Comments by "MilesBellas" (@MilesBellas) on "ABC News"
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Stern parted ways with CBS Radio in 2005 to join SiriusXM, and soon after an explosive legal battle began when CBS filed a $500million breach of contract lawsuit against the acclaimed radio host.
Since then, Stern has let his listeners know about his disdain for Moonves, who stands accused of sexual misconduct by six women in a recent New Yorker exposé.
'Les tried to ruin my life,' Stern said, calling Moonves 'Tony Soprano.'
'I had done a pretty good job for these guys, kept their stations afloat, quite frankly, and made them a lot of money, and it was a nice way to end,' he said of his initial parting with CBS.
'Les and Joel Hollander came in and even brought champagne which was lovely, they said we wish you luck' adding they told him 'You gave everything to this company.'
However, once he landed at Sirius he says that he was 'socked' with the suit.
'How do you defend against a corporation? You know they have endless money to f*** with you with lawyers,' Stern said.
'I was so panicked because this is scary. ... I knew this was just some sort of bad, like, ''We're going to f*** with you because you're leaving us.'' It's like a stalker who says, ''You know what? You left me, we broke up, but I'm going to f*** your life up.'' And I didn't do jack sh** to Les Moonves, except make him money, and I was pissed and upset and scared.'
He went on to add: 'I don't have the kind of funds. They were trying to drain me financially. He was trying to f*** me. You think he was f**ing women? He was going to f** me right up the a**, with no lube.'
In the suit, CBS accused Stern of promoting his upcoming gig with Sirius on his CBS Radio show.
Stern said that during a meeting with Moonves, in which he tried to explain to the CEO where he was coming from, he became emotional over the ordeal with his former employer.
'When I say emotional, I start crying in front of Les. I've never really admitted that before. I start crying, actual tears,' Stern said.
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@Digizzzzs
@Kevin Mas
You must have the intelligence of a chicken
Research the article.
It is FAKE NEWS........it is media manipulation.
Sensational? Yes. True? No.
Bell was the one who was rehearsing her short program, not Lim, which means Bell had the right of way on the ice and it was Lim’s job to get out of her way. Videotape shot from the stands shows Bell skating backwards at a relatively rapid pace near the boards with Lim in her path. At that point, Bell would not have been able to see Lim -- but Lim had the responsibility to see Bell and move out of the way.
This is protocol for every skater at every competition, where six skaters share the ice on practice sessions and warmups.
What’s more, because Lim trains with Bell, she certainly should know Bell’s short program after seeing it on training sessions for months. All skaters get to know what their training partners and competitors are doing, including where they are headed and where their jumps, spins and other moves are placed on the ice.
As Bell went by Lim, she started to turn to go forward, and apparently her skate blade slightly cut Lim’s leg. Both skaters were able to compete in the short program later in the day, and both did very well, with Lim finishing fifth with a personal-best score and Bell sixth.
This is not the first time there has been a collision involving two skaters in a competition. In fact, it would be unusual for an event like the worlds or Olympics to go by without a practice collision. The same day as the Bell-Lim scrap, there was a much more spectacular crash: French pairs skater Vanessa James was skating backwards when she and Italy’s Matteo Guarise slammed into each other at full speed during the warmup before the pairs competition."
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@kevinmas19
You must have the intelligence of a chicken
Research the article.
It is FAKE NEWS........it is media manipulation.
Sensational? Yes. True? No.
Bell was the one who was rehearsing her short program, not Lim, which means Bell had the right of way on the ice and it was Lim’s job to get out of her way. Videotape shot from the stands shows Bell skating backwards at a relatively rapid pace near the boards with Lim in her path. At that point, Bell would not have been able to see Lim -- but Lim had the responsibility to see Bell and move out of the way.
This is protocol for every skater at every competition, where six skaters share the ice on practice sessions and warmups.
What’s more, because Lim trains with Bell, she certainly should know Bell’s short program after seeing it on training sessions for months. All skaters get to know what their training partners and competitors are doing, including where they are headed and where their jumps, spins and other moves are placed on the ice.
As Bell went by Lim, she started to turn to go forward, and apparently her skate blade slightly cut Lim’s leg. Both skaters were able to compete in the short program later in the day, and both did very well, with Lim finishing fifth with a personal-best score and Bell sixth.
