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Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it —and they deleted everything. | |
Submitted at 11-27-2023, 08:41 PM by sleeppoor | |
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Submitted at 11-27-2023, 08:24 PM by Mr.Piss | |
On that May afternoon, police raided Williams’ home and arrested Arnold and Williams. Alongside 26 others, they were indicted by Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney, who alleged that YSL — a rap group and record label created by Williams — was in fact a criminal organization. The indictment stated that Arnold’s participation in YSL amounted to a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. The penalty for violating RICO in Georgia is a prison sentence between 5 and 20 years.
Willis has become a nationally recognized name thanks both to the YSL case and a concurrent RICO case: the prosecution of former President Donald Trump on election subversion charges. The Washington Post proclaimed Willis’ actions in the latter case could “save democracy.” But defense attorneys working the YSL case say that as Willis is embraced by the national media for her pursuit of Trump, the local people caught in her legal system — people like Arnold — are left harmed. | |
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To get arms for its Gaza war, Israel is drawing on a U.S. arms stockpile. Joe Biden wants to remove all the restrictions on the arms. | |
Submitted at 11-26-2023, 10:45 PM by sleeppoor | |
The dream is over for passengers who'd signed up for Life at Sea Cruises' inaugural three-year voyage. | |
Submitted at 11-26-2023, 07:19 PM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 11-26-2023, 07:11 PM by Nibbles | |
Aaron Sibarium says he's providing Old School, shoe-leather reporting from a conservative point of view. Except he's not conservative. | |
Submitted at 11-26-2023, 06:46 PM by Mordant | |
Very sad. Anyway... | |
Submitted at 11-26-2023, 05:30 PM by B. Weed | |
Incident at North Prospect Street in Burlington: The two men are in surgery still. They’re undergraduate students at Brown university and Haverford
On North Prospect Street in Burlington, where three people were shot on Saturday night, police lights flicker. According to police, about 6:30 p.m., they received calls reporting gunfire. Two individuals were discovered hurt at the spot, while a third man was discovered hurt not far away. According to Channel Three, the three victims are Palestinians. | |
Submitted at 11-26-2023, 05:25 PM by sleeppoor | |
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“In the vast majority of cases, a multi-billionaire defendant who has pleaded guilty, faces possible prison time, and lives in a country that does not extradite its citizens to the United States would be detained,” | |
Submitted at 11-25-2023, 08:48 PM by Nibbles | |
In less than two months, more than twice as many women and children have been reported killed in Gaza than in Ukraine after two years of war.
While wartime death tolls will never be exact, experts say that even a conservative reading of the casualty figures reported from Gaza shows that the pace of death during Israel’s campaign has few precedents in this century.
People are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of U.S.-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups.
Precise comparisons of war dead are impossible, but conflict-casualty experts have been taken aback at just how many people have been reported killed in Gaza — most of them women and children — and how rapidly.
It is not just the scale of the strikes — Israel said it had engaged more than 15,000 targets before reaching a brief cease-fire in recent days. It is also the nature of the weaponry itself.
Israel’s liberal use of very large weapons in dense urban areas, including U.S.-made 2,000-pound bombs that can flatten an apartment tower, is surprising, some experts say.
“It’s beyond anything that I’ve seen in my career,” said Marc Garlasco, a military adviser for the Dutch organization PAX and a former senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon. To find a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small area, he said, we may “have to go back to Vietnam, or the Second World War.” | |
Submitted at 11-25-2023, 06:33 PM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 11-25-2023, 06:32 PM by sleeppoor | |
On Wednesday at 5:30 a.m., Sharmeen Khan woke up to a police officer in her bedroom shining a flashlight in her face.
Soon, there were several officers in her hallway. Ordered to get up, police watched her and her partner get dressed, before she was handcuffed.
The apartment of the Toronto bookkeeper and educator was then searched and ransacked: drawers emptied, laundry dumped on her bed, dozens of posters removed from poster tubes and scattered around the apartment.
Across the city, a half dozen other people were also having their homes raided. Front doors were broken, computers and cell phones were confiscated, and anyone present was placed in handcuffs, including the elderly, leaving disturbed and distressed families in their wake.
It’s a style of operation that one policing expert said likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, and is usually reserved for “gun or drug” busts.
But the alleged crime in this case is very different: plastering posters and splashing washable red paint onto the windows of a Toronto Indigo bookstore.
The protest against Indigo CEO Heather Reisman, who runs a foundation that supports foreigners to join Israel’s military, is being “treated as a suspected hate-motivated offence,” according to a police press release.
