The Israeli military had advanced notice about a plan by Hamas to raid southern Israel including accurate predictions about the number of hostages the group would seize, a new report has found....
And people should have known Iran was working on ways to help create a distraction for Russia. Hamas had been planning and building up for this attack for a while. They even intentionally chose October 7th which is Putin’s birthday. But I get downvoted all the time as some crazy person for pointing out how easily it was to predict Iran’s proxies were going to act up to help split US attention away from Ukraine.
That take on Pearl Harbor is not historically accurate though. US Naval command had Japanese radio transmissions as well. It was more hubris and incompetence than some secret desire for an excuse to join the war. The US was already preparing for war with Japan. And Japan was crazy enough to skip straight to attacking US Naval command in Hawaii head-on as an opening move. Whereas US command assumed they’d take smaller targets first and try to stretch the fleet across defending many locations.
Japan ironically was both more and less successful than intended because of US mistakes. US carrier groups were sent west out near Wake Island and the Marshall Islands to cut off the attack that was thought to be coming. But Japan sailed around Midway approaching Hawaii from the North. They even had their planes loop around to fly in from the East to cause extra confusion until it was too late. What they found was less resistance than expected because the carriers weren’t there. It didn’t end up being the kinda suicidal knock out blow Yamamoto was going for.
Congress demanded multiple investigations over the years after. They all bore out a similar conclusion that US command and intelligence fucked up. They went looking for the fight in the wrong place. Assuming the attack on Hawaii intelligence had to be a ruse.
All good. It’s a pervasive myth that on the surface seems plausible. There are other examples of what you mentioned that probably were a false flag or manufactured consent. Extending a conspiracy like that to Pearl Harbor takes a lot of credit away from Yamamoto’s strategic genius.
Under pressure from the Biden administration, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) approved the multibillion-dollar sale despite lingering concerns about the death toll in Gaza....
The House voted on Wednesday to block the U.S. from funding the reconstruction of Gaza, whose destruction was financed by the U.S. to a large degree....
The Nevada Democratic Party is seeking to invalidate the Green Party’s effort to land on the state’s November ballot, arguing it did not gather enough valid signatures to gain ballot access....
Stein is a Russian asset so I for one fully support this move to block her. It’s not even sly. They tried this shit in 2016 and it helped Trump so they’re just running back that same plan.
But sure. If the left in the US exited and showed up to vote it could have taken over the DNC like the tea party did the GOP. I’ve voted Bernie every time I could. Others didn’t. But none of that is relevant to a legitimate action of keeping Jill Stein from helping get Trump elected.
Pandemic accelerated it a lot. Couple projects I was on were to move production lines out of China to Mexico, Malaysia, and India. The move to India was pre-pandemic to avoid Trump tariffs. The other two were during the pandemic to avoid Chinese lockdowns.
You’re correct. We need to plant trees too. Cut fossil emissions asap. But even that likely won’t be enough. Figuring out carbon capture is a worthwhile endeavor.
On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country’s victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country’s national identity....
Russia’s air defense had a backbone of Cold War era tech before the war started. Ukraine has been consistently plinking away at it. Most of it is naturally positioned near borders to prevent penetration. If you sneak past the coverage thins out quickly. Russia is a huge country so it’s also understandable to not have high density coverage throughout.
At one point Russia had a great setup. But that time was long ago. And oil money going to modernization efforts means less yacht money. Air defense also isn’t that critical when you’re mostly concerned about beating up on small countries like Georgia and Chechnya that can’t fight back.
President Joe Biden announced Thursday $3 billion toward identifying and replacing the nation’s unsafe lead pipes, a long-sought move to improve public health and clean drinking water that will be paid for by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law....
Bingo. IF anyone said something it was more like, “it would be terrible if you accidentally blew up this target at these coordinates following this route through Russia’s shit air defense. Why that would be a real shame and potentially piss Russia off.”
Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to trap the west into a total war across the Middle East that would have incalculable consequences for the region and the world, Iran’s top diplomat in the UK has claimed, in his first interview since Tehran launched an unprecedented missile and drone attack against Israel at the weekend....
Well Iran did start this latest round (using Hamas for plausible deniability) at the request of Russia to make a distraction for Ukraine.
They might have even taken into account Bibi being a monster and going too far in retaliation. That makes attacking Israel the perfect target to split US attention.
So at this point I expect Xi to go after Taiwan as soon as the US election is over. While Russia continues on Ukraine. And Israel does Israel things with Iran goading them on indirectly.
Has nothing to do with Israel. Russia has been asking all their allies for help with supplies or support in Ukraine. This includes Iran. They met multiple times last year. Ultimately Hamas attacked Israel. Hamas doesn’t execute a plan at the scale that happened without Iran knowing. It doesn’t take any propaganda to put these pieces of the bigger puzzle together.
It cost Israel more than $1bn to activate its defence systems that intercepted Iran’s massive drone and missile attack overnight, according to a former financial adviser to Israel’s military....
