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Friday, June 25, 2021

A Criminal Abomination

That is what is this morning's Boston Globe. There is simply no other way to describe the flat-out lies oozing from their pages. It's the most reprehensible "journali$m" I've ever seen. When John Henry bought it on the cheap from the New York Times, I was hopeful he would improve it; however, he has turned it into a complete piece of criminal $hit.

Here we are in the midst of what is being called a public health policy scandal of unprecedented proportions and of potentially catastrophic consequences that is unfolding right before our eyes and the pre$$ is not only ignoring, but facilitating it.

All over a "viru$" that doesn't even exist. It has always been seasonal cold and flu now called COVID, just another in an endless stream of lies from the pre$$. They apparently can't hear the CDC whistleblowers who claim injections have already killed 50,000 Americans as the deaths pile up.

The vaccines are riskier then advertised and all about politics, according to Penny and the WSJ. They don't protect you from the CVD, and you still have to observe all the masking and distancing despite being vaxxed.

As for whether “will the mainstream media ever start recording…deaths or illnesses” from covid jabs, I think we all know the answer. Imho, the Journal article was it a one-off mainstream aberration not to be repeated -- like so much of their $hit.

There can be no doubt now that covid is a globalist psyop designed to inventory, brand, control & cull humanity. Time to start hanging the criminals from lampposts, starting with the politicians, public health officials, and media that promoted this heinous hoax before moving on to the  Rockefeller Foundation, WHO, GAVI, and the entire globali$t ruling cla$$. 

They had their chance to right their wrongs, and they have declined to do that, instead doubling down with the lies to advance their criminal genocidal agenda at the behe$t of their ma$ters.

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Exhibit A1:

"Nursing homes struggle to reduce a serious COVID risk: many employees resist vaccination; Administrators have courted holdouts with raffles, gift cards, and cash, but more than 40 percent nationwide are still unvaccinated" by Kay Lazar Globe Staff, June 24, 2021

If any nursing home had a reason to ensure everyone was fully vaccinated against COVID-19, it would be the Leavitt Family Jewish Home in Longmeadow. Sixty-three residents died last year from the disease, yet, six months after staffers there became eligible for shots, more than 30 percent have yet to be fully vaccinated.

Now, the Leavitt is pairing up with behavioral psychologists from the University of California, Berkeley to test the effectiveness of making the shots super convenient by reserving one for each unvaccinated employee and then asking them to either get their jab in the home during one of their shifts or decline the shot specifically reserved for them.

The failure of many nursing home staff members to get vaccinated has emerged as one of the most serious gaps in the United States’ defenses against COVID. Fully one-quarter of the nation’s pandemic deaths have occurred in nursing homes; yet, nationwide, more than 40 percent of staff members are still unvaccinated, leaving the homes’ frail, elderly residents vulnerable.

Nursing home administrators across the country have dangled gift cards, cash, T-shirts, and more, but such incentives have largely failed at convincing holdouts. Instead, administrators are finding slow but steady success with intimate, albeit time-consuming, one-on-one sessions, pairing the hesitant with colleagues, medical directors, or other trusted sources who listen to workers and talk them through their fears.

“You need to sit across from them, and ask how their kids are,” said Barry Berman, chief executive of JGS Lifecare, which includes the Leavitt nursing home. “It’s those personal connections that sometimes makes the difference.”

[Are you ready to vomit yet at the browbeating and coercion for their toxic tubes of poison?]

Berman has taken to sharing pictures of his five grandchildren on his iPad and telling staff that his fervent prayer is that the youngsters, 8 years old and younger, may soon be eligible for a shot and gain protection, too.

Some nursing homes have considered requiring employees to get a COVID vaccine, but many operators fear a mandate would simply worsen an already serious worker shortage in nursing homes, so persuasion remains the name of the game, but it’s been an uphill challenge as many nursing home workers are immigrants or from communities of color where mistrust of the government and medicine can run deep. In addition, some harbor fears about vaccine side effects, often fed by social media.

A state health department spokeswoman said nursing home staff vaccination rates have improved by 4 percent statewide over the past month, and the department is helping facilities boost rates with mobile clinics and sending teams to help administer shots.

The American Health Care Association, the national trade association for nursing homes, on Tuesday held an online session for workers across the country to ask medical experts questions about the vaccines. It was clear from many of the queries that employees have been riveted by false rumors swirling around social media, claiming bizarre and scary side effects from the shots, such as infertility or that the vaccines make recipients magnetic.

