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That is interesting. I didn't know.SRajesh wrote: ↑12 Jul 2025 23:51 Please check out the 1930’s Indian Provincial Elections
The Jihadis and Muslim League suffered
The Unionist Party wanted to maintain the Zamindari as they controlled much of Punjab
The jihadi enticed the party members with promises of Zamidari and if not agreeable then pure intimidation
Eventually after Sikandar Hayat death the party disintegrated and members co-opted into ML which continued with Zamidari
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Period Receipts Outlays
Jun-24 466,255 537,220
Jul-24 330,377 574,119
Aug-24 306,540 686,620
Sep-24 526,990 462,304 - surplus 64,686
Oct-24 326,770 584,221
Nov-24 301,754 668,517
Dec-24 454,415 541,146
Jan-25 513,294 641,935
Feb-25 296,424 603,441
Mar-25 367,645 528,174
Apr-25 850,169 591,769 - surplus 258,400
May-25 371,229 686,881
Jun-25 526,445 499,435 - surplus 27,010
Fox is pro Trump. Don't know which channel to believe in anymore !bala wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025 21:12 This foxnews YT is claiming that in the month of June the treasury dept of US is reporting a $ 27 B surplus. I don't know how true this news is but to report surplus means that the US is reversing its huge borrowings which are increasing the deficit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_4ofthPq5s
If that were to be the case, Biden admin would have released the list long ago (after redacting the names of their boys - Bill Clinton/Bill Gates/Tom Hanks/Ellen De Generis/and other hollowheads of Burbank.
-------The DOJ’s deliberately opaque phrasing about what was not in the Epstein files tells us absolutely nothing about what was. The three words that do all the work here—“incriminating,” “client,” and “list”—only raise more questions.
What, exactly is an “incriminating ‘client list’”? Why are the words “client list” in quotation marks? What does the absence of an “incriminating ‘client list’” tell us about what is revealed in the Epstein files? Does it mean that Epstein’s clients, enablers, and party bros are indeed identified in the files, but not in the format of a “list”? Does it mean that there’s a list, but it doesn’t expressly identify those on it as “clients”? Does it mean that there’s a list of clients, but the Trump DOJ doesn’t interpret it as “incriminating”? If Epstein hooked up some of his party bros with underage (or drugged or coerced) girls but didn’t get paid money for doing so, are the bros—whose conduct may have crossed the line into criminality—“clients”? If their names are in a black book, a flight log, or a guest registry, is that a “list”? Is it a “client list”? Is it an “incriminating client list”?
When you get right down to it, does “no incriminating ‘client list’” mean anything at all, other than that there’s no single document with the words “INCRIMINATING ‘CLIENT LIST’” emblazoned on the cover?
Vivek Ramaswamy is not new to social media trolling as he's asked to go to India every time he posts something on X. As the Ohio Governor hopeful posted a family picture celebrating the Fourth of July, it was a repetition of the same situation -- people asking him what he has to do with July the Fourth and that he should go back to India, celebrate either in Mumbai and Gujarat -- summing up a few reactions to his post. How could they act like that who do they think they are, Doge?
At a time when ELon Musk has declared his independence from Maga and had to defend Vivek from its more racist elements, which ELon would know something about, Vivek is still shuffling for middle America biscuits even as they tell him to his face they don't want him. Only a Black conservative could truly understand.
Confirmation bias.
If there is no list:
Supposedly Mossad. But we will never know. I am not sure whether people will believe any list at this point. The only person who can shed light is G Maxwell. I am sure she had been wrung dry by Biden admin as well as 6 months of Trump.
House Democrats just tried to force a release of the Epstein list; House Republicans blocked it. But anything to avoid cognitive dissonance.
Of course there is a list, with accompanying incriminating evidence. It it Trump that said it is a fake list.
A_Gupta wrote: ↑15 Jul 2025 17:59Of course there is a list, with accompanying incriminating evidence. It it Trump that said it is a fake list.
With the FBI closing the case, "Prince Andrew can now reportedly end his self-imposed travel ban following his controversial ties to Jeffrey Epstein."
This per Fox News.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/art ... p_catchall
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Added - it appears that Ghislaine Maxwell is going to ask for retrial or pardon based on POTUS’ statement that the Epstein list is a Democratic hoax.
