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INSIDE THE POST Volume 4 Number 30 LOS ANGELES SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 YOUR WINDOW TO THE FILIPINO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY YOUR WINDOW TO THE FILIPINO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY Trump rejects climate change role in CA wildfires Garcetti refutes SACRAMENTO – President Trump claim Donald Trump on Monday on wildfires asserted that climate change is not playing a role in the catastrophic COMMUNITY, Page 10 wildfires overtaking forests across the west, rebutting an official briefing him who pleaded for the President to listen to the science. “I don’t think science knows, California Gov. Gavin Newsom briefs President Doland Trump on the raging California fire. actually,” Trump said at a Monday briefing with officials in McClellan Park, California, with a laugh. Trump disputes CDC chief He told Wade Crowfoot, secretary of California’s Natural Resources Agency: “It’ll start getting cooler. You just watch.” on masks, vaccine timeline Suga named Crowfoot had warned the President of the dangers of Says vaccine new Japanese ignoring the science and putting prime minister “our head in the sand and thinking could be ready that it’s all about vegetation US & WORLD, Page 12 management.” next month Climate experts tell CNN due to human-caused climate change, WASHINGTON — Openly temperature extremes are climbing contradicting the government’s top higher and the vegetation is drier, health experts, President Donald which affects the fire behavior. Trump predicted Wednesday Trump was also directly that a safe and effective vaccine confronted by the state’s against the coronavirus could Democratic governor, Gavin be ready as early as next month Newsom, who has been adamant and in mass distribution soon about climate change’s role in after, undermining the director of the wildfires, bluntly telling the the Centers for Disease Control President: “Climate change is OREGON WILDFIRE. This is what is left of a mobile home park and Prevention and calling him Bill gates on US real.” in Phoneix, Oregon following a massive wildfire that continues to “confused” in projecting a longer virus response: “We obviously feel very rage through the West Coast. Ten people have died and dozens are time frame. missing in the Oregon fire. Story on Page 9. Trump also disagreed with ‘Among the worst’ (See WILDFIRES, Page 7) Dr. Robert Redfield about the US & WORLD, Page 3 effectiveness of protective 44 nabbed UN rights chief to PH: Stop masks — which the president for jobless recommends but almost never policies that lead to killing wears — and said he’d telephoned claims fraud Redfield to tell him so. MANILA — The Duterte passed Anti-Terror Bill “with Earlier in the day, the CDC LOS ANGELES -- Police administration must “revoke the many problematic provisions,” sent all 50 states a “playbook” have arrested 44 people in Beverly policies” that have led to the which rights groups feared was for distribution of a vaccine to all Hills responsible for identity theft rising spate of deaths here in being used to justify the arbitrary Americans free of cost when one and EDD fraud totaling over $2.5 the Philippines, the UN’s High arrests and killings of human is proven safe and effective — million, said the Beverly Hills Commissioner on Human Rights rights defenders and activists. which is not yet the case. Police Department. (OHCHR) said on Tuesday at the “There is clearly an urgent Redfield told a congressional Fil-Am among Police add that a total opening of the 45th Human Rights need to revoke these policies that hearing that health care workers, Trump’s possible of 129 fraudulent California Council session in Geneva. continue to result in killings and first responders and others at high SCOTUS picks unemployment benefits debit High Commissioner Michele other human rights violations, to risk would get the vaccine first, cards have been recovered, and Bachelet made this remark as bring to justice the perpetrators, perhaps in January or even late COMMUNITY, Page 11 over $289,000 in U.S. currency she expressed concerns about and to halt the use of rhetoric this year, but it was unlikely to have been located on the suspects President Rodrigo Duterte’s inciting violence against people be available more broadly, again • Xi Jin-ping’s and seized. They’ve also found intention to reinstate the death who use or sell drugs,” Bachelet assuming approval, before late New World Order seven handguns either carried by penalty. In her statement, Bachelet said. spring or summer. the suspects or within their cars. specifically mentioned both the Bachelet said she was After Trump’s comments, • The economic (See COVID, Page 6) consequences (See FRAUD, Page 8) drug war as well as the recently (See RIGHTS, Page 9) of dictatorship 3 OPINION, Pages 4 & 5 FBI chief: Russians seeks to stop Biden win Page 6 Page 2 PHILIPPINE POST September 18, 2020 September 18, 2020 PHILIPPINE POST