Fluorescent nanoparticles present in Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola: physiochemical properties, cytotoxicity, biodistribution and digestion studies (Connecting the Dots: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, FDA, Bill Gates & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Fluorescent nanoparticles present in Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola: physiochemical properties, cytotoxicity, biodistribution and digestion studies (Connecting the Dots: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, FDA, Bill Gates & Soros Funding, All Networking)

NIH National Library of Medicine

National Center for Biotechnology

Nanotoxicology

. 2018 Feb;12(1):49-62. doi: 10.1080/17435390.2017.1418443. Epub 2017 Dec 20.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29261040/

Abstract

Foodborne nanoparticles (NPs) have drawn great attention due to human health concerns. This study reports the detection of the presence of fluorescent NPs, about 5 nm, in two of the most popular beverages, Coca-Cola (Coke) and Pepsi-Cola (Pepsi). The NPs contain H, C and O, three elements with a tunable emission and with a quantum yield of 3.3 and 4.3% for Coke and Pepsi, respectively. The presence of sp³-hybridized carbon atoms of alcohols and ethers bonds was confirmed by NMR analysis. The NPs can be taken up by living cells and accumulate within cell membrane and cytoplasm. Evaluation of the acute toxicity of the NPs revealed that the BALB/c mice appeared healthy after administration of a single dose of 2 g kg^-1 body weight. Analysis of glutamate pyruvate transaminase (GPT), glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT), urea and creatinine showed that there were statistically, but not biologically, significant differences in some of these biochemical parameters between the test and control groups. No obvious organ damage or apparent histopathological abnormality was observed in the tested mice. The biodistribution study in major organs indicated that the NPs were easily accumulated in the digestive tract, and they were able to cross the blood-brain barrier and dispersed in the brain. In vitro digestion of the NPs showed a significant fluorescence quenching of the NPs. This work represents the first report of foodborne fluorescent NPs present in Coke and Pepsi, and provides valuable insights into physicochemical properties of these NPs and their toxicity characteristics both in vitro and in vivo.

Microsoft wins five-year deal with Coca-Cola to supply business software

By Reuters

April 27, 20206:57 AM PDTUpdated 4 years ago

FILE PHOTO: Coca Cola plastic bottles or seen on the production line of the Coca Cola factory in Nairobi, Kenya, June 7, 2018. Picture taken June 7, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner Purchase Licensing Rights

https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/microsoft-wins-five-year-deal-with-coca-cola-to-supply-business-software-idUSKCN2291WR/

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Monday said it had won a five-year deal with Coca-Cola Co to supply business software, including its Teams chat app and tools for customer service agents.

The companies did not disclose the size of the deal but said it will include Dynamics 365, a suite of Microsoft tools that competes directly with Salesforce.com Inc .

Microsoft has a stronghold in general-purpose business software such as email and word processing apps but has been working to win more customers for its specialized software such as apps used by customer service and sales employees.

PepsiCo, Microsoft Announce 5-Yr Partnership - Quick Facts

RTTNews

 Jul. 27, 2020, 09:26 AM

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/pepsico-microsoft-announce-5-yr-partnership-quick-facts-1029434101?op=1

(RTTNews) - Monday, PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) announced a five-year partnership that establishes Microsoft as a preferred cloud provider to accelerate PepsiCo's infrastructure, ERP, and data estate consolidation and modernization.

Connecting the Dots:

Donald F. McHenry is a director at the Coca-Cola Company and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

James D. Robinson III is a director at the Coca-Cola Company and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Larry D. Thompson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the EVP of governmental affairs, general counsel & secretary for PepsiCo, Inc.

Michael H. Jordan was the division chairman & CEO for PepsiCo, Inc. and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Pete Higgins is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and was a group VP for the Microsoft Corporation.

William H. Gates III is a co-founder & technology adviser & director for the Microsoft Corporation, and a co-chair for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Tarun Das was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and is the international advisory board member for the Coca-Cola Company.

Ann McLaughlin Korologos was the chair emeritus at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and a director at the Microsoft Corporation.

Henrietta Holsman Fore is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and a member of the Belizean Grove.

Belizean_Grove is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.

Mary Agnes Wilderotter is a member of the Belizean Grove and was an SVP for the Microsoft Corporation.

