Saturday, March 13, 2021

Saturday's Garbage

 Putting out what was found on the front-section's back page first:

"Exports of US plastic garbage rise, despite ban" by Hiroko Tabuchi and Michael Corkery New York Times, March 12, 2021

When more than 180 nations agreed last year to place strict limits on exports of plastic waste from richer countries to poorer ones, the move was seen as a major victory in the fight against plastic pollution, but new trade data for January, the first month that the agreement took effect, shows that US exports of plastic scrap to poorer countries have barely changed, and overall scrap plastics exports rose, which environmental watchdog groups say is evidence that exporters are ignoring the new rules.

The US companies seem to be relying on a remarkable interpretation of the new rules: Even though it’s now illegal for most countries to accept all but the purest forms of plastic scrap from the United States, there’s nothing that prevents the United States from sending the waste. The main reason: The United States is one of the few countries in the world that didn’t ratify the global ban.

“This is our first hard evidence that nobody seems to be paying attention to the international law,” said Jim Puckett, executive director of Basel Action Network, a nonprofit group that lobbies against the plastic waste trade. “As soon as the shipments get on the high seas, it’s considered illegal trafficking, and the rest of the world has to deal with it.”

I'm not denying that the refuse of a con$umeri$t culture that has been cultivated by the very globali$ts behind the clean and $u$tainable $hell game, but there are other violations of international law being totally ignored regarding the CVD $cam and war crimes so what is your point?

The scrap industry says many of the exports are quite likely compliant with the new rules and that the increase in January reflects growing global demand for plastic to recycle and use as inputs for new products. Recent history, however, shows that a large of amount plastic scrap exported from the United States does not get recycled but ends up as waste, a reality that was the impetus for the new rules.

There will be more "reality" below.

The rules were adopted in 2019 by most of the world’s countries, although the United States isn’t among them, under a framework known as the Basel Convention. Underlying the change was the need to stem the flow of waste from America and other wealthier nations to poorer ones.

Though many US communities dutifully collect plastic for recycling, much of the scrap has been sent overseas, where it frequently ends up in landfills, or in rivers, streams, and the ocean. China, which once accepted the bulk of that waste, in 2018 banned all plastic scrap shipments, declaring that it no longer wanted to be the “world’s garbage dump.”

One can't blame them for that; however, it sheds light on the current tensions with them along with other things.

Since then, US companies have looked to ship plastic scrap waste to countries like Malaysia and Indonesia instead. Last year, an industry group representing the world’s largest petrochemical makers lobbied for United States trade negotiators to press Kenya, one of Africa’s largest economies, to continue importing foreign plastic garbage, but because Basel rules prohibit member nations from trading waste with countries that have not ratified the convention, the new regulations now effectively ban the trade in most kinds of plastic waste between the United States and the rest of the world.

Wasn't it Larry Summers who, on December 12, 1991, while serving as chief economist for the World Bank, authored a private memo arguing that the bank should actively encourage the dumping of toxic waste in developing countries, particularly "under populated countries in Africa," which Summers described as "UNDER-polluted?"

The only solution is getting rid of the people who make the stuff, right?

Thank God the vaxxeens are felling people all over the place, so much so that several European countries have halted their vaccinations efforts and yet the pre$$ over here continues to push the garbage.

For now, US companies appear to have opted to continue to put their scrap onto ships out of the country at an even faster pace, and the scrap industry says that much of the plastic that was being shipped in January is considered legitimate under the Basel rules by the companies around the world that are purchasing it to use in manufacturing.

“The contention that all of these plastic scrap exports from the United States are not legitimate is factually incorrect,” said Adina Adler, vice president of advocacy at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, a trade group.

Data for January showed that exports of scrap plastic from the United States edged upward, to 48 million tons from 45 million tons the previous January. Exports to poorer nations were virtually unchanged from a year ago, totaling 25 million tons.

Advocates say that there are clear red flags in the data. Malaysia, which had signed on to Basel, remained a major destination for US scrap plastic in January.

