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This is spy novel shit, it's awesome!!! 🤩

Yeah I can't wait for the book or movie to come out! I have been reading up on this, the implications are that Mossad actually created an entire fake company years ago to make these pagers. They designed them to be durable and long lasting, so they would be what terrorists want (water and dust proof, long battery life for places where power is unreliable).

The whole story is amazing beginning to end, and we don't know 10% of it!
 

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Yeah I can't wait for the book or movie to come out! I have been reading up on this, the implications are that Mossad actually created an entire fake company years ago to make these pagers. They designed them to be durable and long lasting, so they would be what terrorists want (water and dust proof, long battery life for places where power is unreliable).

The whole story is amazing beginning to end, and we don't know 10% of it!

You do know that there has been a second wave of explosions, too, right? With walkie talkies and solar equipment.
 

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You do know that there has been a second wave of explosions, too, right? With walkie talkies and solar equipment.
Yup! I hope someday we can get the whole story because it must be fascinating!
 
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I wonder if next, we'll hear that their goats exploded!
 

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Israel has bombed a Beirut suburb, but the American government is holding out hope this won't spiral into a wider war:


The US government has said a war could be averted between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia despite recent mutual attacks.

Asked about the impact of fighting elsewhere in the region, US President Joe Biden also said: "We have to make sure that the people of northern Israel as well as southern Lebanon are able to get back to their homes, and get back safely."

Following a barrage of over 100 Hezbollah rockets at northern Israel and an Israeli strike in a suburb of Beirut, US national security adviser John Kirby said the United States would "continue to do everything we can" to prevent an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah.

"We still believe that there is time and space for a diplomatic solution. We think that is the best way forward," Kirby said, adding that a war on the Israel-Lebanon border was "not inevitable."
 

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Israel has bombed a Beirut suburb, but the American government is holding out hope this won't spiral into a wider war:

Whole place is gonna pop like a pressure cooker with no release valve before too long.
 

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Whole place is gonna pop like a pressure cooker with no release valve before too long.

I agree.

Too many aggressive acts, from all sides. And the U.S. pretending to be peacemaker when behind the scenes it's a different story.
 

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Early today, Hezbollah struck deeper into Israel than any time during the current conflict:


Over 100 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel early Sunday, most of which were intercepted by Israeli air defense systems, the Israeli military said.

Some of the rockets landed near the northern city of Haifa where at least three people were wounded and cars and buildings were damaged, according to the Associated Press news agency.

Several buildings were struck, including a house badly damaged near the Israeli city of Haifa, according to Reuters.

Rescue teams treated wounded but there were no reports of deaths. Residents had been instructed to stay near bomb shelters and safe rooms.

Hezbollah said it targeted the Israeli Ramat David Airbase with successive barrages of missiles, in the deepest strikes it has claimed since hostilities began.
 

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Eric L. Adams, a retired police captain who was elected as New York City’s 110th mayor nearly three years ago on a promise to rein in crime, has been indicted following a federal corruption investigation, people with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.

The indictment remained sealed on Wednesday night, and it was unclear what charge or charges Mr. Adams will face. But when they are made public, he will become the first New York City mayor to be criminally charged while in office.

The indictment promised to reverberate across the nation’s largest city and beyond, plunging Mr. Adams’s embattled administration further into chaos just months before he is set to face challengers in a hotly contested mayoral primary.

Representatives of Mr. Adams and his campaign said they had no immediate comment.

Brendan R. McGuire and Boyd M. Johnson III, partners at WilmerHale who represent the mayor, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Representatives of the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, the F.B.I. and the city Department of Investigation declined to comment.

The charges represented an extraordinary turnabout for Mr. Adams, 64, a former state senator and Brooklyn borough president who took office as the city was rebounding from the pandemic and confronting a massive influx of migrants from the southern border.

Until federal investigations closed in on him, Mr. Adams’s life had seemed a classic New York success story.

Raised by a working-class mother in Brooklyn and Queens, he overcame dyslexia and run-ins with the police, and then joined the Police Department himself. He worked initially as a transit officer, and sought to make changes from within. During a two-decade career there, he rose to the rank of captain and served as a vocal, and sometimes contentious, advocate for Black officers.

