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HEALTH CARE: Republicans don’t have a health care plan, just more empty promises.
Norman Ornstein on Twitter: “Starting January 21, we need an impeccable career prosecutor to head the Public Integrity Section at DOJ, and Preet Barara at SDNY. And we need the career people there to go after all the miscreants in Cabinet, WH, agencies. Without fear or favor. Crimes cannot go unpunished.”
JPMorgan BANKERS
ARE ALWAYS CORRUPT THIEVES
Inside the JPMorgan Trading Desk the U.S. Called a Crime Ring
The U.S. says the precious metals desk at JPMorgan was a racketeering operation. Now the bank is poised to pay a record penalty for spoofing. Here’s a look behind eight years of alleged conspiracy. JPMorgan was the powerhouse in futures contracts for gold, silver, platinum and palladium that account for tens of trillions of dollars in transactions annually. In his mid-40s, Nowak had run the precious metals desk for more than a decade. He had a young family, a house outside Manhattan and a seven-bedroom vacation home a few blocks from the beach in New Jersey.
JPMorgan Chase Admits to Two New Felony Counts – Brings Total to Five Felony Counts in Six Years – All During Tenure of Jamie Dimon
As the attention of Americans is focused on surviving the pandemic and the pivotal presidential debate tonight, William Barr’s Justice Department decided to quietly hand an early Christmas present to a notorious Wall Street bank.
Under the richly compensated leadership of Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, has admitted to an unprecedented five criminal felony counts since 2014 and put on criminal probation three times. Dimon notched two of those felony counts in his belt today.
Billionaire Charles Koch, Whose Minions Staffed Up the Trump Administration, Has a Common Bond with Russian Election Interference
Charles Koch is the billionaire owner of Koch Industries, one of the largest private companies in the world with vast interests in fossil fuels, refineries, chemicals, lumber, paper and glass manufacturing. A subsidiary of Koch Industries is Koch Supply and Trading, which engages in commodities trading on a scale rivaling the largest banks on Wall Street.
Charles Koch also heads an operation variously known as the Koch Network or the Kochtopus, because its tentacles are strangling the life out of representative government in the United States.
Trump is owned by Koch Libertarian Party Money
Charles Koch, Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries owns Trump
Class Warefare – Take your Country back from the Koch Brothers
Anonymous declares war on Koch Industries
Trump’s touting of ‘racehorse theory’ tied to eugenics and Nazis alarms Jewish leaders”:
“‘You have good genes, you know that, right?’ Trump told a mostly all white crowd of supporters in Bemidji, Minn., on Sept. 18. ‘You have good genes. A lot of it is about the genes, isn’t it? Don’t you believe? The racehorse theory. You think we’re so different? You have good genes in Minnesota.
Telecommunications companies like AT&T, took $283 million but didn’t deploy required broadband, Mississippi says.
Mississippi asks FCC to investigate AT&T’s “pattern of submitting false data.” AT&T falsely told the US government that it met its obligation to deploy broadband at more than 133,000 locations in Mississippi, state officials say. Since 2015, AT&T has received over $283 million from the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect America Fund to expand its network in Mississippi. But the Mississippi Public Service Commission (PSC) said it has evidence that AT&T’s fixed-wireless broadband is not available to all the homes and businesses where AT&T claims it offers service. The PSC asked the FCC to conduct “a complete compliance audit” of AT&T’s claim that it has met its obligation.
In August 2015, AT&T accepted $428 million in annual payments from the FCC’s Connect America Fund, with the obligation to “deliver broadband at speeds of at least 10Mbps for downloads and 1Mbps uploads to over 1.1 million homes and businesses in its rural service areas” in 18 states. That included $49.8 million a year in Mississippi, where AT&T is required to deploy broadband to 133,981 homes and businesses by the end of 2020. The Connect America Fund is paid for by Americans through fees imposed on phone bills.
THESE COMPANIES HAVE BEEN STEALING OUR MONEY SINCE 1995 SEE THE ERATE SCAM
Almost 90 percent of K-12 classrooms lack even basic access to telephone service Princeton Survey Research Associates 1993
THE ERATE PROGRAM riddled with fraud, waste, and abuse allowed by the FCC
Judge OKs $800M settlement of Las Vegas shooting suits
A court on Wednesday approved a settlement totaling $800 million from casino company MGM Resorts International and its insurers to more than 4,400 relatives and victims of the Las Vegas Strip shooting that was the deadliest in recent U.S. history.
