There is a tree in Japan that has stood for over 1,000 years.
At Sairenji Temple in Ibaraki Prefecture, this ancient ginkgo bursts into brilliant gold each autumn, transforming the temple grounds into a breathtaking sea of yellow.
📹Syoo. Jp
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Good tech but ... "Its security clearance remains pending until Starlink explains how, given its global footprint and US ownership, it can guarantee compliance with Indian security requirements ..."
New statement from Scott Pelley:
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
The waste is heartbreaking.
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.
For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
Scott Pelley
Peter Magyar wins in landmark election - he has pledged to restore democratic checks and combat corruption - and equally significant - to reform healthcare, education and Hungary's dependence on Russian energy.
“I’ve congratulated the victorious party.” After 16 years as prime minister, Hungary’s Viktor Orban conceded defeat to opposition leader Peter Magyar and his Tisza party.
France just pulled all of its remaining gold out of the U.S. Federal Reserve — and made $15 billion doing it.
Between July 2025 and January 2026, the Banque de France sold 129 tonnes of gold it had stored in New York since World War II, then used the proceeds to buy higher-quality gold bars on the European market, storing them in its underground vault in Paris. The move flipped a €7.7 billion net loss in 2024 into an €8.1 billion net profit in 2025. France says the decision was purely technical — older bars needed upgrading to meet modern international standards, and it was easier to buy compliant gold in Europe than to refine and ship the old bars.
France now holds all 2,437 tonnes of its gold domestically — the world's fourth-largest national reserve. Germany, which still holds roughly a third of its gold in New York, is now facing renewed calls to do the same. Central banks worldwide have been quietly repatriating foreign-held gold for years, and France just made the financial case for doing it look even more compelling.
#gold #france #finance
“Artemis is the Greek goddess of the hunt, wilderness, nature, and chastity, often associated with the moon. A symbol of independence, the untamed wilderness, and the "power of the feminine" in both classical mythology and modern space exploration.”
Woo-hoo!
In the dramatic circumstances of war, information must guard against the risk of turning into propaganda. It is every journalist's duty to verify the news, so as not to become a megaphone for power. They must show the suffering that war always brings to populations, which entails showing the face of war and recounting it through the eyes of victims.
Tomás Vega invented a MouthPad, a groundbreaking device that enables people with paralysis to control digital devices using tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
BREAKING: MAGA Reacts to Trump attacking Iran:
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “We voted for America First and ZERO wars.”
Tucker Carlson: “absolutely disgusting and evil.”
Alex Jones: “Trump‘s HUGE gamble accelerates the world‘s trajectory towards a nuclear world war.”
Andrew Tate: “Why would going into a war with Iran benefit anybody in American at all?”
BREAKING: Our joint attack with Israel on Iran, has struck a girls’ elementary school in Minab. According to Iranian media 40 students have been killed in 48 injured.
I didn’t vote for this, did you?
Here’s an update on iran’s response:
Iran immediately retaliated, launching missiles and drones toward Israel and U.S. military bases across the region.
Gulf Arab states including the UAE and Qatar closed their airspace and reported intercepting Iranian missiles. One person was reported killed in Abu Dhabi from missile debris.
People who follow along will know that from time to time I feature what I call Truth Matters Musical Moments.
It’s a nod to my passion for music and two decades of working in recording studios in what I like to call mr reckless years. As a musician I miss those days as I reflect from time to time, but this clip reminded me of the joy of composition and scoring music. It’s an inspiring language that evokes a wide range of emotions, and I miss that.
This piece just brought all the joy flooding back, not least not least because of my admiration of fellow Brit Jacob Collier, who is a talent beyond my ability to articulate. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
Just watch the joy on the faces of the musicians and the audience alike. Jacob is a unique talent indeed.
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