12 people killed in shooting at Virginia Beach municipal center
Yeah, it is the ‘‘most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach,’’ as the shooting occurred about 4 p.m., near the end of the workday as workers were winding down for the weekend and while Governor Ralph Northram (remember him?) was en route to the city!
Yeah, it is ‘‘unbelievable,’’ and has the stench of another staged and crisis drill gone live for the usual gun-grabbing reasons. It's possible it is real, but until proven otherwise the default position must be more mind-manipulating agenda-pushing being pushed forward by the ma$$ media. Until then, everything is on hold as the damage spreads to both parties (and yet they are all still there after everything blew over).
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Maryetta Dussourd, leading figure in fight against clergy abuse, dies at 74
More on the Church inside the paper.
"Local news is tanking. Report for America aims to help save it" by Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, May 30, 2019
FALMOUTH — The biggest news story in Woods Hole is climate change: Yet the National Public Radio affiliate, which was founded almost 20 years ago, does not have a reporter focused exclusively on the environment. That’s about to change.
The station is about to get a full-time reporter to concentrate solely on the human impacts of climate change through the Report for America program. Taking inspiration from Teach for America, the organization deploys early-career reporters to local newsrooms across the country to fill gaps in local coverage. The fellowship lasts for a year; newsrooms can opt to renew for a second.
“We feel like there’s no end of stories to be told about the human impact of climate change,” said Steve Junker, WCAI’s managing editor for news. Eve Zuckoff, a graduate of Boston University and a producer at WBUR, will be covering the beat.
Well, you can $ee for your$elf who is at the bottom of the agenda-pu$hing money grab.
Either that or I'm reading a jew$paper $teeped in $elf-centered and $upremaci$t concern.
Report for America is one encouraging response to the crisis facing local news across the nation. The United States has lost nearly 1,800 newspapers since 2004, according to a study from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, with 200 counties now having no newspaper at all.
That's odd, because I was told that Americans trust their local broadcasters more than the national and cable news outlets.
You’ve probably heard the reasons: massive cuts in print advertising, with Google and Facebook soaking up the majority of digital ad spending; declining interest among local readers, who can easily subscribe to national papers or browse free news and social media online; corporate owners like GateHouse Media, which owns dozens of daily and weekly papers in Massachusetts, relentlessly consolidating small papers.
You can hear the $ucking $ound, and thanks for mentioning me!
The closures affect democracy.
PFFFFFT!
These $elf-appointed elitists that call themselves journalists are so full of themselves I almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
Setti Warren, the executive director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. “When there isn’t a local news source, people turn to national political news, which is quite partisan right now.”
That really makes one stop and think.
How come I never got my piece on the influence of AIPAC?
The local void is being filled by a nonprofit founded by a former Globe reporter, and we all know that nonprofits provide new ways for corporations and individuals to influence things -- as if they didn't have enough ways already!
Sadly, the American pre$$ has become nothing but a mouthpiece for chosen propaganda.
With the newspaper industry hemorrhaging about 1,000 jobs a month in recent years, a more rapid decline than the coal-mining industry, Report for America and programs like it seem to present stopgap solutions to an unrelenting downturn. They can provide places like WCAI temporary reporters to cover pressing local issues, but they cannot restore local newspapers to their former place at the center of community life.
They spew and stink worse than coal, ha-ha-ha, and the local newspaper isn't the problem; it's the flag$hit of New England (a.k.a. the Bo$ton Globe).
Indeed, a recent report by the Columbia Journalism Review about two Report for America locations outlined some of the challenges the organization faces in local news landscapes.
One major challenge is the brief timeline of the reporting fellowship.
They only have “one oar in the water, although a notable success was a six-month reporting project about the lack of clean and reliable drinking water” -- not Flint -- and it “didn’t solve the problem but kept the spotlight on it (did it?).”
Yes, they care about the kids so much (if they really cared, there wouldn't be any lead in their water at all!)
Ideally, local newsrooms would hire the reporters after the two years are up; the partnerships between newsrooms and the organization are intended to be long-term.
