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REPORTER: "Could you provide an update on Iran? US personnel are being moved out of the region."
TRUMP: "They are being moved out because it could be a dangerous place. We'll see what happens."
"They can't have a nuclear weapon, very simple."
TRUMP: "They are being moved out because it could be a dangerous place. We'll see what happens."
"They can't have a nuclear weapon, very simple."
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TIL Pierce Brosnan was offered James Bond in 1986 after NBC cancelled Remington Steele. However, the publicity of the offer improved Remington Steele's ratings and it was renewed, contractually requiring Brosnan to return to the show and forcing producers to have to look elsewhere for a James Bond.
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The Death of Sir John Franklin and His Lost Expedition
On June 11, 1847, Sir John Franklin died in the Canadian Arctic during his doomed attempt to fill in the last “blank spots” of the Arctic Archipelago and complete the Northwest Passage. Leading 129 men aboard HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, Franklin’s ships became icebound near King William Island for two winters. The ice never melted in the brief summer of 1847 and the men began to realize their situation. Twenty-four men had already died by 1848, an alarmingly high rate for any expedition.
Following Franklin’s death, Captain Francis Crozier led the remaining 104 men on a desperate overland mission through barren tundra in an attempt to reach the trading posts at Great Slave Lake, the nearest European settlements. They abandoned the trapped ships on April 22, 1848, which just so happened to be Easter Saturday, and embarked on their fateful trek, never to be seen alive again. Over the following years, all of them would perished due to cold, starvation, scurvy, and lead poisoning from their improperly prepared provisions and desalination equipment. It is believed that all of them were dead by 1850. The fate of Sir John Franklin would not be known until 1859 when the M’Clintock Expedition found a message in a cairn whith his date of death on it, although many questions would remain unanswered until recent years.
In the end, it is believed that the last survivors resorted cannibalism, a thought which horrified Victorian sentiments and such allegations were denied until the 1980s, when bones with cut marks were found and documented. The remnants of the Expedition were found scattered over much of King William’s Island and the Adelaide Peninsula, with some of the men perhaps making it as far as Montreal Island near the mouth of Back’s River. The last movements of the men have been the subject of much discussion and debate, with some Inuit accounts indicating that at least some of them went back to the ships. The state of some of the remnants imply that the men were not in their right minds, due to the effects of their longterm lead poisoning. A few of the relics that were found among the barren landscape or the Inuit were brought back to England. Many of the remains still lies where they fell or were morbidly discarded. Only a handful of men have ever been identified, with the remains of two being repatriated back to England.
The expedition’s disappearance sparked decades of international search efforts and became one of the greatest mysteries of the 19th century. These missions advanced the mapping of the Canadian Arctic and brought global attention to the region. Notwithstanding the mysterious, tragic and gruesome nature of the Franklin Expedition’s fate, or rather because of it, their saga has captivated the minds of many Canadians since their disappearance. Sir John Franklin and the search for the Northwest Passage have taken a primary place in the Canadian psyche and culture, with one fine example being Stan Rogers’ famous song “Northwest Passage,” which is regarded as one of Canada’s unofficial anthems.
Retrospectively, Franklin’s men have been credited by some with discovery of the Northwest Passage by their inferred crossing of the Simpson Strait. This was confirmed to be a way through by Francis M’Clintock in 1859. It is not known if they ever realized this of course, but to honour them the Royal Geographic Society declared the lost expedition as the first to find the passage. This was a particular solace to Lady Jane Franklin, who was awarded a medal in her husbands honour.
The wrecks of the Erebus and Terror, which had been declared National Historic Sites since the 1990s, were finally discovered in 2014 and 2016 after years of searching by the Canadian Government. Though tragic, Franklin’s expedition played a pivotal role in shaping Canada’s northern identity and reinforced Britain’s and later Canada’s claims of sovereignty over the Arctic Archipelago.
