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Historical Photos That Shine a Light on the Past
"Photos: See how Paris has evolved from the 1924 Summer Olympics to today"
Lauren Christina
When you look in the history books, you rarely see a lot of photos. Sure, you see the odd black-and-white historical photo, but you don't really get a sense of what life was like for those people living in that time. That's why whenever a new photo is unearthed, it brings so much value to our lives. With rarely-seen historical photos like the ones you are about to see, we get to see what life really was long ago - the good and the bad. Read on for an outstanding new look on history.
The Carter Family
At first glance, this could be a photograph of any large family. But it turns out that this family battled through immense hardship, only to come out the other side years later. Yes, at the head of the Carter Family, you'll find John William Carter and his wife Louise Carter. When this photograph was taken in 1936, they had just moved from Barbados to start a new life in Toronto, Canada.
@MyseumOfToronto
Over the course of a decade, this couple welcomed a whopping nine children into the world. Amazingly, their eldest child eventually became the first Canadian-born black judge in Canadian history!
Sigourney Weaver at High School
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The Pioneers of Jazz
It's long been thought that jazz was created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but there's no doubt that the resurgence of the musical genre in the 1920s helped its popularity. But what you might not know about that time is that jazz was primarily dominated by men. Male singers and instrumentalists were headlining jazz bars and recording their music, but at the same time, women had to try and break through the metaphorical jazz class ceiling.
The Smithsonian Institute via the Tennessee State Museum
Finally, in the 1940s, women were able to take the jazz world by storm - and this historical photo proves it! This photo shows bandleader Anna Mae Winburn with her all-girl jazz-swing group, called The International Sweethearts of Rhythm.
An Aboriginal Boy With His Pet
Most of us have had pets over the course of our lifetime, and it's highly likely that you've had photos taken with your pets. Well, that's exactly what this young aboriginal boy did in October 1955. When a National Geographic photographer visited his home, they were extremely taken by the fact that the Aboriginal children considered kangaroos and wallabies to be their pets. So, they just had to snap a photo.
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Now, this historical photo shows what life was like for the Aboriginal people back in the day. And you can't deny that smile says it all; he's pretty happy with his pet!
"Invisible Dad, Result of War"
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The Old Cincinnati Library
The bibliophiles amongst you will probably feel a great pang of sadness when you look at this historic photograph. After all, this was once one of the most magnificent public libraries in the United States. It was located in Downtown Cincinnati at 629 Vine St. and offered thousands of books for book lovers to enjoy across multiple levels. But, sadly, this library is no longer around, and was replaced by a more modern iteration years later.
Cincinnati Museum Center/Getty Images
This photo shows the library just before it was demolished in 1955, and it's fair to say that this never-seen-before photo is one that fills our hearts with sadness. Let's just hope that they at least saved the books.
LA Policemen Undercover
If you have a keen interest in history, there's a high chance that you know a huge amount about the biggest events that have happened across the world. But what about the smaller events? Historical photos like this one deserve attention, especially as this vintage photograph is so unusual. In fact, it shows a group of policemen from Los Angeles disguising themselves as women in order to solve a very important case.
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During the 1960s, LA women were terrorized by a violent purse snatcher. In order to catch the snatcher in the act, the police decided to become his next target. However, it's not known whether they caught him or not.
Audrey Hepburn in 1990
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Tops Are Optional
Of course, this is an iconic image. But what makes this historical photo even more impressive is the story behind it. That's because this photo was taken at Spring Lake Beach in New Jersey, just after a motion was passed to allow male swimmers to take off their tops while enjoying the beach. However, that rule didn't apply to women - something this female sunbather decided to ignore for the sake of her own comfort.
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When a lifeguard questioned why she had removed her own top, this strong woman pointed at the sign. And in her defence, the sign doesn't specify that the rules only apply to men!
Children and Dog in London
Although posed photos are always impressive, there's nothing quite like candid photos to show you real emotion and real feelings. And that's why we love this candid photo from London in the mid-1950s. While it may be simple in that it only shows a group of young children and a dog playing in the street, there's something about their actions and the expressions on their faces that make this historic photo so wholesome.
Facebook/The Vintage Photo Booth
You can see on their faces that the children don't need much to be happy. They have their friends and they have their dog, and the last thing they need is a video game or iPhone.
Lesbians at the Gateways Club
https://www.historictalk.com/en/nobody-will-ever-forget-prom?ly=native_one
$200 looks a standard price. Do media people have to pay that to use them? Who else would ever pay it.
livefree_ordie, Most of them would know what they are saying better than you seems you ever did. Others have mentioned
the '60s, you must either be young, or just again being your dodgy you. You would want to miss The Good Liars ..
Yep. He's one of the many good ones.
No. My school did not adopt it. I've never met anyone whose school did.
I didn't finish Blinders, but it's on my saved list. Murphy won the Oscar for that role.
Not true! The program, to my understanding, would be adopted by ~4,000 schools, & the nation: THEN UNDER the leadership of President John F. Kennedy, implored & advocated for it to become the National STANDARD!!
Janice shell wrote:
If you shoot someone on 5th Ave, we will still adore you, Jesse Watters - Ian Prior - Ainsley Earhardt - Newt Gingrich - Eric Trump - millions of others say. Just be sure to have it filmed in daylight. Noon would be good so Musk could feature it on X. And so we could compare you to Gary,
Takes a lot of courage...and I wish her well in highlighting the horrors of a confused girl relying on adults to guide her. Hope she wins the lawsuit.
Kennedy says "boys and girls", but obviously the program in question was for boys only. And I don't think it spread to any other schools. I was in high school between 1962 and 1966. Nobody did that stuff. Not even the boys. Where sports were concerned, the girls had no opportunities at all.
My mother, who was in high school in the late 1920s and early 1930s, did track and field, swimming, field hockey and more.
