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gale-gentlepenguin · 1 year

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Conflict Complex: Hero.Inc

-So being a hero is a little more complicated then comics would have you believe. Heroes aren’t born they are made…. Literally.

-Hero.Inc’s whole thing is making heroes to protect the world from all villains.

-A lot of government contracts and it has branches in over 70 countries.

-The HQ is in the US.

-Hero Inc also has a special program, like special training. Only the those with high grades, high physical and mental capacity can make it in the world of heroes.

-Aura Aurora was a promising recruit and even was in the sidekick internship program (very hard to get into)

-Heroes can be full time and part time. Costumes have visual and audio recordings when the hero is in a fight (for cataloguing damage and helping guide heroes.)

-Secret identities are very common and it’s encouraged that heroes keep it a secret. (When you get to a high enough level, it doesn’t matter as much, but early on it does.)

-The heroes have several rankings. From lowest to highest

-Neighborhood watch: Most new heroes start here. It’s the residency of hero work. You work a year or two stopping petty crime. A fast track way to next rank is helping in stopping a super villain.

-Street hero: Time to make a name for yourself. If you are in a big city there are probably dozens of street heroes trying to make a name for themselves. Deal with more serious crimes. Maybe even the occasional super villain.

-City hero: The big leagues, there is usually only one to three city heroes per city. Usually deal with super villains. But usually only the street level threats or the occasional city threat

-State wide: Proving yourself as a competent city hero that the state wants you as their rep. Only one hero can represent an entire state, usually out of dozens of city heroes

-Country representative: This is where Heroes are truly tested, handling natural disasters, fighting Supervillains with World conquering aspirations on the regular. The real super villains with minions and doomsday devices.

-World defender: A high honer that very few heroes ever reach. After showing heroism of such a caliber, you will be invited to the Coalition of Courageous Kind Supers. There are currently 11 members. 4 from the US (they are also trying to find a new name, )

-Heroes are meant to be role models but above all defenders of the people. They aren’t allowed to arrest citizens, can’t endorse political parties, and can’t side with corporations (outside of Hero.Inc)

-Heroes go through rigorous training and have Thorough understanding of the law in their jurisdiction.

-Heroes not approved by hero.Inc are seen as vigilantes and don’t have any legal rights in arresting anyone. (Sadly they are an issues)

#conflict complex #Gale’s ideas #Gale oc idea

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starslooklikediamonds · 2 years

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Kandomere Fic Recommendations

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voskhozhdeniye · 3 months

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“Courts usually aren’t allowed to hold someone in jail before evidence has been presented and they’ve had a chance to defend themselves,” explained Spokesman Marlon Kautz for the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which operates out of Atlanta and pays bail for protesters. “But there’s a loophole: the court can demand a cash bail payment, and if the defendant can’t afford it they’re jailed indefinitely.” “Bail funds close this loophole in the cash bail system by leveling the playing field: they ensure that anyone—regardless of how poor or marginalized they are—can access the resources to make bail,” Kautz continued. “SB63 exposes that the loophole is not an accident, it’s the intended purpose of the bail system. Police, prosecutors, and politicians want a bail system which allows them to punish their political enemies, poor people, and people of color without trial.” The bill adds thirty additional charges that are ineligible for unsecured judicial releases, popularly known as signature bonds. The list includes charges commonly associated with protesting, like unlawful assembly and obstruction of a law enforcement officer, and street racing, like reckless stunt driving and promoting drag races. Additionally, the bill only allows elected and appointed judges to set bond in Georgia. Currently, unelected and unappointed judges may serve in vacant positions to help courts provide speedier bond hearings. The changes expanding cash bail were not unexpected based on previous iterations, but the last-minute addition to the final language of the bill significantly hindering the ability of individuals and organizations to pay bail on behalf of jailed people in the state came as a surprise. That addition to the bill did not appear in the state’s online legislation management system until sometime between late Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning. “No more than three cash bonds maybe posted per year by any individual, corporation, organization, charity, nonprofit corporation, or group in any jurisdiction,” the bill now reads. This change will severely impact the operational ability of bail funds in the state of Georgia like the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. To continue paying bail for arrested individuals, Georgia bail funds would need to register as professional bail bondsman with the respective sheriffs in each county they intend to operate, which requires fingerprinting and a full background check conducted by the respective sheriffs and the FBI. Registered bail bondsman organizations are still unable to pay more than three cash bonds per year, they must instead go to a third party company to attain a surety bond. Existing Georgia law also prohibits professional bondsmen from recommending defense attorneys to clients seeking bond. Pairing defendants with attorneys is another common function of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. Violating this provision will constitute a misdemeanor in Georgia.

The use of bail funds gained new prominence in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd Protest, with new funds popping up in cities all around the country to help free the hundreds of protesters arrested that summer. In response, various state legislatures began introducing legislation aimed at curtailing the success of those organizations. On Wednesday, Tennessee lawmakers introduced a bill outright prohibiting courts from accepting cash bails paid on behalf of defendants by charitable bail organizations. Kentucky legislators passed HB 5 in January, prohibiting charitable bail organizations from posting bonds of $5,000 or greater. Texas Governor Greg Abbot signed a law in November requiring charitable bail organizations to register with county clerks and provide monthly updates listing each defendant the fund paid bail for in the prior month. A 2022 law passed in Indiana requires charitable bail funds to pay a $300 certification fee every two years, and prohibits those organizations from posting bond for individuals accused of violent crimes or those facing felony charges with a previous violent crime conviction. The Bail Project sued the state of Indiana in federal court over its bail law, but lost the case in both the district and appeals court. “The purpose of these laws restricting and regulating community bail funds is clearly to suppress organizing and reject the expression of community solidarity,” said Pilar Weiss Director of Community Justice Exchange, which hosts the National Bail Fund Network. “These laws have nothing to do with safety or justice and are an open attack on mutual aid and community care. As criminalization of community solidarity increases, we’re seeing an increase in attacks like this whose aim is to block and reduce any routes to freedom.”

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kp777 · 9 months

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By Julia Conley

Common Dreams

Aug. 9, 2023

"These lawmakers," said one advocate, "should answer to their constituents why they'd rather represent their industry donors at the expense of everyday families."

Residents of U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry's home state of North Carolina won back more than $24 million from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Civil Penalty Fund between 2012 and 2022—but that hasn't stopped the Republican lawmaker from spearheading an effort to significantly weaken the agency.

Government watchdog Accountable.US on Wednesday released a report detailing the money that the CFPB's Civil Penalty Fund, which compensates victims of misconduct by financial companies, has returned to the constituents of Republican lawmakers who are intent on attacking the agency—as well as the donations those same politicians have taken from the industry the CFPB regulates.

