Ironically(not), that's the purpose of my pre$$. To sow confusion and obfuscate the truth.
With all due respect, the item was below the fold and I immediately smelled a rat.
Think what you will of Trump, but it is a fact that the weekly mass shooting events, be they staged and scripted fakery or false flags gone live, declined precipitously under the orange man. That is neither an endorsement of him or in any way an attempt to bestow virtue upon him -- for the obvious reasons, although I guess he had good cause (they are literally dropping like flies now).
With Bolsonaro on board that leaves the president of Belarus as the Last Mohican among world leaders, doesn't it?
Anyway, upon turning in one finds these:
Yeah, even if the alleged killer had a sexual addiction, it was racially motivated so stop rationalizing supremacy.
The New York Times says one of the men who was seriously injured called his wife, and I'm not wasting my time reading the narrative regarding this latest event, sorry. It will take up my whole day and there are more important things ahead.
The Globe editorializes that a culture of gun violence and hatred poisons American society, and asks when will it end?
One could ask the same of all the foreign wars based on lies that were and are blared from their pages as they literally come for your guns because that is always the path that dictatorships take.
The page B1 lead:
I'm told the Confucius Institutes are controversial because they are funded directly by the Chinese government as well as by their host institution, and NOW I AM CONFUSED!
Is the "yellow peril" here or not?
Related:
"The leading US manufacturers group urged President Biden to “rapidly develop and publicly release” a new strategy that strengthens the American economy’s ability to compete with China. Accusing Beijing of promoting “discriminatory industrial policies, forced technology transfer and intellectual property theft that harm manufacturers and workers” in the United States, the National Association of Manufacturers called on the Biden administration in a letter Wednesday to come up with a fresh approach. “The new strategy must include all available tools, including targeted bilateral engagement, assertive US leadership in global institutions and close, coordinated engagement with allies and partners,” the group, which counts 14,000 companies in every industrial sector as members, wrote."
The letter also called for Trump to be reinstated!
Then it was off to Disneyland:
"Walt Disney Co. plans to reopen its two California theme parks on April 30 after they were dark for more than a year, a key step in the entertainment giant’s recovery from the pandemic. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, which closed their gates on March 14 of last year, are among the last of the company’s properties to welcome back customers. While Disney’s Paris resort is still shuttered, the four theme parks in Florida have been open since July. Hotels in California start reopening on April 29, the company said Wednesday. Disney has laid off 32,000 employees over the past year, most of them in the theme-park unit. Initially attendance at the California parks will be limited to state residents who book advance reservations. The company said it plans bring back more than 10,000 furloughed employees for the Disneyland reopening."
More saber-rattling and war-mongering:
"Senate confirms Tai as top US trade negotiator on 98-0 vote" by David J. Lynch Washington Post, March 17, 2021
WASHINGTON — Katherine Tai, a longtime congressional staff lawyer, won Senate confirmation on Wednesday as the first woman of color to serve as the top US trade negotiator.
The Senate approved her nomination 98-0, marking a rare bipartisan agreement in a deeply-divided Washington.
Among her first tasks will be advising the president on what to do about existing tariffs on most imported Chinese products, presiding over enforcement of a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada, and seeking a negotiated end to a long-running commercial dispute with the European Union.
Tai will be a key player in crafting the ’'worker-centered’' trade policy that President Biden has promised and making sure his efforts to promote domestic manufacturing comply with US trade commitments.
Tai, 46, will become a Cabinet officer after a career of behind-the-scenes work as a government and corporate lawyer. She must find her footing in a policy scrum crowded with longtime Biden associates such as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who has called for recalibrating trade policy to deliver higher wages for workers rather than to open foreign markets for corporations.
It’s a ’'fundamental shift.’'
Tai, whose parents immigrated from Taiwan, is the only Asian American woman to be appointed to a Cabinet-level position under Biden. Tai is well regarded by both the liberal and moderate wings of the Democratic Party as well as by business leaders. Along with her Capitol Hill tenure, she boasts several years at the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), directing the enforcement of trade deals with China.
They will soon be turning that oasis into a desert.
