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David
I dare you to try
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^ That was always the most audacious aspect of their appeal, I thought. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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K
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Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill reads like a high-stakes thriller
https://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/a-deep-dive-into-the-war-on-women-20191029-p5358o.html
"And Harvey Weinstein certainly plays the supervillain. Police were incensed that no charges were brought over the Gutierrez incident, for instance, despite the evidence. Unsurprisingly, Weinstein was a significant donor to the District Attorney in the case.
To prevent the revelations that eventually brought him down from becoming public, Weinstein had assembled an army of high-profile publicists, lawyers and, in maybe the weirdest turn in the book, even former Mossad agents to try to manipulate the outcome.
The latter entered the fray with Weinstein's engagement of Black Cube – a private intelligence unit recommended to him by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. That company specialised in the ominous-sounding art of "social engineering". In the Weinstein case, this meant using undercover agents to mine information from sources, and private detectives to trail journalists such as Farrow." |
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David
I dare you to try
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Interestingly, one of Jeffrey Epstein's key partners in crime was the daughter of a Mossad agent. I guess all Mafia bosses need their hired thugs. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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David
I dare you to try
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K
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watt price tully
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What'sinaname
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How long before Weinstein kills himself?
I'd be surprised if he sees out the year. _________________ Fighting against the objectification of woman. |
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What'sinaname
Joined: 29 May 2010 Location: Living rent free
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lol.....HW has chest pains to avoid prison.
Will definitely top himself if he sets foot in jail. _________________ Fighting against the objectification of woman. |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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I don't think he has any powerful friends or members of the English Royal family implicated in this, so "suicide" would be unlikely.
He'll end up in some minimum security arrangement with access to pretty much everything he has on the outside anyway. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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ronrat
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He is channelling Chistopher Skase. _________________ Annoying opposition supporters since 1967. |
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think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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stui magpie wrote: | I don't think he has any powerful friends or members of the English Royal family implicated in this, so "suicide" would be unlikely.
He'll end up in some minimum security arrangement with access to pretty much everything he has on the outside anyway. |
Yep that’s what I thought too! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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K
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Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years' jail |
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David
I dare you to try
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Wokko
Come and take it.
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Can't read it, paywall.
Why out of the thousands of false allegations, especially against male students do they go with one against a woman for the story? |
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K
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Wokko wrote: | ...
Can't read it, paywall.
Why out of the thousands of false allegations, especially against male students do they go with one against a woman for the story? |
Funny thing is, you can listen to it! They have audio on that page, and it sounds like it's not caught by the paywall. (But it's a long listen.)
The answer to your question is (probably): it was proven false in a court of law, and the partner of the victim (who teaches creative non-fiction and is a former news reporter) wrote this story.
Update: no, it didn't go to court but was settled. The settlement allowed the victims to say whatever they wanted about it, but not to disclose the villain's name. (The villain is a gay man who was competing with the victim's partner for a job that the victim's partner was offered instead of him.)
One of the reader comments (these are not behind a paywall either):
"Dr Peter Nelson
Sydney Australia8h ago
The perpetrator of the fraudulent accusations is a psychopathic and should have been identified. I say this as a psychologist who spent years assessing criminal offenders for the district court of New South Wales, Australia. Typically, they lack empathy and they are completely instrumental in their dealings with others. In other words they treat others as objects on a chess board and, as this perpetrator did, they escalate and commit whatever acts required to cover their tracks. Your worry about him committing an act of self-harm was misguided. He was (and is) more likely to harm others in order to protect himself. For this reason I believe he should have been publicly outed, so that he is known and trackable. Next time he may well go to a greater extreme, than merely generating additional false identities, to cover his tracks." |
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