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originally posted by: imthegoat
originally posted by: LanceCorvette
originally posted by: pheonix358
a reply to: daskakik
It falls into the realm of common knowledge.
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"Common knowledge" is not a form of admissible evidence at a trial. See my post just above this one.
A jury, however, is allowed to rely on common experiences (but not extra-judicial evidence) when coming to a verdict. Similiar, but a distinction that should be made.
An example of common experiences might be "My cousin is a truck driver and he's always tired so I believe that the defendant truck driver here might have been tired after driving a 14 hours shift and missed the red light." Other jurors can rely on this or offer conflicting experiences; and a deliberation on that issue will ensue.
An example of common knowledge might be "There was a newspaper article that this particular stop light was always malfunctioning". If there was no evidence at the trial of a malfunction in the light, a newspaper article by itself is not admissible.
Can't entire websites be admissible as evidence depending on the content/relevancy?
Although the palace has not announced any plans for the monarch to retire, royal experts believe Elizabeth could follow in her husband’s footsteps and retire at age 95.
During an interview on CTV News, royal expert Richard Bethelson claimed the 93-year-old may be stepping down from her royal duties. “I myself felt that, after the Duke of Edinburgh retired at 95, it set the way and was a bit of a trial balloon for the Queen to follow suit in a few years,” he said.
Berthelson suggested that Prince Andrew’s recent scandal could push Queen Elizabeth to abdicate sooner than expected. “The incident with Prince Andrew – I think we may be closer to that,” he explained.
Whenever Queen Elizabeth does choose to abdicate, Prince Charles will become King and will be to rule the monarchy as he sees fit.
Talmudic literature also refers to this gate as the Shushan Gate, due to its Eastern direction toward the Persian city (now modern-day Iran). There is debate as to whether the name is meant to pay homage to the Persian leader Cyrus, who allowed Jews to return to Jerusalem in the 6th century B.C.E. to rebuild the Temple.
Jesus passed through this same gate on Palm Sunday, giving the gate messianic importance.
Muslims also place religious significance at this location, as some believe that this is the site of Allah’s final judgment and the site of future resurrection.
Because all three religions place such high importance on the Golden Gate in reference to messianic occurrences past and future, this site remains one of the most history-rich and controversial sites in Jerusalem.
originally posted by: dashen
If I hear one more news person say this guy is the front-runner I am going to smash a television
“Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the east. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.” Ezekiel 43:1-2 NKJV www.bible.com...
The Eastern Gate (also known as the Golden Gate) is one of eight gates built into the walls which surround the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Eastern Gate provides the only entrance from the East, and it is also the only gate that gives the most direct access to the temple mount. The Eastern Gate was destroyed during the Roman conquest of Jerusalem, and the subsequent destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70, thus fulfilling Christ's prophecy that "not one stone will be left on top of another" (Matthew 24:2). But sometime in the sixth or seventh century, the Byzantines rebuilt the Eastern Gate making it the oldest of all the gates to the city. In 1969, Jerusalem archaeologist James Fleming confirmed that the ancient gate is located right under the current Eastern Gate. While investigating the Eastern wall of the Temple, he suddenly fell into a mass burial site and clearly saw five large wedge-shaped stones set into a massive arch.
The Eastern Gate was sealed shut, with fifteen feet of cement, in AD 1540–41 by order of Suleiman the Magnificent, a sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The reasons for this remain unclear, however, it is likely that the Muslim Suleiman became aware of the prophecies which predicted the Messiah’s entrance through the Eastern Gate and, as a result, attempted to thwart the Messiah’s plans.
And just in case a sealed entrance didn't thwart the Messiah's coming, Muslims even built a cemetery directly in front of the gate, thinking that a Jewish Holy man would never defile himself by walking through a Muslim cemetery. However, little did they know, they were fulfilling prophecy by doing this. Ezekiel prophesied the shutting of this gate itself around 600 BC, more than 2100 years before Suleiman actually shut the gate:
"Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east, but it was shut. And the LORD said to me, "This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut." (Ezekiel 44:1-2)
originally posted by: samuelsson
Just found another letter that seems to indicate more of the same. No idea if camelot holds any menning beyond the obvious. They supposedly sent Trump a sword. The Donald Trump excalibur sword from the castle of camelot.
