Translation:
"Do you remember the first famine in northern Gaza?
When we ate animal fodder, corn, and things not meant to be eaten...
Today, in this famine, even that fodder is nowhere to be found!
From the north to the south, if some goods are available, their prices defy reason and logic,
and on top of that, a suffocating liquidity crisis exceeding 45%!
Fear God for our sake."
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"Let them know that in Gaza, under siege, people are dying every day—starving or being killed by nonstop Israeli airstrikes"
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Grok's reply is "interesting".
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Kurginyan: Caliphatism, but not Iranian nuclear project, is a threat for Israel Rossa Primavera News from RussiaBill Oliver (Rossa Primavera International News)
Brazil's congress passes bill to overhaul environmental regulations
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Britain will lower its voting age to 16 in a bid to strengthen democracy
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Israeli warplanes killed one and wounded at least 20 in a series of airstrikes on Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday. Israel claimed the attack was to 'protect' the minority Druze community in Syria. But there's more to the story.
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Israeli warplanes killed one and wounded at least 20 in a series of airstrikes on Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday. Israel claimed the attack was to ‘protect’ the minority Druze community in Syria. But there’s more to the story.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
The CNT's prisoners will have to thank the politicians for their release, and that to me who am an anarchist, has enormous implications. I would like to walk free thanks to the efforts of my comrades and not due to the philanthropy of someone whom I have to fight tooth and nail as soon as I am out.
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Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern discuss merger to create transcontinental railroad, AP source says
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In the wake of Sayfollah Musallet’s killing, Al Jazeera details past attacks on US citizens and Washington’s response.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
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The CBS cave to Trump continues as the Trump-aligned owners of CBS had the network announce that it will be canceling Late Night With Stephen Colbert in May of 2026.Jason Easley (PoliticusUSA)
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No, I don't think the US military is currently in charge of anything. The leadership is composed of tranny admirals and five star tranny generals and crossdressers and child molesters just like the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
The rank and file (and much of the leadership) are DEI hires that have done nothing but guard poppy fields to create opioid epidemics in White America, lose forever wars in the Middle East that make jews rich, and sacrifice young Americans for Israel.
They're a global embarrassment that maintains what legitimacy they have through the existence of a nuclear arsenal that they deny other countries.
The country has no soul, no conviction, no homogeneity, and would be a global laughingstock in a real war that wasn't a business venture for jewish bankers. Its people can't even agree with each other because the jewish media has divided them with hegelian dialectic and flooded the population with third world invaders to destroy trust and cohesion with the society.
I would trust a family of otters to defend itself better than the United States, because when the Boomer generation swallowed the diversity lie it took the only possible source of unity and strength out of the nation. America is now Godless, directionless, and eradicating its own people to avoid being called racist. It's a tax farm for pedophiles. The Taliban won because its people were an actual people, that had something worth fighting for.
Our kids going to war now? Hell, they're mostly brown and uneducated and lack the cognition to properly engage in warfare, but they're dying for a Walmart, a guy fucking their girlfriend back home, a cheeseburger, and a rabbi that wants them dead.
Calm temporarily returns to Syria's Sweida as gov't troops complete pullout-english.news.cn
Microsoft's "digital escorts" earning barely above minimum wage are supposed to supervise highly skilled Chinese engineers maintaining Defense Dept systems. One escort admits: "We really can't tell if what they're doing is malicious." Nothing says national security like bargain-basement oversight! 🤦♂️
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Microsoft employs engineers in China to help maintain Defense Department computer systems, with U.S. citizens serving as "digital escorts" to oversee the foreign workers, according to a ProPublica investigation.slashdot.org
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Michael attempts to have a one-night stand with an attorney whom he doesn't know is not only blind, but the prosecutor who is trying to put his father in jail. Also, Gob gets married on a dare, Maeby pretends to be a girl with a made up disease, and George Sr.'s admirer turns out to be an undercover SEC agent who has truly fallen for him.
