#to lawsuit money they won recently

[collinnmckinley]

So fucking sick right now... Gambit is dead. Nothing will make anyone play this game mode anymore.

This makes me so angry and emotional... i just can't anymore with this game... the one thing that got me to play the game, which is Gambit, is being buried... no rewards, no effort, no support, no nothing. They're returning one of the old maps, that they removed with beyond light might i add, with the already existing annoying type of enemies (shadow legion, fuck them bitches).

I still had some hope that they'll do something for the game mode, just a little bit of hopium, now even that is gone. I fuckin hate bungie so much right now.

Someone put it right;

Yeah, this is basically it;

#jay talks #fuck bungie #destiny 2 #gambit #destiny #destiny gambit #i am so mad right now #they're swimming in cash from in game cosmetic store #to lawsuit money they won recently #but 'enough resources to make the game better 🥺' #yeah sure we'll believe that #i am so sad and emotional right now #i really want to cry and im not joking #no amount of cayde 6 trailer or content will make me want to love this game like I used to before beyond light

[fabricdragondesigns]

From twitter

There's been big drama about this technology recently.

Back in 1999, a man named Steve Gass invented a system that sensed flesh and allowed the blade to stop and retract before it could cut into hands and fingers.

This wasn't some gimmick. It actually worked. 40,000 people in the US alone end up in the ER because of table saw injuries. When a human makes contact with a 2lb blade spinning at 5000rpm, the outcome is never a couple of stitches and a bandaid. This is when you go to hospital with your fingers in a zip bag and beg doctors to reattach them. Or when the blade goes between your fingers and bifurcates your hand in two. Nasty catastrophic injuries.

Gass' invention fixed this. The brake worked fast enough to prevent almost all these bad injuries. What could be a major catastrophe turns into a small scratch and a $150 brake and blade replacement.

And it was commercially viable too. The tech worked with any regular metal blade, and the brake mechanism could be made for under $100. The brake was just a consumable item that could be replaced quickly with no tools.

Initially Gass tried to license this technology to all the major saw manufacturers. But they all turned him down. The speculation is that manufacturers couldn't afford to put this on their low end saws because of the added cost of the brake and the need to make the saw sturdy enough to support the energy absorbed from the brake. Some low end saws retail for $150-$300, so even though the brake was cheap, it would have made that product segment unviable. And if manufacturers chose to put the brake only on their higher end models, they were afraid they'd open themselves up for lawsuits if they possessed the safety technology and intentionally omitted it on the cheaper models. So they didn't want anything to do with this.

Then Gass went to the government and lobbied for regulators to compel the use of this technology. But back then there was no appetite for that kind of intervention and Gass got a lot of bad PR for trying to impose this on the public.

So Gass decided to go with the free market approach, and started a company called SawStop which made table saws using this technology. And he proved that a lot of people were willing to pay an extra $200 to save their fingers. Who knew?

In time, the other manufactures lost almost all market share to SawStop for the medium to high end saws. Almost any new saw sold in the US over $800 was a SawStop.

And miraculously, the manufactures had a change of heart! Now they wanted this technology. So a few of them began developing their own versions. Almost none managed to bring anything to market, but at one point Bosch developed a similar technology called Reaxx and started selling these saws in the US. But SawStop sued them for infringing on their patent.

In the end, the court ruled that Bosch couldn't sell these saws in the US, and this ticked consumers off because they said this was further proof that SawStop was more interested in money than safety.

But shortly after SawStop won that lawsuit, they changed their mind. They gave Bosch a free license to use their technology. But Bosch still didn't bring back their Reaxx products. Some say that Bosch never managed to implement a reliable solution and they realized their solution would be compared to SawStop's and it would harm their brand if it didn't work as well.

Fast forward to today, 25 years after Gass invented this system. The political situation is very different, and now it's looking very likely that SawStop technology will be mandated for all new table saws sold in the US.

SawStop still have a patent for this technology until 2033, and if this regulation passes the other manufactures would theoretically have to pay license fees for every saw they sell in the US.

But in a shocking move, SawStop said that if the regulation passes, it will release the patent for free to the public. The US public safety commission, prepared for a fight, was baffled by this news. When the news sunk in, they concluded that at this point there are no more barriers for any other company to match SawStop safety.

This means that SawStop will give their rivals permission to use their technology. It doesn't mean that it will sell the parts to them, but they are not going to sue anyone who tries to make their own version. They are basically giving up their monopoly on this technology.

But the manufactures are still unanimously opposed to this regulation (except SawStop of course). They claim that this will put them out of business and that cheap affordable saws are going to be a thing of the past. The cheapest SawStop table saw costs $899, while most manufactures sell saws under $300. Since they're not selling any high end saws anymore (SawStop took all of their business), the low end is what's making them money at the moment, and now this regulation will force them out of the market completely.

If this regulation passes, we're likely not going to see saws on the market for under $700 anymore. And this will be a real obstacle for people looking to get started in woodworking, carpentry, and other construction trades that need to buy table saws. The regulation will also likely incentivize manufacturers to recall all the old saws, and that would make it hard for consumers to find cheap used saws without this safety feature. (This already happened with Craftsman's radial arm saws in the early 2000s.)

