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Days after that lawsuit was dismissed, the 11 Republicans participated in the certificate signing.

The MAGA faithful egged on by their preachers trying to get in on the grift are sloppy. Probably lost more of this going on.

I would argue though that the corporate machine behind Trump are not total fools and pose an existential threat and have a coordinated plan to engage in election fraud.

Trump is a proven wage thief defrauder of labour.

No, he just wants to send them back as they should be.

Send unionized American workers, blue collar salt of Earth contractors back to where?

As usual a nonsensical non sequitur.

https://fortune.com/2016/09/30/donald-trump-stiff-contractors/

For any worker who does not have issues about 'mivrants are taking our jerbs' this is a given.

Trump is a proven wage thief defrauder of labour.

https://m.usw.org/blog/2016/billionaire-trump-fleeces-workers-small-businesses

Number of young women to halve in 40% of Japan localities by 2050

Like in China, centuries of preferring and coddling bog standard, deficient little princelings instead of talented gifted young women will do that for you.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign leader while he's in New York for his criminal hush money trial.

Only possibly one American leader would speak truth to power to Aso Taro about his corporacratic wealth and how it was built of the back of slave labor and exploitation and present time corrupt crony capitalism.

Bernie Sanders.

Only a few Japanese leaders would speak truth to power to DJT about a family legacy of racist gentrification and about he has long benefited from a two-tier justice system that benefits the rich and powerful.

Taro Yamamoto of the Reiwa shinsengumi or the leaders of the JCP.

This meeting is just a Legion of Doom and having this oligarch meetup is a recipe for nefarious dealings, especially giving Trump's ongoing legal proceedings.

Believers still pursuing Hiroshima mystery beast 50 years after sightings

Mulder throwing out a hypothesis:

Possibly a descendant of a native Japanese simian subject to genetic mutation as a result of background radiation from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima.

the beginnings of an AI-driven shift in the industry quietly pulsed.

Probably and end time sign for a purely biological humanity.

Not that that's a bad thing.

Yahoo Japan Corp., which has since merged with the Japanese social media platform Line

The Yahoo brand is moribund internationally and it's Japanese franchise is it's only profit making branch.

-Japanese two tier justice system swoops in to help them.

Those who don't believe the LDP, bureaucracy and Japan Inc. combine work in synergy are very naive.

With the war in Ukraine being "nowhere close to an end," as well as the current situation in the Middle East and heightened tensions in Asia, Tian said he believed countries were likely to continue boosting their militaries.

Smedley Butler, one of the doughtiest warriors of the 20th century already told us war is a racket.

https://reason.com/2022/07/28/the-progressive-imperialism-of-smedley-butler/

We need a market where local people can also earn a living.

Adam Smith already talked about if hundred of years ago and it will not happen under Late Stage Capitalism.

We like to think, in the teeth of much evidence to the contrary, that we’re masters of our fate, that as we sow so we reap, that life gives us back what we put into it, and so on. Consider, however, the sinking yen.

All of neo-liberal Late Stage Capitalism and the BOJ monetary easing policies pay the lie to such sentiments that are of for the workers.

What the COVID-19 pandemic left standing of that homely old myth staggers anew under the assault of economic forces far, far beyond the control of individuals watching their purchasing power ebb daily.

Like the banker bailouts, it is all about gifts to large asset holders.

That's it.

Sake breweries, which are struggling, are seeing whisky making as the last trump card for their survival.

You know, there is a genius Scottish writer who has inspired Musk and Bezos with his visions toward the future and a new Culture and who coincidentally also wrote about whisky!

Iain Banks.

https://whiskymag.com/articles/literary-spirit-iain-banks/

While evacuees must overcome the high hurdle of obtaining Japanese language proficiency in order to achieve a stable life in Japan, Ukrainian evacuees are making efforts to become more self-reliant with assistance from support groups.

The existential question of when an "evacuee" becomes a refugee.

probably when Japan addresses the contradictions in its refugee and immigration policies, policies where they regard Ukraine.

Unless Aso is going to lend him money.

You may have hit the nail on the head Ossan.

And we all know how transparent Trump and the LDP are about declaring their campaign contributions riiight?

Really? Suggesting that the law should protect the little guy

What?

No surprise that the concept of a legal system serving the less socioeconomically powerful is a foreign concept to you deserving a cognitively challenged "WHAAAT???"

It is an IDEAL, one that America has never lived up to like equality under the law and meritocracy.

Trump, the privileged beneficiary of a justice system that favors the rich and powerful plays with concept to dupe credulous individuals , like the tragic incident today.

The bill calls for operators to set up points of contact for accepting deletion requests and disclose criteria for removing posts, among other measures.

Even if it is a very legitimate criticism of a prominent political figure or business and their policies, presented with well vetted evidence and citation , let me guess that "off-topic" will be sufficient criteria for its removal.

