Chris Cuomo’s $125M CNN Lawsuit Contains Stunning Corruption Allegations

Chris “Fredo” Cuomo pulled the trigger on his promised $125 million lawsuit against CNN Thursday, the far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and political violence.

The lawsuit contains several stunning accusations about a CNN so corrupt, so in bed with disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), that CNN asked the governor to schedule news conferences during times that would boost CNN’s ratings.

The gist of the $125 million claim is that Fredo was unlawfully fired. In other words, he claims he did nothing wrong. The lawsuit says his termination was “based on … false claims that Cuomo violated CNN’s standards and practices assisting his brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, during a time of personal and political crisis.”

The $125 million amount is based on what remained of Cuomo’s contract as well as reputational damage that will (hopefully) make it “difficult if not impossible for Cuomo to find similar work in the future[.]” (Emphasis is mine throughout):

As a result of Turner’s indefensible choice to unceremoniously fire him, Cuomo has been damaged in countless ways. Cuomo has had his journalistic integrity unjustifiably smeared, making it difficult if not impossible for Cuomo to find similar work in the future and damaging him in amounts exceeding $125 million, which includes not only the remaining salary owed under the Agreement, but future wages lost as a result of CNN’s efforts to destroy his reputation in violation of the Agreement. Cuomo now seeks to recover the full measure of his damages against Turner and CNN.

But then things get sexy and revealing… the way I’m reading it is that in order to prove he did not violate CNN’s standards and practices and therefore unlawfully terminated, Cuomo pretty much comes out and says CNN has no professional ethics. To make this case, he basically says, Hey, everyone was doing it, including the people in charge!

CNN has a long-established pattern and practice of selectively enforcing its policies based on cynical calculations of public perception. Indeed, CNN fostered a culture in which “exceptions” to the network’s standards and practices were routinely sanctioned, and that culture began at the top with Zucker and Gollust. As long as CNN’s ratings would not be hurt, Zucker and Gollust were more than willing to overlook major transgressions by CNN personalities such as Don Lemon and Jake Tapper, or even to engage in blatant misconduct themselves.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2022/03/16/nolte-chris-cuomos-125m-cnn-lawsuit-contains-stunning-corruption-allegations/

Supreme Court orders re-vote over iVote crash in NSW local government elections

Tens of thousands of voters in New South Wales will be forced back to the polls after the Electoral Commission's online voting system crashed at the local government elections in December.

Key points:

Voters in three local government areas will be forced back to the polls following a ruling of the Supreme Court.

The NSW Electoral Commission appealed to court to void council election results in Kempsey, Singleton, and Shellharbour Ward A after iVote crashed during the December elections.

The Electoral Commissioner has confirmed it will not use the iVote system at the next state election.

The commission applied to the Supreme Court to scrap the results in Kempsey, Singleton and Shellharbour Ward A "to protect the integrity of the electoral system".

In delivering his judgement on Thursday afternoon, Justice Robert Beech-Jones declared the results of all of the elections void.

"The primary consideration is the interest of the electorate and the cost, stress and inconvenience to the elected cannot be elevated above the electorates' interest in having a council elected in accordance with the Local Government Act," Justice Jones said.

"Any concern about those costs is not a basis for denying relief and relief cannot be made conditional on those costs being paid.

"The most difficult issue in the proceedings is whether the failure of the iVote system meant the election of all of the councillors and the three councils must be voided or just the election of those councillors whose election was directly affected by the missing voters.

"With reluctance, I find that because the system of election for the three councils is proportional representation, it is necessary to declare all of the councillors' elections void.

"Had the court only declared once councillor position void then the result would be a by-election using the optional preferential system of voting which would undermine the manifest purpose of the proportional voting scheme of the local government act," he said.

No ruling was made on who will bear the costs of the failure with additional submissions to be made next month.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-17/ivote-revote-ordered-supreme-court-judgement/100917050

Taiwan holds military drills near mainland China

Live-fire exercises on one of the northernmost Taiwanese islands come amid high alert over Russia-Ukraine crisis

The Taiwanese military held drills on an island less than 50 kilometers from the Chinese mainland, reportedly firing weapons at offshore targets amid heightened fears in Taipei that Russia’s Ukraine offensive might embolden Beijing to launch a similar attack.

Wednesday’s exercises on Dongyin Island, located southeast of Fuzhou, China, included firing of cannons and machine guns at floating targets meant to represent advancing enemy forces, Reuters reported. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense called the live-fire drills routine, but they come amid growing tensions with Beijing, which considers the former Chinese province to be part of its sovereign territory.

Dongyin is one of several Taiwanese-controlled islands near the Chinese coast. One island group, called Kinmen, is right across Xiamen Bay from the mainland, only about 10 kilometers away. Taipei has reportedly been planning drills to test its defenses on several of the islets amid growing fears that China will seize one or more of the islands to force reunification talks with Taipei.

Taiwan reportedly has anti-ship and surface-to-air missiles deployed on the rocky island, which is home to about 1,500 civilians. Dongyin is considered a high-priority target for Chinese forces, as it sits at a point that invading naval and air units would likely pass if they were attacking from the north.

Taiwanese defense officials said last month that a Chinese civilian aircraft flew close to Dongyin on February 5, possibly to test its reactions.

The same day that Russia launched its military offensive in Ukraine, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen ordered military and security forces to strengthen their combat readiness and surveillance efforts. Also last month, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that if Ukraine’s independence is endangered by Russia, “the shock will echo around the world, and those echoes will be heard in east Asia, will be heard in Taiwan. People would draw the conclusion that aggression pays and that might is right.”

https://www.rt.com/news/552111-taiwan-china-military-drills/