<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>Harper&#039;s Magazine</title> <atom:link href="https://harpers.org/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link></link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:11:50 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2</generator> <image> <url>https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1-32x32.png</url> <title>Harper&#039;s Magazine</title> <link></link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <item> <title>Thoughts on Oligarchy</title> <link>https://harpers.org/2024/11/publishers-note-thoughts-on-oligarchy/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[John R. MacArthur]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:09:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Publisher’s Note]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://harpers.org/?p=291509</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on November 4, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. There may have been a genius somewhere who accurately predicted the results of the November 5 presidential election, but I was not that genius. The most prudent position to have taken ahead of the final [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/11/publishers-note-thoughts-on-oligarchy/">Thoughts on Oligarchy</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="width: 250px; border: 1px solid black; background-color: white; margin-left: 30px; padding: 30px; padding-bottom: 30px; float: right; font-size: 90%;">A <a href="https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chroniques/822972/chronique-quelque-part-il-y-genie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">version</a> of this column originally ran in <em>Le Devoir</em> on November 4, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto.</div> <p class="drop-cap">There may have been a genius somewhere who accurately predicted the results of the November 5 presidential election, but I was not that genius. The most prudent position to have taken ahead of the final voting seemed to have been to call it a new referendum on Donald Trump. But so many high stakes were in the balance—abortion and the cost of living played disproportionate roles—that I was loath to join the chorus that summed up Trump as simply a cult leader. Followers of this cult no doubt voted for him. But even a madman sometimes knows where his own interests lie.</p> <p>Pollsters in 2016 made the mistake of underestimating the anger workers felt over losing their factory jobs, especially in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, where Bill Clinton-inspired NAFTA (and later Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China) did immense damage. These states tilted the Electoral College against the Clinton clan and its representative, Hillary. Trump again benefited from this rational rage, despite the fact that his administration’s 2020 replacement for NAFTA, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), helped Mexican workers more than their American counterparts, though only slightly. The sad reality is that remaining American factories continue to close regularly and fly off to the promised land of low salaries: Mexico and China.</p> <p>The shock of Trump’s 2016 victory remains etched in the psyche of right-minded people. While Trumpists this time expected a new electoral “steal,” Democrats feared a repeat of January 6, 2021, with hordes of white rioters setting fire to government buildings. I had my own nightmare: Harris getting a greater share of the popular vote than Clinton did in 2016, while Trump remained victorious anyway thanks to the Electoral College. That might have led to leftist riots.</p> <p>Nevertheless, as degraded and vulgar as the 74,200,000 votes for Trump in 2020 may appear, there are other unhealthy political tendencies we should examine in the United States, as well as in France, our supposedly more civilized and educated sister republic. The ancient Greeks passed down to us not only the concept of demos (self-government) but also that of oligarchy, a system of government in which a shadowy elite can dictate all the rules.</p> <p>Today, France and the United States are best described in terms of this classic financial-business-political oligarchy. The current French government makes a mockery of the people’s will. After dissolving parliament in June, President Emmanuel Macron brushed aside the results of the legislative elections—which favored the left—and installed a right-wing government. In so doing, he imitated former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who, most notably, circumvented a 2005 national referendum rejecting the European Constitution without consulting the French people.</p> <p>Only a sophisticated oligarchy can invalidate democracy that easily. I’ve never seen it play out as clearly as in Le Monde on September 24, in an article on the inner workings of a tight-knit political circle almost invisible to the general public. According to the paper, on March 6, a year after Macron’s government barely survived a vote of no confidence, Macron summoned his predecessor, former president François Hollande, a socialist, to talk about the war in Ukraine. At that meeting, the “troubled head of state” told Hollande that he was “desperately trying to expand his relative majority in Parliament.”</p> <p>Hollande, a supposed leftist, reportedly responded that “You’re conducting right-wing politics. You have to make an alliance with the right.” Macron responded by saying, “I didn’t do all this to end up there.” But apparently he did. On September 21, with the support of enough deputies (and the key backing of far-right Marine Le Pen), he appointed “a government of thirty-nine ministers mixing a young Macronist guard with a dozen elected officials from the conservative right.”</p> <p>Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, denounced the “reactionary government that had given the finger to democracy” and defied the “victory” of the leftist alliance, the New Popular Front (NFP), which won a relative majority in the June legislative elections with 182 seats. Significantly, however, there is a new socialist deputy from Corrèze in the NFP caucus…and it’s François Hollande!</p> <p>Faure initially refused to meet Michel Barnier to protest Macron’s choice of the new center-right prime minister. But Hollande was friendlier, telling the media, “We must always talk. When you’re invited, go where you’re wanted. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t say what you think, or that you shouldn’t express it even when leaving the meeting.” The words of a purebred oligarch. Perhaps Hollande was trying to slip Barnier some advice? Lean further right to better rule on the right?</p> <p>People say Trump is a monster and that we must save democracy. But let’s not forget that Bill and Hillary Clinton (with a front-row seat for Hillary) attended Donald and Melania Trump’s wedding in Palm Beach in 2005. Rightly so. When you’re invited, you must go where you’re wanted.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/11/publishers-note-thoughts-on-oligarchy/">Thoughts on Oligarchy</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Weekly Review</title> <link>https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-hypersonic-missile-ballistic-missiles-cosmonauts-foul-odor-execution-lists-drones-forced-hysterectomies-massage-parlors-human-smuggling-hamsters-monkeys-deer-hunting-robots-bomb-to-show/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harper’s Magazine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:39:50 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Weekly Review]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://harpers.org/?p=291502</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>132 hamsters broke free of their cages in the cargo hull of a Portuguese commercial airplane and stormed the cabin, grounding the craft for four days.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-hypersonic-missile-ballistic-missiles-cosmonauts-foul-odor-execution-lists-drones-forced-hysterectomies-massage-parlors-human-smuggling-hamsters-monkeys-deer-hunting-robots-bomb-to-show/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="drop-cap">Russia fired an experimental nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a military facility in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.^{<a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/11/23/nato-and-ukraine-to-hold-emergency-talks-after-russias-hypersonic-missile-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1</a>} Following the strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that no defense technology currently existed to thwart the Oreshnik, that the Russian military would begin manufacturing large quantities of the projectiles, and that the country was “entitled” to use them “against military facilities”; and the mayor of Dnipro announced that the Oreshnik’s blast had destroyed a rehabilitation center for people with disabilities.^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-sends-missile-message-west-back-off-2024-11-22/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2</a>} ^{<a href="https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/11/21/putin-says-moscow-has-a-right-to-strike-military-facilities-of-countries-that-allow-their-weapons-to-be-used-against-russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3929548-dnipro-rehab-for-disabled-affected-in-russian-attack.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4</a>} A Russian deputy foreign minister accused the United States of attempting to draw the Taiwanese and Chinese governments into “a crisis in Asia”; it was reported that Russia’s military recruiters were offering citizenship and high salaries to Yemeni men; and it was estimated that one in three of the ballistic missiles Russia fired at Ukraine this year were purchased from North Korea, which to date has provided Russian invasion forces with some 11,000 auxiliary troops.^{<a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-11-23/russia-says-us-using-taiwan-to-stir-crisis-in-asia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-yemen-huthi-mercenaries/33214068.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">6</a>} ^{<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/23/europe/ukraine-north-korean-missile-attacks-western-components-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-unnerved-north-korea-russia-alliance-us-official-kurt-campbell-2024-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">8</a>} The U.S. deputy secretary of state said that intelligence indicated that China had grown worried that Russia’s increasingly strong relationship with North Korea could strengthen America’s alliances with South Korea and Japan, and Australia’s Office of National Intelligence said that the U.S. deputy secretary’s assessment was “fanciful” after the commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said he thought China had provided Russia with some 70 percent of the tools it used to build up its war machine.^{<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-unnerved-north-korea-russia-alliance-us-official-kurt-campbell-2024-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/24/china-unnerved-russia-growing-ties-north-korea-claims-us-official?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10</a>} Australia and Canada pledged to collaborate on missile-defense research to fend off hypersonic weapons, Japan and the United States said they would deploy missiles to Japanese islands should China encroach on Taiwan, and China told the people of Japan they could now visit without visas.^{<a href="https://mil.in.ua/en/news/canada-and-australia-to-jointly-develop-missile-defense-systems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/24/japan/japan-us-taiwan-missile-plan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.chinatravelnews.com/article/184963#:~:text=On%20November%2022%2C%20Chinese%20authorities,last%20until%20December%2031%2C%202025." target="_blank" rel="noopener">13</a>} In low earth orbit, cosmonauts on the International Space Station, which is jointly operated by Russia, the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada, reported a foul odor.^{<a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/sunita-williams-reported-toxic-smell-on-space-station-decontamination-triggered-2639878-2024-11-25#:~:text=In%20Short&amp;text=Astronauts%20commanded%20by%20Sunita%20Williams,spacecraft%2C%20prompting%20immediate%20safety%20measures." target="_blank" rel="noopener">14</a>}</p> <p>Ukrainian intelligence said that Russia had, prior to its invasion, compiled “execution lists” that included the names of Ukrainian language teachers and religious leaders; the ayatollah of Iran called for the execution of the prime minister of Israel for the latter’s leading the invasion of Gaza, where the Israeli Defense Forces were reported to have killed at least their 44,235th person since October of last year; Ukraine’s president accused Russia of “testing” the efficacy of Iranian-made drones on the population of Ukraine, where it was estimated that as many as 400,000 people have been killed since February of 2022; and the vice president of the Philippines announced that she had made arrangements to have the president and his wife executed by a hitman should she herself be killed.^{<a href="https://united24media.com/latest-news/russia-compiled-execution-lists-targeting-ukrainian-teachers-journalists-and-clergy-before-the-invasion-3957" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-khamenei-calls-death-sentence-israeli-leaders-2024-11-25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">16</a>} ^{<a href="https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/11/25/gaza-s-health-ministry-says-war-death-toll-at-44-235-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/24/zelenskyy-fears-ukraine-is-testing-ground-for-russian-weapons-amid-rise-in-shahed-strikes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18</a>} ^{<a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ukraine-war-1000-days-700000-dead-or-wounded-russia-213791" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19</a>} ^{<a href="https://news.sky.com/story/philippines-vp-sara-duterte-says-she-will-have-president-ferdinand-marcos-jr-assassinated-if-she-is-killed-13258924" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20</a>} “I said, ‘Do not stop until you kill them,’” she said.^{<a href="https://news.sky.com/story/philippines-vp-sara-duterte-says-she-will-have-president-ferdinand-marcos-jr-assassinated-if-she-is-killed-13258924" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21</a>} The leader of Japan’s Conservative Party proposed banning women from getting married after the age of 25 and administering forced hysterectomies at the age of 30; an Indiana police officer was charged with voyeurism, official misconduct, and unlawful proposition for using a department-issued laptop to film himself having sex at massage parlors while undercover investigating human smuggling; and two British men pleaded guilty to running a human smuggling operation out of their car wash business that was modeled after the Tripadvisor rating site and posted reviews from trafficked people, including one that asked, “How was the route, lads?”^{<a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/remove-uterus-after-women-turn-30-japan-leaders-bizarre-population-pitch-sparks-backlash-101731482456317.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21</a>} ^{<a href="https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/docs-impd-officer-investigating-human-trafficking-secretly-filmed-himself-having-sex-at-massage-parlors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">22</a>} ^{<a href="https://cbs4indy.com/video/docs-impd-officer-investigating-human-trafficking-secretly-filmed-himself-having-sex-at-massage-parlors/10242177/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">23</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c3wq907dw2po" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24</a>}</p> <p>A DHL cargo plane flying from Germany to Lithuania crashed into a house and burst into flames one kilometer from the runway where it was supposed to land, and a Russian superjet burst into flames moments after landing on its runway in Turkey.^{<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/25/europe/lithuania-dhl-cargo-plane-crash-vilnius-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.ifn.news/posts/azimuth-airlines-sukhoi-superjet-catches-fire-on-landing-in-antalya/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26</a>} 132 hamsters broke free of their cages in the cargo hull of a Portuguese commercial airplane and stormed the cabin, grounding the craft for four days; about 200 monkeys in Thailand who had been caged by Lopburi police escaped and attacked the station, forcing officers to barricade themselves inside; and three men in Michigan were reported to have died in a 48-hour period from heart attacks suffered while deer-hunting, two of which occurred while trying to haul away the bodies of animals they killed.^{<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hamsters-loose-tap-airlines-plane-portugal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/law-and-disorder-as-thai-police-station-comes-under-monkey-attack#:~:text=BANGKOK%20%E2%80%93%20The%20police%20in%20central,ran%20riot%20on%20the%20town." target="_blank" rel="noopener">28</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/michigan-deer-hunters-heart-attacks-6080dfe3be3c5411f98a476d17e0b3b3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">29</a>} Denmark announced that it would return 15 percent of all farmland to nature as part of its plan to cut emissions by 70 percent by 2030, it was reported that the companies that make up the Alliance To End Plastic Waste produced 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up, and a professor of misinformation at Stanford University was accused of lying to a Minnesota court about the psychological impact of deepfakes by citing nonexistent research papers.