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It was the last day of Jessica Mann's testimony about Harvey Weinstein, and I was live tweeting the back-and-forth from the back row on Justice Curtis Farber's courtroom in 100 Centre Street. Teny Geragos was cross-examining Mann her emails to and about Harvey, as she called him. Some were from only days after what the defense called their encounter in the Doubletree Hotel in Manhattan. Alvin Bragg's prosecutors called it rape. But two days later she was writing that she loved Harvey, he'd tried to violate her boundaries but she'd push him off. Which was it? The emails told the story, but they were merely flashed on the video monitor and then gone. The exhibits weren't being made available, unlike in Federal court down the street. Only weeks prior I had filed into the Live Nation antitrust trial docket and gotten exhibits, damning Slack messages, unsealed. Why not here? I Googled around for the New York law of court exhibits - I'd done this in the Luigi Mangione state case suppression hearing four months before, but this law was somewhat different - and put together a letter. But how to get it to Justice Farber? I looked for his chambers' email address. No available. Instead, the court's website listed his fax numbers. OK then, I thought. I'd go to FedEx on Worth Street and Broadway over the lunch break and fax Farber a filing. The one working computer in FedEx was hogged up by a man still wearing a COVID mask, even now in 2026. I found a way to print it from a USB drive, and fax it from the printer-copier. It appeared to go through, even printed me a receipt. I headed back east on Worth Street, stopping in the Civic Deli for the small, somewhat dried up dumpling they sell there. A woman stopped me on my way out and asked, Aren't you Inner City Press? Indeed I was. She worked for the court system, showed me my last Harvey Weinstein tweet on her phone. Let me know if you see anything I should cover, I told her, as I often do. I went out on the sidewalk heading toward Center Street when- I ran into Justice Farber. He was talking on his cell phone but recognized my face and nodded hello. "I just sent you a fax," I told him, almost lip synching the words since he was on the phone. He stopped. "But I don't have a fax machine," he said. It seemed to go through, I told him. Then I reached in backpack. "I'll call you back," he said to whomever he had been speaking with. "Here's a copy of the letter I faxed you," I told him. "It's about getting the exhibits." Justice Farber nodded. "Ill read and consider it," he said. What more could I ask for. Plenty, as it turned out. This is the story of Harvey Weinstein's last stand.

During the weeks of the US v. Sean "Diddy" Combs trial, many said that the trial of the Alexander brothers was coming and that it would be worse. "The brothers are worse," Inner City Press was told. And in this book covering their arrest, detention and the beginning of trial, it seems true. Inner City Press published eight booklets for the eight weeks of the Diddy trial, on Google Play after Amazon, Kindle and Audible - all one company - banned the second in the series, Diddy in Detention. Ultimately all of Inner City Press' books would be taken down, with Maximum Maxwell about US v. Ghislaine Maxwell being cited. After weeks of advocacy, the books were restored (though not the paperback of Maximum Maxwell). For that reason, this first book in the series on the Alexander Brothers - Alon, Oren and Tal - is being published on Google Play. Will it nevertheless run into censorship? We'll see.

As inside the increasingly marginal United Nations a process begins to select a successor to Antonio Guterres who stole the post from female candidates in 2016 and drove the UN into the ground including through censorship, it is time to review the history. Inner City Press, which Guterres banned from the UN as it reported on his link with briber CEFC China Energy and to sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, both convicted in the SDNY Federal court, closely covered Guterres'' dubious selection, and after. Antonio Guterres was out of the United Nations system, getting paid by Lisbon-based Gulbenkian Foundation trying even then to sell its affiliated oil company to the China Energy Fund Committee, when he came to UNHQ in April 2016 seeking the top job. Inner City Press was there. Now, after ouster by Guterres, it is daily in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where the UN is again being sued, and claiming complete legal immunity, that is, impunity. Now, Guterres has so degraded the UN it stands poised to follow in the wake of the League of Nations. This book, mixed form with a novel afterward, is dedicated to the UN''s victims, and secondarily to those UN whistleblowers who have tried to save or improve it with their leaks. Under Guterres, they met with nothing but retaliation. May this play some role in turning the tables.

