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"For years, the rental car company Hertz falsely accused hundreds of innocent customers of stealing its vehicles — accusations that, for some customers, resulted in arrests, felony charges and jail time.

Now, the company will pay $168 million to settle those claims, Hertz announced Monday.

In total, the settlement will cover 364 people falsely accused of car theft. In a statement, the company said the number represents "more than 95%" of such claims.

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One Hertz customer was driving her rental car in Chicago when she got a flat tire, and she called Hertz to have the car towed, court records state. Months later, she was pulled over for wearing a seatbelt incorrectly when police informed her she had a warrant for her arrest; she was jailed for more than 30 days, she said in a lawsuit.

Another customer in Florida extended her Hertz rental four times — but the car was reported stolen before the end of the extension period in spite of text message communications with a Hertz employee confirming her plans to return it, court records show. She was jailed for 37 days, separated from her two children and missing her nursing school graduation, the suit said.

And a Mississippi man spent more than 6 months in jail after Hertz reported his rental car stolen; he had returned it and paid in full, but the company had failed to inform prosecutors, he said in his suit. He missed a hearing date and was incarcerated for months, the suit states.

Several customers reported in lawsuits that they lost employment opportunities over pending felony charges. Others said they were arrested at gunpoint.

Hertz had initially fought in bankruptcy court to keep the allegations under seal. After a report by CBS News made some incidents public, Hertz responded that vehicles were only reported stolen after "exhaustive attempts to reach the customer."

Many of the Hertz cases involved customers who had called to extend their rental agreement, but the extensions were not properly reflected in Hertz's computer systems. Other cases involved Hertz re-renting cars that had previously been reported as stolen without rescinding the police reports, causing unsuspecting customers to be pulled over by police. At other times, stolen cars were accidentally associated with the wrong customer, resulting in an arrest warrant for someone who was out of state entirely.

"As a result of this routine and systemic mass reporting, without verification or investigation, many innocent customers have been wrongfully detained, arrested, thrown in prison, prosecuted, and had their lives destroyed," one lawsuit alleged.

Hertz emerged from bankruptcy last year, but the false accusation cases had yet to be resolved.

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A group of plaintiffs filed a new lawsuit in Delaware Superior Court in September; that case is now settled. A lawyer representing the plaintiffs did not respond to a request for comment.

In its statement, Hertz said it would pay the $168 million by the end of the year."

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United Furniture owner David Belford 'disappeared' after firing 2,700 workers

BUSINESS EXCLUSIVE

United Furniture owner ‘disappeared’ after firing 2,700 workers: sources

By Lisa Fickenscher

December 1, 2022 | 5:26pm

United Furniture baron who fired all his workers founded charity for sick kids

The owner of United Furniture Industries — which last week fired 2,700 workers through texts and emails while they slept — has disappeared after squabbling with the company’s board and bankers over whether to file for bankruptcy, The Post has learned.

David Belford, a wealthy Ohio businessman, has kept mum since the layoffs of his entire workforce in Mississippi, North Carolina and California in the days before Thanksgiving — despite efforts by lenders and lawyers representing axed workers to reach UFI, according to multiple sources.

“No one has heard from the owner. He’s not returning anyone’s phone calls. It’s such a horrible situation,” one source with knowledge of the situation told The Post.

The Post has made several attempts to contact Belford. One attorney representing hundreds of laid off employees in Mississippi, Philip Hearn, said rumors are swirling among former employees that Belford had jetted off to Paris after the firings.

Jenni and David Belford

David Belford, pictured with his wife, has remained mum since his company laid off all of its 2,700 employees on Nov. 21.

Flying Horse Farm

The board of the Tupelo, Miss.-based company held an emergency meeting on Nov. 20 and made a decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. But the next day, Belford nixed the plan, according to Hearn, who is representing more than 600 UFI employees in Mississippi, including many senior-level workers.

“Belford said ‘We are not going forward with a Chapter 11,’” according to Hearn. “It sounds like the management team came up with a plan to save the company and Belford said, ‘That’s a wrap — not doing it.’”

UFI’s workers received frantic emails and texts while they slept on Nov. 21 telling them not to come to work the next day because their jobs had been eliminated effective immediately along with their health care benefits.

Belford’s silence has left UFI’s lenders and a handful of people close to the company scrambling to figure out what to do with its assets, leases and jilted employees, sources told The Post.

Tory Neal a former UFI employee.

Tori Neal lost her UFI job in Mississippi and learned about it via text.

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Despite the company’s dire situation, it has not filed for bankruptcy protection or liquidation. Belford is the only person with the authority to make legal decisions, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Post.

