https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCQqYHKHSUY
>political climate change
> Markup of Report Recommending U.S. House Cite Mark Zuckerberg for Contempt of Congress
ABlinken
Fentanyl killed K9s
notable conspiracy theories
>gender dysphoria is currently being treated with the most invasive interventions connected to a psychological issue
Does my wife know Hunter personally?
Are those skittles?
>bow tie
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/josh-duggar-tries-to-overturn-12-year-child-porn-sentence-claims-judge-should-have-let-jury-hear-about-alternative-perpetrator/
Josh Duggar Tries to Overturn 12-Year Child Porn Sentence, Claims Judge Should Have Let Jury Hear About ‘Alternative Perpetrator’
Disgraced reality TV star Josh Duggar asked a federal appeals court to give him a new trial for downloading and possessing child sexual abuse material. The federal convict claims that he was inappropriately denied the opportunity during his first trial to tell the jury about an “alternative perpetrator.”
Prosecutors say that the onetime 19 Kids and Counting star was barred from doing so because the trial judge rightly found his theory wasn’t plausible.
A little more than one year ago in December, a federal jury in Arkansas found Duggar guilty of both of the charges against him. Months later, U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks sentenced Duggar to more than 12 years behind bars, a term he is currently serving at a low-security prison in Seagoville, Texas.
Prosecutors found a tough sentence more than justified by the “depraved” material found on his work computer, behind multiple layers of encryption. Authorities said that the photographs and videos depicted the sexual abuse of children “as young as toddlers.”
One infamous video, titled “Daisy’s Destruction,” depicted the sexual assault of an 18-month-old. Australian human trafficker Peter Scully, who created it, is currently serving a life sentence in the Philippines for his crimes. The government estimated that they found more than 600 illicit images on Duggar’s computer. His attorneys dispute that number.
Before trial, Duggar wanted to cast Caleb Williams — a former employee at his car lot — as an alternative suspect, but Brooks found that Duggar did not have any basis to do so. Williams was only at Duggar’s car lot “from May 8 to May 11, 2019, several days before any child pornography downloads took place,” the judge noted.
Duggar’s attorney Justin K. Gelfand argued that he should have been permitted to question the chronology.
“If permitted to inquire, Duggar would have established Williams: worked at the business; had familiarity with the computer and its software; engaged in eBay sales and utilized the computer to print labels; sent a text message on May 7, 2019 offering to watch the business that week; spent the night one mile from the business on May 9, 2019; and concealed all metadata on documents provided to the Government in an attempt to establish he was not present,” Gelfand wrote in the defense brief filed Tuesday.
Prosecutors say that the multiple layers of encryption and firewall point only to one person: Duggar.
In 2015, the hack of Ashley Madison revealed that Duggar had a profile on the extramarital affairs website, and he released a statement calling himself the “biggest hypocrite ever.” After the data dump, Duggar — then known as a conservative Christian activist — installed software on his computer called “Covenant Eyes,” designed to alert his wife if he accessed pornography. Prosecutors say, and the jury found, that Duggar bypassed that software by creating a Linux partition on the work computer. On that partition, Duggar used the Tor browser for encrypted surfing and BitTorrent to download the illicit files, authorities found.
The Justice Department’s appellate attorney Joshua Handell told the Eighth Circuit that all of this evidence points to Duggar, and none of it to Williams.
“This Court need not even consider the overwhelming evidence implicating Duggar as the culprit, including: the testimony that he had discussed setting up a Linux partition to avoid the Covenant Eyes software; the fact that the partition was created with an unusual password that Duggar had used across numerous accounts for years; and the text messages placing Duggar at his car lot on the same dates and times that CSAM was downloaded on his computer in his office,” Handell wrote. “The critical point is that no evidence inculpates Williams.” (Italics in original)
Duggar leveled other arguments on appeal, which failed before the trial court. His defense team tried to suppress evidence discovered by Homeland Security Agent Gerald Faulkner on Duggar’s cell phone when authorities went to his car dealership on Nov. 8, 2019.
Though Duggar claimed that he asked to call his lawyer, it is undisputed that he signed Miranda warnings before his interview with authorities.
Read the appellate briefs of Duggar and the government.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23558311/duggar-appellate-brief.pdf
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23558307/ausa-duggar-reply.pdf
https://nypost.com/2023/07/21/ex-abc-news-reporter-james-gordon-meek-faces-minimum-5-years-in-child-porn-case/
Ex-ABC News reporter James Gordon Meek facing minimum 5 years in child porn case following guilty plea
Disgraced former ABC News reporter James Gordon Meek is facing at least five years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography in a Virginia federal court Friday.
Meek, 53, admitted to transporting and possessing child sexual abuse material, which carries jail time ranging from 5-20 years.
Under federal sentencing guidelines that come with his guilty plea, Meek is likely to face far less than the max at his Sept. 29 sentencing.
Meek, a once-acclaimed national security journalist, was hit with the federal charges in February roughly 10 months after the FBI raided his Arlington, Va., home April 27, 2022, seizing his electronics.
