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[ad_1] The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says Israeli forces, by moving millions of tons of rubble that belong to Palestinians, are apparently violating a World Court order to preserve criminal evidence. IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer and Israeli combat engineers operating in Gaza, Nov. 2, 2023. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) By Brett WilkinsCommon Dreams Israeli soldiers and civilian contractors are systematically removing potential proof of genocide from the Gaza Strip, an apparent violation of a World Court order for Israel to preserve evidence of genocidal acts, according to a new report. The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor…

[ad_1] Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, an in-depth investigatory show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (7/20/26). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth is, or claiming they have the answer, is likely leading you astray, for one reason or another. Stay Vigilant. Source Links (In Chronological Order): (9) Barchart on X: “U.S. Debt now exceeds 100% of GDP for the first time since World War…

[ad_1] Almost overnight, Leopold Aschenbrenner went from lauded wunderkind to Wall Street punching bag. Will that be the end of his story? Joe Nocera weighs the case. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Alan Macleod  reports on Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & BAE Systems using the classroom to launder their images and enlist the next generation as cogs in the military-industrial complex. The U.S. Army’s James Kirsch delivers opening remarks for the Raytheon-sponsored Girl Scouts Cyber Challenge at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Oct. 19, 2019. (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service / Public Domain) By Alan MacLeodMintPress News Raytheon sponsors the Girl Scouts of America. BAE Systems is reading your toddlers their favorite fairytale stories. And Lockheed Martin funds children’s math and STEM festivals. This is done with great fanfare, supposedly…

[ad_1] Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche officially cancelled on Monday a planned $1.8 billion fund intended to compensate people who say they were politically targeted, avoiding a major clash with two Republican senators who had threatened to block his confirmation as the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) said they would back Blanche after he issued a written order rescinding the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” The fund was created in May as part of a settlement resolving Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and…

[ad_1] On Tuesday—day 158 of the Iran War—Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that there had been “progress made in [Iran] talks, but not finality yet,” while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that “there is a chance we may have a deal today or tomorrow” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Asked by CNBC on Tuesday if Iran would be allowed to charge a toll to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Bessent did not explicitly reject the possibility, instead saying that there would be “freedom of movement.”  Iran’s Foreign ​Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei on Monday denied that any negotiations with…

[ad_1] Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution. He is also the co-host of the Free Speech Unmuted podcast. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] I’m looking around the world right now, and what I see isn’t all bad. In fact, there are lots of indications of positive things happening or about to happen. What strikes me, though, in seeing the hopeful signs, is the contrast between those and the, er… other things going on in the world.For example, the Moorish invasion of the Spanish town of Ceuta. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s stories include:  D.C’s “worst landlord” is the district itself. The backlash to the use of YIMBY reforms in California’s wildfire rebuilding process A reform allowing developers to build apartments in commercial zones nears passage in North Carolina. The limits of a CEQA reform?  But first, our lead item on what a property owner’s win in an eminent domain case out of Rhode Island tells us about the YIMBY-libertarian convergence on housing policy.  Last week, a federal district court judge in Rhode Island slapped down the town of…