It will come later; however, the Globe was already rolling up their $leeve with the first click on an article :(
"In 2004, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide rallied against the US-led war in Iraq on the first anniversary of the start of the conflict. The US military charged six soldiers with abusing inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison."
One might have considered that the first insult since it opened my eyes to the lies of government and media, and I then questioned 9/11 first as I began working my way back in history to OKC, the first WTC bombing, and ultimately to the Vietnam lies that were known. All it proved is nothing has changed except that the war pre$$ is worse now.
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I'm going to add injury before the insult (from page B1):
"More than 1 million Massachusetts residents are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a key milestone in the fight against the pandemic as the state transitions to the next stage of reopening. Governor Charlie Baker is nearing the end of his second term in office, and “Morning Edition” host Bob Oakes asked if he would seek reelection in November 2022. Oakes noted that Baker has held almost daily press conferences since the pandemic began and has been sharply criticized for some of his decisions. “Aren’t you getting a little tired of this?” Oakes asked. “There’s plenty to do here,” Baker replied....."
That is where they left it and it's damn cryptic and frightening, with below and to left comes a knock on the door:
That borders on assault, and what will you do when they show up at your door?
Are you ready to meet your maker?
I am, and I know I will fail judgement and see them in hell.
Socially distanced, of course:
"New federal guidance supports what Mass. school officials said for months: 3 feet of distance between most students can be enough" by Felicia Gans Globe Staff, March 19, 2021
State education leaders hailed the news on Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now agrees with what Massachusetts officials have argued since last summer: Three feet of physical distancing in classrooms is enough to keep the coronavirus from spreading in schools when other mitigation measures are in place.
The CDC’s updated guidance lowered the recommended physical distancing between students in classrooms from 6 feet to 3 feet, as long as other key precautions are followed, such as universal masking. The difference is crucial because many schools lack the space to ensure 6-foot distancing between students, so they’ve had to adopt hybrid schedules in which children split their time between remote learning and the classroom.
“The administration is pleased that the CDC has revised its guidance, which was in part informed by a Massachusetts-based physicians’ study, to make clear that 3 feet of distance between students is safe with proper protocols,” Colleen Quinn, a spokeswoman for the state’s Executive Office of Education, wrote in a statement. More than 50 Massachusetts school districts have already successfully implemented less than 6 feet of distancing in their classrooms.
“The administration believes the classroom is the safest and best place for students when protocols are followed, and will continue to support districts with resources like pooled testing and more than $1 billion in funding,” she wrote.
Teacher unions, which have long disagreed with the state’s contention that 3-foot distancing is sufficient, on Friday continued to raise concerns about transmission in schools with outdated or broken ventilation systems, or without the space to properly physically distance students. That includes mask-wearing, proper ventilation for classrooms, routine surveillance COVID-19 testing in schools, and vaccinations for all school employees......
All of sudden, 3 feet is good enough (just as long as it isn't Dr. Seuss because of his anti-Asian bias) and that is about normal human interaction anyway so the mask is nothing but a $lave $ymbol so the elite cla$$ can giggle at how they fooled you all as they “race against time to get every single person vaccinated.”
Time to turn the page for more in$ult.
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Remote "learning" has been a disaster so they just passed all the kids and called it a success.
That's how stupid they think we are, and it has literally reached the point of organized crime:
"Lieutenant Governor Polito bought a $1.8 million home on the South Coast" by Matt Stout Globe Staff, March 19, 2021
Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito and her husband have bought a second home along the South Coast shore for nearly $1.8 million, records show.
Polito and her husband, Stephan Rodolakis, paid $1.795 million in October for the 4,830square-foot home in Dartmouth’s Ricketson’s Point, according to assessing records and an online listing. The 5-bedroom, 4 1/2-bath home sits on more than an acre of land with “steps to private white sandy beach” and offers “casual elegance” with a gourmet kitchen outfitted with double islands and banquette dining, according to the listing.
[I will interject here and note that this is Saturday, when bad news is dumped, so the Globe is hiding it while not, and I guess the eroding shores due to climate change matter not so feast away the banquets they shouldn't be having.
If thi$ doe$nt convince you what a $cam CVD is and how $elf-$erving are the alleged leaders "protecting" us, then it's $ickening]
They bought the home a week before Rodolakis sold a separate property less than a half-mile away for $440,000, according to assessing records. Rodolakis had bought the vacant lot less than a year earlier.
Polito, a second-term Republican and former state lawmaker, and Rodolakis also own a $1.5 million home in Polito’s hometown of Shrewsbury, where she lives near her brother and parents along Lake Quinsigamond.
