veteranstoday--2020-07-14--Jack Heart: Disband the police and elect sheriffs

The right wing , just like the left wing , has been hijacked by a cadre of globalists who can not tell enough lies or inflict enough pain to fill the hole left inside of them by their vacated souls .
The newest lie from the right is their historically untenable position that police departments are indispensable to Western civilization .
The facts say different , in fact they say nothing could be further from the truth .
Here is a brief summary of the historical reality of the police in America and the tremendous contribution they are now making @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hold dear .
Like the song goes “ everybody ’ s talking but few of them know.
” Well I know and I know from personal experience unlike these faggot news casters spewing their prefabricated talking points .
This is an open post , consider it a community service , a service most of you have never paid a dime for… – Jack Heart It ’ s the morning of July 8 in Fort Salonga New York , an affluent Long Island community about twenty miles outside of N.Y.C .
It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Last night I couldn ’ t eat dinner because of yet another disturbance by the absurdity that has become Black Lives Mater .
Black street toughs being led around by the nose ring by White Jewish Lesbian school teachers .
B.L.M .
is like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront : “ You don ’ t understand .
I coulda had class .
I coulda been a contender .
I coulda been somebody , instead of a bum , which is what I am , let ’ s face it… ” They had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and they had the floor but once again Blacks find their voices overdubbed by their own oppressors .
It ’ s hard to imagine that the Black intelligentsia that organized B.L.M .
did not notice everything they had worked for , and many other Blacks had died for , was being coopted by the vicious dyke disciples of Howard Zinn a few years ago when it was happening .
I ’ m inclined to believe that just like Marlon Brando ’ s character in On the Waterfront ; Terry Malloy , they took @ @ @ @ @ @ @ find themselves an ugly circus sideshow , “ a bum… ” Speaking of bums I digress .
I ’ d eaten a light breakfast and lunch and figured I ’ d get something heavier in a place called Relish about a mile east of me on Main Street in the center of Kings Park .
You can get a good meal there for twenty-five dollars .
To the west is Fort Salonga and Asharoken where the price of restaurants goes up with the price of real estate .
When I got there I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We were diverted down a side street where we found all access to the town of Kings Park , the sight of at least a half a dozen other substantial bars and restaurants , denied by a swarm of Suffolk County Police .
We could see over the police cars that there were about fifty to a hundred people sitting and standing in the intersection at the center of town .
This so said demonstration had begun at three in the afternoon when a bunch of eighteen to twenty-year old local kids @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were told to go home by the Suffolk County Police Inspector Romagnolli or face arrest themselves .
Playing stupid we asked a sheepish looking Black cop what was going on .
He explained to us that it was a B.L.M .
rally and they should be finishing up soon .
We asked him if B.L.M .
had permits and he said : “ no we ’ ve got to work with them with all that ’ s going on .
This is the fifth time we ’ ve had to do this for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bellone is of course a Democrat , as is party zealot and governor of N.Y. Andrew Cuomo .
Right now it is in the democratic party ’ s interest for the mayhem to continue in order to make Trump look as bad as possible before the elections , dam their constituents .
All across America in areas where democrats control the police department , like Suffolk and Nassau Counties along with N.Y.C .
under the stewardship of Mayor Bill de Blasio , an even more radical democrat than Cuomo , the police are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ B.L.M .
“ rallies ” to terrorize the very communities the police say they “ protect and serve.
” Six months ago I was on the other side of Long Island in Long Beach , N.Y. when the democratic party on behalf of their globalist overlords in London recklessly decided to politicize the biological attack of unknown origins that is COVID .
Helplessly I watched in horror as they closed down the beaches and boardwalk , all local commerce ground to a halt and hypochondria was inculcated into pop culture .
I watched @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black horses ride up and down the street and the boardwalk enforcing “ social distancing , ” and the ridiculous mask laws , while planes from every COVID infected corner of the world passed slowly overhead awaiting clearance to land in Kennedy Airport a few miles away .
What COVID has really done to the N.Y.C .
economy won ’ t be felt till the unpaid rent for six months comes due at the end of August .
But it ’ s safe to assume N.Y.C will be returning to its late seventies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Bronx were known as Fort Apache , and the city had a higher murder rate than most war zones .
New Yorkers , of which a half a million have already fled the city , can thank their “ brave ” men in blue who have served their democratic masters well .
Using the police as a political weapon is hardly unprecedented .
The democrats are simply following a long held precedent of the republicans who have been using the police for years to enforce illegal land grabs and break strikes .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ staged in Minneapolis .
The city has a tradition since the days of Al Capone and even before that of being an open city .
Minneapolis was run for decades by Mayor A .
A. Ames , a thirty-third degree mason and a Democrat until it suited him to become a republican at the turn of the twentieth century .
Ames Police Chief was his brother and Chief of Detectives his pimp .
The police were his salaried thugs who ran his brothels , gambling parlors and opium dens .
By 1934 under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of local business leaders , Minneapolis was a notorious anti-union city .
But its recently elected mayor was an ineffectual actor turned politician much like Americas current president .
“ By May of 1934 , General Drivers Local 574 of the international Brotherhood of Teamsters had organized members of the trucking industry into a union with 3000 members.
” All that summer there were violent clashes between police , who were no more than the goon squad for the Citizens ’ Alliance , and the teamsters .
It culminated on July 20 when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wounding sixty-seven and killing two , in a day still known as “ Bloody Friday.
” ( 1 ) The police force itself is hardly the time honored and indispensable American institution that right wing pundits would have their audiences believe .
“ The first publicly funded , organized police force with officers on duty full-time was created in Boston in 1838 .
Boston was a large shipping commercial center , and businesses had been hiring people to protect their property and safeguard the transport of goods from the port of Boston to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wing propagandists it was good business that these “ merchants came up with a way to save money by transferring the cost of maintaining a police force to citizens by arguing that it was for the “ collective good.
” ( 2 ) Boston was quickly followed by N.Y.C .
in 1845 , Albany and Chicago in 1853 , New Orleans and Cincinnati in 1853 , Philadelphia in 1855 and Newark and Baltimore in 1857 .
“ By the 1880s all major U.S. cities had municipal police forces in place.
” ( 3 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ever have the police been for the collective good of anybody except the elite .
The “ thin blue line ” propagandists like to use as a slogan is only to divide the public from those who fleece them for a living .
Slumlords , usurious moneylenders , environmental plunderers , sweatshop proprietors and indeed all those who parasitize the urban infrastructure , all love the police .
In N.Y.C .
as chronicled in Gangs of New York , the book and movie , the police were immediately put to work as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criminally insane Tammany Hall political machine and later the infamous Boss Tweed .
In the nineteenth century street gangs stole everything from N.Y. harbor that wasn ’ t nailed down and extorted shopkeepers at their leisure , but the gangs were in turn extorted by the police .
In 1894 some of this was exposed by the Lexow Committee .
So lucrative was it to be a cop in N.Y.C .
that the price of promotion was sixteen hundred dollars to become a sergeant and up to fifteen thousand to be a captain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lexow Committee was followed by the Curren Committee in 1913 , the Hofstadter Committee in 1932 , then a Brooklyn grand jury investigation into gambling payoffs in 1949 .
The Knapp Commission of 1972 was the result of the career of Frank Serpico , spanning from 1960 to 1972 as a whistleblower and an undercover cop .
The rampant corruption of the N.Y.C .
police department is vividly chronicled in the 1973 book and movie Serpico , with iconic movie star Al Pacino playing Serpico .
After word got out of his whistleblowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fellow officers to be murdered in early seventy-one , taking a bullet in the head in a deliberately blown drug bust .
Serpico lived to become a legend , but nothing changed in the N.Y.C .
police department .
In 1993 the Mollen Commission exposed pervasive drug corruption , organized theft by police officers of drugs and money , excessive use of force , and the cavalier use of drugs by the police department itself .
In October of 2014 Serpico did an interview published in well-known left wing journal Politico .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Control… I Should Know… In Chicago after the fire the police department would fashion the city into the underworld capital of America and be instrumental in forming the Outfit , supposedly Al Capones gang .
Although the never solved Saint Valentine ’ s Day Massacre is blamed on Capone , witnesses all saw uniformed cops entering the garage which was the site of the legendary machinegun slaughter .
Fifty years later detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito would set up shop murdering people all over N.Y.C .
for the Italian mob .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ late 19th and early 20th century police were corrupt , they were in fact , primary instruments for the creation of corruption in the first place.. ” Three of the more flagrant abuses of the police force are listed by Dr. Gary Potter , renowned professor of Justice Studies , who is extensively quoted in the previously cited Time Magazine article : “ ( 1 ) the formation of a prostitution syndicate by Los Angeles Mayor Arthur Harper , Police Chief Edward Kerns , and a local organized crime figure , combined with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this syndicate ’ s competitors in the prostitution industry ; ( 2 ) the assassination of organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein by police lieutenant Charles Becker , head of the NYPD ’ s vice squad ; and , ( 3 ) a dispute between the Mayor and District Attorney of Philadelphia , each of whom controlled rival gambling syndicates and each of whom used loyal factions of police to harass the other… ” ( 4 ) No constitutional traditionalists ever wanted the police , not in America , and not even in Great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In America we have Sheriffs elected and answerable to the people who gave them the job .
This is how the most lawless land the world has ever seen ; America ’ s Wild West was tamed , not by police .
The sheriff has deputies and if need be they can deputize their entire constituency .
If that ’ s not enough through the governor they can call in the cavalry , now rapid response federal troops .
Law enforcement unanswerable to the people it is supposed to serve leads to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with civil servants playing dress up as if their ready for the eastern front , rolling down the streets in tanks and thinking because they got punched in the nose they now have a right to shoot an unarmed man .
