8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (5)
#10735242 at 2020-09-21 20:55:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13739: DoJ IDs Anarchy Cities
Dems are screaming Trump CAN'T replace RBG's seat until AFTER the election because we are too close.
We are 42 days out from the Election.
Here is a list of SCOTUS noms that took LESS than 42 days….
Nominee
Name # Days to Confirm
Joseph P. Bradley 42
Lucius Q. C. Lamar II 41
William B. Hornblower 41
John Roberts 39
George Henry Williams 38
Joseph McKenna 36
Nathan Clifford 34
Sandra Day O'Connor 33
Harlan F. Stone 31
George Woodward 30
Robert Trimble 28
Wiley Blount Rutledge 28
Harry Blackmun 27
Wheeler H. Peckham 25
Robert H. Jackson 25
Arthur Goldberg 25
John C. Spencer 23
Mahlon Pitney 23
John Roberts 23
Harriet Miers 21
Sherman Minton 19
John Paul Stevens 19
Charles Evans Whittaker 17
Warren E. Burger 17
Howell E. Jackson 16
Pierce Butler 16
Tom C. Clark 16
William O. Douglas 15
Harlan F. Stone[E] 15
David Josiah Brewer 14
Frank Murphy 14
Fred M. Vinson 14
Abe Fortas 14
Benjamin R. Curtis[C] 12
Felix Frankfurter 12
Levi Woodbury[C] 11
Owen Roberts 11
Edward King 10
Samuel Nelson 10
James C. McReynolds 10
John Hessin Clarke 10
Charles Evans Hughes 10
Alexander Wolcott 9
Samuel Blatchford 9
William Henry Moody 9
Benjamin N. Cardozo 9
Ward Hunt 8
Byron White 8
Thomas Johnson[C] 7
John Marshall 7
John McKinley[C] 7
David Davis[C] 7
George Shiras Jr. 7
Horace Harmon Lurton 7
Charles Evans Hughes 7
Alfred Moore 6
William Burnham Woods 6
Roscoe Conkling 6
Henry Billings Brown 6
Rufus W. Peckham 6
John Rutledge[C] 5
John Catron 5
William Smith 5
Edward Terry Sanford 5
Hugo Black 5
Henry B. Livingston[C] 4
Smith Thompson[C] 4
Peter Vivian Daniel 4
Stephen Johnson Field 4
Caleb Cushing 4
William R. Day 4
Joseph Story 3
Gabriel Duvall 3
James Moore Wayne 3
Noah Haynes Swayne 3
Willis Van Devanter 3
Joseph Rucker Lamar 3
John Jay 2
John Rutledge 2
William Cushing 2
James Wilson 2
John Blair Jr. 2
Robert H. Harrison 2
James Iredell 2
William Johnson 2
Thomas Todd 2
Henry Baldwin 2
Morrison Waite 2
Oliver W. Holmes Jr. 2
William Paterson 1
Samuel Chase 1
Oliver Ellsworth 1
Bushrod Washington[C] 1
John Jay 1
Levi Lincoln Sr. 1
John Quincy Adams 1
John McLean 1
Robert Cooper Grier 1
John A. Campbell 1
William Strong 1
Horace Gray 1
William Paterson 0
John C. Spencer 0
Samuel Freeman Miller 0
Salmon P. Chase 0
Edwin Stanton 0
Edward D. White 0
Edward D. White[E] 0
William Howard Taft 0
George Sutherland 0
James F. Byrnes 0
Harold Hitz Burton 0
#8908888 at 2020-04-24 17:00:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11403: Those You Trust The Most Edition
Man, that AT&T CEO "resignation" (hah) is YUGE
Here's everything AT&T now owns, apart from your soul
Be advised this article is from 2018, am not familiar with AT&T business acquisitions since then
https://bgr.com/2018/06/16/att-time-warner-merger-brands-what-they-own/
By Chris Mills @chrisfmills
June 16th, 2018 at 4:19 PM
Earlier this week, a judge decided the fate of the AT&T Time Warner deal, and the result was a big thumbs-up in the general direction of capitalism. The $85 billion deal has closed, Time Warner has officially been assimilated into AT&T (and renamed WarnerMedia), and there's almost zero chance that anything will stop it now.