A spokeswoman for Polito said the Dartmouth property is a second home and that Polito’s Shrewsbury house will remain her primary residence. CommonWealth Magazine first reported the purchase of the Dartmouth home.
Widely viewed as a potential gubernatorial candidate should Governor Charlie Baker not seek a third term in 2022, Polito also is part owner of her family’s real estate development company. She reported making more than $100,000 from her share in the company in 2019, according to her most recent financial disclosure. Rodolakis is an attorney with the firm Fletcher Tilton.
As lieutenant governor, Polito earns $165,000 a year.
I object to the term "earns."
Just think, one the vaccine-driven genocide occurs they can own, five, ten, twenty homes -- or more -- as your are either evicted from yours or live in a government slum.
Also see:
It's a Boston police officer who is allegedly part of a drug trafficking operation in New Hampshire, so the Globe kept it brief lest the lynching of a witch occurs as they drag us back to the 17th century.
Oddly enough, the Globe departed from the high-stakes campaign to vaccinate 4.1 million adults today, and that leaves me confused with more confusion ahead.
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Another oddity is CVD doesn't cover my front page anywhere today because, at bottom, it is about saving the world:
"John Kerry embarks on his latest mission: saving the world" by Jess Bidgood Globe Staff, March 19, 2021
I'm going to puke, and as noted last week, when I was growing up those who wanted to save the world were confined to street corners wearing clapboards -- sort of like the modern-day "conspiracy" theorists!
WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, John Kerry, the recently vaccinated elder statesman of American climate politics, boarded a commercial redeye for a trip to London, Brussels, and Paris with a single aide and the understated mission of saving the planet.
There are only nine years left for humans to stave off the worst consequences of climate change, scientists say. The world is not on track to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Accord, which Kerry negotiated in headier days when he was secretary of state. The United States’ credibility on the matter crumbled during the Trump presidency, and it is up to Kerry, back in the saddle of government with a new job invented by President Biden and little in the way of a blueprint, to deal with it.
That coincidently corresponds to the UN's Agenda 20230, and I'm sure he received the saline placebo.
At the age of 77, Kerry had already been a Massachusetts senator for 28 years, the Democratic nominee for president, the secretary of state and, while Donald Trump was in office, a politically active retiree. Now, he is the special presidential envoy for climate, a job that is less a cushy retirement gig than the challenge of a lifetime.
“It’s obvious that the stakes couldn’t be higher,” Kerry said March 10 in Paris, where he sought by turns to make a Cassandra-esque plea for more ambitious emissions cuts and to insist the world could be on the cusp of a breakthrough. “I just emphasize to everybody,” he said, “this is exciting!”
That should be sealed up in a time cap$ule for po$terity.
During his four years as the nation’s top diplomat during the Obama administration, Kerry took on the world’s most intractable problems with obsessive zeal, showing up hyper-prepared and ever optimistic that there was always a deal around the corner. His new role puts him back on the global stage — a place he has always liked to be — to cajole other countries to keep the planet livable while simultaneously making the case that the United States is still fit to lead such a charge after four years of climate denialism under Trump.
They will make war on you if you still see the psychopaths as unfit.
“[Biden] gave me full authority,” Kerry said in an interview last month, speaking not long after he stuffed his Tesla with boxes of climate research and drove from Boston to Washington to start his new role. “I’m energized,” said Kerry, “because this is a crisis.”
Looks to me like Biden is a dictator, no?
It is also a diplomatic quandary. There is an awkwardness to Kerry’s efforts to encourage other countries to raise their own climate ambitions when the United States rolled back climate rules under Trump and has yet to announce its new emissions targets. The United States’ relationship with China, the world’s biggest emitter, has grown rockier. Kerry is trying to restore credibility with allies even though a restive Republican congressional minority appears largely determined to block the kind of sweeping legislative action that would help him show the country means what it says.
Minority is the key word there, and they left out impotent.
Kerry, however, has never lacked the confidence or the willingness to tackle a problem that seemed challenging. As secretary of state, he held meeting after meeting to aid Israeli and Palestinian peace talks before they collapsed, but he successfully negotiated agreements like the Iran Nuclear Deal and the Paris accord itself, bringing them to bear with tenaciousness and will. He has also tightly woven climate into his 34 years in government.
“If you’re going to send your tank into battle, you want your strongest, fastest, most capable tank,” said Bernard W. Aronson, the special envoy to the Colombian peace process while Kerry was secretary.
In the climate fight, he said, Kerry is that tank.
Vomitous, and when will the ma$$-pollutiong killing machine known as the pentagon be shut down?!
