Around dusk on a late November weekday, hundreds of people walked through Mandalay Bay, past empty restaurants just off the casino floor and toward the huge convention center.
Employees of CarMax, the nation's largest used-car dealer, had gathered here from around the U.S. to attend the company's annual President's Club gala, an award ceremony to recognize top talent.
Roughly 4,500 people filled the convention center to eat, dance and hobnob with CarMax senior management. Many employees stayed at the hotel.
"It's a business trip. We didn't choose the Mandalay Bay. It was already chosen for us since last year," said CarMax employee Felicia Green.
Visiting from Fayetteville, North Carolina, Green said she wouldn't have stayed at the Mandalay Bay if she'd had a choice. The Oct. 1 mass shooting that occurred at the hotel was still too fresh in her mind. On that late October Sunday night, a VIP guest staying on the 32nd floor blackened the image of Mandalay Bay when he smashed his room windows to spray gunfire on thousands of concertgoers across Las Vegas Boulevard, killing 58 people.
Comment: So the Mandalay Bay (like much of Las Vegas) has seen a predictable drop in business after the massacre, but the real story here - and what has been largely swept under the rug - is
still just what the heck happened. More than two months later, and we are on to other news, and one of the worst shootings in US history has been all but wiped from the memory of the news consumers. Well, almost.
Shortly after the mainstream media quickly got their orders to do some serious spin in response to all the questions and inconsistencies of the official story, they chose to bless us with the following stories:
Five of the craziest conspiracy theories about the Las Vegas shootings and...
Las Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories Now Include the Illuminati and AntifaBut once you've begun questioning what's being told, it's very hard not to see through at least some of its bullshit.
It can't be unseen. And thankfully, this has been proven true in a number of the comments that followed the drivel presented in the above articles. Take a look:
Sure there's going to be a lot of nonsense and inane speculation when the facts just don't add up. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be calling the mainstream media out for trying to obfuscate and confuse the situation either! Because the fact of the matter is, many Americans and people everywhere are fed with being treated like idiots, shouldn't accept it (like the above commenters), and refuse to take it lying down.
Comment: Trump and supporters have been attacking the idea of the 'immigration lottery' by highlighting possible links to terrorism:
- Trump insists NY terrorist helped 23 others move to US, pushes to end migration lottery
- NYC terrorist entered US under "diversity lottery"
While people are understandably on edge due to terrorist attacks, and while immigration policy is probably in urgent need of reform, identifying immigration as the cause of terrorism might be too simplistic.It is expected that within a large pool of immigrants some will have extremist ideologies, and out of those, some may try to carry out attacks. But if the intent is to minimize both immigration and extremism, then a revision of foreign imperialistic policy and the debt-driven global economic system is in order. Less imperial adventures and interference in the Middle East and Asia means less wars, a higher standard of living for the locals and more space for secular and moderate governments.
Syria is a good example: Europe would not have seen a mass migration inflow from that country if NATO and the Gulf States had not supported so-called 'rebels' (mercenaries and yihadists) in their fight against Assad.
Update: The news has prompted Trump to re-affirm his call to end "chain migration". He issued a statement yesterday saying: