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[Hot Air] Maria Farmer, then 26, claims she was employed by Epstein, a multimillionaire financier who lived in a vast mansion on New York’s Upper East Side, and that she frequently saw "school-age girls’’ wearing uniforms come into the mansion and go upstairs. She was told that the girls were auditioning for modeling work, according to her affidavit.
Then an art student in New York, Farmer said she reported her assault to New York police and the FBI in 1996. FBI documents released April 1 make a reference to Farmer having been interviewed in 2006 or 2007. However, Farmer, now 49, said the FBI did not take any action against Epstein and Maxwell.
"To my knowledge, I was the first person to report Maxwell and Epstein to the FBI. It took a significant amount of bravery for me to make that call because I knew how incredibly powerful and influential both Epstein and Maxwell were, particularly in the art community,’’ she wrote.
[People] Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli don’t appreciate the backlash over their alleged involvement in the college admissions cheating scam.
After pleading not guilty earlier this week, a source tells PEOPLE that the couple resents how the case is playing out in the public eye.
"This is putting unspeakable stress on her and her family," a source close to Loughlin tells PEOPLE. "They’re having to play this all out publicly, and they’re fair game for jokes and memes, but also outraged [by] people who are saying that they are cheaters."
"They’re being destroyed," the source adds.
On Monday, the couple pled not guilty to both charges they face in the case: mail fraud and money laundering conspiracy. A source previously told PEOPLE that the plea was the "only choice" they had after rejecting an offer for a deal from prosecutors.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Venezuela on Monday accused Canada of supporting US 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... ’s "war adventure" after Ottawa announced new sanctions on brass hats in President Nicolas Maduro Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy... ’s government.
In a statement, Venezuela’s foreign ministry said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "has invalidated Canada as a reliable actor in dialogue."
Earlier Monday, Canada announced new sanctions against 41 members of Maduro’s government whom it holds "responsible for the deterioration of the situation" in the crisis-wracked South American country.
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I, for one, wish that Turdeau would go to Venezuela in person and sort out this little misunderstandig. He might like it enough to stay there.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The inputs entered through the Maiquetía International Airport. The aid is being coordinated by the International Committee of the Red Cross and comes from this organization in Panama
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[ELUNIVERSAL] The calls of the United States (US) to ask Caracas to let in humanitarian aid are a smokescreen to prepare a "foreign invasion," said the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN agencies in Geneva on Tuesday.
"We can never accept the attempts to use humanitarian support to promote a foreign invasion in our country," Ambassador Jorge Valero said in an interview with AFP.
"That is why we firmly reject the US attempt to use the supposed humanitarian aid as a mechanism for intervention," he added.
President Nicolás Maduro closed four border bridges linking Venezuela with the Colombian city of Cúcuta on February 22, after the United States and some 50 countries recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president, AFP reported.
US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, had asked Maduro on Sunday to lift the border blockade to allow aid to Venezuela to enter.
Venezuela is going through a deep political and economic crisis. More than 2.7 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2015, fleeing the shortage of essential products and medicines, a situation that has been aggravated in recent weeks by a series of blackouts.
Valero insisted on the fact that his country is open to humanitarian aid from "friendly countries", and recalled the agreement concluded last week with the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC).
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So I suppose the chinese and russian aid is not?
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Letting the Russians waste money on Venezuela is of as big an issue for me as is the Chinese infestation. They have the resources to stay and metastasize permanently. Must more a strategic threat in the long view of the looming conflict.
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What the fuck would we want with their shitty country and their shitty, heavy oil?
Controlling the V.oil for our own consumption will crush the remainder of the oil producers in the world because of the drop in demand for their product.
[AnNahar] Ecuador said on Monday it has suffered 40 million cyber attacks on the webpages of public institutions since stripping Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of political asylum.
[DAWN] Islamabad police on Monday night tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a suspect for allegedly raping a 2-year-old girl in Bhara Kahu area.
According to a first information report (FIR) of the incident, the minor child had gone to her grandparents' house in the neighbourhood in the morning. When the girl's mother came out looking for her a while later, she could not find the child at the grandparents' house.
The minor girl later came out crying from another house in the neighbourhood.
The grandmother of the child then went inside the house where the girl had emerged from. A suspect, who was reportedly living in the house on a rental basis, was allegedly hiding in a bathroom of the house.
