Editor’s Note: Starship Earth is putting a great article here based on this week’s report by Benjamin Fulford who is keeping us more aware of those things happening in the background as our world changes…for the better!
The unawakened mass consciousness of the world truly needs to become aware of the horrific actions of those who have long pulled the strings of our lives. True evil is at the core of current control and WILL BE STOPPED.
The full report of Benjamin is available now to those who have registered on his website, https://benjaminfulford.net, with only a preview available at this time who are unregistered (haven’t paid). That being said, typically, the full report is available on Disclosure News Italia which I bring to your attention on Tuesdays.
I do not know the timetable for action, but please prepare yourselves for our shocking reality, read this article, know full truth is a hair’s breadth away, and…
The push seems to be on to educate the world about who has been running things in the past and the problem which needs to be assimilated and addressed.
America, in particular, must be apprised posthaste and have at least a rudimentary understanding that the upcoming arrests are warranted and NECESSARY to protect society from the predators who have hidden themselves in our midst.
We can’t have the stupefied masses off their heads when arrests or martial law, if enacted, are announced. If the public understands their safety and their children’s is threatened then perhaps they will be more accepting of the disruptions and in a position to ignore the screams of the traitorous lamestream media to oppose Trump, etc.
In fact, none will probably protest more loudly than the talking heads, since they are infiltrated at the highest levels with sexual deviants, as evidenced by the recent dismissals/resignations of Les Moonves and Don Hazen due to sexual allegations by multiple women—and that’s only the tip of the iceberg within the lamestream media.
Patriotic Americans have been betrayed and are about to learn that their precious John McCain was most likely executed after a secret military tribunal, in part due to his role in Arizona’s human trafficking and pedophilia. He was one of many actors playing multiple roles. These people aren’t who we think they are and they protect each other. Who do you think the “elite” are? They’re in the “club”.
Despite mainstream coverage in Canada, Norway, and other nations, the public is still largely unaware that law enforcement have unearthed multiple child trafficking rings in the world wide web of predation, and that ain’t the half of it.
It’s about to get very ugly within church and state across the planet. The denial has to stop.
Not surprisingly, there IS a word for these sub-humans. Pedovores. They may look Human, but they are not.
Ben has linked the macabre “snuff film” that the New York Police Department released—because no one seemed inclined to take action against Hillary Clinton despite the thousands of children missing every day.
Initially the footage was limited to the “dark web”. Now the authorities will have no choice. Enough! It’s goin’ down. The sooner we get this morbid truth out there, the sooner we can deal with it, get on with the tearing down of a sick society, and rebuild.
Thank you for putting it out there, Ben. Someone has to.
Next, we need the FISA documents (UNREDACTED) released to exonerate the President. Then, the sealed indictments can be processed and arrests made. Drain the swamp! ~ BP
The world is about to learn about Khazarian mafia crimes horrific beyond imagination
October 8, 2018
by Benjamin Fulford
The Khazarian mafia have been torturing, murdering, and cannibalizing children on a horrific scale, and the world is about to find out as military tribunals begin. Some very disturbing images and testimony sent by the New York Police Department and the CIA show just how evil the Khazarian mafia really is. These people are beyond truth and reconciliation and do not deserve even a quick death.
The photographs below, sent by the CIA, are linked to CNN star and FRB Vanderbilt heir Anderson Cooper and may give a hint as to what happened to at least some of these children.
Even more gruesome is the video still-shot linked below that was sent to the CIA via courier by the NYPD. It shows a young girl whose face was allegedly peeled off by Hillary Clinton in a satanic ritual. Be warned, it is graphic and I stopped watching shortly after the 2 minute mark. https://youtu.be/zIbY6jyQpJ8
Now I begin the understand the look of sheer horror on the face of George Soros when I asked him a question at a press conference about the families that own the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). He had probably seen some of this sort of stuff firsthand.
The prosecution of these criminals is set to finally start now that the U.S. military government backing President Donald Trump has secured a majority on the Supreme Court with the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Pentagon sources say. “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has already met with the real special prosecutor, U.S. Attorney John Huber in Utah, so that the 57,000 indictments may be unsealed,” the sources explain.
“The seating of Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court should unleash declassification of FISA and other documents as well as military tribunals,” the sources say. Furthermore they add, “The Senate unanimously approved a resolution calling for declassification of 9/11 documents, so the stage is set to take down the Zionists and the deep state.”
