I am starting to believe in ghosts and it will soon be lights out after they behead him:
"Stimulus deal looks dead after Trump calls off talks; The president abruptly asked Treasury secretary to no longer negotiate a second pandemic bailout until after the election" by Larry Edelman and Shirley Leung Globe Staff and Globe Columnist, October 6, 2020
President Trump on Tuesday abruptly ended his administration’s discussions with Democrats for another round of economic stimulus, raising the odds that additional help for millions of unemployed Americans and struggling businesses won’t arrive until at least after Election Day and perhaps not until next year.
In an afternoon post on Twitter, Trump accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of bad faith in her monthslong negotiations with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. He said the talks would resume after the election, “when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business.”
In the meantime, he urged Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to focus the chamber’s efforts on clearing the nomination of federal appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
The surprise announcement, coming less than a day after Trump returned to the White House from the hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19, drew swift condemnation from Democrats, and in another move that has major implications for the state’s economy, the administration announced changes to the H-1B visa program that will make it more expensive for employers to hire highly skilled workers from overseas. Massachusetts employers, especially in tech and biotech, are big users of H-1B visas.
See: Trump administration to sharply limit skilled-worker visas
Why would indu$try need foreign workers with so many Americans unemployed and there are no jobs?
Pelosi and Mnuchin had been wrestling over the size of a second coronavirus relief package, unable to agree how much money is needed to boost consumer spending and sustain the economy until a vaccine is ready. The biggest sticking point was aid to state and local governments.
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"New York’s Suffolk County, home to the Hamptons, may be the next to borrow from the Federal Reserve if it can’t get a better deal on Wall Street. One of the nation’s wealthiest counties, Suffolk is planning to sell $100 million in notes in October that the Fed could backstop, according to Fitch Ratings. Suffolk County would follow Illinois and New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority in drawing on the Fed’s emergency credit line. The Fed’s backstop is intended as a last resort for governments that are facing steep penalties in the public market, where higher-rated borrowers are able to borrow at near record lows. While the county benefits from being a second-home destination for the wealthy in Manhattan, officials have long struggled to shore up the government’s finances even before the pandemic upended its budget by cutting into its sales-tax revenue. The county, which has 68 golf courses and more than 50 vineyards, has been particularly affected by the pandemic because it relies on sales taxes for much of its revenue."
That's our $y$tem!
The wealthy oligarchs receive relief while you get $tiffed, and now you know why the Globe cares so much about the foreign worker visas!
Investors and business leaders have been clamoring for more fiscal stimulus from the government, warning that the recovery in consumer spending and job creation that began in May is in danger of stalling without a follow-on to the CARES Act that Congress passed in March. It’s a view shared by Trump’s own Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell.
What f**king recovery are they talking about?
Just hours before Trump’s announcement, Powell said in a virtual speech to business economists that the economy was far from fully healed, and the danger was in spending too little money, not too much, to ensure continued gains.
“Too little support would lead to a weak recovery, creating unnecessary hardship for households and businesses,” he said.
It has already been UNREAL HARDSHIP ALREADY OVER the DAMNABLE LIES!
The Fed has been credited for quick action at the outbreak of the pandemic, using its monetary powers to flood the economy with almost free money, but, Powell said, “The recovery will be stronger and move faster if monetary policy and fiscal policy continue to work side by side to provide support to the economy until it is clearly out of the woods.”
Gue$$ who benefited mo$t from the "almost free money," and that is why the bill will be passed after5 the election. Another giveaway to prop up Wall Street stocks.
Stock prices have been rising and falling along with prospects for a stimulus deal, and they immediately sank on Trump’s announcement. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been up modestly, reversed direction and shed 376 points, or 1.3 percent, to close at 27,772.76. The value of stocks tumbled $475 billion on the day, as measured by the Wilshire 5000 index.
Much of the $3 trillion in CARES Act money has been spent or is sitting in the bank as consumers build a cushion against further hard times. Businesses have blown through the forgivable loans made under the Paycheck Protection Program, and enhanced unemployment benefits that helped more than 20 million Americans get by for months have run out even as layoffs continue unabated.
This has become so offensive it is impossible to read.
“This is a serious setback in a delicate stage of the recovery,” said Dec Mullarkey, managing director of SLC Management in Wellesley, though he cautioned that Trump’s move may be a negotiating ploy.
The mullarkey in the Bo$ton Globe LITERALLY never ends!
