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Weather: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 88. Light and variable wind becoming east 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Tuesday Night: Showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then showers likely between 2am and 5am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5am. Low around 70. Northeast wind 5 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
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Today at a Glance:
In Court: Joshua King Arraignment, 8:30 a.m. before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols, on an alleged violation of probation charge, after he was expelled from a rehabilitation facility for refusing to profess his faith to God. See: “DUI Probationer Sent Back to Jail for Refusing to Profess Faith in God in Christian Treatment Program.”
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd Street. For agendas and minutes, go here.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library: Do you enjoy Chess, trying out new moves, or even like some friendly competition? Come visit the Flagler County Public Library at the Teen Spot every Tuesday from 4:30 to 6 p.m. for Chess Club. Everyone is welcome, for beginners who want to learn how to play all the way to advanced players. For more information contact the Youth Service department 386-446-6763 ext. 3714 or email us at [email protected]
The Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets at 4:30 p.m. at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast. The meeting of the seven-member board is open to the public.
Hammock Community Association Meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Hammock Community Center, 79 Malacompra Road. Everyone is invited. Doors open at 6 p.m. Meetings usually include a featured speaker. Check the month’s speaker at TheHammock.org. See videos from prior meetings at the HCA’s YouTube Channel. Sign up for the Newsletter. Prior newsletters are available here. Membership is $16. Join or renew here.
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry: Flagler Beach United Methodist Church‘s food pantry is open today from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1500 S. Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The church’s mission is to provide nourishment and support in a welcoming, respectful environment. To find us, please turn at the corner of 15 Street and S. Daytona Ave, pull into the grass parking area and enter the green door.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Group meets at 4 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
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.
Notably: It’s not known when Beaufort Castle in South Lebanon was built. The Crusaders captured it and called it Beaufort, for “beautiful fortress,” then lost it around 1189 when Saladin wiped out its defenders, among them Rene of Sidon, who had escaped there from Sidon on the coast. The castle sits on a stupendous overlook that extends north over the valley of the Litani River and south and west over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Syria. Israel’s Ariel Sharon, the mass murderer of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, stood there as the latest crusader, and 18 years later, after Israel was driven out, Nabih Berri, speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, stood there to boast about how Beaufort was a symbol of Lebanese resistance. Israel had left the castle even more of a ruin than it was. “After decades and centuries of war and occupation,” The now-defunct Daily Star, the English-language Lebanese daily, reported in 2015, “the castle opened its doors in 2007 to the public. A foundation stone was laid in 2010 after an agreement was signed between the Council for Development and Reconstruction and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development with a budget of $3.5 million, of which Lebanon contributed $1 million. Refurbishment works began in 2011 and are set to conclude sometime this year.” So much for that. The New York Times reported on Sunday: “Israeli soldiers have captured a strategic hilltop crowned by the Crusader castle of Beaufort in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military announced on Sunday, part of the most sweeping Israeli invasion in the country in decades. The seizure of Beaufort, while hailed by Israel’s top leaders, evoked bitter memories in both countries of the deadly fighting there during Israel’s nearly two-decade occupation of southern Lebanon. Israel finally withdrew in 2000 after a bloody insurgency led by Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group. […] Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, praised the reconquest of Beaufort on Sunday as a “dramatic step” and vowed that Israeli forces would “deepen and expand” their control of territory in Lebanon. But military experts said the fortified hilltop was unlikely to protect Israeli forces from Hezbollah’s cable-borne drones, which have led to mounting Israeli casualties. And simply occupying more territory in Lebanon was unlikely to subdue the militant group, they argued.” Beaufort has outlasted every invader. It will outlast this one.
