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The M1 Garand is a semi-automatic rifle that was the standard U.S. service rifle during

World War II and the Korean War and also saw limited service during the Vietnam War.

The M1 Garand was adopted by the United States in 1936 to replace the 1903 Springfield.

It was designed by John Cantius Garand .

Today, the M1 Garand system seems almost elementary, but when it first appeared, Garand's design

was considered something of a marvel.

Using a sheetmetal en-bloc clip as part of the feeding system, the M1 Garand functioned

as follows: The bolt handle was pulled to the rear, where the action was held open by

the follower.

A clip of ammo was pressed down into the magazine and the bolt allowed to move forward, where

it stripped off and chambered a round.

When the trigger was pulled and the round discharged, gases were tapped off through

a gas port in the forward bottom part of the bore.

These gases forced the operating rod backward, compressing the operating-rod spring and opening

the bolt.

As the bolt opened, it extracted and ejected the spent cartridge and cocked the hammer.

Relaxation of the operating-rod spring now forced the bolt forward, where it stripped

off and chambered the next round.

When all eight shots had been expended, the clip was forcibly ejected from the action

and the bolt remained open, ready for insertion of the next clip.

It is said that Japanese and German soldiers would listen for the telltale ping of the

clip being ejected, realizing they had the advantage of a second or two when the Yank

would be loading his piece and unable to return fire.

Part of the magic of the M1 Garand resided in its sturdy, responsive rotating bolt—a

concept that had been inspired by pre-World War I experiments by the French, Italian and

Swiss ordnance bureaus.

The system, as devised by Garand, proved to be so effective that it was used again in

the selective-fire M14 rifle that officially replaced the M1 Garand in 1957.

If the M1 Garand was reasonably well maintained, it worked almost flawlessly in the adverse

conditions of both the European and Pacific theaters and later in the equally challenging

cold climate of the Korean War.

You could shoot an M1 Garand in inclement weather, and it was easy to clean and strip

if it got muddy or dirty.

The M1 Garand was not only functional, it was deadly accurate—so accurate it was easily

adapted to the sniper role in a couple of different configurations: the M1C, which came

out during World War II, and the M1D, which, while adopted in September 1944, was not used

until after the war.

Early on, the M1 Garand proved to be a favorite with match shooters.

Starting in the early 1950s, special National Match models were made up for military target

shooters by Springfield Armory.

Depending upon when they were made, these guns will have such niceties as glass-bedded

stocks and specially fitted National Match parts, often marled with the initials "NM."

All in all, some 6 million M1 Garands were turned out between 1936 and 1957 by Springfield

Armory, Winchester, Rock Island Arsenal, International Harvester and Harrington & Richardson.

Even though they were officially replaced by the M14, Garands continued to be issued

to National Guard units well into the Cold War.

era and were popular lend/lease items to many friendly European, South American, Asian and

Middle-Eastern countries.

Unfortunately, during the Clinton administration many fine M1s in U.S. armories were officially

destroyed, making those that still exist even more precious.

Fortunately, Garands are still available from the Civilian Marksmanship Program for reasonable

prices.

The M1 safety is a sturdy, pierced piece of sheet steel located at the front of the triggerguard.

Pushed to the rear, the gun is on Safe.

When the lever is flicked forward by the back of the trigger finger, the gun is ready to

fire.

For a battle rifle, the rifle's rear sight setup is pretty sophisticated, with a double-knurled-knob

arrangement that corrects the peep for elevation and windage.

Sights went through various configurations and markings, the most noticeable difference

being on the windage knob.

Early models had flush nut attachments, later ones locking bars and post-war models no locking

bar.

The front sight was a sturdy blade, flanked by a pair of stout bolsters.

The buttplate has a compartment for oil, grease and pull-through containers and one of a couple

types of combination tools secreted behind the metal buttplate.

It is accessible via a hinged, spring-latched, fingernail-busting trapdoor.

Of course, like any self-respecting military rifle, the M1 was set up to be fitted with

a bayonet.

While the gun could accommodate the standard U.S. Model 1905 blade, in fact more up-to-date

versions of the blade were offered, beginning with a Model 1905 Type 2 that had similar

dimensions to the original but was Parkerized and sported ribbed plastic grips rather than

walnut panels.

These first appeared in late 1941.

There were also wartime variants of the 1905 Type 2 with shortened and shorter 10-inch

blades and finally the M5, which came out after World War II.

While not exactly a lightweight , the Garand does balance extremely well, and using either

the old-style Model 1907 leather sling or the later web strap, it can be carried for

extended periods with relative comfort.

It shoulders nicely, and recoil, even with standard 150-grain M2 ball, is not prohibitive.

Today, original M1 Garands are very popular with collectors and shooters.

A healthy industry has grown up around the M1, offering such things as accurizing jobs,

refurbishing, caliber conversions and aftermarket accessories.

For more infomation >> History of M1 Garand | U.S Service Semi-automatic Rifle | Heroes and Generals - Duration: 6:41.

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SCIENTIST DECLARES THE ANTIGRAVITY SPACE VEHICLES OF THE UNITED STATES ARE MADE WITH EXTRATERRESTRIA - Duration: 2:09.

SCIENTIST DECLARES THE ANTIGRAVITY SPACE VEHICLES OF THE UNITED STATES ARE MADE WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL

TECHNOLOGY

Dr. Richard Boylan, Ph.D. Behavioral Scientist, anthropologist, associate professor, clinical

hypnotherapist, consultant, and researcher, claims to have worked for over 15 years with

people reporting having found intelligent extraterrestrial life forms.

