The Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > French TV top anchor facing 5 rape accusations; BBC's Top News Anchor pleads guilty to child sex abuse images

 

Rough day to be a top news anchor in Europe. Can we assume they are both godless people?

Disgraced French former TV anchor

faces five new rape probes

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, one of France's top TV presenters for more than two decades, faces five new probes into rape allegations by his former colleagues, French investigators revealed Wednesday. "PPDA", as he's commonly known in France, was fired from TV channel TF1 in 2008 and has faced several sexual assault investigations over the past few years. 

Issued on: 31/07/2024 - 14:19, Modified: 31/07/2024 - 14:17

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By:NEWS WIRES

French investigators have opened five new probes into rape allegations against former prime-time news presenter Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

The 76-year-old has denied repeated accusations of rape or sexual assault. In December he was charged with the rape of writer Florence Porcel in 2009.

That probe was widened in February to look into claims of the rape of two more women and a sexual assault of another committed between 2007 and 2018, which could lead to fresh charges.

The new investigations are into accusations of rape during an earlier period, the prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre and a lawyer told AFP.

The five accusers had filed previous complaints that were rejected for being past the statute of limitations, a source at the prosecutor's office said.

Poivre d'Arvor's lawyer was not immediately available for comment.

Amongst the five accusers, journalist Helene Devynck has alleged the television presenter raped her when she was his assistant in 1993. Another journalist, Stephanie Khayat, has accused him of two rapes in 1994 and 1997.

Marie-Laure Eude-Delattre claims Poivre d'Arvor raped her as a 23-year-old intern at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985. Margot Cauquil-Gleizes, now a teacher, said he raped her the same year when she was 17.

They were identified by their lawyer Corinne Herrmann. It was not immediately clear who the fifth person was.

After a preliminary inquiry opened in 2021, prosecutors dropped 19 out of 22 testimonies or legal complaints accusing the veteran presenter of rape, sexual assault or sexual harassment for being past the statute of limitations.

But the five plaintiffs have used another legal channel to obtain investigations.

Herrmann said "these cases are not past the statute of limitations because there are several of them. When you have a cascade of cases, the latest annuls the statute of limitations for the one before it.

"France is reeling from a series of accusations of abuse in the arts and journalism.

Screen icon Gerard Depardieu, 75, is to stand trial in October over accusations of sexually assaulting two women. He was also charged in 2020 with rape two years earlier. He denies all charges.

(AFP)

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Former BBC lead presenter pleads guilty

in indecent child images case

By Pan Pylas  The Associated Press

Posted July 31, 2024 5:30 am

 2 min read

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Former BBC broadcaster Huw Edwards arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, Wednesday July 31, 2024 where he is charged with three counts of making indecent images of children following a Metropolitan Police investigation. Jonathan Brady/PA via AP

Huw Edwards, the BBC’s former top news presenter, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of making indecent images of children.

The offenses he pleaded guilty to at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in central London during a 26-minute hearing involved images shared on WhatsApp between December 2020 and August 2021 by a man who had initially contacted Edwards via social media.

Edwards, who was the lead anchor on the BBC’s nighttime news for two decades and led the public broadcaster’s coverage of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, has been remanded on bail until a pre-sentencing hearing on Sept. 16. He could face up to 10 years in prison, though the prosecution conceded that a suspended sentence may be appropriate.

The court heard that Edwards, 62, was involved in an online chat with an adult man on the messaging service who sent him 377 sexual images, of which 41 were indecent images of children.

The images that were sent included seven of what are known as “category A,” which are the most indecent. Of those, the estimated age of most of the children was between 13 and 15, but one was aged between 7 and 9.

The court also heard that the unnamed male asked Edwards on Feb. 2, 2021 whether what he was sending was too young. Edwards told him not to send any underage images. Five more, though, were sent, and the exchange of pornographic images continued until April 2022.

“Accessing indecent images of underage people perpetuates the sexual exploitation of children, which has deep, long-lasting trauma on these victims,” said Claire Brinton of the Crown Prosecution Service.

Speaking in Edwards’ defense, his lawyer Philip Evans said there is “no suggestion” that his client had “in the traditional sense of the word, created any image of any sort.”

Edwards, he added, “did not keep any images, did not send any to anyone else and did not and has not sought similar images from anywhere else.” He added that Edwards had “both mental and physical” health issues and that he is “not just of good character, but of exceptional character.”

God help us when child porn users are exceptionally good characters.

