35 Burst results for "Seizures"
AP News Radio
Parent of Silicon Valley Bank seeks bankruptcy protection
"SPV financial group no longer the parent company of Silicon Valley bank since the bank's seizure is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Silicon Valley bank is now being run under the jurisdiction of the FDC as a so called bridge bank, and is not part of today's chapter 11 filing by SVB financial group. SVB capital, a venture capital and private credit fund platform, and SVB securities are regulated broker dealer are also not part of the bankruptcy. But the financial group, along with its CEO and chief financial officer, are the targets of a class action lawsuit that claims the company didn't disclose the risks that future interest rate increases would have on its business in
The Breakdown
Are the WSJ Articles on Binance and Tether Trial by Press?
"Let's kick off with some good old fashioned tether FUD. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that tether had used falsified documents and shell companies to obtain bank accounts, citing emails leaked to the newspaper they discussed some of the tactics used by tether and their intermediaries back in 2018. The article claimed that an email from Stephen Moore, one of the owners of tether holdings limited, said that a major Chinese counterparty was trying to quote circumvent the banking system by providing fake sales invoices and contracts for each deposit and withdrawal. He wrote that it was too risky to continue with this method, considering his signature was on the fake invoices, and recommended that the counterparty abandoned its attempts to open the account, saying quote, I would not want to argue any of the above in a potential fraud slash money laundering case. In March 17, according to The Wall Street Journal, Wells Fargo stopped processing transaction from several Taiwanese accounts that tether had been using, and in a lawsuit filed against the bank, tether called the move quote, an existential threat to their business, but withdrew the lawsuit shortly thereafter. A few weeks later on a conference call with users, Phil Potter, tethers then chief strategy officer attempted to calm concerns, saying quote, we've had banking hiccups in the past. We've always been able to route around it or deal with it, open up new accounts or what have you. There's been lots of sort of cat and mouse tricks that everyone in the Bitcoin industry has to avail themselves of. The article also claims that another account opened up on behalf of tether in turkey was later used to funnel money to a Hamas linked terror organization. And on top of that, the article also chronicles an attempt to funnel money through Panama using a company called the crypto capital corporation. The company allegedly used a series of shell companies to move around more than $1 billion. In October 2018, around 850 million was seized by authorities in the U.S. and Europe during an investigation into bank fraud and alleged money laundering. The seizure caused ripples through the crypto ecosystem with tether losing its peg and making a loan to bitfinex its sister exchange to shore up tether's balance sheet. But for next claims to this day that it was defrauded by crypto capital corp and is still fighting the seizures.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Fetterman Hears Voices Like the Teachers in 'Peanuts' After Stroke
"Have a conversation about John fetterman for just a moment? So senator feder neck had an incident. He was taken to the hospital. They told us that it was not connected to the stroke, but I don't believe it. The doctors are saying he's still in the hospital. He did not have another stroke, but they said he could be getting ready to have a seizure. So anyway, the word is from feder NEX team is that some of the side effects from the original stroke are a little weird. And one of them in particular, he says that he hears voices like the school teacher in the old Charlie Brown cartoon. You know, I mean, I do feel bad for him and we certainly hope he has a speedy recovery. But we all know that he's only a placeholder for the wife, but I'm wondering if that's what he heard when Biden was delivering the State of the Union address. Earlier this week, because
Mark Levin
Stephen Miller: Understanding Biden's New Immigration Strategy
"I guess they have a new smartphone application like a fast pass if you will You can click a button and be given a green light to come into the country And presumably you'll be flown here probably by an NGO and non governmental organization who I imagine also the ones who will be handing out the phones where migrants can click the buttons to get their passes into the United States And the fake authority that they're using for this is something known as humanitarian parole And so for those of you who follow this for a while you're obviously not familiar with DACA which is the same concept but for illegal aliens who are already here So Congress has passed a couple of statutes that give the president an extraordinary circumstances the authority to provide immigration relief to somebody So if they're here in the United States illegally for example and they're about to be deported But they have a stroke or a seizure You could give them deferred action and say we're going to let you go to the hospital get your get some blood thinners whatever it may be Then we'll deport you That would be a lawful application deferred action for example And so Obama said I'm going to give the first action to every single illegal alien who is eligible for the dream act that Congress defeated That was obviously an imperial usurpation of authority that violated the constitution and was executive lawmaking of the worst kind This is the exact same thing Humanitarian parole will be a situation where somebody shows up at the border and is having say a medical emergency And so instead of supporting them you would say we're going to take you to the hospital and we'll support you later And Biden is saying I'm going to use this to create from whole cloth a new Visa program So 30,000 would be illegal aliens a month will enter the United States and we will give them full awful status We will give them work permits We will get them freedom to move and we'll say on paper all this will only be for two years but of course like DACA it will be renewed forever and indefinitely And then
The Dan Bongino Show
Julie Kelly: Deposition Released With FBI Agent Elvis Chan
"Now last time I checked Julie the DNI the DHS and the FBI were operations within the federal government that sounds like a First Amendment issue to me and kind of a big deal It's a huge deal in Dan this morning I was posting screenshots of Elvis Chan's court order deposition that he gave last week in the civil lawsuit filed by the attorney generals of Missouri and Louisiana to expose this collude between the government and big tech This was not just run out of that San Francisco field office by Elvis Chan the so called cyber expert which he admitted is that FBI headquarters had basically a 24/7 every single day foreign interference alert system happening where they were in constant communication with social media companies demanding that they had staff available at any moment where they could flag them or contact them and have them remove content that the FBI had deemed part of foreign interference or misinformation have to materials et cetera So this is not just how this chant it was not just a handful of these agents which he said in this court deposition is that it was also happening at FBI headquarters So to your point the government was fully involved They were operating on an encrypted chat to these social media companies a lot of that information apparently has been scrubbed And Dan they were low key threatening social media companies either you say whatever material comes forward violates your terms of service for half to materials or we will file we will get a warrant We will get a seizure warrant on your platforms and force of the remove it That was the threat that seems to have been made to these companies
AP News Radio
Arizona farm gives refuge from pain, for man and beast alike
"A farm in Arizona offers a refuge from pain Joanne cacciatore was a mother of three and a customer service job when her baby died during delivery in 1994 The thing is we need to learn how to talk about these things so grieving people aren't so lonely She runs sella care farm people who come there include Suzy el Ghanaian a mother whose young son died earlier this year of a seizure So I have a battle in my brain and my heart my brain tells me the reality that he's not here and my heart keeps saying you know maybe he's still here And my brain keeps winning There is no talk of ending the pain of loss just a building the emotional muscle to handle it And coming here Gives me the respite that I need to clear my head Cacciatore is his beauty and pain Coexist at sela care farm This is the place they intersect I'm Ed Donahue
The Dan Bongino Show
Blake Masters: Germany Proves Green New Deal Would Not Work
