The founder and CEO of CrossFit is stepping down after his tweet about George Floyd sparked a social media backlash and a wave of affiliated gyms cut ties with the company.
Reebok also dropped its affiliation with CrossFit this week.
Greg Glassman wrote on CrossFit’s website late Tuesday that he would retire. Glassman had apologized earlier for tweets that sparked online outrage by connecting Floyd, an African American man who died at the hands of the Minneapolis police, and the coronavirus pandemic. He said he had made a mistake and should have been more sensitive, but denied being racist.
That now means you are now worse than the admitted racists.
Good luck with that, Glassman(!).
“On Saturday I created a rift in the CrossFit community and unintentionally hurt many of its members,’’ Glassman said. “I cannot let my behavior stand in the way of HQ’s or affiliates’ missions.”
Glassman’s exit may have been sealed after Buzzfeed posted a Zoom call he held with CrossFit affiliated gyms in which Glassman reportedly said: “We’re not mourning for George Floyd — I don’t think me or any of my staff are.’’
The Zoom call took place hours before Glassman made a glib response on Twitter to a post by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a health research group, which said, “Racism is a public health issue.’’
OMFG!
Now that will be used as a basis for diagnosing mental illness, and Orwell's 1984 is fast approaching America.
“It’s FLOYD-19,’’ he replied Saturday, and in a second tweet criticized the group’s “failed” quarantine model and accused it of attempting to “model a solution to racism.”
No one wants to say it and the media keep lying about it, but it is the truth. They used COVID as a cover so they could shift the society into a technological tyranny (wow, has he ever been busy) did your protectors who care only about your health even though they destroyed your livelihood and signed off on the protests.
Some 1,250 gyms have now severed links with CrossFit, according to industry blog Morning Chalk Up. An anonymously-curated Google spreadsheet lists hundreds of CrossFit affiliates with links to their social media accounts, with most on the list saying they have cut ties, or are considering doing so.
“In light of recent comments made by CrossFit CEO, we are deaffiliating from CrossFit,” read a post on the Instagram account for CrossFit Central of Austin, Texas. “We are resolute in our anti racist beliefs and stance against police police brutality. We stand in solidarity with the black community.”
They then took a knee after the virtue signaling.
The post by CrossFit Central echoed the sentiments of hundreds of other gyms around the world in what has been an astonishingly swift backlash against CrossFit.....
That is when I quit working out.
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Wanna watch a movie on HBO?
"HBO Max pulls ‘Gone With the Wind,’ citing racist depictions" by Daniel Victor New York Times, June 10, 2020
HBO Max has removed from its catalog “Gone With the Wind,” the 1939 movie long considered a triumph of American cinema but one that romanticizes the Civil War-era South while glossing over its racial sins.
Yeah, I guess we have to "unlearn" history.
The streaming service pledged to eventually bring the film back “with a discussion of its historical context” while denouncing its racial missteps, a spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday.
It wasn't that good a film anyway.
Set on a plantation and in Atlanta, the film won multiple Academy Awards, including best picture and best supporting actress for Hattie McDaniel, the first Black to win an Oscar, and it remains among the most celebrated movies in cinematic history, but its rose-tinted depiction of the antebellum South and its blindness to the horrors of slavery have long been criticized, and that scrutiny was renewed this week as protests over police brutality and the death of George Floyd continued to pull the United States into a wide-ranging conversation about race.
OMFG!
Look at our history!
We had a Native American Holocaust (a real one), and have started so many wars of aggressions it becomes tedious to list them all. Beyond that is the Israeli treatment of Palestinians that rarely merits a mention in my agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Zioni$t $hit sheet!
What we are looking at here is an effort to SCRUB HISTORY before the technological dystopia is established.
It is SO 1984 it is become INCOMPREHENSIBLE!
“‘Gone With the Wind’ is a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society,” an HBO Max spokesperson said in a statement. “These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible.”
Of course, the one $upremaci$m you are not allowed to mention is the Jewi$h $upremaci$m that is all around us. Just bow down and take a knee.
HBO Max, owned by AT&T, pulled the film on Tuesday, one day after John Ridley, the screenwriter of “12 Years a Slave,” wrote an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times calling for its removal. Ridley said he understood that films were snapshots of their moment in history, but that “Gone With the Wind” was still used to “give cover to those who falsely claim that clinging to the iconography of the plantation era is a matter of ‘heritage, not hate.’”
“It is a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color,” he wrote.
