The lawsuit alleged that the media giants aim to consolidate control over sports television in a single streaming platform. If allowed to proceed, Fubo said consumers will eventually be forced to pay higher prices. read more
In an election defined by a historic gender gap, former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance have a big gap ... read more
The pace of ultra-luxury deals isn't expected to let up anytime soon read more
The US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), a federation of public interest advocacy groups, has asked the FCC to halt low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite launches until the environmental consequences of space pollution can be better managed. read more
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign said on Friday two major donors would lead a transition team formed to help vet personnel and draft policy should the former president win in November. Wrestling magnate Linda McMahon and Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick will serve as co-chairs, the campaign said in a statement. Two of Trump's sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, along with his vice presidential running mate, Senator JD Vance, will serve as honorary chairs.
@#2 ... Absolutely ridiculous. He should NOT be extradited, he did nothing in the US. ...
Please define, "did nothing in the US."
Kim Dotcom
en.wikipedia.org
... Kim Dotcom (n Schmitz;[3] born 21 January 1974), also known as Kimble[4] and Kim Tim Jim Vestor,[5] is a German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist who lives in Glenorchy, New Zealand.[6]
He rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as a hacker and an Internet entrepreneur.[7] He was arrested in 1994 for trafficking in stolen phone calling card numbers. He was convicted on eleven charges of computer fraud, ten charges of data espionage and various other charges in 1998 for which he served a two-year suspended sentence.[7] In 2003, he was deported to Germany where he pleaded guilty to embezzlement in November 2003 and after five months in jail awaiting trial he received another 20 months suspended sentence.[8]
Dotcom is the founder and former CEO of the defunct file-hosting service Megaupload (2005"2012).[9][10] In 2012, the United States Department of Justice seized its website and pressed charges against Dotcom, including criminal copyright infringement, money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud.[11] Dotcom was residing in New Zealand at the time; at the request of US authorities, New Zealand police raided his home in 2012 and arrested him. Dotcom posted bail and initiated legal proceedings in order to prevent his extradition to the United States.
In 2017, a New Zealand court ruled that Dotcom could be extradited to the US on fraud charges related to Megaupload. Dotcom denied any wrongdoing and has accused US authorities of pursuing a vendetta against him on behalf of politically influential Hollywood studios.[12] In 2018, the New Zealand Court of Appeal upheld the lower court's ruling. Dotcom appealed to the Supreme Court of New Zealand, which ruled in 2020 that Dotcom could be extradited to the United States, but that he could challenge the decision through judicial review.[13] His extradition order was eventually signed on 15 August 2024.[14] ...
Unrelated... (but it is Friday evening...)
Billy Joe & the Checkmates -- Percolator (1962)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
There are no lyrics, it is an instrumental tune....
:)
@#40
To wit...
Private equity-backed venture wants to cash in on college sports (May 2024)
www.highereddive.com
... Collegiate Athletic Solutions could offer capital to fund institutions' sports programs while sharing in the revenue. ...
So... that leads me to ask a question...
When did going to college become a sports thing and not a learning thing?
@#43 ... Walz is giving Tinkerbell headaches.
The poor dear. ...
Yup.
Oddly, the supporters of fmr Pres Trump seem to ignore ...
Why?
Donald Trump In 2004 On STDs And Dating: It's Like Vietnam And Iraq (2016)
www.buzzfeednews.com
... Donald Trump has repeatedly compared the risks of dating to serving in war. In 1993, Trump, who received multiple draft deferments, told Howard Stern if you are dating, "you're the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam." In 1997, he told Stern that dating was his "own personal Vietnam." ...
Trump made up injury to dodge Vietnam service, his former lawyer testifies (2019)
www.militarytimes.com
... President Donald Trump acknowledged to advisors that he made up a fake injury to avoid military service, because "I wasn't going to Vietnam," his former lawyer told lawmakers during testimony on Wednesday. ...
Trump attacks McCain: I like people who weren't captured' (2015)
www.politico.com
... Appearing on Saturday at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, the real estate mogul took his running feud with Arizona Sen. John McCain to a new level.
"He's not a war hero," said Trump. "He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
The remarks, which came after days of back-and-forth between McCain and Trump, were met with scattered boos. ...
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are Losers' and Suckers' (2020)
www.theatlantic.com
... When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that "the helicopter couldn't fly" and that the Secret Service wouldn't drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as "suckers" for getting killed. ...
Trump says presidential civilian award is 'better' than top military honor whose recipients are 'dead' or 'hit' by bullets (2024)
www.nbcnews.com
... Former President Donald Trump lauded a wealthy donor on whom he bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom as having gotten the "better" award compared to the top military honor, the Medal of Honor, because those recipients are often deceased or injured.
Kremlin accuses the West of helping Ukraine attack Russia
www.reuters.com
... An influential aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West and the U.S.-led NATO alliance had helped to plan Ukraine's surprise attack on Russia's Kursk region, something Washington has denied.