This is not the first time there has been a collision involving two skaters in a competition. In fact, it would be unusual for an event like the worlds or Olympics to go by without a practice collision. The same day as the Bell-Lim scrap, there was a much more spectacular crash: French pairs skater Vanessa James was skating backwards when she and Italy’s Matteo Guarise slammed into each other at full speed during the warmup before the pairs competition."
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@OakedRS
an average year ie 2012
259 justified homicides?
259 justifiable homicides with the theft of about 232,000 guns each year, about 172,000 of them during burglaries.
That's a ratio of one justifiable homicide for every 896 guns put in the hands of criminals.
Those 259 justifiable homicides also pale compared with, in the same year, 8,342 criminal homicides using guns, 20,666 suicides with guns, and 548 fatal unintentional shootings, according to the FBI's Supplemental Homicide Report.
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@72SeasonsGone
He wasn't valuable.
That is North Korea.
You know what odd BS happens there?
no, me neither
I do know that other US prisoners have gone there for similarly crazy "crimes" which are not reallg crimes.
Google Matthew Miller.
He said
“This might sound strange, but I was prepared for the ‘torture’. But instead of that I was killed with kindness, and with that my mind folded and the plan fell apart,” he said, speaking from his home in California."
After he was formally tried, convicted, and sentenced on 14 September to six years of “hard labour”, he was moved again to a more conventional prison facility on the outskirts of Pyongyang. “It was kind of a farm place,” Miller said. “They had all control. I would go out to work to move stones, take out weeds.”
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He was released after a few months......after getting many years in jail.
NK is a crazy place.
If they wanted to sentence Warmbier to death they could have.
The situation seems likely he committed suicide and was resuscitated too late.......
It was a sort of prank, and when he realised he was not returning to his nice lifestule, university etc......instead he was sentenced to what he was assumed would be living hell for 15 years.......he gave up and wanted to be free......
now his spirit is free
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Joe Mamma
The Geneva Summit of 1955 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Held on July 18, 1955, it was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France
The US is a signatory of the Geneva Convention.
What it has not ratified are Protocols I and II , which are essentially expansions to the underlying treaties.
The rationale given by President Reagan to the Senate for not pursuing ratification was that the protections of the Protocols would be afforded to irregular forces regardless of whether those forces had made an effort to “distinguish themselves from the civilian population.” In effect, they would oblige the U.S. to protect persons who, in the U.S.’ view, violated traditional norms of humanitarian law and safety of civilians.
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Joe Mamma
"The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for humanitarian treatment in war. The singular term Geneva Convention usually denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the aftermath of the Second World War (1939–1945), which updated the terms of the two 1929 treaties, and added two new conventions. The Geneva Conventions extensively defined the basic rights of wartime prisoners (civilians and military personnel), established protections for the wounded and sick, and established protections for the civilians in and around a war-zone. The treaties of 1949 were ratified, in whole or with reservations, by 196 countries.
Moreover, the Geneva Convention also defines the rights and protections afforded to non-combatants; however, because the Geneva Conventions are about people in war, the articles do not address warfare proper—the use of weapons of war—which is the subject of the Hague Conventions, and the bio-chemical warfare Geneva Protocol"
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GHudson65
Not statistically.
Parsing 2012 numbers, the center counted 259 justifiable gun-related homicides, or incidents in which authorities ruled that killings occurred in self-defense.
That's in a nation in which there are some 300 million firearms, nearly one for every person "
"Those 259 justifiable homicides also pale compared with, in the same year, 8,342 criminal homicides using guns, 20,666 suicides with guns, and 548 fatal unintentional shootings, according to the FBI's Supplemental Homicide Report. "
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@OakedRS
If you didn't reply to the original comment then you are off topic.
What is the NRA response to school shootings?
The NRA is illogical because giving society mass weapons based on an ancient law for an ad hoc, musket based militia, before cars, electricity and an army appeared..... to over throw a "tyrant".......is an ANACHRONISM.
The second amendment is currently not being used to overthrow tyrants.
Can you see that?
The deaths equivalent to eleven WTC attacks occur each year.....how?
by giving gun to people, susceptible to mood swings, revenge desires, drunken actions, greed, road rage, suicidal depression, mental illness etc......
The NRA doesn't want printed guns because they don't get money.
The NRA a scam based in greed, fear and misery........not a defence against a non existent "tyrant".
THE 2ND AMENDMENT IS AN ANACHRONISM.
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@davidwatson8118
If you understand what a platitude is, why write so many?
