Month: June 2018

By BRYAN HAHN

The country mourns the death of yet another black teen. Seventeen-year-old Antwon Rose was shot in the back by local police in East Pittsburgh while he was running away after being suspected of being involved in an earlier shooting.

Rose was in a Chevy Cruze on Tuesday (June 19) when the Allegheny County Police pulled him and two others over since it matched the description of a car involved in a shooting earlier that day, according to CNN.

Around 8:30 p.m. that night, someone had fired nine .40-caliber shots at another person in North Braddock borough, as reported by the Allegheny County Police. The target fired back and was later admitted to the hospital to be treated for his wounds. A witness described the vehicle to the police and at 8:40 p.m., police spotted a car that fit the description. Rose was in that car.

Once cops ordered the driver out of the car, Rose and another passenger ran, Allegheny County police said. At that point, an officer opened fire and struck Rose. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

The driver of the car was released by police, but they are still looking for the other passenger.

Allegheny County Police Superintendent Coleman McDonough stated that the police recovered two firearms from the car but Rose was unarmed at the time of the shooting. McDonough is confident the car was involved in the earlier shooting that day due to “ballistic damage to the rear window.”

The unnamed officer who shot Rose is now on administrative leave, according to the Allegheny County Police. He had been serving for years in other local departments but had been sworn into the Allegheny County Police earlier the same day he shot Rose.

The Hip Hop community has been saddened and angered over the tragic death and Nas (who released a song called “Cops Shot The Kid” on NASIR last week) has expressed his disgust with an Instagram post with the caption, “Whoever killed him needs the electric chair in front of his family.”

A protest was held Wednesday night in East Pittsburgh.

Check out other reactions from the Hip Hop community below.

By The Associated Press

Over 800 prison camps discovered in the United States! They are heavily guarded by the national guard full-time, but are empty all the time! These camps are being run by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law take effect in the U.S. With just a simple order from President Donald Trump, Martial Law can be implemented, and he will remain, President in the White House, until it is over.

The Rex 84 Internment Camp Program

Which would mean he remains president indefinitely. The Rex 84 Camp Program, states. In an event which a “mass exodus” of Illegal immigrants flock over the border, they would be rounded up and sent to the FEMA camps. The camps all have railroad connections, as well as roads and highways leading straight into them. Almost all also have an airport within a close distance to the camps. Most of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s prison camps can house 20,000 plus people in warehouse buildings and are secured by the national guard. The biggest of all the camps, however, is located in Alaska and could house up to 2 million people. The same amount of all the people in Los Angles. Just ask yourself, do you want to be on Ashcroft’s list?

Conspiracy theories about plastic coffins by Alex Jones and others

According to reports by conspiracy theorists over 500,000 plastic coffins are stacked up in FEMA concentration camps “just in case something happens.” Alex Jones of Infowars published such a report about a FEMA facility back in 2008.

FEMA Concentration Camps debunked by Popular Mechanics?

Others claim these are fake news and tried to debunking FEMA camp myths as conspiracy theories. Glenn Beck also advocated conspiracy theories about the plan that the US government is planning to intern masses of people e.g. in case the evil depopulations ‘agenda 21’ by the New World Order proceeds. He later backpedaled and hosted a segment featuring a guest from Popular Mechanics, who ‘debunked’ Glenn Becks own claims.

List of all U.S FEMA Camps

There is a camp close to the most major city’s in the U.S so transporting people would not be a problem. Special protocols and massive training events have put in place to prepare for an influx of people. This means you and your family could be sent to a camp in this event. Try and prepare for this as best you can by sitting down with your family you discuss a plan of action in this event.

Try to have at least one months supply of clean water and emergency food for everyone including pets. Research more on FEMA camps to learn more locations near you. We must fight the new world order as best we can.

Alabama:

Opelika WWII German/Italian POW camp now being renovated.

Alaska:

Wilds of Alaska possibly East of Anchorage.

No access by road however, there is a railway system.

The facility holds 500,000 people.

Arizona:

Ft. Huachua, 20 miles from the Mexican border, 30 miles from Nogales. Rex 84 program. Emergency Custodial Facility.

Florence WWII German/Italian POW camp now being renovated.