"Well it will listen to be fair You're a smart guy I've heard you speak very smart guy But I'm not being for seizure These are not smart people When you try to explain to them that there's a futures market for petrochemicals In other words the price today is not just dependent on supply and demand at the moment but future projections of supply and demand their eyes roll back in their head Not the pernicious ones who know what they're doing it or just evil but some of them are just dumb And I'm really sorry to have you don't have to say that's my job You don't have to say anything but it's just true I've tried to tell them this that if Biden were tomorrow and Mark Kelly your opponent in Arizona Where to say tomorrow Okay you know what enough's enough We are not going into a nuclear war with this guy over oil We are going to pump every bit of oil we can We're going to open up Anwar The north slope we're going to approve Keystone We're going to go back into the gulf and approve leases The futures market would drop instantly which would affect the price today Blake but some of these people no matter how many times you explain to them the simple arithmetic of it they just don't get it That's right And they don't want to get it They're so ideological about their fixation on the Green New Deal But you only need to look at Germany to see how that ends right Germany surrendered their nuclear power and they made themselves dependent on Russian oil and gas Now they're going to have trouble heating their homes this winter If that's the energy future that Mark Kelly and Joe Biden want for us here in America
TuneInPOC
"seizures" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"Was a time going down so strong how this is working so not that you don't have to push me down I put you down for peace I'm leaving. Put that here. Boy, that's so young where I see some Gucci. You said what I know you're saying that for the lovely live island you not only tell the Chinese 'cause my side I feel that give me for my located I put ice and there's word that can see that. I get some seizures and
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
White Farmers in South Africa Are Facing Land Seizures and Violence
"Don't know if you've been following what's been going on in the last well now several years. In South Africa, South Africa, now black majority country, ruled by the rule really by the party that was instrumental in overthrowing apartheid, the party that fought apartheid for decades, the party of the African National Congress sometimes known as the ANC. And now South Africa has a multi party system. There are a number of parties. The ANC party is the majority party. And it controls the National Assembly. And what's been going on in South Africa really quite alarming, disturbing in many ways, two things. One is the forfeiture and confiscation of the land. Of white people, particularly white farmers. Now, some of this is unquestionably a legacy of apartheid, but nevertheless, what you have is you've got black gangs showing up at white farmhouses and the second point is not just the confiscation of land, but horrific assaults attacks and murders. There have been murders of whole families in some cases. And so the white farmers are living, well, let's just call it on the edge. And let's remember that they are also in a black majority society. Sometimes it's tempting to make a kind of easy comparison between the situation in the United States. Let's say the situation in the United States going back to the days of segregation. Because in some ways, there is an analogy between the segregationists and the segregationists here would be the Democrats in the south. And the afrikaners who are the ruling party, the African or government, in South Africa, imposing segregation on the blacks in South Africa. But of course, the key difference was that in the south, blacks were a minority. It was the white majority. Run by the Democrats who imposed segregation, whereas in South Africa, it was a white minority of Africans, the Africans originally descended from the Dutch, who migrated to South Africa going back now a couple of centuries, or a century and a half. And so when apartheid was overturned, you now had a very unstable and dangerous situation because in some ways what the black majority wanted and it's not it's understandable why this impulse would be there is revenge.
The Economist: The Intelligence
"seizures" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"In the podcast. And having listened to it already, I can confirm it is a fascinating story soon, thanks very much for running through it with us. As always, thanks very much, Jason. All 8 episodes of suli's podcast series are available now. Search for the prince wherever fine podcasts are sold and traded. If you subscribe to this show, you'll also see episodes of the prince appear on your app over the next few weekends. When people think about video game music, they often cast their minds back to their younger days when they might have been playing something like Super Mario Brothers or Tetris. Colin Campbell writes about video games for The Economist. Those soundtracks were limited by the sound chips of the day. But of course, things have moved on a lot in the last 30 years, and there are virtually no technological limitations on music today. Video game music today is being performed in some of the greatest classical music venues in the world. And every year you will find performances by the great orchestras who are celebrating the best games music.
The Economist: The Intelligence
"seizures" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"But himself? Well, to me, it's just further evidence that mister Putin knows the war is going very badly for him. On one level, he may be going to use annexation as a way of saying I've won a great victory. It's really not much of a victory to hold a bunch of territory where you are constantly fighting to hold on to it. Or of course he may be doing it to rally support at home and to bring in a lot more troops. The declaration of these referendums coincided with his call for a while he calls it a limited mobilization. It's actually a sort of unlimited mobilization because no one really knows how many people he's going to try and bring in. And both of them are signs that the war is not going the way he wanted it to be. He's taken almost no new territory in the last four to 5 months. And in the meantime, what should the west what should Ukraine's allies do as this theater plays out? I think they must do more of the same. The supply of highly accurate, fairly long range rocket systems, so called high mass systems has absolutely changed the terms of engagement. Ukraine is now able to hit Russian ammunition centers, logistic centers, command and control, considerable distance. And the Russians can't hit them back. This is key, the Russians can only use highly inaccurate artillery and rockets against civilian targets, essentially. They can't reliably hit any military ones. And the west needs to just keep on doing that. And I think that is what's happening. Germany's sending more equipment even and just in the last couple of days, America has announced another tranche of money to send more of the long-range missiles. So they are doubling down, I think, in the west. And they need to continue to do that. Chris, thank you very much for your time. Thank you.
AP News Radio
MyPillow exec Lindell says FBI agents seized his cellphone
"My pillow CEO Mike lindell says FBI agents have seized his cell phone though the circumstances are unclear Lindell says several agents approached him at a hardee's drive-through in Minnesota with a warrant to take the phone on a video version of his podcast lindell showed a letter signed by a federal prosecutor in Colorado about an official criminal probe of a suspected felony The Justice Department has not commented on either the seizure or the investigation Lindell says the agents questioned him about Tina Peters a Colorado county clerk who's been charged in what prosecutors say was a deceptive scheme to breach voting system technology Peter's appeared at an event hosted last year by lindell who's been trying to prove voting machines have been manipulated Sagar Meghani Washington
The Officer Tatum Show
Feds Seize Large Numbers of Fentanyl Pills
"So I had to zero heads, U.S. border agencies, 1.6 million fentanyl pills and a big rig Destin for U.S. cities, so the port director of a guy by the name of Michael humphreys tweeted in a huge tweeted a huge cache of drugs was discovered in an 18 Wheeler trailer for compartment. Agents in Arizona sees a mind numbing 1.57 million fentanyl pills, 114 pounds of cocaine that were hidden within secret compartments of a tractor tractor trailer. The vehicle was attempting to cross into Arizona from Mexico at the nogales port of entry when the customs and border patrol agents, why not they just say border patrol, where God takes take that back agent stopped stopped it for an inspection. So at this trailer rig had this truck not been stopped, you're talking about potentially thousands of lives. Guys, I think in 2020, approximately 20, 50,000 people died in the U.S. due to opioid overdoses and 2021, if I'm not mistaken, the number was approximately a 100,000, I believe slightly over and it says here there was no word if the seizure was a record breaking bus earlier this summer. They noted the unprecedented levels of fentanyl entering the country via the southern border. Thank you China and thank you Biden. Thank you, mayorkas, for the open borders, really appreciate it, killing Americans left and right.