With the closing of the deal, AT&T is now far more than just a telecoms company. It owns dozens of brands, as well as the rights to some of the most popular shows on TV. It has dozens of cable channels, and if the worst fears about programming disputes play out, AT&T could black those channels out from your pay TV provider during a dispute. In no particular order, here's some of the big brands AT&T now owns.
HBO
Arguably the biggest single name AT&T just acquired. Owns the rights to shows like Westworld, Game of Thrones, Veep, Last Week Tonight, and Silicon Valley. Also has first-run distribution rights (the first people to air a movie after it leaves theaters) with companies like Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Dreamworks. It also owns the Cinemax cable channel, which runs feature-length films from some of those distributors.
TBS
Cable channel owned by Turner, and it turn (heh) by AT&T. Airs popular shows like Conan, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Friends, Family Guy, New Girl, and 2 Broke Girls.
CNN
Another subsidiary of Turner, CNN...well, you all know what CNN is and what it does. Outside of HBO, it's probably the most recognizable brand that AT&T acquired in this, and certainly its biggest cable channel. Between CNN, TBS, and HBO, AT&T has more than enough content to offer cheap streaming bundles to the masses.
Turner
Turner Broadcasting System, as it's fully known, owns a bunch of cable channels and some websites that flesh out the rest of AT&T's cable content. Channels include CNN, Boomerang, TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, and Cartoon Network. Through Turner Sports, it also owns websites like Bleacher Report, NBA.com, PGA.com, NCAA.com, and NBA TV.
DC Entertainment
DC Entertainment is a subdivision of Warner Bros. that deserves its own mention just for the sheer amount of stuff it has under its umbrella. DC Comics, the comic book producer, is under the umbrella, as is DC Films, which makes movies based on those comic characters. Some of the characters it has the rights to include Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Aquaman. Batman is part of the same universe, as a character of Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros is one of the "big six" movie studios, and owns some of the most successful movie franchises in history. The Dark Knight Batman trilogy, Harry Potter, Matrix trilogy, Inception, Suicide Squad, and The Hangover all came out of Warner Bros.
New Line Cinema
Warner Bros also owns New Line Cinema, a studio best known for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogy. It also has smaller hits like Rush Hour, Wedding Crashers, and Sex and the City to its name.
The rest of AT&T
That's just the major brands that AT&T acquired - it also has its own collection of household names that it's owned forever. AT&T Wireless is the cell carrier everyone loves to hate, U-verse is its cable TV offering, DirecTV is a satellite broadcaster it also owns, as well as dozens of regional cable and phone companies - almost anything with the name "Bell" in it. Bizarrely, the list also includes the Yellow Pages and yellowpages.com.
If you want a more complete list of all the subisidiaries the company now owns, Big Think has put a list together that's more complete.
Per the Big Think list (holy shit, even more yuge)
https://bigthink.com/Stephen-Johnson/here-are-all-the-companies-att-time-warner-will-own-after-the-merger-2
#8471298 at 2020-03-19 03:45:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10846: The 'CURE' Will Spread WW Edition
Interest rates cut to a record low of 0.25% as the Australian dollar plummets to lowest in 17 YEARS amid coronavirus panic
By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia
03:34 GMT 19 Mar 2020 , updated 03:44 GMT 19 Mar 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8129077/Reserve-Ban-Australia-cuts-rates-cut-record-low-0-25-cent.html
#4980911 at 2019-01-31 23:23:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6359: Fight For The Children Edition
ICYMI: Oregon Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Sexually Abusing Children at Orphanage in Cambodia
EUGENE, Ore.-On January 18, 2019, Daniel Stephen Johnson, 40, of Coos Bay, Oregon, was sentenced to life in federal prison for repeatedly sexually abusing children who lived at an orphanage operated by the defendant in Cambodia.