Henry A. Kissinger was a member of the Bohemian Club, a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), the founder of Kissinger Associates, Inc. and an overseer at the International Rescue Committee. 

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and the International Rescue Committee.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and the International Rescue Committee.

Dina Dublon is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee and a director at PepsiCo, Inc.

Indra K. Nooyi is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee and the chair & CEO for PepsiCo, Inc.

Evan G. Greenberg is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee and a director at the Coca-Cola Company.

Howard G. Buffett is a director at the Coca-Cola Company and Warren E. Buffett’s son.

Warren E. Buffett is Howard G. Buffett’s father, a director at the Coca-Cola Company and an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Sam Nunn is the co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a director at the Coca-Cola Company.

Margaret A. Hamburg is the VP for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and the commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Brookings Institution (think tank). 

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Donald F. McHenry is a director at the Coca-Cola Company, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

James D. Robinson III is a director at the Coca-Cola Company, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Larry D. Thompson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the EVP of governmental affairs, general counsel & secretary for PepsiCo, Inc.

Michael H. Jordan was the division chairman & CEO for PepsiCo, Inc. and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Pete Higgins is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and was a group VP for the Microsoft Corporation.

William H. Gates III is a co-founder & technology adviser & director for the Microsoft Corporation and a co-chair for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Resources: Past Research

Coca-Cola touts 'safe, high-quality' 'carcinogen' (Past Research on the Coca-Cola Company)

Sunday, October 13, 2013

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/10/coca-cola-touts-safe-high-quality.html

Musk on Trump Attack: Head of Secret Service Should Resign (Connecting the Dots: The head of the Secret Service is Kimberly Cheatle, PepsiCo, Alejandro Mayorkas, O'Melveny & Myers LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on PepsiCo)

Sunday, July 14, 2024

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2024/07/musk-on-trump-attack-head-of-secret.html

Bill Gates Vaccine Ingredient Says it All : An Enzyme Called LUCIFERASE is What Makes Bill Gates Implantable Vaccine Work — VACCINE ID (Connecting the Dots: Mark of the Beast?Brookings, FDA, J&J, Pfizer, Bill Gates & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Bill Gates)

Saturday, December 10, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/12/bill-gates-vaccine-ingredient-says-it.html

Michelle Obama Top School Lunch Ally Charged with Embezzling LAUSD Funds (Past Research on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)

Friday, August 11, 2017

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/08/michelle-obama-top-school-lunch-ally.html

Hunger Games Is Fiction No More (Connecting the Dots: The Hunger Games, Gun Control, Al Gore, Obama, Nation of Islam & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Hunger Games Is Fiction No More (Connecting the Dots: The Hunger Games, Gun Control, Al Gore, Obama, Nation of Islam & Soros Funding, All Networking)

The Epoch Times

By Jeffrey Tucker

Opinion

https://lists.theepochtimes.com/archive/elD0lO0Sxz/5kdG8QBtO/bCWawJWEUwy

Commentary 

When “The Hunger Games” first came out more than a decade ago, the dystopia it presented was compelling and sophisticated but also implausible. Lately I wondered how it held up and rewatched the first three films (I don’t know about the others).

My goodness, it was more prescient than it seemed at the time, including the stratification of wealth, the decadence of privilege, the abuse of power, and the complications of resistance. This series exists on many levels, but strikes me as one of the more revealing fictional stories that forecast the overlapping of material decadence, desperate poverty, and the use of fear as a propaganda device. 

As a political allegory, it covers the same intellectual terrain as Aristotle’s “Politics,” Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” and de Jouvenel’s “On Power,” but in a way that is more penetrating for readers and viewers, and particularly relevant for our times. 

The entire series deals with the greatest conflict in history, that between liberty and power. Those fortunate enough to live in District One, the center of the empire, and socialize with the best, eat well, dress in increasingly preposterous ways (hair dyed in unnatural colors), follow all the trends, go to the right parties, and try to keep with the social scene. 

Each of the districts below perform their assigned economic function of keeping the center living in luxury. Borders between them are strictly enforced. Your place in the socio-political order is determined by accidents of birth with no broad economic mobility.

In order to maintain the order and keep rebellion at bay, the leaders in District One hold an annual extravaganza that combines fashion, violent games, and intense political messaging of the dangers of rebellion. Each district is required to send two randomly assigned tributes to the games where they face off in an arena in a battle for their lives with only one winner, as the people at the top watch with intense fascination.