If he sticks with his decision to pause stimulus talks, Trump appears to believe that quickly pushing through his nomination of Barrett to the Supreme Court is politically smarter than striking a deal with Democrats on the economy, and as Dan Kern, chief investment officer at TFC Financial in Boston, noted, “The lack of pandemic relief will hurt the economy, but major harm in terms of [economic] growth and the jobs market won’t be fully reflected in economic releases until after the election.”
I think he is resigned to a loss and they want to confirm her before it's over. The Republicans will then be completely out of power and we will all be in grave danger.
Massachusetts, in particular, is bracing for a long economic recovery because it was hit hard by COVID-19, when it shut its economy in the spring to contain the virus. That led to the loss of more than 375,000 jobs from March to August, and the highest unemployment rate in the country in June and July.
Somehow, none of that $hit gets on the $atani$t Baker.
“President Trump’s decision to halt negotiations to provide aid to states and municipalities is as mystifying as it is hurtful to those who need federal COVID-19 relief. People want help right now, not bluster,” Robert DeLeo, speaker of the Massachusetts House, said on Twitter.
One of the petty tyrants of the Ma$$achu$etts Legi$looture who has been MIA during all this, and who is a prime candidate for harbor treatment if Ma$$achu$etts citizens ever get off their butts (I'm not holding my breath).
In a survey released Monday, the National Association of Business Economists said respondents had become less bullish about economic growth next year. Mohamad Ali, the chief executive of IDG, a Framingham tech research and media company, said that while his firm and the broader tech sector have been resilient during the pandemic, a new stimulus package is important because “we are all dependent on a functioning economy. As the pandemic drags on, the stimulus becomes even more important to individual families, businesses, and the broader economy,” said Ali.
The "free money" is not even stimulus because it stimulates nothing. It's an increasingly worthless printing pre$$ handout with strings, and that is NOT a functioning economy. What we have now is a dysfunctional economy in transition!
This was tacked on in the middle, a bombshell of a report that the Globe totally ignored:
Later in the evening, amid a furious blizzard of tweets and retweets, many on debunked claims about Hillary Clinton and the FBI, Trump muddied the waters by saying he was willing to sign standalone bills picking off popular items included in the broader stimulus discussions. The measures he said he would support: another round of $1,200 stimulus checks, $25 billion in aid for airlines, and $135 billion for renewing the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses.
Delaying another stimulus package has huge implications for state budgets, which face looming deficits brought on by the pandemic. It also means that individual lawmakers facing voters in less than a month — like Trump — will be unable to boast of a new round of stimulus money.....
The Clinton thing related to one of her advisers coming up with a plan to discredit Trump with false collusion charges with Russia using the bought and paid-for Steele urine that John Brennan funneled through Reid and McCain's office so the FBI and the Obama administration could set up a spying operation on the opposing party's campaign. Brennan's notes indicate that they approved of the frame-up and actively worked to facilitate it while informing Obama, Susan Rice, Comey, and chief of staff McDonough.
Obviously, I expect the Globe to completely ignore the story since they are a partisan political mouthpiece that covers for Clinton and the Demonrats. I think the operative escape clause is debunked, thus no need to even look at it never mind actually investigate anything.
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Yeah, doing this blog is literally nuts:
"2020 is one of the top 5 contenders for craziest year in American history" by Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, October 6, 2020
The news that the president himself had contracted the coronavirus, just days after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg triggered a high-stakes Supreme Court battle in the middle of a global pandemic that has upended nearly every aspect of modern life, raised a number of questions for the American people. Among them, “Do we have the strength to survive this?" “How have we so angered the gods?” and, of course, “Is this the most deranged year ever to occur in American history because it certainly feels that way?”
If the Globe has it's way, things will be getting much, much worse.
Without the therapeutic or spiritual skills to answer the first two questions, I set off to answer the third, conducting a rigorously unscientific survey of historians to provide you with the four years in American history that rival 2020.
A group of scholars graciously offered their assistance, even though, as Stanford professor emeritus Jack Rakove gently explained, “Craziest year is not exactly a category that historians ordinarily deal in.”
The year 2020 is looking like a strong contender, having so far clobbered us with President Trump’s impeachment, a pandemic that has killed more than 210,000 Americans and collapsed large swaths of the economy, massive protests that broke out in dozens of cities after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were killed by police, wildfires that devastated millions of acres across the West Coast, and an increasingly bitter election that may threaten the stability of democracy (in fact, things have been so nuts in 2020 that giant hornets with shark fin-like spikes that can puncture beekeeping suits and kill humans — aptly named murder hornets — barely registered in the national consciousness), but history is long, with plenty to teach us and perhaps even some hope to offer.....
It's actually 1861, 1919, 1932, and 1968 all rolled into one, and how audacious of her!