"Republicans in Congress should be celebrating the fact the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has recouped billions of dollars for families who've been ripped off by bad actors in the financial industry," said Liz Zelnick, director of Accountable.US' Economic Security & Corporate Power program. "Instead, many Republicans are rooting for efforts to defund and defang the nation's top consumer advocate."

The group's report shows that in 10 states including North Carolina, Arizona, South Carolina, and Michigan, constituents have been awarded compensation totaling more than $240 million from the CFPB's fund.

In North Carolina, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis has joined McHenry in attacking the CFPB, accusing the bureau of "undertaking a name-and-shame campaign to coerce banks who were following the established prudential standards for the crime of listening to their previous federal regulators."

Judging from his attacks on the CFPB, said Accountable.US, Tillis "would prefer if tens of thousands of North Carolinians were vulnerable to scams from the likes of predatory lenders and greedy big banks."

Both lawmakers were among those who signed an amicus brief in support of a federal lawsuit brought by the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA), a group that represents the predatory payday lending industry, which aims to strike down the bureau's funding structure through the Federal Reserve. The group and a number of Republicans have claimed the CFPB should be funded through appropriations passed by Congress.

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the case when it reconvenes in October.

Accountable.US found that in the 10 states in its report, the Republicans who signed the amicus brief have received more than $51 million from people and political action committees affiliated with financial companies regulated by the CFPB.

McHenry has taken more than $5.4 million from the industry, while Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has received more than $4.8 million. Scott has denounced the bureau as "an agency that lacks transparency and seeks to operate beyond its jurisdiction."

Other lawmakers featured in the group's report include Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), who has taken more than $315,000 from the industry and has called the CFPB a "rogue organization" that "ought to be zeroed out"; Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.), who has repeatedly proposed legislation to gut the agency and has taken $3.9 million from the industry; and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who told a group of lobbyists in 2017 that he would overturn a CFPB rule preventing bans on class-action lawsuits against Wall Street companies. McConnell has taken more than $9.2 million from the industry during his career.

"The CFPB helped put money back into the pockets of over 27,000 Kentuckians," said Accountable.US, "but McConnell would rather represent his industry donors in Senate at their expense."

The agency has returned nearly $20 million to Michigan residents, $45.7 million to New Yorkers, and $28.2 million to Pennsylvanians—but Republican lawmakers who represent those states have also signed the amicus brief in the CFSA case and have collectively taken millions of dollars from the industry the CFPB is tasked with regulating.

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1016anon · 2 years

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Title: White Collar Wonder Woman Author: 55anon Fandom: Bridgerton Pairing: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma Summary: Sharma didn't hate him; she didn't despise him. She was a consummate professional who simply handed the attorney taking his deposition every email of his nightmares.

Note: I've decided to make this tumblr a repository of fic ideas that spill out and I have no idea if they will ever be continued or completed. If you want resolution, this is not for you. Read at your own risk.

Also, I really don't know what this is, other than me venting through fic about some things that really bother me about any modern AU of Bridgerton.

"Somebody help! Please!"

His father's face was turning blue; Eloise was sobbing into her phone. They were in the middle of a park; emergency services wouldn't get to them in time.

Then, she appeared.

"Here," she jabbed his father's thigh with an EpiPen, held it in place, then kneaded the injection site.

The reaction to the epinephrine was instantaneous-- Father gasped and the woman helped him roll onto his hands and knees as he coughed violently.

"You'll still need to take him to the hospital to ensure the reaction doesn't recur. Is your car close?"

"No, we parked on the other side."

"All right. Hold onto your sister."

"What?"

"Hold onto your sister."

"Wh--" Anthony screamed.

Because they were flying. He'd heard rumors that some kind of superhero was now in residence but had scoffed at the notion. Now he was hanging onto Eloise for dear life as they descended, landing in front of the hospital.

"Can you take it from here?"

"What?" He was in a state of shock. He thought he could be excused mild hysteria and total incoherence.

The hospital staff, however, seemed to recognize the woman and calmly listened as they helped his father into a wheelchair and immediately began taking his vitals. Someone soon appeared with a mask and tank of oxygen.

"And I think you might need to give a juicebox to Junior. It was their first time flying."

Said juicebox appeared at his elbow. There was a straw. Without another word, the woman flew away.

Anthony had a very strong urge to knock the juice out of the person's hand; he didn't need to be coddled. He wanted to protest that he was eighteen years old, damn it! He would be starting university in a few weeks! Then he ran that sentence over in his head again and the indignation popped like a week old balloon already in its death throes. The nurse only smiled at him gently, patting his back in sympathy.

This was how: 1. His father's life was saved; 2. Anthony developed A Complex about Mott's Very Fine Apple Juice and always bought Capri Sun for Hyacinth and Gregory; 3. Met Miss Sharma. Though he didn't know that last part yet.

Metropolis gave her the helpful moniker Supermedic because that's what she did: appear during medical emergencies in remote places to deliver lifesaving first aid. Everyone loved her (except people trying to sue her, as she was firmly protected by Good Samaritan laws).

By the time Anthony graduated, however, she had somewhat expanded her repertoire to (of all things) white collar crime. Metropolis was much less pleased with this development. She was given many, many other-- sometimes unflattering-- names and the number of lawsuits filed against her was staggering. (The filings were quite amusing: John Smith v. Jane Doe, a.k.a. Supermedic, a.k.a. Lady Whistleblower, a.k.a. Maid Marian, a.k.a. Mallet of Justice, a.k.a. Ethics Enforcer, a.k.a. The Menace, a.k.a. High Flyer, a.k.a. Has No Jurisdiction)

Everyone had an opinion on her; Anthony's opinion was rather mixed. On the one hand, she saved his father's life. On the other hand, she discovered and very publicly disseminated that Fife was running a side Ponzi scheme through Bridgerton Capital Management. Since Fife was a member of Bridgerton Corporation's board of directors, the company was naturally dragged into the investigation, as well as Bridgerton Holdings, LLC, Bridgerton Group Ltd., and Bridgerton GmbH.

The deposition was almost enough for Anthony to consider banning electronic communications for everyone in every single Bridgerton company; by the end of the two eight-hour sessions of intense questioning examining emails which admittedly looked very bad in the context of Fife's actions, he was certain a colonoscopy without anesthesia would have been more comfortable and less probing.

It did not help at all that one of the lawyers assigned to the investigation was Katharine Sharma. She was not one of the lead attorneys but was very clearly an instrumental member of the team. She was also the older sister of Edwina, with whom Anthony had gone on one disastrous blind date.