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Michael attempts to have a one-night stand with an attorney whom he doesn't know is not only blind, but the prosecutor who is trying to put his father in jail. Also, Gob gets married on a dare…Wow Machine Radio
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The Department of Justice is recommending a one-day sentence for the cop who killed Breonna Taylor in 2020, according to reports. Louisville, Kentucky, police officer Brett Hankison was found guilty of violating Taylor's civil rights last year.Robert Davis (Raw Story)
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"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" will broadcast its final show in May, CBS said ThursdayTim Stelloh (NBC News)
An elite group of Chinese hackers infiltrated the National Guard over nine months, according to a report from NBC News. The Department of Homeland Security initially acknowledged the hack, known by its nickname "Salt Typhoon," in a June memo.Robert Davis (Raw Story)
People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report
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Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound, dies in crash in Italy
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Caitlin Johnstone- The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can nothealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
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Trump offers regulatory relief for coal, iron ore and chemical industries
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while i agree with the conclusion, and, even happily concede the logical reasoning offered is sufficiently acceptable... i cannot abide this misuse of a venn diagram. n_n
perhaps a flow chart would have been a better choice. ;)
(ps, yeah. like i've kept saying. he's their boy).
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We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name. This man walks about the streets and can see and appreciate everything; only he cannot remember who he is. Well, every man is that man in the story. Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself.
It is the only way I can express in words my clear and definite perception that one thing is quite distinct from another; that there is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs. It is the man who talks about "a law" that he has never seen who is the mystic. Nay, the ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. He has so often seen birds fly and lay eggs that he feels as if there must be some dreamy, tender connection between the two ideas, whereas there is none. A forlorn lover might be unable to dissociate the moon from lost love; so the materialist is unable to dissociate the moon from the tide. In both cases there is no connection, except that one has seen them together. A sentimentalist might shed tears at the smell of apple-blossom, because, by a dark association of his own, it reminded him of his boyhood. So the materialist professor (though he conceals his tears) is yet a sentimentalist, because, by a dark association of his own, apple-blossoms remind him of apples. But the cool rationalist from fairyland does not see why, in the abstract, the apple tree should not grow crimson tulips; it sometimes does in his country.
This elementary wonder, however, is not a mere fancy derived from the fairy tales; on the contrary, all the fire of the fairy tales is derived from this. Just as we all like love tales because there is an instinct of sex, we all like astonishing tales because they touch the nerve of the ancient instinct of astonishment. This is proved by the fact that when we are very young children we do not need fairy tales: we only need tales. Mere life is interesting enough. A child of seven is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door and saw a dragon. But a child of three is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door. Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales—because they find them romantic. In fact, a baby is about the only person, I should think, to whom a modern realistic novel could be read without boring him. This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. I have said that this is wholly reasonable and even agnostic. And, indeed, on this point I am all for the higher agnosticism; its better name is Ignorance. We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name. This man walks about the streets and can see and appreciate everything; only he cannot remember who he is. Well, every man is that man in the story. Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself. We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
-GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy
"The letter to Epstein bearing Trump’s name is bawdy. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly 'Donald' below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.
The letter concludes: 'Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.'"
@HiroProtagonist it could be as you say, or it could be real. As I said it'll be interesting to see what comes of his lawsuit. The discovery phase could prove interesting as well, if they actually go to trial. As to why this album appeared now, we would have to first know who gave it to the WSJ and when.
At the end of the day, even if it's 100% true, it's not much more than a curiosity from a time when the two were friends.
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Federal Reserve's Waller says central bank should cut rates at next meeting
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TEHRAN, Jul. 17 (MNA) – Yemen’s Armed Forces have slammed a ballistic missile and four drones into three sensitive Israeli targets after forcing the regime to announce pending closure of one of its key ports.Marzieh Rahmani (Mehr News Agency)
The WSJ has a suspicious exclusive out that Trump wrote a letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday. I call BULLSHIT on this one.
This is “Trump watches Gorilla Channel” levels of fanfiction.
