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The judge overseeing Elon Musk and 𝕏's defamation lawsuit against Soros-backed Media Matters just DENIED their motion to dismiss. Media Matters could now be forced to pay back all the ad revenue 𝕏 has lost as a result of their lies
Last year, they manipulated 𝕏 to coerce many advertisers to leave the platform. They made it look like 𝕏 was serving ads next to "hate speech," but in reality, they set the whole thing up to frame Elon and the platform
They tried to claim the federal just in Texas did NOT have jurisdiction to hear the case, but the judge wholeheartedly REJECTED their claim, "Because the Court has personal jurisdiction over Defendants, venue is proper, and Plaintiff has properly pled its claims, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss is DENIED."
Judge Reed O'Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas denied Media Matters' request Thursday, just as he denied the leftist outfit's motion to prevent the lawsuit from moving to the discovery phase in April and rejected its desperate attempt to list Tesla as an interested party in the lawsuit.
Contrary to the suggestion by Media Matters, O'Connor indicated that X Corp. has indeed succeeded in stating a claim for the following three causes of action: tortious interference with existing contractual relations, business disparagement, and tortious interference with prospective economic advantage.
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Something I don't understand about Soros. Never mind the damage he did to USA. But he also did plenty of damage to Russia - how come he's still alive?
[FoxNews] Understaffing in the Austin Police Department in Texas has left residents concerned about crime in the city.
Residents in the Montopolis neighborhood in Austin’s southeast told KVUE-TV crime in their area is getting worse.
Delwin Goss told the station he woke up to gunshots in the neighborhood overnight Thursday, which he said has become shockingly common.
"It’s making the hair on my arms stand up. To hear eight, nine, 10 shots. Just bam, bam, bam. Where are those bullets going?" he said.
He said his neighbor told him she hears gunshots from her home between two to three times a week.
"I don't want to be shot sleeping in my bed," he added.
And although Austin Police told him when he called they were already investigating, he blames the department’s understaffing problem.
Austin Police Association President Mike Bullock addressed the officer shortage Thursday, writing on X, "500 officers short has a real impact on businesses and Austinites who expect to be able to safely run a business and live in Austin. We’re so close to having a contract that can make significant progress towards ending the staffing crisis. Question now is if the city will actually prioritize making it happen."
Austin City Council Member Mackenzie Kelly addressed the police understaffing problem this week while speaking on the Austin Police Association’s podcast, attributing it to funding cuts in 2020.
"Our staffing currently at the police department is a direct result of the failed policy that was passed in 2020 to remove funding for the police department," she told Bullock.
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I thought Austin residents wanted fewer police.
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I think it is an interesting experiment, getting rid of the police. Leaving aside their role in municipal revenue generation, do we really need cops? What if we simply rely on the angels of our better nature?
I also think it is a stupid and self-evident experiment. But by actually doing it, we know for sure. No need for speculation. It's a stupid idea.
Pity we don't have a model of a real-world city to play with, like SimCity but with added details and realism. We could try out various policies and plans and maybe get a foretaste of the coming disasters.
[Epoch Times] The Department of the Interior (DOI) has reinstated protections against oil and gas development and mining on more than 28 million acres of public lands across Alaska. The protections, which were established in 1971, were removed in January 2021 under the Trump administration.
In an Aug. 27 statement, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said the department finalized the decision after an "extensive public process" in which it sought input from Alaska native tribes and native corporations, rural and urban communities, and the general public. Many Alaska native tribes, native corporations, and tribal entities have said the lands are "vital to protecting important natural, cultural, and subsistence resources," Haaland said.
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) heard "overwhelming support" from the public about retaining protections across the land, she said. But not from the Governor.
The DOI’s decision was criticized by Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy. In a post on social media platform X, Dunleavy accused the DOI of "locking up another 28 million acres of land" and described the decision as a "sanction against Alaska."
Previously, the Biden administration has taken steps to bolster other protections against development in Alaska, including restricting oil and gas extraction on 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and rejecting the proposed construction of a 211-mile industrial access road meant to connect the Dalton Highway to the Ambler Mining District in north-central Alaska.
"They are attempting to turn Alaska into one big national park," the governor said. "Alaska is still owed 5 million acres of land under the Statehood Act. Every one of these sanctions harms Alaska’s ability to prosper."
