That is what the Globe is telegraphing with its top story today as they pull out all the stops to pressure Trump to concede and vacate:
"Delaying Biden’s transition could have national security implications, analysts and former officials warn" by Jazmine Ulloa Globe Staff, November 11, 2020
WASHINGTON — In the search for answers after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, an independent commission identified the delayed presidential transition that followed the disputed 2000 election as one of numerous failures that prevented officials in President George W. Bush’s administration from foreseeing the tragedy.
While the slow handover wasn’t a major factor, the commission found it hampered the filling of key national security positions. The group recommended changes to speed up the appointment process to avoid hindering future incoming administrations from identifying threats, but as President Trump continues to dispute the election results and his administration blocks President-elect Joe Biden from starting the transition, national security experts warn that delays are once again putting the country at risk.
“If you are going to be responsible for the security of the American people, both the incoming administration and the outgoing administration have to cooperate,” said Michael Chertoff, who served as Homeland Security secretary under Bush. “To delay the transition process is to really play Russian roulette . . . with the safety of the American people.”
That's where the turn-in came, and can they be any more obvious with their threat?
Look who they turned to for commentary, for God's sake, and is he pre-programming a Russian hand in any future attack?
The Globe should be ashamed of themselves for pushing this garbage, as well as failing to investigate or report on the tremendous anomalies regarding that September event while pushing the official conspiracy.
Beyond that is the selective memory in their accounting. No pillorying of Al Gore for refusing to concede until December, and we will see what kind of metal Republicans have if a Freedom Caucus member brings a resolution like the Black Caucus did in 2000. No Democrat senator would sign on to the bill regarding voter suppression and fraud in Florida and the Supreme Court decision to stop counting votes.
Bush was then in office for almost eight months and allegedly had plenty of warnings if the official story is to be believed regarding the August 2001 PDBs. There really was no delay at all in transition, and the fact is the Bush Administration was a major cog in the inside job false flag that occurred that fateful morning.
As for the Globe looking into or investigating, well, anything these days, I have mostly given up and even when they do publish something that seems groundbreaking it is never followed up and quickly forgotten (I am not the only one who has noticed).
Trump further roiled the national security apparatus this week when he fired Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper on Monday. Trump then ousted three other top Pentagon officials and replaced them with loyalists.
There could be plausible explanations for the shakeup, including personal motivation on the part of a score-settling president that “point more toward an administration knowing that it will be exiting come January rather than trying to hold onto power,” said Ryan Goodman, a former top lawyer at the Defense Department, but Goodman, a professor at New York University School of Law, said the chaos created by Trump “underscores how irresponsible it is for any Republican politicians to refrain from congratulating and helping usher in President-elect Biden to help smooth the transition and communicate stability to America’s enemies and allies alike.”
Such a crock of Deep State crap!
The delay is preventing Biden’s staff from beginning time-consuming background checks, obtaining intelligence briefings, and ramping up their knowledge on military and covert operations around the world. The deficiencies could put troops and intelligence officers in danger and hinder the incoming administration from carrying out new policies, putting senior-level officials into place — and in some cases, from obtaining Senate confirmations, Goodman and other specialists said.
After the way these cretins treated the honorable General Michael Flynn, fuck them and their Chicken Little complaining!
The delay is all the more concerning in the midst of a raging pandemic, “the largest national security issue facing the country at the moment,” said Kate Shaw, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law who served in the White House Counsel’s Office under President Barack Obama.
The coverage of which is greatly receding as this obvious electoral theft and coup attempt takes up most of the ink in my pre$$.
“Even 75 days is not a huge amount of time when it comes to getting up to speed on the range of threats and issues facing the country, and every day that passes without this access being granted puts the Biden team in a more and more difficult position when it comes to hitting the ground running,” she said.
Biden won the election on a platform centered on his Washington experience and his ability “to do the job on day one.” He will enter the White House with an advantage having served as vice president for eight years under Obama and for decades as a senator. Biden has already spoken with some world leaders — calls his team had to set up without help from the State Department — and is forging ahead with building his administration. On Monday, he announced a COVID-19 Transition Advisory Board staffed with doctors and public health experts.
Isn't that a violation of the Logan Act?
Btw, there are apparently only five nations that do not recognize the coup: Mexico, Brazil, China, Russia, and Turkey.
“We are fortunate that it is former vice president Biden who is coming in and is prepared in the national security arena, but it is dangerous,” Representative Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, said of Trump’s efforts to stall the handover. “The peaceful transition of power has been the hallmark of our democracy for 200 years.”
You traitor.
Biden’s incoming administration has access to some government office space, and his team started coordinating about a potential transition with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows prior to the election, but more than $9 million in transition funding — and the ability to fully cooperate with agencies— remains in the balance as Trump appointee Emily Murphy, who heads the federal General Services Administration, so far has declined to designate Biden as the apparent winner of the election.
So Meadows is a back-stabber, too, huh?
Among the material Biden is not yet receiving is the President’s Daily Brief. Known in Washington as the “PDB,” the compilation of high-level and sensitive material is the so-called crown jewel of the intelligence community and is released only to the president, vice president, and a small circle of top officials. As part of the transition, it is made available to the president-elect and his team.
Trump reportedly doesn’t read it, but it’s crucial for Biden so he can get up to speed before taking office, with a value that is cumulative, intelligence officials and experts said.
“Each PDB builds on the other,” said William Inboden, who heads the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. “For the president-elect, you don’t want them to see that in the first day in office.”
Biden, who received the PDB every day as vice president, said Tuesday that he was not overly concerned.
“Access to classified information is useful, but I’m not in a position to make any decisions on those issues anyway,” Biden said. “It would be nice to have it, but it’s not critical.”
The chaos and distraction from the Trump administration comes during a tumultuous time for US foreign relations, and it could leave the country vulnerable to exploitation from terrorists and other foreign adversaries. In the run-up to the presidential election alone, cyber attacks on US health care systems seemed to be lost in the shuffle, analysts said.
I would think that the terrorists would be under lockdown with the rest of us and thus easy to catch.
Btw, IF the "terrorists" do strike this holiday season, that MUST BE the END of the MASKS!
“It is a very risky play that the Trump administration is making here,” said Cedric Leighton, a military analyst and former Air Force intelligence officer who served as a congressional liaison during the transition to the Bush administration after the 2000 election.
Even after past contentious elections, incoming and outgoing presidents have tended to work together for the good of the nation, intelligence officials and specialists said. In one example now lost to time, unusual cooperation between the Carter and Reagan administrations was key to saving the life of South Korean opposition political leader Kim dae Jung, who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
That was as Bush and Casey were telling Iran to keep the hostages until Carter was defeated as to avoid what they call an October Surprise, although that is all flushed down the pre$$ memory hole at this stage.
