Naomi Campbell Disqualified From Being a Charity Trustee in England for Five Years – Charity Money Spent in Luxury Hotels, Spa Treatments, Room Service and Even Cigarettes
September 27, 2024
Controversial former British supermodel Naomi Campbell is now barred from being a charity trustee in England and Wales for five years after a three-year investigation by the UK’s Charity Commission.
This comes after the two decades-old poverty charity was deemed yesterday (26) to have been ‘poorly governed’ with ‘inadequate financial management’.
The Charity Commission investigation into the financial activities of ‘Fashion for Relief’ found ‘multiple instances of misconduct and/or mismanagement’, and discovered that that only 8.5% of the charity’s overall expenditure went on charitable grants in a six-year period from 2016.
“For example, it said that thousands of pounds worth of charity funds were used to pay for a luxury hotel stay in Cannes, France, for Campbell as well as spa treatments, room service and even cigarettes. The regulator sought explanations from the trustees but said no evidence was provided to back up their explanation that hotel costs were typically covered by a donor to the charity, therefore not costing the charity.”
Campbell has stated she is ‘extremely concerned’ by the findings of the regulator, and that an internal investigation was underway.
“’I was not in control of my charity, I put the control in the hands of a legal employer’, she said in response to a question from the AP after being named a knight in France’s Order of Arts and Letters at the country’s culture ministry for her contribution to French culture. ‘We are investigating to find out what and how, and everything I do and every penny I ever raised goes to charity’.”
The UK’s Charity Commission registers and regulates charitable entities in England and Wales.
It also found that fellow trustee Bianka Hellmich received around 290,000 pounds ($385,000) of unauthorized funds for consultancy services which was in breach of the charity’s constitution.
Hellmich has been disqualified as a trustee for nine years, while the other trustee, Veronica Chou, was barred for four years.
“’Trustees are legally required to make decisions that are in their charity’s best interests and to comply with their legal duties and responsibilities’, said Tim Hopkins, deputy director for specialist investigations and standards. ‘Our inquiry has found that the trustees of this charity failed to do so, which has resulted in our action to disqualify them’.
The charity, which was founded in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, was dissolved and removed from the register of charities earlier this year. On its website, which is still active, the charity said that it presented fashion initiatives and projects in New York, London, Cannes, Moscow, Mumbai and Dar es Salaam, raising more than $15 million for good causes around the world.”
Campbell’s charity was set up with the aim of uniting the fashion industry to relieve poverty and advance health and education.
The UK’s Charity commission said that around $460,000 has been recovered and that a further 98,000 pounds of charitable funds have been protected.
Enthusiastic Young Voters Turn Out for Trump Rally in Indiana, Pennsylvania; TGP Photo Report
September 27, 2024
President Trump held a campaign rally in Indiana, Pennsylvania on Monday at a college arena located an hour east of Pittsburgh that was well attended by enthusiastic students and other young people.
The rally was held at the 6,000 seat Ed Fry Arena at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex on the campus of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The arena was filled to capacity with about a thousand supporters in the overflow area outside.
Trump had already made two stops in western Pennsylvania on Monday, holding a listening session with farmers and then visiting a grocery store where he helped a family pay for their groceries. Reporter Salena Zito, who spent the day with Trump, reported Trump was greeted by supporters all along the route as his motorcade drove over 100 miles along country roads and the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Before his rally in Indiana, PA, Trump will be visiting the Sprankles store in Kittanning, PA! Word started going around a few hours ago. This is the crowd around an hour ago! pic.twitter.com/if7RWsixRq
The Trump campaign is working hard to earn votes in the commonwealth. A Trump Force 47 volunteer recruiting booth was stationed at the entrance to the arena:
Video of the packed arena posted by OANN’s Daniel Baldwin:
Video of the overflow crowd outside posted by TribLive reporter Haley Daugherty:
Spirits have remained high as supporters dance the “YMCA” in the parking lot of Trump’s rally. The former president is about 40 minutes late for his speech in Indiana, PA. @TribLIVEpic.twitter.com/SWsdvDzaHI
President Trump took the stage about an hour after the scheduled start time of 7 p.m. The crowd went wild with cheers of USA! USA! (Note: A bank of red stage lights overhead gave Trump a colorful hue.)
