So often these days I find that the mo$t important item in my paper is the final item I read, and to be honest with you, it's damn discouraging.
"Vast federal aid has capped rise in poverty, studies find" by Jason DeParle New York Times, June 21, 2020
WASHINGTON — An unprecedented expansion of federal aid has prevented the rise in poverty that experts predicted this year when the coronavirus sent unemployment to the highest level since the Great Depression, two new studies suggest. The assistance could even cause official measures of poverty to fall.
The studies carry important caveats.
Wow. That has be a record backtrack and repudiation of the deceptive headline "suggested" by two new $tudies.
Can there be any doubt that the New York Times is now a total piece of $hit?
Many Americans have suffered hunger or other hardships amid long delays in receiving the assistance, and much of the aid is scheduled to expire next month. Millions of people have been excluded from receiving any help, especially migrants in the country illegally, who often have American children.
The blog editor sighs as the NYT picks up the gauntlet of illegal migrants rather than US citizens. They care more about them than they do you, so fuck the goddamn New York Times, sorry!!
Related:
"Tyson Foods is looking into reports that China’s customs agency has suspended poultry imports from a Tyson facility in the United States after coronavirus cases were confirmed among its employees. A Tyson spokesman said Sunday that the plant in question is in Springdale, Ark. The announcement out of China gave no details of the quantity of meat affected. On Friday, Tyson Foods announced the results of coronavirus testing at its facilities in Benton and Washington counties, Arkansas, and said that about 95 percent of employees who ultimately tested positive for the virus didn’t show any symptoms. Of the 3,748 employees tested, 481 tested positive for COVID-19, and 455 were asymptomatic. There have been several other COVID-19 outbreaks at Tyson plants around the United States, including in North Carolina, Nebraska, and Iowa."
Yeah, we are looking at a famine that is right now incomprehensible to Americans and the pre$$ has decided to ignore the breaking of the food supply chain with the bottom brief, obviously not very important.
For further proof the agenda-pushing press is evil, you just need to turn the page:
Before genetically modified mosquitoes are released, we need a better EPA
How sad is it that something like that appears on the op-ed page and not a news report? Even worse, the piece has been penned by Natalie Kofler, a founder of Editing Nature and an adviser for the Scientific Citizenship Initiative at Harvard Medical School, and Jennifer Kuzma, a professor in the School of Public and International Affairs and co-director of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center. Not exactly the sort of elite sickos in which I would have any faith, especially when the piece is accompanied by this photograph:
Rick Bowmer/Associated Press
Oh, the one-eyed Masonic look again!
They are not only in your face and under your skin with that, they want to GMO us with their damnable va¢¢ines.
I flip the page again and find this:
The impossible burden of being Black in America
F**king whine, whine, whine.
Several thousand people protested a Minneapolis police officer killing George Floyd at Burnside Park in Downtown Providence on May 30 (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff).
They are alone and booming, is the freelance writer, Roxbury resident, and executive director of Mbadika (why was that removed after print?).
Sorry for veering off the beaten path:
Still, the evidence suggests that the programs Congress hastily authorized in March have done much to protect the needy, a finding likely to shape the debate over next steps at a time when 13.3 percent of Americans remain unemployed.
I'm what, three paragraphs in and already sick of the slant and $hit qualifiers to their piece of rubbish.
Democrats, who want to continue the expiring aid, can cite the effect of the programs on poverty as a reason to continue them, while Republicans may use it to bolster their doubts about whether more spending is needed or affordable.
“Right now, the safety net is doing what it’s supposed to do for most families — helping them secure a minimally decent life,” said Zachary Parolin, a member of the Columbia University team forecasting this year’s poverty rate. “Given the magnitude of the employment loss, this is really remarkable.’’
(At that point, blog editor rushed to the porcelain god to puke)
Forget the food lines (pre$$ has), and just wait until the money becomes worthless. Doesn't happen overnight, you know, but we are on the way to being the Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe. Trump's legacy.
U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged Since The Start Of The Pandemic
That's from today from Forbes, and the current total is $584 billion and ri$ing.
No $afety net needed there!
Anyway, what more does the New York Times have to say about the Columbia group’s midrange forecast and the separate anal-yzing study from Bruce D. Meyer and Jeehoon Han of the University of Chicago and James X. Sullivan of Notre Dame?
The peril has not passed. Though the aid will lift Melody Bedico’s annual income above the poverty line, she does not know when she will return to work. After the bonus ends next month, her benefits will plummet, leaving her with an income 40 percent lower than normal but facing the same bills. “I’m worried I could lose my house,” said the single mother in Seattle who works as a clerk at an airport hotel.
Then she should be having no problem at all, right?
See: "Seattle police on Sunday pursued their investigation into a weekend shooting in a park in the city’s protest zone that killed a 19-year-old man and critically injured another person. No arrests had been made in the “active and ongoing” investigation under way....."
PFFFFT!
They are burying that brief story as I type. In reality, nothing need interrupt the propaganda narrative they are promoting.
The coronavirus relief bill contained three major provisions to bolster incomes. It offered most households one-time payments (up to $1,200 per adult and $500 per child). It broadened unemployment insurance to include millions of gig workers and other nontraditional employees, and it added $600 to weekly unemployment checks through July — a bonus of nearly $11,000 on top of regular payments, for those who qualify all four months.
The f**king Chump change payments kept you out of poverty! What a f**king laugher!
The helicopter money will soon be worthless, so you might as well put it all into the $tock market.
The effect has been significant. Economist Peter Ganong and two colleagues at the University of Chicago found that among workers eligible for unemployment, two-thirds can collect sums that exceed their earnings. Until the $600 bonus expires, the poorest fifth can at least double their lost pay. While state benefits vary, the median worker is eligible to receive 134 percent of his or her pay.
