Had a front seat yesterday, and I began with a chunk of Kudlow as I worked my way forward:
"What Trump’s Huawei reversal means for the future of 5G" by Andrew Ross Sorkin New York Times, July 1, 2019
The United States needs a meaningful strategy to lead the world in next-generation wireless technology — a kind of Manhattan Project for the future of connectivity.
Don’t take my word for it.
Don't worry, I wasn't. I saw the byline.
In April, amid the frenzy over the report from Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian election interference, another alarming government report was issued — and largely overlooked.
Well, no longer and this is obviously a controlled leak with the New York Times the willing conduit as before.
It was written by the Defense Innovation Board, a group of business leaders and academics that advises the Defense Department, and it was a scathing indictment of the country’s 5G efforts.
“The leader of 5G stands to gain hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue over the next decade, with widespread job creation across the wireless technology sector,” wrote the board, a who’s who of the tech world that includes former Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and Walter Isaacson, a former chief executive of the Aspen Institute.
It is no wonder. No American company makes the devices that transmit high-speed wireless signals. Huawei is the clear leader in the field. Swedish company Ericsson is a distant second.
That is because China has been spending its money developing infrastructure and the good old USA has wasted it on Wars for the Jews.
It is almost surprising that the Defense Department allowed the report to be published at all, given the board’s blunt assessment of the nation’s lack of innovation and what it said was one of the biggest impediments to rolling out 5G in the United States: the Pentagon itself.
Yuh-huh.
The board said the broadband spectrum needed to create a successful network was reserved not for commercial purposes but for the military.
Not winning the 5G contest comes with consequences.
“If China leads the field in 5G infrastructure and systems, then the future 5G ecosystem will likely have Chinese components embedded throughout,” the Defense Innovation Board wrote. “This would pose a serious threat to the security of D.O.D. operations and networks going forward.”
Yeah, and we have to have our lying, double- and triple-crossing, intelligence and law enforcement agencies doing that, not someone else, and Silicon Valley is government, literally if not figuratively, as it works hand-in-glove with them.
It becomes a sad day in America when you trust the Chinese more than your own government, and that comes with the pile full of anti-Chinese propaganda we have and are being treated.
One of the board’s recommendations is that the Defense Department share its low-band spectrum to accelerate the commercial development of the technology in the United States.
Sharing spectrum should be only the start, however. Policy makers must grasp that the “market” in the United States isn’t working the way it should, especially when state actors like China are supporting companies like Huawei.
Uh-oh.
If the United States is going to lead the world, Washington needs to think hard about the incentives it provides companies — not only for research and development, where we are still leading, but also for manufacturing the technology that is in our national interest to control as well as what mergers it allows.....
At least the journali$t showed his true colors by using the editorial we and our in his report. Nothing but a mouthpiece.
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Makes one wonder if that C-section item has something to do with the World lead:
"Hong Kong police forcibly clear thousands of protesters occupying legislature complex" by Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin Washington Post, July 1, 2019
HONG KONG — Police used force early Tuesday to clear thousands of protesters in and around Hong Kong’s legislature after some broke into the complex and occupied it Monday, the 22nd anniversary of the semiautonomous city’s return to Chinese rule.
And the pre$$ cheers!
Yes, memories of the Obama-contrived and created controlled opposition known as Occupy and a reopening of the umbrellas in what has, in one way or another, become the hallmark of CIA-instigated destabilization and/or regime changes when presented to me by my pre$$.
The escalation has brought Hong Kong into unprecedented and uncertain territory, and represents the biggest test of Beijing’s grip over the global financial hub and the status under which it operates.
If there is nothing the Chinese detest more, it is disharmony, and nice job while President Xi was in Korea and at the G-20.
Protesters on Monday smashed their way through metal barricades and glass doors surrounding Hong Kong’s Legislative Council. As they wrote graffiti on walls, tore down portraits of pro-Beijing officials, and emptied rooms of chairs and desks, the mostly young protesters escalated weeks of tensions and massive demonstrations to a new level.
