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Epoch Times considered harmful
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

The Epoch Times is a far-right international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement. All GIGO all the time. Now what sort of degenerate moron would ever try to dump such rotten, stinking rubbish here of all places! They would have to be complete coward as well as a total idiot too. Otherwise they would soon be as exposed as FBI agent Karl Semich and Bloomberg shill, Gunnar Larson. Doxxed, Ddossed and destroyed. Fools and their reputation capital are soon parted. Happy trails, Gramps. Don't wait for the gong.

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Collapse: Is Now Locked In
by grarpamp 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

A random blurb on overpopulation, resources, stupid Govts and Peoples... http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/12/can-any-nation-state-survive-e… Can Any Nation-State Survive The Era Of Inequality And Scarcity? We have an extraordinary opportunity to transform our unsustainable "waste is growth" economy and toxic inequality to sustainable systems that optimize well-being rather than collapse. The possibility that the United States could fragment is no longer a marginalized topic. Maps displaying various post-U.S. regional configurations accompany essays exploring how and why a break-up of the U.S. would be a solution to regional and ideological polarization, for example, Max Borders' recent article, Dear America: It's Time to Break Up. But two forces larger than political polarization may fragment nation-states across the globe, including the U.S.: inequality and scarcity. Inequality and corruption go hand in hand, of course, as the wealthiest few influence the state to protect their monopolies and backstop their speculative gains. Inequality also goes hand in hand with the collapse of nation-states, as this seminal paper explains: Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies. The parasitic elite can accumulate the majority of income, wealth, political power and resources in eras of expanding abundance, as what's left is enough to support an expanding populace that consumes more per capita every year, i.e. broad-based prosperity. But once abundance transitions to scarcity, the economy and society can no longer sustain the dead weight of its outsized parasitic elite. The parasitic elite believes its bloated share of resources, wealth and power is not only sustainable but can be expanded without consequence, and so it deploys all its formidable power to keep the status quo unchanged even as scarcity lowers the living standards of the bottom 90% and hollows out the economy. In effect, the modern central state, regardless of ideological label, optimizes inequality and growth. Once growth falters while inequality continues increasing, the only possible outcome is fragmentation and/or collapse. Put another way: the status quo is no longer the solution to inequality and scarcity, it is the problem. Private-sector and political elites are incapable of recognizing they are now the problem, and so the rapid unraveling of the status quo will come as a great shock to their magical-thinking confidence in their power. The elite's delusional "solution" is a seamless, painless transition to a new era of abundance via "green energy." Unfortunately, this vision is 100% magical thinking, as all these projections ignore the physical realities of building out a global energy system that generates energy on the same scale as existing hydrocarbon energy sources. Read these three reports for reality-based assessments: The "New Energy Economy": An Exercise in Magical Thinking (manhattan-institute.org) The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth: Even "sustainable" technologies such as electric vehicles and wind turbines face unbreachable physical limits and exact grave environmental costs. (scientificamerican.com) Assessment of the Extra Capacity Required of Alternative Energy Electrical Power Systems to Completely Replace Fossil Fuels (PDF, Simon P. Michaux, Geological Survey of Finland) Read the 3-page abstract. As explained in the first paper, inequality generates collapse and so does a decline in resources, i.e. scarcity. Put the two together and the only possible outcome is collapse of all centralized nation-states that optimize inequality and endless expansion of consumption. The issue isn't ideological labels or principles, it's whether the state solves problems or covers them up with fake fixes that accelerate collapse. Nations which want to not just survive but emerge stronger have one path: a revolutionary transformation from "waste is growth" to degrowth, from an economy and state dominated by a parasitic elite to a strictly limited parasitic elite and from abject dependence on fragile supply chains originating in other nations to decentralized, localized independence for essentials. I've written a book that is a template for this transformation. This book is the culmination of a lifetime of study, observation, experience and analysis: Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States. Though I devote some analysis specifically to the U.S., the book is a template for any nation to not just survive scarcity but emerge stronger by evolving a degrowth economy and a decentralized political order. We have an extraordinary opportunity to transform our unsustainable "waste is growth" economy and toxic inequality to sustainable systems that optimize well-being rather than collapse.

