NOVEMBER 29, 2018


NEWS AND VIEWS


WORLD ECONOMIES ARE LINKED. COULD WE BE DRIFTING TOWARD A 1930S SYNDROME AGAIN? I HOPE NOT!

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46377309
Bank warns no-deal could see UK sink into recession
By Jill Treanor
Business reporter, BBC News
28 November 2018

VIDEO CLIP -- Carney warns of lower pound and higher inflation on no-deal

A no-deal Brexit could send the pound plunging and trigger a worse recession than the financial crisis, the Bank of England has warned.

It said the UK economy could shrink by 8% in the immediate aftermath if there was no transition period, while house prices could fall by almost a third.

The Bank of England also warned the pound could fall by a quarter.

The Bank's analysis comes after the Treasury said the UK would be worse off under any form of Brexit.

This Bank's scenario is not what it expects to happen, but represents a worst-case scenario, based on a so called "disorderly Brexit".

The scenario looks at the five-year period after the UK leaves the EU.

But by the end of 2023, the economy is expected to resume growing.

What did we learn from the Bank of England?
Brexit will make UK worse off, government warns
"These are scenarios not forecasts. They illustrate what could happen not necessarily what is most likely to happen.

"Taken together the scenarios highlight that the impact of Brexit will depend on the direction, magnitude and speed of the effect of reduced openness of the UK economy," Bank of England governor Mark Carney said.

What is a 'disorderly Brexit'?
The Bank of England has made a number of assumptions - not forecasts - about what would cause a disorderly Brexit.

The UK reverts to World Trade Organization rules
No new trade deals are implemented by 2022
The UK loses all access to existing trade agreements between the EU and third countries
Severe disruption at borders because of customs checks
Migration reverses from 150,000 a year to falling by 100,000 a year
The Bank of England does not give a probability of this happening.

What happens during this disorderly scenario?
Scenarios drawn up by the Bank of England show that GDP would fall by 8% in 2019 against its current forecast.

Growth would quickly resume and the economy would expand again by the end of 2023 but be smaller than where it was before.

Unemployment would rise to 7.5%, house prices fall by 30% and commercial property prices collapse by 48%.

Interest rates would reach 4%.

What other scenarios did the Bank of England consider?
The Bank looked at three other scenarios.

... a "disruptive" Brexit - one where the UK retained access to some trade agreements
... what might happen if trading arrangements were agreed to give the UK a "close" relationship
... what might happen if trading arrangements were agreed to give the UK a "less close" relationship

A close relationship is one with no customs checks, no regulatory barriers and a partial deal agreed on financial services.

A less close relationship is one where customs checks start after 2021 and other regulatory checks are put in place.

What happens in these scenarios?
If Brexit is disruptive rather than disorderly, GDP falls 3% over the five years to 2022, house prices slide 14%, and unemployment reaches 5.75%

If a close trading relationship is agreed, the economy could still be 1% smaller than if the UK had remained in the EU but 1.5% higher than the bank's most recent estimate.

If it is less close, the economy's growth could be 3.75% less than if the UK had remained in the EU and 0.75% less than forecast over the last inflation report.

These figures cover the period to 2023.

What does this mean for Theresa May?
By political reporter Brian Wheeler

Theresa May will not have told the Bank's economists what to say in their report but it is definitely helpful to her. The timing is significant too.

A leaked copy of Downing Street's media grid had today down as "economy". Tomorrow is "security".

So expect a steady drumbeat of official warnings about the dangers of a no-deal Brexit in the run up to 11 December's vote.

Downing Street's hope is that however much they hate her deal (and they do) MPs will come to view it as the only safe option.

The problem is that these kind of warnings, however well-grounded in facts and figures, are too easily written off as "project fear". The more scary they sound, the easier they are to dismiss.

What has been the political reaction?
Conservative MP and Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused Mark Carney of talking down the pound - saying the Bank of England's warnings tonight "lack all credibility".

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Rees-Mogg said "project fear" had become "project hysteria".

And the pro-Brexit former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith said: "The bottom line of both sets of reports is that project fear like Frankenstein's monster has been resuscitated and is stalking the land."

However, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: "The Bank has confirmed what other independent reports this week have been telling us: a no-deal Brexit could be even worse than the financial crisis of 10 years ago, and the country would be much worse under Theresa May's deal," he said.

What else did the Bank say?
Mr Carney said the Bank was monitoring markets and indicated that it was ready to lend to UK banks if necessary.

