Art imitates life, right?
"Built nearly a century ago, The Huntington Theatre is preparing for its second act as theater leaders move to fast-track a $55 million renovation of the venue, a marquee player in the broader wave of theater construction projects across Greater Boston. The renovation, originally conceived as part of a residential tower project that’s been delayed, will enable the playhouse to reopen in the fall of 2022, if all goes according to plan....."
The focus of this blog is going to be narrow today:
"The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is launching a new, $300 million initiative that applies advanced computer science to some of the hardest problems in medicine — an endeavor it said could uncover new ways to fight cancer, infectious disease, and other illness. The Cambridge research center early Thursday announced the creation of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center, named for the former Google chief executive and his wife, who are major funders of the effort. The money comes as biological and medical researchers are unlocking information about the human body at a scale that could take lifetimes to analyze and fully understand, without the help of sophisticated artificial intelligence software. The institute hopes that by focusing its resources and expertise on developing and improving these programs, it will be able to spot patterns and unlock some of the basic mysteries of the human body....."
I'm told Eric Schmidt, who has been a technology adviser to the Obama administration and the US Department of Defense and a board member at the Broad Institute since 2012, said he views the contribution as key to continuing the work of the initiative to support “exceptional people making the world better by mapping the language of life” as the new funding highlights the extent to which the Broad has become a fundraising powerhouse, drawing investment to the Boston area from around world. It reported raising $127.9 million from philanthropists in the most recent fiscal year, along with $187.1 million in federal funding things like the gene-altering CRISPR under eugenicists like Lander -- all welcome in Biden's big tent as the White House agreed late Tuesday to add a senior-level Asian American Pacific Islander liaison after two Democratic senators threatened to vote no on nominees because of what they said was a lack of sufficient AAPI representation in President Biden’s Cabinet, and the decision came after Democratic Senators Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii vowed Tuesday afternoon to vote no on Biden’s “non-diversity” Cabinet nominees until the White House addressed the issue sure has the feeling of a hostage situation so there must be a dark spring ahead (patent pending).
The imagery that conjure ups makes one want to vomit, and the the printed headline said it's a test for Biden so he just failed the first question while turning back Venezuelans.
Or ANYONE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER, but "doctors"cited by the Globe are saying get it anyway (so they harvest your organs after some critical ones fail?).
That makes them accomplices to murder, you know?
Set, hut, .....
There is no vaccine for that $mear, and from what I read in the Globe, they were NOT anti-Semetic terms, they were more historical and he was trying to pique the kids interest so they would go investigate and learn about the terms because they were completely ignorant about what went on over there over 80 years ago during the time of the Great $uffering.
He was using it as a teachable moment, and boy did he ever learn!
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of the New York Times reports that the Biden administration is taking the unusual step of making a public accounting of the Trump administration’s political interference in science, drawing up a list of dozens of regulatory decisions that may have been warped by political interference in objective research, and the effort could buttress efforts to unwind pro-business regulations of the past four years, while uplifting science staff battered by four years of disregard.
That means the EPA will again be used to extort bu$ine$$es that don't toe Great Re$et line.
Speaking of extorting an i$$ue, $ome people crave the $potlight whatever the cau$e.
Stolen elections do have con$equences:
"The Senate took its first steps on Wednesday to advance one of Democrats’ top legislative priorities, convening an opening hearing on a sweeping elections bill that would expand voting rights and blunt some Republican state legislators’ efforts to restrict access to the ballot box. Chock-full of liberal priorities, the bill, called the For the People Act, would usher in landmark changes making it easier to vote, enact new campaign finance laws, and end partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts. The legislation passed the House along party lines earlier this month. It faces solid opposition from Republicans who are working to clamp down on ballot access, and who argue that the bill is a power grab by Democrats. Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee hope that testimony from former Attorney General Eric Holder, prominent voting experts, and anti-corruption advocates will help build on a rising drumbeat of support from liberals....."
Maybe someone will ask him about the Fast and Furious arming of Mexican drug gangs as well as the jailing of reporters as they permanently ensconce themselves in power with unlimited vote fraud.
