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A recurring row has broken out over the island of Rockall, an uninhabited rock in the Atlantic whose ownership is disputed between the UK and Ireland. The Scottish government, under whose jurisdiction Rockall falls, has banned Irish vessels which traditionally fish there from doing so. This is an article in the Derry Journal today: Donegal […]

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The collision is a cover story Associated Press: A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday in a “brazen violation of international law,” causing American forces to bring down the unmanned aerial vehicle, the U.S. said. But Russia insisted its warplanes didn’t hit the MQ-9 Reaper drone. Instead, it said the drone maneuvered sharply and crashed into the water following an encounter with Russian fighter jets that had been scrambled to intercept it near Crimea. “Struck the propeller” of the MQ-9, says the Pentagon. Seriously? Without actually crashing into it and bringing down both aircraft? The AP report adds: The U.S. European Command said two Russian Su-27 fighter jets intercepted the drone while it was operating within international airspace. It said one of the Russian fighters struck the propeller of the MQ-9, causing U.S. forces to bring it down in international waters. Prior to that, the Su-27s dumped fuel on the MQ-9 and flew in front of it several times in “a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner,” the U.S.

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Peter Dorman files a report from radical subjectivity land so you don't have to go there.

The shadow of U.S. war crimes in Iraq hangs over the Pentagon's refusal to support probes into Russian atrocities in Ukraine.

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Why the Bank Crisis is Not Over The crashes of Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and the related bank insolvencies are much more serious than the 2008-09 crash. The problem at that time was crooked banks making bad mortgage loans. Debtors were unable to pay and were defaulting, and it turned out that the Continue Reading

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Maybe Ivermectin will cure it? Okay, wokesters, remember when teens tossed out “like” every other word? Adults lampooned this verbal pandemic decades before COVID-19. The legendary Frank Zappa’s only top-40 hit came in 1982 with a largely spoken-word Valspeak performance by his then-14-year-old daughter, Moon Zappa. Valspeak launched Whoopi Goldberg’s acting career. Wikipedia: Linguistic characteristics of valleyspeak are often thought to be “silly” and “superficial” and seen as a sign of low intelligence. Speakers are also often perceived as “materialistic” and “air-headed”. And your point is? Conservatives don’t have one, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes observed Tuesday evening. Wokety-woke rhetoric aimed at blaming women, gay people, and minorities for conservatives’ comically pervasive sense of victimization is “equal parts offensive and preposterous” and not meant to persuade anyone, but to keep their base in line, Hayes said. They are not being serious. Their aim is deflection.

BBC sources reportedly confirm a Doctor Who/UNIT spinoff with Jemma Redgrave... and David Tennant & Catherine Tate in the Christmas Special?

Look, I’m not like other tenants. People often ask, how am I still renting? They don’t understand that not everyone needs a house to be satisfied. Some people prefer to rent apartments. Like me. It’s not that I find ownership intimidating or am afraid of commitment; I just haven’t met the right income bracket or fixed-rate mortgage. Anyway, it’s not the size of the dwelling that matters, it’s what you do with it. I’m going to stick this out, and one day, my place is going to be really nice. All it needs is some new furniture and a few snap traps, and it will be good.

I put in a lot of effort to get here. They checked my credit scores, references, and verified my income. I’ve earned the right to call this “my apartment.” Even though, technically, it’s not. But I’m not so insecure that I have to count my living space as an asset. That’s part of the charm. Like how everything is covered in thick, white paint. Even things that shouldn’t be. The painted-over dust bunnies have a certain charm.

Messages sent between BBC editors and reporters appear to confirm longstanding suspicions of a pro-Government bias inside the corporation, writes Adam Bienkov

By David DeCamp / Antiwar.com On Monday, the US, Britain, and Australia unveiled their plans to develop nuclear-powered submarines under AUKUS, a military pact the three countries signed in September 2021 to coordinate on advanced military technology against China. President Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese formally announced the plans at […]

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The legendary whistleblower has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.

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An LITG runaround the previous day on Bleeding Cool, and the past three years to boot, as well as which comic book industry folk are celebrating their birthday today.

By Alex Binder / Unicorn Riot Decatur, GA – The family of Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Esteban Paez Terán held a press conference Monday morning outside the Historic DeKalb Courthouse to release the full autopsy of Tortuguita and to discuss the lawsuit the family filed this week against the City of Atlanta under the Georgia Open Records […]

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In The World in the Model, Mary Morgan characterizes the modelling tradition of economics as one concerned with “thin men acting in small worlds” and writes: Strangely perhaps, the most obvious element in the inference gap for models … lies in the validity of any inference between two such different media – forward from the […]

Turning a transit into a journey – a student’s tribute to his beloved film institute in Egypt becomes an ode to ‘liminality’

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How the ancient Greeks and Romans imagined the end of the world, and what we can learn from them today about catastrophe

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The US share in global arms exports increased from 33% to 40% in 2018-22, and its ally France, the third-largest exporter of weapons, was also a significant beneficiary, with its share increasing from roughly 7.1% to 11%.

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A new paper recaps what the more solid studies have found about how SARS-CoV-2 does harm.

Barrister Gareth Roberts explains how the European Convention on Human Rights affects the lives of British citizens

A collaborative operates the GOODS program, which gets groceries to residents of several rural Mississippi towns lacking grocery stores.

D.C. hawks say American military might brought order to the Middle East, but without U.S. meddling, regional rivals finally made a deal.

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