov.ua/news/2021/06/19/rosiya-vede-vijnu-proti-nas-na-vsih-frontah-u-tomu-chisli-informaczijnomu-andrij-taran-pro-fejki-shhodo-nibito-zamorozhennya-amerikanskoi-dopomogi-ukraini/

Information about the alleged freezing of security assistance by the United States of America has become widespread in the media. It was promptly refuted by officials of the American side. White House spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki, on Friday, June 18, without picking up words, called these rumors "nonsense."

"The idea that we have curbed security assistance to Ukraine is nonsense. Just last week, on the eve of the Summit between Russia and the United States, we provided a $150 million aid package, including lethal means. We have provided all the amount approved by Congress as part of the security assistance initiative in Ukraine. Two days before the Summit, President Biden took to the stage in front of the world in NATO and said that we would continue to support Ukraine "in the ability to withstand Russian aggression."

Minister of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Taran also commented on the situation. "It is not surprising when the so-called "media" of the aggressor state work out tasks for information operations. They are an unsuitable weapon of the Russian military machine. It is surprising and regretful when some domestic media, including those that consider themselves to be high-quality resources, are provocative, do not check the content and sources of this kind of information, and become a blind tool of information warfare in the hands of the enemy," he said.

https://112.international/politics/provocation-of-russia-defense-ministry-reacts-to-information-about-delay-in-us-military-aid-62443.html

Earlier, Politico reported that the White House temporarily froze a $ 100,000 package of military aid to Ukraine. The package included lethal weapons. It was allegedly frozen ahead of a meeting between President Joe Biden and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Later, the White House said that information about the suspension of security assistance to Ukraine is absurd.

Servers on the Moon

https://www.eweek.com/storage/backup-data-on-the-moon/

Locate backup data on the moon? Now that sounds like a rock-solid business model.

However strange the idea may sound, TransOrbital of La Jolla, California is taking it and other proposals for marrying high-tech and the Earths only natural satellite seriously. The company is getting ready to send a commercial mission to the moon and intends to send servers, data, handheld computers, and digital cameras along for the ride.

“Were the only company licensed to send a commercial mission right now,” says Dennis Laurie, TransOrbital president and CEO. “Were shooting for the first quarter of 2004.” On December 20 of 2002, the company launched a rocket to test telemetry, positioning, and other concerns in preparation for the upcoming mission. TransOrbital had to obtain approval from the US State Department and the military to gain its license, and has also been consulting with officials at NASA. The licensing process took two and a half years, according to Laurie, and involved getting a specific license to take pictures from space.

In addition to putting servers on the moon, TransOrbital is seeking to use Hewlett-Packard iPaq handheld computers and digital cameras as part of its mission. “While orbiting the moon, were going to use the iPaq, with its wireless communication features, to communicate with downlink protocols we have,” says Laurie. “We hope to tether digital cameras outside the satellite so that we can photograph it in conjunction with background shots of the earth and the moon. If everything works out, youll be able to go on the Web and see photographs from space.”

Ashamed for what they did to the world?

https://www.ntd.com/top-chinese-nuclear-power-expert-commits-suicide_630204.html

A Top Chinese nuclear power expert and also a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official committed suicide for unknown reasons in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, based on a variety of outlet reports.

On June 17, Zhang Zhijian, male, 58, professor of nuclear power at the Harbin Engineering University (HEU), jumped off of an office building and killed himself, according to an official notice released by his employer. The announcement said local police declared they had ruled out the likelihood of murder after investigating the scene. However, it did not mention any possible cause of death.

Zhang had two other conspicuous titles before his death: the deputy principal of the university and a member of its CCP standing committee.

Public data shows Zhang held a string of important academic and administrative offices related to his expertise, including head of the HEU’s College of Nuclear Science and Technology; director of the Nuclear Power Simulation Research Center (NPSRC), one of China’s key national defense labs; chief of the Office of Development and Planning; and an executive director of the Chinese Nuclear Society.

For months there have been reports of suicides among CCP officials.

Li Xiaoqiu, deputy director of the Culture and Tourism Department of northwestern China’s Inner Mongolia region, hung himself in a library in Hohhot city, the capital of the region, on May 17, according to China’s state media. He was also a member of the department’s Party Leadership Group. He had left a suicide note, but local authorities have not disclosed the content.

Gao Guoliang, deputy director of the Yanshi Public Security Bureau, Luoyang city, central China’s Henan province, killed himself allegedly “in an extreme manner” in his office on May 13, according to local authorities. They did not specify what the manner was.

Ma Hui, director of the command center of the Heping District Public Security Bureau, Tianjin city, jumped from the top of the 27-storey Seton Center and ended his life, on April 30.