Except here is the thing, it is NOT!
It's only complicated to the agenda-pushing propagandists in my pre$$, which does nothing more than push deceptive distortions or outright lies.
"Reality is complicated....."
That came at the end of my journey today, and the Globe didn't see fit to put it up on the website even as they send you to them?
Hmmm.
Related:
A total distortion of reality, and what a "tool" is the New York Times, 'eh?
I know I read somewhere that "trust, once lost, is hard to restore," but I can't remember where.
They literally treat us like children -- I stopped reading her insulting garbage at bottom long ago, and CV was mutating even then, huh? -- and then they are baffled as to why we don't believe them?
As I flip back and retrace my steps, this was found at the bottom of page D2:
Just like your very existence, and this was the ostensible bu$ine$$ $ection lead:
They say for some time, but they mean ALL TIME!
Meanwhile, the toxic tubes of poison they call vaccines won't prevent infection or transmission of the alleged virus that has a 99.99% chance or survival, but it will lessen the symptoms you never had before they kill you.
See:
That was the latest CDC data, and they have since stopped reporting such things like Spain has suspended inoculations.
For $ome rea$on, the Globe ignores such things, proving that the people over there are ab$olute mon$ters.
There is no way of getting around it at this stage (cue ballet).
Before continuing, you should know that the silver coin sites seized up and trading halted, so your government is firmly in control for your own good, protection, and safety.
Whew!
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"When Ted Cruz and A.O.C. Agree: Yes, the Politics of GameStop Are Confusing" by Lisa Lerer and Astead W. Herndon New York Times, Jan. 31, 2021
It’s Occupy Wall Street, the sequel. It’s elements of the Tea Party, again. It’s Bernie bros and MAGA-maniacs.
The hordes of young traders who this week fueled a spectacular surge in the value of the video game retailer GameStop may lack a unified political ideology, but they have forced a reckoning on Wall Street, and caught the attention of leaders in Washington who recognize a populist uprising when they see one.
OMFG, that is ALL THEY SEE when ANYONE DI$$ENTS in ANY FORM NOW!
The ultimate end goal seems to be to LOCK the PUBLIC out of PURCHASING or HOLDING STOCK, if you a$k me.
Wall Street has long been an easy villain for many on Capitol Hill, but the rush to side with speculative traders by both Democrats and Republicans reflects the broad recognition of the impulses that have driven American politics in recent years, fueling both the ascension of President Donald J. Trump and a liberal wing of the Democratic Party that grew stronger in opposition.
As a great man once said, nothing someone says before the word “but” really counts (h/t), and there are a hell of a lot of buts, stills, neverthelesses, to be sures, and all the other colorful synonyms the pre$$ manipulators employ top cover for the criminal ma$ters.
The decision by the online brokerage app Robinhood to impose trading limits as hedge funds were hammered by the wild market fluctuation has prompted the rarest of all political occurrences — bipartisan agreement. Lawmakers from across the political spectrum condemned the move and called for hearings into the decision, among them Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican and staunch conservative, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, a standard-bearer of the left. The conservative attorney general of Texas and his progressive counterpart in New York have both initiated inquiries into Robinhood.
That's as far as the alleged Democrap good will goes (see below).
“For years, the stock market has been less and less about the value of business and more and more like casino gambling,” said Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, who called for increased regulation of Wall Street shortly after the market frenzy over GameStop.
“GameStop is just the latest and most visible example,” she said in an interview on Friday. “We need to take this not as a one-off problem but as a systemic problem that requires systemic regulation and enforcement.”
$lap on wrist kickbacks, 'er, fines, yay!
While President Biden defeated Trump with a centrist message of restoring political norms, the trading frenzy this week provided a potent reminder of the strong undercurrent of grievance and institutional distrust in the country. Many believe that will only intensify as the nation wrestles with the economic fallout from a devastating pandemic.
As Wall Street booms, unemployment has hit record highs with nearly 10 million fewer people holding jobs than at the beginning of last year — a situation that reminds some former officials of the 2008 economic crisis that led to both the Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party movements.
