[PAGESIX] The sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein is in danger of crumbling after Manhattan prosecutors found an accuser’s written account of her encounter with the movie mogul that suggests it was consensual, multiple sources told The Post.
Lucia Evans has accused Weinstein of forcing her to perform oral sex on him inside his Tribeca office in 2004, when she was a 21-year-old college student and aspiring actress. She is one of three women whose allegations of sexual assault are being prosecuted by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office.
But a prior employer of Evans turned over the personal writings she’d left on the company computer, which appear to contradict her grand jury testimony, a law enforcement source said.
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But, but, but... a woman would never lie about something like that....
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What nobody admits is that a lot of these women weren't forced, they did it willingly to get acting jobs.
Uma Thurman is one of them who took the deal. Weinstein kept his part of the bargain, too, he made her a star. Hollywood is lousy with beautiful women, they're a dime a dozen there. If one won't spread for a job, another will.
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You know Herb, given the reputation actors/actresses had in the old days, I doubt that this is a new problem.
[NYPOST] A father in Michigan who found his 10-month-old daughter dead inside her crib coolly and callously told a police dispatcher 90 minutes after finding her that the girl was "dead as a doorknob," recordings show.
A prosecutor in Kent County played a recording of the call on Wednesday made by Seth Welch, 27, on Aug. 2 after finding his daughter, Mary, unresponsive inside their home in Solon Township, MLive.com reports.
"You know, just another day," Welch told a dispatcher when asked how he was doing after the girl’s death. "It is what it is."
Welch and his wife, Tatiana Fusari, were charged in August with felony murder and first-degree child abuse after an autopsy revealed the girl died from malnutrition and dehydration due to neglect by adult caregivers.
The girl weighed only 8 pounds when she was found. Police said in an affidavit that the couple admitted that their daughter had been underweight but appeared healthy. Welch and Fusari said they didn’t seek medical help because they didn’t trust doctors because they were previously reported to child welfare officials after they disagreed with a doctor’s recommendation for their 4-year-old daughter.
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[Universal Hub] - WBZ reports a woman was dragged by the SUV that hit her on Kneeland Street around 1:40 a.m. to Columbia Road in Uphams Corner. A man was also hit, but not dragged.
Xiao Ying Zhou, 44, a massage therapist from Sandwich, will be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court today on two counts of leaving the scene of a collision causing personal injury, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report. The female victim, 48, remains alive, the DA's office says.
[FOX8] Frontier Airlines said a woman had to be escorted off a flight bound for Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... Tuesday night due to a squirrel.
Frontier said a passenger boarded Flight 1612 in Orlando, saying the squirrel was an emotional support animal.
The airline said the passenger noted in her reservation that she was bringing an emotional support animal, but it was not indicated the animal was a squirrel.
Frontier said "rodents, including squirrels are not allowed" on its flights.
The passenger was advised of the policy and asked to get off the plane.
The airline said when she refused, Orlando police were called and requested everyone be deplaned so they could deal with the passenger.
Police eventually escorted her off the plane and took her to the main terminal.
The flight was set to be on its way to Cleveland later Tuesday evening.
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(Engage Bullwinkle voice) " Hey Rocky, wanna see me pull a rabbit outa my hat?" Woman and you offaplane?
[Daily Caller] Hurricane Michael hit Florida’s panhandle Wednesday afternoon and began pushing farther into the U.S., leaving buildings in shambles and homes under water.
Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott requested that President Donald Trump issue a major disaster declaration following Michael’s impact to free up more federal resources for damaged Florida communities.
The following videos show Mexico Beach, Florida ‐ near where Hurricane Michael first made landfall. Experts expected the city to receive nine feet to 13 feet of storm surge from Michael. Water can be seen nearly level with the roofs of houses and other buildings. Islands of debris are floating through submerged parts of the city.
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Rained gently here all day yesterday. I spent the day burning downfall on the edge of the woods. I like to burn when it's wet (safety factor). A few concerned neighbors drove by. I guess they figured a plane had crashed... or something. Some gusty wind early this morning. The rain has stopped. Further south folks were not so fortunate.
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My family lives in Dothan, Alabama. It was hit pretty hard, too but not nearly as hard as the coast.
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Michael is now down to tropical storm strength and moving so fast it will likely enter the Atlantic sometime about midnight eastern US time tonight.
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Is it 3998 or 39998 fewer deaths than PR hurricane? Proof that Trump is rayciss!
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[CBSLasAngeles]The typhus outbreak in Southern California has spread to a third city, and pet owners there have been surprised to hear of the uptick in the flea-borne disease.
At Uptown Dog Park in Long Beach, dog owners were shocked to hear about the outbreak in their area.
"Sounds crazy. I've never heard of it," Isael Torres said.
Long Beach has joined other major cities that have seen an increase of typhus cases this year.
Health officials said there have been nine cases in Downtown Los Angeles, 12 in Long Beach, 20 in Pasadena and 59 in Los Angeles County.
Authorities said flea-borne typhus only makes humans sick, not animals. Feral rats, possums and cats can carry the disease.
"I've seen raccoons, possums, and yeah, cats, and they're all just out and about," said pet owner Gary O'Callaghan.
A flea on one of those stray animals can jump on pets and then be transferred onto humans. End of the world coming. Film at 11.
The CDC has traced the recent outbreak of typhus in the city to an airline passenger traveling with a flea-infested capybara as a companion animal on a flight from Long Beach, CA. Mayor De Blasio has announced the creation of a task force to deliver flea powder to all residents of the five boroughs.
