Syria Confirms ‘Mass Escape’ Since They Took Over ISIS Camps from Kurds

"It's All So Tiresome": UK's Social Media Ban Trudges Ever Onward Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, The UK government’s “consultation” on social media harm is over, and – brace yourselves – it turns out they’re going to have to do something about it. I know, I was shocked too. The main talking point is that “social media is like cigarettes”. Everyone is saying that, it’s the meme of the day. It’s a sentiment originally taken from a new report submitted to the consultation by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Titled “Growing up in an online world”, it...

Rebound In Used Luxury Watches Continues During the COVID-era flood of free money, from stimulus checks to the Federal Reserve's zero-interest-rate policy, luxury watch prices skyrocketed to the moon. But once that liquidity boom faded and interest rates were pushed sharply higher to rein in the inflation monster fueled by helicopter money, the secondary luxury market slid into a multi-year correction. Over the last year and a half, however, that downturn appears to have bottomed out (see here and here), with prices continuing to rebound. The Bloomberg Subdial Watch Index, which...

Iran's Ghalibaf Tells Iranians 'Unify' As US Blockade Seeks To 'Make Us Collapse From Within' Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has since the war's start and prior assassinations of top leaders including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei become the most visible figurehead representing the Islamic Republic to the world, has continued trolling the United States even as President Trump is renewing fresh military strikes amid an uneasy extended ceasefire and ongoing US naval blockade of Iranian ports. He stated Wednesday that the United States' naval blockade of the country has a...