It's the front page feature:
"Inside the calculus of coronavirus risk: Everyday interactions bring about agonizing decisions" by Naomi Martin and Kay Lazar Globe Staff, June 9, 2020
As states slowly reopen and we navigate the pandemic on the downslope of the viral surge, this kind of calculus is only going to get more common, especially if, as epidemiologists warn, infections and deaths rise as we resume ordinary activities.
How would you like to live in their world?
Models project anywhere from dozens to hundreds of deaths a day will still occur months from now — different degrees of dire, but still grim. Governments, institutions, and families must try to determine an acceptable level of risk in exchange for a return to some semblance of former life.
Still using the damn discredited models. That shows a pattern to deceive for ulterior motives and goals -- with the stink of evil to them.
Of course, those death totals would be occurring regardless of the COVID $CAMdemic.
How ethical is it to continue to tell lies or distort things in order to advance an evil agenda?
“In ending isolation, it’s about not just gaining freedom, but quality of life," said Arthur Caplan, a medical ethicist at New York University. “What’s it worth to go to the beach? What’s it worth to sit at a pool? What’s it worth to go to a bar or eat outdoors?”
Freedom costs a $1.05 (or six at Cumbys), or so I heard.
Of course, freedom really has no price. You either have it, or you don't.
In Caplan’s view, the quality-of-life value of such experiences is unquantifiable, and there is no perfect balance between added risk and added benefit, between lives and livelihoods, yet today, governors and officials across the country are trying to identify where to draw that line as they assess the impact of reopening.
The so-called debate is surreal. There is no "balance" when it comes to liberty, and as for the risks, that is to be born by the individual. They can be responsible or irresponsible. You don't kill an economy and a way of life over a damn fraud in a "free" country.
To understand this calculus, the Globe turned to scientists who crunch data and put a price tag on life itself, epidemiologists who study outbreaks, and a health care chief executive who helped guide Governor Charlie Baker’s reopening plan. We talked to small-business owners who lie awake each night mulling their options, as well as workers in entry-level jobs who feel they have little choice.
The $cienti$ts see us as con$umers (or worse), and I'm determined not to interrupt my nights with blogging, even if I am suffering insomnia.
For so long, society has leaned on careful research to manage public safety. Officials use data to time traffic lights, set speed limits, and establish a blood-alcohol level that determines whether someone is legally drunk. We live by different barometers of risk, but in the case of this devastating coronavirus outbreak, as experts still grapple to understand the disease, it’s clear even the experts have to make it up as they go.
There it is, in black-and-white (and blue) and right from their own mouths.
The Globe then gives you the cold, hard numbers behind the state’s calculus:
A few days after Governor Charlie Baker’s stay-at-home advisory ended last month, Dr. Mark Keroack, an infectious disease specialist and chief executive of Baystate Health hospital network, surveyed the new landscape as he waited for his car to be repaired in Western Massachusetts.
“It’s the weird world we’re going to have to get used to," Keroack said. “It’s an incredibly difficult balance,” Keroack said. “There is a certain level of infection and therefore death — a percentage point or two are going to die, of those infected — that is kind of inevitable unless we’re willing to completely shut down.”
Some are arguing for that, and at times I wish we would never reopen. Just sit and wait.
Before a vaccine becomes available, he said, the best Massachusetts can hope for is a steady decline in infections to a point where the disease is no longer widespread, and when it does emerge it’s small, isolated outbreaks in a nursing home here or among restaurant-goers there. Those flare-ups could be quickly addressed. “Like a brush fire," he said. "The critical thing is being able to jump on those hot spots.”
That gives the evil f**ks a chance to proclaim an area a hot spot, lock it down, and test over this damnable fraud, and he hopes no one becomes cavalier about COVID deaths like the stacks and stacks of brown and black corpses from the wars based on lies that were pushed by the pre$$ that has now taken up the gauntlet of black lives mattering.
Speaking of the devils, when do Palestinian Lives Matter?
After that it is the business equation and the question of workers (in that order), with workers being defined as "communities, especially ones of color and lower income, have been hit disproportionately hard by the virus and bear the brunt of officials’ reopening decisions [because they are] facing the threat of job loss — and for some undocumented immigrants, the fear of deportation."
Those are the workers the Globe cares about.
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The Globe back-paged this:
"The World Health Organization moved Tuesday to clarify its position on whether people without symptoms are widely spreading the new coronavirus, saying much remains unknown about asymptomatic transmission. A comment by a WHO official on Monday — calling such asymptomatic transmissions ‘‘very rare’’ — touched off a furious scientific debate over the unresolved question and attracted widespread criticism of the organization. Less than 24 hours later, the WHO convened a special news conference to walk back its comments, stressing that much remains unknown, but the comment from Monday had already spread widely and been seized upon by conservatives and others to bolster arguments that people do not need to wear masks or maintain social-distancing precautions. The episode sparked criticism of the WHO’s public health messaging and highlighted just how fraught and easily politicized such work remains months into the pandemic. Calling the controversy ‘‘a misunderstanding,’’ Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s emerging disease and zoonosis unit, said that during the news conference Monday, she was trying to respond to a journalist’s question when she said asymptomatic transmission was ‘‘very rare.’’ ‘‘I wasn’t stating a policy of WHO or anything like that,’’ she said. ‘‘We do know that some people who are asymptomatic, or some people who do not have symptoms, can transmit the virus on.’’ While asymptomatic transmission does occur, no one knows for sure how frequently it happens. Studies and models have suggested many of those infected never show symptoms, and it remains an open question whether they are a large force driving transmission. Some countries using contact tracing to work backward from confirmed cases have not found many instances of asymptomatic spread, WHO officials noted. At the same time, WHO officials acknowledged on Tuesday that some modeling studies have suggested as much as 41 percent of transmission may be due to asymptomatic people. Adding to the confusion are differing definitions of what it means to be asymptomatic. Some people who are infected never show symptoms; specialists would consider those truly asymptomatic cases, but some show symptoms later and could be spreading the virus before those symptoms manifest; they would be considered presymptomatic cases. Further complicating matters is the fact that for some people, symptoms are so mild — or manifest themselves in less expected ways such as diarrhea or muscle aches, instead of the more well-known fever and cough — that people aren’t aware of them until later on."