You DNC boosters' goto website for truth says the following:Jay wrote: ↑15 Jul 2025 22:43 https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:s ... b57d5e923f
here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump's involvement with a 13 yr old together.
here is a video of her testimony. https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r ... &FORM=VIRE
)1. That is the origin of the CT that Trump is holding it back to be used in 2026 and 2028. Trump can always say at that time that they found the "real list" subsequently after Trump's statement. What he is claiming what they have now is a fake list.A_Gupta wrote: ↑15 Jul 2025 17:59 Of course there is a list, with accompanying incriminating evidence. It it Trump that said it is a fake list. (1)
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Added - it appears that Ghislaine Maxwell is going to ask for retrial or pardon based on POTUS’ statement that the Epstein list is a Democratic hoax. (2)
IIRC, democrats blocked it when they had the majority. Correct me if I am wrong. That said, both parties have internal dissensions, but Dems seem to be in a much worse position than the GOPers.
Farming jobs are far and few in between.hanumadu wrote: ↑15 Jul 2025 17:58 American farmers of grains are facing other kinds of problems. For grains, soy beans, corn etc they don't need labour. Between wife, husband and kids they manage 1000s of acres with million dollar giant machines. But because of tarriff war, their traditional buyers like china and other countries are
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As for picking of vegetables/fruits/fresh produce, some tasks can be automated. If undocumented (I am being PC given the prevalence of dyed in the blue wool DNC operatives in this threadFarmworkers in the United States have unique demographics, wages, working conditions, organizing, and environmental aspects. According to The National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health in Agricultural Safety, approximately 2,112,626 full-time workers were employed in production agriculture in the US in 2019 and approximately 1.4 to 2.1 million hired crop workers are employed annually on crop farms in the US.[33] A study by the USDA found the average age of a farmworker to be 33. In 2017, the Department of Labor and Statistics found the median wage to be $23,730 a year, or $11.42 per hour.
The types of farmworkers include field crop workers, nursery workers, greenhouse workers, supervisors, etc.[34] The United States Department of Labor findings for the years 2019-2020 report that 63 percent of crop workers were born in Mexico, 30 percent in the mainland United States or Puerto Rico, 5 percent in Central America, and 2 percent in other regions.[35] The amount of farm labor in the United States has changed substantially: in 1870, almost 50 percent of the U.S. population was employed in agriculture;[36] As of 2008, less than 2 percent of the population is directly employed in agriculture.[37][38]
Potential health and safety issues that may be associated with farm work include vehicle rollovers, falls, musculoskeletal injuries, hazardous equipment, grain bins, pesticides, unsanitary conditions, and respiratory disease. According to the United States Department Of Labor, farmworkers are at risk of work-related lung diseases, noise-induced hearing loss, skin diseases, and certain...
) workers are not available, this will get more automated. Also fresh produce becomes more expensive. People will turn to local produce during the season. Right now almost any vegetable/fruit/leafy vegetables/dairy/eggs are available year round. Local produce in season and canned/frozen produce during off season. As it is fresh produce is 2x or even 3x the price of what you can get ni the frozen/canned section.Maybe pedo boosters(obviously not you) need to answer the accusations rather than the source because they seem to be hiding behind their pedo messiah
Already done in the "the Bottom Line" section of that Snopes story. That said, progressive Dems' views on p.philia are well known. You might want to check those. I am tired of searching the internet to enlighten you.
Now in 2025, we have come back full circle.Some Republicans use false 'pedophilia' claims to attack Democrats, LGBTQ people
Republicans are falling back on dangerous, false anti-LGBTQ tropes.
By Kiara Alfonseca
May 7, 2022, 9:25 AM
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Humanizing Pedophilia as Stigma Reduction: A Large-Scale Intervention Study
Craig A Harper 1,✉, Rebecca Lievesley 1, Nicholas J Blagden 1, Kerensa Hocken 2,3
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Abstract
The stigmatization of people with pedophilic sexual interests is a topic of growing academic and professional consideration, owing to its potential role in moderating pedophiles’ emotional well-being, and motivation and engagement in child abuse prevention schemes. Thus, improving attitudes and reducing stigmatization toward this group is of paramount importance. Prior research has suggested that narrative humanization—presenting personal stories of self-identified non-offending pedophiles—could be one route to doing this. However, this work has only been conducted with students or trainee psychotherapists, meaning the public generalizability of this method is still unknown. In this study, we compared two stigma interventions to test whether narratives reduce stigma toward people with pedophilic interests more effectively than an informative alternative (scientific information about pedophilia). Using a longitudinal experimental design with a lack of non-intervention control (initial N = 950; final N = 539), we found that narratives had consistently positive effects on all measured aspects of stigmatization (dangerousness, intentionality), whereas an informative alternative had mixed results, and actually increased perceptions of pedophiles’ levels of deviance. These effects were still present four months after the initial presentation. We discuss these data in relation to ongoing debates about treating pedophilia as a public health issue requiring a broad societal approach to well-being and child abuse prevention.
