Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Maybe Gone

I can't decide if I should stay or go:

Healey investigating trucking company tied to fatal N.H. crash

Westfield Transport Inc., the West Springfield trucking company under widespread scrutiny, has been cited 74 times by federal regulators in the past two years for a variety of infractions.

At a modest New York fund-raiser, ‘the Squad’ got its start

They “couldn’t wait.”

Boston Calling case begins with early mention of Mayor Walsh

They want to burn him down before the NAACP convention that Boston will host in 2020. 

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Now for something really scary:

"Mueller hearing likely to turn heads, but not change minds" by Peter Baker and Sheryl Gay Stolberg New York Times, July 23, 2019

WASHINGTON — For all the anticipation, for all the fighting that it took to get to this day, many in Washington assume it will be more fizzle than sizzle. Robert Mueller, the famously stoic prosecutor and reluctant witness, has vowed to adhere strictly to the words of his 448-page report and no more, making it unlikely that he will serve as the dramatic accuser President Trump’s critics yearn to see.

MUELLER, Page A9

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I flip open the paper and this is the National Lead:

Activists protested outside Chicago’s Marriott Marquis hotel Tuesday during a Customs and Border Protection event. <span class="web_fractions">(Scott Olson/Getty Images)</span>
Activists protested outside Chicago’s Marriott Marquis hotel Tuesday during a Customs and Border Protection event (Scott Olson/Getty Images

Once again, the stars make you understand who is ultimately at the bottom of the agenda and protests being covered by my pre$$. 

They certainly must mean it given all the Palestinians they have routinely put on the move (and as predicted, a one-day blip of coverage).

The co-lead was located below and to the left:

USDA proposes change that would push 3 million Americans off food stamps

At least they got a debt deal done!

Now working my way up the side column of briefs:

Miss America pageant leaving Atlantic City for Connecticut

‘‘The Miss America Organization is proud to partner with Mohegan Sun as we return to our longtime NBC home,’’ said Regina Hopper, president and CEO of the Miss America Organization. ‘‘We are looking forward to a fresh take on this historic competition that will showcase the incredible women vying for the job of Miss America 2020.’’

I thought #MeToo put an end to that stuff.

Zinke taking clients from industries he oversaw at Interior Department

Yeah, so?

Male nominees to service academies outnumber women 3 to 1

How about those white uniforms, huh?

Wray says FBI has seen uptick in domestic terrorism cases motivated by white supremacy

The article by Matt Zapotosky of the Washington Post tells us that "FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers Tuesday that the bureau has recorded about 100 arrests of domestic terrorism suspects in the past nine months and that most investigations of that kind involve some form of white supremacy — though an FBI spokeswoman later clarified the percentage is smaller. The figure, which Wray conceded was imprecise, is similar to the number of arrests made in international terrorism cases and represents an uptick compared with the prior year."

Slowly turning the law enforcement tyranny tables towards domestic dissent and away from the terrorists in light of Trump's ultimatum

[Page A3 brought a full-page JUUL advertisement to combating underaged vaping]

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I wouldn't light that cigar just yet:

"As prime minister, Johnson faces the Brexit he championed" by Stephen Castle New York Times, July 23, 2019

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May and Boris Johnson, Britain’s brash former foreign secretary and standard-bearer for leaving the European Union, will visit Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, for her assent to the transition. The short journey from Parliament to the palace will be the culmination of a colorful career for Johnson, a former journalist whose ambition as a child was to become “world king,” who wrote a biography of his hero Winston Churchill, and who has been praised by President Donald Trump.

So there is still a chance she could stay?

Johnson’s rare mix of charismatic bluster and absent-minded air — either charming or maddening, depending on the listener and the moment — and his unusual gift for communicating with voters have made him one of the country’s best-known politicians for years, and carried him to two terms as London mayor, but his support for Brexit, along with his penchant for pronouncements that do not always hold up under scrutiny, has also made him a highly divisive figure.....

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Well, the heat is on, and the first question he will have to answer is what he will do about ‘‘Iranian bravura.’’ 

If he backs down, I would expect some kind of Manchester-like event.

