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The Supreme Court will decide if Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots

• Published January 5, 2024, 5:10 PM EST | Washington, D.C.

NEWS By Associated Press
The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign.

The justices acknowledged the need to reach a decision quickly, as voters will soon begin casting presidential primary ballots across the country. The court agreed to take up a case from Colorado stemming from Trump's role in the events that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Arguments will be held in early February."


More to follow as things unfold..... news worth following.

The first two batches of unsealed Jeffrey Epstein court documents reveal a number of high-profile individuals whose names appeared multiple times in various materials, including footnotes.
Among them are two former US presidents – Donald Trump and Bill Clinton – and Prince Andrew, all three of whom have been pictured with and known to associate with the disgraced financier in the past.
Other names include lawyer Alan Dershowitz and magician David Copperfield.
However, being identified through the court documents does not necessarily mean that the individual was involved in or aware of any wrongdoing by Epstein.
Unsurprisingly, Epstein’s partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell is one of the names that appears the most - 208 times in the first tranche.
The British socialite’s name appears in full 20 times, due to the files being part of a 2015 US defamation case by Virginia Giuffre against her. The name “Maxwell” appears 849 times, though this is some times in reference to legal matters and footnotes.
References to Maxwell were made throughout the documents, with various other witnesses being asked about her involvement with Epstein in their separate testimonies.
The second tranche of documents contained the name Maxwell 352 times.
She is currently serving 20 years in prison, having been convicted sex-trafficking underage girls in June 2022.
Prince Andrew - 110
Prince Andrew has been named 110 times accross both sets of documents.
Bill Clinton - 83
Clinton’s name is mentioned 83 times in the documents so far. Both he and Andrew are known to have been associated with Epstein previously.
Part of the testimony from Ms Sjoberg alleges that Epstein once told her that Clinton “likes them young” – referring to girls.
Donald Trump - 4
Clinton is not the only former commander-in-chief to appear in the documents. Donald Trump was named in the first batch, though only four times.
In part of Ms Sjoberg’s testimony, she claimed Epstein once “called up” the former president and visited one of his casinos after his private plane was diverted to Atlantic City in New Jersey.
Elsewhere, Ms Sjoberg was asked if she ever gave Mr Trump a massage, to which she replied “no”.
Magician David Copperfield - 6
US magician David Copperfield was named six times in the first set of documents, having reportedly had dined with Epstein on occasion.
Copperfield’s relationship with Epstein has previously been noted, including in a 2019 article from The New York Times, which described Maxwell’s role in acquiring young girls for the disgraced financier.
Hollywood stars
Other big Hollywood names have also appeared in the documents, though mostly just once or twice during Ms Sjoberg’s testimony.
She is asked about meeting guests at Epstein’s residence, including Star Wars creator George Lucas – who is mentioned once – and actor Kevin Spacey, who is mentioned twice. Ms Sjoberg says she does not remember meeting either man.
She also does not remember meeting British supermodel Naomi Campbell, who is named once in the documents.
Late King of Pop Michael Jackson is also named twice, after Ms Sjolberg is asked if she met “anybody famous” while with Epstein. She said she did meet Jackson.
Alan Dershowitz - 166
Epstein’s lawyer Alan Dershowitz is also named over 100 times, though in some places this is simply in footnotes referring to legal matters.
Sharon Churcher - 324
British journalist Sharon Churcher has made over 300 appearances in the second tranche of documents, released on Thursday.
Ms Churcher was the sole source of regarding the original Epstein story from Giuffre, according to the response filing. Maxwell also claimed she helped Virginia Giuffre “concoct” s*xual assault allegations against the Duke of York.

Link: www. Independent.co.uk

Why unbelievers do not believe in God? God is Good and love.
They say God is not good,and so they find many reasons to not believe in God, they hate God.
Why? who give hate and doing against God? is the devil who is rebelled against God, so he mislead and deceive them.
So everybody need God, so don,t let to be late, and to go in hell to suffer so terribly.
But take bible and believe and obey God and you will be saved from sin and from evil.
Love God with all heart.., and love your neighbours as your self (love all people).
This if you do will lead you to be saved and lead you to eternal life.
So God is Good therefore he fight evil .
Evil do not fight evil and can,t do good !
So God do no evil, He is perfect and do good.
Evil do not do good, he is imperfect and do no good but do all evil and sin !
So come to God
God bless.

