>>10089194 Top Democrat Jerry Nadler Confronted – Asked to Disavow Leftist Antifa Violence
You know I don’t think Antifa is going to take too kindly to Nader saying their a myth or don’t exist, they haven’t hesitated intimidating other politicians at their homes
NY Times: Trump’s Halting of J-1 Visa Drives Up Wages, Benefits for Au Pairs
How did this rich people get away with paying $4.35 per hour? They must not care who’s taking care of their precious children
President Trump’s halt of the J-1 visa program — where upper-middle-class and wealthy households are able to import cheap, foreign au pairs — is driving up wages and benefits for au pairs already in the United States, a report reveals.
Last month, Trump expanded an existing executive order to halt the H-1B, H-4, H-2B, L-1, and J-1 visa programs — reducing foreign competition against roughly 35 million unemployed and underemployed Americans.
According to the New York Times, the halting of the program has meant higher wages and better benefits for au pairs already in the U.S. Atcurrent rates, households are allowed to pay their imported au pairs just $4.35 an hour for a maximum 45 hours a week
That is all changing thanks to Trump’s order, the Times reported:
On the other end, while au pairs entering the program might speak with only two or three families in the initial interview process, in-country candidates are now hearing from 10, 20, sometimes closer to 50 prospective families. Even male au pairs, who often find it harder to match, are having an easy time. “Because they know they don’t have options, they are accepting males for their families too,” said an au pair from Brazil. “It’s not a big deal anymore.”
“Now we feel powerful,” the Colombian au pair said. “For once, we have a choice.”
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Host families have taken note of the new dynamic, too: Perusing some Facebook groups in mid-June, I found posts announcing benefits like unlimited public transportation passes, new cars, access to beach houses and skydiving trips, and double the pay. “We’re offering a 2000 USD sign-on bonus,” one parent wrote.
The results have underscored the case many reformers have argued for years — that immigration plays a major role in depressing U.S. wages and benefits.
As the Times noted, there has been widely reported abuse in the J-1 visa program. For years, participants in the program have chronicled labor abuse that they have endured, often working overtime without pay and receiving subpar living conditions.
Most recently, the Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, claiming the J-1 visa program is “critical” to the American economy even as tens of millions are out of work.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/26/ny-times-trumps-halting-j-1-visa-drives-up-wages-benefits-au-pairs/
Thousands Turn Out for Long Island’s ‘Back the Blue’ Rally
Some good news in a sea of craziness
More than 1,000 people packed Eisenhower Park in Long Island, New York, on Saturday, holding “thin blue line” and American flags for a “Back the Blue” rally.
The nonprofit group Law Enforcement Officers Weekend sponsored the rally, which drew visitors from across Long Island and New York City, who came from police departments and members of the community, the Long Island Press reported.
Many others showed up wearing gear supporting President Donald Trump.
Nassau County Police Benevolent Association President James McDermott, a police union leader who spoke at the rally, said Nassau County is “immune” to the issues of discrimination plaguing law enforcement across the country.
“We don’t have these problems here in Nassau County,” McDermott said. “We have tremendous relationships in all communities, including the minority communities, and they trust us and we worked on that. We fostered these relationships.”
Americans across the country have shown their support for law enforcement by showing up at “Back the Blue” demonstrations. More than 1,000 people gathered in Wantagh, New York, to express their support for the police earlier this month, Patch.com reported.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, Roanoke, Virginia, held a “Back the Blue” rally to support law enforcement, WDBJ reported.
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/07/26/thousands-turn-out-long-islands-back-blue-rally/
Ted Cruz: Pelosi Is ‘Shoveling Money to Her Friends’ with Coronavirus Stimulus
Pam Key26 Jul 2020
4:40
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was using the coronavirus relief bills for “shoveling money to her friends.”
