https://streamable.com/cknizj
Any updates on the hoodlums that were starting the Aussie fires? There was a whole gaggle of them arrested, are there updates?
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/milwaukee/news/press-releases/international-operation-targeting-individuals-sexually-abusing-children-and-distributing-child-sexual-abuse-materials
International Operation Targeting Individuals Sexually Abusing Children and Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Materials
Robert E. Hughes, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Milwaukee Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, have conducted a month long FBI-led operation to identify and arrest distributors and manufactures of child sexual abuse materials and to recover child victims of sexual abuse. This operation has resulted in dozens of arrests across the country, as well as in other countries including Canada, United Kingdom, Romania, and France. More importantly, the operation has so far located and recovered 18 children from being sexually exploited.
The initiative occurring primarily in the month of June, dubbed Operation Kick Boxer, relied on more than 63 law enforcement agencies working on FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Forces in each of the Bureau’s 56 field offices and via the FBI's Legal Attaché Offices throughout the world. The sweep included undercover operations and led to the opening of over five dozen federal and international criminal investigations. Agents and analysts at FBI Milwaukee worked closely with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to coordinate and de-conflict these law enforcement operations.
In all, approximately 65 suspected distributors, manufacturers and hands-on offenders have been identified by law enforcement, arrested, and/or are in the process of being formally charged.
One example of local impact as a result of Kick Boxer was the June 23rd indictment of Martin E. McKeever (age: 51) of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who was charged with two counts of possessing and distributing child pornography in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252A(a)(2)(A) and 2252A(a)(5)(B).
“The FBI is fiercely focused on recovering child victims and arresting the individuals who exploit them,” FBI Milwaukee SAC Hughes said in a statement. “Through operations like this, the FBI helps child victims escape the abusive sexual exploitation occurring in their homes by people they trust.”
“Our nation is seeing a disturbing increase in reports of potential child exploitation,” said United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger. “Operation Kick Boxer shows the Justice Department’s commitment to working with law enforcement partners at all levels to confront child exploitation aggressively.”
A major element in all the FBI’s child exploitation cases is the placement of victim specialists on operational teams. Their mission is to provide victims with resources to help them in their situations. But they also frequently serve as intermediaries between victim-witnesses and investigators.
In his remarks, SAC Hughes said the FBI’s focus on the issue is not confined to a single week or month each year. The effort to find and stop pedophiles and recover kids is ongoing and continuous. “Our agents, intelligence analysts, professional staff, and victim specialists work tirelessly before, during, and after these operations to make sure that victims get the help, they need to reclaim their lives,” Hughes said.
Winnebago County Sheriff John Matz commented, “We are pleased to have our federal partners working with us on this priority operation. We recognize children are the most vulnerable population we serve and protecting them will always be of greatest importance to law enforcement.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-crime-torture-idUSKBN24912P
Dutch police say they discover criminal gang's torture chamber
Dutch police said they discovered a torture chamber used by criminals for interrogations inside a shipping container, equipped with a dentist’s chair to hold prisoners and sound-proofing to stifle their screams.
Six people were detained on suspicion of kidnapping and hostage taking, the national police said in a statement.
Seven shipping containers were found in a warehouse on June 22 in the town of Wouwse Plantage near the southern border with Belgium. Six of the containers were used as prison cells.
“Suspects called the seventh container the ‘treatment room’, which was very clearly meant for and prepared to torture people,” the statement said.
Handcuffs were attached to the ceilings and floors of the cells, which could be watched remotely via a video feed.
The site was found during an investigation into a 40-year-old man from The Hague suspected of drug trafficking and plotting an execution.
Police were able to read texts sent on the encrypted messaging app EncroChat, enabling them to follow real time conversations between the criminals, who swapped pictures of the dental chair, the statement said.
Police also confiscated 24 kilograms of the drug MDMA, police clothing, stolen vehicles and weapons, the statement said.
"that's a good tip for all the criminals out there"
"yeah get me some of that Oprah soup"
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>https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/fugitive-chinese-national-sentenced-more-3-years-prison-his-role-large-scale-birth
Fugitive Chinese national sentenced to more than 3 years in prison for his role in large-scale birth tourism and immigration fraud ring
A Chinese national was sentenced in absentia today to 37 months in federal prison for participating in a large-scale birth tourism scheme that engaged in visa fraud that allowed foreign nationals to come to the United States and give birth so their children would receive U.S. birthright citizenship.
Chao “Edwin” Chen (陈超), 35, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James V. Selna. Chen pleaded guilty in June 2016 to visa fraud, marriage fraud and filing a false tax return. Soon after pleading guilty, Chen fled to China and remains a fugitive.
