Is was not my original Idea to post this today however, I just couldn't sleep with the changing of the clocks and the dogs barking so I'm putting this up and sending it because I honestly feel right now that time is short and the wrath is coming. I know I don't have long to live now and will spend the next few days tidying this blog before shutting it down.
I wish you all well in this life or the next and hope to see you again in some form.
And with that, whoooooosh.....
"A pandemic year: How future generations will judge humanity’s performance against the coronavirus; Archivists are assembling a global time capsule that chronicles what we got right — and what we got wrong" by Anthony Faiola Washington Post March 4, 2021
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Am I supposed to be thankful they are shoveling lies and distortions at me and pay for the "privilege?"
Why can't Bezo$ pick up the tab?
On the wooded site of a former golf course in suburban Washington, archivists are building a global time capsule of the pandemic. The digital repository — to be housed at the National Library of Medicine, a Cold War-era fortress appropriately built for fearful times — holds 30 million documents from 9,000 sources, with links to similar troves from Beijing to Paris.
With all due respect, this blog is a time capsule in a sense as well as so many others it becomes hard to acknowledge them all for they are all important in their own way. May the Google Gods allow this one to stand even after my passing.
Reading like a great international scrapbook, the archive also serves as a warning. Its podcasts, photographs, videos, health documents, website captures, news stories and social media posts will reveal to future generations what we did wrong in 2020.
Some things, they’ll learn, went surprisingly right, particularly in east Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Even in nations still counting their dead, the archive tells us, humanity stepped up. Our descendants will be moved by the selfies of a London nurse, her skin blotchy with fatigue and mask marks after a nine-hour coronavirus shift. They’ll cheer the Maryland distillery that halted vodka production to make hand sanitizer. They’ll muse about the Italian radio station that consoled a town as its nonni died alone. They’ll hear the praises sung for our Usain Bolts of vaccine science, but the graduate students of the 22nd century — like some of the archive’s researchers today — might be most struck by our colossal failures.
Those that will be left, and enjoy the guilt if you have a heart or soul.
Of course, you probably won't thanks to the GMO vaccines or whatever other goodies they have lined up for us.
Now get ready to vomit.
They’ll know we had our Cassandras. The infectious-disease experts. Bill Gates. The CIA. A global pandemic is inevitable, they warned. Take what we’ve learned from H1N1, SARS, Ebola and Zika. Draft strategies, and don’t stick them in drawers. Be prepared to halt movement. Share, don’t shield, information. Use consistent messaging. If you must, shut down daily life — even if it’s unpopular — to save lives, yet despite decades of planning, cutting-edge centers for disease control and years of experience battling smaller outbreaks in “poorer” countries, the world’s wealthiest peoples, the future will learn, were unable or unwilling to halt what might mostly be remembered as a rich nation’s virus without suffering massive casualties. In piercing prose, they’ll see the lack of leadership. The failure to coordinate. The on-again, off-again lockdowns. The no lockdowns at all. The misinformation and politicization of a health crisis. The virus deniers and never-maskers from Missouri to Medellín who confused personal freedom with a criminal disregard for everyone else."
The decade in planning coincides with the Rockefeller Lockdown scenario and they are on the march and coming!
This is the kind of world the genocidal elite will be ushering us into, and they think it is a great thing as they spew their hatred of humanity.
This is sick journali$m and borderline $atanic.
If this is what the people left will be digging up in 50 or 100 years, my prayers are with them for all the good that will do. I'm really having my doubts now because the hour draws nigh. Just read the Globe writing on the wall further below.
“That is the tragedy of this whole last year,” said Susan Speaker, an archive historian at the National Library of Medicine. “We knew how to do this stuff! All the public health people are shaking their heads and saying, ‘It didn’t have to be this bad.’ ”
Like Event 201 just before the exact same script was rolled out, and how odd that war games were going on during 9/11 as well. Just "dropping" that in there, pun intended, at the risk of being called one of those people -- as a I flip finger because I no longer care and view it as a badge of honor. To hell with it. I am ready to meet infinity and get me the hell off this rock. I know I will fail judgement as well, and not for anything terrible but enough transgressions in life to be a failure.
