Usa Thread

[cavanami]

Bubi,

You need to look at Germany and racism...you can get Merkel pregnant and see how that goes 5555555555555

Germany

What's life really like for black people in Germany?

Blacks are Germany's most visible minority. But how they experience racism and discrimination remains largely unknown. The Afrozensus, or "Afro Census," wants to change that by asking about their experiences.

Lack of data hampers anti-discrimination efforts 

Racial discrimination has been rising in Germany. The absolute numbers of reported racist incidents have increased, and they are growing faster than other forms of discrimination, according to the country's Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency. There were nearly 20% more racist attacks in 2018 than in 2017, based on official crime statistics. However, the data that would allow the anti-discrimination agency to see just how racism affects specific groups of people is missing. Germany doesn't collect information on race and ethnicity.

https://www.dw.com/en/whats-life-really-like-for-black-people-in-germany/a-53159443

[Coss]

usa thread ...

 

[Coss]

US probing potential bribery, lobbying scheme for pardon

https://apnews.com/article/lobbying-courts-271f7536f7ba3d1bd6887b21e7549287

The Justice Department is investigating whether there was a secret scheme to lobby White House officials for a pardon as well as a related plot to offer a hefty political contribution in exchange for clemency, according to a court document unsealed Tuesday.

Most of the information in the 18-page court order is redacted, including the identity of the people whom prosecutors are investigating and whom the proposed pardon might be intended for. 

But the document from August does reveal that certain individuals are suspected of having acted to secretly lobby White House officials to secure a pardon or sentence commutation and that, in a related scheme, a substantial political contribution was floated in exchange for a pardon or “reprieve of sentence.”

A Justice Department official said Tuesday night that no government official was or is a subject or target of the investigation. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The existence of the investigation, first reported by CNN, was revealed in a court order from U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, the chief judge of Washington’s federal court. In it, she granted investigators access to certain email communications connected to the alleged schemes that she said was not protected by attorney-client privilege. The investigative team will be able to use that material to confront any subject or target of the investigation, the judge wrote. 

The order was dated Aug. 28, and prosecutors had sought to keep it private because they said it identifies people not charged by a grand jury. But on Tuesday, Howell unsealed select portions of that document while redacting from view any personally identifiable information.

As part of the investigation, more than 50 devices, including laptops and iPads, have been seized, according to the document.

Pardons are common at the end of a president’s tenure and are occasionally politically fraught affairs as some convicted felons look to leverage connections inside the White House to secure clemency. Last week, President Donald Trump announced that he had pardoned his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, even as a federal judge was weighing a Justice Department request to dismiss the case...

[Coss]

Trump family urges U.S. appeals court to move marketing scam lawsuit to arbitration

By Jonathan Stempel

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-marketing-lawsuit/trump-family-urges-u-s-appeals-court-to-move-marketing-scam-lawsuit-to-arbitration-idUSKBN28B5XU

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to halt a lawsuit accusing the U.S. president of exploiting his family name to promote a marketing scam targeting poor and working-class people.

The lawyer, Thomas McCarthy, told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan the plaintiffs were “done in by the allegations of their own complaint,” and that their proposed class action concerning the multi-level marketing company American Communications Network belonged in arbitration.

Four plaintiffs, including a hospice worker, accused Trump, his adult children Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka and an affiliate of their family company of promoting ACN in exchange for millions of dollars in secret payments from 2005 to 2015.

The plaintiffs said ACN charged $499 to sell videophones and other goods, and the Trump family conned them into thinking Donald Trump believed their investments would pay off.

Trump and his children have called the civil lawsuit, one of many against the president, politically motivated, saying they had no control over ACN and that Trump’s endorsement was merely his opinion.

Some defendants prefer arbitration to litigation because evidence can be harder to come by, costs can be lower, and proceedings are often confidential.

U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield refused in April to send the ACN case to arbitration, saying the plaintiffs had no reason to believe their arbitration agreements with ACN covered the Trumps.

In Tuesday’s arguments before a three-judge panel, Circuit Judge Denny Chin appeared to agree with Schofield’s conclusion that it was unfair for the Trumps to demand arbitration only after she had dismissed a racketeering claim.

“You waited eight months before asking to compel arbitration,” Chin told McCarthy. “You requested and obtained substantive relief ... In those circumstances, why isn’t the right to arbitration, to the extent it exists, waived?”

McCarthy responded that the claims against the Trumps and ACN were intertwined, that only “minimal” time had passed, and that the lawsuit was still in its early stages.

Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, countered that arbitration is “fundamentally a matter of consent,” and that her clients never expected to battle the Trumps in arbitration.

“This is a fraud case,” she said. “This is about what Donald Trump said.”

The case is Doe et al v Trump Corp et al, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Nos. 20-1228, 20-1278.

[Steve]

I have zero empathy for trump supporting Republican politicians who are now under not only threatened politically but also physically by fellow Republicans. You brought it on yourself. 

 

[paul101]

[buffalo_bill]

Yes, millions and millions. On the other hand: chief dicksucker Barr jumped ship the other day confirming there has been no election fraud. Cav, I note you obviously did not send Dr. Corsi´s latest sharp analysis to Washington yet.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/02/politics/william-barr-donald-trump-election/index.html

[cavanami]

20 minutes ago, buffalo_bill said:

Yes, millions and millions. On the other hand: chief dicksucker Barr jumped ship the other day confirming there has been no election fraud. Cav, I note you obviously did not send Dr. Corsi´s latest sharp analysis to Washington yet.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/02/politics/william-barr-donald-trump-election/index.html

Now we see you completely taken in by the fake news. Project Veritas has been documenting morning meetings of CNN, for two months, which completely lays plain that the "news" is controlled and contrived. Consider yourself taken in.
Much more to come out...

CNN President Jeff Zucker BLASTS Trump & Republicans on 9am Call with Senior Leadership

 

[buffalo_bill]

Project Veritas is an American far-right^[14] activist group founded by James O'Keefe in 2010.^[19] The group uses undercover techniques to reveal supposed liberal bias and corruption^[15] and is known for producing deceptively edited videos about media organizations, left-leaning groups,^[27] and debunked conspiracy theories.^[31]

^{Why am I not surprised?}

[Coss]

Vis Trump pardoning himself and others ::

While there is already comment on what and who will be the subject of any forthcoming pardons, and, while rare, it is legal for a president to preemptively pardon people for federal crimes before they’ve been charged, that's the public game.

I'm sure Trump and Giuliani et al are quite good at chess, but not, very, good. I still maintain that the full breadth and depth of the peril, these folk face, will not be known until immediately after Trump's employment has ceased.

The pardons, if any, will be for what they know about. I don't see how, a pardon for - anyone for anything - past and future - would be achieved. I'm suggesting a pardon has to be for a finite and definite thing.

And I don't think that Trump and co. know what all the charges are, that may be brought, nor will they, until Jan 20 and thereafter.

Still it's amusing to watch the flailing, I was worried that Trump would go quiet, or do a runner.