Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit Monday seeking more than $1.3 billion from Rudolph W. Giuliani, the lawyer for former president Donald Trump who played a key role in promoting the falsehood that the 2020 election was rigged.

>The 107-page complaint<, filed in federal court in D.C., cites dozens of statements Giuliani made about Dominion — on Twitter, in appearances on conservative media shows and on his own podcast — to promote the “false preconceived narrative” that the election was stolen from Trump.

That “Big Lie” not only damaged Dominion’s reputation and business and led to death threats against its employees, but also laid the groundwork for hundreds of people to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the complaint says. Five people died as a result of the attack, and dozens of law enforcement officials were injured.
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Thomas Clare, a lawyer representing Dominion, said during a news conference Monday that the company is eager for courts to hear and adjudicate its claims — and not only so it can win financial compensation. “It’s also important that this be done in public — that we have a trial on these issues, and that these false allegations are disproven once and for all for the American public to see so they can have faith in their election systems.”
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Dominion’s lawsuit against Giuliani comes in the wake of a similar complaint it filed in the same court earlier this month against Powell, also seeking more than $1.3 billion. Powell’s lawyer has said that the lawsuit is an attempt to censor free speech.
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The two lawyers may be only the first of many to face lawsuits from Dominion. The company has sent retraction and preservation letters, often precursors to litigation, to more than 150 individuals and businesses, including conservative media outlets that amplified false claims of election fraud.

Asked whether Dominion plans to sue Trump, Clare said that the company has not ruled anybody out.

For all the crocodile tears about the Pipeline. Here are the facts.... The Keystone Pipeline was being built to ship shale oil from Canada to The Gulf Of Mexico to be shipped to China.

Shale oil is the sludge of the oil commodities market. American refineries do not want to process, and refine it when there is brent crude available.

That oil is already being shipped. How? By truckers, and railroad workers, keeping them employed, along with the truck stop workers, mechanics, motel workers, restaurant workers, filling station workers, etc. who man the trucking networks. The pipeline would cut out the need for thousands of truck drivers, and the other workers I mentioned in the trucking network.

Misdirecting fuel so that it is used less efficiently increases waste and greenhouse emissions.