NEW YORK, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The possible failure of a juror in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial to disclose that he was a victim of sexual abuse may not be enough to overturn the British socialite's sex trafficking conviction and warrant a new trial, legal experts said on Thursday.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted last week on sex trafficking and other charges for recruiting teenage girls to have sexual encounters with Jeffrey Epstein. Her lawyers asked for a new trial after the juror told Reuters and other news outlets that he shared his experience of sexual abuse during deliberations.
It was unclear whether the juror, who asked to be identified by his first and middle names, Scotty David, revealed that experience during pre-trial vetting.
But not all instances of jurors failing to disclose information are significant enough to merit a new trial, experts said, noting that cases where verdicts were overturned largely involved jurors who deliberately omitted information to try to get on the panel.
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This D-bag says he convinced two other jurors in deliberations with his tales from being someone's sex toy. Another juror also withheld abuse history but revealed it to the media after the trial. She'll get a new trial
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I'm sure that suddenly after the jury came to the wrong decision some close relative of hers came into a lot of money and another had a non-fatal accident of some type. Unconnected of course but the combination brought back trauma that might justify a re-trial that could set Maxwell free where she could commit suicide in the peace of her own home.
[KriegmanSubstack] BLM Spreads Falsehoods That Have Led to the Murders of Thousands of Black People in the Most Disadvantaged Communities
This is the post that I made to Thomson Reuters’ internal social media site, called the Hub, that precipitated a barrage of hateful and racist attacks from BLM supporters within the company. When I contacted Thomson Reuters’ Human Resources department about the harassment, my post was removed, and I was told I was not allowed to use any company communications channels (email, teams, the Hub, etc.) to discuss the harassment I had experienced. Receiving no support from HR, I raised the issue with my colleagues and senior leadership over email, for which I was fired. Below is the Hub post that precipitated this chain of events, in full.
[New York Times] VIENNA — I recently found myself in a conversation with a libertarian journalist who was visiting here. "Should we be surprised that Austria decided to lock down the unvaccinated and that the government is pushing for mandatory vaccination?" he bellowed at me. "Was it not the Austrians and the Germans who were first to lock down their minorities in the 1930s?" It’s the kind of mind-blowing exaggeration that is so typical these days of vaccine skeptics and the anti-lockdown right.
The specter of fascism is never far away in European politics, and accusing your enemies of being the heirs to Hitler has been popular since the end of World War II. But something truly surreal is underway: Traditionally, it was the parties of the far right, some of them with roots in the Nazi past, that were accused of fascist tendencies. Now they are the accusers. I’ve even heard some vaccine skeptics and anti-lockdown activists call for a Nuremberg trial for anyone who advocates mandatory vaccination.
Will these attempts to impugn the overweening state and accuse mainstream politicians of medical fascism work? Maybe. A recent survey by the European Council on Foreign Relations indicates that although most West Europeans support the restrictive policies their governments have put in place to fight the coronavirus, many also have mixed feelings. Almost half of Austrians and Germans, the poll found, experience the Covid pandemic as a loss of freedom. Populists are eager to weaponize this.
For the moment, they are failing. Recent elections in Germany, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria indicate that voters are less ready to follow populist leaders than they were just a few years ago. A YouGov-Cambridge Globalism study found in November that populist beliefs had "broadly declined" in 10 European countries over the past three years but that at the same time, conspiratorial beliefs are on the rise. I worry that the longer the pandemic restrictions continue and the harsher the economic effects are felt, the more likely populists’ arguments will resonate with the public.
The populist right has in recent months undergone an identity shift. It used to be that these parties claimed, with their positions on immigration and cultural change, to speak for "the people," a silent majority. That doesn’t work anymore. Austria’s Freedom Party, for example, has adopted a hard-line anti-vaccination stance. But holding this position means that it can no longer claim to be the champion of the majority; most Austrians have chosen to get vaccinated. At least in Western Europe, the vaccinated are the majority. Not surprisingly, when populists are in power — as they are in Hungary and Poland — they adopt vaccine and lockdown policies similar to those introduced by mainstream parties elsewhere.
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So the Nazi party has its roots in the far right? Um, nope. If they got that one simple fact incorrect, the rest of this article is base in lies and distortion.
