LAS VEGAS SHOOTING AT COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL

StillHustlin · Oct 14, 2017

Public Law 93-16
April 9, 1973
JOINT RESOLUTION
[H.J. Res. 5]
Requesting the President to issue a proclamation designating
the week of April 23, 1973, as "Nicolaus Copernicus Week" marking the quinquecentennial of his birth.

Nicolaus Copernicus Week.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled. That the President of the
United States is hereby authorized and requested to issue a proclamation designating the week of April 23, 1973, as "Nicolaus Copernicus Week" and calling upon the people of the United States to join with the Nation's scientific community as well as that of Poland and other nations in observing such week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Approved April 9, 1973.

StillHustlin · Oct 14, 2017

StillHustlin said:

The Congressional Research Service (CRS), known as Congress's think tank,[3] is a public policy research arm of the United States Congress. As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, CRS works primarily and directly for Members of Congress, their Committees and staff on a confidential, nonpartisan basis.

Formed July 16, 1914; 103 years ago
Headquarters Washington, D.C., U.S.

Its staff of approximately 600 employees includes lawyers, economists, reference librarians, and social, natural, and physical scientists.[4] In fiscal year 2016, CRS was appropriated a budget of roughly $106.9 million by Congress.[1]

CRS reports are widely regarded as in depth, accurate, objective, and timely, but as a matter of policy they are not made available to members of the public by CRS, except in certain circumstances.[5] There have been numerous attempts to pass legislation requiring all reports to be made available online, most recently in 2017,[6] but none have been enacted. Instead, the public must request individual reports from their Senators and Representatives in Congress, purchase them from private vendors, or search for them in various web archives of previously released documents.

The renaming under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 reflected the service's changing mission:[4] This legislation directed CRS to devote more of its efforts and increased resources to doing research and analysis that assists Congress in direct support of the legislative process.[11]

CRS makes no legislative or other policy recommendations to Congress; its responsibility is to ensure that Members of the House and Senate have available the best possible information and analysis on which to base the policy decisions the American people have elected them to make.[4] In all its work, CRS analysts are governed by requirements for confidentiality, timeliness, accuracy, objectivity, balance, and nonpartisanship.

CRS services are not limited to those that relate directly to enacting new laws. For example, CRS attempts to assess emerging issues and developing problems so that it will be prepared to assist the Congress if and when it becomes necessary. Although it rarely conducts field research, CRS assists committees in other aspects of their study and oversight responsibilities. In addition, it offers numerous courses, including legal research seminars and institutes on the legislative process, the budget processes, and the work of district and state staff. At the beginning of each Congress, CRS also provides an orientation seminar for new Members.[4]

CRS does not conduct research on sitting Members or living former Members of Congress, unless granted specific permission by that Member or if that Member is nominated by the President for another office.[4]

Current Members of Congress and their offices may access the CRS website (www.crs.gov) and CRS's Legislative Information Service (LIS) website (Congress.gov | Library of Congress). The two sites are the most comprehensive and integrated sources of information regarding workings of the federal government, and are arguably the best sources of information regarding the legislative process of the United States.[17]

These sites provide all information necessary to become informed about any aspect of government. They also have the information needed to keep up-to-the-minute on most legislation including information from past bills similar to the current legislation; historical information about the legislation; biographical data about the Members who introduced it; the ability to track the legislation as it moves through committee hearings to the Floor; and links to information about the legislation in the Congressional Record, Floor and committee schedule information, and the Federal Register.[18]

Neither of these websites is available to the public. In order to prevent public access to the websites, CRS has erected an elaborate firewall to keep the public out. Taxpayers are only allowed access to THOMAS (thomas.loc.gov). In fact, when the public tries to access the LIS, they are automatically forwarded to THOMAS without warning.[17]

Main article: Congressional Research Service reports
While CRS products are already available electronically to members of Congress, Congressional committees, and CRS's sister agencies (CBO and GAO) through the internal CRS Web system, there is no official public access,[21] except in certain circumstances.[28] For example, specifically identified individual products have been furnished to executive and judicial branch officials and employees, and state and local government officials. Products have been distributed when it has been deemed to enhance CRS service to Congress. Products have also been furnished to members of the media and foreign embassies on request, but only if the requester can make specific reference to the product number or title of the report. On occasion, CRS researchers have provided reports to non-congressional sources including individual researchers, corporations, law offices, private associations, libraries, law firms, and publishers.