This case, as well as the others named below, is the result of an extensive investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Los Angeles and IRS Criminal Investigation. Substantial assistance was provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Irvine Police Department.
“As these cases clearly demonstrate, HSI will leave no stone unturned in aggressively targeting those who would exploit our nation’s generosity and legal immigration system – only to make a mockery of our laws and values in order to enrich themselves, said David A. Prince, special agent in charge for HSI Los Angeles. “The public safety and national security implications of visa fraud and the crimes associated with it are real – and will simply not be tolerated.”
Along with Dongyuan Li (李冬媛), 42, of Irvine, and Li’s husband, Qiang Yan (闫强), 44, Chen was charged in the nation's first cases alleging organized birth tourism operations. Chen operated an Orange County-based business named You Win USA, which they marketed to pregnant foreign nationals – mostly from China – who wanted to come to the United States to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children. As part of the scheme, Chen, Li and Yan coached the foreign nationals to misrepresent the true intentions of their visits to United States at ports of entry.
Chen operated an Orange County-based business named You Win USA, which they marketed to pregnant foreign nationals – mostly from China – who wanted to come to the United States to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children. As part of the scheme, Chen, Li and Yan coached the foreign nationals to misrepresent the true intentions of their visits to United States at ports of entry.
You Win USA advertised that its “100-person team” in China and the U.S. had served more than 500 Chinese birth tourism customers. Chen and Li used 20 apartments in Irvine, charged each customer $40,000 to $80,000, and received $3 million in international wire transfers from China in just two years. You Win USA promoted the benefits of giving birth in the United States rather than in China, which included “13 years of free education from grade school to high school,” “Less pollution” than China,” “An easier way for the whole family to immigrate to the United States,” and “Priority for jobs in U.S. government, public companies, and large corporations.”
When he pleaded guilty, Chen admitted that he had served at least 60 customers, including People’s Republic of China government employees. For example, one of You Win USA’s customers, Xiao Yan Liu (刘小燕), was indicted in November 2018 for two counts of visa fraud and one count of lying to federal investigators. According to her visa application, she was the “Chief Physician” at the Henan Shangqiu Power Supply Company Staff Hospital.
Chen admitted in his plea agreement that in June 2014, he met with an HSI undercover agent (UCA) posing as a birth tourism customer, which resulted in a co-conspirator uploading a visa application in China that contained false information about the UCA’s length of travel, location of stay, and personal information. After that fake visa application was uploaded, Chen put the UCA in touch with his “trainer” in China to teach the pregnant customer how to trick U.S. customs and enter the United States without her pregnancy being detected.
Chen admitted that in addition to the birth tourism scheme, he also engaged in marriage fraud for himself. According to his plea agreement, Chen entered into a sham marriage to a U.S. citizen and paid the woman $25,000 so he could obtain a green card. In February 2014, Chen also filed a false 2013 federal income tax return in order to prove the legitimacy of his sham marriage, which falsely claimed his gross receipts were $227,453.
Li was sentenced in December 2019 to 10 months in federal prison for her role in the scheme.
>https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/fugitive-chinese-national-sentenced-more-3-years-prison-his-role-large-scale-birth
Yan, who is a fugitive believed to be in China, was indicted in December 2018 on three counts of visa fraud for filing an application for an “O” visa premised upon being an “alien of extraordinary ability,” which falsely claimed that he had co-authored two books. According to Yan’s indictment, when HSI special agents searched his and Li’s home in 2015, he claimed to have more than $10 million in his Chinese bank accounts.
At least 10 other defendants charged in these birth tourism indictments have fled to China, including Jun Xiao (肖俊) and LongJing Yi (易珑静), who were indicted in February 2018 on charges of conspiracy, visa fraud, obstruction of justice, and criminal contempt. According to court documents in their case, Xiao and Yi paid only $4,600 of the $32,291 in hospital charges related to the birth of their baby in Orange County. The indictments also detail communications from Xiao after he had fled to China, where he continued to denigrate a federal court order requiring him to stay in the United States: “U.S. can’t do anything to me.”
In January 2020, the U.S. Department of State cited these birth tourism cases when changing the official rules for issuing visas for travel to the United States for the purpose of giving birth.
This matter was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California’s Santa Ana Branch Office.
