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Australian journalist says Indian government pressured her to leave
Why Farmers Are Protesting Around the World
"The country where 30 farmers die each day
"Trump and Modi are the mainstream faces of the global far right
"Indian protesters set fire to train stations over new law opening citizenship to some migrants
"India anyone? Is Modi’s India Safe for Muslims?"
By Gerry Shih
April 23, 2024 at 2:28 p.m. EDT
An image of Hardeep Singh Nijjar adorns a banner outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara
Sahib in Surrey, British Columbia, last fall. Last June, Nijjar, a champion of the Khalistan
separatist movement, was gunned down in his vehicle while leaving the temple's
parking lot. Australian journalist Avani Dias had reported on the movement
while in India. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press/AP)
NEW DELHI — An Australian journalist with the country’s public broadcaster was pressured to leave India after Indian authorities expressed anger over her reporting on Sikh separatism and informed her that her journalist visa would not be renewed, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the journalist, ABC South Asia bureau chief Avani Dias, said Tuesday.
The ABC, the only Australian media organization with resident journalists posted in India, said in an article published on its website that “weeks of lobbying” by Australian diplomats and the office of Foreign Minister Penny Wong prompted the Indian government to overturn its decision and give Dias a two-month visa extension, but the reversal came less than 24 hours before Dias was due to leave the country. Dias flew to Australia on Friday, the first day of India’s national elections.
“It felt too difficult to do my job in India,” Dias said in a new episode of her podcast series, “Looking for Modi,” that was released by the ABC on Tuesday. “I was struggling to get into public events run by Modi’s party, the government wouldn’t even give me the passes I need to cover the election, and the ministry left it all so late that we were already packed up and ready to go.”
Indian officials said Dias was “found to have violated visa rules while undertaking her professional pursuits” and characterized her account as “not correct, misleading and mischievous.” The officials said Dias was granted a visa extension on April 18 but chose to leave India on April 20. She would have been free to cover the elections had she stayed, they added.
Dias’s case marked the first time in years that a foreign correspondent on a resident journalist visa has left India under such circumstances. But many other foreign nationals working as journalists under other visas have faced mounting pressure in India.
Supporters of Amritpal Singh, a separatist leader, clash with police in Amritsar, India, in
February. (Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)
This year, India stripped French journalist Vanessa Dougnac — who had worked in India for 23 years for newspapers including Le Croix and Le Point — of her Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card, a permanent residency status that is granted to foreign nationals who are married to Indian citizens or have Indian heritage.
India’s Home Ministry accused Dougnac of producing “malicious and critical” reporting that created a “negative perception” of India, inciting disorder and traveling to restricted areas, according to the Indian news website ThePrint. Dougnac denied misconduct and returned to France on Feb. 16 after French officials unsuccessfully appealed her case during a visit by President Emmanuel Macron to New Delhi.
Since 2021, the Indian government has required OCI holders to apply for separate permission to work as journalists, lawyers or missionaries. But authorities have denied reporting credentials for at least six Western journalists, including high-profile employees at the BBC and Al Jazeera. These foreign nationals had been living in India and working as journalists for years before the government began its clampdown, forcing several to leave.
In 2023, Indian tax authorities raided the BBC newsroom in India shortly after the broadcaster aired a documentary in Britain that was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In her latest podcast episode, Dias said she was told by Indian officials that a 30-minute program she produced on the Khalistan separatist movement and the Indian intelligence agency’s alleged assassination of Khalistan leaders abroad had “gone too far.” Indian officials also took issue with her previous podcast episodes, which have delved into Modi’s personal life, she recalled.
Dias declined further comment.
The Indian government considers the Khalistan movement and its supporters to be threats to national security and ordered YouTube to take down the ABC episode in India after it was released in March. YouTube complied with the order. In the wake of Dias’s departure, an unnamed Indian official told the Hindustan Times on Tuesday that her documentary “glorified terrorism,” lacked objectivity and offered a platform to “extremists and a fringe group of separatists.”