Prosecutor Ian Hope told the court that Edwards’ “genuine remorse” was one reason why a suspended sentence might be considered. Setting out the potential penalties under the law, he said that where there is the prospect of rehabilitation, a community order and sexual offender treatment program could be considered as alternatives to prison.

A spokesperson for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children said there should be “no doubt” about the seriousness of Edwards’ crimes.

“It can be extremely traumatic for young people to know sexual images of themselves have been shared online,” the spokesperson said. “We also need to see online platforms do much more to identify and disrupt child abuse in private messaging services in order to safeguard young people.”

Edwards, who was one of the BBC’s top earners, was suspended in July 2023 for separate claims made last year. He later resigned for health reasons.

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Approaching Sodom > Taiwan leads Asia down Garden Path; Sam Brinton arrested again; Ontario Library disallows free speech

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Another country abandons all fear of God and puts children at risk. Then holds itself up as an example for other Asian countries to emulate.

Taiwan grants full adoption rights to same-sex couples

Issued on: 17/05/2023 - 13:45

Text by: NEWS WIRES, 2 min

Taiwanese gay couple Chen Jun-ru (R), holding his daughter, and Wang Chen-wei (L) arrive

at the Xinyi District Office in Taipei on January 13, 2022. © Sam Yeh, AFP

Taiwan's parliament passed an amendment on Tuesday allowing gay couples to jointly adopt children, a move hailed by activists as "another big step forward" for marriage equality.

And, another big step further from God and common sense.

Taiwan is at the vanguard of Asia's burgeoning LGBTQ rights movement, becoming the first place in the region to legalise marriage equality in 2019.

But same-sex couples still faced restrictions, such as being unable to jointly adopt children. While individuals in Taiwan were allowed to adopt regardless of sexual orientation, those in same-sex marriages could not both be legal parents unless the child was one partner's biological offspring.

On Tuesday -- the eve of the fourth anniversary of Taiwan's marriage equality law -- parliament passed the amendment removing those restrictions, with lawmaker Fan Yun hailing the cross-party support for the bill.

The amendment "not only ensures the protection of children's rights but also meets their best interest", said Fan, who was draped in a rainbow flag.

"In the future, spouses and parents, regardless of gender and sexual orientation, can have full legal protection."

The amendment comes after a family court in southern Kaohsiung City last year ruled in favour of a married gay man seeking to share parenthood of his husband's adoptive child -- the first verdict of its kind.

"After four years of hard work, today the parliament finally passed the (bill for) adoption without blood relationship by same-sex couples," the advocacy group Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights said in a statement.

The group also hailed Taiwan's recent recognition of transnational same-sex marriage -- a move made in January by then-premier Su Tseng-chang to lift restrictions for international couples.

Previously foreigners were not allowed to wed their Taiwanese partners if they came from territories banning same-sex marriage -- which is much of Asia.

But one of Su's last acts in office was to recognise such unions -- including for couples from Hong Kong and Macau, though not mainland China, which is governed under a different set of regulations in Taiwan.

"Following the full recognition of transnational same-sex marriage in January, Taiwan has taken another big step towards marriage equality," the alliance said of the adoption amendment.

Taiwan is home to a thriving LGBTQ community -- a record 200,000 people attended a pride march in Taipei in 2019 to celebrate the legalisation of same-sex marriage.

That law came about after Taiwan's top court ruled that denying same-sex couples the right to marry was discriminatory and unconstitutional.

Over the next two years, at least 7,000 same-sex couples tied the knot according to 2021 data from the Interior Ministry.

The alliance said Tuesday it would continue to push for more rights for same-sex couples, including recognition of Taiwanese-Chinese marriages.

(AFP)

Of course, there is no mention of God, by anyone involved here, especially the reporters. But any fear of God has to be abandoned before any such moves can be made. Now, so few people actually believe in God anymore, so it's easy to ignore Him. This will change sometime in this decade when He has decided that the world's sins have filled to the brim. We are approaching Sodom, God sees it clearly, but we are blind - we choose to be!

Non-binary ex-Biden nuclear official Sam Brinton arrested

for being ‘fugitive from justice’

By Olivia Land, NYPost

May 18, 2023 1:08pm  Updated

The former Biden administration nuclear official who was axed late last year after they were caught red-handed in a string of luggage thefts was arrested at home this week, police confirmed.

Samuel Brinton, 35, was taken into custody at their home in Rockville, Maryland, at 10 p.m. Wednesday, the Montgomery Country Police Department told The Post Thursday.