I am so weary of cops , their psychopathic unions and all their apologists rationalizing the cavalier use of deadly force by the police department that I really just want to punch somebody in the nose myself .
For years I was a bouncer at some of the roughest clubs in N.Y. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the clubhouse for the infamous Pagans Motorcycle Gang , to name a couple .
From machetes to baseball bats , to some drunken Latin King pulling his pistol from out of nowhere and capping off a couple of rounds not a foot away from my ear , I have seen it all .
I do not recall anyone ever having to be shot or stabbed , and nobody ever was , not on my watch .
According to the online dictionary Wikipedia American police killed 1,536 people in 2019 .
In India , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , wracked by desperate poverty , and readily available state of the art firearms from Pakistan and Afghanistan , police killed 1,736 .
That ’ s 12.54 people killed by police for every ten million in India .
America works out to 46.6 for every ten million , about one more per ten million than Iraq .
Clearly there is something very wrong with both the police and their supporters who feel their badge entitles them to go around killing people like they are in a war zone .
B.L.M .
unfortunately for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this assault on human decency , has lost the narrative .
They have allowed calculated divisive globalist rhetoric to hijack a platform that could have united every economically downtrodden American , all those who know what its like to fear the police more than criminals .
Which should be every sentient American in days where now even just not wearing your mask to appease the ready to stampede herd is enough to get you thrown in prison .
No self-respecting White man is going to sit there and listen to a Black man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like no self-respecting Black man is going to tolerate being called Nigger by a White man .
There is nothing you can say more racially insulting than telling a White man who has worked himself up from poverty , as many have , to a financially tenable situation that he has been privileged .
In fact the term “ White privilege ” shows utter contempt for impoverished Whites who when the rust belt is factored in make up a greater percentage of Americas poor than Blacks .
These two words make everything B.L.M @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to any serious discussion of a new America for Americans… As someone who identifies as White European I have my own White Privilege story .
One where I get tagged with a felony and end up spending four months in jail for trying to help Black people .
It takes place in the mid-eighties when I was in my mid-twenties and living in Suffolk County about twenty miles outside N.Y.C .
The “ block , ” at the time , was a notorious hub run by Blacks for wholesale cocaine being funneled into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s most famous maxim is “ what does not kill me makes me stronger.
” Freebase cocaine did not kill me .
It became inevitable that I would give it up .
When I did kick the habit I was angry .
I had sat in a front row seat and watched sorrow and human misery be distributed in a highly addictive and smokable form .
At the time I was naive and blamed the Suffolk County Police Department .
I was streetwise enough to know that cocaine could not be sold that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I knew it was coming in at the Chinese restaurant on the south corner of the Block and I thought I knew who was bringing it there .
I contacted Geraldo Rivera through one of my mother ’ s clients ; Dr Frank Fields , who was the Science Editor for WABC , the network Rivera was working for at the time .
Having grown up in Babylon , the neighborhood adjacent to the notorious “ Block , ” Rivera took an immediate interest in the story .
After confirming that there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the middle of suburbia Geraldo set me up with his brother , Craig .
In those days they were a team .
Craig did all the field work , principally the filming and Geraldo took care of the production and presentation .
I took Craig into Jonathon and Renee ’ s house where we placed a duffel bag rigged with a camera in a prominent position on the dresser .
One of the crackheads became fixated with the duffel bag and started asking questions about it and Craig ’ s abstinence .
Craig @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to keep an eye on the bag , but I put an end to the whole matter by telling the crackhead that if he was going to smoke and get paranoid he would have to leave .
We stayed for hours and when we finally left Craig talked incessantly about all the great footage he had and how none of it would have been possible without me .
Craig asked me to go for dinner and drinks , but I declined .
I was there to do a job not socialize .
Craig @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chinese restaurant with a film crew hidden in a van in the parking lot of the Social Services center across the street .
He was very excited about the footage he had acquired of the police ignoring blatant transactions as they sat in a squad car next to his camera crew across the street .
He had also caught some of the mysterious comings and goings at the Chinese restaurant .
The restaurant was frequented by two or three middle aged Black men who seemed incapable of dressing without finishing off their ensemble @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from central casting of the Pink Panther .
One of them had a large birthmark on his face that made it impossible for him to go unnoticed .
We figured the raincoats had to be from a precinct in the city which had worked a deal out with Suffolk County PD .
Craig seemed to think we had the story of the year .
He said that this would be a one hour special but when the show finally aired it was less than fifteen minutes and used none of the footage I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Block .
I was told that ’ s just the way the TV news business is .
The studio made the final decision on what would be aired .
The next time I saw Geraldo it was on TV as I watched along with the rest of America and he failed to produce the ‘ hidden treasure of Al Capone.
’ He made a fool out of himself and the station which had relentlessly promoted the one hour special before it aired .
By then I was already charged with second degree @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life would never be the same again .
I remember how much I enjoyed watching Geraldo tarnish his career forever on national TV .
At the time I did not know that he had been fired from his job at ABC over his criticism for their refusal to air investigative journalism that was critical of the government .
All I knew then was that I needed to get my teeth capped .
When the show had not aired I had not been disappointed .
I picked at least half of my labor up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had enjoyed living in Suffolk County and still did some work there even though most of my jobs were in Nassau County .
I continued living my life as if nothing had happened because nothing had .
I pulled into the Block one day and I was stopped by Suffolk County PD .
Two cops about thirty five years old each got out of the squad car and I got out of my International truck .
The two of them belligerently asked what I was doing there , and one climbed into my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really had no answer for them .
I was there every day frequently mingling in the crowd .
It was as if I had showed up for work and was suddenly asked what I was doing there .
One of them began poking me with his nightstick .
He poked me quite a few times before I decided to disarm him , wrenching the club from his grip , and tossing it away .
His partner came around behind me and grabbed me in a chokehold with his nightstick .
I grabbed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to whirl him over my back at the same time dislodging the stick and taking possession of it , which I dutifully tossed away .
I was well aware that they could shoot me .
All the while more cops and people were arriving .
The crowd was becoming openly hostile witnessing the police assault one of the few reliable employers in the area .
They had to be forcibly restrained by the arriving cops .
Suddenly a guy comes running out of the crowd and starts throwing powder puff punches at me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still wearing his raincoat .
I brushed him aside and looked around .
I thought about letting Mr. Hyde loose but I knew it could only end in my death , so I let them handcuff me .
The two cops I had disarmed took me in their squad car and as we pulled out of the parking lot the passenger cop said take the long way and with that turned around and proceeded to knock almost every one of my front teeth out .
He struck me viscously as many times as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as he could generate with the nightstick within the cramped quarters of the car .
Every time he smashed me in the face I would sneer fuck you and spit blood and teeth at him .
When we finally did arrive at the station house I figured the commanding officer would want to know how my face got like that but instead I was taken to his office and the door was shut behind us .
He mocked me as the beating continued all night hidden from view of the other cops .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When the case went in front of the Grand Jury I chose to testify .
By now my regular lawyer , Sidney Chase , had been disbarred for accepting stolen merchandise for his services .
Chase had sued the Amityville Police for me , and he had sued a lot of other cops during the course of his career .
I guess they got tired of him and set him up ; at least that ’ s what I heard .
He was steering all his clients to a legal lightweight named @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under Bruce ’ s advice that I did not mention Geraldo Rivera at the grand jury hearing .
In retrospect Bruce was probably Sidney ’ s brother-in-law .
The two cops showed up looking only slightly less gay than Don Johnson in Miami Vice .
Charlie Bartle , the one that had done most of the clubbing , was even wearing Topsiders with no socks along with some kind of theatrical plastic caste .
Many of the people in the grand jury were Black and made it obvious that they did not believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ District Attorney who was assigned to prosecute me .
They were deadlocked for hours which I was told is very rare at a Grand Jury hearing .
But she did finally get the indictment .
The Reagan administration was perhaps the most corrupt in American history .
Gary Webb chronicled the drug dealing in his 1996 expose book ; Dark Alliance .
The CIA was trading guns for cocaine with the contras in Nicaragua and bringing the coke into America for distribution as crack cocaine in America ’ s cities .
In response @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s successor Bush senior appointed an Inspector General to the CIA .
The newly minted Inspector General Frederick Hitz issued two reports in 1998 containing devastating admissions about the CIA ’ s knowledge and protection of contras known to be active in the cocaine trade .
In Volume Two , published on Oct. 8 , 1998 Hitz identified more than 50 contras and contra-related entities implicated in the drug trade .
He also detailed how the Reagan administration had protected these drug operations and frustrated federal investigations throughout the 1980s .
The reports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of by now President Bill Clinton ’ s sex life .
Webb ended up committing suicide by shooting himself twice in the head .
Me ?
I had four signed statements from witnesses all of whom were Black and all of whom would be forced by corrupt Suffolk County cops to recant their statements .
I would end up pleading guilty to a felony and doing four months in jail rather than face certain conviction from the equally corrupt Suffolk County Court and do seven years in prison .
It had never made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , even ones as well-heeled as SCPD or NYPD could shut a reporter of Geraldo Rivera ’ s stature up .