Massachusetts has fared better than many other states: It has no news deserts, according to the University of North Carolina study. Still, newspaper circulation has decreased by almost 40 percent statewide since 2004.
I can't imagine why!
“I do think that things are a little bit better here than they are in other parts of the country,” said Dan Kennedy, a professor of journalism at Northeastern and the author of the Media Nation blog.....
Now excuse them as they all head to the billionaire summer camp.
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Related: An early look at the Encore casino’s millions of dollars’ worth of art
It's an eliti$t and monied pre$$, no que$tion about it!
"Trump melds his obsessions with tariffs, immigration" by Larry Edelman Globe Staff, May 31, 2019
President Trump’s threat to impose new tariffs on Mexico sent stocks tumbling in the United States and across the globe Friday, and the move, which Trump reportedly made against the advice of his top trade adviser, shows that he is determined to sustain his hard lines on trade and immigration even at the risk of hurting the economy. The political calculus, it appears, is that the economy is strong enough to withstand any damage as he pushes two hot-button issues that play well with his conservative base.
They are going to blame anything and everything to obfuscate the structural deficiencies inherent in this central bank Ponzi scheme that supports the $tatu$ quo and yawning wealth inequality.
Trump is turning up the heat on Mexico even as trade talks with China seem to be moving backward and tensions with Europe mount. Investors have been selling stocks and moving money into safer investments like bonds all month in reaction to the worrying and sometimes confusing trade news. Their concern: the proliferation of tariffs on products coming into and leaving the country will reduce profits for US exporters, raise prices on imported goods for consumers, and hamper the economy, which grew at an annual rate of 3.1 percent in the first quarter.
He better not go too far; they will crash the economy and ruin his reelection prospects.
“The world is moving toward another extended period of political and economic divergence, with some similarities to the original Cold War, but in many ways more invasive and more dangerous for investors,” Kim Catechis, head of global emerging markets at Edinburgh-based Martin Currie, wrote in a note to clients.
Fu*k that!
One industry that would be particularly hard hit is autos. Mexico is the largest exporter of cars, light trucks, and auto parts to the United States, and producers there have become an integral part of Detroit’s supply chain.
Just don't drink the water -- in either place!
Vehicle prices could rise, especially if the tariffs climb to 25 percent, and manufacturers could be forced to cut back depending on how demand is affected. Midwestern factory workers represent an important base of voters for Trump.
Especially if!
In November, the United signed a trade deal with Mexico and Canada that addressed some of the issues Trump had complained about during his first campaign, but the president is said to have become increasingly angry about the situation at the southern border.
The Mexican government, trying to defuse the latest conflict and preserve the trade pact, said the two sides would meet in Washington on Wednesday, with Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard representing Mexico and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leading the US delegation.
Megan Greene, chief economist for Manulife Investment Management in Boston, doesn’t see the trade wars pushing the country into recession. If financial markets continue to worsen, “the Fed will offset that” with a rate cut, she said.
They “don’t think the sky is falling,” and never see it coming anyway, so.....
Still, investors crave certainty. Trump thrives on chaos. Something will have to give soon.....
Oh, yeah?
What does he know that we do not?
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"More changes at MFA in the wake of racism allegations" by Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, May 31, 2019
Again.
Hardest working propagandist at the Globe.
The Museum of Fine Arts on Friday revealed a more detailed action plan in response to allegations of racism against middle school students who visited the museum in May.
Lyndsay Allyn Cox, director of theater arts at the Boston Center for the Arts, said she learned about the changes in an e-mail Friday morning to all MFA members.
“So many of us young artists of color really do support the MFA,” Cox said, adding that she had been to the “Black AF” late night at the museum in early May, which she called “the blackest party in Boston of all time.” She appreciated the outreach and was encouraged that the museum seemed to be taking racism seriously.
I know I'm off the beaten path on this one, but this whole event sounds fake. It is simply a way for Jewi$h supremacists to continue to push division based on fictitious events that are accepted as a reality.
