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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
"Jewish Nobel" Awarded to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla (from January 2022)
2024-12-10
Genesis Prize Chairman highlights immense role of Jewish scientists and doctors in combatting the pandemic: "A very proud moment for the entire Jewish community"

January 19, 2022, Jerusalem — Today, The Genesis Prize Foundation announced Dr. Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, as the 2022 Genesis Prize Laureate. Dr. Bourla received the largest number of votes in a recently concluded global campaign, during which 200,000 people in 71 countries voted online. The choice of the voters was unanimously endorsed by the nine judges on the Genesis Prize Selection Committee.

The Committee commended Dr. Bourla for his leadership, determination, and especially for his willingness to assume great risks. Unlike CEOs of most other major companies working on developing COVID-19 vaccines, Dr. Bourla declined billions of dollars in US federal subsidies in order to avoid government bureaucracy and expedite development and production of the vaccine. As a result, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was ready in record time: months instead of years.

The Committee also noted Dr. Bourla’s pride in his Jewish identity and heritage, commitment to Jewish values and support for the State of Israel.

The annual $1 million Genesis Prize, dubbed the "Jewish Nobel" by TIME Magazine, honors extraordinary individuals for their outstanding professional achievement, contribution to humanity, and commitment to Jewish values. Dr. Bourla becomes the ninth Genesis Prize Laureate. He follows filmmaker and philanthropist Steven Spielberg, who was awarded the Genesis Prize in 2021, and the legendary human rights activist Natan Sharansky, the 2020 Laureate.

The President of Israel Isaac Herzog will present the Genesis Prize to Dr. Bourla at a ceremony in Jerusalem planned for June 29.

In line with the tradition established by the inaugural Laureate Michael Bloomberg, all Genesis Prize honorees have chosen to forgo the monetary award to philanthropic causes. Dr. Bourla has asked The Genesis Prize Foundation to direct his $1 million prize award to projects aimed at preserving the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, with a particular emphasis on the tragedy suffered by the Greek Jewish community.

Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Dr. Bourla was raised in a family that knew the horrors of the Holocaust first-hand. His parents were among only 2,000 survivors out of a once-thriving, ancient Jewish community of 50,000, almost completely wiped out by the Nazis.

"I am delighted to welcome Dr. Albert Bourla to the distinguished family of Genesis Prize Laureates," said Co-Founder and Chairman of The Genesis Prize Foundation Stan Polovets. "Dr. Bourla personifies two of the most fundamental Jewish values: the commitment to the sanctity of life and to repairing the world. And while the pandemic is far from over, millions of people are alive and healthy because of what Dr. Bourla and his team at Pfizer have accomplished."
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Jill Biden enjoys one of her last hurrah at pre-Olympic party with Snoop Dogg, Charlize Theron, Zendaya just days after husband reluctantly left presidential race
2024-07-27
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Jill Biden
…soon we won’t have to read about her ever again…
drowned her sorrows in a glass of champagne and a night of partying with Serena Williams, Charlize Theron, Mick Jagger, and Zendaya after husband Joe Biden exited the presidential race.

The first lady, who is leading the U.S. delegation for the opening ceremony of the Olympics Games, joined the A-list stars at the Prelude to the 2024 Olympic Games party on Thursday night.

She was spotted in a white pantsuit chatting with guests at the event. Biden is on the cover of the August edition of Vogue.
Apparently the couch and drapery clothing is only for us plebes
Guests were surprised and delighted to bump into the first lady, Vogue noted in its write up and photos of the event.

Held at the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Louis Vuitton men's creative director Pharrell William welcomed guests inside ahead of Friday's opening ceremony.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte were also in attendance along with LeBron James, Novak Djokovic, Ian Thorpe, Tyrese Haliburton, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Soop Dogg, Tyla, Jeremy Allen White, Queen Latifah, and Alan Cumming.

The party was organized by Vogue in partnership with the luxury goods company LVMH, which is major sponsor of the games.
The gushing continues about expensive but uninteresting people doing boring things.
Related:
Jill Biden 07/24/2024 Jill Biden Heading To The Olympics And Ditching Her Husband Amid The Most-Embarrassing Moment Of His Career
Jill Biden 07/22/2024 Cheatle admits that Doctor President Jill Biden had FOUR TIMES the manpower devoted to protecting her
Jill Biden 07/21/2024 Clarice Feldman: What a Week!

