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America is crumbling like Safavid Iran
Imagine, if you will, an empire. It is founded at a time of massive political upheaval, by a group of pioneers who set out from the old country in …
AI and Do It Yourself Estate Planning Risks: A Shortcut that Can Cause More Headaches Than It Avoids
Do it yourself (DIY) wills and trusts generated from commercial outfits, artificial intelligence (AI), and other similar platforms might save costs upfront, but can lead to costly disputes for your loved ones after your passing. Learn how experienced, attorney-informed drafting, instead of AI and DIY shortcuts, can prevent probate fights and be more cost effective in the long run.
AI and Do It Yourself Estate Planning Risks: A Shortcut that Can Cause More Headaches Than It Avoids
Do it yourself (DIY) wills and trusts generated from commercial outfits, artificial intelligence (AI), and other similar platforms might save costs upfront, but can lead to costly disputes for your loved ones after your passing. Learn how experienced, attorney-informed drafting, instead of AI and DIY shortcuts, can prevent probate fights and be more cost effective in the long run.
ICLE Brief to the Third Circuit in Reading Hospital v Hill-Rom Holdings
Amicus Brief INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE[1] The International Center for Law & Economics (“ICLE”) is a nonprofit, non-partisan global research and policy center aimed at building the intellectual foundations for sensible, economically grounded policy. ICLE promotes using law and economics methodologies and economic learning to inform policy and has expertise evaluating antitrust law and policy.
Until New Legal Standards are Established, Parties Should Address AI Risk in Contracts
Article by Thomas S. Lambert Construction Today Pullman & Comley Litigation Attorney Thomas S.
Surrender Alone Ends Neither War Nor Lease
Thomas Lambert, left, and Steven Shackman of Lambert & Shackman. Courtesy photos. The recent case of 1995 CAM LLC v. West Side Advisors LLC et al., 2025 N.Y. Lexis 1771, 2025 NY Slip Op. 05782 (2025) goes a long way to correcting a huge misunderstanding of the meaning, in New York real property law, of the term “surrender.” The meaning of the term “surrender” as a matter of law altogether is commonly misunderstood.
New Right vs. Conservative Antitrust
Thomas A. Lambert argues that the conservative antitrust program articulated by the antitrust enforcers of the Second Trump administration hardly resembles the conservative antitrust of previous decades. Its divergences will likely end up harming consumers. This article is part of a symposium that explores the meaning and future of a conservative antitrust based on the writings and policies of the antitrust enforcers in the second Trump administration.
Starmer has carried through one of the worst legacies of Tony Blair: ‘lawyer brain’
Keir Starmer The recent spectacle of the Metropolitan police rounding up 500 peaceful protestors, half of them pensioners, for supporting a “terrorist organisation” whose terrorist activities include spraying some paint on an empty plane does have one saving grace: it makes it clear what the Labour Party thinks about the public’s right to dissent.
The novel that makes Ulysses look positively inviting: The Aesthetics of Resistance, by Philip Weiss, reviewed
The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume III Duke University Press, pp.296, 25 The translator’s preface to the third volume of The Aesthetics of Resistance informs us that ‘Several deadlines came and went on the way to this translation’. That is quite the understatement. The German edition of Peter Weiss’s 1,000-page historical novel appeared in 1975. A full English translation has been in the offing for more than 20 years.
Principles of Institutional and Evolutionary Political Economy: Applied to Current World Problems
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Aptitude tests are making us stupid
Civil serviceDEIHRSocietystudentsUKUniversity One of my most vivid memories from university is of sitting in my college café, looking up from my sputtering essay, and seeing the tables in front of me full of undergraduates clicking through the identical sets of multiple-choice questions on their laptops.
The Vodou kingpin behind Haiti’s latest massacre
For a politician known for his ability to shock, Donald Trump managed to outdo himself with his baseless claim during last year’s presidential debate that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing, butchering and eating household pets. Regardless of this racist lie — new Haitian immigrants to Ohio do not eat people’s pets and are in the main perfectly respectable — Haiti itself is a mess and a good place to flee.
