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.]

Just stumpled upon that (video, 20 sec): https://infosec.exchange/@littlealex/113131659214334040

Just buy from China. It’s cheap :-)

Addition:

Toxic substances found in Shein and Temu products – (August 2024)

Women’s accessories sold by some of the world’s most popular online shopping firms contained toxic substances sometimes hundreds of times above acceptable levels, authorities in Seoul said yesterday.

Chinese giants including Shein, Temu and AliExpress have skyrocketed in popularity around the world in the past few years, offering a vast selection of trendy clothes and accessories at low prices.

Shoes from Shein were found to contain significantly high levels of phthalates — chemicals used to make plastics more flexible — with one pair 229 times above the legal limit.

“Phthalate-based plasticisers affect reproductive functions such as sperm count reduction, and can cause infertility and even premature birth,” an official from Seoul’s environmental health team told reporters.

One such chemical “is classified as a human carcinogen by the International Cancer Institute, so special care should be taken to avoid long-term contact with the human body,” the official said.

The article is longer, very interesting.

Did someone say we need supply chain transparency?

This is why we need supply chain transparency and this game is over, buddy, and among the weakest points in this context is China.

Whatever we understand by a ‘free market’, China must really not complain about a ‘non-free’ market policy not in the U.S. nor in most othrr countries. That would really be hypocritical.

Just one example:

Report finds shein, temu fueled by slave labor in [China’s] Xinjiang – [archived]

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) has released a report stating that leading fast fashion brands, Shein and Temu, are powered by “slave labor.” The author of the report, Adam Savit, who is also the director of AFPI’s China Policy Initiative, said that Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities are subjected to forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region, benefitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

This is just one of many similar reports. I think we should always asking ourselves when buying cheap whether there are others who who pay the price, especially in.countries like China where there is no supply chain transparency.

[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.

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.

Yeah, and the article the user @technocrit posted before that in this community is from 2021.

This is report is more than 3 years old.

This is a rhetorical question, right?

Predatory Sparrow is distinguished most of all by its apparent interest in sending a specific geopolitical message with its attacks, says Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, an analyst at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne who has tracked the group for years. Those messages are all variations on a theme: If you attack Israel or its allies, we have the ability to deeply disrupt your civilization.

I am not sure if this ‘specific geopitical message’ is so unique to Israel. This is what countries like China , Russia, and others are doing as well, aren’t they?

Seems Israel and China are competing to sell their spyware to world.

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