RFK Jr. spreads vaccine misinformation during congressional testimony
RFK Jr. casts doubts on vaccines, clashes with Democrats over Covid shot access
Kennedy said he supports a statement made by a newly appointed member of a key government vaccine panel that mRNA vaccines pose a dangerous risk to people.Annika Kim Constantino (CNBC)
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French women's boxing team barred from world championships after late gender tests
French women's boxing team barred from world championships after late gender tests
The team had traveled to the United Kingdom to undergo genetic sex tests that are banned in France but newly mandatory under the championships' regulations.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
Australian environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show
Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show
Documents tabled in NSW parliament show state agency took four years to publish report and told miners it would be put online ‘quietly’ but EPA says it was released to community earlierNatasha May (The Guardian)
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Some call it hypocrisy, others digressive victimhood, and others “my boss.”
Let's end our current oppressor, one despot at a time.
One Piece: How a cartoon skull became a symbol of defiance in Indonesia
One Piece: How a cartoon skull became a symbol of defiance in Indonesia
Some lawmakers say the black skull flags from the Japanese anime One Piece threaten national unity.Kelly Ng (BBC News)
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Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants
What do warmongers and strongmen chat about? Living forever, of course.
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American APCs packed with explosives become key IDF weapon in Gaza war
In recent days, the IDF has significantly increased its use of explosive-laden armored personnel carriers (APCs), that are composed of older M113 models rigged with explosives, which can also be operated remotely, as part of preparations for a ground maneuver in the heart of Gaza City.
At the onset of the War, the IDF’s Technological and Logistics Directorate developed a method to repurpose these APCs into offensive weapons. They are loaded with large quantities of explosives and then transported into the Gaza Strip and detonated remotely.
More recently, reports have surfaced regarding the development of explosive barrels that can be dropped by the APCs along streets lined with mines, amplifying their destructive impact. The force of these explosions is so intense that they can be heard over 100km. away from the Gaza Strip.
IDF repurposes old APC into giant bombs | The Jerusalem Post
The IDF’s Southern Command has tripled the use of armored personnel carriers (APCs) during ground maneuvers, but in a new and explosive way.The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees
Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees
A classified Israeli army database indicates that the vast majority of the 6,000 Palestinians who have been arrested in Gaza are civilians.Jonathan Adler (+972 Magazine)
In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases
In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases
Ten judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court needs to explain its rulings better, with some urging Chief Justice John Roberts to do more to defend the judiciary against external criticism.Lawrence Hurley (CNBC)
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Legendary Italian designer Giorgio Armani dies
Legendary Italian designer Giorgio Armani dies
The fashion designer was the archetype of Italian style and elegance, reimagining men's and women's suits.Annabel Rackham (BBC News)
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At least 60 dead after boat sinks in Nigeria, officials say
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At least 60 dead after boat sinks in Nigeria, officials say
Niger State emergency rescue officials said the overloaded vessel sunk after striking a submerged tree stump.Al Jazeera
Bomb blast kills 15 near political rally in Pakistan
Pakistan: Bomb blast kills 15 near political rally in Quetta
The suicide bomber failed to reach the main rally venue due to tight security, authorities say.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
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Lisbon funicular crash: Portugal declares day of mourning as death toll rises to 17
Portugal has declared a day of national mourning after at least 17 people were killed and 21 others injured when one of Lisbon’s famous funicular cars derailed and crashed into a building on Wednesday evening.
Those killed on the Glória funicular were all adults, according to Margarida Castro Martins, the head of the city’s civil protection agency.
She said the victims’ families would be informed before any names or nationalities were released, but confirmed that those injured in the crash included Portuguese people as well as two Germans, two Spaniards and one person each from Canada, Cape Verde, France, Italy, Morocco, South Korea and Switzerland.
Lisbon funicular crash: Portugal’s PM vows swift and thorough investigation
Luís Montenegro describes incident, in which 16 people died, as ‘one of the biggest tragedies in our recent history’Sam Jones (The Guardian)
This saddens me greatly. I was in Lisbon about a year ago and rode one of these.
If you don’t know what a funicular is, it’s a very short-range tram that’s specifically designed to take you up or down a certain hill. Lisbon has a lot of steep hills and even cliffs. There is at least one vertical pedestrian elevator that takes you up from one street to another.
Because each hill is different, each funicular is a little different. The incline differs so the shape of the tram car body differs, and the track may curve up the hill or not. They go for different lengths and have different sizes. So each is special and they end up being quite charming and emblematic of the city. If you know the celebrated cable cars of San Francisco, it’s not far off.