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-Great Cultural Revolution
I Think I'm Going to Pass on 'Civil War'
2024-04-13
BLUF:
[Hot Air] A reviewer at the Blaze seems to agree that, while it's obvious the president in the film is meant to be Trump, the film would have been a disaster if it tried to delve deeply into what was motivating the various factions.

It's all very effectively done: harrowing urban combat, menacing rednecks with "assault rifles," real-life Dunst-hubby Jesse Plemon in those red sharpshooter shades. If the point is "war is hell," consider it made. Although, there's nothing here Steven Spielberg didn't do better 25 years ago in "Saving Private Ryan."

And that better be the point, as the movie has nothing to say about our current political divisions. Take away the burned-out shopping malls and the assault on the Lincoln Memorial, and the "Civil War" might as well take place in Bagdad or Odessa.

Had Garland spent his $50 million budget on making the kind of libtard, death-to-muh-democracy fever dream that's been stupefying half of the country since 2016, he would've had a "Battlefield Earth"-level camp classic on his hands.

But over at the NY Times, Michelle Goldberg is pretty excited that the politics of the film are more recognizable than she expected.

Blond haired Aryan Jesse Plemon with his nasal spade on the trigger of an AR.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Spielberg launches new project to document ‘unspeakable barbarity’ of October 7
2023-12-11
[IsraelTimes] Director Steven Spielberg has begun collecting video testimonies of the atrocities committed by Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
murderous Moslems against Israelis on October 7, to add to his USC Shoah Foundation’s collection of Holocaust survivor and witness testimony.

"I never imagined I would see such unspeakable barbarity against Jews in my lifetime," Spielberg was quoted as saying by the foundation, which holds the world’s largest video collection of Holocaust survivor and witness testimony.

Speaking to Fox News about the effort, Spielberg expressed shock at the violence perpetrated by Hamas murderous Moslems against Israelis, along with the wave of antisemitism around the world in the past two months.

"I find it very, very surprising, because antisemitism has always been there. It’s either been just around the corner and slightly out of sight, but always lurking, or it has been much more overt, like Germany in the 30s," he said.

"But not since Germany in the 30s have I witnessed antisemitism no longer lurking, but standing proud with hands on hips like Hitler and Mussolini," Spielberg said.

The US-based organization is now collaborating with production teams in Israel to collect witness accounts of the massacres on October 7, when some 3,000 murderous Moslems burst across the border into Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people, most of them civilians slaughtered amid brutal atrocities, and seizing over 240 hostages.

The US-based organization is now collaborating with production teams in Israel to collect witness accounts of the massacres on October 7, when some 3,000 murderous Moslems burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people, most of them civilians slaughtered amid brutal atrocities, and seizing over 240 hostages.

In an article released early November announcing the effort, the foundation cited the testimony of Shaylee Atary Winner, who beat feet from her home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza with her four-week-old baby early in the morning of October 7.

Her husband Yahav Winner was murdered by murderous Moslems while he was helping his wife and baby escape.

"When I was with Shaya in the garden shed, I told myself, ’Shaylee, think about Holocaust films. What would a mother and a baby do?’ Because this is how it felt. I felt like they are actually running after me and Shaya, like she is prey. ... No regular situation in my regular reality could be even close to what we [were going] through," Shaylee said in her testimony.

Atary Winner’s testimony is one of 130 interviews recorded so far as part of the October 7 survivor testimony collection effort, which will be accessible to the public online via the foundation’s Visual History Archive in the USC Shoah Foundation’s Countering Antisemitism Through Testimony Collection (CATT), which documents post-Holocaust antisemitism.

Spielberg, who founded the organization in 1994, believes that the effort will "ensure that the voices of survivors will act as a powerful tool to counter the dangerous rise of antisemitism and hate."
Related:
Steven Spielberg: 2023-06-06 Barry Newman, ‘Vanishing Point' and ‘Petrocelli' Star, Dead at 92
Steven Spielberg: 2023-04-30 Obama and his friends are a perfect illustration of the modern-day elitist Democrat
Steven Spielberg: 2023-03-14 The war in Europe won its Oscar, but Zelensky did not
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-Obits-
Barry Newman, ‘Vanishing Point' and ‘Petrocelli' Star, Dead at 92
2023-06-06
[Breitbart] Actor Barry Newman, who roared into mass public attention as star of the cult car chase movie Vanishing Point and the legal drama series Petrocelli has died. He was 92.