Only Members and their staffs can place requests and attend most seminars. While some CRS research and reports may reach the American public, dissemination is at the discretion of congressional clients,[4] except as described above.

Many are available; sources are listed in the external links section below. As with other documents produced by the U.S. Government, the documents are in the public domain in the United States, and not subject to copyright.[29]

(If you didn't think Congress was full of shit before, now you know)

StillHustlin · Oct 14, 2017

Can't Remember Shit

StillHustlin · Oct 14, 2017

Where is Jesus Campos

The body of Geezus has disappeared (again)

StillHustlin · Oct 14, 2017

The Weinstein Company (usually credited or abbreviated as TWC) is a mini-major film studio, founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005. The studio originated after the Weinsteins left Miramax Films, which they co-founded in 1979. They retained ownership of Dimension Films. TWC is one of the largest mini-major film studios in North America.[3] Harvey and Robert Weinstein own 42% of TWC according to press reports.[4]

Their first releases in 2005 included the dramatic thriller Derailed (starring Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel and Clive Owen), the offbeat comedy-drama Transamerica (starring Felicity Huffman) the computer-animated family film Hoodwinked, the World War II–era comedy-drama Mrs Henderson Presents (starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins), and the caper comedy The Matador (starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear).

In February 2006, TWC announced a distribution pact with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[5] MGM distributed the product domestically in theatres, while TWC will retain long-term ownership of their product.

On February 3, 2011, the Weinsteins extracted a $75 million consolation prize from their former parent company, Disney, thus improving their filmmaking career. As a result, Disney handed over its 50% stake in Project Runaway, and reduced its share in four jointly owned films, including Scary Movie and Spy Kids, from 50% to 5%.

Main article: Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations
On October 6, 2017 three of the company's nine members of the board of directors resigned following sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein.[53][54] Harvey Weinstein also announced that he would take an indefinite leave of absence.[55] Two days later, on October 8, TWC announced that Weinstein had been fired.[56] Soon after, TWC executives announced that Harvey Weinstein will not receive credit on upcoming releases, and it may consider renaming the company.[57] On October 12, board of directors member Richard Koenigsberg, who was one of the five signatories of a board of directors statement defending Weinstein,[58] resigned from the company as well.[58]

Weinstein's brother Bob stated on October 13 that media reports that his sexual misconduct scandal had forced the company to explore either a sale or shutting down operations were inaccurate. Bob released an emailed statement claiming "our banks, partners and shareholders are fully supportive of our company and it is untrue that the company or board is exploring a sale or shutdown of the company” and that “business is continuing as usual as the company moves ahead.”[59][60] This was contradicted by TWC president and COO David Glasser and a spokesman for company investor Goldman Sachs.[61][60] The other three remaining members of the company's board of directors, including Glasser, also did not join Bob in signing this statement either.[62]

On March 29, 2005, it was announced that the Weinstein brothers would leave Miramax on September 30 to form their own production company, named The Weinstein Company, with several other media executives, directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, and Colin Vaines, who had successfully run the production department at Miramax for ten years.

Another example cited by Biskind was Phillip Noyce's The Quiet American (2002), whose release Weinstein delayed following the September 11 attacks owing to audience reaction in test screenings to the film's critical tone towards America's past foreign policy.

He serves on the Board of the Robin Hood Foundation, a New York City-based non-profit that targets poverty, and co-chaired one of its annual benefits.[35] He is critical of the lack of gun control laws and universal health care in the United States.[36]

Weinstein is a longtime supporter and contributor to the Democratic Party including the campaigns of President Barack Obama and presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry.[37] He supported Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign,[38] and in 2012, he hosted an election fundraiser for President Obama at his home in Westport, Connecticut.[39

On March 2, 2012, Weinstein was made a Chevalier (knight) of the Legion of Honour by the French Consulate in New York City, in recognition of Miramax's efforts to increase the presence and popularity of foreign films in the United States.[53]

StillHustlin · Oct 16, 2017

Harvey Weinstein helped pay Bill Clinton's legal bills during Monica era, Washington Post archive reveals | Fox News

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William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was ideologically a New Democrat and many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy.