[So what is one to make of the magnetism and infertility that is occurring out there, as well as the blood-clotting and heart inflammations in young and healthy people?

The criminal pre$$ pooh-poohs the deaths and side effects that are mounting by the day, the damn bastards. 

To the gallows with them!]

One expert, Dr. Sarah Berry, a geriatrician at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston, nodded knowingly, saying she had gotten similar questions from her 12- and 15-year old children who recently received a Pfizer vaccine.

“The 15-year-old is like, ‘Is this vaccine still going to be in me when I get old and is it going to cause side effects down the road?’” she said. Berry explained that researchers have not seen long-term effects in the people who enrolled in the first vaccine trials and have been followed for more than a year. She assured viewers that vaccines “very seldom cause side effects beyond the first couple of months, and that was sort of reassuring to my son.”

[How could they? 

There is no way they can know the long-term effects of this abominable experiment with the mRNA gene-therapy modification, but IT'S TOO LATE NOW if you have gotten the shot.

It is IN YOU and can never be removed.

Is that why the health professionals who are being condescended to as if they are stupid don't want the shots?

Oh, btw, giving the shots to young children who do not need it is child abuse]

Federal regulators, hoping to increase rates of nursing home staff vaccinations and better understand outbreaks, recently required the facilities to start reporting their progress weekly, and began posting the data, but the information is hard to find on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nursing Home Data website.

“It’s definitely not consumer friendly,” said Toby Edelman, a senior policy attorney with the Center for Medicare Advocacy, “and knowing whether staff and residents are vaccinated would be important for families.”

[Arggghhh!

That is from your transparent government who is all about protecting you as they rob you blind and kill you!!]

At Sherrill House in Boston, vaccination rates are at 84 percent, but chief executive Patrick Stapleton is aiming still higher. One factor working in their favor, he said, is many longtime, older employees who are more open to getting vaccinated. While Stapleton offered $50 gift cards early on in their vaccine campaign, he found personal conversations seemed more productive in convincing later holdouts.

Now, he is considering mandating shots for new employees. Given the severe labor shortage in the industry, it’s a dicey proposition, he concedes.

“It’s not something we take lightly, but it’s something we are talking about,” he said. “There is a lot of employer peril here, but it’s a balance against what is safe for our residents.”


You will want to keep your beloved elderly out the the mo-fos of the nursing home if you live in Ma$$achu$etts.

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"Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine. An Associated Press analysis of available government data from May shows that “breakthrough” infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 853,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. That’s about 0.1%, and only about 150 of the more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May were in fully vaccinated people. That translates to about 0.8%, or five deaths per day on average. The AP analyzed figures provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC itself has not estimated what percentage of hospitalizations and deaths are in fully vaccinated people, citing limitations in the data. Among them: Only about 45 states report breakthrough infections, and some are more aggressive than others in looking for such cases. So the data probably understates such infections, CDC officials said. Still, the overall trend that emerges from the data echoes what many health care authorities are seeing around the country and what top experts are saying. Earlier this month, Andy Slavitt, a former adviser to the Biden administration on COVID-19, suggested that 98% to 99% of the Americans dying of the coronavirus are unvaccinated, and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Tuesday that the vaccine is so effective that "nearly every death, especially among adults, due to COVID-19, is, at this point, entirely preventable.” Deaths in the U.S. have plummeted from a peak of more than 3,400 day on average in mid-January, one month into the vaccination drive. About 63% of all vaccine-eligible Americans — those 12 and older — have received at least one dose, and 53% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC....."

CDC means Criminal Death Cult at this point as they promote such a fantastic lie it is beyond belief, ignoring the thousands of Americans who have already died from the jab -- as they start quoting numbers and statistics!

It is starting to look like the goddamn numbers they cite are nothing but fictions based on models! 

In other words, they are pulling the case numbers out of their asses!

It's ALL LIES, folks!

Your GOVERNMENT and PRE$$ LIE TO YOU CONSTANTLY, EVERY DAY, DAY AFTER DAY, ABOUT EVERYTHING, Americans.