When the woman knocked on the door, the man came out from the bathroom and, before he was asked anything, started saying that he "didn't do anything", the child's mother said.
According to the mother, she had seen blood stains on the clothes of the child. She said she took her daughter to a hospital where the doctor directed them to visit the police first. Later, she said, the child was taken to the Polyclinic Hospital where a doctor after an initial examination said she had been raped.
Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else and arrested the suspect. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... they are awaiting the medico-legal report for further legal action.
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Surprised the doctor, police, et. al. didn't also rape her.
[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court in Gilgit-Baltistan on Thursday sentenced four men to death for kidnapping, raping and brutally murdering a teenage boy in the Ishkoman tehsil.
ATC No 1's judge Raja Shahzada who heard the case pronounced the verdict.
The incident occurred in February when the boy was kidnapped from the far-flung area of Immat village of tehsil Ishkoman and his body was later recovered from Qurumbar river. Area police confirmed that the boy was sexually assaulted before being strangled to death.
The boy's father had filed an application with the police on February 6, in which he stated that his son, whose age he approximated to be between 15 and 16, left home to purchase 'easy load' credit for his mobile phone but never returned.
Police after registering a First Information Report locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! four suspects, namely Aziz, Muhammad Umer, Noor Azam, and Noor Muhammad, who confessed to the crime.
The trial was concluded over a period of one month during which evidence and statements provided by witnesses proved the charges of kidnap, rape, and murder.
Today, all four men were sentenced to death under Section 302 (punishment for murder) of the Pakistain Penal Code and Section 6 and 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act. They were ordered by the judge to pay a fine of Rs0.3 million each, the family's lawyer Nazir Ahmed told DawnNewsTV.
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[DAWN] A two-year-old boy was killed on Tuesday after being caught in an exchange of fire between police and alleged muggers on Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's University Road, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) East Amir Farooqi told Dawn.
According to DIG Farooqi, police officials had set up a picket near Safoora Goth when a passer-by complained that he had been relieved of cash and other valuables by two muggers.
The coppers fired at the cycle of violence-riding muggers, with some of their shots also hitting a rickshaw in which the minor and his parents were travelling, said the senior officer. While the parents remained safe, the child named Mohammad Ahsan Sheikh sustained gunshot wounds and expired.
Both the police officials have been tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! , DIG Farooqi said, adding that the police force had been given explicit instructions to not resort to firing in open public spaces. He said that the detained coppers claim that the fleeing suspects had also fired at them.
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[Patriot3] MARS sets the world standard for elevated tactical entry and rescue systems. Its dual, side-by-side hydraulic ramps allow simultaneous elevated access at varying heights, providing an enormous advantage to police, military and anti-terror forces.
A somewhat dated story, but still of potential interest.
[Task and Purpose] The most exciting advancement in the evolution of the otherwise boring-as-hell world of drones isn’t the MQ-9 Reaper, favored by the Pentagon to replace the iconic Predator: It’s the Navy’s MQ-25 program, an unmanned refueling aircraft that can extend the range of carrier-based fighters far beyond their normal capabilities.
While defense contractors Boeing and General Atomics are currently vying for the MQ-25 contract, Lockheed Martin just busted out a preview of a "Stingray" concept design dreamed up by the company’s legendary Skunk Works division. We recently made fun of the Air Force’s recent drone-fleet sizzle reel for its resemblance to a war movie that was so bad Jessica Biel couldn’t save it. But... Lockheed’s preview actually has us a little excited.
USNORTHCOM welcomed @SpaceX CEO Elon Musk April 15, 2019 to @CityofCOS, where he participated in conversation and round table briefings about future space operations and homeland defense innovation. pic.twitter.com/UAlNH9zoFD
Anyone who tells you its just about the water, has not studied the issue in depth. There is more accessible titanium on the Moon than on the Earth. Just sayin.... pic.twitter.com/twHFak476k
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The CIA bought all the titanium to build the SR-71's, which were supposed to be the RS-71 but Johnson screwed it up, from Russia.
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AlanC - A fully loaded 2nd stage of the StarShip (Musk's big rocket) will mass 10,000 metric tons.
I suspect no matter what the official payload is that it could be made to carry a 326 ton load...
(official payload is likely tons less than the SLS so they don't piss off NASA)...
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.
Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
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