For example, a shipment containing bales of plastic scrap left Los Angeles on Feb. 14 and is scheduled to arrive at a port outside the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, this month, according to data provided by Material Research, a Maine-based research firm. That shipment, sent by Georgia-based Sigma Recycling Inc. on a cargo ship operated by French shipping company CMA CGM, is quite likely banned under Basel rules, Puckett said.

Jewel Bhuiyan, a representative for Sigma, whose parent company is based in the United Arab Emirates, said that the company took the issue seriously and would look into the details of the shipment. He noted that Sigma was one of Georgia’s top plastic scrap exporters and had received prestigious awards.


I'm surprised (not) that CVD never came up among the economic revival this garbage seems to be implying with more $hit flying in the face of the New York Times:


Here is a look at Colorado and the CVD gulag, where you will be brief footnote in the annals of the New World Order regime being promoted by the pre$$. 

They are truly an atrocious evil as they basically ignore real and ongoing environmental problems that are more serious and immediate:

"Japan fell quiet at 2:46 p.m. Thursday to mark the minute that an earthquake began 10 years ago, setting off a tsunami and nuclear crisis that devastated the country’s northeast coast, a disaster that one survivor said he fears people are beginning to forget. The magnitude 9.0 quake that struck on March 11, 2011 — one of the biggest on record — triggered a wall of water that swept far inland, destroying towns and causing meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The days following the quake were terrifying for many in Japan and farther afield, as hydrogen explosions released radiation into the air and technicians worked furiously to try to cool the plant’s nuclear fuel by pumping in seawater. There were concerns and confusion about the extent of meltdowns, and how far radiation might travel, including fears that Tokyo and even the US West Coast were at risk. Officials said they were not, but panicked shoppers as far away as China and Russia scrambled to stock up on goods. Roads, train lines, houses, and other key infrastructure have mostly been rebuilt, at a cost of more than 30 trillion yen ($280 billion), but no-go zones remain in parts of Fukushima. No deaths have been confirmed directly from the radiation, but Fukushima has fallen behind in the recovery efforts, with 81,500 acres in seven towns near the nuclear plant still classified as no-go zones. Securing the nuclear fuel, dismantling the reactors, and decontaminating the plant are unprecedented challenges, but the president of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, which ran the plant, said Thursday that the company is determined to continue the cleanup and help develop jobs and businesses related to that process. The government has said this is the last year it will organize a national commemoration......"

As they cling to Hiroshima (sigh) and the no-go zones teem with wildlife!

Forget the millions of tons of radioactive water leaking or being dumped into the Pacific day after day after day after day.

My pre$$ is literally nothing but a floating garbage patch that is out of sight out of mind as we head towards complete Oblivion.


I'm so glad teaching and research assistants at private universities will have the legal protection to form unions and collectively bargaining at elite schools. That should improve my life quite a bit.

I'm not trying to be a Prude, but it looks like the creation of a commissar cla$$ to me.


I'm of the opinion that regime change is again on the table.


The Globe is hungry!

Related (from today's front page):

Yeah, what gives, Globe?

Why are you breaking a union?

Back to jabbing at you:


Whether we want it or not, and that was the Wa$hington Compo$t $ticking you.

The Globe gets in plenty of $hot promotion, too:


I'm told the state’s vaccination rollout has improved in the companion feature, but the full picture is more complex after the Globe sifted through the latest COVID vaccination data to find out how the Massachusetts rollout is going and it is still far from perfect.


The communi$t ejewkhators feel like they are being whiplashed after poisoning kid's minds with propaganda all these decades, and they will find no sympathy here after using the CVD hoax to accrue more power. Sorry.


The bottom line is President Biden has set a Monday deadline for the Labor Department to consider whether new nationwide rules are needed to safeguard workers from COVID-19 and, if so, to issue them after the Trump administration declined to take the step.

Despite his faults, one misses the legitimate President of the United States more by the day. His hands-off, drag-his-heels approach served us well.




For a crisis they claim doesn't exist.


He needs to go now that he has no more usefulness and is a mass murderer. The sex charges obscure that, and he won't be prosecuted by this guy (if at all):

"New adversary looms for Trump as Vance exits Manhattan DA race" by Jonah E. Bromwich New York TImes, March 12, 2021

NEW YORK — Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, announced on Friday he would not run for reelection, setting off a wide-open race to lead one of the most important crime-fighting offices in the country and making it highly likely that any potential case against former president Donald Trump will be left in a newcomer’s hands.