The demonstrators occupying the complex penned a declaration that included a call for overthrowing the ‘‘puppet Legislative Council and the Government,’’ and they vowed to stay, but just after midnight Tuesday, police equipped with riot shields, tear gas, and other projectiles began ejecting protesters on streets surrounding from the complex. Police then retook the complex, stopping and frisking the young protesters who remained nearby.
I like how their legislature -- as opposed to our looti$latures -- is a complex, as if there is something more nefarious going on (it reminds of the I'm rubber, your glue argument, with EUSraeli accusations the sign of a guilty conscience).
More than 500,000 demonstrators, meanwhile, marched peacefully across the city Monday and forced major thoroughfares to shut down.
Then the apology was bullshitto, 'eh?
The scenes of defiance were the latest indication that anger here, sparked by plans to allow extraditions to China but now incorporating broader concerns about Hong Kong’s autonomy and Beijing’s influence, will not be easily quelled.
The protesters smashed shutters, broke windows, and ripped down metal fencing around the Legislative Council, eventually forcing their way into the building.
At some point during the night, police appeared to vacate their posts. By 9:30 p.m., dozens of demonstrators wearing yellow hard hats and carrying umbrellas had entered the building and were roaming the complex. They spray-painted wood-paneled walls with graffiti cursing the Hong Kong government and tore down posters of pro-Beijing officials. Outside, protesters cheered as more windows and doors were smashed open.
Later Monday night, police said the building was ‘‘violently attacked’’ and ‘‘illegally entered.’’ In a tweet, they warned that they would conduct a sweep with ‘‘reasonable force’’ and urged people to leave the area.
Looks like the Hong Kong police handled it all with perfect professionalism!
The Hong Kong government in a statement also condemned the ‘‘violent acts,’’ which it said was the work of ‘‘radical protesters.’’
Protesters inside the building, however, vowed to come back even if they were cleared out.
Looks like a jail cell then, especially with the call to overthrow the government. That's what it would be here in AmeriKa. As it is, all we can do is ineffectually complain about their yoke. I'm not calling for an overthrow; I'm calling or have called for a truly representative government that actually abides by the Constitution. We don't have that know. We have a fetid, rank, and rotted carcass of corruption wobbling to its doom.
‘‘Unless universal suffrage and a just election system are in place, we shall never stand down,’’ they said in a statement.
Monday’s chaotic demonstrations came on a day when the territory’s return to Beijing is officially celebrated.
Who would want to ruin that, huh?
July 1, the anniversary of the 1997 handover of sovereignty, has always been marked by marches involving hundreds of thousands of people who want to uphold Hong Kong’s unique status, democratic characteristics, and relative freedoms compared with mainland China, but after weeks of unprecedented tensions in the territory, Monday’s protests took on a different flavor. In the face of an increasingly assertive Beijing, protesters saw the occasion as their final chance for a massive stand against a government they believe is not working in their interests.
That's strange. Above I was told they took it to a new level and will be hard to quell, and now I'm being told it was some sort of massive last stand?
C'mon, WaComPo, please keep the narrative based on lies and distortions consistent.
An hour into the planned afternoon march, police sent out a warning, discouraging people from joining the procession.
‘‘Police absolutely respect people’s freedom of assembly, procession and expression of opinion in a peaceful and orderly manner,’’ the statement said. ‘‘However, Police’s risk assessment indicates that there is a serious safety threat’’.
Yet, demonstrators turned up in the tens of thousands, filling Hong Kong’s main roads with a swell of shuffling people.....
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They should consider themselves lucky; they could be protesting in Sudan.
"OPEC extends output cuts into 2020 as marathon meeting ends" by Nayla Razzouk, Dina Khrennikova and Javier Blas Bloomberg News, July 1, 2019
OPEC will extend production cuts into 2020, attempting to buoy oil prices as the world’s leading exporters fret about the outlook for global demand growth and the relentless rise in output from America’s shale fields, but the talks were marred by hours of wrangling between Iran and other members over a charter enshrining the OPEC+ alliance. Eventually, a compromise was reached.
