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Many thanks to Shell for your support of the Grail! Making contact with ET? Aliens may already know we’re here. 42 lost pages of one of the world’s most important early New Testament manuscripts, Codex H., have been recovered. When people dream of someone’s death at the same time the person dies far away. Could humans become ‘Sun-eaters‘ in the future? The staying power of the ghost orb: Why one of paranormal culture’s most familiar images refuses to fade away. This 62-foot-long ‘Kraken’ octopus terrorized Cretaceious seas. Delaware’s Department of Agriculture is warning residents about the unexpected deliveries of mystery…

America and Israel’s success is unprecedented, albeit there are still some boxes to check. Source link

The way Republicans are managing the Department of Homeland Security budget shows that Congress is now just something to work around. Source link

The modern international order rests on a contradiction rarely examined in full daylight. Western states present themselves as guardians of international rules, democracy, and self-determination, yet the historical record of their behavior abroad tells a different story — one written not in treaties or speeches, but in classified cables, deniable operations, and shattered political systems. Covert Regime Change, first published in 2018, matters because it documents, with unusual rigor, how this contradiction became a governing method. Lindsey A. O’Rourke, Associate Professor at Boston College, does not ask whether covert intervention occasionally went wrong. She demonstrates that it became a routine…

Wendy Sherman, who served as deputy secretary of state in the Biden and Obama administrations, told ABC’s “This Week” that the U.S. attack on Iran amounts to “superpower suicide,” empowering Russia and China while weakening the U.S., and entrenching the Revolutionary Guard Corps in power.”We see a stalemate between the United States and Iran. We’ve just heard about the economic warfare that’s going on. We have a military standoff, actually,” Sherman said. “And quite frankly, what this requires is really tough diplomacy.””You can’t do this in one day. This is a very complex negotiation,” she said. “You have to do…

Dems Must Finally Heed Trump's Call For Unity Source link

The couple argued, according to hotel staff and were separated. Despite confirming Ashly Robinson died by suicide, police said they are still investigating her death. What to know: Tanzanian authorities are investigating the death of U.S. influencer Ashly Robinson in Zanzibar and have ordered her fiancé, crypto investor Joe McCann, to remain in the country while the case is reviewed. Police say Robinson, 31, died by suicide after a heated dispute with McCann at the Zuri Zanzibar resort, but her family disputes that conclusion and has launched a GoFundMe campaign to cover related expenses. McCann, a prominent crypto hedge fund…

Among other things, Otis responds to my post from yesterday; an excerpt: The main criterion in a democratic system is not whether a given prosecution is common, but whether in this particular case fairly evaluated, the facts could be viewed by a reasonable jury as establishing the prospective defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. For one thing, adopting the “common prosecution” criterion leaves open many of the problems it’s supposed to solve. How “common” is common enough to be confident the case isn’t merely political? Will that get decided by the line prosecutors — careerists (or, less generously, bureaucrats) or their…

Israel sent Iron Dome air defenses to the UAE to help Dubai shoot down Iranian drones. Tehran targeted Gulf states allied with the US in response to Washington and Tehran starting an unprovoked war.    Axios reported speaking with two Israeli and one US official who confirmed that an Iron Dome system, with IDF troops to operate it, was sent to the UAE early in the war with Iran. The UAE came under attack after the US and Israel attacked Iran.  Tehran asserted that states in the region that hosted US military bases and aided the attack on Iran were legitimate…

The ceasefire in Lebanon appears to be collapsing as Israel and Hezbollah are escalating attacks.  On Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the IDF to “vigorously attack Hezbollah targets” in Lebanon. The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel started after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack.  In November 2024, Hezbollah and Israel agreed to a ceasefire. However, Israel repeatedly violated the truce while Hezbollah refrained from attacking Israel or IDF troops occupying southern Lebanon.  Hezbollah broke the truce following the US and Israel starting an aggressive war with Iran in  February. Once the war in Lebanon escalated, top Israeli officials revealed…