Get over it, $nowflake, because it seems there wasn't any racism regarding the production of your movie. Is that why you penned an op-ed? No more money for productions if you don't? $cum celebrity whose movie I now will never watch.
By several measures, the film was one of the most successful in American history. It received eight competitive Academy Awards and remains the highest-grossing film ever when adjusting for inflation. In 2007, it placed sixth on the American Film Institute’s list of greatest films of all time.
The AFI must be filled with racists then, and wasn't it a few years ago that not one Black was nominated for an Oscar?
How quickly they celebs forget, huh?
There was little criticism of the film when it was released, though in 1939 an editorial board member of The Daily Worker, a newspaper published by the Communist Party USA, called it “an insidious glorification of the slave market” and the Ku Klux Klan, but the world in which it is viewed has changed, and with each decade discomfort has grown as people revisit its racial themes and what was omitted.
How ironic THAT is WHERE WE ARE NOW, on the verge of a Soviet Union-type economy and PURGE!
Yes, history repeats because it is always the same sick, genocidal psychopaths calling the $hots.
Based on a 1936 book by Margaret Mitchell, the film chronicles the love affair of Scarlett O’Hara, the daughter of a plantation owner, and Rhett Butler, a charming gambler. Critics have long said that the slaves are depicted as well-treated, content, and loyal to their masters, a trope that rewrites the reality of how enslaved people were forced to live. McDaniel won an Oscar for her performance as Mammy, an affable slave close to Scarlett O’Hara.
First off, BURN the BOOK, right?
Secondly, many of the slaves were not mistreated at all and the whippings that were sensationalized by Roots and Uncle Tom's Cabin were rare. Productivity would be lowered by such harsh punishment. That's not saying some escaped slaves that were caught were not made an example for the rest, but I've come to realize I have been given a skewed version of history up here in the land of Yankee Puritanism from my birth. Prejudice lives up here, too.
The trope rewriting reality is what appears in my pre$$ day after day, dear readers, and is a classic example of projection.
The nationwide protests of recent weeks have caused other entertainment companies to reconsider how their content is viewed in the current climate. The Paramount Network said on Tuesday that it had removed “Cops,” the long-running reality show that glorified police officers, from its schedule before its 33rd season.
Like when they took off Dukes of Hazzard, remember?
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?
The Silent Majority stands with you!
There have also been similar moves in Britain. On Monday, the BBC removed episodes of the comedy series “Little Britain” — which featured one character in blackface — from its streaming service.
“Times have changed since ‘Little Britain’ first aired so it is not currently available on BBC iPlayer,” a BBC spokesperson said. The show had already been removed from Netflix and was also taken off the BritBox streaming service.....
One can only wonder why Trudeau of Canada and Northam of Virginia have not been removed. In fact, not even a peep from the pre$$ about it. Must be their political views and parties make them immune from accountability and criticism, huh?
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Time for a $ip of coffee:
Starbucks takes $3 billion hit to revenue during pandemic
There is optimi$m, however, because disruption to its business should subside through the rest of the year.
So much for the second wave and surge, right?
Wanna go to the mall?
"Simon Property Group Inc., which has one of the industry’s strongest balance sheets, has pursued acquisitions for years as a growth strategy, making unsuccessful offers to buy rivals including GGP and Macerich Co. It also previously went after rival mall owner Taubman Centers Inc. Simon has long coveted Taubman’s portfolio of upscale malls, including Beverly Center in Los Angeles and Dolphin Mall in Miami. It didn’t take long after Simon’s purchase was announced for doubts to emerge about the deal. Prospects for bricks-and-mortar retail have changed dramatically since the deal was announced. Stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of COVID-19 have shuttered stores, pushing more consumers online. Landlords, already pressured by declining foot traffic and retailer bankruptcies, may face a wave of new vacancies as the pandemic forces more tenants out of business....."
Time to downsize, and the malls are to be turned into COVID extermination camps.
Related:
"Stocks closed a choppy day on Wall Street with broad losses Wednesday, despite fresh assurances from the Federal Reserve that it would keep interest rates low through 2022 and would continue buying bonds to help markets function smoothly. Most sectors finished lower, but a surge in technology sector stocks helped push the Nasdaq above 10,000 for the first time, giving the index its third record high close in a row. Bond yields were broadly lower, reflecting caution among investors. The Fed has cut its benchmark short-term rate to near zero as part of a historic effort to gird the stock market and US economy from the coronavirus pandemic’s economic ravages. The central bank made clear Wednesday that it will keep providing support by buying bonds to maintain low borrowing rates. It also forecast no rate hike through 2022, which could make it easier for consumers and businesses to borrow and spend....."