Pinal County Gila River. Renovated WWII Japanese-American special internment detention facility.

Yuma County Colorado River. Renovated WWII Japanese-American special internment detention facility.

Arkansas:

Ft. Chaffee Has a new runway for aircraft, new detention camp facilities with cap of 20,000 prisoners.

Chicot/Drew Counties Jerome. Renovated spec Interment camps for Japanese Americans WWII.

Descha County Rohwer. Renovated WWII Japanese-American special internment detention centers.

Blythville AFB This base was closed but is now being used as a camp location. New wooden barracks have been constructed at this location. This camp is surrounded by high wire topped with barbed wire and has guard towers.

Berryville FEMA facility located east of Eureka on Hwy 62.

Omaha FEMA facility located on Hwy 65 south of old wood processing plant. It is on an old dirt road that leads to a toxic waste dump. Note: The facility in Miss. is also located on an old toxic waste dump.

California:

Oakdale Ca 90 miles East of San Francisco on HWY 120. Holds a minimum of 15,000 people. REX 84 program, Emergency Custodial Facility.

Vandenberg AFB Located midway between San Louis Obispo, and Santa Barbara. The base is on Hwy 1 and close to Hwy 101. REX 84 program, Emergency Custodial Facility.

Ft. Irwin Irwin is a remote Mtn region south of Death Valley, National Monument. This base is designated as inactive however, there is a concentration camp located at this facility about 30 miles from Interstate 15 in Barstow.

Inyo County Manzana. Renovated WWII Japanese-American special internment detention center.

Modoc County Tulelake. Renovated WWII Japanese-American special internment detention facility.

Sacramento Army Depot No specific data at this time.

Colorado:

Old Lowell AFB. Recently all new chain link fence was installed around the borders, plus 400,000 handcuffs and shackles were purchased by the government for this site.

Florida:

Avon Park No data available

Camp Krome Located near Miami Dept of Justice detention and interrogation facility.

Elgin AFB This base is greater than 50 miles long extending from Pensacola Bay to Hwy 331 in De Funiak Springs. It is adjacent to Interstate 10 on the North and the Fort Walton Beach vacation spot.

REX 84 program, Emergency Custodial Facility.

Georgia:

Ft. Benning Located East of Columbia near the Georgia/Alabama state line. – REX 84 program – Emergency Custodial Facility.

Unadilla, Ga Macon County; Located on east railroad street, Plunket road leads into the facility 1 1/2 miles from Unadilla on county road 230. This is a FEMA prison manned and staffed but no prisoners.

Oglethorpe, Ga. Macon County; the facility is located five miles from Montezuma, three miles from Oglethorp. Traveling south on highway 49, located on the west side of the highway. This FEMA prison has no staff and no prisoners.

Morgan, Ga. Calhoun County; I-75 exit 32 to 300 south to Albany. Take highway 234 to Morgan. Go through Morgan taking highway 45 south. The FEMA facility is 1 1/2 miles on the right (west) side of highway 45. This FEMA facility is fully manned and staffed but no prisoners.

Camilla, Ga. Mitchell County; from Camilla take highway 19 south, travel 5.4 miles from 37/19 junction to Mount Zion Road, turn left (east) on Mount Zion Road. The FEMA facility is located on Mount Zion Road aprox: 5.7 miles south of Camilla. This facility is not manned or staffed and there are no prisoners.

Hawkinsville, Ga Pulaski County; located on fire road 100/ Upper River Road, 2 miles west of alternate 129 North 257 / 112 east. Five miles east of Hawkensville. This FEMA facility is fully manned and staffed but no prisoners.

Abbeyville, Ga. Wilcox County: south side of Abbeyvilleon highway 129 (Broad Street) off highway 280 (Main Street). This FEMA facility is fully manned and staffed but no prisoners.

McRae, Ga. Telfair County; 1.5 miles west of McRae on highway 134 (8th street). The FEMA facility is on Irwinton Ave. off 8th street. This facility is fully manned and staffed but no prisoners.

Frequencies: 153.7400 Georgia State Correctional Institutions 154.9050 Intrastate Coordinating (car to car statewide) 154.9350 Intrastate Coordinating (base to base / statewide) 155.3700 Georgia Police Intersystem (statewide)

Idaho:

Jerome County – Minipoka – Renovated WWII Japanese-American special internment detention facility.