The Dan Bongino Show
Russiagate Binder Has Unreleased Messages Between Peter Strzok & Lisa Page
"Washington examiner Dan chat in this weekend Russia gave binder has unreleased text messages between Peter stroke and Lisa page Boy this is getting juicy So Jaden reports a cash of Russia gate documents Trump wanted release during his final days in office Contained information about a pair of former leading FBI officials infamous for their private exchanges disparaging Trump according to a new report Never before seen text messages between stroke and page as well as unreleased information about the FBI's investigative steps were part of a binder of crossfire hurricane investigative materials The New York slimes reported on Saturday He calls him the times So let's rewind this tape for a minute Now again going back to the beginning of the show when I had said to you it doesn't really matter if you live in a constitutional republic if you have immoral unethical corrupt people in charge right It doesn't really matter We have a constitutional republic that's supposed to prevent the government from unauthorized search and seizures They ignored that and spied on president Trump and lied to the courts to do it So clearly we don't live in a constitutional republic We live in a system that claims to be a constitutional republic There's a big difference This has blown up in spectacular fashion So just to sum it up for you in simple terms the FBI spied on Donald Trump Then they lied about what they did So they spied they lied and then they denied what they did repeatedly claiming it wasn't spying using euphemisms games It was undocumented surveillance No no no you could shut your pie hole We know exactly what it was It was spying So they spied they lied Then they denied
Mark Levin
Warrant of the FBI Raid Violated the 4th Amendment
"What is the Fourth Amendment say Part of your Bill of rights The right of the people to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects Against unreasonable searches and Caesars seizures shall not be violated And no warrants shall issue But upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation that's that affidavit Here we go And particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized Particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized Any government and or presidential records created between January 2020 17 and January 2020 21 Now obviously you can't know in advance Can you If such documents exist but if they exist everywhere in somebody's house everywhere What this search warrant did in my view violated the Fourth Amendment If they gave unconstitutional power a grant of power to the FBI and prosecutors who have a hate on for Trump To go into his home and search everything
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Christina Bobb: Trump Knows America Is Saying 'This Is Too Much'
"Had a chance to speak to the president since the since the raid? I have. And what is his mood? Is he fired up over this? Is he angry? All of the above. You know, I think he shares the same sentiment that America shares. Yes, it was his personal residence, and it's a personal violation to him, but it's a violation on our nation and everything that we stand for and why we have a Bill of rights. And why we have a right against unlawful search of the seizures and why there's certain requirements that the government needs to follow to make sure that we remain a free and safe society. And so in a sense, all of us have been violated in that regard and it's not just with president Trump. It's the theory of unlawful actions that the FBI and the Department of Justice have taken against any Trump supporters or Trump associates or staff members, but he has. And so if anything, I think he just wants to make sure the American people keep the country that we have. And so this isn't scaring anybody. This isn't causing anyone to cower and go, oh, okay, maybe this time we'll coward to the FBI because they've only done it a hundred times before. So I think president Trump along with his team and I think most of America are saying, this is too much. This is too far and we have to push back.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Horowitz Describes ‘The Rise of the Fourth Reich’
"Daniel Horowitz is here author of a new book that is very subtly titled. Not exactly getting to the point. The rise of the fourth Reich confronting COVID fascism with the, with a new Nuremberg trial, so this never happens again, Daniel Horowitz. Daniel, I want to get to your book, but let me just ask you a question. You're Jewish. That's a big claim to say that this is the rise of the fourth Reich. It's a very big claim. And I want to get into it, but I think given the week we live in. That's what I really want to do. I think everyone understands what that means. And I want to be very specific. It's not just about a severity of evil. It's very technical in what they're doing, who's doing it, and how they're doing it. But I mean, more broadly, look, Charlie, when it comes to the FBI raid and I think kind of forgotten, but just a significant the seizure of congressman Scott Perry's phone, this is not a matter of a red line crossed by the bad guys. Because as I lay out in my book, that was crossed March 2020. Okay, and somehow the conservative movement slept through the last two and a half years, which is bizarre. I mean, COVID fascism, January 6th, and then Ukraine, that was all part of it. But this is more an IQ test whether we have crossed our own line. It's an IQ test for the conservative movement. Will this finally motivate us to change our strategy and what we do politically?
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
Malcolm Nance Reminds Everyone That Warrants Are Lawful
"You know, warrants are executed every day. Hundreds by the FBI, the U.S. Marshals. You know, it means that law that judiciary has found adequate evidence in order to have your place searched waving the Fourth Amendment, right? Unlawful search and seizure. This is lawful search and seizure. And they can't wrap their heads around it. What they're really upset about is that laws are applying to Donald Trump and people like them. White people. And Malcolm, this is your area of expertise, national security. This is again none of us know all the details, but certainly the speculation is this is national security related. To get a warrant to raid the home of a former president, means, you know, this clearly was classified information as Joyce Vance just told us, I don't care what they say. They obviously didn't properly declassify it. They're trying to claim that now, but in order to get her do a raid, Malcolm talked to us a little bit about, you know, because obviously there's a lot of speculations. Are they selling the secrets to the Saudis to the Russians? Like, who knows, right? Oh God. Oh my God. Or they're documents which are implicate them in crimes that they classify. Yeah. You know? And they know that these documents are missing because there's a sequence of numbering one up numbering every one of those documents. And they're missing. And I understand, it wasn't 15 boxes they're looking for. 27? Yeah. I think 24, 27, 20 5 is what I heard this morning, but a lot. My understanding. They took 12 more. They were originally 15. They took 12 more boxes out of Mar-a-Lago so bring the total to 27. I'm sorry.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Illegal Immigrants and Drugs Have Skyrocketed Under Biden
"The number of illegal immigrants who are crossing the border every day is higher than it has ever been. And that has a fact not only in terms of illegal immigration and illegal immigrants being shipped to the center of the country and hundreds of thousands of so called gotta ways, people who are brought into the country and then just left, right? Just absconded from custody or were handed a paper that says come back for your core team just never came back. There are also some 500,000 people who actually just got through the border that they estimate, we don't even know about. We've never even had any interface with the border patrol. Put all those people as I put all the costs of that, put all of the associated welfare costs and medical costs, many of which do exist on the state level if not on the federal level. But that aside, the drug crisis that has existed in the United States via the shipping of fentanyl over the border is extraordinary. So for example, when you look at the statistics on fentanyl seizures at the southwest U.S. border, you can see that they absolutely start to just skyrocket at the very end of 2020 and then they just continue all the way till now. It is a massive, massive differentiator between most of the Trump administration and the very tail end of the Trump administration and the entirety of the Biden administration. In April of 2022, for example, over 1200 pounds of fentanyl were seized at the Southwest United States border. These are huge, huge numbers.
