Thus, with no further ado, a quick recap of today's Globe in mostly link form. The articles are available for you to make your own judgements, and I'm sorry if I mistakenly missed anything. What used to be a joy then felt like a job has now become a chore.
The outrage began at the bottom of the page with the Bo$ton Globe gargle and mouthwash. They literally want to collect your spit, swab your nose, all that invasive crap in what is an embrace of medical tyranny. The agenda proceeds apace, even in Europe.
The second wave has already begun in China, so I seem prescient, dammit. Please God, let me be wrong once.
Time to workout, right?
"A Worcester County Superior Court judge has ordered the town of Oxford to shut down a gym that has continued to operate while other fitness centers across the state remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Jeffrey Blake, an attorney representing Oxford, said at the status hearing that was held Tuesday that David Blondin, 30, the owner of Prime Fitness and Nutrition, was putting public health at risk by keeping his gym open. “This is a serious, serious health concern,” Blake said. “This is real. We have shut the world down to stop the spread of this.”
These are the kind of power-mad psychopaths we are dealing with here in Ma$$achu$etts.
On the first day Blondin reopened, the town’s health inspector stopped by and gave him a verbal warning. The next day, town officials came back and gave him a written citation. Then they started issuing fines, and they took him to court. On Tuesday Judge Susan E. Sullivan said the town may take whatever measures necessary — including changing the locks, boarding up the building, and turning off the utilities — to close the gym and secure the premises. Blondin is also being fined $1,000 a day and he must pay the town’s costs and attorneys’ fees....."
They ruined him. Tyranny has come to Massachusetts, and all hail King Charles!
The world is upside down. As statues are torn down, the birthplace of the American Revolution has become a totalitarian state (btw, the utility shut-offs are coming and now I understand why there was a problem with Comcast yesterday).
Don't look to a higher court, either. Better pray to God after what Gorsuch wrote:
"For religious conservatives, the ruling was especially pointed because it came from a bench that leans conservative, and because Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, whom they had championed as a hero for other causes like abortion, wrote for the majority. Unlike the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide during the Obama administration, this ruling came from their allies. In his opinion, Justice Gorsuch recognized the existence of several religious freedom protections, including the First Amendment, but he signaled that Monday’s decision could lead to a fight over the validity over those protections....."
Read that again.
He is talking about ELIMINATION of FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS, and he now drops way, way below Ginsburg on my rankings. Holy shit!
That right there makes all the Stone-throwing and Trump orders seem trivial. America will soon have no Voice (that is state-sanctioned propaganda that we bring to other countries, the same that is performed on us through the pre$$ and ma$$ media):
"The European Union and some Western nations appealed Tuesday for more time to discuss a resolution drafted for the United Nations’ top human rights body that seeks international scrutiny of systemic racism against people of African descent in response to the recent killings of Black Americans by police. The draft resolution singles out the United States and could become the centerpiece of a hastily scheduled debate by the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday. The text calls for a commission of inquiry — the body’s most powerful tool to inspect human rights violations — to look into “systemic racism” and abuses against “Africans and of people of African descent in the United States of America and other parts of the world recently affected by law enforcement agencies.’’ Such work would be carried out “with a view to bringing perpetrators to justice,” it states....."
And where would that be, the Hague?
A U.N. tribunal?
Has the $tench of $oro$ and others!
Face facts for once!
They will be coming for us all.
Meanwhile, the Globe didn't put the photograph up, and that left me unhappy regarding this slop.
You go, girls!
That gets you back to the front page and more insanity:
"Reopening shows no signs of slowing. Neither does the pandemic. In these and at least 12 other states, COVID-19 cases are surging, in some cases to record levels, and though many governors left open the possibility that they would pause or reverse their reopening plans if the pandemic worsened, few have taken the exit ramp. The dramatic uptick in new cases around the country could provide key lessons for Massachusetts, where cases continue to decline as the state steadily pursues a phased reopening plan. In states where leaders have failed to act when case numbers crept back up — either by reverting to tough lockdown measures or investing in meaningful alternative solutions — they have quickly lost control of the outbreak. Other states are demonstrating that a spike in cases lurks behind every lifted lockdown.
