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PROGRESS: Australia’s last circus lions and monkeys are now ‘retired’.
"This might be dated, I grew..."
History and growth are never dated.
Good to see continuing recovery.
Stardust Circus has been forced to stop displaying the last lions and monkeys they were still using for 'entertainment'!
Animals Australia team
Last updated May 7, 2021
Finally, in 2021, no circus in Australia will coerce these ‘exotic’ animals to perform in front of lights and crowds, and spend their lives travelling as part of a show.
Stardust Circus’s decision to stop using lions and monkeys was not voluntary, despite years of public opposition. The change was required because no insurance company contacted was willing to approve insuring the animals. Other animals including horses, dogs and goats will continue to be required to ‘perform’.
While the reason for the insurance companies’ decision hasn’t been made public, it comes after years of controversy for this ‘entertainment’ industry. Thousands of Australians have spoken out against keeping animals like lions and monkeys in circuses. The fact that Stardust was the last circus to display these ‘exotic’ animals in Australia indicates evolving societal expectations around the use of animals. These days, people are much more interested in watching amazing human performers — who choose to take centre stage — than they are in seeing animals forced to perform such unnatural tricks.
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While 'exotic' animals like lions, elephants and monkeys are not currently used in Australian circuses, there is no
nationwide ban in place – and around the world, these animals continue to suffer for the sake of circus 'entertainment'.
Circuses are never appropriate environments for animals
Animals in circuses .. https://animalsaustralia.org/issues/circuses .. around the world are routinely subjected to months on the road, confined in barren cages. These animals are forced to live most of their lives in enclosures, denying them every opportunity to express their natural behaviours. Undercover investigations overseas have also revealed cruel ‘training’ techniques based on fear and punishment.
In confinement, behind the scenes, they are unable to socialise and form bonds of their choosing as they naturally would, explore their environment, search for food, or seek privacy as they wish. And when they are in the ring, the loud crowds, bright lights, and ‘performance routines’ are far from anything they’d naturally experience.
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[A wild lion] All animals deserve a life worth living. They are not here 'for' us – they share this
planet with us, and have their own unique personalities, likes and dislikes, fears and bonds.
Help protect animals from circus cruelty
Pledge not to attend any animal circuses .. https://animalsaustralia.org/take_action/pledge/circus-cruelty/
– and instead, enjoy one of the many animal-free circuses that showcase incredible human talent!
How you can help
Things you can do to promote kindness and a better world for animals in circuses:
1. Pledge to never support circus cruelty .. https://animalsaustralia.org/our-work/animal-circuses/circus-cruelty/ .
2 . Highlight the issues .. https://animalsaustralia.org/our-work/animal-circuses/background/ ..
associated with animal circuses for friends and family to help transform their thinking.
3. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper or call and speak on talk-back radio when a circus is coming to your town, highlighting why they should join over 40 other councils in the country to ban animal circuses.
4. Support human-only circuses, like the incredibly talented Flying Fruit Fly Circus or Circus Oz ..
https://experiment2021.circusoz.com.au/ .
5. Join the evolution and get your free guide to a kinder world .. https://secure.animalsaustralia.org/jointheevolution/
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Israeli Politician Quotes Hitler to Argue for Resettlement of Gaza
"Is Israel a “settler-colonial” state? The debate, explained.
"American Leaders Should Stop Debasing Themselves on Israel
"Netanyahu Dissolves Israel’s War Cabinet
"The Latest | Hamas responds to Gaza cease-fire plan with ‘amendments,’ and US is evaluating"""
Israeli far-right Zehout (identity) political party chairman Moshe Feiglin gives a joint press statement with Prime Minister and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu (unseen) in Ramat Gan, near the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on August 29, 2019.
(Photo: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
"In what kind of society can one openly advocate policies modeled on Hitler's conduct? In a society that feels complete impunity due to America's protection," one foreign policy expert said.
Olivia Rosane
Jun 16, 2024
Former Israeli Knesset member Moshe Feiglin quoted Adolf Hitler as he called for Israel .. https://www.commondreams.org/tag/israel .. to resettle the Gaza .. https://www.commondreams.org/tag/gaza .. Strip and create a "Hebrew Gaza."
Feiglin, who quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party to found the right-wing Zehut Party and plans to challenge Likud in Israel's next elections, made the comments during a panel discussion on Israel's Channel 12 that was shared on social media on Sunday, as Middle East Eye reported .. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-former-knesset-member-moshe-feiglin-invokes-hitler-while-calling-gaza-resettlement .
"We are not guests in our country, this is our country, all of it..." Feiglin said ..
.. , adding, "As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if one Jew is left.' We can't live here if one 'Islamo-Nazi' remains in Gaza."On @N12News Israel's most watched news show, former Likud MP Moshe Feiglin invokes ***Hitler*** to justify Gaza resettlement:
— Etan Nechin (@Etanetan23) June 16, 2024
"As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if one Jew is left,' we can't live here if one 'Islamo-nazi' remains in Gaza."
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On @N12News Israel's most watched news show, former Likud MP Moshe Feiglin invokes ***Hitler*** to justify Gaza resettlement:
— Etan Nechin (@Etanetan23) June 16, 2024
"As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if one Jew is left,' we can't live here if one 'Islamo-nazi' remains in Gaza."
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.. Trita Parsi, the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. "In a society that feels complete impunity due to America's protection."In what kind of society can one openly advocate policies modeled on Hitler's conduct?
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) June 16, 2024
In a society that feels complete impunity due to America's protection.
"As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if one Jew is left.' We can't live here if one 'Islamo-nazi' remains in Gaza." pic.twitter.com/BH0indzeMV
Project 2025: How Trump Win Would Imperil Worker Organizing Gains Under Biden's NLRB
"B402, H/t sortagreen -- Project 2025 poses threat to democracy
United Auto Workers members attend a rally in support of the labor union strike on October 7, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.
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The right-wing agenda "offers a playbook for how an administration could jeopardize the NLRB's ability to protect organizing workers."
Julia Conley
Jun 20, 2024
With longtime labor lawyer Jennifer Abruzzo at the helm of the National Labor Relations Board, serving as general counsel, the Biden administration has worked to reverse the decadeslong trend in the U.S. of weakened labor laws—achieving a high rate of workers voting to join unions, requiring thousands of workers to be reinstated at their jobs after being illegally fired for organizing, and increasing the number of workers who are eligible to unionize.
But as the Center for American Progress (CAP) warned .. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025-would-undo-the-nlrbs-progress-on-protecting-workers-right-to-organize/ .. in an analysis published on Thursday, all that progress and more could be erased if former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the November election, were to win a second term in the White House—enabling him to put the right-wing plot Project 2025 into action.
As Common Dreams has reported .. https://www.commondreams.org/tag/project-2025 , Project 2025 is spearheaded .. https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf .. by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation and includes agenda items for continuing to roll back reproductive rights, imposing mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, and rolling back climate actions taken by President Joe Biden and other administrations.
The CAP analysis released Thursday details how the project would also push the White House and the NLRB to dismantle protections achieved for workers in recent years.
The general counsel would be among the federal employees whose jobs would be eliminated "on Day One" of a potential Trump presidency, threatening the NLRB's "ability to protect workers trying to organize for good, middle-class jobs," wrote CAP policy analyst Aurelia Glass.
Project 2025 also advises the NLRB to reinstate a 2019 standard which allowed many workers to be classified as independent contractors .. https://www.commondreams.org/news/dol-independent-contractor-rule , leaving them without the legal ability to organize in the workplace.
"Project 2025 offers a playbook for how an administration could
jeopardize the NLRB's ability to protect organizing workers."
The right-wing playbook would further hamstring workers' efforts to unionize by reinstating Trump-era rules that gave anti-union companies more freedom to fight organizing campaigns and allowed them to more easily avoid liability for labor violations by relying on staffing agencies and contractors to supply their workforce.
Glass noted that the Project 2025 agenda would weaken an agency that has been "a key part of the Biden administration's strategy for empowering workers."
"Crucial appointees are holding lawbreaking corporations accountable and helping reverse a decadeslong trend that allowed bad actors to bust workers' unions before they could form. Project 2025... threatens rolling back unions' success over the past four years," said .. https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/project-2025-would-undo-the-nlrbs-progress-on-protecting-workers-right-to-organize .. Glass.
