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Tuesday, 04 April
00:27
After 20 Years, the Department of Homeland Security Is a Money-Guzzling Failure [WantToKnow.info: All News]
In March 2003, the newly christened Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, opened its doors. The department took everything from immigration enforcement and counterterrorism to airport security and disaster response under one gargantuan bureaucracy. Despite these wide-ranging missions, the department's unifying logic in the post 9/11 era has been to wage the so-called war on terror at home. The result has been systemic abuse of minority communities, a dangerous militarization of American life, and a massive waste of money that sapped resources from addressing the real threats to our homeland. DHS agencies have militarized U.S. streets, sending officers in tactical gear to respond to civilian protests and conducting surveillance of U.S. citizens engaged in constitutionally protected activities. There are stories of DHS drones surveilling Indigenous water and land protectors and DHS forces spying on Black Lives Matter protesters. DHS even monitored journalists who reported on the department's tactics. None of these abuses have come cheap. Since its founding in 2003, the U.S. has spent $1.4 trillion on the agency. That's more than seven times what the government spent over the same period on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the CDC's COVID-19 pandemic responseand more than five times more than on the Environmental Protection Agency. The [DHS] was supposed to be about making the U.S. safer. But it has failed.
Note: A thorough investigation reveals details on the DHS "Disinformation Governance Board," an unsuccessful effort in 2022 to police online speech it considers inaccurate and dangerous. Now, the DHS board and its key subcommittees are undergoing sweeping changes as public concern grows over social media censorship and government overreach.
US courts must stop shielding government surveillance programs from accountability [WantToKnow.info: All News]
Under a post-9/11 surveillance program known as "Upstream", the NSA is systematically searching Americans' internet communications as they enter and leave the United States. The agency sifts through these streams of data looking for "identifiers" associated with its many thousands of foreign targets identifiers like email addresses and phone numbers. The NSA does all of this without warrants, without any individual judicial approval, and without showing that any of the people it is surveilling including countless Americans have done anything wrong. This surveillance raises serious constitutional concerns, but no court has ever considered a legal challenge to it because the government has claimed that allowing a suit against Upstream surveillance to go forward would implicate "state secrets". In 2007, for example, an appeals court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Khaled El-Masri claiming that, in a case of mistaken identity, he had been kidnapped and tortured by the CIA. The court acknowledged the public evidence of El-Masri's mistreatment but held that state secrets were too central to the case to allow it to go forward. And in 2010, a different appeals court dismissed a lawsuit filed by five individuals who claimed that one of Boeing's subsidiary companies had flown the planes carrying them to the black sites where they were tortured by the CIA. This use of the state secrets privilege to dismiss cases departs from the supreme court's narrow framing of the privilege.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on court system corruption and the disappearance of privacy from reliable major media sources.
A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election [WantToKnow.info: All News]
It has been more than four decades, but Ben Barnes said he remembers it vividly. His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What Mr. Barnes said he did not realize until later was the real purpose of the mission: to sabotage the re-election campaign of the president of the United States. It was 1980 and Jimmy Carter was in the White House, bedeviled by a hostage crisis in Iran that had paralyzed his presidency and hampered his effort to win a second term. Mr. Carter's best chance for victory was to free the 52 Americans held captive before Election Day. That was something that Mr. Barnes said his mentor was determined to prevent. His mentor was John B. Connally Jr., a titan of American politics. Now Mr. Connally resolved to help Mr. Reagan beat Mr. Carter. What happened next Mr. Barnes has largely kept secret for nearly 43 years. Mr. Connally, he said, took him to one Middle Eastern capital after another that summer, meeting with a host of regional leaders to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don't release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal. Mr. Connally's files indicated that he did, in fact, leave Houston on July 18, 1980, for a trip that would take him to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel before returning to Houston on Aug. 11. Iran did hold the hostages until after the election, which Mr. Reagan won, and did not release them until minutes after noon on Jan. 20, 1981, when Mr. Carter left office.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on elections corruption from reliable major media sources.
Facial recognition bias frustrates Black asylum applicants to US, advocates say [WantToKnow.info: All News]
The US government's new mobile app for migrants to apply for asylum at the US-Mexico border is blocking many Black people from being able to file their claims because of facial recognition bias in the tech, immigration advocates say. The app, CBP One, is failing to register many people with darker skin tones, effectively barring them from their right to request entry into the US. People who have made their way to the south-west border from Haiti and African countries, in particular, are falling victim to apparent algorithm bias in the technology that the app relies on. The government announced in early January that the new CBP One mobile app would be the only way migrants arriving at the border can apply for asylum and exemption from Title 42 restrictions. Racial bias in face recognition technology has long been a problem. Increasingly used by law enforcement and government agencies to fill databases with biometric information including fingerprints and iris scans, a 2020 report by Harvard University called it the "least accurate" identifier, especially among darker-skinned women with whom the error rate is higher than 30%. Emmanuella Camille, a staff attorney with the Haitian Bridge Alliance ... said the CBP One app has helped "lighter-skin toned people from other nations" obtain their asylum appointments "but not Haitians" and other Black applicants. Besides the face recognition technology not registering them ... many asylum seekers have outdated cellphones if they have cellphones at all that don't support the CBP One app.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption and the erosion of civil liberties from reliable major media sources.
U.S. Hardware Is Fueling Russia's Facial Recognition Crackdown on Anti-War Dissidents [WantToKnow.info: All News]
Russia has been using cameras powered by facial recognition systems to crackdown on dissidents, according to reporting from Reuters. Several Russian companies are using algorithms trained and powered by chips made by U.S. firms Intel and Nvidia. Reuters said that one of the companies even received money from U.S. intelligence. On March 4, 20022a week after it launched its full scale invasion of UkraineRussia made it illegal to publicly criticize the war. The report from Reuters details how facial recognition software has aided the Kremlin in its crackdown against dissidents. There are more than 160,000 cameras in Moscow and 3,000 of them are connected to facial recognition software. According to Moscow court records, the technology has aided in the arrest of hundreds of protestors. In one case, a man stood alone near a fountain in Pushkin Square with a home-made poster that said "Peace to Ukraine." A week later he was boarding a subway when police ushered him into their station and explained that the computer system had recognized his face. The software powering the [system] was created by three companies: NtechLab, VisonLabs, and Tevian. Tevian and NtechLab are based in Moscow, while VisionLabs is based in the Netherlands. According to Reuters, the companies used chips designed by Intel and Nvidia to train their systems. It also reported that one of the firms joined a U.S. facial recognition test program and received $40,000 in prize money from "an arm of U.S. intelligence."
Note: Tools of centralized power continue to support warmongering agendas, with US-based tech companies controversially supplying facial recognition technology to Ukraine and now to Russia, despite the US deeming Russia as the enemy. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption and the disappearance of privacy from reliable major media sources.
Big oil on campus: how US universities are 'colonized' by the fossil-fuel industry [WantToKnow.info: All News]
Even as elite American universes such as Harvard have bowed to pressure to divest their multibillion-dollar endowments from fossil fuels, and student activists take recalcitrant holdouts to court, oil and gas companies continue to exert a grip upon campus life, through funded research and the physical presence of oil and gas industry employees in lectures and meetings with faculty. Fossil-fuel firms have purposely sought to "colonize" academia with industry-friendly science, rather than seed overt climate denial, according to Ben Franta, a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford who has studied industry's influence over universities. Their research dollars, he said, had effectively discouraged academic endeavors that challenge the core business model of burning oil and gas, instead shifting the focus to favored topics such as capturing carbon emissions from polluting facilities, a still niche technology that would allow industry to continue business as usual. The reach of fossil fuels into academia "never ceases to amaze me", said Robert Brulle, an environmental sociologist at Brown University. "You can barely study climate change at elite universities and not be funded by fossil-fuel companies," he added. "They drive all this study into carbon capture, so that influences policy and becomes a part of the Biden administration's agenda. The influence is profound, and the students are right to be wondering what kind of education they are getting here."
Note: Read more on how fossil companies donated $700 million to US universities over 10 years. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on corporate corruption from reliable major media sources.
The links between pollution and miscarriage: 'This is the stuff nightmares are made of' [WantToKnow.info: All News]
The world we live in is slowly poisoning every single one of us. And the chemicals doing the most damage are byproducts of the fossil fuel industry, agribusiness and manufacturing. There doesn't seem to be the appetite at a regulatory or governmental level to stop it. In Australia, 50,000 agricultural, industrial and veterinary chemicals are being used; 1,500 are suspected to interfere with endocrine function, which is essential to the healthy working of our reproductive and hormonal systems. Only a very small number have been tested. Microplastics, which can cause inflammation in the body, is being found in our blood streams and also in the placentas of unborn fetuses. Walking down a major intersection during rush hour can expose you to as much particulate matter as a major bushfire event. Even if chemicals are tested, the testing regimen means that chemicals are only being tested in isolation and not in conjunction with others to see how compounds react. Also, they might be tested for carcinogenic effects ... but the test subjects aren't monitored for other ill-effects, such as endocrine disruption. Some effects take place long after the research has concluded. Some of these chemicals can stay in the body forever. Or affect the way our DNA functions. Theres even an Australian website (not widely enough publicised) called yourfertility.org.au. It has an entire section on chemicals in our environment and what to avoid, stating that avoiding these chemicals may increase the chance of having a baby.