"San Francisco city workers will be required to be vaccinated against the coronavirus when a vaccine receives full federal approval. The policy covering 35,000 municipal workers may be the first by any city or county in the U.S. Employees who refuse to get vaccinated and don’t get an exemption could be fired, according to the policy posted to the city government’s website Wednesday. The three COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the U.S. are being dispensed under emergency authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. They are expected to receive full approval in several months. San Francisco city employees will then have 10 weeks to get their shots....." 

The politicians who came up with this in fa$cist Fri$co should be fired -- then hung!


This isn't about a viru$ or di$ea$e anymore, this is something far more nefarious and $ini$ter.


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Your natural herd immunity was found at the bottom of page B3 and it was covered in unscientific lies:

"New study suggests many were infected last year but never diagnosed with COVID-19" by Martin Finucane Globe Staff, June 24, 2021

[Then we HAVE NATURAL and LIFETIME HERD IMMUNITY as the alleged virus gets weaker!]

A recently released study offers new clues to an unanswered question about the coronavirus pandemic: How many people have gotten the virus but were never officially diagnosed?

National Institutes of Health researchers reported this week that the prevalence of COVID-19 in the United States during spring and summer of last year was much higher than the known number of cases.

[That is after they jacked up all the "cases" with false positives based on inaccurate cycle thresholds for a test that detects neither CVD or infectiousness.

That's why the "case" levels are based on, a complete manipulation of numbers for evil purposes]

The researchers, in a paper published in Science Translational Medicine, estimated “there were approximately 4.8 undiagnosed infections for every identified case of COVID-19, suggesting a potential 16.8 million undiagnosed infections by July 2020.”

“Our data suggest a larger spread of the COVD-19 [sic] pandemic in the United States during the first six months than originally thought,” the study said.

The study did not address how many people might have undiagnosed infections now. The US total of diagnosed infections has grown to around 33.4 million on Thursday.

“A hallmark of the coronavirus pandemic is that there are people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 who have few or no symptoms,” said Dr. Matthew J. Memoli of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of several NIH institutes leading the study.

[That FLIES in the FACE of a PANDEMIC, for a true pandemic has people dropping in the streets, not asymptomatic infections that are not.

The guy above is a FUCKING CRIMINAL LIAR in FAUCI'S OFFICE!]

“While counting the numbers of symptomatic people in the United States is essential to contend with the impact of the pandemic and public health response, gaining a full appreciation of the COVID-19 prevalence requires counting the people who are undiagnosed,” he said this week in an NIH statement.

Researchers came up with their estimates after looking at blood samples from a representative sample of over 8,000 undiagnosed people, searching for antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, the NIH said.

[PFFFFFFFFFFFT!]

The findings come as the United States is struggling to get as many people as possible vaccinated against the virus, while officials warn of the worrisome new delta variant.

[Now known as the SCARIANT!

CRIMINAL MONSTERS ALL is your government, folks, and have you ever noticed how conveniently the agenda-pushing $tudies come forth when they need them?]

Other studies have also suggested that large numbers of cases have gone undiagnosed. A Columbia University researcher estimated earlier this year, based on computer modeling, that the number of undiagnosed people continued to be multiple times higher than the number of diagnosed people.

[Like i said, it is ALL $HIT!]

Dr. Thomas Tsai, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said the NIH study “suggests that there may be a higher than expected level of infection-induced immunity currently in the US population,” but he said he wasn’t aware of any definitive estimate of that level.

[I'm sorry, SAY AGAIN!]

It may sound reassuring that, in addition to the 177 million people who have gotten at least one dose of vaccine, there are many millions who may have some natural protection against the coronavirus after contracting it and never getting tested for it, but experts emphasize people should get their shots even if they’ve had COVID-19.

[That is INSANE and CRIMINAL!

The SHOT will actually CAUSE HARM by stimulating the immune system against the spike protein bioweapon when it isn't needed!]

“You should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had COVID-19,” the CDC says on its website. “That’s because experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19. Even if you have already recovered from COVID-19, it is possible—although rare—that you could be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 again. Studies have shown that vaccination provides a strong boost in protection in people who have recovered from COVID-19.”

[They should all be in jail]

Tsai said, “I think getting vaccination is still incredibly important. Especially with the delta variant which has been shown to have increased household transmission and increased severity of illness, vaccination remains important to protecting the health of individuals and their family members.”

[Not only is he a goddamned liar, he's telegraphing the fact they intend to show up at your door and enter your homes.