In a jury trial ending on May 16, 2018, Johnson was convicted on six counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and one count each of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and aggravated sexual assault with a child. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison on each count of illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place, 30 years for traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and life in prison for aggravated sexual assault with children. The sentences for engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place will run consecutively.
According to court documents and information shared during trial, between November 2005 and his arrest in December 2013, Johnson systematically and repeatedly molested children who lived at an unlicensed orphanage he started and ran in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Johnson funded the orphanage by soliciting donations from church groups in Oregon, California, Texas and elsewhere. Ten Cambodian victims-who ranged in age from seven to 18 years old at the time of abuse-have disclosed Johnson's abuse or attempted abuse.
Victims described a pattern of molestation that includes, among other things, Johnson making them perform oral sex on him and anally raping them. Multiple victims said they were, on numerous occasions, awoken to Johnson abusing them. Following the abuse, Johnson would sometimes provide his impoverished victims with small amounts of money or food. On one occasion, Johnson gave a victim the equivalent of $2.50 in Cambodian currency.
In 2013, a warrant was issued for Johnson's arrest on an unrelated case by officials in Lincoln County, Oregon. Local law enforcement officers worked with the FBI to locate Johnson overseas. The FBI in turn worked with the U.S. Department of State to revoke Johnson's passport based on the Oregon warrant. Through the work of the FBI, Action Pour Les Enfants, a non-governmental organization dedicated to ending child sexual abuse and exploitation in Cambodia, and the Cambodian National Police (CNP), Johnson was located in Phnom Penh.
On December 9, 2013, CNP arrested Johnson. Based on disclosures made by children at the orphanage, Cambodian officials charged Johnson and detained him pending trial. In May 2014, Johnson was convicted by a Cambodian judge of performing indecent acts on one or more children at the orphanage and sentenced to a year in prison. Following his release from prison, Johnson was escorted back to the U.S. by the FBI.
Based on the sexual-abuse allegations against him, the FBI undertook a lengthy investigation of Johnson. During the course of their investigation, agents interviewed more than a dozen children and adults who had resided at the orphanage. Many of the interviews were audio- and video-taped and, in several instances, conducted in Cambodia by trained child-forensic interviewers. Some victims were interviewed multiple times before disclosing Johnson's abuse.
Johnson was indicted by a federal grand jury in Eugene, Oregon on December 20, 2014 on one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place. Seven additional charges were added by superseding indictment on May 17, 2017.
While in custody awaiting trial, Johnson made multiple efforts to tamper with witnesses and obstruct justice. Johnson contacted his victims online, encouraging them to lie and offering money and gifts. One message, sent via his relative's Facebook account to an adult in Cambodia, discussed visiting a victim's family and encouraging them to convince the victim to retract their statement, potentially in exchange for $10,000. Another message explains the need for a victim to say they were under duress and "pushed by police" to thumbprint a document.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/icymi-oregon-man-sentenced-life-prison-sexually-abusing-children-orphanage-cambodia
#1467288 at 2018-05-19 10:50:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1842: "The [W]orld is [W]atching the [W]edding" Edition
Jury finds US man guilty of abusing Cambodian orphans
US authorities said nine Cambodian children disclosed Daniel Stephen Johnson's abuse in lengthy interviews with trained child-forensic interviewers.
A US jury found a Christian missionary from Oregon guilty of multiple sex abuse charges for molesting children living at an unlicensed Cambodian orphanage that he operated in Phnom Penh over a period of years.
Daniel Stephen Johnson, 40, was convicted of six counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and one count each of travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and aggravated sexual assault with children. He faces a minimum of 30 years in prison when sentenced in August in Eugene, Oregon.
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US authorities said nine Cambodian children ranging in age from 7 to 18 have disclosed Johnson's abuse or past abuse in lengthy interviews with trained child-forensic interviewers.
