You can't say they didn't warn you:
"Fauci says Trump should push supporters to get covid vaccine after ‘disturbing’ poll results show they won’t" by Amy B Wang Washington Post, March 14, 2021
Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, said in interviews Sunday that former president Donald Trump should be enlisted to encourage his supporters to get a coronavirus vaccine, after recent polling showed Republican men and Trump supporters have the highest rates of vaccine hesitancy.
An NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll released last week showed that nearly half of Republican men and 47 percent of those who supported Trump in the 2020 election said they would not choose to be vaccinated, even if the coronavirus vaccines were made available to them. By contrast, only 10 percent of supporters of President Biden said they would not choose to be vaccinated if offered one, the poll found.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the poll results “so disturbing” when presented with them Sunday on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”
“How such a large proportion of a certain group of people would not want to get vaccinated merely because of political consideration, it makes absolutely no sense,” Fauci told host Chuck Todd, “and I’ve been saying that for so long. We’ve got to dissociate political persuasion from what’s common-sense, no-brainer public health things. What is the problem here? This is a vaccine that is going to be lifesaving for millions of people. How some groups would not want to do it for reasons that I just don’t understand,” Fauci told Todd.
He just doesn’t get it, and politics has nothing to do with it seeing as the largest resistance is own the misinformed Latino and Black communities -- if the reporting I read every day is correct and not gaslighting me.
The mask is now off this man and it has revealed an absolute monster burrowed deep into the bureaucracy for just this moment, and the mere sight or sound of him makes me want to vomit.
Fauci’s alarm mirrored that of other public health experts who have voiced concern about whether the United States can reach herd immunity through vaccines, which they believe could be when between 70 and 85 percent of the population is inoculated. While messaging on vaccine safety has been focused on possible hesitancy among certain racial groups, recent polling suggests the divide could be greater between political groups.
Oh, did I mention I'm sick of that gaggle of criminals, too?
Trump, who has pushed people to give him credit for the vaccines, did tell the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month: “Everybody, go get your shot.” Earlier this month, Trump’s office revealed that the former president had received a vaccine in January before leaving the White House but did not publicize it; however, Trump did not participate in a recent public service announcement by the Ad Council that featured all of the other living former presidents encouraging Americans to get vaccinated, an omission Fauci said was “puzzling.”
Was it?
You guys f**k him out of office and the formers covertly worked against him and Fraudci is now surprised the legitimate President of the United States won't do his bidding?
So did Trump really get it, get a placebo for job well done, or skip it all together?
On “Fox News Sunday,” Fauci said that accelerating vaccinations and recent drops in daily cases and deaths are encouraging, but that he remained concerned about what could be a recent leveling off in the decline in new infections.
“He’s a very widely popular person among Republicans, and when you see a plateauing at a level of anywhere between 50,000 and 65,000 cases a day, that is absolutely no time to declare victory, because we know from previous surges we’ve had over the year that when you see that leveling off at a high level, there’s always a risk of a surge back up,” Fauci said, “and, in fact, unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happening in Europe right now.”
Meaning ENJOY the FINAL TASTES of FREEDOM, folks, because it is going to be SHUT DOWN FOREVER really soon!
Fauci said it would be “ill-advised” to ease restrictions on gatherings, and he said the decision earlier this month by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to lift a statewide mask mandate and open businesses was “risky and potentially dangerous. If you look at the numbers, we’re not out of the woods yet,” Fauci said.
If we leave it up to him to lead us through the forest, we will never get out of it!
If a Fraud falls and no one hears it, does it make a plop?
In his first prime-time address as president Thursday, Biden vowed that all U.S. adults would be eligible for vaccination no later than May 1, and that he was confident that friends and family members would be able to gather in small groups by July 4 to celebrate the Independence Day holiday.
He also urged people to trust in the vaccines’ safety and effectiveness and encouraged people to talk to family, friends and neighbors about getting the shots when it’s their turn.
“Talk to your family, friends, your neighbors. The people you know best have gotten the vaccine. We need everyone to get vaccinated,” Biden said.....
Why?
The alleged virus that never existed is fading away and dying, and even if it wasn't 99.97% survive it.
WTF is the REAL REASON?
To investigate that -- or even ask -- is to be branded "conspiratorial."