This stuff is becoming disgusting to read.
The bipartisan 9/11 Commission report issued in 2004 spurred a series of changes to improve and hasten the presidential transition, allowing incoming administrations access to crucial intelligence information and to begin the security clearance process for key hires prior to Inauguration Day. Foreign intelligence officials and national security experts say such actions allow for a continuity between administrations that is critical to maintaining stable diplomatic relations and thwarting global threats.
The commission didn’t pin the blame for the terrorist attacks on the chaotic 2000 transition, but Leighton and other officials who were part of the Bush transition team said the lengthy delays amid legal fights over a recount in Florida didn’t help. Having only half the usual time to put together briefings on national security operations and priorities likely led intelligence analysts to miss warning flags and fail to connect important pieces of information, Leighton said.
PFFFFFFT!
“Those attacks would have probably occurred regardless of who was in power, but the fact that we had this confusing transition period allowed a lot of those things to fall through the cracks,” Leighton said.
I believe the first statement.
As a result of the lessons learned, Chertoff and other Bush administration officials said they began preparing for the presidential transition more than a year in advance of the 2008 election. Inboden, a Republican who served on Bush’s National Security Council, recalls he and other staff members keeping top Democratic candidates Obama and Hillary Clinton up to date on nonclassified intelligence operations in case one of them won the election.
Most of Biden’s incoming senior staff already have security clearances and providing them access to classified intelligence information would not preclude Trump from continuing to challenge the election results in court, Inboden said.
“There is only an upside to it,” he said. “There is no downside risk. It is just being responsible and patriotic."
This place is feeling more and more like the Soviet Union with each passing day, and a Deep State terror attack means he must decamp, right?
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Also above the fold but to the left:
Biden’s choice of Ron Klain as chief of staff signals rejection of Trump-era chaos
Yes, it will be nice to have the Deep State in total control again with no chaos as "President-elect Joe Biden has chosen longtime Washington operative Ronald Klain as White House chief of staff, sending an early signal that he intends to rely heavily on experience, competence, and political agility after a Trump presidency that prized flashiness and personality."
To the lower right, readers:
"Such is the alternative reality, or one of them, being gamed out by Massachusetts Democrats, who are awash in speculation about President Biden’s victory reshuffling the state’s own elective landscape as he fills out the new Democratic administration. In interviews with 16 party operatives and political insiders, the prospects abound, though most start and end with Elizabeth Warren, whose aides declined to comment on her reported interest in the Treasury post....."
I don't think she will land that post, for the simple reason that when Joe Biden released economic recommendations two months ago, they included a few ideas that worried some powerful bankers: allowing banking at the post office, for example, and having the Federal Reserve guarantee all Americans a bank account, but in private calls with Wall Street leaders, the Biden campaign made it clear those proposals would not be central to Biden’s agenda. “They basically said, ‘Listen, this is just an exercise to keep the Warren people happy, and don’t read too much into it,’ ” said one investment banker, referring to liberal supporters of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). The banker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks, said that message was conveyed on multiple calls, and I doubt she will be part of the regime, 'er, potential administration at all.
Below the fold is the Great Divide regarding education in Boston as the Globe checks off its gift list for this year.
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The Globe's page A2 National/World lead:
"Election officials nationwide find no evidence of fraud" by Nick Corasaniti, Reid J. Epstein and Jim Rutenberg New York Times, November 11, 2020
Not until the Political Notebook on page A6 anyway, and they have now allegedly recanted (one wonders who paid a visit to them, huh?).
Election officials in dozens of states representing both political parties said that there was no evidence that fraud or other irregularities played a role in the outcome of the presidential race, amounting to a forceful rebuke of President Trump’s portrait of a fraudulent election.
Incredible after the New York Times has hollered Russian collusion and interference for the last four years!
Now the election is as pure as the driven snow and don't you dare suggest otherwise.
Over the last several days, the president, members of his administration, congressional Republicans, and right wing allies have put forth the false claim that the election was stolen from Trump and have refused to accept results that show Joe Biden as the winner, but top election officials across the country said in interviews and statements that the process had been a remarkable success despite record turnout and the complications of a dangerous pandemic.
The fact that the New York Times says it is a false claim validates its veracity, and Trump is finding out just how vast is the Deep State.
“There’s a great human capacity for inventing things that aren’t true about elections,” said Frank LaRose, a Republican who serves as Ohio’s secretary of state. “The conspiracy theories and rumors and all those things run rampant. For some reason, elections breed that type of mythology.”
OMFG!!!!
This has reached the level of intolerable insult!
That is exactly what Democrats have done for the last four years!
Russia, Russia, Russia!
Steve Simon, a Democrat who is Minnesota’s secretary of state, said: “I don’t know of a single case where someone argued that a vote counted when it shouldn’t have or didn’t count when it should. There was no fraud.”
The New York Times contacted the offices of the top election officials in every state on Monday and Tuesday to ask whether they suspected or had evidence of illegal voting. Officials in 45 states responded directly to the Times. For four of the remaining states, the Times spoke to other statewide officials or found public comments from secretaries of state; none reported any major voting issues.
Some states described small problems common to all elections, which they said they were addressing: a few instances of illegal or double voting, some technical glitches, and some minor errors in math. What emerged in the Times’s reporting was how, beyond the president, Republicans in many states were engaged in a widespread effort to delegitimize the nation’s voting system.
Look at them MINIMIZE the MASSIVE FRAUD as if it just "normal" and part of every election!
Some Republicans have even turned to lashing members of their own party who, in their eyes, did not show sufficient dedication to rooting out fraud. In Georgia, where Biden is leading, the two Republican senators from Georgia, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, both of whom are in a runoff to gain reelection, have called for the resignation of the Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger. “The secretary of state has failed to deliver honest and transparent elections,” the senators said in a statement.
On Wednesday, Raffensperger announced a hand-counted audit of the presidential vote in his state, where Biden leads by more than 14,000 votes. The goal is to have the audit completed by Nov. 20, the state deadline for certification.
This thing is a f**king farce!
On Monday, the Trump campaign accelerated their legal efforts, filing a lawsuit in the seven Pennsylvania counties where the president lost that claimed mail voting created an unfair, “two-tiered” system during the election — though the system is also in place in counties the president won. The campaign also announced plans to file another suit in Michigan.
The president has kept up a barrage of Twitter posts with false claims about improprieties in Nevada and Pennsylvania, predicting he’d prevail in Georgia, and accusations of fraud from the president and his allies were noticeably absent from states where Trump and his fellow Republicans did well.
That is because there was no vote fraud where Republicans did well. All the fraud came from big-city Democrat strongholds, and that was where the print version left it!