I hope they are prepared to die as I am]


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Now to the bu$ine$$ $ection:

"State’s largest health care providers to require all employees get COVID-19 vaccines; One labor union balked at the mandate" by Priyanka Dayal McCluskey Globe Staff, June 24, 2021

The state’s largest hospital systems on Thursday said they will mandate that all of their employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of a moral imperative to keep patients safe.

[It will do the exact opposite as they vaccinated shed the spike protein and infect others, so AVOILD MEDICAL CARE at ALL COSTS!

DO NOT TRUST the medical e$tablishment in Ma$$achu$etts!]

Leaders of Mass General Brigham, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Wellforce, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute said requiring vaccination for employees is critical for protecting vulnerable patients, especially those who are immunocompromised.

Together, these hospital systems employ more than 135,000 people. All employees, including those who don’t work directly with patients, must get vaccinated, though they can request exemptions for medical or religious reasons.

[And if denied?]

Dr. Anne Klibanski, chief executive of Mass General Brigham, said there is now overwhelming evidence that COVID vaccines are safe and effective.

“Getting vaccinated right now is the single most important thing that we can do to let our employees know that we are providing the safest environment for patients, their families, and for each other,” she told the Globe.

[My jaw hit the floor when I saw what that criminal said about safe and effective vaccines when they are nothing of the sort! 

They admittedly don't prevent CVD or transmission, so WTF?!]

Hospital leaders did not set a deadline for employees to be vaccinated. They said they would wait until the US Food & Drug Administration grants full approval of the vaccines, which could take weeks or months. (The FDA has authorized the vaccines for emergency use.)

[The FDA is nothing but a rubber stamp for the pharma¢euti¢als, and this article proves it]

Hospital workers have been eligible for the COVID vaccines for months, and most have received their shots. After watching COVID patients suffer and die, many caregivers rushed at the chance to be vaccinated and became emotional as the needle went into their arms.

[What a load of shit from the Globe scribe]

Mass General Brigham and Beth Israel Lahey, the two biggest health care providers in Massachusetts, both said that about 85 percent of their workers have been vaccinated, but the health care workforce is large and diverse, and not everyone has been enthusiastic about the vaccines.

[If so many have been vaccinated, then there is no need for the rest to get the kill shots.

We were told 70% was good enough, but not now!]

One labor union representing health care workers immediately objected to the new requirements — though hospitals appear to have the legal right to implement them.

“Vaccination is an important tool to help us move forward, but an employer mandate is not the answer for a healthcare workforce still struggling to recover,” said Tim Foley, executive vice president of 1199SEIU, which represents nurses as well as technical and clerical workers.

“A hard-handed approach will create greater frustration,” Foley said in a statement.

[Along with rebellion, and finally, a union with some balls]

David Schildmeier, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Nurses Association, said the union will review each hospital’s specific policy before taking a position.

“We have encouraged our members to get the vaccine, and we believe the vast majority have already done so,” he said.

[Looks like they have broken you]

Many hospitals already require their workers to get annual flu shots. The nurses union opposes flu vaccination mandates and in the past has sued — unsuccessfully — to try to block such requirements.

Dr. Kevin Tabb, chief executive of Beth Israel Lahey, said his health system has a responsibility to protect patients and employees, and that it must lead by example.

“We’re an institution that is based on science,” he said in an interview. “We know the vaccine is extraordinarily effective, and we know that it’s safe. … We stand on much stronger moral ground asking others to get vaccinated when we ourselves have been vaccinated.”

[F**k him!]

At Wellforce, the hospital system that includes Tufts Medical Center, executives sent an e-mail to employees saying: “COVID-19 is still with us. The Delta variant is becoming more prominent in the United States, and it is vitally important that we continue to do everything we can to protect our patients and ourselves.”

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute told its employees: “Because our patients are especially vulnerable, we will strictly enforce compliance.” Cancer patients are at greater risk because they may have weakened immune systems from their treatments.

UMass Memorial Health Care eventually plans to mandate the vaccine for its workers, said Dr. Eric Dickson, the chief executive. Seventy-six percent of employees are vaccinated now, which Dickson called “disappointing.”

“I fully anticipate that we will mandate [vaccination] and that other health care systems in the state will,” he said.

