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Starting in January 2020, this thread is about the news as it breaks!

Bernard Madoff says he is dying and is asking a judge for compassionate release from prison, where he is serving 150 years for orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, according to a Wednesday federal court filing.

Madoff, 81, has terminal kidney failure and a life expectancy of less than 18 months. When the court sentenced him, “it was clear that Madoff’s 150-year prison sentence was symbolic for three reasons: retribution, deterrence, and for the victims,” the court filing states. “This Court must now consider whether keeping Madoff incarcerated … is truly in furtherance of statutory sentencing goals and our society’s value and understanding of compassion.”

Madoff said in the request for compassionate release that he “does not dispute the severity of his crimes.”

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Bernie Madoff says he's dying and wants out of prison - KRDO

Bernard Madoff says he is dying and is asking a judge for compassionate release from prison, where he is serving 150 years for orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, according to a Wednesday federal court filing. Madoff, 81, has terminal kidney failure and a life expectancy of less...
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IMO- stay in jail
 
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Cousin Dupree said:
Could you copy and paste that? It's a paywall. Thanks.
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Well that's strange. I read the entire thing earlier. Now I hit a paywall so figured it was my browser but hit the same thing on another browser. I'll see if I can figure it out. It was a good piece I felt and not way over the top. I just walked in from errands on a wet, sleety frozen feeling day (despite a temp in the 30s) so it may be a bit.
 
GrandmaBear said:
Well that's strange. I read the entire thing earlier. Now I hit a paywall so figured it was my browser but hit the same thing on another browser. I'll see if I can figure it out. It was a good piece I felt and not way over the top. I just walked in from errands on a wet, sleety frozen feeling day (despite a temp in the 30s) so it may be a bit.
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A lot of news sites have a certain number of articles you can read for free for a certain period of time. I know WSJ used to be 5 free for a month, but have no idea now if it has changed or not. Hitting the same article twice, is considered 2x
 
Guess Who said:
www.cbsnews.com

Ukrainian kids with cancer evacuated from Poland to St. Jude Children's Hospital

Four children with cancer — just 9 months to 9 years old— have been evacuated from Ukraine to St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, the U.S. State Department said.
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That's some positive news. It shows you how relaxed it apparently has become re Covid also as this would be an international flight with a variety of people coming into the country. I imagine they were tested but just saying at least it isn't held up longer with a lot of red tape or anything.
 
Guess Who said:
A lot of news sites have a certain number of articles you can read for free for a certain period of time. I know WSJ used to be 5 free for a month, but have no idea now if it has changed or not. Hitting the same article twice, is considered 2x
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I subscribed so can see it now. Is it okay to cut and paste an entire article if the link is here? I know at stupid JT it had to be 10 percent only or something. Is that a law or a JT rule?
 
It is an opinion piece and we aren't to discuss so I'm not commenting. Wow was it no fun copying and pasting around all of the ads on the page. Here it is:

"In close elections, a fraction of the total vote distributed in the right places can swing an outcome, and we can never be sure what effect late news stories can have.

If it hadn’t been for a suspiciously well-timed report of a decades-old driving-under-the-influence arrest in the final days of the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush might not have needed 35 days and the judgment of the Supreme Court to deliver him the White House.

Harold Wilson, the British Labour prime minister in 1970, is said to have claimed for years afterward that England’s shock defeat by West Germany in the soccer World Cup quarterfinal that year so depressed the national mood—and turnout—that it produced his surprise ejection from 10 Downing Street in the general election days later.

We’ll never know what effect the “October Surprise” of 2020, the New York Post’s reporting of the discovery of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden containing all sorts of embarrassing emails, might have had on the election that year if it had received wider circulation. Perhaps in a campaign dominated by Covid and characterized by chaos, it would have been another snowflake in the blizzard of news voters were being hit with.


But the allegations in the reporting—that the son of the man favored to become the next president had been selling his high-level family political connections to foreigners, including suggestions of a possible cut for his father—were worth pursuing. But enough influential people in and out of government—in the foreign-policy-intelligence complex, in the media, and in the big tech firms—were so alarmed that it would affect the outcome that they pulled off one of the greatest disappearing tricks since Harry Houdini made that elephant vanish from a New York stage.

It took its time, but last week the New York Times slipped the acknowledgment of the story’s accuracy deep in a report about Hunter Biden’s mounting legal problems. The Times, along with most other mass-circulation news organizations, had essentially ignored the story in the days when it might have made a difference, but it now says it has “authenticated” the laptop’s contents.