Analyzing NLRB elections data, CAP found that workers in 2024 have a better chance of winning union representation than at any point in the past 15 years, with the agency recording a 73.8% win rate—the first time in 15 years that a 70% victory rate has been surpassed.
Under the Trump administration, the win rate dipped as low as 64.4%, and with corporations employing consultants and lawyers specializing in "union avoidance," since 2008 the percentage of workers who won union representation in elections has been as low as 57.7%.
(Image: Center for American Progress)
Under the Biden administration, the NLRB has proposed bans on captive audience meetings, which require employees to attend to listen to anti-union propaganda, and surveillance for union organizers.
"Compared with this pro-worker agenda, Project 2025 instructs the next administration to eliminate procedures such as card checks, which make it easier to form a union, and would turn the administrative state against unions by accelerating the process to decertify them when workers have won a contract," wrote Glass.
CAP noted that by firing the NLRB's general counsel, a potential Trump administration carrying out Project 2025 would effectively punish Abruzzo and the agency for securing "more reinstatement offers for workers illegally fired for protected organizing activity in the general counsel's first year on the job than during the entire previous administration."
The Biden administration has achieved 8,285 offers of reinstatement for illegally fired workers—a 54% increase over the Trump administration.
Despite the successes of the past three years, wrote Glass, there is "always a risk that future administrations reverse course—and Project 2025 offers a playbook for how an administration could jeopardize the NLRB's ability to protect organizing workers."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/project-2025-2668555142
The Federer Documentary Promo On The Tower Bridge In London Is The Greatest Ad I've Ever Seen
hubbs 6/20/2024 6:50 AM
https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3517431/the-federer-documentary-promo-on-the-tower-bridge-in-london-is-the-greatest-ad-ive-ever-seen
Yep. And get away with it. Serious systemic fault lines exist.
LOL Playing with himself again .. Roger!! Seriously, that is seriously good stuff.
Told you you would have a good lengthy life. And he's got himself back closer to
those 'closer to nature' animals too. Where you've always wanted to be. Almost...
Sure does. It was a real rational read. Real world experience, clearly, concisely put.
Thought let's get a few oldies on the asshole, 2016 felt a good year to start. A selected few, this is the guy
who sold himself to millions of Americans by convincing them of one early Trump lie, that he was an outsider,
a rebel, a folksy friendly outlaw here to fight for them. The rebel funneled through Koch
There are two distinct phases to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign that can be seen through his staffing decisions. The initial staffing involved only a handful of key advisors, including longtime Trump advisor Roger Stone.
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P - Trump hired Corey Lewandowski as campaign manager in February 2015.[1] Lewandowski came from Americans for Prosperity, a 501(c)(4) organization associated with David and Charles Koch, as did a number of early staffers.
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2017
Former Trump Adviser Roger Stone Admits Collusion With WikiLeaks, Then Deletes It
The former adviser to Trump's campaign previously claimed he had "back-channel communication" with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
06/03/2017 3:31 AM AEDT | Updated 07/03/2017 2:19 AM AEDT
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Stone later deleted the tweet, along with several other offensive tweets, including posts where he called various women “fat [and] stupid” and “you stupid ignorant ugly bitch.”
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Stone was among those named in news reports about evidence that Trump associates had had exchanges with Russian intelligence officials.
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The Continuing Fallout from Trump and Nunes’s Fake Scandal
"Swalwell: Innocent people don't ask for immunity"
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Recently, several members and staffers on the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia’s role in the Presidential election, visited the National Security Agency, in Fort Meade, Maryland. Inside the enormous black glass headquarters of America’s largest spy agency, the congressmen and their aides were shown a binder of two to three dozen pages of highly classified intercepts, mostly transcripts of conversations between foreign government officials that took place during the Presidential transition. These intercepts were not related to the heart of the committee’s Russia investigation. In fact, only one of the documents had anything to do with Russia, according to an official who reviewed them.
What the intercepts all had in common is that the people being spied on made references to Donald Trump or to Trump officials. That wasn’t even clear, though, from reading the transcripts. The names of any Americans were concealed, or “masked,” the intelligence community’s term for redacting references to Americans who are not the legal targets of surveillance when such intelligence reports are distributed to policy makers.
The binder of secret documents is at the center of the bizarre scandal created by what may be the most reckless lie President Trump has ever told. On March 4th, he tweeted .. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-to-make-of-donald-trumps-early-morning-wiretap-tweets , “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” The White House made several efforts to justify Trump’s claim, including using Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, as a conduit for the documents, which allegedly offered some substantiation. A former Nunes staffer now working for the White House dug up the transcripts and shared them with Nunes. As Bloomberg View reported .. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel , earlier this month, Susan Rice, Obama’s national-security adviser, had used a process that allowed her to request that the masked names be revealed to her. Rice had to log her unmasking requests on a White House computer, which is how Trump’s aides knew about them. Nunes and the White House presented this as a major scandal. “I think the Susan Rice thing is a massive story,” Trump told the Times, adding, while offering no evidence, that Rice may have committed a crime.
It is now clear that the scandal was not Rice’s normal review of the intelligence reports but the coördinated effort between the Trump Administration and Nunes to sift through classified information and computer logs that recorded Rice’s unmasking requests, and then leak a highly misleading characterization of those documents, all in an apparent effort to turn Rice, a longtime target of Republicans, into the face of alleged spying against Trump. It was a series of lies to manufacture a fake scandal. Last week, CNN was the first to report .. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/intelligence-contradicts-nunes-unmasking-claims/ .. that both Democrats and Republicans who reviewed the Nunes material at the N.S.A. said that the documents provided “no evidence that Obama Administration officials did anything unusual or illegal.”
I spoke to two intelligence sources, one who read the entire binder of intercepts and one who was briefed on their contents. “There’s absolutely nothing there,” one source said. The Trump names remain masked in the documents, and Rice would not have been able to know in all cases that she was asking the N.S.A. to unmask the names of Trump officials.
Nunes is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee because, in talking about the documents, he may have leaked classified information. But this is like getting Al Capone for tax evasion. The bigger scandal is the coördinated effort to use the American intelligence services to manufacture an excuse for Trump’s original tweet.
[...]
Some American intelligence officials are now concerned that Trump and Nunes’s wild claims about intercepts and Rice have made Section 702 look like a rogue program that can be easily abused for political purposes. The intelligence source said, “In defense of the President, Devin Nunes and some other partisans have created a huge political problem by casting doubt, in the service of Donald Trump, on these intercepts.” Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, a leading critic of Section 702, has been using the episode to rally libertarians. He recently tweeted ..
Smoking gun found! Obama pal and noted dissembler Susan Rice said to have been spying on Trump campaign.
https://t.co/SHJ41vhQu7
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 3, 2017
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Specifically to .. Is the Trump White House Spying on the FBI?
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Ouch, was going to do more years, but dreary dreary me that's more than enough now.
Say, a couple of books for the developing Roger Stone shelf of the bad times usa library.
Opinion When I moved to the U.S., I thought it could withstand Trump’s assaults. I was wrong.
By Justice Malala
July 22, 2020 at 5:03 p.m. EDT
Roger Stone arrives at federal court in Washington on Nov. 7, 2019. (Cliff Owen/AP)
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Justice Malala is a political commentator and author living in Los Angeles.
Two years ago, my partner and I packed up our house in South Africa and hauled our reluctant teenage daughters across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the United States. Our friends laughed at us.
I had spent the previous 10 years excoriating the buffoonish then-president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, as he systematically destroyed the country’s institutions of accountability; drained the public service of competent leaders and replaced them with yes-men; laid waste to the economy and outsourced the country’s running to his family’s benefactors. It was a ruthless project to capture the state and bend it to one man’s will. I titled my book chronicling Zuma’s betrayal of the legacy of Nelson Mandela, “We Have Now Begun Our Descent.”
Our friends laughed because they believed the move to the United States was akin to jumping from the frying pan of one buffoon into the fire of another. At the time, many of us from what President Trump has labeled “s---hole countries” thought he was an aberration, a bad joke. We guffawed as he insulted, complained and whined about everything and everyone. I argued then that the institutions of accountability in the United States could withstand assaults from the likes of Trump.