Hacked Facebook accounts leave businesses out of pocket as ombudsman records spike in Meta complaints
"41 states warn Meta to deal with increase in hacked accounts
"Meta more Aussie hassle -- eSafety commissioner orders X and Meta"
By national consumer affairs reporter Michael Atkin
Posted Yesterday at 4:49am
Catherine Wilson's MMA gym had its Facebook business account hacked, losing money and access to her main
method of marketing. (ABC News: Patrick Stone)
* In short: Small businesses that have had their social media accounts hacked are facing a lengthy response process from parent company Meta.
* Catherine Wilson's business has lost tens of thousands of dollars to hackers locking her out of her accounts.
* What's next? The government is drafting a new mandatory code that will make sure social media platforms better protect customers against scams.
As a martial artist, Catherine Wilson gets up each day ready for a fight – but it is big tech that is proving to be her most difficult opponent.
Her Melbourne gyms teach choke holds and leg locks; for the fighters, it's about having the confidence to take down a bigger stronger opponent.
Online, Ms Wilson has been trapped in a long-running battle to reclaim her business's Facebook account.
For nine months she's been begging Meta for access to be restored after her account was hacked.
No stranger to a fight, Ms Wilson didn't know how difficult it would be to regain her Facebook accounts.
(ABC News: Patrick Stone)
"It is a total sh*tshow," she said.
"I'm a mum of two kids, my partner is doing it as well and we were just forced into
doing it all hours of the day trying to get this resolved, it's been a huge burden."
She's one of a growing number of Facebook and Instagram users, social media platforms owned by Meta, targeted by criminals.
First, the hackers compromise an account, change the password and then take it over locking out the rightful owner.
Sometimes the hackers spend heavily on advertising using the victim's credit card details — often on scam ads.
The ABC has reported widely on scams flourishing .. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-29/tio-puts-hand-up-new-digital-platforms-social-media-ombudsman/102153394&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1713742097559577&usg=AOvVaw2IxBm5HOIyfPSAJKem8MFQ .. on Meta's platforms.
The Albanese government has singled out the tech giant .. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/worldtoday/scams-down/103581634&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1713742097574481&usg=AOvVaw1_hSpysFzE_NifzqUA-YN1 .. for criticism claiming scams are running "rife".
Facebook scam victim on mission to stop others being burned
Australians are losing their life savings to a massive fraud syndicate. This 'furious' victim wants to stop others being burned.
Read more > https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-15/australians-falling-for-facebook-fake-ads-online-trading-scams/103640678
In the United States, there's been a dramatic and alarming spike in Meta hacking cases, with one state seeing an increase of more than 700 per cent in a year.
Insert: See previous, 41 states warn Meta to deal with increase in hacked accounts]
Here in Australia, there's a substantial rise too — with an increase of more than 120 per cent in small business cases against digital platforms since July 2022.
Many of the hacked account holders complain Meta is difficult to deal with, offers mainly generic responses, and getting hold of a real person feels almost impossible.
It's leading to calls for new powers to force digital platforms to act and large fines if they don't.
Customer support 'black hole'
Ms Wilson runs marketing for three Melbourne gyms under the banner Dominance MMA.
She found paying for advertising on Meta's platforms, Facebook and Instagram, was essential for attracting new members.
Last July she was suddenly locked out of her pages.
"It made me feel sick when I realised
that we were hacked.
"The process of what played out afterwards, I felt trapped and very small."
To make matters worse the hackers started spending her company's money, lots of it.
Ms Wilson said they set up a $20,000 per day ad campaign for a page called "Hot Trend Today".
Ms Wilson has gyms across Melbourne but lost a key marketing platform when she was hacked.
(ABC News: Patrick Stone)
She was eventually able to get money back from the bank but the financial impact of being locked out continued.
The real challenge began after she contacted Meta for help.
Despite nine months of message chats, emails and the occasional phone call, she remains
locked out, unable to purchase an advertising campaign.
Do you know more about Meta hackers targeting Australian businesses?
Email Specialist.Team@abc.net.au .. Specialist.Team@abc.net.au
She has now regained access to be able to post on the pages.
"We've definitely fallen into a black hole."
Her business has suffered and she estimates it has cost tens of thousands of dollars.
In one early chat Meta told her not to expect a quick fix.
"Issues like these can potentially take months to be fully resolved.
"We get a lot of requests related to hacked accounts," the message said.
Another Meta email suggested staff were overwhelmed.
"Our technical team is currently experiencing huge volumes."
Other responses repeated reassuring lines about "looking into your concern closely".
"It was incredibly patronising because our livelihood and our business was being impacted, and they were telling us to have a nice day," Ms Wilson said.
In one reply she said:
"Received this same email three times with no progress…Just let me know when things are actually being done."
Despite Ms Wilson putting extra security measures in place, including
two-factor authentication, five months later hackers struck again.
This time Ms Wilson's personal Facebook account was hijacked to get access to the business pages again.
Meta permanently deleted Ms Wilson's personal account, which removed all of her personal and business-related posts.
"There's no other business that would be able to provide a service to Australian small businesses and behave in this way," she said.
Meta in a 'league of its own'
Anger and frustration with Meta is high across the United States too.
In March, representatives from 40 states wrote to the company about the huge rise in cases involving people having accounts taken over by hackers and then being locked out.
The letter stated:
"The frequency and persistence of account takeovers on Meta-owned platforms puts it in a league of its own."
In New York, complaints increased tenfold over four years and Vermont's jumped by 740 per cent in just one year.
Ms Klem is the director of consumer outreach and education for the Office of the Attorney-General in Oregon, USA.
(Supplied)
Ellen Klem works for Oregon's Attorney General, one of the letter's key signatories.
She told the ABC the volume of Meta complaints was "shocking" but likely to be far worse.
"An increase that's over 700 per cent (in Vermont) … that's wild … my jaw fell to the floor.
"North Carolina had a 330 per cent increase, Illinois 256 per cent, Pennsylvania 270 per cent.
"What is most alarming I think about these statistics is that these are just the people that complained … what we're seeing here is really just the tip of the iceberg," Ms Klem, the Director of Consumer Outreach told the ABC.
