>US federal agency now run by a former Microsoft executive
>let's all forget about stuxnet
>https://nypost.com/2020/09/05/epstein-reportedly-had-secret-lair-at-interlochen-school/
Epstein reportedly had secret ‘lair’ at famed Michigan art school
Pedo-perv Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell didn’t just allegedly troll the streets of London, Arizona and New York for their victims. The dastardly duo had a secret lair on the Michigan grounds of Interlochen Centre for the Arts — the famed fine arts boarding school for children, according to one alleged victim.
In exchange for donations and hosting fundraisers at his New York mansion, the school allowed Epstein to build The Jeffrey Epstein Scholarship Lodge (now available to rent as The Green Lake Lodge).
According to the Mirror, one alleged victim who is suing the pedophile’s estate for $22 million alleges she was recruited at the school in 1994 while a 13-year-old music student, and was abused over a period of four years by Epstein and that Maxwell “regularly facilitated” the abuse and was “frequently present.”
The school, which cut ties with Epstein in 2007 after his child sex conviction, told the paper it cut contact with him, but Epstein “was permitted to use the lodge for up to two weeks per year” under a funding agreement. It added it “has no record of any other use by him beyond one week in August 2000”.
A previous statement said: “We have no record of any complaint raised against Mr. Epstein at Interlochen.” The school added that “policies would not have permitted Mr. Epstein any unsupervised access to students”.
However, another former Interlochen pupil, Melissa Solomon, alleges she met Epstein and Maxwell there when she was 14 and spent six years in their world but was not abused.
She claims they fell out when she refused to recruit girls for Epstein from Juilliard School in New York and refused a meeting with their pal, Prince Andrew.
>According to the Mirror
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-targeted-pupil-woodland-22631636
Jeffrey Epstein 'targeted pupil in woodland lair in boarding school grounds'
Sited in woods at a children’s fine arts boarding school, this is claimed to be a secret lair Jeffrey Epstein used to meet an underage victim.
The paedophile financier funded the cabin at the prestigious Interlochen Centre for the Arts in Michigan.
And he and alleged “madam” Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly targeted a pupil there.
Since Epstein’s suicide in August last year and Maxwell’s arrest in July, the FBI has probed sites including his mansions in New York, Florida and the Caribbean.
But sources claim agents quizzed a woman who says she first met Epstein and Maxwell at Interlochen.
The Jeffrey Epstein Scholarship Lodge was revamped after the school cut ties with him and has been available to rent as The Green Lake Lodge.
One alleged victim is suing the paedophile’s estate for £19million – and papers also name Maxwell as a defendant. The woman, known as Jane Doe, alleges she was recruited at Interlochen in 1994 while a music student, aged 13.
Court papers claim the financier abused her for four years – and Maxwell, 58, “regularly facilitated” it and was “frequently present”.
Doe claims she was also abused by the pair at his mansions in Palm Beach, New York and New Mexico.
Epstein kept details of the cabin, which he funded in 1994, in his infamous little black book under the words “Michigan Home” and “Epstein Lodge”. It also held the names of two students who attended the camp, where he was a donor from 1990 to 2003. As well as funding a cabin build, he hosted events for alumni at his New York home.
Ex-pupils claim they saw Epstein and Maxwell on campus – and he stayed at the lodge for a week in August 2000.
As well as renaming the cabin, the school removed all donor recognition in 2007 when it learned of the billionaire’s child sex conviction.
Interlochen said before it cut contact with him, Epstein “was permitted to use the lodge for up to two weeks per year” under a funding agreement. It added it “has no record of any other use by him beyond that one week in August 2000”.
A previous statement said: “We have no record of any complaint raised against Mr Epstein at Interlochen.” The school added that “policies would not have permitted Mr Epstein any unsupervised access to students”.
But Jane Doe’s claims are echoed by ex-Interlochen pupil Melissa Solomon.
The cellist alleges she met Epstein and Maxwell there aged 14 and spent six years in their world but was not abused.
She claims they fell out when she refused to recruit girls for Epstein from Juilliard School in New York and snubbed a meeting with their pal Prince Andrew.
Epstein was found hanged aged 66 while being held in Manhattan for trial for underage sex trafficking.
Maxwell is being held in Brooklyn and denies recruiting, grooming and abusing three alleged victims, including a girl as young as 14, between 1994 and 1997.
If convicted, she faces up to 35 years. Interlochen was contacted for comment.
>https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-widow-is-buying-the-atlantic-magazine/
Laurene Jobs is buying The Atlantic magazine
Steve Jobs' widow and the Emerson Collective will purchase a majority share in the magazine, according to Atlantic Media owner David Bradley.
Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, will soon co-own The Atlantic magazine.
Chairman and current owner of Atlantic Media David G. Bradley said Friday that he'll be selling the majority of the magazine to Emerson Collective, the social justice organization led by Jobs.
Bradley, who will keep a small portion of the company, told The Atlantic that Jobs stood out on his list of over 600 potential investors and was the only person to whom the company made an offer. The price of the sale is unknown at this time.
The shift to digital media has taken a toll on the magazine, according to The Washington Post, and over the past decade the company has lost more than $100 million. But Bradley says, "against the odds, The Atlantic is still prospering."
"While I will stay at the helm some years, the most consequential decision of my career now is behind me: Who next will take stewardship of this 160-year-old national treasure? To me, the answer, in the form of Laurene, feels incomparably right," Bradley told The Atlantic.
Jobs' foray into the journalism industry follows a recent trend among tech leaders. In 2012, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes bought a portion of the New Republic, and Amazon CEO and co-founder Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post back in 2013.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-investigating-whether-ilhan-omar-married-her-brother/
FBI Investigating Whether Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother
The FBI is looking into reports that Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother in order to ease his immigration to the U.S., the New York Post reported on Sunday.
Two agents interviewed a person with knowledge of the case in Minnesota in mid-October. The person presented a trove of documents relating to the marriage of Omar and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009.
A number of right-wing blogs have for years posited that Elmi, a British citizen, is Omar’s brother based on a years-old Instagram post that identified him as the “uncle” of Omar’s child. The agents are reportedly now looking into the possibility that Omar married Elmi in order to obtain a Green Card for the brother.
Omar did not comment on the latest report, but has repeatedly denied the allegations she married her brother. The claims were initially sourced to a post, since deleted, on the website Somalispot, a blog forum that caters to Minnesota’s Somali community.
Before the marriage to Elmi, Omar was engaged to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002, however the congresswoman has said she did not legally marry Hirsi. Omar and Hirsi split in 2008, but reunited in 2012, even though Omar was legally married to Elmi until 2017.
Omar separated from Elmi in a no-fault divorce, which she obtained by stating under oath that she had no way of contacting Elmi. That claim came under scrutiny last year when the Daily Caller reported that Elmi may have designed source code for a website run by Omar’s sister from Nairobi, Kenya.
In addition to the speculation surrounding her family, Omar has also drawn fire for a series of anti-Semitic comments on Twitter. She and Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib were refused entry to Israel in August due to their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which seeks economic and cultural boycotts of Israel.
Omar and Tlaib had planned their trip in conjunction with Miftah, a Palestinian non-profit that has published a blood libel accusing Jews of using the blood of Christians to make matzoh for Passover. Miftah also republished an American neo-Nazi article alleging that Jews control the news media and entertainment industries.
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1302417777198862337
Biden used The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg pal Rep Conor Lamb (D-PA, Marine major) to amplify story.
>The energy of this man is unfathomable.
>https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/09/05/anti-vaxxers-biden-and-harris-are-already-sowing-seeds-of-distrust-of-a-covid-19-vaccine-n896232
“Do you trust that in the situation where we are in now, that the public health experts and the scientists will get the last word on the efficacy of a vaccine?” asked CNN’s Dana Bash.
“If past is prologue, then they will not. They’ll be muzzled, they’ll be suppressed, they will be sidelined,” Harris claimed, without evidence. “Because he’s looking at an election coming up in less than sixty days, and he’s grasping for whatever he can get to pretend that he’s been a leader on this issue when he’s not.”
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-09/all-brothers-pope-francis-to-sign-new-encyclical-on-oct-3-in-a.html
https://voat.co/v/QRV/4009476
"All brothers": Pope Francis to sign new encyclical on Oct. 3 in Assisi
Pope Francis will sign a new encyclical after Mass celebrated in the Basilica of St. Francis on 3 October. The ceremony will take place without the faithful present, in respect of the current health situation.
Pope Francis will visit the Italian town of Assisi on 3 October to sign a new encyclical.
In a statement released on Saturday, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, said the encyclical is entitled Fratelli tutti or "All Brothers” on fraternity and social friendship.
The title, whose official English-language version has not yet been released, is a reference to the writings of St. Francis: "Let us all, brothers, consider the Good Shepherd who to save His sheep bore the suffering of the Cross" (Admonitions, 6, 1: FF155).
The Holy Father will arrive in Assisi in the afternoon where he will celebrate Holy Mass at the Tomb of St. Francis, which will be followed by the signing of the encyclical.
The visit will take place in private, without the participation of the faithful.