He also says the government is aware of these extraterrestrial visitors.

Boylan claims to know about exotic artifacts (military aircraft with extraterrestrial technology)

built on reverse engineering (retro-engineering) that have antigravity technology.

The scientist also claims that he knows 12 of these aircraft built with alien technology,

then giving names and details.

It also provides key data about the contact between humans and stellar visitors, all silenced

by the global protection system.

"Scientifically and clinically, I have been working for over 15 years with people who

report having found an intelligent extraterrestrial life form, a visiting star," said Boylan.

"During this work, I felt that it was necessary to learn as much as possible about the real

UFO reality and what the government already knew about those visitors.

Because of the abundant information about the visitors of the stars and their meetings

with humans, I began publishing my results, making presentations at national and international

congresses, magazines and special media interviews, which in turn has attracted the attention

of some figures, now or before, to highly ranked government sectors, military institutions

and intelligence agencies."

For more infomation >> SCIENTIST DECLARES THE ANTIGRAVITY SPACE VEHICLES OF THE UNITED STATES ARE MADE WITH EXTRATERRESTRIA - Duration: 2:09.

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180+ Woman Reported Assault At Massage Envy Locations Across U.S. - Duration: 2:21.

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Korean won to continue gains against U.S. dollar next year - Duration: 1:55.

The exchange rate of Korean currency against the greenback retreating fast is worrying

local exporters that had been driving up the recent economic growth.

Despite such concern,... experts however see that the trend would continue through next

year.

Our Lee Ji-won has the details.

Last Wednesday, the Korean won dipped below 1-thousand-90 to the U.S. dollar for the first

time in 2 and a half years.

On Friday it closed at 1-thousand 85-point-4.

The Korean currency has been gaining on the dollar since this January... when it stood

at 12-oh-eight.

The won has benefited from a recovery in the local economy thanks to bolstered exports,...

and the easing of tensions with China.

Expectations that the Bank of Korea will raise interest rates soon has also strengthened

the won.

Investors' growing preference for riskier assets centered around emerging markets,..

including Korea's main stock index, the KOSPI, has eroded some demand for safer assets like

the dollar.

(Korean) "The gains are seen as being led by a continued

inflow of foreign investment, together with strong exports and rising momentum for growth."

And experts predict the upward trend to continue through next year,... now that it's becoming

more clear the U.S. Federal Reserve won't be raising rates as much as previously thought.

They say another contributing factor would be a further recovery in the global economy.

(Korean) "If the global economy continues to recover

next year,.. the Korean economy is likely to improve as well.

I project the annual average for the Korean won to come out to 1,110."

While a strong currency could be a sign of an improvement in the economy, it causes concern

among exporters at the same time,... because a stronger Korean won undermines the country's

export competitiveness.

Lee Ji-won, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> Korean won to continue gains against U.S. dollar next year - Duration: 1:55.

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Cyber Monday | Learn about the US | English & American Culture | Holidays - Duration: 0:42.

Cyber Monday! in the last video we talked about Black Friday, that's the most

popular shopping day at actual physical brick-and-mortar locations– that means

stores that you can shop at in-person. Cyber Monday comes the Monday after

Thanksgiving, and it's cyber because this is supposed to be the biggest shopping

day of the year, but for online shopping. click click. so you're shopping from home,

on your computer, maybe in your pajamas or underwear. so which do you prefer?

shopping at the brick-and-mortar locations, or shopping online from the

comfort of your own home? let me know!

For more infomation >> Cyber Monday | Learn about the US | English & American Culture | Holidays - Duration: 0:42.

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U.S. State Department official describes recent defection case as window into North Korean life - Duration: 1:34.

The New York Times has published an op-ed by an official at the U.S. State Department,...

who described the recent defection case of a North Korean soldier to South Korea as a

window into life under the Kim Jong-un regime.

The article also slammed Pyongyang for letting even its most-trusted soldiers suffer from

terrible malnutrition.

Kim Hyo-sun reports.

A U.S. State Department official says the plight of the North Korean soldier who defected

to South Korea recently,... is a window into life in North Korea.

Brian Hook, director of policy planning and senior policy adviser at the State Department,

commented in an op-ed piece in the New York Times,... that the young soldier had hepatitis

B and an enormous number of parasitic worms in his intestines.

Describing the North as a slave state,...

Hook explained that even trusted soldiers suffer from terrible malnourishment as the

regime directs most of its money towards its nuclear and missile programs.

He added that the living conditions for the vast majority of other North Koreans are much

worse.

Meanwhile,... the South Korean military is broadcasting news of the defected soldier

towards North Korean servicemen.

According to officials,... they started broadcasting the news via the South Korean military's loudspeakers

set up along the border,... shortly after the defection on November 13th.

Such broadcasts are heavily criticized by North Korea,... claiming they may provoke

defections by its front-line soldiers.

Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> U.S. State Department official describes recent defection case as window into North Korean life - Duration: 1:34.

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Carpenter v. United States [SCOTUSbrief] - Duration: 3:51.

There were a sequence of robberies in metro Detroit, Michigan and Northern Ohio, and the

police arrested some people, one of whom gave the phone number belonging to Mr. Carpenter.

As it happened, when they requested the records from T-Mobile and MetroPCS, two cell phone

companies, those records revealed that Mr. Carpenter was in the vicinity of the banks

that had been robbed.

And on that basis, they are convicted.

And now, Carpenter challenges police acquisition of that evidence of those location records

as a fourth amendment violation.