The US states have accused Meta of failing to adequately resource prevention and customer support, pushing the financial burden onto the taxpayer.
The letter questioned whether massive staff cuts were behind customers struggling to find meaningful help.
"The help that they are receiving, if any, is moving way too slowly and we want more from them," Ms Klem said.
Ms Klem said Meta recently responded acknowledging the concerns.
In many cases, users give up and create new accounts, like Brisbane artist Giles Kilham.
"Dealing with Meta was frustrating," Mr Kilham said.
"It just goes into some abyss and you never hear anything again."
He relies on Instagram to sell his work which brings new life to tired vintage paintings by introducing his psychedelic skulls, creeping tentacles and plenty of other weird and wonderful creatures.
Two years ago his account was hijacked after someone he knew also had their account compromised.
The hackers sent him a phishing message pretending to be the other person and he responded.
Brisbane artist Giles Kilham was forced to give up his Instagram account when he was hacked.
(ABC News: Mark Leonardi)
"It all happened via direct messages on Instagram.
"They asked for assistance (and) I unwittingly gave the hackers the ability
to get into my account and change my password and throw me out."
Hackers took over and started posting links to Bitcoin scams and direct messaged his 4,500 followers trying to take over their accounts too.
He contacted Meta but despite following all their instructions he was unsuccessful and didn't regain access and the account appears to have been deleted.
Mr Kilham had to start from scratch which meant waving goodbye to his original handle and his customer base.
"I definitely lost all the engagement (on Instagram) that just dropped off a cliff.
Mr Kilham lost engagement and followers when hackers used a phishing scam to target his account.
(ABC News: Mark Leonardi)
"I was getting regular contact about doing commission work and potential illustration jobs and that all sort of just completely disappeared," Mr Kilham said.
Slow fix to the 'fastest growing' problem
The true scale of the problem in Australia isn't known because there's no place for every social media user to complain.
Despite that, some are coming forward to Bruce Billson's office, as the Small Business Ombudsman, in massive numbers.
Australian Small Business Ombudsman, Bruce Billson, says the
real number of businesses affected by Meta hacks is unknown.
(Supplied: Australian Small Business and
Family Enterprise Ombudsman)
There have been 140 cases in six months about digital platforms like Meta's.
"It's the fastest growing area of business-to-business disputes that my agency is handling,"
"We are a taxpayer-funded resource and this really should be sorted out at the platform
long before we need to get involved," Mr Billson said.
Even with a direct line to Meta, fixing the problem can be slow.
"By the time they get to us, those businesses are exasperated, they are financially harmed and they're at their wit's end, and we sometimes can get an outcome for them in a number of days," he said.
"Even where we're involved, it can take weeks
and sometimes months."
The ombudsman is now watching to see if mass layoffs at Meta make the situation worse.
"We're very interested to see how staffing reductions at these platforms impacts on their dispute resolution capability," Mr Billson said.
"We'd be concerned if an already ordinary level of performance deteriorates further."
The Consumer watchdog, the ACCC has criticised tech companies handling of disputes and wants the government to introduce an ombudsman which could force them to act.
The government is also drafting a new mandatory code that will impose new obligations on social media platforms to better protect customers against scams.
Some consumer advocates are calling for that to include financial penalties.
Meta was unavailable for an interview and did not respond to written questions. A company spokesman said, “We don’t have anything further to add to your story.”
It's little solace for small businesses like Ms Wilson's, who is calling for change.
"The power imbalance is obvious," she said.
"We're begging for assistance to get back onto this platform that we now hate."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/meta-accounts-hacked-take-months-to-resolve-small-business/103733494
Sorry, hope this one works... #JFKChallenge!
One of the very best interview videos of the type. Thanks for the intro.
Joe thinks there’s good people on both sides
! lol! President Joe Biden's latest remarks about pro-Palestinian protests sparked a backlash on social media, with some saying it was Biden's "Charlottesville moment."
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-charlottesville-moment-israel-1893145
The first video still doesn't work...
Those people are scary. They say things that make no sense at all, and most of them aren't bothered by it.
(Your first video doesn't work.)
Agree. The Good Liars are very good interviewers.
We did an investigation to find out how many Trump supporters showed to his trial today. pic.twitter.com/6aBtQ2Ehil
— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) April 23, 2024
It's amazing! Pretty sure it represents the decline of the populous...
When I went home I got a factory job, paid lots of overtime, I was determined not to work during the school year. When school started, they had already started rebuilding the dorm that was destroyed with a bomb. You were in college, you were lucky, 1970s in Vietnam were so much different than the 1960s. There were now organizations on campus for political change, even protesting was milder, IMHO.
The Good Liars are really excellent. And many of the people they interview are really scary. It's well worth watching all 16 minutes of that video.
Will likely be there myself. Was pleasantly surprised to see Cillian Murphy in it. You must have enjoyed Peaky
they report that he's falling asleep, looks thinner, "shambles" down the hall...
I think he's lost weight lately. I wonder if he's dieting, or something else is up.
I ended up watching Oppenheimer twice because..........difficult. The back and forth non-linearity of it I suppose.
Beauty. Leo Szilard brings memories. Yes, i was thinking of the Manhattan Project back on mentioning German scientists coming to the US after WW11. As a matter of fact am watching Oppenheimer
The Absolute Looniest Trump Trial Takes on Fox News So Far
‘HE NEEDS SUNLIGHT’
Just two days into this historic trial, Fox News has managed to compare Trump both to a civil rights era freedom fighter and a *Roman emperor being assassinated.
*Maximus Stupiditus?
Justin Baragona
Senior Media Reporter
Updated Apr. 23, 2024 4:58PM EDT Published Apr. 23, 2024 3:06PM EDT
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-absolute-looniest-trump-trial-takes-on-fox-news-so-far?utm_source=web_push
After a nearly weeklong jury selection process, the criminal hush-money trial of former President Donald Trump kicked off Monday with opening statements and the prosecution’s first witness—former National Enquirer chief David Pecker.