The "viru$" is LURKING -- just like the "terrorists!"
Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, said, that states’ testing capacity, ability to track down infected people’s contacts, and resources for helping sick people quarantine all make a difference in slowing the pandemic’s spread, regardless of whether businesses are shut. Governors and public health officials are correct to try other interventions before reverting to shelter-in-place orders, said Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University. “Lockdown should really be your last step,” said Wen, who previously served as Baltimore’s health commissioner. “Shelter-in place is a blunt instrument. Ideally, you’re able to use precision tools." Those tools might include tracking and shutting the specific types of settings that are seeding community outbreaks.
So THEY will DECIDE which EVENT is APPROVED (race riots) and what are NOT (beach, Trump rally, reopen protests, and anything else of which they do not approve). We are on the verge of a MAO-LIKE TOTALITARIANISM, America, now PLEASE WAKE the FUCK UP!!
If infections seem to be spreading at bars, for example, a state could shut those businesses before closing others, Wen said. Testing and contact tracing also remain important. Still, Wen said, public officials should be prepared to change course on reopening “if those precision tools are overwhelmed.” Around the country, she said, officials’ poor communication with the public is partly to blame for the pressure governors feel to press forward with reopening no matter what. “[Other countries] were very clear at the beginning that reopening was not an on and off switch, it was a dial," she said. “I do not believe that this has been done well in the US. The American people have gotten the message instead that this is a one way street." “Even if we have an increased number of cases, it’s very hard to put the genie back in the bottle," Wen said. Nuzzo agreed. “Public health interventions only work if the public is on your side."
Which we are not.
You read that and you realize how f**king out-of-touch the elites really are.
They are DELUSIONAL and INSANE!
This was the front-page companion piece:
"Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, warned in an interview with the Globe on Monday, “In many respects,” he said, “we’re still in the first wave — take a look at the curve.” The troubling data, and the warnings from Fauci and other public health experts about it, could be a harsh reality check as Trump tries to depict his administration’s response to the coronavirus as a success as he returns to the campaign trail. Fauci, who serves on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said that, while more testing does pick up more cases, rising rates of positive tests in some states — as well as spikes in hospitalizations — are signs that the increase in cases in some states is not just because of more testing. “When you look at the number of hospitalizations, and you see some of the states say, ‘Oh my goodness, I’m having more hospitalizations than I had before,’ that cannot be due to increase in testing. That has to be due to increase in real cases,” said Fauci. The virus has infected more than 2 million Americans, killing more than 116,000 people, and Trump’s handling of the crisis is likely to define his legacy and be a major factor in his bid for reelection, but experts like Fauci say large indoor events could spread the virus. “When you have a congregation of a lot of people, particularly people who might be shouting and chanting or yelling or clapping and having fun, and they take their masks off, first of all, it is risky,” Fauci said....."
That's the "reality check" from Fauci and the Globe (as if the Globe had any connection to reality with its daily propaganda and illusion). I actually read the whole thing last night, and it is the typical hack job on Trump that has become typical with Goodwin and Bidgood. No surprise there. Enjoy the slant if you want, but that's when the top of my head hit the ceiling.
This guy is such a prevaricating liar. Forget the mixed messages and flip-flop-flips one the masks; my IMMEDIATE REACTION was WHY can we NOT HAVE FANS at BASEBALL and FOOTBALL GAMES?!! I mean RIOTERS SHOULDER TO SHOULDER is OKAY, so WTF?
Beyond that, remember when this was all about flattening the curve so the hospitals wouldn't be overrun? They never were overrun, the curve was flattened, and now Fauci is piling on after herd immunity was denied amidst asymptomatic conditions and a 99.9% survival rate. COVID-19 has now mushroomed out to include racism, a destroyed economy, an alteration of our way of life in a way that the "terrorists" could never dream, and a giant push towards a $ick technocracy devised by elite and genocidal globalist leaders (cui bono?)