Putting Iran aside for a moment, the oil glut that is bankrupting oil and gas companies has at least brought the rest of the world economic hardship, and if you get thirsty this summer you can always guzzle a gallon of gas, right?
May have to with the constant fracking pollution the groundwater and aquifers with who knows what kind of chemicals and poisons. Then we will all have to drink soft drinks instead!
The repeated decisions to keep rolling the cuts forward shows the challenge of controlling the oil market in the age of shale. For Moscow, there’s an extra incentive to extend the curbs by nine months as Russian oil companies struggle to raise production over the winter. By extending the deal into 2020, Russia could be in a better position to pump more during the spring of next year. The idea of a longer-than-expected extension was first raised by President Vladimir Putin after he met Saudi Arabia’s crown prince at the G-20 summit in Japan on Saturday.
Yeah, he's working with them on oil prices in the convoluted game of geopolitics. Shale has made it prohibitive for Russia to drill; however, fracking is akin to a one-hit high before you have to crack, 'er, frack again. You frack, you inhale the gas, it's captured, then gone. Gotta frack again, and thankfully the pre$$ keeps the earthquakes quiet.
Since OPEC joined forces in 2016 with other producers including Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mexico, it has sought to establish an enduring basis for cooperation, but Iran has voiced unhappiness with the dominance that non-member Russia and regional rival Saudi Arabia exert over OPEC policy.
Uh-oh.
What that tells you is Iran can not be 100% sure that Russia will be there if, you know, attacked. It may be 95%, 90% -- enough enrichment level for a bomb, which they are not doing but I like to let it stew for a while, the lie I mean -- or it could even be as low as 0%. Maybe experience and their next door neighbor's experience has taught them that they can only rely on themselves. They won the ground war in Syria, not the Russians. The airpower was integral and can help you win the ground, but it isn't boots occupying the ground. I know if I were a high-level Iranian in the Defense Ministry, I would be preparing for just such a scenario. It's called protecting your national security.
The decision to extend production curbs through next March comes as the International Energy Agency and other market watchers peg back forecasts for demand amid sluggish growth in China and India, and American shale production has set records, putting the United States on the brink of becoming a net oil exporter.....
Let's hope it doesn't $tall.
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Related:
Environmentalists ask judge to cancel Keystone permits
Why do we even need it with record-low unemployment and the U.S. as the biggest gas and oil producer/exporter? Why help with the dirty sands project for Canadian sake?
Also see:
Journalism jobs cut at highest rate since 2009
Awwwwwwww, am I supposed to feel sorry and sympathy for them?
At least the Globe is a work space that champions equality for women:
"The Red Sox had precious little to celebrate on the field in London over the weekend, but behind the scenes, team brass raised a toast to the arrival of baseball across the pond — and raised awareness about an important cause. Home Base — a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital program — and the UK’s Walking With the Wounded hosted the Mission: Gratitude Gala at Kensington Palace, raising $1.3 million for veterans dealing with mental health issues, and their families. Aptly, the fund-raiser took place on June 27, which is National PTSD Awareness Day. The lavish bash drew a host of notables from Boston as well as some boldface Brits, including perennially youthful rocker Sting, who serenaded partygoers. On the guest list: Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, his wife, Lauren, and daughter Caroline; Massachusetts General Hospital president Dr. Peter Slavin and his wife, Lori; VantEdge co-founder Paul Edgerley and his wife, Sandy; Bank of America vice chairman Anne Finucane; designer and diehard Sox fan Joseph Abboud; Member of Parliament Edward Miliband; Home Base executive director and retired Brigadier General Jack Hammond and his wife, Colleen; NESN host Tom Caron; and Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred. Many members of the Red Sox leadership made the fancy fund-raiser, including principal owner John Henry and his wife, Boston Globe managing director Linda Pizzuti Henry; team chairman Tom Werner; manager Alex Cora; president and CEO Sam Kennedy; president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski; Red Sox Foundation executive director Rebekah Salwasser; and foundation honorary chairman Tim Wakefield."