Of course, Democrats have supported reinstatement of the felon vote and amnesty for illegals who will then be allowed to vote but that is conveniently ignored by the pre$$ as true politics in this corporation, 'er, country has been dead for some time with the u$ual $u$pects as $tring-pullers.
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"After 4th vote in 2 years, Israelis wonder: When will the political morass end?" by Patrick Kingsley New York Times, March 24, 2021
JERUSALEM — When Israelis woke Wednesday, the day after their fourth election in two years, it felt nothing like a new dawn.
With 90 percent of the votes counted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing alliance had 52 seats, while his opponents had 56 — both sides several seats short of the 61 needed to form a coalition government with a majority in Parliament. If those counts stand, they could prolong by months the political deadlock that has paralyzed the country for two years.
That prospect was already forcing Israelis to confront questions about the viability of their electoral system, the functionality of their government, and whether the divisions between the country’s various polities — secular and devout, right-wing and leftist, Jewish and Arab — have made the country unmanageable.
“It’s not getting any better. It’s even getting worse — and everyone is so tired,” said Rachel Azaria, a centrist former lawmaker who chairs an alliance of environment-focused civil society groups. “The entire country is going crazy.”
Official final results are not expected before Friday, but the partial tallies suggested that both Netanyahu’s alliance and its opponents would need the support of a small, Islamist Arab party, Raam, to form a majority coalition.
HA!
They Good Lord truly does work in mysterious ways!
Either of those outcomes would defy conventional logic. The first option would force Islamists into a Netanyahu-led bloc that includes politicians who want to expel Arab citizens of Israel whom they deem “disloyal.” The second would unite Raam with a lawmaker who has baited Arabs and told them to leave the country.
You can exit stage right.
Beyond the election itself, the gridlock extends to the administrative stagnation that has left Israel without a national budget for two consecutive years in the middle of a pandemic, and with several key Civil Service posts unstaffed. It also heightens the uncertainty over the future of the judiciary and about the trial of Netanyahu himself, who is being prosecuted on corruption charges that he denies.
Shira Efron, a Tel Aviv-based analyst for the Israel Policy Forum, a New York-based research group, said, “It’s not a failed state. It’s not Lebanon. You still have institutions, but there is definitely an erosion,” she noted.
She says “not having a budget for two years — this is really dangerous,” so someone better tell Beacon Hill, and I don't know much about them other than other than they are a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Netanyahu has presided over a world-leading vaccine program, in an illustration of how some parts of the state still operate very smoothly, but more generally, the lack of a state budget forces ministries to work on only a short-term basis, freezing long-term infrastructure projects such as road construction.
For Azaria, the former lawmaker, the stasis has delayed the discussion of a multibillion-dollar program to improve the provision of renewable energy, which her green alliance proposed to the government last year. “We’re talking about taking Israel to the next stage in so many ways, and none of it can happen. Railway tracks, highways, all of these long-term plans — we won’t have them,” she added.
So cryptic of the Great Re$et as Israelis drop dead like flies.
Israeli commentators and analysts were locked in debate Wednesday about changes to the electoral system that could break the deadlock.
In the "only democracy" in the Middle East?
One columnist suggested forming a technocratic government for a few months to allow for a new budget and to get the economy moving again......
They cure CVD, too?
So how are things on their southern border anyway?
Or any border for that matter?
Turn the page and it's BLAM, BLAM, BLAM:
Yeah, shootings didn’t stop during the pandemic even though the Washington Post kept a lid on the reports if true as the vast majority of these tragedies happened far from the glare of the national spotlight, unfolding instead in homes or on city streets and, like the COVID-19 crisis, disproportionately affecting communities of color.
[I now stop to note that with each article the ma$k ad gets more and more ominous (now this is much better, right)?]
I'm told Colorado has been haunted by shootings that have helped define the nation’s decades-long struggle with mass violence, as they cite the psyops of Columbine and Aurora, despite being long defined by its jagged mountains, outdoor lifestyle that lure transplants from around the country, and how could they forget the Denver Broncos who were haunted for years by losses in the Super Bowl?
Thus, as the Boulder rolls down the mountain and sheds it's moss it sure LOOKS LIKE a STAGED and SCRIPTED DRILL gone "live."