I was wrong. With the breathtaking decision to commute the prison sentence of his longtime adviser, Roger Stone, and then insist that the nation’s response to the coronavirus is under control, before admitting that it wasn’t, Trump has demonstrated that it is possible to hollow out and manipulate even the institutions of the United States to serve one individual’s personal interests. It is chilling not just for America but also for democrats in dangerous places across the globe.
Expect the worst of the world’s autocrats to follow suit with similar outrages or to be emboldened to continue on the nefarious paths they are already on.
When Trump won the presidency in 2016, Zuma had already been president of South Africa for seven years. Zuma had ascended to power with 783 counts of fraud and corruption hanging over him. A compromised attorney-general’s office controversially dropped all charges against him — a decision that was later overturned by the courts. Tax authorities investigating his friends’ filings were fired; key crime-fighting agencies (one of which, the Scorpions, was modelled on the FBI) were disbanded. The media was threatened with draconian laws.
Sound familiar? In Washington, the executive branch is made up of yes-men. The Senate says ‘yes, Mr. President’ all the time and, as for the judiciary, the Stone commutation spits on it. The United States is being bent to one man’s advantage.
This matters for the American people. Your house is on fire. But it matters even more for the idea of America.
I grew up on America’s greatest exports. The idea of America — equality before the law, liberty, free speech, freedom of religion, due process of law, freedom of assembly and a state machinery that upholds these values — was drilled into me (and many of us in the developing world) as a child. I grew up in a squalid township in apartheid South Africa in the 1980s reading everything from “Shane” to Marvel comics through to democratic principles that made their way into the South African Constitution when Nelson Mandela finally ascended to power in 1994. I never thought I would find myself writing that the United States is a country whose foundational values are in peril — and whose backward slide imperils democracies everywhere.
For activists in fragile democracies, the practical result of the systematic destruction of the idea of America is that this country stands with the autocrats. Trump’s response to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi government hands was to explain that the Saudis have cooperated with him on managing the price of oil. So, Riyadh gets a license to kill?
When the United States fails to hold the line on its own values, then the battle is lost in fragile states overseas that look to America for bold leadership. Right now, Maria Ressa, the crusading journalist from the Philippines who faces jail time from strongman leader Rodrigo Duterte, can expect no support from the United States. This is because Duterte’s playbook is plucked straight from the current White House where Trump routinely labels the media “the enemy of the people.” Duterte calls them “sons of bitches” who are “not exempted from assassination.” The same goes for journalists and democracy activists everywhere from Brazil to Russia to Zimbabwe.
Trump’s numerous egregious actions are a boon to autocrats everywhere. The light of democracy dies across the globe when the United States is diminished by its own leader.
Read more:
The Post’s View: Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence is an unforgivable betrayal of his office
Ruth Marcus: Trump’s agents are sweeping peaceful citizens off the streets. This is not America.
Max Boot: The unraveling of the rule of law under Trump is picking up speed
Greg Sargent: Trump’s authoritarian crackdown is so bad that even some in the GOP are blasting it
David Ignatius: Trump’s weak attempt to outsource strongman rule to the military
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/22/america-has-cashed-its-values-now-tyrants-elsewhere-can-flourish/
Did yo see it -- Get Me Roger Stone (2017)
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Roger Stone Taking Credit for Everything
michaelmcdonald-2073012 May 2017
About midway through the documentary, Tucker Carlson asks "Is it more brilliant and impressive to influence world events, or to stand on the periphery of world events and yet get recorded as having influenced world events."
While he was referring specifically to Roger Stone's self-proclaimed crucial role in getting George W. Bush elected in 2000, Carlson's question could apply to almost every major moment in Stone's life.
Unfortunately, the documentary does not question whether Stone is actually a major figure in American politics, but rather, takes Stone at his word that he is. Thus the documentary isn't so much a look at Stone's life as much as it is a look at Stone taking credit for everything - especially the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the Presidency.
Donald Trump is the supporting actor of this documentary, second fiddle to Roger Stone, who is seemingly the mastermind of his entire candidacy. The problem, however, lies in the film's inability to provide much supporting evidence that Stone is really as important as he claims to be.
For example, there are montages which show Stone saying something on a radio show followed by Trump saying the same thing on the campaign trail. But, we are never given much context for these clips. Is Trump repeating Stone or is Stone repeating Trump? Is Stone the only one making these campaign talking points that Trump is repeating, or are others as well? Without context, these lingering ambiguities make it more difficult to conclude that Stone was a major player in the Trump candidacy.
Additionally, Stone is given such an out sized role in the Trump candidacy that other crucial members of the Trump campaign - specifically, Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway - are barely mentioned. And while there is no doubt Trump did associate with Stone, the extent to which Stone helped elect Trump beyond securing the vote of the Alex Jones/InfoWars audience remains questionable.
The documentary is well-made and offers much in the way of flash and bedazzle, primarily due to its flamboyant and outrageous star, but it offers little of actual substance. In a sense, the documentary itself has been co opted by Stone for his own benefit to make sure, as Tucker Carlson said, that he is at least recorded as having influenced world events. Whether he has or not, remains a mystery unexplored by the documentary.
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Wouldn't bother watching it after that.
Totally.
sooo, yup... me too with the Fire..., like from the start.. tried others, but...
Pop-ups i seldom get, and never before a shaker like that one. Maybe it's shaking because it's struggling to get through Firefox.
Aside: I read i think you didn't like Firefox. Any particular reason, or maybe it's as much in 'what we get used to.'
Thanks.
I just know sometimes they are good for shareholders, sometimes not
* Of the five stocks analyzed, only Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) outperformed the S&P 500 three months after its stock split, but it also fell behind over the long term.
* Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) had the worst results, with its share value dropping significantly (although this was a continuation of a longer trend).
* Changes in price that may look related to a stock split are often better attributed to longer-term or market trends.
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On yours, LOL Apples they say are good for you and since it hasn't hurt you yet wouldn't think it ever will.
i haven't heard of one either, i miss stuff, and figured he must have read something to have him say what he said.
Just now i bothered to check, no luck. Didn't know this of Stone though, remembering that he likes to big-note himself.
Roger Stone Seems to Imply Trump Totally Controls Judge Cannon
A secret recording of Roger Stone hints at more trouble in Donald Trump’s classified documents case.
Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg/Getty Images
A secretly recorded conversation with Roger Stone suggests that the Donald Trump adviser and confidant is implying that the judge in Trump’s classified documents case, Aileen Cannon, could be in the convicted felon and former president’s pocket.
Liberal filmmaker Lauren Windsor secretly recorded the self-described “dirty trickster” at a Catholics Prayer for Trump event on March 19 at Mar-a-Lago, where he made several comments hinting that Cannon would dismiss the case. MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance said that these comments could suggest Cannon is compromised.
“To the extent Stone is insinuating something more sinister, that they have judges in their pocket, that’s entirely different, entirely wrong,” Vance wrote in her Substack newsletter .. https://joycevance.substack.com/p/roger-stone-gets-tricked .
“Perhaps he’s just making it up when he says Judge Cannon will soon dismiss the case against Donald Trump and that they have other judges available during the election. But given his background and history, it would be foolish not to be concerned,” Vance added.
Stone was caught on video saying, “We are beating them. I think the judge is on the verge of dismissing the charges against him in Florida,” referring to Cannon.
“They’re delayed in New York City, and they’re now delayed in Washington,” Stone continued, alluding to Trump’s election interference case regarding the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
Stone’s words, if he is hinting at Cannon working with Trump, would seemingly be corroborated by a Thursday New York Times report revealing that the Trump-appointed judge was urged by senior federal judges to hand off Trump’s classified documents case .. https://newrepublic.com/post/182926/report-judge-aileen-cannon-trump-classified-documents-step-aside .. to other judges with more experience, who didn’t have previous involvement .. https://newrepublic.com/article/169290/trump-aileen-cannon-eleventh-circuit .. interfering in the case, as Cannon had. Cecilia Altonaga, the chief U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Florida and Cannon’s superior, even reached out to Cannon and told her taking the case would be “bad optics.” Cannon turned the judges down.