At the time he was the biggest thing on television .
Only after reading Webb ’ s book around the turn of the twenty-first century did I realize what exactly had happened to me .
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The right-wing, just like the left-wing, has been hijacked by a cadre of globalists who cannot tell enough lies or inflict enough pain to fill the hole left inside of them by their vacated souls. The newest lie from the right is their historically untenable position that police departments are indispensable to Western civilization. The facts say different, in fact, they say nothing could be further from the truth.
Here is a brief summary of the historical reality of the police in America and the tremendous contribution they are now making to the dismantling of everything sane Americans hold dear. Like the song goes “everybody’s talking but few of them know.” Well, I know and I know from personal experience unlike these faggot newscasters spewing their prefabricated talking points. This is an open post, consider it a community service, a service most of you have never paid a dime for… – Jack Heart
It’s the morning of July 8 in Fort Salonga New York, an affluent Long Island community about twenty miles outside of N.Y.C. It’s hot and I’m hungry. Last night I couldn’t eat dinner because of yet another disturbance by the absurdity that has become Black Lives Matter. Black street toughs being led around by the nose ring by White Jewish Lesbian school teachers. B.L.M. is like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront: “You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it…”
They had the organization; they had the issue and they had the floor but once again Blacks find their voices overdubbed by their own oppressors. It’s hard to imagine that the Black intelligentsia that organized B.L.M. did not notice everything they had worked for, and many other Blacks had died for, was being co-opted by the vicious dyke disciples of Howard Zinn a few years ago when it was happening. I’m inclined to believe that just like Marlon Brando’s character in On the Waterfront; Terry Malloy, they took a dive for the mob and now find themselves an ugly circus sideshow, “a bum…”
Speaking of bums I digress. I’d eaten a light breakfast and lunch and figured I’d get something heavier in a place called Relish about a mile east of me on Main Street in the center of Kings Park. You can get a good meal there for twenty-five dollars. To the west is Fort Salonga and Asharoken where the price of restaurants goes up with the price of real estate. When I got there I found the town cordoned off by police. We were diverted down a side street where we found all access to the town of Kings Park, the sight of at least a half a dozen other substantial bars and restaurants, denied by a swarm of Suffolk County Police.
We could see over the police cars that there were about fifty to a hundred people sitting and standing in the intersection at the center of town. This so said demonstration had begun at three in the afternoon when a bunch of eighteen to twenty-year-old local kids carrying American flags and awaiting B.L.M.s arrival were told to go home by the Suffolk County Police Inspector Romagnoli or face arrest themselves.
Playing stupid we asked a sheepish-looking Black cop what was going on. He explained to us that it was a B.L.M. rally and they should be finishing up soon. We asked him if B.L.M. had permits and he said: “no we’ve got to work with them with all that’s going on. This is the fifth time we’ve had to do this for them…”
The Suffolk County Legislator Steve Bellone is of course a Democrat, as is party zealot and governor of N.Y. Andrew Cuomo. Right now it is in the democratic party’s interest for the mayhem to continue in order to make Trump look as bad as possible before the elections, damn their constituents. All across America in areas where democrats control the police department, like Suffolk and Nassau Counties along with N.Y.C. under the stewardship of Mayor Bill de Blasio, an even more radical democrat than Cuomo, the police are being used as security to enable unlawful B.L.M. “rallies” to terrorize the very communities the police say they “protect and serve.”
Six months ago I was on the other side of Long Island in Long Beach, N.Y. when the democratic party on behalf of their globalist overlords in London recklessly decided to politicize the biological attack of unknown origins that is COVID. Helplessly I watched in horror as they closed down the beaches and boardwalk, all local commerce ground to a halt, and hypochondria was inculcated into pop culture. I watched the police in black uniforms on big black horses ride up and down the street and the boardwalk enforcing “social distancing,” and the ridiculous mask laws, while planes from every COVID infected corner of the world passed slowly overhead awaiting clearance to land in Kennedy Airport a few miles away.
What COVID has really done to the N.Y.C. economy won’t be felt till the unpaid rent for six months comes due at the end of August. But it’s safe to assume N.Y.C will be returning to its late seventies and early eighties ambiance when parts of the Bronx were known as Fort Apache, and the city had a higher murder rate than most war zones. New Yorkers, of which half a million have already fled the city, can thank their “brave” men in blue who have served their democratic masters well.
Using the police as a political weapon is hardly unprecedented. The democrats are simply following a long-held precedent of the republicans who have been using the police for years to enforce illegal land grabs and break strikes. The Floyd incident was not just randomly staged in Minneapolis. The city has a tradition since the days of Al Capone and even before that of being an open city. Minneapolis was run for decades by Mayor A. A. Ames, a thirty-third-degree Mason, and a Democrat until it suited him to become a republican at the turn of the twentieth century. Ames Police Chief was his brother and Chief of Detectives his pimp. The police were his salaried thugs who ran his brothels, gambling parlors, and opium dens.
By 1934 under the Citizens’ Alliance, an organization of local business leaders, Minneapolis was a notorious anti-union city. But its recently elected mayor was an ineffectual actor turned politician much like America’s current president. “By May of 1934, General Drivers Local 574 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters had organized members of the trucking industry into a union with 3000 members.” All that summer there were violent clashes between police, who were no more than the goon squad for the Citizens’ Alliance, and the teamsters. It culminated on July 20 when police opened fire on unarmed strikers, wounding sixty-seven and killing two, in a day still known as “Bloody Friday.” (1)
The police force itself is hardly the time-honored and indispensable American institution that right-wing pundits would have their audiences believe. “The first publicly funded, organized police force with officers on duty full-time was created in Boston in 1838. Boston was a large shipping commercial center, and businesses had been hiring people to protect their property and safeguard the transport of goods from the port of Boston to other places.” According to the right-wing propagandists it was good business that these “merchants came up with a way to save money by transferring the cost of maintaining a police force to citizens by arguing that it was for the “collective good.” (2)
Boston was quickly followed by N.Y.C. in 1845, Albany and Chicago in 1853, New Orleans and Cincinnati in 1853, Philadelphia in 1855 and Newark and Baltimore in 1857. “By the 1880s all major U.S. cities had municipal police forces in place.” (3)
Not then, not now nor ever have the police been for the collective good of anybody except the elite. The “thin blue line” propagandists like to use as a slogan is only to divide the public from those who fleece them for a living. Slumlords, usurious moneylenders, environmental plunderers, sweatshop proprietors and indeed all those who parasitize the urban infrastructure, all love the police.
In N.Y.C. as chronicled in Gangs of New York, the book and movie, the police were immediately put to work as a private army of skull crackers by the criminally insane Tammany Hall political machine, and later the infamous Boss Tweed. In the nineteenth century, street gangs stole everything from N.Y. harbor that wasn’t nailed down and extorted shopkeepers at their leisure, but the gangs were in turn extorted by the police.
In 1894 some of this was exposed by the Lexow Committee. So lucrative was it to be a cop in N.Y.C. that the price of promotion was sixteen hundred dollars to become a sergeant and up to fifteen thousand to be a captain. This is nineteenth-century currency…
The Lexow Committee was followed by the Curren Committee in 1913, the Hofstadter Committee in 1932, then a Brooklyn grand jury investigation into gambling payoffs in 1949. The Knapp Commission of 1972 was the result of the career of Frank Serpico, spanning from 1960 to 1972 as a whistleblower and an undercover cop.
The rampant corruption of the N.Y.C. police department is vividly chronicled in the 1973 book and movie Serpico, with iconic movie star Al Pacino playing Serpico. Afterword got out of his whistleblowing activities, Serpico was set up by his fellow officers to be murdered in early seventy-one, taking a bullet in the head in a deliberately blown drug bust.
Serpico lived to become a legend, but nothing changed in the N.Y.C. police department. In 1993 the Mollen Commission exposed pervasive drug corruption, organized theft by police officers of drugs and money, excessive use of force, and the cavalier use of drugs by the police department itself. In October of 2014, Serpico did an interview published in the well-known left-wing journal Politico. The title was The Police Are Still Out of Control… I Should Know…
In Chicago, after the fire, the police department would fashion the city into the underworld capital of America and be instrumental in forming the Outfit, supposedly Al Capone’s gang. Although the never solved Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre is blamed on Capone, witnesses all saw uniformed cops entering the garage which was the site of the legendary machinegun slaughter. Fifty years later detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito would set up shop murdering people all over N.Y.C. for the Italian mob.
“It is incorrect to say the late 19th and early 20th-century police were corrupt, they were in fact, primary instruments for the creation of corruption in the first place..” Three of the more flagrant abuses of the police force are listed by Dr. Gary Potter, a renowned professor of Justice Studies, who is extensively quoted in the previously cited Time Magazine article:
“(1) the formation of a prostitution syndicate by Los Angeles Mayor Arthur Harper, Police Chief Edward Kerns, and a local organized crime figure, combined with subsequent instructions to the police to harass this syndicate’s competitors in the prostitution industry;
(2) the assassination of organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein by police lieutenant Charles Becker, head of the NYPD’s vice squad; and,
(3) a dispute between the Mayor and District Attorney of Philadelphia, each of whom controlled rival gambling syndicates and each of whom used loyal factions of police to harass the other…” (4)
No constitutional traditionalists ever wanted the police, not in America, and not even in Great Britain from which America imported the idea. In America, we have Sheriffs elected and answerable to the people who gave them the job. This is how the most lawless land the world has ever seen; America’s Wild West was tamed, not by police. The sheriff has deputies, and if need be they can deputize their entire constituency. If that’s not enough through the governor they can call in the cavalry, now rapid response federal troops.
Law enforcement unanswerable to the people it is supposed to serve leads to the excesses we are seeing now, with civil servants playing dress up as if they’re ready for the eastern front, rolling down the streets in tanks, and thinking because they got punched in the nose they now have a right to shoot an unarmed man.