Brinton is currently in custody pending charges of Grand Larceny stemming from allegations of stolen property at Ronald Reagan National Airport that the department learned of in Feb. 2023, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police said.

Arrest records show that Brinton — who is non-binary and uses they pronouns — was arrested on the 700 block of College Parkway as a fugitive from justice.

“They are being held at the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit on a no-bond status as they await an extradition hearing,” an MCPD spokesperson explained.

The investigation is being spearheaded by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police.

Someone claiming to be a neighbor of Brinton and Reike told the Daily Wire on Thursday that “four unmarked police showed up” at their residence last night and escorted Brinton away in handcuffs an hour later.

News of Brinton’s alleged arrest comes one month after they pleaded no contest to charges stemming from the theft of a woman’s luggage at Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport in July 2022.

Sam Brinton was arrested at their Maryland home earlier this week.

Getty Images for The Trevor Project

Brinton was caught on camera stealing luggage at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas last year.

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In exchange for the plea deal, Brinton was ordered to pay the woman back and given a 180-day suspended jail sentence.

Days later, Brinton agreed to undergo a mental health evaluation as part of an adult diversion program at a hearing stemming from similar charges related to a theft at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in September 2022.

Although the MWAA declined to elaborate on the case, the latest pending charges against Brinton may be tied to Asya Khamsin, a Tanzanian fashion designer who shared images of the MIT grad wearing her stolen custom clothing. 

“I saw the images. Those were my custom designs, which were lost in that bag in 2018,” Khamsin told The Post, shortly after she tweeted images of Brinton in the brightly-colored frock.

Khamsin said she was not trying to accuse the disgraced Dept. of Energy bigwig of theft, but was “confused” about how the clothing came into their possession.

Khamsin’s attorney, Peter Hansen, did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment.

Is this a case of a man who just refuses to follow any rules from anyone? He refuses to listen to God, he refuses to listen to the laws of the country, he refuses to listen to anyone, apparently. This is where it gets him.

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London Public Library refuses to rent space to event

featuring author of 'How Woke Won'

The Society for Academic Freedom will host Joanna Williams

at hotel and university instead

Rebecca Zandbergen · CBC News · 

Posted: May 18, 2023 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: May 18

The London Public Library has called down a free speaking event by British author, Joanna Williams and hosted by the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship.

The London Public Library in southwestern Ontario has denied a request for one of its branches to be the site of a speaking event featuring controversial British author Joanna Williams, hosted by the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship. (Rebecca Zandbergen/CBC News)

The London Public Library in southwestern Ontario is standing by its decision to block The Society for Academic Freedom from holding an event featuring controversial British author and commentator Joanna Williams.

Williams's books include Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity and How Woke Won. Her views on being woke — which has come to refer to being aware of prejudice, discrimination and social inequalities — are divisive. She questions, for instance, the impact of inclusivity and diversity on politics, academia, the media and big business, and the role they play in cancel culture.

We can add 'being against anything Godly' to that definition of 'woke'.

The Society for Academic Freedom (SAFS) — which says on its website that it is opposed to "speech codes ... and so-called anti-hate legislation" — had hoped to host Williams at the library's annual general meeting this week, but its request to rent space was denied in April.

The event is now set for Friday at a London hotel and Saturday at Western University.

"There were multiple policy concerns, all of which were considered together by our senior leadership team and board in making this decision," said Michael Ciccone, the library's chief executive officer.

The library is committed to supporting Londoners and the community of London, and we are guided by the values in our strategic plan, which include exceptional service and anti-racism and anti-oppression.

- Michael Ciccone, CEO, London Public Library 

However, it seems the strategic plan does not include protecting free speech or encouraging dialogue. Isn't that what libraries are about, or are they just places for hyper-sensitive people to hide in a corner and pretend the rest of the world is nice?

Ciccone wouldn't list the specific policies the team considered. He also acknowledged not everyone would agree with the library's decision.

Williams is the author of several books, including How Woke Won. (Submitted by Joanna Williams)

"We exist in the public space and our decisions are sometimes subject to a wide range of public opinion which we welcome and we value," he said.

Ah, what? Isn't that the exact opposite of what you just did?

All rental applications are evaluated and can be denied according to library policy, although very few are, he said.

"I think it's a decision that we never come to lightly," said Ciccone. "But in this particular case, the library is committed to supporting Londoners and the community of London, and we are guided by the values in our strategic plan, which include exceptional service and anti-racism and anti-oppression."

Not to mention - anti-Christian.

