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theconversation.com Cannabis legalization may hit a ‘red wall’ at the ballot box

Five states have marijuana on the ballot in some form this November. But the once-bipartisan legalization movement now faces an uphill battle in states dominated by Republicans.

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www.twz.com Israeli Strikes Knocked Out All Of Iran’s S-300 Air Defense Systems: Officials

The apparent destruction of the last three Iranian S-300s would pave the way for expanded Israeli airstrikes. The apparent destruction of the last three Iranian long-range S-300 systems would help pave the way for more Israeli airstrikes.

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abcnews.go.com Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in US, executed in Iran over terror conviction

Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces, has been executed in Iran

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apnews.com The trajectory of Ukraine's fight against Russia hangs on the outcome of the US election

The decisions of the next U.S. president will determine the trajectory of Ukraine's fight against Russia’s invasion.

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Analysis: Iran faces tough choices in deciding how to respond to Israeli strikes
  • Regional experts suggested that Israel’s relatively limited target list was intentionally calibrated to make it easier for Iran to back away from escalation.

    As Yoel Guzansky, who formerly worked for Israel’s National Security Council and is now a researcher at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, put it: Israel’s decision to focus on purely military targets allows Iran “to save face.”

    Israel giving them the out.

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  • www.upi.com Ukraine: Russia transporting North Korean troops to front line in civilian trucks

    Russia has begun sending North Korean troops to a frontline area in unmarked civilian trucks, Kyiv's military intelligence said, as concerns mount over Pyongyang's involvement in Moscow's war against Ukraine.

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    apnews.com Analysis: Iran faces tough choices in deciding how to respond to Israeli strikes

    How Iran chooses to respond to the unusually public Israeli airstrikes could determine whether the region spirals further toward all-out war or holds steady at an already devastating and destabilizing level of violence.

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    ICC prosecutor allegedly tried to suppress sexual misconduct claims against him
  • The Guardian revealed earlier this year how Israel’s intelligence agencies ran a decade-long campaign against the ICC that included threats and attempts to smear senior staff. Against this backdrop, ICC officials close to Khan are strongly hinting the allegations may be part of a smear campaign by Israel.

    However, in a months-long investigation into the allegations against Khan, the Guardian has found no evidence that Israel, or any other country, had any involvement in the underlying allegations – although there does appear to have been a subsequent effort by anonymous actors to brief journalists and post leaks online.

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  • www.theguardian.com ICC prosecutor allegedly tried to suppress sexual misconduct claims against him

    Exclusive: Karim Khan denies claims he repeatedly urged alleged victim to disavow allegations against him

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    Iranians upset with Tehran over Israel tensions
  • https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/dw-news/

    Overall, we rate Deutsche Welle (DW) Left-Center biased based on editorial positions that slightly favor the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record. (8/15/2016) Updated (M. Huitsing 05/26/2024)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AReliable_sources%2FPerennial_sources#Sources

    Deutsche Welle is a German state-owned international broadcaster. It is considered generally reliable. Some editors consider that the quality of DW depends on the language edition.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle

    Deutsche Welle (pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈvɛlə] ⓘ; "German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW (pronounced [deːˈveː]), is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service consists of channels in German, English, Spanish, Hindi, Persian, and Arabic. The work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act, stating that content is intended to be independent of government influence. DW is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

    Additionally, dw.com has been posted here countless times before with no question. I see no reason to question it here as well.

    https://lemmy.world/post/21283713 https://lemmy.world/post/21100258 https://lemmy.world/post/20702216 https://lemmy.world/post/18000853

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    Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon May Doom Kamala Harris’s White House Chances
  • Quite the privileged perspective, shaming Palestinians for trying to get what is arguably the best outcome for Gaza out of all the likely options. "Voting with your conscience" always seemed like a worse move than "voting with your brain."

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  • home.treasury.gov U.S. Department of the Treasury Announces Awards to Support Development of 26,400 Affordable Housing Units

    WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) today awarded 48 organizations $246.4 million for the development of affordable housing and community facilities serving low-income, families and communities that need additional investme...

