One can empathize with the Amazing Polly's pained agitation and epiphany regarding Q, and she is correct regarding the ma$$ media's willful blindness and collaborative cover up that is followed by alarming rhetoric coming from Democrats in the wake of the theft.
That video comes from the Dollar Vigilante Jeff Berwick, and he gets the QAnon phenomenon right. It's always been a psyop and straw man honey trap where the truth is discredited. Black pill, white rabbit.
Australian Max Igan notes how they are all nothing but political puppets, for sure, and bad times coming big time no matter who sits in the Oval Office.
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I swallowed as much of this as I could this morning:
Peter Baker and Lara Jakes of Pravda, 'er, the New York Times, say it is the "latest sign of defiance, the investigations into supposed vote fraud, as the rest of the world increasingly moved to accept Biden’s victory and prepared to work with him despite Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the results" and the New York Times has unsurprisingly found no evidence of vote fraud, none at all, it was the cleanest election ever!
Try squaring those with these:
"Democrats held onto their House majority on Tuesday, securing the 218 seats they need to maintain control of the chamber even as they lost at least a half dozen seats amid unexpected headwinds that left them with a narrower hold on power. Democrats began the cycle expecting to expand their majority, betting that suburban voters' distaste for President Trump would trickle down the ballot, allowing them to make inroads in conservative districts and protect many of their own vulnerable incumbents, but as of Tuesday, they had picked up just a single Republican-held seat, and had lost as many as seven in rural and working-class districts where Trump is popular, including in New Mexico and Oklahoma in what amounted to a series of stunning and painful defeats. In those races, Republican women led the way, flipping key seats in Iowa, California, and South Carolina, and positioning their party to break the record for the highest number of women ever to serve in their conference. Representative Cheri Bustos of Illinois, the chairwoman of the House Democrats' campaign arm, barely eked out a victory in her own district, and told colleagues on Monday that she would not seek another term and that she was “gutted at the losses we sustained,” but many Democratic incumbents in competitive districts, like Representatives Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Jared Golden of Maine, also narrowly hung onto their seats. “These were seats that were in Trump country, and we were able to hold onto 30 seats that are Trump districts, and that’s no small feat,” Bustos said. Meanwhile, Cal Cunningham, the Democrat challenging Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, conceded the race on Tuesday after a protracted vote count, as the incumbent appeared headed for a narrow victory in a crucial swing state that would bolster his party’s hold on the Senate. Tillis, 60, had been one of the Democrats' top targets this year, a decidedly unpopular first-term Republican in a fast-growing and increasingly competitive state, but he was able to capitalize on unexpected Republican strength in North Carolina to outrun Cunningham, who was damaged by late revelations of an extramarital affair."
We are expected to believe that Democrats clinched two more years of controlling the House on Tuesday but with a potentially razor-thin majority, a bittersweet finale to last week’s elections that has left them divided and with scant margin for error for advancing their agenda, while Trump lost despite his obvious down ballot coattails.
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With all due respect, look who is hurling the charges.
It would be laughable were the situation not so serious.
Leadership PAC takes in funds for Trump New York Times
Hillary Clinton shares transition note from Bush New York Times
Historian has a hand in Biden’s speeches New York Times
More plagiarism from Pedo-Joe as the Political Notebook comes to an end?
Of course, everything has been fact checked by the Associated Press, so who could ever question it, and in the Globe's analysis what Trump is doing right now is not about winning but two other things with other agendas at play.
Is it just me, or does Pindell sound like a.... gasp.... conspiracy theorist?
I'm told "President Trump’s defiant rhetoric and unprecedented refusal to accept his defeat have Democrats and the American public feeling increasingly rattled, but there is little reason to believe his actions will change the election results," and the ones the Globe talked to said "there’s no indication he will succeed," but these were the same legal scholars who said Trump was impeached for what Biden actually did in the Ukraine.
It's a "story of two firms, Pfizer and Moderna, leading the race for approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but it is much more than that. It is also about dreams raised and dashed, of billions at risk and perhaps to be made, and an unproven genetic technology that just might save the world" in a massive two page spread that they produced with their STAT appendage at Warp Speed a day later.