Monday’s proceedings produced several headlines, such as Pecker discussing his habit of “checkbook journalism” that resulted in him helping arrange a $130,000 payment in 2016 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to kill a story about her alleged one-night stand with Trump.
Over on Fox News, however, much of its trial coverage instead revolved around parroting the ex-president’s grievances about the case and how it is akin to “election interference” since he’s required to appear in court.
While the rest of the cable news landscape has devoted round-the-clock coverage to the trial, the conservative cable giant has mostly dipped in and out. Spending the bulk of its time on the pro-Palestinian protests at Ivy League schools, Fox News has centered a large portion of its Trump trial coverage on criticizing the case and the court’s treatment of the former president.
This has resulted in the right-wing network’s pro-Trump personalities and guests taking increasingly goofy and zany positions to defend the twice-impeached ex-president. For instance, amid reports that Trump has repeatedly dozed off in the courtroom, several Fox Newsers have applauded him for this—even as they simultaneously mock President Joe Biden as “Sleepy Joe.”
But praising the MAGA king for catching some shuteye during his criminal trial isn’t even among the looniest reactions that have made its way to the network’s airwaves this week. Instead, we’ve had a former Speaker of the House compare Trump’s plight to slain Civil Rights-era freedom fighters, a primetime host insist the ex-president is being treated worse than terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, and a morning anchor bring up middle-school indiscretions for some reason.
Let’s take a look at the goofiest takes aired by Fox News:
IT’S “CRUEL” TO KEEP TRUMP OFF THE GOLF COURSE
Primetime host Jesse Watters, a former Bill O’Reilly lackey whose stock in trade is delighting Fox News grandpas with his performatively outrageous antics, was beside himself on Monday that golf-loving ex-president was stuck in the courtroom and not getting enough time on the links.
“The guy needs exercise. He’s usually golfing. And so, you’re going to put a man who’s almost 80, sitting in a room like this on his butt for all that time? It's not healthy,” Watters exclaimed on Monday’s broadcast of The Five. “You know how big of a health nut I am. He needs sunlight and he needs activity. He needs to be walking around, he needs action. It’s really cruel and unusual punishment to make a man do that. And any time he moves, they threaten to throw him in prison!”
Hours later on his solo primetime show, Watters doubled down.
“Trump has been on the move his whole life,” he fumed. “Golf, rallies, movement, action, sunlight, fresh air, freedom. This isn’t lawfare. This is torture. They’re making a 77-year-old man sit in a room for eight hours straight, four days a week.”
GITMO PRISONERS HAVE IT BETTER THAN TRUMP!
Watters’ MAGA propaganda didn’t just stop with demanding that Trump get more rounds of golf. He also asserted that detainees in the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison receive more preferential treatment than the ex-president has been afforded throughout his trial. This included Watters namechecking a notorious al-Qaeda terrorist who has been called the “principal architect of the 9/11 attacks.”
“He has to sit there all week for six weeks. If he says anything, they’ll throw him in jail. If he leaves, they throw him in jail. That’s crazy,” he grumbled on The Five. “They had more allowances for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I think they bought a million-dollar soccer field for the people in Gitmo. I don’t know if [Mohammed] was able to visit his son for his high school graduation, but it’s similar.”
Despite this claim being repeated ad nauseam on Fox, Judge Juan Merchan has not actually ruled yet that the former president cannot attend his son Barron’s high school graduation.
IT’S JUST LIKE THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC!
During Tuesday’s broadcast of midday roundtable show Outnumbered, Ian Prior—a GOP operative and regular Fox News guest who the network once tried to pass off as just a “concerned parent”—warned that the hush-money trial could result in the end of America.
Reacting to the possibility that Trump could be held in contempt for repeatedly violating the judge’s gag order, Prior likened the ex-president being restricted from attacking trial witnesses and court staff to the fall of Rome.
“The very problem that we have here is we are weaponizing the justice system to go after former presidents. You back up 2,000 years and this is the kind of thing they would do in the Roman Republic that led to the end of the Roman Republic,” he dramatically proclaimed. “Caesar is out there and says if you do not come back to Rome… and face prosecution, what did he do? He crossed the Rubicon and there’s the end of the Republic.”
MIDDLE SCHOOLERS SHOULD BE SCARED!
Just ahead of opening statements on Monday, pro-Trump Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt said that the ex-president facing criminal charges for paying off a porn star to help his election chances could result in—actually, we’re not really sure what she was trying to say.
We’re just going to report and let you decide.
“Does this set a precedent for other people who want to run for president?” Earhardt sighed. “What if they've done something like this in the past and they can say, 'Oh, well, they told me in the 8th grade they want to run for president, so since they paid off a girl when they were 30 years old, then that was election interference!'”
“LITERALLY LIKE” CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS IN THE ’60S
The award for zaniest take, however, goes to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who claimed that the possibility of serving jail time made Trump akin to slain freedom fighters during the civil rights movement or Marlon Brando’s character in a 1950s classic film.
“I am deeply worried that tomorrow, a totally corrupt judge and a totally corrupt district attorney are going to try to put a former president of the United States, candidate of his party, and front-runner in the polls in jail. Now, I think this is so horrendous that there has to be some way to reach out to the Supreme Court,” the Fox News pundit said on Monday night’s Hannity. “This is literally like some of the civil rights workers in Mississippi in the 1960s. The New York system is now so deeply corrupted and it's so bitterly, deeply anti-Trump.”
Raging about the Biden family’s business dealings and Judge Merchan’s daughter, Gingrich then analogized the trial to an Oscar-winning movie about corrupt unions—while getting the director wrong.
“I mean the whole thing frankly resembles On the Waterfront, Stanley Kubrick's brilliant film. This is about corruption. It has nothing to do with honesty, and what worries me is it's a genuine threat to Donald Trump,” Gingrich huffed. “I mean, I think any step that would put him close to a New York prison is an extraordinarily dangerous step and I would hope that there's some legal way to block it and make sure that it never happens, because the thugs he's dealing with are totally out of control, have total contempt for the rule of law, and frankly are unworthy of being in the offices they hold.”