I am so weary of cops, their psychopathic unions, and all their apologists rationalizing the cavalier use of deadly force by the police department that I really just want to punch somebody in the nose myself. For years I was a bouncer at some of the roughest clubs in N.Y., Gaslight and Bogarts when they were the clubhouse for the infamous Pagans Motorcycle Gang, to name a couple. From machetes to baseball bats, to some drunken Latin King pulling his pistol from out of nowhere and capping off a couple of rounds not a foot away from my ear, I have seen it all. I do not recall anyone ever having to be shot or stabbed, and nobody ever was, not on my watch.
According to the online dictionary Wikipedia, American police killed 1,536 people in 2019. In India, a country with four times the population, wracked by desperate poverty, and readily available state of the art firearms from Pakistan and Afghanistan, police killed 1,736. That’s 12.54 people killed by police for every ten million in India. America works out to 46.6 for every ten million, about one more per ten million than Iraq. Clearly there is something very wrong with both the police and their supporters who feel their badge entitles them to go around killing people like they are in a war zone.
B.L.M. unfortunately for Blacks who bear a disproportionate amount of this assault on human decency, has lost the narrative. They have allowed calculated divisive globalist rhetoric to hijack a platform that could have united every economically downtrodden American, all those who know what it’s like to fear the police more than criminals. Which should be every sentient American in days where now even just not wearing your mask to appease the ready to stampede herd is enough to get you thrown in prison.
No self-respecting White man is going to sit there and listen to a Black man chanting White privilege at him, just like no self-respecting Black man is going to tolerate being called Nigger by a White man. There is nothing you can say more racially insulting than telling a White man who has worked himself up from poverty, as many have, to a financially tenable situation that he has been privileged.
In fact the term “White privilege” shows utter contempt for impoverished Whites who, when the rust belt is factored in, make up a greater percentage of America’s poor than Blacks. These two words make everything B.L.M. says after that of no consequence to any serious discussion of a new America for Americans…
As someone who identifies as white European, I have my own White Privilege story. One where I get tagged with a felony and end up spending four months in jail for trying to help Black people. It takes place in the mid-eighties when I was in my mid-twenties and living in Suffolk County about twenty miles outside N.Y.C. The “block,” at the time, was a notorious hub run by Blacks for wholesale cocaine being funneled into Queens and the Bronx.
Nietzsche’s most famous maxim is “what does not kill me makes me stronger.” Freebase cocaine did not kill me. It became inevitable that I would give it up. When I did kick the habit, I was angry. I had sat in a front-row seat and watched sorrow and human misery be distributed in a highly addictive and smokable form. At the time I was naive and blamed the Suffolk County Police Department. I was streetwise enough to know that cocaine could not be sold that cheap, illegally, for a profit. I knew it was coming in at the Chinese restaurant on the south corner of the Block, and I thought I knew who was bringing it there.
I contacted Geraldo Rivera through one of my mother’s clients; Dr. Frank Fields, who was the Science Editor for WABC, the network Rivera was working for at the time. Having grown up in Babylon, the neighborhood adjacent to the notorious “Block,” Rivera took an immediate interest in the story. After confirming that there was an open-air drug market in the middle of suburbia, Geraldo set me up with his brother, Craig. In those days they were a team. Craig did all the fieldwork, principally the filming and Geraldo took care of the production and presentation.
I took Craig into Jonathon and Renee’s house, where we placed a duffel bag rigged with a camera in a prominent position on the dresser. One of the crackheads became fixated with the duffel bag and started asking questions about it and Craig’s abstinence. Craig started stammering an answer that he had to keep an eye on the bag, but I put an end to the whole matter by telling the crackhead that if he was going to smoke and get paranoid he would have to leave. We stayed for hours, and when we finally left Craig talked incessantly about all the great footage he had and how none of it would have been possible without me. Craig asked me to go for dinner and drinks, but I declined. I was there to do a job not socialize.
Craig spent days filming the Block and the Chinese restaurant with a film crew hidden in a van in the parking lot of the Social Services center across the street. He was very excited about the footage he had acquired of the police ignoring blatant transactions as they sat in a squad car next to his camera crew across the street. He had also caught some of the mysterious comings and goings at the Chinese restaurant. The restaurant was frequented by two or three middle-aged Black men who seemed incapable of dressing without finishing off their ensemble with some off-white raincoats they had purchased from the central casting of the Pink Panther. One of them had a large birthmark on his face that made it impossible for him to go unnoticed. We figured the raincoats had to be from a precinct in the city that had worked a deal out with Suffolk County PD.
Craig seemed to think we had the story of the year. He said that this would be a one-hour special, but when the show finally aired it was less than fifteen minutes and used none of the footage I had got them and never even mentioned the Block. I was told that’s just the way the TV news business is. The studio made the final decision on what would be aired. The next time I saw Geraldo it was on TV as I watched along with the rest of America, and he failed to produce the ‘hidden treasure of Al Capone.’ He made a fool out of himself and the station, which had relentlessly promoted the one hour special before it aired.
By then I was already charged with second-degree assault on a police officer. My life would never be the same again. I remember how much I enjoyed watching Geraldo tarnish his career forever on national TV. At the time I did not know that he had been fired from his job at ABC over his criticism for their refusal to air investigative journalism that was critical of the government. All I knew then was that I needed to get my teeth capped.
When the show had not aired I had not been disappointed. I picked at least half of my labor up from the Block every morning. I had enjoyed living in Suffolk County and still did some work there even though most of my jobs were in Nassau County. I continued living my life as if nothing had happened because nothing had. I pulled into the Block one day and I was stopped by Suffolk County PD. Two cops about thirty-five years old each got out of the squad car and I got out of my International truck.
The two of them belligerently asked what I was doing there, and one climbed into my truck and started fumbling around. I really had no answer for them. I was there every day frequently mingling in the crowd. It was as if I had shown up for work and was suddenly asked what I was doing there. One of them began poking me with his nightstick. He poked me quite a few times before I decided to disarm him, wrenching the club from his grip, and tossing it away. His partner came around behind me and grabbed me in a chokehold with his nightstick. I grabbed the club and used his grip on it to whirl him over my back at the same time dislodging the stick and taking possession of it, which I dutifully tossed away.
I was well aware that they could shoot me. All the while more cops and people were arriving. The crowd was becoming openly hostile witnessing the police assault one of the few reliable employers in the area. They had to be forcibly restrained by the arriving cops. Suddenly a guy comes running out of the crowd and starts throwing powder-puff punches at me. It was none other than birthmark still wearing his raincoat.
I brushed him aside and looked around. I thought about letting Mr. Hyde loose, but I knew it could only end in my death, so I let them handcuff me. The two cops I had disarmed took me in their squad car and, as we pulled out of the parking lot, the passenger cop said take a long way and with that turned around and proceeded to knock almost every one of my front teeth out. He struck me viscously as many times as he could and with as much force as he could generate with the nightstick within the cramped quarters of the car.
Every time he smashed me in the face I would sneer fuck you and spit blood and teeth at him. When we finally did arrive at the station house I figured the commanding officer would want to know how my face got like that, but instead, I was taken to his office and the door was shut behind us. He mocked me as the beating continued all night hidden from the view of the other cops.
I was bailed out the next day. When the case went in front of the Grand Jury, I chose to testify. By now my regular lawyer, Sidney Chase, had been disbarred for accepting stolen merchandise for his services. Chase had sued the Amityville Police for me, and he had sued a lot of other cops during the course of his career. I guess they got tired of him and set him up; at least that’s what I heard. He was steering all his clients to a legal lightweight named Bruce Torino. I believe it was under Bruce’s advice that I did not mention Geraldo Rivera at the grand jury hearing. In retrospect, Bruce was probably Sidney’s brother-in-law.
The two cops showed up looking only slightly less gay than Don Johnson in Miami Vice. Charlie Bartle, the one that had done most of the clubbing, was even wearing Topsiders with no socks along with some kind of theatrical plastic caste. Many of the people in the grand jury were Black and made it obvious that they did not believe either the cops or the heavy hitter District Attorney who was assigned to prosecute me. They were deadlocked for hours, which I was told is very rare at a Grand Jury hearing. But she did finally get the indictment.
The Reagan administration was perhaps the most corrupt in American history. Gary Webb chronicled the drug dealing in his 1996 expose book; Dark Alliance. The CIA was trading guns for cocaine with the contras in Nicaragua and bringing the coke into America for distribution as crack cocaine in America’s cities. In response to Webb’s book, Reagan’s successor Bush senior appointed an Inspector General to the CIA. The newly minted Inspector General Frederick Hitz issued two reports in 1998 containing devastating admissions about the CIA’s knowledge and protection of contras known to be active in the cocaine trade.
In Volume Two, published on Oct. 8, 1998 Hitz identified more than 50 contras and contra-related entities implicated in the drug trade. He also detailed how the Reagan administration had protected these drug operations and frustrated federal investigations throughout the 1980s. The reports were ignored by the media in favor of now-President Bill Clinton’s sex life. Webb ended up committing suicide by shooting himself twice in the head.
Me? I had four signed statements from witnesses, all of whom were Black and all of whom would be forced by corrupt Suffolk County cops to recant their statements. I would end up pleading guilty to a felony and doing four months in jail rather than face certain conviction from the equally corrupt Suffolk County Court and do seven years in prison.
It had never made sense to me that a police department, even ones as well-heeled as SCPD or NYPD could shut a reporter of Geraldo Rivera’s statue up. At the time he was the biggest thing on television. Only after reading Webb’s book around the turn of the twenty-first century did I realize what exactly had happened to me.
Citations
1 – Goodrich, Beth. “Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 | Minnesota Digital Library.” https://mndigital.org/projects/primary-source-sets/minneapolis-teamsters-strike-1934
2 – Waxman, O. B. (2017, May 18). How the U.S. Got Its Police Force. Time; Time. https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/
3 – Potter, Dr. Gary. The History of Policing in the United States, Part 1 | Police Studies Online. (2013). Eku.Edu. https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united-states-part-1
4 – Potter, Dr. Gary. “The History of Policing in the United States, Part 4 | Police Studies Online.” https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united-states-part-4#_ga=2.107821122.1794897573.1594411752-2065898900.1594158123


