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golf course's financial dealings, report says

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-organization-facing-another-criminal-investigation-new-york-westchester-2021-10?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29

The Westchester County district attorney's office recently subpoenaed records from the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

The report said the investigation was focused on whether the Trump Organization misled local officials about the value of the property in an effort to reduce its taxes.

This is the second criminal investigation in New York focused on former President Donald Trump's business activities. The Manhattan district attorney's office also launched an inquiry into whether the Trump Organization violated state laws after it surfaced that Trump coordinated an illegal hush-money payment to the adult-film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.

The Manhattan DA's office charged the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg, its chief financial officer, in July with 15 felony counts, accusing them of tax fraud and grand larceny.

Prosecutors said the criminal conduct was carried out as part of a "sweeping and audacious payment scheme," and that Weisselberg personally did not pay taxes on $1.7 million of his income dating back to March 2005.

Weisselberg and the Trump Organization pleaded not guilty to the charges, which were laid out in a 25-page indictment.

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(curb your enthusiasm theme)
>Amateur sleuths speculated that the fugitive is on the run on the Appalachian Trail - bad news for the archetypical long-distance hiker: skinny, pale, bald, and bearded.

>Severin Beckwith and Anna Brettmann, a young couple from Ithaca, New York, have been hiking from Georgia to Virginia on the Appalachian Trail since late September. In western North Carolina, after a few days of hard rain and little sleep, they decided to take a break from the woods. A shuttle delivered them to the Lodge at Fontana Village Resort, a rustic retreat two miles off the trail, where they ate lunch and lay down for a midday nap. Knocking awoke them. There was a muffled voice outside their door. It burst open before Beckwith could unlock it.

>"Next thing I see is a bunch of guys with riot shields with 'U.S. Marshals' written on them," Beckwith said. "Handguns pointed at my face." Brettmann was still in bed. A marshal helped her get dressed as they handcuffed Beckwith, still in his underwear, and took him out to the hallway. He had a hunch why this was happening. "I really hoped I was right," he said.

>Beckwith resembles Brian Laundrie - the fugitive and person of interest in the killing of his fiancée, Gabby Petito - in the way that most white male long-distance hikers resemble Laundrie: skinny and pale, with a shaved head and a beard. The preponderance of such men, perhaps, has made the Appalachian Trail a locus of the manhunt among the amateur set. There's also the fact that Laundrie has been known to hike the trail, and that it is regarded, mostly by those who've never hiked it, as a place to go if you want to disappear. An engineer from Florida was "99.99 per cent sure" that he saw Laundrie looking "wigged out" near the trail.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/25/bounty-hunting-for-brian-laundrie-in-a-land-of-look-alikes

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>Fuck trannies....Seriously.....Fuck trannies.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/comedians-defending-dave-chapelle-netflix-special-trans-lgbtq-214359105.html

David Artavia
Tue, October 12, 2021, 5:43 PM·11 min read
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JULY 10: Dave Chappelle looks on during UFC 264: Poirier v McGregor 3 at T-Mobile Arena on July 10, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Dave Chappelle is in hot water after making what some are calling "insensitive" jokes about trans people in his latest special. But others have come to his defense. It’s been a tumultuous week for comedian Dave Chappelle, whose release of his latest Netflix special, The Closer, didn't land as smoothly as some may have hoped.
The sixth and final special in the comedian’s multi-million dollar deal with the streaming giant, which was released globally on Oct. 5, was met with a slew of backlash from queer activists and allies who argued that his jokes about the LGBTQ community were incendiary, disrespectful and dangerous, especially for transgender women of color.
What happened? During the special, Chappelle touched on several hot-button issues including DaBaby’s recent off-base comments about HIV, J.K. Rowling’s controversial anti-trans statements in 2019, cancel culture as a whole and his personal experience with the trans community — including the loss of a dear friend who died by suicide after being bullied online for defending him.

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>A 22-year-old "van life" blogger who went missing on a road trip with her fiancé was strangled to death, a Wyoming coroner has ruled.

>Gabby Petito had been dead for several weeks when her body was found last month near a national park the couple had visited, coroner Brent Blue said.

>Ms Petito's fiancé Brian Laundrie is a person of interest in the case but has been missing since mid-September.

>The plight of the travel influencer captured global attention.

>She had been documenting the nomadic "van life" trip through national parks in the American West on social media.

>Her disappearance also triggered a debate over the amount of attention accorded to missing white women.

