Co-Founder of Pro-Trump Campus Group CAUGHT impersonating a real lawyer.

Man Accused of Phony Lawyer Act Was Co-Founder of Pro-Trump Campus Group Before he allegedly posed as a lawyer.

Lambert was in college when he co-founded Students for Trump, and as a leader of the group, he appeared on TV and shared a stage with Milo Yiannopoulos.

A Tennessee man charged by New York prosecutors with pretending to be a Manhattan lawyer and taking thousands from would-be clients was the co-founder of Students for Trump, a national group that mobilized college campuses in the run-up to the 2016 election and plans to do so again in 2020.

It turns out that Lambert, who solicited legal work through the fake name “Eric Pope,” is the co-founder of Students For Trump, a campus conservative group.
https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2019/04/23/man-accused-of-phony-lawyer-act-was-co-founder-of-pro-trump-campus-group/

Pro-Trump College Group Won’t Tell the Feds What the Hell It’s Doing The FEC has sent Students for Trump nine letters requesting info on who its donors are and what the group is funding. It has gotten no response.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-college-group-wont-tell-the-feds-what-the-hell-its-doing

Headquarters: Raleigh, NC
Ryan Fournier founder and chairman 2015 and John Lambert, students at Campbell University in North Carolina, United States.

Fournier has appeared on many news networks including Fox News, CNN and MSNBC to advocate his views.

The group enjoyed the backing of Guido Lombardi, an Italian real estate developer who served as the Trump campaign’s middleman with various prominent figures in right-wing political parties in Europe.

Students for Trump is a registered political committee, bound by FEC reporting requirements.

“The failure to timely file a complete report may result in civil money penalties, an audit or legal enforcement action,” the FEC notices warn.

THE FOUR WOMEN WHO ARE SAVING DEMOCRACY #Antitrust #Law #Fail

Lina Kahn, Dina Srinivasa, Shoshana Zuboff, Carole Cadwalla

THE FOUR WOMEN WHO ARE SAVING DEMOCRACY

#Antitrust #Law #Fail Kills Our Democracy

Antitrust law is failing to secure our freedom, our markets, our right to self-determination, our competition, and our fundamental rights.

Lina Kahn Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox, which showed how Ronald Reagan’s antitrust policies, inspired by ideological extremists at the University of Chicago’s economics department, had created a space for abusive monopolists who could crush innovation, workers’ rights, and competition without ever falling afoul of orthodox antitrust law.

The Antitrust Case Against Facebook ~ Dina Srinivasan

Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine? ~ Dina Srinivasan

The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly ~ CORY DOCTOROW

Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism machine learning creates devastating behavior modification tools that allow tech companies to manipulate us so thoroughly that we’re in danger of losing our free will.

Srinivasan shows how Facebook came to dominate our online discourse through activities that would have been prohibited under pre-Reagan theories of antitrust, and how, prior to these monopolistic tactics, Facebook was not able to conduct surveillance on its users, having to contend with multiple, bruising PR disasters and user revolts when it tried to do so.

Moreover, Facebook’s monopoly has enabled a series of moves that worsened its impact on our democracy and our markets: once Facebook became the dominant means by which people learned about the news, media companies were forced to use Facebook to promote their work, and to put Facebook tracking beacons (AKA “Like buttons”) on every article, giving Facebook the power to build ever widening dossiers on 2.3 billion users.

And since Facebook also became the dominant means by which users discovered many kinds of products, merchants also put Like buttons and engaged in other surveillant integrations with Facebook, allowing Facebook to monopolize intelligence about ad performance — that is, when an click on a Facebook ad yielded up a sale, Facebook often knew about it — and this allowed the company to charge more for ads, and to tighten its grip over the ad marketplace.

Handmaidens to Authoritarism, #Mercer, #Zuckerberg, #Sandberg, #Page, #Brinn, #Dorsey

https://cyberplayground.org/2019/04/22/mercer-zuckerberg-sandberg-page-brinn-dorsey-handmaidens-to-authoritarism/

How Facebook Broke Democracy

THEY INVITED THE FOX INTO THE HEN HOUSE

THEY ALL HER SPEAK AT THE TED TALK

In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalla digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK’s super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union.

Esteemed Reporter Pulitzer finalist Carole #Cadwalla

My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair

Mercer, Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Page, Brinn, Dorsey Handmaidens to Authoritarism

Reparations by Jonathan Weiss Esq.

Reparations

If the Democrats run a campaign for Presidency featuring an endorsement of reparations to current Blacks for the horrors of slavery and the inhuman aftermath, they will likely lose. The furor and backlash over bussing (which is some cases entailed busses not passing by nearer white schools) will seem minor by comparison.

