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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Fox News Reporter Claims Harvey Weinstein Wanked in Front of Her
[Breitbart] A Fox News television reporter has become the latest individual to accuse Hollywood movie executive and Democratic Party mega-donor Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, alleging that he masturbated in front of her in a restaurant hallway in an incident she claimed happened more than a decade ago.

Talking to the Huffington Post, Lauren Sivan claimed that whilst working as an anchor on a local cable channel in New York, Weinstein approached her at a private event in the Socialista nightclub in New York, before attempting to kiss her.

After Sivan rejected his advances, stating that she had a long-term boyfriend, Weinstein allegedly began to masturbate in front of her until he ejaculated into a potted plant, before zipping his trousers up and returning to the party.

’Well, can you just stand there and shut up,’ Weinstein allegedly told Sivan before completing the lurid act.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2017 07:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is wank a word in the US now?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/08/2017 8:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Does this qualify her for her own show on NBC now?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2017 9:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Socialista nightclub somehow that seems eminently appropriate.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/08/2017 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  So she stood by while it happened?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/08/2017 10:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Is wank a word in the US now?

Among the Boer contingent, apparently.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/08/2017 10:22 Comments || Top||

#6  From another report: "Sivan says she rejected Weinstein’s advances, in part, because she was in a serious relationship at the time. "

So.. if she wasn't in a relationship at the time?
Posted by: 3dc || 10/08/2017 10:36 Comments || Top||

#7  "Can I get a hand over here?"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/08/2017 11:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Skidmark: She was cornered with the only way out, past Weinstein. I'm not surprised she didn't want to touch him.
Posted by: Charles || 10/08/2017 11:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Well you can see what happened to the plant.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2017 11:33 Comments || Top||

#10  Does this qualify her for her own show on NBC now?

No, because Harvey Weinstein is a liberal. And a progressive. And a social justice warrior. The way women are degraded in Hollywood is disgusting and mind-boggling. Not that any liberal would complain.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 10/08/2017 11:59 Comments || Top||

#11  FEinstein...WEinstein....

what a difference one letter can make....
Posted by: Menhadden Omusoque5356 || 10/08/2017 14:54 Comments || Top||

#12  From another report: "Sivan says she rejected Weinstein’s advances, in part, because she was in a serious relationship at the time. "

So.. if she wasn't in a relationship at the time?


If someone really doesn't want to do something, any reason will suffice, doesn't matter which. She could have said she was a tranvestite with AIDS, for that matter.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/08/2017 19:29 Comments || Top||

#13  Speaking of shoots Schütz...

Es ging ein Sämann aus, SWV 408
Posted by: Omish Scourge of the Gepids7100 || 10/08/2017 19:59 Comments || Top||

#14  Siehe, dieser wird gesetzt zu einem Fall, SWV 410
Posted by: Omish Scourge of the Gepids7100 || 10/08/2017 20:03 Comments || Top||


After Vegas Massacre, Franklin Graham Points Out The 1 ‘Common Thread' No One's Talking About
[Facebook] Many people don’t understand what would be in a person’s heart to spray bullets into a crowd to kill and wound as many as he can. Or what’s in the heart of a person who drives his car across a bridge in London and into a crowd of people, get out with a knife, and stab innocent people and police officers. Or what’s in the heart of a person who would take a knife and cut off the head of another human being. Many don’t understand what’s in the heart of a person who’s a senior attorney for CBS and says she has "no sympathy" for those killed or wounded in Las Vegas simply because people who listen to country music might be Republicans.

The common thread that runs through the heart of each of these is evil.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2017 07:17 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The problem is that one community treats 'evil' as a mental illness in an attempt to wash its hands of the hate and envy it spews 24/7.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2017 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Meat for a good Sunday morning Theo-Political discussion on the subjective nature of Good and Evil.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/08/2017 11:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Progressive don't like to be faced with black and white, good and evil, etc, they want to live in a grey area of non-absolutes, of situational ethics. It must have been something he ate, a medication, or a gambling debt.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2017 11:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Coward. Graham pulled his punch. The common thread is Salafi or Shia Jihad, or fear of same. Franklin knows that. Evil has a face, always and anywhere it surfaces. It concretizes, has a face and a name that can be clearly understood and treated. Graham is an incompetent theologian.
Posted by: TopRev || 10/08/2017 14:22 Comments || Top||

#5  BottomRev, really? I can show you a face and via ignorance you couldn't tell me whether that person is good or evil. You a primary part of the problem with zero solutions.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 10/08/2017 16:20 Comments || Top||

#6  The reason they can't find a motivation is he didn't have one, except saving his own skin.