[Boris can light the cigar now, for there was a full-page Total Wine on page A5 that also offers 15% off cigars]

Picking things back up on page A6:

Trump sues to block House Democrats from getting his New York state tax returns

Right next to that article was this:

Jon Stewart (second from right) hugged 9/11 first responders as Senator Chuck Schumer of New York stood nearby after the Senate voted to ensure that the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund is funded for the next seven decades, with an estimated cost of $10.2 billion over the next 10 years.
Jon Stewart (second from right) hugged 9/11 first responders as Senator Chuck Schumer of New York stood nearby after the Senate voted to ensure that the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund is funded for the next seven decades, with an estimated cost of $10.2 billion over the next 10 years.(Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Look at the grinning Jews who have managed to bury any questions with this generational hush money (to be doled out by paymaster Feinberg?) with District Judge Hellerstein there to block any attempt at investigation. 

I must say, the guy on the far right looks like he finds Chuck's cat-that-ate-the-canary grin odd.

Here are a few notes that were left:

Biden unveils plan to reduce mass incarceration

Coal magnate to host Trump fund-raiser

Was that the fallout from the crash (assassination?) that has gone off the radar?

Sanders campaign workers agree on pay raise plan

MUELLER
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Former Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, who was the Democratic leader during the Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999, said, “I think he’s going to stick to the script, and the Justice Department has told him to stick to the script, so I think it will be difficult for him to provide any more information.”

Mueller’s longtime right-hand aide will appear beside him at the witness table during the hearing with the House Judiciary Committee to assist as needed, people familiar with the hearing said.

The Judiciary Committee signed off on the unusual arrangement after Mueller asked that the aide, Aaron Zebley, be sworn in as a witness alongside him. If Democrats had agreed, lawmakers could have questioned Zebley directly, potentially upending carefully laid plans by Democrats and Republicans over how to use their scant time with Mueller. Instead, as a counsel to Mueller, Zebley will not be under oath or theoretically allowed to answer lawmakers’ queries, but he can confer privately with Mueller, 74, if the former special counsel needs assistance.

It's happening now, the TV is off, and it reminds one of Brendan Sullivan whispering into Olver North's ear during the Iran-Contra hearings.

Despite the low expectations of many, the hearing is unlikely to be free of fireworks. Democrats will use Mueller to argue that Trump benefited from Russia’s help in the 2016 election even if investigators did not establish a criminal conspiracy and that his efforts to impede the investigation amounted to obstruction of justice even if Justice Department rules bar indictment of a sitting president. Republicans will grill the former special counsel to press their case that the entire investigation represented an illegitimate, partisan coup attempt even though Mueller is a lifelong Republican.

I want someone to ask him why he was MIA at the Boston office while Whitey Bulger was running amok, or why the FBI ignored the memos from field offices regarding flight school lessons by the hijackers, or about the Israeli spy ring that was rounded up immediately before and after the 9/11 attacks.

Of course, no one will ask him about those things, and I doubt the name Kushner will come up much, if at all.

The resulting food fight could prove to be riveting television as cable and broadcast networks carry the proceedings live with back-to-back hearings before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, and Mueller may be compelling simply by virtue of his just-the-facts credibility after two years of near silence. The real question, however, is whether it changes anyone’s mind in a highly polarized country that has already digested Mueller’s findings and dug in on its conflicting views of Trump and his guilt or innocence.

Kenneth M. Duberstein, who took over as President Ronald Reagan’s chief of staff after the Iran-Contra scandal, said the hearing had become a sideshow. “I think the American people have moved on,” he said. “This is more for TV ratings. I would be shocked if Mueller would say something important that isn’t already out there. I don’t know a lot of people who are planning on listening in this town.”

I miss Kenny, God rest his soul.

Washington has seen plenty of dramatic hearings over the years, including John Dean testifying against his own president during the Watergate scandal that brought down Nixon and Oliver L. North in his Marine uniform explaining his role in Iran-Contra and making himself into a hero of the right.   findings mean. The delay in Mueller’s testimony and the ability of Attorney General William Barr to frame the results of his investigation on terms most favorable to Trump.

Did he, knowing that other interested parties would actually read the thing?

For their part, Republicans on Tuesday took on their best nothing-to-see-here demeanor, dutifully repeating the party’s Americans-have-moved-on talking points. While playing down expectations, Democrats were still hoping for a splash.....

Does a bellyflop count?

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Barr is being held in contempt but the office keeps working:

"Justice Department opens antitrust review of big tech companies" by Daisuke Wakabayashi and Katie Benner New York Times, July 23, 2019

The federal government has turned its full investigative powers on examining the world’s biggest technology companies, building on a backlash against the industry that has been growing for over a year.