Kooski plus 50 miles East. Near Lolo pass

Moose Creek Unmanned and there is anearbyy landing strip in or near a national forest.

Illinois:

Marseilles It is located on the Illinois river off Interstate 80 on Hwy 6. It is a relatively small facility with a cap of 1400 prisoners.

Though it is small it is designed like other concentration camp facilities with high fences topped with barbed wire and guard towers.

Indiana:

Thousands of acres located just out of Indianapolis, Indiana holds a large Concentration camp facility complete with barracks, high fence, razor wire, towers, turnstyles, a railroad, helicopter landing pads, and what appears to be three large furnaces with 3inch mains on one of the buildings. This is a massive facility, still under construction with a completion date sometime in 1996.

Ft. Benjamin Harrison A U.S. Army facility located on the outskirts of Indianapolis will be used to hold prisoners.

Ft. Wayne FEMA Detention facility

Terre Haute FEMA Detention facility

Kansas:

Leavenworth U.S. Marshal’s Fed Holding Facility PFP.

Concordia WWII POW German/Italian POW camp being renovated.

El Dorado Federal prison.

Topeka 80 acres converted to a holding camp.

Kentucky:

Louisville FEMA Detention facility

Lexington FEMA Detention facility

Louisiana:

Livingston WWII German/Italian POW camp being renovated.

Maine:

Houlton WWII German/Italian POW camp being renovated.

Missouri:

Richards Gebaur AFB This facility is located in Grandview, A large civilian internment facility has been built on this facility, and base personnel are restricted from the area.

Michigan:

Kincheloe Correctional Facility (Formerly Kincheloe AFB with B-52 sized runways). Has five large prison buildings able to house 5000+. The facility has about 500 prisoners at this time. Location: 20 miles south of Sault Ste. Marie (Soo Locks) at the eastern end of the Upper Penninsula of Michigan.

K.I. Sawyer AFB Large construction program has been going on under the name of “Operation Gateway”. High security is in place with a large portion of the base closed to civilian view. Location: 20 miles south of Marquette, MI in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan.

Raco Field Raco field is an interesting facility. The above ground runways form a perfect triangle. Few buildings appear on the surface, but ventilators can be seen. Civilian workers report that a subsurface facility exists. No publicity exists indicating what the role of Raco Field is, although something is there. To observers, it is an “inactive WWII base.” Location: 15 miles NW of Kincheloe Correctional Facility on Hwy 28.

Bark River A large construction operation is ongoing in the Bark River, MI, area. Locals are tight-lipped. The facility is off the main highway in a wilderness area. While most of the locals say that the construction is associated with the ELF (extreme low frequency) project of world-wide communications, others suspect FEMA is involved. (Note: the ELF grid is located 100 miles NE of the Bark River area) Location: 20 miles west of Escanaba in the upper penninsula of Michigan.

Bay City Sits on Saginaw Bay which connects to Lake Huron. This facility has high fencing, barbed wire and guard towers.

Grayling Camp Grayling Michigan National Guard Base. Detention facility. Guards towers, razor wire.

Southwest area of the state FEMA Detention facility

Central part of the state FEMA Detention facility

Detroit FEMA Detention facility

Mississippi:

Hancock County – The NASA facility at this location has two camps the first being located at the end of Kiln road at Waveland, and then the next road after ammo road at the Post Office.

The second camp is located in the center of a rest station back from the Interstate.

Inmates from the Hancock County jail claim they have worked details involving the delivery of food to these camps under the supervision of U.N. Guards.

Nebraska:

Scottsbluff WWII German/Italian POW camp being renovated.

Northwest corner of state FEMA Detention facility

Northeast corner of state FEMA Detention facility

South Central Hastings area FEMA Detention facility

Nevada:

Elco There is a prison facility 10 miles out of Elco.

Wells Camp is located in the O’Niel basin area, 40 miles North of Wells, and West off Hwy 93, 25 miles.

Winnemucca Camp is located at the I-80 mile marker 112, on the south side of the road and 3/4 miles off of the road.