President Trump is greeted with loud cheers by packed house of supporters at start of a rally in Indiana, PA, September 23,2024 pic.twitter.com/ZnSWVWtuoc
Secret Service agents stationed at the stairs on both sides of the stage stand with their hands on the railings, ready to launch themselves on stage to protect President Trump in case of danger.
President Trump: “Kamala Harris!”
“You’re fired!”
Trump was loudly cheered when the rally ended:
Ending of President Trump rally in Indiana, PA, September 23, 2024. Raucus send-off by fired up crowd of hard hat workers and IUP students. @gatewaypunditpic.twitter.com/lA2c0dRLB5
Trump returns to Pennsylvania on Sunday with a rally in Erie.
The following weekend on October 5, Trump will hold a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania at the site of the July 13 assassination attempt that wounded him in his right ear, killed supporter Corey Comperatore and grievously wounded two supporters, David Dutch and James Copenhaver.
Trump is holding two events in Michigan on this Friday and one in Wisconsin on Saturday.
Breaking: President Trump Will Attend the Georgia-Alabama Game on Saturday in Tuscaloosa
September 27, 2024
All eyes will be on Tuscaloosa, Alabama this weekend when the Number 4 ranked Crimson Tide will face off against the Number 2 ranked Georgia Bulldogs.
Georgia has won two of the last three national championships.
And now – as if this game was not big enough already! – President Donald Trump will attend the game in Tuscaloosa this weekend!
The game will kick off at 6:30 PM CST at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Alabama fans are being told to arrive early for the big game.
President Trump has reportedly requested a tasty meal that includes two McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish sandwiches with cheese, Domino’s pizza, stadium hot dogs and Diet Coke, according to Alabama businessman Ric Mayers, via AL.com. Yum!
Trump frequently visits major sports events and football games. In September 2023 President Trump made a huge entrance at the Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Iowa State Cyclones football game in Ames, Iowa. America’s favorite president flipped burgers, played football with agriculture fraternity members, and greeted fans.
Here is Trump meeting with frat boys at the Iowa-Iowa State game last year in Ames.
Saturday will not be President Trump’s first visit to Tuscaloosa for an Alabama game.
President Trump arrived to cheers and chants of “USA! USA!” from a packed crowd of over 100,000 at Bryant-Denny Stadium for the LSU-Alabama college football game in 2019.
Donald Trump and First Lady Melania took seats in a box on the LSU side of the field. Later the crowd gave Trump a standing ovation when he and Melania were shown on the Jumbotron.
Trump was cheered by a crowd outside the stadium as he arrived.
Kamala’s Husband Doug Emhoff Says Trump ‘Definitely’ Anti-Semitic, Claims He Will Target Jewish Americans (VIDEO)
September 27, 2024
Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff has suggested that Donald Trump is an anti-semite and that is deliberately putting a target on the back of Jewish Americans.
In an interview with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, Emhoff said that although Donald Trump has said he will fight antisemitism if elected in November, he is in fact an antisemite himself and will do the exact opposite.
Here is a transcript of the exchange:
EMHOFF: What really bothered me a week or so ago was when Trump got up at an event purporting to fight anti-Semitism and he said vile anti-Semitic things, long tropes that are just terrible. We have to speak out every single time when something like that happens. So I’m going to continue not to be afraid, not to be intimidated. Not to live in fear, but to live openly and proudly as a Jewish person.
PSAKI: When you hear him say things like that, and he said that if he doesn’t win it will be essentially the fault of Jewish Americans, an old tropes. I know you put a statement out on X at the time. Do you worry he is putting a target on the backs of Jewish Americans?