MY DAD IS LOVED BY “HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS”
Appearing on Trump confidant Sean Hannity’s primetime show on Monday, the ex-president’s son Eric Trump bemoaned that his dad was facing 34 criminal charges over allegedly falsifying business records to cover up the hush-money payment made to Daniels before the 2016 election.
According to the younger Trump, however, his father was too busy running the country to keep track of these records, though he added “not that anything was done wrong in the bookkeeping.” Of course, Trump wasn’t actually president when he allegedly arranged to pay Daniels off to keep her quiet in an effort to keep the story from impacting an upcoming election.
Eric Trump also complained to Hannity that it seemed unfair that his dad was facing criminal charges over such a relatively small amount of money since the vast majority of the American public supposedly loves him. “They’re going after the former president of the United States, a person beloved by hundreds of millions of people in this country, over $130,000,” he groused.
It's okay for you to get an addadictomy. We really don't care.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Cole
Platform
In mid-July 2022 she started a GoFundMe called "Imperfectly Me", aimed at providing a platform for detransitioners.[2]
Lawsuit
On November 9, 2022, Cole filed a 90-day notice of intent to sue against the healthcare company Kaiser Permanente along with the individual endocrinologist, psychiatrist, and plastic surgeon involved in her treatment. Cole was represented by Harmeet Dhillon (the chief executive of the Center for American Liberty) and the law firm LiMandri & Jonna LLP.[37][9] The lawsuit[38] was filed in the San Joaquin County Superior Court in Manteca on February 22, 2023.[9][39]
According to the lawsuit, Cole's care included "off label" treatment and "amounted to medical experimentation." According to the suit, Cole was not given adequate information to provide informed consent to her hormone therapy and later developed joint pain, weak bone density, and ongoing urinary tract infections.[3][40] Cole says that doctors did not inform her parents (or other parents) of alternative, less invasive treatments like psychiatric care, and that they told her that her gender dysphoria would "never resolve unless she chemically and surgically transitioned".[5] The case is the second known lawsuit filed in the United States on this topic; Camille Kiefel, a 32-year-old woman, filed a similar case in Multnomah County, Oregon, in 2022.[38]
The San Francisco Chronicle described Cole's case as a "political touchstone for conservative groups pushing against transgender rights and access to gender-affirming care for young people."[9] The Economist opined that, should detransitioning suits such as Cole's be successful, insurers could come to regard gender transition treatments as a liability, which would raise the treatment costs and make providers more careful about advertising; it added that, if the facts of the case were as claimed, it could give pro-transitioning activists cause for reflection on how care is currently provided.[5]
I wonder how many of us here are over the age of 70...
Sometimes facts and inconvenient in the echo chamber.....but, no matter, they will just point fingers and that publication and say it must not be true.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/22/opinion/medicine-shuns-gender-detransitioners-like-me-but-we-deserve-to-be-heard-and-helped/
Watching for how many people here that will exhibit compassion for this individual victimized by ill conceived policies
It's hard sometimes when you know you are part of the problem. We all cant be part of the solution, we find solace in better days that will never come but hope for a better moment if not for ourselves but our families and loved ones. We are all human and can only strive to be ourselves.
Scientific Exodus
Manhattan Project History
https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/scientific-exodus/
Profiles:
Joseph RotblatEmilio SegrèEdward TellerKlaus FuchsJohn von NeumannRudolf PeierlsEnrico FermiJames FranckLeo SzilardAlbert EinsteinNiels BohrHans Bethe
Date:
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Quotes:
"The first year I was here, I was eating at Fuller Lodge, having lunch, and at the next table were about five or six men eating. All of a sudden they started singing the Hungarian national anthem, so I joined in and sang with them, since I grew up singing it with my folks. Afterwards, I went over to one of the men and asked who he was, what he was doing here, and well, he was Edward Teller! So that was how I got to meet some of the fellows early—not on the job, but after the job, when they were off socializing." - Fred Ausbach
"Anti-semitism is strong here and political reaction is violent." - Albert Einstein, in a letter written from Berlin in December of 1919
"Turn around, you will never see it again!" - Albert Einstein to his wife as they left their house in Germany, December 1932
"I'll be the brains!" - Adolf Hitler to a German journalist who asked him who would be the brains of the country if the Nazis took over, 1931
"It is impossible to describe the utter despair of all classes of Jews in Germany.
https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/scientific-exodus/
One of the ironies of Hitler’s desire for racial purity was that it drove out of continental Europe or into the camps many individuals who would have been extremely useful to the Axis war effort. Nowhere was this more evident than in the effort to produce an atomic bomb. Although many brilliant American physicists worked on the Manhattan Project, including J. Robert Oppenheimer and Richard Feynman, a startling proportion of the most famous names on the project belonged to scientists who came to England or America to flee from the Axis.
The large number of refugees and immigrants working on the Manhattan Project gave the American nuclear program an international character unusual in such a top-secret program—and unique amongst the nuclear programs that followed in other countries—and helped give life in Los Alamos, NM during the war its unique character.
The Shame at Gottingen
As World War I came to a close, there were three main areas where atomic research, in its infancy, was being carried out. At Cambridge University in England, Ernest Rutherford directed the Cavendish Laboratory. In Copenhagen, Danish physcist Niels Bohr carried out a series of pioneering experiments. And at Gottingen University in Germany, research was led by the physicists Max Born and James Franck and the mathematician David Hilbert.
The “Beautiful Years” soon made way to the “Desperate Years” as Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany. Even before the Nazi takeover, a group of German physicists, as Robert Jungk wrote in his 1958 history Brighter Than A Thousand Suns, “boldly declared Einstein’s theory of relativity to be ‘Jewish world-bluff.’ They attempted to dismiss, under the summary heading of ‘Jewish physics,’ all studies based upon the data of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr.”