He also indicated that banks might be allowed to hold less capital if risks became too great.

But he warned there was little the Bank could do.

"There is little monetary policy can do to offset the potentially significant hits to productivity and supply that Brexit could entail... the future potential of this economy and its implications of jobs, real wages and wealth are not in the gift of central bankers," he said.

What does it mean for the banking sector?

The Bank of England has exposed seven major lenders to a stress test which it said was two and half times more severe than the Brexit scenarios.

All seven lenders - Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, Standard Chartered, Santander and Nationwide Building Society - passed the test.


MURDER MOST FOUL – A WEALTHY MAN, A “TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE,” KILLED HIS FAMILY MEMBERS OVER MONEY. PLENTY OF MONEY IS SUPPOSED TO ME US BETTER, NOT WORSE.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colts-neck-nj-mansion-fire-murder-charges-against-brother-in-mansion-fire-slayings/
CBS/AP November 29, 2018, 11:03 AM
Brother killed family in N.J. mansion over finances, set fire as cover-up, prosecutor says

VIDEO – CBS NEWS LIVE

FREEHOLD, N.J. -- Prosecutors say financial motives led a New Jersey technology executive to kill his brother, the brother's wife and their young children before setting fire to their two homes.

Authorities say 51-year-old Paul Caneiro killed the family in Colts Neck and then set fire to their home and his own. They said he set the fire at his own home to destroy evidence and to make it look like the extended family was being targeted.

Paul Caneiro was charged with murder in the deaths of his 50-year-old brother, Keith, along with Keith's wife Jennifer, and their two children.

Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni says the financial motive stemmed from two businesses the brothers ran in Asbury Park, a technology firm and a pest control company. He says he cannot detail their financial picture. He says his office has also launched a financial investigation.

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Booking photo of Paul Caneiro. OCEAN TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT

Paul Caneiro was also charged with aggravated arson, possession of a firearm and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose, according to court records cited by NJ.com. Authorities say both a gun and a knife were seized from Paul Caneiro. Prosecutors said previously that Keith Caneiro was fatally shot but have not yet confirmed how the other three were killed. The criminal complaint indicates Paul Caneiro may have used the seized knife to stab one or more of the other three victims.

Paul Caneiro has been in custody since authorities accused him of setting fire to his Ocean Township home on Nov. 20, hours before flames were discovered at the Colts Neck mansion where Keith Caneiro and his family lived. Prosecutors say they believe Paul Caneiro roused his sleeping wife and daughters, who were not injured in the blaze, at the Ocean Township home.

"The fire was effectively a ruse designed to make it appear as if the overall Caneiro family was somehow targeted," Gramiccioni said.

He called it the "most brutal" crime he'd seen in his career.

Paul Caneiro's lawyer, Robert A. Honecker, did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the newest charges.

Honecker previously maintained his client was innocent and said his client was "devastated by the news of his brother and his family's deaths."

Police said Paul Caneiro used gasoline to fuel the fire at his two-story Colonial in Ocean Township, about 10 miles from his brother's $1.5 million home in Colts Neck.

Paul and Keith Caneiro were the principals in two businesses, a computer systems company called Square One and a pest control business, both housed above a trendy cafe in Asbury Park. Workers in the area frequently saw Paul Caneiro there.

Obituaries describe Keith's children as 11-year-old Jesse, who liked World War I and II history, video games and sports, and 8-year-old Sophia, who loved ice skating, ninja classes and making cookies with her nanny. Funeral services for the family are planned Sunday.

© 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.



MORE DIRT ON FACEBOOK, AND THIS IS THE LAST STRAW FOR ME. I’M GOING TO REMOVE MY ACCOUNT. WELL, MAYBE NOT, BUT I AM TEMPTED. EVERY TIME I SEE THAT BOYISH, SMOOTH INNOCENT-LOOKING FACE OF ZUCKERBERG’S NOWADAYS AND READ YET ANOTHER STORY ABOUT WHAT HE HAS DONE, “INADVERTENTLY,” OF COURSE, I GET ANGRY. THE EXTENT TO WHICH PEOPLE DO HIDE BEHIND GOOD LOOKS AND WEALTH IS SAD.

https://gizmodo.com/george-soros-foundation-calls-facebook-vile-reprehensi-1830455147
FACEBOOK
George Soros Foundation Calls Facebook 'Vile,' 'Reprehensible' for Pushing Conspiracy Theories
Tom McKay
11/15/18 12:05amFiled to: OUR GARBAGE FACEBOOK

Photo: Francois Mori (AP)

The Open Society Foundations (OSF), a international philanthropic and grantmaking organization, has responded to a bombshell report that senior management at Facebook including Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and chief lobbyist Joel Kaplan were involved in hiring a Republican opposition research firm named Definers Public Affairs to counter the company’s growing list of critics—including by peddling conspiracy theories about OSF’s founder, Hungarian-American investor and Holocaust survivor George Soros.

