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#3311217 20-Nov-2024 22:37

deepred:It's less an overpopulation issue, and more of an overconsumption issue. Climate deniers are increasingly accepting that climate change is happening... only to blame it on Global South overpopulation.

Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be just as scary

The wacky right climate deniers now claiming a conversion, it's just another opportunity for recruiting imo.

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#3311224 20-Nov-2024 23:48

And another deplorable learns that you can't shove people around when you don't get your own way:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/liz-gunn-fails-in-bid-to-dodge-conviction-for-auckland-airport-assault/BFCPKX5CWBABFDTWQ6QSK7UYQU/

I wonder which arm she wore the sling on today, given it changes every time she's seen in public? 🙄

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#3311398 21-Nov-2024 13:04

The NY Times - Federal Inquiry Traced Payments From Gaetz to Women [free link]

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Federal investigators established a trail of payments from Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to be attorney general, to women including some who testified that Mr. Gaetz hired them for sex, according to a document obtained by The New York Times and a lawyer representing some of the women.

The document, assembled by investigators during a three-year sex-trafficking investigation into Mr. Gaetz, is a chart that shows a web of thousands of dollars in Venmo payments between Mr. Gaetz and a group of his friends, associates and women who had drug-fueled sex parties between 2017 and 2020, according to testimony that participants are said to have given to federal and congressional investigators.

At the parties, women, and a girl who was 17 at the time, were paid for sex, according to accounts of the participants’ testimony ...

Detail of a diagram obtained by The NY Times shows how federal investigators
mapped out payments between Mr. Gaetz, his associates and women.

(see website for full diagram)

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“The fact that Matt Gaetz was stupid enough to pay for sex with Venmo - that alone should be disqualifying.” - JIMMY KIMMEL

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#3311671 21-Nov-2024 22:54

Will the American people really care about this ?

After all, look at who they voted in to be President.

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#3311936 22-Nov-2024 18:00

From Orwell's 1984: Doublethink: “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget"

New Law Attacks Democracy's Most Vital Pillar!

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#3312143 23-Nov-2024 11:26

Not much has changed in US politics in 76 years.

The Senator Who Tried To Ban Popcorn In Movie Theaters

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#3312953 26-Nov-2024 08:39

The Guardian - Trump Pentagon pick attacks UN and Nato and urges US to ignore Geneva conventions

25 Nov 2024

Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, has attacked several key US alliances such as Nato, allied countries such as Turkey and international institutions such as the United Nations in two recent books, as well as saying US troops should not be bound by the Geneva conventions. ...

Hegseth appears to argue that the US military should ignore the Geneva conventions and any international laws governing the conduct of war, and instead “unleash them” to become a “ruthless”, “uncompromising” and “overwhelmingly lethal” force geared to “winning our wars according to our own rules”. *

Hegseth’s policy preferences may raise concerns about the future of Nato, the escalation of tensions with Israel’s arch-foe Iran, and impunity for US war criminals, such as those who Hegseth persuaded Trump to pardon in his first term.

* "Hey, Al Qaeda: if you surrender, we might spare your life. If you do not, we will rip your arms off and feed them to hogs.” Nasty 😦

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#3313575 27-Nov-2024 21:56

https://www.yahoo.com/news/legal-walls-close-giuliani-rants-192047695.html

https://archive.ph/m307n

Awww, poor Rudy (not).

Speaking to reporters in the hallway outside the courtroom on Tuesday, Giuliani continued his tirade about Liman, calling him an “activist Democrat.”

Liman is a Trump appointee.

Well, that backfired a bit!

Astonishingly, he still regrets nothing apart from the way he's been treated, never mind the two election workers whose lives he basically ruined with his lies. But I bet he's quite bitter about the fact that he took the fall for the orange buffoon, and was then promptly hung out to dry when he failed - moreso that Rudy happens to be one of the very few of Trump's former cronies that this has happened to.

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#3313848 28-Nov-2024 16:05

Deplorable political behaviour closer to home:
In this article relating to a gang funeral in Tauranga: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360502711/police-eagle-helicopter-help-monitor-tauranga-gang-funeral

A kuia has confronted police outside a cemetery in Tauranga as the tangi of a prominent Mongrel Mob member continues.
“Someone in charge come and tell me why you’ve parked outside my cemetery where my people are buried, how disgraceful is that," she yelled.
"Go park up the bloody road. I buried my cousin there on Saturday," she continued.

In the comments of the video post on Facebook, Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Anne Ngarewa-Packer said fellow MP Rawiri Waititi was "on it" and that they were doing "all they can".
There has been a large police presence at the funeral on Thursday.

I don't care which party you are from, as a politician, you don't back the gangs instead of the police. It's pretty simple.

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Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

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#3315865 4-Dec-2024 13:44

When you try to speedrun Trumps 2025 plan, without a subservient congress.

In trying to save himself, South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol may follow a well-worn path from the Blue House to jail
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-04/korea-president-drama/104682334

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Since last month, Yoon has been gripped by a growing influence-peddling scandal involving his wife — a charge they both denied.

But the accusations of corruption hurt his standing with the public. In recent months, his approval rating hovered between 17 and 20 per cent.
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#3315977 4-Dec-2024 19:28

Republican Jesus

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#3317432 6-Dec-2024 07:36

From the USA, no doubt this was a targeted attack, since the killer used a silencer.

Who was Brian Thompson, healthcare CEO gunned down in New York?
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UnitedHealthcare is the largest private insurer in the US.
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Mr Thompson had been facing insider trading allegations.

A class-action lawsuit filed by a pension fund in May 2024 alleged that Mr Thompson sold $15m of his UnitedHealth Group shares when he knew that the company was under investigation by the US Department of Justice.

Officials were looking into whether the company violated US antitrust law, according to an investigation made public by a report in the Wall Street Journal in February.

The BBC has contacted UnitedHealth Group - the parent company of UnitedHealthcare - for comment.

UnitedHealth is a huge company with interests in insurance, health care providers, pharmacy services and health data. In 2023 it had more than $371bn in revenues.

According to court documents, the company has purchased more than 35 healthcare companies over the last 10 years. Justice department investigators have been looking into whether it used its market power to reduce competition, hurting customers and employees.

The Wall Street Journal reported that officials interviewed healthcare industry representatives, and were asking questions about “possible effects of the company’s doctor-group acquisitions on rivals and consumers”.

The City of Hollywood Firefighters’ Pension Fund initiated a complaint against Mr Thompson and other executives, accusing them of failing to tell investors about the investigation before selling a total of more than $117m in company stock.
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#3317588 6-Dec-2024 13:31

The shooter apparently wrote the words "delay, deny, defend" on the bullets.

The phrase “delay, deny, defend,” is commonly used by attorneys and insurance industry critics to describe tactics used to avoid paying claims.

It refers to insurers delaying payment, denying a claim and then defending their actions. Health insurers like UnitedHealthcare have become frequent targets of criticism from doctors and patients for complicating access to care.

The company insures millions in New York State, and turned down 32% of all insurance claims last year.

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#3318705 10-Dec-2024 09:24

The NY Times - Rupert Murdoch Fails in Bid to Change Family Trust

breaking!

A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Mr. Murdoch, who was trying to give full control of his empire to his son Lachlan and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant.

Excellent news! 🙂🙃🙂🙃

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#3320838 15-Dec-2024 15:20

South Korea safeguards democracy with a vote to impeach anti-culture warrior President Yoon who briefly declared martial law and tried to enact a plan to jail legislators and his liberal opposition.

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