BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND – The new British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has commented on a report he commissioned that found the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is in a deplorable condition. The report’s findings echoed media investigations of the past which discovered unacceptably long waits for treatment, hospital structures that are crumbling, patients dying unnecessarily, patients on trolleys in hallways because no rooms were available, mental health patients occupying cells infested with vermin, and fewer MRI scanners than in countries of similar size. Fixing the NHS, which has had widespread support across party lines since its creation in 1948, was a central theme in Starmer’s campaign that brought Labour back to power. Starmer announced a 10-year plan to “fix” the system which will doubtless include more spending and probably even higher taxes. Starmer has promised no new funding for the NHS without reforms. He mentioned three areas that need immediate attention: transition to a digital NHS, moving more care from hospitals to communities, and focusing efforts on prevention over sickness. That last one – prevention over sickness – is key not only in the UK, but also the U.S. and everywhere else. For too long politicians have focused more on care rather than cures. I am (barely) old enough to remember when President John F. Kennedy launched The President’s Council on Physical Fitness, directed by the famous football player and coach Bud Wilkinson. Kennedy didn’t have the authority to mandate a national exercise program, so he and Wilkinson sought to lead by example. They created a curriculum for public schools that supplemented Physical Education programs already in place. Beginning in the 1961-1962 school year, the Kennedy council began a national publicity campaign to promote its directives on fitness. These included the fifty-mile-hike-in-twenty-hour challenge, inspired by the Marine Corps, eating the right foods, and a number of memorable popular culture tie-ins. Cartoonist Charles Schulz contributed “ Snoopy’s Daily Dozen,” an exercise manual featuring Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang. Suddenly it was cool and fun to be fit. Following up on Starmer’s statement about prevention is something that should be a companion goal and that is curing diseases. One example. Nearly 7 million American seniors are living with Alzheimer’s dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. By 2050, this number is projected to rise to nearly 13 million. There are currently estimated to be nearly one million people living with dementia in the UK and this is projected to rise to 1.4 million in 2040. A cure for this horrible and debilitating ailment would also create economic benefits, in addition to relief for patients, family members and caregivers. According to ScienceDirect.com: “Medicare and Medicaid would save up to a projected $195 billion annually.” Life insurance companies and unpaid caregivers would also benefit. I’m betting people in the UK and the U.S. would be willing to pay a little more in taxes if they could be sure reforms were forthcoming in their respective health care systems and the money was spent wisely. Cures might cost more upfront but the back-end savings in money and pain would be enormous and more than worth it. The sooner Prime Minister Starmer’s proposed reforms are fully known the quicker improvements might be made. In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration might ease some of its regulations that prevent drugs with promise from reaching the market sooner. Permission for drugs currently used for other purposes might be granted for people wishing to try them, assuming any risks. If Starmer’s reforms work, a new NHS could be the model for the world. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has frequently proposed “Medicare for all, a type of NHS for the U.S. If it isn’t working here, what makes Sanders and his fellow advocates think it would work in a country with a population far larger than the UK?