Looks good, but where is the job security?
The endless printing of money for a UBI or a ca$hle$$ society will make the money worthless. Already has and is, but guys like the above are still spewing to blow up another bubble.
While few who get the enhanced benefits will fall into poverty, Ganong warned that some jobless workers were ineligible and that bonuses would expire long before the economy recovered. “This is a strong start but only the first chapter of a long story,” he said.
Oh.
I wonder what Phase 2, 'er, Chapter Two holds.
Poverty rates are based on annual incomes, so families losing aid may suffer new hardship even though the earlier assistance leaves them above the formal poverty line.
Some analysts warn that hardship has grown, even if poverty rates have not. Diane Schanzenbach, an economist at Northwestern University, notes that food insecurity is twice its prepandemic rate and child hunger has risen even more. Part of the hardship may stem from the growth in income volatility — needy families generally lack credit or savings to sustain them through delays. “A lot of people aren’t seeing the money yet,” Schanzenbach said. “I’m worried about Congress taking its foot off the gas.”
Schanzenbach, huh?
Migrants in the country illegally face special risks of falling into poverty, and many have American children. The coronavirus relief bill bars an entire household from stimulus payments even if a single member lacks legal status. The Migration Policy Institute estimates that prevents 15.4 million people from receiving aid — about 10 million unauthorized migrants and more than 5 million children and spouses who are legal residents or citizens. Unauthorized migrants are also barred from jobless benefits.
Do I even need to say it anymore?
An unauthorized woman in Manhattan, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Mercedes, is part of a mixed-status family suffering new hardships. Her partner, who is also unauthorized, lost his construction job at the start of the pandemic, and they have received no cash income since. They are raising her 16-year-old and their two children, ages 4 and 2 — all American citizens.
After exhausting $1,500 in savings, they have survived on the children’s food stamps and groceries distributed at school, with adults eating less to keep the children fed. With legal status, the family could have received more than $12,000 in aid. Mercedes called it “a terrible injustice” to treat her children different from other Americans.
“Let people’s hearts be touched — these kids have needs like any other legal person,” she said.....
All, that does is harden mine to the insane spew coming from the NYT. It's all agenda, all the time, all over the place, and cross-mingling them all.
It is AGENDA-PUSHING EVIL and PURE PROPAGANDA that is NO LONGER TO BE BELIEVED!
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Yeah, f**k Iowans, too, right, NYT?
Oddly enough, right above that piece was this ma$$ive hole in the $afety net:
"Nursing homes evict vulnerable residents: ‘They just dumped him like trash’" by Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Amy Julia Harris New York Times, June 21, 2020
More than any other institution in America, nursing homes have come to symbolize the deadly destruction of the coronavirus crisis. More than 51,000 residents and employees of nursing homes and long-term care facilities have died, representing more than 40 percent of the total death toll in the United States, but even as they have been ravaged, nursing homes have also been enlisted in the response to the outbreak. They are taking on coronavirus-stricken patients to ease the burden on overwhelmed hospitals — and, at times, to bolster their bottom lines.
The first thing that needs to be pointed out, per pre$$ and government reports, is the hospitals were never overwhelmed. They say they succeeded with such a strategy despite the massive deaths in the nursing homes for which they are responsible. It is as if something else was going, dear readers, and the pre$$ is helping to cover up what appears to be a case of state-sanctioned mass murder for the u$ual rea$ons.
Beyond that, this report calls into question the entire idea of quarantines, masks, and the social distancing being forced upon us. They f**ked up on purpo$e. They should have quarantined our beloved elderly and let the healthy, asymptomatic people (not sick, folks, or do you believe the liars from government, the WHO, and pre$$ still?) live life and build herd immunity and all that. That is if you believe COVID-19 exists, and it is looking with each passing day that it is another pre$$ fiction like WMD for the same evil and nefarious purposes.
A Lakeview official said the company’s evictions were appropriate and weren’t an attempt to free space for COVID-19 patients, but similar scenes are playing out at nursing homes nationwide. They are kicking out old and disabled residents — among the people most susceptible to the coronavirus — and shunting them into homeless shelters, run-down motels, and other unsafe facilities, according to 22 watchdogs in 16 states as well as dozens of elder-care lawyers, social workers, and former nursing home executives.
Remember that scene in Sicko where they dumped the black woman on a street corner?
Now we have that EN MASSE!
Is there ANYONE OUT THERE who STILL BELIEVES the GENOCIDAL GLOBALIST EUGENICISTS and their GOVERNMENT and PRE$$ MOUTHPIECES?
HOW DARE YOU!??!
Many of the evictions, known as involuntary discharges, appear to violate federal rules that require nursing homes to place residents in safe locations and to provide them with at least 30 days’ notice before forcing them to leave.
All those rules have been suspended because of corona, so kill away!
While the popular conception of nursing homes is of places where elderly people live, much of their business is caring for patients of all ages and income levels who are recovering from surgery or acute illnesses like strokes. Medicare often pays for short-term rehabilitation stints; Medicaid covers longer-term stays for poor people.
Nursing homes have long had a financial incentive to evict Medicaid patients in favor of those who pay through private insurance or Medicare, which reimburses nursing homes at a much higher rate than Medicaid. More than 10,000 residents and their families complained to watchdogs about being discharged in 2018, the most recent year for which data are available.
The pandemic has intensified the situation.
Another trend in the changing of society, once again given a massive shove by this $camdemic.
At what point do the "coincidences" start becoming nothing of the sort, huh?
With nursing homes not allowing visitors, there is less outside scrutiny of their practices. Fifteen state-funded ombudsmen said in interviews that some homes appear to be taking advantage of that void to evict vulnerable residents.
They wanted to keep family members away so they could kill them, either by active means or neglect. It's so damn obvious now is the evil.
