[WND] A lawsuit has been filed by government watchdog Judicial Watch to obtain records of a reported incident between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Secret Service agent.
It was triggered by Biden's behavior with the girlfriend of the officer, according to reports.
The Gateway Pundit reported in March, "A Secret Service agent once got suspended for a week in 2009 for shoving Biden after he cupped his girlfriend's breast while the couple was taking a photo with him. The situation got so heated, the source told Cassandra Fairbanks, that others had to step in to prevent the agent from hitting the then-vice president."
That comment came as part of a report quoting several unnamed sources about the fact that Secret Service agents assigned to the Biden residence "often had to protect female agents from him."
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"ASecret Service agent once got suspended for a week in 2009 for shoving Biden after he cupped his girlfriend's breast while the couple was taking a photo with him."
How much suspension time is there for an inadvertent accidental firearm discharge?
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The rumor was that the USSS and US.Navy (the Vice President residence is up Massachusetts Ave in DC and is the former Naval Observatory and is still US Navy Staffed) would not station female agents or personnel there because Biden had a habit of walking around naked at the pools and was “touchy-feely “ with staff.
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Orange Man's a womanizer! So let's replace him with a groping pervert who feels up little girls and flashes female Secret Service agents
Orange Man's a liar! So let's replace him with a lifelong plagiarist and slanderer who lied about his first wife's death and tells shameless fibs about his non-achievements whenever he opens his mouth
Orange Man's mentally ill! So let's replace him with a muppet who's clearly suffering from dementia
Orange Man's corrupt! So let's replace him with the dad of a proven CCP grifter and brother of a war profiteer
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Orange Man's a accomplished entrepreneur and business man! So let's replace him with a man who has dined at the public trough for over 50 years, never held a real job, met a payroll, or accomplished a damn thing.
Once again shenanigans on President Obama’s watch are cleaned up by President Trump.
[ToloNews] Former Afghan politician Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani was sentenced to three years of probation and six months of home confinement after he "pleaded guilty to theft of public money, admitting he received over $100,000 in government benefits," said Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) in a statement on Wednesday.
The former provincial governor of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and former chairman of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) admitted to "concealing and repeatedly lying to the Social Security Administration about his foreign travel and residency," the report said.
The statement said that Nuristani pleaded guilty on December 11, 2019, to theft of public money, admitting that he received over $100,000 in government benefits by concealing foreign travel and residency between July, 2015, and December 2018.
Nuristani admitted that he applied for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) from the Social Security Administration in July 2015, it said, adding that He also acknowledged that he knew an SSI recipient must reside within the United States, and that "he was required to report any travel outside of the United States lasting more than 30 days."
In September 2018, President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... appointed Nuristani to the Meshrano Jirga (upper house of parliament).
Nuristani received SSI at his claimed residence in El Cajon, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, while serving as head of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission and as an Afghan senator.
"Make no mistake, no one is above the law in Afghanistan or the United States, no matter how prominent or powerful they may be. Our work in this case demonstrates that SIGAR and its partner agencies are fully committed to this principle. Just because someone can get away with criminality in Afghanistan, he or she should not think the same applies here in the United States," said Special Inspector General John F. Sopko.
Nuristani was head of the IEC from August 2013 to March 2016 and was heading the election commission during the controversial 2014 presidential polls which ended up with the shared National Unity Government.
[CityPages] Just a couple months ago, Fred Heidmann was in the news for social media support of a local teacher named Kara Hall, who'd written, of protests following George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police: "I know all I see are scary, awful blacks [sic] people robbing businesses that don't deserve this."
Heidmann, who could've said nothing, instead replied to add that "what was said is a pretty accurate account of what is happening." While he felt that "what happened to George Floyd is inexcusable," Heidmann defended the teacher's right to express herself, saying: "But when one side can say anything they want and get praised for it and the opposite side is chastised for everything they say, that then becomes communism."
(It does not.)
In another reply, Heidmann wrote: "What is harmful is teaching our children that Islam is good, Christianity is bad, there is no God of the Bible, science knows everything, America is bad Cuba is good, etc."
(Clearly what is harmful is Fred here teaching your children literally anything.)
So, that's Mayor Heidmann. Fast forward to this past Saturday, when cops from the Pequot Lakes Police Department and Nisswa Police Department made a traffic stop, which then turned into a search of a car.
As seen in body-cam footage obtained by the Brainerd Dispatch, Heidmann -- walking a dog and filming with his phone -- approaches one officer and asks: "What are you guys doing?"
When that cop (who didn't make the initial stop) can't say why the driver was pulled over, Heidmann says, "You guys are emptying his fucking car out on the road. What the hell are you guys up to? Don't you guys have something better to do, like patrol the goddamn streets?"
