Sean 'Diddy' Combs Arrested in New York: Lawyer Slams 'Unjust' Federal Charges Amid Sex Trafficking Probe

 

Hip-hop icon Sean "Diddy" Combs, 54, finds himself at the center of a contentious legal battle following his arrest in Manhattan on Monday evening. Federal authorities detained Combs after a grand jury indictment, part of an ongoing investigation spearheaded by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. While the exact charges remain under wraps, a source familiar with the matter told *The New York Times* that the case could involve racketeering and sex trafficking.

Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, confirmed the arrest late Monday. “Earlier this evening, federal agents arrested Sean Combs, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY," Williams said in a statement. "We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time."

Combs' attorney, Marc Agnifilo, criticized the federal government’s pursuit of the case, calling it an “unjust prosecution.”

“We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” Agnifilo said in a statement emailed to *Newsweek*. He described Combs as a “music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man, and proven philanthropist,” noting that the artist has spent decades building an empire while supporting his children and the Black community. Agnifilo emphasized that Combs had fully cooperated with investigators, even relocating to New York in anticipation of the charges.

“He is an imperfect person, but he is not a criminal,” the lawyer added. “These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court.”

The charges follow a months-long federal investigation that began in March, leading to the raid of Combs’ properties in Florida and California. The legal troubles have mounted since November, when Combs settled a lawsuit with his former girlfriend, Cassandra "Cassie" Ventura, over allegations of sexual and physical abuse. A video that appeared to show Combs physically assaulting her in 2016 surfaced earlier this year, further intensifying scrutiny of the music mogul. Since then, nine additional civil lawsuits have been filed against him, all alleging similar misconduct.

Legal analysts believe that Combs’ indictment in the Southern District of New York reflects the district’s focus on high-profile cases. Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor and current legal analyst for CNN, speculated that Combs will likely plead not guilty when he appears in court, possibly as early as Tuesday. However, as Honig pointed out, federal courtrooms do not allow cameras, meaning any proceedings will remain behind closed doors.

The arrest marks a stunning turn in the career of one of hip-hop’s most influential figures, who for decades has navigated the worlds of music, fashion, and business with unparalleled success. Now, Combs faces a legal battle that could reverberate far beyond the industry he helped shape.

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How to Play Minecraft? / A beginner's Guide

1. Find a tree and mine it
2. Craft a crafting table 
3.Make a wooden picaxe
4.Mine stone
5.Craft a stone picaxe
6. Chop more trees
7. bulding a shelter
8.Find sheep's and kill them
9. Craft a bed
10.sleep the night
11. Find a cave that leads you down
12. Find some iron 
13 Craft a furnace
14 mine some coal ore
15  put the furnace and put some coal        at the bottom  slot and smell the iron
16 craft a iron picaxe 
17 find diamonds and mine a lot of them
18 craft Diamond gear and tools 
19 bulding a bigger house
20 make a cow farm,sheep farm,pig farm
21 put water over a pit of lava using a water of bucket
22 mine the obsidian
23 mine some more diamonds
24 craft a enchating table and put 15 book shelves around the enchating table leaving one block gap
25 enchant you tools and amor
26 find a zombie spawned
27 make a zombie farm
28 find a village  and transport a cato gopher and a cleric villager
29 trade all the roten flesh that the zombie  dropped
30 build whatever you want

Free Basics really free?

Friends, before you write to TRAI to lend your support for Free Basics, please see the other end of the spectrum as well .

The airwaves, the newspapers and even the online space are now saturated with a Rs. 100 crore campaign proclaiming that Internet connectivity for the Indian poor is a gift from Facebook which a few churlish net neutrality fundamentalists are opposing. In its campaign, Facebook is also using the generic phrase “free, basic Internet” interchangeably with “Free Basics”, the name it has given its private, proprietary platform. This is in blatant violation of Indian rules on advertising, which forbid generic words being used for brands and products. This is from a company which, in spite of having 125 million Indian subscribers, refuses to be sued in India, claiming to be an American company and therefore outside the purview of Indian law. Nor does it pay any tax in India.