Many nursing homes are struggling in part because one of their most profitable businesses — post-surgery rehab — has withered as states restricted hospitals from performing nonessential services. Treating COVID-19 patients quickly became a popular way to fill that financial void.
Like $ucking at a teat.
Last fall, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid changed the formula for reimbursing nursing homes, making it more profitable to take in sicker patients for a short period. COVID-19 patients can bring in at least $600 more a day in Medicare dollars than people with relatively mild health issues, according to nursing home executives and state officials.
“They could be big money for nursing homes,” said David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
Well, someone has been saying there were payoffs in the $y$tem for a long, long time, and the doctor from Minnesota is all but forgotten, isn't he?
It’s not always about the money. Several states, including New York, New Jersey, and California, urged nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients to help relieve pressure on hospitals. Some nursing home employees worried that would endanger vulnerable residents.
Oh, now the crap qualifier, and having been an idiot creature who cared more about $ports most of his life, I can tell you that WHEN THEY SAY it is NOT ABOUT the MONEY, it is ALL about the MONEY!
Btw, if this report is accurate, the governors of New York, California, New Jersey, and yes, Ma$$achu$etts are mass-murdering criminals -- in the court of morality if not law.
There is no national data on the number of nursing home residents who have been moved into homeless shelters, motels, and other facilities. The New York Times contacted more than 80 state-funded nursing-home ombudsmen in 46 states for a tally of involuntary discharges during the pandemic at facilities they monitor. Twenty-six ombudsmen from 18 states provided figures to the Times: a total of more than 6,400 discharges, many to homeless shelters.
Why is there NO DATA on SO MANY THINGS, and yet we get scary f**king #s upon #s being thrown at us without context or veracity?
With all due respect, the mixed massages and hypocritical virtue signaling agenda is coming apart at the seams. That's why the panic in the pre$$ about an ongoing first wave and second wave surge in September. Screaming at the top of their lungs they are!
“We’re dealing with unsafe discharges, whether it be to a homeless shelter or to unlicensed facilities, on a daily basis; and COVID-19 has made this all more urgent,” said Molly Davies, the LA ombudsman, whose office works with residents at about 400 nursing homes.
What is the f**king agenda they want to force through now under nursing home cover, because that is what that word usage indicates. Urgency = totalitarianism and loss of liberty!
Traditionally, ombudsmen would regularly go to nursing homes. In March, though, ombudsmen — and residents’ families — were required to stop visiting. Evictions followed.
“It felt opportunistic, where some homes were basically seizing the moment when everyone is looking the other way to move people out,” said Laurie Facciarossa Brewer, a long-term-care ombudsman in New Jersey.
Hey, NEVER LET a CRISIS go to WASTE!
Nursing homes are allowed to evict residents if they aren’t able to pay for their care, are endangering others in the center, or have sufficiently recovered. Under federal law, before discharging patients against their will, nursing homes are required to give formal notice to the resident and to the ombudsman’s office. They must also find a safe alternative location for the resident to go, whether that is an assisted living center, an apartment, or, in rare circumstances, a homeless shelter, but some homes have figured out a workaround: They pressure residents to leave. Many residents assume they have no choice, and the nursing homes often do not report them to ombudsmen. That is what David Mellor said happened to him.
(Blog editor sits and stares. Un-f**king-believeable evil!)
In New York City, the Silvercrest Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Queens tried to evict more than 20 residents at one point in March, according to residents and elder care lawyers. Employees at Silvercrest — including the director of social services — told residents or family that the discharges were necessary to free beds for COVID-19 patients.
Abraham Hightower, a 57-year-old man on Medicaid who has kidney problems and high blood pressure, arrived at Silvercrest in January. Since then, the home has tried to evict him three times.
In February, Silvercrest tried to send him to a Best Western hotel that New York City uses as a homeless shelter, according to Hightower and his lawyer. He appealed, and an administrative judge determined that such a facility was not appropriate given his health needs.
Hightower said he was told by Silvercrest employees that they were evicting residents to make way for COVID-19 patients. In March, he received another discharge notice, this time sending him to a homeless shelter in Manhattan, according to records reviewed by the Times. When Hightower appealed, Silvercrest backed down.
Like he is a drug addict (and maybe they are. Who knows what Pharma is filling them with these days, if not outright euthanizing them).
This month, Silvercrest issued the third eviction notice. Hightower’s appeal is pending.
“They just want to get rid of me,” he said.
I don't know if the guy is part of the chosen group (only reason Times would raise a ruckus), nor do I care. This is monstrous!
Michael Tretola, president of Silvercrest, declined to comment on Hightower’s case or to say how many residents have been evicted. “The health and safety of every patient under our care is always our first concern,” he said.....
Yeah, like at the VA!
What you just read was a partial chronicle of the initial phase of the GREAT CULL of what the genocidal globalists call useless eaters, whereby the low-hanging, captive fruit shall be exterminated first without much notice.
They were old and sick, right?
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Those two articles are such a Kiick in the head I have to move on:
"President Trump’s plan to restrict employment-based visas could affect 240,000 people seeking to work in the United States in industries from technology to finance to hospitality. There will be few exclusions, Trump said on Fox News Saturday, when asked about upcoming rules on several visa categories, including the H-1B program for highly skilled workers, the L-1 program for managers transferring within their companies, and H-2B visas for nonagricultural temporary workers. “In some cases you have to have exclusions,” he said. “You need them for big businesses where they have certain people that have been coming in for a long time.”
The article came from Bloomberg and $hows you that Trump is nothing but false opposition in service to big business. He is no savior, and he will soon be out of office, and this photo was included with the article:
Andrew Jenkins and Krista York of Minnesota were set to marry Aug. 20 at the Cathedral of St. Paul. After the coronavirus struck, Jenkins, who is British, lost his job as a market research analyst. The Trump administration is unlikely to allow laid-off holders of H-1B and other work visas to extend their stay in the country (Jenn Ackerman/New York Times).