EMHOFF: He is. Take him at his word. He lies about a lot of things but you have two take him at his word on things like this. This is a disgusting trope, the so-called dual loyalties. It is an outrage. And it is not just Jewish people who should be outraged.”
PSAKI: Do you think he’s anti- semitic when he says things like that? You look at him and see the repetition of this type of words and language as anti-Semitic?
EMHOFF: Of course it is and I said that publicly, definitely.
Watch the clip below:
.@jrpsaki asks @DouglasEmhoff about Trump’s recent comments saying Jewish voters would bear “a lot” of blame if he loses:
Jen: “Do you worry that he’s putting a target on the backs of Jewish Americans?”
While a majority of Jewish Americans continue to vote Democratic, that figure is falling as they realize that the party is now heavily influenced by pro-Palestinian voices and those who support Hamas.
Trump, meanwhile, remains very popular among Israelis over his decision to relocate the U.S. Embassy for Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and also his generally steadfast support for Israel’s war effort.
President Trump was the greatest friend to Israel in modern history. Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, granted Israel the Golan Heights, and engineered the most significant peace agreements in Israel's history - the Abraham Accords.
Rep. Gosar Introduces Groundbreaking Bill to End Big Pharma’s Liability Shield for Vaccine Injuries
September 27, 2024
Rep. Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ), has introduced H.R. 9828, the End the Vaccine Carveout Act.
This legislation seeks to strip vaccine manufacturers of the immunity they have enjoyed for decades, leaving countless victims of vaccine injuries without legal recourse.
Gosar’s proposal is a monumental step in addressing the unfair protections afforded to pharmaceutical giants, who have raked in billions while hiding behind legal shields.
Big Pharma has used legal strategies to reduce its liability in court. One such strategy is utilizing the PREP Act, which shields biopharmaceutical companies from lawsuits related to products used in public health emergencies, including vaccines.
The PREP Act, passed in 2005, grants pharmaceutical companies immunity from lawsuits for products used to combat public health emergencies.
This Act has been utilized to shield companies like Pfizer and Moderna from legal liability for any unintentional issues arising from their COVID-19 vaccines.
Another one is the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986, which established a no-fault system in the U.S. to compensate individuals for injuries caused by vaccines while also shielding pharmaceutical companies from most lawsuits related to vaccine injuries.
This act aimed to stabilize the vaccine supply and encourage the development of new vaccines.
“Under current law, it is nearly impossible to hold vaccine manufacturers liable for injuries caused by vaccines due to a 1986 law that unfairly created a special immunity carveout for Big Pharma, making it very difficult for vaccine-injured victims to win in a court of law,” said Rep. Gosar.
“My legislation strips away current immunity provisions unfairly shielding Big Pharma from the harms caused by their products and allows those injured by vaccines to pursue a civil lawsuit in state or federal court. Big Pharma doesn’t deserve a get-out-of-jail-free card for injuries caused by their harmful vaccines.”
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (NCVIA) established the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which provides compensation to people who believe they were injured by a vaccine.
The Gateway Pundit reported in 2022 that while the United States does have a vaccine injury compensation program, many Americans who have filed claims after being injured by the experimental COVID vaccines have not received compensation and many were denied for not meeting the standard of proof.
If a petition is filed and it is determined that a vaccine or covered countermeasure caused an injury, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has two programs available to compensate the petitioner financially, or certain survivors may be eligible for death benefits.
The two programs offered are the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). You can read the comparison here.
For claims associated with the COVID-19 vaccine or other COVID-19-related countermeasures, you can file your Request for Benefits with the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.
The CICP’s data for fiscal years 2010 through 2024, currently as of September 1, 2024, shows a total of 13,955 claims filed, out of which 13,392 are related to COVID-19 injuries.
Of these, 10,132 remain pending review, while 3,260 decisions have been made. A mere 58 claims were deemed eligible for compensation, and only 16 were actually compensated.
