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LINGUISTICS
Educational CyberPlayGround provides Linguistic information and resources for learning about languages like Creole, Irish American Vernacular, Black English, AAVE African American Vernacular, Creole Dialect Speakers, ESL, Ebonics, and Pidgin.
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AAVE = AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH
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IRISH AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish.html

6/25/16  “Language like Music is a Virus and it can infect broad swaths of the public rapidly.” If there’s no virality, if it’s not spreading, it’s not happening. ~KE

https://www.umass.edu/synergy/fall98/ebonics3.html
“Janice Jackson, another team member who is also working on a Ph.D. in communication disorders, conducted an experiment using pictures of Sesame Street characters to test children’s comprehension of the “habitual be” construction. She showed the kids a picture in which Cookie Monster is sick in bed with no cookies while Elmo stands nearby eating cookies. When she asked, “ white kids tended to point to Elmo while black kids chose Cookie Monster. “But,” Jackson relates, “when I asked, ‘Who is eating cookies?’ the black kids understood that it was Elmo and that it was not the same. That was an important piece of information.” Because those children had grown up with a language whose verb forms differentiate habitual action from currently occurring action (Gaelic also features such a distinction, in addition to a number of West African languages), they were able even at the age of five or six to distinguish between the two.in Irish we would have “Tá sé ag ite brioscaí” (is) “Bíonn sé ag ite brioscaí” (be) in fact, we have a hiberno-english variant as well which is close to the “habitual be” meaning here:
“He does be eating biscuits”

As a Speech-Language Pathologist, it’s hard to combat yt counterparts who think children should be in therapy for their dialect. It’s a dialect and not a disorder.”

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RIP Writing (and remembering) Roger Abrahams; the Folklore Master

 

ECP NetHappenings General Smedley Butler warned us of Terrorist Chiaquita Brands

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 United Fruit Co., ran this operation

Chiquita funded Colombian terrorists for years. A jury now says the firm is liable for killings.

General Smedley Butler warned us of Terrorist Chiaquita Brands

Chiquita Brands was ordered Monday by a Florida jury to pay $38.3 million to the families of eight people killed by a right-wing paramilitary group in Colombia, which the banana grower had funded for years during that country’s violent civil war.  Chiquita had previously acknowledged funding the paramilitary group, pleading guilty in 2007 after the U.S. Department of Justice charged the company with providing payments to what the agency labeled a “terrorist organization.” The group, the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, or AUC, received payments from Chiquita from about 1997 through 2004, which the company had described as “security payments” during the country’s internal conflict. The decision marks the first time an American jury has held a large U.S. corporation liable for a major human rights violation in another country, according to EarthRights International, a human rights firm that represented one family in the case.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chiquita-colombia-auc-deaths-lawsuit-jury-ruling/

Butler later became an outspoken critic of American wars and their consequences.

In 1935, Butler wrote the book War Is a Racket, where he alleged imperialist motivations for U.S. foreign policy and wars (such as those in which he had been involved). After retiring from service, he became a popular advocate, speaking at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists, and church groups in the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket

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The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of the Boston Fruit Company with Minor C. Keith’s banana-trading enterprises. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century, and it came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, and the West Indies. Although it competed with the Standard Fruit Company (later Dole Food Company) for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics – such as Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala.[2]
Critics often accused it of exploitative neocolonialism, and they described it as the archetypal example of the influence of a multinational corporation on the internal politics of the so-called banana republics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

In the future, humans will thirst for realism instead of artificial intelligence.

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ECP NetHappenings Project 2025 agenda for a Trump White House

FINALLY

House Democrats launch task force to counter Project 2025

NEW: Ben & Jerry’s has just announced a brand new flavor – honoring Donald Trump Pints of the new ice cream will be arriving at supermarkets this weekend. This latest Ben & Jerry’s flavor is called,… “Felon Melon.”