What, no trip to Idaho this year?
I guess they are going to cake on the make-up before going out to the movies, and I now see why Baker was criticized, I mean, imagine the carbon footprint on the junket, and I was surprised Kraft and Belichik were not there along with other notables like Michelle Carter, Loren Owens, or Scott Lively.
So much for carbon footprints and spew from my holier than though authority-celebrities and pre$$:
"The world’s existing power plants, industrial plants, buildings, and cars are already numerous enough — and young enough — to commit the Earth to an unacceptable level of warming, according to new research published Monday, and it gets worse....."
Yeah, the Haverhill smokestack was hit by lightning while a hailstorm blanketed western Mexico under 3 feet of ice (anybody hear the twang of a HAARP?).
What you are not seeing or reading about is the devastating crop losses (is the Midwest still under water, because amidst the overzealous and obsessive Trump coverage the floods kind of got washed away), and why would the Globe and its core audience care. They won't be the ones starving.
Anybody hear a buzzing?
Harvard researchers unveil new robot ‘bee’ that can fly without a power cord
Yeah, “having onboard power is the first big step to getting microrobots out of the lab and into the real world,” said F. Zeynep Temel, who works on ant-sized jumping robots at Carnegie Mellon University.
Can they pollinate same as real bees, or are they going to be little spies?
Meanwhile, of more immediate concern due to placement on page B1 is this:
The governor during the Flint water crisis is now a Harvard fellow — amid a wave of protest
Which is all well and good; however, there is no protest over Bain Capital raising $1.5 billion for real estate fund with Harvard University’s endowment is among the biggest backers and other investors include the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association as investors pour record amounts of capital into the industry.
Time to drop you off at summer camp (the island looks different), and let's hope it isn't a cover for sex trafficking.
Look what they dug up:
Rwandan Man Who Lied About Role In Genocide Sentenced To More Than 8 Years In Prison
Ah, the South Also Rises!
"Suspect in Esplanade attack on jogger sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for mental health evaluation" by Kellen Browning and John R. Ellement Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, July 1, 2019
The man accused of stabbing an Allston woman on the Esplanade with a pair of scissors Friday was in a psychotic state Monday and could not be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court, according to court officials.
Luis A. Olivo, who has a history of mental health problems and assault charges according to court records, was instead sent to Bridgewater State Hospital to undergo a competency evaluation.
They sent him to the dungeon known as Bridgewater, but I guess the state has enough scandals in the pre$$ right now.
In April 2012, Olivo pleaded guilty to assault charges and was sentenced to 11 months in prison, which were deemed served because of his extensive hospitalization, records show.
Four years later, Olivo was arrested on suspicion of vandalism on a street several blocks from the Esplanade. Officers believed Olivo threw a large can of spaghetti and meatballs at a woman’s car as she drove by, breaking part of a door handle, then chased after her, according to court documents. Olivo was again hospitalized and evaluated for competency at Bridgewater.
David Holtzen, a Bridgewater psychologist, said Olivo was “mentally ill” and “in need of psychiatric treatment” after the 2016 incident, court records show. Months later, his medical status had improved and he was released from the hospital. The charges were dropped, records show.
Before Friday, Olivo’s most recent arrest was in 2018, when he allegedly masturbated on the Boston Common in front of a passing woman. He didn’t appear at the most recent hearing in that case; an arrest warrant was pending at the time of the attack on the Esplanade, according to State Police and court records.
Olivo is due back in court July 19.....