The FBI launched an extensive investigation of Johnson and his potential victims after learning of the case in 2013, the US Attorney's Office in Portland said.
"The despicable nature of this defendant's conduct is beyond understanding," said Billy Williams, US attorney for the District of Oregon.
"The fact that this defendant abused children under the guise of being a missionary and orphanage director is appalling."
Johnson first molested a child at the orphanage during a trip in 2005, according to court documents.
Local law enforcement issued a warrant for Johnson's arrest in an unrelated matter in 2013 in Lincoln County, Oregon.
Johnson was located overseas and his passport as revoked based on the Oregon warrant.
The FBI then partnered with a non-profit that combats child exploitation in Cambodia and the Cambodian National Police to locate Johnson in Phnom Penh.
He was arrested in 2013 by Cambodian authorities and indicted the following year in the US on one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place.
Johnson was extradited to the US after completing a one-year prison sentence in Cambodia as US authorities sought to build their case.
Seven more charges were added in 2017.
While in custody, Johnson tried to tamper with witnesses and contact his victims online, bribing them with gifts and promises of money to change their testimony, the US Attorney's Office said in a statement.
http:// www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2146566/jury-finds-us-man-guilty-abusing-cambodian-orphans
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (2)
#19822096 at 2023-10-29 05:02:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
#32 - Part 45
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 9
>>19561705 Don't be distracted by 'controversy bombs', Pearson urges Yes campaign - The Yes camp will use rallies for 50,000 people and concerts in capital cities on Sunday to try and draw a line under a messy opening fortnight, after the Voice referendum campaign became mired in a verbal crossfire about racism and the impact of colonisation. Voice co-architect Noel Pearson said at a Yes23 rally in Sydney's Redfern that the campaign would need to avoid "controversy bombs" over the remaining four weeks to referendum day on October 14, as he dismissed comments by Coalition frontbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price that British colonisation had no lasting negative impacts on Indigenous Australians.
>>19561768 Why the Indigenous voice to parliament is a Thatcher-esque project - "Earlier this week I received an email from a constituent named Les. Les is a retiree and shared with me how he is being squeezed with rising medicine, food and power costs. He didn't hold back in asking me why I was advocating for the voice when so many Australians were hurting financially. It was a legitimate question to ask. I think many Australians are asking: why should we vote Yes in this referendum when the economy is so tight? Surely there are better priorities. My answer to Les, and the many who share his view, is that the voice gives us the means to tackle the economic challenges facing so many Indigenous communities. By tackling these challenges we also can make our economy and the budget stronger." - Julian Leeser, Liberal member for Berowra in Sydney - theaustralian.com.au
>>19566036 'History is calling us': Yes campaign ramps up as thousands join in rallies across Australia - Thousands of supporters of the Voice to Parliament have taken to the streets across the country, with a crucial message for Aussies that "history is calling us" ahead of the October referendum. Supporters of the Yes campaign turned out in record numbers on Sunday afternoon across major cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra. It marks one of the biggest campaign pushes for the Yes vote since the referendum date was announced. Minister for Indigenous Australians told a roaring crowd in Melbourne's CBD that "history is calling us" and that "each and every one of you can help answer the call from generations of Indigenous people."
>>19566045 Video: Leading No campaigner Warren Mundine claims a treaty process will be more successful if No vote wins - Leading No campaigner Warren Mundine has backed a treaty process, claiming it's more likely to succeed if the No vote is successful. Mr Mundine, a Bundjalung man, also called for the date of Australia Day to be changed. Speaking on the ABC's Insiders program, Mr Mundine said there should be multiple, individual treaties, recognising Aboriginal nations. "We've got to recognise Aboriginal culture, Aboriginal culture is our First Nations and the first thing we learn about life is one nation cannot talk about another nation's country," he said.