The action makes final a deal settling dozens of lawsuits on the eve of the third anniversary of the mass shooting that killed 58 people and injured more than 850 at an open-air concert near the Mandalay Bay resort.
McCloskeys indicted, grand jury adds charges of tampering with evidence
A grand jury just indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey on charges of exhibiting guns at protesters in a June incident in their neighborhood. Additionally, the grand jury added a charge of tampering with evidence for both members of the couple.
US private jet pilots trafficked cocaine, meth for Sinaloa Cartel
Robert Carlson, a California businessman who dreamed of becoming the cocaine king of the skies, used private jets to funnel a billion dollars’ worth of cartel drugs through smaller airports across the country — exploiting a security blind spot.
He did it over and over again, profiting off a rarely policed mode of transportation. And when he was finally busted in 2017 in Lexington, it wasn’t because of the X-ray scanner or drug-sniffing dog. That level of security at private and secondary airports just isn’t there.
Instead, an informant tipped off federal agents and blew up one of the nation’s largest airborne domestic smuggling rings — one in which Carlson moved drugs for three years for the Sinaloa Cartel.
US senator took off mask repeatedly on flight. He chairs committee that oversees airline safety and policy.
Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker (R), who chairs the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, was spotted with his mask dangling underneath his chin while aboard a Delta flight last week. DELTA needs to ban him from their airlines now!
Thomas and Alito take aim at 2015 gay marriage ruling as Supreme Court rejects Kim Davis case
The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples under her name because of her religious beliefs, letting stand a lower court ruling allowing a lawsuit filed against her to proceed.
Davis rose to attention in 2015 when she, while working as the clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, stopped issuing marriage licenses due to her religious objections to same-sex marriage. Davis, a devout Christian, was sued over her refusal to issue the licenses and subsequently jailed after she defied a judge’s order to issue them.
Davis sought to have the case against her dismissed, arguing she was shielded from civil lawsuits under a legal doctrine known as qualified immunity, but the lower courts declined to grant her request and allowed the dispute to move forward.
Spain detains software creator McAfee wanted in US
Anti-virus software creator John McAfee, who is wanted in the United States for tax evasion, has been arrested at Barcelona airport, police said Tuesday. Officers detained the 75-year-old on Saturday as he was about to board a flight to Istanbul and he was being held at a jail near Barcelona awaiting extradition to the United States, a Spanish police source told AFP. The announcement of his arrest comes a day after US prosecutors released an indictment against McAfee for allegedly failing to report income made from promoting crypto-currencies, making speaking engagements, consultancy work and selling the rights to his life story for a TV documentary.
Religious group scrubs all references to Amy Coney Barrett from its website | Amy Coney Barrett |
START AT 0:16 Amy Coney Barrett in 2016 speaking out against SCOTUS nominations in election years and shifting the “balance of power” by replacing conservative justices with a liberal ones.
His experimental Covid treatment of Regeneron was created using human embryonic cells from an aborted late-term fetus.
Regeneron, an experimental drug which @POTUS took, relied on “human embryonic stem cells.”
Michael Greshko on Twitter:
“Interesting nugget: In a statement, Regeneron has confirmed to me that President Trump is NOT the only person to receive REGN-COV2 on a compassionate-use basis. Spokesperson describes number to me as “a handful (less than 10)… Not just the one for President Trump.”
THANK YOU PRESIDENT OBAMA
Not 1 single “miracle” therapeutics was developed during Trump’s administration:
2. Remdesivir developed in 2009 to fight Ebola
3. Regeneron developed in 2014 to fight Ebola Who was the 2009-2014
The Supreme Court hears Oracle v. Google—here’s what’s at stake
The Supreme Court could decide whether APIs can be copyrighted. the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Oracle v. Google, a landmark case that considers whether application-programming interfaces can be protected by copyright. We first published this article about the case in early 2019, when Google asked the Supreme Court to consider the case. It has been edited to reflect the fact that oral arguments are this week.