ABC Managing Director David Anderson said in a statement that the broadcaster “fully backs and stands by the important and impactful reporting by Avani Dias during her time as ABC correspondent in India. … The ABC believes strongly in the role of independent journalism across the globe, and freedom of the press outside Australia.”
India in recent years has steadily declined in the Reporters Without Borders annual World Press Freedom Index, reaching a low of 161st place in the 2023 edition. Indian journalists are often subject to pressures exceeding what foreign correspondents face, including online harassment, tax investigations, electronic surveillance and arrest.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/23/india-journalist-avani-dias-abc/
Thanks ...bob. Good to snag one.
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
[...]
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.
vintagenatgeographic.tumblr.com
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"
[...]
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.
HuffPost
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
[...]
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.
Bettmann / Contributor
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.
Thanks.
LOLOL, thought it might be too early for yours. Whoopeee, got
one right! 1st time no egg. Sorry to have bothered you, boss.
Yep, that's the likely field .. https://thecjcupbyronnelson.org/the-field/ .
5pm. Good to know.
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,
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."
Contact the ABC's Specialist Reporting Team: [form inside]
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/meta-accounts-hacked-take-months-to-resolve-small-business/103733494
One of the very best interview videos of the type. Thanks for the intro.
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
Eli, Am preparing to catch an egg again - can't see the field in there, the players list looks all players?? but not the CJ field. Maybe too early. Wondered so wandered and got this one .. https://thecjcupbyronnelson.org/the-field/ , Schauffele, Scheffler... not there.
As always when have a question for you i get egg...face .. have a catcher's
glove ready when someone tells me where the CJ field presently is in your link ..
https://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/2024/the-cj-cup-byron-nelson/R2024019?deviceId=2e455726-0a5a-459b-bece-a43b6b92d595
I only ask because can't find the field in yours and again, wonder what i'm missing.
The Players up top almost got me as the field, but Scheffler for one, is in it and not as expected in the other above.
Ready with a wet sponge too..
Will likely be there myself. Was pleasantly surprised to see Cillian Murphy in it. You must have enjoyed Peaky
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
Thanks logger... and to Eli for the update.
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
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.
conix, Weiss certainly has a tendency to simplistic superficiality at times
Political views
According to The Washington Post, Weiss "portrays herself as a liberal uncomfortable with the excesses of left-wing culture",[70] and has sought to "position herself as a reasonable liberal concerned that far-left critiques stifled free speech".[71] Vanity Fair described Weiss as "a provocateur".[6] The Jewish Telegraphic Agency said that her writing "doesn't lend itself easily to labels".[72] Weiss has been described as conservative by Haaretz, The Times of Israel, The Daily Dot, and Business Insider.[73][74][75][76] In an interview with Joe Rogan, she described herself as a "left-leaning centrist".[77] The Times of Israel recounted that her public fight with the New York Times made her a hero among some conservatives.[78]
Weiss has expressed support for Israel and Zionism in her columns. When writer Andrew Sullivan described her as an "unhinged Zionist", she responded saying she "happily plead[s] guilty as charged".[79] As of 2024, Weiss had visited Israel over 15 times, including after the October 7 attacks, and compared pro-Israel social media commentators to former Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky, whose years in prison made him an icon of the movement to free Jews from the Soviet Union.[78]
In 2018, she said she believed the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but questioned whether they should disqualify him from serving on the Supreme Court because he was 17 when he allegedly committed the assault against Christine Blasey Ford.[75] After backlash in the press, Weiss conceded that her sound bite was glib and simplistic, and said instead that Kavanaugh's "rage-filled behavior" before the Senate Judiciary Committee should have disqualified him.[6]
Following the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, Weiss was a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher in early November 2018. She said of American Jews who support President Donald Trump:
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I hope this week that American Jews have woken up to the price of that bargain: They have traded policies that they like for the values that have sustained the Jewish people—and frankly, this country—forever: Welcoming the stranger; dignity for all human beings; equality under the law; respect for dissent; love of truth.[80]
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In 2019, The Jerusalem Post named Weiss the seventh most influential Jew in the world.[81]
In January 2022, Weiss was criticized by a doctor appearing on CNN for her comments on the late night talk show Real Time with Bill Maher criticizing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, citing that the COVID-19 pandemic response had resulted in mental health issues and that as a result she was "done with COVID".[82]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss#Political_views
Wow. Miles Russell, 15. Also, it sounds he has some good people looking after him
"“I am honored to be receiving an exemption into the 2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship,” Russell said in the AJGA release. “I have dreamt of playing on the PGA TOUR my entire life and to have that dream coming to fruition later this year is a feeling that I cannot describe. I am grateful to the tournament and the AJGA for their partnership that is allowing me this incredible opportunity.”"