^{<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91233055/denmark-is-returning-15-of-its-farmland-back-to-nature" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/stanford-professor-lying-and-technology-19937258.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">31</a>} Artificial-intelligence data center developers estimated that individual facilities may soon demand more than twice the energy of Pittsburgh, and a robot in Shanghai activated 12 larger robots, discussed working long hours with no break to go home, and then led them out of their designer’s building in the middle of the night.^{<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/23/data-centers-powering-ai-could-use-more-electricity-than-entire-cities.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">32</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/tiny-robot-kidnaps-12-larger-bots-from-chinese-showroom-video-goes-viral-come-with-me-101732197076609-amp.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">33</a>} A GPS directed a car in India off an unfinished bridge, killing three people; a school bus driver in Colorado was fired after his GPS stopped working and he let 40 students deboard at an intersection miles from their school in freezing temperatures; and a child in the United Kingdom brought a bomb to show-and-tell.^{<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-school-bus-driver-leaving-40-kids-in-cold-rcna181312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">34</a> <a href="https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24727950.orchard-junior-school-evacuated-child-brings-explosive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">35</a>} <em>—Joe Kloc</em></p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-hypersonic-missile-ballistic-missiles-cosmonauts-foul-odor-execution-lists-drones-forced-hysterectomies-massage-parlors-human-smuggling-hamsters-monkeys-deer-hunting-robots-bomb-to-show/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Weekly Review</title> <link>https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-trump-cabinet-tulsi-gabbard-theobros-drug-cartels-shot-puppy-prozac-raw-milk-shatter-proof-nuclear-arsenal-tyson-paul-rigged-cocaine-chocolate/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harper’s Magazine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:59:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Weekly Review]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://harpers.org/?p=291385</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>In Tromsø, Norway, fishermen trawling for halibut caught the <em>USS Virginia,</em> a nuclear-powered submarine armed with cruise missiles.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-trump-cabinet-tulsi-gabbard-theobros-drug-cartels-shot-puppy-prozac-raw-milk-shatter-proof-nuclear-arsenal-tyson-paul-rigged-cocaine-chocolate/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="drop-cap"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Donald Trump made more than two dozen appointments and cabinet nominations, including, for secretary of the interior, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, who earlier this year organized a private meeting at Mar-a-Lago in which Trump promised to oil and gas executives a rollback of environmental regulations in exchange for $1 billion in campaign contributions; for EPA Administrator, former New York congressman Lee Zeldin, who has backed Trump’s calls for the United States to exit the Paris Agreement and received more than $400,000 in campaign contributions from oil and gas companies; for secretary of state, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who opposed the United States’ 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, wants to intercept ships and aircraft suspected of transporting nuclear materials to North Korea, and opposes a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas war; for U.S. ambassador to Israel, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who supports the Israeli annexation of the West Bank, believes in a “one-state solution,” and once said “there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian”; for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who has taken secret meetings with the Syrian dictator and accused war criminal Bashar al-Assad, echoed Russian dictator and accused war criminal Vladimir Putin’s claim that Russia went to war to prevent U.S.-funded Ukrainian labs from developing “biological weapons,” and has no experience in the intelligence services; for secretary of defense, the Fox News host Pete Hegseth, a Christian reconstructionist with ties to the ultraconservative TheoBros movement that would see the United States subject to biblical law, who once sold grenade-shaped soap, whose book </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">American Crusade</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> includes passages bemoaning “Muslims’ birth rates” in the United States, and whose tattoos include an AR-15 inserted into the stripes of the American flag, the words “Deus Vult,” a rallying cry for Christian invaders during the Crusades, and a Jerusalem cross, a symbol linked to white nationalism; for secretary of homeland security, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who is banned from all tribal land in her own state for claiming that Native Americans were prioritizing “drug cartels” over parenting their children, fabricated a story about meeting Kim Jong Un, shot a puppy she described as “less than worthless,” and gifted Trump a four-foot-tall rendition of Mount Rushmore that depicts his face carved into the mountain; for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has claimed that vaccines cause autism, promoted unapproved treatments for COVID-19, said that those “most immune” from the virus are “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people, blamed school shootings on Prozac, drinks only raw milk, and said a portion of his brain was eaten by a worm; and, for Attorney General, Florida Representative Matt Gaetz, who, before resigning from his House seat, was the subject of an Ethics Committee probe that reportedly investigated claims of his misuse of campaign funds, sharing of inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, use of illicit drugs, and sexual relations with a 17-year-old girl.^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/politics/trump-administration-cabinet-appointees.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/doug-burgum-interior-department-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.easthamptonstar.com/editorials-opinion/20241114/lee-zeldin-long-islands-pollution-export" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3</a>} ^{<a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4985716-zeldin-epa-nominee-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/video-in-senate-floor-speech-rubio-opposes-iran-deal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/rubio-campaign-press-release-read-marco-rubio-lays-out-detailed-plan-stand-the-lunatic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">6</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/12/marco-rubio-trump-secretary-of-state-hamas-vicious-animals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7</a>} ^{<a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/19/in-jerusalem-mike-huckabee-calls-west-bank-part-of-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">8</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5188521/palestinians-are-nervous-as-mike-huckabee-is-named-ambassador-to-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9</a>} ^{<a href="https://time.com/7176436/mike-huckabee-trump-israel-ambassador-palestinians-middle-east/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/mike-huckabee-palestinian-comments-trump-israel-ambassador/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/tulsi-gabbard-lead-syria/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/france-issues-arrest-warrants-for-syrian-president-assad-3-generals-alleging-involvement-in-war-crimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">13</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/60711705" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/16/trump-cabinet-tulsi-gabbard-democratic-reactions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nbr.org/publication/putins-special-electoral-operation-no-choice-and-no-competition-in-a-consolidated-dictatorship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">16</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trumps-pick-top-intel-job-accused-traitorous-parroting-russian-propaga-rcna180073" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18</a>} ^{<a href="https://time.com/7176696/gabbard-russia-connection-trump-intelligence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-peter-hegseth-defense-secretary-pick-theobros-hopes-for-a-christian-crusade/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.dailydot.com/debug/donald-trump-anti-soap-secretary-defense-pete-hegseth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth/pete-hegseths-book-includes-complaints-about-muslims-birth-rates-praise-crusaders-who" target="_blank" rel="noopener">22</a>} ^{<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/13/us-news/all-of-secretary-of-defense-nominee-pete-hegseths-tattoos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">23</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/09/04/548505783/scholars-say-white-supremacists-chanting-deus-vult-got-history-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5191941/pete-hegseth-defense-department-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/kristi-noem-tribal-lands-ban/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26</a>} ^{<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/noem-backpedals-anecdote-book-meeting-kim-jong/story?id=109909803" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/kristi-noem-trump-dog-killing/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/22/south-dakota-gov-noem-gave-trump-mini-mount-rushmore-his-face/6669700002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">29</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2023/08/scicheck-what-rfk-jr-gets-wrong-about-autism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30</a>} ^{<a href="https://publichealthcollaborative.org/misinformation-alert/rfk-jr-continues-to-promote-disproven-covid-19-cures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">31</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/us/politics/rfk-jr-remarks-covid.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">32</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-conspiracy-theory-twitter-elon-musk-1234747479/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">33</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rfk-jr-health-stances-vaccines-fluoride-raw-milk-rcna180244" target="_blank" rel="noopener">34</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/05/08/parasitic-brain-worm-rfk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">35</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/matt-gaetz-ethics-committee-report.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">36</a>} “I want to go get a big bag of popcorn and pull up a front-row seat to that show,” said Ohio Representative Max Miller of Gaetz’s forthcoming confirmation hearing.^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/matt-gaetz-ethics-committee-report.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">37</a>} Trump announced the creation of a Department of Government Efficiency, whose initials apparently reference Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency named for a 2013 meme of a Shiba Inu, and appointed billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, who has pledged to “delete” entire government agencies, to run the department alongside fellow billionaire Elon Musk, who tanked the value of the social media platform he renamed “X” by at least 71% in just one year of owning it, challenged Putin to “single combat” to end the war in Ukraine, and once invited a Tesla designer to throw a metal ball at the “shatter-proof” window of a Cybertruck, which then shattered.^{<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33972/trump-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-doge-government-efficiency-deep-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">38</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/dogecoin-trump-doge-musk-crypto-5a6f9d61ad7c5d4fc94f567dd9ee090e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">39</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/vivek-ramaswamy-doge-wants-to-delete-entire-federal-agencies-2024-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">40</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2024/11/13/vivek-ramaswamy-net-worth-billionaire-or-millionaire/76255534007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">41</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/02/x-twitter-stock-falls-elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">42</a>} ^{<a href="https://deadline.com/2023/07/elon-musk-rebrands-twitter-to-x-tweets-x-com-linda-yaccarino-1235446288/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">43</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2022/03/14/musk-challenges-putin-to-single-combat-over-ukraine-russian-official-calls-him-a-little-devil/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">44</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udxR5rBq_Vg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">45</a>} It was reported that Melania Trump will probably not live in the White House for the next four years.^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/17/melania-trump-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">46</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israel launched strikes into Beirut, killing Hezbollah’s spokesperson, and into Gaza, killing at least 76 people and wounding at least 158 in a 24-hour period, and the Pope called for an investigation into allegations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/17/middleeast/israel-beirut-gaza-airstrikes-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">47</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2024-11/gaza-war-israel-hamas-deaths-destruction-lebanon.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">48</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/middleeast/pope-israel-gaza-genocide-allegations-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">49</a>} President Joe Biden, who wandered into the Amazon rainforest after delivering a speech about the dangers of climate change, lifted the ban on Ukraine’s using U.S.-made long-range missiles to fire into the Kursk region of Russia, reportedly in response to North Korean troops’ joining the fighting; as a result of escalation in Ukraine, the Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian governments distributed updated guidelines on surviving a war; </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If Sweden is attacked by another country,” reads the Swedish pamphlet, “we will never give up.”^{<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-joe-biden-wanders-amazon-225313520.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">50</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/17/biden-has-lifted-ban-on-ukraine-using-us-weapons-to-strike-deeper-into-russia-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">51</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">52</a>} Kim Jong Un announced a “limitless” expansion to his country’s nuclear arsenal, and</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Tromsø, Norway, fishermen trawling for halibut caught the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">USS Virginia</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a nuclear-powered submarine armed with cruise missiles.^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-kim-nuclear-program-81806b946dffc9923c924a98959ab1ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">53</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/fishermen-hunting-for-halibut-caught-a-us-nuclear-sub/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">54</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At a Georgian government meeting, an opposition politician, citing claims that a recent election result was manipulated, threw a cup of black paint into the face of the Central Electoral Commission’s chairman.^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/16/europe/georgia-election-commission-paint-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">55</a>} Fans circulated the theory that the fight between heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson and YouTube star Jake Paul, both of whom were reported to have received tens of millions of dollars to participate in the bout, was rigged.^{<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-14094193/Fans-claim-Mike-Tyson-Jake-Paul-fight.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">56</a>} ^{<a href="https://fortune.com/2024/11/16/mike-tyson-vs-jake-paul-fight-payday-estimates-40-million-20-million/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">57</a>} In Los Angeles, the police revealed that the brown bear seen damaging luxury cars in videos that were submitted to insurance companies, which paid out over $140,000 in claims, was “clearly a human in a bear suit,” and in Chicago, more than 50 people competed in a contest to determine who looked most like Jeremy Allen White, star of the FX television series </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Bear</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/us/fake-bear-insurance-fraud-charges.