Would have specified.. The letters themselve seem to indicate a deeper undersranding of what Trump winning the u.s presidency would mean, for u.s and the rest of the world. Not saying Trump is gonna turn into arthur and slay the deep state.
House Republicans delivered a point-by-point rebuttal Monday to Democrats’ impeachment efforts, claiming in their own report that the evidence collected in the inquiry to date does not support the accusations leveled against President Trump -- or rise to the level of removal from office.
“The evidence presented does not prove any of these Democrat allegations, and none of the Democrats’ witnesses testified to having evidence of bribery, extortion, or any high crime or misdemeanor,” Republicans said in a 123-page report, timed to be made public ahead of the majority Democrats’ impeachment report.
Would have specified.. The letters themselve seem to indicate a deeper undersranding of what Trump winning the u.s presidency would mean, for u.s and the rest of the world. Not saying Trump is gonna turn into arthur and slay the deep state.
News that Koons had unseated David Hockney as the world's most expensive artist likely inspired in you a wide array of emotions that may have included "Wait, Mnuchin, as in Steven Mnuchin?" Yes. Robert Mnuchin is Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's father and this fact is not exactly a coincidence.
Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, and Naomi Campbell made their way through the VIP crowd, past the fleet of Bentleys, and toward the waiting helicopter.
Las Vegas executive Kenny Wynn, the brother of casino-hotel magnate Steve Wynn, recently was served with a search warrant at his home in connection with a child pornography investigation, according to law enforcement sources.
Guerrilla Girls, the anonymous feminist artist collective, took to Twitter yesterday to call out the newly renovated Museum of Modern Art over its decision to name a gallery after a wealthy trustee couple with ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the money manager and convicted sex offender who died in prison earlier this year. The gallery in question apparently bears the names of billionaire hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin and his wife Eva Dubin, who founded the Dubin Breast Center of the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Back in 2016, Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s alleged victims, said in a deposition that Glenn Dubin was the first in a long list of powerful men that Epstein’s companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, had instructed her to have sex with. The Dubins and their spokesperson have vehemently denied the allegations.
The new expansion of the MoMA has already been touted for its elevation of artists like Diane Arbus and Frida Kahlo, but the Guerrilla Girls posit that the presence of the Dubin name refutes any progressivism that the museum had been aiming to embrace. Leon D. Black, MoMA’s chairman, has also declined to discuss Environmental Solutions Worldwide, the company that his children invested in alongside Epstein. MoMA has not yet responded to Observer’s request for comment on the new gallery names.
For Koons’s fourth collaboration with Kiehl’s, his Seated Ballerina was chosen to be the sign of hope in honor of National Missing Children’s Month—a collaboration that was brought about in association with the not-for-profit Art Production Fund to benefit the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children. “I was a left-behind parent, and you really don’t know where to turn,” Koons explained. In 1998, his ex-wife, Ilona Staller, abducted Koons’s firstborn son, Ludwig Maximilian. Since then, I.C.M.E.C.aided Koons when he needed it the most.He now sits on the board and donates his time and awe-inspiring art moments to raise awareness of and put a spotlight on this very disturbing topic.
As explained by Chris Salgardo, president of Kiehl’s USA, “There were 465,000 reports of missing children last year in the U.S., and it’s gratifying to know that we are able to make a difference in the lives of our children.”
Despite the best efforts of governments and financial institutions around the world, money laundering still accounts for roughly 2-5% of global GDP, or $1-2 trillion dollars annually. As the market for fine art continues to grow and become more readily accepted as an asset class, it has become a popular means for criminals to launder money.
Transactions involving artwork are being used as vehicles to move money across borders and hide illicit gains. A recent New York Times article points out: “As other traditional money-laundering techniques have come under closer scrutiny, smugglers, drug traffickers, arms dealers and the like have increasingly turned to the famously opaque art market.”