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And related to the Times mention
Judge in Trump classified documents case reportedly refused to step aside
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Cannon’s decisions in the case have been criticized for appearing to favor the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and convicted felon. She’s agreed to hear pretrial motions that have slowed down proceedings, thrown out parts of the case, and postponed the trial indefinitely. The judge has drawn criticism, even from one of Trump’s former lawyers, for seeming to be prone to exploitation,
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LOL Good idea, don't. I'm not even going after Justice any more than DD and you rest came up with. As for B402, he said he was independent and he's not. He says he's gonna vote Republican, and that's with us having listened to the things he says he really cares about which we know Democrats stand and work for much more them Reps. He must know that too. That says he really doesn't care much for those social things he says he cares for. It's easy just to whinge about all the things which we all wish would be better. To vote for the party most not with us on the things we say we care about doesn't make any sense.
The one on the 11th circuit he mentioned as supporting her ..
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I didn't bother gong further.
Did you get into Apple before or after their forward split.
"I got into apple when they did their forward split and have done pretty good since. I'm definitely not a trader,
I'm just a buy and hold type of guy and I most definitely cannot offer any investment advice
but there have been others that I've been more than happy with too.. "
Just wondering, i remember some from my dalliance in stocks about 2004-7 the forward splits
* A split improves the tradeability of a stock which reduces the company’s cost of capital,
positively affecting its fundamentals and pushing its valuation higher.
https://finimize.com/content/why-stocks-beat-the-market-after-a-split-and-how-you-can-profit-from-it
I took Zorax's as a wary opinion and, as always, worthy. Yours good opinion too, yes, more optimistic.
Not interested in getting into the market again, i enjoy not having to bother about a tax return,
I'm just wondering if the pop-up ad in .. https://www.copilotai.com/ ..
will ever stop shaking. Still is for me. Does it shake for you?
Is Israel a “settler-colonial” state? The debate, explained.
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To accept compulsory population transfer in principle would set a dangerous precedent for international relations, and many nations would use such an excuse to cleanse themselves from "unwanted minorities". In other words, if it is accepted in principle that one can transfer and dispossess the Palestinian people so that Jews can have a "Jewish state," then
P - Why would it be unacceptable to "transfer" 10 million Mexican Americans to Mexico? or
To "transfer" a million Kosovan Albanians to Albania?, or
Even to "transfer" 6 million American Jews to the "Jewish state"?
May, 2011 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=63438302 .. only 13 years ago. Not good.
The historical discussion at the heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
by Haleema Shah
Apr 18, 2024, 2:00 AM GMT+10
At a protest in Rome in October 2023 calling for a ceasefire and aid into Gaza, a protester holds a sign calling for an end to “colonialism and displacement” in Palestine. Simona Granati/Corbis via Getty Images
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Is Israel a “settler colonial” state?
That charge has been the subject of fierce debate in recent months amid the continuing Israeli assault on Gaza after the October 7 attacks by Hamas.
Colonialism is a system in which one people dominates another and uses the subjugated group’s resources for its own benefit (the British Raj in India is a classic example). Colonial projects take many forms .. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/october-2015/a-typology-of-colonialism , but Israel is accused of being the result of a specific variety: settler colonialism.
According to the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute, settler colonialism has “an additional criterion that is the complete destruction and replacement of indigenous people and their cultures by the settler’s own in order to establish themselves as the rightful inhabitants.”
Settler colonialism does not have a definition under international humanitarian law (unlike many other terms used during this latest war .. https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/10/24/23930269/israel-hamas-gaza-palestine-occupation-zionism-displacement ), although Article 49 of the Geneva Convention prohibits certain actions often associated with that term; it is instead a concept that historians use to describe the system of replacing an existing population .. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623520601056240 .. with a new one through land theft and exploitation, which is enabled by occupation, apartheid, forced assimilation, or genocide.
Historians often apply the term to the projects that founded the United States, Canada, South Africa, and others.
Within that cohort, there are scholars who apply the term to Israel’s founding, too. The argument begins with the 30-year period during which the British Empire controlled historic Palestine and facilitated the mass migration of Jews, particularly those persecuted in Europe before the Holocaust and in the wake of it. That migration, they argue, displaced the existing Arab population and launched a conflict that continues to this day .. https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Lecture-by-Prof.-Rashid-Khalidi-100-years-since-Balfour-Decl-UN-2Nov2017.pdf .
But critics of the argument view accusing Israel of settler colonialism as a distortion of the term, in large part because of Judaism’s deep historical ties to present-day Israel. Many Jewish people who migrated from around the world and became citizens of Israel use the word “return .. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/aliyah ” to describe making their home there.
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The debate has echoed from college campuses to the halls of Congress. In the United States, “colonialism” is, at times, viewed as a popular buzzword used to vilify the Jewish state and a means of casting Jewish refugees as agents of empire. Among pro-Palestinian activists and in many formerly colonized communities, the term is a historical prism linking much of the Global South and through which .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/9/why-latin-americas-pink-tide-is-taking-a-stand-against-israel .. the Palestinian struggle can be understood.
The argument might seem academic. But it is important for understanding pro-Palestinian groups’ grievances with the international community — for failing to prevent Israel from engaging in what they view as an established settler colonial pattern of eliminating a native population through expulsion and genocide to annex Palestinian land.
Palestine’s short but critical history as a British colony, briefly explained
Both the United States and Canada, widely viewed by historians as states founded as settler colonial projects, relied heavily on British patronage. Israel’s foundations are similar, some scholars argue.
In 1917, the British colonial period, or British Mandate, began in historic Palestine. Zionism .. https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080010/zionism-israel-palestine , the ideology that Jews are both a religious group and nation whose spiritual homeland is Israel, was extant [https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/extant ] for decades before then, driven in large part by violent antisemitism in Europe.
British Mandate forces in Jerusalem in October 1937. Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
But that year, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote what he considered a declaration of sympathy with the aspirations of Zionism.
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,” he wrote in what came to be known as the Balfour Declaration. The declaration also stated, “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine” — though, as my colleague Nicole Narea wrote, there was no specification of what those protections would be or who they would apply to.
The letter was a powerful endorsement of the establishment of a Jewish home where the biblical kingdoms of David and Solomon once were. Priya Satia, a historian of the British Empire and professor at Stanford University, said it also marked another British foray into colonial enterprise.
“You’ve got to remember, this is against the backdrop of ongoing British settler movement into Rhodesia, into Kenya, into South Africa,” she said. “That is what the architects thought they were doing when they started this process.”
Historians argue that the British Empire backed the Zionist movement for myriad reasons, including anxieties about Jewish migration to Britain .. https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2016-08-11/ty-article/.premium/1905-as-eastern-european-jews-pour-in-u-k-enacts-aliens-act/0000017f-df08-d856-a37f-ffc854730000 , the search for new allies in World War I .. https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/09/08/how-anti-semitism-helped-create-israel-2/ ., and to maintain control of the nearby Suez Canal .. https://www.jstor.org/stable/259910?read-now=1&seq=17#page_scan_tab_contents .
“The British, before they decided to take Zionism under their wing with the Balfour Declaration in 1917, for more than a decade had decided for strategic reasons that they must control Palestine,” Rashid Khalidi, a professor at Columbia University and author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, told Vox. “They needed it to defend the eastern frontiers of Egypt. They needed it because it constituted the Mediterranean terminus of the shortest land route between the Mediterranean and the Gulf.”
After the Balfour Declaration, the British facilitated the mass immigration of European Jews to historic Palestine. Per a League of Nations mandate, the British would maintain economic, political, and administrative authority of the region until a Jewish “national home” was established .. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666887/#:~:text=The%20mandate%20provided%20for%20the,in%20the%20preamble%2C%20and%20the .
Were Zionism and the founding of Israel inherently colonial projects? The debate, explained.
That long, tangled history planted the seeds for today’s strife — and the debate over what to call the Israeli project.
“Zionism, of course, has a national aspect, but as early Zionists all understood and accepted and were not ashamed of, it was a colonial project,” Khalidi said. “It was a settler-colonial movement to bring persecuted Jews from Europe to Palestine, where they would establish a Jewish majority state.”
But others dispute that view. That includes scholars like Benny Morris, a member of the Israeli New Historian movement that challenges official Israeli history, who argues that Zionism is rooted in the aspirations and ideals of a persecuted group .. https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/7210/the-war-on-history/# , instead of the interests of a mother country. “Colonialism is commonly defined as the policy and practice of an imperial power acquiring political control over another country, settling it with its sons, and exploiting it economically,” Morris writes. “By any objective standard, Zionism fails to fit this definition.”
