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Anonymous ID: aeef81 Nov. 16, 2023, 3:40 a.m. No.19925083   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5438

>>19924849

HAITI.

 

The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund

JANUARY 16, 2010 AT 12:40 PM ET BY MACON PHILLIPS

 

Summary: "How can I help?" That's what former Presidents Bush and Clinton both asked as the devastating impact of the earthquake in Haiti became clear. This question brought them to a place they both know well, the Oval Office. There they met with President Obama and agreed to lead a major fundraising effort for relief: the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.

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"How can I help?"

 

That's what former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both asked as the devastating impact of the earthquake in Haiti became clear. This question brought them to a place they both know well, the Oval Office. There they met with President Obama and agreed to lead a major fundraising effort for relief: the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.

 

In the Rose Garden just after the meeting, President Bush touched on the work that's already being done and the best way for Americans to help:

 

The challenges down there are immense, but there's a lot of devoted people leading the relief effort, from government personnel who deployed into the disaster zone to the faith-based groups that have made Haiti a calling.

 

The most effective way for Americans to help the people of Haiti is to contribute money. That money will go to organizations on the ground and will be who will be able to effectively spend it. I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water just send your cash. One of the things that the President and I will do is to make sure your money is spent wisely. As President Obama said, you can look us up on clintonbushhaitifund.org.

 

President Clinton reaffirmed his optimism for Haiti's future, despite this enormous challenge for the country:

 

I believe before this earthquake Haiti had the best chance in my lifetime to escape its history – a history that Hillary and I have shared a tiny part of. I still believe that. The Haitians want to just amend their development plan to take account of what's happened in Port-au-Prince and west, figure out what they got to do about that, and then go back to implementing it. But it's going to take a lot of help and a long time.

 

President Obama summed up the importance of the sustained attention and support the two former Presidents will champion:

 

In any extraordinary catastrophe like this, the first several weeks are just going to involve getting immediate relief on the ground. And there are going to be some tough days over the next several days. People are still trying to figure out how to organize themselves. There's going to be fear, anxiety, a sense of desperation in some cases.

 

I've been in contact with President Préval. I've been talking to the folks on the ground. We are going to be making slow and steady progress, and the key now is to – for everybody in Haiti to understand that there is going to be sustained help on the way.

 

But what these gentlemen are going to be able to do is when the news media starts seeing its attention drift to other things but there's still enormous needs on the ground, these two gentlemen of extraordinary stature I think are going to be able to help ensure that these efforts are sustained. And that's why it's so important and that's why I'm so grateful that they agreed to do it.

 

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/01/16/clinton-bush-haiti-fund

Anonymous ID: aeef81 Nov. 16, 2023, 4:17 a.m. No.19925138   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5147

>>19925126

Everyone with Eyes knows that the Eff Bee Eye directed this "show."

How many moar 'hearings' need to take place?

Every hearing is met by deflection, deceit, semantics and zero actual transparency.

Everyone leaves, with the same belief about it as they walked in with

 

DIVISION comes from these HEARINGS, where NOTHING CHANGES!

 

Deniers still deny, and "conspiracy theorist" still believe what they fricken saw!!

Anonymous ID: aeef81 Nov. 16, 2023, 4:30 a.m. No.19925164   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5270

If the Plan was to slowly show the sheelple the truth, so they didn't freak out, how is this continued bullshit narrative de-escalating that tension and division?

How many "Patriots" now, have been ordered to pay CRIMINALS money, because the truth is never exposed?

(pretty much rhetorical…)

 

2 Georgia election workers to seek millions from Giuliani at defamation trial

 

Former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss will seek between $15.5 million and $43 million from Rudy Giuliani at a defamation trial slated to begin next month in a Washington, D.C., federal court, attorneys for the mother and daughter wrote in court documents filed Tuesday.

 

A federal judge has already found Giuliani liable for defamatory comments he made about the pair in the wake of the 2020 election, including unfounded claims that they fraudulently manipulated ballots on Election Day in front of cameras at State Farm Arena.

 

The civil trial, scheduled to begin Dec. 11, will determine the full scope of damages

 

In court papers filed Tuesday, attorneys for Moss and Freeman said they expected their case to last two to three days, and they held out the possibility of calling Giuliani to the witness stand.

 

Judge Beryl Howell, who will oversee the trial, has already leveled harsh sanctions against the former New York mayor over his failure to comply with discovery requests, awarding Freeman and Moss north of $230,000.

 

According to Freeman and Moss' legal team, the range of $15.5 million to $43 million cited in court papers includes costs associated with Moss' loss of work and her "need to secure and relocate from her home," where ABC News interviewed her in 2022.

 

Meanwhile, a deluge of other civil and criminal lawsuits has left Giuliani, in his own attorney's words, experiencing "financial difficulties."

