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 (Sep 18 2024) - Jakarta Post : Exploding Hezbollah pagers kills 9
LEBANON : 100's of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon, killing at least 9 people & wounding around 2,800 in blasts the Iran-backed militant group blamed on Israel. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the explosions, which came just hours after Israel announced ...
(Sep 17 2024) - SCM Post : What are the risks for China ...
CHINA : With the Ukraine war entering a critical stage, there are growing signs that China and U.S. might be readying to take their gloves off on the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II. The US & allies are weighing whether to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia.
(Sep 16 2024) - Nagaland Post : Plot to kill Prez Maduro
VENEZUELA : Three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen were arrested Saturday after Venezuelan officials accused them of coming to the South American country to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. The arrests were announced on state television by Diosdado Cabello, the nation’s powerful interior minister.
(Sep 15 2024) - Christian Post : Pope rebuked by clergy
SINGAPORE : During a three-day visit to Singapore, Pope Francis declared that “all religions are a path to God,” sparking backlash among religious leaders in the U.S. The statement was made at an interreligious meeting with young people at a Catholic junior college shortly before his departure back to Rome.
(Sep 14 2024) - Psy Post : Women more genetically prone to PTSD
VIRGINIA : A new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry has revealed that women may be at a higher genetic risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder compared to men. This study, led by Virginia Commonwealth University & Lund University, is the largest study on PTSD conducted to date.
(Sep 13 2024) - Activist Post : How to Really End ESG
U.S.A. : ESG investing poses a grave threat to the principles that lifted billions out of poverty. It neither does much good nor performs very well. Therefore, it must end. So asserts Ending ESG, a collection of essays edited by Phil Gramm & Terrence Keeley. Gramm, a former Republican senator & economics professor, and ...
(Sep 12 2024) - Daily Post : Bandits block Zamfara highway ...
ZAMFARA : Armed bandits have blocked the Gusau-Funtua highway in Zamfara State, kidnapping a number of travelers in an early-morning attack Thursday. Eyewitnesses report that the bandits, riding on about 50 motorcycles with 3 persons each, mounted a roadblock around the Tazame axis of the highway around 7:00 am ...
(Sep 11 2024) - First Post : Taylor Swift will pay a price ...
WASH D.C. : After lashing out at Kamala Harris and journalists for fact-checking him, Donald Trump has turned to his next foe: Taylor Swift. After the pop star endorsed Harris following the Tuesday’s presidential debate, Trump said Swift will “pay a price for her endorsement”. In a post on Instagram, Swift said ...
(Sep 10 2024) - Guam Post : COR 3 declared as tropical storm
GUAM : Gov. Guerrero has placed Guam under Condition of Readiness 3 "out of an abundance of caution" as a tropical storm is expected to pass by Tues evening. After the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office Guam issued continuing updates regarding the passage of Tropical Disturbance Invest 95W on Monday,
(Sep 09 2024) - Palm Beach Post : Trump leads eroding ???
SOUTHERN STATES : A day before a high-stakes debate showdown, a voter survey showed Kamala Harris winnowing Trump's lead in 2 key southern battleground states. In North Carolina, the Florida Atlantic University-Mainstreet Research poll found Trump held just a 1%-point lead, 48% - 47%, among likely voters ...
(Sep 08 2024) - Orissa Post : Monkeypox case under investigation
NEW DELHI : The gov't said that suspected Monkeypox has been ID'd in a young male in the country, who's been isolated in a designated hospital & was under investigation. Stressing there's no cause for alarm, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare said that a young male patient, who recently travelled from ...
(Sep 07 2024) - Kenyan Post : Victims of human trafficking
NAIROBI : As detectives intensify their pursuit of undocumented foreign nationals sneaking into the country for unestablished businesses, 11 male suspects have been rounded up in Kitale in an intelligence-led operation conducted by the DCI Operation Support Unit. The eleven who were headed to Nairobi's Eastleigh area ...
(Sep 06 2024) - Indianapolis Post : Facing threat from China ...
TOKYO : To fortify its deterrence on southwestern islands against China's increasing threat, Japan's Defense Ministry demanded a record 8.5 trillion yen budget for 2025. Defense officials focused on unmanned weapons & AI to compensate for the declining number of servicemembers due to shrinking population.
(Sep 05 2024) - Pittsburgh Post : Red light cameras one step closer
PITTSBURGH : Red light cameras are one-step closer to being installed in Pittsburgh intersections in an effort to make the city’s roadways safer. Pittsburgh City Council gave preliminary approval to a measure that would make Pittsburgh the 6th city to implement the automatic red light enforcement program.
(Sep 04 2024) - National Post : Interest rate cut again
OTTAWA : The Bank of Canada delivered its 3rd consecutive interest rate cut Wed, bringing its key lending rate to 4.25%. The quarter percentage point rate cut was widely expected by forecasters, given ongoing softness in the economy & easing inflation. In his written remarks, governor Tiff Macklem said ...