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>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25135327-monsters-in-the-dark
The series consists of Tears of Tess, Quintessentially Q and Twisted Together
>https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch/status/1280260237665206272
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/fda-humanized-mice/
Judicial Watch Obtains Records Showing FDA Paid for ‘Fresh and Never Frozen’ Human Fetal Parts for Use In ‘Humanized Mice’ Creation
Judicial Watch announced today it received 165 pages of records from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) showing the FDA between 2012 and 2018 entered into 8 contracts worth $96,370 with Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) to acquire “fresh and never frozen” tissue from 1st and 2nd trimester aborted fetuses for use in creating “humanized mice” for ongoing research.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JW-v-HHS-Humanized-Mice-FDA-prod-2-00876.pdf
>humanized mice
>How is this happening?
check out Living Corn James Corny Fired In The Butt by Chuck Tingle (Author)
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In 1991, Wexner formed with billionaire Charles Bronfman the Study Group, which is more widely known as the Mega Group. The group was a loosely organized club of some of the country's wealthiest and most influential businessmen who were concerned with Jewish issues. Max Fischer, Michael Steinhardt, Leonard Abramson, Edgar Bronfman, and Laurence Tisch were some of the members. The group would meet twice a year for two days of seminars related to the topic of philanthropy and Jewishness. In 1998, Steven Spielberg spoke about his personal religious journey, and later the group discussed Jewish summer camps. The group, which Wexner co-chaired with Charles Bronfman, went on to inspire a number of philanthropic initiatives such as the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, Birthright Israel, and the upgrading of national Hillel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Wexner
https://www.fbi.gov/news
>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html
Who Was Jeffrey Epstein Calling? A close study of his circle — social, professional, transactional — reveals a damning portrait of elite New York
Perhaps, at long last, a serial rapist and pedophile may be brought to justice, more than a dozen years after he was first charged with crimes that have brutalized countless girls and women. But what won’t change is this: the cesspool of elites, many of them in New York, who allowed Jeffrey Epstein to flourish with impunity. For decades, important, influential, “serious” people attended Epstein’s dinner parties, rode his private jet, and furthered the fiction that he was some kind of genius hedge-fund billionaire. How do we explain why they looked the other way, or flattered Epstein, even as they must have noticed he was often in the company of a young harem? Easy: They got something in exchange from him, whether it was a free ride on that airborne “Lolita Express,” some other form of monetary largesse, entrée into the extravagant celebrity soirées he hosted at his townhouse, or, possibly and harrowingly, a pound or two of female flesh.
If you watch Fox News, you will believe Bill Clinton was Epstein’s No. 1 pal and enabler. If you watch MSNBC, this scandal is usually all about Donald Trump. In fact, both presidents are guilty (at the very least) of giving Epstein cover and credibility. There are so many unanswered questions about Epstein, but one that looms over all of them is whether the bipartisan crowd who cleared a path for him will cover its tracks before we can get answers — not just Clinton and Trump and all those who drank at Epstein’s trough but also (among others) institutions like Harvard, Dalton, and the Council on Foreign Relations, or lawyers like the New York prosecutor Cy Vance Jr., whose office tried to downgrade Epstein’s sex-offender status; Kenneth Starr, who tried to pressure Republican Justice Department officials to keep the Epstein case from ever being prosecuted; and Alan Dershowitz, who tried to pressure the Pulitzer Prizes to shut out the Miami Herald for its epic investigative reporting that cracked open the case anew.
In 2015, Gawker published Epstein’s “little black book,” which had surfaced in court proceedings after a former employee took it from Epstein’s home around 2005 and later tried to sell it. He said that the book had been created by people who worked for Epstein and that it contained the names and phone numbers of more than 100 victims, plus hundreds of social contacts. Along with the logs of Epstein’s private plane, released in 2015, the book paints a picture of a man deeply enmeshed in the highest social circles.
Collectively, these documents constitute just a glance at the way society opened itself to Epstein in New York, Hollywood, and Palm Beach. In the weeks since his arrest, we have learned even more about the cliques he traveled in and the way they protected him. Though some observers have likened Epstein’s enigmatic rise as a glamorous social magnet to that of Jay Gatsby, a more appropriate archetype may be the fixer, sexual hedonist, and (ultimately disbarred) lawyer Roy Cohn. In the 1970s and early ’80s, Cohn was a favor broker for boldface chums as various as the top Democratic-machine politicians, the mobster Carmine “Lilo” Galante, Nancy Reagan, the proprietors of Studio 54, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Andy Warhol, the publishers Rupert Murdoch and Si Newhouse, Dershowitz, and the ambitious young real-estate developer Donald Trump.
>MEGA
http://archive.is/iZTFT
Titans of Industry Join Forces To Work for Jewish Philanthropy
When movie mogul Steven Spielberg, Seagram Chairman Edgar Bronfman Sr. and former hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt met at Mr. Steinhardt's Manhattan apartment last month, the main topic was neither films nor high finance but considerably more complex than either: being Jewish.