The digital memorial to the Great Pandemic of 2020 (and, really, 2021) will give us a three-terabyte epitaph to an outbreak that saw humanity’s best instincts often undermined by its worst.
No single country, epidemiologists and health experts say, has suffered as great a failure as the United States. It will be a cold hard fact, as evidenced by 500,000 tombstones and counting, that a nation President Donald Trump declared “more prepared” than any other has clocked the globe’s largest death toll, becoming a symbol of deadly hubris and apathy, even a sort of toxic masculinity.
Oh, I don't know about that.
So be it, and as far as history goes, didn't a former president say it won't matter because we will all be dead?
So what deal was cut that will be consigned to the memory hole of official history?
A mad scramble for personal protective equipment and ventilators betrayed a lack of preparation, and it wasn’t just the United States. A quarter-million Brazilians died of what President Jair Bolsonaro dismissed as a “little flu.” Tanzanian President John Magufuli ridiculed masks and lockdowns, pledging “God will protect us” even as hospitals were being overrun.
Magufuli has been missing for days now, and one cannot discount the possibility of foul play and a body double or deep fake, sorry, if he "returns." So much is on the line that leaders are disposed of as they always have been (Caesar, JFK, Lumumba, etc, the list is long) and this is the greatest plan yet, total world domination that has never been achieved by any regime in all history, ever, and those who have stood in its way -- or have pretended to -- have been brought around or dispatched.
Just getting that down for the capsule.
Social distancing, they told us, was for sissies. Face masks for pinkos and atheists.
“There wasn’t a single path out of this pandemic, but it took being proactive and aggressive and — most of all — taking the virus seriously,” said Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. “A bunch of countries did it, and a bunch of countries just didn’t.”
That's where the paper was ripped away.
Asked to grade humanity’s response to the global pandemic, Jha offered a fairly decent “B-.”
Then he paused.
“Okay, maybe a C+.”
“The United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, others, they just really bungled the response,” he said. “You saw more than 2 million deaths, hundreds of millions infected, and we should have all known this was coming. That’s why we don’t get an A, but I don’t think a D or an F is fair. My God! We built vaccines — several vaccines — in less than a year,” yet even that historic medical breakthrough has run up against humanity’s worst instincts.
You speak for your f**king self -- maybe I shouldn't censor the swear so the future can get a real test of the vernacular at the time -- and the worst instincts are being played out in the pages of my paper every day so they gotta keep this.
Rich countries — even the nice ones, like Canada — began to horde vaccines and vaccine chits like the guy at the grocery store before the hurricane buying up all the bottled water. From Canada to Peru to Argentina, the wealthy and powerful jumped vaccine lines, apparently viewing the clinic as just another nightclub with a VIP guest list.
They are a little out in front with the totalitarian tyranny, but I suspect not for long.
Nine months into the pandemic, the world’s 1,000 richest people had already regained all the wealth they’d lost to the pandemic. Meanwhile, legions of the working class — particularly the young, female and less educated — remain unemployed.
“We are the people who are below rock bottom,” Umm Muhammad, a single mother in Alexandria, Egypt, told The Washington Post in April, after the clothing factory where she worked shut down.
In the darkness, we looked for silver linings. As we stayed indoors — or some of us did — the Earth was healing, we told ourselves. The smog cleared over the Himalayas. In tourist-deserted Venice, ducks — even an octopus — returned to the canals. The upside to those mothballed factories, those lost jobs: a historic 7 percent drop in carbon emissions.
Really is NO NEED for you NON-ESSENTIALS, and THUS the KILLER VACCINE, be it an IMMEDIATE DEATH, MONTHS from NOW, a YEAR or TWO, but basically by the next 5 or 10 years these toxic tubes of conceited poison and genetic modifiers are going to so sicken people that 90-95% of us will die off -- and then the capsule can be opened much later after what succeeding generation that will be allowed with the false narrative that is being provided in this article.
Damn, I just vomited in the capsule!
Those gains are likely to disappear fast. Already China — the birthplace of the virus, and the quickest country back on its feet after imposing a hermetically sealed lockdown — is spewing slightly more carbon than it did in 2019. Use of public transportation plummeted during the pandemic.
They are not done yet, either, as we head for a third lockdown over the "variants."