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White House signals stronger coronavirus precautions
Trump is a LITERALLY a SHADOW of his former self, according to Maggie Habeman and Annie Karni of the New York Times, while my front page article was a piece of WaPo crapola that said White House workers were "scared -- nervous about coming to work and wary of being the next positive" because "the president is in real trouble after a CNN/SSRS poll showed him falling to 16 points behind Biden," and that "some entire corridors of the West Wing were empty Tuesday [as] a number of advisers did not return with Trump back in the building."
He is LITERALLY being SHUNNED, folks!
They really got him now as Bezo's Amazon that is clouding up the whole world puts its workers at risk during the show hearings.
"White House staff, Secret Service eye virus with fear, anger" by Jill Colvin, Deb Riechmann and Colleen Long, Associated Press | October 7 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — The West Wing is a ghost town. Staff members are scared of exposure, and the White House is now a treatment ward for not one — but two — COVID-19 patients, including a president who has long taken the threat of the virus lightly.
President Donald Trump’s decision to return home from a military hospital despite his continued illness is putting new focus on the people around him who could be further exposed if he doesn’t abide by strict isolation protocols. Throughout the pandemic, White House custodians, ushers, kitchen staff and members of the U.S. Secret Service have continued to show up for work in what is now a coronavirus hot spot, with more than a dozen known cases this week alone.
Trump, still contagious, has made clear that he has little intention of abiding by best containment practices. As he arrived back at the White House on Monday evening, the president defiantly removed his face mask and stopped to pose on a balcony within feet of a White House photographer. He was seen inside moments later, surrounded by numerous people as he taped a video message urging Americans not to fear a virus that has killed more than 210,000 in the U.S. and 1 million worldwide.
Nonetheless, the mood within the White House remains somber, with staff fearful they may have been exposed to the virus. As they confront a new reality — a worksite that once seemed like a bubble of safety is anything but — they also have been engaged in finger-pointing over conflicting reports released about the president’s health as well as a lack of information provided internally.
Many have learned about positive tests from media reports and several were exposed, without their knowledge, to people the White House already knew could be contagious. Indeed, it took until late Sunday night, nearly three full days after Trump’s diagnosis, for the White House to send a staff-wide note in response. Even then, it did not acknowledge the outbreak.
Several Secret Service agents who spoke with The Associated Press expressed concern over the cavalier attitude the White House has taken when it comes to masks and distancing. Colleagues, they said, are angry, but feel there’s little they can do.
One, speaking after White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive on Monday, said it felt like he and some of his colleagues had been spared only by a measure of good luck.
Others noted the difference between facing outside threats they have trained for — a gun, a bomb or a biohazard — and being put at additional risk because of behavior they characterized as reckless at times. The agents spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing their jobs.
I'm getting the idea that they will jump out of the way of a bullet, aren't you?
Feels like his protection has been compromised, and is he as reckless as was Bill Clinton?
The Secret Service has refused to disclose how many of its employees have tested positive or have had to quarantine, citing privacy and security, but in the midst of the election, thousands of agents are on duty and anyone who tests positive can easily be subbed out, officials have said.
Secret Service spokeswoman Julia McMurray said the agency takes “every precaution to keep our protectees, employees and families, and the general public, safe and healthy.”
Trump has joined first lady Melania Trump, who also tested positive, in the residential area of the White House. It is typically served by a staff of roughly 100 people, including housekeepers, cooks, florists, groundskeepers and five or six butlers — who interact most closely with the president, said Kate Andersen Brower, who wrote the “The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House.”
The East Wing has taken a much more cautious approach to the pandemic than the rest of the White House complex, encouraging those who can work from home to do so and requiring, since April, that residence staff wear masks at all times.
Still, Brower said she recently spoke with three former employees who expressed concern about the health of current workers, but were too afraid to speak publicly. Many are Black or Latino, among the demographic groups that have been more vulnerable to the virus.
They turn it into a race issue, and Trump must have employed them because he is a racist and likes the optics as the Microsoft Corp. said the US Labor Department is questioning whether its commitment to promote more Black managers and executives violates civil rights laws.
“The butlers always feel protective of the first family, but there’s just a concern about whether or not the staff would get sick,” Brower said. Most are older, she said, “because they work from one generation to the next. They are people who have been on the job for 20 to 30 years. They want to work to get their full pensions.”
Oh, more $elf-$erving Deep $tate bureaucrats.
I hope someone is tasting his food.
Tuesday, the first lady’s office released a memo outlining extensive health and safety precautions that have been put in place in the executive residence, including adopting hospital-grade disinfection policies, encouraging “maximum teleworking” and installing additional sanitization and filtration systems.