The three men, among others, were convened for a meeting of the "Study Group," also known informally as the "Mega Group," a loosely organized club of 20 of the nation's wealthiest and most influential Jewish businessmen. Formed seven years ago by Leslie Wexner, chairman of Limited Inc. and Charles Bronfman, Edgar's brother and Seagram Co. cochairman, the group meets twice a year for two days of seminars on topics related to philanthropy and Jewishness. At the April meeting, Mr. Spielberg spoke about his personal religious journey, and then the group discussed Jewish summer camps.
Big Challenges
The Study Group represents some of the nation's most successful executives trying to apply their skills to the world of Jewish philanthropy as it wrestles with big challenges. As the Holocaust recedes in time, if not memory, and Israel becomes a more ambiguous symbol, American Jews are losing some major reasons to identify themselves as Jews. Today, some estimates put the intermarriage rate at nearly 50%.
And as Jewish identification declines, so does giving. At the United Jewish Appeal's UJA Federation-New York, donations have been flat this decade, hovering around $250 million a year, in spite of the booming economy and the increasing wealth of the donor pool.
The Study Group's members want to take a more entrepreneurial and strategic approach to giving-learning from one another, contributing to one another's causes, launching projects together. "You meet people who are of like mind," says Charles Schusterman, chairman of Samson Investment Co. of Tulsa, Okla., and a Study Group member. "It gives us an opportunity to develop partnerships."
There are similar groups in Judaism as well as other faiths, but few are from the business world's highest ranks – and few keep such a low profile. The Study Group's meetings are private, and it doesn't publicly release its membership list. Among the members: Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff, a retired Baltimore-area real-estate developer; Leonard Abramson, founder of U.S. Healthcare Inc.; Lester Crown, a Chicago billionaire and part owner of the Chicago Bulls; Laurence Tisch, chairman of Loews Corp. ; Max Fisher, Detroit financier; and bagel tycoon Marvin Lender.
New members must be recommended by existing members of the group. Mr. Spielberg was a guest at the April meeting, but members say he is considering joining.
Several members declined to discuss the group, and others didn't return phone calls. "We don't want to be seen as the Sanhedrin," says Charles Bronfman, referring to the highest court of the ancient Jews to explain the group's aversion to publicity. "We don't want to be looked at crooked." Furthermore, he says, the group doesn't want to open the door to all kinds of solicitations. Charles Bronfman worries that people will say, "All these hot shots sitting there, let's go schnorr them."
>http://archive.is/iZTFT
No Threat
Another reason advanced by members for the Study Group's low profile: It doesn't want to look as if it is rebelling against or distancing itself from the UJA Federation system, for decades the backbone of American Jewish philanthropy. "From the beginning, we didn't want to be seen as a threat to anybody," Charles Bronfman says. "And that still pertains." Indeed, the idea for the Study Group originally came from a UJA executive, and the group requires that members contribute to their local UJA.
In working to solve the current crisis, the group is conscious of image: "We want to make it cool to be Jewish," says Edgar Bronfman, whose company's keen sense of image has made it one of the world's most successful marketers.
The Study Group moved from discussion to action about four years ago, when Hillel, the Jewish organization on college campuses, needed refinancing. A small group of members agreed to make a $1.3 million combined annual donation over five years. Last year, six Study Group members put up $1.5 million each to help Mr. Steinhardt launch the $18 million Partnership for Jewish Education, a foundation that makes matching grants to Jewish day schools. Currently, Charles Bronfman and Mr. Steinhardt are working on the nascent Birthright Project, which will help send "any young Jew born on this planet" to Israel who wants to go, Mr. Steinhardt says.
Such efforts sometimes fall short of expectations. Three years ago, the Bronfman Foundation started the Bronfman Curriculum Initiative to help private high schools teach Jewish ethics and philosophy. The Taft School, an elite boarding school in Connecticut, taught a course from the Bronfman initiative last year, but "there wasn't a lot of response," says school chaplain Michael Spencer.
This year, Taft isn't offering the course. But Mr. Spencer says he hopes to incorporate some components of the course into general-interest subjects such as philosophy and ethics.
>http://archive.is/iZTFT
Pricey Dues
Though mostly informal, Study Group meetings have a certain protocol. Each meeting begins with dinner and a speaker at someone's house or at a hotel on a Sunday night, then continues the next day with seminars from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Each member contributes $30,000 a year to pay for research, speakers and incidentals. Many members' wives attended the latest meeting, thanks to the efforts of Andrea Bronfman, Charles's wife. "My wife said, 'You want to talk about Jewish continuity? Where the heck are the women?' " Charles Bronfman says.
Many Study Group members have their own foundations that further the cause of Jewish identity. Mr. Schusterman's foundation will pay a third of the way for any Jewish person in Tulsa under the age of 25 to go to Israel or to a Jewish summer camp.