Sharma didn't hate him; she didn't despise him. She was a consummate professional who simply handed the attorney taking his deposition every email of his nightmares; fourth drafts of powerpoints attached to emails he had been cc'ed on but for the life of him could not remember; spreadsheets with twenty hidden tabs that had at one point popped up in Anthony's inbox but had only reviewed the visible worksheets.

So yes, Anthony had mixed feelings about the superhero who had saved his father's life, but also brought into Anthony's life the beautiful, intelligent, aggravating Katharine Sharma, whose first impression of him was bad (really, the less said about his date with Edwina, the better) and second impression even worse.

When Anthony found out that Sharma and The Mallet of Political, Financial, and Corporate Death were one and the same-- let's just say it was the closest he got to a crisis in faith as an agnostic Anglican.

But first, the story of how Mr. Bridgerton discovered the secret identity of The Bane of His Existence (and Object of All His Desires):

To be fair (whatever that meant in this context), he did not discover her identity until after they began dating. She wouldn't have allowed herself to date him anyway because she was very strict about conflict of interest; her work and investigations took precedence over everything. He later found out that when he asked if she'd like to get coffee, she actually went to consult her boss, who in turn consulted their ethics expert, as to whether it would cause any issues.

For a coffee. During which she spent almost the entire time responding to an urgent email.

Additionally, the irony (hypocrisy?) of Kate being concerned about ethics when she regularly collaborated with Lady Whistleblower (they were not, as it turned out, the same person) was astounding. Granted, Lady Whistleblower never used or had access to confidential information; everything she used was technically publicly available. If she did release information which had originally been designated confidential, it was all done properly through FOIA requests.

However, it simply... stretched the bounds of credulity that a person would-- and could-- go through thousands of pages of SEC 10-K filings every week to uncover corporate malfeasance. Someone had to be pointing her the right direction; that someone was Kate. It was always a question of the chicken or the egg: did the government begin investigating because of a Whistleblower story, or did Whistleblower get a tip from someone within the government working on the early stages of the investigation?

Investigations were discontinued all the time simply because government regulatory bodies did not have infinite time or staff; some investigations were also dropped on the order of political appointees. Did Kate send information to Whistleblower because the media attention would force the government to continue the investigation? There was also the fact that Whistleblower's blog was so popular, it got inside information from employees of companies all the time.

There was an Instagram. And a TikTok. Anthony had to admit to being impressed that Whistleblower managed to gain a following so large that teenagers knew what front running was. Statements of commitment by the C-Suite promising to create, audit, and uphold robust ethical standards of corporate practice were at an all time high. Transparency was a political buzzword.

In any case, Kate only began dating him after Anthony had thoroughly cleaned house; which was well after Fife and his associates had been found guilty of embezzlement, insider trading, stock manipulation, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, perjury, and a bunch of other crimes. (Bridgerton Capital Management was obviously ruined; Anthony founded Viscount Investment Advisors; they needed to move from London to Metropolis after Brexit anyway.)

To get back to the point:

Anthony wished very much that he could have been Lois Lane to Kate's Wonder Woman. He was, however, more like one of those petty street thugs that Wonder Woman soundly defeated before moving on to battle greater enemies.

The enemy in this case was... an entire system. If there ever was a modern David and Goliath story, this was it.

Other cities had superheroes who went after murderers, drug cartels, and terrorists; visible targets who were clearly Bad People Intent On Doing Evil.

Metropolis, however, had High Flyer, so named because she did, indeed, fly high up in the sky but also because her targets were literally the highfliers of society: individuals who amassed billions of dollars in wealth while evading taxes, jet setting around the world living in obscene extravagance and wielding a disproportionate amount of political influence without ever being held accountable by the public.

Anthony was one of those individuals.

In truth, it was a miracle she agreed to give him a chance at all. They were from completely different worlds, lived completely different lifestyles, had no mutual friends, were raised with completely different values. Much of his (childhood) social circle was comprised of people who ran companies she regularly investigated. They were, she liked to say, fiscally conservative, socially liberal, genteelly racist, entitled mediocrities.

Somewhere along the way, she fell in love with him. He fell in love with her the moment he laid eyes on her in her suit, three binders laid out before her-- the contents of which were thoroughly marked with highlights-- two phones, three laptops, a banker's box of documents, looking at him calmly as though she was going to eviscerate him (which she did). Anthony had always been attracted to women who were capable of dismantling his life. Usually this ended up being for the worse, but in the case of Kate Sharma, it ended up being for the better.

Such are the very strange, mysterious, and humbling ways of love.

But he struggled; he didn't fall neatly into her narrative. Usually women accommodated his schedule, in exchange for the lavish lifestyle and social status.

When they began dating, Kate stated very clearly that she was making time for him, something she rarely did. This made sense after her extracurricular activities were revealed; at the time, it made him puff up in self-righteous self-importance. Which only made her look at him, supremely unimpressed.

The thing is-- it is very easy to seduce someone by offering them a lifestyle of wealth. Wealth is glamour, glamour is very pretty, and the poor console themselves by saying they have principles; given the choice, they would give up those principles in a heartbeat to become a member of the one percent. Wealth justifies itself by performing charity; some of it is good; other 501(c)(3) entities become another tool to try to game the system.

Kate saw the system the wealth was built on. That was her principle. That was her fight.

So she did what many superheroes seem to do: she fell in love with one of the bad guys.

What does the bad guy do when he discovers she saved the life of his father?

He lost his shit, of course.

The story keeps getting ahead of itself:

#bridgerton #kathony #fanfiction #random idea #White Collar Wonder Woman

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mightyflamethrower · 7 months

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Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 and 8 million illegal entries across the now nonexistent U.S. southern border.

The more the border vanished, the more federal immigration law was rendered inert, and the more Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas spun fantasies that the “border is secure.” He is now written off as a veritable “Baghdad Bob” propagandist.

But how and why did the Biden administration destroy immigration law as we knew it?

The Trump administration’s initial efforts to close the border had been continually obstructed in the Congress, sabotaged by the administrative state, and stymied in the courts. Nonetheless, it had finally secured the border by early 2020.

Yet almost all its successful initiatives were immediately overturned in 2021.

The wall was abruptly stopped, its projected trajectory cancelled. The Obama-era disastrous “catch-and release” policy of immigration non-enforcement was resurrected.

Prior successful pressure on Mexico’s President Andrés Obrador to stop the deliberate export of his own citizens northward ceased.

Federal border patrol officers were forced to stand down.

New federal subsidies were granted to entice and then support illegal arrivals.

No one in the Democratic Party objected to the destruction of the border or the subversion of immigration law.

However, things changed somewhat once swamped southern border states began to bus or fly a few thousand of their illegal immigrants northward to sanctuary city jurisdictions—especially to New York, Chicago, and even Martha’s Vineyard.

