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.-------------------------------------------
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."
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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