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Less than a month after France, Germany, and the United Kingdom agreed to maintain trade with Iran independent from the US Dollar, the entire European Union (EU), just hours ago, completely broke with the United States by invoking their Blocking Statue that forbids European business to comply with US sanctions on Iran, and nullifies any foreign court rulings against them—and was deemed needed to do by the EU after the US legal system went insane last week—as evidenced by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upholding a ruling made by the Supreme Court of California that said “laws cannot be invalidated on the grounds that complying with them is impossible”.  […]

Back in 2006, a major news network went to court to defend their right to lie. This is the ruling that made it legal. “In a stunningly narrow interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a ‘law, rule, or regulation,’ it was simply a ‘policy.’ Therefore, it is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly.” […]