The word "privacy" doesn't actually appear in the Constitution.

However, there are certain rights that we have that we now consider to be privacy rights.

The fourth amendment, which is at issue in this Carpenter case is one of them because

the fourth amendment says that people have the right to be free from unreasonable searches

and seizures without a warrant.

The government can't just go into your home and ransack it in, in a fishing expedition

to look for crimes.

And as technology has developed, those protections have evolved.

The Supreme Court has held that if you disclose certain data or information to a third party,

like your bank, like the phone company, then that information is no longer private and

no longer protected by the fourth amendment.

The Stored Communications Act of 1986 allows phone companies to disclose records when the

government provides them with specific and articulable facts showing that there are reasonable

grounds to believe that the records are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation.

And so if the police or the FBI ask that record keeper, then they can get that without a warrant.

So here, in the Carpenter case, the government simply asked the cell providers for that historical

cell location data, and Mr. Carpenter says, "That violates the fourth amendment, even

if it complies with that Federal Statute, the government really should get a warrant."

Carpenter's strongest argument is that he still has a privacy interest in the data that

he provides to his cell phone company.

It's not that he decides that, "Well, I don't care who knows about where I am based on my

cell phone information," it's that he knows that in the modern world, you can't really

go about your business, or at least not have a smartphone, without releasing this data

to your cell phone company.

And therefore, the government ought to have probable cause, ought to have a warrant in,

in order to search it, not less than it would need a warrant to search your day planner

or your phone call.

The best argument for the United States is that under the third-party doctrine, information

that you reveal to third parties is, in effect, public.

That police do not need a warrant, uh, should not need a warrant to look at it, to seize

it, to search it.

This case will establish the basic law of digital privacy going forward.

The amount of data that people now put on their phone is, uh, is mind-boggling.

Think about it.

Our health records are on our phone, our bank data records, our text messages with our closest

friends and neighbors, and paramours, and spouses, and other romantic partners. Photographs,

music, diaries, Facebook, Twitter account.

So, this little device has the potential of revolutionizing constitutional jurisprudence

about privacy rights simply because we have so much private or sensitive material on it.

For more infomation >> Carpenter v. United States [SCOTUSbrief] - Duration: 3:51.

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The Bone Wars: A Feud That Rocked U.S. Paleontology - Duration: 5:03.

[♪♩INTRO]

The world is full of great rivalries, like Marvel and DC, or Ali and Frazier.

Science has its fair share too—just look at Tesla and Edison.

And in the late 19th Century, two paleontologists named Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker

Cope entered a feud that would eventually be known as the Bone Wars.

While trying to one-up each other, they found and named some of today's most famous dinosaurs,

but they also made some pretty big mistakes.

At this point in history, paleontology was still taking its first clumsy steps.

In 1824, a British geologist named William Buckland published a paper about some bones

that he thought were from a huge extinct lizard.

He called it a Megalosaurus.

And even though "dinosaur" wouldn't become a word until nearly 20 years later,

Megalosaurus was the first one to be scientifically described.

That's when a researcher formally writes about what makes an animal, or a type of animal,

unique, and where it fits into the tree of life.

A few decades later, in 1858, the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton was found in America.

The Hadrosaurus was described and named by Joseph Leidy, an academic who switched from

medicine to natural history, and would play a huge part in early paleontology.

So Marsh and Cope basically grew up alongside the field.

Marsh was born in 1831 in New York, went to Yale thanks to his wealthy uncle, and ended

up studying paleontology in Germany.

Meanwhile, Cope was born in 1840 to a wealthy Quaker family.

He didn't have as much formal scientific training as Marsh, but thanks to jobs in museums,

he learned about natural history and published a lot of papers.

After the American Civil War started, Cope's father sent him off to Europe, and he met

Marsh in Berlin in 1863.

They started out friendly.

When they went back to America, they visited different dig sites.

And because they were rich, they could hire excavation teams to ship fossils back to them.

Sometimes with help from other experts, Marsh and Cope thoughtfully analyzed and published

descriptions of new specimens without stepping on each other's toes.

But soon, their friendship would come crashing down.

The feud really began when Cope was describing the marine reptile Elasmosaurus in 1868.

Instead of taking his time to reconstruct the skeleton, he raced to get some information

out in just a few weeks.

That eventually led him to misunderstand how the bones of its spine lined up.

He figured, like more modern lizards, Elasmosaurus would have a long tail instead of a long neck.

So in a figure he published in 1869, he drew its head at the wrong end of the spine.

He was publicly corrected in 1870 by Joseph Leidy, who studied the bones and noticed some

key details that Cope overlooked.

By some accounts, Marsh insisted he caught the mistake, or at the very least rubbed it

in.

Cope tried to save his bacon by retracting all copies of his paper and republishing…which

didn't exactly work.

And things got more petty from there.

The meat of the Bone Wars started around 1877, when they fought over fossils at the same

dig sites, like Como Bluffs in Wyoming, which was a treasure trove of specimens.

And they started playing dirty—spying, bribing people to switch employers, chucking rocks

to start fights, or even straight-up destroying fossils to keep them out of each other's

hands.

Between them, Cope and Marsh claimed to have described over 130 kinds of dinosaurs, among

other ancient animals.

But they rushed to publish and made a lot of mistakes, like giving new names to already-discovered

dinosaurs, or counting inconclusive fragments as a whole new animal.

For instance, when Marsh was sent the headless skeleton of a long-necked dinosaur in 1877,

he called it Apatosaurus.

But when he tried to scientifically describe the creature, he reconstructed it with a totally

wrong skull.