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Johnson & Johnson is discontinuing North American sales of its talc-based baby powder, a product that once defined the company’s wholesome image and that it has defended for decades even as it faced thousands of lawsuits filed by patients who say it caused cancer. The decision to wind down sales of the product is a huge concession for Johnson & Johnson, which has for more than a century promoted the powder as pure and gentle enough for babies. The company said on Tuesday that it would allow existing bottles to be sold by retailers until they ran out. Baby powder made with cornstarch will remain available, and the company will continue to sell talc-based baby powder in other parts of the world. Johnson & Johnson has often said that faulty testing, shoddy science and ill-equipped researchers are to blame for findings that its powder was contaminated with asbestos. But in recent years, thousands of people — mostly women with ovarian cancer — have said that the company did not warn them of potential risks that the company was discussing internally. Even as it announced the withdrawal of its baby powder, the company said that it “will continue to vigorously defend the product” in court. But Johnson & Johnson acknowledged that demand for the talc-based version had slumped as consumer habits changed and concerns about the product spread. The company said that the decision to discontinue the product stemmed from a pandemic-related evaluation of its product portfolio. For decades, baby powder’s main ingredient was talc, a mineral known for its softness. Sold in an iconic white bottle, its fragrance is said to be one of the most recognizable in the world. It was only in 1980, after consumer advocates raised concerns that talc contained traces of asbestos, a known carcinogen, that the company developed a cornstarch alternative. Krystal Kim, a Philadelphia woman who has survived two bouts of ovarian cancer that she blames on her lifelong use of the powder, said the decision to remove the product was a victory. Ms. Kim was one of a group of women who won a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson in 2018. “It means no more little girls are going to go through what we went through,” said Ms. Kim, who started using baby powder when she was 10 years old. “This stops now. That monster is off the shelves.” Early lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson claimed the talc itself caused ovarian cancer, though the scientific evidence on that was never conclusive. Plaintiffs’ lawyers later shifted their focus, arguing that traces of asbestos — an indisputable and much-feared carcinogen — were present in talc and capable of causing cancer even in microscopic amounts. Asbestos contamination can occur when talc is mined, because both minerals can be intermingled underground, and internal memos and reports unearthed during litigation revealed that the company had been concerned for at least 50 years about the possibility of traces of asbestos in its talc. Asbestos was first linked to ovarian cancer in 1958. The revelation of these company documents also prompted inquiries by the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as congressional committees and authorities in Mississippi and New Mexico. As of late March, Johnson & Johnson faced 19,400 lawsuits related to talc body powders, many of them involving complicated science. A federal judge ruled in April that plaintiffs’ scientific experts could testify with some exceptions, a blow to Johnson & Johnson, which had been pushing to exclude the testimony in hopes of shutting down thousands of cases. The legal record has been mixed so far. Several juries have decided against Johnson & Johnson, in one case awarding $4.7 billion to 22 women including Ms. Kim in 2018. But the company has prevailed in other cases and is appealing nearly all of the cases it has lost. Johnson & Johnson’s talc supplier, Imerys Talc America, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year. In October, Johnson & Johnson recalled 33,000 bottles of baby powder after the Food and Drug Administration said it discovered evidence of chrysotile asbestos in a bottle purchased from an online retailer. Soon after, the company said that multiple tests of the same bottle came up clean. Nathan A. Schachtman, a lawyer who defends product liability cases and spent decades handling asbestos-related claims, said that companies often agreed to settle lawsuits or discontinue products that they believed were safe in an attempt to soothe shareholders and win back public confidence — to “buy peace,” he said. “At some point, the shareholders don’t care whether the science is on your side,” said Mr. Schachtman, who said he was not involved in the Johnson & Johnson talc cases. “Companies have to make very practical and hard decisions about withdrawing products that they don’t think are bad products, or dropping cases because they know they can’t win them all and it’s expensive to defend them.” On Tuesday, the company said that baby powder made up half a percent of its total consumer health business in the United States and that demand for the talc-based version had slumped. Mark Lanier, a lawyer who represents thousands of cancer survivors and their families who are suing Johnson & Johnson, said the company had made “the right move.” “They can give all the reasons they want — I’m just thankful the stuff is off the market. I do believe this will save untold misery and lives,” Mr. Lanier said. Though Johnson’s Baby Powder has long been advertised for infants and is stocked on the baby aisle along with diapers and baby shampoo, adult women have been the main purchasers in recent decades, using it on their perineum and to prevent chafing between the legs. Thousands of women who developed ovarian cancer after long-term use of the product blamed the powder and sued the company, while a smaller number sued after developing mesothelioma, a rare and particularly vicious cancer that develops in the linings of the lungs and abdomen and is considered a signature disease of asbestos. And groups that have advocated the removal of other talc-based cosmetics from the market seized on Johnson & Johnson’s decision to call for more companies to do the same. In a statement, the Environmental Working Group advocacy organization urged other cosmetic companies to stop using talc in loose powders. The group said that it commissioned tests that last week found asbestos in two eye shadow palettes made with talc, marketed to children and sold on Amazon. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The F.D.A. issued several alerts last year warning that asbestos had been discovered in several talc cosmetics products, including eye shadow sold at Claire’s, a retailer focused on teenagers. Linda Reinstein, whose husband died of asbestos-induced mesothelioma and now heads the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, called the company’s move a public health victory but said several chemical companies continued to use asbestos in manufacturing and had blocked an outright ban on it. “We can’t wait for them to follow Johnson & Johnson,” she said. The post Johnson & Johnson to End Talc-Based Baby Powder Sales in North America appeared first on Sansaar Times.

