Showing posts with label European Tyranny. Show all posts
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Monday, June 21, 2021

Globe Masks Child Abuse

In the past this would have been tagged a Slow Saturday Special; however, there is no longer anything special about the Globe on any day.

In this case, it was the horror I found straddling the fold this past Saturday:

"The downside of ditching masks: the return of colds, flu" by Camille Caldera Globe Correspondent, June 14, 2021

[The name looks new to me. I wonder who they pushed out]

Since the state’s mask mandate was lifted at the end of May, face coverings have started to come off — and stay off, but according to infectious diseases doctors, the return of facial freedom might come with some downsides, like a resurgence in cases of the common cold and the flu.

Throughout the pandemic, precautions taken to stop the spread of COVID-19 all but eliminated other common viruses.

So far this flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported just one influenza-associated pediatric death nationwide, compared with 199 the previous season, and a study published in September in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report revealed a staggering 98 percent decrease in flu activity in the first months of the pandemic.

[There really is no limit to their audacity in the way they spin the renaming of seasonal cold and flu into the scary CVD!

I know the correspondent is a newby, but this is insulting beyond the limit. Lies turned upside down are still lies.

Honestly, there is only one term to describe it, sigh]

“Most of us in infectious disease really attributed that to masks — not just masks, but the combination of masks, people working largely from home, social distancing, all of those measures that have been in place for the last year,” said Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious diseases physician at Boston Medical Center, but as vaccination rates increase and such precautions are slowly scrapped, other viruses will start to resurge, starting with colds and other viruses later this summer, and the flu come fall and winter.

On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory about increased cases of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, across parts of the southern United States — something they hadn’t seen since April 2020, when cases “decreased rapidly.” RSV is a cold-like respiratory illness that produces symptoms similar to COVID, and can cause severe illness in older adults and young children.

[Ironically, the disease from wearing an unhealthy and unnecessary mask]

Since late March — about the time COVID vaccines began to be widely available — cases of RSV have been on the rise in the South. Though the trend hasn’t yet reached the North, where the public was slower to unmask en masse because of lingering restrictions, experts predict that it will.

“I imagine it’s going to start expanding to all of the other states as well, as the mask mandates are lifted and as people start socializing more and spending more time together,” said Dr. Helen Chu, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Washington. 

Chu predicted that the return of viruses like RSV and influenza could be somewhat mitigated by the continuation of public health measures in schools this fall.

Masks are among the most effective of such measures, she said, because much of virus transmission is droplet based, expelled from one person’s mouth or nose and into another’s.

“Having that mask on prevents that type of droplet-based transmission pretty well,” Chu said.

[Oh, she is what is now viewed as a criminal for pushing this fraud, especially when the distance for the little superspreaders who rarely contract or transmit it.

The last people on this planet that should be wearing masks are children under the age of 20 who are still developing. It is depriving them of vital oxygen that will stunt their physical growth and damage their brain, with the side benefit of making them sick with respiratory di$ea$es that can then be diagnosed as.... (drum roll).... CVD.

What an evil, criminal, mass-murdering racket!]

For that reason, Barocas said he will likely continue to wear a face mask in situations that present an elevated risk of cold or flu transmission — like a large holiday gathering or night out at a crowded bar.

“I want to lower my risk of respiratory infection. I don’t really want to miss work,” Barocas said, “and to me, wearing a mask is such low-hanging fruit that I’ll probably do it in a lot of social situations.”

He also noted the protection face masks afford from pollutants in the air and common allergens like pollen.

[How in the world has humanity not only made it to this point, but flourished to the point of needing the be culled and depopulated by these $ick mon$ters, huh?]

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, the founding director of the Boston University Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research, said she recommends her patients keep their masks on hand. 

Chu agreed with that advice, and added that she and other infectious disease doctors are concerned about how children will handle the upcoming flu season.

“All of us in infectious diseases are just holding our breath right now to see what happens when the flu comes back, because it is heading into an environment where children have not seen it,” she said. “For many of them, this will be their first exposure, and I’m just worried about how sick they might get once they get it.”

Barocas anticipates sending his children to school with masks this fall, regardless of whether or not their schools require them.

“Quite honestly, it’s been really nice not having my kids have the colds and sore throats that keep them home from school, and it’s highly likely that my wife and I will encourage our kids to bring their masks to school and wear them for part of the day,” he said. “At the very least, it’s going to reduce their risk a little bit.”

[MASK OFF!]


My advice is avoid the classroom at all costs (btw, that link came with this ad)

The next question was whether to go up above the fold, or down below.

In either case, their is unmitigated evil to be found.

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I looked toward Heaven first:


That's the first time I have seen him in a Bo$ton Globe pew.

I turn to the right and see this:


The New York Times took the Dias to absolve Biden who, sniff-sniff, has the stench of pettofeelya, iynwim.

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Then I looked down:


A drink always makes me feel a bit Cheeky:

"Starting Saturday, businesses including stores, bars, restaurants, casinos, and gyms are able to operate at full capacity, and high-contact establishments like nightclubs can open for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Vaccinated people can drop their masks indoors, except in riskier settings such as hospitals and public transportation. The lifting of the rules marks a major step in the state’s recovery from COVID-19. Some establishments quite literally rang in the new era. A DJ at Cheeky Monkey Brewing Co. on Lansdowne Street was set to count down the seconds until midnight. As Friday night became Saturday morning, the brewpub hoped to reach its full capacity of 575 people, employees planned to knock down plexiglass barriers, and customers were to be allowed to party maskless until 2 a.m., but while some industries celebrate a dramatic return to something like normal, people in other sectors warn that some effects of the crisis will take longer to unwind. “Labor Day is still kind of that sweet spot for the companies we’re talking to,” said Liz Berthelette, research director at real estate firm Newmark. State Senator Julian Cyr, a Truro Democrat, said he’s already hearing that Cape Cod businesses including some dance clubs, will require patrons to provide proof of vaccination upon entry to protect other patrons and workers at the venues. Nonetheless, Encore officials believe they can handle what they expect to be a surge in customers — especially those who play table games — over the busy weekend, which they kicked off with a champagne toast on the casino floor as the restrictions expired at midnight. “The requirements that go with being fully compliant with the COVID restrictions are a lot,” said Jenny Holaday, Encore’s executive vice president of operations. “Having those guard rails be removed is really exciting both for our employees and for our guests, so everybody can just relax and enjoy themselves and have a nice time.” Paul Sacco, CEO of the Massachusetts Lodging Association, said the summer is already looking “far better than last year.” “It really is the weekend of the change,” Sacco said. “After a year of agony.” Those venturing out this weekend will likely notice a difference — even amid the expected cool and damp weather....." 

They have been telling us it is hotter than ever, but here’s what to know as the street is full of hustle and bustle now that the state has eased COVID-19 restrictions.


What do you do if the kid doesn't, slap him and blame it on being up too late?


I certainly know the feeling of starting the whole schlep over, but I follow the early-to-bed, early-to-rise axiom so I can share life with the nature that offers me a fabulous bounty each and every day, thank God, and the Globe $cribes can all take the express elevator down where I will be there to greet them -- although probably not for the want! The opening of the pearly Gates will be the final disappointment.

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Okay, I'm getting a little full of myself and that a sin so..... let's steel ourself and open the Gates of Hell:


Vivian Yee of the New York Times says the Iranian voters were in a pessimistic mood and the race has been marked, more than anything else, by a lack of interest.

I had a bit more interest in this:

"Voting bill showdown looms as GOP rejects Manchin plan" by Brian Slodysko and Christina A. Cassidy Associated Press, June 18, 2021

WASHINGTON — The Senate is set for a key vote Tuesday on a sweeping rewrite of voting and election law, setting up a dramatic test of Democratic unity on a top priority that Republicans are vowing to block.

Democrats appeared to be coalescing Thursday around changes to the bill that could win the support of moderate West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, the lone Democratic holdout on the legislation, yet they still faced lockstep Republican opposition that will likely leave Democrats back where they started: lacking the votes to overcome a Republican filibuster. 

The bill, known as the For the People Act, has been touted as Democrats’ answer to a state-level GOP push to enact voting restrictions following the 2020 election. It passed the House in March, but has bogged down in the Senate as Democrats have debated among themselves — with Manchin ultimately declaring he couldn’t vote for it because it lacked bipartisan support, yet Manchin’s position has evolved and compromise appeared to be nearing after he proposed a series of changes this week to narrow its scope. His proposal received a boost Thursday when Stacey Abrams, a former Georgia gubernatorial candidate who is a leading Democratic voice on voting rights, said she “absolutely” supported it.