Still, one of the quick fixes the museum just implemented is an edited greeting. When the seventh graders visited in mid-May, they said they were greeted by a museum staffer who explained the rules as “No food, no drink, no watermelon.” In an investigation of the incident, the museum wrote there was “no way to definitively confirm or deny” what the employee said, but that the standard greeting was “no food, no drink, no water bottles.”
Now the museum has eliminated the “no water bottles” phrase, “so that there’s just less room for any confusion or misunderstanding,” said Katie Getchell, deputy director of the MFA.
Starting to see my point or what?
Maybe a kid misheard, huh?
Some activists say the issue goes deeper.....
Yeah, “there’s an expectation that there can be an egalitarian enjoyment of art that is completely distilled from the biases and prejudices inherent in an elitist curation,” and after all, “you don’t know you have any race problems until other races start coming into your place.”
Related:
"Israeli police shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian near the West Bank separation barrier on Friday, Palestinian health officials said, while in Jerusalem’s Old City, an alleged Palestinian attacker was killed after stabbing two Israelis, according to Israeli police. The outbreak of violence came as tens of thousands of worshippers flocked to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque for noon prayers on the last Friday in the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Israeli police said the teenager was shot while attempting to climb over the heavily guarded separation barrier from Bethlehem into Jerusalem. The police added that they were launching a probe into the incident....."
Yeah, the Israelis are going to investigate themselves!
I'm sure they will clear them like the Cambridge cops.
Did you notice it's a "separation barrier" and not a wall?
I know, I know, I should be grateful the Globe decided to print that limited account, 'eh?
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Also see: Pressley calls UMass Boston grads ‘President Trump’s worst nightmare’ by Ysabelle Kempe
Need I even say it?
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"‘An act of hate pure and simple’ prompts peace rally in Peabody" by Steve Annear Globe Staff, May 31, 2019
Officials in Peabody are planning to host a peace rally outside of City Hall next week following an anti-Semitic incident against two local rabbis in which a person in a passing truck allegedly threw a penny out of the window and shouted a slur.
Yuh-huh.
Any street camera video (not that I would believe it)?
On Monday, Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman wrote on Facebook that over the weekend he was walking along Lowell Street with Rabbi Sruli Baron, of Everett, when “3 or 4 large [pickup trucks]” passed by them.
“The driver of the first truck slowed down and flipped us the birdie and yelled out ‘[expletive] Jews,’” Schusterman said in the lengthy post describing the May 25 incident. “A moment later, he throws a penny out of his window and shouted another anti-Semitic slur something to the effect of ‘go pick up the penny [expletive] Jew.’”
These false flag fakes for agenda-pushing purposes are coming so often they are becoming caricatures that deserve laughter.
Oh, the world must be so woke while the Globe fills its fellow Jews with fear (need that to keep the narrative of the poor, set-upon, victimized Jew).
Schusterman, director of Chabad of Peabody, said while he’s “not unaccustomed” to people shouting things at him from a vehicle as they drive away, the “angry and hateful vitriolic tenor” of this particular encounter during his Saturday stroll with a colleague “was new and quite upsetting.”
Ah, the Chabad!
For those who don't know, it's a supremacist Jew outfit with locations all over the world (some say its a cover for the Mossad).
Sort of puts another piece of false flag fakery into perspective, doesn't it?
“Walking and chatting while [visibly] Jewish was apparently too much for a bunch of pickup truck drivers,” he wrote in the post, which had been shared hundreds of times as of Friday morning. “This Shabbat cat call ... was simple, clear, unvarnished, hate.”
PFFFFT!
Why would they waste their time?
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Sure smells like another self-inflicted false flag, and the cost is minimal while the narrative-supplying benefit is much!
"Kevin Spacey’s lawyers claim accuser in Nantucket assault case deleted key text messages" by Matt Rocheleau Globe Staff, May 31, 2019
In new court filings, Kevin Spacey’s lawyers say the man accusing the actor of groping him at a Nantucket bar three years ago deleted text messages that would have helped Spacey disprove the allegations against him.
The attorneys also allege in filings released Friday that prosecutors lied about being in possession of the accuser’s phone and withheld evidence from it.
Oh, no!