Trump has been fixated on voter fraud since 2016, when he falsely claimed that vote stealing had cost him the popular vote, which he lost by roughly 3 million. In the election’s aftermath, he formed a voting fraud commission that disbanded with no findings amid charges of secrecy, bias, and overreach.
It probably did; his landslide must have been so massive in the swing states that he couldn't be denied the electoral college.
Trump’s attack on the election system this year has relied on either outright fabrication or gross exaggeration involving the sorts of small problems that typically come up in elections. The absence of any major findings of fraud or irregularities, and the willingness of even Republican election officials to attest to smooth operations, have also undercut Trump’s legal efforts.
Please remember that any charges leveled by the pre$$ is a projection that they are guilty of themselves.
In Michigan, the Trump campaign has sued, saying that their poll watchers were not given access to properly observe ballot counting in Detroit, but election officials in the city deny that, saying there were dozens of poll watchers from both campaigns inside the main counting center there. Last week, a judge denied a Trump campaign bid to halt counting based on complaints about observers, dismissing key evidence as “vague” and as “hearsay.”
If the courts are rigged against him, he is finished.
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The A2-co lead is a Deep State turncoat:
"Why GOP superlawyer Ben Ginsberg is bucking his party and blasting Trump’s baseless election claims" by Michael Kranish Washington Post, November 11, 2020
WASHINGTON — In ''Recount,'' the made-for-television film version of the 2000 presidential election standoff that gripped the nation, Republican superlawyer Ben Ginsberg is portrayed as a bare-knuckled brawler with a jaded view of his adversaries.
''I’ve done over 25 recounts, and it never ceases to amaze me the extent that Democrats will lie, cheat, and steal to win an election,'' Ginsberg’s character says.
While Ginsberg says he doesn’t recall uttering those exact words, he has made plenty of enemies among Democrats for his tactics over the years. In addition to his role in George W. Bush’s 2000 victory, he advised a group that Democrats say falsely accused their 2004 nominee, John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, of lying about his military record and was widely seen as a decisive factor in Bush’s reelection victory.
Today, with tension rising around the results of a presidential election, Ginsberg is again on the front lines, but playing an unfamiliar role: Democratic ally.
Then Trump must be doing something right if the tribe is cutting him loose.
From newspaper op-eds to network TV interviews, Ginsberg, recently retired from his work for the law firm that has represented President Trump’s campaigns, has denounced the baseless claims by Trump and his GOP allies that last week’s election was rigged and rife with fraud.
''For the president of the United States, the leader of the free world and head of the Republican Party, to make completely unsubstantiated charges about our elections being rigged is not right,'' he said in an interview.
Congre$$ and the pre$$ can, though!
Russia, Russia, Russia!
Btw, did you notice that the Mueller inquiry and the sham impeachment were never campaign issues at all?
These fuckers in the pre$$ are truly evil, and the most obscene and incorrigible liars the world has ever known.
Ginsberg, raised in a liberal household in a Philadelphia suburb, initially pursued a journalism career, working at The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere. After writing about federal programs that he thought were a waste of money, he became a Republican, went to law school at Georgetown University, became an associate at a Washington law firm, where he focused on libel law, and eventually was asked to work on Republican-led recount efforts.
Ginsberg became embroiled in controversy in 2004, when he served as outside counsel for Bush’s reelection campaign and simultaneously worked for a group that became known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group was behind ads that attacked Kerry’s service during the Vietnam War, for which he was awarded the Bronze and Silver stars and three Purple Hearts. One ad accused Kerry of lying about his action for which he was awarded a medal, a charge rebutted by Kerry. The Kerry campaign at the time accused the Bush campaign of improperly coordinating with the Swift Boat group.....
Now he is a Deep State, 'er, Democrat hero like Bolton was at the start of the year!
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The page A2 briefs:
There is a planned mass resignation of the pro-democracy bloc says AP, as the worst-case scenarios for war inch along.
Islamic extremists in Mozambique blamed for mass beheadings
I'm told "reports of more than 50 beheadings by Mozambique’s Islamic extremist rebels have raised international alarm over the new level of violence in the country’s north," even as Mozambique’s health minister said he tested positive for COVID-19 in a routine test conducted ahead of a planned trip abroad, but has no symptoms and decided to announce his status publicly to “transform this situation into a moment of learning because many of us will have this virus at some point in our lives and no one in this world can say they’re immune to the novel coronavirus.”
Blast at WWI ceremony in Saudi Arabia wounds 3
The explosion at a Saudi cemetery where American and European officials were commemorating the end of WWI wounded three people Wednesday, according to official statements, after the ceremony organized by French (thus all intelligence agencies were aware of it)!
Strange how those stories suddenly popped up in my paper, huh?
Yeah, the storm is here and no big deal according to the pre$$.
A3:
BBC orders inquiry into Diana interview after claim princess was misled
I guess the New York Times (and BBC, which called the collapse of WTC 7 a half hour before it happened) would know all about misleading people as the UK becomes 5th country to exceed 50,000 coronavirus deaths, a level that one of the nation’s leading doctors says “should never have been reached” even though the models they based the tyrannical lockdowns upon predicted half-a-million dead Brits by now. That's all flushed down the pre$$ memory hole as if it never existed.
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COVID didn't show up until page A4 today, folks:
N.Y. and other states add restrictions as U.S. breaks hospitalization records,
The Globe staff follows that up with this:
"You may have already thought it, but it’s official now. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says wearing cloth masks not only keeps you from unknowingly spewing out the virus, it keeps you from inhaling the virus from the air. The agency reiterated that masks are primarily intended for “source control” — to reduce the emission of respiratory particles carrying the virus, particularly because many infected people might not have symptoms and might spread the virus without realizing it, if they don’t wear masks....."
That is a complete crock in the face of all proof that masks do more harm than good, and outs the CDC as a criminal organization advocating that you harm yourself!
"Temperature and COVID-19 symptom checks like the ones used at schools and doctor's offices have again proved inadequate for spotting coronavirus infections and preventing outbreaks. A study of Marine recruits found that despite these measures and strict quarantines before they started training, the recruits spread the virus to others even though hardly any of them had symptoms. None of the infections were caught through symptom screening. The study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, has implications for colleges, prisons, meatpacking plants and other places that rely on this sort of screening to detect infections and prevent outbreaks....."
The only solution will be to test everyone again and again forever, and did you know it will now take up to SIX SHOTS a year to provide minimal if any protection from the legendary COVID?
Related:
Albert Bourla, chief executive officer of Pfizer, sold more than 130,000 shares on Monday, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press).