http://sansaartimes.blogspot.com/2020/05/johnson-johnson-to-end-talc-based-baby.html

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Near Springfield MO

Events

This holiday season, there are awesome pre-scheduled in every city. No wonder it is enticing to travel and participate in these activities. Before doing so, it is nice to check the events and decide where to spend time in the coming days. It will help you plan your vacation and finances while choosing interesting activities. This coming December 12, 2019, there will be a Holiday Soirée that will be hosted by The Network for Springfield's Young Professionals. The venue is Discovery Center of Springfield, 438 East Saint Louis Street, Fourth Floor Springfield, MO 65806, United States. On December 8, 2019, a few days before that, the Cultural City tour + Sunset Cruise around Macau Island + Dinner will also take place.

Licata Bankruptcy Firm

Are you familiar with Licata Bankruptcy Firm? It is considered one of the most reliable firms in Springfield, MO area. Since it has helped a lot of clients already, many business owners are trying to seek legal help from them. The firm was established in 2008 with a simple goal that is give professional bankruptcy service to their clients with the highest degree of legal knowledge and experience. Their lawyers also aim to do it in a personalized way and with compassion. Lastly, they believe that they can accomplish this goal by focusing on practicing exclusively bankruptcy law. It is one way for them to focus on the issues of their clients and closely monitor the progress of the case.

TIM O'REILLY BREAKS GROUND FOR BIGSHOTS GOLF IN SPRINGFIELD, MO

After many thank-yous to attendees who helped make the project a reality, O’Reilly moved on to talk about the location chosen for BigShots. “We could have put this anywhere in Springfield,” says O’Reilly. “We wanted it here on the north side. We believe the best days are yet to come for the north side. This can really help knock it out of the park.” The new facility will also be working hand-in-hand with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield to continue to help vulnerable and in-need children. “It’s going to be exciting,” says O’Reilly. “It’s going to draw people from all over Missouri to this point in north Springfield.” Read more here

Have you heard about the news report regarding Tim O’Reilly who broke ground for big shots golf in Springfield, MO? Basically, Tim O’Reilly, CEO of O’Reilly Hospitality Management, had a speech in front of the crowd at the ground-breaking ceremony of a major development project on the north side of Springfield, MO. Interestingly, BigShots Golf, which develops family-friendly driving ranges with advanced technology in partnership with ClubCorp, will be opening a venue on the intersection of Kearney St. and Glenstone Ave. where a vacant K-Mart once stood. Obviously, this is considered good news.

Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in Springfield, MO

Many travelers and backpackers prefer places that are rich with natural landscapes. These places are perfect for photos and videos. Obviously, it’s the backdrop that truly fascinates them. For those who want to see something new and historic, it is highly recommended to visit Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in Springfield, MO area. Well, it’s your average type of tourist spot. The Wilson's Creek National Battlefield at 6424 West Farm Road 182 near Republic, Missouri, preserves the site of the Battle of Wilson's Creek. The battle was fought on August 10, 1861 and it was the first major American Civil War engagement west of the Mississippi River. Since the place is considered a top tourist destination, there are many things to learn there.

Link to map

Driving Direction

17 min (12.4 miles)

via US-60 E

Fastest route, the usual traffic

Wilson's Creek National Battlefield

6424 W Farm Rd 182, Republic, MO 65738, United States

Get on US-60 E in Springfield from S State Hwy Zz and W Republic Rd

7 min (4.6 mi)

Follow US-60 E to S National Ave. Take the National Ave exit from US-60 E

7 min (7.1 mi)

Drive to E Bradford Pkwy

3 min (0.8 mi)

Licata Bankruptcy Firm

1442 E. Bradford Parkway

Springfield, MO 65804

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Real Estate Attorneys

Have you decided to take the big step of buying a home or selling your valued property? No matter if your recent purchase is bigger or small, buying or selling real estate isn’t a simple process. There are many laws that dictate the specifics that most of you aren't acquainted with.

In such a case, a real estate attorney comes handy. You should consider hiring an experienced real estate agent to guide you through the legal process in the real estate industry. For any real estate expertise in Iowa, you should consider hiring Mark Gray – the best law firm in Ankeny.