Hmmmm!
The shots will cost $6 or $7 per person, times two (or four), times 7 billion, which equals what, 980 billion dollars a year?
Yes, the hopes of humanity are already collecting their reward, with trillions more to follow.
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The Globe suggests you.... get this..... head on over to the Temple!
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He died in an Israeli hospital Tuesday from.... I kid you not.... food poisoning?
I know he is a Boston legend who played on eight NBA title teams and coached the Celtics to two more crowns, but one can't help but notice the front-page eulogy to a WHITE MAN at a time when the NBA didn't have any teams south of Saint Louis while ignoring the city and sports franchise racism, including the Globe owner's Red Sox.
The supremacy is confirmed when one observes the Veteran's Day article to Heinsohn's right:
Where does Globe first go?
To the grave of "Daniel Weinstein at a sprawling Jewish cemetery at the edge of Boston."
We are truly heading to Bolshevism and a mass extermination no matter who wins the faux election, and even a thank you isn’t enough this Veterans Day as the Globe pushes telehealth care for veterans.
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That was the Globe's page A2 National/World lead, and what a waste of time it all was.
That was the co-lead located in a strip column to the right, and it's AP when my print was NYT so either or, same difference.
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I really hate bursting out in laughter in church, but c'mon!
They can start by coming clean, and the Globe, sadly, buried that item out of the Spotlight and at the bottom of page of page B3 as they oversee the minimization and of such activities.
Why is it the Russian bring peace while we bring war?
The first of what will be known as Biden's refugees, and they are the "first visible signs of a humanitarian crisis" that will get the Great Reset genocide going!
Forgive me for not delving more deeply into those pieces, but I my pre$$ presents a distorted and dystopian view of the world that is skewed, incorrect, and confusing and not worth the read.
A4:
Another NYT-AP switcheroo that tells me "the US hit a record number of coronavirus hospitalizations Tuesday and surpassed 1 million new confirmed cases in just the first 10 days of November amid a nationwide surge of infections that shows no signs of slowing."
The death rate is plummeting, but never you mind that!
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"Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen apologized on Tuesday for issuing an order to kill every mink in the country, more than 15 million, to contain a coronavirus mutation. Frederiksen conceded that the government lacked sufficient authority to carry out the plan, which has sparked a burgeoning political scandal. She did not rule out a future cull. The operation would have required help from the military and a mass mink burial. Members of Parliament refused to push through a bill that would authorize the slaughter, broadcaster TV2 reported. The decision to kill the animals, which are essential to the country’s lucrative fur industry, had come after the discovery of a coronavirus mutation that spread from Danish minks to at least 12 humans in August and September. Health officials considered the mutation concerning because those infected appeared to show less ability to produce antibodies, which could reduce the potential effectiveness of a vaccine."
It's no longer jump the shark, it's jump the mink.
Is there no end to the nonsense they expect us to believe?
"People probably caught coronavirus from minks. That’s a wake-up call to study infections in animals, researchers say. Some countries reacted promptly. The British government reimposed its quarantine requirement Friday for travelers arriving from Denmark, with British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps citing the coronavirus outbreaks among Danish minks. The same day, Denmark put about 280,000 citizens, or 5 percent of its population, under a partial lockdown to prevent the spread of the mutation. “We must knock down completely this virus variant,” Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said last week, according to the Associated Press. Though the mutation was confirmed on only five mink farms, the government ordered the killing of all minks across more than 1,000 farms in the country. Some researchers cautioned that the response might be premature, and the World Health Organization said that the implications of the mutation are not yet known. In Denmark, the political opposition seized on such skepticism, accusing the government of overstepping its legal authority in pursuing the logistically complex operation. Center-right Liberal party Chairman Jakob Ellemann-Jensen told TV2 that the government was “gambling with Danish democracy.” He said his party is unwilling to back a bill that does not address compensation for mink farmers. Some critics suggested that the process was being rushed in the absence of adequate evidence. Danish officials defended the swift response. “Instead of waiting for evidence, it is better to act quickly,” said Tyra Grove Krause, an official at Denmark’s infectious diseases agency, according to the Associated Press, but after saying that all minks “must be killed” and offering financial incentives to farmers who got it done quickly, Danish authorities backtracked Monday and admitted they could not legally order culls outside designated high-risk zones. Denmark’s minister for agriculture Mogens Jensen issued an apology. “We’ve made a mistake,” Jensen, who faced calls to resign on Tuesday, told TV2. A hasty attempt to create a legal basis for the culling order failed in parliament. The legislative gridlock could result in weeks of political discussions, leaving mink farmers without clear guidance. Some had already culled tens of thousands of their animals by the time questions over the order’s legitimacy emerged."