"State officials reported Tuesday that the coronavirus death toll in Massachusetts had risen by 18 to 7,665 and that the number of people testing positive for the virus had climbed by 195 to 105,885, as key metrics monitored by the state continued to suggest the outbreak is on the wane, but in a grim reminder of COVID-19's devastating impact, a University of Massachusetts model estimated that the death toll in the state would reach 8,309 by July 11. The UMass estimate, issued Tuesday, comes from a lab headed by UMass Amherst associate professor Nicholas Reich that collects various coronavirus pandemic models and develops a combined, or ensemble, forecast that is intended to reflect their collective wisdom......"
There they go with their MODELS again, the SAME MODELS that led to lockdowns and the DESTRUCTION of your LIVELIHOODS -- based on CONVENTIONAL F***ING WISDOM!!
Not ON-THE-GROUND-DATA, but WHAT COULDA BEEN!
DAMN CRIMINALS ALL!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, the increases in crap tests are going to lead to leaders lying about figures and jacking up totals to continue to serve the abdominal agenda. It is to end in some sort of Soviet-style mass famine and murder, with forced injections in COVID concentration camps (empty malls would be perfect. Metal gates already on the stores, and Walmarts have guard towers in place.
Enjoy spending your ¢hump ¢hange:
"National retail sales rebounded in May as thousands of stores and restaurants reopened after lockdowns were lifted and federal stimulus checks and tax refunds fueled a burst of spending, but many of the stores and restaurants that welcomed back customers last month did so with fewer employees, reflecting a permanently altered retail landscape and an ominous sign for the economy as it tries to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. The rise in May is the largest monthly surge on record — drawing a celebratory Twitter post from President Trump — but the retail industry is nowhere near back to normal. Driving some of the sales gains was warm weather, a sense of relief after weeks cooped up at home. and optimism from some that the worst of the pandemic could be over, but they were also lifted by stimulus money — totaling $1,200 per recipient, plus $500 per child — that will run out in the coming months, but at the same time, many shoppers are encountering an experience that’s very different from what they are accustomed to. There may be long lines outside stores because only a limited number of people are allowed inside at a time. Changing rooms are closed in many places, forcing shoppers to approximate sizes and inevitably generating more returns. For some, shopping is simply less fun and far more transactional in the pandemic era....."
What a TELL!
We are in the "pandemic era" even thought it is officially no longer an out-of-control pandemic. They are hoodwinking us, and you already know these onerous restrictions will never go away unless we all start breaking them en masse!
NON-VIOLENT, NON-COOPERATION!
Fortunately, the Globe picks up the bridal bouquet.
He is your groom:
"Jerome H. Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, told lawmakers on Tuesday that while some parts of the economy are seeing a modest rebound, he suggested repeatedly that while it was good news that employers were beginning to hire workers, it could take a long time to get back to the strong labor market that prevailed before the coronavirus pandemic shut down large sectors of the economy, forcing tens of millions out of work, and he told lawmakers that more support from Congress and the Fed could be needed to get the economy back to full health. The economic stakes are high. Powell stressed that the longer the pandemic goes on, the longer lasting the damage from the downturn could be, particularly for lower-income workers. Time out of the workforce could erode workers’ skills, he said. “Low-income households have experienced, by far, the sharpest drop in employment, while job losses of African Americans, Hispanics, and women have been greater than that of other groups,” Powell said. “If not contained and reversed, the downturn could further widen gaps in economic well-being that the long expansion had made some progress in closing.”
Yes, we were making such pwogwe$$ before COVID-19, and now the problem is much, much wor$e (cui bono?).
"Stocks rose again Tuesday, part of a strong and worldwide rally for markets, after a big rebound in buying at US stores and online raised hopes that the economy can escape its recession relatively quickly......"
At that point I said why bother reading the rest?
I have had it with the mixed me$$ages (aka LIES)!
I flip the page, see this, and say who gives a f***?
What is important to note is that corporations $upport the destruction of our police (who are complicit with no court on their side) and country in favor a dystopian technocracy that is unavoidable.
Where that money comes from is anybody's gue$$, but the schools all already like prisons and now it will be even worse as I note that there is a difference between “Black and brown” in the Globe (they are saluting Black Power while saying the city must confront its racial bias of stop-and-frisk and the mayor says that the “anger is justified."