Also see:
"Drugmaker Merck boosted its third-quarter profit by 55 percent and blew past Wall Street expectations, due to slightly higher sales, restrained spending, and a small, one-time gain. The Kenilworth, N.J., company said it’s making progress on three efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic: two different vaccines and an antiviral drug. The maker of cancer blockbuster Keytruda on Tuesday reported net income of $2.94 billion, or $1.16 per share, up from $1.9 billion, or 74 cents per share, a year earlier."
Texas becomes 1st state to surpass 1 million COVID-19 cases
What does that mean?
US sets another record with 145,000 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday
The Washington Compost reports that "nearly every metric is trending in the wrong direction, prompting states to add new restrictions and hospitals to prepare for a potentially dark future" with no context at all and claims that "the coronavirus pandemic is rolling across America like a great crimson wave."
Trump’s record-breaking spree of federal executions could come to an end under Biden
The Washington Compost exempts the execution of Trump.
A6:
Postal worker says he fabricated claims of irregularities
So say officials and Washington Compost reports.
GOP senator retains Alaska seat New York Times
No support for voter fraud linked to maiden names New York Times
Just because the pre$$ says it doesn't make it true; in fact, the truth is often the exact opposite of what they claim!
Facebook continues political ad moratorium New York Times
The censorship will never end.
Meteorologist with controversial views on climate promoted Washington Compost
I see the bylines and ask myself why waste the time?
"The surging coronavirus finds a federal leadership vacuum" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Noah Weiland, Sharon LaFraniere and Andrew Jacobs New York Times, November 11, 2020
WASHINGTON — When senior Food and Drug Administration officials held their morning call one day this week, they received a sobering warning from the agency’s chief, Dr. Stephen Hahn, who had just gotten off the phone with the White House: Block out “all the craziness” afoot and stay focused on fighting the pandemic, he said.
There are plenty of distractions. President Trump is pushing to overturn the results of the election, and his only public statements about the coronavirus in the past few days were to make clear his pique that good news about a vaccine had not come until after Election Day — even as the average number of new daily infections topped 123,000, average daily deaths passed the 1,000 mark and COVID-19 hospitalizations hit a record high of 61,964.
Vice President Mike Pence canceled a vacation at the last minute this week as the virus numbers grew worse, but the White House coronavirus task force that he leads has been all but publicly silent. Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff who is infected with the virus, declared last month, “We are not going to control the pandemic,” and said the focus should instead be on the longer-term goals of developing vaccines and treatments.
Somebody would put him out to pasture.
Meantime, the Strategic National Stockpile, the nation’s emergency reserve, has only 115 million N95 masks, far short of the 300 million the administration had hoped to amass by winter, Rear Admiral John Polowczyk, who retired Monday as the national supply chain commander, said in a recent interview, although he added that the government is continuing to expand its supplies of protective gear.
The pandemic caught the nation flat-footed in March, but epidemiologists have been warning for months of a fall and winter wave as people are driven indoors, schools resume in-person classes, and Americans grow tired of months of precautions, yet shortages of personal protective equipment are back, especially among rural hospitals, nursing homes, and private medical practices that lack access to the supply networks that serve larger hospital chains.
I'm SICK of this SCRIPT, sorry!
Dr. Shikha Gupta, executive director of Get Us PPE, a volunteer effort that matches available supplies to health care providers, said 70 percent of those requesting help from the organization last month reported being completely out of one type of critical gear. Masks, gloves, and disinfecting wipes topped the list.
“Health care workers are exhausted and frustrated, and it’s really hard to believe that on Nov. 10, it feels very much like the middle of March all over again,” she said. “We’re hitting the highest numbers of caseload that we’ve ever seen, and we’re running into the same problems that we’ve been having since day one.”
Yeah, it IS HARD TO BELIEVE!
That means the TYRANNICAL POLICIES have FAILED and our "leaders" are CRIMINALS!
Governors are once again competing with one another and big hospital chains for scarce gear. Nursing homes are grappling with staff shortages, which have left hospitals unable to discharge patients to their care. In Wisconsin, the situation is so severe that health officials are mulling a plan to train family members of nursing home residents to fill in at facilities that lack enough workers.
At least you will get to see and watch over your elderly beloved!
“We’re throwing every idea that we can conceivably think of to the state, but we really need bold action from the federal government,” said John Sauer, president of LeadingAge Wisconsin, an association that represents nonprofit nursing homes and long-term care facilities. “We can’t muddle through this on our own.”
OH!
Then forget it.
The United States is on somewhat better footing now than in the earliest days of the pandemic. States and hospitals have their own stockpiles, and Polowczyk said the federal government had met its goal of acquiring 153,000 ventilators, but as the country enters what may be the most intense stage of the pandemic yet, the Trump administration remains largely disengaged. President-elect Joe Biden is trying to assume a leadership mantle, with the appointment of a coronavirus advisory board and a call for all Americans to wear masks, but until his inauguration Jan. 20, he lacks the authority to mobilize a federal response.
What is the point of this article and its fear porn if now, two-thirds of the way through, we are on better footing despite the shortages, blah, blah, blah?
WTF is with the $HIT REPORTING?
“With 1,000 deaths per day, it’s like two jumbo jets dropping from the sky,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease specialist at Emory University who is close to Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator. “If every day, two jumbo jets would drop from the sky and kill everybody, don’t you think that everybody would be in a panic? But somehow, we’re not doing that. Somehow, as a nation we’re not outraged.”
OMFG!
That analogy is NOT ONLY OFFENSIVE, it is IN LINE with today's LEAD PROPAGANDA!
I mean, really, what kind of imagery is that electing from your brain, readers?
They can't make it any clearer than that!
Two jumbo jets dropping from the sky!
“We need a Churchill,” he added. “We need somebody to step into the vacuum and lead the nation,” but Trump is at war with his own health officials. He was furious after Pfizer, the drugmaker, announced Monday that early clinical trial data suggested its coronavirus vaccine was more than 90 percent effective. In a conversation with Hahn, a senior administration official said, the president accused the company and the FDA of conspiring to delay news that could have bolstered his chances of reelection.
Sorry, but the last thing we need is a blood-soaked, war-mongering criminal who "reserved the right to bomb n*****s."
Aides said the president believed that Pfizer could have announced the success of its clinical trial before Nov. 3 but deliberately chose to hold up the news, possibly not to taint the company’s vaccine as a last-minute effort to save Trump’s reelection bid. White House aides were particularly incensed that Biden publicly said his public health advisers knew of Pfizer’s results Sunday, before aides said the news had reached the White House.
Everyone is trying to move him out as they cooperate with the coup, and the above looks criminal to me.
Beyond Trump’s Twitter feed, the federal bully pulpit — an essential component of an effective infectious disease response — has largely gone silent.