Brittany Mahomes, former soccer player and wife to NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes, was the latest hate object of ABC’s The View on Wednesday as they suggested she was a racist who didn’t respect her interracial marriage nor her biracial kids. What did she do to warrant that level of vitriol? According to them, she committed the high crime of liking an Instagram post from former President Donald Trump. The liberal ladies began taking swipes at the accomplished woman during a segment dedicated to raging at Trump for posting that he hated singer Taylor Swift. Despite the fact that Mahomes had publically stated she was rethinking her support for Trump over the spat with her husband’s teammate’s girlfriend, Whoopi Goldberg released some hot air alluding to Mahomes being a terrible person: Well, you know, he's politically activating her army of Swifties, and there are also rumors that her best friend Brittany Mahomes, who was hit with backlash a while back for “liking” a pro-MAGA post; she’s now rethinking her alleged support. Yeah. Yeah. And we've been really good about it. Okay. Because some could say, you know, this -- because he's mad at your best friend, now you're mad? It didn't bother you that he was being a racist and being a misogynist and -- that didn't get you going? “But we're not going to bring that up,” she chided.     Co-host Joy Behar chimed in to argue that Goldberg shouldn’t be so hard on her because people should be given the chance to sour on Trump, like one of their cast members did. “We have so many people – and even Alyssa was a friend of his at one point but then she turned it around. And that's true of a lot of people and the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” she proclaimed. Two and a half minutes later, staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) brought it up again. This time, calling Mahomes “problematic” and questioning her interracial marriage and the biracial kids she gave birth too: It just seems to me that since she is in an interracial marriage, she should have known that to support a racist is problematic. Her children are biracial and her family is one of the families that in the '70s could not have lived in any of Donald Trump's buildings, so it just seems to me that maybe she's just not that politically savvy, or maybe she's just not read in, but its problematic. Hostin has a history of calling into question the interracial marriages of people who lean to right. Justice Clarence Thomas and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) are particular hate objects for her. Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin tried to stick up for Mahomes. “Well, granted, all we know is that she liked a Trump post. We don't know she -- she hasn't stated that she supported him but that's fair to interpret that she may have. But we don't know that she's a supporter,” she said. “Yeah, okay,” Goldberg scoffed. “Like, you know, I'll take all of that. But I'm just saying, you know, pick your -- pick your champions, babe.” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View September 18, 2024 11:16:01 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, you know, he's politically activating her army of Swifties, and there are also rumors that her best friend Brittany Mahomes, who was hit with backlash a while back for “liking” a pro-MAGA post; she’s now rethinking her alleged support. Yeah. Yeah. [Applause] And we've been really good about it. Okay. Because some could say, you know, this -- because he's mad at your best friend, now you're mad? It didn't bother you that he was being a racist and being a misogynist and -- that didn't get you going? [Applause] But we're not going to bring that up. JOY BEHAR: Well, no. GOLDBERG: We're not going to bring that up. BEHAR: You can bring that up. We have so many people – and even Alyssa was a friend of his at one point but then she turned it around. And that's true of a lot of people and the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Okay? (…) 11:18:36 a.m. Eastern SUNNY HOSTIN: And that does make me hopeful, actually with the Swift-effect will speak to more women about the true character of Donald Trump and will turn them away. But to your initial point, I know you said we weren't going to talk about it, but I was. It just seems to me that since she is in an interracial marriage, she should have known that to support a racist is problematic. Her children are biracial and her family is one of the families that in the '70s could not have lived in any of Donald Trump's buildings, so – [Applause] It just seems to me that maybe she's just not that politically savvy, or maybe she's just not read in, but its problematic. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, granted, all we know is that she liked a Trump post. We don't know she -- she hasn't stated — HOSTIN: She has since – she has since taken it off – FARAH GRIFFIN: --that she supported him but that's fair to interpret that she may have. But we don't know that she's a supporter. GOLDBERG: Yeah, okay. [Laughter] Like, you know, I'll take all of that. But I'm just saying, you know, pick your -- pick your champions, babe. HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG: You know? BEHAR: Yeah. (…)