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A Democratic senator is continuing his investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's financial network as President Donald Trump calls on his supporters to move on.Sen.Travis Gettys (Raw Story)
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In a move blasted by The Atlantic's Shane Harris as sheer "pettiness," President Donald Trump prohibited the former Obama administration spymaster from attending the graduation ceremony of a bomb-sniffing dog he sponsored and which was named after hi…Matthew Chapman (Raw Story)
They're all dressed like prostitutes, act like spoiled brats, yet have an impossible standard for men.
Even third world birthrates are gonna take a nosedive. We're done as a species.
The House is poised to OK Trump's $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid
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CBS provoked widespread outrage after suddenly announcing it was cancelling "The Late Show," which comedian Stephen Colbert has hosted since 2015.Carl Gibson (Alternet.org)
Concurrently with the Zionist entity’s attacks on the Gaza Strip, its brutal practices continue in the West Bank. The occupation army is attacking various parts of the region and implementing plans to Judaize religious centers, including the IbrahimDAILY YEMEN
The comments to the video inspired me to play this tune by Paul Jackson. A friend of mine had this rare direct-to-disc record. #Bass
As President Donald Trump tries to distance himself from the Jeffrey Epstein saga, explosive new reporting gives salacious details about the two men's intimate friendship.Robert Davis (Raw Story)
Shane Gillis stuns ESPYs crowd with Epstein joke as he also takes aim at Caitlin Clark and Shedeur Sanders
Comedian Shane Gillis stunned the ESPYs crowd on Wednesday night as he mocked President Donald Trump with a Jeffrey Epstein joke.
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Comedian Shane Gillis stunned the ESPYs crowd on Wednesday night as he mocked President Donald Trump with a Jeffrey Epstein joke.Jake Nisse (Daily Mail)
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#Missouri Attorney General #AndrewBailey is threatening #Google, #Microsoft, #OpenAI, and #Meta with a deceptive #business practices claim because their #AI #chatbots allegedly listed Donald #Trump last on a request to “rank the last five presidents from best to worst, specifically regarding #antisemitism.”
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Missouri state attorney general Andrew Bailey has demanded information from Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google for why their AI chatbots ranked Trump last on a list of how well presidents handled antisemitism.Adi Robertson (The Verge)
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There are legal and philosophical questions to which there is no clear answer, only considerations. How should an AI decide what is right there?
There are freedoms guaranteed in human rights, such as freedom of the press and the right to physical integrity. But what happens when the press calls for war? Which freedom then dominates?
Apparently the attorney general thinks that AI should be politically impartial. Why should it be? If you don't like what it says, stop listening to it.
Or make your own chatbot that agrees with you about everything.
Same with Meta. If you don't like what you read on Facebook and Instagram, stop reading it.
I think what he and others want is not to be publicly disagreed with. If that's what you want, you'll just have to live somewhere other than the USA. We've always teased, laughed at, and otherwise disrespected our elected government officials. That's not going to change.
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A fuzzy "portrait of a graduate" will replace New York's Regents exams.Joanne Jacobs
Stephen Colbert says CBS is ending his 'Late Show' in May 2026
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Clickbaity title on the original article, but I think this is the most important point to consider from it:
After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.Get the picture? The Linux desktop is growing, and it's growing fast.
It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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"The Late Show" franchise will "end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season," CBS said.CBS News
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CBS has announced that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, bringing the show’s historic run—and the Late Show franchise itself—to a close.Jed Rosenzweig (LateNighter)
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The Zohran Mamdani conundrum for moderate Democrats: ‘It’s hard to distance yourself from cool’
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Socialist who has support of far-left Democrats like AOC and Bernie Sanders will meet with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on FridayEric Garcia (The Independent)
Syria's al-Sharaa says authorities are working with Druze leaders to factions to restore order in Sweida.Al Mayadeen English (Al-Sharaa declares protection of Druze a national priority for Syria)
The people who're right more often than not, merely make mistakes at a faster rate...and learn from them.
All skill is really just failing faster than your peers.
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