I was met by this breaking news when I logged on:
Looks like it is time for Moderna executives to sell their stock, with the odds are against them as they plot an unlikely comeback after the announcement by Pfizer when even the FDA has a skeptical view regarding the results.
So what do you think ends up happening to all the hotels as the Great Reset proceeds apace and is assisted by the agenda-pushing Globe?
"Marriott Copley terminates half its staff, adding to the thousands of hotel workers unemployed around Boston" by Katie Johnston Globe Staff, November 15, 2020
Patricia Tchoumi worked at the Boston Marriott Copley Place for 17 years, sometimes pulling double shifts — first as a concierge attendant in the VIP lounge until 11 p.m., then spending the night at the hotel and starting up again as a banquet server at 4 a.m. Tchoumi, 53, has been furloughed since the hotel shut down in March, and in September, the Marriott informed her she was being terminated, along with about half of the hotel’s staff. Her severance pay was less than half what she expected, and if she wants to return, she would have to reapply for her job as a new employee.
The Marriott Copley Place, the second-largest hotel in Boston, reopened in August and is the latest local property to permanently lay off a substantial portion of its workforce with reduced severance packages. The Four Seasons on Boylston Street did the same thing in May, but after an outcry from workers and guests, the luxury hotel reversed course and offered full separation pay.
The middle of the front-page paragraph was the turn-in to page D3.
The hotel industry has taken a beating during the pandemic, nowhere more so than in Boston.
That is the price to be paid for supporting the Great Lie of the Century.
Many hotels have reopened, but business is bleak. Occupancy rates are hovering around 25 percent in the Boston area, on average, and an estimated 8,000 hotel workers are still unemployed. The city’s largest property, the Sheraton Boston Hotel, near the Hynes Convention Center, is still closed, as is the former Taj Boston (set to reopen as the Newbury Boston) and the Ritz-Carltonon Avery Street. The hotel at the Encore Boston Harbor casino reopened in July but closed in November following new restrictions on operating hours.
By limiting the capacity of the casinos and the selection of games they offer, gambling revenue at the state’s three casinos remained mostly flat in September, the second full month since the industry emerged from a shutdown forced by the COVID-19 pandemic while the number of new unemployment claims jumped last week, the latest sign of the toll the pandemic continues to take on the economy, with headlines punctuated with reports of large companies announcing layoffs in recent weeks as the "unemployment rate is not coming down at all.
Given the drop-off in demand, it’s not surprising hotels aren’t bringing back many employees.
Three major factors led to Boston’s worst-in-the-nation hotel performance, said Sebastian Colella, a Boston-based vice president at the hospitality consultancy Pinnacle Advisory Group: the state’s harsh restrictions due to the high number of COVID cases early on; the large number of full-service, upscale hotels; and the area’s heavy reliance on corporate travel and group reservations, both of which have nearly evaporated.
Next year, local hotels are expected to be at 40 to 50 percent occupancy, about half of normal, Colella said, and they won’t fully bounce back to pre-pandemic levels for four to five years.
Well, isn't that just ducky!?
Happens to coincide with the Great Reset schedule and World Bank document that said project initiated April 2 20202 and completion date March 31 20205.
What a coinkydink!
Maryann Silva, a 63-year-old banquet server who worked at the Ritz-Carlton for 19 years, is worried that, when the hotel reopens, she will be among the last hired back because weddings and other big events aren’t likely to come back anytime soon. If she isn’t rehired, she’s doubtful she could find a job making anything close to her Ritz salary — if she’s able to find work at all.
Silva, a Dorchester native, is considering selling her condo in Lynn, where she lives with her 97-year-old mother, and moving to a less-expensive state. As a union member, Silva has a one-year right of recall to get her old job back, but that deadline, in March, is looming. “Every night as I put my head on the pillow,” she said, “I worry.”
Unite Here Local 26 is pushing for legislation that would allow Massachusetts cities to adopt a law giving hotel employees and Logan Airport food and retail workers who were laid off during the pandemic first dibs when their positions return. Similar ordinances have been passed in several cities around the country, including Providence.
Not only is Logan dead, but Providence is stone silent as well.
President Carlos Aramayo, head of the local hospitality workers' union, worries that companies could be using the pandemic to overhaul their workforces, bringing in younger workers or subcontractors who make less money. Economic downturns often bring about efficiencies that lead to fewer jobs, Aramayo acknowledges, but most of the jobs will return, and those workers — many of them older, first-generation immigrants with limited education who may struggle to find decent jobs elsewhere — should be reinstated, he said.
“This is a big problem for our industry," he said, "but also for working-class Black and brown communities, immigrant communities, women in the workforce. It’s a real issue.”
At the Marriott Copley, all 47 workers were let go at the still-shuttered Champions Bostonsports bar, according to the union. A bartender who had been there for more than 15 years, an immigrant like many of the bar’s employees, said he was told that if the restaurant reopens, he would get his job back, but it was never put in writing. “My hands are still shaking because I can’t believe they did this to us," said the bartender, who asked not to be identified out of fear it would hurt his chances of being rehired.
After 26 years on the job, Marriott Copley senior housekeeper Elizabeth Morales, 50, was offered 10 weeks of severance pay. Morales, who has asthma and is afraid of contracting the coronavirus, doesn’t know where else she can find a job that pays $25 an hour. She and her sister have been keeping up on their mortgage in Revere, though Morales’s unemployment assistance is about to run out and her sister’s restaurant job has been cut back.