They want to introduce a 5-day cramp and I'm told the bills have little chance of passing this year because they’re too late for procedural deadlines and any proposals that limit gun sales are likely to face staunch GOP fire.
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Speaking of wars and rumors of wars:
"US, Europe, NATO close ranks to counter ‘aggressive’ China" by Lorne Cook The Associated Press, March 24, 2021
BRUSSELS — The United States and European countries are closing ranks to respond to what Washington calls “aggressive and coercive” behavior by China.
Who have they invaded recently, and don't say Tibet.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that he wants to work with the United States’ partners on “how to advance our shared economic interests and to counter some of China’s aggressive and coercive actions, as well as its failures, at least in the past, to uphold its international commitments.”
Blinken agreed in talks with senior European Union officials on the launch of what EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell described as an EU-US dialogue on China “to discuss the full range of related challenges and opportunities.”
“We share an assessment of China’s role as a partner, as a competitor, and a systemic rival,” Borrell told reporters after their meeting in Brussels, where Blinken has been underlining the importance that alliances and international partnerships play for the Biden administration.
Earlier, at NATO headquarters, Blinken said “when we are acting together, we are much stronger and much more effective than if any single one of us is doing it alone.”
You will be dragged in to whatever they are planning.
In Beijing Wednesday, China took the United States to task over racism, financial inequality, and the federal government’s response to the coronavirus in an annual report that seeks to counter the US accusations of human rights abuses. The 28-page report issued by China’s Cabinet opens with “I can’t breathe,” a reference to George Floyd, the Black American who died last May after a police officer pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes.
Low blow, huh?
Blinken said at NATO that Beijing's retaliatory sanctions “make it all the more important that we stand firm and stand together, or risk sending the message that bullying works,” but views on the way that business and trade should play out differ across the Atlantic.
The EU is China’s biggest trading partner but they are also economic competitors. As Beijing has become more assertive in recent years, the 27-nation bloc has struggled to balance its commercial interests with a country that it sees as “a systemic rival” and has human rights concerns about.
The two sealed a major investment agreement in December giving European businesses about the same level of market access in China as those from the United States. It was announced just weeks before Biden took office and raised some concerns that the Europeans were undercutting Biden’s leverage as he looked to take a tougher line on China, but Blinken said “the United States won’t force our allies into an ‘us-or-them’ choice with China." He warned of Beijing’s threatening behavior, but said “that doesn’t mean countries can’t work with China where possible, for example on challenges like climate change and health security.”
Meaning they $erve certain overlords, be they individuals or in$titutions.
In terms of China's military aggressiveness, Blinken noted its "efforts to threaten freedom of navigation, to militarize the South China Sea, to target countries throughout the Indo-Pacific with increasingly sophisticated military capabilities. Beijing’s military ambitions are growing by the year.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the military alliance does not “regard China as an adversary, but of course the rise of China has direct consequences for our security.” He noted that China is investing heavily in military equipment, including nuclear-capable missiles. “More importantly, China is a country that doesn’t share our values. We see that in the way they deal with democratic protests in Hong Kong, how they suppress minorities in their own country, the Uyghurs, and also how they actually try to undermine the international rules-based order,” Stoltenberg said.....
That's the rules-based order that benefits the former coloniali$ts, and I guess that is why in a declaration of its aspiration to become "Global Britain," Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday unveiled his government's 10-year plan to boost international trade and deploy soft power around the world, but Johnson's government surprised many by declaring it would also increase its arsenal of nuclear warheads, not only to deter traditional threats but also to confront biological, chemical and perhaps even cyber assaults, and British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told reporters the country was not seeking a new arms race but simply wanted to maintain a minimal credible deterrence. “Why? Because it is the ultimate guarantee, the ultimate insurance policy against the worst threat from hostile states,” Raab said.
What are they going to do, nuke the buildings where the alleged hacker servers are, and if my reading is correct one of those values must be stinking hypocrisy.
The war will begin when US troops land on the Korean peninsula, and if the war-mongers are smart they will time it with a thrust up through Iran, the soft underbelly of Russia, while opening up a front from the Arctic to the Caspian on Russia and show the Big H how a real invasion is done. The end result will be to drive all three nations into Siberia where they can be nuked.
