The Foreign Ministry spokesperson was caught on camera dancing the Lezginka, a fast-paced, energetic dance popular in the Caucasus Mountains.
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The Foreign Ministry spokesperson was caught on camera dancing the Lezginka, a fast-paced, energetic dance popular in the Caucasus Mountains.
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A woman and her children pass the Greenland County Council Hall in the streets of Nuuk, Greenland, last year. In Greenland, a sparsely populated autonomous Danish territory plagued by social issues, nearly 1 in 3 have been sexually abused as a child, and government efforts to combat the issue are hampered by a persistent taboo.
A woman and her children pass the Greenland County Council Hall in the streets of Nuuk, Greenland, last year. In Greenland, a sparsely populated autonomous Danish territory plagued by social issues, nearly 1 in 3 have been sexually abused as a child, and government efforts to combat the issue are hampered by a persistent taboo.
The sparsely populated autonomous Danish territory is confronted with major social problems, including high levels of suicide and alcoholism. The government highlights alcohol and hash abuse as the number one health concern.
But the recent airing of a documentary on sexual abuse on Danish public television has put the spotlight on the issue, renewing the Arctic island's commitment to tackling abuse of children.
"I was about 6 years old... I was woken up in the middle of the night because someone was touching me. My hands were tied, my knees were tied and he abused me," said Anna-Sofie Jonathansen in the documentary.
The cases against the Boy Scouts were filed in New York state as part of the Child Victim's Act, signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in February, which opens a year-long window that extends the time frame for survivors of childhood sexual assault to file civil or criminal suits. The bill opened hundreds of cases in New York state on its first day, against individuals and institutions including the Catholic Church.
For the Boy Scouts, the open window comes in the midst of a broader upheaval. Per the Washington Post:
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The court heard that the child will need ongoing therapy.
The court heard that the child will need ongoing therapy.
A Sydney couple who had their three children taken away from them when police found their 20-month-old girl was severely malnourished and suffering from rickets after being fed on a strict vegan diet have avoided jail over the neglect of their child.
Both sobbed in court as a judge slammed their behaviour as "reckless" and questioned their "untruthful" statements to authorities about their daughter's health.
At Sydney's Downing Centre court today, the couple was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, however they will not have to spend time behind bars with the sentence in the form of an intensive correction order. Both will undertake 300 hours community service.
Comment: If you want to ruin your own health with a deficient vegan diet, be our guest. But endangering the life of children due to adherence to a ridiculous ideology should be a punishable offense. Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon Morell should be required reading for any potential parent, especially vegans.
See also:
- Is a vegan diet safe for infants and children?
- Child endangerment: Belgian legal opinion declares imposition of vegan diets on children is unethical; may lead to changes in law
- Charged with neglect: Vegan parents almost starve their five-month-old son to death
- Vegan diets are adding to malnutrition in wealthy countries
- Severely malnourished child on strict vegan diet removed from parents care after hospitalization requiring surgery
- Parents could face neglect charges after vegan toddler is admitted to ICU for malnutrition
- Infant child dies from malnutrition caused by parents' strict vegan diet
- 12 year old vegan has the degenerating bones of 80 year old
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Operations were paused for 18 hours from Wednesday evening while Cuadrilla monitored the site near Blackpool
Operations were paused for 18 hours from Wednesday evening while Cuadrilla monitored the site near Blackpool
Operations were paused for 18 hours from Wednesday evening while Cuadrilla monitored the site near Blackpool after a "micro seismic event" with a magnitude of 1.55.
Most people who live near the site would not have felt the movement, which a spokesman for the firm claimed would have felt similar to someone dropping a large bag of shopping on the floor.
"Minor movements of this level are to be expected and are way below anything that can cause harm or damage to anyone or their property," he added. The "integrity" of the Preston New Road site has been confirmed by regulators, he added.
Comment: If it was so normal then do they suspend operations every time someone 'drops a large bag of shopping' in the vicinity?
Comment: The 'pioneer' of the fracking industry has declared it an "unmitigated disaster"; there's irrefutable evidence of the devastation it causes to the environment; the price of shale in the markets has collapsed; there's a surplus of reliable and inexpensive gas from Russia; the quakes that are threatening the very foundations people live upon are relentless, and yet the UK government still pushes on with fracking, which tells us everything we need to know about the people running the country:
- Unusual earthquake swarm in Surrey, UK - Fracking 'exploration' began a year ago
- 4 earthquakes strike days after fracking restarts in Blackpool, UK
- Time is running out for the UK's fracking industry
Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund has lost money in equities, fixed income and currency positions over the last three months.
Japan's US$1.5 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund lost money in equities, fixed-income and currency positions over the last three months, Mizuno said Tuesday in Sacramento, California.
"Conventional wisdom of portfolio diversification is when we lose money in equity we make a profit in fixed income," Mizuno told the board of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest US pension.
"But we lost in every single asset classes and lost in the currency translation as well. It never happened in the past."
Comment: The signs of a financial meltdown are everywhere. As noted in Plummeting stocks at Dow, S&P & NASDAQ, signs of 2008-style crash up ahead?
Stock fell and demands for bonds rose as the markets interpreted Treasuries rates as a signal preceding a recession [...]See also:
Yields on 10-year Treasury bonds have just slipped below the yields for 2-year bonds, for the first time since the 2007 run-up to the Great Recession.