Meanwhile, 41 cases are pending benefits determination, and 1 case had no eligible expenses. Alarmingly, 3,202 claims were denied, with 561 of these due to a lack of submitted medical records, 405 for failing to meet the standard of proof, 1,981 for missing the filing deadline, and 255 for involving non-CICP-covered products.
Gosar’s bill, the End the Vaccine Carveout Act, goes after the 1986 law that shielded vaccine manufacturers from accountability, allowing them to push dangerous vaccines without fear of facing the consequences in court.
As it stands, these companies are virtually untouchable, leaving vaccine injury victims with little to no hope of seeking justice.
“Although federal bureaucrats and Big Pharma insist that vaccines are safe, there is an unfortunate lack of science regarding the safety of vaccines. For example, a review of 12,000 scientific papers by the Institute of Medicine published in 2012 found that 98% of injuries studied were either caused by or may have been caused by a vaccine. Another government study found that while vaccines caused injuries in 10 percent of cases, only one percent get reported, meaning those injured by vaccines are vastly undercounted.
Furthermore, according to the Center for Disease Control’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, nearly 20,000 Americans were reported as having been killed to date by a COVID-19 vaccine, equating to one death for every 14,000 people vaccinated, much higher than the one in a million deaths that is normally cited for dangerous vaccines.
A Rasmussen poll of 1,110 adults from late October of 2023 found that 24% of American adults “personally” know someone who died of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 42% said they would join a class-action lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies for vaccine side effects.
Under current law, U.S.C. 300aa-11(a)(2) and U.S.C. 300aa-11(a)(3), civil action against vaccine manufacturers in a federal or state court is prohibited for anyone injured by a vaccine that is included on the Vaccine InjuryTable, unless they first seek compensation from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), a program funded through the collection of a 75 cent excise tax on vaccine manufacturers for every dose of those vaccines that Congress includes in the program. Once a person accepts or rejects compensation from the VICP, then they are eligible to pursue a civil action against a vaccine administrator for over $1,000.
However, language immunizing vaccine manufacturers is very strong in U.S.C. 300aa-22(b)(1), U.S.C. 300aa-22(b)(2) and U.S.C. 300aa-23(d)(2). A plaintiff must prove that the vaccine manufacturer either committed “fraud”, intentionally withheld “information relating to the safety or efficacy of vaccines,” or “failed to exercise due care” in following federal law regulating vaccines and backed up “by clear and convincing evidence.” This language creates a very high bar that plaintiffs need to clear in order to find manufacturers liable.
The End the Vaccine Carveout Act is a simple bill that removes the requirement that the vaccine-injured first seek compensation through the VICP and would remove all language unfairly immunizing vaccine manufacturers from the liability stemming from any injuries caused by their vaccines.
The bill would also change the definition of a countermeasure, a treatment or vaccine used to combat a disease that has a public health emergency associated with it, not to include any COVID-19 vaccine – thus ensuring a liability shield that countermeasures enjoy under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act no longer applies to any COVID-19 vaccine.
Those injured from the COVID-19 vaccine and the survivors of those killed from the COVID-19 vaccine would now have the ability to bring a civil action in federal or state court against vaccine manufacturers for a vaccine that has resulted in the reported deaths of 21,780 people, as of October 30, 2023 (total reached through search of Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System database).
To put that number into perspective, as of August 22, 2021, 8,966 deaths from all other vaccines were reported to VAERS for its entire 31-year history up until that point.
According to Rep. Gosar, Pfizer and Moderna generated revenues of $100.3 billion and $19.3 billion, respectively, in 2022.
“Vaccine manufacturers must once again be held liable by the injuries caused by their products. Their special immunity from liability must be ended. Furthermore, COVID-19 vaccines must be redefined as vaccines and not “countermeasures,” so that the PREP Act’s liability carveout can no longer apply.”
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