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    Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon May Doom Kamala Harris’s White House Chances
  • https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/uncommitted-voting-kamala-harris

    In what follows, I will further explain why many “Uncommitted” voters should consider voting for Harris-Walz, by distinguishing between different kinds of “Uncommitted” voters and the different sorts of moral and political commitments that might lead them to be electorally “uncommitted,” and that also might lead them to commit the singular act of casting a vote for Kamala Harris.

    My hope is that this will persuade at least some readers that the defeat of Trumpism is an urgent moral and political imperative that should be important even to many who are understandably outraged by the Biden administration’s deafness to the demands of “Uncommitted” citizens.

    In a way, what I am saying is very similar to what leaders of the “Uncommitted” initiative have themselves said, by publicly refusing to “endorse Harris” but declaring that their movement “opposes a Donald Trump presidency, and urging supporters “to vote against him and avoid third-party candidates that can inadvertently boost his changes.” Indeed, Ilhan Omar, one of the strongest pro-Palestinian advocates in the U.S. government, has even endorsed Harris, even as she continues to support “Uncommitted” demands. Those leaders obviously have more credibility than I do, and what they are saying strikes me as wise. In what follows I simply elaborate on some of the reasons why others might consider it wise.

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  • www.dw.com Iranians upset with Tehran over Israel tensions – DW – 10/26/2024

    There's mounting public anger in Iran as many fear the government is more involved in supporting militant groups like Hezbollah and Hamas abroad than addressing the dire economic needs at home.

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    Israel strike crippled Iran's missile production, sources say
  • https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/satellite-photos-show-israel-hit-iran-missile-fuel-mixing-facilities-researchers-2024-10-26/

    Commercial satellite imagery showed that Israeli airstrikes hit buildings during an attack on Saturday that Iran used for mixing solid fuel for ballistic missiles, according to separate assessments by two American researchers.

    The judgments were reached by David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector who heads the Institute for Science and International Security research group, and Decker Eveleth, an associate research analyst at CNA, a Washington think tank.

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  • kyivindependent.com Zelensky rejects UN secretary-general's visit over Russia trip, presidential source tells AFP

    "After Kazan, (Guterres) wanted to come to Ukraine, but the president did not confirm his visit. So Guterres won't be here, specifically because of the humiliation of sanity and international law in Kazan," AFP reported, citing an unnamed high-ranking Ukrainian presidential source.

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    kyivindependent.com Russia provided Yemen's Houthis with satellite data to attack vessels in Red Sea, WSJ reports

    Such assistance shows how far Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to go to undermine the Western economic and political order, the WSJ wrote.

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    www.barrons.com Blinken Announces Another $135 Million In Aid To Palestinians

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday announced another $135 million in US aid for the Palestinians as he called again for a ceasefire in Gaza.

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    Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $430 Million to Accelerate Domestic Clean Energy Manufacturing in Former Coal Communities
  • Your original complaint (spending more on Israel than climate change) was at least an order of magnitude or two off from what is actually going on, and the "millions" part was easily disproven. Confronted with that, your new complaint (to the same ends) is now the time span under which these sums are dedicated, no longer the actual amount, despite that being satisfied now. I know what that sounds like.

    Did you find a source that proves we could meet our climate goals if we didn't fund Israel?

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    Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $430 Million to Accelerate Domestic Clean Energy Manufacturing in Former Coal Communities
  • That's one part of the article, yes. And your last claim requires a citation.

    But! If we stopped wasting money burning fuel for Israel, we could meet those goals!

    Again, I understand the fallacy. I trust you will amend your previous statements? "Billions for climate change"?

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  • www.csis.org The Rising Threat of Anti-Government Domestic Terrorism: What the Data Tells Us

    The number of U.S. domestic terrorist attacks and plots against government targets motivated by partisan political beliefs in the past five years is nearly triple the number of such incidents in the previous 25 years combined, according to new CSIS analysis.

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    www.voanews.com South Korea threatens to send arms, personnel to Ukraine

    It’s Seoul’s strongest warning yet that it may become more involved in Russia's war on Ukraine

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