You SEE WHAT HAPPENS when you BLURT OUT the TRUTH?!
Powerful forces rise up and make you retract it!
The whole affair proves these "humanitarian" organizations are nothing but fronts for the $ick genocidal globali$ts that control them with their wealth, and the so-called lethality and lack of herd immunity has been exposed as a big stinking lie if this to be believed!
The lead fibber in the US:
"In a wide-ranging talk to biotech executives, Dr. Anthony Fauci delivered a grim assessment of the devastation wrought around the world by the coronavirus. COVID-19 is the disease that Fauci always said would be his “worst nightmare” — a new, highly contagious respiratory infection that causes a significant amount of illness and death. “In a period of four months, it has devastated the whole world,” Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday during a conference held by BIO, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, “and it isn’t over yet.” His discussion with a moderator was conducted remotely and recorded for presentation to conference participants. Although he had known that an outbreak like this could occur, one aspect has surprised him, he said, and that is “how rapidly it just took over the planet.” An efficiently transmitted disease can spread worldwide in six months or a year, but “this took about a month,” Fauci said. He attributed the rapid spread to the contagiousness of the virus, and to extensive world travel by infected people. Vaccines are widely regarded as the best hope of stopping or at least slowing the pandemic, and Fauci said he was “almost certain” that more than one would be successful. Several are already being tested in people, and at least one is expected to move into large, Phase 3 trials in July, but much is still unknown about the disease and how it attacks the body, research that Fauci described as “a work in progress.”
Almost as if they were MAKING THINGS UP as they GO ALONG (per Event 201 and Johns Hopkins), and it sure seems that way with the nonsense narratives that never end!
Thanks for the confirmation, doc, even if it in fact didn't cause "significant" death and illness relative to other things that are ignored or minimized! Never mind that he predicted Trump would face a pandemic back in 2017 -- before he even entered office! That right there exposes Fauci as a dissembling liar!
Maybe he can fix the Catholic schools and the busted link, too.
B-section front-page (below the fold):
"Baker ‘enormously skeptical’ of claim asymptomatic spread is rare: ‘No one should take the foot off the pedal’" by Matt Stout Globe Staff, June 9, 2020
Governor Charlie Baker on Tuesday cast doubt on comments from a World Health Organization official that asymptomatic spread of the novel coronavirus was rare, saying he is “enormously skeptical” of such a broad generalization.
Are you a scientist at the WHO like her, Chuck?
Or are you just a sexist?
I mean, you are taking advice from the science and health professionals on lockdowns.
That is why you destroyed our lives, a$$hole!
Now go cheer on a race riot.
Just 24 hours after the comment prompted widespread confusion, WHO officials on Tuesday sought to walk back what they called a misunderstanding about what is known about how infection can spread from those showing no signs of sickness.
That is what kind of damage control and linguistic gymnastics they must do for damage control.
Sorry, emperor, no clothing!
The original characterization, however, could have widespread repercussions after public officials, including Baker, shaped policies and orders around the potential of asymptomatic patients infecting others.
The threat was the foundation for Baker’s order last month requiring face coverings in all public places if people couldn’t socially distance from others, and has buttressed repeated calls for caution even as states and countries begin easing restrictions on daily life.
You are a criminal tyranny, Chuck!
Where is the Legi$ooture and damn Democraps in this state?
Speaking at a news conference in Lawrence, Baker warned that “no one should take the foot off the pedal,” calling COVID-19 a “legitimate and dangerous” health threat. The state on Tuesday reported 263 new cases and 55 more deaths, pushing the statewide total to 103,889 cases and the death toll to 7,408.
F**k him and his "news conferences" that spew simulated numbers out with no context, no verification, nothing!
You know, I'm sorry about the language and profanity the last few days but this has all gone too far.
Asked about the WHO’s claim on Monday, the governor paused for several seconds as he carefully chose he words, eventually telling reporters he earlier had a call with health care officials, “all of whom basically said they were enormously skeptical of that conclusion for a whole bunch of reasons, and so am I.”
The pausing and closing words carefully is the hallmark of a liar, and did any of those experts he spoke with on a conference call see the information with which she was working?
Or is Charlie going on something else, like intuition and his gut?
“I continue to believe that . . . people who are asymptomatic, who become symptomatic, are absolutely capable of spreading the infection, and so are many of the asymptomatic people who never show symptoms at all,” Baker said, pointing to limited antibody testing performed in Massachusetts and “serious” studies that found huge swaths of infections were spread by people who didn’t show symptoms.
Oh, HE BELIEVES!!
That is NOT DATA- or SCIENCE-BASED at all!
Yeah, I believe certain things, too, based on facts, evidence, and circumstances, and I'm told I'm some sort of "conspiracy theorist!"
