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🤦🏻‍♀️ Senate #Republicans blocked aid for #Israel and #Ukraine from advancing in a key vote on Wednesday in protest over a dispute about border security policy, a clash that threatens to derail passage of the foreign aid.

cnn.com/2023/12/06/politics/se

»Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.«

Karl Lagerfeld

‘It’s quite clear to anyone with half a brain that they are committing genocide’

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters gets emotional talking about Israel’s atrocities in Palestine’s Gaza in an exclusive interview with TRT World.

tiktok.com/@trtworld/video/730

Group warns of potentially polluted water identified at #MaineBeaches

Maine Public | By Caty DuDevoir
Published July 11, 2023 at 2:39 PM EDT

"Thirty-six beaches in Maine were considered potentially unsafe for swimming on at least one day of #bacteria testing in 2022, according to a recent report.

"Sewage overflows and runoff pollution contaminated the waters surrounding multiple popular swimming spots such as #GoochsBeach in #Kennebunkport and #FerryBeach in #Scarborough.

"John Rumpler is the clean water director at the Environment Maine Research & Policy Center who co-authored the report.

"When we pave over everything with #ParkingLots, #StripMalls and big #roadways, that water has nowhere to go, so it sweeps up all the #pollution on the surface and pulls it right into nearby #rivers, #streams, and #coastalwaters, or overwhelms our combined sewage systems,' Rumpler says.

"Rumpler says that preserving the state's #wetlands can restore and expand the land's natural capacity to absorb rain water, and continuing to repair #sewage #infrastructure across the state is a step in the right direction.

"With the heavy precipitation these last few weeks, Rumpler is worried that pollution levels may be higher.

"Beach water quality updates can be found on the Maine Department of Environmental Protection website."

mainepublic.org/environment-an

#Wetlands #WetlandPreservation #SewageInfrastructure #WaterIsLife #ExtremeRain #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange

In a rare move, Secretary-General António Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN charter over the unfolding tragedy in Gaza.

thehill.com/policy/internation

In a letter to José Javier De la Gasca Lopez Domínguez, the current U.N. Security Council president, Guterres said he expects “public order to completely break down due to desperate conditions, rendering even limited humanitarian assistance impossible.”
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If I understand correctly (I'm no expert), this would set a call for a humanitarian cease fire in motion in the Security Council, and force the US to veto it if they want to allow Israel to continue the fighting.

Johnny Cash as Agent K is Man In Black
before they recruited Agent J and had to
call it Men In Black.

#JohnnyCashAnything
#HashTagGames


It has just come to my attention that Brenda Lee's Christmas song has been hitting the Hot 100 for 60 years in a row. Well, I'm-a gonna Cash in on that.

Rock Island Line Around the Christmas Tree.

youtu.be/4wR-NS8XOaM?si=iDh36k

The report notes that there is approximately 947.5 million square feet of strip mall space across the United States, as reported by the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Read more: t.co/AmXcILqQVb

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

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I wish there was a universal toggle to not be forced to use any type of AI. Not for msft office, not for coding, not for search, opt out of everything.

If i wanted broken results, text or code, I’d ask my 6yo for advice. Stop wasting my time or cpu cycles and ram for garbage.

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