’'She has the advantage of having negotiated directly with China,’' said Claire Reade, a senior counsel at Arnold & Porter and a former trade negotiator who hired Tai at the USTR. ’'She understands very well how the Chinese system works.’'
Tai’s skills were on display in a 2009 complaint the United States filed with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over dozens of Chinese export restrictions on raw materials such as bauxite, magnesium, and zinc. The United States said the quotas, which raised materials’ prices for companies outside China, were prohibited under global trade rules and gave Chinese manufacturers a competitive advantage.
The WTO eventually sided with the United States and ordered China to drop many of the restrictions.
Tai will succeed Robert Lighthizer, who was the intellectual muscle behind President Donald Trump’s protectionist impulses.
Her low-key demeanor will depart from Lighthizer’s sometimes acerbic negotiating style. In 2019, Tai won significant praise for her role in negotiating changes to the draft version of a new North American trade deal, which helped satisfy Democratic trade skeptics without alienating US negotiating partners.
In marathon bargaining sessions, Tai helped design a creative approach to enforcing workers’ rights in Mexico, which involved the right to challenge the operations of individual Mexican factories. ’'Katherine understood clearly that enforcement could get Democrats on board,’' said Representative Richard Neal, the Springfield Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and is Tai’s boss. At the end of those talks, Neal said he told her: ’'You should get a Nobel Prize in economics.’'
As Tai awaited confirmation, the administration took steps toward a resolution of a 16-year trade dispute with the European Union over commercial aircraft subsidies. Earlier this month, Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed to a four-month suspension of tariffs on a variety of products while they redouble efforts to reach a negotiated settlement.
During her confirmation hearings, Tai vowed to make a settlement with the EU an early priority.
In written answers to lawmakers’ questions, Tai said she would ’'seek to determine the impact of trade policies on workers’ wages and economic security and take that impact into account as we develop new policy.’'
She also echoed Trump administration complaints about the WTO, saying ’'reforms are needed’' to discourage its appellate panel from infringing on US rights.
The more things change....
’'The Appellate Body has overstepped its authority and erred in interpreting WTO agreements in a number of cases, to the detriment of the United States and other WTO members. In addition, the Appellate Body has failed to follow existing rules created to ensure that disputes are resolved in a timely manner,’' Tai wrote.
Tai also avoided specifics on two central questions: the fate of the existing tariffs on most imported Chinese goods and prospects for the United States to rejoin a Pacific trade deal that Trump quit within days of taking office in 2017.
Also see:
"The United States punished 24 Chinese officials on Wednesday for undermining Hong Kong’s democratic freedoms, acting just before the first scheduled meeting of senior Chinese and American diplomats since President Biden took office. In diplomatic terms, the timing of the action was pointed and clearly intentional, continuing a testy start to relations between the Biden administration and China after a tumultuous four years under President Trump. The State Department announced that it would impose financial sanctions on a raft of officials, including a member of the Communist Party’s 25-member Politburo, Wang Chen, over an issue that Beijing has repeatedly said is an internal political matter. Earlier sanctions imposed by the Trump administration had barred the same officials from traveling to the United States and frozen their assets in the country. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, who is visiting Japan and South Korea, said the move followed China’s latest effort to erode Hong Kong’s autonomy by rewriting the territory’s election laws in Beijing and ramming the changes through its pliant Communist Party-controlled legislature....."
OMG, that's the SAME THING the DEMOCRATS are DOING!
RAMMING THROUGH CHANGES through a pliant party that controls the legislature, and the Japanese will be no help in the war because they are a bunch of pussies now when it comes to hitting the beach.
So do we stay or do we go?
"Biden says withdrawing US forces from Afghanistan by May deadline is ‘tough’" by Eric Schmitt New York Times, March 17, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Biden said it would be “tough” to meet a May 1 deadline to withdraw all remaining US troops from Afghanistan, publicly indicating for the first time that he could extend the US troop presence there.
Biden, in an interview with ABC News that aired Wednesday, said he was consulting with allies on the pace and scope of the drawdown, and added that if the deadline were to be extended, it would not be by “a lot longer.”
I'm glad I didn't buy the peace talk from the war pre$$, so there is no disappointment in the fait accompli.
