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by Bjinse Mon Feb 4th, 2019 at 11:22:44 PM EST
so fair the sky was and so soft the thread
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Justice Department opens probe into Jeffrey Epstein plea deal
France: opening a can of worms ...
J'ai aussi été harcelée par la ligue du LOL pendant des années. Leur dernier fait d'arme est toujours en ligne, et il est punissable d'1 an d'emprisonnement et de 45 000 euros d'amende. (Y a prescription.) (_link) J'ai vos noms, mecs. J'oublie pas.— Florence Porcel (@FlorencePorcel) 8 February 2019
J'ai aussi été harcelée par la ligue du LOL pendant des années. Leur dernier fait d'arme est toujours en ligne, et il est punissable d'1 an d'emprisonnement et de 45 000 euros d'amende. (Y a prescription.) (_link) J'ai vos noms, mecs. J'oublie pas.
○ French 'boys' club' of journalists accused of bullying women online | The Guardian | 'Sapere aude'
A fratboys gang, which started as a joke ten years ago on Twitter, but has become a bullying gang whose members have now reached management positions in the Parisian media landscape. Of course, it helped that their female competition has been put down. White male privilege in action.
French media faces hard truths after #MeToo moment
As of Tuesday, eight journalists from five news organizations -- all of whom were members of an informal group called La ligue du LOL -- were suspended or had quit as a result of the harassment claims. A number of them held top management positions in prominent newsrooms. All were young white men. The victims who spoke up were young journalists and bloggers, mostly women, some of them outspoken feminists. The fact that the group was active for years, but until last week didn't attract scrutiny, has led to a great deal of industry soul-searching.
A number of them held top management positions in prominent newsrooms. All were young white men. The victims who spoke up were young journalists and bloggers, mostly women, some of them outspoken feminists. The fact that the group was active for years, but until last week didn't attract scrutiny, has led to a great deal of industry soul-searching.
Career buildup:
"The LOL League really had an impact on women journalists' careers, with their skills being put into question," said Aude Lorriaux, a freelance journalist, writer and spokesperson for Prenons la une ("Let's take over the front page"), a group that advocates for gender equality in newsrooms and more visibility for female journalists. "Some women were blacklisted on Twitter, had to leave social media. These men's careers were really built up on the back of [their alleged victims]."
After getting a rundown on how the car works and what all the different buttons on the touchscreen controlled, I reached for the Tesla icon on the home screen. From there I knew I could slide open the hidden tricks and games, including the newest app: Emissions Testing Mode, aka "fart mode." Sure enough, I could control which seats in the ironically emissions-free vehicle gave out a loud, noxious toot. Impressively, the farting noises really did sound like they were coming from the front passenger seat or the back seat. There's a drop-down menu of fart sound options, all named for inside jokes and nods to other Tesla CEO Elon Musk ventures and interests. One of the seven fart options, Ludicrous (named for the all-out setting on some Tesla vehicles that can send the car practically flying), was the best. That emission option was perfectly juicy, but realistic -- all while still staying in the humorous realm. It never got too disgusting. And (for now) it's an odor-free experience, so it's more than tolerable. If you can't decide which fart you like best, there's an option for random gassing. You can also set the farts to go off every time you use the turn signal, which is peak ridiculousness.
Sure enough, I could control which seats in the ironically emissions-free vehicle gave out a loud, noxious toot. Impressively, the farting noises really did sound like they were coming from the front passenger seat or the back seat. There's a drop-down menu of fart sound options, all named for inside jokes and nods to other Tesla CEO Elon Musk ventures and interests.
One of the seven fart options, Ludicrous (named for the all-out setting on some Tesla vehicles that can send the car practically flying), was the best. That emission option was perfectly juicy, but realistic -- all while still staying in the humorous realm. It never got too disgusting. And (for now) it's an odor-free experience, so it's more than tolerable. If you can't decide which fart you like best, there's an option for random gassing.
You can also set the farts to go off every time you use the turn signal, which is peak ridiculousness.
If Tesla ever goes belly-up, we now know why.
The problem is our national Fuck-Up forgot to have a Mexican communist burn down the Capitol Building first.
