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Ex-Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ brother-in-law accused of trying to pay teen girl for sex in hotel room before choking her
https://nypost.com/2023/11/17/news/stacey-abrams-brother-in-law-facing-human-trafficking-trafficking-charges-after-violent-meet-up-with-teen-for-sex/

Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ brother-in-law was arrested for allegedly trying to pay a 16-year-old girl for sex at a Florida hotel before choking the teen, according to police.

Jimmie Gardner, 57, whose wife is a federal judge, is facing human trafficking charges over the alleged violent and disturbing encounter in a room at the Renaissance Hotel at International Plaza in Tampa around 1:40 a.m. Friday, cops said.

The teen accepted Gardner’s invitation to go back to his hotel room and initially agreed to have sex with him in exchange for money, police said.

But the girl later changed her mind, infuriating Gardner, who ordered her to leave before the two got into an argument, according to cops.

The fight escalated and Gardner allegedly grabbed the minor by the neck, cutting off her breathing, police said. Afterwards, Gardner left the hotel room and the girl called 911.

While police met with the victim at the hotel, Gardner turned himself in at a police precinct.


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https://nypost.com/2023/11/17/news/south-korea-set-to-ban-eating-dogs/

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Newly released audio from an interview recorded just two months after January 6 captures Donald Trump’s real thoughts on the insurrection. In his own words, the former president claimed it was within his abilities to stop the riot.

When asked by ABC chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl if he would have returned to the Capitol Building while thousands of MAGA supporters raided the building, Trump said he “would have.”

“I was going to,” Trump said in the recording, first published by CNN. “And then Secret Service said ‘you can’t’, and then by the time … I was thinking about going back during the problem to stop the problem, doing it myself. Secret Service didn’t like that idea too much.”

“And I could’ve done that,” Trump continued. “And you know what? I would have been very well received. Don’t forget, the people that went to Washington that day, in my opinion, they went because they thought the election was rigged. That’s why they went.”

But that cozy narrative—in which Trump wanted to benevolently wield his power to stop the riot—flies in the face of testimonies provided by more than a thousand witnesses during House January 6 committee hearings, including that of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

According to Hutchinson, an “irate” Trump wanted to join the protesters at the Capitol Building so badly that he lunged at the clavicle of one of his Secret Service agents, Bobby Engel, before attempting to take the wheel of the presidential limo, nicknamed The Beast.

Hutchinson also testified that she overheard Trump saying he did not care if his supporters wielded weapons as they descended on Congress since he didn’t believe he would be a target of the violence.

https://newrepublic.com/post/177004/trump-recording-could-have-stopped-january-6

Photographs released by prosecutors showed shelves stacked with counterfeit wallets and bags in one location, and handbags hanging from hooks from floor to ceiling in another.

"The seizures announced today consist of merchandise with over a billion dollars in estimated retail value, the largest-ever seizure of counterfeit goods in U.S. history," Williams said.

The two men charged could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

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https://www.fox5ny.com/news/new-york-counterfeit-goods-bust

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Israel, the greatest of modern day evils, has completed the game of "Geneva Convention Bingo"
Genocide (check)- Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Crimes against humanity (check) -The crime of apartheid; Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
War crime (check) - Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives; Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives; Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
Ethnic Cleansing - rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/11/17/aid-deliveries-to-gaza-halted-amid-communications-blackout-and-fuel-shortages/
Aid deliveries to Gaza were halted on Friday due to fuel shortages and a communications outage in the Palestinian enclave, United Nations officials said, while issuing dire warnings of people possibly facing starvation.
In its daily update, the UN’s Humanitarian Affairs Office (OCHA) said the aid supply from the Rafah border crossing with Egypt stands halted as it is “impossible to manage humanitarian aid convoys” while facing a communication outage and fuel shortages

The update noted that no trucks were able to enter the Gaza Strip on Thursday, due to a lack of fuel.

All telecom services in Gaza were shut on Thursday evening.

The UN’s World Food Program warned Gazans are facing starvation, as the enclave is receiving only 10% of the food supply it needs.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12754171/Former-editor-left-leaning-website-Recount-Slade-Sohmer-charged-multiple.html

Former editor of left-leaning website The Recount, Slade Sohmer, is charged on multiple counts of child pornography

The former (homosexual) editor-in-chief of the left-leaning news website The Recount has been charged with multiple counts of child pornography.

Slade Sohmer, 44, is accused of possessing and distributing hundreds of child abuse material, including images depicting the rape of a child who was around four years old.

The Otis, Massachusetts, resident was arrested on Friday at his home after police obtained a search warrant for his devices.

He was released on Monday on $100,000 bail after pleading not guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of dissemination of child pornography.

The journalist was ordered to have no access to the internet, engage in location notifications with a parole officer and avoid contact with minors.

Investigators said in court documents they found footage showing boys as young as four being raped and forced to perform oral sex acts by adults.

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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced on Friday he is releasing more than 40,000 hours of footage from the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Many conservatives hailed the move.

Matt Gaetz
@mattgaetz
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You won’t always agree with @SpeakerJohnson - but know this:

HE WON’T LIE

If he says he is going to do something, he is going to do it.

