Biden Judge Allows Subpoena of Gun Company Marketing by NJ

Biden Judge Allows NJ Subpoena of Gun Company Ad Marketing to Go Forward

Biden Judge Allows Subpoena of Gun Company Marketing by NJ

Freedomist Editor August 4, 2021

A Biden-Appointed U.S. District Judge, Julien Neals, let’s a NJ AG Subpoena go forward that would have Smith and Wesson have to provide internal documents about the strategy behind marketing their guns as ‘home defense’ tools.

Federal judge dismisses gunmaker’s suit over New Jersey AG’s subpoena

From www.courthousenews.com
2021-08-04 00:38:47

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A federal judge won’t stand in the way of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office’s effort to investigate how gun manufacturer Smith and Wesson marketed its firearms for home defense and personal protection.

Last year, hoping to head off a subpoena sought by the New Jersey AG’s office, Smith and Wesson turned to the federal courts, arguing its constitutional rights were being infringed: The New Jersey AG’s office was hostile to guns and was using the subpoena to get back at the manufacturer, the gun company said.

But in a 10-page ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge Julien Neals, a Joe Biden appointee, declined to get involved. Noting the litigation in state court over “a challenge to the state’s contempt process,” the judge dismissed Smith and Wesson’s federal complaint.

“[There] is nothing that precludes Smith and Wesson from raising their constitutional concerns in the New Jersey state courts, as evidenced by their multiple state court filings before the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division and Supreme Court,” Neals wrote.

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Amazon Tribute to EU in Form of Fine Nears Billion

Amazon Tribute to EU in Form of Fine Nears $1 Billion

Freedomist Editor August 3, 2021

PGC – The battle for supremacy is long from over among the most powerful in our lands, and in our time they come from two primary sources of real power, the halls of the mega international corporations and the halls of the most powerful governments of the world.

The corporate international powerbase is something never before seen in human history, and it offers those seeking controlling power maybe better ways to get there than the state model did, yet their power relies in large part on the willingness of the host countries to protect them from violent action should the people it serves ever come to such a point in thie relationship with it.

We are seeing these Vehicles of Power dance around each other, even as they work together in certain areas, in areas in which they both see competition being eliminated. Even as Amazon, for instance, is getting hit by a fine of nearly $1 billion by the EU, it will still work with the EU to assure no new competition to its model gets to form, or exist long after it forms. In exchange, the EU gets data as well, intelligence.

I don’t need the papers to prove my point, just a simple understanding of the reality of power to deduce the nature of the dance we are seeing going on around the world.

Amazon operates at levels that affects the very security of nation-states now. Imagine what would happen in America, for instance, if Amazon deliveries just suddenly stopped. It would cause quite a stumble in the flow of commerce.

For all one can imagine, this fine thing was built into the Amazon model well in advance and everyone knew well ahead of time the tribute they would offer to continue to co-exist in this uneasy alliance, where both sides are looking for ways to secure their model as being the more signficiant source of real power in a land that submits to its governing authority claims.

Amazon Slapped with Record Fine for Violating EU Data Privacy Rules

From www.insurancejournal.com
2021-08-03 05:20:21

Excerpt:

Amazon.com Inc has been hit with a record $886.6 million (746 million euros) European Union fine for processing personal data in violation of the bloc’s GDPR rules, as privacy regulators take a more aggressive position on enforcement.

The Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) imposed the fine on Amazon in a July 16 decision, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday.

Amazon will appeal the fine, according to a company spokesperson. The e-commerce…

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Major General Killed by Kim Jung Un for Calling Plan “Unrealistic”

Freedomist Editor August 3, 2021

Kim Jung Un’s plan to use emergency military rice surplus to feed the people at a time of crisis was met with skepticism from a North Korean Major General.

When discussing the plan with a collegue, the Major General called the plan “unrealistic” and suggested it could end up in a ‘bloodbath.”

For that, Kim Jung Un had the man killed, performing a sort of mini-bloodbath as if to portend the efficacy of the Major General’s prophetic ‘skills.’

Kim Jong-un executes officer for criticising ‘unrealistic’ order amid new ‘bloodbath’ fear | World | News

From feedproxy.google.com
2021-08-02 20:25:00

Excerpt:

A North Korean major general was court-martialed and shot dead on July 18, according to a report in Daily NK. Daily NK, a South Korean publication covering events on the northern side of the Military Demarcation Line, said they had been informed by a source about the execution.

