Trump pick Matt Gaetz under further scrutiny amid fresh allegations | Matt Gaetz | The Guardian

An attorney representing two women who he says testified before the House ethics committee has claimed that the former congressman Matt Gaetz paid both women for sex and that one of the women alleged she witnessed Gaetz having sex with a minor.

The new allegations were revealed by the attorney Joel Leppard during an interview with ABC News on Monday – less than a week after Gaetz resigned from Congress following his nomination by Donald Trump to serve as attorney general in his second administration.

In the interview, Leppard claimed that his clients were paid by Gaetz using Venmo and said that one of the women testified to the committee that she saw Gaetz at a house party in 2017 having sex with a 17-year-old girl.

“She testified that in July of 2017 at his house party, she was walking out to the pool area, and she looked to her right, and she saw Rep Gaetz having sex with her friend, who was 17,” Leppard said.

Ahead of the Senate’s consideration of Gaetz’s nomination, Leppard said that he believed “several questions demand answers”, adding: “What if multiple credible witnesses provided evidence of behavior that would constitute serious criminal violations?”

Source: Trump pick Matt Gaetz under further scrutiny amid fresh allegations | Matt Gaetz | The Guardian

Tens of thousands march to New Zealand parliament to protest controversial Māori treaty bill – live

Leading Māori figures from across Aotearoa New Zealand have sounded the alarm over the government’s changes to policies that affect Māori, after analysis by the Guardian highlighted the far-reaching scope of the proposals.

The policy shifts proposed by the rightwing coalition have been described by experts as “chilling” and “dangerous” and have created a “deeply fractured” relationship between Māori and the crown, or ruling authorities.

 

Source: Tens of thousands march to New Zealand parliament to protest controversial Māori treaty bill – live

Slg0116 Bornholm coastal hike – Frits Ahlefeldt

Video from my hike along the west-coast of Bornholm, Danish island in the Baltic Sea

Lucky with the weather, no rain, and very mild for November, continue my hiking experiment making storyline videos from my hikes with the drawn sketches as starting point.

And sell the originals to finance my next steps, you can see my Storyline originals up for sale here if you would like to help me continue 🙂

My 36s. Videoclip:

See my whole storyline grid here

Source: Slg0116 Bornholm coastal hike – Frits Ahlefeldt

How do you save a rainforest? Leave it alone | LAist

New research from an international team of scientists, recently published in the journal Nature, finds that 830,000 square miles of deforested land in humid tropical regions — an area larger than Mexico — could regrow naturally if left on its own. Five countries — Brazil, Indonesia, China, Mexico, and Colombia — account for 52% of the estimated potential regrowth. According to the researchers, that would boost biodiversity, improve water quality and availability, and suck up 23.4 gigatons of carbon over the next three decades.

“A rainforest can spring up in one to three years — it can be brushy and hard to walk through,” said Matthew Fagan, a conservation scientist and geographer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a coauthor of the paper. “In five years, you can have a completely closed canopy that’s 20 feet high.” Fagan said he’s walked in rainforests in Costa Rica whose canopies reach 60 feet up “that are 10 to 15 years old. It just blows your mind.”

Source: How do you save a rainforest? Leave it alone | LAist

Ein Dienstagslächeln / … A Tuesday smile – Stella, oh, Stella

Dieser Film erinnerte mich etwas an den weissen Wolf. Ich fand ihn irgendwie zauberhaft. 🙂

… This movie reminded me a bit of the white wolf. I think it is rather enchanting. 🙂

Wenn wir Magie begegnen, lassen wir sie in unserem Leben zu … 🙂

… If we stumble upon magic, let us accept it into our live

Source: Ein Dienstagslächeln / … A Tuesday smile – Stella, oh, Stella

A brief history of the toilet – DW – 11/18/2024

What goes in, must come out: It’s true for every human being in the world. Sooner or later, we all have to use the toilet.

And while most people in Germany take their own toilet for granted, the situation is strikingly different around the world. According to the United Nations, 3.5 billion people live without safe sanitation: This is a full-blown global sanitation crisis, says the UN. Without proper facilities, diseases spread more easily and drinking water can become polluted, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

To highlight the problem, the United Nations has declared November 19 World Toilet Day.

Source: A brief history of the toilet – DW – 11/18/2024