Then, a couple years later, he was sent another Apatosaurus skeleton with a skull, and called

it Brontosaurus.

And this naming confusion has lasted to this day.

Really, Cope and Marsh had a lot more success when they took their time with fossils, and

worked with other scientists instead of just feuding.

When Marsh described Triceratops, for example, he was only sent bits of the horns at first,

so he thought it was some kind of bison.

But when the geologist who had found the skull fossils said that it wouldn't make sense

for a lone bison to be mixed in with all these dinosaur fossils, Marsh reconsidered.

With more input from peers, Marsh thought these fossils might've come from another

dinosaur with spikes like a Stegosaurus.

And he eventually landed on the idea of a dinosaur with horns, which hadn't really

been dreamt up before.

Now, eventually, Cope and Marsh were left penniless by the Bone Wars.

And their papers had so much sniping and so little science that journals refused to publish

them.

While they did a lot for paleontology, they also were reckless and gave the field a bad

rep.

Their constant sabotaging even made Joseph Leidy quit paleontology altogether in the

mid 1870s.

So it's an interesting story, and one we've hopefully learned from.

Today we have a better understanding that science depends on things like collaboration

and sharing information—and less, y'know, throwing rocks at each other.

Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow!

And thanks especially to our President of Space, you all know him by now…

SR Foxley!

Thank you so much SR for your continued support of SciShow.

You rock!

If you want to hear more stories about paleontology, and what the Earth was like when these creatures

we were talking about in this video were still alive, you can check out our sister channel

Eons at youtube.com/eons!

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For more infomation >> The Bone Wars: A Feud That Rocked U.S. Paleontology - Duration: 5:03.

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Weird US Statement After a Ban on all LGBT Events - Duration: 2:21.

Australia's marriage bill is running into roadblocks -- can it get passed before the

end of the year?

Turkey has banned all LGBT events and hate crimes in Russia have doubled, with a very

a strange response from the US State Department.

We'll have all that plus actions you can take on Weekly Debrief.

Now that Australia has finished its insulting national survey on whether same-sex couples

are entitled to marriage, politicians can finally get to work crafting a marriage equality

bill.

But not so fast -- debate and political maneuvering have bogged down the process, and legislators

are currently distracted by a citizenship scandal that threatens to derail just about

all legislation.

Meanwhile, Canada's moving ahead with plans to apologize to LGBT people who were fired

during a government purge many decades ago.

Justin Trudeau plans to issue the apology on November 28.

Canada removed homosexuality as cause to fire government employees back in 1992, so it's

only taken 25 years to apologize for the law.

Things are looking bad in Turkey, where the government just banned all LGBT events.

Officials claim that it's for everyone's safety, but organizers see this as a precursor a further

crackdown on LGBT freedoms.

And in Russia, a new study shows that hate crimes against queer people doubled after

the passage of a "gay propaganda" law that prevented the discussion of LGBT issues.

Like Turkey, Russia has also imposed policies blocking LGBT events.

The US State Department has responded to these laws and violent acts in the weirdest possible

way.

This week officials released a statement recognizing Transgender Day of Remembrance, criticizing

government officials who facilitate discrimination against trans citizens.

Which is exactly what the US is doing with its trans military ban, with the Justice Department's

dismantling of nondiscrimination laws, and with briefs filed before the Supreme Court

in opposition to equality.

It's nice that the State Department would point out the violence against queer people

around the world but gee whiz they sure are participating in violence right here in the

US.

For this week's action item, there's never been a better time to support the Transgender

Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Head over to transgenderlegal.org and sign up for alerts and to find out how you can

prevent the US from descending into the same violence as Turkey and Russia.

And as always, let me know about stories that need covering in the YouTube comments and

Twitter.

Share these videos to get the word out.

And I'll debrief you next week.

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Why did the United States so Enthusiastically Support the Yeltsin Administration? - Duration: 5:36.

PAUL JAY: Welcome to The Real News Network.

I'm Paul Jay, now joining us is Larry Wilkerson.

Thanks for joining us again, Larry.

LARRY WILKERSON: Good to be here, Paul.

PAUL JAY: Okay, let's do it.

Here's a question from Alfonso Fernandes: Why did the United States so enthusiastically

support the Yeltsin administration during the worst of what he calls its atrocities?

LARRY WILKERSON: That's a long, long answer that I don't know everything about.

What I do know about it is that when Yeltsin literally emulated Lenin and stood on or in

front of that tank, and we made a decision not to join the generals, not to overthrow

him, but to back him and to make sure everyone knew that, including those generals, and Yeltsin

then put down the coup attempt and then became at least the titular at that time if not eventually

the leader of a newly collapsed Soviet empire, now Russia, losing everything as fast as it

could, I'll never forget how fast the Warsaw Pact fell apart, that we didn't have a whole

lot of choice, except as George H.W. Bush spoke it at the time.

Jim Baker carried this out to a letter.

That was essentially, "We are not going to exploit this.

We're not going to take advantage of it.

We're not going to do anything to stick our fingers in Soviet Russian eyes.

We're going to do as much as we can to support the leadership, although we know it drinks

a bottle of vodka about every hour.

We're going to do everything we can to take this situation turn out peacefully," to include

inviting Russia to be an observer of NATO, with every expectation it would eventually

probably be asked to be a member of NATO, including when we reunified Germany and kept

it in NATO, the most incredible diplomatic achievement of the latter 20th century, saying

to Moscow, "If you accept this, we'll not move NATO one inch further east."