Related:
"More than half of companies plan to shrink their offices as working from home becomes a regular fixture after the coronavirus pandemic ends, according to a survey by Cisco Systems. The findings suggest that many of this year’s radical changes to work life will remain long after the pandemic subsides. The poll, conducted for Cisco by Dimensional Research, concluded that working from home is the “new normal.”
It's an economy in transition as executives ponder the long-term role of working from home and how much they will save on the furniture.
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"One of the industry leaders in software for remote work is going through another round of layoffs. Boston-based LogMeIn said it’s trimming “less than 100” of its global workforce of 4,000, with Boston workers accounting for “less than 20” of the job cuts. The company provided no details about which of its product lines are affected, but a spokeswoman said that the laid-off workers have been encouraged to apply for new jobs at LogMeIn, suggesting that the move is more of a reorganization than a downsizing....."
Never mind the euphemisms because it appears we won't be around anyway.
Residence staff in direct contact with the first family are tested daily and support staff are tested every 48 hours, and since the president and Mrs. Trump tested positive, staff have been wearing ”full PPE. The health and safety of the residence staff is of the utmost importance to the First Family,” it read.
That’s a contrast with the West Wing, which still has refused to implement new safety procedures — such as making masks mandatory. Still, the building was noticeably emptier Monday. More staffers are staying home on days when they are not needed on site. On Monday morning, there was just a single staff member in the ground floor press office, where two medical staff members administered COVID-19 tests, surrounded by empty desks.
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"President Donald Trump’s return to the White House to recover from the coronavirus seems certain to raise the already heightened anxiety level of the journalists assigned to follow him. Three reporters have tested positive for COVID-19 in recent days while covering a White House described as lax, at best, in following basic safety advice like wearing masks. Discomfort only increased Monday with news that press secretary Kayleigh McEnany had tested positive. After McEnany’s announcement Monday, Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts spent part of his afternoon waiting outside an urgent care center for his own test. He had attended McEnany’s briefing last Thursday. She didn’t wear a mask, and neither did one of her assistants who later tested positive, and Roberts sat near both of them. He tested negative. He called it an inconvenience, but stronger emotions were spreading. American Urban Radio Networks correspondent April Ryan said she found it infuriating that Trump and his team had risked the health of her colleagues. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins said it was “irresponsible, at best.”
F**k the pre$$ as Jonathan Karl, the ABC News White House correspondent, said the image of Trump standing on a balcony and removing his mask after a helicopter dropped him off Monday evening, then turning to enter the White House maskless,“makes him angry.”
It’s not the first time a White House has had to contend with a virus. During the flu pandemic of 1918, President Woodrow Wilson was infected as were members of his family and White House staff, including his secretary and several Secret Service members, according to the White House Historical Association. So were two sheep who spent their days grazing on the South Lawn. They were hospitalized but recovered.....
Just when you thought the sheep dip couldn't get any deeper!
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"Democratic House members representing the Washington region urged stricter White House social distancing measures and cooperation with local public health officials Tuesday as the nation’s capital notched its highest daily coronavirus caseload since the summer. D.C. reported 105 new confirmed cases, the highest in a single day since June 3. It’s unclear whether the spike is tied to a growing outbreak at the White House. A Rose Garden event on Sept. 26 suspected of being at the center of the outbreak came as D.C. was recording its lowest number of average daily infections since early July, with a rate lower than that of most states. The rolling seven-day average of new cases this month has hovered below 40 after trending downward for weeks....."
Even the military has gone into the tank for them:
"The nation’s top military leaders were under self-quarantine Tuesday after a senior Coast Guard official tested positive for the coronavirus, the Pentagon said. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, and the vice chairman, Gen. John Hyten, were among those affected, U.S. officials said. Military leaders who were in contact with Adm. Charles W. Ray, the vice commandant of the Coast Guard, were told Monday evening that he had tested positive, and they were all tested Tuesday morning, according to several U.S. officials. Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement that none have exhibited symptoms or have so far tested positive. Ray was in a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff late Friday morning in what’s called the Tank — the classified meeting room in the Pentagon. Officials said that is where most of the military leaders were exposed to him, but he also had other meetings with officials. The news stunned officials at the Pentagon. Top leaders there have largely remained free of the virus, although there have been a number of outbreaks across the active-duty force and the reserves around the nation and overseas. Overall, more than 47,000 service members have tested positive for the virus, as of Monday, 625 have been hospitalized and eight have died....."