The Justice Department said Tuesday that it would start an antitrust review into how powerful Internet companies had accumulated market power and whether they had acted to reduce competition. The announcement follows similar inquiries underway in Congress and at the Federal Trade Commission, which shares antitrust oversight responsibilities with the Justice Department.

Isn't that Liz Warren's position?

The Justice Department did not name specific companies in a news release announcing its review, but noted that it would look into concerns about search, social media and some retail services — presumably putting Google, Facebook, and Amazon on notice.

The pressure on tech giants has ended decades of deferential treatment toward the industry. In Congress, the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust is holding hearings and conducting its own investigation of the market power and behavior of the big tech companies.

Better up those lobbying checks.

At a hearing last week, with witnesses from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple, Representative David Cicilline, chairman of the subcommittee, said that the government stance for too long was to celebrate the new tech economy rather than scrutinize its corporate leaders.....

He's new on the scene, but he is going to take care of your concerns and fix what is broken.

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Related:

Mass. moves to expand tax on online sales

Time to Barr the door:

"US attorney general says encryption creates security risk" by Tami Abdollah Associated Press, July 23, 2019 

Comey said the same thing.

NEW YORK — Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that increased encryption of data on phones and computers and encrypted messaging apps are putting American security at risk.

Barr’s comments at a cybersecurity conference mark a continuing effort by the Justice Department to push tech companies to provide law enforcement with access to encrypted devices and applications during investigations.

‘‘There have been enough dogmatic pronouncements that lawful access simply cannot be done,’’ Barr said. ‘‘It can be, and it must be.’’

The attorney general said law enforcement is increasingly unable to access information on devices, and between devices, even with a warrant supporting probable cause of criminal activity.

Barr said terrorists and cartels switch mid-communication to encrypted applications to plan deadly operations. He described a transnational drug cartel’s use of WhatsApp group chat to specifically coordinate murders of Mexico-based police officials.

Where did they get their guns?

Gail Kent, Facebook’s global public policy lead on security, recently said that allowing the government’s ability to gain access to encrypted communications would jeopardize cybersecurity for millions of law-abiding people who rely on it. WhatsApp is owned by Facebook.

‘‘It’s impossible to create any backdoor that couldn’t be discovered, and exploited, by bad actors,’’ Kent said.

That's what the China and 5G argument is about, and whose fingerprints will be left behind!

Allowing government access to encrypted devices also wouldn’t prevent people from switching to any new services that may crop up around the world that US agencies can’t access, Kent said.

Encrypted communications are ones that are only available to users on either end of the communications. The increasing use of this technology has long been coined by the Justice Department as the ‘‘going dark’’ problem.

Barr’s remarks also acknowledged the need for encryption to ensure overall cybersecurity that has enabled people to bank relatively securely online and engage in e-commerce.

Barr said that to date, law enforcement in Garland, Texas, have been unable to access 100 instant messages sent between terrorists who carried out an attack there in May 2015.

‘‘The status quo is exceptionally dangerous, it is unacceptable and only getting worse,’’ Barr said. ‘‘It’s time for the United States to stop debating whether to address it and start talking about how to address it.’’

Time to hit the brakes.

It's a $tatu$ quo $ociety, and thus I am suspicious of the urgent danger.

Ex-FBI director James Comey championed the need for a law enforcement workaround to encrypted devices and communications. He led a highly publicized push to gain access to an iPhone belonging to a perpetrator of a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14 people in 2015.

You take a second look at that and you realize, same drill, different day.

From the Senate floor on Tuesday, Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, responded to Barr’s remarks in New York calling it an ‘‘outrageous, wrongheaded, and dangerous proposal.’’

Wyden said Barr wants to ‘‘blow a hole’’ in a critical security feature for Americans’ digital lives by trying to undermine strong encryption and advocating for government backdoors into the personal devices of Americans. He said strong encryption helps keep health records, personal communications, and other sensitive data secure from hackers.

Effectively banning encryption in the United States by not allowing companies to provide unbreakable encryption, doesn’t prevent it existing and flourishing elsewhere, and only makes Americans less secure against foreign hackers, Wyden said.

‘‘Once you weaken encryption with a backdoor, you make it far easier for criminals, hackers, and predators to get into your digital life,’’ Wyden said.

