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Eileen Brophy

Shocking Link Emerges Between Judge Scott McAfee And Fani Willis

A financial disclosure has unearthed a previously unknown connection between Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Daily Caller reports. According to the report, Judge McAfee, who is presently presiding over the high-profile case against former President Donald Trump, made a donation of $150 to Willis' campaign in June 2020. McAfee's wife also made donations of $99 to Willis' campaign in 2020 and $101 in 2018. The donation, recorded on June 18, 2020, is detailed in a comprehensive Campaign Contribution Disclosure Report for Willis' campaign for District Attorney, making evident the intricate relationships that exist within the legal and political spheres of Fulton County. Judge McAfee, who took his oath on February 1, 2023, after being appointed by Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp, contributed to Willis' campaign while he was serving as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Department of Justice...

https://www.ilovemyfreedom.com/blogs/news/mistrial-shocking-link-emerges-between-judge-scott-mcafee-and-fani-willis?
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MISTRIAL? Shocking Link Emerges Between Judge Scott McAfee And Fani Willis

A financial disclosure has unearthed a previously unknown connection between Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Daily Caller reports. According to the report, Judge McAfee, who is...

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WIST

A quotation from Jerome, Jerome K.

When a twelfth-century youth fell in love he did not take three paces backward, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she was too beautiful to live. He said he would step outside and see about it. And if, when he got out, he met a man and broke his head — the other man’s head, I mean — then that proved that his — the first fellow’s — girl was a pretty girl. But if the other fellow broke his head — not his own, you know, but the other fellow’s — the other fellow to the second fellow, that is, because of course the other fellow would only be the other fellow to him, not the first fellow who — well, if he broke his head, then his girl — not the other fellow’s, but the fellow who was the — Look here, if A broke B’s head, then A’s girl was a pretty girl; but if B broke A’s head, then A’s girl wasn’t a pretty girl, but B’s girl was. That was their method of conducting art criticism.

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) English writer, humorist [Jerome Klapka Jerome]
“On Being Idle,” Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

#beauty #combat #conflict #trial #violence #youth
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, "On Being Idle" (1886) - Jerome, Jerome K. | WIST Quotations

When a twelfth-century youth fell in love he did not take three paces backward, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she was too beautiful to live. He said he would step outside and see about it. And if, when he got out, he met a man and broke his…

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

#Food Not Bombs #trial rescheduled after too many jurors objected to $500 fine for feeding #homeless

Source: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/housing/article/food-not-bombs-trial-busted-jury-panel-homeless-18617041.php

The busted #jury panel illuminates the potential difficulties the #city could face in enforcing its controversial law through a jury of peers. Roughly 90 tickets have been issued since March to volunteers with the loosely organized Food Not Bombs, which serves meals to people in need near Central Library. The city has yet to win a single case.

#usa #law #Houston #humanRights #help #hungry #poverty #fail #politics #justice

Food Not Bombs trial rescheduled after too many jurors objected to $500 fine for feeding homeless

Roughly 90 tickets have been issued since March to volunteers with the loosely organized Food Not Bombs, which serves meals to people in need.

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

A #Cardinal is convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 5½ years in a major #Vatican #financial #trial

source: https://apnews.com/article/vatican-trial-cardinal-pope-690128606e1e22534551b7f74b3d4814

We now know that the Vatican is not a constitutional state, as no one has ever been convicted of child abuse there. Time to introduce #democracy and human rights there!

#law #justice #humanrights #fail #news #problem #society #religion #church #money

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artsound2@diasp.eu
HU Art Sound

Man starts fire at New York court hosting Trump trial, injuring 17

A man deliberately started a fire at the New York state supreme court building where Donald Trump’s civil trial is currently being heard, resulting in minor injuries for 17 people, according to FDNY officials.

A court spokesperson said the man set fire to court papers at about 4.15pm on the fourth floor of the building, located at 60 Centre Street in Lower Manhattan, then he used a fire extinguisher to douse it.

An office of court administration spokesperson, Al Baker, said in a statement that the fire department responded and three floors of the courthouse were evacuated. There were no serious injuries reported and the unidentified man was arrested, Baker said.

FDNY officials said 17 people suffered minor injuries, believed to be caused by irritant exposure from the use of the fire extinguisher. Two people, a sergeant and a court officer, were taken to a local hospital, according to ABC7 New York. Most of the injured were court officers.

The incident came hours after the conclusion of testimony in the former US president’s civil fraud case on the building’s third floor. Closing arguments in the case are set to begin next month. There was no indication so far that the fire was related to the Trump trial.

The judge presiding over the case, Arthur Engoron, was among those evacuated; they were permitted to return shortly after the incident. Trump was not in the building.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/14/fire-trump-fraud-trial-new-york-court
#NYC #trump #trial

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katherinebond@diasp.org
Katherine Bond

"Astonishing": Experts say Trump meltdown shows why lawyers won't let him testify at criminal trials

"Trump trots out claim that the company financial statements contained fine print in them that essentially meant they could be inaccurate or even contain deliberate lies," Andrew Weissmann, a former assistant U.S. attorney and prosecutor in Robert Mueller's office tweeted of the exchange. "The judge already rejected this argument."

