[Mail] Ghislaine Maxwell, long-time consort of Jeffrey Epstein and the alleged procurer of victims in his underage sex trafficking ring, has been laying low in a New England beach town, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
Maxwell, 57, is in a relationship with Scott Borgerson, 43, and has been living with him at his secluded oceanfront property at the end of a long private road in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.
The British socialite has been loath to leave the $3 million mansion, a source told DailyMail.com amid heightened focus on Epstein's alleged co-conspirators following the convicted pedophile's apparent suicide on Saturday.
'She's become a real homebody, rarely ventures out. She's the antithesis of the woman who traveled extensively and partied constantly with Epstein,' said a source familiar with Maxwell's new life.
Borgerson is the founder of The Arctic Circle, an organization founded to “facilitate dialogue and build relationships to address rapid changes in the Arctic,” including lower ice sea levels, his LinkedIn profile indicates. He’s also the co-founder of the Insitute for Global Maritime Studies, “dedicated to exploring a wide range of policy issues relating to the sea.”
He was an international fellowship on the Council on Foreign Relations for two years and was a co-founder of USCGA Institute for Leadership according to his LinkedIn. For three years, he was an assistant professor at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and was in the Coast Guard for four years. While in the Coast Guard, he was a commanding officer from 1999 to 2001.
He’s currently a board member of Hivers and Strivers, “an Angel Investment Group focusing on early-stage investments to support start-up companies founded and run by graduates of the U.S. Military Academies.”
According to his bio on HuffPost, Borgerson writes op-eds for many publications including The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor.
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OK, I've been wondering: is that name pronounced Gizz-lane (first syllable sounds like gizzard) or Jizz-lane (first syllable sounds like, uh, you know...)?
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"at the end of a long private road "
Private no longer, I guess
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Spotted in CA at a In N Out (no, really) per NYPost
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#9 OK, I've been wondering: is that name pronounced Gizz-lane (first syllable sounds like gizzard) or Jizz-lane (first syllable sounds like, uh, you know...)?
Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-08-15 14:22
Actually, I thought it was pronounced Jil-lane.
Or I may have simply missed the joke entirely.
Mike
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[The Columbus Dispatch] A death-penalty expert calls it unworkable, but an Ohio House member intends to introduce a bill to allow the state’s condemned to be executed with illegal fentanyl seized by police.
In a Monday email, Rep. Scott Wiggam, R-Wooster, sought co-sponsors for his planned legislation, which would employ a synthetic opioid that has killed thousands of Ohioans in accidental overdoses.
"I believe that seized fentanyl (considered forefeited contraband through the court system) is the best solution" to the state’s inability to buy execution drugs from their manufacturers, Wiggam wrote.
Wiggam proposes that the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction work with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to secure fentanyl seized in law enforcement operations for lethal injection.
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It would "work" just fine. Being as pharma grade stuff has been cited in deaths there's not much doubt about that. Problem is, the invitation to lawsuits is huge. How will the dept. of corrections ensure the seized illegal product is pure?
George Carlin once quipped, "You know, they use an alcohol swab on the arm before they give a lethal injection..."
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On the other hand MM, maybe it'll deter some potential users?
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Death Penalty Expert ? What... he serve at Birkenau or something ? How many executions can he have 'researched' ? Fentanyl overdose will easily put down anything, 1 mg for every 50 kg of body-weight.
Absolutely workable, poetic and economical idea. I'd support it just for the poetic.
I maintain that hanging people is good for everybody involved. It makes a dramatic statement, it is of cultural significance, it is easy to do when drug companies are being political creeps, and it doesn't require much prep. And it really isn't a comparatively cruel way to kill somebody.
[American Thinker] San Antonio's ICE office was hit with a barrage of bullets in the wee hours of the morning, mercifully striking no one, though there were people working in the specially targeted office.
Obviously, what happened was a political act, rooted in die-hard opposition to any enforcement of U.S. borders. According to the Washington Examiner, it was the fourth such act targeting law enforcement in just a few weeks:
Last month, protesters with Never Again blocked the entrances to ICE's national headquarters in Washington, D.C.
In mid-July, police in Tacoma, Washington, fatally shot an armed man after they said he hurled Molotov cocktails at an ICE building.
On July 12, a group of protesters in Aurora, Colorado, took down an American flag and two other flags from outside an ICE facility and raised a Mexican flag and a defaced "thin blue line" flag, which commemorates law enforcement.
Antifa is a likely suspect, given its open advocacy of violence and encouragement from some elements of the media, such as Fredo Cuomo. But there are others, from the list cited by the Examiner above, as well as a new investigative book coming up from Michelle Malkin, chronicling the funders of open borders. She describes it here.