Sending the whitey's back!
I don't even want to talk about these:
"The Trump administration has relented to public pressure and pledged to provide more details about which small businesses received loans from a $600 billion-plus coronavirus aid program, but government watchdogs say even more transparency is needed to get an accurate picture of who was helped, and who was left out. Under pressure from Democratic lawmakers and government watchdogs, the Treasury Department and the Small Business Administration said Friday that they would disclose the names of small-business owners who received $150,000 or more in forgivable loans, but for loans of less than $150,000, the agencies will not name the recipients, revealing only summary information broken down by ZIP code, industry, and demographics. Specialists say this could paint an incomplete or misleading picture. Recipients of smaller loans could be part of a bigger subsidiary that would be hidden, and it won’t be clear what percentage of loans went to minority-owned businesses. A factory in a minority neighborhood, for example, could be owned by an individual or conglomerate based elsewhere. The Treasury Department didn’t respond to a request for comment. Secretary Steven Mnuchin has previously said he is concerned about business owners’ privacy."
Not yours, though, citizen, as they contract trace you if you probably had COVID.
"American Airlines Group is seeking to raise $1.5 billion by selling shares and convertible notes, said people with knowledge of the matter, as it shores up liquidity after months of disruption from the pandemic. Deliberations are ongoing, and the timing and details of any deal could change, the people said. American declined to comment. The airline also plans a junk bond offering to raise about $2 billion at a yield of 11 percent, Bloomberg News reported Friday. It’s working with Citigroup on the debt offering, which could be launched this week. Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue Airways have tapped debt investors in recent weeks to boost liquidity. American’s stock fell 44 percent this year through June 19. American to date has depended largely on $5.8 billion in employee payroll support from the US government and is in talks to close a separate $4.75 billion federal loan."
The PPP kept them out of poverty(!), and after the Lakers were whi$tled for a foul the game was $topped.
Of course, they are ga$$ing back up for some sort of season:
"Daimler AG’s chief executive, Ola Kaellenius, is looking to cut an additional 10,000 jobs through 2025, the Automobilwoche reported. The carmaker aims to outsource information technology services and cut positions in research and development, the magazine said. The company in November announced a plan to reduce its workforce by 10,000 through 2022 to cut spending on personnel spending by 1.4 billion euro ($1.6 billion). Daimler, with about 299,000 employees at the end of 2019, disputed the report."
Outsource to where?
"Production workers at one of the Navy’s largest shipbuilders overwhelmingly voted to strike, rejecting Bath Iron Works’ three-year contract offer Sunday and threatening to further delay delivery of ships. The first strike by Machinists Union Local S6 in two decades comes as production already has fallen six months behind, partly because of the pandemic. The private shipyard in Bath, Maine, is one of two that make guided-missile destroyers for the Navy. The contract expires at midnight Sunday for 4,300 workers represented by the union, about two-thirds of the workforce. The vote was 87 percent in favor of strike authorization, a union official said. The three-year proposal by Bath Iron Works would have given the production workers a 3 percent raise during each year. But the union objected to more than a dozen changes that it considered to be concessions — including hiring of subcontractors. The union also considered a proposal to change preferences for shifts and locations to be an attack on seniority. The shipyard is one of the Navy’s five largest shipbuilders and a major employer in Maine with 6,800 workers."
Oh, good, maybe the mass-murdering war machine will grind to a halt for once.
"The net worth of Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd., has jumped to $64.5 billion, making him the only Asian tycoon among the world’s top 10 richest people, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He holds the number nine spot. Ambani has benefited from a flurry of investment in the company’s digital unit, Jio Platforms Ltd. Shares of the Indian conglomerate have doubled from a low in March, just as other billionaires on the list have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The rise of the 63-year-old as India heads for its worst-ever recession is a reminder of the nation’s deep economic divide: The top 10 percent hold more than three-quarters of total wealth. Ambani lives in a 27-story mansion in Mumbai that has three helipads, a 50-seat movie theater, three floors of hanging gardens, and a health spa and fitness center. Reliance last year surpassed state-owned Indian Oil Corp. to become the country’s largest company by revenue. Jeff Bezos, of Amazon, heads the top 10 list, with $160 billion, followed by Bill Gates (Microsoft, $112 billion) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook, 90.6 billion)."
There is the triumvirate clique that wishes to control the world!
"Facebook Inc. is considering taking over Neiman Marcus’s retail space at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, Women’s Wear Daily reported, citing a person familiar with the matter it didn’t identify. The operator of high-end department stores filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 7, which would allow it to back out of its 188,000-square-foot store lease free of penalties. If Facebook takes over the space, it would add to the lease the tech giant signed last year for more than 1.5 million square feet of space in the same development."
Going to scoop up all the property, huh?
"The name attached to Eskimo Pie, the chocolate-covered ice cream treat that has been around nearly a century, will be retired, the latest product to yield to pressure to remove or rethink brands considered racist or culturally insensitive. “We are committed to being a part of the solution on racial equality, and recognize the term is inappropriate,” said Elizabell Marquez, head of marketing for Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. The company plans to have a new name by year’s end and will discontinue the Eskimo character. The term Eskimo is commonly used in Alaska to refer to all Inuit and Yup’ik people but is considered derogatory by many who associate it with racist, non-Native colonizers who settled in the Arctic."
Eat 'em if you got 'em, before they melt!
So after COVID-19, what comes next?