Unfortunately, it may be too late. Its revival is due to the Reverend Al Sharpton (the title reportedly self bestowed when he was in 5^th grade and he does not appear to have a flock) who now is positioned publicly so liberals, at least, have to kiss his ring and accept his urging of “reparations” without definitions or categories. He came to prominence for his advocacy of what turned out to be the Tamara Brawley racial abuse hoax, his racial divisiveness with the fire in Freddy’s Pizza, and demonstrations and a boycott against a Korean grocer. He parlayed this fame into an organization, a TV show, and many public and media appearances. This fame does not prove his seeking endorsement of “reparations” is right.

Some past reparations have been both justified and possible. Jews, after the Holocaust. received payments for the atrocities perpetuated and genocide. The United States disgraced itself, well before Guantamo (with no reparation foreseeable) by placing thousands of Japanese in concentration camps after imposing curfews first. The Supreme Court upheld this outrage (based in parts on purposeful lies by the Department of Justice). Over forty years later, Congress voted some recompense. (Disclosure. As part of the Board of the Asian American Legal Defense fund, I participated in the advocacy for this partial redress. I was gratified to me Fred Korematsu.)

If current American reparations were possible the first group to receive them should be the Natives or Native Americans or Indians or Native Indians. They were massacred, driven from their lands, enslaved, pushed on death marches, had treaties broken, still have treaties broken, sacred land denied or degraded, receive unequal treatment even when displaced from the land with which they identify (and maintained, it appears, with ecological wisdom) into cities. (About Oakland, see “Very, Very” by Terry Orange.) Their oppression and exclusion is such that they have not produced the famous American leaders and artists as have the oppressed Blacks – with contributing cultural identity – from Frederic Douglas to Booker T. Washington to Malcolm X. and others (Martin Luther King, Jr. has his holiday. ) Music from Scott Joplin, to the classical composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk (partially Jewish) to Jelly Roll Morton and the explosion of jazz; then rythmn and blues, rock and roll, hip hop, break dancing, and rap. Tap is one of the great dance forms. Literature: the whole Harlem renaissance, Ralph Ellison. Lankford Hughes, Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes, etc. These are major American achievements. The history of sports has been transformed with integration. The one famous Indian athlete Jim Thorpe was half Irish.

Let us affirm that after slavery came racial discrimination and brutality with Jim Crow. Lynching, torturing, treating workers like slaves except for the shining ten years of Reconstruction (often misrepresented in histories- “carpetbaggers” – movies, etc/) with many Black legislators State and Federal and voting rights – which are still being curtailed by racists. Even now we observe clear segregation, discrimination, and inequality. Besides some new laws (e.g. repeal current war on drugs with unequal incarceration, voting rights protection etc.) with proper enforcement, how would “reparations” be properly effectuated?

The Liberians present a particular problem. They were sent from slavery to their own African country. Now, here in the wrong “immigration status”, they are sometimes deported as not being Americans. What are they owed?

To whom?: Many of those identified and identifying as Black have very mixed “racial ancestry.”(Little noted is how the enslaved Indians and Blacks were thrown together so that a large number of Black families have Indians in their family tree.) Should there be a DNA test – at what percentage (the drop of blood theory is an old racist construct)?

What about those descended from people that were always free and demonstrably so?

What about recent arrivals of Africans and those from the Caribbean with black ancestors , some of whom may be been slaves?

Should there be an income or status limit?

From whom: Would there be an attempt to derive money from those who enslaved, including other Africans, sold the suffering, including Arabs, the descendants of the owners of slave ships or just Americans? Which Americans? Refugees and immigrants or their descendants who arrived after the Civil War, end of the outrageous doctrine of “Separate but Equal” or after the Civil Rights Act? What about those who devoted their careers to Civil Rights? Do they get a pass?

Affirmative action is a type of reparation. Certainly it redresses historical exclusion. But, the difficult ethical question of why punish innocent contemporaries arises.

“Reparations” has moral reverberations. But, because of time (if only reconstruction had lasted! – maybe with its promise of 40 acres and a mule) the practical factors militate against it being a policy rather than a slogan. Most certainly, it should not distract people of good will from dealing with the horrendous continuing mistreatment of Native Americans.

9/11 CRIMINALS by Jonathan Weiss Esq.

9/11 CRIMINALS

by Jonathan Weiss Esq.

The tragic collapse of the twin towers on 9/11/01 was, is, and continues to be an American trauma.

The televised disaster has left enduring images, terrible consequences which continue, including people still getting sick and dying.

The Federal funding for “first responders”, ably promoted by John Stewart, has begun to run out and needs increases. Those “first responders” continue to die from diseases induced, sometimes more than one during a week. Ads, even almost 18 years later, still run on television for people to consult lawyers about participating in settlements and law suits for damages. But should have all the liability been civil?