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Now for the other war:
You will still have to wear the slave submission accoutrement, 'er, mask:
"Disposable masks, gloves and other types of personal protective equipment are safeguarding untold lives during the coronavirus pandemic. They’re also creating a worldwide pollution problem, littering streets and sending an influx of harmful plastic and other waste into landfills, sewage systems and oceans. In Northern California, environmental groups are tracking the issue along the coast — and trying to do something about it. The Pacific Beach Coalition recently noticed a dramatic increase in discarded PPE on beaches in and around the city of Pacifica, south of San Francisco, where it’s been doing monthly cleanups for nearly 25 years. Volunteers record what they pick up to gauge what might end up in the ocean. Until 2020, the litter was mostly cigarette butts and food wrappers. The group and others are calling attention to the issue, saying what’s recorded is likely only a fraction of the personal protective equipment hitting beaches and oceans. A report last year by the advocacy group OceansAsia found nearly 1.6 billion masks would flood oceans in 2020 alone, based on global production estimates and other factors. OceansAsia said masks could take as long as 450 years to break down....."
Did the geniu$es who devised this scam account for this, or is it an unintended consequence?
I think the answer would be the source of the problem, right?
They need to GET RID of "non-e$$ential" PEOPLE who do the "polluting!"
"A coalition of 12 state attorneys general on Wednesday sent a letter to Facebook and Twitter, pressing them to do more to ensure online falsehoods aren’t undermining efforts to vaccinate the public against covid-19. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and 11 other Democratic state attorneys general called on Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to “take immediate steps” to fully enforce their policies against vaccine misinformation. The attorneys general say the companies have not cracked down hard enough on prominent anti-vaccine accounts that repeatedly violate the companies’ terms of service. They also say that falsehoods about the safety of coronavirus vaccines from a small pool of individuals has reached over 59 million followers on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter, citing data from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which studies online misinformation and disinformation. They sent the letter the day before Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are expected to testify in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The hearing is broadly focused on disinformation, and lawmakers and their staff have been in communication with leaders of Anti-Vax Watch, a collection of people and organizations concerned about vaccine disinformation. The attorneys general of Delaware, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia also signed the letter....."
I'm not surprised that Healey signed it and Biden has said he is interested in revoking Section 230, arguing that Internet platforms have failed to curb misinformation responsibly. Former President Donald Trump had also called for revoking Section 230 over the unfounded accusations that social media platforms are censoring conservative viewpoints.
Taking this blog down would prove the point, wouldn't it?
I pray to God they don't:
"Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday scrapped an unpopular plan to shut the German economy for two extra days over Easter, apologizing for what she called “a mistake” amid widespread anger over her government’s increasingly chaotic approach to combating the coronavirus. The chancellor’s reversal came less than 36 hours after she proposed two additional “off days” around Easter, effectively extending the existing holiday to five consecutive days in hopes of halting a spike in coronavirus infections. The suggestion — made after nearly 12 hours of deliberations between Merkel and the leaders of Germany’s 16 states — was met with an almost immediate backlash because it would have required businesses to close. Faced with criticism from both her own conservative bloc and from opposition politicians, along with a flood of complaints from a public worn out by 12 months of lockdowns and reopenings, the chancellor called a quick news conference and announced her decision to reverse course....."
The chaos is from the deadly web they have weaved over CVD, and look what they found in a warehouse in Italy:
"Cache of 29 million AstraZeneca doses in Italy raises EU suspicions; The dispute over the stockpile is the latest in a series of communications blunders with health officials on both sides of the Atlantic that have soured the company’s relationship with several governments" by Matina Stevis-Gridneff New York Times, March 24, 2021
BRUSSELS — A stockpile of 29 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine that were found languishing in a facility in Italy became the new flash point on Wednesday in the conflict between the pharmaceutical company and the European Union, as the bloc prepared to unveil stringent export restrictions primarily meant to stop drugmakers from sending doses abroad.
Italian authorities found the vaccines in a site visit, European Union officials said, at a factory near Rome that is contracted to fill and finish COVID-19 vaccine vials for AstraZeneca. Italian authorities went to the site after receiving an alert from the European Commission, which found a discrepancy between what the company said it was producing in European Union facilities, and what the facilities themselves were reporting.
