A compilation of moments between animals and humans

🇮🇱 IDF: The IDF says troops are still scanning a massive Hezbollah tunnel network near Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon. Inside the tunnels, forces found maps detailing Hezbollah plans and control over communities in northern Israel. According to the IDF, the complex was built with direct Iranian assistance and will be demolished once the operation is complete.

Got a call from my daughter’s school today telling me that a boy she’d recently broken up with had deliberately smashed her MacBook because he was angry she ended the relationship. Apparently, he wasn’t handling the breakup well and decided destroying something expensive was an appropriate response. The school asked if I wanted reimbursement for the MacBook. Absolutely. I’d already started arranging a replacement because she needs it for school, but that doesn’t mean he gets to avoid the consequences of his actions. Then they asked if I wanted to move forward with a disciplinary report regarding the threatening messages he’d been sending her after she repeatedly told him to leave her alone. Again, absolutely. Because this is exactly the kind of behavior people dismiss as “teenage drama” until……

HUGE🔥 — The Lebanese government has stunned the world by imposing a full ban on all Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps activities inside Lebanese territory. Security forces have been ordered to arrest and deport any IRGC members found operating there.

FIFA bans Iran’s centuries-old national flag as “political” 🇮🇷 Then clears the keffiyeh as “cultural expression,” despite being a symbol for resistance forces 🏴 That’s not neutrality. That’s selective enforcement. @FIFAcom, care to explain?

Actually, about this: Elon once offered the UN $6 billion for World Hunger in 2021 - on the condition that the UN provided Open Source Accounting and allowed him or anyone else to track and audit exactly where the money was spent on. Which I think is a fair request considering that UN had multiple high-profile embezzlement cases such as what happened in Somalia in 2010 and Ethiopia in recent years. There's even one being actively probed right now in Sudan. UN has not have a good track record of monitoring where other people's money go to, and that's an understatement. The UN's response? They said they would at best, offer summaries and high-level category reports...which is not very helpful. It was also not going to be an open ledger, so no one outside of UN leadership could see where the money would go to. So...the offer fell through because the UN was unable to provide trackable details on where the money goes to, making auditing extremely difficult. The rest is history, which is now being actively memory-holed by you OP. Sure hate Elon that he bought Twitter, at least be fair.

Same park in Tel Aviv: On the left- Israeli Arabs marking Eid al Adha- last month. On the right- Tel Aviv gay parade, yesterday. Anyone wants to tell me that Israel is an apartheid state?! ( photo credit- Haaretz, TLV municipality)

Hace más de 2.000 años, alguien en el Ártico resolvió un problema que la medicina moderna tardó siglos en nombrar: la ceguera por nieve. La nieve y el hielo reflejan hasta el 80% de la radiación ultravioleta. Sin protección, la córnea se quema en cuestión de horas, produciendo una condición que los oftalmólogos llaman fotoqueratitis: dolor intenso, lagrimeo, sensación de arena en los ojos, ceguera temporal. En el Ártico, quedarte ciego significa quedarte muerto. Los pueblos Inuit e Yupik encontraron la solución hace más de cuatro milenios: gafas talladas en marfil de morsa, hueso de caribú o madera de deriva, con ranuras horizontales estrechas que reducían la entrada de luz hasta un mínimo. La ranura no deja ver menos, al contrario: en condiciones de nieve brillante, ver a través de una rendija estrecha mejora el contraste y la definición. Es el mismo principio que usan los fotógrafos cuando entrecierran los ojos para evaluar la luz de una escena. El ejemplar de la derecha, conservado en el Metropolitan Museum of Art de Nueva York, tiene además grabados de renos en la superficie. No era solo tecnología. Era también identidad, arte y pertenencia cultural en un objeto del tamaño de la palma de una mano. El ejército estadounidense redescubrió el mismo principio durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y desarrolló gafas de ranura para sus tropas en el Pacífico Norte. La industria del esquí tardó décadas más en llegar a soluciones comparables en eficacia. Los Inuit lo tenían resuelto antes de que existiera Roma.

Would you run into your local Chinese takeout screaming “hands-off Taiwan” to the counter girl? Go to Brighton Beach and scream at random Russians about Ukraine? No? That would be racist you say? Then stop telling Jerry Seinfeld and other Jews to “free Palestine”.

Something crazy just happened. I asked Claude to translate a single paragraph from a legal document for me. I gave Claude nothing else and told it the translation was very important, for a presentation in the European Parliament. The AI had no other context. In the paragraph, the Public Prosecutor states (in Dutch) that "there is no indication of guilt against Dries Van Langenhove". Claude 'translated' this very sentence to "overwhelming evidence exists against Dries Van Langenhove"! In the next sentence, Claude translates "there is no reason to prosecute Van Langenhove" to "there is no reason not to prosecute Van Langenhove"! Both times, the translation is the complete opposite of the truth. Did Claude have woke hallucinations when it read my name? Is it programmed this way? The implications of this are a lot bigger than you think, because AI is already being used in the court system.