“I feel betrayed,” said Morales, who is from El Salvador.....
So do we all.
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The Globe has dutifully reported it, and now it is time to continue advancing the agenda with the front-page lead:
The Washington Compost says cases -- whatever they are -- passed 11 million, and just below it and peeking above fold was this:
"Efforts intensify to determine those first in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine — and build trust in skeptical communities" by Kay Lazar Globe Staff, November 15, 2020
With a potential COVID-19 vaccine suddenly closer on the horizon, planning is intensifying over which Massachusetts residents will be first in line to receive the shots and how to persuade communities that are deeply mistrustful of vaccines and the health care system to step forward.
Well, I can only quote the New York Times by saying that trust, once lost, is hard to restore, and some never get it back and never will.
The two missions intersect in countless nursing homes, hospitals, and neighborhoods, as many residents who may be prioritized for getting one of the limited number of vaccines are wary of the system delivering it. Nursing home workers in Massachusetts, for instance, face a higher risk of infection. They also tend to be disproportionately Black and Latinx, communities in which trust has frayed.
I suspect the first in line folks will be given harmless placebos as the globalist string-pullers behind all this want to keep them around and be able to say all safe, and all missions intersect at the World Economic Forum and its Great Reset.
From Boston to Springfield, advocates and health organizations are launching listening sessions. Some are surveying their communities to identify trusted local leaders who can help communicate reliable information about coronavirus and counter rumors and fears, but they face a daunting prospect as many communities that have shouldered a disproportionate share of coronavirus illness and deaths also harbor deep-rooted suspicions stemming from years of discriminatory treatment by physicians and researchers.
Then it will be mandated, right?
In Boston, the Roxbury Presbyterian Church is hosting none other than the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, in a Zoom event later this month about grappling with “health, equity, access, and trust” during the pandemic.
That comes as Fauci stressed the arrival of vaccines won't be like flipping a switch to return to normal life, that Americans will have to keep up preventive measures such as wearing masks, observing social distancing and frequently washing their hands well into next year, and that we have got to hang in there a bit longer. ... We have got to hang together on this.”
That criminal fraud should be in jail awaiting execution as he strings us out.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden's scientific advisers will meet with vaccine makers in coming days as the presidential transition remains stalled because of President Donald Trump's refusal to acknowledge that he lost the election, and the president-elect's outreach to the vaccine manufacturers comes as the coronavirus pandemic in the United States has entered perhaps its most dangerous phase."
If so, the lockdown and shutdown tyrannies have been abysmal failures and a leading adviser, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, sought to tamp down speculation that Biden as president would order a national lockdown, calling that a measure of last resort, while a top Trump administration health official said 20 million doses could be available by the end of this month, and an additional 20 million by the end of the year, but Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant HHS secretary, seconded Fauci's admonition that Americans must keep following basic public health precautions such as wearing masks, saying “If we do these things combined with the testing that we have, we can flatten the curve.”
That's the same bull$hit they sold you last spring, and fool us once, SHAME ON YOU, fool us twice, SHAME on YOU AGAIN!
“I was a little surprised that so many people in my community don’t trust this vaccine," said Rev. Liz Walker, church pastor and a member of Governor Charlie Baker’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group. “I am talking to parishioners to try and get people the real information and then they can make wise choices."
That former news anchor is now a false preacher?!
That makes sense in a strange sort of way, doesn't it?
The drug maker giant Pfizer raised optimism last week when it announced preliminary trial results indicating its vaccine may be 90 percent effective against COVID-19. If it gets federal approval, the company said, it intends to distribute enough doses to immunize 15 million to 20 million people by the end of December.
That is as we were distracted by all the election garbage, and you can take a peek at that if you want.
In its latest vaccine distribution plan, the Baker administration expects to receive between 20,000 and 60,000 doses in the first batch. The state intends to prioritize workers who have “direct or indirect” exposure to COVID-19 patients or infectious materials in hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care settings. Next in line would be essential workers and people with underlying medical conditions at risk for severe COVID-19 illness, including those over 65.
You kill my relatives and I will exact revenge in my way.
The state’s blueprint doesn’t indicate priority vaccination for such hard-hit communities of color as Lawrence and Chelsea but pledges that the planning will be completed with a “social equity lens” to ensure those who are prioritized reflect the most vulnerable.
For a "disease" that hasn't been isolated and has a 99.99% survival rate for the vast bulk of the population.
To get an idea of just how many health care workers are thought likely to be vulnerable because of exposure to COVID-19 on the job, consider Baystate Health in Springfield, the largest health care system in Western Massachusetts, with over 12,000 employees. Dr. Mark Keroack, Baystate’s president, estimates half of those workers are at risk.
I would rather die at this point than go to hospital or clinic.
In early October, the Baker administration assembled the 17-member vaccine advisory group, composed of public health and medical experts, community leaders, and elected officials for guidance on communication, distribution, and equity issues. The administration acknowledged, in its recent vaccine report to federal regulators, the uphill climb it anticipates in persuading some immigrant, Black, and Latinx communities the vaccines will be safe.
Not worried about Whitey?
They getting the killer vaccine?
Walker said she joined the group because, as a person of color, she feels a responsibility to learn as much she can about the vaccines and share it with her community.
“We can’t just say ‘I won’t do it’ without at least knowing what the real information is," she said. "We are living in a time with so many rumors and outright lies, and I am going to try my hardest to get at the facts and my way to do that is to be at the table.”