But what about the saved fingers? 400,000 catastrophic injuries and amputations over the next 10 years could be saved if this regulation passes. That seems substantial. This feels like progress. This is what an advanced society does. The end consumer will ultimately pay for it, but would you want the cabinet maker of your next kitchen remodel risk fingers and permanent catastrophic injury just to save a $100 part? Hell no!

#capitalist hell #safe saw #safety #tools

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Former President Donald Trump is diverting more donations from political supporters to fund his mounting legal costs as multiple court cases put an increased strain on his resources.

Disclosure text on the Trump presidential campaign’s WinRed digital fundraising platform now specifies that 10% of political contributions will go to his legal battles via the Save America PAC. The other 90% will be used for political campaigning to try to return him to the White House for a second term. The former president previously took 1% for his legal troubles from political donations.

Mr. Trump’s legal issues include his 37-count criminal indictment including violations of the Espionage Act and a sexual abuse civil lawsuit which was recently won by the writer, E. Jean Carroll.

The change, first reported by The New York Times, appears to have been made in February or March of 2023, according to archival footage reviewed by the newspaper.

The cost of Mr. Trump’s court battles can be seen in Save America PAC’s legal expenditures, which according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), have ballooned from $1.9million to $14.6m in 2022.

A Trump campaign spokesman declined to comment to the Times on the former president’s legal bills or whether his supporters understood where their donations were going.

The spokesman said that the Save America PAC owns a sizable email list from Trump election campaigns in 2016 and 2020, valuable data that the Trump 2024 bid is essentially leasing from the PAC.

“Because the campaign wants to ensure every dollar donated to President Trump is spent in the most cost-effective manner, a fair-market analysis was conducted to determine email list rentals would be more efficient by amending the fund-raising split between the two entities,” Trump representative Steven Cheung told The Independent.

“This saves money in the long term and is a clear contrast to what Always Back Down has done, which is frivolously waste money in an unethical manner,” he added, a reference to the Never Back Down PAC run by Mr Trump’s primary opponent, Ron DeSantis.

Several members of Mr. Trump’s legal team have departed in recent days following his second criminal indictment with little explanation.

Even with an increasing amount of donations being siphoned off for mounting legal expenses, Mr. Trump is not expected to face a money crunch any time soon.

Mr. Trump remains the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination, and last week, his campaign boasted that it had raised $7M from supporters since news broke of his indictment for allegedly mishandling government secrets.

With the campaign’s new fundraising split, that would mean around $700,000 that could be put towards his legal defence if donations were made through WinRed.

#us politics #news #the independent #donald trump #conservatives #republicans #winred #Save America PAC #political action committees #2023 #The New York Times #federal election commission #2024 elections #2024 presidential race #2024 republican primaries #classified documents #classified documents probe #indictment #legal fees

[jennyboom21]

Taylor Swift has reached an agreement with two songwriters to end a five-year long copyright lawsuit claiming she stole the lyrics to “Shake It Off” from an earlier song about “playas” and “haters,” resolving one of the music industry’s biggest legal battles without a climactic trial or ruling.

In a joint filing made on Monday in California federal court, attorneys for both Swift and her accusers – songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler – asked a judge for an order “dismissing this action in its entirety.” Before the deal, a trial had been scheduled to kick off in January.

The public filings did not include any specific terms of the apparent settlement, like whether any money exchanged or songwriting credits would be changed. Attorneys for both sides and a rep for Swift did not immediately return requests for comment.

The agreement means a sudden end for a blockbuster case that seemed headed toward the next landmark ruling on music copyrights. Following legal battles over Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” and Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” the case against Swift posed fundamental questions about the limits of copyright protection, with her lawyers arguing that the accusers were trying to “cheat the public domain” by monopolizing basic lyrical phrases.

Hall and Butler first sued way back in 2017, claiming Swift stole her lyrics to “Shake It Off” from their “Playas Gon’ Play,” a song released by R&B group 3LW in 2001. That was no small accusation, given the song in question: “Shake It Off” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 2014 and ultimately spent 50 weeks on the chart, a mega-hit even for one of music’s biggest stars.

In Hall and Butler’s song, the line was “playas, they gonna play, and haters, they gonna hate”; in Swift’s track, she sings, “‘Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.” In their complaint, the duo said Swift’s lyric was clearly copied from their song.

In the years since, Swift’s attorneys repeatedly pushed to dismiss the case, arguing that a short snippet of lyrics about “players” and “haters” was not creative or unique enough to be covered by copyrights. They cited more than a dozen earlier songs that had used similar phrases, including 1997’s “Playa Hater” by Notorious B.I.G and 1999’s “Don’t Hate the Player” by Ice-T.

Swift initially won a decision in 2018 dismissing the case on those grounds, with a federal judge ruling that Hall and Butler’s lyrics were not protected because popular culture in 2001 had had been “heavily steeped in the concepts of players, haters, and player haters.” But an appeals court later overruled that decision, and a judge ruled last year that the case would need to be decided by a jury trial.