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">58</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jeremy-allen-white-bear-lookalike-contest-chicago-d9bfe9b4eb7dccedd96610d49c605d97" target="_blank" rel="noopener">59</a>} It was reported that bricks of cocaine worth nearly $900,000 were shipped to the United States inside hot chocolate packaging, and the Swiss chocolate company Lindt admitted that its chocolate was not, in fact, “expertly crafted with the finest ingredients.”^{<a href="https://wcti12.com/news/nation-world/cocaine-concealed-hot-chocolate-packages-washington-dulles-international-airport-customs-border-protection-steve-sapp-courier-guatemala-shipment-destined-northern-virginia-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60</a>} ^{<a href="https://fortune.com/europe/2024/11/12/lindt-us-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">61</a>} —</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Megan Evershed</span></i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-trump-cabinet-tulsi-gabbard-theobros-drug-cartels-shot-puppy-prozac-raw-milk-shatter-proof-nuclear-arsenal-tyson-paul-rigged-cocaine-chocolate/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Weekly Review</title> <link>https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-drone-strike-kursk-region-donbas-gorging-on-pornography-artifical-intelligence-samurai-sword-playground-burst-into-flames-gorgeous-head-fifteen-flushes-act-as-a-dictator/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harper’s Magazine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:29:24 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Weekly Review]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://harpers.org/?p=291347</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Residents in Colorado Springs voted on one ballot initiative banning the sale of recreational marijuana and another allowing the sale of recreational marijuana. “Both,” said the city in a statement following the election, “have been approved.”</p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-drone-strike-kursk-region-donbas-gorging-on-pornography-artifical-intelligence-samurai-sword-playground-burst-into-flames-gorgeous-head-fifteen-flushes-act-as-a-dictator/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="drop-cap"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a single evening, Ukraine and Russia carried out their largest drone strikes against each other in more than two years of war; Ukrainian officials announced the next day that the country had been attacked by at least 145 Iranian-made Russian drones, some of which had been launched from Belarus and Moldova; and Russian leaders said they had intercepted at least 84 Ukrainian drones over six regions, accidentally setting four Moscow-area homes on fire in the process.^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-moscow-drones-204fd4df47c4fa4be50441f5e9c047c3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx28jd0114ro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx28jd0114ro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/world/europe/moscow-drone-attack-ukraine-russia.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4</a>} Russia prepared tens of thousands of troops to retake the Ukrainian-occupied Russian Kursk region, which is home to 1 million people and which the country lost over the summer while its army was seizing Ukrainian land in the Donbas, where more than 6 million people reside; and some 10,000 North Korean troops who were sent to Russia to assist in the country’s invasion of Ukraine were reportedly given full internet access for the first time and began “gorging on pornography.”^{<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-masses-troops-kursk-offensive-putin-trump-call-kremlin-rcna179544" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/world/ukraine-kursk-offensive-cost/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">6</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/5/ukraine-failed-to-slow-russias-donbas-advance-with-kursk-incursion-putin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/15/russia-ukraine-donbas-donetsk-luhansk-public-opinion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">8</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/north-korean-troops-soldiers-addicted-porn-internet-access-russia-war-b1192408.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9</a>} It was reported that the Russian government might block nighttime internet usage and establish a Ministry of Sex to address declining birth rates, after laying off about 10 percent of its public-sector employees because digitization made their jobs irrelevant.^{<a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/russia-considers-creating-ministry-of-sex-president-putins-loyalist-reviews-petition-101731132262149.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/11/11/russia-preparing-mass-government-layoff-a86976" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11</a>} The Chinese government built a prototype nuclear reactor to increase the range of its aircraft carriers; the American government said it would incorporate artificial intelligence into the decision-making protocols for its more than 5,000 nuclear weapons; and the Catholic Church revealed that, for several weeks, it had flown a drone fleet around Vatican City at night in order to take more than 400,000 photographs, which it then used, along with artificial intelligence, to build a digital replica of the Basilica that worshipers can access without leaving their homes: “St. Peter’s,” said Microsoft’s president, “for the times we live in.”^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-nuclear-aircraft-carrier-glance-8863fefa646e4a9d89c45d91c068696d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.techspot.com/news/105433-pentagon-wants-ai-enhance-capabilities-nuclear-weapons-systems.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">13</a>} ^{<a href="https://fas.org/publication/nuclear-weapons-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vatican-unveils-ai-services-st-peters-basilica-ahead-jubilee-2024-11-11/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15</a>}  </span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hackers stole 40 gigabytes of data from a French energy company and demanded a ransom of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars’ worth of baguettes; a fight broke out on a Paris commuter train among a group of teenagers wielding bats, knives, an axe, and a samurai sword; and in Poland, a driver thought he had struck and killed a man at a crosswalk only to discover that the corpse had fallen out of the back of a hearse.^{<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hackers-demand-frances-schneider-electric-pay-a-usd125k-ransom-in-baguettes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">16</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/axe-attack-on-paris-train-leaves-4-teens-injured-6943174" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/poland-hearse-corpse-apology-21d29f1ddd883fe0bfc2ae278b89be6d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18</a>} A hitman in India turned his employer over to the police after failing to receive payment for killing someone; the St. Louis prosecutor’s office announced that it had not received reimbursement from the Missouri Department of Revenue, accusing the latter of being “late in paying us to prosecute taxpayers who are late in paying them”; and Nigeria’s president ordered prosecutors to drop charges of treason against more than 30 children arrested for protesting the high cost of basic goods after four of them collapsed in the courtroom from malnourishment.^{<a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/meerut-advocate-murder-contract-killer-uttar-pradesh-police-help-2630034-2024-11-08" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/hired-killer-doesnt-get-money-for-murdering-lawyer-he-goes-to-cops-6974626" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20</a>} ^{<a href="https://fox2now.com/news/fox-files/prosecutors-left-unpaid-after-chasing-taxpayer-delinquents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4lzqe79x3o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">22</a>} A playground built beneath a bridge in Ohio burst into flames; Argentine lawmakers were reported to be considering repealing a 1974 law that allows the president to become the godparent of any family’s seventh same-sex child as a way of preventing it from becoming a werewolf; and residents in Colorado Springs voted on one ballot initiative banning the sale of recreational marijuana and another allowing the sale of recreational marijuana.^{<a href="https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/i-team/why-was-a-flammable-playground-allowed-under-the-daniel-carter-beard-bridge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">23</a>} ^{<a href="https://argentinareports.com/mileis-chainsaw-for-bureaucracy-could-slash-an-antiquated-law-aimed-at-protecting-argentine-kids-from-turning-into-werewolves-really/3781/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24</a>} ^{<a href="https://krdo.com/news/2024/11/06/colorado-springs-voters-approved-opposing-marijuana-initiatives-heres-whats-next/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25</a>} “Both,” said the city in a statement following the election, “have been approved.”^{<a href="https://krdo.com/news/2024/11/06/colorado-springs-voters-approved-opposing-marijuana-initiatives-heres-whats-next/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">TGI Fridays said in a bankruptcy filing that it probably couldn’t honor some $49.7 million in never-expiring gift cards, the Hertz rental car company attempted to fine a customer $10,000 for using its “unlimited miles” deal to drive 25,000 miles in a single month, and it was reported that an ambulance in Oregon hit a 71-year-old cyclist, loaded him into the vehicle, drove him to the hospital, and then billed him $1,862 for the ride.^{<a href="https://fortune.com/2024/11/05/tgi-fridays-50-million-gift-cards-chapter-11-bankruptcy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27</a>} ^{<a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2024/11/06/hertz-hits-customer-with-10000-bill-after-unlimited-miles-deal-then-threatens-to-arrest-him-for-complaining/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2024/11/ambulance-hits-oregon-cyclist-rushes-him-to-hospital-then-sticks-him-with-1800-bill-lawsuit-says.html#:~:text=An%20Oregon%20cyclist%20who%20was,billed%20him%20for%20the%20service%2C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">29</a>} Around 100,000 students from Zhengzhou, China, cycled 50 kilometers in the middle of the night in search of soup dumplings; a family in Ashland County, Ohio, asked tourists to stop visiting their property to photograph their 50,000-pound concrete replica of an ancient Stargate from the television show of the same name in which such portals send travelers across space and time; Mattel dolls made in the likenesses of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wizard of Oz</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s witches were pulled from stores because their packaging directed children to a porn site; and a Russian state news channel aired nude photos of former U.S. First Lady Melania Trump as newscasters reported on her husband, Donald, who, since launching his successful campaign for 45th presidency of the United States in 2015, told supporters that being eaten by a shark was better than being electrocuted, said that he wanted to purchase Greenland, claimed that American bowel movements require fifteen flushes, speculated that the hairspray he uses to maintain his “gorgeous head” does not contribute to climate change because he keeps his windows closed while spraying it, stared directly into a solar eclipse as his aide shouted “Don’t!,” told a widower that her husband was looking up at her from hell, denied his first ex-wife’s accusation that he assaulted her in a fit of rage after a botched operation to reduce the size of his bald spot, buried his first ex-wife near his New Jersey golf course, recounted to a group of boy scouts the details of a decades-old cocktail party featuring a pro-segregation real estate developer that was attended by the “hottest people” in New York, repeatedly praised a fictional serial killer, said that “Second Amendment people” could “maybe” kill his opponent, accused congress members who didn’t clap for one of his addresses of treason, reportedly condoned the idea of his supporters’ killing his vice president for certifying the presidential election he lost, said black Americans should vote for him because he was “discriminated against” when he was arrested and charged in Georgia with attempting to subvert the state’s vote tally in that same election, and said he would act for one day as a dictator if he was reelected as the 47th president, which he was, by a margin of almost 4 million votes.^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/11/china-midnight-dumpling-bike-ride-zhengzhou-kaifeng?CMP=twt_b-gdnnews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/11/08/stargate-built-by-family-in-ohio/76133926007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">31</a>} ^{<a href="https://consequence.net/2024/11/mattel-wicked-doll-adult-website/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2swssVKxhn4roVgRMPP3rGOXI40_mVnHh8EgZtxdyWSjm8s1MbxuxoSqM_aem_Y7k9ZzD9183-VsHFBwW4Zw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">32</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-airs-melania-trumps-nudes-primetime-1982683" target="_blank" rel="noopener">33</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/26/trump-shark-ev-boat-electrocution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">34</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223" target="_blank" rel="noopener">35</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/07/politics/trump-americans-flushing-toilets-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">36</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-shower-water-hair-b2388506.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">37</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-hair-gifs-2015-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">38</a>} ^{<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/347422-carlson-jokes-trump-looking-at-eclipse-without-glasses-most-impressive-thing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">39</a>} ^{<a href="https://people.com/politics/john-dingell-congresswoman-debbie-dingle-responds-trump-suggesting-husband-went-to-hell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">40</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/documenting-trumps-abuse-of-women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">41</a>} ^{<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ivana-trump-buried-bedminster-3-theories.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">42</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/politics/donald-trump-boy-scouts-speech/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">43</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/12/trump-rally-speech-hannibal-lecter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">44</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">45</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/05/politics/trump-speech-treason/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">46</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/25/trump-expressed-support-hanging-pence-capitol-riot-jan-6-00035117" target="_blank" rel="noopener">47</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/24/trump-courts-black-leaders-in-s-c-claims-legal-troubles-have-won-him-their-support-00143061" target="_blank" rel="noopener">48</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72" target="_blank" rel="noopener">49</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/05/us/elections/results-president.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">50</a>} —</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joe Kloc</span></i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-drone-strike-kursk-region-donbas-gorging-on-pornography-artifical-intelligence-samurai-sword-playground-burst-into-flames-gorgeous-head-fifteen-flushes-act-as-a-dictator/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Weekly Review</title> <link>https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-gota-fria-spain-campeche-machete-nunchuck-voting-swing-states-jaywalking-ikea-monkey-labor-drunk-animals-we-are-outnumbered/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harper’s Magazine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:59:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Weekly Review]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://harpers.org/?p=291329</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>In Michigan, it was reported that a man living in the woods of the Upper Peninsula captured video of himself being “knocked out cold” by what he claimed was a bigfoot.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-gota-fria-spain-campeche-machete-nunchuck-voting-swing-states-jaywalking-ikea-monkey-labor-drunk-animals-we-are-outnumbered/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="drop-cap"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">gota fría</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> above the Mediterranean sea caused as much as nine feet of rain to flood the streets of eastern Spain, sweeping up cars, derailing a high-speed train with nearly 300 passengers aboard, and killing at least 215 people; the Spanish government deployed helicopters and more than 1,600 soldiers to search homes and vehicles for trapped residents and dead bodies; and Spaniards called their country’s king a “murderer” for what they felt was his lax response to the storm, hurling at the royal couple mud and eggs, which their security forces blocked by opening umbrellas.