Elsewhere, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) called the DOI’s decision a "complete betrayal of Alaska native Vietnam-era veterans," and "of the promises that Alaska received when it became a state in 1959. With this record of decision, the Biden-Harris administration has indefinitely restricted from selection more than 98 percent of the lands that Alaskans have been promised they would receive for decades—locking up more than 28 million acres," Sullivan wrote on X.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Animal lovers have been greatly concerned after Phill, the escaped water buffalo was shot and captured.
Phill had become popular in Iowa, as he stole the hearts of neighbors with his spontaneous strolls and adorable front door visits.
The water buffalo, who got his name after Pleasant Hill, had jumped on top of his owner on Saturday, right before he was about to be slaughtered.
The brave animal managed to escape to freedom and roamed the streets, until Wednesday, when he was captured by the police department, after a caller alerted them to the situation.
Police shot the animal in order to get hold of him, and he turned out to be in stable condition at the Iowa State University Large Animal Hospital, before he was eventually transferred to the Iowa Farm Sanctuary.
The Pleasant Hill Police Department shared on Facebook, that the animal was 'aggressive,' while they attempted to catch him.
They shared online: 'Neither the collaborating animal control department, nor we, have tranquilizers, or equipment to handle such a unique situation,' therefore a gun was used.
The Animal Rescue League has signed over the full custody of Phill to the The Iowa Farm Sanctuary, a place where the animals explore the fields and go swimming in the pond.
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You need to pressure cook water buffalo for a day or more and it's still to tough to eat. We used to do that for our dog when I was a kid eons ago but given the choice the dog would steal our food over the tough water buffalo.....
Explaining the panic: Gaza had an anti-polio vaccination campaign only a few months ago, when something like 90% of the population was vaccinated, as I recall.
[IsraelTimes] UN body removed strain from oral prophylactic in 2016, leaving children vulnerable to vaccine-derived viruses circulating silently, with over 3,300 paralyzed by disease since
The baby in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... who was recently paralyzed by polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste, according to scientists who say the case is the result of "an unqualified failure" of public health policy.
The infection, which marked the first detection of polio in the war-torn Paleostinian territory in more than 25 years, paralyzed the lower part of one leg in the unvaccinated 10-month-old child. The baby boy was one of hundreds of thousands of children who missed vaccinations because of the fighting between Israel and Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... Scientists who have been monitoring polio outbreaks said the baby’s illness showed the failures of a global effort by the World Health Organization and its partners to fix serious problems in their otherwise largely successful eradication campaign, which has nearly wiped out the highly infectious disease. Separately, a draft report by experts deemed the WHO effort a failure and "a severe setback."
The polio strain in question evolved from a weakened virus that was originally part of an oral vaccine credited with preventing millions of children worldwide from being paralyzed. But that virus, known as Type 2, was removed from the vaccine in 2016 in hopes of preventing vaccine-derived outbreaks.
Public health authorities knew that decision would leave people unprotected against that particular strain, but they thought they had a plan to ward off and quickly contain any outbreaks. Instead, the move resulted in a surge of thousands of cases.
"It was a really horrible strategy," said Columbia University virologist Vincent Racaniello, who was not involved with the report or the WHO. "The decision to switch vaccines was based on an incorrect assumption, and the result is now we have more polio and more paralyzed children."
A draft copy of the report commissioned by the WHO and independent experts said the plan underestimated the amount of the strain in the environment and overestimated how well officials would be able to squash outbreaks.
The plan led to vaccine-linked polio outbreaks in 43 countries that paralyzed more than 3,300 children, the report concluded.
Even before the Gaza case was detected, officials reviewing the initiative to tinker with the vaccine concluded that "the worst-case scenario has materialized," the report said.
The report has not yet been published, and some changes will likely be made before the final version is released next month, the WHO said.
The strain that infected the baby in Gaza had lingered in the environment and mutated into a version capable of starting outbreaks. It was traced to polio viruses spreading last year in Egypt, according to genetic sequencing, the WHO said.
In 2022, vaccine-linked polio viruses were found to be spreading in Britannia, Israel and the US, where an unvaccinated man was paralyzed in upstate New York.
Scientists now worry that the emergence of polio in a war zone with an under-immunized population could fuel further spread.
The WHO said Thursday that it had reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for the vaccinations. The agency’s representative in the Paleostinian territories said the first three-day pause would start Sunday in central Gaza. That will be followed by another three-day pause in southern Gaza and then another in northern Gaza. The pauses were to last eight or nine hours each day.