Next week, eh. Hope he goes well and that he has all it takes. The more like Aberg the better.
Thanks. Yep, Scheffler does have that tiny extra something that makes him outstanding among the world's best.
Elon Musk and Anthony Albanese's church attack spat isn't about free speech. It's about power
"Anthony Albanese and Elon Musk feud over X's bid to show graphic stabbing footage, as conservative senator shares footage
"Meta more Aussie hassle -- eSafety commissioner orders X and Meta to remove violent videos following Sydney church stabbing"
Surely the spat is not only about power. No, it's about both free speech and power.
By political correspondent Brett Worthington
Posted 8h ago, updated 8h ago
VIDEO - Anthony Albanese says Elon Musk is an "arrogant billionaire who thinks he's above the law".
It takes a special kind of person to attract universal criticism across Australia's federal political landscape.
For Elon Musk, the controversial owner of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the backlash he's facing is likely something he'll wear as a badge of honour.
He's been called an "egotistical billionaire" by cabinet minister Tanya Plibersek, a "narcissistic cowboy" by Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, an "absolute friggin' disgrace" by the Tasmanian independent Jacqui Lambie and an "arrogant billionaire who thinks he's above the law" by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
The Coalition too wants in, putting aside its usual defence of free speech rights to suggest Musk is pursuing an "insulting and offensive argument" in his refusal to remove graphic footage of a stabbing in a Sydney church last week.
PM and Elon Musk feud
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and billionaire Elon Musk trade barbs, as a feud continues over
his social media platform's bid to display graphic stabbing footage from the Sydney attacks.
Read more > https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/albanese-musk-feud-x-removal-stabbing-footage/103756722
That incident, which authorities quickly called an act of terrorism, saw Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel hospitalised with lacerations to his head after being lunged at with a knife during a mass that was being broadcast online.
Footage of the incident spread across social media platforms, prompting Australia's eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant to order websites take down content referencing the Wakeley stabbing.
Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, agreed, while Musk's company X threatened its legal action in a bid to fight the government.
If it was a legal fight that Musk was wanting, he got it. Inman Grant beat him to the court and won a two-day injunction against X for only blocking the content in Australia .. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-22/esafety-commissioner-seeks-injunction-against-x/103755874 .
At the time of writing, the video remains online and is actively being promoted by a crossbench senator .. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/albanese-musk-feud-x-removal-stabbing-footage/103756722 .. elected under Clive Palmer's party.
Case sparks questions about the reach of Australian law
The whole saga offers a timely reminder of how far the world has come in such a short time.
It was only in 2008 that Supreme Court Justice Betty King banned the crime drama Underbelly from being broadcast in Victoria .. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-02-12/judge-bans-underbelly/1040072 . It was a simpler time. TV episodes were broadcast weekly, streaming was barely a thing and getting the episodes to Victoria almost required the shelving of a USB (maybe don't Google that at work) to get it across state lines.
Now we live in a globally connected world, where technology and media companies have wide-reaching platforms that share content across international jurisdictions.
The Musk-Inman Grant matter sits in the hands of the courts to determine how far-reaching Australian laws are.
Should a country be able to ban content being shown globally? Where does the line exist? Could a country, say Russia, have the ability to demand X remove content beyond its borders of Ukraine's military resistance?
These are questions for the nation's sharpest legal minds to determine. But there is more at play here than simply matters of the law.
Elon Musk is finding few federal political friends wanting to support his response to the terror attack in Sydeny.
(ABC News)
Both Musk and Australian politicians are using the case to fight political battles in their interests.
