2025-10-11
Horseshit
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Non-stop snow, instant noodles and yaks: tales of being trapped on Everest
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado
It is of course ironic that a major reason Machado isn't president is because Biden sided with Maduro to get (cheap) Venezuela oil to try and bring down inflation during his term.
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It is quite interesting that the line I've quoted doesn't appear in the archive version, even tho archive has a timestamp +5hr ahaed of the ZH page. ZH doesn't keep URLs for very long so I usually link to archive on them. History belongs to those who write it.
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Venezuela’s ‘Iron Lady’ Dedicates Nobel Prize to Trump As Maduro’s Death Rattle Gets Louder
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Nobel peace prize officials investigate surge in bets for winner
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A US startup plans to deliver 'sunlight on demand' after dark
The company promises to produce “sunlight on demand” with mirrors that beam sunlight down to Earth so solar farms can operate after sunset. It plans to start with an 18-metre test satellite named Earendil-1 which the company has applied to launch in 2026. It would eventually be followed by about 4,000 satellites in orbit by 2030, according to the latest reports.
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Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we all be worried?
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Rubik's Cube gets a $299 update, complete with IPS screens and its own apps
celebrity gossip
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Revival Among the Techies - Comment Magazine
But what Vanity Fair has deemed the “new religion” isn’t just high-end parties with billionaires. Bay Area pastors are noticing something too. Their neighbours sprinted back into post-pandemic life burned out and screen-addicted, amassing wealth and yet riddled with precarity, wondering whether this was all there was. Eventually, they found themselves in a pew.
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Graffiti art in Canterbury Cathedral ‘belongs in a car park.’
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Blackwater founder calls Pope Leo’s bluff, asks him to fund militia to defend Christians in Nigeria.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education may not track school children
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"My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."
After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old: “My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.” No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”
- Comments assume its AI generated Trumpist proopaganda.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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"MOM and Dad Are Fighting ": Lawsuit That Puts Every Runner's Data at Risk
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Why are runners and riders freaking out about a feud between Strava and Garmin?
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Strava became more of a religion than Apple, early on; and i asusme Garmin was competing on the same level. After all, what's the purpose of excersize if you can't use it as a status flag?
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Microsoft fixes weird bug that's been messing with Windows 11 updates for years
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I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers. What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).
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Windows Update is now carbon aware
Starting with Windows 11, version 22H2, Windows Update is now carbon aware, making it easier for your devices to reduce carbon emissions. When devices are plugged in, turned on, connected to the internet and regional carbon intensity data is available, Windows Update will schedule installations at specific times of the day.
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Microsoft is making Word automatically save new documents to OneDrive by default
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Microsoft execs share a plan to ward off AI coding rivals by overhauling GitHub
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Apple and Google reluctantly comply with Texas age verification law
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Tron: Ares is so bad it makes you wish AI would hurry up and destroy Hollywood
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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The RubyGems “security incident”
Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. First, and most importantly: I was a primary operator of RubyGems.org, securely and successfully, for over ten years. Ruby Central does not accuse me of any harms or damages in their post, in fact stating “we have no evidence to indicate that any RubyGems.org data was copied or retained by unauthorized parties, including Mr. Arko.” The actions I took during a time of great confusion and uncertainty (created by Ruby Central!) were careful, specific, and aimed to defend both Ruby Central the organization and RubyGems.org the service from potential threats.
Once I understood the situation, I backed off to let Ruby Central take care of their “security audit”. I left all accounts in a state where they could recover access. I did not alter, or try to alter, anything in the Ruby Central systems or GitHub repository after that. I was confident, at the time, that Ruby Central’s security experts would quickly remove all outside access. My confidence was sorely misplaced. Almost two weeks later, someone asked if I still had access and I discovered (to my great alarm), that Ruby Central’s “security audit” had failed. Ruby Central also had not removed me as an “owner” of the Ruby Central GitHub Organization. They also had not rotated any of the credentials shared across the operational team using the RubyGems 1Password account. Unbeknownst to me, while I was answering Marty’s email in good faith, Ruby Central’s attorney was sending my lawyer a letter alleging I had committed a federal crime, on the theory that I had “hacked” Ruby Central’s AWS account. On the contrary, my actions were taken in defense of the service that Ruby Central was paying me to support and defend.