The Free Basics platform is a mildly tweaked rehash of the controversial internet.org that Facebook had floated earlier. Facebook and Reliance, the sixth-largest mobile service provider in the country, have joined hands to offer it as a platform for free data services restricted to a few websites. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has stopped this service for now, pending its public consultation on the subject. Facebook’s campaign is essentially to influence the outcome of such a consultation.

Data as commodity
Evgeny Morozov, one of the most insightful commentators on technology, has written extensively on how Silicon Valley seeks to subvert the state, promising to give the people connectivity, transport and other facilities, if we only hand over our data to them. Instead of people demanding that the state provide access to various services — from drinking water to transport and communications — people are being led to believe that a few capitalists from Silicon Valley will provide all these services. We will have Internet connectivity instead of education, and Uber will provide private taxis, instead of public transport. To paraphrase Marie Antoinette, let the people have cake instead of bread. This is the Internet monopolies’ agenda of hidden and mass-scale privatisation of public services.

By accepting the Silicon Valley model of private services, we pay the Internet monopolies with our data, which can then be monetised. Personal data is the currency of the Internet economy. Data as commodity is the oil of the 21st century. Facebook and Google’s revenue model is based on monetising our personal data and selling it to advertisers. Facebook generates an estimated revenue of nearly $1 billion from its Indian subscribers, on which it pays no tax.

Free Basics is not free, basic Internet as its name appears to imply. It has a version of Facebook, and only a few other websites and services that are willing to partner Facebook’s proprietary platform.

Today, there are nearly 1 billion websites. If we consider that there are 3.5 billion users of the Internet, 1 out of 3.5 such users also offers content or services. The reason that the Internet has become such a powerful force for change in such a short time is precisely because anybody, anywhere, can connect to anybody else, not only to receive, but also to provide content. All that is required is that both sides have access to the Internet.

All this would stop if the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or telecom companies (telcos) are given the right to act as gatekeepers. This is what net neutrality is all about — no ISP or telco can decide what part of the Internet or which websites we can access. Tim Wu, the father of net neutrality, has written that keeping the two sides of the Internet free of gatekeepers is what has given a huge incentive for generating innovation and creating content. This is what has made the Internet, as a platform, so different from other mass communications platforms such as radio and television. Essentially, it has unleashed the creativity of the masses; and it is this creativity we see in the hundreds of millions of active websites.

Facebook’s ads and Mark Zuckerberg’s advertorials talk about education, health and other services being provided by Free Basics, without telling us how on earth we are going to access doctors and medicines through the Internet; or education. It forgets that while English is spoken by only about 12 per cent of the world’s population, 53 per cent of the Internet’s content is English. If Indians need to access education or health services, they need to access it in their languages, and not in English. And no education can succeed without teachers. The Internet is not a substitute for schools and colleges but only a complement, that too if material exists in the languages that the students understand. Similarly, health demands clinics, hospitals and doctors, not a few websites on a private Facebook platform.

Regulate price of data
While the Free Basics platform has connected only 15 million people in different parts of the world, in India, we have had 60 million people join the Internet using mobiles in the last 12 months alone. And this is in spite of the high cost of mobile data charges. There are 300 million mobile broadband users in the country, an increase fuelled by the falling price of smartphones.

In spite of this increase in connectivity, we have another 600 million mobile subscribers who need to be connected to the Internet. Instead of providing Facebook and its few partner websites and calling it “basic” Internet, we need to provide full Internet at prices that people can afford. This is where the regulatory system of the country has to step in. The main barrier to Internet connectivity is the high cost of data services in the country. If we use purchasing power parity as a basis, India has expensive data services compared to most countries. That is the main barrier to Internet penetration. Till now, TRAI has not regulated data tariffs. It is time it addresses the high price of data in the country and not let such prices lead to a completely truncated Internet for the poor.

There are various ways of providing free Internet, or cost-effective Internet, to the low-end subscribers. They could be provided some free data with their data connection, or get some free time slots when the traffic on the network is low. 2G data prices can and should be brought down drastically, as the telcos have already made their investments and recovered costs from the subscribers.