In outlaw music there is always the question of authenticity. Daniel Hernandez became Tekashi 6ix9ine and hooked up with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods to shoot a video. Then he became their cash cow, and some of them became his muscle, shoot-out in a Barclay''s Center hallway. They turned on Tekashi and he became a cooperator against them, returning to SDNY on violations of supervised release then back out on the concert tour. For drill rapper Kay Flock it was different. He really was from Sev Side, 187th Street. He wasn''t an appendage to his group: he was central to it. When with seven he was indicted, he did not cooperate. He took it to trial. Inner City Press covered both cases. While the Tekashi 6ix9ine trial was covered by other journalists, there was only one media in the courtroom for US versus Kay Flock, born as Kevin Perez. His mother came each day, and three dozen supporters from the neighborhood. The author knows, or knew, the neighborhood well, having lived there for years: first car on Beaumont Avenue, first storefront on Courtlandt then Washington Avenues. Now after a stint at the UN ending in UN gangsters ousting, covering the SDNY courthouse for these trials. This book starts with the just-completed Kay Flock trial, then compares it to Tekashi 6ix9ine. Should music be on trial? Should authenticity?

For Luigi Mangione's arraignment the press line in the 100 Centre Street courthouse began at 8 am on December 23, 2024. But members of the public began outside at 4:30 am. Inner City Press was there, as it had been for the Federal presentment on December 19. Today, with more time to organize - there had been a "Free Luigi" poster complete with QR code - there were more people. I think he should get a fair trial, a woman from New Jersey said from behind her mask. I'm here because of the cost of health insurance, said another. Over the weekend, a woman had been burned to death after being set on in fire on a subway train in Coney Island. A migrant from Guatemala had been arrested. Inner City Press might catch his arraignment over in Brooklyn. Or would that case, too, be Federalized? Surely that defendant would have no supporters. Inner City Press had reported on defendants being sentenced to 20 years or more in prison, for lesser crimes than murder, with no one else in the courtroom gallery. This assassination on video had struck a nerve, more so after the Crime Stoppers photos were released. It was a tale of comparative crimes, of dual prosecutions. This is the first book of a series. Lone Wolf. Not so fast… Remain seated! The Court Security Officer in the white shift, the same one as from the Daniel Penny trial, shouts at the journalists and the Luigi Mangione supporters. The prosecutors follow Mangione out of the courtroom. Kurt Wheelock is trying to get his laptop to fall asleep. The orange light remains lit, though. "OK, clear out, this courtroom is being closed!" Kurt waits for the elevator with the other journalists. The female supporters, it seems, will ride on other cars. In the 100 Centre Street lobby, a prisoner is being led in by a policeman, his hands cuffed in front of him. Stepping through the revolving doors, Kurt can see a crowd across the street. There is chanting about health care; there is a guy standing on a ladder with a Palestinian flag above him. Kurt wants to film it. He takes out his phone, moves his NYC Press Pass to the outside of his jacket. The cops in front of the courthouse barely look at him. He crosses the street, into the press pen in front of the demonstrators. "Free Luigi!" they chant. And that sign again, "Luigi Freed Us." From what? Brian Thompson? Kurt does a livestream, and shoots a six second video to put up later. His hands are freezing. It's time to return to SDNY. He's going to upload this book, this first book, and publish it before nightfall. Kurt designs the cover, does one final spell check. Just after noon he uploads it. It will take some hours, two to four he estimates based on the past. He does not want to stay staring at the laptop screen. He heads out, up to his barber by the United Nations, the one he started going to before the UN threw him out. It seems obligatory to make small talk with barbers, at least this one. He asks about Luigi Mangione. "Oh the CEO killer," the barber says. "What an asshole." The barber is also against congestion pricing. Is there a correlation? With a new short haircut Kurt takes the subway back downtown. The book is "Under review," longer than that usually takes. Kurt is getting jump. He goes to his City gym in the housing projects, checks his phone on the way back to the courthouse. Nothing. Under review. It is nearly eight pm when something happens. Kurt gets an email alert: one of your books cannot be published. He signs up to check his bookshelves. There it is: Blocked. Why this book? Kurt emails back; he opens up a chat box. A person, or bot, calling themselves Willow tells him his email is being reviewed. But nothing. Later he asks for a call back, and a woman with a Missouri area code says the review is ongoing, a ticket has been opened. By midnight they tell him: Your publishing account has been suspended. He cannot reach any of his books. More back and forth, this time with a sense of desperation. A content "investigator" from India tells him his content has been deemed "offensive." He will have to swear an affirmation he will never do it again. But what is it? What is so offensive? Kurt must look for alternatives. The biggest, the Search behemoth, has books too. At least e-books. New era? Diddy Detained was up - now Luigi Mangione Lone Wolf? If you have it, the answer is yes - and there will be more.