The Globe is full of them every single day.
Kate Reilly, a spokeswoman for the state’s COVID-19 Command Center, declined to say whether the Baker administration will mandate that residents get a vaccine, as it did with flu shots this season for workers in nursing homes, assisted living centers, rest homes, and dialysis centers, where vaccination rates are historically low. The mandate seeks to head off a devastating “twindemic” of flu and COVID-19.
Then why have they stopped counting flu, and if they mandated it for flu, you know they are going to for the dreaded COVID-19. They just aren't saying it yet.
Dr. Asif Merchant, medical director at four nursing homes in the Metro West area and chief of geriatric medicine at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, said the flu shot mandate has significantly boosted vaccination rates, but it’s an open question whether that will translate to more buy-in for COVID-19 vaccines.
“I see a mix of staff members who want the [COVID-19] vaccine as soon as possible and some who say ‘what if it’s not safe and it could be dangerous,’" said Merchant, also a member of the governor’s advisory group.
It's a matter of trust, as the song says.
Merchant said many nursing home workers have been devastated by the magnitude of death and disease they’ve witnessed in the pandemic and that may help sway acceptance of a vaccine.
“We need to amplify that to say this is for the greater good," he said, “but there will need to be a lot of education.”
They need to brainwash us for something that should be self-evidently for our own good (we know it is not)?
The greater good and all that kind of talk serves no one but tyrants, folks. Took me a long time to learn that.
A higher hurdle will likely be among the state’s homeless, who would not be prioritized in the first batch of vaccines under the state’s plan, although elderly homeless people who are at risk for severe complications from COVID-19 could be considered in the second phase. During the first peak of the pandemic, a third of homeless people in Boston were found to be infected.
How many died?
Last flu season, about 3,500 homeless Boston residents, roughly half the city’s estimated homeless population, agreed to get the flu shot, said Dr. Denise De Las Nueces, medical director of Boston’s Health Care for the Homeless Program.
Gaining acceptance for the COVID-19 vaccine, she said, will be “unchartered territory.”
To better address gaping inequities surrounding the virus, the Baker administration recently launched a 62-question survey and asked community groups statewide to share it with residents. The survey inquires about race, ethnicity, education, income, and gender identity and asks where respondents seek “the most reliable and up-to-date” information about COVID-19 and whether they believe their community is receiving adequate support to prevent infections and bolster those who have lost work during the pandemic.
The state’s vaccine distribution plan indicates the Baker administration will rely on the dozens of community health centers across Massachusetts to help bridge the gap in trust with many neighborhoods.
Well, the trust, once lost, is hard to restore, and the Globe knows that.
You never really get it back, either. There is always doubt.
Are they lying to me again?
Michael Curry, the incoming chief executive of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, said YMCAs, churches, and local groups within its "community health ecosystem'' are banding together to hold listening and learning sessions about the vaccine.
Then they are all criminal as well (frown).
Recognizing that each community is different and that doubts borne of discrimination run deep, they are asking at each stop whom residents trust as authority figures.
“Is it your bishop? Your minister? Your local Dr. Anthony Fauci? Curry said. “A lot of children educate parents in first-generation immigrant families. We should be educating those children on the vaccines.”
No one you mentioned, nor do I trust the $hit pre$$ I read.
Dr. Dean Xerras, medical director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Chelsea Healthcare Center, sees a ray of hope. Convincing residents, many of whom are immigrants uncomfortable with the health care system, to get flu shots each year is a struggle, but this year, he is seeing something different.
“I have had people say, ‘This is probably the only year I am going to get a flu shot,’” Xerras said. “I think people were so devastated by coronavirus, at least families I have talked to, that patients who have not gotten flu shots in the past are willing to get a coronavirus vaccine.”
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Progressives need to be prepared for betrayal, too, if the Globe's front-page feature is any indication:
"After defeating Trump, Biden faces a Democratic Party straining at the seams" by Liz Goodwin Globe Staff, November 15, 2020
WASHINGTON — Democrats may have captured the White House, but that doesn’t mean their problems are over.
They haven't officially won anything, perception manager, I mean, reporter.
A party that was stitched together by its fear and dislike of President Trump is already starting to strain at the seams now that they’ve defeated him. Progressives and moderates on Capitol Hill are blaming each other for losing congressional seats while battling to determine the best legislative agenda and message to rally around.
Trump had coattails but no coat, right.
Since Election Day, the reckoning has taken place in contentious conference calls, dueling memos, and pointed media interviews in a preview of the challenges President-elect Joe Biden, who ran as a moderate, will face when he officially takes the helm of the fractured party in January.
Biden has tried to stay out of the fight, but he is already under pressure from the left to stack his Cabinet with progressives, even as the party’s moderates beg them to tone down their rhetoric and tack to the center before the 2022 midterm elections.
“Biden has to be the leader that we elected him to be — not Mitch McConnell’s vice president,” said John Paul Mejia, a spokesperson for the Sunrise Movement, a liberal grass-roots group that pushes for aggressive policies to combat climate change.
A Great Reset component!
Getting rid of 9/10ths of us as they plan to do will help a lot and let mon$ters like Bezos and Gates enjoy nature's beauty without pesky humans around.
In Congress, moderate Democrats are criticizing their liberal colleagues for embracing racial justice activists who pushed to overhaul police funding, saying it cost the party support from more moderate suburban voters who backed Biden but rejected down-ballot Democrats.