The Tea Party was controlled opposition funded by the Kochs, and Obama was behind Occupy in order to cast Mitt in a bad light.
Nothing is as it seems in the pre$$, folks.
It is ALL IMAGERY and ILLUSION and NOT REALITY!
“It’s not about Republicans and Democrats,” said Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker and an ally of Trump. “It’s lots and lots of normal, everyday people who began to figure out they really got ripped off for the last year just like they got ripped off in 2008 and 2009.” He added, “What you’re seeing is an almost spontaneous cultural reaction in which the little guys and gals are getting together and going after the bigs, so the bigs are having to rig the game in order to survive.”
That's the norm.
The reality is more complicated. There’s little sign of any central political mission shared by the millions of amateur traders who combined to squeeze at least two hedge funds that bet against the stocks of companies like GameStop and the movie chain AMC. One of the originators of the scheme is far from a “little guy,” with the financial resources to allegedly transform an initial investment of $53,000 into $48 million. Over all, only about half the country owns any stock at all.
On Reddit, the online site that helped fuel the surge, few of the mostly young participants frame their flood of investments in clearly partisan terms, yet many write of being driven by anger over the 2008 financial bailouts that kept the big banks afloat while 10 million Americans lost their homes.
There is another one!
“When that crisis hit our family, we were able to keep our little house, but we lived off of pancake mix, and powdered milk, and beans and rice for a year,” one person identified as ssauronn posted on Reddit. “Your ilk were bailed out and rewarded for terrible and illegal financial decisions that negatively changed the lives of millions.”
Other posters responded with their own stories of economic struggle and political rage.
“Forget republican/democrat, left/right… the bankers play both sides and have almost always come out on top,” a poster identified as ChrisFrettJunior wrote, after recounting watching his parents struggle through the 2008 recession.
The decision to bail out the biggest banks and also decline to prosecute any of their top executives led to much of the populist fervor that has driven American politics in the past decade. The Tea Party surged to political prominence in the wake of the $700 billion financial rescue package that passed in 2008, eventually becoming a force that defeated both moderate Republicans and Democrats.
After Republicans won control of the House in 2010, Democrats began to face their own backlash, beginning with Occupy Wall Street — a loose coalition of largely liberal protesters who fueled a national conversation about economic inequality.
Where are they now, 'eh?
Where were they then, in fact?
“There’s a ton of political currency in holding hedge funds’ feet to the fire from Democrats and Republicans,” said Josh Holmes, a Republican strategist and longtime adviser to Senator Mitch McConnell. “If you’re sitting on Wall Street looking at this, dismissing people as folks who don’t understand the way that the markets work, I think you’re going to be in a lot of trouble.”
For Republicans, the market upheaval was a referendum on elitism. Democrats saw pure corporate greed and the need for greater regulation.
“Big Hedge, with outposts in South Hedge-i-stan (Wall Street) and North Hedge-i-stan (Greenwich, CT), has made trillions shorting great American companies facing a rough patch,” said Representative Jeff Fortenberry, Republican of Nebraska. “Now they are getting a comeuppance from flash mobs of day traders and are paying dearly.”
That's the narrative, anyway, and cui bono from the market destruction?
What will it lead to?
A digital currency planned by the globali$ts?
Most of the ire this week was directed at Robinhood, a brokerage app catering to younger investors, which suddenly limited trading in GameStop, AMC and other stocks. Lawmakers argued that the app was protecting hedge funds and other big investors over retail investors. Robinhood said the additional restrictions were necessary to comply with government financial requirements, yet even centrists like Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, who is poised to become the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, expressed concerns about the lack of transparency in the online company’s decision making.
“I find it disturbing when retail investors who are simply seeking to buy a stock are frozen out of the market,” Toomey said in a statement. “Retail investors should be free to purchase even highly speculative stocks, just as hedge funds should be free to short them.”
He's not only in the minority now, he voted against Trump regarding the recent impeachment so he is an e$tabli$hment $wamp creature and Deep $tate $ellout (I wonder what perversions or corruptions they have on him), imho.