Kerry’s critics see him as a bloviating figure who can’t stay out of the limelight, but his supporters say a prominent person is exactly what the moment needs — that Kerry’s giant rolodex and long record of caring about climate mean he solves some problems just by being there.
That includes traveling to Brussels eleven days ago to relaunch trans-Atlantic cooperation with European officials in the wake of President Joe Biden’s decision to rejoin the global effort to curb climate change -- as he $pews enough gas in that solo plane ride to account for all my emissions and the entire town for a whole year so apparently his pooh not stinko.
Kerry’s role is completely new and some of the details are still hazy, even though he is about eight weeks in. He has offices in both the White House and the State Department, neither of which answered questions about how big his staff will be or how many people he has been able to hire so far. A person familiar with his team said it includes Obama administration veterans such as Jonathan Pershing; Sue Biniaz; Rick Duke; Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, who is working on public financing; and Kitty DiMartino.
Oh, the irony!
In the first weeks alone, Kerry initiated calls with 35 foreign ministers and other counterparts. His trip overseas came about a week before the new secretary of state, Antony J. Blinken, made his first in-person foreign trip.
Kerry is also working on the plans for a climate summit on Earth Day next month. The White House will convene representatives from nations that emit the most pollution and urge them to commit to more ambitious goals ahead of this fall’s major international climate conference in Glasgow, which Kerry describes as “the last, best hope” for slowing the earth’s warming. The White House will announce its own emissions pledge on or before the April summit, which will be a key tool in Kerry’s arsenal — but only if it is strong enough.
He means for their Great Re$et goals.
“While it’s symbolically important to have these high-level appointments … the rest of the world will be looking for this newly announced pledge to be more ambitious, to really send a signal to the world that the US is serious about this,” said Joanna Lewis, a Georgetown professor with a focus on climate, energy, and China.
Better grab your britches and pull.
For now, Kerry often attempts to show the world the United States is serious by starting with something simple: an apology.
“We’re sorry, and painfully so, that the last four years took place,” he said in the Italian embassy in Washington on Feb. 19, the day the United States officially rejoined the Paris Climate Accord after Trump had pulled the nation out.
“The United States has not done what it should have done — nor has the world, for that matter,” he said in the interview with the Globe. “We have to earn our spurs.”
So they can dig them into us.
Kerry is bullish on the possibility that the private sector can be part of a sweeping energy transformation, and he even expressed hope that Republicans will work with Democrats to pass meaningful legislation at home.
“Many Republicans came up to me when I was at the inauguration, Republican senators, and said, ‘You know, we’re really interested in trying to do something. I think that the science is settled on this,’ ” he said, although he declined to name them.
Far from it, liar.
For Kerry, the job is a logical cap on a long career in politics that often came back to climate.
He attended the first international climate summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. He became a senator whom climate-obsessed policy staffers wanted to work for, said Heather Zichal, the CEO of the American Clean Power Association and a former legislative staffer for Kerry.
When he became secretary of state, one of his predecessors, George Shultz, advised him to make a list of what he wanted to drive in government, according to Kerry’s first chief of staff there, David Wade. At dinner at a Salvadoran restaurant in Capitol Hill, Kerry scribbled his priorities on a legal pad: Elevate the environment, and integrate it into US foreign policy.
It was the subject of the first policy guidance cable he sent out, Wade said. Kerry would ask his staff to prepare specific questions and facts about climate change that he could raise at any meeting with a foreign counterpart.
Kerry was instrumental in bringing China to the table for the Paris Climate Accord, and he was deeply involved in critical negotiations in a suburb of Paris as days stretched on. One night, when the negotiators hit a logjam and time was running out, he showed up after midnight, when the team there told him they thought he could help.
That was then, this is now.
It all means Kerry won’t be retiring any time soon.....
Forgive me for saying it, but the article reads AS IF HE is PRESIDENT and MAYBE HE IS!
That's enough of his spew as it is time to face the music:
"In another sign the pandemic is slowly loosening its grip on the region, the Boston Symphony Orchestra announced Friday that live music will return to Tanglewood this summer for a shortened festival season, a hopeful note after more than a year without live performances. The abbreviated six-week season, running July 9 through Aug. 16, will include roughly half the festivities normally on offer at the BSO’s summer home in the Berkshires....."
That's when they $truck a $our note with me, sorry.
