https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ukraine%20Report_FINAL.pdf
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That's a conspiracy theory.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-22/eric-trump-gave-false-reason-for-dodging-deposition-n-y-says
Eric Trump Gave ‘False’ Reason for Dodging Deposition, New York AG Says
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>We could do with two PDJT right now and a third to help out our cuz's across the ditch in NZ.
Speaking strictly as a mathematician, have you considered cloning?
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1309057477821050880
https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/mta-workers-had-hidden-man-cave-below-grand-central-tracks
MTA workers had hidden ‘man cave’ below Grand Central tracks, IG report finds
Three MTA tradesmen allegedly boozed, napped and watched TV inside a secret “man cave” built below the tracks at Grand Central Terminal, according to the MTA’s internal watchdog.
Investigators discovered the lounge — complete with futon, flat-screen, microwave and refrigerator — behind a sheetrock wall in an unused locksmith shop below Track 114, in the station’s lower level, according to a report by MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny set to be released Thursday.
“Many a New Yorker has fantasized about kicking back with a cold beer in a prime piece of Manhattan real estate — especially one this close to good transportation,” Pokorny said.
“Few would have the chutzpah to commandeer a secret room beneath Grand Central Terminal.”
The investigators initially paid a surprised visit to the locksmith shop on Aug. 8, 2019, after concluding that Metro-North officials had failed to investigate two previous complaints about workers using the space to “hang out and get drunk and party.”
The three Metro-North employees — a wireman, carpenter foreman and electrical foreman, who were not named due to ongoing disciplinary proceedings — denied ever having been in the room.
But Pokorny’s office says they’d left their fingerprints behind, and the evidence they used the underground hangout was “overwhelming.”
There, they found wooden cabinets that appeared to be specifically designed to conceal the TV and futon, along with a pullout cot sitting just outside the room. A half-empty beer sat in the fridge.
An Amazon streaming device attached to the TV had the carpenter foreman’s mobile hotspot on its list of available Wi-Fi network, and was registered to the electrical foreman — whose name was also on a pull-up bar box and two 2018 datebooks found in the room, the IG said.
A receipt with the wireman’s name printed on it was found inside an air mattress box in the room, the IG said.
He initially admitted to being the room with the electrical foreman while receiving overtime pay — but later recanted, according to Pokorny.
Confronted by the IG, the electrical foreman admitted to having a copy of the key to the locksmith shop despite not having worked with locksmiths for at least five years.
Grand Central Terminal management, meanwhile, claimed to have no idea the man cave even existed — despite multiple complaints that Metro-North security falsely claimed to have investigated.
Officials “were not aware that the storage room existed and did not know which employees had keys to the storage room,” the IG said.
In a statement, Railroad president Cathy Rinaldi called the secret man cave “outrageously inappropriate” and “not consistent with Metro-North’s values.”
All three men — who still deny the allegations — have been suspended without pay, and face potential termination, Rinaldi said.
Mr Biden has himself been accused by conservatives of stoking unrest over the election by saying in August: "Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is re-elected?"
Last month, Mrs Clinton urged Mr Biden this time not to concede defeat "under any circumstances" in a close race on election night.
She raised the scenario that Republicans would try "messing up absentee balloting" and mobilise an army of lawyers to contest the result.
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54274115
https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/uncle-bens-rice-renamed-bens-original-amid-racism-uproar/
Uncle Ben’s renamed ‘Ben’s Original’ in effort to ditch racist imagery
Mars Inc. has renamed its Uncle Ben’s rice products “Ben’s Original,” making it the latest food producer to ditch a brand steeped in racist imagery.
The Virginia-based company is also scrapping the portrait of a white-haired black man that has adorned its rice boxes for decades — an image that’s long been criticized as a racist stereotype.
“We’re still in the process of deciding on what our new iconography will be, but are committed to ensuring that it will be truly reflective of the inclusive future we are striving to create for Ben’s Original,” a Mars Food spokesperson said in a statement.
Mars unveiled the new name Wednesday after its June announcement that it would “evolve” the Uncle Ben’s brand amid a nationwide uproar over racism following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Several other big-name consumer brands have made similar moves in recent months. Quaker Oats pledged to remove its Aunt Jemima logo from syrup and pancake packages, while the maker of Eskimo Pie ice cream bars said it would change the “derogatory” brand name. Cream of Wheat maker B&G Foods is also reviewing the image of a black chef that’s used on its boxes.
Mars had conversations with thousands of consumers, company employees and other stakeholders as it considered a new name for the rice brand, according to a webpage announcing the change. The company expects new packages with the Ben’s Original brand to hit stores early next year.