In Buenos Aires, New York, Cape Town and Rome, commuters might long think twice before stepping back into crowded subway cars, packed city buses. The mobile office might linger — or it might not. From Warsaw to Miami to São Paulo, Brazil, commercial towers continue to rise. In the meantime, we’ve spent $15 trillion globally on stimulus to save our economies; only a small fraction has gone to eco-projects that could save the Earth.
There once was a time when those wanting to "save the world" were confined to street corners and called crazy, and the office will never be the same.
“I fear that few if any of the pandemic reductions will be permanent,” said Rob Jackson, an energy and climate expert at Stanford University. “In the long run, the effects of all that rapid stimulus might actually leave us worse off.”
Our problem with pandemics is that we tend to forget — and therefore never learn. The global influenza pandemic of 1918 killed 50 million to 100 million people. Leaders around the world downplayed the outbreak.
I'm sorry, folks, I can't take this tremendously insulting condescension and where are the leaders who downplayed it? Belarus?
They issued conflicting orders.
They delegated the fight to local officials, with often fatal results.
A “no-mask league” formed.
In Britain, a nation rife with monuments to every conceivable military engagement, there’s little to commemorate the pandemic dead of 1918. The best known memorial is a subtle stained glass tryptic in a church-turned-library in Whitechapel, the corner of east London where Jack the Ripper once lurked.
With a mask-wearing, high-wire act, and a rendition of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “In deepest need I cry to you,” it was inaugurated in 2002.
Some 84 years after the pandemic.
Because humanity tends to forget.
Last month in Rio de Janeiro, the maskless masses reveled in its sultry streets despite the cancellation of Carnival. In April in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador — a tropical metropolis initially reluctant to social distance — fly-covered cadavers filled the streets.
Many who defied lockdown guidance had no choice — it was go to work or starve, but others simply failed to muster a basic sense of civic duty. Nationalism as shared sacrifice was for soccer fields, not pandemics.
“As societies, we failed in multiple ways,” said Marcelo Castillo, an intensive care unit doctor at the Kennedy Clinic Hospital in Guayaquil. “Here, as in the rest of Latin America, we saw people focused on themselves, people with selfish behavior.”
Better get rid of those, but how?
In Britain, they kept calm and carried on — and died for the privilege.
What color is your skin?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson kept bars, schools, museums and restaurants open, even as Paris, Rome and Madrid were shuttering theirs. The Sunday Times would denounce the “38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster.” “A senior adviser to Downing Street,” the outlet reported, said Johnson “didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends … There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning.”
Experts warn it is notoriously tricky to decide when and whether to shut borders, impose lockdowns and enforce social distancing. Still, the numbers will tell posterity who got it right, and who didn’t. Johnson’s government eventually played catch-up, imposing lockdowns that some argue came too late and were eased too soon. Britain stumbled into 2021 with the highest death toll in Europe.
From within the recesses of the global right wing sprang a horde of aspiring propagandists, spewing misinformation almost daily and often deadly. Inject disinfectant! Take hydroxychloroquine! A half-step up from the misinformants were the deniers — including the 20,000 Germans who marched maskless in Berlin in August chanting slogans against the “Corona False Alarm.”
Wow, is THAT ever the POT HOLLERING KETTLE, and UNFAIRLY AT THAT!
The TRUTH really bothers the, ahem, "Fourth E$tate."
Just capturing it for the capsule.
“There have been riots in several European countries over social distancing and requirements to wear masks, and the impression is that it was the political right, or political far right, rather than any other spectrum of society,” said Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at Britain’s University of East Anglia. “That tied into beliefs in weird conspiracy theories on covid.”
Yeah, that's what Lord Fauci said and what's at odds with that is that the Boston neighborhoods hit hardest by the alleged virus have the lowest vaccination rates, and those communities — East Boston, Mattapan, and Dorchester — are primarily "minority" communities that no longer want leftover vaccines. They want the fresh stuff so they can drink some Bloody Marys(?).
Meanwhile, those who were supposed to inform us often confused or misled us.
Readers, WHERE DO I START?
TONKIN?
When the virus first emerged in Wuhan, China, local officials hid it, until the number of infected became too great. Back in the United States, Trump offered schizophrenic messaging; more surprisingly, so, too, did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The archive has captured and preserved the weekly images of the CDC’s website: The don’t-wear-a-mask moment. The one that came later, saying, Oh, wait — better wear one now.