That is where my print copy ended it, and it is the media that has silenced him and refused to cover him.
The President of the United States, people!
Can you imagine?!
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said in an interview Tuesday that the vaccine would be “a game changer” over time, but a vaccine is not an immediate panacea, and until doses become widely available — likely in mid-2021 — the nation is in a “difficult situation,” he said, that calls for Americans to wear masks and social distance, and to avoid crowded settings, particularly indoors. “My message to the American public is: Hang on, help is coming, a vaccine is on its way, we need to all pull together,” Fauci said.
Fuck the criminal Fraudci and his message!
I'm glad he found working with Trump administration "very stressful," and if it was so bad why didn't he resign?
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A7:
What it looked like when George H.W. Bush conceded
The Globe wants Trump to give a gracious speech and begone like that personification of the Deep State, an evil war criminal who lied us into a war just like his son and had his hands into nearly every major event the last fifty years of the 20th century.
How Biden is likely to overturn Trump’s policies toward federal workers
The Washington Compost is marching the picket line for the Deep State bureaucracy.
The Globe says Trump is clinging to power like a despot as they execute their plot against America to install Biden as president, and with a vaccine on the horizon we need to support vaccine advocacy and public health experts who can reduce fear and build public support for the poisonous potion in their toxic tube so we all can get back to work and school.
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I shouldn’t even have to write this
Me neither, so why did you?
Groups spent nearly $60 million on ballot questions this year
Did they get the an$wers they wanted?
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"Campbell says newly announced Boston tourism campaign ‘makes absolutely no sense’" by Danny McDonald Globe Staff, November 11, 2020
City councilor and mayoral candidate Andrea Campbell is clashing with Mayor Martin J. Walsh over his administration’s new $2 million tourism campaign that is funded with federal COVID-19 relief money, saying the initiative “makes absolutely no sense” when the city is facing more immediate pandemic needs.
“There’s a time and place for that, [but] it’s not for when” COVID-19 infection rates continue to spike in the city, said Campbell during a Tuesday phone interview with the Globe.
Walsh, in a statement, defended the initiative, saying that businesses, particularly those in communities of color, "have been hit tremendously hard by this pandemic and many of our hospitality workers have been out of work for months.”
“There is no question that we’re going to live with COVID-19 for a long time — so while we continue to invest in COVID-19 outreach, mobile testing, school infrastructure, and rent and business relief, we also need to be talking about how we are going to help our economy recover in an equitable way," he said.....
You need to sell yourself!?
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Boston will pay $3.1 million to man freed after wrongful conviction
That's one way to defund the police!
B2:
Record high temp on Veterans Day
It was the culminating of a week of balmy weather as OPEC cuts its production forecast in coming year and leaves doubts about winter heating supplies and higher energy costs, so rev up that Harley and hit the road.
Four guns recovered in six hours
Man injured in police shooting
A 47-year-old man was shot Wednesday afternoon by a police officer following a nearly five-hour standoff at a home, but it doesn't matter because he was a white man.
Hit-and-run case involving teen concludes
High school switches to remote learning
Mass. reports 2,495 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 37 new deaths
The case counts and deaths are literally shit:
"Another troubling signal came from tests of wastewater at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s Deer Island treatment plant. The amount of coronavirus detected in the wastewater from the southern section of the MWRA has now spiked higher than it was in the springtime surge, tests have found. The results for the northern section of the system were even higher, but not as high as they reached during the deadly spring. The test results “suggest continuing increased transmission . . . consistent with the increases we’re starting to see in case counts,” said William Hanage, a professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. “The consequences of these infections happening now for hospitalizations and deaths in the near future will depend on who exactly is getting infected because younger individuals are less likely to suffer severe illness,” he said in an e-mail. Meanwhile....."
Boston eyes return to in-person instruction at four schools
B4:
Baker and other officials honor veterans for their legacy, sacrifices
It was a pre-recorded virtual ceremony.
B5:
"Cape Cod Sea Camps, a popular summer camp for kids in Brewster, is closing down permanently after nearly a century due to the devastating impact of the pandemic. Jim Fleet, a spokesman for the camp, said COVID-19 proved to be too much for the business to survive....."
I feel bad for the kids who will have no summer camp fun, but maybe this will comfort them:
A post-election Q&A with CNN’s John King
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The Globe is of the idea that one way to boost job growth is promoting a "new book by Emerson College professor and former Boston Globe Magazine editor, who argues that child care has become a front-burner issue in 2020 as we’re still seeing all-male, all-pale, and all-stale (the same people over and over again) panels and speaker slates, with evidence that in 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, things might actually be getting worse for females."
Tripadvisor issues warning after Thailand hotel guest jailed for writing a scathing review
Thai students are already defying a protest ban in support.
"City sends notice of default to Faneuil Hall Marketplace landlord; Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. owes Boston $2.1 million in back taxes, and more than $110,000 to a construction contractor" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, November 11, 2020
The Walsh administration is ramping up the pressure on the Faneuil Hall Marketplace’s landlord to provide more relief to its small-business tenants that are struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Tuesday, Boston Planning & Development Agency director Brian Golden sent a notice of default to Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp., the New York real estate firm that manages the famed tourist destination through a long-term lease with the city.
In the letter, Golden outlined two points in which Ashkenazy is now in default of its obligations under its lease terms. The first one involves taxes: Ashkenazy has missed two quarterly payments, totaling $2.1 million, required under a “payments in lieu of taxes” agreement with the city. The second issue: The $10-per-year lease with the city requires Ashkenazy to prevent any liens from being put on the property, but HVAC system installer Trane placed a lien on the property late last month to recover more than $110,000 from Ashkenazy.
City officials say Ashkenazy has 10 days to address the overdue city funds, and 30 days to have the lien removed. If those issues aren’t adequately fixed, the BPDA would have the right to terminate the lease.....
What you are witnessing is COMMUNISM, folks!
The state authority will simply come up with a reason to seize your property.
In this case, it is “payments in lieu of taxes” that I'm sure are not legally binding (not that it matters anymore).
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Thankfully, Fox News will save us all:
"Commentary: Is Fox News’s love affair with Donald Trump on the rocks?; The president has bemoaned a change in his favorite news source" by Mark Shanahan Globe Staff, November 11, 2020
Is it possible that Fox News is, at last, living up to its pledge to be “fair and balanced”?
That’s what some people seem to believe, based on the conservative network’s reluctance to get 100 percent behind President Trump’s unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud.
I’m not buying it.
Yes, Fox News was the first on election night to call Arizona for Joe Biden, which so upset the White House that the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly rang network owner Rupert Murdoch directly to complain, but does that undo all the nonsense that came before?
I saw it all, but didn't know about the phone call.