That is a death rate of 0.017%, so at least the wars don't have to be put on lockdown.
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Military doctor hopes his commander-in-chief has found empathy
If not, they will have to go full metal jacket with a mercy killing.
There will be no refunds and he will be taken away in a Lexus after his trial.
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Time to hit the campaign trail (warning more bulls**t) as the coronavirus safety protocols have become a fixture of American life (oh, I am sooooo looking forward to haunting you evil fuckers at the Globe after my death).
"As an infected President Donald Trump urged Americans not to fear the virus that has killed more than 1 million people worldwide, many of his supporters were already in sync with that message. In interviews with Republican voters at Trump events and campaign offices, very few saw the president’s illness as a cautionary tale. None said they would change their personal approach to masks or distancing, and many expressed a confidence that the disease was less dangerous than advertised. In Ohio, a “Women for Trump” group gathered indoors — many maskless and not distanced — to pray for the president’s recovery. In Nevada, a Reno businessman dismissed the threat of the pandemic as “overplayed.” Nearby, another Trump backer shrugged off any second thoughts about having cheered at a Trump campaign event last week as part of a maskless crowd. Trump’s “don’t be afraid” takeaway is infuriating public health experts — who note that basic prevention measures do work contain the spread of the deadly virus. It’s also angering family members of those who have died, but for many of Trump’s supporters, the president was merely adopting an attitude they expect, and they themselves reflect, when it comes to the pandemic. They view Trump’s infection as almost inevitable. Some were amazed he’d made it this far before getting sick. “It’s October and he’s just now getting it,” said 18-year-old Taylor Adams, a first-time voter, at the women’s meeting in Ohio. Adams even commended the president for not contracting the disease sooner. “I think that he’s definitely going to pull through, but I’m not surprised that he did get it eventually.” Trump acknowledged to journalist Bob Woodward that he “wanted to always play it down” because he did not want to cause panic. Among many supporters, that appears to have worked."
They won't be singing the same tune when the weaponized pneumonia is released in November and the 5G is turned on.
“I think most of us have reached the realization that, at some point, we’re probably going catch it, and have to deal with it anyway,” Ken Gray, a county commissioner from Dayton, Nevada, shortly before the president returned to the White House after three days of treatment for COVID-19 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The comments were a testament to the power of Trump’s messaging, widely seen as misleading by public health experts.
Of course, the majority of Covid misinformation is conveyed by the media without question or correction.
Throughout the pandemic, the president’s public portrayal of the virus has been rosier than reality. He’s routinely brushed off the severity of the outbreak and dismissed expert advice on mask wearing and social distancing. On Tuesday, he compared the virus to the seasonal flu, suggesting it was something that should be “learned to live with.”
For that, Facebook yanked his post and if the President of the United States has no free speech rights, who does?
In fact, COVID-19 has proven to be a more potent killer than the flu, particularly among older people, and has shown indications of having long-term impacts on the health of younger people it infects.
That is not a fact at all.
Trump voters interviewed this week were almost blase about their president’s health scare, describing it as an unavoidable part of his work and travel schedule. “I don’t find it surprising. The president has spent much of the year around the country, with supporters, campaigning for another four years,” said Ohio resident Brenda Parsons, 58. As women supporting Trump gathered at an office building in Canton, a battleground area in the state’s northeast, few wore masks. They sat closer than the recommended six feet apart. They posed for photos with a life-size cutout of the president and a giant mural of a bald eagle wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, and chanted “four more years!” They prayed for the president and First Lady Melania Trump, who contracted the disease along with others in the White House. “I pray and know the president’s positive mindset combined with his faith in Jesus is what will help him pull through this,” Parsons said. It’s unclear exactly how Trump got infected.
Maybe he never was.
He has traveled steadily for weeks for his reelection campaign, sometimes holding events indoors, where experts say the virus is more likely to spread. The White House required testing for anyone in close proximity to the president, but masks and social distancing practices were lax. Even now, masks at the White House are a matter of “personal choice” except for National Security Council staffers, who are required to wear them. Trump’s supporters don’t view these practices as irresponsible and were largely quick to dismiss the level of risk involved. Kathy Burke, a Reno retiree who dropped by her local Trump campaign office Monday afternoon to pick up more campaign signs, was wearing a Trump face mask, a precaution she said she already took before Trump’s diagnosis. She too saw the president’s infection as inevitable. “Anybody could get it. I could get it,” Burke said.
Many of us probably have since the PCR tests don't specifically identify COVID-19 and will register a positive if you ever had a cold.
