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Pay It Forward: New Jersey Landlord Cancels 3 Months’ Rent for Tenants, Urges Them to Pay It Forward to Small Businesses
Catherine Bolton, Stillness in the Storm, 04/28/2020
As the pandemic swept the globe and left entire communities sheltering at home to slow its spread, hundreds upon thousands have found themselves without a way to work and pay their bills. But for a handful of residents in Montclair, New Jersey, a particularly empathetic landlord has made sure that there’s no added stress in their lives by canceling rent for the next three months.
David Placek, a 39-year-old father of three who serves as landlord to about a dozen renters in Montclair, made the decision to cancel rent first through April and May when he looked around and saw how seriously people were struggling with the virus crisis.
In the middle of the coronavirus crisis, a father of three, who owns a number of properties, has canceled rent for all his tenants for the next three months.
Posted by PIX 11 on Sunday, April 12, 2020
He and his wife, Bridget, sent out an email to their tenants on March 18th, explaining that health and well-being came before anything else during times like these.
“We hope to reduce your stress and anxiety by waiving all rent due for months of April and May. To be clear, you do not need to remit rent for these two months,” they wrote. Since then, they’ve decided that they will also waive rent for the month of June—since it appears that few will be able to return to normal work by that point in time, either.
If you rent, has your landlord helped you out?Doc & Jessie
Posted by Froggy 101 on Monday, April 13, 2020
When asked by NJ Advance Media why the couple opted to cancel rent entirely for what amounts to a quarter of the year, Placek explained that it was something meaningful that he and his family would be able to do in order to help everyone out during a tough time.
Report from Operation Underground Railroad
Lynda LaCasse, Tara Reade’s former neighbor, says Reade told her in the mid-’90s that the Democratic presidential nominee sexually assaulted her. Courtesy Lynda LaCasse
Former neighbor of Joe Biden’s accuser Tara Reade has come forward to corroborate her sexual-assault account
Rich McHugh, Business Insider, 2020-04-27
Former Biden staffer Tara Reade says the Democratic presidential nominee sexually assaulted her in 1993. Reade’s former neighbor tells Insider that Reade confided in her about the allegations at the time.
In March, when a former aide to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden accused the candidate of sexually assaulting her in 1993, two people came forward to say that the woman, Tara Reade, had told them of the incident shortly after it allegedly occurred — her brother, Collin Moulton, and a friend who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution.
Now two more sources have come forward to corroborate certain details about Reade’s claims. One of them — a former neighbor of Reade’s — has told Insider for the first time, on the record, that Reade disclosed details about the alleged assault to her in the mid-1990s.
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New York Times admits Biden team influenced edits to story on sexual assault allegation
Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 13 Apr 2020
The New York Times revealed that Joe Biden’s campaign influenced the newspaper’s decision to edit out allegations of sexual misconduct from a story published over the weekend.
On Sunday, the New York Times was criticized for editing a sentence and deleting a tweet noting that Biden has been accused of sexual misconduct by women who said that his hugging and hair sniffing crossed the line. The sentence and the tweet were part of a larger story on a sexual assault allegation from Tara Reade, a former Biden staffer who accused him of placing his hand under her skirt and penetrating her with his fingers.
The newsroom claimed at the time that it made the edits because the original language was confusing, tweeting, “We’ve deleted a tweet in this thread that had some imprecise language that has been changed in the story.”
On Monday, however, Executive Editor Dean Baquet admitted that the Biden campaign’s reaction to the piece played a role in making the changes. He explained the situation as part of a longer story that detailed why the New York Times waited 14 days to cover Reade’s allegations.
“Even though a lot of us, including me, had looked at it before the story went into the paper, I think that the campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward and made it look like there were other instances in which he had been accused of sexual misconduct,” he explained. “And that’s not what the sentence was intended to say.”
He added, “We didn’t think it was a factual mistake. I thought it was an awkward phrasing issue that could be read different ways and that it wasn’t something factual we were correcting. So I didn’t think that was necessary [to explain].”
The original sentence from the story read, “The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden, beyond the hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.” It was later changed to: “The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden.”
Baquet did not elaborate on what the campaign found “awkward” about the phrasing used in the original piece.
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Dr. Richard Hatchett. He was an advisor to President George W. Bush, for whom he imagined mandatory confinement of the civilian population and now heads CEPI, the global coordination group for vaccine investment created by the Davos Forum around the Gates Foundation. He was the first to equate the Covid-19 epidemic with a “war” (sic).
Covid-19 and The Red Dawn Emails: Neocon ideologues came up with the idea to put entire population under house arrest
The Covid-19 outbreak has so far killed more than 200,000 people and frightened billions more into panic. A panic that deprives most of them of any critical sense and pushes them to make or approve stupid political decisions. A group of personalities, Red Dawn, whose correspondence was revealed by Kaiser Health News and the New York Times website, managed to impose an apocalyptic ideology: China would have declared war on us and we could only protect ourselves by confining all civilians.
In an earlier article [1], I demonstrated how frightening statistical predictions of the number of deaths that Covid-19 would cause were made by a charlatan, Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, who has been repeatedly contradicted by the facts over the past two decades.
I have also shown in another article [2] that the containment measures in China were not medically motivated, but politically motivated (the “Mandate from Heaven” theory). It remains to be explained where the mandatory containment of everyone as practiced in the West comes from.
I spent weeks and weeks looking at epidemiological literature, but nowhere did I find any evidence of such a measure. Never in history has an epidemic been fought in this way. Then, a corner of the veil was indirectly lifted by correspondence revealed by Kaiser Health News: this measure had been planned by the Bush administration in 2005-07.
The assignment of military and civilians
In 2005, the US Department of Defense was studying how to prepare for bioterrorist attacks against US troops stationed abroad. Based on the neo-conservative principle that terrorists are foreigners and that they would not be able to enter US military facilities, the department was concerned about preventing attacks that soldiers might face during their sorties. Isolating sick soldiers in hospitals and placing healthy soldiers in barracks was a logical option. Moreover, U.S. military bases are small towns, designed to withstand sieges. One can live there for months without any problems.
However, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld intended to transform society so that the distinction between civilian and military would disappear. Everyone could then be requisitioned for the total war on terror. This is what he explained in an op-ed published by the Washington Post [3].
Dr. Carter Mecher of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Dr. Richard Hatchett of the National Security Council have been asked to extend this military rule to civilians. They were only able to impose it on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2006, just before Rumfeld’s departure.
It immediately sparked a storm of protest in the United States under the leadership of Professor Donald Henderson, who had headed both the John Hopkins University School of Public Health and the US epidemic response system. He – and all the doctors who spoke out at the time – believed that placing the entire population under house arrest made no medical sense and violated fundamental freedoms. It is nothing more and nothing less than the totalitarian drift of the administration that had passed the USA Patriot Act on the occasion of the September 11 attacks.
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