You obviously don't understand Maori either....., a general term.....Maori do not live in Wharenui and cook from Hāngi every night.
Maori are COMPLETELY part of modern society.
Maori have houses, drive cars, go to grocery stores, use hospitals and go to schools where they are educated.
Any guilt of progress, and inevitable evolution, is based in a specious condescension and moralization of history without context.
You benefit from all aspects of modern life, so should Maori people!
Maori don't want a NZ circa 1600
Example.....
If all people of European and other ancestry left the United States, and it was entirely left to Native American tribes, the US would economically collapse......then it would be invaded, most likely by China under a euphemistic auspice of "protecting the people" or something.
Such a process would not be progress, it would be devolving.
Ultimately the obsession with ownership is delusional.
People die. New people take over.
People change. Language changes etc.....
Middle English is basically a different language.
The Maori court has ruled over this island many years ago.
Any question of ownership of White Island, Australia, NZ etc.. is based in recreational indignation fuelled by ignorance, not legal facts.
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@D.Trumpwith34FelonyConvictions
"in metric kilo means thousand, so there are 1,000 grams in a kilogram, 1,000 liters in a kiloliter and 1,000 meters in a kilometer. In imperial, there are 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1,760 yards in a statute mile (international), 2,025 yards in a nautical mile and 1760.00352001 yards in a survey mile (aka US statute mile)."
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@deannad9105
"Ambra claims Weinstein lunged at her breasts, groped them - then asked if they were real, and tried to put his hand up her skirt at his office in Manhattan in March 2015.
Ambra, then 22, went to cops to report his behaviour, where investigators from the NYPD’s Special Victims Division equipped her with a hidden microphone before she confronted Weinstein the next day at the nearby Tribeca Grand Hotel.
A chilling transcript from the police wire she wore during a police sting, Weinstein allegedly admitted to groping the model and said he was “used to” behaving that way.
Two weeks later, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance decided not to press charges, the New Yorker reported."
Ambra broke the sick hierarchy of power, money, lies and abuse.
Why did the others not do that earlier?
COWARDICE
GREED
COMPLICITY
They enabled further abuse by not going to Police.
See the difference?
Reward the brave and those who fight for justice.
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@kernmw10
The quote stated are the latest CDC figures released days ago.
Dec. 18, 2018
More people died from firearm injuries in the United States last year than in any other year since at least 1968, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There were 39,773 gun deaths in 2017, up by more than 1,000 from the year before. Nearly two-thirds were suicides. It was the largest yearly total on record in the C.D.C.’s electronic database, which goes back 50 years, and reflects the sheer number of lives lost.
When adjusted for population size, the rate of gun deaths in 2017 also increased slightly to 12 deaths for every 100,000 people, up from 11.8 per 100,000 in 2016. By this measure, last year had the highest rate of firearm deaths since the mid-1990s, the data showed.
It was the third consecutive year that the rate of firearm deaths rose in the United States, after remaining relatively steady throughout the 2000s and the first part of this decade.
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"LAKE COUNTY, IL -- The Lake County Sheriff’s Office released the body cam and dash cam videos from a fatal officer-involved shooting that happened in Lakemoor in July. The video shows how Lakemoor Police Department Officer Briana Tedesco, a one-year police veteran, acted quickly when a 38-year-old murder suspect pointed a gun at her, holding the gun down and away from herself and preventing him from shooting her. The videos also show Lakemoor Officer Anthony Loiacano arriving at the scene and running toward Tedesco as the armed man, Kenneth E. Martell, of Meadville, Penn., appeared to try to pull her into his vehicle.
Authorities said Tedesco did not know when she went to check on a suspicious vehicle backed onto a path of a private property near Four Seasons Boulevard and Sullivan Lake Boulevard that she would come face-to-face with a man accused of fatally stabbing an elderly man just days earlier. She approached Martell’s car on food and asked for his driver’s license, which he said he didn't have, so she then asked for his name, according to the state's attorney's office.
Martell provided Tedesco with a fake name. After checking and finding no record of him, she asked him for any document that would identify him, according to the state's attorney's news release. It was still dark out and Tedesco has a flashlight with and her bodycam footage shows as Martell hands the officer a piece of paper. As she is looking at it, he pulls a gun on her. He then reaches out the window, pointing the handgun directly at her."
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Officers responding to the scene of the officer-involved shooting found two handguns. During a search of a wooded area near the shooting site, authorities also found a large number of weapons including rifles, shotguns, crossbows and ammunition, according to the news release.
