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re: Why do American Jews support the left so much despite this?
Posted by Eurocat on 4/30/25 at 12:35 am
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I just can’t figure out why so many Jews are such leftists
Maybe because they "get it"?
The future of the world is sociasm. The future of the world is not what we have today.
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re: Canadian PM announces "our old relationship with the US is over...we have other options"
Posted by Eurocat on 4/29/25 at 2:14 pm
This is good for America how exactly? No seriously, apart from a guy in wife beater t-shirt drinking his Pabst and saying "f*ck yeah" how is any of this good for America or Canada?
Again, no emptions, economic practicalities please. How is this going to help the people of Louisiana?
Again, no emptions, economic practicalities please. How is this going to help the people of Louisiana?
Trump "I run the country and I run the world"
Posted by Eurocat on 4/28/25 at 5:37 pm
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President Trump shared his thoughts on how his two terms as president have differed, saying in a new interview with The Atlantic that this time around he’s leading “the country and the world.”
“The first time, I had two things to do — run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” Trump said in the interview published Monday. “And the second time, I run the country and the world.”
President Trump shared his thoughts on how his two terms as president have differed, saying in a new interview with The Atlantic that this time around he’s leading “the country and the world.”
“The first time, I had two things to do — run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” Trump said in the interview published Monday. “And the second time, I run the country and the world.”
re: Lawyer gets standing ovation - justices included - at the Supreme Court
Posted by Eurocat on 4/28/25 at 3:22 pm
I would not call it a rarity. But it should happen all the time, and it does not. But to say, basically, that all government lawyers (in other words all - ALL - prosecutors are bad) is a leftists "defund the police" type of argument which I reject.
re: Tucker Interview with Only American Reporter Embedded with Russian Troops
Posted by Eurocat on 4/28/25 at 3:18 pm
Would not be surprised if he is not one of these -
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Ann Foley, a part-time real estate agent, lived a middle-class, all-American lifestyle with her husband, Don, and their two sons, in Cambridge, Mass., home of many of America’s most prestigious universities and think tanks.
But the likeable, friendly couple had a very secret life.
Ann was, in fact, Elena Vavilova, a deep-cover spy trained by the secret Russian intelligence agency, the notorious KGB. Don, her seemingly pleasant husband, was actually Andrei Bezrukov, also a KGB agent. In June 2010, the couple, both illegals in the US, was arrested by the FBI.
In New York City, meanwhile, Anna Chapman also worked in real estate, but lived a far different lifestyle than Ann Foley. Voluptuous and flame-haired, Chapman had a reputation for flirting with her potential property clients — the Big Apple’s men of power and wealth.
But the two women, Foley and Chapman, did have one commonality.
Chapman, too, was a secret Russian agent here to spy on America. In 2010, she was arrested with nine other Russian spies, with authorities breaking up one of the largest intelligence networks in the US since the end of the Cold War.
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Ann Foley, a part-time real estate agent, lived a middle-class, all-American lifestyle with her husband, Don, and their two sons, in Cambridge, Mass., home of many of America’s most prestigious universities and think tanks.
But the likeable, friendly couple had a very secret life.
Ann was, in fact, Elena Vavilova, a deep-cover spy trained by the secret Russian intelligence agency, the notorious KGB. Don, her seemingly pleasant husband, was actually Andrei Bezrukov, also a KGB agent. In June 2010, the couple, both illegals in the US, was arrested by the FBI.
In New York City, meanwhile, Anna Chapman also worked in real estate, but lived a far different lifestyle than Ann Foley. Voluptuous and flame-haired, Chapman had a reputation for flirting with her potential property clients — the Big Apple’s men of power and wealth.
But the two women, Foley and Chapman, did have one commonality.
