Breathtaking ....truly

Wisconsin cops shoot
unarmed Black man
in the back multiple times
as his children watch!

Two Wisconsin police officers are on leave Monday as state authorities investigate
why a Black man was shot multiple times  in the back  as he entered 
the driver's side door of an SUV, officials said.

The man's three children -- 3, 5 and 8 -- were in the car, a family attorney said.

Identified by Wisconsin's governor as Jacob Blake, the man is in serious condition
and fighting for his life. Attorney Ben Crump, who now represents the Blake family,
posted a video of the Sunday evening shooting in Kenosha. The footage spread
across social media, sparking protests and leading county officials to institute a
curfew that remained in place until Monday morning.

The shooting came as demonstrators continue to decry police violence in American
cities, including the encounters that killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

The night before Blake's shooting, protests erupted in Lafayette, Louisiana, after
police killed a Black man -- Trayford Pellerin, 31 -- outside a convenience store.

Source: https://tinyurl.com/yy4g342z

Previously in Georgia...

Georgia State Patrol trooper
charged with murder
after shooting a Black man

By Alaa Elassar and Hollie Silverman, CNN

(CNN) A Georgia State Patrol trooper has been arrested and charged
with felony murder after fatally shooting a Black man during an attempted
traffic stop.
Jacob Gordon Thompson, 27, was arrested on Friday in connection with the
fatal officer involved shooting in Screven County that occurred on August 7,
the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said in a news release.

Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer
addresses Jacob Blake shooting:
'We need to have change!'

USA TODAY

¡°Another young Black man shot by a police officer.
We need to have change. We need to be better.
And I¡¯m hoping for the best for him and his family.
I¡¯m hoping for the best as we work through this in
Wisconsin, in Milwaukee and in Kenosha.
So, thoughts and prayers with Jacob Blake.¡±

Kenosha police shot Blake on Sunday, and video of the shooting 
appears to show an officer firing several shots at close range.

Source: https://tinyurl.com/y6clkft9

TikTok sues Trump administration
over looming US ban

CNN Business, Mon August 24, 2020

Washington (CNN Business)TikTok sued the Trump administration Monday
in response to what it said is a "heavily politicized" executive order that
seeks to ban the short-form video app from the United States.

The suit marks a major escalation in the fight between President Trump
and the wildly popular TikTok, which has 100 million users in the US
but is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance.

TikTok argued in California federal court that the administration did not
give the company a fair chance to defend itself from allegations that it
"poses a national security risk."

Source: https://tinyurl.com/yyzexxkr

Trump poses a national security risk.

Magnificent group of HEADLINE speakers at Tuesday's
Republican National Convention, endorsing trump:

Eric trump (son)

Tiffany trump (forgotten daughter)

Melania trump (3rd wife)

Mike Pompeo (became Sec. of state after Tillerson fired)

"ONLY THE BEST PEOPLE!"

The first night of Republicans' 2020 convention FAILED
to draw as large of a television audience as Democrats'

Nielsen Ratings on Tuesday said that the first night of the RNC on Monday
drew an average television audience of about 15.8 million people
between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m, The New York Times reports.

This is compared to the average of 18.7 million people who watched the
first night of the Democratic convention, per Reuters....17% more!

Viewership for both conventions on opening night were down significantly
from 2016, but it is unknown how many were watching "live streaming"
Since many people have given up on high cable TV costs and switched
wholly to streaming services, the decline may not be as significant.

Source is far right-wing NYPost: https://tinyurl.com/y6phwwt3

Lions cancel practice to speak out
against Jacob Blake shooting:
'We are all brothers'

Detroit Free Press
Quarterback Matthew Stafford said there has never been a day
he was more proud to be a Lion and a quarterback in the NFL.

"We had our team meeting this morning, and no football was
talked about," Stafford said Tuesday. "Coach just opened the floor.
The conversations lasted four hours, and it was incredible to be a part of it."

RECORD job gains?  Booming economy?

Analysis by Christine Romans
Tue August 25, 2020

Imagine you lost  $22.2 million in two months.

Slowly, you found $9.3 million over the next three months.

To most people, it would be catastrophic $13 million net loss! UGH!

The way Trump practices math, the 9.3 million is a record gain!

This is trump's job market magic arithmetic:
- take credit for the gains,
- ignore the losses,
- and declare records and rebounds.

Monday afternoon in North Carolina he yet again claimed
record job market gains.
"There's never been three months where we've put more
people to work, over nine million people, and again, we're
just about ready to break the all-time stock market record," he said.

Trump said the economy is bouncing back quickly. This on the same day the
prestigious National Association for Business Economics forecasted a long slog
back to normal. Nearly half the members don't expect the economy to
fully recover until 2022. A majority say the job market won't be
back to its February level until 2022  at the earliest.

Source: https://tinyurl.com/y323te9k

For the record,

South Korea - which is right next door to CHINA !!! -
got its first case of covid-19 on the very same day as the US.

Here's a comparison of how it was handled by each government:

S.Korea death toll from covid-19   =            312      (  6 deaths per million pop)
American deaths from covid-19   = 179,550   (546 deaths per million pop)

Stats source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Of the 129 countries with at least 4 MILLION population, USA ranks 8th WORST!