The WaCompo is also reporting that cases of coronavirus were found in minks in Utah, and the purpose of this outrageous scenario is to help advance the Great Reset while furthering the narrative of a "Pandemic II," as a certain global "philanthropist" might say, and at the same time testing the public mind to see how they will respond to a Great Cull. First it is the animals, then it will be the noncompliant citizens who refuse to bow to the tyranny of technohumani$m.
Btw, did you notice the attitude of the infectious disease official?
“Instead of waiting for evidence, it is better to act quickly” and KILL!
The same people are in charge of the COVID-19 response!
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"Brazil halted a late-stage trial of a Chinese vaccine on Monday that had been considered a global front-runner in the race to develop a protective shot for the coronavirus after a “serious adverse” reaction in a participant. CoronaVac, which is being developed by the Chinese company Sinovac, is one of 11 experimental vaccines produced by some of the world’s foremost pharmaceutical companies that are currently in Phase 3 trials. Adverse effects are not unusual in Phase 3 trials. AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson both paused their trials after several volunteers fell seriously ill, resuming them six weeks later, in October, after concluding that the illnesses were not related to the vaccines."
Of course not, and we all knew the Chinese one would be no good.
You gotta get the right shot from the right people, 'eh, Gatesy?
"The decision provoked a political firestorm on Tuesday after President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been critical of China and spoken dismissively of its vaccine, CoronaVac, called the suspension a political victory. Instituto Butantan, the Brazilian institute assisting with the CoronaVac trial, called the suspension unwarranted, arguing that it had been triggered by the death of a trial participant, but that the death was unrelated to the vaccine. A police report obtained by The New York Times says the participant’s death, which occurred Oct. 29, is being investigated as a suicide. A senior government official for the State of São Paulo, which runs Instituto Butantan, said that fact led health experts at the institute to conclude that it did not raise red flags about the safety of the vaccine. São Paulo state, the largest in Brazil, is led by Gov. João Doria, a political rival of Bolsonaro who has criticized the president’s cavalier handling of the pandemic. Gustavo Mendes, the director of pharmaceuticals at Anvisa, Brazil’s health regulatory agency, said in an interview on Tuesday that regulators have yet to conclude that the volunteer’s death was unrelated to the vaccine.“It was a precautionary measure,” he said. “Unfortunately, it’s being politicized.” He added: “Halting a study until there is more information is what is expected of a regulatory agency.” As the world grapples with another major wave of coronavirus infections, the race for a vaccine has intensified and been made all the more competitive by fractious geopolitics.
This is no longer about the legendary COVID, and never was!
On the same day that Brazil suspended the Sinovac trial, the American company Pfizer announced that an early analysis of its coronavirus vaccine trials suggested that its drug was more than 90 percent effective in preventing the virus that causes Covid-19. The Chinese vaccine study has inflamed a political rivalry between Bolsonaro and Doria, who is widely expected to run for president in 2022. If the vaccine is approved, it would be manufactured by the institute. Bolsonaro had voiced skepticism about the Chinese vaccine previously, and on Tuesday he gloated about the setback in a message on Facebook. “This is the vaccine Doria wanted everyone in São Paulo to take,” the president wrote. “Yet another victory for Bolsonaro.” Last month, Bolsonaro reacted angrily when he learned the health ministry intended to buy 46 million doses of the vaccine. “I ordered that it be canceled,” he said. “It appears no country in the world is interested in that Chinese vaccine.” Doria’s party, the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, said in a statement that the race to develop a vaccine “is not a political contest and cannot be treated like one.” It accused Bolsonaro of “putting his political aspirations above anything else, showing disregard for the lives of Brazilians.” It is rare for a drug that has not been fully tested to be so widely administered, and scientists from around the world have repeatedly warned that the Chinese government was risking the health of its people. Sinovac has said previously that more than 10,000 people in Beijing have been injected with its vaccine. Separately, it said that nearly all its employees — around 3,000 in total — and their families had taken it. Vaccine experts said it was important to conclude the third and final phase of human testing before making the drug available. Phase 3 trials involve tens of thousands of people and may detect uncommon but potentially severe side effects. The suspended Brazilian trial is a reminder of the formidable challenges facing Chinese vaccine companies when they go abroad. Few of the companies have experience operating overseas, much less navigating potential political minefields. All of them had to test their vaccines in places with active outbreaks because the virus had largely been stamped out in China.