Mr. Steinhardt has started several projects to draw assimilated young adults to Judaism. Among them is the Jewish Campus Service Corps, a kind of Peace Corps in which recent college graduates spend no less than one year on a college campus. The goal is to create a Jewish life there with everything from leaflets and speakers to Jewish film series and kosher sushi-rolling parties.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Beck
Stuart Jay Beck was an American law practitioner and a diplomat for Palau. As a lawyer he helped negotiate the Compact of Free Association, which established Palau as an independent nation in free association with the United States in 1994. For his contributions to Palau, he was granted honorary citizenship. In 2003, he accepted the post for Palau's first Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He served continuously in this position until 2013, at which time he was appointed as Palau's first ever United Nations Ambassador for Oceans and Seas. In addition to that position, Beck Co-Chaired the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, an organization dedicated to the adoption by the General Assembly of a Sustainable Development Goal on Oceans.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Beck
On March 1, 2016, Beck died at the age of 69 from renal cancer.
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/stuart-beck/89477/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/world/asia/stuart-j-beck-american-who-helped-guide-palau-into-nationhood-dies-at-69.html
http://archive.is/oqT6G
Stuart J. Beck, American Champion of a Pacific Island Nation, Dies at 69
Stuart J. Beck, a lawyer and television executive, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 69.
His obituary might well have ended there if Mr. Beck, a veteran of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club’s burlesque theatricals, had not borrowed a page from the Cold War satire “The Mouse That Roared” to score an unconventional diplomatic coup: For a decade he was the ambassador to the United Nations from the remote Western Pacific island nation of Palau.
His wife, Tulik, whom he met in Palau in 1980 while on an environmental study mission, said he died of renal cancer.
Mr. Beck became not only an indefatigable advocate for Palau’s 21,000 residents (a population barely three times as great as that of his suburban hometown, Bronxville, N.Y.) but also an honorary citizen. He took on the job as the island’s $1-a-year ambassador to the United Nations after he had persuaded Palau (rhymes with allow), then a newly independent nation, to claim a seat in the General Assembly.
“I said to them, ‘Look, you don’t produce anything, you don’t manufacture anything, nobody’s after your labor pool, you don’t have anything that anyone wants, the U.S. already has defense and basing rights, so the only thing of value you have is your U.N. vote,’” Mr. Beck told The New York Times in 2005.
“So they said to me, ‘Why don’t you do it?’”
He did, beginning in 2003.
With Mr. Beck as its voice in the General Assembly, Palau became America’s staunchest ally, siding more often with the United States on important votes than even Canada, according to the State Department, while also voting reliably in favor of Israel.
After giving up his seat in 2013, Mr. Beck was named Palau’s envoy for oceans and seas at the United Nations, spearheading the country’s successful campaign to ban commercial shark fishing and bottom trawling as well as export fishing, mining and drilling in most of the 230,000 square miles off its coasts.
To put that in perspective, with Mr. Beck’s prodding, a nation the size of Philadelphia took responsibility for the ocean environment of an area about as big as France.
Stuart Jay Beck was born on Dec. 23, 1946, in Manhattan, the son of Martin F. Beck, a radio broadcasting executive, and the former Lorraine Hills.
He was raised in Brooklyn and on Long Island, in Lawrence. He graduated from Woodmere Academy (now Lawrence Woodmere Academy), Harvard University and Yale University Law School. He worked for several law firms before starting his own practice.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by their children, Johanna, Charles and Sam Beck, and Emadch Beck MacNee; a sister, Susan Champlin; and two grandchildren.
Mr. Beck first visited Palau, about 600 miles east of the Philippines, in 1976, on what he remembered as a “boondoggle” to study the potential environmental impact on coral reefs of a proposed petroleum superport.
He was enlisted by associates to guide the island, a trusteeship, to sovereignty after a century of Spanish, German, Japanese and American jurisdiction, a challenge he relished.
“It was Athens in the time of Pericles,” he recalled.
Mr. Beck did not exactly copy Peter Sellers’s playbook from the film version of “The Mouse That Roared” — in which a tiny duchy (Mr. Sellers played both the prime minister and the duchess, as well as a military leader) declares war on Washington, hoping to lose the fight and reap foreign aid — but negotiating with Washington on behalf of another minuscule nation took some guile. (His day job was as president of the Granite Broadcasting Corporation in New York, a group of television stations.)
By 1986, Palau was the only trust territory left in Micronesia. It gained its independence in 1994.
The gregarious Mr. Beck was gung-ho from the beginning, having recruited John Kenneth Galbraith, the economist, to advise him. Mr. Galbraith suggested that Palau’s fledgling government generate revenue by printing postage stamps.
