All posts tagged: tactics

Hillary Clinton Calls Trump's Republican Party A 'Cult' Over Election Tactics

Hillary Clinton Calls Trump's Republican Party A 'Cult' Over Election Tactics

Published by Sam Flores

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Hillary Clinton thinks it’s obvious why President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are so eager to make it harder for Americans to vote. In an interview with Democracy Docket released on Wednesday, the former presidential candidate applauded the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a Mississippi law granting a grace period for late arriving mail-in ballots, and told host Marc Elias that the Republican Party knows curbing ballot access is “the only way they can win.” “They can’t win a fair fight, which is why Trump is so obsessed with stealing voter rolls and purging voters and making up ridiculous claims about people not eligible as citizens for voting,” she said, calling his claims about rampant election fraud “so vanishingly non-existent, it’s laughable.” Clinton continued, “But that’s his game because he can’t win a fair fight, and his Republican Party, which has become a cult answering only to him, can’t win a fair fight.” Hillary Clinton: “It’s ridiculous that we would be looking at ways of limiting voters, but that’s …

How Israel Is Using the Same Tactics in Lebanon That It Did in Gaza

How Israel Is Using the Same Tactics in Lebanon That It Did in Gaza

Published by Sam Flores

An entire street is leveled. Houses and shops are flattened, including a popular cafe. This is what is left of the town of Bint Jbeil, just a couple of miles from the Israeli border, nearly two months after Israel relaunched its ground offensive in southern Lebanon. The village of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon. Drone video from @amitseg, via Telegram. The destruction of this town, a Hezbollah stronghold, is repeated again and again across southern Lebanon, a lush region of undulating vistas, where Israel has razed border villages as part of an effort to lay the groundwork for a larger occupation. The approach, Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, said, was modeled on tactics the military used in Gaza, where the Israeli military reduced entire neighborhoods, buildings and streets to rubble. After the war between Israel and Hezbollah reignited in early March, when Hezbollah attacked Israel in solidarity with Iran, Israel established a several-mile-deep “buffer zone” that it says it will continue to occupy until the threat from Hezbollah is contained. An analysis of satellite images, …

Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars

Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars

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Two oak trees in the spring, with varying degrees of leaf growth Sven Finnberg If caterpillars have munched through a lot of an oak tree’s leaves one year, then, the following spring, the tree’s buds open three days later. This delay means the caterpillars don’t have food available when they hatch, and so many die, halving how many leaves get eaten. In spring, longer, warmer days drive trees to start growing again, opening buds and unfurling young leaves. Many species time their life cycle to match this, so some caterpillars, for example, hatch when the leaves are new and soft, so they can start eating immediately. Now, Soumen Mallick at the University of Würzburg in Germany and his colleagues have discovered that oak trees have a way to fight back. They analysed the condition of tree canopies in images from Sentinel-1 radar satellites for a 2400-square-kilometre area in the northern Bavaria region of Germany between 2017 and 2021. The forests there are dominated by two species of oak: the pedunculate or English oak (Quercus robur) …

Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say

Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Last month, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from its land. When a tech startup approached Tribal leaders asking them to sign a nondisclosure agreement along with a letter of intent to construct a data center on Seminole territory, the Tribal Council unanimously shot them down, voting 24 to 0 to instead enact a permanent data center moratorium. The Seminole Nation isn’t alone in fighting off predatory tech firms. Across the country, data center developers are using underhanded tactics to ram their server farms onto Indigenous land, whether Native communities want them there or not. In an interview with Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman, activist Krystal Two Bulls, executive director of Honor the Earth — an Indigenous-led environmental organization that helped the Seminole Nation assert their rights against the unscrupulous data center startup — said there are anywhere between 103 and 160 proposed hyperscale data centers looking to build …

When a ​football manager’s ​wardrobe ​says ​more ​than ​his​ tactics | Fashion

When a ​football manager’s ​wardrobe ​says ​more ​than ​his​ tactics | Fashion

Published by Sam Flores

Last Tuesday, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola lost to Real Madrid in a £270 shirt. The grungy flannel number from the cult Swedish menswear brand Our Legacy was so noteworthy it consumed more post-match oxygen than the news that Manchester City had been dumped out of the Champions League before the quarter-finals. Never mind that Guardiola is beginning to look bereft of ideas for the first time in his career. All anyone cared about was whether he’d hired a stylist. It’s hard to imagine a footballer’s outfit generating this much attention, but where male managers are concerned, certain rules are still very much in force. This week’s Carabao Cup final against Arsenal at Wembley saw Guardiola wearing a navy turtleneck and brown wool herringbone trousers, an outfit that waged a deliberate campaign of gen X reinvention. Having revolutionised basically every aspect of the English game in his decade at City, it seems his final revolution is changing what it’s possible for a manager to wear on the touchline. Touchline cool … Pep Guardiola celebrates winning …

60,000-year-old poison arrowheads show early humans’ hunting tactics

60,000-year-old poison arrowheads show early humans’ hunting tactics

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abstraction: An idea or concept, as opposed to a concrete example. chemical: A substance formed from two or more atoms that unite (bond) in a fixed proportion and structure. For example, water is a chemical made when two hydrogen atoms bond to one oxygen atom. Its chemical formula is H2O. Chemical also can be an adjective to describe properties of materials that are the result of various reactions between different compounds. clay: Fine-grained particles of soil that stick together and can be molded when wet. When fired under intense heat, clay can become hard and brittle. That’s why it’s used to fashion pottery and bricks. particle: A minute amount of something. prehistoric: An adjective for something that happened tens of thousands to millions of years ago, periods before people began deliberately recording events. prey: (n.) An organism hunted by another, often for food. (v.) To attack and eat another organism. quartz: A type of mineral made from silicon dioxide. The most common mineral on Earth, it can occur in any rock type: igneous, metamorphic or …

Pep Guardiola gets tactics horribly wrong as City torn to shreds by Real Madrid

Pep Guardiola gets tactics horribly wrong as City torn to shreds by Real Madrid

Published by Sam Flores

“But the intensity [we need] I think they find it a four days ago. The players have to live it. I insist many times. Two or three months ago I said, ‘We play today to prove to ourselves this is how you have to play to arrive in the latter stages to compete against good teams’ because we have 60 or 70 per cent of new players this season. “In November, December, January we had to win those games but we had to play in the way to visualise and see, ‘Oh we can do things, be aware we can do it’. Otherwise it will just be the next step and next season we’ll be back and do it again but once we are here to have to prove ourselves at our best otherwise when you arrive in the semi finals or finals of the Champions League and you are not who you are it is more difficult. “You can be lucky yes – it’s not 38 games like the Premier League or La Liga …