Spoilers: They’re not happy.

On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that as critics ramped up a campaign charging that Facebook’s aggressive international expansion efforts led it to ignore numerous incidents in which it was “exploited to disrupt elections, broadcast viral propaganda and inspire deadly campaigns of hate around the globe,” the company sought to discredit those critics using a variety of dirty tricks. One of those was contracting Definers, which waged a campaign to “cast Mr. Soros as the unacknowledged force behind what appeared to be a broad anti-Facebook movement.”

Several of the groups affiliated with Freedom from Facebook, which was spearheading the effort to rein in the social media giant, had received payments from OSF—a link tenuous enough to be accurately characterized as yet another right-wing conspiracy theory about Soros.

Soros, who is frequently vilified by virtually the entire conservative movement and nearly constant target of anti-Semitic propaganda for his philanthropic initiatives, had a bomb arrive at his house in October. In a letter to Sandberg, and CC’d to Zuckerberg as well as major Silicon Valley figures and members of Congress, OSF President Patrick Gaspard drew a direct connection between Facebook’s alleged “smear campaign” and the attempted bombing. He added that the company’s behavior more broadly undermines “the very values underpinning our democracy.”

“As you know, there is a concerted right-wing effort the world over to demonize Mr. Soros and his foundations, which I lead—an effort which has contributed to death threats and the delivery of a pipe bomb to Mr. Soros’ home,” Gaspard wrote. “You are no doubt also aware that much of this hateful and blatantly false and anti-Semitic information is spread via Facebook.”

“The notion that your company, at your direction, actively engaged in the same behavior to try and discredit people exercising their First Amendment rights to protest Facebook’s role in disseminating vile propaganda is frankly astonishing to me,” Gaspard continued. “It’s been disappointing to see how you have failed to monitor hate and misinformation on Facebook’s platform. To now learn that you are active in promoting these distortions is beyond the pale.”

Gaspard added that Facebook had settled on Soros as a “deliberate strategy to distract” from its own scandals, writing: “This is reprehensible, and an offense to the core values Open Society seeks to advance. But at the bottom, this is not about George Soros or the foundations. Your methods threaten the very values underpinning our democracy.”

Gaspard asked for a meeting with Sandberg to directly discuss the issue and what Facebook plans to do in response. But it’s clear that after years of privacy scandals, accusations of complicity in spreading propaganda and enabling genocide, and amoral advertising tactics, the situation at Facebook is still getting worse.

Other revelations in the Times exposé included assertions that it enlisted Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer—who receives large donations from Facebook staff and whose daughter works for the company—to secretly pressure Senator Mark Warner into toning down his criticism of Facebook and make it clear he was expected to work with, not against, the company. The Times also wrote that Facebook supported the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, which was opposed by sex workers’ advocates and by numerous tech companies, in part to curry favor with senators on both sides of the aisle who had criticized it in the past.

Finally, the paper reported that Definers runs an affiliate called NTK Network, which ran “dozens of articles” criticizing Facebook rivals like Google and Apple, and that NTK’s “content is frequently picked up by popular conservative outlets, including Breitbart.” In other words, while Facebook was publicly talking a big game about “fake news,” its PR partner was generating it.

The Open Society Foundations did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Gizmodo, and we’ll update this post if we hear back.

Update: 11/15/2018, 7:45 p.m. ET: In a statement to Gizmodo, OSF wrote:

The Open Society Foundations and a wide range of civil society organizations for the past three years have been targeted by disinformation campaigns across the world. These have often taken the form of large-scale attacks on the internet, carried out by players hostile to free expression, human rights, and democracy.

The latest revelations that Facebook hired a PR firm to discredit digital rights activists, George Soros, and the Open Society Foundations goes a step further: a major digital platform is not only hosting disinformation campaigns, but it is orchestrating and promoting them.