At age 46, he became the third-youngest president and the first from the Baby Boomer generation.

He was the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (1918–1946), a traveling salesman who had died in an automobile accident three months before his birth.

Clinton began an interest in law at Hot Springs High, when he took up the challenge to argue the defense of the ancient Roman Senator Catiline in a mock trial in his Latin class.

In 1964 and 1965, Clinton won elections for class president.[11] From 1964 to 1967, he was an intern and then a clerk in the office of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright.[2] While in college, he became a brother of co-ed service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega[12] and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Clinton was also a member of the Order of DeMolay,[13] a youth group affiliated with Freemasonry, but he never became a Freemason. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi honorary band fraternity.[14]

At age 32, he became the youngest governor in the country.

In 1985, Clinton delivered the Democratic response to Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address.

He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long[50] and poorly delivered.[51]

Clinton controversially issued 141 pardons and 36 commutations on his last day in office on January 20, 2001.

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Lucius Sergius Catilina, known in English as Catiline (/ˈkætəlaɪn/; 108–62 BC (46 years)), was a Roman Senator of the 1st century BC best known for the second Catilinarian conspiracy, an attempt to overthrow the Roman Republic and, in particular, the power of the aristocratic Senate.[1] He is also known for several acquittals in court, including one for the charge of adultery with a Vestal Virgin.

During 64 BC, Catiline was officially accepted as a candidate in the consular election for 63 BC.

Sallust wrote an account of the conspiracy that epitomized Catiline as representative of all of the evils festering in the declining Roman republic. In his account, Sallust attributes countless crimes and atrocities to Catiline, but even he refuses to heap some of the most outrageous claims on him, particularly a ritual that involved drinking blood of a sacrificed child.[23] Later historians such as Florus and Dio Cassius, far removed from the original events, recorded the claims of Sallust and the aforementioned rumors as facts.[24] Up until the modern era Catiline was equated, as Sallust described, to everything depraved and contrary to both the laws of the gods and men.

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The Roman Senate (Latin: Senatus Romanus; Italian: Senato Romano) was a political institution in ancient Rome. It was one of the most enduring institutions in Roman history, being established in the first days of the city (traditionally founded in 753 BC). It survived the overthrow of the kings in 509 BC, the fall of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC, the division of the Roman Empire in 395 AD, the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, and the barbarian rule of Rome in the 5th, 6th, and 7th centuries.

After the Western Roman Empire fell in 476, the Senate in the West functioned for a time under barbarian rule before being restored after the reconquest of much of the Western Roman Empire's territories during the reign of Justinian I. The Senate in Rome ultimately disappeared at some point after AD 603 (the year in which the last known senator was mentioned), although the title "senator" was still used well into the Middle Ages as a largely meaningless honorific. However, the Eastern Senate survived in Constantinople, until the ancient institution finally vanished there c. 14th century.

It is not clearly known when the Roman senate disappeared in the West, but it is known from the Gregorian register that the senate acclaimed new statues of Emperor Phocas and Empress Leontia in 603, and that was also the last time the senate was mentioned[36][37] In 630, the house of the Senate, Curia Julia, was transformed into a church by Pope Honorius I, probably with the permission of the Emperor Heraclius.[38]

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DeMolay International (also known as the Order of DeMolay), founded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1919, is an international fraternal organization for young men ages 12 to 21. It was named for Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar. DeMolay was incorporated in the 1990s and is classified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization holding a group exemption letter.

DeMolay is open for membership to young men between the ages of 12 to 21 of good character[clarification needed] who acknowledge a higher spiritual power. It has about 15,000 active members in the United States and Canada.[1] There are active chapters in Australia, Aruba, Philippines, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Japan, Philippines and Serbia.[citation needed]. The Brazilian DeMolay has more active members than the United States, making Portuguese the most commonly used language in DeMolay chapters.