They bungled the case so the sick pervert could go free!
This happens a lot in the ju$tu$ $y$tem!
And the defense filings raised concerns that the sister of a top official in the prosecutor’s office is close friends with the alleged victim’s mother, former WCVB-TV news anchor Heather Unruh.
Yup, case dismissed!
The lawyers asked the judge to order prosecutors at the Cape & Islands district attorney’s office to turn over “a complete and unaltered forensic copy” of the alleged victim’s cellphone as well as any written communications about the case by the official, whose sister is friends with Unruh.
District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said Friday he hadn’t read the filings by Spacey’s attorneys and declined to comment, particularly about the claim that his office lied about and withheld evidence.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, so I’m not going to comment on it,” O’Keefe said by phone. “That’s why we have hearings in court. . . . Let’s let that process play itself out.”
“If the defendant wasn’t who he is, no one would care about this case,” O’Keefe added.
REALLY?
You did know that the then-18-year-old was too young to drink in a bar, right?
Isn't the DA in some sort of trouble now?
How convenient for Spacey!
The accusation emerged in November 2017 during an emotional press conference, when Unruh publicly accused Spacey of sexually assaulting her son.
I'll bet she is wishing she had kept her mouth shut now.
In court papers released Friday, defense attorney Alan J. Jackson wrote that the alleged victim deleted text messages involving exchanges on the night of the incident with his then-girlfriend and in a group chat with at least six friends.
Jackson said prosecutors were “aware of this and hid that information.”
My print edition hid the rest.
Jackson said prosecutors “intentionally sent the defense on a months-long goose chase for information that was already in its possession, making a mockery of this Court’s discovery process and wasting this Court’s time and resources.”
He said that prosecutors “made both express and implied misrepresentations in order to conceal the fact that [the alleged victim’s] cell phone — an item of evidence that incontrovertibly proves that [the man] deleted exculpatory text messages and attempted to deceive law enforcement — has been in its custody and control since November 29, 2017.”
The entire society has been flipped on its head.
Now a sexual predator like Spacey is the victim!
When Spacey’s attorneys made a specific request for the man’s cellphone information in January, Deputy District Attorney Michael Giardino “affirmatively represented” that prosecutors weren’t in possession of it, “a statement which was plainly false,” Jackson wrote.
A month later, when Spacey’s lawyers requested a summons for the cellphone, the prosecution office “maintained it was not in possession” of it, Jackson said.
In March, the next month, prosecutors sent the altered screenshots of text messages the man had sent to police “at the same time withholding the accurate and exculpatory text messages,” Jackson said.
He said it wasn’t until April that Giardino “admitted to misrepresenting” that prosecutors weren’t in possession of the phone, “stating that he did not want to disclose” that prosecutors had the phone “until he had a chance to review the information himself,” Jackson wrote.
Jackson said he and his team still have not received a “complete forensic copy” of the phone or a copy of a report about information the prosecution previously extracted from the phone.
Why don't you call the NSA?
I'm sure they have it all, or can get it.
He said the judge’s previous rulings in the case ordering prosecutors to turn over some records from the cellphone are not enough in light of allegedly deleted texts and asked the judge to order prosecutors to turn over “a complete and unaltered copy” of the man’s phone.
Oh, they are trying to dig up dirt on the kid so they can smear his character and reputation, got it.
Jackson also said that Sharon Hogan is the sister of Cape & Islands First Assistant District Attorney Michael Trudeau and that Hogan is “close friends” with Unruh and her family.
Given the ince$tuou$ nature of Ma$$achu$etts politics, that is going to put lots of cases in jeopardy.
Attached to Jackson’s filings is a copy of a memo dated April 4 from Trudeau to O’Keefe and First Assistant District Attorney Brian Glenny.
“While I have made you aware of this situation by e-mail and orally, I think it is prudent to reduce it to writing,” Trudeau wrote. “On a recent vacation in South Florida. I spent time with my sister and brother in law who are living in Miami Beach. One night at dinner the topic of the Kevin [Spacey] Fowler case came up and my sister indicated that she knew the victim’s family quite well, particularly the mother, Heather. They have apparently vacationed together and shared a ski house for a few years.”
