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I am feeling snarky today … and you know what that means!


Alabama … one of the most close-minded states in the union.  When the state redrew its district maps based on the 2020 census last year, it did so with one goal in mind – to dilute the votes of the Black portion of the state’s population.

A federal court in Alabama struck down the heavily gerrymandered map, told the state to go back to the drawing board and come up with one that is more fair and equitable.  Rather than doing so, the state appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to restore the map and … guess what?  The five conservative justices struck down the lower court’s ruling and upheld the racially gerrymandered map.  To his credit, Chief Justice John Roberts voted on the side of right, but the side of justice was outnumbered.  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Alabama is comprised…

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Apoi s-au născut legende

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Cairo, 2018

Explorând cotloanele vechiului Cairo, am dat și peste rămășițe ale civilizației mameluce, pentru care merită să te abați de pe traseul turistic convențional.

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Mamelucii erau sclavi provenind de pe țărmul nordic al mării Negre, din Caucaz și Asia Centrală.

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Cu timpul, s-au eliberat și au devenit garda apropiată a sultanului, înainte să-l asasineze, în 1250, ca să preia atât de râvnita putere, pe care au păstrat-o aproape trei secole.

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Au fost alungați de otomani abia în 1517, după ce se stabiliseră deja în aria vechiului cartier islamic. Celebrele case El-Suhaymi, trei locuințe lipite una de alta, este o mărturie a acestui stil.

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Prima, cea mai veche, din 1648, a aparținut unui profesor universitar, următoarea unui bijutier și ultima unui croitor celebru, un fel de Christian Dior cairot. În general, casele tradiționale aveau trei etaje și adăposteau familia lărgită a proprietarului, adică toate soțiile, fiecare cu apartamentul ei. Partea…

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Two Arrested for Alleged Conspiracy to Launder $4.5 Billion in Stolen Cryptocurrency | OPA | Department of Justice

According to court documents, Lichtenstein and Morgan allegedly conspired to launder the proceeds of 119,754 bitcoin that were stolen from Bitfinex’s platform after a hacker breached Bitfinex’s systems and initiated more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions. Those unauthorized transactions sent the stolen bitcoin to a digital wallet under Lichtenstein’s control. Over the last five years, approximately 25,000 of those stolen bitcoin were transferred out of Lichtenstein’s wallet via a complicated money laundering process that ended with some of the stolen funds being deposited into financial accounts controlled by Lichtenstein and Morgan. The remainder of the stolen funds, comprising more than 94,000 bitcoin, remained in the wallet used to receive and store the illegal proceeds from the hack. After the execution of court-authorized search warrants of online accounts controlled by Lichtenstein and Morgan, special agents obtained access to files within an online account controlled by Lichtenstein. Those files contained the private keys required to access the digital wallet that directly received the funds stolen from Bitfinex, and allowed special agents to lawfully seize and recover more than 94,000 bitcoin that had been stolen from Bitfinex. The recovered bitcoin was valued at over $3.6 billion at the time of seizure. Source: Two Arrested for Alleged Conspiracy to Launder $4.5 Billion in Stolen Cryptocurrency | OPA | Department of Justice

Zucchini Onion Chips

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Country Casual Cravings: Zucchini Onion Chips! We all know how versatile a meal can be once you add zucchini to the menu. But have you ever thought about an appetizer using a can of those classic crispy fried onions? It’s definitely a game-changer. Hear me out. Forget the holiday green bean casserole for a minute as you dip a fork into the can to nibble on these crunchies before tossing them onto a garden salad. Who can resist a sampling of that unique onion flavor? Not me. Now send everyone out of the house so you can work your magic. When they return, their mouths will begin to drool at the aromas from the kitchen. I’m guessing no one will suspect you disguised heart-healthy zucchini wrapped up in a delicious onion crust.

ZUCCHINI ONION CHIPS

Ingredients:

1 medium zucchini, sliced into rounds

Coarse salt

Vegetable…

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Scientists link doubling of Texas earthquakes to fracking by oil companies – UPI.com

More than 200 earthquakes of 3 magnitude and greater shook Texans in 2021, more than double the 98 recorded in 2020, according to a Texas Tribune analysis of state data maintained by the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin.

RELATEDLiving near fracking sites may shorten life spans, study suggests

 

The record-setting seismic activity is largely concentrated in West Texas’ Permian Basin, the most productive oil and gas region in the state. Scientific studies show that the spike in earthquakes is almost certainly a consequence of disposing huge quantities of contaminated, salty water deep underground — a common practice by oil companies at the end of the hydraulic fracturing process that can awaken dormant fault lines.

During hydraulic fracking, oil companies shoot a mixture of fluids and sand through ancient shale formations, fracturing the rock to free the flow of oil. But oil isn’t the only thing that’s been trapped underground for millions of years: Between three and six barrels of salty, polluted water also come up to the surface with every barrel of oil.

The cheapest, and most commonly used, way to dispose of this “produced water” is to drill another well and inject it into porous rock formations deep underground.

Source: Scientists link doubling of Texas earthquakes to fracking by oil companies – UPI.com

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