"Go stand back over there," the cop tells him. "This isn't safe for you."
That sounds right; as they talk, cars continually whiz by on the two lanes of highway right next to Heidmann, the cops, and his leashed dog.
Heidmann is just getting started:
"You know what? I'm the mayor of this fucking town, and you guys get the hell off our highway out here."
Heidmann throws in a "Fuck you guys," then calls the cops "fucking dinks," twice, before telling them they're not even qualified to be making this kind of stop.
"You'd think up in this area we'd have some decent fucking cops. You're as bad as the fucking dinks down in Minneapolis."
Finally, Heidmann tells one cop to "shut the fuck up," and leaves.
And then he came back to confront the fucking dink cops of this fucking town. This time, Heidmann was dog-free, and the incident was captured from inside the car, by one of the people being pulled over, who later uploaded the footage to TikTok.
That clip has since been taken down, but part of it appears here in a report on the incident from Lakeland PBS.
"You're not qualified to do this kind of work," Heidmann says on the video. "You should be patrolling the streets."
At that point, the cop grabs the mayor's arm and briefly wraps a forearm around his neck (!), before pinning him facedown on the hood of the car and arresting him for disorderly conduct and obstructing the legal process, the Dispatch reports.
In a statement to the paper, Heidmann said he'd worried "what impression this was making with the hundreds of vacationing families going by seeing what appeared to be tourists having their goods rifled through." Heidmann plans to fight any charges against him on free speech grounds.
In his own reponse, Nisswa Police Department Chief Craig Taylor credited his officers for being patient and restrained, adding: "I am disappointed and extremely sad that an elected official feels justified in inserting himself into a traffic stop that has nothing to do with him and feels it is appropriate to yell and swear at two officers from two jurisdictions that are doing nothing more than trying to do their jobs and making people safe."
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Heidmann, who could've said nothing, instead replied to add that "what was said is a pretty accurate account of what is happening." While he felt that "what happened to George Floyd is inexcusable," Heidmann defended the teacher's right to express herself, saying: "But when one side can say anything they want and get praised for it and the opposite side is chastised for everything they say, that then becomes communism."
Unemployment claims in California jumped by the largest amount in more than a month, and the state accounted for one-fifth of all the claims filed in the U.S. last week, officials reported Thursday.
The latest filings also produced a new figure: During the period of coronavirus-linked shutdowns, nearly 8 million California workers have filed first-time unemployment claims — a grim tally of the ongoing economic fallout.
California workers filed 209,500 initial claims for unemployment benefits during the week that ended on Aug. 22, a sharp increase from the 190,400 workers who filed first-time claims during the week ending on Aug. 15, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
The increase of 19,100 in unemployment claims was the largest one-week increase since the week that ended on July 11, when jobless claims rose by 20,100 in a single week, this news organization’s database of California unemployment claims during 2020 shows.
Since government-imposed business shutdowns to combat the coronavirus began in mid-March, 7.9 million California workers have filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits, the government figures show.
NATIONWIDE
Just over 1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. The number of people seeking jobless aid dropped by 98,000 from 1.1 million the week before.
The number of initial claims has exceeded 1 million every week but one since late March, an unprecedented streak. Before the coronavirus pandemic, they had never topped 700,000 in a week.
"Layoffs are ongoing reflecting interruptions to activity from virus containment that are likely resulting in permanent closures and job losses,’ Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, wrote in a research report.
Farooqi added that "the risk of permanent damage to the labor market remains high which will slow the pace of recovery. The return to pre-pandemic levels of prosperity is set to be an uncertain and prolonged process.’
More than 14.5 million are collecting traditional jobless benefits — up from 1.7 million a year ago — a sign that many American families are depending on unemployment checks to keep them afloat.
Until July 31, the unemployed were receiving an extra $600 a week in federal money on top of regular state unemployment benefits, part of an extraordinary lifeline extended to help them through the crisis. The loss of that money is putting the squeeze on many families.
After passing a massive financial rescue package in March, congressional Republicans and Democrats have been unable to agree on more aid. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Aug. 8 offering a stripped-down version of the expanded unemployment benefits. At least 39 states have accepted or said that they would apply for federal grants that let them increase weekly benefits by $300 or $400.
Last week, nearly 608,000 people applied for jobless aid under a new program that extends eligibility for the first time to self-employed and gig workers, up from 525,000 the previous week. That figure isn’t adjusted for seasonal trends, so it’s reported separately.
Altogether, the Labor Department said that 27 million people are receiving some form of unemployment benefits, though the figure may be inflated by double-counting by states.