You’re touching on the most common misconception. Most people would pay less in taxes than they currently do in insurance premiums. The cost of healthcare would go down in the US with single payer. Even the ultra conservative Koch family funded Cato Institute found this to be true.
There is way too much profit motive in the US healthcare system. So much so we pay double what other nations do for some procedures with generally worse outcomes. Last report I saw is the US spends 16% of GDP on healthcare. The next closest nation was Japan at 10%. Yet the US was among the lowest life expectancy of all G20 nations.
Because they wouldn’t admit that. What they did say is costs over next 10 years with single payer would be $36T. Without then admitting the cost of keeping our current setup is estimated at $42T.
Iran intentionally caused all of this when they had Hamas attack in October. The whole point of Hamas starting shit was to derail peace talks between Israel and the Saudis. With one of the main focus areas being an official Palestinian state.
The Biden administration said Friday that is using existing student loan forgiveness programs to cancel another round of student debt, totaling $7.4 billion for 277,000 borrowers....
Cars have nearly nothing to do with this. It started with the industrialization of farming.
Farm towns existed at normal intervals because it took a much larger labor pool to manage them. 200 acres was a lot to manage about 100 years ago. By the 1970’s 400 acres was a normal sized family farm in the US.
Modern machinery can cover nearly 200 acres in a day. There is no reason to have thousands of people per small town anymore. It takes a tiny fraction of that manpower to achieve the same output.
Saw this today, and … well, I’m not going to be so forgiving to people suggesting to vote Third Party rather than vote for Biden. If Trump wants me to do something, and you want me to do that same something, that tells me you’re aligned with Trump.
“But the Trumpian part is that even though, or perhaps because, it may be part of a Trump scam, Knight now too may be on the hook for $175 million as it won’t automatically get out from underneath its own proffered surety.”...
My colleagues and I are all mechanical or industrial engineers. We travel around the country to project sites. I’ll be on a job site and hear all the trades guys saying the most vile shit. And be completely shocked I tell them to knock it off or I’ll tell the general contractor to get someone else out.
The part that pisses me off the most though is how often they’re union members.
Michael Whatley, Donald Trump’s hand-picked Republican National Committee (RNC) chair, lumped in Ukraine with China and Iran when listing the United States’ “aggressive” adversaries on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures....
I’m pretty sure he did. But it was all about campaign funding through the NRA. That little bit of news did slip out a while back. None of the GOP got in trouble. That’s why they don’t care now.
Iran informed the US that it would refrain from responding to the airstrike in which senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders were killed in Damascus if a ceasefire in Gaza is reached, Jadeh Iran reported on Sunday....
Has anyone else the feeling that this will become a very long term thing of needing to protect shipping vessels and that it will affect prices of imported goods for the unforeseeable will rise ?
They’ve been attacking intermittently since 2015. It’s just convenient now to claim they won’t stop because of Israel. They’ll keep going until Iran wants them to stop. Which won’t be anytime soon even if Israel stops.
I’ve been wondering why so many GOP reps are bailing early. Starting to lean towards internal polling shows them getting smoked.
Trump sucking up all the party funds for legal fees screws those down ticket races. Plus McCarthy is in the background working on revenge against MAGA candidates who forced him out. With Kevin having been the party fundraising champ.
Dumbass could still get an EC win. And the GOP is going to throw every way possible of cheating behind this election. But their chances aren’t looking as good as the news wants to suggest to keep some drama going this far out.
This BTW is how you involve in the story the reality of what the voters think, which is an important portion of election coverage, while still upholding your basic journalistic responsibility to communicate to people what's actually going on.
Immigration fears are pushing centrists to the right in the US and Europe (www.politico.com)
Israeli army knew of Hamas plot to take hostages before 7 Oct (www.newarab.com)
The Israeli military had advanced notice about a plan by Hamas to raid southern Israel including accurate predictions about the number of hostages the group would seize, a new report has found....
Key Democrats approve major arms sale to Israel, including F-15s (www.washingtonpost.com)
Under pressure from the Biden administration, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) approved the multibillion-dollar sale despite lingering concerns about the death toll in Gaza....
Biden's Middle East Policy Is Horrific. Trump's Would Be Even Worse (www.commondreams.org)
House Votes to Block U.S. Funding to Rebuild Gaza (theintercept.com)
The House voted on Wednesday to block the U.S. from funding the reconstruction of Gaza, whose destruction was financed by the U.S. to a large degree....
Nevada Democrats sue to block Green Party from 2024 ballot (thenevadaindependent.com)
The Nevada Democratic Party is seeking to invalidate the Green Party’s effort to land on the state’s November ballot, arguing it did not gather enough valid signatures to gain ballot access....
