James O’Keefe—founder of Project Veritas—shared his organization’s lawsuit against CNN with his Telegram followers on Monday.
O’Keefe announced that the lawsuit was filed against CNN “for making false and defamatory statements with regard to Project Veritas Twitter account ban,” adding that Project Veritas “intends to prove @AnaCabrera committed malice with her reporting.”
Ana Cabrera is the CNN journalist who falsely stated on-air that Project Veritas was deplatformed by Twitter for spreading “misinformation,” according to O’Keefe.
The lawsuit’s summary alleges that CNN and Defendant Ana Cabrera “knowingly” made “false and defamatory” claims about Project Veritas:
This action arises from Defendant CNN’s knowingly false and defamatory claim that Twitter suspended Plaintiff Project Veritas due to “spreading misinformation,” made during a broadcast by Defendant Ana Cabrera in the course of her work as a CNN employee, reads the document.
The lawsuit also claims that CNN “directly damaged and impugned” Project Veritas’ reputation as an investigative journalism organization:
Project Veritas is an investigative journalism organization whose reputation depends on its ethical and transparent conduct, and its production of reliable and accurate news reporting. By claiming Project Veritas was “spreading misinformation,” CNN directly damaged and impugned Project Veritas’s reputation.
Project Veritas is asking CNN to pay “no less than $1,000,000” in punitive and exemplary damages, and for a permanent injunction enjoining CNN and its employees “from further disseminating the false, misleading, and defamatory representations of fact concerning Project Veritas.”
You can download the entire lawsuit here:
The world’s most popular digital currency, bitcoin, climbed 8% on Monday to $53,544 per coin, in a sign that the cryptocurrency market is recovering from a broad sell-off in recent days.
Bitcoin’s comeback follows the slide below the $50,000 mark on Friday, its lowest price since early March. The entire cryptocurrency market shed more than $200 billion of value in a single day, after a proposed capital gains tax hike by US President Joe Biden. Washington is expected to raise long-term capital gains tax for the wealthiest Americans to 43.4%, including a surtax.
Bitcoin’s downturn temporarily pulled its share of the cryptocurrency market down to 49.5%, which is the lowest level since August 2018. The digital currency has risen around 80% since the start of the year, as more institutional investors and major firms such as Tesla have jumped into the market. Nevertheless, the token is down roughly 17% from an all-time high of nearly $65,000.
Over the weekend we published a series of nearly 40 microscope photos showing strange fibers, structures and even “hooks” that are embedded in the fibers of covid nasal swabs and masks. Many of these fibers appear to possess properties that would cause them to adhere to soft tissue such as lung tissue. Their presence in covid masks is very disturbing, given that these fibers are very likely easily inhaled and may lodge in lung tissue.
There are currently zero standards of efficacy or quality control enforced against covid masks. No studies that we know of have looked closely at mask contaminants and how they might interfere with healthy respiration in humans. Despite the complete lack of quality control, safety or effectiveness testing, masks are now being pushed onto infants as young as two years old.
Those who claim masks prevent transmission of the coronavirus are lying. There is no evidence to support the propaganda, and just like with social distancing, the “masking” push is rooted in quackery and fraud, not legitimate science.
In today’s Situation Update podcast, I narrate the microscopy photos that show bizarre structures in masks and swabs. Here are just a few of the photos to give you a glimpse of what we found.
What is this egg sac-like structure in this first photo from a carbon fiber mask?
Why are there red and blue fibers scattered throughout the mask materials?
Gives districts ‘full control over whether to display any religious objects’
The governor of North Dakota has signed a bill to allow the display of the Ten Commandments in schools.
Republican Gov. Doug Burgum said schools in the state now are authorized to develop a policy for the “proper display” of any religious objects or documents.
“This law supports local control and gives school districts full control over whether to display any religious objects or documents,” he said.
Lawmakers – by wide margins – approved the plan in the state House and Senate after adding provisions concerning the display “alongside other historical documents.”
Courts across the country have allowed such displays of a variety of nationally significant documents, but the North Dakota School Boards Association has fought the plan, warning of lawsuits.
A Florida bill would permit students to record classroom lectures without a professor’s consent for proof if they suspect they are pushing political bias.
House Bill 233 (pdf), which currently requires the signature of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, would allow students to record lectures so long as it’s for their own personal educational use, or if they want to use the recording as evidence in a civil or criminal case against their school.
The recordings are for students’ “own personal educational use, in connection with a complaint to the public institution of higher education where the recording was made, or as evidence in, or in preparation for, a criminal or civil proceeding,” the legislation states.
Sponsored by Republican state Rep. Spencer Roach, the bill cleared the Senate by 25–15 on April 7 and was approved by the Republican-dominated state House in a 77–42 party-line vote in March.
If signed into law, students will not be able to publish the lecture recordings publicly or the professor could seek damages up to $200,000, according to the bill.
Almost six months have passed since President Donald Trump faced defeat, but that isn’t stopping Arizona state senators from investigating the election results in Maricopa County.
Senate leadership subpoenaed the county’s 2.1 million ballots and the voting machines they came from. From there it will all be handled by Cyber Ninja, a Florida-based cybersecurity company. Legislators hired the auditor for $150,000.
The audit is expected to scan and recount all ballots, examine the registration of votes cast, and the electronic voting system itself according to a press release.
The U.S. Supreme Court stepped back into the heated debate over gun rights on Monday, agreeing to hear a challenge backed by the National Rifle Association to New York state’s restrictions on people carrying concealed handguns in public.
The justices will take up an appeal by two gun owners and the New York affiliate of the NRA, an influential gun rights group closely aligned with Republicans, of a lower court ruling throwing out their challenge to the restrictions on concealed handguns outside the home.
Lower courts rejected the argument made by the plaintiffs that the restrictions violated the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The lawsuit sought an unfettered right to carry concealed handguns in public.
The case could lead to the most consequential ruling on the scope of the Second Amendment in more than a decade.
A state firearms licensing officer had granted the two men “concealed carry” permits but restricted them to hunting and target practice, prompting the legal challenge.
The court’s 6-3 conservative majority is seen as sympathetic to an expansive view of Second Amendment rights.
The debate over gun control in the United States has intensified in the wake of a spate of recent mass shootings, including one at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis on April 15 in which a gunman killed eight employees and then himself, and two in March in less than a week – one in Georgia and the other in Colorado – that left a total of 18 people dead.