[She did a flip-flop but it is racist and sexist to call it out]

Still, in a narrowly divided Senate where Democrats must count on Vice President Harris to cast tie-breaking votes, any compromise will likely be for naught unless changes are made to Senate filibuster rules, which Manchin and others oppose. For now, it takes 60 votes to overcome a filibuster and advance legislation.

Over a dozen Senate Republicans took turns at the microphone during a Thursday news conference to denounce the bill, which they view as a federal overreach into state and local elections.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, predicted all Republicans would remain in lockstep opposition regardless of what changes are made. As written, the Democrats’ bill would bring about the largest overhaul of US voting in a generation, touching nearly every aspect of the electoral process. It would blunt laws erected in the name of election security, like voter ID requirements, while curtailing the influence of big money in politics. It would create a nonpartisan process for redrawing congressional districts, expand mail voting and early voting, restore the rights of felons to cast a ballot, and scores of other provisions.

[The bill to ensconce never-ending national fraud is laughable on it$ face]

Manchin’s counter-offer, which is intended to entice GOP support, would leave significant portions of the sprawling bill intact, while curtailing, rewriting, or eliminating other key parts. What will ultimately come to the floor for a vote Tuesday remains unclear. Also not certain: whether Manchin will vote for it.

A national voter ID requirement favored by Manchin has emerged as one sticking point with some Democrats.

Manchin’s proposal is far softer than the strict photo ID requirements adopted by some states. It would require all states to check ID, but various documents including a utility bill could be used instead of a photo ID, a requirement already adopted by 15 states including Manchin’s West Virginia.

“That is what we’re negotiating,” said Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, who is playing a lead role in guiding the legislation.

“We might squabble about one or two things,” said Senator Raphael Warnock, of Georgia, “but I am not about to sacrifice the good in the pursuit of the perfect.”

[Those are Pelosi's words coming out of his seat-stealing mouth]


Polls have shown notable bipartisan support for voter ID requirements -- meaning the American public does indeed care about fair elections and what was once the sacred right to vote -- and I have, unfortunately, lost a lot of interest in politics after both parties have thrown in with the CVD fraud.

There are some good leaders out there who are profiles in courage, but they are few and far between.

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This here is the antithesis of it:

"President Biden urged unvaccinated Americans to get vaccinated, warning that a highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus could cause more deaths. “Even while we are making incredible progress, it remains a serious and deadly threat,” Biden said Friday during a White House event to celebrate 300 million doses of vaccine administered during the first 150 days of his administration. “The data is clear: If you are unvaccinated, you’re at risk of getting seriously ill, or dying, or spreading it.” Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, expects the Delta variant first detected in India to be the most prevalent strain in the United States in the coming summer months. COVID-19 cases have plunged in the country in step with vaccinations, prompting many people to resume pre-pandemic activities like indoor dining, sporting events, concerts, and travel in recent weeks, but a large swath of Americans — particularly in the politically conservative South — have declined shots despite warnings from health authorities that the virus remains a threat. “The Delta variant can cause more people to die in areas where people have not been vaccinated,” Biden said Friday. “Where people have gotten the two shots, the Delta variant is highly unlikely to result in anything,” he said, adding that “the existing vaccines are very effective.”

That came from Bloomberg and WaShington Compo$t, who recommended a trip up to Canada:

"Canada said Friday that it would extend restrictions on nonessential travel at the US-Canada land border until July 21, a move poised to further stoke frustration among the lawmakers, business groups, and residents on both sides of the border who have been pressing Ottawa to begin lifting them. The restrictions, which have been in place since March 2020, have had limited impacts on trade and commerce, but they’ve split apart families, disrupted life in tightly knit border communities, and badly hurt the tourism industry in Canada, which is reliant on American visitors during the summer season. Canadian officials have suggested that the reopening of the border will happen in phases. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that he wants 75 percent of Canadians to have a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and at least 20 percent of them to be fully vaccinated before easing the measures. As of June 17, nearly 66 percent of Canadians had received at least one dose, while roughly 16 percent have been fully vaccinated. Canada had been extending the interval between doses to get some protection to more people more quickly amid what were initially limited supplies. “We’re not out of this pandemic yet,” Trudeau said. As vaccination rates in Canada have risen, calls have mounted for the country to begin easing some of the measures, and several US lawmakers from across the political spectrum have pushed President Biden to lift the measures unilaterally." 

That criminal tyrant has turned Canada into a hellhole, and my sympathies go out to those up north although I know we are all in the same boat and.....


".... they'll be shutting it all down again in the fall...for the Kill...that's when they're going to blame the mass deaths of the vaccinated on "variants" and the "unvaccinated" and then they're going to round us all up to drag us off to gulags...and here's the kicker....." -- Greencrow


I highly suggest you click on that link and read the rest of the post as well as run the blog roll as I do everyday (not because I'm on it), and I can not help but agree with her because it has been planned for a long time and nothing other than divine intervention will cause them to deviate save a mass awakening amongst the world's populace.

The New York Times says book a trip to Europe instead -- as long as you have had your $hot, of cour$e:

"When Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine was authorized for emergency use in the United States in late February, it was seen as a breakthrough for reaching vulnerable and isolated Americans, a crucial alternative to vaccines that require two shots weeks apart and fussier storage. It was soon popular on college campuses, in door-to-door campaigns, and with harder-to-reach communities that often struggle with access to health care, but with only 11.8 million doses administered in the United States so far — less than 4 percent of the total — the “one and done” vaccine has fallen flat. States have warned that they may not find recipients for millions of doses that will soon expire, partly because the vaccine’s appeal dropped after it was linked to a rare but serious blood-clotting disorder and injections were paused for 10 days in April. The vaccine took another hit last week, when regulators told Johnson & Johnson that it should throw out tens of millions of additional doses produced at a plant in Baltimore because they might be contaminated. Although millions of Americans have yet to be inoculated, the vaccine’s role in the United States is fading fast. Experts lament a missed opportunity to address health disparities with a shot that should have been ideal for reaching vulnerable populations." 

That's about as close as they get to mention the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of deaths and adverse reactions piling up across the planet.

All $afe and highly effective, blah, blah.

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That's one reason I'm sick of the $elf-$erving, war-mongering whining:


The AmeriKan pre$$ must be jealou$!


My initial reaction was how after they swept national elections last month?


Sadly, I have lost interest in agenda-advancing UN propaganda from the mouthpiece pre$$.

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Forgot all about the children:


"Children and other relatives of Biden aides get administration jobs" by Sean Sullivan and Michael Scherer Washington Post, June 18, 2021

WASHINGTON — Barely a week into office, President Biden made a promise that signaled a sharp break from his predecessor: No member of his family would be involved in government, but that vow did not extend to his senior staff and their relatives. In the first few months of Biden’s presidency, at least five children of his top aides have secured coveted jobs in the new administration. They include two sons and a daughter of the White House counselor, the daughter of a deputy White House chief of staff, and the daughter of the director of presidential personnel.

The pattern continued this week. “While it may not be as bad as appointing your son or daughter to a top government post as Trump did with Jared and Ivanka, it is still bad,” said Walter Shaub, who served as director of the Office of Government Ethics from 2013-17. “‘Not as bad as Trump’ cannot be the new standard.”

Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner worked in the White House as unpaid senior advisers, moves that outraged ethics experts, even as a Justice Department opinion found the president has special hiring authorities. Some relatives of top Trump officials and aides also were hired into the administration.

Beyond children, other relatives of top Biden aides also have secured high-level administration jobs or nominations. They include the wife of White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain and the sister of White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

Federal law generally prohibits government officials from hiring close relatives or encouraging their hiring, and there is no evidence that any of Biden’s aides have played a role in securing the jobs for their children or other relatives.

The White House has maintained that everyone hired has been well-qualified for their positions.

“The president has instituted the highest ethical standards of anyone to ever hold this office,” deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates said, “and he’s proud to have staffed the most diverse administration in American history with well-qualified public servants who reflect his values,” but the hiring of senior aides’ children remains alarming to ethics experts, because it suggests that people with ties to high-ranking public servants might be getting an advantage over similarly qualified people for low-ranking positions, which often serve as a foot in the door to a career in government and politics.....