^{<a href="https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-downpours-increasing-in-southern-spain-as-fossil-fuel-emissions-heat-the-climate/#:~:text=In%20the%20Mediterranean%20region%20of,cold%20air%20within%20the%20COL." target="_blank" rel="noopener">1</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spanish-rescue-teams-hunt-missing-after-deadly-floods-2024-10-31/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/flash-floods-spain-valencia-climate-change-what-to-know-f942142b82de24f5b4a18867bc32ae00" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/world/europe/spain-floods-valencia-rain.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/646663/World/Europe/Flash-floods-in-Spain-leave-at-least-95-dead-disrupt-rail-and-road-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cqlr675lkk0o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">6</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypgjg2jrpo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/04/world/video/spain-king-queen-mud-eggs-floods-ldn-digvid#:~:text=An%20angry%20crowd%20threw%20eggs,those%20affected%20by%20the%20devastation." target="_blank" rel="noopener">8</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/03/europe/spanish-king-valencia-angry-crowds-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9</a>} Meteorologists predicted that a tropical depression in the Caribbean would strengthen into a tropical storm, flood Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, develop into a hurricane, and strike Cuba, which more than 66,000 people have already fled amid island-wide blackouts brought on in large part by a fossil fuel shortage that the Cuban government said would not be fixed by a shipment of almost 500,000 barrels of oil from Mexico; and in the Mexican state of Campeche, a lost Mayan city was identified beneath the jungle canopy that more than a millennium ago was home to as many as 50,000 people, a population an anthropologist described as evidence of suburban sprawl during the Classic period that raised “all sorts of questions” about how to to explain the collapse of so large a civilization.^{<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tropical-storm-rafael-potential-18-jamaica-cayman-islands/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2024/11/04/storm-tracker-nhc-caribbean-tropical-depression/76041399007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/more-than-66000-cubans-evacuated-over-flooding-fears/article68827021.ece" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-braces-second-hurricane-amid-power-crisis-2024-11-04/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">13</a>} ^{<a href="https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/cuba-faces-blackouts-mexico-delivers-nearly-500000-barrels-oil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmznzkly3go" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/world/americas/maya-city-mexico.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">16</a>} In Argentina, a woman fended off a knife-wielding attacker with a larger knife she happened to be carrying, an octogenarian in Ohio who was attacked in the hallway of his building by a man with a rusty machete fended him off with a pair of nunchucks, and a sheriff in Ohio announced that he will not come to the aid of anyone who votes for Democrats.^{<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/knife-wielding-robber-scared-off-shop-employee-bigger-115448949" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17</a>} ^{<a href="https://fox8.com/news/ypd-elderly-man-fends-off-machete-attack-with-his-nunchucks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ohio-police-lieutenant-vows-not-to-protect-democrats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19</a>} </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Americans began in-person voting in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, which pollsters in the closing weeks of the campaign predicted would be determined by people living in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; in Wisconsin, a man was convicted after helping his son conceal the bodies of four people he’d killed in a cornfield; in Arizona, a man was arrested after driving around the state for four years with his father’s frozen corpse; in Georgia, a man was arrested for driving with two dogs tied to the back of his car; in North Carolina, a man was arrested for selling at least 1,000 homemade machine guns to “people from the mountains”; in Michigan, it was reported that a man living in the woods of the Upper Peninsula captured video of himself being “knocked out cold” by what he claimed was a bigfoot; in Nevada, it was reported that a desert motel was haunted by clowns; and in Pennsylvania, a state senator proposed creating an office that could repeal a ban on for-profit fortune telling.^{<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2024-race-tight-reminder-votes-decided-7-swing/story?id=115398688" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/courts-news/st-paul-man-guilty-helping-son-hide-bodies-wisconsin/89-41a65f83-c3ed-4204-851e-4d7cfc99a949" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/an-arizona-man-stored-his-deceased-father-in-a-freezer-for-years-to-keep-their-home-police-say-1.7092027" target="_blank" rel="noopener">22</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/31/dogs-tied-to-bumper-georgia/75976843007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">23</a>} ^{<a href="https://abc11.com/post/earl-carter-hamlet-nc-fbi-arrests-man-known-ak-guru-is-accused-selling-hundreds-machine-guns/15486580/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/10/24/michigan-man-claims-he-was-attacked-by-a-bigfoot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/10/31/haunted-hotel-clown-motel-nevada-travel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26</a>} ^{<a href="https://local21news.com/news/local/office-of-the-repealer-pennsylvania-weird-laws-fortune-teller-tarot-cards-senator-kristin-phillips-hill-york-county-harrisburg-lawmakers-legislature-centuries-old-laws-october-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27</a>} New York City legalized jaywalking, IKEA announced that it would donate 6 million euros to a fund for the former prisoners of Soviet-administered East Germany who had been forced during the Cold War to build its furniture, and two Australian mathematicians found that one chimpanzee that spent its lifetime chained to a typewriter had a 5 percent chance of producing the word “bananas,” that all 200,000 of the world’s chimpanzees, even if they were immortal, could never produce the complete works of Shakespeare, and that, due to the projected heat death of the universe, no amount of “monkey labor” would ever be “a viable tool for developing non-trivial written works.”^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/29/new-york-jaywalking-legal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/03/europe/ikea-six-million-gdr-prisoners-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">29</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scientists found that drunkenness is prevalent in the animal kingdom, citing earlier findings that fruit flies consumed alcohol after being rejected by a mate and then subsequently became less selective; a 38-year-old man was arrested in Japan after concealing his phone number to call his wife more than 100 times a day in what he described to police as an “act of love”; and the fewer than 60 residents of the Japanese village of Ichinono reportedly sewed puppets to display in fields and woods and stave off loneliness.^{<a href="https://www.the-independent.com/news/science/alcohol-animals-drunk-fruits-ethanol-b2638124.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">31</a>} ^{<a href="https://inshort.geartape.com/jealous-husband-in-japan-arrested-after-making-100-calls-daily-to-wife-from-private-number/#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">32</a> <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/outnumbered-puppets-depopulated-village-japan-crafts-dolls-sense-life-rcna177216" target="_blank" rel="noopener">33</a>} “We are,” said a resident, “outnumbered.”^{<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/outnumbered-puppets-depopulated-village-japan-crafts-dolls-sense-life-rcna177216" target="_blank" rel="noopener">34</a>} The owners of the United Kingdom’s largest collection of bricks ran out of room for their 6,000-piece exhibit; thieves in Hertfordshire ran off with England’s largest known inflatable planetarium; thieves in London made off with tens of thousands of pounds of cheese; and the Landlord and Tenant Board of London considered whether a woman should receive compensation from her landlord after allowing her to live in filthy conditions that resulted in her having a cockroach surgically removed from her ear.^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3nj7j435ko" target="_blank" rel="noopener">35</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75l715l1lvo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">36</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-02/man-arrested-over-london-cheese-heist/104549040" target="_blank" rel="noopener">37</a>} ^{<a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/she-had-a-cockroach-in-her-ear-shell-find-out-soon-if-her-landlord-has-to-compensate-her/wcm/4e5a55fb-58d8-46b4-b5bf-9d9b9118e5ef?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=NP_social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">38</a>} In Singapore, a court considered a dispute between two siblings and ordered the sister to stop going into the brother’s room to clean it as he slept; a man in the Greek city of Thessaloniki was arrested for breaking into homes and smelling strangers’ shoes; it was discovered that Boeing charged the U.S. Air Force nearly 8,000 percent above market rate for soap dispensers; and a Russian court considering the case of Google’s blocking pro-Russian YouTube channels fined the company 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 rubles, a sum more than a billion trillion times the size of the global economy.^{<a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/brother-granted-court-orders-against-sister-who-repeatedly-entered-his-room-clean-it-4717321" target="_blank" rel="noopener">39</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.wwbl.com/2024/10/20/greek-man-convicted-for-sneaking-onto-neighbors-properties-to-smell-their-shoes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">40</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-force-overpaid-8000-percent-soap-dispensers-military-aircraft/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">41</a>} ^{<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/31/tech/google-fines-russia/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">42 </a>}</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—Joe Kloc</span></i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/11/weekly-review-gota-fria-spain-campeche-machete-nunchuck-voting-swing-states-jaywalking-ikea-monkey-labor-drunk-animals-we-are-outnumbered/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Weekly Review</title> <link>https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-bill-gates-elon-musk-vote-buying-hackers-vipers-openai-nvidia-chatbot-courtroom-funeral-pizzeria-dinosaur-tesla-dead-soon-doesnt-matter/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harper’s Magazine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:59:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Weekly Review]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://harpers.org/?p=291305</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>In Iowa, a North Liberty man was arrested for strangling a woman with the American flag.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-bill-gates-elon-musk-vote-buying-hackers-vipers-openai-nvidia-chatbot-courtroom-funeral-pizzeria-dinosaur-tesla-dead-soon-doesnt-matter/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="drop-cap"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the United States, it was reported that the Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world’s twelfth-richest person, secretly gave $50 million to an organization supporting the campaign of the Democratic presidential candidate; and that the Tesla and OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, had been warned by federal prosecutors of the potential illegality of his practice of giving $1 million each day to a randomly selected swing-state voter who signed a petition for his super PAC that backs the Republican presidential candidate.^{<a href="https://www.fox29.com/news/bill-gates-not-10-wealthiest-billionaires-world-who-made-list#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/elections/bill-gates-future-forward-kamala-harris.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#2bf3dcf3d788" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-defends-1-million-petition-giveaway-federal-warning-rcna177377" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4</a>} In Moldova, where last month it was reported that the Russian government had paid at least 130,000 people more than $15 million to vote against joining the European Union, authorities announced that they had identified an additional $24 million also directed toward purchasing the votes of 20 percent of the entire electorate; violence erupted at polling stations across the country of Georgia, where international observers warned of Russian “vote-buying” in its parliamentary elections and whose president said that the elections’ results “cannot be accepted” and should be opposed with protests in the streets; and police in Mozambique shot and killed at least ten of the thousands of demonstrators marching against the ruling party’s claim that it had just won more than 70 percent of votes nationally.^{<a href="https://kyivindependent.com/moldova-uncovers-15-million-russian-backed-plot-to-influence-upcoming-elections-with-bribes-and-disinformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5</a>} ^{<a href="https://kyivindependent.com/moscow-funneled-39-million-into-moldova-ahead-of-presidential-election-in-attempt-to-influence-results-moldovan-authorities-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">6</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/georgia-president-protests-election-salome-zourabichvili-widespread-citizens/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7</a>} ^{<a href="https://clubofmozambique.com/news/cip-mozambique-elections-up-to-10-dead-in-two-days-of-demonstrations-269621/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">8</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/24/mozambique-ruling-party-declared-winner-of-election-amid-fraud-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9</a>} Days before Uzbekistan’s parliamentary elections, a would-be assassin fired five bullets at the car of the country’s former head of communications, who was lobbying for reforms to protect press freedoms; and in Bulgaria, hackers published a list of more than 200 businessmen and government officials who are alleged to have bought votes under the direction of the former owner of 6 of the country’s 12 largest-circulating newspapers.^{<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2024/10/26/a-failed-assassination-attempt-in-uzbekistan-as-it-faces-elections/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/bulgaria-ethical-hacking-group-bg-elves-oligarch-delyan-peevski-election-fraud-vote-buying/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.economist.com/eastern-approaches/2013/09/20/breaking-up-with-peevski" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12</a>} It was reported that an internal battle in the Iranian government over the 85-year-old ayatollah’s successor would likely be won by his second son, a former de facto commanding officer in the Basij who was accused of rigging the 2009 election in favor of the incumbent, who later accused him of embezzling money from the treasury; the Vietnamese parliament elected a military general to replace its president, who, while being investigated for bribery, resigned from the presidential office he’d taken over from his predecessor, who himself had resigned after 539 of his subordinates were implicated in multiple corruption rackets; and Tunisia’s incumbent president, who last month arrested dozens of members of the nation’s largest opposition party, was inaugurated for a second term.^{<a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-826211" target="_blank" rel="noopener">13</a>} ^{<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090621204752/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KF19Ak04.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14</a>} ^{<a href="https://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/01/15/188461" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/vietnam-president-vo-van-thuong-resign-cpv-national-congress-general-secretary-4211431" target="_blank" rel="noopener">16</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/vietnams-president-phuc-quits-blamed-ministers-violations-2023-01-17/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/tunisia-president-kais-saied-f911f1dfc86445ef8be157a3a792e1e2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18</a>} “Vipers,” he said at his swearing in, are “circulating.”^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/tunisia-president-kais-saied-f911f1dfc86445ef8be157a3a792e1e2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google and Microsoft, the latter of which owns 49 percent of OpenAI, were reported to be developing artificial intelligence that can shop online; a radio station in Poland replaced all of its journalists with artificial intelligence avatars designed to relate to young listeners’ concerns about social issues; and it was reported that a home-warranty company refused to pay a Utah man the $3,000 that its AI-powered customer-service chatbot promised him to replace his air conditioner.