Classic Sunday Morning Newspaper Cartoons

 

Jailed for Praising Wrong Cricket Team

An Indian student has now spent nearly two months in jail for celebrating Pakistan’s victory in a cricket match. The BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan went to the northern Indian city of Agra to meet his family, and find out why lawyers are refusing to represent him. Produced by Shalu Yadav Filmed by Syed Shahryar & Ajay Bedi Edited by Aakriti Thapar.

Large Moon

 

PIcture Book of Heroines

SIMONE PROBST COLLECTION,Caroline's adventures first hit the bookshops in 1953, closely followed by Martine


Do you like your childhood heroine to be the type that catches outlaws in the Wild West, can re-plumb and re-roof an entire country home, and once survived a biplane crash in the Arctic?


Or would you rather a girl who cooks biscuits with Mum, enjoys sewing lessons and the occasional game of marbles, and whose idea of an adventure is taking the train to visit cousins in Normandy?


For nearly 70 years, Caroline and Martine have been rivals for the hearts of French schoolchildren.


If you were a more outdoors-type you would have gone for Caroline. She was the first to appear in 1953 for publisher Hachette.


Created by artist Pierre Probst, she wore red dungarees and led an adult-free existence with a gang of eight animal friends: two cats, three dogs, a bear, a lion and a panther.


Such was her success that a year later rival publishing house Casterman dreamed up Martine with artist Marcel Marlier.

Martine books are still on sale in French bookshops in the run-up to Christmas


But while Caroline lived in a magical world where cats drive cars and 10-year old girls can travel the countryside at the head of their own circus, Martine was firmly attached to the domestic apron-strings.  READ MORE...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59644739

Wayne's World

 

Bear Cubs

Hypersonic Missiles

Imagine if a foreign country launched a nuclear attack on the continental United States and the Pentagon had only six minutes to respond. That’s the potential of a new generation of weapons on the horizon, according to a recent Rand Corp. report.

Rand is urging the United States, China, and Russia to form an agreement on how to handle hypersonic missiles, which travel at more than five thousand kilometers per hour (about 3,100 mph). Hypersonic weapons are more than five times faster than a regular cruise missile and would not be detected by U.S. air defense systems as early as ballistic missiles.

The United States, China, and Russia are all known to be close to achieving deployable hypersonic systems and are ahead of other countries, according to Rand.

“Hypersonic missile proliferation would increase the chances of strategic war,” said Richard Speier, lead author of Rand’s report, in a press release.

The speed forces quick military counter-decisions with potentially disastrous effect. “It would give nations an incentive to become trigger-happy,” he said.

The United States likely has less than a decade to counter the proliferation of hypersonic missiles, though they are not yet operational, according to the report. Current missile defense systems would not be effective at defending against hypersonic missiles, and Rand urges changes to the existing missile technology control regime to anticipate and address them.

Crunched for time with dire stakes, countries might adopt a so-called launch-on-warning doctrine, or they might just strike first. Without time to consult a traditional chain of command, nations might feel compelled to give the military command and control, increasing the likelihood of accidental war. Countries might also scatter their weapons in order to better respond, which would give terrorists greater opportunity to steal the weapons for themselves, the report said.

“None of these options is very good,” Speier said.  To Know More About Hypersonic Missiles and Possible War, CLICK HERE...

Passing Train

 

Sowellisms

THOMAS SOWELL

He's still alive at 87, but retired. So we don't hear much from him these days.

Sowell grew up in Harlem, served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War,

graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard, Masters from Columbia, economist,

social theorist, philosopher, author, Senior Fellow Hoover Institution,

Stanford University, National Humanities Medal, Francis Boyer award.


MANY COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ARE OPENLY OPPOSED TO PERMITTING

MR. SOWELL TO LECTURE THEIR STUDENTS AND FACULTY.

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“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ”
― Thomas Sowell

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