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Nearly three-quarters of the Israeli public oppose a retaliatory strike on Iran for its massive missile attack on the country if such action would harm Israel’s security alliance with its allies, according to a poll published Tuesday. The Hebrew University survey also found that over half the public believes Israel “respond[s] positively” to the military and political demands of allies. Israel has vowed to retaliate after Iran overnight Saturday fired over 300 missiles and drones at the country. Almost all were intercepted before they reached the country as the United States led a coordinated air defense shield that involved Israeli,...

There was trouble at a concert at Warsaw’s National Philharmonic Hall celebrating Antoni Wit’s 80th birthday and 60 years of service to music in Poland. Climate activists mounted the stage shouting ‘This is an alarm. Our world is burning. We are the last generation that can stop the climate catastrophe. We demand radical investments in public transport.’ Wit, still conducting, grabbed a ‘Last Generation’ banner from a young woman before they were ejected. Watch. https://twitter.com/i/status/1764363480944071095

Mayor London Breed; Ingka Group’s Jesper Brodin; 945 Market St. Ikea, a global home furnishing company with Swedish roots, is making a big bet on San Francisco’s beleaguered downtown. The retailer now based in the Netherlands will open an 85,000-square-foot store at 945 Market Street in South of Market, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. A grand opening is set for Aug. 23. Ikea’s arrival “is a tremendous boost,” declared Mayor London Breed, who has wooed the company since 2018. At least one official said it can create a halo effect.

As the joint chamber of Congress waited for Israeli President Herzog to enter, and as members were seated in their respective areas, Kristen Sinema, striking a rather voluptuous pose, was seen chatting with Republican Senator from Utah Mike Lee. From the time she entered until she sat down, she was not seen talking to any Democrat.

A nuclear fusion apparatus at LivermoreThe Employees Bible Study Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the nation's premier nuclear research facility, recently invited, as part of the guest speaker series to their California campus, the noted Christian apologist and philosopher Dr. William Lane Craig, famous for his debates against the atheist headliners of the day. The title of the talk is "Three Arguments for God's Existence".

Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation. Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who after experiencing a sobbing antiwar epiphany on a bathroom floor made the momentous decision in 1971 to disclose a secret history of American lies and deceit in Vietnam, what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, died on Friday at his home in Kensington, Calif. He was 92. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife and children said in a statement.

The auditorium at Nathan Eckstein Junior High (now a middle school) in Wedgwood is standing-room only in October 1970 for a discussion of a proposal to bus 1,500-2,000 North End and Central Area students in order to desegregate the new Edmond S. Meany Middle School on Capitol Hill. Another 400 people in the lunchroom listened via loudspeakers as Superintendent Forbes Bottomly, left, school district attorney Gary M. Little fielded questions and comments. (Larry Dion / The Seattle Times, 1970) Asha Mohamed, an immigrant from Ethiopia, from left, and her daughter Hikma walk with Laura Stowell and her daughter Ella...

ELON MUSK: Canadian Broadcasting Corp said they’re “less than 70% government-funded”, so we corrected the label

When Joshua Diemert began his employment with the City of Seattle in 2013, he was looking forward to a fresh start. But as time passed, he began to dread going to work. Tensions were running high in the office. At one point, a colleague told others they should “get a guy to swing by when Josh is in the restroom and beat him bloody.” He watched coworkers reject white applicants to City programs because, as one colleague told him, those applicants benefited from “white privilege.” The problems started when Joshua objected to mandatory training and handouts from the City’s Race...

The death has been announced today of Keith Reid, the lyricist of every original song recorded by Procol Harum. Keith was 76.

Gordon Moore, the tech pioneer and co-founder of Intel, has died at age 94, Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced Friday. Moore died peacefully in his home, surrounded by family. Moore was best-known for his famous observation known as Moore's Law. In 1965, Moore made the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every year. Moore's prediction proved to be correct, and the idea of faster, smaller, and cheaper chip technology is still the driving force behind Silicon Valley's mission to this day. “Gordon Moore defined the technology industry through his...

The Oregon House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $200 million funding package to address homelessness and boost affordable housing, passing it with widespread bipartisan support. The bulk of the package, $130 million, fulfills Gov. Tina Kotek's request for an immediate influx of funding to begin addressing unsheltered homelessness in much of the state.

Portland Audubon Society Staff Audubon the man was hailed in his time as a pioneer, a visionary and a gifted artist as he set out to paint every bird in North America. But that’s only half the story, according to Stuart Wells, executive director of the Portland Audubon chapter. “What's not as commonly known is that he was also a slave trader and was staunchly against any abolitionist movements,” Wells said. “He dug up Native American graves and sold their skulls to folks that were trying to show that there was a difference in the skull structure of Indigenous people...

Not only did @UofDenver offer students to use ze/hir/faer pronouns- they actually sent out an official email to all students announcing the new pronoun choices. 15 options! This is what they’re focusing on. Imagine going into debt for this. And here is the "Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, Christopher Whitt", from where such ideas emerge:

In a country like India, we are highly driven by herd mentality. Whenever we see some success in a particular career, we tend to get attracted in masses towards it. Engineering is one such profession. India produces about 150,000 engineers per year, and very few of them eventually get engineering-related jobs. According to an Employability Survey done in 2019, 80% of Indian engineers are not fit for jobs. In the early 1990s, India was going through liberalization that lead to a boom in manufacturing. This created a lot of new jobs and engineering as a career became popular. We then...

1) This is just some random street in a busy shopping area in December in Dublin, Ireland. 2) These are average, randomly appearing Dublin women and girls. Of the dozens, I only saw 1 overweight woman. Many looked like models. 3) Impeccable sense of style, perfect hair, great skin unembellished by pock-marked drug usage signs, absence of tattoos on face/neck, no trashy clothes. 4) No weird purple haired trannies, no homeless people, no criminals, everyone in a good mood. Why such a contrast with our big cities on the west coast? What went wrong here? What is your experience elsewhere...

Merry Christmas all. I am interested in the make/model of the firearms borne by the 2 Bedouin warriors (the one in the middle and the one on the far right) in this 1876 photograph from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: High resolution image here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Three_bedouins_sheikhs%2C_c_1867-1876.jpg I am curious as to the type of firearms in the possession of these Bedouin Sheikhs at that time. Location: Syria, approx. dates - between 1867 and 1876. Any insights appreciated.

Yoel Roth, ex-Twitter Content Moderation Chief (left):Elon Musk today replied "This explains a lot" to a Twitter user who highlighted this tweet by ex-Twitter Content exec Yoel Roth: Can high school students ever meaningfully consent to sex with their teachers? http://bit.ly/bbpH68 And Elon linked to Roth's PhD thesis:

<p>As revenge for @elonmusk suspending violent extremist accounts on Twitter, #Antifa in Portland are organizing arson attacks on @Tesla locations tonight.</p>

=============================== On the day before the 1994 election which brought the legendary Republican class of 1994 to sweep Congress, Clinton said "We still have a chance". Notice the packed rallies compared to the half-empty gyms that Biden speaks to.