Keywords: Pedophilia, Social attitudes, Sexual abuse prevention, Narrative humanization, Public health
Introduction
Many researchers have begun to explore sexual interests in children via sexual abuse prevention and well-being perspectives (see Elchuk et al., 2021; Lievesley & Harper, 2021; Lievesley et al., 2020; Seto, 2018). However, there is an acknowledgement within the literature that the effective treatment of individuals with such sexual interests is contingent on the availability of suitable services, the willingness of professionals to work with this client group, and the client group feeling comfortable in seeking support that is made available (Grady et al., 2019; Jahnke, 2018a, 2018b; Levenson & Grady, 2019; Lievesley & Harper, 2021). As such, finding methods of effective stigma reduction is becoming an important topic of study in relation to this client group (Harper et al., 2018; Jahnke, 2018a, 2018b). In this paper, we ask whether previously observed effects of narrative humanization—the process by which stigma toward people with pedophilic sexual interests is reduced by presenting personal stories from the perspective of people within this community—are observable at scale within a large community sample, and whether they are persistent over time.
Defining Pedophilia
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Warning of confirmation bias: This is from Sen. Hawley's website.Democrats Block Hawley Bill to Get Tough on Child Sex Offenders
Tuesday, April 05, 2022
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) went to the Senate Floor today to call for unanimous consent to pass his PROTECT Act of 2022, which protects children from sexual exploitation by enhancing the penalties for possessing child ***** and preventing judges from sentencing offenders below federal guidelines. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) objected and blocked the bill from passing.
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It is all about politics, power and pelf. Children be damned, illegal worker rights be damned, ...Clash over teen sex solicitation reveals the rift within the California Democratic Party
by Dan Walters
May 6, 2025
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A reliable political axiom — at least in California — is that when one party achieves dominance in some arena, it fragments into factions defined by ideology, gender, economics, ethnicity, geography or even personality. The axiom has been demonstrated at the local level for decades, such as the perpetual infighting among San Francisco’s dominant Democrats, or the ceaseless squabbling among Republicans when they controlled Orange County.
Democrats achieved absolute dominance in state politics over the last quarter-century, holding all statewide offices and capturing supermajorities in the Legislature and within the state’s congressional delegation.
One might think that such hegemony would manifest itself in sweeping responses to California’s most pressing issues, such as homelessness, poverty, water supply, wildfires and housing shortages — particularly after Gavin Newsom became governor on promises to seek “big, hairy audacious goals.”
It was not to be. The issues that were plaguing California when Newsom took office in 2019 are as formidable as ever, reflecting not only their complexity but the tendency of the dominant party to become a collection of often hostile quasi-parties.
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Two years ago, state Sen. Shannon Grove, a Republican from Bakersfield, carried legislation that would have added human trafficking of a minor to the state’s list of serious felonies, thereby qualifying an offender for tougher penalties. Democrats stalled the bill, which was opposed by criminal justice reform groups. But when reporters asked Newsom about it, he intervened, essentially compelling the Legislature to pass it.
Last year, Grove took up the issue again with legislation that would increase penalties for anyone who solicited sex from a minor, but Democrats insisted that they wouldn’t apply if the minor was 16 or 17 years old. Gay rights advocates demanded what was termed a “carveout,” contending that including older teens could backfire if the law was used to punish consenting relationships.
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The image that emerges from this dustup is that of a Democratic Party at war within itself, with Rivas trying to be an “ayatollah,” as former Speaker Willie Brown once described himself, and Newsom distancing himself from his party’s leftish tendencies as a prelude to running for president in 2028.
Democrats are not for free trade. They need union votes. KD did not get the votes of the rank of file union workers even though the union bosses were willing to endorse her. You may remember that Unions did not endorse her in the end. Mamdani got the endorsement of the teachers union of NYC which is the largest school system in the country. Mamdani probably is going to be the next mayor of NYC unless one of the Cuomo Adams duo drops out. Adams says he is the incumbent and wants Cuomo to drop out. Which sort of makes sense, especially given the sexual harassment scandals and Covid Nursing home scandal due to which Cuomo stepped down.
That only a small percentage of American people are engaged in agriculture is irrelevant to the current labor problems faced by farmers. If all harvesting 'WILL' be automated, its in the future. Trump being the fool he is couldn't wait till the said automation. Though it seems unlikely that it will be easy to automate several tasks or it will happen any time soon.Vayutuvan wrote: ↑16 Jul 2025 01:31As for picking of vegetables/fruits/fresh produce, some tasks can be automated. If undocumented (I am being PC given the prevalence of dyed in the blue wool DNC operatives in this threadThe amount of farm labor in the United States has changed substantially: in 1870, almost 50 percent of the U.S. population was employed in agriculture;[36] As of 2008, less than 2 percent of the population is directly employed in agriculture.[37][38]