[Blog editor's head exploded]


Related:

"The White House reiterated President Joe Biden’s opposition to indexing the gasoline tax to inflation to help pay for an infrastructure plan, raising new questions about the viability of a bipartisan compromise emerging in the Senate. “After the extraordinarily hard times that ordinary Americans endured in 2020 -- job losses, shrinking incomes, squeezed budgets -- he is simply not going to allow Congress to raise taxes on those who suffered the most,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement. A bipartisan group of 21 senators has been working to finish a $579 billion infrastructure proposal to counter a $2.25 trillion plan that Biden initially proposed. A draft outline of the lawmakers’ plan obtained by Bloomberg lists several funding sources that have been opposed by the White House. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also has shot down the idea, dashing prospects House Democrats would go along....."

Is she the real president right now?


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The Globe put a Hood over that Bliss-ful article by placing it on the back page.


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He also worked at the YMCA!

Time to bury that under a sheet of paper:


Stella!

I coulda been a contender. Instead, I'm just a bum!


I didn't even bother to take a bite and left it for you if interested.

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He claims the job killed him.

His lack of response led to this:

"A woman was injured when she jumped from a second-story balcony Thursday night to escape a massive blaze that destroyed a Cape-style home on Baboosic Lake, fire officials said. Two firefighters were also injured in the fire that broke out shortly before 7 p.m. at 2 Shore Drive Extension. Crews arrived to find heavy smoke and flames and a second-alarm was immediately struck, drawing crews from several surrounding communities, the department said in a statement. The woman who jumped from the balcony was rescued by a passing boater, who took her to an ambulance waiting on shore, which took her to a hospital, the statement said. Her condition was not known. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries and had been released from the hospital by Friday morning, Fire Chief Matthew Duke said. By 11 p.m., the fire was mostly out, but the home was on the verge of collapsing. A backhoe from the town’s public works department arrived to tear down the house, allowing firefighters to continue fighting the fire in hard-to -each areas, Duke said. The cause of the fire remains under investigation."

They then took a ride around the neighborhood:

"A 36-year-old Palmer woman died and a juvenile was seriously injured in a rollover crash on the Massachusetts Turnpike Friday afternoon, according to State Police. The woman was driving a 2005 Subaru Forester eastbound when she lost control, causing the vehicle to roll over and cross into the westbound lane at 1:45 p.m., State Police said in a statement. No other vehicles were involved in the crash. Witnesses and emergency personnel attempted to perform life-saving measures on the woman, but she died of her injuries, State Police said. The juvenile was taken to Baystate Hospital with serious injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation, State Police said."

"A 1-year-old child was seriously injured in a two-car crash on Route 24 south around 9:40 p.m. Thursday, State Police said. The child was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital. The condition was not known Friday. The child was riding in a Toyota Sienna van driven by a 28-year-old woman from Fall River, State Police said in a statement. The child was riding along with a 3-year-old and a 40-year-old man from Fall River when the car changed lanes due to road construction, the statement said. At the same time, a Volvo S60 sedan driven by a 17-year-old from Taunton was traveling on the highway and it rear-ended the van, “causing both vehicles to spin out of control,” the statement said. The 1-year-old suffered the most serious injuries. The driver and other passengers in the van were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton for treatment of minor injuries. The Volvo driver was taken to Morton Hospital for treatment of minor injuries, State Police said. The crash remains under investigation."

"Police are looking for a man believed to be in his 30s or 40s who they say asked a 13-year-old girl to get into his car as she walked back from a neighbor’s house Tuesday. He is described as a white male, with dark eyes and a wide jaw “and looking as if he works out,” police said. The teen was headed home around 6:05 p.m. when the man allegedly stopped and asked her if she wanted to get in his vehicle, a small black sedan, according to police. The girl immediately returned to her friend’s home and the man left the area. On Friday, police were able to obtain an image of the car they believe the man was driving, Police Chief Sean Gibbons said. Anyone with information is asked to contact Wayland Police....."

"Residents can rest easy knowing the culprit behind a series of vehicle break-ins has been identified on video as a bear. The black bear has been spotted in the town over the past few weeks, just as residents began reporting to police that their vehicles had been broken into, Police Chief Ken Miller said. Police believe the bear is looking for food, and they are urging residents to remove food items from their vehicles and not to leave trash outside. In several instances, the bear has climbed into a vehicle’s trunk or the bed of a truck to try and get a bite to eat."

He saw to Japan before they found him:

In this image made from a video, a brown bear runs on a field in Sapporo, northern Japan Friday, June 18, 2021. The wild brown bear on the loose all night in the city wounded four people, entered a military camp and disrupted flights at the airport Friday before being shot and killed by authorities. (NTV via AP)
In this image made from a video, a brown bear runs on a field in Sapporo, northern Japan Friday, June 18, 2021. The wild brown bear on the loose all night in the city wounded four people, entered a military camp and disrupted flights at the airport Friday before being shot and killed by authorities (NTV via AP)."

The sad thing is the misanthropic Globe gave the death of a baby swan more ink than a person.

Also see:

"In 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free — an event celebrated to this day as “Juneteenth.”

In 1953, Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his wife, Ethel, 37, convicted of conspiring to pass US atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y.

The truth that he was, in fact, a spy came to light after the collapse of the Soviet Union

In 1975, former Chicago organized crime boss Sam Giancana was shot to death in the basement of his home in Oak Park, Ill.; the killing has never been solved.

That was just before he was slated to testify to the House committee investigating the death of JFK.

In 2011, Libya’s government said NATO warplanes had struck a residential neighborhood in the capital and killed nine civilians, including two children; NATO confirmed hours later that one of its airstrikes had gone astray.

Looks like a war crime to me, based on lies from Obama and the pre$$.

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Related:

"Wilmington schools suspend staffer after DCF supports abuse allegation; middle school staffer now under investigation" by John R. Ellement Globe Staff, June 17, 2021

The state’s child protection agency is investigating an allegation that a middle school staffer in the Wilmington public schools abused at least one student, which comes after another staffer was placed on leave for allegedly abusing a special needs student in an early childhood center.

In a letter to parents Wednesday, Wilmington Schools Superintendent Glenn Brand wrote that the Department of Children and Families had sustained allegations that a staffer at the Wildwood Early Childhood Center had abused or neglected at least one child. The center offers pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classes in 11 classrooms, according to state records and Wilmington Schools.

“We placed the staff in question on administrative leave as soon as we were made aware of those claims,” Brand wrote, adding that an outside investigator has been hired to examine the circumstances at Wildwood. “We recently learned from DCF that some of the claims have been supported.”

Now, the issue has expanded to a separate school and facility — the town’s middle school, which serves grades six through eight.

“Last week, we became aware of a separate series of allegations of misconduct by a staff member at Wilmington Middle School,” Brand wrote. “That staff member has also been placed on administrative leave pending a DCF investigation.”

Brand did not identify the jobs held by the persons under DCF investigation. “Out of respect for all those involved and based on legal requirements, we are not able to discuss the specifics of these cases,” he wrote.....


You don't want the kids in their hands.

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Some progressive groups and activists demanded that the nonprofit organization give money directly to victims of shootings instead.

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Nothing personal, just bu$ine$$:


Yeah, the banks are going to solve the wealth gap. 

That's like hiring the fox for $ecurity at the henhou$e after OneUnited failed to payback bailout loot and has connections to their Congre$$ional over$eer Maxine Waters.


They want to pack us into the high-rises like $ardines.

Now let's eat!

"Massachusetts employers added 9,200 jobs in May, state labor officials said Friday, a smaller gain compared to the month prior and a sign that businesses are still struggling to find workers as the state reopens. The speed of job recovery in Massachusetts, which lifted nearly all coronavirus restrictions on May 29, trails national figures. The state’s unemployment rate dipped to 6.1 percent last month compared to a revised rate of 6.4 percent in April. Although the jobless rate is trending downward, that number is higher than the national average, which fell to 5.8 percent last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employers have been scrambling to hire workers in recent weeks to keep up with the reopening and accommodate pent-up demand from consumers. Despite indications that the economy is rebounding, the Labor Department reported Thursday that new claims for unemployment benefits ticked upward last week, following several weeks of declines....."

Sorry, I'm $ick of eating Globe $lop.

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The only thing left to talk about was the ad for golf wear given his appearance on the flight manifest.