Though politicians from both sides joined calls for greater scrutiny, it was hardly a kumbaya moment for the two parties.
After Cruz tweeted that he agreed with Ocasio-Cortez’s call for a probe into Robinhood’s action, she quickly disavowed any support from the Texas Republican, who was a prominent backer of Mr. Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud.
“I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out,” she responded. “Happy to work w/ almost any other GOP that aren’t trying to get me killed. In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign.”
OMG, that di$gusting $kank has gone around the bend!
Cruz condemned her response as “partisan anger” that’s “not healthy for our country,” drawing another response from Ocasio-Cortez, while his allies in the House called for an apology.
The uproar over GameStop and Robinhood comes at a challenging time for the Biden administration, which took office promising to restore a sense of calm to the country. The Senate Banking Committee has yet to schedule a hearing to confirm Gary Gensler, Mr. Biden’s pick to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, leaving the agency with an acting chair for the indefinite future. On Friday the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, deferred questions on the issue.
“It’s a good reminder, though, that the stock market isn’t the only measure of the health of our economy,” she said, an apparent reference to Trump’s persistent fixation on stock prices during his tenure. Biden has not yet commented on the issue.
Then why are you guys monitoring the situation and doing panicked cartwheels about the manipulation?
It's just going to be flat-out from that propaganda podium, isn't it?
Representative Ro Khanna of California, a progressive who represents a district that includes Silicon Valley, said this week’s events should alert lawmakers to the need to tighten financial regulations and increase transparency and equity.
“I think this has been bubbling up since the Wall Street crash of 2008,” Mr. Khanna said, “and it’s coming to a boiling point.”
Took 12 years?
PFFFT!
A lot has happened since to cause the boil over, you $cum!
He said the wide range of Republicans and Democrats who have spoken out are a reflection of “a real populist anger in this country. Some people go get fancy degrees, know the right people, and spend all day in front of their computers short selling,” Khanna said, “and it’s a form of manipulation that has hurt our country. That has enriched the few at the expense of many Americans.”
Though many Americans own no stock at all, the sense that Wall Street has gamed a rigged system cuts across demographic barriers, he argued.
This $tunt will give cause to restrict average citizens forever, and then you WILL HAVE COMMUNISM complete with OLIGRACHS!
YAAAAAAAAAAAY!
These days, political strategists warn, hedge funds, private equity investors and bankers are unlikely to find the same kind of deep support in Washington. Anger over the bailouts fueled the campaigns of political outsiders, creating a Congress that’s less receptive to the pleas of Wall Street and far more eager to make use of upheaval to advance lawmakers’ agendas.....
I was laughing at the lack of $upport in Wa$hington, as if that were the "reality," but frowned when I found the "cri$i$" is being used to ADVANCE LAWMAKERS AGENDAS!
HMMMMMMMMMMMM!!
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Just another face in the crowd, right?
"Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos" by Cade Metz and Kashmir Hill New York Times, Jan. 31, 2021
When tech companies created the facial recognition systems that are rapidly remaking government surveillance and chipping away at personal privacy, they may have received help from an unexpected source: your face.
Thank God for masks then, huh?
Companies, universities and government labs have used millions of images collected from a hodgepodge of online sources to develop the technology. Now, researchers have built an online tool, Exposing.AI, that lets people search many of these image collections for their old photos.
The tool, which matches images from the Flickr online photo-sharing service, offers a window onto the vast amounts of data needed to build a wide variety of A.I technologies, from facial recognition to online “chatbots.”
“People need to realize that some of their most intimate moments have been weaponized,” said one of its creators, Liz O’Sullivan, the technology director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a privacy and civil rights group. She helped create Exposing.AI with Adam Harvey, a researcher and artist in Berlin.
Systems using artificial intelligence don’t magically become smart. They learn by pinpointing patterns in data generated by humans — photos, voice recordings, books, Wikipedia articles and all sorts of other material. The technology is getting better all the time, but it can learn human biases against women and minorities.
