SOUTH PARK PREDICTED THE PARIS OLYMPICS!

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Hey Jim any results on those other 100 investigations you've been doing over the years?

Israel's Smotrich urges 'complete destruction' of Gaza instead of truce talks

Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for the 'complete destruction' of the Gaza Strip as he hit out against truce talks between the government and Hamas.

https://theuglytruth.xyz/israels-smotrich-urges-complete-destruction-of-gaza-instead-of-truce-talks/

Greg Reese—Evangelical Zionists Pushing the World Into Armageddon

For many American Christians, it will always be Israel First.

https://gregreese.substack.com/p/evangelical-zionists-pushing-the

U.S. Poured Billions of Military Aid Into Lebanon. Now Israel Threatens to Invade.

The U.S. is warning Israel against launching all-out war on Hezbollah — while continuing to send Israel unconditional military aid.

Attacks between Israel and Hezbollah, the militia and political party based just across Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, are fueling fears that a wider regional conflict may erupt any day.

Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Shia group loosely allied with Hamas, has been in a low-level war with Israel since the conflict in Gaza began last October. Hezbollah, which is believed to have an arsenal of more than 150,000 rockets and missiles, has repeatedly emphasized that attacks will continue as long as the war persists.

Over the weekend, a rocket attack that the U.S. and Israel said originated in Lebanon killed at least 12 civilians in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights. The Israeli foreign minister said that the attack “crossed all red lines,” and said “the moment of all-out war against Hezbollah and Lebanon” is approaching. Hezbollah denied responsibility for the strike.

On Monday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken cautioned Israeli President Isaac Herzog about ramping up its war with Hezbollah in response on a call, according to State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller.

But the conflict has been escalating for weeks. Israel has increased airstrikes aimed at the group. Current and former Israeli officials have also spoken publicly about shifting their attention from Hamas to the more powerful Hezbollah.

After Israeli officials warned of the possibility of launching a war that would send Lebanon “back to the Stone Age,” the Biden administration intensified diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions and forestall a conflict that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said could have “terrible consequences for the Middle East.”

The low-level war has created a tinderbox that could explode into a regional conflict involving Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Yemen and, to an even greater extent than now, the United States.

Lebanon and Israel are both U.S. allies, and America has poured billions of dollars in military aid into Lebanon, trained tens of thousands of its troops, and operated a proxy commando unit run by U.S. Special Operations forces there for years.

After all that aid and billions of dollars in support, Hezbollah remains Lebanon’s dominant military force and a quasi-“state within a state” that wields significant influence in Lebanon’s government. Israel’s war on Gaza has only bolstered the group’s support, according to some metrics.

While Hezbollah’s popularity is centered in Lebanon’s south and east, the group has gained support among non-Shiite Lebanese across the country since the outbreak of the war in Gaza due to its resistance to Israel, according to a survey by the Arab Barometer.

The U.S. has also contributed to the group’s sway, says Erik Sperling of Just Foreign Policy, an advocacy group critical of mainstream Washington foreign policy. “U.S. support for the mass killing of Palestinians is so indefensible that it is actually strengthening groups like Hezbollah, who are able to capitalize on their firm but relatively restrained opposition to U.S.-Israeli actions,” he told The Intercept.

In Lebanon’s south, the conflict with Israel in the past year has left towns and villages deserted and destroyed. More than 1,900 casualties, including 466 deaths, have been reported and almost 100,000 residents have already been displaced, according to the United Nations.

Last month, Human Rights Watch released a report chronicling Israel’s widespread use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon. The use of the incendiary agent, which ignites when exposed to oxygen and can cause gruesome lifelong injuries or death, may be a violation of international law and is, according to the rights group, “putting civilians at grave risk and contributing to civilian displacement.”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-military-aid-lebanon-israel-threatens-invade/5864393

Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’

Intel’s on a long, long road to recovery, and over 15,000 workers will no longer be coming along for the ride. The chipmaker just announced it’s downsizing its workforce by over 15 percent as part of a new $10 billion cost savings plan for 2025, which will mean a headcount reduction of greater than 15,000 roles, Intel tells The Verge. The company currently employs over 125,000 workers, so layoffs could be as many as 19,000 people.

