8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (1)
#5083487 at 2019-02-08 21:26:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6492: "PANIC re: WHITAKER?" Edition
National Enquirer Denies Bezos's Claim It Tried to Extort Him Using Salacious Pictures
The world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, accused the National Inquirer of extortion after the tabloid allegedly offered him a deal-salacious pictures of him won't get published if he stops accusing the Inquirer of a political hit-which the magazine denies.
On Jan. 10, the Inquirer ran an exposé on Bezos' alleged affair with former TV anchor Lauren Sanchez, wife of Patrick Whitesell, who is co-chief executive of the large Hollywood talent agency, WME. Before publication, the magazine confronted Bezos with its findings, prompting him to announce a divorce from his wife, MacKenzie Tuttle, a novelist.
Part of the exposé were messages sent between Bezos and Sanchez, including lewd selfies of Bezos, which the tabloid partially described, but "dare not print."
Bezos tasked his long-time security consultant, Gavin de Becker, with probing how the messages leaked. De Becker reportedly found no evidence of a hack and no evidence of Sanchez leaking the messages herself.
De Becker's suspicion then fell on Sanchez's brother, Michael, who denied his involvement in revealing the alleged affair, according to The Washington Post.
Finding out that Michael Sanchez is a supporter of President Donald Trump and knew two people with minor roles on the 2016 Trump campaign, de Becker told The Daily Beast that "strong leads point to political motives" behind the Enquirer story.
American Media (AMI), which owns the Enquirer, denied the claim.
"American Media emphatically rejects any assertion that its reporting was instigated, dictated or influenced in any manner by external forces, political or otherwise," AMI's deputy general counsel Jon Fine wrote in an email to de Becker's lawyer, Martin Singer, which Bezos shared.
De Becker's assertion was also based on reports that AMI Chief Executive David Pecker is a friend of Trump and even agreed to buy and kill several embarrassing stories about Trump's alleged past affairs.
Yet there appears to be no evidence that Trump had anything to do with the Enquirer's report on Bezos, much less that the tabloid needed political motivation to exploit personal failings of a celebrity, the richest man on Earth no less.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/national-enquirer-denies-bezoss-claim-it-tried-to-extort-using-salacious-pictures_2794915.html
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (1)
#19712798 at 2023-10-11 09:40:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
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Hamas fighters dragged off an estimated 150 hostages in the surprise attack on Saturday, including women, children, the elderly and senior army officers.
The terrorist group said it would start executing the prisoners if Israeli jets continued to pound targets in Gaza without warning, as they had done since the invasion. "From this hour, any targeting of our people in the safety of their homes, without warning, will be met with the execution of civilian hostages, which will be broadcast with video and audio," said Hamas armed wing spokesman Abu Uba?ida.
Israel Defence Forces spokesman Richard Hecht said the threat would not achieve the group's aims. "If they harm one of these grandmothers or one of these babies or one of these children, it will not make things better, and they know it," Lieutenant Colonel Hecht said.
"No electricity, no food, no water, no gas - it's all closed."
The Israeli military revealed it had secured the Gaza perimeter and planted landmines where the militants toppled the border wall.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was "deeply distressed" by the announcement. He warned that Gaza's humanitarian situation would "only deteriorate exponentially".
Fireballs lit up Gaza City on Monday night as Israeli jets struck hundreds of sites, including mosques and a marketplace.
Hamas said four hostages died in the strikes, along with one of their captors. Gaza residents reported receiving audio messages from Israeli security officers telling them to leave areas in the north and east of the city.
Authorities there said at least 687 Palestinians had been killed in the conflict, and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees said it was sheltering more than 137,000 displaced people in schools across Gaza.
"The situation is unbearable," said the UN agency's spokeswoman Amal al-Sarsawi.
As families began to bury their dead across Israel, the Herald Sun reported Carbone - the first identified Australian victim - might have been "dragged around" by militants before her death.
Carbone was reportedly only a road away from where her children and grandchildren were hiding in a safe house before IDF soldiers rescued them from roaming Hamas militants
Tensions have soared across the Middle East since the weekend attack, amid signs of Iranian involvement that could spark a wider regional conflict.
US deputy national security adviser Jon Finer said there was not yet direct evidence linking the attack to Iran, but the US believed it was "broadly complicit" in the Hamas operation.
As its supporters across the Arab world rejoiced at the violence, Hamas called on "resistance fighters" in the West Bank and in Islamic nations to join its "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood".
"The military operation is still continuing," a Hamas official said from Doha, declaring "there is currently no chance for negotiation on the issue of prisoners or anything else".
In 2011, militants in Gaza ?released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after more than five years in captivity. He was freed in a swap for 1027 Palestinians, including a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.
Prisoner exchange appears an unlikely option for Israel now, as it would give Hamas a propaganda victory that very few Israelis would accept. Retired Israeli brigadier general Ariel Heimann said: "We care about our hostages, and this time they are citizens - women and children. But now is the time to fight against Hamas, and all Israelis are behind it.
"It's a lose-lose situation, whatever is decided."
As Israeli forces prepare to invade Gaza to rescue hostages and wipe out Hamas, the country is on high alert for an attack by Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists across its northern border with Lebanon. On Monday, the Israeli army said its soldiers had "killed a number of armed suspects" who had crossed the northern border, and that Israeli helicopters were striking targets in the area.
The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad later claimed responsibility for the thwarted infiltration from Lebanon to Israel.
Washington, which moved its biggest aircraft carrier into the eastern Mediterranean to deter attacks by Hezbollah, said it had no plans to put US troops on the ground but would supply its ally with munitions.
Israel has asked the US for more guided missiles for its fighter jets and more missiles for its Iron Dome air defence system.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/hamas-ultimatum-we-will-televise-hostage-executions/news-story/ea6396926d3a1443b2088de1e91b5df9