It's only virulent in western democracies under Jewi$h thumb as China is likely to recover faster than some other major economies due to the ruling party's decision to impose the most intensive anti-disease measures in history which are now new strategies that target hot spots in western societies.
In Brazil, the trials have been politically fraught as supporters of Bolsonaro, who has downplayed the threat and blamed China for the pandemic, have criticized them. Prof. Raina MacIntyre, who heads the biosecurity program at the Kirby Institute of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, said serious side effects in a vaccine trial were “extremely rare” but added, “We can expect to see this scenario happen again with different vaccines. If you’ve got 45,000 people in a trial, it’s quite likely that one person will have a serious health event in that time.” Professor MacIntyre said that the pause would allow a safety monitoring board to investigate.
Don't take any money from her.
Vaccine experts have said that they considered data from Sinovac’s early-stage trials to be promising. Results from the company’s Phase 1 trials showed no adverse effects, and Phase 2 trials showed 90 percent protection against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Seeing a company from China develop a vaccine first has been a priority for the country’s leader, Xi Jinping. Mr. Xi has staked his personal reputation on the effort, which is seen as a way to erase some of the blame that several countries have placed on China for its initial missteps when the virus first emerged in the city of Wuhan last year. Sinovac’s treatment is an inactivated vaccine, meaning that it is made of a coronavirus that has either been weakened or killed by chemicals. Tao Lina, a vaccine expert in Shanghai, said he believed that the Brazilian suspension was not based on science but on politics....."
The motivation behind Pfizer's announ¢ement?
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The Globe doesn't notice it on the national level, though!
The Globe is of the opinion that Trumpism won't age well?!!
Now who is driving us back into the past, huh?
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A12 BACK PAGE:
It is the criminal Brennan who is screaming the loudest as the WaCompo covers for him.
Even if Trump were to issue such an order, it is far too late now. He needed to issue such things in the first year, period. Then he wouldn't be in this mess.
According to the Washington Compost, "Parler is an alternate social media platform where conspiracy theories can thrive" and the outpost of the NEW RE$I$TANCE!
The New York Times sure as hell hopes so!
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Here we go again, let the convicts out of prison even as police chiefs, citing rise in shootings, say they’re working with US authorities to jail repeat offenders.
One hand wa$hes the other, huh?
I gue$$ they need to make room for Trump supporters and anyone else who doesn't hue to the Party line.
He's Hispanic?
The tyrant says it is ‘not in the best interest’ of the country, so just accept a blatant and brazen screwing in broad daylight like a gentleman.
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Let's hope we make it to New Year's Eve first.
They are hollering raci$m, and it worked.
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Good way to defund, and get the mass graves ready:
City officials are still trying to find out the origins of each person interred.
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They honored 144 victims of COVID-19 with a memorial of empty chairs — one for each resident who died from COVID-19.
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The worrisome spike in cases continues as the state is now in the red zone regarding the new confirmed cases that continue their disturbing climb, prompting some experts to suggest the state consider rolling back parts of its reopening plan -- an ominous sign that will necessitate cellphone alerts!
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Here is why they wouldn't answer:
The column by Globe Columnist Dan Shaughnessy begins with an above the fold photo of him before flipping down to see the article.
Looks like a future of quotas, Communism, and a lot of dead whites.
Breaking the barriers is now somehow complicated for King Kamala?