According to the Braying over at the Bo$ton Globe universal broadband (all the better to hook you up to the surveillance control grid); online retailing and a lot more robots (the AI matrix being constructed right in front of your face); the doctor is always in (they think "telehealth" is wonderful, and I $uppo$e it $erves a purpo$e for billing. That's about it. No more confidential conversations with your doctor); a back-to-the-future school (the $chools will be training them for the technological dystopia the Globe is pushing, that's all); first-run movies come home (no sooner will the theaters open than they will close. No more big screen, America); and E-sports gets real (talk about the Matrix! That means no more $ports, either, despite the summer of blather and anticipation. The school closing and sports cancellations will be a 1-2 gut-punch, mind-fuck for the public that is in a state of wide scale and collective trauma. My poor fellow citizens, blind, for they can not see past the smokescreen of Satan and his minions in state).
That's how the $camdemic is going to reshape daily life after COVID-19, but the question needs to be asked: why would daily life need reshaping after the virus is gone?
Facing a broken mental health system, many U.S. teens fall off a dangerous ‘cliff’ in their care
By Megan Thielking
What is crazy is continuing to read this shit day after day.
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Look out below:
"Authorities are investigating after a 9-year-old boy was killed in a fall from a ninth-floor apartment in Brockton on Sunday morning. Brockton police responded to a 911 call from one of the boy’s family members around 9:25 a.m. Sunday, according to a statement issued by the office of Plymouth Country District Attorney Timothy Cruz. The boy had fallen from a ninth-floor window at the Belair Tower in Brockton and was found unresponsive when first responders arrived at the scene, according to the statement. The boy was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton, where he was pronounced dead. No foul play is suspected, according to the district attorney’s statement. An investigation is ongoing, and authorities have not released the boy’s identity. No further information was immediately available."
Just neglect?
Three injured after vehicle strikes State Police cruiser on I-91 in West Springfield
They really are going after the police, aren't they?
Two canoers rescued on Town River in Bridgewater Saturday night
Should have let them drown.
Maine has widest coronavirus racial disparity gap in the country
Demonstrators at a rally on Wednesday, June 3, in Portland, Maine. The widest racial disparity in the US stemming from the coronavirus pandemic is in Maine, where Black residents are contracting the virus at 20 times the rate of their white neighbors, according to a report (Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press)
A sea of masked whities, yikes, and thank God Massachusetts isn't the worst for once!
Better go get tested up there.
Not down here, though:
Black men marched from Malcolm X Park to Franklin Park (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff).
No masks, no distance, got it.
Must be immune, like the Red Man:
Nicolas Ramon held a sign during the Juneteenth means Fight for Justice! Boston Speakout and March (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff).
The Globe salutes them....
Lynette Russell, of Boston (center) and Ciara Sheehan, 12, of Holbrook, listened to Pastor David Eadie during a Father's Day Prayer for Justice, with several clergy speakers, at Franklin Park on Sunday (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff).
..... as the movement morphs into something downright frightening:
Father's Day Prayer for Justice, with several clergy speakers, is held in Franklin Park (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff)
YIKES!
Doesn't she know what that salute stands for?
Of course, those guys are dead and buried now, only kept alive on Talmudvi$ion to $ervice a certain narrative and cho$en agenda.
Related:
Allegations of systemic racism roil Boston Conservatory
If nothing else, it takes the spotlight off the sexual abuse allegations in the indu$try.
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Somehow, after what is above, I'm supposed to take this shit seriously:
"The World Health Organization on Sunday reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the previous 24 hours. The United Nations health agency said Brazil led the way, with 54,771 cases tallied, and the United States was next, at 36,617. More than 15,400 were counted in India. Specialists said rising case counts can reflect multiple factors, including more widespread testing as well as broader infection. Overall in the pandemic, the WHO reported 8,708,008 cases — 183,020 in the last 24 hours — with 461,715 deaths worldwide, with a daily increase of 4,743. More than two-thirds of those new deaths were reported in the Americas. The United States has the world’s highest number of reported infections, more than 2.2 million, and the highest death toll, at about 120,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Health officials say robust testing is vital for tracking outbreaks and keeping the virus in check. The number of confirmed virus cases is still growing rapidly not only in the United States but also in Brazil, South Africa, and other countries, especially in Latin America. Brazil’s Health Ministry said the total number of cases had risen by more than 50,000 in a day. President Jair Bolsonaro has been downplaying the risks even as his country has seen nearly 50,000 fatalities. South Africa reported a one-day high of almost 5,000 new cases Saturday and 46 deaths. In Europe, a single meatpacking plant in Germany has had more than 1,000 cases, so the regional government issued a quarantine for all 6,500 workers, managers, and family members. In Asia, China and South Korea reported new coronavirus cases Sunday in outbreaks that threatened to set back their recoveries."
What we don't get in my pre$$ is the video of the empty Brazilian hospital, and here is a SHOUT-OUT to the BRAVE BOLSONARO who knows exactly what is going on!
What else are they not telling you while lying to you, dear reader?
"The United Nations on Sunday released a special report expressing concerns over what it called recent “deliberate attacks” against health care workers and facilities in Afghanistan during the coronavirus pandemic. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, said that it had documented 12 deliberate acts of violence from March 11 to May 23, and that these attacks constitute war crimes. The report said eight of the attacks were carried out by Taliban insurgents, while three were attributed to Afghan security forces. The most horrific attack, on a maternity ward at a Kabul hospital that killed 24 people last month, remains unsolved. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied the UN report’s findings, saying, “We do not consider these allegations and reports to be accurate.” Sunday’s statement said Taliban militants had not attacked any health facilities and claimed they have instead protected them. Afghan government officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Afghanistan has reported 28,833 confirmed coronavirus cases with 581 deaths."
I'm so fucking sick of the false flags and goddamn war lies, and just how many has the endless war killed anyway?
