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Kent State to Pay Hanoi Jane $83k for May 4 Commemoration Speech
It's hard to believe, but May 4, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of the tragic shooting at Kent State University, where Ohio National Guard troops fired on a crowd of students during a massive anti-Vietnam War protest, killing four students and injuring nine.
Witnesses, military and law-enforcement experts, historians, and activists are divided on whether the shooting was justified (that's a discussion for another day), but it appears that Kent State is going all-in on pouring salt in the wounds of America's Vietnam veterans.
In a move that surprised many in the Northeast Ohio area and beyond, Kent State President Todd Diacon announced that actress, activist, and (former?) communist sympathizer Jane Fonda will be one of the speakers at an anniversary commemoration of the shooting on May 3—and she'll be paid a whopping $83,000 to ostensibly reminisce about her anti-war activism.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican and veteran, is not having it.
"The 50th anniversary of one of Ohio’s darkest days has the potential to serve as a moment of unity, understanding & healing in a nation that is deeply divided," LaRose wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday. "However, Kent State’s decision to pay Jane Fonda $83,000 to speak at their commemoration event does the very opposite."
LaRose, who served in the 101st Airborn Division and later as a Green Beret, earning a Bronze Star for his service in Iraq, observed that American service members returning from Vietnam "deserved a much better reception than the one they received. They weren’t the politicians who chose which battle to fight -- they were the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines sent into the battle. And we should say one thing to them: Welcome Home."
But that wasn't all. While LaRose says he understands that people can disagree on policy issues, especially matters of war, "What’s not ok is providing aid and comfort to the enemy and willfully serving as a propaganda tool for those engaged in hostilities against the United States."
"And Ms. Fonda did that – the very definition of treason," he added.
LaRose noted on Twitter that he supports free speech, but the university should not be paying her tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege.
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Governor of Commiefornia.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.</p>— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1230889348167434240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Governor of Commiefornia.
And so, if companies are having a hard time finding skilled workers, that means there’s going to be wage pressure which could weigh on profit margins. And at this stage of the game, with valuations where they are, with a stock market at all-time highs, you could see that as a sort of sign at top that profit margins start declining.
So all of those three things pose real issues for this administration in an election year because if you did have some sort of head wind to economic growth, it’s already facing coronavirus right now, and then really the head winds of the trade war, you have a really difficult situation.
Nobody can tell you what’s going to happen, you know, in October or November of this year, but they all pose risk for this administration because the stock market at all-time highs is backward looking, it’s not forward looking. And so, if the stock market were to tumble this year, if we don’t get near the 3% GDP growth that this administration has been talking about for years, these are all things that Dems can run on and they pose a problem.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.</p>— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1230889348167434240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Governor of Commiefornia.
Jeffrey David Cox (in Google, real name just David Cox) is the head of Federal Prison Guards in Manhattan. Jeffery is the boss of the guards who were supposed to keep Jeffery Epstein alive while in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. He also is friends with Bill and Hillary Clinton. This is such a small world.
Stop everything!! Updated information 11/24/19
David Cox just had a $20 million mansion "bought for him" in Shanghai, by a company called HSBC Holdings. HSBC had been found money laundering, funding terrorists, and Mexican drug cartels. Hillary buried this in 2012 by negotiating it down to a relatively small fine.
July 30, 2019 Russian intelligence picked up info regarding a hit on Epstein being ordered, for exactly $100 million.
August 3, 2019, Clinton linked entities in NYC transferred $100 mil to HSBC. HSBC transferred $50 million to their China branch, who then used it to buy the mansion, as well as a $7 million luxury apartment for another Clinton connected union boss in charge of hiring guards.
August 10, 2019, Epstein found dead in an ultra-secure prison where only 1 other person has ever been able to commit suicide...
American Patriot transferred from one prison facility to another after reaching "breaking point"
Michael Avenatti moved to different jail after hitting ‘breaking point’
By Michael Kaplan
February 22, 2020 | 4:36pm
On Feb. 14, disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti was found guilty on all charges of trying to bilk $23.5 million from Nike, and now faces up to 42 years in prison. But there’s one thing for him to be happy about: He’s finally been moved out of the downtown Manhattan jail cell he despises.
The attorney, who represented porn star Stormy Daniels in a failed 2018 suit against Donald Trump, was arrested last March and charged with attempting to extort the shoe brand over illegally funneled payments to college basketball players.
In January, ahead of his trial, he was transferred from a California facility to the notorious 10 South — a jail deep inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Tribeca that Avenatti’s Miami-based attorney Scott Srebnick described to The Post as “sheer dehumanization.”
In a January letter of protest, Srebnick complained that the temperature of the 8-by-10-foot cell was in the mid-40s and that his client was “forced to sleep with three blankets … [and] not permitted to shave.” In the summer, the temperature reportedly becomes debilitatingly hot.
Avenatti was transferred to 5 South, a general-population facility, on Thursday, after one of his defense attorneys, Danya Perry, wrote an appeal to MCC — saying Avenatti had reached a “breaking point.”
“[Avenatti] was in a cell where everything he does is watched. He showered in view of cameras. He couldn’t control the lights [which reportedly never turn off],” Srebnick added of his client’s old 10 South cell. “There was no privacy.”
Avenatti’s not the only famous tenant who’s been made miserable by the conditions at 10 South. In 2017, the same cell housed Mexican drug cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, whose lawyers called the conditions “excessively punitive.”
Michael Lambert, who heads up a law firm that represented El Chapo, told The Post that the conditions of 10 South — a special housing unit that is primarily designed to hold terrorists and others who would face threats from the general jail population or be a threat themselves — are “nothing short of torture.”
“The air conditioner blows dirty air and puts out weird noises that make it difficult to sleep,” one of El Chapo’s lawyers, Mariel Colon Miró, told The Post. “There are no vending machines, no water bottles, no fresh air or sunlight. There are very small windows, but they have frosted glass, which blocks out the light.”
In a letter sent to the prison while El Chapo was there, she complained that he could “taste and see mold coming out of the faucet.”
Often characterized as an “SHU” (special housing unit), 10 South consists of six solitary-confinement cells. According to Miro, each contains a sleeping pad on the floor, plus a toilet, a sink and a shower.
One hour per day, Monday through Friday, Avenatti was escorted to a room characterized as a “solitary cage” — a cramped, dark space with a stationary bike and a TV. No time was spent outdoors. The exercise room, said Srebnick, “has a slat through which the wind blows.”
The prison is also said to be infested with vermin. “I saw roaches; I saw rats,” Miro said. “I heard them scratching through the walls all the time.” A former inmate of 10 South told Gothamist that the rodents are “so big, it seemed like they could only be in the sewer.”
At Avenatti’s new home in 5 South, general population privileges include 92 hours out of the cell per week, during which prisoners have unlimited (but monitored) email access, cellphone privileges, television privileges and library access.
In April, Avenatti will be tried in the same courthouse for allegedly stealing $300,000 from Daniels. He will also later be tried in California on charges of ripping off clients, scamming bank loans, evading taxes and lying during bankruptcy proceedings. At some point, he will be sent to a federal penitentiary.
For now, he is glad to see 10 South in the rearview.
“The human mind can take only so much,” said Srebnick.
With additional reporting by Melkorka Licea
Wow, now I begin to believe that maybe, just MAYBE, Avenatti will not save democracy in the United States from the evil orange man.
Great video Steel. EVERYONE should watch that.
Shocking to me that so many humans are so unintelligent as to vote for that.
Absolutely, Tim. Required viewing in our schools etc.