Naomi Campbell said she had nothing to gain by lying.
Campbell also said the term "blood diamonds" did not exist back than when she got the gift delivered to her. By the way were the people working hotel security interviewed about letting two strange men up to the super model's room? Security for super models tends to be very tight.
I posted this comment on The New York Post website:
Celebrities, politicians and rich people are used to people praying at their altar and they are clearly above the law. It is hard to believe Naomi Campbell was only aware of apartheid but completely ignorant of war lords and dictators responsible for mass murder, torture and rapes....She was not in the least curious who this guy was and where he got his diamonds?
To my blog readers I would add this...
In my opinion she had a lot to gain by lying but she has to live with herself and she has to look at herself in the mirror. I would not trade places with her for billions.
Can someone explain to me why Taylor was invited to Nelson Mandela's function in the first place? How could no one at the event seem to know who Charles Taylor was or care to even find out. If you click on either of my links for previous postings on this issue and read the powerful and brilliant interview on NPR you will learn so much and be aware of plenty of people that knew, suffered and survived. Hard to believe everyone at that function was clueless re: Charles Taylor. Click on my links above and read the NPR interview -- you will never forget it.
I have said this about New York politicos -- "denial is the new crack cocaine". This applies to celebrities and super models that think they are above the law and guess what mostly they are right....they get to walk away over and over.... Naomi will be walking herself back to the runway.
As of this writing, the latest news in the Oakland Mayor's Race has Oakland Councilmember and Oakland Mayor's Race Candidate Rebecca Kaplan filing her papers to run for the office as this is written, as has Greg Harland, Don Macleay, and Joe Tuman, and with Former State Senator Don Perata and Oakland Councilmember Jean Quan set to file their papers on Wednesday.
As of this writing, it's not confirmed if Orlando Johnson secured the necessary 100 signatures needed to complete his filing documents by Wednesday. Larry Lionel Young, Jr., has also filed early, but has made himself a relative unknown save for a YouTube video of a house he's trying to sell and a handout at the last Oakland Mayor's Race Candidate's Forum.
Kaplan issues a statement
Kaplan, who this blogger interviewed last week, with two other videos from that to come, issued this statement today: "Oakland is ready for a new direction and effective leadership. I believe that Oakland can be an engine of economic revitalization, bringing jobs and opportunities back to our City."
Terrance Candell gets tough
Why most of the candidates waited until Tuesday and Wednesday to file their papers is still rests in a concern to get the documents properly prepared, but Dr. Terrance Candell didn't mince words about the fact that he was first: "(It) shows me that the person who files first is the first to care. It shows me that there's going to be a lackadaisical attitude of the other candidates."
Speaking for Don Perata, Rhys Williams explained that the Perata campaign wanted to take a little more time to get things right. Don Macleay, without knowing what the Perata campaign said, made a similar statement to me today.
As of this writing, none of the other candidates were available to respond to Candell's bold claim. It's clear Dr. Candell's thrown down the gauntlet for what's already an interesting Oakland Mayor's Race, made all the more so today.
Previously, the first source of news that the former Senator had passed away, then claimed they were "not sure," as the three crash survivors were not identified.
The plane, a small eight-passenger single engine prop aircraft, crashed 20 miles away from Dillingham, Alaska. The passengers included Senator Stevens and former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, said to be Ted Stevens' fishing buddy.
Ted Stevens was a giant in politics, who survived a nasty legal battle and at 86 was still helping other elected officials. He will be missed.
Is the mayor King Mike Bloomberg going to pull a Naomi Campbell "double" meaning a major temper tantrum coming soon to a news reporter near Mike and even worse a trial? Why do I ask? Well first king Mike has been taking a beating in the press every day from his comments on the FDNY test to the Mosque by the WTC site which is as much an open wound in the heart of so many and literally still way behind in construction.
Here is just a small excerpt from the Mike Bloomberg Mosque speech...Mike Bloomberg said... “Our doors are open to everyone. Everyone with a dream and a willingness to work hard and play by the rules. New York City was built by immigrants, and it's sustained by immigrants -- by people from more than 100 different countries speaking more than 200 different languages and professing every faith. And whether your parents were born here or you came here yesterday, you are a New Yorker."
