Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Wednesday's Globe Was Worthless

I took one look at it after note-papering a preview, and had been prepared to do some next day updates; however, doing it this way saves me time:

Is this the beginning of Charlie Baker’s second-term blues?

Looks like trouble up ahead, and remember back when he didn't have to worry and the Globe was touting the most popular governor in AmeriKa as a shining example of Ma$$achu$etts politics?

Advocates say RMV’s blunder points to bigger issues

The dismal driving history of the man charged with killing seven motorcyclists in a New Hampshire crash last month — coupled with bureaucratic failures in Massachusetts that allowed him to keep his license — highlight weaknesses in the state and federal systems designed to keep unsafe drivers off the road, industry experts and advocates said Tuesday.

“This crash is an example of a failing at all levels,” said Harry Adler, executive director of the Truck Safety Coalition, an Arlington, Va.-based advocacy group. “It’s a failure across the board.”

“If the system is not set up to prevent someone with this sort of record . . . from receiving a [commercial driver’s license], then it would appear the system needs a serious reevaluation,” said Jason K. Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety.

But just in Ma$$, right, tribe members? I mean, all the other states did what they were supposed to and notified us. The DMV then boxed the stuff up without even looking at it.

Sadly, the Globe's focus on the unfortunate event and tragedy has now been revealed to be another agenda-pushing effort for more police state and possibly a Democrat governor. I guess in this case it is why waste an opportunity, like Emanuel and Rice once said.

2020 Census won’t have citizenship question as Trump administration drops effort

There he goes again, backing down after so much bluster. 

He's no different than he was hustling real estate.

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Summer is the season for perks

For Zoe Carlberg, at least, in what is an everyday theme it seems!

For Margaret McKenna, past clergy abuse is haunting her anew

Her church was in Rhode Island, and the loudmouth has nothing to say now?

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The Page A2 National Lead:

House files lawsuit seeking disclosure of Trump tax returns

Now the rest of the page, briefly:

Ex-mayor pleads guilty to corruption day after resignation

The former mayor of Scranton pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges he shook down businesses for bribes and campaign contributions throughout his term and a half in office.

(Cue the music)

AmeriKa's kangaroo courts where war crimes are absolved:

Navy SEAL found not guilty of first-degree murder

House threatens more subpoenas for documents related to Puerto Rico hurricane

When they put one out for the Kushners let me know.

Catholic archdiocese sues insurers over future abuse claims

Maybe McKenna has something to say about them, too?

Carjacking suspect from Mass. chased, caught by N.J. good Samaritans

His name is Maxim Kuropatkin, from Springfield.

Lawsuit alleges discrimination by Ga. driver’s license agency

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday says Georgia is discriminating against Puerto Rican driver’s license applicants by treating them differently than other US citizen applicants — forcing them to take tests, seizing their documents for fraud reviews, and quizzing them on details about the island.

The Globe is sure working an agenda today, huh?

[Page A3 is a full-page advertisement for.... (drum roll, please).... Total Wine!]

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Page A4 World Lead:

China calls Hong Kong protesters who stormed legislature ‘extreme radicals’

Just the New York Times confirming the U.S.-sponsored destabilization campaign, and there will be more protesters clogging up city streets later in the post.

Multiple walls collapse in India monsoon rains, killing 31

Ex-Sri Lanka officials arrested over negligence in bombings

I call it the Sri Lankan psy-op because "since the April 21 suicide attacks, the government has acknowledged it received intelligence reports about the plot beforehand but failed to act on them."

An arctic fox’s epic journey: Norway to Canada in 76 days

Somehow much of the journey was completed over vast stretches of the frozen Arctic Ocean that are connected seasonally by sea ice.

While we are up there: 

Russian research submarine catches fire, killing 14

Now down under:

Australian police arrest 3 over alleged Sydney terror plot

Inspired by U.S.- and allied- created, funded, and directed ISIS™.

Back up top:

Viking chess piece sells for more than $900,000 at auction

Your move.

[Page A5 carries another full-page advertisement for vice, this time for JUUL]

Page A6:

Government photos show detained migrants pleading for help

I'm tired of only certain children being waved in my face by the Jewi$h War Pre$$ of AmeriKa, sorry.

Buttigieg promises reforms to address racial inequality at civil rights convention

It's called pandering, and Biden beat him to it.

Barbershops, laundromats helping to turn kids on to the joy of reading

Just as long as it isn't a Jewish drag queen doing the reading.

Trump promises tanks, ‘biggest ever fireworks’ on July 4

All stand and salute for Hail to the Chief!

Trump, GOP report $105m in fund-raising

Trump says NRA will move to Texas

That's the end of their political notebook as we flip it closed.

