Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Not Planning to Retire for at Least 2 Years (PAST RESEARCH)

 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Not Planning to Retire for at Least 2 Years (PAST RESEARCH)

Saturday, August 2, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/08/ruth-bader-ginsburg-is-not-planning-to.html

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Not Planning to Retire for at Least 2 Years

Breitbart TV 31 Jul 2014

http://cdn.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/07/31/Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg-not-Planning-to-Retire-For-At-Least-Two-Years

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a bad answer for Democrats who are worried if President Barack Obama can not choose her replacement, the court could flip more conservative because of the high historical likelihood that after eight years of a Democrat in office, the presidency will be won by the opposition party.

Speaking with Yahoo News' Katie Couric, Ginsburg said, "My answer is, I will do this job as long as I can do it full steam," she added "When I feel myself slipping. When I can no longer think as sharply, write as quickly, that will be the time for me to leave the court."

The 81-year-old Ginsburg said her role model is Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who retired at 83.

"I expect to stay at least that long," she said. "All I can say is that I am still here and likely to remain for a while." 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Note: Does the Phi Beta Kappa Society Manipulate the U.S. Supreme Court? You Decide (Past Research on the Phi Beta Kappa Society)

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/05/does-phi-beta-kappa-society-manipulate.html

Sign of the Times: 'Temple of Baal' to Go Up in New York, London

 Sign of the Times: 'Temple of Baal' to Go Up in New York, London

CBN NEWS

04-04-2016

Caitlin Burke

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2016/april/christian-town-freed-from-lions-of-the-caliphate-in-syria

A reproduction of the Temple of Baal is coming to New York's Times Square next month as a tribute to the 2,000-year-old original structure that was destroyed by ISIS last year in Palmyra, Syria.

The reproductions will be made using a 3-D printer, producing a life-size model of the temple's entrance. Officials say those models will be installed in both New York City and London's Trafalgar Square this Spring.

What actually happened historically at the Temple of Baal? Dr. Corne Bekker, with Regent University, explains.

Promoting a False God?

Many are speaking out against putting up a monument in honor of a temple that promoted worship of a false god.

In an article for World Net Daily, Matt Barber explains some of the elements of Baal worship.

"Ritualistic Baal worship, in sum, looked a little like this: Adults would gather around the altar of Baal. Infants would then be burned alive as a sacrificial offering to the deity. Amid horrific screams and the stench of charred human flesh, congregants – men and women alike – would engage in bisexual orgies," Barber wrote.

"The ritual of convenience was intended to produce economic prosperity by prompting Baal to bring rain for the fertility of 'mother earth,'" he explained.

A Mirror of Modern Society

He goes on to point out how some of those elements are being mirrored in society today.

"Modern liberalism deviates little from its ancient predecessor. While its macabre rituals have been sanitized with flowery and euphemistic terms of art, its core tenets and practices remain eerily similar," he said.

"Bar the worship of "fertility" has been replaced with worship of 'reproductive freedom' or 'choice.' Child sacrifice via burnt offering has been updated, ever so slightly, to become child sacrifice by way of abortion," he concluded.

But supporters of the reproductions to go up in New York and London say it is an attempt to "preserve history."

"We hope it is viewed as a constructive response to what has happened there," said Roger Michel, executive director for the Institute for Digital Archaeology.

The original temple attracted 150,000 tourists a year until 2011 when the Syrian civil war began.

The Institute for Digital Archaeology hopes to construct approximately 1,000 versions of the arch to be placed in cities around the world.

Christian sites are also among the many antiquities destroyed by the Islamic State.

BLM Has No Interest in Helping Black People

 BLM Has No Interest in Helping Black People

Prager U

Sep 2, 2020

Black Lives Matter wants to dismantle the nuclear family, but these black conservatives just dismantled their entire narrative.

