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Friday, July 6, 2018

Three years before the 2017 Mandalay Bay Massacre...

"A Mandalay Bay housekeeper found a guest with a haul of semi-automatic weapons including one which was pointed out of the window towards the strip three years before the October 2017 massacre which killed 59 people. 
The prior incident occurred on November 29, 2014." 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5926853/Mandalay-Bay-housekeeper-man-stash-guns-room-2014.html


It might be a good idea to make it much more difficult for people to be able to sneak firearms into hotels.

Saturday, December 9, 2017

SLS Las Vegas on ‘verge of bankruptcy,’ investors allege

{"The SLS Las Vegas hasn’t turned a profit since opening in 2014 and is on the ‘’verge of bankruptcy,’’ according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County by 60 Chinese nationals who lent money to the project in exchange for U.S. citizenship.
Chinese investors lent roughly $400 million in two nearly equal portions in 2013 and 2014 to help owners Stockbridge Capital Group and sbe Entertainment convert the Sahara on the north Strip into the SLS Las Vegas.
The loans were organized under the EB-5 Pilot Program that allows foreign citizens to potentially receive U.S. citizenship if they invest $500,000 in “at-risk’’ large-scale projects that create jobs. The five-year loans carried just a 0.5 percent interest rate. Each investor paid $45,000 in administration fees to invest in the project and must pay a yearly management fee.
None of the 60 individuals in the class action case have received their permanent green card, they say in a lawsuit filed Nov. 30 in Los Angeles Superior Court. All the investors contributed to the second portion, known as Phase II.
The plaintiffs are seeking $255 million in damages plus attorney fees and other costs."}
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/sls-las-vegas-on-verge-of-bankruptcy-investors-allege


No matter how much money some people have to invest, if it costs too much to go there, not enough people will visit your business.

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Mandalay Bay struggles to find footing after Las Vegas shooting

{"But it’s a different story for retail and restaurants at the Shoppes at Mandalay Bay and on the casino floor, employees say.
A shopping area filled with 30 businesses — including restaurants, bars and stores offering clothing, candy and souvenirs — the Shoppes connects Mandalay Bay to neighboring Luxor.
November through December is traditionally slow for Strip casinos, but workers at the Shoppes say that is not the only reason there are few shoppers.
“It is not just the holidays. People seem to be hesitant to come down this way (from Luxor),” said one store worker, who described hiding in a back room with customers as reports spread of an active shooter in the hotel on Oct. 1.
Several restaurants and amenities in the hotel are taking slightly longer breaks this holiday season, two people said.
The spa, which shut for five days last holiday season, will be closed for a month this year. DeShong said the spa is closed “for previously planned renovations.”
According to Mandalay Bay’s website, Fleur by Hubert Keller will be closed for lunch for six weeks through Dec. 28 and for dinner for three weeks through Dec. 22. Red Square and Lupo by Wolfgang Puck will be closed for two weeks in December, while Libertine Social just reopened after a two-week break.
A few miles away on the Strip, three restaurants at Wynn and Encore will be closed for 11 to 14 days in December.
Still, there was a short-term pall over Mandalay Bay."}
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/mandalay-bay-struggles-to-find-footing-after-las-vegas-shooting/
{"Mandalay Bay has since put many full-time workers on a so-called reserve list, in effect cutting their weekly work hoursMGM Resorts said the cuts affected several hundred of its roughly 7,000 workers.
The cuts, which affected the front desk, among other areas, led to nearly hourlong check-in lines around the CarMax event. But the check-in lines vanished when the convention was over.
To help mend its image and regain customers, the hotel has boosted security, including the addition of three permanent guards by the elevatorsleading up to rooms. One restaurant manager said more security has been added than the eye can see.
“There are more undercover security. The hotel didn’t want to make a big presence and scare everyone, so they put them in plainclothes,” he said."}
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/mandalay-bay-struggles-to-find-footing-after-las-vegas-shooting/


It can take quite a while for LV to fully recover. Especially when so many things remain unanswered or resolved.

