[Yahoo] Harvey Weinstein hired journalists and highly trained ex-spies and military personnel who used fake identities to try to stop accusers from going public with sexual misconduct claims against him, The New Yorker reported Monday.
The news came as the Television Academy, which hands out Emmy Awards, was said to have expelled Weinstein "for life," following a similar move by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives out the Oscars.
Among the private security agencies hired by Weinstein starting around fall 2016, the magazine said, was Black Cube, which is largely run by former officers of Israeli intelligence agencies, including Mossad. Another was corporate intelligence giant Kroll.
Two Black Cube private eyes met with actress Rose McGowan -- before she publicly accused Weinstein of raping her -- to obtain information.
One of the investigators secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan while pretending to be a women's rights advocates, said the magazine, citing dozens of pages of documents and seven people directly involved in Weinstein's efforts.
The spy used a different fake identity to meet with a journalist while claiming to have an accusation against Weinstein, in order to learn which women were talking to the media.
Weinstein and the private eyes also used journalists themselves to extract details from women who were making claims against Weinstein.
During his yearlong effort, Weinstein and his team would collect information on dozens of people, compiling psychological profiles with their personal or sexual histories in order to contradict, discredit or intimidate his targets.
The New Yorker said Weinstein sought the assistance of ex-employees from his movie enterprises to help in his efforts collecting names and placing calls.
Investigations also sometimes went through Weinstein's lawyers, according to the magazine. Among them was David Boies, who represented Al Gore in his 2000 presidential election dispute with George W. Bush.
The New Yorker said Boies himself had signed a contract demanding that Black Cube seek to uncover information to stop the publication of a New York Times story about Weinstein's sexual abuse at the same time his firm was also representing the Times in a libel case.
Boies told the magazine "it was a mistake" to have been involved with the investigators.
Weinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister dismissed the report, saying: "It is a fiction to suggest that any individuals were targeted or suppressed at any time."
Neither Hofmeister nor Boies immediately responded to requests for comment.
- Television Academy expels Weinstein -
Police launched investigations in London, Los Angeles and New York after around 100 women accused Weinstein, once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, of sexual misconduct ranging from harassment to rape.
Meanwhile, industry publication Variety said the Television Academy has voted to permanently expel Weinstein.
"The Academy supports those speaking out against harassment in all forms and stands behind those who have been affected by this issue," it told Variety, adding that it was reviewing the organization's code of conduct.
"The unfolding and widespread examples of this horrific behavior are deeply disturbing to the Academy's leadership.
"We are determined to play a role in protecting all television professionals from predatory harassment, ensuring they are able to practice their craft in a safe environment."
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Boies from the:
failed anti-trust suit against M$S.
attempt paid by M$S tried to effectively steal Linux for the Morman interests.
attempt to steal the US election in 2000
from the endless IBM/ATT consent agreement suit.
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Drudge headline says ol Harv will be indicted next week. The left eating it's own? No longer useful, is he? Knows something the Clintons don't want getting out? Questions, questions, questions, flooding the minds of concerned Americans everywhere...
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[PJMEDIA] Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was assaulted at his Bowling Green, Ky., home on Friday and sustained minor injuries. According to police, Rene Boucher has been enjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for the assault. Boucher is a 59-year-old anesthesiologist who supports Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... (I-Vt.) on universal health care and has widely shared his fierce opposition to President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Among other things, Boucher wrote on Facebook, "May Robert Mueller fry Trump's gonads."
Paul also got caught up in the infamous attack at the Republican practice for the Congressional Baseball Game in June, when a Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire, seriously injuring House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). Paul seems unable to catch a break.
"On Friday, November 3, 2017 at 3:21 p.m., KSP Troopers responded to the residence of Rand Paul in Warren County, in reference to a report of an assault," Kentucky State Police said in a news release Saturday. "Upon their arrival, it was determined that Rene Boucher had intentionally assaulted Paul causing a minor injury." A record from Warren County Regional Jail confirmed that Boucher was booked at 8:51 p.m. Friday. Neighbors report that Sen. Paul was mowing his lawn at the time of the attack and that the two neighbors have been embroiled in an ongoing dispute.
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They were neighbors. The civil lawsuit will remove Boucher's name on that deed
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This guy who attacked Paul can't be particularly analytical. Paul has been in the same camp (though coming from another direction) as the other GOP senators who have derailed several of Trump's legislative goals so far.
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Perp Sounds like he's been experimenting with his work tools.
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Civil sue the turd for lifelong pain and PTSD infliction.
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How long until Senator Paul will be able to return to negotiating and voting in the Senate? In the meantime, the Republicans will be down both his energy and his vote, preventing who knows how many initiatives.
And how much was prevented in the House after the other Bernie Bro shot up the Republican softball team?