Speaking of endless wars:
"In Baghdad’s vast exhibition grounds, masked workers lugged hospital beds into rows for makeshift coronavirus wards, as doctors and officials sounded the alarm Sunday over a surge in virus cases in the capital. The long-dreaded scenario is gripping the country amid a severe economic crisis brought on by plummeting oil prices, but with a widening budget deficit, doctors are running low on medical equipment, including key protective gear. A cap on new hires is also expected to strain the already over-stretched system. As hospitals overflowed with patients, the Iraqi government announced temporary field hospitals will open throughout Baghdad, where infections are highest, to cope with the exponentially rising number of virus patients. Iraq’s health system was already battered by years of conflict as well as poor infrastructure and lack of funds. Virus cases began rising after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when families and friends typically get together to break the daylong fast. In less than a month, infections spiked sevenfold to more than 30,868 as of Sunday, up from fewer than 4,000 at the end of May. Deaths also spiked, with more than 1,100 killed among the confirmed cases, according to Health Ministry figures."
Iraq used to have the most advanced health system in the Middle East before 1991, and the place is almost like the Balkans now:
"Serbia’s ruling populists looked set to tighten their hold on power as polls closed in a parliamentary election held Sunday despite concerns over the spread of coronavirus in the Balkan country and a partial boycott by the opposition. The turnout among the nearly 6.6 million voters eligible to cast ballots for Serbia’s 250-member parliament and local offices appeared lower than in previous elections. It was the first national election in Europe to take place during the virus pandemic....."
What is interesting is the fact that there have been no reports on surging caseloads in Austria, Hungary, or the rest of Eastern Europe that opened more than a month ago.
"Spain’s national state of emergency has ended after three months of restrictions on movement to rein in its COVID-19 outbreak. As of Sunday, 47 million Spaniards will be able to freely move around the entire country for the first time since the government declared a state of emergency on March 14. The lockdown measures have been rolled back gradually over recent weeks. Travelers from European countries, including Britain, can also enter Spain now without having to quarantine for 14 days. That quarantine rule still applies to non-Schengen countries, except for the United Kingdom. Spain is hoping it can save part of its summer tourist season, which provides a huge part of its economic activity. Spain’s lockdown succeeded in stopping the uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus, which has claimed at least 28,000 lives in the country."
I hope it was worth throwing in with the sick f**king $ychopaths, and you probably want to leave England anyway:
"The pandemic has prevented druids, pagans, and party-goers from watching the sun rise at Stonehenge to mark the summer solstice this year. The ancient stone circle in southwestern England usually draws thousands of people to mark the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, but Britain has banned mass gatherings as part of measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. English Heritage, the body that oversees Stonehenge, live-streamed the sunrise instead. It said more than 3.6 million people watched as dawn broke at 4:52 a.m. Sunday (11:52 p.m. EDT Saturday). Stonehenge, a World Heritage site, is believed to be 4,500 years old. It is known for its alignment with the movements of the sun."
Once again, the pre$$ is engaged in demon worship with a sacrifice(?).
The lead devil:
"Public health specialists reject president’s view of fading pandemic" by James Gorman New York Times, June 21, 2020
NEW YORK — Public health specialists warned on Sunday that the coronavirus pandemic is not going away anytime soon. They directly contradicted President Trump’s promise that the disease that has infected more than 2 million Americans would “fade away” and his remarks that disparaged the value of evidence from coronavirus tests.
F**K OFF!
A day after Trump told a largely maskless audience at an indoor rally in Tulsa, Okla., that he had asked to “slow down the testing” because it inevitably increased the number of confirmed coronavirus cases, infectious disease specialists countered that the latest rise of infections in the United States is real; the country’s response to the pandemic is not working; and rallies like the president’s risk becoming major spreading events.
But the RACE RIOTS that SACK and BURN CITIES are FINE!
These "$cienti$ts" and "$peciali$ts" have become the BIGGEST HYPOCRITES in HUMAN HISTORY!
Related:
"Dutch police arrested about 400 protesters and used a water cannon Sunday after violence erupted around a demonstration in The Hague against measures put in place by the government to rein in the spread of the coronavirus. A peaceful protest turned violent when dozens of what police said were soccer fans arrived and clashed with riot police near the city’s central railway station. Police used officers on horseback and a water cannon to disperse the crowd after police were pelted with rocks and smoke bombs. There were no immediate reports of injuries. It was unclear exactly how many people gathered Sunday at the demonstration that was initially banned by The Hague’s mayor last week. On Sunday, the mayor gave permission for a brief protest, because fewer people attended than had been predicted last week. Police tweeted in the evening that about 400 people were arrested throughout the day and that many had been released. The protesters argue that a proposed law formalizing the coronavirus measures goes too far and is unconstitutional."
Oh, whoops, wrong kind of protest! That is why the BRIEF was BURIED! It doesn't support the pre$$ narrative, and WHERE are the COMPLAINTS of POLICE BRUTALITY?!
Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said on “Fox News Sunday” that the spikes in confirmed cases in many states in the South and West are not simply a result of increased testing. Data show that the percentage of tests that are positive is increasing, he said, and in some states that is accompanied by increased hospitalizations. In states like Arizona, Texas, North and South Carolina, and Florida, he said, “That’s a real rise.”
F**k that shill and the medium of a source, and that is the second time they had to emphasize that this is real, it is!
I'm so glad I no longer spend Sunday mornings watching that crap.
On “Face the Nation” on CBS, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said: “We’re seeing the positivity rates go up. That’s a clear indication there is now community spread underway, and this isn’t just a function of testing more,” and Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, repeated his call for a national plan to respond to the pandemic, calling the existing patchwork of state-by-state policy “disjointed.”
