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An obituary from London’s Telegraph. Cleo Sylvestre, who has died aged 79, was the first black woman to appear in a leading role at the National …
Cleo Sylvestre, acclaimed actress of The Marvellous Adventure of Mary Seacole and first black woman to play a National Theatre lead, dies at 79
Current military officials share the same assessment, saying Israel is losing the war, deterrence and the captives
— Read on www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-hamas-winning-war-says-ex-top-israeli-general
Lithium-ion battery fires are dangerous, but small batteries alone don’t usually cause this much damage.
— Read on www.404media.co/experts-lebanon-pager-explosions-likely-not-lithium-batteries-alone/
The Iranian ambassador was among those injured in the apparent attack.
— Read on truthout.org/articles/2800-wounded-at-least-9-killed-across-lebanon-after-pagers-explode/
An interview with Fathi Nimer on the West Bank since the war in Gaza, and the history of annexation and occupation.
— Read on www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/fathi-nimer/
During the Trump era, when troops of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, Proud Boys, MAGA hats, militiamen, and Men’s Rights Activists descended on my city, there was little debate about what to call them: “fascist” seemed simple enough, even if one did not always know what ideology, exactly, moved which knife- or stick-wielding creep.
— Read on brooklynrail.org/2024/09/field-notes/fascism-late-early-fascists-now-then/
Springfield City School District closed one middle school and evacuated two elementary schools.
— Read on www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/two-springfield-schools-evacuated-another-closed-district-cites-police-info/K26FV7URSVGPTB2IUPSFJCGUDM/
Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef among the hundreds of SAG members calling on leadership to keep people from being blacklisted for their views on Palestine.
— Read on www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/mark-ruffalo-ramy-youssef-call-for-pro-palestine-sag-member-protection-1235993880/
Have Oil Producers hijacked UN climate conferences?
Answer: Yes, they have hijacked UN COPs (Conference of the Parties). Oh please! It’s blatantly obvious. COP28 was held in Dubai. The serving president of the climate conference COP28 was Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, who’s chair of Dhabi National Oil Company and who publicly stated there is “no science” behind calls for a phase out of fossil fuels. But he conveniently overlooks reams, and reams, of long-standing scientific evidence of CO2 emissions directly linked to global temperature levels. It’s established science, period.As of today, there are plenty of public statements by the fossil fuel industry that it has decided to ignore the climate change issue and move ahead full blast with increased production. This is reality. For example, The Guardian d/d April 2024: World Set to Quadruple Oil and Gas Production by 2030, Led by New U.S. Projects. Fasten seat belts it’s blast-off time, meaning hotter and hotter, faster and faster, as Thwiates totters.
— Read on mronline.org/2024/09/10/humans-rescue-doomsday-glacier/
The Remote Lounge was a high-tech bar in NYC’s Bowery District from 10/2001 to 11/2007. The bar’s gimmick was that it was packed full of monitors and closed-circuit television cameras.
Anyone in the bar could control each CCTV camera via any of the terminals located throughout the establishment, thanks to their servo-mounted design. Each terminal had a joystick (for controlling a camera), a camera button (which would capture an image and upload it to the RemoteLounge.com), a next button (for switching to another camera), a chat button, and a landline phone.
So you could cycle through the bar until you found someone sitting near a camera, then you could request to chat with them via the phone. Sometimes, as you were watching a scene, your video camera would start to move, and you’d realize someone else was watching and controlling the same camera that you were.
— Read on docpop.org/2013/10/way-ahead-of-its-time-the-remote-lounge-nyc/
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