It's an insult to our intelligence to bring race into it and those from Atlanta can come to Boston by any means necessary:
"The MBTA is backtracking on planned budget cuts in the face of criticism from the state’s congressional delegation over the agency’s decision to reduce service despite recently receiving more than $1 billion in federal pandemic relief. The T has curtailed plans to lay off 40 commuter rail conductors and is accelerating plans to increase the service it just reduced this winter. In a letter to Representative Stephen Lynch, General Manager Steve Poftak said the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will “commit to increasing service levels as quickly as possible on the bus and subway.” Poftak did not specify where or when service may increase, or at what levels. But in an interview, he said the plan marks a significant change in approach for an agency that previously expected to incrementally add more service over the course of summer and fall, while saving some of the federal funds to address budget shortfalls several years from now....."
They tried to run that one by you late at night, but, but, however, but you still may have to call an Uber if you want to get home safely and avoid a drunk driving charge after shuttle buses and trains replaced service on parts of the MBTA’s Red, Orange, and Green lines for several weekends and some weeknights to allow for maintenance work after they received complaints at a public meeting and from a Congre$$man (then retire and move to California if you don't like it).
Look on the bright side: you will never have to change a tire while waiting for Biden and the Democrat Congre$$ to deliver additional federal aid as ridership lags for years to come, a sustained downturn that could cause a long-term budget crunch and one wonders if the savings are even worth it?
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Next stop, Logan airport:
“Boston reflects the confidence we’re seeing with managing COVID and consumers’ desire to return to traveling. It’s a great example of how if you are doing things in the right way, people feel better about returning to the things they were comfortable doing and liked doing before the virus hit,” said Henry H. Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst who is president of Atmosphere Research Group in San Francisco.
You mean like this?
If you $ee $omething, $ay $omething (even if it is a $low $aturday):
"Massport slashed its workforce and payroll while on the hook for six-figure payouts to retiring executives" by Matt Stout Globe Staff, March 19, 2021
Amid painful pandemic-induced cuts, the Massachusetts Port Authority gave payouts of more than $200,000 and $173,000 to two retiring executives last year, sums fueled by hundreds of unused sick days they accumulated under a since-abolished policy.
The quasi-public authority that runs Logan International Airport gave the obligatory payments at the same time it was slashing its workforce and other costs during an unprecedented plunge in air travel brought on by COVID-19, but all the while, the authority remains on the hook for what can be generous sick-leave payouts, including some to more than 200 longtime employees who still qualify under rules eliminated 15 years ago.
Houssam Sleiman, Massport’s former director of capital programs and environmental affairs, received a $202,397 payout of unused sick and vacation time when he retired in December after 27 years with the agency. Sleiman, now an executive vice president at Suffolk Construction, earned $531,637 in total pay last year, the highest among all Massport employees, according to payroll records.
Vincent Cardillo, Massport’s former deputy director of aviation operations and a 36-year employee, received a $173,085 buyout when he retired in July, nearly double his $97,000 base pay.
Sleiman and Cardillo had collectively accrued hundreds of sick days under a controversial sick time policy Massport phased out in 2006. Those hired before Jan. 1, 2007, were allowed to keep what they had accrued by then in a sick bank, where employees could receive 100 percent of their unused time when they retired.
Sleiman and Cardillo ultimately were paid out in full for 177 and 348 unused sick days, respectively, based on their 2006 salaries. They also received some money from a smaller share of sick time — 15 and 14 days, respectively, paid out at their most recent salaries — that they accumulated after the policy change went in effect.
Efforts to reach Sleiman and Cardillo on Thursday and Friday were not successful.
Three other employees received buyouts of more than $60,000 in 2020, including a firefighter who after banking 191 sick days under the old policy, received $70,832 in unused sick and vacation time when he retired in May after 28 years with the authority.
Massport’s current rules allow retirees to collect 20 percent of the cash value of unused sick time, with a cap at 65 days. Employees who leave for any reason other than retirement are not eligible.
I think I am going to be $ick.
Mary Z. Connaughton — director of government transparency at the Pioneer Institute, which supports limited government — said sick time buyouts in any form can be viewed as “perverse incentives,” particularly at a time when people are being encouraged to stay home from work if they aren’t feeling well.
“In the private sector, sick time is mostly use-it-or-lose-it. Seeing public officials get six-digit sick time payouts on their way out the door is tough for the public to swallow,” she said.
The old rules mean the authority has a history of paying hefty sums to retirees. In 2011, outgoing executive director Thomas J. Kinton Jr. took a $459,000 payout for unused sick time. Francis X. Anglin, who retired in 2018 as the authority’s chief information officer, received a $222,291 payout, and former Massport fire chief Robert Donahue got a $260,884 payout in 2017, payroll records show.
They never stopped doing the things they were comfortable with, namely corruption, and that is the problem with Ma$$achu$etts government and the pre$$: the reports of corruption come and go, but nothing ever changes after it all blows over until the next time.