Wells/Winnemucca Camp is located near the base line of the mountains. Reno Nevada plus 150 miles east south side of road if your headed west, 150 yards off the road.

New Jersey:

Ft. Dix Fully operational prison camp with approximately 35,000 prisoners.

New York:

Ft. Drum located in upstate New York, probable location for Eastern area processing of people, located near the St. Lawrence river and access to Lake Ontario. Both waterways may be used for transport. Located very close to Canada.

Watertown FEMA Detention facility

Albany FEMA Detention facility

Buffalo FEMA Detention facility

Ohio:

Cleveland FEMA Detention facility

Columbus FEMA Detention facility

Cincinnati FEMA Detention facility

Lima FEMA Detention facility

Oklahoma:

Oklahoma City Tinker AFB, This is a civilian detention facility, all base personnel are prohibited from going near the area, and the area is under constant guard.

McAlester WWII German/Italian POW camp being renovated.

Will Rogers Air Port This is a newly constructed FEMA facility, and it is believed that it will be used as a primary processing center for prisoners West of the Mississippi River.

Pennsylvania:

Camp Hill Camp Hill Pa located off I-15. Sits across the navigable Susquehanna River from Harrisburg. Close to Cumberland Army Depot and the Camp Hill Correctional facility.

Crossville WWII German/Italian POW Camp being renovated.

Texas:

Ft.Hood Ft. Hood has a newly built concentration camp, constructed complete with towers, high fencing, and barbed wire.

Mexia WWII German/ Italian POW camp being renovated.

Amarillo FEMA Detention facility

Utah:

Millard County – Central Utah – Renovated WWII Japanese-American special internment detention facility.

Skull Valley Camp William property – west of the old bombing range South/southwestern portion of Camp Williams This camp was discovered by a man and his son who were rabbit hunting, they were discovered and apprehended.

Utah Lake 15 miles south of Saratoga Recreation center 200 – 300 yards off the road Black wire 40 to 50 feet tall, made to look something like a golf driving range.

Cedar City East of Cedar City Utah – no more data.

Washington:

Okanogan County borders Canada and is a site for a massive concentration camp capable of holding hundreds of thousands of people.

Wisconsin:

Ft. McCoy Located in Western Wisconsin 30 miles East of LaCrosse between the point where 90 and 94 intersect. REX 84 program, Emergency Custodial Facility.

Central part of the state FEMA Detention facility.

Wyoming:

Park County – Hart Mountain – Renovated WWII Japanese-American special internment detention facilities.

North Central part of the state FEMA Detention facility

Southeast part of the state FEMA Detention facility

Southwest part of the state FEMA Detention facility

By ERIN DOOLEY

Texas state inspectors identified nearly 250 violations at facilities run by Southwest Key, the non-profit organization now housing migrant children separated from their parents in a converted Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, according to records obtained by ABC.

Reports filed with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) show 246 “deficiencies” — defined as failures to comply with regulations governing child care — at Southwest Key residential programs across Texas since the fall of 2014.

The company’s largest shelter for undocumented children, Casa Padre, which is a converted Walmart in Brownsville, has become a flash-point in the debate over President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy that separated children from parents caught attempting to cross the border illegally. On Wednesday, the president signed an executive order ending the family separation policy.

ABC News’ Tom Llamas visited the facility late last week, which now houses 1,500 migrant boys ages 10 to 17, and observed it was clean and well staffed, with several activities to keep the kids busy during his tour.

However, HHSC records filed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services show that at Casa Padre alone, inspectors identified 13 deficiencies over the past year.

In one particularly worrisome report, dated October 2017, the facility’s medical coordinator “failed to follow up with treatment” for a resident who tested positive for an STD for a full two weeks.

At other Southwest Key residential facilities, which also house children apprehended at the border, reports noted a child with “unsupervised access to a tool/knife,” a child “clearly in pain” not given prompt medical care, and a child administered Tylenol despite an allergy to the medication.

                     

HHS Administration for Children and Families via AP

HHSC records also documented children wearing “dirty clothing” and gathering in rooms that reached an “unsafe temperature” following an air conditioning outage.

Staff members were accused of showing up to work drunk, writing obscene language on a chalkboard, and repeatedly speaking to children in a “belittling” or “harsh” manner.