Yeah, he was/is a f**ing creature of Pharma, was a contentious issue during his confirmation. No credibility at all there.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Osterholm noted, “We’re at 70 percent of the number of cases today that we were at the very height of the pandemic cases in early April.” He said that although his center had put out a report in April showing different possible waves and troughs of infection as the pandemic progressed, he had changed his thinking: “I don’t see this slowing down for the summer or into the fall. I think this is more like a forest fire,” he said. “I think that wherever there’s wood to burn, this fire is going to burn it.”
You are taking a real gamble by taking his medical advice, and he sees a New York nursing home situation coming as the contract tracers remove people from their homes over the summer.
Better have your gun handy, but use it only in emergency.
The specialists mainly urged greater use of proven interventions to slow the spread of disease, like hand-washing, mask-wearing, and maintaining social distancing when out in public. When asked whether states should consider reversing the levels of reopening, Inglesby did not recommend a return to lockdowns. “Each state has a different story,” he said, adding that “leaders should be encouraging people to use the tools we know work.”
The MASKS are UNHEALTHY and MAKE YOU SICK!
This is INSANE, readers, and proves how EVIL the HEALTH PROFE$$IONALS have BECOME!
He said indoor gatherings like the president’s rally were a concern, as were outdoor demonstrations like the mass protests against police brutality, but to a lesser degree. “We know from what we’ve seen so far in the last few months,” said Inglesby, “that outdoors is less of a risk than indoors and that mask use has a major impact.”
If so, WHY can we NOT GO to the FOOTBALL or BASEBALL GAMES, a$$holes?
You know, that is when THIS WHOLE THING STARTED to become UNDONE!
You f**kers REALLY BLEW IT with the OBVIOUS HYPOCRISY and DOUBLE STANDARDS!
The JIG IS UP, f**kers!!!!!!!!
You have been TOTALLY DISCREDITED and rendered UNBELIEVABLE for the REST OF TIME!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he noted, has advised that “the highest-risk gatherings are those that are large, indoors, where people can’t stay apart from each other more than 6 feet, and where people travel from out of town, and this rally met all of those criteria.”
The CDC can shove their f**king guidelines!
He and other public health specialists expressed concerns about the potential for a significant spreading event. Oklahoma has a rapidly rising infection rate, although its absolute numbers are still small. It had a record number of cases — 450 — and the last five days have been the highest the state has recorded. Deaths in that state have been in the single digits since the end of April.
Yeah, Trump says he is going there and the caseloads suddenly spike!
PFFFFFFT!!
US cases are up 15 percent in the past two weeks, with at least 2.2 million confirmed infections since the start of the pandemic and cases on the rise in 22 states. Earlier in the week, Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News that the virus will disappear. “It’s going to fade away,” he said.
He is a f**king idiot and deluded if he believes that, or he is a fabulous liar playing his role.
Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said on CNN, “Not only is it not fading out — this will be with us for at least another 12 months, and that’s the most optimistic scenario for having a vaccine.”
That's what it i$ all about, right there. The endle$$ jabbing of the agenda at you and their damn endgame, with the Globe saying “if we don’t let our guard down, we’ll be able to operate safely and navigate through this until there is a vaccine.”
$tick it where the $un don't $hine!
Jah also responded to the president’s comments on testing. Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade adviser, said on “State of the Union” on CNN that the president’s comment about testing was “tongue-in-cheek.”
“This is unfortunately not a joke,” Jha said. He mentioned families who had lost relatives in nursing homes and Americans who had not been able to get tests.
Not a joke at all, you fuck!!!!!!!!
Chad Wolf, acting secretary of Homeland Security, appearing on NBC’s news program, defended the precautions taken at the Trump rally as meeting CDC guidelines, since masks were offered and social distancing was voluntary.
He also said the administration was trying to get the country “up and running” in a safe way, “and I think we’re doing a great job at that,” he said.
Keep patting yourselves on the back until November 3rd, then it is bye-bye!
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"White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is calling the coronavirus a “product of the Chinese Communist Party” and suggesting without evidence it may have been intentionally created by the Chinese government. Navarro said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it remains unclear how the virus started and “until we get some information about what happened in those labs or what happened in that wet market, we know that the virus was spawned in China.” President Trump and his allies have been repeating the unsubstantiated theory linking the outbreak’s origin to a possible accident at a Chinese virology laboratory. US officials describe the evidence as purely circumstantial. The leading theory is that infection among humans began at an animal market in Wuhan. Navarro says it’s an “open question” whether the virus was purposefully created. He said that, in his view, the Chinese government is “guilty until proven innocent.”
Un-f**ing-believeable!
The guy just basically confirmed that COVID-19 -- if it exits -- was loosed from a U.S. bioweapons lab, and guilty until proven innocent regarding a conspiracy theory with no evidence, huh?
Jail allowed only white staff to guard ex-officer charged with killing George Floyd
Looks like the crisis actor Chauvin is “guilty until proven innocent.”
Confederate statues come down; other symbols eyed
Including Teddy Roosevelt.
Bully!
Our cultural history is being erased as I type, and that is the kind of thing that MARXISTS DO!
Also see:
Trump campaign, Democrats joust over Tulsa rally turnout
By Felicia Sonmez and Taylor Telford Washington Post
My PRINTED headline read "Trump's team says low turnout due to fear of protesters," and they $hould be afraid.
Biden’s $80.8 million outpaced Trump’s fund-raising in May
By Rebecca R. Ruiz and Shane Goldmacher New York Times
The voters have $poken!
Behind Joe Biden’s Evolution on L.G.B.T.Q. Rights
They New York Times loves him!
Police say 9 shot, wounded at party in Syracuse, N.Y.
No one was immediately taken into custody, and they are starting to look like Minneapolis.
Nadler dismisses idea of impeaching Trump over Bolton allegations
How very interesting.
Is that why they rushed impeachment over a bogus issue, because they knew COVID was coming (remember the in$ide $tock $ales by the Congre$$critters that has been $wept under the rug?).
