September 16, 2020

Unemployment gap between black and white workers widens to nearly DOUBLE (13% for black, 7.3 white)

Unemployment gap between black and white workers widens to nearly DOUBLE as economic recovery lags for African Americans
In August, black unemployment was 13% while white unemployment was 7.3%
That put the black jobless rate at 1.8 times the white rate, up from 1.6 in July
Meanwhile, the unemployment gap between men and women narrowed
Female unemployment rate declined to 8.6% from 10.6% in July



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8739459/Unemployment-gap-black-white-workers-widens-nearly-DOUBLE.html

September 16, 2020

police worked hard to keep Daniel Prude's death a secret. and "Make him a suspect"

The Rochester Police Department and other officials in the upstate New York city attempted to keep the death of Daniel Prude quiet, according to documents released by the city Monday. Per the Washington Post and the New York Times, the documents show how information was withheld for months after Prude, a Black man, died after police pinned him to the ground with a hood over his head in March. Sample exchange: "We certainly do not want people to misinterpret the officers’ actions and conflate this incident with any recent killings of unarmed Black men by law enforcement nationally," wrote the deputy police chief to the police chief in June amid widespread protests over the deaths of other Black people during encounters with police. "That would simply be a false narrative, and could create animosity and potentially violent blowback in this community as a result."


Then-Chief La’Ron Singletary, who was fired Monday, replied: "I totally agree." On one police report, an edit reads, "Make him a suspect" rather than simply referring to Prude as an individual, as the officer writing the report initially had. Other documents show police and city officials attempting to avoid releasing video of the encounter publicly. "This initial look has shown what so many have suspected, that we have a pervasive problem in the Rochester Police Department,” said Mayor Lovely Warren in announcing Singletary's termination. “One that views everything through the eyes of the badge and not the citizens we serve. It shows that Mr. Prude’s death was not taken as seriously as it should have been by those who reviewed the case throughout City government at every level.” Prude's death first made headlines only after his family released video of the police encounter this month; Warren says she did not get a full account of his death until August. But Singletary said in an April email that she "has been in the loop" since Prude was placed in police custody. (Read more Daniel Prude stories.)

https://www.newser.com/story/296256/cops-officials-worked-hard-to-hush-up-daniel-prudes-death.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top

September 16, 2020

Trump tweets against drudge report

Drudge has.been kicking trump's ass lately

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1305514263994224640?s=19

September 16, 2020

Audience member SCOLDS Trump for interrupting her question, he instantly shuts up

and gets hit hard about the imaginary health plan that he keeps promising it's coming in 2 weeks

September 16, 2020

"I didn't downplay it, in many ways I up played it" says Trump about Covid19

September 16, 2020

"audience members granted him the respect due to his office but none of the adulation he craves"

It was an unusual moment of exposure for a leader who demands constant public praise from his subordinates. On Tuesday night, audience members granted him the respect due to his office but none of the adulation he craves.

Trump was largely cordial and likely came across as strong to voters that love him. But his performance offered Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden multiple openings only two weeks before their first debate clash -- one of the last potential turning points of the White House race. First-term presidents who have spent years expecting deference from everyone they meet often get a shock in the first debate showdown with a challenger keen to get in their grill. Tuesday's event suggests the surprise may be especially acute for Trump when he faces Biden on September 29.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/politics/donald-trump-town-hall/index.html

Answers that normally draw wild cheers at Trump's packed campaign events fell flat when he was confronted by voters who appeared to want to cut through bluster and propaganda. And his responses did little to recognize the magnitude of the challenges facing the nation in a fearful year, suggesting that the President has yet to find the language or the appeals that might turn around an election he so far seems to be losing.

September 16, 2020

Trump "many people said im a wartime prez" woodward "who was the 1st?"

Trump "many many people"



Played from the tapes.

September 16, 2020

Ouch! Dr on msnbc suggest jared kushner "spend less time in plastic surgery office"

And more time learning the truth about c19

Said on today's "11th hour w brian williams"

September 16, 2020

fire threatens billion dollar broadcast towers in LA. 80 historic cabins feared destroyed

https://news.yahoo.com/major-fire-threatens-historic-observatory-211534331.html

A major fire that has been raging outside Los Angeles for more than a week threatened to engulf a historic observatory and billion-dollar broadcast towers on Tuesday as firefighters struggled to contain the flames.

The so-called Bobcat fire was within 500 feet (150 meters) from the 116-year-old Mt. Wilson Observatory, fire officials said in a tweet, adding that crews were in place "ready to receive the fire."

Officials at the observatory said all personnel had been evacuated as the fire was "knocking on our door."

Firefighters battling the blaze had made slight headway in recent days in trying to control the flames that erupted September 6, but containment shrank from 6 percent to 3 percent Tuesday, according to the Angeles National Forest.

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KNX radio said the fire was also threatening broadcast towers in the area worth more than a billion dollars.

Many communities threatened by the flames have been ordered to stand ready to evacuate while some 80 historic cabins located within Los Angles Forest were feared destroyed, officials said.