Chapman, too, was a secret Russian agent here to spy on America. In 2010, she was arrested with nine other Russian spies, with authorities breaking up one of the largest intelligence networks in the US since the end of the Cold War.
re: Lawyer gets standing ovation - justices included - at the Supreme Court
Posted by Eurocat on 4/28/25 at 3:12 pm
So if accused of a crime, you would prefer a government attorney who cares only about "winning" instead of a government attorney who plays it straight and sticks to the rules?
re: Tucker Interview with Only American Reporter Embedded with Russian Troops
Posted by Eurocat on 4/28/25 at 3:10 pm
NATO did not start the conflict nor did Ukraine anymore than Poland started World War 2 by being invaded or America did by being attacked at Pearl Harbor.
re: Tucker Interview with Only American Reporter Embedded with Russian Troops
Posted by Eurocat on 4/28/25 at 3:08 pm
From the Lancaster Family - The Story of an American Reporter Who Settled in the DNR, Was a Friend of Givi, and Uses Morgue Bodies for Fake News
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A month later, as the war raged, Lancaster reportedly found himself trailing a Russian soldier through the burnt-out remains of a Mariupol school that had allegedly been used as a base for Ukraine’s military. In the basement, Lancaster’s footage showed the body of a local woman who the Russian soldiers claimed had been raped by members of the Ukrainian military and had a swastika painted in blood on her chest. “It was a base of the National Guard and presumably the fighters of the Azov Battalion,” a Russian soldier told Lancaster on his YouTube channel. But the explosion on the Russian border turned out to be a fake, concocted by the Kremlin as a way to justify its imminent invasion. And evidence suggests that the soldiers who painted the swastika on the woman’s body were from Russia.
It was no surprise that Lancaster, a former Navy intelligence officer from St. Louis, was the one sharing these stories. Over the last eight years, he has embedded himself with pro-Russian separatist forces in Donbas, spread pro-Kremlin disinformation about the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, worked with numerous Kremlin-backed Tv stations, and most recently appeared on Alex Jones’ Infowars spreading pro-Kremlin narratives about the war.
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A small network of pro-Kremlin content creators have seen their audiences grow dramatically in recent months while spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine, evading social media platforms’ efforts to curb Russian propaganda and paving a path to Western audiences, according to research published Wednesday.
The creators are self-described “independent journalists” whose reports are often made from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine and amplify Kremlin talking points and downplay or deny reported Russian atrocities. Researchers say the on-the-ground reports — which come in English, French, German and other languages — have proved effective at circumnavigating commitments from European governments and U.S.-based social media platforms to stop the spread of Russian propaganda.
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A month later, as the war raged, Lancaster reportedly found himself trailing a Russian soldier through the burnt-out remains of a Mariupol school that had allegedly been used as a base for Ukraine’s military. In the basement, Lancaster’s footage showed the body of a local woman who the Russian soldiers claimed had been raped by members of the Ukrainian military and had a swastika painted in blood on her chest. “It was a base of the National Guard and presumably the fighters of the Azov Battalion,” a Russian soldier told Lancaster on his YouTube channel. But the explosion on the Russian border turned out to be a fake, concocted by the Kremlin as a way to justify its imminent invasion. And evidence suggests that the soldiers who painted the swastika on the woman’s body were from Russia.
It was no surprise that Lancaster, a former Navy intelligence officer from St. Louis, was the one sharing these stories. Over the last eight years, he has embedded himself with pro-Russian separatist forces in Donbas, spread pro-Kremlin disinformation about the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, worked with numerous Kremlin-backed Tv stations, and most recently appeared on Alex Jones’ Infowars spreading pro-Kremlin narratives about the war.
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A small network of pro-Kremlin content creators have seen their audiences grow dramatically in recent months while spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine, evading social media platforms’ efforts to curb Russian propaganda and paving a path to Western audiences, according to research published Wednesday.
The creators are self-described “independent journalists” whose reports are often made from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine and amplify Kremlin talking points and downplay or deny reported Russian atrocities. Researchers say the on-the-ground reports — which come in English, French, German and other languages — have proved effective at circumnavigating commitments from European governments and U.S.-based social media platforms to stop the spread of Russian propaganda.
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Lawyer gets standing ovation - justices included - at the Supreme Court
Posted by Eurocat on 4/28/25 at 2:58 pm
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After a routine Supreme Court argument on Wednesday, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. asked the lawyer who had represented the government to return to the lectern. “You have just presented your 160th argument before this court, and I understand it is intended to be your last,” the chief justice told the lawyer, Edwin S. Kneedler, who is retiring as a deputy solicitor general. “That is the record for modern times.” Chief Justice Roberts talked a little more, with affection and high praise, thanking Mr. Kneedler for his “extraordinary care and professionalism.”