Another aspect to starting the prosecution of these criminals is the ongoing U.S./Russian military action against the rogue state of Israel, the sources say. In particular, “Russian electronic warfare is aimed … (to be continued later this week, per Ben’s request)
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White Rabbit News brings us this update on the”violent pedophiles” now exposed every day—including in mainstream media. See his video below this post.
A number of people are coming out very strongly now to validate the “rumours” that high profile people in all sectors of society are involved in not only pedophilia, but torture and other violent acts, as well as murder.
Isaac Kappy is one of the ones who can’t remain silent, or live with the thought of what the violent pedophiles do to children.
Much of the disclosure is coming through Hollywood and the entertainment industry because that is a hotbed of satanic cults, but also because the world has such a worship mentality around sports and entertainment figures. It’s only fitting that they would be the ones to try to reach the public.
Of course various members of that industry will rally to defend certain parties and do damage control, but the time has come when people must remove the blinders and see the world for what it is—not that everyone in Hollywood is a villain. There are far more victims than villains, but the industry is rife with sexual abuse, drugs, alcohol and mind control. Many have sold their soul in exchange for stardom, worship, and money.
What people will next have to grasp is that the scourge of pedophilia has global reach and involves people in our local communities as well. These degenerates are criminals and protect each other so it’s up to the People to expose this from top to bottom; from Vatican to Planned Parenthood to your local schools. You will want to deny it, but it’s there.
Don’t miss this astounding update from Italy…
Leo Zagami Updates Infowars About Latest Sexual Depravity Scandals Coming From Vatican
Brave folks who have spoken of these things and named names are in danger. May they be protected, because they are corroborating the testimony of those who came before them, as well as their contemporaries. It’s real, it’s repugnant, and it’s hurting millions of innocent people. Every day this parasitic “lifestyle” is allowed to flourish means thousands more victims—many of them children—and deaths.
Actor Keanu Reeves told us he saw the body of a baby in a refrigerator at a Hollywood party and people doubted it. Corey Haim and Corey Feldman were abused by Hollywood pedophiles and their story came out as well but what was done about it? Angelina Jolie revealed in an old video her experiences prior to the age of 23 with violent cult practices. Unfortunately, in Hollywood the allure of stardom and power is too much to resist in many cases. Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll is nothing compared to what’s really going on in the entertainment industry.
Why have so many celebrities died under mysterious circumstances—particularly very recently? There are very good reasons for this yet most people seem content to accept the suspicious, sketchy stories the media offers. Many people are ‘suicided’ either just before or just after they decide to tell the truth about pedophilia involving high profile people.
Ben Szemkus recently exposed high profile names at a NXIVM recruitment party and he is now missing. Of course mentioning party guests like Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s long-time aide, her estranged husband, convicted pedophile Anthony Weiner, and the disgraced Eric Schneiderman, politician and former Attorney General for New York State, might make Szemkus a big target.
When WikiLeaks made us aware of FBI files involving satanic pedophilic symbols used in Washington, DC and we read some of the emails released from John Podesta to various parties in the US government, the location Comet Ping Pong and Pizza came up. The media made fun of it, the deep state sent in a nut-job patsy with a gun to deflect the attention and validity and the story almost died.
Thanks to real investigative journalists in the alternative media, from there we learned of the underground tunnel and refrigerated, concrete “kill room” under Comet Ping Pong, and many visits by the owner, James Alefantis, to the White House when Barack Obama was President. Hillary Clinton said she loved going to Comet Ping Pong. No one wanted to
admit the story laid out before us could be real. But it was. Psychopaths have no compunction about lying to cover their tracks.
So many people who have attempted to expose the corruption and Satanic ritual abuse and pedophilia have been silenced. What will it take to bust it all wide open, once and for all?
The Illuminati are not a myth. Look at the flagrant Satanic symbolism starlets and pop stars engage in at half-time shows. Ordinary folks many not consciously recognize Baphomet the goat god and his horns, the upside-down pentagram, the black and red colour scheme, the sexual innuendo, stylized 666, one-eyed gestures, vulgar “dance moves”… but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist—for a reason. These shows with millions of television viewers are often real-time rituals the Satanists believe bring them power and shape future events.
Real people and real victims have come forward many times over the years to share their stories. I, and many others like me have shared them for them, and readers here for the most part are aware of the situation, but we have to take this outside the limited enclosure of the Truth Media. We have to break through to the outside. Social media can do that.