One staffer allegedly engaged in an “inappropriate relationship” with a child, one deficiency report said.

Southwest Key tells ABC News they undertook an “extensive investigation” for each violation, noting that in some cases, employees were retrained and disciplined, and some were terminated.

The company notes that over the past three years, Texas investigators evaluated Southwest Key on 78,570 issues, including many self-reported to regulators by the company, and found deficiencies in just 0.3 percent.

“We strive to provide the highest quality of care possible,” the company said in a statement, adding that every shelter employee completes 40 hours of training prior to working with children, and an additional 40 hours of on-the-job training before they supervise kids.

A spokesperson for HHSC, which documented the violations, told ABC the agency’s job “is to inspect and look for violations of our state standards… when we find them, we cite them and work with the facility to correct the issues.”

“Our focus is to help ensure safety,” he said.

The company’s large footprint

Austin-based Southwest Key operates at least 16 residential facilities across Texas, with 10 more in Arizona and California. About 10 percent of the children currently in their care were separated from their parents under Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy, according to the company.

A spokesperson for Southwest Key told ABC News that they welcomed Wednesday’s order, saying: “We were pleased to learn that the president also signed a bill that will end the separation policy.”

Public records indicate the company employs around 4,500 people, and the company says it has served more than 23,000 children over the past two years.

So far this year, they’ve been awarded $458.7 million in federal money to care for kids detained at the border, including children separated from their parents and minors attempting to cross the border alone.

Just last week, the federal government awarded the company $147.8 million, the most money they’ve ever received in one sum, according to HHS records dating back to 2007.

                       

HHS Administration for Children and Families via AP

Bob Carey, who oversaw Southwest Key’s contracts while serving as director of U.S. Health and Human Services’ office of refugee resettlement during the Obama administration, told ABC News that the company had a sizeable footprint.

Southwest Key Programs was “one of if not the largest government contractor for this purpose,” he said. “These are big, big grants, particularly if you’re doing on an emergency basis, extremely complex.”

The company’s CEO Juan Sanchez has defended their actions amid the new scrutiny.

“We’re not the bad guys. We’re the good guys,” Sanchez told ABC affiliate KVUE last week. “We’re the people that are taking these kids putting them in a shelter, providing the best service that we can for them and reuniting them with their family.”

“Somebody’s gotta take care of these children, no matter what,” Sanchez added. “If we don’t take care of them, who’s gonna take care of them? They’re going to wind up in a detention center, a real detention center, and other facilities that are not adequate for children.”

On the page dedicated to the company’s mission, it states that the company “is committed to keeping kids out of institutions and home with their families, in their communities.”

Sanchez — who, according to the company’s website, was “shaped by his experiences as a migrant worker” — has drawn ire for his high salary. In 2016, his compensation was listed as $770,860, which included $249,065 in bonuses and incentive compensation.

“Dr. Sanchez’s salary is well below the average, when measured in terms of a percentage of the organization’s revenue, in comparison to CEOs at non-profits of similar size,” Southwest Key said in a statement to ABC News, adding that his salary accounted for less than 1 percent of the group’s revenue.

While that compensation figure may strike some as large for the head of a non-profit, a spokesperson for watchdog group Charity Navigator told ABC News that such a salary “would not be considered atypical” because of the size of the organization.

By Tom LLAMAS

For the first time since the Trump administration announced its “zero-tolerance” policy on illegal immigration, a small group of journalists was allowed into the country’s largest licensed shelter for undocumented children.

Imagine being 10 years old, separated from your mother or father, not understanding why, and being taken to a hulking, windowless building filled with 1,500 other kids you’ve never met.

You’re allowed to make two phone calls a week — one of which hopefully is to a detained parent now thousands of miles away.

That’s the reality we saw.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       U.S. Government

The shelter is clean and well staffed, with activities to keep the kids busy and their minds off their unfortunate situation.

The kids we saw, for the most part, looked content. No crying, no one slouched in a corner alone.

But this was also a media tour, and journalists weren’t allowed to interview any of the children. Who knows what happens when the lights go out and they’re left alone with their thoughts?

The facility is called Casa Padre. It’s in Brownsville, Texas, in what (was once a Walmart.) About 1,500 boys aged 10 to 17 now call it home.

