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Ajit Pai and Donald Trump lied to the American Public? The hell you say!

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/ajit-pai-promised-faster-broadband-expansion-comcast-cut-spending-instead/

Redefine broadband as an information service with the promise to increase capital expenditure? ISPs: Nah fam. We’re going to decrease capital expenditure.

Massive corporate tax cuts so companies will spend more on capital expenditure? ISPs: Nah fam. We’re going to decrease capital expenditure.

It’s time for the FCC to do its fucking job. Either return internet service to telecommunications status or allow for competition from municipalities who vote for it.

TRO

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While there wasn’t much doubt about Paddington star Hugh Grant’s feelings towards the outcome of the UK general election last month, the actor has reaffirmed his position by publicly declaring the result “a catastrophe.”

Speaking on the promotional tour for Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, in which he co-stars with Matthew McConaughey and Charlie Hunnam, Grant, asked by the Associated Press how he was feeling “now everything has settled,” the actor stated bluntly that there was no bright horizon and that “the country is finished.” You can watch the clip below.

Somehow the DNC will be against this.

Bloomberg) -- A Harvard University chemist, an ex-Coca-Cola Co. scientist and a University of Kansas researcher.

All three have been swept up in a U.S. crackdown on intellectual property theft sponsored by China and linked to the Thousand Talents Plan, a Chinese government program to recruit overseas researchers.

The charges unveiled Tuesday against Harvard’s Charles Lieber -- that he lied to U.S. investigators about his role in recruiting people to pass along scientific research to the Chinese government -- mark a high-profile escalation of the Trump administration’s effort to root out economic espionage in academic institutions.

Six suspected drug dealers who are accused of running a $7 million fentanyl distribution operation out of a Bronx apartment were released without bail under the state’s new criminal justice law early Wednesday.

The suspects — Livo Valdez, Jaslin Baldera, Frederick Baldera, Frandi Ledema, Diego Tejada and Parfraimy Antonio — were arrested Monday when officers with the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force raided an apartment on Sedgwick Avenue in Kingsbridge that was allegedly used as a heroin and fentanyl packaging mill.

They were each charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminally using drug paraphernalia.

When officers on the task force entered the apartment, they saw the six suspects bundling powder-filled glassine envelopes stamped with the word “fire,” the special narcotics prosecutor said in a press release.

Hundreds of thousands of the envelopes packed with the powder were spread across two tables and overflowing from boxes in the apartment, authorities said.

The drugs, which have a street value of about $7 million, were believed to be headed onto the streets of New York and New England, the prosecutor’s office said. Lab results on the drugs were pending Wednesday morning.

Despite the volume of the drugs seized, all six suspects were cut loose at their arraignments in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday morning.

“None of the defendants are eligible for bail,” Assistant District Attorney Michael Di Paolo said in the court hearing.

The judge ordered them to turn over their passports, as a number of them have connections to the Dominican Republic. They’re all due back in court Feb. 27.

Their lawyers argued none of the defendants have criminal records and noted family members of the suspects turned up for their arraignments.

Supporters in court early Wednesday waved their hands in celebration as the six suspects walked out.

This is DNC Justice. Let the GOP run against this. Let the people choose. I know California and NY will side with criminals but most the country won’t.

I am not surprised at this and I suspect your not either. F Pai!

I want the DNC to be held accountable on a national stage for things like this:

“Everybody is frustrated” with New York’s newly enacted bail reform law, Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said Thursday on “Fox & Friends."

Ryder said those frustrated include judges and officers because “we’re all trying to do what's right in the criminal justice system, but they’re almost preparing us to fail.”

“We’re swimming upstream and nobody is helping,” he continued.

On Thursday, Ryder brought up a case in Nassau County involving alleged two-time bank robber, Romell Nellis.
“This guy, Romell Nellis, should have stayed in jail, he should not be out,” Ryder said.
He told host Brian Kilmeade that Nellis has a history with drugs, including arrests for sales and possession. Nellis, Ryder said, was arrested twice in December, about two weeks apart, for allegedly robbing banks. When Nellis appeared in court, Nassau County District Judge David McAndrews reportedly ignored the state’s controversial bail-reform law and refused to release him because he believed Nellis was a “menace to society.
“When we arrest him, we get him in front of the district court judge. He decides -- and kudos to him for trying -- he turns around and says, ‘Hey, we’re going to hold him on bail,’” Ryder told Kilmeade.

Judge McAndrews admitted in court that Nellis wasn’t charged with a “bondable or bail offense,” however still ordered him held on bond, The New York Post reported. A higher-level judge reversed the order and released Nellis with an ankle monitor. Nellis then reportedly cut the ankle bracelet off.

“The higher court judge, which is the right call because of the new rule, dismissed it and said, ‘No we got to let him out, but we’ll put an ankle bracelet on him,” Ryder told Kilmeade. "Two days later he cuts it off and he’s out there.”

Under previous New York law, prosecutors would determine whether to make a bail recommendation or agree to have the defendant released on their own recognizance. The case judge would then make a determination. Defense attorneys would typically make arguments that bail would be inappropriate, or should be set at a low amount, which judges would take into consideration.
Under the new law, courts are now prohibited from setting any monetary bail or keeping defendants in custody before trial in almost every type of misdemeanor case, and for a long list of felonies as well.



“You can't make sense of it, it doesn't make sense,” Ryder said on Thursday. “Bail reform was meant to be fair for all, not to take away discretion from judges looking at criminal history.”



On Thursday, Kilmeade listed crimes that no longer require bail in New York including, criminally negligent homicide, second-degree manslaughter, third-degree assault, burglary and stalking.



“We have 15 days to turn over all your [our] evidence for the defense counsel to go prepare for his case, in that 15 days, if we don't start to turn everything over and make the time period the cases get dismissed,” Ryder said, referring to another problem facing law enforcement. “So not only are they [criminals] getting out, but they’re setting us up for failure [in] that if we don't get everything done in that 15 days, they’re going to start dismissing the cases.”


Here is the perp......

Celebrate diversity UK style.

A carjacker who left his victim partially blind after hitting her across the head with a hammer has been jailed for nine years.

Majid Ali, 18, repeatedly struck Blythe Mason-Boyle across the head before taking her Audi A1 from Coventry Road, Sheldon, Birmingham, in March last year.

The 24-year-old was left with permanent sight damage in an attack described by police as “ferocious”.

She suffered cuts to her face and a fractured eye socket shortly after leaving a gym.

During his 1972 gubernatorial run, Senator Bernie Sanders told high-school students that the U.S. had committed acts in its war with Vietnam that were “almost as bad as what Hitler did.”

An article in the Rutland, Vermont, newspaper, The Rutland Herald, reported on the comments, made while Sanders was campaigning for governor as a member of the Liberty Union party. The article was first unearthed by the Washington Free Beacon.

The so called community

Terrell Perriman, a wide receiver for the University of Utah, has been accused of kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl in Salt Lake City.

Perriman, 20, was arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County jail on Thursday morning, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. According to police, Perriman communicated with the girl on Instagram and Snapchat and pressured her to send him nude photos. He later met her at his apartment on Friday. She alleges Perriman trapped her in his bedroom and raped her.
In a Thursday news conference, Salt Lake police detective Greg Wilking said there is “some indication” there “might be other victims.”

Antifa moved from Portland to New York?

London checking in.

A MAN has been shot dead by armed cops today after stabbing two people in a knife rampage terror attack on a London high street.

Frantic witnesses heard gunshots and saw the man - who security sources say has "Islamist" links - collapse on the pavement on Streatham High Road.