WTOP
"seizures" Discussed on WTOP
"Has confessed to police for the crimes. They also say he fled to Madison, Wisconsin after the shooting and had considered an attack there as well. Richmond, Virginia police say that they stopped a July 4th mass shooting from happening there after learning about attack plans from a tipster. Led to arrests and gun seizures. Former White House attorney pat cipollone will appear before the House select committee, investigating the January 6th capitol riot, cipollone apparently reached a deal with the committee to testify. It'll happen in a transcribed videotaped interview on Friday. Keep it here on WTO, we'll bring you more on these stories and the minutes ahead. Emergency responders were called to RFK stadium in northeast D.C. after multiple fires were reported there yesterday. They got the call at around 5 30. It was two fires in the basement, smoke was pouring out of the dugouts. It was piles of trash. D.C. fire chief John Donnelly says no one was injured and it took them about an hour to get the fire under control. They are now investigating who started that fire. This may be one of the last crowds in RFK. The stadium is said to be demolished sometime this year. Evacuation order is expanded for some California communities near a wildfire that may have been sparked by fireworks or a July 4th barbecue more than 1100 residents have been asked to evacuate their homes about 55 miles east of Sacramento. The fire and the Sierra Nevada gold country broke out, Monday afternoon and has tripled in size. It's currently only 5% contained. Coming up in money news. Down a 120 points, another perk for prime. I'm Jeff cable. 1248. Let's get to the traffic
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
Charlie Pierce: Griswold v. Connecticut Is About Privacy
"And by the way, thank you on Twitter. I just think we can't, you know, not just ring the alarm enough, but clarify enough. You said can folks, please stop referring to griswold decision as having been about contraception. Griswold confirmed the existence of a right to privacy within the constitution. That's everything. It's about marriage. It's about sex. It's about what we read. It's about how we communicate with each other. It's about the limits to search and seizure. It's about medical records, genetic information. It's about libraries and the Internet. Thank
Of Consuming Interest
"seizures" Discussed on Of Consuming Interest
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Of Consuming Interest
"seizures" Discussed on Of Consuming Interest
"Appears to me to be due process. Sure. I think that's a perfect point. Let's just take a brief pause here to let our listeners know they're tuned into of consuming interest. I'm Shirley rooker. My guest today is Dan Greenberg. He is the deputy general counsel that the competitive enterprise institute. And Dan, I want to go back and talk a little bit more about cash seizures. And property for that matter. And one of the points that you made earlier is that consumers often can't afford the lawyer because if it's a $1000, it's taken from you. Are you going to spend $300 an hour for a lawyer to get the thousand back and yet made two take more money than what you already lost? What are some of the ways that consumers can protect themselves, and I guess before I, before you answer that, put it in perspective for us, what kind of money are we talking about here that the government seizes? And we're talking about government in general. Well, you make a very important point and I think an underappreciated point, which is that I think it's often not, it's not widely appreciated what the true size of these forfeitures are. Again, I went back and looked at the typical forfeiture and the median forfeiture, I averaged together across a number of states across 7 states, the four lowest states had an average median forfeiture size of less than a $1000. The other three states had an average or the states at the top, the biggest forfeiture states had an average forfeiture median size of about $2000. And so we're not talking about the kind of idea that I think some people have with respect to state policemen taking $200,000 out of somebody's trunk is drug dealing, right? I mean, I think that there are that's a little bit different case. Yes. I think there are lots and lots of cases of what you might call relatively small cash forfeitures that rest on suspicion. And the difficulty is that let's say you're the victim of forfeiture and you've lost, you've lost $900 because of forfeiture, you can go to a lawyer and you say, look, they're about to, they're about to decide in court whether I have the right to my own $900 or whether it's going to go to the government. And the lawyer will say, look, I'll be happy to take your case. That'll be $2500, right? And you realize that there's no reason for you to pursue that $900. It's just a dead loss. But now you tell me before we started the program. You gave me some figures that were just astonishing about the amount of money that is actually seized and forfeited. The government, which is to say, the federal government and the set of state governments end up taking, oh, somewhere somewhere around $2 billion in cash and goods every year. 1 billion, 2 billion, 3 billion. It varies, of course, every year. But it is a huge amount of money that is composed of a lot of very small amounts of money, right? 800, $900, $400. I've even seen portraiture reports where people who were thought to be participating in something unseemly, something illegal having to do with drug possession or prostitution actually had lost actually had cash taken from them that $5, $4, $3. I even saw one that was less than a dollar. It's a pocket change where this guy was seized. And the money was seized. And so, you know, it puts people who are without means. And a terrible position because they go, they talk to the law, the law says, sure, I'll represent you $2500. And so what happens to these people is they do what's called a default judgment, which is to say they never show up in court. It's perfectly rational for them to do that. And I guess I want to say one more thing about this, which is I read an article by a former high ranking member of the Department of Justice, and the Trump administration, and this lawyer, rod Rosenstein, I think it was Deputy Attorney General. I can't quite recall his position. He said, the reason that most people don't show up in court for civil forfeiture is that most cases are indisputable. I disagree with that. I think the reason why most people don't show up in court is that they don't have the money. And so if you look at the statistics, I did some research on this. Typically about 80% of the people who are not charged with a criminal offense in any way, people who have this civil problem who have to decide whether to show up in court, 80% of them don't show up. You have about 80% default judgments. And again, I don't think this is because they're bad people or that they've necessarily done anything wrong. It's because they can't afford a lawyer. And it doesn't do any good. Well, you're not going to be on a level playing ground, but if you do show up, can you show up in court without an attorney? You can absolutely show up in court without an attorney, but unlike the criminal system where you have a right to representation, you really don't have a right to represent. You really don't have the right to have the government pay for your representation in the civil context of the context of civil forfeiture. So you can show up just like just like I theoretically could try to try to perform a surgical procedure on my child. I mean, I guess I could try to do it. I don't think I'd be very good at it. Yeah, I hear what you're saying. You need a little bit more experience of training to do that damn. I would think. Okay, so what we're talking about here is civil forfeiture, not the criminal, not where they've been caught with the boatload of drugs and money that has to do with drug dealing. You're putting that in a different framework from what we're talking about right now. Is that correct? Because the central aspect of civil forfeiture is that you can lose this money without ever undergoing a criminal trial without ever being accused of a crime without being charged with a crime, without ever being booked with a crime, all that it takes for civil forfeiture to take place is suspicion, suspicion by law enforcement officer. And that could be just something like, well, you know, this guy's breathing fast. He seems to have an elevated heart rate. He seems to be very nervous. Well, that's suspicion enough for me to think, you know, this money that he has here, I suspect that it's involved with the drug trade. I'm going to take it. I'm going to let the judge decide what to do with it. And then that property is taken and oftentimes the consumer is lost, whether they are not 80% of the time people don't even show up because they don't know how to do themselves. Yeah, I hear what you're saying. And it would be intimidating to go into court with charges facing you and being there representing yourself. So I guess if you don't show up and you just lost the money and nobody makes a decision about the case and the government keeps the money. So I guess one of the things here is to be sure that you are protecting your rights and I don't know how we would do anything to protect ourselves more than just try to keep our nose out of trouble. Dance. That's a compelling ending. Thank you so much, Dan, for joining us today. It's been very interesting. And I certainly have learned a lot about something that I really knew very little about. But until I read your blog, and by the way, people, you can go to CEI dot org, which is the competitive enterprise institute's website. And you can find DNA there. You can find all kinds of information. So anyway, this is been a great treat. We've had Dan Greenberg, who is the deputy general counsel of the competitive enterprise institute as our guest today and Ann, thank you again. You have been listening to of consuming interest right here on the federal news network. I'm Shirley rooker. You can reach me at Shirley at call.