The prescient politics of Tintin
Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, the creator of Tintin, was a failed journalist. His first job after leaving school was on a Brussels newspaper, Le Vingtième Siècle, but boringly in the subscriptions department. His mind was set on becoming a top foreign correspondent like some of the leading names of the 1920s.
A father’s love: Childish Literature, by Alejandro Zambra, reviewed
Childish Literature Fitzcarraldo, pp.216, 12.99 Serious books about fatherhood are hard to come by; indeed, next to distinguished literary mothers such as Rachel Cusk, Sheila Heti, Jacqueline Rose, and Elena Ferrante, the male sex is beginning to look decidedly inarticulate. In his new, genre-blurring work Childish Literature, the Chilean novelist Alejandro Zambra seeks to right this imbalance.
An entertaining but selective introduction to the cities of the future
At the Pacific Design Center Gallery in Los Angeles, artists have created an imaginary enormo-conurbation into which humanity’s billions have been herded, surrendering what’s left of the planet to wilderness. Views of Planet City, the resulting temporary exhibition, is all Blade Runner-esque, purple-neon cityscapes in miniature, VR games and costumes melding world cultures into one. The show riffs on Edward O.
Who is Dan Peña?
Dan Peña has a picture of Adolf Hitler on his wall, but not any old picture. You know, not a simple portrait with Bavarian hills in the background, or a snap of the Führer doting on Helga Goebbels, Joseph’s daughter. No, Pena has a Hitler collage — Nazis marching through Nuremberg, a swastika blotting out the sky, hellfire on the horizon and, the final layer, a red and murderous photograph of the man himself superimposed on to the right-hand side. ‘Allegedly I used to hit my students in the 1990s.
Processing your Trump trauma (with orange soup)
It’s amazing how many people have responded to what they think of as the shattering catastrophe of Donald Trump’s victory by crafting: making rag rugs, ceramic pots, knitting scarves. A woman I know from long ago is so traumatized that she has started quilting. I’m not sure what sort of quilt she’s making — a patchwork of Harris/Walz ballot papers, maybe — but I know better than to make a light-hearted enquiry because this is not an ordinary quilt.
Reliving the Bataclan massacre
On Friday November 13, 2015, France suffered the deadliest terrorist attack in its history. In quick succession, gunmen and suicide bombers struck the outer concourse of Paris’s Stade de France; then the pretty canal-side cafés and restaurants of the tenth arrondissement; then, most notoriously, the Bataclan theater, where the doors were blocked and, over the course of an hour, ninety people massacred.
Reliving the terror of the Bataclan massacre
V13: Chronicle of a Trial Fern Press, pp.320, 20 On Friday 13 November 2015 France suffered the deadliest terrorist attack in its history. In quick succession, gunmen and suicide bombers struck the outer concourse of Paris’s Stade de France; then the pretty canal-side cafés and restaurants of the tenth arrondissement; then, most notoriously, the Bataclan theatre, where the doors were blocked and, over the course of an hour, 90 people massacred.
American egg salad beats Britain's
Americans are weird about salad. I’m sorry but somebody had to say it. Really, Americans’ use of the word “salad” needs scare quotes around it. Where the rest of the world generally mean “green leaves and possibly a tomato if feeling adventurous,” an American “salad” can mean anything from pistachio cream with glacé cherries to tuna in sweet jelly.
What’s Behind the Antitrust Ruling Against Google? Original
Published August 8, 2024 • Updated August 9, 2024 Welcome back to Techne! Apparently, tumbleweeds are not indigenous to western North America. Russian thistle (Salsola tragus) is actually a highly invasive species of Amaranth, a family that also includes spinach and beets. The plant arrived in South Dakota in the 1870s, which means that tumbleweeds were likely not around during the Wild West era. In the groundbreaking case U.S. v.