Yeah, it's the end of an era, and you saw who else made the list.

Oh, what I wouldn't give for a honorable and Honest actor:

"The Honest Co. made its trading debut Wednesday in a further test of cofounder Jessica Alba’s pitch to would-be wellness investors. The personal-care products brand and its venture capital backers raised $413 million in an initial public offering Tuesday, selling 25.8 million shares for $16 each after marketing them for $14 to $17. An actress turned entrepreneur, Alba included a letter to potential investors in the company’s filings touting Honest Co.’s commitment to healthy products. In addition to baby products like shampoos, the company also sells cosmetics as well as cleaning supplies, a collection that was launched during the coronavirus pandemic."

Did you happen to see the outfit she was wearing?

Sunday, June 20, 2021

Sunday Greeting

I consider it a complete wa$te of $6:


It came from Anna Schaverien of the New York Times, who said that thanks to the pandemic the popularity of virtual cards has grown again as people sought ways to connect with loved ones and friends in the isolation and separation of Covid-19 restrictions.

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The Globe is looking for a retirement card if their front-page, above-the-fold feature means what I think it does:


They are showing him the door, and I find that untoward and unseemly even though I often disagree with that wing of the Court. He's a Clinton nominee, and the Court doesn't take on the big challenges such as war crimes or electoral fraud, but the naked political calculating my Democrats is disgusting. Stick to your guns, Steve, and don't take any flights in small planes.

The o$ten$ible righthand-corner, above-the-fold lead:

"Local officials say Baker is failing to invest in state’s broken public health system; Governor putting few dollars toward rebuilding public health after COVID" by Kay Lazar Globe Staff, June 19, 2021

Local public health officials were excited when the Baker administration recently announced a modest grant program to help beleaguered towns and cities be better prepared for the next pandemic. For the first time in decades, they said, the state was investing new money on the front lines of disease prevention, but then came Governor Charlie Baker’s announcement on Thursday that not a single dollar out of $2.8 billion in federal pandemic relief funding he plans to allocate would go toward public health programs. Instead, he said, the money would be used to ease the state’s housing crunch and other priorities.

Now, some of the same leaders who were praising the administration days ago are lamenting what they say is Baker’s shortsightedness. They believe the governor is missing a historic opportunity to make a dramatic new investment in the state’s tattered public health system.

“It’s a public health crisis that caused all of this federal funding to happen. And then he wants to turn his back on this?” said Mike Hugo, government affairs liaison at the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards.

The sharp turn against the governor underscores the urgency local public health officials feel about improving their system after a pandemic that has killed more than 17,000 people in Massachusetts. The state’s threadbare network of local health departments was simply overmatched by COVID-19 and the directors say a massive infusion of money is needed to not only be ready for the next pandemic, but to provide basic disease prevention services more equally across the state.....


I stopped there because it is obviou$ it is all about the bribe money that continues the fraud, whether it come from the government or billionaire philanthropist$ts meaning us all well, and they really have everyone over a barrel. 

It's poverty unless you accept our burnt offering and you can straddle the fence for so long:


Or you can step out of line and go underground:


Just watch out for the poisonous caterpillars that can cause people to develop painful rashes and even breathing problems -- which will undoubtedly be diagnosed as CVD!

Maybe you should go see a movie instead:


They say going to the movies with dad is a lasting memory for many people, providing a window into the world and a window into a man, and there is definitely a Dad Movie Hall of Fame with his picture in it.

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Meet Iran's new daddy:


I didn't get past the New York Times byline as that is the last source I would trust regarding Iran.


It's something called news analysis by David E. Sanger and Farnaz Fassihi of.... the New York Times.

Now some brief asides:




The $aint is none other than Robert Schuman(!), a French statesman who paved the way for the bloc that eventually evolved into European Union, has moved ahead on the Catholic church’s path toward possible sainthood. 

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Time to check the virus notebook:


Print was NYT, but what difference does it make?


I think Motorhead got it right.


You threaten the booze and people get their backs up, as irrational as that is.

I hate to say it, but drunken riots are an expression of freedom in the age of CVD.


Insane and a portent of things to come, and it's proof there are only a handful of governments resisting the diabolical plot.

Here is one:


Now take a deep breath and hold it:


Better slow your role on the withdrawal, Joe, what with these guys waiting to invade:


No better time to open up an Eastern Front.

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Meanwhile, on the home front:


It's by Nick Corasaniti and Reid J. Epstein of the New York Times, and that is as far as I got.

The worry up there are the audits which will not only swing Georgia and Arizona back to Trump, but Pennsylvania as well. 


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Turns out it was a badly-staged and -scripted psyop by the government to frame those who dissent in any way from the preconceived and ordained from on high agenda..


Byyyyye, you $ellout.


Look, I'm sad when any pet dies because the animal has no idea what is going on out here, although they do have an innate ability to sense evil.

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Meaning they are protecting local police, thank God.

The simple fact is, the further away and more centralized is a police force the more unaccountable they are and the more likely they are to using tyrannical tactics like torture, etc.

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Looks like they need one in Kalifornia:


Christine Hauser and Jenny Gross of the New York Times reported on the reported disappearance of Kim Avis, a 57-year-old man from Scotland, that struck investigators as off from the beginning -- and they were right.

Reads like a Dateline.

They also need a fireman out there:


The New York Times lit my fuse by claiming a statewide drought and heat wave have helped create dangerous wildfire conditions and have played a role in turning the California fire season into more and more of a year-round phenomenon, when the turn is the reservoirs have been emptied and there is massive arson underway, imho.

It all fits with the UN21 or Agenda 2030 or whatever name the evil calls it$elf.

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Meanwhile, on the other side of the country:


No rain on the parade where skies are so blue:


For Juneteenth, the New York Times went down to Galveston, Texas, where on June 19, 1865, a Union general signed an order notifying enslaved African Americans that they were free, and I have no problem with the recognition. 

What I do have a problem with is it being another paid federal holiday and them calling it Independence and not Emancipation Day, which is a more accurate term.

The irony is, we are all being ushered into va¢¢ine $lavery regardless of our skin color -- if we even survive.

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The Wa$hington Compo$t piece was a real downer in Utah as the cheers have gone silent.

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The kids were literally murdered by the government.


Related:


No details regarding cause or circumstance regarding why he died at the hospital, but my first question is when did he get the shot the murderous war-criminal Obama encouraged him to get?

Time to close the curtain on the obituaries.

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Choe Sang-Hun of the New York Times is your guide as South Korea is considered a birthplace of esports, but the highly selective multibillion-dollar industry is still frowned upon by many in the country and the academies have worked to change that image and give thousands of young people a chance to pursue careers in a place where gaming has long been seen as a way of life.

That's who signed the front-section card, folks! 

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The tyrannical government responsible for all the problems is here to help!


I am about to take summer vacation from the Globe.



They were getting $tiffed by government way back then, and it's always from their alleged friends!

Better stiffen up for what was at the bottom of the page:

"As Mass. approaches 4.1 million vaccinated goal, holding small local clinics will be ‘long-haul process’" by John Hilliard Globe Staff, June 19, 2021

As the state edged closer Saturday to its goal of getting 4.1 million residents vaccinated, advocates said officials must press on with efforts to inoculate people who remain unprotected.

Louis Elisa, a member of Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition’s steering committee, warned that COVID-19 is far from defeated, even with continuing declines in new deaths and cases and a reopened state economy.

“These things don’t go away because we stop putting them into the newspaper [and] they’re not front page anymore,” Elisa said in a phone interview.

Dr. Robert Horsburgh, a Boston University professor of epidemiology, said the state must aim to inoculate three-quarters or more of its residents.

“The people who really wanted the vaccine have gotten it, but the people who aren’t so sure need to get it,” Horsburgh said, “and we need to help them be sure.”

[After having plucked the "low-hanging fruit," they want you taking the experimental gene-therapy they have mislabeled a vaccine.

The effort is monstrously criminal at this point, and what they need to do is keep telling the inoculation percentage lie and then declare victory and depart the field, never to be heard from again. 

That would be the $mart thing to do.]

The vaccines have significantly diminished the pandemic’s impact in Massachusetts with average numbers of new deaths, cases, and hospitalizations dropping to the lowest they have been since the start of the pandemic, according to state data, but the virus remains a threat.

[That's a lie!