A progress Pride flag with the words Library Space Is Community Place greets patrons at

the London Public Library. (Rebecca Zandbergen/CBC News)

'They won't wish my ideas away'

"I think these debates should be heard in the public square," said Williams, who regularly touts the importance of single-sex spaces and the "biological reality" of the female sex.

Libraries are about advancing knowledge and they should be the ideal place

for airing contentious views.

- Joanna Williams, British author

"Libraries should be the site of public debate," she told CBC London. "Libraries are about advancing knowledge and they should be the ideal place for airing contentious views.

"Unfortunately for the people who disagree with me, they won't wish my ideas away," said Williams.

"I actually think for people who disagree with me, it's even more important that the debate be had out in public because then they can challenge me, they can ask me questions." 

"I find it disturbing and frightening that the public library would refuse to rent us space," said SAFS president Mark Mercer. "It's frightening, because the library is saying to all individuals and groups that they must satisfy the tastes and aspirations of the library's managers before they can rent space.

This means that all individuals and groups are vulnerable," said Mercer..

Organizations such as SAFS often use the free speech mantra to push harmful and violent language against diverse communities, said Ware.

In the fall of 2019, hundreds of people protested outside a Toronto library over an appearance by a controversial speaker whose remarks about transgender women have sparked anger in the LGBTQ community. 

"I never thought I'd see a moment where we would be protesting libraries, but this was essential to keep them safe for trans and non-binary communities," said Ware.

And, after all, isn't that what libraries are for?

Approaching Sodom > This Lesbian Woman of Colour will crack you up

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Hilarious!

Indiana Councilman Comes Out as ‘Lesbian Woman of Color’

and Yet Leftists Are ENRAGED

MAY 2, 2023 7:00 AM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

New in PJ Media:

It should have been cause for celebration. According to a Monday report in the Daily Caller, Ryan Webb announced that he was “honored” to “shatter that glass ceiling” as he became the “very first lesbian woman of color” to serve as a county councilman in Delaware County, Indiana. Yet instead of celebrating, Leftist Hoosiers are enraged, and are calling for Webb to be removed from the county council altogether. Webb has even received death threats. Wait a minute: Don’t they love men who claim to be women, and women who claim to be men? Doesn’t today’s Left celebrate gender confusion and mental disorders? Not in this case.

Lesbian woman of colour

Ryan Webb started it all in late April when he posted on Facebook that “after much consideration I have decided to come out and finally feel comfortable announcing my true authentic self. It is with great relief that I announce to everyone that I identify as a woman and not just any woman but as a woman of color as well. I guess this would make me gay/lesbian as well, since I am attracted to women.”

This is just the sort of thing that makes one a hero to Leftists today, and Webb laid it on thick, adding: “Whew, that felt good to finally get that out there and start living life as my true self. I’m excited to bring some diversity to the county council. Until today we didn’t have any females of color or LGBTQIAPC+++ on the council. I’m glad that now we do!” But then he added: “To avoid confusion, everyone can continue to address me as Ryan or as Councilman Webb. I will also retain my preferred pronouns of He/Him, however, this will in no way diminish my true identity as a woman of color.” What? No pronoun nonsense? Webb concluded by saying: “God bless America!” God? What?

Webb also appears to have continued to wear men’s clothes, rather than go the full Sam Brinton route and embrace the full drag-queen look of skirts and feather boas and garish eyeliner. Nor has he started wearing a silly-looking wig to hide his receding hairline. All that plus the fact that up to now Webb has been a Republican who has mocked the transgender madness, and even Leftists were sharp enough to see that something was amiss. The Muncie Star-Press adds that “the post was signed with a string of emojis, including the American Flag, a rainbow flag, a person of color, a winking smiley face and a bicep flex.” Charlize Jamieson, a man who claims to be a woman and lives in Webb’s district, began to suspect he was being mocked.

There is more. Read the rest here.

Delaware Co., Ind

The Perverted lives of the Rich and Famous > Sam (Atomic Man) Brinton gets plea deal; $5bn cost for Bud Light's fake woman ad

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Ex-Biden official Sam Brinton accepts plea deal in Las Vegas luggage theft

By Katherine Donlevy, NYPost

April 13, 2023 11:20pm  Updated

The former Biden administration official accused in two separate stolen-luggage cases in different states was ordered to pay one of their victims back — but given no jail time — Tuesday after they pleaded no contest to the bizarre theft.

Samuel Brinton, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, was given a 180-day suspended jail sentence for lifting a woman’s suitcase from Las Vegas‘ Harry Reid International Airport in July 2022, according to court records obtained by Fox 5.