Intel will reduce its R&D and marketing spend by billions each year through 2026; it will reduce capital expenditures by more than 20 percent this year; it will restructure to “stop non-essential work,” and it’ll review “all active projects and equipment” to make sure it’s not spending too much.

“This is painful news for me to share. I know it will be even more difficult for you to read,” reads part of a memo from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to staff, which you can also read in full at the bottom of this post.

“We will reduce layers, eliminate overlapping areas of responsibility, stop non-essential work…”

The company just reported a loss of $1.6 billion for Q2 2024, substantially more than the $437 million it lost last quarter. “Our Q2 financial performance was disappointing, even as we hit key product and process technology milestones,” admitted Gelsinger in the company’s press release. “Our revenues have not grown as expected — and we’ve yet to fully benefit from powerful trends, like AI,” he writes in his employee memo.

Second quarter revenue was $12.8 billion, down just 1 percent year over year, and it’s not like all of Intel’s businesses are failing. While Intel has absolutely been losing money on its chipmaking Foundry business as it invests in new factories and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, to the tune of $7 billion in operating losses in 2023 and another $2.8 billion this quarter, the company’s products themselves aren’t unprofitable.

Almost all the losses this quarter and last quarter came from Foundry, while its sales continue to stay relatively stable and its PC and server businesses stay profitable. (The PC sales slump ended earlier this year.) The company is also set to receive up to $8.5 billion in US government funding from the CHIPS Act.

But investors didn’t seem happy that the company kept itself on a knife’s edge: over the past two years, before this quarterly loss, it had continued to swing between losses and profits overall, for just $1.1 billion in cumulative profit between Q2 2022 and Q1 2024. “Intel is now the worst-performing tech stock in the S&P 500 this year,” CNBC wrote in April.

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Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing

This is Lunar Lake — Intel’s utterly overhauled AI laptop chip

There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent

From a tech leadership perspective, Intel’s not yet a big player in AI server chips like Nvidia (maybe not even a notable small one like AMD), its relatively recent entry into graphics has yet to impress, and it had to overhaul its flagship laptop chips significantly to address the existential threat of Arm chips from the likes of Qualcomm and Apple, which can offer more battery life than Intel. Like competitors, the company now partially relies on TSMC, not just its own foundries, to help produce some of its most advanced chips.

Microsoft recently followed Apple’s lead in ditching Intel chips for its latest slate of consumer hardware, including the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro, and launched its Copilot Plus PC initiative exclusively with Qualcomm, without waiting for Intel (or AMD)’s new flagship laptop chips to join them. Intel is currently dealing with two generations of potentially defective desktop CPUs, though the company currently believes it can mitigate the issue with a software update and doesn’t currently plan recalls.

On the company’s earnings call today, Intel CFO David Zinsner just suggested that the company’s next flagship AI laptop chip, Lunar Lake, won’t be enough by itself to turn things around.

While he says “the AI PC is a big winner for the company,” and Intel plans to “ramp that product significantly next year to meet market demand,” he also described Lunar Lake as a “narrow targeted product” that relies on “external wafers” (read: manufactured by TSMC, not Intel). Intel also needs to buy the memory it’s including on each chip, as Lunar Lake laptops don’t have separate memory sticks.

Those are reasons why Lunar Lake will only modestly improve the company’s situation in 2025, he says.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/1/24210656/intel-is-laying-off-over-10000-employees-and-will-cut-10-billion-in-costs

Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality Rates in Australia

National, Senate Estimates

In a recent senate estimate session, I highlighted the alarming ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates. Australians from the Middle East died at three times the average death rate, those from Southern Europe twice as high, while sub-Saharan Africans had lower mortality rates.

What’s driving these disparities? The health experts suggest that low vaccine coverage and socioeconomic factors played roles in these differences. As vaccination efforts improved, mortality rates began to align more closely with the general population.

These are just theories, not explanations, and it comes across as a lazy response. There’s no justification for not making an effort to understand the reasons behind such a serious medical issue.

https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-mortality-rates-in-australia-%F0%9F%92%89%F0%9F%93%89/

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Pedo protection racket Aus strikes again

Former Catholic brother, Frank Keating, sentenced to six years jail for abusing students on school grounds

A former Catholic brother who brazenly abused students on school grounds, including in a classroom, could be released from prison after serving 20 months behind bars.