Retiring to pursue a life in politics, Mr. Adams dreamed for years of becoming New York’s mayor, an ambition he realized by embracing diverse constituencies across the city, and an accomplishment he has said was divinely ordained.

As mayor, Mr. Adams vowed to return “swagger” to a city still emerging from the pandemic, and he surrounded himself in City Hall with friends and associates whose loyalty to him sometimes exceeded their policy expertise. Several had troubled pasts.

And some of his closest aides and advisers would themselves come under federal investigation as prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan began examining his inner circle.

The indictment makes Mr. Adams the first sitting New York City mayor to face criminal charges.

Mayor Eric L. Adams has been indicted on federal criminal charges, according to people with knowledge of the matter, and will be the first mayor in New York City history to be charged while in office.

The indictment is sealed, and it is unclear what charge or charges Mr. Adams will face.

A retired police captain, Mr. Adams was elected as the city’s 110th mayor nearly three years ago on a campaign pledge of reducing crime and bringing professionalism and “swagger” to the largest municipal government in the country.

But the mayor staffed top positions with friends and loyalists, and his inner circle has been engulfed by numerous federal investigations that have increasingly targeted the highest ranks of city government. Earlier this month, federal agents seized phones from numerous top city officials, including a top aide to Mr. Adams, the schools chancellor and the police commissioner. The commissioner, Edward A. Caban, and the schools chancellor, David C. Banks, later resigned.

Federal authorities seized Mr. Adams’s electronic devices last November, just days after they searched the Brooklyn home of his chief fund-raiser. His aides have claimed he has been cooperating with the authorities, while Mr. Adams has maintained that he did nothing wrong.

The indictment raised immediate questions about Mr. Adams’s ability to serve as mayor, adding to the growing pressure for him to step down. Gov. Kathy Hochul has the power to remove him from office.

Several federal corruption investigations have reached top people around Mr. Adams, with some of the highest-ranking officials in his administration coming under scrutiny. Read more about the investigations here.

The swarm of federal inquiries in the lead-up to the indictment of Mr. Adams plunged his administration into a free fall, further diminishing his political stature. It raised doubts about his re-election chances next year and his ability to engage with other political leaders.
 
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This is a great point.

I feel like kids used to fight more, yet there were less issues. A guy could get his ass kicked without wanting to kill everyone the next day. Or in your case, you could beat somebody's ass but have the common sense not to take it further than that.



I couldn't say it any better myself. People had guns 40 years ago, yet they weren't using them to massacre innocent people. I think it's a combination of all of the things you said, perhaps along with a culture that does not value humanity the way that it should.
It is this simple. Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

Some in government will not be happy until the only people who have guns are the bad guys.

We need to look at our society and start there
 

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Cern detects and observes the decay of Charged Kaons aka K meson ( a subatomic particle made of 2 Quarks , a quark and an anti-strange quark )

When the decay happens a certain way it breaks down into 3 particles , a pion , a neutrino ( an amazing particle almost 0 mass , neutral charge and travels at near light speed with gravity barely ever effecting them ) and an anti-neutrino.

Which is fucking wild, and happens according to them 13 in a 100 billion times.

 

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Israel claims to have killed longtime Hezbollah leader Nasrallah in yesterday's strikes. If true, this is a huge development:


The Israeli military has said Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah militia, was killed in a "precise" airstrike during a meeting of the group's leadership at its headquarters in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut.

A source close to Hezbollah told the AFP news agency that contact to Nasrallah had been lost since Friday night, when the strike took place, but the group has yet to confirm his death.

"Hassan Nasrallah is dead," Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani announced on X, formerly Twitter.
 

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Israel has launched a ground invasion into southern Lebanon:


The Israeli army has said it started a "limited, localised" ground invasion in Lebanon, saying it will continue according to the situational assessment and in parallel to the war in besieged Gaza.

A military statement said on early Tuesday that "in accordance with the decision of the political echelon, a few hours ago, the IDF (army) began limited, localised and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbollah targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon."
 

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