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November 16, 2022
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/why-did-mail-in-ballots-in-georgia-plunge-by-one-million/
Absentee ballots plunged from a total of 1.28 million in November 2020 to a little over 240,000 in last week’s general election in Georgia. Given that mail-in ballots in Georgia favor Democrats two-to-one, it is reasonable to conclude this breathtaking 81% drop of over one million mail-in votes likely cost Sen. Raphael Warnock an outright victory. Georgia law requires a candidate to win by 50% of the vote plus one.
Though incumbent Warnock led his Republican challenger Herschel Walker by 35,202 votes, that still places him 23,000 votes short of the 50% threshold. As a result, Warnock is now forced into a run-off with Walker. Despite its massive size, the one-million vote decline was fogged over by press releases by Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, who announced, “Georgia’s record breaking early turnout concluded with 2,288,889 voters casting their ballot during Early Voting.”
How could the media have missed the one-million vote elephant that disappeared from the room? Without reading the fine print — early voting reports commonly include absentee ballots received — this supposed jump in early voting was quoted without qualification. This chimerical leap in voting was touted by Gov. Brian Kemp as a response to accusations by voting rights attorneys, including Gerald Griggs of the NAACP, that the 98 pages of restrictions to voting incorporated in Georgia’s new voting law, Senate Bill 202, suppressed minority voting.
In his victory speech, Kemp said, “Senate Bill 202, Georgia’s Election Integrity Act — you remember, they called it ‘Jim Crow 2.0,’ and ‘Jim Crow with a suit and tie’— according to the media, President Biden and their far left allies. If you support photo ID on absentee ballots, you’re a racist,” a charge put to rest by the alleged leap in voting. Key provisions of SB202 included substantial new restrictions on casting mail-in ballots, a voting method now favored by minority — read, Democratic — voters. It was crafted by the GOP-controlled legislature and signed by Kemp last year just after the Democrats swept the state with victories by President Joe Biden and Senate candidates Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
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Why Did Mail-in Ballots in Georgia Plunge by One Million?
GOP voting laws are behind the forced run-off in the Peachtree State Senate race.https://www.truthdig.com/articles/why-did-mail-in-ballots-in-georgia-plunge-by-one-million/
Absentee ballots plunged from a total of 1.28 million in November 2020 to a little over 240,000 in last week’s general election in Georgia. Given that mail-in ballots in Georgia favor Democrats two-to-one, it is reasonable to conclude this breathtaking 81% drop of over one million mail-in votes likely cost Sen. Raphael Warnock an outright victory. Georgia law requires a candidate to win by 50% of the vote plus one.
Though incumbent Warnock led his Republican challenger Herschel Walker by 35,202 votes, that still places him 23,000 votes short of the 50% threshold. As a result, Warnock is now forced into a run-off with Walker. Despite its massive size, the one-million vote decline was fogged over by press releases by Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, who announced, “Georgia’s record breaking early turnout concluded with 2,288,889 voters casting their ballot during Early Voting.”
How could the media have missed the one-million vote elephant that disappeared from the room? Without reading the fine print — early voting reports commonly include absentee ballots received — this supposed jump in early voting was quoted without qualification. This chimerical leap in voting was touted by Gov. Brian Kemp as a response to accusations by voting rights attorneys, including Gerald Griggs of the NAACP, that the 98 pages of restrictions to voting incorporated in Georgia’s new voting law, Senate Bill 202, suppressed minority voting.
In his victory speech, Kemp said, “Senate Bill 202, Georgia’s Election Integrity Act — you remember, they called it ‘Jim Crow 2.0,’ and ‘Jim Crow with a suit and tie’— according to the media, President Biden and their far left allies. If you support photo ID on absentee ballots, you’re a racist,” a charge put to rest by the alleged leap in voting. Key provisions of SB202 included substantial new restrictions on casting mail-in ballots, a voting method now favored by minority — read, Democratic — voters. It was crafted by the GOP-controlled legislature and signed by Kemp last year just after the Democrats swept the state with victories by President Joe Biden and Senate candidates Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
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November 15, 2022
Chip shops and Big Brother might seem like unexpected references to find on an interiors moodboard – but not for Alex Holloway. The co-founder of Holloway Li, a London-based design consultancy, drew upon high-street and pop-culture visuals when designing his home in Highbury. The apartment, which he shares with his partner, Elle Parmar Jenkins, the furniture dealer behind Goods In, is a testbed for some of his most experimental ideas, which include having a bathtub in the living room…
An Architect's Radical Rethink Of A London Flat
Chip shops and Big Brother might seem like unexpected references to find on an interiors moodboard – but not for Alex Holloway. The co-founder of Holloway Li, a London-based design consultancy, drew upon high-street and pop-culture visuals when designing his home in Highbury. The apartment, which he shares with his partner, Elle Parmar Jenkins, the furniture dealer behind Goods In, is a testbed for some of his most experimental ideas, which include having a bathtub in the living room…
November 15, 2022
https://twitter.com/MarioDParker/status/1592625783381565443
Plane currently flying above Mar-a-Lago, trolling the former president and invoking DeSantis, as he
prepares to announce a third White House bidhttps://twitter.com/MarioDParker/status/1592625783381565443
November 15, 2022
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
Label: Island Records – 12WIP 6696
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Disco
Pull up to the Bumper
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
Label: Island Records – 12WIP 6696
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Disco
November 14, 2022
FTX's terms of service clearly mention the exchange cannot use customers' assets
Bankman-Fried "embezzled the customer funds, which is a criminal matter" — crypto lawyer Irina Heaver
FTX filed for bankruptcy Friday, sending shockwaves across the industry
https://www.ibtimes.com/sbf-may-criminally-liable-embezzling-customer-funds-says-crypto-laywer-3635585
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of crypto exchange FTX, whose collapse has shaken up the industry and brought renewed scrutiny on its unregulated run, is probably criminally liable for allegedly embezzling customers' funds, an analyst said. "[Bankman-Fried] literally embezzled the customer funds, which is a criminal matter," Irina Heaver, Switzerland-based cryptocurrency and blockchain lawyer who is a partner at law firm Keystone Law Middle East, told International Business Times.