Vance made the long-expected announcement in a memo to his staff early Friday morning. A scion of one of Manhattan’s well-known liberal families, Vance is one of only four people to be elected Manhattan district attorney in nearly 80 years. He took office in 2010 and was the handpicked successor of Robert M. Morgenthau, who served for 35 years and built the office’s reputation as one of the largest and most ambitious prosecutorial agencies in the country. 

When Vance took the helm, he vowed to stick to the practices that he said had served the office in good stead for years. He said while campaigning that he would not attempt to fix what was not broken, but at times, Vance, 66, seemed to be swimming against the current of public opinion in his liberal district, as the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements raised awareness of ingrained biases in the criminal justice system and led to calls for wholesale reform.

The eight-way race to succeed Vance reflects those newer political currents. Three of the candidates running to be New York County’s lead prosecutor have no prosecutorial experience at all. The five others in the race have distanced themselves from Vance, including two who worked in his office, Lucy Lang and Diana Florence, who rarely mention his tenure in a positive light.

Who is $oro$ backing?

During his three terms in office, Vance won praise for pioneering data-driven methods to more effectively target violent crime, but was faulted in some quarters for being too tentative when investigating powerful figures.

Vance’s critics have focused on his handling of sex crime investigations, starting with the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund who was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper in 2011. Vance dropped the charges against Strauss-Kahn after prosecutors in his office raised questions about the victim’s credibility. After the case against Strauss-Kahn fell apart, Vance said that his success or failure could only be measured over time. Some of his most notable victories have involved the same figures whom critics said he had treated leniently earlier in his tenure.

For instance, in 2015, Vance chose not to press charges against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, whom an Italian model had accused of groping her during an interview in his SoHo office. She later obtained an incriminating tape of him talking about the incident, but charges were dropped over prosecutors’ concerns a jury would not believe her, but in 2018, the year after decades of allegations against Weinstein set off the Me Too Movement, Vance brought the first criminal charges against him. Vance won a major victory in February 2020 when Weinstein was found guilty of felony sex crimes against two women. The following month, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

He's free due to to CVD, and the NYT completely ignored the campaign contributions. 

Of course, what would expect from an outlet that sat on the Weinstein secret for 14 years before the New Yorker forced their hand?

For many Democrats, however, few of Vance’s triumphs loom larger than his dual wins at the Supreme Court as he later sought to investigate Trump and his business. Prosecutors are examining whether Trump fraudulently manipulated property values to obtain loans and tax benefits.

In July of last year, the justices declared that Vance’s office — and by extension, all state prosecutors — had the right to seek evidence from a sitting president in a criminal investigation, setting a lasting limit on the scope of presidents’ powers and immunity from prosecution, and last month, the justices rejected in a brief unsigned order a last-ditch attempt to block Vance’s subpoena for Trump’s tax and financial records.

“I don’t know how many local prosecutors could do that,” said Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Vance’s longtime deputy. “Just the ability to bring that case, go to the Supreme Court and now to be in possession of Donald Trump’s tax returns and doing a sweeping criminal investigation into the former president of the United States.”

Vance was slower than some other big-city prosecutors when it came to certain reforms popular with progressives — Manhattan prosecutors were still taking on low-level marijuana cases as late as 2018 — but he did seek to reshape the office.

In response to crime dropping to lows not seen since the mid-20th century, his office cut total prosecutions by more than half and invited the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit focused on criminal justice reform, to examine its record on racial disparities in prosecution.

New York City is now a ghost town with surging crime rates. 

Is that why he is leaving now, like a rat deserting a sinking ship (with all due respect to rats)?

Vance also drew fire, then praise, for his dealings with Trump.

After Trump rose to power, the district attorney was criticized for a 2012 decision to end a criminal investigation into fraud allegations against Trump and two of his children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.

Prosecutors had been looking into whether the Trumps misled investors in a condominium project. Vance said the investigation ended in part because victims would not cooperate after having reached a civil settlement with the Trump family.