Project 2025 agenda for a Trump White House

“Warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for a Trump White House, a group of House Democrats has launched The Stop Project 2025 Task Force to start fighting the proposal and stop it from taking hold if…Trump wins.”
https://apnews.com/article/project-2025-trump-biden-election-congress-6899a1167a4522b1c8be371f7abe7ee9
A group of House Democrats steps up to try to stop Project 2025 and a Trump White House
FILE – Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., speaks as the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure works to advance the Water Resources Development Act of 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 18, 2022. A group of House Democrats is warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for a Trump White House. The Stop Project 2025 Task Force is announced by Huffman.
FILE – Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., speaks as the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure works to advance the Water Resources Development Act of 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 18, 2022. A group of House Democrats is warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for a Trump White House. The Stop Project 2025 Task Force is announced by Huffman.
Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman of California is unveiling The Stop Project 2025 Task Force on Tuesday, the latest sign that congressional Democrats and outside groups are treating Trump’s campaign seriously in the expected rematch against Democratic President Joe Biden this fall.

 

Fun fact: Friedrich Trump

Donald Trump’s white trash grandfather was deported from his native Germany in 1905 for failing to do his mandatory military service there.

 

Donald Trump’s KKK white trash father arrested. GOP Convention Stuck With Convicted Felon As Nominee, With No Clear Path To Replace Trump
Unlike in 2016, when a “Dump Trump” fight went to the floor, pro-Trump activists now make up an overwhelming majority of national convention delegates.

Trump may lose liquor license for Bedminster and his other New Jersey properties.

Because he is a convicted felon. Given his 34 felony convictions, a sentence to a period of incarceration is necessary to punish Donald Trump for his crimes – crimes designed to gain unfair advantage in an American election – AND to deter others who would chose to follow Trump’s criminal path.

 

WHITE TRASH Ben Zeisloft (Editor of the Republic Sentinel) advocates murder charges for women who get abortions, a return to public executions, and a ban on birth control pills. He previously worked for the Daily Wire.

PENNSYLVANIA This was the  @PAGOP argument in court against the Fair [Public Ed] Funding lawsuit: “What use would someone on the McDonald’s career track have for Algebra 1?…The commonwealth has many needs. There’s a need for retail workers, for people who know how to flip a pizza crust.”
These 3 @BucksGOP State Reps Don’t Want to Fix Pennsylvania’s Unconstitutional Education Funding | HB 2370 charts a path to fill the education resource gaps disproportionately found in Rural, lower income, and communities of color school districts.

DARK MONEY

The Concord Fund, a key advocacy group in Leonard Leo’s network, paid $6 million to Leo’s consulting firm. Leo’s dark money scheme to influence the judiciary may also be about self-enrichment.

DARK MONEY PAY OFF
A billionaire donor wired the U.S. Chamber of Commerce $800k days after it endorsed his son, then-Rep. Peter Meijer, ahead of a contentious 2022 GOP primary, according to previously unreported emails obtained by @thehill. Days later, the Chamber dropped $381k on an ad entitled “Thank you, Rep. Peter Meijer.”
But bc the ad doesn’t explicitly advocate for his election, the Chamber didn’t have to disclose the donation from Hank Meijer, CEO of the superstore chain Meijer
https://thehill.com/lobbying/4702908-us-chamber-800k-hank-meijer-supermarket-mogul-peter-meijer/

@rhpsiaNEW: Newly obtained data shows the IRS unit that audits corporations & the ultrarich flagged no more than 22 possible tax crimes over the past 5 years — roughly 40 times fewer criminal referrals than from the unit covering small businesses. “I was putting butchers, bakers and candlestick makers in jail, but the big stuff we really wanted to go after was being ignored,” one ex-IRS official told @ICIJorg. He & some current agents say this enforcement approach encourages egregious behavior by the richest taxpayers.
https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/06/how-the-irs-went-soft-on-billionaires-and-corporate-tax-cheats/

Newly obtained data shows the IRS division that audits corporations and the ultrarich flagged no more than 22 possible tax crimes over the past five years — roughly 40 times fewer criminal referrals than from the small businesses unit.

