Tear Down That Woke

DOJ Sues New York Health Officials Over Alleged Fraud In Medicaid Homecare Program Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on June 16 sued New York health officials and a Georgia-based company over an alleged fraud scheme involving the state’s $10 billion Medicaid homecare program. The lawsuit names state Health Commissioner James McDonald, state Medicaid Director Amir Bassiri, and financial management services company Public Partnerships LLC as defendants. In its lawsuit, the DOJ asked the court to issue an injunction barring the defendants from making “false...

Revised CLARITY Act Targets 'Non-Decentralized' DeFi Operators Authored by Ezra Reguerra via Cointelegraph, A revised version of the CLARITY Act would direct United States regulators to determine whether people or groups controlling "non-decentralized finance trading protocols" must comply with securities, commodities and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements. The revised text, posted on Senator Cynthia Lummis' website, defines such a protocol as one whose functionality, operation, or rules can be materially altered by a person or coordinated group. The definition also covers protocols whose controllers can restrict users or whose transactions are not governed...

Putin Powerfully Rebuffed The Hawks Who Want Him To Attack NATO Authored by Andrew Korybko, In his words, talk about Russia attacking NATO “is not simply nonsense; it is a provocation.” Several top “Non-Russian Pro-Russians” (NRPR) influencers rang the alarm last month about Russia’s alleged plans to attack NATO, which were inspired by top hawk Sergey Karaganov and then Russian Ambassador to the OSCE Dmitry Polyanskiy ominously channeling his rhetoric. Readers can review examples of their warnings here, here, here, here, and here. Casual NRPRs therefore braced themselves for what would have in that scenario almost certainly been the start of...