If it is good enough for the Floyds..... ($igh)

The investigation into the Trump organization is ongoing.....


Time to check the coronavirus notebook (the $camdemic must be winding down to a new phase since the daily national and world notebooks have now been combined)


Just ignore the rising death toll from the thing.

After all, it has FDA authorization.




They pledge to smother CVD with a Pillow:

"As arts organizations around the country take note of the one-year anniversary of the lockdown on live performance, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival is among the first of the Berkshires’ major arts presenters to announce a return to live events this summer. Because of the pandemic, the Pillow canceled last summer’s festival for the first time in its 88-year history. The Pillow also announced plans for an $8 million renovation of its main performance stage, the Ted Shawn Theatre. Improvements will include a new ventilation system, as well as major upgrades to the stage and backstage areas, plus the front of house. The renovation will be complete in 2022, the organization’s 90th anniversary. Plans are also underway to build a new theater to replace the intimate Doris Duke Theatre, which was gutted by a fire last November......"

Are the insurance adjusters looking into arson or.... ?


Tru$tee = commissar, and is the Globe cutting our criminal, mass-murdering governor loose like New York is Cuomo?

"Governor Charlie Baker has been called to testify at a second legislative oversight hearing exploring Massachusetts’s COVID-19 rollout, according to state lawmakers, who intend to drill down into his administration’s decision to entrust a handful of private companies with running its seven mass vaccination sites. The March 23 hearing will explore what lawmakers called the rollout’s “technology infrastructure” as well as the public health and emergency response plans the state had spent two decades and millions of dollars creating ahead of the pandemic, legislators said Friday. The blueprint hinged on mobilizing the state’s vast network of local public health departments to respond in an emergency situation, but shortly after federal drug regulators authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine in mid-December, the state abandoned essential elements of the plan and turned over its largest vaccination sites to three private providers, the Globe has reported. News of the hearing came on the same day that a survey showed a significant drop in public approval for Baker’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. Baker’s approval rating fell from 80 percent a year ago to 59 percent today, according to a report from Northeastern, Harvard, Rutgers, and Northwestern universities....."

He's in free fall, folks, and can't escape the criminality of what he has done:

"Another perk to getting the COVID-19 shot: Fully vaccinated travelers to Mass. from out of state don’t have to quarantine" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, March 10, 2021

Oh, now the terrorizing and extortion of the population to take the toxic tube of pharmaceutical poison is a "perk."

Travelers from out of state who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer have to quarantine once they get to Massachusetts, provided at least two weeks have elapsed since their final shot and they don’t have symptoms, according to updated regulations posted to the official state website at mass.gov.

“Individuals who have received two doses of either the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines OR who have received a single dose of the Janssen vaccine, more than 14 days ago and who do not have symptoms, do not need to obtain a negative test prior to traveling to, or quarantine upon arrival to, Massachusetts,” the site says.

It adds that travelers must prove their vaccination status to be exempt from quarantining.

“COVID-19 vaccinated individuals arriving in Massachusetts must have documentation of their vaccination(s), including the date(s) of administration, available if asked,” the site says. “This exception does not include vaccinated individuals who have symptoms of COVID-19, who must follow all testing and quarantine guidance outlined in the travel rules.”

Your paperz, pleez!

This is the next phase of this insanity over a nonexistent virus!

Everyone else from the nonexempt states who’s not fully vaccinated still has to follow the rules around quarantining or obtaining a negative test soon after arriving in Massachusetts.

The mass.gov site says the rules require nonexempt travelers to quarantine “for 10 days or produce a negative COVID-19 test result that has been administered up to 72-hours prior to your arrival in Massachusetts. If not obtained before entry to Massachusetts, a test may be obtained after arrival. However, all such arriving travelers must immediately begin the 10-day quarantine until a negative test result has been received. Failure to comply may result in a $500 fine per day.”

Other New England states have made recent changes around travel as well.

Maine Governor Janet Mills last week announced that those traveling to the state from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island can visit without quarantining or producing a negative COVID-19 test, effective immediately.