“I think we will probably have some people leave their jobs because they don’t want to get vaccinated,” he said, “and that will make it even harder to staff places that are already struggling to get staffing.”

[As the Terminator once said, F**k you, a$$hole!]

Boston Medical Center and Steward Health Care said they’re still evaluating whether to make vaccinations mandatory.

In requiring the COVID vaccine, Massachusetts hospitals are following the lead of those in other states, including Texas, Maryland, and New York.

Houston Methodist Hospital has drawn national attention for its vaccination requirement and a lawsuit from some of its employees that challenged the mandate. Earlier this month, a federal court sided with the hospital. A Houston Methodist spokeswoman said 153 employees resigned or were fired over the requirement.

The fact that Massachusetts hospitals are waiting for full FDA approval before they require vaccination puts them on firmer legal ground, experts told the Globe.

“Once the full approval is in place, I do not see the likelihood of an effective challenge against this,” said Robert Kilroy, a partner at the law firm Mirick O’Connell.

[Yeah, don't look to the corrupt corporate courts for salvation!

You will find none there]

Michael Ulrich, assistant professor of health law and ethics at Boston University, said courts generally have upheld vaccine mandates, “and with health care workers,” he said, “you have an even stronger justification for the employers to require it, because you have vulnerable people that are more at risk.”

Governor Charlie Baker, asked about the vaccination mandates Thursday, said, “As far as I’m concerned, that’s their call.”

“At this point in time, I would prefer to let organizations make the decisions they think are going to keep their people safest,” Baker said at an appearance in Quincy, “but different people are in different places with respect to this, and I think we should respect that as well.”

[There he goes again playing bad cop, bad cop, and it really doesn't matter, does it?]


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"Biden says he has infrastructure deal with bipartisan group of senators" by Emily Cochrane, Jim Tankersley, and Jonathan Weisman The New York Times, June 25, 2021

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of centrist senators reached a deal on Thursday for $1.2 trillion in investments to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, a victory for the White House but only the first lurch in what promises to be an arduous attempt to reshape the nation’s economic and social programs.

The agreement on traditional infrastructure projects — roads, bridges, tunnels, rail and broadband — would be significant on its own, the first major increase of federal public works spending since President Barack Obama’s 2009 economic rescue plan. It would include some existing infrastructure programs, but also provide $579 billion in new money over eight years to patch cracking highways, rebuild crumbling bridges, speed rail traffic and more equitably spread high-speed internet access.

[Why is the infrastructure in such $hit shape?

Were did all the money go all these years?

Down a manhole and into the $wampi$h $ewer?]

The plan would also pour billions of dollars into waterways and coastlines washing away as a warming planet raises sea levels, and $7.5 billion into financing a half-million electric vehicle charging stations, all part of Biden’s climate pledges. It would be paid for in part with a $40 billion increase in the IRS enforcement budget to bring in $140 billion in unpaid taxes, as well as repurposing unspent coronavirus relief funds, according to an outline provided by the White House.

“This agreement signals to the world that we can function, deliver and do significant things,” Biden said from the White House’s East Room, after meeting with the lawmakers, but almost immediately after reaching the breakthrough, Biden and Democrats offered a giant caveat that could complicate its chances of passage.

[What dirty tricks and double-dealing underhandedness do the Communi$t Democraps have in store?]

Both the president and top Democrats said the compromise, which constitutes only a small fraction of the expansive, $4 trillion economic agenda Biden has proposed, could advance only together with a far larger bill that would pour trillions more into health care, child care, higher education access and climate change programs. That measure, vehemently opposed by Republicans, would be paid for by remaking the tax code to capture the wealth of the superrich and multinational corporations that shift profits and jobs overseas.

[UH-HUH! 

The damn Dems will go after their donors, yeah, $ure.

This deal is $hit, and the 4tinking Republicans went along with bankrupting this country, the traitors]

“If this is the only thing that comes to me, I’m not signing it,” Biden said of the infrastructure piece. “It’s in tandem.”

[Fine, don't]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the changes in their totality “transformative, if not revolutionary.” Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, predicted that the pair of bills would be “the boldest, strongest legislation that this country has seen in decades.”

[God help us all]

They said they hoped all of it could come together by this fall, an enormous challenge that will involve persuading at least 60 senators to back the traditional infrastructure plan, and keeping Democrats united on the larger bill. The latter measure would have to pass through a budget process called reconciliation, which would allow it to bypass a Republican filibuster, but would require all 50 Democratic and independent votes in the Senate.

