The Middle East is far more complicated than the Western Media reports. Quietly, Saudi Arabia and Jordan support Israel, for they see Iran as a threat even to their sovereignty despite their populations often taking the opposite position. Iran is Shite and maintains that the religion should rule, not kings. If Iran were taken down, they would quietly be celebrating. As the world waits for Israel’s response to Iran, the two main targets remain their nuclear facilities and their energy production. The problem with the nuclear facilities is that Iran has placed them deep under the ground. Israel lacks bunker-type…
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Kamala Harris gives a campaign speech in Flint, Michigan. (Credit: Trump War Room X Screenshot) Michigan is one of the swing states that everyone is watching in this election and for good reasons. The state has 15 votes in the Electoral College and Trump flipped the state red in 2016 after it went blue in the prior six presidential elections. Democrats are not confident that they will pull out a win here with Kamala Harris and they’re expressing these concerns quietly. Michigan is also part of the so-called ‘blue wall’ so if Harris is having trouble there, it’s a red…
Country superstar Garth Brooksis doing what he can to filter commentary and minimize speculation amid reports of sexual assault allegations earlier this week.The “Friends in Low Places” singer made headlines on Thursday, October 3rd, after being hit with a lawsuit alleging sexual assault and battery, by a former employee. The defendant alleges the “series of assaults” took place in 2019. “Jane Doe” alleges the singer had raped her while working as a makeup artist; the incident was said to have occurred on a work trip in a Los Angeles hotel room. The incident reportedly took place as the “One Night…
BEIRUT: Massive consecutive strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs from late Saturday (Oct 5) into Sunday, Reuters eyewitnesses said, sending booms across the city and sparking flashes of red and white for nearly 30 minutes visible from several kilometres away. The strikes came after days of bombing by Israel of Beirut suburbs considered strongholds for Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, killing its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and possibly his potential successor. A Lebanese security source said on Saturday that Hashem Safieddine, the potential successor, had been out of contact since Friday, after an Israeli air strike near the city’s international airport that…
Demonstrators rally, demanding Imran Khan be released from jail despite a ban on protests and police crackdown.Supporters of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan have rallied in Islamabad to push for Khan’s release as the police blocked roads, cut off mobile internet and fired tear gas to deter the protesters. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on Saturday claimed that the party leader from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province, Ali Amin Gandapur, has been abducted and unlawfully detained. But Al Jazeera could not independently verify the claim. Gandapur, the chief minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was leading thousands of protesters who camped…
The Vanderbilt Commodores scored the biggest win in program history on Saturday, upsetting No. 1 ranked Alabama by a 40-35 margin. Vanderbilt led from wire-to-wire, scoring 13 points in the first eight minutes of the game, including a pick-six from Randon Fontenette. While Alabama was able to crawl back into the game and inch closer at times, it was never able to get the lead and simply made too many mistakes throughout the game to catch up.It also did not have an answer for Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia who led his team with a gritty, gutsy effort that included some huge…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Americans love to shop — so much so that NPR devoted an episode of its “Consider This” program to the country’s shopping culture during the second year of the pandemic. But while just a couple of decades ago, shopping meant a trip to the mall, much of the activity has now moved online.Personalized shopping is another area that emerging technologies have transformed. Where personal shoppers used to curate clothes for their clients just a few years ago, artificial intelligence is poised to take their place and reinvent our shopping experience.Related: 5 Innovative…
Bill Gates thinks the ultra-rich should give away their wealth, as he doesRob Liggins/Netflix What’s Next? The future with Bill GatesNetflix When you want to imagine the future, who do you turn to? Friends and family? Science fiction? New Scientist? Now you can check in with Bill Gates, as the Microsoft co-founder and multibillionaire has worked with Netflix on What’s Next? The future with Bill Gates, in which he digs into make-or-break issues: artificial intelligence, misinformation, climate change, income inequality and disease. The five-part series is uneven, though, and the worst instalment is perhaps the first, “What can… Source link
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The high water has receded and much of the chaos has calmed, but it will take weeks if not months before the city’s renowned Biltmore Village returns to prominence.On Saturday, a nearby river was now choked with trash, mud, metal and dirt. Shopping and eating out had become nonexistent.And the tree branches, logs and dumpsters that floated through the river last weekend are in the same place.In fact, many of the features that gave Biltmore its charm and prestige have been washed away with the floods brought by Hurricane Helene.Walking past a big truck lying face down…
Getty ImagesClimeworks’ Icelandic plant captures CO2 direct from the atmosphereIt could be a scene from science fiction. Towering over dark, mossy lava fields are stacks of noisy machines the size of shipping containers, domes, and zig-zagging silver pipes.Found 30km (19 miles) southwest of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, this is the world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) facility.Called Mammoth, it has been developed by Swiss firm Climeworks.It has been running for two months, sucking global-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air, then storing it deep underground where it turns to stone.Twelve collector containers are now installed, but in the coming months…