For Musk, it's a chance to further bolster his free speech credentials. It's in his interests to pick a fight with a government he thinks is overreaching. It's a chance for him to be seen sticking it to "the man".
But there is more at stake than just speech. His commercial interests lie at the heart of this dispute.
Musk knows that other nations are closely watching the laws Australia makes for the social media giants. Just look at how Australia's plain packaging of tobacco has been adopted internationally. Further social media crackdowns here could come with greater crackdowns in bigger markets like the United States and the United Kingdom.
The X owner says the footage should stay up because it doesn't breach the company's standards.
Musk also seems to forget that free speech doesn't mean it's free of consequences. Global tech companies might have long been able to influence governments of the day, but it is the law of the land, not his commercial interest, that determines what is legal and what isn't.
For Albanese and the broader Australian political class, this too is about standing up to "the man".
The government sees a political virtue in pushing back against Musk and his platform, which has repeatedly been found to foster a toxic discourse. They've determined that the spreading of a terrorist act is a bridge too far in the public's eyes.
Labor likely sees another use for this scandal. It's been threatening greater action against the social media platforms to curb the spread of misinformation. This unrelated scandal offers cover for advancing new laws against the tech giants.
It's little wonder Meta, knowing the threat it is facing, was so keen to be seen to have followed Inman Grant's orders .. https://medium.com/meta-australia-policy-blog/metas-response-to-the-recent-attacks-in-sydney-0109a8f8ddcc . (Also, did someone say schadenfreude?).
Julie Inman Grant has powers to compel social media companies to release information. (ABC News: Adam Kennedy)
The former US president Theodore Roosevelt is often quoted as saying you can go a long way if you "speak softly and carry a big stick".
It's a sentiment that embodies the American-born Inman Grant's approach to her tenure as eSafety commissioner.
Inman Grant is a former senior official at Twitter. She knows X's soft underbelly and has repeatedly shown an ability to find the spot to inflict pain on the company when it fails to meet community standards.
Her job comes with enforceable powers which means if the companies don't answer her questions, they face daily fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's these powers that have allowed her to accuse X of failing to police hate and failing to meet anti-child-abuse standards .. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-16/social-media-x-fined-over-gaps-in-child-abuse-prevention/102980590 .
That big stick that Inman Grant carries has brought with it not just shame but financial pain for Musk's X.
He's now taken to calling her the "Australian censorship commissar", a move straight out of Donald Trump's playbook to dismiss her as a Communist or Soviet party official.
Having touched a nerve, Musk might not be the only one wearing a badge of honour.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/elon-musk-anthony-albanese-church-court-injunction-x/103757040
Anthony Albanese and Elon Musk feud over X's bid to show graphic stabbing footage, as conservative senator shares footage
"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
'Meta says Facebook cannot solve media industry’s ‘issues’ as it defends ending payments for news in Australia
May, 2022 - "Australia's Standoff Against Google and Facebook Worked—Sort Of'""
By political reporter Jake Evans
Posted 16h ago, updated 9h ago
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Elon Musk's comments expose him as an "out of touch" billionaire.
(ABC News: Nick Haggarty)
* In short: Anthony Albanese and Elon Musk are feuding over the billionaire's fight for X to be able to display violent content.
* Following a temporary order to remove graphic videos of the Wakeley church stabbing, a federal senator has reposted the clip.
* What's next? X has vowed to continue fighting the eSafety commissioner's order.
A federal senator has shared the unedited violent footage of the Wakeley church stabbing attack as a feud continues over X's bid to be able to host it on its site.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday morning hit back at "arrogant" billionaire Elon Musk after he made comments goading Mr Albanese on his social media platform X.
Mr Musk is feuding with Australia's eSafety commissioner over an order to remove graphic footage of last week's Sydney church stabbing, and on Monday night faced a defeat in court when it ruled X must temporarily pull the posts from its site .. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-22/esafety-commissioner-seeks-injunction-against-x/103755874 ..until the next hearing date.
Overnight Mr Musk twice posted comments mocking Australia's prime minister, suggesting X's refusal to remove the violent videos left it alone among social media platforms as a defender of free speech.