Meek resigned from ABC News and went off the grid immediately after the raid.
On his phone, the feds say they found three conversations in which Meek allegedly expressed a desire to sexually abuse children — and they found he had both received and sent photos and videos of child pornography.
In one troubling message, Meek allegedly asked someone on a chat app, “Have you ever raped a toddler girl? It’s amazing.” And in another message he shared a perverted fantasy of “abducting, drugging, and raping” a 12-year-old girl.
The shamed journalist also kept child porn images and videos on his other devices that showed he’d chatted with minors on the internet, prosecutors allege.
The probe was launched after Dropbox alerted officials that Meek had child porn on his account.
Meek was hired by the network in 2013 after working for the New York Daily News — where he broke a story in 2006 that Al-Qaeda was foiled in its plan to bomb the New York City tunnels.
Meek investigated and produced Hulu’s acclaimed 2021 documentary “3212 Un-redacted” about a US Special Forces mission in Niger that left four soldiers dead in 2017. He also won an Emmy in 2017 for breaking news coverage of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
Meek served as a senior counterterrorism advisor and investigator for the US House Committee on Homeland Security starting in 2011.
His lawyer didn’t immediately return a request for comment Friday.
As a longtime national security reporter himself, Shachtman has periodically expressed to colleagues at various outlets his skepticism of the veracity of government sources. When Siegel detailed the seriousness of the allegations against Meek, Shachtman warned her against turning in a story that included the words "child pornography" in it.
According to two people with knowledge, Mark S. Zaid, a Washington attorney who often handles national security matters and represents government whistleblowers, called Shachtman on Meek's behalf while Siegel was preparing her story. Zaid previously represented the Daily Beast on Freedom of Information Act cases while Shachtman was editor of the site.
Zaid confirms that he called Shachtman, and he tells NPR that Meek was a longtime friend and client on Freedom of Information issues. Zaid says he was representing Meek on any possible prosecution or investigation of his potential possession of classified material.
>Zaid says he was representing Meek on any possible prosecution or investigation of his potential possession of classified material.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221019003915/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fbi-raid-abc-news_producer-1234613619/
At a minute before 5 a.m. on April 27, ABC News’ James Gordon Meek fired off a tweet with a single word: “FACTS.”
The network’s national-security investigative producer was responding to former CIA agent Marc Polymeropoulos’ take that the Ukrainian military — with assistance from the U.S. — was thriving against Russian forces. Polymeropoulos’ tweet — filled with acronyms indecipherable to the layperson, like “TTPs,” “UW,” and “EW” — was itself a reply to a missive from Washington Post Pentagon reporter Dan Lamothe, who noted the wealth of information the U.S. military had gathered about Russian ops by observing their combat strategy in real time. The interchange illustrated the interplay between the national-security community and those who cover it. And no one straddled both worlds quite like Meek, an Emmy-winning deep-dive journalist who also was a former senior counterterrorism adviser and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee. To his detractors within ABC, Meek was something of a “military fanboy.” But his track record of exclusives was undeniable, breaking the news of foiled terrorist plots in New York City and the Army’s coverup of the fratricidal death of Pfc. Dave Sharrett II in Iraq, a bombshell that earned Meek a face-to-face meeting with President Obama. With nine years at ABC under his belt, a buzzy Hulu documentary poised for Emmy attention, and an upcoming book on the military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the 52-year-old bear of a man seemed to be at the height of his powers and the pinnacle of his profession.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221019011234/https://twitter.com/meekwire/status/1519239810921160704
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Dave_Sharrett_II
https://archive.ph/20130119125714/http://articles.cnn.com/2009-12-03/politics/obama.console_1_president-obama-grave-site-soldier?_s=PM:POLITICS
Obama takes on role as consoler in chief
James Gordon Meek was standing over the gravestone of a friend killed in Iraq when he noticed a familiar figure walking near him.
President Obama was walking through what's called "the saddest acre in America," Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The section is the burial ground for U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama hugged graveside visitors, shook hands and listened to mourners while a "bone-chilling drizzle" fell, Meek says. As he watched Obama, Meek says he saw his commander in chief take on a new role: the consoler in chief.
"He absolutely seemed sincere," Meek says about Obama and his Veterans Day visit to Arlington. "What I sensed is that this was a man who is carrying the full weight of command. He gets it."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w
Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major tipping element in the climate system and a future collapse would have severe impacts on the climate in the North Atlantic region. In recent years weakening in circulation has been reported, but assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), based on the Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) model simulations suggest that a full collapse is unlikely within the 21st century. Tipping to an undesired state in the climate is, however, a growing concern with increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. Predictions based on observations rely on detecting early-warning signals, primarily an increase in variance (loss of resilience) and increased autocorrelation (critical slowing down), which have recently been reported for the AMOC. Here we provide statistical significance and data-driven estimators for the time of tipping. We estimate a collapse of the AMOC to occur around mid-century under the current scenario of future emissions.
>Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried have started facing professional consequences for their son Sam Bankman-Fried's actions.
>He was awarded $300,000 in the end.
Imagine how many masks he could buy with that money.