They also found court documents, bail bond documentation, and a criminal summons all in the name of Kenneth Martell. The stolen property and identification cards of elderly murder victim Theodore Garver were also found, authorities said.
Authorities said Martell tied, robbed, beat and fatally stabbed 88-year-old Garver in his Beaver Township home in Pennsylvania. After the murder, Martell is accused of abducting other individuals at gunpoint and forcing them to aid Martell in the disposal of Garver's body. Martell eventually dumped the body in a lake near Garver's home.
Toxicology results from Martell revealed he had methamphetamine, amphetamine and marijuana in his system.
Family members later told police Martell abused illegal drugs, including methamphetamine. Martell had made statements to friends and family that "cops were going to kill him over a drug bust" and that he was "not going down without a fight," according to the state’s attorney’s investigation into the shooting.
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@EnDy_S
Wrong educate yourself.
You are repeating fiction.
Races do not exist. They were invented by Johannes Blumenbach in the 1700's.
They are an anachronistic form of human genetic classification same as phrenology etc....
Later people discovered genetics and realised human genetic complexity.
Google RACE IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
Scientific American
Feb 2016
"The mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning. What the study of complete genomes from different parts of the world has shown is that even between Africa and Europe, for example, there is not a single absolute genetic difference, meaning no single variant where all Africans have one variant and all Europeans another one, even when recent migration is disregarded,"
Pääbo told Live Science. "It is all a question of differences in how frequent different variants are on different continents and in different regions."
In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim. It turned out that Watson (who, ironically, became ostracized in the scientific community after making racist remarks) and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with Kim.
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How polluted is Asia?
"Bangladesh has the world’s worst air weighted by population, followed by Pakistan and then India.
Korea has the worst air among wealthy Asian countries. The country has 44 cities in the top 100 most polluted cities in OECD countries in 2018.
99 per cent of cities in South Asia exceeded WHO’s healthy air guidelines, 95 per cent of cities in Southeast Asia and 89 per cent of cities in East Asia.
The West China city of Hotan, Xinjiang province, suffered the heaviest air pollution of 2018, when average PM2.5 levels exceeded 300—defined as “hazardous” to human health—in the month of April, largely as a result of sand storms.
Ranking 686th with ‘moderate’ air that is double WHO’s safe limit, Hong Kong’s air improved in 2018, with pollutant levels dropping from 21.8 to 20.2. Singapore’s cleaner air got dirtier, with pollution increasing from 13.3 to 14.8.
Jakarta is Southeast Asia’s most polluted city, Manila is the sub-region’s cleanest.
In the US and Canada, air quality is relatively good, but historic wildfires meant that 5 out of 10 most polluted cities in the world during August 2018 were in North America.
The city of Lukavac in Bosnia Herzegovina, known for its chemicals factories, is the only non-Asian city in the top 100 most polluted cities."
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Kevin Montrond
"Of the most polluted cities in the world, 22 out of 30 were in India in 2018. ... The 51% of pollution is caused by the industrial pollution, 27% by vehicles, 8% by crop burning and 5% by diwali fireworks. "
Southeast Asian haze
An ongoing trans-national air pollution crisis is affecting several countries in Southeast Asia, including Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Southeast Asian haze, a long-term issue that occurs in varying intensity during every dry season in the region. It has mainly been caused by forest fires resulting from illegal slash-and-burn clearing performed on behalf of the palm oil industry in Indonesia, principally on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, which then spread quickly in the dry season.
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Kevin Montrond
2018
Nikkei
"Judging from World Health Organization figures released on Wednesday, covering 4,300 cities across 108 countries, the commuters have the right idea. Of an estimated 7 million deaths worldwide per year from air pollution, just over two-thirds take place in Asia, which is home to slightly less than 60% of the global population.
Breaking the numbers down further, the 10 countries in the WHO's "South-east Asia" region account for about a quarter of the world's population but suffer around 2.4 million, or 34%, of all air pollution deaths.
The WHO says 90% of the worldwide death toll comes from less wealthy countries, and that "98% of cities in low- and middle-income countries with more than 100,000 inhabitants do not meet WHO air quality guidelines." Though that number drops to 56% in high-income countries, the WHO estimates that 9 of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air at one time or another.
Air pollution is partly a byproduct of urbanization, which has proceeded at a rapid pace in Asia in recent decades."