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Coronavirus: Thread
by grarpamp 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

On 3/5/20, Georgi Guninski <guninski(a)guninski.com> wrote: > Is the so called "society" ready for the time when there > are not enough hospitals for ill from corona virus? > > AFAIK all ill from corona virus are sent to hospitals > to not spread the disease further. > > The Chinese built a new hospital for about a week. General purpose hospital is utterly stupid thing to be flooding cases into under a mass affliction. Hospital are general triage and specialized case facilities. Flood them with disease transmitters and you end up wiping out the entire staff thus shutting the entire hospital down. Staff and facilities are far more valuable alive to handle the random shit that shows up at hospitals and do the specialized things. Instead focus care efficiently tuned to the mass affliction by diverting all the diseased people away from hospitals and out to warehouses, cruise ships, new rapid builds, etc full of cots, food service, mass produced respirators and other med gear and supplies, tv's, internet, books, showers, tent farms, drywalled family rooms inside, etc. Everybody there is already afflicted with the single underlying issue, so train them to self care and peer care for that, same as they'd get in the flooded out hospitals for that issue. Then move whatever number you can handle out to more complex "hospital" treatment sections of the same isolation farms as needed. And accept that big losses will happen. Flooding your hospitals is *not* going to change that, and *will* make things worse. Trying to wipe out all your hospitals, all your doctors, surgeons, knowledge, etc... is not smart. Civilization shutdown its mass facilities, wrote off and forgot how to deal with massive single cause casualties since 70 years quiet since last big wars, and other causes on that scale, many of which were easy... "stop the bleeding"... not "do not catch it too" kind of pandemic hasn't really been seen in 100+ years. Now all you have left in cities of *millions* of people, is under 500 beds total worth of proper isolation wards, those are largely meant for holding new unknown bugs and the recurring background noise of known nasties, with all other space on hospital land dedicated to five star baby birthing hotels, trendy cancer shops, pointless architectural atriums, big office rooms, etc. And all other space in the cities completely tuned to commercial purposes. With zero durables supply stockpiles, and no excess production capacity maintained on decade[s] span cold standby... because "just in time" wiped all that out. Deadly contagion is fucked up, expect that. You should have. People warned you. Oldnews Protip: Think, prepare, options, then you can isolate yourselves from people, buy some time, ride some things out. https://old.reddit.com/r/preppers+prepping+supplychain/

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Cryptocurrency: US SEC Gov Approves Bitcoin ETFs Amid Epic Shamefest, Crypto WINS !
by grarpamp 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Hilariously fucking epic media disaster for US Govt... https://twitter.com/SECGov/status/1744829327294837236 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission @SECGov 23m Today the SEC grants approval for #Bitcoin ETFs for listing on all registered national securities exchanges. The approved Bitcoin ETFs will be subject to ongoing surveillance and compliance measures to ensure continued investor protection. "US SEC: Today's approval enhances market transparency and provides investors with *efficient access to digital asset investments within a regulated framework.* -- Chair, Gary Gensler (tweet image text, facepic, *bold)" Jan 9, 2024 - 9:11 PM UTC 5,471 18,855 9,634 38,889 - We Won! https://twitter.com/GaryGensler/status/1744833049064288387 Gary Gensler @GaryGensler 2h The @SECGov twitter account was compromised, and an unauthorized tweet was posted. The SEC has not approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded products. Jan 9, 2024 - 9:26 PM UTC 23,394 10,067 16,933 25,363 - How are you supposed to protect investors when you can't even protect your Twitter account? - PROOF YOU WERE HACKED OR ITS MARKET MANIPULATION - how do we know this account's not compromised?? - LOL!!!!! WHAT IS THIS CLOWN WORLD - The hacker had the opportunity to do the funniest thing in the world, and he did it :) - Please get your own security figured out before worrying about ours - PROTECTING INVESTORS BUT YOU CANT PROTECT YOUR X ACCOUNT - At this point it's fairly obvious Gary is just farming ad revenue - Market manipulation by the SEC. You can't make it up lmao. https://twitter.com/SECGov/status/1744837121406349714 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission @SECGov 2h "The @SECGov X account was compromised, and an unauthorized post was posted. The SEC has not approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded products." Jan 9, 2024 - 9:42 PM UTC 8,932 3,653 3,125 11,126 - You usually give penalties in the 100s of millions when other private investment firms make mistakes like this that manipulate the market... What will you do to fix this? - Was the account actually compromised or was a drafted tweet released prematurely by someone who had authorized access to the account? There is a material difference and you need to be transparent with the investing public. - Well technically the first sentence is correct. Not so sure about the second one though. - AND THEN WE TOLD THEM WE GOT "HACKED" - How do I get my money back from the SEC? I bought Bitcoin because the SEC tweeted the ETFs were Approved then the Bitcoin price crashed? - Thanks, can you elaborate on this earlier tweet of yours? - You are a disgrace! You defrauded the people you manipulated. SEC must be tried!!! - This is straight up fucking clown world. - you wont fool us Gary ... - ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?! - I lost all my money because of you!!! - YOU GOT YOUR ACCOUNT HACKED AND BACK THAT QUICK?!!!? It takes us fucking weeks... I call bullshit. Something stinks here. "Today is evidence that regulators do not keep anyone "safe." They've stalled the #Bitcoin ETFs for months only to screw up colossally on the eve of approvals. Regulators don't "protect investors," they protect Wall Street." "Who will regulate the regulators?" "Our elected officials insider trade & make millions, as do Federal Reserve presidents; no one goes to jail. Our regulators who are supposed to prevent market manipulation and "protect investors" can't even protect their X account & turn a blind eye to the crimes of the elites." "What's so weird is that he isn't saying the tweet is wrong; also this has to be North Korea. BTW based on what I'm hearing there's going to be a massive investigation into this." "BREAKING: Securities lawyers tell @FoxBusiness the @SECGov will have to investigate itself for market manipulation after moving the price of $BTC up and down following the hacked tweet that it had approved the first spot BTC ETF and then saying it was fake. That said, for the SEC not to approve tomorrow would be unprecedented; it has never rejected ETF applications that have gone as far as these. Developing..." "BREAKING: The $BTC ETF announcement hack would have violated new @SECGov rules adopted in July that require a high level of "cyber security risk management," securities lawyers tell @FoxBusiness" "The SEC is going to be forced to sue itself."

