Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Asked about a UN finding that Iran committed crimes against humanity against its own people, Iran's president claims Washington paid for it
Asked whether he accepts the UN findings that American strikes hit the Minab girls school and that Iran committed crimes against humanity against its own protesters, Pezeshkian answered only the second half:
"More than five hundred security and military forces had a demonstration.
Apparently, they say it was a simple demonstration.
In what demonstration 500 and military forces get murdered?
They were attempting a coup."
Calling protesters armed coup plotters is how every government in history has justified shooting its own citizens, and Tehran has since executed people from those demonstrations.
Source: WF Witness on TG / Writer: Daniel
SpaceX to launch six Argentina satellites aboard its Transporter-18 mission on October 1 from Vandenberg. 🇦🇷
• 4 Satellogic Earth-observation satellites
• UNLP’s USAT-1 CubeSat
• Argentine Army’s ETNS demonstrator
Another big win for SpaceX’s rideshare program.
South Korea has charged for household trash by volume since 1995.
Residents buy official district-printed bags at convenience stores. Bigger bag = higher price, because the disposal fee is baked into the bag. Recyclables stay free to drop off, which is why people actually sort.
AMERICA IS BACK.
Trump and Xi on the Truman Balcony. Melania and Madam Peng beside them.
Presidential Seal front and center. That is what strength looks like when the White House stops apologizing and starts hosting the world on American terms.
The golden age is not coming. It is already here!
🇷🇺 Russia’s Geran-4 has been ripped apart... and what’s hiding under the shell tells a much bigger story
RFE/RL’s teardown shows a jet-powered drone built around speed and reach, combining a turbojet engine, advanced camera, navigation systems and communications hardware designed to help it penetrate deep into Ukraine.
But one of the most revealing details is where some of that technology reportedly comes from: foreign-made components were found inside the Russian UAV.
But if foreign technology is still ending up inside Russian weapons, how effective are the controls designed to keep it out?
Writer: Val
https://t.co/lydJiv4jG2…
University of Zimbabwe receives @Starlink kits to bring free internet to students & lecturers. 🇿🇼
The kits will support teaching, learning and research across campus. The kits were donated by Cosmas Mushininga. Starlink is opening doors to knowledge and opportunity.
🇮🇱🇵🇸 Al-Aqsa on edge again as dozens of Israeli settlers enter under heavy police protection
Led by Yehuda Glick, the groups entered the compound Thursday and performed Jewish religious rituals, according to the Jerusalem Governorate.
Palestinian officials say these visits are part of an effort to chip away at the site’s longstanding status quo: a claim disputed within the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict over access and sovereignty at the holy site.
At Al-Aqsa, even a few minutes inside the gates can carry consequences far beyond Jerusalem.
Writer: Val
https://t.co/WiqIDfsq61…
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's president was asked if he would sit down with Trump or invite him to Tehran
"Imagine if someone came into your country and assassinated your president, some of your top officials and your scientists.
If you were in our position, what would you do? Yet, here we are.
We're still talking, we're still engaging in dialogue, and we're still making our demands within the framework of international law."
He never said yes and he never said no, which is its own answer.
A sitting Iranian president cannot shake hands with the man who ordered the strike that killed Ali Khamenei... the politics at home would eat him alive for it.
Source: CBS News / Writer: Daniel
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's president was asked if he would sit down with Trump or invite him to Tehran
"Imagine if someone came into your country and assassinated your president, some of your top officials and your scientists.
If you were in our position, what would you do? Yet, here we are.
We're still talking, we're still engaging in dialogue, and we're still making our demands within the framework of international law."
He never said yes and he never said no, which is its own answer.
A sitting Iranian president cannot shake hands with the man who ordered the strike that killed Ali Khamenei... the politics at home would eat him alive for it.
Source: CBS News / Writer: Daniel
🇺🇸 SpaceX is turning America’s Mid-South into an AI computing powerhouse
More than 2.5 million square feet, millions of GPUs, and over 2 gigawatts of compute.
SpaceX says its massive AI clusters will help power medical research, emergency response, advanced manufacturing and national security while generating jobs and revenue for local schools, hospitals and public services.
The AI arms race has a physical footprint, and it’s getting enormous.
Writer: Val
https://t.co/ttiI3y3AQ3…
OpenAI has said that its technology meddled with the websites for the Education Department, Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
🇺🇸🇮🇱 UN week in New York produced the weirdest security scare of the trip, and it came up through the street.
Kevin Rodriguez and Samuel Reveron left court today after cops say they climbed out of a Park Avenue drain by the hotel Netanyahu uses.
They told police they were fishing the pipes for gold and whatever else washes down.
The charge is trespass.
New York will believe a sewer plot before it believes 2 people went underground to get paid.
That is the city in one sentence this week.
Writer: Lucas
https://t.co/jXljVD5dN3…