The numbers were cratering long before the vaccine program got going because of that wonderful thing known as a human immune system and natural herd immunity to coronaviruses, and the variants they claim are a threat are weaker and nonexistent since CVD is simply seasonal flu with a fancy name]

Horsburgh said officials must expand incentives for getting vaccinated and make the process easier, with conveniences such as walk-up clinics. Physicians should also be able to vaccinate patients, as they can answer questions and address their concerns, he said. “It’s much more likely that people will accept the vaccine when everyone else in their community is doing it,” Horsburgh said.

[The guy is a peer-pressuring monster for something you don't even need]

A range of local efforts have replaced the mass vaccination sites that were in place for months, some offering gift cards and other prizes to help attract interest, and the state is supporting programs including the “Vax Express,” which has used the MBTA Commuter Rail as a mobile vaccination clinic in Boston, Worcester, and Lowell in recent days. The train visited Lawrence on Saturday.


So how long until we are loaded on to those rail cars and taken to the camps, huh?

This fall?

Sure looks like a THREAT to me!


Steven Gil, a member of Lawrence’s Board of Health and a registered nurse, said community efforts to vaccinate people have faced language and cultural barriers. So far, about 40 percent of Lawrence’s population has been fully vaccinated, according to state data.

It’s imperative that the outreach continue, according to Gil, but it must be tailored to residents.

“I think we need to be innovative ... and try to make it more personalized to our individuals in Lawrence,” he said in a phone interview. “We should be more culturally sensitive to the needs and the wants of our culture in our community.”

[What is it about the letters N and O that you do not understand?

Consent? 

Never, and that would make them criminals!]

In Boston Saturday, Elisa said the community coalition had set up a mobile vaccination site during a Juneteenth celebration at the Shattuck Hospital campus. The Black residents organization organizes pop-up clinics and is looking to expand its schedule of days and operating hours.

About 55 percent of Boston’s population is fully vaccinated, according to the state.

Elisa said many unvaccinated people want to get the shots, but have jobs and other responsibilities that make it difficult to get to a clinic. It is critical, Elisa said, that local mobile and pop-up efforts are expanded to reach them, he said.

“Health care is no joke. Even though we have smiling faces because we are able to sit out in a restaurant, or go stand in crowds and cheer for our teams ... a little more caution” is needed, Elisa said. “It’s not over.”

Actually, it is but no one is laughing! 

The cat is out of the bag on this genocidal, mass-murdering fraud and anyone who continues to push it is a criminal condemned to hell.


The governor says “brighter days are very much upon us” as experts and officials say the protection from vaccinations is kicking in and the pandemic appears to be subsiding after more than a year of wracking the state, but “we’re not over this,” said Dr. Susan Butler-Wu, an associate professor of clinical pathology at the University of Southern California. “Testing is really critical, because you are flying blind without it.” That is especially true in parts of the American South, where vaccination rates are low, Dr. Butler-Wu added. Without a vaccine, “you’re putting yourself in harm’s way,” said Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist and the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. “This virus will find you if you are not vaccinated, and you continue to have contact with people throughout the community.” Experts in testing and public health say the virus will become endemic, meaning it will circulate at low levels for the foreseeable future. Mara G. Aspinall, a professor at the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University, said some in the field are discussing other methods of testing to track outbreaks, including examining wastewater for signs that infections might be present in a community (what a literal heap of shit).

Now they are worried about how the routine childhood vaccinations dropped dramatically during the early months of the pandemic, and although those began rebounding last summer, many children and adolescents are still behind on shots, according to a federal health report released Thursday. That lag might pose "a serious public health threat" of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses such as measles and whooping cough that have the potential to derail efforts to reopen schools, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With health care systems and other social institutions already overburdened by the pandemic, the CDC is recommending that providers consider giving coronavirus vaccines on the same day as other vaccines, especially when children and teens are behind or in danger of falling behind on recommended shots -- so keep making the kids wear the damaging masks even though the kids are not contracting CVD nor spreading it in the schools or workplaces.

Now they are telling us CVD was around as early as December 2019, and weren't they blaming vaping for it back then?


Thus, as the nation reopens and calls emerge to investigate lessons learned in the pandemic, The New York Times asked more than a dozen public health experts, economists and bioethicists to reflect on the vaccine rollout. Was the American approach as effective as it could have been? What, if anything, could have been done differently? The Trump and Biden administrations debated numerous options, including ideas raised by the experts. There is by no means universal agreement about what should have been done, and no way of knowing with certainty whether different vaccination tactics would have resulted in fewer deaths. Still, with the benefit of hindsight, experts pointed to several areas where the United States might have taken another approach. Here are five alternate scenarios: 1. The U.S. could have delayed second doses to partly protect more people; 2. Officials could have included (slightly) younger people in the early rollout; 3. Want vaccine equity? Try prioritizing by ZIP code; 4. Congress could have allocated money for vaccine distribution sooner; 5. The U.S. needed to pitch vaccines to the public more effectively.


Who remembers the heroes now, and some people never learn no matter how much guidance you give them.

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They are really testing my limits by serving up that $hit.

Only six more hours until summer officially begins, and if you hurry you can see the rest of today's paper because I am out of Ideas.

It's all $hit, imho, even the $ports $ection.

Goodbye!

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Globe Blows Yellow Dog Whistle

Better late than never.....

"Boston’s Asian American community rallies in solidarity against AAPI hate" by Felicia Gans Globe Staff, May 31, 2021

The scream of yellow whistles echoed through the Boston Common on Monday afternoon as community leaders, organizers, and allies pledged their solidarity to combat hate toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

The color yellow, once weaponized against Asian people in xenophobic rhetoric, took on a powerful new meaning with the whistles, which have been distributed across the country this spring through The Yellow Whistle campaign.

“We should not be silent,” said speaker Esther Lee, who encouraged everyone to blow their whistles together.

Monday’s rally, organized by the Chinese American Citizens Alliance Boston Lodge, was the Boston gathering for the National Day of Solidarity Against AAPI Hate, which coincided with the last day of AAPI Heritage Month. A flagship rally was planned in Washington, D.C., and others in cities across the country.

The rallies come amid a wave in anti-Asian racism and violence — a surge that some have attributed to the rhetoric used by former president Donald Trump and others in blaming China for the coronavirus pandemic, but anti-Asian hate is also “part of a long, dark history in our country’s treatment of the AAPI community,” Acting Mayor Kim Janey told those gathered on the Common.

[Did America ever do the world any good, and why would any migrant ever want to come here?]

Janey presented a proclamation during the rally naming Monday “Day of Solidarity Against AAPI Hate” in Boston.

“The fires of racism have been burning in our country for far too long, 400 years in fact, and we will not let this stand in Boston,” she said.

[They are stoking them for political purposes, for God's sake]

Though sparked by the somber recognition of violence against Asian Americans, the Boston Common rally was also filled with joy, including impassioned remarks, songs and poems written by children, and a traditional lion dance performance.

Many wore shirts or held signs with the words “Stop Asian Hate.”

Susan, of East Boston, who asked to be identified by just her first name, attended the rally with her 10-year-old son. She held a sign that said “BlacKoreans for Unity.”

“We do live in fear,” she said. “We’re here to show him and other youth that there are adults behind him.”

City Councilor Michelle Wu, the first Asian American woman to serve on the council and a candidate for mayor, gave the crowd a handful of concrete steps they can take, including supporting Asian American-owned businesses and pushing for language access to government services so all communities can reach the resources they need.

Schools should also be teaching ethnic studies, Wu added, so the curriculum reflects the contributions of every community.

“Now is the moment... to ensure that we are laying the groundwork starting from the very, very beginning in our education system,” she said.

Several elected officials and City Council candidates who attended Monday’s rally were called to the stage and asked to pledge to work with the AAPI community to end hate.

[As the hate drips from them regarding a certain ethnic group]

John Barros, the city’s former economic development chief who is also running for mayor, reiterated the importance of standing together in solidarity against hate.

“Hate on any one of us is hate on every one of us, and we can’t take it,” he said.

[Palestine]

Many children were in attendance Monday, and some participated in the rally, a point of pride among many community organizers. Lily Li-Nagy, 6, wrote a poem that she read aloud at the rally. Her mother, Helen Li, said she wants her daughter to learn at a young age how to speak up against wrongdoing.

“Love doesn’t have a shape. She follows her own design. Love may walk in a circle, or in a straight line,” Li-Nagy read. “Love may trip and stumble. In fact love often will fall, but love is never alone. Love is awaiting your call.”