“Defund the police? Defund, my butt,” West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said in a colorful tweet last week. “We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York, one of the Democrats’ most liberal lawmakers, responded by tweeting a photo of herself, dressed in all white at the State of the Union address, glaring at Manchin as he applauded Trump.
Each side is parsing over election data to bolster their point, with progressives claiming Biden won the election due to mobilizing Democratic base voters including young people and voters of color while moderates point to Biden’s gains with formerly Republican and mostly white suburban voters in the blue wall states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you provide a narrative for a stolen election.
Progressives see a mandate for bold change, while moderates see many voters clamoring for a middle-of-the-road approach by splitting their ticket between Biden and Republicans. Republicans have picked up at least seven seats in the House, with more races left to call, and some vulnerable GOP senators, including Maine’s Susan Collins, held off well-funded Democratic challengers.
At least seven, and likely into double digits, and yet Trump lost.
That will likely leave Speaker Nancy Pelosi with one of the narrowest House majorities since World War II, while Democratic hopes for controlling the Senate rest on the uphill task of sweeping two Georgia special elections in January.
“I think we have to still capture the middle if we want to lead,” said Representative Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts. “I’ve been there long enough to know that there’s a huge difference when you have that center with you — you can actually accomplish things.”
Lynch is among the moderate House Democrats who believe Republicans were able to weaponize activists' call to “defund the police” in the wake of George Floyd’s killing to defeat down-ballot Democrats, whom they painted as socialists.
In a recent House Democratic conference call — one that featured tears and some shouting — progressives pushed back on that characterization, saying they believed they were being unfairly scapegoated.
Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts called blaming progressives for down-ballot losses “simply incorrect.” A diverse coalition of voters delivered Biden the win and “health care justice, environmental justice, and racial justice are winning issues with the American people,” she said.
“I would encourage us to focus our attention not on the voters who showed up for Trump and predictably voted for Republicans down ballot, but on the coalition of voters who elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris decisively, elected a Democratic majority in the House and are on their way to flipping the Senate in the Georgia runoff,” Pressley wrote to the Globe.
So the fix is in, huh?
No one likes theCommunist left but they act like everyone does.
In dueling memos, the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way pointed out that Biden outperformed progressive candidates such as Kara Eastman in Nebraska and Representative Ilhan Omar in Minnesota, while a coalition of progressive groups argued that Democrats in swing districts who backed Medicare for All — such as Representative Katie Porter in Southern California — won their races and that more conservative Democrats lost races in those districts than liberals overall.
The liberal groups also took a swipe at Pelosi for showing off her fancy freezer and ice cream during a TV interview at a time when many Americans were struggling due to the economic effects of COVID-19 — arguing that Democrats need to rally around a clear populist economic message.
“When one of our candidates loses, it’s because the progressive movement is terrible; when one of theirs loses it’s a one-time thing,” said Rebecca Katz, a progressive political strategist who helped write the memo, “and it’s not true either way.”
This debate over which voters propelled Biden to victory has high stakes for the policy choices he will make over the next four years as he attempts to enact an agenda while facing either a divided Congress or a razor-thin Democratic majority.
If they steal the Senate, this country explodes, and I doubt they will. That's not in the $cript since markets welcomed the election of Joe Biden as president and the likelihood of Republican control of the Senate, setting up a divided government that will probably mean a continuation of oligarchic-friendly policies.
“The truth is that everybody’s got a point,” said Ian Russell, the former head of the House Democrats' political arm. “I’m hoping that the various corners of the conference that are hotly debating what worked and what didn’t can settle on agreeing together to both not scare off voters who may have lent their votes to the Biden ticket for the first time ever, but also to give our base a reason to turn out in the midterms.”
The last place you will find truth is in an AmeriKan paper.
Former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell suggested an infrastructure package as a way to build party consensus. “All Democrats — moderate, left, and center — we all think there should be a robust infrastructure bill,” Rendell said. “Infrastructure is the key.”
We have been hearing that for four f**king years now!
Other Democrats, including Pelosi, have signaled that one of their first priorities will be legislation on voting rights and anti-corruption. Pressley urged action on the Green New Deal and Medicare for All.
The Democrats legislating against voting fraud and corruption?
What a LAUGH!
None of those initiatives came up as top priorities in Ron Klain’s first interview since Biden named him as his White House chief of staff. Klain told MSNBC that Biden’s early focus would be on coronavirus relief, an immigration reform bill, and reversing Trump’s environmental moves administratively — including rejoining the Paris global climate change accord.
Yeah, Biden is going to goose the gas pedal of the Great Reset.
For now, the arena for the intraparty battle has moved to Biden’s Cabinet. The Sunrise Movement and the Justice Democrats, another influential liberal group associated with Ocasio Cortez, have called on Biden to appoint Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to his Cabinet, along with other progressives. Both could be difficult to confirm if the Republicans hold onto control of the Senate.
Don't they usually give one of their own a pass, and wouldn't Senate Republicans want to get rid of them?
Progressives expect Biden to fight “tooth and nail” for their agenda by making liberal picks to his Cabinet, Mejia said.
Then they are delusional.
Biden, who ran on a message of uniting the country, is so far floating above the fray. His early appointments to his transition team include both hard-charging progressives with a history of targeting Wall Street and people with ties to corporate America and Big Tech — a mixed bag that is not enough to infuriate progressives or placate them, and Klain is a long-time establishment Democrat who is nonetheless a welcome choice for liberals who feared Biden would pick a more corporate-friendly option from his inner circle.