Who are Real Estate Attorneys?

Real estate attorneys or real estate lawyers are legal professionals who specialize in the legal aspects of buying and selling real estate properties. A real estate lawyer may assist in many transactions associated with the transfer of property.

Many states in the US require the presence of a real estate during the transaction of real estate property namely

·         Alabama

·         Connecticut

·         Delaware

·         D.C

·         Florida

·         Georgia

·         Kansas

·         Kentucky

·         Maine

·         Maryland

·         Massachusetts

·         Mississippi

·         New Hampshire

·         New Jersey

·         New York

·         North Dakota

·         Pennsylvania

·         Rhode Island

·         South Carolina

·         Vermont

·         Virginia

·         West Virginia

 Although your state may not require a real estate attorney to be present during the time of the transaction you will still be required to hire one to assist you with legal formalities and processes. Consider the best law firm in Ankeny for real estate expertise in Iowa. Keep in mind that having someone who is experienced with the law on your side may help you avoid any legal problems that can cause delays to your closing, and save you money in the long run.

Why do you need a Real Estate Attorney?

According to Iowa State Law, you can purchase and/or sell a residence by using a real estate licensee. Licensee is basically a salesperson or broker. However, a licensee can only help you during the transaction.

There are real estate documents that cannot be prepared by real estate licensees. Essential documents such as deeds, installment contracts, etc. are to be prepared by a real estate attorney. Realtor, Real estate licensee, agent, and attorney play different roles to assist you in the purchase or sale of your property.

·They document and review real estate transactions, including purchases,       leases, inspections, and appraisals.

·They help to resolve title insurance and environmental issues related to real     estate law.

·When things take a wrong turn in transactions, real estate lawyers step in to file  and defend lawsuits in court. They also assist in dealing with the legal aspect of  rental property and defend the rights of owners, landlords, renters, and tenant.

·They also specialize in land use, zoning, property development, property taxes,  deeds, titles, and foreclosure.

 Why would you need a Real Estate Attorney?

Although they specialize in and apply their legal skills to matters related to real property, there are some essential things they broadly cover.

a.   Buying

Buying a new home or a property can be a serious task that requires an acute sense of expertise, especially for first-time buyers. After you’re done meeting realtors or agents and decide to buy a new property, you should consult with the real estate attorney to expedite the buying process. A real estate lawyer can help you understand the purchase agreement, prepare and process all legal documents, review closing documents prior to signature, and ensure that you receive the valid registered ownership of the new home.

According to IowaRealtors.com, Home sales grew by 3.2% in 2017 with 44,023 homes sold compared to 42,671 in 2016.

b.   Selling

Like buying, selling can be a daunting task that requires a sound knowledge of the market, taxes levied on selling properties, agreements and other legal documents. Although it isn’t necessary to place a real estate agent during the transaction in Iowa, you would still require their expertise to ease the process.

A Real estate attorney can help you draw up legal documents, review any essential document that requires a signature, arrange for the transfer of deposits/security, and make arrangements for insurance verification. Although a lawyer performs fewer duties in the selling of a property than in the buying process, you would still require their expertise.

May 2019 Property Market Indicators for the State of Iowa

New Listings increased 5.4 percent for Single-Family Detached homes but decreased 2.8 percent for Townhouse-Condo homes. Pending Sales increased 1.1 percent for Single-Family Detached homes but decreased 10.1 percent for Townhouse-Condo homes. Inventory increased 4.5 percent for Single-Family Detached homes and 1.7 percent for Townhouse-Condo homes. (iowarealtors.com)

c.   Benefits

Other than just buying and selling homes, real estate attorneys are beneficial for many reasons. They can be your front guy during any transaction. Their legal expertise and authority can help ease lots of processes.

They can also help simplify the legal jargons involved with real estate, tax, and state laws to make the process much less stressful.

Real estate lawyers may also help ensure that the client is legally covered (financially secured) during the entire deal.

According to the new state law authorized in 2018, Iowa will offer a 10-Year Tax-deductible saving account to go towards the purchase of the first home in Iowa.

d.   Expense

Real estate attorneys do not come cheap. The clean and easy finish of work requires great expertise and effort that comes for a price. Attorneys can differ in their pricing strategy that is determined by the kind of deals they’re involved in. Some may charge flat fees while others may charge by the hour.

Be prepared to pay them a fee nonetheless. Most attorneys require payment regardless of whether the deal closes or not. Although retaining an attorney for real estate deals can be an added cost, the benefits far outweigh the costs and could save money in the future.

Most attorneys charge on an hourly basis, while others may charge for the whole process. The fringe charges may range from $150-$300.

Be prepared to pay anything from the US $500 - $1500 for a wholesome attorney job.

