#induced charge

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

TSRNOSS, page 175.

[cockroachesunite]

i have no explanation for this

[topaz-carbuncle]

the dig site mission may be my least favourite out of the 3 Leviathan ones, but my god, garrus looks divine during it

[herukapadmajungiansworld]

Switzerland has for years been the destination of choice for Russian oligarchs and corrupt officials to hide their stolen money. Swiss banks are estimated to hold over $200 billion in stashed Russian cash.

The United States recently opened an investigation into Swiss banks helping #Russia to evade sanctions, subpoenaing the two largest Swiss banks at the time. Switzerland is also key to Russian #evasion of export controls meant to ensure Russia cannot resupply its military and continue its war.

Russian-induced corruption within the Swiss law enforcement system led to the resignation of the former top prosecutor of Switzerland and the conviction of a senior Swiss law enforcement official on bribery charges. Switzerland is now primed to send millions in frozen Russian dirty money related to the revelations of Sergei Magnitsky to the Russians who stole it.

This hearing will examine Switzerland’s key role in laundering Russian money. Witnesses will discuss how Switzerland came to be a favorite destination for Russian dirty money, how Russian corruption in Switzerland endangers U.S. national security and the ability of Ukraine to defend itself, and possible policy responses. This hearing builds on years of work by the #Commission to hold Switzerland to account for its role in Russian money laundering and corruption.

The following witnesses are scheduled to testify:

1Bill Browder, Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign

2Drew Sullivan, Co-Founder, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

3Olena Tregub, Secretary General, Independent Defense Anti-Corruption Committee (NAKO)

HEARING

Russia’s Alpine Assets: Money Laundering and Sanctions Evasion in Switzerland

July 18, 2023

1:00 p.m.

Senate Dirksen Building G50

Live stream:

youtube.com/watch?v=dxX98X…

[ssruis]

Going through a straight up comical amount of irritating situations to get the stupid 4* guaranteed ticket from the welcome to sekai campaign. It Will Be Mine.

[jeff-the-innkeeper]

I still can’t get my meds refilled. I’ve been desperately trying to find a walk-in clinic that will simply refill my prescription and won’t charge me for it and nothing is working. I could maybe get an emergency refill but I have no idea if they’ll charge me for that too. idk what the fuck to do anymore

[izloveshorses]

ohmygodddd 3x05 callback

[eliza-makepeace]

doris has far more customers

[chevaliermalfets]

OF COURSE the jury president for my candidacy exam is a magnetic materials guy

[avibunny]

rlly excited/nervous cause i asked daddy to surprise me by making me regress sometime this weekend. 😖 i'm under a lotta pressure at work rn and i just need to have all my control taken away for a little while 👉👈

[shwarmii]

it's just me and my Homegoods' autumn leaf print in black microfiber blanket against the world

[madigoround]

Fell down the stairs while I was carrying pie that was brought in to work for us as a little treat and now I have no pie and more sadness

[fadinggalaxysalad]

Damn right even Alfred. Because Alfred knows the power of The Stare™. You don't mess with The Stare™ once it has been cast, you correct whatever you mucked up and carry on in your best behavior until the heat dies down.

Personally I think reinforcing The Stare™ with hitching one of the bats on Mom Danny's hip to be taken away for a discussion on behaviors would be hilarious. Twink Coded Danny works best for this, picking up danger noodle Dick like he isn't all muscle? Or meat wall Red Hood? Just walking away saying "Time out time for you" after you got not one but TWO Stares™ plus the tattle in the form of Dani. Random goons being scruffed like kittens when they try swinging and set in opposite corners with timers set. Penguin is required to eat vegetables with his fish dinners, no protests allowed. Catwoman is only served cream in sippy cups after she pushed 6 glasses off the bar without drinking them.

Danny working at penguins bar

He is just a waiter but he has the disappointed mom stare™ down to an unsettling level

Some guy boasting about a messed plan? The stare will make him redo the plan

Someone complains about the "prostitution problem"? Suddenly they will just give them money without asking for something in return

You think the security guys are keeping the place safe?