On Wednesday, a Nevada man who was denied probation over charges of attempted battery, leaps over the bench to take down the judge and punches out the Marshall as 3 men tried to subdue him. He was airborne for 2 seconds and she saw him coming but couldn't get out of the way.
He was due back in court today but I'm waiting to hear the followup story. I doubt the court would be willing to release the man any time soon, as one comment stated attacking a judge is a felony offense... you never know.



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This comment was made to me about a prolific blogger and the number 1 scammer spotter here on CS



Never heard it used in that context before , but I couldn't stop laughing ??
As it fits him perfectly



as always JMHO

If we look closely, every person in the world is suffering from this disease. Our personality keeps changing according to our feelings. When anger, hatred, greed, ego, fear, lust, etc. dominate us, our behavior changes completely, and it affects our life also. Similarly, when good feelings awaken within us, our behavior also becomes good. Our personality depends on our good and bad feelings.
If we could control our feelings, we can get a stable personality and a stable life.

As shown in the below video, India has greatly decreased the amount of oil it buys from Russia. There are multiple reasons for this and the video touches on them. At the same time, although India had initially claimed neutrality in Russia's illegal invasion and war with Ukraine, in the past month numerous sharp eyed persons have begun noticing (and posting photos of) 155 mm artillery shells being used by Ukraine that bear unmistakable evidence that they have been supplied to Ukraine by India.
My impression is India did not want to pick a side to back until which side would win became more clear. At the same time there was a financial incentive to buy Russian oil and oil products at a huge discount while waiting to see which side would win the war. Clearly India has decided the winner of the conflict will not be Russia.

Once again, I didn't listen to the "little voice in my head", which told me to prepare individual presents for my workmates. I didn't do this, as I think making it individual is too personal, and I do this only for friends and family.

My last night at work before Christmas, was the 17 December. I like the team I'm working with, so same as the year before, I prepared a "thank you present" this time a crate of 5 kg clementine and about 1.5 kg small chocolates for the whole team. I bought all this with my own money.

The muslim guy working the evening shift said he doesn't eat sweets, but took a few clementine before leaving, that was ok. I told him that the present was for everyone. On the morning of 18/12, before going home, I presented the present to the morning staff... people who I've been working with for almost 2 years. They were happy and thanked me.

I returned to work on the 26, and everything was gone, even the presents we got from the families of the people we take care of. Last year, there was still some available, even until the new year.

On Monday night, first night in the new year, one of my workmates for almost 2 years, who is also one of the women who received the Xmas gift, told me that on the morning of the 19/12, there was nothing left of my present to them, but 2 others had had their boxes filled with clementines.

Tuesday morning, before leaving work, I asked another long time workmate, if she had gotten anything from the present, she replied "no", but 2 others were eating lots of clementines on the days after I had left the present.

This pi$$ed me off, made me upset and very, very angry, to the point that, not even listening to a book on the way home (I usually do this to and from work) calmed me down. I had breakfast, showered, went to bed, but couldn't sleep, I was crying, I kept thinking of what those 2 young muslim men had done. As they were working yesterday afternoon, I felt like instead of sleeping, I'd go back to work and confront about their behaviour.

Not wanting to cause problems, as I know I would have done, being as angry as I was (If i cry when I'm angry, it means I've reached, or am almost to "the point of no return"). I called and talked to one of my bosses, who calmed me down and I was able to sleep, but she said when I talk to the 2 men, to do it in a calm way, and say it wasn't nice of them, to do what they had done.

Some days before Xmas, I was talking to those 2 men and they said they don't celebrate Xmas, as it isn't part of their religion or culture.

My point with this blog is, why the hell did they eat and or even take home all of what I had left as a Xmas present for everyone...9 including then both. I've been working with the team for almost 2 years, 1 of those men started working with us 4, the other 2 months ago, which is also the same amount if time they've been working in the nursing home.... You don't celebrate Xmas, but your should still have something called a conscience, and respect for others and their cultures.

I'm not sure if I'll see them the 2 nights I'm working next week, but 1 thing is for sure, even if I'm off duty when they're working, I'm going to go to work and have a serious conversation with them about this. Not only that, I'l tell then that before their ramadan begins, they have to buy a big cake for the team. I'm not going to threaten them, just say it in a nice friendly way, whilst hiding the "poison" behind my smiles.