The sheer spectator power of the event is what psychologically ties the elites to the social and political structure, while the fear of being called up as tribute for the games is what impresses upon the population the need for compliance. The scenario is consistent with Carl Schmitt’s principle of the friend/enemy distinction in his “Concept of the Political,” which, he argues, must finally be made real by the shedding of blood.

Those who have followed the story until the final installment might have supposed that the problem was rather stark. One man, President Snow, held all the power. He was a cruel man and he used every means to keep his power. He sat at the center of a capital city that pillaged the districts of resources and held power through fear. 

If that is all there is to the problem, the solution would be clear: President Snow has to go. With the source of the problem out of the way, all will be well. This was the thinking of District 12 heroine Katniss Everdeen for most of the series. And one can see why she would believe this. Snow is a ghastly figure, and he was personally responsible for vast cruelty and crimes. He deserves to be overthrown and for justice to prevail. 

Plus, she supposes that everyone she knows shares her vision of the final goal: a normal life without oppression, without violence, without pillaging, without rigid geographic and caste classifications, and without televised death matches orchestrated to instill fear in the population.

There was more going on beneath the surface. The capital city of Panem was an autocracy but also the center of a nation-state, which is to say that the bureaucracy, the administrative apparatus, a standing military, a media enterprise, and its methods of rule could survive the death of the leader. This is the difference between a personal state and a nation state. The power apparatus of the nation state seeks immortality, a continuing life regardless who happens to head it.

President Snow is the paranoid autocrat who, Katniss comes to discover, is himself entrapped in a system that he must maintain while seeking a successor. There are masses in the capital to keep entertained, potential betrayers within his own ranks, and rebellions constantly brewing. He knows for certain that his rule is fragile and that an iron hand is the only way to maintain this unstable system. 

Another problem is that the system itself is attractive to competitors who long not for freedom as such but rather to inhabit the commanding heights. The problem of creating a world without power, then, becomes more complicated than the overthrow of the existing autocrat.

In every revolutionary situation, those who are most motivated to achieve the aim are those who seek to hold power themselves. So long as the machinery of legal violence exists, there will be those who seek to control it—and, as Hayek said, it is usually the worst who make it to the top and spend their lives seeking to get there. Therefore, it is not just those who rule but also those who seek to rule who constitute a threat to liberty. This is how the existence of powerful nation-states ends up creating multiple layers of dangers. 

This is the story of how Rousseau became Robespierre, how Russian liberalism became Bolshevism, and how so many meritorious movements against colonialism and corporatism have ended in dictatorship, tyranny, and famine.

Anyone who seeks to end oppression has to keep his or her eye out for those who would use the chaos and confusion of political upheavals to seize and exercise power in the future. This is what Katniss learns, as she gradually discovers that her one-time allies had become skilled in the conduct of war, appreciative of the status that comes with leadership, and lust for exercising state power themselves. 

She comes to discover this dark truth about the rebel armies when the leader herself admits that she has every intention of retaining the Hunger Games as a mechanism of control following a successful coup.

Through this shocking revelation, Katniss learns that great lesson of history: It is not just despots who need to be kept at bay, but also those who most passionately seek to overthrow despots too. In order to realize liberty, you need more than just loathing of those in charge; you need the ascendance of the love of true liberty itself and a system in place that guards that liberty against every attempt to overthrow it.

Once Katniss catches on to what is happening around her, she has to make a decision. Does she comply with the dictates of the increasingly centralized revolutionary forces or take a different turn and go her own way? The urgency of this decision is what turns “The Hunger Games” from being a simple Manichean struggle between one good and one evil into a real-life version of a Massive Multiplayer Online game.

There are many applications to this principle in history but one might pertain to U.S. foreign policy. In the 1980s, the United States sought to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan by supporting Islamic fundamentalists, who were then called “freedom fighters,” and they were given weapons and massive logistical support. After the Soviets left, the rebellion gradually metastasized into the Taliban, who ruled with an iron hand, and were then overthrown after 9/11, leading to 20 years of U.S. occupation, which stirred resentment among the population, and a final deal that put the Taliban back in charge, who enforce their rule with the weaponry that the United States left behind in a chaotic withdrawal. 