He was money laundering and his problem gambling put him in debt to very bad people. Let's say drug smugglers with Middle East connections. They sold his services to ISIS or similar to recoup what they were owed by Paddock, and he was told do this or meet a very unpleasant end. Being something of a sociopath made it easier for him.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/08/2017 16:48 Comments || Top||

#7  #5; really? You can read minds? Wonderful! Tell us more, you ignorant ape.
Posted by: Thomose Spawn of the Antelope4762 || 10/08/2017 19:36 Comments || Top||

#8  A vast improvement by switching from an a.k.a. (#4) to totally anymous (#7). Yet still a charlatan. Keep working at it.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 10/08/2017 20:42 Comments || Top||

#9  News Roundup: Vegas shooter’s prostitutes speak,...
Posted by: newc || 10/08/2017 20:54 Comments || Top||


Economy
The Pension Storm Is Coming To Europe‐It May Be The End Of Europe As We Know It
[Mauldin Economics] I’ve written a lot about US public pension funds lately. Many of them are underfunded and will never be able to pay workers the promised benefits‐at least without dumping a huge and unwelcome bill on taxpayers.

And since taxpayers are generally voters, it’s not at all clear they will pay that bill.

Readers outside the US might have felt safe reading those stories. There go those Americans again... However, if you live outside the US, your country may be more like ours than you think.

This week the spotlight will be on Europe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2017 01:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Russia, of all places, has a pension problem as well.
Posted by: badanov || 10/08/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Every industrialized country has problem with pensions - when Bismark invented witholding for pension very few people lived past 65.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/08/2017 11:31 Comments || Top||

#3  The underlying 'problem' with pensions is that the ruling class is afraid that they might be forced to do something tangible and productive, so we need to import some serfs.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/08/2017 11:42 Comments || Top||

#4  "I'll hold this money for you. It will be safe and sound and will definitely be there when you need it in your old age..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/08/2017 12:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Wait til they offer an IOU for your 401K money
Posted by: Frank G || 10/08/2017 13:28 Comments || Top||

#6  The End-of-Europe-as-I-know-it has already come.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/08/2017 14:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Knew it, you meant.?
Posted by: Thomose Spawn of the Antelope4762 || 10/08/2017 19:33 Comments || Top||

#8  There isn't a pension problem. The problem is governments spending money they don't have, and leaving the problem for someone else to clean up.

Which is why I am hoping for a massive wave of government bond defaults that will force lenders to properly price risk and make borrowing much less attractive.

Although that won't work with central governments that print their own currency.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/08/2017 20:16 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Facebook's DC Nightmare Is Just Beginning
[Buzzfeed] The same week Mark Zuckerberg delivered his live video remarks about Russian election interference on Facebook, he picked up the phone and called Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.

At one point during the nearly 30 minute conversation, Schiff asked why Facebook took so long to find the $100,000 in ads a Kremlin-linked entity bought in an effort to disrupt the 2016 US Presidential election and its aftermath. Zuckerberg’s answer apparently did not fully satisfy, and Schiff told BuzzFeed News he plans to follow up.

The Russian ad scandal has captured lawmakers' attention in a way Facebook’s previous political crises ‐ from allegations of bias in its Trending column to its role in spreading fake news ‐ have not. It has crystallized a trio of individual fears ‐ Facebook is too big, has too much influence, and cannot effectively monitor itself ‐ into one big expression of all of them.