Piercing the Corporate Veil: Finding the Common Thread
In our economic and legal system, individuals hold the privilege of creating a corporation or limited liability company which is a legal person. In that way individuals can go into business under a company name, without being personally liable for the debts incurred by the company. If the company loses money and is unable to pay its debts, the individuals behind the venture can walk away. That’s the American way; it facilitates risk and enables business.
Traveling through the majestic Canadian Rockies by train
There cannot be a lazier way of traveling across Canadian lands than in the Rocky Mountaineer. There are luxury trains and then there’s this. For two days, I sat in a sumptuously upholstered, air-conditioned carriage, looking out at the vast wilderness of Canada’s interior, as waiters plied me with wine, chocolates and three-course meals. When imagining my trip across the Canadian Rockies, I had envisaged plenty of bracing walks and fresh air.
Must a Notice of Default Instruct the Tenant 'How To Cure?' Reconciling a Dichotomy Under the Case Law
The law abhors a forfeiture. Where a landlord invokes a lease provision entitling it to unilaterally prematurely end the term of the lease unless the tenant cures an alleged lease default within a prescribed time, the notice by which such right is exercised, referred to as a “notice of default” or “notice to cure,” will be strictly construed against the landlord. Lake Anne Realty Corp. v. Sibley, 154 A.D.2d 349, 545 N.Y.S.2d 828 (2d Dept. 1989). Thomas C. Lambert of Lambert & Shackman.
Fluidic control of a precessing axisymmetric body by near-wake coupling
The angular motion of a forebody-gimbaled axisymmetric cylindrical bluff body wind tunnel model that is free to pitch, yaw, and roll in a uniform stream in response to flow-induced aerodynamic loads is modified by fluidic actuation of its near wake. The model is anchored at its leading edge by a low-friction gimbal coupling attached to a wire-mounted short streamwise sting where each of the eight support wires is connected to a servo actuator for position and attitude control of the sting.
Three Key Questions in the Google Antitrust Case
Last Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) kicked off its first major monopolization trial since the Microsoft case of the late 1990s. The target this time is a Microsoft rival: Google.
Brian Albrecht and Thom Lambert on Shelf Space Promotions
Medium – ICLE Chief Economist Brian Albrecht and Academic Affiliate Thom Lambert were cited by Adam Kovacevich in a story published by Medium about the role of self-preferencing in the U.S. Justice Department’s upcoming Google case. You can read full piece here. As Brian Albrecht noted: In the case of retail trade promotions, a promotional space given to Coca-Cola makes it marginally easier for consumers to pick Coke, and therefore some consumers will switch from Pepsi to Coke.
NSPA hosts Belgium Industry Day
i Home / Newsroom / News / News 2023 / NSPA hosts Belgium Industry Day Feb 2 2023 NSPA hosts Belgium Industry Day LUXEMBOURG - On 2 February 2023, the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) hosted the Belgium's Industry Day, welcoming to its headquarters in Luxembourg Ms Ludivine Dedondern, Belgium's Minister of Defence, His Excellency Thomas Lambert, Belgium Ambassador, and representatives from 18 companies in the defence sector.The Industry Day offered an overview of NSPA capabilities,...
Motion to FTC from L&E Scholars for Leave to File Amicus in GRAIL-Illumina Adjudication
Interest of Amici Curiae Amici curiae are seventeen law professors, economists, and former government officials with expertise in antitrust, patent law, and law and economics. Their work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Yale Law Journal, and the Harvard Law Review, among others, and collectively has been cited more than 16,000 times.
WHO Declares Monkeypox an International Health Emergency
By Thomas Lambert The World Health Organization (WHO) has just declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. Speaking at the World Health Organization on Saturday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom made the announcement. “A month ago, I convened the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations to assess whether the multi-country monkeypox outbreak represented a public health emergency of international concern.
Judge Says it’s Legally Okay to Deny an Organ Transplant to the Unvaccinated
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents. By Thomas Lambert As reported by the Westphalian Times’s Marie Oakes, Belzil filed his decision on Tuesday in a case concerning Annette Lewis, who was essentially given the choice of ‘comply or die’ after doctors changed the rules surrounding organ transplant waitlists to require being fully vaccinated.