Of Consuming Interest
"seizures" Discussed on Of Consuming Interest
"And what you should and shouldn't do if you are stopped. But first, let's just take a brief pause here to let our listeners know that they're tuned in to off consuming interest. You're listening to us right here in the federal news network. I'm surely wilker. My guest is Dan Greenberg. He is the deputy general counsel with the competitive enterprise institute, and we're talking about seizure and forfeiture, which we hope it doesn't happen to you. But if it does, you may be out some money. Now then, before we took the break, one of the interesting things you said was that you can be stopped and if even a smaller amounts of money may raise suspicion, well, you know, sometimes, as you say, people don't like to deal in credit cards because they charge a fee. So let's go back and talk about. First off, talk about the video that you did and how consumers can see it. So if you will use Google or some other search engine and type in competitive enterprise institute, Dan Greenberg, they're taking my stuff, look for the blog, you will see a number of things that I've written about civil civil asset seizure and forfeiture. And you will also see that video and that video is kind of a training exercise, I think. If you watch it, I think you'll be shielded from certain types of unlawful seizure and forfeiture. But I guess what I'd like to do is I'd like to go back and ask or excuse me, I'd like to go back and answer the question that you posed before, which is essentially under what conditions can law enforcement officers search you, search your belongings, search your car, search your environment once you're stopped because of some sort of speeding violation, your tail lights out, that sort of thing. And that's a complex question, but I'll tell you the way that most people end up searched when they're driving. The way that most people end up end up searched is the law enforcement officer says, say, would you mind if I searched your car? Only person says, yes, or more precisely, the person says, why wouldn't I consent? I wouldn't mind if you searched. I would mind if I search my car at all. I'd be happy to have you search my car or something like that because we all have these impulses that we want to help other people. And we certainly want to help law enforcement officers who often are helping all of us and are saving this and so forth. And so there's a strong urge to consent whenever a law enforcement officer asks to search you or search your car. And I think that that impulse may be misguided at times if you're carrying something that's perfectly legal if you're carrying cash. It's always perfectly legal to possess cash. That impulse may be misguided if you consent to a search because you don't want to see or you don't want to have the law enforcement officer see what you're carrying. And yet people do consent to searches all the time because they want to be helpful or because they think that not consenting to searches is going to get them in trouble. Well, there's something to that because I do think that if you're pulled over for speeding and you're asked to consent to a search and you say, no, I'm not going to consent to a search. I think that, you know, you might reasonably draw the conclusion that, you know, if you don't consent to a search, the officer is not going to appreciate that, and the officer is more likely to turn a turning encounter into a ticket. And that's a decision you have to make, right? I mean, these are very difficult decisions as to whether it's more important for you to bear the cost of speeding ticket or it's more important for you to bear the cost of a search. And I don't think that there is an easy answer to that. I guess it depends partly on the circumstances, Dan. As you say, if you are, if you've just been to the bank and you're giving cash because you're going to be traveling somewhere that you feel like you want to be tipping people, you want to be doing various things and you want to pay cash or you want to avoid credit card charges. You know, I think all of those are legitimate reasons. I've known people who didn't like using credit cards. And I'm sure they would be very cash around. So you can think about that. That's a very good point. What is it of value to you to whether or not you want to have your vehicle searched? Now, what about if one of the other things you did in the video was you talked about what happens if they say, do you know how fast you were going? The officer. I love that. So, you know, that's a very tricky situation, right? Again, because you want to be polite and you want to be friendly. You don't want to impede people. You don't want to impede law enforcement officers in the course of enforcing the law, but on the other hand, you know, you're allowed to stand up for yourself, which is to say you're allowed to pay some attention to your own rights. And so my view generally is you aren't required to incriminate yourself. You aren't required to say that you've committed a bad act. That's not something that's your job in the middle of a traffic stop. So yeah, it's my view generally that if an officer asks you, do you know how fast you were going? I think you're perfectly entitled to say, I'm not sure exactly how fast do you think I was going officer why don't you tell me? Now, again, there are costs and benefits in this approach because the officer might say to himself, you know, this guy's really smarting off with me, right? It's a much better approach than saying, huh. Well, you know, the last I remember I was going 95 miles an hour. I mean, that's a terrible approach, because you have solved the problem at that point for him, right? As soon as you admit anything like that, you have solved the problem for him. And so I think that what you want to aim for is at the very least having him give you a minimal penalty rather than a maximal penalty, which is presumably what you could get if you're driving super fast, right? But just generally, the important thing to remember is that you're not in court, right? You're not obliged to testify against yourself when you're pulled over. But you also want to be, you want to be polite. And helpful. I mean, I think you don't want to seem suspicious, right? If you seem suspicious that that itself is a large problem, especially if you're carrying cash. Yeah. Well, now let's move away from that area and talk about RS, the IRS can sees as this fall under the purview of what you talk about. Yes, and so the IRS would typically seize, as we say, phrase, they would, they could see bank accounts, right? And ordinarily, they will, they will look at some sort of evidence of bad behavior. If, for instance, it appears to them that you're disobeying banking laws. If it appears to them that you're doing something which seems designed to avoid evidence or records of taxable conduct, if it appears to them that you're doing something that looks like tax evasion, they will move, they will move very fast. Now, there's a sense in which there's like, to my mind, there's a sense in which it's less of a good government concern. Than what we're talking about because it's very easy when cash is seized to be a little bit careless in accounting, right? Because it's sort of hard to keep track of the cash. But if somebody has a bank account and it's got $2500 in it, I think those records are going to have a longer and more stable life. And so there's a sense in which what I'm most concerned about is the taking of cash.