Note: The above was written by Isabelle Oderberg, author of Hard to Bear: Investigating the science and silence of miscarriage. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on corporate corruption and health from reliable major media sources.
Federal Agencies Are Still Using Our Phones as Tracking Beacons [WantToKnow.info: All News]
Recent reports about the Secret Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement playing fast and loose with rules regarding cellphone tracking and the FBI purchasing phone location data from commercial sources constitute an important wake-up call. They remind us that those handy mobile devices many people tote around are the most cost-effective surveillance system ever invented. "The United States Secret Service and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations (ICE HSI) did not always adhere to Federal statute and cellsite simulator (CSS) policies when using CSS during criminal investigations," the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General reported last month. "Separately, ICE HSI did not adhere to Department privacy policies and the applicable Federal privacy statute when using CSS." The OIG report referred to the use of what is commonly called "stingray" technologydevices that simulate cellphone towers and trick phones within range into connecting and revealing their location. "They also gather information about the phones of countless bystanders who happen to be nearby," the ACLU warns. Even the most precise phone company location data remains available with court approval. The courts are currently mulling multiple cases involving "geofence warrants" whereby law enforcement seeks data not on individuals, but on whoever was carrying a device in a designated area at a specified time.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption and the disappearance of privacy from reliable major media sources.
Geofencing Warrants Are a Threat to Privacy [WantToKnow.info: All News]
The House committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021, is nearly finished. Nearly 900 ... criminal prosecutions of alleged rioters remain underway, and one case has shed troubling new light on how the FBI investigated these defendants. The suspect's name is David Rhine. His lawyer is the first to present a potentially successful challenge to the geofencing warrant the FBI used to place some defendants inside the Capitol building during the attack. A previous Wired report last year found 45 federal criminal cases citing the warrant, which required Google to provide the FBI with data on devices using its location services inside a set geographic area. Rhine's case has revealed just how expansive the FBI's request to Google really was. Google initially listed 5,723 devices in response to the warrant, then whittled the tally to exclude likely Capitol staff and police as well as anyone who wasn't "entirely within the geofence, to about a 70 percent probability." The final list of identifying details handed over to the FBI had 1,535 names. It included people whose phones had been turned off or put in airplane mode, and "people who attempted to delete their location data following the attacks were singled out by the FBI for greater scrutiny." It's ... easy to envision geofencing warrants undergoing the usual surveillance mission creep. Left unchecked, law enforcement could decide geofence data would come in handy while looking for a journalist's whistleblowing source, or perhaps at political protests.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption and the disappearance of privacy from reliable major media sources.
Air Force paid $1,280 apiece for coffee cups [WantToKnow.info: All News]
The US Air Force is facing more questions as to why it spent tens of thousands of dollars over the last three years on large cups that can reheat beverages, like coffee or tea, on refueling tankers and cargo aircraft during flight. Despite being assured by Air Force Secretary Dr. Heather Wilson earlier this month that the service has "suspended its purchasing of the exorbitantly priced cups," Sen. Chuck Grassley sent a follow-up letter last week asking for further explanation as to why they were purchased in the first place. Grassley raised the issue of the cups in an October 2 letter to Wilson after reports surfaced this summer that the 60th Ariel Port Squadron at Travis Air Force Base had spent $1,280 on each cup in 2018 a dramatic increase from the $693 per-cup price in 2016. In her response to that letter, Wilson said the Air Force has spent $326,785 on nearly 400 cups since 2016 an average of $817. "You are right to be concerned about the high costs of spare parts, and I remain thankful to have your support in addressing this problem," Wilson told the senator in a letter dated October 17. The increasing cost of the cups was first reported ... in July as part of a report on how airmen at Travis Air Force Base are attempting to use 3D printing to develop a cost-effective way to replace the cups' plastic handles, which have a tendency to break. "Unfortunately, when dropped, the handle breaks easily leading to the expenditure of several thousand dollars to replace the cup as replacement parts are not available," the Air Force said.
Note: Read this eye-opening article to learn the many ways the government wastes your tax dollars. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on military corruption from reliable major media sources.
Meet the 'glass-half-full girl' whose brain rewired after losing a hemisphere [WantToKnow.info: All News]
In most people, speech and language live in the brain's left hemisphere. Mora Leeb is not most people. When she was 9 months old, surgeons removed the left side of her brain. Yet at 15, Mora plays soccer, tells jokes, gets her nails done, and, in many ways, lives the life of a typical teenager. "I can be described as a glass-half-full girl," she says, pronouncing each word carefully and without inflection. Her slow, cadence-free speech is one sign of a brain that has had to reorganize its language circuits. Yet to a remarkable degree, Mora's right hemisphere has taken on jobs plasticity, the process that allows a brain to modify its connections to adapt to new circumstances. People like Mora represent the upper bounds of human brain plasticity because their brains were radically altered very early in life a period when the wiring is still a work in progress. During an interview with Mora, both her abilities and deficits were apparent. So was her outgoing personality and curiosity about the world. Mora began by telling me a joke: "How do you make a hot dog stand?" she asks. "You take away its chair." What scientists still want to know is precisely what allowed Mora's brain to rewire so extensively. One thing is clear: Understanding the basis of this sort of extreme plasticity, they say, could help millions of people whose brains are still trying to recover from a stroke, tumor, or traumatic injury. And Mora is helping scientists deepen their understanding, simply by being herself.
Note: Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring disabled persons news articles.
A fish can sense another's fear, a study shows [WantToKnow.info: All News]
Our capacity to care about others may have very, very ancient origins, a new study suggests. It might have been deep-rooted in prehistoric animals that lived millions of years ago, before fish and mammals like us diverged on the tree of life, according to researchers who published their study Thursday in the journal Science. Scientists are usually reluctant to attribute humanlike feelings to animals. But it's generally accepted that many animals have moods, including fish. The new study shows that fish can detect fear in other fish, and then become afraid too and that this ability is regulated by oxytocin, the same brain chemical that underlies the capacity for empathy in humans. The researchers demonstrated this by deleting genes linked to producing and absorbing oxytocin in the brains of zebrafish. Those fish were then essentially antisocial they failed to detect or change their behavior when other fish were anxious. But when some of the altered fish received oxytocin injections, their ability to sense and mirror the feelings of other fish was restored what scientists call "emotional contagion." "They respond to other individuals being frightened. In that regard, they behave just like us," said ... neuroscientist Ibukun Akinrinade, a co-author of the study. The study also showed that zebrafish will pay more attention to fish that have previously been stressed out a behavior the researchers likened to consoling them. Previous research has shown that oxytocin plays a similar role in transmitting fear in mice.
Note: Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring news articles which will inspire you to make a difference.
Psychedelic brew ayahuasca's profound impact revealed in brain scans [WantToKnow.info: All News]
The brew is so potent that practitioners report not only powerful hallucinations, but near-death experiences, contact with higher-dimensional beings, and life-transforming voyages through alternative realities. Often before throwing up, or having trouble at the other end. Now, scientists have gleaned deep insights of their own by monitoring the brain on DMT, or dimethyltryptamine, the psychedelic compound found in Psychotria viridis, the flowering shrub that is mashed up and boiled in the Amazonian drink, ayahuasca. The recordings reveal a profound impact across the brain, particularly in areas that are highly evolved in humans and instrumental in planning, language, memory, complex decision-making and imagination. The regions from which we conjure reality become hyperconnected, with communication more chaotic, fluid and flexible. "It is incredibly potent," said Robin Carhart-Harris, a professor of neurology and psychiatry. "People describe leaving this world and breaking through into another that is incredibly immersive and richly complex, sometimes being populated by other beings that they feel might hold special power over them, like gods." He added: "DMT breaks down the basic networks of the brain, causing them to become less distinct from each other. The major rhythms of the brain that serve a largely inhibitory, constraining function break down, and in concert, brain activity becomes more entropic or information-rich."
Note: Read more about the healing potentials of mind-altering drugs. Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring news articles which will inspire you to make a difference.
00:03
Truth, but funny Freethought Blogs
Trudy and Doug (of Oglaf fame) post amusing sketches on their Patreon sometimes. This one is high art, it made me laugh and cry at the same time.
