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Suing a Mom for Wanting Information Might Be Illegal for Unions to Do

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

The move by the Teachers’ Union to sue a Rhode island Mom for trying to get information about what the school is teaching her kids might in fact be illegal if Legal Insurrection is correct in citing a Rhode Island Supreme Court Ruling that suggests it might be.

The Mom in question has been making an inordinate number of FOIA requests of this local government, so the issue for the local government might not specifically be with her requesting information as it is the proliferation of what she wants, and whether some data is within FOIA parameters or not.

However, once a Union of government employees steps into the fray and seeks to stop a citizen from getting information by suing them, now the legal questions begin to form.

Unions May Have Major Legal Problem In Lawsuit Against RI Mom Nicole Solas Over

From legalinsurrection.com
2021-08-09 17:25:20a
William A. Jacobson
Excerpt:

There is a Rhode Island Supreme Court case that is going to have to be addressed, and which seems to sink the unions’ lawsuit. Ilana Cutler, Esq., Legal Insurrection Foundation Investigations Counsel, found the case, and it appears to be good law. And let’s just say I was shocked to find a case seemingly so on point and not addressed in the unions’ papers that it could present a major problem for the lawsuit.

The case is a 2004 Rhode Island Supreme Court case, In re New England Gas Co., 842 A.2d 545, 551–52 (R.I. 2004), in which the court found no right of a non-party to the public records process (in the position of the unions here) to seek to prevent disclosure of allegedly non-public information. That case even relied upon prior precident involving a different union’s attempt to intervene.

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UN Becomes Platform for US-China South China Sea Barbs

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

US, China Trade Barbs At UN Over South China Sea

From www.ndtv.com
2021-08-09 11:42:57

Excerpt:

China’s deputy U.N. Ambassador Dai Bing accused the United States of “stirring up trouble out nothing, arbitrarily sending advanced military vessels and aircraft into the South China Sea as provocations and publicly trying to drive a wedge into regional countries.”

“This country itself has become the biggest threat to peace and stability in the South China Sea,” Dai said.

Blinken said it was the responsibility of all countries, not just claimants to the islands and waters of the South China Sea, to defend the rules they had all agreed to follow to peacefully resolve maritime disputes

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Recall Election More Challenging for Newsome Than Expected

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom faces greater-than-expected threat in upcoming recall election

From www.cnbc.com
2021-08-09 15:31:00

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Gov. Gavin Newsom, July 14, 2021 in Bell Gardens, CA.

Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images

California Gov. Gavin Newsom may face more of an uphill battle in the upcoming recall election than initially expected.

Counties will send ballots to every registered voter in mid-August, giving the Democratic governor a month to boost turn out for the Sept. 14 special election.

The odds may seem to be in Newsom’s favor, especially as registered Democrats far outnumber Republicans in the…

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YouTube Concedes Power to Local US Governments When Streaming

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

After complaints, YouTube backtracks on misinformation policy; County sticks

From www.blueridgenow.com
2021-08-09 16:53:46

Excerpt:

YouTube is re-examining its medical misinformation policies as they pertain to local governments after taking down at least a dozen uploads of meetings, mostly for claims made during public comment periods that are not backed by facts

The streaming platform told the Washington Post Friday,…

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Everyone Still Loves Cuomo, Andrew, That Is

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

Despite Sexual Harassment Report, Cuomo Still Most Popular Democratic Gov.

From dailycaller.com
2021-08-09 15:26:46
Michael Ginsberg
Excerpt:

Despite a report detailing numerous sexual harassment allegations against him, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is still state Democratic voters’ top choice in a primary.

Slingshot Strategies, a left-wing data analysis firm, found that 26% of likely Democratic primary voters would support Cuomo if…

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Taliban Offensive Claims 5 Afghan Provincial Capitols

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

Taliban press on, take 2 more Afghan provincial capitals

From abcnews.go.com
2021-08-09 13:51:16

Excerpt:

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban took control of two more provincial capitals in Afghanistan on Monday, officials said. Their fall marked the latest development in a weekslong, relentless Taliban offensive as American and NATO forces finalize their pullout from the war-torn country.

The militants have ramped up their push across much of Afghanistan, turning their guns on provincial capitals after taking large swaths of land in the mostly rural countryside. On Monday they controlled five of…

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Afghan War Contractors Dubai-Bound

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

Contractors who powered US war in Afghanistan stuck in Dubai

From www.washingtontimes.com
2021-08-09 16:28:14
Isabel Debre
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Some of the foreign contractors who powered the logistics of America’s “forever war” in Afghanistan now find themselves stranded on an unending layover in Dubai without a way to get home.

After nearly two decades, the rapid U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has upended the lives of thousands of private security contractors from some of the world’s poorest countries – not the hired guns but the hired hands who serviced the American war effort. For years, they toiled in the shadows as cleaners, cooks, construction workers, servers and technicians on sprawling American base

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German Parliament Reacts Violently to Afghan Intervention Debate

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

Uproar after German parliament committee head suggests preparing for INTERVENTION in Afghanistan…again — RT World News

From www.rt.com
2021-08-09 16:58:14
RT
Excerpt:

Germany should make its military forces “available” for another operation in Afghanistan to stop the Taliban from conquering it, the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee head said. His fellow MPs did not share the sentiment.

US President Joe Biden should stop America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Norbert Roettgen, the head of the German parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, told the German FAZ newspaper on Sunday. Roettgen said he was concerned about the…

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Oregon Graduates Need not Know How to Read, Write, or Do Math

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

Oregon Gov. Brown refuses to talk about bill she signed in secret allowing students to graduate without being able to read or do math

From www.theblaze.com
2021-08-09 14:49:28
Chris Field
Excerpt:

Kate Brown, the far-left Democratic governor of Oregon, quietly signed a bill into law last month that will allow high schoolers to graduate without proving they can read, write, or do math — and told no one about it.

And now, when pressed on it just days ago, she still won’t talk about the law….

….The Beaver State’s Democrat-dominated legislature passed a bill in mid-June, SB 744, dropping requirements that would-be graduates demonstrate they have achieved essential high school-level reading, writing, and math skills for the next five years, the paper said. The move was an extension of the suspension of skills requirements that had been enacted last year in response to the pandemic.

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Biden Nuclear Policy Might Become More Declaratory

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

Believe It or Not: U.S. Nuclear Declaratory Policy and Calculated Ambiguity

From warontherocks.com
2021-08-09 03:55:12
Matthew Costlow
Excerpt:

America’s current policy of “calculated ambiguity” is worth keeping because it contributes to deterring a growing range of strategic non-nuclear threats (chemical, biological, and conventional), provides U.S. leadership freedom of action in a crisis or conflict, and assures allies and partners. However, influential politicians such as House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, plus a host of non-government analysts, are proposing changes to U.S. nuclear declaratory policy now because the Biden administration is in the early stages of formulating U.S. nuclear policy. As nuclear modernization programs advance through Congress, the likelihood of restricting or outright eliminating them falls.

They hope that if the Biden administration adopts new declaratory policy, that may provide enough impetus to achieve their visions of a reduced U.S. nuclear arsenal. These alternative policies — including nuclear “no first use,” “sole purpose,” and an “existential threat policy” — miss the mark because they seek to restrict U.S. deterrence options through declarations that opponents are unlikely to believe, and allies and partners believe are to their detriment. Instead, U.S. officials should articulate a strong defense of the current nuclear declaratory policy of calculated ambiguity because its flexibility is its strength, and a true necessity in a dynamic security environment.

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