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Only a miracle can save us now:
"During a recent Sunday service at the Gathering Place, an evangelical church in Orlando, Fla., the Rev. Gabriel Salguero focused his sermon on the Covid-19 vaccine, and the fear and suspicion that his largely Latino congregation clutches so tightly. He turned to the New Testament: the parable of the good Samaritan, about the importance of aiding the stranger. “In getting yourself vaccinated, you are helping your neighbor,” he preached to about 300 masked and socially distanced worshipers. “God wants you to be whole so you can care for your community. So think of vaccines as part of God’s plan.” Salguero is among thousands of clergy members from a cross-section of faiths — imams, rabbis, priests, swamis — who are trying to coax the hesitant to get vaccinated against Covid-19. By weaving scripture with science, they are employing the singular trust vested in them by their congregations to dispel myths and disinformation about the shots. Many are even offering their sanctuaries as vaccination sites, to make the experience more accessible and reassuring.
[Just interjecting the fact that they are the devil's apostates in sheep clothing and have betrayed their flocks. May God damn them for that]
Their mission is becoming increasingly vital. With vaccine supply expected to surge in the coming months, and the White House promising enough doses for every American adult by May, public health officials are shifting their attention to the still-substantial number of people who are skeptical about the vaccines. Winning them over is imperative if the country is to achieve widespread immunity from the virus and a semblance of normalcy.
[Included in the damnation are the "public health officials" and pre$$]
Some of the most potent reasons people cite in resisting vaccines are rooted in religious beliefs, and indeed one obstacle these clergy members face is the inveighing against the shots by their own peers. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently proclaimed that Catholics should avoid the Johnson & Johnson vaccine if they have a choice, calling it “morally compromised” because it was developed with cell lines from a fetus aborted in 1985. A false rumor, taken up by some imams and rabbis, that Covid-19 vaccines contain pork byproducts pervades Muslim and Jewish communities, but clergy members who believe in the importance of vaccines are uniquely positioned to counter those claims.
[Since the lying, agenda-pu$hing pre$$ claims the rumors are false they are likely true, particularly win the case of the cell lines vital to the mRNA therapy that is being hailed as breakthrough; however, let's see what religious figures we are to trust first]
Pope Francis himself declared that coronavirus shots are “morally acceptable” because of the severity of the pandemic and the remoteness of the connection to the aborted fetus. With Ramadan approaching next month, imams have been holding Facebook Live chats with Muslim doctors, organized around questions like, “Is the Covid-19 Vaccine Halal?” Albert Mohler, the influential president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, announced that he would take the vaccine. In YouTube videos, WhatsApp messages and podcasts, some ultra-Orthodox rabbinical scholars in Israel and Brooklyn are endorsing the vaccine, citing religious texts. Evangelical clerical activism that promotes vaccination, led by ministers like Salguero, is gaining momentum. This month, a national network of Latino evangelical pastors hosted a webinar in Spanish about vaccines with government medical experts. In the Biden administration, the clergy has a new partner. The newly reinstated White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships has been holding a weekly call with thousands of faith leaders across the country on strategies for working with clinics to administer the shots....."
The original article at the New York Times really jammed it in deep, and you can take it on faith if you want.
No sense running to Italy:
"Italians enjoyed the last weekend outdoors before three-quarters of the population entered into a strict lockdown Monday, when the government puts in place restrictive measures to fight the rise in coronavirus infections. A more contagious variant first identified in the United Kingdom, combined with a slow vaccine rollout, led to a 15% increase in cases in Italy last week, a worrisome picture for the government run by Prime Minister Mario Draghi. “I am aware that today’s measures will have an impact on children’s education, on the economy but also on the psychological state of us all,” Draghi said Friday, “but they are necessary to avoid a worsening that will make inevitable even more stringent measures.” Most regions in northern Italy, as well as Lazio and Marche in central Italy and Campania and Puglia in the south, will shut schools and forbid residents from leaving their homes except for work, health or necessity. Among business activities, only supermarkets, pharmacies and a few other stores will stay open, but restaurants will be shut. In the rest of the country, residents will not be allowed to leave their municipality without reason involving work, health or other necessities, but schools and many stores will stay open. The entire country will be on lockdown for the Easter weekend, April 3-5, to prevent the usual large family reunions. As with last Christmas’s restrictions, people will still be allowed to leave their homes once a day....."
