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$5_000 for every american adult if the GOP wins! But wait, that doesn't just mean you... black people, hispanics, and your annoying neighbour Nate are going to get the same amount of money. Worse yet: People who didn't vote AND those who voted democrat get this money as well!!!! This is free money, handed out equally and (nearly) unconditionally among US citizens. Do you know the proper term for this? IT'S SOCIALISM!!!! You're right, Donald Trump is enticing you to vote for him with COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA. You hate communism, don't you? You don't want lazy bastards to get money for doing nothing! The path forward is clear: If you hate black people, if you hate communism, and if you want America to REMAIN GREAT you must vote democrat or the communist devil will get you

cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/35428814

Source: https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/the-ghost-of-this-lamp/

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/67453943

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A beach cleaning robot nicknamed the 'beach dog', built by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Hainan Research Institute, has been under trial on the beaches of Sanya in south China's Hainan province. It ploughs, sieves, collects and then flattens the sand, pulling out cigarette butts, bottle caps and plastic buried below the surface where hand cleaning cannot reach. It clears roughly 2,000 square metres an hour on a solar rechargeable battery good for about eight hours.

AI can be unintentionally funny. "parenits", "lesnchie", "ispoes", "chivity", "handloags"

The idea works like this.

1. Most major banks provide loans to fund capitalist enterprises.
2. There aren't any large socialism funders since 1991.
3. Giving our money to capitalist banks contributes to capitalism.
4. Chinese banks are an option, but they aren't explicitly pro-fund-socialism.

Thus, a communism bank, would fund communism, such as local organizations and other grass root movements around the world, as "donations" or "loans".

To grow the money invested in the bank, Chinese banks can be used in the background for high yield investments. This allows a smaller amount of dividends to be passed to the bank members, while the rest being skimmed to "donations" and "loans".

So the process works like this.

1. Initial investors pool money together
2. Bank is setup with the initial pool
3. Pool is then added to a Chinese Banks high yield savings account, let's say 5% interest.
4. New members join, and are promised 3% interest.
5. 2% leftover interest is split between operation costs, and "donations" and "loans".

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Houthis Seize a Key Red Sea Island, Threatening Yet Another Global Oil Route

The Iran-backed militia’s ground offensive has reached the Bab al-Mandab, a Red Sea strait that is a choke point for global trade.

The Iranian-backed Houthi militia seized a strategic Red Sea island after days of fierce fighting, two Yemeni government officials said Friday, giving Iran and its allies sway over the two main routes for shipping oil out of the Middle East.

The capture of Perim Island, a day after Houthi forces swept into the strategic port city of Mokha, presents a major setback for Saudi Arabia, which now exports most of its oil through the Red Sea. The kingdom has faced frequent Houthi attacks on its tankers and energy facilities, even as Saudi officials have tried to avoid a direct war with the group, analysts say.

It also adds a new dimension in the war between the United States and Iran. The Islamic republic has already largely cut off the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, and leveraged that influence to demand concessions from the United States.

Now, Iran’s ally, the Houthi militia, has a foothold at the heart of a choke point in the Red Sea, and could further disrupt shipping there.

It follows days of intense ground battles in Yemen as the Houthis have staged a lightning advance against forces allied with the internationally recognized Yemeni government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia.

In July, as tensions between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis escalated, the group declared a blockade on Saudi ships in the Red Sea, straining oil prices.

The widening clashes in the Middle East in recent days have pushed up oil prices, which surged on Thursday above $109 a barrel for Brent crude, the international benchmark. Oil prices eased to around $104 a barrel on Friday, but are still at their highest point since July.

Ahmed Nagi, a senior analyst for Yemen at the International Crisis Group, said that the Houthi takeover of Perim Island was a “game changer,” enabling the group to more easily destabilize Red Sea shipping.

“In the past, they were creating uncertainty,” he said, but “now they’re controlling everything around Bab al-Mandab, the land and the islands.”

On Friday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry appeared to offer a statement of support for the Houthis.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates its principled and consistent position on the need to respect Yemen’s independence, national sovereignty, and territorial integrity,” the ministry said.

Yahya Saree, a Houthi military spokesman, did not explicitly say whether the Houthis took over Perim Island, but he asserted, in a statement, that the “Saudi enemy” — apparently referring to forces allied with the government — had been expelled from more than 5,000 square kilometers, or roughly 2,000 square miles, of territory.

Mr. Saree also said that shipping was safe for all companies except Saudi ones.

Saudi Arabia has not commented publicly on the capture of Perim Island.

For weeks, the Houthis have carried out intermittent attacks on Saudi Arabia, including on energy facilities. Earlier this week, Saudi authorities said 73 civilians had been injured in Houthi attacks on the south of the kingdom.

Satellite images obtained on Friday by The New York Times showed a plume of black smoke more than 60 miles long rising from an area close to a strategic pipeline that carries oil across the kingdom to its Red Sea ports. The source of the smoke, which was visible for hours, remains unclear.

The Saudi government and Saudi Aramco, the Saudi oil giant, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

On Friday, the Houthi-controlled broadcaster Al-Masirah said that Saudi Arabia had launched two rounds of airstrikes on the port of Mokha. The Saudi government’s Center for International Communication did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It was unclear exactly when the Houthis reached the island. The Yemeni officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. A spokesman for the Yemeni government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Houthis and the Yemeni government have been at war since 2014, when the militia took over the capital, Sanaa. Soon after, a Saudi-led military coalition began a bombing campaign to try to restore the government to power, plunging the impoverished nation into a devastating war.

A fragile truce, reached in 2022, has unraveled in recent months. Since fighting escalated sharply in Yemen last week, at least 46,000 people have been displaced, according to the International Organization for Migration, a U.N. body.

The pace of the Houthis recent advance has been striking, analysts say.

In part, it was a result of the Houthis increasing its forces over the past two years with a recruitment drive, according to Hisham al-Omeisy, a senior Yemen adviser at the European Institute of Peace. But, he added, requests by the Yemeni government for more munitions, anti-drone technologies, air cover and intelligence support from the international community have largely gone unanswered.

“It was a perfect storm,” Mr. al-Omeisy said.