J.D. Vance Admits He’s Telling Racist Lies for Attention – [archived version]

“Nobody is disputing that the town of Springfield, Ohio, needs help. But, you’re not just a bystander,” [CNN’s Dana] Bash said. “You’re the senator from Ohio, so instead of saying things that are wrong, and actually causing the hospitals, the schools, the government buildings to be evacuated because of bomb threats, because of the cats and dogs thing, why not actually be constructive, in helping to better integrate them into the community? Because there are a lot of employers there who say that the Haitians workers are helping fill jobs that they need desperately filled.”

Rather than take any ownership of his role in spreading false claims and incendiary rhetoric, Vance recoiled, saying that any suggestion that he’d been responsible for inciting the bomb threats in Springfield was “disgusting.” The Ohio senator scolded Bash for sounding like a “Democratic propagandist” as she called him out on his reckless lying.

Here comes Saul Justin Newman: 'The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’

In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up. I’ve tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the world (the other 20% are from countries you can’t meaningfully analyse). Of those, almost none have a birth certificate. In the US there are over 500 of these people; seven have a birth certificate. Even worse, only about 10% have a death certificate.

I’m not a lawyer, but one reason could be that there’s not (yet?) a clear criminal case that would convince a judge. It’s not clear whether a crime is committed, maybe?

For example, Mr. McCabe says, ““I don’t know that I would characterize it as [an] active, recruited, knowing asset in the way that people in the intelligence community think of that term” (and similar comments), but ‘don’t know’ could mean there’s nit enough for prosecution? This is not China or Russia, where people are sentenced to.prison in closed-door trials and often not even their lawyers know what exactly their clients are accused of. Maybe we could call it another ‘weakness’ of democracy (which non-democratic state actors try to exploit)?

But I say ‘could’ and conclude I don’t know either.

Exactly eight years ago this week, Trump campaigned in Miami and spent some time at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, stressing the “common values” he shared with Haitian Americans.

“Whether you vote for me or not,” the then-candidate said at the time, “I really want to be your biggest champion.”

A year later, he scrapped temporary protected status for Haitians who were allowed entry to the U.S. following a devastating earthquake in 2010. A year after that, the Republican hosted a White House meeting and referred to Haiti as a “s—hole” country.

And now, Trump is lying to the public about Haitian immigrants — the same people he told, “I really want to be your biggest champion” — betraying a community he vowed to look out for.

Source: Trump betrays a community he previously vowed to ‘champion’

Now, Trump says he’s going to deport Haitian immigrants from Springfield, Ohio, even though they’re there legally.

We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio. Large deportations. We’re going to get these people out. We’re bringing them back to Venezuela [sic]. [Edit typo.]

Yeah, but now it gets really weird:

Totally normal response’: Trump blasted for threatening ABC’s license after debate flop – [archived]

ABC took a big hit last night," Trump told Fox News. “I mean, to be honest, they are a news organization, they have to be licensed to do it. They ought to take away their license for the way they did that.”

Australian University students and staff face increasing threats, foreign interference inquiry finds – (2022)

[Australian] Universities face escalating threats to students and to national security from hostile forces, a report into foreign interference has warned […] The report […] specifically singled out Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes, a $10m deal between Monash University and a Chinese company linked to industrial espionage, and talent recruitment drives that see Australian researchers work with universities overseas.

Finland shuts down Confucius Institute amid censorship, espionage accusations – (2022)

A cooperation contract between Helsinki University and the Confucius Institute will be terminated following accusations of spreading Chinese soft power, conducting espionage, and an attempt to block discussions on Tibet. […] Belgium closed its Confucius Institute in 2019, Sweden and Denmark in 2020, and Norway in 2021.

Chinese students signing a “loyalty” pledges to the Chinese motherland before arriving in their host country, as shows the example of Sweden.

Chinese students signing “loyalty” pledges before arrival in Sweden – (2023)

International doctoral students who are arriving in Sweden from China are being told to sign agreements and guidelines to the Chinese government, an investigation has revealed […] The Chinese regime requires that they also must “serve the interests of the regime” and “never participate in ‘activities’ that go against the will of the authorities”, the report said. 

Sweden, Germany, and many other countries have been cutting ties with the China scholarship scheme over this practice already.

And these are just a few examples. There is much more.

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I get your point, but we shouldn’t forget that cheap products are often cheap because people elsewhere pay the price through low salaries, and sometimes no salaries at all. Not that I think that Trump would care about these people (or any people), but tariffs are a bit more complex than what Trump describes here as we know.

The Theranos case is not a scientific fraud in that sense if I understand the article correctly. Holmes had raised hundreds of millions of USD over several years before the first scientist even joined the Theranos board. They apoarently never had a technical (and assumably no financial) due diligence for their ‘blood test’, let alone a research paper. I’d call that a financial fraud, not a scientific fraud.

@ulkesh I would just add that he is supporting the NRA (their lobbying might be one reason for this ‘opinion’), but I fully agree with what you’ve said.

Maybe, we can’t be sure nowadays.

The site/URL was first registered on 1997-11-14, though, and the NYT is featuring him also at https://www.nytimes.com/events/climate-forward-2024

They have now, if and when they coordinate and cooperate between themselves, according to the researcher:

Africa’s voice is minimal in the agenda-setting, due mostly to the multiplicity of African states, African Union weakness and competing needs among African countries.

Japan lodged a protest with China after one of its naval survey vessels entered Japanese waters on Aug 31, the second incursion into its territory by the Chinese military in less than a week - (Archived)

An uptick in Chinese military activity near Japan and around Taiwan in recent years has stoked concerns in Tokyo.

Japan has responded with a defence buildup that it says aims to deter Beijing from using military force to push its territorial claims in the region.

How Fox helped Trump break the law and turn his Arlington National Cemetery visit into a political event

Fox gave immediate fawning coverage to Trump’s campaign visit, which broke federal law despite his staff being warned prior

Guess ‘not voting’ is what Trump’s MAGA billionaires want - as well as China, Russia, Iran.

If we want to know whether or not digital devices should be allowed in schools, why don’t we ask the folks in the Silicon Valley. They must know it, and have been telling us for years:

Parents working in Silicon Valley are sending their children to a school where there’s not a computer in sight – (2015)

In the heart of Silicon Valley is a nine-classroom school where employees of tech giants Google, Apple and Yahoo send their children. But despite its location in America’s digital centre, there is not an iPad, smartphone or screen in sight.

Texas AG raids homes of Latino civil rights group members, setting up a voting rights showdown -(Archived)

The raids have triggered outrage and cries of voter suppression in a state with a long history of discrimination against citizens of Mexican descent, which helped give rise to LULAC.

Democrats Sue Georgia Election Board Over New Rules That Could Delay Vote Certification

The Georgia Democratic Party claims Trump’s allies are trying to “establish a new power of not certifying an election result should their preferred candidate lose.”

No clue, but these guys might know it: https://www.votefromabroad.org

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The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that criminalizes the negotiation of a dispute between the United States and a foreign government by an unauthorized American citizen. The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government’s position.