President Donald Trump, Governor Gavin Newsom address California wildfire damage in Sacramento

 President Donald Trump, Governor Gavin Newsom address California wildfire damage in Sacramento

Streamed live on Sep 14, 2020

Pres. Trump arrived in Sacramento to survey the damage from the devastating Northern California wildfires. He joined Governor Gavin Newsom to address climate change and forest management.

John Coleman's case against significant man-made global warming

KUSI's John Coleman presents his view that there is no significant man-made global warming in this half-hour PowerPoint presentation.

Global Warming: Follow the Money

National Review

By Henry Payne

February 25, 2015 9:00 AM

It isn’t the fossil-fuel companies that are polluting climate science.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/global-warming-follow-money-henry-payne/

Citing documents uncovered by the radical environmental group Greenpeace, a group of media outlets — including the New York Times and the Boston Globe — have attacked global-warming skeptic Wei-Hock (Willie) Soon for allegedly hiding $1.2 million in contributions from “fossil fuel companies.” The articles were the latest in an ongoing campaign by greens and their media allies to discredit opponents of the warming agenda.

But in allying themselves closely with activist groups with which they share ideological goals, reporters have fundamentally misled readers on the facts of global-warming funding.

In truth, the overwhelming majority of climate-research funding comes from the federal government and left-wing foundations. And while the energy industry funds both sides of the climate debate, the government/foundation monies go only toward research that advances the warming regulatory agenda. With a clear public-policy outcome in mind, the government/foundation gravy train is a much greater threat to scientific integrity.

Officials with the Smithsonian Institution — which employs Dr. Soon — told the Times it appeared the scientist had violated disclosure standards, and they said they would look into the matter. Soon, a Malaysian immigrant, is a widely respected astrophysicist, and his allies came quickly to his defense.

“It is a despicable, reprehensible attack on a man of great personal integrity,” says Myron Ebell, the director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who questioned why media organizations were singling out Soon over research funding. 

Indeed, experts in the research community say that it is much more difficult for some of the top climate scientists — Soon, Roger Pielke Jr., the CATO Institute’s Patrick Michaels, MIT’s now-retired Richard Lindzen — to get funding for their work because they do not embrace the global-warming fearmongering favored by the government-funded climate establishment.

“Soon’s integrity in the scientific community shines out,” says Ebell. “He has foregone his own career advancement to advance scientific truth. If he had only mouthed establishment platitudes, he could’ve been named to head a big university [research center] like Michael Mann.”

Mann is the controversial director of Pennsylvania State’s Earth System Science Center. He was at the center of the 2009 Climategate scandal, in which e-mails were uncovered from climatologists discussing how to skew scientific evidence and blackball experts who don’t agree with them.

Mann is typical of pro-warming scientists who have taken millions from government agencies. The federal government — which will gain unprecedented regulatory power if climate legislation is passed — has funded scientific research to the tune of $32.5 billion since 1989, according the Science and Public Policy Institute. That is an amount that dwarfs research contributions from oil companies and utilities, which have historically funded both sides of the debate.

Mann, for example, has received some $6 million, mostly in government grants — according to a study by The American Spectator — including $500,000 in federal stimulus money while he was under investigation for his Climategate e-mails.

Despite claims that they are watchdogs of the establishment, media outlets such as the Times have ignored the government’s oversized role in directing research. And they have ignored millions in contributions from left-wing foundations — contributions that, like government grants, seek to tip the scales to one side of the debate.

Last summer, a minority staff report from the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works gave details on a “Billionaire’s Club” — a shadowy network of charitable foundations that distribute billions to advance climate alarmism. Shadowy nonprofits such as the Energy Foundation and Tides Foundation distributed billions to far-left green groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, which in turn send staff to the EPA who then direct federal grants back to the same green groups. It is incestuous. It is opaque. Major media ignored the report.