That worked well. They're all gonna scream to the heavens again in a couple days. Listen for it. [AMERICANTHINKER] One anonymous wit posted on the internet "Top Reasons For The Low Protest Turnout on November 4th":
Mom said I had to be home before dinner.
My unicorn is sick.
The pepper spray still burns from last time.
Mom threw out my ISIS mask.
[I] didn't have any clean "Hello Kitty" panties to wear.
Protesting is too much like work.
[I'm] still waiting for Soros to pay me for the last protest.
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I heard that in order to pay for the bus to the location of the start of the war, and since their parents said "No, you are still grounded!" they would have to do something Fascist like sell girl scout cookies. (joking, they actually realized they hate getting shot in the nuts by beanbags.)
There is no final success, only struggle, as long as the education, entertainment, financial services, and public employee industries have financial and philosophical energy directed towards corrupting our youth and extracting money from the truly productive.
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Grom does get it. The left has been trying to dismantle a country and culture for a long time. You can't keep hammering and tearing down the culture of a country for decades without having a bad effect.
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and on to ball diamonds to take out Republican Representatives...
and in next door yards to break ribs and puncture lungs of a Republican Senator
and...
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And the crappy turnout will paradoxically dishearten the harmless ones and further radicalize the dangerous ones.
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Hate to think we're not going to have anymore of these videos. What's Kaepernick going to do with himself?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZWZOUmkVN4
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I think Kaper ended up losing about five yards on that carry.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Keeping up their trend of inviting never-Trump Republican politicians on the show, the liberal hosts at ABC’s The View welcomed Arizona Senator Jeff Flake ...Republican junior senator from Arizona, elected in 2012. Prior to that he was a U.S. Representative for twelve years... with open arms, on Monday’s show. After he used the Senate floor two weeks ago to lambast President Trump while announcing his retirement, the Arizona senator was ready to continue his media friendly tour, and The View was only happy to give it to him.
Host Meghan McCain introduced Flake as a "family friend" saying she was "heartbroken" to see him go, since Congress needs "more men in office like [him] right now." After loud cheers and applause from the audience, (also the reaction when Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... was on the show last week, the complete opposite treatment of what any other Republican guest gets on the show,) an impressed Flake remarked:
"If we had an audience like this in the Senate gallery I would never leave!" he joked.
McCain continued her gushy remarks about Flake, noting he had never been a Trump supporter, and asking him why he was retiring now.
The Republican senator explained that he could not win re-election with Trump in office, because he didn’t agree with his positions. Flake dismissed his dismally low approval rating as result of the Trump phenomena:
Let me just say, the honor of my lifetime is to be in the Senate especially as junior senator to Senator McCain. It’s been wonderful. But I felt that I could not run the kind of race that I would need to run to be competitive. I could not speak out as I am now and as I have been over the past several months. There is no way you can be competitive in a Republican primary particularly in a state like Arizona right now if you don't agree with the president's positions or if you don’t condone his behavior.
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BS.
You are a Democrat lite, not a Republican and certainly not a conservative.
Flake, you missed the zeitgeist of the times. A critical mass of Americans now understands that the debate is not and should not be whether or not the cogs in every alphabet agency clown farm get a 4.8% raise instead of a 5% raise like the Democrats want to do, it's whether the agency and those jobs should exist at all.
And the debate isn't whether or not we should keep giving millions of Americans unnecessary public sector anxiety-free and metric-free jobs in exchange for loyalty to whichever politicians gave them the jobs, bloating the size of the public "work" force by four times in two generations with no significant increase in the amount and quality of government services to show for it and paying for them with money borrowed against the future while looking the other way to let in foreigners to do the real work or not. This system cannot be tweaked, it is unsustainable and needs to be destroyed, no half-measures.
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Dave Weigel, The Washington Post: I called Jeff Flake the Sunday before the election. I said, “I have one round of questions if Hillary wins, and one if Trump wins.” And he just started laughing, saying, “Why would you bother asking the second one?” LINK
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They all go left once they get to DC. Some go further than others, but they all go left. Term limits are a start, but ultimately a much emasculated federal gummint is the only real fix.
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Based on history, you can't win political elections by telling the truth: the people want to be lie to.
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I once believed that they went left when they got to Washington, now I believe that they are like the 'token conservatives' working for news media, that they are lefties pretending to be conservative long enough to get the job.That way if the Dems win they push their agenda forward and if the 'token conservative' wins there is nobody there to stop the lefts agenda being pushed forward.
[THEHILL] The American Psychological Association (APA) criticized President Trump for saying the Sunday mass shooting at a Texas church was a "mental health" problem and not about guns.
"Calling this shooting a ‘mental health problem’ distracts our nation’s leaders from developing policies and legislation that would focus on preventing gun violence through a scientific, public health approach,” said APA President Antonio E. Puente in a statement Monday.
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Tonight on News@10 a reporter said Devon Kelley's sister-in-law gave a statement today, which included extensive brain damage from his LSD usage earlier.