(Sep 03 2024) - Salina Post : US troops capture ISIS leader
DAMASCUS : U.S. forces, partnered with Syrian Democratic Forces captured an ISIS leader, who was helping ISIS fighters after escape from a Raqqah Detention Facility in Syria, according to the U.S. Central Command. During the early morning hours of Sept. 1, U.S. forces and SDF captured Khaled Ahmed al-Dandal ...
(Sep 02 2024) - Kyiv Post : World Briefing: Sept 2, 2024
ISRAEL : The head of Israel's biggest labour union called for a general strike on Monday to pressure P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu's gov't to bring back Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza, as thousands of protesters took to the streets. Earlier, Israel recovered the bodies of 6 hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza
(Sep 01 2024) - Greanville Post : Why AI misinformation are ...
U.S.A. : So, suppose the laptop statement is one of those used to train the algorithm and the vaccine statement is one of those used to test the algorithm. Then, because the laptop statement is classified as misinformation, the algorithm learns that people who repost or like a tweet with the laptop statement are ...
(Aug 31 2024) - Frontier Post : Chinese ship entered Jap's waters
TOKYO : A Chinese Navy survey vessel briefly entered Japanese territorial waters on Saturday, Japan’s defense ministry said. The ship was detected in Japanese territory off the coast of Kagoshima Prefecture, in the southwest of the country, at around 6 a.m. local time & departed by 7:53 a.m., the ministry said ...
(Aug 30 2024) - Punching Bag Post : Telegram CEO Arrested for ...
FRANCE : Russian-born billionaire Pavel Durov, 39, was arrested last Saturday in France shortly after his private jet landed at the Le Bourget Airport. His crime? Allowing free speech to flourish on Telegram. Durov founded the Telegram messaging service with his brother Nikolai in 2013. Less than a decade later ...
(Aug 29 2024) - Conservatives Post : Law Cracking Down on Guns
MASSACHUSETTES : Massachusetts’ new law known as Chapter 35 (aka) has already caused mass confusion & chaos across the state - that’s before many of its most troublesome aspects have been enforced. The state’s expanded definition of “firearm”, for example, means 100's, if not 1,000's, of models of long guns ...
(Aug 28 2024) - NY Post : Store worker pulls gun on mob
OAKLAND : A laughing horde of bicyclists attacked a California liquor store worker before screaming as the worker pulled a gun on his attackers and fleeing during a chaotic scene. The unidentified employee was standing outside Golden Hours Liquor on International Blvd in Oakland on Saturday when he confronted over ...
(Aug 27 2024) - Bay Post : Mpox changing faster than expected
AFRICA : Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than expected, and often in areas where experts lack the funding and equipment to properly track it. That means there's numerous unknowns about the virus itself, its severity and ...
(Aug 26 2024) - St Joseph Post : Lawsuit seeks to ...
MISSOURI : A pair of Republican state legislators & an anti-abortion activist filed a lawsuit asking a judge to block an abortion-rights constitutional amendment from appearing on the Nov. 5 ballot. State Sen. Coleman, state Rep. Kelly & Forck sued last year challenging the cost for a constitutional amendment
(Aug 25 2024) - Post & Email : Weaponizing Children ...
NEW WORLD ORDER : Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the U.S.A. The long-term plan moves America incrementally from a constitutional republic to ...
(Aug 24 2024) - Saturday Evening Post : News of the Week
AMERICA : Are Late Night Talk Shows Coming to an End? I hope so. I don’t have anything against late night talk shows. I have fond memories watching Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Tom Snyder & Dick Cavett. But the late-night hosts today aren’t Johnny, Dave, Tom, or Dick. What's wrong with today's late-night hosts?
(Aug 23 2024) - Defense Post : Shield AI Demostrates
U.S.A. : Technology company Shield AI has conducted a “groundbreaking” demonstration of coordinated autonomous flight on two Kratos MQM-178 Firejets. The planes were flown by the company’s Hivemind artificial intelligence pilots, collaborating to execute coordinated maneuvers under realistic combat scenarios.
(Aug 22 2024) - Borneo Post : Volcanic eruption grounds flights
WELLINGTON : A volcanic eruption belched a plume of ash that grounded flights in New Zealand today, with gov't scientists warning it could continue venting for “weeks to months”. It's the same White Island volcano that erupted in 2019, killing 22. The island lies about 50 kilometres off New Zealand’s North Island ...
(Aug 21 2024) - Denver Post : Goltra fire shuts down U.S. 6
COLORADO : The Goltra fire, burning on more than 200 acres in Jefferson County, continued to grow overnight, shutting down U.S. 6 along Clear Creek Canyon. Fire officials first reported the lightning-sparked wildfire near Lookout Mountain in Golden Tues & the flames quickly spread across a “guesstimated” 10 acres ...