Media outlets have also discriminated in their reporting on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The Times trumpeted Greenpeace FOIA requests revealing Soon’s benefactors, yet it has ignored the government’s refusal of FOIA filings requesting transparency in pro-warming scientists’ funding.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, for example, has submitted FOIA requests asking for the sources of outside income of NASA scientist James Hansen (a key ally of Al Gore). The government has stonewalled, according to Ebell.

Media reporting further misleads readers in suggesting that “fossil fuel” utilities such as the Southern Company (a $409,000 contributor to Soon’s research, according to the Times) seek only to undermine climate science. In truth, energy companies today invest in solar, biomass, and landfill facilities in addition to carbon fuels. Companies such as Duke Energy, Exelon Corporation, NRG Energy, and Shell have even gone so far as to join with green groups in forming the U.S. Climate Action Partnership — an industry/green coalition that wants to “enact strong national legislation to require significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.”

This alliance worries a scientific community that is hardly unanimous that warming is a threat. Continued funding of contrarians such as Soon and Lindzen is essential to getting the best scientific research at a time when the EPA wants to shut down America’s most affordable power source, coal — at enormous cost to consumers.

The lack of warming for over a decade (witness this winter’s dangerous, record-breaking low temperatures) and Climategate are proof that the establishment has oversold a warming crisis. Attempts by the media to shut up their critics ignore the real threat to science. 

Why does Nancy Pelosi want Non-Coronavirus Pork for the Smithson Institution? (PAST RESEARCH)

Tuesday, April 21, 2020  

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2020/04/why-does-nancy-pelosi-want-non.html

Park51 - September 11 attacks - Ground Zero mosque

 Park51

 

Artist's rendering of the originally proposed Park51

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51

Park51 (originally named Cordoba House) is a development that was originally envisioned as a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The developers hoped to promote an interfaith dialogue within the greater community. Due to its proposed location two blocks from the World Trade Center site of the September 11 attacks which were perpetrated by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda, the proposed building was widely and controversially referred to as the "Ground Zero mosque". 

Park51 (PAST RESEARCH ON PARK51)

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/search?q=park51

Park51

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51

Controversy

Opponents of the Park51 project argued that it is "a mosque", claiming that establishing a mosque a few blocks away from Ground Zero would be offensive because the hijackers in the September 11, 2001 attacks were Islamic terrorists.

Project supporters have argued that the Park51 building would not be visible from the World Trade Center site,[32] and that some victims and victims' families have expressed support for the Park51 project, as well as acknowledging the fact that victims of the 9/11 attacks also included Muslims.

Park51

Daisy Khan is a developer for Park51, an executive director for the American Society for Muslim Advancement, and was a director at the White House Project.

Note: Gara LaMarche was a director at the White House Project, the VP & director of U.S. programs for the Open Society Foundations, an associate director at the Human Rights Watch, is a director at ProPublica, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and a director at the Open Society Policy Center.

Jonathan Soros is the vice chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a director at the Open Society Policy Center, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and George Soros’s son.

George Soros is Jonathan Soros’s father, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and was a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, and the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, ProPublica, the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Committee for Economic Development.

Beth A. Brooke was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and a director at the White House Project.

Daisy Khan was a director at the White House Project, an executive director for the American Society for Muslim Advancement, and is a developer for Park51.

Joe Biden needs to cut ties with ‘Dr. Death’

 Joe Biden needs to cut ties with ‘Dr. Death’

By Post Editorial Board

April 10, 2020 | 7:52pm

Joe Biden AFP via Getty Images

https://nypost.com/2020/04/10/joe-biden-needs-to-cut-ties-with-dr-death/

Ezekiel Emanuel, a k a Dr. Death, is a bit of a crank — but he’s also frighteningly influential.

The older brother of President Obama’s chief of staff Rahm, Emanuel helped craft the ObamaCare law and has long been an adviser on medical issues for Joe Biden. And the de facto Democratic nominee just tapped him for his new Public Health Advisory Committee.

He needs to rethink that. Emanuel has been pushing pure hysteria on cable-news shows, warning last month that 100 million Americans will likely be infected with the coronavirus by late April. Hmm: Confirmed cases going into mid-April are just half a million.