We urge Facebook to stop engaging in practices inspired by the enemies of democracy across the globe. Facebook should launch an independent investigation of what took place and to publish a full report disclosing the techniques that were used in their effort to compromise activists and George Soros.

Additionally, Color of Change, one of the civil rights groups that was involved in the Freedom from Facebook effort and received unrelated funding from Soros, wrote to Gizmodo:

Facebook is violating its most fundamental mission of building human connection, as well as the trust placed in it by billions of people, by advancing extremist far-right conspiracy theories that are aimed at denigrating Jews and belittling people of color. It is reprehensible, it is dangerous, and they should be ashamed.

Facebook’s response to our campaign, which challenged them to improve their platform and create safe conditions for Black people and other marginalized groups, was to fan the flames of anti-Semitism. By suggesting to reporters that Color Of Change is acting as the puppet of Mr. Soros merely because he is one of our many funders, they have given oxygen to the worst anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of the white nationalist Trump base. Those theories aim to not only dehumanize Jews, but also seek to deny legitimacy to progressive social movements led by people of color, by suggesting we have no agenda of our own. They are an attempt to divert attention from the conservative movement’s real attacks on our community’s vote, our health care, our liberty, and our jobs. And they breed violence. Facebook has become part of the same ecosystem that fed the fever dreams of Cesar Sayoc, accused of targeting Soros and others with pipe bombs, and Robert Bowers, the man who massacred 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue.


FACEBOOK’S HANDLING OF INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS IS ALSO UNDER CRITICISM. IN THIS CASE OF KORRYN GAINES, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ASKED FACEBOOK TO REMOVE HER ACCOUNT, AND THEY COMPLIED.

THE STORY OF KORRYN GAINES IS SAD, BUT NOT UNCOMMON. THE ADL CAME INTO THIS STORYLINE BECAUSE SOROS’ OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS WORKS WITH THE ADL ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, INCLUDING POLICE OVERREACH CASES SUCH AS THIS ONE. IN THIS KORRYN GAINES CASE, WHEN HER FAMILY POSTED SMARTPHONE FOOTAGE OF THE ABORTED ARREST/MURDER, AND THEN THE POLICE CONTACTED FACEBOOK AND CONVINCED THEM TO REMOVE GAINES’ FACEBOOK PAGE SO THEIR DEPARTMENT WOULDN’T HAVE TO TAKE SO MUCH PUBLIC ANGER. I UNDERSTAND THAT FROM ONE VIEWPOINT, BUT WHEN POLICE ENCOUNTER A DERANGED PERSON THEY FREQUENTLY END UP SHOOTING THEM, EVEN WHEN MORE HUMANE WAYS OF HANDLING IT ARE AVAILABLE.

READ A LITTLE OF THIS ANTIDEFAMATION LEAGUE DOCUMENT, WHICH SHOWS THE COMPLEXITY AND PARANOIA OF THESE PEOPLE’S THOUGHT PATTERNS. THEY MAY OR MAY NOT BE PSYCHOTIC, BUT THEY ARE OFTEN DISAGREEABLE, ILLOGICAL AND DOWNRIGHT MALICIOUS IN MY VIEW. ON THE SURFACE OF THE SITUATION, I THINK THEY ARE FUNNY, BUT NOT HARMLESS. IF I HAD A SOVEREIGN CITIZEN LIVING NEXT DOOR, I MIGHT MOVE. IT REMINDS ME OF THE ANTICS OF THE FASCINATING COMEDIAN/ACTOR/PROVOCATEUR SACHA BARON-COHEN. LOOK AT HIS “INTERVIEW” WITH BERNIE SANDERS AS HE TRIES TO CONVINCE BERNIE OF A SCREWBALL THEORY. THAT’S WHAT SOVEREIGN CITIZENS TEND TO BE LIKE. GO TO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-gjf4WnkiI


https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/Sovereign-Citizen-Documentary-Identifiers.pdf

Our work with Facebook began after the murder of Korryn Gaines by police*. We’ve sat across the negotiating table with Facebook for years, focusing on the goal of ensuring the safety of its Black users. The recent New York Times story shows that while we were operating in good faith trying to protect our communities, they were stooping lower than we’d ever imagined, using anti-Semitism as a crowbar to kneecap a Black-led organization working to hold them accountable.

