She’s Not Epstein’s Child Wrangler, Ghislaine Declares

Ivo Fysic November 9, 2021

Not only is Ghislaine Maxwell declaring that she’s no child wrangler for Epstein, or, to put it in another term, groomer for Epstein, but the notion of her being a groomer of Epstein is just flat out scientifically not even possible. In a semantic game that’s sure to entertain no one, and leave Ghislaine with little more than a self-inflicted chuckle at best, her defense team is arguing that child wrangling doesn’t scientifically exist because the terminology used to describe child wrangling, grooming-by-proxy, doesn’t exist.

This is sophistry at its finest for the worst of reasons, defending a child wrangler of a billionaire with ties to many of the most powerful and famous that you and I get lectured to every day about our racisms and bigotries. Ghislaine prepared the mind of a child to be ‘gently’ initiated into a world of total debased human selfish indulgence that any a human could ever take, to violate the body-mind space of a child and force it into a sexual coercive framing of reality is to inflict on a soul a lifetime of torture so long as that soul lives, a torture a soul can overcome, but never fully be free from.

This is what happens to a mind that accepts the premise that life is not sacred in and of itself, that life is determined by material alone, that those who hold the gold make the rules, endstop.

Ghislaine Maxwell to challenge claims she groomed underage girls for Epstein

From www.news24.com
2021-11-08 19:47:39

Excerpt:

Ghislaine Maxwell plans at her criminal trial to challenge prosecution claims that she “groomed” underage girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, and to offer testimony that her accusers might have faulty memories.

According to a letter from Maxwell’s lawyers made public on Monday, a former president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law would testify that Maxwell’s alleged effort to win her accusers’ trust did not automatically reflect an intent they be abused.

The letter said the former president, Park Dietz, would testify that the suggestion Maxwell committed “grooming-by-proxy” – by recruiting underage girls to give sexualized massages to Epstein – had no support in the scientific community.

It also said Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist specializing in memory issues, would testify about “false memories” of sexual abuses that people could describe on the witness stand with “confidence, detail, and emotion,” without deliberately lying.

A spokesperson for US Attorney Damian Williams in Manhattan, whose office is prosecuting Maxwell, declined to comment.

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Did Iran Try to Murder Israelies and Jews in Africa?

Mark Clouse November 9, 2021

The Israeli version of the CIA with the better reputation, Mossad, is claiming that it foiled the attempt of a team of Iranian-backed terrorists to kill Israelis and Jews in Africa, specifically in Senegal, Tanzania, and Ghana.

The Iranians are calling the accusations baseless.

The arrests of five individuals happened this past Sunday, November 7th. The individuals were allegedly recruited by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and had African passports. They were on their way to carry out the plan when Mossad arrested them.

Israel Foils Iranian Plan to Attack Jews, Israelis in Africa

From feedproxy.google.com
2021-11-08 16:55:31
Deborah Brand
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The Israeli Mossad spy agency foiled an attack against Israeli tourists and businesspeople on behalf of Iran, resulting in the arrest of several people in African nations, an Israeli TV network reported Sunday.

According to Israel’s Channel 12, five people with African passports were by recruited by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps elite Quds Force to target visiting Israelis in Senegal, Tanzania, and Ghana.

The news comes a month after Israel accused Iran of plotting attacks against Israeli businessmen in Cyprus, as Breitbart News reported.

The five people who were arrested underwent special training in Lebanon before being sent back to Africa to attack Jewish and Israeli targets under the guise of being religious students, the report said.

Israeli tourists on safari in Tanzania were chief among the targets, the channel said.

Iran denounced the allegations as “baseless,” the report outlined further.

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Officer Testifies Neighbors “Cornered” Arbery

Freedomist Curator November 9, 2021

Neighbor ‘cornered’ Ahmaud, officer testifies

From rssfeeds.usatoday.com
2021-11-08 18:38:11
USA TODAY
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BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The first police officer on the scene of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing told jurors Monday that one of three white men charged with murder “cornered” Arbery before the Black 25-year-old was fatally shot.

Ricky Minshew, a former Glynn County Police Officer, said he spoke with William “Roddie” Bryan when he arrived on the scene, who told Minshew he “blocked,” “cornered” and “cut off” Arbery five times.