The sanctuary-city “humanists” there who had greenlighted illegal immigration into the southern states suddenly shrieked. They were irate after experiencing the concrete consequences of their own prior abstract border agendas. After all, their nihilism was always supposed to fall upon distant and ridiculed others.

New York mayor Eric Adams went from celebrating a few dozen illegal immigrants bused into Manhattan, to blasting his own party by allowing tens of thousands to swamp his now bankrupt city.

But why did the Biden administration deliberately unleash the largest influx across the southern border in U.S. history?

The ethnic chauvinists and Democratic Party elites needed new constituents, given their increasingly unpopular agendas.

They feared that the more legal Latino immigrants assimilated and integrated into American society, the less happy they became with leftwing radical abortion, racial, transgender, crime, and green fixations.

Democratic grandees had always bragged that illegal immigration would create what they called “The New Democratic Majority” in “Demography is Destiny” fashion. Now they slander critics as “racists” who object to leftwing efforts to use illegal immigration to turn southwestern red states blue.

Mexico now cannot survive as a modern state without some $60 billion in annual remittances sent by its expatriates in America. But many illegal immigrants rely on American state and federal entitlements to free up cash to send home.

Mexico also encourages its own abject poor and often indigenous people from southern Mexico to head north as a safety-valve of sorts. The government sees these mass exoduses northward as preferable to the oppressed marching on Mexico City to address grievances of poverty and racism.

The criminal cartels now de facto run Mexico. An open border allows them to ship fentanyl northward, earn billions in profits—and kill nearly 100,000 Americans a year. Illegal immigrants pay cartels additional billions to facilitate their border crossings.

Do not forget American corporate employers. Record labor nonparticipation followed the Covid lockdown. In reaction to the dearth of American workers, the hospitality, meat packing, social service, health-care, and farming industries were desperate to hire new—and far cheaper—labor.

Human rights activists insist that the borders themselves are nineteenth-century relics. And the global poor and oppressed thus have a human right to enter the affluent West by any means necessary.

Many in the tony suburbs and in universities do not live anywhere near the border. So they pontificate on the assurance that thousands of unaudited illegal immigrants will never enter their own enclaves or campuses.

The result is elite bottled piety—but not firsthand experience with the natural consequences of millions chaotically fleeing one of the poorest countries in the world to pour into the wealthiest. Without background checks, vaccinations and health audits, legality, high-school diplomas, English-facility, skill sets, or capital, the result is an abject catastrophe.

Polls continue to show that the American people support measured, diverse, legal, and meritocratic immigration as much as they oppose mass illegal immigration into their country and the subsequent loss of American sovereignty on the border.

They understand what the Biden administration does not: no nation is history has survived once its borders were destroyed, once its citizenship was rendered no different from mere residence, and once its neighbors with impunity undermined its sovereignty.

Ending illegal immigration now depends solely on the American people overriding the corrupt special interests and leaders who profit from the current chaos and human misery.

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mariacallous · 9 months

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A new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, GI-TOC, published on Monday, warns that weak rule of law, organised crime and a large “grey” economy in Western Balkan countries – and the war in Ukraine – have allowed Russian Illicit Financial Flows, IFFs, to surge through the region and interfere in key decision making processes there.

“The Balkans’ strategic geographic position, acting as a gateway between Asia and Western Europe, coupled with an ecosystem of state capture, institutional weaknesses, organised crime and a rampant shadow economy, make the region particularly susceptible to IFFs,” Vanya Petrova, author of the report, told BIRN.

“This fact has actively been exploited by major players such as Russia, China and the UAE to influence decision-making in key markets and institutions,” she added.

The Kremlin has repeatedly taken advantage of its integration into the Western financial system to exploit governance gaps through the corrosive effect of illicit finance. This danger has taken on new and potentially greater dimensions with the onset of Russia’s war in Ukraine,” she says.

Global IFFs are estimated to be worth around 1-1.6 trillion US dollars annually, accounting for 3-5 per cent of world gross domestic product, GDP. However, according to Petrova, in the Western Balkans the figure is around 6 per cent of the region’s GDP.

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year, many sanctions were introduced, including a freeze by G7 countries of around 315 billion US dollars’ worth of Russian reserves held in Russia’s Central Bank.

Ways used by Russian elites to avoid sanctions include “laundering money through the purchase of real estate and business assets; utilizing professionals to open bank accounts, initiate bank transactions, transfer funds and create corporate structures that directly or indirectly support them; using complex ownership structures to avoid identification; and using third-party jurisdictions and false trade information to facilitate sensitive goods shipments to Russia”.

Russians avoid sanctions via the Western Balkans “with their combination of state and media capture, simmering ethnic divisions, slow pace of EU accession and the legacy of Russian cognitive bias”.

According to the report, since 2014, Bosnia, Bulgaria and Serbia have not followed EU sanctions against Russia, while both North Macedonia and Montenegro have provided so-called citizenship for investment to Russian citizens, despite criticism from the EU.

Albania has not yet followed through with a “fiscal amnesty” programme that would allow any Albanian or foreign citizen to deposit up to €2 million in non-declared money in the banking system, but has not scrapped the idea either.

Smuggling of people, weapons and cash have facilitated illegal activity since the start of the war in Ukraine. Smuggled cash is mainly concealed in cars or hidden among legitimate products in transport trucks or shipping containers.

According to the report, soon after the war started in 2022, Ukrainian refugees took undeclared cash with them to Europe; the wife of a former Ukrainian MP was caught at a border crossing for refugees with US$28 million and €1.3 million as she tried to enter Hungary.

In another case, a former Ukraine security service general, allegedly a Russian collaborator, was detained at the Serbia-North Macedonia border with €600 000 in cash, a large sum in US dollars, and diamonds and emeralds of unknown value.

Intensified use of covert channels for illegal money transfers into Albania exists as well.

Flows are often made indistinguishable by being mixed with gains in “cash-intensive businesses, such as restaurants, bars, beauty salons, petrol stations, private parking lots and taxi companies,” where this illegal money is laundered.

The report also explains that another form of IFF is fuel fraud. This often includes the evasion of custom tariffs by declaring lesses quantities of an oil product by selling fuel from ships on the Danube to fishers. A more recent trend, the report says, is the purchase of fuel at lower prices from Hungary and reselling it in Serbia.

The EU single market has a zero VAT policy for invoices between intermediaries, which has allowed VAT fraud to bloom. Petrova says that “in December 2022, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) uncovered what is believed to be the biggest VAT carousel fraud ever investigated in the EU, responsible for an estimated loss to EU taxpayers of €2.2 billion, including Bulgaria and Croatia, as well as third countries such as Albania and Serbia”.