Btw, even though it is a "qua$i" agency with no transparency, it is taxpayer dollars and there are how many of them?
Think I just caught an in$ulting whiff of fa$ci$m, but who CARES, right?
Massport spokeswoman Jennifer Mehigan said Massport cut its operating costs by $100 million, restructured its debt, and deferred $1 billion in capital spending while traffic at Logan Airport dipped even below Massport’s worst-case forecasts.
“The savings we made . . . far outweigh these obligatory payments” to retirees, she said.
They are not even a$hamed of the looting.
In all, Massport paid $1.3 million in payouts — which it refers to as “buyouts” in its payroll — including for unused sick or vacation time last year. That’s roughly 25 percent more than in 2019 but less than each of the prior two years.
The lump sums given to Sleiman and Cardillo would rank among the highest in Massachusetts history if they were state employees, whose generous payouts — particularly among retiring college officials — generated controversy and have fueled unsuccessful efforts to cap what retirees can receive in unused sick time.
Governor Charlie Baker has for years sought to limit state workers to accruing 1,000 hours of sick leave, or roughly six months, including in a budget proposal he filed in January. The provision, should it pass, would apply only to executive branch employees, not those at quasi-public agencies, such as Massport, where restrictions are now tighter.
As the Massport workforce ages, the number of those on its payroll who qualify under the old sick time rules will continue to dwindle, but that will take time. More than 200 current employees began at Massport before 2007, Mehigan said.....
Excuse you, where are your rest rooms?
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As I flip the paper open to the Nation/World page I find a walking insult to humanity with the phone wringing:
"Kremlin: Putin’s offer of a call with Biden was to save ties" by Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press, March 19, 2021
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin said Friday that President Vladimir Putin’s offer to speak by phone with President Biden was intended to prevent bilateral ties from completely falling apart over the American’s remark that the Russian leader was a killer. Putin on Thursday pointed at the US history of slavery, slaughtering Native Americans, and the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II in an “it-takes-one-to-know-one” response.
At the same time, Putin noted that Russia would still cooperate with the United States where and when it supports Moscow’s interests, adding that “a lot of honest and decent people in the US want to have peace and friendship with Russia.”
He proposed the phone call with Biden in the next few days to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, regional conflicts, and other issues, and he suggested that the conversation be open to the public.
Putin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov said Putin’s offer to make the call public was intended to prevent Biden’s statement from inflicting irreparable damage to the already-frayed ties “since Biden’s words were quite unprecedented.”
Peskov said the Kremlin hasn’t heard back from the White House on the offer of a call, adding that it wasn’t going to repeat the proposal.
Calls between heads of states are normally conducted out of the public eye, but in taking a tough stance on Russia, Biden has said the days of the US “rolling over” to Putin are done, and he has taken pains to contrast his style with the approach of former president Donald Trump, who avoided direct confrontation with Putin and frequently spoke about him with approval.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden would continue to look to cooperate on efforts to stem Iran’s nuclear program and, more broadly, nuclear nonproliferation, but she said Biden did not regret referring to Putin as a killer and pushed back against suggestions the rhetoric was unhelpful.
That $kank disgusts me and and comes up later.
Russia’s relations with the United States and the European Union already had plunged to post-Cold War lows after Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, meddling in elections, hacking attacks and, most recently, the jailing of Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny after his poisoning, which he blamed on the Kremlin. Russian authorities rejected the accusations.
They DID NOT ANNEX CRIMEA, and if they are LYING ABOUT THAT what else are they LYING ABOUT, hmmmm?
Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, forecast that the Russia-US ties will remain bitterly strained in the coming years and spoke about the need to focus on preventing any military incidents between them.
“The most important thing in relations with the US for a foreseeable perspective is to avoid an inadvertent military conflict,” Trenin said in a commentary, adding that Moscow and Washington have the necessary communications channels. “It’s necessary to prevent possible incidents between the armed forces of Russia, the US, and its allies, their aircraft and ships, or if they still happen, settle them immediately.”
On Wednesday, the US national intelligence director’s office released a report finding that Putin authorized influence operations to help Trump’s reelection bid. The Biden administration warned that Russia would face sanctions soon over its attempt to influence the election and the massive SolarWinds hacks.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan weighed in the controversy, saying Biden’s statement about Putin was “unbecoming of a head of state.”
“It really is not acceptable or palatable for a head of state to use such an expression against the head of a state such as Russia,” Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul. He praised Putin’s response as “very astute and elegant.”