And now, with Congress scrutinizing it and the world watching, Facebook is scrambling to contain an metastasizing crisis that has tarnished its public image and conjured the threat of possible government regulation. In November, the House Intelligence Committee, of which Schiff is a key part, plans to hold an open hearing to discuss Russian election interference. And Schiff would very much like to see Facebook there. "We have an interest in having them come into our committee," he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2017 08:30 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I seem to remember someone once saying something about selling the US rope with which we will hang.

I vaguely remember that the speaker was from Commieland.....think he had Zuckie in mind as the merchant?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/08/2017 9:14 Comments || Top||

#2  The term 'useful idiot' comes to mind.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2017 9:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Nothing will come of it.
Schiff is looking for a donation to his favorite charities.
Posted by: jvalentour || 10/08/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  And now, with Congress scrutinizing it and the world watching,

Schiff talked to Zuckerberg for 1/2 an hour and we're supposed to believe that 'Congress scrutinizing it'? Not buying it. Repubs would be stupid to give this any consideration.

Oh, wait...
Posted by: Raj || 10/08/2017 11:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Suckerpurge...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/08/2017 12:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Like!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/08/2017 14:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe Zuck should consider going over to tbe Dark Side.
Posted by: gorb || 10/08/2017 19:55 Comments || Top||

#8  ...going?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2017 20:02 Comments || Top||

#9  *snort* I know
Posted by: Frank G || 10/08/2017 20:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Just When You Thought They'd Hit Bottom - Hollywood Star Embraces Incest
[Townhall] This week, writer-director Nick Cassavetes released his new movie, "Yellow," about a woman having an affair with her brother. "I have no experience with incest," says Cassavetes. "We started thinking about that. We had heard a few stories where brothers and sisters were completely, absolutely in love with one another. You know what? This whole movie is about judgment, and lack of it, and doing what you want."
But Cassavetes wasn't done: "Who gives a s--- if people judge you? I'm not saying this is an absolute, but in a way, if you're not having kids, who gives a damn? Love who you want. Isn't that what we say? Gay marriage -- love who you want? If it's your brother or sister, it's super weird, but if you look at it, you're not hurting anybody except every single person who freaks out because you're in love with one another."

Here's the thing: Cassavetes is exactly correct.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2017 11:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who?
Posted by: Raj || 10/08/2017 11:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Harold: Did you lock Fido in his cage before you came to bed ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2017 11:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Scalia's warning about slippery slope.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2017 11:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Hollyweird has always been deep into inc3st and ped0philia

They just feel like the mask can come off now.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/08/2017 13:32 Comments || Top||

#5  You know what I want? I want not to be preached at by amoral idiots! Especially by someone whose whole existence and job experience is based on fantasy. Movies used to be for enjoyment, not virtue sharing.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/08/2017 14:57 Comments || Top||

#6  sharing peddling.
Posted by: gorb || 10/08/2017 19:51 Comments || Top||



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  Two Saudi guards killed in attack on royal palace in Jeddah
Sat 2017-10-07
  Driver 'deliberately mows down pedestrians' outside London Museum
Fri 2017-10-06
  Iraqi premier claims victory against Islamic State in Hawija
Thu 2017-10-05
  3 Special Forces Troops Killed and 2 Are Wounded in an Ambush in Niger
Wed 2017-10-04
  Daesh defense line collapses in Hawijah as Iraqi forces liberate more villages
Tue 2017-10-03
  Key ISIS member Qari Zahid killed in US drone strike in East of Afghanistan
Mon 2017-10-02
  Terror Attack in Las Vegas - Mass Shooting - Updated 50+ dead, 400+ wounded
Sun 2017-10-01
  Kurdish secession bid in Iraq threat to entire region: Hezbollah chief
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  Islamic State sets oil wells on fire, urges militants evacuate villages in Hawija
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  Lebanon Military Tribunal sentences Takfiri preacher to death
Thu 2017-09-28
  Al-Qaeda leadership, dozens of jihadists wiped out by Russian missile strike in Idlib
Wed 2017-09-27
  Palestinians admitted Interpol membership
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  US drone targets ISIS vehicle in Nangarhar leaving 5 dead
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  Tennessee Church Shooter Suspect Identified As 25-Year-Old From Sudan
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