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US 2nd Amendment Under Assault, Freedom Firearms Guns Defense
by professor rat 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Crisis as opportunity https://ghostgunner.net/product/ghost-gunner-3-deposit/ Unless your the kind of braindead moron that swears by " Epoch Times " ( Gramps ) Bloomberg ( Gunnar ) or the FBI ( Semich ) No gun - no fun No kill - no thrill Long live APster's instant justice system!

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US 2nd Amendment Under Assault, Freedom Firearms Guns Defense
by grarpamp 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

"... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constit… 2nd Amendment, Firearms, Guns, Self Defense, Freedom's Defense Against Tyranny, Gun Confiscation, 3D printed Guns, Blueprint Censorship, FreeSpeech, Crypto Munitions, Natural Law Posession nor production nor transfer of any nonliving "thing" can never logically be "illegal". This is not in conflict with those voluntarily choosing to not themselves posess a "thing", nor preclude sanction for those who use a "thing" against the NAP. Per the Great Reset, all your rights are now under assault by tyrant globalist politicians... the US 2nd Amd is one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diz-8FzHOLM Meaning and Purpose of 2ndA pt1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioWTwGiELo Meaning and Purpose of 2ndA pt2 Witness the list of non-libertarian countries, ~195, literally all of them, non NAP compliant, anti-libertarian shitholes, including yours... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation History proves sequences of "democratic" and tyranny practices will stomp whatever freedom they can leading to brainwashed life lacking means or any will for freedom... During the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, in 1919, a disarmament law was decreed, ordering every weapon owner to give them away to the authorities; the only exceptions were machetes and hunting shotguns. Historian Manuel Caballero argues that while Gómez final intention was to prevent his enemies from obtaining weapons, the law contributed to avoid civil wars in Venezuela for the next century.[212] In 2012 Venezuela banned private sales of firearms and ammunition hoping to lower crime rates. The Army, police, and certain groups trusted by the government (colectivos) are exempted from the ban and can buy firearms from state-owned manufacturers.[213] In 2013 Venezuela stopped issuing new firearm licenses.[214] In 2017 government banned carrying firearms in public places.[143] Since then, the government began to seize guns from civilian hands, destroying thousands every year, including more than 15,000 in 2018. More than 483,000 private guns have been destroyed since 2003, with only 3,000 of them being surrendered voluntarily. 60 disarmament centres were created in the country and the penalty for illegal firearm possession was raised to 20 years imprisonment.[215] According to the government, the only people who should carry guns are public agents. Néstor Reverol, Minister of the People's Power for Interior Relations and Justice, claimed that strict gun control led to a reduction in crime and kidnappings in Venezuela.[216] No, the top mass shootings, and murders in general, have and are ALWAYS performed by Government and religion... in wars, and in silencing opposition and freedom, and in death sentences, specifically by those following "orders" and willfully violating the NAP. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/04/10/putting_bidens_gun_co… https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-440 https://crimeresearch.org/2018/02/op-ed-new-york-times-background-checks-no… https://crimeresearch.org/2016/01/why-the-so-called-charleston-gun-purchase… https://crimeresearch.org/2018/02/with-39-killed-in-tunisia-attack-the-top-… https://crimeresearch.org/2019/01/responding-voxs-popular-americas-unique-g… https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-are-coming-for-your-guns-11601938911 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3671740 There were so many lies in Vice President Kamala Harris’ and President Joe Biden’s presentations on guns Thursday that it is hard to know where to start. One thing is certain, though: The media fact-checkers won’t question their claims. Here are just a few of the false ones: The background check system “has kept more than 3 million firearms out of the hands of dangerous people.” Since the Brady background checks began in 1994, there have been 3.5 million initial denials. However, it is one thing to stop a felon from buying a gun. It is quite another to stop a law-abiding citizen from buying a gun just because his or her name is similar to a felon’s. In 2017, for example, there were 112,000 initial denials for supposedly attempted prohibited purchases, but just 12 federal prosecutions by June 2018. The reason is that these weren’t real cases. The