Good luck on the unity.
The transition picks show “an openness to input from progressives” said Jeff Hauser, the director of the Revolving Door Project, an organization that is pushing the Biden administration to avoid hiring former lobbyists. “Everything is consistent with Biden being a big-tent president.''
Biden has already spoken to some Republican senators, and his allies suggest he earnestly wants to work with them in order to pass coronavirus relief and other bills. Given the strong possibility of a Republican-controlled Senate led by McConnell, there’s no other way to make progress, they point out.
“He knows that it isn’t just going to be Democrats that are able to carry the day on anything because Mitch McConnell and Republicans can stop an awful lot of what he wants,” said Chuck Hagel, the former defense secretary under President Obama and Republican senator from Nebraska. “He’s going to have to have Republicans with him on some of these big issues,” but progressives point out the vast majority of Republican senators are not even recognizing Biden as president-elect or breaking with Trump’s refusal to initiate the transition, a historic departure from norms that gives them little hope for compromise. They are pushing Biden to adopt hardball tactics — swift and meaningful administrative changes as well as progressive Cabinet picks.
Katz said liberals are tired of establishment Democrats extending the olive branch without Republicans taking it up — and they plan to push Biden to fight. “The left is getting serious about this stuff,” she said. “We need to do more.”
YOU LOST, COMMIE, and why does that feel like an existential threat to me?
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For it's part, the Globe doesn’t want unity. It wants absolution without restitution and a purge as they look abroad to rebuild because the Trump hatred runs so deep that even death itself can’t kill it.
Oh, look, the Globe finally found Hunter Biden's laptop, and what doing they mean drug courts don't work when they are promoting safe injection sites?!
Just preparing you for the camps, weren't they?
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Musk called out the fraudulent tests and BINGO, he has been sidelined by COVID-19.
The New York Times says it's been a decadeslong accumulation of assaults at the hands of Scout leaders across the nation who had been trusted as role models -- sort of like the pre$$ and the lies they tell when you think about it.
The page A2 side briefs:
"The leader of Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region has confirmed firing missiles at neighboring Eritrea’s capital and is threatening more, marking a huge escalation as the deadly fighting in northern Ethiopia between Tigray forces and the federal government spills across an international border. The brewing civil war in Ethiopia between a regional government that once dominated the country’s ruling coalition, and a Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister whose sweeping reforms marginalized the Tigray region’s power, could fracture a key U.S. security ally and destabilize the strategic Horn of Africa, with the potential to send scores of thousands of refugees into Sudan. The United States strongly condemned the Tigray region’s “unjustifiable attacks against Eritrea ... and its efforts to internationalize the conflict.”
Yeah, that would set a bad example:
"A settlement watchdog group said Sunday Israel is moving ahead with new construction of hundreds of homes in a strategic east Jerusalem settlement that threatens to cut off parts of the city claimed by Palestinians from the West Bank. The group, Peace Now, said the Israel Land Authority announced on its website Sunday that it had opened up tenders for more than 1,200 new homes in the key settlement of Givat Hamatos in east Jerusalem. The move may test ties with the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who is expected to take a firmer tack against Israeli settlement expansion after four years of a more lenient policy under President Donald Trump. With the Trump administration in its final weeks in office, Israel may be aiming to push ahead on contentious projects before Biden’s term starts, a move that could set it on the wrong foot with the new president....."
My question for Biden is are you going to move the embassy back to Tel Aviv?
The reason Israel can dis the greatest friend they ever had is because there will be no change in policy at all. It's like Sharon said, they control America and the Americans know it.
Don't let the hypocrisy get in the way, either:
"President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey on Sunday visited disputed territory in northern Cyprus that is occupied by Turkish forces, angering Cypriot and Greek leaders and stoking a decades-long conflict. Erdogan said he supported a two-state solution to the dispute over Cyprus, which has effectively been partitioned since 1974, its Greek and Turkish communities — and its capital, Nicosia — separated by a buffer zone known as the Green Line. The Turkish president said there were “two different peoples” on the island with “two different democratic orders.” It was a tense turn in a dispute that has frustrated generations of peace efforts. The internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus controls about two-thirds of the island. Turkey invaded the northern part of the island in 1974 and recognizes that area as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, but no other nation recognizes the area as Turkey’s. The visit comes as Turkey has increasingly butted heads with Greece and other eastern Mediterranean countries over rich natural-gas deposits in the region — a dispute that is becoming increasingly militarized....."
Looks like war could break out anywhere as the storm approaches:
The winner is Russia, much to the consternation of the New York Times, and maybe we would be better off with no president like in Peru.
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"Federal officials are helping Trump’s supporters hunt for voter fraud" by Jon Swaine and Lisa Rein The Washington Post, November 15, 2020
The government’s chief information security officer is participating in an effort backed by supporters of President Trump to hunt for evidence of voter fraud in the battleground states where President-elect Joe Biden secured his election victory.
Camilo Sandoval said he has taken a break from his government duties to work for the Voter Integrity Fund, a newly formed Virginia group that is analyzing ballot data and cold-calling voters in an attempt to substantiate the president’s claims about illicit voting.
We have already been told it's the cleanest election ever after four years of hollering Russian interference and collusion right up until election day, then poof, nevermore and you are a conspiracy kook for suggesting such a thing!
Sandoval is one of several Trump appointees in the federal government, some in senior roles, who are harnessing their expertise for the project, according to the group’s leader.