Real Estate Issues while Buying a Home

There are many issues that you must consider when purchasing a residence. These can apply when you purchase a property without the assistance of a realtor as well as FSBO 'For Sale by owner.'

The cost of living in Iowa is 89.5, i.e. Iowa is cheaper than most other states in the U.S. The median home price in Iowa is $141,000.

i.Offer and acceptance or real estate sales contract

Under the real estate law of Iowa, a contract for the sale of the home is only binding if it is in writing signed by the parties. Since the sale often involves a huge sum of money and the legal issues can be complex, hiring an attorney to review the sales contract becomes essential.

ii.Disclosure Requirements

A seller is required to submit the ‘Residential Property Seller Disclosure Statement form’ in accordance with the law of Iowa to the buyer once the buyer tenders an offer to purchase a house. It should be completed by the seller to the best of their knowledge. Both buyer and seller during the time of the transaction or before should sign two copies of the form and each should retain a signed copy for any future legal complications.

iii.Closing Process

Once an offer to purchase is accepted, the seller will need to locate the abstract of title for the real estate and get it updated and extended by an abstract company. The abstract lists all of the documents (e.g., deeds, mortgages, etc.) that are part of the public record at the county recorder’s office, the courts, and other government offices that affect title to the property.

iv.Closing Statement

If you’re a Buyer, and you have a lender who is providing financing then normally the lender will prepare a closing statement that reflects the purchase price, applicable credits (like accrued taxes, transfer taxes, earnest money, etc.), and the amounts due to seller at closing.

For Tax Purpose

The property taxes paid in September and March each year are actually for the prior fiscal year ending June 30 hence property taxes are always one year behind. Accrued and prorated property taxes are normally taken as a credit by the buyer against the purchase price.

v. Pre-closing

The condition of the title (as shown in the abstract) can change between the date and time of the last extension of the abstract, which is usually recited in the title opinion, and the date of closing. As part of the closing, buyers should obtain from the abstract company an oral update summarizing whether there have been any changes to the condition of title.

vi.Post-closing

After closing, the buyer or the buyer’s lender will want to record the deed, DOV, and GWHS. The abstract should be kept by the buyer or their lender.

 The above details are furbished from the source IowaBar.org

 Did You Know about Iowa Homestead Law?

Buying a new home also comes with the possibility of losing it. Especially when you don’t have money and creditors come calling. The primary concern should be saving your home. The Hawkeye state homestead protection laws of Iowa is designed to protect citizens from losing their homes in the event of a bankruptcy. These statutes allow a person in debt to set aside a specific amount of real property, referred to as a "homestead," that would be off-limits to certain types of creditors. The Hawkeye State allows citizens to set aside 40 acres of rural property or a half-acre of urban property under its homestead protections and caps the value of the protected personal property at $500.

  Mark Gray Law Firm

Mark Gray Law Firm is a law entity practicing in the state of Iowa and is regarded as the best law firm in Ankeny. Located uptown, the lawyers with Mark Gray firm solely work with clients to buy, sell and develop both residential and commercial real estate.

We provide a wide range of legal and consulting services including, but not limited to, review and preparation of agreements, negotiations, and closings. We provide advice on the ownership of farm real estate and other commercial real estates.

Highlighted Services

·         Title Opinions

·         Review and preparation of purchase agreements

·         Review and preparation of leases and other documents

·         Closing services

·         Advice and coordination with respect to 1031 transactions

·         Formation of business entities for real estate holdings

·         Advice and assistance with respect to real estate ownership

·         Real Estate planning

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I’ve always had money, Not boosting, just my reality. I was born into it, generated my own wealth and appreciate it but I don’t love it or anything else above GOD, family, Country(s), Ministry and Businesses.

You may have read or heard it said that “Money is the answer to EVERYTHING” in Ecclesiastes 10:19 but you have to read at least the two previous passages of scripture to understand the context and experientially and Biblically we all know Money is in fact Not the answer to everything and if poorly used or misused it will lead to greater problems, especially to those with expensive habits and living above their means. All that being said, money is useful and needed for just about everything but we must be good stewards of it in our wages, profits, investing, savings, tithing, offering, giving, gifting, loaning, borrowing, purchases, etc… So yeah, don’t get it twisted as some folks would have you to believe. There’s really Only One Answer to EVERYTHING and that’s GOD Who Created EVERYTHING❗️

We have all also heard folks say, “the Bible says money is the root of all evil.”  But that’s not what the Bible actually says. Paul wrote to Timothy about money and said:

“The LOVE of money is the root of all evil…”  1 Tim 6:10

Paul teaches that the LOVE of money [or anything else that you place or exalts itself (yes, you yourself too) above GOD] is the root of all EVIL.  In addition to money, it could be the love of status, jobs, possessions, family, hobbies, recreational activities, prideful or conceited (extreme self love or feeling of superiority) and much more…that can be the “root of all evil.  It is anything that we love and put above our love for God, that can become an idol in our lives.

