Anonymous ID: 06f346 Nov. 18, 2020, 6:51 a.m. No.11693164   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3238

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/democrats-have-corporate-power-they-should-use-it-1.1524181

 

(Bloomberg Opinion) – For decades America has used its soft power as an essential tool in the battle against authoritarianism abroad. Now the Democratic Party and supporters of democracy must exercise a variation of soft power in the struggle against authoritarianism at home.

 

The past two weeks of rage against election math have confirmed how thoroughly illiberal the Republican Party has become. But some institutions that aid and abet the party’s assault on democracy have been shamed into ending their support. Such efforts, and similar extensions of cultural and commercial power, will be necessary to raise the cost of anti-democratic behavior.

 

Two powerful law firms, Jones Day and Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP, abandoned their support of President Donald Trump’s dispute of the 2020 election results after internal conflicts over the role the firms played in attacking democracy became public. The reputational damage to the firms was twofold: First, they were exposed as assisting efforts to undermine faith in the election, which Trump’s own administration called the “most secure in American history.” Second, because their legal claims had no factual basis, the firms could be accused of shoddy lawyering. The firms surely understood that commercial damage might flow from reputational self-harm.

Anonymous ID: 06f346 Nov. 18, 2020, 7:18 a.m. No.11693502   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3509 >>3530 >>3532 >>3544 >>3553 >>3638

https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/18/michigan-democrat-doxxes-children-of-wayne-county-election-official/

 

A Democratic Michigan State Representative-elect doxxed the chairwoman of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers on a public Zoom meeting on Tuesday, revealing where her children attend school and claiming that she was enabling racism by refusing to certify the Wayne County Election.

 

“You, Ms. Monica Palmer from Grosse Pointe Woods, which has a history of racism, are deciding to enable and continue to perpetuate the racist history of this country and I want you to think about what that means for your kids,” he said, name-dropping the name of their school and talking about the impact her decision would have on their black classmates.

Anonymous ID: 06f346 Nov. 18, 2020, 7:27 a.m. No.11693594   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Blunts in space

 

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/plans-to-launch-latin-american-and-caribbean-space-agency-edge-closer-to-fruition

 

PLANS TO create a Latin American and Caribbean space agency have edged closer to fruition after a number of countries met online today to discuss a founding constitution.

 

A number of countries signed a declaration on October 9, during World Space Week, and Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard stressed its importance today when he gave an update to his counterparts in Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina, with observers from Paraguay, Colombia and Peru also present.

 

“The Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency [ALCE] is advancing,” Mr Ebrard said.