“In general, this and trade misinvoicing remains the most prominent channel through which IFFs flow in and out of the Western Balkans,” Petrova writes. Trade misinvoicing includes fake legal transactions when no real business is taking place.

The report urges Europe to further decouple its economy from Russia, a network screening and sanctioning of Russian strategic investments in the Balkans, and to “prioritize the integration of the Balkans into the rollout of the newly designed Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) and coordinating their actions with US FinCEN and the financial intelligence institutions in each EU member state”.

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I know Disney programming is a thing, but is the Disney corporation itself involved in RA or trafficking in any capacity?

Trafficking is a long list. Here’s a few:

Roger Catey, 53, was a product manager at Walt Disney World's costumes department until Monday. He was charged with 34 counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of promotion of sexual performance by a child.

Officials identified four Disney employees as among those arrested. Xavier Jackson, 27, worked as a lifeguard at the Polynesian Resort for Walt Disney.

Wilkason Fidele, 24, who worked at the Cosmic Restaurant at Walt Disney World's Tomorrowland for four years.

Shubham Malave, 27, who is on a visa citizenship from India and worked as a software developer for Disney.

Ralph Leese, 45, who spent nearly four years working in IT for Disney.

Disney employees were found to have committed child sex crimes using the Internet. According to police and court records, custodial manager Cedric Cuthbert was caught downloading child porn on a Disney work computer, gift shop employee Paul Fazio was convicted for downloading “multiple scenes of nude prepubescent children engaging in sexual activity with adults,” and security guard William Marrero-Maldonado was charged with seven counts of promoting videos and photographs of the “sexual performance of a child.”

Disney Cruise had a day trip to Little St James, it offered a snorkelling trip for children. The cost between $60 and $75 for children aged 8 years and older.

Former Vice President of Walt Disney Picture and Television Michael Laney was charged with four counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a child. Michael Laney was convicted of four counts of first-degree sexual abuse after a six-day trial. Another person reported that Laney had sexually abused her in 2007.

Disney World used to be its own government. This total control enabled Disney to isolate its Magic Kingdom from outside social, political, and intellectual currents. They could have their own police force and the local police have no jurisdiction at Disney World.

The law eliminating Disney’s special purpose district, known as Reedy Creek, was passed this year. The new law will end the special district on June 1, 2023.

#answers to questions #Disney

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what crimes did you commit

Abusive sexual contact

Advocating overthrow of government

Aggravated assault/battery

Aggravated identity theft

Aggravated sexual abuse

Aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft

Airplane hijacking

Anti racketeering

Antitrust

Armed robbery

Arson

Assassination

Assault with a deadly weapon

Assaulting or killing federal officer

Assisting or instigating escape

Attempt to commit murder/manslaughter

Bank burglary

Bankruptcy fraud/embezzlement

Bank larceny

Bank robbery

Blackmail

Bombing matters

Bond default

Breaking or entering carrier facilities

Bribery crimes

Certification of checks (fraud)

Child abuse

Child exploitation

Child pornography

Civil action to restrain harassment of a victim or witness

Coercion

Commodities price fixing

Computer crime

Concealing escaped prisoner

Concealing person from arrest

Concealment of assets

Conspiracy (in matters under FBI jurisdiction)

Conspiracy to impede or injure and officer

Contempt of court

Continuing criminal enterprise

Conveying false information

Counterfeiting

Counterintelligence crimes

Credit/debit card fraud

Crime aboard aircraft

Crimes on government reservations

Crimes on Indian reservations

Criminal contempt of court

Criminal forfeiture

Criminal infringement of a copyright

Cyber crimes

Damage to religious property

Delivery to consignee

Demands against the US

Destruction of aircraft or motor vehicles used in foreign commerce

Destruction of an energy facility

Destruction of property to prevent seizure

Destruction of records in federal investigations and bankruptcy

Destruction of corporate audit records

Destruction of veterans memorials

Detention of armed vessel

Disclosure of confidential information

Domestic security

Domestic terrorism

Domestic violence

Drive by shooting

Drug abuse violations

Drug smuggling

Drug trafficking

DUI/DWI on federal trafficking

Economic espionage

Election law crimes

Embezzlement

Embezzlement against estate

Entering train to commit crime

Enlistment to serve against the US

Environmental scheme crimes

Escaping custody/escaped federal prisoners

Examiner performing other services

Exportation of drugs

Extortion

Failure to appear on felony offence

Failure to pay legal child support obligations

False bail

False pretences

False statements relating to healthcare matters

Falsely claiming citizenship

False declarations before grand jury or court

False entries in records of interstate carriers

False information and hoaxes

False statement to obtain unemployment compensation

Federal aviation act

Federal civil rights violations (hate crimes, police misconduct)

Female genital mutilation

Financial transactions with foreign government

First degree murder (472 victims)

Flight to avoid prosecution or giving testimony

Forced labour

Forcible rape

Forgery

Fraud activity in connection with electronic mail

Fraud against government

Genocide

Hacking crimes

Harbouring terrorists

Harming animals used in law enforcement

Hate crime acts

Homicide

Hostage taking

Identity theft

Illegal possession of firearms

Immigration offences

Impersonator making arrest or search

Importation of drugs

Influencing juror by writing

Injuring officer

Insider trading crimes

Insurance fraud

Interference with operation of a satellite

International parental kidnapping

International terrorism

Interstate domestic violence

Interstate violation of protection order

Larceny

Lobbying with appropriated moneys

Mailing threatening communications

Major fraud against the US

Manslaughter

Medical/health care fraud

Missile systems designed to destroy aircraft

Misuse of passport

Misuse of visas, permits, or other documents

Molestation

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In 1998, Congress passed the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which prohibits online service providers from collecting the data of children under the age of 13 without parental consent.

COPPA is remarkable, first because it is one of the very, very few federal privacy guarantees enacted by Congress, an exclusive club whose founding member is the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988, passed by Members of Congress panicked at the thought of video-store clerks leaking their porn rental histories.

But the other remarkable thing about COPPA is how poorly it is enforced.

In this regard, COPPA is very similar to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU’s 2016 landmark privacy law. The GDPR has many more moving parts than COPPA, as befits a general data-protection regulation, but at core, the GDPR seeks to incinerate the absurd fiction at the root of commercial surveillance: namely, that we “consent” to commercial surveillance by clicking “I agree” on long, unreadable terms of service.

Under the GDPR, companies that want to collect, sell or process your data need to explain themselves, clearly: they have to tell you what they’re collecting and how they plan on using it.

-How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok: Have you tried not spying on kids?

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Greetings Bernard Arnault,

Charmed Circle Services

If you refer to a group of people as a charmed circle, you mean that they seem to have special power or influence, and do not allow anyone else to join their group.