Also see:
Making it Up as They Go Along
Costing more than a pretty penny:
Mnuchin loosens restrictions on small business loans to ease forgiveness
The borrowers remain secret, though, for their own protection!
AFP via Getty Images
He da' man!!
Related:
"US consumer prices dropped in May for the third straight month as the coronavirus pandemic pushed the American economy into a recession....."
The virus didn't do it; tin-pot criminal governors did.
"United Airlines on Wednesday became at least the second US carrier to ask travelers to answer questions about their health status before they fly. It’s all part of a strategy to ease the mind of travelers concerned about flying in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic....."
See:
"You get to the airport four hours before your flight is scheduled to depart. When you arrive, an airport security guard checks to make sure you’re wearing a mask and that you have tickets for a flight before allowing you inside the terminal. Once inside, you’re taking the stairs or an escalator (unless you’re disabled) because it’s impossible to stay 6 feet from others in the confined space of an elevator car. In the departures hall, thermal imaging cameras are scanning the crowd to determine whether there are any individuals with abnormally high temperatures walking about. Counter agents are all behind plexiglass, and facial recognition technology is used as much as possible to keep person-to-person contact at a minimum. A dramatic transformation in air travel — with changes potentially more sweeping than those put in place after 9/11 — is well underway. Simple tweaks, such as deep cleaning planes after every flight, to more invasive ones, like spritzing passengers from head to toe with disinfectant, have begun around the world. Nearly all options, no matter how dystopian they may sound (raising your hand to use the bathroom during a flight?), are being tested or considered to slow the spread of the virus. If there is any doubt that at least some of these changes will persist past the pandemic, look no further than TSA security, where those without TSA PreCheck are still removing their shoes because, 19 years ago, a terrorist named Richard Reid attempted to blow up a plane with a bomb hidden in his shoe. When touchless temperature readings at security check points are still de rigueur in 2035, we’ll think back to the spring of 2020 when air travel once again changed forever. Until universal practices are put into place, airports and airlines are trying a bit of everything, some of it practical, some scary. In Hong Kong, the airport is testing a decontamination chamber that blasts passengers with a full-body disinfectant for 40 seconds. There are also robots roaming the airport to kill germs with UV rays. At London Heathrow, thermal imaging cameras are detecting travelers with high temperatures, but not everyone is buying into the need for such seismic changes in aviation. Another place where people tend to bottleneck on planes is in the aisle while they wait to use the lavatory, so RyanAir is now requiring passengers to ask for permission to use the bathroom. In Abu Dhabi, Etihad Airways is testing self-screening kiosks that help identify medical conditions, potentially including early stages of COVID-19. The kiosks use infrared and thermal imaging to record vital signs such as heart rate, body temperature, and respiratory rate. There are many more reports and warnings about what travel in the future could look like. SimpliFlying, an aviation marketing firm, came out with a lengthy report that recommends immunity passports. It envisions an airport where passengers either show their immunity passport, or go through a “disinfection tunnel” and pass through thermal scanners. Luggage is sanitized and passengers are individually notified when they can board via text message so there is no backup on the jet bridge. In order to complete these checks and others, it recommends getting to the airport of the future four hours in advance. Many of these ideas sound outlandish and impossible to enact, but before you dismiss them entirely, would you have believed a year ago that we would be hoarding toilet paper while being quarantined in our homes for two months? This is where the mélange of innovation and adaptation begins. With no vaccine on the immediate horizon and fears of a second wave of coronavirus casting a shadow over future plans....."
Who the f**k would want to board an airplane now, and I'm told the “impact of COVID-19 is going to be more lasting and game-changing for the country’s airlines than even 9/11."
Look who is on the passenger list (with Reuters running cover for him):
"Bill Gates, already the world’s second-richest person, got an added boost as his investment in used-car platform Vroom Inc. more than doubled on the company’s first day of trading. Shares of New York-based Vroom soared 118 percent on Tuesday, lifting the value of Gates’s roughly 6 percent holding by more than $175 million."
He is the face of evil who is getting a 20-to-1 return on the vaccine programs he has been pushing for decades now (sorry for linking the video and making you watch pure evil in its human form) as his whole cla$$ cleans up on this $camdemic.
Of course, we know who I am working for, right?
