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CBC
6 hours ago
- Science
- CBC
Through the air and across the Island: An up-close look at a CBC P.E.I. transmission tower
The CBC transmission tower in Churchill, P.E.I., is the largest one on the Island. We took a drone up to learn more about how radio waves and digital TV are transmitted through the air.
Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Cowardly Starmer has put Britain on the wrong side of history
There are cowards, there are the morally bankrupt, and then there is Sir Keir Starmer. Never one to miss an opportunity to humiliate Britain, the Prime Minister's cataclysmic misreading of the conflict in the Middle East has put him, and the UK, on the wrong side of history. Instead of standing with Israel in its existential struggle to rid the world of a millenarian death cult intent on building nuclear weapons, Starmer found it easier to hoist the white flag. Rather than offering to help shoot down Iranian missiles slaughtering Israeli civilians, the Prime Minister spent the past week calling for 'de-escalation' (and thus for the preservation of the genocidal nuclear programme); in lieu of pleading with Donald Trump to send B-2 stealth bombers to take out Iran's Fordow enrichment plant, Starmer chose to spout neo-pacifist verbiage and to demonstrate how embarrassingly little access and influence he retains in Washington. To our great shame, at a moment of maximal global danger, the nation of Wilberforce and Churchill has chosen to go AWOL for the first time, betraying our friends and allies, making a mockery of our supposed values and admitting to the world that we are no longer a serious power. What is even more galling is that Iran is one of our bitter enemies: its spies and propagandists operate in the UK, it has kidnapped and threatened our citizens and it despises us as one of two 'Little Satans' (the other is Israel) to America's Big Satan. We should be thanking Jerusalem for taking care of the Mullahs and the IRGC on our behalf, and yet our Government of non-entities is sitting on the sidelines, terrified of its Israelophobic electoral 'base'. What kind of country opposes a military intervention that will directly make its citizens safer? The answer is an irrelevant one, which is what Britain has become under Labour. Everything has suddenly changed in the Middle East, no thanks to us – or, for that matter, Brussels or Paris. The good guys are winning a key battle in the great global conflict that broke out when Russia invaded Ukraine. Israel and America are reestablishing Western deterrence after Joe Biden's half-hearted response to Vladimir Putin and following the debacle of the retreat from Afghanistan. They are well on their way to preempting a nuclear apocalypse. North Korea and Pakistan obtained the bomb, which was a disaster; Iran's defenestration amounts to a rare yet hugely important victory in the fight against atomic proliferation. It is hard to exaggerate the outsized role that Israel is now playing, and how much it is aiding an ungrateful and ethically compromised Europe. By necessity and out of self-interest, it has become the West's praetorian guard, a nation of heroes dedicated to doing our dirty work for us, as well as a (not always comfortable) proxy of sorts for the US. A tiny country the size of Wales, its population barely larger than London's, Israel is annihilating – from 1,000 miles away, in an unprecedented long-distance war – an oil-rich regional superpower that is nine times more populous and boasts a 75 times larger land area, while waging a conflict on seven fronts. The Jewish state has demonstrated a level of military and strategic brilliance over the past year last witnessed from a Western nation in the Second World War. This isn't Desert Storm-style bulldozing; this is the real deal, a la Hannibal or Carl von Clausewitz, and it will be studied for centuries to come. It turns out that October 7 was Israel's Pearl Harbor, not its 9/11: its fightback has been astonishing, and is helping to undo the narrative of Western decline. Israel has shrugged off a Blitz-style attack that no European country could have remotely coped with, and is emerging as the uncontested regional hegemon. America too might yet still be much more powerful than we realised; its weapons remain the best. The notion of a multi-polar world has been undermined: Russia and China were happy to use Iran, but aren't lifting a finger to defend it. The forces of Islamism are in historic retreat: Israel's destruction of the Iranian proxy system is an even greater victory for Western civilisation than the ending of al-Qaeda and Islamic State. The regime pioneered modern Islamism and state terrorism; it funded Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Iraqi Shia militias and the Houthis. Some 2563 years after Cyrus the Great of Persia freed the Jews from captivity, Israel is returning the favour, with a little help from Trump. The Iranian people, savagely oppressed by the Mullahs, may soon liberate themselves; unlike in other Middle Eastern countries, where the opposition is often worse than the ruling tyrants, most ordinary Iranians are desperate for Westernisation. Bereft of Iran's