The United States has about 1,000 more troops in Afghanistan than the 2,500 it has disclosed, The New York Times reported Sunday. That has further complicated the current debate at the White House over whether to abide by a deal, struck last year by the Trump administration and the Taliban, that calls for removing the remaining US forces by May 1.
The whole war has been a big lie, right from that fateful September morning, and this isn't the 1960s, either.
Biden’s own inclination, when he was President Obama’s vice president, was toward a minimal US presence, mainly to conduct counterterrorism missions, but as president, he must weigh whether following such instincts would run too great a risk of the Taliban overwhelming government forces and taking over Afghanistan’s key cities. Many senior American commanders and intelligence analysts still argue that a full withdrawal may lead to Al Qaeda and other groups hostile to the United States seizing wide swaths of the country.
Al-CIA-Duh is still around after 20 years there?
Hmmm.
What I'm not confused about is the war crap spewed by the pre$$ since I've been immersed in nit most of my life.
Biden, like his predecessor, has promised to end the nearly 20-year conflict and withdraw the 3,500 or so US troops in the country — down from about 12,000 troops a year ago. The Trump deal in February 2020 caught some US allies by surprise, as the roughly 7,000 North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops in Afghanistan rely on the United States for logistics and security support.
Now waiting for the "but."
If the United States does indeed try to leave by May 1, it will be almost impossible logistically to withdraw both the US and the allied forces on time, American commanders and independent analysts have said, although US officials insist it remains an option.
“That was not a very solidly negotiated deal that the president, the former president worked out,” Biden said in the interview with “Good Morning America” that took place Tuesday. “We’re in consultation with our allies as well as the government, and that decision is in process now.”
Biden said it would be difficult for all service members to leave by May 1.
“It could happen,” he said, “but it is tough.”
Sick of the EXCUSES yet?
Apparently, CVD doesn't exist in Afghanistan either!
A spokeswoman for the White House’s National Security Council, Emily Horne, declined to comment further Wednesday. Other administration officials emphasized that Biden had not made any final decisions.
Some of the administration’s staunchest allies also voiced doubts Wednesday about meeting the May 1 deadline for a complete US withdrawal.
“It’s important we get this right, and that we again keep our eyes on the strategic goal rather than work to one or another deadlines,” Dominic Raab, the British foreign secretary, said Wednesday in an interview with the Aspen Security Forum. “The risk is we end up back there in 10 years’ time if we don’t make sure that we leave on a sustainable basis,” Raab said.
Why not just drop a few nukes on them and be done with it?
Yeah, we need to stay forever so we never have to go back.
Talk about self-serving, circular logic!
Even top lawmakers in Biden’s party are warning against withdrawing all US forces by May 1.
“To pull out within several months now is a very challenging and destabilizing effort,” Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat who leads the Armed Services Committee, said last month.
Reed recommended seeking an extension of the deadline.
Remember long ago when the Democrats where the party of Peace?
Neither do I, because they NEVER WERE!
Biden is keenly aware of the risks of a total security collapse transpiring in Kabul, the Afghan capital, if all Western troops leave, and he has privately described a fall-of-Saigon scenario as haunting, aides said, but the president also questions whether the small remaining contingent of Americans can accomplish anything after 20 years during which almost 800,000 US troops have deployed, or whether it will ever be possible to bring them home.
This is worse than Vietnam at this point, no matter what they do, and leaving behind "counter terror forces" is what Trump was going to do as we "withdrew."
The administration appears to be making a major diplomatic push before confronting the stark decision on US troop levels.
Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent a blunt letter to Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, earlier reported by the Afghan outlet TOLO News, that proposed several steps to revive the stalled peace negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban. The letter, which asked the Afghan leader to “understand the urgency of my tone,” was received by Ghani as a personal slight, suggesting that he was one of the main obstacles to the process, said an Afghan official with direct knowledge of the matter.
He should tell us to get out.
Of course, then he would be removed one way or another.
The Taliban have threatened to resume attacks against American and other Atlantic alliance forces if the United States unilaterally decides to keep its forces beyond the May deadline. US troops are now hunkered down in about a dozen bases and perform two main missions: counterterrorism operations and advising Afghan security forces at various headquarters.