Mr. Beck seized on the idea, conjured up prototypes and even approached a printer, who responded, “Call me when you are a country.”
After Palau became one, aid from Washington helped give it the highest standard of living of any Oceanic nation, according to the United Nations.
>https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-revealed-jeffrey-epstein-entered-million-dollar-partnership-with-ehud-barak-in-2015-1.7493648
In 2015 Barak set up a limited partnership, in which he is the sole shareholder. That company invested inReporty Homeland Security, established in 2014, becoming a major shareholder. Last year Reporty changed its name toCarbyne. The company develops call-handling and identification capabilities for emergency response services.
“I challenge Virginia Roberts to come on your show, look in the camera and say the following words: ‘I accuse Alan Dershowitz of having had sex with me on six or seven occasions,'” the 81-year-old lawyer said on camera in the new docu-series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.”
“She has never been willing to accuse me in public, so please accuse me on this show. I challenge you,” said the Harvard Law professor, a leading part of President Trump’s legal team for the impeachment hearings.
The Netflix doc immediately cut to his accuser doing just that.
“I was with Alan Dershowitz multiple times. At least six that I can remember,” she said straight to the camera, as challenged.
“I was trafficked to Alan Dershowitz from Epstein,” she said, saying the pedophile “forced me to have sex” with his attorney along with numerous other men.
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>https://www.businessinsider.com/ghislaine-maxwell-terramar-project-charity-jeffrey-epstin-2019-7
Ghislaine Maxwell abruptly torpedoed her oceanic non-profit in the wake of the scandal surrounding her associate Jeffrey Epstein
Embattled socialite Ghislaine Maxwell seemingly sank her own oceanic conservancy group less than a week after her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell has been accused of acting as the convicted sexual predator's accomplice, recruiting underage girls and abusing them alongside Epstein — allegations that she publicly denied in 2015. The British native is the youngest child of late media mogul Robert Maxwell, who died in 1991 while cruising on the "Lady Ghislaine," a yacht named for his daughter. For years, she was also vocal in the press about her passion for oceanic conservancy.
Now her venture, the TerraMar Project, appears to have been swept off by the tide of scrutiny and criticism that sprung up in the wake of Epstein's arrest.
The nonprofit's stated intent, according to tax documents published on ProPublica and reviewed by Business Insider, was "to create a global ocean community to give a voice to the least protected, most ignored part of our planet — the high seas." Business Insider's emails to Maxwell's legal representatives were not returned.
Attempts to get in touch with anyone at the TerraMar Project were also unsuccessful. The nonprofit's phone number has been disconnected and its website now features a single statement: "The TerraMar Project is sad to announce that it will cease all operations. The website will be closed. TerraMar's mission has always been to connect ocean lovers to positive actions, highlight science, and bring conscious change to how to people from across the globe can live, work and enjoy the ocean. TerraMar wants to thank all its supporters, partners and fellow ocean lovers."
So what was this nonprofit up to before its founder's links to Epstein became an proverbial anchor-around-the-neck? In a 2013 interview with CNN International, Maxwell described her thinking around the high seas, which she described as a land called "TerraMar."
"All citizens of the world are citizens of TerraMar, or citizens of the high seas, if you will, part of the global commons," she said, adding that her organization's website would foster a "sense of identity" by giving out digital TerraMar passports.
"You will get a digital passport with your name and your ID number, and we will — you will be able to follow the progress of the high seas, anything that happens significant on the high seas, now, you'll be able to find out what's going on," she said. "We have a million and a half marine species, and you can select one to be the ambassador to TerraMar and be the spokesperson for that species. You can sponsor a piece of the ocean."
>https://www.businessinsider.com/ghislaine-maxwell-terramar-project-charity-jeffrey-epstin-2019-7
When it was first founded in 2012, the nonprofit was house in Maxwell's Manhattan mansion, which she's since put on the market for $18.995 million, according to Curbed. The charity later moved to a Woburn, Massachusetts, address that it shared with the Max Foundation Tr, Maxwell's private foundation.
The filings with the Internal Revenue Service make out the TerraMar Project to be a relatively small enterprise, money-wise. The nonprofit reported that its funds were mostly flowing into website development, office expenses, travel, phone and utilities fees, merchant fees, contractor fees, professional fundraising services, and insurance policies. The tax documents note that no employees of the nonprofit were ever paid an annual salary of over $100,000.
By 2017, the organization was $550,546 under water, in terms of revenue. Maxwell herself appears to have been keeping the nonprofit afloat, consistently donating hundreds of thousands dollars year after year to cover "general expenses." As of 2017, the TerraMar Project owed its founder $539,092.
The five years' worth of tax filings note that Maxwell also poured a considerable amount of time into her nonprofit. Each filing states that the TerraMar Project's founder put in 60 hour workweeks at the foundation.