"Just imagine when Bieber comes to testify at Diddy's trial," a court watcher was saying in late November 2024. But things weren't at that stage yet. The fight now was about bail, Sean Combs' third attempt to be released on bond. Would this third time be the charm? Meanwhile, volley of John and Jane Doe civil lawsuits against Combs were being filed in SDNY, by the Buzbee firm in Houston. Some judges demanded that the plaintiff's real name be disclosed, even dismissed the case for not following the rules. But cases were refiled, with other judges, and proceeded. There were demand letters going out too, not yet in any docket. It was all headed to a showdown, in May if not before. This is a book in what will be an ongoing series. They charged only one crime Enough to hold Diddy for a time Staking much on Victim-1 But his four lawyers chipped away A dozen more, at the courthouse door Tales of violence, New York to Vegas Some judges demanding names Observing it Kurt Wheelock wrote Streamed in rain in Worth Street pen How would it end?

It was May 24, 2022 in a garden next to the SDNY Federal courthouse. Eric Adams stood at the podium and ran thought his story, his campaign and elevator pitch: "Arrested at 15, negative encounters with the police... South Jamaica, Queens, going into the classroom and finding ''Dummy'' written on the back of my chair... Never learned I had dyslexia until I was in college, tempted to drop out... But I turned pain into purpose." The question, to some, was to what purpose? Two and a half years later, Adams was back in SDNY, this time under Federal indictment for Turkish bribes and straw donors. He proclaimed his innocence and asked to move his trial up to April Fool''s Day 2025, saying anything later would hurt his chances to run for re-election. Already, more and more candidates declared to run against him. How would the court case play out? Would it be decisive or, like those of Trump, be superseded, delayed, or even dropped? By Trump? The book describes the legal proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, from presentment to arraignment and Classified Information Procedures Act disputes. It presents the arguments of both the prosecutors and Adams'' retained defense counsel, and the cases of an FDNY bribe-taker who has already pled guilty, and staffer Mohamed Bahi. Inner City Press is covering all these cases in SDNY, and corruption in the UN including Turkey''s Mission before that. This is the story, City of Maybe, Part I.

On November 16, 2023 a lawsuit against Sean Combs went live in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Within days it was settled. But the 35-page complaint remained in the PACER system. Its first page said, in red, "Trigger Warning: This document contains highly graphic information of a sexual nature, including sexual assault." Inner City Press covered it, and other cases filed in 2024: Lil Rod Jones, Adria English, Jane Doe, Crystal McKinney. On September 17, 2024 Sean Combs was brought by US Marshals before SDNY Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky. He had been arrested the night before in a hotel on 57th Street and now he, through his lawyer Marc Agnifilo, was asking to be released on $50 million bond. Just prior to the bail fight, US Attorney Damian Williams held a press conference in 26 Federal Plaza. Inner City Press went, and asked Williams if his office would be seeking pre-trial detention on Combs (yes) and how the case compared to the prosecution of R. Kelly, which Inner City Press had also cover. This question, Williams did not answer. But we will try to, later in this text. The bail fight before Judge Tarnofsky was detailed. Inner City Press live tweeted it - the thread is below, with background inserted about the cases and incidents the lawyers alluded to, from comparisons to the Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Ray cases, to the arson of Kid Cudi''s car and bust-ups of hotel rooms in New York and Los Angeles. In many places, the prosecutors'' allegations track the civil cases against Combs that Inner City Press has been covering - that is noted as well. An intro: II. Waters Part on Foley Square Royalty in an SUV Part the waters of Foley Square This judge should understand And not crucify one of his own Sage counsel proffers Sage Intelligence guards 3 at 3 West Star Island Camera filming everything Epstein too Tried to offer a big bond His freak-offs in lawyers'' meeting room Then the cold corpse Out to Gold Street - ain''t Going out like that This is Part I of US v. Sean Combs.

