🚨 3 minute hugs – October 22 2024

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Lead: Israel Launches New Attacks

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Israel launched a military raid in Beirut on Monday night, which they said was a Hezbollah naval base. They also struck near an airport and destroyed a civilian apartment complex.

A strike in Lebanon killed a family that included six women and children. At least eight other civilians were wounded.

Near the Gaza border, a conference began this week called “Preparing to Resettle Gaza.” That’s not a subtle title, is it? Israeli leaders discussed their plan to redraw Israel’s borders to stretch “from the Euphrates to the Nile” and for “every sliver” of Gaza to become permanent housing for Jewish people. According to Haaretz, “Volunteers doled out popcorn and cotton candy to the hoards of young children who ran from sukkah to sukkah while vendors sold t-shirts and phone covers that read ‘Gaza is part of Israel.’ For the adults, options included small group planning sessions, an information fair, and lots of singing and dancing.”

Gaza is not part of Israel right now. While it is still a Palestinian territory, a report from the United Nations says that its economy has been set back by 69 years with 87% of housing units damaged, 80% of commercial buildings damaged, 68% of cropland damaged, 87% of school buildings damaged, etc.

CNN reports that Israeli soldiers are also damaged psychologically by running over the bodies of Palestinians to the point that they can no longer eat meat.

The former soldier has spoken publicly about the psychological trauma endured by Israeli troops in Gaza. In a testimony to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in June, Zaken said that on many occasions, soldiers had to “run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.”

“Everything squirts out,” he added.

Zaken says he can no longer eat meat, as it reminds him of the gruesome scenes he witnessed from his bulldozer in Gaza, and struggles to sleep at night, the sound of explosions ringing in his head.

“When you see a lot of meat outside, and blood… both ours and theirs (Hamas), then it really affects you when you eat,” he told CNN, referring to bodies as “meat.”

How is this real!?

Violent Crime is Up In The United States

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Violent crime is NOT down in the U.S., according to the FBI. The FBI statistics did show that crime was down by 2.1% since 2022 and the Kamala Harris campaign has used those numbers on the campaign trail and during the debates.

But the FBI quietly revised those numbers, suspiciously after the debates. The new numbers show that violent crime is in fact up by 4.5%. The Trump campaign had warned that the initial numbers were incomplete since many precincts had not reported their numbers yet.

This is a huge change and no major headlines about it like this one?

Carl Moody, a professor at the College of William & Mary who specializes in studying crime, said this to RealClearInvestigations: “I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022. There were no revisions from 2004 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2020, there were small changes of less than one percentage point. The huge changes in 2021 and 2022, especially without an explanation, make it difficult to trust the FBI data.”

The revised numbers show an increase in other types of crimes too including property crime rate, rape, robbery, motor vehicle theft and aggravated assault.

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No, North Korea Is Not Fighting Ukrainians

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North Korea says that it does not have soldiers fighting for Russia in Ukraine. Last week Ukrainian President Zelensky said that was the case but he’s a buffoon and a liar so…

Speaking at the UN General Assembly, a North Korean representative dismissed the allegations, saying this: “As for the so-called military cooperation with Russia, my delegation does not feel any need to comment on groundless and stereotype rumors aimed at smearing the image of the DPRK and undermining the legitimate friendly and cooperative relations between sovereign states.” He added that the “so-called arms transfers between sovereign states is totally incompatible with this thematic debate.”

The Kremlin has also said that North Korean troops in Ukraine is a “bogus story.”

South Korea said that if North Korea is fighting in Ukraine on behalf of Russia, they will consider supplying Ukraine with weapons. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol spoke with new NATO head Mark Rutte and said that if these rumors are true, then South Korea would “intensify security cooperation with NATO and Ukraine. Rutte expressed hope for wider cooperation among the three sides in the military-industrial field.”

Meanwhile on the battlefield in Ukraine, Spanish newspaper El Pais reports something that we’ve been reporting for over a year – namely that Ukrainian soldiers are “increasingly refusing to follow orders and fleeing their positions, accusing their leadership of assigning them suicide missions.”

News By The Numbers

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3 minutes. That is the maximum length of a hug that will now be in the airport in New Zealand. Officials say that they needed to put limits on goodbye hugs in an effort to “improve safety and keep traffic flowing at its drop-off zone.”

$73,000. That is how much WNBA player Angel Reese says her salary is in her rookie year for the Chicago Sky. She said this about it: “I just hope y’all know the WNBA don’t pay my bills at all.”

10%. That is how much revenue was up in GM’s third-quarter report. The company has made nearly $10 billion this year.

Early Boarding Shaming

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American Airlines will shame people who try to cut the boarding line with loud beeps. This is a new system that they are testing to deal with what airline employees call “gate lice.”

Gate lice are people who jump ahead of their boarding group, either to compete for overhead compartment space or due to general boarding anxiety. Some people just can’t take it. These kinds of people are the worst.

The new system will have scanning machines emit a shaming noise that everyone in the boarding area can hear. The “error beep” will alert gate agents to tell that person to “please step aside.” The system has been tested at airports in Albuquerque and Tucson and will soon expand to other locations including Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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