In a word, no.
Trump and Fox News are codependents. They’re essential to each other’s success and relevance, and that’s not about to change. They may be sleeping in separate bedrooms, but, for now, they’re still married.
I guess this guy doesn't read his own paper because they reported that the man who helped create Fox News fully expected a Biden win and wasn’t too bothered by it because "Fox thrives when it is in the opposition [and when] they have a real-time bad guy to beat up on, and a Biden win would be great for Fox’s business,'' said Jonathan Klein, a former president of CNN.
If he believes that, he is truly delusional and it shouldn't really come as a surprise since Murdoch was resigned to a Trump loss in November after having a direct line to the White House, but the coronavirus pandemic altered the relationship and I expect the betrayal and abandonment of Trump will hurt the ratings. I know I'm no longer watching from 8-11.
It is true, though, that the relationship has been under stress. In the days leading up to the election, as it became clear that Biden would defeat him, Trump publicly bemoaned what he perceived to be Fox News’s neutrality. “(Fox) is much different now,” he lamented to his favorite morning show, “Fox & Friends,” as the polls opened Nov. 3.
In other words, Trump was feeling betrayed, but, honestly, I’m not sure why. Even now, as the president is making baseless claims in an attempt to delegitimize the election, the network’s news side is being marginally more circumspect, but its biggest stars — primetime hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham — are amplifying Trump.
It is the media declaration of Biden as president is baseless and an attempt to delegitimize the legitimate president, and the turncoat Ingraham told Trump to concede.
“As of tonight, tens of millions of Americans suspect this election was stolen from them. That means we now live in a country where a large percentage of our population no longer believes that our democracy is real,” Carlson told his audience Monday, neglecting to mention, of course, that the primary reason people doubt the outcome is that his network is propagating the president’s phony narrative, and no wonder. Trump has been a bonanza for ratings, and, let’s face it, that’s what really matters to the folks at Fox News. In October, the network recorded its biggest primetime audience in its history. Leading the way was Carlson, with an average audience of 5.359 million viewers, the largest monthly audience in cable news history. Would ratings remain so high if Fox News cast a jaundiced eye at every Trump tweet? I doubt it.
It the pre$$ propagating a phony narrative, and so much for those ratings!
Still, it’s worth noting that not all of Murdoch’s minions are parroting the president’s talking points. Perhaps hoping to emerge from the Trump era with some semblance of credibility, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Post — Murdoch properties all — have slowed their roll on the president’s rantings. Fox News anchor Chris Wallace actually repudiated Trump’s assertions of fraud. Based on what we know, he said, the president’s lawsuits contesting the election are pointless.
Then there’s Neil Cavuto, the Fox News host who abruptly cut away from a White House press conference Monday when press secretary Kayleigh McEnany began making unsubstantiated claims about Democrats trying to steal the 2020 presidential election.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa, I just think we have to be very clear,” Cavuto said solemnly. “She’s charging that the other side is welcoming fraud and welcoming illegal voting. Unless she has more details to back that up, I can’t in good countenance continue showing you this.”
Cavuto the censor!
Whoa, indeed. If Fox News wants to be trustworthy, that’s great. I’m skeptical, though. A network that has spent four years being an antagonist to the truth — remember when the coronavirus was a hoax?— may be modulating its message, but, in good countenance, I can’t buy the notion that it’ll be “fair and balanced” going forward.....
Unlike the Globe, which is totally unfair, unbalanced, and NEVER to be TRUSTED ever again!
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Related:
Vote fraud: The news networks are the Berlin Wall, the Iron Curtain, the Great Wall of China
The television anchors at CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN know what’s going on. They realize the vote-fraud story is exploding all over the world. They know it’s not going away. They also know it’s legitimate. After all, the networks made the calls and projections of victory for Biden. They’re in the middle of the fraud, up to their necks. The networks are ready to fall and collapse. If the thunderous avalanche of vote-fraud reveals keeps rolling, millions and millions MORE people will realize, and speak out about, the farce that is mainstream news. The networks reported the election results. They cooked the results. They projected their winner. They lied on cue. Afterwards, they refused to face facts. They covered up the facts. They lied about their own lies. They fixed an election....."-- Jon Rappoport
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NEXT DAY UPDATE:
As Mass. reaches 10,000-death milestone, a look at what’s been lost
Freedom and liberty were not included in the Globe's list.
Trump rebuffs Biden transition team, setting off COVID-19 and national security risks
The piece by David E. Sanger and Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times was the far-left, above the fold column and follows up on yesterday rather nicely, hmmm?
(flip to below fold)
One of the most important political operatives you’ve never heard of
I'm told Massachusetts native Jennifer O’Malley Dillon is the first woman ever to run a winning Democratic presidential campaign, but they haven't won yet, and just saying it doesn't make it so.
Public health officials fear evictions could worsen COVID-19 spike in Mass.
Doctors and housing advocates say an eviction onslaught may heighten the growing spike in coronavirus cases, and with the expiration of a state ban on evictions less than two weeks away, Mayor Martin J. Walsh on Wednesday said some of Boston’s biggest landlords have pledged not to push tenants out of their homes after Oct. 17 if they can’t pay rent, and it’s the latest step by the Walsh administration to ward off what advocates fear could be thousands of evictions in coming months, and it came as the mayor filed legislation with the City Council that would require landlords to include rent relief resources with eviction notices, but some City Council members want Walsh to take a stronger stand, perhaps even by moving on his own to block evictions, so the governor unveiled his rental relief plan (what's with the Noahide wristbands?) to ease your pain amongst calls to extend the ban on evictions with housing courts set to reopen and at least you can still go bowling.
A heartbroken family and a circle of friends mourn a doctor who found the light in everyone she met
Globe columnist Thomas Farragher relays the tale of Leah Zallman — a physician who dedicated her professional life to caring for the most vulnerable — [who] was killed in a car accident after she just cast her ballot on Election Day and was on her way home.
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The page A2 National/World Lead:
"Trump, stewing over election loss, silent as virus surges" by Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller The Associated Press, November 12, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace.
I'm sick of the distortion and lack of context regarding the "disease," sorry, and this flows up with what is above.
Trump, fresh off his reelection loss to President-elect Joe Biden, remains angry that an announcement about progress in developing a vaccine for the disease came after Election Day, and aides say the president has shown little interest in the growing crisis even as new confirmed cases are skyrocketing and hospital intensive care units in parts of the country are nearing capacity.
We heard these same lies about hospitals in the spring, and I'm sick of the simulated script.
Public health experts worry that Trump’s refusal to take aggressive action on the pandemic or to coordinate with the Biden team during the final two months of his presidency will only worsen the effects of the virus and hinder the nation’s ability to swiftly distribute a vaccine next year.....