DeMolay is considered to be part of the general "family" of Masonic and associated organizations, along with other youth groups such as The Organization of Triangles, Inc. of New York, the Order of the Knights of Pythagoras, Job's Daughters and International Order of the Rainbow for Girls. A family connection to Masonry is not a prerequisite for membership into DeMolay.

Keith K. Klein, Past Grand Master Grand Secretary Keith Klein of Indiana was installed as the Grand Secretary of DeMolay International at the 98th Supreme Council Session in Buffalo, New York, on June 17, 2017.

The Order of Knighthood was started in 1946, when Land wrote the Knighthood ritual. It was not implemented until 1947.

Noteworthy DeMolays aside from Clinton:
Walt Disney, Fran Tarkenton, Alex Spanos, John Wayne, Pete Rose, Harmon Killebrew, Mel Blanc

StillHustlin · Oct 16, 2017

Alexander Gus Spanos (born September 28, 1923) is an American billionaire real estate developer and founder of the A. G. Spanos Companies, and the majority owner of the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL).

(Ag silver link)

Net worth US$2.3 billion (September 2017) [1]

Spanos was one of the largest contributors to George W. Bush's re-election campaign in 2004

President Bush appointed Spanos to the Kennedy Center board in 2004

(Bush Family (Sr.) Killed Kennedy)

Spanos also owns property in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Greek: descriptive nickname from Greek spanos ‘clean shaven’, ‘hairless’.

(Paddock in all pics has hair (balding) except suicide photo (buzzed/shaved head))

StillHustlin · Oct 16, 2017

Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor, radio comedian, and recording artist. After beginning his career performing in radio, he rose to fame for his work in animation as the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner,[1] the Tasmanian Devil, and many of the other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons during the golden age of American animation. He voiced all of the major male Warner Bros. cartoon characters except for Elmer Fudd, whose voice was provided (uncredited) by fellow radio actor Arthur Q. Bryan, although Blanc later voiced Fudd as well after Bryan's death.

He later voiced characters for Hanna-Barbera's television cartoons, including Barney Rubble on The Flintstones and Mr. Spacely on The Jetsons. Blanc was also the original voice of Woody Woodpecker for Universal Pictures, and provided vocal effects for the Tom and Jerry cartoons directed by Chuck Jones for MGM. During the golden age of radio, Blanc also frequently performed on the radio programs of famous comedians from the era, including Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, and Judy Canova.[2]

He earned the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Voices"

Blanc was born in San Francisco, California to Russian-Jewish parents Frederick and Eva Blank, the younger of two children.

Blanc began his radio career at the age of 19 in 1927, when he made his acting debut on the KGW program The Hoot Owls, where his ability to provide voices for multiple characters first attracted attention. He moved to Los Angeles in 1932, where he met Estelle Rosenbaum (1909–2003), whom he married a year later, before returning to Portland.

Blanc was a regular on the NBC Red Network show The Jack Benny Program in various roles, including voicing Benny's Maxwell automobile (in desperate need of a tune-up), violin teacher Professor LeBlanc, Polly the Parrot, Benny's pet polar bear Carmichael, the tormented department store clerk, and the train announcer. The first role came from a mishap when the recording of the automobile's sounds failed to play on cue, prompting Blanc to take the microphone and improvise the sounds himself. The audience reacted so positively that Benny decided to dispense with the recording altogether and have Blanc continue in that role. One of Blanc's most memorable characters from Benny's radio (and later TV) programs was "Sy, the Little Mexican", who spoke one word at a time. The famous "Sí ... Sy ... Sue ... sew" routine was so effective that no matter how many times it was performed, the laughter was always there, thanks to the comedic timing of Blanc and Benny.[9] Blanc continued to work with him on radio until the series ended in 1955 and followed the program into television from Benny's 1950 debut episode through guest spots on NBC specials in the 1970s. They last appeared together on a Johnny Carson Tonight Show in January 1974

By 1946, Blanc appeared on over 15 radio programs in supporting roles. His success on The Jack Benny Program led to his own radio show on the CBS Radio Network, The Mel Blanc Show, which ran from September 3, 1946, to June 24, 1947. Blanc played himself as the hapless owner of a fix-it shop, as well as his young cousin Zookie.

In December 1936, Mel Blanc joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, which was producing theatrical cartoon shorts for Warner Bros.