That’s a one-paragraph summary of three decades of incredible folly.

This saga coincided with a similar situation in Iraq after 2003, following a decade of embargoes, intermittent bombing, and harsh sanctions. The overthrow of the once-allied dictator Saddam Hussein brought to power not liberty-loving constitutionalists, but rather a Shiite majority that oppressed in turn the Sunni minority that Hussein had represented. The Sunni insurgency against the Iraqi state caused a bloody civil war in Iraq that eventually spilled over into the rebellion against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and mutated into the Islamic State. Over the course of 25 years, Iraq went from a defeated and relatively quiescent state to a seething hotbed of poverty, violence, and hatred. 

Fast forward to the Libyan case where the overthrow of another dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, sparked what seemed like a populist blowback, but was really part of a series of “color revolutions” that manipulated social media and the mainstream press into following U.S. foreign policy priorities. Combined with all the other interventions, and alongside a surreptitious attempt to boot the Syrian overlord, the next stage saw the spread of ISIS into a region-wide insurgency that intended regional rule through bloodshed, which was finally put down by the Trump administration.

The point is that attempts to purge the world of an existing evil raise the very risky prospect of creating even more. And it’s not just about foreign regimes. A famous trait of democracy is that the urge to kick out one group of leaders is necessarily tied to bringing another group into power. The latter are often no better and sometimes worse than the former. This is one of the reasons for so much political nostalgia in U.S. politics: a look back almost always provides a better picture than a look at the present. 

The simple lesson of “The Hunger Games” is that powerful people can do terrible things. We must resist in order to stop them. The more complicated lesson is that powerful institutions themselves are corrupt, and that there will always be those lacking in moral scruples who are willing to assume the mantle of power.

That is precisely why the Founding Fathers struggled so hard to put in place a framework for rule that guaranteed, as a first priority, the rights and liberties of the people: a Republic if the people can keep it.

There is general agreement today that the United States does stand at the precipice of something huge because the existing disequilibrium is simply not sustainable on multiple levels. The key question is always: what kind of society do we want to live in? Everyone needs a clear and compelling answer to that question today. There is no more standing on the sidelines to watch the action from the outside, like spectators in the Hunger Games.

At the end of the movie, we see Katniss out of battle gear, sitting in the grass, at her home, being bathed by sunlight, tending to her own life, cultivating her own personal vision of freedom, out of the limelight. Ruling herself, not others, and having regained a normal life. Perhaps that scene offers the best lesson of all.

Connecting the Dots:

Jennifer Lawrence is an actor in The Hunger Games (2012), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.

Stanley Tucci is an actor in The Hunger Games (2012), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 and was a trustee at the Sundance Institute.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sundance Institute.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Kenneth D. Cole is a trustee at the Sundance Institute and married to Maria Cuomo Cole

Maria Cuomo Cole is married to Kenneth D. Cole and a trustee at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.

Cindy Harrell-Horn is a trustee at the Sundance Institute and a director at the Climate Reality Project.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for Sundance Institute and the Climate Reality Project.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Albert A. Gore Jr. is the chairman for the Climate Reality Project, was the co-founder & chairman for Current Media, LLC, sued Al Jazeera and In 2024, Gore was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. president Joe Biden.

Current TV was a division of the Current Media, LLC.

Al Jazeera acquired Current TV.

Syrian Electronic Army reportedly hacked Al Jazeera, the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch and the Amnesty International.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch and the Amnesty International.

Bashar al-Assad is supporting the Syrian Electronic Army a hacker group, the president of Syria, and permitted the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in Syria.

Muammar Abu Minyar Al-Qadhafi was Saif Al Islam Al-Qadhafi’s father, the Libya leader, and said he loved Condoleezza Rice & kept scrapbook of her photos.

Condoleezza Rice said Muammar Abu Minyar Al-Qadhafi loved her & kept scrapbook of her photos and is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

International Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE Campaign.

Michelle Obama was an advocate for the ONE Campaign, and a lawyer for Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, the candidate for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign, and a parishioner at the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago).

African American Religious Leadership Committee was an advisory group for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign.

Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. was a member of the African American Religious Leadership Committee and is a senior pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago).

Trumpeter Newsmagazine is a publication for the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago).