She also proved to be a central figure in drumming up support for the TerraMar Project, lending her voice to an environmental controversy involving a poisoned Canadian river in 2016, speaking at The University of Texas at Dallas in 2014, and, that same year, giving a TED talk about how her experience of finding a plastic hanger at the bottom of the ocean on a deep sea submersible dive sparked her quest for conservancy.
She even presented before the United Nations on the invitation of the late UN diplomat for the Pacific nation of Palau, Stuart Beck. Maxwell told the gathered diplomats that she'd been "mesmerized by the oceans" since childhood.
"Once the general public can understand … that it is not just a big blue place where you go play on the beach, then it is possible to create a movement around it that will then empower politicians to take the incredibly difficult decisions that they need to make, but that are absolutely essential for the future of our planet," Maxwell said, according to a 2013 brief in the Manila Bulletin.
In 2014, the TerraMar Project got a nod from the National Geographic Society, which included them in a roundup of organizations successfully "building critical mass for good communications on ocean issues." The TerraMar Project also boasted a number of politically powerful backers. In 2015, the Daily Mail reported that the organization was "listed as a partner of the Clinton Global Initiative in the Sustainable Oceans" in 2013, four years after Maxwell was subpoenaed by Epstein victims.
Now, however, the nonprofit seems to have drowned in the wave of controversy surrounding Epstein, following the lead of its founder, who has not yet publicly commented on the recent developments in the case.
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@realDonaldTrump #CommonSense IF NO PROSECUTIONS TIL AFTER ELECTIONS SAD SAD //just think Flynn Mueller Impeachment/ The deep state is so deep that ppl get away w political crimes/Durham shld be producing some fruit of his labor
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Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher jailed for raping student, dies
Mary Kay Letourneau, a teacher who married her former sixth-grade student after she was convicted of raping him in a case that drew international headlines, has died. She was 58.
Her lawyer David Gehrke told multiple news outlets Letourneau died Tuesday of cancer. He did not immediately return an email from The Associated Press.
Letourneau was a married mother of four having difficulties with her marriage in 1996 when Vili Fualaau was a precocious 12-year-old in Letourneau’s class at Shorewood Elementary in Burien, a south Seattle suburb.
At about 1:20 a.m. on June 19, 1996, police discovered them in a minivan parked at the Des Moines Marina.
Letourneau, then 34, initially told officers the boy was 18, raising suspicions that something sexual was going on. But back at the police station, Fualaau and Letourneau denied there had been any “touching.” Instead, they said, Letourneau had been babysitting the boy and took him from her home after she and her husband had a fight.
About two months after the marina incident, Letourneau became pregnant with the couple’s first daughter. Their second child was conceived in 1998, after Letourneau had pleaded guilty to child rape and received a 7 1/2-year prison term.
Letourneau and Fualaau married on May 20, 2005, in Woodinville, Washington, after she finished serving time in prison.
Fualaau and Letourneau had previously characterized their relationship as one of love, and even wrote a book together — “Un Seul Crime, L’Amour,” or “Only One Crime, Love.” Their story was also the subject of a USA Network movie, “All American Girl.”
King County court records show Fualaau asked the court for a legal separation from Letourneau on May 9, 2017.
Seattle attorney Anne Bremner befriended Letourneau in 2002, when she represented the Des Moines police department in a lawsuit brought by Fualaau’s mother, claiming the city and school district failed to protect him from the teacher. A jury found against the family in the civil action. Bremner visited Letourneau in prison and would meet her for lunch after her release.
“She accepted that it was a crime and that she had to serve her time, but when she got out she didn’t dwell,” Bremner said. “She moved forward in a very positive way and raised those girls. She was somebody I rooted for. I really wanted her to do well, and she did.”
In the civil trial following the multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by Fualaau’s mother, the police department and school district insisted the romance was so bizarre that no one could have predicted it. The district’s lawyer said it began off school grounds after the academic year had ended. Police argued that they simply had no evidence of sexual abuse until it was too late.
Bremner said of Letourneau and Fualauu’s relationship: “Everyone said it wouldn’t last, but it did, at least for 20 years.”
>King County court records show Fualaau asked the court for a legal separation from Letourneau on May 9, 2017.
>Bremner said of Letourneau and Fualauu’s relationship: “Everyone said it wouldn’t last, but it did, at least for 20 years.”