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If every single one, and it must be every single one, of the slight majority has had the recommended four shots, but the new vax, sorry, up-to-date, recommendation is now five shots, then the compliance rate is likely closer to 1% at the moment.
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[REGNUM] The Kuril Islands are the key to the safety of navigation and fishing in the Sea of Okhotsk, the safety of its coast. By and large, the Kuril Islands are also a shield for the Russian Far East.
[American Thinker] People are moving from high-tax Democrat-run states to states that are more welcoming to businesses and individuals. The way Illinois is run shows many reasons why.
In Illinois, the legislature schedules adjournment by May 31, and their salary is $69,464 per year. They also get substantial pensions and other benefits with a few years of service. They also get an extra salary if they are a leader or head of a committee. The Legislature is very generous to itself.
This year, they are scheduling adjournment by early April so they can campaign. My guess is that their opponents don't get taxpayer-paid time off to campaign.
They will probably have fewer than thirty scheduled legislative days this year for their salary. They will make as much for a few days in session as the median family makes in Illinois in a year.
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Approaching the 10th anniversary of the bridge closure across the Wabash at New Harmony. If you wish to leave Illinois, you'll have to find another way out. BTW, the bridge at nearby I-64 is still open but crumbling and in need of tens of millions of dollars in repairs.
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Don't worry. Chicago and its suburbs AKA Illinios will continue to stay the course. Everything is working so well after all. For the past 20 years or more we've seen a steady stream of FIBs moving north from the NE corner of Illinios
[Mercer]Excerpt:
"I understand why you are unaware of what’s going on in Biden’s America, among regular Americans: As a news-consumer myself who must consume the repulsive, ethics-abnegating, fake progressive media—I see that most of the legacy media’s time is devoted to prosecuting an ex-president, Trump, and maligning into oblivion his Deplorable base, whom they now accuse of spreading The Disease (as the ’unvaccinated’), and being a source of domestic terrorism. Media report not at all about Joe Biden’s policies and their impact on the average Joe."
Put it this way, when Trump is dead and gone, the same fraudulent, outlets, conjuring this alternate-reality, will continue to "report" on the "legacy of Trump." This, these fake-news frauds will frame as the news du jour.
[Jpost] Israelis are known for flouting laws and rules. The comments are classic.
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I peruse the JPost nearly daily online because A) they are our main ally in a volatile area, B) They are technologically advanced compared to their neighbors, C) They have an existential threat in Iran, Paleos, and Hezbollah, and D) they are Covid cutting edge.
D) has taken the lead daily in the JPost to the point of hysteria. This is more of the same
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Collapsing now.
Omicron's the last hurrah: its mild, you nitwits, and nearly everyone will catch it.
Gummint won't give up the manipulation of our daily lives down to the smallest detail.
COVIDians won't give up their shiny new religion.
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Ok, so treat it like a religion. Live & let live. Tolerance.
You want to worship St Anthony the Small, wear a talisman around your mug, light candles and chant Woke vespers? Go for it! Create your own houses of worship. Your own restaurants and bars, clubs and gyms, theaters schools swimming pools and ballfields. Your own hospitals and schools and colleges.
Every type of institution that can currently bear a Catholic label can also be used by the New Religion:
- charitable order: Covidian Little Sisters of the Poor
- school for girlz / alphabetters: Sacred Vaccinated Heart
- hospital: Saint WHO Medical
- fraternal organization: Knights of Fauci
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I totally agree, Merrick. Also, the left can learn to respect me saying "I don't believe in your god," same as they do for all the atheists out there.
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Gromguru's Covidian Correctional School for Wayward Girls
... in Austria, the thrice-vaccinated chancellor Karl Nehammer has tested positive for Corona. The news comes as Austria announces they will delay implementing their vaccine mandate by two months. It will now take effect in April, if at all.
Gerald Gartlehner, an epidemiologist and sometime governmental adviser, suggested that mandates (or at least their enforcement) might have to be re-evaluated in light of Omicron and the widespread immunity the new variant will elicit across the Austrian population. There is every reason to think that Austria will be past the peak of the Omicron wave in April, and that a majority of Austrians with have SARS-2 antibodies by then.