"A senior European Union official warned online platforms like Google and Facebook on Wednesday to step up the fight against fake news coming notably from countries like China and Russia, but she praised the approach of Twitter for fact-checking a tweet by President Trump. Unveiling a plan to fight disinformation linked to the coronavirus, European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said she wants online tech companies to provide far more detailed reports each month than currently on the action they are taking to prevent a fake news “infodemic.” The EU commission said that “foreign actors and certain third countries, in particular Russia and China’’ are flooding Europe with “targeted influence operations and disinformation campaigns.” It cited dangerous misinformation like claims that drinking bleach can cure the disease and that washing hands does not help prevent its spread."
Then those must work, like HCQ (Fauci has a conflict of intere$t and the media has lied about remdesivir?).
"Daniel Kretinsky’s bet on Macy’s Inc. turned out to be short but profitable, and the Czech billionaire might jump back into the stock again if the price is right. His Vesa Equity Investment said Tuesday it owned 0.7 percent of the department-store chain, down from the 5 percent stake unveiled less than a month ago. The investment, billed as a strategic move at the time, coincided with a 65 percent surge in the stock. Kretinsky made roughly $36 million if he bought Macy’s shares the day before disclosing his 5 percent stake and sold them on Tuesday."
I seem to remember hearing something about that somewhere.
"American shoppers, all dressed up with nowhere to go, started spending at closer to normal levels again last month. US retail sales, including online and in-person transactions, fell 5.6 percent in May from a year ago, according to a new study from Mastercard SpendingPulse. That’s an improvement from the 14.1 percent drop it recorded the previous month."
Not in my town. It's dead.
Also see:
Dutch company in talks to buy Grubhub
Lost my appetite for that.
Ford and Volkswagen team up to market vans and small pickups
Who is going to be buying vans or trucks when they aren't working?
Deutsche Bank sets aside most in decade to cover bad loans
That is the last talking point, and tells you something about the pre$$ coverage.
Grammys drop ‘urban contemporary’ category
Who f**king cares?
Mass. health-spending target won’t change in 2021
They DO NOT LIVE IN REALITY, folks!!
Either that or they KNOW COVID-19 is a $CAM and they are GOING ALONG WITH IT!
Just above that was this:
Major project near Assembly Row is moving forward, with more lab space
The developer says life-sciences industry is still growing, despite the recession, and the reporter says it’s a sign of the continued strength of the region’s life-sciences market, despite the widespread recession sparked by the coronavirus crisis.
In-yo-face, mom-and-pop, and cui bono over COVID-19!
"The job market is in such pandemic-induced turmoil that the government is struggling to keep track of how many people are out of work. The confusion over the data threatens to create a distorted view of the coronavirus-battered economy and deny millions of laid-off workers financial aid just when they’ll need it most, but investors brushed aside these red flags, pushing the stock market up more than 3 percent Friday. They read the increase in employer payrolls as evidence the job market was starting to recover as states lifted pandemic restrictions and businesses brought back workers. President Trump said the economy was poised for explosive growth: "This is a rocket ship.” And GOP congressional leaders used the report as ammunition in their argument that another broad stimulus package isn’t needed. Many Republicans are opposed to what Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell called “left-wing policies” contained in the $3 trillion HEROES Act, which the Democratic-controlled House passed in May but which has stalled in the GOP-controlled Senate. They include a second round of stimulus checks, extending the extra $600 a week in jobless benefits from July through January, and $175 billion in assistance to struggling renters and homeowners. There is indeed a problem with that additional $600 a week, because some people with lower-wage jobs can make more money remaining on unemployment than going back to work. The federal government and the states need to peg that benefit to income, but here’s why the GOP’s reaction is misguided overall: Such emergency measures will be sorely needed during the latter half of the year, because even if the job market has hit bottom, the climb out of the coronavirus crater will be a slow one. Let’s hope for the best, but remember, even a best-case scenario could mean more than 11 million people out of work and scraping to get by. The federal government’s enhanced jobless benefits aren’t perfect, but ending them soon would be a mistake......"
That was at the bottom of the business section, while this was the lead above-the-fold feature:
Surveillance technology used by police gets fresh scrutiny after nationwide protests, looting
No one seem to have problem with it before and the Globe wasn't really concerned about the encroaching digital tyranny; now they have gone the other way so the antifa thugs they support have cover -- literally.
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That gets us to front page:
"Governor Charlie Baker and House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo are separately readying legislation to sharpen the accountability of the state’s police departments, including by creating a system to certify officers for the first time in Massachusetts history. The state is one of only a handful without a certification or licensing process for police, even as it’s created a complex system regulating licenses for barbers, electricians, and more than 50 other trades and professions......"
Hey, we're #1 again!