“Even though there are some noticeable differences between the works, there are also significant similarities in word usage and sequence/structure,” the judge wrote at the time.

More recently, Swift’s team again asked the judge to dismiss the case, this time making a new argument: That documents turned over during the case had revealed that Hall and Butler voluntarily signed away their right to file the lawsuit in the first place.

In an August filing, Swift’s lawyers said the documents proved that Hall and Butler had granted their music publishers the exclusive rights to bring an infringement lawsuit over the song, meaning they lacked the legal standing to do so. Her lawyers said the pair had even emailed their publishers – Sony Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group, respectively – asking for permission to sue, but that both companies had refused the request.

“After their music publishers refused to assign to plaintiffs the claim they assert in this action, their manager unsuccessfully lobbied a United States Congressman to get a House sub-committee to intervene,” Swift’s lawyers alleged in the filing.

[carriesthewind]

Hi folks, you are probably aware that several family members of the slain victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting won lawsuits against Alex Jones last year for repeatably claiming they were actors and part of a plot to disarm the public, leading to now over a decade of horrifying harassment.

Unfortunately, although they were awarded millions in damages, they haven't seen a cent, and likely will not see any money for a very long time (as in possibly many years), due to Alex Jones's continued legal shenanigans to avoid having to pay for the damage he's done.

Even more unfortunately, the lead plaintiff in the Connecticut case, Erica Lafferty, was recently diagnosed with Stage II Orbital Lymphoma, and because of America's delightful healthcare system, her treatment is not covered by insurance.

She has a gofundme up, linked below, if you would like to donate to help her out:

#alex jones #infowars

[dojae-huh]

LSM is a greedy old man, shady with his business and his side company (Like Planning) - trying to take 1/3 of SM's overall income until 2092. But he has the vision, the will to conduct his plans. The shareholders and CEOs were on board of removing him as the income being stolen is too big, for this I'm with them. They were not right neither for not telling that old man about him being kicked-out of his producer seat. It is said that on March 26th both current CEOs will end their CEO terms +

+ hence they (LSS + TYJ) proceed with the plan they had talked with other shareholders. The plan has been ongoing since 2019, with final decision being made on Oct 2022, hence the news of SM no longer work with LP (LSM's side company) starting from Dec 31st of 2022. The shareholders have been fed up with LSM's shady stealing for awhile, hence they feel the need to end things with him. After ending things with LSM and his own company, the CEOs and employees might have had a talk abt the future +

of the company as well, hence the announcement of SM 3.0 and Kakao's acquirement of SM's share. But other directors (including Kim Young Min and Yoo Young Jin) told they are not on board (because they might have been a part of LSM's shady business) and will not move forward without LSM. Then LSM proceed to sell a huge amount of his shares to H*** (which is f*cking worse to me) and we now have this mess. It is also said that H*** wants to acquire around 40% of SM's share in order to gain +

the power to appoint new CEOs in the shareholders meeting which will be held this March. It is also said that Kakao just recently received funding from Arab (which is around 1,200 billion won), and for God knows what that amount of money will be spent on. All source isplus (/article/view/isp202302070037) etoday (news/view/2220860) joongang (/article/25139610) (don't know why the links can't be posted - so sorry!)

+ Here's my take on the situation: LSM is way too greedy (well notorious for this since JYJ's lawsuit). Even other SM's artists, I think it was Kangta who once said that he doesn't receive that much money from copyrights (he wrote Hope and that song is like just the anthem of SM), but that he's satisfied because he still has other incomes. There was also a post/picture circulating on twitter and said that for activities in Korea the artists only receive 10 out of 100, and we alr know that +

+ we already know that it takes years for SM's artists to buy their own houses... I mean if LSS and TYJ could proceed well with SM 3.0 it would mean more freedom for artists, but like they announced it without telling LSM and now we got this freaking mess 💀 The coming days will be stormy, I just hope everything is all and well for artists we love/like. I still can't get over the news of H*** acquiring SM's stock 😩

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I think, Korean business is just a super shady place in general. Sincere and law-abiding people don't survive among sharks. We can start from Samsung owning 1/3 of the country... the rules are different there.

LSM might love his money, but he also loves his artists. He produced albums that didn't bring money and supported artists who left the company. LSM is not white and not black, he is just a person with shades of grey. 6% royalties is a normal thing. Where did you get 1/3 of income? He probably took too long to decide to whom to sell his shares, so the minor shareholders became nervous and easily swayed.

I don't possess enough information and knowledge to have an educated opinion on the matter, to judge whether Kakao or Hybe is worse, who is the real problem - LSM, co-CEOs or Align. It is evident, however, that SM needs restucturing and fresh blood (from stylists to album designers and A&R people). It is also evident that music and production wise the company makes the right things. GOT, aespa's quick success with hit songs taking gp by storm, solo artists getting more freedom and experimenting with artistic expression, etc. So someone in the company is capable. The house is on fire but 127's comeback continues to run smoothly for now. There should be some margin of safety.

I was really surprised about Hybe, but I guess no other company free of Kakao or Samsung has the money. A lot of the time entertainment companies are sold to foreign investors (like Chinese companies), and it's worse than domestic ones.