                   

 U.S. Government

It’s the largest licensed facility in the country. The vast majority of the boys crossed illegally and unaccompanied, but Casa Padre is nearing capacity as more children are separated from their parents at the border and shipped there.

On this night, 1,469 boys slept there. The official capacity is 1,497. An extra bed has been added to each room, which means there are five bunks inside a 10-foot-by-24-foot space.

                     

U.S. Government

The children get three daily meals and two snacks. They have access to video games, pool tables and classes where they can learn English and U.S. civics.

The children are each assigned a clinician to help them deal with separation trauma and mental-health issues.

The children spend about two hours outside — one hour in the morning, one in the afternoon. There are soccer and basketball courts.

The children, nonetheless, spend most of their day inside a converted big-bog store, the walls of which are plastered with murals of U.S. presidents quotations from them.

                    

U.S. Government

The quotation attached to a picture of Donald Trump reads: “Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”

Southwest Key Programs, which ran the tour of the shelter for the group of journalists, operates 26 similar facilities, all of which are nearing capacity. Emergency shelters soon may need to be built to accommodate the inflow of children.

The average length of stay for an undocumented child at a facility like Casa Padre is about 56 days.

Officials at Casa Padre said: “The goal is to reunite families.”

By MICHAEL S. ROSENWALD

In early 2011, a branch of the very rich Rothschild family bought a controlling stake in Weather Central, a provider of weather forecasts to hundreds of broadcasters.

“As weather becomes more extreme around the planet, with greater human and financial ramifications,” Sir Evelyn de Rothschild said in a news release, “we believe that Weather Central will play a major role in mitigating damage and improving lives.”

This was big news in meteorology and broadcasting circles: It appeared that the Rothschilds, a prominent business family, wanted to take on the Weather Channel to expand its media holdings.

This was also big news for conspiracy theorists: To them, it appeared as though the Rothschilds, a prominent Jewish family that made a fortune in European banking in the 1700s, wanted to control the weather and profit from natural disasters.

The Rothschilds’ supposed control of the weather is a long-running conspiracy theory most recently leveled by D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8), who tried to make amends this week with a special tour at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. (He left early.)

Controlling the weather is just one of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of unproved, bizarre and anti-Semitic allegations that have been leveled against the Rothschilds for centuries.

The list of their supposed atrocities, spread by militant pastors, fringe political candidates, and garden-variety nut jobs, includes controlling the world economy, bankrolling Adolf Hitler, plotting to kill Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, founding Israel, funding the Islamic State, inflicting financial distress on Asians and, most recently, messing with the weather.

“Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation,” White said in a video posted to Facebook. “And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful.”

It wasn’t the first time White repeated anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds. During a Feb. 27 meeting with Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and other top city officials, he was captured on video claiming that the family controls the World Bank and the federal government.

When did this craziness about the Rothschilds begin?

A long time ago.

Why?

The Battle of Waterloo.

Napoleon’s retreat from the Battle of Waterloo. Original Artwork: After a painting by Steuben (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

In 1846, three decades after Napoleon’s French army had been vanquished in what is now Belgium by a British, Prussian and Dutch force, a political pamphlet, signed “Satan,” went 19th-century viral. The Independent, a London newspaper, recounted the story of the pamphlet a few years ago under the headline, “The Rothschild Libel”:

Here is the story that “Satan” told.

Nathan Rothschild, the founder of the London branch of the bank, was a spectator on the battlefield that day in June 1815 and, as night fell, he observed the total defeat of the French army. This was what he was waiting for. A relay of fast horses rushed him to the Belgian coast, but there he found to his fury that a storm had confined all ships to port. Undaunted — “Does greed admit anything is impossible?” asked Satan — he paid a king’s ransom to a fisherman to ferry him through wind and waves to England.

Reaching London 24 hours before official word of Wellington’s victory, Rothschild exploited his knowledge to make a killing on the Stock Exchange. “In a single coup,” the pamphlet charged, “he gained 20 million francs.”

And the rest is anti-Semitic history.