The presence of so many doses raised suspicions that the pharmaceutical company was trying to find a way to export them to Britain or elsewhere, something the bloc has demanded that AstraZeneca stop doing until the company fulfills its promises for deliveries.
Yeah, like HOW MANY YEARS have they been SITTING THERE?
Analysts believe that some of AstraZeneca’s manufacturing difficulties are also a reflection of the company’s ambitious global distribution plans. It had intended to make as many as 3 billion doses this year, in part by contracting its manufacturing to plants all over the world. Other vaccine makers, by contrast, are relying on only a few facilities.
That global network of factories, analysts said, had the potential to create complications in the company’s supply chain, though it is also part of what has made the vaccine so critical to the global vaccination effort.....
God help us all -- or not(?):
"With vaccinations rising, religious groups eye bigger gatherings at upcoming major holidays" by Sarah Pulliam Bailey Washington Post, March 24, 2021
When the country came to a near standstill a year ago, most houses of worship closed their doors and turned to online services to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. This year, with cases plummeting and vaccinations on the rise, religious leaders across the nation appear to be divided on how to handle in-person gatherings at upcoming major religious holidays.
Several Christian clergy members said they had hoped to host more people in person by Easter, generally considered the most important day in the Christian calendar, but because of public health restrictions, many will not be able to pack sanctuaries.
With major holidays including Passover and Ramadan approaching, some religious leaders are itching to open the doors to more congregants in coming weeks, while others are urging caution until the warmer months, when coronavirus case numbers are expected to be even lower. Across the spectrum, clergy members all appear to agree on one thing: Hope is on the horizon.
“Easter is about life,” said the Rev. Ronald Jameson, the rector of St. Matthew’s. “It’s about going from darkness to light. That’s exactly where we’re at this moment. We have the vaccine; people are feeling a little more comfortable.”
There are significant religious and racial differences among those who plan to attend Easter services this year, according to Pew.
The division they push with their polls stinks.
As houses of worship return to physical gatherings, many leaders are planning to maintain virtual streaming, said Jamie Aten, the executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College in Illinois. The Biden administration, he said, has been communicating in much more detail with faith leaders with updates from FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security, especially on how to help people get vaccinated.
Like wolfs in the fold, sending their flock to slaughter.
“The previous administration was more like a PR, this is why you should vote for us,” he said of emails from then-president Donald Trump’s staffers. “Most communication was about this is what the previous administration was doing in terms on religious protections, little on how faith communities could help.”
Ahead of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting and prayer during which Muslims typically gather to break their fast and pray together after sundown, mosque leaders are debating how to hold gatherings.
Washington’s Adas Israel Congregation, one of the largest and oldest Conservative Jewish movement synagogues in the region, will hold a Passover Seder online because people won’t be able to eat with masks on in a congregant setting, but its leaders hope to have more in-person gatherings in the parking lot as the weather warms but even as some are worried about cicadas, which are expected to emerge in prodigious numbers later this spring.
Before the pandemic, Shabbat services at the synagogue would draw nearly 1,000 people, but leaders are allowing 50 people right now. “We will deal with the cicadas,” said Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt, Adas’s co-senior rabbi. “We’ll wear hazmat suits or something.”
"Can you imagine coming out of this, there’s hope for being able to see each other, and the first thing that happens is an infestation?" said Aaron Alexander, a co-senior rabbi of Adas Israel in Northwest Washington. "If that’s not a Passover story, I don’t know what is."
The rabbis are hopeful the warmer weather will allow for larger gatherings despite the parasites (can't make this up, folks), and I wish I had passed over this article.
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Time to talk Turkey as the work is far from over and here is betting most younger Republicans will get the COVID-19 shot after it has been mandated as the sun hits the water:
"In 2000, Greg Raso began to notice his 3-year-old daughter had become unusually lethargic and had small blood clots beneath her eyes. She was hospitalized with a common bacterial infection that rarely sickens people, and a few months later was diagnosed with leukemia. While undergoing chemotherapy during a two-month stay at Boston Children’s Hospital, their daughter had a roommate who had also been diagnosed with cancer. The young girl, it turned out, also lived in Wilmington, a suburb north of Boston. “This was the scariest thing in the world for us, and then we began to realize it was happening to other families in our town,” said Raso, whose family moved soon afterward to Stoneham. “We felt there was something going on, but nobody knew what.” More than two decades later, the state Department of Public Health on Wednesday released a report that lent credence to the Rasos’ fears....."