>>19566056 OPINION: The movie that erased my doubts about the Voice - "I had reservations about the Voice until seeing a movie. I've long opposed a charter of rights because it might steer policymaking away from parliament and into courts. If there was someone on the Labor side who might have needed assurance the Voice would not do this, it might have been me. But not after the opening scene of High Ground. This 2020 movie, directed by Stephen Johnson, is set in Arnhem Land in the early 1920s. It is about race relations on the Australian frontier. It opens with Aboriginal people at a waterhole, an oasis of palms and running water. This peace is shattered by fire from repeater rifles. When it stops, the only sound is the flight of waterfowl and the buzzing of flies around black corpses. Blood runs in the sand. My response to the terrifying scene that opened High Ground went like this: "The survivors of this are saying that all they want is a pipeline to parliament called the Voice. That's all? Only access? Just give it to them. No argument. No delay." Metaphorically, the gunshots still echo. Only one group suffered massacres and now it's time to make amends. High Ground's footage is dramatised, but it's not fake. Doubters might stream it on SBS On Demand, where they can also find Rachel Perkins' The Australian Wars. It's time to let kindness have its day in public policy." - Bob Carr, former foreign affairs minister and NSW's longest serving premier - theage.com.au
#19566056 at 2023-09-17 09:46:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
>>19529127
OPINION: The movie that erased my doubts about the Voice
Bob Carr, Former NSW premier and former Australian foreign affairs minister - September 17, 2023
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I had reservations about the Voice until seeing a movie. I've long opposed a charter of rights because it might steer policymaking away from parliament and into courts. If there was someone on the Labor side who might have needed assurance the Voice would not do this, it might have been me. But not after the opening scene of High Ground.
This 2020 movie, directed by Stephen Johnson, is set in Arnhem Land in the early 1920s. It is about race relations on the Australian frontier.
It opens with Aboriginal people at a waterhole, an oasis of palms and running water. This peace is shattered by fire from repeater rifles. When it stops, the only sound is the flight of waterfowl and the buzzing of flies around black corpses. Blood runs in the sand.
That scene - inspired by the Gan Gan police massacre of 1911 - confirms the power of visual media in dramatising what the law calls mass-atrocity crimes. Think of Steven Spielberg's 1993 Schindler's List. Or Ken Burns' documentaries, The West, The Vietnam War and The US and the Holocaust. There is Rachel Perkins' documentary The Australian Wars, broadcast on SBS in 2022 and backed by the work of two dozen historians. It detailed the forcible displacement of Aboriginal people to make way for expansion of grazing - a violent displacement.
My response to the terrifying scene that opened High Ground went like this: "The survivors of this are saying that all they want is a pipeline to parliament called the Voice. That's all? Only access? Just give it to them. No argument. No delay."
I have no romantic view of pre-1788 Australia. The story of colonisation is no single narrative. It's jostling counter-narratives. Some are happy, such as the triumph of our British-derived civic culture or our success at merinos and mines. A lot of good things arrived with the First Fleet. I support January 26 as Australia Day, believing it can be re-imagined by First Nations as a triumph of Indigenous resilience; they can rebaptise it Survival Day.
Yet since historian Henry Reynolds first pointed to the massacres, the evidence has slowly, steadily mounted. Professor Lyndall Ryan at Newcastle University, after 10 years of research, estimates 400 massacres of Indigenous people, 12 of whites. Dr Pam Smith, an archaeologist at one site in the Kimberley, has interred bones that had been burnt for six days to disguise the crime.
If there were no other reason to vote Yes on October 14, the cruelty of the Indigenous displacement - like nothing else in our history - would give us one.
Paul Keating's words from his 1992 Redfern speech say it all: "… it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion."
John Howard and Tony Abbott, the best debaters in the Liberal camp, argue that the Voice will divide us by race, entrenching race in the Constitution. To this there is a simple reply. The racial divide was decreed by official, uniformed Australia with the vote of our colonial and, later, state legislatures. It was Australian state authority that resolved there were two categories of Australians.
One racial category was to have its land removed without treaty or bargain. One category, defined by race, could be marched in neck braces to jail or massacre sites. Only Indigenous people were classed by museums, as late as 1938, as Australian fauna.
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