💸Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is being jointly sued with his electric car company Tesla and space tourism firm SpaceX for $258 billion over claims that they engineered a racketeering scheme involving the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
The lawsuit was filed by Keith Johnson, an investor who says he and others lost money on Dogecoin because of the actions of three defendants who inflated the cryptocurrency’s value, then let it collapse.
The suit, filed on Thursday in a US federal court in New York City, seeks to represent a class of people who have lost money trading in Dogecoin since April 2019. The plaintiffs are demanding $86 billion in primary damages and so-called triple damages of $172 billion
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The lawsuit was filed by Keith Johnson, an investor who says he and others lost money on Dogecoin because of the actions of three defendants who inflated the cryptocurrency’s value, then let it collapse.
The suit, filed on Thursday in a US federal court in New York City, seeks to represent a class of people who have lost money trading in Dogecoin since April 2019. The plaintiffs are demanding $86 billion in primary damages and so-called triple damages of $172 billion
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💥 The Golden State Warriors' 103-90 victory over the Boston Celtics in game six of the NBA Finals secured the franchise their seventh championship and first since 2018.
The championship is the Warriors' fourth in the past eight seasons and solidifies their status as an NBA dynasty.
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The championship is the Warriors' fourth in the past eight seasons and solidifies their status as an NBA dynasty.
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📌 LIVE UPDATES: Ukraine has shelled border settlement in Russia's Kursk region, governor says
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⚡️ Turkey ready to open airspace for Russian aircraft heading for Syria - diplomat
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‼️ Briton Shaun Pinner sentenced to death in Donbass may face life term instead of execution - media
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📹 A fighter of the people's militia of the DPR, who was in Ukrainian captivity, speaks about what he had to endure.
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🇷🇺 The Khimki City Court of the Moscow region on Friday sentenced former US diplomat Mark Fogel to 14 years in a strict regime penal colony for smuggling and possession of drugs.
💬 "US citizen M.H. Fogel was found guilty of committing crimes under part 3 of Article 229.1, part 2 of Article 228 of the Russian Criminal Code, with a sentence of 14 years of imprisonment to be served in a strict regime penal colony", the court said.
👨💼 Mark Fogel worked at the US Embassy in Moscow and had diplomatic status until May 2021, after which he became a teacher at the American school.
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💬 "US citizen M.H. Fogel was found guilty of committing crimes under part 3 of Article 229.1, part 2 of Article 228 of the Russian Criminal Code, with a sentence of 14 years of imprisonment to be served in a strict regime penal colony", the court said.
👨💼 Mark Fogel worked at the US Embassy in Moscow and had diplomatic status until May 2021, after which he became a teacher at the American school.
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📹 A doctor from the humanitarian aid center in Kherson talks about increasing the capacity to provide medical care to civilians and the supply of medicine from Russia.
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⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have hit 18 areas of troop and military equipment concentration and 10 firing positions of Ukrainian artillery and mortar batteries, including 6 Grad MLRS batteries in the DPR using high-precision air-based missiles.
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed the headquarters of the Azov nationalist group in Kharkov Region.
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 58 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.
▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down 1 Su-25 aircraft of Ukrainian Air Force near Mazanovka, Kharkov region.
▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 203 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration and 38 firing positions of AFU artillery units.
▪️ Some 205 Ukrainian airplanes and 131 helicopters, 1,233 unmanned aerial vehicles, 342 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,587 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 539 multiple launch rocket systems, 2,013 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,658 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
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▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have hit 18 areas of troop and military equipment concentration and 10 firing positions of Ukrainian artillery and mortar batteries, including 6 Grad MLRS batteries in the DPR using high-precision air-based missiles.
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed the headquarters of the Azov nationalist group in Kharkov Region.
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 58 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.
▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down 1 Su-25 aircraft of Ukrainian Air Force near Mazanovka, Kharkov region.
▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 203 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration and 38 firing positions of AFU artillery units.
▪️ Some 205 Ukrainian airplanes and 131 helicopters, 1,233 unmanned aerial vehicles, 342 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,587 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 539 multiple launch rocket systems, 2,013 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,658 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
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❗️ UK upholds Julian Assange's extradition to US
⚡️ WikiLeaks reaction to the UK Home Office's decision to uphold Julian Assange's extradition to US
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❗️ UK upholds Julian Assange's extradition to US
🗯 Edward Snowden reacts to the UK Home Office's decision to uphold Julian Assange's extradition to US
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🤭 Former US President Donald Trump had repeatedly berated Mike Pence after the latter refused to block the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election in Congress, in what was followed by the 6 January 2021 Capitol breach. The issue was high on the agenda of the latest third hearing of the House Select Committee.
▪️ During a phone call on 6 January 2021, then-President Donald Trump called his Vice President Mike Pence a “wimp” and the “p-word,” witnesses attending the House Select Committee’s third hearing have testified.
▪️ They asserted on Thursday that the subject of the call was Pence’s reluctance to stick to Trump’s plan to turn the Electoral College results back to the states when Congress was scheduled to meet later on 6 January last year.
