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Abortion right was based on constitution until it was not. Supreme court has made lot of decision in history what constitution actually means. What will people do if they decide that interpret this clause to mean that if person's parent's aren't US citizens then the baby is not subject of US jurisdiction and therefore they aren't US citizens All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

United States v. Wong Kim Ark was 6-2 decision, so there are ways to see that it is constitutional even by judges in supreme court

Considering that he was able to create legally enforceable rule with his executive order that court had to suspend speaks says something else. Still government lawyers are arguing in courts that order is justified using tax payers money to do so and arguing that states don't have right to challenge the ruling because they aren't party in the ruling. I would also point that they were aware that it will be challenged in courts and they count on supreme court to change how 14th Amendment is interpret as they appointed their judges there in Trump's last term. Meaning that they think that supreme court will rubberstamp their orders. Another thing they are doing is to put out n+1 executive orders so courts too busy to handle them all, which give them ability to do what they want. And they hope that people see temporal suspension of one of the orders as win as mark that checks and balances are working, without releasing that they have already appointed lots of judges, congress is in their pocket and best that people can expect from them is to pretend that nothing is wrong and worse they will do their best prevent anything that could hinder their new ruler.

At first day in office they declared end of birthright citizenship, which is constitutional right in USA So that seem to be something that can only be done in authoritarian state where constitution is irrelevant

https://open.who.int/2024-25/contributors/contributor Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation contributes about same amount as USA and is second largest contributor. Interesting tidbit is that based on voluntary contribute percentages, Somalia (0.38%) contributes more than China (0.32%), South Africa (0%), Russia (0.17%) and Brazil (0%) combined. WHO's budget is bit over 6.5 billion dollars, so quite big sunk of the countries would be able to handle it alone without massive problems.

US presidential election is not democratic by design. It was designed to protect state rights. Every state has their own rules for voting (like who are eligible to vote, how to register to vote, where you can vote, how you can vote, when you can vote, when your vote is eligible) and how state electors are elected. US citizens living in US territories like Puerto Rico don't get to choose any electors, because only states have electors. Some states have more electors per capita than other states. Most states give all their electors to person that got most votes, which has lead to situation where many states can be said to belong to republicans or democrats before they even have picked their candidates. There is no federal system that gives people right to vote for their president, there is no federal laws that says that states can't override result of the state vote. We can call it democratic system, but we can also call Russian elections democratic, but that don't change reality how those systems are designed to give people in power to go around will of the general population

Considering that as democracy demands that majority of people support the decision, then less than half of 66% that does not include over 3,2 million citizen of country isn't a democratic way to elect leader. But in this case democracy has never existed.

Finnish Bureau of Investigation currently suspects that nine member of the crew of the Eagle S purposefully cased cable damage. So I am not sure who the nameless officials that WaPo used as their source are.

Price is a lie. 80% of tokens are owned by CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC, which belong to Trump and his associates. So from the 200 million tokens that they released to market, only 40 million is actually in open market, and some people were given pre-emption to tokens. This is typical meme coin trick to cause coin to gain lots of value and mentions in media. Trump and his associates make most of the money from handling fees that are certain percentage of value of traded tokens. And if there are enough demand on market CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC will cash in their tokens and will most likely make big bank. And those that end to own tokens in that point will most likely lose their money. They say that they aim to increase token count to billion, but most likely in that point tokens value has already dropped to pennies.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141417

Assassination of generals happens in every war

But how this will anyway make things worse or increase hostilities? That weren't caused by killing 63 civilians fleeing war on railway station or killing over 20 people by blowing a shopping mall or blowing up a children hospital? Generals are legitimate targets in a war so they will be targets of strikes

You mean that raping and murdering civilians like happened in start of didn't make it already much worse?