Yeah, Governor Chuck has seen the light!
When is the next goddamn gubernatorial election around here?
Think I will work for the Democrat, whoever they be!
Vote Republican?
Forget it, not after this!
Maria Van Kerkhove, the UN health agency’s technical lead on the virus pandemic, had said Monday that asymptomatic transmissions were “very rare," citing what she described as reports on contact tracing conducted in several countries. Kerkhove said Tuesday that she was referring only to a few studies, not a complete picture.
Oh, God, she is the POINT PERSON for the RESPONSE -- but CHUCKY BELIEVES!
I'm sorry your reputation is being trashed, ma'am.
Baker’s own public advice has shifted at times since the pandemic began, a nod to what the called the virus’s unprecedented nature and developing research by health officials, “but I am enormously skeptical of such a broad generalization about something where there is so much data and information already available that says just the opposite,” he said Tuesday.
That the WHO quickly walked back the comments speaks to the uncertainty still surrounding the virus months after it began proliferating worldwide. Baker and other officials in the United States and around the world have sought to balance how to ease social restrictions on a struggling economy while guarding against a potential second wave of infections — meaning advice from leading world health experts could affect how billions live their daily lives.
There is no uncertainty about being had by a bunch of lying criminals!
Baker said Tuesday that the data on COVID-19 on Massachusetts are continuing to trend downward as the state moves into Phase 2 of reopening the economy, including with the return Monday of outdoor dining and retailing. He also acknowledged a test rate that has begun to decline, despite ambitious plans to push the state’s capacity well beyond the 30,000 it currently can handle each day.
Who needs data when you BELIEVE!?
Btw, I did go downtown and purchase several $20 items I didn't even need yesterday.
Not much of a life pre$ervers for our local merchants, but it is all I can't(sic) afford.
The state reported Tuesday that 4,660 new patients had been tested, well below the 8,800 it had averaged into early June. Baker said testing rates are generally “driven by demand,” but said the state is adding 20 more sites and has submitted plans for how it will use $374 million in federal funds to expand testing.
F**k you and your faulty testing!
Separately on Tuesday, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s office said the city is partnering with the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center to offer free and confidential COVID-19 testing to symptomatic and asymptomatic people “in a pop-up location in Roxbury.”
Better turn around and go the other way.
The testing will be available noon to 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in the Washington Park Mall parking lot, Walsh’s office said. The city said anyone who has joined “large gatherings” recently should get tested. Boston is among the many cities that have seen protests against the killing by police of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Oh, so THAT is WHY they let you break quarantine and social distancing to protest!
Now you are in the COVID-19 dragnet and will have to be tested!
“We’re very much still in this fight against COVID," Baker said. “We will be in this fight until there are treatments and vaccines, and I would urge everybody to recognize and understand that it is the decisions that people have made” in regard to masks, distancing, and hygiene that are “the primary reason[s] why we saw dramatic drops” in coronavirus metrics.
You EVIL F**KER!
Baker on Monday filed a bill with the Legislature that he said aims to improve how COVID-19 data are reported to the state. The governor over the weekend signed a bill passed by the Legislature that beefs up what data the state reports, including from nursing homes, state-run soldiers’ homes, and assisted-living facilities, but his new proposal would enable his administration to levy fines of up to $2,000 on laboratories, hospitals, and other providers that fail to report data to the Department of Public Health.
?????!!!!?????
Why are they SHAKING DOWN the HOSPITALS?
Falsely report things so they can get more money while ostracizing and penalizing those that don't go along with the plan?
EVIL!!!!
Baker said the goal is to create a permanent standard for reporting that can exist after Baker ends the state’s emergency declaration and the dozens of orders he has put in place “fade away.” (A timeline remains unclear.)
Yeah, right.
“We would really like that statutory authority, which can sustain this process going forward, in place,” Baker said, “so that there is no doubt about the fact that this isn’t something we’re expecting people to participate in for just the period of the emergency.”
Meaning the TYRANNY and LIES upon which it is built will EXIST and EXPAND FOREVER!
Didn't they used to do something with tar-and-feathers over there?
I'm in the land of Shays, so..... not my gig.
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Oh, about that reporting of data:
"Months into pandemic, number of deaths of nursing home workers is unclear" by Laura Crimaldi and Shelley Murphy Globe Staff, June 9, 2020
Each day, state officials report how many patients in long-term care facilities have died of COVID-19, documenting the pandemic’s terrible toll on the elderly, but the impact on the workforce serving this vulnerable population has been hard to quantify.
New data released by the federal government last week included the first tally of nursing home workers who had died of the coronavirus, but when questioned by the Globe, state officials, as well as individual nursing homes that completed the national survey, said that estimate was badly skewed by misreported data.
OMFG!
What a bunch of damn hypocrites!
State officials said they couldn’t provide the exact number of nursing home worker deaths, but confirmed that four facilities had mistakenly reported the deaths of a combined 67 employees. That accounted for the bulk of the discrepancy with the federal survey’s count of 87. The federal report said nearly 700 nursing home workers nationwide had died of the virus.
(Aaaaaaarrrrrgggggggggghhh!!)
Separately, representatives of the four facilities told the Globe none of their workers had died of COVID-19. They are Den-Mar Health and Rehabilitation Center in Rockport, Medway Country Manor Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation, Blueberry Hill Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Beverly, and Wingate at Weston.
Lisa Coppola, administrator at Medway Country Manor, said she inadvertently reported the deaths of nine employees to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees nursing homes.