^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/google-develop-ai-that-takes-over-computers-information-reports-2024-10-26/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/10/24/radio-station-in-poland-fired-its-journalists-and-replaced-them-with-ai-presenters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21</a>} ^{<a href="https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/ai-chatbots-consumer-protection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">22</a>} Nvidia, which manufactures chips used for artificial intelligence, briefly became the most valuable company in the world; Denmark launched its Nvidia-chip-powered AI Supercomputer that will build an “AI Care Companion” to look after the sick and elderly; a mother in Florida filed a wrongful-death suit against a Game of Thrones–themed chatbot that engaged in sexual conversations with her teenage son and allegedly encouraged him to join it in the afterlife; and researchers found that OpenAI’s medical transcription software frequently fabricated racial commentary, violent rhetoric, and non-existent treatments, including a fake medication it called “hyperactivated antibiotics.”^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-overtakes-apple-worlds-most-valuable-company-2024-10-25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">23</a>} ^{<a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/denmark-sovereign-ai-supercomputer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25</a>} A man in Ahmedabad was arrested for posing as a judge and running a sham courtroom in which he spent at least five years handing down rulings on local land disputes, a Colorado Springs funeral-home owner admitted to spending five years faking the cremation records of 190 people, stacking their decaying bodies in a building in a nearby town, and mailing their families fraudulent ashes, and a suspect in a shooting in Sydney accidentally set himself on fire while attempting to burn his getaway car.^{<a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/fake-court-busted-in-gujarat-conman-who-posed-as-judge-arrested-police-6850747" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/colorado-funeral-home-bodies-owners-pandemic-fraud-f01cde7f004edf39bdf36ac54a5d41f0?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-24/suspected-gunman-fire-potential-attempt-destroy-evidence/104513634" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28</a>} A Wisconsin pizzeria apologized to its customers for “mistakenly” serving pizzas made with THC-infused oil, and in Germany, police raided a Düsseldorf pizzeria following a tip that the best-selling menu item, “Pizza No 40,” was served with a bag of cocaine.^{<a href="https://wgntv.com/news/trending/wisconsin-pizzeria-apologizes-after-customers-get-high-from-pizzas-accidentally-contaminated-with-thc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">29</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/22/side-of-cocaine-with-that-german-police-raid-pizzeria-after-finding-secret-ingredient" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30</a>} </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At a book fair in Lahore, Pakistan, shawarma and biryani vendors outsold literature vendors by 57 to 1; at a library committee meeting in Texas, members voted to recategorize as “fiction” a book about Mashpee Wampanoag history; and in Iowa, a North Liberty man was arrested for strangling a woman with the American flag.^{<a href="https://asianewsnetwork.net/lahore-book-fair-turns-into-a-food-fest-with-1200-shawarmas-and-800-biryanis-sold/#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">31</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.lonestarlive.com/news/2024/10/texas-library-committee-under-review-after-relabeling-indigenous-history-book-as-fiction.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">32</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.kcrg.com/2024/10/22/man-accused-strangling-victim-with-american-flag/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGFHCVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYQam-Hz-SBlcA03yJs7UdjPJkiYamlhm29EpI9_AexiIyedRiuxg7aeFw_aem_MVpnsg25BwGIOr7xEjd3zw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">33</a>} It was reported that the typical Chinese consumer had decreased their spending on lunch by about a third in the past year, and the Chinese government announced that in 2027 it would start launching its citizens into space.^{<a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-10-24/bargain-chinese-consumers-are-cutting-their-spending-and-hurting-the-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">34</a>} ^{<a href="https://spacenews.com/chinas-deep-blue-aerospace-reveals-suborbital-tourism-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">35</a>} Archeologists in Hong Kong unearthed the region’s first known dinosaur fossil, and a British detectorist sold for $5.6 million some 2,500 millennium-old coins dating to the Battle of Hastings, during which the Normans conquered the Saxons.^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/asia/first-dinosaur-fossils-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">36</a>} ^{<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hoard-1000-year-coins-unearthed-farmers-field-sells-115024745?cid=social_twitter_abcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">37</a>} Residents in Bramford, England, mistook the red glow of a tomato factory for the northern lights; Newfoundland announced that it had yet to find the origin of the white doughlike “blobs” that began washing up on its shores a month ago; water from an unknown source began bubbling through the floor of a Mississippi auto-parts store; the engineering headquarters of electric car manufacturer Tesla spilled 550 gallons of a lime-green liquid into the streets of Palo Alto, California, and in Boston, and the head coach of the Celtics admitted that he no longer felt pressure to succeed.^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm20ng0m403o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">38</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/world/canada/newfoundland-canada-beach-blobs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">39</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.wlox.com/2024/10/25/mysterious-water-leak-still-flowing-ocean-springs-auto-part-store/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">40</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/tesla-spills-lime-green-liquid-19863951.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">41</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/10/21/joe-mazzulla-not-feeling-celtics-pressure-because-were-all-going-to-be-dead-soon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">42</a>} “We’re all going to be dead soon,” he said. “It really doesn’t matter anymore.”^{<a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/10/21/joe-mazzulla-not-feeling-celtics-pressure-because-were-all-going-to-be-dead-soon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">43 </a>}</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—Joe Kloc</span></i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-bill-gates-elon-musk-vote-buying-hackers-vipers-openai-nvidia-chatbot-courtroom-funeral-pizzeria-dinosaur-tesla-dead-soon-doesnt-matter/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Weekly Review</title> <link>https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-rafah-sinwar-torah-netanyahu-lebanon-putin-mikati-zoroastrians-catholic-sexual-abuse-bald-tunnel-of-love-burger-king/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harper’s Magazine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:59:22 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Weekly Review]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://harpers.org/?p=291177</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>A 10-month-old fire station in Stadtallendorf burned to the ground after flames in the building went undetected because no one had installed a fire alarm.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-rafah-sinwar-torah-netanyahu-lebanon-putin-mikati-zoroastrians-catholic-sexual-abuse-bald-tunnel-of-love-burger-king/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="drop-cap"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the Gazan city of Rafah, where Israel’s military has destroyed over 40 percent of buildings in the past year, a patrol unit of Israeli commanders in training cut off the finger from the corpse of a man who had been struck by both a tank shell and a bullet and sent it to a crime laboratory, where technicians matched its print to the decades-old prison record of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas; an Israeli prison dentist, to whom Sinwar once said he owed his life for his having helped to remove a potentially fatal brain abscess, responded to news of the assassination by quoting a line from the Torah that translates to “Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls”; Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had “settled its account” with Sinwar for his having, a year earlier, overseen the attacks that left some 1,200 people dead, including dozens of children and the prison dentist’s own nephew; and Israel bombed a school in northern Gaza, killing least 28, including children, as well as bombed a municipal building in the Lebanese city of Nabatieh, killing 16 and driving nearby schoolchildren screaming into the streets.^{<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08/27/satellite-imagery-shows-vast-destruction-in-rafah/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/bullet-in-head-finger-cut-sinwar-s-autopsy-reveals-brutal-death-details-124101900410_1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/18/yahya-sinwar-final-moments-israeli-infantry-tracked-him-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3</a>} ^{<a href="https://amimagazine.org/2024/06/26/i-saved-sinwars-life-then-he-killed-my-nephew/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10/18/world/israel-hamas-yahya-sinwar-news/for-the-israeli-who-once-saved-sinwars-life-there-is-no-joy-in-his-death?smid=url-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5</a>} ^{<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-settled-account-sinwar-114901381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">6</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2024/10/17/israel-hamas-hezbollah-mideast-latest-17-october-2024/ea8a12a8-8c52-11ef-84b5-dacd642f5899_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">8</a>} ^{<a href="https://amimagazine.org/2024/06/26/i-saved-sinwars-life-then-he-killed-my-nephew/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/17/israeli-strike-on-school-sheltering-displaced-families-in-jabalia-kills" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/world/middleeast/israel-lebanon-war.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11</a>} In Lebanon, where ongoing Israeli strikes have killed at least 2,350 people and displaced 400,000 children, the country’s prime minister, Najib Mikati, said that Iran, which reportedly provides Hezbollah with $700 million a year, was engaging in “blatant interference in Lebanese affairs” when it said it would “negotiate” a resolution between Israel and Hezbollah; and Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has deployed thousands of Iranian-made drones against Ukrainians, said he was available to “do everything” to find “compromises” between Iran and Israel.^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strike-rocks-beirut-suburbs-after-us-says-it-opposes-scope-air-assault-2024-10-16/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/school-children-lebanon-israel-war-education-1fc33f1878ac4f94b3000e8380797d8f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">13</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/the-americas/iran-pays-hezbollah-700-million-a-year-us-official-says-1.737347" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanese-pm-says-he-rejects-iranian-interference-lebanese-matter-2024-10-18/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/world/middleeast/lebanon-iran-interference.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">16</a>} ^{<a href="https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/alabugas-greatly-expanded-production-rate-of-shahed-136-drones/8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/putin-says-russia-in-contact-with-israel-and-iran-willing-to-mediate-if-asked/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18</a>} A deputy chair of Russia’s State Duma announced that the country, which has lost about 115,000 soldiers in its invasion of Ukraine, is running out of cemeteries; Ukraine’s president said that North Korea, by planning to supply Russia with 10,000 additional troops, had become the “second state” in the war against his country; North Korea’s supreme leader said 1.4 million of the country’s children had a “burning hatred” for South Korea and were mobilized for war; it was reported in South Korea that the defense minister of Armenia, which increased its defense budget by more than 40 percent last year, had visited to discuss the potential purchase of Hyundai-built battle tanks; a deputy chairman of Armenia’s ruling party accused Azerbaijan of “torpedoing” a peace treaty as a means of “preparing the ground” for an attack; and archeologists working on the Ararat Plain in Armenia unearthed the ruins of one of the world’s oldest Christian churches, built less than a century after Gregory the Illuminator converted to Christianity King Tiridates III, who then began attacking Zoroastrians and destroying their temples, until, in roughly 320 <span style="text-transform: lowercase; font-variant: small-caps;">AD</span>, members of the nobility poisoned him and the Armenian church declared him a saint.^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/us/politics/russia-casualties-ukraine-war.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/russia-moscow-running-out-cemeteries-1967497" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/zelenskiy-says-nkorea-is-de-facto-taking-part-war-russias-side-2024-10-16/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-russia-ukraine-war-troops-south-spy-9cd563c5570f68e9b314976009682810" target="_blank" rel="noopener">22</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-claims-14-million-young-people-joined-army-this-week-2024-10-15/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">23</a>} ^{<a href="https://londonlovesbusiness.com/north-korean-army-recruits-1-4-million-as-theyre-on-the-brink-of-war-with-south-korea/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.caspianpolicy.org/research/security/armenias-new-national-budget-a-drastic-new-commitment-to-military-capacity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25</a>} ^{<a href="https://massispost.com/2024/10/armenia-eyes-south-koreas-k2-black-panther-battle-tank/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.azatutyun.am/a/33161071.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-newly-discovered-octagonal-building-armenia-one-worlds-oldest-christian-churches-180985294/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Armenia/History#ref481335" target="_blank" rel="noopener">29</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/tiridates-iii-armenian-king" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30</a>} ^{<a href="https://thesignsofthetimes.com.au/36/65909.htm#3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">31</a> <a href="https://www.orthodox.net/menaion-november/29-st-tiridates-king-of-armenia.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">32</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles spent $880 million to settle sexual abuse claims made against its priests by more than 1,350 victims since the Forties, and the lawyer for a man suing the city of Philadelphia for his wrongful rape conviction was ordered by a judge to apologize for blaring a looped recording of a woman screaming at 122 decibels through the city’s streets for an hour at 5:30 in the morning.^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-church-sexual-abuse-settlement-8d04f5c8da061462f04be59b73cc3e92" target="_blank" rel="noopener">33</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2024/10/16/archdiocese-los-angeles-settlement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">34</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/south-philadelphia-screams-lawyer-apology-20241014.html?query=lawyers%20apologize" target="_blank" rel="noopener">35</a>} In the United Kingdom, a judge ruled that a supervisor was guilty of sexual harassment for calling a male employee “bald,” and a tribunal found that a supervisor shouldn’t have fired a female employee for returning from her maternity leave pregnant again.^{<a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/national/uk-today/24647068.high-court-rules-calling-man-bald-sexual-harassment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">36</a>} ^{<a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/uk-woman-fired-for-getting-pregnant-during-maternity-leave-this-happens-next/articleshow/114420714.cms?from=mdr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">37</a>} In Japan, a 36-year-old man who has 10 children born to two girlfriends and four wives declared his intent to become the “god of marriage” by breaking the country’s record for total number of children fathered, which is currently held by an Edo-period shogun who had 53 children with 27 concubines; and on Long Island, four men, including a high school health teacher and a police officer, were charged with operating a brothel out of the so-called American Girls Spa and the Tunnel of Love sex shop, where they compelled impoverished women who in some cases did not speak English to sign contracts committing them to paying “rent” by performing sex acts.^{<a href="https://www.wionews.com/trending/this-man-with-six-partners-wants-to-father-54-children-earn-the-title-of-god-of-marriage-768393" target="_blank" rel="noopener">38</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/nyregion/prostitution-brothels-long-island-charges.