The unnamed major general, who was previously in charge of the logistics headquarters at Training Camp 815, had said plans to open military stores of rice for public consumption were “unrealistic” and “an order…

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TenCent Gets Broken by Chinese State Media Calling Its Product “Spiritual Opium”

Freedomist Editor August 3, 2021

When the Chinese State wants its corporate extensions to modify their market practices in some significant way, it has a number of ways to go about doing this, but, for the sake of the preservation of the image of the benevolent dictator, the state generally chooses to send those message as gently as possible, in a public way.

Turns out, the best way to communicate to your government extension, which is what these corporations within China really are, is to simply create news shows and broadcast them across the lands and monitor anyone who tries to do the same thing but iwithout state approval.

Can’t have anyone expressing unorthodox views to the public, that’s the state’s job, responsibility, nay, right, and its right alone.

When the State saw that one of its corporate giants was producing a product that was not producing the desred effects of the state, they just create stories that broadcast this new directive in the form of concerns expressed by pretty newscasters in controlled and highly manipulated frames.

The Chinese State Media told Tencent that their games are spiritual opium and electronic drugs and need to be looked into. The company quickly issued a statement committing to the new direction, both of which caused the shares to stumble abraod.

Investors now realize they hold worthless paper should the centralized personality of Chairman Xi decide to declare whatever must be declared through their state-controlled news outliet whatever narrative gets the message across without making the state look like the heavy-handed thug it really is.

It should be noted the context of the word opium being selected, as there were a series of wars, called the Opium Wars, in the mid 1800s fought against the British by the Chinese, who were fighting the Brits’ efforts to open up China markets to grow and sell opium, to sell domestically as well as imports. Chairman Xi chose his words very well.

Tencent shares slump after online games branded ‘spiritual opium’ and ‘electronic drugs’ by Chinese state media | Science & Tech News

From news.sky.com
2021-08-03 03:55:00

Excerpt:

Shares in China’s biggest online gaming companies slumped after state media branded their products “spiritual opium” and compared them to “electronic drugs”.

The criticism – as reported by Reuters news agency – has stoked concerns that the online gaming sector will be the next to receive unwanted attention from Beijing’s regulators, following a crackdown on tech giants in the country.

Tencent’s stock tumbled by more than 10% in morning…

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Nonisdparagement Clause Undoing Might Split Facebook Open Wide

Freedomist Editor August 3, 2021

Facebook has relied on its non disparagement clause in employee contracts to protect it from having the messy reality of managing the thoughts, feelings, and desires of hundreds of millions of humans through their digital, server-based platform.

Now, employees are beginning to challenge the constitutionality of the clause, and legislatures are considering action to make it illegal.

Facebook demands silence from people who know its operations best

From www.washingtonpost.com
2021-08-03 06:00:38

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California may be moving to change some of Silicon Valley’s reliance on nondisparagement agreements. In mid-August, the legislature is scheduled to vote on the Silenced No More Act, which includes protection from nondisparagement agreements in the case of workplace discrimination…..

Unfortunately, most of the people who know the most about the company’s inner workings have only been willing to speak to the press anonymously, for fear of retaliation or breach of nondisparagement agreements that are widely used in the tech world.

I worked at Facebook for about six months in 2018, hired as global head of elections integrity ops for political ads as the company attempted to dig out from its last big public relations crisis — the scandal around Cambridge Analytica’s improper use of the site’s data and Russia’s use of the platform to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. But they stripped my title and changed my job description on my second day there. I was later sidelined for questioning why we were not fact-checking political ads and for trying to help ensure that we were not allowing voter suppression to occur through these ads. After I asked to move to a different part of the company where I would be empowered to do the job I was hired to do, I was fired.

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NLRB Orders New Union Vote For Amazon

Freedomist Editor August 3, 2021

Amazon might yet have to come to terms with unions within its ranks, if the NLRB has their way.

NLRB decision recommends new union election at Amazon warehouse in Alabama

From www.washingtonpost.com
2021-08-02 20:39:16
Jay Greene
Excerpt:

The recommendation will now move to the NLRB’s regional director in Atlanta, which oversaw the election, to issue a ruling. That decision could take several weeks, the agency has said. If the regional director upholds the recommendations, the earlier election results would be set aside and a new election would be called.

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China Meets Worker Resistance from African Miners

Freedomist Editor August 3, 2021

PGC – China might end up suffering to some degree the fate of early 20th century Germany, a Johnnie-come-lately to a particular brand of colonization that left the nation-state unable to effectively build its own colonial Empire like England, France, and Spain had done.

In may ways, this latest iteration of what might be called colonialization was created by the United States, or at least perfected by it, and other nation-states followed suit, building commercial empires that had the same net effect of having an Empire without nearly the cost of actually sustaining one on the ground.

Since that time, however, nation-states around the world have all gotten a lot more sophisticated at recognizing these tactics of exploitation that leave the poorer nation-states getting less from their resources than the ones who extract them would get.

In Africa, the mineworkers are now ready to challenge their new potential colonial overlords, China, who have been working them too hard with too little pay and benefits, and China, we don’t live in 2006 anymore, ain’t nobody got time for that no more.

So China might very well be arriving too late, like Germany in the late 1800s, early 1900s. It never came close to building a colonial empire using the old model of Western Europe.

It might very well be that China will never be able to build her American-like Empire of Commerce, soft power, because the locals around the world know what that is before it even arrives, and not many are in the mood to surrender their sovereignty to distant corpo-state agents thousands of miles away.

Pressure grows between African mineworkers and their Chinese bosses

From www.scmp.com
2021-08-03 06:19:32
Jevans Nyabiage
Excerpt:

A global rush for cobalt – an essential component in the lithium-ion batteries which power smartphones, laptops and electric cars – has seen a growing number of Chinese companies enter the southern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), holder of the world’s largest reserves of the metal.The Central African nation has an estimated 3.4 million tonnes of cobalt, almost half the world’s known supply. But in a country where the World Bank estimates three-quarters of the population live on…

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Belarusan Opposition Leader Found Hung to Death

Freedomist Editor August 3, 2021

Vitaly Shishov led a group of Belarusans who were attempting to get people out of his country who were being persecuted by the current regime. He went for a jog a couple of days ago and never returned. They found him hanged, dead, assassinated, allegedly, by his own government.

This comes after the state was accused by a Belarusan sprinter of attempting to kidnap her from the Tokyo Olympics.

From cbsnews.com

“There is no doubt that this was a planned operation by security operatives to liquidate a Belarusian, dangerous for the regime. We will continue to fight for the truth about Vitaly’s death,” Belarusian House asserted, according to AP.

Murder investigation launched after Belarus activist found dead in Ukraine

From www.cbsnews.com
2021-08-03 06:06:12

Excerpt:

The leader of a group that helps people flee persecution in Belarus was found dead in a park near his home in Ukraine early Tuesday, prompting police to launch a murder investigation.

The body of Vitaly Shishov, who led the group Belarusian House, was discovered hanged in a park, police said in a statement, according to The Associated Press. He went for a jog the day before and didn’t return, Belarusian House said.

“There is no doubt that this was a planned operation by security…

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Infrastructure Bill, IRS Team Up to Offer Chilling Effect to Crypto in America

Freedomist Editor August 3, 2021

Over the weekend, the Internal Revenue service made a change to its definition of “broker” that creates a much broader potential for someone to be defined as a broker than before. This is significant given the language in the DNC infrastructure bill that hopes to regulate cryptocurrency regulators. With the broadening of the term broker by the IRS, the bill, in its current form, would give the IRS significant regulatory authority in how the Federal government handles cryptocurrency.

How language in the infrastructure bill could roil the crypto markets

From www.cnbc.com
2021-08-03 05:38:57

Excerpt:

The cryptocurrency industry is lobbying hard this week against language in the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill proposal that could choke a vast amount of the crypto ecosystem.

Language in the bill would require crypto brokers to report customer information to the Internal Revenue Service. More importantly, over the weekend it broadened the definition of what’s considered a “broker” to anyone “responsible for regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets on behalf of another person” which doesn’t exclude miners, software developers, stakers and other individuals in the crypto economy who don’t have customers.

“The language gives a lot of power to define what should be included in the reporting requirement,” Oppenheimer analyst Owen Lau. “It says any person who is responsible for regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets on behalf of another person – which can mean anything. If I transfer bitcoin for you, then it can mean I become a broker.

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German Warship Joins Coalition Against China in South China Sea

Freedomist Editor August 3, 2021

PGC – The geopolitically critical span of the planet called the South China Sea has warships headed to it from around the world, and now Germany has thrown in with Team USA, sending a warship to the South China Sea for the first time in over two decades.

German warship heads for South China Sea for first time in two decades amid tension with Beijing

From rss.cnn.com
2021-08-02 22:26:01

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Germany on Monday sent a warship to the South China Sea for the first time in almost two decades, joining other Western nations in expanding its military presence in the region amid growing alarm over China’s territorial ambitions.

China claims swathes of the South China Sea and has established military outposts on artificial islands in the waters that contain gas fields and rich fishing.

The US Navy, in a show of force against the Chinese territorial claims, regularly conducts so-called “freedom of navigation” operations in which their vessels pass close by some of the contested islands. China in turn objects to the US missions, saying they do not help promote peace or stability.

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