[New York Times/Open Society Foundations]


READ THIS WHOLE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE. THE DETAILS ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE IN MANY OF THE POLICE SHOOTING CASES, AND VERY SIGNIFICANT. IT’S NOT WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAD AN EXCUSE TO SHOOT, BUT WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS NECESSARY TO SHOOT. THE DESCRIPTION OF THIS WOMAN REALLY DOES SOUND LIKE THE SEVERAL “SOVEREIGN CITIZENS” THAT I HAVE READ ABOUT AND SEEN IN TWO VIDEOS. I’M SURE THEY INFURIATE POLICE OFFICERS. THEY ACT LIKE A THREE YEAR-OLD IN THE DEPARTMENT STORE WHEN HE CAN’T HAVE THE TOY GUN.

THEY DELIGHT IN PLAYING WORD GAMES WITH THE POLICE OFFICER AND QUESTIONING HIS “AUTHORITY” TO MAKE THEM DO ANYTHING AT ALL. ONE CASE WAS A VERY LARGE (FAT) BLACK MAN WHO WAS STOPPED UNDER THE STOPLIGHT AND REFUSING TO GO THROUGH IT. THE CAR WAS RUNNING, BUT HE WANTED TO CAUSE SNARLED TRAFFIC. THE OFFICER CALLED IN TWO MORE POLICE CARS AND STRONG-ARMED HIM OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND MOVED IT.

OFTEN THEY REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN CIVIL LIFE, LIKE BUYING LICENSE TAGS FOR THE CAR OR HAVING CAR INSURANCE IN FORCE. THEY FOLLOW A WHOLE COMPLICATED “PHILOSOPHY” OF LAW AND GOVERNMENT, IN ESSENCE RECOGNIZING NO LAW ABOVE THE LEVEL OF “THE COUNTY SHERIFF.” YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS. THIS LADY’S BRANDISHING A WEAPON IS NOT TYPICAL, BUT NOT UNHEARD OF. THE MOST FRIGHTENING CASE I HAVE READ ABOUT OCCURRED IN A COUNTY COURTHOUSE WHERE THE CLERK REFUSED TO DO SOMETHING LEGAL FOR HIM. HE WENT OUT ANGRILY AND BROUGHT A GUN BACK AND MAY HAVE SHOT THE LADY. THE ONE I WON’T FORGET IS WHEN A RURAL MAN FELT CHEATED BY A NEIGHBOR AND WENT OUT INTO THE WOODS, PICKED UP A LIVE RATTLESNAKE AND PUT THAT INTO THE MAN’S OUTDOOR MAILBOX. THEY ARE, IN ESSENCE, “NUT JOBS” OF A VERY DANGEROUS SORT, LIKE SOCIOPATHS. WATCH THIS VIDEO. THE WILD-EYED ARMED MILITIAS ARE OF THE SAME TYPE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_y-gLm9Hrw.

SO WHAT DOES A POLICE OFFICER DO? FIRST, CALL FOR HELP. SECOND, CONSIDER HOW IMPORTANT THEIR CONCERN WITH THE CITIZEN IS IN THE FIRST PLACE. DELIVERING A WARRANT ISN’T WORTH THE DEATH PENALTY, AND BEING SHOT BY SAID INSANE PERSON ISN’T EITHER, SO DON’T GO RUSHING IN. THE MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTION TEAM WAS NOT EVEN TRIED IN THIS CASE, WHO WOULD PERHAPS COME IN AN AMBULANCE AND HAVE A KNOCKOUT DRUG OR SOMETHING SIMILAR WITH THEM. THIRD, DEESCALATE. IF THEY DON’T KNOW HOW, THEY SHOULD BE TAUGHT HOW AND NOT PUT ON THE STREET WITHOUT KNOWING IT. THAT’S A FACTOR IN ARTICLE AFTER ARTICLE. DOES BEING CONSIDERED A HERO WEIGH MORE IN THE SCALES OF JUSTICE THAN INTELLIGENTLY DOING THEIR JOB?

Shooting of Korryn Gaines
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shooting of Korryn Gaines
Date August 1, 2016
Time 3:00 p.m.

