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Cohen made $525K a year while working for Trump: testimony

Michael Cohen is testifying about when he first started working for Donald Trump and the Trump Organization — and said he made $525,000 a year working under the title "Executive Vice President and Special Council to Donald J. Trump."

Cohen said that there was a bit of a bump in the road when he first started negotiating with Trump over his salary.

He said it was a "little bit of back and forth" while negotiating, admitting Trump offered him an amount that was "probably not going to work."

Cohen then countered with his number and the two met in the middle, Cohen testified.

He said that his base salary was $375,000 at the time when he first started working for Trump in his 30s, and bonuses were "to be discussed" — which eventually added up to $525,000.

How To Neutralize The Campus Communists
Kurt Schlichter


You may have noticed the campus communist uprisings are fading into the background, at least for the moment. It was pretty clear that the entitled – and universally ugly – spoiled mutants (and their professional cadre organizers) were starting to get on the collective nerves of normal Americans, plus the Biden clique was already committing to betraying Israel in favor of the terrorists. The regime media has dialed it down as they served their purpose.

But don’t worry – they will be back. Even when the protest tactics – encampments, blocking freeways, rioting – become counterproductive, they are still fun for the participants. Chicago is going to be lit. Remember, the majority of these freaks are part of this garbage movement because they are friendless losers, especially the chicks – no man wants them, and so they cosplay as ISIS brides for a while before graduating with their Feminist Studies degrees and beginning their long journey toward inevitably dying alone in their one-bedroom apartment while reading a Toni Morrison book and then being eaten by their cats Marx and Engels as a Taylor Swift song plays on an endless loop.

Remember that all this protest crap is an information operation, not a kinetic one. That means they are trying to effect change by affecting us and making us do what they want. They sure can’t force us to do anything. Even when they do damage, the message is the effect, not the damage. They want to demonstrate that the authorities have no power, that their faction can do as it pleases, but also that they are victims of the fascist regime. It’s amusing to see liberal wine women administrators at the University of College painted as Franco or Pinochet, but that’s part of the scam. The commies are both victims and victors simultaneously – they embrace the identity they need to sway the weak-minded into surrender or submission.

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https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/05/13/how-to-neutralize-the-campus-communists-n2638943

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/05/who-had-chinese-ebola-hamsters-on-their-2024-bingo-card/

Who Had Chinese Ebola Hamsters on Their 2024 Bingo Card?
The researchers assert that the aim has been to reproduce the symptoms of Ebola in a laboratory so as to better understand the condition and prevent its spread.
Posted by Leslie Eastman
5/13/24


The last time we reported on the deadly hemorrhagic disease Ebola, 4 people in Uganda had died during a small, localized outbreak. That was back in 2022.

Historically, cases of Ebola have been confined to Africa and infections are associated with close contact with the blood and bodily fluids of those suffering from the disease.

However, it appears that Chinese have not learned their lesson about tampering with viruses…especially the potentially lethal ones. Chinese researchers have created another franken-virus with parts of Ebola in a lab, resulting in an exceptionally deadly infection that killed a group of hamsters horrifically.

A team of researchers at Hebei Medical University used a contagious disease of livestock and added a protein found in Ebola, which allows the virus to infect cells and spread throughout the human body.

The group of hamsters that received the lethal injection ‘developed severe systemic diseases similar to those observed in human Ebola patients,’ including multi-organ failure,’ the study shared.

One particularly horrific symptom saw the infected hamsters develop secretions in their eyes, which impaired their vision and scabbed over the surface of the eyeballs

While the experiment may spark fears of another lab leak, the researchers say their goal was to find the right animal models that can safely mimic Ebola symptoms in a lab setting.

The Chinese scientists published their findings in ScienceDirect. The researchers asset that the aim has been to reproduce the symptoms of Ebola in a laboratory so as to better understand the condition and prevent its spread.
Due to the dangers of infection, Ebola needs to be handled in a Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) facility and using a BSL-2 the researchers worked around this by using vesicular stomatitis virus to carry the Ebola glycoprotein. There were 10 hamsters, half male and half female, used that was three weeks old and all died bar two of the males.

The dead hamsters were found to have seen the virus spread throughout their body including the heart, brain and kidneys, with the highest levels in the liver. “Overall, this surrogate model represents a safe, effective, and economical tool for rapid preclinical evaluation of medical countermeasures against EBOV (Ebola virus) under BSL-2 conditions, which would accelerate technological advances and breakthroughs in confronting Ebola virus disease [EVD],” stated the study.

More at URL above...

Poster's comments:
We can shrug off covid and perhaps even the bird flu, but... ebola?
This is crazy.
It's playing with a fire that could wipe us out.
(aside: perhaps this is intentionally so...)

UN Revises/Reduces Gaza Death Numbers for Women, Children by Almost Half, Explanation Is Embarrassing
Nick Arama


The UN just made an embarrassing adjustment to their estimated number of deaths in Gaza. They just halved the number of women and children previously estimated to have been killed.

    While more than 9,500 women and 14,500 children were reported among the fatalities by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on May 6, two days later that number was revised significantly downward. Today, under 5,000 women and 8,000 children are now officially listed by the UN as casualties.

Part of the problem was that they were using numbers from Hamas-controlled sources. And even now, that's still what they're relying on — the numbers from the Gaza Health Ministry. Listen as the UN spokesperson tries to explain how the numbers can be so off — but hey, you can rely on them, because we're always checking on them — even though they were running with incorrect numbers.

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https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/05/13/un-halves-gaza-dead-numbers-and-their-explanation-is-embarrassing-n2174120

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is here as well
By Ben Kochman

District Attorney Alvin Bragg walked into the room wearing a dark blue suit and followed by a handful of aides. He took a seat in the courtroom's second row.