Partial transcript as follows:
MARGARET BRENNAN: I do want to ask you about the business at hand, which, as we know from the White House and from Leader McConnell’s office, is this bill they plan to introduce tomorrow to provide another round of aid. You opposed it earlier this week. Are you on board now?
CRUZ: I- I am not. We have right now two simultaneous national crises. We have a global pandemic. It is serious. It is taking the lives of over 600,000 people. We need to do significantly more to fight the disease. At the same time, we have an absolute economic catastrophe. We have over 44 million Americans have lost their job, and we have got to get America back to work. Unfortunately, I just listened to your interview with Speaker Pelosi, her objectives are focused on neither of those. Her objectives are shoveling cash at the problem and shutting America down. And in particular, you look at the three trillion dollar bill she’s trying to push. It’s just shoveling money to her friends and not actually solving the problem. Our objective should be Americans want to get back to work. They want to be able to provide for their family.
BRENNAN: Right.
CRUZ: They want to be- be- be hopeful for the future. And- and unfortunately, MARGARET, I think we’re seeing Democrats. We’re seeing Democratic governors. We’re seeing Democratic mayors who–
BRENNAN: But what specifically- but what specifically because in terms of the unemployment benefits, do you object to providing any kind or any amount of federal boosts to unemployment at this point? Because not everyone is choosing to be out of work.
CRUZ: The policy that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are pushing adds an additional $600 a week of federal money to unemployment. We have the unemployment system, the system we have had–
BRENNAN: Right, and McConnell and wants to take it down to 70% of prior wages.
CRUZ: Except, the problem is, for 68% of people receiving it right now, they are being paid more on unemployment than they made in their job. And I’ll tell you, I’ve spoken to small business owners all over the state of Texas who are trying to reopen and they’re calling their- their waiters and waitresses,–
BRENNAN: Yeah.
CRUZ: –they’re calling their busboys, and they won’t come back. And, of course, they won’t come back because the federal government is paying them, in some instances, twice as much money to stay home as–
BRENNAN: But you’re open to a lesser amount?
CRUZ: I, look, I- what we ought to focus on, instead of just shoveling trillions out the door, we ought to be passing a recovery bill. Now, what’s a recovery bill? A recovery bill would be lifting the taxes and the regulations that are hammering small businesses so that people can go back to work. A recovery bill–
BRENNAN: Right.
CRUZ: –would suspend the payroll tax, which would give it a- a pay raise to everyone in America who’s working. That actually gets people back to work.
BRENNAN: Well as the treasury secretary said this morning that you could have five, six, seven other bills come in along that include things like a payroll tax but this time, unemployment in particular is something that he said needs to be extended. And- and according to our latest CBS poll, it’s very popular. 74% of Republicans approve more stimulus and added benefits. 92% of Democrats. 82% of independents. So Republicans do have the burden of governing right now.
CRUZ: Absolutely–
BRENNAN: Why aren’t you onboard with this?
CRUZ: I am on board with restarting the economy. What- what Democrats want to do- we’re 100 days out from the presidential elec- election. The only objective Democrats have is to defeat Donald Trump, and they’ve cynically decided the best way to defeat Donald Trump is shut down every business in America, shut down every school in America. You know, Nancy Pelosi talks about working men and women. What she’s proposing is keeping working men and women from working. And, you know, ironically, what she does have in her bill? She has a big tax cut for millionaires and billionaires in blue states.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/07/26/ted-cruz-pelosi-is-shoveling-money-to-her-friends-with-coronavirus-stimulus/
Joe Biden Addresses L.A. Democratic Awards Dinner Honoring Kathy Griffin as Riots Continue
ok they have literally gone and lost themselves in crazy land, anyone considering honoring this washed up hack is just a big FU to American
Former Vice President Joe Biden sent a video greeting to an L.A. Democratic Party awards dinner Saturday honoring comedian Kathy Griffin, who infamously depicted a decapitated President Donald Trump, as riots raged in the city beyond.