If the Taliban don't resume attacks -- and why would they when it would keep us there for sure -- then we will be treated to an array of false flag fictions, bakeries, or some live events.
This is REALLY GETTING SICKENING after 15 years of blogging about the same shit and saying the same things over and over and over!
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There is no confusion regarding the intent of these pair of above-the-fold, front-page articles:
I read most of that sickening fawning over the king, proving all the talk of his declining popularity and calls from some to step down (in the Globe), it's all bullshit (cars made by China, btw) and now you are going to have to ride the bus!!
FYI, the ultimate goal is to get the whole population vaccinated even though there is NO NEED!
"Massachusetts will allow general public to get COVID-19 vaccines starting April 19 under new schedule; Essential workers and people over 60 can start getting shots next week" by Adam Vaccaro and Travis Andersen Globe Staff, March 17, 2021
Although the statewide and national vaccine drives have so far struggled to satisfy the massive demand, public health experts have predicted that states may soon be faced with a different challenge: encouraging greater participation among those who are unwilling or hesitant to vaccinate, and who struggle to book an appointment or physically access a clinic.
Massachusetts on Wednesday announced the release of $27.4 million in federal funds to support the state’s push to get the vaccine out to hard-hit areas, including communities of color and those with high immigrant populations, where some residents are “justifiably hesitant and nervous about the vaccine,” said Governor Charlie Baker.
Massachusetts receives $27.4 million in federal funds to increase vaccine equity, and they can have mine in the midst of a high-stakes campaign to vaccinate 4.1 million adults in an ostensible effort to bring an end to a pandemic that has wracked the state for a year.
The funds will help 20 municipalities targeted in the state’s vaccine equity initiative: Boston, Brockton, Chelsea, Everett, Fall River, Fitchburg, Framingham, Haverhill, Holyoke, Lawrence, Leominster, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Methuen, New Bedford, Randolph, Revere, Springfield, and Worcester. Those communities were exempted from the state’s decision last month to reduce vaccine supplies to municipal governments, to ensure they could better reach both hesitant populations and those with fewer options to access vaccines.
The federal funding will also support community health centers and pay for initiatives such as transportation to appointments, registration assistance, medical interpreters, and public outreach.
Baker said survey data indicates the number of people who are outright opposed to the vaccine is small, and that many who are skeptical can be convinced.
“The goal is going to be to try to convince a lot of those folks to come and get vaccinated,” Baker said. “I think we all have a lot of work left to do about that one.”
I'm sure feeling like a target with the massive push to get "people like me" to take their toxic tube of poison as people drop dead all around the world.
EVIL!
Yeah, just man up and the take the shot!
Related:
"The White House now says all American adults will be able to get a Covid-19 vaccination by the end of May. Convincing a sizable portion of the U.S. public to be immunized is another matter. Only about 54% of American adults who haven’t been vaccinated say they definitely will, according to a Census Bureau survey conducted in February. Meanwhile, about 23% say they will probably be vaccinated, and another 23% will either probably or definitely not get vaccinated. Reaching that highly coveted “herd immunity” level is central to the U.S. government’s plans to fight Covid and reopen businesses. Vaccine supply is one thing, but overcoming hesitancy to get the shot is another. To do that, officials must make the process of getting shots easier, and fight misinformation about the vaccines, concerns about the speed of development and distrust of government and health-care institutions. The World Health Organization has called vaccine acceptance the “next hurdle” in fighting the pandemic, and said that to win over people, they must have information, be motivated and have barriers eased. Willingness to be vaccinated is lower in the U.S than in many countries including the U.K., Spain and India, according to February data from market research firm YouGov. Hesitancy is especially prevalent in minority communities, even as the Biden administration has sought to make equity a hallmark of its approach....."
Then they have ALREADY FAILED and will now spend billions of taxpayer dollars to propagandize you for Big Pharma, and those who don't take their poison will be blamed for never-ending lockdown!
How FUCKING MORE EVIL can you get?