“There ain’t going to be no bipartisan bill unless we’re going to have reconciliation,” Pelosi said, a message she repeated privately to Democrats, after liberals warned against acting just on a bipartisan deal that jettisons the provisions progressives want most.

Still, the deal struck Thursday fulfills the promise of bipartisanship that Biden has long sought, and its authors were in a celebratory mood..... 

[In other words, this front-page piece of $hit is nothing but CRAP IMAGERY and DISTORTED GARBAGE, and yet the fact that the Globe emphasizes that the article originally appeared in The New York Times means the Times is proud of their turd]


Related:

"The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked in an 11-11 vote Thursday on President Biden’s nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, setting up a procedural hurdle for Democrats to overcome before he is confirmed. The split vote on Chipman means Senate majority leader Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, will need to hold a full Senate vote to discharge the nomination from committee. The panel also voted 11-10, along party lines, to confirm Ur Mendoza Jaddou, Biden’s nominee to lead the Homeland Security Department’s Citizenship and Immigration Services, with one Republican senator abstaining....."

The abstention is a vote for in that case. 

Thanks for holding the line, whoever they were.

Also see:


She is also his longtime political strategist, and that should make good kindling for the fireplace.

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"US to move Afghans who aided troops to third countries" by Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt New York Times, June 24, 2021

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is preparing to relocate thousands of Afghan interpreters, drivers, and others who worked with US forces to other countries in an effort to keep them safe while they apply for entry to the United States, senior administration officials said.

With the US military in the final phases of withdrawing from Afghanistan after 20 years of war, the White House has come under heavy pressure from lawmakers and military officials to protect Afghan allies from revenge attacks by the Taliban, and speed up the lengthy and complex process of providing them special immigrant visas.

[They come with every war based one lies, and it's not something they tell you when it is being sold with front-page lies being bullhorn by the pre$$]

Roughly 650 US troops are expected to remain in Afghanistan to provide security for diplomats after the main American military force completes its withdrawal, which is set to be largely done in the next two weeks, US officials told the Associated Press on Thursday.

[We are withdrawing but we're not. 

SIGH!

Can you see why I am totally sick of this $hit?]

In addition, several hundred additional American forces will remain at the Kabul airport, potentially until September, to assist Turkish troops providing security, as a temporary move until a more formal Turkey-led security operation is in place, the officials said. Overall, officials said the United States expects to have American and coalition military command, its leadership, and most troops out by July 4, or shortly after that, meeting an aspirational deadline that commanders developed months ago. The officials were not authorized to discuss details of the withdrawal and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

On Wednesday, administration officials started notifying lawmakers that they will soon begin what could be a wholesale move of tens of thousands of Afghans. Officials said the Afghans would be moved out of Afghanistan to third countries to await the processing of their visa requests to move to the United States.

[How much is all this going to cost the American people?]

The officials declined to say where the Afghans would wait, and it is not clear whether third countries have agreed to take them. A senior administration official said that under the plan, family members of applicants would also be moved out of Afghanistan to a third country to await visa processing. Transportation out of Afghanistan will not come with any assurance that a US visa will be granted. It was unclear whether people who somehow do not qualify would be sent back to Afghanistan or left in a third country. The officials spoke on grounds of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the decision.

The decision comes as President Biden prepares to meet Friday with President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan amid a worsening security situation in the country.

[Why are we leaving then?]

Aides said Biden would press Ghani on the need for unity among the country’s leaders, urging them to stop fighting among themselves when the country is in crisis and government forces are at risk of losing control of the nation to the Taliban.

[As the illegitimate a$$hole and demented pettofile tears ours apart!]

They said he would assure Ghani of continued financial support from the United States to the Afghan government and people, including a $266 million humanitarian assistance package and $3.3 billion in security assistance, as well as significant aid to help combat the coronavirus pandemic with vaccines, testing kits and personal protective equipment.

Officials said the administration has been working to streamline the visa process for Afghans who worked with US forces and has added people to handle the applications.

Pressure on the administration to act swiftly on the Afghans’ behalf has grown steadily in recent weeks in both the House and the Senate. Lawmakers pressed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a Pentagon budget hearing Wednesday.....

