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Showing posts with label Law. Show all posts
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Monday, September 25, 2023

The Nuremberg Code | Dr. John Campbell

Monday, August 28, 2023

Pfizer Documents Show COVID-19 Vaccines Contain Potentially Harmful ‘Modified’ RNA, not mRNA by Megan Redshaw Megan Redshaw, J.D. | The Epoch Times

 Pfizer, on its website, confirms its COVID-19 vaccine contains modRNA: “ModRNA stands for nucleoside-modified messenger RNA and in the synthesis of the RNA used in this vaccine platform, some nucleosides, which are important biological molecules that constitute DNA and RNA, are replaced by modified nucleosides to help enhance immune evasion and protein production.”

Yet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states on its website (pdf) that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are “made of mRNA,” or “messenger RNA.” David Wiseman, a research bioscientist with a doctorate in experimental pathology and a background in pharmacy, pharmacology, and immunology told The Epoch Times in an email the FDA uses the term “modRNA” throughout its regulatory documents.

Sunday, August 27, 2023

"I Just Want To Sell Titty Pictures": Sex Workers F**ked By Crypto | Zero Hedge

Sex workers are now being banned from crypto exchanges. "You get on an exchange for as long as you can, until they shut your ass down," said Knox. "You quickly [run out of exchanges], so you sit on a lot of useless money. The whole ‘crypto is permissionless and censorship-resistant’ thing is a bunch of bullshit." 

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After her OnlyFans account was discovered by her employer, she was fired. She also found that realtors shunned her, lenders refused to extend a mortgage and accountants ghosted her. Rae eventually established a corporation to run her business through, however no major bank would open a business account.

Thursday, June 30, 2022

The Overturning of Roe v. Wade SOURCE: The National Law Review

"Any organization whose operations touch family planning services in any way (e.g., providers, those that facilitate provider activities, investors, payors, employers that provide family planning benefits and health plan service providers) should immediately examine their precise services, geographic footprint, corporate structure and organizational priorities"

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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Reparations Get Real by Ramenda Cyrus SOURCE: The American Prospect

 People line up to speak during a Reparations Task Force meeting at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco, April 13, 2022.

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Sunday, April 17, 2022

A Federal Jury Delivers a Rebuke of FBI Entrapment by Jacob Sullum SOURCE: reason.com

"We have a saying in my office," Special Agent Henrik Impola told a confidential informant after the kidnapping suspects were arrested. "Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story."

Monday, March 28, 2022

Review of The Lysander Spooner Reader from Goodreads

 

The Lysander Spooner ReaderThe Lysander Spooner Reader by Lysander Spooner
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The first few essays may be too anarchic for most people, but no one should miss "Trial by Jury," though some readers may mistake it for another kind of anarchism. Therein he makes the case that a jury must have the right to judge laws as much as the facts of a case. He traces this tradition to the Magna Carta and even earlier to Saxon times before William the Conqueror. And considering that the people's representatives, the senate, the executive, and judges do have such a right he asserts that "there is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, then there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals." He cites the legal historian Crabbe as pointing out that juries were in fact called judges in the 12th century. And also another historian, Millar, "jurymen were, in reality, judges." The English monarchs and government were never very happy about this common law power of juries but nonetheless were forced to reaffirm the oath taken by King John in the Magna Carta about 30 times over the centuries, depending on the count. It seems the historical roots of the power of juries, the "palladium of liberty" was chipped away partly because the older laws were written in French or Latin, making it hard for ordinary people to cite them in defense of the power of juries. Quoting Mackintosh, "the first Act of the House of Commons composed and recorded in the English tongue" was only in 1415.
Spooner establishes the power that juries had in Anglo-Saxon times and later after the Magna Carta, writing that "the jury were to judge of everything involved in the trial; that is, they were to judge of the nature of the offence, of the admissibility and weight of testimony, and of everything else whatsoever that was of the essence of the trial. If anything whatever could be dictated to them, either of law or evidence, the sentence would not be theirs, but would be dictated to them by the power that dictated to them the law or evidence. The trial and sentence, then, were wholly in the hands of the jury." In the historical documents, jurors were referred to as peers (of the same neighborhood as the accused), twelve free and legal men, or twelve knights and in many other ways besides.

Besides relying on tradition, Spooner also points out that 12 jurors chosen by lot (not carefully screened as they are today) are much less all likely to be corruptible than is one bad judge. As if we needed evidence, he does give lots of depressing, yet amusing, examples of corrupt judges, many of which come from Hume's History of England, Appendix 2.