Mills made the announcement while detailing several rollbacks of COVID-19 measures as vaccinations ramp up in the state. The move comes in the run-up to summer, a season she called a “crucial time of the year for so many businesses and for our state’s economy as a whole.”

Of course, owners and operators of businesses and indoor spaces in Maine must still deny entry to people who refuse to wear a mask, according to her executive order that law enforcement is prepared to enforce.

It sure looks like, smells like, and feels like totalitarian tyranny and the limiting of travel one part with the Soviet Union. That's what it looks like.

In Connecticut, Governor Ned Lamont announced that effective March 19, the state’s mandatory 10-day quarantine or negative test result for incoming travelers will become an advisory, meaning the measure will be recommended but those who don’t comply won’t be punished.....

Stay out of those states anyway, just to be on the safe side.


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You don't have to keep repeating the lies, 'kay?

Also see:


They are going to hold a vigil for him and all the other lives lost to COVID-19.


The Globe will have us all on bikes if they get their wi$h.


They are heroes no longer, and should be grateful they have work:

"The state’s economy perked up in January, with employers adding the most jobs since August and the unemployment rate falling, the Baker administration said Friday, but the revised numbers for December were worse than originally reported, and Massachusetts continued to lag behind the nation in getting people back to work, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Forecasters expect a full recovery will take longer than that, as many employers remain cautious, but optimism may build quickly as vaccinations increase and social-distancing restrictions are eased even further. The job market continues to experience a lot of churn......"

The only thing churning here is my guts at the endless deception, lies, and mind-f**k manipulation by "authority" and the pre$$ and at least U.S. stocks eked out a record high so you can finally come back to New York:

"Wall Street A-listers fled to Florida. Many are eyeing a return" by Katherine Burton, Annie Massa, Amanda Gordon, and Jonathan Levin Bloomberg, March 12, 2021

The “Upper East Side” cocktail at Sant Ambroeus is just the same as in Manhattan, the carpaccio at Cipriani as meaty red as on Wall Street.

Here is the private-equity billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, on his way to La Goulue, the clubby French bistro popular with Park Avenue socialites. There is David Solomon, the Goldman Sachs chief, a team of financiers in tow.

The names and the money say New York, but the aquamarine pools, the swaying palms, and the sultry Atlantic breezes say something else: Florida, the would-be Wall Street South.

For months now, A-listers and lesser-lights from the world of high finance have been traveling to the Sunshine State while riding out COVID-19. Hopeful locals see evidence that the area’s long-elusive dream of luring Big Finance for good might be coming true at last. Along Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, real estate agents count commissions from a pandemic-induced real estate boom. Private schools fantasize about attracting the Spence set.

The reality is more nuanced — much more.

Yeah, reality is complicated, according to the New York Times, with the second year of the coronavirus pandemic starting with rising hopes for the economic outlook and a long way to go as positive signs are emerging as restrictions on businesses lift and the pace of vaccine distributions ramps up, but millions remain unemployed, and many economists are cautioning that a return to pre-pandemic conditions could take months, if not years, and that reality became all the more evident on Thursday.

Interesting tipping of the hand there as the $camdemic is continue into a second year as more Great Re$et foundations and narratives are laid.

Only a small percentage of Manhattanites moved permanently to Florida last year, and as vaccinations stir fresh hope that the pandemic’s end is near, ebullient talk of South Florida drawing Wall Streeters en masse is already beginning to fizzle.

That is false hope for it is never intended to end. Too much money and power at stake.

Dan Sundheim, founder of New York-based hedge fund D1 Capital Partners, will very likely leave Palm Beach and return to his Park Avenue home, according to a person familiar with his plans. David Tepper, who moved back to New Jersey from Miami last year, is staying in his home state for now, even though he and wife just bought a $73 million Palm Beach mansion.

“The main problem with moving to Florida is that you have to live in Florida,” said Jason Mudrick, who oversees $3 billion at Mudrick Capital Management and has resided in Manhattan for more than two decades.

“New York has the smartest, most driven people, the best culture, the best restaurants and the best theaters,” he said. “Anyone moving to Florida to save a little money loses out on all of that.”