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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Monday, November 27, 2017

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Vegas Massacre Cover-Up: PR Firm Hired by Mandalay Bay Exposed Pushing Conspiracy Theories

"In another strange twist to the largest mass-shooting in recent U.S. history, a damning report indicates that the parent company of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, MGM Resorts International, is paying crisis management firm Joele Frank to spread disinformation about the massacre online."
http://republicbroadcasting.org/news/vegas-massacre-cover-up-pr-firm-hired-by-mandalay-bay-exposed-pushing-conspiracy-theories

How many B$ versions of a story can there be?

http://republicbroadcasting.org/news/police-change-vegas-shooting-story-again

That depends upon how much money you have to spin things your way.

http://www.morriscreative.com/6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-illusion-of-choice-ninety-percent-of-american-media-controlled-by-six-corporations

When a handful of corporations can spin the news to their liking, they will.

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Sunday, November 19, 2017

Nevada Supreme Court ruling could expose MGM Resorts in Las Vegas shooting

"Just days after the Oct. 1 shooting, a Nevada Supreme Court panel issued a decision that could sharpen questions about the adequacy of security at Mandalay Bay and increase its liability.
The ruling is hovering over the hotel-casino and its owner, MGM Resorts International, as the company braces for a run of lawsuits related to the shooting and an expensive, yearslong court battle. A shooter killed 58 concertgoers and injured more than 500 others at the Route 91 Harvest music festival across the street from his 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay suite before apparently taking his own life."
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/nevada-supreme-court-ruling-could-expose-mgm-resorts-in-las-vegas-shooting/
{“You no longer have to show the exact circumstance was foreseeable,” he said. “I think it makes it difficult for MGM Resorts to get the Mandalay Baycase dismissed by arguing it’s a lone shooter and they couldn’t have ever foreseen that.”
Longtime civil litigator Robert Eglet said the decision opens the door for plaintiffs to question whether MGM Resorts had sufficient security measures to protect its casino guests and those at the Las Vegas Village concert site, which the company also owns.
Those questions have surfaced in the most recent round of lawsuits."} https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/nevada
"Tragedy after tragedy
The massive litigation compares to another tragedy that cost MGM a large legal settlement: the infamous fire at the old MGM Grand, which killed 87 people and injured more than 700.
On Nov. 21, 1980, a smoldering electrical fire broke through a wall in the first-floor deli, creating a giant fireball that swept through the hotel-casino, blowing out the front doors and leaving behind death and destruction.
The wall of fire was fueled by flammable plastic furnishings, fixtures and wall coverings. There were no sprinklers in place to dampen the intense flames.
Some died trying to beat the fast-moving blaze out the casino entrance, but most fell victim to smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning in the 25 floors above the casino as a stream of thick black smoke traveled up through elevator shafts, air ducts and other openings.
Litigation over the fire was hard-fought and lasted years. It never went to trial." https://www.reviewjournal.com
https://twitter.com/RealDavidDees/status/919271056879140865

In so many of these occurrences throughout the years, its like anything that could go have gone wrong did. Yet, in hind-site had certain preventative measures been done, so much tragedy could have been avoided.
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Saturday, November 18, 2017

Vegas Victims' Attorney: 'Nothing But Resistance' From MGM - 'Not Allowed in Shooter's Room'

"An attorney for victims of the Las Vegas massacre said she has not been allowed in the shooter's room and has received "nothing but resistance" from the casino's ownership.
Catherine Lombardo said Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which is the parent company of Mandalay Bay, has not allowed her to investigate Stephen Paddock's room, nor given any assistance with her probe.
"The legal maneuvering and posturing and litigation that's been happening - so far we're not getting cooperation from MGM," she said."
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/11/17/las-vegas-victims-attorney-mgm-not-letting-me-shooter-stephen-paddocks-room?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share-buttons&utm_medium=email


Yes, even some legal experts just might wonder how a guy with a big gun collection could get 23 of them into what is suppose to be a high security building. A lot of people still have questions and wonder if there was more than 1 gunman within and beyond the hotel premises?