SCOTUS is ILLEGITIMATE
#CorruptSCOTUS
#ExpandTheCourt

Until 1920, it was illegal for women to vote.
Until 1964, it was legal to reject a job applicant because she was a woman.
Until 1974, banks could legally refuse to issue credit cards to women.
Women should not have to fight against patriarchy for their basic human rights.
I declare my independence from these people.
I refuse to abide by anything they say. I didn’t elect them & the people who installed them got there by cheating.
They do not interpret the Constitution, they destroy it for plutocrats, theocrats & dictators.

EXCLUSIVE UNDERCOVER AUDIO: Martha-Ann Alito Unfurled
“I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month.” “MY HERITAGE IS GERMAN” “I’M FROM GERMANY”
“I’ll get them” Martha Alito says of the media.
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1800298200923766961
SCOTUS has been infiltrated by Jesus freaks! Seriously: WTAF?

Alito is 74 get him the hell out!
This is the direct result of actions taken by Republicans over the past 40 years, including all (yes, all!) conservative Supreme Court appointments since President George W. Bush.

The Right is having fits over Judge Merchan saying he’s biased and should have recused himself because of his daughter’s political involvement. But when it comes to the wives of Supreme Court Justices: nothing to see here.

Alito vows to return America to “godliness”
Clarence Thomas says he’s on a mission to make liberals miserable
Kavanaugh threatens liberals, warning that what goes around comes around
Barrett cavorts with Mike Johnson—her husband works for Rupert Murdoch

We first obtained the fake electoral certificates submitted by Trump supporters in seven states. We also obtained communications from early January 2021 showing NARA alerting governors’ offices to the fake electoral certificates.

Now that Biden’s been found guilty of felony gun charges, where are all their “2A” MAGAs screeching about Hunter’s right to bear arms? Congratulations to Jim Jordan and James Comer, who successfully got the President’s son convicted of a crime Trey Gowdy has said no one else would have been charged with.

Documentary about Palantir CEO: Alex Karp doesn’t like it
“Klaus Stern’s documentary “Watching You” approaches its main character even without them – and offers insights into the work of the German police with Palantir.”

LET THEM FIGHT
Elon Musk has warned Apple after it announced that it will be working with OpenAI, stating he will ban Apple devices at his companies if “Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level,” calling it an “unacceptable security violation. So now I have to change cellphones ?? Everyone is obvious about what they’re doing … think we don’t care ?!! How can we ‘picket’ what’s happening to our devices ?

A hacker claims to have millions of records of Americans (names, home addresses, SSNs) stolen from a data broker. The data appears partly legitimate, but the source of the breach is unclear. The process of how we tried was still worth writing about.

The HELP Committee would like a simple answer to a simple question:
WHY are Americans charged $969 for Ozempic, when Germans can purchase it for $59? Unfortunately, Novo Nordisk has been unable to respond. They have given us no choice but to vote to subpoena their president.

Chiquita Found Liable for Colombia Paramilitary Killings

Today, a jury in West Palm Beach found Chiquita Brands Int’l liable for funding a violent Colombian paramilitary organization, the United Self-defense Forces of Colombia, that was responsible for major human rights atrocities during the 1990s and 2000s

Founder and former CEO of artificial intelligence company charged with securities fraud

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ECP NetHappenings Low Brow Thug Trump Loser

