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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, October 8, 2024

October 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Cedar Lebanon woodcutter War resilience axe tree by Emad Hajjaj, Alaraby Aljadeed newspaper , London
Cedar Lebanon woodcutter War resilience axe tree by Emad Hajjaj, Alaraby Aljadeed newspaper , London

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Weather: A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Cloudy, with a high near 84. Northeast wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 11pm. Cloudy, with a low around 74. Northeast wind 11 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

  • Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
  • Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
  • Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
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Today at a Glance:

Nobel Prize Week. Today: Physics, announced at 5:45 a.m. Palm Coast time at the earliest, 11:45 a.m. at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, streamed live here or below:

In court: County Court Judges Melissa Distler and Andrea Totten are scheduled to go through their dockets as normal today. Court will be closed Wednesday and Thursday. 

Flagler County schools will hold regular classes today but afternoon activities and athletics are cancelled. Extended day will remain open. 

Daytona State College, Stetson University and the University of Central Florida are closed. The University of North Florida holds classes today but closes Wednesday.

The Palm Coast City Council meeting is postponed. It was to meet in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.

The Community Traffic Safety Team is cancelled. 

The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board holds its regular monthly meeting at its Palatka headquarters. The public is invited to attend and to offer in-person comment on Board agenda items. Check here to verify the time. A livestream will also be available for members of the public to observe the meeting online. Governing Board Room, 4049 Reid St., Palatka. Click this link to access the streaming broadcast. The live video feed begins approximately five minutes before the scheduled meeting time. Meeting agendas are available online here.

The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.

The Flagler County Planning Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. See board documents, including agendas and background materials, here. Watch the meeting or past meetings here.

Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.




Readings: Adam Shatz, the London Review of Books’s American editor, writes what you won’t read in most American publications about Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah’s Nasrallah and its consequences. Particularly: “Netanyahu’s American enablers – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the secretary of defence, Lloyd Austin – swiftly echoed the Israeli prime minister’s celebration of Nasrallah’s death. Never mind that Netanyahu hadn’t consulted them about the bombing, which made a mockery of the American and French push for a ceasefire between Israel and Hizbullah, to which Netanyahu had privately given his approval. Never mind the Americans’ frequent warnings about the dangers of escalation, and their stated desire to avoid a confrontation with Iran. For Biden, the killing of Nasrallah provided a ‘measure of justice’ for Hizbullah’s victims, from the 1983 bombings of the US embassy and the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut to the present. Harris called Nasrallah a ‘terrorist with American blood on his hands’, as though Netanyahu and his cabinet colleagues had kept their hands clean during the killing of tens of thousands of people in Gaza and the violent displacement of more than 90 per cent of its population – to say nothing of the wave of settler attacks and demolitions in the West Bank, or the bombardment of southern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley and Beirut after the grisly pager and walkie-talkie attacks two weeks ago. But ‘Arab blood’ does not have the same value as American or Israeli in the moral calculus of the West. […] After 7 October Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, reportedly wanted to strike Hizbullah first, not Hamas. Netanyahu rejected Gallant’s advice, but the war on Hizbullah, for which Israel had been preparing for nearly two decades, remained part of the discussion, even as Netanyahu pretended to defer to the Biden administration’s warnings about a regional conflagration. He knew that Biden and Blinken would ultimately capitulate, with a feckless ceremony of ‘concern’ and ‘caution’ over ‘the best way forward’. Over the next eleven months, Israeli pounded southern Lebanon, killing several hundred people and forcing nearly a hundred thousand to flee their homes, but this troubled the Western conscience far less than the flight of Israelis on the other side of the border. Israel carried out 80 per cent of the attacks along the border, but once again this disparity was hardly remarked on in the American press, where the exodus of Arabs under Israeli violence is treated as a natural catastrophe and described in the passive voice.” See the full piece.

 

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October 2025
flagler beach farmers market
Saturday, Oct 18
9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Flagler Beach Farmers Market

In Front of Flagler Beach City Hall
scott spradley
Saturday, Oct 18
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley

Law Office of Scott Spradley
flagler democrats
Saturday, Oct 18
9:30 am - 10:30 am

Democratic Women’s Club

Palm Coast Community Center
grace community food pantry
Saturday, Oct 18
10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way

Flagler School District Bus Depot
Saturday, Oct 18
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

No Kings Rallies in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach

city repertory logo
Saturday, Oct 18
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

City Repertory Theatre Retrospective Concert

City Repertory Theatre at City Marketplace
Saturday, Oct 18
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida

Cinematique of Daytona Beach
Sunday, Oct 19
9:30 am - 10:25 am

ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students

Grace Presbyterian Church
grace community food pantry
Sunday, Oct 19
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way

Flagler School District Bus Depot
Sunday, Oct 19
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village

European Village
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Sunday, Oct 19
3:00 pm

Al-Anon Family Groups

Silver Dollar II Club
city repertory logo
Sunday, Oct 19
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

City Repertory Theatre Retrospective Concert

City Repertory Theatre at City Marketplace
Jermaine Williams Sr.
Monday, Oct 20
9:00 am - 11:00 am

In Court: Jermaine Williams Pre-Trial

Flagler County courthouse
east flagler mosquito control logo
Monday, Oct 20
10:00 am - 11:00 am

East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board Meeting

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Monday, Oct 20
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Flagler County Commission Evening Meeting

Government Services Building
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In this country, people have learned to accept that one war follows another, every two or three years. “An Inevitable Conflict in Gaza,” ran a headline in the daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot earlier this month. “With Lebanon no longer hiding Hezbollah’s role, next war must hit civilians where it hurts, Israeli minister says,” Haaretz reported a few days later. What hardly any Israelis will consider, though, and virtually no influential voices in the West will publicly suggest, is that Israel — not Hezbollah in Lebanon, nor Hamas in Gaza, nor the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria — is provoking the next war. Counterintuitive though it may be to Israeli and most Western minds, Israel, not its militant Islamist or brutal Syrian enemies, is the aggressor in these border wars. […] Since its 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel has fought three wars against Hamas that devastated Gaza. Avigdor Lieberman, now the defense minister, has said that the next one is “inevitable.” And now the attacks on Syria and Hezbollah have gone from one every few months to four in less than a week. How long before Israel wages its next “war of self-defense”?

–Larry Derfner, “Israel’s Next War Is Always ‘Inevitable’,” The New York Times, March 28, 2017.

 

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