So badly damaged were the images of the world’s two most powerful nations that unfavorable views of China surged by double digits in Australia, Britain and Germany, while favorable views of the United States plunged by the same levels in Japan, South Korea and Italy, according to Pew Research.
Some countries were much less of a mess.
Australia got it mostly right. On a Thursday in November, when the United States had 52,049 people hospitalized and 10,445 in ICUs for the coronavirus, the Sydney Opera House had reopened and office workers were streaming back to their cubicles. The country had put its faith in science, quickly shutting its borders and severely limiting interstate, even intrastate, movement.
Messaging was king. Political leaders on the right and left sent up a collective cry: Wear masks. Social distance. Stay at home. Save Australian lives.
You guys can keep the Hollywood $cum, 'kay?
South Korea excelled through contact tracing and testing. Japan deployed its sense of the collective and a culture militantly respectful of others. New Zealand’s success was written with quarantines and aggressive shutdowns.
Time for me to shut this down as the level of shit just passed my forehead.
Clarification: An earlier version of this article suggested that China hid its coronavirus outbreak until after several deaths had occurred. In fact, China’s Centers for Disease Control reported on Jan. 9 that a novel coronavirus was responsible for 15 cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, and Chinese researchers shared the first genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 on Jan. 10. The next day, China reported the first death from the coronavirus, which occurred on Jan. 9. The article has been updated.
Oh, they got something wrong again (sigh) and is that really news?
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How ironic that the capsule I'm leaving is on Saint Patrick's Day -- a celebration of him leading the snakes out of Ireland -- and he must have lead them all here:
"Russian interference in 2020 included influencing Trump associates, report says" by Julian E. Barnes New York Times, March 17, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Vladimir Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to hurt the candidacy of Joe Biden during the election last year, including by mounting covert operations to influence people close to President Donald Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released Tuesday.
The report did not name those people but seemed to refer to the work of Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who relentlessly pushed accusations of corruption about Biden and his family involving Ukraine.
“Russian state and proxy actors who all serve the Kremlin’s interests worked to affect U.S. public perceptions,” the report said.
The declassified report represented the most comprehensive intelligence assessment of foreign efforts to influence the 2020 vote. Besides Russia, Iran and other countries also sought to sway the election, the report said. China considered its own efforts but ultimately concluded that they would fail and most likely backfire, intelligence officials concluded.
They actually worked splendidly for look who "won" the election.
A companion report by the Justice and Homeland Security departments also rejected false accusations promoted by Trump’s allies in the weeks after the vote that Venezuela or other countries had defrauded the election.
The reports, compiled by career officials, amounted to a repudiation of Trump, his allies and some of his top administration officials. They reaffirmed the intelligence agencies’ conclusions about Russia’s interference in 2016 on behalf of Trump and said that the Kremlin favored his reelection. And they categorically dismissed allegations of foreign-fed voter fraud, cast doubt on Republican accusations of Chinese intervention on behalf of Democrats and undermined claims that Trump and his allies had spread about the Biden family’s work in Ukraine.
The report also found that neither Russia nor other countries tried to change ballots themselves. Efforts by Russian hackers to gain access to state and local networks were unrelated to efforts by Moscow to influence the presidential vote.
The declassified report did not explain how the intelligence community had reached its conclusions about Russian operations during the 2020 election, but the officials said they had high confidence in their conclusions about Putin’s involvement, suggesting that the intelligence agencies have developed new ways of gathering information after the extraction of one of their best Kremlin sources in 2017.
Just another excuse, 'er, way to push the agenda over absolute rubbish.
Foreign efforts to influence U.S. elections are likely to continue in coming years, U.S. officials said. The public has become more aware of disinformation efforts, and social media companies act faster to take down fake accounts that spread falsehoods, but a large number of Americans remain open to conspiracy theories pushed by Russia and other adversaries, a circumstance that they will exploit, officials warned.
“Foreign malign influence is an enduring challenge facing our country,” Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence, said in a statement. “These efforts by U.S. adversaries seek to exacerbate divisions and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions.”
Unless it's done by Israel; then it is ignored.