You will neverthele$$ need thi$ to move about in the "new normal" of the Great Re$et and New World Order:
"Pressed by member states desperate to save the summer tourist season, the European Union on Wednesday proposed a Covid-19 certificate that would allow people to travel more freely. The proposed document, known as a Digital Green Certificate, would allow European residents and their family members to travel at will across the bloc, so long as they have proof of Covid-19 vaccination, a negative test result or a documented recovery from the virus. The certificates would be free and available in digital or paper format. “The Digital Green Certificate will not be a precondition to free movement, and it will not discriminate in any way,” Didier Reynders, the bloc’s top official for justice, said, adding that the aim was to “gradually restore free movement within the E.U. and avoid fragmentation.” Freedom of movement is the cornerstone of the bloc. Under the proposed rules, national governments could decide which travel restrictions, such as obligatory quarantine, would be lifted for certificate holders. The proposal, which needs to be approved by the European Parliament and the majority of member states, comes as many European countries are experiencing a third wave of infections as well as a slow mass inoculation effort, damaged by doubts over a shot made by AstraZeneca. Several countries suddenly suspended use of the vaccine, at least temporarily, confusing citizens and possibly increasing resistance to vaccinations......"
Never thele$$, the WHO and EU are vouching for the AstraZeneca poison, and the 20+ countries who have halted the programs have done so because of political reasons -- proving the New York $limes has NO SHAME -- and the thumping you hear is George Orwell's corpse twirling at Warp Speed in his grave.
Won't be able to go to Walmart anymore:
"People who get Covid-19 shots at thousands of Walmart and Sam’s Club stores may soon be able to verify their vaccination status at airports, schools and other locations using a health passport app on their smartphones. The retail giant said on Wednesday that it had signed on to an international effort to provide standardized digital vaccination credentials to people. The company joins a push already backed by major health centers and tech companies including Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Cerner, Epic Systems, the Mitre Corporation and the Mayo Clinic. The company said people who get Covid shots at Walmart and Sam’s Club stores will be able to use free health passport apps to verify their vaccination records and then generate smartphone codes that could allow them to board a plane or enter a sports area....."
Here is what it will look like at the stadium:
Everyone in the audience for a performance of the musician Ivri Lider in Tel Aviv March 5 had to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or full recovery from the disease. As vaccination passports are developed, one concern is that the systems won't be valid in all countries (Oded Balilty/Associated Press)
The tribe is on the cutting edge of it, and that means these people can't get in, right?
"Lists of House and Senate members who have not received a vaccination are not publicly available. The Washington Post contacted 42 congressional offices, and 24 said whether the member had been vaccinated. Nine Republicans said they had not received a shot. None of the 11 Democrats who responded acknowledged not being vaccinated. Several Republicans told The Post that they have not been vaccinated because they have had covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and would rely on protection from antibodies they naturally produced after a positive coronavirus diagnosis. Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s top infectious-disease expert, told “Meet the Press” on Sunday that it’s up to the GOP to stop giving supporters the option of getting a vaccine and encourage them to get one. An NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll found that 49 percent of Republican men said they would not receive a vaccine if it were offered to them. “The more people that are vaccinated, the quicker we can return to normal,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wrote Monday in a letter to lawmakers, citing a plea from the Office of Attending Physician that more members get vaccinated....."
Trust her?
HA!!!!
You MUST BE INSANE!
They are coming for your kids, too:
I can't think of a better reason to keep the kid out of school or send them to Australia.
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Sorry for going on and on, readers:
"Biden endorses filibuster rule changes" by Carl Hulse New York Times, March 17, 2021
WASHINGTON — The fight over the Senate filibuster escalated sharply Tuesday, as President Biden for the first time threw his weight behind changing the rules even as Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, threatened harsh reprisals if Democrats moved to weaken the procedural tactic.
In an interview with ABC News, Biden gave his most direct endorsement yet of overhauling the filibuster, saying that he favored a return to what is called the talking filibuster: the requirement that opponents of legislation occupy the floor and make their case against it.
“I don’t think that you have to eliminate the filibuster; you have to do it, what it used to be when I first got to the Senate back in the old days,” the president said. “You had to stand up and command the floor, and you had to keep talking.” The comments were a significant departure for Biden, a 36-year veteran of the Senate who has been frequently described by aides as reluctant to alter Senate procedure. “It’s getting to the point where, you know, democracy is having a hard time functioning,” he added.