- The commercial affiliations make this bitch fight more fun than the usual ones. "Sponsored by!" The root cause of all this is, afaik, the statement by one person that "Shooting Charlie Kirk sucked". They must now have all their work and standing stripped from them.
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(Aug 2025) Trusted Execution Environments? More Like "Trust Us, Bro" Environments
- Computer hardware has not been "trustworthy" since the mid-80s, and even now there are likely to still be secrets from that era still waiting to bite. "Trust is the prerequisite of betrayal"
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Indonesia's film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
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Governments are spending billions on their own 'sovereign' AI technologies
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The Bank of England and the IMF are now warning of the dangers or the AI bubble.
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Companies Overpaying for AI Add to Bubble Risks, Survey Shows
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ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions
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Microsoft, Anthropic Hire Former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
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Gen Z faces 'job-pocalypse' as global firms prioritise AI over new hires
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Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
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Texas community will vote to form a city in effort to quiet crypto mine
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Crypto Sees More Than $3 Billion in Liquidations in Past Hour - Bloomberg
Cryptocurrencies tumbled after US President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on China and export controls on software, with more than $6 billion in positions liquidated within the past hour. The wipeout is the largest since at least early April. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency fell more than 12% after the announcement was made on Trump’s Truth Social platform, before paring the decline. Bitcoin, which recently traded at around $112,000, had reached an all-time high of more than $126,250 on Monday.
Over $7.4 billion in bets on cryptoassets has been wiped out in the past 24 hours with around $6.7 billion and $695 million in long and bearish positions, according data from Coinglass. The liquidations are accelerating with around $6.6 billion in the past four hours after Trump’s announcement.
Economicon / Business / Finance
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JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters
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I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played
- An item I had seen last month for $275 was "sale prived" at $350.
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Remember all that inflation that was transitory, illusion, and never happened? Denominate U.S. stocks in gold rather than dollars, and they've been in decline
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Qualcomm shares fall after China opens antitrust probe into the U.S. chip giant
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Why a maker of spark plugs and wiper blades has Wall Street worried
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They made nothing; they bought invoices from people who did the making. which allowed them to "sell their product" multiple times without delivering; the magic of financialization.
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Billions of Dollars 'Vanished': Low-Profile Bankruptcy Rings Wall Street Alarms
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The Mysterious Billionaire Boss at Jane Street Smashing Trading Records
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Digital euro could drain up to 700B euros of deposits in bank run, ECB says
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Trump
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Administration begins layoffs of federal workers amid government shutdown
- All that angst about "Trump can't fire anyone!" and they then give him a blank check to fire everyone. Its long been obvious the Left's goals have nothing to do with what they claim. It's time to start asking what goals these actions might actually be serving.
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Trump Hits China With Additional 100% Tariff, export controls on some software
Left Angst
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US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport
Within hours of being named at Trump's roundtable, Mark Bray, the self-proclaimed ANTIFA historian and Rutgers professor, announced he was leaving the country. Bray's panic was revealing — because just after his name came up, Stop Cop City posted an official response on a well-known anarchist website, calling on supporters to join new "No Kings" protests nationwide.
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The All American Halftime Show: TPUSA to Counter Super Bowl Halftime Show With Their Own.
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Shutdown Pain Ripples Through US Economy with No Deal in Sight
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Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian'
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US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians
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UPS disposing of U.S.-bound packages due to new tariff rules
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Analysis: US retreat on offshore wind opens door to Chinese domination of market
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The authors added that the study has limitations including that 11 states did not report emergency Medicaid spending and that the analysis did not account for other public spending on undocumented immigrants.
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MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding
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Trump administration has killed a massive solar power project in Nevada
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So scary! Adult Reciprocal Tariffs Parody Costume
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The Letitia James Indictment Falls Short
I’m unaware of the federal government having previously charged anyone for fraud based on renting out a second home. Yet that’s what we have with the Letitia James mortgage fraud indictment.