financial, military and psychological support, unable to siphon aid from the UN, Hamas could sue for a ceasefire, its leaders opting for exile in return for the hostages. Israel's triumph over Iran and its proxies, combined with the end of the war in Gaza, would undoubtedly be enough to precipitate an expansion of the Abraham Accords. For all their flaws, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, if they finish the task at hand, would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. I doubted both men – Trump looked as if he was going soft, and I feared Netanyahu, who now looks positively Churchillian, could never redeem himself for the October 7 pogroms happening on his watch. They appear to have proved me wrong. It is striking how Europe's objections to Israel's actions – the alleged violation of international law, the militarism – embody all the pathologies that are eating away at the soul of our nations. Ever since Michel Foucault, a key figure in the woke movement, penned pro-Islamic revolution propaganda masquerading as journalism in 1978, much of the Left has had a blind spot for the regime. France even put up Ayatollah Khomeini in a luxury villa. By defiling progressive pieties, Israel is mending the world. Netanyahu and Trump are drivers of history. They are changing rather than merely experiencing reality, unlike vapid non-player characters like Starmer or Emmanuel Macron. With the West being rescued from its own stupidity, perhaps now is the time to allow ourselves a fleeting moment of optimism. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Business Upturn
13 hours ago
- Business
- Business Upturn
A&S Manufacturing Is Approaching a 35-Year Milestone of Manufacturing Process Excellence
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A&S Manufacturing A&S Manufacturing is approaching its 35-year milestone of offering end-to-end manufacturing processes and celebrating its foundation as an American-made company. Founded by Steven Churchill, the American manufacturing company has fostered a reputation for their specialty in custom metal fabrications and decades of unfaltering trust, quality, and hands-on leadership. Founded in 1991, A&S Manufacturing began with a one-punch press in a 5000 sq. ft. building in Philadelphia. Churchill's inspiration came from observing a family member who was a nuts-and-bolts salesman. 'These screws had to go somewhere, someone's got to build the frame,' he reflects. This thought inspired the company that today ships into Mexico and across the US, serving in various industries from hospitality to cutting-edge manufacturing. When the company began, it was solely a one-man operation. 'In the beginning, it was just me,' Churchill recalls. 'I didn't have any family backing or investors, I wasn't financially secure.' This hurdle didn't deter him from his goal. He took a $10,000 loan from the bank and started his shop. After establishing a humble 24-hour repair shop, fixing manufacturing tools for production lines, he found his footing in the industry, which became the turning point for his career. The early years at A&S Manufacturing weren't easy. Churchill experienced numerous growing pains, including internal theft, a lack of a network, and fighting to earn the trust of clients who were wary of a solo operation. Yet, Churchill was set on overcoming these hurdles, accepting that they were part and parcel of growing a business. His people-first approach helped him win long-term clients. 'People do business with people. If they don't like you, no matter what you're selling, they won't buy from you,' Churchill states. 'I still take clients to dinner and shake hands with them to build trust. That's how we do business.' A&S Manufacturing is carving out a strong position in the battery industry, offering high-quality precision and customization the company has long specialized in. 'We're working with various sectors, and we're currently deep in the battery industry,' Churchill shares, 'But we're looking to branch into new industries and even expand internationally.' With nearly 35 years in the industry, Churchill attributes much of the company's longevity to his team, some of whom have stayed with the company for over a decade. The company offers 401 (k) plans, health benefits, and most importantly, mutual respect. 'My mother did my books for 20 years, and now I have people in my team that I couldn't function without,' Churchill reveals. 'I know the importance of nurturing connections, not just with clients, but even employees. They're the ones working tirelessly to achieve company goals. I wouldn't be where I am without them.' By establishing a two-way street, Churchill ensures that while he steers the ship, he and his team both move forward. In an era where outsourcing and offshoring have risen increasingly, A&S Manufacturing is building an ecosystem that is rooted in American soil. With values like hard work, personability, and relentless adaptability, the company is determined to contribute to the country's economy through consistent insourcing and a pivotal focus on building from within. As A&S Manufacturing approaches its 35-year milestone, Churchill offers a piece of advice for anyone looking to build a legacy of their own: 'It takes long hours and a lot of hustle, you've got to be willing to grind,' he says. 'But if you stick with it and treat people with respect, success won't be a far-fetched dream.' As the company gears up for venturing into other industries and expanding internationally, A&S Manufacturing is ensuring that its next 35 years look even brighter and rewarding. Media Contact Name: Steven Churchill Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same. Ahmedabad Plane Crash