[Those two guys should be court-martialed and exectuted.

You understand the rage, right, Milley?]


Related:

"Most Congressional Republicans have shrugged off the need for any more investigation into the attack, pointing to the FBI’s ongoing work to prosecute rioters, impeachment proceedings against Trump over his role in the insurrection, and a series of congressional hearings that have already taken place. “This... isn’t about gathering facts, it is about gathering political points,” said Representative James Comer of Kentucky during testimony this month from generals and intelligence officials, but supporters of a deeper probe point to a lack of clear information over what was responsible for the slow response from law enforcement that day, what the level of organization was among rioters and protesters, and who, if anyone, was behind funding it. “As an intelligence professional, I look at this as, who organized this? That is the fundamental question,” said Cedric Leighton, a military analyst and former US Air Force intelligence officer. “It is a follow the money question — who was paying for things?

I'm sure that cover-up committee will turn out a heap of sh!t in what is now clearly another in a long line of agenda-pushing false flags by this government -- with Michigan looking like a rehearsal.\

Also see:

"Russia is prepared to target intruding warships if they fail to heed warnings, a senior Russian diplomat declared Thursday after a Black Sea incident in which a British destroyer sailed near Crimea in an area that Russia claims as its territorial waters....."

[My pre$$ is playing down the British provocation, and bring it on.

The West will lose this one, and we can say good riddance to our governments as we eat them]


My print copy was New York Times, and that crime against humanity by the Catholic Church and the Canadian government is not only an atrocious abomination, it is cause for execution of the Pope and Trudeau.

Off with their heads, as a woman once said!


That's the $elf-$erving New York TimeS banging the war drums against China.


The Mexicans are in a SNITIS after Harris's visit.

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That was the Globe's front-page, above-the-fold, righthand corner lead.

PFFFFT!


I'm starting to suspect child sacrifices being covered up, but whatever.



Btw, the Kushner's are a block away and Zino$t Joe has now called it a national emergency.


The New York Times are citing Trump election lies as the reason; however, he is never asked why he destroyed a crime scene in September 2001.


The Globe is fine with it on a national level, though.


No thanks.


I certainly let a few loose today, and no apologies!


Sending a Crony over.


I've lost my appetite for Globe $hit, sorry.


The Globe is all for unions -- until it comes to them$elves!

Don't take that comment as support for their $cum propagandists, either.

The world be a much better place if the Globe went the way of the Apple Daily.


Who gives a shit with the existential threat of a needle coming at the kids?


What's to celebrate? 

Tyranny?


I'm looking forward, not back, as the Globe and its ma$ters attempt to literally erase it.


Not worried about drowning, huh?



Been a lot of bear sitings lately.


It's a revolving door, just like with the pettofile priests! 


I threw that piece of $hit overboard, sorry.


You can search the piece of $hit by Samantha Subin if you want to waste your time.


Stay away from the airport at all costs.


I no longer have the heart to read such $hit, and am sick of talking about it.


F*ck $port$.

"In defending the program, the Biden administration had said that the government had a compelling interest in remedying a well-documented history of discrimination against minority farmers in Department of Agriculture loan and other programs and in preventing public funds from being allocated in a way that perpetuates the effects of discrimination. Nonwhite farmers have long endured discrimination, from violence and land theft in the Jim Crow South to banks and federal farm offices that refused them loans or government benefits that went to white farmers. “It is undeniable — and notably uncontested by the parties — that USDA had a dark history of past discrimination against minority farmers,” Howard wrote....." 

Now they are the captive of AgriCorps, but who cares?


The terminology and word choice makes one $ick, never mind the flat-out lies.


That comes as they are dumping Gates because he is a radioactive liability and the most hated man in the world right now.

The plan will proceed, however, as the dead weight like him and Fauci are cut loose and thrown to the mob.

Monday, March 15, 2021

The March of Ides

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."


{@@##$$%%^^&&}

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?

The only oasis now may be Ireland:

"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:

 

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, yetadvocates 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.


{@@##$$%%^^&&}

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.

I know I should just shrug it off like a Proud Boy, but I'm really not up for it.

"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 hasin factreaffirmed 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!?



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.

He is passing the buck to Congre$$ when it comes to the existential threat from Mexico.

“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.


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 EisenbergNgozi 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!

So was the Chinese recovery as uneven as our own that is now stagnate?