Currently, senators need only to register their objections to legislation to force supporters to produce 60 votes to break the filibuster, which has become a near-daily part of Senate life. Requiring opponents to hold the floor would put more of the burden on them and theoretically make it harder for them to sustain their opposition. Biden’s comments came as McConnell issued his stark warning and as the president’s allies on Capitol Hill began building a public case for the elimination of the tactic, referring to the prospect that Democrats might resort to a move known as the “nuclear option,” using their majority status to force a change in the Senate rules that would effectively destroy the filibuster, allowing the majority party — currently the Democrats — to muscle through any measure on its own.
Progressives have been agitating for such a change to allow Biden to steer his agenda around Republican obstruction, and a growing number of Democrats are openly considering it. The idea has gained strength after the enactment of Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus measure, which Democrats pushed through the Senate without a single Republican vote under a special budget process, delivering legislation that has so far been well received by the public and given Democrats a taste of the possibilities of a postfilibuster world.
Democrats say they are not yet ready to move ahead with any attempt to overhaul the filibuster rules and they also lack votes in their own party to do so at the moment, but senators appear to be increasingly responsive to appeals to end the filibuster as it now exists as they look ahead to the possibility of months of Republican resistance to their agenda.
“I think people have just had it,” said Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat who leads the Rules Committee, about the blocking tactic that she had endorsed in the past. “I don’t think we should let an antiquated Senate rule undermine the foundation of our democracy and stop us from making progress.”
We sure have.
The Democrats have gone full-blown communi$t totalitarian dictatorship on us with the slimmest of margins and are changing the voting laws while indemnifying millions of migrant voters so that they will never lose power again so that despite all the scandals, they still win what passes for elections, and with that I yield back the balance of my time.
That was my A2 Nation/World lead, and some people fight dirty:
"The Biden administration said on Wednesday that a restriction in the $1.9 trillion economic relief law that prohibits states from using aid money to cut taxes was constitutional, pushing back against claims by Republican officials in some states who argue that the provision violates state rights. The response came after a sharply worded letter from 21 attorneys general, who wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen on Tuesday seeking clarity on a portion of the law that prevents them from using the federal funds “to either directly or indirectly offset a reduction in the net tax revenue” that comes as a result of state tax cuts. States, which are expected to share $350 billion worth of stimulus funds, are anxiously awaiting guidance about whether the restrictions apply to the use of federal dollars to offset new tax cuts, or if it blocks them from cutting taxes for any reason, even if the cuts were in the works before the law passed. The attorneys general called the provision “the greatest attempted invasion of state sovereignty by Congress in the history of our Republic.” The clash between the states and the Biden administration could lead to multistate litigation over the stimulus bill and would be the first big legal battle for a White House that is rushing to pump relief money into the economy. The first such lawsuit was filed on Wednesday when Dave Yost, Ohio’s attorney general, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction aimed at the provision of the relief legislation that restricts states from cutting taxes. The injunction seeks to bar the federal government’s ability to enforce what Yost described as the “Tax Mandate.” “The federal government should be encouraging states to innovate and grow business, not holding vital relief funding hostage to its preferred pro-tax policies,” Yost, a Republican, said in a statement. Ohio is expected to receive $5.5 billion in federal relief funds. Yost said that states should not have to choose between accepting the money and maintaining their rights to cut taxes. The Treasury Department said on Wednesday that if a state that took relief money cut taxes, that state must repay the amount of lost revenue from those cuts to the federal government. “It is well established that Congress may establish reasonable conditions on how states should use federal funding that the states are provided,” Alexandra LaManna, a Treasury spokeswoman, said. “Those sorts of reasonable funding conditions are used all the time — and they are constitutional.”
I hate to tell them, but the courts are corrupt and the Republic is dead.
Stolen elections do have consequences, and we are supremely fucked now.
Were anyway, but now.... it's over. Life will end soon.
Also see:
All you can do at this point is shake your f**king head when it comes to this Max Headroom presidency and watch where you step now that dogs have returned to the White House.
I realized I wasted my time reading that when I got to the bu$ine$$ $ection, so....