His panic-mongering seems to have an ulterior motive: “COVID-19 is a great argument for universal health care coverage,” he’s said. Emanuel also serves as a special adviser to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — the guy who said Americans will see more “body bags” because President Trump called out China for lying about its COVID-19 numbers. 

And, with record numbers of Americans filing for unemployment and more to follow, Emanuel insists we need to keep the country on lockdown for a full year and a half. 

“Realistically, COVID-19 will be here for the next 18 months or more. We will not be able to return to normalcy until we find a vaccine or effective medications,” he said, noting (rightly) that a vaccine won’t likely come to market before next year.

“I know that’s dreadful news to hear,” he continued, but: “The truth is we have no choice.”

In fact, what the nation needs is to find (or create) better choices. Life in South Korea is returning to normal after widespread testing helped flatten the curve, and America can find a way to do the same.

Biden needs to cut ties with the rationing-obsessed doctor, lest he seems as callous. Most notably, Emanuel is no fan of “wasting” resources on the elderly. In his Atlantic piece “Why I Hope to Die at 75,” he allowed as how “death is a loss” but insisted “living too long is also a loss.” People won’t remember you as “vibrant” as you once were, for example.

Take note, Joe: You’re 77, after all. 

Rahm Emanuel "Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste"

Oct 30, 2012

Former Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel Says "Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste"

Researcher’s note: I’m sure COVID-19 has been a Good Crisis!

LET’S CONNECT THE DOTS ON THIS ATLANTIC MAGAZINE’S FAKE NEWS WITH MY PAST RESEARCH. TRUMP IS CORRECT IT’S FAKE NEWS!

Saturday, September 5, 2020

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2020/09/lets-connect-dots-on-this-atlantic.html

The Atlantic magazine's recent report claiming President Trump described an American World War I cemetery in France as being "filled with losers" and referred to American war dead as "suckers" is "fake," Trump 2020 campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told "The Story" Friday.

LET’S CONNECT THE DOTS ON THIS ATLANTIC MAGAZINE’S FAKE NEWS WITH MY PAST RESEARCH. TRUMP IS CORRECT IT’S FAKE NEWS!

Trump 2020 campaign spokesman blasts report Trump disparaged American war dead as 'fake'

'Of course we are denying the report,' Tim Murtaugh tells 'The Story'

By Charles Creitz | Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-2020-campaign-blasts-atlantic-report-fake

The Atlantic magazine's recent report claiming President Trump described an American World War I cemetery in France as being "filled with losers" and referred to American war dead as "suckers" is "fake," Trump 2020 campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told "The Story" Friday. 

"Of course we are denying the report, because it is fake," Murtaugh told host Jon Scott, adding that "there are others who were there in Paris, as well, Jon, including the head of the president's Secret Service detail, who said it also didn't happen."

Multiple current and former White House officials, including former National Security Adviser John Bolton, have denied Trump made the remarks described by The Atlantic. Bolton told Fox News Friday, "I didn't hear either of those comments or anything even resembling them." 

SOURCES DISPUTE CLAIM TRUMP NIXED MILITARY CEMETERY VISIT OVER DISDAIN FOR WAR DEAD, BACK UP PARTS OF ATLANTIC REPORT

However, a former senior administration official who accompanied the president on the trip to France said Trump described the Vietnam War as "a stupid war" and said "anyone who went was a sucker."

The same official told Fox News the president would often say of American veterans, "What's in it for them? They don't make any money."

BEN DOMENECH KNOCKS ATLANTIC EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GOLDBERG OVER NEW TRUMP REPORT

"He [Bolton] said if he had heard the president say those things, he would have written an entire chapter in his book about it," recalled Murtaugh. "I don't know what happened to journalism, where they [The Atlantic] have these four anonymous sources, they won't come forward and put their names on it, but The Atlantic is happy to run the story, and it happens to come out exactly at the moment where Joe Biden is in free fall in the polls."

