Friday, November 3
Hezbollah's Leader to Speak
Lebanon is on edge in advance of Hezbollah leader Syed Hassan Nasrallah’s anticipated Friday speech on Israel’s war on Gaza, which residents and experts fear could inflame regional tensions if he pledges to escalate attacks against Israel.
Fighting between Hezbollah and Israel has escalated along their fraught border in recent weeks. The Lebanese armed group claims to have lost 47 fighters while Israel says that six of its soldiers have been killed. At least six civilians have also been killed. READ MORE...
Iran Will Destroy Israel
The New York Times is facing intense backlash for a report focusing on whether Iran will "live up to its fiery rhetoric" and follow through with its vow to "destroy Israel."
The Times suggested Iran was at a crossroads, running the headline, "After Years of Vowing to Destroy Israel, Iran Faces a Dilemma."
"With Israel bent on crushing Iran’s ally Hamas, Tehran must decide whether it and the proxy militias it arms and trains will live up to its fiery rhetoric," The Times report said Wednesday. READ MORE...
Santos Escapes Expulsion
The final vote fell 213-179 against expelling Santos, with 19 lawmakers voting "present." Expelling a member of the House, something that is historically rare, requires a vote of two-thirds of all members present.
Two dozen Republicans voted to expel Santos, while 31 Democrats voted to keep him in the House. READ MORE...
Relatively Protected
- We don't have a lot of people living in this area so traffic and smog is not much of a problem.
- We don't have much crime although drugs are being sold in our elementary schools.
- We don't have a huge WOKE, CRT, BLM, or Defund the Police movement.
- We are not experiencing a whole lot of trouble from illegal immigrants because there is not much for them to do here except harvest crops.
- We don't have a lot of restaurants but we have all we need and then some.
- We don't have Broadway shows because we are kinda country and redneck when it comes to all that shit, even though many of us are WELL EDUCATED.
Just like a ritualistic bowel movement, I watch FOX News every morning and I FEEL BLESSED because none of that crap that is going on in other cities is taking place here in East TN.
My wife and I are retired and have been retired since 2015, and we managed to save enough money over the years to pay all our expenses (taking inflation into account) until we are both 95 years of age. It is doubtful that we will live that long, but we have more than enough money.
- Rising prices don't bother us
- Buying a hybrid car has been already figured into our savings
- We have been debt free for the last 15 years
- The money we made on interest paid for our new home renovations
- We made $40,000 profit on the sale of our old home
- Both our vehicles are reliable and we have followed all maintenance plans suggested by the manufacturer
- We don't need any new clothes for the rest of our lives
- We pay $10,000/year for medical insurance and have received $500,000 worth of treatment for the last 10 years
- We are not afraid to walk around in the community after dark
- We don't spend money on anything we don't need
WOULD YOU SAY WE ARE LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM???
Biden Wants a Pause
The comment came during a campaign event in Minnesota on Wednesday evening, when a member of the audience shouted: "As a rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire right now.”
The president — who has not supported a ceasefire since the war began on October 7 — said that he would support a "pause."
“I think we need a pause," Biden began. "A pause means give time to get the prisoners out.” READ MORE...
IDF Soldiers Killed Inside Gaza
Israeli forces entered the second stage of their war with Hamas in what is expected to be a lengthy military operation.
Until this week, Israel had largely relied on airstrikes and artillery to retaliate against Hamas' massacre in Israel on Oct. 7.
More than 9,900 people have been killed in the war on both sides since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack.
Thursday, November 2
Sensorium Galaxy: Metaverse
The legendary British electronic music icon, Carl Cox, will treat fans worldwide on Friday to a mesmerising 30-minute DJ set as part of a free show called "Intermundium."
But here's the twist – he won't actually physically be there. READ MORE...
Instead, an astonishingly lifelike digital avatar of Cox, crafted by Sensorium Galaxy, will take centre stage for a pioneering metaverse experience.
Iceland's Wild Horses
If you were asked to conjure up a picture of wild horses in the barren Icelandic landscape, it's unlikely that your mind would jump naturally to wild psychedelic imagery, bathed in the surreal glow of neon pink, yellow and blue hues.
But for Gareth McConnell, a London-based Irish photographer and publisher, this was precisely the vision he pursued when the New York Times commissioned him to photograph the horses of I
celand.
From the outset his goal was to create something as "non-National Geographic as possible" - and it's fair to say he achieved this with flying colours. READ MORE...
Trans Rights in Europe
Rights for transgender people are always a hot topic of discussion - dividing friends, colleagues and ruining the legacies of the rich and famous.
This week in Japan, the Asian nation’s Supreme Court ruled that a law requiring transgender people to have their reproductive organs removed in order to officially change their gender was unconstitutional. READ MORE...
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