Of Consuming Interest
"seizures" Discussed on Of Consuming Interest
"Here's the director of W JLA 7 call for action and your host Shirley rooker. What do you know about seizure and forfeiture? Well, if you're like me, you probably don't know a whole big lie. And it may not have ever affected your life. But if it does, it may have some very serious outcomes for you. So we're going to talk with somebody who knows about seizure and forfeiture. His name is Dan Greenberg. He is the deputy general counsel for the competitive enterprise institute. Dan, welcome to a consuming interest. It's so nice to have you on today. Thank you so much for having me on your show today. Now, this is a very interesting subject. And the one that I would venture to say, most people don't think anything about it until it happens to them. Would that be a fair assessment? Well, it certainly is true. And I think that, you know, there's an old saying, which is that a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. You may have heard that before. I'm sorry I said that again. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. You know, people used to say that when crime was very high in New York City. That's a famous old joke from New York City. And the counter to that is a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested, which is that people often find that they're political views change once they get involved with the police, and they're accused of something that they didn't do. Because I think many encounters with the police are often very unsatisfying, especially when you're an innocent person who's suspected of a crime. And so it's been my experience that it happens with some frequency that people get suspected of things that they didn't do. And they often have unsatisfactory encounters with police. And I think we're probably going to talk about seizure and forfeiture today, which is often at the root of some very unpleasant encounters. Yes. Give us the historical perspective on this. This is part of the it's part of the constitution about being protected against unlawful seizures, search forfeiture, is that true? Right. So the origin of seizure and forfeiture laws has to do with maritime law, which is essentially the law of both, the law of the sea, things like that. And it would sometimes happen that law enforcement authorities would discover that there was a boat or a ship that was carrying cargo that was illegal. And ordinarily, there's enough time in the legal process for law enforcement authorities to act, but the concern that they have and maritime law was that if you see a boat that's carrying illegal cargo, the boat could just move the boat could just go and there's really not enough time for the law enforcement authorities to get there and do anything. And so you have these expanded powers of government that used to operate more or less on ships and boats. And now, of course, a hundred years later, 200 years later, we now have cars where the illegal conduct is more and more difficult to detect and more and more difficult for authorities to capture if it involves carrying something illegal, like contraband, drugs, illegal weapons, things like that. And so the origin of seizure and forfeiture laws has everything to do with the law of shifts and a lot of boats originally. And now it's extended to essentially the law of moving things. And we live in a much more mobile society today and what this means is that government's powers to take things even without what we think of as due process have expanded greatly. Well, that means a lot to consumers who are involved in it. I'm sure. And one of the interesting things that I found in reading a blog that you had written is talking about how this means consumers can lose a lot of money and not even be able to get it back because they can't afford to hire a lawyer to retrieve it. And even though they may have been deemed innocent in the long run, they may not get their assets back, is that a fair summary? Well, you have really put your finger on the central focus of the problem there, which is that it often happens, right? People are people carry cash. And in America today, people carry cash for all sorts of legitimate reasons. And what happens is that it might happen that someone is discovering that a law enforcement authority has discovered that there's a person who's been carrying this amount of cash in the law enforcement authority concludes, well, you know, I think it's likely that this cash is involved in something illegal. And so just suspicion in this case is enough for seizure to take place. Just suspicion is enough for the law enforcement authority to say, you know, I suspect that this cache is involved in something illegal. And so I'm going to take it. That's seizure. And what happens when a court, a judge decides who should ultimately own the property, that's forfeiture. And we ordinarily think of people being protected by the constitution, we ordinarily say, you know, I can't be punished for anything unless it's proven beyond a reasonable doubt that I've done something wrong. That applies to the criminal context, but it doesn't apply in civil forfeiture. It doesn't apply in the situations we're talking about. And so you can have a situation where the suspicion turns and encounter into a seizure, and then the courts look at that, and they say, well, the judge says, I think it's more likely than not that the law enforcement officer is telling the truth and that he had suspicion, and his suspicion was legitimate, and the consequence of this is that unless you show up in court and you hire a lawyer, you could be out the cash you're carrying. And I want to make sure that I've described the real world dimension to this because I took a look at some statistical information. I took a look at the average and the median size of cash forfeiture and about 7 states in the majority of those states, the median forfeiture size of cash is under a $1000. And so, you know, I think it is sometimes the case, that people will carry, I don't know, 800, $900 for all sorts of legitimate commercial reasons. Not everybody uses credit cards. Not everybody uses banks. And so you're in a world of trouble if your searched and that cash is discovered and has decided by the law enforcement officer that you're up to no good. And that's all it takes. Bear suspicion. So you're telling me that if I were stopped, let's say I'm driving my car, peacefully down the road, maybe I've got a broken taillight. And the police stopped me, legitimately, because the tail lights broken. But then if they discover and how are they going to discover this, they don't have the right to search me, do they? I know you did a cute little video talking about the rights. What happens to you the consumer if you're stopped by the police now? I've got to say right up front. I'm a great supporter of our law enforcement. I think they'd do an outstanding job under some very trying circumstances. But sometimes they make mistakes. It can be very honest mistakes or sometimes not so. But in a situation like this where this consumer is driving down the road and you're stopped. And we're going to talk about this video that you did.
Mark Levin
Steven Hayward: Joe Biden Threatens Oil CEOs
"Steven Hayward is a good guy he's a smart guy He's a scholar And he's writing for a site called the pipeline It's not about Heroin and Hunter Biden No the pipeline is about oil He points out senator Joe Biden followed up his war on energy Beginning the day took office With a direct threat wrapped in the flag on Wednesday demanding in a letter to oil company CEOs that they increased production while complaining about their profit margin There's no question Putin is principally responsible for the intense financial pain in the American people and their families are bearing but at a time of war We find a profit margins well above normal being passed directly onto Americans are unacceptable He says his verbally challenge press person corinne Jean ville followed up with a vague threat that Biden might invoke the defense production act Or some other executive power The fate of president Harry Truman's seizure the steel industry in 1952 which was declared unconstitutional Even by a by a pro new deal Supreme Court must've fallen out of the Biden White House history of books
The Charlie Kirk Show
"seizures" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"I want to explore if you can you explain to me whether or not the Canadian temperament has anything to do with this. Kind of the agreeable nice magnanimous people that all of a sudden can be quickly transitioned into subservient serfs under an authoritarian government. It's true. I mean, we've never had a Civil War. We've never had a revolution. We've had a very lucky existence. And being next to America, you guys do the hard work for us. I mean, frankly, I think we probably would have been invaded during the Cold War, we're not for norad. So we're very lucky. Remember Canada was founded in part by what were called united empire loyalists. Those were the losing side of the U.S. revolution. They just came north. So we were by definition sort of agreeable. More passive less rambunctious. And that suited us finite, I guess. Trouble is you need your government to have a light touch. We haven't had a light touch over the last two years, and too many Canadians have obediently worn masks, bent beneath, accepted curfews, and we haven't had that same check and balance system. Like I say, we don't have a Ron DeSantis up here. We don't have any difference between our conservative and liberal parties here. I think though that these truckers have shown that there is a deeper part of Canada that wants to be freed. That remembers how we were before, perhaps. And these truckers have been a physical manifestation of that. And they're not for moving. They're not wobbly. They're very blue collar. The plane spoken. They're ethnically diverse. And people, like I say, 32% of Canadians see themselves in the truckers. It's the first resistance. The first opposition in two years. It's really incredible that there's so many points I want to explore with you in that regard. And do you see a generational divide? Do you see an urban rural divide? Do you see that a lot of the kind of mandate Trudeau coalition is centered to Ottawa and Toronto and Montreal in Vancouver? Is that sort of divide something you see and finally talk about states rights or province rights? Are the provinces able to make their own decisions? In Canada provinces of jurisdiction over healthcare, but the government sort of by the federal government sort of buys its way in. So most of the lockdowns have happened at the hands of provincial leaders. But like I say, they're all in lockstep. In