Assisi waiting with gratitude
In a statement, the Bishop of Assisi, Domenico Sorrentino, said the town awaits the Pope’s visit with "emotion and gratitude".
He went on to say, "While the world is suffering a pandemic that makes so many peoples lives difficult, and makes us feel for brothers in pain, we cannot but feel the need to become above all brothers in love."
"This gesture of Pope Francis," concluded the Bishop, "gives us new courage and strength to 'restart' in the name of the fraternity that unites us all."
Central to magisterium
The title of the Pope's new encyclical recalls a central theme of his magisterium. On the evening of his election to the papacy on 13 March 2013, Pope Francis first greeted the world with the word "brothers".
The theme of fraternity is also present in his constant embrace of migrants, epitomized in his pastoral visit to Lampedusa.
His signing of the Document on Human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi in 2019 marks one more example of Pope Francis' dedication to promoting brotherly love.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/03/alex-rodriguez-furious-over-losing-bid-to-buy-new-york-mets/
Alex Rodriguez fuming over ‘fixed’ sale of Mets to Steve Cohen, sources say
Alex Rodriguez is fuming over losing the Mets to billionaire Steve Cohen and griping that the process was rigged, multiple sources tell The Post.
Sources close to the former Yankees slugger say they lost the Queens team on Friday, Aug. 28, after the Mets’ banker — Steve Greenberg of Allen & Co. — reached out to ask for a sneak peek at what was being offered. The request came days ahead of the official Aug. 31 bidding deadline.
A-Rod — who has been vying for The Amazins with his superstar fiancee, Jennifer Lopez — reluctantly complied with the request only to learn later that same day that the Mets were in exclusive deal talks with Cohen.
The founder of Point72 Asset Management had offered $2.35 billion for the team — or just $50 million more than the $2.3 billion bid offered by Rodriguez and his group of investors.
The former Yankees third baseman is now convinced that the Mets spoon-fed his bid information to Cohen so the billionaire financier and art collector could have the highest offer and win the team. “They took the bids and showed them to Cohen,” a source familiar with A-Rod’s thinking claimed.
The Mets and Cohen declined comment. Greenberg didn’t return calls for comment.
Experts tell The Post that it’s unusual for a seller to set a bidding deadline and then push for that information in advance. But they also note that there’s not much that can be done even if Cohen had been given a sneak peek because the Mets are a private company and can play ball with whomever they want.
“It’s not normal but things like this do happen,” said Steven Smith, a managing partner at law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner who specializes in sports transactions. “In the end, the sellers’ goal is to get the highest price for the team.”
But A-Rod’s camp contends the 14-time All-Star would have considered raising his offer if he had been given the chance. A bidding war, sources contend, might have resulted in an extra $100 million for the New York team.
But the Mets never went back to see if A-Rod wanted to match or better Cohen’s offer, sources said. Rodriguez has been trying to reach Mets owner Fred Wilpon since Friday but can’t get him on the phone, they added.
“It was fixed,” a second source close to the A-Rod camp said.
Rodriguez and Lopez are furious because they now feel they were led on all these months into thinking they might have a shot at the team. They blame Mets co-owner Saul Katz, who, insiders say, was more recently driving the negotiations.
Cohen and the Mets are now expected to close their new deal in days. The deal calls for Cohen to fork over roughly $1.6 billion in cash, to assume the team’s substantial debt and to cover some of the $200 million the Mets will lose this season due to the coronavirus, sources say. The total package is estimated to be worth $2.35 billion.
That’s $250 million less than the $2.6 billion Cohen had offered last year before he walked away in February over issues of control. As The Post previously reported, that deal fell apart after Mets COO Jeff Wilpon made it clear that any sale to Cohen would require that Wilpon retain his title for five years, as well as his salary and various perks, including a private plane.
Of course, the Cohen deal could very well fall apart again. Major League Baseball is expected to spend three months once the deal closes investigating Cohen’s background before putting his ownership up for a vote. Three-quarters of the league’s owners would need to approve the purchase before it can be finalized.
Cohen has some strikes against him, most famously a 2013 insider trading plea by his former firm, SAC Capital Advisors, which resulted in a $1.8 billion fine and Cohen agreeing to return outside money until January 2018. Cohen himself was not charged.
If Cohen gets rejected by MLB or the deal otherwise falls apart, it’s unclear whether Rodriguez would be willing to step up to the plate again considering how burned he and his investment partners now feel, a source familiar with his thinking said.
“Who knows?” this person quipped when asked whether the slugger might take another swing.
>Fitness
>We created Communist China!
