He was born Hamish Watson, a surfie dude from Sydney – but he could morph into whatever you needed him to be. Hamish is due to be sentenced to jail in early 2019 for swindling a handful of victims out of more than $7m. But these crimes are just the final pages in a resume too thick to staple; for decades he’s duped victims in the US, Canada, Britain, Hong Kong and Australia. How did he do it? How did he evade authorities around the world for so long and what’s he done with all those tens of ...
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Discount code (10 percent) for Edge Designations: FERGhttps://edgedesignations.com/ Like its protagonist, The Apprentice (123 minutes, 2024) will mean different things to different people and enable an odd mix of confirmation biases. Those watching the same enthralling portrayal of the young Donald Trump and his attorney-mentor Roy Cohn (1927–1986) will extract starkly different conclusions. MAGA partisans will likely highlight Trump’s courage, ambition, and productivity. Those infected with Trump derangement syndrome will dwell on his ruthlessness, ego, and, at times, cold demeanor. Both are right and have more than a kernel of truth to their versions of the story. However, given the October 11 US release, less than a month before the presidential election, both sides are amid the battle and likely to miss the point of The Apprentice. As Iranian-born and Denmark-based Director Ali Abbasi explained on the leftist Democracy Now! program, he does not have a partisan ax to grind, and he sought to provide the broader human side of both Trump and Cohn. Read the article: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/10/14/the-apprentice-rises-above-partisanship-humanizes-donald-trump/
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