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Related:
"A man who thought he was fighting a werewolf when he killed a stranger in Old Town Alexandria, Va., last summer pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on Monday. Pankaj Bhasin, 34, will now go to Central State Hospital in Petersburg for treatment. The plea comes months after a jury deadlocked on whether to find Bhasin guilty of murder in the death of Bradford Jackson, 65. Five doctors separately diagnosed Bhasin with bipolar 1 disorder with psychotic features, and said that he was suffering from delusions at the time of the attack. Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney David Lord argued at trial that Bhasin was intelligent enough to fake his symptoms and emphasized the viciousness of the assault. After the mistrial, the commonwealth’s attorney ordered a psychiatric evaluation, and that doctor agreed Bhasin was insane when he killed Jackson. In light of that conclusion, Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter said it would be unethical to try Bhasin again. Bhasin followed Jackson at random and stabbed him 53 times with a box cutter, according to testimony. He told police and doctors that Jackson began turning into a werewolf during their encounter, and that he had to kill him “to save the moon and planets.”
Time to move away from that guy and find another seat:
Fall River woman charged in Brockton road rage killing held without bail
She looks like she has regrets and has suffered enough.
Police: Stabbing Victim Attacked by Up to 9 Assailants
The man was beaten and stabbed to death over the weekend after leaving a Providence nightclub was attacked by a group of six to nine suspects just after Club Seven closed at 2 a.m.
Related: New Smuttynose owner brews up a turnaround
Don't get $hit-faced like that other guy.
Also see:
Two recreational marijuana shops get OK to open
I was wondering what the stink on the bus was, and thankfully the new University of Vermont president is on the job.
MBTA fare increase kicks in for subway, commuter rail rides
Got a front seat in the B-section today, but that doesn’t mean it's not important.
You just need a rebrand:
"As Partners HealthCare rethinks its strategy, it’s considering whether to change its name" by Priyanka Dayal McCluskey Globe Staff July 01, 2019
As part of a corporate soul-searching process, rebranding could be hugely expensive. The cost could exceed $100 million and the benefit to patients isn’t immediately clear, but “It’s a really important decision,” said Dr. Anne Klibanski, the nonprofit health system’s new chief executive.
Partners officials said no decisions have been made; they plan to conduct market research and study the issue carefully before finalizing their new brand.
Yup, any problem at all can be solved with a good dose of public relations branding followed by the imagery of illu$ion.
And the papers wonder why they are shedding jobs?
This is front-page, above-the-fold drivel, too, and it's followed by the same at the bottom.
Though its founding hospitals are among the most prestigious in the country, Partners has been criticized for using its market power to charge high prices for services. It has been the center of antitrust investigations and faced opposition for trying to expand through acquisitions.
Yeah, everybody knows Partners is a price-gouger that caters to the wealthy (thus the fawning coverage from the Globe) and that con$olidation is the way to go.
Some Partners officials believe the company name has been tainted by the negative headlines. They want the corporate identity to reflect the hospital brands that are well known — and better liked, but others question whether a rebranding would be worth the costs and if it would make any difference to patients.
About as much as rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic did.
Hey, we gotta new name, feel better?
I $uppo$e the well-connected ones who win contracts will.
Helene Solomon, chief executive of the Boston public relations firm Solomon McCown, put it this way: “Did David Ortiz go to a Partners institution in Boston? No, he went to Mass. General Hospital. It’s a great idea to look at the brand after a period of time — after the market has changed, after the organization has evolved,” she said.
Ellen Lutch Bender, a Newton-based hospital consultant, said, “Rebranding is not a simple undertaking, but branding is very important to an organization — it frames corporate identity, it tells a story.”
Also in vogue are names that imply health and wellness.....
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That its going to be her first act as CEO, huh?
Better check your license:
"In wake of deadly crash, Mass. suspends more than 500 licenses" by Matt Stout and Matt Rocheleau Globe Staff, July 1, 2019
For at least 15 months, Registry of Motor Vehicles officials ignored tens of thousands of alerts that Massachusetts-licensed motorists had broken driving laws in other states — including for drunken driving and other serious infractions — and instead stuffed them, apparently unread, into mail bins inside a Quincy office building.
They are cleaning things up now.
