Epstein didn't kill himself
[MAIL] It was unclear why the agency was planning to return Lamine N'Diaye to a position supervising inmates and staff members, even though multiple investigations into Epstein´s death remain active.
The inspector general's investigation is continuing, and the Justice Department is still probing the circumstances that led to Epstein´s death, including why he wasn´t given a cellmate.
Epstein died in August while awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused dozens of girls as young as 14 and young women in New York and Florida in the early 2000s.
Epstein's death cast a spotlight on the Bureau of Prisons and highlighted a series of safety lapses inside a high-security unit of one of the most secure jails in America.
His death was ruled a suicide by hanging by the New York City medical examiner, but his attorneys have contested that finding and argued he may have been killed.
Barr said even Epstein's ability to take his own life in federal custody had raised 'serious questions that must be answered.'
He said in an interview with the AP in November that the investigation revealed a 'series' of mistakes made that gave Epstein the chance to take his own life and that his death was the result of 'a perfect storm of screw-ups.'
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Hell, they gave the CIA director a medal while he was the man in charge on 9/11. That'll work, reward failure, punish success (which btw, has been the govt's program for the War on Poverty for the last 50 years).
[NYPOST] Not all housewarming gifts are welcome. The happy buyer of a home in Maryland got more than they bargained for when they discovered the corpse of the previous owner still inside.The new owner bought the house, on Upland Avenue in District Heights, at a foreclosure auction but only last Saturday discovered the body of the 39-year-old woman who had called the property home. It’s unclear how long she had been dead, according to the local NBC affiliate. Hmmm... Usually they pick up on things like that in the home inspection...
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[Washington Examiner] Matt Drudge, the founder of the Drudge Report, appeared to distance himself from President Trump and from his previous support for the current commander in chief. Rantingly and Bongino Report FTW
Drudge, whose site rose to prominence during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, was asked about the apparent shift his site took by Columbia Journalism Review's Bob Norman. The reporter visited Drudge's home in Florida so he could ask him about the current administration, but Drudge didn't answer when Norman knocked. He did answer his phone when Norman called him after leaving his property, according to a CJR article by Norman, which was published on Wednesday.
They talked briefly, and Norman said he told Drudge, 53, that he "was curious about his current thoughts on Trump."
"You and everybody else," Drudge answered, according to Norman, who then pointed out that he went "all in on Trump during the [2016] election."
"That was three years ago," the founder of the aggregate website responded. Norman noted that Drudge's "response seemed rather telling, a clear distancing from the president."
Trump has noticed Drudge's apparent shift, according to a report in the Daily Beast published last November. Trump asked, "What's going on with Drudge?" according to a person familiar with his private remarks. Trump also asked Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and a top administration official, to contact him to repair the relationship, but it's unclear if Kushner did.
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If any of these sites were truly objective and unbiased, you would not be able to tell what their owner's political outlook was. It's kinda sad. Whatever happened to the truth?
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Hearing that Mr. Matt 'monetized' his site and may no longer be in full control of it.
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BREAKING NEWS: 3 who have returned to Haneda from Wuhan on the first government charted flight have been confirmed with new #coronavirus--Japanese TV networks NHK, TV Asahi and Fuji TV flash.
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Keep them flights open to SanFran and LA. Homelessness may become a problem of the past. What? Weren't you for the great socialist mantra of 'open borders'?
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Something like a 1% mortality rate? Bad enough but not a population-collapsing level. And I expect a lot of those 1% were people with other health issues. It is expected to be a pathogen that mutates easily, so who can tell where it goes.
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Farage had a good laugh at that poor schoolmarm's expense and she just didn't get it. He looked like a schoolboy when the last class of the school year is about to be dismissed and the teacher doesn't understand why he's so happy.
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Well he didn't say goodbye to his fat lifelong EU pension, did he?
178,657 Euro transition money
20 months full monthly remuneration of 8,932,86 per month
A pension (paid when he turns 53) of 6,253 Euro per month.
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Correction: when he turns 63 (he's 55 now)
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You assume the EU will still be there in 8 years
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I suspect that at some point in the separation those payments and pensions will be cut off for Brits, who won’t be there to vote against it — and if he is the least bit clever, so does former MEP Farage.
[Das Handelsblatt via Zero] Germany's leading business daily Handelsblatt dropped a Huawei bombshell Wednesday morning which resulted in an immediate vehement denial from the Chinese telecoms giant. "Huawei Technologies has never, and will never, do anything to compromise the security of networks and data of its customers," the Chinese company insisted in response.