As part of the plea deal, Brinton was charged with a misdemeanor instead of a felony.

A judge ordered them to pay $3,670.74 in restitution for the stolen luggage, which contained pricey jewelry, clothing and makeup.

The 35-year-old was caught on surveillance footage wearing a white T-shirt with a large rainbow-colored atomic nuclear symbol design — which Brinton was also caught wearing in an Instagram photo they posted later that day.

The 35-year-old was working as the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy when they committed the fashion crime, but has since been fired.

Brinton still faces felony charges in a similar case that alleges they struck again two months after the incident during a trip to Minnesota from Washington, DC.

Brinton was caught on surveillance footage yanking the suitcase from baggage claim.

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They were caught on camera yanking a woman’s Vera Bradley bag off the baggage carousel at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport and removing the owner’s ID tag before sneaking out, prosecutors allege.

Brinton — who was caught using the suitcase on at least two other occasions — admitted to investigators that they did grab the bag, but claimed it was an accident and was willing to return it along with its contents, valued at $2,325.

It was an accident that he ripped the ID tag off? Pfft!

Houston fashion designer Asya Khamsin told The Post in February she believes Brinton may have also been involved in a third luggage-lifting case.

She claims she noticed pictures of the White House official wearing her custom-made pieces that were lost at a Washington, DC, airport in 2018, four years before the Nevada and Minnesota cases.

Khamsin, who had traveled to the capital for a fashion show, was forced to withdraw and the garments were never recovered. Brinton has not been charged in that case.

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Anheuser-Busch CEO's 'apology' for Bud Light’s fake woman ad falls flat

By Ariel Zilber, NYPost

April 14, 2023 3:16pm  Updated

Anheuser-Busch’s top executive on Friday offered an apology flatter than a day-old Bud Light as the beer giant reels from the backlash over its sponsorship deal with controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

“We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people,” Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Brendan Whitworth said in press release titled “Our Responsibility To America.”

“We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.”

Whitworth finally broke his silence over the brewing controversy but made no mention of the sponsorship deal with Mulvaney — which has led to calls for a boycott of the nation’s largest beer company.

He also didn’t address reports that senior executives were kept in the dark about the Mulvaney rollout.

A can of beer featuring Mulvaney.

Dylan Mulvaney/Instagram

The $132 billion beer company has seen its market value plummet by some $5 billion since the campaign was launched April 1. 

Busch distributors around the country have been feeling the fallout, with many bars in conservative states from Tennessee to Wyoming refusing to stock Bud Light. 

“I simply don’t understand why they hired the person who was doing the marketing. I mean, if your target customer is Kid Rock, and then all of a sudden you decide to go to RuPaul, that just doesn’t make any sense at all,” Oxygen Financial CEO Ted Jenkin told Fox News Digital. 

Budweiser factories have also reportedly been targeted by a wave of bomb threats this week.

On Thursday, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that officers responded to a call from the Anheuser-Busch facility in the Van Nuys section.

A spokesperson for the St. Louis-based beermaker told Patch that several other facilities across the country also received bomb threats.

The Post has sought comment from Anheuser-Busch.

One marketing expert told The Post Whitworth’s mea culpa will do little to quell the controversy.

“Whilst it was great that the CEO spoke out formally and formally apologized, it still will leave a sour taste in the Bud Light consumers’ mouth of, why did you do this?” said Jay Jaye, founder of Ace of Spades branding agency.

“Apologizing only works when it clears up the reason why? This is still unknown and it paints the bigger picture – what is the true reason behind this,” he added.

The company had previously defended its decision to hire Mulvaney, an actress and influencer with more than 10 million followers on TikTok, where she documented her gender transition.  

“Anheuser-Busch works with hundreds of influencers across our brands as one of many ways to authentically connect with audiences across various demographics,” a spokesperson had told Fox News.

Alissa Heinerscheid, the vice president of marketing, highlighted the campaign during the “Make Yourself at Home” podcast last week, where the exec said she wanted to transform Bud Light’s brand.

I think she did!

“I’m a businesswoman, I had a really clear job to do when I took over Bud Light, and it was ‘This brand is in decline, it’s been in a decline for a really long time, and if we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this brand, there will be no future for Bud Light,’” Heinerscheid said.

She also condemned the company’s previous branding, saying: “We had this hangover, I mean Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor, and it was really important that we had another approach.”

Well! That should help! Insulting your regular customers!

Conservatives have slammed the ad campaign, claiming the beer maker was pushing “gender propaganda.”