Where, Mount Snow?
“We did not discuss any details about the case that were not already in the public domain,” Trudeau’s memo continued. “My sister said that she hasn’t had any contact with the victim’s family since 2017 and had no information about the charge incident.”
“While this may or may not present a conflict I think it is important that we consider some sort of disclosure to the parties involved,” the memo concludes.
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Oh, God, Spacey is going to get off like Von Bulow (and Weinstein).
Is it just me, or is Jewish concern also the Globe's concern?
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More than $1 million in debt, Pope John XXIII High School in Everett will close
It is a “sad day for all of us” -- except for the kids who won't be abused.
Woman, 49, found slain in vehicle in Lexington
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"A Drag Queen Story Hour is coming to Fall River’s library — and now a group is planning to protest it" by Jaclyn Reiss Globe Staff, May 30, 2019
When an LGBTQ group approached the Fall River Public Library and asked if it could organize a Drag Queen Story Hour for kids for Pride Month this June, the head librarian thought it was a great idea.
“It’s happening in libraries all over, so I thought it would be great to do a Drag Queen Story Hour during Pride Month,” said Liane Verville, the library’s director. The hourlong event featuring drag queen Naomi Chomsky was set for Saturday at 11 a.m, but now, a month or so after the event was planned, protesters have flooded the library with calls railing against the decision, and a Christian group is planning to oppose the event in person Saturday.
I don't even need say it, and look at the sick agenda they are pushing.
Mark my words, this is leading to the legalization of pedophilia.
But they are looking out for the kids, yup!
“This kind of pornographic lifestyle and gender confusion should not be normalized in a publicly funded library in front of small children!” officials from the Massachusetts Family Institute wrote on their official Facebook page.
It’s a scene that has been playing out nationwide.
With cultural attitudes changing, such events have increased in both number and visibility; however, LGBTQ issues, especially ones concerning children, are still a lightning rod for critics.
More like being forced down our throats!
However, F.R. Pride, the Fall River-based group that helped organized the story hour, said the event seeks to unite LGBTQ people and families struggling with isolation in Massachusetts’ South Coast.
I'm also tired of the bad grammar!
“There are a lot of families in the South Coast, especially in the suburbs like Lakeville and Middleborough, who feel very isolated. There isn’t a huge network,” said Karina N. Valencia, the group’s director of strategic initiatives. “We hope to create a safe space to interact with other kids and families who look like yours, and to build a network of support.”
Why the bending over backwards for a small sliver of an extreme minority?
Valencia said the volunteer group aims specifically to help lower the rate of substance abuse and suicide attempts in LGBTQ youth by focusing on mental wellness.
“This isn’t an event that’s being forced upon people,” she said. “It’s an event geared toward a specific population for very specific health reasons.”
When it comes to the protests slated for Saturday, Valencia said she respects the opposition’s differences in opinion but is pleading with protesters not to behave in a disorderly manner.
“We hope if anyone comes to voice opposition, they don’t do it in a way that’s disruptive or traumatizing for the children,” she said.
Verville, the library’s director, said that even though she received about 50 calls in the past day and a half from protesters — fueled in part by a newsletter sent by a local pastor to his parishioners — she has also received messages of support and intends to forge ahead with the event.
“We try to represent the whole community and reflect a wide range of viewpoints,” she said. “Libraries promote inclusivity and acceptance of all people. They’re part of our community; we should be able to represent them.”
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Did you see jwho is at the bottom of the agenda at the library?
Time for a smoke:
"Jury awards Foxborough woman’s family $17.5 million for dying of lung cancer from smoking cigarettes" by John R. Ellement Globe Staff, May 31, 2019
Pamela Coyne smoked Winston cigarettes for 42 years, stopping about a year before lung cancer claimed her life in 2016 — and now RJ Reynolds has been ordered to pay her survivors a total of $17.5 million in damages.
Coyne’s husband, James, successfully persuaded a Middlesex Superior Court jury this week that RJ Reynolds should be held financially responsible for the Foxborough woman’s death by marketing a product harmful to consumers.