Then along came Bill Clinton, of course, and moved it all the way to Georgia or almost.

Those were troubled times, but I think H.W. Bush handled it extremely well, and Jim Baker,

and all the rest of that administration.

I think they handled it extremely well.

Brent Scowcroft was right there in the middle of it.

Then along came Bill Clinton and a very inexperienced team.

I was there.

I was still working for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the first year of Clinton.

The most inexperienced team I've ever seen.

Couldn't find their ass in a windstorm that first year, indeed for the first 18 months.

Everything went to heck, as we enlarged NATO, largely to sell F-16s and other arms to more

and more countries, and make Lockheed and Boeing and everybody else much richer, and

largely to, in very apoplectic terms, stick our fingers in Moscow's eyes.

We did it in the Balkans.

We embarrassed Boris Yeltsin majorly in the Balkans.

We had Major General Sir Michael Jackson I think it was Pristina in Kosovo, being ordered

by Wes Clark to stop the Russian paratroopers.

Jackson had the good sense to say back, "I'm not about to start World War Three, general."

These were troubled times with inexperienced people dealing with them.

We made a mess of things, and we've been making a mess of things ever since.

PAUL JAY: We were talking a little earlier about Putin's motivation in Kosovo and otherwise.

Is it true for Russia, and for the United States, that to a large extent this is all

about domestic politics?

Maybe that's true with most foreign policy.

It starts with domestic politics.

Certainly in the United States, this seems to be more about domestic politics than any

real concern about what Russia's doing in various places.

LARRY WILKERSON: I think the Russian foreign minister, when Trump failed to certify to

the U.S. Congress that Iran was still in compliance with the nuclear agreement, the German foreign

minister said, "This is all domestic politics.

It's become a plaything of domestic politics."

I think he used the word I think, or it is apparently, or something like that, but he

summed it up.

You're right.

One of the elements of my framework of analysis for my students in determining why certain

national security decisions were made is domestic politics.

I will tell you that we look at both the United States and whomever it happens to be, Chile

in 1968, Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, and so forth, we look at them too from the

point of view of politics.

I can say with some accuracy, I think, that domestic politics drives democracies nuts

far more than it does totalitarian states.

In the case of the United States of America, with our rather unwieldy democracy, it really

does impact foreign and security policy, sometimes in very, very injurious ways.

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US, JAPAN, INDIA, AUSTRALIA IS QUAD THE FIRST STEP TO AN ASIAN Alliance - Duration: 4:21.

For more infomation >> US, JAPAN, INDIA, AUSTRALIA IS QUAD THE FIRST STEP TO AN ASIAN Alliance - Duration: 4:21.

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U.S. State Department official describes recent defection case as window into North Korean life - Duration: 1:34.

The New York Times has published an op-ed by an official at the U.S. State Department,...

who described the recent defection case of a North Korean soldier to South Korea as a

window into life under the Kim Jong-un regime.

The article also slammed Pyongyang for letting even its most-trusted soldiers suffer from

terrible malnutrition.

Kim Hyo-sun reports.

A U.S. State Department official says the plight of the North Korean soldier who defected

to South Korea recently,... is a window into life in North Korea.

Brian Hook, director of policy planning and senior policy adviser at the State Department,

commented in an op-ed piece in the New York Times,... that the young soldier had hepatitis

B and an enormous number of parasitic worms in his intestines.

Describing the North as a slave state,...

Hook explained that even trusted soldiers suffer from terrible malnourishment as the

regime directs most of its money towards its nuclear and missile programs.

He added that the living conditions for the vast majority of other North Koreans are much

worse.

Meanwhile,... the South Korean military is broadcasting news of the defected soldier

towards North Korean servicemen.

According to officials,... they started broadcasting the news via the South Korean military's loudspeakers

set up along the border,... shortly after the defection on November 13th.

Such broadcasts are heavily criticized by North Korea,... claiming they may provoke

defections by its front-line soldiers.

Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> U.S. State Department official describes recent defection case as window into North Korean life - Duration: 1:34.

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"Combat ready" China races to build GHOST spy satellites to 'catch' US stealth planes - DAILY NEWS - Duration: 2:14.

"Combat ready" China races to build GHOST spy satellites to 'catch' US stealth planes

TOP Chinese scientists are developing spy satellites with fresh military tech that could

change warfare forever.

Their Quantum ghost imaging technology aims to detect the hardest to track aircraft being

deployed today.

The sensor would be capable of tracking "invisible" US stealth bombers that carry out nighttime

missions, according to experts.

Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bombers are currently the only planes that can strike enemy targets

without being picked up by radar systems.

But the Chinese system aims to detect planes using the sun and special laser beams.

Gong Wenline, research director at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, said darkness,

haze and other elements would no longer hide any aircraft.

He said: "A ghost imaging satellite will reveal more details than the most advanced

radar satellite.

"Each detection method has its unique advantages . It depends on the circumstances and nature

of the mission as to which one should be used, if not all of them."

Mr Wenline added: "We have beat them on the ground.

We have confidence to beat them again in space."

China has flexed its military might in recent month as tensions between its neighbours,

the US and North Korea continue to mount.

President Xi Jinping told warplane pilots and crew to be "combat ready all the time"

as a squadron of jets blasted over the disputed South China Sea.

This is the frontier Chinese commanders believe they need to control to successfully wage

war against the US.

For more infomation >> "Combat ready" China races to build GHOST spy satellites to 'catch' US stealth planes - DAILY NEWS - Duration: 2:14.

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U.S. State Department official describes recent defection case as window into North Korean life - Duration: 1:34.

