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Submission + - Medscape Gets Smoked (city-journal.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A once-reputable platform providing information to physicians caves to big tobacco by censoring accurate information about nicotine vaping — the most promising tool yet developed for getting smokers to quit.

Submission + - Facebook, YouTube and Amazon said they censored because of Biden threats (twitter.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: NEW 800 page report exposes the Biden White House censorship regime.

Features internal emails and texts from Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon, and YouTube employees.

Twitter Files dropped over a year ago. Did anyone imagine the other platforms were not under the same pressure?

Submission + - Victims of Communism Day—2024 (reason.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.

While communism is most closely associated with Russia, where the first communist regime was established, it had comparably horrendous effects in other nations around the world. The highest death toll for a communist regime was not in Russia, but in China. Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward was likely the biggest episode of mass murder in the entire history of the world.

Submission + - SES to buy Intelsat for $3.1B (reuters.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: SES plans to buy fellow satellite operator Intelsat, in a deal that could help the combined company compete with SpaceX's huge Starlink broadband network.

Submission + - SPAM: The unspeakable sexual violence committed on October 7

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Consisting mostly of interviews with the survivors — some of whom also spent time as hostages — the movie also features devastating and uncompromising looks at the aftermath. Perhaps most upsetting are the smartphone videos, often cut into the interviews, showing you exactly what the victims experienced as the missiles rained down and Hamas terrorists went on their violence/murder/rape spree.

The film's focus is on the sexual violence committed by Hamas during its terror invasion of southern Israel. It took nearly two days to drive out the invaders, during which they murdered about 1,200 Israelis (nearly all civilians), committed an unknown number of rapes, and took 240 hostages. Maybe as many as half of the hostages have since been released in a few exchanges for Hamas criminals. Most of the rest are feared dead.

"The booms of the rifles — they are getting closer to us, we understand that. We're waiting for them. It was like that," one woman said. "We're sitting and waiting for what will happen."

Another victim told how there was no shelter to be found. "We literally sat on the children with our backs to the door to protect them. Then we heard yelling, 'Al Yahud! Al Yahud! [The Jews! The Jews!]' They were here. They were in our house."

Another young woman's story was when I had to take my first break:

My Dad, he made a quick decision and took the rail guard from my sister's bed and stood here at the entrance [she points to the bedroom doorway] with the rail guard, like this [poised and ready to hit anyone coming through]. And then they shot at the door. You can see that the bullets went through here [gesturing to bullet holes and shattered glass]. And... and that was it. They came in and shot Dad right away. I saw him... taking his last breaths. His arms were up and like... just a second before that he'd been sitting here and I didn't say goodbye to him or hug him or kiss him, and...

...and that's when Hamas led the women and children out single file. One of the girls fainted, and when her sister couldn't revive her with water, Hamas shot the passed-out girl in the face. The young lady telling the story — the one who got her little sister the water — appears to be in her teens.

Shortly after, a Hamas video shows her and her mother being taken away in a car. "Mom, they're going to rape me now," she remembers saying once they reached the Gaza Strip. "They're going to torture me."

This is what the protestors on American campuses are either denying or supporting. If they knew the truth, would it make a difference? I don't know, but Stalinsky and Sandberg deserve your help getting it out there.
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Submission + - Russia vetoes U.N. resolution on nuclear weapons in space (spacenews.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Russia cast the only vote against the draft resolution that reaffirmed provisions in the Outer Space Treaty prohibiting the placement of nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in space. Thirteen other members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution while China abstained. As a permanent member of the Security Council, though, Russia’s vote acted as a veto preventing adoption of the resolution.

The Outer Space Treaty already forbids those, so this is basically a symbolic move on both sides. But to the extent that the Outer Space Treaty's prohibition is weakening, the prospects for a nuclear Orion spaceship improve.

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