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Another U.S. strike yesterday in the eastern Pacific. On orders from Washington, a ship linked to a "terrorist organization" and carrying drugs was targeted in international waters. Three men were killed.

➥ Question: The US has been releasing these kinds of videos with great fanfare for several months now. But these kinds of ships continue to leave. How is this possible?

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⚡️🚛 ALERT - Gaza NGOs coordinator, Eyad Amawi, tells Drop Site that the situation in Gaza remains one of genocide and “engineered suffering.” More than a month into the ceasefire, he says nothing has meaningfully improved: aid is still choked off, UNRWA is blocked from operating at full capacity, and only one tightly controlled crossing allows limited entry.

Here’s what to know:

⭕️ Thousands of trucks sit stranded while winter rain floods flimsy summer tents, leaving families soaked in rainwater and sewage as the shattered infrastructure collapses around them. Israel continues to ban basic equipment, including solar panels and batteries, under “dual-use” claims.

⭕️ Importantly, Amawi describes a parallel economic siege: bank accounts frozen, electronic wallets shut down, cash barred from entering, and worn bills rejected in markets.

⭕️ This, he says, is the deliberate “management of famine” along with a “management of the economic crisis,” allowing commercial trucks in while knowing people have no money to buy anything.

⭕️ The pressure, he believes, is meant to push Palestinians toward displacement while confining the population to a devastated western zone, as an Israeli-controlled “Green Zone” is rebuilt under Israeli security terms.

⭕️ He urges global pressure to open all crossing gates and restore UNRWA’s full capacity.

⚡️🐋 NEW - Drone video captured the incredible moment a rare albino humpback whale breached the water off the east coast of Australia. Scientists estimate that only 1 in 40,000 humpbacks are albino.

⚡️✡️ NEW - Thousands of rabbis from over a hundred countries gathered for the International Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim Conference and posed at Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters.

They used the moment to send a global message of Jewish strength.

This is considered one of the largest gatherings of Jewish leaders, with some rabbis attending while on leave from the IDF or U.S. military.

⚡️🤖 ARCHIVE - Genki Robotics, a new humanoid robotics startup, is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

It's founded by Andy Rubin, the founder of Android, who was a Google executive for nine years. Rubin led Google’s robotics division during 2013–14, which included Boston Dynamics, which Google had acquired. Andy Rubin’s investment firm invested in Agility Robotics in 2018.

Genki Robotics's vision "is to accelerate the integration of intelligent humanoids into society — augmenting human capability and shaping the future of work and service." The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and AMD, among others.

Here's Andy Rubin in 2018 talking about why the bipedal form makes sense, with Agility's Cassie robot on stage

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**Astronomy Picture of the Day**

17 November 2025

**Comet Lemmon's Wandering Tail**

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What has happened to Comet Lemmon's tail? The answer is blowing in the wind — the wind from the Sun in this case. This continuous outflow of charged particles from the Sun has been quite variable of late, as the Sun emits bursts of energy, CMEs, that push out and deflect charged particles emitted by the comet itself. The result is a blue hued ion tail for Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) that is not only impressively intricate but takes some unusual turns. This long-duration composite image taken from Alfacar, Spain last month captured this inner Solar System ionic tumult. Comet Lemmon is now fading as it heads out away from the Earth and Sun and back into the outer Solar System.

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