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"The end result, the researchers say, is to release a bradykinin storm — a massive, runaway buildup of bradykinin in the body. According to the bradykinin hypothesis, it’s this storm that is ultimately responsible for many of Covid-19’s deadly effects. Jacobson’s team says in their paper that “the pathology of Covid-19 is likely the result of Bradykinin Storms rather than cytokine storms,” which had been previously identified in Covid-19 patients, but that “the two may be intricately linked.” Other papers had previously identified bradykinin storms as a possible cause of Covid-19’s pathologies."
LIHU’E — Pushing back the reopening of trans-Pacific tourism from September to October and the two-week lockdown on O’ahu has the state forecasting an even-grimmer economic picture than before.
The state is projecting the economy will contract by 12.3% in 2020, according to a state Department of Business, Economic Development &Tourism third-quarter report released last week that analyzes data between April and July 2020. In May, the department forecasted a 12.1% drop to the state’s economic-growth rate.
"The global COVID-19 pandemic is the most disruptive and challenging event in our lifetime," DBEDT Director Mike McCartney said.
Tourism, which typically drives the state’s economy, has taken a hit, and visitor arrivals will not reach 2019 levels until 2025, the report found. I've always wanted to spend the first 14 days of my Hawaiian vacation in a quarantined lockdown
On Aug. 30, some 1,830 people arrived in the state.
During this same time last year, about 28,000 passengers arrived daily, including residents and visitors, according to the Hawai’i Tourism Authority. Of those arriving Aug. 30 this year, 10 landed in Lihu’e, including four visitors, one returning resident and five crew members.
The DBEDT forecast projects the state will only welcome 2.9 million visitors in 2020, a decrease of 71.9% from 2019.
During the second quarter, 1,932 visitors arrived by air on Kaua’i. That time last year saw 352,662 visitors. This represents a 99.5% drop compared to the same quarter of 2019. This is the steepest decline in arrivals of all the islands, but not by much. Visitor arrivals by air decreased 98.6% in Honolulu, 99.5% in Maui and 98.9% in Hawai’i County.
But when visitors do return, the state projects spending will be down for the next few years due to "decrease caused by weak demand." DBEDT projects that visitor arrivals will increase to 7.2 million in 2021, 8.3 million in 2022, and 9.4 million in 2023.
Statewide, between 2017 and 2019, the state’s average unemployment rate was 2.5%. Between April and July of this year, the average unemployment rate was around 18.5%.
In mid-March, initial unemployment claims began to rise. Claims peaked at 53,112 during the first week of April. During the second week of August, initial unemployment claims continued above 5,000 per week. Between 2012 and 2019, weekly initial unemployment claims averaged 1,442 per week.
The unemployment rate on Kaua’i jumped from 2.7% in the first quarter to 28.2% in the second quarter.
Kaua’i County lost 8,200 jobs in the second quarter, most in the accommodation and food-services industries. Statewide, the hospitality sector accounted for 58.7% of joblessness.
The state is projecting an average annual unemployment rate of 10.9% this year, decreasing to 7.2% in 2021, then 6.6% in 2022 and 6.3% in 2023.
"We must unite around a single, immediate purpose to stop the spread of COVID-19," McCartney said. "Let us rally around our health-care and public-health officials by doing our part to regain our community’s health so we can start and sustain our economic recovery."
He pointed to federal funds, including $9.03 billion in pandemic response money, that can be injected into the economy.
"The safe and responsible reopening of trans-Pacific travel will create economic momentum," McCartney said.
"Finally, it’s the collective spirit, inner strength, intelligence and innovative nature of Hawai’i’s people that has always overcome disruptive and challenging events like we face today. Together, again, we will be able to accomplish great things."
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fwiw, Hawaii has its own Honolulu Rail Transit which started construction in 2011. It is to eventually serve 21 stations along a 20 mile track. It is currently estimated to cost about $9 billion. Because of cost overruns, the City has had to raise taxes. A big part of this was to come from taxes on hotel rooms, rental cars, etc. that are part of the tourist biz. As the tourist biz has dried up, so has the tax revenue.
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Pelosi is holding up relief for such businesses.
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Hawaii shafted itself. It has always supported democrats and has been hostile to the US military.
Wait until about the last two weeks of October and they'll get a nice present from the Trump campaign right were the sun don't shine.
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Hawaii is taking one for team DNC. The virus experience has been nominal; it probably rolled through early in Jan/Feb. The politics are Chicago on the pacific. I assume the authorities have been promised a Federal bailout if they play their part well and their side prevails in November.
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The Obama's hideaway. Multi million dollar property. Down payment by a wealthy woman. Obama's go thru money faster than they can steal it or what's given to them.