The New York Times has published an op-ed by an official at the U.S. State Department,...

who described the recent defection case of a North Korean soldier to South Korea as a

window into life under the Kim Jong-un regime.

The article also slammed Pyongyang for letting even its most-trusted soldiers suffer from

terrible malnutrition.

Kim Hyo-sun reports.

A U.S. State Department official says the plight of the North Korean soldier who defected

to South Korea recently,... is a window into life in North Korea.

Brian Hook, director of policy planning and senior policy adviser at the State Department,

commented in an op-ed piece in the New York Times,... that the young soldier had hepatitis

B and an enormous number of parasitic worms in his intestines.

Describing the North as a slave state,...

Hook explained that even trusted soldiers suffer from terrible malnourishment as the

regime directs most of its money towards its nuclear and missile programs.

He added that the living conditions for the vast majority of other North Koreans are much

worse.

Meanwhile,... the South Korean military is broadcasting news of the defected soldier

towards North Korean servicemen.

According to officials,... they started broadcasting the news via the South Korean military's loudspeakers

set up along the border,... shortly after the defection on November 13th.

Such broadcasts are heavily criticized by North Korea,... claiming they may provoke

defections by its front-line soldiers.

Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> U.S. State Department official describes recent defection case as window into North Korean life - Duration: 1:34.

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U.S. State Department official describes recent defection case as window into North Korean life - Duration: 1:33.

The New York Times has published an op-ed by an official at the U.S. State Department,...

who described the recent defection case of a North Korean soldier to South Korea as a

window into life under the Kim Jong-un regime.

The article also slammed Pyongyang for letting even its most-trusted soldiers suffer from

terrible malnutrition.

Kim Hyo-sun reports.

A U.S. State Department official says the plight of the North Korean soldier who defected

to South Korea recently,... is a window into life in North Korea.

Brian Hook, director of policy planning and senior policy adviser at the State Department,

commented in an op-ed piece in the New York Times,... that the young soldier had hepatitis

B and an enormous number of parasitic worms in his intestines.

Describing the North as a slave state,...

Hook explained that even trusted soldiers suffer from terrible malnourishment as the

regime directs most of its money towards its nuclear and missile programs.

He added that the living conditions for the vast majority of other North Koreans are much

worse.

Meanwhile,... the South Korean military is broadcasting news of the defected soldier

towards North Korean servicemen.

According to officials,... they started broadcasting the news via the South Korean military's loudspeakers

set up along the border,... shortly after the defection on November 13th.

Such broadcasts are heavily criticized by North Korea,... claiming they may provoke

defections by its front-line soldiers.

Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> U.S. State Department official describes recent defection case as window into North Korean life - Duration: 1:33.

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5 Reasons Why Russia Is No Match for the US | Stephen Walt - Duration: 5:44.

The United States is much stronger than Russia, and will be for the rest of my professional

lifetime, and I would guess for the entirety of the 21st century unless we commit a series

of almost unimaginable self-inflicted wounds.

The United States first of all has a much larger economy.

Our economy is now about $17 trillion, Russia's is less than $2 trillion and has actually

been declining in recent years.

So we are already close to eight or nine or ten times stronger economically.

The United States is much more powerful militarily: We spend four or five times more than Russia

does on defense every year.

We have much more sophisticated weaponry than Russia does.

The United States is still blessed with allies in many parts of the world.

These allies are for the most part rich, relatively powerful and stable.

We're talking about countries like Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and others.

Russia by contrast has no allies of any real consequence.

It has something of a friendly relationship with China, but it's not really an alliance.

And lastly Russia has a terrible demographic situation.

Its population is much older than ours on average, and it's aging rapidly; the population

is projected to decline dramatically by 30 or 40 million people over the next 50 years

or so.

So for all of those reasons the United States has far more power potential.

Last but not least, Russia's only real economic asset now is oil and gas.

People are not lining up to buy the next Russian smartphone or anything like that, so Russia's

long-term potential strikes me as not nearly as promising as that of the United States.

Well, weaker states can still do a lot of things that cause trouble, and what Russia

did in the 2016 election—the full extent of which and the importance of which we are

still trying to figure out—certainly has roiled American politics in a variety of ways,

so it does show that even much weaker powers can find various ways to interfere or cause

problems.

Now, it was in part because we were vulnerable to that kind of manipulation, and that's

our fault, not theirs.

I would say a little bit more about this too, though: what Russia did is not unprecedented.

The United States has interfered in democratic elections in lots of countries around the

world, and you could argue that we've been doing a variety of things to try and encourage

democratic forces, promote civil society, both in Russia or in countries close to Russia,

in ways that they regard as alarming.

We might think that we're doing the right thing, spreading our values in various places,

but you could certainly understand how Russia might regard that as threatening, and might

even view what they did in 2016 as a form of payback: "If you want to manipulate politics

in Ukraine, if you want to interfere in Russia in various ways, well we can do things to

you as well."

So again, without knowing the full extent of what Russia may or may not have done we

shouldn't view this as unprecedented, and we shouldn't view it as coming completely

out of the blue.

It doesn't mean we have to like it, but it's important I think to keep just how

heinous it may or may not be in some context here.

Again, Russia is simply not the kind of global superpower that the Soviet Union was.

It doesn't pose a significant ideological challenge to us, it seems to me.

And to the extent that the United States is going to worry about a rival/peer/competitor,

it's not going to be Russia—it's going to be China.

But having said that, you can imagine circumstances where a confrontation between the two countries

could begin to spin out of control, conceivably over what's happening in Syria.