John von NeumannIn the spring of 1933, the University of Gottingen, the seat of brilliant achievement in years past, became the focal point of Hitler’s anti-Jewish policies. Student demonstrations proclaiming the coming of the “new order” became an everyday occurrence. Respected scholars were brutally expelled. Some of the world’s foremost physicists such as Max Born, James Franck, Eugene Wigner, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and John von Neumann were forced to flee. Attempts were made by “patriotic German” physicists to prevent the expulsion of so many “brilliant” men, but all to no avail. Even well-known Germans such as Werner Karl Heisenberg and Nobel winners von Laue and Planck were unsuccessful in their attempts at mediation. Many think that Hitler sowed the seeds of Germany’s defeat when he introduced the laws barring Jewish individuals from university teaching posts.
Jungk’s book includes the following ancedote:
“The clearest account of the state of the once-great Gottingen University was given by the mathematician David Hilbert, by that time well advanced in years. About a year after the great purge of Gottingen he was seated at a banquet in the place of honor next to Hitler’s new Minister of Education, Rust. Rust was unwary enough to ask: ‘Is it really true, Professor, that your institute suffered so much from the departure of the Jews and their friends?’ Hilbert snapped back, as coolly as ever: ‘Suffered? No, it didn’t suffer, Herr Minister. It just doesn’t exist anymore!’”
Scientists Begin to Flee
Hans Bethe
In April of 1933, Hitler’s first anti-Jewish law was promulgated, stripping all “non-Aryan” academics of their teaching posts. 25% of German physicists, including eleven past or future Nobel Prize winners, lost their jobs. Emigration was the only solution.
Some with extreme foresight saw what the political landscape was to become and made early plans accordingly. Einstein was one of the first to go. Physicist Theodore von Karman was recruited by the California Institute of Technology in 1930. Caltech, as well as Columbia, pursued Einstein, but he eventually opted for the new Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. In 1930, Princeton hired both John von Neumann and Eugene Wigner.
Theoretical physicist Hans Bethe was teaching at Tubingen (Germany) when a student informed him he had been fired. Bethe wrote to colleague Hans Geiger for advice. As Bethe later recounted to author Jeremy Bernstein, Geiger “wrote back a very cold letter saying that with the changed situation it would be necessary to dispense with my services – period. There was no kind word, no regrets – nothing.”
After a short stay in Munich, Bethe left for Manchester (England) and then worked with Bohr in Copenhagen. He accepted a professorship at Cornell University and moved to America in 1935.
Edward Teller: After studying with Werner Heisenberg at Leipzig, Edward Teller briefly remained in Germany, but later told historian Richard Rhodes, “it was a foregone conclusion that I would have to leave. After all, not only was I a Jew, I was not even a German citizen.” Despite his parents’ pleas to return to Hungary, Teller applied for and won a Rockefeller Fellowship to join Bohr in Copenhagen, and left for the United States in 1935.
After the Rockefeller Foundation rejected his fellowship application, Otto Frisch happened to meet up with Bohr, who was seeking to assist persecuted German scientists. After a short stint with Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett in London, Frisch also made his way to Copenhagen to work with Bohr.
Nobel laureate James Franck, who also taught at Gottingen, was Jewish but not subject to Nazi racial laws because of his service in World War I. Still, after speaking with Bohr, he resigned his professorship on April 17, 1933.
Joseph Rotblat, a physicist and a Polish Jew, fled Poland before the outbreak of war, but his ill wife was forced to remain behind. She died at the Majdanek concentration camp in the Holocaust. He never remarried. Rotblat later went on to receive the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on nuclear disarmament.
Always a visionary, Leo Szilard, sacrificing many years of his career and having no permanent post for himself, worked tirelessly to find suitable positions for many of the fleeing scientists. Often working by himself, at the detriment of his own safety and career, Szilard was responsible for numerous colleagues being offered positions. He organized several groups and worked with the Academic Assistance Council, a London-based group headed by Ernest Rutherford that acted as a clearinghouse for information.
Leo Szilard
At about this same time, groups were forming in America to assist with the “rescue” of noted scientists. At Columbia University, a Faculty Fellowship Fund was established and the U.S. government became involved through its formation of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars. According to Frisch, the annual conference Bohr organized in Copenhagen became a “labor exchange.” In September 1933, the Royal Albert Hall in London hosted a benefit for refugee scientists, chaired by Ernest Rutherford and featuring Einstein as the keynote speaker.
In the early years of the exodus, Great Britain took a leading role in finding temporary positions for refugee scientists. After British universities became short of much needed funds, more scientists left for the United States. The Emergency Committee officially welcomed more than 300 scientists and scholars between 1933 and 1941. Of these, approximately 100 were physicists.
Refugees
First Wave
Lise Meitner
The first wave of refugees came in 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. Many physicists of Jewish descent fled to England to escape racial laws. These included Leo Szilard, who first devised the idea of a nuclear chain reaction; Otto Frisch, who helped explain the physics of nuclear fission; Rudolf Peierls, who worked with Frisch on the detonation mechanism of the bomb; and Hans Bethe, who calculated the critical mass needed for a nuclear chain reaction. Klaus Fuchs, a leftist physicist who later passed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, also fled to England in 1933 after a violent encounter with the Nazis.
Albert Einstein had left Germany for the United States a year earlier, in anticipation of Hitler’s election. Although Einstein did not contribute directly the bomb effort, his letter to President Roosevelt about the threat of a German atomic bomb helped jump-start the Manhattan Project.
Second wave
Axis expansion brought a second wave of immigrants to the Allies and ultimately to the Manhattan Project. Mussolini’s anti-Semitic laws, passed in 1938, drove the physicists Emilio Segre (a Jew) and Enrico Fermi (whose wife Laura was Jewish) to America. At the Chicago Met Lab, Fermi’s nuclear pile produced the world’s first man-made nuclear chain reaction. Bohr fled his native land in 1943, mere days before he was to be arrested by the Nazis, and served as a consultant on the Manhattan Project.