"Wall Street firms are quietly preparing to resume political giving in the next few months, marking an end to a freeze that many corporations vowed to impose after rioters stormed the US Capitol in January to disrupt congressional certification of Donald Trump’s loss to President Biden. The pause on political action committee contributions, touted by major financial companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, alarmed lawmakers in both parties at the time, given how much of their campaigns are bankrolled by deep-pocketed corporate donors, yet it was never meant to be a shutdown of the Wall Street money machine, which contributed $787 million to the 2020 election, people familiar with the matter said. Instead, it was about publicly showing customers and stockholders that they were disgusted with the armed insurrection and the Republicans who directly or indirectly backed the effort. Some of the 147 members of Congress who voted against certifying the election for Biden will remain on what’s been dubbed the “no-fly list,” a likely permanent ban on corporate PAC donations, such as Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri or Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Craig Engle, a political lawyer at the Arent Fox law firm in Washington, says he expects PACs to resume donations in earnest next month, but the memory of the insurrection will make it difficult to resume giving to some of the 147 senators and representatives. “That is truly a case-by-case, corporation-by-corporation or group-by-group decision,’' he said. ’'There is no general rule that is going to emerge.”
Do what we $ay -- or el$e!
Beyond that, you have been bamboozled, America, by that staged and scripted travesty that occurred that day.
Time to WAKE UP!
Or you can sleep it off at the Trump Hotel:
"A House committee on Tuesday asked the Biden administration to provide detailed financial records on former president Donald Trump’s Washington hotel, which is located in a federally owned building and must give the government financial data as part of its lease. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which oversees public buildings, first asked for records on the hotel in early 2019. But for two years — while Trump’s administration was the Trump International Hotel’s landlord — the government refused to hand them over. Now, the committee has asked Biden’s administration to provide what Trump’s would not, including detailed records on the hotel’s revenue, expenses, profits, and losses. Those records, if made public, would reveal the inner workings of a hotel that became an icon of Trump’s era — a place where the sitting president’s company could be paid by foreign governments, Republican allies, and companies with business before the Trump administration."
From what I've heard, the restaurants stinks (what a joke, huh?)
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The schools are prisons now and there is no e$cape unle$$ you have connections.
So what to do with the chump change $timuloot check:
"Go ahead, spend your stimulus money. That’s what it’s for; The program will reach 3.1 million households in Massachusetts, with $7.37 billion total" by Andy Rosen Globe Staff, March 17, 2021
The new money comes as the economy has begun to recover — and after months of increasing personal savings among many in the middle class and above.
Yeah, "we" are all $itting on trillions.
If you really want to stimulate the economy — and you already have healthy savings — experts say it’s better to spend some money soon, rather than socking it away. That could mean anything from buying groceries to booking a much-needed vacation, or giving to a charity serving populations who are in urgent need. Shopping local can help, as can accelerating a big purchase you’ve been putting off.
That's because the INFLATION is going to make the MONEY WORTHLE$$, but THAT is a GOOD THING says the Globe!
UGH!
I'm $o confu$ed!
“It’s important to remember that we live in a consumer-driven economy, so the health of the American economy is on the backs of all of us, and that’s a fact,” said Nancy Waldron, chairwoman of Lasell University’s management, marketing, entrepreneurship, and international business program. “The more we spend, the healthier the economy is going to be.”
But a dirtier city, though, if you remember.
The stimulus program is structured in a way that reaches well beyond the neediest segments of the population.
What a crock of crap is that above paragraph, and the middle cla$$ is married couples who make up to $160,000, according to the Globe, when the median -- half above, half below -- is about $30,000!! That's the real middle cla$$, and the eliti$t Globe is pu$hing the agenda to $qua$h them.
What a FAL$E FRIEND are they!
Of course, this reads as if the middle class no longer exists as they become the paper of the Party elite.
That money will provide a significant boost to the economy if it translates into consumer spending, but experts interviewed by the Globe said there are some purchases that will carry extra weight.
Shopping with independent retailers can help boost businesses that don’t have the resiliency of larger, national chains. Buying durable goods, especially infrequent, big-ticket purchases such as appliances, can fuel the creation of jobs all the way from the store to the factory and its suppliers, and going to a restaurant, a show, or a movie theater as soon as you feel it is safe will direct resources to some of the businesses that have suffered the most.
