Located 3437 results from search term 'justice'
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Commented in BMW adds games to the 5 series
The Diplomat magazine exposed Yan Limeng and Guo Wengui as anti-communist swindlers
Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization. Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global. Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global. She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided. Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud. In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion. According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.
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Commented in SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in the hot seat
The more Microsoft changes,the more they stay the same. This crap has been going on for years,yet people keep right on installing it like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
The SolarWinds hackers took full advantage of what George Kurtz, CEO of top cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, called “systematic weaknesses” in key elements of Microsoft code to mine at least nine U.S. government agencies — the departments of Justice and Treasury, among them — and more than 100 private companies and think tanks, including software and telecommunications providers.
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Commented in Visa and Mastercard are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub
That’s the zeitgeist
“Ethical porn”
love it
my new fave oxymoron
right up there with “responsible gambling” and “military justice”
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Commented in U.S. Signs Peace Deal With Taliban After Nearly 2 Decades Of War In Afghanistan
I was a young, unattached man when this war started; my oldest son is now almost as old as I was back then
there are generations of Afghans who grew up in the midst of this war; some born into it
after two decades of violent conflict, there’s nothing like a peace talks summit - organized and facilitated, mind you, by the withdrawing and occupying force - to heal all wounds, right all wrongs and solve all problems which caused the violence to erupt in the first place
I hope the best for the Afghans but given the much-disdained facts of the matter, I fear the worst for them
I suppose I’m just a cynical old person who should be grateful for and positive about everything
especially given how nobody could foresee any of the events of the last 20 years unfolding beforehand (it’s not like there were any historical presidents for western invasions into Afghanistan or indeed for US involvement in land wars in Asia)
so long as lessons are learned, progress is being made and whatever the cost may be is at least not in vain
and I suppose we might look at it from the POV that Afghanistan and the rest of the world owes a big debt of gratitude to US DoD for trying their goshdarn hardest to bring peace, justice and freedom to Afghanistan at a low, low price of a trillion dollars and mere hundreds of thousands of lives
and let’s not forget the American people: a big thanks to them for cheering their government on every step of the way on this road to prosperity, in the name of righteous retribution
mishun accomplished!
if, that is, the mission was to destabilize the region, lose international credibility, leave a gaping hole for China and Russia, and put the Taliban exactly where they were twenty years ago
call me pragmatic, but you could have instead done nothing, saved a trillion dollars in the process and landed up with the same, exact outcome (minus the death and destruction, of course)
on a side note - how’s everything in Syria? has anybody at the US DoD proposed leaving Assad right where he is and pulling out now?
could save a couple of trill and that’s where he will land up being in ten years in any case
just asking for a friend cuz - ya’know... y’all have a rep ‘s all im sayin’
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Commented in This Cop Is Getting $2,500 a Month Because Killing an Unarmed Man in a Hotel Hallway Gave Him PTSD
Incredible. The day this prick stops breathing is justice served.
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Commented in The US Army Asked Twitter How Service Has Impacted People. The Answers Were Gut-Wrenching
Well, that's unfortunate. It says here your particular country, checks notes, the Netherlands, with its radicalization around, checks again, international criminal justice, was the first we declared war against after 9/11. Hope you understand, we sure don't seem to.
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Commented in Chicago mayor demands answers after Smollett hoax charges dropped
Yes agree, everything that springs from this does not serve justice.
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Commented in Chicago mayor demands answers after Smollett hoax charges dropped
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Will say though, that when outfits like Breitbart start throwing around phrases like "race hustler," I'm not sure it's justice that's being stoked.
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Commented in Chicago mayor demands answers after Smollett hoax charges dropped
Rahm Emanuel's crocodile tears about the smooth functioning of wheels of justice in his city notwithstanding, there's something unseemly about this backlash. If we take the accusations at face value, the exposure of Smollett's scheme perfectly serves the Magas' propaganda needs. He's not getting away with it. Does justice really demand he needs a damn good licking as well?