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/06/astonishing-experts-say-meltdown-shows-why-lawyers-wont-let-him-testify-at-criminal-trials/

#trump #trial

"Astonishing": Experts say Trump meltdown shows why lawyers won't let him testify at criminal trials

"If Trump lawyers are having this many issues in a civil trial, imagine how they’re going to handle a criminal one," says attorney Bradley Moss.

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theaitetos

Smoking Their Own Supply

The #Neoclowns’ collective #delusion concerning the #global #geostrategic situation is off the freaking charts. They actually believed the recent #Jeddah conference, which accomplished precisely nothing and has already been completely forgotten, was going to be the combination of Versailles and Nuremberg.

Sullivan, the national security adviser, recently brought an American delegation to the second international peace summit earlier this month at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. #India and #China both sent delegations to the session, perhaps drawn to #SaudiArabia for its immense oil reserves. One Indian academic observer dismissed the event as achieving little more than “good advertising for MBS’s convening power within the #GlobalSouth; the kingdom’s positioning in the same; and perhaps more narrowly, aiding American efforts to build consensus by making sure China attends the meeting with . . . #JakeSullivan in the same room.”

Meanwhile, far away on the battlefield in #Ukraine, #Russia continued to thwart Zelensky’s ongoing counteroffensive. I asked an American intelligence official why it was Sullivan who emerged from the Biden administration’s foreign policy circle to preside over the inconsequential conference in Saudi Arabia.

“Jeddah was Sullivan’s baby,” the official said. “He planned it to be Biden’s equivalent of [President Woodrow] Wilson’s Versailles. The grand alliance of the free world meeting in a victory celebration after the humiliating defeat of the hated foe to determine the shape of nations for the next generation. Fame and Glory. Promotion and re-election. The jewel in the crown was to be Zelensky’s achievement of Putin’s unconditional surrender after the lightning spring offensive. They were even planning a #Nuremberg type #trial at the #world-court, with Jake as our representative. Just one more fuck-up, but who is counting?

It’s like they’re getting their strategic direction from the #Marvel #CinematicUniverse. “We can achieve anything, so long as we do it… together!” All that’s missing is a dramatic image of #GirlPower. In the meantime, here’s another fuck-up to add to the growing collection of #ClownWorld #catastrophes:

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has sent letters to #Denmark and #Norway assuring that the #Biden government would expedite approvals for all transfers of #F-16s to Ukraine. In the letters Blinken said that the F-16s would transfered once Ukrainian pilots have completed the Danish and Norwegian lead training program:

I am writing to express the United States’ full support for both the transfer of F-16 fighter aircraft to Ukraine and for the training of Ukrainian pilots by qualified F-16 instructors…. It remains critical that Ukraine is able to defend itself against ongoing Russian aggression and violation of its sovereignty.

The letters from Secretary Blinken mark the first time the Biden regime has given a hard commitment to supplying the Ukrainian military with F-16s.

Keep in mind that the only way F-16s could be useful in Ukraine is if they are #nuclear-armed, and even then, the chances that they would survive long enough to get in range of any strategic Russian targets is remote. This isn’t #WWII and air power is now almost entirely useless. Ten more years of technological development should be enough to mark the end of manned aircraft in war due to satellite, targeting, drone swarms, and laser technology.

There is a reason Russia isn’t making much use of its #air #superiority, and that is because it is simply too dangerous to fly over the modern battlefield. Artillery and air defense are now the order of the day.

I suspect Blinken wrote those letters in the hopes that Russia will settle for an armistice long before the pilot training can be completed and the F-16s sent to Ukraine to be shot down… assuming they can be hidden on the ground long enough to avoid being destroyed by hypersonic missiles.

Clown World isn’t just #evil, it is quite literally #deranged. This is the end result of eight decades of relentless lying to everyone, including themselves. Success always plants the seeds of failure, but even a two-bit drug dealer knows better than to smoke his own supply.

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Tek aEvl

Seems legit!

♲ anonymiss - 2023-02-04 13:55:00 GMT

#Microsoft 365 #trial offer blocks access to #Windows 10 desktops

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-trial-offer-blocks-access-to-windows-10-desktops/

After clicking "No, thanks," the user gets sent to a "Confirm your payment option" screen where the only option left is to "Start trial, buy later."

#software #fail #bug #desktop #economy #news #problem #money #buy #office #wtf #omg

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escheche@diasp.org
Sylvia J

The Chris Hedges Report podcast with Kevin Gosztola on Julian Assange and the End of Press Freedom

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-with-63e

The legal action against #JulianAssange is poised to culminate in a #trial in the United States in 2023, and this book will help the #public understand the proceedings.

This new #book by #KevinGosztola, (2/21/2023) who has spent the last decade covering #Assange, #WikiLeaks, and the wider #war on #whistleblowers, tells the full story based on #testimony from dozens of witnesses. It examines #abuses-of-power by the #CIA and the #FBI, including a #spying operation that targeted Assange's #family, #lawyers, and #doctors. It outlines how WikiLeaks exposed the reality of American #wars, the #US #government's #unprecedented #indictment against Assange as a #publisher, and the #media's role in persuading the #public to " #shoot-the-messenger." #Guilty-of-Journalism offers a #balanced and #comprehensive #perspective on all the events leading up to what #press-freedom advocates have called the #trial-of-the-century.

#chrishedges #podcast #journalism #freepress #freespeech #politics #freeassange #weareallassange

The Chris Hedges Report with Kevin Gosztola

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