Source: United Press International
“Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a single felony charge of conspiracy to defraud the government in connection to two crashes of its 737 Max jet that killed nearly 350 people during a six-month span in 2018 and 2019. The plea agreement was announced in a late Sunday court filing by the Justice Department, The New York Times reported. The document states Boeing agrees to pay the maximum fine allowed under law of $487.2 million and invest at least $455 million over the next three years in its compliance and safety programs. The embattled aerospace company will also be put on probation for three years as part of which the Justice Department will install a compliance monitor to ensure safety measures have been implemented and followed, The Times reported.” (07/08/24)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/07/08/Boeing-pleads-guilty/1411720420120/
Source: The Fifth Column
“SCOTUS Interruptus (w/ Damon Root).” (07/07/24)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/462-scotus-interruptus-w-damon-root
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“They all come with different excuses and some of them are pretty goddamn convincing but every major conflict that this country has ever engaged in has been motivated by greed and power, and every single war we’ve fought has ended the exact same way, with piles of bodies, fewer civil rights, and a growing thirst for more. Even our so-called Revolution, which so many otherwise peaceful libertarians hold in such high regard, was little more than another blood thirsty power grab.” (07/07/24)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2024/07/every-american-war-is-bullshit-exposing.html
Source: SFGate
“Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is releasing a new memoir at a particularly fraught moment, both for herself and for the Democratic Party. Set for release Tuesday amid the frenzy over President Joe Biden’s recent debate performance, ‘True Gretch’ won’t do much to dispel questions about her national ambitions. But in a pre-launch interview with The Associated Press, Whitmer did what she could to shut down such speculation. When asked if she would consider becoming a candidate this year if Biden were to step down, she responded with a definitive ‘No’. ‘It’s a distraction more than anything,’ said Whitmer. ‘I don’t like seeing my name in articles like that because I’m totally focused on governing and campaigning for the ticket.'” (07/08/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/gov-whitmer-shuts-down-2024-presidential-talk-19560118.php
Source: Free Talk Live
“Gen G commits fraud :: Theft is wrong :: Skeeter says printing money is A-okay :: Cops just want to be cool :: Take drugs to solve all your problems :: Ridley calls about a gun case in MA :: Spain has porn passports :: Electric taxis in NM :: Sunday night bible study :: 2024-07-06 Lori, Riley, Rich E. Rich.” (07/07/24)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2024-07-07
Source: The UnPopulist
by Matt Johnson
“Hatred of the woke is causing this hawk to wildly exaggerate America’s decline and make absurd comparisons with the Soviet Union.” (07/07/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/niall-ferguson-the-intellectual-underwriter
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Mario Flores was told he couldn’t look at the documents until he signed them. The saleslady at Cardinale Way Mazda in Corona, California, about 50 miles east of Los Angeles, was rushing Mario, a 20-year-old first-time car buyer, through a new loan agreement, asking him to make electronic signatures on a small tablet. When asked if Mario could see the physical agreement and all its terms, the saleslady insisted that the signature must be added in order to move forward. Anyway, she assured, it was a better deal than what he initially signed; the term was dropping from 84 to 75 months, and the interest rate from 13.77 percent to 10.99 percent. But the printout she was showing Mario wasn’t the loan document, and it didn’t reveal other information in the contract, which he would be bound by upon signature.” (07/08/24)
https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-08-car-dealership-fee-financing-scams/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The accumulative effects of Israel’s war on Gaza could mean the true death toll could reach more than 186,000 people, according to a study published in the journal Lancet. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, more than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its military offensive on October 7 in the wake of deadly Hamas attacks. The study pointed out that the death toll is higher because the official toll does not take into account thousands of dead buried under rubble and indirect deaths due to destruction of health facilities, food distribution systems and other public infrastructure.” (07/08/24)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/8/gaza-toll-could-exceed-186000-lancet-study-says
Source: Reason
“Free State Project activist Dennis Pratt and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate the resolution, ‘A better way to persuade more people of libertarianism is to convince them of the ethics stemming from self-ownership and the non-aggression principle, without relying primarily on consequentialist/utilitarian arguments.'” (07/07/24)
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/07/07/whats-the-best-argument-for-libertarianism/
Source: Beat The Press
by Dean Baker
“Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell has been saying for some time that he needs to see more evidence that inflation is under control before he lowers interest rates. We can never be certain of where the economy is going so it’s understandable that he remains worried that inflation could reaccelerate. However, there are risks in the opposite direction as well, which Powell has explicitly recognized in the past. He has stated that the Fed has an obligation to maximize employment and said that this part of the Fed’s mandate needs to be taken as seriously as its commitment to price stability. That is why many of us where [sic] happy see President Biden reappointed him as Fed chair. But he has to act now to show this commitment.” (07/07/24)
https://cepr.net/time-for-the-fed-to-cut-rates/