How OUTRAGEOU$!!
The SAME PEOPLE who have ADVANCED A YEAR-LONG LOCKDOWN over a FAKE VIRUS are now saying go $plurge!
The evil arrogance and gall is really something to be hold from these demonic entities.
Wealthier people, in general, have a lot of money sitting around right now. According to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, personal saving as a percentage of disposable income rose from 7.6 percent in January of 2020 to 20.5 percent in January of 2021. People would have probably begun spending some of that money, anyway, as the threat of COVID-19 diminishes.
Begging the question, does this $hit even read his own rag?
One way to put stimulus money to good use, said Jonathan A. Parker, a professor at MIT’s Golub Center for Finance and Policy, is to give to charities serving people who are continuing to struggle financially. He pointed out that payments to less wealthy families could have been larger if the assistance had been more closely targeted.
$tarts at home!
“The fact that we’ve spent this much and have not been able to reach those who are most in need is really a problem, and so it’s really nice if charities and organizations like food banks can catch the people who have lost,” he said. “The economic fallout from this pandemic has been so unequal that there are really some people who have been hammered really hard and for whom the government aid hasn’t been sufficient.”
That is because THAT was the PLAN!
Concentrate wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs that will run their $ectors and the world!
Waldron, of Lasell, urged people to think about what they value most, which causes they are most concerned about, and what kind of economy they want to see emerge from the pandemic.
“No matter how you spend that money, it’s going back into the economy, and every time you have a transaction, whether it’s a donation or an outright purchase, it triggers other actions,” Waldron said. “A simple consumer transaction has a lot of links in the chain that help a lot of people,” but if you need to hang on to the cash, there’s no shame in doing that, said Jill Fopiano, chief executive of O’Brien Wealth Partners in Boston. Even people who are comfortable should look at the money as an opportunity to build back reserves they may have drawn down over the past year.
This has reached such a level of in$ult it has become useless.
She predicted that with the end of the pandemic potentially in sight, people will be more willing to use the money, rather than saving it, as many have in the past two rounds.
“It’s OK to enjoy it and have some fun,” Fopiano said, “but don’t forget to plan ahead.”
Now you can go to a hotel and have a beer at the ballpark or Garden at no cost while listening to the podcast and checking your Facebook.
Or drink something stronger:
"WaterFire, during which performers in boats float down the Woonasquatucket and Providence rivers, setting braziers of wood on fire, will be back for 2021. In pre-pandemic times, crowds of people lined the shore to take in the immersive artistic experience. There’s music and dancing and plenty of glow sticks. Last year was the first time in two and a half decades that Providence didn’t have a WaterFire river lighting. This year, with COVID-19 vaccines becoming more widely available and the pandemic’s grip loosening, tourism boosters and city officials are looking to celebrate the event’s return. “We do this because it changes people’s lives,” Peter Mello, the managing director and co-CEO of WaterFire Providence, said Monday. “It really does. It’s not only an economic driver. People will say, ‘I moved to Providence because of WaterFire.’” Though the nonprofit WaterFire Providence has an arts center on Valley Street and held arts events and productions during the pandemic, it is best known for putting on the spectacular lighting events in the river downtown. Officials said it has struggled financially without them. Money and public health conditions will be major deciding factors when the events return later this year. Because the pandemic is still ongoing, organizers are considering ways they can manage crowds, or even screen attendees for COVID-19 symptoms if necessary. The on-shore activities, like food and entertainment, may be scaled back......"
This de$erves a toa$t, doe$ it not?
"Stocks closed higher Wednesday, reversing an early slide after the Federal Reserve reassured Wall Street that it expects to keep its key interest rate near zero through 2023. The renewed commitment to leaving rates at rock bottom lows comes even as its latest economic forecast calls for growth of 6.5% this year and for inflation to climb above 2% for the first time in years. Wall Street has been anxious about the potential for higher inflation to drive up bond yields further and has been looking for signs that the central bank shares its concerns. Fed Chair Jerome Powell's remarks during a news conference appeared to do the trick....."
He urged patience even as economic outlook brightens post-pandemic.
Sorry, folks, but I'm out of mine.
