White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 28, 2020

 https://smashwords2.weebly.com/2.html

What you need to know about Trump's SCOTUS pick and the confirmation process
President Trump announced yesterday he's nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat.
Republicans, who control the Senate, have outlined a swift confirmation process, but many Democrats say the vacancy shouldn't be filled until after Election Day...

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/us-election-news-09-27-20/index.html

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks Sunday about President Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
'Summon Your Conscience': Biden Implores GOP Senators To Wait On SCOTUS Nomination

Sep. 28 - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sunday implored Senate Republicans not to act on President Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court until after the American people finish selecting their next president.

"There are Senate Republicans out there who know in their hearts that if they shut out the voices of those during a voting period, during an election, they're closing the door on American democracy thereafter," Biden said during a speech in his hometown of Wilmington, Del.

"I urge every senator to take a step back from the brink, take off the blinders of politics for just one critical moment, and stand up for the Constitution you swore to uphold," said Biden, a longtime former senator himself. "Just because you have the power to do something doesn't absolve you of your responsibility to do right by the American people. Uphold your constitutional duty, summon your conscience."     continue to read

d

双航母完成海训 解放军锤炼战力 20200925 |《今日关注》CCTV中文国际
Sep 27 , 2020

China prepares to fly fighter jets over Taiwan

Sep. 27 - China seems set to overfly Taiwan with fighter jets. Such an operation would be designed to warn the United States against increasing its support for Taiwan. And second, to test whether President Tsai Ing-wen is willing to fire on Chinese aircraft.

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 27, 2020

 https://smashwords2.weebly.com/2.html

Eielson Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: EIL, ICAO: PAEI, FAA LID: EIL) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska and just southeast of Moose Creek, Alaska. It was established in 1943 as Mile 26 Satellite Field and taken off deployment in 2007. It has been a Superfund site since 1989.[2] Eielson AFB was named in honor of polar pilot Carl Ben Eielson.[3]

Its host unit is the 354th Fighter Wing (354 FW) assigned to the Eleventh Air Force of the Pacific Air Forces. The 354 FW's primary mission is to support Red Flag – Alaska, a series of Pacific Air Forces commander–directed field training exercises for U.S. Forces, joint offensive counter-air, interdiction, close-air support, and large force employment training in a simulated combat environment. These exercises are conducted on the Joint Pacific Alaskan Range complex with air operations flown out of the two bases.[4]

Eielson was projected to have 54 F-35s arriving in April 2020 and continuing through 2022. The planes were to come with an estimated 3,500 personnel, to include airmen and their families as well as civilian personnel.[5] The F-35 program will increase the number of military personnel at Eielson by about 50 percent, which is a significant change for a base once on the brink of closure.[6]

Distant Frontier on the Last Frontier
Sep. 23 - Distant Frontier provides units an opportunity both before and after RF-A to train in the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, drop live and inert weapons, and fight against the 18th Aggressor Squadron’s F-16 Fighting Falcons and surface-to-air threat simulators on the range.

“It provides an opportunity for greater integration, face-to-face mission planning, briefing and debriefing that otherwise would not be possible,” said Capt. Christopher Ellsworth, the RF-A 21-1 team lead.

Distant Frontier also allows units to focus on specific desired learning objectives...     more

The first F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 354th Fighter Wing lands at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, April 21, 2020. A total of 54 F-35As will be stationed at Eielson AFB by the end of 2021, which will make Alaska the most concentrated state for combat-coded fifth-generation aircraft

Why Pentagon is Beefing Up Its Alaska Presence ‘Literally in Sight’ of Russian Border

Last week, Alaskan Senator Dan Sullivan announced that the US Air Force would deploy 150 F-22 and F-35 fighter jets to his state, and said that they, as well as the construction of America's first deepwater port in the Arctic Circle, will send a ‘message’ to Russia and China about US power projection capabilities in the Arctic.

Sep. 26 - The 150 Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II jets expected to be deployed to Alaska will constitute one of the largest, if not the biggest single US deployment of fifth-generation stealth fighters anywhere in the world, given estimates that the Air Force at present operates 187 F-22s and fewer than 250 F-350s in total.
The 356th Fighter Squadron at Eielson Air Force Base in central Alaska received its first two F-35s in April, with four more on loan from Hill Air Force Base in Utah for training purposes. The 356th was reactivated in October 2019, becoming both the northernmost US fighter squadron, and said to be capable of targeting any part of either Europe or the Asia-Pacific region, according to military officials.