Rick Zirpolo, a Reno businessman who eschewed a mask outside, said he had no qualms with the way Trump has portrayed or confronted the deadly threat. “From day one, I’ve thought the whole virus has been overplayed and used as a political tool,” he said. Zirpolo praised the president for briefly leaving the hospital over the weekend for a drive-by to wave to supporters, despite his infection, and he said Trump was right to leave the hospital Monday to return to the White House. “I think it’s outstanding because it shows his commitment to the nation,” he said. Across the country, in Newberry, South Carolina, Scott Gardner, a teacher and coach, felt differently. He didn’t blame the president for having contracted COVID-19, given its pervasive nature and ease of transmission, but the 50-year-old who supported Trump in 2016 and planned to again this year, hoped the president would change his behavior. The experience should serve as a “wakeup call” to employ more social distancing and masking, especially in a crowd. “I guess it should be an eye opener,” said Gardner, “but if you’re going to get out of your basement, you’re going to have a chance to catch it.”
The plan is to never let us out as we work from home.
Now that Trump has been imprisoned in the White House he will have to rely on surrogates:
"South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has no plans to get tested for the coronavirus before heading back to the president’s campaign trail this week, even though she attended a fundraiser with the president shortly before he tested positive. President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that he tested positive led to a flurry of testing by other politicians. The Minneapolis steakhouse that catered Trump’s fundraiser last Wednesday also announced that its event staff would quarantine and be tested, even though none had come into close contact with Trump. Noem’s spokesman, Ian Fury, said she has “no plans to get tested in the immediate future” because she has not been in close contact with anyone who tested positive for the coronavirus....."
What a brave woman.
"As Trump returned to the White House after being hospitalized, he downplayed the deadly threat of the virus, which has also infected the first lady and several White House aides. It’s a sentiment that Noem has echoed as she has carved out a national following among conservatives for renouncing lockdowns and casting doubt on the usefulness of masks. Noem tested negative for the virus on Sept. 29, a day before the Trump fundraiser in Minnesota, but she did not get close enough or spend enough time with the president to become a close contact, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Fury. The CDC defines close contact as spending at least 15 minutes within six feet of someone who has an infection. Noem has defended her hands-off approach to managing the pandemic, but COVID-19 is surging in South Dakota, which on Tuesday had the highest positivity rate of any state over the past 14 days, at 23.64%, according to The COVID Tracking Project. By comparison, the national average rate over the 14 days that ended Monday was 4.7%. The surge led Republican Sen. Mike Rounds, who is seeking reelection, to postpone large campaign events and to limit contact among staff, according to his chief of staff, Rob Skjonsberg. South Dakota’s surge in cases and hospitalizations, and the news of Trump’s infection, have not stopped Noem from traveling or holding events. She spoke to South Dakota legislators gathered for a special session on Monday, and she will next head to Florida for a Trump rally. She is also slated to speak Friday at the American Priority Conference, a gathering of the president’s supporters, at Trump National Doral hotel in Miami....."
One question: WHY are we still needing masks and distance when we need to spend at least 15 minutes within six feet of someone who has an infection?Come to think of it, why do we even need a shot for a "disease" that is so fatal and deadly you never knew you had it and one with a survival rate bordering on 99%?
"Gov. Tony Evers’ administration issued a new order Tuesday limiting the size of public indoor gatherings as COVID-19 spreads unchecked across the state, in a move certain to alienate Republicans as well as tavern and restaurant owners. Wisconsin has become one of the worst hot spots for the disease over the last month, with experts attributing the spike in cases to colleges and schools reopening and general fatigue about wearing masks and social distancing. State health officials reported 2,020 new cases on Tuesday and 18 additional deaths. The state has now seen 136,379 cases and 1,399 deaths since the pandemic began....."
I know I'm tired of the endless lies from government and their mouthpiece media.
Speaking of the devils:
The Globe endorses Joe Biden for president
The endorsement is LITERALLY cartoonish as the Globe shamelessly gives you 12 reasons why you should vote for Biden.
It's not even a newspaper anymore, it's a DNC mouthpiece!
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"FDA publishes vaccine guidelines opposed by White House" by Matthew Perrone and Zeke Miller, The Associated Press, October 6, 2020
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration released updated safety standards Tuesday for makers of COVID-19 vaccines after the White House blocked their formal release, the latest political tug-of-war between the Trump administration and the government’s public health scientists.
In the new guidelines posted on its website, the FDA said vaccine makers should follow trial participants for at least two months to rule out safety issues before seeking emergency approval. That requirement would almost certainly preclude the introduction of a vaccine before Nov. 3.