On June 11, 1847, Sir John Franklin died in the Canadian Arctic during his doomed attempt to fill in the last “blank spots” of the Arctic Archipelago and complete the Northwest Passage. Leading 129 men aboard HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, Franklin’s ships became icebound near King William Island for two winters. The ice never melted in the brief summer of 1847 and the men began to realize their situation. Twenty-four men had already died by 1848, an alarmingly high rate for any expedition.
Following Franklin’s death, Captain Francis Crozier led the remaining 104 men on a desperate overland mission through barren tundra in an attempt to reach the trading posts at Great Slave Lake, the nearest European settlements. They abandoned the trapped ships on April 22, 1848, which just so happened to be Easter Saturday, and embarked on their fateful trek, never to be seen alive again. Over the following years, all of them would perished due to cold, starvation, scurvy, and lead poisoning from their improperly prepared provisions and desalination equipment. It is believed that all of them were dead by 1850. The fate of Sir John Franklin would not be known until 1859 when the M’Clintock Expedition found a message in a cairn whith his date of death on it, although many questions would remain unanswered until recent years.
In the end, it is believed that the last survivors resorted cannibalism, a thought which horrified Victorian sentiments and such allegations were denied until the 1980s, when bones with cut marks were found and documented. The remnants of the Expedition were found scattered over much of King William’s Island and the Adelaide Peninsula, with some of the men perhaps making it as far as Montreal Island near the mouth of Back’s River. The last movements of the men have been the subject of much discussion and debate, with some Inuit accounts indicating that at least some of them went back to the ships. The state of some of the remnants imply that the men were not in their right minds, due to the effects of their longterm lead poisoning. A few of the relics that were found among the barren landscape or the Inuit were brought back to England. Many of the remains still lies where they fell or were morbidly discarded. Only a handful of men have ever been identified, with the remains of two being repatriated back to England.
The expedition’s disappearance sparked decades of international search efforts and became one of the greatest mysteries of the 19th century. These missions advanced the mapping of the Canadian Arctic and brought global attention to the region. Notwithstanding the mysterious, tragic and gruesome nature of the Franklin Expedition’s fate, or rather because of it, their saga has captivated the minds of many Canadians since their disappearance. Sir John Franklin and the search for the Northwest Passage have taken a primary place in the Canadian psyche and culture, with one fine example being Stan Rogers’ famous song “Northwest Passage,” which is regarded as one of Canada’s unofficial anthems.
Retrospectively, Franklin’s men have been credited by some with discovery of the Northwest Passage by their inferred crossing of the Simpson Strait. This was confirmed to be a way through by Francis M’Clintock in 1859. It is not known if they ever realized this of course, but to honour them the Royal Geographic Society declared the lost expedition as the first to find the passage. This was a particular solace to Lady Jane Franklin, who was awarded a medal in her husbands honour.
The wrecks of the Erebus and Terror, which had been declared National Historic Sites since the 1990s, were finally discovered in 2014 and 2016 after years of searching by the Canadian Government. Though tragic, Franklin’s expedition played a pivotal role in shaping Canada’s northern identity and reinforced Britain’s and later Canada’s claims of sovereignty over the Arctic Archipelago.
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TIL that the Y chromosome can disappear with age. About 35% of men aged 70 years old are missing a Y chromosome in some of their cells, with the degree of loss ranging between 4% and 70%.
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"Under Ukrainian law, each family of a soldier killed in action is ennoscriptd to 15 million Ukrainian hryvnias (~$360,000). Accepting all 6,000 bodies would trigger 90 billion UAH in mandatory payouts – nearly 10% of the nation’s entire 2025 defense budget. This budget is already facing a 200-billion-UAH deficit.
"The incentives are obvious. The consequences are shameful.
"Acknowledging the dead means acknowledging the debt owed to their families. But by dragging its feet, questioning identities, and introducing delays, the Ukrainian state appears to be doing everything in its power to avoid honoring its obligations."
https://www.rt.com/russia/618778-ukraine-pow-swap-dead/#:~:text=Under%20Ukrainian%20law,honoring%20its%20obligations.