New York used to have that (now it is Australia) and Cuomo may not be able to buy you a dinner or drink as he promised.

By late last year, one might have been excused for thinking that Manhattan would soon be bereft of dealmakers, money managers, and traders. Elliott Management Corp., Citadel, and Point72 Asset Management had all announced plans to open offices in Florida, and Goldman was weighing whether to move some asset-management jobs there.

Doug Cifu, head of market-maker Virtu Financial Inc., said he couldn’t wait for the 6-minute commute in his Corvette when he moves to new offices in Palm Beach Gardens from New Jersey. Scott Shleifer, a top executive at Tiger Global Management, just bought a $132 million house in Palm Beach and plans to establish residency there.

Much of the narrative around these relocations centered on taxes and business-friendly climate. Florida has no state income tax, while New York City’s is among the nation’s highest, yet US Postal Service data paints a different picture: still, even a small number of departures by the ultra-wealthy can have an outsize impact. The top 1 percent of New Yorkers paid $4.9 billion in local income taxes in 2018, comprising 42.5 percent of the total collected, according to the city’s Independent Budget Office.

More Manhattanites relocated to Jersey City, N.J., Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Hoboken, N.J., than they did to either Miami or Palm Beach. Except for Philadelphia, the other destinations are in some of the highest-taxed states.....


Looks like it is time to close shop and move:

"John Hancock to close its Westwood, Portsmouth offices; Life insurer is consolidating its New England workforce at its Back Bay headquarters, but many people will continue to work remotely after the pandemic" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, March 12, 2021

John Hancock is closing its offices in Westwood and Portsmouth, N.H., and telling most of the 900 affected workers they’ll continue to work remotely after the pandemic at least on a part-time basis, with the Back Bay headquarters as a home base.

More proof the planndemic $cam is never intended to end.

Marianne Harrison, John Hancock’s chief executive, broke the news to employees on Friday. The life insurer’s move is the latest shift among a number of local white-collar employers to consolidate their office footprints after the COVID-19 pandemic has helped show the effectiveness of working from home.

Spokeswoman Anne McNally said no job cuts are expected as part of this transition, although John Hancock recently cut about 160 jobs out of its 5,000-person US workforce. (John Hancock is an arm of Toronto-based Manulife Financial Corp.)

The closing of the 95,000-square-foot Westwood office and 103,000-square-foot Portsmouth location — both have largely gone unoccupied during the pandemic — represents a 22-percent reduction in John Hancock’s overall New England footprint.....


The good news is they already have tenants lined up.

"Relief Bill Gives Airline and Airport Workers a Reprieve, for Now'" by Niraj Chokshi  The New York Times, March 11, 2021

The pandemic relief bill that President Biden signed Thursday afternoon will protect tens of thousands of aviation jobs, providing a lifeline to an industry that is likely to struggle for some time even as vaccinations accelerate.

After Congress this week approved the legislation, which includes $14 billion for airlines and an additional $9 billion for airports and other businesses, American Airlines and United Airlines told 27,000 employees that they could ignore the furlough notices they had received in recent weeks. The airlines had issued the warnings, which are legally required in advance of sweeping cuts, as they prepared to carry out the furloughs at the end of this month when an earlier round of federal aid expired. The new bill extends that assistance through September.

“If you have one of those WARN Act notices we sent out in February, tear it up,” Doug Parker, American’s chief executive, said in an Instagram video. “There aren’t going to be any furloughs at American Airlines in April and, with vaccinations on the rise, hopefully never again.”

The relief package, which Biden has said is needed to protect the economy and workers and which many Republican lawmakers have criticized as excessive, is the third to provide funding to keep airline workers employed since the pandemic began. Last March, Congress provided passenger airlines $25 billion in loans and another $25 billion in payroll grants. It renewed the payroll funding in December with a further $15 billion and again this week.

They have kept them flying at high altitude and given them nearly $100 billion when no one is traveling?

The Biden relief bill also sets aside $1 billion for aviation contractors and $8 billion for airports to help them operate normally, limit the spread of the virus, and pay workers and service their debts. In exchange for the aid, airports, contractors and airlines are prohibited from large layoffs through September and were forced to make other concessions.