>https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/index.jsp
GHISLAINE NOELLE MAXWELL
Register Number: 02879-509
Age: 58
Race: White
Sex: Female
Located at: Brooklyn MDC
Release Date: UNKNOWN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Society_for_the_Prevention_of_Cruelty_to_Children
The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was founded in 1874 (and incorporated in 1875) as the world's first child protective agency. It is sometimes called the Gerry Society after one of its co-founders, Elbridge Thomas Gerry. It is commonly seen as having played a key role in the development of children's rights and child protective services in the English speaking world. Today it offers support and advocacy for high-risk and abused children, parental skills classes, and professional training in the identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect.
A Chicago man who pulled out a gun during a murder victim’s burial and shot into the grave in front of a crowd of mourners has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
“You ain’t [expletive],” Elston Stevenson, 57, said before he fired a single bullet, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). “You got what you deserved.”
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/germany-domspatzen-choir-sexual-abuse-1.4210026
Jul 18, 2017
Decades of sexual abuse reported in choir once led by retired pope Benedict's brother
At least 547 members of a prestigious Catholic boys' choir in Germany were physically or sexually abused between 1945 and 1992, according to a report released Tuesday.
Allegations involving the Domspatzen choir in Regensburg that was run for 30 years by pope emeritus Benedict XVI's elder brother, Rev. Georg Ratzinger, were among a spate of revelations of abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Germany that emerged in 2010. In 2015, lawyer Ulrich Weber was tasked with producing a report on what happened.
The report said 547 boys at the Domspatzen's school "with a high degree of plausibility" were victims of physical or sexual abuse, or both. It counted 500 cases of physical violence and 67 of sexual violence, committed by a total of 49 people.
At the choir's preschool, "violence, fear and helplessness dominated" and "violence was an everyday method," it said.
"The whole system of education was oriented toward top musical achievements and the choir's success," the report said. "Alongside individual motives, institutional motives — namely, breaking the will of the children with the aim of maximum discipline and dedication — formed the basis for violence."
The report's authors said they checked the plausibility of 591 potential victims' cases.
The choir was led from 1964 to 1994 by Ratzinger.
>https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/germany-domspatzen-choir-sexual-abuse-1.4210026
logo of the Regensburger Domspatzen choir at a window of the high school in Regensburg
Ratzinger faulted for failing to intervene
Ratzinger, who is now 93, has acknowledged slapping pupils after he took over the choir, though such punishments were commonplace in Germany at that time. He also said he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at the elementary school and did nothing about it, but he was not aware of sexual abuse.
The report faulted Ratzinger "in particular for 'looking away' or for failing to intervene."
It also cited criticism by victims of the Regensburg diocese's initial efforts to investigate past abuse. It said that the bishop at the time the allegations surfaced, Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, bears "clear responsibility for the strategic, organizational and communicative weaknesses" of those efforts.
Cardinal Mueller became the head of the Vatican's doctrine office in 2012. Pope Francis recently removed him from that job.
Current Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer has already announced plans to offer victims compensation of between 5,000 and 20,000 euros ($5,730 US and $22,930) each by the end of this year.
Khashoggi's great grandfather was Jewish
Jun 11, 2002
Kidnap victim freed in Montana was raped, says prosecutor
Seventeen-year-old Anne Sluti was chained, bound by duct tape and raped over six days by a fugitive who grabbed her from a Kearney parking lot, federal prosecutors said Monday as the trial opened against the girl’s accused kidnapper.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Norris told a jury that they would hear “of the frightening ordeal Anne was put through” at the hands of Anthony Steven Wright while she was taken 900 miles away from home.
He said prosecutors would present evidence, including Sluti’s own testimony, that the high school honor student was held hostage and sexually assaulted by Wright, also known as Tony Zappa.
Wright, who is from Minneapolis, is charged with kidnapping, but not sexual assault.
The 30-year-old is accused of abducting Sluti outside the Hilltop Shopping Center near her home in Kearney on April 6, 2001. She was not released until six days later, after a 10-hour police standoff at a cabin near Rollins, Mont.
In his opening statement, Federal Public Defender David Stickman said he would show that Sluti, who is now 18, consented to leaving with Wright and could have escaped.
“The evidence in this case is going to show that Anne Sluti was in Montana voluntarily, that she left Nebraska voluntarily,” Stickman told the jury.
Norris said Sluti tried to escape. At one point, she cut herself as she tried to free her duct-taped hands and legs by rubbing against a barbed wire fence, he said.
Stickman said a 911 call made by Sluti in Montana the day before she was freed indicated Wright had not hurt her.
“Her voice is so calm and collected … it is not the voice of a young woman who has been subjected to the abuse Mr. Norris has described,” Stickman said.
Stickman said he will show how medical exams of Sluti did not find evidence of rape and she did not suffer injuries that would show resistance to rape. He said that the two had engaged in “consensual intercourse.”
>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/why-are-right-wing-conspiracies-so-obsessed-with-pedophilia/