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1301884086550626306
https://voat.co/v/QRV/4009532
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-age-of-qanon-politics/
The Age of QAnon Politics
In December 2018, historian Niall Ferguson argued that the political polarization of today’s world mirrors the religious turmoil of Reformation period in the 16th century. The Internet, he claimed, is analogous to the printing press.
“Nothing has happened like the impact of the personal computer and the Internet,” Ferguson said, “since the advent of the printing press.” He continued, “If you look at the impact of these two technologies, it’s incredibly similar. The effect of the technological innovation is drastically to reduce the cost of producing content and drastically increase the volume of content.” Ferguson then cites a best-selling book from the 15th through 17th centuries, the Malleus Maleficarum, Hammer of Wickedness, as a “good example of fake news.” The book described how to find and burn witches on the stake. Fake news indeed.
In Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, journalist Christopher Caldwell makes a similar claim when he describes the consequences of living in a digitalized world. The computer has allowed people to access more information than at any other point in human history. But that does not necessarily mean humans will have greater access to truth. Computers likely brought about the opposite: more noise, no signal. This is from the section “Postmodernism: the authenticity of Banana Republic”:
As Americans’ new machines were recording reality with ever more precision, irrationality and even superstition were on the rise. This is not as paradoxical as it sounds. Acquired knowledge obeys a Malthusian logic: Each new fact brings a handful of new questions, which, when answered, bring a handful more. Facts grow arithmetically, but questions grow geometrically. The result is a deterioration of certitude. The closer we get to the truth, the less confident we are in our possession of it.
Whether or not Ferguson and Caldwell overstate their arguments, their analogies might prove useful in understanding the politics of 2020 and beyond. Take the two Republican congressional candidates who allegedly believe the outrageous, creepy, but widely discussed QAnon conspiracy theory: Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia, and (allegedly) Florida’s Laura Loomer. It seems Greene and Loomer have used the Internet phenomenon to pin themselves as authentically anti-establishment in order to court as many fringe voters as possible, and create media buzz for their campaigns. Their tactics worked — to a certain extent. Loomer will likely lose the general election. Greene, however, could be going to Congress.
House GOP conference chair Liz Cheney described the conspiracy as “dangerous lunacy that should have no place in American politics.” She’s right. But the age of QAnon politics could just be getting started. Who knows how many more insane conspiracy theories will hatch, grow, and infect the mainstream? With the Internet, a politician can use fake news to attack fake news; launch tweetstorms lambasting Big Tech; provide hope by spreading fear and superstition. One can form a platform and suggest good policy, or, as Steve Bannon once said, “flood the zone with s***.”
Will this become the baseline in politics? Will mainstream, digital campaigns be driven by conspiratorial impulses, gas-lighting, and memes cooked up on fringe chat-boards? However much change the Internet brings in this decade — for politics and all other aspects of life — what is certain is that Ferguson’s analogy and Caldwell’s observation are signals in the noise. There is hope still yet. Ferguson, though, is more dubious. As a matter of fact, he is quite frightened about an increasingly digitalized public sphere. “It is not a funny analogy,” he said, “it is a bloody terrifying analogy.”
>As Americans’ new machines were recording reality with ever more precision, irrationality and even superstition were on the rise. This is not as paradoxical as it sounds. Acquired knowledge obeys a Malthusian logic: Each new fact brings a handful of new questions, which, when answered, bring a handful more.
<Facts grow arithmetically, but questions grow geometrically. The result is a deterioration of certitude. The closer we get to the truth, the less confident we are in our possession of it.
>The closer we get to the truth, the less confident we are in our possession of it.
>Will mainstream, digital campaigns be driven by conspiratorial impulses, gas-lighting, and memes cooked up on fringe chat-boards?
>it was a set up
>Please don't put "war room's" nonsense bullshit ops in Notables. It finally got taken out of the dough…
bout time
>https://twitter.com/TAftermath2020/status/1302377540615512065
what's this V triangle logo
>what's this V triangle logo
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/exclusive-militant-leftist-attempts-kill-conservative-activist-memorial-trump-supporter-murdered-portland-antifa-videos/
Militant Leftist Attempts to Kill Conservative Activist After Memorial for Trump Supporter Murdered By Portland Antifa
A member of the Proud Boys is hospitalized with severe injuries from being hit by a car after attending a memorial for Aaron “Jay” Danielson, the President Donald Trump supporter who was murdered by Antifa in Portland.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio told The Gateway Pundit that the victim is bleeding from his brain, damaged his left temporal lobe, has a concussion and is suffering from amnesia and cannot remember the incident.
https://twitter.com/PDXzane/status/1302401547788103680
>"Guys, uhhh how bout we back off the Q stuff a bit, huh?"