Several are dead and hundreds were wounded in an attack in Lebanon that targeted walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah.Thousands of the communications devices used by the designated terrorist group detonated across the country, killing at least three and wounding hundreds of others.Video quickly surfaced of an explosion at the site of a funeral for three slain Hezbollah members and a child, where a walkie-talkie appeared to detonate.The Daily Mail has since verified the video and seemingly confirmed that the radios were purchased by Hezbollah around five months ago.This is the same time frame during which Hezbollah purchased a bulk number of pagers, which were similarly detonated the day before, allegedly by Israel's intelligence service Mossad.The exploding communications devices of yesteryear left almost 3,000 injured and a dozen dead as pagers exploded due small amounts of explosives implanted in the devices, seemingly at the production level.The Daily Mail, Times of Israel, and other outlets cited the Israeli spy agency as responsible for the detonations.Mossad allegedly placed small quantities — reportedly under 20 grams — of explosive material called pentaerythritol tetranitrate in the devices. The substance, also known as PETN, is similar to nitroglycerin and is the main ingredient in Semtex, a plastic explosive.The PETN was placed inside the walkie-talkies and detonated by raising the batteries' temperature from a remote location.At least one of the explosions occurred near a funeral organized by Iran-backed Hezbollah for those killed the previous day, when thousands of pagers used by the group detonated across the country, injuring many of its fighters.A Reuters reporter in the southern suburbs of Beirut witnessed Hezbollah members hastily removing the batteries from any walkie-talkies that hadn’t yet exploded, discarding the parts into metal barrels nearby. Lebanon’s Red Cross announced on X that it had deployed 30 ambulance teams to respond to multiple explosions across various locations. The group, momentarily thrown into chaos by the pager attacks, stated on Wednesday that it had launched rockets at Israeli artillery positions, marking its first strike against its longtime adversary since the blasts injured thousands of its fighters and heightened fears of a broader Middle East conflict.News page Visegrad 24 reported that all types of electronic devices in Hezbollah's control have been blowing up, including previously unreported devices like fingerprint scanners, solar power systems, and radios.Visegrad refers to the region of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.A 15-minute time-lapse video of the Beirut skyline showed a series of smoke clouds floating upward in what was allegedly the aftermath of the explosions.Pictures of burning buildings and blown-out cars also circulated online, adding to the chaotic scenes on the ground in Lebanon.Israel has not officially claimed responsibility for the attacks.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

This week, Arizona officials announced that nearly 100,000 registered voters may not be able to vote in state and local elections this November after they may not have provided proof of U.S. citizenship as required by state law.The apparent "flaw" in the voter registration process in Arizona was discovered last week, Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer said in lengthy X post on Tuesday, even though it had been around for decades.'In all likelihood, they almost all [are] U.S. Citizens. But they have NOT provided documented proof of citizenship.'The issue involves a complicated nexus of state and federal law and rules governing an Arizona driver's license.Arizona has a unique system by which prospective voters in federal elections may register using a federal form that does not require documented proof of citizenship. Documentation is required, however, for those casting ballots in state and local elections.Since 1996, those wishing to obtain a standard Arizona driver's license have had to show proof of U.S. citizenship. Green-card holders are given an alternate license.Thus, everyone who has registered to vote in Arizona using a state driver's license since 1996 has been presumed to be a U.S. citizen and therefore eligible to vote in all federal, state, and local elections since they would have had to furnish the necessary documentation when they applied for a driver's license.Beginning in 2004 though, the Motor Vehicle Division changed rules so that those applying for a renewal or replacement license had an updated issue date stamped on it.This system allowed one group of registered voters to, in Richer's words, fall "through the cracks" regarding proof of citizenship. This group of about 97,000 individuals from across the state received a driver's license before 1996 but received a replacement license sometime after 2004 and then used that updated license to register to vote."All of these people have attested under penalty of law that they are U.S. citizens," Richer explained. "And, in all likelihood, they almost all [are] U.S. Citizens. But they have NOT provided documented proof of citizenship."According to Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, the affected voters are likely between the ages of 45 and 60 and lean Republican.With the November election fast approaching and military ballots going out later this week, Richer, a Republican, is filing a "friendly" lawsuit against Fontes, a Democrat, in hopes that the state supreme court will provide clarity on the issue — and soon."It is my position that these registrants have not satisfied Arizona's documented proof of citizenship law, and therefore can only vote a 'FED ONLY' ballot [in 2024]," Richer said.Fontes believes that the issue cannot possibly be