"The incentives are obvious. The consequences are shameful.
"Acknowledging the dead means acknowledging the debt owed to their families. But by dragging its feet, questioning identities, and introducing delays, the Ukrainian state appears to be doing everything in its power to avoid honoring its obligations."
https://www.rt.com/russia/618778-ukraine-pow-swap-dead/#:~:text=Under%20Ukrainian%20law,honoring%20its%20obligations.
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Ukraine’s shame: Why Kiev refuses to take back its dead and wounded
Accepting the 6,000 bodies Moscow is returning would mean paying out compensations, leaving less money to send new recruits to the slaughter
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"Properly designed and implemented, reconnaissance-strike battle should be built on four core imperatives. First, be a hard target. The enemy can see you and will strike you. You must be prepared to disperse, deceive, cover, conceal, and mask to avoid the enemy reconnaissance-strike complex. If you can’t do so because you are defending a fixed location, dig in and develop a hardened shelter, but never stop aggressive reconnaissance. Second, the reconnaissance-strike complex is the first objective. At any echelon of engagement, if the enemy has reconnaissance-strike complexes and you do not, you die. The first and most persistent priority, therefore, must be the enemy’s reconnaissance-strike complex at echelon. Third, the side that owns the reconnaissance-strike complex duel wins. If you find, fix, track, target, engage, and assess at larger scale, and faster than the enemy, you win. Finally, massing capability must come before massing maneuver. Massing all-domain capability to degrade, disintegrate, or destroy the enemy’s reconnaissance-strike complex is a prerequisite to mass combat power and defeat the enemy in detail. Overwhelming the enemy’s reconnaissance-strike complex with maneuver is possible only through an extraordinary expenditure of lives."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-165140166#:~:text=Properly%20designed%20and,expenditure%20of%20lives.
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Recon-Strike Battle
The Army joins the Recon-Strike Tactics club
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"Section 174 of the Internal Revenue Code governs the tax treatment of research and development (R&D) expenditures. For roughly 70 years, American companies could deduct 100% of “qualified research and development spending” in the year they incurred the costs, and this was generally interpreted pretty liberally. Salaries, software, contractor payments… if it contributed to creating or improving a product, it could be deducted “off the top” of a firm’s taxable income. The deduction was originally codified by Section 174 of the IRS Code of 1954, and under the provision, R&D flourished in the U.S. It gave us the dominance of Bell Labs, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook - pretty much all the US technology booms you’ve lived through unless you’re quire venerable.
"So the way these regs are written: These expenditures must be for activities intended to discover information that eliminates uncertainty about the development or improvement of a product. (Kind of open-ended.) Prior to 2022, taxpayers could immediately deduct R&D expenditures in the year they were incurred, providing a significant tax benefit for businesses investing in innovation. Alternatively, taxpayers could capitalize these costs and amortize them over a period (e.g., at least 60 months) if they chose to defer the deduction. But it was pretty rare to do this, because you could directly manage your R&D payroll costs versus income to mitigate the tax hit. And societally, we accepted that - we were investing in growing the American economy.
"But, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 amended Section 174, effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2021. Starting in 2022, R&D expenditures must be capitalized and amortized over 5 years for domestic research (and 15 years for foreign research, which is pretty untenable.) This change eliminated the option to immediately deduct R&D costs, increasing tax liability for companies with significant research budgets in the short term. Even more annoying, amortization begins at the midpoint of the taxable year in which the expenses are incurred, using a straight-line method."
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"So the way these regs are written: These expenditures must be for activities intended to discover information that eliminates uncertainty about the development or improvement of a product. (Kind of open-ended.) Prior to 2022, taxpayers could immediately deduct R&D expenditures in the year they were incurred, providing a significant tax benefit for businesses investing in innovation. Alternatively, taxpayers could capitalize these costs and amortize them over a period (e.g., at least 60 months) if they chose to defer the deduction. But it was pretty rare to do this, because you could directly manage your R&D payroll costs versus income to mitigate the tax hit. And societally, we accepted that - we were investing in growing the American economy.