Trump invites conservative tech critics to White House for ‘social media summit’

Leading the fight is Jesse Blumenthal, who leads technology and innovation policy work for Stand Together, the conservative group with ties to the Koch brothers -- and no, I am not making all this up!

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Page A9:

To circumvent US sanctions on Iran, some cargo ships go off the grid

The New York Times says that "US and Israeli intelligence agencies say Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is deeply entwined with its petrochemical industry, using oil revenues to swell its coffers, and the shipments headed for China are being facilitated by Du Jiangtao, a Chinese billionaire who made his fortune in medical equipment, chemicals, and coal-generated power" while Putin issued an ominous warning.

Page A12:

"All-Afghan peace summit set for July, but on Taliban terms" by Kathy Gannon and Amir Shah Associated Press, July 2, 2019

ISLAMABAD — A surprise announcement by President Trump seemed to accelerate the expected time frame for US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan ahead of an all-Afghan peace summit planned for July 7-8 in Qatar. The gathering apparently will be held on Taliban terms as there will be no official Afghan government representation.

Trump told Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday that nearly half of all American troops have already been pulled out.

I haven't watched Tucker this week because I knew he would be on, but with about ten minutes to go last night he was blasting legal pot.

That pullout was expected to be announced as part of a time frame being negotiated by Washington’s peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is in the middle of talks with the Taliban in Qatar.

‘‘I’ve wanted to pull them out. And you know, I have pulled a lot out. We were at 16,000. We’re down to about 9,000, which a lot of people don’t know,’’ Trump said, according to the transcript of the interview shared with The Associated Press. ‘‘So we’ve reduced the force very substantially in Afghanistan, which I don’t talk about very much, and that’s OK,’’ Trump added.

Why not? 

Actually ending some wars can only help you!

The Taliban’s spokesman in Doha, Suhail Shaheen, has said that talks with Khalilzad are focused on a timetable for withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Afghanistan.

No, no, no, no timetables! 

That's what we have been told for 15+ years because it means all the enemy will have to do is wait us out!

Trump’s comments Monday would seem to contradict a statement made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a visit to Kabul on June 25. Pompeo said then that Washington had made no decision on a timeframe for withdrawal.

Oh, it's more gaseous spew from him where he will later back down, okay.

It would be nice if he knew what the hell is his administration's policy, huh?

Instead he's all caught up in the Nazi rally, I mean, Fourth of July militarism.

Trump also said in the Monday TV interview that he wanted to leave a strong intelligence gathering force behind in Afghanistan.....

That's when I aborted the talks, sorry.

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Maybe we will have better luck with the B-section, readers:

EPA prosecutions haven fallen sharply, especially in New England, advocacy group says

That's very interesting because the Globe has in essence become advocacy "journali$m."

Medford man drowns in Upper Mystic Lake; had been with friends celebrating graduation

He was an immigrant from Nepal, I guess he's lucky the sharks didn't eat him, and what's all that honking in the other lane?

Li Adorno and Emet Ezell led the crowd down Tremont Street.
Li Adorno and Emet Ezell led the crowd down Tremont Street.(Craig F. Walker/Globe staff)

"Protesters shut down traffic in Boston over detention centers"

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by Zoe Greenberg and Danny McDonald Globe Staff, July 2, 2019

A lively and fast-moving stream of about 1,000 Jewish activists and others shut down traffic in the heart of the city during rush hour Tuesday evening, chanting, singing, and drumming to protest immigrant detention in the city and across the country.

There can be no doubt about it being a Jewi$h agenda that is obsessively pushed by the Globe -- just as long as the sentiment isn't expressed towards Israel, its supremacist immigration places, or the captivity of Palestinian population.

Many of the demonstrators were young, wearing prayer shawls and head coverings, and drawing on lessons learned in Hebrew school and from relatives who survived the Holocaust to urge the Trump administration to “close the camps.” Lawyers and lawmakers have described the camps detaining migrants at the border as squalid and inhumane in recent weeks.

Not all of them:

Protesters arrested during the march and rally outside the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department in Boston on Tuesday.
Protesters arrested during the march and rally outside the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department in Boston on Tuesday.(Nic Antaya for The Boston Globe)

Some are just fat skanks!

“When we grew up hearing the words ‘never again,’ it’s referring to a moment like this,” said Michaela Caplan, 23, one of the organizers of the event. She wore a Star of David necklace and, like many other attendees, said she had been moved to protest because of her family’s history. Her grandmother survived Auschwitz, and lost more than 30 family members.

Planned by a loosely connected group of Jewish activists who organized under the phrase “Never Again,” as well as the immigrant-rights group Cosecha, the protest was linked to an action in New Jersey on Sunday, when 36 activists were arrested outside of an ICE detention center. Both are part of a nationwide push by young Jews to protest immigrant detention in part by invoking a collective memory of Jewish suffering.