The Hollywood Reporter outlined Newman passed away at New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center on 11 May.

Boston-born Newman’s role as the anti-hero Kowalski in 1971’s action-packed Vanishing Point ensured his place in cult film folklore, with the movie, directed by Richard C. Sarafian, influencing generations of fans then and since.

Vanishing Point was shot over eight weeks and has become an admired cult classic with Steven Spielberg calling it one of his favorite movies.



His father, Carl, managed the local outpost of the nightclub The Latin Quarter. He graduated from Boston Latin School and Brandeis University, played saxophone and clarinet in the U.S. 3rd Army Band and studied acting with Lee Strasberg after walking away from the notion of becoming an anthropologist.



Newman’s final role was in the 2022 independent drama, Finding Hannah, which also starred Juliet Mills, Christina Pickles, and Judy Geeson.

At the time of writing, no further information on his death is available. Newman is survived by Angela, his wife.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Obama and his friends are a perfect illustration of the modern-day elitist Democrat
2023-04-30
[American Thinker] Just yesterday was saw more proof that the mainstream media in the U.S. and beyond are P.R. agencies for the Democrats.

The media gave great prominence to former president Obama, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, and rock star Bruce Springsteen making a surprise appearance at a Barcelona restaurant with a last-minute dinner reservation on Thursday.

The BBC carried details about the restaurateur being surprised by the visit and what he served his guests. There were details about the monument that the Obamas, Spielberg, and Springsteen visited.

Most articles mentioned restaurant staff member Pol Perello posting a photo on Instagram of the staff and chefs posing with the celebrity trio.

Let’s overlook the fact that owing to the nature of Obama's security he cannot actually make impromptu appearances without the Secret Service doing a full inspection of the place and its surroundings — the restaurant must have known well in advance about the appearance.

Let's subject Obama’s friends to the diversity criteria stated on the Democrat website that most liberals love to do when they post any group photo of human beings.

How many people of color? — None.

How many members were from the LGBT+ community? — None.

How many were from lower-income groups? — None.

How many from minority groups — None.

How many foreigners — None.

How many persecuted illegal migrants — None.

How many persons with disabilities - None.

How many ethnic Americans? - None.

How many Latinos? — None.

How many Native Americans? None.

How many rural Americans? None.

How many seniors and retirees? — None.

How many small business community members? - None.

How many worker union members? None.

How many veterans or members of military families? None.

How many women? None.

How many young people and students? None.

So how can Obama’s friends in Barcelona be described?

They are white, influential, powerful, and very wealthy.

Most of Obama's friends and neighbors are from this category. Most of Obama’s backers, when he was president, were also from this group. In fact, the Obama presidency was dedicated to serving this group; even some liberal outfits realized that.

But if you listen to Obama’s wife Michelle, this group is causing irreparable damage to America.

If you watch liberal outfits such as MSNBC or read Democrat mouthpiece such as the New York Times, you would think that this very group need to be destroyed if America has to survive.

El Palace Barcelona
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-Great Cultural Revolution
The war in Europe won its Oscar, but Zelensky did not
2023-03-14
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] As for the presentation of the award to the film "Navalny", the presenters did not particularly develop the topic of "bloody repressions". Zelensky, like last year, wanted to speak via video link, but, like last year, he was not allowed to speak. But at this ceremony there were a lot of ... blue pins and other items of blue clothing. And what did all those blue ribbon pins on the Oscars mean?

If you read the usually sparse, as a rule, responses in the Russian media to the 95th award ceremony of the American (and therefore stingy) Academy Film Academy with its Oscars, then an inexperienced reader may get the impression that one of the main events was the awarding of the main prize to the documentary film "Navalny," as well as the failed video speech by Zelensky.

However, it is not. "Unfriendly" America and its creative elite live their own deep inner life. Somewhere on a distant planet "Avatar."