By the end of 1946, Blanc began receiving a screen credit in any subsequent Warner Bros. cartoon he provided voices from that point on.

Years later, Blanc revealed that during his recovery, his son Noel "ghosted" several Warner Bros. cartoons' voice tracks for him.

In the 1988 live-action/animated movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Blanc reprised several of his classic "Looney Tunes" roles (Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweety, and Sylvester).

StillHustlin · Oct 16, 2017

The organization known as the Premier Grand Lodge of England was founded on 24 June 1717 (the feast of St. John the Baptist).

The basic principles of the Grand Lodge of England were inspired by the ideal of tolerance and universal understanding of the Enlightenment and by the Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century.

Little is known of Anthony Sayer, the first Grand Master, but the next, George Payne, rose to a high position within the Commissioners of Taxes.

In the 1740s, being followed down the road by the "Scald Miserable Masons" became too much, and Masonic Processions were banned by Grand Lodge in 1747.[1]

Dermott wrote a new Book of Constitutions for his Grand Lodge, entitled Ahiman Rezon. Published in 1756, the first edition expressed a wish for reconciliation with the other Grand Lodge. The second edition, in 1764, turned on their "unconstitutional fopperies". The Premier Grand Lodge were already referred to as the "Moderns", and Dermott made sure that the epithet stuck, his own Grand Lodge becoming known to history as the Ancients. Succeeding editions heaped ever more scorn on the Premier Grand Lodge. Dermott's prose was bitingly sarcastic, and witty. Ahiman Rezon sold well.[9][10]

Also in 1764, a lodge of Edinburgh masons, who had only joined the previous year, seceded to the Moderns. These were instrumental in the formation of the first Grand Chapter of Royal Arch masonry. Among their members was William Preston, who within a decade, had become a valued writer and lecturer on Masonry. The success in the 1770s of Preston's lectures, and his book, entitled "Illustrations of Masonry".

Relations between the two major bodies in English Freemasonry experienced a thaw in the 1790s. It is hard not to correlate this with the death of Dermott in 1791, and the progressive editing out of his vitriol from Ahiman Rezon, but other factors contributed.

Fear of Napoleon's spies prompted the Unlawful Societies Act, prohibiting any association bound by secret oaths, and the united representations of the three Grand Lodges induced the Government to make a specific exception of the lodges of Freemasons.

Some Grand Masters
1732, Anthony Browne, 6th Viscount Montagu
1736, Earl of Loudoun
1752–1753, Lord Carysfort
1762–1764, Earl Ferrers
1764–1767, Cadwallader Blayney, 9th Baron Blayney

StillHustlin · Oct 17, 2017

StillHustlin said:

Gag order?

StillHustlin · Oct 17, 2017

Conveniently section 702 (VEGAS area code)

[ame]https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100517-USA-Liberty-Act.pdf[/ame]

StillHustlin · Oct 17, 2017

StillHustlin said:

Ernest Hemingway was under FBI Investigation

Ironically, as a piece in the Guardian in 2003(2) indicates, Hemingway was not being paranoid about being followed by the FBI.

A Freedom of Information Act request declassified Hemingway’s FBI file, revealing that he had been under surveillance since World War II, when he used his boat the Pinar to patrol the waters off Cuba. Then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was interested in Hemingway’s private anti-fascist spy network called the Crook Factory.

The spy network in Cuba, as the New York Times reported(3), was comprised of a lot of former comrades of Hemingway’s from his days of fighting in and reporting on the Spanish Civil War. The fact that many of them likely had Communist sympathies was likely the main factor that attracted Hoover’s interest.

The surveillance persisted throughout Hemingway’s sojourn in Cuba, a country that was a hotbed of Mafia operatives and communist revolutionaries.

Ironically, Hemingway built his private spy ring with the encouragement of the then American ambassador to Cuba, Spruille Braden, and was even given a stipend of $1000 a month for payments and supplies. The Crook Factory did not accomplish a lot, but did keep operatives of Franco’s Spain and other Axis sympathizers busy.

Part of the reason that the FBI followed Hemingway around was that counter intelligence had been the purview of the Bureau, and Hoover was irritated about private efforts such as Hemingway’s. The writer returned the disdain, calling the FBI section in Havana “Franco’s Iron Cavalry.”

