The Times slithers further in its desperation to promote Farage and damn the opposition. In this morning’s edition (3.9.25) we have hatchet jobs on Rayner (Labour) and Polanski (Green) with a throwaway on the former that frankly seems libellous (see image). Meanwhile puff pieces for Frarage have appeared very day for the last two weeks.
It seems Rupert is nailing his colours to the Reform mast and the hatred is being ramped up
It's not just what she says, but how. There's no academic or professional detachment in her profane diatribes. It wasn't a question of if she'd be sued, but when.
Purported “clear” messaging just means parroting talking-points that are easily recognizable through familiarity. Such clear messaging can obscure rather than reveal realities. It means that there is no sensitivity left over for the intelligence of irony, parody, and reflective distance. Time shows that factions that demand “clear” messaging want to monopolize all expression and prefer to deliberately misinterpret and gaslight novel thought instead of charitably contemplating an unfamiliar point of view.
Reality is complicated. Many honest people don’t have their minds made up in advance about all matters. There is not a simple us vs. them dichotomy anywhere but in the maths of plebiscite. Consider, for example, that Lincoln was a Republican. Parties change. People change. All is in flux. Some people might accuse one of disloyalty when voting your conscience. But there is no way to regulate sincerity. This is why the parallel language of Freemasonry exceeds at passive aggressive behavior and unaccountability.
The settlement comes after #FoxNews paid $787.5M to settle a similar #defamation lawsuit in 2023 & #Newsmax paid what court papers describe as $40M to settle a #libel lawsuit from a different voting machine manufacturer, #Smartmatic, which also was a target of pro-Trump #ConspiracyTheories on the network.
the UK's Solicitors Regulation Authority is prosecuting one of the UK's more infamous libel law firms (Carter Ruck) for silencing critics of the massive OneCoin ponzi scheme (2nd only to madoff) that imploded back in 2017.
sadly there's a million other cases of Big Law firms openly aiding and abetting out and out frauds that will go unpunished, but it's nice to see at least some kind of minimal attempt at justice
(the story of OneCoin is completely insane; worth a read if you haven't run across it before)
https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/12/18/carter-ruck-acted-for-fraudster
#Trump sues #DowJones, #NewsCorp, #RupertMurdoch, #WSJ reporters for #libel, court records show
Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday against Dow Jones, News Corp (NWSA.O), Rupert Murdoch & 2 Wall Street Journal #reporters, raising claims under federal libel #law, court records show.
#wimp #TrumpIsWeak
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/donald-trump-sues-dow-jones-news-corp-rupert-murdoch-wsj-reporters-libel-court-2025-07-18/
Trump has sued the #WallStreetJournal #RupertMurdoch and the authors of the article found here - https://archive.is/NunQn - for $10B #libel in #Florida https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/trump-sues-epstein-murdoch-wsj.html
Here is the complaint https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26010374/trumpsuit071825.pdf See also the CourtListener - https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70843413/trump-v-murdoch/
Can you imagine his underlings going "No Mr President, you really don't want to do that" and of course, he does that....
lol, DISCOVERY!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/18/trump-libel-lawsuit-wsj-dow-jones-rupert-murdoch
This morning, NPR aided and abetted the Drump’s and Fox News’s lies about sending the National Guard into Los Angeles. Newsom is suing Fox News for libel for reporting Drump’s lie. Drump lied that he and Newsom had discussed Drump’s plan to send in the guard on a call the day before doing so. Fox News reported this lie as fact, even though Fox News knew that Drump was lying because there is no evidence of such a call between Drump and Newsom.
NPR fudged the story by reporting that Fox reported that Drump had the conversation in a call *prior* to sending in the guard. However, the only phone conversation between Drump and Newsom was a call several days before and it did not address the issue of sending in the guard. NPR fudged by reporting that it was a *prior* conversation rather than making clear that Drump and Fox had lied in specifying that the conversation was the day before.
Lol, and this is why news outlets don't jump in and say things like "That Elon is high on drugs, isn't he?"
The freedom of being a nobody...
Today in Writing History May 21, 1703: The authorities imprisoned writer Daniel Defoe for seditious libel. Defoe was most famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, and Moll Flanders (1722). However, he also wrote political pamphlets, including The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, which satirized how Tories handled religious dissenters by proposing that they all be exterminated. As a result, the authorities arrested and imprisoned him for seditious libel.
#censorship #prison #writing #author #fiction #freespeech #censorship #satire #danieldefoe #libel #books @bookstadon
The irony is that Palin is amongst the lesser stupid people who have been at the forefront of Republican politics. Trump, Vance, and the entire GOP establishment are moral and intellectual degenerates.
#SarahPalin #USPolitics #libel #PressFreedom #authoritarianism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/media/sarah-palin-new-york-times-jury-deliberations.html