As a result, at least 540 drivers who should have had their Massachusetts licenses suspended for driving under the influence elsewhere were allowed to stay on the road, and officials still don’t know the total number of notifications that were ultimately missed, according to a still-unfolding review into the bureaucratic failures within the RMV.
The stunning findings, detailed by Governor Charlie Baker and his top transportation aide at a Monday news conference, point to a mushrooming crisis within the Registry, whose longtime leader resigned last week and where officials have raised the possibility of a host of state and federal probes.
I'm hardly stunned, having blogged for over a dozen years. More like a deja vu, and btw, she was not a longtime leader (in fact, she was transferred over from the failing DCF).
Why the inaccuracy on something so simple, unless it's spin?
“This failure is completely unacceptable to me [and] to the residents of the Commonwealth who expect the RMV to do its job and track drivers’ records,” Baker said Monday.
Officials launched the review in response to the case of Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, a 23-year-old West Springfield truck driver who faces seven counts of negligent homicide after allegedly crashing into a group of motorcycle riders, killing seven, last month in Randolph, N.H.
Yeah, he is really Public Enemy #1 in the Globe's eyes.
Baker administration leaders acknowledged the RMV should have terminated Zhukovskyy’s Massachusetts commercial license and that it had failed to act on a notification from Connecticut officials after he was arrested there, six weeks before the New Hampshire crash, but in reviewing the case, state officials discovered the problem extended far beyond simply processing commercial license alerts.
Since March 2018, no one at the RMV had been tracking paper notifications sent by other states when a Massachusetts motorist is cited or charged there. Instead, they “simply sorted them into mail bins” and put them into a records room in the RMV’s Quincy headquarters, according to a memo written by acting RMV Registrar Jamey Tesler and MassDOT’s top attorney. It’s there where officials last week discovered more than 53 bins containing tens of thousands of individual notices, all organized by month of arrival.
“These papers seemed to have been put aside without being looked at,” said Stephanie Pollack, Baker’s transportation secretary.
Pollack couldn’t say Monday why RMV personnel stopped processing the alerts in March 2018. The same month, officials had signed up to join a voluntary electronic notification system created by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, though the majority of states have not joined and still send paper notifications, Pollack said.....
That the same government that spews its climate change rhetoric?
Still murdering trees like the Globe, huh?
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Officials warned they are still sorting through other high-priority cases that don’t involve alcohol, but the Globe is hopping upon the truck to push licenses for undocumented illegals, which now calls into question their intense focus on the story. Always an agenda-pushing quality to what they decide to feature, and they are worse than ever now.
At least Facebook has pledged to use “proactive detection technology” to identify content that may violate its census interference policy.
I just hope you have a license to fly:
Family of 4 among those killed in Texas plane crash
Look what else fell out of the sky:
"After last year’s mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas, a man calling himself David Briscoe described how he had heroically barricaded the door of the classroom he was teaching in and instructed students to lie down and cover their mouths as gunshots rang out nearby, but the school district said Monday that the story was false, and no one by that name had ever worked for the school. Multiple news organizations included quotations attributed to Briscoe after the May 2018 shooting that killed 10 and wounded 13. He said he was a substitute English teacher and that the massacre took place on only his third day teaching at the school. “I barricaded the door with desks and tables and shut the lights,” CNN quoted him as saying. In an article that has since been updated to remove Briscoe’s account, CNN also reported that he said he had “heard what sounded like a student getting hit by a bullet.” The story fell apart when The Texas Tribune began making inquiries following a phone interview in April and discovered that it appeared Briscoe was never at the site of the shooting."
What that story does is now call into question anyone who doubts the mind-manipulating, mass casualty events as anything other than a staged and scripted production or a false flag fake, with the pre$$ being able to say we report it if it's a hoax, so you must believe us if we tell you it is real.
Speak of the devils:
Facebook mail processing facility evacuated in sarin scare
It was in the heart of Silicon Valley at Menlo Park, and whatever you do, don't open the mail!
Spending down in May as home building fell for a fifth month
Even after Bernie Marcus gave away billions?
Well, don't let it ruin your summer.