No, it's all danny

So of course the bats investigate

Only to be meet with the look

Even alfred would back down for it so it's no wonder they run away with their tail between their legs

Even Batman cowers in front of it

They call Dannys file "Future investigation" fully knowing they will never do it

[vounoura]

in case you thought I was kidding.

[shadelorde]

I see a lot of posts about how young children can’t problem-solve or come up with creative solutions due to the constant influx of sensory input from screens that doesn’t allow them to get bored. And I agree completely, but I also notice that a lot of where we can observe this behavior is at school, and I also think that schools actively discourage this creative problem-solving too because if a kid does something “wrong” or maybe messes up the settings on the computer they were given they are punished almost IMMEDIATELY and told to “listen to directions.”

And I do think this has gotten worse over time. Even between my sister and (an age gap of about seven years), I’m in late high school and she’s in late elementary, my elementary school experience was VASTLY different from hers. And I really am concerned about how teachers treat her and her friends - not only are they not allowed to be creative inside of school, they’re watched extremely closely at recess and given a bunch of arbitrary rules so that no kid has even the remote possibility of hurting themselves by accident. And this means that the primary value these kids are being taught are to shut up and listen to directions (even if they don’t make sense) and not question anything and to always listen to adults. They are being taught that they are too stupid to come up with creative solutions.

[probablyasocialecologist]

In this book you focus on the idea of gender as a global ‘phantasm’ – this charged, overdetermined, anxiety- and fear-inducing cluster of fantasies that is being weaponised by the right. How did you go about starting to investigate that? Judith Butler: When I was burned in effigy in Brazil in 2017, I could see people screaming about gender, and they understood ‘gender’ to mean ‘paedophilia.’ And then I heard people in France describing gender as a Jewish intellectual movement imported from the US. This book started because I had to figure out what gender had become. I was naïve. I was stupid. I had no idea that it had become this flash point for right-wing movements throughout the world. So I started doing the work to reconstruct why I was being called a paedophile, and why that woman in the airport wanted to kill me with the trolley. I’m not offering a new theory of gender here; I’m tracking this phantasm’s formation and circulation and how it’s linked to emerging authoritarianism, how it stokes fear to expand state powers. Luckily, I was able to contact a lot of people who translated Gender Trouble in different parts of the world, who were often gender activists and scholars in their own right. They told me about what’s happening in Serbia, what’s happening in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Russia. So I became a student of gender again. I’ve been out of the field for a while. I stay relatively literate, of course, but I’ve written on war, on ethics, on violence, on nonviolence, on the pandemic… I’m not in gender studies all the time. I had to do a lot of reading.  There’s a lot of focus in the book on how the anti-gender movement has moved across the world in the past few decades, and how it’s inextricable from Catholic doctrine. It was clarifying for me; domestic anti-trans movements in the UK mostly self-identify as secular.  Judith Butler: In the UK, and even in the US, people don’t realise that this anti-gender ideology movement has been going on for some time in the Americas, in central Europe, to a certain degree in Africa, and that it’s arrived in the US by different routes, but it’s arrived without announcing its history. It became clear to me that a lot of the trans-exclusionary feminists didn’t realise where their discourse was coming from. Some of them do; some people who call themselves feminists are aligned with right-wing positions, and it’s confusing, but there it is. There’s an uncomfortable history of fascist feminism in movements like British suffragism, for instance. Judith Butler: Yes, and of racism. But when Putin made clear that he agreed with JK Rowling, she was probably surprised, and she rightly said, ‘no, I don’t want your alliance’, but it was an occasion for her to think about who she’s allying herself with, unwittingly or not. The anti-gender movement was first and foremost a defence of Biblical scripture, and of the idea that God created man and woman, and that the human form exists only in this duality and that without it, the human is destroyed – God’s creation is destroyed. So that morphed, as the Vatican’s doctrine moved into Latin America, into the idea that people who advocate ‘gender’ are forces of destruction who seek to destroy man, woman, the human, civilisation and culture.