The main prize was given to the comedy "Everything Everywhere and At Once", which was awarded prizes in other categories as well. If you ask what this film is about, the answer will be canonical - “yes, in general, about nothing.” A set of computer tricks, some kind of burlesque and flickering without a single captured soap (if there is, then it is definitely not deep).

But this is an "Asian film", and it was noted, apparently, guided by the very political correctness and desire for diversity. Like, if official Washington is now in conflict with China, then we, liberal Hollywood, will note precisely the senseless comedy about the adventures of a Chinese family in America, and even recognize the Chinese woman as the “best leading lady”.

The film was shot by two directors Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan , who have not done anything but clips in their lives so far. And now they gave money - you can combine the videos a la Tik-Tok into a full-length movie, especially since official Washington poisons Tik-Tok and prohibits it.

The legendary Steven Spielberg received a secondary prize for his autobiographical film The Fabelmans.

Lately, Hollywood has been generally nostalgic about its beloved and about America 50-100 years ago, when the trees were big, the grass was greener, the coke was cleaner, and the feelings were sincere (in the sense that directors were not jailed for harassment, but how many actresses got out into the people through the same case). And there was no need to be equal to any “political correctness”.

In this sense, another nominee is similar to Fabelmans - Damien Chazelle 's Babylon , but they decided not to give him anything. And that will be too much beauty. Nothing went to the deep philosophical film "Banshee Inisherin" by Martin McDonagh . In my aesthetic opinion, very vain.

But today one does not want the Academy of depth and philosophy, one wants lightness.

If it were my will, I would generally give all the Oscars this year to the film adaptation of Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" directed by Edward Berger , recognized as the best foreign film . Don't ask why, just think. For the American film academy, there was, in fact, no choice: how not to celebrate the “war in Europe” this year. Besides, the film is really talented. Very.

But we will not list all the nominees and laureates, whoever needs it will find it and download it, since they don’t want to show these films to us legally.

As for the awarding of the award to the film "Navalny", their wife Yulia was invited to the ceremony, she said a few words appropriate to her and the ceremony, but the presenters did not particularly develop the topic of "bloody repressions", confining themselves to phrases like "it was an emotional year." Marked, they say, and okay.

Zelensky, like last year, wanted to speak via video link, but, like last year, they didn’t let him: they say, this is not the place for us to talk about modern war, we didn’t gather for this.

About 10,000 people voted for the Oscars this year. They had to watch all the films. Then decide which films they like the most.

The vote was not completely secret, as many "voters" managed to trumpet the media about their choice. Even then, it became clear that "Chinese-American burlesque" would win. Massively and cash (100 million has long been collected).

Voters were also asked to rank all 10 nominated films in order of preference. And although he did not win in any of the published ballots as a result, Ruben Östlund's "Triangle of Sorrow" was the second or third choice for a very large number of "voters", despite the fact that the film is also completely empty and meaningless, but there is perhaps no diversity and Chinese .

And also at this ceremony there were a lot of ... blue pins and other elements of blue clothing. And what did all those blue ribbon pins on the Oscars mean?

And the fact that badges and other accessories with a blue ribbon were shown as part of the #WithRefugees initiative, coined by the UN Refugee Agency - "as a sign of solidarity and support for refugees and displaced people around the world" . Organizers said "Wearing the #WithRefugees blue ribbon on the red carpet sends a powerful visual message that everyone has the right to seek safety, whoever, wherever and whenever they are."

God, how exquisite and high society touching. And at the same time, it's completely unobtrusive. Moreover, during the rest of the ceremony, the organizers did their best to avoid any surprises, scandalous antics, sharp and ambiguous statements, especially political demarches. In this regard, everything was successful.

March 13, 2023
Georgy Bovt

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Europe
Iranian exile who got stuck for years in French airport dies
2022-11-13
[Rudaw] An Iranian who got stuck for 18 years in a Gay Paree airport, inspiring a Steven Spielberg movie starring Tom Hanks died on Saturday at the terminal, an airport official said.

Mehran Karimi Nasseri died of natural causes just before midday on Saturday in terminal 2F at Charles de Gaulle airport outside the French capital, the official told AFP.