The mainstream media is not going to tell the public about pedophilia any more than they will tell them about the plot to murder President Trump, to vilify President Putin, the poisons in vaccines, water and food, the racketeering in Washington, DC or anything else the psychopaths do. The deep state is desperate to cover their asses now, hence the distractions over President Trump and what he has or hasn’t done.
It’s up to the Independent Media to get the word out. From there, folks can share lightning-fast on social media. It’s important, and we can all play a role in the exposure of the endemic evil and subsequent cleansing of our society and our planet. It doesn’t cost anything and takes but a minute. The price to pay for remaining silent and doing nothing, however, is incalculable.
Don’t worry about “shadow banning”. They can’t stop everyone. Overwhelm the system.
Pick a video or article you like and share widely.
Patriots can also visit the corporate media websites and in the comments ask them why they aren’t addressing these pedophilia issues and link to articles and videos. Hammer them. That’s how you let people outside the Truth movement know about these things. They will see them and explore out of curiosity.
People must begin to connect the dots. The evidence is overwhelming at this point.
The energies are on our side now to shine a light on evil and begin to repair the damage. Human trafficking must stop. Let’s not leave courageous souls like Isaac Kappy hanging out to dry. MEGA ~ BP
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ith respect to the first story below, we’re going to see almost every happy memory we have of our childhoods ripped to shreds when they reveal everything about our reality… so sad. Nothing was what it seemed and Thomas Williams cautions us that what we are now seeing in the alternative media about pedophilia, pedovores, satanic blood rituals and cannibalism is a mere scratch on the surface of the deep pool of Humanity’s fate at the hands of the psychopaths.
I adored Shirley Temple and took the entertainment at face value. I hadn’t thought about that recently, but was forced to when I saw the post below from the Crazz Files.
I continue to listen to David Hawkins of ‘Abel Danger’ spill his guts in the series, “The Greatest Conspiracy Ever Told” and this weekend I learned the details of JonBenét Ramsey’s final minutes. My mind is far too visual for disturbing details like that but we have to steel ourselves, shed our tears for the innocent, and accept the reality.
What the predators have done to Humanity is unforgivable. Most of us treat the fauna on our planet better than these monsters treat Human Beings.
We will do what we must to bring all this knowledge to the fore and see to it that we are never taken advantage of again.
The battle for Planet Earth/Terra/Midgard is sounding like it’s in the final stages, so dig in, stay strong, continue to share the reality of it and support those who are in the trenches putting their lives on the line in whatever ways you can. ~ BP
Shirley Temple and the Disturbing History of Baby Burlesque
Jewish Hollywood’s promotion of pedophilia is nothing new, but can be seen on full display in the Shirley Temple shorts of the 1930s.
Toronto Danforth Shooter: Ties to Chemical Weapons Stockpile?
It’s always the same: “known to law enforcement”. Of course he was. It was another orchestrated terror attack.
See the video…
Crazy flooding again this year in India…
According to data provided by India’s National Emergency Response Center, heavy monsoon rains and floods they caused since the start of the 2018 Southwest Monsoon season have claimed lives of more than 570 people. Floods have affected millions of people and destroyed thousands of homes. 13 persons are still missing.
570 Deaths After Monsoons Sweep India
The Missing 13th Amendment from the American Constitution
We’ve talked about this “missing” amendment before. It’s fascinating. They conveniently eliminated it early on because they needed lawyers to take over the government. If you look, you’ll find that nearly every member of the government is/was an attorney. Barack Obama… lawyer. Michael Robinson Obama… lawyer. Hillary Clinton… patent attorney. Bill Clinton, attorney. Trey Gowdy, attorney. Joe Biden, attorney. Mike Pence, lawyer, and how many lawyers in the SES—400 or something?
That sleight of hand that enabled the modification to the Constitution that they slid by the American public was instrumental in the downfall and subversion of the People’s government. They speak and write in a language only “they” understand, treat us like domesticated animals who need to be “represented” in their kangaroo courts because we’re too stupid to translate and comprehend their BS law of the sea and statutes. They ensured everything they wanted to do was “legal” and knew all the loopholes they’d created.
I understand President Trump has been advised to dump the Admiralty gold-fringed and tasseled flags in favour of ‘Old Glory’. The Republic of America only relates to Law of the Land—no gold fringe! Anyone know if there was a purchase order for a large number of flags for the White House recently?