NBC Los Angeles reported on the “virtual” event, conducted remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic:
A nearly three-minute recorded message from former Vice President Joe Biden recounting familiar themes from his 2020 presidential campaign was played during the Los Angeles County Democratic Party 2020 John F. Kennedy Awards.
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The honorees included California Sen. Kamala Harris, comedian Kathy Griffin and activist Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez.
Harris received the JFK Profile in Courage Award for elected officials while Griffin received an honor for activists. Huerta received the Miguel Contreras Leadership Award, named for the late labor leader.
Other speakers included Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Reps. Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu and five-time world figure skating champion Michelle Kwan, surrogate director for Biden’s campaign.
Griffin posed with a model of President Trump’s severed head in 2017, which she later claimed had cost her professional opportunities due to the ensuing public backlash.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was mobilized Saturday evening to respond to Black Lives Matter demonstrators who attacked federal buildings downtown, smashing windows and blocking traffic. The riots were a demonstration of solidarity with violent protests in Portland, which Democratic leaders and mayors, including Garcetti, have supported.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/07/26/joe-biden-addresses-l-a-democratic-awards-dinner-honoring-kathy-griffin-as-riots-continue/
Olivia de Havilland, Two Time Oscar Winning Star of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 104
PARIS (AP) — Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of “Gone With the Wind,” but also a two-time Oscar winner and an off-screen fighter who challenged and unchained Hollywood’s contract system, died Sunday at her home in Paris. She was 104.
Havilland, the sister of fellow Oscar winner Joan Fontaine, died peacefully of natural causes, said New York-based publicist Lisa Goldberg.
De Havilland was among the last of the top screen performers from the studio era, and the last surviving lead from “Gone With the Wind,” an irony, she once noted, since the fragile, self-sacrificing Wilkes was the only major character to die in the film. The 1939 epic, based on Margaret Mitchell’s best-selling Civil War novel and winner of 10 Academy Awards, is often ranked as Hollywood’s box office champion (adjusting for inflation), although it is now widely condemned for its glorified portrait of slavery and antebellum life.
The pinnacle of producer David O. Selznick’s career, the movie had a troubled off-screen story.
Three directors worked on the film, stars Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable were far more connected on screen than off and the fourth featured performer, Leslie Howard, was openly indifferent to the role of Ashley Wilkes, Melanie’s husband. But de Havilland remembered the movie as “one of the happiest experiences I’ve ever had in my life. It was doing something I wanted to do, playing a character I loved and liked.”
During a career that spanned six decades, de Havilland also took on roles ranging from an unwed mother to a psychiatric inmate in “The Snake Pit,” a personal favorite. The dark-haired De Havilland projected both a gentle, glowing warmth and a sense of resilience and mischief that made her uncommonly appealing, leading critic James Agee to confess he was “vulnerable to Olivia de Havilland in every part of my being except the ulnar nerve.”
She was Errol Flynn’s co-star in a series of dramas, Westerns and period pieces, most memorably as Maid Marian in “The Adventures of Robin Hood.” But De Havilland also was a prototype for an actress too beautiful for her own good, typecast in sweet and romantic roles while desiring greater challenges.
Her frustration finally led her to sue Warner Bros. in 1943 when the studio tried to keep her under contract after it had expired, claiming she owed six more months because she had been suspended for refusing roles. Her friend Bette Davis was among those who had failed to get out of her contract under similar conditions in the 1930s, but de Havilland prevailed, with the California Court of Appeals ruling that no studio could extend an agreement without the performer’s consent.
The decision is still unofficially called the “De Havilland law.”
De Havilland went on to earn her own Academy Award in 1946 for her performance in “To Each His Own,” a melodrama about out-of-wedlock birth. A second Oscar came three years later for “The Heiress,” in which she portrayed a plain young homebody (as plain as it was possible to make de Havilland) opposite Montgomery Clift and Sir Ralph Richardson in an adaptation of Henry James’ “Washington Square.”