But more than half of New Yorkers want Mike to put a sock in his mouth. Many believe in political freedom and open doors but the WTC is an open wound not near healing...body parts recently found and they want to know where the funding comes from where is a fair question. Mike disagrees but many of us want to know about Mike Bloomberg's Cayman Island investments and he says that is off limits too. I believe in religious freedom but I have to ask why would any religious group seek to cause so much pain which is what these Mosque builders are doing. If you want to heal there are ways to go about healing and building bridges and clearly the Mosque at this time is not the way.
Getting back to my question -- Mike Bloomberg on trial? Is this is his future and even if so will Teflon Mike be able to make like a super model and simply walk away? What inspired this question?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcpAoSSTEwM Was it some moron or a paid troll by Mike Bloomberg's corrupt staff harassing me this afternoon on my YouTube slamming Joyce Purnick.
The troll thinks I am jealous of Joyce Purnick and Mike Bloomberg. No, they are part of an exclusive corrupt club bent on keeping the truth from being told. His comment reminded me that if there is a trial down the road where Mike Bloomberg finally has to spill the beans than perhaps Joyce Purnick will be forced to testify. You read her phony piece of garbage posing as a bio on Mike Bloomberg she -- oops forgets to mention Steve Rattner was perhaps forced to step down from his job at The White House as Car Czar...he said and she wrote to spend more time with his family but we all believe because of the pay to play pension fund scandals that had splished splashed all the way to The White House so Steve Rattner had to go.
Is Mike Bloomberg considered "family" because Rattner spends an enormous amount of time with Bloomberg here in NYC and Bloomberg stands by his man even now despite Steve Rattner having to plead the 5th so many times that The NY Post listed him under their "Losers" list -- ouch! But that won't hurt Steve as much as the SEC actually banning him. Unlike Dave Patterson walking away when he should be preparing a defense for intimidating a victim of spousal abuse in to silence -- Rattner may not be able to walk away and...if he is banned than once again Mike Bloomberg is going to have to shift that darn 5 billion he uses for charity or to buy votes and favor -- as 3 million was exposed by The New York Times the other day.
So let us say because of conflicts of interest and Mike Bloomberg holding the purse strings to the DA's office -- that the trial had to moved -- kicked out and up to a higher court or Haggerty exposing something that even Bloomberg and friends like the other guys Steve Rattner money manages that happen to own major newspapers can't cover up or silence or simply not report -- than Bloomberg may no longer be Teflon Mike anymore....
It would be so wonderful to see Purnick forced to testify in court -- did she know that Rattner was being investigated and if so why did she not mention that in her puff piece posing as a book and her good pals, Mike's good pal and Steve Rattner best friend Arthur Sulzberger Jr./The New York Times helped plug Joyce's book -- that did point out one very important piece of evidence if their ever is a trial -- STEVE RATTNER URGED MIKE BLOOMBERG to run for a third term!
I am angry and disgusted -- I called it before anyone that the mayoral election may come with some big surprise and I was so right on - Bloomberg barely won and the media had to go off script and report the truth finally -- I was laughing watching them bumble it -- they were way ahead of themselves rushing to go to Bloomberg's campaign head quarters to celebrate and oops they had to go off script and finally report the truth and what I had reporting on YouTube all along!!!!!!
Watch this YouTube and look at the date -- way before the election and the media refused to cover my art work -- the work I did postering communities --
I tell you -- do not believe the story the press are telling you -- the people of New York are incredibly angry....watch and that is one of many YouTubes I made! By the way all my YouTubes 334 at the time were all removed from YouTube a month and half before the election. My theory -- a paid troll hired by Bloomberg to harass and cyber stalk the anti-Bloomberg resistance on YouTube and the internet was also responsible for my hard work being removed....my entire body of work.
Look at the title of My YouTube - I called it predicted it and to date have gotten zero acknowledgement for this and my brilliant art poster lampooning Bloomberg. Jealous of an elite club of corrupt people that played dirty no way.... just very angry!
Don't believe the news, New Yorkers are angry & will not vote for BLOOMBERG!
I could see Mike being tried for campaign irregularities and also for abusing - misuse of tax payers money. So far Teflon Mike has the luck of super model Naomi Campbell.
