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A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday. At least 70 people are dead. The epicenter of the quake was in San Jose Del Palmar about 250 miles west of Bogota. People ran as buildings collapsed. The AP reported: A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 69 people, trapping residents under debris of collapsed buildings and forcing people to evacuate their homes as far as the capital of Bogotá. The epicenter was in San Jose Del Palmar, a community of about 4,800 people in the Choco region about 250 miles (400 kilometers)…

AP — Ukraine attacked the petroleum hub of Nizhnekamsk in central Russia´s Tatarstan region on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring 75 others, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in the 4-year-old war. The Ukrainian military said it hit an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, which is about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) east of the Ukrainian border and has a population of about 240,000. Russian officials didn’t say what the drones targeted, but the city is home to two refineries and a petrochemical plant. Ukraine has targeted Russian oil facilities with long-range drones almost daily…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published an essay outlining a philosophy for developing AI that he says should center on individual empowerment rather than concentrated institutional control. In the essay, Zuckerberg argues that superintelligent AI should be distributed widely to individuals rather than restricted to a small number of companies, governments or institutions. He frames the approach around three principles: individual empowerment as “the source of prosperity,” invention as “the primary purpose of superintelligence,” and a balance of power as “the foundation of safety.” The essay extends Zuckerberg’s AI optimism position established at the end of July. Zuckerberg criticized what…

Former Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt reportedly met with President Donald Trump about film tax incentives as Paramount pledged to release 30 movies in theaters a year if it should acquire Warner Bros. Pratt said last Friday that he met with President Trump to lobby for a federal tax incentive to keep filming in Los Angeles and the United States. “Working with the President on a 25% FEDERAL film tax credit to bring back Hollywood,” Pratt said in a Friday Instagram post. “While Gavin Newsom’s commissioner is actively outsourcing production jobs to Hungary, and his rogue AG is trying to…

A reporter recently asked Vladimir Zelensky how Europe could help Kiev “kill more Russians” German news coverage of Russia is becoming increasingly radical as the media grooms the public for war, correspondent Thomas Roeper told RT.Roeper made the remarks on Monday after Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung correspondent Michael Martens asked Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky how Europe could help Kiev “kill more Russians.” The journalist hastily clarified that he meant “more Russian soldiers.”“I’m following the German media and the propaganda they are doing, and they increased the anti-Russian narrative really, well, radical. I can’t use another word,” Roeper said.He pointed to media…

Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey signed a new law on Aug. 5 attempting to block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from accessing a variety of locations across the state. Healey described the law, which names schools, daycares, hospitals, health centers, nursing homes, and courthouses as places ICE cannot access, as the strongest legislation in the country against ICE. The official claimed that children in Chelsea, where she signed the legislation, have not been attending school for fear of ICE encounters, per a report from CBS News. She also claimed that people have stopped going to the doctor’s office or testifying…

EDITOR’S NOTE: What you’re about to read isn’t coming from some fringe blog or doomsday cult. These are the numbers that keep people like Steve Keen awake at night—numbers that don’t care about your political affiliation, your stock portfolio, or how many cans of beans you’ve got stashed in the garage. We didn’t want to run this story. We’d rather tell you everything’s fine, that the system works, that smart people in charge have it all figured out. But that’s not what the math says. That’s not what the supply chains are whispering. And that’s definitely not what the empty shelves…

A shadowy specialist police task force in Britain tasked with monitoring anti-immigration sentiment online has reportedly referred over a hundred social media posts to local police for potential arrests. According to data released following Freedom of Information requests, the National Internet Intelligence Investigations unit has notified local police forces about 106 social media posts, The Daily Telegraph reported. This included 50 posts in June in the wake of the disclosures surrounding the murder of teen Henry Nowak, who was stabbed to death by Sikh man Vikrum Digwa and had his pleas for help ignored by police officers, who refused to believe the…

The Iranian Foreign Ministry attempted to respond positively to the news this weekend that Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey had signed a joint defense pact apparently intended to protect each other from Iran, claiming instead that it conveyed the countries no longer trust the United States. The three parties signed an agreement on Friday known as the “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement” that, most significantly, creates an obligation for each state to treat an attack against one as an attack against all. The context most observers noted as especially significant for the agreement is the current conflicts between the Saudi government and…

Finland cannot risk its own readiness to meet Kiev’s demands, Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen has said Finland will not hand over more of its air defense missiles to Ukraine, Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen has said, insisting that Helsinki cannot risk its combat readiness amid tensions with Russia.Speaking to Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat on Saturday, Hakkanen suggested that the upcoming winter will be difficult both for NATO and Ukraine, predicting that Moscow will once again target Ukrainian energy infrastructure with new missile and drone strikes. Ukraine has already intensified pleas for more air defense missiles, particularly US-made Patriot interceptors, as Russia continues its…