The participation of administration officials shows the extent of the efforts by the president’s allies to justify his unfounded allegations of widespread ballot fraud.
Federal employees are required under ethics rules to keep political activity separate from their government roles.
Tell that to Comey and the cabal over at Ju$tu$ as well as the criminal Obama regime, 'kay?!
Sandoval is part of a hastily convened team led by Matthew Braynard, a data specialist who worked on Trump's 2016 campaign. Another participant is Thomas Baptiste, an adviser to the deputy secretary of the Interior Department, who also took a leave to work on the project.
Braynard said that several other government officials on leave are also assisting the effort, but he declined to identify them. The group is analyzing voter rolls and other databases in search of signs that ballots may have been cast illegally, information that Braynard said is being shared with Trump's campaign. The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
The group appears to be attempting a makeshift version of an effort already conducted by a nonprofit consortium of states, which uses sophisticated data analysis to root out duplicate voter registrations and registrations of people who have moved or died. A Washington Post analysis of vote-by-mail data from three of the states in the 2016 and 2018 elections found that officials identified 372 possible fraud cases among 14.6 million votes, or 0.0025 percent of the ballots.
Oh, the WaCompo says hardly any fraud.
PFFFFFT!
Braynard and Sandoval said they have found evidence of possible fraud, but they have yet to make any detailed findings public. Braynard also acknowledged that "some of the evidence isn't terribly compelling," but said their work was valuable even if it ultimately showed Biden was the winner. "If this was a clean election, we can dispel a lot of the concern out there," he said.
Once the trust is lost.... you know.
Sandoval, Braynard and their team are operating from a cramped apartment that Braynard shares with his wife in Northern Virginia. Braynard said the group comprises nine people who are working “campaign hours,” starting at 8 a.m. and going late into the night, fueled by fast food.
Braynard said the group had contracted several companies to set up call centers for contacting voters in the closely contested states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Biden has been projected the winner in all six by multiple media outlets.
Braynard said the operation had called approximately half a million voters so far and aimed to make contact with 1.25 million in total.....
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I'm told massive evidence of vote fraud is coming, but what if the ma$$ media ignores it?
"Is election night broken? TV news stuck to old routines amid voting upheaval — and confusion followed" by Paul Farhi The Washington Post, November 15, 2020
The illusory twists and swerves that were presented on television news created narratives that would linger and confuse. Trump supporters went to bed late that Tuesday believing he had won and woke up stunned to find Biden headed toward victory. Trump quickly seized upon the counting backlog to argue that the results were fraudulent, an evidence-free assertion that he has kept up to this day.
Kathleen Searles, associate professor of political communication at Louisiana State University, called the situation a "nightmare" for the journalists covering it.
Arguably, part of that nightmare was engineered.
The WaCompo tells me it is because of Republican-dominated legislatures in the key swing states where a bureaucratic shackle gave the GOP a perceptual advantage on Nov. 3 — fostering the impression that Trump was on his way to victory.
Reading this shit is a nightmare, folks.
Did television news fall into a trap by sticking to its decades-old election-night routines in this highly unusual election year?
Representatives of the TV networks say they told viewers that early results could give a distorted picture of the race, both in the weeks before Election Day and during their coverage that night.
The ma$$ media liars were engaged in pre-progamming and laying the groundwork for a Democrat theft.
On Fox News, Chris Wallace noted on-air early on the evening of Nov. 3 that swings in the counting were likely, resulting in shifting leads. "That's not anybody stealing the election," he told viewers. "That's simply the order in which votes are being counted."
Fuck Fox after what they have done.
NBC News created on-screen graphics that showed not just votes already counted but the total number of votes expected in each state, further broken down by the uncounted “early and absentee” portion — an indication of the potential direction of each race. MSNBC analyst Steve Kornacki played out the complicated counting dynamics in Pennsylvania — early votes, mail votes, in-person votes, urban vs. rural votes, and combinations of all of them — before concluding, “There are going to be some very, very jarring movements here” depending on which votes were being reported in which county.
As earnest as these explanatory efforts were, much depended on how closely viewers stayed tuned in, scholars who studied the news media's coverage said.
I watched that $hit show all night (frown).
Although Searles, the Louisiana State scholar, generally praised the networks' efforts to navigate the complicated issues on election night, a better approach would have been to start earlier, said Megan Duncan, an assistant professor in Virginia Tech’s communication school.
“Educating the audience [about the various counting procedures] before the election … would have the benefit of staving off some of the suspicion on the part of the audience” and decreased the chance for “opportunists” to claim fraud later, Duncan said.....
That is where the print ended, with no mention of the Fox call of Arizona or of the director of their decision desk, Arnon Mishkin.
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Of course, it is their job to divide us and set us against each other.
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They are the brave doctors who are speaking out and sick of the fraud, and all doctors will soon find themselves in the same boat as teachers by being replaced with AI.
That is your reward for cooperating with this madness:
"One of the scientists behind the experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer said Sunday that he was confident that it could halve the transmission of the virus, resulting in a “dramatic” curb of the virus’ spread. Professor Ugur Sahin, chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech, said it was “absolutely essential” to have a high vaccination rate before next autumn to ensure a return to normal life next winter. “If everything continues to go well, we will start to deliver the vaccine end of this year, beginning next year,” Sahin said. “Our goal is to deliver more than 300 million of vaccine doses until April next year.” “I’m very confident that transmission between people will be reduced by such a highly effective vaccine — maybe not 90% but maybe 50%,” he said. Pfizer and BioNTech said last week that interim results showed the vaccine was 90% effective in preventing people from getting ill from COVID-19, though they don’t yet have enough information on safety and manufacturing quality. “What is absolutely essential is that we get a high vaccination rate before autumn/winter next year, so that means all the immunization, vaccination approaches must be accomplished before next autumn,” Sahin said....."