The only thing we are out front in is gay marriage (btw, they wanted the $ for the licensing there. They didn't care about your cause; you are u$eful, though).
This state is without a doubt the worst state in the nation in which to live (sorry, Illinois).
"Under pressure from city councilors and residents to make changes to police funding, Mayor Martin J. Walsh on Wednesday said that just cutting the budget won’t answer the call for systemic change in the way law enforcement is carried out in Boston. Walsh said he has no plans to lay off public safety personnel, and believes police reform can be implemented outside of agreements with law enforcement unions...."
Better keep an eye on that security detail, Marty.
In fact, you may want to hire private guards.
Please watch this:
Police union president gives heated speech on the growing 'anti-cop' climate
He's right, and the Globe has been at the forefront of it!
How racial bias can seep into baseball scouting reports
Alex Speier of the Globe tells us even if it is unconscious bias, the language used by scouts is often coded, and a lack of diversity among evaluators is a factor, too, and my response was who gives a f**k about the $elf-$erving slop of a feature given that John Henry owns the Red Sawx.
Trump dodges police reform as Americans show huge shift in favor of Black Lives Matter
The Washington Post says “if you’re not standing with us, you’re against us,” that’s a message many Americans have taken to heart in the wake of coast-to-coast protests sparked by George Floyd’s murder last month, and where have I heard that before (that is on this weekend and I think I will take a break to enjoy that fine work before the end)?
What is interesting, and maybe I missed it because I didn't read any turn-ins, is the Globe ignored the East Precinct of Seattle and what is happening there.
Better go out and buy a gun, citizen.
King memorial nearly ready for Boston Common as backer begins second effort to honor civil rights leader
Non-violent non-cooperation may be our only answer, and he is a hero of mine for stating this truth:
"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men.... They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government."
Having said that, I am now free to criticize the antifa things and anarchists burning down our cities at the behe$t of $oro$. Young fools.
Then, at the bottom of the page, is this:
Boylston Street Four Seasons hotel lays off nearly half its staff
"What’s even more distressing than the mass firing, said Unite Here Local 26 president Carlos Aramayo, is that it could be part of a wave of hotels engaging in widespread terminations in an attempt to permanently eliminate jobs or start over with a lower-paid workforce. Hospitality is one of the biggest industries in the city and one of the few with well-paid working class jobs, many of which are filled by people of color, Aramayo said. In the letter, the 46 workers included photographs of themselves, an array of Black, white, Chinese, Cape Verdean, Ethiopian, Haitian, Latino, Indian, Moroccan, and Nepalese faces. Ricardo Mathelus, 40, had been a server at the Four Seasons’ Bristol Lounge since he was 19. Longer than that, actually, if you count his high school internship. Mathelus, who was born in Haiti and grew up in Dorchester and Mattapan, was “unbelievably proud” to work at the Four Seasons, he said: “It was part of me.” Since he was let go, he said, a range of emotions has coursed through him: “I feel embarrassed. I feel insulted. I feel disrespected. I feel unwanted. I feel used, actually.” Mathelus, who lives in Braintree with his wife and two daughters, ages 11 and 8, knew he had to speak up about what the Four Seasons did, just as he would want his children to do if they were being bullied. “Being a Black man, with what’s going on, it’s going to be really tough to start all over again,” he said. “When I was at the Four Seasons, I knew who I was. I had a purpose. Now, career-wise, I’m lost.”
Ricardo Mathelus, 40, had been a server at the Four Seasons’ Bristol Lounge since he was 19. “When I was at the Four Seasons, I knew who I was. I had a purpose," he said. "Now, career-wise, I’m lost.” (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff).
Maybe antifa can deploy, 'er, employ him.
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Trump rejects calls to rename military bases honoring Confederate generals
The anarchist forces want to erase history completely, and I wish to note that I never heard any complaints about the good old Southern boys when they were fighting in all the wars the last 150 years, so f**k off!
Confederate monument in Virginia covered with trash bags
Disrespectful bastards.
Minneapolis police chief plans review of union contract
Most of them have resigned and told them f**k off!
White protestors in N.J. mock way Floyd died
So the pre$$ says.
Fatal shooting of driver in Oakland draws protests
Who shot who, and who made you?
In Philadelphia and Buffalo, unions back charged officers
So do the Silent Majority of Americans that are omitted from the printed pos pre$$.
Court halts deportation of migrant boy in challenge to border closure
Outsider tapped in Flynn case calls Justice Department reversal a ‘gross abuse’ of power
Charlie Savage and Adam Goldman of the New York Times are the mouthpieces for the Deep $tate there.