Missing 13th Amendment Found: “No Lawyers In Public Office”
TLB Editors Note: This article was originally published several years ago, but has not seen much daylight (as it should). What is presented here is more chronicling of the tyranny and treason being forced down … Continue reading
Missing 13th Amendment Found: “No Lawyers In Public Office”
The Liberty Beacon
Thomas Williams hosted another super, uplifting THI show last night, none the worse for wear after being punted by the “clowns” from the July 12th show far too early. He provided much-needed perspective of the “news”, some interesting intel, and a few laughs, as always. The ThemTube version is below. The audio at Spreaker is here. Suggest you take it in.
Nice to see some awakened people re-sharing the intel Thomas bring us. It only took 5 years, lol. This excerpt in the link is from the July 19 show.
Some highlights of the July 29 THI show, off the top of my head…
President Trump has officially “recognized” the letter from ” the Manna World Trust team” delivered to the White House in January advising that the Republic is now sovereign and he has since announced his plan to “seize the Fed”. Now, THAT’s progress!
Trump has also announced that he has no reservations about shutting down the Federal Government if the Democrats refuse to fund the Wall. Of course WE know the Trust is funding the Wall, so this is all smoke and mirrors necessary to facilitate what needs to be done and have it understood by the public. The media will have their way with it, no doubt, and we’ll learn the exact strategy after the fact.
The clowns attempted to pull off an RV three times last week, which of course failed, as it always has and always will. The cabal whacked 2,000 of their own in the past month, and since the minions were unable to trigger the RV for the umpteenth time, we expect more executions over that. Have at ‘er. Thomas says we will see more “RV people” stepping down, as a result. (those claiming there will be one “tomorrow”, tonight, next week…)
The United Nations has announced they’re running out of funds because member nations aren’t paying their dues. Of course WE know…the UN was seized and dissolved by the Team but the psychopaths continue to pretend nothing has changed membership fees for the United Nations were always illegal
Kim and the team confiscated the funds collected by the UN as membership dues and returned them to the originating countries and they will not be paying any dues. Period.
Bye-bye UN.
The psychotic media is telling the world that the Americans are going to start WWIII with Iran. That is pure fantasy generated by the propaganda arm of the deep state, of course, to make the Trump administration look bad. America will not attack anyone, and there will be no WWIII. Not now. Not ever. Get over it. When have Trump’s negotiations ever failed? Nothing is what it seems.
Since nothing the cabal does to secure funds works, they are beyond desperate. They managed to loot 1.8B from the Fed last week. The good news is, that was one more “secret access program” of theirs they have revealed to Kim and the team which is now shut down so it cannot be repeated.
There has been an ongoing process like this with the Trust funds, time and again. The psychopaths had many, many ways to steal money from many sources, and most of them have been shut down by the Quantum system so they cannot use that avenue again. They still have a few tricks up their sleeve, apparently, but each time a secret access is revealed that option is removed, permanently.
You know what else the Quantum system can do? It can send a looped message to the cabal… 24/7… like this… which it did—to the Rothschild thieves. (I love the sing-a-long part of the show.) If that message wasn’t written directly to the cabal, I don’t know what was.
At some point soon, they will have exhausted all avenues to rip off the People, will no longer be able to block the global Trust and the funds can then be released for Humanitarian Aid projects. Kim and the team are not indiscriminately holding back any funds; they are continually fighting off the fraudulent efforts of the dark to steal the funds. As soon as it’s safe to do so, they will release the funds. As Trustees, they take their job to protect the Trust on our behalf very seriously. To throw it all away now would be asinine, reckless and irresponsible.
It has been grueling and dangerous work to fight the banks, gather up 6,500 individual global trusts into the one and fund as required to prevent a global economic collapse. FYI, none of those trusts were called St. Germaine or Wanta.
Ironically, despite the death threats and assassination and abduction attempts, Kim had a message for us yesterday. She thanked US—the THI gang—for reminding her why she does what she does. Can you imagine; Kim thanking US? Kim was instrumental in much of the key work that dismantled the cabal. Without she and the team, we would not be enjoying the good news we’re getting these days. Our hats are off to you, Kim and Co. We can never thank you enough. Ditto to Thomas.
If there’s ever any doubt as to whether the lamestream media is complicit in the brainwashing and anesthetizing of the public, consider this: a US military missile was fired on American soil with the intent to shoot Airforce One and the President of the United States out of the sky while enroute to meet with Chairman Kim Jong-un to seal the Peace agreement and denuclearization of North Korea.