City Councilor Ed Flynn, a US Navy veteran, in acknowledging the Memorial Day holiday, expressed concern about the disrespect many Asian American veterans face when they return home from service. “I served side-by-side with so many Asians and Asian Americans and immigrants,” he said. “They worked incredibly hard, and then when they came back to the United States, they were treated with disrespect and their families were victims of intimidation and bullying and hate crimes.”


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Unfortunately, they are often portrayed as monolithic in the pre$$ who has a history of such things, and I hear you Laud and clear:

"At a time of rising anti-Asian bigotry across the country — fueled by the coronavirus pandemic and former president Donald Trump’s racist “Chinese virus” rhetoric — Roger Lau hopes he can use his platform to increase Asian American political power and representation. For Lau, part of that means stepping far outside his comfort zone, and sharing his story more widely. “Someone has to speak to humanize us,” Lau said. Indeed, in the rarefied echelons of American politics, dominated by white, well-connected Ivy Leaguers, Lau’s story stands out — and not in a way he’s entirely comfortable with. The oldest son of working-class Chinese immigrants, Lau dropped out of his New York City high school and racked up a minor arrest record before earning his GED and matriculating at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he stumbled through his freshman and sophomore years. “It just wasn’t something I was proud to tell in that world,” Lau said. After Congress passed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act on May 18, which aims to expedite Department of Justice reviews of pandemic-related hate crimes, the DNC launched a major multilingual advertising campaign in more than 25 states and territories to promote the American Rescue Plan and celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The campaign, which Lau had a hand in, is part of the party’s strategy of investing early in communities of color. “This moment in time that we’re in is probably the most the Asian American community has been in the political consciousness, at least as far as I can remember,” Lau said. “I think that our power comes from building that community and embracing it as much as we can, and if we stand together and share our successes ... that’s going to give us a lot more opportunity to claim more space in this country.”

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Speaking of Asian targets:

"China, its military might expanding, accuses NATO of hypocrisy" by Steven Lee Myers New York Times, June 15, 2021

China’s former leader, Deng Xiaoping, famously used an old proverb to describe the country’s foreign policy after the end of the Cold War: “Hide our strength, bide our time.” Those days are long gone.

China now faces a world that increasingly views its economic and military might as a threat that must be confronted, as NATO’s leaders made clear in their summit in Brussels.

While China poses virtually no direct military threat to Europe, which is NATO’s home field, it can now flex its military power in ways that were unimaginable only a few years ago — not only in Asia, but also globally.

[I'm so sick of the war-mongering, anti-Asian bias of the pre$$]

Chinese officials reacted to NATO’s declaration with anger and scorn, accusing the alliance of recycling outdated Cold War strategies. A spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry warned Tuesday that forming cliques and forcing countries to choose sides were strategies doomed to fail.

Even as NATO leaders met in Brussels, the US aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan and several other warships moved into the disputed waters of the South China Sea, with the group’s commander, Rear Admiral Will Pennington, vowing to protect “international law and rules-based order,” wording that echoed NATO’s communiqué. Hours later, 28 Chinese fighter jets and other aircraft — the largest fleet in years — conducted their own show of force over waters south of Taiwan, the island democracy that China claims as its own.

[That's called a provocation]

Only days before, the Group of 7 leaders, meeting in Cornwall, England, had for the first time issued a statement on Taiwan, calling for China to support peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait after a series of menacing Chinese military operations like those Tuesday.

The declarations by the G-7 and NATO are in part the fruition of President Biden’s strategy to build a coalition of like-minded nations to confront China over its activities.

Although largely symbolic, for now, they have for Beijing deepened a sense of crisis in relations with the United States that now threatens to expand to Europe. China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and senior diplomats have tried to thwart such an alliance from coalescing with a series of meetings and video conferences with European leaders in recent months.

In its communiqué, NATO stopped short of declaring China a threat, as it has Russia under President Vladimir Putin, and even called for deepening cooperation on issues like climate change. At the same time, it noted that China has moved steadily closer to its neighbor, joining the Russians in military training exercises and operations, including in the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas.

[If I were the Chinese or anyone else I would tell NATO to fuck off!]

The NATO leaders cited China’s rising military spending, its modernizing nuclear arsenal, “advances in the space domain,” and cyberwarfare and asymmetric activities, including the spread of disinformation. They indicated that China’s military might and “assertive behavior” posed challenges to the security interests of the alliance’s 30 member states in Europe and North America.

[Only the U.S. war machine can do those things]

“China is coming closer to us,” NATO’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said in closing remarks at the summit of the alliance’s leaders.

NATO barely mentioned China in its last summit in 2019 but has now thrust it up to the top of the alliance’s security agenda, a reflection of the growing ambivalence over China’s rise.

Since Biden’s election, tensions like these have intensified, especially over Taiwan.

The military balance between China and Taiwan has tilted dramatically in Beijing’s favor as the country has built up its capabilities, including naval and air power, as well as amphibious assault ships that it now uses in exercises simulating an invasion.

That has led analysts inside and outside of China to speculate that Xi, China’s leader, is contemplating a military move to conquer the island. Admiral Philip S. Davidson, then leading the American Indo-Pacific Command, warned Congress in March that China could try within the next six years.

[That means WAR, and WHY WAIT?

PREEMPT THEM!!

Goddamn fucking New York Times war mongers!

Yeah, I'm blowing the whistle on them!]

Not all countries in NATO or the G-7 share Biden’s zeal to isolate China, differences that became clear in comments by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Emmanuel Macron of France, and others. “NATO is an organization that concerns the North Atlantic,” Macron said, as reported by Politico. “China has little to do with the North Atlantic.”

[Same with Afghanistan!]

Chinese officials maintain that the country remains committed to peaceful development and international cooperation through the United Nations. They blame the United States and others for trying to thwart its inevitable rise as a global power.

[Because they win that way]

The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, on Tuesday accused NATO of hypocrisy, noting that the alliance’s collective military spending far outpaced China’s. He also criticized NATO members’ role in wars from Iraq to Syria. “NATO’s history is full of notorious misdeeds,” he said.

He and others also cited what was perhaps the lowest point in China’s relations with the West before now: the NATO airstrike in 1999 that badly damaged the Chinese embassy in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, during the war over Kosovo. The United States said the bombing, which killed three, was a tragic mistake. “China will not present ‘systemic challenges’ to anyone,” China’s mission to the EU in Brussels said in a statement, posted on Weibo, a popular social media site, “but if someone wants to pose ‘systemic challenges’ to us, we will not remain indifferent.”

Little of what NATO warned about China is new. The Pentagon has since 2000 published annual reports on China’s growing military capabilities that have detailed the steady advances it has made across its armed services. In some areas, the latest report said, it has surpassed the US military, by far the most powerful and best funded. Those include naval, air, and missile forces that have for the first time in modern history given China the ability to project power far beyond its immediate territorial waters. What has changed, in a relatively short period, are views about the threat that China poses.


Well, boys will be ..... held accountable for their actions!!!

RED BUBBLE INDEED!

The sickening theater of war:

"Why Asia, the pandemic champion, remains miles away from the finish line; While the languishing varies from country to country, it generally stems from a shortfall in vaccines" by Damien Cave New York Times, June 15, 2021

SYDNEY — All across the Asia-Pacific region, the countries that led the world in containing the coronavirus are now languishing in the race to put it behind them.

While the United States, which has suffered far more grievous outbreaks, is now filling stadiums with vaccinated fans and cramming airplanes with summer vacationers, the pandemic champions of the East are still stuck in a cycle of uncertainty, restrictions, and isolation.

In southern China, the spread of the Delta variant led to a sudden lockdown last week in Guangzhou, a major industrial capital. Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, and Australia have also clamped down after recent outbreaks, while Japan is dealing with its own weariness from a fourth round of infections, spiked with fears of viral disaster from the Olympics.

[Coming here soon, no doubt]

Where they can, people are getting on with their lives, with masks and social distancing and outings kept close to home. Economically, the region has weathered the pandemic relatively well because of how successfully most countries handled its first phase, but with hundreds of millions of people still unvaccinated from China to New Zealand — and with anxious leaders keeping international borders shut for the foreseeable future — the tolerance for constrained lives is thinning, even as the new variants intensify the threat.