Yahoo
a day ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
The Three Dramatic Consequences of Israel's Attack on Iran
The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. 'Battles are the principal milestones in secular history,' Winston Churchill observed in his magisterial biography of the Duke of Marlborough in 1936. 'Modern opinion resents this uninspiring truth … But great battles, won or lost, change the entire course of events, create new standards of values, new moods, new atmospheres, in armies and in nations, to which all must conform.' So it was then, and so it is today. Iran's war with Israel is rooted in the Islamic Republic's inveterate hostility to the Jewish state. It has consisted of multiple campaigns, including terror attacks against Jewish communities abroad (Argentina in 1994, for example) and missile salvos aimed at Israel (including from Lebanon and Iran itself last year). But three great events—the smashing of Hezbollah, the Syrian revolution that overthrew the Iranian-aligned regime, and now a climactic battle waged by long-range strikes and Mossad hit teams in Tehran—are changing the Middle East. We are living through the kind of moment that Churchill described. Israel's current campaign is built around two realities often missed by so-called realists: first, that the Iranian government is determined to acquire nuclear weapons and cannot be deterred, bought off, or persuaded to do otherwise, and second, that Israel reasonably believes itself to be facing an existential threat. When I served as counselor of the State Department during the second Bush administration, I had, among other keepsakes on my desk, an Iranian banknote picked up in Dubai. When I held it up to the light, I could see the sign of an atom superimposed over a map of Iran, with its nucleus roughly over Natanz, site of the major Iranian centrifuge hall. The banknote was a symbol of the determination that successive American governments chose to ignore, preferring to negotiate with a regime whose bad faith and malevolence were plain for those willing to see. The Iranian regime was happy to delay and temporize, but its destination was clearly visible in the expanding overt and covert programs to enrich uranium, design warheads, and develop delivery systems. Equally visible was Tehran's desire to destroy Israel. It takes a particular kind of idiocy or bad faith to disregard the speeches, propaganda, and shouts of 'death to Israel.' The Israeli lesson learned from the previous century—and, indeed, the Jewish one learned over a much longer span of time—is that if someone says they want to exterminate you, they mean it. And so Israel has acted in ways that have had three dramatic consequences. The first is the emergence of a distinct mode of warfare, already apparent in some of Ukraine's operations in Russia, that combines special operations with precision long-range strikes. Special operations are nothing new—the British secret services of the time played a role in a nearly successful bomb plot against Napoleon. But the innovation is combining large-scale and systematic use of assassinations and sabotage with nearly simultaneously precision strikes. Similar techniques helped decapitate Hezbollah's leadership and devastate its middle ranks while smashing its arsenals, but Israel's campaign against Iran is on an altogether different scale. This mode of warfare will not work everywhere, but in this case Israeli special operations helped neuter Iran's defenses and kill many of its senior leaders and nuclear scientists. The sobering lesson for the United States is that others can, at some point, do this to us more easily than we might be able to use these methods against a country like China. It is, in any event, part of the new face of war. The second is the way that the wars that began with Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, have reshaped the Middle East. Iran's position had been drastically weakened through the loss of its proxy forces in Lebanon and Syria, and now this current round of attacks has the potential to jeopardize the Iranian regime itself. The Iranian regime has delivered only misery and repression to its people. In return it was once offered religious and revolutionary zeal, which has been largely replaced by cynicism and hatred of the leadership. It had, and has now lost, imperial reach throughout the Middle East and beyond. The very last thing it offered was the prestige of its pursuit of nuclear weapons—weapons that Westerners may view with horror, but that others in the world (think India and Pakistan, for example) value quite differently. After losing all of these achievements to its own brutality and incompetence, as