Think of the MINDSET of the state shill and corporate drone that wrote it that way.
The poor family's fears were only lent credence after a state report confirmed it!
HOW SICKENING!
We are SO FAR from A Civil Action it is SAD and the property is now managed by the Environmental Protection Agency as a Superfund site!
Sort of literally kills two birds with one stone based on the articles above, doesn't it?
You just can't go to school:
As they "race to vaccinate" and there is NO CAUSE and EFFECT, of cour$e as Massachusetts is in the midst of a high-stakes campaign to vaccinate 4.1 million adults in an effort to bring an end to a pandemic that has wracked the state for more than a year -- even as coronavirus metrics dropped precipitously after the peak of the state’s second surge, but measures such as reported cases and test positivity have edged upward in the past two weeks amid concerns that new coronavirus variants could cause more cases.
As if on cue, 441 cases of the British coronavirus variant have allegedly been detected in Massachusetts as experts and officials are still concerned about possible virus surges caused by variants so stay indoors:
The disgusting demon and CIA asset is in her "comfort zone" for the interview as more fearle$$ girls and women are leading Boston area startups, but still not nearly enough of the $90 billion total that was raised (and all you got was a $1400 chump change check).
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Time to throw the re$t of this $hit into the Hopper:
"Pandemic prompts region’s travel tech firms to pivot; Tripadvisor, Hopper are launching new products this spring" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, March 24, 2021
Tripadvisor rolled out a $99-a-year subscription plan, its own version of Amazon Prime. Lola.com shifted from tracking trips for businesses to expense management, and Hopper leaped like a rabbit from its core airfare app to transform itself into a financial tech firm, with travel as its focus.
For Boston’s “travel tech” sector, the COVID-19 pandemic was a humbling experience. The abrupt grounding of most airline trips a year ago posed an existential threat.
These three firms — Tripadvisor, Lola, and Hopper — were among many travel companies that resorted to brutal layoffs last spring amid sudden downdrafts in revenue, but they also got creative with pandemic pivots that may propel them to new levels of growth, as people start packing their bags for the airport again.
The latest pivot: Hopper on Wednesday unveiled a back-end system for credit card companies to better manage travel-related benefits, with Virginia-based Capital One named as the first customer.
Capital One is more than a client of Hopper’s. It’s also an investor: The financial firm led a $170 million venture funding round that should enable Hopper, based in Montreal but with its US headquarters in downtown Boston, to double its staff within the next year, from the current level of about 620. Most of those new arrivals will be either in the Montreal or Boston areas, although Hopper, like many companies, is making fully-remote hires as well.
That would $eem to be a conflict of intere$t, and the bad new$ is they just cut off your credit.
Chief executive Fred Lalonde said the new platform, dubbed “Hopper Cloud,” will allow credit card companies and other firms to offer some of Hopper’s higher-margin products to their customers. These include travel-protection options for customers, such as paying a premium to freeze an airline price for a certain period of time, or making nonrefundable tickets refundable. These products bring more profit than a typical straightforward airline ticket sale, and the revenue often stays with Hopper even if the trips themselves get cancelled.
The world is being rede$igned for the elite cla$$ under the cover of the CVD $CAM!
Hopper uses its sophisticated data crunching to determine the size of the premiums for taking on risks related to the new products. Hopper also offers hotel and rental car bookings as well.
“There are a lot of people willing to pay a premium, not to have to worry about all the price games,” Lalonde said.
What if you can't?
Remarkably in a year when most global travel was curtailed, revenue at Hopper roughly doubled in 2020 from the year before, Lalonde said, largely due to the success of the travel protection products it began rolling out. For 2021, revenue is on track to soar above $100 million. The new products were in the works before COVID-19, but the pandemic accelerated their development and proved their worth.