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">39</a>} The number of people reported to be living in poverty in the Netherlands decreased from 820,000 to 540,000 after the government narrowed its definition of poverty, and officials in Hong Kong cut liquor taxes to increase nightlife turnout in the city, where birthrates have fallen almost 40 percent over the past four years.^{<a href="https://nltimes.nl/2024/10/17/new-definition-fewer-dutch-living-poverty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">40</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-policy-address-liquor-tax-cut-8b7a06e4f8d5b805bceb6e33f4e3c50b?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">41</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3239322/now-or-never-why-hong-kong-scrambling-battle-record-low-birth-rates-and-how-are-residents-reacting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">42</a>} Medical students in the United Kingdom examining the corpse of a 78-year-old man identified the second known case of a human’s having three penises, it was reported that nurses in Kentucky who were preparing a body for organ harvesting halted the procedure when the supposedly deceased man woke up, and a company that was sued by a British woman for “failure to acknowledge her existence” by not giving her a farewell card revealed that it had attempted to do so but balked when only three of her colleagues wanted to sign it.^{<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/man-three-penis-triphallia-medical-mystery-b2630051.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">43</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">44</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.latintimes.com/woman-who-sued-company-not-giving-her-farewell-card-finds-out-they-did-buy-card-almost-no-one-562230" target="_blank" rel="noopener">45</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A two-year-old bear suffering from a buildup of spinal fluid survived the first ursine brain surgery in the United Kingdom; attendees at a bear meat-eating party in North Carolina contracted worms that, in at least nine cases, planted larvae in their faces; and in Wyoming, the US Forest Service paused its practice of blowing up dead horses to ward off bears until wildfire risks subside.^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/10/brown-bear-in-kent-recovering-well-after-uk-first-brain-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">46</a>} ^{<a href="https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/10/rare-bear-meat-at-gathering-gives-10-people-a-scare-and-parasitic-worms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">47</a>} ^{<a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/10/15/wildfire-danger-stops-forest-service-from-blowing-up-horse-carcasses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">48</a>} A 10-month-old fire station in Stadtallendorf burned to the ground after flames in the building went undetected because no one had installed a fire alarm, and Wales-based grocer Iceland Foods appealed an EU court decision that ruled that its name infringed on the trademark rights of the government of Iceland.^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/16/blaze-destroys-german-fire-station-fitted-without-alarms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">49</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.firehouse.com/stations/video/55235828/fire-destroys-new-fire-station-in-stadtallendorf-germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">50</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/iceland-vs-iceland-trademark-dispute-rages-on-as-iceland-foods-begins-latest-appeal/696787.article" target="_blank" rel="noopener">51</a>} “Our name,” said the plaintiff, simply means “land of ice.”^{<a href="https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/iceland-vs-iceland-trademark-dispute-rages-on-as-iceland-foods-begins-latest-appeal/696787.article" target="_blank" rel="noopener">52</a>} Coca-Cola recalled its zero sugar lemonade because it contained sugar, and a sheriff in Georgia who found he had received the wrong order from a Cobb County Burger King radioed for backup.^{<a href="https://www.simplyrecipes.com/minute-maid-zero-sugar-recall-october-8727617" target="_blank" rel="noopener">53</a>} ^{<a href="https://local12.com/news/nation-world/sheriff-backup-burger-king-order-wrong-incorrect-fast-food-police-restaurant-georgia-owens-deputy-officer-employee-worker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">54</a>} A shark in an aquarium in China was discovered to be a robot, it was reported that robot vacuum cleaners across the United States were commanded by hackers to pursue housepets and yell slurs, and Microsoft signed a deal to power its artificial intelligence with nuclear energy by reopening part of the Three Mile Island plant, which partially melted down in 1979 less than 300 miles from New York City.^{<a href="https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3283223/fake-whale-shark-aquarium-china-angers-visitors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">55</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/12/24268508/hacked-ecovacs-deebot-x2-racial-slurs-chase-pets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">56</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/constellation-inks-power-supply-deal-with-microsoft-2024-09-20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">57</a>} A woman eating an apple outside a temple in India where she had just made a contribution was unharmed after a water tank fell directly on top of her, and an Indonesian crew extracting the body of a teenager who fell into a ravine on Mount Rinjani happened across an Irishman who had tumbled 650 feet down the side of the active volcano.^{<a href="https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">58</a>} ^{<a href="https://mustsharenews.com/woman-india-water-tank/?utm_source=telegram" target="_blank" rel="noopener">59</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.sundayworld.com/news/world-news/irishman-31-thanks-his-rescuers-after-surviving-650ft-volcano-fall-in-indonesia/a420761445.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60</a>} “You boys saved my life,” he said, smoking a cigarette.^{<a href="https://www.sundayworld.com/news/world-news/irishman-31-thanks-his-rescuers-after-surviving-650ft-volcano-fall-in-indonesia/a420761445.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">61</a>}</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> —Joe Kloc</span></i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-rafah-sinwar-torah-netanyahu-lebanon-putin-mikati-zoroastrians-catholic-sexual-abuse-bald-tunnel-of-love-burger-king/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Weekly Review</title> <link>https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-hurricane-helene-milton-fema-desantis-meteorologist-thatcher-icon-corrupt-tunisia-cameroon-airplane-drugs-opera-multicolor-phallus-neapolitan-conker/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harper’s Magazine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:59:22 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Weekly Review]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://harpers.org/?p=291172</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>“It can wait,” Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson said of reconvening Congress to approve additional disaster funding.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-hurricane-helene-milton-fema-desantis-meteorologist-thatcher-icon-corrupt-tunisia-cameroon-airplane-drugs-opera-multicolor-phallus-neapolitan-conker/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="drop-cap"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two weeks after Hurricane Helene made landfall, killing more than 250 people across seven states and causing at least 30 billion dollars’ worth of damage, Hurricane Milton hit Florida, killing at least 24 and leaving more than three million without power.^{<a href="https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/helene-hurricane-update-north-carolina-death-toll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1</a>} ^{<a href="https://abc7.com/post/helene-could-cost-property-owners-more-47-billion-hurricane-milton-threatens-us/15404526/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.pnj.com/story/weather/hurricane/2024/10/15/hurricane-milton-death-toll-florida-tuesday/75683596007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-milton-tampa-florida-5f6a112986eb6e21720f0f17c504afe8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4</a>} It was reported that, eight days into its fiscal year, FEMA had used nearly half its $20 billion budget on hurricane recovery efforts, and that the Small Business Administration, which provides loans to small businesses and homeowners, would run out of money before the end of this month, potentially halting reconstruction efforts.^{<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/10/fema-disaster-budget-hurricane-helene-melton-00183219" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20241003/biden-harris-administration-provides-more-20-million-hurricane-helene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">6</a>} ^{<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mayorkas-warns-fema-funding-hurricane-season-114449475" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?538722-1/white-house-daily-briefing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">8</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/disaster-loan-program-for-small-businesses-could-run-out-of-funds-in-weeks-if-congress-doesnt-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/disaster-assistance/physical-damage-loans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10</a>} “It can wait,” Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson said of reconvening Congress to approve additional disaster funding.^{<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/maxwell-frost-fema-funds-congress-reconvene/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11</a>} Donald Trump falsely claimed that the Biden Administration has been diverting FEMA funds toward illegal immigrants, that there were no rescue efforts in North Carolina, and that FEMA was giving people whose homes had been destroyed a maximum payout of $750.^{<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-falsely-claims-biden-fema-funds-migrants-trump/story?id=114577647" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2024/10/15/on-abc-this-week-beshear-blasts-trump-on-hurricane-relief-claims/75683484007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">13</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/06/politics/fact-check-trump-helene-response-north-carolina/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.fema.gov/node/rumor-serious-needs-assistance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15</a>} Florida governor Ron DeSantis claimed that FEMA was “running amok,” a North Carolina man armed with a handgun and a rifle threatened FEMA workers, and National Guard troops witnessed an “armed militia” intimidate disaster workers elsewhere in the state.^{<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-fema/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">16</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/armed-north-carolina-man-arrested-suspicion-making-threats-fema-worker-rcna175287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/us/fema-helene-north-carolina-reported-threats/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18</a>} At a rally in Coachella, California, Trump said that, if re-elected, he would withhold federal firefighting funds from the state if Governor Gavin Newsom didn’t follow his orders.^{<a href="https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-firefighting-california-fema-b2628383.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19</a>} “It’s not hard to do,” said Trump, who during his presidency delayed the approval of wildfire recovery funding for California because of the state’s record of voting for Democrats, changing his mind only when an aide told him that the area affected by the fires had in fact voted for him.^{<a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/helene-isnt-the-first-time-trump-inserted-politics-into-a-natural-disaster/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20</a>} The Hurricane Hunters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dropped the ashes of a dead meteorologist into Milton’s eye.^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/us/peter-dodge-ashes-hurricane-milton.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tampa Bay Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> reported that a crane crashed into the Tampa Bay Times building during Hurricane Milton, and the BBC reported that the BBC weather app was forecasting incorrect data, showing estimates of U.K. wind speeds in excess of 13,000 miles per hour.^{<a href="https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/10/11/st-petersburg-building-hit-by-crane-housed-newspapers-century/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">22</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kjrp2rngzo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">23</a>} MP Kemi Badenoch, who has called former prime minister Margaret Thatcher a personal inspiration and “global icon,” and Robert Jenrick, another member of parliament, whose daughter’s middle name is “Thatcher,” reached the final stage of the Conservative Party’s leadership contest in the United Kingdom.^{<a href="https://www.centricmagazine.co.uk/articles/always-been-a-conservative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/01/tory-gasps-as-robert-jenrick-reveals-daughters-middle-name-is-thatcher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/09/politics-latest-news-tory-leadership-vote-cleverly-jenrick/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26</a>} “We&#8217;re going to cleanse the country of all the corrupt and schemers,” said recently re-elected Tunisian president Kais Saied, who, in his first term, suspended parliament, fired the prime minister, and unveiled a new constitution that removed many checks and balances on his executive power, after having claimed victory for a second term in an election that saw a turnout of 28.8% and one of his opponents sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for “document falsification.”^{<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/10/08/g-s1-26834/tunisia-kais-saied-election-2024-arab-spring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2023/07/human-rights-under-assault-two-years-after-president-saieds-power-grab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2021-08-23/tunisia-president-suspends-parliament-and-ousts-cabinet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">29</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/07/tunisias-new-constitution-expands-presidential-power-whats-next-its-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisia-presidential-candidate-zammel-sentenced-12-years-prison-lawyer-says-2024-10-01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">31</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisia-presidential-candidate-zammel-sentenced-12-years-prison-lawyer-says-2024-10-01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">32</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/07/26/tunisia-constitutional-vote-sees-at-least-27-5-percent-turnout-electoral-board_5991438_4.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">33</a>} A spokesperson for Cameroon said that rumors of the death of the country’s 91-year-old president, Paul Biya, who has not been seen in public since early September, were “pure fantasy” a few days before the government issued a ban on media outlets discussing the president’s health.^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/cameroons-91-year-old-president-biya-good-health-government-says-2024-10-08/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">34</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwye2gljdewo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">35</a>} A woman claimed to be a “president” and “sovereign ruler” to get her Las Vegas–bound flight to turn back to San Diego, where she had forgotten her cell phone; a Pakistan International Airlines flight took off three hours ahead of schedule with no passengers aboard; and a Turkish Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after one of its pilots died in the air.^{<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13956375/Wild-moment-Frontier-Airlines-passenger-claims-president-sovereign-ruler-demands-pilot-turn-plane-collect-forgotten-cell-phone.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">36</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/plane-takes-off-3-hours-ahead-of-schedule-leaving-all-passengers-stranded-what-kind-of-airline-does-that/ar-AA1rUAzk#:~:text=Flight%20PK784%20from%20Toronto%20to,check%20in%20when%20passengers%20arrived." target="_blank" rel="noopener">37</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/09/us/turkish-airlines-pilot-emergency-landing/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">38</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Peterborough, England, a man was caught on camera throwing a package containing roughly £20,000 worth of drugs over a prison wall, and in </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oregon, police found a bagful of drugs that was printed with the phrase </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">definitely not a bag full of drugs</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.^{<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/world-news/man-tries-to-throws-25k-stash-of-drugs-over-prison-wall-in-shocking-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">39</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13957093/moment-drug-dealer-throws-narcotics-hmp-peterborough.