Top epidemiologist Harvey Risch blasts Fauci's COVID strategy, CDC data and research
"Dr. Fauci has interests that do not align with the public health [finanicial] interests of the United States," epidemiologist Harvey Risch says. ...
"[St. Fauci] has been canonized" as a public health guru "because of his political abilities, but not because of expertise," Risch claimed.
The "original sin" of the pandemic is suppressing early outpatient treatment. The U.S. should have "released the strategic national stockpile of hydroxychloroquine" and promoted ivermectin and other inexpensive drugs that are used in combination to take out the "evasive beasts" early in viral infection, he said.
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* s/b "Fauci has finanicial interests that do not align with the public health interests of the United States," epidemiologist Harvey Risch says. ..
[SteveKirschSubstack] No need to worry. It is doubtful that anything will happen because the work wasn’t published in a peer-reviewed journal so will be ignored by the scientific community. That’s just the way it works.
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Doubters said the vax would stop the virus. We see where that went. Now the vaxxed think 3 shots will protect them, maybe not. The inventor of the mRMA vax suggests otherwise.
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This will play out as expected. I see no end in sight and the numbers will only increase. All the while those who refuse vaccines will be blamed for all unforeseen deaths. Like the weather. They can be wrong and still hold on to their jobs.
TITLE: yes, omicron is mild.
refuting the new histrionics from the WHO
DATE: 7 Jan 2021. 11:00am Puerto Rico time
BODY: unless you live in an ice cave, you’ve probably seen this - it’s plastered and search optimized everywhere:
BBC NEWS: DEADLY OMICRON SHOULD *NOT* BE CALLED MILD, says World Health Organization
it’s also just plain wrong. it’s a crazed attempt at histrionics pushed by pandemia’s uncontested “house of wrong.”
such credibility as it once had, the WHO has squandered and then some over these two long years of beclowning themselves with reversals, reversions, fabrications, and fantastical fright narratives, seemingly at random.
this is just more of the same and i’m not even going to try to speculate on motive anymore. it’s just too absurd.
instead, i'll post the notes from a conversation with the head of international infectious disease at mass general that have been going around.
i can vouch for their authenticity.
Notes from a call with Edward Ryan MD, Director of International Infectious Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital:
1 Close to 100% of the positive cases in MA are Omicron. Delta is almost completely gone from New England.
2 This surge will peak sometime between 1/10 and 1/21 and then begin a quick downhill journey of two to four weeks.
3 We will end up with a 20-50% positivity rate.
4 February will be clean up mode, March will begin to return to "normal"
5 Omicron lives in your nose and upper respiratory area which is what makes it so contagious. It isn't able to bond with your lungs like the other variants.
6 The increased hospitalizations should be taken with a grain of salt as most of them are secondary admissions (i.e. people coming in for surgery, broken bones, etc. who are tested for COVID)
7 We won't need a booster for omicron because they wouldn't be able to develop one before it's completely gone and we're all going to get it which will give us the immunity we need to get through it.
8 COVID will join the 4 other coronaviruses we deal with that cause the common cold, upper respiratory infections, RSV, etc. It will become a pediatric disease mainly affecting young children with no immunity.
9 40% of those infected will be asymptomatic
10 Rapid tests are 50-80% sensitive to those with symptoms, only 30-60% sensitive to those without symptoms
11 Contact tracing is worthless because we're all going to get it and there's no way we could keep up with it.
12 We are fighting the last war with COVID and should be pivoting back to normal life, but society isn't quite ready for it yet.
13 There is no need to stay home from work or to be a hermit unless you're immunocompromised or 85 or older, but he does recommend staying away from large gatherings for the next six weeks.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[KriegmanSubstack] BLM Spreads Falsehoods That Have Led to the Murders of Thousands of Black People in the Most Disadvantaged Communities
[American Thinker] People are moving from high-tax Democrat-run states to states that are more welcoming to businesses and individuals. The way Illinois is run shows many reasons why.
[SteveKirschSubstack] No need to worry. It is doubtful that anything will happen because the work wasn’t published in a peer-reviewed journal so will be ignored by the scientific community. That’s just the way it works.