Caught originally in an immigration trap -- unable to enter La Belle France and with nowhere to go -- he became dependent on his unusual place of abode and increasingly a national and international cause celebre.

He called himself "Sir Alfred", and a small section of airport parquet and plastic bench became his domain.

Karimi Nasseri's peculiar story came to the attention of Hollywood director Spielberg, inspiring 2004 film "The Terminal," which starred Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Hanks played a man who becomes trapped at New York's JFK airport when his home country collapses into revolution.

After spending most of the money he received for the film, Karimi Nasseri returned to the airport a few weeks ago, the official said.

Several thousand euros (dollars) were found on him.

Born in 1945 in Masjed Soleiman, in the Iranian province of Khuzestan, Karimi Nasseri, took up residence in the airport in November 1988 after flying from Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
to London, Berlin and Amsterdam in an effort to locate his mother.

He had been expelled from every other country he landed in because he was unable to produce the correct paperwork.

At Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport an informal support network grew up around him, providing food and medical help along with books and a radio.

In 1999 he was granted refugee status and the right to remain in La Belle France.

"I'm not quite sure what I want to do, stay at Roissy or leave," he said after being handed the right to live in La Belle France. "I have papers, I can stay here, I think I should carefully study all the options before making a decision."

He didn't leave then.

"He no longer wants to leave the airport," his lawyer Christian Bourguet said at the time. "He's scared of going."
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Europe
Relatives of athletes who died in 1972 Olympics received compensation
2022-09-06
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] "Shameful" German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called the fact that the relatives of Israeli athletes who died in the terrorist attack at the Olympics in Munich in 1972 received compensation only now - after 50 years. He stated this during a meeting with Israeli President Chaim Herzog, who is in Germany on an official visit.

“The fact that it took 50 years to reach this agreement (on the payment of compensation - ed.) is really shameful,” Polskoye Radio reports Steinmeier’s words .

Earlier, at the end of August, it was announced that an agreement had been reached between the families of the dead athletes and the German government on the payment of compensation. The German government has acknowledged its responsibility - 23 Israeli families will receive compensation totaling 28 million euros.

“For too long, we have refused to acknowledge the pain of those who have lost loved ones. And for too long we did not want to admit that we also bear our share of responsibility, ”said the German president, newsru.ru reports.

On September 5, 1972, during the XX Olympic Games, which were held in Munich, eight Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group entered the premises where Israeli athletes lived. In doing so, they killed two athletes and took nine as hostages. In an unsuccessful attempt to free the hostages by the German police, all the hostages, five terrorists and one policeman were killed.
Related:
Olympics in Munich: 2005-08-06 Steven Spielberg: Idiotarian
Olympics in Munich: 2004-04-28 Spitz Raises Spectre of US Missing Olympics
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Home Front: Politix
How the White House Correspondents Dinner Broke the Democratic Party
2022-04-30
[Rolling Stone] When I was a political reporter in Washington, I used to loathe the White House Correspondents Dinner. I hated how it portrayed Beltway journalism as a game. How it reduced the project of government accountability to performative antagonism practiced daily by reporters in White House press briefings — a performance exposed annually at a dinner where the most powerful people in the world would rub elbows and yuck it up about funny "inside jokes" like George W. Bush’s bungling of the Iraq War and the media’s culpability in helping him do it.

Maybe because I was a reporter at the time, I always considered the dinner’s rottenness from the perspective of the relationship between the media and politicians, lamenting that images from the Washington Hilton of the press mingling with administration officials in black tie undercut the public’s faith in an independent media.

But the further away I’ve gotten from the experience — and the faster our republic has tumbled toward oblivion — the more I’ve considered how the dinner contributed in other, significant ways to the brokenness of our current political moment: The dinner highlights the laughable disconnect between the people in Washington with the power to do something (the dinner attendees) and the rest of us mere mortals (people largely not watching the dinner at home on C-SPAN).

The presidency of Barack Obama transformed the Democratic Party in ways many pundits already have explored ad nauseum, from a revolution in data analytics to Obama’s creation of an entire political infrastructure outside of the Democratic National Committee. Yet, the White House Correspondents Dinner, now that it’s back from its hiatus in the two years we acknowledged the ongoing pandemic as real, is also a reminder of perhaps Obama’s worst contribution to modern politics: the marriage between actual Hollywood and the "Hollywood for ugly people" known as Washington.