Derek Penslar, a history professor at Harvard University, writes in his book Zionism: An Emotional State about the various taxonomies of Zionism and that some of its early visionaries were critical of political Zionism’s aims.
“The most famous Zionist intellectual of the early 20th century, Asher Ginsberg, who went under the pen name of Ahad Ha-am, was against the establishment of a Jewish state,” Penslar told Vox. “He was very well aware of the Arab population of Palestine, and he said, ‘look, you know, we basically can’t get these people against us. We can’t anger them, we have to live with these people.’ And so he advocated forming much smaller communities that would not antagonize the Arab populations.”
The man who came to be known as the ideological father of Israel, however, was the political Zionist Theodor Herzl. A journalist from Vienna in the late 1800s, he witnessed the rise of populist, antisemitic politicians in his city and remarked on the pervasiveness of antisemitism in Europe .. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4466575?read-now=1&seq=6#page_scan_tab_contents .. in a play and later his pamphlet, The Jewish State.
Theodor Herzl in Palestine in November 1898. Imagno/Getty Images
Credited for galvanizing an international movement for Jewish statehood in Palestine, Herzl sought a more dignified existence for European Jews like himself and espoused a vision of the Jewish state that included universal suffrage and equal rights for the Arab population. But in private, he wrote of Arab expropriation .. https://www.academia.edu/44292882/Derek_J_Penslar_Theodor_Herzl_and_the_Palestinian_Arabs_Myth_and_Counter_Myth_Journal_of_Israeli_History_vol_24_no_1_2005_65_77 , and in public, he placed Zionists like himself within the colonial order of the time .. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/false-messiahs/ .
“We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism,” he wrote. “We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.”
While under British control, Palestine saw violent clashes between Zionists and Arabs, and its demography changed rapidly, with the Jewish population increasing from 6 percent to 33 percent. In the eyes of Arab nationalists, the argument was a simple one: A foreign power took control of Arab land and promised it to another foreign group.
“For the Zionists and for Israel, it’s a lot more complicated,” said Penslar, whose work links post-colonial studies with the history of Zionism. “They wanted to be free, they wanted self-determination, and they wanted the kinds of things that colonized people in the world wanted. And the consensus was that they would realize their freedom in the Jews’ historic, biblical, and spiritual homeland in the land of Israel, which is the same thing as historic Palestine.”
(In a sign of how contentious the discussion over Zionism and antisemitism is, as part of a broader criticism of Harvard’s handling of antisemitism on campus, critics also protested Penslar’s heading of a university task force to combat antisemitism, pointing to his criticism of Israel as disqualifying — this despite Penslar’s own critiques of Harvard’s handling of antisemitism and his distinguished academic reputation.)
Judaism’s ties to the Middle East, mentioned in both the Bible and the Quran, the Hebrew language’s origins in ancient Palestine, and the Jewish ties to the region as a motherland motivate arguments that Jews are a native group in present-day Israel. It’s why groups supportive of Israel argue that it does not fit into the settler colonialism framework .. https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/allegation-israel-settler-colonialist-enterprise .
Jewish refugees aboard a ship. Universal Images Group via Getty
“Jews, like Palestinians, are native and indigenous to the land,” writes the Anti-Defamation League .. https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/allegation-israel-settler-colonialist-enterprise , a mainstream Jewish pro-Israel group and also one of the US’s leading anti-extremism organizations. “The Land of Israel is integral to the Jewish religion and culture, the connection between Jews and the land is a constant in the Bible, and is embedded throughout Jewish rituals and texts. The Europeans who settled in colonies in the Middle East and North Africa were not indigenous or native to the land in any way.”
To scholars like Khalidi, who comes from a family of Palestinian civil servants dating back to the 17th century, the connection doesn’t justify the creation of a majority Jewish state under international law.
“Does that mean that the people who arrive from Eastern Europe are indigenous to the land? No, they’re not indigenous. Their religion comes from there. Maybe or maybe not their ancestors came from there,” said Khalidi. “That doesn’t give you a 20th-century right — that’s a biblical land deed that nobody believes except people who are religious. And in modern international law, that just doesn’t hold.”
By the mid-20th century, the British, recovering from World War II and facing anti-colonial agitation from Zionists .. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Irgun-Zvai-Leumi .. and Arabs in Palestine .. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-strike-history-explained-revolt — not to mention from other corners of their empire — handed control of Palestine to the United Nations. In 1947, the General Assembly passed Resolution 181 to partition Palestine.
“Even though Arabs constituted a two-thirds majority of the country, more than 56 percent of it was to be given to the Jewish state and the rest was to be given to an Arab state,” said Khalidi.
For Israel, the birth of a Jewish state was a triumphant defiance of odds in the face of the Holocaust, and victory against .. https://forward.com/culture/546434/israel-independence-palestine-anniversary-israeli-1948/ .. military units from Transjordan, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt who were defeated the following year. It also occasioned the expulsion or voluntary exodus of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries .. https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24122304/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestine-arab-jews-mizrahi-solidarity . Israel soon established a Law of Return .. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel#:~:text=The%201950%20Law%20of%20Return,Israel%20and%20automatically%20gain%20citizenship. that would grant any Jew from any country the right to move to Israel and gain citizenship.
[Insert: A Law of Return, even though hundreds of thousands who migrated to Israel had never
been there before. The nonsense in that mirrors the nonsense of the establishment of Israel there,
as a Western British strategic bulwark (one step into the area) as mentioned above in the first place.
In Palestinian memory, the establishment of Israel entailed an ethnic cleansing campaign known as the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/11/03/israel-nakba-history-1948/ . Fearing violence by Zionist forces or actively expelled by them, an estimated 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes in present-day Israel. According to a 1948 Israeli Defense Forces intelligence report .. https://www.akevot.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1948ISReport-Eng.pdf , “without a doubt, hostilities were the main factor in the population movement.” No Law of Return exists for Palestinians who were displaced by the Nakba.
Palestinians driven from their homes and fleeing via the sea at Acre by Israeli forces, 1948.
History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
The Nakba took place as independence movements in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean gained traction. To scholars like Satia, who studies the empire that once colonized a quarter of the world, Palestine became a global touchpoint in an era of decolonization.
“All these other places do eventually get some kind of decolonization process. And in Palestine, there isn’t one,” she said. “It becomes the last bastion along with South Africa.”
The present-day charges of settler colonialism and demands to decolonize
Settler colonialism is hardly a thing of the past nor is it an exclusively Western enterprise .. https://aeon.co/essays/settler-colonialism-is-not-distinctly-western-or-european . China .. https://www.vox.com/china .. is arguably practicing it by incentivizing Han Chinese migration to Xinjiang .. https://theconversation.com/settler-colonialism-helps-explain-current-events-in-xinjiang-and-ukraine-and-the-history-of-australia-and-us-too-176975#:~:text=Settler%20colonies%20were%20used%20to,today%20in%20Tibet%20and%20Xinjiang. .. and Tibet .. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/315/oa_edited_volume/chapter/2657741 . India’s revocation of Kashmir’s autonomous status is criticized as a Hindu nationalist effort to transform the demographics of its only majority Muslim state .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/05/indias-settler-colonial-project-kashmir-takes-disturbing-turn/ .
And Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territories motivates charges of present-day colonialism. This includes continued settlement construction in the West Bank ..https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080034/west-bank-israel-palestinians .. and control of the ingress and egress of people and goods (most notably humanitarian aid) into the Gaza Strip.
In the West Bank, almost 700,000 Israelis are living in settlements .. https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080052/israel-settlements-west-bank .. scattered throughout the territory, which are protected by the Israeli military and often subsidized by the government.
“It’s pretty fair to say that the Palestinians are an occupied people. And there’s no question that the settlements that Israel has set up in the West Bank since 1967 are a kind of colonialism,” said Penslar.
As Vox’s Zack Beauchamp explained .. https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080052/israel-settlements-west-bank , “Most international lawyers (including one asked by Israel to review them in 1967) believe settlements violate the Fourth Geneva Convention .. https://www.tau.ac.il/law/barakerez/articals/barrier.pdf .. , which prohibits the transfer of population into occupied territories.” Israel’s government disputes that its settlements violate any international law.