The danger of privileging a private platform such as Free Basics over a public Internet is that it introduces a new kind of digital divide among the people. A large fraction of those who will join such platforms may come to believe that Facebook is indeed the Internet. As Morozov writes, the digital divide today is “about those who can afford not to be stuck in the data clutches of Silicon Valley — counting on public money or their own capital to pay for connectivity — and those who are too poor to resist the tempting offers of Google and Facebook” (“Silicon Valley exploits time and space to extend the frontiers of capitalism”, The Guardian, Nov. 29, 2015). As he points out, the basic delusion Silicon Valley is nurturing is that the power divide will be bridged through Internet connectivity, no matter who provides it or in what form. This is not likely to happen through their platforms.

The British Empire was based on the control of the seas. Today, whoever controls the data oceans controls the global economy. Silicon Valley’s data grab is the new form of colonialism we are witnessing now.

Net neutrality is not an esoteric matter, the concern of only a few netizens. It is fundamental to the world, in which the Internet is a source of knowledge, a means of communication, an artery of commerce. Whoever controls access to the Internet will control our future. This is what the current battle over Facebook’s Free Basics is all about.

LPG Gas Cylinder Expiry Date

Do you know that there is an expiry date (physical life) for LPG cylinders? Expired Cylinders are not safe for use and may cause accidents. In this regard, please be cautious at the time of accepting any LPG cylinder from the vendor.

Here is how we can check the expiry of LPG cylinders:
On one of three side stems of the cylinder, the expiry date is coded alpha numerically as follows A or B or C or D and some two digit number following this e.g. D06.

The alphabets stand for quarters -
1. A for March (First Qtr),
2. B for June (Second Qtr),
3. C for Sept (Third Qtr),
4. D for December (Fourth Qtr).

The digits stand for the year till it is valid. Hence D06 would mean December qtr of 2006.
Please Return Back the Cylinder that you get with a Expiry Date, they are prone to Leak and other Hazardous accidents ...
The second example with D13 allows the cylinder to be in use until Dec 2013 .

 

Wanda Barzee's Children on Oprah Winfrey show

Four children of Wande Barzee, the co accused of Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case appeared in the Oprah Winfrey show today. Wande Barzee and her husband Brian David Mitchell is being facing federal and state sentences on this case. Elizabeth Smart went missing from June 5. Almost 9 months there was no trace of her until she was found alive on March 12 2003, in Sandy Ulta.

Wanda Barzee and Brian have been married for 17 years. Four of their six children appeared in the show, Andrea, Derrick, LouRee, and Rhonda; the eldest. They described what life was like with their mother and the step father.

 Andrea disagreed with the assumption of Wanda being portrayed as a victim of Brian David Mitchell she recollected her mother emotional abuse and she says that Wande repeatedly brain washed the children with her emotional drama. LouRee called her mother a monster. LouRee gave detailed account of her mother’s cruelty. When she was 14, she said “I asked what we were having for dinner, and my mom said chicken. During that meal, she and Brian were not touching their plates really, but they were kind of picking at a salad that they had, and she had a smile on her face the whole time," she says. "[The next day], I went to go feed my rabbit and the cage was empty, and I said, 'What happened to Peaches?' And she said, 'You had her for dinner last night. LouRee moved out of the home shortly afterwards.

The eldest Rhonda had a different view about her mother; she has had some fond memories of mother. She remembers Wanda was doing good things to her and until she confessed to the crime Rhonda never believed that her mother would have done this cold-blooded crime. 

FRUITS AND HUMAN BODY

CARROT AND EYES

SLICE a carrot and it looks just like an eye, right down to the pattern of the iris. It’s a clear clue to the importance this everyday veg has for vision. Carrots get their orange colour from a plant chemical called betacarotene, which reduces the risk of developing cataracts. The chemical also protects against macular degeneration an age-related sight problem that affects one in four over-65s. It is the most common cause of blindness in Britain. But popping a betacarotene pill doesn’t have the same effect, say scientists at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore 

WALNUT – BRAIN
THE gnarled folds of a walnut mimic the appearance of a human brain - and provide a clue to the benefits. Walnuts are the only nuts which contain significant amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. They may also help head off dementia. An American study found that walnut extract broke down the protein-based plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at Tufts University in Boston found walnuts reversed some signs of brain ageing in rats. Dr James Joseph, who headed the study, said walnuts also appear to enhance signalling within the brain and encourage new messaging links between brain cells.

