As US President Donald Trump threatens to attack Iran if it fails to reach a nuclear deal, 59 percent of Israelis support joining a potential US strike on the Islamic Republic, according to a Channel 12 poll released on Thursday.

Another 29% of respondents were opposed to joining a US strike on Iran, and the remaining 12% were uncertain.

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Meanwhile, both the Channel 12 poll and a survey by Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language sister site, showed Netanyahu’s coalition and the opposition parties again failing to clinch a Knesset majority in the next election without the support of an Arab faction.

Leaders of both blocs have rejected relying on Arab support to form a government.

The idea that negotiation is still on the table here to avoid bombing Iran frankly just not hold water.

Iranian students chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with counter-protesters on Saturday in the latest display of anger at the country's clerical leaders, who also face a US military build-up aimed at pressuring them into a nuclear deal.

TORONTO (AP) — ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Friday it considered last year alerting Canadian police about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.

OpenAI said last June the company identified the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar via abuse detection efforts for “furtherance of violent activities.”

The San Francisco tech company said it considered whether to refer the account the Royal Canadian Mounted Police but determined at the time that the account activity did not meet a threshold for referral to law enforcement. OpenAI banned the account in June 2025 for violating its usage policy.

The 18-year-old killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia last week and died from a self-inflicted gun shot wound.

State-linked hackers are increasingly targeting critical sectors with no signs of stopping.

NATO countries’ restrained response to hybrid attacks is at odds with public opinion, new polling shows: Broad swaths of the public in key allied countries say actions such as cyberattacks on hospitals should be considered acts of war.

The POLITICO Poll, conducted in the United States, Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, showed a majority of people agreed that a cyberattack that shuts down hospitals or power grids constitutes an act of war. Canadians felt the strongest about the issue, with 73 percent agreeing.

Respondents from all five countries also rallied behind the idea that sabotaging undersea cables or energy pipelines — which has occurred more frequently in recent years — should be considered be an act of war.

Trump calls six justices a ‘disgrace to the nation’ while praising three justices who dissented

Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked his use of tariffs, calling them a “disgrace to the nation”, and later signing documents imposing a 10% tariff on all countries.

Trump said he would immediately sign an order increasing tariffs globally by 10% under section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 and will begin investigations of unfair trade practices allowing further tariffs. He asserted that he had the authority to impose additional tariffs under existing statutes without congressional approval.

By Friday evening, Trump posted on Truth Social: “It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately.”

The recent reporting by The New York Times, citing Airbus commercial satellite imagery captured Friday, shows a substantial U.S. air power buildup at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in eastern Jordan, with at least 60 combat aircraft now parked on the aprons alongside unmanned aerial systems, helicopters, and newly emplaced air defense assets. Flight tracking data referenced in the report indicate dozens of cargo aircraft arrived within days, delivering personnel, munitions, and support equipment, suggesting a rapid force surge.

The base, long used as a coalition hub for operations in Syria and Iraq, now appears configured for higher tempo strike operations and defensive coverage tied to potential Iran contingencies. The scale and speed of the deployment point to deliberate positioning rather than routine rotation, reinforcing U.S. readiness options across the eastern Mediterranean and Persian Gulf theaters.

War is going to happen, make no mistake.

With forefinger and thumb he will moisten the forehead

Nostradamus predicted Smash Mouth. This means he was LEGIT

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.ml/post/43479367

Surveillance strategies in the UK and Israel often go global

A new technology is not simply another tool at our disposal. It changes us as well.

Since prediction markets makes it possible to legally make money of the expected outcomes. Both insider trading and changing outcomes becomes ways of legally making money.

This means that it not only predicts, but makes those in power able to change the world in order to make money of a prediction.

Outcomes of bets is altered by those with power. Which means bets on the likelihood of a Greenland annexation is heavily affected by Trumps speeches. Since so many people bet on this outcome, even a small change of % moves huge amounts of money.

This means that the true likelihood is unknown and not actually predicted. It just gives that illusion.

This is the true nature of prediction markets. Transferring more wealth to those with money and power.

Regulations might stifle this somewhat in the future. Trump and his admin does not want this of course.

Chinese imports to the euro zone are up by 27% in volume terms since the start of 2024, with prices down by 8%, he said, adding that this was driving down the price of goods exposed to Chinese competition.

Creators worldwide are facing mounting financial pressures as rapid advances in digital technologies and artificial intelligence continue to transform the cultural and creative industries, according to a new global report released by the UN culture agency, UNESCO, on Wednesday.

In their own words
“Arm yourselves. Today. If you're worried about the law, you're worried about the wrong things.” - Jeremy MacKenzie, 2025
“You gotta harden your hearts. So if hearing people talk in a very aggressive and offensive way is too much for you, are you really gonna be able to stomach like men, women and children being loaded onto fucking boats at gunpoint so they can be sent back to India? Like if the word, you know, “n****r” is obviously like the most offensive one, if that is too much for you, I seriously doubt your ability to have the intestinal fortitude to stomach what needs to happen because what needs to happen is very aggressive and extreme.” - Alex Vriend, 2024
“‘Are you gonna, are you gonna suggest deporting the Jews?’ Yeah. Yeah, I think, I think we do all the time.” - Alex Vriend reading and responding to a comment on his livestream, 2024
“Give me some guys and some weapons and we'll fucking get rid of them. We'll take them up. Get in the truck, you're going to the airport. ‘Make me.’ Okay, bang. Anybody else? Anybody else not want to go to the airport? Who wants to go to the airport? Show of hands, who wants to go to the airport? I only had to shoot one, see? Easy. - Jeremy MacKenzie, 2024
“It's funny, this all started as a joke. Making YouTube videos, but then we got noticed, right? The Prime Minister had said our name in the House of Commons multiple times. So, we realized that we can move the needle in politics in Canada. So we decided to take it a little bit more seriously.” - Derek Harrison, Road Rage Terror Tour stop in Carp, Ontario, 2024

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10784541

The nights of January 8-9, 2026, saw Iran go up in a coordinated blaze after two weeks of protests. I, and many other Iranians, witnessed the breakdown in public order during those days, and the influence of outside forces instigating the explosion.

Crosspost from https://altmedia.house/post/203756