The settlements obstruct the contiguity of Palestinian land and movement. Palestinians are barred from certain Israeli-only roads and forced to navigate a network of checkpoints, which invokes comparisons to apartheid South Africa.
“The contiguity of the territory of the West Bank has been completely broken up,” said Satia. “You can use analogies like ‘Bantustans,’ which comes from the South African context.”
Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in the Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, in the
occupied West Bank, on February 29, 2024. Menahem Khana/AFP via Getty Images
South African politicians, including its first post-apartheid president, Nelson Mandela, argued that Palestinians were engaged in a parallel struggle .. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nelson-mandela-30-years-palestine . In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent siege of Gaza, South Africa is accusing Israel of committing genocide in the International Court of Justice. Israel vehemently denies the charge, calling it “blood libel,” and says it has a duty to protect its citizens from Hamas.
As the world watches the deadliest war in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict .. https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-death-toll-numbers-injured-5c9dc40bec95a8408c83f3c2fb759da0 .. unfold on their screens, activists and academics rely on the term “settler colonialism” to explain a decades-long cycle of violence that has killed over 30,000 Palestinians and over 1,400 Israelis in the last six months.
To Penslar, who lived in Israel through two intifadas, today’s cycle of violence won’t change by identifying Israel as a settler-colonial state.
“Even if we do go through all of this and decide Israel is a settler-colonial state, it doesn’t really mean very much,
[It matter because it is the truth, the reality of the situation. The
solution comes after acceptance of the present day realty.]
because at the end of the day we have to come up with a solution which involves either Israeli Jews dominating Arabs, or Arabs dominating Jews, or the two people sharing the land or two states,” he said. “And whether you call Israel a settler-colonial state or not, it doesn’t really help us a whole lot.”
The call for decolonization is criticized by some for lacking achievable goals .. https://newrepublic.com/article/177306/israel-colonialist-state-history-today .. and denounced by others as a euphemism for expelling or killing Israelis .. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/ .. in the name of anti-colonial resistance. Immediately after the October 7 attacks, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said, “the enemy has had a political, military, intelligence, security and moral defeat inflicted upon it, and we shall crown it, with the grace of God, with a crushing defeat that will expel it from our lands.”
But academic proponents of the settler-colonial thesis say that expulsion is not a natural consequence of accepting that settler colonialism is foundational to a country.
“You can have that conversation and acknowledge that historical reality without implying that everyone needs to leave,” said Satia, citing Australia .. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/australia-adds-300-million-in-funding-for-indigenous-pledge , New Zealand .. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23518642/new-zealand-reparations-maori-settlements , and Canada .. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/canada-indigenous-settlement.html#:~:text=OTTAWA%20%E2%80%94%20Canada%20said%20on%20Saturday,commission%20called%20%E2%80%9Ccultural%20genocide.%E2%80%9D — countries that have formally apologized to their indigenous peoples for colonial atrocities and pledged reparations to certain groups.
If the First Aliyah, or migration of the Jewish diaspora to historic Palestine, began in the late 19th century, then the descendants of those people living in Israel today are tied to the land not only because of Judaism’s history but also because of several generations living there in recent memory.
“Those are people who now have not just a presence but certain rights,” said Khalidi, adding that Israel fits into a pattern seen in other settler-colonial enterprises.
“You look at South Africa, or you look at Ireland, or you look at Kenya, or you look at what is now Zimbabwe — a very large proportion of the populations that were settled there by colonial powers … are now part of those populations. They have rights there. They should live there,” he said. “Now, how the relationship between them is to be worked out. That’s a question that’s not going to be easy to solve.”
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24128715/israel-palestine-conflict-settler-colonialism-zionism-history-debate
That is scary - "And the extra scary part is that the former
Mayor is a public school teacher influencing young minds."
Hope the idiot only teaches mathematics and sticks 100% to it.
It's hilarious he did it, but can anyone tell me why at the time lawmakers saw it as funny
"The pooch’s performance drew laughter and smiles from lawmakers.
“This has been the year of Babydog, hasn’t it?” Justice said of his family’s dog, who
had become the mascot for his state’s coronavirus vaccination sweepstakes."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/politics/jim-justice-west-virginia-babydog-speech/index.html
Where's the whatever in talking through your dog's ass. Where's the justice in subjecting your dog to it.
Oh, it's in Jim. It's in W. Virginia. Ok.
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Conservative leader Sebastian Kurz and his People's Party have won Austria's parliamentary vote. The far-right Freedom Party, Kurz's former coalition partner, has taken a beating following a corruption scandal.
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Dutch PM Rutte claims 'overwhelming' election win as far right loses ground
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210318-dutch-pm-rutte-leads-general-election-polls-as-far-right-loses-ground
still the far-right trajectory is up.
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The outgoing Dutch PM has been confirmed after seven months of campaigning.
Rutte would need all 31 NATO allies' endorsement before he could be nominated to succeed Jens Stoltenberg | John Thys/AFP via Getty Images
June 20, 2024 1:47 pm CET
By Stuart Lau
BRUSSELS — Mark Rutte will be the next NATO secretary-general after all 32 members of the alliance agreed that the outgoing Dutch prime minister will succeed Jens Stoltenberg.
Following endorsements from Hungary and Slovakia on Tuesday, Romania confirmed its support for Rutte on Thursday, with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis withdrawing his candidacy .. https://www.presidency.ro/ro/media/sedinta-consiliului-suprem-de-aparare-a-tarii1718883520 .. for the NATO top job.
During a meeting of the Supreme Council of National Defence, Iohannis said he had notified NATO allies about the withdrawal of his candidacy.
Rutte will take over NATO’s leadership at a critical time. His new job will begin by Oct. 2, just over a month before the U.S. election, which will shape the fate of the military alliance that has served as Eastern Europe’s most successful deterrence to an aggressive Russia. Former U.S. President Donald Trump, the current Republican candidate, has pledged to stay in NATO .. https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-says-he-wont-quit-nato-if-europe-pays-its-way/ .. but threatened to cut U.S. aid to Ukraine .. http://cut US aid to Ukraine quickly if reelected .. if reelected.
Observers, though, credit Rutte for being a “Trump whisperer,” thanks to his ability to make deals with politicians from different backgrounds, even earning the then-U.S. president’s praise: “I like this guy!”
Having Rutte confirmed also means the succession issue is cleared up before July when NATO leaders head to Washington to mark the alliance’s 75th anniversary.
Rutte’s quest for the NATO top job has been a long journey. He has been campaigning for the job since last November.
Rutte has been criticized for not being active enough in canvassing support from Eastern European countries, who questioned his pre-2014 support for Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.
Rutte also continuously failed to bring Dutch defense spending up to NATO’s target of 2 percent of GDP throughout his 14-year premiership of the EU’s fifth-largest economy. The Netherlands is finally expected to meet that target this year, according to NATO’s latest figures.
Romania’s President Iohannis threw his hat into the ring at a late stage. When he declared his candidacy in March, two-thirds of all NATO allies had already sided with Rutte. Throughout his three-month race, Iohannis only managed one vote among the 32 allies — that of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who used his holdout to gain leverage and secure Hungary’s opt-out from NATO’s Ukraine tasks and financing.
Rutte’s selection also follows a drawn-out process that saw Stoltenberg’s term extended four times.
In 2017, allies opted to extend the secretary-general’s term until the end of September 2020. In 2019, they moved that date to September 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted another extension, which was set to run through September 2023. In July last year, NATO allies agreed to extend Stoltenberg’s term as secretary-general by a year.
“I’m very confident that the alliance will find a good successor,” Stoltenberg told POLITICO last week.
https://www.politico.eu/article/mark-rutte-will-be-natos-next-secretary-general/
Trump appointed Cannon and guessing the other one you mention is appointed also.
Yeah, Cannon reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaallllyyyy should go, but...