“I just put the wrong data in,” she said.....
OH!
What am I supposed to say, readers?
It's BEEN ALL BAD DATA from the START, and the CRIMINALS in GOVERNMENT and their COLLABORATORS in the medical field KILLED an ECONOMY and a WAY of LIFE over it so they could advance their evil goals!
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The Globe thinks Massachusetts should borrow to avoid big budget cuts even with a Zooming economy, and now down to bu$ine$$:
"Following messy start, enormous Paycheck Protection Program shows signs of buttressing economy" by Jonathan O’Connell, Jeanne Whalen, Jeff Stein and Erica Werner Washington Post, June 9, 2020
(Blog editor's chin drops to chest. If they are going to shovel this stable of manure..... sigh)
WASHINGTON — The federal government’s small business Paycheck Protection Program is suddenly looking like a measured success.
Because of the $tock marker?
The US economy appeared to regain some of its footing in May, adding 2.5 million jobs. The economy remains extremely weak, with a high unemployment rate and a surge in Americans seeking assistance. Many economists think conditions will remain shaky for at least another year, but they also think things would be even worse without the giant corporate loan forgiveness program, which Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, shepherded through Congress and then helped defend during chaotic weeks of implementation.
OMG, now they are trying to say that disaster of a program that was a sop to corporations is a resounding success with Rubio deserving all the credit!
What's next, a Rubio challenge at the convention (if there is one)?
Getting to this point strained the government, the banking industry, and small businesses, with many missteps and pivots along the way as they tried to build a program from scratch, and the Trump administration vacillated wildly between trying to rush money out the door and then trying to tighten rules, enraging lawmakers such as Rubio, confusing borrowers and nearly overwhelming banks, even those with small business expertise.
‘‘It was like saying, ‘I want my locally owned farmers market to work like Walmart or Amazon,’” said Alicia Wade of Oklahoma City’s Valliance Bank, which processed 178 loans the first weekend the fund opened. ‘‘It’s not feasible.’’
Confusion engulfed the program from the outset.
Yeah, success can come from confusion, right.
SIGH!!
One week before the program began, a bank lobbyist group wrote to the Treasury Department warning of a major flaw. Treasury was not planning to waive strict criminal penalties for lenders who did not thoroughly vet their new customers. The banking group warned that leaving the rules in place would require a level of vetting that they couldn’t quickly provide.
When the PPP began accepting applications on April 3, the bank lobbyists’ prediction proved true. Rather than covering all businesses that qualified, much of the funding went first to the customers the banks already knew and trusted — including large corporations — igniting a public firestorm that outraged tens of thousands of business owners still desperately awaiting funding.
Not like with Floyd!
HMMMMMMMM!
This created a logistical and public relations nightmare, with many smaller companies sidelined while larger firms found easy access to the money. Treasury had to make repeated changes to the program and eventually ask Congress for more money before many of the problems were ironed out.
I have been writing about that since the cri$i$ started, and the alleged "$uce$$" of the program is $tarting to lo$e its lu$ter!
Two months later, the PPP has directed more than $530 billion to 4.5 million companies, and economists, business leaders, White House officials, and lawmakers from both parties think it helped stabilize the economy. Because the government has released no detailed information about how many jobs the program has saved, it’s still unclear whether it achieved its primary goal of apportioning the lion’s share of the money to workers.
Oh, they THINK it has worked but HAVE NO EVIDENCE of IT!
That, dear readers, is called PROPAGANDA!
The program is now about to enter a new stage, as many of the companies that received loans will begin applying for loan forgiveness to determine whether they have to repay the money. The program will also face its first congressional hearing on Wednesday, when Rubio will call Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who had appeared skeptical about creating the program while the legislation was being drafted, and Small Business Association head Jovita Carranza to testify.
He da' man!
Why would they need hearings on something that stabilized the economy and is a success?
I mean, treason doth never prosper!
Rubio said in an interview that part of his inquiry will focus on ‘‘some early regulatory decisions, made or not made, that could have provided a little bit of clarity on the front end and sort of prevented some of the issues that happened.’’
WTF?
Many of the Paycheck Protection Program’s initial problems can be traced to its hurried creation in the frenzied days and nights of negotiation that led to the passage of the Cares Act, which was rushed together to arrest the economy’s sudden free-fall.
That is also how they ripped us all off in 2008 with the TARP!
Congress created the program in March with very loose restrictions, an attempt to give the Trump administration flexibility to spray billions of dollars across the economy as quickly as possible to try to contain a tidal wave of layoffs.
They impeach him for being the greatest national security threat ever, but don't bother to oversee his tyranny at all. What a bunch of phonies!
Oh, we HAD a TIDAL WAVE of LAYOFFS anyway, so HOT APPLE FAIL!
The Small Business Administration, the government’s smallest Cabinet-level agency, didn’t post the rules for the program until the night before it went live, a day when 1,363 people died of COVID-19 and the numbers were on the rise. At agency headquarters on launch day, the SBA’s software for processing applications repeatedly malfunctioned, creating a massive backlog. Large banks, leery of inadvertently misusing taxpayer money, waited for more clarity from the government before they started lending. Community bankers asked staff members to work overtime, but even the most successful ones say it was nowhere near enough.
Where has all the f**king money gone anyway?
Who stole all the loot?
Although the program was designed so that companies with 500 or fewer employees could tap up to $10 million in forgivable loans, it was clear that bigger companies could access the program as large chains began announcing in securities filings that they had received millions in funding.