While it was declassified by the Biden administration, the report is based on work done during the Trump administration, according to intelligence officials, reflecting the vastly different views that officers had from their political overseers, who were appointed by Trump.
During the 2020 campaign, intelligence officials outlined how Russia was spreading damaging information about Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in an attempt to bolster Trump’s reelection chances. It also outlined efforts by Iran in the final days before the election to aid Biden by spreading letters falsely purporting to be from the Proud Boys, a far-right group.
That's why the media ignored that sick f**ks corruption, and Iran is going to regret aiding Biden (why no outrage from the pre$$?).
Accusations of election interference have been some of the most politically divisive in recent years. The intelligence report is akin to a declassified assessment in early 2017 that laid out the conclusions about Russia’s efforts in Trump’s electoral victory, further entrenched the partisan debate over his relationship with Moscow and cemented his enmity toward intelligence and law enforcement officials.
With Trump out of office and the new report’s conclusions largely made public in releases during the campaign, the findings were not expected to prompt as much partisan fury, but elements of the report are likely to be the subject of political fights.
Its assessment that China sat on the sidelines is at odds with what some Republican officials have said. In private briefings on Capitol Hill, John Ratcliffe, Trump’s last director of national intelligence, said Chinese interference was a greater threat in 2020 than Russian operations.
They were working the right side of it so that's okay.
The declassified documents released Tuesday included a dissenting minority view from the national intelligence officer for cyber that suggested that the consensus of the intelligence community was underplaying the threat from China.
Privately, some officials defended the consensus view, saying their reading of the intelligence supported the conclusions that China sought some level of influence but avoided any direct efforts to interfere in the vote.
Unmentioned in this report was the wide-ranging hacking of federal computer systems using a vulnerability in software made by SolarWinds.
That's a tell right there!
Earlier in 2020, U.S. officials thought Iran was likely to stay on the sidelines of the presidential contest, but Iranian hackers did try a last-minute effort to change the vote in Florida and other states.
Iranian hackers sent “threatening, spoofed emails” to Democratic voters that purported to be from the Proud Boys, the report said. The group demanded that the recipients change their party affiliation and vote for Trump. They also pushed a video that supposedly demonstrated voter fraud.
The Iranian effort essentially employed reverse psychology. Officials said Iranian operatives hoped the emails would have the opposite effect of the message’s warning, rallying people to vote for Biden by thinking Trump’s supporters were playing dirty campaign tricks. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, authorized the campaign, the report said....
For posterity's sake I would just like to add that this whole period was characterized by a massive mind-fuck, the greatest in human history and dirtiest trick of all.
Incredibly, that is the Globe's A1, right-hand corner, above-the-fold lead and they are as silent as the grave when it comes to Israeli penetration, and lest we forget Gaza has suffered the longest, most barbaric, lockdown in the world. She has lived through it so.... wait, what, the Palestinian Authority announced a new set of lockdown restrictions in the West Bank as coronavirusinfections surge and Palestinians await the rollout of a significant vaccination program?
Will that be part of the capsule or will you have to dig deeper for that and, oh, look, the New York Times DID FIND some ELECTORAL FRAUD -- in Florida!
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Of course, they are getting tough on China now:
"Visiting Japan, top US envoys set combative tone for China talks; Secretary of State Antony Blinken is to meet in Alaska Thursday with two top Chinese officials in the Biden administration’s opening bid to define the limits of its relationship with Beijing" by Lara Jakes, Motoko Rich and John Ismay New York Times, March 16, 2021
I groan every time I seen an NYT byline, and note it for the capsule.
TOKYO — Just days before the Biden administration’s first face-to-face encounter with China, two senior US envoys used a visit to Tokyo on Tuesday to set a confrontational tone for the talks, rebuking what they called “coercion” and “destabilizing actions” by China in its increasingly aggressive military forays in the region.
Following a flurry of meetings, US and Japanese officials issued a two-page statement that left little doubt that President Biden would defy China in territorial disputes, challenges to democracy, and other regional crises. Its robust censure of Beijing represented the kind of vigorous approach that Japan has been seeking from the United States after four years of skepticism worldwide about whether the United States would remain a reliable ally.
?????
Trump was waging a soft war against them, something Biden is pulling back from while going hot?
WTF?