"But, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 amended Section 174, effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2021. Starting in 2022, R&D expenditures must be capitalized and amortized over 5 years for domestic research (and 15 years for foreign research, which is pretty untenable.) This change eliminated the option to immediately deduct R&D costs, increasing tax liability for companies with significant research budgets in the short term. Even more annoying, amortization begins at the midpoint of the taxable year in which the expenses are incurred, using a straight-line method."
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The Tech Job Meltdown
Half a million layoffs? It's all accounting.
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At the same time, Iran launched a large-scale operation to jam GPS signals along the Iran-Iraq border .
Everything indicates that the likelihood of an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities in the near future is very high.
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"And some newpub authors, indie game devs, and maverick animators are making more than mere retro product. They’re taking real risks. Maybe they’re flawed, but here’s the key: They’re looking forward.
"In case it still needs to be said, we don’t need another round of 90s nostalgia. We need stories worth remembering twenty years from now.
"The only way to end Cultural Ground Zero is to move past it. Not in time, but in spirit.
"We don’t move forward by going back to the 90s, but by doing what the 90s pretended to do while actually setting a cultural time bomb: Tearing down dead forms and making art that’s weird, fun, and human.
"The future is waiting.
"But only if you delete the flying toaster screen saver."
https://brianniemeier.substack.com/p/why-im-done-with-the-90s-and-you#:~:text=And%20some%20newpub,toaster%20screen%20saver.
"In case it still needs to be said, we don’t need another round of 90s nostalgia. We need stories worth remembering twenty years from now.
"The only way to end Cultural Ground Zero is to move past it. Not in time, but in spirit.
"We don’t move forward by going back to the 90s, but by doing what the 90s pretended to do while actually setting a cultural time bomb: Tearing down dead forms and making art that’s weird, fun, and human.
"The future is waiting.
"But only if you delete the flying toaster screen saver."
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Why I'm Done With the 90s and You Should Be Too
Anyone paying attention to pop culture for the last two decades has noticed it doesn’t move anymore; it treads water.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱❌ 🇮🇷🇮🇶🇮🇶 -Washington is reportedly bracing for a retaliatory response from Iran, which could include missile or drone attacks targeting U.S. military positions in Iraq. The situation signals a high-alert phase across the region, as preparations accelerate on both sides amid fears of a rapid, multi-front escalation.
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🇺🇲🇮🇱🇮🇷 US envoy Steve Witkoff to Senators:
"If Iran retaliates, Israel's air defence will be overwhelmed and will eventually fail"
US envoy Steve Witkoff privately warned top Senate Republicans that Iran's retaliation to an Israeli strike on its nuclear program could overwhelm Israel's defenses and cause mass damage and casualties - Axios
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🇺🇲🇮🇱🇮🇷 US envoy Steve Witkoff to Senators:
"If Iran retaliates, Israel's air defence will be overwhelmed and will eventually fail"
US envoy Steve Witkoff privately warned top Senate Republicans that Iran's retaliation to an Israeli strike on its nuclear program could overwhelm Israel's defenses and cause mass damage and casualties - Axios
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Maj. Gen. Salami on Thursday praised the country's intelligence ministry for retrieving a trove of classified Israeli nuclear and military documents, describing it as a strategic blow to the Zionist regime.
He said that the intelligence operation proved Israel's security system "permeable and threadbare", while showing Iran has the upper hand when it comes to intelligence.
“This was also an example of our victory in the intelligence warfare,” the top general added.
He stressed that the enemy thinks that it can fight Iran in the same way it fights the Palestinian people in Gaza, who are defenseless and under an Israeli siege.