resolved fairly in such a truncated timeframe and would therefore prevent many otherwise lawful U.S. citizens from participating in state and local elections. "We do not want to see this happen," he said. "We are advocating for status quo."The news comes on the heels of lawsuits filed against all 15 Arizona counties by America First Legal, a group with strong ties to former President Donald Trump. As Blaze News previously reported, the lawsuit, filed September 4, accused the counties and their respective recorders of failing to purge foreign nationals from their voter rolls in defiance of state law."We are taking emergency action to secure our elections," former Trump adviser and current AFL president Stephen Miller told Blaze News in a previous statement. "... America First Legal will do everything in its power to fight mass illegal alien voting and foreign interference in our democracy."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

In Joe Biden’s telling of recent American history, no moment defines our times better than when Donald Trump declared in 2017 that even neo-Nazis are “very fine people.” Biden has cited this line over and over again, telling America and the world that it is the reason he decided to run for president in 2020. Trump’s reaction to Charlottesville was a prophecy: Once you start letting mobs destroy our history, it doesn’t end. He’d run for president several times before and lost spectacularly each time due to plagiarism scandals or outright incompetence. But never mind that. We were all supposed to believe that the soulless career politician who voted against allowing refugees into the United States after the Vietnam War was now the principled defender of the “soul of our nation.” Referring to the Charlottesville riot in August 2017, Biden told America that Trump was a dangerous racist. “He said there were, quote, some very fine people on both sides,” Biden said. “With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.” Ever the opportunist, Biden won the presidency by running as a moderate, then launched attack after attack on the United States from within the Oval Office. Biden attacked the American energy industry, the very foundation of our way of life and our nation’s strength. He attacked our border, dropping our guard and allowing in millions of unvetted people from all over the world, unleashing crime and financial burdens Americans never asked for or wanted. Then, during his first year in office, Biden led America into one of our greatest humiliations in history with the horrific and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan. A.J. Rice chronicles all of this and more in his sharp new collection, “The White Privilege Album: Bringing Racial Harmony to Very Fine People… on Both Sides,” in which he debunks Biden’s big “very fine people” lie once and for all. Even left-leaning Snopes.com dispensed with Biden’s slander. According to Snopes, when Trump addressed the nation in August 2017 about the protest that turned deadly in Charlottesville, he did not say that neo-Nazis are “very fine people” at all. Here’s what Trump actually said: Excuse me, they didn't put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group — excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did — you had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status, are we gonna take down — excuse me — are we gonna take down statues of George Washington? Trump went on to say, specifically, “and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.” One would think that would be clear enough for anyone to understand, but Biden and his fellow hoaxsters always leave out that part. As Rice details, they know they’re lying, but the lie is more useful than the truth. Rice hammers the truth home with lacerating wit, noting that Trump was really saying there were and are “very fine people” on both sides of the debate about statues and who we honor in American history. There is an honest debate to be had. Trump was noting that once you go down the road of condemning historical figures over modern-day hot takes, that road becomes very slippery. During the 2020 riots, Trump was proven right when some not-very-fine people decided that even the Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln, wasn’t woke enough and tried to remove his statue in Chicago. They defaced Lincoln in San Francisco. They succeeded in removing a Lincoln statue in Boston. Trump’s reaction to Charlottesville was a prophecy: Once you start letting mobs destroy our history, it doesn’t end. For the incorrigible fabulist Joe Biden and other similarly dishonest politicians like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Kamala Harris, the destruction will end only when it’s no longer useful for them to obtain and hold power over other Americans. That’s all they care about, and they will continue to use any means to keep that power — including trashing America itself. But not if A.J. Rice has anything to say about it. And he certainly has plenty to say! “The White Privilege Album” follows up where his first book, “The Woking Dead,” left off. Rice is a master at taking apart the left’s hoaxes and lies to reveal the creeps crawling within the most toxic movement in America since Woodrow Wilson revived the Ku Klux Klan. If you love America and despise those — on any side — who would denigrate and destroy the country, A.J. Rice’s “White Privilege Album” is your must-read, can’t-put-it-down book about where we are, how we got here, and how we can overcome the madness of the moment.