veteranstoday--2020-07-14--Natural ‘Herd Immunity’ for Coronavirus? Not Going to Happen!

Health Editor ’ s Note : We have heard the term ‘ herd immunity ’ used before this current coronavirus pandemic .
Now the concept crops up again in theories as to how COVID-19 can be contained .
Herd immunity is simply when a population becomes immune to an infectious disease and then provides indirect protection ( herd immunity or herd protection ) to those who are not immune to the disease .
Herd immunity has been accomplished for diseases such as measles , mumps , rubella , and chicken pox because there are vaccines for most of the population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is no vaccine , thus no way to develop an immunity other than to contract the virus and we are seeing that any immunity the body may have to COVID-19 , after being sick with the virus , does not seem to last .
So , we are not getting protection for the unaffected , because the previously infected can be reinfected…..Carol My patient caught Covid-19 twice .
So long to herd immunity hopes ?
“ Wait .
I can catch Covid twice ?
” my 50-year-old patient asked in disbelief .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he had just tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 , the virus that causes Covid-19 , for a second time — three months after a previous infection .
While there ’ s still much we don ’ t understand about immunity to this new illness , a small but growing number of cases like his suggest the answer is yes .
Covid-19 may also be much worse the second time around .
During his first infection , my patient experienced a mild cough and sore throat .
His second infection , in contrast , was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of breath , and hypoxia , resulting in multiple trips to the hospital .
Recent reports and conversations with physician colleagues suggest my patient is not alone .
Two patients in New Jersey , for instance , appear to have contracted Covid-19 a second time almost two months after fully recovering from their first infection .
Daniel Griffin , a physician and researcher at Columbia University in New York , recently described a case of presumed reinfection on the This Week in Virology podcast .

Health Editor’s Note: We have heard the term ‘herd immunity’ used before this current coronavirus pandemic. Now the concept crops up again in theories as to how COVID-19 can be contained. Herd immunity is simply when a population becomes immune to an infectious disease and then provides indirect protection (herd immunity or herd protection) to those who are not immune to the disease.
Herd immunity has been accomplished for diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, and chicken pox because there are vaccines for most of the population to take. With coronavirus, there is no vaccine, thus no way to develop an immunity other than to contract the virus and we are seeing that any immunity the body may have to COVID-19, after being sick with the virus, does not seem to last. So, we are not getting protection for the unaffected, because the previously infected can be reinfected…..Carol
My patient caught Covid-19 twice. So long to herd immunity hopes?
by D.Clay Ackerly/Vox
“Wait. I can catch Covid twice?” my 50-year-old patient asked in disbelief. It was the beginning of July, and he had just tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, for a second time — three months after a previous infection. While there’s still much we don’t understand about immunity to this new illness, a small but growing number of cases like his suggest the answer is yes. Covid-19 may also be much worse the second time around. During his first infection, my patient experienced a mild cough and sore throat. His second infection, in contrast, was marked by a high fever, shortness of breath, and hypoxia, resulting in multiple trips to the hospital. Recent reports and conversations with physician colleagues suggest my patient is not alone. Two patients in New Jersey, for instance, appear to have contracted Covid-19 a second time almost two months after fully recovering from their first infection. Daniel Griffin, a physician and researcher at Columbia University in New York, recently described a case of presumed reinfection on the This Week in Virology podcast. Read More:
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator. She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues. Carol’s Archives 2009-2013


veteranstoday--2020-07-14--Trump Undermines Health of Americans

Trump Undermines Health of Americans

President Trump Is Working to Undermine Dr. Fauci Even as Coronavirus Cases Spike ( WASHINGTON ) — With U.S. virus cases spiking and the death toll mounting , the White House is working to undercut its most trusted coronavirus expert , playing down the danger as President Donald Trump pushes to get the economy moving before he faces voters in November .
The U.S. has become a cautionary tale across the globe , with once-falling cases now spiraling .
However , Trump suggests the severity of the pandemic that has killed more than 135,000 Americans is being overstated by critics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Monday retweeted a post by Chuck Woolery , once the host of TV ’ s “ Love Connection , ” claiming that “ Everyone is lying ” about COVID-19 .
Woolery ’ s tweet attacked not just the media and Democrats but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and most doctors “ that we are told to trust .
I think it ’ s all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back , which is about the election.
” At the same time , the president and top @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against Dr. Anthony Fauci , the nation ’ s top infectious diseases expert .
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President Trump Is Working to Undermine Dr. Fauci Even as Coronavirus Cases Spike
By Jill Colvin, Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller/AP/Time
(WASHINGTON) — With U.S. virus cases spiking and the death toll mounting, the White House is working to undercut its most trusted coronavirus expert, playing down the danger as President Donald Trump pushes to get the economy moving before he faces voters in November.
The U.S. has become a cautionary tale across the globe, with once-falling cases now spiraling. However, Trump suggests the severity of the pandemic that has killed more than 135,000 Americans is being overstated by critics to damage his reelection chances.
Trump on Monday retweeted a post by Chuck Woolery, once the host of TV’s “Love Connection,” claiming that “Everyone is lying” about COVID-19. Woolery’s tweet attacked not just the media and Democrats but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and most doctors “that we are told to trust. I think it’s all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election.”
At the same time, the president and top White House aides are ramping up attacks against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert. …read more:


veteranstoday--2020-07-14--#UNRIG Video (29:57) Carine Hutsebaut, author of Child Hunters, the “Clarice Sterling” of Europe, on