He said he fears and expects that Barr and President Trump would abuse the power to break encryption if they were allowed to do so. Given their records ‘‘it is clear to me that they cannot be trusted with this kind of power,’’ Wyden said.

Then why is he laughing?

As long as they don't infiltrate and spy on the opposing presidential campaign.

Noah Theran, a spokesman for the Internet Association, said ‘‘strong encryption makes us all safer and more secure’’ and protects Americans from daily cyberattacks that can compromise personal information. The trade association represents internet companies — including Facebook, Google, Twitter, and LinkedIn — on public policy. ‘‘Companies must not be required to engineer vulnerabilities into their products and services that could put us all at risk,’’ Theran said.

Critics of the Justice Department position also point out that law enforcement agencies have been able to use unencrypted metadata to solve crimes and hired a private contractor to ultimately gain access to the iPhone linked to the San Bernardino attacks.

‘‘There is no way to give the FBI access to encrypted communications without giving the same access to every government on the planet,’’ said Brett Max Kaufman, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Center for Democracy. ‘‘Technology providers should continue to make their products as safe as possible and resist pressure from all governments to undermine the security of the tools they offer.’’

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Meanwhile, the FBI just opened a forensic lab in Chelsea that they can sic on you.

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There is, of course, one group you can not resist:

"For Israel, the Netanyahu Era has been a good one" bJeff Jacoby Globe Columnist, July 24, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Isarael arrives to chair the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, June 30.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Isarael arrives to chair the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, June 30. (ODED BALILTY/AFP/Getty Images)

He's smiling like Schumer and Stewart, and why wouldn't he? 

9/11 was good for Israel!

As of this week, Benjamin Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history. David Ben Gurion, the country’s first prime minister and legendary founding father, held the office for a total of 13 years and 127 days. Netanyahu surpassed that milestone on Saturday. If he wins the upcoming election in September — and if he survives several pending corruption investigations — he could theoretically remain prime minister until 2023.

I think he all but assured to win the election since Barak turned up in Epstein's flight logs (but that was news two weeks ago and has been properly dispatched down the pre$$ memory hole).

Such longevity in office would be an extraordinary achievement in any parliamentary democracy, let alone one as contentious and competitive as Israel’s, where the stakes are always high and the elbows always sharp. It is all the more remarkable in the case of Netanyahu, whose enemies are legion — and sometimes quite powerful, as in the case of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, both of whom tried to bring about his political downfall. Throughout his political career, Netanyahu has been bitterly resented by the left, both at home and abroad, and especially in the media. As he remarked tartly in a recent Time magazine interview, journalists have had “Netanyahu fatigue from Day One,” but Israeli voters haven’t.

Is he saying Clinton and Obama interfered in Israeli elections?

Netanyahu may be controversial, arrogant, and infuriating, but he has also been successful. On his watch, Israel has grown stronger and more prosperous. Despite a rising tide of global anti-Semitism, the Jewish state is more secure than it has ever been. The “nation that dwells alone” has never been less isolated diplomatically, and while the Middle East remains a notoriously violent, unstable, and fanatical region, the decade since Netanyahu’s 1999 return to power has been the most peaceful in Israel’s history.

Does he know that flies in the face of the endless war propaganda in his paper's pages?

To be sure, there has been no resolution of the conflict with the Palestinians. The “peace process” is moribund, and Netanyahu has shown no inclination to move heaven and earth to revive it. The prime minister has paid lip service to the eventual goal of a two-state solution, but he has also given voters his word that there will be no Palestinian state as long as he is prime minister.

And the Kushner Plan completely flopped, so much so that it has also been dispatched down the pre$$ memory hole.

The results speak for themselves.

For years, a large and vocal “peace camp” has insisted that Israel must reach a settlement with the Palestinians or be shunned as a pariah and targeted by global boycotts. Netanyahu has proved them wrong. His predecessors’ dramatic attempts to end the conflict — Yitzhak Rabin’s famous White House handshake, Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal from Gaza, Ehud Olmert’s offer of Palestinian statehood— ended up worsening Israel’s standing in the world. The longer Israeli leaders clung to a policy of concessions and appeasement, the more respect Israel lost. Under Netanyahu, the appeasement has largely stopped — and Israel’s international profile has risen dramatically.