Uh-huh.
“When the pandemic hit, … I wasn’t sure we were going to survive,” Lalonde said. “Now we know these models actually work when there’s a downturn. We came out of this realizing the opportunity.”
Gro$$.
The pandemic also prompted soul searching at Lola.com. The shift happened almost overnight. A pre-COVID idea for a future business line suddenly became the focus of half of Lola’s engineering team......
I'm doing some soul searching myself, like do I want to purchase a Bo$ton Globe anymore?
Related:
That has the Irish singing songs and you can pay in bitcoin, even put it on the credit card with bonuses for top executives to many of its key environmental, social, and corporate-governance initiatives and speaking of those devils, where is the modern day Robin Hood, 'eh?
Also see:
Or you can go by boat:
"Suez Canal blocked after giant container ship gets stuck; Vessel stretching more than 1,300 feet runs aground and leaves more than 100 ships stuck at each end of one of the world’s most vital shipping lanes" by Vivian Yee and Peter S. Goodman New York Times, March 24, 2021
CAIRO — Trying to convey the sheer scale of the nearly quarter-mile-long container ship that has been stuck in the Suez Canal since Tuesday evening, some news outlets compared it to the length of four soccer fields. Others simply called it gigantic, but the main thing to know was this: After powerful winds forced the ship aground on one of the canal’s banks, it was big enough to block nearly the entire width of the canal, producing a large traffic jam in one of the world’s most important maritime arteries.
They don't expect us to seriously believe that hot air, do they?
“The Suez Canal is the choke point,” said Captain John Konrad, founder of the shipping news website gCaptain.com, noting that 90 percent of the world’s goods are transported on ships. It “could not happen in a worse place, and the timing’s pretty bad, too.”
Not if you want to further strangle the world economy for your own benefit and redesign the world!
The potential fallout is vast, and if the ship is not freed within a few days, it would add one more burden to a global shipping industry already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, creating delays, shortages of goods, and higher prices for consumers.
What a crock of crap!
Of course, a strong gust of wind blew over the indomitable Biden the other day so you never know.
The ship, the Ever Given, was heading from China to the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It ran aground amid poor visibility and high winds from a sandstorm that struck much of northern Egypt this week, according to George Safwat, a spokesman for the Suez Canal Authority. The storm caused an “inability to direct the ship,” he said in a statement.
Like they never had them before!!
This is looking like it was done on purpose, folks, now that the ship is stuck like a Stone.
The ship’s size has magnified every challenge. Though a gust of wind may seem an improbable David to the ship’s Goliath, the containers stacked at least nine-high atop the deck would have acted like a giant sail, Konrad said, giving Tuesday’s high winds more surface area to push against. As container ships have grown in scale, culminating in a new generation of ultra-large ships that includes the 1,312-foot-long Ever Given, the Suez Canal and global ports have struggled to keep pace.
Then there is the matter of rescue. If the ship’s bulk makes it impossible to drag out by tugboat, a salvage crew may need to lighten it by removing containers, pumping out the water tanks that serve as its ballast and dredging around the bow and stern, he said.
If Egyptian authorities are able to move the Ever Given to the side of the waterway within two to three days, the episode will likely prove a minor inconvenience to the shipping industry. Shipping companies generally build in extra days to their schedules to account for delays, but if the ship’s extraction takes longer, it could pose a substantial risk for an already-overwhelmed industry.
Global trade has been disrupted as locked-down American consumers ordered vast quantities of factory goods from Asia, yielding a monthslong shortage of shipping containers, the metal boxes that carry parts and finished products around the globe. The blockage of the Suez Canal will affect the movement of things like exercise bikes and printers built in Chinese factories destined for US households, and soybeans grown on US farms and shipped to food processors in Southeast Asia.
Can't they find another way?
If it remains clogged for more than a few days, the stakes would rise significantly, but first comes the technical quagmire of freeing the Ever Given. Pictures from an Instagram user who gave her name as Julianne Cona, a ship’s engineer onboard another vessel, posted alongside a photo of the stricken ship Tuesday evening, who wrote, “Looks like we might be here for a little bit…” and despite the rescue efforts, “from the looks of it that ship is super stuck.”