"I’d like to take a moment to thank the PM for informing the public that this platform is the only truthful one," Mr Musk wrote.
Don’t take my word for it, just ask the Australian PM! pic.twitter.com/ZJBKrstStQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 22, 2024
Unfortunate, but true.
Reminder - Trump administration broke law in withholding Ukraine aid, watchdog says as Senate prepares for impeachment trial
"[...] Matter of: Office of Management and Budget—Withholding of Ukraine Security
Assistance"
Published Thu, Jan 16 202010:05 AM EST Updated Thu, Jan 16 20207:20 PM EST
Dan Mangan @_DanMangan , Kevin Breuninger @KevinWilliamB
Key Points
* The Trump administration broke the law by witholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine over the summer “for a policy reason,” a top government watchdog said.
* The report by the Government Accountability Office came a day after the House of Representatives sent articles of impeachment of President Donald Trump to the Senate for conduct related to the withholding of that aid to Ukraine.
* Trump held back the funds while pressuring Ukraine’s new president to announce investigations by that country of former Vice President Joe Biden, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
More -- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/16/trump-administration-broke-law-in-withholding-ukraine-aid.html
Unpacking the alleged crime that made Trump’s alleged crime a felony
"Trump’s Trial Challenge: Being Stripped of Control
"Prosecutors Want to Ask Trump About Attacks on Women"
Analysis by Philip Bump
National columnist
April 22, 2024 at 2:31 p.m. EDT
Donald Trump, left, attorney Michael Cohen and adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. (AP)
All links
Attorneys offered opening arguments in the criminal trial of Donald Trump on Monday in Manhattan, beginning the process of presenting to the jury the state’s case against the former president. The jury will ultimately be asked not whether Trump is guilty of a crime in the abstract but, instead, whether the state provided enough evidence to eliminate any doubt that he violated the letter of the law. This means that the letter of the specific law undergirding the charges in the indictment against Trump is crucially important.
In that indictment .. https://manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donald-J.-Trump-Indictment.pdf , Trump is charged with 34 felonies, each predicated on his having allegedly falsified business records. Specifically, prosecutors argue, he caused the Trump Organization and his personal trust to record payments made to attorney Michael Cohen in 2017 as retainer fees rather than as reimbursements for the $130,000 that Cohen paid to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.
Falsifying business records is not always a felony. But if the “intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof,” the New York criminal statute reads .. https://content.next.westlaw.com/Document/NACF91AF08C9211D882FF83A3182D7B4A/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 .. , it can be charged as one. As it was in each of the charges against Trump.
So what is the “another crime?” It isn’t articulated in the criminal indictment. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) was somewhat vague when the indictment was handed down, saying that the intent was “to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.”
Offering his opening statement Monday, prosecutor Matthew Colangelo made clear that the crime was centered on Cohen’s payment to Daniels.
“This was a planned, coordinated, long-running conspiracy to influence the 2016 election,” Colangelo said, “to help Donald Trump get elected through illegal expenditures, to silence people who had something bad to say about his behavior, using doctored corporate records. It was election fraud, pure and simple.”
Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, rejected that idea.
“There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election; it’s called democracy,” he said during his opening statement. “They put something sinister on this idea as if it was a crime. You’ll learn it’s not.”
Except that it can be. And in this case, almost certainly is.
VIDEO Trump’s shifting story on the Stormy Daniels payment 1:25
In 2018, President Donald Trump denied knowing about a hush money payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.
Later that year, he changed his tune. (Video: JM Rieger/The Washington Post,
Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
At issue is another fairly esoteric body of law: campaign-finance limits. These laws limit how much money people can contribute to political campaigns and how campaigns have to report what they take in and how they spend it. Outside parties can spend money on promoting candidates, too; those are called independent expenditures. But they can’t coordinate with the campaigns or candidates on how they plan to do so.
The goal of those laws — an important aspect of the issue at hand — is centrally to limit the corruption that could follow from a big donor bankrolling a candidate’s entire campaign. If, say, Google could simply put up a candidate and spend $1 billion getting her elected to the Senate, it would be hard for anyone to compete — and Google would have a presumably loyal senator sitting in D.C.