background check system is a mess, with the mistakes primarily born by minorities through no fault of their own. The error rate for black males is three times their share of the population. The Charleston Loophole Biden says that if there had only been more than three days to check Dylann Roof’s background, Roof would have been stopped from buying a gun, thereby preventing the horrible Charleston, S.C., church shooting. But that is a lie. You can’t buy a gun if you have a felony or certain misdemeanor convictions, or if you are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime with a possible prison sentence of at least one year. Since Roof’s arrest was for a misdemeanor drug offense, which had a maximum possible sentence of six months, a longer waiting period would not have blocked his gun purchase. If Democrats want to change the law so that any misdemeanor arrest prevents gun purchases, this would at least be related to the Charleston case. But Democrats want to impose up to a 30-day waiting period without explicitly stating that is their real aim. If they want a long waiting period, they should make a case for why this would somehow be desirable. Instead, Democrats pretend that their proposal would have stopped the Charleston shooting when their actual goal is to obtain a long waiting period. Biden said that gunmakers are “exempt from being sued. ... This is the only outfit that is exempt from being sued.” The president claims this is the top change he wants. In fact, however, if gunmakers make defective guns, you can sue them. Likewise, if they break the law (e.g., sell a firearm without a background check), you can sue them. Biden’s proposal is very different from current law. He wants gun manufacturers held civilly liable for misuse of guns they sell. This would allow lawsuits against manufacturers and sellers whenever a crime, accident, or suicide occurs with a gun. The straightforward result would be to put gunmakers out of business. Imagine what would happen to the car industry if similar rules were applied. The National Safety Council estimates that 39,404 Americans died and 4.5 million were injured from car accidents in 2018. Cars are also frequently used to commit crimes. “The vast majority of Americans believe there should be [universal] background checks.” Gun control advocates frequently claim that over 90% of Americans support background checks for private transfers of guns. Yet, the last time such laws were proposed to voters, they rejected them. When Michael Bloomberg got universal background check initiatives onto Maine and Nevada’s ballots, for example, he lost in Maine by four percentage points and won in Nevada by just 0.8 percentage points. This tough sledding wasn’t for lack of money. In Maine, Bloomberg outspent his opponents by over six times. In Nevada, he spent an incredible $35.30 per vote — three times more than his opponents. If over 90% of Americans supported these laws, this type of spending would be unnecessary. He blamed the “historic spike in homicides” on the lack of gun control laws. No sudden change in gun control laws caused last year’s spike in homicides. Instead, the real explanation is simple, and something Biden refused to consider: prisons released a large number of inmates because of COVID-19, politicians ordered police to stand down, police department budgets were cut, and prosecutors refused to prosecute criminals. In describing mass public shootings, Biden said that gun violence in this country is an “international embarrassment.” The president might not follow international news closely, but mass public shootings are much more common and deadly in the rest of the world than they are in the United States. The U.S. contains 4.6% of the world’s population, yet accounts for only 1% of the world’s shooters. Over the last decade, Europe has experienced deadlier mass public shootings than any of those in the U.S. -- ever. In November 2015, for example, 130 people were shot to death at a concert in Paris. In July 2011, 67 people were shot to death in Norway. European countries such as France, Finland, Norway, and a number of Eastern European countries have higher per capita death rates from mass public shootings than the United States does. Yet, all of these countries have stricter gun control laws than we do. These are just a few of the false claims made on Thursday. No, the rules for buying guns at gun shows are no different than buying them anywhere else. And no, when guns are unavailable neither the suicides nor the suicide attempts drop. Unfortunately, the liberal fact-checkers - as usual - are nowhere to be found. * * * Lott is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author most recently of “Gun Control Myths.” Until last month, Lott was the senior adviser for research and statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy. Thomas Massie is a Republican member of the House who has represented Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District since 2012.