So why does Paul say “the LOVE of money is the root of all evil?”  Because it is covetousness of something worldly. And that covetousness becomes a desire that controls us, demands our devotion, and, as Paul wrote to Timothy it causes some to “err from the Faith” and have “many sorrows.” (1 Tim 6:10).

Paul’s admonition to Timothy was that children of God should “…flee from the coveteousness of worldly things, and desire to follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness” (1 Tim 6:11).  We are to “Fight the Good Fight of Faith, lay hold on Eternal Life” (1 Tim 6:12) and “covet earnestly the best gifts” (1 Cor 12:31), which are gifts from GOD.

Such focus, dedication, and devotion are mandatory for Christians if they are to live in the Spirit and honor God.  We are to:

* put nothing above Jesus

* keep our hearts devoted to Jesus

* renew our minds in the Word of God

* live in the power of the Holy Spirit

* and find rest, assurance, and security in Christ alone.

As Christians, our wealth is not found in money. Our hope and joy do not come from worldly possessions.  Rather, our hope, joy, and wealth come from our positional standing in Christ. We are redeemed and regenerated, and we stand as a child of God and a joint heir with Christ.

This short parable illustrates our immeasurable wealth.

A Parable of the Poor Christian and the Tax Collector:

One day, a tax assessor came to a poor Christian to determine his property and assess the taxes due to be collected. He asked the Christian, “What property do you possess to properly assess your taxes?”  The Christian replied, “I am a very wealthy man Sir, with possessions of great value.”

“What are they? Please list them for me,” responded the tax assessor.  And the Christian began to list all of his valuable possessions:

* First, I have everlasting life. (John 3:16).

* Second, I have a mansion in heaven. (John 14:2)

* Third, I have peace that passes all understanding. (Philippians 4:7)

* Fourth, I have joy unspeakable. (1 Peter 1:8)

* Fifth, I have love that never fails. (1 Cor.13:8)

* Sixth, I have a faithful, virtuous wife. (Proverbs 31:10)

* Seventh, I have healthy, happy, obedient children. (Exodus 20:12)

* Eighth, I have true and loyal friends. (Proverbs 18:24)

* Ninth, I have songs in the night. (Psalm 42:8)

* Tenth, I have a crown of life. (James 1:12)

“I have many more possessions,” said the Christian. “Should I continue?”

The tax assessor closed his book, and declared, “Truly you are a very blessed rich man. But your property is not subject to taxation.” Hallelujah and Amen‼️ 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼

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A few years ago, I found myself in a pickle with the IRS and my creditors in the millions but my Bankruptcy lawyer and friend told he couldn’t help or rather he would only be able delay the inevitable after listing a balance sheet of all I possessed, all my profit and all I owe…and didn’t want to take my monies on top of all I would be legally liable for and telling me they’re coming after me and when they do it will be relentless and unforgiving.

In the end i did end up losing properties in DC, Florida, Hawaii, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia. Still I remained Faithful, Prayerful and Hopeful and about a year or less later I received an Unrequested, Unmerited, Undeserved and UnExpected letter reading PAID in FULL. My entire debt, all amounts due, all accumulated interest and finance fees, and all legal fees paid off. At first I thought it was some mistake, error, or fake junk. But I contacted the financial institution and they couldn’t even find my account or record, finally the secretary of the CEO contacted me and said EVERYTHING is settled and completely legal, but couldn’t explain why or how except it was not an error, I OWE NOTHING‼️ 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼

I don’t have a pic of that letter handy but I did post it after using it in one of my sermons a few years back on how GOD will Bless you Unexpectedly and differently than how you think He might answer or even how you asked Him to answer your prayer. I Never Doubted GOD, I just didn’t know how or when. He Is my Great GOD❗️🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 Amen 🥰🙏🏼🌎 #REBTD 😇

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I’m not trying to hide my personal beliefs about these people in some pseudo high-minded analysis that purports to be about something else.

If, however, you’re looking for that sort of thing (that is, if you’re looking for an example of an actual hit piece!), you will surely find no greater example than the Harvard Kennedy School’s Disinformation creep: ADOS and the strategic weaponization of breaking news.

As far as hit pieces about the American Descendants of Slavery movement go, Disinformation creep is the one that really aspires to a kind of hang-that-sucker-up-on-the-refrigerator worthiness. It’s Harvard-certified, after all! And gosh, if there were ever an institutional badge with which all ten (ten!) authors of Disinformation creep could dazzle everyone in the rancid social-professional hierarchy they are all so obviously and desperately trying to climb, it’s certainly Harvard U.