When the Crook Factory was dissolved in 1943, Hemingway began conducting what he called “submarine hunting” missions on his private boat the Pinar, equipped with machine guns and grenades provided by the United States Navy. The FBI report suggested that these “missions” more resembled drunken fishing voyages conducted by Hemingway and his friends.

killahoe925 · Oct 17, 2017

you talking to yourself?

Rossibreath · Oct 17, 2017

I don't even understand what's happening in here

StillHustlin · Oct 17, 2017

MGM INTERNATIONAL RESORTS NEVER WOULD HAVE EXISTED WITHOUT BIG KKK and LITTLE kkk born on 6.6.1917 (1917 reverse 91 100 years before; also = 18 = 666):

Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian (June 6, 1917 – June 15, 2015) was an Armenian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the president and CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Beverly Hills, California. Kerkorian is known for having been one of the important figures in the shaping of Las Vegas and, with architect Martin Stern, Jr.[3] described as the "father of the mega-resort".[4] He built the world's largest hotel in Las Vegas three times:[5] the International Hotel (opened in 1969), the MGM Grand Hotel (1973) and the MGM Grand (1993).[6] He purchased the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio in 1969.

Of Armenian American origin, Kerkorian provided over $1 billion for charity in Armenia through his Lincy Foundation, which was established in 1989 and particularly focused on helping to rebuild northern Armenia after the 1988 earthquake.[7]. Kerkorian also provided money to ensure that a film based on the history of the Armenian Genocide would be made. The resulting film, called "The Promise,"[4], premiered in April 2017 in the United States.

(reverse 91 88 HH destruction again. Armenian film on Genocide and genocide means mass murder. Also, the promise in April and Stephen Paddock born in April.)

Kerkorian became a fairly skilled amateur boxer under the tutelage of his older brother Nish Kerkorian, fighting under the name "Rifle Right Kerkorian" to win the Pacific amateur welterweight championship.

(Kerkorian name Rifle Right and October 1 was the real right way to rifle from MGM)

In two and a half years with RAF Ferry Command, Kerkorian delivered 33 Mosquito planes, logged thousands of hours, traveled to four continents and flew his first four-engine plane.

After spending much time in Las Vegas during the 1940s, Kerkorian quit gambling and in 1947 paid $60,000 for Trans International Airlines, which was a small air-charter service that flew gamblers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

In 1962, Kerkorian bought 80 acres (32 ha) in Las Vegas, across the Las Vegas Strip from the Flamingo, for $960,000. This purchase led to the building of Caesars Palace, which rented the land from Kerkorian; the rent and eventual sale of the land to Caesars in 1968 made Kerkorian $9 million.

In 1967, he bought 82 acres (33 ha) of land on Paradise Road in Las Vegas for $5 million and, with architect Martin Stern, Jr.,[16] built the International Hotel, which at the time was the largest hotel in the world; The first two performers to appear at the hotel's enormous Showroom Internationale were Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley. Presley brought in some 4,200 customers (and potential gamblers), every day, for 30 days straight, breaking in the process all attendance records in the county's history. Kerkorian's International Leisure also bought the Flamingo Hotel; eventually both hotels were sold to the Hilton Hotels Corporation and were renamed the Las Vegas Hilton and the Flamingo Hilton, respectively.

After he purchased the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio in 1969, Kerkorian (with architect Martin Stern Jr.) opened the original MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, larger than the Empire State Building[17] and the largest hotel in the world at the time it was finished. On November 21, 1980, the original MGM Grand burned in a fire that was one of the worst disasters in Las Vegas history. The Clark County Fire Department reported 84 deaths in the fire; there were 87 deaths total, including three which occurred later as a result of injuries sustained in the fire. After only 8 months the MGM Grand reopened. Almost three months after the MGM fire, the Las Vegas Hilton caught fire, killing eight people.

In 1986, Kerkorian sold the MGM Grand hotels in Las Vegas and Reno for $594 million to Bally Manufacturing. The Las Vegas property was subsequently renamed Bally's. Spun off from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM Resorts International owns and operates several properties, including the Bellagio, the current MGM Grand, The Mirage, the New York-New York, Circus Circus, Mandalay Bay, The Luxor, Excalibur, Monte Carlo and the newly completed CityCenter complex in Las Vegas.