It represents a downward slide, the Latin Americanization of U.S. politics. If you want to know how Colombia became a hellhole in the late 1990s when first Pablo Escobar and his M-19 leftist guerrilla allies waged a reign of terror on the country's judges, then the Cali cartel did its damage, then the FARC Marxist narco-terrorists made open warfare with the Colombia government, and now the ELN has made Colombia so miserable, look no farther than the leftist rhetoric coming from the pols, the press, and the university intellectuals. Together, they created the Petri dish from which terror attacks on government buildings could go off with such impunity.
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Don't need to look south for a precedent.
This is a repeat of the 5x daily bombings of government offices, by the Weatherman and others, that this nation experienced in 1971.
Buckle your seat belts.
[ARABNEWS] Twelve years ago, when I lived in Aden, protests by the Southern Movement were a regular occurrence ‐ and with equal regularity, they were brutally suppressed. The complaint of the Movement was this: that the unification of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... in 1990 had been carried out with a promise of parity between North and South, but this had failed to materialize.
When I left Yemen ‐ young, naive and overconfident of my analytical prowess ‐ I predicted a civil war within three years. But, like many, I was thinking about a re-run of the civil war of 1994: a north-south clash over the steamrollering of the promises made four years earlier. The South lost that one, and northern dominance of the economy and government of Yemen grew apace.
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[ARABNEWS] Amid the blessings of Eid, the emotional behavior of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Southern Transitional Council (STC) almost resulted in a tragedy that would have lasted for years to come. The council came close to destroying recent achievements in the country and all but ruined its political project of independence from Sanaa in the future ‐ a goal that cannot be achieved by defiance, fueling enmity and creating chaos.
The battle on Eid’s eve erupted following two attacks on Thursday when an al-Qaeda suicide boom-mobileing on a cop shoppe killed 13 people and a Iran's Houthi sock puppets
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[The Federalist] Earlier this month, the Washington Post featured an op-ed entitled "I am an uppity immigrant. Don’t expect me to be ’grateful,’" by New York University professor Suketu Mehta, an author who recently published a book arguing that "immigration is a form of reparations" for past American crimes.
In the article, Mehta accuses America of stealing "the futures of the people who are now arriving at its borders," of causing many immigrants "to move in the first place," and of "despoil[ing] their homelands and mak[ing] them unsafe and unlivable." He censures the West for "despoil[ing] country after country through colonialism, illegal wars, rapacious corporations and unchecked carbon emissions."
Mehta asserts, for such reasons, that he’s "entitled" to live in the United States. Yet a few brief historical reflections will demonstrate that immigration as reparations is a bit more complicated than Mehta lets on. Moreover, no one, whether first-generation immigrants or direct descendants of voyagers on the Mayflower, deserves to be here. Being American is a gift for which every citizen should be inordinately grateful.
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Hey scheisskopf: Didn't you swear an oath of allegiance as part of your citizenship process?
Were you just lying?
Was it because you were desperate to escape the shithole you came from?
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I know several LEGAL immigrants who work their arses off. A couple of the LEGAL immigrants have businesses that create jobs. I know one American born businessman whose wife is a LEGAL immigrant who is the one that makes his business work. Without her, his business would not succeed. She runs his office so well that when the IRS audited him, they gave her 5 stars.
Everyone of these immigrants have one thing in common, they would fire "Mehta" in a heartbeat.
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Suketu Mehta. Indian. America never stole from India. If anything they were responsible for quickly ending the second world war after which the brits decided to leave.
Asshole. I hate these opportunistic bastards, thankless f↺ckers given residence in the west and trying to kiss ass for whomever appears to be have more influence, with clearly hypocritical rhetoric. All they want is better prospects, a promotion, or sometimes they're just addicted to invitations. Often, a modicum of false respect will earn you their eternal devotion.
These people are rightly called 'presstitutes' in India.
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If You're Not Grateful To The United States, Why Are You Here?
Why are any invaders here, to rape, to plunder, and to steal. Why not when you can get the local Judases pols to do the stealing for you and justify the raping and pillaging as 'reparations' for their sins?
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Desperate Democrats have apparently decided that the way to win in 2020 is to paint President Trump as a racist, perhaps even a hood-wearing, torch-carrying grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Democrats appeared ready to thunder to Election Day with a "Russia, Russia, Russia" war chant, but former special counsel Robert Mueller wee-weed all over that plan when he declared that neither Mr. Trump nor his campaign colluded with the Kremlin to alter the outcome of the 2016 election.
Now they’re putting all their little white eggs in the big racist basket.
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"It also lays dormant," Occasional Cortex tweeted.
No, sweetheart, a thing that is latent is said to lie (intransitive).
The transitive verb lay describes what you do, for a living.
Nestled in an unremarkable building on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California, is the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, founded in 1998. The lab’s creator, Dr. B.J. Fogg, is a psychologist and the father of persuasive technology, a discipline in which digital machines and apps ‐ including smartphones, social media, and video games ‐ are configured to alter human thoughts and behaviors. As the lab’s website boldly proclaims: "Machines designed to change humans."