Perhaps surprisingly, Spooner points out that jury trials were also recognized on the continent in "Gothic" nations, Germany, as well as Scotland. Spooner's view of a proper court is as a non-technical "court of conscience" which would not require elaborate studies on the part of juries to perform their duties. Such courts would rely on natural law to render justice, which is in fact the title of the first essay in the Spooner Reader. Nowadays the idea of jurors judging the law seems outlandish to most Americans as well as others, but there is a movement afoot to return this power to American juries which is known as jury nullification. The logic of giving juries all the power of assessing a case is simply put thus by Spooner: "How is it possible that juries can do anything to protect the liberties of the people against the government; if they are not allowed to determine what those liberties are"? That is, they must be able to pass judgement on laws themselves.



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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Sanctions on Russia Violate the Constitution by Andrew P. Napolitano SOURCE: Anti War

"These laws turn the Fourth and Fifth Amendments on their heads by punishing first and engaging in a perverse variant of due process later.

How perverse? If the feds seize assets or interfere with contracts involving foreign ownership or interests, and the victims want justice, the persons or entities whose assets have been seized or whose contractual rights have been diminished must consent to the jurisdiction of American courts and prove that they are NOT human rights violators."

Sunday, January 2, 2022

The Deep State and Its Tentacles by Judge Andrew Napolitano

When Gen. David Petraeus was the director of the CIA, he admitted in a talk he thought was secret, but which was secretly recorded, that the CIA has access to all microchips in your home.

Thus, if you own a microwave oven, the CIA is quite literally in your kitchen. If you use a cellphone or drive a car, the CIA quite literally goes wherever you do.


 

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Jury Nullification vs. The Drug War: NJ Weedman on His Unlikely Marijuana Acquittal--FROM Reason TV

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Nullification Works: Republicans Look to Legalize Marijuana as States Ignore Federal Drug War by Ryan McMaken FROM Mises Wire

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo Was Reportedly Obsessed With Killing Assange BY Kevin Gosztola FROM The Dissenter

 

  • The CIA spied on the Ecuador embassy, collected legally-privileged conversations among attorneys, and broke into the personal devices of guests visiting Assange.
  • The FBI worked with an informant named Siggi Thordarson, a serial liar and sociopath who embezzled funds from the WikiLeaks store and sexually preyed on underage boys.
  • The FBI seized Assange’s personal archive, confidential medical data, and legally privileged materials from the embassy following his arrest.

Sunday, July 18, 2021

The lockdown addicts by Fraser Myers FROM Spiked

Monday, June 28, 2021

America’s Mass Migration Intensifies As ‘Leftugees’ Flee Blue States And Counties For Red by Chris Dorsey FROM Forbes

Friday, April 16, 2021

Derek Chauvin Defense Witness Is Being Sued in Another State for Allegedly Covering Up Black Teen’s Death in Police Custody by Colin Kalmbacher FROM Law and Crime

"Dr. David Fowler is Maryland’s former chief medical examiner. During his tenure there, he ruled that the 2018 killing of Anton Black by members of various local police departments was an accident. Body camera footage showed the 19-year-old struggling as he was pinned with his face, chest and stomach to ground–in effectively the same prone position that George Floyd was in while he died two years later–for over six minutes by Ridgley Police Chief Gary Manos. The lawsuit explicitly accuses Fowler of taking part in a cover up."

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Defense expert says Floyd died from heart disease FROM Reuters

"The defense team brought in their own medical expert, who testified at trial today that George Floyd's heart disease and drugs led to his death, not Chauvin's knee on his neck."

 

 

Monday, March 29, 2021

CNN's Defense of Chris Cuomo's Special COVID Privileges is Grotesque by Glenn Greenwald FROM substack

Sunday, March 14, 2021

World Prison Population FROM BBC

"Prison rates in the US are the world's highest, at 724 people per 100,000. In Russia the rate is 581."

Monday, March 1, 2021

Corporate Lawyers Line Up for Justice Department Top Slots FROM The American Prospect

"Gorelick’s record does not stop with Big Tech. . . . She defended BP after the Gulf oil spill, getting the company off the hook for the economic distress brought to the region and dodging demands that the company help pay to restore the Gulf of Mexico, an agreement so favorable to the company that it surprised onlookers."

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Feds Have No Constitutional Authority to Impose Wage Controls By: Mike Maharrey FROM The Tenth Amendment Center

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