If things in Ukraine were to heat up again and the United States got more actively involved

there, one could imagine some kind of clash arising.

I don't think that leaders in Washington or leaders in Moscow actually want something

like that to happen—Remember, we are still talking about two nuclear powers with thousands

of nuclear weapons that could still be fired at each other, but I don't think you can

completely rule it out.

Will it become like the Cold War?

No I don't think so.

But it is something I think that bears watching.

And it's also unfortunate in a different sense, because there are still some issues—whether

it's counterterrorism, how to deal with Iran, what to do about the Civil War in Syria—where

collaboration with Russia might be useful.

And one last point: if we really are worried about China over the long-term, if that's

really the rising power that we need to keep our eye on, the last thing we should be doing

is anything that drives Moscow closer to Beijing.

Russia and China, when you look at just the geography here, are not really natural allies,

they have many reasons to be weary of one another, and we should, in fact, be trying

to get Moscow to be more on our side and less on China's side over the long-term.

So spinning up a new Cold War with Russia doesn't make a whole lot of sense from a

larger strategic perspective.

For more infomation >> 5 Reasons Why Russia Is No Match for the US | Stephen Walt - Duration: 5:44.

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11/27/17 11:18 AM (323 US-11, Wyoming, PA 18644, USA) - Duration: 1:00.

For more infomation >> 11/27/17 11:18 AM (323 US-11, Wyoming, PA 18644, USA) - Duration: 1:00.

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'Wreaths Across America,' Wreath Laying Ceremonies All Across the United States of America - Duration: 4:54.

♪

♪

>>> WE MADE THE COMMENT EARLIER

THIS MONTH, I THINK YOU SAID

IT, JIMMY, THAT HONORING OUR

VETERANS SHOULD NOT BE LIMITED

TO ONE DAY BUT IS SOMETHING WE

SHOULD DO ALL THE TIME WHICH IS

WHY IT BRINGS US GREAT JOY TO

BRING YOU THE NEXT STORY.

>> WE ARE TALKING ABOUT

VETERANS WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE

SACRIFICE, THOSE WHO DIED FOR

THE COUNTRY.

NEXT MONTH INCREDIBLE CONVOY

WILL ROLL QUITE LITERALLY INTO

SALISBURY TO PAY HOMAGE TO OUR

FALLEN VETERANS AS PART OF

WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA.

JOINING US THIS AFTERNOON IS

THE PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR OF

TRANSPORTATION, TIM AND DEPUTY

TRUCK DRIVER KEITH CLARK.

>> THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU.

>> KEITH, RIGHT OFF THE BAT,

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR

SERVICE.

>> THANK YOU.

THANK YOU .

>> WHAT DID YOU DO, KEITH?

>> IN THE AIR FORCE?

>> YES.

FOR THE F-16S, THE AVIONICS

SHOP.

>> REALLY?

>> WOW.

>> WE COULD CHANGE THE WHOLE

INTERVIEW!

[LAUGHTER]

>> IS RIGHT THERE WE COULD!

>> BUT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT

443-880-9116.

WHAT IS THAT?

>> NO, IN 1992, THE WORCESTER

WREATH COMPANY UP INHERENT IN

MAINE DECIDED TO TAKESOME

LEFTOVER WREATHS THEY HAD AND

DONATE THEM TO ARLINGTON .

IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR THEY DID

IT AGAIN.

AND IT WAS LIKE A SNOWBALL

EFFECT.

IT JUST GOT BIGGER AND BIGGER

AND BIGGER.

>> AND FOR YEARS YOU BEEN PART

OF THE DRIVE TO GET THE RACE TO

ARLINGTON?

>> UH-HUH.

>> ONLY THIS YEAR THEY WILL

MAKE A STOP ON THE WAY HERE IN

SALISBURY?

>> YES.

CONVOY WILL BE IN AROUND 2:30

IN THE AFTERNOON.

WE ARE HOPING EVERYONE WILL

COME OUT FOR THAT.

AND THE CEREMONY BEGINS AT

3:00.

>> SO, KEITH, IS A DRIVER, WHAT

IS YOUR ROLE IN 443-880-9116?

>> WELL, THIS ROLE I WILL

PARTICIPATE IN THE WREATHLAYING

CEREMONY AT THE WAR VETERANS

MEMORIAL AND ON THE 16TH I WILL

DELIVER A LOAD OF WREATHS INTO

ARLINGTON CEMETERY FOR THE

NATIONAL EVENT THERE AT 8:00.

>> GOODNESS.

>> YES.

>> NOW, TIM, THIS IS NOT THE

FIRST TIME YOU GUYS HAVE

PARTICIPATED IN THIS EVENT?

>> NO, IT IS THE 11TH YEAR.

WE'VE ACTUALLY DELIVERED ABOUT

150,000 RATES IN THE LAST 11

YEARS IT CONTINUES TO GROW.

OUR DRIVERS LOVE TO DO IT.

PURDUE GLOVES SPONSOR THEM AS

WELL.

>> WHY?

>> IT IS JUST A WAY TO GET BACK

TO THE COMMUNITY AND OUR

VETERANS.

WE HAVE A LOT OF VETERANS AT

PURDUE AND A LOT OF OUR DRIVERS

ARE VETERANS.

AND IT IS JUST A GREAT WAY TO,

YOU KNOW, PAY HOMAGE TO OUR

FALLEN AND GIVE THEM THE

RESPECT.

I COME FROM A MILITARY

BACKGROUND AND I UNDERSTAND

WHETHER SACRIFICE WAS.