Oh, man, is that ever a $lippery $lope (except for the pharmaceuticals, who are immune for lawsuits thanks to our lootislators in Wa$hington).
So who is next, war indu$try manufacturers?
On Friday, the jury awarded punitive damages of $11.2 million, according to Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute, which filed the suit on behalf of the Coynes. The jury had earlier this week awarded $6.3 million in compensatory damages.
The institute, located at Northeastern, is the successor to the Tobacco Products Liability Project whose founder, Richard Daynard, played a major role in litigation that led to the historic 1998 master settlement.
According to the lawsuit filed in 2016, Pamela Coyne was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2015 and died in 2016. According to court papers, she started smoking Virginia Slims cigarettes when she was 12 years old and kept smoking the Philip Morris product until she was around 15 years of age.
??????????
In court papers, Reynolds denied that cigarettes could be considered legally defective. The company also maintained that it was not negligent in the way it produced and marketed Winstons, and that it could not be found to be negligently responsible for the lung cancer that killed Coyne, according to the court papers. Finally, the company wrote in court papers, Reynolds never forced Coyne to smoke.....
I hate to blow smoke, but I agree with the cigarette companies.
Whatever happened to personal responsibility or choice (choice only matters when it comes to abortion, right)?
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Maybe getting out of the Metro will lessen the $upremaci$t bull$hit:
Warren calls for allowing indictment of a sitting president in wake of Mueller’s comments
By Jess Bidgood
The Globe must have missed the radio show, and even Tucker sees them as ridiculous and a fake newspaper.
For the record, I like Liz and find this whole DNA thing an overblown distraction. It's not like she lied us into wars that have killed millions (yet, anyway). What is clear, however, is that the oligarchs and plutocrats that control politics will never again allow a populist to get close to the presidency, not after Brexit and Trump. Thus we get Joe Biden being forced on us as a sacrificial lamb so that Kushner, 'er, Trump can MIGA when the ticket should be Sanders-Warren (or vice-versa).
US Catholic Church reports big rise in sex-abuse allegations
Quantifying its vast sex-abuse crisis, the US Roman Catholic Church said Friday that allegations of child sex abuse by clerics more than doubled in its latest 12-month reporting period, and that its spending on victim compensation and child protection surged above $300 million.
I'm so glad I excommunicated myself from the predatory and perverse band of cultists.
National Spelling Bee, at a loss for words, crowns 8 co-champions
Missouri’s last abortion clinic can keep providing the procedure, for now
Judges: Feds must act if asked to take a fresh look at pot
The doctor's advice is to eat more ice cream.
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As for the World:
"UN atomic watchdog raises questions of Iran’s centrifuge use" by Kiyoko Metzler Associated Press, May 31, 2019
VIENNA — The UN atomic watchdog said Friday that Iran is continuing to stay within the limitations set by the 2015 nuclear deal with major powers but reported its stockpiles of low-enriched uranium and heavy water are growing and raised questions for the first time about Iran’s adherence to a key but vague provision intended to limit the country’s use of advanced centrifuges.
In a confidential quarterly report distributed to member states and seen by the Associated Press, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran has stayed within key limitations set in the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, for uranium and heavy water stockpiles, but.....
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Yeah, a War for the Jews is my World lead.
Man, is this stuff ever getting tiresome.
"North Korean diplomat out of public eye after Trump-Kim summit collapses, US investigates claims of executions" by Choe Sang-Hun New York Times, May 31, 2019
SEOUL — Kim Yong Chol, a former North Korean spy master and vice chairman of its ruling Workers’ Party, has become the latest example of how a senior North Korean official’s political fortune is made or broken at the whims of Kim Jong Un. This week, leading South Korean newspapers reported Kim Yong Chol’s fall from grace. One of them, the conservative daily Chosun Ilbo, went so far as to report that Kim had been banished to forced labor, with many of his negotiating team members either executed or sent to prison camps.
