HEADLINES: 2024

"... he should have been a doctor." S2 #343
Yes, if he hadn't been, it might have been the less scalding indictment. A real doctor should know better.
OTO this oddball will fit right in at the Trump white house.

ref:
Mehmet Cengiz Öz (meh-METJENG-gihz oz;Turkish:[mehˈmetdʒeɲˈɟizøz]; born June 11, 1960), also known as Dr. Oz ...
The son of Turkish immigrants, Oz ... graduated from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. ... In 2001, Oz became a professor of surgery at Columbia University, and later retired to professor emeritus in 2018. In May 2022, Columbia University cut ties with Oz and removed his presence from their website.

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New Year’s attacks fuel fears of extremism in military

by Brad Dress

The primary suspects in two deadly attacks on New Year’s Day shared a history of service in the U.S. military, underscoring persistent fears over extremism within the armed services that officials have struggled to uproot.

The suspect behind a truck rampage in New Orleans that killed 14 people, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was an Army veteran, while the man allegedly behind the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside of the international Trump hotel in Las Vegas, Matthew Livelsberger, was an active-duty service member in the Army.

While not the first acts of military extremism, the two deadly attacks amplify questions about the number of radical and unstable veterans and active-duty troops and whether ....

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A United States Constitution: ARTICLE #4: Ratified December 15, 1791
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

"shall not be violated" except in government facilities including municipal buildings, DMV, law courts, military barracks, etc.

That doesn't eliminate the risk. But it can help to identify troops at risk.
 
Fiction author Ian Fleming created James Bond. For promotion: - licensed to kill -. Fiction when originally introduced, perhaps.

But the FBI marksman that murdered Vicki Weaver and others since have demonstrated, a government paycheck is a license to kill.

Don't take my word for it, ask FBI marksman Lon Horiuchi.
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." Thomas Paine
It's open season on YOU.
 

Major news from trusted ally and reliable trade partner, U.S.' Northern neighbor, Canada:

Why has Justin Trudeau resigned – and what’s next for Canada?​

By Al Jazeera Staff / Published On 6 Jan 20256 Jan 2025
After spats with allies, pressure from Donald Trump and falling poll numbers, Trudeau has decided to call it quits.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he plans to resign as Liberal Party leader, amid mounting internal dissent.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025...igned-and-whats-next-for-canada#ixzz8wbsZsWtx

President elect Trump sticks his nose in:

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like it or not: "four more years"
 
So he's saying that Poilievre is "many people"

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In fairness to Poilievre he did say that Canada would never be the 51st state

 
"In fairness to Poilievre he did say that Canada would never be the 51st state" S2 #350

Trump has an unmistakable affection for authoritarians.

“We fell in love.” President Trump commenting on his relationship w/ North Korea - Kim Jong Un - NK/KJU

“There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.” President Trump 2018, after his poorly prepared summit w/ NK/KJU
Trump has a similar affection for Russia's Putin, reflected in Trump's contempt for Ukraine, Zelenskyy.

Unfortunately it seems Trump's reckless pre-inauguration rhetoric about U.S. control of the Panama canal, and Iceland may not merely be inspired by Putin's military adventurism,
but may reflect Trump's desire & or intention to emulate Putin, in Panama, Iceland, and Canada.
 

Biden administration bans unpaid medical bills from appearing on credit reports​

By MICHELLE L. PRICE / Updated 8:33 AM GMT-5, January 7, 2025
Unpaid medical bills will no longer appear on credit reports, where they can block people from mortgages, car loans or small business loans, according to a final rule announced Tuesday by the Biden administration.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule will remove $49 billion in medical debt from the credit reports of more than 15 million Americans, according to the bureau, which means lenders will no longer be able to take that into consideration when deciding to issue a loan.
The change is estimated to raise the credit scores by an average of 20 points and could lead to 22,000 additional mortgages being approved every year, according to the bureau. Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement announcing the rule that it would be “lifechanging” for millions of families.
“No one should be denied economic opportunity because they got sick or experienced a medical emergency,” she said.
Harris also announced that states and local governments have used a sweeping 2021 pandemic-era aid package to eliminate more than $1 billion in medical debt for more than 700,000 Americans.


?!
So Biden / Harris have invented a new category within credit reports.
This doesn't affect indebtedness.
It affects the information available to lenders. Right?

So now lenders will need to recalculate loan applications in context of this new $mystery wildcard? And that's a good thing because ... ?
“No one should be denied economic opportunity because they got sick or experienced a medical emergency” Harris
Says who?
Why not?
By what logic do you compromise long-tenured banking formulae on basis of this arbitrary criterion? Pseudo-compassion?
 
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