Thomas Crooks thankfully failed in his quest to assassinate Donald Trump, and now Ryan Routh is joining him in that failure — after a second attempt on the former president’s life. The attempt came 14 days after Vice President Kamala Harris posted a photo of Trump on her social media that read “Donald Trump vows to be a dictator on day one,” with the caption “We won’t let him.” “Do you think that this is not correlated? Do you think that the rhetoric from the left calling Trump Hitler, calling him an authoritarian, calling him a dictator, calling him evil, telling women that he’s trying to take over their bodies, telling LGBTQIA-identifying people that he’s trying to marginalize them and genocide them, that his policies will kill them?” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” comments. Wheeler also notes that from what we know about Routh, he doesn’t seem to be “a babbling schizophrenic hearing voices telling him to kill Donald Trump.” “He seems like an individual who fell for the rhetoric of the mainstream media calling Trump Hitler, feeling like he would be doing a service to humanity to take Trump out,” she explains. Routh also reportedly had a Kamala Harris bumper stick on his truck. “I hate to have to say this, but you are going to have to convince me that Ryan Routh is not a fed asset,” Wheeler says. “Even the Martin County Sheriff asked if this shooter was part of some conspiracy because there are so many red flags.” One of those red flags was that he was a “lone gunman” but somehow had the knowledge of exactly where Trump would be and the time he would be there. “How did a lone gunman know where president Trump was going to be on the fifth hole of his golf course at that specific time of day with an AK-47?” Wheeler asks. “He also has a really sketchy, weird foreign profile.” Routh was caught with a weapon of mass destruction and promptly arrested, before being given probation. “Imagine having a weapon of mass destruction and just getting probation,” Wheeler says, shocked. Routh has also spent a good part of a year in Ukraine and has been using his social media to recruit fighters from all over the world to come and fight for the country. “Are you telling me that the FBi didn’t know about this guy? The CIA didn’t know about this guy? The State Department didn’t know about this guy? If so, they’re completely useless,” Wheeler adds. Want more from Liz Wheeler?To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is facing some outraged backlash after the Republican criticized Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris for not having biological children. Sanders made the comments before moderating a town hall event with former President Donald Trump in Flint, Michigan, on Tuesday. 'Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble.' "Not only do my kids serve as a permanent reminder of what's important, they also keep me humble," said Sanders. "You can walk into a room like this where people cheer when you step onto the stage and you might think for a second that you're special. Then you go home and your kids remind you very quickly you're actually not that big of a deal. And ours are pretty good at it," she continued. "So my kids keep me humble," she added. "Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble." Harris has two stepchildren through her marriage with Doug Emhoff but has no biological children of her own. Many on the left pounced on the comments and compared them to criticism made by Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance about "childless cat ladies" before he became a candidate. "What is their obsession with women without children, the biological connection?" asked Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC. "Sarah Huckabee Sanders as ugly on the inside as she is on the outside. Gallons of Ozempic aren’t going to change that," read a popular response on X. "A woman’s worth is not defined by whether she has children or not. She is valuable & complete in her own right, with or w/o motherhood." "Why would the Trump campaign alienate women who haven’t had children—by choice or circumstance? Dividing and insulting Americans won’t win elections, but it’s clearly part of their strategy. Why?" replied former congressman Joe Walsh. On CNN, a Trump campaign senior advisor also criticized Sanders for the comments. “I found that comment to be actually offensive. I don’t know what more to say about that,” Bryan Lanza said. “I’m disappointed in Sarah saying that. I’m sure I’m going to get criticism from the campaign, but I have to sort of defend somebody who’s a stepmom. It’s a tough job. People step into that role.” Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

On Tuesday afternoon, thousands of pagers suddenly exploded in Lebanon and parts of Syria, injuring over 4,000 individuals, including numerous Hezbollah militants and Iran’s top diplomatic intermediary to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani. Eleven individuals are currently reported dead, including one young girl and the son of a Hezbollah politician. Around 200 more individuals are critically injured in hospitals as a result of the explosions. Lebanon’s government blames the attack on “Israeli aggression” and has vowed revenge. “We hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians,” Hezbollah stated, adding that Israel will “get its just punishment.” High-ranking Hezbollah member Hussein Khalil, meanwhile, characterized the exploding pagers as the “targeting of an entire nation.” While many Americans may support this pager strike's overall aim or impact, the technological prowess on display shows how much damage can be done quickly and