Yes, Army will have a field day and try to live the life of rich enterpreneurs taking the laurels they didn't earn, but ignore them. Dem Jointz and other producers write for both companies, same with MV makers, and some idols from two labels are friends.

Lol, if NCT comebacks to Vlive I will even rejoice over this new development.

#ask me away #threeone

[coochiequeens]

Canada .....

The Native Women’s Association of Canada isreeling after Ottawa cut $48 million from the advocacy organization, resulting in a staff of 75 being reduced to 30.

“Leaving us to start the fiscal year with $10 million — that’s a very significant decrease,” CEO Lynne Groulx told Global News.

A national apprenticeship program and several smaller programs administered by NWAC ended in March and with that ended the federal funding.

Groulx said NWAC has long lobbied for stable core funding to operate, and not just project funding, which comes and goes.

The organization has found itself in the crosshairs of critics over how it has spent money in recent years, renovating its head office in Gatineau to include high-end event rental spaces, opening luxury “resiliency lodges” in Quebec and New Brunswick, and until this funding cut, planned to start a boutique hotel.

Also Canada

By Shay Woulahan. April 12, 2024

A trans-identified man and diaper fetishist in Canada who identifies as “non-binary” has won his legal case against the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) to have them pay for an experimental surgery that would leave him with both his penis and a “neo-vagina.” Ontario taxpayers will now be forced to spend up to $70,000 flying him to Texas for the surgery due to its unavailability in Canada.

The man, 33, was simply identified as KS in the lawsuit, and made international headlines last week after Ontario’s Divisional Court began deliberating on whether he was entitled to have an “penis-preserving vaginoplasty” covered by the province’s public health scheme.

See rest of article

#Canada #Native Women’s Association of Canada #Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) #$70000 of tax payer money #penis-preserving vaginoplasty #Women’s safety versus men's gender feelz

[orlaithsbloggg]

USWNT on field success and off field success

Beginning in 1991, the United States women's soccer team has won a total of four World Cups. Keep in mind that a women's World Cup only occurs every four years, making the United States team very successful within the last two decades. The women's soccer team also has four Gold Olympic medals and has been ranked #1 in the world for the past 13 years. With all of their recent success, players decided to advance their advocacy and demand more with change. For many years, numerous players on the women's team have been advocating for equal pay as men, advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, and many other social justice issues. After years of struggling, the women decided to take things to the next level and confront the federation.

I must mention the mens United States soccer team has NEVER won a World Cup or an Olympic medal, yet for years they were not only receiving more support from the federation, they were also getting paid far more than women. Up until the lawsuit in 2019, women were roughly only making less than 8 cents per every dollar men were making. The most success the men's soccer team has ever gotten was one hundred years ago in the 1930 World Cup, and at that they only made it to the semi finals finishing in third place. 

In 2019 before the women went and won the World Cup, The United States Women's National Team sued the United States Soccer Federation for gender discrimination under the Equal Pay Act. The women's team presented that the men's team was making approximately 38% more per game. 38% more per game despite the women having more on field success and larger viewership revenue. In this lawsuit it was also revealed that the men's team earned three times more for their early elimination in the 2014 World Cup than what the women's team earned for winning the World Cup in 2015. Bonuses were also a major topic throughout the lawsuit, stating men were receiving more than twice the amount for playing in a few games and losing, than women were receiving winning the tournament. The lawsuit ultimately came to a $24 million settlement, $22 million for the 28 players who were behind the lawsuit, and $2 million as a fund for women's soccer all across the United States. 

Not only did the lawsuit have a major impact on the nation and all the players who were behind the lawsuit, it also guaranteed that from now on, there will be equal pay for all male and female soccer players, especially in major tournaments, such as the Olympics and World Cups. From here on out there will be identical revenue sharing and equal dispensation of World Cup prize money. This case is the first time in history where female athletes have sued for gender discrimination and won. All of this contributes to the U.S Women's team notably being known for their major on field success as well as off field success.

https://harvardpolitics.com/u-s-womens-soccer/

[djrobblog]

Earth, Wind & Fire’s legal win against cover band puts spotlight on both: would you pay to see a legacy band?

EWF court win begs the following question: would you pay good money to see a cover band or a group with none or very few of its original members?

(March 8, 2024). The legendary R&B/pop band Earth, Wind & Fire, which still consists of three members of its classic 1970s/‘80s lineup — Philip Bailey, Ralph Johnson and Verdine White (brother of late founder Maurice) — recently won a lawsuit against a cover band.  The legal battle centered on the group’s trademark and the tribute band’s “deceptive and misleading” marketing tactics which tricked…

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#cover band #Earth Wind & Fire #lawsuit #music news

[whitepolaris]

Does This Story Go Up in Flames?

Cases of spontaneous human combustion are rare, but Georgia has one alleged incident-of particular interest because its victim survived to tell the tale.