Louis Farrakhan was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr. Trumpeter award for the Trumpeter Newsmagazine and is the acting head for the Nation of Islam.

Resources: Past Research

Jennifer Lawrence Says Hurricanes Are Punishment For Electing Trump (Past Research on the Hunger Games)

Saturday, September 9, 2017

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/09/jennifer-lawrence-says-hurricanes-are.html

World View: Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Army Once Again Close to Collapse (Past Research on Bashar al-Assad)

Monday, September 5, 2016

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/09/world-view-bashar-al-assads-syrian-army.html

Smaller Bites – Brady Campaign (Connecting the Dots: Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Brady Campaign, Gun Control, America Votes & The Soros Funded Sundance Institute, All Networking) (Past Research on the Brady Campaign)

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/11/smaller-bites-brady-campaign-connecting.html

HuffPo: Turn Off Your Christmas Lights (Past Research on the Nation of Islam)

Saturday, December 26, 2015

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/12/huffpo-turn-off-your-christmas-lights.html  

Obama's ring: 'There is no god but Allah' (Past Research on Barack Obama’s Ring)

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah.html

Al Gore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore

Awards and honors

Gore is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize (together with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) in 2007,[260][261][262] a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV in 2007, a Webby Award in 2005, the Dan David Prize in 2008[263] and the Prince of Asturias Award in 2007 for International Cooperation.[264] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2008.[265] He also starred in the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2007 and wrote the book An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, which won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2009.[266][267] In 2024, Gore was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. president Joe Biden.

Judge: Newsmax Did Not Target Smartmatic; Details Criminal Allegations, Venezuela Ties (Connecting the Dots: Past Research on Smartmatic, Venezuela, Morton Halperin, Mark Halperin, ONE Campaign, Sidley Austin LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Judge: Newsmax Did Not Target Smartmatic; Details Criminal Allegations, Venezuela Ties (Connecting the Dots: Past Research on Smartmatic, Venezuela, Morton Halperin, Mark Halperin, ONE Campaign, Sidley Austin LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Picture of the logo of Smartmatic, the firm that supplies voting technology, seen on a sliding door at the headquarters of the company in 2017. (Getty Images)

Newsmax

Thursday, 12 September 2024 10:14 PM EDT

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/2020-election-smartmatic-newsmax/2024/09/12/id/1180173/

A lawsuit pitting an electronic voting machine manufacturer that was targeted by allies of former President Donald Trump against a conservative news outlet that aired accusations of vote manipulation in the 2020 election appears headed to trial, following a Delaware judge's ruling Thursday.

Florida-based Smartmatic is suing Newsmax, claiming the cable network’s hosts and guests made false and defamatory statements after the election implying that Smartmatic participated in rigging the results, and that its software was used to switch votes.

Newsmax, also based in Florida, argues that it was simply reporting on serious and newsworthy allegations being made by Trump and his supporters, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani and conservative attorney Sidney Powell.

Attorneys for both sides asked Superior Court Judge Eric Davis to rule in their favor without holding a trial, which is scheduled to start Sept. 30. On Thursday, Davis granted partial summary judgment to each side but said a jury must decide several key issues.

"Statements regarding Smartmatic software or voting machines altering the results of the election are factually false,” wrote Davis, who noted that Smartmatic did not provide any election machines or software used in the 2020 election outside of Los Angeles.

However, the judge said that not every allegedly defamatory statement published by Newsmax, including statements about Smartmatic’s ties to Venezuela and its late president Hugo Chavez, has been shown to be materially false.

“Therefore, the court will allow Newsmax to contest falsity as to Smartmatic’s connections with Venezuela,” he wrote.

In court papers, Newsmax has described Smartmatic as “a struggling election technology company with a checkered history” that is using a legally baseless and unconstitutional theory of liability to try to obtain a massive windfall.

Last month, a federal grand jury in Florida indicted three current and former executives of Smartmatic in a scheme to pay more than $1 million in bribes to put its voting machines in the Philippines. Prosecutors allege that Smartmatic’s Venezuelan-born co-founder, Roger Piñate, colluded with others to funnel bribes to the chairman of the Philippines’ electoral commission using a slush fund created by overcharging for each voting machine it supplied authorities.