Thus, as they are literally bullied, in corporate America, Black is the new black as Black lives don’t matter as much as public relations that are good for the bottom line (forget the bu$ine$$ model that is no more).
Even God is not enough to protect you from the politically-correct police who insist on complete acceptance of total dogma. How Maoist of them, and don't you dare the liberators a gang.
It's a merry-go-round when it comes to the masks, and you will need to wear one to board the flight (the "terrorists"are going to love that).
Time to take the dog for a walk:
"During the pandemic, Brigham and Women’s Hospital tested a Spot robot equipped with microphones and an iPad as a way to remotely interview patients who may be infected with COVID-19....."
Does that not give you the creeps or what?
After I find my baseball bat, pass the pot (unions going to destroy that nascent industry. Was fun while it lasted) -- or rather take a belt from the full-page Total Wines ad on page A5 before injected a steroid.
What's that buzzing?
New push on to fight mosquito-borne illnesses
They want to spray something on us over diseases that kill a handful of people every year, if that.
Related: Scientists Release Controversial Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In High-Security Lab
Get this, the project's major funder is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which also supports NPR and that blog!!!
Fire!
I'm done hacking around:
"Elite CIA unit that built hacking tools failed to secure its own systems" Washington Post, June 16, 2020
WASHINGTON — The theft of top-secret computer hacking tools from the CIA in 2016 was the result of a workplace culture in which the agency’s elite computer hackers ‘‘prioritized building cyber weapons at the expense of securing their own systems,’’ according to an internal report prepared for then-director Mike Pompeo as well as his deputy, Gina Haspel, now the current director.
That is not what they were prioritizing at all!
The breach, allegedly by a CIA employee, was discovered a year after it happened, when the information was published by WikiLeaks, in March 2017.
The anti-secrecy group dubbed the release ‘‘Vault 7,’’ and US officials have said it was the biggest unauthorized disclosure of classified information in the CIA’s history, causing the spy agency to shut down some intelligence operations and alerting foreign adversaries to its techniques.
The October 2017 report, by the CIA’s WikiLeaks Task Force, several pages of which were missing or redacted, portrays an agency more concerned with bulking up its cyber arsenal than keeping those tools secure. Security procedures were ‘‘woefully lax’’ within the special unit that designed and built the tools, the report said.
This is a limited hangout piece off shit!
Absent WikiLeaks’s disclosure, the CIA might never have known the tools had been stolen, according to the report. ‘‘Had the data been stolen for the benefit of a state adversary and not published, we might still be unaware of the loss,’’ the task force concluded.
So Wikileaks actually helped the CIA, huh?
Looking more like a honey trap all the time. That's why Assange's case has been buried.
The task force report was provided to The Washington Post by the office of Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who has pressed for stronger cybersecurity in the intelligence community. He obtained the redacted, incomplete copy from the Justice Department.
That's called a leak, and the pre$$ usually says they obtained it (makes it look like they did some actual work rather than stenograph a fax from the agency).
The breach came nearly three years after Edward Snowden, then a National Security Agency contractor, stole and disclosed classified information about the NSA’s surveillance operations.
Remember him?
The hacking tools were developed by the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, where the agency’s most sophisticated hackers devised ways to gain access to hard-to-penetrate networks, for instance, to secretly activate the camera and microphone on a foreign target’s tablet, or steal the design plans for a foreign adversary’s advanced weapons systems.
Of course, they could DO THAT TO YOU, too!
Those employees are under constant pressure to find vulnerabilities in commercial software and other technology, said a former senior intelligence official. The task force acknowledged the drive ‘‘to meet growing and critical mission needs,’’ which it blamed for the laxness in ‘‘day-to-day security.”
More like CREATE their OWN NEFARIOUS MALWARE!
The report has been introduced as evidence in the trial of Joshua Schulte, a former CIA employee who worked in the center and is accused of stealing the hacking tools and giving them to WikiLeaks. Schulte has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys argued that security on the computer network was so poor any one of hundreds of employees or contractors may have had access to the same information Schulte did. A jury failed to reach a verdict in March; prosecutors have said they intend to try Schulte again this year.....