Page 3 Bill Gates: US virus response ‘shocking,’ ‘among the worst’ MICROSOFT co-founder COVID-19 cases in the U.S., Bill Gates described the Trump which outpaces other developing administration’s response to the countries like India (4.9 million coronavirus crisis as “shocking” cases), Brazil (4.3 million cases), and “unbelievable” that the United and Russia (1 million cases). States “would be among the worst The lockdowns accompanying in the world.” the pandemic have resulted in an “You know, this has been a economic recession, with millions mismanaged situation every step of Americans losing jobs. Nearly of the way,” the Microsoft co- 1 in 5 Americans are still worried A man stops on his bike along the Willamette River as smoke from founder and billionaire said in an about losing their job in the next wildfires partially obscures the Tilikum Crossing Bridge, Saturday, interview with STAT News. “It’s 12 months. shocking. It’s unbelievable — the According to a report by the Smoke from West Coast fact that we would be among the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation worst in the world.” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called Goalkeepers, which tracks Gates added that the variety of how much progress the world has fires reach East, Europe missteps by the U.S. government, Foundation said. “And science made towards the United Nations THE WILDFIRES that United States, according to the from testing to issuing guidance to should never be politicized. Sustainable Development Goals, have choked California’s skies National Weather Service. new hires, were baffling. Science is about getting at the COVID-19 has erased gains made with smoke in recent weeks — There is enough smoke to “The administration’s now truth. Science is what moves across the board in the last two littering cities with ash, wreaking partially shroud the sun in parts hired this Stanford guy who society forward.” decades. havoc on regional air quality of the East Coast, forecasters said. has no background at all just She added that the government “Consider vaccine coverage, and transforming the sun into an “Satellite images this morning because he agrees with their has also effectively “neutered” which is a good proxy measure ominous red orb — have now show smoke aloft moving over crackpot theories,” Gates said of the Centers for Disease Control for how health systems are stretched their sooty tendrils to much of the Northeast and Mid- Dr. Scott Atlas the President’s new & Prevention (CDC), which functioning,” the report stated. the other side of the country and Atlantic,” the weather service’s coronavirus advisor. was “set up originally to give “Our data partner, the Institute beyond. Baltimore-Washington office Melinda Gates, in a separate for Health Metrics and Evaluation tweeted Tuesday morning. “This sound medical advice,” rendering Plumes from deadly and smoke is obscuring the sun, and interview with Axios, concurred it unable to do its job, hence (IHME), found that in 2020, record-breaking fires burning will keep temperatures a few with her husband’s opinion. compounding the COVID-19 coverage is dropping to levels last up and down the West Coast are degrees cooler today than what “We’ve had terrible leadership response. seen in the 1990s. In other words, being caught in the atmospheric would be observed if the smoke on this issue, quite frankly,” the co- There are currently more we’ve been set back about 25 jet stream and carried across the was not present.” chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates than than 6.5 million confirmed years in about 25 weeks.” distressed small businesses. suffering the economic effects NJ attorney charged with PPP loan fraud Choi allegedly used the resulting from the COVID-19 fraudulently obtained PPP loan pandemic. One source of relief NEWARK, N.J. – A Bergen to make his initial appearance by tax records, and falsified a driver’s proceeds to pay for numerous provided by the CARES Act is County, New Jersey, attorney videoconference today before license on the applications. personal expenses, including to the authorization of up to $349 was arrested today and charged U.S. Magistrate Judge James B. Choi allegedly falsely buy, among other things, a nearly billion in forgivable loans to small with fraudulently obtaining Clark III. represented to the lenders that $1 million home in Cresskill, New businesses for job retention and approximately $9 million in According to documents filed the companies controlled by Jersey, to fund approximately certain other expenses through Paycheck Protection Program in this case and statements made him had hundreds of employees $30,000 in remodeling and other the PPP. In April 2020, Congress (PPP) loans, U.S. Attorney Craig in court: and paid over $3 million in improvements, and to invest authorized over $300 billion in Carpenito and Acting Assistant Choi allegedly submitted three monthly wages. Based on Choi’s millions more in the stock market additional PPP funding.