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June 2026
Nar-Anon Family Group
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County School Board Information Workshop
Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee Meeting
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
Flagler County School Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
We have very few other sources that record the inhumanity that raged in those early days, both in Gaza and the West Bank. The human rights organizations that would industriously and faithfully collect such evidence would only appear on the scene much later, and Palestinians did not, in those days, write books and articles about the early years of occupation, and thus the government minutes are an important and almost exclusive source (together with the UN 1971 report) for these criminal policies. From the government and the UN archival treasure trove five horrific cases stand out: the massive demolition of houses in Qalqilya; the deportation of large numbers of people from Tul Karem; the mass deportation of around 50,000 people from the Jericho area; the destruction of three villages in the Latrun area; and finally the demolition of two villages in the Hebron area. In addition, other villages were expelled, such as Beit Awa with its 2500 inhabitants and Beit Mirsim with a population of 500.
–From Ilan Pappe’s The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories (2017).
Dennis C Rathsam says
So you’d rather have those speed boats full of drugs make it to America, to kill Americans!!!! You folks just aren’t right!
Laurel says
Dennis: Ever heard of the justice system we have here in this country? How about Maritime Law? No good? Just kill, and don’t bother to ask questions…even later? Just go on to painting the reflection pool and a round of golf?
After all, what’s 200 lives of unknown people. Why bother to find out? There’s and arc to build.
Skibum says
Maybe one of these days YOU will be accused of some spurious crime. Maybe an anonymous tip that you are a drug mule, ferrying illegal drugs to the mainland in a small skiff after receiving a load from drug runners. Evidence of criminal wrongdoing doesn’t matter one bit with this administration… you are GUILTY without evidence or a chance to prove your innocence, and therefore must be blown to bits. Bye bye!
Should we applaud sending a military team to your house and simply blowing you and whatever evidence there may or may not be to smithereens??? Who knows… if they didn’t blow you up instead of letting you go through the American justice system, how many Americans could those military assassination team members claim YOU might have killed?
If you are so deluded into thinking that it is wonderful that our government is using military force and ex-judiciously killing anyone suspected – not proven – of being a drug runner, and making sure that any evidence, if there was any, of drug smuggling activity is destroyed in the process… you are excusing murder. What is happening is so antithetical to our justice system that is should never be condoned! If those people on the boats were in fact running drugs, the proper action would be for our U.S. Coast Guard to interdict them on the open seas, arrest and prosecute them along with seizing the drug evidence aboard that will ensure their convictions.
America does not… at least has never until now, condemned assumed criminals to death before arrest and trial. If you’re ok with that, then YOU too, or one of your grand kids, could be wrongly accused and just killed on sight. With NO CONSEQUENCES for those who committed such a murder. How does that sit with you???
The dude says
Stuck in another expensive Mideast quagmire.
If only there were some way we could’ve possibly known… I mean, who knew?
Don Snoreleone and his eleventyth level chess again… the way that guy snoozes through the conflagrations he sets, it’s amazing!!!
Pogo says
Self-exiled academics and intellectuals (everywhere, UK, US, etc), could make their sympathy for, and solidarity with, the people who turn water pipes into unguided rockets, and children into fanatical snipers and shock troops — so much more persuasive by sharing their own experience of the comfortable bomb shelters where they’ve lived their life in this century.
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Ray W. says
Euronews constructed a story around a recent study of misinformation and disinformation efforts by opponents to Sweden’s increasing reliance on wind energy.
For purposes of the study, misinformation was defined as “false or out of context information that someone is presenting as fact.”
Disinformation was defined as “intentionally false and meant to deceive its audience.”
A partnering of researchers between CASM Technology and WindEurope reviewed 42,000 EU “anti-wind” postings on Facebook, X, YouTube, TikTok and LinkedIn dating from May 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026. The 42,000 postings against Sweden’s reliance on wind energy had generated some 6.3 million “active” repostings, i.e., likes and shares.
The researchers classified 32% of the 42,000 postings as “oppositional” in character. 68% of the anti-wind postings were described as either misinformation or disinformation in character.
Narratives against wind power generation described in social media postings as either misinformation or disinformation included:
1. Developers or advocates of wind power generation are “greedy” actors willing to accept major damage to the environment or significant social harm for “profit”.