Country music singer John Rich said he pulled cases of Bud Light from his Nashville bar, Travis Tritt called for a boycott and rocker Kid Rock used several Bud Light cases for target practice in a viral video.

Others, like shock jock Howard Stern and podcaster Joe Rogan, have decried the conservative outrage over Mulvaney. Rogan popped open a can of Bud Light on a recent show and panned the boycott effort as ‘goofy.’  

Reaction on social media to Whitworth’s statement was scathing.

“I get the idea of bringing all kinds of people together. That’s awesome. However, it shows a lack of understanding for biological women. When you put a biological man in place of a woman, that is a slap to real women, and division,” wrote on Twitter user.

Another wrote: “NOPE. Not good enough. Boycott continues until full apology, fire VP Mrkt, and Mulvaney dropped. Either that or Anheuser-Busch becomes the next Schlitz.”

Additional reporting by Lydia Moynihan

FULL TEXT OF WHITWORTH APOLOGY

As the CEO of a company founded in America’s heartland more than 165 years ago, I am responsible for ensuring every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew.

We’re honored to be part of the fabric of this country. Anheuser-Busch employs more than 18,000 people and our independent distributors employ an additional 47,000 valued colleagues. We have thousands of partners, millions of fans and a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders, sports fans and hard-working Americans everywhere.

We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.

My time serving this country taught me the importance of accountability and the values upon which America was founded: freedom, hard work and respect for one another. As CEO of Anheuser-Busch, I am focused on building and protecting our remarkable history and heritage.

I care deeply about this country, this company, our brands and our partners. I spend much of my time traveling across America, listening to and learning from our customers, distributors and others.

Moving forward, I will continue to work tirelessly to bring great beers to consumers across our nation. 

It's hard to find a genuine apology there, certainly not one that my mother would have accepted. It's more like an explanation of their decision-making stupidity. They overestimated the number of gender-fluid-friendly beer drinkers, and underestimated the number of beer drinkers who think gender fluidity is madness. Did they research this?

This should be a good lesson for other product brands who want to appeal to the transgender crowd.

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Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Weirdo Brinton appears in stolen designer dresses; NY1 Weatherman live-streamed porn of himself

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Dresses worn by Sam Brinton were destined for fashion show,

designer claims

By Andy Tillett and Katherine Donlevy, NYPost

February 23, 2023 8:30pm  Updated

A Houston designer claims she had to cancel a fashion show after her bag full of the custom-made pieces was lost at a Washington DC airport – only for them to seemingly resurface years later being worn by former Department of Energy official Sam Brinton.

Asya Khamsin filed a lost luggage report after her bag containing 30 original designs disappeared from Ronald Reagan Washington Airport in DC on March 9, 2018, meaning she had to pull out of the planned show.

Several years later, the native Tanzanian designer stumbled on photographs of Brinton – who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns – wearing what appeared to be the same original custom dresses.

Speaking from Zanzibar, Khamsin told The Post: “I was thinking, ‘Who took my bag, where is it?’ for a long time. Then I see images of the outfits [being worn by Brinton] and I was so confused and upset.

“I was thinking, where did he get those clothes – because I didn’t think he was a thief.”

Khamsin also posted a series of pictures online showing the disgraced former Department of Energy official wearing elaborate dresses side-by-side with her missing dress designs, which look identical.

Head of Advocacy The Trevor Project Sam Brinton speaks onstage during The Trevor Project TrevorLIVE NYC at Cipriani Wall Street on June 11, 2018 in New York City. 

Khamsin does not accuse Brinton of stealing the clothes or her luggage from the Washington DC airport, but said she is confused how they ended up in their possession.

Why not? It would be true to his character. But this case suggests that Brinton may be very diligent in choosing which luggage to steal.

The designer explained the dresses and jewelry had originally been displayed at the Lady In Red fashion show she runs in Dar es Salaam and said she was passing through Washington DC to show them on her way home to Houston when her case disappeared. She shared her conversations with officials about the lost luggage with Fox news.

Brinton, 35, served as the Biden administration’s deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy, but was fired after they were charged with stealing a woman’s suitcase from a Minneapolis airport and another woman’s bag from a Las Vegas airport over the summer.

Brinton wearing an outfit that Khamsin claims is from her luggage at an event on December 3, 2018.

Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for The Trevor Project

In both cases, Brinton had traveled on flights from Washington DC before allegedly swiping the bags from the airports’ baggage carousels.