【精華】陸提92共識、台「不尋求與美建交」　美見不得別人好又來放火？　
川普興戰端助軍火商趁火打劫？
26 Sep 2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 26, 2020

 https://smashwords2.weebly.com/2.html

Amy Coney Barrett (born January 28, 1972)[1][2] is an American lawyer, jurist, and academic who serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Barrett considers herself a public-meaning originalist; her judicial philosophy has been likened to that of her mentor and former boss, Antonin Scalia.[3] Barrett's scholarship focuses on originalism.

Barrett was nominated to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by President Donald Trump on May 8, 2017 and confirmed by the Senate on October 31, 2017. While serving on the federal bench, she was a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, where she has taught civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation.[4][2][5][6] Eleven months after her confirmation to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017, Barrett was added to President Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees.[7] On September 25, 2020, it was reported by multiple U.S. media outlets that Trump intended to nominate Barrett on September 26, 2020 to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Supreme Court.[8]

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 25, 2020

 https://smashwords2.weebly.com/2.html

People crowd together without masks to attend a campaign rally by President Donald Trump at Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, on September 24, 2020. [Tom Brenner/Reuters]

19:30 ET – Trump campaigns before a large crowd in Jacksonville, Florida

President Donald Trump campaigned outdoors before a large crowd, many without masks in Jacksonville, Florida. Polls show Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden in a tight race in Florida.

“I just wish the cameras would show the crowd. They don’t want to do that. They don’t like to do that,” Trump said.
“It’s interesting, when Biden comes to Florida he has like one, two, three people,” Trump said. “He has a hard time filling up the circles.”     source

---

Deadline Now: Donald Trump Booed At Memorial, White House Calls It “Appalling,” Nancy Pelosi Tweets “Vote Him Out”

Sep. 24 - The president and the first lady visited the casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Tuesday, and all did not go as planned. They were booed and then met by chants of “Vote Him Out.”

It set off conflicting choruses of pro and con responses.

White House Press Secretary Kaley McEnany called the boos “appalling.”

Nancy Pelosi shared the video along with some words of advice.

Trump, for his part, claimed he didn’t even hear the boos.     source

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Campaign 2020
PRESIDENT TRUMP CAMPAIGN RALLY IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDAPresident Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida.

Donald Trump holds campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida
Sep. 24, 2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 24, 2020

 https://smashwords2.weebly.com/2.html

President Donald Trump speaks during a Wednesday news conference in the briefing room of the White House.
 JOSHUA ROBERTS/GETTY IMAGES

Trump says Kentucky attorney general is ‘handling’ Breonna Taylor situation ‘very well’ and refuses to commit to peaceful transition of power

President suggests he might not allow FDA to tighten standards for an emergency-use authorization of a coronavirus vaccinea

Sep. 24 - President Donald Trump, saying he needed to take a phone call, departed Wednesday’s coronavirus press briefing as a reporter asked him about protests in Louisville, Ky., after no police officer was charged directly over the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

One officer was charged with wanton endangerment for firing shots into neighboring apartments. Trump applauded Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s response to the case.

“He’s handling it very well,” Trump said, after reading a statement from Cameron that said justice is beholden “only to the facts and to the law.”

“If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice,” said Cameron, a Republican, who is often described as a protégé of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...     more

---

Hundreds of people gathered for protests in Lousiville following the announcement of a grand jury's indictment of just one of the three officers involved in the fatal killing of Breonna Taylor. File Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE

Protesters gather in Louisville after no officers directly charged in Breonna Taylor killing

Sep. 24 - Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Louisville to march in protest of a grand jury's decision to indict just one of three officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 23, 2020

 https://smashwords2.weebly.com/2.html

Democrats call Trump rally a ‘super spreader’ ahead of Western Pa. visit

Sep. 23 - With Pre  sident Donald Trump about to descend on Western Pennsylvania, riding the momentum of a likely Supreme Court nomination later this week, three prominent Democrats did what they could to highlight what they described as Trump’s “failed economic policies.”

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, Pennsylvania Democratic Party chair Nancy Patton Mills, and Darrin Kelly, president of the Allegheny/Fayette Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, took turns hammering Trump in a virtual news conference Tuesday morning.

The event coincided with the rollout of a mobile billboard set to be driven through Pittsburgh during the day with messages stating Trump has botched his handling of the covid-19 pandemic.

Mills and Fitzgerald made a point of referring to Trump’s scheduled campaign rally Tuesday at a hangar outside Pittsburgh International Airport as a “super spreader event.”

“We’re going to have thousands and thousands of people show up tonight without masks,” Fitzgerald said. “We have people in our colleges and our schools and our workplaces who have been responsible and now we have a president who is going to come tonight and encourage people to not wear a mask, making fun of people who do wear a mask.