Oh, him, the scapegoat.
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FLASHBACKS:
"The Justice Department has delivered to officials in the United Kingdom a formal extradition request for Julian Assange, making further US charges against the WikiLeaks founder unlikely. A US official who spoke on background to discuss a sensitive matter said the request was sent Thursday. The Justice Department did not pursue Assange for the 2017 exposure of Central Intelligence Agency hacking tools known as ‘‘Vault 7,’’ according to government officials, out of concern that doing so would do more damage to national security. Joshua Adam Schulte, a former CIA employee, is accused in New York federal court of leaking that information to WikiLeaks. A grand jury investigation of Assange has remained active in recent weeks. Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, whose interactions with Assange form the basis of the charges against him, remains in jail for refusing to testify before the grand jury. Sigurdur Thordarson, a former WikiLeaks associate who became an FBI informant, said he voluntarily met with prosecutors in Virginia late last month and was asked detailed questions about Assange’s relationships with hackers. A spokesman with the US attorney’s office in Alexandria declined to comment on Thordarson’s account....."
Did you see whose fingerprints were all over that?
Looks like Wikileaks was a honey trap set up by intelligence agencies all along!
"A software engineer on trial in the largest leak of classified information in CIA history was “prepared to do anything” to betray the agency, federal prosecutors said Monday as a defense attorney argued the man had been scapegoated for a breach that exposed secret cyberweapons and spying techniques. A Manhattan jury heard conflicting portrayals of Joshua Schulte, a former CIA coder accused of sending the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks a large portion of the agency’s computer hacking arsenal — tools the agency had used to conduct espionage operations overseas. Schulte left a trail of evidence despite attempting to erase his digital fingerprints, Assistant US Attorney Matthew Laroche said in closing arguments. Schulte became disgruntled, he said, and took meticulous steps to plan and cover up the 2016 theft. “He was the only one who had the motive, the means, and the opportunity to steal the information,’’ Laroche said. ‘‘He was prepared to do anything to get back at the CIA.” They had the weighty mission of creating the hacking tools used by the C.I.A. to spy on foreign governments and terrorists. If that job description conjures Hollywood images of serious officers in dark suits huddling over clandestine operations, a different picture emerged during a federal trial in Manhattan this month. The work culture described by C.I.A. officers on the witness stand more closely resembled comedies like “The Office” or “Silicon Valley” than spy thrillers like “Jack Ryan.” From their cubicles, the programmers sent prank emails, taunted colleagues about their physical appearance and shot each other with Nerf guns and rubber bands, according to trial testimony......"
Ah, the life of a coder!!
Must be why he was disgruntled, huh? Everybody goofing off!
Do they really expect us to take such shit seriously, or is it an in-our-faces laugher?
Gotta hung jury (can you even say that anymore?):
"Jury in CIA leaks case fails to reach a verdict on most serious charges" by Shayna Jacobs and Shane Harris Washington Post, March 9, 2020
NEW YORK — A jury in New York failed to reach a verdict Monday on whether a former CIA employee gave government hacking tools to WikiLeaks, in what officials had called the biggest leak of classified information in the intelligence agency’s history.
Jurors, who had begun their deliberations last week, told Judge Paul Crotty that they were ‘‘extremely deadlocked’’ on many of the charges. Joshua Schulte, 31, had been accused of disclosing the hacking tools and also disclosing information to a reporter at The Washington Post while in jail awaiting trial.
The jury did find Schulte guilty on two counts of making false statements to investigators and contempt of court, but the failure to reach a unanimous agreement on the most serious charges of disclosing classified information was a significant blow to the government’s case.
It's a way of getting it dismissed with as little information out as possible, and is likely the outcome the government wanted. This is all kangaroo court, show trial stuff.
In a trial that lasted more than a month, prosecutors portrayed Schulte, 31, as a disgruntled employee bent on vengeance after his bosses failed to take his side in a dispute with a CIA co-worker.