In recent years, Netanyahu became the first Israeli prime minister to visit Latin America. He has traveled four times to Africa and welcomed numerous African leaders to Israel. He has achieved “better relations with all the leaders of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council than at any time since [Israel] was created,” writes Aaron David Miller, a longtime State Department adviser and Middle East negotiator.

They do want to send back the African immigrants, but at least they only built a separation barrier and not a wall.

Most important, he has expanded and strengthened Israel’s ties to Sunni Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which share Jerusalem’s view of Iran as a deadly enemy.

Yes, that is most important for it entails the coming war on Iran.

Complementing Israel’s improved fortunes beyond its borders is plenty of good news at home, from the country’s emergence as a world-class high-tech powerhouse to an ongoing decline in terrorist attacks. To the extent that such things can be measured, Israel is one of the happiest nations on the planet. The Netanyahu Era has been a good one, and Israelis have been in no hurry to end it.

When Netanyahu’s first stint as prime minister ended in a 1999 election defeat, some made the mistake of writing him off as a political force. “He will be a footnote, if anything, in the history of Israeli prime ministers,” gloated one prominent Israeli journalist. Israelis return to the polls in September, and Netanyahu is running hard in hopes of winning a sixth election. There are no guarantees; voters may decide his time is up. But whatever happens, Netanyahu will never again be mistaken for a footnote. He is no beloved Ben Gurion, but his place in Israel’s pantheon is assured.

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It's the world according to Pompeo’s law with Trump the modern George Wallace, and one can only ask if people of color will ever feel that they belong?


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I must say that I never thought I would be here this long when I began this blog. 

"Saugus selectman facing charges of theft from nonprofit, misuse of campaign funds" by Danny McDonald Globe Staff, July 23

A Saugus selectman is among three former employees of the Boston Center for Adult Education facing criminal charges for allegedly stealing over $1.7 million from the nonprofit, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said Tuesday.

Mark Mitchell, who was first elected in a special election to recall the board in 2015, was also indicted on various campaign finance charges, Rollins said in a statement.

Mitchell, 49, a former comptroller of the center, faces a slew of charges including making false entries in corporate books, publishing of false or exaggerated statements, common law uttering, and four counts of larceny by scheme. He allegedly directed over $240,000 of the center’s money to a private youth baseball organization he runs, Saugus Wings, the statement said.

He has also been charged in connection with the misuse of campaign funds, specifically, improper campaign expenditures, making a cash campaign expenditure over $50, mixing political committee and personal funds, and a fifth count of larceny by scheme.

Mitchell is among two former executives of the nonprofit education center who are scheduled to be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday for alleged thefts from the nonprofit.

Susan B. Brown, the center’s former executive director, and her partner, Karen Kalfian who briefly worked in marketing at the agency, are also due to be indicted.....

Don't expect this case to fizzle, and be prepared to stay around a while.

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Also see:

Rhode Island AG, state police to review 70 years of sexual abuse allegations from Providence diocese

Help is also being sent to West Virginia.

"Troopers seized more than 1,500 bags of heroin weighing about 30.4 grams during a motor vehicle stop early Saturday morning in Greenfield, State Police said. At around 12:50 a.m., the driver of the vehicle, Kenneth Demingware, 28, was pulled over for speeding, according to Lieutenant Thomas Ryan, a State Police spokesman. Demingware was driving north on Interstate 91 near Exit 28 when he was stopped. He then failed to provide a valid license to the officer, according to State Police. Demingware and his passenger, Kyle Dennis, 26, were found to be in possession of about 1,520 wax bags of heroin inside the 2017 Toyota Corolla, police said in a statement. Both men are from Barre, Vt., officials said. The men were arrested and taken to the State Police Shelburne Falls Barracks for booking. They were held at the Franklin County House of Correction before their arraignment Monday at Greenfield District Court. Demingware was charged with trafficking heroin, conspiracy to violate drug law, refusing to identify while operating a motor vehicle, providing a false name or social security number, unlicensed operation, and speeding, State Police said. Demingware also had a warrant out for his arrest from Lawrence District Court on charges of possession of a Class A drug, said Sarah Pinkerman, a clerk from Greenfield District Court. The warrant was posted after Demingware failed to appear for his pretrial hearing in Lawrence. Dennis was charged with trafficking heroin, conspiracy to violate drug law, tampering with evidence, and littering from a motor vehicle. Demingware and Dennis will both appear in Greenfield District Court Aug. 22 for their pretrial hearing. Demingware’s bail of $5,000 has not been posted, while Dennis has been released on $2,500 bail, Pinkerman said."