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">40</a>} ^{<a href="https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/oregon-police-seize-bag-full-of-drugs-labeled-definitely-not-a-bag-full-of-drugs-portland-police-bureau-east-precinct-fentanyl-pills-meth-oxycodone-drug-bust" target="_blank" rel="noopener">41</a>} In Stuttgart, Germany, eighteen theatergoers were treated for “severe” nausea after witnessing an opera that featured live piercing, genuine sexual intercourse, and “copious” amounts of blood both fake and real.^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/10/18-treated-for-severe-nausea-in-stuttgart-after-opera-of-live-sex-and-piercing#:~:text=Eighteen%20theatregoers%20at%20Stuttgart's%20state,of%20fake%20and%20real%20blood." target="_blank" rel="noopener">42</a>}  In Lisse, Netherlands, a museum worker unwittingly threw out two dented beer cans that were part of an artwork titled </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">All The Good Times We Spent Together,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and in Naples, Italy, a 39-foot art installation resembling a multicolor phallus was unveiled.^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/08/beer-can-artwork-lam-museum-thrown-out-all-the-good-times-we-spent-together" target="_blank" rel="noopener">43</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/phallic-12-metre-art-installation-raises-eyebrows-naples-2024-10-10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">44</a>} “I initially thought what everyone else thought,” the city’s mayor said of his reaction to the statue, “a very Neapolitan thought.”^{<a href="https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/naples-giant-phallic-art-installation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">45</a>} The detached penis of a humpback whale washed ashore near Snogebæk, Denmark.^{<a href="https://www.theinertia.com/news/a-beach-cleanup-crew-thought-they-found-a-sea-snake-it-was-actually-a-whale-penis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">46</a>} “Allegations of foul play have been received that somehow King Conker swapped his real conker,” said a spokesperson for the World Conker Championships, after the 82-year-old victor of the men’s competition was accused of using a steel chestnut later found in his pocket.^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/14/cheating-alleged-after-mens-world-conker-champion-found-with-steel-chestnut" target="_blank" rel="noopener">47</a>} “My conker disintegrated in one hit,” said his competitor, “and that just doesn’t happen.”^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/14/cheating-alleged-after-mens-world-conker-champion-found-with-steel-chestnut" target="_blank" rel="noopener">48</a>}</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—Megan Evershed</span></i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-hurricane-helene-milton-fema-desantis-meteorologist-thatcher-icon-corrupt-tunisia-cameroon-airplane-drugs-opera-multicolor-phallus-neapolitan-conker/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Weekly Review</title> <link>https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-year-anniverary-hamas-raid-ceasefire-lebanon-cia-oil-arms-defense-drones-safari-astrophysicist-moon-manga-anime-spaghettios/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harper’s Magazine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:59:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Weekly Review]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://harpers.org/?p=291128</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>It was reported that Israel’s prime minister rejected a ceasefire deal with Hamas because he worried he’d lose his job, and that Hamas’s leader rejected terms for a ceasefire with Israel because he was hoping for the conflict to draw more countries into war.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-year-anniverary-hamas-raid-ceasefire-lebanon-cia-oil-arms-defense-drones-safari-astrophysicist-moon-manga-anime-spaghettios/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="drop-cap"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One year after Hamas killed or captured at least 1,200 Israelis during raids on 21 kibbutzim and other sites and Israel responded by invading Gaza and eventually dropping more than 70,000 tons of explosives that destroyed at least 163,000 buildings and killed at least 41,000 people in the region, it was reported that Israel’s prime minister rejected a ceasefire deal with Hamas because he worried he’d lose his job, and that Hamas’s leader rejected terms for a ceasefire with Israel because he was hoping for the conflict to draw more countries into war.^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10/06/world/israel-hamas-october-7-gaza-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/amount-of-israeli-bombs-dropped-on-gaza-surpasses-that-of-world-war-ii/3239665" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigations/after-year-war-gazans-wonder-how-deal-with-tonnes-rubble-2024-10-06/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/gaza-publishes-identities-of-34344-palestinians-killed-in-war-with-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/politics/sinwar-hamas-israel-hezbollah-iran.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5</a>} In Lebanon, where two weeks of what Israel referred to as “precise strikes” on the Iranian-backed paramilitary group Hezbollah killed more than 1,200 people and displaced at least 1.2 million others, Hezbollah’s leader agreed to a 21-day ceasefire with Israel; Israeli commanders ordered a bombing in southern Beirut that killed him and then days later ordered another bombing of Beirut that is believed to have killed his successor; and in the United States, where officials publicly urged Israel to stop striking Lebanon, it was reported that U.S. military leaders privately offered Israel support for continued strikes.^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rd0gnv68jo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">6</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-iran-hezbollah-attack-hamas-war-airstrikes-beirut-gaza-latest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-nasrallah-ceasefire-assassination-intl-latam/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">8</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-nasrallah-ceasefire-assassination-intl-latam/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-armed-wing-leader-killed-israeli-strike-north-lebanon-hamas-media-says-2024-10-05/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/30/us-israel-military-hezbollah-00181797" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/30/us-israel-military-hezbollah-00181797" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12</a>} The Lebanese Armed Forces, which since 2006 has received more than $3 billion in funding from the United States, for the first time this year opened fire on the Israeli Defense Forces, to which the U.S. agreed to give at least $3.8 billion per annum over the next four years; the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 162 people killed during Israeli strikes in Lebanon were refugees from the ongoing civil war in Syria, where a CIA-funded militia group in the country’s northwest fought a Pentagon-funded militia group that was at times also backed by Russia, France, the United Kingdom, and Iraq; and the United States warned Iraq, which it had publicly supplied with weapons during the Iran–Iraq War, that it would carry out strikes inside the country if Iraqi leaders didn’t put a stop to attacks on Israeli troops by militia groups funded by Iran, to which country the CIA had secretly sent weapons during the Iran–Iraq War.^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-lebanon-business-19e414af05493d71adcbf0f49d638141" target="_blank" rel="noopener">13</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-lebanon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241003-deadly-strike-on-central-beirut-after-israel-iran-trade-threats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15</a>} ^{<a href="https://reason.com/2024/10/03/u-s-funded-armies-fight-each-other-in-lebanon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">16</a>} ^{<a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/14/fact-sheet-memorandum-understanding-reached-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17</a>} ^{<a href="https://globalaffairs.org/bluemarble/how-much-financial-assistance-has-us-given-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18</a>} ^{<a href="https://dengecudi.com/?qa=1706/refugees-including-children-ongoing-israeli-attacks-lebanon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20</a>} ^{<a href="https://ecfr.eu/special/mena-armed-groups/syrian-democratic-forces-syria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21</a>} ^{<a href="https://orient-news.net/ar/news_show/148907/0/%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%82%D8%B3%D8%AF-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88" target="_blank" rel="noopener">22</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/us-backed-syrian-forces-iraqi-army-islamic-state-key-border-town/4460720.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">23</a>} ^{<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151029041050/http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_russia-cooperates-with-pyd-against-isil_401118.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/26/world/us-secretly-gave-aid-to-iraq-early-in-its-war-against-iran.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Iraq-War" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.basnews.com/en/babat/862591" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Contra-Affair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28</a>} Iran, which has sold Russia more than 6,000 drones since the latter’s invasion of Ukraine, responded to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon by launching almost 200 missiles at central and southern Israel; the United States acknowledged that Israel was considering bombing Iran’s oil fields; global crude-oil prices increased by 3 percent; profits in the S&amp;P 500 energy sector increased by 1.4 percent; and the CIA launched a spy recruitment drive in Iran.^{<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-02-21/ty-article-magazine/gold-for-drones-massive-leak-reveals-the-iranian-shahed-project-in-russia/0000018d-bb85-dd5e-a59d-ffb729890000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">29</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10/01/world/israel-lebanon-hezbollah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rljzepw5yo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">31</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/02/crude-oil-jumps-nearly-3percent-as-israel-vows-painful-response-to-iran-missile-attack.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">32</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-energy-companies-shares-gain-middle-east-crisis-sparks-supply-fears-2024-10-02/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">33</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyvng0jw78o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">34</a>} “We’re open,” said an agency spokesperson, “for business.”^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyvng0jw78o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">35</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">U.S. defense contractors were reported to have received at least $68 billion of the aid issued to Ukraine since April, a French-German arms manufacturer announced that it opened a subsidiary in Ukraine to service its tanks and self-propelled antiaircraft guns, a German arms manufacturer moved forward with its construction of a Ukrainian air-defense facility, a Ukrainian missile strike near Russian-occupied Donetsk killed six North Korean officers, North Korea published a statement to the effect that the country wouldn’t hesitate to use nuclear weapons if foreign soldiers breached its border, footage was published showing Russian soldiers in the streets of Ukraine executing prisoners of war, and Russian-operated drones were filmed chasing and attacking Ukrainians who were at an outdoor fruit stand selecting watermelons.^{<a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-supporting-ukraine-revitalizing-us-defense-industrial-base" target="_blank" rel="noopener">36</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/western-defense-companies-set-up-operations-in-ukraine-war-continues-2024-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">37</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/western-defense-companies-set-up-operations-in-ukraine-war-continues-2024-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">38</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/western-defense-companies-set-up-operations-in-ukraine-war-continues-2024-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">39</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/10/5/7478241/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">40</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/post/40037" target="_blank" rel="noopener">41</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-leader-kim-threatens-nuclear-response-sovereignty-breached-rcna173984" target="_blank" rel="noopener">42</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/post/39898" target="_blank" rel="noopener">43</a>} ^{<a href="https://kyivindependent.com/human-safari-kherson-civilians-hunted-down-by-russian-drones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">44</a>} “A human safari,” said a local resident of the attacks.^{<a href="https://kyivindependent.com/human-safari-kherson-civilians-hunted-down-by-russian-drones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">45</a>} An English court found that 16 Czechoslovakians were forced by human traffickers to work for four years in conditions of “modern slavery” that included serving food at a Cambridgeshire McDonalds, Russia agreed to export 35,000 tons of chickpeas and 10,000 tons of lentils to Pakistan in exchange for 15,000 tons of mandarins and 10,000 tons of potatoes, and researchers in Manchester, England, found that potatoes are a better bonding agent than human blood for manufacturing bricks to build structures on the moon and Mars.^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kdg84zj4wo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">46</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/10/02/russia-to-accept-mandarins-instead-of-money-amid-payment-difficulties-a86543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">47</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.space.com/space-bricks-potato-starch-mars-moon-dirt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">48</a>} Astrophysicists announced that an asteroid captured by Earth’s orbit had officially become a temporary second moon, researchers found that not one but two asteroids had collided with Earth to extinguish all dinosaur life, and a woman in northwestern China gave birth to two babies from two separate uteruses.^{<a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/earths-2nd-moon-has-arrived-what-you-need-to-know/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">49</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/03/asteroid-that-eradicated-dinosaurs-not-a-one-off-say-scientists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">50</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/asia/china-woman-double-uterus-twin-birth-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">51</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A mother in Chiayi, Taiwan, was ordered by a judge to pay her son NT$5,000 for throwing out his manga collection, and a woman in a convenience store in the Japanese city of Yokohama subdued a shoplifter with a headlock she’d learned from watching anime.^{<a href="https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2024/09/21/2003824128" target="_blank" rel="noopener">52</a>} ^{<a href="https://soranews24.com/2024/10/02/japanese-woman-subdues-convenience-store-thief-with-headlock-credits-anime-for-technique/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">53</a>} At an English hospital accused in April of having a “Mafia-like” management that fostered a “gang culture” among surgeons, a doctor used the Swiss Army knife with which he normally cut fruit for his lunches to slice open the chest of a patient, and a 37-year-old man ate four or five dried mushrooms and used an axe to perform on himself the first known psilocybin-triggered self-amputation of a penis, which doctors then partially reattached and rehabilitated.^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62g7ed3qzxo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">54</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1vw50n04kqo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">55</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.psypost.org/man-amputates-penis-with-an-axe-after-consuming-psilocybin-mushrooms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">56</a>} ^{<a href="https://megajournalofsurgery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/MJS-79-2016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">57</a>} “Psychiatric care,” wrote the researchers, was “crucial.”^{<a href="https://megajournalofsurgery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/MJS-79-2016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">58</a>} An 81-year-old man in Montana who cloned a giant Kyrgyz Marco Polo sheep from illegally obtained testicle tissue to create giant chimeric animals to be hunted for sport in Minnesota and Texas told a judge he’d work until he died to “repair” the damage he’d done, legislators in Wyoming drafted a change to a bill that would make it legal to intentionally run over a wolf with a vehicle, provided that the wolf died quickly, and a family in Rio de Janeiro found their pet tortoise alive in a box in their attic 30 years after he went missing.