Kerkorian sold MGM pictures to Ted Turner, including Warner Bros library, then bought it from Turner, to sell it off again...

Kerkorian was an "intensely private person".[42] He almost never gave interviews and seldom appeared in public. "Kerkorian rarely attends board meetings and never gives speeches. He is shy, but a tough negotiator. Those who know him describe him not as Hughesian hermit, but a gentle, gracious, normal guy."[5]

SeriouslyThug · Oct 17, 2017

interesting...
Mystery as Vegas police stop news conferences on massacre, call wounded guard a 'victim' | Fox News

StillHustlin · Oct 17, 2017

SeriouslyThug said:

/pol/ News Infinity P @pol NewsInfinity
Jesus Campos, security guard from the Las Vegas shooting, isn’t registered in Nevada - could have a different name.
What is the FBI hiding?
6:01 AM - Oct 11, 2017
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StillHustlin · Oct 17, 2017

David L. Hickey
Designation:
International President
Address:
25510 Kelly Road, Roseville MI 48066
Office:
(586) 772-7250 x108
Fax:
(586) 772-9644
Email:
[email protected]
Staff Categories:
SPFPA International Union Officers [1]
Source URL: David L. Hickey | SPFPA

Links
[1] SPFPA International Union Officers | SPFPA

April 2012: Feds Investigate Security Union Leader

“If you find a bag of money, you take the bag of money,” Former Fed Prosecutor Henning told the paper. “If you have a bag of tricks, then you seize the bag of tricks.”

The 58-year-old Hickey (now 64), who, as it turns out, is a magician, declined to comment. But his attorney, Robert Morgan, confirmed that the authorities were looking for evidence in order to charge his client with embezzlement of union funds.

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No charges have been filed against Hickey.

But charges have been filed against Hickey’s union underbosses. Many charges.

In Oct. 2016, Hickey’s predecessor union president Devon Madray plead guilty to embezzling funds from Campos’ union. She was fired and sentenced in federal court.

Other criminal action against Hickey’s union include:
Date Description

October 25th, 2016 On October 25, 2016, in the Campbell County, Kentucky Circuit Court, Laura Cloyd, former Financial Secretary of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 112 (located in Alexandria, Ky.), was sentenced to three years diversion and was ordered to pay restitution totaling $1,669 for a felony conviction and one year of probation for a misdemeanor conviction. On September 28, 2016, Cloyd pled guilty to Theft by Failure to Make Required Disposition, a felony, and Theft by Unlawful Taking under $500, a misdemeanor. The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati-Cleveland District Office.

September 28th, 2016 On September 28, 2016, in the Campbell County, Kentucky Circuit Court, Laura Cloyd, former Financial Secretary of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 112 (located in Alexandria, Ky.), pled guilty to Theft by Failure to Make Required Disposition over $500, a felony, and Theft by Unlawful Taking under $500, a misdemeanor. Sentencing is scheduled for October 25, 2016. The plea follows an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati-Cleveland District Office.

May 30th, 2013 On May 30, 2013, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Wayne Patrick Boudoin, former President of Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 709 (located in Houma, La.), pled guilty to a one-count information for embezzlement of union funds in the amount of $16,367.96, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The guilty plea follows an investigation by the OLMS New Orleans District Office.

November 7th, 2012 On November 7, 2012, in the Texas 176th Criminal District Court, Kemberly Fields, a former Texas commissioned law officer and former President of Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 300 (located in Harris County, Tex.), was sentenced to three years of confinement and was ordered to pay $5,644.40 in restitution and a $5,000 fine. On November 5, 2012, a jury found Fields guilty following a trial for aggregate theft from a nonprofit organization, in violation of Texas Criminal Statute Section 31.03. The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS New Orleans District Office.

April 6th, 2012 On April 6, 2012, in the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, Joseph Meizlik, former President of Security, Police, Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 454 (located in Fort Lee, Va.), was sentenced to four years of probation and was ordered to pay restitution of $9,122.44 and a $100 special assessment. On January 6, 2012, Meizlik pled guilty to one count of embezzling $9,122.44 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Washington District Office.