>On Tuesday, Dr Blue told a news conference that Ms Petito's body was found in a campsite with signs of strangulation.

>Her body had been "outside in the wilderness for three to four weeks" before she was discovered on 20 September, the coroner said.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/radio-host-dennis-prager-covid-b1940824.html

Conservative radio host Dennis Prager announced on his show on Monday that he tested positive for the coronavirus infection last week and claimed to have caught it on purpose to develop natural immunity.

“I’m broadcasting from my home because I’m not going into the station as I have Covid,” he said on The Dennis Prager Show. “I was tested positive last week and I have been steadily improving.”

He added that this was something he had “hoped for the entire time” as he preferred “to have natural immunity than vaccine immunity”.

“So, I have engaged with strangers, constantly hugging them, taking photos with them knowing that I was making myself very susceptible to getting Covid,” he said.

Mr Prager added that “at no point” was he “in danger of hospitalisation” and attributed his recovery to taking medications such as hydroxychloroquine. According to WHO, hydroxychloroquine has no meaningful effect in preventing the spread of coronavirus.

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Classic example of bystander apathy.
>The SEPTA train car near Philadelphia had several passengers aboard but none called 911 while the woman was sexually assaulted, the authorities said.

>As a woman was being raped while on a train near Philadelphia on Wednesday night, riders watched, failed to intervene and did not call 911, the authorities said.

>A man whom officials identified as Fiston Ngoy sat down next to a woman at about 10 p.m. on a train that was traveling westbound on the Market-Frankford Line toward the 69th Street Transportation Center. Mr. Ngoy "attempted to touch her a few times," said Andrew Busch, a spokesman for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, known as SEPTA.

>The woman pushed back and tried to stop Mr. Ngoy from touching her, Mr. Busch said. "Then, unfortunately, he proceeded to rip her clothes off," Mr. Busch said on Sunday.

>The assault lasted about eight minutes, and no passengers in the train car intervened, the authorities said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/us/riders-watched-woman-raped-septa.html

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https://apnews.com/article/parkland-school-shooting-nikolas-cruz-guilty-plea-1bad323e22fe4517cf851395b252bd4b

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to murder on Wednesday in the 2018 high school massacre in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead.

Cruz, 23, entered his pleas in a courtroom hearing attended by a dozen relatives of victims after answering a long list of questions from Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer aimed at confirming his mental competency. He was charged with 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted first-degree murder for those wounded in the Feb. 14, 2018, attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, located just outside Fort Lauderdale.

A penalty trial will determine if Cruz will receive a sentence of death or life in prison without parole. Scherer plans to begin screening jurors next month in hopes testimony can begin in January.

As several parents shook their heads, Cruz apologized, saying, “I’m very sorry for what I did. ... I can’t live with myself sometimes.” He also added that he wished it was up to the survivors to determine whether he lived or died.

Several parents and other relatives of victims broke down in tears while listening to the court proceedings via a Zoom call.

Cruz’s attorneys announced his intention to plead guilty during a hearing last week.

Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime died in the shooting, said he visited her grave this week to ask her for the strength to get through Wednesday’s hearing.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-considers-new-taxes-on-billionaires-stock-buybacks-as-higher-corporate-rate-appears-to-fall-out-of-economic-package/ar-AAPLmGJ
Democrats decided against raising corporate taxes, no surprise there.
As of right now they don't know how they are paying for their economic package.

They are "considering" taxing rich people, but just like corporations, they won't be taxing their backers.

I'm guessing they will issue bonds or some other bs

Senior Biden officials briefed top Democratic lawmakers on a potential shift in the party’s tax plans on a private call Wednesday, as the White House searches for unity on how to pay for its multi-trillion-dollar economic package, according to three people with knowledge of the call, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private conversation.

While the Biden administration initially proposed increasing the corporate tax rate to 28 percent, a move that would partially unwind the tax cuts under former president Donald Trump, the president’s aides on Wednesday instead discussed an alternative range of tax hikes, likely excluding a corporate tax rate hike as part of a new source of revenue for the package, the people said.

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https://www.npr.org/2021/10/07/1043971890/100-year-old-nazi-guard-on-trial-germany

BERLIN — A 100-year-old man went on trial in Germany Thursday, accused of being an accessory to murder for serving as a Nazi SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin during World War II.