So with those prohibitions in mind, consider what Cohen did — as he admitted when pleading guilty .. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/michael-cohen-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-eight-counts-including-criminal-tax .. to federal campaign-finance charges.
Cohen and a representative of Trump’s campaign (later revealed to be Trump) met with David Pecker — then chairman of American Media Inc. and publisher of the National Enquirer — in August 2015. Pecker offered to help the campaign by buying stories that would reflect negatively on Trump and then burying them. AMI and Pecker confirmed this story in a non-prosecution agreement reached with the government.
Already, you can see that this is an offer to benefit the campaign that involved coordination with agents of the campaign; that is, with people empowered to act on the campaign’s behalf. That’s Trump himself, of course, but also Cohen, who would represent the campaign publicly and discussed campaign strategy with Trump.
When Pecker later bought a similar story from former Playboy model Karen McDougal for $150,000 intending to bury it, it 1) was an action taken to benefit the campaign, as per the August 2015 meeting and 2) was not an independent expenditure, since the McDougal payment was made in consultation with Cohen. Cohen pleaded guilty to “causing an unlawful corporate contribution” — since corporations like AMI can’t legally contribute .. https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/who-can-and-cant-contribute/#:~:text=Corporations%2C%20labor%20organizations%2C%20national%20banks&text=National%20banks%20and%20federally%20chartered,%E2%80%93federal%2C%20state%20or%20local. .. to campaigns, and the $150,000 was a non-monetary contribution to Trump. AMI and Pecker offered testimony, resulting in that non-prosecution agreement.
In October 2016, a month before the election, Pecker informed Cohen about Daniels’s story. Cohen reached a deal with Daniels’s attorney — also McDougal’s attorney — for $130,000, but didn’t pay immediately. Only when Cohen learned that Daniels was thinking of going public elsewhere in the days before the election did Cohen finally pay the money.
Cohen pleaded guilty to federal campaign-finance charges related to this as well. That plea didn’t depend on arguing that Cohen was an agent of the campaign, though; instead, it argued that Cohen made the contribution “in cooperation, consultation, and concert with, and at the request and suggestion of one or more members of the campaign.” A later filing identified that member of the campaign: Trump .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/07/government-implicates-trump-trump-campaign-federal-campaign-finance-law-violations/?itid=lk_inline_manual_30 .
Some on the right have argued that the payment to Daniels didn’t violate campaign-finance law. Earlier this month, Trump shared on social media a 2023 article .. https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/04/no-cohens-guilty-plea-does-not-prove-trump-committed-campaign-finance-crimes/ .. written by the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy, making that case.
The timing, McCarthy argued, “was just common-sense hardball” on the part of Daniels and McDougal, “striking when their leverage against the notoriously parsimonious Trump was at its height; it didn’t mean that [nondisclosure agreements] — which Trump had plenty of other personal, political, and business incentives to pay for — were necessarily in-kind campaign expenses.”
Perhaps this could be an argument made against such charges, albeit a dubious one. After all, Cohen recorded a September 2016 conversation .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/24/four-important-points-that-arise-from-the-trump-cohen-recording/?itid=lk_inline_manual_36 .. with Trump in which they discussed the McDougal case and, in another context, the need to bury negative information until after Election Day. The idea that Trump and Cohen didn’t view the Daniels payment as related to the campaign is ridiculous — especially since it first came to their attention immediately after The Washington Post published the “Access Hollywood” tape, drawing new scrutiny to Trump’s interactions with women.
But Trump’s defense team isn’t trying to make McCarthy’s argument anyway.
“There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election,” Blanche told jurors Monday. “It’s called democracy.”
So if Trump was admittedly trying to influence the election by agreeing with Cohen to pay off Daniels, then Cohen — as he admitted in federal court — violated campaign-finance laws. And therefore, if the repayments to Cohen were falsified to obscure their intent — remember, the Cohen-Daniels story didn’t become public until 2018, after the reimbursements had been made — it seems as though that was done to “conceal the commission” of those campaign-finance violations.