Murtaugh added that Biden should be answering for the Veterans Affairs "scandals" during the Obama administration, when "people were waiting months, even years on waiting lists ... [and] left to die on gurneys in the hallway."

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"That is what President Trump cleaned up, and other veterans are getting the care they deserve and that is how the president shows his reverence for military veterans ... and he has restored veterans' faith in the health care they receive, getting better access, better choices, and better treatment," he said. "That is how President Trump approaches the military." 

The Atlantic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic#The_Aspen_Ideas_Festival

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It was founded in 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, as The Atlantic Monthly, a literary and cultural commentary magazine that published leading writers' commentary on the abolition of slavery, education, and other major issues in contemporary political affairs. Its founders included Francis H. Underwood^[3][4] and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier.^[5][6] James Russell Lowell was its first editor.^[7] It is known for publishing literary pieces by leading writers. 

The Aspen Ideas Festival

In 2005, The Atlantic and the Aspen Institute launched the Aspen Ideas Festival, a ten-day event in and around the city of Aspen, Colorado.^[67] The annual conference features 350 presenters, 200 sessions and 3,000 attendees. The event has been called a "political who's who" as it often features policymakers, journalists, lobbyists and think tank leaders.

Barack, Michelle Cordially Invite You for Dinner With Shonda Rhimes: Cost $25,000 (PAST RESEARCH ON THE ASPEN INSTITUTE & the KENNEDY CENTER)

Saturday, July 12, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/07/barack-michelle-cordially-invite-you.html

Shonda Rhimes (Getty Images)

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Barack-Obama-Michelle-Hollywooddinner/2014/07/11/id/582139/?ns_mail_uid=16189840&ns_mail_job=1577017_07112014&promo_code=7akzkzm9

President Barack Obama is going Hollywood — again.

And you don't have to be a Tinseltown VIP to meet Obama and first lady Michelle face-to-face. 

But it will cost you – and big!

On July 23, the president will attend a photo reception and dinner at the home of Shonda Rhimes, producer of the ABC medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" and the political thriller "Scandal,"  with "Scandal" star Kerry Washington hosting. 

The price for attending the photo reception and taking a photo with the president is $5,000 per person.

For a mere $10,000, you can also sit down to dinner with Obama.

Is Obama running again? Not exactly, but he is filling the coffers of the DNC.

Earlier, on July 15, Michelle Obama will attend a small roundtable discussion and field questions for an hour. Attendance will set a guest back $5,000. 

Packages are also available. The $15,000 special includes attendance for two guests at the Michelle Obama roundtable and the July 23 reception and photo with the president. 

And the $25,000 package includes the first lady roundtable plus a seat at a small roundtable with President Obama on July 24.

And for a tidy $32,000, two guests can attend the photo reception and dinner with the president, and one can claim a seat at the president's roundtable on July 24.

The July visit will reportedly be President Obama's 18th fundraising trip to Los Angeles since he took office.

In September, he appointed Rhimes to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Board of Directors. 

Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Rhimes is a trustee at the American Film Institute, and a trustee at the Kennedy Center.

Note: James V. Kimsey was a trustee at the American Film Institute, and a trustee at the Kennedy Center.

Howard Stringer is the chairman for the American Film Institute, and was a corporate fund board member for the Kennedy Center.

Ari Emanuel was a trustee at the American Film Institute, and Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother.

Rahm I. Emanuel is Ari Emanuel’s brother, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor, and was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.

Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/commercial-club-of-chicago-members.html

James S. Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Lester Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Daniel R. Glickman is a director, Congressional Program for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was a trustee at the American Film Institute.

Jeff Zucker was a trustee at the American Film Institute, and is the president of CNN Worldwide.

CNN Worldwide is a division of CNN.

Walter Isaacson was the chairman & CEO for CNN, and is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Beatrice W. Welters was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a trustee emeritus at the Kennedy Center.