California state sen. @Scott_Wiener, D-San Fran, authored SB145, which would eliminate mandatory sex offender registration for adults who have homosexual sex w/minors. It passed the CA state legislature. Wiener says the current law "stigmatizes" LGBT sex. https://t.co/o4EQRFmUKu
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I read somewhere that the NAMBLA folks are scurrying around trying to get their agendas passed locally in case the Dems lose the House (and/or Trumps gets re-elected).
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The left has been trying to normalize pedophilia for a long time now.
[KSTP] On Thursday, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter signed Executive Order 2020-24 that authorizes the creation of the People's Prosperity Pilot, St. Paul's Guaranteed Income Demonstration Program.
A release from the mayor's office states the program is led by the Office of Financial Empowerment. The People's Prosperity Pilot will provide up to 150 St. Paul families with $500 a month in guaranteed income for a period of up to 18 months.
The projected budget of up to $1.5 million will be supported through the Mayors For Guaranteed Income national network, philanthropy, and city of St. Paul CARES funds. Households will be randomly selected from CollegeBound St. Paul families from the city's most racially diverse and lowest wealth neighborhoods.
St. Paul city councilmember Mitra Jalali said of the program, "the scale of how game-changing that would be, is not insignificant to those families it could put actual lives on a different path for the better."
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The projected budget of up to $1.5 million will be supported through the Mayors For Guaranteed Income national network, philanthropy, and city of St. Paul CARES funds.
[FOXNEWS] A trio of Democrats on Thursday introduced legislation to declare structural racism a public health crisis and to create a federal government center to tackle racial disparities in health care for Black communities and other minorities.
Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... , D-Mass., teamed up with Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., to unveil their plan to require the federal government to begin actively developing "anti-racist health policy." The politicians pointed to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic and police brutality ‒ which has set off a summer of racial unrest in America ‒ as reasons to pass the legislation.
"It is time we start treating structural racism like we would treat any other public health problem or disease: investing in research into its symptoms and causes and finding ways to mitigate its effects," Warren, the former presidential candidate, said in a statement. "My bill with Representatives Lee and Pressley is a first step to create anti-racist federal health policy that studies and addresses disparities in health outcomes at their roots."
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Then we should declare democrats as carrying an infection plague that requires immediate culling to prevent it's spread. Fair's fair and true right.
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... met Thursday with relatives of Jacob Blake, the black father shot by a white policeman in Wisconsin, as the presidential hopeful undertakes a mission to help a community come together after days of violent mostly peaceful unrest.
The Democratic nominee and his wife Jill Biden were bound for Kenosha, where Blake’s shooting sparked demonstrations that turned deadly last week.
But not before they met at Milwaukee’s airport with several members of Blake’s family, including his father and three siblings. Blake’s mother participated by telephone. Did they compare finger techniques?
The meeting was private, and news hounds and photographers accompanying Biden were not invited inside.
The Biden visit, his first major trip since June due to months of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... restrictions, marks an intensification of his presidential campaign two months before the US election against President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... As the Democratic nominee visits the city at the heart of recent US protests against racism and police brutality, is Trump barnstorming across battleground states, pitching his "law-and-order" message and reiterating his attacks on the integrity of mail-in voting.
The pandemic-induced lockdown has left Biden spending most of his time hunkered in his Wilmington, Delaware home or delivering nearby speeches to news hounds, but that slack period appears to be coming to an end.
With the two candidates now sprinting to Election Day on November 3, Biden has announced his intention to return to the campaign trail in earnest for the first time since March, when in-person campaigning was scrapped due to the coronavirus.
Trump long ago threw caution to the wind. In recent weeks he has visited Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, New Hampshire and North Carolina, with a rally scheduled for Thursday evening in Pennsylvania, a major swing state.
Biden’s trip to Wisconsin, which Trump narrowly flipped from Democrats in his improbable 2016 election victory, is a campaign call that also aims to help an embattled city "move forward" after days of violent mostly peaceful and deadly unrest.
He will no doubt aim to offer a contrasting vision to the law-and-order message that Trump delivered when he flew Tuesday to Kenosha to survey damage and meet with law enforcement and business owners.
"We’ve got to heal," Biden, 77, said Wednesday in Delaware.
"And so my purpose in going will be to do just that, to be a positive influence on what’s going on."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
Unemployment claims in California jumped by the largest amount in more than a month, and the state accounted for one-fifth of all the claims filed in the U.S. last week, officials reported Thursday.
LIHU’E — Pushing back the reopening of trans-Pacific tourism from September to October and the two-week lockdown on O’ahu has the state forecasting an even-grimmer economic picture than before.
[KSTP] On Thursday, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter signed Executive Order 2020-24 that authorizes the creation of the People's Prosperity Pilot, St. Paul's Guaranteed Income Demonstration Program. 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