They were hoping no one would notice.
Facing public backlash about concerns that large companies were taking taxpayer money, Mnuchin urged well-capitalized businesses to return the money they’d received and said that all loans over $2 million would be audited.....
Didn't lead to mass protests even though we all got looted no matter the skin color, and here did it help stabilize the economy like the splashy headline and lead-in paragraph said?
Could they be MAKING IT UP AS THEY GO ALONG!
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Related:
Wall Street hits the brakes after weekslong rally
I'm told "Wall Street’s huge rally, which reached 44.5 percent between late March and Monday, may have been overdone. The economy has given glimmers of hope that the recession could end relatively quickly as governments lift their lockdown orders, but the strength and speed of the stock market’s rebound has easily outpaced expectations for a recovery in the broader economy and corporate profits."
And to whom accrue the benefit$:
The next record-setting IPO
It's Royalty Pharma, a drug company that doesn’t develop drugs, business built on investing as the global drug industry continues to expand, and it looks like it's ba$ed on the Shkreli model of business.
Related:
"A Newton medical device startup said Tuesday that it has raised $43.9 million in venture capital to advance its lead product, a minimally invasive shunt to relieve fluid that can build up in the brain as the result of a neurological condition. CereVasc raised the money to fund a clinical trial of its experimental device, the eShunt System. The firm, which was founded in 2014 and has seven employees, plans to begin enrolling volunteers for the trial in the second half of the year. The company developed the device to treat hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid in the cavities deep within the brain that can occur in children and adults. Hydrocephalus is caused by an imbalance between how much cerebrospinal fluid is produced and how much is absorbed into the bloodstream....."
I must have water on the brain to continue doing this.
I should $hun the Globe instead.
Harvard commits to keeping janitors, security guards on payroll
Only after a demonstration was threatened, and it has been called off.
That's what you do, buy 'em off like Longshanks!
Good luck paying the rent.
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That gets to the front-page lead:
Boston residents call for slashing police budget
They want a 10 percent trimming of the police budget and a continued military presence in Boston. That is what , defunding the BPD really means as the protests draw hundreds and the fireworks continue!
MBTA to boost service levels for Phase 2, but not for nearly two weeks
I didn't even bother to get on. Fuck this.
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Under Trump, the Justice Department has largely stopped investigating police departments for systemic abuses
Yeah, everything is his fault as Minneapolis offers an anti-brutality blueprint for the city — and possibly the country and what’s so different about today’s protests is they are all, every single one, controlled opposition.
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Trump pushes conspiracy theory about Buffalo protester
Consider the source hurling the accusation first.
Going to steal an election from him:
"Heat, rain, long lines: Georgia election plagued by problems" by Steve Peoples and Ben Nadler Associated Press, June 9, 2020
ATLANTA — Voters endured heat, pouring rain and waits as long as five hours on Tuesday to cast ballots in Georgia, demonstrating a fierce desire to participate in the democratic process while raising questions about the emerging battleground state’s ability to manage elections in November when the White House is at stake.
A confluence of events disrupted primary elections for president, US Senate and dozens of other contests. There were problems with Georgia’s new voting machines, which combine touchscreens with scanned paper ballots. The polls were staffed by fewer workers because of coronavirus concerns. A reduced workforce contributed to officials consolidating polling places, which disproportionately affected neighborhoods with high concentrations of people of color. Long lines were also reported in whiter suburban areas.
Some voters said they requested mail-in ballots that never arrived, forcing them to go to polling places and adding to the lines. Turnout, meanwhile, may be higher than expected as voters said they were determined to exercise their constitutional right after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the ensuing demonstrations that swept cities including Atlanta.
“Too many people died for me to have this opportunity,” said Stephanie Bush, a 49-year-old black independent voter in Atlanta. “So for me not to stick it out would be a dishonor to them.”
The rigged elections have made the vote meaningless. The best thing voters could do is NOT VOTE EN MASSE! Then authority can't claim legitimacy. That's why the wealthy sponsor get out the vote drives and why the pre$$ makes every election seem like the most important ever. The political puppets and slaves work for the same ma$ters, with rare exception.
Can't win either way.
Americans also voted in primaries in West Virginia, South Carolina, and Nevada. Long lines also plagued voting in Las Vegas, where voters said they been waiting four and five hours in some cases even as state election officials suggested wait times reached three hours only in one location, but the tumult in Georgia garnered much of the attention, reinforcing concerns about managing elections amid the coronavirus.
The lines did observe social distancing and stuff, right?
Former vice president Joe Biden easily won the state’s Democratic presidential primary. He was facing no real opposition but hoped to post a strong showing among Georgia’s diverse electorate to show his strength heading into the general election, but the developments were troubling heading into the fall presidential campaign, which will attract even more voters. Biden and President Trump are expected to fiercely compete in this rapidly changing state. That leaves officials, who have already been criticized for attempting to suppress the vote, with less than five months to turn things around.
Sanders not even on ballot in Georgia?
It's because he is Jewish, isn't it?
The Globe says Republicans will never turn against Trump, or will they because the mistake they made in nominating Trump in 2016 cannot be undone, but it isn’t too late to decide against repeating that mistake in 2020 (I guess he will be voting for Biden), and why is Joe Kennedy running for the US Senate (the Globe says he is a joke)?
Republican leaders blamed the meltdowns on officials in Fulton and DeKalb counties, which are Democratic strongholds with significant black populations.