On November 12, 1974, Jack Angel was sixty-six, in good health, the owner of a successful clothing enterprise, and recently married. He had traveled from College Park to Savannah in a motor home he had transformed into a showroom, but due to an unfortunate encounter with a state trooper, he arrived an hour late for an appointment with a buyer at the Ramada Inn. His client was gone, and the hotel had rented his room. Angel settled onto a couch in the motor home for the night.

That is the last conscious moment Angel had for four days. When he woke around noon on November 16, his right hand "was just burned, blistered," he said, charred black. "And I had this explosion in my chest. It left a hell of a hole. I was burned down here on my legs and between my groin, down on my ankle, and up and down my back. In spots."

Amazingly, Angel felt no pain. He showered, staggered into the hotel, and ordered a Scotch but fainted into the arms of an employee before he could drink it. "I woke up in the hotel," he relayed, to see a doctor "with a pair of tweezers pulling skin off my arm."

After twelve hours, Angel felt "excruciating pain." A doctor explained to him that he wasn't burned externally, but was burned internally! He was transferred to a Veterans Administration hospital with a burn center, where Dr. David Fern found Angel's ulna nerve destroyed and the median nerve questionable. Surgery and antibiotics did not improve the condition of his right hand, which became septic. In January 1975, his arm was amputated below the elbow.

Angel was unsettled by what the doctor had told him about his burn being "internal." He asked his wife to examine the motor home for electrical faults and signs of fire or burning. She found "no evidence of fire in that bus," he said. No burns on the sofa, sheets, his pajama, or clothing displays. Enter a prominent Georgia law firm that offered to sue the motor-home manufacturer on a contingency-fee basis. The law firm would receive no money unless it won the case.

The lawyers considered lightning as a source for the injuries, but weather records revealed no storm. Overhead power lines affecting the vehicle were considered, along with the electrical system of the motor home itself. Both possibilities were dismissed.

The inspectors then considered the plumbing system of the vehicle. The hot-water pump had a slipped drive belt, and they believed that when Angel attempted to take a shower, he got only cold water, went outside, removed the metal cover over the water heater, and opened a safety valve-which would have unleashed a jet of hot pressurized water. According to this theory, he then reentered the vehicle and collapsed.

Angel and the lawyers sued for $3,000,000, claiming that the marker of the motor home neglected to design a safe water heater and pressure valve, and failed to warn owners of the danger. The case continued for two and a half years but was dropped by the lawyers a week before a trial date. "We never could come up with enough to really keep us in court," said one.

"I really don't know what happened to me," Angel said. "The only explanation is that I was a victim of spontaneous human combustion." He admitted that he knew nothing about SHC but asked, "Something has to cause it, doesn't it?"

Jack Angel's plight was championed by Larry E. Arnold, an engineer and paranormal investigator who had studied SHC and wrote an account of the case for FATE magazine in 1982. However, seven years later, FATE published an article questioning that original claim. The authors, Joe Nickell and John F. Fischer, had spent two years, examining thirty cases of SHC and found that all had "mundane explanations." They reviewed Angel's lawsuit filed in the superior court for Fulton County in 1975. A portion reads: "On November 12, 1974, Plaintiff was attempting to take a shower in said motor home which was parked on a motel parking lot in Savannah, Georgia. While Plaintiff was in the process of taking a shower, the water suddenly stopped flowing from the shower plumbing.

"Plaintiff, in attempting to discover the reason for the loss of water pressure, exited said motor home and attempted to inspect the hot water heater. In making said inspection of the hot water heater, the pressure valve on the hot water heater released and as a result, scalding hot water under tremendous pressure was sprayed upon Plaintiff."

Angel's inspectors found the water-heater safety-relief valve in the open position, as did an insurance company working for the manufacturer. Nickell and Fischer also found inconsistencies in teh times of Angel's burning.

That's all well and good. But how do explain the doctor's statement that Angel's body burned form the inside?

#weird georgia #type read #long ass read

[the-firebird69]

So we have a little fun with the a****** now it's going around with him again and it sees two assholes and we're decided to do something to them then died yesterday and he fell off the gamble house and Trump is slated to and is threatening not to fall off the gamma house and it's incriminated him so that's what it is and it really pissed off Dan. Thinking that he did it. There's a whole bunch of stuff going on with regards to that but really the max talked about it they said we need to shut these two down they're sitting there threatening him for just about everything and I've had enough of it mostly they're trying to try and harm us and they're going out there and they're picking them up and pulling them in and sending them to prison. It's happening right now. It is a huge huge amount of people who were upset about it and they started going after trumpsters. There's a massive number of them that are under arrest and it is for picking on our son and picking a fight with him and there are tons of them going to prison right now and the idiot doesn't get it but he will and there's a whole bunch of other people who are getting involved now but the max say that they are going to go after them much harder now because they keep on doing it and doing it and it's ridiculous

-there's a few people who are getting in trouble right now they are skulking around the neighborhood and they do it every once in awhile but now they're doing it for real and they're trying to sneak up on Dan believe it or not there's a whole bunch of them doing it there's a few other things happening in town

-there there are about 50 police looking for Dan and Trump and it's for this morning shenanigans and they are upset and are going after him and it is not a far-fet story now the Guantanamo Bay thing and so to see it for ming. It's turning into a war with the clones and it's going on now.