The whole narrative is being twisted like a pretzel:
Not to be salty about it, but I sure hope they were observing social distancing.
Translate Bio makes messenger RNA therapeutics and is collaborating with French drug giant Sanofi on a COVID-19 vaccine.
I gue$$ all the talk is:
Boston software firm PTC has hired Troy Richardson, one of the most prominent Black executives in the high-tech sector, to be its new chief operating officer.
Ford plans to add 350 jobs at two factories to meet expected demand for electric vehicles that haven’t gone on sale yet.
Driving the Great Reset are they!
It's only seven stores and 428 jobs as it reels from the effects of the pandemic and further lockdowns.
Look who they let loose:
It's an attempt by the entertainment industry to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic.
The largest exchange-traded fund in the world is also the biggest loser this year, but at this rate it won’t be for long for progress toward a vaccine for the coronavirus helped spark the move.
Beyond Meat will provide Pizza Hut with plant-based Italian sausage for a new line of pizzas, the faux-meat maker’s latest conquest in the restaurant industry. The offerings, called the Beyond Italian Sausage Pizza and Great Beyond Pizza, were cocreated by the companies, which say the ingredients will have the same flavor and texture of Pizza Hut’s Italian pork sausage. The topping is made from a base of pea and rice proteins.
You never even knew what you were eating, did you?
It's because the local booksellers felt #BoxedOut in Boston and beyond, and they are nothing if not a “light in the darkness” as Amazon has plans to get bigger in Greater Boston, a lot bigger, so with the help of other statewide unions, they’re launching a website, gathering letters from supportive lawmakers, and even buying TV ads to run on ESPN, CNN, and other major TV stations later this fall or else they will move to Sweden in the war against China, $o look on the bright $ide for new stores will open even as others go bust.
Neverthele$$, little has changed in two years, in part because the EU largely left it to Google to fix the problems. That's the advice Europe has for the US after years of wrestling with Google and why it will be hard to rein them in despite the government’s antitrust efforts.
Maybe this can take them down:
"S&P 500 wavers amid Big Tech post-rally rout" by Rita Nazareth and Kamaron Leach, Bloomberg News November 11 2020
Stocks dropped amid a selloff in big tech and speculation that this month’s rally has outpaced prospects for an economic rebound as coronavirus cases surge. Treasuries fell.
After all the enthusiasm that lifted global equities and sent havens into a tailspin, some analysts said the moves may have gone too far. The coronavirus shot still has several hurdles to clear, there’s concern over fiscal stimulus, the transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden and a virus resurgence. The U.S. reported a record 142,907 new infections on Monday.
All based on a faulty and flawed test that results in 90% false positives and doesn't specifically identify COVID-19.
Despite the uncertainties, the S&P 500’s valuations are near the highest levels since the dot-com era.
“You still have a tremendous amount of uncertainty out there, and while equities may continue to climb a wall of worry, the stock market is still subject to the rules of gravity,” said Jonathan Boyar, managing director at Boyar Value Group.
Meanwhile, China unveiled regulations to root out monopolistic practices in the internet industry, seeking to curtail the growing influence of corporations like Alibaba and Tencent Holdings Ltd. The rules, which sent both stocks tumbling and sparked a wider selloff in the nation’s equities, landed about a week after new restrictions on the finance sector that triggered the shock suspension of Ant Group Co.’s US$35 billion initial public offering.....
Looks like the $hoe is on the other foot regarding censorship.
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Ironically, just below that article was this:
"Biden is expected to keep scrutiny of tech front and center" by Cecilia Kang, David McCabe and Jack Nicas New York Times, November 10, 2020
(HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA)
WASHINGTON — The tech industry had it easy under President Barack Obama.
The industry will have it much harder under President-elect Joe Biden.
Bipartisan support to restrain its power has grown sharply during the Trump administration and shows no signs of going away as Democrats regain control of the White House. Biden is expected to take on the Silicon Valley giants on misinformation, privacy, and antitrust, in a sharp departure from the polices pursued while he was vice president under Obama.
After they interfered on his behalf in the election and are censoring all the Democratic vote fraud?