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Kevin Montrond
NYT
South Asia Is Smothered in Toxic Air, Report Finds
NEW DELHI — The planned city of Gurugram, one of India’s industrial hubs, has glass-sided office buildings and swanky, high-rise apartments. But now, according to a new report, it can claim a less desirable distinction: the city with the world’s worst air.
India holds 15 of the top 20 spots in that category, according to the report, which was released this week by Greenpeace and IQAir AirVisual, a software company that tracks air quality data. The Pakistani city of Lahore and Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, also made the top 20, making South Asia — where governments are routinely criticized for failing to limit emissions and coal use — an especially toxic region.
“At a country level, weighted by population, Bangladesh emerges as the most polluted country on average, closely followed by Pakistan and India,” the report said.
Details from the report, which looked at data from more than 3,000 cities around the world, offer more bad news for India’s nascent movement to curb air pollution. Average levels of the tiny, dangerous particles known as PM 2.5, which can penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream, were largely unchanged from 2017 to 2018 in many Indian cities featured in the report.
Other recent studies have cited similarly troubling statistics for India, and for other countries with severely polluted air.
Last year, a report from the United Nations Environment Program found that toxic air kills seven million people every year, with most of those deaths occurring in the Asia-Pacific region. A study released by Lancet Planetary Health in December pegged the number of deaths in India from pollution at 1.24 million in 2017.
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Kevin Montrond
Inside Asia July 27, 2017
Senior government officials from across Asia have been meeting in Bangkok in the first-ever Asia-Pacific Ministerial Summit on the Environment. At the core of the meeting is the question: How can we use our resources more efficiently to continue to grow our economies in a manner that does not tax our natural environment or generate pollution affecting public health?
Resources such as fossil fuels, biomass, metals and minerals are essential to build economies. However, the region’s resource efficiency has regressed in recent years, and unfortunately Asia is the least resource-efficient region in the world.
In 2015, it used one-third more materials to produce each unit of GDP than in 1990. Developing countries use five times as many resources per dollar of GDP in comparison to rest of the world, and 10 times more than industrialized countries in the region. This inefficiency results in wastage and pollution, further affecting natural resources and public health -- the basic elements for ensuring sustainable economic growth.
The impact of pollution on Asia
As the speed and scale of economic growth continues to accelerate across the region, pollution has become a critical area for action. While the challenge of pollution is a global one, the impact is overwhelmingly felt in developing countries.
About 95% of adults and children impacted by pollution-related illnesses live in low and middle-income countries. Asia and the Pacific produce more chemicals and waste than any other region in the world and account for the bulk -- 25 out of 30 -- of cities with the highest levels of PM 2.5, the tiny atmospheric particulate matter that can cause respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
More than 80% of rivers here are heavily polluted, while five of the top land-based ocean plastic sources are from countries in Asia. Estimates put the cost of marine pollution to regional economies at a staggering $1.3 billion USD.
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@korosoinbrujula5154
For carrying a disruptive student out of class he should be rewarded.
Fight against the subversion authority.
Fight against the uneducated, smug, perpetual outrage.
Fight against the weak recreational indignation that prioritizes abuse towards teaches, lack of respect to the school and other children who go there to learn not be an audience for ghetto dysfunctions.
"Under Florida law, Simple Battery (Misdemeanor Battery) is a first degree misdemeanor, with penalties of up to one year in jail or 12 months probation, and a $1,000 fine."
He will get nothing.
Hopefully a dismissal and accolades.
The student should be expelled and parents fined for wasting the time of the courts, school and other students for a situation the student ( and parental negligence) deliberately created.
Discipline is what lazy, badly raised, entitled, bloated egos both want and need, to be healthy functional adults.
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@sabrina.natalie
A year before Elizabeth Smart was found, a 7 year old girl named Erica Pratt was kidnapped, bound with duct tape around her arms, legs and eyes, and left in the basement of a building:
Did she lie back and take it? Hell no. She broke a window, gnawed through her duct tape, and escaped.
She was back home the next day and she's only 7 years old.
Elizabeth perpetuated her ordeal obviously....
Most, or all, kidnapping victims do not deliberately reject situations where they can end their ordeal do they?
This is a question based in facts, to find the truth...... not an excuse or defense or gtounds for peeople denying facts to make insults from cognitive.
Maybe it was Stockholm Syndrome, or maybe she wanted to perpetuate it, maybe she was a runaway......