When the A-List came to Washington and started treating formerly anonymous staffers as personalities on their level, it was an Icarus moment that transformed the possibility of what government service could do for any one individual staffer, as opposed to what service should do for the country.

Celebrities being interested in Obama brought Hollywood to Washington in a way Washington had never seen previously, at least not without the barrier of a glass screen and the opening bars of The West Wing credits. It allowed political operatives who always saw the natural outgrowth of the their careers as cashing out on K Street to think differently about what politics could do for them as sentient, individual brands with Twitter accounts and proximity to celebrity instead of just power.

In the Obama years, the White House Correspondents Dinner transformed and exploded, driven by an increased interest from culturally cool famous people in a president they considered to be cool, also. Celebrities flocked to Washington for the last weekend in April: Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Bradley Cooper, Ben Affleck, Tom Cruise, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Garner, Demi Moore, Eva Longoria, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Scarlett Johansson, Ashley Judd, most of the cast of Saturday Night Live, top fashion designers, and any number of other people who thought for a brief moment that being attached to politics gave them capital in their own celebrity circles. (The stream of stars jet-setting to the Beltway for dinner festivities only slowed at the end of Obama’s second term because the D.C. set could not stop literally and shamelessly pawing at them.)

But to truly understand what allowed one weekend of cocktail parties and brunches to change Washington, you also have to remember the dynamics of 2009: Twitter was exploding as a tool for individual staffers who once were largely anonymous to build their own voices and followings, a generation of young Democratic staffers drunk on Aaron Sorkin thought The West Wing could be real life and that they somehow could be Rob Lowe. With the energy and technocratic sleekness of the Obama machine, they saw themselves as glamorous characters on a TV show instead of cogs in a bureaucracy, and then the White House Correspondents Dinner came along, and they met their heroes.

If this seems cynical to you, consider that current White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki went on Rob Lowe’s podcast to tell the actor that bingeing the Emmy-winning political series, and his character specifically, was "inspiring" and "really brought me back to politics." And then ask yourself who any of that is for.

Without the Obama-era White House Correspondents dinner, there is no Psaki on Lowe’s podcast. There are no staged-at-the-White House Annie Leibovitz portraits of Psaki in Vogue Magazine, seven months after the attempted insurrection at the Capitol in which white nationalists tried to block her from stepping foot in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the first place. She’s not fighting with Fox News’s Peter Doocy for the Twitter likes. And there are no ongoing negotiations for her to reportedly host her own television show on MSNBC, all while she’s still representing the federal government on behalf of the president with the national media every day.
Related:
White House Correspondents Dinner: 2017-04-23 Donald Trump has 'dangerous mental illness', say psychiatry experts at Yale conference
White House Correspondents Dinner: 2009-06-17 Obama takes aim at Fox News - NPD* Attack
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Government Corruption
Jalihouse Call May Reveal Why Soros DA Dropped Charges Against BLM Train Derailers
2021-03-20
[FRONTPAGEMAG] The Soros DA in question is LA's George Gascon in close competition with SF's Chesa Boudin for the title of the worst pro-crime DA. While Gascon was backed by Soros, he was also funded by a variety of entertainment industry figures, including the wife of the Netflix CEO and Steven Spielberg, and his time in office has been characterized by a thuggery nearly as ruthless as the criminals he was selected to protect.

The targets of Gascon's thuggery were the prosecutors trying to do their job.

There have been some horrifying things that happened on Gascon's watch, but this might be yet another low.

Doyle has been a prosecutor in the L.A. County DA’s office for the past 34 years and had no blemishes in his personnel file until last December when Gascón ruled him insubordinate his first week in office...

At the time, Doyle was the head deputy district attorney in the Compton office and he was prosecuting this case against three anti-police protesters, Emanuel Padilla, Christopher Berg and Jasmine Lomax, all of whom had been charged with trying to derail a train at a protest near the Compton Sheriff’s Station on November 15...

Padilla, Lomax, and Berg were all later charged with felony attempted train wrecking, a charge that could carry life without parole, as well as a lesser felony count of unlawful obstruction of a railroad track, which carries a two to four-year sentence in county jail...