I suppose there is no level of propaganda the New York Times thinks we won't believe. Either that, or the purpose is simply to put it out there no matter how ridiculous.
“The foundations of the concerns about digital platforms were developing during the Obama years, and yet the major tech issues from the Obama era are still with us and unresolved,” said Chris Lewis, president of the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge. “The genie is out of the bottle, and the issues the public needs resolved are piling up without resolution.”
Setting the stage for censorship are they!
On the campaign trail, Biden rarely spoke about technology policy at length, but he has criticized social media companies, like Facebook, that have allowed disinformation to flourish on their sites, and he has expressed concern over power held by a handful of companies in tech and other industries.
A Biden administration is expected to pursue the antitrust lawsuit filed against Google last month, people with knowledge of his campaign said. It may also introduce more antitrust cases against Facebook and possibly Amazon and Apple, which the Trump administration has investigated for more than a year.
The Biden campaign wouldn’t comment about specific cases or investigation, but a spokesman for it, Matt Hill, said Biden would take an aggressive stance toward the industry.
“Many technology giants and their executives have not only abused their power but misled the American people, damaged our democracy, and evaded any form of responsibility,” Hill said. “That ends with a President Biden.”
This would be laughable were there anything to laugh about anymore.
Biden’s clearest position on Internet policy has been his call to revoke a legal shield known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. That safe harbor has protected Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter from lawsuits for hosting or removing harmful or misleading content. He hasn’t elaborated on how he would revoke the shield, a 1996 law that the tech industry will fight vigorously to defend.
He is going in the wrong direction there, and I'm forced to line up with the tech companies!
$peech will no longer be free at all!
Also near the top of Biden’s agenda, his advisers have said, will be the extension of broadband Internet service to low-income and rural households, which has become an urgent need during the pandemic as schools have shifted online. Billions in federal funding could come from legislation or the Federal Communications Commission, which hollowed out several regulations during the Trump administration.
Yeah, Joe is going to give the Great Reset dystopia a huge shove!
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Oh, never mind that science, just avoid the local bar and its cocktails and get out there and protest.
The FCC would also be poised to reinstall so-called net neutrality, a rule that prevented telecommunications companies from blocking or slowing Internet traffic.
I was told the tech companies were NOT doing that despite the ruling, although it would explain all the load discrepancies (Google whoosh, Globe soon follows, my blog beach ball, beach ball, beach ball, there it goes).
Biden will need to navigate a split in the Democratic Party over how aggressively to approach the tech companies. Progressives like Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island have argued that the giants should be broken up, and those lawmakers will probably fight for regulators who feel similarly. Moderates in the party have shown a reluctance to break up the companies.
I'm sure it is the $ame with $ilicon Valley.
Hundreds of informal tech advisers, some of them current or former telecom and tech employees, have offered opinions, white papers and strategies for Biden’s campaign and possible presidency. Many of the top advisers have been proponents of strong legislation to limit the power of the tech companies.
Leading Biden’s team of tech advisers is Bruce Reed, his chief of staff when he was vice president. Reed served in recent years as general counsel for Common Sense Media, a child advocacy nonprofit in San Francisco that has lobbied for tech privacy and safety laws. Reed was instrumental in the creation of California’s privacy law in 2018.
The one that shields sex predators?
Another top aide working on tech issues is Stef Feldman, a longtime member of Biden’s staff who led the campaign’s policy efforts. This year, she told Politico that among the issues she was tracking closely was “disparities in children’s ability to engage in remote learning due to a lack of access to technology” during the pandemic.
Many conservatives support the antitrust investigations being led by the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, but they are likely to resist many of Biden’s tech policies, like online speech and privacy legislation that interferes in free markets, and with neither party controlling a large majority in the Senate, their opposition means that legislation could easily hit gridlock.
Biden will also face fierce pushback from the industry. In recent years, technology companies have expanded their lobbying, with Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google spending $53.6 million on it last year — more than Wall Street, pharmaceutical, and energy firms.
They will soon own the entire world.
“Tremendous political influence will be brought to bear on a Biden White House by the tech lobby and its allies; however, it’s night and day in terms of how tech is viewed now and during the Obama years,” said Jeffrey Chester, head of the Center for Digital Democracy, a privacy advocacy group.