“When these things arise, and it’s really specifically in one or two counties . . . it leads us back to the failure of the management of the county election directors in those counties,” Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said. “It has nothing to do with what we’re doing in the rest of Georgia.”
That I believe!
Republican House Speaker David Ralston directed leaders of the House Governmental Affairs Committee to investigate the “unacceptable deficiencies” across the state, particularly in Fulton County.
Democrats insisted the issues were more widespread.....
Of course they are going to say that, even as they are harvesting deceased and undocumented ballots.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Repuglican partisan. I just want honest and fair elections, and I give the Dems and Obama credit; they turned around the fraud after the two W. Bish debacles.
Anyhow, it doesn't seem to matter which empty suit that does the bidding of corporations, Israel, and the genocidal globalists calling the shots above everyone. Clinging to a handful of people who end up betraying you is no way to go through life, son.
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Also see:
US challenges planned expedition to retrieve Titanic’s radio
I already sent out my mayday over a month ago, and other than a few bloggers, I don't think anybody heard it. All went to bed like that night over 108 years ago (good movie, though).
Trump administration to make it easier for hunters to kill Alaska bear cubs and wolf pups
Why not?
He is going to be the death of us, too.
Mayor bans chokeholds for Houston police
A LONG OVERDUE MOVE!
Related:
"A 150-year-old statue of King Leopold II of Belgium, whose forces seized Congo in the late 19th century and ran an exploitative regime that led to the death of millions, was removed from a public square in Antwerp on Tuesday, as protests against racism continued around the world. It was a striking moment for a country that has struggled, at times, to reckon with one of the most sordid eras in the history of European colonialism. For decades, many Belgians were taught that the country had brought “civilization” to the African region, and some have defended Leopold as a foundational figure. Streets and parks are named after him, and statues of the king can be found throughout the country, yet there has been growing pressure in recent years, particularly from younger Belgians, to confront the country’s legacy in central Africa — a movement bolstered by worldwide protests prompted by the killing of George Floyd....."
COVID not a worry at all!
"London’s mayor said Tuesday that more statues of imperialist figures could be removed from Britain’s streets after protesters knocked down the monument to a slave trader, as the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis continued to spark protests — and drive change — around the world....."
Said the magic words.
"Japanese public broadcaster NHK apologized Tuesday for an animated video it produced trying to explain the ongoing protests in the United States that instead sparked outrage that its depiction of Black Americans was offensive. The animated clip featured a Black man with large muscles wearing a white tank top and raising his fist on a street with fires burning and other Black men and women standing nearby. The clip, which lasted less than 90 seconds and first aired on a Sunday evening news talk show, did not mention police brutality or George Floyd....."
Bingo!
Tea, anyone?
"The outcry over racial and social injustice that grew in the United States after the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis has quickly spread across the globe....."
Like the now forgotten COVID because it was NEVER MENTIONED ONCE in the ENTIRE SERIES of AGENDA-PUSHING FLOP!
Before moving on I note the full-page Total Wine ad on page A7 (for those who want a belt).
"A New York City police officer surrendered to face criminal charges Tuesday, 11 days after he was recorded on video shoving a woman to the ground and cursing at her during a protest against police brutality, law enforcement officials said. The Brooklyn district attorney’s office charged the officer, Vincent D’Andraia, in a criminal complaint with misdemeanor assault, criminal mischief, harassment, and menacing over the May 29 incident, according to a statement. The decision to charge D’Andraia, 28, seemed to reflect the growing political pressure that recent protests have put on police and prosecutors to hold officers accountable for misconduct and change a status quo that for decades has largely allowed police officers accused of assault or other violent acts on duty to avoid serious punishment. Mass protests against police brutality swept the nation after the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a white officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes in Minneapolis....."
"New Jersey’s attorney general released police dash-camera footage Monday that captured the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old unarmed black man by a white state trooper last month. During a half-hour of dash-cam footage, the stop appeared routine. Sergeant Randall Wetzel got Maurice Gordon’s information and called a tow truck. The trooper offered to drive Gordon to a car dealership and offered him a mask. ‘‘I can give you a ride wherever you’re trying to go,’’ Wetzel told Gordon. After 20 minutes of sitting in the patrol car, Gordon unfastened his seat belt and appeared to get out of the car. Wetzel then yelled ‘‘Get in the car’’ several times while they seemed to tussle outside the cruiser. The attorney general’s office said Gordon twice tried to enter the driver’s seat of Wetzel’s patrol car. The first time, Wetzel pepper-sprayed him, and during the second instance Wetzel pulled Gordon out of the driver’s seat and, during a struggle, shot him six times. At a news briefing Monday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said that a grand jury would review the case to consider possible criminal charges. Wetzel remains on administrative leave with pay, New Jersey State Police confirmed Monday....."
HThe governor releases it now, and the cop can go get a job in Florida:
"The president of a Fraternal Order of Police chapter along Florida’s Space Coast is apologizing for a social media post over the weekend that encouraged officers linked to departments accused of using excessive force during recent protests to apply for jobs in Florida. Bert Gamin, president of the Fraternal Order of Police lodge in Brevard County, Fla., called his post “in poor taste’’ in a statement sent to local news media."
He then took a knee for pictures.
Meanwhile, "in Atlanta, two officers were fired and face criminal charges after video showed them using stun guns on a couple of college students during a large protest. Other officers were placed on desk duty, and in Buffalo, dozens of police officers stepped down from the department’s crowd control unit last week, objecting to the suspensions of two fellow officers in the shoving of a 75-year-old protester who fell and cracked his head."