But in fact the imprimatur of Harvard on Disinformation creep seems to serve exactly one function: to discourage the reader of the study from considering the fact that what he or she holds in their hands is utterly dishonest horseshit, a bizarre medley of unambiguous lies produced by people (again, ten people!) whose need to bathe in Harvard’s artificial validation seemingly trumped their felt responsibility to adhere to even the most basic and minimal set of ethics and standards in their chosen field of scholarly publishing.

I have literally no idea where to even begin in terms of communicating the enormity of Disinformation creep’s failure. Do you know the GIF where a cat tries to leap from a dresser to a bed and stalls out about midway and just sort of belly-flops onto the floor? That’s how Disinformation creep performs.

It is a monument to unsuccessfulness, and on every single one of its sixteen pages there is evidence of intellectual bankruptcy of the absolute highest order.

The forthcoming official rebuttal from the ADOS Advocacy Foundation does an excellent job at identifying each of these numerous lies and idiocies and countering them accordingly, but I think the report’s grand stupidity and essential hollowness can really be distilled to a single aspect of “Figure 1”.

The above graph from Disinformation creep provides a visual representation of the daily number of tweets “specifically using the #ADOS hashtag” over an 11-month period. These tweets are what the authors use to assert that there is an observable pattern of high Twitter activity within the ADOS ‘network’ around “real-world events” (e.g. MLK Day; Chadwick Boseman’s death; Kamala Harris announced as Biden’s VP pick, etc.), and that the content of the tweets on these days reveals how the “ADOS network strategically uses breaking news events to discourage Black voters from voting for the Democratic party.”

OK. Welp. By including screenshots of some of these tweets in the graph, the authors allow us to see for ourselves the kind of content they supposedly carefully analyzed in order to support their hypothesis. Notably, on August 2, the second largest spike in tweets using “#ADOS” is shown to have occurred. The authors identify a total of ~7,000 posts that day.

Incomprehensibly, the authors used a tweet about a cryptocurrency scam that translates to “‘The question is quickly answered’: many French #teens have dropped out of school, thinking to become [stock] #trader[s] in buying #formation kits. They fell into the trap of #Melius, based in #Dubai and known by other names. L’AMF and #Miviludes are seized.”

In French, “ados” means “teens”. And because the social media staffer at Mediavenir — when they were writing that tweet — slapped a hashtag in front of it, it eventually came to be swept up into Disinformation creep’s “dAtA sAmPLe sEt” despite having literally nothing what-so-fucking-ever to do with the actual #ADOS political movement which Harvard is asking the public to trust that they have specifically and diligently studied.

How does this happen? How does this glaringly and utterly irrelevant tweet manage to be not just included in the dataset but held up as somehow representative of the black-targeted misinformation content dump that the authors claim defines the ‘ADOS network’ on ‘high-activity days’? What about other tweets that include “#ADOS” and which similarly have absolutely no relation at all to the political movement, such as this one, or this one, or this one?

How many of those are part of the daily totals? I know the authors use a bunch of real fancy-sounding, applied science-y jargon in the report to describe their process (e.g .”computational grounded theory”; “structural topic modeling”; “inductive thematic analysis”), but like, despite these apparently sophisticated tools, there is still clearly a presence of laughably irrelevant tweets to be found among the collection of data.

Does it matter? Should it? Um, probably, yeah, if your intent is to not undermine your own work’s quality, to say nothing of your own dignity. More importantly, how did this get through a peer-review process? Who were the peers? Drooling invalids that were instructed to blink if they thought the study passed muster and was ready for publication? Some poor low-tier academic saps who were brought to a dingy basement somewhere in Kendall Square and made to strip down to their underwear while Harvard data experts stubbed out lit cigarettes all over their flesh and barked at them to sign off on Disinformation creep’s patently bunk methodology?

These sorts of scenarios rush in to try and explain the pure absurdity of the report, to fill in the vacuum occasioned by its vast gaping absence of basic evaluation standards in scholarly publishing, criteria that one might reasonably anticipate being insisted upon by an institution like Harvard which openly fancies itself as being like the sacred flame of academia or whatever.

Or maybe not.

Maybe you are actually not surprised at all. Maybe you know that since Disinformation creep aims to portray the #ADOS movement as irredeemably toxic simply because it represents the possibility of actual repair and freedom for the descendants of chattel slavery, Harvard would in fact happily become much more lenient and accommodating in their standards if it helps to kill the vehicle for that possibility.

After all, this is the same institution whose lawyers just successfully litigated the University’s retention of property rights to photographs of slaves following a lawsuit that was brought against Harvard by Tamara Lanier, a woman who — as a descendant of the father and daughter that are pictured — argued that she was the rightful owner of the images.

This is the same institution whose administrative staff just recently reminded the school’s highest-profile black faculty member that he could expect Harvard to extend him about as much freedom and protections in his work as a white landowner would have conferred upon his black sharecropper in the Mississippi delta in 1896.