More than 1,250 former Justice workers want probe of Barr’s role at Lafayette Square protest
I'm starting to like Barr. The lesser of two evils.
Republicans Are Expected to Move Convention to Jacksonville From Charlotte
GOOD!
F**k North Carolina!
Coronavirus hospitalizations rise sharply in several states following Memorial Day
I just saw on TV last night that the rates haven't risen, and the continued pushing of lies by the pre$$ in the face of real data and evidence has become absolutely f**king disgusting!
Maine renews state of emergency for 30 days
She thinks it will cost Trump an electoral vote and derail his reelection.
I have to calm down before this next article or I am likely to explode:
"Neil Ferguson, professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told lawmakers that the death toll would have been lower if residents of nursing homes had been shielded from infection, something that didn’t happen effectively enough. On March 16, Ferguson and colleagues published a paper suggesting that even with some social-distancing measures, the UK could see 250,000 virus-related deaths and the United States a death toll of about 1 million. Ferguson predicted those figures could more than double in both countries in a worst-case scenario. The following day, Prime Minister Boris Johnson advised Britons to work from home, if possible, and to avoid unnecessary social gatherings. A nationwide lockdown followed on March 23. Asked at a government news conference whether mistakes had been made, Johnson said “at the moment it’s simply too early to judge ourselves.”
First of all, he has no way of proving that negative so he is just spewing bull$hit, but beyond that he is the DISCREDITED SCIENTIST who was FORCED to RESIGN in disgrace after he was caught violating social distancing to meet up with his adulterous lover and because his bogus model was the basis for the economy-killing lockdown by western leaders. His initial predictions were 2.2 MILLION DEAD in the US and 500,000 in the U.K., and yet the piece of shit pre$$ has revised those down, but there it is being promoted by the pre$$ with no context and those uncomfortable facts omitted from the narrative.
Also see:
EU accuses Beijing of disinformation campaign
Pot-hollering kettle, ha-ha-ha!
Vaccine developers chasing outbreaks in ex-hot spots
They $ee $$$ in the cha$e!
India surge continues with nearly 10,000 cases a day
Ukraine’s backlog of babies born to surrogates eases
Oddly enough, that is followed by the death of a conspiracy theory:
"Bedeviled for more than 34 years by the mysterious killing of Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister who was shot in the back by an unknown assailant on a quiet Stockholm street, Sweden’s judiciary finally made its case Wednesday. At a news conference in Stockholm, prosecutor Krister Petersson said that there was “reasonable evidence” that the assailant was Stig Engstrom, a graphic designer at an insurance company who killed himself in 2000 at the age of 66. He added that only a court could rule on whether Engstrom was guilty or not, but that since the suspect is deceased, there would be no court case, but the prosecutor said he could not rule out the possibility that Engstrom had acted as part of a larger conspiracy. Palme was killed on a cold February night in 1986 after leaving a movie theater in Stockholm with his wife, Lisbeth. The assassination shocked Sweden and evolved into one of the country’s greatest mysteries. Petersson said he had reached his conclusions after an exhaustive investigation that he compared to those of the Kennedy assassination and the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland....."
That is where the print copy ended it.
"He was a liberal, socialist idealist who fought against perceived injustice around the world, earning him a long list of enemies, particularly in South Africa, where he was a determined foe of apartheid. At the height of the Cold War, he sought a “third way” between East and West, and he opposed the war in Vietnam. It was hardly a surprise, however, as the Swedish case was widely considered solved in 2018 by a freelance journalist, Thomas Pettersson, whose reporting led to Engstrom. Pettersson, the journalist, found a link between the killer and a weapons collector, a former military man who detested Palme and his socialist ideals. Petersson, the prosecutor, said that in 2017, police found a weapon at the collector’s house matching the one that could have been used in the prime minister’s killing, but officials could not establish definitively that the gun was the murder weapon. The prosecutor did not name the weapons dealer, as he is not a suspect. He also said the journalist’s findings had played no role in the investigation, but he allowed that “he came up with the same ideas we have came up with.” There has been widespread criticism about the way the Swedish judiciary and police have handled the case over the past decades. The mystery endured through six investigations and three commissions over the years, but Engstrom eluded suspicion though he had presented himself to police as a witness to the killing.
I'm stopping here to say this has the stench of official cover-up!