During the trial of Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, he testified about meeting with US Presidents Trump, Obama and Biden, making claims about the War on Drugs. But he''d been extradited from Honduras on narco trafficking charges. This is the blow by blow story of the trial, with analysis and even verse, Narco Presidentes Blues... Juan Orlando Hernandez and his lead lawyer Raymond Colon were having a disagreement, before Colon would cross examine confessed narco trafficker and murder Devis Rivera Maradiaga. "You''re giving it too much importance," Colon told JOH. The former Honduran president disagreed and raised his voice. Kurt Wheelock heard it, but did not report it at the time - until now. And afterward, out on Worth Street in front of the SDNY Courthouse, the questions were about what the Americans Presidents - Trump, Obama and Biden - had known and when they knew it. Two of those three were running against each other again. To anti-corruption, in the UN, Honduras - and US - the work turned.

When UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres went to the Genocide Olympics in Beijing, without saying a word about the mass incarceration of the Uighurs in Xinjiang, it was a new low, even for him. But he had concealed his personal financial links with UN briber CEFC China Energy, convicted in the SDNY court, and banned Inner City Press which asks him about the links. This text tracks Guterres'' descent, called shameful by a US Senator. It is a tale of Kurt Wheelock (of Belt and Road, and Predatory Bender before that, here covering the Avenatti / Stormy Daniels trial in SDNY). It also has more on lawyer Michael Randall Long, now filing in the EDNY where Kurt picks up following the fraud case of Jho Low and Roger Ng of Goldman Sachs. It''s a series about corruption, with the UN in decay but the scrutiny and legal fight-back accelerating. #GenocideGamesOfGuterres

Not another history of the automotive pioneers, but rather a historical experience! Go behind the scenes in this fictional account and listen in on conversations as Henry Ford, Billy Durant and Walter Chrysler interact in building the Big Three. Hear supporting characters Ransom Olds, the Dodge Brothers, Charlie Nash, Alfred Sloan, Louis Chevrolet and others play their vital roles.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

If you love cold smoothie drinks then you will certainly love this recipe book. It contains 25 of the most delicious smoothie recipes that you can make with just a blender and some very basic ingredients.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The story of the first Christmas tree in medieval Germany. This version comes with restored and newly added illustrations.

A quick guide to learn how to jump into the online money making world by starting your own online business with very little startup costs.

"How to Win Friends and Influence People to Like You" explores why many people don''t have friends and the steps they can take to win new friends (on a personal and professional level).

Iraq: Through the Eyes of an American Soldiercontains over 200 beautiful and thought provoking images as photographed by U.S. Staff Sergeant Russell Lee Klika during multiple deployments to Iraq with the U.S. National Guard, between 2002 and 2010. Risking his own life to capture glimpses of the war, the people, and the country --- and sometimes shooting his camera from the back of a speeding Humvee or while machine guns fired around him --- Klika''s work records history as it unfolds. With each image, Klika seeks to "highlight the humanity" in the moments and the faces of the people: US military personnel, Iraqi soldiers, and Iraqi civilians. With only minimal text, each page in this photo-collection lets the images speak for themselves.