Thank you for keeping your word on the J6 tapes, Mr. Speaker.

It is a refreshing thing in the Swamp of DC.

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https://nypost.com/2023/11/17/news/sept-11-families-call-tiktok-users-sympathy-for-bin-laden-appalling/

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https://www.axios.com/2023/11/16/newspapers-decline-hedge-funds-research

The decline of local newspapers accelerated so rapidly in 2023 that analysts now believe the U.S. will have lost one-third of the newspapers it had as of 2005 by the end of next year — rather than in 2025, as originally predicted.

Why it matters: Most communities that lose a local newspaper in America usually do not get a replacement, even online.

By the numbers: There are roughly 6,000 newspapers left in America, down from 8,891 in 2005, according to a new report from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.

"We're almost at a one-third loss now and we'll certainly hit that pace next year," said the report's co-authors — Penelope Muse Abernathy, a visiting professor at Medill, and Sarah Stonbely, director of Medill's State of Local News Project.
Of the papers that still survive, a majority (4,790) publish weekly, not daily.

What's happening: Over the past two years, newspapers continued to vanish at an average rate of more than two per week, leaving 204 U.S. counties, or 6.4%, without any local news outlet.

Roughly half of all U.S. counties (1,562) are now only served with one remaining local news source — typically a weekly newspaper.
Abernathy and Stonbely estimate that 228 of those 1,562 counties, or roughly 7% of all U.S. counties, are at high risk of losing their last remaining local news outlet.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/us/politics/jan-6-ohio-man-sentenced.html
An Ohio man who assaulted law enforcement officers during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and who the Justice Department said became a “one-man misinformation machine” as he spread lies online about what occurred that day, was sentenced on Thursday to four years and 10 months in prison.

The man, Kenneth Joseph Owen Thomas, 41, of East Liverpool, Ohio, had said online that his conviction in June on four counts related to his assaults on officers was a “huge win,” doubling down on his attacks that day, prosecutors said in court documents.

They emphasized his apparent lack of regret in their sentencing memo, stating that Mr. Thomas had “expressed no remorse for his crimes,” and instead “sought fame and notoriety” after being part of the mob on Jan. 6.

Judge Dabney Friedrich of U.S. District Court in Washington also ordered Mr. Thomas to pay a $20,000 fine and $2,000 in restitution.

Federal prosecutors, who had asked that Mr. Thomas be sentenced to about nine years in prison, said in court records that his significant spread of falsehoods was hard to overstate: He started his own webpage and brand centered around his self-created identity as a rioter; he produced more than 20 hours of Jan. 6-related content each week; and he repeatedly falsely claimed that “Jan. 6 was a setup.”

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/michigan-supreme-court-asked-hear-appeal-ruling-trump-ballot-case-rcna125662

Attorneys for a group of Michigan activists are asking the state Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that would allow former President Donald Trump’s name on the state’s presidential primary ballot.

Filings late Thursday afternoon seek an “immediate and expedited consideration” for appeal and an “emergency application” to bypass the state Appeals Court.

The Supreme Court is asked to render a decision by Dec. 1, a reversal of the lower court’s ruling and remanding the lower court to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Trump’s eligibility to be placed on the primary ballot.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Obituaries/Leader-of-Japanese-lay-Buddhist-group-Soka-Gakkai-dies-at-95

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https://nypost.com/2023/11/17/news/florida-woman-charged-in-ex-hubbys-slay-chillingly-caught-on-camera-describing-telling-their-kids-about-his-death/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqH7VwpSwBo

‘I wouldn't even let him be a mall cop’; Whistleblowers call JBLM's police system broken

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wouldnt-even-let-him-mall-043533950.html

Sgt. Timothy Scholl, the officer depicted in the video, told FOX 13 that he was attempting to obtain a DNA sample. The soldier refused.

"She got under my skin a bit," Scholl said by phone when contacted by FOX 13.

According to Scholl, she clenched her jaw and refused to allow him to take a DNA sample with a swab. He called it frustrating, and said it "got the best of him."

In the video, you see the female soldier's head pinned against the wall. Other officers who reviewed the video say that what is depicted—a series of swipes at her head and a flurry of moves as she remains seated—is an assault.

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https://nypost.com/2023/11/17/news/onlyfans-model-says-george-santos-subscribed-i-rated-his-d/

OnlyFans model Leila Lewis claims Rep. George Santos was a subscriber — and that she once rated his manhood

An OnlyFans model has said lying Long Island Rep. George Santos was among those who subscribed to her X-rated content — and claimed she once “rated his d–k.”

Leila Lewis aired the allegation about the House member’s, well, member on social media hours after the House Committee on Ethics released a damning report detailing evidence that the 35-year-old Republican had blown some of his campaign cash on personal expenses — including OnlyFans subscriptions.

“This guy was subbed to me HAHAHAHA,” the porn star posted on X in response to news reports about the committee’s findings.

“I rated his d–k,” she alleged.

Asked by a follower to make the congressman’s rating public, Lewis responded: “I can’t find it I think he deleted his account.”

A rep for Santos didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment about Lewis’ claim.

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