The missile was shot down mid-air by F-16s—and according to recent QAnon intel, equipped with a C-5 special weapons package enabling them to do that, as normally it is not possible. If you believe there is no civil war or revolution ongoing in America—think again.
The corporate media networks completely ignored that mind-blowing act of war and sedition on POTUS while the Independent/Truth Media made it widely public. Who are they protecting? It’s not rocket science—the rogue military that reports to the Rothschilds—and until the “US military” reports to the Republic, we can expect the chemtrails and weather weapons to continue.
The cabal’s media live in a dreamworld. They don’t report on what’s happening. They convey a fabricated world of fabricated events designed to manipulate the public and unseat President Trump and his administration. They protect the rogue agencies who seek to destroy the patriot movement to make America great again. They want the world comfortably numb to what’s really unfolding. For a few, it works.
The pedophilia/human trafficking aspect of life on our planet has far-reaching tentacles that will take down an astounding number of prominent figures and it will be noisy, so prepare for that. The proof is in the news every day now, without fail.
Thomas cautioned us again to do our inner work; to get shielded, calm and centered because from here on it will be “bedlam”. That’s encouraging! For help with that, visit the Think Different website and access the tools.
We’re coasting to some degree at the moment… but that holding pattern is about to end. There are a lot of things developing in the background that cannot be revealed on the show. Yet. Patience. It’s happening.
MEGA ~ Making Earth Great Again ~ BP
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The news is gushing in from across the planet and I will have less and less commentary as the flow increases.
Therefore, I will limit my lengthier input and individual posts to isolated events.
Thanks to everyone for sharing. The disinfo is thick, the trolls and shills are working overtime and you’re on your own to decide what is true and what isn’t.
The controllers are messing with YouTube and blog subscriptions among other things, so be sure to check from time to time that you have not been unsubscribed. You should be getting more and more news updates, just as I am—not less.
I will be adding a text intel update from Thomas Williams later. He has told us that South America will be in the news more and more, which it is, and that there will be a lot more “suicides”. If you can’t wait, the video version of the Truth, Honor & Integrity Show for June 7 is here. You can also listen at Spreaker.com.
I also have another dedicated post coming for additional child porn/sex trafficking stories. “A fludd approaches”. ~ Q/Cicada 3301 ~ BP
What a mess. Mud flowed right up to the eaves on the house in the foreground, but this is minor compared to the devastation in Guatemala. (below)
I’m getting flashbacks from my visit to Pompeii, Italy; the visions in my mind of the people suddenly frozen in time going about their daily life when Mt. Vesuvius buried the town in hot ash in AD 79.
Horrific Satellite Photos Reveal Entire Towns Obliterated by Guatemala Volcano
Farm worker Alfonso Castillo, 33, said his village of San Miguel Los Lotes was completely obliterated by what he described as a ‘sea’ of muck that came crashing into homes, inundating people, pets and wildlife.
‘In a matter of three or four minutes the village disappeared,’ he said.
Celebrity sacrifices. This seems to be their MO when we start focusing on the really nasty stuff. Kate Spade, and now this? Kate Spade, sister-in-law to actor David Spade, working with the Clinton Foundation in Haiti… need we say more?
Thomas Williams tells us there are plenty of El-ites now wanting to rat on their own, expecting immunity from preying on children if they fess up. Uh… no. It doesn’t work that way. No deals for pedophiles/pedovores/perverts. You prey on our children, you do the time.
The European monarchies are rife with satanic ritual abuse, pedophilia, crimes against Humanity and coverups. Their despicable acts will be almost impossible for the average Human to comprehend.
Dutch Queen’s Sister Found Dead, was Linked to Rothschild, UN Research, Argentina Youth Program
Chris Ken Simpson
Streamed live 17 hours ago
Ines Zorreguieta, 33, sister of Dutch Queen Maxima was found dead in her apartment in Buenos Aires. Zorreguieta had died of an alleged hanging, which a palace spokesman described as a “suspected suicide.” Queen Maxima has cancelled all upcoming engagements and will be travelling to Argentina for her sisters funeral.