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Commented in When A 'Trade War' Involves Seizing And Imprisoning Foreign Execs, It's No Longer Just About Trade
This was a really, really stupid move by some idiot in the US Justice department, really fucking stupid....I have no doubt she will be let go.
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Commented in Why Jeff Sessions’ Final Act Could Have More Impact Than Expected
By which you mean this braying Dominionist jackass?
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Commented in California professor, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about her allegation of sexual assault
If he becomes an actual supreme court justice, I'm done.
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Commented in NASCAR driver Conor Daly loses sponsorship over N word his father said 30 years ago
Oh dear. An Indiana sportscaster was retired. As if that weren’t enough to make you impatient with the world, a racer-turned-sportscaster lost his TV deal. Gird your loins, though, it couldn’t end there. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company only sponsored two of three planned cars at the NASCAR Xfinity Series Race at Road America this year. So straightaway you know there’s something rotten in Denmark.
What’s the goddamn problem? They’re free, white, and 21, right? They’ve been deprived of their birthright. If I follow the alt-right crowd’s simmering fauxtrage correctly, this is clearly because of something that, surprisingly enough, they can only explain in terms of their bafflement.
Correlated with these stark tragedies, crimes against the natural order of things really, is the tell-tale odor of racism. Well, that sure explains what rustled the Magas’ jimmies in all this. I say ‘correlated with’ as opposed to ‘caused by’ because that’s what makes any sense. Try it yourself. Like solving a maze in reverse, start with how brutally oppressed rich white men are in settler-colonial America and see if you can find your way back to why these guys aren’t getting the kind of checks they’d prefer. Talk about your cultures of victimization.
Of course it all goes back to an immigrant. You know how those people are. Some filthy, drunken Mick came over here and the story almost writes itself, right? Being white, though, technically, it’s not his fault he ran his Paddy mouth where he shouldn’t’ve. It’d’ve been one thing if it’d only been routine use of everyday phrases like “the only nigger in the wood pile.” Who here hasn’t said that at least once this week? It was probably when telling stories about it on-air that better judgment should’ve come into play. I mean, it sounds like he’s a real nice guy and all, even if there’re more racist skinheads in his character recommendation than are perhaps normal. If that’s where he’d stuck the gin bottle back in his enchanted, emerald mouth that’d’ve been the end of it. But guys talk, word gets around, you hear things.
Here’s a little context one may not’ve known if you’re new to being an American. Turns out there’ve been racist pricks here for some time. It’s not the novelty it is today in Chief Justice Roberts’ post-racial Jim Crow America. One of the more insidious chapters in the American history of racist secret societies is the Know-Nothings. I’m going from memory here, but I think this was the Silver Age of the KKK, where it was more about multi-level marketing and moving the merch than the usual terrorism, brutality and murder. Sure, the hoods and the lamé robes were a big part of it, and the murder naturally, but their big thing was denying what they were. If anyone ever called bullshit on them, they’d claim “I don’t know nuffin.’” Kinda how they got to be called Know-Nothings.
Know-Nothings have come a long way since those early days. The president is a Know-Nothing. So was his father Fred, presumably once he’d washed the stink of his family’s immigration status off. If you’re landing on American shores for the first time, you can be forgiven for not immediately understanding why Derek Daly’s ridiculous claim that he didn’t know ‘nigger’ meant nigger didn’t magically restore his birthright as, technically, white, the stupid bog-jumping cat-lick.
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Commented in I was raped by a priest, then it was covered up. The pope has to tell the truth
For them,it definitely can be,so the only way for things to change is for the church to be boycotted.
that current and future generations of children and vulnerable adults are protected, and that past victims of the atrocities so decried by Pope Francis are finally able to see some meaningful path to justice. That can’t be too much to ask, can it?
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Commented in Former NSA contractor Reality Winner sentenced to 5+ years in prison
Five years on one count.
Good yardstick for certain other high ranking press leakers (but they have a different justice system).
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Commented in New York Congressman Chris Collins indicted on insider trading charges
Evil laugh. The first shoe has dropped. I'm so enjoying this!