bizarrely in an interconnected world, even with simple devices like pagers. Israel and Iranian-supported Hezbollah have skirmished at the Israel-Lebanon border off and on since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack. The murderous terrorist incursion on Israeli communities and a dance festival near the border with Gaza killed 1,189 individuals, the majority civilians. Of 251 hostages seized by Hamas on October 7, 101 are still being held, including seven Americans. Hezbollah has launched volleys of missiles at Israel on an ongoing basis since that time, the majority blocked by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. Israel has declined to comment on Tuesday’s pager explosions but did mention that Israel’s Shin Bet security agency had narrowly blocked an attempt by Hezbollah to assassinate a former top Israeli official just hours before the pagers began detonating. Israel also made ensuring the safe return of around 100,000 Jewish refugees displaced by conflict near the Lebanon border an official part of its war objectives on Monday night. For its part, the U.S. State Department has claimed no involvement in or prior awareness of the attack, and spokesman Matthew Miller said the government is “still gathering information” on what exactly took place in Lebanon and who was behind it. According to Axios, the exploding pager operation was green-lighted earlier in the week by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu the day after U.S. envoy to Israel Amos Hochstein told Israel to do everything it could to de-escalate the conflict with Lebanon. Assuming the Jewish state was involved, how did operatives pull off this devastating covert strike on their enemy? At this point, all signs point to a clandestine Israeli intervention into the production process or supply chain, by which pagers bound for Hezbollah were modified to explode at a set time. Explosives expert Sean Moorhouse commented that it appeared small explosives were installed in the devices before they reached the buyers and that the act bears all the signs of “a very successful Mossad operation.” The New York Times reports that Israel did hide explosives and detonation triggers inside pagers that Hezbollah had recently ordered from the Taiwanese Gold Apollo pager manufacturing company. The company denied producing the pagers used in the attack and claimed that a different company had purchased a license to make them under the Gold Apollo brand. According to unnamed officials, the NYT reports, the pagers exploded when they got a message from a specific number. Hezbollah reportedly ordered 5,000 in the spring of the AP924 model, which appear to have been tampered with at the production level, to modify them with an explosive charge. Hezbollah members were told by their leadership to stop communicating via cell phone in February so that Israel wouldn’t track them. It is unclear exactly when Hezbollah widely used the pagers. The primary target areas affected by the explosions were a suburb in the south of Beirut, an area in the Hezbollah-controlled Beqaa region of East Lebanon, and a Hezbollah-heavy neighborhood in Damascus, Syria. Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Herzi Halevi holds an assessment meeting after Israeli intelligence agency Mossad allegedly planted explosives in the batteries of pager devices that detonated in Lebanon, killing nine people and injuring hundreds, on September 17, 2024. Photo by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images Israel has successfully carried out numerous deadly targeted strikes outside its territory, including, most recently, killing senior Hamas member Saleh Arouri in Beirut and assassinating the top leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in a deadly explosion in Iran, a strike whose origin and method is still unclear. It’s worth noting that Hezbollah also lost another of its top leaders, Fuad Shukr, during fighting in July. Israel has rigged cell phones to explode in the past and is also widely credited with sabotaging Iran’s nuclear program with the powerful Stuxnet virus in 2010. Two things are clear about this pager explosion attack: Israel’s intelligence services are undoubtedly the most fearsome, ruthless, and skilled in the world; secondly, the expanding horizon of what is possible to do with technology continues to grow by the day, and an event like this is likely only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the kinds of unconventional attacks now possible to be carried out by both state and non-state actors. While many Americans may support this pager strike's overall aim or impact, the technological prowess on display shows how much damage can be done quickly and bizarrely in an interconnected world, even with simple devices like pagers. What if this power to call in highly targeted and sudden death and dismemberment were put in the wrong hands or used against patriots by an out-of-control state? It’s worth noting that one of the revelations of Edward Snowden’s leaks was that the National Security Agency frequently installs malware and tracking devices on hardware and other packages on their way to customers in the name of national security. Also of note: Biden’s 2021 infrastructure bill has a provision that allows Big Tech to shut down cars if there’s any suspicion of drunk driving. This law, giving the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration the legal right to deactivate your vehicle, potentially goes into effect in 2026.

Harris’s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists showed why she doesn’t do many interviews.

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