January 6th, 2012 On January 6, 2012, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Joseph Meizlik, former President of Security, Police, Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 454 (located in Fort Lee, Va.), pled guilty to one count of embezzling $9,122.44 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The plea follows an investigation by the OLMS Washington District Office.

December 17th, 2010 On December 17, 2010, in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, James Correll, former President of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 238 (located in Morrison, Ill.), was sentenced to two years of probation with the first six months to be served in home detention and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $22,286. On August 19, 2010, Correll pled guilty to one count of embezzling union funds. The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Chicago District Office.

October 6th, 2010 On October 6, 2010, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Craig A. Bohn, former Financial Secretary Treasurer of Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 558 (located in Green Bay, WI), was sentenced to one year probation, a $1,500 fine, and a $100 special assessment. Bohn previously made restitution in the amount of $5,000. On June 18, 2010, Bohn pled guilty to two counts of creating false union records. The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Milwaukee District Office.

August 19th, 2010 On August 19, 2010, in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, James Patrick Correll, former president of the Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America Local 238 (located in Morrison, Ill.) pled guilty to an information charging him with embezzling and converting to his own use union funds in the amount of $22,278. The plea follows an investigation by the OLMS Chicago District Office.

February 18th, 2010 On February 18, 2010, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Herman Peoples, former Financial Secretary of Security Police, Fire Professionals, Ind., Local 598 (located in Roseville, Miss.), pled guilty to one count of embezzling union funds in the amount of $10,690 and was sentenced to 24 months probation and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment. The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Nashville District Office.

December 7th, 2009 On December 7, 2009, in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Roger Wuest, former Secretary-Treasurer of Security Police and Fire Professionals (SPFPA) (located in San Bernardino, Calif.), was sentenced to one year of probation. On September 24, 2009, Wuest pled guilty to a charge of concealment or destruction of union records. The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Phoenix Resident Investigator Office.

December 1st, 2009 On December 1, 2009, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Dianne Drawdy, former Financial Secretary of Security Police Fire Professionals Local 576 (located in Baxley, Ga.), was sentenced to six months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $ 18, 818.74. On July 31, 2009, Drawdy pled guilty to embezzling union funds in the amount of $17,900. The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Miami Resident Investigator Office.

September 24th, 2009 On September 24, 2009, in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Roger Wuest, former Secretary-Treasurer of Security Police and Fire Professionals Union Officer, Ind. (located in Phoenix, Ariz.), pled guilty to one count of willful concealment and destruction of required union records. On September 9, 2009, Wuest was charged with the same offenses. The plea follows an investigation by the OLMS Phoenix Resident Investigator Office.

July 31st, 2009 On July 31, 2009, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Dianne Drawdy, former Financial Secretary of Security Police Fire Professionals Local 576 (located in Baxley, Ga.) pled guilty to embezzling union funds. Drawdy agreed to make restitution in the amount of $17,900. On April 10, 2009, Drawdy was charged with sixteen counts of embezzling union funds in the amount of $17,900. The plea follows an investigation by the OLMS Miami Resident Office.

February 24th, 2006 On February 24, 2006, in the 81st Indiana Judicial Circuit in Lawrence County, Indiana, William F. Campbell, former President of Security, Police, & Fire Professionals of America, Local 10, pled guilty to theft in the amount of $3,894. He was sentenced to a suspended confinement of one year and six months, thirty days house arrest, fifteen days of working on a road crew, and one year and six months of probation. Campbell was also ordered to make full restitution to the local. The guilty plea and sentence follow an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati District Office.

Source: Center for Union Facts

StillHustlin · Oct 18, 2017

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On Wednesday, Ellen DeGeneres’ television talk show is expected to broadcast the much-anticipated first interview with the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino security guard, who was the first shooting victim in the Oct. 1 massacre in Las Vegas.

DeGeneres tweeted a photo of Campos holding a cane on the set Tuesday alongside maintenance engineer Stephen Schuck, who was also shot at by the gunman on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.

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StillHustlin · Oct 18, 2017

StillHustlin said:

"THATS ALL FOLKS"

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