Fucking $tinks of $atani$m, does it not?
Yeah, what a "worrisome" sign for a bent-on-totalitarianism government headed by the former head of the ECB.
How did that happen in fa$ci$t Italy, huh?
"Irish health officials on Sunday recommended the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine after reports of serious blood clotting after inoculations in Norway. Dr. Ronan Glynn, Ireland’s deputy chief medical officer, said the recommendation was made after Norway’s medicines agency reported four cases of blood clotting in adults after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine. He said that while there was no conclusive link between the vaccine and the cases, Irish health officials are recommending the suspension of the vaccine’s rollout as a precaution. Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic authorities have taken similar precautionary steps. The Netherlands followed suit late Sunday, suspending vaccinations with the AstraZeneca shot as a precaution for two weeks. The health ministry said the move followed six new reports in Denmark and Norway of blood clotting and lowered levels of blood platelets in people aged under 50. The Dutch medicines authority also stressed that no link has been proven between the cases and the vaccine. AstraZeneca said in a statement Sunday that it “would like to offer its reassurance on the safety of its COVID-19 vaccine based on clear scientific evidence.” “The safety of the public will always come first,” the British-Swedish biopharmaceutical company said. The World Health Organization and the European Union’s medicines regulator have previously said that there was no link between the jab and an increased risk of developing a clot....."
Just a coincidence!
Same as with Hagler, who was well-known in Italy for his acting skills.
Meanwhile, in that bastion of freedom that was once Britain:
No offense, but what a hag and her action has led the Guardian to ask whether the pandemic has led to a long-term erosion of the right to dissent after she said "we absolutely did not want to be in a position where enforcement action was necessary, but we were placed in this position because of the overriding need to protect people’s safety."
Their action has proven that it has NOTHING TO DO with SAFETY AND NEVER DID, but that is the problem with protest according to the Boston Globe. Where is the line between lawful dissent and incitement?
I think they drew it in the Netherlands, to be honest with you.
Thank God that could never happen in the U.S. of A., and particularly in Texas.
Where is the compassion, 'eh?
"Twenty-one first-degree murderers set free under state’s new compassionate release law; Critics want legislation to bar first-degree murderers from being released" by Shelley Murphy and Andrea Estes Globe Staff, March 14, 2021
John Stote was serving a mandatory life sentence for the 1995 murder of a Springfield restaurant owner when he was released in January on medical parole. At the time, the 61-year-old was hospitalized with COVID-19 and on a ventilator. The state’s top correctional official determined it was unlikely he would survive, but two months later, Stote has recovered from COVID-19 and is receiving care at a rehabilitation center, according to his lawyer. If his progress continues, he may be released to live with his daughter, he said.
“It’s beyond insulting to victims,” said Maureen Regan Moriarty, whose father, John Regan, was stabbed to death by Stote, his body wrapped in a blanket and dumped in the Connecticut River. “This is just an outrage to everybody, to every citizen and other victims’ families.”
In all, 21 convicted murderers sentenced to life without parole have been released under the state’s three-year-old medical parole law, state records show. Most of them were released as COVID-19 swept through the state’s prisons. Among all prisoners, 47 have been granted medical parole, of more than 400 who have applied.
Political pri$oners have also been released early due to COVID-19 outbreak.
The law allows inmates, regardless of their crime, to petition for their release if diagnosed by a physician as terminally ill, with a life expectancy of fewer than 18 months, or permanently incapacitated to the extent that they do not pose a risk to society. Also known as compassionate release, it gives prisoners, often frail and severely disabled, the chance to spend their dying days with loved ones, but for relatives of their victims, their release can be devastating.
“I’m not sure the members of the Legislature fully realized that they set up a conflict in the law: A first-degree murderer is not eligible for parole, yet we’re allowing them to be released” on medical parole, said Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey. “It’s very hard to go back to a family — some of these cases are 30 years old or older — and tell them the killer of their loved one is now potentially eligible to get out of prison.”
State Representative Bruce Ayers, a Quincy Democrat, said he believes the release of so many first-degree murderers during the pandemic was an “unintended consequence” of the law. Last month, he co-sponsored a bill that would make first-degree murderers ineligible for medical parole unless they were younger than 18 when they committed the crime, yet, advocates for prisoners defended the releases and said the Department of Correction is thwarting the intent of the law by refusing to release many other sick and dying inmates who pose no threat. Even after some inmates have been granted medical release, they noted, they have remained confined for months while prison officials search for a place to send them. Currently four inmates who have been granted medical release remain in custody, a state parole board spokesman said.
