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Who's sweating now? Ghislaine Maxwell ends fight to keep John Doe names under seal

Colby Hall
Mediaite
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:33 UTC
ghislaine maxwell
© Sven Nackstrand/AFPGhislaine Maxwell
A whole lot of John Does are likely more nervous this morning.

At issue? Virginia Giuffre's request to unseal documents that name names in her since-settled civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, which led to a lengthy and ongoing open-records battle.

In December of last year, a Manhattan jury in Maxwell's trial returned guilty verdicts in five of the six charges against her after six days of deliberations. Maxwell faced federal charges that included conspiracy, violations of the Mann Act, and sex trafficking a minor for her role as Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante and now-convicted accomplice, related to what prosecutors described as Epstein's "Pyramid scheme" of sexual abuse of minor girls.

Depending on what lies underneath the redactions, the unsealed information could make waves inside the same courthouse, and around the world.

Comment: Will there finally be some justice for the victims of Epstein's and Maxwell's predation?

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Question

Mysterious illness in 'hundreds' of dogs raises alarm in UK


RT
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:13 UTC
Scarborough, Yorkshire.
© Edward Crawford / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty ImagesScarborough, Yorkshire
Dog owners in East Yorkshire have warned that their pets fell ill after taking walks along the region's coastline, despite officials finding no "direct link" between the area and the diseases during recent inspections.

Vets in the area claim they have seen cases of severe vomiting and diarrhea in dogs who recently visited the northeast coast. In a Facebook post, Yorkshire Coast Pet Care described being "inundated" with dogs that have suffered a mystery illness, urging officials to investigate.

Since the first cases were identified, British media has reported that hundreds of dogs have been affected, with the initial social media post receiving more than 1,500 responses.

Comment: Interestingly, back in October 2021 "thousands of dead crabs were found on beaches in Hartlepool, Redcar, Saltburn, Staithes, and Whitby", prompting an Environment Agency investigation into a possible industrial pollution incident. However, in November 2021 they ruled that the crabs were not killed by pollution.

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© Google MapsRed circles show areas where the dead crabs were found in October, black circles show where dogs have fallen sick.


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Eye 1

More of UK's big businesses slash sick pay for unvaccinated staff to legal minimum

Beth Timmins
BBC
Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:48 UTC
ocado
© Getty
Ocado and Next have cut sick pay for unvaccinated staff who must self-isolate because of Covid exposure, the BBC has learned.

Both retailers will continue to pay full sick pay to unvaccinated workers if they test positive for the virus.

Furniture giant Ikea is also among employers making similar moves, as staff absences rise.

Next said it was an "emotive topic" but that it had to balance staff and shareholder needs.

Comment: See also: Ikea slashes sick pay for unvaccinated staff to lowest amount allowed by law

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Briefcase

Canada: Scores of unvaccinated workers are filing wrongful dismissal claims against employers, lawyers say

Vanmala Subramaniam
The Globe and Mail
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:58 UTC
toronto financial district
© Fred Lum/The Globe and MailPeople walk along a street in Toronto's financial district, on Jan. 13, 2021.
Employers across the country have begun firing employees who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to lawyers who say they are inundated with vaccine-related cases and claims of wrongful dismissal.

The deluge of cases sets up a crucial legal test of vaccine mandates imposed by employers, one that pits the individual rights of workers against employers' health and safety concerns amid a pandemic that has dragged on for almost two years.

Leading labour and employment lawyers told The Globe and Mail that cases involving the termination of unvaccinated employees hinge on a number of factors, including whether employees are required to come into work, details of an employee's initial hiring contract and whether the employee is unvaccinated on grounds other than medical or religious ones.

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People 2

Wait... what? Wearing a facemask makes you more attractive to the opposite sex, study finds

Sam Baker
Daily Mail
Fri, 14 Jan 2022 07:45 UTC
man face mask
People wearing face masks are deemed to be more attractive than when they have nothing covering their faces, according to a new study.
People wearing face masks are deemed to be more attractive than when they have nothing covering their faces, according to a new study.

Face masks have become a common sight around Britain in response to the global Covid pandemic.

And Cardiff University researchers claim that the masks make both men and women more appealing on the eye.

Comment: This reads like pro-mask propaganda. "Masks are sexy now!" One wonders if the study had controlled for whether or not study participants were authoritarian followers what the results would show.