President Trump has repeatedly insisted a vaccine could be authorized before Election Day, even though top government scientists working on the effort have said that timeline is very unlikely. On Monday Trump said vaccines are coming “momentarily,” in a video recorded after he returned to the White House.
The decision to throw in with that genocidal lot haunts him to this day.
Former FDA officials have warned that public perception that a vaccine was being rushed out for political reasons could derail efforts to vaccinate millions of Americans.
The requirements are aimed at companies seeking rapid approval through the FDA’s emergency authorization pathway. That accelerated process, reserved for health emergencies, allows medical products onto the market based on a lower bar than traditional FDA approval, but FDA has made clear only vaccines that are shown to be safe and effective will be authorized against COVID-19.
Former FDA acting commissioner Dr. Stephen Ostroff said the requirements seem reasonable given the agency is in largely “uncharted territory” in terms of considering emergency use of a vaccine. The agency has previously cleared only one vaccine through the method — a decades-old shot that was authorized to prevent anthrax poisoning in 2005.
To meet the FDA's threshold, companies will need to submit two months of follow-up data from half of their trial participants to show there were no major side effects or health problems. Vaccines, unlike drugs, are normally given to otherwise healthy people, and normally require enhanced documentation of safety.
Initial doses of vaccines for emergency use would likely be reserved for medical workers and people with health conditions that make them particularly vulnerable to coronavirus. Full FDA approval for the general population will require significantly more data and is not expected until mid-2021.
The White House attempt to block the guidance release follows a string of instances in which the Trump administration has undercut its own medical experts working to combat the pandemic. FDA's Hahn has been attempting to shore up public confidence in the vaccine review process for weeks, vowing that career scientists, not politicians, will decide if the shots are safe and effective.
So the PTB think that the lab coats will make the jab easier?
Can stick that needle where the sun don't shine!
Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla has stoked excitement by saying that he expects data on whether the company’s candidate works to be ready in late October. But a number of variables would still have to align for the company to submit, and the FDA to review and greenlight, a vaccine application before Nov. 3. Pfizer’s competitors Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are working on longer research timelines.
Of course, the pre$$ ignores the other guy from Pfizer who called out this scam and said it is over.
Vaccine development typically takes years, but the US government has invested billions in efforts to accelerate the process and help multiple drug makers prepare multiple candidates. All the doses will be purchased by the federal government for use vaccinating the US population.
Beyond exposing the rift between the White House and the FDA, the delay in releasing the information may have had limited practical effect. FDA scientists have been discussing the guidelines publicly for weeks and have made clear that the recommendations have already been shared with each of the vaccine developers.
Old news is now "official."
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Supreme Court hears case of Muslims on no-fly list
US judge order Iran to pay $1.4 billion to ex-FBI agent’s family
It isn't called the JU$tu$ $y$tem for nothing.
"Tens of thousands of Muslims descended upon Senegal’s holy city this week for the annual Grand Magal pilgrimage, a tradition in West Africa that some fear could become a super-spreader event for COVID-19. Senegal was among the first African countries to report a confirmed COVID-19 case but has avoided the high death tolls seen elsewhere, in large part due to widespread required mask-wearing and restrictions on travel. The country has had more than 15,000 confirmed cases and 312 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus. Even with the precautions taken, some are fearful that Touba — once an early virus hotspot — could now see a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. The virus also could potentially spread to communities far from Touba via people returning home on public transport. Buses only leave for their destination once completely full....."
It's all cases, no deaths now -- although there will be soon:
"Fifteen clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines are underway across the African continent, according to a comment published in the journal Nature by Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Five trials are occurring in South Africa and four in Egypt, with a single trial each in Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe. African nations have teamed up to combat the pandemic, with painful memories of millions of Africans dying in the decade it took for affordable HIV drugs to become available on the continent. “Africa has ended up at the end of the queue every time” in the race for disease therapies, the Nature comment said, but COVID-19 has jolted the African Union into jointly pursuing vaccine trials and even vaccine manufacturing. The Africa CDC estimates the continent will need 1.5 billion vaccine doses, enough to give 60% of the population the two doses likely required....."
Never mind the polio kits supplied by Bill Gates that infected them with polio!