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/07/26/olivia-de-havilland-two-time-oscar-winning-star-of-gone-with-the-wind-dies-at-104/
Chinese State Media: Killer Flood Waters Are Like ‘Naughty Kids Who Want to Go Out and Play
WTF? Propaganda must work there
Chinese state media is taking some heat – even from within the tightly-controlled Chinese Internet – for minimizing the danger of a flood disaster that has already ruined millions of lives, and threatens to unleash an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe if the massive Three Gorges hydroelectric dam fails.
A social media post from the state-run Xinhua news agency on Wednesday compared the killer floodwaters to “naughty kids who want to go out and play.”
Taiwan News quoted a Chinese user on the WeChat social media platform slamming Xinhua for using its own WeChat account to trivialize the danger from the floods.
“It’s a shame for the media to portray disasters in an amusing way,” the critical user said, referring to a Xinhua post that tried to anthropomorphize this season’s once-in-a-century floods by imagining the spirits of nature as bratty children on a mischievous rampage. The Xinhua post was reportedly pulled down after the backlash.
Residents of the Yangtze River region are bracing for another round of floods as the Chinese government estimates damage from the 2020 monsoon season is approaching $23 billion. 93 of the Yangtze’s tributaries have flooded and the great central river itself is threatening to surge against the Three Gorges Dam, which is the last line of defense for millions of people and billions of dollars in assets.
The Yangtze River is Asia’s largest at 3,900 miles in length and is a vital source of water and hydroelectric power for an immense population. The region has hundreds of large and small dams, plus thousands of reservoirs to handle heavy rains, but the current monsoon season has overwhelmed the entire system. The water level in the Three Gorges reservoir reached a record high last week, cresting just a little over ten meters below the 175-meter maximum rated height for the dam.
UPI reported on Thursday that Chinese citizens suffering through the floods are increasingly exasperated with dictator Xi Jinping’s refusal to visit the area and with their state media’s reluctance to show the full extent of the damage, so they are uploading their own videos that show cities wiped out, homes destroyed, and priceless historic monuments submerged underwater.
According to UPI and Taiwan News, the Chinese people are growing increasingly suspicious that their rulers are not being honest with them about the danger to the Three Gorges Dam. Several alarming discharges involving “huge streams” of floodwater have been seen at the facility, despite assurances that all operations are proceeding normally. Three Gorges officials are making the first public admissions that the dam has suffered structural displacement and deformation, although they insist all of the damage falls within safe parameters.
“Beyond the integrity of the dam, many have questioned the structure’s purported purpose of flood control, given the extensive flooding recently seen both above and below the dam. Some Chinese citizens immediately downstream of the dam in cities such as Yichang, which has been hit by severe floods this year, suspect that authorities have been releasing more water from the dam than they are willing to admit to protect it rather than people from harm,” Taiwan News added.
China’s state-controlled Xinhua news service ran a report on Thursday conceding that some historic sites and hundreds of “cultural relics” are in danger. Some of these relics cannot be moved to rescue them from flooding, and some are highly vulnerable to decay from prolonged exposure to water.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/07/24/chinese-state-media-killer-flood-waters-like-naughty-kids-who-want-go-out-play/
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A real beauty, she fought against Hollywood and won, great actress. Living to 104 is quite amazing to.
Adam@adamhousley
·Jul 24
Durham and Barr do not want this investigation to be used for political points, which is the way it should be.There are major rumors that there are already indictments.There are some indictments in the pipeline also for sure.The scope of this investigation is huge. Massive.
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Adam Housley
@adamhousley
·Jul 23
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· Jul 23
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Was Strzok singing today or has this story developed over time? Prompted by Ratcliffe’s #declass?
Yes America, there is voter fraud. These recent cases prove it.
From Frank Sinatra's hometown in Hoboken, N.J., to LA's Skid Row, dozens of mail-in, absentee and ballot box fraud cases have emerged
Many news media, political activists and social media giants have gotten on the bandwagon that voter fraud is fiction. It is not.