[The fucking scam is to never end, and is based on your willingness to take the genocidal kill shots. If you "hesitate," this is the kind of propaganda you get from my pre$$!]

In simple terms, people are fed up, asking: Why are we behind, and when, for the love of all things good and great, will the pandemic routine finally come to an end?

“If we’re not stuck, it’s like we’re waiting in the glue or mud,” said Terry Nolan, head of the Vaccine and Immunization Research Group at the Doherty Institute in Melbourne, Australia, a city of 5 million that is just emerging from its latest lockdown. “Everyone’s trying to get out, to find a sense of urgency.”

While the languishing varies from country to country, it generally stems from a shortfall in vaccines.

[Liars! There are plenty of gene-therapies called vaccines; no one wants them!]

In some places, like Vietnam, Taiwan, and Thailand, vaccination campaigns are barely underway. Others, like China, Japan, South Korea, and Australia, have seen a sharp rise in inoculations in recent weeks, while remaining far from offering vaccines to all who want one, but nearly everywhere in the region, the trend lines point to a reversal of fortune. While Americans celebrate what feels like a new dawn, for many of Asia’s 4.6 billion people, the rest of this year will look a lot like the last, with extreme suffering for some and others left in a limbo of subdued normalcy, or there could be more volatility. Worldwide, businesses are watching whether the new outbreak in southern China will affect busy port terminals there. Across Asia, faltering vaccine rollouts could also open the door to spiraling variant-fueled lockdowns that inflict new damage on economies, push out political leaders, and alter power dynamics between nations.

[That's anti-Asian hate rich there!]

The risks are rooted in decisions made months ago, before the pandemic had inflicted the worst of its carnage.

Starting in the spring of last year, the United States and several countries in Europe bet big on vaccines, fast-tracking approval and spending billions to secure the first batches. The need was urgent. In the United States alone, at the peak of its outbreak, thousands of people were dying every day as the country’s management of the epidemic failed catastrophically, but in places like Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, infection rates and deaths were kept relatively low with border restrictions, public compliance with antivirus measures, and widespread testing and contact tracing. With the virus situation largely under control, and with limited ability to develop vaccines domestically, there was less urgency to place huge orders, or believe in then-unproven solutions.

[Unproven solutions, like HceeQ and ivermectin?

Yeah, it's all about pushing the genocidal "vaccines" in my pos criminal pre$$]

“The perceived threat for the public was low,” said Dr. C. Jason Wang, an associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine who has studied COVID-19 policies, “and governments responded to the public’s perception of the threat.”

[If that were true it would never have been two weeks to fallen the curve resulting in 462 fucking days, so fuck off!]

As a virus-quashing strategy, border controls — a preferred method throughout Asia — go only so far, Wang added: “To end the pandemic, you need both defensive and offensive strategies. The offensive strategy is vaccines.”

[Except they don't prevent you from getting sick or transmitting, so one again, fuck off!]

The result now is a wide gulf with the United States and Europe. In Asia, about 20 percent of people have received at least one dose of a vaccine, with Japan, for example, at just 14 percent. By contrast, the figure is nearly 45 percent in France, more than 50 percent in the United States, and more than 60 percent in Britain.

[Stupid western sheeple who will be dead within a year or three]

Their rollout in Asia has been defined by humanitarian logic (which nations needed vaccines the most), local complacency, and raw power over pharmaceutical production and export.

Earlier this year, contract announcements with the companies and countries that control the vaccines seemed more common than actual deliveries. In March, Italy blocked the export of 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine meant for Australia to control its own raging outbreak. Other shipments were delayed because of manufacturing issues.

Peter Collignon, a physician and professor of microbiology at the Australian National University who has worked for the World Health Organization, put it more simply: “The reality is that the places that are making vaccines are keeping them for themselves.”

Responding to that reality, and the rare blood-clot complications that emerged with the AstraZeneca vaccine, many politicians in the Asia-Pacific region tried early on to emphasize that there was little need to rush.

[The fact that the pre$$ has minimized and ignored the adverse reactions and deaths to the tune of tens of thousands says more than any type I may make]

China, which has struggled with hesitancy over its own vaccines after controlling the virus for months, administered 22 million shots on June 2, a record for the country. In all, China has reported administering nearly 900 million doses, in a country of 1.4 billion people.

Japan has ramped up its effort, too, easing rules that had allowed only select medical workers to administer vaccinations. The Japanese authorities opened large vaccination centers in Tokyo and Osaka and expanded vaccine programs to workplaces and colleges. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga now says all adults will have access to a vaccine by November.


In Taiwan, too, the inoculation effort recently got a boost, as the Japanese government donated roughly 1.2 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, but all told, Taiwan’s experience is somewhat typical: It has still received only enough doses to immunize less than 10 percent of its 23.5 million residents. A Buddhist association recently offered to buy COVID-19 vaccines to accelerate the island’s anemic inoculation effort, but was told only governments can make such purchases, and as vaccinations lag across Asia, so too will any robust international reopening. Australia has signaled that it will keep its borders closed for another year. Japan is barring almost all nonresidents from entering the country, and intense scrutiny of overseas arrivals in China has left multinational businesses without key workers.

[This isn't and never was about CVD!]

The immediate future for many places in Asia seems likely to be defined by frantic optimization.

China’s response to the outbreak this month in Guangzhou — testing millions of people in days, shutting down entire neighborhoods — is a rapid-fire version of how it has handled previous flare-ups. Few inside the country expect this approach to change anytime soon, especially as the Delta variant, which has devastated India, is now beginning to circulate.

At the same time, vaccine holdouts are facing increased pressure to get inoculated before the available doses expire, and not just in mainland China.

Indonesia has threatened residents with fines of around $450 for refusing vaccines. Vietnam has responded to its recent spike in infections by asking the public for donations to a COVID-19 vaccine fund, and in Hong Kong, officials and business leaders are offering a range of inducements to ease severe vaccine hesitancy.


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"President Biden on Tuesday announced the end of a bitter, 17-year dispute with the European Union over aircraft subsidies for Boeing and Airbus, suspending the threat of billions of dollars in punitive tariffs on each other’s economies for five years and shifting their focus to China’s growing ambitions in the aircraft industry. The breakthrough came as Biden met top European leaders in a US-EU summit meeting. European officials said that two days of negotiations in Brussels between Katherine Tai, the US trade representative, and Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU trade commissioner, had finally produced an agreement that member countries approved overnight. “This really opens a new chapter in our relationship because we move from litigation to cooperation on aircraft — after 17 years of dispute,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Biden told her and Charles Michel, president of the European Council, that the world had changed and that the European Union and the United States working together was “the best answer to deal with these changes” that had brought “great anxiety” to citizens. “It’s overwhelmingly in the interest of the USA to have a great relationship with NATO and the EU,” Biden said....."


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"Buoyed by allied summits, Biden ready to take on Putin" by Aamer Madhani, Jonathan Lemire and Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press, June 15, 2021

GENEVA — Fresh from supportive summits with allies, Joe Biden declared himself ready Tuesday to take on Russia’s Vladimir Putin in far more confrontational talks — a climactic finish to the most important week of meetings in his young presidency.

[Meet your next president]

Biden meets for his first talks as president with the Russian leader on Wednesday, in what’s expected to be roughly a half-day of discussions between the two leaders and aides behind closed doors. That’s after spending much of a weeklong European trip — the foreign policy highlight of his presidency so far — working to strengthen ties with like-minded partner nations to better deal with rivals Russia and China.

[He can take a jump in the lake that is filled with garbage]

A reporter soon after Biden's arrival in Geneva on Tuesday shouted out a question on whether he was ready for Wednesday's talks. “I am always ready,” Biden answered.

The American leader reached Geneva following rounds of cordial elbow bumping, grinning photo sessions, and close consultations with global leaders at the Group of Seven, NATO, and US-European Union summits. He secured a series of joint communiques expressing concern over Russia and China, and was at the EU on Tuesday to preside over the announcement of a breakthrough easing a long-running US aircraft trade dispute with that bloc.

As for Russia, the United States and the EU declared they “stand united in our principled approach” to the longtime rival, “ready to respond decisively to its repeating pattern of negative behavior and harmful activities.”

Biden’s European tour has aimed to restore US partnerships that were damaged under former president Trump, who openly invited what American intelligence services said was Russian interference in US political campaigns, and who sought out Putin and other autocrats he saw as strong.