Pfizer and Moderna jabs are useless at protecting against covid
Pfizer and Moderna jabs are useless at protecting against covid Neither the Pfizer nor Moderna mRNA vaccines are effective at protecting against COVID by Thomas Lambert Studies have found that both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines offer almost no long-term protection against COVID-19, particularly with the Omicron variant.
Top Doctor Says Higher-Ups Were Given Fake Vaxxine Cards
Top Doctor Says Higher-Ups Were Given Fake Vaxxine Cards By Thomas Lambert Former White House COVID adviser and assistant professor at McMaster University Dr. Paul Alexander says several top officials, including senior doctors and CEOs, were issued fake vaccine cards after refusing mRNA vaccines.
Food Crisis: Canada Faces Cooking Oil Shortage
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents. By Thomas Lambert Just when it looked like things couldn’t get worse, Canada and several other countries are now going to face a cooking oil shortage. According to Sylvain Charlebois, professor of food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University, restaurant operators have begun alerting him to vegetable oil prices skyrocketing due to the low output of Ukrainian sunflower oil and Indonesia restricting exports of palm oil.
Food Crisis: Canada Faces Cooking Oil Shortage
By Thomas Lambert Just when it looked like things couldn’t get worse, Canada and several other countries are now going to face a cooking oil shortage. According to Sylvain Charlebois, professor of food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University, restaurant operators have begun alerting him to vegetable oil prices skyrocketing due to the low output of Ukrainian sunflower oil and Indonesia restricting exports of palm oil.
LOCKDOWN: Trudeau worried healthcare system will be overwhelmed by sniffles — The Counter Signal
During a news conference on Wednesday, PM Justin Trudeau told Canadians to brace themselves for additional lockdowns and pandemic restrictions over the non-threatening Omicron variant. "Let's be honest, this isn't how anyone wanted to be starting 2022," Trudeau began.
Trudeau to hold emergency call with all 10 Premiers over Omicron variant — The Counter Signal
Just in time for the holidays, PM Justin Trudeau is holding an emergency call at 6 pm EST concerning the spread of the non-deadly Omicron variant, which has yet to kill a single person worldwide. It isn't clear what restrictions, if any, will be imposed. It is worth noting that Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was planning on loosening restrictions today — but delayed the press conference to Wednesday.
Trudeau has only planted .4% of his promised 2 billion trees — The Counter Signal
Never quite finished disappointing Canadians, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is failing to make good on his promise to plant two billion trees by 2030. Trudeau announced the lofty goal during his 2019 election campaign, even sending out a snarky Tweet for his fan club to fawn over. "We'll plant 2 billion trees over the next ten years. That's it. That's the tweet," Trudeau wrote on September 27, 2019.
Justice Centre to launch challenge against Trudeau's barring of domestic travel by plane, train for unvaccinated Canadians — The Counter Signal
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announced its intention to challenge Transport Canada's Ministerial Order 47 in Federal Court. Announced on November 30 by Transportation Minister Omar Alghabra, the new Ministerial Order prevents unvaccinated Canadians from boarding planes, trains, and marine passenger vessels, anywhere in Canada for domestic travel. As of Tuesday, all unvaccinated travellers 12 and older cannot travel by plane or train in Canada.
Ontario reports more than 500 confirmed cases of post-vaccine myocarditis or pericarditis — The Counter Signal
Ontario reached a new low last week after the government confirmed 521 cases of myocarditis/pericarditis following inoculation with the still-widely-mandated COVID vaccine. “As of November 7, 2021, there have been 521 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis following receipt of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in Ontario,” writes Public Health Ontario (PHO) in a report.
Calgary area hits 99 per cent vaccination rate, and literally nothing changes — The Counter Signal
Calgary’s upper northeast zone has hit the mark many thought impossible: 99 per cent vaccination of all eligible residents. However, there’s just one factor that might dampen the spirits of the compliant: literally nothing has changed as a result of their achievement.