>> RIGHT.

>> AND IT IS JUST THE RIGHT

THING TO DO.

>> AND THIS REALLY MEANS A LOT

TO THE FAMILIES AS WELL,

DOESN'T IT?

>> ABSOLUTELY.

LAST YEAR WAS HER VIRGINITY DO

I WICOMICO COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL

AND THE DRIVER DID ALL OF THE

TALKING, THE FAMILIES WERE

INVITED, A GREAT EVENT.

>> NOW, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT

THE COMMUNITY CAN DO

PARTICIPATE AND CONTRIBUTE AND

HELP?

>> ESPECIALLY AS HE SAID, THE

CONVOY WILL BE THERE AT 2:30

AND WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THE

COMMUNITY AND PUBLISHER OF

THEIR BEFORE THE CEREMONY

HAPPENS TO SUPPORT THE EVENT

AND ALSO, THEY CAN VOLUNTEER AS

WELL AT THE CEMETERY TO A RACE

ON THE FALLEN CEMETERIES.

AT ANY ARLINGTON NATIONAL

CEMETERY AROUND THE COUNTRY.

>> IN HERE IS THE INFORMATION.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15 AT THE

WICOMICO COUNTY WAR VETERANS

MEMORIAL IT OF COURSE, THE

PUBLIC IS INVITED.

IN THE WICOMICO COUNTY WAR

MEMORIAL FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT

FAMILIAR, WHAT IS IT?

>> THERE IS 191 HEROES ON THE

WALL THERE FROM HERE ON

DELMARVA.

SO WE HAVE SOME GOLDSTAR

FAMILIES HERE ON DELMARVA.

WE HOPE THAT THEY SHOW UP AT

THE WHOLE COMMUNITY COMES OUT

TO SUPPORT THEM AND REMEMBERS

HER LOVED ONE.

>> AND AS YOU WERE SAYING, IT

STARTS AT THREE.

GET THERE EARLY?

>> YES, THE CONVOY WILL COME

INTO: 30, 2:45.

THEY WILL GET THERE A LITTLE

EARLY.

THE GOLD STAR MOMS WILL BE

THERE TRAVELING IN THE CONVOY,

SO IT WILL BE NICE.

>> AND, WHAT A WONDERFUL

OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY TALK TO

THE FAMILY MEMBERS, THE

GOLDSTAR FAMILIES.

>> ABSOLUTELY.

A FEW YEARS AGO I TRAVELED FROM

THE CONVOY FROM HARRINGTON INTO

ARLINGTON AND I SPENT THE WHOLE

TIME WITH THE GOLD STAR MOMS

AND WHEN YOU HEAR THOSE

FAMILIES YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS

ABOUT.

>> AND WE DO TALK ABOUT

For more infomation >> 'Wreaths Across America,' Wreath Laying Ceremonies All Across the United States of America - Duration: 4:54.

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Here's How Tiffany Is Doing In The States - Duration: 1:57.

Here's How Tiffany Is Doing In The States

Since her contract with S.M.

Entertainment recently expired, Tiffany has been away and fans have wondered what shes been up to. .

Luckily, updates on her personal Instagram account seem to give fans a glimpse of her daily activities.

Tiffany is presently in California where she was seen walking down the beach in a red dress—camera in hand and smiling brightly.

She even gave fans a look behind the scenes of her upcoming pictorial, showing a glimpse of her true, bubbly personality.

Tiffany left the agency after her contract expired last month and flew back to the United States.

She is preparing for possible promotions overseas and is studying acting and music.

Some worry that Tiffanys US activities herald Girls Generations disbandment, but S.M.

Entertainment has remained relatively tight-lipped on the subject, stating the girls will discuss future activities as a group with each other.

[★TRENDING] Tiffanys Contract with SM Expires, Will Pursue Career In USA.

Source: Dispatch.

For more infomation >> Here's How Tiffany Is Doing In The States - Duration: 1:57.

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Korean won to continue gains against U.S. dollar next year - Duration: 1:58.

The exchange rate of Korean currency against the greenback retreating fast is worrying

local exporters that had been driving up the recent economic growth.

Despite such concern,... experts however see that the trend would continue through next

year.

Our Lee Ji-won has the details.

Last Wednesday, the Korean won dipped below 1-thousand-90 to the U.S. dollar for the first

time in 2 and a half years.

On Friday it closed at 1-thousand 85-point-4.

The Korean currency has been gaining on the dollar since this January... when it stood

at 12-oh-eight.

The won has benefited from a recovery in the local economy thanks to bolstered exports,...

and the easing of tensions with China.

Expectations that the Bank of Korea will raise interest rates soon has also strengthened

the won.

Investors' growing preference for riskier assets centered around emerging markets,..

including Korea's main stock index, the KOSPI, has eroded some demand for safer assets like

the dollar.

(Korean) "The gains are seen as being led by a continued

inflow of foreign investment, together with strong exports and rising momentum for growth."

And experts predict the upward trend to continue through next year,... now that it's becoming

more clear the U.S. Federal Reserve won't be raising rates as much as previously thought.

They say another contributing factor would be a further recovery in the global economy.

(Korean) "If the global economy continues to recover

next year,.. the Korean economy is likely to improve as well.

I project the annual average for the Korean won to come out to 1,110."

While a strong currency could be a sign of an improvement in the economy, it causes concern

among exporters at the same time,... because a stronger Korean won undermines the country's

export competitiveness.

Lee Ji-won, Arirang News.