Sunday, September 1, 2019

Joe Biden’s Afghan War Story – Coin Trees – Beggars Refuse Suspect Coins (India)


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-he-campaigns-for-president-joe-biden-tells-a-moving-but-false-war-story/2019/08/29/b5159676-c9aa-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

Washington Post
29 August 2019

As he campaigns for president, Joe Biden tells a moving but false war story

[…] The Navy captain, Biden recalled Friday night, had rappelled down a 60-foot ravine under fire and retrieved the body of an American comrade, carrying him on his back. Now the general wanted Biden to pin a Silver Star on the American hero who, despite his bravery, felt like a failure. […] Based on interviews with more than a dozen U.S. troops, their commanders and Biden campaign officials, it appears as though the former vice president has jumbled elements of at least three actual events into one story of bravery, compassion and regret that never happened. […]

https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/biden-says-essence-of-war-story-is-accurate-despite-report/article_d9fd3fba-ca8c-11e9-a1e0-4bdacd29deff.html

The Post and Courier [Charleston, SC]
29 August 2019

Biden says in SC that ‘essence’ of war story is accurate despite report of false details

ROCK HILL — Former Vice President Joe Biden pushed back on a report in The Washington Post that he recently told an inaccurate story in New Hampshire about traveling to Afghanistan to reward a heroic Navy captain. […]

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CambridgeshireLive [UK]
31 August 2019

'Wish tree' coins are harming Britain's historic woodlands, say conservationists

A trend for hammering coins into 'wish trees' is damaging woodlands and should be stopped, according to forestry conservationists. […]

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Times of India
31 August 2019

In Jewar, the new one rupee coin suffers a self-imposed ban by traders

GREATER NOIDA: While the small-sized one rupee coin is being used in the entire country, in Jewar it’s a strict no-no. Thanks to rumours on the authenticity of the coin, most traders and shopkeepers in Jewar refuse to deal in it. And the latest joke doing the rounds is that even a beggar in Jewar refuses to take the new coin. […]


Times of India
26 Jan 2003

In TN, small change is sold as scrap

TIRUCHIRAPPALLI: Rumours of demonetization of coins of lower denomination has led to people in Tamil Nadu's southern districts refusing to accept five paise, 10 paise and 20 paise coins which were being disposed off as scrap by some traders. […] Reports said that even beggars at several places refused to accept such coins. […]

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Hindustan Times
30 August 2019

With 60,000 children going missing in India every year, social media has propelled child lifting fear

[…] When the police is not so responsive to the complaints of missing children, the people tend to believe in social media communication on child lifting gangs active in their regions. Most of the cases of mob lynching of persons suspected to be child lifters have happened in places, from where the a child has gone missing and the police has not acted positively on the missing complaint. […]

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