Sigh.
Excuse me while I go vomit.
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The article went on to say that Trump remains preoccupied with last week’s election results, and that is a “big problem,” as state and local officials around the country are scrambling in the midst of mounting caseloads while Trump stays silent and Cuomo of New York has issued an order starting Friday for bars, restaurants and gyms to be closed by 10 p.m. and set a cap of 10 people for private gatherings -- which King Baker already did here.
The co-lead column located to the right:
Trump’s election tactics put him in unsavory company
The New York Times is comparing him to other dictators who had to endure destabilization and a coup effort, going so far as to call him truculent.
Related:
Election officials directly contradict Trump on voting system fraud
So sayeth David E. Sanger, Matt Stevens and Nicole Perlroth of the New York Times regarding a baseless report that a voting machine system “deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide,” with a group of election officials saying it was “the most secure in American history.”
Yeah, all the foreign interference suddenly disappeared on November 4th!
FUCK OFF, NYT!
The A2 BRIEFS:
Peacekeeping force says 7 killed in Egypt helicopter crash
74 migrants drown after boat capsizes near Libya
Gunman fires on Saudi Embassy in The Hague
The New York Times says no one was injured in what was a rare attack on embassies or other diplomatic missions in the Netherlands, and it was not immediately clear whether the shooting was related to the violence at a World War I commemoration in Saudi Arabia a day earlier (it's related only insofar as to pre-program you with the mind-manipulating propaganda off the pre$$. The whole thing stinks of false flagery).
British nurse is charged with murder of several babies in her care
When are they going to investigate criminal leaders and governors who sent sick people into care homes?
You flip the page and they tell you it doesn't matter if Trump is MIA, the diabolical vaccination agenda continues apace:
"States ramp up for biggest vaccination effort in US history" by Candice Choi and Michelle R. Smith Associated Press, November 12, 2020
With a COVID-19 vaccine drawing closer, public health officials across the country are gearing up for the biggest vaccination effort in US history — a monumental undertaking that must distribute hundreds of millions of doses, prioritize who’s first in line, and ensure that people who get the initial shot return for the necessary second one.
The push could begin as early as next month, when federal officials say the first vaccine may be authorized for emergency use and immediately deployed to high-risk groups, such as health care workers.
“The cavalry is coming,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday on ABC’s "Good Morning America.''
Pfizer also boosted hopes this week, saying early data suggests its vaccine is 90 percent effective, but the good news came in one of the grimmest weeks of the pandemic so far. Deaths, hospitalizations, and new infections are surging across the United States — and turning up the pressure to get the vaccine effort right.
As you can see above, that was about goo$ing the $tock price for the u$ual rea$ons.
In Philadelphia, the health department is counting how many health care workers and others would be among the first in line. In Louisiana, officials are planning a remote exercise this week to play out different scenarios exploring how the process might unfold. Similar preparations are happening at the federal level.
For the vaccination effort to get off the ground, state officials have been readying systems to track supplies and who has been vaccinated. That information will be fed into a national network and will be critical in giving federal health officials an up-to-date picture of vaccinations around the country.
Providers such as pharmacies and doctors' offices will also need to be able to look up records, so people do not have to return to the same place for their second shot. More than one vaccine could also become available, and doses cannot be mixed and matched.
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What is with all the different variations, huh?
Some to kill, some inert and harmless, and so on?
States are also working to expand the number of pharmacies, doctors' offices, and other providers that can administer COVID-19 vaccines, to ensure shots are conveniently available, but enrollment can be time-consuming because providers often need help filling out forms, getting technical systems working, and going through inspections to ensure they can meet storage requirements.
Why don't you a peek at Pfizer's vaccine before this blog is put into the deep freeze.
Given the hurdles, Jon Reid, who manages the state’s immunization registry in Utah, does not expect smaller pharmacies to become COVID-19 vaccine providers.
Because of the likely need for two doses given three or four weeks apart, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering ways of helping Americans remember the second shot, including issuing cards that people would get with their first shot, akin to the polio immunization cards many older Americans remember carrying.
Medical tyranny and the Great Re$et right there!
Many people will likely need additional prodding.
As if we were cattle, huh?
In a rural part of South Carolina, one community health center is planning multiple reminders, including text messages and calls from health workers.
Delete.
Still, “there will still be some that slip through the cracks,” said Ann Lewis, CEO of CareSouth Carolina, which runs the health centers.
Distributing doses is another issue.....
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Related:
"European governments and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged Thursday to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency funds for a global effort aimed at ensuring eventual vaccines against the coronavirus are quickly available to poor countries — though it remains unclear how that might actually happen. The money will go to vaccine development and distribution efforts coordinated by a World Health Organization program called ACT-Accelerator. That includes Covax, an ambitious but troubled global project to buy and deliver virus vaccines for the world’s poorest people. None of the experimental COVID-19 vaccines being tested has finished the advanced testing needed to prove their safety and efficacy, but several might have data to present in the coming weeks. “If people in low- and middle-income countries miss out on vaccines ... the virus will continue to spread, and the economic recovery will continue to be delayed,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday at the Paris Peace Forum, where the pledges were announced. France and the European Union’s executive commission each promised 100 million euros (about $118 million) for the WHO vaccine efforts. Spain promised 50 million euros (about $59 million), and the Gates Foundation promised $70 million (about 59.3 million euros). Germany and other European governments have already pledged similar funds. The new financing is in addition to the funds that countries previously contributed to Covax. Criticizing rich countries that he said are ordering many more vaccines than they have people, Tedros said, “This is a moment for saying ‘no’ to vaccine nationalism and ‘yes’ to all our shared humanity.”
The people referenced in that article make me sick.