People may not know they are contributing to A.I. education. For some, this is a curiosity. For others, it is enormously creepy, and it can be against the law. A 2008 law in Illinois, the Biometric Information Privacy Act, imposes financial penalties if the face scans of residents are used without their consent.
Haven't you been paying attention?
The Party, 'er, government is above the law.
In 2006, Brett Gaylor, a documentary filmmaker from Victoria, British Columbia, uploaded his honeymoon photos to Flickr, a popular service then. Nearly 15 years later, using an early version of Exposing.AI provided by Harvey, he discovered that hundreds of those photos had made their way into multiple data sets that may have been used to train facial recognition systems around the world.
Only "conspiracy theorists" suggested such a thing would be done, and here we are!
Flickr, which was bought and sold by many companies over the years and is now owned by the photo-sharing service SmugMug, allowed users to share their photos under what is called a Creative Commons license. That license, common on internet sites, meant others could use the photos with certain restrictions, though these restrictions may have been ignored. In 2014, Yahoo, which owned Flickr at the time, used many of these photos in a data set meant to help with work on computer vision.
Gaylor, 43, wondered how his photos could have bounced from place to place. Then he was told that the photos may have contributed to surveillance systems in the United States and other countries, and that one of these systems was used to track China’s Uighur population.
I hope you are ready for the New World Order because THEY HAVE ALREADY CONSTRUCTED IT while you were consumed with Trump and all the other related garbage in the pre$$!
Thanks for letting us know about the "coming reality" after the barn door has flown off its hinges, NYT!
“My curiosity turned to horror,” he said.
How honeymoon photos helped build surveillance systems in China is, in some ways, a story of unintended — or unanticipated — consequences.
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!
Years ago, A.I. researchers at leading universities and tech companies began gathering digital photos from a wide variety of sources, including photo-sharing services, social networks, dating sites like OkCupid and even cameras installed on college quads. They shared those photos with other organizations. That was just the norm for researchers. They all needed data to feed into their new A.I. systems, so they shared what they had. It was usually legal.
USUALLY LEGAL?
One example was MegaFace, a data set created by professors at the University of Washington in 2015. They built it without the knowledge or consent of the people whose images they folded into its enormous pool of photos. The professors posted it to the internet so others could download it.
How come that crap isn't being taken down, huh?
Then we all get a fresh start, right?
MegaFace has been downloaded more than 6,000 times by companies and government agencies around the world, according to a New York Times public records request. They included the U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman; In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency; ByteDance, the parent company of the Chinese social media app TikTok; and the Chinese surveillance company Megvii.
Oh, EVERYBODY SHARED IT WITH EVERYBODY, including alleged ENEMIES, huh?
Researchers built MegaFace for use in an academic competition meant to spur the development of facial recognition systems. It was not intended for commercial use, but only a small percentage of those who downloaded MegaFace publicly participated in the competition.
“We are not in a position to discuss third-party projects,” said Victor Balta, a University of Washington spokesman. “MegaFace has been decommissioned, and MegaFace data are no longer being distributed.”
TOO LATE NOW, you two-faced f**k.
Some who downloaded the data have deployed facial recognition systems. Megvii was blacklisted last year by the Commerce Department after the Chinese government used its technology to monitor the country’s Uighur population.
The University of Washington took MegaFace offline in May, and other organizations have removed other data sets, but copies of these files could be anywhere, and they are likely to be feeding new research.
O’Sullivan and Harvey spent years trying to build a tool that could expose how all that data was being used. It was more difficult than they had anticipated. They wanted to accept someone’s photo and, using facial recognition, instantly tell that person how many times his or her face was included in one of these data sets, but they worried that such a tool could be used in bad ways — by stalkers or by companies and nation states.
“The potential for harm seemed too great,” said O’Sullivan, who is also vice president of responsible A.I. with Arthur, a New York company that helps businesses manage the behavior of A.I. technologies.
In the end, they were forced to limit how people could search the tool and what results it delivered. The tool, as it works today, is not as effective as they would like, but the researchers worried that they could not expose the breadth of the problem without making it worse.