Then something remarkable happened. Applause burst out in the courtroom, and that led to a standing ovation for Mr. Kneedler, with the justices joining, too.
“It was a rare moment of unanimity and spontaneous joy from all nine justices on the bench,” said Richard Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard. “They were all beaming.” Kannon Shanmugam, a veteran Supreme Court lawyer, said it was “one of the most electric moments I’ve ever seen in the courtroom.”
The tribute to Mr. Kneedler’s candor and integrity came against the backdrop of a different kind of courtroom behavior. In the early months of the second Trump administration, its lawyers have been accused of gamesmanship, dishonesty and defiance, and have been fired for providing frank answers to judges.
Mr. Kneedler presented a different model, former colleagues said.
“Ed is the embodiment of the government lawyer ideal — one whose duty of candor to the court and interest in doing justice, not just winning a case, always carried the day,” said Gregory G. Garre, who served as solicitor general under President George W. Bush. Mr. Shanmugam said Mr, Kneedler’s loyalty was to the rule of law. “He would much rather get the law right at the risk of losing,” Mr. Shanmugam said, “than win at the cost of misrepresenting the law.”
Seth P. Waxman, who was solicitor general in the Clinton administration, said Mr. Kneedler was the opposite of a partisan. “In all the years that I worked with Ed in the Justice Department, I did not know his politics,” Mr. Waxman said.
After a routine Supreme Court argument on Wednesday, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. asked the lawyer who had represented the government to return to the lectern. “You have just presented your 160th argument before this court, and I understand it is intended to be your last,” the chief justice told the lawyer, Edwin S. Kneedler, who is retiring as a deputy solicitor general. “That is the record for modern times.” Chief Justice Roberts talked a little more, with affection and high praise, thanking Mr. Kneedler for his “extraordinary care and professionalism.”
Then something remarkable happened. Applause burst out in the courtroom, and that led to a standing ovation for Mr. Kneedler, with the justices joining, too.
“It was a rare moment of unanimity and spontaneous joy from all nine justices on the bench,” said Richard Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard. “They were all beaming.” Kannon Shanmugam, a veteran Supreme Court lawyer, said it was “one of the most electric moments I’ve ever seen in the courtroom.”
The tribute to Mr. Kneedler’s candor and integrity came against the backdrop of a different kind of courtroom behavior. In the early months of the second Trump administration, its lawyers have been accused of gamesmanship, dishonesty and defiance, and have been fired for providing frank answers to judges.
Mr. Kneedler presented a different model, former colleagues said.
“Ed is the embodiment of the government lawyer ideal — one whose duty of candor to the court and interest in doing justice, not just winning a case, always carried the day,” said Gregory G. Garre, who served as solicitor general under President George W. Bush. Mr. Shanmugam said Mr, Kneedler’s loyalty was to the rule of law. “He would much rather get the law right at the risk of losing,” Mr. Shanmugam said, “than win at the cost of misrepresenting the law.”
Seth P. Waxman, who was solicitor general in the Clinton administration, said Mr. Kneedler was the opposite of a partisan. “In all the years that I worked with Ed in the Justice Department, I did not know his politics,” Mr. Waxman said.
re: Mickey Loomis impersonator prank calls Sanders
Posted by Eurocat on 4/28/25 at 2:42 pm
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More are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying late
Posted by Eurocat on 4/27/25 at 11:56 pm
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Lending Tree’s chief consumer finance analyst, Matt Schulz, said that of those respondents who said they paid a BNPL bill late, most said it was by no more than a week or so.
“A lot of people are struggling and looking for ways to extend their budget,” Schulz said. “Inflation is still a problem. Interest rates are still really high. There’s a lot of uncertainty around tariffs and other economic issues, and it’s all going to add up to a lot of people looking for ways to extend their budget however they can. For an awful lot of people, that’s going to mean leaning on buy now, pay later loans, for better or for worse,” he said.
He stopped short of calling the results a recession indicator but said conditions are expected to decline further before they get better.