The German newspaper claims to have seen a "smoking gun" classified document in possession of the Federal Foreign Office which definitively links Huawei's 5G efforts with Chinese state intelligence operations to compromise Europe's security. Specifically, the leaked foreign ministry internal document cites intelligence shared by US State Department intel officials which is represented as "smoking gun" proof that Huawei remains an unsafe partner for Berlin.
"At the end of 2019, intelligence was passed to us by the U.S., according to which Huawei is proven to have been cooperating with China’s security authorities," the leaked document says, according to Handelsblatt.
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Given how Brennan and Clapper used Brits for the ops against Trump, I think we should be doing some curtailing already - til they (and we) remove the conspiratorial bastards involved
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[MINNESOTA.CBSLOCAL] A new initiative at Bethel Univesity is working to reduce student costs by ditching textbooks.
Funded by a two-year Strategic Growth Award grant from the Bethel University Foundation, the Zero Cost Course Resources Initiative eliminates expensive textbooks and replaces them with free online resources.
The school currently has a few programs that are completely zero cost and others that are reduced cost.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of college textbooks increased by 88% from 2006 to 2016.
Bethel University estimates the initiative will save students approximately $1,300 per year in textbook costs.
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How about firing all the diversity and sexual allegations* administrators?
*Put a sign on their former offices door "If you're a victim of crime, go to the police."
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all schools should get away from the text book scam.
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Bethel University is a Christian university which does not push social justice agendas and does not want to burden students with high priced books that also promote social justice agendas and other ideas of the world like evolution and "save the world" environmentalism.
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When I taught there in the 80's we got around the whole cost problem by simply sending the students to the library. The kids had the option of buying but I was amazed how many simply made time during their normal research trips.
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It's true textbooks are a scam, but their cost is just a drop in the ocean. Nor is it administrative bloat, though that's a big problem. The main issue is that Uncle Sam provides easy loans, so why shouldn't schools hike costs to the moon? For the schools, astronomic cost is a feature, not a bug. But like all bubbles, it will pop if left alone. Sadly, idiot Dems want to forgive college loans which will only raise costs more and pay off their apparatchiks in the academy. A pox on the lot of 'em.
The Iowa Attorney General’s Office is no longer seeking the commitment of a former Midwest Christian Services student convicted of myriad sex crimes because the individual now identifies as a woman.
Court records show the state dismissed the application on Jan. 9. Attorney general spokesman Lynn Hicks wouldn’t comment on the reason for the dismissal other than to say "an offender’s hormone levels are an important part of substantiating an offender’s likelihood of recidivism."
Well, if they cut everything off, that's a start....
[Jpost] Harris has emerged as a flashpoint in the debate over a bail reform law that went into effect Jan. 1 in New York state
A Brooklyn woman who made headlines for slapping three Jewish women in December ‐ and then quickly being released from jail ‐ has been charged with federal hate crimes.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced the Justice Department’s decision to charge Tiffany Harris in a meeting Tuesday morning with Jewish leaders in Brooklyn at which he pledged "zero tolerance" for antisemitism.
"These are the kinds of cases that maybe in the past would have been treated locally, but I think it’s important for the federal government to plant its flag," Barr said at the meeting. "We will move aggressively when we see this kind of activity."
Harris has emerged as a flashpoint in the debate over a bail reform law that went into effect Jan. 1 in New York state. The law, which prohibits bail requirements for most nonviolent and minor offenses, was intended to ensure that defendants are not treated differently based on their financial means.
Harris’ arrests ‐ after her release, she was arrested again for assault ‐ took place before the law went into effect. Still, politicians who oppose the law have cited the 30-year-old woman in making the case that judges should have discretion to impose bail requirements.
"A bigger, stronger example should have been made of this violent antisemitic criminal, not the opposite," Lee Zeldin, a Republican Jewish congressman from Long Island, said earlier this month.
That appears to be happening with the federal charges, which come amid Barr’s "zero tolerance" pledge and as the New York Police Department seeks ways to circumvent the bail law.
"I am appalled that Tiffany Harris is being used as a scapegoat for the fear-mongering surrounding bail reform," Lisa Schreibersdorf, Harris’ lawyer, told the New York Daily News on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump signs the new USMCA North American trade pact with Canada and Mexico into law, pronouncing a “glorious future” for US industry.https://t.co/hFE7KnUXAz
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Trump has noticed Drudge's apparent shift, according to a report in the Daily Beast published last November. Trump asked, "What's going on with Drudge?" according to a person familiar with his private remarks. Trump also asked Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and a top administration official, to contact him to repair the relationship, but it's unclear if Kushner did.
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[Jpost] Harris has emerged as a flashpoint in the debate over a bail reform law that went into effect Jan. 1 in New York state