At the moment it seems the outcome will be a bit of kabuki where Congress overrides the decree with a majority vote, Trump vetoes the bill, and Congress is unable to muster a 2/3 majority to override the veto.
The only alternative is for some GOP Senators to vote for the Rule of Law.
Don't hold your breath. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Jim Wright noted that;-
"I didn't need to do this... I just want to do it faster." I didn't need to do this. I just want to do it faster. Emergency. Hmmm. I expect "I didn't need to do this..." will be the lede in every legal filling later today.
I didn't need to do this. I just want to do it faster. Emergency. Hmmm.
I expect "I didn't need to do this..." will be the lede in every legal filling later today.
I'm 99% certain litigation will go no where, except to stay pending judgment (in the popular imagination) which will ultimately rule in favor of the POTUS inter alia. Furthermore, in arguing against Trump pretext Mistal includes a link to CNN collation of proclamations in xer estimation "--which, again, are stupid--". Mistal declines to explore eminent domain orders, of course. Trump's wall would be the 32nd active national emergency, illustrated
In fact, the US has been in a perpetual state of declared national emergency for four decades, and the country is currently under 31 concurrent states of emergency about a spectrum of international issues around the globe, according to a CNN review of documents from the Congressional Research Service and the Federal Register.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff told CNN's Jake Tapper [!] on "State of the Union" on Sunday that Trump doesn't have the authority to declare an emergency. "If Harry Truman couldn't nationalize [sic] the steel industry during wartime [sic], this President doesn't have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion-dollar wall on the border. So, that's a nonstarter."
All was not well when the GIs returned. Industrial action in USA during the so-called golden age of TV in the 50s is nearly lost to history.
Here's where the millenials are today, ostensibly led by "progressive" flights of fancy from a trench across the "developed" nations.
UNION MEMBERS -- 2018 The union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions--was 10.5 percent in 2018, down by 0.2 percentage point from 2017, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.7 million in 2018, was little changed from 2017. In 1983 [REAGAN admin!], the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union workers. ...
The Real Deal H.J.Res. 31 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019, enrolled and awaiting signature
DIVISION A--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2019 : please make a note of it, if ever you wonder where Trump will get $$$ to construct walls. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
In 2018, 7.2 million employees in the public sector belonged to a union, compared with 7.6 million workers in the private sector. Union membership rates for both public-sector and private-sector workers edged down in 2018. The unionization rate in the [119M total] private sector (6.4 percent) remained substantially below that for [21M total] public-sector workers (33.9 percent). Within the public sector, the union membership rate was highest in local government (40.3 percent), which employs many workers in heavily unionized occupations, such as police officers, firefighters, and teachers. Private-sector industries with high unionization rates included utilities (20.1 percent), transportation and warehousing (16.7 percent), and telecommunications (15.4 percent). Low unionization rates occurred in finance (1.3 percent), food services and drinking places (1.3 percent), and professional and technical services (1.5 percent). (See table 3.)
Putting an Adam Smith quote over AOC and dropping it into a libertarian right group is the fastest way to prove that even libertarians have no idea what they stand for. pic.twitter.com/3V5RIMo5Y3— Aayla (In English, По-русски) (@PunishedAayla) February 16, 2019
Putting an Adam Smith quote over AOC and dropping it into a libertarian right group is the fastest way to prove that even libertarians have no idea what they stand for. pic.twitter.com/3V5RIMo5Y3
A reading The Wealth of Nations or Theory of Moral Sentiments in its entirety, for example, might as well be a life time. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
That's why the 2010s have been so jarring across the west. People in power keep saying things like, My preference would be for tens of thousands of people to drown yearly in the Mediterranean, then commentators interpret & explain that really, it means poor people value identity.— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) February 15, 2019
That's why the 2010s have been so jarring across the west. People in power keep saying things like, My preference would be for tens of thousands of people to drown yearly in the Mediterranean, then commentators interpret & explain that really, it means poor people value identity.