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WASHINGTON POST

Right-wing Brits running the Washington Post?
Stuff of nightmares.
WashPost exec editor Sally Buzbee out – replaced till election by ex WSJ editor Matt Murray.
Then Murray will oversee “service and social media journalism”
After elex, Telegraph Media Group (UK)’s Rob Winnett to lead conventional newsroom, major newsroom shakeup by WashPost’s new publisher, Will Lewis, an ex WSJ publisher & Daily Telegraph editor.
Bezos is apparently okay with it. @SallyBuzbee had to do the dirty work of closing the regional bureaus before departing. What a mess…
The WaPo lost $77M last year, according to Lewis’s remarks to staff.
Lewis putting his own stamp on newsroom and Buzbee’s unease in the new structure.
Murray will lead “third newsroom” (after news & opinion), focusing on platforms like video, new biz like micropayments, and climate & wellness beats

Mexico beat us to a female president.
Claudia Sheinbaum just won the presidential elections in Mexico.
She will be Mexico’s first Jewish President and North America’s first female president!She studied energy physics at the same California lab as…Oppenheimer.
https://international.lbl.gov/news/mexico-city-mayor-elect-claudia

BTCFUN FACT:
There’s only 1.3 million left waiting to be mined.
BITCOIN IS ABSOLUTE SCARCITY
It took the best ETF 3 years to reach $20 billion.
#Bitcoin ETF did it in 137 days!!!

The Wisconsin Pension Fund has added Bitcoin ETFs to its portfolio.
“I think it’s just an entry point. I think they’re testing to see the reaction of the public.” – Dr. David Krause, Finance Professor at Marquette University

The American Bankers Association, which helped write what the #crypto industry says is @ewarren’s anti-crypto bill (Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act), wrote a letter asking @POTUS to sign H.J. Res. 109 (SAB 121 repeal) into law hours before he vetoed it.
Full letter here:
@ThinkingCrypto1
My thoughts on what’s happening here. Banks want to control crypto, they want everything to go through them. So they supported the Warren Bill as it would funnel all crypto to them because of AML, bank regulations etc. However, SAB121 prevented them from actually holding crypto assets without crazy stipulations, so they are against this veto.

BIDEN BETTERN WAKE UP
Pro-crypto candidates have been winning their races.

WHY REPUBLICAN THRUGGERY?
If you’re wondering why tech bro billionaires support Trump,
it’s cuz of tax cuts.
If you’re wondering why oligarchs like Steve Schwarzman endorsed Trump, it’s cuz of tax cuts.
Or why the Federalist Society hijacked the Supreme Court,
it’s cuz of tax cuts MONEY is their only God.

THE CRIMINAL RETHUGLICAN PARTY

 Low Brow Thug Trump

Trump’s plan for 2024 is taken from the KKK Plan of 1946. If we don’t expose it, this old Klan scam will pick your next president..

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is an American white supremacist terrorist hate group founded in 1865. It became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans.
What the [ alt-right ] actually wants from President Trump
There is no “altRight” #KKKsplaining where they have a continuing and disproportionate influence.The alt-right’s priority, first and foremost, is preserving America’s status as a white-majority nation. Bannon famously remarked that he wanted Breitbart to be “the platform for the alt-right.”

Culture of Celebrity – High-brow, Low-brow or No-brow?
Nobrow: that the distinction between high culture and low culture has collapsed, making the idea of highbrow and lowbrow absurd. “Culture” no longer, for that whole congeries of institutions, relations, kinship patterns, linguistic forms, and the rest for which the early anthropologists meant it to stand.
Kleptocracy, Authoritarians – Donald Trump’s money originally came from his German grandfather Friedrich Trump who ran a whore house, bar, to gold miners in British Columbia.

TRUMP IS A THUG
= RETHUGLICAN THUGGERY PARTY

Trump thugs doxxed the 12 jurors
Judge Engoron got bomb threats
Judge Chutkan got swatted
Judge Merchan’s daughter is getting threats
Jack Smith gets death threats
Cannon—who delayed Trump’s trial til after the election—is the ONLY one who isn’t in danger

Donald Trump, Candidate For President by The Numbers:
3 marriages
2 Divorces
4 Bankruptcies (MORE ACTUALLY)
2 impeachments
355 million dollars owed for Sexual Abuse
4 indictments
34 Felony Convictions
3 Trials upcoming

The disgraced, twice-impeached, grifting rapist is GUILTY x’s 34. The Republican Party wants to elect a convicted felon for president.