Related:

Three Boston residents killed amid deadly month on N.H. roadways

Bear That Broke Into Vermont Home Last Weekend Euthanized

Black visitors say they were repeatedly targeted by staff members at Angry Orchard location in New York

Was a bitter experience for them. The stuff tasted like pond water.

Bathroom is over there:

"State reports outbreak of foodborne illness" by Alison Kuznitz Globe Correspondent, July 23, 2019

More than 120 Massachusetts residents, many from Greater Boston, have contracted a foodborne illness since May 1 that can trigger severe gastrointestinal problems, the state Department of Public Health said Tuesday.

The outbreak of cyclosporiasis — caused by a parasite that is commonly found in the tropics — far outpaces the past three years, in which the state saw only between 18 and 33 reported cases. Just a “small number” of cases in Massachusetts have been connected to international travel, the department said.

“We know this is the tip of the iceberg, and there are plenty of more cases we’re probably not aware of,” said Dr. Larry Madoff, the medical director of the department’s Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, in a phone interview Tuesday. “This isn’t a life-threatening infection . . . I don’t think we’re alarmed, but it is something to notice.”

In New York City, public health officials are also warning of an outbreak that has resulted in more than 90 cases between Jan. 1 and July 15. Last year, the city had 56 cases within the same time span, according to a health alert.

How are those vaccinations for measles going in the Orthodox Jew areas anyway?

In 2000 and 2004, the illness was linked nationally to raspberries and snow peas from Guatemala. In 2013, the source was bagged salad mix from Mexico. The disease is often seasonal through late spring and summer, with bouts peaking in June and July, Madoff said.

To limit exposure to the infection, especially when eating imported leafy greens and other fresh produce, the Department of Public Health encourages people to practice basic food safety guidelines. That includes washing fruits, vegetables, and kitchen equipment during various phases of food preparation, as well as avoiding cross-contamination. Brushes should be used to scrub fruits and vegetables with thick rinds.

“We should be wary of [cyclosporiasis] till it starts getting better,” said Dr. Jason Harris, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

I'll stay away from the salads for a while.

It can take about a week for someone who’s consumed the parasite to begin experiencing symptoms that include watery diarrhea, appetite loss, abdominal cramping, nausea, and fatigue, according to the DPH. A mild infection usually subsides naturally within a few days, though antibiotics can be prescribed for treatment in some instances.

Young children, in addition to patients who are elderly or who have compromised immune systems, could have complications that last up to several weeks.

“The symptoms and signs overlap with other germs that cause diarrhea,” Madoff said, but diagnosis is trickier, Harris said, since bacterial cultures — for instance, to detect E. coli or salmonella — won’t indicate the parasite’s presence.

Instead, a separate lab test will need to be ordered for stool specimens, he said.....

Then they have your DNA.

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They have brought the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration in an attempt to identify the type of food that spurred the outbreak.

Related:

FDA warns Curaleaf to stop marketing CBD with unfounded claims

CBD has also been declared illegal (in answer to your question), so be prepared for them to throw the book at you.

Also see:

If you don’t already own a home in Massachusetts, it may be too late

There are plenty of parking spaces, though.

Frequency Therapeutics raises another $62 million

I'm $orry, $ay again.

Look what is in front of you:

"The Forward, a 122-year-old Jewish publication, named a new leader of its newsroom Tuesday, appointing Jodi Rudoren, a veteran editor and reporter at The New York Times, as editor-in-chief. In hiring Rudoren, a former Jerusalem bureau chief for The Times, The Forward is taking another step past a tumultuous period. After moving from a weekly to a monthly schedule, the publication ceased its print edition this past spring. It also cut nearly 30 percent of its staff, including the previous editor-in-chief, Jane Eisner. Last week, the publisher and chief executive, Rachel Fishman Feddersen, announced the receipt of a $500,000 gift from Craig Newmark, the Craigslist founder and media philanthropist. Feddersen said the money would be used to revitalize The Forward’s website and expand its readership. Rudoren, who joined The Times in 1998, is an associate managing editor at the paper, developing strategies to better engage readers. She is expected to start her new job in September."

Looks like they are going backward to me!