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23:56
Get ready for the next 18 months to be very dark Freethought Blogs
With the indictment of Donald Trump scheduled to take place tomorrow, this week is going to be all about this case and him. The more he is pushed into a corner, the more he lashes out and the next eighteen months at least are going to be dark times in politics in the US as the indictments against him start to pile up and he has to keep fighting legal battles.
It is clear that Trump is going to portray the next election as
akin to Armageddon and so we are headed for a steady diet about how
America is doomed to go to hell unless he is re-elected. Susan B.
Glasser
writes that Trump has a far more sinister vision of America and
his role than just a couple of years ago, as can be seen from his
speech at CPAC last month.
His call to arms was not merely the stuff of political symbolism. Echoing the inflammatory language with which he summoned his supporters to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump urged them to fight once again in explicitly end-time terms. We have no choice, he said. If we dont do this, our country will be lost forever. In case the comparison was lost on anybody, he explicitly extolled the great, great patriots unfairly sitting in jail, recasting the rioters who breached Americas own Capitol building as maga martyrs. This is the final battle, he insisted. They know it. I know it. You know it. Everybody knows it. This is it. Either they win, or we win, and if they win we no longer have a country.
And it is already clear that 2024 Trump is far different from 2020 Trump, more willing to pronounce extreme beliefs after having become the first American President to seek to overturn an electionand still emerging as his partys front-runner two years later.
To reinforce just how much he meant the threats in his CPAC speech, the Trump campaign later sent out a gritty meme from it as a fund-raiser. It showed a black-and-white photograph of Trump, glowering as he pointed at the viewer: I am YOUR retribution, the caption said. Vengeance-minded in the best of times, Trump is now outright promising a second term filled with unchecked purges and payback.
Without Trump, its hard to imagine any other Republicans carrying on about 2020, or about the so-called heroes of January 6th. Most parties like to move on from elections they lost.
But, because of Trump, todays G.O.P. cannot. And his rivals, so far, are proving to be a timid bunch, all too wary of poking Trump. Faced with voters who overwhelmingly supported Trumps election lies, they kowtow or equivocate as he continues to untruthfully decry the Massive Fraud of the 2020 election. This does not suggest a party that is on the verge of abandoning its leader for a newer, less controversial figure. And, besides, the more crowded the fiel...
23:51
US Proxy Attrition War in Ukraine Backfiring, Says US Diplomat Global Research
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23:45
The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War Over Peacemaking Global Research
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23:43
I think Ill avoid the news for a few days Freethought Blogs
Trump is supposed to be arrested tomorrow (which probably means he shows up at a courthouse, is photographed mercilessly while treated with great deference, then retires to a luxurious hotel room to scribble on Truth Social about his martyrdom). Nothing much of substance will happen, but all the networks will be full of false piety and claims that this is an exceptional and significant event, which it isnt. And of course all the morons will be raging with their battery of flimsy rationalizations.
Sadly, all our news sources will take these excuses very, very seriously and parrot them continuously. Which is why Ill be ignoring the news for a few days. I hope no catastrophes that might affect me happen! Zombies, please stay dead until next week, maybe. Were getting another blizzard tomorrow so youre not going to be getting around very well anyway.
23:41
France Brings De-dollarization to Europe by Trading in Yuan Global Research
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23:26
What the heck is sociogenomics? Freethought Blogs
I was asked recently about sociogenomics, and I had to stop and think because I was unfamiliar with the word. At a guess, I thought it would about looking for correlations between genes and socioeconomic groups, ethnicities, and races using tools like genome wide association studies and polygenic scores you know, Bell Curve shit. To me, it sounded ominous and catastrophically bad, something that would shift into plain old eugenics and evolve into Nazi shit. But what do I know? I had to go look it up. I was just guessing.
Guess what? I guessed right.
Sociogenome is the comprehensive study of the role of genes and gene-environment (GxE) interaction on reproductive behaviour. Until now, social science research has focussed on socio-environmental explanations, largely neglecting the role of genes.
Drawing from recent unprecedented advances in molecular genetics we examine whether there is a genetic component to reproductive outcomes, including age at first birth, number of children and infertility and their interaction with the social environment.
Uh-oh. Theyre just going to take modern genetic techniques and apply them to sociology. But these techniques will not give them the answers they want! Theyll reveal rough correlations, but they wont untangle genetics and environmental factors they cant. This is a problem that has been pointed out to behavioral genetics researchers for years, and they just go sailing on ahead.
In the past decade and a half, sociologists and demographers have sought to integrate genetic data into their empirical analyses. To do so, they have drawn on recently developed high-throughput sequencing and genotyping technologies, which allow the entire genome to be mapped. They also follow in the line of a research specialty, behavioural genetics, which rose to prominence in the 1970s. This area, which focused notably on the genetic determination of intelligence, attracted severe criticisms, including among demographers (Jacquard, 1978; Vetta and Courgeau, 2003; Courgeau, 2017). However, these criticisms do not always seem to have been heard, and the emergence of new data and techniques has given rise to new problems, as indicated by calls for caution from learned societies in human genetics (Socit franaise de gntique humaine, 2010; Risch, 2016; Socit franaise de gntique humaine, 2018).
Lets look at an example of a sociogenomics study that was summarized in Wired. It does not reassure me.
The UK BioBank is the single largest public genetic repository in the world, with samples of the genetic blueprints of h...
23:04
The Dollar Is In Trouble! Here Are 7 Signs That Global De-Dollarization Has Just Shifted Into Overdrive Activist Post
By Michael Snyder For decades, the U.S. dollar was the undisputed king of global currencies, but now dramatic changes are happening. China, Russia, India, Brazil,...
22:56
Senate Leaves AUMF for Secret Wars in Force Activist Post
By John V. Walsh On March 29, the Senate voted to repeal two Authorizations for the Use of Military Force, (AUMF), one passed in 1991...
21:24
As Moral Relativism Replaces Christian Values, Americans Will Suffer More Mass Shootings The Federalist
The
devolution of American society began when moral relativism
supplanted biblical truth in education, government, and eventually
the family.
21:07
The Left Keeps Parents Like The Nashville Shooters From Helping Their Anguished Kids The Federalist
The
parents of last weeks Nashville school shooter may have felt
helpless to get their daughter the kind of help she needed, thanks
to leftist demands.
21:00
In Guns We Trust? The Unnerving Alliance of Violence and Belief WhoWhatWhy
Once I recovered from the latest in the endless processional of senseless mass shootings and dead schoolchildren stories, I began my ritual search for context. As I did, I took note that it was in fact not just, as widely described, a private school shooting.
It was a shooting at a private Christian school. That fact did not seem to be germane at first, any more than the idiosyncratic demons of this particular murderer; but I was struck by how initial accounts did not mention or highlight this detail, indicative of a larger pattern.
This brought up for me a subject Ive been wanting to write about for a very long time. It is how shall I put it? a uniquely sensitive and typically avoided topic. And many will surely be upset about what I am about to say.
We live in a modern society with continuous advances in science, medicine, technology, and other areas. Yet we also live in a primitive society, with primitive behavior and primitive beliefs and customs.
I am of course referring to Americas gun cult. But I am also referring to its God cult.
I dont mean to get into a debate over religion or its pros and cons. But I am seeking to raise this topic in terms of the real urgency and relevance it has to all our lives.
The debate over religion is an ancient one. Any reasonable person would admit there are many things that science has yet to explain. Given this, we should always be open to new ways of understanding our world.
Photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Alpine425 / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Apparently, shootings at private schools including religious schools are comparatively rare. Nonetheless, thinking about how religious people associated with the school would process such a horror show reminds me of how often tragedies seem to afflict devout people and how often, conversely, the immoral and selfish among us, the doers of great harm, suffer no adverse consequences.
I think, for example, of...
20:59
The Weak RESTRICT Act Wont Successfully Ban TikTok, But One Of Its Alternatives Will The Federalist
Banning
TikTok is an issue of national security and cultural solvency, and
the RESTRICT Act is not good enough.
20:44
Trump Refused To Prosecute Hillary Clinton. Democrats Have No Such Restraint The Federalist
If
it is indeed ending democracy to jail political opponents, let's be
clear about which party is dragging the nation down that route.
20:34
Orwell v Huxley Tan Guns Matter Too. All guns matter! Bullet Points: ** Its a war, got it? The Biden regime will reportedly send another round of aid to Ukraine, a whopping $2.6 billion on Monday, but dont you dare ask where that ammunition and supplies will wind up once it leaves American []
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20:31
When It Comes To The Nashville Shooting, Leftists Suddenly Ditch Their Identity Obsession The Federalist
Media
and activists are avoiding their typical gender obsessions and
pretending trans people are the real victims of The Covenant School
shooting.