[That's a flat-out f**king lie]

In line with the chilly-so-far Biden-Putin relationship — Putin's government responded with indignation earlier this year after Biden said he considered the Russian a “killer” — the two men plan neither lunch nor dinner together, and no joint press conference after, in what's expected to be their four to five hours together.

That's in contrast to this week's G-7 session hosted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, where the allies and their spouses held a beach barbecue and round after round of “family photos.”

According to a senior administration official granted anonymity to disclose internal discussions, Biden is hoping to find small areas of agreement with the Russian president, including potentially returning ambassadors to Washington and Moscow.

[Typical arrogant asshole American!

Never mind the endless stream of lies and insults coming from him and the pre$$!]

That and other diplomatic issues, including the tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats and closure of consulates, will be high on the agenda for both sides.....

[Who cares?]


The New York Times says Putin wants respect and Biden might just give him some, but he will expect the favor to be returned.

The juvenile journali$m, if you can even call it that, is absolutely atrocious and an abomination. 

What rank-rot shit!

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Time for a check-up:

"Editor of JAMA, a Boston University professor, will step down following racial incident" by Apoorva Mandavilli New York Times, June 1, 2021

Following an outcry over comments about racism made by an editor at JAMA, the influential medical journal, the top editor, Dr. Howard Bauchner, will step down from his post effective June 30.

The move was announced Tuesday by the American Medical Association, which oversees the journal. Bauchner, who had led JAMA since 2011, had been on administrative leave since March because of an ongoing investigation into comments made on the journal’s podcast.

Dr. Edward Livingston, another editor at JAMA, had asserted that socioeconomic factors, not structural racism, held back communities of color. A tweet promoting the podcast had said that no physician could be racist. It was later deleted.

“I remain profoundly disappointed in myself for the lapses that led to the publishing of the tweet and podcast,” Bauchner said in a statement. “Although I did not write or even see the tweet, or create the podcast, as editor-in-chief, I am ultimately responsible for them.”

[You can't tell a healthy truth anymore, even if you are a doctor!]

Bauchner is a professor of pediatrics and community health sciences at the Boston University School of Medicine and has served as assistant dean for alumni affairs and continuing medical education.

Last month, the AMA’s leaders admitted to serious missteps and proposed a three-year plan to “dismantle structural racism” within the organization and in medicine. The announcement Tuesday did not mention the status of the investigation at JAMA. The journal declined to comment further.

“This is a real moment for JAMA and the AMA to recreate themselves from a founding history that was based in segregation and racism to one that is now based on racial equity,” said Dr. Stella Safo, a Black primary care physician at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

[Tuskegee -- brought to you by the same people pushing the genocidal jab at you!]

Safo and her colleagues started a petition, now signed by more than 9,000 people, that had called on JAMA to restructure its staff and hold a series of town hall conversations about racism in medicine.

“I think that this is a step in the right direction,” she said of the announcement, but other critics said they were withholding judgment to see how the organization addresses what they saw as pervasive neglect of covering racism’s impact on health in its journals.

“In the entire history of all the JAMA network journals, there’s only been one nonwhite editor,” said Dr. Raymond Givens, a cardiologist at Columbia University in New York.

[Well, I will never want to access the medical e$tabli$hment after this, and are quotas healthy if the doctor is unqualified?]

In October, Givens wrote to Bauchner, noting that editors at the JAMA journals were overwhelmingly white and male. Bauchner did not respond, according to Givens.

“This is not cause to celebrate,” he said of the announcement, adding that he had not intended to jeopardize Bauchner’s job.

Nor will appointing a top editor of color resolve the issues, Givens said.

“Looking for just a person of color misses the point,” he added. “I’m more interested in a bold voice. I want somebody who is willing to take a stand, push to move things forward.”

[Racist]

The podcast that set the events in motion aired Feb. 24 and did not include any Black researchers or experts on racism in medicine.

“Structural racism is an unfortunate term,” Livingston, who is white, said on the podcast. “Personally, I think taking racism out of the conversation will help. Many people like myself are offended by the implication that we are somehow racist.”

[We all should be as these assholes push their division when there is none]

The podcast was promoted with a tweet from the journal that said, “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?” Following widespread protest in the medical community, the journal took down the podcast and deleted the tweet.

“Comments made in the podcast were inaccurate, offensive, hurtful and inconsistent with the standards of JAMA,” Bauchner said in a statement released a week later. “We are instituting changes that will address and prevent such failures from happening again.”

Livingston later resigned, and the AMA placed Bauchner on administrative leave March 25.

The JAMA family of journals added four new titles under Bauchner’s leadership, and expanded to include podcasts, videos and new, shorter article types.

Bauchner’s exit offered the journals a chance to improve, said Dr. Mary Bassett, professor of the practice of health and human rights at Harvard University.

“Medical journals have helped build the racist idea that races have intrinsic differences that have a bearing on health,” Bassett said. Journals are “challenged to embrace, not only accept, racism as a health issue.”

In an editorial published in JAMA on Tuesday, colleagues at the journal lauded Bauchner’s leadership, saying he “has left an indelible legacy of progress, innovation and excellence in medical journalism.”

The AMA said it has begun a search for Bauchner’s replacement. The journal’s executive editor, Dr. Phil Fontanarosa, will serve as interim editor-in-chief.

[Who cares? 

It's a piece of crap rag anyway]


The podcast is no longer on Instagram?

You know, speaking of celebrity doctors..... 

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"Three indicted on drug trafficking charges; 40 additional arrest warrants issued for crimes in Newmarket Square area" by Evan Allen Globe Staff, May 31, 2021

Three people have been indicted for drug trafficking or gun crimes, and dozens more are facing arrest, as Suffolk County prosecutors and Boston Police crack down on the rise of violent crime in the troubled area of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.

A Suffolk County Grand Jury last week returned 36 indictments against Jay Candelario, 40, of Lowell; Dale Clarke, 24, of Boston; and Robert Lewis, 56, of Boston, according to a statement issued Monday by District Attorney Rachael Rollins.

“These individuals are each accused of preying on and profiting from the vulnerability, desperation, and afflictions of others. Further, their actions have significantly impacted the community where they sold their deadly products,” Rollins said in a statement. “We will not tolerate the repeated infliction of harm on our neighborhoods and vulnerable members of our community.”

More than 40 additional arrest warrants have been issued for other people for crimes committed in the Newmarket Square area as part of the same effort to clean up the area.

According to the statement, Candelario sold drugs in front of a Boston police officer in February. When he was arrested, he allegedly had a loaded gun with a feeding device capable of holding 15 rounds. He was initially arraigned in District Court, where he pleaded not guilty; last week’s indictments kick his case up to Superior Court, which handles serious charges. He was indicted on charges including fentanyl trafficking and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Clarke allegedly repeatedly sold drugs to undercover police officers. Police later allegedly found three guns in his house, along with a stolen ballistic vest and supplies for packaging drugs for distribution. He was indicted on charges including trafficking fentanyl and cocaine, and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Lewis is accused of repeatedly taking part in drug transactions, and was indicted on charges including trafficking fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.

The indictments and arrests come as part of a long-term effort by law enforcement and city officials to address the crime and safety hazards in the Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass area, which has for years been plagued by open drug dealing, crime, and drug use. The area is a gathering place for people suffering from addiction, who often seek treatment or shelter in the neighborhood, and who are easy targets for people selling drugs.

Rollins’s office has been meeting weekly with Boston police to try to do two things: hold people accountable for crimes, and connect those who are struggling with addiction, physical or mental health problems, poverty, or homelessness, with services that can help them, according to the release.



"Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins met virtually Tuesday with current and former members of a Boston Public Schools student government group, some of whom were exposed to an unorthodox form of group therapy under the supervision of an outside contractor. The meeting was confirmed by Rollins’s office and Khymani James, who abruptly resigned from the Boston Student Advisory Council in March, and then, at a news conference, called the counseling sessions emotional abuse and accused one of the program leaders, Jenny Sazama, of recruiting students into her Re-Evaluation Counseling “cult.” The council is a prestigious group of high school students who advise Boston Public Schools leaders on education policy. On Twitter, James said the meeting focused on “the trauma that hundreds of students had to face at the hands of” Sazama, the program she led, Youth on Board, and BPS. “I thank [Rollins] and her team for taking us students seriously and moving swiftly on this issue,” James wrote on Twitter....."

They thanked her for her guidance, and you can $ee why the Globe got after them, right?