Abstract
Historically there has been considerable controversy about how American judges should be chosen. Methods have included selection by the king, popular election, and, most recently, merit plans for executive appointment. State merit plans vary, but share common features such as a permanent, nonpartisan commission which actively recruits and screens prospective candidates. Today the combination of schemes used to select judges is almost endless. Almost no two States are alike, and few employ the same method for choosing judges at all levels of their judiciaries. In general, however, approximately half of the States appoint judges and half elect them. Thirty-one States use commission plans to aid the governor in selecting judges. In four States the governor appoints judges without using a nominating commission, subject to senatorial confirmation. In Hawaii and Illinois, judges themselves appoint some of their colleagues. Partisan elections are held to select most or all judges in 13 States and for some judges in an additional 8 States. Nonpartisan elections are held to select most or all judges in 17 States and for some judges in an additional 3 States. One-half of the States hold elections for State supreme court judges. Seventeen States out of the 32 which have intermediate appellate courts elect judges to these courts. Selection of judges for trial courts and courts of limited jurisdiction is effected through a variety of methods. Extensive charts present state-by-state information. Footnotes are included.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/judicial-selection-united-states-special-report
Yep. Even for a relative (to you and others) ignoramus in the market world the description in the
heading as the biggest company rankled. The most valuable company is at least closer to the reality.
" mc is price of shares times shares outstanding."
Hope for many investors sake you are wrong when you say it's gong to come down very soon.
" Like djt, nvidia has way overpriced products and do not sell
the volume of products to warrant the stock price.
It's going to come down real soon."
Though we've seen suggested overpriced shares collapse dramatically before.
On the value of trust - Nvidia overtakes Microsoft to become biggest company in the world
"I know individual stocks are not a valid topic here,..."
Note: This is less a report on an individual stock, but rather a note on the newest
most valuable company in the world. Just to be sure we are playing by the rules.
Assuming you jumped .. .. congratulations.
An AI tech chip manufacturer has just surpassed Microsoft, making it the biggest and most valuable company in the world.
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AI tech chip manufacturer Nvidia has just surpassed Microsoft, making it the biggest and most valuable company in the world.
On Wednesday morning, just past 5am AEST, Nvidia reached a market capitalisation of $5.1 trillion ($US3.4 trillion).
It marked the first time the tech giant beat Microsoft, which had slipped down to a value of $4.99 trillion ($US3.32 trillion) in the same trading day.
Earlier this month, Nvidia overtook Apple, which currently has a market cap of $4.94 trillion ($US3.29 trillion).
Nvidia’s shares rose by 3.5 per cent by the end of the trading day at nearly $136, while Microsoft dropped slightly, cementing its position as the number one company.
This added more than $154 billion to Nvidia’s market cap in the space of a day.
Nvidia has been riding a high all year, with its stock surging by an unprecedented 180 per cent. Meanwhile, Microsoft has had a more moderate climb of 19 per cent.
Nvidia is now more valuable than any company in the world. Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America/AFP
Nvidia has been in business for 30 years but it’s name isn’t as well known to consumers, as it isn’t quite as customer facing as businesses like Apple or Microsoft.
Nvidia’s US CEO and founder Jensen Huang established Nvidia in 1993 on his 30th birthday to bring three-dimensional graphics into the gaming and multimedia markets.
The Taiwanese-born tech whiz — who moved to Kentucky at age 9 — reportedly dreamt up the chip giant alongside fellow engineers Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem at a Denny’s restaurant in San Jose, California, where he had worked part-time before getting his masters degree from Stanford University.
It was mostly an obscure business, though well known in the gaming world because of its GPU devices.
But in recent years, Nvidia branched into the AI space with its chips, and has enjoyed massive demands for its products.
That growth was driven by the surge of interest in artificial intelligence and the expected demand for its computer chips that process it.
Nvidia has had an incredible rise to power.
In a sign of its eye-watering rise to power, only last year did Nvidia manage to reach a market cap of $US1 trillion.
It was just shy of the exclusive $1 club.
But now it has joined the ranks of elite businesses and overtaken them all.
The $US1 trillion club, currently only occupied by five companies: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon.com, Alphabet (Google), and Saudi Aramco, the Saudi state oil giant.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/nvidia-overtakes-microsoft-to-become-biggest-company-in-the-world/news-story/d463261ae6fe777f767cfc591886043d
You got me, haven't a clue about any of them -- yet. And what's with the shivering ad in yours. Is it as cold in there for
it as it is in my place for me. At least it shakes and shivers to me .. https://www.copilotai.com/ . The Try for free ad.
This just helped some - Copilot vs ChatGPT: What are the Differences?
Compare Copilot and ChatGPT to understand their unique capabilities. Explore how each tool can enhance productivity and creativity in different contexts now!
Understanding the capabilities and functionalities of various AI tools is crucial for Australian-based businesses navigating the artificial intelligence landscape. This article offers a comparative analysis of two leading AI-powered tools: Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT by OpenAI. We examine their development, primary uses, and integration capabilities to underscore their significant roles in the AI domain.
The differences between Copilot and ChatGPT highlight the diverse applications of AI technologies. Copilot is deeply integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem, aimed at boosting productivity in software development by efficiently handling complex tasks in specific programming languages. In contrast, ChatGPT is based on OpenAI's large language model (LLM) and is designed for a wider array of tasks, including generating human-like text responses suitable for various content creation needs across multiple languages and platforms. Its flexibility makes it ideal for NLP applications ranging from customer support to educational tools.
The technology behind these tools and their user interface designs also emphasise their unique applications. Microsoft Copilot excels in development environments, streamlining the creation of technical documentation and minimising inefficient code suggestions through advanced machine learning techniques. ChatGPT, meanwhile, is crafted to produce relevant responses and engage in natural language dialogue, showcasing its adaptability in sectors such as data analytics and content creation. Comparing these tools sheds light on their respective strengths and optimal use cases, guiding users in selecting the right tool for their specific needs.
Development of Microsoft Copilot vs ChatGPT
The development of Microsoft Copilot by Microsoft showcases their deep investment in software development and AI technologies. Building upon GitHub Copilot's robust platform, Microsoft Copilot enhances programming efficiency by suggesting real-time code snippets and complete functions tailored for specific programming languages. This tool is integral within the Microsoft ecosystem, particularly for users working in integrated development environments like Visual Studio Code, where it facilitates rapid development and debugging.
On the other hand, ChatGPT is a product of OpenAI and operates on the advanced Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) architecture. It excels in generating human-like text responses, which makes it highly versatile across numerous conversational applications. ChatGPT's design allows it to handle a wide array of dialogues, from simple queries to complex discussions across various topics and industries. This capability is rooted in its foundational technology, which understands and processes natural language on a sophisticated level.
While both tools leverage large language models and AI to enhance user productivity, their core functionalities diverge significantly to cater to different user needs. Microsoft Copilot focuses on optimising coding tasks, generating code, and offering code completion solutions, whereas ChatGPT aims to generate relevant and engaging text for diverse communicative contexts. These distinctions highlight the specialised applications of each tool, making them valuable in their respective domains.
Primary use and focus: ChatGPT vs Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is specifically designed to boost developer productivity through its focus on coding-related tasks. It provides robust support in programming environments, assisting with code generation, debugging, and writing precise code. This tool is particularly valuable for developers using platforms like Visual Studio Code, where Copilot's integration helps streamline complex software development tasks. Its ability to suggest code snippets and complete code solutions enhances efficiency and reduces the time spent on repetitive programming tasks.
In contrast, ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, offers a broader spectrum of capabilities beyond just coding. It excels in generating human-like text for various applications, from casual conversations to more structured tasks like article writing and query resolution. ChatGPT is also effectively used in educational settings, where it can provide explanations, tutor students, and simulate conversational practices. This wide range of applications makes ChatGPT a versatile tool in industries that require engagement with natural language processing and content creation.
Integration and compatibility
Microsoft Copilot, developed by Microsoft, integrates seamlessly with development environments such as Visual Studio Code, which significantly enhances the coding experience. This tool is designed to assist developers with code generation, code completion, and the generation of code snippets directly within their preferred coding environments, eliminating the need to switch contexts. It targets developers working with specific programming languages and offers solutions to complex tasks through ML, which helps in reducing inefficient code suggestions.
Conversely, ChatGPT boasts broad integration capabilities, able to connect with various platforms through APIs that enable the inclusion of conversational AI within diverse systems. This versatility makes it suitable for multiple industries looking to leverage NLP for content creation, data analytics, and generating human-like text responses. ChatGPT's flexibility in adapting to different technical ecosystems allows businesses to enhance their customer interactions and improve operational efficiencies by generating relevant responses across multiple languages and platforms.