Kidnapping is a crime 99.9% of people would escape from at any opportunity.
Questions arise from why she didn't.
What was the truth?
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@sabrina.natalie
maybe she went crazy to become complicit.....
another example, the Police questioned her for over 30mins and she would nott stare her name......
"I was actually getting frustrated out there," Quezada said. "It's been 30 or 40 minutes, and we know she's not telling us the truth.
So my frustration was, we have the answer, but just tell me the answer. And she wouldn't do that. And at the very end, I said, 'You know, for your family's sake, for your sake, for everybody that's been looking for you around the country, just tell us you're Elizabeth Smart.' Before she got into the patrol car, she said, 'Thou sayest.' "
Quezada said he and O'Neal looked at each other and decided to "take that as a yes.","
It took her a whole day to stop saying she was Augustine Marshall..... maybe longer.
She was living like a different person......sucked into a crazy situation.
"Thou sayest" is Jesus's answer to Pontius Pilate.
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@sabrina.natalie
"no IDEA"
About 5 years before the Smart case.
FYI I once gave a hitchhiker a lift from a rainbow gathering in Vermont to Texas.
I spent 3 days in a car with Brian or David or Emmanuel....travelling to Texas.
It worried me he did not have one name.
I assumed he was a standard dead head hippy guy, but, he after 3 hours he started blabbing all about his book and religion.
I was stuck with it.
Do I normally give people lifts? no
He is very modest, thin and kind so I assumed it was ok..... an adventure.
At night, camping in tents in the middle of nowhere, it occured to me he could stab me in my sleep, but he is a skinny guy, sort of peaceful, slightly erratic......nothing happened.
Half the time he is nice and easy to be around, which is likely why Smart didnt run off. He can say sort of wise things ....
We jammed on drums.
He tried to sell jewellry for gas money and failed.
He ate health food and made advicado, cream cheese and cress sandwiches on wholemeal bread.
When he talked about Emmanuel, it was a sort of madness that took over.
He was not interested in other opinions or anything else.
At the end of the 3 days near Texas he said he was going to meet Wanda at this rainbow gathering campsite.
Finally we found it, just as the situation was getting intolerable for me.
I said " a Witch called Wanda" as a joke, but that freaked him out....
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he got very angry and started shouting in the car......
It was relief when he met Wanda and I was free from the situation.
He is passive / aggressive....... crazy but functional.
Wanda didnt smile and seemed 10 to 20 years older than him which was odd.
So yes, I do know......
I didn't read his crazy book, it is written in some affected Biblical style language.
So it was a shock to see he did that.
I assume Elizabeth is an impressionable girl, who was manipulated by the religion, his passivity, kindness and his crazy authoritative Church babblings.
That is why she did not seek help when she could....she decided to go with his religios craziness....and deny the questions of unbelievers, ie Police etc.....
She should have screamed "I have been kidnapped" in public and not denied her name prolonging the situation IMO
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Sarah Fagen = too waffling and imprecise, made a few relevant comments after a struggle
Tom Llamas = too smug, loud, vain and insincere to be credible
Matthew Dowd = poised, articulate, relaxed, human and informed
Maggie Haberman = interesting, eloquent and insightful, undermined by her own conceit........quit the cigs: she smokes?
Michael Tomasky = a real old school Democrat, interesting, informed, practical, honest and articulate
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Adam
"The son of the former Vice President Joe Biden has spent much of the last decade building overseas investments and business deals, arrangements that could complicate his father’s bid for the presidency by posing an array of potential conflicts of interest.
Hunter Biden’s investment company in China, known as Bohai Harvest RST, has pooled money, largely from state-owned venture capital, to buy or invest in a range of industries in the U.S. and China. Bohai Harvest has put money into an automotive firm, mining companies, and technology ventures, such as Didi Chuxing Technology, one of the largest ride-hailing companies in the world after Uber. (Hunter Biden, Bohai Harvest, and Joe Biden’s presidential campaign did not respond to a request for comment.)
In 2017, Bohai Harvest bought into Face++, part of a $460 million haul in the company’s Series C investment round. Bohai Harvest’s website features Face++ in its portfolio of investments.
A phone application made by the Chinese government is used for surveillance.
The app provides law enforcement with easy, daily access to data detailing the religious activity, blood type, and even the amount of electricity used by ethnic minority Muslims living in the western province of Xinjiang.
