America & the World V: DOGE Business

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/nov/03/trump-fraud-trial-eric-trump-testify-latest-updates?page=with:block-65450ad98f08293ffae52610#block-65450ad98f08293ffae52610

Eric Trump takes the stand for a second day continuing his strategy of pretending to have amnesia except when his or his fathers ego's are threatened. This means he has repeatedly denied responsibility or involvement of numerous crimes that he also insists that he and his father would absolutely wield the sole power over.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict

Gaza deaths pass 10,000

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-blinken-turkey-gaza-us-submarine-ankara-talks-hakan-fidan

Israel troops set to enter Gaza City within the next 48 hours

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/06/donald-trump-expected-to-appear-in-250m-civil-trial-in-new-york

Trump is set to testify this week on one of his six trials as the first case comes to its end, risking his business empire

[Lebowski]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/06/donald-trump-expected-to-appear-in-250m-civil-trial-in-new-york

Trump is set to testify this week on one of his six trials as the first case comes to its end, risking his business empire

I doubt we will get much out of trump the plan seems to be to plead ignorance to any or all financial wrong doing even stuff with their signature on. Here's hoping though that he cant keep his mouth shut and looses it Spectacularly.

The most damming thing inall of this for me so far is the pattern of Trump massively overvaluing his assets when he wanted to borrow against them while massively undervalue them when paying tax on them, if your doing this then that's clearly a pattern of tax avoidance on one hand and fraudulently over representing your assets on the other.

[Neon Ignition]

Yep, the real streak of hope so far seems to be that the Judge has no time for the ignorance stance that Trump's sons have taken.

[MartyG]

Unless Trump is compelled to do so, you're definitely a terrible lawyer if you decide you're going to allow Trump to testify at his trial.

The saying, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt". That.

[briareos_kerensky]

It's probably a very fine balancing act between invoking fifth amendament rights and testifying, which I'm not entirely sure Trump or his lawyers can do.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/07/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-gaza-security-responsibility-for-gaza-netanyahu-palestine?page=with:block-6549b4678f081391dc01aeac#block-6549b4678f081391dc01aeac

Israel expects to take over security of Gaza indefinitely

[MartyG]

Well, historically, occupation has always worked out for the best. Right?

[Zaki]

Every time I read about this **** I feel like Mugatu at the end of Zoolander:

https://media.tenor.com/BlEsi7nw94cAAAAC/zoolander-will-ferrell.gif

No, I don't condone the Hamas attacks, nor do I wish death on Israeli civilians, but I'm sick of the world turning a blind eye on the rest of it.

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/07/europe-latest-news-migration-italy-albania-germany-eu-giorgia-meloni-olaf-scholz?page=with:block-654a25ac8f08c85ed0cfa9a9#block-654a25ac8f08c85ed0cfa9a9

Italy has announced a Rwanda style deal to ship out immigrants to Albania - the EU is not happy

[Protocol Penguin]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...08c85ed0cfa9a9
Italy has announced a Rwanda style deal to ship out immigrants to Albania - the EU is not happy

That’s what happens when Italy gets a prime minister and government from the successor party to Mussolini’s fascists. (Seriously: as long as it’s not got “Partito Fascista” in the name, it’s acceptable under the Italian constitution.)

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/08/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-biden-netanyahu-gaza-occupation-palestine?page=with:block-654b08ad8f08c85ed0cfb30c#block-654b08ad8f08c85ed0cfb30c

Biden has said that the US is opposed to any plan Israel has to occupy Gaza once Hamas is out of control

‘Ohio spoke tonight’: voters add abortion rights to state constitution | Ohio | The Guardian
Elections rolled out in the US yesterday and Ohio voted to keep abortion rights blocking Republican efforts in the wake of Roe v Wades overturning

Rhode Island elects its first Black representative to Congress, Gabe Amo | US news | The Guardian
In a second defeat on the night, the Republicans were sent staggering by losing the election for Rhode Island to the Democrats

Kentucky’s Democratic governor Andy Beshear re-elected in win for abortion rights | Kentucky | The Guardian
Bruised then staggered, the Republicans were then knocked off their feet by losing the Kentucky election to the Democrat candidate Beshear who took a second term with a pro-abortion rights stance

Democrats gain control of Virginia state legislature in blow to Republican plans | Virginia | The Guardian
Confirming the full slate KO, the Democrats also took Virginia blocking yet another states risk of a Republican led abortion ban.