Exposing.AI itself does not use facial recognition. It pinpoints photos only if you already have a way of pointing to them online, with, say, an internet address. People can search only for photos that were posted to Flickr, and they need a Flickr username, tag or internet address that can identify those photos. (This provides the proper security and privacy protections, the researchers said.)
Though this limits the usefulness of the tool, it is still an eye-opener. Flickr images make up a significant swath of the facial recognition data sets that have been passed around the internet, including MegaFace.
Though means but, but..... (ha-ha).
It is not hard to find photos that people have some personal connection to. Simply by searching through old emails for Flickr links, The Times turned up photos that, according to Exposing.AI, were used in MegaFace and other facial recognition data sets. Several belonged to Parisa Tabriz, a well-known security researcher at Google. She did not respond to a request for comment.
Gaylor is particularly disturbed by what he has discovered through the tool because he once believed that the free flow of information on the internet was mostly a positive thing. He used Flickr because it gave others the right to use his photos through the Creative Commons license.
“I am now living the consequences,” he said.
Oh, so this is ALSO an AGENDA-PUSHING PIECE OF CRAP arguing for the SHUTDOWN of the INTERNET by the New York Times.
Even when they seem to be exposing something for the public good, that is NOT the REALITY!
It is more LIES and DISTORTION to push their monstrous agenda.
It is THEY who should be TAKEN DOWN and BANISHED for ALL TIME!
Wait, take a f**king picture first!
His hope — and the hope of O’Sullivan and Harvey — is that companies and government will develop new norms, policies and laws that prevent mass collection of personal data. He is making a documentary about the long, winding and occasionally disturbing path of his honeymoon photos to shine a light on the problem.
Then he is a damn fool since THEY ARE THE ONES who have been COLLECTING IT!
Either that, or the tech companies that they work hand in glove or own outright are storing it all for access (been that way for years, and Trump didn't do a damn thing about any of this).
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"Building a bridge to normalcy, some companies follow the universities’ example and test employees regularly" by Shirley Leung Globe Columnist, January 31, 2021
Relay Therapeutics, a Cambridge life-sciences company, and the Boston Ballet couldn’t be any more different, except for this: Both aim to get employees back into the workplace safely.
They have taken a page from the universities’ playbook by testing employees weekly to build a bridge to normalcy. It isn’t cheap, but in-person interaction is critical to growing their businesses and their bottom lines.
Yeah, what well-connected intere$t and concern is making the tests that will enshrine medical tyranny forever over seasonal cold and flu?
“If we had to choreograph a whole season of solos, that didn’t seem appealing,” explained Ryan Fotter, Boston Ballet’s chief of staff, on why the organization expects to spend over $100,000 on testing during the 2020-21 season to bring about 80 dancers, rehearsal directors, and other staff into the studio to create new performances.
This whole COVD $CAM has been choreographed long ago!
The ballet converted a conference room at its Boston headquarters into a testing space, while Relay turned a coatroom into a place where employees can do their own COVID test swabbing.
It’s ever more clear that vaccines alone won’t offer a return to normal, and that regular testing, along with masks and social distancing, are likely to become a way of life for some time. Even when herd immunity is reached in the United States, possibly this year, no one yet knows how long the vaccines will offer immunity and whether vaccinated people could still spread the coronavirus.
Then WHAT F***KING GOOD IS IT?
You guys can shove your f**king goddamn crap up your own asses!
See:
Yeah, NO ONE WANTS YOUR $HIT, and good luck forcing it on people!
Time to CANCEL the OPERATION!
WE KNOW!
Related:
The woman and others have never smoked, and the solution, according to STAT, is review whether screening guidelines need revision(!).
$cienti$ts can't make the connection between a YEARS WORTH of MASKING, and are now double down on masks -- exposing them as criminal violators of their oath to do no harm.
Better get yourself a good lawyer, doc!
