Here are excerpts from the Maxwell case transcript of testimony by Carolyn, who was brought to Jeffrey Epstein when she was 14-years-old. She was told she could make lots of money by giving an older man a massage. She was then driven to Epstein’s mansion and taken upstairs to his massage room. The older person who brough her there then “took off her clothes and she asked me if I would be comfortable taking off mine.” They then both massaged Epstein’s back until Epstein turned over. Then the older woman “got on top of him” and they began “having sex” in front of the 14-year-old girl. Both Carolyn and the woman who had sex in front of her, were then paid in cash. That was how Carolyn was groomed into beginning a several years sexual relationship with Epstein that ended when she was 18.
Author: Blazingcatfur
European Union Makes It Official, Now Let’s Save the Planet by Eating Bugs
The next time you hanker for a hunk of food, how about saving the Earth?
You can do just that by biting into bugs.
And if you happen to live across the pond, you’ve got the endorsement of officials.
AOC Blasted for Suggesting Republicans ‘Mad‘ They Cannot Date Her
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday suggested Republicans are upset they cannot date her and should admit it.
“If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet. Ya creepy weirdos,” she wrote in a social media post…
Xi’an: Cries for help and food in quarantined Chinese city
Some residents under lockdown in the Chinese city of Xi’an say they do not have enough food, even as officials insist there are adequate supplies.
More than 13 million were ordered to stay at home last week as authorities sought to battle a Covid outbreak.
But compared to other lockdowns globally, locals cannot go out even for essential reasons like buying food.
The government is delivering supplies but many on social media say they are yet to receive them and are struggling.
‘Six Witnesses’ Reportedly Ready ‘To Place’ Prince Andrew Together With His Sex Abuse Accuser
Prince Andrew can be linked with his sex abuse accuser by “four to six witnesses” willing to testify in court, according to the legal team of Virginia Roberts Guiffre, cited by The Sun.
Oh please… Canada debriefed on Biden-Putin call as ‘tough’ road lies ahead
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday debriefed Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly on a tough talk between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin over the Russian troop buildup on the Ukraine border.
Blinken’s office said in a statement that he and Joly discussed “shared priorities, including a strong, united response to further Russian aggression against Ukraine.”
CNN host Anderson Cooper tries to stop colleague’s drunken New Year’s rant against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
CNN host Anderson Cooper awkwardly tried to shut down his co-host’s drunken rant about New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during the network’s New Year’s Eve coverage.
After Cooper and fellow CNN New Year’s Eve Live co-host Andy Cohen downed shots – presumably with tequila – on live television, Cohen unloaded on the Democratic mayor as Cooper repeatedly tried to get him to stop.
Andy goes off on de Blasio pic.twitter.com/IornnsuG36
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 1, 2022
Ontario’s new pandemic strategy risks ‘out of control’ transmission, epidemiologists warn
Two Ontario epidemiologists are warning that recent changes to the province’s COVID-19 pandemic strategy risk uncontrolled transmission of the virus, while at the same time, limiting the ability to measure its spread.
Raywat Deonandan, epidemiologist and associate professor at the University of Ottawa, and Colin Furness, infection control epidemiologist and associate professor at the University of Toronto, both say they aren’t convinced the province’s new approach will be able to protect Ontarians and the broader health system from the impact of a surge of the highly-infectious Omicron variant.
“There seems to be an acceptance that transmission will be out of control the next few weeks and maybe there is a silent hope that unrestrained transmission might result in sufficient immunity in the population without much cost,” said Deonandan.
TikTok ‘transgender man’ with no ‘top’ surgery lets it all hang out
Up until now, the matter of transgender surgery, and whether someone who identifies as transgender has had it, was “a private matter.”
That’s mainly the result of the controversy over men entering and ogling women in women’s restrooms, as well as the issue of jail rapes in women’s prisons, brought on by unreconstructed males impersonating females and then acting as criminals with their still male members. No polite person is ever supposed to know or ask.
But now we have something else: a TikTok lib who insists on letting it all hang out.
U.S. Brings a Pea-Shooter to a Gunfight With China
Many of my conservative friends are spinning their wheels with pea-shooter-gauge measures against China—kicking Chinese companies out of the U.S. stock market, for example. On Dec. 10 the U.S. government canceled an initial public offering for the Chinese AI startup SenseTime, whose facial recognition software may help Chinese authorities identify Uyghurs. Two weeks later SenseTime moved its IPO to Hong Kong; it rose 44% in the first two days of trading. China has a trade surplus, $3.2 trillion in reserves, and a 40% savings rate. It is an exporter, not an importer of capital. American capital markets are a convenience, not a necessity for Chinese companies.
Is a Pushback Against Soft Despotism Coming in 2022?
The ruling elite are not going to surrender power without a fight.
Over the last two years, many of us have been surprised and troubled at how eagerly millions of citizens have surrendered their freedoms to the shifting, contradictory, nakedly politicized diktats of various “experts” and government agencies. Coerced vaccinations, boosters, masks, and social distancing continue to be mandated and just as eagerly obeyed, even in the case of the mild Omicron covid variant. The technocratic Left currently ruling the country has wrung every ounce of unconstitutional power from the sovereign people, a large cohort of whom, especially the cognitive elites, have willingly gone along with every new crisis and command.
‘She understood her power’: the death of mafia boss Pupetta Maresca
Naples authorities refuse a public send-off for the convicted murderer known as Lady Camorra
No crowds attended the cortege for Assunta Maresca, better known as Pupetta Maresca, who died at home this week in Castellammare di Stabia aged 86. Maresca, a convicted murderer and mafia boss also known as Lady Camorra, had been the centre of such frenzied media attention in her life that Naples authorities declared she would not have a public send-off.
“We are seeing on social media a glorification of this woman who is a symbol of the Camorra in our neighbourhood,” Francesco Emilio Borrelli, a regional councillor for the Europa Verde party, said in a letter to the Naples police. “The mythologising of bosses is to be avoided at all costs.”
How Covid killed grown-up movies at the theater
Audiences may never leave their couches again — unless it’s for Spider-Man 7
The box office news from earlier this December was mixed. The stupendous success of the latest Spider-Man sequel, No Way Home, indicated that fears of the Omicron variant have not deterred audiences from coming out in the millions: it grossed $260 million at the US box office and $600 million globally.
But it also trampled other less franchise-friendly films. Guillermo del Toro’s new picture Nightmare Alley debuted to a dismal $3 million, and Steven Spielberg’s version of West Side Story will be one of the director’s greatest flops, having grossed a mere $18 million in the US so far. The chances of either film — expensively mounted period pieces from A-list directors — recouping their production budgets at the theater, let alone their advertising costs, is zero.
Why 2022 will be a dangerous year
Europe is leaderless in the face of growing threats
It is hardly surprising that we have little time for reflection, as the New Year dawns, about matters beyond our own back yard. The “tidal wave” of Omicron has struck, the Nightingale hospitals are understaffed, the PCR tests have run out, the hospitality industry has been hit by panic, and large parts of the economy seem barely able to function as hundreds of thousands self-isolate. And yet, however bad matters of public health might be, and however diverting the implosion of possibly the most dishonest and incompetent government in British history, there is scope for life to get much, much worse.
Sex Scandals, Sinking Ratings: CNN Imploding on Eve of Streaming Launch
CNN is betting big on its new digital streaming service CNN+ that will debut in early 2022, calling it the most important launch since Ted Turner introduced the cable network more than four decades ago. But a string of shocking internal scandals is threatening to steal the spotlight on the eve of the big reveal.