Logan Act

The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that criminalizes the negotiation of a dispute between the United States and a foreign government by an unauthorized American citizen. The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government’s position.

As I wrote in tbe other comment in this thread: That’s just a fraction aimed at specific children-related projects. Canada’s total support is much higher as we know.

That’s just a fraction aimed at specific children-related projects. Canada’s total support is much higher as we know.

‘The Insider’ is an independent media outlet originally from Russia. It is banned there, though, labelled by the Kremlin as ‘foreign agent’, which is why it’s headquatered in Latvia now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insider_(website)

(Edit typo.)

I thought it’s a typo :-)

There is a good series of research articles on mis/disinformation. It’s content isn’t completely new and focused on the U.S., but it applies to any regions imho.

Reckoning with Mis/Disinformation in 2024: A four-part series

[…] Political rhetoric is again ramping up and new technologies are casting a shadow over public deliberation […] In this four-part series, members of our research network reflect on their influential work on mis- and disinformation in the context of today’s challenges, laying out some essential questions and insights to bolster public discourse in fraught times.​

Unfortunately I know nothing about Quebec, but there apoear to be some coops in the retail sector. A quick web search revealed this: https://grocerystory.coop/food-co-op-directory

United Auto Workers (UAW) endorses Vice President Harris in the upcoming presidential election, citing ‘track record’ with workers

"Our job in this election is to defeat Donald Trump and elect Kamala Harris to build on her proven track record of delivering for the working class,” [United Auto Workers (UAW) Shawn] Fain said […]

“We can put a billionaire back in office who stands against everything our union stands for, or we can elect Kamala Harris, who will stand shoulder to shoulder with us in our war on corporate greed,” Fain added.

Fain and Trump have sparred publicly for months. Trump called for Fain to be fired during his speech at the Republican National Convention, and the UAW hit back on the social platform X, calling the former president “a scab and a billionaire.”

Last week, Fain praised Harris for walking the picket line with UAW workers in 2019, saying Trump, who was in office at the time, “sure as hell wasn’t on the picket line.”

I don’t know where you live, but is it discouraged there? Would you and your community be able to start a cooperative?

they both distrust each other’s currency

Yes, I fully agree especially with this, but also the other views.

Ukrainian troops now up to 30km inside Russia, Moscow says

good reason to get out and vote.

Well said. I wholeheartedly agree.

net neutrality is on hold indefinitely.

I would rather say that The fight for net neutrality is forever

Even though progress can feel inevitable, the best laws and regulations are never really permanent; they require maintenance from every generation […] And it’s still worth fighting for.

The FCC restored net neutrality, reversing a Trump decision, to name a recent example. So we shouldn’t throw the towel too early. Question is whether the new AI rules will be effective before November …

Yes, I am surprised too. Let’s see how this develops :-)

Yes, but for the West it’s just easier to block Swift than a decentralized network. But in principle I agree. That China and Russia haven’t obviously found something better to arrange payments than barter and a blockchain is a clear sign imo that they are in big trouble.

Yeah, I’m not in the position to provide advice what they should do, but I guess there is a need to change the way how political campaigns are funded as the article also suggests.

This has nothing to do with dedollarization imho but rather with circumventing sanctions. China has been refusing to use Swift over fear of Western sanctions. Now China and Russia might even use barter trades at larger scale by the end of this year.

Maybe I’m mistaken, but very often when a terrible incident like this one in Iraq or in any other non-Western country is posted, then anyone comments about the U.S., Europe, or anywhere in ‘the West’, and then a thread develops about how bad things are in Michigan, Illinois, and other Western areas. And this always goes in one direction.

So don’t get me wrong, I don’t say that Western democracies are a perfect world (their democracies are indeed under threat), but this is a weird observation. But maybe I’m mistaken.

In the video, Lawrence O’Donnell argues that there is some sort of ‘kid-glove treatment’ (that’s my word) for Trump. He doesn’t answer reporters’ questions in that his statements doesn’t reflect what they have asked, even if it’s a simple yes-no question.

Trump is ignoring questions by default, and he does that in a very weird way. A typical Trump ‘answer’ is completley unrelated to the question, and often doesn’t make sense at all. However, the reporters seem to accept that.

At the same time, however, they criticize Biden/Harris and now Harris/Walz of not responding adequately to media questions, although they do.

The video is really worth everyone’s time, but the content has nothing to do with the issues raised so far on this thread.