terms of who's with these trucker protests, I think truckers are individualist. I think in the rural parts, people are more conservative. But what's been so heartening is many truckers are new Canadians. They happen to be seek or indigenous also that's I guess the opposite of the new Canadian. So there are visible minorities. So when Trudeau denounces them as racist and sexist, it doesn't really stick, because there's many truckers wearing their seek turbines and for Trudeau to call them white nationalists as he has. It's just laughable. Like it might work against a middle aged white male conservative politician. But when a young seek truckers called races, he sort of laughs. A lot of women are against vaccine mandates. I mean, remember what these trucker protests about. Trudeau said you can not be a trucker crossing the border without a vaccine. Truckers are one of the most isolated jobs there is. I mean, you're in your cab by yourself for days on end. You probably sleep in your cab. So to force them to get back, the truckers who took care of the rest of us for two years. It wasn't about public health. It was about submission and compliance and obedience. And I think it was the final straw for people. And people realize that it's not really. People are tired of it in Canada. We have been too obedient for too long. Even passive friendly smiling Canadians have their limit. And I think it's a political earthquake here and we haven't yet seen all of the results that will flow from it. Trudeau is trying his Castro like crackdown, thank God no one's being shot yet, although there was someone who rammed a trucker protest, if it were the other way around, if a trucker had rammed someone, that would be world news. But it was a Trudeau supporting leftist who rammed for truckers. And so that's being buried. So it's been a very peaceful Canadian style protest, but there is the flame.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"seizures" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Kirk show. Thanks very much for having me appreciate it. I've been a big fan of yours. You do wonderful job covering all the insanity that's happening in Canada. What's the latest? I'm being told that there are police being deployed to try to break up the truckers what's going on in the ground in Ottawa. Well, starting just before midnight last night, hundreds of riot police, many with large weapons in their hands, started going around Ottawa, seizing diesel fuel, little Jerry cans of diesel fuel. They made arrests and handed out hundreds of tickets to. Now, diesel fuel is not illegal. In fact, it is perfectly legal. And in Ottawa, it's very cold. So these truckers who are sleeping in their cabs or their trucks, they need the diesel fuel to run their trucks to stay warm to stay alive, really. So without a court order without a search warrant, these police at gunpoint literally started collecting hundreds of Jerry cans to freeze out or even starve out the protesters. I say again, there has been no court order. There is no lawsuit. There is no sentence. This is not an unlawful protest. There may be the odd parking violation fine. So as you would ticket, if there's some honking of horns, if there's a noise by law issue a ticket. But to seize gasoline, diesel fuel. Is just what is that other than theft? I'm sorry. If the police force takes something without color of right, that's theft, but that's life under an authoritarian regime. And I hate to say it because I love Canada, born and raised here. But we're becoming more and more like a banana republic under the hands of Justin Trudeau. And you can see that when they seized the power for their lockdowns, it wasn't for public health. It was just so they could run this country in an authoritarian manner. It's very troubling. Yeah, I mean, I love Canada too. It's a great place, but it seems it's really slipping in many regards. So walk us through kind of Canadian kind of constitutional structure because I mean, do they have like emergency use rights they could do this? I mean, I know in America if they did that, there would be a very specific way that there could be a check and balance, and it just wouldn't be allowed. In Canada, what's the process to try to rectify that? Well, you mentioned checks and balances in the United States. You have a number of them. Your Supreme Court has stopped some of the worst lockdown rules. You have 50 different states which have different approaches. You've got the Ron DeSantis approach on the liberty end of the spectrum. And you have the New York approach on the other end, let's say. But in Canada, we have ten provinces that's our analog to your states. Unfortunately, all ten provinces are lockdown provinces. And both at the federal government and the provincial level, every governing party and every opposition party is in favor of the lockdowns. So there's no political debate. Parliament hasn't sat much and most of these rules have been issued by public health doctors who were not elected and they are suddenly issuing decrees. The media party, as I call it, is another check and balance of this failed in Canada more than 99% of the media are directly subsidized by Trudeau's bailouts. We're one of the few media companies that's not. Our courts have not issued a single substantive ruling against any forms of the lockdown. Our academia has been silent or cheering on the lockdowns. Colleges of physicians and surgeons have suspended doctors who've dared to speak out or issue medical exemptions. Police forces are running political errands like, can you ever imagine police going around grabbing Jerry cans of diesel fuel enforcing some public health order? It's just absurd. So every single not in the net. And that's still works if one or two knots breaks. It'll still catch fish. But if every single knot in the net breaks at the same time, you have a total system failure. Every single node in our Canadian establishment has failed simultaneously. And that's why we're slipping into that Venezuela style of form of government. The Justin Trudeau has explicitly praised. I think you know that he's always been a fan of Castro, that he said communist China is the country he quote most admires because of its basic dictatorship. He said those words, I think that we almost need some outside help. I'm not talking about an invasion, of course. But maybe I'm so grateful to be on your show. We need our friends and allies around the world to shine a light of scrutiny. Normally, Canada is a happy boring place. And we sort of like it that way. But we're not so happy these days and we're not that boring. There's a real battle on for freedom and I'm grateful for you shining a light on it. Yeah, I mean, look, this is something that Castro would do. It seems like there's more than one way of similarities in this case with Trudeau and Castro. We've danced around that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"seizures" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"With us right now for a firsthand report from our Friends to the north from Canada Ezra Levant from the wonderful rebel news they do a great job Ezra welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. Thanks very much for having me appreciate it. I've been a big fan of yours. You do wonderful job covering all the insanity that's happening in Canada. What's the latest? I'm being told that there are police being deployed to try to break up the truckers what's going on in the ground in Ottawa. Well, starting just before midnight last night, hundreds of riot police, many with large weapons in their hands, started going around Ottawa, seizing diesel fuel, little Jerry cans of diesel fuel. They made arrests and handed out hundreds of tickets to. Now, diesel fuel is not illegal. In fact, it is perfectly legal. And in Ottawa, it's very cold. So these truckers who are sleeping in their cabs or their trucks, they need the diesel fuel to run their trucks to stay warm to stay alive, really. So without a court order without a search warrant, these police at gunpoint literally started collecting hundreds of Jerry cans to freeze out or even starve out the protesters. I say again, there has been no court order. There is no lawsuit. There is no sentence. This is not an unlawful protest. There may be the odd parking violation fine. So as you would ticket, if there's some honking of horns, if there's a noise by law issue a ticket. But to seize gasoline, diesel fuel. Is just what is that other than theft? I'm sorry. If the police force takes something without color of right, that's theft, but that's life under an authoritarian regime. And I hate to say it because I love Canada, born and raised here. But we're becoming more and more like a banana republic under the hands of Justin
The Charlie Kirk Show
"seizures" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Charlie Kirk Show
"seizures" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So GoFundMe is supposed to be, if you've never heard of GoFundMe before, it's a website where you can say, okay, I want to raise $10,000 to help me go to college. Or I want to raise $15,000 to pay for my surgery. I want to pay $25,000 to go send this group of kids to Spain or whatever. There's all sorts of different ways to do it. Now GoFundMe is a place where you can crowd fun and then have the money released once it hits its goal. So there is a GoFundMe that was created to support the Canadian truckers. The Canadian truckers raised over ten $1 million. And they were supposed to release that money. But GoFundMe decided not to do it. GoFundMe decided to seize the money. GoFundMe said they are not going to give the money to the Canadian truckers. So go fund me did not even return the money to the donors. Instead, they said they are going to give the money to organizations approved. And verified by the freedom convoy organizers instead of refunding the donations. The move sparked immediate outcry, including by Ron DeSantis, who said Saturday that the Florida's attorney general who investigate GoFundMe, you better believe it, that's fraudulent behavior. You can't just raise a bunch of money as a company and do something completely different with it. Senator Ted Cruz said today I sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking that the FTC opened an investigation into GoFundMe into whether they've committed deceptive trade practices. The types of company you use and that you go and you put your money behind matter. So for example, GoFundMe is a woke left wing company, never use GoFundMe again, use gifts and go, or just give the money directly to the people. Never use GoFundMe again. You have been warned, hard stop, do not give them money, do not support causes there and do not start new causes there..