This is Harvard, after all, and good old-fashioned racism is still very much alive and well in this vaunted cathedral of higher learning.

The hope is, I guess, that outward actions like the school’s appointment of a Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer will distract you from the institution’s complete inward deformities of racial injustice that have defined both its past and present. The hope is, I guess, that Harvard can just kind of jot off one of its total bullshit-y pronouncements of ‘solidarity’ whenever the continued fever of American racism spikes, as if the institution itself has not always been right there helping stoke the fire to its full strength in the body of society. The hope is, I guess (and Disinformation creep proves this), that Harvard will never have to confront a real, organized threat to the fact that the institution pretends not to continue to fatten itself on the misery of ADOS.

But which is why — with the abysmal failure of Disinformation creep — Harvard should be very worried. The timing of such a cack-handed, deeply stupid effort by ten writers united in their ineptness to make ADOS an object of reactionary horror could not be worse for the institution.

Let’s deny the descendants of slaves rights to photographs of their ancestors! Let’s refuse tenure consideration to one of the premiere black intellectuals in America who’s spent his career advocating for black people! Let’s mobilize in dishonesty *against* the movement now trying to secure justice for that very collective!

What a hapless, blinkered, and desperately clumsy bunch of white supremacists over there in Cambridge, huh? Pointy-headed ninnies all cloistered away from every conceivable brutal reality of ADOS life and who all seemingly decided one day that it was their God-given right to root out the seeds of possibility that the #ADOS movement is planting in this country.

This is what the academics at Harvard are doing to help America’s bottom caste as the world around these people skids into the abyss. They are publishing their little ‘scholarly articles’ replete with lies so vulgar and obvious that it stands to reason the authors involved in the writing undertook the project with one single expectation: that they would be able to freely invent whatever filth they wanted to about ADOS and no one would question a word of it simply because the report came out of Harvard.

Indeed it is a direct testament to how much contempt and disdain Harvard has for the plight of ADOS that they would even consider publishing such an obvious clown car of researchers in the first place. Fully six of these goblins have no previously published content that has been accepted into the Web of Science (which, to be kind of crude about it, you can think of as sort of like the IMDb of academics; WoS catalogues the number of citations, and thus, provides the basic metric of impact/importance of research).

In other words, these writers have about as much authority and credibility in this space as a group of elementary school children who were all collected at a rural bus stop, given pencils and notepads and juice boxes and told to ‘write about those baddies in the #ADOS movement’.

Who are these people? Are they just bored? Unloved? And how are they so very bad at what they do?

They should wake up embarrassed.

They were tasked with not even creating but just building upon one already existing lie: that the #ADOS movement is essentially an online factory of misinformation (indeed, the original architectress of that lie is Jess Aiwuyor, and Disinformation creep reads very much like a sad, dull and weird extension of her own body of work, which is essentially one sad, dull and weird neurotic meditation on ADOS).

People paid the scummy little clan of Disinformation creep writers handsomely to gussy up that original lie a little bit — to give it a little slick veneer of scientific observation — and in the end these pedantic cretins who evidently think they are so much smarter than everyone else couldn’t produce a remotely convincing or even vaguely entertaining case.

But of course Disinformation creep failed. Of course it did. And that’s because, at the end of the day, there are only so many ways to dress up what these people are really doing when they write shit like this, which is that they are trying to make the #ADOS movement the scapegoat for the deficiency-ridden politics of the Left.

That’s it.

You can distill the entire genre of anti-#ADOS ‘criticism’ down to that single impulse — that tightly wound coil of emotion, of melancholy that lives at the heart of these people’s obsessive determination to get rid of the movement. For them, #ADOS functions purely as a scapegoat for their own failed postwar utopias and workers’ revolutions. And what Disinformation creep proves is just how completely exhausted the genre already is after a mere two years. How utterly lacking it is in its efficacy.

What it proves is that the harder they try to hurriedly scuttle the most potent justice movement since the Civil Rights era off the scene, the more they manage only to reveal a basic, repugnant truth about themselves: their determination to further dispossess the very people whose suffering and deprivation they all spill so much ink over, and waste so much breath claiming to be so very outraged and heartbroken about. Just look at Harvard.

All Harvard succeeded in doing was exposing itself. It confirmed what’s becoming blindingly apparent about so very many of our elite liberal institutions in 2021: that these privilege farms don’t function all that differently than they did in the plantation days. They just as nonchalantly enrich themselves off the wholesale spoliation of ADOS, and they’ve been able to feign innocence because of a movement-free, symbolism-intoxicated climate that not just permits but encourages such despicable action.

Well, Harvard, the #ADOS Advocacy Foundation has three words for you: We’re here now.

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