In a favorable ruling for Newsmax, Davis rejected Smartmatic’s claim that the news outlet acted with “express malice” under Florida law, meaning that its primary motivation was to injure Smartmatic.

“There is no evidence that Newsmax acted with evil intent towards Smartmatic,” the judge wrote.

Davis previously ruled that Smartmatic is a “limited public figure” for purposes of defamation and must show that Newsmax acted with “actual malice” by knowingly and recklessly disregarding the truth. On Thursday, he said actual malice is an issue for a jury, and that a jury also must decide whether Smartmatic is entitled to damages.

In another blow to Smartmatic, Davis said Newsmax can argue that it is protected from liability under Florida’s “neutral reporting privilege," which extends to “disinterested and neutral reporting” on matters of public concern. Newsmax argues that the privilege applies because many of the allegedly defamatory statements were made by third parties appearing as guests, or were rebroadcast after being made by third parties on non-Newsmax platforms.

“With these facts, a reasonable jury could find Newsmax was reporting on a matter of public concern without endorsing the allegations surrounding the election,” he wrote, adding that a jury could also find that Newsmax's reporting was not neutral.

Davis also said Newsmax could assert a “fair reporting privilege” regarding reporting by White House correspondent Emerald Robinson about a whistleblower affidavit filed in a Georgia lawsuit challenging the election results. The affidavit involved claims by Powell that Smartmatic had colluded with the Venezuelan government in that country’s 2013 presidential election.

Newsmax argues that Florida’s fair reporting privilege applies to accurate reporting on judicial proceedings, including court records, and that Robinson was reporting on the contents of an affidavit filed in federal court. Smartmatic contends that the affidavit was not signed or sworn, and therefore not an official document. Davis said a jury must decide whether the fair reporting privilege applies to Robinson, who erroneously reported that the affidavit was sworn.

The Delaware lawsuit, which takes issue with 24 Newsmax reports over a five-week period in late 2020, is one of several stemming from reports by conservative news outlets following the election. Smartmatic also is suing Fox News for defamation in New York and recently settled a lawsuit in the District of Columbia against the One America News Network, another conservative outlet.

Dominion Voting Systems similarly filed several defamation lawsuits against those who spread conspiracy theories blaming its election equipment for Trump’s loss. Last year, in a case presided over by Davis, Fox News settled with Dominion for $787 million.

Newsmax Statement on Court Ruling:

"While Newsmax is disappointed that any part of Smartmatic’s lawsuit is going to trial as we believe it is a threat to a free press, we are pleased that the Court found no evidence that Newsmax acted with evil intent toward Smartmatic, that Newsmax’s reporting 'was not a "campaign" to defame Smartmatic' (as Smartmatic alleged), and that the neutral and fair reporting privileges are available to Newsmax at trial.

The Court also summarized several public controversies involving Smartmatic, including its association with the murderous Chavez regime in Venezuela, allegations of corruption and bribery in the Philippines, and its more recent history of allegations of corruption that led to a criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and resulted in the indictment of three Smartmatic executives for violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

The DOJ alleged Smartmatic executives engaged in money laundering and allegedly bribed an election official.

Smartmatic can hardly claim that Newsmax’s coverage harmed its reputation. This case is not about the left versus right, but about a free press being allowed to do its job.”

Connecting the Dots:

Mark Malloch-Brown is the CEO for Smartmatic (electronic voting system used in the United States) and a global board member for the Open Society Foundations.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Moises Naim  is a global board member for the Open Society Foundations, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, was a board member for the International Crisis Group and a minister of trade and industry for Venezuela.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and a board member for the International Crisis Group.

Morton H. Halperin is a senior adviser for the Open Society Foundations, Mark Halperin’s father, was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a director at the ONE Campaign.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a supporter for the Center for American Progress and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee.

ONE Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.

Harold E. Ford Jr. was an overseer at the International Rescue Committee and is a political commentator for MSNBC.

Mark Halperin In 2010, Halperin joined MSNBC, becoming the senior political analyst and a contributor. is a founding editor for Bloomberg Politics, currently a host and commentator for Newsmax TV and Morton H. Halperin’s son.

Bloomberg Politics is a division of Bloomberg LP.

Michael R. Bloomberg is the founder of Bloomberg LP, an advocate for the ONE Campaign and was the New York City Mayor.

ONE Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee and the Center for American Progress.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and a supporter for the Center for American Progress.