Current and former tech executives and lobbyists, as well as former regulators, said that while the industry expected a Biden administration to be tough on the companies, particularly in antitrust areas, it would welcome a change from the unpredictable Trump administration.
“The Trump administration was a showbiz, and as a result no one knew what to expect,” said Tom Wheeler, a Democrat who was FCC chairman under Obama. “Silicon Valley will at least be pleased with stability knowing there is a plan, rather than a whim-of-the-moment policy creation.”
But they didn't interfere in a fair election or anything!
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"YouTube will begin taking down videos that spread misinformation about vaccines to treat the coronavirus, the company said on Wednesday. The new policy applies to clips with content that contradicts “expert consensus” from local health authorities and the World Health Organization. This includes claims that COVID-19 vaccines will kill people or cause infertility, or that microchips will be implanted inpeople who get these treatments, the company said. The second example refers to a conspiracy theory that falsely claims Bill Gates plans to inject chips into every vaccinated person. The change is part of a slate of new policies around public health information from Google’s massive video service, where footage questioning the efficacy of vaccinations have lived online for years. The new rule will not apply to videos about vaccines for other illnesses, a spokesman said. On Tuesday, Facebook Inc., another hotbed for misinformation, said it would block ads that discouraged people from getting vaccines."
The WHO is also joining with Wikipedia to combat COVID-19 misinformation as part of the collaborative efforts to stop the spread of false information about the coronavirus pandemic.
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"Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said the dollar won’t collapse despite rising federal debt and urged the government to ramp up economic stimulus to offset the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. “The dollar is the world’s safe haven. It’s the place that money moves into when people get nervous about the state of the world,” Summers said in an interview Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” “All of the dangers are on the side of spending too little right now, rather than spending too much,” said Summers, who headed the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama and was Treasury chief for President Bill Clinton. It’s “right to worry” about the country’s rising debt level, but in a near-zero interest rate environment the government can afford to borrow more, Summers said, and instead of lending money to credit-worthy corporations, it should prioritize helping the unemployed and lower-income families, he added. Summers reiterated his forecast that the pandemic will end up costing the U.S. $16 trillion when including the costs of lost lives and health on the economy, four times the cost of the Great Recession....."
Really, liar, cuz that seems to be the plan, even if “precipitous crashes aren’t good for anybody.”
My pre$$ says it is just a coincidence.
The Great Coronavirus Divide: Wall Street Profits Surge as Poverty Rises
Better get back to the office:
"Back to the office: Tough call for workers, and for the boss" by Nelson D. Schwartz New York Times, November 10, 2020
Jay Foreman, chief executive of the toymaker Basic Fun in Boca Raton, Fla., has a simple message for his employees: It’s time to come back to the office.
“Fear is not an appropriate reason for not being at work,” he said. “We have to get over our fears. We can’t operate remotely, and this is a collaborative work environment. I pay a hell of a lot of rent to have an office, and that’s a big investment.”
It may seem that Foreman is swimming against the tide. Corporate giants like Microsoft, Target, and Ford Motor Co. have extended remote working arrangements until next summer, but a recent survey by LinkedIn and Censuswide found that more than two-thirds of offices had reopened or never closed. Foreman is among the employers who don’t believe the coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally reordered the way millions of Americans should work.
Why, with a vaccine on the way and all?
It's about the Great Re$et under the cover of the COVID $cam, that's why!
They are recalling their employees even as the coronavirus surges in parts of the country, arguing that a balance can be struck between safety and the need to reunite under one roof.
At Basic Fun, masks are mandatory, desks are spread out, and there are stations with hand sanitizer throughout the 20,000-square-foot office in the four-story building that is headquarters.
Last week, the last of the Basic Fun workers who had been at home returned to the office full time.
Some employees have come back eagerly after the distractions of working from home. Others have done so reluctantly after asking for a bit more time, and at least one has found another job rather than face returning to the office.
The divergent feelings echo larger patterns in the American workplace, even as a resurgence of the coronavirus engulfs the country. At some companies, a new dynamic is unfolding between those who are staying home and those who are venturing in every day.
