A federal bankruptcy judge slapped exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui with new restrictions this week after finding that Guo had defied an earlier order to stop a harassment campaign by his fans aimed at lawyers for his creditors.
Federal Judge Orders Bannon Ally to End Harassment Campaign Against Creditors
Tag: impunity
Independent Reporting Shows Cops Are Still Killing People At An Alarming Rate

from the us-vs.-them-means-they-still-get-to-kill-us-with-impunity dept – Mon, Jan 9th 2023 08:10pm – Tim Cushing
Law enforcement agencies have no interest in tracking how often officers kill people. Despite all the talk about police reform, very few states require accurate reporting on deadly force deployments.
Independent Reporting Shows Cops Are Still Killing People At An Alarming Rate
Pentagon Blows Deadline To Explain US Role in Nigerian Airstrike That Killed 160 Civilians
One human rights campaigner said the military’s failure to provide a timely response to Democratic lawmakers’ questions “does not bode well for the U.S. government’s expressed commitment to transparency and accountability.”
Pentagon Blows Deadline To Explain US Role in Nigerian Airstrike That Killed 160 Civilians
What is the Rules-Based Order?
In fits of, what might well be termed, masochism, some of us now-and-then tune in to the legacy media. When doing so, one is likely to hear western-aligned politicians rhetorize ad nauseam about the linguistically vogue rules-based order. Now and then, the word “international” is also inserted: the rules-based international order.
What is the Rules-Based Order?
H/T: THE NEW DARK AGE
Sheila Bair, Former Chair of the FDIC, Is Now an “Organizer/Director” of a Cayman Islands Crypto Company that Got a U.S. National Bank Charter Last Year
On November 17, Sheila Bair, the former Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) during the financial crisis of 2008, went on CNBC to lament the lack of controls leading to the collapse of the crypto currency exchange, FTX. During the interview, Bair used the phrase “nobody looking behind the curtain.”
Sheila Bair, Former Chair of the FDIC, Is Now an “Organizer/Director” of a Cayman Islands Crypto Company that Got a U.S. National Bank Charter Last Year
Related (why no one was prosecuted for the financial crisis of 2007–2008 + another comment):
Read More »Sweden Expands Espionage Law, Endangering Freedom of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Sweden’s parliament adopted a major espionage law expansion that will permit the country’s police to investigate journalists, publishers, and whistleblowers if they reveal secret information that “may damage Sweden’s relationship with another state or an international organization.”
Sweden Expands Espionage Law, Endangering Freedom of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Will FBI probe into Abu Akleh killing be a cover-up?
The Department of Justice in Washington has reportedly informed its Israeli counterpart that the FBI is investigating the death of Shireen Abu Akleh, six months after she was killed while covering a military raid in the northern occupied West Bank.
Will FBI probe into Abu Akleh killing be a cover-up?
Protests across France against gender-based violence
Five years after the emergence of the #MeToo movement, nearly 90 associations, unions or left-wing parties have called for a “tidal wave in the street to shout [their] anger”
Protests across France against gender-based violence
Why Is AP Still Protecting the Source Behind its False Russia-Bombed-Poland Story?
AP’s source claimed Russian missiles hit Poland. This seemed calculated to set off a frenzy and trigger NATO articles to create a wider war. Why won’t the AP tell us who the falsifying source is?
Why Is AP Still Protecting the Source Behind its False Russia-Bombed-Poland Story?
No coincidence that Burns had been in Kiev the day that the missiles hit Poland. /s


America’s Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia
By Tony Cox, a US journalist who has written and edited for Bloomberg and several major daily newspapers.
From pogrom-mongers to Hitlerites to radical Islamists, the US has collaborated with repugnant partners for more than a century
America’s Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia (Alternative source)
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