Despite the ruling, Judge Walter criticized Spain for being “inconsistent” and not following its “moral commitments” under non-binding international agreements to return Nazi-looted art.
Source: US judge rules Spanish museum can keep Nazi-looted Pissarro painting | News | DW | 01.05.2019
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It’s somewhat “humorous” when a USA Gooferment “judge” mentions “moral commitments”.
No?
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A government watchdog agency that monitors the U.S. war effort, now in its 18th year, said in a report to Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. military command in Kabul is no longer producing “district control data,” which shows the number of Afghan districts — and the percentage of their population — controlled by the government compared to the Taliban.
Source: US military stops releasing Afghanistan war information
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“Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Go home, you looky-loos.” Officer Barbrady’s Catch Phrase South Park
Guess it’s a total failure?
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When Farina tells her story, her eyes always tear at the word “foreclosure.” Her Orange home had four-bedrooms and was beautifully furnished but when the bank foreclosed after just a few months of her struggles, “I ended up giving almost everything away,” she said.
She remains hurt and confused about the quick foreclosure, but “I didn’t have anybody there to fight for me or show me the way.
”She was a victim of the predatory real estate shuffle in urban areas that got more than a few banks in hot water with the government, but she ended up with nothing but the satisfaction that the big lenders were fined. But satisfaction doesn’t pay the rent.
Source: A Failsafe in a World of Falling Safes | TAPinto
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Sure your Gooferment will protect you. Notice that this woman’s banks got off with a fine. Shovel more money into the Gooferment cesspool. Did they give it to her to get back what she lost — obviously not. Private charity is efficient and effective; Gooferment “charity” is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. It’s a sham. And, it deceives “We, The Sheeple” into thinking that they don’t have to be individually responsible to fund charity because the Gooferment does it.
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Steve Hilton said Joe Biden is “compromised by a foreign power,” drawing on Peter Schweizer’s investigation of Biden family ties to China.
Source: Steve Hilton: China Is ‘Funding Biden Family Businesses’ with ‘Billions”
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A most stunning acquisition????
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Rents in California are notoriously high. The average price for an apartment in San Francisco is about $3,600 per month (that’s about twice as high as Miami and Chicago). But blocking that price from increasing won’t create more homes for people who need a place to live.Oregon in February passed a law which limits rent increases to 7% plus local inflation. Lawmakers in Colorado and New York are considering similar moves.The prospect of rent control comes during a time when the apartment business has been strong, and analysts expect the new bills to have a negative effect on the industry.“It has been proven time and again that rent control does not work,” argues Sid Lakireddy, president of the California Rental Housing Association. “We do not need more distractions and resources spent on failed policies but instead we need policies that encourage more affordable and accessible housing.”
Source: What Are They Thinking: Democrats and Duterte – The Daily Grind
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“Rent Control”, anohter great Socialist idea, is just stupid.
Argh!
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AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File Following the horrific events in Christchurch, New Zealand, the country has lashed out at gun owners and changed its laws so that massive numbers of gun owners have to turn over their guns or become criminals.
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Yet has France, for example, stopped terrorists from using guns, despite the nation’s long history of gun control? No. France can try, but it’s a lost cause, and so too it will be in New Zealand.
Gun control won’t work.
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Source: Police Efforts Like This Will Undermine NZ’s Gun Control Attempt
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Pretty sad when guns are stolen from the police!
Gooferment — at all levels — is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
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Like Slopes and Castro, I’ve changed to a date-based version-numbering scheme — 2019.4 is the fourth update released in 2019, the next version will be 2019.5, and so on — partly because version numbers don’t really matter anymore, but mostly because I no longer wanted to delay completed features until a major-version change or worry that I didn’t do enough to justify a certain number.
Source: Clip sharing with Overcast – Marco.org
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Interesting observation imho.
Version numbers really have become brands to the extreme like Windows 7 or iPhoneX.
For my part, i like the simple sequence. I use 2019-Apr-28 (YYYYMMMDD) or 2019-04Apr-28 (YYYYmmMMMDD) for dates because of it’s “global” simplicity.
We need to make ourselves more clear when we communicate.
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With socialism trending in America, it makes sense to once again feature this short clip where Murray Rothbard explains how Ludwig von Mises refuted the idea that socialism could be a success. This is Mises’ important book on socialism: -RW
Source: The Problems with Socialism
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A timeless classic!
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Noted primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost chimp researcher, released a statement through her website Good For All News on Thursday, as the footage of the chimpanzee began to gather a lot of viral steam. Goodall said she is “very disappointed to see the inappropriate portrayal of a juvenile chimpanzee” and suggests that the footage helps to perpetuate the illegal pet trade of great apes.
This isn’t the behavior of a wild animal, rather a trained behavior that seems intended to elicit this exact response. That point can be lost amid the runaway virality <sic> of an online clip and the Jane Goodall Institute said this is “part of the larger issue of social media videos” that prompt trading in exotic animals.
Notably, this isn’t the first time that a chimpanzee video has gone viral — and it’s not even the first time the same organization has caused grief for primatologists. And posts and videos such as these highlight how social media influencers with large audiences can quickly spread content — for right or wrong. Once they’re online, there’s almost no way to stop their spread and, in this case, the funny exterior masks the sad hidden truth of animals living in captivity.
Source: Viral video of chimpanzee scrolling through Instagram hides a sad truth – CNET
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Don’t view any of the Great Apes being monetized and encourage bad behavior by human beings profiting off their captivity.
Animals belong in nature; not in captivity.
IMHO
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Chick-fil-A might usually be closed on Sundays, but that doesn’t mean they’re not willing to help out a child in need.
Source: Chick-fil-A makes special Sunday delivery for boy with brain tumor
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Kudos to that store manager and his team for making this happen.
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