“We will push back when necessary when China uses coercion or aggression to try to get its way,” said Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin noted Beijing’s “destabilizing actions” in the South and East China Seas, saying, “Our goal is to make sure that we maintain a competitive edge over China or anyone else that would want to threaten us or our alliance.”
Yeah, no one can do what we do!
Taken together, the Americans’ statements amounted to the most explicit admonishment in recent years by US diplomats of Chinese provocations toward Japan and the rest of the region. They offered a taste of what is likely to come Thursday, when Blinken is to meet in Alaska with two top Chinese officials in the Biden administration’s opening bid to define the limits of its relationship with Beijing.
For Japan, the meetings — the highest-level foreign travel so far by the new administration — offered comfort for those who had worried that Biden might back down from the Trump administration’s tough stance against Beijing.
They said above Trump wasn't a reliable ally, so which is it?
“I think the message is directed to the Japanese people,” said Toshiyuki Ito, a retired vice admiral who is now a professor of crisis management and international relations at Kanazawa Institute of Technology. He added that the visit by Blinken and Austin signaled that “America has changed from ‘America First’ to putting importance on the alliance.”
Near the top of the agenda for Japan was the Senkaku, a string of rocky outcrops in the East China Sea. For years, China has sent boats into or near Japan’s territorial waters around the disputed islands, known as the Diaoyu in China. Tensions flared in 2012, when activists landed on one of the islands, and frequent incursions have continued since.
US officials have voiced concern that Chinese and Japanese coast guard forces could be drawn into a shooting match as they patrol the island chain and are authorized by their governments to use deadly force to defend them. Last year, Chinese ships spent a total of 333 days in Japan’s contiguous waters, the longest time on record, according to the Japanese Defense Ministry.
Some are sure hoping with their fingers crossed!
The war will likely coincide with the cratering of the dollar and US stock market, something not far away at all.
A senior US defense official also noted repeated incursions by Chinese military aircraft into Japan’s “air defense identification zone” — an area that extends hundreds of miles from the Japanese mainland and includes the Senkakus — which are often met by Japanese fighter jets.
Tensions have also recently flared in the Taiwan Strait. In January, China flew four warplanes over the waterway, in what was widely interpreted as a show of force just after Biden took office.
A peaceful oasis no more.
Last week, the commander of US Indo-Pacific Command warned of China’s growing threat to Taiwan, a democratically governed island that has increasingly resisted Beijing’s insistence that it is part of a “greater China.”
The commander, Admiral Philip S. Davidson, said China’s threat to Taiwan “is manifest in this decade — in fact, in the next six years.” The next day, a US destroyer passed through the Taiwan Strait — the third such voyage since Biden came into office, signaling support of Taiwan.
They are TRYING to PROVOKE the CHINESE!
US officials have sought to cast the talks this week with China in Anchorage — which will come after Blinken and Austin travel to Seoul for meetings with South Korean officials — as an informal session to outline issues on which the United States may be willing to work with Beijing, but they will also offer a chance to condemn China’s territorial encroachments and its threats against human rights and democracy in the region.
The joint statement issued Tuesday cited “serious concerns” regarding Beijing’s human rights abuses against protesters in Hong Kong and against Uyghurs and other minority groups in the western region of Xinjiang.
They are carrying that hypocritical stench with them?
A day earlier, before Blinken and Austin had landed in Tokyo, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry urged the United States to “stop interfering in China’s internal affairs” and instead cooperate to manage differences and improve relations between the two superpowers.
“Certain countries have been so keen to exaggerate and hype up the so-called ‘China threat’ to sow discord among regional countries, especially to disrupt their relations with China,” said the spokesman, Zhao Lijian, “however, their actions, running counter to the trend of the times of peace, development, and cooperation and the common aspirations of the countries and peoples in the region, will not be welcomed or succeed.”
That was my page A2, World/Nation lead and you know what would really punish them (and George W. Bush)?
Maybe Blinken and Austin can ask them about the trains not running on time, 'eh?
Related:
"North Korea issued its first warning shot against the Biden administration on Tuesday, denouncing Washington for going forward with joint military exercises with South Korea and raising “a stink” on the Korean Peninsula....."
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Should have caught a whiff of the time capsule!
