China's military kicked off joint exercises involving its army, navy, air force and rocket force around Taiwan as a "stern warning," days after USSECDEF Pete Hegseth vowed to counter "China's aggression" on his first visit to Asia. read more
Florida's orange juice industry is getting squeezed by hurricanes, citrus disease, and changing consumer tastes as the state reveals what is expected to be its smallest crop in 95 years. read more
An early toxic algae bloom off the coast of Southern California is killing or sickening hundreds of sea lions, dolphins and seabirds, while forcing rescuers to make tough choices about "which animals to save." read more
A shooting involving a bus driver and passengers on a Miami-Dade Transit bus left two men dead early Sunday in a suburb north of Miami. "Preliminary investigation revealed the operator from the bus got into a verbal dispute and fired several rounds in the bus, striking and killing two passengers," Miami Gardens police said. The victims were airlifted to Aventura Hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead from their wounds. In an average year, 3,038 people die and 6,358 are wounded by guns in Florida which has some of the loosest firearms laws in the US. These are wartime casualty figures. Between 7 Oct 2001 and 30 Aug 2021, the US lost a total of 2,459 military personnel in Afghanistan. The Sunshine State loses more people in one year to gun violence than the total 20 years of fighting the Taliban and HQN in Afghanistan. read more
Customers of 23andMe are rightly concerned about what could happen to their DNA profiles now that the ancestry-research company has filed for bankruptcy. "It looks like it's up for grabs," he said of the genetic information. "And there doesn't really seem to be any parameters regarding its use." After a customer provides a saliva sample, DNA-testing companies like 23andMe provide a profile of a person's genetic heritage. Police used forensic genetic genealogy to solve crimes. 23andMe had a data breach in 2023 and paid out $30 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. Under bankruptcy, the company's DNA database of more than 15 million customers could potentially be sold as an asset. Note that oligarch Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study. Link: www.theregister.com read more
#14 Hi Donnerboy: Concur. My first commander in the US Army was a 7th SFG(A) Major and a black belt in judo. He taught me this: "If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it in the dictionary between the words shht and syphilis." I have ZERO sympathy for the Politburo that we in the US call Congress: cdn.theatlantic.com
Coming from USDJ Beryl Howell, this must have been a bitter pill to swallow. Gee, I wonder what will become of that property one day? cms.qz.com
US national security is completely at rock bottom. Again, thank you Republican voters for turning America into a vassal state of the Russian oligarchs headed by Vladimir Putin. Gut arbet! cdn.images.express.co.uk
#17: I don't recall if the USG charged white supremacist Patrick Crusius under terrorism laws for killing 23 people and intending on killing more, which would have created parallel prosecution against him. But in the case of Luigi Mangione who killed only one man, the USG is prosecuting him as well when the Empire State's law are sufficient for the task (Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office): png.pngtree.com
Racist white Americans, MAGAts, and hillbillies also decry the "cultural invasion" of the US: images.hindustantimes.com
Yes, no longer does Israel hold the monopoly on the term "genocide." This link is one of dozens from the UN (Amnesty Intl and Human Rights Watch also have several reports): news.un.org
"Mr. President, if you look to the right, you'll see the building from where Stephen Paddock killed 59 people."
"Can't you see I'm busy?" www.laprogressive.com
Brazen, panoptic crimes are taking place left and right, 24/7 under the Trumpf junta. Thank you Republican voters for allowing a kettle of vultures pick clean the bones of America's resources: thumbs.dreamstime.com
Dead zones in the world's seas are increasing from rising ocean temperatures and pollution: www.cbc.ca
Some historians will argue the first US (and UK) betrayal was the post-WWII repatriation of anti-Stalinist Cossacks to the USSR. Stalin wanted revenge on them and FDR and Churchill agreed to this at the Yalta Conference. The US called it Operation Keelhaul. One of the Cossacks was the elderly General Pyotr Krasnov. These Cossacks in an Austrian lager fought back furiously knowing that Stalin would have them killed once they were in the USSR: media1.faz.net