(Aug 20 2024) - Huff Post : Pro-Palestinian Activists Crash DNC
CHICAGO : Pro-Palestinian activists sought to bring attention to the war in Gaza during President Joe Biden’s speech on the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. According to reporters inside the convention hall, some in the audience held up a banner featuring the colors of the Palestinian flag ...
(Aug 19 2024) - Patriot Post : Vance Elevated Himself ... ???
PHILADELPHIA : About a week ago, I attended a JD Vance rally. It had aspects of one of those rousing Trump “I’m Proud to Be An American” events. There were GOP officials, there were signs announcing things like “Kamala Kaos,” there was a lot of red, white & blue music, including Gloria Gaynor’s ... “I Will Survive.”
(Aug 18 2024) - Goulburn Post : UK diplomat quits ... ???
IRELAND : A British diplomat has resigned from the Foreign Office as he believes the department "may be complicit in war crimes" for continuing to allow arms sales to Israel. Mark Smith, listed as a 2nd sec' in the British embassy in Ireland, wrote in a resignation letter to colleagues that was posted online ...
(Aug 17 2024) - Richardson Post : Opposing Gazan Immigration ...
AUSTRAILIA : Opposition leader Peter Dutton does not believe Australia should be accepting Palestinians from the Gaza war zone at the moment due to national security risks. This would align Australia with Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries that have refused to accept Gazans for the same reason.
(Aug 16 2024) - Scheer Post : Incomprehensible U.S. Bill ...
WASH D.C. : Health officials in Gaza said Thursday that the official death toll from Israel’s 10-month war has topped 40,000, though that is believed to be a vast undercount of the true figure. The grim milestone was reached just days after the Biden admin' greenlit $20 billion in additional weapons sales to Israel ...
(Aug 15 2024) - Bangkok Post : Vietnam jails prominent activist ...
HANOI : A Vietnamese court sentenced prominent activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen to 5 yrs in prison after finding him guilty of anti-state activities in a one-day trial on Thursday, two of his lawyers said. Tuyen, 50, had participated in environmental and anti-China protests, voiced support for other jailed activists, and ...
(Aug 14 2024) - India Post : “That’s laughable” says State Dept ...
WASH D.C. : The U.S. Dept' of State strongly rejected the allegations of the govt’s involvement in former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina’s resignation, terming them ‘laughable’ and ‘absolutely false’ claims. “That’s laughable. Any implication that the U.S. was involved in Sheikh Hasina’s resignation is absolutely false”.
(Aug 13 2024) - Jerusalem Post : Israel readies for Iran attack
ISRAEL : Iran, along with allies such as Hezbollah, said it would launch a direct attack if the Gaza talks fail or (...). Only a ceasefire deal in Gaza (...) would hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on its soil, three senior Iranian officials said.
(Aug 12 2024) - Financial Post : As recession fears soar ...
CANADA : Concerns that one negative shock could tip North America deeper into a downturn sent stocks spiralling last week & investors remain on edge ahead of a week packed with U.S. data. “However, of the myriad risks facing the Canadian economy, we may be able to dial down the concern over one threat” ...
(Aug 11 2024) - Kathmandu Post : New push for a law to ... ???
NEPAL : The gov't is pushing ahead with a law to double the threshold for the representation of the parties in the House of Representatives & provincial assemblies. In the draft bill to Amend & Consolidate the Election Law forwarded to the Election Commission for review, the Ministry of Home Affairs has increased
(Aug 10 2024) - Wash Post : Trump campaign says it was hacked
U.S.A. : Microsoft discovered evidence that Iranian hackers compromised the email account of a former Trump campaign adviser, a person familiar with the matter says. Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said on Saturday that it has been the victim of a foreign hack, after the campaign received questions from news ...
(Aug 09 2024) - Post Millennial : DOJ goes after Hunter Biden
CALIFORNIA : In court documents filed by special counsel David Weiss in the Central Dist' of California on Wed, prosecutors alleged that Hunter Biden, while his father was VP, was paid by a Romanian oligarch to "influence US policy & public opinion." The new allegations come after Biden dropped out of the race ...
(Aug 08 2024) - Huff Post : Tragedy Prevented By Foiling Plot
VIENNA : Both suspects in a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift shows in Vienna appeared to be inspired by the Islamic State group & al-Qaida, authorities said Thursday & investigators found bomb-making materials at one of their homes. One confessed to planning to “kill as many as possible outside the concert venue.”
(Aug 07 2024) - Junction City Post : Trying to hire hitmen
NEW YORK : On Tuesday, a complaint was unsealed in Brooklyn charging Asif Merchant (aka) 46, with murder-for-hire as part of an alleged scheme to assassinate a politician or U.S. government official on U.S. soil. Law enforcement foiled the charged plot before any attack could be carried out.
(Aug 06 2024) - SCM Post : China building internet satellites
CHINA : China started setting up a giant internet satellite constellation by launching the first components of the network on Tuesday afternoon. The 18 communication satellites entered their designated orbits smoothly after lifting off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi province ...
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