So that would make him leak classified hacking and spying tools?
The partial verdict came three years after WikiLeaks posted thousands of files revealing secret hacking tools that the CIA used to penetrate smartphones and televisions, and other household electronics. The hacking library, which the organization dubbed Vault 7, alerted US adversaries to how the CIA spied and could enable them to turn the hacking tools back on the United States, prosecutors argued at trial.
That has all been forgotten by now, right?
The leak drew comparisons to an earlier disclosure by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, but officials have said that Schulte’s actions caused even more damage to secret intelligence operations. Whereas Snowden mostly revealed details about NSA programs and capabilities, Schulte disclosed how the CIA actually conducts cyber espionage, information that was both more revealing and potentially more dangerous to have in the open, current and former intelligence officials have said.
And you wonder why I greet skeptically any pre$$ regarding hacking by Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, etc, etc?
‘‘These leaks were devastating to national security,’’ Assistant US Attorney Matthew Laroche told jurors during his closing argument last week. ‘‘The CIA’s cyber tools were gone in an instant. Intelligence gathering operations around the world stopped immediately.’’
Prosecutors walked jurors through a detailed theory about how Schulte allegedly gained access to the CIA’s networks, stole the material and then tried to cover his tracks.
Not a conspiracy?
Schulte was a suspect almost from the moment WikiLeaks published the CIA’s secrets. Within days, investigators traced the hacking tools back to the CIA unit where Schulte had worked, known as the Engineering Development Group. Schulte left the CIA in 2016 to take a job in New York City.
Investigators concluded that a breach of the group’s internal network, where the tools were stored, probably occurred while Schulte was still employed there. On March 13, 2017, less than a week after the publication, FBI agents searched Schulte’s apartment and found a computer server and several external drives, as well as notebooks and handwritten notes, court filings show.
The case took an unexpected turn in August, when Schulte was arrested after investigators found evidence of child pornography on his computer, including more than 10,000 photos and videos, prosecutors alleged. Schulte will be tried separately on those charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
OMFG, they tried to frame him, and that's where my print copy ended it!
Schulte was not arrested but was interviewed by FBI agents and denied that he had leaked the CIA materials. Jurors also heard testimony from CIA officers who worked with Schulte. The judge took extraordinary measures to protect their identities, allowing them to appear using pseudonyms and limiting media coverage of their testimony.
Looks like Soviet courts, doesn't it?
Schulte remained in jail in Manhattan for months while the government continued to investigate the Vault 7 leaks. In June 2018, Schulte was finally charged under the Espionage Act.
Schulte’s defense attorneys argued that the government never knew with certainty that Schulte was the individual who gave the hacking tools to WikiLeaks.
They pointed out that other CIA employees had access to the network from which the hacking tools were allegedly stolen. Schulte’s team also claimed that the CIA’s computer security was weak.
This guy is starting to resemble Bruce Ivins, isn't he?
‘‘The bottom line is this . . . because the system was insecure, because the system was poorly monitored, the government cannot know, and it certainly cannot prove to you which of the many people with access to this information committed this crime, when they committed it, or how they did it,’’ Sabrina Shroff, Schulte’s lead defense attorney, said in her closing argument to jurors. Shroff raised the possibility that another CIA employee who worked with Schulte, who was identified in court only by the pseudonym ‘‘Michael,’’ was also a plausible suspect.
Like Hillary's emails.
Shroff had argued that the CIA was embarrassed because officials didn’t realize the hacking tools had been stolen until they appeared on WikiLeaks. She also said that Schulte was an easy scapegoat because of his turbulent history with the agency
‘‘He was also a pain in the ass to everyone at the CIA,’’ Shroff had told jurors at the first day of the trial. ‘‘Being a difficult employee does not make you a criminal.’’
While Schulte awaited trial, he racked up more charges. Prosecutors accused him of using a contraband cellphone to disseminate classified information to the press and using social media to claim that the FBI was framing him for the Vault 7 leaks.....
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No Office shenanigans, huh?
One wonders what shit they are stirring up around the world.
Have a good day, readers. I have already been here longer than I wanted.