The trial of the defendant, who is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder, was held at the Neuruppin state court, which moved the proceedings to a prison sport hall in Brandenburg for organizational reasons.

The suspect, who was identified only as Josef S. in keeping with German privacy rules, is alleged to have worked at Sachsenhausen between 1942 and 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing.

The suspect's lawyer, Stefan Waterkamp, told the court that his client did not want to comment on the allegations, German news agency dpa reported. There are no formal pleas in the German legal system.

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President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered most Russians to stay off work for a week starting later this month amid rising COVID-19 infections and deaths, and he strongly urged reluctant citizens to get vaccinated.

The government coronavirus task force reported 1,028 deaths in the past 24 hours, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. That brought Russia’s death toll to 226,353(really 400k+), by far the highest in Europe.

Putin said he supports the Cabinet’s proposal to introduce a nonworking period starting Oct. 30 and extending through the following week. In some regions where the situation is the most threatening, he said the nonworking period could start as early as Saturday and be extended past Nov. 7.

Only about 45 million Russians — roughly a third of its nearly 146 million people — are fully vaccinated.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-russia-europe-vladimir-putin-bcb1c48ff55f0b2276d3696baba2084c

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https://news.yahoo.com/walmart-crt-training-encourages-employees-004125475.html

I can't wait for leftist to simp for a megacorp brainwashing its employees.

Walmart has put more than 1,000 employees through a critical race theory training that teaches that the U.S. is a “white supremacy system” and that white trainees are guilty of “white supremacy thinking” and “internalized racial superiority,” according to a new report.

Whistleblower documents obtained by City Journal’s Christopher Rufo reveal that Walmart first launched the program, which is based on the core principles of critical race theory, in 2018 in partnership with the Racial Equity Institute.

The company has made the program mandatory for executives, while it is recommended for hourly-wage workers. Rufo calls out Walmart over its hypocrisy, noting that its whole nine-member top executive leadership, except technology chief Suresh Kumar, is white.

Walmart confirmed to Rufo that it has “engaged REI for a number of training sessions since 2018” and has “found these sessions to be thought provoking and constructive.”

The training claims that the U.S. is a “white supremacy system,” created by white Europeans “for the purpose of assigning and maintaining white skin access to power and privilege,” according to the report.

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This obviously applies to all humans in general too.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Unvaccinated Minnesotans are 15 times more likely to require hospitalization for COVID-19 and 30 times more likely to die from the disease than unvaccinated residents, Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said Wednesday.

The commissioner gave those figures as the Minnesota Department of Health added new data to its weekly report on vaccine breakthrough cases, which normally comes out on Mondays. The department added a new graph and chart Wednesday to clarify its data on breakthrough cases.

“This really does just show, again, the key point that the current wave of COVID infections is concentrated heavily among people who are not fully vaccinated,” Malcolm said during a briefing for reporters. “And it shows that the infection risk is there for all age groups, not just older Minnesotans.”

The graph shows weekly age-adjusted rates for cases, hospitalizations and deaths according to the patients’ vaccination status, Malcolm said. The chart shows rates by age group for cases, hospitalizations and deaths for the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-minnesota-e20146e2eacd39c3869e2c50df190f5b

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/secret-vaccine-contracts-governments-pfizer-165436379.html

It's all been about getting everyone as rich as possible with our taxed revenue while they shut us down and scare us all to death.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-sues-us-house-panel-investigating-jan-6-attack-court-document-2021-10-18/

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump on Monday sued the U.S. congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, claiming members made an illegal request for his White House records.

Trump, in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asserted that materials sought by the House of Representatives committee are covered by a legal doctrine known as executive privilege, which protects the confidentiality of some White House communications.

"The Committee's requests are unprecedented in their breadth and scope and are untethered from any legitimate legislative purpose," Trump's lawyer Jesse Binnall wrote in the lawsuit.

Committee members Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, and Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, said in a written statement issued in response to Trump's lawsuit that the former president was seeking to "delay and obstruct" their investigation.

"It's hard to imagine a more compelling public interest than trying to get answers about an attack on our democracy and an attempt to overturn the results of an election," Cheney and Thompson said in the statement.

Hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the seat of Congress on Jan. 6 in a failed bid to prevent lawmakers from certifying Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory. More than 600 people face criminal charges stemming from the event.

Trump was impeached by the Democratic-led House on a charge of inciting the attack on the Capitol in a fiery speech at a rally earlier that day. He was acquitted by the Senate.