[JustTheNews] Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stunned his country Wednesday by announcing he is stepping down after just three years, bowing to voter frustration over rising inflation and political scandals that tarnished Japan’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
“Politics cannot function without public trust,” Kishida told a news conference.
“We need to clearly show an LDP reborn,” added. “In order to show a changing LDP, the most obvious first step is for me to bow out.”
Kishida’s approval had dipped below 20% and his decision not to run in the September party leadership vote clears the way for Japan to have a new prime minister for his party to reboot after a series of ethics scandals.
The departure came just a month after American President Joe Biden also dropped from the presidential race after securing enough votes for the Democratic nomination, open the door for Vice President Kamala Harris to run in the fall
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So GB Prime Minister, Japan Prime Minister, American "President" - all out. Putin, Xi, Kim, whatshisname in Iran - still in. There's a lesson here somewhere.
As far as Western democratic nations are concerned, IMO the lesson is that our institutionalized error-detection and error-correction systems have not totally failed yet, in spite of being in very bad shape.
[BREITBART] In the wake of a recent court decision that found Google guilty of illegally monopolizing the online search market, the DOJ is weighing options to restore competition, including a potential breakup of the tech giant.
Bloomberg reports that the DOJ is deliberating on the possibility of breaking up Google following a landmark court ruling that found the company guilty of illegally monopolizing the online search and search text advertising markets. This marks the first time since the unsuccessful efforts to break up Microsoft two decades ago that Washington has considered dismantling a company for illegal monopolization.
According to people with knowledge of the deliberations, the Justice Department is also exploring less severe options, such as requiring Google to share more data with competitors and implementing measures to prevent the company from gaining an unfair advantage in AI products. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the government is likely to seek a ban on the type of exclusive contracts that were central to its case against Google, regardless of the chosen course of action.
If the DOJ decides to pursue a breakup plan, the Android operating system and Google’s web browser, Chrome, are the most likely candidates for divestment. Officials are also considering the possibility of forcing a sale of AdWords, the platform used by the company to sell text advertising.
The Justice Department’s discussions have intensified following Judge Amit Mehta’s August 5 ruling, which found that Google illegally monopolized the markets of online search and search text ads. Google has stated its intention to appeal the decision, but Mehta has ordered both parties to begin planning for the second phase of the case, which will involve the government’s proposals for restoring competition, potentially including a breakup request.
The government’s plan will need to be accepted by Mehta, who would then direct the company to comply. A forced breakup of Google would be the most significant dismantling of a U.S. company since the breakup of AT&T in the 1980s.
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Maybe if it wasn't Merrick the Weasel Garland's DoJ I would find this information encouraging.
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[FoxNews] Hur used them in part in concluding Biden is a 'well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory'
During an ongoing lawsuit aimed at forcing the Justice Department (DOJ) to produce records from Special Counsel Robert Hur's probe into Joe Biden's handling of classified documents before being elected president, the DOJ revealed the discovery of 117 pages of transcribed discussions between the president and his ghostwriter.
The find was highlighted Wednesday by the Oversight Project, a conservative government transparency watchdog that sued the DOJ.
The ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, was previously subject to a March subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee, which sought any and all documents, contracts and recordings of interviews and conversations with Biden.
However, Oversight Project counsel Kyle Brosnan said on Wednesday this particular revelation is both new and further animates the need for transparency in regard to questions about Biden’s competency.
Brosnan said that just prior to the Oversight Project’s last hearing on the matter, the Justice Department informed the court of the transcripts.
"There do exist written transcripts of President Biden’s interviews with his ghostwriter where they discuss classified material, and that Special Counsel Hur relied upon those written transcripts in coming to his conclusions [that Biden was a ‘well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory’]."
The memoir Zwonitzer assisted with, "Promise Me, Dad," was released in 2017.
"The discovery of those materials has been the subject of a lot of back-and-forth between us and the Justice Department about how we want to proceed," Brosnan added.
"We’re trying to figure out how that discovery impacts the case and kind of what the next steps are there."
According to a court filing obtained by Fox News Digital, Justice Department officials flagged the apparent discovery to the bench and plaintiff Mike Howell, Brosnan’s colleague and the executive director of the Oversight Project.
The officials wrote that in their prior June court appearance they attested that Hur’s office did not have a verbatim transcript of any Zwonitzer-Biden recordings.
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There has never been a group as malignantly incompetent as the DOJ.
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The Lightbringer at work. The list of revelations about Biden family criminality, like the new Hunter-Romanian story and this is being outed to keep the Puppet under control. Step out of line and it gets prosecuted, keep dancing to the script for the convention and beyond and everything gets washed away or pardoned.
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If Slow Joe were really bitter he would publicly pardon Barack and Mike Obama, Susan Rice, Brennan, et al for all crimes against the nation. They're not gonna be prosecuted anyway. Let them explain why they needed it
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WOW. Gavin Newsom's California Finance Department is opposing a CA bill that would make buying children for s*x a felony because of the "potential costs" that the state would have to "deal with."
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Only when you go to work for the State of California and get to the policy discussion levels do you discover the massive executive power of the Dept of Finance. They must nod for anything that touches cost or liability. Usually they don't show their ass like this!
Gavin Newsom claims it’s a “fact” that energy costs are lower in California than in Texas or Florida when the average cost per kilowatt hour in California is 34.3 cents and it’s 14.7 cents in Texas and 14 cents in Florida
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So he doesn't consider the $5 per gallon gasoline that we need to get to work to be energy. Well, maybe that's because so much of that $5 is state taxes.
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Unearthed footage from 2004 shows then-Rep. Tim Walz telling a Gold Star family that he deployed to Afghanistan and that he and the troops under his command struggled with PTSD.
🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: Rep. Ilhan Omar just won her primary election in the 5th Congressional district of Minnesota, it took over an hour and 30 minutes after polls closed for her votes to be counted. Omar has defeated The 75-year-old Black man named Don Samuels, winning 56% of the… pic.twitter.com/XOLbPcs7gw
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) August 14, 2024
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If this is proof that fortification is still alive
Not necessarily. It does suggest that 56% of the voters in her district are idiots. The turn-out numbers vs the voting age population might be interesting.
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And then you have to face the fact that every breath taken by a human results in (gasp) Carbon Dioxide and water vapor. Clearly not 'sustainable'. /s
Gawd I so hate these people.
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He looks more and more like a cadaver every day. Why won't he just become one?
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Mr. Kerry
Lead by example, and quit eating ☺.
Btw: How many of the climate predicts has your team of climate doomsayers gotten right in the last 50 years?
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Yeah, all you have to do is stop counting it, and the numbers go down.
Started back during the Clinton admin, you stop counting plea outs. Suspect is arrested for murder, rape, assault. Pleas down to assault. Murder and rape disappear from the records like they never happened, cause if it ain't charged, it don't exist.
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The gaslighting continues.
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