Susan Rice Has a Disclosure Problem
The vice-presidential hopeful has some explaining to do.
BY ALEXANDER SAMMON AUGUST 8, 2020

 

Whitmer met with Biden in person as VP decision nears Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer traveled to Delaware last weekend to meet with former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, two high-ranking Michigan Democrats told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. If the reports are accurate, Whitmer would be the first known potential running mate to sit down for an in-person meeting with Biden, who is reportedly narrowing down his list of contenders. Whitmer’s office declined to confirm or deny the trip, and Biden’s campaign declined to comment, but flight records show a chartered plane flew from Lansing, Michigan, to Delaware last Sunday. Whitmer, a first-term governor of a battleground state, has long been considered a possible running mate for Biden. Source: The Associated Press

 

August 9th, 2020

2014 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.

2019 – 220 million trees are planted in one day in Uttar Pradesh, India.[3]

1428 – Sources cite biggest caravan trade between Podvisoki and Republic of Ragusa in 1428. Vlachs committed to Ragusan lord Tomo Bunić, that they will with 600 horses deliver 1500 modius of salt. Delivery was meant for Dobrašin Veseoković, and Vlachs price was half of delivered salt.^[1]

1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.

1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.

1945 – The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.

1973 – Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.

 

 

Sunday, Aug. 9th, 2020

Former Saudi Ministry of the Interior official Saad bin Khalid Al Jabry accuses Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of attempting to assassinate him in Canada, where he currently lives in exile, two weeks after the assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The would-be assassins, believed to be the Tiger Squad, were stopped at Toronto Pearson International Airport after Canadian border official became suspicious of them following interviews. (BBC)

New Zealand marking 100 days without community transmittion of COVID-19. (The New Zealand Herald)

India reports highest single day record of 64,399 new cases in the last 24 hours. (Times of India)

 

 

 

Saturday,  Aug. 8th, 2020

Stimulus bill talks hit another dead end after 2 weeks of negotiations Congressional Democrats and White House leaders were again unable to agree on terms for the next CARES Act on Friday, closing out a second week of negotiations while remaining gridlocked. Democrats don’t have the votes to support any bill under $2 trillion and Republicans won’t accept anything over it. While Democrats offered to slash $1 trillion off their $3.4 trillion proposal if Republicans added $1 trillion to theirs to meet in the middle, White House officials refused, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said. Democrats previously rejected Republicans’ standalone measure to temporarily continue the $600/week unemployment boost that has now expired. White House officials said they had advised President Trump to take unilateral action on stimulus measures, however, Trump likely doesn’t have the power to allocate funding via executive action. Source: CNBC

Trump attempts to bypass Congress with coronavirus relief executive orders President Trump on Saturday announced multiple executive actions aiming to extend economic aid to Americans while Congress remains in a stalemate over the next coronavirus relief package. The effectiveness and legality of the measures was unclear, however, with the orders seemingly exceeding Constitutional limits on executive power. The president said during a press conference at his golf club in Bedminister, New Jersey, that, via executive order, he will unilaterally continue expanded unemployment benefits, at $400/week rather than the previous $600/week. He also signed orders intended to pause student loan payments and extend the moratorium on evictions. Additionally, Trump said the action authorizes the Treasury Department to defer payroll taxes for Americans making less than 100,000 per year. Source: The Associated Press

Paris issues a mask mandate for busy areas to curb the rise of COVID-19 infections. (Reuters)

Anti-government protests erupt in Beirut Thousands of protesters in Beirut’s gathered in Beirut’s Martys’ Square on Saturday called for Lebanon’s politicians to resign and be held accountable for the negligence that led to a blast in the city’s port Tuesday that killed 158 people and injured more than 6,000. During the demonstrations, the protesters stormed Beirut’s government ministries and trashed the offices of the Association of Lebanese Banks, Reuters reports. Police reportedly fired tear gas at demonstrators trying to break through a barrier to get to the parliament building, and one officer reportedly was killed when he fell into an elevator shaft after being chased into a building by protesters, another officer said. The Red Cross said it treated 117 people for injuries, while another 55 were taken to hospitals. Source: Al Jazeera

 

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Joe Rogan – April 5th, 2020 Good stuff at end on Trump and Biden in decline 
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Joe Rogan Best of March 26th 
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Saturday,  Aug. 8th, 2020