Proving Trump actively caused the records to be falsified is the central job of Manhattan prosecutors. Demonstrating that the records were allegedly falsified to obscure this other crime seems a much easier task.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/22/trump-hush-money-trial-charges/
They had some top scientists .. “Operation Paperclip.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-us-government-brought-nazi-scientists-america-after-world-war-ii-180961110/
Lime Time, You thunk like a lemon. Scholars once thought earth was the center of the universe, some non-scholars even now see it as flat. Sex orientation has moved us past you bipolar vision. Science is a wondrous study. Read. Consider Learn.
B402, Fuck off with your conservative bleat. It's a big deal because of your conservative culture war creation. The sexual continuum is a biological fact and your conservative camp's inability to cope with it is at the basis of the unhealthy extremist controversy your far-right has created. Your side's lack of realistic policy has resulted in your manufactured culture war. What else to do your Rufo .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171727736 .. said. Administrators and athletes were handling it with little relative fuss until your rabid anti-trans zealots stirred the pot.
Attacks on Ohio transgender community a calculated political ploy to scapegoat the vulnerable
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Plenty more you should study before making such a silly post again.
Lime Time, No comments re moderation, tia. And if we were into stickies yours would not be in contention.
Have always felt that.
Att: livefree..., conix, Your Niall rang a bell (still can't figure why you won't/don't include the author)
The case for cuts was a lie. Why does Britain still believe it? The austerity delusion
Paul Krugman
In May 2010, as Britain headed into its last general election, elites all across the western world were gripped by austerity fever, a strange malady that combined extravagant fear with blithe optimism. Every country running significant budget deficits – as nearly all were in the aftermath of the financial crisis – was deemed at imminent risk of becoming another Greece unless it immediately began cutting spending and raising taxes. Concerns that imposing such austerity in already depressed economies would deepen their depression and delay recovery were airily dismissed; fiscal probity, we were assured, would inspire business-boosting confidence, and all would be well.
[...]
Part of the answer is that politicians were catering to a public that doesn’t understand the rationale for deficit spending, that tends to think of the government budget via analogies with family finances. When John Boehner, the Republican leader, opposed US stimulus plans on the grounds that “American families are tightening their belt, but they don’t see government tightening its belt,” economists cringed at the stupidity. But within a few months the very same line was showing up in Barack Obama’s speeches, because his speechwriters found that it resonated with audiences. Similarly, the Labour party felt it necessary to dedicate the very first page of its 2015 general election manifesto to a “Budget Responsibility Lock”, promising to “cut the deficit every year”.
Let us not, however, be too harsh on the public. Many elite opinion-makers, including people who imagine themselves sophisticated on matters economic, demonstrated at best a higher level of incomprehension, not getting at all the logic of deficit spending in the face of excess desired saving. For example, in the spring of 2009 the Harvard historian and economic commentator Niall Ferguson .. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jun/11/the-crisis-and-how-to-deal-with-it/?pagination=false , talking about the United States, was quite sure what would happen: “There is going to be, I predict, in the weeks and months ahead, a very painful tug-of-war between our monetary policy and our fiscal policy as the markets realise just what a vast quantity of bonds are going to have to be absorbed by the financial system this year. That will tend to drive the price of the bonds down, and drive up interest rates.” The weeks and months turned into years – six years, at this point – and interest rates remain at historic lows.
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Hello, Vexari. Agree you are priceless.
If he had any future as a basketballer, you'd probably have heard before now. You talked
me into it .. https://people.com/all-about-barron-trump-donald-trump-son-7507615 .
Agree. Still IF, i would. It's for the individual act. That's all.
You've done well without it, maybe better than you would have if you'd
gone because the experiences you had instead have served you well.
It's overrated. And muchly by the emphasis put on a degree by employers.
Does he play basketball? An NBA star not good enough, i guess. I read somewhere
she was the only one Donald was afraid of. You think there is anything in that?
gunner5757, You are an ignorant , and overly nasty piece of work. You have a problem, let's call it TDS Trump
Demolition Syndrome. Won't say it's been nice knowing you, but you get what you wanted i guess. You are gone.