“Every single one of these people who got released deserved to be released,” said Ruth Greenberg, a lawyer who has represented dozens of inmates seeking medical parole, including 13 who have been released. All but one of those was initially denied release by Carol Mici, Department of Correction commissioner, but prevailed after appealing in court. Several inmates were only granted medical release hours before their death, she said.
Four released prisoners have had their medical parole revoked for violating the conditions of their release, including Ben LaGuer, a convicted rapist who ultimately died in prison last year after his return, a spokesman for the state parole board said. None of the revocations stemmed from an improved medical condition, though the law allows the parole board to order inmates back to prison if they are no longer considered permanently incapacitated. Eleven have died since their release, two from illnesses related to COVID-19, according to the state.
Let the inmates run the asylum, why not?
They already are, and are dressed in fine suits.
Massachusetts was one of just five states without a medical release program when it enacted the law in 2018 as part of a sweeping criminal justice reform bill. At the time, some proponents cited former House speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi’s plight as a catalyst. He was serving an eight-year sentence in federal prison for mail fraud, wire fraud, and extortion when he was granted compassionate release while battling cancer. More than four years later, DiMasi is now a registered lobbyist.
Now I want to puke!
They did it for Sal, who once had cancer(?) when he was in jail for piddly-widely corruption over state education software influence peddling -- back before corruption really took off, and he needed to be swept aside because he blocked casinos.
Oh, btw, f**k him.
The state’s program quickly came under fire, as advocates accused prison officials of creating administrative barriers to discourage inmates from applying. In the first year, just four petitions were granted, prompting criticism that prison officials were failing to comply with the law.
In January 2020, the state’s highest court ordered the Department of Correction to overhaul its medical parole regulations, which required inmates to provide medical data and a physician’s signature before their application would be considered. The Supreme Judicial Court said the prison system handles medical care for inmates and was required to provide that information.
Elizabeth Matos, executive director of Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts, said it was understandable that nearly half of inmates receiving medical parole were convicted murderers.
“The oldest and sickest people in the system are serving life,” Matos said. “It would render the [medical parole] law meaningless to exclude lifers.”
Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni, who opposed Stote’s release, said the law is “fundamentally problematic” because it places parole decisions in the hands of a single person, the Department of Correction commissioner, who ultimately determines whether inmates are so incapacitated that they couldn’t harm anyone. If an inmate’s condition dramatically improves after his release, prosecutors also have no authority to request that his parole be revoked. That decision falls to the parole board.
“He’s free and really without a whole lot of supervision,” said Gulluni, adding that prosecutors and the victim’s family have not been given any information about Stote’s health condition or where he is. “I think it’s unjust, troubling, and unfair.”
At least SOMEBODY is in this f**ked up world!
Stote applied for medical parole at the beginning of the pandemic, saying he suffered from numerous ailments that made him particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, including obesity, back pain, ulcerative colitis, and early renal dysfunction. The commissioner denied Stote’s request twice, then granted it in January after he contracted the virus and was placed on a ventilator at Milford Hospital, according to parole records.
“I believe that Mr. Stote is likely to pass from COVID-19,” Mici wrote in a Jan. 21 decision, citing medical reports. She concluded that if he were to survive, he would require oxygen and be permanently incapacitated.
Stote’s lawyer, Mark Bluver, said Stote recovered from the virus after spending more than three weeks on a ventilator. He has been able to walk several steps at a time but remains on oxygen at a rehabilitation center and needs fusion surgery for his back. He has been fitted with an electronic monitoring device and has parole restrictions, but is unlikely to be sent back to prison, he said. He wants to live with his daughter, who is a nurse.
Then he was one of the lucky ones because those things are killers that blow out the lungs of the victim!
“If he was somehow capable of playing touch football next Sunday, he probably would be called back by parole, but that’s not what we’re dealing with,” Bluver said. “I definitely think he’s not a threat to anybody. He’s a person who is thankful to be alive right now,” but Moriarty said Stote’s release has frightened her family, especially the prospect that he might live nearby. Stote lured Regan to the restaurant he had purchased from him, with a promise to pay money he still owed for the sale, then repeatedly stabbed him.