Is Haggerty the E. Howard Hunt of the Bloomberg Operation? Frank Morano wants the Board of Elections to investigate the Indy Party.
Trial? What trial am I talking about? Well Mike on trial but first the question is is Mike Bloomberg's campaign irregularities so far exposed by the John Haggerty indictment going to turn out to be Mike Bloomberg's Watergate and if so I could see mayor Mike going to trial because of campaign irregularities as well as way too many daily exposes on how he is abusing tax payer money. He is not alone but he is the richest man in New York and the mayor so it looks really, really bad. Christine Quinn, Mike's mini me, has hired top defense attorneys for herself and her staff even approving Sullivan & Cromwell for some of her staff, a firm Goldman Sachs uses and tax payers have to pay for these top defense attorneys. No wonder city council and their staff have been so successful avoiding prosecution although Miguel Martinez to date is the only "honest" one -- honest enough to say he was stealing from the get go.
For more reasons Mike Bloomberg needs a court day along with his top deputies and aides...
Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens may have died in a plane crash about 20 miles north of Dillingham, Alaska. He was on board a small plane reportedly owned by a firm called GCI, which is Alaska's telecommunications provider, according to The New York Times.
Also on board was former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, said to be a "fishing buddy" of Senator Stevens. In all five people are said to have passed away in the crash.
Ted Stevens is a Legend in Politics
This is one of those moments when you put down party affiliation to take time and celebrate the great works of a legend in politics. Senator Stevens served the public of Alaska for 6 decades, which is 60 years for those who don't know what a decade is.
Over that time, Stevens worked with both sides of the aisle of Congress to get large economic development deals done for his great state of Alaska. Most notable of them was the giant Trans-Atlantic Pipeline, where he pushed the Senate to pass the Trans-Atlantic Pipeline Authorization Act, which led to its construction.
But Stevens was also concerned about protecting Alaska wilderness, and pushed for the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.
For his work, Stevens was called the "Alaskan of The 20th Century."
UPDATE: as of this writing, the Anchorage Daily News reports that the source claiming that Ted Stevens was killed now "isn't sure" as of 10:30 AM PDT. There are three survivors, but no one knows who they are as of this writing.
Steve Slater, a flight attendant with Jetblue Airlines, went a little off on a flight 1052 arriving from Pittsburgh to New York's JFK Airport, and after an argument with a passenger over a piece of overhead luggage that fell on that person's head, got on the PA system of the plane, told all of the passengers what to do with themselves, launched the exit chute of the Boeing 757, and jumped out of the plane.
To add insult to injury, Steve Slater reportedly took some beer from the aircraft galley with him. Slater, who lives just 15 minutes from JFK, was supposedly just trying to get home and away from whatever stress caused him to just go off. Here's the news video:
George Garwood, one of Steve Slater's neighbors, thinks the event is funny, but this space does not.
Air travelers rely on flight attendants to be calm, cool, and collected because if there's an emergency, passengers have to turn to them for proper instructions. Steve Slater's actions means he doesn't at all take seriously the fact that he's responsible for hundreds of lives as much as the pilots are.
Throw the book at him, but also at JetBlue for causing whatever work conditions led to Steve Slater's going off.
In that, the Teen Choice Awards 2010 winners list is a kind of flavor test taste of pop culture. That means television shows like Glee and Gossip Girl and stars like Zachary Levi of NBC's Chuck, and Selena Gomez of Wizards of Waverly Place, are who and what we're watching today. They are among this year's winners.
Zachary Levi of Chuck, won the TV Star Action award, beating out Jeffrey Donovan of Burn Notice, LL Cool J of NCIS: Los Angeles, Kiefer Sutherland of 24, and Mark Valley of Human Target. Chuck has been on a roll, coming off a hit presentation at Comic Con 2010, and an incredible and growing fan base.
Gossip Girl, which won for the Drama category, continues to be a critically acclaimed show that, after shaky ratings, appears to have found its footing due to a loyal fan base.
Selena Gomez is tired of "being good" according to Hollyscoop.com. But that's only part of the story, as she won for Choice TV Actress, Comedy at the Teen Choice Awards 2010. Now, tasting success, the Disney princess wants to be more like Miley Cyrus. Look out for the pole dance number.