US defense secretary says war with China neither imminent nor unavoidable, stressing need for talks (apnews.com)
Trump campaign raises record $34.8 million in donations after guilty verdict (www.cnbc.com)
rulegularly check their modlog to remind myself how burnt and sickly the grass is on the other side of the fence (lemmy.cafe)
https://lemmy.cafe/pictrs/image/97660db9-06bb-4a4b-a71a-531125b5486f.webp
Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)
Source: norden.social/
Furiosa director George Miller’s comments on Mad Max game and Hideo Kojima prompt response from Mad Max’s original devs (automaton-media.com)
The world's biggest carbon removal factory just opened in lceland (www.fastcompany.com)
Russia Victory Day parade: Only one tank on display as Vladimir Putin says country is going through 'difficult period' (news.sky.com)
On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country’s victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country’s national identity....
A Ukrainian sport plane drone just flew 800 miles (1300 km) into Russia to blow up an oil refinery (www.forbes.com)
It’s the deepest Ukrainian drone strike of the war, so far...
Boeing training rule (slrpnk.net)
Trump Attacks the Jews as Biden Puts His Foot Down (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Key context:...
Biden unveils $3 billion for nationwide lead pipe replacement (www.cnn.com)
President Joe Biden announced Thursday $3 billion toward identifying and replacing the nation’s unsafe lead pipes, a long-sought move to improve public health and clean drinking water that will be paid for by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law....
Iraq makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in jail (www.theguardian.com)
Amendments to anti-prostitution law also enable courts to sentence trans people to three years in prison...
Texas Gov. Abbott: "We Want To End" Trans And Gender Nonconforming Teachers (www.erininthemorning.com)
Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia (www.economist.com)
I don’t blame them. Ukraine needs to take the war to Russia to win.
Netanyahu aims to trap west into war across Middle East, warns Iranian diplomat (www.theguardian.com)
Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to trap the west into a total war across the Middle East that would have incalculable consequences for the region and the world, Iran’s top diplomat in the UK has claimed, in his first interview since Tehran launched an unprecedented missile and drone attack against Israel at the weekend....
Israel's defence against Iran attack overnight 'likely cost over $1bn' (www.middleeasteye.net)
It cost Israel more than $1bn to activate its defence systems that intercepted Iran’s massive drone and missile attack overnight, according to a former financial adviser to Israel’s military....
Return to monkey then? (lemmy.world)
Don’t sneer at white rural voters — or delude yourself about their politics (www.vox.com)
Iran launches dozens of drones toward Israel (www.jpost.com)
Inb4 lemmy supports Iran
Unequipped and outgunned, Ukrainian military often can’t evacuate its wounded (kyivindependent.com)
The main reason for the absence of medical evacuation is simple and gruesome: The fighting is just too intense....
Biden to forgive $7.4 billion more in student loan debt for 277,000 borrowers (www.cnn.com)
The Biden administration said Friday that is using existing student loan forgiveness programs to cancel another round of student debt, totaling $7.4 billion for 277,000 borrowers....
An Honest Assessment of Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue (newrepublic.com)
We say very clearly that rural America is hurting. But we refuse to justify attitudes that some scholars try to underplay....
Ah, the Nordic spring. (lemmy.world)
Trump allies launch secretive scheme to divide Biden support: report (www.msn.com)
Saw this today, and … well, I’m not going to be so forgiving to people suggesting to vote Third Party rather than vote for Biden. If Trump wants me to do something, and you want me to do that same something, that tells me you’re aligned with Trump.
Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud (www.bbc.co.uk)
unsure why we are surprised lol (lemmy.cafe)
Letitia James to Begin Claiming Donald Trump's Properties (www.newsweek.com)
“But the Trumpian part is that even though, or perhaps because, it may be part of a Trump scam, Knight now too may be on the hook for $175 million as it won’t automatically get out from underneath its own proffered surety.”...
Trump's RNC chair includes Ukraine in list of US adversaries (www.newsweek.com)
Michael Whatley, Donald Trump’s hand-picked Republican National Committee (RNC) chair, lumped in Ukraine with China and Iran when listing the United States’ “aggressive” adversaries on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures....
Iran offers no response to Damascus strike if US secures Gaza ceasefire - report (m.jpost.com)
Iran informed the US that it would refrain from responding to the airstrike in which senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders were killed in Damascus if a ceasefire in Gaza is reached, Jadeh Iran reported on Sunday....
German military vessel intercepts Houthi missile in Red Sea (www.swissinfo.ch)
Has anyone else the feeling that this will become a very long term thing of needing to protect shipping vessels and that it will affect prices of imported goods for the unforeseeable will rise ?
How to know you're in Indiana. (lemmy.world)
Found at a Tipton, IN truck stop.
Trump slow to invest in states that could decide election as some in GOP fear 'skeleton' campaign (apnews.com)
In his bid to retake the White House, few states hold as much promise for Donald Trump as Michigan....
Voters don’t have a clue about how much worse Trump’s second term would be (www.inquirer.com)
This BTW is how you involve in the story the reality of what the voters think, which is an important portion of election coverage, while still upholding your basic journalistic responsibility to communicate to people what's actually going on.