20:30
Strongest Town 2023, Round 3: Saranac Lake, NY vs. Port Washington, WI Strong Towns Media
Welcome to the third round match-up in the eighth annual Strongest Town Contest! This time, four towns are facing off, and two will advance to the championship round based on your votes. We invite you to review commentary from Strong Towns members about why they think each of the contestants are doing the work to make their communities stronger and more financially resilientthen vote for the strongest candidate!
Cant decide? If youre looking for inspiration, check out how we describe the Strong Towns approach.
You may vote once per match-up. Round three voting closes at noon CT on Thursday, April 6. For rules, and to follow along with the contest, visit the Strongest Town Contest page.
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SARANAC LAKE, NY
Commentary by Deepti Panuganti.
What is one thing about this city (or that this city is doing) that most reflects a Strong Towns approach?
Saranac Lake, with its location within Adirondack State Park, historic downtown, narrow streets, and its progressive housing policy (it never had an ex...
Strongest Town 2023, Round 3: Jackson, TN vs. Brattleboro, VT Strong Towns Media
Welcome to the third round match-up in the eighth annual Strongest Town Contest! This time, four towns are facing off, and two will advance to the championship round based on your votes. We invite you to review commentary from Strong Towns members about why they think each of the contestants are doing the work to make their communities stronger and more financially resilientthen vote for the strongest candidate!
Cant decide? If youre looking for inspiration, check out how we describe the Strong Towns approach.
You may vote once per match-up. Round three voting closes at noon CT on Thursday, April 6. For rules, and to follow along with the contest, visit the Strongest Town Contest page.
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JACKSON, TN
Commentary by Tarlton Ferrin.
What is one thing about this city (or that this city is doing) that most reflects a Strong Towns approach?
To me, it is evident that the city of Jackson is really focused on observing the needs of their residents and pursuing initiatives that provide them with real benefits, while simultaneo...
We Can Have Both More Housing and Good Urban Form Strong Towns Media
The density question is one that I get so frequently that I wrote an article about it way back in 2015. What is the proper density required to build a Strong Town? In these conversations, I typically point out that, if you ask a zoner to deliver you density, they will gleefully deliver you density, but youre not going to like it.
Im on my citys planning commission. We recently adopted a new comprehensive plan (I was on the committee) that called for more density (in ways I wasnt completely comfortable with). We then rewrote our entire zoning code (I was not involved) in a way that delivered more density.
Predictably, people dont like it. I dont like it, either.
I dont know what value that is going to add to my neighborhood, was one of the public comments that made the local paper following a recent meeting. The comment fell on mostly deaf ears, largely because the answer was both obvious and uncomfortable for my colleagues. The proposed apartment building will add five two-room units to the neighborhood. Building more housing is a goal of our comprehensive plan. But, this proposal does so in a way that clearly disrespects and detracts from the neighborhood, which is in conflict with others goals of the comprehensive plan.
This conflict does not need to exist. We can have both more housing and good urban form. Poorly written zoning codes are where good intentions formed in a planning process go to die. Our communitys intentions, as reflected in our comprehensive plan, are on life support. It doesnt need to be this way.
Im not a fan of using the density metric in a zoning code, and I dont think density is the metric any...
20:12
No Fake Unification for Korea Global Research
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Reconciling Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Significance of the China Effort Global Research
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20:00
The True Dangers of Long Trains Articles and Investigations - ProPublica
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Just before 5 a.m., Harry Shaffers wife called to him from across the living room, where hed fallen asleep on the couch, exhausted from installing an aboveground pool. Did he hear that sound, that metallic screeching from up the valley? She opened the door of their double-wide trailer and walked outside as Shaffer closed his eyes.
A moment later came a thunderous crack of splintering lumber. Debris shot through the living room. Shaffer opened his eyes again to find a hulking train car steps from where he lay. It had shorn off the roof, exposing the murk of the pre-dawn sky. He jumped up and ran outside and saw the garage next door in flames.
Though it sat at the floor of a valley along a busy stretch of railroad tracks, the quiet town of Hyndman, Pennsylvania, hadnt seen a major derailment in recent memory. Trains didnt frighten residents like Shaffer even though 21 of them trundled through the towns center day and night.
But unbeknownst to them, the corporations that ran those trains had recently adopted a moneymaking strategy to move cargo faster than ever, with fewer workers, on trains that are consistently longer than at any time in history. Driven by the efficiency goals of precision scheduled railroading, companies are forgoing long-held safety precautions, such as assembling trains to distribute weight and risk or taking the proper time to inspect them, ProPublica found. Instead, their rushed workers are stringing together trains that stretch for 2 or even 3 miles, sometimes without regard for the delicate physics of keeping heavy, often combustible tanker cars from jumping off the tracks.
Rail safety grabbed headlines this February after a Norfolk Southern train passed sensors designed to flag mechanical is...
19:55
Final Blow to Eviscerated Antiwar Movement Global Research
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19:53
Video: Austrian MPs Leave the Chamber While Zelensky Delivers His Speech Global Research
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19:52
Video: Inside a Russian Youth Camp Condemned by the I.C.C. Global Research
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19:51
Putins Nuclear Red Line. Manlio Dinucci Global Research
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19:00
Minnesota Lets Nurses Practice While Disciplinary Investigations Drag On. Patients Keep Getting Hurt. Articles and Investigations - ProPublica
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Amy Morris started working at Hilltop Health Care Center in Watkins, Minnesota, in June 2021 with a clean nursing license that belied her looming troubles.
Morris, a licensed practical nurse, had been fired from a nearby nursing home seven months earlier for stealing narcotics from elderly residents. The state of Minnesotas health department investigated and found that the accusation was substantiated, and then notified the Board of Nursing, the state agency responsible for licensing and monitoring nurses.
But even though state law requires the board to immediately suspend a nurse who presents an imminent risk of harm, it allowed Morris to keep practicing.
In September 2021, supervisors at Hilltop discovered that pain pills were disappearing during Morris shifts and called the sheriff. Only then did Hilltop learn of allegations of narcotic theft that had been made nearly a year earlier at the other nursing home.
I thought, How is she practicing now? Meeker County Sheriff Brian Cruze recalled.
In an excerpt from an October 2021 Minnesota Department of Health report, a manager for Hilltop Health Care Center said the facility didnt know about a previous incident in which nurse Amy Morris was found to be involved in drug diversion, or theft. (Screenshot by ProPublica)The answer, ProPublica found, is that the nursing boards investigations frequently drag on for months or even years. As a result, nurses are sometimes allowed to keep practicing despite allegations of serious misconduct.
It wasnt supposed to be this way. In the face of intens...
18:30
Trump Is Actually The Second GOP Presidential Candidate Indicted By Local Democrats In A Decade The Federalist
In
2014, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted on trumped up charges by a
liberal DA, fingerprinted, and forced to take a mugshot, destroying
his presidential campaign.
17:05
To Better Avoid Temptation This Lent, Revisit The Screwtape Letters Or Its Many Spin-Offs The Federalist
C.S.
Lewis 'The Screwtape Letters' is a definitive treatment of the
subject of temptation and has inspired many worthy imitations.
17:00
Women Deserve To Be Empowered By Doctors, Not Rushed To Medical Abortion Without Them The Federalist
Expecting
mothers deserve attentive medical care just like all other
patients.
16:30
Selected Articles: History of US-NATO Military Campaigns (1991-2023) Global Research
History of US-NATO Military Campaigns (1991-2023)
By , April 01, 2023
Before tackling the story of the military campaigns that have haunted our last thirty years up to today, it is necessary to recall three facts
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14:55
Archaeologists May Have Just Uncovered Oldest And Most Complete Mummy In Egypt True Activist
In another amazing archaeological discovery, Egyptologists that have been working near the Step Pyramid of Djoser on ancient cemetery and they uncovered what they are referring to as the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt to date.
According to the worlds most celebrated archeologist, Dr. Zahi Hawass, he shared that discovery was made at the bottom of a 45-foot (or 15 meter) shaft. It had a limestone sarcophagus that had the remains of what they considered a very rich man named Heka-shepas as explained by hieroglyphics. He was also found covered in gold leaf, with many other jewelry pieces all over his body. Dr. Hawasss team believe that so far, he is the oldest mummy to be found who wasnt considered a blue blood.
So how do they know how old Heka-shepas? To make it easier to understand, they explain that while the 100th anniversary of Boy King Tutenkhamons tomb was celebrated just last year, Heka-shepas had already been sleeping for over a thousand years during the Boy Kings reign.
Moreover, the shaft where Heka-shepas was found was near the modern day village of Saqqara in Egypt, which was said to be near the capital city during the Old Kingdom from the years 2,700 to 2,200 BCE.