well as Israeli hit squads and fighter-bombers, all that the regime has left are its mechanisms of repression. Ultimately, those will not suffice to sustain it. Israel (and for that matter the United States) does not overtly aim at overthrowing the regime; neither has the intention of invading the country in the manner of Iraq in 2003. But a form of regime change may come—possibly through public upheaval, or just as likely through the rise of some strongman, probably from the military or security services, who will take Iran in a different direction. Perhaps such a strongman will lead Iran to some dark new place. But he could also proceed along the lines of Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, denouncing and disposing of some of the current elite on charges of treachery, incompetence, and corruption to consolidate his power, and then acting as a dictatorial modernizer. That would be the first step on a much better path for Iran and the rest of the world. The Western world has reason, as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently said, to be grateful to Israel for doing the 'dirty work' of smashing Iran's nuclear program, because a nuclear-armed Iran would be a menace not just to Israel but to the wider Middle East and to the West. Which brings us to the third great shift in moods and atmospheres, the characteristically over-the-top, bellicose rhetoric of Donald Trump. At first the American government hastened to distance itself from the Israeli attacks, in a swift and now rather embarrassing statement by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. But over time the president, communicating through explosive statements on Truth Social, began using the first-person plural in talking about the Israeli attacks, celebrating the American military hardware used in the attack, threatening worse to come, musing about killing the supreme leader of Iran, and clearly contemplating finishing the job of destroying the Iranian nuclear complex by sending B-2 bombers to deliver 15-ton GBU-57 penetrating bombs on the deeply subterranean Fordow facility. This has aroused consternation among some of his core supporters, such as Tucker Carlson (dismissed by the president as 'kooky') and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, and required the dispatch of Vice President J. D. Vance to quiet the protests of the isolationist, and in some cases borderline anti-Semitic, wing of the MAGA movement. Trump's turnaround is less surprising when one considers his political gifts, among them a feral instinct for weakness. He is a politician who is willing to kick opponents when they are down, and enjoys doing just that. He senses, far better than most of his advisers and experts, just how weak Iran is. No doubt as well, he delights in the opportunity to punish the regime that plotted to assassinate him in 2024. And he has aspirations to be not a warlord, much though he delights in military bluster and show, but a kind of peacemaker. He understands that a different kind of Iran—if not a democratic one, then a tamed dictatorship—would be open for deals, and he would gladly make them. He has engaged more with the Persian Gulf in recent years than with any other part of the world, and sees opportunities there. He believes that the price would be low, and although the Israelis have done the heavy lifting, he will get the credit from them and others for the finishing touches. Trump has undoubtedly already authorized various forms of support to Israel's campaign. He may or may not order the dropping of GBU-57s on Fordow. But he has, in any case, supported actions that are doing far more than those of any of his predecessors to eliminate a threat that has already killed American soldiers and civilians as well as many others, and that would be infinitely worse if left unchecked. Much as it may pain his critics to admit it, in this matter he is acting, if not conventionally, then like a statesman of a distinctively Trumpian stamp. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Telegraph
2 days ago
- Politics
- Telegraph
Cowardly Starmer has put Britain on the wrong side of history
There are cowards, there are the morally bankrupt, and then there is Sir Keir Starmer. Never one to miss an opportunity to humiliate Britain, the Prime Minister's cataclysmic misreading of the conflict in the Middle East has put him, and the UK, on the wrong side of history. Instead of standing with Israel in its existential struggle to rid the world of a millenarian death cult intent on building nuclear weapons, Starmer found it easier to hoist the white flag. Rather than offering to help shoot down Iranian missiles slaughtering Israeli civilians, the Prime Minister spent the past week calling for 'de-escalation' (and thus for the preservation of the genocidal nuclear programme); in lieu of pleading with Donald Trump to send B-2 stealth bombers to take out Iran's Fordow enrichment plant, Starmer chose to spout neo-pacifist verbiage and to demonstrate how embarrassingly little access and influence he retains in Washington. To our great shame, at a moment of maximal global danger, the nation of Wilberforce and Churchill has chosen to go AWOL for the first