ksuadminMay 15, 2021 9
In a 28-second video posted to Twitter this week by a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to launch rocket attacks against Israelis from densely populated civilian areas.
At least, that’s what Netanyahu spokesman Ofir Gendelman said the video showed. But his tweet with the recording, which was shared hundreds of times as the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis developed, did not come from Gaza. Not even this week.
The video he posted, which can be found on many channels on YouTube and other video hosting sites, is from 2018. And, according to captions from previous versions of the recording, it shows activists shooting rockets not from Gaza, but from Syria or Syria. Libya.
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Bird Song of the Day
From Ethopia. I thought cranes would have more interesting calls than they do, but they all honk in more or less the same way.
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. All the charts are becoming dull approaching nominal, if you accept the “new normal” of cases, for example.
Still whoops. I guess we’ll see if Biden abandoning masks provides sufficient incentive.
“Nearly 3 in 5 Unvaccinated Adults Say a Big Financial Incentive Would Sway Them to Get a COVID-19 Shot” [Morning Consult]. “57% of unvaccinated adults said a $1,000 savings bond would sway them to get a COVID-19 shot, while 43% said as much about a smaller $50 reward.” • Quite a spread.