“I do think it’s going to get worse, at least in the short term,” said Schulz. “I don’t know that there’s a whole lot of reason to expect these numbers to get better in the near term.”
The loans, which allow consumers to split up purchases into several smaller payments, are a popular alternative to credit cards because they often don’t charge interest. But consumers can see high fees if they pay late, and they can run into problems if they stack up multiple loans. In Lending Tree’s survey, 60% of BNPL users said they’ve had multiple loans at once, with nearly a fourth saying they have held three or more at once.
“It’s just really important for people to be cautious when they use these things, because even though they can be a really good interest-free tool to help you kind of make it from one paycheck to the next, there’s also a lot of risk in mismanaging it,” said Schulz. “So people should tread lightly.”
Lending Tree’s chief consumer finance analyst, Matt Schulz, said that of those respondents who said they paid a BNPL bill late, most said it was by no more than a week or so.
“A lot of people are struggling and looking for ways to extend their budget,” Schulz said. “Inflation is still a problem. Interest rates are still really high. There’s a lot of uncertainty around tariffs and other economic issues, and it’s all going to add up to a lot of people looking for ways to extend their budget however they can. For an awful lot of people, that’s going to mean leaning on buy now, pay later loans, for better or for worse,” he said.
He stopped short of calling the results a recession indicator but said conditions are expected to decline further before they get better.
“I do think it’s going to get worse, at least in the short term,” said Schulz. “I don’t know that there’s a whole lot of reason to expect these numbers to get better in the near term.”
The loans, which allow consumers to split up purchases into several smaller payments, are a popular alternative to credit cards because they often don’t charge interest. But consumers can see high fees if they pay late, and they can run into problems if they stack up multiple loans. In Lending Tree’s survey, 60% of BNPL users said they’ve had multiple loans at once, with nearly a fourth saying they have held three or more at once.
“It’s just really important for people to be cautious when they use these things, because even though they can be a really good interest-free tool to help you kind of make it from one paycheck to the next, there’s also a lot of risk in mismanaging it,” said Schulz. “So people should tread lightly.”
New Details Emerge on Trump Officials’ Sprint to Gut Consumer Bureau Staff
Posted by Eurocat on 4/27/25 at 11:41 pm
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Two weeks ago, a three-judge panel from the federal appeals court in Washington lifted a freeze on firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with some conditions. The judges, ruling on a Friday night, said that workers could be fired if agency leaders determined, after a careful assessment, that they were not needed to carry out the bureau’s legally required responsibilities.
Within hours, Trump administration officials — working closely with Elon Musk’s associates at the Department of Government Efficiency — scurried to fire nearly all the agency’s employees. By the following Thursday afternoon, bureau leaders sent termination notices to nearly 1,500 employees, retaining barely 200 people, and ordered that the fired workers’ access to agency systems be shut down the next day.
A judge has again stopped the cuts for now. But the details of what happened at the agency, which oversees banks and lenders and enforces consumer protection laws, will be vital to determining if the firings can proceed. Hundreds of pages of newly released agency records, supplemented by narrative accounts filed in court by more than 20 agency employees, were submitted ahead of a hearing this week before Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the Federal District Court in Washington.
Judge Jackson halted the planned firings less than a day after the notices went out, saying that they went far beyond what the appeals court had allowed. Starting Tuesday, she will hold a two-day hearing to take witness testimony and decide whether to extend her order blocking the firings.
The consumer bureau has been on life support since February, when Trump officials arrived at the agency and began dismantling it. A series of federal court rulings prohibited the agency’s destruction. Congress created the agency in 2011 to add safeguards around mortgages and other consumer financial products, and only Congress has the power to abolish it.
Two weeks ago, a three-judge panel from the federal appeals court in Washington lifted a freeze on firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with some conditions. The judges, ruling on a Friday night, said that workers could be fired if agency leaders determined, after a careful assessment, that they were not needed to carry out the bureau’s legally required responsibilities.
Within hours, Trump administration officials — working closely with Elon Musk’s associates at the Department of Government Efficiency — scurried to fire nearly all the agency’s employees. By the following Thursday afternoon, bureau leaders sent termination notices to nearly 1,500 employees, retaining barely 200 people, and ordered that the fired workers’ access to agency systems be shut down the next day.