#UNRIG Video (29:57) Carine Hutsebaut, author of Child Hunters, the “Clarice Sterling” of Europe, on killer pedos

Carine Hutsebaut is a Commissioner on the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse , and the author of Child Hunters , a book about pedophilia and murderous pedophilia that makes three big points : a ) the police turn a blind eye to this ; b ) relatives are often the greatest offenders ; and c ) pedophiles can be rehabilitated .
The last , while controversial , has been proven .
This interview is complemented by her open letter to President Donald J. Trump , her book Child Hunters , and her new website @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with pedophiles and finding and healing missing and abused children .
Carine Hutsebaut : My message to President Trump and all American Citizens on The Urgency of Eradicating Pedophilia and the Importance of President Trump to the World ITNJ : Videos & Magazine on Pedophilia Hearings in London — A New Era in Eradicating Pedopredators Begins… Ask a former CIA spy anything you ’ d like on my weekly LIVE webinar , which includes a 2,500 word weekly written report that is exclusive to subscribers for only $ 11 per month .
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veteranstoday--2020-07-14--Failures to Protect Health and Essential Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic Wildfires

Health Editor ’ s Note : America has lost 3,000 ( probably a low figure ) of healthcare and essential workers to COVID-19 during this coronavirus pandemic .
At the beginning of the pandemic there was a sketchy number of personal protection supplies available to protect those who were in contact with COVID-19 infected patients .
Healthcare workers worked in unsafe environments .
Now , even with mostly adequate PPEs , being in constant contact with the coronavirus increases the chances of contracting the virus .
As the wildfires of COVID-19 continue to burn , stress and anxiety of daily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ set cure or vaccine for , is taking a large toll on the emotional and physical well-being of these workers…..Carol Failures to Protect Health and Essential Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic In March 2020 , the WHO declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic .
At the time of writing this report , 11,125,245 people had contracted the illness and 528,204 people had died as a result .
Most countries had imposed some form of restrictions on people ’ s movement and other human rights to control the spread of the virus .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worst of the pandemic .
At this difficult time , health and essential workers have played an extraordinary role in the response to the pandemic .
Across countries , they have put their health and well-being at risk , often in very difficult circumstances and with very little support , to ensure that people are able to access the essential services they need , including health care , food and other nutritional supplies , and emergency public services .
Despite this , health and essential workers across the world have faced enormous challenges @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not adequately protected them .
Amnesty International ’ s analysis has shown that over 3000 health workers have lost their lives due to COVID-19 during the pandemic – a figure that is likely to be a major underestimate given a lack of reporting – and many others have worked in unsafe environments due to shortages in personal protective equipment ( PPE ) .
….read more :

Health Editor’s Note: America has lost 3,000 (probably a low figure) of healthcare and essential workers to COVID-19 during this coronavirus pandemic. At the beginning of the pandemic there was a sketchy number of personal protection supplies available to protect those who were in contact with COVID-19 infected patients. Healthcare workers worked in unsafe environments. Now, even with mostly adequate PPEs, being in constant contact with the coronavirus increases the chances of contracting the virus. As the wildfires of COVID-19 continue to burn, stress and anxiety of daily facing a demon virus, with no set cure or vaccine for, is taking a large toll on the emotional and physical well-being of these workers…..Carol
Failures to Protect Health and Essential Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Amnesty International
In March 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. At the time of writing this report, 11,125,245 people had contracted the illness and 528,204 people had died as a result. Most countries had imposed some form of restrictions on people’s movement and other human rights to control the spread of the virus. And several countries are yet to see the worst of the pandemic. At this difficult time, health and essential workers have played an extraordinary role in the response to the pandemic.
Across countries, they have put their health and well-being at risk, often in very difficult circumstances and with very little support, to ensure that people are able to access the essential services they need, including health care, food and other nutritional supplies, and emergency public services. Despite this, health and essential workers across the world have faced enormous challenges in doing their jobs and governments have not adequately protected them. Amnesty International’s analysis has shown that over 3000 health workers have lost their lives due to COVID-19 during the pandemic – a figure that is likely to be a major underestimate given a lack of reporting – and many others have worked in unsafe environments due to shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE). ….read more:
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator. She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues. Carol’s Archives 2009-2013


veteranstoday--2020-07-15--Explosive: New Melania-Epstein Ties Alleged Along with Massive Cover-up