Speaking of stank:
"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. 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....."
You mean the ones you don't want to have them, you stinking hypocrite?
Going to nuke the buildings where the servers are, huh?
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Monday’s massacres, though extremists belonging to the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara group are known to be active in the region.
At least que$tions were asked about the treatment they received at the hands of police, and I'm sure the parties reconciled after the new trial, court case, verdict, and haircut. It's all history now.
"Peter Thiel, one of former president Donald Trump’s few Big Tech industry donors, has pumped $10 million into a super political action committee bankrolling a possible campaign for one of Ohio’s Senate seats in 2022 by J.D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy.” Thiel, cofounder of PayPal, who once employed Vance at his hedge fund, was the first donor to Protect Ohio Values PAC, which was founded in Virginia last month, allowing Vance to explore a possible run for the seat being vacated by Senator Rob Portman. The Mercer family, also contributors to Trump, is expected to write a big check to the PAC shortly, said Bryan Lanza, a veteran Republican strategist working with the group. “Trump, J.D., and Peter see these communities in a much different light than the Republican establishment,” said Lanza in an interview. “J.D. and Peter share the same vision.” The donation, made Friday, was first reported by the Cincinnati Inquirer. Vance, whose 2016 memoir chronicled his rise from a hardscrabble Appalachian childhood to Yale Law School, has positioned himself as the voice of a frustrated white underclass energized by Trump’s defiance and disruptions. His book was turned into a 2020 movie starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams....."
That's where they lost me as the field in 2022 is expected to be crowded, well financed and highly competitive.
Here is one guy who will not be in the running:
"A longtime Ohio lobbyist who had pleaded not guilty in a sweeping federal bribery investigation has been found dead. In response to a request about information concerning Neil Clark’s death, the sheriff’s office in Collier County, Fla., where Clark had been living, provided a report describing a man’s body being found near a pond Monday morning by a bicyclist. When officials reached out to the man’s wife, she said the couple was having financial issues and that she had not heard from her husband for a couple of hours, according to the report. Clark, 67, had pleaded not guilty in August over an alleged role in a $60 million scheme in which federal prosecutors say FirstEnergy companies funneled money through a network of dark money entities to then-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder in exchange for the passage of a $1 billion nuclear bailout bill. Former US attorney David DeVillers mentioned Clark’s death during a presentation Tuesday to the board of the Office of Ohio Consumer’s Counsel, in which he was discussing the probe. A message seeking details was left with Clark’s attorney, Bill Ireland. Clark, a Republican, had been described by federal prosecutors as the enforcer for Householder, strong-arming supporters and providing fund-raising expertise."
So what did they inject him with?
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Anyway, I know my time is short from the straddling of the front-page fold:
"As the pace of the Massachusetts vaccine drive picked up in the last month, Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, said there may be a negative reason some states are able to open eligibility more quickly: a lower level of demand for the vaccine among the eligible population and more people who are unwilling or unable to get vaccinated. “Some states have been able to move fast because they have a lot of hesitancy, and a lot more people aren’t getting vaccinated,” Jha said. “Swinging doors wide open . . . isn’t necessarily a sign that you’re doing things great.”
Looks like the good guverner might be a dead man walking as well now that he has performed his task well and is liable for mass-murder charges in the nursing and soldier homes based on this limited hangout that I once thought was grounds for an indictment, conviction, and jail given the massive death toll; however, he has prepeared a defense and should be home free as he closes out his term because the purpose of holding an independent investigation is to regain the public trust in government after failure.
That's what I hear, at least, so he should avoid the stairwell to hell and swim to Sweden to be with his wife.
What you don't hear is the roar of the crowd at the Garden even as the Globe carries a Torch for them, and who really cares anymore?
Oh, sorry, that must mean I'm a racist, right?
I think I'm done running down this particular rabbit hole and its accompanying narrative, so I'm going to skip school and go into a deep freeze to make a point before falling down to my knees in prayer for Yaphet Kotto, a blue-collar actor who was a star in his own right. It is a horrible loss to the world because one can't help but wonder if he received the vaccine like Aaron and Hagler.
Time to stop talking and get outside since spring is here, and with that I lock the capsule up tight and leave it for successive generations, if any, while spitting on the Bo$ton Globe.