He was a White man, right?
It won't be long before America is like North Korea or Iran, and here is a real African liberator:
"Tanzania’s president is again claiming the country is free of the coronavirus because of the power of prayer — six weeks after his government stopped publicly updating virus data. ‘‘Corona in our country has been removed by the powers of God,’’ President John Magufuli declared at a church service on Sunday. He praised the congregation for not wearing face masks, amid cheers from the faithful. He has warned that masks not approved by the government could be infected with the virus. Tanzania’s number of COVID-19 cases has been stuck at 509 for six weeks as health officials, opposition figures, and some neighboring countries worry that cases in the East African nation continue to climb. Opposition figures have estimated that cases could be in the tens of thousands. While many African countries have been praised for their response to the virus, Magufuli believes the pandemic has been greatly exaggerated and is being used by unnamed forces to sabotage the economy. The president has questioned, even fired, health officials and refused to limit people’s movements, and he has claimed his son was healed of COVID-19 by drinking a mixture of ginger and lemonade."
Of course, the Big Pharma pre$$ makes him out to be crazy religious while omitting the fact that he sent tests of motor oil, fruit, and a goat to the WHO which confirmed COVID in two of them.
He is a hero who should have his own power drink!
Thus he is under attack like another hero south of the equator:
"A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to resume publication of full COVID-19 data, including the cumulative death toll, following allegations the government was trying to hide the severity of the pandemic in Latin America’s biggest country. The government complied with the decision Tuesday afternoon. Justice Alexandre de Moraes said late Monday that the government is obliged to provide necessary information to Brazilian citizens, days after the Health Ministry scrubbed the cumulative death toll from the new coronavirus from its website. De Moraes said in his decision that the gravity of the pandemic, which has killed more than 37,000 Brazilians, requires transparency from the government as the country shapes policies to curb the virus. Brazil’s health ministry stopped publishing the number of total COVID-19 deaths and confirmed coronavirus cases on Friday. The restriction on the release of data, combined with its announcement after evening news programs had ended, generated widespread criticism. Gilmar Mendes, another Supreme Court justice, said Saturday that manipulation of data is a tactic of authoritarian regimes and that hiding the numbers wouldn’t exempt the government from responsibility for the pandemic’s heavy toll in Brazil. Facing intense criticism, a top Health Ministry official told reporters Monday night that the ministry would restore the cumulative death toll to its website, but with changes to the methodology for how daily deaths are tallied."
Better move on:
"South Asia coronavirus cases have increased at the fastest rate globally in the past week. Infections have risen by 27 percent in Pakistan, while Bangladesh cases spiked by 19 percent and 17 percent in India, according to data of the 20 most affected nations compiled by Bloomberg. Pakistan and Bangladesh also had their single-biggest daily spike in fatalities. As cases dwindle in parts of the United States and Europe, they are still increasing in South America and South Asia. More than 136,000 cases were reported worldwide on Sunday, the most in a single day so far, with nearly 75 percent from 10 countries in the Americas and South Asia, according to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Pakistan crossed 108,000 cases and became the second-largest most infected nation in Asia with about 2,000 deaths. In Bangladesh, the tally surged to 71,675 including 975 deaths, while India has 267,046 cases and 7,473 deaths."
The data was compiled by Bloomberg(!), and the chickens, 'er, bats have come home to roost!
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Gets us back to the city:
"The FBI is asking for the public’s help identifying two men wanted for questioning in the vandalism and arson of a Boston police cruiser in the violence that followed hours of peaceful protests on May 31, the agency said Tuesday. The men were seen near Tremont and Bromfield streets downtown between 9:30 and 10 p.m., around the time several people attacked a police cruiser parked near the Beantown Pub, breaking the windows and setting the car afire, the FBI’s Boston Division said in a joint statement with Boston police and the Fire Investigation Unit of the Boston Fire Department. The burning of the cruiser was among the most dramatic instances of destruction in the chaos that ensued when a small group of people faced off against police late that Sunday night after thousands marched peacefully across the city calling for an end to police killings of Black Americans. One of the men appears to be about 5-foot-8 to 6 feet tall with a medium build, and he was wearing a white hoodie, gray shorts, and red bandana, the FBI said. The other man is about the same height and build. He was wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and a hat, all in black, the FBI said. Anyone with information about either man can contact the FBI....."
"Police are searching for the driver of a car that slammed into the front of a Jamaica Plain convenience store while carrying illegal fireworks Monday night, Boston Police said. The vehicle barreled through the front door and a security gate of Pimentel Market, located at 340 Centre St., at 11:19 p.m., said Officer Stephen McNulty, a Boston Police spokesman. The driver fled the scene on foot, McNulty said. No description of the suspect is available at this time and no arrests have been made, he said. Officers seized illegal fireworks they found during a search of the car, McNulty said. No one was injured. The incident remains under investigation."