A judge has again stopped the cuts for now. But the details of what happened at the agency, which oversees banks and lenders and enforces consumer protection laws, will be vital to determining if the firings can proceed. Hundreds of pages of newly released agency records, supplemented by narrative accounts filed in court by more than 20 agency employees, were submitted ahead of a hearing this week before Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the Federal District Court in Washington.
Judge Jackson halted the planned firings less than a day after the notices went out, saying that they went far beyond what the appeals court had allowed. Starting Tuesday, she will hold a two-day hearing to take witness testimony and decide whether to extend her order blocking the firings.
The consumer bureau has been on life support since February, when Trump officials arrived at the agency and began dismantling it. A series of federal court rulings prohibited the agency’s destruction. Congress created the agency in 2011 to add safeguards around mortgages and other consumer financial products, and only Congress has the power to abolish it.
re: Little League Home Runs wins MLB game
Posted by Eurocat on 4/27/25 at 10:43 pm
“Tell me you’ve seen that one before!” NBC Sports Bay Area announcer Duane Kuiper said.
“Well, not since my oldest son was 10 years old,” analyst Mike Krukow responded.
“Well, not since my oldest son was 10 years old,” analyst Mike Krukow responded.
Little League Home Runs wins MLB game
Posted by Eurocat on 4/27/25 at 10:39 pm
re: Congrats to ICE for hitting the jackpot last night in CO Springs
Posted by Eurocat on 4/27/25 at 12:36 pm
Colorado Springs - isn't that where the Air Force Academy is?
:dunno:
:dunno:
re: Your IRL encounters with celebrities
Posted by Eurocat on 4/27/25 at 12:25 pm
Rode the popemobile with Pope John Paul when I was a in the protocol department of the Latvian foreign ministry.
I know a lot of celebrities from before they were celebrities.
The Karate Kid grew up around the corner from me (not really "friends" he was a few years older, but we hung out now and then, played street hockey, etc).
The Anchor of the CBS Evening news lived next door to me in my door at collge (Maurice DuBouis). Down to earth dude with a hilarious dry sense of humor. Joe Girardi (former baseball manager) lived down the hall but on the other side of my room. He was (is) the nicest guy.
I had a talk about drug and alcohol addiction (I don't have either problem but people I know do) with Alice Cooper at the Munich Business Class Lounge Lufthansa airlines.
I know a lot of celebrities from before they were celebrities.
The Karate Kid grew up around the corner from me (not really "friends" he was a few years older, but we hung out now and then, played street hockey, etc).
The Anchor of the CBS Evening news lived next door to me in my door at collge (Maurice DuBouis). Down to earth dude with a hilarious dry sense of humor. Joe Girardi (former baseball manager) lived down the hall but on the other side of my room. He was (is) the nicest guy.
I had a talk about drug and alcohol addiction (I don't have either problem but people I know do) with Alice Cooper at the Munich Business Class Lounge Lufthansa airlines.
re: Rare but Scary Medical Conditions
Posted by Eurocat on 4/27/25 at 12:15 pm
re: Educational reform for a modern workforce
Posted by Eurocat on 4/27/25 at 12:11 pm
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-School is completely optional after 9 so kids that cause problems are just kicked out
You want uneducated ten year olds wandering the street cuz daddy's in jail and mommy is a drunk/druggie/prostitute (or whatever).
Send them to what we used to have - reform school. If needed, have dorms.
re: What's your go to source online for real news not the regular BS
Posted by Eurocat on 4/27/25 at 12:09 pm
News Nation. The Economist. The Wall Streeet Journal. NYTimes, NYPost.
re: I shouldn’t be shocked, but I am, that there are still ppl coming here to defend WI judge
Posted by Eurocat on 4/27/25 at 11:30 am
Frequently I am called a leftist on the board (I am not, I am just a leftist compared to others here, this is true), but even I applaud what the Justice Department and AG Bondi is doing to the judge.
Cry your tears judge, you are "aided and abetted" and I hope you do serious time.
Cry your tears judge, you are "aided and abetted" and I hope you do serious time.
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