US intelligence officials say there's no evidence
to back up Trump's claims about threats to mail-in voting

CNN, Wed August 26, 2020

Washington (CNN)US officials charged with protecting the 2020 election said Wednesday
they have "no information or intelligence" that foreign countries, including Russia, are
attempting to undermine any part of the mail-in voting process, contradicting President
Trump, who has repeatedly pushed false claims that foreign adversaries are targeting
mail ballots as part of a "rigged" presidential race.

Specifically, a senior intelligence official discounted the possibility of foreign actors mass
producing fake ballots to interfere in the November elections, again breaking with Trump
who has continued to insist that mail-in voting poses a significant threat to election security.

Bucks Boycott Game 5 vs. Magic
After Shooting of Jacob Blake

The Milwaukee Bucks have decided to boycott Game 5 of their first-round
series with the Orlando Magic, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.

The game was originally scheduled to tip off at 4 p.m. ET, yet the Bucks
remained in the locker room with the start approaching.
The Orlando Magic had been warming up but subsequently left the court as well.

The Bucks "have expressed outrage over [the] Jacob Blake police shooting
in recent days," according to Ben Golliver of the Washington Post.

Bolton says US coronavirus response
has been 'one mistake after another'

CNN, Wed August 26, 2020

Washington (CNN) Former White House national security adviser John Bolton on
Wednesday torched the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic,
leveling that that the lack of a national strategy has prompted "one mistake after another."
"They've made a complete mess of it, and it's been a tragedy for Americans, those who
have died and their families, the economic consequences," Bolton told CNN's Jake Tapper
on "The Lead." "To this day, the administration does not have a coronavirus strategy.

trump is promising law and order and to crack down on the violence in Kenosha.

So where is trump's NEW promise
to crack down on the police criminals
whose actions have *PROVOKED* the violence ??

Nowhere....

Why not ?

Not sure ..... but the UNARMED victims ---> are BLACK ...and the guilty cops are WHITE

bolton and many other republicans agree trump failed bigly

And to put the above numbers in another valid perspective,

Wednesday South Korea had just  1  more death,

while the trump regime allowed 1,200  more to die.....needlessly

RNC Night 2 Ratings  Lose
   to DNC Ratings Again

The ratings game continues for the Republican National Convention,
as the second night of programming once again came in under the
Democratic National Convention's second night ratings.
The gap was, however, narrower than the opening night disparity
of 2.9 million viewers.
Early numbers from Nielsen indicate a ratings bump of 13% from
night one of the RNC across the three broadcast networks and three
major cable news channels, giving it a total of about 18 million viewers.
Night two of the DNC pulled in an estimated 19.2 million viewers,
leaving the RNC trailing by a margin of 1.2 million.
Source: https://tinyurl.com/y2erbn6t

trump failed us

Nebraska football players file lawsuit
seeking reversal of Big Ten decision
to cancel fall season

USA TODAY

"Even though its decision significantly and directly affects the rights
and opportunities of student athletes at its member institutions, the
Big Ten has rejected calls for transparency and refuses to provide
documents supporting its claim that a vote was taken or that a
proper process was followed.," the lawsuit says.
"As a result of the failure of process, the Student Athlete Plaintiffs
have been irreparably harmed."

Source: https://tinyurl.com/yxsah6yz

WHO recommends  testing
even more people for coronavirus

From CNN's Naomi Thomas

Coronavirus testing should be expanded to not only find people with
no symptoms, but also to cover those who have come into contact
with someone positive for the virus, Maria Van Kerkhove,
WHO¡¯s technical lead for Covid-19, said Thursday.

The US federal government is fighting criticism for having revised
back guidelines for who should be tested. New Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention guidance says people who have been in
contact with a coronavirus case might not need to be tested if
they don¡¯t have symptoms.

But the new guidance from WHO says just the opposite.

ya i saw that !

the repos convention got whupped by dems in comparison for both first and second nights .lol

Mike Pence’s RNC Speech Ratings
Down Big From Kamala Harris at DNC

The Daily Beast
On night three of the Republican National Convention, with VP Mike Pence
as the headlining speaker, the three major broadcast networks and
three big cable news networks brought in a combined 10.5 million viewers
during the 10-11 p.m. ET hour, according to Nielsen.

That represents yet another significant drop compared to the third night
of the Democratic National Convention, when VP nominee Kamala Harris
drew 16.2 million viewers for her speech. 

The trumpers must be geting real tired of all their winning. LOL

USA Today
A Florida man who called himself ¡°the Antifa hunter¡± as he waged an online campaign
to terrorize and harass those who opposed his white supremacist ideology
was sentenced on Monday to more than three years in prison.

Daniel McMahon, 32, of Brandon, Florida, pleaded guilty in April to using social media
to threaten a Black activist to deter the man from running for office in Charlottesville, Virginia.

McMahon also admitted that he threatened to sexually assault the young autistic daughter
of a North Carolina woman who protested against white nationalists.
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