“The only peace we can ever have is knowing the person who did such an egregious thing gets his punishment,” she said.
Raymond Vinnie, who murdered a Milton High School tennis star in 1990, was released on medical parole in June after several petitions had been denied. Greenberg, his lawyer, argued that he was permanently incapacitated and bedbound after having a stroke.
Vinnie was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting of Charles Hardison in the basement of the home that he shared with the teenager and his mother, Adlene. Vinnie and Adlene had gotten engaged, but he had become abusive and she wanted him out. He plotted for a month before murdering Charles, who was about to turn 16, she said.
“He went for my heart,” she said. “It was the only way he could hurt me.”
At first Hardison, 80, was furious when she learned Vinnie was being released from prison. She was told he was being sent to a medical facility in Massachusetts, but he ultimately was allowed to move to Georgia to live with his daughter.
“I was really upset,” she said. “I’ve calmed down since. I can’t go around carrying something inside that I have no control of. I’m not happy but I have to let it go. There’s too much living to do. Whatever time I have I want to be happy.”
That's what we all want, and for a long time to be.
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I now have a decision to make: do I continue to fight the rising tide of lies that lead my Nation/World page?
That must be why the powerful late winter snowstorm over the central Rocky Mountains that led to airport and road closures, power outages and avalanche warnings in parts of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska was missing from the web coverage. It conflicts with the narrative and overall agenda the pre$$ propagates on a daily basis, and that has become quite sickening.
"Administration’s first Cabinet-level trip abroad will focus on concerns about China, North Korea" by Matthew Lee The Associated Press, March 14, 2021
WASHINGTON — Threats from China and North Korea will loom large over the Biden administration’s first Cabinet-level trip abroad, part of a larger effort to bolster US influence and calm concerns about America’s role in Asia.
A senior administration official said Saturday that US officials have tried to reach out to North Korea through multiple channels since last month, but had not received a response. That makes consultations with the reclusive country’s neighbors, Japan, South Korea and China, all the more critical.
Even Kim knows the election was stolen.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are heading to Japan and South Korea for four days of talks starting Monday as the new administration tries to shore up partnerships with the two key regional allies. Blinken and Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, will meet with Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday.
The trip is intended to restore what Biden hopes will be a calming and even-keeled approach to ties with Tokyo and Seoul after four years of transactional and often temperamental relations under Donald Trump. He had upended diplomatic norms by meeting not once, but three times, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Blinken and Austin also plan virtual meetings with journalists, civil-society members, and others. After reassuring their counterparts of US commitments to Japanese and South Korean security, they plan to focus on an increasingly assertive China, the nuclear challenge from North Korea, and the coronavirus pandemic.
In his first months in office, Biden has signaled his desire to return the Asia-Pacific to the top of the US foreign policy agenda. In keeping with his broader “America is back” diplomatic theme, Biden has pledged to keep stability in the region at the core of his international initiatives. On Friday, Biden participated in a virtual summit with the leaders of India, Japan, and Australia. “A free and open Indo-Pacific is essential,” Biden said. “The United States is committed to working with you, our partners and all of our allies in the region to achieve stability.”
As part of that effort and “to reduce the risks of escalation,” the senior official said efforts had been made to connect with the North Koreans since mid-February, including through what is known as the “New York channel.” To date, the official said, "we have not received any response from Pyongyang.” The official was not authorized to publicly discuss the diplomatic outreach and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, US and South Korean negotiators have overcame years of contentious discussions under Trump to reach a tentative deal on paying for the American troop presence in South Korea. That agreement, along with a similar one for Japan, will be front and center in Blinken and Austin’s meetings.
As he had done with allies in Europe, Trump threatened to reduce security cooperation unless host countries paid more. That led to fears of troop withdrawals at a time of particular uncertainty as China boosts efforts to dominate the region and North Korea’s nuclear weapons remain a major source of angst.
“Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy, and we are working to strengthen America’s relationships with our allies as well as the relationships among them,” said Sung Kim, who is the top US diplomat for Asia. He served in the Philippines and Indonesia during the Trump administration and was also previously the special envoy for North Korea.