Is the $1400 in chump change enough to service your debit? 

WOW!

The aviation and travel industry has been among the hardest hit by the pandemic. By early April, the number of people flying every day had dropped 96 percent from a year earlier.

Travel has recovered somewhat since then. An average of about a million people a day have been screened at airport security checkpoints over the past week, down about 46 percent from the same period in 2019, according to Transportation Security Administration data.

The web version dropped this garbage down from on high:

Still, airlines are collectively losing $150 million a day on average, according to Airlines for America, an association that represents American, United and the other major carriers. The widespread distribution of vaccines has given the industry hope for a rebound, but airlines are expected to continue to lose money through the summer, and most industry analysts and executives don’t expect travel to recover to 2019 levels until 2023 or 2024.

AFTER the GREAT CULL and GREAT RE$ET!

There is only one entity which could cause the industry and those related, like oil and gas, to $elf immolate, and they would be those who control the money supply.

In a report on Thursday, Fitch Ratings said it now expected a slower air travel recovery in the first half of the year in the United States and Canada than it previously forecast, but the second half of the year could see a “fairly robust rebound,” Fitch analysts said, citing recent surveys that show that many people are eager to travel once they feel it is safe. “Fitch believes reaching full herd immunity may not be necessary to at least begin to drive a rebound in travel,” the analysts wrote. “Rather, a decline in death rates spurred by vaccine coverage among vulnerable populations may be sufficient to loosen pandemic restrictions and build traveler comfort.”


No, wait, make that 3 feet(?!!?)!!

The stimulus payments would be $1,400 for most recipients. Those who are eligible would also receive an identical payment for each of their children. To qualify for the full $1,400, a single person would need an adjusted gross income of $75,000 or below. For heads of household, adjusted gross income would need to be $112,500 or below, and for married couples filing jointly that number would need to be $150,000 or below.

You will be $itting on a mountain of riches!

In the meantime, airlines are doing what they can to get people to book tickets, setting up direct flights to popular beach destinations, cutting fares and promising strict enforcement of safety procedures, but obstacles remain. This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said people who had been fully vaccinated could safely engage in a wider range of activities than those who hadn’t, including gathering in small groups at home without masks or social distancing. To the frustration of airline and other industry executives, the agency continued to recommend that everyone avoid travel.

Airlines have argued that there is a low risk of virus transmission in flight because of high-end cabin ventilation systems, strong disinfection practices and strict mask requirements, but travel has nonetheless facilitated the spread of the virus around the world. “We know that after mass travel, after vacations, after holidays, we tend to see a surge in cases,” the C.D.C. director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said Monday night on MSNBC, “and so, we really want to make sure — again with just 10 percent of people vaccinated — that we are limiting travel.”

Has nothing to do with the mythical CVD, either!

Widespread distribution of the vaccines won’t solve all of the industry’s problems, either. It could be at least another year, if not much longer, before corporate and international travel, which tends to be much more profitable for airlines than leisure bookings, begins to rebound. Some people have speculated that business travel could be reduced permanently because salespeople and other professionals have grown accustomed to videoconferencing and have come to realize that many trips they used to make were wasteful.....

With the $tinking piece if $hit named John Kerry caught in the middle.


Here is what the airport of the future will look like as the industry dies a slow death.

Speaking of dying indu$tries:


Let them devour each other over something in which no one has trust as  Google racks up another record fine in Europe.

When it comes to the American pre$$, you are literally taking your chances when it comes to the truth, and speaking of games:


Sorry, readers, but I never even look at the $port$ $ection anymore. Fans are no longer a part of it, so neither am I.

The Globe gives you the pros and cons of bringing Cam Newton back to the Patriots as they figure out their long-term plan in the wake of the GOAT.


A 50% drop in TV ratings not the lea$t among them.


I have a friend who is an avid baseball fan and even he admitted he is not into it. Spring training is his exciting time of year when he would be checking the spring-training stats on a daily basis, but he confesses that he has no enthusiasm for it this year. It doesn't feel right, he says.

I know I have forgotten another sport amidst the madness of society today, but I'm at loss if I can remember which one and couldn't care less about it.
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