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Shoe

China faces Omicron test just weeks ahead of Beijing Olympics


Independent.ie
Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:06 UTC
beijing olympics
© Mark Schiefelbein/APChina will host the Winter Olympics within weeks.
Across China, more than 20 million people are in some form of lockdown, with many prevented from leaving their homes.

Just weeks before hosting the Beijing Winter Olympics, China is battling multiple coronavirus outbreaks in half a dozen cities, with the one closest to the capital driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

With the success of the Games and China's national dignity at stake, Beijing is doubling down on its "zero-tolerance" Covid-19 policy.

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Syringe

Another Republican lawmaker compares Covid passes to Nazi Germany


RT
Wed, 12 Jan 2022 23:01 UTC
vaccine protest swastika
© AP Photo/Joan MateuProtesters against Covid-19 restrictions in Barcelona, Spain, hold up a sign comparing vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany, reading "the passport will make you free," December 18, 2021.
GOP congressman blasted for drawing parallels between health policies in Nazi Germany and Washington, DC.

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) took aim at Covid vaccine card mandates in Washington, DC with a Nazi Germany comparison, only to find numerous critics blasting the message, including the Auschwitz Memorial Museum.

Davidson tweeted in response to a message from DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, who reminded residents of the US capital that the city will require proof of Covid vaccination for people 12 and up, and photo IDs for those 18 and older, beginning on Saturday. Masking in public is also mandatory.

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People 2

Transgender sex offender in jail for child rape celebrated by liberal press as activist hero

Ian Miles Cheong
The Post Millennial
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:02 UTC
Rayne Bennett
A transgender-identifying person who was born male has been featured in multiple articles complaining about the hardships faced by trans-identifying inmates in American prisons. The issue with those articles is that none of them mention that he was convicted for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl, and that none of the prison staff support his claims.

As detailed by 4w, Rayne Bennett, who was convicted in 2016 of sexually abusing a child, was placed on a sex offender registry for 25 years. KSN reported that Bennett, who was born Jacob Lawrence Pina, held the victim against her will and raped her.

Bennett started claiming transgender identity and adopted the name "Rayne Aloysius Constantine Rose Bennett" while awaiting trial. When he was later sentenced, he was placed in a men's prison. Immediately thereafter, Bennett sought out a mental health professional for a gender dysphoria diagnosis to secure transfer to a women's prison but his efforts were ultimately rejected by prison staff who did not believe his claim of being transgender.

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Evil Rays

Blinken says US stumped over Havana syndrome as more diplomats fall ill


The Guardian
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:27 UTC
antony blinken us secretary of state
© ReutersAntony Blinken told MSNBC: ‘To date, we don’t know exactly what’s happened and we don’t know exactly who is responsible.’
Secretary of state says officials do not know what illness is or who is responsible, with more sickness reported in Paris and Geneva.

The United States still does not know what the illness known as Havana syndrome is or who is responsible for it, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Thursday after more American diplomats were reported ill in Paris and Geneva.

Blinken said the entire federal government was working to get to the bottom of the illness, which has afflicted about 200 US diplomats, officials and family members overseas.

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Stock Up

Producer prices grew record 9.7 percent in 2021

Sylvan Lane
The Hill
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:54 UTC
A worker at a GM factory
A worker at a GM factory
Producer prices rose 9.7 percent in 2021, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department, the fastest calendar year increase on record.

The producer price index (PPI) for final demand, which tracks prices charged for goods and services that are not a part of other products, rose nearly 10 percent last year as a sharp economic rebound strained supply chains. The increase marks the fastest annual jump in the PPI since the Labor Department began compiling the data in 2010.

Even so, the PPI rose just 0.2 percent in December on a seasonally adjusted basis. Economists expected the PPI to increase 0.4 percent last month after a 1 percent jump in November. The PPI for final demand minus food, energy and trade services, also known as "core PPI," rose 0.4 percent in December, in line with economists' expectations.
"Despite annual figures that are tracking at historic highs, moderation in the monthly data supports our view that producer prices will gradually descend as 2022 progresses, especially in the second half of the year," wrote Mahir Rasheed, U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, in a Thursday analysis.

Comment: While the PTB played fake pandemic, trying to gain total control of every aspect of out lives and their attempt to install totalitarian rule over the whole planet, they disrupted the main supply chains.

The only gains from the insane anti-corona fascistic measures is the people's mental health and impending economic dissaster.

Have they done it on purpose, or it is a symptom of a rotten and faulty system by design that is rapidly dying?

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