“I’m very disappointed that people are going to listen to this president and believe his falsehoods when it comes to science, this virus and how we should be spreading out and wearing masks.” ...  continue to read

Trump and Xi tensions at UN meetingTrump and Xi tensions at UN meetingUS and China tensions have been on show at the annual UN General Assembly in New York, with US President Donald Trump blaming China for the spread of coronavirus.
In his speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country had "no intention to enter a Cold War with any country".
Ties between the two world powers are strained on a number of fronts.
The assembly was opened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who, without naming China or the US warned "we must do everything to avoid a new Cold War".
Date published on Sep. 23, 2020
Source from:  BBC News
Subsection World

President Donald Trump addresses the UN in a pre-recorded message. Source: UN Photo

Donald Trump attacks China for 'unleashing coronavirus plague onto the world'

US President Donald Trump continues to blame China for the coronavirus pandemic as the UN Chief warns of a cold war between the two superpowers.

Sep. 23 - US President Donald Trump angrily cast blame on China over the coronavirus pandemic in an address on Tuesday before the United Nations, whose chief warned against a new "Cold War" between the two powers.

At a General Assembly held almost entirely virtually due to COVID-19, Mr Trump delivered a speech in election campaign mode, even using his loaded term "China virus" as the US death toll crossed the grim milestone of 200,000.

"We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world - China," Mr Trump said in a recorded address to the General Assembly, where each nation was represented by a single, masked delegate...   more details

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 21, 2020

 https://smashwords2.weebly.com/1.html

"Looking at today's global landscape, it is clear that the common good is best served through more international cooperation, not less," the UN chief said on Friday.

"The UN's 75th anniversary, now more than ever, reminds us that multilateralism, consensus and cooperation must be instrumental in maintaining and safeguarding the principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter," the secretary-general said.

Guterres reiterated his stance on multilateralism under the current situation, noting it must be both "networked" and "inclusive"...He said he trusts that China will continue playing an important role in supporting multilateral efforts in building more equal and inclusive societies that are more resilient towards unprecedented global challenges...     more details

Trump urged the GOP-run Senate to consider 'without delay' his upcoming nomination to fill the seat vacated by Justice Ginsburg, who died Friday. Since 1869 nine justices have served on the nation's highest court. 'If he holds a vote in 2020, we pack the court in 2021', Kennedy tweeted Sunday. President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to pack the court with new judgeships in 1937 after watching the high court deal setbacks to his New Deal initiatives. That legislation was unpopular with the public and ultimately stalled. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler wrote on Twitter: 'If Sen. McConnell and @SenateGOP were to force through a nominee during the lame-duck session -- before a new Senate and President can take office - then the incoming Senate should immediately move to expand the Supreme Court.' And Sen. Ed Markey tweeted Friday: 'Mitch McConnell set the precedent. No Supreme Court vacancies filled in an election year. Senator Elizabeth Warren, vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, as well as former Rep. Beto O'Rourke had already raised the possibility of adding as many as six seats to the nine-seat court, even before Ginberg's death.

'If he holds a vote in 2020, we pack the court in 2021': Democrats threaten radical move to pack Supreme Court with extra justices if Trump's nomination goes through and they take the White House and the Senate

Sep. 21 - Democrats have threatened to pack the Supreme Court if Donald Trump's nomination gets confirmed following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 20, 2020

 https://smashwords2.weebly.com/2.html

Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women's rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. She advocated as a volunteer attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court. Ginsburg received attention in American popular culture for her fiery liberal dissents...     source

Senator Mitch McConnell will be instrumental in ensuring Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee is confirmed.(Reuters: Yuri Gripas)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of the most powerful women in America. What does her death mean for Donald Trump?

Sep. 20 - ...In political terms, Ginsburg's death is monumental.
It ratchets up the intensity of an already acrimonious Presidential race.
And it resets the playing field, with just 45 days until the election.

For that reason alone, it's a political windfall for Trump, who has tried desperately to shift attention onto anything other than the devastation wrought by the coronavirus and the parlous state of the economy.

Now the Republicans have a fresh battlefield on which to fight a major culture war, and it's a fight they've actually got a decent chance of winning.

There's little doubt Trump will nominate a replacement Supreme Court Justice in the coming days.

There's a lot of speculation about who it could be, but there's no question it will be a conservative judge.

That means a clear conservative majority on the bench that rules on many of the most consequential issues in America, like gun control, abortion, healthcare and same-sex marriage...     more detials

---