It will begin receding on the day of Biden's inauguration.
A June survey by the accounting and consulting firm PwC found that 72 percent of workers would like to be able to work from home at least two days a week, and a majority expected to be able to work from home one day a week even after the pandemic, but at Basic Fun, there is no longer any choice.
Foreman is not a mask doubter or a coronavirus skeptic. Nor is he a fan of President Trump, who has questioned the efficacy of masks and criticized the lockdowns that have forced many employees to work from home, whether they like it or not. He backed Senator Kamala Harris in the Democratic presidential primary, and supported former vice president Joe Biden in the general election, but he believes the necessary steps have been taken to ensure his workers' safety.
Masks are in fact harmful, and anyone who asks you to where one is a criminal or collaborator.
“People can’t enter our office unless they are wearing a mask, they can’t walk around the office without a mask, they don’t gather in small groups without a mask and work spaces are more than 6 feet apart,” Foreman said. “I think it’s as safe as your own home.”
The WHO tells us that is where spread is.
What’s more, he said he believes there are benefits to working together and meeting face to face that can’t be replicated through conference calls or online get-togethers.....
That was when I turned the other cheek.
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"The Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association on Tuesday took aim on social media at a counterprotester who waved a toy pig in the face of police at a Copley Square demonstration over the weekend and asked members to think twice before patronizing a restaurant where she was photographed working behind the bar, but the union’s attempt to draw attention to the counterprotester by posting a picture of her working at Yellow Door Taqueria had a major flaw: She hasn’t been an employee at the business, partly owned by Dropkick Murphys lead singer Ken Casey, in two years. “Our apologies to the fine folks and management at @yellowdoortaco,” the union wrote on Twitter several hours after first post about the counterprotester, Caitríona O’Grady....."
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"With the cold weather steadily setting in, outdoor dining as it stands won’t be sustainable for much longer. For many already-struggling restaurants, this potential loss of dining space mixed with continued restrictions on indoor seating could spell disastrous financial losses; however, a few local foundations have teamed up to offer relief through the winter. Open to restaurants with fewer than five locations across Boston, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, The Restaurant Strong Winterization Grant will provide $10,000 to each selected eatery for space heaters, greenhouses, and other accessories to make outside seating possible in colder months....."
So much for the climate change issues, and maybe a brief pause will brace them for a cold spring after a hard winter.
With the virus on the rebound, there will be spot checks at restaurants to ensure they are following the rules and as the pandemic stretches on, more Boston-area restaurant operators are staring down the long, cold winter months ahead, with some taking cues from nature and going into hibernation because “there was no way for me to keep it open, and they’ll reopen when the Red Sox can have fans,” but thanks to negotiations with the landlords, two Irish pubs will remain in place through the winter, which will allow co-owner Peter Sarmanian to reevaluate his options in the spring, and provided that COVID-19 doesn’t still threaten, he’ll be able to reopen his beloved bars and is “optimistic” despite the troubling sign of the coronavirus’s spread throughout the city due to the nearly 1,400 parties since September.
Now pull up a stool:
Fernandes and his father, Justino “JJ” Fernandes, a Cape Verdean immigrant who worked his way from dishwasher to executive chef at the Park Plaza Hotel, decided to bring their experience home. In 2013, they opened JJ’s Caffe, a breakfast joint in North Brockton that Yelp ranks as one of the top 100 places to eat in the United States. On Mother’s Day, customers queue up to three hours for a table.
It ain't a Blue Apron, and at first, quarantine cooking was kind of fun, but seven months after the coronavirus prompted major changes to how Americans eat and with a long winter looming, a certain culinary weariness is setting in. Enter local food entrepreneur Samantha Kanter."
You will think you are high when you see the cost of the meal and the delivery fee, and remember “precipitous crashes aren’t good for anybody.”
I would have ordered a ham sandwich; however, there has been a Listeria outbreak in several states, including Massachusetts, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as restaurants balance financial health with public safety and the state health department provides sparse information about virus infections by occupation and industry so you are better off just picking apples like Gnarly Appleseed!
Time for the toilet:
“People are [literally] sniffing around for good deals,” but the stench from out back smells like death.