A reading of FTX's "terms of service" shows that customer funds are not the property of FTX. "None of the digital assets in your account are the property of, or shall or may be loaned to, FTX Trading; FTX Trading does not represent or treat digital assets in user's accounts as belonging to FTX Trading," the terms state.
However, this did not stop the exchange from "lending" more than half of its customer funds to sister firm Alameda. Billions of dollars worth of user assets were used to fund risky bets, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing a source close to the matter. Heaver said, "Breach of terms and conditions is a contractual matter and does not carry criminal consequences." But she added: "How would one get the funds? The funds are gone."
Authorities in the Bahamas, where SBF is reportedly now, said Sunday that government investigators are scrutinizing FTX's collapse and also looking at whether any "criminal misconduct occurred." IBT has emailed FTX seeking its comments on the violation of the ToS, and this article will be updated when a comment is received.
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Sam Bankman-Fried May Be Criminally Liable For 'Embezzling' Customer Funds, Says Crypto Lawyer
KEY POINTSFTX's terms of service clearly mention the exchange cannot use customers' assets
Bankman-Fried "embezzled the customer funds, which is a criminal matter" — crypto lawyer Irina Heaver
FTX filed for bankruptcy Friday, sending shockwaves across the industry
https://www.ibtimes.com/sbf-may-criminally-liable-embezzling-customer-funds-says-crypto-laywer-3635585
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of crypto exchange FTX, whose collapse has shaken up the industry and brought renewed scrutiny on its unregulated run, is probably criminally liable for allegedly embezzling customers' funds, an analyst said. "[Bankman-Fried] literally embezzled the customer funds, which is a criminal matter," Irina Heaver, Switzerland-based cryptocurrency and blockchain lawyer who is a partner at law firm Keystone Law Middle East, told International Business Times.
A reading of FTX's "terms of service" shows that customer funds are not the property of FTX. "None of the digital assets in your account are the property of, or shall or may be loaned to, FTX Trading; FTX Trading does not represent or treat digital assets in user's accounts as belonging to FTX Trading," the terms state.
However, this did not stop the exchange from "lending" more than half of its customer funds to sister firm Alameda. Billions of dollars worth of user assets were used to fund risky bets, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing a source close to the matter. Heaver said, "Breach of terms and conditions is a contractual matter and does not carry criminal consequences." But she added: "How would one get the funds? The funds are gone."
Authorities in the Bahamas, where SBF is reportedly now, said Sunday that government investigators are scrutinizing FTX's collapse and also looking at whether any "criminal misconduct occurred." IBT has emailed FTX seeking its comments on the violation of the ToS, and this article will be updated when a comment is received.
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November 14, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-misinformation-group-americas-frontline-doctors-implodes-over-dr-simone-golds-extravagant-spending
When employees at leading COVID pseudoscience group America’s Frontline Doctors tried to log in to work last week, they found themselves locked out of their email accounts. The nonprofit quickly fell into factions, with employees holding rival Zoom meetings to plot who would take over the group. The organization’s exiled founder, Dr. Simone Gold, tried unsuccessfully to gain access to a private Zoom call, only to find herself stuck in a waiting room. In internal emails, the group’s accountant worried about who could still access the $7 million locked in its bank accounts.
The war for the right’s most prominent COVID quack group—and the millions of dollars it has raised through relentless fundraising and prescriptions for bogus coronavirus cures—had begun. For months, AFLDS has been split between its board and Gold, the group’s charismatic founder and convicted Capitol rioter, over an internal audit into Gold’s personal spending. That dispute spilled into the open on Nov. 5, when the board sued Gold to try and force her to stop representing the organization, in a lawsuit first reported by Vice News. Now the lawsuit’s outcome could determine the fate of the group driving much of the medical disinformation on the pro-Trump right.