A review of court cases and recent indictments – including one this week in Philadelphia against a former congressman – finds there have been at least four dozen cases in criminal and civil court since the last presidential election in 2016 in which voter fraud has led to charges, convictions, lawsuits or plea deals.
The schemes have ranged from old fashion ballot box stuffing to absentee and mail-in ballot fraud.
Here are a dozen of the more egregious examples.
Philly Fraud Case Expands
The U.S. Justice Department this past week charged former Democratic congressman Michael Myers with stuffing ballot boxes, bribing an elected official, falsifying records, obstructing justice and voting multiple times in federal elections in Philadelphia.
Myers was the second official charged in the scheme.
Domenick DeMuro, a Democratic ward chairman in that city, admitted in a plea deal that he had "fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear," ptoecutors said.
DeMuro allegedly had a network of clients who paid him significant sums of money to rig elections over several years.
New Jersey mail-in ballot scheme exposed
Four New Jersey residents, including one city council member and one city councilmen-elect in Patterson, N.J., were charged last month in what state officials was a mail-in ballot fraud scheme. The four were charged with multiple crimes including voting fraud, tampering with public records and unauthorized possession of multiple vote-by-mail ballots.
West Virginia mail carrier nabbed in mail-in ballot scheme
A mail carrier in Pendleton County, W.V., recently admitted to investigators that he altered mail-in voting ballot documents. The U.S. Attorney's Office of the Northern District of West Virginia said in a press release in June that it was charging Thomas Cooper, a worker with the U.S. Postal Service, with "attempted election fraud."
An affidavit supplied by that office to Just the News states the Pendleton County Clerk received several absentee mail-in ballot requests "in which the voter’s party-ballot request appeared to have been altered by use of a black-ink pen."
California voter fraud conviction exposes Skid Row scheme
In February, 62-year-old Norman Hall pled guilty in a scheme to pay money and cigarettes to homeless people on Los Angeles’ Skid Row in exchange for false and forged signatures
Illinois let non-citizens register to vote in blunder
In January, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White disclosed in a letter to the Legislature that a “programming error” in a signature pad at driver services facilities led to 574 non-U.S. citizens accidentally being registered as voters.
Alabama Absentee Fraud
In 2019, former Gordon, Ala., Mayor Elbert Melton was convicted of absentee ballot fraud in a mayoral race he won by just 16 votes.
Pay-to-Vote Scheme exposed in New Jersey
New Jersey real estate developer Frank Raia, 67, a Democrat, was convicted in 2019 of overseeing a scheme to pay low-income residents in Hoboken’s subsidized housing $50 for their votes in the 2013 election.
Wisconsin county supervisor admits to ballot fraud
Former Milwaukee County Supervisor Peggy West, 47, pleaded guilty in 2018 to election fraud for falsifying signatures on petitions to qualify for the spring election.
Absentee Ballot Theft in Florida
In 2018, authorities arrested Florida man Bret Warren after they determined he had stolen five absentee ballots and fraudulently voted with them.
Wife of mayoral candidate nabbed in New Mexico
In 2018, New Mexico authorities indicted Laura Seeds on 13 counts of voter fraud related to her husband's 2016 mayoral race. Seeds was eventually convicted in part for illegally possessing two absentee voter ballots; her husband Robert won the race by two votes.
Indiana cop convicted of voter fraud to help father win race
In 2016, Indiana police officer Lowell Colen was convicted of absentee ballot fraud in an attempt to help his father. Colen eventually pled guilty to four felony counts of voter fraud,
Double voting in Arizona
Last month, Randy Allen Jumper pleaded guilty in Arizona to attempting to vote in two states during the 2016 general election: Arizona and Nevada.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/yes-america-there-voter-fraud-these-recent-cases-prove-it?amp&__twitter_impression=true