Really terrible to hear this news. And as far as I can tell, I rode the very one that crashed with my brother and 8yo son while I was there. My heart goes out to the city and to the families of the victims.
Israeli Drones Seen Above Flotilla of 50 Humanitarian Aid Ships En Route to Gaza
Israeli Drones Seen Above Flotilla of 50 Humanitarian Aid Ships En Route to Gaza | - IMEMC News
Yasemin Acar describes the drone that hovered over the Sumud Freedom Flotilla at midnight (Tuesday night/Wednesday morning) as a form of psychological warfa ...IMEMC News (- IMEMC News)
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reminder, there are no international laws or agreements banning aid from entering.
there are international laws allowing them to enter.
and any attack on the flotilla on international or Gazan waters is not only a serious war crime, but straight up high seas piracy.
It is mind blowingly insane that European countries, most of them NATO, are cool with a rogue genocidal national practicing high seas piracy in the Mediterranean.
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Not only they are cool, they are helping them
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Israeli Air Force aircraft tracked over the central Mediterranean last night
Last night several Israeli Air Force assets were tracked over the central Mediterranean. Some of them landed, while others orbited in flight.itamilradar (ItaMilRadar)
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Europe is now Ukraine's main source of military support
Europe is now Ukraine's main source of military support
According to Germany's Kiel Institute, Europeans have provided approximately $95 billion in military aid to Kyiv, compared with $75 billion from Washington. Most of the weapons, however, continue to be manufactured in the United States.Emmanuel Grynszpan (Le Monde)
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Moroccan feminist activist Ibtissame Lachgar gets 30 months in jail for 'offending Islam'
Moroccan feminist activist Ibtissame Lachgar gets 30 months in jail for 'offending Islam'
A court in Rabat convicted Ibtissame Lachgar, one of the leading figures of Moroccan feminism, for posting a photo of herself wearing a T-shirt that read 'Allah is lesbian.'Le Monde with AP (Le Monde)
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Insane that people are downvoting you especially considering that the post is literally about a woman being unfairly jailed due to Islam’s core values and principles.
So tired of such an oppressive religion getting babied by wayward leftists, and encouraged by alt-right fascists.
I mean, I understand why trying to meet a guy doing a bad thing and appealing to them to stop doing said thing might sound like a good action.
That said if the Pope was meeting Hitler em, wait a second...
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Ok, nervermind.
Vatican documents show secret back channel between Pope Pius XII and Hitler
A series of recently opened Vatican archives are shedding new light on the relationship between Pope Pius XII and Hitler as he led Nazi Germany during World War II. A new book takes a deeper look at these revelations.PBS News Hour (PBS News)
Old master painting looted by Nazis recovered a week after being spotted in Argentinian property listing
Old master painting looted by Nazis recovered a week after being spotted in Argentinian property listing
Portrait of a Lady by the Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi handed over by daughter of the late Nazi financier Friedrich KadgienFacundo Iglesia (The Guardian)
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Maybe the linked article changed since it was posted? That's the story I read yesterday, but the article I see posted says:
It was handed over on Wednesday to the Argentinian judiciary by the daughter of the late Nazi financier Friedrich Kadgien, Patricia Kadgien, who has been under house arrest with her husband since Tuesday.
Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote
Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote
Police say there is no evidence of foul play, ahead of local elections in western Germany.Paul Kirby (BBC News)
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They want a market free from antitrust enforcement.
Preferably one with barriers to entry for new players.
Luckily for them that is exactly what they have. Or exactly as they have engineered I should say.
Argentina: Nazi-looted Italian painting recovered
Canada's budget will focus on austerity and investment, says PM Carney
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday that the upcoming federal budget would focus on both austerity and investments, adding that current government spending was unsustainable.
Canada has been dealing with economic uncertainty since the start of the year, so the primary focus of the budget will be to cut operational spending and trigger investments into major projects, Carney told reporters in Toronto.
"It's a budget of austerity and investment at the same time and that's possible if you have discipline," he said
Say that to people who are about to get austered, just to make Carney's banker golf buddies a little wealthier.
We Americans know where this goes, and after Obama, I'm not willing to acknowledge this bullshit notion that one side is better because it's more publicly polite.
Oh, I certainly do: Watching Democrats and Republicans vote exactly the same way. Just wait, the Democrats are about to decline to shut down Donald's government again, and then see if you can still gaslight yourself into thinking there's any real difference.
Imagine having the power to limit fascism, even temporarily, and just saying: "Nah, don't feel like it."
That's the Democratic Party.
What the fuck are you talking about? Both sides are bad but only one is actively rounding up legal immigrants and sending them to concentration camps or El Salvador. They are not the same.