Erdogan’s comments came as Turkey’s efforts toward a reset of its troubled relations with the US remain unanswered. Since Biden’s inauguration in January, he has not held a telephone call with Erdogan.....
That's because the first thing Erdogan would remind him of would be the coup attempt of 2016.
Related:
"Taliban expect US withdrawal, vow to restore Islamic rule" by Vladimir Isachenkov and Kathy Gannon Associated Press, March 19, 2021
MOSCOW (AP) — The Taliban warned Washington on Friday against defying a May 1 deadline for the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan, promising a “reaction,” which could mean increased attacks by the insurgent group.
The Taliban issued their warning at a press conference in Moscow, the day after meeting with senior Afghan government negotiators and international observers to try to jumpstart a stalled peace process to end Afghanistan’s decades of war.
Wait a minute.
The "killer is hosting peace negotiations?
I just want to note for the record that Biden was for the Iraq aggression as well.
President Biden’s administration says it is reviewing an agreement the Taliban signed with the Trump administration. Biden told ABC in an interview Wednesday that the May 1 deadline “could happen, but it is tough,” adding that if the deadline is extended it won’t be by “a lot longer.”
“They should go,” Suhail Shaheen, a member of the Taliban negotiation team, told reporters, warning that staying beyond May 1 would breach the deal.
They should know that the U.S.'s word is no good.
Shaheen also reaffirmed that the Taliban were firm on their demand for an Islamic government, but even without the Taliban in government in Afghanistan, The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security Afghanistan said Afghanistan was one of the worst places in the world to be a woman in 2020.
Only one woman attended Thursday’s talks in Moscow, and in the two decades since the Taliban were ousted, successive governments in Kabul have been unable to ratify a law outlawing violence against women.
In a statement issued after the talks, Russia, the US, China, and Pakistan called on the warring parties to reduce the level of violence in the country.
Shaheen emphasized that the Taliban would stick to the goal of building an Islamic state. He argued that the Afghans themselves should determine their government order without outside meddling.....
Good luck with that as the Globe web version gets stuck in the hills:
Washington has been at war in Afghanistan for nearly two decades, since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks masterminded by Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden who was based in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. The invasion toppled the Taliban regime but the 20-year-war has made Afghanistan America’s longest conflict.
The Taliban, who during their rule imposed a harsh brand of Islam, now control about half of the country. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned that the insurgents could make even more gains without US and NATO troops on the ground.
The Moscow conference was attended by US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, Abdullah Abdullah, head of Afghanistan’s National Reconciliation Council, and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who led a 10-member delegation. Representatives of Pakistan, Iran, India, and China also participated.
The talks in Qatar between the Afghan government and the Taliban have stalled, but Russia voiced hope that the talks in Moscow could help reinvigorate them.....
The "killer" wants to bring peace back to life?
There is also a wolf in the neighborhood as well as the bear:
"The Biden administration gets a taste of China’s ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy" by Adam Taylor and Emily Rauhala Washington Post, March 19, 2021
When top Biden administration officials chose a venue for their inaugural meeting with Chinese counterparts, they settled on snowy Anchorage, but footage of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s meeting with Chinese Communist Party foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi on Thursday revealed an atmosphere that was not so much cool as burning hot.
Then they should all shut their yaps!
The Biden White House, it seems, has gotten its first real taste of China’s “wolf warrior” diplomacy.
After Blinken mentioned some of the issues Washington had with Beijing, including “cyberattacks on the United States” and “economic coercion toward our allies,” Yang told him that the United States “can’t blame this problem on somebody else” — turning brief opening remarks into a 16-minute tirade.
For a high-level diplomatic meeting, it was remarkably undiplomatic, shattering any illusions of a reset in US-China relations after the more aggressive US policy during the Trump administration. Indeed, China’s diplomats appeared more forceful than they had been in any public meeting during former President Trump’s term, leading to worry on both sides about the state of the relationship.
In China’s Communist Party-controlled press, the blame for the rough opening was put squarely on the United States; however, Chinese diplomacy is increasingly defined by harsh words. The term ’'Wolf Warrior’' is a nod to an ultrapatriotic 2015 movie and its popular 2017 sequel, but it came into more popular use as a descriptor in 2019 when a senior Chinese diplomat, Zhao Lijian, took to Twitter to feud with foreign critics. Soon, other Chinese diplomats followed suit, often adopting his pugilistic tone.
Conflict with the Trump administration, particularly over the coronavirus pandemic, amped up the rhetoric. When the Trump White House floated theories about the origins of the virus, for instance, Zhao accused the US military of bringing it to Wuhan. Zhao’s Twitter antics came to epitomize a broader shift in how China engages with the rest of the world.