Location Carriage Hill Circle, Randallstown, Maryland, U.S.
Type Shooting
Cause Police serving bench warrant, leading to standoff
Filmed by Korryn Gaines (filmed portions of the standoff)
Participants Korryn Gaines, Kodi Gaines, Baltimore police officers (names withheld)
Deaths Korryn Gaines (age 23)
Non-fatal injuries Kodi (Gaines' son, age 5)
Publication bans Upon police request, Facebook deactivated Gaines' social media accounts (Facebook and Instagram) featuring live coverage of the standoff

The shooting of Korryn Gaines occurred on August 1, 2016, in Randallstown, Maryland, near Baltimore,[1] resulting in the death of Gaines, a 23-year-old woman, and the shooting of her son, who survived. According to the Baltimore County Police Department, officers sought to serve Gaines a warrant in relation to an earlier traffic violation. Upon entering her apartment, the police officers were faced with the barrel of a shotgun being pointed at them which prompted them to draw their guns, resulting in a 6 hour long standoff. Gaines' five-year-old son was also grazed by a stray bullet.[2] Portions of the standoff were filmed by Gaines and posted to social-media networking sites where you can see her loading the shotgun, threatening to kill all the police officers outside her house, and attempting to convince her son that the police are there specifically to kill them; however, upon police request, Facebook deactivated Gaines' Facebook and Instagram accounts,[3] leading to criticism of the company's involvement in the incident.[4] In 2018, courts awarded the Gaines family $37 million in damages after finding that the first shot, fired by Royce Ruby and killing Gaines, was not reasonable, and thus violated their civil rights.[5]


http://www.nbc-2.com/story/18918507/sovereign-citizen-gets-30-days-for-court-antics
'Sovereign citizen' gets 30 days for disregarding rules
A woman who says she is not bound by the laws of the State of Florida earned another month in jail by ignoring the rules of the court Friday.
Friday, June 29th 2012, 5:14 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, June 29th 2012, 6:33 PM EDT

A woman who says she is not bound by the laws of the State of Florida earned another month in jail by ignoring the rules of the court Friday.

The woman, who claims to be named "Linda Louise Suae Potestate Esse*," was arrested in May after she refused to provide registration information to police for the vehicle she was driving.

[“Suae potestate esse” is a Latin legal phrase that means having full power over one's dominions; it is similar in nature to sui juris and used in the same way by sovereigns: as a concise declaration or emphasis of sovereign status.” https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/.../Sovereign-Citizen-Documentary-Identifiers.pdf.]

She appears to be a part of the "sovereign citizen" movement, a group that believes state and federal laws don't apply to them.

The FBI says members of the group often do not pay their taxes and regularly create false license plates, driver's licenses and even currency.

Friday, Linda Louise continually ignored the judge's orders during her trial on charges for the registration violation and resisting arrest, so the judge gave her another 30 days in jail for contempt.

She is representing herself in the case. Linda Louise was put in contempt after making statements during her questioning of witnesses - which the judge instructed her not to do.

She apologized to the court but was held in contempt.

Her trial will continue July 3rd.

The FBI says the actions of some members of the sovereign citizen movement are certainly quirky, but not crimes.

However, the agency says there is an extremist element of the group, and they consider those people "domestic terrorists."


ROADSIDE TESTING OF DRUGS, BY POLICEMEN, SHOULD NOT BE LEGAL UNDER ANY CONDITIONS, NOR USED AS PROOF IN ANY TRIAL. NO, I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE LAW IS, BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE. POLICE AND AGGRESSIVE POLITICIANS WANTING LAW AND ORDER PLAUDITS PROBABLY APPLIED PRESSURE FOR THIS; SOME OF THE “WAR ON DRUGS” THINKING, MAYBE. LOOK, TOO, AT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN VICTIMIZED IN THE SAME WAY.

THE CITY IS DRAGGING ITS’ FEET ABOUT ACCEPTING BLAME OR MAKING AMENDS. ALSO, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE “DEBTORS’ PRISON” CASES, WHEN THE BAIL IS SET TOO HIGH, EVEN FOR A DRUG CHARGE, AND I WONDER WHY SHE WASN’T ALLOWED TO SEE A LAWYER BEFORE THAT. AND A LAB HAD ALREADY TESTED THE CANDY AND DECLARED IT NOT TO BE A DRUG, SO WHAT WERE THE SEVERAL DELAYS HERE? IN THE CONSTITUTION OUR LEGAL SYSTEM SOUNDS HIGH-FLOWN, BUT ON THE GROUND ITS’ FIBER IS VERY WEAK IN PLACES. THINGS LIKE IGNORANCE BRING THAT ABOUT. THIS IS A SMALL PLACE OF 26,424.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46393600
Georgia woman jailed as 'cops mistake candy floss for meth'
NOVEMBER 29, 2018 5 hours ago

Image copyrightDASHA FINCHER/FACEBOOK
Image caption -- Dasha Fincher says she missed the birth of her twin grandsons due to the wrongful jailing
GETTY IMAGES
Image caption -- A roadside drug test labelled old candy floss, also known as cotton candy, as a dangerous drug

A Georgia woman spent three months in jail after her bag of candy floss was mistaken for methamphetamine owing to a defective drug test, says a lawsuit.