South Korean officials and analysts cautioned that it was too early to say with precision what was happening inside Kim Jong Un’s opaque regime. South Korean news media offered differing conjectures, including whether Kim Hyok Chol, the North’s special nuclear envoy to the United States, had been executed by firing squad in March, as the Chosun Ilbo reported, or was still under interrogation, but they all agree on one thing: Kim Yong Chol and his negotiating team, which had driven Kim Jong Un’s diplomatic outreach toward Washington, have been sidelined, as the North Korean leader sought a scapegoat to blame for his disastrous second summit meeting with Trump, held in Vietnam in February.
Yeah, the standard American (((media))) treatment of North Korea is exactly like the type of over-the-top propaganda you would see during a war.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, asked at a news conference in Berlin on Friday about the report that Kim Yong Chol had been purged, said US officials were looking into it.
“We’re doing our best to check it out,’’ he said.
Analysts agreed that Kim Yong Chol’s removal as head of the United Front Department, a major party agency, signaled that his influence had been vastly curtailed at a minimum.....
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Time to reach for an airsick bag!
"Pope Francis issues warning about populism during visit to Romania" by Jason Horowitz and Kit Gillet New York Times, May 31, 2019
BUCHAREST — Days after European elections emboldened nationalists in the heart of Europe, Pope Francis arrived on Friday in Romania, on the Catholic and European periphery, to appeal for unity and assert himself as the global conscience on the dangers of populism.
As if this sick pervert and his band of pedophiles had any credibility left to lecture anyone on anything regarding conscience and morality.
In his three-day trip to the former communist country, now a staunchly pro-European member state, the pope will try to heal an ancient schism between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, but he reminded the Continent of its common values and lent support to Romanian emigrants and a Roma ethnic minority that, in some countries, has again become a target of right-wing vitriol.
What would those values be, anyway?
Some pooper-pumping to the altar boys?
“To move forward together, as a way of shaping the future, requires a noble willingness to sacrifice something of one’s own vision or best interest for the sake of a greater project,” Francis said in the first papal visit to Romania since John Paul II went there 20 years ago.
Look at this true globalist who is part of the problem!
In recent years populists have surged from the margins to bring down or weaken the pope’s pro-European allies, most recently in France and his own Italian backyard.
Good.
A corrupt institution like that should be brought down and utterly dissolved!
On Friday, Romania seemed more welcoming to his message, but the pope’s meeting with government officials on a cloudy afternoon comes at a tense period for Romania.
Oh, yeah?
On Monday, Liviu Dragnea, the leader of the governing center-left Social Democrats and the most powerful politician in the country, was sentenced to more than three years in prison for abuse of office, and over the weekend, the party suffered a steep drop in support in European Parliament elections after years of engaging in what Brussels considered backsliding in its fight against corruption.
See: The most powerful politician in Romania sent to prison for corruption
What sad is the "left" is nothing but a $hell of its former $elf, and is more corrupt than the "right."
So when are the Clintons going to be sent to prison?
On Friday, the pope addressed those challenges, but also the domestic conditions that have compelled millions of Romanians to leave the country “in order to seek new opportunities for employment and a dignified existence.”
Although he congratulated Romania on the enormous strides it had made since its liberation 30 years ago, he also encouraged its leaders to strengthen its institutions to “respond to the legitimate aspirations of the citizenry.”
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Also see: Flooded Danube hampers rescuers after Budapest boat accident
Why was that the only story worthy of a follow up?
"Julian Assange suffering psychological torture, UN expert says" by Nick Cumming-Bruce New York Times, May 31, 2019
NEW YORK — A United Nations expert on torture said on Friday that an examination of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a British prison showed an alarming deterioration in his mental and physical state, and he sharply rebuked Britain, Sweden, and the United States for “ganging up” on Assange.
The UN special rapporteur on torture and ill treatment, Nils Melzer, said the examination in early May revealed that Assange’s “capacity to focus and coordinate have been clearly affected” by his imprisonment.
“He was extremely jumpy and stressed,” Melzer said in an interview. “It’s difficult to have a structured conversation with him. There’s so much going on in his mind it’s difficult to have a dialogue with him.”