-there were 10 lawsuits submitted this morning five of them are against the trumpsters and their group actions and that means that they're a ton of people all of them are lined up against them and that's one reason why they're threatening him they're talking about the donut hole and some other stuff and you've had it with these two idiots they haven't threatened with everything and it doesn't do anything and it's kind of a waste of time but it's been a good heads up and there's tons and tons of people who are after them but the cases were accepted and that's important part two of the other cases were going on today and these guys did not do well and they haven't closed which is odd and the deliberated for only about 10 minutes and they said that they will have a final decision tomorrow and that that is a little odd it's strange well okay he sat down for 10 minutes and found them guilty it's almost better to hold them in court than to do that but those two trial courts cases were against Trump and his people and they were both group actions and each group they're about 300 people and from one group to the next 90% of them are different people some have different characters I know the same people but really they won the case and yeah as soon as listed at the end they think that they're putting him in there and from the first one they owe them three grand from the second one five grand and from the first case it was already one like $8,000 it's a total of only $16,000 now and the court is seeking things instead of Cash money and it's it's a different story when you have an asset instead of money and you can have the court liquidat it. There's a lot of things going on but really this is a huge one because the court has been trying to get them to pay and recently a lot of minority molok have got no bored and they say when you pay you really do pay and they can't seem to do it. Mac is stepping in every once while I can't do it and they got a big forest and they're trying it's been only 3 days since the judgment and they're trying only to send it for two days if these guys obstructed up in Tallahassee it's drying more down to try and get the checks out. B there's more going on it's not a ton of stuff but it's important

-there once issued for John remillard and his son and for their antics at Walmart too it's really for other stuff and the issue them now it's for treason

-they're gassing up they're huge ships and there's a row of them and there are a few million that are getting ready and they're going to start ferrying idiots up there and they want to come down the river and outfit as they come down and we say it's not a bad idea and we can escort them if they have big stuff and they want to go ahead and do it and Matt wants to do it and give them the hell out of here and have them fight the clones. ... And it's going on momentarily and it'll be big ships 5 MI and they're going to push now all the muck out.

-and there's a few more things

He seems to be very tired cuz he is they're real boost of adrenaline and he figured out he's shaking way too much tried to come down and it was tough but he could have clobbered anyway now I do have a couple things one is we are going to help him out second

[croc-odette]

Back in 2003, the Youth Justice Coalition mounted a “dollar for dollar” campaign urging the city to invest at least as much into youth development as it did into carceral programming.  This effort has intensified in recent years, with Black Lives Matter’s LA chapter and other local organizations pointing at LA’s bloated roughly $3 billion police budget.

During the 2020 protests, these organizations’ notion of an alternative “people’s budget,” which was explicitly influenced by participatory budgeting models and based on community desires and priorities gleaned from surveys and town halls, garnered widespread support. The uprising, and those demands, led Los Angeles officials to agree to reallocate $150 million from the Los Angeles Police Department to programs benefiting communities of color (ultimately, $60 million of that went to balance the budget).

In November 2022, Kenneth Mejia, a member of the coalition who had gone viral putting up campaign billboards visualizing the city’s budget priorities, won his race for city controller in a blowout. At the county level, activists have been organizing for years to develop a budget that invests less money in probation and jails and more in community services. All these efforts culminated in a 2020 vote by LA county residents to permanently allocate 10% of the county’s annual locally-generated unrestricted funds toward alternatives to incarceration – several hundred million dollars a year. 

Despite these successes, the county-level process has been hampered by endless bureaucracy, faltering commitments from the Board of Supervisors, and even a lawsuit from the Coalition of County Unions, which includes the powerful sheriff’s deputy union. (The broader vision behind the measure lays out a “care first, jails last” plan in which the budget of law enforcement departments like the sheriff and probation would be drastically reduced.)  And while some of the $150 million taken from the LAPD went toward participatory budgeting, the police department’s funding has only increased since.

-"The Messy Job of Repairing Historic Wrongs", Piper French, June 22, 2023

#quotes #LA #people

[kayla1993-world]