Trump ’ s real addiction has been prostitutes and porn stars .
It is also his weakness and why Roy Cohn , Barr , Guiliani and Cohen spent much of their lives cleaning up his messes .
We also know Trump won ’ t turn down a little girl when Epstein offers one .
( link ) It ’ s also why 140,000 Americans are dead and why America is drowning .
Snopes.com : “ Epstein stated that he introduced Donald Trump in 1998 to his future wife Melania ” Editor ’ s note : We have confirmed that Jeffrey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brought girls in from Slovenia to be used to seduce and blackmail wealthy and powerful men , according to a new MSM story , on behalf of Israeli intelligence .
We also know that it was Jeffrey Epstein that introduced Melania to Donald , something confirmed in the MSM story below .
Are those things connected ?
Connecting “ dots ” or more than dots , much more , involving Trump , Epstein and Israeli control of Trump can and we believe has been fatal .
Our people like Melania , say she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aren ’ t saying that Melania , who is from Slovenia and came to the US as a model , with a history of questionable films , a history erased by plastic surgery and extremely aggressive action in her home country… .
We aren ’ t saying that at all but we are saying that the Maxwell/Epstein organization was a Mossad operation , which is confirmed here , based on statements during Acosta ’ s confirmation hearings .
From the Daily Beast : “ Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Acosta had been asked .
Acosta had explained , breezily , apparently , that back in the day he ’ d had just one meeting on the Epstein case .
He ’ d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein ’ s attorneys because he had “ been told ” to back off , that Epstein was above his pay grade .
“ I was told Epstein ‘ belonged to intelligence ’ and to leave it alone , ” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition , who evidently thought that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and hired Acosta .
( The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this . )
By “ intelligence , ” they meant “ Israeli intelligence , ” of course .
What they forgot to mention is that his target was the United States .
Maxwell came from a Mossad family , they murdered her father in 1991 for trying to blackmail them .
We could never find what Epstein actually did for a living and we looked really hard .
We start with him leaving college without a degree and getting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ William Barr ’ s father at an exclusive school…though he had no degree , teaching experience , certification…and was even then an extreme risk at the Dalton School , one awash with sex abuse intrigues .
Then comes Les Wexner…and we begin seeing the moves toward 9/11 , war with Iraq and an economic collapse in 2008….but this story is from today ’ s Daily Beast : “ Donald Trump once hosted a party with a guest list made up of just himself , Jeffrey Epstein , and “ 28 girls , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ignored an organizer ’ s warning about Epstein ’ s conduct .
The “ calendar girl ” event is reported to have taken place at Trump ’ s Mar-a-Lago in 1992 .
George Houraney , who ran American Dream Enterprise , claimed in an interview that he organized the event after a request from Trump .
“ I arranged to have some contestants fly in , ” said Houraney .
“ At the very first party , I said , ‘ Who ’ s coming tonight ?
I have 28 girls coming.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Houraney added that he warned Trump about his friend ’ s conduct , recalling : “ I said , ‘ Look , Donald , I know Jeff really well , I can ’ t have him going after younger girls.
’ … He said , ‘ Look I ’ m putting my name on this .
I wouldn ’ t put my name on it and have a scandal.
’ ” The Times report also claims Epstein has told people since the election that he was the one who introduced the president to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump .
The White House didn ’ t respond to the newspaper ’ s request for comment .
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Snopes.com: “Epstein stated that he introduced Donald Trump in 1998 to his future wife Melania”
Editor’s note: We have confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein owned a modeling agency where he brought girls in from Slovenia to be used to seduce and blackmail wealthy and powerful men, according to a new MSM story, on behalf of Israeli intelligence.
Christian Reporter Suggests Jeffrey Epstein ‘Brokered the Sale’ of Melania to Donald Trump https://t.co/Ur0vsRlGyv — #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) July 8, 2020
Some believe that Melania "worked" for Epstein and that is how she & Donny met. Did Donny have to pay Jeffrey a release fee? Blackmail was one of Epstein's big income streams apparently. Grifters just find each other don't they Roger Stone. — lavenderlicious (@lavender1980) July 13, 2020
I heard Roger Stone is celebrating you commuting him by having a “swingers” party for his wife, you know like the ones he used to have at the Capital Couples Club in DC. Will you and Melania be joining in on the fun now that Epstein is gone? Just think it’ll be like old times! — Firewire (@1Firewire) July 13, 2020
So did Epstein sleep with Melania back in the day? How did trump get setup with her? — WeThePeople🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@PrincessBravato) July 6, 2020
We also know that it was Jeffrey Epstein that introduced Melania to Donald, something confirmed in the MSM story below. Are those things connected?
Fox News edits Donald Trump — but not Melania — out of Jeffrey Epstein photo https://t.co/sZvMs9hSbC — #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) July 5, 2020
The truth is both Donald Trump and Melania Knauss were involved with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. https://t.co/wzVgzCRWCn — Shelora Fitzgerald (@SheloraFitz) July 13, 2020
Gotta wonder if Rick Wiles will keep getting White House press credentials now that he's alleging that Ghislaine Maxwell "brokered the sale" of Melania to Donald Trump on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein. pic.twitter.com/OCnrtREnYv — Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 7, 2020
Connecting “dots” or more than dots, much more, involving Trump, Epstein and Israeli control of Trump can and we believe has been fatal.
Our people like Melania, say she hates Donald. Imagine that!
We aren’t saying that Melania, who is from Slovenia and came to the US as a model, with a history of questionable films, a history erased by plastic surgery and extremely aggressive action in her home country….
We aren’t saying that at all but we are saying that the Maxwell/Epstein organization was a Mossad operation, which is confirmed here, based on statements during Acosta’s confirmation hearings. From the Daily Beast:
“Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this.)
By “intelligence,” they meant “Israeli intelligence,” of course. What they forgot to mention is that his target was the United States.
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Epstein’s personal little black book, which was leaked by an employee in 2009, contained 14 phone numbers for Trump, his wife, Melania, and several people who worked for himhttps://t.co/3PHxcnpmFV — Neva (@NLong72) July 5, 2020
Maxwell came from a Mossad family, they murdered her father in 1991 for trying to blackmail them. We could never find what Epstein actually did for a living and we looked really hard. We start with him leaving college without a degree and getting a teaching job from current Attorney General William Barr’s father at an exclusive school…though he had no degree, teaching experience, certification…and was even then an extreme risk at the Dalton School, one awash with sex abuse intrigues.
Then comes Les Wexner…and we begin seeing the moves toward 9/11, war with Iraq and an economic collapse in 2008….but this story is from today’s Daily Beast:
“Donald Trump once hosted a party with a guest list made up of just himself, Jeffrey Epstein, and “28 girls,” according to The New York Times, and ignored an organizer’s warning about Epstein’s conduct. The “calendar girl” event is reported to have taken place at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in 1992.
George Houraney, who ran American Dream Enterprise, claimed in an interview that he organized the event after a request from Trump. “I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” said Houraney. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.” Houraney added that he warned Trump about his friend’s conduct, recalling: “I said, ‘Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can’t have him going after younger girls.’… He said, ‘Look I’m putting my name on this. I wouldn’t put my name on it and have a scandal.’” The Times report also claims Epstein has told people since the election that he was the one who introduced the president to his third wife, first lady Melania Trump. The White House didn’t respond to the newspaper’s request for comment.”
Read More at TheDailyBeast.com


veteranstoday--2020-07-16--France Accelerates Plans for Mandatory Face Masks

France speeds up plans to mandate face masks over COVID-19 fears by Blandine Henault , Matthieu Prottard , additional reporting by Claude Chendjou and Elizabeth Pineau ; Writing by Christian Lowe ; Editing by Frances Kerry/Reuters PARIS ( Reuters ) – France accelerated plans on Thursday to make it compulsory to wear face masks in enclosed public spaces because of concerns about renewed flare-ups of COVID-19 .
President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that mask-wearing would be mandatory in places such as shops from Aug. 1 , citing signs that the coronavirus was “ coming back a bit ” .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ said the order would take effect next week .
Until now , it has been mandatory to wear face coverings only on public transport and in public spaces where social distancing is not possible .
The Mayenne prefecture in the northwest said the wearing of face masks was now compulsory in its main city , Laval , and five other municipalities – Bonchamp-lès-Laval , Changé , L ’ Huisserie , Louverné and Saint-Berthevin .
There has been a localised flare-up of COVID-19 cases in the region , and it has now been re-classified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of heightened risk .
Macron also said on Tuesday that he wanted coronavirus testing available for everyone , without having to be referred by a doctor .
He said the expected job losses because of the pandemic posed a major challenge .

France speeds up plans to mandate face masks over COVID-19 fears
by Blandine Henault, Matthieu Prottard, additional reporting by Claude Chendjou and Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Frances Kerry/Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) – France accelerated plans on Thursday to make it compulsory to wear face masks in enclosed public spaces because of concerns about renewed flare-ups of COVID-19.
President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that mask-wearing would be mandatory in places such as shops from Aug. 1, citing signs that the coronavirus was “coming back a bit”.
But on Thursday Prime Minister Jean Castex said the order would take effect next week. Until now, it has been mandatory to wear face coverings only on public transport and in public spaces where social distancing is not possible.
The Mayenne prefecture in the northwest said the wearing of face masks was now compulsory in its main city, Laval, and five other municipalities – Bonchamp-lès-Laval, Changé, L’Huisserie, Louverné and Saint-Berthevin.
There has been a localised flare-up of COVID-19 cases in the region, and it has now been re-classified by the health ministry as a zone of heightened risk.
Macron also said on Tuesday that he wanted coronavirus testing available for everyone, without having to be referred by a doctor. He said the expected job losses because of the pandemic posed a major challenge.


veteranstoday--2020-07-16--Georgia Governor Overrides All Local Mask Orders

Georgia governor overrides all local mask orders in the state Georgia Gov .
Brian Kemp ( R ) is prohibiting local municipalities across the state from mandating that masks be worn in public to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus .
Kemp ’ s executive order issued Wednesday prevents local governments from enforcing mandatory face-covering orders that are more restrictive than the current statewide order .
The move effectively voided orders issued by at least 15 local governments across the state , according to The Associated Press .
Rather than imposing a mandatory requirement , Kemp ’ s order states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are “ strongly encouraged to wear face coverings as practicable ” when in public except when eating , drinking or exercising outdoors .
Candice Broce , a spokesperson for Kemp , doubled down on the governor ’ s stance that local orders are “ unenforceable.
” “ Previous executive orders — and now this order — state no local action can be more or less restrictive than ours .
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Georgia governor overrides all local mask orders in the state
by Rebecca Klar/The Hill
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is prohibiting local municipalities across the state from mandating that masks be worn in public to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
Kemp’s executive order issued Wednesday prevents local governments from enforcing mandatory face-covering orders that are more restrictive than the current statewide order. The move effectively voided orders issued by at least 15 local governments across the state, according to The Associated Press.
Rather than imposing a mandatory requirement, Kemp’s order states that residents and visitors in the state are “strongly encouraged to wear face coverings as practicable” when in public except when eating, drinking or exercising outdoors.
Candice Broce, a spokesperson for Kemp, doubled down on the governor’s stance that local orders are “unenforceable.”
“Previous executive orders — and now this order — state no local action can be more or less restrictive than ours. We have explained that local mask mandates are unenforceable. The Governor continues to strongly encourage Georgians to wear masks in public,” Broce tweeted.
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veteranstoday--2020-07-16--Another Scam Treatment for COVID-19