AFLDS is tearing itself apart in a fight over what Gold’s rivals describe as her extravagant spending using the group’s funds. The alleged purchases include $100,000 on a single private jet trip and $50,000 a month in Gold’s personal expenses. Much of the controversy has centered on AFLDS’s purchase of a $3.6 million mansion in Naples, Florida., where Gold lives with her boyfriend: a much younger underwear model and fellow Capitol rioter. Gold isn’t backing down, penning threatening emails to board members and describing herself, alternately, as a “popular folk hero,” a “rainmaker,” and an avenging “lioness.”
“It’s really a mess, and I’m really sorry that it’s come to this,” said Richard Mack, an AFLDS board member and far-right former Arizona sheriff. As AFLDS’s leadership squabbles, the group’s rank-and-file employees are struggling to fulfill the organization’s basic functions, like connecting their supporters with prescriptions for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. In the end, AFLDS staffers are able to do just one thing, according to a signed affidavit filed in court recently: cancel their fans’ donations. “None of us really know what’s going on, and pretty much we’ve all lost the ability to do our jobs,” said Amanda Kaiser-Johnston, an AFLDS employee who was locked out of her email account amid the feud and has been accused by her coworkers of being a “spy” for one faction.
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COVID-Denying Medical Group Implodes Over Founder's Extravagant Spending
Dr. Simone Gold is one of America’s foremost purveyors of bogus COVID cures. She’s used the money on a mansion, private jet trips, and her underwear-model boyfriend.https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-misinformation-group-americas-frontline-doctors-implodes-over-dr-simone-golds-extravagant-spending
When employees at leading COVID pseudoscience group America’s Frontline Doctors tried to log in to work last week, they found themselves locked out of their email accounts. The nonprofit quickly fell into factions, with employees holding rival Zoom meetings to plot who would take over the group. The organization’s exiled founder, Dr. Simone Gold, tried unsuccessfully to gain access to a private Zoom call, only to find herself stuck in a waiting room. In internal emails, the group’s accountant worried about who could still access the $7 million locked in its bank accounts.
The war for the right’s most prominent COVID quack group—and the millions of dollars it has raised through relentless fundraising and prescriptions for bogus coronavirus cures—had begun. For months, AFLDS has been split between its board and Gold, the group’s charismatic founder and convicted Capitol rioter, over an internal audit into Gold’s personal spending. That dispute spilled into the open on Nov. 5, when the board sued Gold to try and force her to stop representing the organization, in a lawsuit first reported by Vice News. Now the lawsuit’s outcome could determine the fate of the group driving much of the medical disinformation on the pro-Trump right.
AFLDS is tearing itself apart in a fight over what Gold’s rivals describe as her extravagant spending using the group’s funds. The alleged purchases include $100,000 on a single private jet trip and $50,000 a month in Gold’s personal expenses. Much of the controversy has centered on AFLDS’s purchase of a $3.6 million mansion in Naples, Florida., where Gold lives with her boyfriend: a much younger underwear model and fellow Capitol rioter. Gold isn’t backing down, penning threatening emails to board members and describing herself, alternately, as a “popular folk hero,” a “rainmaker,” and an avenging “lioness.”
“It’s really a mess, and I’m really sorry that it’s come to this,” said Richard Mack, an AFLDS board member and far-right former Arizona sheriff. As AFLDS’s leadership squabbles, the group’s rank-and-file employees are struggling to fulfill the organization’s basic functions, like connecting their supporters with prescriptions for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. In the end, AFLDS staffers are able to do just one thing, according to a signed affidavit filed in court recently: cancel their fans’ donations. “None of us really know what’s going on, and pretty much we’ve all lost the ability to do our jobs,” said Amanda Kaiser-Johnston, an AFLDS employee who was locked out of her email account amid the feud and has been accused by her coworkers of being a “spy” for one faction.
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November 14, 2022
Trumpy having an absolute belter of a tantrum on TS, including more race baiting of McTurtle's wife
Even the Free Republic bellends are really turning on him, btw
a sample:
November 14, 2022
Nokia N9 In 2021 | The MeeGo Phone
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Nokia N9 In 2021 | The MeeGo Phone
November 14, 2022
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November 14, 2022
Maxwell Frost is incredibly mature and a dynamic speaker.
He will be a political force for at least the next half century plus, hopefully.
He is also around 3 months younger than me (he made Gen Z by 17 days, born January 17, 1997) so is a personal trivia answer (who was the first member of the US Congress born after Celerity).
A Rethug MAGAt who was around 7 months younger than Frost (Karoline Leavitt, born 24 August 1997) ran for NH-1 versus Chris Pappas, but lost the general.
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