[Asura]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...08c85ed0cfa9a9
Italy has announced a Rwanda style deal to ship out immigrants to Albania - the EU is not happy

This is gonna be difficult to deal with for the EU, because there's a geographic element that many miss.

I had a friend who lived in Malta who said that refugees were a regular sight, either passing the island, or using it as a stepping-stone to Italy, because of how Italy reaches out into the middle of the Med.

I'm sure the Italians are a bit miffed when the likes of landlocked Switzerland complain about their handling of refugees, when they don't literally have people turning up on beaches. It's like when people complain about "defensive architecture" designed to prevent homeless people sleeping outside city offices, when they probably work-from-home in a nice house and wouldn't tolerate a homeless person sleeping in their front yard.

Obviously though transporting people en masse like this is bad, same for the Rwanda plan. But the EU can't just be "not happy" about it; they'll need to help to fix it in a "we're all in this together" manner.

[Enoshimalove]

Is a Gaza thread of its own not allowed ?

6000 of our children , children - brutally murdered or under rubble too long to be alive.

I don't get the pretending to be some upholsers of international law. These were the White Powers as they called one another who invented carpet bombing civilians.

Netanyahu calls us in Gaza 'Amalek' , some nutter Torah story encouraging the slaughter of all 'infants and sucklings' . Herzog called us all terrorists . Israeli and American we very day people alike are regularly cheering the death of babies online. Israel's literally prosecuting a medieval siege and cutting off civilians from water and food and all the white governments are straight up yeah that's fine.More then 10k of us dead in less than a month. Various US Republican officials have told Israel to 'finish them' and 'flatten Gaza'. Everyday Israelis are all over every kind of video service calling for the murder of actual Palestinian babies until every single Palestinian is dead. Imagine, for just a moment, a Muslim calling for the death of babies.

FFS a ceasefire is a dirty word now. Keep bombing civilians. Keep killing kids. Don't say say ceasefire though. This world makes no sense.

Why just pretend at it . International law means nothing. The White Powers excuse everything they and their ally do no matter how heinous, just as they did before and during WW2. Why even bother with the pretenses . Just be open about what you are.

[briareos_kerensky]

I'm sure the Italians are a bit miffed when the likes of landlocked Switzerland complain about their handling of refugees, when they don't literally have people turning up on beaches. It's like when people complain about "defensive architecture" designed to prevent homeless people sleeping outside city offices, when they probably work-from-home in a nice house and wouldn't tolerate a homeless person sleeping in their front yard.

Switzerland bitches about everything coming from the EU. Or better, the SVP (the local right-wing party) does, no matter the subject. Immigration is a big thing in Switzerland, the SVP successfully gathered 10k signature for a "10M Swiss" referendum, where they want to cap immigration for any reason (work, asylum seekers, and even Schengen accords), despite the health sector in dire need of both doctors and nurses.
But just like every other right-wing party they simply stoke fears and point out to "their" numbers. In the meantime, hospitals in Como (Italian city right on the Swiss border) are seeing their staff syphoned by Swiss hospitals; they pay around €2.5k, around twice the pay in Italy but that won't be enough for someone living in Switzerland (rent alone could be €1.5k).
And of course the SVP is against having cross-border foreign workers.
Swiss in general have a very peculiar way to see thing, it's never their fault. A few years ago an Italian train derailed in Lucerne (nothing major, just a delays) due to a misaligned track near the station, but of course it was the Italian train's fault.
The company I work for is at least 50% foreign workers (out of nearl 2000); my department has probably 2 Swiss people out of 100. And every time we open a position we never receive a single application from a Swiss, and right-wing parties always castize the company for not having enough Swiss workers.

Eh, sorry for the outburst, but living in being a foreign worker really changes your perspective on a lot of things, you try to behave better than regular citizens but you're always the scapegoat for everything.