time, betraying our friends and allies, making a mockery of our supposed values and admitting to the world that we are no longer a serious power. What is even more galling is that Iran is one of our bitter enemies: its spies and propagandists operate in the UK, it has kidnapped and threatened our citizens and it despises us as one of two 'Little Satans' (the other is Israel) to America's Big Satan. We should be thanking Jerusalem for taking care of the Mullahs and the IRGC on our behalf, and yet our Government of non-entities is sitting on the sidelines, terrified of its Israelophobic electoral 'base '. What kind of country opposes a military intervention that will directly make its citizens safer? The answer is an irrelevant one, which is what Britain has become under Labour. Everything has suddenly changed in the Middle East, no thanks to us – or, for that matter, Brussels or Paris. The good guys are winning a key battle in the great global conflict that broke out when Russia invaded Ukraine. Israel and America are reestablishing Western deterrence after Joe Biden's half-hearted response to Vladimir Putin and following the debacle of the retreat from Afghanistan. They are well on their way to preempting a nuclear apocalypse. North Korea and Pakistan obtained the bomb, which was a disaster; Iran's defenestration amounts to a rare yet hugely important victory in the fight against atomic proliferation. It is hard to exaggerate the outsized role that Israel is now playing, and how much it is aiding an ungrateful and ethically compromised Europe. By necessity and out of self-interest, it has become the West's praetorian guard, a nation of heroes dedicated to doing our dirty work for us, as well as a (not always comfortable) proxy of sorts for the US. A tiny country the size of Wales, its population barely larger than London's, Israel is annihilating – from 1,000 miles away, in an unprecedented long-distance war – an oil-rich regional superpower that is nine times more populous and boasts a 75 times larger land area, while waging a conflict on seven fronts. The Jewish state has demonstrated a level of military and strategic brilliance over the past year last witnessed from a Western nation in the Second World War. This isn't Desert Storm-style bulldozing; this is the real deal, a la Hannibal or Carl von Clausewitz, and it will be studied for centuries to come. It turns out that October 7 was Israel's Pearl Harbor, not its 9/11: its fightback has been astonishing, and is helping to undo the narrative of Western decline. Israel has shrugged off a Blitz-style attack that no European country could have remotely coped with, and is emerging as the uncontested regional hegemon. America too might yet still be much more powerful than we realised; its weapons remain the best. The notion of a multi-polar world has been undermined: Russia and China were happy to use Iran, but aren't lifting a finger to defend it. The forces of Islamism are in historic retreat: Israel's destruction of the Iranian proxy system is an even greater victory for Western civilisation than the ending of al-Qaeda and Islamic State. The regime pioneered modern Islamism and state terrorism; it funded Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Iraqi Shia militias and the Houthis. Some 2563 years after Cyrus the Great of Persia freed the Jews from captivity, Israel is returning the favour, with a little help from Trump. The Iranian people, savagely oppressed by the Mullahs, may soon liberate themselves; unlike in other Middle Eastern countries, where the opposition is often worse than the ruling tyrants, most ordinary Iranians are desperate for Westernisation. Bereft of Iran's financial, military and psychological support, unable to siphon aid from the UN, Hamas could sue for a ceasefire, its leaders opting for exile in return for the hostages. Israel's triumph over Iran and its proxies, combined with the end of the war in Gaza, would undoubtedly be enough to precipitate an expansion of the Abraham Accords. For all their flaws, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, if they finish the task at hand, would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. I doubted both men – Trump looked as if he was going soft, and I feared Netanyahu, who now looks positively Churchillian, could never redeem himself for the October 7 pogroms happening on his watch. They appear to have proved me wrong. It is striking how Europe's objections to Israel's actions – the alleged violation of international law, the militarism – embody all the pathologies that are eating away at the soul of our nations. Ever since Michel Foucault, a key figure in the woke movement, penned pro-Islamic revolution propaganda masquerading as journalism in 1978, much of the Left has had a blind spot for the regime. France even put up Ayatollah Khomeini in a luxury villa. By defiling progressive pieties, Israel is mending the world. Netanyahu and Trump are drivers of history. They are changing rather than merely experiencing reality, unlike vapid non-player characters like Starmer or Emmanuel Macron. With the West being rescued from its own stupidity, perhaps now is the time to allow ourselves a fleeting moment of optimism.