“Should I have been chasing him? I don’t know,” Bryan said, according to a transcript of Minshew’s body camera video read in court.

Monday marked the beginning of the first full week of testimony in the trial of Bryan and father and son Greg and Travis McMichael. In the morning, jurors heard from an investigator who documented the crime scene and took a series of graphic photos.

Attorneys for the state and Greg and Travis McMichael gave their opening statements Friday, and prosecutors called the first witness. An attorney for Bryan was expected to give his opening…

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Chinese Silk Could Save Hot Summers

Parker Davis November 9, 2021

The Chinese are developing a new type of fabric that can make humans feel 15 percent cooler when they put the clothes on in hot conditions. The technology is sure to be duplicable by others, and, hopefully, will be duplicated by those committed to open source technology that gives all of humanity the opportunity to develop and exploit this type of technology.

With China working hard to colonize Africa, one can see how a product such as this could be a billions of yuan winfall for the CCP-controlled corporations that produce such products. It would be better for Africa to develop their own engineered silk products and produce them in-continent than to pin such a dependence to such a totalitarian and supremacist state as China.

Fabric technology: Modified silk keeps skin 12°C cooler than cotton

From www.newscientist.com
2021-11-08 16:00:21

Excerpt:

Climate change is making summer days even hotter for some – but new clothing might helps us keep cool

A fabric made of engineered silk keeps skin about 12.5°C cooler than cotton clothing and provides relief from hot weather.

Approximately 15 per cent of global electricity goes towards keeping us cool. To reduce this energy demand, scientists have been searching for passive ways of cooling us that don’t require electricity.

Jia Zhu at Nanjing University in China and Shanhui Fan at Stanford University and their colleagues were inspired by silk, which feels cool against the skin because it reflects most of the sunlight that strikes it – mainly the infrared and visible wavelengths – and so readily radiates heat.

They were able to engineer silk to block even more sunlight – about 95 per cent – by embedding the fibres with aluminium oxide nanoparticles that reflect the ultraviolet wavelengths of sunlight.

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MIT Programmed AI Machines Outperform Humans in Teamplay Contest

Mark Clouse November 9, 2021

Artificial Intelligence is capable of doing more in cooperation with other Artificial intelligence than humans are, to the surprise of no one that understands human nature. MIT wanted to make sure they got that obvious fact documented, so they had human Hanabi players battle with AI players, and, yep, the AI players were better teammates than the human ones were, but the humans left the game as individuals and the AI AI players left the game with no sentience whatsoever.

Reinforcement learning frustrates humans in teamplay, MIT study finds

From lifeboat.com
2021-11-07 19:23:09
Dan Kummer
Excerpt:

A new study by MIT Lincoln Laboratory shows Hanabi players are frustrated when teamed up with top-performing reinforcement learning systems.

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Now Pakistan is Ready for Peace with Taliban in Pakistan

Mark Clouse November 9, 2021

Pakistan announces 1-month cease-fire with Pakistani Taliban

From abcnews.go.com
2021-11-08 18:35:50

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Pakistani authorities Monday announced a month-long cease-fire with a key militant group behind numerous attacks on security forces and civilians over the last 14 years.

Government spokesman Fawad Chaudhry said on Twitter that the Taliban government in Afghanistan helped facilitate the cease-fire between the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP.

In a statement, TTP spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani confirmed the cease-fire beginning Nov. 9 will remain in place until Dec. 9, during which both sides will form a committee to continue talks. He said both sides will adhere to the cease-fire.

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No More Tariffs on EU Aluminum and Steel

Mark Clouse November 9, 2021

It looks like the Biden administration is prepared to reduce the Trump tariffs on European aluminum and steel products after a settlement was reached between the Biden administration and the current EU administration.

U.S. and EU have reached a settlement regarding Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum products | Hogan Lovells

From www.jdsupra.com
2021-11-08 18:03:46

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The U.S. and the EU have announced a settlement regarding the U.S. Section 232 duties on European steel and aluminum products. As part of that settlement, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced that the 25 percent tariff on imports of steel and 10 percent tariff on imports of aluminum products from the EU will be replaced with a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) system. In return, the EU will suspend the 25 percent retaliatory tariffs on certain U.S. goods (e.g., bourbon, motorcycles and recreational boats, among other products) in response to the initial Section 232 measures. Both parties will also suspend the disputes they initiated before the World Trade Organization in relation to these measures. The U.S. and EU have also agreed to launch a global arrangement focused on addressing excess capacity and carbon objectives. The U.S. TRQ will become effective on January 1, 2022, and the EU’s retaliatory tariffs will be removed on the same day.

