The Sedation of Appalachia

US Strikes Take Out 116 Telecoms Towers In Southern Iran Communications and even the supply of drinking water has been severely impacted in some places of southern Iran, amid continuing US airstrikes on civic and national infrastructure, amid the seventh consecutive day of war. "Hormozgan’s chief of communications and information technology says the US's overnight attacks disrupted telecommunications in Bandar Abbas and Hajiabad, in the northern part of the province," Al Jazeera reports Authorities there have tallied at least 116 telecommunication towers which were taken out of service due to the US onslaught....

Three-Quarters Of Refugee-Linked Households In Vienna Rely On Taxpayer Handouts Via Remix News, Three-quarters of households in Vienna connected to migrants from popular asylum-origin countries are unable to support themselves without government benefits, according to figures analyzed by Statistics Austria. The analysis, cited by Kronen Zeitung, covered approximately 103,000 households across Austria containing at least one recognized refugee, asylum-seeker, or person granted subsidiary protection from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, or Chechnya in the Russian Federation. Vienna recorded by far the highest rate of welfare dependence. About 75 percent of the households examined in...

"Lost Its Mojo": Wolfe Downgrades Netflix As Billions In Content Spending Fails To Deliver Hits Wolfe Research downgraded Netflix early Thursday, warning that "bears are winning the engagement debate" and that the subscription-based streaming service "has lost its mojo." "Engagement failed to respond to rising investment, and last week's content leadership changes convince us that solutions require patience & lower incremental margins. Attention economy competition is rampant. Consensus estimates look fair," analyst Peter Supino wrote in a note on Thursday morning. Supino estimates that engagement in the US and Canada was flat...