As the cast of suspects waxed and waned, the case spawned numerous theories linking his death to dark, global conspiracies. It was Pettersson, a freelance journalist based in Gothenburg, who discovered that Engstrom had worked in a building near the theater where Palme was shot and had said he was present at the scene. The journalist also found that Engstrom had been active in a shooting club, that he had political and private motives for killing Palme, and that his personality matched a police profile of the likely killer.
You can't believe that!
Oh, right, Engstrom is white!
Engstrom was 52 at the time of the killing and was frustrated with his lot in life. “He had not advanced at his job,” Pettersson said in an interview. “He didn’t get the positions he felt he deserved. No family. No prospects in sight. So he was kind of a disappointed man at that point of his life, “but he also had a drive to be recognized,” Pettersson added. “To make something great of himself. He enjoyed every second of being in the media.”
A LONE WOLF, huh?
PFFFFFFT!
At the time of the killing, investigators were focused on the suspected complicity of Kurdish militants, and Engstrom was not taken seriously, according to Pettersson. Pettersson said he had investigated the case for 13 years before concluding that Engstrom was the killer. “He has the right timing, the right clothing. He has unique information. He lied. He had close access to guns of the right type,” Pettersson said. “He was right-wing and Palme-unfriendly,” he added.
In other words, the DEAD MAN is being SCAPEGOATED!
Pettersson handed his findings to police in 2017, and they reopened their investigation of Engstrom on the basis of that material. Petersson, the prosecutor, led a small team of detectives that took DNA from relatives of Engstrom, searched his former house and interrogated several people police had not heard from before, but as with other leads in what is sometimes described as one of the world’s longest police inquiries, the findings of the journalist highlighted major blunders by Swedish police.
Are you sick of this kind of s**t yet?
From the first minute that fatal evening, mistakes were made, said Inga-Britt Ahlenius, a former undersecretary general of the United Nations, who was a member of the last of three committees scrutinizing the police investigation. “It was a failure from the start,” she said in a phone interview. “Everything went wrong.” The crime scene wasn’t fenced off from the public, the alarm came late, there was chaos in the situation room, and reports were not properly documented, she said. A year was lost, and Engstrom was never questioned. “When I now read the documentation, he early on presented himself as an important witness,” Ahlenius said. Engstrom’s former wife, whom he divorced in 1999, dismissed the idea of his involvement in the killing of the prime minister. “It is out of the question,” she told the newspaper Expressen in 2018. “He was not that kind of person, that’s for sure. He was too much of a coward. He wouldn’t harm a fly.”
He is what is known as a PATSY!
The Swedish news media are not identifying her by name. A known petty criminal called Christer Pettersson (no relation to the journalist) was jailed for life in 1989 over the assassination, but he won an appeal later that year and died in 2004. Engstrom even testified in defense of Christer Pettersson. “In some ways it was a stroke of genius because Engstrom placed himself as a witness,” said Pettersson, the journalist. “Each time he told his story, he established himself as a witness and made it more difficult for the real witnesses of the crime scene and investigators.” The case was always a magnet for conspiracy theories, many of them related to Palme’s political credentials as an idealist who fought for perceived victims of injustice, particularly in the developing world. South Africa loomed large in theories of his killing because Sweden became a conduit for clandestine financial support to foes of the white government in Pretoria. After the collapse of apartheid in 1990, a white former security officer, Colonel Eugene de Kock, alleged that an agent of the apartheid government had murdered Palme because of his stance against racial segregation, but that was only one of many theories.
Looks like they hit the nail on the head, and you can suck on these for a while.
At one time or another, the killing was linked to a shadowy arms deal with India, a secretive Italian masonic lodge, and Chilean fascists supposedly taking revenge for Palme’s opposition to General Augusto Pinochet’s regime. In the end, the Swedish judiciary said, it was all the work of one man: Engstrom. His motive? Pettersson, the journalist: “He wanted attention.”
As if he were OSWALD according to the government's bull$hit cover story, and I'm not going to obsess over another LONE GUNMAN covering for another deep state conspiracy.
South Korea to charge defector groups over North leaflets
That is what is known as appeasement!
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With clock running out on T fiscal control board, Beacon Hill must act
They are trying to get back up to speed!
We need action to accompany art
Will $$$ do?
I'm told it was by chance just as the Globe was going by, and if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.
Related:
Kennedy launches new TV ad in wake of George Floyd protests
That was found on the back page of the B-section, and I guess you know whom the Globe has endorsed (must be because of the newspaper ads Markey has purchased emphasizing the Green New Deal).