But these days, she and her partner Piotr are imbibing less booze: "I felt like drinking more took away from the festival experience," she says. "I feel like now I'm enjoying myself a lot more this year, not drinking as much."

Cannabis gummies, vaping and micro-dosing are the name of the game.

So I have heard.

Donald Trump's unprecedented criminal trial is set for opening arguments next week after final jury selection ended Friday in proceedings overshadowed by a man setting himself on fire outside the Manhattan courthouse.

Rabid conspiracism and attention seeking is the name of the game for this 2024 election and this individual from the information initially available seems an example of both.

This combination has been weaponized in the American political process by MAGA and the Freedom Caucus.

"TikTok should not be banned in the USA, even though such a ban may benefit the X platform," Musk said in a post on the social network he acquired in 2022. "Doing so would be contrary to freedom of speech and expression."

I doubt Elon champions freedom of speech within China when faced with requests by his Chinese oligarch business partners.

Iain Banks would be very disappoint.

Taro Aso, a former prime minister who currently serves as vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party, will visit New York from April 22-25, sources with knowledge of his travel plans told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

A match made in the lower pits of late stage capitalist hell.

Two oligarchs, incompetent, foul-mouthed , cognitively challenged who rose to the top through privilege and incompetence.

Family legacies of wealth built up through slave labor and racist gentrification.

If they do have their little meet and greet, the picture could well serve as an enduring symbol of Neo-liberal democratic kleptocracy.

Atsushi Ito, a Shueisha executive, told a press conference, "Following the trial of Manga-Mura, (other) pirate manga sites for Japanese people that have operators in Japan have almost disappeared."

Who are the actual thieves of the livelihoods of manga artists has been very apparent for quite a while.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/business/japan-anime.html

Funny how the J-courts will not address that.

Doctors, dentists sue Google for keeping reviews they say are unfair

A lot of these are prickly snowflakes with an over-inflated sense of self-worth.

Presented with evidence of empirically-vetted treatments and medicines widely used abroad they will default to staunch defense of pushing outdated treatments based superseded treatments. And get highly offended by pushback.

This applies to widely-prescribed and broadly safe drugs used abroad.

The lawsuits brought by Democratic lawmakers and police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan 6 seek civil damages for harm they say they suffered during the attack, which aimed to stop Congress' certification of Biden's victory.

Let's be fair and say Trump has been the bestest, bigliest President at showing the US as a kleptocratic autocracy. He should have gone off to a Nixonian sunset but the corporatocracy wants him back.

Old reference but as Yakov Smirnoff used to say "What a country!"

Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., said there is a “powerful instinct” among Democrats that it's not their job to rescue Johnson from the chaos in his party. But he's willing to help Johnson on the motion to vacate if he were to “do the right thing” on the aid package and coordinate that with Jeffries.

If even AOC and MTG can be aligned on some issues it can happen.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-marjorie-taylor-greene-unite-in-push-to-free-julian-assange

The danger is the constant shifting of the American political Overton Window to the right.

Which is by corporate design.

The implied meaning is that simply saying “sorry” doesn’t magically make everything right, and that sometimes you’ll have to face punishment even if your express remorse for your actions.

Only applies to the plebes.

Obviously not for anyone in authority or with wealth.

Case in point that face at the top of the page could get away with all manner of crimes with a bow and transfer, as has been seen too many times to count.

The plaintiffs had sought 8.8 million yen each in damages against the state and the chemical company, Showa Denko KK, currently known as Resonac Holdings Corp, responsible for the mercury contamination in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo.

Very tardy and insufficient justice as usual when it comes to the J justice system, Japan Inc. , LDP Iron Triangle.

Better than nothing for the long waiting victims though.

Yes, efforts to eliminate DEI programs are rooted in racism

Hilarious that Truth Social has a DEI policy and is "woke".

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-pledged-to-end-dei-his-new-media-company-has-a-diversity-and-inclusion-policy

As if it was nothing more than a corporate cut out money making scam.

I suppose "go woke, go broke" has some truth in it.

A female home caregiver in her 60s was stabbed while visiting an elderly woman’s home in Yokohama on Tuesday. Police have arrested a 49-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of attempted murder and said the suspect lives with his mother who was receiving assistance from the caregiver.

Let me guess this caregiver is getting paid a minimum wage for this strenuous job.

She should be getting combat/hazard pay.

And then the bureaucrats and oligarchs will cry about a labor shortage and elderly/nursing care crisis.

So much for free-market capitalism

Anyone who believes in the rhetoric of free-market capitalism is severely naive.

American industry, and other countries for that matter is and always has been built on protectionism.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/americas-history-protectionism-18093

It is one of those convenient fictions like equality under the law, rules based orders, meritocracy and trickle down economics.

Trump was out in the streets to cheers and large crowds outside the bodega after court today.

As if lifetime NYC resident Trump had ever entered a bodega.

The danger of these court proceedings is not some very tardy pushback for all Trump's crimes but the toxic influence of the cult of celebrity and media attention.