Mars also said it would partner with the National Urban League to support aspiring black chefs and work to enhance “educational opportunities” for more than 7,500 area students in Greenville, Mississippi, where the Ben’s brand has been produced for more than four decades.
“We are not just changing our name and the image on the package, but also taking action to enhance inclusion and equity,” the company said.
The Uncle Ben’s brand was established in the 1940s and originally named for a “legendary” Texas rice farmer, according to an archived page on its website. The portrait long used on the box was that of Frank Brown, the maitre d’ of a Chicago restaurant who agreed to pose for the brand, the page says.
Mars tried to polish the brand with a 2007 advertising campaign that promoted Uncle Ben to “chairman” of the company. He was fashioned as a successful businessman who shared “‘grains of wisdom’ about rice and life,” The New York Times reported at the time.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/fifth-ave-rockefeller-pad-hits-market-for-first-time-since-1963/
Fifth Ave. pad owned by a Rockefeller hits market for first time since 1963
A palatial Fifth Avenue apartment is on the market for the first time in 57 years.
The full-floor co-op on the 15th floor of 812 Fifth Ave. was bought by Nelson Rockefeller in 1963, when the 19-story building was erected.
A grandson of billionaire John D. Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller served as the 41st vice president of the United States under Gerald Ford, from 1974 to 1977, and governor of New York from 1959 to 1973.
His old four-bedroom, 4½-bathroom residence has listed for $11.5 million.
Rockefeller blasted through a wall and installed six shallow steps in order to connect it to his 12th-floor home at 810 Fifth Ave., the building directly south of No. 812.
After his death in 1979, the units were reconfigured and made separate once again.
Now, the 3,990-square-foot residence is publicly available for the first time since Rockefeller bought it.
A private elevator landing opens to a large foyer and entertaining space.
The home, which has a spacious terrace, boasts 75 feet of unobstructed views overlooking Central Park. Oh, and there’s also a hefty $11,866 monthly maintenance fee.
The listing broker is Clayton Orrigo of Compass.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/north-korean-sailors-shoot-burn-south-korean-official/
North Korean sailors shoot South Korean official to death, set his body on fire
A South Korean government official who may have tried to defect to North Korea was shot to death and then set on fire by Navy sailors from the communist country, a report said Thursday.
The 47-year-old man vanished from a boat on Monday that was carrying 18 other South Korean officials who were investigating potential illegal fishing near the water border between the two rival nations, the Associated Press reported.
North Korean officials, wearing gas masks, found him in their waters floating on a small object on Tuesday and alerted the Navy, the AP reported, citing a statement from Seoul.
North Korean sailors then approached him from a boat and shot him to death, according to the statement, which cited surveillance intelligence.
The sailors put on gas masks and other protective equipment, then doused the man’s body with gasoline and set him on fire, according to the report.
A South Korean defense official told the AP that the sailors may have killed the man in accordance with their strict coronavirus measures, which require them to shoot anyone trying to illegally cross their border.
The official added that little is known about the man, but they believe he may have tried to defect to the totalitarian state.
North Korea has claimed it hasn’t had a single coronavirus case since the pandemic began.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/amoeba-found-in-soil-kills-gardener-turns-his-brain-into-liquid/
Amoeba found in soil kills gardener, turns his brain into mushy liquid
An elderly gardener died from a brain-eating amoeba found in soil after it turned part of his frontal lobe into a mushy liquid, according to researchers in Georgia.
The 82-year-old man is believed to have contracted the shape-shifting organism while potting plants at an unnamed location, and was later struck by seizures, according to a case-study, which was published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The man was first treated for bacterial, fungal and viral meningitis before becoming drowsy and suffering from seizures, researchers from Emory University in Atlanta said in the report. He died nine days after being admitted to a hospital.
An autopsy revealed an amoeba had turned parts of the man’s dark matter into a mushy, “watery debris” known as “liquefactive necrosis.”
His cause of death was ultimately a rare infection of the brain and spinal cord generally caused by the species acanthamoeba, according to the report.
The patient had previously suffered from blood cancer, but had been in remission for more than a decade.
Acanthamoeba infection in the eyes can result in permanent damage to vision and blindness, according to the CDC. But most people with normal immune systems will be exposed to it at some point in their lives without getting sick.
>“Few would have the chutzpah to commandeer a secret room beneath Grand Central Terminal.”
Survival rates for Covid-19
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>contracted the shape-shifting organism while potting plants at an unnamed location, and was later struck by seizures
Sen. Rand Paul Questions Dr. Fauci at HELP Hearing Over Lockdowns - Sept. 23, 2020
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