Pandemic of the vaccinated: fully vaccinated are nearly 50% of new COVID cases in Ontario — The Counter Signal
Vaccines are still being recommended throughout Canada even though daily cases are being attributed to the fully vaccinated more and more, particularly in Ontario. On November 12, Ontario announced 598 new cases. Of the new cases, 376 (62.9 per cent) came from those who are not fully vaccinated or have unknown status, while 222 (37.1 per cent) are fully vaccinated. On November 11, Ontario announced 642 new cases.
Pfizer CEO claims those spreading vaccine “misinformation” are literal criminals — The Counter Signal
On November 9, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla claimed that all those who spread “misinformation” regarding vaccine efficacy or potential side effects are literal criminals responsible for the deaths of millions. This statement comes the same day that the Pfizer vaccine booster shot — and only the Pfizer vaccine booster shot — was approved for all Canadians aged 18 or older.
Terrorists strike again the day Trudeau speaks in Kamloops — The Counter Signal
Yet another church has been attacked, with the building being entirely engulfed by flames before collapsing. According to police, a church north of Edmonton was allegedly attacked early Friday morning in Peerless Lake, Alberta. Police arrived at roughly 9 a.m., but the church was totally unsalvageable by the time they came. Fortunately, no one was harmed. This attack comes on the same day that PM Justin Trudeau travelled to Kamloops, BC, to meet with Indigenous leaders on Truth and Reconciliation.
SUPERSPREADER COVER-UP: CBC hides internal outbreak from public — The Counter Signal
The CBC has been caught with their pants down once again, having just had a severe COVID-19 outbreak in its Toronto office but not alerting anyone to the risks. On October 12, Toronto Public Health (TPH) listed the CBC's headquarters as having produced two cases of COVID-19 from within its ranks within a two-week period — the standard for TPH declaring a COVID-19 outbreak.
CBC admits they used mannequin in COVID propaganda — The Counter Signal
After much speculation, the CBC has finally conceded using a mannequin in place of an actual patient to make the situation in Alberta's hospitals seem more alarming than it is.
Big sister of dead child used in COVID propaganda speaks out against media and government — The Counter Signal
Multiple media outlets and the Alberta government have chosen to politically propagandize the death of a 14-year-old Albertan with complex preconditions, saying it was COVID, not his horrifying medical history, that caused death. Now, his big sister, Simon Spitzer, has come out to set the record straight. "The 14-year-old [in] the article is my brother," wrote Simone Spitzer on Facebook, responding to a City News article.
Quebec set to suspend over 10,000 nurses this Friday — The Counter Signal
The province of Quebec may lose up to 10,054 registered nurses after the Quebec Order of Nurses (QIIQ) announced they will suspend the practice permits of all unvaccinated staff. According to QIIQ president Luc Mathieu, 4,338 of the nurses his organization represents have not been adequately vaccinated, while 5,716 have yet to verify their vaccination status. Mathieu says that these suspensions will remain until nurses prove their vaccination status.
CBC uses mannequin instead of patient to show crowded ICU — The Counter Signal
In a viral embarrassment for the state broadcaster, the CBC has been caught using a dummy prop in place of an actual patient in a segment supposedly documenting 'skyrocketing' ICU numbers in Edmonton. What do you see here? Look closely. 🤡 pic.twitter.com/3XtzSCnBd5 — Mr. & Mrs. Fred Fredderson (@FredFredderson1) October 10, 2021 In a tweet that went viral, a mannequin can be seen in full hospital dress, bedded in an ICU, and hooked up to a LIFEPAK ventilator.
Albertan doctors demand all unvaccinated citizens be forced into unemployment — The Counter Signal
CALGARY - On September 26, two prominent Albertan doctors argued that unvaccinated people should be prohibited from employment in Alberta, with no regard for what happens to their families. In an uncharacteristic fit of contempt for potential patients, Dr. Noel Gibney and Dr. James Talbot penned a letter to the provincial government calling for the firing of their countrymen, all in the name of ‘care’ and the greater good.
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