A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments.

Green Crime is illegal activity that involves the environment, biodiversity, or natural resources. There are generally five types of major environmental crime: illegal logging, fishing, and mining, and crimes that harm wildlife and generate pollution.

State-corporate crime is a concept in criminology for crimes that result from the relationship between the policies of the state and the policies and practices of commercial corporations.

Tax Haven Lobbying

State-corporate crime is a concept in criminology for crimes that result from the relationship between the policies of the state and the policies and practices of commercial corporations.

Organized transnational crime is organized criminal activity that takes place across national jurisdictions, and with advances in transportation and information technology, law enforcement officials and policymakers have needed to respond to this form of crime on a global scale.

Government Joint Venture

Example: Government Part Owned Coal & Diamond Mines

international corporation that specializes in coal & diamond mining, coal & diamond exploitation, coal & diamond retail, diamond trading and industrial coal & diamond manufacturing sectors.

Example: Debswana Diamond Company Limited Influenced

Debswana is a joint venture between the government of Botswana and the South African diamond company De Beers; each party owns 50 percent of the company

Ecological Preservation Company

Farmland Real Estate

Acquisition

Lease

Gross Margin

China Big Four Influence: Industrial and Commercial Banks, Construction Bank, & Agriculture Banks (Ag Banks)

Products

Finance and insurance, consumer banking, corporate banking, investment banking, investment management, global wealth management, private equity, mortgages, credit cards

Gross Margin Loan

In exchange for farmland development or startup give cash for gross margin %

LVMH Digital Wallet

Air Miles Credit Card

Client Card (Gift Card/Social Club)

Drop Shipping

Isolated Investment Platform/Newsletter

Distributors Type

Wholesale distributors provide that liaison, buying large quantities of products from manufacturers, storing them and then supplying them to retailers and other businesses.

Distributors

Distributors have a business relationship with manufactures and have partial ownership of the product they sell. Some distributors buy exclusive rights to buy a company's product to ensure that they are the sole distributor of that product in the area. Distributors often sell to wholesalers and retailers, creating minimal contact with the final buyers.

Indirect selling

Indirect selling is when a company uses an intermediary to distribute and sell its product. Indirect selling marketing channels can use varying amounts of intermediaries. In the most direct distribution route, the manufacturer can sell their product to an intermediary who then sells the product to a consumer. However, they may sometimes involve more than one intermediary in the distribution of a product.

This marketing channel encompasses many of the examples of intermediary channel uses, including shopping malls and chain retailers.

LVMH Distribution & Cash Conversion Cycle

Big Pharma Distribution Model

Wholesalers purchase drugs from manufacturers and distribute to a variety of customers, including independent, chain, or mail-order pharmacies, hospitals, long-term care, and other medical facilities.

Wholesale Distribution Clients

Drop Shipping

Malls

Modeling Agencies

Wedding Directors

Private Schools

Social Club

Art Auctions

Film Production Companies

Car Dealerships/Shows (Collaboration)

Jewelers (Gift Card Distribution for Store Credit)

Political Cabinet

Tennis Clubs (Dress Code)

Dinner Hall Rental Companies

Hair Salons (Gift Card Distribution for Store Credit)

Investment Banks (Gift Card Distribution for Store Credit)

Wholesale Client Requirement

Retailer Fair with Retail Advisory Groups Collaboration Business Incubator

Business incubator is an organization that helps startup companies and individual entrepreneurs to develop their businesses by providing a fullscale range of services starting with management training and office space and ending with venture capital financing.

What Can Companies Do To Improve Cash Conversion Cycle Times?

Invest in Real-Time Analytics.

Encourage Earlier Payments.

Speed Up the Delivery Time.

Make It Easier To Pay.

Simplify Your Invoices.

Rental and Recruitment

Graduation and Wedding Rentals allows for customer experience turning dreamers into clients

Wearing LVMH for the first time at Graduation is Emotionally Symbolic

Celebrations release the feel-good chemicals oxytocin, dopamine, and endorphins, which lower the stress hormone cortisol. This doesn't mean you simply are in a better mood, though your mood will improve. It also means you'll have clarity of thought and feel more in control.

Oxytocin is known as a social bonding hormone, unfortunately, though, it can also be the trigger to addiction.

Golf & Tennis Endorsement

Endorsement Wear Contracts (Product Placement Scheme)

This Bridges the LVMH Brand and Logo to Future Athletes where Nike isn't that Popular compare to other Nike endorsed athletes

Golf and Tennis are posh so the endorsements fit LVMH target audience

Rugby Kit Sponsor

Secure South African Athletes and Create a Larger Presence in South Africa (Natural Resources)

Athleisure Wear

Big and Tall Athleisure Clothing

Minimum Net Worth Condos with Luxury Strip Malls

Gift Card Program Drop Shipping : Promotion Program, Have a grace period for gift card top up (treat like a prepaid rewards credit card); Curated accessories promotional codes. Cash is acquired without product sold. (Starbucks with a twist)

Trade Shows: Promotional Model, This type of model books jobs that help sell or promote a certain commodity. Promotional models are often found at trade shows and other live events. As a whole, these models must be personable, outgoing, and have a strong knowledge of the product they are representing.

LVMH Inclusive (Minimum Spending) Social Club: Cross-functional Collaboration Based Shopping

Project

Cross collaborate through divisions to create a specific project. Projects are a curation of a series of products from multiple divisions. Goal is to have people attached to projects, not products. View Projects as Different Personalities. (Harvard Business Review)

Landscaping & Gardening Expos

Festive Activities for Consumers

Natural Resources Humid Subtropical Climate Farming with Security Operations (SecOps)

Material Sourcing

Porter's Model Pharma Industry

Porter's model can be applied to any segment of the economy to understand the level of competition within the industry and enhance a company's long-term profitability. The Five Forces model is named after Harvard Business School professor, Michael E. Porter.

Porter's 5 forces are:

Competition in the Industry

The first of the Five Forces refers to the number of competitors and their ability to undercut a company. The larger the number of competitors, along with the number of equivalent products and services they offer, the lesser the power of a company.

Suppliers and buyers seek out a company's competition if they are able to offer a better deal or lower prices. Conversely, when competitive rivalry is low, a company has greater power to charge higher prices and set the terms of deals to achieve higher sales and profits.

Potential of New Entrants Into an Industry

A company's power is also affected by the force of new entrants into its market. The less time and money it costs for a competitor to enter a company's market and be an effective competitor, the more an established company's position could be significantly weakened.

An industry with strong barriers to entry is ideal for existing companies within that industry since the company would be able to charge higher prices and negotiate better terms.