I don't want another war for the Jews because that is where the war rhetoric is coming from.
I'm not in love with the Chinese and their $y$tem, but not so much so that I want a Pacific war.
I view world relations like Jerry's final thought: sometimes, you just have to go your separate ways and in tribute to him the web version stayed engaged a little while longer:
After Blinken responded to defend the United States and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan commented to say it was not the time for “lectures or long, winding statements,” Yang called reporters back into the room to make a statement to say that it was the United States who had broken diplomatic norms, not China.
“When I entered this room, I should have reminded the US side of paying attention to its tone in our respective opening remarks, but I didn’t,” Yang said. “The Chinese side felt compelled to make this speech because of the tone of the US side, so.....”
I'm sure the AmeriKans were total pricks because they always are.
Related:
Literally NO BUTS about it!
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After the murder of the magnificent Magufuli.
That's the legal age of consent in France, and that is truly sickening.
Of course, it's the the "far right" that is the danger in France as party-goers attack police:
"Residents of Nice in the French Riviera will be denied their strolls along the beach on a sunny weekend, under a temporary local lockdown imposed to curb soaring COVID-19 infections. Starting on Friday evening, Nice and the surrounding coastal area will be under weekend lockdowns for at least two weeks, in addition to a national 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. The northern port of Dunkirk is under similar restrictions. In both places, numbers of infections have spiked and hospitals are overwhelmed, with some patients being transferred to other French regions. Nice mayor Christian Estrosi announced on Friday a ban on the beaches and the famous Promenade des Anglais esplanade, where lots of people usually go for a seaside stroll, to ensure the restrictions are fully respected. “We absolutely need to avoid too big gatherings, as the weekend is expected to be summer-like and extremely attractive ... Reason must prevail,” he said in a video message posted on social media. Only essential shops will remain open, he added. Nice reported this week a rate of almost 800 COVID-19 infections per 100,000 people, nearly four times the national average. Estrosi has repeatedly attributed the worsening situation in his city to the presence of “too many tourists” during end-of-year holidays, listing the UK, Scandinavia, United Arab Emirates and Russia, which have direct flights to Nice airport. “We are now paying a very high price,” he said. Since then, France has banned almost all travelers from outside the European Union and applied restrictions to those coming from inside the bloc. The weekend lockdown also includes nearby coastal towns of Cannes, Antibes and nearby Mediterranean beauty spots. Residents will be able to go out only for essential needs such as food shopping, medical appointments or urgent family business. Taking exercise outside will be allowed for a maximum of one hour per day and up to 5 kilometers (3 miles) from home. The national 6 p.m. curfew will apply during the week."
That was weeks ago and they are now under full lockdown for a fake virus based on a faulty technique used for diagnosis.
At least they are happy in Finland, so stash that away for later as the clot shots from AstraZeneca resume in Europe because the "benefit is worth the risk."
If so, why do healthcare workers not want it?
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"The opportunity to step off the streets of Boston and be transported to a winter sports wonderland is what organizers hope is the allure of the Snowbound Festival, a reimagined version of the former Boston Ski & Snowboard Expo planned for Nov. 19-21 at the Hynes Convention Center. Like its predecessor, Snowbound aims to be the unofficial kickoff to the winter sports and travel season in New England. A counterpart event in Denver will be held two weeks before the Boston show, although “Rockies” and “New England” have replaced city names in festival branding and descriptions. Snowbound wants to build on the long history of the popular ski expo in Boston, which was managed by Bernie Weichsel’s BEWI Productions for 38 years before being sold to Snowsports Industries America in 2019....."
I'm told it “seemed like an opportunity and everything is pointing in the right direction” because the thrill of victory is in the air after the Fed concluded that the threat that Covid-19 poses to the economy isn’t nearly as severe as it was a year ago:
"The Federal Reserve on Friday said it would not extend the temporary regulatory relief it granted to large banks as the pandemic threw the economy into disarray. Put in place a year ago, the change loosened banks’ capital requirements to encourage them to continue lending as financial markets appeared shaky. The temporary move allowed banks to exclude U.S. Treasurys and central bank reserves when calculating their Supplementary Leverage Ratio, a key measurement of a bank’s risks tracked by regulators. The banking industry had pushed regulators to keep the change in place, while Democrats urged the Fed to reimpose more stringent regulations. “The devil is going to be in the details," said Jeremy Kress, an expert on financial regulation at the University of Michigan and a former Fed lawyer. “I’m comforted by the Fed’s statement saying any changes would not undermine the resiliency of the banking system. But we have heard that commitment in the past." The Fed’s decision to allow the emergency pandemic relief to expire was also supported by Democratic lawmakers who have said Wall Street needs tougher oversight to ensure banks are strong enough to guard against future downturns. “Now we need to make sure the giant banks don’t try to sneak in a back-door reduction in their capital requirements. This is too important," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in a tweet....."