The Zorreguieta family was both controversial and extremely well connected. Queen Maxima was a recent attendee of the Davos conference, as spotted by a reporter from The Telegraph at the 2016 meeting who described seeing, “Nat Rothschild and HM Queen Maxima of the Netherlands mingled with Marc Bolland, the outgoing chief executive of Marks & Spencer, Jamie Dimon, the chairman of JP Morgan, and Sir Mike Rake, the chairman of BT Group, to name but a few.”
Jorge Zorreguita, father of both Ines and Queen Maxima, was Argentina’s Agricultural Minister under the regime of General Jorge Rafeal Videla, who was responsible for “large-scale human rights abuses and crimes against humanity that took place under his rule, including kidnappings or forced disappearance, widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of activists and political opponents as well as their families at secret concentration camps. An estimated 5,000[1]-30,000[2] political dissidents vanished during this period.”
Ines Zorreguita was a psychologist who had worked as a researcher for the United Nations, and for Argentina’s Ministry of Social Development, related to the National Secretariat for Children, Youth, and Family.
Zorreguita’s Ministry of Social Development, also ran a program with PepsiCO and FUNDES starting in 2016, which according to Pepsi’s website “Together with FUNDES Latin America, PepsiCo will offer professional training and will seek to integrate women into local value chains, as employees or entrepreneurs. PepsiCo Latin America will also aim to create local public-private networks to guarantee the sustainability and growth of the program, while FUNDES Latin America will create a digital platform that will serve as a center to train women and create a link with them.”
The information war is literally raging. Are people heeding our warnings? Snopes is run by the CIA – Langley. It is not a place to seek the truth, but some have been programmed to do that and it’s top of mind. It’s a habit that needs to be broken.
The idea that someone could easily dismiss the allegations of rampant child trafficking among America’s elite as a conspiracy theory is irresponsible at best, and complicit at worst.
And… Facebook has weaponized Wikipedia, so we don’t go there unless it’s for the most basic of information that can’t be slanted or wouldn’t really matter.
The Bilderberg Meeting is proving to be even more challenging this year for independent journalists. Intimidation is the name of the game and secrecy is paramount to the globalists as they seek to plan our future.
The Tucson Child Trafficking story is a major event, and despite the lies, coverups and smear campaigns, it’s legit. The Veterans On Patrol (VOP) team has not revealed everything they found, and this must be handled carefully.
It is what it appears to be, with bulldozing and fires, probably to conceal evidence. Tucson is a Rothschild-owned town, and the Cicada 3301/Q prophecy from March 2017 is becoming a reality, but we are making efforts not to sensationalize it, and stick to facts. Vilifying the vets (VOP) is not going to work and there is far too much coverage of this on the Internet to censor or scrub. It’s only going to get bigger, from the sound of it. The web of corruption and immorality is in shreds.
Now we begin to see it start happening! Yes! Please read this report from Starship Earth, see the Zero Hedge Report below, be glad the tide is just beginning to turn for the dark on our Earth, and…
Wow. No one can call THIS “fake news”. Draining the swamp, indeed! Folks will soon realize “pizzagate” wasn’t fake news, either.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. The NYPD are itching to get their hands on the pedophiles and pedovores after viewing the revolting video of Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin and their shocking treatment of a young girl that made seasoned police veterans sob and vomit. Look at this guy. He’s laughing. Psychopaths, the whole lot.
This is already the best invested 1 minute of my day. Thanks, Number One! Next—Hillary Clinton! ~ BP
680 NEWS
Published on May 25, 2018
Harvey Weinstein left the New York police department precinct in handcuffs Friday after he was arrested, processed and charged with rape, criminal sex act, sex abuse and sexual misconduct for incidents involving two separate women.
As reported earlier, Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to the New York Police Department at the First Precinct in Tribeca this morning to be arrested and face criminal charges stemming from multiple sexual assault allegations.
Weinstein, who is facing years behind bars, is likely looking at first degree and third degree rape charges and a first degree criminal sexual act charge from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Weinstein arrived amid a throng of media and onlookers gathered at the police station, with NYPD barricades up to separate them from the disgraced Hollywood producer as he was escorted inside. He was not handcuffed.
As reported earlier, Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to the New York Police Department at the First Precinct in Tribeca this morning to be arrested and face criminal charges stemming from multiple sexual assault allegations.
As detailed previously, although he has been accused by approximately 80 women, the charges apparently center on three incidents within the Empire State’s statute of limitations: former Boardwalk Empire actor Paz de la Huerta has claimed that Weinstein raped her twice in 2010, and a 2004 occurrence where college student Lucia Evans said the Hollywood mogul compelled her to perform oral sex on him.
