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UCSD says 18% of freshmen failed Algebra 1, an eighth grade class. That is the state of our schools.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/ucsd-says-18-of-freshmen-failed-algebra-1-an-eighth-grade-class-that-is-the-state-of-our-schools/
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The UN Security Council voted on Monday in favor of a U.S.-backed resolution establishing an “International Stabilization Force” (ISF) in Gaza under a “Board of Peace” headed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Under a two-year mandate, the stabilization force is reportedly planned to have an “executive” role in Gaza, not just as a peacekeeping force. The ISF is being established under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which means it is being granted the authority to disarm Palestinian resistance factions, aligning with Israeli demands, and could be established unilaterally, without the approval of the Palestinians.
The UN Security Council resolution voted 13-0 in favor of the resolution, with two permanent members, Russia and China, abstaining from the vote.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/palestinians-in-gaza-reject-un-security-council-approval-of-trumps-plan-its-a-new-occupation/
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The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report published Monday by a human rights group that says systematic violence and denial of medical care at prisons and detention centers contributed to many of the deaths it examined.
The picture that emerges from the report by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel is consistent with findings by The Associated Press, which interviewed more than a dozen people about prison abuses, medical neglect and deaths, analyzed available data, and reviewed reports of autopsies. AP spoke with a former guard and a former nurse at one prison, an Israeli doctor who treated malnourished prisoners brought to his hospital, former detainees and their relatives, and lawyers representing them and rights groups.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-prison-deaths-palestinians-6da95374213f35f6e6ef30802d970d1e
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Black Chicago Family Attacked while walking to school by Blacks
Watch https://x.com/i/status/1990692949815128551
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Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian homes, vehicles and farmland in the latest attack in the occupied West Bank on Monday.
The large-scale evening assault on the town of Jab'a, southwest of Bethlehem, left three homes torched. The properties belonged to Raafat Hilal Mashaaleh, Muhammad Musa Musa and Yusuf Ahmad Musa.
Mashaaleh told Middle East Eye that the attack began as his brother was helping their sister and her children into a car parked in the family garden.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/settlers-attack-and-torch-homes-vehicles-and-fields-bethlehem-town
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Washington's Mount Rainier has suddenly awoken and is buzzing with almost nonstop activity for days, stoking fears that an eruption could come soon.
This towering stratovolcano looms over more than 3.3 million people across the Seattle-Tacoma metro area, threatening to cripple entire communities with ashfall, flooding, and catastrophic mudflows if it erupts.
Since Saturday, Mount Rainier has been experiencing constant vibrations beneath the surface, thousands of tiny tremors blending into one another.
The constant seismic rumblings were detected by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN), where seismometers on Mount Rainier have recorded three straight days of nearly nonstop, high-energy seismic signals across the west flank of the volcano.
(A Cascades Megaquake of 9.0 combined with Volcano at Mt Rainier would flatten the US economy, especially since Cascade quakes in the past have triggered San Andreas quakes in California.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15303731/America-deadliest-volcano-tremor-phase-eruption.html
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by Dave De Camp, antiwar.com
Israeli security officials told Haaretz for a story published on Tuesday that Jewish settler violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has the Palestinian territory on the “brink of explosion” as attacks on Palestinians continue to surge.
The report said that the authority of the IDF over settlers has eroded as the settlers have the backing of ministers in the Israeli government and members of the Knesset. Sources told the paper that Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz is effectively not involved with the West Bank while Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a settler himself who also holds a position in the Defense Ministry, is advancing a policy of de facto annexation.
“There is no one today dealing with the West Bank. Everyone understands we are on the verge of an explosion. But no one will stand up and speak,” one security source told Haaretz.
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/11/18/israeli-security-officials-settler-violence-has-west-bank-on-the-brink-of-explosion/
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by Tyler Durden, via the Brownstone Institute
According to newly released emails, the United States Intelligence Community, led by the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, held regular meetings with Dr. Ralph Baric, one of America’s leading coronavirus experts, since at least 2015.
Senator Rand Paul’s office has worked for years to obtain the documents.
Baric has been accused of engineering the Covid-19 virus in his lab at the University of North Carolina, but he has never had to testify about his role in the pandemic despite his well-documented collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The newly released emails reveal that the CIA hoped to discuss “Coronavirus evolution and possible natural human adaptation with Baric” and that Baric held quarterly meetings with members of the Intelligence Community.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/was-covid-always-cia-plot
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By Tyler Durden
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced he is going to Turkey Wednesday in order to try and revive negotiations with Russia toward reaching a settlement to end the war.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to be there for the talks, which would see Turkey play mediator, as it did during short-lived talks in the opening months of the war. However, the Kremlin has made clear that it won't participate at this point, in the wake of the earlier planned Putin-Trump summit in Hungary having been called off.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: "No, there will be no Russian representatives in Turkey tomorrow. For now, these contacts are taking place without Russian participation."
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By Tyler Durden
One early warning came in 2016, when Jeff Stein, a veteran journalist covering U.S. intelligence agencies, received an unusual tip: Wright USA, a small insurer that specialized in providing liability coverage for FBI and CIA personnel, had quietly been acquired the year before by Fosun Group, a Chinese conglomerate with reported ties to Beijing’s leadership. “Someone with direct knowledge called me up and said, ‘Do you know that the insurance company that insures intelligence personnel is owned by the Chinese?’” Stein recalls. “I was astonished.”
The concern was immediate and obvious. Wright USA held personal information on some of the most sensitive employees in the federal government. The question in Washington became not what the Chinese buyer intended, but who might ultimately gain access to the data. Newly released records reviewed by the BBC indicate that Chinese state banks helped finance the acquisition, routing a $1.2 billion loan through the Cayman Islands to enable Fosun’s purchase.
Though the deal violated no U.S. laws, it triggered alarm. Stein’s story in Newsweek soon prompted a rare inquiry by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the Treasury-led interagency panel responsible for policing foreign ownership risks. Within months, Wright USA was sold back to American owners. Neither Fosun nor Starr Wright USA, its new parent, responded to requests for comment.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beijing-snapped-insurer-cia-agents-part-trillion-dollar-spending-spree
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