Vandalized statue of Christopher Columbus will be removed pending a review, Mayor Walsh says
My college history professor, a black man from Ghana, told us we need to remember that he risked his life and fortune to do what he did, and that he shouldn't be judged socially for the times in which he lived. How things have changed in nearly 20 years!
Speaking of school:
Classes on weekends, no spring break
There isn't going to be a fall semester, sorry, and I would expect less than half the students to $how up. By going along with this globalist fraud they have put themselves and the indu$try of $chool out of work!!
Protesters call for city to reallocate police funding, remove officers from schools
Get them out of the schools, yeah.
Will protesters march into voting booths this year?
Oh look, the Globe is trying to channel all this into the mail-in ballot process! That is confirmation that the controlled-opposition protests are being funded and directed by invi$ible hands.
Then they make EXCUSES for THEM:
‘More of a free spirit’ than anarchist, pastor says of Worcester teen arrested for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails at protest
OMFG!
What would Jesus have done, pastor?
Members of Congress ask about Bedford VA staff’s role in spread of coronavirus among veterans
It's grandstanding by Warren and Markey, and remember when the Congre$$ threw $17 billion dollars at the VA after the forged appointments Obama-era scandal?
That was supposed to solve the problems, and yet here we are again!
Mass. reports 267 new coronavirus cases, 46 new deaths as key metrics continue to fall
People were tested at a pop-up location at Washington Park Mall in Roxbury (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)
They just made that up, and what used to be a front-page, top story article is now located on f**king page B2! The collapse of the COVID LIE has occurred faster than a 100-story WTC falling into its own footprint because of jet fuel fires.
Page B4 carried this ad in the lower-left quadrant:
Unbelievably, it's for the Bo$ton $peakers $eries, which are thought-provoking evenings of diverse opinions and world perspectives, and how about that wonderful genocidal fella with the nice smile on the far left there? He's appearing in October when everything will be back to "normal."
Now for the back page of B-section:
A Boston-Springfield rail service could draw more riders than previously thought
The last place you want to head is east when in Massachusetts. Better off leaving the state and heading south, then west.
"The number of people in Massachusetts who died of opioid-related overdoses in the first quarter of this year declined nearly 6 percent when compared with the same period in 2019, according to the data released Wednesday by the state Department of Public Health, but the annual number of deaths in recent years continues to hover around 2,000, declining only 1 percent from 2018 to 2019, and it’s unclear whether the pandemic has worsened the crisis — Wednesday’s report includes tallies only until the end of March. People who work with some of the most vulnerable populations see worrisome signs that the pandemic could be leading to a rise in fatal overdoses....."
Once again, no data, no information, and I would like to remind all readers that it was Big Pharma that brought to you the addiction crisis with the overprescription of opioids so they could boost their bottom lines (after the statin scandal). They then lowered the BP hthresholds so more pills would be prescribe (known as opening up a new revenue stream to these sickos), and now we have a vaccine being developed by Johnson & Johnson -- neven though they covered up the talc-based cancers in women for decades!
Yeah, TRUST THEM!
"John Precourt, 43, of Boston and Alelia Whalen, 30, of Wilmington, were arrested for allegedly shattering a window and stealing merchandise and cash from a store in the South End early Wednesday, police said. At 1:43 a.m., officers were called to Laced, a garment store located at 426 Massachusetts Ave., for a report of a commercial alarm being activated. The store reopened its doors to customers Monday for the first time since COVID-19 forced it to close at the end of March, police said. Officers arrived to find the front window shattered and entered the store through the front door with the assistance of the store owner. Police found a large rock on the ground below the broken window once they were inside. Surveillance footage allegedly showed two people, later identified as Precourt and Whalen, reach into the store, and snatch some of the merchandise, officials said. The pair ran from the store down Massachusetts Avenue toward Tremont Street. Police found Precourt near 393 Massachusetts Ave. He was carrying a purple jacket that belonged to the store, police said. Whalen was located near 526 Massachusetts Ave. by police, who said she was carrying a blue and black backpack and black coat from the store, police said. Precourt and Whalen were arrested and charged with breaking and entering of a building nighttime for felony and larceny of a building. Precourt was also charged with malicious destruction of property. Officers said they found illegal narcotics in Whalen’s possession during the booking process, and she was given additional charges of possession of Class A drugs, possession of Class C drugs, and possession of Class E drugs. Both are expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court."
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Yeah, that's them, and they killed a guy trying to escape but he was just a white man, and the charges are to be dismissed because the Bo$ton police are racists who are not to be trusted.
Now for your daily brainwashing from the Bo$ton Globe.