The whole population vaxxed by next autumn, huh?
If it isn't 100%, I don't want it and even if it is 100%, I don't want it.
Why?
The virus, if it even exists, has a 99.99% survivability rate and the tyranny is based on the proven falsity of the tests. What they are doing is criminal, and has nothing to do with COVID-19. COVID is simply the cover for the monstrous redesign of life they intend to carry out.
That f**king clown has no symptoms but is self-isolating after being told he came into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Sunday.
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"Mass. reports more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases for six days straight" by John Hilliard Globe Staff, November 15, 2020
Coronavirus cases in Massachusetts increased by more than 2,000 for the sixth straight day Sunday, according to the state, while the virus has returned to levels not seen since April and continues to hinder in-class learning for students.
Then the tyrannical shutdowns and harmful mask-wearing has FAILED, and anyone promoting such policies is a CRIMINAL!
Fitchburg State University and Babson College in Wellesley announced they will switch to all-remote learning, a move officials at both schools attributed to upticks in coronavirus cases. Milton High School, which last week reopened for in-person learning, also switched back to remote classes after nine students tested positive for the virus.
The state Department of Public Health reported that confirmed COVID-19 cases climbed by 2,076 Sunday, bringing the Massachusetts total to 182,544. The state’s death toll reached 10,098, with 33 newly reported confirmed deaths.
The state said 30,374 people were estimated to have active virus cases, up 1,292 from a day earlier.
The lies, 'er, "estimates" are based on a faulty and flawed tests that spit out false positives that are not COVID-19 specific and non-infectious.
Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, pointed to state wastewater data that showed the presence of the virus in Massachusetts is now as high as it was in mid-April.
He noted that the April peak had come weeks after the state shutdown and when the weather was warming up. This new peak comes as the weather grows colder and casinos have reopened.
“Not sure what we’re doing here,” Jha said.
Then why is the paper presenting this jerk as an expert anal-yst?
Nationally, the response to the coronavirus has fallen along political lines. President Trump, who downplays the virus, has been repeatedly criticized for his handling of the pandemic. Trump also refuses to concede the election to President-elect Joe Biden, and that has left Biden’s transition team from being able to meet with government officials, including those in charge of public health.
They are threatening him so he will drop the court cases.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top disease expert, told CNN Sunday that Trump hasn’t attended a COVID-19 task force meeting for several months. Fauci called for cooperation in pandemic planning between the Trump administration and Biden’s team.
“Of course it would be better if we could start working with them,” Fauci told network anchor Jake Tapper.
Meaning we are stuck with that evil criminal fuck?
More than 246,000 people across the country have died due to COVID-19 as of Sunday, and about 11 million cases have been reported, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The spread of the virus has resulted in a vexing logistical problem for school leaders.
In Boston, city residents must do more, and soon, to prevent an economic shutdown, said Mayor Martin J. Walsh.
Walsh said he has been concerned as the city’s number of new cases and hospitalizations have crept up since the summer. He warned that more must be done to stop the virus to keep businesses such restaurants, gyms, and hair salons open.
“If you’re walking down the street without a mask, you’re not doing your part,” Walsh said in an interview on WCVB-TV’s “On The Record.” “It really is incumbent upon all of us to do what we need to do to keep people safe.”
F**k you, f**k your $tinking city, and f**k your moralizing.
The mayor also said in the interview that he has had conversations with Governor Charlie Baker about reopening a field hospital at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center to take some pressure off local hospitals.
“We’re seeing the coronavirus infection rate go in the wrong direction, which would mean ultimately that we’ll see additional hospitalizations,” Walsh said, and require a field hospital to handle the potential overflow. “Everything is on the table at this point, unfortunately.”
Yeah, the COVID extermination camps are open again!
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He is obviously a Great Reset tool, and woe to those who love in Boston under his regime
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While you were distracted with a meaningless presidential election, China took over the world:
"China-Led Trade Pact Is Signed, in Challenge to U.S." by Keith Bradsher and Ana Swanson New York Times, Nov. 15, 2020
BEIJING — After eight years of talks, China and 14 other nations from Japan to New Zealand to Myanmar on Sunday formally signed one of the world’s largest regional free trade agreements, a pact shaped by Beijing partly as a counterweight to American influence in the region.
The agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or R.C.E.P., is limited in scope. Still, it carries considerable symbolic heft. The pact covers more of humanity — 2.2 billion people — than any previous regional free trade agreement and could help further cement China’s image as the dominant economic power in its neighborhood.
It also comes after a retreat by the United States from sweeping trade deals that reshape global relationships. Nearly four years ago, President Trump pulled the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or T.P.P., a broader agreement than the R.C.E.P. that was widely seen as a Washington-led response to China’s growing sway in the Asia-Pacific region. Joseph R. Biden Jr., the president-elect, has been noncommittal on whether he would join the T.P.P.’s successor.
To some trade experts, this new agreement shows that the rest of the world will not wait around for the United States. The European Union has also pursued trade negotiations at an aggressive pace. As other countries sign new deals, American exporters may gradually lose ground.
