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2024 REPUBLICAN
PRIMARY DEBATE
DES MOINES, IOWA
JANUARY 10, 2024

8:00 PM: CNN’s debate opens in Des Moines, where the Republican Iowa Caucus is less than a week away. Moderator Jake Tapper tells the two candidates participating, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, “You know the rules, and so do I. A commitment to respectability is what I’m thinking of. You wouldn’t get this from any other guy. I’d like to remind both candidates that I’m never gonna give you up, nor will I let you down.” Co-moderator Dana Bash interrupts him to say she never agreed to let him leave if he Rickrolled the debate and that he was stuck here for the next two hours just like she was.

A preliminary decision on genocide charges against Israel could come as early as next week.

The post South Africa Just Made Its Case at The Hague. What’s Next? appeared first on The Intercept.

On a picturesque beach in central Gaza, a mile north of the now-flattened Al-Shati refugee camp, long black pipes snake through hills of white sand before disappearing underground. An image released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shows dozens of soldiers laying pipelines and what appear to be mobile pumping stations that are to take water from the Mediterranean Sea and hose it into underground tunnels. The plan, according to various reports, is to flood the vast network of underground shafts and tunnels Hamas has reportedly built and used to carry out its operations.  “I won’t talk about specifics, but they include explosives to destroy and other means to prevent Hamas operatives from using the tunnels to harm our soldiers,”... Read more

by Gary Gardner

In congressional testimony last November, Isabel Munilla, an official from the Department of Energy, gave an alarming assessment of U.S. reliance on foreign minerals. For 31 of 50 critical minerals, she warned,”…the U.S. relies on other countries for more than 50 percent of our requirements…Our reliance on non-allied foreign sources for these materials is neither sustainable nor secure.” Munilla employed what we might call the “scarcity scare”—the panic that supplies of critical minerals may be insufficient for all nations to participate in the transition to clean,

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1. Check this place out, it’s dope

2. Technology solves problems (future good)

3. Technology creates problems (future bad)

4. A world much like our own where some subtle differences highlight humanity/reality/society/perception

5. What if your cock was a bomb?

6. Rockets are not phallic, please stop saying that

7. Here is why religion is bad

8. Homestuck

9. Four thousand pages on the adventures of Prentiss Plum, a space pirate, scientist, and award-winning Virgo

10. Winking parody that doubles down on sexbots

11. Cory Doctorow’s most recent night terror

12. “Me am play god”

13. Tracy Chapman’s A New Beginning

14. A list of legally non-binding patents disguised as a narrative

15. There is a secret number and it’s pissed

16. The Strugatsky brothers do not like Stalin

17. Star Trek, but they smash

18. Time, considered as a helix of semiprecious stoners

19. It is 1860, let us go to the Moon

20. Basically Mein Kampf

21. Bomb Cock 2: Mutually Assured Destruction

22. The franchise equivalent of findom

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Biden’s proposed immigration crackdown in return for Israeli military funding is the epitome of Democrats' hypocrisy and groupthink.

The post I Resigned From the DNC in Protest of Biden’s Backing of Palestinian Slaughter appeared first on The Intercept.

- by Mark Blagrove

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- by David Borkenhagen

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Changes in the household liability-to-income ratio appear to have been driven by a rising supply of loanable funds before 2010 and decreasing demand for such funds afterward.

I have a simple morality:

1. I like feeling good.
2. I don’t like feeling bad. (Suffering)
3. I want other people to feel good.
4. I don’t want other people to feel bad (to suffer.)

Most people have some of this as part of their morality.

How much is a matter of moral transitivity. How many people are part of three and four?

Let’s outline some variations:

The psychopath. Only my suffering and happiness matters.

The Patriarch/Matriarch. Only the suffering and happiness of me and my relatives matter.

The Back Slapper. The suffering and happeiness of me, my relatives, and my friends matters.

The Noble. The suffering and happiness of me, my relatives, my friends and my dependents matters. (Modern version is the good boss.)

The Aristocrat or Oligarch: Only the suffering or happiness of my class matters.

This week, the government opened new plans intended to protect social housing tenants from unsafe homes to consultation. The plans consist of strict timeframes to which housing association landlords will have to adhere when investigating and repairing hazards, or face court. This proposed legislation is being called Awaab’s Law, in reference to the death of […]

Labor is fuelling racist views about migration, announcing a major crackdown on the number of people entering Australia to study or work.

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Israel is threatening to widen its war into Lebanon.

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