Unlike his predecessor, President Biden is trumpeting testing, but his focus has been on expanding screening in K-8 schools so more can reopen for in-person learning. That still leaves the private sector on its own, and many businesses have chosen to forgo testing because the cost-benefit analysis doesn’t pencil out. That calculus, however, is shifting rapidly as test prices drop and the options grow for helping employers set up testing programs apart from the traditional health care infrastructure.
Oh, I forgot "however," and it was a great man who once said, nothing someone says before the word “but” really counts (h/t).
Meanwhile, a new crop of antigen tests — faster and less expensive than the molecular tests, which must be processed in labs — could be another tool to bring employees back to work safely.
They are also less accurate than the gold standard of tests and other tests that turn up too many false negatives (the truth is the exact opposite, folks, making the pre$$ a criminal outfit spreading lies and misinformation).
For consumer-facing businesses, routine worker testing can instill confidence that where you shop, eat, or stay is COVID-free.....
HA!
They are DELUSIONAL because of the ECHO-CHAMBER BUBBLE in which they live!
Related:
It's by the same author, and it's good to see that CV-19 has completely disappeared and not altered the timeline in anyway!
The girl (ugh, an underage girl comes up on a bed with a sultry look) deserves a good spanxing(?), and I gotta get outta here.
Thank God I'll be taking care of snow in between preparing housing defenses.
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As for the front page and beyond:
That's the Globe jabbing at you with their ostensible A1 lead, while flipping below the fold will find you this:
"Frustrated with the government’s virus response, citizens are building their own testing programs, and it’s working" by Laura Krantz Globe Staff, January 31, 2021
If you want fast, reliable, accessible COVID-19 testing in Massachusetts, it helps if you know a guy who knows a guy. Especially if you have the time and money — and that guy is a scientist.
And you are white, right?
Frustrated by the lack of an overarching state or federal strategy for COVID-19 testing, an increasing number of local organizations are rolling up their sleeves and figuring out how to create their own testing programs, part of a desperate effort to return to normalcy as the pandemic drags on and solutions — amid a bumpy vaccine rollout — still seem far off.
Things are NEVER GOING to be NORMAL again as they hold that pipe dream out in front of you while they build the totalitarian surveillance state and medical tyranny.
In Needham, one woman launched a Jewish temple school’s testing program, serving about 400 students and teachers, and is now considering buying lab equipment. In Brookline, staff at a low-income senior housing complex secured rapid tests for staff, residents, and their visitors, and in Wellesley, a group of parents pioneered their own surveillance testing program to monitor COVID’s presence in the public school district there, complete with a barcode scanning app to link names and samples that they built themselves.
I know I shouldn't even say it, but....
In this unprecedented time, it is small groups with expansive Rolodexes, not state or federal officials, that have taken it upon themselves to harness the power of testing in ways that have been rarely utilized on a large scale. Thus far in the Boston region, it has only been colleges that have employed aggressive testing as a way to reopen their campuses, but now the same strategy is taking hold elsewhere.
They kids are locked in their dorms taking online classes, so WTF?
These groups are using a technique known as surveillance testing, a method of testing large groups of people frequently to catch cases early and isolate them. This is different from one-off diagnostic tests that people with symptoms are encouraged to take.
Though the United States has performed more tests per capita than any other nation, Johns Hopkins University researchers say, the country has been much less successful in using testing techniques like surveillance to curb the spread of cases.
Among those who have pioneered their own surveillance testing programs are exhausted parents who want, and often need, their children back in classrooms. That is how one program evolved at the preschool and after-school programs at Temple Beth Shalom.
“We are very lucky,” said teacher Johari Pimentel, whose 3-year-old daughter recently swabbed herself, along with her stuffed animal, for the first time. Pimentel said testing makes her feel a lot safer teaching, especially because her students are too young to wear masks.
Propagandizing the kid with fear is criminal.
Someone call DCF.
Wait, on second thought, do not do that.
Amy Schectman, the CEO of 2Life Communities, which runs Brown House and a network of other residences, had grown frustrated trying unsuccessfully to acquire rapid tests for her facilities. Instead she worked with local biotech company E25Bio to be part of their pilot program. Their tests are not yet approved for sale on the market.