Now for the pos front page:
Meet Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy
No thanks, now that they are more woke.
"There’s still a PPE shortage — and a second wave could send medical workers into crisis mode" by Naomi Martin Globe Staff, June 21, 2020
‘It’s like pulling teeth’ mixing up metaphors slop.
Even as the rate of new coronavirus cases has ebbed across Massachusetts, medical workers say they still face shortages of gear to protect themselves, their families, and their patients. Many are taking matters into their own hands, while worrying that a second wave of infections, which some experts consider likely, would again send them into crisis mode.
There is still an alleged “supply chain crisis.”
In Boston last week, US Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar said Trump inherited an inadequate national stockpile of pandemic gear and that states and organizations needed to build their own inventories. Medical workers blame President Trump for not forcing manufacturers of products such as refrigerators or cars to make protective gear.
It's Obama's and the state governments fault, but everything is Trump's fault these days. Post-nasal drip, people who fart in elevators (can now without same, thank you, COVID), what have you.
Governor Charlie Baker’s administration, which secured PPE from China and the national stockpile, has disbursed nearly 1 million items to hospitals in need. To boost in-state production, Baker’s office and the quasi-public agency Massachusetts Technology Collaborative launched the Manufacturing Emergency Response Team to help local companies make PPE.
So far, 21 companies have received $10 million in grants and made more than 4 million PPE pieces, including masks, gowns, and testing swabs. “Sourcing and providing PPE for front-line health care providers has been — and will continue to be — a key element in the Commonwealth’s pandemic response,” said Ann Scales, a Department of Public Health spokeswoman.
What are they complaining for then?
Looks like war-profiteering, doe$n't it?
The state program has prioritized the production of what hospitals say they need, including N95s, and will help better prepare the medical system in case a new wave of infections erupts, said Carolyn Kirk, MassTech’s executive director.
I second wave is a cinch certainty!
“We in Massachusetts can absolutely make a big dent in that need for our health care institutions,” Kirk said, but “it’s going to take time,” but health care workers questioned whether the response was adequate, or moving quickly enough.
“It’s not, if we’re going to see our numbers go up again,” said Dr. Karen Leitner, cofounder of the COVID-19 Action Coalition, a local physicians group.....
I'm already locking back down.
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Related:
"The state has now seen 107,061 cases of COVID-19 and 7,858 deaths, according to a Department of Public Health report that includes both probable and confirmed cases, but the progress comes as other regions see alarming signs that COVID-19 is spreading as officials elsewhere attempt to reopen their own economies. On Sunday, US Senator Elizabeth Warren said she would like to see a consistent, national approach that makes enough progress to reassure anxious workers and consumers. “We’ve got to get this pandemic under control. We cannot reopen this economy if the number of COVID-19 cases is continuing to rise — if people are worried about sending their kids to schools, worried about going into shops, worried about going to churches and synagogues,” Warren said during an appearance on WCVB-TV....."
She also says Bolton should have spoken up sooner as she tries to keep her name in vice president conversation (the B3 placement of the article assures she will not be getting it after the front-page placement of the current front-runner).
Maybe you could call the cops after the robbery:
"Baker calls for training bonuses for police amid defunding debate" by Matt Stout Globe Staff, June 21, 2020
Tucked into a sweeping police accountability bill Governor Charlie Baker released last week was a proposal that surprised even some law enforcement leaders: a system of one-time bonuses up to $5,000 for police officers who go beyond the state’s required training.
Hailed by some as a sensible way to coax police into advanced coursework, the proposed language also is seemingly at odds with the demands of protesters, activists, and legislators now coursing through the halls of government.
$tarve the police.
Amid a nationwide reckoning with police brutality and racism, advocates and some elected officials have called on cities and towns to pour less, not more, money into police department budgets, and shift the funding toward public health, violence prevention, and other programs.
Baker’s legislation, which would create a new certification system for police, does not specifically dedicate more state money toward training or create a separate fund for the bonuses themselves. Instead, it leaves it up to municipal departments to cover the costs for their officers, while the state would pay for incentives for State Police troopers, but it immediately called to mind for some the construct of the controversial Quinn Bill, a 1970s law that boosts the salaries of officers who have received college degrees. State funding for the law was slashed roughly a decade ago, and a high court ruling in 2012 said municipalities are not obligated to pay the state’s share.
(Blog editor apoplectic. Another unfunded initiative from a$$holes)
“Training should be part of the job, but it shouldn’t be a separate basis for payment,” said Carol Rose, the executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, who called Baker’s overall policing bill a “welcome step” but is among those pushing to slice money from police budgets. “I don’t think we want to be in a situation of what the Quinn Bill became, which is an unfunded mandate,” she said. “What isn’t needed is more money pouring into these departments.”
Not when most of the cops in Bo$ton are making in excess of $300K, and look at 'em on their bikes and in their yellow vests. They could never hurt anyone.
A sweeping 2018 criminal justice law already mandated that the Municipal Police Training Committee incorporate bias-free policing and deescalation techniques into annual in-service training. Dan Zivkovich, who left the committee last year after a decade as its executive director, said basic training on those concepts had been offered for years, but Zivkovich said in reading Baker’s proposal, he envisions officers taking intensive, week-long courses that go beyond one-day classes offered by other departments or the FBI in order to qualify for extra pay. “This would be something that would be very intense and very high-level,” Zivkovich said.
At least Israel won't be training them.
Baker has already staked out ground against “defunding” police and said this month that public officials should not “get out of the business of providing public safety to our communities. I don’t support defunding the police.” When he unveiled the legislation Wednesday, he said the thrust of the bill was, in part, to “be aspirational about the way we think about training,” while allowing state officials to pull the certifications of problem officers.....
That's not going to win me over.
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That is when my beat ended.
Have a good day.