Frank Terrence Keating committed the offences against five students while he was working as a teacher and then principal at De La Salle College in Scarborough, in south-east Queensland, in the early 1980s.

On Friday, the Brisbane District Court heard Keating also sexually abused a student in his bedroom during a prayer meeting at his parents' home after telling them, "he wanted to say goodnight".

On another occasion, he abused a young girl on the school minibus, and at the movies during a school excursion.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-02/frank-keating-catholic-brother-sentenced-child-abuse-offences/104174138

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Donald Trump says Mark Zuckerberg keeps calling him on the phone

Former President Donald Trump has expressed a newfound fondness for Mark Zuckerberg, after years of railing against him.

In an interview with Fox that aired on Friday, Trump said Mark Zuckerberg recently called him “to apologize” after Meta’s AI assistant falsely said the assassination attempt on Trump didn’t happen. (A company blog post written by Joel Kaplan, Meta’s global head of policy, attributed the erroneous responses to “hallucinations” in the system.) In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump claimed that both Meta and Google were “RIGGING THE ELECTION!!!” by suppressing information about the shooting.

Zuckerberg’s apology could help thaw his contentious relationship with Trump, who has long held a public grudge against Meta and its chief executive.

“I believe Mark Zuckerberg, he called me a lot. They are working on, and I think they fixed it. He’s not doing what he did five years ago, with the $500 million dollars, I don’t believe.”

Trump’s $500 million comment may have referred to incorrect claims that Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, spent $400 million in 2020 to elect President Joe Biden. Zuckerberg and his wife did not donate those funds to Biden but to two nonprofit organizations that gave grants to state and local governments to help them pay for election administration.

Trump also said Zuckerberg complimented his reaction to being shot at, adding that Zuckerberg said he wouldn’t endorse a Democrat in this year’s presidential election because of the respect he has for Trump.

“Mark Zuckerberg called me — first of all, he called me a few times,” Trump said. “He called me after the event and he said, ‘That was really amazing, it was really brave.’ And he actually announced he’s not going to support a Democrat, because he can’t, because he respected me for what I did that day.”

When reached for comment, Meta spokesperson Dani Lever directed The Verge to a post on X by Meta communications head Andy Stone, which notes that Zuckerberg hasn’t endorsed candidates in previous elections.

Zuckerberg — who in July declined to endorse either Trump or then-Democratic front-runner Biden — called Trump’s fist pump after being shot at “one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life.” But unlike other Silicon Valley elites, Zuckerberg has neither endorsed nor publicly fundraised for Trump.

Trump’s grudge against Google, however, persists.

“Google, nobody called from Google,” Trump said during the Fox interview. Google has been accused of “censoring” search terms related to the shooting at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. Google Communications posted a thread on X refuting those claims, but Trump and conservative media have continued to accuse it of suppressing information.

“Google has been very bad. They’ve been very irresponsible,” Trump said. He said Google could be “close to shut down” by Congress. “Google has to be careful,” he said.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/2/24212119/trump-zuckerberg-meta-facebook-google-interview

Someone's bullshitting

As the Christian's and Muslims attack each other

The Zionists sit back and laugh at their handy work

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>>21340207 Paedophile intelligence officer at 'Britain's FBI' who used his work's Dark Web access to view hundreds of child porn images is jailed for 18 months

>>21340140 Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality Rates in Australia

>>21340121 Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’

>>21340253 A high-ranking FDA official admitted that "puberty blockers" carry an "increased risk of depression and suicidality" but called for approving them

>>21340276 Pedo protection racket Aus strikes again

>>21340287 FBI escalates censorship efforts ahead of 2024 election, intensifies coordination with social media

>>21340336 This Is Serious 🚨 Shelley Moore Capito Has Uncovered Biden Admin Secretly Funding 'Anti-American' Groups Through The Inflation Reduction Act

>>21340337 Protesters in Sunderland, North East England, have set fire to a Police Station.

>>21340367 Secretary of State of Missouri candidate Valentina Gomez: "These faggots should get their own faggot category, because before, if a man hit a woman, it used to land him in jail."

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Not saying you are a clown but when you leave these behind ones gotta wonder!