Iran’s intelligence apparatus has acquired and transferred a vast trove of strategic and sensitive documents about the clandestine Israeli nuclear program from the occupied territories to Tehran.
On Sunday, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib stated that the materials had been transferred under heavy secrecy to Iran and would be published soon.
“These documents and other strategic records of the regime will enhance the country’s offensive capabilities,” he continued, adding that this is "a very major development", and ‘thousands of documents’ is a very small term compared to what has been acquired".
The “comprehensive and complex operation” was carried out inside the occupied territories and succeeded in transferring a trove of “strategic, operational, and scientific information” from the occupying regime to Iran, he noted.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the IRGC chief expressed Iran’s complete preparedness to confront any act of aggression amid mounting threats of military action against the country.
“The enemy sometimes threatens us with military action. We have always said and we say today that we stand fully ready for any scenarios, situations, and circumstances,” he emphasized.
“We are war-tested and experienced. We have built strength and developed a strategy in our plans.
The IRGC chief further warned the enemy not to make any miscalculations and think twice about the repercussions of its measures.
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He said that the intelligence operation proved Israel's security system "permeable and threadbare", while showing Iran has the upper hand when it comes to intelligence.
“This was also an example of our victory in the intelligence warfare,” the top general added.
He stressed that the enemy thinks that it can fight Iran in the same way it fights the Palestinian people in Gaza, who are defenseless and under an Israeli siege.
Iran’s intelligence apparatus has acquired and transferred a vast trove of strategic and sensitive documents about the clandestine Israeli nuclear program from the occupied territories to Tehran.
On Sunday, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib stated that the materials had been transferred under heavy secrecy to Iran and would be published soon.
“These documents and other strategic records of the regime will enhance the country’s offensive capabilities,” he continued, adding that this is "a very major development", and ‘thousands of documents’ is a very small term compared to what has been acquired".
The “comprehensive and complex operation” was carried out inside the occupied territories and succeeded in transferring a trove of “strategic, operational, and scientific information” from the occupying regime to Iran, he noted.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the IRGC chief expressed Iran’s complete preparedness to confront any act of aggression amid mounting threats of military action against the country.
“The enemy sometimes threatens us with military action. We have always said and we say today that we stand fully ready for any scenarios, situations, and circumstances,” he emphasized.
“We are war-tested and experienced. We have built strength and developed a strategy in our plans.
The IRGC chief further warned the enemy not to make any miscalculations and think twice about the repercussions of its measures.
Fars News
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BREAKING | Leaked documents released by Iranian media reportedly reveal that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi has been fully coordinating with Israel and carrying out its directives.
These files are part of the sensitive intelligence cache Iran recently seized from Israel.
These files are part of the sensitive intelligence cache Iran recently seized from Israel.
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Is Israel Rolling the Dice Again
The US government appears to be bracing for another Israeli attack on Iran: The US has begun evacuating non-essential personnel and family members from its embassies and military bases in the Middle East in light of escalating tensions with Iran. The move follows President Donald Trump’s accusation that Tehran is “slow-walking” negotiations. “Based on our […]
https://voxday.net/2025/06/12/is-israel-rolling-the-dice-again/
The US government appears to be bracing for another Israeli attack on Iran: The US has begun evacuating non-essential personnel and family members from its embassies and military bases in the Middle East in light of escalating tensions with Iran. The move follows President Donald Trump’s accusation that Tehran is “slow-walking” negotiations. “Based on our […]
https://voxday.net/2025/06/12/is-israel-rolling-the-dice-again/
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🤡 Donald Trump:
I'm not saying an attack on Iran is imminent, but it is strong and likely
It's very likely that Israel will strike Iran.
I would like to avoid a conflict with Iran
Iran will have to negotiate more seriously, which means they will have to offer us something they're not willing to offer us now
There's a potential for a major conflict, and something could happen soon.
I want to reach an agreement with Iran, and we're close to that. I prefer a friendly approach
We've had good talks with Iran, and they can't have a nuclear weapon
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