Political cartoonists and analysts Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) take on the week in politics.
First up, Israel’s Mossad launches a fearsome attack against Hezbollah by blowing up their pagers and walkie-talkies throughout Lebanon, injuring thousands of people and killing at least a dozen. Does this impressive act of international terrorism cross a red line for supporters of Israel against Gaza? What happens next in the Middle East?
Springfield, Ohio has made headlines, most of them probably false, about the allegation that Haitian migrants have been chowing down on the locals’ cats and dogs. Ted relates what he heard from relatives who live in Springfield and Scott and Ted dissect Trump’s ability to touch upon big truths even while lying like the day is long.
Finally, the Federal Reserve Bank has decided to cut short-term interest rates by 0.5%. How much will juicing the economy help Kamala Harris’ campaign?
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I wonder. Has anyone mapped out exactly how far Israel’s technological reach extends into the United States? How many chips, programs, devices in the U.S. could have been tampered with in a similar fashion. Not to explode. Heaven forfend, Israel is our friend. Our friend that we send billions in aid to every year and who spies on us. They wouldn’t put explosives into the devices. But how hard would it be to stick in a bit of malicious code to short out a part or send the lithium-ion battery into an overheat cycle and ignite a fire? The same question to China, India, hell, even Canada.
I’m thinking that someone who hadn’t thought of it before, is now, post-walkie-talkies-go-boom-boom, looking at the problem from many angles.