When the buildings were being erected, it was possible to observe the shoddiness in their construction. Asbestos, long known for its carcogenic and breathing deaths and disorders, was sprayed on the outside of walls. There was nothing erected inside for support – a hundred floors only supported by flimsy outside walls.

In the beginning, because of trouble renting space, the State government helped the owners and investors by leasing floors for public benefits hearings. At first, there were no elevators to take up to the first floor elevator banks. I had to carry one client on my back up an escalator. During one hearing, the building swung back and forth so violently above the 60^th floor that my client’s terror at the movement made her weep and lie down on the floor. It seemed clear that the building, with no inside support, was very fragile.

At the same time, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani installed a “disaster” center very close to help out a friend who had trouble leasing his building, instead of in a safe zone in Brooklyn. It too, of course, was destroyed on 9/11 hindering the City’s response considerably.

The exact nature of all the perpetrators has never been completely clear, leading to basically unsupported conspiracy theories, which had been left room to grow. Messages of danger sent in various government agencies were ignored. Nobody seemed to find it odd that individuals took lessons how to take off with a plane but not land it. Right after the event, the skies were completely closed to all but a group of Saudis who left immediately. Bin Laden was immediately described as responsible but was not captured and interrogated but killed years later.

When the planes hit, almost an hour apart, it was first reported on the radio as a small plane. The ticker on Times Square described it in that fashion just as the second plane hit.

Bin Laden is reported to have said he never expected to see how extensive the damage became. Floor after floor, with no internal support, crashed down on each other, descending to what would be called “Ground Zero”. The towers fell over and apart, segments separating in flames with black smoke spreading up and outwards until all that was essentially left was rubble.

After the destruction, various friends came by my office near Times Square to use the phones as the far enough North that they worked. Some came in, covered by foul smelling ash – clearly toxic and dangerous.

Later President Bush and Mayor Giuliani appeared on the news with the cliches that are offered after such an attack: We will all unite. We are not afraid. We will catch the perpetrators. Etc. The mass media hailed these platitudes as “leadership.”

The President then suggested that solidarity would be demonstrated by “shopping.” Assurances were offered that the area was being cleaned up and would be safe for those who could still return to work. Some intelligent individuals, noting how the air looked and smelled, refused to return but relocated. When I went down to the Court houses just under a mile way I could smell the stench. Workers went in with no warning and no special protections, relying on the public assurance that site was not dangerously polluted. The lawyers’ ads now describe the whole area north to Canal Street and river to river as the zone where exposure, resulting in cancers, etc. would predicate law suits, particularly for special forms of cancer related to the toxicity.

Those who built such a toxic unstable buildings contributed to the death of people beyond the attacking terrorists’ fondest hopes. The towers’ height (causing shadows and difficulties on many television sets so people were forced to buy cable to watch what they desired to see) stood out in the skyline offering an easy target.

Those who owned and maintained the buildings should have known of its defects after a previous attack in 1992 and observing how fragile they were as they swayed from side to side in the wind.

But worst of all was telling the public, firemen, police, and those cleaning up in that foul air, that it was safe. (Mayor Guiliani, of course, ran in Republican primaries for the Presidency based primarily on his boast he was “America’s Mayor” because of how well he handled the horror that occurred …and presumably its aftermath.)

There is no statute of limitations for murder so that someone may be accused and prosecuted for as long as he lives.

What are the applicable statues and their limitations for lying to the public and dedicated civil servants so that they courted death from the towers’ toxicity (no special equipment or clothing was offered, just the claim that there was no danger) or constructing, owning, and maintaining buildings whose destruction would cause such harm?

Criminal charges should have been brought against those who owned, built, and maintained such a death trap.

Criminal charge should have been brought against all officials who lured people into the area with false descriptions of safety. People continue to suffer unto death from their inactions and actions. Those guilty deserve to be behind bars.

It must be noted, finally, that corporate and government criminals are coddled in our current Courts. One recent example is displayed by the Mueller investigation with light penalties for those who committed major crimes but “co-operated” (to what end? Certainly no recommendation that all the evidence that they may have helped secure would be used to prosecute anyone else).

Many others can be presented.

But not even one prosecution for the conditions and invitations the caused great losses have ever been even suggested.

At the Memorial Services, names are read and bells tolled. The list of the dead from the attacks grows. Some individuals have received some recompense, not enough.

But no one has ever been held to account for the crimes of 9/11.

REFERENCE: Site this Source

Title: 9/11 CRIMINALS
Author: Jonathan Weiss Esq.
Date: 4/12/19
URL: https://cyberplayground.org/2019/04/11/9-11-criminals-by-jonathan-weiss-esq
Publisher: CyberPlayGround Blog
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AP Stylebook Finally Changes “Web site” to “website” and e email to email !!!!

What the hell ever took them so long to do this and why should they be in charge of anything?