This act of terror (I am not sure if it fits in definition, although it somewhat fits in FBI's state sponsored terrorism if we accept Russia saying that Ukraine is terrorist nation ) seem to be odd bit to get much of focus considering that countries involved are in all out war, where they shoot hundreds of cruise missiles to each other civilian and military infrastructure. And hundreds some times thousand people die on fighting somewhere where they probably don't want to be. But then people get their sock twisted when one general and his assistant commanding those troops and ordering those missile strikes get killed in strike that didn't even kill any civilians

There are different kinds of venture capitalist. In this case Softbank seem to seek quick profits by trying to get profits from Trumps protectionism that most likely will artificially increase US companies value. They will invest/buy US companies and hope that they can sell them with much higher price in couple years and they aren't interest if they actually create 100k new jobs, as their vision to use 250k dollar per year per job does not seem like long time investment. I am technically venture capital investor as I have invested in my current employer as part of venture capital investment where venture capital fund bought it, so I am familiar with idea to invest in company so that it multiply its value in next couple years and then sell it with profit to next investor.

They are doing venture capital investing, so they purpose is to leach money and assets, especially as their target is only to create 100 000 jobs with 100 billion dollars in four years

Question should probably be will Israel leave from their new "defense zone" then

Because they call themselves HTS now or at least lot of their members have been members of ISIS, Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Now it seems that they want rule themselves now.

Assad's forces have been fighting now about 12 years, and they have not see anything getting better. Publicized intelligence reports even claim that Assad has failed multiple time to pay them, which has destroyed the moral of the troops and made corruption rampant. And now when Russia, Iran and Hizbollah have their own problems elsewhere Assad just does not have resources to get his troops to fight, so most likely Assad's reign will come to the end soon. But it may not mean much as it isn't like he has had control over Syria anyway.

If EU countries needs to increase their military spending with billions, they would like to cut cost elsewhere and Russian gas has been cheap, which is why many EU members states relied on it so heavily before 2022. Where UN budget comes? Especially if USA will cut its payments The approved budget for UN Peacekeeping operations for the fiscal year 1 July 2021 - 30 June 2022 is $6.38 billion. The top 10 providers of assessed contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations for 2020-2021 are: United States (27.89%) China (15.21%) Japan (8.56%) Germany (6.09%) United Kingdom (5.79%) France (5.61%) Italy (3.30%) Russian Federation (3.04%) Canada (2.73%) Republic of Korea (2.26%)

I am not sure of other EU countries but salaries for 1 million troops on foreign operation would cost in salaries for Finland over 10 billion euros in month. Total cost with all expenses would be over 50 billion euros per month, with assumption that there is no fighting Cost are based on how much our UN peace keeping operations cost in past. Although here is picture form highly secure border between Finland and Russia - blue white pole tells where Finland starts and red green tells where Russia starts.

Didn't Russia already escalate conflict by striking with over 100 missiles against Ukraine's powerplants yesterday? As it was one of the their largest strikes and its timing also isn't coincidental or promising de-escalation anytime soon.

Article 5, does not come with written obligations, but country that fails to help in defense of another member state can as well leave the alliance, because they will most likely never themself receive aid in case they are attacked.

Iranian hostility towards US can be traced here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état Of course during the road there has been quite lot of back and worth to build the hostility more. As side note not surprisingly reason behind the coup was that democratically elected Iranian government had decided to nationalize Anglo-Persian Oil Company which British saw as stealing from them so they first wanted to invade Iran, but ended to up to organize coup after USA refused to give military support.

In Wisconsin Tammy Baldwin got 1,672,394 votes - Harris got 1,667,852 , so at least 4,542 people that voted Baldwin did not vote Harris In Michigan Harris got 2,720,831 votes - Elisa Slotkin got 2,705,115 votes, so at least 15,716 Harris voters didn't vote Slotkin In Pennsylvania Harris got 3,352,343 votes - Bob Casey got 3,314,888 vote, at least 37,455 Harris voters didn't vote Casey, if all Harris voters would have voted Casey, Casey would have won. Some reason quite lot Trump voters didn't vote any senate candidate, which is clear indication of voter fraud