Never related to something so much. pic.twitter.com/BKySzsvIqn— yara (@iStanAristotle) February 18, 2019
Never related to something so much. pic.twitter.com/BKySzsvIqn
Der Austritt Großbritanniens aus der EU ist beschlossene Sache und soll im März 2019 vollzogen werden! Aber das Ringen um Formalien und die konkreten Umsetzungen halten an und zögern den tatsächlichen ,,cut" noch hinaus. Doch wie ließe sich der Brexit eventuell noch verhindern? Auch absurde Ideen sind hier erlaubt. Hilft möglicherweise eine kluge Intrige von Angela Merkel? Oder kommt der Widerstand gar aus den eigenen Reihen? Das sind zumindest mögliche Szenarien, die Regisseur Ulrich Proschka für eine Satire auf die aktuellen politischen Auseinandersetzungen entwickelt.
Amazing... pic.twitter.com/brf87D2t3J— Scene & Heard (@SaHreports) February 15, 2019
Amazing... pic.twitter.com/brf87D2t3J
The EP had set a deadline for conclusion by the heads of state on or before its first plenary session in March. That was last November, with warnings in January that execution of any Withdrawal Agreement requires
-- What's this?--
the consent of the European Parliament. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Mueller - reminds me of the fighter of FBI Nash and the Chicago mob - the Untouchables 😒 ehh next week? Mueller missed the Feb. 14th 2019 date to impact history 😌 'Sapere aude'
And I think, if I was Sigmund fucking Freud, I wouldn't get an answer. So tell me. What's a lace curtain motherfucker like you doing in the Staties?
What I was after though was whether or not the phrase "notion victim" is a legal term of art, phrase which has a particular meaning that conveys legal status or consequences. (Recall how I was tracking application of "limited-purpose public figure", for example).
I'm 99% certain that it's not. And I won't argue the supposition, Avenatti is exploiting the gullibility of reporters and a sensational, salacious event to sample unsolicited, #bullshit "expertise" he's waving at IL prosecutors. To be charitable, I started my inquiry with only the "presumption of innocence": Until any crime is determined, the factual identity of any victim is moot ("notion [of] victim").
Kelly's charges are criminal -- seen the prosecution's charge brief online. The state is the complainant -- not Avenatti's two anonymous clients qua his "notion victims" who doubtless seek tort relief ($ penalty) with or without offering witness testimony at criminal trial. The only other attys involved are Kelly's defense. Avenatti coaches his clients (and press) as if prospective witness for prosecution. Avenatti wants to see a big "pay off", because that's his business.
I did my own innerboob research overnight. I wont bore you all with it. I will say this, I had no idea that Victimology --which complements Criminology--has become a "high-growth" academic disciple (in sociology) and commercial career path in just the past 25 years or so. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
So, Avenatti invents a new class of non-victim to create a sense of unguilt keep to the Fen Causeway
It's a cliché that the government builds "bridges to nowhere" that the private sector never would build. That's true. And it's a credit to the public sector. Bridges to nowhere are what turn nowheres into somewheres. We need many, many more bridges to nowhere.
I don't know the history or the industry well enough to make claims ...
Also, they are as bitterly divided ideologically as the left (but have a better survival instinct so stay in the same party)... The majority strand are in awe of all the shit they never dared to try and Macron gets away with... but there are statists among them. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
Presumably this sort of thing will come to an end with Brexit.
Lately we have seen numerous conservative commentators posit the thesis that the Democrats are disqualifying themselves from a 2020 presidential victory by lurching too far left on key economic and social issues. The idea is that the American people simply aren't prepared to follow the Democrats into the leftist territory that seems to be their nesting place these days. Ergo, the party is in the process of ceding the White House to the incumbent Republicans, meaning a likely Trump reelection triumph. This may be comforting to conservatives, but it is based on faulty political analysis. There is a strong prospect that 2020 will see the emergence of a new leftist president who represents democratic socialism of the European style--a brand of politics eschewed by America since at least the end of World War II.
This may be comforting to conservatives, but it is based on faulty political analysis. There is a strong prospect that 2020 will see the emergence of a new leftist president who represents democratic socialism of the European style--a brand of politics eschewed by America since at least the end of World War II.
"Some items in private collections [!] have already been returned but the bulk of the items are in public collections [!] within the UK and those cannot be restituted without an act of Parliament [!], and that is something that requires a big change in popular opinion and a bill has to be presented by members of Parliament," [Prof. Alula Pankhurst!] said last year. "This is something that cannot be done overnight."
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