2. Wind power generation is being imposed on “local populations” by “distant political or economic elites”.
3. An “environmental destruction narrative”, by which windmills are claimed to have a net negative environmental effect.
4. Wind turbine blade impact on bird populations.
As an aside, Sweden’s renewable energy mix, according to the reporter, 40% hydropower, 27% nuclear, 23% wind, and 2% solar, plus other types of renewables, such as geothermal, now comprises 99% of its national energy needs. Last year, only 1.2% of Sweden’s electricity demand comes from fossil fuels.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
There are a significant number of dishonest commenters currently active on the FlaglerLive forum. To some of these members of faction, laundering lies is an act of virtue if it furthers a pestilential partisan political gain. One prominent political theme ripe for the spread of pestilential dishonesty is the disdain by Trump advocates for the implementation of new sources of inexpensive wind power. No lie is too low for these commenters to launder.
Every FlaglerLive reader ought to know by now to never accept at face value anything these deceptive commenters post.
A mid-term election looms ever larger. No vengefully lie, no hateful lie, no dishonesty will soon be too low to launder. Buckle up!
As an aside, I looked again for research on bird strikes to confirm what I have previously posted. The American Bird Conservancy estimates that American domestic and feral cats kill some 2.4 billion birds per year. The Conservancy also describes that nearly one million American birds are killed each year by windmill blades. The process by which birds fly into spinning windmill blades is called “motion smear”, which occurs when spinning blades become nearly invisible to birds, similar to the effect on human eyesight of spinning aircraft propeller blades. Other research, by Oregon State University researchers, reports that painting one of the three windmill blades black, a color different from the other two blades, reduces the “motion smear” effect on birds, which painting step reduces bird strikes by 70-72%.
Other sources acknowledge that significant numbers of birds die by flying into buildings, including fossil fuel power plant buildings and exhaust stacks. And, I am old enough to have experienced several events of birds chasing birds and flying into my windshield, usually in springtime on rural highways.
Laurel says
And how soon we forget the environmental damage done by oil spills. No windmills can compare.
Massachusetts is fighting Trump, who is trying to close the windmill system that is powering over 400,000 homes, cheaper than oil. The system is built, running, bought and paid for, but Trump holds the grudge against willmills looking bad from his Scottish golf course, in his opinion.
He really is suckering many people.
Laurel says
The U.S. government now kills people without law and order. That includes U.S. citizens.
Ray W. says
About a month ago, Interesting Engineering issued an article about seven breakthroughs in clean energy recycling. Here are two of them.
1. Windmill blades are composed of cured carbon fiber. Ming Yang Smart Energy revealed this past January a “chemical degradation solution” that dissolves at room temperature and at standard pressure the glue that binds together carbon fiber sheets in windmill blades. The “high value” carbon fiber recovered via use of the solution can be reused in multiple applications, including new windmill blades.
2. South Korean researchers developed a new electrochemical process that uses “ethaline” as a solvent to recycle nickel, cobalt, and manganese metals from used EV batteries. The new recycling process leaves “minimal hazardous waste” and the ethaline solvent can be reused. During the dissolving process, the ethaline solvent binds to different metals at different voltages. Over 95% of an EV battery’s metals are recovered. Nickel recovered during the process is 99.1% pure. Cobalt? 98.8% pure.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
At a time not so long ago, American university researchers were at the forefront of battery chemistry research. Not so much anymore. For whatever reason, it has been decided that American companies would be better served by paying other nations to further develop the batteries we need.
Cellphone or hearing-aid batteries? We developed the first lithium-ion batteries. Now, we pay Chinese companies for the lithium-ion batteries we need. Second-generation EV batteries? American university researchers developed the first lithium-ferrous-phosphate batteries. Now, we pay Chinese companies for lithium-ferrous-phosphate batteries we need.
Yes, after the onset of the pandemic American researchers at an American university laboratory set out to develop a new sodium-chromium-oxide 12-volt battery chemistry that offers at a low price a vehicle battery that lasts ten times the endurance of today’s 12-volt lead-acid batteries at a smaller size and a lesser weight. Extreme heat or extreme cold does not inhibit sodium-chromium-oxide battery chemistry function as much as it inhibits lead-acid battery chemistry function. A $50 billion-per-year lead-acid battery industry stands on the precipice of creative destruction. Perhaps, this time, the American researchers can keep the emerging battery industry in America and reap the economic benefits. Perhaps not.
