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The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on unpicking the narratives around South Africa's stance on two of the world's biggest geopolitical issues
Convicted like you’ve never seen before It’s a first America doesn’t need, and yet it does. The Washington Post reports yesterday’s news: Donald Trump was convicted Thursday on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York state hush money case, becoming the first former U.S. president to be tried and found guilty of a crime. All of America watched in the aftermath of the Great Recession as its architects in the finance industry took home bonuses even as they took back the homes of families to whom they’d sold “No income, no asset” (NINA) loans, a.k.a. “liar loans.” The Department of the Treasury under Barack Obama “foamed the runway” for the banks to prevent hard landings in the crisis. But it left homeowners out in the cold. The Department of Justice looked the other way.
Young people, those with few qualifications, and voters in Scotland are least aware of new voter ID rules
The MP for Stoke-on-Trent North didn't comment on potential job cuts at the digger giant but called an “urgent” meeting with the Business Secretary over the closure of Johnson Tiles amid claims his "silence was bought"
As for the politics, I don’t know. My guess is it won’t make much difference. Even if he’s given prison time, he’ll appeal and I can’t see him having to run his campaign from prison.
In the larger American domestic context, I think this may presage an era of lawfare. One of the norms of American politics is that elites, unless they betray other elites, are immune to prosecution for a wide variety of crimes which would ruin an ordinary person. Democrats, of course, consider Trump, thru the Jan 7 riot/coup attempt, to have betrayed, but many Republicans don’t see it that way and the likely response will be to use their prosecutors in Red states to go after Trump, just as Democrats used prosecution in a blue state.
This will go until one side wins and other submits, or until both get sick of it and decide to go back to old norms or create new ones.
“I’M A POLITICAL PRISONER! … I DID NOTHING WRONG! … My end-of-month fundraising deadline is just DAYS AWAY!” — Donald Trump on his campaign website, which went down briefly, after he was convicted on thirty-four counts in hush-money trial
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IT’S OFFICIAL: I’M A POLITICAL PRISONER.
A JURY OF YOUR PEERS (NOT MINE) FOUND ME GUILTY.
BUT I DID NOTHING WRONG.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Trump Guilty, The Boys, Welcome to Derry, Smiling Friends, Yellowjackets, Doctor Who, Star Trek, and more!
‘The multiculturalism of our area is just one of the amazing things about it, as well as Arsenal, our lovely parks, and all the Turkish restaurants on Holloway Road. But the best thing by far about our area is our MP.’ Junior doctor and Palestine activist Rohi Malik addressed the crowd at Crouch Hill’s Brickworks […]
An inside look at how a corrupt billionaire butcher family ended up controlling the country’s meat supply.
Farage would be cancelled if he said the same things about Jews as he does Muslims - yet he gets endless airtime
Why is a party with so few elected representatives and even fewer ideas being given such an easy ride?
Experience Builder (XB) must be able to render single directory components (SDC) … but really any component. Furthermore, to achieve the compromiseless UX we want, we’ll need both client-side and server-side rendering (to avoid network latency): isomorphic rendering. So on Monday May 20, Ben “bnjmnm”, Mateu “e0ipso”, Lee “larowlan”, Théodore “nod_”, Pierre “pdureau” and Tim met in a truly global meeting (from Lee’s Australia to Kris’ U.S. West Coast), with very interesting conclusions.
These are not current concerns for XB, but they will eventually be — this was early alignment to avoid wasting time.
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MPs who stoke "culture wars" face on-the-ground campaigns and targeted ads from Hope Not Hate
All over the country, architecture firms make the case for bigger jails — then get hired to design them.
The post The Little-Known Reason Counties Keep Building Bigger Jails: Architecture Firms appeared first on The Intercept.
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The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) seems more interested in sweeping the story under the carpet — and shutting down other investigations — than uncovering the truth. Read here.
An increasingly desperate establishment is cracking down on dissent, both on the right and on the left.
The WikiLeaks founder remains in a potentially never-ending legal limbo. Assange himself spoke of “punishment as process”: subjecting enemies of the state to lengthy detentions without trial. Read here.
America’s embrace of protectionism is an admission of weakness — an emblem of the US’s demotion to no-longer-hegemonic status. Read here.
The measures purportedly undertaken in response to the pandemic have accelerated the trend towards increasingly concentrated, oligarchical and authoritarian forms of capitalist power.
Militarism, censorship, authoritarianism — the EU is turning into everything Remainers feared Brexit would bring to the UK.
We are in the midst of yet another “great transformation” — but the future it heralds couldn’t be farther from the democratic, co-operative international order he envisioned. Read here.