Donald Trump has shared a post on his Truth Social platform that says "one true Trump supporter" who would vote for Ron DeSantis if he wins the Republican presidential nomination. The message adds to speculation that DeSantis could face a boycott from Trump supporters if he's the GOP's 2024 candidate. Meanwhile, Arizona Republican Kari Lake, a Trump supporter who ran unsuccessfully for governor last November, told Florida's governor he "needs to wait until 2028" if he "wants a political future." While DeSantis has not formally declared his candidacy for president, he is widely expected to, possibly in the coming weeks, according to an NBC News report. Polling indicates he is the second most popular choice with Republican voters after Trump and would be his most dangerous opponent in the GOP primaries. In an April 27 post on Truth Social, country singer John Rich warned DeSantis not to run against the former president for the GOP nomination. Rich continued: "If he won, there wouldn't be one true Trump supporter left that would vote for him, and he would be destroyed in a general election is a losing proposition no matter how you look at it, so why on earth would he voluntarily run head-on into the wood chipper?" Newsweek has contacted Trump via the contact form on his website, asking for clarification on whether he would support DeSantis in the general election if he gains the Republican nomination. This past Saturday, Lake, who has been touted as a possible Trump running mate in 2024, appeared on the podcast of Rudy Giuliani, Trump's former lawyer. Lake continued: "He has a big career ahead of him, and the question is: Does he want a big political career? If he does, I think he supports Trump and continues to run Florida." Newsweek has contacted DeSantis for comment by email. In last November's gubernatorial race in Arizona, Lake lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs. Like Trump, she refuses to concede defeat, insisting the election was stolen, though this claim has been rejected multiple times in court. She recently told supporters that her team is waiting on a judge to make a final ruling on her election lawsuit and that she's prepared to take the case to the Supreme Court if necessary. In the meantime, she is "strongly considering" running for an Arizona Senate seat. In Manhattan, Trump has been arraigned on criminal charges over allegations that he falsified business records in connection with the payment of hush money to former adult film actress Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. He has pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony counts and denies all wrongdoing cases. In addition, the former president is being sued in a civil case involving rape and defamation filed by writer E. Jean Carroll. He has denied any wrongdoing and insists the 1990s incident that Carroll describes in her lawsuit "never happened."

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Moon owned shares in Central City. They were sold for $925 million in 2012

This is an explanation of the 2012 sale of Central City that was put up in the Korea CARP Café.

Regarding the sale of Central City shares: We ask for our members’ understanding regarding a special situation.

According to a Yeon Hap News article from October 16, 2012, Shin Se Gye Shopping Mall acquired 60.02% of Central City’s shares from 4 separate companies in Malaysia. The price at which the shares were sold was approximately 1.025 trillion won (close to $925.7 million dollars). After quickly checking with representatives of Central City, we confirmed that the news is true.

For several years Central City was at a deficit due to bad management, however, recently that situation was turned around and operations were completely normalized to the point where it was making a profit and the value of the asset increased by several times. This process did not happen on its own, but it was due to True Parents dedication and Heaven’s support, along with the hard work of the management team of Central City. Especially, from the beginning of the project Mr. Dal Soon Shin who worked as president of Central City and his staff showed great administrative and managerial skill, and although he did not interfere with the details of management, Hyun Jin Nim has also been providentially guiding the work from behind the scenes.

From the members’ perspective Central City is not a providential institution like Pyung Hwa Motors or the Peace Cup which carry on specific providential work, but it is purely part of a business foundation. Currently the business is bringing in a profit and it has the potential to grow in the future as well. Naturally, people will wonder why it was decided to sell the company. From a business perspective, people will wonder whether it was the best moment to sell the shares. We asked those questions to representatives of Central City.

The representative said that the sale did not just happen suddenly, he explained that it was a decision based on a careful strategic study. Based on the assumption that this was his personal opinion, the representative said that the current decision was made as a measure to manage risk by reducing the burdensome debt the company acquired from the beginning; and considering the potential of a worldwide economic recession and its impact on the Korean market, it was a wise choice to sell the asset at the best price possible to maximize profits. He also added that selling the asset was a desperate measure of last resort to confront the endless lawsuits from the Tongil Foundation and the Unification Church, and in order to absolutely complete the Yoido Parc1 Project which is the fruit of the jeong-seong of our True Parents.

Although it isn’t appropriate to enter into the details at this moment in time, if the Tongil Foundation had not initiated all types of lawsuits against Y22 which was undertaking the Yoido Parc1 Project, it would have been possible to avoid selling the shares of Central City.

The figures of the legal fees incurred from the ever-increasing lawsuits are an astronomical amount of money that both sides have wasted. Also, the damage from having to stop and prolong the construction for 2 years at the Yoido Parc1 construction site (due to the Tongil Foundation’s lawsuits) has brought financial loss in the millions. But it does not end at that. After losing and appealing the case, chairman Kook Jin Moon of the Tongil Foundation and their board members have taken their Parc1 lawsuit to the Supreme Court and they are of the position of continuing the lawsuits for many years to come. Furthermore, in spite of having been sentenced by court to pay 45 billion won plus overdue interest as the first phase of damages, the [Tongil Foundation is trying to buy time and] refusing to pay up even as they incur a 20% yearly interest rate on the amount promised.

Although the assets that should be invested for God’s providence are being thrown away at a fast rate, and the Parc1 construction site looks like a scar on the city of Seoul, there is no end in sight to the meaningless and futile lawsuits which are creating a sick atmosphere in the entire Unification Movement. Perhaps we will experience the end of the Unification Movement even before the decisions are made on the lawsuits and it will be too late to regret what happened.

In this situation, when having to make a choice between [selling] the Yoido Parc1 project or Central City, perhaps most people would choose to keep the safe and profitable Central City which on its own is a quite big asset instead of choosing the wounded and uncertain Yoido Parc1 project. However, this decision was the complete opposite. This was perhaps a measure taken in order to not allow the foundation of dedication that True Father invested into Parc1 to be lost and to never allow his dream of finalizing the project to go to waste. The measure can be seen as a strong will to bring True Father’s dream to fruition. And it also contains the unbending resolve to fight to the very end these unjust lawsuits that are destroying the providence.