"QUESTIONS are being raised about US gun laws after it emerged that Las Vegas killer Stephen Paddock had an arsenal of at least 42 guns and explosives, including 23 guns in his Mandalay Bay hotel room." https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/861346/las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-hotel-gun-law-us-stephen-pollock-8-weapons-latest-news

Monday, November 13, 2017

Las Vegas tourism reeling from mass shooting

"But in the three weeks that followed the shooting, bookings plunged much further, with domestic bookings down 21% and international bookings down 16%, according to ForwardKeys."


"Las Vegas flight bookings plunged in major markets around the world and throughout the U.S. in the weeks after the shooting. From New York, for example, bookings were down 29%, compared to a 3% decrease in the weeks before the massacre. From the Asia-Pacific region, bookings were down 10% after the shooting; they were up 10% before the massacre.
The coming months could be tough for Las Vegas tourism. From Nov. 1 through April 30, Las Vegas air bookings are down 14% year over year; bookings were already down 10% before the massacre. Bookings have slowed in every source market, ForwardKeys said, except for Brazil and Australia." http://www.travelweekly.com/North-America-Travel/Las-Vegas-tourism-reeling-from-mass-shooting

http://www.rense.com/general96/RVshooterB.html
When a lot of people are still sensing that things don't add up, no wonder  LV tourism is significantly down.

https://twitter.com/RealDavidDees/status/919271056879140865

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Saturday, November 11, 2017

Mandalay Bay employees see schedules cut in Las Vegas shooting’s aftermath

{“The event of Oct. 1 has had an impact on the fourth quarter,” Murren said on the conference call. “We saw a spike in non-group cancellations, actually a little more than double what we normally see.”
Partially as a result, MGM expects its Las Vegas Strip revenues in the fourth quarter to decrease in the low to mid-single digit percentage points."}
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/mandalay-bay-employees-see-schedules-cut-in-las-vegas-shootings-aftermath
{"Talledo felt comfortable coming forward because she’s almost certain she won’t keep her job at Mandalay Bay.
Aside from the callousness of how the company handled her cut, she said working the desk in the wake of the shooting has been extremely difficult.
Constantly, she either answers to guests’ criticism of MGM, or she has to politely ignore crude quips about the shooting, like one guest who jokingly asked about staying on the 32nd floor, where the Mandalay Bay gunman’s suite was situated.
“It was extremely hard to deal with,” she said. “Why stay at a job where we’re getting defeated from both sides?”} https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/mandalay-bay-employees-see-schedules-cut-in-las-vegas-shootings-aftermath
This is such a big impact on many employees and businesses in the LV area.
Such things are always difficult for the people that just want to keep working and financially stay a float.

Friday, November 3, 2017

Las Vegas shooting: Paddock's girlfriend may be hiding something, sheriff suggests

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/02/las-vegas-shooting-paddocks-girlfriend-may-be-hiding-something-sheriff-suggests.html
The big question that remains is, how could this guy move all those big guns up to the 32nd floor of the hotel? Why didn't the breaking of the windows immediately summon hotel security within a few minutes?

https://twitter.com/RealDavidDees/status/919271056879140865


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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Various POVs on Events

http://www.rense.com/general96/fetz.html

People will always explore various angles on a story or event. Its beneficial to observe & study things from different perspectives. Not everyone will always arrive at the same conclusions. Its not necessarily a case of being right or wrong, just different assessments, interpretations & conclusions.

https://radiofetzer.blogspot.com/2017/10/jim-fetzer-jeff-rense-fired-me-for-this.html ,
https://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com/2017/10/rense-is-playing-games-i-was-leaving-1.html

The big LV shooting of 2017 has a lot of strange or bizarre aspects to it. Of course there are going to be various accounts & summaries as to what happened. If everyone agreed on this and other big events, so much data wouldn't be explored or essentially ignored.
https://mvextra.blogspot.ca/2017/10/various-angles-and-perspectives-on-lv.html

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