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Voy en taxi. Comento, impactadísima, la terrible noticia de la muerte del jugador del Tenerife. El taxista: "Otro muerto. Demasiados muertos. Yo no digo nada, pero el que le dio la patada es de color negro, español no es". #EstoEsIrrespirable

Martha Vickers was scorching in "The Big Sleep" which, sadly, was the highlight of her film career. Seductive just to the point of parody- and perfectly fitting the line "She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up." There were rumors that star Lauren Bacall had her role subdued as she realized the star power.. Martha went on to become mainly known for beautiful portraits and television work. She died on this date 11/2/1971 at the age of 46 from cancer..

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer. Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war. To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha. The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people. And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final. We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it. Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made. They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making. One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

Qué miedo. En un pueblo de la sierra de Madrid me acabo de topar un fin de fiesta familiar, edades entre 60 y 20 años, cantando a todo pulmón el "Cara al sol", con la bandera de España y haciendo, ¡los jóvenes!, el saludo fascista.

Trump: I could have won the Vietnam War in a week. They kept bombing forests for years instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City.

Marlon Brando didn’t memorize his lines for The Godfather (1972). He believed reading them made his acting more natural, so the crew taped cue cards around the set—even on Robert Duvall’s chest!

El 30 de octubre de 1956 fallecía Pío Baroja. Días antes, Hemingway le visitó y le regaló su novela "Adiós a las armas" con esta dedicatoria: "A usted, don Pío, que tanto nos enseñó a los jóvenes que queríamos ser escritores". Después agregó: "Daría mi premio Nobel a cambio de escribir como usted". El escritor José Luis Castillo-Puche, amigo de ambos y mediador del encuentro, relató años después que ante la visita del escritor norteamericano, con su hilo de voz cavernosa, Baroja exclamó: "Caramba, ¿Y a qué viene este tío?".

In memoriam de el Pirri hablan, Fernando Trueba, Cayetana Gillén Cuervo, Carmen Maura y Antonio Resines, en: — @Version_TVE

Deep Purple canceled tonight's show in Leipzig and tomorrow's show in Hamburg due to a medical emergency involving Ian Gillan, who is currently hospitalized. The news comes at a difficult time for the singer, who, at age 80, had revealed that he has only about 30% of his vision remaining and that retirement “is not far off.” So far, no details have been released about exactly what happened.

Soy el único que piensa que esto de los trenes ha sido un atentado de Israel para beneficio de las derechas??

A ver que parece que el tweet ha molestado así que lo voy a repostear para que siga haciéndolo🤪

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 US tells Gulf allies to prepare for possible new strikes on Iran after November 3rd.

✨🎬Sin duda, la escena más divertida del cine de guerra clásico. El disperso soldado Pinkley (Donald Sutherland) debe hacerse pasar por general y revistar tropas en "Los doce del patíbulo" (1967).

Poland's PM Tusk accused of 'COUP' as police takeover the Constitutional Tribunal, he writes: 'THERE IS NO OTHER WAY' President Nawrocki reportedly STOPPED his plane to Senegal and is RETURNING to Warsaw