TRUMP DRUG TEST
He can easily get a candy man like “Dr.” Ronny Jackson to write a letter or prescription saying he’s allowed/required to take whatever the drugs are that they find in his system. He didn’t take the UA he was mandated to take or visit with parole officers before he left the court.

“The 45th President of the United States will sit down with Probation & Parole and he will be interviewed by a probation officer. That probation officer will make a recommendation of sentencing.”

Trump can be put in mental and medical assessment that can isolate him for up to 30 days. He likely suffers from dementia and stimulant addiction. Trump to report to probation for PSI. If he’s as bad as he appears, they’ll have to clean him up. He was sniffling so likely used yesterday. The urine test may clear in a few days but hair is good for 90. I noticed he had gotten a noticeable hair cut in the past few days. So if he can’t give hair and delay 3 or 4 days from yesterday he might pass the Adderall/Cocaine urine test.
https://www.addictionresource.net/drug-detection-times/

If Senator Menendez and his wife can be charged with bribery and corruption, Justice Thomas and his wife can be charged with bribery and corruption.

Bannon lost his appeal. Why isn’t he in jail, yet?

Republican mega-donor and casino billionaire Miriam Adelson plans to help bankroll a massive super PAC for Donald Trump
Bring back the estate tax. The trophy wife of a dead israeli billionaire mobster is using her sugar daddy’s trust money to fund an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon to be America’s next president.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/miriam-adelson-republican-trump-super-pac-preserve-america-00160660

INVESTIGATION: Greedflation has come for your groceries.
Big Food is hiking prices and blaming inflation — but we found in recent years, the country’s biggest brands have authorized billions in lucrative dividend payouts and stock buybacks.

Two male Texas professors are suing to flunk students who get abortions.
Their reason? The students had “consensual sexual intercourse.”
Which the professors appear to believe is their right to punish.
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/texas-professors-to-fail-students-seek-abortions/

“Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares and cash from Trump’s media company.” “These pay increases and other benefits often came at delicate moments in the legal proceedings against Trump. One aide who was given a plum position on the board of Trump’s social media company, for example, got the seat after he was subpoenaed but before he testified.” “One campaign aide had his average monthly pay double, from $26,000 to $53,500. Another employee got a $2 million severance package barring him from voluntarily cooperating with law enforcement. And one of the campaign’s top officials had her daughter hired onto the campaign staff, where she is now the fourth-highest-paid employee.”

Trump says he will “immediately” end the Department of Education if he wins
Far right Christians hate the Department of Education because they hate federal oversight of their discriminatory behavior and other misconduct.

The FBI has raided landlord giant Cortland Management over algorithmic price-fixing collusion.
Cortland is allegedly part of a bigger conspiracy coordinated by software firm RealPage to raise rents across the country through price-fixing and keeping apartments empty.

Did you know? The @OCCRP-led #DubaiUnlocked investigation found records showing that even individuals who are the subject of an Interpol red notice — a request for a country to provisionally arrest someone — can be property owners in Dubai.
https://www.icij.org/news/2024/05/leaked-dubai-property-files-link-luxury-flats-to-onecoin-crypto-scammers/

China Is ‘Prepositioning’ for Future Cyberattacks—and the New NSA Chief Is Worried
@WeldPond Why is critical infrastructure not using MFA?
“To gain access, he said, Chinese hackers subvert the identity of a user on the network, allowing them to then operate as a user and use tools inherent in the system they are targeting—a tactic known as living off the land.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-is-prepositioning-for-future-cyberattacks-and-the-new-nsa-chief-is-worried/ar-BB1nwMT4

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