 

Among other obligations, Giuliani faces a $1.4 million lawsuit for allegedly failing to pay his former attorney, Bob Costello. A former business associate in May filed a sexual harassment claim against Giuliani, seeking damages. And in October, Hunter Biden sued Giuliani for unspecified damages, accusing him of mishandling personal data belonging to the president's son.

 

Giuliani has denied all claims in each of those cases.

 

The former mayor also faces a criminal racketeering indictment that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis returned in August against him and 18 others, including former President Donald Trump, for efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. Giuliani has pleaded not guilty.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/2-georgia-election-workers-seek-201658552.html

Anonymous ID: aeef81 Nov. 16, 2023, 4:59 a.m. No.19925220   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Clown Ops Crisis Actors

Smile for the camera…

 

Daniel Penny applied 6-minute chokehold on Jordan Neely as witness accounts differ on threat: Prosecutors

 

Daniel Penny put Jordan Neely in a six-minute fatal chokehold on a New York City subway train that "continued well past the point at which Mr. Neely had stopped purposeful movement," prosecutors said Wednesday in a new court filing that opposed the defense's motion to dismiss the case.

 

The former U.S. Marine is charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in connection with the death of Neely, who was homeless at the time, on the F train on May 1.

 

Penny has pleaded not guilty to the charges and his attorneys asked the judge to dismiss the case because they allege Neely was "insanely threatening" aboard the train.

 

Prosecutors said eyewitness accounts "differed sharply" in their assessments of the threat posed by Neely when Penny acted.

 

"It is certainly true that several of the passengers testified that they were fearful," assistant district attorney Joshua Steinglass wrote in the filing. "Omitted from the defense submission, however, are the accounts that undermine the notion of rampant and universal panic."

 

Steinglass added, "As one witness put it, 'for me, it was like another day typically in New York. That's what I'm used to seeing. I wasn't really looking at it if I was going to be threatened or anything to that nature, but it was a little different because, you know, you don't really hear anybody saying anything like that.'"

 

Less than 30 seconds after the chokehold started, the train arrived at the Broadway-Lafayette Station, prosecutors said. "Passengers who had felt fearful on account of being trapped on the train were now free to exit the train," Steinglass said. "The defendant continued holding Mr. Neely around the neck."

 

Video of the deadly interaction began nearly two minutes later. The full-length video is 4 minutes and 57 seconds long. "The video begins with the defendant holding Mr. Neely in a chokehold on a relatively empty train while two other male passengers stand close by. Within seconds, one of those passengers grabbed and held Mr. Neely's right arm, further immobilizing him," Steinglass said.

 

Three minutes and ten seconds into the video, Neely ceases all purposeful movement, prosecutors said. "After that moment, Mr. Neely's movements are best described as 'twitching and the kind of agonal movement that you see around death,'" the prosecutor said.

 

Penny's chokehold lasted an additional 51 seconds, according to the video.

 

The defense argued Penny had no intent to kill, but Steinglass said second degree manslaughter only requires prosecutors to prove Penny acted recklessly, not intentionally.

 

"The defendant held Jordan Neely on the ground with his arm wrapped around Mr. Neely's neck. He did so with enough force and for a long enough period to kill Jordan Neely," Steinglass said.

 

"Not only did the chokehold last some six minutes, but it continued for nearly a minute past the point where Mr. Neely ceased all purposeful movement," the prosecution's filing said. "The hold seemed so unnecessary at that point that an eyewitness can be heard on video urging the defendant to let go of Mr. Neely and warning the defendant that 'if you don't let him go now, you're going to kill him.'"

 

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/daniel-penny-applied-6-minute-202244461.html

Anonymous ID: aeef81 Nov. 16, 2023, 5:07 a.m. No.19925246   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5303 >>5459 >>5521

‘You can’t beat us’: Starbucks workers to strike in ‘Red Cup Rebellion’

 

Starbucks workers will strike at stores across the US on 16 November, the company’s promotional Red Cup Day, in their latest attempt to pressure the company to bargain a first union contract with unionized stores and address issues such as understaffing.

 

On Red Cup Day, Starbucks customers get a free limited edition reusable red cup as a promotional event to kick off the holiday season. Starbucks’ 2022 Red Cup Day was reportedly its highest single sales day ever despite strikes affecting over 100 stores organized by the Starbucks Workers United union.

 

This year, thousands of Starbucks workers are expected to participate in walkouts at hundreds of Starbucks stores as part of an escalated effort to expand the strikes, including actions at non-unionized Starbucks stores. The union has dubbed the day of action the “Red Cup Rebellion”.

 

Workers are calling on the company to turn off mobile ordering on high-volume promotion days, improve staffing and scheduling issues, and bargain with the union.