Iraq: Through the Eyes of an American Soldiercontains over 300 beautiful and thought provoking images as photographed by U.S. Staff Sergeant Russell Lee Klika during multiple deployments to Iraq with the U.S. National Guard, between 2002 and 2010. Risking his own life to capture glimpses of the war, the people, and the country --- and sometimes shooting his camera from the back of a speeding Humvee or while machine guns fired around him --- Klika''s work records history as it unfolds. With each image, Klika seeks to "highlight the humanity" in the moments and the faces of the people: both US military personnel, Iraqi soldiers, and Iraqi civilians. With only minimal text, each page in this photo-collection let''s the images speak for themselves.

The approximately 77,000 photographs in The Library of Congress’ collection from the (FSA), later the Office of War Information (OWI), provide a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War. This government photography project, headed by Roy E. Stryker, was initially conceived to document government loans to farmers and their resettlement in suburban communities, but the scope of the project expanded to create a visual record of agricultural workers across the United States. These evocative pictures transport the viewer to American homes, farms, and streets of the 1930s and 1940s, while offering a glimpse of a new narrative and intimate style that defined America. This volume features an introduction to the work of Russell Lee and presents 50 images selected from his work.

Russell Lee is widely acclaimed as one of the most outstanding documentary photographers of the twentieth century. His images of American life during the Great Depression, created for the Farm Security Administration between 1936 and 1942, hold a preeminent place in one of history's best-known and most useful photographic collections. This famous body of work demonstrates Lee's extraordinary ability to reveal the humanity of his subjects and to become a part of the communities he photographed. It also displays Lee's superior technical ability—his legendary skill in using a flash enabled Lee to create some of the finest candids in the history of photography. Russell Lee Photographs is the first book to show the full range and quality of Lee's entire oeuvre beyond the FSA work, as well as the first major publication of his photographs since F. Jack Hurley's 1978 book, Russell Lee: Photographer (long out of print). The book contains over 140 images, 101 of which have never appeared in book publication. The photographs are grouped into suites of images that represent all of Lee's important, non-FSA subjects: early work from New York City and Woodstock; the Spanish-speaking people of Texas; the mentally and physically disabled; political campaigns, including the Kennedy-Johnson campaign of 1960; commercial work for chemical and other companies; a portfolio of images of Italy; and quintessential scenes of small-town life. Setting Lee's images in context are a foreword by John Szarkowski, one of America's leading photography curators and critics, and an introduction by Lee's friend and fellow photography educator J. B. Colson, who offers fascinating personal insights into Lee's life and career. Considering Russell Lee's stature in American photography, it is surprising that much of his post-FSA work is unknown to the public and has been seldom seen even in the photography community. By making these images readily available for the first time, this book gives long-overdue recognition to the full range and excellence of Lee's work. Russell Lee Photographs is the essential book on this major American photographer.

When still a young dancer in the New York City Ballet, Suki Schorer was chosen by George Balanchine to lecture, demonstrate, and teach--he recognized in her that rare dancer who not only performs superbly but can also successfully pass along what she knows to others. In Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique, she commits to paper the fruit of her twenty-four-year collaboration with Balanchine in a close examination of his technique for teachers, scholars, and advanced students of the ballet. Schorer discusses the crucial work at the barre as well as center work, port de bras, pointework, jumps, partnering, and more. Her recollections of her own tutelage under Balanchine and her brilliant use of scores of his remarks about dancing and dancers lend both authority and intimacy to this extraordinary analysis of Balanchine's legacy to the future of dance. Abundantly illustrated throughout with instructional photographs featuring members of the New York City Ballet, this book will serve as an indispensable testament to Balanchine's ideas on technique and performance.

The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook is an original cookbook by, for, and about the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico.

"The New Deal and Folk Culture Series. 86 of the 250 photographs taken by Lee for the Farm Security Administration, July 1940. Remarkable portrait of the villagers, village life, adobe construction, handicrafts. Essays on Lee and the villages by Wroth (former curator of Taylor Museum), Charles L. Briggs (Vassar), Alan Fern (National Portrait Gallery).The thoughtfulness and thoroughness that went into the development of this book make it extraordinarily valuable"--Fern Lyon, New Mexico Magazine, from alibris.com.

A brief biography of the photographer followed by his photographs of people and places.