[THEHILL] Fox News has canceled ads purchased by Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer that call for President Trump’s impeachment, CNN’s Brian Stelter confirmed Monday.
"Due to the strong negative reaction to their ad by our viewers, we could not in good conscience take their money," Fox News told Stelter.
Steyer said Friday in a statement that Fox News informed him on Oct. 31 that it was refusing to air the ad entitled "Join Us."
Steyer said the decision "shows no respect for democracy."
Steyer launched his $10 million "Need to Impeach" ad campaign in late October, drawing the ire of Trump, who called Steyer "wacky & totally unhinged."
House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... (D-Calif.) on Sunday downplayed the idea that Democrats will seek to impeach Trump if they take back the House in next year's midterm elections.
She suggested Democrats will allow the various investigations of Trump to play out in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
"I believe that whatever we do, we have responsibility first and foremost to unify the nation," she said. "Second of all, you can’t go down any path without the facts and the law. If that’s there, perhaps it will come out in these investigations."
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"Due to the strong negative reaction to their ad by our viewers, we could not in good conscience take their money," Fox News told Stelter.
Apparently those at CNN are too stupid to figure it out for themselves.
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[Tom Steyer], California Donk mega-donor liberal climate change activist Tom Steyer dumped $13 million of his own money into the last election cycle as of March 2016 — probably more by election time.
He must be a little pissed that Hillary blew $1.4 billion only to get beaten by the guy who was never supposed to. She didn't even campaign in Wisconsin. I'm still enjoying the schadenfreude of it all.
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Yes, JohnQC, I believe he is more than a little pissed. Have you seen his ad? He is the very definition of unhinged, wound up tighter than a drum and now he's throwing good money after bad. But, hey, it's his money. If I was Fox I'd go ahead and take it.
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Someone should convince him to invest in the NFL, buy empty seats and fill them with homeless or something.
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AU, that'd make them liable for breaking contract and even if they put it on after midnight with a warning about "this really, really, really is not satire".
rjschwartz, good idea but make sure everyone has had their shots.
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Almost, of course if you take the money you must then air the ad. But Steyer looks so uptight and phony that he's doing himself more harm than good. So I say take his money and let him.
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"Sign our petition" is just another way of saying "Give us fresh contact information". Someone has to replace the "Harvey Bucks" that will now be directed toward $700/ hour legal fee's to keep his sorry fat ass out of the GreyBar.
[THEHILL] Thanks to ObamaCare, a family health insurance policy bought on the health insurance exchange can cost the same or more than leasing a 2017 Bentley, Aston Martin, McLaren or even a Rolls-Royce.
ObamaCare open enrollment for 2018 has begun, so a friend and tax policy expert living in Northern Virginia recently went looking at his family’s health insurance options. A CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield silver-level family HMO plan with a $3,500 deductible would cost my friend $2,179 per month. The BlueCross gold-level HMO with a $1,000 deductible would cost $2,500 per month.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... people tend to choose Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) when possible because they allow patients more flexibility; you don’t necessarily have to see a family doctor before contacting a specialist. But consumers pay for that extra flexibility ‐ especially under ObamaCare.
The BlueCross silver-level family PPO plan with a $3,500 deductible would cost $2,729 per month and the gold PPO with a $1,000 deductible is $3,087.
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I gave up late last year, faced with a 50% premium increase in CO. I told my wife I was done seeking self-reliant solutions. We ended our business after more than a decade. My wife took a full-time job at a large company so we get "health insurance" for a family of four without paying more for it than for housing and food, and we don't have to justify ourselves to the IRS. I'm sure we're not alone. I doubt we'll get back to running our own business again.
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Sorry Si vis pacem that you got mauled by Obamacare. Many have. There is something very wrong with a healthcare system that does this to its citizens. Obamacare was never meant to provide healthcare but to be a piggybank for insurance companies, lobbyists and left-wing politicians. See Hillary and the Clinton Foundation for how that's done.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Yahoo] Harvey Weinstein hired journalists and highly trained ex-spies and military personnel who used fake identities to try to stop accusers from going public with sexual misconduct claims against him, The New Yorker reported Monday.
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
[AMERICANTHINKER] One anonymous wit posted on the internet "Top Reasons For The Low Protest Turnout on November 4th":
John 
[THEHILL] The American Psychological Association (APA) criticized President Trump for saying the Sunday mass shooting at a Texas church was a "mental health" problem and not about guns.
[THEHILL] Fox News has canceled ads purchased by Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer that call for President Trump’s impeachment, CNN’s Brian Stelter confirmed Monday.
Nancy 
[THEHILL] Thanks to ObamaCare, a family health insurance policy bought on the health insurance exchange can cost the same or more than leasing a 2017 Bentley, Aston Martin, McLaren or even a Rolls-Royce. 