God’s will and the providence are eternal. The dream that True Father had for Yoido was not unrelated to God’s providence. Therefore, it will be accomplished regardless of what sacrifices have to be made. We sincerely pray that the sale of Central City’s shares was done with this kind of big purpose behind it. We also pray that all the lawsuits come to an end as soon as possible, and that we can bring an end to this period of fighting and distrusting one another, so that we may once again join forces and focus on realizing the legacy that True Father left behind for us.

Lonely Planet review for Central City Mall A popular mall next to the express bus terminal that includes Shinsegae Department store, a food court, a six-cinema multiplex, endless underground shopping and Nolboo Yuhwangorijinheukgui, a great duck restaurant.

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Yes it is in Gangnam!!  Here is the map:

Hak Ja Han plans to open a THIRD palace at Cheongpyeong in May or June 2023

Yongpyong Resort, covering 4,300 acres, is owned by the Moons

Beaché Palace is owned by the Moons. Who paid for it?

The Ocean Resort in Yeosu is owned by the Moons

Another Moon owned golf course – part of Ocean Resort, Yeosu

Yeouido Parc 1 dispute – UC Foundation lose, Y22 win

Moon’s unused Geomun Island Palace

The Cheonjeonggung Museum has been called a ‘palace’ by some people. It should never be called a palace.

New Hope Farms International Equestrian Park

Belvedere purchased October 1972

#Central City #Sun Myung Moon #Unification Church #South Korea

[hollywood-addicts]

Mr. Mustard’s Background

Mr. was born in California and lived in the rich touristy neighborhood of Los Altos Hills with his Golden Retriever parents. They were known for their wealth and power in the business world, mainly because his parents were involved in many famous stocks.

When thinking about having Mr., his parents mainly thought about using him to boost their public image. However, down the line, they came up with a horrible plan: Abandon Mr., and if another family takes him in, make it look like they kidnapped him. They wanted to do this because they wanted to create a national drama, and they also wanted more money. So, on the night of a thunderstorm, they left Mr. near an apartment complex in an area that was the opposite of theirs.

While coming home, recently kicked out Tabs and Melanie Mustard (Tabby Cat and Rat) were returning back when they found Mr. curled up in a corner. Because they were grabbing the rest of their belongings, they had on hand a Walkman and a Thunder Jacket. After slipping the gear on, they took him back to their apartment.

In the morning, they started to get to know each other over a breakfast of pancakes. While talking, Mr. learned that Tabs and Melanie were kicked out because their parents learned that they were in a relationship. They also decided to both go by Melanie’s last name because it “pissed off her old man.” (This was not in official documents however, because same sex marriage was still illegal.) During this time, the two girls also learned that Mr. liked mustard on his pancakes.

After a little while, it got out that Mr. was staying with the Mustard family after they tried to get Mr.’s documents set up. This set off the lawsuit plan in motion. Luckily, they were able to gather enough evidence of what occurred and won the lawsuit. This helped them finally gain custody of Mr. and it gave them the money they needed to live comfortably. Mr.’s old parents were also sent to prison because of the previous charges, and it was also found that they were doing illegal activities within the stock market.

After the lawsuit was done, Mr. became a bit of a celebrity. He appeared in talk shows all over the US, and even made an appearance in a movie that was made based off of his story. Because of his involvement with television, he learned that he had a liking towards acting and decided to go to school for it.

During all of this, he got it in his head that his audience and colleagues only liked him when he was happy. This ideology first grew roots with his original parents. Whenever he became sad, his dad would say “It was counterproductive,” and his mom would say “It’s bad for business. It runs on company time.” To keep up this mindset, he became addicted to AntiDepressants.

After he was done with school, he started to get movie gigs and guest appearances in TV shows. This got the attention of Lola Tilly, who was looking for a roommate character for her upcoming sitcom “Batty Banter.” While she knew of the famous lawsuit, she wanted Mr. because she knew that he would make a good foil for her character in the show.

Mr. was interested in the show, but what sold him on it was the fact that it was going to have him play “the gay roommate.” In all of his roles, he was never allowed to fully be himself unless it was in a documentary. He also was sold on the show because there were other gay characters being portrayed and behind the writers room as well. In this time, this was a taboo thing, so the fact that he could be a part of this encouraged him.

Mr. helped figure out the main conflict of the story with there being an abandoned child, with obvious main inspiration from his experience with abandonment.

While being friends with Lola, he also got to meet her agent Chestnut Elmers, who he may or may not have a liking to….

#oc #original story #original premise #mr. mustard #Mr. #character background #hollywood addicts

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50 Cent Ready To Seize Ex-Employee’s Properties Over $6M Lawsuit.

50 Cent is not lenient. The hip-hop mogul recently won a $6.2 million lawsuit against a former employee who was found guilty of embezzling funds, and he is now requesting that the employee pay back the money. According to AllHipHop, Mitchell Green, the former Director of Brand Management for 50 Cent’s champagne and cognac company Sire Spirits, was exposed after being threatened with extortion.…

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