Dasha Fincher, 41, is suing Monroe County, the police and a drug test company over the alleged mix-up during a traffic stop on New Year's Eve 2016.

The 41-year-old was held in custody because she could not afford her $1m (£780,000) bond.

The legal action argues the county violated her civil rights.

'My life was ruined by a police typo'
US man 'mistakenly injected with drugs'

She was arrested and charged with meth trafficking and possession of meth with intent to distribute, according to the lawsuit.

The court documents say she was improperly detained from 31 December 2016 until 4 April, when her charges of drug possession and trafficking were dropped.

Image copyrightDASHA FINCHER/FACEBOOK
Image caption
Dasha Fincher says she missed the birth of her twin grandsons due to the wrongful jailing

A state crime laboratory had already tested the bag of light blue candy floss - known as cotton candy in the US - and determined on 22 March it contained no drugs.

Ms Fincher says she missed important life events due to the unlawful jailing, including the birth of her twin grandsons and the chance to care for her daughter after a miscarriage.

In addition, the arrest remains on her record despite her innocence, according to the lawsuit.

Ms Fincher is seeking damages for negligence and wrongful actions, as determined by a jury, from Monroe County, the two officers who arrested her and the test manufacturer Sirchie.

County officials and Sirchie did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A 2016 ProPublica investigation found that cheap roadside drug tests "routinely produce false positives" that result in tens of thousands of Americans being wrongfully jailed.

According to a list compiled by the Washington Post, roadside tests have labelled cookies, mints, deodorant, and tea, among other harmless materials, as drugs.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProPublica
ProPublica
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ProPublica is an American nonprofit organization based in New York City. It is a nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.[3] In 2010, it became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize, for a piece[4] written by one of its journalists[5][6] and published in The New York Times Magazine[7] as well as on ProPublica.org.[8] ProPublica states that its investigations are conducted by its staff of full-time investigative reporters, and the resulting stories are distributed to news partners for publication or broadcast. In some cases, reporters from both ProPublica and its partners work together on a story. ProPublica has partnered with more than 90 different news organizations, and it has won four Pulitzer Prizes.



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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lawrence-clock-may-have-started-ticking-on-donald-trump-tonight-1384440387975
Lawrence O'Donnell talks with Rachel Maddow about the potential liability Donald Trump faces if his written answers to Robert Mueller's questions align with the lies Michael Cohen now admits to telling.
Nov. 29, 2018


THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/29/18
Cohen plea shocker exposes Trump camp lies about Russia dealings
Rachel Maddow reports on Michael Cohen's surprise new plea deal with Robert Mueller and what it tells us about Donald Trump's relationship with Russia during the 2016 campaign while Russia was attacking the U.S. election to help Trump. Duration: 23:35


THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/29/18
Cohen knowledge a 'very dangerous threat' to Trump
Anthony Cormier, reporter for Buzzfeed, talks with Rachel Maddow about his reporting on the Michael Cohen and the Trump Organization's pursuit of a Trump Tower Moscow project well into the 2016 campaign, and the threat Cohen's cooperation with Robert Mueller poses to the Trump Organization. Duration: 7:56


THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/29/18
Cohen admission of lying to Congress prompts review of others
Rep. Jim Himes of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about Michael Cohen's admission that he lied in his testimony to Congress, and what that means in terms of re-examining the testimony of other witnesses in the investigation of the Trump campaign and Russia. Duration: 6:50


THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/29/18
Cohen guilty plea decision made in past two weeks: Vanity Fair
Emily Jane Fox, senior reporter for Vanity Fair, talks with Rachel Maddow about the timing of Michael Cohen's new guilty plea and whether it correlates with other developments in the Robert Mueller case. Duration: 4:04


THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/28/18
Unlike Nixon, Trump misconduct piling up in full public view
Rachel Maddow reviews the many ways that Americans have witnessed Donald Trump attempt to quash or otherwise undercut the special counsel investigation into his 2016 presidential campaign, unlike Richard Nixon, the full record of whose misdeeds were not publicly known until after his scandal had run its course. Duration: 24:55