“While the United States is currently focused on domestic concerns, including the need to fight the pandemic and rebuild its economy and infrastructure, I’m not sure the rest of the world is going to wait until America gets its house in order,” said Jennifer Hillman, a senior fellow for trade and international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations. “I think there are going to have to be some responsive actions to what China is doing.”
Because of the pandemic, the signing of the agreement on Sunday was unusual, with separate ceremonies held in each of the 15 member countries all linked by video. Each country’s trade minister took turns signing a separate copy of the pact while his or her head of state or head of government stood nearby and watched.
Simultaneously broadcast on a split screen, the different ceremonies offered a glimpse of each country’s political culture. Vietnam, the host nation for the talks this year, and South Korea and Cambodia each had one or two small desktop flags next to their ministers. At the other extreme, China’s ceremony was conducted in front of a wall of five very large, bright red Chinese flags.
Premier Li Keqiang, China’s second-highest official after Xi Jinping, oversaw the Beijing event. In a statement released by the state news media, he called the pact “a victory of multilateralism and free trade.”
The R.C.E.P. encompasses the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.
The pact will most likely formalize, rather than remake, business between the countries.
WTF then?
Not really news, right?
Most conspicuously, the pact does not include India, another regional giant.
The perfect time for a sneak attack like before.
Wait a minute, that was the Japanese.
The prospect of China’s forging closer economic ties with its neighbors has prompted concern in Washington. President Barack Obama’s response was the T.P.P., which did not include China but encompassed many of its biggest trading partners, like Japan and Australia, as well as Chinese neighbors like Vietnam and Malaysia. After President Trump pulled the United States out of that arrangement, the other 11 countries then went ahead with it on their own.
China has been eager to move into that vacuum. Still, it must navigate India’s ambitions. India’s relations with China have deteriorated considerably in recent months amid clashes between troops on their mountainous shared border.
Beijing had initially tried to sway New Delhi into joining the R.C.E.P., however, Indian politicians were leery of lowering their country’s steep tariffs and admitting a further flood of Chinese manufactured goods. China ships $60 billion a year more in goods to India than it receives.
India sought more flexibility to increase tariffs if imports surged. It also sought tariff reductions for low-end, labor-intensive industrial goods for which production has already been moving out of China, but Beijing has been wary of letting high-employment industries like shoe and shirt manufacturing move out of China too quickly.
“As far as India is concerned, we did not join R.C.E.P. as it does not address the outstanding issues and concerns of India,” Riva Ganguly Das, the secretary for Eastern relations at India’s Ministry of External Affairs, said at a news briefing on Thursday.
Still, Das stressed that India remained interested in deepening trade ties in Southeast Asia.
It is unclear how the United States will respond to the new trade pact. While Biden is set to assume office in January, trade and China have become fraught issues.
Probably like we usually do, war.
The T.P.P. came under fire from both Republicans and Democrats for exposing American businesses to foreign competition. It remains contentious, and Biden has not said whether he would rejoin the deal — renamed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership — once he enters office, but analysts say it is unlikely to be a high priority.
Biden has said he would wait to negotiate any new trade deals. He wants to focus his energy on the pandemic, the economic recovery and investing in American manufacturing and technology.....
That assumes he is allowed to steal office.
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Better start selling those T-bills:
"A 1% Treasury Yield Proves Elusive With Pandemic Intensifying" by Vivien Lou Chen Bloomberg News November 15, 2020
The bond market is demonstrating that the road to higher Treasury yields is going to be a rocky one, leaving bets on a reflating economy and a steeper curve hanging in the balance.
All eyes in the world’s most important debt market were on the 1% level on 10-year Treasuries last week, as a volatile, post-election selloff pushed the implied yield on futures within a hair of touching that mark for the first time since March. Surging coronavirus cases then took over the narrative, fueling a rally that left the cash rate at 0.9% to end the week.
Traders are now bracing for more wild swings, given the potential for tighter social-distancing restrictions that could darken the economic outlook, even as hopes for a vaccine build. An extended failure to breach 1%, which seemed like almost a sure thing just days ago, may eventually give pause to those wagering that a growth rebound will generate inflation and finally jolt yields decisively from near record lows, but for now, many investors are still leaning toward higher longer-maturity yields, with speculators holding a near-record short position on bond futures.
“The trend is still toward higher rates and a steeper curve,” said Scott Buchta, head of fixed-income strategy at Brean Capital, but given the daily swings seen in November, “we should not be surprised to see these larger intraday moves take place as they are driven primarily by headlines, supply and positioning.”
Granted, with the virus raging, some traders took a punt on another rally toward the end of last week, but many on Wall Street project a steeper yield curve, given the Federal Reserve’s commitment to keep front-end rates low along with the potential for more fiscal stimulus and a vaccine to help the economy recover.
Given the lack of major economic data in the days ahead, investors will be attuned to news around the pandemic and whether its intensification increases pressure on lawmakers to forge a new stimulus package.
Oh, that's what the latest surge is about: pre$$ure for more printing press money from the Fed.
Part of the momentum for this past week’s rebound in appetite for Treasuries came after the market absorbed a record $122 billion in quarterly refunding auctions, with the 30-year sale showing signs of solid foreign demand.
Ed Tollefsen, senior vice president of sales and trading at investment bank Blaylock Van in Oakland, California, said, “Market participants know that rates in general are going to have to rise from these levels,” he said. Still, “we are in for volatility through the end of the year, in my opinion.”
In more ways than one, with the $tock market the least of our concerns.
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