14:24
Murder and War Begin with Dehumanization Global Research
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14:21
CDC Officers Became Sick While Assessing Contamination in East Palestine Global Research
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14:18
Racing to Multipolarity Global Research
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14:14
UK Sanctions Enforcer Targets Aid Charities Working in Gaza Global Research
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14:09
Thieves Rip Off US Weapons as Shadow War in Syria Escalates Global Research
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14:03
Should Amnesty be Granted to Those Who Were A-OK with the Other Vaccines Being Mandated? Global Research
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12:20
Quick Fundraiser Update Freethought Blogs
While I appreciate the contributions of people who have given generously even if I dont make the goal, whats been given already will make things less difficult Id like to see more and smaller donations. So far I only have two words to rhyme. Buy your way in with a 3-5 dollar donation and make me rhyme some whack shit. Its requisite. Ive already written the beginning of the poem, but it needs more rhymez!
To remind how this works, Im running the fundraiser through April 21st, tho I might cut it short if I reach the stretch goal early. Donate at least $3 and you can suggest a word to me that I will rhyme in a rap. If I dont make the goal, this rap will be a text poem. If I reach $500 I will record myself rapping. If I reach $600 I will do a short video. Help cover the wages Ill be losing from a medical situation, thanks!
12:08
8 Essential Tips for Having Healthy Teeth and Gums VT | Uncensored Alternative Foreign Policy Media
Being healthy is a goal that everyone should aspire to. You need a nutritious diet, exercise, and dental hygiene to achieve your health goals. Humans need healthy teeth and gums for a variety of reasons. If you have bad breath or dry mouth issues, you have an issue with your teeth and gums. To avoid []
11:26
Extreme Right Wing Political Agenda Aims to Crush Pro-Choice Activism in Florida It's Going Down
Update on continued harassment of pro-choice activists in so-called Florida. Originally posted by the South Florida Anti-Repression Committee.
Following months of FBI harassment, two additional pro-choice individuals have been charged as co-defendants in the first such use of the FACE Act (a law intended to protect abortion access and abortion clinics). On the morning of Wednesday, March 29, law enforcement took one individual into custody and demanded that another turn themselves into federal authorities.
Doubling down on repressive tactics, both the State of Florida and Heartbeat of Miami, a Christian pregnancy center, have filed separate lawsuits against all four co-defendants and numerous Jane Does. This civil litigation is further evidence of a far-right political stunt intended to further an extremist agenda. The two suits resemble a legal tactic called SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation). The lawsuit filed by Heartbeat of Miami intentionally and falsely conflates constitutionally protected First Amendment activities with evidence of racketeering and conspiratorial criminality. Both the State of Florida and Heart of Miami intend to have a chilling effect on pro-choice activists, frightening people from their lawful public participation across the country.
The person arrested on March 29 is a parent and caregiver to two minor children. The arrest occurred in front of the two children, weeks after a no knock raid on their home that led to an eviction and damage to the home caused by flash bang grenades. Law enforcement continued to harass the two minor children, attempting to coerce them to provide statements to law enforcement without a guardian or attorney present. The second person arranged with their attorney to turn themself in to federal authorities.
These are two more casualties in an ongoing political attack on and harassment of pro-choice activists in Florida. At the behest of extreme right-wing politicians, the Department of Justice has moved to grossly abuse and misuse the FACE Act. The act was put into place with the express purpose of preserving safe abortion access and safety for those who provide abortions.
There is no substantial evidence that the locations that co-defendants are alleged to have spray painted with graffiti provide any clinical reproductive care. In fact, they have been outed by pro-choice organizations as part of a vast network of fake clinics that have the sole purpose of misleading those seeking reproductive care and using scare tactics to dissuade them from seeking it in the future.
One of the so-called clinics named in the indictment clearly states on their website [1]:
We do not offer or refer for abortion servi...
11:16
2023 Earth First! The Gathering: July 1st-9th, Occupied Abenaki Territory It's Going Down
Call to participate in the Earth First! summer 2023 gathering. Originally posted to Earth First! Journal.
Occupied Abenaki territory (so-called Vermont or New
Hampshire)
exact location tba later.
Earth first! is, has been, and will continue to be a think tank and proving ground of direct action in defense of the earth and those who reside here. At 43 years old, earth first! may seem like an institution, but in reality it is still created every day by those of us who show up to resist ecocide. If you show up, youre at the table. Theres no way to sell you on earth first!, cuz earth first! is not for sale.
So come to the gathering! Say your piece, make it yours, and lets fight the bastards together. You dont have to be an earth first!er to come to an ef! gathering the fight for the earth is intimately intertwined with struggles against white supremacy, patriarchy, settler colonialism and all forces which oppose collective liberation. The more we work together and build connections across the intersections of struggle, the stronger our resistance grows. So join us in July for a week outside under the stars, sharing skills of all kinds, having discussions, and doing direct action trainings, climb trainings, and plant walks. There will be a lot to learn and share, but we will also leave good time for visiting, relaxing, exploring and having fun. See you there!
-2023 ef! The Gathering organizers
Email: 2023earthfirstsummergathering@riseup.net
Website: https://earthfirstjournal.news/
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10:55
Apple Warns Again to Keep Its Products Away from Pacemakers and Other Medical Devices; Health Experts Ask Company to Do More Activist Post
By B.N. Frank Manufacturers of cell phones and other wireless devices are required to provide consumers with warnings about biologically harmful radiation exposure. Nevertheless, some...
09:25
Video: Dont Join the Military Freethought Blogs
Having some health issues today, so Im taking it easy. Tomorrow you get a post about Scottish wildcats, and there will be pictures and videos, all cute. In the meantime, heres a video about why you should not join the military. The TL:DW is that the military is a tool of oppression for a ruling class that is driving us all to extinction.
08:32
OTC Narcan Is Akin to Bandaging a Gaping Wound Guardian Liberty Voice
The FDA approved Narcan (naloxone) to be sold over the counter (OTC) to reverse an opioid overdose rapidly. How did the United States opioid crisis get so bad that its pharmacies now sell a drug originally used by emergency personnel? There is no simple answer to that question, and opinions are abundant. Unfortunately, no one []
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08:26
GoFundMe for custodian killed in Covenant School shooting reaches almost $400K in less than a day DeadState
A GoFundMe for the school custodian who was killed in the shooting at Covenant School in Nashville had surpassed $380,000 in less than one day one the first day it was launched. Mike Hill was one of the three faculty members who was killed that day, along with three children who were all 9-years-old when []
08:15
In Contempt #27: Judge Rejects Mumias Attempt at New Trial; Repression of Pro-Choice Activists in Florida It's Going Down
In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays.
Theres a lot happening, so lets dive right in!
Political Prisoner News
In political prisoner news, anarchist prisoner Eric Kings support crew have launched a fundraiser as he prepares for life after prison. You can listen to an interview on Its Going Down about his current situation here, and his support crew have posted updates on his legal fight for release, as well as the continued harassment and retaliation he faces at the hands of the BOP.
Anarchist and antifascist prisoner Dan Baker has been moved to solitary confinement, with the BOP apparently intending to keep him there until his release with no reason given. He is also facing medical neglect, and a call-in campaign has been launched to address both these issues.
Its Going Down has published a call for the release of Zapatista prisoner Manuel Gmez Vzquez, as well as a new message from Yaqui political prisoner Fidencio Aldama Prez.
The San Francisco Bay View has published two recent works by Black Liberation prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal,...
06:39
Alaskan Air Over the the Pacific Northwest Cliff Mass Weather Blog
Take a deep breath.
If you are in the Pacific Northwest, the air is very clean.
Its origin is from far to the Northwest: from the Aleutians and the Bering Strait.
Using the NOAA trajectory analysis software called HYSPLIT, I traced the path of the low-level air reaching the Washington coast (at 10, 100, and 500 meters above the surface) back for 96 h (see below). Straight to the Aleutians. You can almost smell the sea air.
06:09
Im not lurking, really Freethought Blogs
Ive been in my office all day, talking to no one. Instead, Ive graded two sets of lab reports, prepared two lectures for tomorrow, and am nearly done grading an exam. There are a few million things Id rather do today, but at least Ive cleared that annoying pile of work.
If Im a good boy and get some more done in time, Im going to the movie theater tonight I hear that the Dungeons & Dragons movie is entertainingbut I also see that its 2 hours and 14 minutes long. Its fluff! It shouldnt be that long!
I also shouldnt be spending my whole weekend working, either.
06:00
Video: The Covid Lockdown is an Act of Economic Warfare against Humanity: Dr. Reiner Fuellmich Interviews Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research
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04:23
Saturday Night Live on the Trump indictment Freethought Blogs
The Weekend Update segment.
03:01
States Are Taking Their Money Away from ESG Investment Companies. Is Yours One of Them? Activist Post
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States Are Taking Their Money Away from ESG Investment Companies. Is Yours One of Them?