Looks to me like he is being pumped full of drugs!
Furthermore, he said in a statement, Assange should not be extradited the United States, where he faces charges of conspiracy to hack into a Pentagon computer. He said that the cumulative effects of Assange’s punishment can only be described as “psychological torture.”
The UN official said he had sent his findings to the governments of Britain, Sweden, and the United States, along with Ecuador.
That would be like Jews sending a report on the condition of the concentration camps to Hitler's Germany!
Assange, 47, who is hailed by many as a champion of transparency, has been sought by prosecutors around the globe on a variety of charges. He jumped bail in Britain and sought refuge in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London as Sweden was in the middle of investigating a rape accusation against him. The United States has accused him of helping an Army private to illegally download and leak classified information in 2010, much of it about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That is where my print copy ended, and I believe the torture (and hormone treatment?) of Manning led to his change of gender.
After he lived in the Ecuadoran Embassy in the British capital for seven years, his relationship with his hosts soured over his arguments with the embassy’s staff, his skateboarding indoors, and what the nation’s officials described as threats and leaks meant to embarrass Ecuador. The country’s vice president, who blamed WikiLeaks, called the actions “despicable” and vowed to take action.
In April, the Ecuadoran government — which had granted him asylum and, eventually, citizenship — withdrew its protection. The British police then hauled Assange out of the embassy and placed him under arrest. A British court later sentenced him to 50 weeks in jail for violating the terms of his bail.
His group made the mistake of outing the corrupt Ecuadoran president, and what a spectacle that was when they hauled him out.
The United States is seeking his extradition to face multiple counts of espionage for his part in the release of thousands of classified military and diplomatic cables in 2010, and he faces possible extradition to Sweden in connection with the rape investigation.
On Thursday, Assange was to appear by video link from Belmarsh Prison in East London at a court hearing on the United States’ application for his extradition, but his British lawyer, Gareth Peirce, said her client was not well enough to participate. The presiding magistrate set June 12 for the next hearing and suggested it could be held in Belmarsh.
WikiLeaks said on Thursday that Belmarsh Prison authorities had moved Assange to its hospital wing after he experienced drastic weight loss and other health problems. It also said that when Assange’s Swedish lawyer, Per Samuelson, visited him in Belmarsh on Friday, he found “that it was not possible to hold a normal conversation with him.”
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So when is the pre$$ going to come to his defense?
I mean, first they came for..... you know.
Oh, right, the pre$$ is part of the problem and nothing more than a mouthpiece for the government and its chosen concerns.
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More new cancer therapies are being launched than ever before, but spending is skyrocketing
Cancer is BIG BU$INE$$, so why would they want to cure it?
Hell, they might even give it to you!
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"Craving a cookie at 3 a.m.? Insomnia Cookies has been approved for Downtown Crossing" by Emily Sweeney Globe Staff, May 31, 2019
If you’re a sleepless student with a sweet tooth, you’re in luck: A late-night cookie joint recently got the green light to open a location in downtown Boston, city officials said.
The company, which specializes in delivering warm, freshly baked cookies to homes and businesses, was founded in 2003 by Seth Berkowitz, who cooked up the idea in his dorm room when he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania.....
That's how the cookie crumbled!
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Also see:
‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli sues over ouster from company
Musk Loses $4.9 Billion in Tesla's Worst-Ever Start to a Year
That stinks.
Justice Department preparing a potential antitrust investigation of Google
Will they get to decide their own punishment like Facebook?
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Time to head home:
Roxbury Prep High deserves a real home
While Beacon Hill lawmakers thrash about looking for the magic financial bullet that will turn failing schools into better ones and good schools into great ones, a Boston public charter school celebrates its first class of graduating seniors Tuesday — 97 percent of whom will be going on to four-year colleges.
Where they will find the Good Life:
For women in Mass. on front lines of the fight to dismantle Roe v. Wade, hope mixes with skepticism
How my open, honest approach to puberty is paying off with my preteen daughter
As you can see, the Globe had sex on the brain today.
Now if you will excuse me, I need to go vomit.