Ray W. says
The Daily Mail reports that researchers for the Institute for the Study of War now conclude that, for the second straight month, both April and May, Ukrainian forces have liberated more landmass, a net 156 square miles, from Russian forces than the Russians have conquered in other parts of the Ukraine.
This doesn’t mean, the reporter writes, that Ukrainian forces have entirely eliminated all Russian forces from land they have reclaimed, as a Russian military tactic is to leave isolated groups behind in land they have lost in hopes of reinforcing the closed-off groups and then reconquering the soil.
But, the story posits, despite the small quantity of the amount of liberated Ukrainian soil, the near four-year incremental advance of Russian forces in the Ukraine has not just been stopped; it has been reversed.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
Earlier today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly Jobs Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) report, this time for April 2026. Total listed but unfilled job openings jumped by 731,000 positions to 7.6 million, meaning that non-farm employers have over the past month posted a need for many more workers but cannot find enough to fill the open positions.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Overall, the 7.6 million posted job openings is not yet a negative for our economy. But in the history of JOLTS reporting up to the onset of the pandemic, no one monthly report had topped 8 million. Afterwards, when trillions in unfunded stimulus money was pouring into the demand side of the economy and supply chains became snarled, posted job openings leapt to as many as 12.2 million, outstripping any possible response from the native-born. We clearly needed immigrants in their millions to fill the record-breaking demand by business for labor. I am not arguing the political aspect of the issue, but the economic aspect of the issue. When American businesses post 12.2 million job openings, they mean it. We simply had no such number of available American-born pool of workers. I accept that a lot of people are too gullibly stupid to understand this. Without immigrant workers, President Trump could not have inherited a Biden economy that, according to both the Wall Street Journal and The Economist described as the “envy of the world.”
Again, I understand the importance of one of our two political parties lying in order to maintain an economic fiction. I have long maintained that political dishonesty in the pursuit of power does not alter economic truth. In 2024, the Biden GDP grew by 2.8%. In 2025, the Trump GDP grew by 2.1%. First quarter 2026 GDP growth was 1.6%. Job creation in 2024 far exceeded job creation in 2025. On Friday, the latest job creation figure will come out. Who knows what the figure will be? BLS figures for the first four months of 2026 reflect 276,000 new jobs, or 69,000 per month, far below the number of jobs (1,008,000, or 252,000 per month) created in the first four months of 2024.
Obviously, since American women long ago stopped having babies at a rate sufficient to maintain our American-born population, as Trump administration officials like Kennedy and Oz recently proclaimed, additional workers needed to fill the recent rise in openings and drive our economy forward are not likely to come from the American-born. So where are the currently needed workers going to come from?
Russia, in dire need of workers after about a million of its best-educated men fled the country after the invasion of the Ukraine in February 2022, and after another some 1.3 million young soldiers have been either killed or seriously wounded in the Ukraine, and after Russia forcibly deported some 17,000 Tajik immigrants after a mass-bombing, has an unemployment rate reported to be at an economically unhealthy rate of 2.1%, which prompted its legislature to pass legislation changing the amount of overtime employees can be forced to work.
Ray W. says
MSN.com reports that exports of Chinese NEVs (new electric vehicles of all types) rose in April to 278,081, up by 40% over April 2025. Exports of Chinese NEVs to Brazil rose, year-over-year, to 38,144, up 221%.
In China’s domestic car marketplace, year-over-year NEV sales fell by 10.8%.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Numerous stories have Chinese government subsidies for the domestic marketplace being curtailed. If this is so, does it suggest that China’s government has decided to transition its EV industry towards standing on its own two feet after decades of government subsidies?
Pogo says
Make what you will of this
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=best+way+to+invest+in+china+ev+sector&sei=6ysgatujBs6dwbkPzr2oYQ
Me?
I wonder how Trump & Sons, and the rest of the usual suspects, are hiding their participation from the suckers that elect them and the IRS they starve at every opportunity.