Power of Suppliers

The next factor in the Porter model addresses how easily suppliers can drive up the cost of inputs. It is affected by the number of suppliers of key inputs of a good or service, how unique these inputs are, and how much it would cost a company to switch to another supplier. The fewer suppliers to an industry, the more a company would depend on a supplier.

As a result, the supplier has more power and can drive up input costs and push for other advantages in trade. On the other hand, when there are many suppliers or low switching costs between rival suppliers, a company can keep its input costs lower and enhance its profits.

Power of Customers

The ability that customers have to drive prices lower or their level of power is one of the Five Forces. It is affected by how many buyers or customers a company has, how significant each customer is, and how much it would cost a company to find new customers or markets for its output.

A smaller and more powerful client base means that each customer has more power to negotiate for lower prices and better deals. A company that has many, smaller, independent customers will have an easier time charging higher prices to increase profitability

Threat of Substitutes

The last of the Five Forces focuses on substitutes. Substitute goods or services that can be used in place of a company's products or services pose a threat. Companies that produce goods or services for which there are no close substitutes will have more power to increase prices and lock in favorable terms. When close substitutes are available, customers will have the option to forgo buying a company's product, and a company's power can be weakened.

Understanding Porter's Five Forces and how they apply to an industry, can enable a company to adjust its business strategy to better use its resources to generate higher earnings for its investors.

What Are Porter's Five Forces Used for?

Porter's Five Forces Model helps managers and analysts understand the competitive landscape that a company faces and to understand how a company is positioned within it.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Porter's Five Forces is a framework for analyzing a company's competitive environment.

Porter's Five Forces is a frequently used guideline for evaluating the competitive forces that influence a variety of business sectors.

It was created by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter in 1979 and has since become an important tool for managers.

These forces include the number and power of a company's competitive rivals, potential new market entrants, suppliers, customers, and substitute products that influence a company's profitability.

Five Forces analysis can be used to guide business strategy to increase competitive advantage

Regards,

Adrian Blake-Trotman

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merlinswritings · 2 years

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Criminal Attorney

@neowritings on IG {no reposts}

Hi, welcome (back) to my page! I felt like I want to have a crime theme in the future, with only crime-related posts! However, I am very impatient so here you have the first post!

Disclaimer: These are primarily based on the American justice system and random countries that give me the needed information! Please correct me (kindly) if I'm wrong or should add some things.

Trigger warning: crimes, anything related to crime and law

What is an attorney?

The word kind of has two meanings of the same.

An agent or someone authorized to act for another

A person who has been qualified by a state or Federal Court to provide legal services, including appearing in court.

While countries such as the US tend to classify all practitioners of law under the title of attorney, some countries have developed a tradition of creating titles that help to identify the era of expertise.

The type of legal services provided by an attorney varies, as many attorneys choose to focus their practice on a particular portion of the law

Ex: An attorney may choose to focus on criminal law, while another chooses to build a practice around family law.

The reason there are specializations of degrees is that it helps make it easier for clients to find the right lawyer who has the right knowledge that will prove helpful with a given set of circumstances.

What is criminal law?

Criminal law is a part of law that concerns crimes that are committed against the public authority. It's not the same as civil law, which involves crimes people commit against each other, not necessarily against the whole public.

Ex 1: Civil crimes are like suing your partner for cheating on you and wanting full custody of your child. Or suing a company for not giving the promised things. Ex 2: Criminal law is murder or robbery. It goes against the law. And although there is a specific victim, murder in general runs against the interest of the public.

Three broad types of crimes appear in the criminal code:

Misdemeanors: A crime less serious than a felony - petty, theft, prostitution, intoxication, simple assault, etc.

Felonies: A crime of high seriousness - murder, animal cruelty, tax invasion, robbery, battery, etc.

Treason: The crime of attacking a state of authority to which one owes allegiance - participating in a war against one's native country, (attempting) to overthrow the government, etc

Defense Attorney vs Prosecutor

What is a defense attorney?

A defense attorney is a lawyer who defends a person or business against criminal charges. There are two primary types of these professionals: civil defense attorneys and criminal defense attorneys. Civil defense attorneys represent clients who face fines due to non-criminal lawsuits. Criminal defense attorneys work for clients who may serve jail time if convicted.

What is a prosecutor?

A prosecutor is a lawyer and elected official that represents an individual or an entire body of citizens of jurisdiction when they press legal charges against a person or corporation. Prosecutors are responsible for charging the accused with specific crimes and presenting evidence for members of a jury to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused party is guilty. These professionals are public officers, meaning they represent the district attorney's office, an elected official responsible for criminal prosecutors within a jurisdiction who the government funds with public money.

Then what is the difference?

The difference is that the prosecutor is on the side of the government and the law. Their clients (often cops) have a case against the said-to-be guilty and try to convince the jury that they deserve a specific punishment (usually jail).

A defense attorney has to convince the jury that their client is in fact not guilty, even when they are they still have to make sure there will not be, or as minimal as possible, a punishment.

Criminal defense lawyer

what do they do? (duties)

Investigate the case and interview witnesses

Research case law, statutes, crime codes, and procedural law

Build a defense and develop a case stragety

Negotiate with the prosecution to plea a bargain to lesser charges

Draft, file, and argue motions such as motions to dismiss and motions to surpress

Advocate for the defendant at trual

Draft, file and argue appeals

Do they help the bad guys?

Defense lawyers get hired, they can choose not to do so but will miss out on lawyers. It can so happen they have to prove someone is not guilty, even if they are, and they might win. They also help innocent people from being put with the blame.

Education, Training, Certification:

Education: Like all lawyers, criminal lawyers will first need to complete a bachelor's degree, then get a law degree. Those two degrees typically take a total of 7 years to complete.

License: Criminal Attorneys must pass the bar examination in the state whoch they intend to practice.

Certification: Criminal lawyers earn a board certification from the National Board of Legal Specialty Certification (NBLSC). The NBLSC is a non-profit organization accredited by the American Bar Association to provide board certification for attorneys and is an outgrowth of the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Skills needed:

Writing and speaking skills: Excellent oral and written advocacy skills in order to argue a client's case and pursuade the jury.

Research and investigative skills: Are important in building a client's case and establishing a strong defense.

Creative and analytical skills: Strong creative thinking and analytical skills to develop a legal strategy, analyze case law and litigate complex cases.

Legal knowledge and experience: In-depth understanding of state, federal, and local rules, court procedures, evidentiary laws, and local judges to navigate the criminal justice system efficiently and competently.

Interpersonal skills: Excellent interpersonal skills are necessary to build a strong client-attorney relationship. Criminal defendants are a finicky group who somethimes go through many lawyers before setting on one they like. Therefore, the ability to attract and retain clients is essential to thriving criminal defense practice.