The CDC has traced the recent outbreak of typhus in the city to an airline passenger traveling with a flea-infested capybara as a companion animal on a flight from Long Beach, CA. Mayor De Blasio has announced the creation of a task force to deliver flea powder to all residents of the five boroughs create a third gender for birth certificates.
FTFY, because that's pretty much his default setting.;) (He actually did that this week, BTW)
Mike
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Reports emerging from the northern Faryab province of Afghanistan suggest several honor killings have taken place in this province since the scandal videos of a local Mullah went viral on the internet recently.
The local officials in Faryab have said at least nine women have been killed the past three months amid concerns that the women who have appeared in the videos of Mullah Landay have either been killed or fearing their lives.
Sharifa Azimi, the provincial director of women’s affairs, has told The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that nine women had been killed in the past three months as a result of gender-based violence, compared with four in the same period last year.
"We are concerned that honor killings will increase, that the women suspected of going to him will be killed," Ms. Azimi said.
Provincial governor Naqibullah Fayeq has also confirmed that several women have killed recently in what appears to be a sharp rise in honor killings.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... governor Fayeq has said he was not sure and wonders if the recent killings are related to the case of Mullah Landay.
This comes as several videos of Mullah Landay have been published and have gone viral on the internet, purportedly showing the Mullah exploiting the women and sexually abusing them.
In the meantime, efforts are underway for the arrest of Mullah Landay who is on the run and reports indicate that he has so far travelled to Mazar Sharif city, Kabul, and Nimroz provinces.
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An Afghan Bill Clinton
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[Daily Caller] The retired British spy who authored a salacious dossier accusing the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia is taking a veiled shot at the president following 18 months of silence.
Christopher Steele has not spoken publicly since March 2017, a couple of months after the publication of his infamous dossier. But the former MI6 officer issued his first comments in response to being named to Vanity Fair’s 2018 New Establishment List.
"In these strange and troubling times, it is hard to speak unpalatable truths to power, but I believe we all still have a duty to do so. I salute those on your list, and otherwise, who have had the courage to speak out over the last year, often at great personal cost," Steele wrote in an email to Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones, ABC News reported.
"At a time when governance is so distorted and one-sided, as I believe it currently is in the United States, the media has a key role to play in holding it accountable," Steele continued.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is the top pick on the list. Steele is No. 38.
Steele has rejected congressional requests to discuss his investigation of Trump. He has reportedly met with members of Mueller’s team.
Steele began investigating Trump in June 2016 after being hired by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that was working for the Clinton campaign and DNC. Steele claimed in his 35-page report that the Russian government was blackmailing Trump with video of him engaged with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room in 2013.
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Steele didn't like Trump and was trying to make a buck from writing fiction. He was hired by the DNC and HRC with a few cut-outs in between. D'S operation. No wonder Steele doesn't want to come to this country.
[South China Morning Post] US agents have arrested a top Beijing intelligence official for allegedly attempting to steal trade secrets from GE Aviation and other US aerospace companies after luring the suspect to Belgium in what the US Justice Department called “an unprecedented extradition”.
Xu Yanjun, who also uses the names Qu Hui and Zhang Hui, was extradited to the US on Tuesday with assistance from Belgian authorities for seeking “to steal trade secrets and other sensitive information from an American company that leads the way in aerospace”, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said in a Justice Department announcement on Wednesday.
Xu, a senior officer with China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), appeared in federal court in Cincinnati on Wednesday, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. He could be given a prison sentence of up to 25 years in addition to fines if charged and convicted, the Justice Department said.
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Why would the Chinese even need to? American companies hire 50,000 Chinese spies university graduates every year.
The Israeli Air Force decided to ground its fleet of F-35 fighter jets after the plane's first ever crash last month in North Carolina.
During the crash, the Marine Corps F-35B was completely destroyed. A post-crash investigation found that a faulty fuel pipe in the engine caused the crash, leading the US to ground all of it's F-35 planes until they can be given the once-over.
Following the crash, Israeli Air Force Commander Amikam Norkin decided to take extra precautions and test all of Israel's F-35 'Adir' fighter jets as well, despite the fact that Israel uses a different model than the US.
Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague are reported to be "in good condition", both Nasa and Russian media said.
Search and rescue teams are now en route to the landing site.
The rocket had taken off for the International Space Station (ISS) when it suffered a problem with its booster.
The crew had to return in "ballistic descent mode", Nasa tweeted, which it explained was "a sharper angle of landing compared to normal". Supposedly an 8g decelleration rate when that happens.
Don't feel like any editorial comments for now. I have to get to werk, the curse of the blogging class.
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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.
[NYPOST] A father in Michigan who found his 10-month-old daughter dead inside her crib coolly and callously told a police dispatcher 90 minutes after finding her that the girl was "dead as a doorknob," recordings show.
[FOX8] Frontier Airlines said a woman had to be escorted off a flight bound for 
[CBSLasAngeles]The typhus outbreak in Southern California has spread to a third city, and pet owners there have been surprised to hear of the uptick in the flea-borne disease.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Reports emerging from the northern Faryab province of Afghanistan suggest several honor killings have taken place in this province since the scandal videos of a local Mullah went viral on the internet recently.
[Daily Caller] The retired British spy who authored a salacious dossier accusing the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia is taking a veiled shot at the president following 18 months of silence.