For all of Biden's suggestions that he will reverse Trump's overt hostility to China, Biden has yet to countermand a single one of his predecessor's policies. He has, in fact, reaffirmed several of them, including maintaining sanctions in response to human rights abuses in western Xinjiang and Hong Kong and restating a Trump-era decision to reject outright nearly all of China's maritime claims in the South China Sea. Many of China’s policies that the United States finds objectionable — including its crackdown in Hong Kong, stepped up rhetoric against Taiwan, and actions in the South China Sea — began during the Obama administration. The previous Democratic administration took office promising a “pivot to Asia” after a period of what many saw as American neglect for the region during George W. Bush’s presidency, which was consumed by the onset of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.....
Remember when his father brought democracy to Kuwait or can you not hear it over the singing in Kabul!?
I would say God bless the Iraqis, but how do you defend something like that?
Or this fart in public, for that matter:
"Biden Vowed to Make Climate ‘Essential’ to Foreign Policy. The Reality Is Harder; So far, repairing alliances and restoring friendships seem to be taking precedence" by Lisa Friedman New York Times, March 14, 2021
WASHINGTON — In late January, President Biden pledged to make combating climate change “an essential element of U.S. foreign policy and national security,” appointing a high-powered global climate envoy and salting the State Department with climate expertise.
In the weeks that followed, the administration showed that more immediate demands, like bolstering military security and repairing strained friendships will provide stiff competition.
When Mexico earlier this month passed an energy bill that set back the country’s climate goals, the Biden administration raised no public objections. The White House has taken no fresh steps to block one of the world’s highest-profile fossil fuel projects, a natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, despite assuring Congress that Biden opposes it, and on Friday, over the fierce protests of environmental activists, the Biden administration allowed a former Australian finance minister — who tried to abolish Australia’s renewable energy targets and once called carbon pricing a “very expensive hoax” — to be named director of the Organization for Economic Co‑operation and Development.
The decisions have disappointed environmental leaders at home and abroad.
“Look, foreign policy is about trade-offs: It’s about what’s desirable but also what’s feasible,” said Richard N. Haass, a longtime U.S. diplomat who is now president of the Council on Foreign Relations. “Climate has to compete with other issues and priorities in the U.S. agenda.”
OMFG!
Haass said “single issue advocacy” policies like the promotion of democracy, human rights or climate change almost always collide with traditional priorities like war and peace, energy security and alliances, but, he added, the Biden administration will have an easier time weaving its climate goals into its diplomatic agenda once the United States takes concrete steps to lower its own emissions.
“Foreign policy begins at home, and in many ways climate policy begins at home,” Haass said. “The smartest thing we could do is put our own house in order.”"
There’s no dispute that the Biden administration has already elevated climate change across the U.S. foreign policy apparatus, far beyond what the Obama administration did.
Biden rejoined the Paris climate agreement on Inauguration Day and canceled the Keystone XL oil pipeline to the disappointment of Canadian leaders. He designated the first high-level summit of his administration to be focused on raising global climate ambition. He has discussed climate change in virtually every call and meeting with foreign leaders, and in the most consequential sign of his commitment, Biden tapped former Secretary of State John Kerry to be his presidential envoy for climate change with a seat on the National Security Council, a first for climate change.
That caught Kerry in the middle of a carbon dump, the hypocritical pos.
On Friday when Mr. Biden met with the leaders of India, Australia and Japan, climate change shared the stage with just two other priorities: Covid-19 vaccines and cyberthreats.
They just failed in a years-long campaign and are weighing a new cybersecurity approach after the failure to detect hacks from Russia and China.
Must be too busy looking for non-existent white-supremacist terrorists behind every keyboard.
“Climate is at the center of our foreign policy because it is one of the few existential challenges we face and because the crisis is, by definition, a challenge we must work together with global allies and partners to address,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said in a statement to The New York Times.
That means the WAR MACHINE -- which is the world's largest polluter and emitter of greenhouse gases -- will GRIND to a HALT, right?
In a speech last week, Mr. Blinken outlined his top-eight policy priorities; No. 6 was to “tackle the climate crisis and drive a green-energy revolution.” Structural changes are also weaving climate change into every part of foreign policy planning, but climate activists said they found it difficult to square that assertion with some of the administration’s recent decisions, particularly on the O.E.C.D.
