Payback Comes With a Price

Ed.'s note: If you are a whistle-blower, expose criminals or are a witness to crimes in America it is suggested you hire competent personal security. Need we present several of the more recent high profile examples? In America, oligarchs rule. If you cross them take EXTREME precautions because there is absolutely nothing their paid lackeys in the US senate and congress can do to curb or bring their power under control. And of course there is speculation Weinstein was thrown under the bus by democratic power networks when considering he wasn't prosecuted for more serious charges. And even though Weinstein will serve prison time, has the culture in Hollywood really changed? Corey Feldman doesn't think so, and neither does Randy Quaid after his Hollywood career was destroyed and he was almost murdered.

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Source: The Mind Unleashed

Key Witness in Harvey Weinstein Trial Hit by Car and Hospitalized

She was hit by a car while crossing the street.

By JOHN VIBES | February 26, 2020

(TMU) — Dr. Barbara Ziv the forensic psychologist who played a key role in the conviction of Harvey Weinstein by testifying as a witness in his trial was recently hospitalized after being hit by a car.

Not much is known about her condition or the circumstances of the incident aside from the fact that she was hit by a car while crossing the street and is in the hospital with multiple broken bones.

Law and Crime noted that there is no evidence that Ziv's injuries have anything to do with her role as a witness in the Weinstein trial, but the timing and the fact that Weinstein is notorious for his ruthless intimidation tactics makes the incident suspicious. Weinstein's reputation led many potential witnesses and even journalists to fear for their lives when dealing with his case.

Ziv took the stand last month as an expert witness in the case against Weinstein where she gave in-depth psychological analysis about why his victims did not initially report the crimes and why survivors of sexual assault will often continue friendships or business relationships with their attackers, especially when that person is extremely powerful and influential as Weinstein was.

"As devastating as sexual assault is, most individuals think, 'Ok, I can put it behind me. I can move on with my life. I don't want it to get worse. I don't want this person who sexually assaulted me to ruin my friendships or put my job in jeopardy. I am just going to put it in a box and forget what happened. I don't want it to get worse, but they can't," Ziv said in court.

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Source: RT News

Good riddance to Harvey Weinstein, a repugnant pig who brutalized both women and cinema

By Michael McCaffrey | 24 Feb, 2020 23:13

Film producer Harvey Weinstein arrives at New York Criminal Courtroom during his ongoing sexual assault trial in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., February 24, 2020. © REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Harvey Weinstein has ruled Hollywood for the last three decades, harassing colleagues not only over sex, but also art; assaulting not only women, but also movies. His long and thuggish reign is finally over.

The first blockbuster that Harvey Weinstein produced was Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. In that movie there is a male rapist named Zed, who gets his comeuppance at the hands of one of his victims, crime boss Marsellus Wallace. Once Wallace escapes Zed's clutches, with the help of Butch (Bruce Willis), he promises to extract revenge on Zed by getting "medieval on his a**".

"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead," Butch tells his girlfriend Fabienne, after he returns with Zed's chopper as a trophy.

Zed is Harvey Weinstein: grotesque and vile… and about to get payback for his depravity.

Unlike Zed, Weinstein isn't dead… but his iron grip on Hollywood certainly is. With Weinstein's conviction today on one count of sexual assault and another on rape in the third degree, he is either going to prison or into exile, with any chance of a return to the film business he so dominated for the last thirty years, long gone.

As the Weinstein era officially comes to an end, it is worth looking back on the good, the bad and the very ugly of it all.

It is sort of amusing that Harvey's most notable accomplishment is that he was the unwitting father of the #MeToo movement. It was when his degenerate, lascivious and predatory behavior over the course of his remarkable career finally became public in 2017, that #MeToo was born.

Weinstein's also culpable for instigating the relentless campaigning for Academy Awards, a nasty sport that began in the 90's and continues to this day. His most striking victory at the Oscars came in 1998 when he willed Shakespeare in Love over the Best Picture finish line ahead of the odds-on favorite, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.

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