But lawyers and progressive Jewish organizations are decrying the arrests and charges for trying to “silence” activism in solidarity with Palestinians, who have endured Israeli bombardment in Gaza the past six weeks. | |
Submitted at 11-25-2023, 06:27 PM by sleeppoor | |
Maybe the ship is waiting in Constantinople? | |
Submitted at 11-25-2023, 06:33 PM by Imakemop | |
"These criminals did not do what they did because they love Ireland, they did not do what they did because they wanted to protect Irish people, they did not do it out of any sense of patriotism, however warped," Varadkar told reporters on Friday morning. "They did so because they're filled with hate, they love violence, they love chaos and they love causing pain to others." | |
Submitted at 11-25-2023, 12:30 PM by Mordant | |
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Pastor John Wilkerson of First Baptist Church of Hammond in Indiana, who also serves as president of Hyles-Anderson College apologized to church members after he was criticized for allowing a man from a local creationist group to address the church and school while sporting hair they considered too long and quoting Scripture from the NIV translation of the Bible. | |
Submitted at 11-24-2023, 07:29 PM by Mordant | |

Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it —and they deleted everything.
On that May afternoon, police raided Williams’ home and arrested Arnold and Williams. Alongside 26 others, they were indicted by Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney, who alleged that YSL — a rap group and record label created by Williams — was in fact a criminal organization. The indictment stated that Arnold’s participation in YSL amounted to a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. The penalty for violating RICO in Georgia is a prison sentence between 5 and 20 years.
Willis has become a nationally recognized name thanks both to the YSL case and a concurrent RICO case: the prosecution of former President Donald Trump on election subversion charges. The Washington Post proclaimed Willis’ actions in the latter case could “save democracy.” But defense attorneys working the YSL case say that as Willis is embraced by the national media for her pursuit of Trump, the local people caught in her legal system — people like Arnold — are left harmed.
To get arms for its Gaza war, Israel is drawing on a U.S. arms stockpile. Joe Biden wants to remove all the restrictions on the arms.
The dream is over for passengers who'd signed up for Life at Sea Cruises' inaugural three-year voyage.
Aaron Sibarium says he's providing Old School, shoe-leather reporting from a conservative point of view. Except he's not conservative.
Very sad. Anyway...
Incident at North Prospect Street in Burlington: The two men are in surgery still. They’re undergraduate students at Brown university and Haverford
On North Prospect Street in Burlington, where three people were shot on Saturday night, police lights flicker. According to police, about 6:30 p.m., they received calls reporting gunfire. Two individuals were discovered hurt at the spot, while a third man was discovered hurt not far away. According to Channel Three, the three victims are Palestinians.
“In the vast majority of cases, a multi-billionaire defendant who has pleaded guilty, faces possible prison time, and lives in a country that does not extradite its citizens to the United States would be detained,”
In less than two months, more than twice as many women and children have been reported killed in Gaza than in Ukraine after two years of war.
While wartime death tolls will never be exact, experts say that even a conservative reading of the casualty figures reported from Gaza shows that the pace of death during Israel’s campaign has few precedents in this century.
People are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of U.S.-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups.
Precise comparisons of war dead are impossible, but conflict-casualty experts have been taken aback at just how many people have been reported killed in Gaza — most of them women and children — and how rapidly.
It is not just the scale of the strikes — Israel said it had engaged more than 15,000 targets before reaching a brief cease-fire in recent days. It is also the nature of the weaponry itself.
Israel’s liberal use of very large weapons in dense urban areas, including U.S.-made 2,000-pound bombs that can flatten an apartment tower, is surprising, some experts say.
“It’s beyond anything that I’ve seen in my career,” said Marc Garlasco, a military adviser for the Dutch organization PAX and a former senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon. To find a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small area, he said, we may “have to go back to Vietnam, or the Second World War.”
On Wednesday at 5:30 a.m., Sharmeen Khan woke up to a police officer in her bedroom shining a flashlight in her face.
Soon, there were several officers in her hallway. Ordered to get up, police watched her and her partner get dressed, before she was handcuffed.
The apartment of the Toronto bookkeeper and educator was then searched and ransacked: drawers emptied, laundry dumped on her bed, dozens of posters removed from poster tubes and scattered around the apartment.
Across the city, a half dozen other people were also having their homes raided. Front doors were broken, computers and cell phones were confiscated, and anyone present was placed in handcuffs, including the elderly, leaving disturbed and distressed families in their wake.
It’s a style of operation that one policing expert said likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, and is usually reserved for “gun or drug” busts.
But the alleged crime in this case is very different: plastering posters and splashing washable red paint onto the windows of a Toronto Indigo bookstore.
The protest against Indigo CEO Heather Reisman, who runs a foundation that supports foreigners to join Israel’s military, is being “treated as a suspected hate-motivated offence,” according to a police press release.
But lawyers and progressive Jewish organizations are decrying the arrests and charges for trying to “silence” activism in solidarity with Palestinians, who have endured Israeli bombardment in Gaza the past six weeks.
Maybe the ship is waiting in Constantinople?
"These criminals did not do what they did because they love Ireland, they did not do what they did because they wanted to protect Irish people, they did not do it out of any sense of patriotism, however warped," Varadkar told reporters on Friday morning. "They did so because they're filled with hate, they love violence, they love chaos and they love causing pain to others."
Pastor John Wilkerson of First Baptist Church of Hammond in Indiana, who also serves as president of Hyles-Anderson College apologized to church members after he was criticized for allowing a man from a local creationist group to address the church and school while sporting hair they considered too long and quoting Scripture from the NIV translation of the Bible.