“Although this type of speculation was widespread throughout anti-Semitic circles in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was notably strong in the United States, where radicals of every stripe seemed obsessed by financial conspiracies,” political scientist Michael Barkun wrote in his book “A Culture of Conspiracy,” published in 2003. “The Rothschilds, who combined Jewishness, banking, and international ties, presented an attractive target.”

They still do, just not via pamphlet.

The conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds — and other groups, Jewish or not — are spread in online forums, self-published books, right-wing and religious radio programs, and especially YouTube, where seemingly normal and harmless people spin complicated, illogical theories that viewers seeking to confirm their owns views can easily find.

Take a YouTuber identified as “hudna1,” with nearly 5,000 subscribers.

In September 2017, a month after Hurricane Harvey laid waste to Houston, hudna1 posted a lengthy video in which she explained how it all came back to the Rothschilds.

“I am not an engineer,” she said. “But I have common sense.”

Her common sense goes like this:

Strange things have been happening on the planet. For instance, whales have been jumping out of the ocean.

Why?

Because, she claimed, of electric waves being sent out from Alaska by a U.S. government project to manipulate weather patterns. Her uncle, who served in the Air Force, told her all about it.

Anyway, the Rothschilds, she said, had “friends in high places.” They bought that weather company, after all.

So: They know the people in the government making the whales jump out of the ocean, which is very bad.

So: They are behind the hurricane.

Why is she convinced?

For one thing, she did research — on YouTube, not Google, which apparently can’t be trusted. “YouTube has more information,” she said. “Google is discreet.”

(Fun fact: Google owns YouTube.)

Besides that, she prayed on it. And what came to her, in a vision, was a “funny looking ogre” who had a “comedic sense” and was “very surreal.”

The Rothschilds.

“You,” a commenter wrote, “are a beautiful soul.”

Another wrote that “your observations are very insightful, I have learned so much from them.”

Just one quibble, however.

“The Rothschilds,” the commenter wrote, “are merely the Treasurer for the Vatican.”

By JUSTIN IVEY

Nicki Minaj is featured on the cover of ELLE’s July issue, and the story has arrived online. In the interview, she delves into everything from her Queen album to ex-boyfriend Meek Mill’s legal battles.

While speaking about the upcoming LP, Black Barbie revealed the project will be notable for its boom bap beats as opposed to any trap production.

“It has to be 80s,” she said, recalling a conversation with her collaborator J. Reid. “It has to be boom bap. I don’t want to do no trap shit ’cause everybody’s doing that shit.”

Minaj believes it would’ve been too simple to make trap records for the album, which wouldn’t live up to the high bar she’s set for herself.

“I feel like true icons shift music, uplift music, switch music, have the balls to take a chance,” she noted. “The things that people do come so easy to me. I could do it in my sleep. But I’m such a perfectionist that when something is too easy to me, I actually feel guilty. It would’ve been so easy to listen to all the trap music out there right now and say, ‘Let me just copy this. But I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself.”

The chart-topping MC even expressed some frustration with trap becoming the predominant style in New York.

“The truth of the matter is, trap has taken over so much that even our New York rappers are doing nothing but trap songs, because they feel that that’s the way to make it,” she said. “They’re rapping like people from down south.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Minaj stated that being single had a profound effect on her life. She explained that she experienced more growth in the last six months than she had during the previous eight years.

Minaj also seemed to express some regret about how her image may have influenced fans. She’s far ashamed of it, telling ELLE, “I love being sexy; I’m never gonna stop being an exhibitionist.” But, she’s become reflective about the impact of her sex appeal.

“I don’t really know how to say that without being offensive,” she said. “Maybe I was naïve, but I didn’t realize how many girls were modern-day prostitutes. Whether you’re a stripper, or whether you’re an Instagram girl—these girls are so beautiful and they have so much to offer. But I started finding out that you give them a couple thousand dollars, and you can have sex with them. I was like, ‘Yikes.’ It’s just sad that they don’t know their worth. It makes me sad as a woman. And it makes me sad that maybe I’ve contributed to that in some way.”

She continued, “I’ve always felt like it. But in a lot of ways, I don’t know if I’m doing the same thing they’re doing, because I’m selling sex appeal. So I can’t look down on these girls. I may not be having sex with people, but I’m still selling sex appeal.”