There are shades of grey here that you seem unable to comprehend. One party is measurably better than the other.
Picking the less worst option over the actual worst option are both roads that lead to the same place, one is a little longer and has better scenery, but the destination you end up at is the same either way.
Picking either one means you're going the wrong direction entirely.
Losing $5 and losing $100 are both bad but I know which one I'd pick. They are not equal and insisting they are is what led us here today.
The better solution is not to lose any money at all, and in the long term that's the goal. But in the mean time I'll pick $5 every time.
'Front runner' to be North Korea's next supreme leader makes international debut in China
- Kim Jong Un's daughter seen as potential successor
- Ju Ae gains protocol experience on first overseas trip
- South Korean intelligence sees Ju Ae as likely successor
SEOUL, Sept 3 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his teenage daughter to Beijing this week in her first public outing overseas, fuelling further speculation that she may be his potential successor in the family's dynastic rule over the nuclear-armed state.
Secretive North Korea has never revealed her name or age, but South Korean intelligence officials believe she is the daughter identified as Ju Ae by former American basketball player Dennis Rodman
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What to know about Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang as Trump justifies attack
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This will never be anything other than an "alleged" drug trafficking boat. All they had to do in order to make this believable, was to capture the boat. Instead, they blew it up, along with all the evidence that would have proven their claims, and justified their presence there.
Why is it that everything the Trump administration does, is done in the sketchiest way possible? It's like they're going out of their way to prove they have no credibility.
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EU Commission approves 'milestone' Mercosur, Mexico deals
Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle ageDenis Campbell (The Guardian)
What are the most upbeat songs with kind of depressing lyrics?
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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I believe that's the same for every planet. And every moon. For every orbit.
Its just that the barycenter is inside the more massive object when one is much more massive than the other. Not that this makes much of a difference to anything.
LOL - After being called out for a blatantly racist comment, OP removed his link and edited the subject to blame the mods.
Doing a proper removal.
Thailand's ruling party seeks snap election to thwart rival's PM bid
- Ruling party targets house dissolution as rival gains crucial support
- Renegade party Bhumjaithai wins support of largest force in parliament
- Thailand in deadlock for days since PM's dismissal by court
- Dominant Shinawatra dynasty's struggling to win backing to rule
BANGKOK, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The leader of Thailand's Bhumjaithai Party said on Wednesday he had enough votes to become prime minister after winning over the biggest group in parliament, as the ruling party moved to block his path by petitioning the king to approve a snap election.
There has been a dramatic scramble for power in Thailand since Friday's sacking of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra by a court, with Pheu Thai, the long dominant ruling party of the billionaire Shinawatra political dynasty, clinging on desperately to avert a humiliating fall from grace.
UK Deputy PM fights to save her career after admitting underpaying tax
- Rayner admits underpaying tax on new home
- She refers herself to government's ethics adviser
- Opposition politicians call for PM to fire her
- Starmer offers her his support
LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner was fighting for her political future on Wednesday after acknowledging she had underpaid property tax owed when she bought an apartment in a southern English seaside resort.
UAE official warns Israel West Bank settlement plans cross 'red line'
- Annexation in West Bank would undermine spirit of normalisation accords with Israel, UAE envoy tells Reuters
- UAE's criticism touches on Israeli plans to build settlement dividing West Bank
- Far-right Israeli minister says maps being drafted for annexing territory in West Bank
DUBAI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates warned Israel on Wednesday that annexation in the occupied West Bank would constitute a "red line" for Abu Dhabi that would severely undermine the spirit of the Abraham Accords that normalised UAE-Israeli relations.
The comments by the UAE, the most prominent of the three Arab states that signed the accords with Israel when President Donald Trump was first in office, amounted to Abu Dhabi's sharpest criticism of Israel since the Gaza war erupted in 2023, when Hamas launched its cross-border raid from the enclave.
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Russia says it captures 'about half' of Ukrainian city Kupiansk, Kyiv denies report
MOSCOW, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that its troops had captured "about half" of the city of Kupiansk in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, but Ukraine's military denied any such advance.
Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield reports from either side.
Kupiansk has been the focus of months of increased Russian military activity and heavy fighting. Russian troops captured the city in the early weeks of their February 2022 invasion and Ukrainian forces took it back later that same year.
Much of the city has been destroyed as Moscow tries to seize it back as part of a slow advance westward along parts of the 1,000-km (620-mile) long frontline.
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in reply to Davriellelouna • • •Off to a terrible start with the WBO apparently. I'm so freaking tired of hearing about 'gender testing.'
This event is on today (like it's halfway through day 1 right now), so this is a super last minute decision.
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