Good. The little i've read so far suggested it was going to be. I'll read the rest with breakfast soon.
41 states warn Meta to deal with increase in hacked accounts
"Meta more Aussie hassle -- eSafety commissioner orders X and Meta
to remove violent videos following Sydney church stabbing
"Google must face video ad company's antitrust lawsuit, judge rules"
New York attorney general's office said there has been a 1,000 percent increase
in hacking complaints in Meta platforms, including Facebook and Instagram
By Molly Burke
March 6, 2024
New York Attorney General Letitia James joined a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general on Wednesday in calling on Meta to take
action against account takeover scams. Social media users have reported an increase in hacked accounts on platforms
that include Facebook and Instagram. Will Waldron/Times Union
ALBANY — Attorney General Letitia James and 40 other attorneys general sent a letter this week to Meta Platforms Inc., which owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, urging the company to reexamine its security measures after a recent increase in account takeovers.
The takeovers — which involve a scammer hacking someone’s social media account and changing the password — have been increasingly reported nationwide, with the New York attorney general’s office receiving 128 reports in January from individuals who had someone gain control of their private account.
Other states also have received similar reports as social media users have “struggled to receive help from Meta,” according to the New York attorney general's office. Between 2019 and 2023, the reports increased by 1,000 percent. Internet-related consumer complaints were the fifth-most common category of reports .. https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/price-gouging-lost-rental-deposits-top-ny-18703222.php .. made to the attorney general's office in 2023.
Having your social media account taken over by a scammer can feel like having someone sneak into your home and change all of the locks,” James said in a statement.
Scammers are able to steal a user’s personal information once they control their account, including viewing any private messages. The scam often involves a perpetrator posing as the original account owner to post messages publicly or communicate with their contacts through a social media platform, giving the hackers access to additional potential targets.
The scams are not new to the social media scene, but there has been a “dramatic increase” in frequency, according to the attorney general's office.
The office noted that social media platforms allow many users to keep in touch with family and friends, and they called on Meta to take action in reviewing their data security practices.
“To have Meta fail to properly protect users from scammers trying to hijack accounts and lock rightful owners out is unacceptable,” James said in a statement. “I thank my fellow attorneys general for joining me to call on Meta to take commonsense user protection measures and dedicate more of their resources to respond to this threat.”
The letter recommended that Meta increase staffing to respond to users’ complaints of account takeovers and invest in mitigation tactics against the scam. The attorneys general also called on the social media company to adopt new procedures for users to protect their accounts from hackers.
The letter also urges Meta to take enforcement actions against scammers and to respond to the issue “more seriously.”
“Scammers use every platform available to them and constantly adapt to evade enforcement. We invest heavily in our trained enforcement and review teams and have specialized detection tools to identify compromised accounts and other fraudulent activity,” Erin McPike, a spokeswoman for Meta, said in a statement. “We regularly share tips and tools people can use to protect themselves, provide a means to report potential violations, work with law enforcement and take legal action.”
If a social media user is experiencing an account takeover, the attorney general’s office recommends they report the issue to Meta and go to the social media platform’s help page.
The other attorneys general who signed the letter, which received bipartisan support, are from: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming and the District of Columbia.
James previously joined with 32 other attorneys general in filing a federal lawsuit against Meta in October .. https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/dozens-states-sue-facebook-instagram-harming-18444534.php .. alleging the social media company’s “addictive” platforms have had a role in the nation’s youth mental health crisis.
“Kids and teenagers are suffering from record levels of poor mental health and social media companies like Meta are to blame,” James said in a statement at the time. “Meta has profited from children’s pain by intentionally designing its platforms with manipulative features that make children addicted to their platforms while lowering their self-esteem.”
The lawsuit also alleges that Meta is “routinely” collecting data from users who are 13 or younger without informing parents, in violation of federal law. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act prevents this collection of data without parental consent.
James has also joined Gov. Kathy Hochul in supporting legislation co-sponsored by state Sen. Andrew Gounardes and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic that would limit New York children’s access to “addictive” social media feeds .. https://www.timesunion.com/education/article/new-york-proposes-limiting-addictive-social-18419652.php .. , ban middle-of-the-night notifications and kick kids offline if they spend too much time scrolling.
The “Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation for Kids Act” would apply to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X (formerly known as Twitter) and YouTube, as well as any other social media sites that collect data from users and then use that data to recommend material to the user. The bill is pending in the Senate Internet and Technology Committee.
Molly Burke is a Hearst fellow covering state politics for the Times Union. She is from Davis, Calif., and previously covered breaking news for the Sacramento Bee and the Denver Post. She previously worked as a data reporter for the Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. Molly graduated from Northwestern University in 2023 with a major in journalism. Reach Molly at Molly.Burke@hearst.com.
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/41-states-warn-meta-deal-increase-hacked-accounts-18705956.php
That's an excellent article.
If I was cohen, I would not be even uttering the shitbags name or anything else about the trial at all. He has to gag himself and say "sorry, I don't need to give orangeasshole any legal excuses to appeal". He himself should shut up. He's a lawyer, he's got to know he could be creating defense gifts.
I'm addicted to this saga and usually spend my morning coffee and breakfast on the computer and check in through out the day, but for some reason I felt tired and laid down at noon or so and just woke up a half hour ago and now I'm trying to go the full days transcripts. Man.
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-04-23-24/index.html
Yes. Is a shame more of that isn't seen -- The American Universities That Took in Scholars from Nazi Europe
Laurel Leff On Academia's Refugees During World War II
By Laurel Leff
December 12, 2019
Back in Vienna in December 1933, Leonore Brecher wrote to Leslie C. Dunn, a Columbia University zoologist with whom she had worked in a Berlin laboratory six years earlier. Dunn had even invited her in 1930 to spend part of her Yarrow fellowship in his Columbia lab working on pigment production with the possibility of permanent employment there. The 40-year-old Dunn was building Columbia’s zoology department into one of the country’s best. Brecher never made it to the States, however, because of a “very unfriendly” Hamburg consul who had denied her a visitor visa. Brecher apparently had suggested to the consul that she might stay in the United States. Instead, she had headed to Kiel.