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New Rules. That we now follow. Suck on it, Democrats. You get what you paid for.
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And thus the ratchet clicks and civil society vanishes. The Right took up "tit for tat!" just after the first attempt to kill Trump; the first thing they did was purge their own ranks of anyone who doubted the wisdom of "game theory" in public. "We win if we enforce their rules!" is stupid when you allow someone else to define the rules, but they din't wanna hear that.
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Washington Post Suddenly Decides Prosecuting Political Enemies is a Bad Idea.
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Fascism Can't Mean Both A Specific Ideology And A Legitimate Target
I found myself able to see things from both perspectives.
From Newsom’s perspective: Miller subscribes to some type of far-right nationalism. And fascism is a type of far-right nationalism. Whether or not these are the exact same type of far-right nationalism is a taxonomic argument, much like whether some particular long slimy toothy fish should be classified as an eel. Not every long slimy toothy fish is necessarily an eel, but it seems unwise to pre-emptively rule out the possibility.
From Miller’s perspective: people absolutely use “fascist” as a synonym for “person who it is acceptable to hurt because of their politics”. The signature of a mod on a bulletin board I used to frequent - back in the days of bulletin boards, mods, and signatures - was “If I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists” - an apocryphal Spanish Civil War quote popularized by a hit rock song. A popular left-wing t-shirt, cap, and protest sign is “Make Fascists Afraid Again”.
it seems like a factual claim that might be true - even if you don’t think it’s true now, it obviously has the potential to be true in the future - and we shouldn’t ban people from asserting true claims.
- Unless they conflict with the current narrative. I thought requiring corporations to police speech without laws to that effect, without public disclosure of the reasons, was pretty fascist, but that was in service of defending Biden's image so i guess it was all OK. Anyone think the media is being pressured now to talk nice about Trump?
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Only 8 out of 55 EPA scientists that studied "forever chemical" toxicity remain
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Indian immigrant fights deportation; police mistake perfume 'Opium' for narcotic
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RFK Jr pushes fringe claim linking autism to circumcision
- How about we just not mutilate children at all? After they're teenagers they can whittle on themselfs as the please, but lets not do it to babies, k?
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A Expensive Way to Reduce Crime
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NY subways, anyone?
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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Air Force's AI ambitions mean simplifying its tangle of networks
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Detroit's Gordie Howe bridge is poised to open as truck traffic to Canada slows
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Multiple people dead or missing after blast at Tennessee explosives plant
A huge explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant on Friday morning has left multiple people dead or missing, according to a county sheriff, as first responders said secondary blasts initially forced rescuers to keep their distance from the burning site. The powerful blast ripped through the explosives manufacturing plant in rural Tennessee on Friday morning, rattling homes miles away and bringing the emergency services dashing to the scene, authorities and residents said. The incident happened at Accurate Energetic Systems near the town of Bucksnort, about 60 miles south-west of Nashville, the Hickman county sheriff’s office said. The agency asked people in a social media post to avoid the area to allow responders to do their work. There were casualties and injuries related to the explosion, but the Tennessee emergency management agency was not yet sharing any numbers early on Friday afternoon because the state department of health hasn’t confirmed them, spokesperson Kristin Coulter said by telephone. Humphreys county sheriff Chris Davis said at a press conference that there were “several people at this time unaccounted for”. “We do have some that are deceased, he said, adding: “We are trying to be mindful of families and that situation.”
At least 13 people remain unaccounted for, Hickman County Mayor Jim Bates told ABC News. Nineteen employees were inside the building at the time, and every one remains unaccounted for, Humphreys County EMA Director Odell Poyner told WKRN.