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
"seizures" Discussed on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
"Seven dollars to meddle in our twenty sixteen election and now for no cost at all a few words here and there. He has trolled biden indirectly as a career guy on the eve of their summit. I don't think he met career politician as a complement. The president vice. I mean there was no question how much more he liked president trump as a as an international coordinator and you would understand why why he helped us to russian forces of russia to help elect donald trump. The first the first time around this is going to be a real test for for for joe biden at. He's got a really warm welcome with the leaders of the g seven. This is friendly territory. They are relieved to have him back in the to have him in the white house. Replacing consent won't be the case with With putin one of the most extraordinary questions and answers from your credible interview with with putin today was i think would would cure Read the list of people who we believe have been assassinated at the order of hooton. He didn't bat an eye he didn't he also did not deny it. He had ordered them killed. He dodged the question. That was pretty chilling. Brian as i say the kgb must be proud of this particular graduate. I know it's been a long week for all of us. That's why we're so thankful for susan page for eugene. Daniel's for daniel goldman for starting us off on this friday night thanks gang coming.
KOMO
"seizures" Discussed on KOMO
"Stops. Searches and seizures. As well as whether the department unlawfully execute search warrants on private homes. Garland says the investigation will also include a comprehensive review of policies training. Assess systems of accountability, among other things, whether L. MPD engages in discriminatory conduct on the basis of race. Fails to provide public services that comply with the Americans with disability Act. The announcement comes a little more than 13 months after 26 year old Briana Taylor was shot and killed by police during a botched raid after three plainclothes officers entered her home while serving a no knock warrant. Taylor's death sparked months of protests in Louisville and throughout the country. Mayor Greg Fisher says he welcomes the Justice Department review. Louisville and the entire country have been coming to Ah, heightened reckoning. With the need for police reform and racial justice. Police chief Erica Shields called the probe and opportunity It's okay. If we've done things wrong. We're going to do it differently. We're going to do it better. And Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir has pledged his full cooperation. We always need to be open. About ensuring that we're doing things right. But we have such a sacred responsibility that we've got a welcome scrutiny. Justice Department civil rights division will lead the investigation. It marks the department's second investigation of a police force in a week It opened a similar investigation into the Minneapolis police Department after one of its former police officers Dear show, Vin was found guilty in the murder of George Floyd. In Washington. I'm Kathy Foster. Thanks, Kathy. Later on in this broadcast will go to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where pressure is building with nightly protests over the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. His family claims. The unreleased police body Cam video they were.
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"seizures" Discussed on TSC Now
"So to begin. John perhaps you can tell me what is glue are five and five is the short name. Full machado trade Glutamate receptor five. It's a protein that's found mainly in the brain and its role along with other receptors is to receive signals transmitted by glutamate. Between your own cells is transmission is important full. The normal function of the brain and abnormal. You've relatively attempt Five can lead to increased excitability of neurons which might potentially lead to sudden uncontrolled. Electrical disturbance could seizure or epilepsy and epa just for our listeners. Who may not be familiar. What is tse while houston for cuba's sclerosis complex. And as you probably know the tc is caused by narratives are the nova mutations in either the tc one rtc too gene now. This scene produced two distinct proteins called a- martin and cuban and these teams work together to inhibit the activation of another very important protein in the cell called enter. Enter as a major effect on the sentences of proteins in the cell and consequently cell growth. If it's not like well. The leads to abnormal cell differentiation energy development of those cells and these knocked cells are accident scene in a tc. Brain lesions Key factor in mechanism that Discloses complex so now that we understand what m glue are five is what. tse is epic. Can you tell me what role and glorify could play in. Tse yes there are substances called alistair modulate this tavern affect on ambler fibers checkposts and they can up or down regulate the activity of ambulante. Five binding to the receptor and change how that receptor response to stimuli and can be positive. So-called alastair model latest are pam's inning to increased activity receptor are they can be negative negative. Ls tarik modulators are nance into decreased. Activity happens now for simplicity Referred to as positive modulators a negative. Monday latest in this podcast. I'm gonna father. Sectors are present in many areas of the brain typically affected in the and they're also found in noncancerous range humus known as sega's which are typically. But you now very reasonably starts into the ducts acting as an five negative monday. This shows that they could be used as a treatment of some central nervous system conditions and possibly also in epilepsy associated with this could be a new mechanism of action for treating seizures Fifty that's really exciting. John can you tell us a little bit about what we do know about. Regulating and glue are five. So negative modulators anglo five for being tested as possible new treatments procedures in tse. An animal studies looking at this mechanism was published by dr saw. An colleen department to neurology of medical school in boston. Usa in two thousand and eighteen signed informed a set of experiments in transgenic animals. My jeans to tableau activity of the anc jeans to imitate Tubers stories is complex their so called. Tse knock down mice. In the first experiment. Lay down regulates the activity of anglo five using a negative modulator on of anglo. Five weeks led to a reduction in the frequency duration of sieges in these animals by sixty five percent. The other experiment did the opposite. Tse mice received a positive modulator event. While five which potentially to function and lead to more frequent along the seizures is demonstrates down regulating the activity of will five as an impact on sesia severity in these animal models citizen. Tse not demise also line to pass lindy anglo glorify with increased rates of protein synthesis. A key factor in the mechanism loads. Kfc cooled mce pathway and the anatole signaling pathway. We've already heard about. It was shown. The negative relation of anglo five normalized increased rates of protein synthesis founding brain cells with down. Tse function finally What did these experiments tell. Us is then findings on this second. That really suggest to payrolls of amdur five that leads to abnormal changes in brain function related to the city in particular to uncontrolled electrical disturbances resulting in the seizures and everything. I'm your five french. Lead story election of hyperactivity of neurons and to a normalization of the over active protein synthesis and these findings suggest that it can negatively regulates and bluer fi. We could have very effective medicine. associated seizures great. Well thank you. John and epa for sharing some of the findings that are underpinning..