When questioned about equating sex and sex appeal, she agreed they’re not the same thing and spoke on misconceptions about herself.

“I just don’t know if girls who look up to me think that when I’m posting a sexy picture,” she stated. “I’m actually the antithesis of all of that. I’m more of, like, the snobby girl, like the ‘Uh, what’ type of girl. And I want girls to be like that. I’d rather you be called snobby or a bitch or conceited—I’d rather you be called that than easy, and a ho, and a slut.”

Check out the full story on Minaj here.

By ELIAS LEIGHT

By The Associted Press

Godfather was one of seven members of the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., alongside his actual brothers Gawtti, Kobra, Monsta O, Ganxsta Ridd, E.K.A, and Murder One. The brothers first gained attention as a dance crew called the Blue City Strutters, before eventually making the transition into music, releasing their debut album New Funky Nation in 1990.

Following a number of indie projects, Boo-Yaa’s 2003 album West Koasta Nostra was among their most notable, featuring a star-studded guest list, with appearances from the likes of Eminem, B-Real, Mack 10, Kurupt, WC and Crooked I.

The group as a whole were widely respected (and feared) throughout the industry.

News of Godfather’s death shocked many West Coast veterans.

“#RIP Godfather. You and #BooYahTribe laid the path for us. You’re a Carson legend & more than that; a West Coast TripleOG!” Ras Kass wrote on IG.

“Sad news. Rest in paradise OG west coast legend and icon,” wrote Paul Wall.

“Saddest news this year, the passing of a good brother OG Godfather — Booyaa Tribe,” said legendary photographer Estevan Oriol. “Sorry to hear this bad news my homies.”

By JUSTIN IVEY

NEW YORK, NY – Nas upcoming solo album will have the worldwide industry power of Universal Music Group behind it.

The legendary MC’s Mass Appeal Records has announced a new global distribution deal with Universal ahead of his upcoming LP, which is scheduled to drop this Friday (June 15). The Kanye West-produced project will be released in collaboration with Def Jam Recordings.

“I’ve been blessed to work with two of the best brands in music,” Nas said in a press release. “Columbia Records was how I got my start and Def Jam was where I continued that journey. In my next chapter, I am proud to say that I am signing myself to myself. I look forward to releasing many projects in the very near future with Mass Appeal’s new global partnership with UMG.”

As part of the new deal, Universal has become the exclusive distributor of Mass Appeal’s physical and digital music releases as well as short-form video content.

“In the 15 months since joining forces with UMG, we have seen the Mass Appeal brand expand rapidly, experiencing our most successful year to date,” Mass Appeal CEO Peter Bittenbender added. “Much like fans across the world we are hyped that Nas is finally dropping his new album and couldn’t be more proud that it’s our first release through this new partnership.”

Since it was founded in 2014, Mass Appeal has released projects by artists such as Run The Jewels, J Dilla, Pimp C, Dave East, Fashawn and Black Milk.

“Mass Appeal is a thriving multimedia platform that speaks to an audience that is increasingly influencing culture,” Universal’s Executive Vice President Michele Anthony noted. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to expand our relationship. UMG will now provide Mass Appeal’s label with our expertise and resources to maximize the global opportunities for their exceptional roster of artists.”

By ELIJAH C. WATSON

After being found guilty of sexual assault recently, Bill Cosby may now be facing a divorce from Camille Cosby.

The two are living separate lives, with Camille having left the couple’s Pennsylvania mansion and now residing in their Massachusetts hideaway, according to a report from Radar Online.

“He literally is home alone,” an insider said. “She even took the staff with her!”

Camille also reportedly had some family support as their three grown kids joined her in leaving. The children have allegedly not seen their 80-year-old father in months.

The report comes a couple of months after Cosby was convicted of drugging and raping Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his Pennsylvania home in 2004.

A jury of seven men and five women voted after about 14 hours of deliberation to convict the 80-year-old comedian on three counts of sexual assault after prosecutors called five additional accusers to the stand, Buzzfeed reported. The women testified that they were all drugged by Cosby. Four of them, including model Janice Dickinson, said they were also sexually assaulted.

Cosby could spend his last days alive behind bars if he’s given the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison — a maximum sentence of 10 years and a fine of up to $25,000 on each of the three counts.