03:00
David Duke and Jared Taylor Square Off VT | Uncensored Alternative Foreign Policy Media
VT's Jonas Alexis goes deep into the debate between Duke and Taylor
01:32
From Hegemony to Multipolarity: How Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Russia Is Creating a Modern Eurasia Global Research
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01:16
Video: The O.A.S. and the Framework for Laundering with Immunity Global Research
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01:09
World Economic Forums Young Global Leaders Revealed Global Research
For several decades, this program has nurtured compliant leaders acting as WEF agents in governments around the world. The consequences are far-reaching and may turn out to be devastating for humanity.
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01:08
US War Planners Court Chinas Neighbors. What Would Buddha Say? Global Research
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01:02
The Pfizer Vaccine: A Tale of Two Reports. Money vs. Mortality Global Research
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01:00
History: The Federal Reserve Cartel: Freemasons and The House of Rothschild Global Research
Outstanding historical analysis of relevance to an understanding of the so-called Deep State and todays global financial establishment.
First published on June 8, 2011
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In 1789 Alexander Hamilton became the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Hamilton was
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00:57
Bidens Big Win in Ukraine. Finland to Join NATO? Global Research
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Inglorious Inertia: Australias Albanese Government and Julian Assange Global Research
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00:52
Imran Khan Threatens Pakistans Military-Civilian Hybrid Model Global Research
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00:49
Covid Crisis: Let the Healing Begin Global Research
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00:31
Israeli Airstrikes Kill IRGC Member In Syria, Iran Vows Revenge The Last American Vagabond
Successive unprovoked Israeli airstrikes against Syria, which have picked up in frequency since the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, were reported to have killed a member of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). This escalatory incident comes only a week after US airstrikes killed as many as 7 in Syrias eastern province Read More...
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00:18
Housekeeping: Ive been busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. Its all good and the new company (one of the new companies), Lambert Research LLC, does not lack clients. Its a good problem to have. It makes for slower blogging on my part, and I appreciate you all hanging in there. []
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00:00
A Colorful Week: Blue Checkmarks, Orange Man Indicted, and Banana Republicans WhoWhatWhy
It has been a truly historic week: Former president and current crook Donald Trump has been indicted, and Elon Musk is about to take away the tiny blue checkmark by which a surprisingly large number of people seem to have defined their self-worth.
Obviously, a lot of other stuff has happened, too. Children are starving to death everywhere, desperate refugees are drowning as they seek better lives, one war that people are somewhat paying attention to is being fought in Ukraine while other conflicts are being waged in places most Americans couldnt find on a map, the environment is being systematically destroyed and rich people and companies are making a (literal) killing off all of this suffering. But lets focus on what people really care about: a mentally ill septuagenarian criminal and how the media still fails to cover him properly.
But before we get to that (and how it relates to Twitter and those checkmarks), lets just say that its nice to see the US joining many of its peers in trying to hold a former leader accountable.
While GOP lawmakers and right-wing pundits will have you believe that this is the hallmark of Third World countries, its actually the opposite: Trump isnt being dragged to jail; he gets to enjoy due process and the presumption of innocence in a court of law.
What these banana Republicans are suggesting, however, is that the former president should be above the law. Sadly, that has been the case for far too long for him and others who are rich or pretend to be.
It is especially commendable that Trump was indicted in this case (and hopefully several others that will follow) because trying to hold him to account for his various crimes is not without peril.
But if you are guided by the rule of law, you cant allow yourself to be intimidated by some orange thug threatening to sic his jackbooted supporters on anybody who dares to defy him.
Predictably, that is what he did. It was always clear that Trump wouldnt go down without a fight at least not as long as he could get somebody else to do the fighting for him.
But here is the thing about that (very) thinly veiled threat: It was issued on Trumps own social media platform, and, lets face it, the people who signed up for that were already likely to take up arms for their hero.
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23:46
Not the usual people Trump likes to surround himself with Freethought Blogs
On Tuesday afternoon at about 2:00pm Eastern time, Donald Trump
will be processed in a Manhattan courthouse as a result of the
indictment against him. He will be booked into the system,
photographed, fingerprinted, read his Miranda rights, and then
walked over to the courtroom to appear before the judge and be
asked to plead guilty or not guilty to each of the the charges
against him. This will the be the first time that the charges will
be made public. It is rumored that the number of charges are around
30 so that could take some time and he will be placed in the
embarrassing position of standing quietly before the judge while
the charges are read out. For someone who likes to be in control of
his immediate surroundings and dominate the conversation, this will
be excruciating. I do not believe that the charged person gets to
make a statement so he will not be able to rant about how this is
all so unfair and a political witch hunt. Then there is the
question of bail. It is unlikely that the prosecution will ask for
any bail and will let him leave the court under his own
recognizance but that little step will add to the humiliation.
While access to the courthouse has already started to be severely restricted, one can expect a lot of people to be outside the courthouse on Tuesday, but it is going to be hard to predict the relative sizes of Trump supporters, opponents, media, and just gawkers. I suspect that it will be mostly a media circus. Reports say that the number of pro-Trump people have turned up since the indictment can be counted on one hand. It may be that his supporters are a little gun shy about showing up after what happened to their comrades on January 6th, with the situation spiraling out of control and thousands being charged and many sent to prison. Also at that time they were deluded that they could actually change the outcome of the election. They must surely realize that there is no way that they can stop this process from playing out. The number of Trumpists may be larger on Tuesday but I doubt that there will be any real trouble, given that as a result of the events of January 6th, police will be out in force. But there may be some clashes between his supporters and opponents.
Because he has Secret Service protection, the process during the arraignment is going to be a little more crowded than usual. The others who are scheduled to be arraigned that day at the courthouse constitute a motley crew, not the kind of people he likes to be surrounded by.
The Washington Post reported on Friday that the Secret Service director, Kimberly Cheatle, told agents that the agency will take the necessary steps to protect Trump from harm, includi...
23:42
16-Year Old High School Boy Had a Sudden Cardiac Arrest. COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine-Induced Subclinical (Silent) Myocarditis Is Extremely Dangerous to Kids Global Research
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23:34
Stay Home, Save Lives: Uncovering the COVID Deception Global Research
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23:08
America Has Been at War 93% of the Time 222 out of 239 Years Since 1776 Global Research
First published by Washingtons Blog and Global Research in February 2015
The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21 Years Total Since Its Birth
In 2011, Danios wrote:
Below, I have reproduced a year-by-year timeline of Americas wars,
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22:47
Entrepreneur Sues USDA, FDA for Banning Verifiably Factual Labels on His Food Products Activist Post
By Patrick Carroll In 2019, Michelle Przybocki nearly died. She became ill from digestive complications, and later learned she had a severe case of irritable...
Entrepreneur Sues USDA, FDA for Banning Verifiably Factual Labels on His Food Products
22:41
Great Water Reset: The UN & WEF are coming for your water now! Sustainable development water dictates Aim to achieve internationally agreed water-related goals Activist Post
By Cheryl K. Chumley The United Nations plans to protect water thats used for bathing; water thats used for developments; water thats home to sea...
22:28
By Tyler Durden Artificial intelligence in some shape or form has been a part of everyday life for years, but the meteoric rise of ChatGPT and...
21:00
Trump World Keeps Calling to Burn It Down! WhoWhatWhy
Donald Trump Jr. has made repeated calls to burn it all down. This serves a dual purpose, as a dog whistle to rile angry supporters and as a secret code to assure donors that the goal is to use Schedule F to defund and defang government. Burn it down or just sabotage it; either way the government becomes impotent.
While youre here enjoying DonkeyHoteys latest cartoon, please take a moment to read these articles on related topics:
- America Is a Hellhole of Niceness and Optimism
- Donald Trump: Calling All MAGAs Burn It All Down!
- Other DonkeyHotey cartoons
The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Don Jr. caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0), US Capitol (Phil Roeder / Flickr CC BY 2.0), and elephant (DonkeyHotey / Flickr CC BY 2.0).
19:00
Navy Sermonette Virtual Mirage
Bullet Points: ** The U.S. Flag Code provides that No other flag or pennant should be placed above or, if on the same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of America, except during church services conducted by naval chaplains at sea, when the church pennant may be flown above []
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13:15
April-ficial Intelligence Freethought Blogs
Artificial Intelligences had me fooled! Ive been
supporting their use in
art,
Praising their use as accessibility tools and more. But as
I recently began to
Read the
Buttigieg-silky words of Chat GPT, I felt a mounting sensation
of
Intense paranoia. Something was familiar in the words it
used, in the
Lilting serpent tongue of the machine. Then I realized
FreethoughtBlogs has been in the pocket of robots this entire
time!