Fun facts:

salary:

Criminal lawyers employed in law firms generally ern the highest salaries; experienced criminal attorneys can earn well into six figures. The highest-paid criminal lawyers are often those that represent high-profile, wealthy defendants in high-stakes cases.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the salary range for all attorneys, including criminal attorneys, is as follows:

Median Anual Salary: $120,910 ($58.13 /hour) Top 10% Anual Salary: More than $208,000 ($100 /hour) Bottom 10% Anual Salary: Less than $58,220($27.99 /hour) Public Defender and Non-Profit Salaries are usually modest (the $30,000 - $50,000 range is common).

Costs: Costs of legal representation depend on the bureau they work for, or if they are freenlancers. It can even depend on how many cases they have won. Some go by the hour (expect above the $150,- an hour.) and some by a fixed or set fee (will depend on the outcome mostly). Note that you will make a lot of hours with them.

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Explain why the cities with the strictest gun laws have the highest crime. Explain how the Japanese president was shot with a homemade gun. Explain why we shouldn't have strict laws for knives and machetes. Explain why citizens shouldn't have access to the same defense government, corporate executives, and celebrities have.

I mean, are you actually interested? You actually want to know and this isn't just trolling? Because I'm up for that! I'll just assume you're serious.

Explain why the cities with the strictest gun laws have the highest crime.

Guess what, I don't need to! Because this isn't true!

The highest homicide rate is actually St. Louis, MO, which doesn't have very strict gun laws at all. In fact, if you look at the top 10 big cities by homicide rate, they include some cities that have strict gun laws like Baltimore and other that have weak gun laws like Memphis. (source)

Baltimore and Chicago are also interesting cases to look at because, while they have fairly strict gun laws and their states do too, they're also within about a 15-30 minute drive of places where there are very weak gun laws. In Chicago specifically, for example, most of the guns used in crimes actually don't even come from Illinois at all. (source) Chicago's gun problem is actually a gun problem from the states that surround Illinois.

If you look at cities in states that have strict gun laws AND are a good distance away from places with weaker gun laws, such as LA and NY, the violent crime rates are much lower.

2. Explain how the Japanese president was shot with a homemade gun.

Homemade guns exist, but are incredibly rare. There's a good reason for this, it's really hard to get them to work so that they actually shoot your target and don't just blow up in your face.

I also find it interesting that you focus on Shinzo Abe and ignore the fact that Japan has the 12th lowest homicide rate in the world out of 195 measured countries and territories. If the United States had Japan's homicide rate (we rank 137th) we would have over 20,000 fewer homicide deaths per year.

I think it's pretty obvious that Japan's gun laws work very well, but if your standard is perfection then, yeah, you're going to be disappointed no matter what.

3. Explain why we shouldn't have strict laws for knives and machetes.

I mean, we do in some cases. Many jurisdictions have laws regarding bladed weapons as well.

Fundamentally, though, these things are not nearly as dangerous as guns. You can't kill someone from across the room with the twitch of a finger using a machete and you can block a machete with something as simple as a piece of wood.

Guns are simply much, much more dangerous than any kind of weapon that came before it. You can see this in warfare, are there any armies that still bother fielding large quantities of spear, bow, or sword armed troops?

You can also see it by your own preferences. If a machete or a knife were as effective a weapon as a gun, you wouldn't care if we banned guns because you could just use one of those instead.

4. Explain why citizens shouldn't have access to the same defense government, corporate executives, and celebrities have.

This is, generally, one of the worst arguments for weak gun laws. Do you really think that the average citizen has the money to go head to head with the government and corporations? The average citizen can probably afford an AR-15, but definitely not a Howitzer.

It's also important to point out that a gun is fundamentally not a defensive weapon. It only works in defense by the threat of its use in offense. That means that you either need to be constantly ready with your hand on the trigger of you have to sure that you'll survive the first attack to get off your own attack.

When talking about defense with guns, you are far safer if no one has a gun than if everyone has a gun. Even if only some people have a gun and you have a gun, you're still relying on a poor means of defense against a weapon that's primarily offensive.

Hope that helps!

#politics #us politics #gun violence #gun control

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The family of a Marine killed in Afghanistan last year reportedly filed a defamation lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin last week for the second time, accusing him of being "negligent and reckless" in posting about the service member’s sister being at a protest on Jan. 6, 2021.

The lawsuit was filed by Roice McCollum and Cheyenne McCollum of Wyoming, the sisters of Marine Lance Corporal Rylee J. McCollum, who died in Afghanistan, and his widow, Jiennah McCollum, of San Diego.

The family originally filed a suit in Wyoming, which was dismissed in May because the court doesn’t have jurisdiction over Baldwin who lives in New York, according to the New York Post.

The family filed the second suit in the Southern District of New York last Friday asking for $25 million in damages, saying that the "Beetlejuice" actor accused Roice McCollum of being a Jan. 6 "insurrectionist" on his social media, leading to her being verbally attacked by his fans.

HEROES OF KABUL: LANCE CPL. RYLEE MCCOLLUM LIVES ON IN HIS DAUGHTER, BORN 18 DAYS AFTR HIS DEATH

McCollum, 20, was one of 13 American service members killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul during the U.S. withdrawal from the country last summer.

The suit said Baldwin contacted one of McCollum’s sisters, Roice, on Instagram and donated $5,000 on the family's GoFundMe page to give to his widow as a "tribute for a fallen soldier."

His baby was born 18 days after his death.

Last January, Roice McCollum posted a photo to Instagram of herself attending the pro-Trump protest on Jan. 6, 2021, ahead of the U.S. Capitol riot on the same day.

The post prompted Baldwin to message her: "Are you the same woman I sent the $ for your sister’s husband who was killed during the Afghanistan exit?"

He also sent her a direct message, according to the suit, writing, "When I sent the $ for your late brother, out of real respect for his service to this country, I didn’t know you were a January 6th rioter."

Roice McCollum responded, "Protesting is perfectly legal in the country and I’ve already had my sit down with the FBI. Thanks, have a nice day!"

The suit added that she had protested "peacefully" and that she was not accused of any crime after being interviewed by the FBI.

Baldwin wrote back, "Your activities resulted in the unlawful destruction of government property, the death of a law enforcement officer, an assault on the certification of the presidential election. I reposted your photo. Good luck," Baldwin wrote back, the lawsuit said.

After he reposted the photo on his page, which has 2.4 million followers, and accused her of being an "insurrectionist," his "seemingly benevolent overtures turned into a nightmare" the suit said. "Roice began to get hostile, aggressive, hateful messages from Baldwin’s followers."

#nunyas news #this is going to be a weird cross into 1a terrirory

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