Stimulus bill talks hit another dead end after 2 weeks of negotiations Congressional Democrats and White House leaders were again unable to agree on terms for the next CARES Act on Friday, closing out a second week of negotiations while remaining gridlocked. Democrats don’t have the votes to support any bill under $2 trillion and Republicans won’t accept anything over it. While Democrats offered to slash $1 trillion off their $3.4 trillion proposal if Republicans added $1 trillion to theirs to meet in the middle, White House officials refused, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said. Democrats previously rejected Republicans’ standalone measure to temporarily continue the $600/week unemployment boost that has now expired. White House officials said they had advised President Trump to take unilateral action on stimulus measures, however, Trump likely doesn’t have the power to allocate funding via executive action. Source: CNBC

Trump attempts to bypass Congress with coronavirus relief executive orders President Trump on Saturday announced multiple executive actions aiming to extend economic aid to Americans while Congress remains in a stalemate over the next coronavirus relief package. The effectiveness and legality of the measures was unclear, however, with the orders seemingly exceeding Constitutional limits on executive power. The president said during a press conference at his golf club in Bedminister, New Jersey, that, via executive order, he will unilaterally continue expanded unemployment benefits, at $400/week rather than the previous $600/week. He also signed orders intended to pause student loan payments and extend the moratorium on evictions. Additionally, Trump said the action authorizes the Treasury Department to defer payroll taxes for Americans making less than 100,000 per year. Source: The Associated Press

Paris issues a mask mandate for busy areas to curb the rise of COVID-19 infections. (Reuters)

Anti-government protests erupt in Beirut Thousands of protesters in Beirut’s gathered in Beirut’s Martys’ Square on Saturday called for Lebanon’s politicians to resign and be held accountable for the negligence that led to a blast in the city’s port Tuesday that killed 158 people and injured more than 6,000. During the demonstrations, the protesters stormed Beirut’s government ministries and trashed the offices of the Association of Lebanese Banks, Reuters reports. Police reportedly fired tear gas at demonstrators trying to break through a barrier to get to the parliament building, and one officer reportedly was killed when he fell into an elevator shaft after being chased into a building by protesters, another officer said. The Red Cross said it treated 117 people for injuries, while another 55 were taken to hospitals. Source: Al Jazeera

Friday, Aug. 7th, 2020

State Department lifts global coronavirus travel advisory The State Department on Thursday lifted its Level 4: Do Not Travel advisory, issued on March 19 in order to encourage Americans against traveling overseas amid the coronavirus pandemic. Instead of a blanket travel advisory, the State Department said it will release country-specific guidelines “in order to give travelers detailed and actionable information to make informed travel decisions. This will also provide U.S. citizens more detailed information about the current status in each country. We continue to recommend U.S. citizens exercise caution when traveling abroad due to the unpredictable nature of the pandemic.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends against non-essential travel to 200 specific locations, CNN reports, and there are still travel restrictions in other countries affecting Americans; the European Union, for example, has blocked entry to tourists from the United States. Source: CNN

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tests positive for COVID-19 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) on Thursday took a COVID-19 test “as part of the standard protocol” to meet with President Trump at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, as the president visits the state, and the result came back positive, the governor’s office said. DeWine, who will return home to quarantine for two weeks, said he isn’t showing any symptoms. DeWine is the second governor in the United States to test positive for COVID-19 after Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R). Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) previously tested positive for COVID-19 at the White House shortly before he was scheduled to travel with Trump to Texas. Source: Axios

Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines The economy falls into recession for the first time in 29 years after the economy shrank by 16.5% in the April to June quarter from the same period last year, which is the biggest slump in the government’s quarterly GDP data dating back to 1981. (CNA)

A court in China sentences a Canadian man to death on drug charges. His alleged accomplice receives life imprisonment. Police had confiscated 120 kilograms (266 pounds) of ketamine from the defendant’s home. He is the third Canadian citizen to be sentenced to death in China since Canadian authorities arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in late 2018 on an extradition request from the United States. (AP)

Twitter says it will label state media, official government accounts and their stafff. State-funded media outlets with “editorial independence”, such as the National Public Radio in the U.S., or BBC in the UK, will not be among those labelled, according to a spokesman for the social media site. (Twitter)

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