- Deutsche Bank slashes 18,000 jobs in brutal cull, "financial system is in trouble"
- Paul Krugman: US wildly unprepared for imminent recession
- The Three Ds of Doom: Debt, Default, Depression
The book titled 'Beyond Magenta' has actually been on the shelves since 2014, but gained widespread attention after some disturbing passages were highlighted by the Binary Australia website, which describes itself as seeking to "challenge the aggressive agenda to de-gender" society.
One young adult interviewed for the book describes performing and "loving" oral sex from the age of six. Alarmingly, there is no immediate clarification for young readers that this is illegal and damaging behavior.
From six up, I used to kiss other guys in my neighbourhood, make out with them, and perform oral sex on them. I liked it. I used to love oral. And I touched their you-know-whats. We were really young but that's what we did.
Comment: That fact that this book has been sitting on shelves of public libraries since 2014 shows how far along society has gone in normalizing pedophilia. In a healthy society this would not be something so easily accessible, nor be called "a sorely need resource for teens." See also:
- LGBTQIAP+...Pedophilia? Top Dutch gay publication publishes pedophile 'coming out' interview
- Normalizing pedophilia: Disgusting TEDx Talk declares it's a 'natural sexual orientation'
- Normalization of Pedophilia: Psychopaths Try to Recreate Society in Their Own Image
- 'If homosexuality is OK, so is pedophilia,' Former Oklahoma City mayor under fire for talk show remarks
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Epstein named lawyers Darren K. Indyke and Richard D. Kahn the executors of his assets in the trust, which could shield them from his victims seeking damages.
The will was filed Aug. 15 with the court in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A third person, Boris Nikolic, a biotech venture capitalist, was named as a backup executor in case one of the others couldn't or wouldn't serve. Nikolic said Monday he was "shocked" to be named in the will, according to Bloomberg."I was not consulted in these matters and I have no intent to fulfill these duties, whatsoever," Nikolic said in an emailed statement.
Epstein owned a lot of real estate, including a ranch in New Mexico, a mansion in Manhattan and a private Caribbean island. The properties are held through various entities named in the will.
According to Epstein's last will and testament, the total value of his estate is $577,672,654:
- Cash: $56,547,773
- Fixed Income Investments: $14,304,679
- Equities: $112,679,138
- Aviation Assets, Cars, Boats: $18,551,700
- Hedge Funds and Private Equity Investments: $194,986,301
- New York Mansion: $55,931,000
- New Mexico Ranch: $17,246,208
- Palm Beach Home: $12,380,209
- Paris Property: $8,672,823
- Great St. James Island: $22,498,600
- Little St. James Island: $63,874,223
Comment: More from Yahoo News (Bloomberg) 20/8/2019:
The will and assets list were first reported Monday by the New York Post. The assets listed are similar to those in Epstein's unsuccessful bail request after his July 6 arrest.
Epstein's trust, known as The 1953 Trust, remains a private document whose details won't have to be disclosed by the court. In addition to determining how his assets will be used, the executors can "litigate, defend, compromise, settle, abandon or submit to arbitration" any claims against his estate, according to the document. There's no reference to his arrest or the investigation.
Epstein's brother, Mark, is listed as his next of kin. Indyke, who had served as an attorney for Epstein, and Kahn are "investigating potential debts and claims of the estate and at this time they are unknown," according to the court petition for their appointment.
The document doesn't name the trustees for the Epstein entity.
The will was witnessed by Mariel Colon Miro, a criminal defense attorney for the law office of Michael Lambert, and Gulnora Tali, who's also an attorney with a private practice. Colon Miro and Tali didn't immediately respond to phone calls seeking comment.
And who are his will's executors?
Darren K. Indyke and Richard D. Kahn are his long-time New York-based lawyers who disbursed financial contributions to politicians' election campaigns - either directly or via charity fronts - at least a few of which were named - in court, in the days running up to his suicide - as beneficiaries of sex with Epstein's 'harem of minors'...
Geraldo Rivera shows off his Star of David tattoo when criticizing Israel on Fox News, August 19, 2019.
It is absolutely outrageous that two sitting members of the Congress of the United States of America, a country that gives Israel over $3 billion a year in aid, were denied entry into the country. I am shocked that the ambassador did not mention 52 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. These are people who are being denied their human rights. They can't freely travel. The fact that the congresswoman from Detroit could not go and visit her grandmother- I just think that if it were not Israel and it was not the Jews, if it was any other country that took this action, we would all be outraged.(Danon was given a chance to respond and said the congresswomen had "wanted to create a provocation." And maybe you should keep your provocation in the United States, not bring it to us, he went on. Also, Israel doesn't have a viable partner to negotiate with. "American people know that... We are a peaceful nation but we live in a very tough neighborhood.")
Comment: No matter how much one slavishly declares love for Israel, criticism of the apartheid state is taboo.
- Political upheaval over Tlaib and Omar's denial of entry to Israel demonstrates the power of BDS
- Now that criticism is crushed in the West, Israel can revel in impunity
In light of all this, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei recently sent out a memo to his employees to outline the company's "battle plan" as it gets ready to fight through its impending "live-or-die" moment.
The letter reads:
The company is facing a live-or-die moment. If you cannot do the job, then make way for our tank to roll; And if you want to come on the battlefield, you can tie a rope around the 'tank' to pull it along, everyone needs this sort of determination!
Comment: See also: Lawyer claims Boy Scouts of America has 'perversion files' covering nearly 8,000 alleged sexual offenders
Then there's the rampant sexual abuse of children in the foster care system, in sports, in church organizations, etc, etc.
Houston, we may have a major cultural problem...