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Now for the final insult:
"..... despite the huge death toll from COVID-19, Tucker Carlson, Fox’s self-styled ombudsman-for-the-everyday-ignoramus, is busy sowing doubts about the vaccination efforts. Spreading falsehoods posed as questions, Carlson has accused government authorities of telling unspecified lies about the vaccines. Given the seriousness of the consequences here, it would behoove Fox News’ higher-ups, including (already vaccinated) Rupert Murdoch, to instruct its hosts to treat the inoculation effort as deserving of more thoughtful and less polemical treatment than, say, the supposed war on Christmas, the cancelation of certain Dr. Seuss books, or the latest perceived Hollywood insult to all that is good and true with America. If vaccine hesitancy continues among the Trump/Fox demographics, it could hinder the quest for the United States to achieve herd immunity, and thus put the coronavirus on a path toward dying out.....
[Now I and people like me are an ignoramus, and look at the terrorist extortion to take the shot coming from the Globe. Literally holding us all hostage to their evil designs and plans, and I guess the Globe is disappointed at the fact that I correctly call it out as a liar on a daily basis]
Dr. Fauci says he believes an urging from Trump would be very important in persuading more Republicans to receive the vaccine. There, he’s likely right. Trump supporters tend toward conspiracy theories and have a deep distrust of the political and scientific establishment, but they invest great faith in Trump White House press secretary Jen Psaki has also signaled that Trump’s help wouldn’t be unwelcome and although her tone was snarky, Psaki’s point was right.....
[Sorry, but "snark" is never a way to win friends and influence people, even if you are right and this blog is anything but snarky. Angry, offensive, outrageous, yes, but not condescending and snarky to its readership]
As one can conclude, I am far from having blind faith in that f**k so leave me out of the conversation and with that, I will go silent after taking a pause because I do have some pride:
"Four men described as leaders of the far-right Proud Boys have been charged in the US Capitol riots, as an indictment ordered unsealed on Friday presents fresh evidence of how federal officials believe group members planned and carried out a coordinated attack to stop Congress from certifying President Biden’s electoral victory. So far, at least 19 leaders, members, or associates of the neo-fascist Proud Boys have been charged in federal court with offenses related to the Jan. 6 riots. The latest indictment suggests the Proud Boys deployed a much larger contingent in Washington, with over 60 users “participating in” an encrypted messaging channel for group members that was created a day before the riots. The Proud Boys abandoned an earlier channel and created the new “Boots on the Ground” channel after police arrested the group’s top leader, Enrique Tarrio, in Washington. Tarrio was arrested on Jan. 4 and charged with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a protest in December. He was ordered to stay out of the District of Columbia. Tarrio hasn’t been charged in connection with the riots, but the latest indictment refers to him by his title as Proud Boys’ chairman....."
The reason Tarrio has not been charged is because he is a GOVERNMENT INSTIGATOR!
It's ALL FAKE, folks!
Everything you see or read in the pre$$ is a DISTORTION at BEST or a FLAT-OUT F**KING LIE at worst.
That's why it is a dying indu$try.
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Of cour$e. there is a $cience to prote$t and such a criminal manipulation of events and the public mind from pre$$, ugh.
Related:
"In 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third, successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama."
Of course, 20 years earlier Allied bombers were began four days of war-criminal raids over Germany in the "Good War"
Turns out no war is good except for one group of people.
Remember when they told you Florida was free?
You have been bounced by the New York Times, kids, as they KEEP JABBING:
They care nothing about it being upended her as they get the trains ready to roll while ignoring the earthshaking news coming out of Japan.
They are risking death in Kabul, the same as in AmeriKa if the CVD narrative continues to hold.
They way things are going, we will ALL be Palestinians soon, what with the vaxxipa$$es and all the rest.
I'd say call a cop, but officers say they are keen to get back to a job they love and, hopefully, to become a focus of tourists’ cameras again after the pandemic passes.
There ISN'T GOING TO BE ANY MORE TOURISM, folks, or $ports games or anything as the cull continues and total and forever lockdown looms with such things as illegal large gathering, you see?
There will be no need to travel anymore so you kids get back inside as you graduate into the dy$topian totalitarian tyranny that is being constructed around you.
Oh, SOMEHOW the GLOB MISSED those protests!