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▪️ During a phone call on 6 January 2021, then-President Donald Trump called his Vice President Mike Pence a “wimp” and the “p-word,” witnesses attending the House Select Committee’s third hearing have testified.
▪️ They asserted on Thursday that the subject of the call was Pence’s reluctance to stick to Trump’s plan to turn the Electoral College results back to the states when Congress was scheduled to meet later on 6 January last year.
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📌 Julian Assange is an Australian citizen being prosecuted by the United States government for publishing classified information about US conduct in the country’s illegal wars, including direct evidence of US war crimes and previously unreported civilian deaths.
So, what did Julian reveal to the world?
▪️ One of the first big releases Assange and WikiLeaks posted was of a 238-page Army manual from 2003 on "standard operating procedures" for the Camp Delta prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
➡️ The manual showed the Army had a policy of keeping some prisoners from Red Cross inspectors and holding new prisoners in isolation for two weeks to make them more compliant for interrogators.
▪️ WikiLeaks published more than half a million pager messages sent within a 24-hour period at the time of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
➡️ The messages included exchanges from "Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department" officials. "We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war," WikiLeaks said of the release.
▪️ WikiLeaks published video footage from a 2007 US Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad, Iraq, that left at least nine men dead, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver.
➡️ Army soldier Bradley Manning, a transgender woman who later became known as Chelsea Manning, was later arrested for the release of the video and other classified material about the conduct of the war and civilian deaths.
▪️ In 2010, WikiLeaks published a trove of classified documents about U.S. military action. It released more than 90,000 documents related to Afghanistan and later published more than 400,000 documents from the war in Iraq.
➡️ The documents included information about civilian deaths, the hunt for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and Iran's backing of militants in Iraq.
▪️ More than 250,000 unredacted US diplomatic cables dating from December 1966 to February 2010 were released in the what was referred to as "Cablegate".
➡️ Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the release "an attack on the international community". The documents included verification that the US had conducted secret drone strikes in Yemen, details of US efforts to get information on United Nations representatives, a push by Saudi Arabia's royal family to have the US strike Iran and a description of Russia under Vladimir Putin as a "virtual mafia state".
▪️ On 22 July 2016, WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee emails and on 7 October 2016, it released another 2,000 emails from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta.
➡️ The emails, which US intelligence later alleged had been stolen by hackers working for the Russian government, appeared to show that the DNC had favoured Clinton over her rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Among the damaging information in Podesta's emails was the news that then-acting DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile had given the Clinton campaign debate questions in advance.
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So, what did Julian reveal to the world?
▪️ One of the first big releases Assange and WikiLeaks posted was of a 238-page Army manual from 2003 on "standard operating procedures" for the Camp Delta prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
➡️ The manual showed the Army had a policy of keeping some prisoners from Red Cross inspectors and holding new prisoners in isolation for two weeks to make them more compliant for interrogators.
▪️ WikiLeaks published more than half a million pager messages sent within a 24-hour period at the time of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
➡️ The messages included exchanges from "Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department" officials. "We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war," WikiLeaks said of the release.
▪️ WikiLeaks published video footage from a 2007 US Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad, Iraq, that left at least nine men dead, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver.
➡️ Army soldier Bradley Manning, a transgender woman who later became known as Chelsea Manning, was later arrested for the release of the video and other classified material about the conduct of the war and civilian deaths.
▪️ In 2010, WikiLeaks published a trove of classified documents about U.S. military action. It released more than 90,000 documents related to Afghanistan and later published more than 400,000 documents from the war in Iraq.
➡️ The documents included information about civilian deaths, the hunt for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and Iran's backing of militants in Iraq.
▪️ More than 250,000 unredacted US diplomatic cables dating from December 1966 to February 2010 were released in the what was referred to as "Cablegate".
➡️ Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the release "an attack on the international community". The documents included verification that the US had conducted secret drone strikes in Yemen, details of US efforts to get information on United Nations representatives, a push by Saudi Arabia's royal family to have the US strike Iran and a description of Russia under Vladimir Putin as a "virtual mafia state".
▪️ On 22 July 2016, WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee emails and on 7 October 2016, it released another 2,000 emails from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta.
➡️ The emails, which US intelligence later alleged had been stolen by hackers working for the Russian government, appeared to show that the DNC had favoured Clinton over her rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Among the damaging information in Podesta's emails was the news that then-acting DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile had given the Clinton campaign debate questions in advance.
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❗️ European Commission recommends giving Ukraine EU candidate status
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📹 A local resident tells how the Armed Forces of Ukraine once again shelled a suburb of Kherson. Two people were killed, five more were injured.
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⚡️ Eurovision organizers decide that Ukraine will not be able to host contest in 2023 due to current situation in country - statement
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❗️ Zelensky's representative for Crimea Tasheva said that Kiev's approach to the return of Crimea after February 24 has changed - now they want to achieve this militarily
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⚡️ Amnesty International: Home Office decision to extradite Assange to the US puts him in danger
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⚡️ Peskov: Massive DDOS attacks have begun on SPIEF systems
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❗️Belarus President Lukashenko said that Poland has plans for western Ukraine, and that they have to react to them
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