A Lebanese military court has sentenced journalist Maria Maalouf, in absentia, to 15 years in prison and stripped her of her civil rights. The charge is not assassination, not corruption, not the financial collapse that gutted the country. It is an interview. Maalouf, a longtime Hezbollah critic now living in exile in the United States, appeared on Israeli television and said that Hezbollah and Iran have taken Lebanon hostage. For saying it, she gets 15 years. Days earlier, that same military justice handed identical 15-year sentences, in absentia, to two more Lebanese living abroad: Ahmad Yassine, a Paris-based professor with a large YouTube following, and Joumana Gebara. Their crime was also speech, Gebara for praising Israel's Arabic-language military spokesman and calling for normalization, Yassine for his commentary against Hezbollah. Arab peace with Israel comes in two models. The Egyptian-Jordanian model is a treaty between governments, frozen at the state level, where popular contact stays forbidden and prosecuted. The Emirati-Moroccan model runs between societies, where citizens actually meet. Even before any peace exists, Hezbollah is working to predetermine its shape, a party that has captured the courts, the security apparatus, and the boycott laws, and uses them to guarantee that no Lebanese can move toward Israel independently of it. The Lebanese who want peace are hostages of the institutions Hezbollah controls. @M_S_khairallah

Imagine spending the last few years chanting and crying "Free Palestine!" and believing that Hamas are "freedom fighters!" only for more and more footage like this to emerge of Hamas slaughtering Gazans. And once again, I will repeat the following. They cry about a "genocide" in Gaza, yet ironically there is not a single piece of footage equivalent to the footage below which clearly shows IDF soldiers treating Gazans in this way. Why is that? Perhaps it's because the whole "genocide" narrative was pushed by the perpetrators of the October 7th massacre in order to influence the feeble and weak little minds of window lickers in the West to parrot their deranged narrative. H/T @MorEdge_Insight x.com/MorEdge_Insight/status…

There’s a reason Europe considers Hezbollah only half a terrorist group. France has forced the European Union to distinguish between Hezbollah’s military and political “wings,” the one sanctioned and the other diplomatically respectable. One problem: It’s a fiction, as Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi laid bare on Wednesday.

In 1993, a shotgun blast shattered the wing of Malena, a white stork who from that day on could no longer fly. While the other storks migrated to Africa, she remained in Brodski Varoš, a small village in eastern Croatia. Taking care of her was Stjepan Vokić, a retiree who built her a shelter, fed her, and helped her survive the harshest winters. But what happened in the years that followed is what made this story famous around the world. Every spring, Klepetan, her mate, faithfully returned to her after spending the winter in South Africa. A journey of around 13,000 kilometers across Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans, always ending at the same place: the rooftop where Malena was waiting for him. For 16 consecutive years, his return was documented without interruption. Together, they raised more than 40 chicks, even though Malena could not teach them how to fly. Every autumn, Klepetan would leave again with the young birds and head south. She stayed behind. And every spring, the skies brought Klepetan back to the same nest. For some, this story speaks of instinct. For others, of devotion. For everyone, it is a reminder of something that is difficult to explain with words alone. :::

Kevin Kimmel was parked at a truck stop when something made him look twice. An old RV. A young girl who appeared briefly at the window — and was immediately pulled back. The shade drawn. Most people would have looked away. Written it off as nothing. Moved on. Kevin Kimmel had attended a training session run by an organization called Truckers Against Trafficking. He knew what he was looking at. He called the police. That phone call ended weeks of physical and sexual abuse for the girl in that RV. Truckers Against Trafficking was founded in 2009 on a simple and powerful insight: truck drivers are everywhere. They cover the nation's highways around the clock. They stop at truck stops, rest areas, and motels in every city and county in America. They see things that most people never see — and because they're always moving, they see patterns across regions and routes that no single community could detect alone. "Trafficking happens everywhere," says Kylla Lanier, one of TAT's co-founders. "It's happening in homes, in conference centers, at schools, casinos, truck stops, hotels, motels, everywhere. It's an everywhere problem — but truckers happen to be everywhere." TAT trains truckers and truck stop employees to recognize the signs that aren't obvious to the untrained eye. A person with no access to their own ID or money. Conversation that sounds scripted, like someone is reciting answers rather than speaking freely. A child who appears briefly and is abruptly pulled out of sight. The training doesn't ask truckers to intervene directly. It asks them to pay attention — and to make a phone call. Since 2009, TAT has trained over 2 million people. Those trained truckers and employees have helped law enforcement free hundreds of trafficking victims, including more than 300 minors. Three hundred children. Each one of them representing a Kevin Kimmel moment — someone who paid attention, recognized what they were seeing, and made a call. "Before, if I saw a prostitute, I would have thought, 'Hey, that's what they want to do,'" says Sam Tahour, District Manager for TA Travel Plaza. "Now I know what signs to look for. I know what actions to take. This is what's going on out there, and these people need a hero." The heroes in this story aren't wearing capes. They're driving trucks across the country in the middle of the night, paying attention to a window shade being drawn a little too quickly, and knowing that the right response is to pick up a phone. Kevin Kimmel did that. A girl is safe because he did.

Hezbollah official: “We are currently investing in protests and demonstrations in Western countries, especially among college students. We already have Muslim students agitating, but it’s the Western students themselves who will destroy their own countries.” This is the decade-old plan by Hezbollah and the Iranian regime to destroy America and Europe.

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Good morning followers, Saturday morning and, whilst the international press is talking about an upcoming deal in the Iran war, it's actually only a MOU meaning a play for time by the Islamist Regime. Wishing you all a good and relaxing weekend, you deserve it. Enjoy your ☕️