The abortion law builds on legislation passed in 2010 that represented a major shift for a traditionally Catholic country, transforming Spain into one of the most progressive countries in Europe on reproductive rights. Spain's constitutional court last week rejected a challenge by the right-wing Popular Party against allowing abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
The debate will be heated in Spain, I imagine, as the conservative opposition pushes back. My daughter had horrible menstrual pain during her adolescence and young adulthood. I'm certain that she would have benefitted from that time.
That ...no. But I've seen people post stories that are bot material ...bought and paid for by Russia , N. Korea and China. And about half of the country don't have the intellectual curiosity to even check them out before entering forward. Our enemies are burying us , just like Krushev predicted.
It's funny that folks I've had to correct on basic facts more than once have also more than once mentioned how others don't have the intellectual curiosity to check things out...
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I know. The "bots" have come up every election. It's funny that some believe the Russians are going to the political forum on AN to try and influence election.
This is the point where we're supposed to pretend that right wing social media isn't chock full of Russian propaganda and influence and that it isn't repeated in these threads.
This is the point where we're supposed to pretend that right wing social media isn't chock full of Russian propaganda and influence and that it isn't repeated in these threads.
At this point we are supposed to fear a Russian disinformation boogie man after Russian disinformation laptop and Mueller report LOL.
This is the point where we're supposed to pretend that right wing social media isn't chock full of Russian propaganda and influence and that it isn't repeated in these threads.
For that matter, if you compare the user's initial posts, which are pretty incomprehensible, followed by bizarre spelling and use of language, it's reasonable to become suspicious.
AN no longer has the readership to justify the level of trolling we saw in 2015. It can, however, serve as a useful training tool for making a chatbot more effective in larger forums.
In my opinion, the most useful way to deal with this is with the ignore feature.
YARDLEY (AP) — Russian actors were behind a fake video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Bucks County, U.S. officials confirmed on Friday.
The video had taken off on social media Thursday but was debunked within three hours by local election officials and law enforcement after members of the public reported it.
U.S. officials said in a statement sent by the FBI that they believe the video was "manufactured and amplified" by Russian actors. The officials said it's part of "Moscow's broader effort to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the U.S. election and stoke divisions among Americans.”
The information was released in a joint statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The Bucks County Board of Elections had identified the video as fake on Thursday, saying the envelope and other materials in the video "are clearly not authentic materials belonging to or distributed by" the board.
It's funny that folks I've had to correct on basic facts more than once have also more than once mentioned how others don't have the intellectual curiosity to check things out...
Surely you jest. Have you ever watched a man on the street political interview? We have an incurious and gullible population. That's how an incurious and gullible man got to be our president in 2016.
Surely you jest. Have you ever watched a man on the street political interview? We have an incurious and gullible population. That's how an incurious and gullible man got to be our president in 2016.
I thought he got elected because he is Hitler and there is 35 million + Nazis cult victims running arround?
Forecasters expect the U.S. economy to have grown at a 3.2% annual rate in the third quarter, a healthy pace by historical standards and an acceleration from the 3% growth rate in the second.
The acceleration highlights how well the economy has held up to the Federal Reserve's campaign of interest rate hikes, which pushed up borrowing costs on all kinds of loans to subdue inflation.
The solid job market has kept consumers spending, which has kept businesses hiring, and nothing has broken that cycle so far.
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The U.S. economy likely gained momentum in the third quarter, as consumer spending boosted the Gross Domestic Product if forecasters are correct.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis is scheduled to release an advance estimate of the country's economic growth in the third quarter on Wednesday. The report is expected to show that the inflation-adjusted GDP grew at an annual rate of 3.2% in the third quarter, according to a survey of economists by Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. economy will continue to provide most of the thrust for global growth through the balance of this year and in 2025, led by robust consumer spending that has held up through a wrenching bout of inflation and the high interest rates used to tame it, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.
In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF raised its 2024 and 2025 economic growth forecasts for the U.S. - the only developed economy to see its outlook marked up for both years - and its chief economist said the "soft landing" sought by the Federal Reserve in which inflation eases without big damage to the job market had largely been achieved.
It seems that the evidence demonstrates something different about the US Biden/Harris economy than the Trump campaign, and it's sychophants, are telling the public.
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"Today, the IMF reported that the United States is leading the advanced economies on growth for the second year in a row," Lael Brainard, the director of the White House's National Economic Council, said in a statement.
This is not so much interesting as it is stupid. House Republicans are demanding investigation into the WH transcript of Biden's comments calling that racist comedian's remarks "garbage".
This is not so much interesting as it is stupid. House Republicans are demanding investigation into the WH transcript of Biden's comments calling that racist comedian's remarks "garbage".
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It's funny that folks I've had to correct on basic facts more than once have also more than once mentioned how others don't have the intellectual curiosity to check things out...