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Sir Maejor Page trial: Ex-BLM leader sentenced to federal prison

The former head of Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta has been sentenced to prison on charges of wire fraud and money laundering.

WTVG reports that Tyree Conyers-Page, also known as Sir Maejor Page, was sentenced to serve 42 months in prison in Ohio on Thursday.

Prosecutors said that Page took money donated to his organization through Facebook and used it for travel, personal items, and a home in Toledo, Ohio.

In court, Page claimed some of the money he spent on his own lifestyle was part of a “reasonable salary” for managing the organization – though he admitted to prosecutors he never consulted anyone with the organization about what his pay should have been, the Toledo Blade reported.

Page had been found guilty on one count of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering in April after a six-day trial.

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Ohio Recreational Marijuana Sales Top $76 Million Within First Two Months Of Market Launch

Ohio recreational marijuana sales have surpassed $76.2 million in less than two months.

The state’s total recreational marijuana sales was $76,280,490 as of September 21, according to the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Cannabis Control. Ohio has a 10 percent tax at the point of sales for every non-medical marijuana transaction.

Recreational marijuana sales started in Ohio on August 6 and sales topped $11.5 million in less than a week. Fifty-seven percent of Ohioans voted to legalize marijuana last November through the passage of Issue 2, which also legalized home grow for Ohioans 21 and older with a cap of six plants per person and 12 plants per residence.

There have been 8,813 pounds of plant materials sold and 1,187,395 units of manufactured products, according to the DCC.

There are 124 dual-use marijuana dispensaries in Ohio, meaning they can sell both medical and non-medical marijuana, according to the division. Columbus has 13 dual-use marijuana dispensaries, Cincinnati has 10, Dayton has six and Cleveland has five.

Ohio has more than 107 local moratoriums prohibiting adult-use cannabis business as of Monday, according to Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law.

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The problem in Springfield is a lack of common sense

The Springfield, Ohio, story is just the latest example of opening the border and its consequences. How do you expect a city of 40,000 to absorb 20,000 new residents? You can’t, and the local reaction is exactly logical. Again, put yourself in their shoes and how would you react?

Senator Marco Rubio was on Face the Nation and explained this whole thing very well. Let’s check out what he said:

I think one of the problems here is that somehow Americans who are not intolerant, they’re not bigots, they’re not — but they are troubled by the fact that their city is being flooded. In Springfield, you see reports, these are legitimate reports of huge increases in traffic accidents leading to slower police response time, overcrowded schools. I mean the strain this puts on a community, and if you complain about it, somehow you’re a bigot, you’re a racist, you’re a hater —

That is a story here that everyday Americans are being made to feel like they’re haters because they’re complaining about something al — any of us would complain. If any of us, I don’t care who we are, live in a city of 4,000 people, and you bring in 2,500 migrants overnight into one place, there are going to be problems there.

And that’s right. As a legal immigrant and naturalized citizen, I understand how these people feel. Legal immigration is orderly for a reason. You must control how people come into the country, under what conditions and put them through common sense vetting.

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The Great Job Replacement: How Corporations Are Replacing American Workers With “Temporary Protected Status” Migrants Across Ohio & Pennsylvania

Another burgeoning crisis involving the importation of Haitian migrants is bubbling over, this time not in Ohio – but Pennsylvania too.

Recently at one of his rallies, former President Donald Trump spoke of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, detailing that the 4,000 person town has experienced a 2,000% surge in the Haitian migrant population under Kamala Harris.

Charleroi councilman, Larry Celaschi explained the worsening situation.

Councilman Celaschi says that Charleroi is getting no money or funding from having such a large number of Haitian migrants dumped in their town.

Celaschi describes that Charleroi is already unable to make ends meet with their budget and is now somehow expected to find extra revenue to bear the strain of an influx of Haitians on their town’s infrastructure.

Celaschi also explains that there has been a huge spike in car crashes and that the town needs new traffic signage in English and Creole so migrants can understand what to do when operating a vehicle on the roadways.

Over the past five years, 1.4 million native-born U.S. workers have lost their job. In that same span of time, 3 million foreign-born workers gained employment.

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Policy Shifts Against The mRNA Platform Rapidly Emerged This Past Week

This week a nurse reached out with disturbing descriptions of some major changes she has witnessed inside the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) system.

OSUMC s a large and comprehensive healthcare organization, with a significant presence in Ohio and a strong focus on research, education, and patient care. It is a massive institution with over 23,000 employees, including:

  • Over 2,000 physicians
  • More than 1,000 residents and fellows
  • Nearly 5,000 nurses

Lets start off with this screenshot of a webpage from OSUMC’s website which provides information to the public as to where they can get Covid-19 vaccines. 

Wait, what? Ohio State is suddenly no longer offering the Covid-19 vaccine to any of their employees but they are happily offering to inject them into the public? How can such a policy be justified? Why was this change in policy done and why was it done so quietly?

Let’s get this straight. Ohio State’s leadership is now making an institutional decision that employees should not be offerred access to any Covid-19 mRNA vaccine. I am (pretending to be) confused. I mean, if the vaccines could protect patients from being infected by staff members and they were safe to give to staff members, why wouldn’t you do everything possible (like a mandate) to ensure they receive them?

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In an Unprecedented Move, Ohio Is Funding the Construction of Private Religious Schools

The state of Ohio is giving taxpayer money to private, religious schools to help them build new buildings and expand their campuses, which is nearly unprecedented in modern U.S. history.