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Judge Judy endorses Nikki Haley in 2024 presidential election
by Gunnar Larson 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/09/judge-jud… Famed television court personality "Judge" Judy Sheindlin endorsed 2024 presidential hopeful Nikki Haley in the GOP primary Monday, calling the former South Carolina governor "whip smart." "She is principled, measured and has that illusive quality of real common sense," Sheindlin, who for 25 years helmed the popular reality court show, said of the former ambassador to the United Nations. "I truly think she can restore America and believe she is the future of this great nation."

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Innovative Finance for Children and Young People | UNICEF China
by Gunnar Larson 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Disclosure: xNY.io and E-CNY are not affiliated. ---- https://www.unicef.cn/en/stories/innovative-finance-children-and-young-peop… Innovative Finance for Children and Young People UNICEF and UNDP launch joint research on a Child Bond Standard Children playing in schoolyard, China UNICEF China Available in: 中文 English Innovation comes in many forms. To help finance the needs of children, UNICEF and UNDP are developing a Child Bond Standard, that will cover the areas of education, health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene. The standard will facilitate the issuance of child bonds, as well as serve as a way for financial markets and bond verifiers to measure a bond’s impact on children. More than 40 per cent of the world’s population is under the age of 25. Meeting their needs is crucial to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although many socially responsible corporations and financial institutions have started aligning their activities with the SDGs, children’s rights are often not integrated into business activities and there are large financing gaps. There is a need for financial instruments and commonly accepted methodologies that both mobilize financing for children and measure the impacts of such investments on children and young people. The Child Bond Standard will include a catalogue to identify and screen projects, measures to evaluate and rate them, metrics to assess their impacts, and principles to conduct information disclosure. The standard is intended to be global, and it will be tested in developing economies initially and rolled out worldwide. The standard will be used in project design to ensure a child-focused approach will be adopted, and after project implementation to measure whether there is a positive and lasting impact on children. UNICEF and UNDP are not going to issue or verify bonds; they are producing an industry standard for issuers and verifiers. The project will draw on experience from the development of the green bonds market in China in recent years and the SDG Bonds Standard project at UNDP. This collaboration combines the strengths of the two UN agencies: UNDP’s expertise on developmental policy and its platform for the SDG Bond Standard; UNICEF’s framework for integrating children’s rights into impact assessments and its unique technical expertise in education, health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). On 28 April 2020, UNICEF and UNDP brought together 40 experts from international standard setting agencies, research and financial institutions, and young people for an online meeting to kick start the Child Bond Standard project. Developing this standard will require collaboration between international standard setters, research institutions, financial institutions and UN agencies. Financing is an important driver for achieving the SDGs. This challenge is not just about mobilizing funds and closing financial gaps. There is also a need to fundamentally realign financial markets and systems to prioritize the SDGs. The Child Bond Standard is an important step in this direction, offering an ambitious initiative for moving towards defining SDG-enabling finance for children’s well-being, and assessing the impacts of projects on children’s development. The first draft of the standard is expected by mid of 2021, with the final standard ready by the end of 2021 after a wide range of industry consultations. It is expected that the first pilot child bond will be issued by financial institutions in 2021 based on the Child Bond Standard. Mr. Shouqing Zhu, Senior Adviser of UNICEF China and Mr. Devanand Ramiah, Deputy Representative of UNDP China will lead the technical committee. UNICEF and UNDP are calling upon financial institutions and other interested stakeholders to join the technical committee to develop the Standard and prepare projects for bond issuance.

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Insurance Broker Denies Fault In Harvard Admissions Case
by Gunnar Larson 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Insurance Broker Denies Fault In Harvard Admissions Case <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/1783223?nl_pk=59612751-8689-4b1e-…> By Brian Dowling Harvard University's insurance broker said the school was more than a year late in complaining that the broker was tardy in telling Zurich American Insurance Co. about the anti-affirmative action suit that eventually ended race-conscious admissions in higher education. Memorandum attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/1783223?nl_pk=59612751-8689-4b1e-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/1783223?nl_pk=59612751-8689-4b1e-…>

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Atty Accused Of Filing Fake News Must Pay Chevron $250K
by Gunnar Larson 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Atty Accused Of Filing Fake News Must Pay Chevron $250K <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1783017?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> By Emily Sawicki An attorney representing Saudi oil heirs against Chevron Corp. must pay a quarter-million dollars in sanctions for manufacturing a news article in an attempt to sway the Ninth Circuit, a California federal judge determined, denying the lawyer's request for a hearing. 1 document attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1783017?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1783017?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…>

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