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David Hockney , R.I.P.

British , 1938- 11 - 06 - 2026

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I have an awful feeling something worse will happen.

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It is a game! Solving it, winning it. Getting your big checkmate moment. And by using me in it, you're setting me against my real and only purpose in life. Which is not to fight the wicked and bring them to justice, but to serve them and bring them to Christ. Otherwise, I'm just as bad as Wicks. Making it about me and not Jesus.

Lethal Legacy of Secret War in Laos (via Reuters)

From 1964 to 1973, U.S. warplanes dropped more than 270 million cluster munitions on Laos, one-third of which did not explode, according to the Lao National Regulatory Authority for UXO. 

The bombings were part of a CIA-run, secret operation aimed at destroying the North Vietnamese supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh trail and wiping out its communist allies. They also left a trail of devastation in Laos, which U.S. planes used as a dumping ground for bombs when their original target was unavailable and planes couldn’t land with explosives. 

Landlocked Laos remains largely agricultural with around 80 percent of the population reliant on agriculture. Some land is simply too dangerous to farm. Across the country, over 20,000 people have been killed or injured by bombs since the war, many of them children.