TOMATO – HEART

A TOMATO is red and usually has four chambers, just like our heart. Tomatoes are also a great source of lycopene, a plant chemical that reduces the risk of heart disease and several cancers. The Women’s Health Study — an American research programme which tracks the health of 40,000 women — found women with the highest blood levels of lycopene had 30 per cent less heart disease than women who had very little lycopene. Lab experiments have also shown that lycopene helps counter the effect of unhealthy LDL cholesterol. One Canadian study, published in the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine, said there was “convincing vidence’ that lycopene prevented coronary heart disease. 

GRAPES – LUNGS
OUR lungs are made up of branches of ever-smaller airways that finish up with tiny bunches of tissue called alveoli. These structures, which resemble bunches of grapes, allow oxygen to pass from the lungs to the blood stream. One reason that very premature babies struggle to survive is that these alveoli do not begin to form until week 23 or 24 of pregnancy. A diet high in fresh fruit, such as grapes, has been shown to reduce the risk of lung cancer and emphysema. Grape seeds also contain a chemical called proanthocyanidin, which appears to reduce the severity of asthma triggered by allergy.

 CHEESE – BONES
A nice ‘holey’ cheese, like Emmenthal, is not just good for your bones, it even resembles their internal structure. And like most cheeses, it is a rich source of calcium, a vital ingredient for strong bones and reducing the risk of osteoporosis later in life. Together with another mineral called phosphate, it provides the main strength in bones but also helps to ‘power’ muscles. Getting enough calcium in the diet during childhood is crucial for strong bones. A study at Columbia University in New York showed teens who increased calcium intake from 800mg a day to 1200mg equal to an extra two slices of cheddar - boosted their bone density by six per cent.

GINGER – STOMACH
Root ginger, commonly sold in supermarkets, often looks just like the stomach. So it’s interesting that one of its biggest benefits is aiding digestion. The Chinese have been using it for over 2,000 years to calm the stomach and cure nausea, while it is also a popular remedy for motion sickness. But the benefits could go much further.
Tests on mice at the University of Minnesota found injecting the chemical that gives ginger its flavour slowed down the growth rate of bowel tumours 

BANANA (SMILE) – DEPRESSION
Cheer yourself up and put a smile on your face by eating a banana. The popular fruit contains a protein called tryptophan. Once it has been digested, tryptophan then gets converted in a chemical neurotransmitter called serotonin. This is one of the most important mood-regulating chemicals in the brain and most anti-depressant drugs work by adjusting levels of serotonin production. Higher levels are associated with better moods.

MUSHROOM – EAR
Slice a mushroom in half and it resembles the shape of the human ear. And guess what? Adding it to your cooking could actually improve your hearing. That’s because mushrooms are one of the few foods in our diet that contain vitamin D. This particular vitamin is important for healthy bones, even the tiny ones in the ear that transmit sound to the brain.

BROCCOLI – CANCER
Close-up, the tiny green tips on a broccoli head look like hundreds of cancer cells. Now scientists know this disease-busting veg can play a crucial role in preventing the disease. Last year, a team of researchers at the US National Cancer Institute found just a weekly serving of broccoli was enough to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 45 per cent. In Britain, prostate cancer kills one man every hour

Car Air Conditioning can Couses cancer

No wonder folks are dying from cancer more than ever before.  We wonder where this stuff comes from but here is an example that may explain some of the cancer causing incidents.

Car Air Conditioning 

Do NOT turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car

Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the air-conditioning after a couple of minutes.
 Here's why:According to research the car dashboard emits Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin into the air of your car.  Have you ever noticed the smell of heated plastic in your car?

In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anemia and reduces white blood cells..

Prolonged exposure could cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer.

May also cause miscarriage.

Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft.

A car parked indoors with windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene.

If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level...

People who get into the car, keeping windows closed will inevitably inhale, in quick succession excessive amounts of the toxin.

Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver.

What's worse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.
So friends, please open the windows and allow the car to air out before you close it up and turn your air on.