Fogg speaks openly of the ability to use smartphones and other digital devices to change our ideas and actions: "We can now create machines that can change what people think and what people do, and the machines can do that autonomously." Called "the millionaire maker," Fogg has groomed former students who have used his methods to develop technologies that now consume kids’ lives. As he recently touted on his personal website, "My students often do groundbreaking projects, and they continue having impact in the real world after they leave Stanford... For example, Instagram has influenced the behavior of over 800 million people.
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Abuse of technology, for frivolous shit. Creates more idiots and psychos than decadence literature did. I would rather that machines and tech elevated humanity.
Tech could have made possible the democratization of Justice. A secured voting system where the Judge is a remote server and the entire population reads the arguments, peruses the evidence online and votes on a very limited choice of verdicts. Add in an AI that just needs weighted data, the skew pushing to lean toward a ruling, then the AI evaluates the best possible outcome.
But the powers of this world will not go for such a thing, because the coercive power of every state is enshrined in a black-robed arbiter who may be senile for all you can do about it.
The day a consensus powered Robo-Judge walks into courtrooms, the reign of criminality is over.
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I'm a broken record on this. See David Gelernter. Kids need to learn fundamentals, reading, writing, mathematics. I'm sure someone, somewhere has written a software package designed to provide drills in the fundamentals of reasoning. I'm even more sure you will not find it in general use in schools at the level where kids should be learning this. I also know teachers have long given up on seeing stuff lifted verbatim from wikipedia in kids cut and paste essays. At least the kids doing that have learned how to cut and paste.
The tech industry is all about telling kids what to think. How to think is criminal knowledge in the brave new world they want.
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[HollywoodInToto] Few science fiction films have aged as gracefully as 1979's "Alien."
The special effects, the monster makeup and even the anti-corporate jabs seem as fresh today as they were back then.
The same holds true for its belated sequel.
The 1986 smash "Aliens" brought Sigourney Weaver back for more intergalactic scares. This time we weren't surprised by Weaver's Ripley. She appeared to be just one of seven potential victims in the first "Alien" adventure. By the film's end we saw a natural born leader, a scrappy soul who outlasted an efficient killing machine.
Ripley became nothing less than a sci-fi icon in "Aliens."
What's fascinating about watching James Cameron's sequel today is spotting what isn't on the screen. Thirty-three years ago, Cameron didn't stuff the narrative with empowering speeches. He didn't need to virtue signal to his fellow filmmakers.
The screenplay doesn't emasculate male characters to make Ripley look more bad ass. Bill Paxton's glorious Hudson is blissful comic relief.
In short, Cameron wrote Ripley as a full-bodied character sans agenda. And she's glorious.
The 1990 Director's Cut version, available on the franchise's four-pack edition, is a mixed bag. Some scenes are clearly unnecessary, like a series of remote gun turrets which blast the alien invasion until the ammo runs dry.
Other moments pack a sizable wallop.
Had "Aliens" been made in 2019, the mother-daughter connection might have been underplayed or ignored entirely. Motherhood connects to the patriarchy, the screenwriters might declare. Social Justice critics would complain about parenthood getting in the way of Ripley’s career and/or heroism.
Ripley’s romantic bond with Hicks (Michael Biehn), served up with delicacy by Cameron’s script, also wouldn’t make the cut.
Powerful women can’t be identified by their cis-gender emotions. Why doesn’t Ripley flirt with Vasquez, the buff female Marine played by Jenette Goldstein?
Any flaws in Ripley, from moments of weakness to feminine flourishes, would be wiped clean.
Instead, she exists forever on home video and streaming as the Anti-Mary Sue.
It’s one reason the ’80s endure. The decade offered direct pleasures, free from social media scolds and finger-wagging lectures. The films featured heroes who could do the wrong thing, or treat their fellow characters in ways we wouldn’t accept with our friends and families, and still earn our cheers.
Imagine "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off" hitting theaters today. The cries against a straight white male gaming the system would drown everything out.
"Save Ferris?" How about, "Check your privilege!"
No apologies are necessary with Ferris or Ripley. They remain entrenched in pop culture lore, impervious to cultural scolds. Part of the reason of Hollywood declining and pumping out reboots as fast as they can. Anyone with real writing talent will be shunned in favor of "wokeness" and making all female roles Mary Sues.
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The SJW's have made it hard to find any new science fiction to read if it is published by one of the major publishers... So, yeah, I see what he is saying.
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.
[Mail] Ghislaine Maxwell, long-time consort of Jeffrey Epstein and the alleged procurer of victims in his underage sex trafficking ring, has been laying low in a New England beach town, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
[HollywoodInToto] Few science fiction films have aged as gracefully as 1979's "Alien."