ONE Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.

Morton H. Halperin was a director at the ONE Campaign, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, is Mark Halperin’s father, and a senior adviser for the Open Society Foundations. 

Moises Naim  is a global board member for the Open Society Foundations and a minister of trade and industry for Venezuela.

Mark Malloch-Brown is a global board member for the Open Society Foundations and the CEO for Smartmatic (electronic voting system used in the United States).

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and a supporter for the Center for American Progress.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress and the International Rescue Committee.

ONE Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.

Madeleine K. Albright is a director at the Center for American Progress, an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, an advisory board member for the Truman Center for National Policy, an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project and was a director at the Center for a New American Security.

R. Hunter Biden is a director at the Center for National Policy, a director at the Truman National Security Project and Joseph R. Biden Jr’s son.

Kamala D. Harris is an advisory board member for the Center for National Policy, an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project, the vice president for the Joe Biden administration and the 2024 presidential candidate for the Democratic Party.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. is Hunter Biden’s father, a regent at the Smithsonian Institution, the president for the Joe Biden Administration and spent Thanksgiving with David Rubenstein.

David M. Rubenstein spent Thanksgiving with Joe Biden, is a regent at the Smithsonian Institution and the co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Cameron F. Kerry is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), John F. Kerry’s brother and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

James David Vance worked at Sidley Austin LLP and is Donald Trump's running mate for VP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP and an advocate for the ONE Campaign.

ONE Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.

Morton H. Halperin was a director at the ONE Campaign, is Mark Halperin’s father and a senior adviser for the Open Society Foundations. 

Moises Naim  is a global board member for the Open Society Foundations and a minister of trade and industry for Venezuela.

Mark Malloch-Brown is a global board member for the Open Society Foundations and the CEO for Smartmatic (electronic voting system used in the United States).

Resources: Past Research

Smaller Bites - Newsmax Drops Journalist Lara Logan Over Immigration Remarks (Connecting the Dots: Newsmax, MSNBC, Mark Halperin, Morton H. Halperin & Soros Funded Foundation’s Think Tanks, All Networking) (Past Research on Mark Halperin, Morton H. Halperin)

Saturday, October 22, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/10/smaller-bites-newsmax-drops-journalist.html  

MSNBC Host Threatens to Quit After Show Pulled (Connecting the Dots: MSNBC, Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Kimberly Cheatle, U.S. Secret Service, PepsiCo & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on MSNBC)

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2024/07/msnbc-host-threatens-to-quit-after-show.html

Smaller Bites – Smartmatic (Connecting the Dots: Smartmatic Voting Machines And The Connection To Soros) (Past Research on Smartmatic)

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/10/smaller-bites-smartmatic-connecting.html

Venezuela, Colombia Border Areas Hopeful as Reopening Looms (Connecting the Dots: Venezuela, Colombia & Soros Funded Think Tanks) (Past Research on Venezuela)

Monday, August 22, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/08/venezuela-colombia-border-areas-hopeful.html

Mass Shooting Outside Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay; 50+ Dead, 406 Sent to Hospital (Past Research on the ONE Campaign)

Monday, October 2, 2017

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/10/mass-shooting-outside-las-vegas.html

Game Change: The Massive Conflict of Interest In Bloomberg Politics’ Attack On ‘Duck Dynasty’ (Past Research on Mark Halperin & Bloomberg Politics)

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/05/game-change-massive-conflict-of.html

Report: Hunter Biden Has Joined Dad's WH Meetings (Connecting the Dots: Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, The Truman National Security Project, The Whitehouse Project, Smithsonian Institution, Russia, China, Ukraine & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on the Truman National Security Project)

Thursday, July 4, 2024

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2024/07/report-hunter-biden-has-joined-dads-wh.html

Hours After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next (Covid Project)) (Past Research on Cameron Kerry)

Thursday, July 21, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html

J. D. Vance (Connecting the Dots: J.D. Vance, Sidley Austin LLP, Obama, CNN, Kimberly Cheatle, U.S. Secret Service, PepsiCo, U.S. Secret Service, Pence, FBI, Merrick Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, O'Melveny & Myers LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on J.D. Vance & Sidley Austin LLP)

Monday, July 15, 2024

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2024/07/j-d-vance-connecting-dots-jd-vance.html