Also see:
Britain first European country with 50,000 deaths NEW YORK TIMES
Cruise ship ends trip after suspected COVID-19 case ASSOCIATED PRESS
Italian hospitals face breaking point in fall virus surge ASSOCIATED PRESS
Again, I'm sick of scripted lies based on simulations passing as a news report with doctors warning that Europe is at a turning point as the coronavirus surges back across the continent and as Massimo Galli, the director of infectious diseases at Milan’s Luigi Sacco hospital, urged more restrictions be imposed on public transport and leisure activities if authorities want to avoid another lockdown — bad both for the economy and the social fabric, and while Italy’s lockdown in the spring bought it more time, Galli said the current resurgence shows “how quickly there is a risk of wasting the results of even a very decisive and very important intervention’’ even as protesters turned out in force for rival demonstrations on a bill that would make anti-L.G.B.T. violence a hate crime carrying harsher penalties than under current law, all coming out by the hundreds in Rome despite a resurgence of coronavirus cases in the country because the bill under debate would explicitly recognize anti-L.G.B.T. and anti-women hate crimes and hate speech by including those offenses under an existing law that makes discrimination, violence or incitement to violence based on someone’s race or religion a crime punishable by up to four years in prison, which is why protesters turned out by the hundreds in Turin, Milan and other Italian cities and towns Monday to vent their anger, sometimes violently, at the latest pandemic restrictions that force restaurants and cafes to close early and shutter cinemas, gyms and other leisure venues while setting trash bins afire and police responded with hydrant sprays in downtown Rome Tuesday night, part of a day of public outpouring of anger against virus-fighting measures like evening shutdowns for restaurants and bars and the closures of gyms and theaters — a sign of growing discontent across Europe with renewed coronavirus restrictions as coronavirus infections in Europe set records this week, overtaking the number of cases in the United States per capita, and a top World Health Organization official warned on Thursday that death rates on the continent this winter could be five times worse than the April peak if people are not strict about masks and social distancing. The WHO is seeing "exponential increases" in daily cases in Europe, said Hans Kluge, the agency's director for the continent, noting that at 8,000 deaths a day, covid-19 is now Europe's fifth-leading cause of death. In just the past 10 days, a million new coronavirus cases have been recorded in Europe, raising the prospect of more curfews and restrictions as virus cases swell and the European Union said that it would extend a ban on nonessential travel by visitors from Canada, removing it from a short list of safe countries even as the World Health Organization says national lockdowns could be avoided to fight the latest surge of coronavirus cases if people are willing to make sacrifices and “if everyone plays their part,” with the WHO’s emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan saying Europe might need to be shut down to “take the heat out of this phase of the pandemic” and probe the source.
So now all of Europe is grappling with how to halt a fall resurgence of the virus before its hospitals become overwhelmed again, yet in this new round of restrictions, governments are finding a less compliant public with WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus saying even more stringent measures should be applied to stop the virus and with a difficult winter ahead Europe is divided on lockdowns as COVID-19 cases surpass 10 million and the WHO’s European regional director Dr. Hans Kluge said “hospitalizations have risen to levels unseen since the spring” and deaths have sharply risen by more than 30% as the weather has turned distinctly autumnal in Europe, but the pandemic looks much like it did in the spring, with cases climbing at alarming rates in nearly every country and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said she foresees a bleak winter ahead with neighboring Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz evoking the possibility of a second lockdown as cases continued to spike.
Start drawing up the indictments.
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Back to the political distraction as the pressure comes from all quarters for Trump to throw in the towel.
A6:
The Washington Compost reports that Shelly's paper says Trump seeks to delay the inevitable in the the headline of an editorial, and what a para$itic $cum is Adelson!
Amid Pentagon upheaval, military leaders face a fraught next few months
The Washington Compost says the major shake-up has thrust top military officers into a difficult position -- whether to march in lockstep with the Deep State/Biden coup, or uphold their oath to the Constitution and Commander in Chief.
For Pence, the future is tied to Trump as much as the present is
The article by Annie Karni and Michael S. Schmidt of the New York Times says Pence must now balance his loyalty to an enraged president making baseless claims of voter fraud against his own political future and reputation.
Methinks they doth protest lack of voter fraud too much!
This was in the Globe's page A7 Political Notebook:
More Americans voted in the 2020 election than in any other in more than 100 years Washington Compost
Ga. secretary of state is in quarantine Washington Compost
House leader defends two who supported QAnon Washington Compost
Trump campaign files 5 new suits in Pa. Washington Compost
They BURIED that LAST ONE, and it is not only where I basically stopped reading but stopped marking and noting articles as well.
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Restoring in-person learning for neediest is the right move
The Globe is also of the opinion that Trump must go into exile because that is his destiny, while blaming the problem with poll$ters on the lying American people!
Federal appeals court rules that Harvard’s use of race in admissions is sound
Even when Democrats win, they lose
Go ahead and devour each other.
Mayor Walsh drafts city law to create independent police accountability office
House votes to expand abortion access
Now a 16-year-old can get one without parental consent.
Why the Globe front-paged an obituary for a guy whose four-decade relationship with the Gloucester Stage Company, as well as his career, came to a crashing halt at the end of 2017 after a bombshell report in The New York Times regarding sexual assault is beyond me, but at least he got the blessings of his rabbi.
Knife-wielding man shot and wounded by state trooper during confrontation in Malden
His legacy is on the line so he must seize the opportunity:
Baker says he would veto any attempt to change law that allows him to name interim senator
His comments come amid swirling speculation about the potential of Senator Elizabeth Warren landing a Cabinet post in president-elect Joe Biden’s administration, but she ain't getting the job, so....
Massachusetts Senate leaders, like House, say no new taxes in $46 billion spending plan
Both branches are deferring to King Chuck and his double$peak.
Approximately 100 protesters gathered outside Governor Charlie Baker's house to demand that the governor pledge to support and sign the Guaranteed Housing Stability Act (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff)
A guy from Danvers actually broke into the house.
Mass. Republican Party, in bid to drum up donations, pushes debunked voter fraud claims
They are parroting several of the baseless voting fraud claims that President Trump has been pushing, including citing without proof that “dead people voted.”
RI turkey farmers adjust as families downsize Thanksgiving
The Globe says the pandemic has changed the way people are celebrating Thanksgiving as their tyrant warns RI could run out of hospital beds in 3 weeks due to a COVID-19 surge and as cases soared she canceled Halloween and set new restrictions to keep the sex perverts under lockdown.
Influential research group concludes safe injection sites ‘save lives and money’
This state is morally bankrupt.
Bickford reelected as Massachusetts Democratic Party chair
That was after an internal probe found he violated party rules that barred him from getting involved in a contested primary.
Is there no end to the Democrat's and their electoral criminality?
Beth Israel Lahey Health plans to acquire Joslin Diabetes Center
It's the latest move in an ever-consolidating health care market.
Finally, all 100 of the state’s biggest publicly traded companies have at least one woman director
More progress is still needed.
What a Biden administration would mean for consumers
You will no longer have to read the fine print.
Mayor Walsh sets up three new funds to get federal aid out to small businesses in Boston
They are going to choo$e which businesses will get through the winter in what $mells like $tate communi$m.
Bob Oakes is stepping down from WBUR’s ‘Morning Edition’ show
No one was listening anyway.
See above comment.
Powell warns of US economy risk with pandemic at deadliest yet
Senate readies vote on Judy Shelton
709,000 seek US jobless aid as pandemic escalates
It's a sign that the US job market might be slowly healing.... as is this:
UPS to allow natural Black hairstyles and facial hair
That reminds me, it is time for a shave and a haircut.
Have a good weekend, readers.