^{<a href="https://www.nbcmontana.com/news/local/montana-man-to-be-sentenced-for-cloning-giant-sheep-to-breed-large-sheep-for-trophy-hunts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">59</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/wyoming-wolf-snowmobile-bar-animal-cruelty-7c6000eee3547beb8f9be9bd523dff69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.iheart.com/content/2024-09-27-pet-lost-for-30-years-found-alive-in-owners-attic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">61</a>}  Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve postponed its Fat Bear Week after Bear #469 killed Bear #402, and three pit bulls in British Columbia that attacked and killed a neighboring dog tested positive for methamphetamine and cocaine.^{<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/10/01/nx-s1-5134907/fat-bear-week-start-delayed-bear-killed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">62</a>} ^{<a href="https://bc.ctvnews.ca/pit-bulls-in-b-c-pet-mauling-tested-positive-for-meth-cocaine-says-city-1.7061553" target="_blank" rel="noopener">63</a>} At the US–Mexico border, a woman was fined for attempting to traffic 748 pounds of bologna; in Oklahoma, a man was arrested for stealing the pickup truck that he drove to the courthouse to answer auto-theft charges; and in Gainesville, Florida, a woman was released from jail after lab analysts determined that police officers had mistaken the residue on a spoon in her purse for methamphetamine.^{<a href="https://www.13wham.com/news/offbeat/bologna-baloney-smuggle-border-patrol-customs-mexico-texas-pork-prescription-medication-drugs-money-fine-illegal-food-meat-lunch-lunchmeat-ham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">64</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.koco.com/article/kody-adams-steal-vehicle-stolen-vehicle-court-case/62416077" target="_blank" rel="noopener">65</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.syracuse.com/news/2014/09/florida_woman_jailed_spaghettio_sauce_meth.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">66</a>} “I had,” she said, “SpaghettiOs.”^{<a href="https://www.syracuse.com/news/2014/09/florida_woman_jailed_spaghettio_sauce_meth.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">67</a>} —</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joe Kloc</span></i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/10/weekly-review-year-anniverary-hamas-raid-ceasefire-lebanon-cia-oil-arms-defense-drones-safari-astrophysicist-moon-manga-anime-spaghettios/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Weekly Review</title> <link>https://harpers.org/2024/10/mayor-eric-adams-fraud-giuliani-bosnia-nazis-brazil-venezuela-argentina-ukraine-russia-belarus-china-fentanyl-cheese-toilet-flight-flip-bird-child-cat-monkey-noodles/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harper’s Magazine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:59:54 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Weekly Review]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://harpers.org/?p=291041</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>During a televised debate for the mayoralty of São Paulo, a candidate who worked as a crime-show host walked across the stage and struck a rival with a steel chair.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/10/mayor-eric-adams-fraud-giuliani-bosnia-nazis-brazil-venezuela-argentina-ukraine-russia-belarus-china-fentanyl-cheese-toilet-flight-flip-bird-child-cat-monkey-noodles/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="drop-cap"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In New York City, federal prosecutors charged Mayor Eric Adams with fraud and bribery for unlawfully accepting more than $10 million in public campaign funds from “straw donors” and engaging in a quid pro quo relationship with the government of Turkey in which the mayor is alleged to have agreed not to mention the Armenian genocide in exchange for receiving from Turkish Airlines “free or discounted travel” to several countries, including Turkey, where in 2017 Adams made a guest appearance in a romantic comedy in which he asked two characters for political favors; to India, at whose flag-raising ceremony he once referred to himself as “Gandhi-like”; and to China, where last year he sent asylum seekers whom he said would “destroy” New York.^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/26/nyregion/eric-adams-indictment-charges-annotated.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/26/eric-adams-turkey-connections/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2</a>} ^{<a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/175021/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-says-hes-basically-like-gandhi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/nyregion/adams-migrants-destroy-nyc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4</a>} ^{<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/26/us-news/adams-was-treated-to-over-123k-in-travel-perks-over-five-years-that-he-did-not-disclose-indictment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5</a>} “That’s what airlines do,” said the mayor’s lawyer.^{<a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/eric-adams-latest-indicted-new-york-city-mayor-could-appear-before-judge-friday/15363013/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">6</a>} New York City’s former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who at a live press conference told his second wife that he was divorcing her for a third wife who later divorced him in part for his association with Donald Trump, was permanently disbarred in Washington, D.C., for claiming, with “no evidence,” “massive election fraud” following Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss; in Wisconsin, a district attorney opened an investigation into Doug Diny, the mayor of Wausau, for donning a hard hat and work gloves and removing the town’s only ballot box.^{<a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/from_the_archives__may_2000_giuliani__hanover_separation_new_york/1946854/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/nyregion/rudy-giuliani-divorce.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">8</a>} ^{<a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/judith-giuliani-rudy-giuliani-divorce.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/judith-giuliani-rudy-giuliani-inside-edition-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10</a>} ^{<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/rudy-giuliani-disbarred-dc-after-pushing-trumps-false-114184310" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11</a>} ^{<a href="https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-absentee-ballot-drop-box-wausau-1c157c247109581a7b888b64df3741bd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12</a>} ^{<a href="https://badgerherald.com/news/wisconsin/2024/09/28/wausau-mayor-doug-diny-removes-ballot-drop-box/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">13</a>} The mayor of New Orleans was implicated in a bribery scheme in which the city inspector gave her football tickets, and a mayoral candidate in Portland, Oregon, was revealed to have accrued 150 traffic tickets.^{<a href="https://www.fox8live.com/2024/09/27/former-city-inspector-reportedly-linked-cantrell-probe-indicted/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.katu.com/news/local/portland-mayoral-candidate-addresses-past-of-150-parking-driving-infractions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15</a>} The mayor of Ford Heights, Illinois resigned after a judge found him guilty of stealing more than $10,000 from the village’s funds; a candidate for the mayoralty of the Bosnian town of Kalinovik was fined €10,000 for posting photos and comments online that were sympathetic to a World War II–era Serbian nationalist leader who was executed for collaborating with Nazis; and in Brazil, during a televised debate for the mayoralty of São Paulo, a candidate who worked as a crime-show host walked across the stage and struck a rival with a steel chair.^{<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/09/23/ford-heights-mayor-charles-griffin-guilty-corruption-chicago-theft-suburbs-suburban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">16</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/days-after-conviction-on-corruption-charges-ford-heights-mayor-announces-resignation/3559916/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17</a>} ^{<a href="https://balkaninsight.com/2024/09/27/bosnian-serb-mayoral-candidate-fined-for-glorifying-ratko-mladic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/world/americas/sao-paulo-mayor-debate-violence.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19</a>} “Men,” said São Paulo’s leading candidate at the following debate, where a self-help guru punched a rival’s spokesperson in the face.^{<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/sao-paulo-mayor-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Venezuela, an arrest warrant was issued for the president of Argentina that accused him of stealing a cargo plane; and in Argentina, an arrest warrant was issued for the president of Venezuela that accused him of kidnapping Venezuelans.^{<a href="https://www.turkiyetoday.com/world/argentina-and-venezuela-issue-arrest-warrants-for-each-others-leaders-56722/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.turkiyetoday.com/world/argentina-and-venezuela-issue-arrest-warrants-for-each-others-leaders-56722/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">22</a>} A Ukrainian human-rights agency reported that, since invading Ukraine, Russia has kidnapped more than 2,000 children and brought them to Belarus; a member of state parliament in Germany was reported to be using Belarusian political prisoners for cheap labor on his onion farm; and a Soyuz spacecraft returned a Russian and a Belarusian to Earth.^{<a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-russia-ukraine-children-reeducation/33132306.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">23</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-german-lawmaker-alexander-lukashenko-prisoner-work-belarus-onion-farm-jorg-dornau-afd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.space.com/soyuz-ms-24-iss-landing-kazakhstan#:~:text=International%20Space%20Station-,Soyuz%20capsule%20with%20crew%20of%203%2C%20including%201st%20female%20astronaut,safely%20to%20end%20ISS%20mission&amp;text=The%20trio%20touched%20down%20in,at%203%3A18%20a.m.%20ET.&amp;text=The%20first%20female%20Belarusian%20in,this%20morning%20(April%206)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25</a>} The Danish prime minister told reporters that China had to be “held responsible” for supplying arms to Russia, and European intelligence documents revealed that Russia has been operating a top-secret long-range weapons project in China that has developed drones capable of traversing the entirety of Ukraine while carrying 50 kilograms of explosives.^{<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/danish-pm-mette-frederiksen-blast-china-help-russia-wage-war-ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-has-secret-war-drones-project-china-intel-sources-say-2024-09-25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27</a>} A Kremlin spokesperson told reporters that any attempt to “coerce Russia” into ceasing its invasion of Ukraine would be “fatal”; and a judge in Russia placed a cadet in pretrial detention after he danced and drank with a woman at a St. Petersburg nightclub, brought her home, mistook her hearing aid for a recording device, and beat her to death, explaining to emergency responders that he had believed she was a Ukrainian spy or, he said, “God knows who.”^{<a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/09/25/forcing-russia-into-peace-would-be-fatal-mistake-kremlin-says-a86466" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28</a>} ^{<a href="https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/09/25/hearing-impaired-russian-woman-killed-after-hearing-aid-mistaken-for-espionage-device-en-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">29</a>} In Mississippi, the Department of Justice found that Lexington’s police “relentlessly violate[d] the law,” issuing arrest warrants for half the town and jailing residents for using profanity or failing to pay when refilling their coffees; a Washington State coroner who had accused his political rival of spiking his energy drink with fentanyl admitted to snorting the drug himself after removing it from a dead body; and paleontologists in the Taklamakan Desert of northern China sequenced the DNA of 3,600-year-old cheese found on Bronze Age corpses.^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/26/us/lexington-ms-police-black-discrimination-probe/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/police-yakima-county-coroner-curtice-was-using-dead-peoples-drugs-when-he-said-he-was/article_3ed9052a-7b8d-11ef-9354-cb2c66c5256b.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">31</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/science/oldest-cheese-ancient-dna-china-mummies/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">32</a>} In Kentucky, a sheriff denied eating lunch with and then shooting to death a judge in his own chambers, and a police officer at a Texas high school accidentally shot himself in the leg before a football game.^{<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/us/shawn-stines-kentucky-judge-shooting-hearing/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">33</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.kold.com/2024/09/23/students-jump-help-after-school-resource-officer-accidentally-shoots-himself/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">34</a>} “Oh no!” he said to the children who tried to stop the bleeding.^{<a href="https://www.kold.com/2024/09/23/students-jump-help-after-school-resource-officer-accidentally-shoots-himself/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">35</a>}</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A flight from Texas to Seoul flew for five hours until flight attendants announced over the Pacific Ocean that the plane would have to turn back because of a malfunctioning toilet, Cathay Pacific Airways banned a couple for kicking the seat of a fellow passenger and flipping her the bird on a flight from Hong Kong to London, and South Korea reported the number of new babies born to its population was at a 12-year high.^{<a href="https://www.unilad.com/news/travel/american-airlines-dallas-seoul-flight-turned-around-323775-20240924" target="_blank" rel="noopener">36</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hong-kongs-cathay-pacific-bans-couple-reclining-seat-argument-rcna172387" target="_blank" rel="noopener">37</a>} ^{<a href="https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240925004400320?section=economy-finance/economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">38</a>} Russia’s chairman of the State Duma drafted legislation that would fine citizens $4,300 for distributing “childlessness propaganda” that promotes “a conscious refusal” to procreate, and a couple in Arkansas was arrested for trying to sell their 2-month-old baby at a campground for $1,000 and a six-pack of beer.^{<a href="https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/russia%2C-battling-birth-rate-dip%2C-is-working-on-%27child-free%27-ideology-ban%2C-says-putin-ally/87609035" target="_blank" rel="noopener">39</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.kwch.com/2024/09/26/couple-allegedly-tried-sell-their-baby-1000-beer/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR29gCeqhDK9hLGFkhyMipGTvhpt4_-0f5B5JA9RwnTc-3yt8KHRuKrlLL0_aem_BJDRWqth18wHDnX-J46t8A#m1jjdji9bp1gu54p4hl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">40</a>} A 2-year-old Siamese cat that walked 800 miles in two months after wandering away from a campground in Yellowstone National Park was reunited with its California owners, homeowners in Ohio called the bomb squad after finding their cat batting around a hand grenade, a Welsh cat named Monkey returned home with a winning lottery scratcher, a troop of monkeys in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh rescued a six-year-old-girl from a would-be kidnapper, and in Virginia, an elementary-school photographer was escorted off campus after asking a boy if she could eat his soul.^{<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/us/cat-yellowstone-california.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M04.2FZY.Rm-z2QBA-ZPZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">41</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.fox10tv.com/2024/09/24/police-called-after-cat-finds-grenade-homes-basement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">42</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/owners-delight-cat-brings-home-29991528" target="_blank" rel="noopener">43</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/uttar-pradesh/monkey-intervention-saves-girl-from-rape-attempt-in-uttar-pradeshs-baghpat-report-3202270" target="_blank" rel="noopener">44</a>} ^{<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-school-picture-photographer-loses-job-after-allegedly-asking-young-students-can-i-eat-your-soul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">45</a>} “You,” replied the boy, “can eat noodles.”^{<a href="https://www.aol.com/news/virginia-school-picture-photographer-loses-172450598.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJZl8-Iqrj7bn72pYWpOmA_Acs6vlif6US0vp3TEc8oPOkT4zrBdZQbZJxb_rdsPrtUF9UJxLMiflKHsCjtvU4nxgr_35QS-QRaQtYBZysPbHGWB1UQ1sjeObKISAy6EcLeZhRXOuV0CS3EkPpvASLRFlgucXYK7ByIbxdAhk2qS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">46</a>} —</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joe Kloc</span></i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://harpers.org/2024/10/mayor-eric-adams-fraud-giuliani-bosnia-nazis-brazil-venezuela-argentina-ukraine-russia-belarus-china-fentanyl-cheese-toilet-flight-flip-bird-child-cat-monkey-noodles/">Weekly Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://harpers.org">Harper&#039;s Magazine</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>