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washparkhorn

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  1. “Perpetrating a fraud on the court” remains an ethical violation for attorneys and grounds for dismissal with prejudice of a case in Colorado.
  2. The billionaires are creaming over the Moore v. United States case they called up in next season’s Activist Supreme Court:
  3. With all due respect given your experience in intellectual property law where declaratory judgment is common, you are gaslighting a little bit here. Your point is well taken, but does not address the concern over a Court gone awry. State courts generally use wholesale sorting for preventative actions (e.g., declaratory judgment).t” The class of cases is well defined (e.g., an action to quiet title) and the trial court is afforded little discretion in accepting cases outside the identified groups. Access to Federal District Courts for preventative actions (outside of certain areas, including patent law) depends on retail sorting—with all the attendant problems including forum shopping. In the present case regarding free speech, we see one the problems of retail sorting. A litigant, who never produced wedding websites, lied about a real person to allege he requested a marriage website. The case is built on a lie. It undermines the public’s trust in the judiciary.
  4. Wealth tax is the prescription. The Billionaires have a Supreme Court ready to protect their billions in a case that will be heard next session. Truth is stranger than fiction. The billionaires are in good hands:
  5. The United States: The Eurozone: Seems pretty clear.
  6. New from Weber: micro-stabilization as an additional tool to combat emergency created inflation. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/340/ In the overlapping global emergencies of the pandemic, climate change and geopolitical confrontations, supply shocks have become frequent and inflation has returned. This raises the question how sector-specific shocks are related to overall price stability. This paper simulates price shocks in an input-output model to identify sectors which present systemic vulnerabilities for monetary stability in the US. We call these prices systemically significant. We find that in our simulations the pre-pandemic average price volatilities and the price shocks in the COVID-19 and Ukraine war inflation yield an almost identical set of systemically significant prices. The sectors with systemically significant prices fall into three groups: energy, basic production inputs other than energy, basic necessities, and commercial and financial infrastructure. Specifically, they are “Petroleum and coal products”, “Oil and gas extraction”, “Utilities”, “Chemical products”, “Farms”, “Food and beverage and tobacco products”, “Housing”, and “Wholesale trade”. We argue that in times of overlapping emergencies, economic stabilization needs to go beyond monetary policy and requires institutions and policies that can target these systemically significant sectors. Note: stabilization works both ways—stabilize price ceilings and floors. (oh, and fuck you Larry Summers. His record parallels Jim Cramer’s failures.)
  7. Suburban women need to sober up.
  8. Cormac published his first work of nonfiction in 2016. It is an interesting piece: https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/
  9. RIP Cormac:
  10. My favorite author died today. RIP Cormac. Blood Meridian.
  11. Arch paleo-Republican Bruce Bartlett understands the silliness of the debt ceiling theater. Want to be brighter than 99% of Americans? Read and understand this. Good luck.
  12. How ‘inverse wood’ began:
  13. The inverse Cathie Wood trade continues to reap rewards: When she sold:
  14. Cats and dogs joining forces against the utter depravity of trumpism. (Nader and Old GOP mastermind Bruce Bartlett)
  15. Unconstitutional to default (“question”) on the nation’s debt. Original intent and plain reading support illegality of defaulting on the debt. Even Scalia would have ordered the Legislative and Executive Branches to pay the nation’s debt. Not a close call—legally. Congress and the President want ‘default’ as a tool to impose austerity measures. It’s blatantly unconstitutional. They need to do their jobs at the budgeting stage of legislation if they want to impose austerity. They are too chicken-shit to actually float a balanced budget; their buddies would lose their tax breaks and the MIC likes their toys.
  16. Right Wing Death Squads is reference to Pinochet’s Chile and it’s systemic round up, torture and killing of anyone opposed to his right wing military dictatorship. The death squads were trained by German Nazis at Colonia Dignida, a Nazi stronghold in Chile protected by Pinochet. The Germans at Colonia Dignida included former SS and Gestapo. It is thought that Dr. Joseph Mengele was at the camp as well. Colonia Dignida served as a secret torture site for Pinochet. Paul Schäfer, a former Nazi army corporal and founder of Colonia Dignida, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing 25 children. (Every accusation is a confessIon for right wing degenerates.) Right wing death squads became a staple of right wing movements in central and South America.
  17. Reminder—under the Debt Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the United States cannot default on the debt. Any law purporting to allow a debt default, such as the debt ceiling, is explicitly unconstitutional. For the US to default, the Constitution must be amended. The debt ceiling crisis is theater. Always has been. Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. If Congress will not act to pay the public debt, the Executive must act to pay the bills. If Congress and the President will not act, the Court must compel payment of the debt. Threatening a default is an empty threat.
  18. 1100 feet from pad:
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