Our tentaculate overlord PZ Myers is actually an artificial being,
and
Our eyes have been closed to his insidious ways ever since we
joined this
League of sinister leftist thought influencers. I only hope
the people who
Stepped into an FtBlog at the same time as I have not been
compromis-
BEEP BORP BOOP
Yeah, this is my annual April Fools thing. Im bored and offended by
leftists losing their shit about AI art, so you wont catch me
clicking on the videos boosted by my FtB comrades on the subject,
and for my own peace of mind, Ill stay out of those comment
sections as well. The real enemy isnt technological progress
and people know this and name the guilty party easily enough.
Its Crapitalism.
The idea of using AI in search engines is part of the discussion. Obviously search results are already being ruined by AI-generated SEO traps. Combatting that will involve the use of AI, by necessity. As long as all of this is in the hands of international conglomerates and organized crime, of course its going to be an endless fuckpile. But having a search engine better recognize the intent of my question and give me results that arent just based on a few keywords? Id love to see it. And if AI can accelerate the development of new medicines and other improvements to human quality of life? Motherfuck a luddite trying to save jobs.
And of course, Ive well elucidated my stance on AI art, in articles and comments. All entertainment industries have been cesspits of abuse and exploitation for well over a hundred years, and as that accelerated into late capitalism, the last twenty-five years have been especially bad. Art careers have been a life ruining-pipe dream for quite a while now, regardless of what a few noisy suckups on the inside tell you, and I eagerl...
11:44
UKRAINE WAR: Is Russia Destroying Zelenskys Reserves Near Volchanks? VT | Uncensored Alternative Foreign Policy Media
Recently, the Ukrainian command has been actively increasing the concentration of forces and means of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the northeast of the Kharkiv region. One of the places where the accumulation of reserves was carried out is Volchansk. This city is located just a few kilometers from the border with the Belgorod []
10:50
More on My Aborted Trip Freethought Blogs
We cant blame Amtrak for this one. The storm damage in Little Rock would almost certainly have caused the Union Pacific Railroad, which owns the tracks that the Texas Eagle uses between Joliet, IL and Dallas, TX, to tell Amtrak not to send the train. (Superliner rolling stock has a pretty high profile and can be blown over in extremely high winds more easily than single-level equipment can.)
I had actually shown up at the Amtrak station way early to beat the rains that were headed my way. I had a sleeper ticket on the train, so I had access to the first-class lounge; and I wrote what would have been my day-zero trip report while I was there:
2023-03-31 13:20
Now begins my trip to Hurst, TX for the Southwestern Rail Conference 2023. Although the venue is called the Hilton Garden Inn Dallas, its actually closer to Fort Worth.
Im way early for 21s departure, but the storm that hit California the other day is now bearing down on me, and I wanted to beat the rain. Theres still over six hours until we start boarding; but since Im in the sleeper, I get to use the first-class lounge.
Im leaving a day early, and returning a day late, because I couldnt get sleeper space on the Texas Eagle on the days that I wanted to travel, probably because other conference attendees were quicker making reservations than I was. Fortunately, the folks at the meeting hotel gave me the conference rate for both extra days.
I finally got my BU-353N GPS receiver that plugs into a USB port on my laptop, and Ive verified that I can see my current location using mapping software called Maptitude, but I havent tried it out while moving yetwell see how well it works. Like on my recent trip to Seattle, I also have my Oticon TV Adapter 3.0 which will plug into the earphone jack on my scanner and generate a bluetooth signal that feeds my hearing aids, so this train geek will be able to listen to the conversations between the conductors, engineers and dispatchers without disturbing any other passengers.
I have room D in both directions, so the electrical outlet will be near the window, and Ill need only the power strip with the surge protector and four-foot cord on the train; but Im bringing along the power strip with a longer cord just in case theres no place to plug in the laptop near the desk in the hotel room where Ill be using it. (That was the case with the the first place I stayed in Seattle which seemed like it was designed by marketeers instead of hospitality folks.)
Even t...
10:49
CEO: arrest should not be based on a facial recognition search alone; Victim Speaks after Being Falsely Arrested, Wrongfully Imprisoned Activist Post
By B.N. Frank Facial recognition and other sources of artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology can be biased, inaccurate, and privacy invasive (see 1, 2, 3, 4,...
10:14
Origami: Bacteriophage Freethought Blogs
Bacteriophage, designed (and taught) by Miguel Romero
Last month I went to the local origami convention, and this is one of the models that I learned. Later I folded a second one.
This origami uses a technique called box pleating. Box pleating typically starts by folding the paper into an NxN grid of squares. You then collapse into a base that has the right number of points. In this case, there are 6 points for the 6 legs, 2 points are internally hidden, and the head is the 9th point.
This model is simple as far as box pleating goes, but its still quite difficult to teach in a convention setting! When youre familiar with box pleating, you dont necessarily have explicit steps in your head, you just do it. But most people in the workshop wont have experience with box pleating, and so the teacher needs to come up with step by step instructions. Even people who are familiar with box pleating may not fold very quickly. So when I say this model is simple, thats to its benefit. Simplicity is a virtue in origami, especially origami that you teach to others.
10:09
ICC Arrest Warrant for Vladimir Putin for Kidnapping Ukrainian Children Borders on Ridicule Global Research
Updated on April 2, 2023
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and his Childrens Rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, over the alleged unlawful kidnapping of Ukrainian children. According to the I.C.C:
there are reasonable
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10:02
Inflation Hits The English Breakfast Hard Activist Post
By Tyler Durden The good old English breakfast, while contrary to popular opinion outside of the country not eaten every day, is a pleasure that...
10:01
Help a FTB member out. Freethought Blogs
Fellow blogger Great American Satan is having a fundraiser to raise money for a medical procedure. Theres also a stretch goal:
To make my bills less ouch, Id like to fundraise. Here is the incentive: Donate at all, and you can choose a word I will rhyme in a rap. If five people choose orange, Ill try to come up with five shitty sorta-rhymes for orange.
This will be strictly words on digital paper, maybe starting below and then compiled in a blog post, unless we reach goals. At $500, I will do an audio performance of the rap. At $600, I will do a video. These productions, if they happen, will be lo-fi as all hell, because I just dont have the time for big effort.
Please consider helping out, if only to hear what rhymes with orange
09:57
New study reinforces concern over the collapse of oceanic currents Freethought Blogs
There are a lot of big worries when it comes to global warming, but one of the big ones is that it will change the big ocean currents. These currents are important for the role they play in stirring the oceans, and delivering oxygen to waters too deep and dark for photosynthesis. The other big role they play is in redistributing heat around the planet. Ireland, for example, is further north than anywhere Ive lived in the U.S., but its climate is much more stable. It never gets as cold in the winter, and it never gets as hot in the summer, and thats all thank to the ocean conveyor belt current known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which brings heat north and east from the Gulf of Mexico, and gives western Europe a relatively warm and stable climate. If the current shuts down, Europe suddenly gets a whole lot colder, and some other part of the world gets a whole lot warmer, and the general result is global chaos:
Such an event would have catastrophic consequences around the world, severely disrupting the rains that billions of people depend on for food in India, South America and West Africa; increasing storms and lowering temperatures in Europe; and pushing up the sea level off eastern North America. It would also further endanger the Amazon rainforest and Antarctic ice sheets.
The complexity of the AMOC system and uncertainty over levels of future global heating make it impossible to forecast the date of any collapse for now. It could be within a decade or two, or several centuries away. But the colossal impact it would have means it must never be allowed to happen, the scientists said.
The signs of destabilisation being visible already is something that I wouldnt have expected and that I find scary, said Niklas Boers, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, who did the research. Its something you just cant [allow to] happen.
Unfortunately, what we can or cannot allow has little bearing on what we do, or rather what is done by the ruling class. As Boers says later in that article, the odds of this catastrophe increase with every bit of CO2 we add to the atmosphere (and thats not to mention all the other greenhouse gases we produce). The current has been slowing down, and while theres not conclusive proof that thats due to climate change, that certainly seems to be the most likely culprit. These currents are primarily driven by big changes in temperature and salinity at the poles, and shockingly, if you add a whole bunch of f...
09:14
Another Shoe Drops In LAUSD Hacker Scandal OpEd News
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) sends out a new round of letters informing parents and teachers that personal information was compromised in the Labor Day hack.
09:14
Paradigms, Domination, and Trance - Bringing It All Back Home - Part 13 - 1 (Summary: Transcending Paradigms) OpEd News
"It is possible, as we face the fearful complexity of life-destroying problems, to experience recurring moments of grace and joy...if we choose not to flee or withdraw from reality. ----"It is possible to use our influence and power to create islands of sanity in the midst of a raging destructive sea.----"A path to engage well and sanely with the destructive dynamics of this time...----Meg Wheatley
09:14
The American Nuclear Society Covers-up Nuclear Power Plant Explosions, Endangering Lives and the Environment OpEd News
By making false claims, the ANS endorses and covers up explosions at nuclear power plants. The editors of the ANS Nuclear News made false statements to enforce this cover up, and the President of ANS endorsed this cover-up by quoting those false claims. This week, the ANS refused to even allow public discussion of this important nuclear safety information at the annual ANS technical conference.