The owner of the ship has offered an apology for the incident that’s imperling global shipping, and all the talk is it is dead in water so enjoy the lobster:
"Maine’s lobster catch dipped slightly last year as fishermen dealt with the coronavirus pandemic, but the final totals were better than some feared. The 2020 catch would have been a state record as recently as 2010. A boom in annual lobster catch began more than a decade ago. The industry achieved strong prices despite difficulty shipping and worldwide economic turmoil caused by the pandemic. The industry focused on opening up domestic retail sales, such as at supermarkets, to keep prices strong, said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association. The lobster industry has also navigated a few volatile years in trading with China, a key buyer. Former president Donald Trump’s trade war with China caused exports of the crustaceans to plummet. Trump then brokered a new deal with China, which agreed to start buying American lobsters again last year....."
After we have been told for a decade that the warming oceans kill lobsters and yet they are flourishing so WTF?
Biden should cut off exports to them and let then Chinese choke that down.
Speaking of dead in the water:
"The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said an order that limits the cruise industry’s activity and creates a phased approach to returning to operations will stay in place until Nov. 1. Cruise Lines International Association, the main lobbying group for cruise companies including Carnival Corp., issued a statement Wednesday calling for the CDC to drop the order and agree to let US sailings resume by July, but in an e-mailed response to questions, the CDC said the so-called Framework for Conditional Sailing Order, or CSO, remains in effect. “Returning to passenger cruising is a phased approach to mitigate the risk of spreading COVID-19,” the CDC said. “Details for the next phase of the CSO are currently under interagency review.”
WOW!
I just asked who decides whether you can go on a cruise and they promptly answered!
Their industry is being set adrift at sea and will soon be devoured by the $harks after a late-afternoon burst of selling on Wall Street erased an early gain for stocks Wednesday, pulling the market further below the all-time high it reached just a week ago as bank stocks, which took a beating on Tuesday, were among the best performers and GameStop sank 33.8% after reporting results that missed Wall Street's forecasts, though the stock is still up more than six-fold since the beginning of the year after it became a social media darling for a swarm of online investors.
That's as investors are keeping an eye on Washington, where Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the Senate about efforts to combat the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The Biden administration is considering up to $3 trillion in additional spending on infrastructure, green energy, and education. Yellen believes the U.S. government has more room to borrow, but said higher taxes would likely be required in the long run to finance future spending increases and that spooked some investors while Powell reiterated that a recent jump in the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury was mostly a sign of confidence among investors that the economy is improving as they “Build Back Better.”
The que$tion is, improving for whom as the Biden administration is weighing whether to extend through July a soon-expiring federal policy that prohibits landlords from evicting their cash-strapped tenants, as the US government seeks to buy more time for an estimated 10 million families who have fallen behind on their rent.
Sure starting to $mell like Communi$m to me as thirteen states have sued the Biden administration Wednesday to end a suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water and to reschedule canceled sales of leases in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska waters, and Western states -- all Republican-leaning states, of course.
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Time to put this post to bed:
He has sex like the demon he is, and why did we not hear about this before he landed a post at a drug firm with ties to Cambridge?
The unsavory Slaoui will need to hire a PR firm to manage the scandal:
"The Baker administration has tapped consulting giant McKinsey & Co. to study the “future of work” following the COVID-19 pandemic. McKinsey is charged with studying how changes in one sector will impact others, identifying significant trends driven by the pandemic, and forecasting the likely short- and long-term impacts of those trends, according to a spokeswoman for Governor Charlie Baker. McKinsey will incorporate employer and individual surveys along with other previous work by the firm. Baker wants this information to get a better picture of how substantial the remote-work trend will be once the pandemic is over — including the shift to hybrid models that blend remote and in-person days — and what that could mean for state policy decisions. McKinsey has already been engaged on this front in Massachusetts, most notably with a series of discussions hosted by the Massachusetts High Technology Council; many of McKinsey’s efforts with local nonprofits are done pro bono. Baker first hinted at his future-of-work study in a speech to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce last month. He is among the bosses who are trying to cut back on office real estate: His administration has made it clear that state workers will collectively occupy considerably less space once the pandemic is over."