But just for a year and a half. When the University of Kiel fired Rudolf Hober and shut the lab in which Brecher was working, she turned to Dunn. “On 1 November I had to leave Kiel and to return to Vienna because I had no more to live,” Brecher wrote, noting that she was staying in a room in Vienna’s Institute for Experimental Biology. Its director, Hans Przibram, allowed her to live there and gave her some administrative work so she would not be completely destitute. “I wish very much to go to the United States and continue there research,” Brecher wrote Dunn, “and I beg you, if possible, to help me to a research place in the United States.”
Across the continent, European scholars took up pens and turned to typewriters to compose pleading letters to dispatch to the States. Concerned American academics realized immediately that they had a special obligation and a unique opportunity to help German scholars by facilitating their hiring at US universities. Hiring efforts took place at three levels: through individual faculty members assisting friends and acquaintances, through disciplines organizing to help colleagues in their respective fields, and through national and international organizations dedicated to helping scholars escape. These three levels often interacted. As happened with Columbia zoologist Dunn, individual faculty members would hear about friends or colleagues who had lost jobs, first at German universities and then at Austrian, Czech, Polish, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Belgian, and French ones. American professors would start writing to other academics to discover whether any university was able to hire the displaced scholar.
The efforts of Arthur Compton, a Nobel Prize–winning physicist at the University of Chicago, were typical....
Continued - https://lithub.com/the-american-universities-that-took-in-scholars-from-nazi-europe/
Thanks. This was interesting to me just to there so far. Haven't read much at all on that side of the coin.
conix, Lots of worthwhile reading in the links there for you.
It was before my time but the musicians always kept it on the back of my mind. They are setting us up for a big scare this year too with conventions in Chicago and Milwaukee. I'm keeping my fingers crossed but I'm not to sure how it will play out.
When final exams were over, I went home for summer.
I did too. My then-boyfriend went to MIT. He was from the Chicago area, like me. The school paper asked him to report on the Democratic convention that summer. He'd previously been sort of conservative (I hadn't), but that changed the way he felt about many things.
Yes, you remember, and when it started spreading across many universities. That's when the National Guard was brought in, and that escalated the tension on campus. We had city police patrolling around campus. But everyone was afraid something would happen. When final exams were over, I went home for summer.
I am glad you don't remember the 60s, these protests are milder than a family get together during the holidays.
Exactly. Amazing how many people on TV today don't seem to realize that. Sheesh, the Columbia students are "occupying" tents, set up in orderly rows.
Back in the day, the students were occupying the buildings. The cops intervened, in large numbers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Columbia_University_protests#:~:text=Columbia's%20plan%20to%20construct%20what,opposition%20had%20become%20more%20militant.
louieforpar: Thank you.
There’s not enough whiskey in the world...
The argument over the gag order demonstrated that to be the former president*’s lawyer is to enter into his conspiracy against common sense.
By Charles P. Pierce PUBLISHED: APR 23, 2024 3:23 PM EST
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60582569/trump-trial-day-two/
former president donald trump's hush money trial continues in new york
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Day Two of the New York Trial began with a discussion of whether El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago violated the gag order dropped upon him by Judge Juan Merchan. In terms of actual reality, in which words mean what they really mean, he tore the gag order to ribbons and dropped the pieces into the East River long ago. But even the most cosmic of liars deserves his day in court, so the forms and procedures must be followed. Which doesn’t mean that the judge’s patience is required to be limitless, or that he is required to follow defense counsel all the way into MAGA Neverland.
The argument over the gag order demonstrated quite convincingly that to be the former president*’s lawyer is to enter into his conspiracy against reality and common sense. It requires you to present arguments that make little or no sense. It requires you to sound like a jackass. It requires you, eventually, to get the judge all honked off at you. From The Guardian:
First off, however, Juan Merchan heard arguments about a request from prosecutors to hold Trump in contempt of court. They said he repeatedly violated a gag order barring him from publicly attacking witnesses in the trial. Todd Blanche, Trump’s lawyer, argued that his client was just responding to political attacks with some of the alleged violations, not flouting the judge’s order.
He further argued that seven of the instances cited by the prosecution did not violate the gag order because they were reposts of other people’s content on social media. “Reposting an article from a news site or a news program,” he said, “we don’t believe are a violation of the gag order.”
Hmmm. Intriguing.
Merchan asked whether there was any case law on it. Blanche replied: “I don’t have any case laws, your honor, it’s just common sense.”
“Common sense,” of course, would have had the defendant in the clink ages ago. This kind of statement explains why I am not a judge. Instead, Merchan let Blanche have a little more rope.
As Blanche continued to repeat that claim, the judge rebuked him. “Mr. Blanche, you’re losing all credibility, I have to tell you right now,” Merchan said. “You’re losing all credibility with the court. Is there any other argument you want to make?”
The defendant, of course, walked out of court when it adjourned and beat feet for the now-familiar bank of microphones for the daily Whine ’n’ Lies session.
Trump addressed the media in the hallway outside the courtroom, complaining that it was “totally freezing” inside, per pool. Asked about his thoughts on the gag order, Trump said it was “totally unconstitutional,” adding:
I’m not allowed to talk, but people are allowed to talk about me.
Because those “people” are by and large not convicted or indicted criminals.
I’d love to say everything on my mind.
There’s not enough whiskey in the world...
They had some top scientists .. “Operation Paperclip.”
Yes. But our universities took in everyone: scientists and people in the humanities alike. Some were still teaching when I started graduate school.
I think that's true of most people's families.
I don't know but something is seriously broken in that family. I'm not saying we didn't have our own problems but incest was definitely not one of them.
I like my mom too but at no point would I mount her. That's just unreasonably sickening.
Maybe the photo was inspired by the ones of Ivanka sitting in Trumpty's lap?
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