“Why is this my problem?” Phoebe Olhava, organizer of the program at Needham’s Temple Beth Shalom, asks herself. “It’s my problem because other people aren’t doing it and it needs to get done.”
Related:
"Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis thronged a pair of funerals for two prominent rabbis in Jerusalem on Sunday, flouting the country’s ban on large public gatherings during the pandemic. The initial funeral procession, for Rabbi Meshulam Soloveitchik, who died at age 99, wended its way through the streets of Jerusalem in the latest display of ultra-Orthodox Israelis’ refusal to honor coronavirus restrictions. The phenomenon has undermined the country’s aggressive vaccination campaign to bring a raging outbreak under control and threatened to hurt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March elections. Two challengers accused Netanyahu of failing to enforce the law due to political pressure from his ultra-Orthodox political allies. Israeli media said Soloveitchik, a leading religious scholar who headed a number of well-known seminaries, had recently suffered from COVID-19....."
Oh, God Blessed them!
We all know it is a certain tribe at the bottom of everything, and I better not note the $upremaci$m that can not be named lest the Goons at Google take me down.
Yeah, I “hope one day we are free again,” but who knows?
Each blog could be my last.
It's in honor of Black History Month, and it is time to get back to your Roots.
"Years later, she still had not obtained legal status when the Dream Act, which would have provided temporary legal residency to authorized minors, narrowly failed in 2010. She and other young activists had watched the vote from the Senate gallery. “It was heartbreaking and disappointing, and also it became a galvanizing moment,” she said. “We walked out, and we started chanting that we were going to fight — and we were going to win, and that it was only a matter of time.”
Related:
"Dr. Thea James occupies a prominent place on the front lines of fighting vaccine hesitancy. She’s a longtime emergency care physician and administrator at Boston Medical Center, which is effectively the city’s leading hospital for Black and brown communities. So as the COVID vaccine gets rolled out, James is one of the most prominent voices reaching out to those in communities being battered medically and economically by the pandemic. Just as the pandemic has brought economic inequality to center stage, it has also prompted soul-searching about the relationship between communities of color and the health care system. James is right at the intersection of those worlds, a woman steeped in science and data, and she is also a Black woman who understands that people of color assume disparate treatment exists because they have seen just that in their daily lives....."
Yeah, can't argue with a black woman, even if they are treating us like animals:
"Veterinarian Brian Bourquin has never been busier. With a new crush of “pandemic pets” to tend to, he has seen calls to his Boston Veterinary Clinic soar 400 percent, and he’s worked weekends, hired more staff, and opened a third location just to keep up. Despite the precautions Bourquin has taken, COVID-19 exposure lurks in every client interaction and staff procedure. So he was dismayed upon checking the state’s timeline detailing when he’d be eligible to receive the vaccine. Veterinarians, he saw, are listed under Phase 3, expected to start in April, along with the general public, college administrators, and bottled beverage industry workers. “I still believe, obviously, the high-risk pools should go first,” Bourquin said, referring to the elderly, people with underlying health conditions, and COVID-19 clinicians, “but when you get into the middle category — we were deemed ‘essential,’ we gave up our [personal protective equipment to donate to hospitals], we are medical providers, and that’s where the rub came from,” he added. Determining priority groups for the vaccine has been an ethical and logistical minefield for policy makers, as they try to balance saving lives, protecting health care workers, and keeping the economy humming....."
That last sentence proves there is no amount of BS they expect you to believe, and I'm also told one of the problems is that "health officials have faced pushback throughout the process — from unvaccinated physicians grumbling at the sight of members of Congress with shots in their arms, to Massachusetts seniors outraged they’d been prioritized behind people in prisons and homeless shelters."
Time to get on my sandals and and leave it here for now, sorry.
Oddly enough, it hasn't even started snowing for whatever reason, while the Globe tells you what to know if you’re signed up to get the vaccine, and how snow may affect that.
Never mind that it flies in the face of their agenda.