After seeing Brinton wearing what she believes is her stolen garb, Khamsin filed a report with the Houston Police Department on Dec. 16. The next month, she claims she was contacted by the agency’s field office in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

She added: “I don’t know if I would like the clothes back. The investigation is in good hands with the FBI. I’m waiting on them, they will do the right thing.”

Your faith in the FBI, Aysa, exceeds my own by some considerable margin. Good luck.

Police probing possible revenge porn case of former

NY1 weatherman Erick Adame

By Natalie O'Neill, NYPost

March 1, 2023 4:21pm  Updated

Cops are investigating who leaked live-streamed porn images of former NY1 weatherman Erick Adame, according to a report Wednesday.

The Emmy-nominated but now out-of-work meteorologist told WNYC he believes a mystery voyeur became obsessed with distributing nude images of him in an apparent effort to embarrass him.

“I concluded, it’s the same person that is just obsessed with posting these pictures of me,” he said in his first interview since the scandal led to his firing.

“Some of them are so humiliating.”

Adame, 39, has since hired a lawyer to get the IP address of the person who posted the images online.

Police are also probing the leak, the station said, though it was not revealed which department is conducting the investigation.

Adame lives in New Jersey, NY1 is based in Manhattan and his mother, who was sent some of the dirty images, lives upstate.

Erick Adame, the former NY1 weatherman, circulated around the internet resulting into him losing his job.

Instagram/Erick Adame

It was also unclear what law enforcement could do, as the images may not qualify as “revenge porn,” the radio station reported.

Under New York law, a person must have a “reasonable expectation of privacy,” and live-streaming may not be protected.

The ex-weatherman was fired in September after images of him live-streaming sex acts were taken from an adult website without his permission.

It soon emerged that he mentioned his job and other personal details during a camming session made in December 2021.

Adame apologized and admitted that he had a “compulsion,” saying it was “absurd of me to think I could keep this private.”

Proud, or embarrassed for being gay?

Since his embarrassing public firing, Adame told WNYC he has been harassed by sadistic trolls online.

“There is a mixture of support and then you’d have this random message calling me whatever name to degrade me and then saying you want some more? I can be your daddy,” he said.

“You know —no. I just lost this job that I really loved. I’m being publicly humiliated and you think I enjoy this?”

He also opened up about the root of his compulsion to make live sex videos for strangers on the internet, confessing it stemmed from  “low self-esteem” from being rejected for being gay.

Is that really his reason, or his excuse? It's hard to imagine someone being on TV every day has low self-esteem. The sex videos suggest he was more likely proud of his gayness. 

“Showing off and getting that type of praise and being called sexy, I wanted to see more. Hearing that from someone on the other end made you feel so good,” he said.

Now, he says, he’s in a committed relationship and that his sex life no longer involves the internet.

Ultimately he said he regrets camming while hedging on whether he thinks his firing was fair. 

“I don’t apologize for being sex positive — but I apologize because I am a role model, ” he said. “What it comes to is, as a news person, I live under different rules. I don’t think that’s fair, but I think that we do.”

It's the first time I have encountered that term - sex-positive! I don't know what it means, but I suspect it is not something good. 

The Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Jake Virtanen Wandering Around Europe; Sam Brinton's Rough Day in Court

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Ex-Canuck Virtanen finds new team in Germany after

removal from Swiss club

Offside Staff

Feb 14 2023, 8:19 am

Jake Virtanen has found a new home in Germany.

The 26-year-old has joined the Fischtown Pinguins, also known as REV Bremerhaven, in Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) after an abrupt ending to his tumultuous time with EHC Visp of the Swiss League — a tier below Switzerland’s National League.

“I’m more than happy that the Penguins are giving me the chance to show that I’m a decent person and a good hockey player here in the north,” Virtanen told the Pinguins website, according to Google Translate. “I will do everything to ensure that the trust placed in me is rewarded.”

Virtanen, who had 25 points (14 goals, 11 assists) in 21 games with Visp, cancelled his contract with the team to join Bremerhaven, who sit eighth in the league standings.

The 26-year-old was no longer wanted by Visp after he reportedly got into a “verbal and muscular altercation” with teammate Daniel Eigenmann during a game on January 31, according to Swiss outlet Le Matin.

Eigenmann reportedly told management “it’s him or us” after the altercation.

Virtanen had signed a two-year contract with Visp in November after failing to earn a contract on a training camp try-out with the Edmonton Oilers in September. It was Virtanen’s latest NHL setback after he was bought out by the Canucks in 2021.

Virtanen, the No. 6 pick in the 2014 draft by Vancouver, played 317 career NHL games over parts of six seasons with the Canucks, collecting 100 points (55 goals, 45 assists).