Albert H. Small was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a corporate fund board member for the Kennedy Center.

Robert O. Anderson was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a trustee emeritus at the Kennedy Center.

Henry E. Catto was the vice chairman for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a trustee emeritus at the Kennedy Center.

Alma L. Gildenhorn was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and an honorary trustee at the Kennedy Center.

Sidney Harman was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a corporate fund board member for the Kennedy Center.

Condoleezza Rice is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), was a trustee at the Kennedy Center, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James E. Rogers is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was a corporate fund board member for the Kennedy Center.

David M. Rubenstein was a benefactor for the Aspen Institute (think tank), the chairman & corporate fund board member for the Kennedy Center, is the president of the Economic Club of Washington, a trustee at the Kennedy Center, and a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was the president of the Economic Club of Washington, is a corporate fund board member for the Kennedy Center, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Valerie B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Mellody L. Hobson is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the chairman for DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.

Roger A. Enrico was the chairman for DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., a trustee & director for the American Film Institute, and is a trustee at the American Film Institute.

Stacey Snider was the co-chair & CEO for DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., a trustee at the American Film Institute.

R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Beatrice W. Welters was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a trustee emeritus at the Kennedy Center.

James D. Wolfensohn was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the chairman emeritus for the Kennedy Center, is a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James A. Johnson is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a corporate fund board member for the Kennedy Center, a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Kenneth M. Duberstein is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was an honorary trustee at the Kennedy Center.

Edward W. Easton was a trustee at the Kennedy Center, and a director at the National Park Foundation.

Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is a director at the National Park Foundation, and was married to Smith Bagley.

Smith Bagley was married to Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, and a trustee emeritus at the Kennedy Center.

Bryan Traubert is a director at the National Park Foundation, and married to Penny S. Pritzker.

Penny S. Pritzker is married to Bryan Traubert, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce for the Barack Obama administration, a trustee at the Kennedy Center, was the national finance chair, fundraiser for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign, a co-chair for the 2009 Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign, a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama inaugural committee, the host for the Barack Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008, and Craig M. Robinson’s basketball coach for the children's team.

Michelle Obama is Craig M. Robinson’s sister, and was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

William M. Daley is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, and a trustee emeritus at the Kennedy Center.

Frederick H. Waddell is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a corporate fund board member for the Kennedy Center.

Rahm I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor, Ari Emanuel’s brother, and was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.

Ari Emanuel is Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, and was a trustee at the American Film Institute.

James V. Kimsey was a trustee at the American Film Institute, and a trustee at the Kennedy Center.

Howard Stringer is the chairman for the American Film Institute, and was a corporate fund board member for the Kennedy Center.

Shonda Rhimes is a trustee at the American Film Institute, and a trustee at the Kennedy Center. 

Pelosi Wanted a Bailout of the Kennedy Center in the Stimulus Bill, but Employees Just Found Out They Aren’t Going to Be Paid

RedState

Posted at 11:00 am on March 29, 2020 by Nick Arama

https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/03/29/pelosi-wanted-a-bailout-of-the-kennedy-center-in-the-stimulus-bill-but-employees-just-found-out-they-arent-going-to-be-paid/  

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) fought very hard to get Democratic pork and pet programs into the stimulus bill that was just signed, even as her delay was costing Americans their jobs and the failure to move on it was having businesses go under.

An Italian food business near where I live that had always operated on a string just went under in that time. Thanks, Nancy Pelosi for your sage leadership. Those people managed to stay in operation for years until this did them in.

One of the things that Pelosi pushed for that stayed in the bill was $25 million for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. One of the arguments for keeping it in was that they had employees that they need to cover like other business entities.

But apparently the money isn’t going to keep all those employees, because even after the bill was signed, the Kennedy Center told the members of the National Symphony Orchestra that they weren’t going to be paid, according to an email about which the Free Beacon reported.