The lightning incursion, the biggest into Russia by a foreign power since World War Two, began on Aug. 6 when thousands of Ukrainian troops crossed Russia's western border in a major embarrassment for Putin's military.
Ukraine said the incursion was needed to force Russia, which sent its forces into Ukraine in February 2022, to start "fair" peace talks.
But the United States and Western powers, eager to avoid direct military confrontation with Russia, said Ukraine had not given advance notice and that Washington was not involved, though weaponry provided by Britain and the U.S. is reported to have been used on Russian soil.
Influential veteran Kremlin hawk Nikolai Patrushev dismissed the Western assertions in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper. "The operation in the Kursk region was also planned with the participation of NATO and Western special services," he was quoted as saying, without offering evidence.
"Without their participation and direct support, Kyiv would not have ventured into Russian territory."
The remarks implied that Ukraine's first acknowledged foray into sovereign Russian territory carried a high risk of escalation. ...
@#3 ... Absolutely. You just have to define "Middle Class" as someone that can afford a $500,000 home. ...
Charted: U.S. Median House Prices vs. Income (February 2024)
www.visualcapitalist.com
... Houses in America Now Cost Six Times the Median Income
As of 2023, an American household hoping to buy a median-priced home, needs to make at least $100,000 a year. In some cities, they need to make nearly 3"4x that amount.
The median household income in the country is currently well below that $100,000 threshold. To look at the trends between median incomes and median house prices through the years, we charted their movement using the following datasets data from the Federal Reserve:
...
Excellent chart in the article comparing the slow rise of median income vs the soaring rise of buying a house.
@#8 ... Healthcare systems can't prevent obesity, suicide, drug over doses, road deaths, homicides all of which the US is #1, by orders of magnitude. ...
Why not?
Healthcare systems can provide help for all the issues your current alias raises.
The real question is why the for-profit healthcare system in the US seems to be failing in providing that help/
A quite interesting article...
How does the U.S. Healthcare System Compare To Other Countries? (2024)
www.pgpf.org
... The cost and quality of the U.S. healthcare system is one of the most prominent issues facing everyday Americans. It is a top policy concern for voters, a key indicator of economic efficiency, and a significant driver of the national debt. The recent release of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) 2024 Health Statistics " a comprehensive source of comparable statistics on healthcare systems across OECD member countries " provides policymakers and the public with some insight on how America's healthcare system compares to others.[emphasis mine]
The United States Spends More on Healthcare per Person than Other Wealthy Countries ...
U.S. healthcare spending per capita is almost twice the average of other wealthy countries ...
The United States spends more on administrative costs but less on long-term care than other wealthy countries ...
The United States has worse healthcare outcomes compared to other wealthy countries ...
So, the "healthcare-for-profit" model sees to result in more money going to the companies that administer health care, resulting in a poorer outcome for those who receive that healthcare.
Quelle surprise.
Meanwhile...
A Reality Check for the American Dream: Who Can Afford a Home Right Now?
www.realtor.com
... Homeownership has long been a cornerstone of the American dream. But with prices and mortgage rates high, first-time buyers are struggling to achieve it. Also, scores of existing homeowners are realizing they can't afford to move.[emphasis mine]
All of this begs the question: Can the middle class still achieve the American dream, or is the dream now reserved for those in higher tax brackets? ...
@#42 ... Musk/X has offered the same to Harris. ...
Not the same terms by any rational measure.
Has Mr Musk expressed his support of VP Harris' campaign?
Musk's full-throated backing of Trump is uncharted territory for a tech boss (July 2024)
www.theguardian.com
... Minutes after Donald Trump announced that he had selected JD Vance as his running mate, Elon Musk rushed to endorse the two Republican candidates to his 190 million followers on the social network that he owns. The tech billionaire proclaimed on X, formerly Twitter, that the ticket "resounds with victory". ...
Has Mr Musk said he would donate $45 million a month to a PAC he set up to assure VP Harris' win?
Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC (July 2024)
www.wsj.com
... Elon Musk has said he plans to commit around $45 million a month to a new super political-action committee backing former President Donald Trump's presidential run, according to people familiar with the matter. ...
@#20 ... This is false. ...
What is the "this" your current alias' comment refers to?
If it is the "1990: Interest rates continued to fall, ending the decade at 9.78%" the link your current alias provided seems to support that..
If it is my #18 comment, I see nothing in your comment that shows how my #18 was false.
So I'll say my #18 again...
Analysis: Background: What caused the 1970s oil price shock? (2011)
www.theguardian.com
... There were a series of energy crises between 1967 and 1979 caused by problems in the Middle East but the most significant started in 1973 when Arab oil producers imposed an embargo.
The decision to boycott America and punish the west in response to support for Israel in the Yom Kippur war against Egypt led the price of crude to rise from $3 per barrel to $12 by 1974.
The price of petrol rocketed, making all transport more expensive. There was even talk in Britain of rationing using coupons left over from the second world war. ...
Trump Tax Cuts Cost $7.8 Trillion, Aid Top Earners, Study Finds (2017)
www.bloomberg.com