As Deadline reports, after being booked at the Lower Manhattan precinct, Weinstein and lawyer Benjamin Brafman will next head to nearby criminal court for an arraignment hearing later today to enter a plea. At the hearing, a predetermined bail of $1 million will be set, and Weinstein’s passport will be handed over to authorities due to flight-risk concerns. As part of the process of the criminal complaint, the producer could be ordered to wear a monitoring device.
“Mr. Weinstein has always maintained that he has never engaged in nonconsensual sexual acts,” Brafman has said repeatedly when defending his client in the court of public opinion. Silent when word of today’s arrest went public Thursday, the attorney will now have to make the case for Weinstein’s innocence in the court of law.
Coming just more than six months since Weinstein’s allegedly vile behavior was first exposed by the New York Times in early October, today’s actions by Cyrus Vance Jr’s Manhattan D.A.’s office are the first criminal charges the Shakespeare In Love producer has been hit with. They come following months of investigation by police in various jurisdictions, districts attorney on both coasts and the Department of Justice.
Amid the revelations of decades of sexual abuse and assault against Weinstein, the fallout has been swift. He was pushed out of the company he co-founded with his brother Robert on October 17 after TWC’s besieged board voted to ratify his dismissal. Among a series of honors rescinded and repudiated by past recipients of his campaign donations, both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and TV Academy voted to cast out the once dominating Weinstein.
More recently, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has been looking into Weinstein’s actions. They opened a sex-crimes investigation to probe whether the producer crossed state lines with the intent of committing an assault in New York and violated laws to prevent sex trafficking.
Weinstein is being investigated by the LAPD, who sent three cases to the L.A. County D.A. on February 8. As UK police continue their probe, the Beverly Hills Police passed two cases of sexual assault to Jackie Lacey’s office on January 2. There are also nearly a dozen lawsuits filed in the courts against Weinstein from some of the dozens and dozens of women who have gone public in the past several months with their allegations of assault or harassment by the producer.
Or, all of the above summarized:
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EARLIER
After months of waiting, disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has turned himself in to the police to be charged with rape on Friday in New York City. Live feed from New York below:
Manhattan prosecutors are expected to charge the former Weinstein Company executive with first-degree and third-degree rape in one case, and a first-degree sex act in a second case.
As we reported on Thursday, NBC revealed that a state grand jury is convening in Manhattan in connection with the multiple sex abuse allegations which originated in New York, according to sources familiar with the case. This as simultaneously federal prosecutors have opened their own sex crimes case.
A grand jury in New York has been convened and witnesses are being called in connection with sex abuse allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, several sources familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
The sources say that a state grand jury in Manhattan will hear evidence in the Weinstein case which is being presented with witness testimony and other evidence.
Since the New York Times first published explosive allegations of sexual assault based on interviews with multiple of his celebrity female victims, more than 60 women have accused the 65-year old movie mogul of sexual misconduct, though it remains unclear how many have gone to the police. Since then Weinstein has been dropped by his own studio, Miramax, which he co-founded and is now facing ongoing criminal investigations in multiple US jurisdictions as well as in London and France.
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In the meantime, even close associates and co-producers on Weinstein’s multiple blockbuster productions over the years have lately come forward to say “everybody fucking knew” what’s been described as “certain pattern of overly-aggressive behavior that was rather dreadful.” Celebrities including Rose McGowen, Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow, Uma Thurman and Salma Hayek have accused Weinstein of various improprieties, from unwanted advances to flat-out rape.
A spokesperson for the Manhattan D.A.’s office acknowledged to NBC that the case is “an advanced stage.” Weinstein’s team of attorneys— no doubt the best that his net worth of about $150 million can buy — have denied any claim of non-consensual sex.
But as NBC reports further, “The NYPD for months has been calling for Weinstein’s arrest, saying they had enough evidence to charge him in the alleged sexual abuse of Paz de la Huerta and Lucia Evans”— the likely subjects of the New York state grand jury proceedings.
And as The Hill explains, though two New York Police officials publicly stated Wednesday the NYPD is ready to arrest the former Hollywood producer, it is “just waiting for approval from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., whose office has been criticized for not previously charging Weinstein after allegations were brought against him in 2015.”