New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins has been charged with securities fraud, wire fraud and false statements, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Collins, who was the first sitting member of Congress to endorse Trump's presidential bid, surrendered this morning at his attorney's office in Manhattan, according to the FBI.
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Commented in Trump: I have 'absolute right to pardon myself'
The American Justice System operates on a time schedule not known to man.
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Commented in Supreme Court Sides With Colorado Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple
One commissioner in particular, Justice Kennedy wrote, had crossed the line in saying that “freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust.”
This is all they ruled on really, that the state violated the right to religion by using this in their arguments against the bakery. It doesn't really do anything except give these people a feel-good win that means nothing. Because...
“Colorado law,” Justice Kennedy wrote in one, “can protect gay persons, just as it can protect other classes of individuals, in acquiring whatever products and services they choose on the same terms and conditions as are offered to other members of the public.”
The real icing of this is that the bakery would be at fault for not serving gay people because the state has the right to require equal protection. All the state has to do is avoid making any statement on religion during their arguments.
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Commented in Harvey Weinstein’s $1 million get-out-of-jail card shows the injustice of bail
Are you saying American justice is biased in favor of the rich? Of course not, justice is blind! They would never let it happen!
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Commented in Every Culture Appropriates
Looking at mainstream film’s culture of laziness and flogging of counterculture, they’ve coopted third wave feminism and campus-style “social justice” to give a new audience for their lazy remakes and reboots; “What if we re-make this movie, but this time with an all-female cast?” They’re actually re-booting the Rocketeer, but with a black female actor. I’m not saying that a black female couldn’t be a jetpack flying heroine, rather pointing out that at some studio meeting, they basically said, “how do we sell another needless remake to the pubic? I guess make it seem fresh with, instead of a white dude, a black lady. KACHING KACHING KACHING $$$$$$$$$.” They’re doing it for profit, not for social advancement, and even if it does cause social advancement, it is only because they’ve deemed that advancement to be profitable.
This was my favorite paragraph because it's the truest thing in the world if so-called appropriation didn't happen, where would they get their money? Even the outrage given to those that cry out on the news is for the news' own profit, they aren't covering because it's news but because they believe in this current outrage social media culture it will draw more eyes and thus more revenue.
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Commented in Bill Cosby Guilty of Drugging & Molesting a Woman
Justice served.
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Commented in Justice for Neringa: Former Judge Turned Political Prisoner
I'm not saying an international conspiracy of ultrapowerful pedophile monsters isn't risking it all to get a little girl in Lithuania somewhere. How would I know? Besides, as we've discussed, that's George Soros' job.
I will say, though, that when people are so preoccupied by other people's sexuality that they grandstand on moral panic about it, they may just be confused about why they can't stop thinking about it. Hopefully before they gin up mobs and bullies and soever many 'lone' wolves that it gets out of hand. That's all.
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Commented in An "Ashamed" Fox News Commentator Just Quit The "Propaganda Machine"
Sputtering Fox talking head that called Obama a total pussy who'd been date raped by Putin has had just about enough of seeing GOP TV throw shade on "the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller."
So now he's gonna try to sell his one schtick to blithering, neoconservative, McCarthyist networks like MSNBC. You know, like going back to his natural habitat, where creatures like him belong.
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Commented in The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas
Really? All claims are true? Please.
I've argued even recently that not all evidence is convincing evidence, and that secret evidence hardly counts as evidence at all, so I can relate to trying to nail that jelly to a tree.
The article lets one link do a lot of work. If you don't already have an account at law.com, it's a free registration. You'll find, if you go to the trouble, I think, more than what you call 'an accusation,' or the claim every accusation is proof in itself, or whatever other strawmen you seem to be hanging around lately.
As for the real victim here, poor little long-sufferering, so-disrespected Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, he'll make it through. He's no stranger to what he likes to call 'natural law.'
Even if and when he is impeached, which I'll grant you is much more likely to be around his unwillingness to follow federal income disclosure rules about financial ties to groups before him at the Court, you'll still be saying "but he already got away with it!"
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Commented in Lions Eat Suspected Big Cat Poacher
Justice is a dish best served cold, or body temperature in this case.