"After a revered ultra-Orthodox rabbi died this week from COVID-19, Israeli police thought they had worked out an arrangement with his followers to allow a small, dignified funeral that would conform with public health guidelines under the current coronavirus lockdown, but when it was time to bury the rabbi on Monday, thousands of people showed up — ignoring social distancing rules and clashing with police who tried to disperse the mass gathering. Such violations of lockdown rules by segments of the ultra-Orthodox population have angered a broader Israeli public that is largely complying with the restrictions imposed to halt a raging coronavirus outbreak. The defiance on display has confounded public health experts, tested Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s longstanding political alliance with religious leaders and triggered a new wave of resentment from secular Israelis who fear for their health and livelihoods. The ultra-Orthodox claim they are being unfairly targeted by they authorities. They point to large weekly protests, mainly by secular Israelis, against Netanyahu’s handling of the pandemic that have continued throughout the summer. Israel, with a population of 9 million, is battling one of the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks on a per capita basis. Its ultra-Orthodox community, which makes up roughly 10% of the population, accounts for over one-third of the country’s coronavirus cases. In the last week, Israel has seen highs of 9,000 new virus cases a day. It has recorded over 272,000 confirmed cases and more than 1,700 deaths from the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. “We’ve been asked to go into this lockdown, with its insane economic cost, that is causing people to go insane, because of the increase in coronavirus which is mostly occurring in the ultra-Orthodox sector and in large part because of criminal negligence,” wrote media personality Judy Shalom Nir Mozes on the Ynet news site. “There are two sets of laws here. One for us and one for them.”
I find it absolutely amazing and uplifting that it is the Orthodox Jews who are our partners in this fight for humanity against evil secular and Godless forces!
So let's see, the raging virus outbreak is killing Israelis at a 0.625% rate and they are the world's worst outbreak?
Here are their partners in the New World Order:
"China and 25 other nations on Monday called for the immediate lifting of sanctions by the United States and Western countries to ensure an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking on behalf of the 26 countries at a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee, China’s U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun said “unilateral coercive measures” violate the U.N. Charter, multilateralism, and impede human rights by hindering “the well-being of the population in the affected countries” and undermining the right to health. Among the countries that backed the statement were half a dozen that face sanctions by the United States, European Union or other Western nations including Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Russia, Syria and Venezuela. There was no immediate response to an email seeking comment from the U.S. Mission to the United Nations."
It all sounds good, right?
“Global solidarity and international cooperation are the most powerful weapons in fighting and overcoming COVID-19,” the joint statement said. “We seize this opportunity to call for the complete and immediate lifting of unilateral coercive measures, in order to ensure the full, effective and efficient response of all members of the international community to COVID-19.” The statement notes that both U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet have called for the waiving of sanctions that undermine a country’s capacity to respond to the pandemic. Germany’s U.N. Ambassador Christoph Heusgen addressed the sanctions issue at a Security Council meeting on Syria in May saying EU sanctions “do not affect the delivery of humanitarian aid or medical goods to limit the effects of COVID-19,” citing specific EU guidance on ensuring aid gets to the Syrian people. The 26 countries also took aim at “chronic and deep-rooted racial discrimination, police brutality and social inequality.” They cited the shooting by police of two Black Americans, George Floyd who died at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis in May, and Jacob Blake, shot by a white police officer in August and left paralyzed from the waist down. “The COVID-19 mortality rate of minorities, in particular people of African descent, is disproportionately high in some countries,” their statement said."
If that isn't the pot hollering kettle I don't know what is, and it's nice to see the U.N. in bed with the Kenosha rapist and a drug addict that pointed a gun at a pregnant woman's belly.
MIT graduate Andrea Ghez and two other scientists share Nobel physics prize for cosmology finds
I guess they won't be able to explain the 9/11 anomaly regarding jet fuel fires and free-fall collapses.
Novichok found in Navalny samples
If so, he would be dead, and if not, one wonders how the bumbling and stumbling Russian intelligence threat can be so serious.
If Trump miraculously wins:
"The Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan plunged into political chaos Tuesday after opposition groups seized control of Parliament and released their imprisoned leaders in protests over parliamentary elections they called rigged. Under mounting pressure from the protesters, the country’s Central Electoral Commission annulled the results of the Sunday vote, a day after having awarded the majority of seats to two political parties with ties to the president, Sooronbai Jeenbekov. Overnight, a small group of protesters broke away from the main body and tried to gain entry to the White House, the main government building that houses the Parliament and the presidential administration, in Bishkek, the capital. After the police tried to disperse them, hundreds more joined in the assault and soon took control, according to photos and video footage from the scene. On Tuesday, the streets of Bishkek were littered with burned out cars and piles of stones, while photos emerged of the broken down gates to the White House. Inside the building, videos and photos showed broken glass and piles of debris, including government papers, with protesters wandering the offices. In the city, residents formed volunteer brigades to deter looters....."
We have already had that before dispersal, and what that color destabilization, 'er, revolution makes one note is that Belarus has faded from the agenda-pushing press pages.