According to multiple people familiar with the closed-door process under which nations selected Mathias Cormann of Australia, the Biden administration supported his rival, Cecilia Malmström of Sweden, but the United States is typically the kingmaker in the international economic policy forum. Activists have charged that Cormann could never have succeeded if the Biden administration had strongly opposed him.
“If you want to be seen as a climate champion in the world, then you need to be fighting for a candidate that understands climate science,” said Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International.....
I'm tired of that hot and $tinky wind, sorry.
Also see:
A picture is worth a thousand and words as the mask is off!!
May she can be another Frances Perkins, Carola Eisenberg, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (there is mercury in the fish and what do they have to do with vaccines?), or Janet Yellen even:
"Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said U.S. inflation risks remain subdued as the Biden administration pumps $1.9 trillion in pandemic relief into the economy and a return to full employment comes into view. “Is there a risk of inflation? I think there’s a small risk and I think it’s manageable,” Yellen said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. Some prices that fell last year when the Covid-19 pandemic spread through the U.S. will recover, “but that’s a temporary movement in prices,” she said. “I don’t think it’s a significant risk,” said Yellen, a former Federal Reserve chair, “and if it materializes, we’ll certainly monitor for it but we have tools to address it.” While U.S. unemployment remains high, especially when including people who have dropped out of the labor force in the past year, job creation has returned. Employers added 379,000 new positions in February, more than expected. Applications for U.S. jobless benefits fell by more than forecast last week to the lowest since early November. “I’m hopeful that, if we defeat the pandemic, that we can have the economy back near full employment next year,” Yellen said Sunday....."
When prices skyrocket she will say that is a good thing as they take leave of their $en$es and we become the Weimer Republic.
Time to pivot to China:
"Six months after the Trump administration dealt a crushing blow to Huawei Technologies Co.’s smartphone business, the Chinese telecommunications giant is turning to less glamorous alternatives that may eventually offset the decline of its biggest revenue contributor. Among its newest customers is a fish farm in eastern China that’s twice the size of New York’s Central Park. The farm is covered with tens of thousands of solar panels outfitted with Huawei’s inverters to shield its fish from excessive sunlight while generating power. In coal-rich Shanxi province, wireless sensors and cameras deep beneath the earth monitor oxygen levels and potential machine malfunctions in mine pits, and next month, a shiny new electric car featuring its lidar sensor will debut at China’s largest auto show. Once the world’s largest smartphone maker, the Chinese corporation has seen a series of U.S. sanctions almost obliterate its lucrative consumer business. With the Biden administration keeping up the pressure on Huawei, billionaire founder Ren Zhengfei has directed the company to grow its roster of enterprise clients in transportation, manufacturing, agriculture and other industries. Huawei is the world’s leading supplier of inverters and it’s now banking on growing those sales alongside its cloud services and data analytics solutions to help the 190,000-employee business survive. For now, the company has told its wireless customers it has enough communications chips to support base station constructions in 2021, but it’s unclear how long those stocks can last, and what options Huawei has once those inventories eventually deplete....."
Maybe that last part can slow the white-hot Chine$e economy:
"China’s economic activity surged in the first two months of the year compared with a year ago, though the figures showed an uneven recovery with strong industrial output fueled by exports but lagging consumer spending. The official data released Monday show unprecedented growth rates of more than 30% for key indicators, largely due to distortions when compared to last year’s shutdowns. Combined with strong export data for January and February, the statistics show that China has largely continued the pattern established last year of a recovery based on growth of industrial production for export and investment in sectors such as real estate, delaying Beijing’s efforts to re-balance the economy toward domestic consumer demand. The government imposed travel restrictions before the new year holidays, which fell in February this year, to curb sporadic virus cases in some parts of the country. That helped to boost industrial output, with factories able to remain open or resume production earlier than usual to meet soaring export demand, but it also suppressed spending on travel, restaurants and leisure activities. China is still the only major economy to have powered out of the pandemic after early control over the virus and then surging global demand for medical goods and work-from-home devices. The economy grew 2.3% in 2020 and is forecast by economists to expand 8.4% this year, allowing officials to focus on longer-term challenges such as technological upgrading and curbing risk in the financial system. Beijing has signaled it wants to scale back its pandemic stimulus, with analysts predicting a gradual reduction in monetary and fiscal support....."
The EXACT OPPOSITE of what our Democrats are doing, hmmmm!
