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[ad_1] Date of discovery: Sept 1, 2026Location of discovery: Mars, Sol 693 Spirit roverThe Spirit rover has taken a photo of an long slithery animal as it crossed over the top of a flat rock on the surface of Mars. The creature has no arms or legs but only a long body…that would closely resemble a small garden snake on Earth. The animal measures about half a meter and this is 100% exactly what we might see in the desert on Earth. Snakes can withstand incredible temperatures. It would of course hunt other creatures to eat to allow it to…

[ad_1] Happy Camp Complex, Klamath National Forest, Northern California. Photo: US Forest Service. The man who gave us the war in Iran, mass deportation, murders on the high seas, inflation, a trade war with our closest ally, measles, explosive diarrhea, and is now threatening to tear down the Kennedy Center if he can’t put his name on it, also pulled National Park firefighters from duty in the West to help beautify DC for his 80th birthday. I know in the list of Trump outrages this may not rank very high, but what sort of goddamn jerk would pull away people…

[ad_1] Photo credit: Telesur Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, “The United States appear(s) to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” For 200 years, US leaders have never proved him wrong. In the early 1800s, Bolivar led what is now Venezuela and five other countries to independence from the Spanish Empire. But the United States still refuses to recognize the independence of other countries in the region. Wannabe emperor Donald Trump even refers to Canadian prime minister Mark Carney as a “governor,” as if Canada was merely another…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Russian Presidential Executive Office – CC BY 4.0 There is a very real and increasingly noisy meeting point between parts of the American MAGA right, several European far-right parties, and positions which, whatever their motivation, increasingly favour catering to Moscow. Remarkably, this is right at a time when—according to one or two current and former US officials openly viewing Putin as misled by his advisers—CIA chief John Ratcliffe Globemastered his way to Moscow to tell Russia it needed to cut a deal with Ukraine before it was too late for them. That, at least, was one reported…

[ad_1] Well, somehow it’s September already. Who keeps speeding time up, and can we please make them stop? Why explorers are still searching for The Abominable Snowman. (Archived page link) We were wrong about how the extinct Tasmanian Tiger hunted its prey ‘No one has seen anything like it before’: Mystery surrounds ancient stone structure unearthed in Scotland. 6 teen girls suffered seizure-like episodes at school on the same day – it wasn’t the first time such had happened. Americans’ belief that UFOs are alien craft continues to decline in latest Gallup poll. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launches…

[ad_1] Over the years, we have seen numerous examples of how businesses benefit from war. Look no further than Lockheed Martin receiving $313 billion and Raytheon $145 billion between 2020–2024 from Pentagon contracts. We’ve also seen unusual trading before wars start, with politicians investing in companies just before news hits the wires. But what emerged from Trump Media’s August 10 earnings call may represent a potentially new level of political monetization. In 2021, Digital World Acquisition Corp. agreed to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the company behind Truth Social. Under the agreement, Digital World would acquire TMTG…

[ad_1] Image by Javad Esmaeili. Esmaeil Baqaei, the spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, recently warned of the increasing environmental damage caused by the U.S. war, drawing attention to oil contamination in the Persian Gulf that has begun washing up on Iranian shores. “This incident is only one visible example of the extensive pollution — both overt and concealed — that has degraded the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman,” he wrote on X. “Who bears responsibility for compensating these damages? Is it the nations that consume the inexpensive energy exported from our region, the shipping insurers, or the…

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[ad_1]  Tony Greenstein’s acquittal was not a message the state — or the billionaire-owned media — wanted publicised.  British political activist Tony Greenstein in 2018. (Steve Eason / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0) By Jonathan CookJonathan-Cook.net The British state rigged the trial of Tony Greenstein, a secular Jewish socialist and peace activist, to get him locked up for as much as 14 years — supposedly for “inviting support for Hamas.” Fearful that the judge would punish his barrister for delivering a closing speech that properly defended him, Greenstein instead spoke directly to the jury. For half an hour, he picked…