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Woman Takes Selfie from Handrail, then Falls 23 Feet to Her Death

Ivo Fysic November 9, 2021

Sadly, Cristina Valdeavalano Mansila ended her days attempting to take a stunning selfie by sitting on a handrail that prevented people from falling over a high precipice. Shortly after she successfully took the selfie, she slipped from the handrail and fell 23 feet straight down, resulting in her passing away. RIP Cristina. Let’s hope more people learn from this cautionary tale, don’t take selfies.

Woman falls to her death after taking selfie sat on handrail in front of sheer drop – World News

From www.mirror.co.uk
2021-11-08 15:14:20
[email protected] (Leigh Mcmanus)
Excerpt:

Cristina Valdeavellano Mansilla fell 23ft to her death at the Cerro de la Cruz observation deck in the city of Punta Arena, in Chile’s southernmost region

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A woman has fallen to her death at a popular city viewpoint while trying to take a selfie sitting on a handrail in front of a sheer drop.

Cristina Valdeavellano Mansilla, 33, fell seven metres to her death at the Cerro de la Cruz observation deck in the city of Punta Arenas, in Chile’s southernmost region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, on November 2.

She had been sitting on the handrail at the viewpoint, trying to take a selfie with the cityscape in the background, it was reported.

She then backwards and landed hard on her head, killing her instantly.

Local authorities are waiting for the results of an autopsy and currently suspect that the woman’s death was accidental, but the police said they are not ruling out…

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France Moves to Ban British Ships from Key Fishing Port

Parker Davis November 9, 2021

The heat between Brtitain and France over fishing rights in British waters is only getting hotter, with France now threatening UK ships with banishment from a key French port that British fishing currently goes through.

Brexit news: French brand UK ‘petty’ and say British ships will be BANNED from key port | World | News

From feedproxy.google.com
2021-11-07 20:26:00

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Jean-Marc Puissesseau is chairman and CEO of the Boulogne-Calais port said that, if negotiations between France and the UK fail, “ships will be banned from disembarking in the port of Boulogne”. This would be a major blow for them, as around 40,000 tonnes of fish from UK ships pass through it annually.

On top of this, existing checks on the produce – which are free under an agreement signed in 2003 – would end, Mr Puissesseau warned.

So even if the port continued allowing British ships to offload their cargo, they would be hit by extra costs and delays, he claimed.

Speaking to French publication Europe 1, he said in the agreements signed for Brexit, “it was expected that licenses would be granted to fishing masters who had to prove that in 2016, they are fishing in British waters”.

The Europe 1 report states: “Two types of boats cannot prove that they were at sea at that time.

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China and Russia Might Try Afghanistan Together

Mark Clouse November 8, 2021

In the not-too-distant future, you can expect the Chinese and the Russians to try their hand at exploiting Afghanistan without themselves being exploited, at least that’s the theory of some foreign policy experts, and, perhaps, there’s some intriguing possiblity of truth to what they suggest.

Prospects for Sino-Russian Coordination in Afghanistan

From warontherocks.com
2021-11-08 08:45:32
Elizabeth Wishnick
Excerpt:

The increasingly close bilateral relationship between China and Russia is one of the most interesting, consequential, and surprising geopolitical developments since the end of the Cold War. Beijing and Moscow — once bitter adversaries — now cooperate on military issues, cyber security, high technology, and in outer space, among other areas. While it falls short of an alliance, the deepening Sino-Russian partnership confounds U.S. strategists. Some have proposed driving a wedge between the two countries, but this seems unlikely for the foreseeable future.

Some have speculated that China and Russia might cooperate in Afghanistan to exploit the chaos left by the U.S. withdrawal. But is that true? Does the fall of Kabul to the Taliban pave the way for greater Sino-Russian coordination in Afghanistan?