The next day, just hours after Gascón was sworn in, Doyle tells FOX 11 that he got a phone call from Mario Trujillo, a close ally of Gascon who serves on his executive staff.

"He told me that the DA has authorized me, Mario Trujillo, to direct you to dismiss the Padilla case for further investigation," Doyle said. "And I said, Mario, I know the case very well, what further investigation does the DA want? And he said I don’t know. And I told him I’m not comfortable dismissing what I know to be a good case, a viable prosecution, without knowing the reason why, and he said, well can you just dismiss it today and we’ll find out the reasons later? And I said no."

Now the interesting part of this is a jailhouse phone call. All of Gascon's abuses are for the most part legal. Voters chose to listen to the BLM/Soros/Netflix propaganda and made a deal with the devil by electing Gascon. But the phone call points to something potentially different.

FOX 11 has obtained some of Emanuel Padilla’s jail calls, recorded days before Gascón took office and dropped the entire case. In one call, Padilla is talking to his wife and an acquaintance about whether he should hire a high priced defense attorney, or if he should use his personal attorney, Jorge Gonzalez, a friend of Gascón’s who contributed $1,000 to Gascón’s race for DA, according to campaign finance records.

"In the meantime, Jorge might be able to get you out, the fact that he knows Gascón is pretty fu**ing big," the unknown acquaintance says."Yeah, agreed," Padilla replies.

[Unintelligible] what good is that gonna be in the end, it’s not the same as having Gascón’s ear, or having Jorge [Gonzalez] just fu**ing text him, cause he’s told me, I knew him before this, he’s shown me how he texts with him, so that’s like, uh, you know, having a good mechanic versus your best friend whose married to a mechanic at this point I think. He told me that he’s spoken to him, and when he brought it up to Gascón, Gascón said he had already started reading about what’s been happening because it’s been everywhere."

Gascon intervening extraordinarily on behalf of a case represented by a donor raises a whole bunch of interesting questions.
Related:
George Gascon: 2019-11-01 CA: Under the Weather(Underground) - SF DA Soros Candidate opposed
George Gascon: 2013-03-12 San Francisco Leaders Denounce Bus Ads About Islam
George Gascon: 2005-08-31 FBI to Do Prisoner 'Threat Assessment'
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Home Front: Politix
New York Gov Cuomo To Receive 2020 International EMMY® FOUNDERS Award
2020-11-21
A decision that reflects equally badly on the Emmy committee and the recipient.
[iemmys.tv] International Academy to Recognize his Effective Use of Television During the Pandemic

New York, November 20, 2020 — Governor Andrew M. Cuomo of New York will receive this year’s International Emmy® Founders Award, in recognition of his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and his masterful use of television to inform and calm people around the world. The Emmy® will be presented to Governor Cuomo, also a New York Times best-selling author, during the Academy’s live, International Emmy® Awards show streaming at 11 AM ET, on the Academy’s website www.iemmys.tv, on November 23.

"The Governor’s 111 daily briefings worked so well because he effectively created television shows, with characters, plot lines, and stories of success and failure," said International Academy President & CEO, Bruce L. Paisner. "People around the world tuned in to find out what was going on, and New York tough became a symbol of the determination to fight back."

The Founder’s Award is presented to an individual or organization who "crosses cultural boundaries to touch our common humanity". Prior recipients include Vice President Al Gore, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg.

On March 2, 2020, New York Governor Cuomo conducted a media briefing from Manhattan to inform and educate New Yorkers and the public at large about the coronavirus outbreak that was just starting to be recognized as a massive public health threat. That 12-minute introduction, part of a 34-minute session with other state leaders, was the first of 111 consecutive daily briefings for New Yorkers and the wider world about the grim progress of the worst pandemic to hit the United States in a century. The briefings were carried live by New York’s local TV stations, nationally on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and other news outlets in the U.S. and around the world. The last "daily" briefing was held on June 19, 2020. These daily communications have drawn a total of 59 million viewers.

Andrew M. Cuomo is the 56th Governor of New York. After the 1996 election, President Clinton appointed him to serve as HUD Secretary. In 2006, he was elected New York State Attorney General. In 2010 he was elected Governor and re-elected twice in 2014 and 2018.
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