The app relies heavily on facial recognition software supplied by Face++, a division of the Chinese startup Megvii, a relationship that sparked questions in the press for Megvii investors. One of the most prominent of these investors is Alibaba Group Holding, which was co-founded by Jack Ma, the wealthiest Chinese billionaire and an icon for the country’s image of entrepreneurship."
-The Intercept etc....
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Adam
"On Wednesday, the New York Times raised similar concerns with the involvement of Hunter Biden in Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings, which added the vice president’s son to the company board in 2014. Rosemont Seneca Bohai financial filings, made public through a separate fraud investigation into Archer, revealed that the energy company paid Hunter Biden as much as $50,000 per month at a time when the U.S. was closely involved in Ukraine’s response to Russian aggression in the region.
For his part, Joe Biden has long served as a friendly voice for U.S.-China relations, even before his son’s investment ventures. The elder Biden helped lead Democratic support to passing permanent national trade relations with China.
In 2000 remarks in support of the vote, Biden argued that he did not “see the collapse of the American manufacturing economy” as a danger from opening up further trade with China, claiming that an economy “about the size of the Netherlands” could not become “our major economic competitor.” Opening China to further trade, Biden predicted, would create “a path toward ever greater political and economic freedom” for the country’s citizens."
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@olivergodsell5323
Recreational Indignation : the mental illness of the internet.
You realise that the US has the highest rate of incarceration ?
Gun deaths, suicides, violent misogynistic rap music, ....
There is far too much emphasis on the negative. Why?
If someone tortured, raped etc... someone you know, would you prefer the emphasis be placed on the killer or the real life person you knew ?
The victims and families are ignored in favour of sensationalism.
Cue the waterphone sound effect! Heavy drums beats!
Fast edits!
Since sex is so repressed by religious puritanism etc....., that energy has been placed into violence, etc.....again more unhealthy emphasis
Sex is taboo but murders and violence are ok to watch on prime time?
That doesn't benefit society.
That killer is not a celebrity.......not talented.......not a public figure.
They are criminally insane....... they gained sadistic sexual delight in murdering people repetitively.
Why not emphasise people who save lives or the victims or another topic?
The point is not : forget history.
Point is ; stop using serial killers repetitively to sell products
Again and again the same sick tired sad misery.
No wonder the millenials switched off. It has ZERO connection to modern reality
The more the media emphasizes a topic, or product the more it creates the same. Essentially the media wants to set an example of evil to have more killers and more to discuss......?
The media is too novelty seeking, it has too much emphasis on the negative for a fear based response........purely to create statistics for ad revenue.
There is no social benefit to repeating stories about sharks, war attrocities, serial killers etc.....again and again and again
The US has very low quality television now sadly.
It was NOT always like this.
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The History Channel should educate people not be producing Pawn Stars etc....
Ted Bundy tortured raped and killed innocent people......they are using the murders, and audience fear of death, to sell products off.
People need to learn about topics that truly benefit them, from learning other languages, to science, to art, to computers, to literature, biology etc......
The media hasn't always been so negatively hyped.
People do imitate TV and learn from TV.
It is the reponsibility of ceos to improve society.
This is the benefit of a state run TV station.
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@indeediamamom
"You are completely out of touch"
Wrong again. Your judgements are worthless.
Adress the facts of the topic not your false projections of yourself or your false egotism.
"Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than addressing the facts"
Australis stopped mass shootings after The National Firearms Agreement of 1996.
" Between October 1996 and September 1997, Australia responded to its own gun violence problem with a solution that was both straightforward and severe: It collected roughly 650,000 privately held guns. It was one of the largest mandatory gun buyback programs in recent history.
And it worked.
About 650,000 legally owned guns were peacefully seized, then destroyed, as part of the buyback.
n 2011, Harvard's David Hemenway and Mary Vriniotis reviewed the research on Australia's suicide and homicide rate after the NFA. Their conclusion was clear: "The NFA seems to have been incredibly successful in terms of lives saved."
What they found is a decline in both suicide and homicide rates after the NFA. The average firearm suicide rate in Australia in the seven years after the bill declined by 57 percent compared with the seven years prior. The average firearm homicide rate went down by about 42 percent."
Mass shootings went to zero.
Point is : The 2nd Amendment is an anachronism, the only people that should have guns are people in the militia, aka law enforcement, military etc.....
97% of US shooting deaths are not legally justifiable.
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