Another Scam Treatment for COVID-19

Tulare County Man Indicted for Falsely Marketing Herbal Mixtures as FDA-Approved Treatment for COVID-19 FRESNO , Calif. — A Porterville man was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a five‑count indictment on July 9 , charging him with mail fraud and introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud , U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced .
According to the indictment , Huu Tieu , 58 , is the president and chief executive officer of Golden Sunrise Pharmaceutical Inc. and Golden Sunrise Nutraceutical Inc. , both headquartered in Porterville .
From at least April @ @ @ @ @ @ @ companies , Tieu marketed and sold a package of herbal mixtures dubbed the “ Emergency D-Virus Plan of Care , ” which he claimed treated COVID-19 .
In materials posted on the companies ’ websites and Facebook pages and in emails to the media , Tieu made a series of false statements about the Emergency D-Virus Plan of Care , including : • That one of the mixtures in the product , called “ ImunStem , ” was the first dietary supplement in the United States to be FDA approved as a prescription @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and had specifically been approved to treat COVID‑19 .
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Tulare County Man Indicted for Falsely Marketing Herbal Mixtures as FDA-Approved Treatment for COVID-19
FRESNO, Calif. — A Porterville man was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a five‑count indictment on July 9, charging him with mail fraud and introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
According to the indictment, Huu Tieu, 58, is the president and chief executive officer of Golden Sunrise Pharmaceutical Inc. and Golden Sunrise Nutraceutical Inc., both headquartered in Porterville. From at least April 25 to July 9, through his companies, Tieu marketed and sold a package of herbal mixtures dubbed the “Emergency D-Virus Plan of Care,” which he claimed treated COVID-19. In materials posted on the companies’ websites and Facebook pages and in emails to the media, Tieu made a series of false statements about the Emergency D-Virus Plan of Care, including:
That one of the mixtures in the product, called “ImunStem,” was the first dietary supplement in the United States to be FDA approved as a prescription medicine to treat serious or life-threatening conditions and had specifically been approved to treat COVID‑19. In reality, the FDA has never approved any Golden Sunrise product for any intended use and, on at least two occasions, has told Tieu in writing that ImunStem …read more:
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veteranstoday--2020-07-16--Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Hurts the President

Anthony Fauci isn ’ t about to quit , despite the White House ’ s clumsy attempts to stain his public image .
More so now than at any other point in their uneasy partnership , it seems that if President Donald Trump wants to be rid of Fauci , he ’ ll need to fire him .
In recent days especially , the White House has stepped up efforts to discredit Fauci , a move he describes as “ bizarre.
” “ Ultimately , it hurts the president to do that , ” Fauci told The Atlantic in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ When the staff lets out something like that and the entire scientific and press community push back on it , it ultimately hurts the president.
” He described the White House attacks against him as “ nonsense ” and “ completely wrong.
” He also seemed dismayed that they are coming at a time when COVID-19 is surging across the country , deaths are once again rising , and Americans remain deeply confused about how to keep themselves and their loved ones safe .
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Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the President
by Peter Nicholas and Ed Young/The Atlantic
Anthony Fauci isn’t about to quit, despite the White House’s clumsy attempts to stain his public image. More so now than at any other point in their uneasy partnership, it seems that if President Donald Trump wants to be rid of Fauci, he’ll need to fire him. In recent days especially, the White House has stepped up efforts to discredit Fauci, a move he describes as “bizarre.”
“Ultimately, it hurts the president to do that,” Fauci told The Atlantic in a series of interviews this week. “When the staff lets out something like that and the entire scientific and press community push back on it, it ultimately hurts the president.”
He described the White House attacks against him as “nonsense” and “completely wrong.” He also seemed dismayed that they are coming at a time when COVID-19 is surging across the country, deaths are once again rising, and Americans remain deeply confused about how to keep themselves and their loved ones safe. Targeting Fauci seems like a tragic misuse of White House time and energy if officials’ aim is to defeat the coronavirus. But Trump appears more concerned with discrediting Fauci. …read more:
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veteranstoday--2020-07-16--Maryland’s GOP governor: “Trump bungled testing”

The Hill : Republican Maryland Gov .
Larry Hogan criticized the President Trump in a Washington Post op-ed Thursday , describing how the administration ’ s response to the coronavirus pandemic was inadequate and did not provide testing resources , prompting the state to outsource COVID-19 tests from South Korea .
“ Eventually , it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation ’ s response was hopeless ; if we delayed any longer , we ’ d be condemning more of our citizens to suffering and death .
So every governor went their own way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published Thursday .
Hogan said that the president downplayed the potential impact of the virus early on .
He said the country missed the opportunity to prepare while other countries were experiencing outbreaks .
“ So many nationwide actions could have been taken in those early days but weren ’ t , ” Hogan wrote .
“ While other countries were racing ahead with well-coordinated testing regimes , the Trump administration bungled the effort.
” Hogan said that while the threat was escalating , “ instead of listening to his own public health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tweeting like a man more concerned about boosting the stock market or his reelection plans.
” Hogan , who is chairman of the National Governors Association , continues in the op-ed to say that the governors were briefed by public health officials such as Anthony Fauci , the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , who told them the disease was dangerous and highly contagious .
“ It was jarring , the huge contrast between the experts ’ warnings and the president ’ s public dismissals , ” Hogan @ @

The Hill: Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan criticized the President Trump in a Washington Post op-ed Thursday, describing how the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was inadequate and did not provide testing resources, prompting the state to outsource COVID-19 tests from South Korea.
GOP governor Larry Hogan: "Eventually, it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation’s response was hopeless; if we delayed any longer, we’d be condemning more of our citizens to suffering and death…" https://t.co/DgYlRwwizB — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 16, 2020
“Eventually, it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation’s response was hopeless; if we delayed any longer, we’d be condemning more of our citizens to suffering and death. So every governor went their own way,” Hogan wrote in the op-ed published Thursday.
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Hogan said that the president downplayed the potential impact of the virus early on. He said the country missed the opportunity to prepare while other countries were experiencing outbreaks. “So many nationwide actions could have been taken in those early days but weren’t,” Hogan wrote. “While other countries were racing ahead with well-coordinated testing regimes, the Trump administration bungled the effort.” Maryland's Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, rumored to be eyeing a run for the White House in 2024, said the GOP needs to be a “bigger tent party" after President Donald Trump leaves office. https://t.co/Z8dzL66Ca1 — The Associated Press (@AP) July 12, 2020 Hogan said that while the threat was escalating, “instead of listening to his own public health experts, the president was talking and tweeting like a man more concerned about boosting the stock market or his reelection plans.” The Ebola death toll for Obama was 2. The GOP was outraged. The COVID death toll for Trump? 137,000. No GOP outrage. Lavish praise for Trump. Craven assholes.#TheView #thursdaymorning Fort Lauderdale Hope Hicks Lincoln Tunnel Another 1.3 Chris Cuomo Larry Hogan Kemp pic.twitter.com/3wlxZafgL7 — Steve Rustad (@SteveRustad1) July 16, 2020 Hogan, who is chairman of the National Governors Association, continues in the op-ed to say that the governors were briefed by public health officials such as Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who told them the disease was dangerous and highly contagious. “It was jarring, the huge contrast between the experts’ warnings and the president’s public dismissals,” Hogan said.


veteranstoday--2020-07-16--Scotland: Trump cut off water to 86 yo widow to steal land for golf course, Blocked Film Finally Rel

Scotland: Trump cut off water to 86 yo widow to steal land for golf course, Blocked Film Finally Released

Here in Britain we like to think our journalism is free from control by those with power and money .
@ @ @ @ @ always the case .
I have spent years trying to release a film about Donald @ @ @ @ @ corrosive power his money has over freedom of expression – both in the UK and @ @ @ @ @ , when the Mail Online reported on a “ 92-year-old Scotswoman taking on Trump ” @ @ @ @ @ learn Molly Forbes had to collect water from a nearby stream in a bucket because @ @ @ @ @ ’ s construction workers had cut off her supply .
The article was accompanied by @ @ @ @ @ exhausted Molly , taken from my new documentary You ’ ve Been Trumped Too , @ @ @ @ @ released ahead of the US election .
But shortly after its publication , the article @ @ @ @ @ like it in the Sun .

Here in Britain we like to think our journalism is free from control by those with power and money. Sadly that’s not always the case. I have spent years trying to release a film about Donald Trump and have witnessed the corrosive power his money has over freedom of expression – both in the UK and the US.
In 2016, when the Mail Online reported on a “92-year-old Scotswoman taking on Trump”, readers were appalled to learn Molly Forbes had to collect water from a nearby stream in a bucket because, she claims, Trump’s construction workers had cut off her supply.
The article was accompanied by a disturbing picture of an exhausted Molly, taken from my new documentary You’ve Been Trumped Too, which was due to be released ahead of the US election. But shortly after its publication, the article vanished, along with another like it in the Sun.
Next, our film’s American cinema release was cancelled and a US TV network pulled the plug on screening it. This was after Trump International had issued a legal threat to anyone who showed the film or repeated Molly’s allegation about her water supply. The threats were enough to undermine our film’s release. read more… https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/16/donald-trump-youve-been-trumped-too