He now joins his third team in his third league since being bought out by Vancouver. Virtanen spent the 2021-22 season with Spartak Moskva in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), netting 16 points (nine goals, seven assists) in 36 games.

He becomes Fischtown’s second Canadian alongside captain Alex Friesen, who was selected in the sixth round (No. 172) of the 2010 NHL Draft by the Vancouver Canucks and played one game with the club in 2016.

Virtanen also has a player option to remain with the Pinguins next season.

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Reporters have a field day with Sam Brinton

'Why Would You Want Some Lady's Dirty Clothes?'

 Biden’s ‘Non-Binary’ Ex-Nuclear Waste Chief’s Rough Day in Court

BY ROBERT SPENCER 

6:04 PM ON FEBRUARY 15, 2023

   

Just a few months ago, Sam Brinton was a rising star in the universe of the woke. Back on June 29, he announced, with considerable fanfare, his new role as deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy and tweeted happily about being “one of if not the very first openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership.” 

But it all ended ignominiously less than six months later: on Dec. 12, a Department of Energy spokesbeing announced tersely: “Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee. By law, the Department of Energy cannot comment further on personnel matters.”

Brinton turned out to be carrying too much baggage: his firing came after he was caught purloining that baggage from airports in Minneapolis and Las Vegas. On Wednesday, he appeared in a Minnesota court on luggage theft charges, and it wasn’t exactly like facing Old Joe Biden’s sycophantic, far-Left press corps in Washington.

Brinton likes to parade around in women’s clothes, but the seriousness of the charges he faces was apparently sobering; for his court appearance on Wednesday, he left his skirts in the closet and dressed quite conservatively (for him) in a suit and black button-down shirt. The suit’s burgundy color, however, did make it an outfit more suitable for a Batman villain than for a conventional government official. 

Brinton, according to the UK’s Daily Mail, “could face up to five years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine if found guilty.” As a cosseted member of the Leftist elite, Brinton is unlikely to be sentenced even to a fraction of that, but there is no doubt that his day in court was not the inspiring demonstration of how “diversity is our strength” that the Left would like all the public appearances of “non-binary” people to be.

Brinton was in court to face charges related to accusations that he stole a woman’s bag from the baggage claim area at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on Sept. 16. Speculation has persisted since then that Brinton’s grab-bag style when wearing women’s clothing resulted from his practice of wearing whatever he found in the bags he carried off. It’s tough to be essentially the only disgraced official of a spectacularly disgraceful administration, and Brinton had tried to dodge having to make this humiliating public appearance. His lawyers repeatedly requested that he be allowed to appear remotely, but Judge Gina Brandt stated that “the current District Policy does not allow for remote appearances to be conducted for Felony 1st Appearances on the Property Drug Calendar.”

Once he was in court, however, Brandt took pains to make him feel comfortable, accommodating his delusions by referring to him not as “Mr. Brinton,” but as “Mx Brinton.” According to the Daily Mail, which also fed Brinton’s delusions by ridiculously (and confusingly) referring to him using plural pronouns, “Mx is a common gender-neutral title given to non-binary people who do not wish to have a gender referred to in their title.”

Reporters on the scene, however, were less deferential. Brinton was peppered with questions, all of which he ignored, as he left the courthouse and walked to a waiting limo: 

“Are you here for an interview with the [Minnesota Gov. Tim] Walz administration?” That was a good question, as Walz would likely love to have a “gender-fluid, non-binary” individual prominently on staff. 

Another impertinent scribbler asked Brinton: “Did you visit the Larry Craig restroom?” Larry Craig was the U.S. senator who, in 2007, was arrested in a restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport for soliciting an undercover police officer for sex.

Brinton was also asked: “Do you have any comments on the train disaster in Ohio? You’re an expert in these things.” Brinton is indeed touted as an expert in nuclear waste disposal, but the material poisoning the atmosphere in Ohio is apparently not nuclear; was the reporter implying that Brinton himself was a train wreck? 

In any case, another asked Brinton: “Why would you want some lady’s dirty clothes?”

There’s the rub. Why indeed would Brinton have wanted to steal women’s luggage in the first place? That question gets to the heart of the problem: the very thing for which the Biden regime celebrated Brinton appears to be exactly the same thing that led him to commit acts that have gotten him charged with felony theft. That was the biggest message of his court appearance Wednesday. Whether anyone among the political and cultural elites will grasp that message, however, is an entirely different matter.