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While stuck in traffic you can enjoy pages B2 thru B4:

Archeologists are examining a famous New York ritual gathering site

I think I'll skip Woodstock this time.

Bear captured, tranquilized in Auburn after wandering for six hours

‘Munchkin,’ largest loggerhead sea turtle ever rescued in New England, released in Cape Cod

ACLU settles lawsuit against town over medical marijuana ordinance

Proposals to transform Connecticut shoreline park fall short

It is a former 1930s-era tuberculosis sanatorium for children that they wanted to turn into an addiction clinic with a lodge and spa.

Woburn dog attacked, killed by two coyotes

They must have been really hungry because coyotes usually run rather than ambush. 

Quincy police arrest man, woman in connection with bank robbery

Two men arrested during drug raid in Lynn apartment; 55 grams of heroin found in sneaker

Why no photo of Irvine and Alex -- unlike the black couple robbing banks -- Globe?

Must be why Mike Pence unexpectedly canceled an event at an addiction treatment center in New Hampshire.

After investigation, no charges will be filed in fatal 2016 bike crash in Cambridge

Poor Amanda Phillips is thought to have been thrown from her bicycle after striking the door of a parked Jeep, and then became lodged under a landscaping dump truck, authorities said.

Now back to flogging history:

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“I think it’s particularly important for Jews, who face anti-Semitism, and have an ancestral history of trauma, to speak out on behalf of other people,” said Rabbi Becky Silverstein, who wore a prayer shawl and carried a shofar, a ram’s horn used during some Jewish holidays.

I think not only myself, but much of the rest of the world has had it with the whining, crying, victimhood card being constantly flogged, so fuck off.

Emilia Feldman, 23, of Chelsea, addressing the crowd, said, “I’m angry, are you angry?”

The crowd responded, “Yes!”

The rally was the second major protest in Boston against the detention of migrants in the past week, following a walkout by hundreds of Wayfair employees.

The Globe put that event in the deep freeze afterward, as I will with this pos slop because every paragraph flogs either the Holocaust or Jewish history, with the invocation of the Holocaust somewhat controversial because of the border “concentration camps.” 

Holocaust
Holocaust
Holocaust

Jewish Holocaust

Jewish Holocaust

Jewish Holocaust

Jewish Holocaust

Yeah, we get the point™.

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A national group of progressive Jewish activists doesn't think they are “at risk of overusing serious language” with all the hyperbole, and the surest sign of an approved protest is no one will be charged.

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You flip the page, though, and the mass graves are being filled up:

Mt. Auburn Cemetery to sell six acres in Watertown

That means they will have a place to bury Iacocca, along with a few others.

Verizon debuts super-fast 5G wireless service in Providence

The only problem is users will have to purchase phones that are compatible with the upgraded network, at prices ranging from $700 to $1,300 (it's called creating sales for your product).

At least stem-cell biotech is seeing strong growth.

Your page B7 Talking Points:

Striking workers on the Vineyard offer wage proposal

They brought the $cabs in on Monday, and service should be back to normal by the Fourth of July holiday Thursday with either regular employees or with trained substitutes (now you know why the drivers who will soon be out of work because of the strike offered up a wage package).

Lagarde nominated to head the European Central Bank

A case of mu$ical chairs for the $cum.

Atlanta snuffs out smoking and vaping in bars, Airport, restaurants

World’s leading cocoa producers want a bigger share of chocolate profits

They are calling it the chocolate cartel. 

Extension of OPEC production cut gains more support

Looks like the bus is running out of gas.

German authorities fine Facebook over policing hate speech

It's part of the Jewish guilt trip.

Warren calls on former FDA chief to resign from Pfizer board

Funny how after Gottlieb said was going to fight opioids and vaping, he resigned.

Delta to upgrade meals in coach on international flights

Still came cold.

FBI says package at Facebook HQ was not dangerous

The Menlo Park mind fuck!

Page B8:

US stocks rebound to nudge S&P 500 to another record high

Nike pulls ‘Betsy Ross flag’ sneaker after criticism of slavery-era imagery

I'm walking away from that contrived controversy to sell sneakers.

Page B9:

US proposes new tariffs on $4 billion of EU goods as trade dispute grows

I'm sure he will back down like he always does.

Trump says he will nominate former campaign adviser, researcher to reshape Fed

Yeah, better not stand up to those guys. Bad things happen if you do.

Page B10:

Leonardo DiCaprio helps create new environmental alliance to address climate change

As he flies around the world trying to solve his impotency problems using underaged Asian prostitutes (say hi to the folks in London, too, Leo).

One final toast:

Lower Depths tap room closes after 13 years in Kenmore Square

Red Sox fans and college students alike are mourning the closure of the pub.