World
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Shein's arrival at BHV in Paris sparks outrage among store's suppliers
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Japan tightens requirements for business manager visa beginning next week
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UK funded radio show to sway Nigerian voters, leaked docs show
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Finland's trial of men charged over Baltic Sea cable damage hits choppy waters
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Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
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Germany: Mayor tortured for hours in basement by her own adopted daughter
The story of the Social Democrat (SPD) mayor from Herdecke, Iris Stalzer, has taken yet another incredible turn. New information now reveals that her 17-year-old adopted daughter reportedly tortured Stalzer for hours, nearly killing her own mother. Despite these details, the daughter still has not been arrested. Numerous German media outlets, including Spiegel, also reported that police were called to the house not so long before this latest attack during the summer. In that case, the daughter was accused of domestic violence and threatening the mother with a knife. The case is not only unbelievable due to the details, but also due to the prosecutor’s response to the entire affair. Instead of an attempted murder charge or charges for evidence tampering or even torture, which is also illegal in Germany, there is no arrest warrant being issued at all. The prosecutor alleges that because the daughter called the police, it is clear that she did not want to commit murder. Instead, they are only investigating the case as “bodily harm.” ustrian right-wing political activist Martin Sellner wrote that Germans are being imprisoned for memes, while the daughter in this case will never appear before a court for her alleged heinous crimes. He wrote that it is clearly a case of “two-tier” justice. The daughter and the son were transferred to the Youth Welfare Office instead of prison. When asked why the two suspects were not being transferred to the father, the prosecutor remarkably said that the father has also been the victim of violence by the daughter in the past. In other words, this is a pattern, and presumably even more reason to charge her for the hours-long torture of her mother.
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Google, Meta and Microsoft opts to stop showing political ads in EU
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What Jihad al-Shamie's three wives tell us about terror (Archive)
The moment a police marksman ended his life, Shamie was married to three women. However, the crime of bigamy, which carries a seven-year sentence under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, did not apply here, since at least two of the marriages were conducted only under sharia law. Besides, Shamie wasn’t a big believer in bigamy. “In Islam a man can have up to 4 wives,” he texted Wife Two, whom he had not told about Wife One, “but these days most women don’t accept it.” What do the three wives, now widows, of Shamie tell us about why he turned to terrorism? A jarring phrase recurs in news reports: “There were no signs of extremism”. Really? No signs except that he was violently manipulating the women in his life under the aegis of Islam, including via rape, a crime for which he was on bail at the time of the synagogue attack.
Iran / Houthi
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Conversion Therapy for real: Iran Lures Transgender Foreigners for Surgery but Forces Operations on Locals - The New York Times
Iran is one of the few places in the Muslim world that allows transgender people to seek gender-affirming care, and even subsidizes it. For many foreigners traveling to Iran for transition surgery, and indeed for many transgender Iranians, these operations can feel lifesaving. But the country’s reputation as a pioneer in the field belies the abusive history of the operations and the grim reality for most L.G.B.T.Q. people there.
In Iran, gay men and lesbians can be punished by public flogging and the death penalty. As a result, the United Nations Human Rights Council found, many gay and lesbian Iranians who are not trans are “pressured into undergoing gender reassignment surgery without their free consent.”
Israel
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Israeli Cabinet approves Trump's plan for Gaza ceasefire and release of hostages
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How A Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel's 3D propaganda videos
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Microsoft engineer resigns over cloud business from Israeli military
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No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza's wounded orphans
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Gazans Celebrate Peace Deal with a Chant That Should Raise Eyebrows, But Won’t
One group of Gazans was captured on video chanting “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya Yahood, jaish Muhammad sa yaoud.” That is, “Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.”
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Tigers as Deities: How Indian Tribes View Big Cats Beyond Conservation
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I.U.C.N. Updates Its Red List on the Global Status of Wildlife
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Canadian marine park warns it may have to euthanize beluga whales - UPI.com
A shuttered Canadian amusement park said that without an infusion of cash it will have to euthanize 30 beluga whales after a government official blocked it from sending the marine mammals to a Chinese theme park.
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The only named storm to make landfall in the U.S. so far this year was Tropical Storm Chantal. Torrential rainfall triggered flash flooding in North Carolina over the Independence Day holiday weekend. AccuWeather® experts estimate the flooding damage, tourism losses and total damage and economic loss from Tropical Storm Chantal at $4 billion to $6 billion. AccuWeather® hurricane experts say the last time the United States went through September without a hurricane landfall was in 2015. The 2013, 2010, 2009, 2006, 2002, 2001 and 2000 Atlantic hurricane seasons also passed without a single U.S. hurricane landfall through September.