While many states have recently enacted sweeping school voucher programs that give parents taxpayer money to spend on private school tuition for their kids, Ohio has cut out the middleman. Under a bill passed by its Legislature this summer, the state is now providing millions of dollars in grants directly to religious schools, most of them Catholic, to renovate buildings, build classrooms, improve playgrounds and more.

The goal in providing the grants, according to the measure’s chief architect, Matt Huffman, is to increase the capacity of private schools in part so that they can sooner absorb more voucher students.

“The capacity issue is the next big issue on the horizon” for voucher efforts, Huffman, the Ohio Senate president and a Republican, told the Columbus Dispatch.

Huffman did not respond to ProPublica’s requests for comment.

Following Hurricane Katrina and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, some federal taxpayer dollars went toward repairing and improving private K-12 schools in multiple states. Churches that operate schools often receive government funding for the social services that they offer; some orthodox Jewish schools in New York have relied on significant financial support from the city, The New York Times has found.

But national experts on education funding emphasized that what Ohio is doing is categorically different.

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Oh, Look, a Video of a Cat Being Grilled Like Bobby Flay in Ohio

The memes have been gold. The liberal media is foaming at the mouth over the story because they can’t stop it. Part of it is due to the media’s lack of trust with most voters. It’s to the point where the press is saying that those who believe this Ohio Haitians are ‘eating the pets’ story are Nazis. The pet angle of the story remains to be verified, but there are corroborating eyewitness accounts. Regarding the Haitians consuming geese and ducks, there are police reports and 911 calls to confirm that. Yet, Christopher Rufo has found and appears to have authenticated an old video of a cat being grilled in Ohio.

The source would like to remain anonymous, but the video, shot in Dayton, Ohio, in August of 2023, shows some “African dude” eating the cats. Rufo does well to acknowledge that this is a single incident, which does not comprehensively verify the ‘eating the pets’ narrative in Springfield, Ohio, but it does, or should, entice the national media to investigate the claims instead of raging at them outright because embarrassment has often been the result of such dismissals:…

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The Cat Eaters of Ohio

Donald Trump shocked audiences at this week’s presidential debate with the claim that foreign migrants were eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio, a small town currently reeling under the strain of an unprecedented number of new arrivals, mostly from Haiti. “They’re eating the dogs,” Trump said. “They’re eating the cats.”

Reactions on both sides were spirited. Conservative social media accounts created memes that portrayed Trump, dressed in camouflage, and toting heavy weapons, as the savior of innocent pets. There was even a viral TikTok trend, which chopped up Trump’s speech and set it to dance music. “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating cats,” the music thumped. “Eat the cat! Eat, eat the cat!”

The establishment media was not amused. During the debate, ABC’s David Muir dismissed Trump’s rhetoric with his version of a fact check, citing the Springfield city manager’s statement that “there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured, or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.” Other publications went further, blasting the former president for spreading a “racist smear,” a “century-old stereotype,” and a “cat-eating conspiracy theory.”

So, is there any truth to the charge? We have conducted an exclusive investigation that reveals that, yes, in fact, some migrants in Ohio appear to have been “eating the cats,” though not exactly in the manner that Trump described.

Our investigation begins in a run-down neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, the closest major city to Springfield, about a half-hour’s drive away. We identified a social media post, dated August 25, 2023, with a short video depicting what appear to be two skinned cats on top of a blue barbeque. “Yoooo the Africans wildn on Parkwood,” reads the text, referring to Parkwood Drive. The video then pans down to two live cats walking across the grass in front of a run-down fence, with a voice on the video warning: “There go a cat right there. His ass better get missin’, man. Look like his homies on the grill!”

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Ohio Duck Rescue Expert Says Springfield Bird Disappearances Far Exceeding Previous Levels, Believes Rumors “To Be True”

Ohio duck rescuer Lisa Montgomery has been witnessing an uptick in missing ducks and geese in the Springfield area recently, according to an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail.

Montgomery has been rehoming wild geese in the state for a decade, and she’s specifically noticed birds in the city have disappeared at an alarming rate.

After Donald Trump said Haitian “migrants” in the Ohio city are eating dogs and cats, the media went wild claiming he’s spreading racist misinformation.

However, testimonies from locals allege they saw firsthand the illegal aliens were collecting cats, and it is known that animals are often used in Haitian voodoo rituals.

The Ohio bird rescuer said she’s noticed an “unusual” number of water birds going missing in the region, and has “serious concerns” they’re being “murdered for food.”

This year, Montgomery witnessed the geese and ducks disappearing by numbers that “far exceeded” past summers.

“I have over the years had many people reach out from the Springfield area. Recently with concerns of ducks and geese being murdered for food,” she said. “I do have serious concerns over the issue and believe it to be true.”

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“Our Town Is A Time Bomb” – Springfield Locals On The Haitian Crisis Destroying Their City

Turning Point USA’s “Frontlines” journalists hit the streets of Springfield, Ohio, to learn more about the story taking the nation by storm and causing Americans to debate the illegal immigration emergency.

20,000 Haitian “migrants” have flooded the small town of around 58,000 people since the Biden-Harris administration started flying them into the area.

Residents speaking with the reporters claimed “ducks” and “geese” are going missing and alleged Haitian migrants might even be eating local cats.

Touching on the tension the crisis is causing, one man said, “Springfield, Ohio, right now is a tinderbox,” saying between the multitude of car accidents and rumors of Haitians eating pets, “One of these is gonna light and it’s gonna be bad.”

“Our town is a bomb, especially with the influx of immigrants or whatever you want to say, people. It’s a time bomb ready to go off,” another guy warned.

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