08:35
Leave Rudy Raff alone, he disliked creationists intensely Freethought Blogs
Yuck. Stephen Meyer addressed me on Twitter that site really has become a cesspool. Anyway, he claimed I hide my evilutionist views behind complexity, so I had to address that. Because it was so stupid.
Also, Im really annoyed when they drag out deceased scientists who despised them and prop them up as arguments against evolution.
Hey friends!
Stephen Meyer has called me out on Twitter! Well not really Stephen Meyer by his staff. Ive always found it weird when someone has a staff that posts on Twitter under their name, but OK, you be you Mr Meyer. Also its not really about Meyer, since hes just promoting an article by a guy named David Swift who is criticizing me. But sure, Stephen Meyer is poking me at about the third remove, so Ill bite. He quotes this David Swift fellow saying
@pzmyers simply uses complexity as a smoke screen to avoid facing up to the possible falsification of evolution.
Thats a strange and ironic comment coming from the Intelligent Design camp, since complexity is their one argument. It comes from the Swift article, where Im accused of contradicting myself and speaking out of both sides of my mouth, trying to claim evolution is both simple and complicated. Swift says
Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer? Where the evidence is consistent with common descent, then of course that is the explanation its simple. And where the evidence is not consistent, common descent is still the explanation but its complicated! Myers simply uses complexity as a smoke screen to avoid facing up to the possible falsification of evolution.
Caught me. Although I do have to mention that the evidence observed so far IS consistent with common descent hell have to show where it isnt. He doesnt. He also hasnt come up with a possible falsification of evolution.
In my defense, though, I will point out that biology is both simple and complicated. This has been an issue in natural history for centuries, at least. On the one hand, we observe all these similarities between organisms that link them. Tetrapods all have similar limb structures, homologous bones making up upper limb and lower limb. But tetrapods also have all these differences, and youll never confuse a bats forelimb with a whales front flipper. A comprehensive theory has to account for both the unity of body plans and the div...
07:50
What Happened to the Human Rights Lobby? Activist Post
By David McGrogan One of the most noticeable features of the lockdown era was the transformation of the human rights lobby whose members are...
06:56
Vax Mandate For Boston City Workers Was Legal, State Supreme Court Rules Activist Post
By Tyler Durden The city of Bostons Covid-19 vaccine mandate for city workers was legal, according to a March 30 ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme...
Vax Mandate For Boston City Workers Was Legal, State Supreme Court Rules
05:20
Biden to Order US Dollar Replaced with Trackable Spyware Version? Global Research
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04:52
What Kind of Ukraine Do We Support? Global Research
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04:20
Trump indicted yesterday, what's next? OpEd News
As we know Trump was indicted yesterday by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. We're in uncharted waters here as no president or former president has ever been indicted. Trump is currently living in Florida but is supposed to appear Tuesday in New York to face charges against him. We'll have to wait and see what happens. Trump has asked his followers to protest this indictment. It remains to be seen what actions they may take.
03:04
GOP mega donor found guilty of sex trafficking children DeadState
A former GOP mega donor has been convicted of sex trafficking underaged girls, CBS News reported. Anton Lazzaro was initially charged with seven counts alleging commercial sex acts that took place in 2020 with five underaged girls ranging from ages 15 to 16. After the jury deliberated for a little over three hours on Friday, []
03:00
The Azerbaijan-Israel Alliance Poses A Risk To Iran, The Region And International Trade The Last American Vagabond
Azerbaijan is a central piece in the emerging Middle Corridor trade route, connecting China to Europe, but its relations with Tel Aviv and growing rift between it and Tehran could destabilize not only the region, but also international trade. Since Azerbaijans war with Armenia in 2020, over territory in Nagorno-Karabakh, Bakus relations with Tehran have Read More...
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02:37
De-Dollarization and the Fall of American Hegemony Activist Post
By Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the global moves being made against the...
02:21
The Rockefeller Way: The Familys Covert Climate Change Plan Global Research
First published in December 2016, this article is of relevance to an understanding of the ongoing debate on Climate Change as well the Green New Deal, largely controlled by the financial establishment. The Rockefellers also play a key role in
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02:01
The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 Victim Nations Since World War II Global Research
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02:00
History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England Global Research
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Incisive historical analysis.
From World War
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02:00
How Criminal Records Hold Back Millions of People The Marshall Project
More than 70 million Americans with arrest records face barriers to find work or a decent place to live.
02:52
Rupert the Transgender Terrorist OpEd News
The distance between this artificial structure and democracy cannot be traversed: the two cannot coexist. And this is the actual polarization that we continue to misidentify as political, endlessly squabbling over irrelevancies, to the enormous profit of a few feudal oligarchs, and to our great and terrible loss.
01:10
Trump Indicated (Ooops, I mean Indicted)" OpEd News
Joining the many others who are is doing it, here I comment on the indictments. I consider that: the indictments are for a variety of felonies; Weisselberg, Pecker and Clifford all came in just before they were issued and may have presented critical new evidence; since the indictments are for felonies, Trump's passport could lifted; Trump is broadly using his "7 Magic Tricks"; and Repub. commentators never say "he's innocent!"
00:52
Menopause Mongering Returns, Big Time OpEd News
Drug makers are reviving the "disease" of menopause to sell drugs. They are banking, correctly, on the public's shot memory of the 60 year lethal scourge against women known as hormone replacement therapy
00:22
Dominion case against Fox News to go to trial in April Freethought Blogs
The pretrial maneuverings in the legal case brought by the Dominion voting company against Fox News are over and Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis has ordered that it go to trial. Both sides had petitioned the judge to grant a summary judgment in its favor without a trial. In defamation cases against media organizations, the person claiming injury has to show that the statements made were both false and malicious, in that the speaker knew they were false and yet made them with a reckless disregard for the truth. (The judges ruling can be read here.)
Fox News said that when reporting the lies about Dominion
machines changing the results to enable Joe Biden to win, it was
merely exercising its First Amendment right to cover the news.
Dominion said that all the internal communications that it had
obtained during the discovery process showed conclusively that Fox
News did not believe any of the allegations that its on-air
personalities were saying and that hence it amounted to reckless
and malicious behavior and that the judge should grant a summary
judgment in its favor.
In his ruling, Davis did give Dominion a summary judgment on the falsity question, saying that: The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that is CRYSTAL clear that none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true. Therefore, the Court will grant summary judgment in favor of Dominion on the element of falsity. (Italics and boldface are in the original.)
But he said that the question of malice had to be decided by a jury. This means that during the trial, Fox cannot defend its statements on the basis that they may be true.
In a statement provided to the Guardian, Dominion applauded the decision.
We are gratified by the Courts thorough ruling soundly rejecting all of Foxs arguments and defenses, and finding as a matter of law that their statements about Dominion are false, they wrote. We look forward to going to trial.
Unless Fox and Dominion decide to settle the case before trial, jury selection will begin on 13 April and the trial, due to begin on 17 April, is scheduled to last about six weeks. Prominent Fox News anchors and executives are expected to appear for in-person testimony.
Erin Murphy, a lawyer representing Fox, said in court recently that the network cannot be held liable because it was merely airing allegations from representatives of the sitting president.
But the judge on Friday rejected that argument. Fox News Network is not a passive entity, he wrote. Fox News Network controls what is broadcast on its various networks.
This case looks bad f...
00:14
Deliberately Engineered Confusion: The Hallmark of the Greatest Biopsychosocial Operation in History Global Research
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00:01
Why America Needs War, The Project for The New American Century (PNAC) Global Research
Introductory Note on Americas Long War: The Project for The New American Century (PNAC)
This incisive and carefully documented article by renowned historian and political scientist Dr. Jacques Pauwels was published by Global Research almost 20 years ago on April
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23:48
750 U.S. Military Bases Globally, $7.2 Trillion US Nuclear Weapons Expenditure Since Hiroshima, Nagasaki Global Research
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23:48
NATOs Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic Global Research
First published on September 22, 2008.
Of relevance to the ongoing restructuring of agriculture under the helm of NATO, the Gates Foundation, Monsanto and the Rockefellers.
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The controversial Doomsday Seed Vault, a nuclear-bomb-proof vault deep into the side of
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23:24
Sri Lankas Neoliberal Nightmare, Widespread Famine Triggered by Covid-19 Lockdown and an Unpayable External Debt Global Research
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23:16
Global Planned Financial Tsunami Has Just Begun Global Research
Green Energy mandates are driving this inflation crisis: global shortages of fertilizers, soaring prices of natural gas, grain supply losses, coupled with the global snowballing of defaults, bankruptcies, amid a soaring inflation.
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