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B402, Who knows whether he has trouble reading or not, but no doubt he is selective and as i said there he is habitually into projection. If there were a diagnosed dyslexia as you describe then, yeah, agree he would likely have it, 'cuz he does exactly what you said.
"Is it possible b4 may be selectively dyslectic and not know it? Like when he blames everything in the world on dems, he actually means repulseklans but it always comes out the opposite?
P- Because everything he blames on dems are what the nazi party of gop has done and is doing. Kind of like a sickness like anorexia where one looks in the mirror and sees a fat person and they are super skinny in reality?"
Judge in Trump classified documents case reportedly refused to step aside
"Judge Pushes Back Critical Filing Deadline in Trump Documents Case
[...]P - In Thursday’s ruling, Cannon also defended an order from last month that asked lawyers for both sides to formulate potential jury instructions and to respond to two different scenarios in which she appeared to be continuing to entertain Trump’s presidential records argument.
P - The order puzzled legal experts and drew a sharp rebuke from Smith’s team .. https://apnews.com/article/trump-classified-documents-a99a6bc9fd9b44ffddecf979f8e1baa9 , with prosecutors in a filing this week calling the premises the judge laid out “fundamentally flawed” and warning that they were prepared to appeal if she pushed ahead with jury instructions that they considered wrong."
Aileen Cannon was urged by senior jurists to recuse herself over perception of bias towards Trump, report says
Robert Tait in Washington
Fri 21 Jun 2024 06.31 AEST
Last modified on Fri 21 Jun 2024 07.14 AEST
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Photograph: Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Images
Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge who has come under fire for her handling of classified document charges against Donald Trump, ignored the advice of more senior colleagues to decline the case and pass it to another jurist, it has been reported.
Trump falsely claims US justice department was ready to kill him
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/trump-fbi-doj-lethal-force
Two senior judges on the Florida .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida .. bench urged Cannon to defer when it was randomly assigned to her last June, in part due to a perception that she was biased in Trump’s favour because of her actions after the allegations against him of illegally retaining sensitive government documents first came to light.
According to the New York Times, Cannon – who was appointed to the federal bench by Trump – rejected .. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/us/politics/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-documents.html%3E .. the advice and kept the case, in which the former president faces charges being prosecuted by the special counsel Jack Smith.
She has since issued a series of widely criticised rulings that have had the effect of delaying the trial, playing into Trump’s legal strategy of holding the case at bay until after November’s presidential election, when he could be elected president once again and be in a position to instruct the Department of Justice to drop the charges.
Her rulings have drawn the scorn of Trump’s former White House counsel, Ty Cobb, who this month described .. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4707279-ty-cobb-donald-trump-classified-documents-case-judge-aileen-cannon-jack-smith-gag-order-request/ .. as “dangerous and incendiary” Cannon’s refusal to grant a gag order request from Smith against Trump.
Smith had asked for the order after the former president falsely alleged that the FBI was “locked and loaded” and ready to kill him and his family when officers entered his Mar-a-Lago .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mar-a-lago .. home to retrieve a trove of documents in 2022. In fact, the raid had been agreed with Trump’s lawyers in advance and timed to take place when he would not be present.
The attempt to persuade Cannon to step aside was reportedly prompted by her actions after the FBI seized the documents – when she intervened on Trump’s side after he had filed suit claiming they were his personal property, appointing a special master to review them before prosecutors had a chance to see them.
This ruling was later reversed by the 11th court of appeals in Atlanta, which issued a rebuke of Cannon’s judgment, saying she had no authority to bar investigators from seeing the documents.
The argument that this episode was sufficient reason for Cannon to pass on the case was reportedly put forward by Cecilia Altonaga, the chief judge of Florida’s southern district.
Another unnamed judge was said to have put a different line of reasoning to her – that it would be better to have the case transferred to a jurist based closer to the district’s busiest courthouse in Miami, which had a facility to store the classified documents and where Trump had initially been indicted.
Since Cannon rejected entreaties to defer the case to another judge, a secure facility to store the documents has since been built at taxpayers’ expense in the courthouse where she presides at Fort Pierce, around two hours’ drive north of Miami.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/20/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-documents-case
Old guy, you'd be one of two. Little chance. Detry. No reason why. No idea. GL
B402, You say what you say,
Co pilot smacked ya pretty good on outsourcing......Which leads back to the credibility gap you and dems now have created......You'll lie cheat and ignore the obvious all in the name of politics.... And continue down the path that lead us where we are today.....Great job of creating problems and compounding them and at the same time becoming out of touch and getting weird to boot........
P - Welcome to the world you created......Now clutch your pearls and be as clever as you can insulting people,,,Dems sure don't know how to govern,
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174622416
You didn't say the dems had created their own credibility gap. That would have been a totally different meaning than the one you conveyed. You said "the credibility gap" which to any reader would have to mean the credibility gap in America. Your side is the side that nurtures and feeds off mistrust.
We all know which party lies and cheats more. You know too, that's why when you blame Dems for creating a credibility gap you are lying.
Then you deny what you said.
" political commentator find me a nonpartisan commentator first
P - I didn't say dems had the biggest credibility gap, those are your words, mine is dems have a credibility gap due to their own partisanship....
P - Difference of opinion, and I would say you are silly and insolent to think dems don't.....And it showed in your accusation of me saying dems had the biggest.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174622416
Then you lie about what the other, me in this case, said. Too bad you didn't say what you meant to say in the first place.
B402, You ignore and you repeat:
"Centrist, seems to be a dirty word in the US, pragmatism a lost art.......Instead we are left with the 2 extremes of the spectrum of our modern politics....Thriving on division, neither willing to govern for the center"
Yet again --- -- B402, You have just read ..
Moreover, when self-proclaimed centrist pundits get concrete about the policies they want, they have to tie themselves
in knots to avoid admitting that what they’re describing are basically the positions of a guy named Barack Obama.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174565635
and the rest of that large excerpt, yet you act as though it means nothing.
Like Krugman doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. Read it again.
Now read ... https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174565781
B402, Your two party system will never freak out unless your electoral system is changed.
"The 2 party system will freak out when you will be able to read non partisan news and facts.......
You and conix, water gliders.
B402, To aim your nose horizontally you would have to have your eyes aligned vertically.
With your head at an angle like that so much no wonder you have the problems you do.
B402, Hmm, you are again pushing the envelope with post after post of your projectionist lies
"...again, you ignore and distract,
You guys are so bad you're still even up with that former guy....Guess that says it all
Great job dems "
and your ignorantly wanton sarcasm.
B402, Umm, leave aside your insulation, just go to one of the biggest, silliest, most obviously most partisan lies you have ever made here.
"You should have gotten out of the faculty lounge when Carville told ya you were getting out of hand
P - Co pilot smacked ya pretty good on outsourcing......Which leads back to the credibility gap you and dems now have created......You'll lie cheat and ignore the obvious all in the name of politics.... And continue down the path that lead us where we are today.....Great job of creating problems and compounding them and at the same time becoming out of touch and getting weird to boot........
P - Welcome to the world you created......Now clutch your pearls and be as clever as you can insulting people,,,Dems sure don't know how to govern,"
You could not, i'd say, come up with one single objectively respected political commentator who would even suggest Dems were more responsible for the credibility gap which exists in America today. More responsible than Trump and his enablers are. It would not be anywhere near close.
Lies as that from you can only totally erase any small semblance of credit you might deserve at other times. Seriously. You must be able to see that.
The credibility gap Dems have created. One of your biggest ever and most obvious lies. Firstly, there are Trump's record lies. And Trump's belief in Putin's. And:
"Alternative facts" was a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance numbers of Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States. When pressed during the interview with Chuck Todd to explain why Spicer would "utter a provable falsehood", Conway stated that Spicer was giving "alternative facts". Todd responded, "Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods."[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts
Exactly. B402, totally ignored AI telling him he was wrong. No, umm, ok, my bad. No reflection.
Just B402's usual -- ignore, drop subject, change subject...
"And now that ChatGPT has told said you are wrong about that, suddenly you want to find something else to criticize me about."
Yep. Election then jail for Bibi. And Trump would be just too, but...
Is what i thought -- "I think it is important. However, so is the vote of people who
feel Bibi just wants to kill everyone in Gaza. It's a huge headache for Biden." Thanks.