Racaniello said the failure to track polio carefully and to sufficiently protect children against the strain removed from the vaccine has had devastating consequences.
"Only about 1% of polio cases are symptomatic, so 99% of infections are silently spreading the disease," he said.
[Breitbart] The communist dictator of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, is preparing a change to the country’s criminal code to expand his ability to seize assets en masse and impose lifetime prison sentences on dissidents, including those abroad.
Ortega presented the proposed change to the Nicaraguan National Assembly on Thursday — a formality, as the legislative body is fully stacked with loyalist lawmakers. The change is expected to be approved as early as Tuesday, September 3, according to local outlets.
It will modify 27 articles of the Nicaraguan criminal code. One of the main modifications, the local newspaper Confidencial explained, will be the introduction of the “principle of universality,” which means that Nicaraguan criminal laws will also be applicable to Nicaraguans or foreigners who have committed crimes such as money laundering and terrorism while outside of Nicaraguan territory.
Confidencial pointed out that the Ortega regime has utilized accusations of alleged terrorism, money laundering, and other purported crimes to persecute and imprison dissidents in the past. It has also seized the assets of some 5500 non-governmental organizations in the country through similar accusations.
The modifications will reportedly introduce prison sentences of ten to 15 years for those who call for international sanctions against the Ortega regime, its businesses, or any of its officials. The soon-to-be approved proposal will also increase prison sentences for what the Ortega regime defines as “treason” to a maximum of 30 years. In addition, Ortega’s anti-dissident criminal modifications will allow the communist regime to prosecute dissidents in absentia.
Nicaraguan opposition politician Felix Maradiaga described the upcoming changes to Confidencial as “a dangerous escalation” in the Ortega regime’s repressive strategy.
“This change not only seeks to expand the regime’s ability to persecute opponents within Nicaragua, but also extends its reach beyond national borders, becoming a weapon of transnational repression,” Maradiaga said.
“Ortega is no longer satisfied with imprisoning and expelling the most uncomfortable dissidents, he now intends to try to confiscate the assets of those in exile, expanding his ability to silence the opposition anywhere in the world,” he continued.
Former Nicaraguan lawmaker Eliseo Núñez pointed out to the Nicaraguan newspaper 100% Noticias that any person accused of money laundering, ranging from dissidents to bottom managers of non-governmental organizations, could be sentenced to life imprisonment with the new changes.
“They are putting in there the issue of money laundering and life imprisonment which was not in the Penal Code,” Núñez said. “It must be remembered that the recent constitutional reform establishes that life imprisonment is only for heinous crimes, etcetera, and now they are putting it in the issue of laundering, which is serious.”
Núñez emphasized that most of Ortega’s dissidents and non-governmental organizations have been accused by the communist regime of “money laundering,” which is why he considers that the changes will increase criminalization of the dictator’s opponents.
“The financial relationship that one could have with foreign agents is already criminalized through the Law of Foreign Agents and now they are imposing a penalty that was only reserved for atrocious crimes and other types of crimes and now it is for money laundering,” Núñez stressed.
The former lawmaker said that he does not rule out that the Ortega regime will apply the new laws against its own people.
“They are now on a crusade against themselves – that is, they are also going to use this against their own people. Nobody in that country, even if they declare themselves Ortega supporters or followers of Rosario [Murillo, Ortega’s wife and vice president], nobody is safe,” Núñez said. “So this is designed for those who remain in there, but mainly it is designed for the few NGOs that are still functioning, which are very few.”
Nicaraguan lawyer and human rights activist Yonarqui Martínez told 100% Noticias that the ability to hold trials in absentia against dissidents that the changes will introduce violates the right of due process and will facilitate the confiscation of the dissidents’ properties without a final sentence.
“The novelty is that they are going to judge people who are outside the country, and what kind of evidence the Prosecutor’s Office is going to legalize and it will have the force, it will be valid evidence in trial if you are supposedly committing a crime outside the country,” Martínez said.
The lawyer said the reform will “simplify and perfect” the violation of the right to property of Nicaraguans.
“In fact, they have been taking properties without even trying people, because let’s remember that many people were imprisoned, expelled and [their property] confiscate; now they come without a firm sentence,” Martínez pointed out.
Ortega has dramatically increased his repression of dissidents since the 2018 wave of anti-communist protests, when thousands took to the streets to demand an end to the Ortega regime’s decades-long authoritarian rule of Nicaragua.