Huerta is the “Boardwalk Empire” actress who told CBS News in a November interview she was first raped in October 2010 after Weinstein gave her a ride home from a party – after which the Hollywood mogul insisted on having a drink in her apartment when he forced himself on her. She said he raped her again in December 2010 after coming to her apartment. She had been drinking and was not in a condition to give consent, the actress said in the interview.
Lucia Evans, then a college student and aspiring actress, alleged that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him inside his Tribeca office in 2004 — one of the instances which has long been known to be playing a key role in the NYPD’s investigation.
Crucially, New York State has no statute of limitations on rape and criminal sexual acts— its legal term for forced oral or anal intercourse. Rape in the first degree carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years in prison.
And according to a new WSJ report, federal investigators have simultaneously initiated a criminal probe into whether Weinstein “lured or induced any women to travel across state lines for the purpose of committing a sex crime,” as part of their inquiry. The WSJ reports further that the federal probe “comes amid frustration among some law-enforcement officials that local prosecutors haven’t brought charges.”
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Meanwhile, actress Gwyneth Paltrow has the same day that news of state and federal proceedings hit headlines revealed new stunning details of an altercation between her then-boyfriend Brad Pitt and Harvey Weinstein after Paltrow told Pitt she was sexually harassed by the powerful Miramax co-founder in the 1990’s.
“We had one instance in a hotel room where he [Weinstein] made a pass at me,” Paltrow told Stern. “It was out of the blue and I’ll tell you, I had been having the most incredible experience at Miramax,” and said further she was “blind-sided” by the incident. “I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” she said of the encounter.
She shared the details during an interview on Sirius XM’s The Howard Stern Show, revealing that as she and Pitt attended an opening night Broadway show of Hamlet in 1995, Pitt threw Weinstein against a wall and said: ‘If you ever make her feel uncomfortable again, I’ll kill you.’ Or something like that.”
“It was like the equivalent of throwing [Weinstein] against the wall, you know, energetically,” Paltrow explained of Pitt’s intervention. “It was so fantastic,” she said. “What he did was he leveraged his fame and power to protect me at a time when I didn’t have fame or power yet.” And added, “He’s the best.”
As detailed previously, although he has been accused by approximately 80 women, the charges apparently center on three incidents within the Empire State’s statute of limitations: former Boardwalk Empire actor Paz de la Huerta has claimed that Weinstein raped her twice in 2010, and a 2004 occurrence where college student Lucia Evans said the Hollywood mogul compelled her to perform oral sex on him.
As Deadline reports, after being booked at the Lower Manhattan precinct, Weinstein and lawyer Benjamin Brafman will next head to nearby criminal court for an arraignment hearing later today to enter a plea. At the hearing, a predetermined bail of $1 million will be set, and Weinstein’s passport will be handed over to authorities due to flight-risk concerns. As part of the process of the criminal complaint, the producer could be ordered to wear a monitoring device.
“Mr. Weinstein has always maintained that he has never engaged in nonconsensual sexual acts,” Brafman has said repeatedly when defending his client in the court of public opinion. Silent when word of today’s arrest went public Thursday, the attorney will now have to make the case for Weinstein’s innocence in the court of law.
Coming just more than six months since Weinstein’s allegedly vile behavior was first exposed by the New York Times in early October, today’s actions by Cyrus Vance Jr’s Manhattan D.A.’s office are the first criminal charges the Shakespeare In Love producer has been hit with. They come following months of investigation by police in various jurisdictions, districts attorney on both coasts and the Department of Justice.
Amid the revelations of decades of sexual abuse and assault against Weinstein, the fallout has been swift. He was pushed out of the company he co-founded with his brother Robert on October 17 after TWC’s besieged board voted to ratify his dismissal. Among a series of honors rescinded and repudiated by past recipients of his campaign donations, both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and TV Academy voted to cast out the once dominating Weinstein.
More recently, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has been looking into Weinstein’s actions. They opened a sex-crimes investigation to probe whether the producer crossed state lines with the intent of committing an assault in New York and violated laws to prevent sex trafficking.
Weinstein is being investigated by the LAPD, who sent three cases to the L.A. County D.A. on February 8. As UK police continue their probe, the Beverly Hills Police passed two cases of sexual assault to Jackie Lacey’s office on January 2. There are also nearly a dozen lawsuits filed in the courts against Weinstein from some of the dozens and dozens of women who have gone public in the past several months with their allegations of assault or harassment by the producer.
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