The concession from the paper, which serves as a sort of unofficial licensing authority for reporting by most of the rest of the media, prompted a predictable rush to self-vindication by those who had also trashed the story at the time. The Washington Post insisted its original decision not to touch it was justified because of uncertainty about its provenance.

Normally, when there is doubt about the provenance of an explosive story, news organizations consider it their job to ascertain the truth. Normally, it takes them less than 17 months to do so. But normally they don’t have the cover provided by technology companies that prevented people from reading the original story.

The media and tech companies that colluded in concealing this potentially critical information didn’t need any excuse to do so. But it surely helped that they were given validation for their actions by an august-sounding committee of concerned letter-writers who moved quickly to discredit the story.

In that famous letter, more than 50 former national-security and intelligence officials polished their gleaming credentials and alleged that the New York Post was guilty of peddling a story that had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

The principal rationale for this, the letter laid out, was that the story might be helpful to Donald Trump. Russia wanted Mr. Trump to win. The story helped Mr. Trump. Ergo, it was the work of Russia.

That’s quite a syllogism. Using that same logic, you might conclude that Russia was also responsible for any unexpectedly good economic data that helped the incumbent, or that Vladimir Putin was behind the crime wave that had gripped Democrat-run cities.

Now we can guess why so much U.S. intelligence has been so faulty all these years. Either these 50 or so grandmasters of international espionage are completely unable to distinguish Russian disinformation from real information, or they prostituted their credentials in a naked act of political hackery. I don’t have their experience or deductive skills, but I’m ready to go with the latter.

The deeper shame here is the lack of accountability across American institutions. No one who colluded in this conspiracy against truth has even been inconvenienced by it.

Contacted by the Post last week, not one of the letter’s signatories expressed regret or contrition. The reporters and editors at news organizations and the employees and executives of tech companies who participated in the suppression continue to be lionized for their work.

This is what is so corrosive of trust and, in the end, of the system itself. The one way in which real accountability is supposed to work in a democracy is at the ballot box.
But how can that even work when the people we want to hold accountable decide what information the voters are allowed to see?"

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Opinion | Hunter Biden’s Laptop and America’s Crisis of Accountability

The New York Times now admits the story was real. News and social-media companies will pay no price for suppressing vital information in 2020.
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I'm going to post this here and then in Vallow. First it covers the Chad Daybell hearing today. It then covers a hearing on Ethan Crumley's parents and then there is a 26 year old woman who apparently for no reason unprovoked pushed down an 87 year old woman calling her a bitch who was leaving her home to enter a cab. A biker helped the elderly woman up and the 26 year old watched an ambulance come and the woman get loaded in bleeding from her forehead. 5 days later the elderly woman died and the 26 year old quit her job, ditched her cell phone at her aunt's home in Long Island, left her apartment and her fiance and went on the run. She also took down her wedding website, deleted all her social media and was on the run for two weeks. She finally turned herself in it sounded like when video was found of her getting on the subway. She is faced with manslaughter I think it said. And is facing 20 years...

Well she comes from an affluent area of Long Island. And she left the apartment she shared with her fiance in Astoria Queens.

She immediately had on retainer a high profile attorney who has represented Harvey Weinstein, Rudy Guiliano and more known names. Her attorney has already come out and said (paraphrasing) this is not manslaughter because it isn't like she pushed the elderly woman into traffic or in front of a train, etc... He also claims it is not proven it was her or that she did anything, etc.

Scott said he knew from unconfirmed sources in the Long Island area that she has been the local "pusher" in that area of Long Island since grade school... I think he meant as far as pushing people down but wasn't quite sure he didn't mean another kind of pusher....? Interesting comment...

Anyhow, we were just talking in another thread about the Affluenza case and this one already has me wondering if justice will be served here as there clearly is money for a high profile attorney right out of the gate...

Wondering if the case deserves a thread... Or wondering if another legal system thread something on the order of who you are and rich and poor and the difference in the legal system in some cases might be a good one... Or who you know and so forth... Or it could just be called Affluenza cases lol but not funny.

He winds up with a couple of guys with different crimes that both recently lit someone on fire...

Daybell Vallow is about the first 12 minutes, then it is Crumley for a couple of minutes and then this woman, Lauren Pazienza, about 15:55 in, and then the two fire cases.

 
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