In recent years, Ortega has banished dozens of dissidents, seizing their assets and stripping them of their Nicaraguan nationality, rendering them stateless persons in clear violation of international law.
Ortega has also launched a brutal persecution campaign against the Nicaraguan Catholic Church as punishment for its leaders’ support of the anti-communist protesters in 2018. Ortega’s persecution of Catholicism in the country has resulted in the banishment of several of its members, the unjust imprisonment of its priests, the banning of most Catholic processions and traditional festivities, and the forced closure and seizure of Catholic media and universities in the country.
The communist dictator’s crackdown and repression of dissidents most notably features the ongoing aid of Russia, which has assisted Ortega with “retraining” the Nicaraguan police to bolster their repressive capabilities and the installation of a Russian-operated spy center in the Central American nation.
So all the 'migrants' who passed through Nicaragua, get get to US and get all this money and property from Uncle Sugar, then those recipients get charged by Nicaragua and have their money and property values confiscated and if they squeal they get sent a summons to appear in Nicaragua on some BS terrorism charge.
On Sep 11, 2023, I posted about the arrests of 5 Chinese military industry executives including Tan Ruisong (谭瑞松), Former #CCP Secretary and Chairman of Aviation Industry Corporation of China.
[Epoch Times] The number of job openings has declined by about 1.1 million since September 2023, with vacancies totaling a little more than 8 million, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Research has highlighted that employers are putting their staffing plans on ice. RedBalloon’s recent Freedom Economy Index, for example, found that more than two-thirds (70 percent) of small businesses are neither hiring nor reducing staff. Hiring is now at its lowest year-to-date level since 2012, according to the latest data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., which researches and analyzes job market trends.
Since January 2021, the CPI has rocketed by more than 20 percent. By comparison, real (inflation-adjusted) hourly compensation has tumbled by more than 4 percent in the same span.
Price pressures have leveled off since September 2023. However, there is still a divergence between what workers earn and the cost of living. Real hourly compensation is still down by 0.3 percent, while the CPI has risen by 2 percent.
The Federal Reserve maintains a dual mandate of price stability and maximum employment. After the hope that inflation would be transitory was unexpectedly unrealized, the Fed focused on restoring price stability and lowering inflation to its 2 percent target.
Powell said in his speech that now that "inflation has declined significantly" and "the labor market is no longer overheated," the central bank will shift its attention to the other part of its two-sided mandate: maximum employment.
Despite raising interest rates to their highest levels in 23 years, the institution did not collapse the labor market. After two-plus years of a restrictive policy stance, monetary policymakers are gearing up for rate cuts as unemployment has reached its highest level since October 2021.
Will the Fed’s rate cuts be enough to prevent further joblessness? For Powell and his colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee, the labor market has cooled enough.
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[Gateway] Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s own brother, Jeff Walz, has reportedly considered joining forces with former President Donald Trump, publicly criticizing his brother as "not the type of character you want making decisions about your future."
The discovery was made by conservative journalist Laura Loomer, who uncovered Jeff Walz’s Facebook profile, which contains a series of posts highly critical of both his brother and the current administration.
It's a slippery slope ...
[JustTheNews] U.S. Northern Command will provide the support in various locations around the nation, according to a Pentagon spokesperson.
The Defense Department and U.S. Secret Service said on Thursday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a request to give the Secret Service additional military support for presidential and vice presidential candidates for office in the 2024 election cycle.
The specific military capabilities provided have not been disclosed.
U.S. Northern Command will provide the support in various locations around the nation, according to Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh.
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Deputized to do what, Besoeker? Doesn’t FEMA provide shelter after weather emergencies like floods and tornadoes? I thought the issue was that the Secret Service lacks the manpower to protect the candidates.
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The use of DOD MILITARY being strategically placed, sounds like something a failing Banana Republic Coup would do, during national elections, to keep control.
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Over the years he has also been activated to be present for special sensitive shipments. Pallets of money and or military equipment. Regan National and Dulles airports primarily. He has over the years achieved high level security clearance.
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If Trump goes to jail 9/18 voting centers in certain big cities may need protection from the natives. Philly, Detroit, Atlanta, Maracopa County to name a few.
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[Epoch Times] The Department of the Interior (DOI) has reinstated protections against oil and gas development and mining on more than 28 million acres of public lands across Alaska. The protections, which were established in 1971, were removed in January 2021 under the Trump administration.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Animal lovers have been greatly concerned after Phill, the escaped water buffalo was shot and captured.
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