 

“I feel like customers don’t know to the full extent how hard the promotional days can be. It’s super exciting and fun for our customers to have these new cups, new drinks and all these exclusive things, but our management does not staff us correctly,” said Bruce Halstead, a barista at a Starbucks roastery in Seattle, Washington.

 

“Partners will run themselves ragged having to do the job of three people sometimes because the demand of customers is a lot more. Partners will leave their shifts in tears, they will injure themselves just trying to keep up with the demand of the cups and the drinks. We just want to bring awareness to this.”

 

Halstead got involved with the union organizing committee at his store shortly after starting his employment at the company in February 2023 and has been impressed with its ability to change management policies.

 

“It’s so empowering to be able to take matters and actions into our own hands. At the roastery, we’ve had many successful walkouts and strikes to the point where our managers have to listen and they will start doing what we are demanding of them,” said Halstead. “Nobody should have to go into their shift dreading if they are going to be cussed out by a customer today because the wait times are too long because we’re too understaffed to keep up with the volume.”

 

More than 360 Starbucks stores representing nearly 10,000 workers in the US have won union elections with Starbucks Workers United since December 2021, but the union campaign has faced significant opposition from the company through union elections and in efforts to bargain a first union contract.

 

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been inundated with hundreds of unfair labor practice charges filed on behalf of Starbucks workers alleging retaliation, intimidation, harassment and delay tactics from Starbucks.

 

According to the NLRB, regional offices have docketed or settled 672 unfair labor practice cases against Starbucks in 39 states and Washington DC.

 

Among the complaints include a consolidated complaint that Starbucks has failed or refused to bargain with 242 bargaining units, with an administrative law judge hearing on that case currently in progress, and a recent ruling by a federal judge that Starbucks violated labor law by withholding benefits and pay increases from unionized workers.

 

Starbucks again offered pay increases and benefits to only non-union stores shortly after the ruling following its annual earnings call in which the company reported record revenues in the past year.

 

Starbucks Workers United has characterized Starbucks as “the worst offender of federal labor law in modern US history” and has extended organizing solidarity efforts to college campuses.

 

Starbucks and Starbucks Workers United recently filed lawsuits against one another over the Starbucks logo use over statements in support of Palestine made by the union.

 

moar

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-beat-us-starbucks-workers-110004920.html

Anonymous ID: aeef81 Nov. 16, 2023, 5:29 a.m. No.19925300   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Lily Allen on resurfaced rape joke made by Russell Brand: 'It makes me uncomfortable'

 

Lily Allen is calling out a rape joke at her expense made by comedians Russell Brand, Jimmy Carr and Jonathan Ross.

 

The English singer, 38, revisited an experience on the British television program "The Big Fat Quiz of the Year" in 2007, when the joke was made.

 

A clip from the show has resurfaced as rape and sexual assault allegations against Brand, 48, are coming to light.

 

At the top of the show, Ross, 62, moved Allen away from a panel that included Brand and comedian Noel Fielding, to the "sexless zone" to protect her because she was the "only sexually attractive" person on the panel.

 

"And then Lily may go home with her dress still on," Ross said.

 

"How dare you – we're not rapists," Fielding said back.

 

Host Carr, 51, then asked why Fielding, 50, was wearing a cape if he "wasn't a rapist," with Fielding clarifying that it was actually a Jack the Ripper cape.

 

"He wasn't a rapist, he was a …" Fielding said, before Brand jumped in: "Serial murderer."

 

"There's a difference. There is no direct corollary between rapes and capes, it's just a rhyme. Leave him alone," Brand said.

 

In an interview with the magazine Grazia UK published on Monday, Allen said the experience was "horrendous" looking back, but at the time, she went along with it.

 

"I laugh along with it. In retrospect, that's really horrendous," she told the outlet. "It makes me uncomfortable, but I don't think I felt that at the time because it was the culture."

 

USA TODAY has reached out to reps for Brand, Carr, Fielding and Ross for comment.

 

Accusations against Brand of rape, sexual assault and abuse continue to mount after an initial four women, who knew him over a seven-year period at the height of his fame, came forward about their alleged interactions.

 

In a report published Sept. 16, The Sunday Times, The Times of London and Channel 4's "Dispatches" revealed the accusations, which included one woman alleging Brand raped her, while three others accused him of sexual assault.

 

Brand denied the allegations, maintaining all of his relationships have been consensual.

 

The accusations have also spurred broadcasters such as the BBC and Channel 4, where Brand was previously employed as a presenter, to launch internal investigations into his conduct.

 

On Nov. 14, the BBC announced that amid their investigations, two more people have come forward to complain about Brand.

 

Several media and police forces have made queries about Brand's conduct. London's Metropolitan Police announced on Sept. 25 that they have opened a sex crimes investigation into Brand. Thames Valley Police, another U.K. police force, is investigating Brand for harassment and stalking, they announced on Oct. 2.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lily-allen-resurfaced-rape-joke-135806124.html