"The 8-year-old girl who disappeared from her Brockton home Monday evening spent the night sleeping underneath the porch of a friend’s house on Porter Street in Brockton, police said. In a statement, Brockton police spokesman Darren Duarte wrote that the friend’s parent contacted police at 12:06 p.m. Tuesday.The parent said Grace Adorno was outside her door. "The woman explained to the police that Grace told her she slept under the porch overnight,'' Duarte wrote. Police responded to the scene. "Detectives and Patrol Officers arrived at the address and found the eight-year-old girl safe and unharmed,'' he wrote. The child was taken to an unidentified hospital for an evaluation. Brockton police launched an aggressive search for Adorno Monday night around 8 p.m. when police were told the child left home about 30 minutes after arguing with her mother and had not been heard from since. Uniformed officers and detectives scrutinized surveillance videos, checked occupied and abandoned buildings, searched along railroad tracks and contacted relatives, friends and school officials. Around 11 a.m., Brockton Police Chief Emanuel Gomes held a press conference and asked for the public’s help in locating the girl, and State Police uniformed troopers and other assets were dispatched to the Plymouth County city along with help from the FBI. Police said Adorno was last seen wearing black shorts and a red Bridgewater shirt. She was also wearing a Winnie the Pooh headband. She is Hispanic and is about five feet tall and weighs about 120 pounds.. Less than an hour after Gomes’ press conference, Adorno was found....."
Too bad she isn't going to school:
"An at-home coronavirus test that can deliver results in as little as five minutes is being developed by University of Massachusetts Lowell researchers, school officials announced Tuesday. Coronavirus tests often take several hours or days to return results, according to a statement from UMass Lowell. The new test, however, will use a diagnostic tool and function like a home pregnancy test. “Our tests would work with a wide range of bodily fluids, including urine, saliva, and nasal fluids. You place a sample on the device, and it will tell you in five minutes the result," said Gulden Camci-Unal, assistant professor of chemical engineering at UMass Lowell, in a telephone interview Tuesday afternoon. Camci-Unal, along with biomedical engineering and biotechnology doctoral candidate Darlin Lantigua, came up with the idea for a rapid COVID-19 test when the virus became widespread in February and March. With the university’s approval, the two went to work, following state health guidelines by communicating over Skype and allowing one person in the lab at a time. The test is still in the development stage, but it could be ready for use within months, Camci-Unal said. The test’s release date will depend on approval by the Food and Drug Administration and when the team of researchers can find an industry partner to help move the test from lab to market, she said. Due to the simplicity of the test, an untrained person will be able to use it and read the results, the researchers said. It can also be used by health care workers and first responders. “It can be used by normal people, people like you and me, who have no training," Lantigua said in a telephone interview. “It’s just a simple test, and it can easily be evaluated.” Other coronavirus tests must be performed and evaluated by a health care professional, Camci-Unal said. The researchers emphasized the test’s low cost, portability, and potential for scalability when it is released."
The rabbit died?
Here is a reminder to stay fit:
How to help — and how to find help — for those experiencing hunger this summer
Boston fitness pros like working out to songs by (from left) Four Tet, Beyonce, and Dua Lipa.
What more is there to talk about?
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"The owner of jewelry chains Jared and Kay won’t reopen hundreds of stores following the pandemic shutdown, adding to the pain for American malls as the company speeds a shift to digital. Signet Jewelers Ltd., which also owns Zales, will make lockdown-related store closures permanent at more than 150 locations in North America and 80 in Britain. The company is also in discussions with landlords as it prepares to shut another 150 shops, bringing the total planned closures to at least 380 this year, or 12 percent of total stores."
"US employers laid-off 7.7 million workers in April — a deep the economic hole that was created by the closure of thousands of offices, restaurants, stores, and schools during the pandemic. The Labor Department also said in a Tuesday report that job openings plummeted and hiring all but disappeared in April. The number of available jobs fell 16 percent from March, to 5 million. Hires declined 31 percent to 3.5 million. The grim April — which followed an even bleaker March with 11.5 million layoffs — suggests that the economy could take time to recover nearly a decade’s worth of gains that vanished in about 60 days."
That really flies in the face of what's above, huh?
"Tiffany & Co. persuaded lenders to grant more financial flexibility, a key step toward keeping a $16 billion sale to LVMH on course after the coronavirus and US social unrest clouded the jeweler’s prospects. Lenders agreed to amend the global revolving credit facility “as a precautionary measure,” Tiffany said. Greater flexibility, including temporarily raising the limit on the company’s debt-to-earnings ratio, could help ensure that the deal comes to fruition because any breach of covenants might have given the French luxury giant a loophole to alter or back away from the purchase."
"About a third of large institutional investors own digital assets such as Bitcoin, according to a survey from Fidelity Investments. Across the United States and Europe, 36 percent of the survey’s 774 respondents said they own cryptocurrencies or derivatives. In the United States, 27 percent of institutions — including pension funds, family offices, investment advisers, and digital and traditional hedge funds — said they own digital assets, up from 22 percent about a year ago, when Fidelity surveyed 441 institutions just in the United States. In Europe, 45 percent of respondents are invested in digital assets."
They will zoom you around the world.
"Macy’s said Tuesday that roughly several hundred stores that have reopened are performing better than anticipated as it disclosed an update on its fiscal first-quarter results. Like many department stores and other non-essential retailers, Macy’s was forced to close its roughly 800 stores in mid-March and saw its sales evaporate. The New York-based company said Tuesday that it will likely report sales of $3.02 billion for the three-month period ended May 2. That would mark a 45 percent drop from the $5.5 billion in the year-ago period and is in line with its previous estimates released late last month. Late Monday, the department store chain said it completed it debt-financing deal, raising about $4.5 billion of new financing. The company said the move will give the company more financial flexibility to navigate the pandemic."
Despite the destruction of protests?
"Apple plans to launch a trade-in program for Mac computers next week at its retail stores in the United States and Canada, adding the devices to an effort already in effect for other products. The technology giant informed retail employees that the new program will begin on June 15 in the United States and June 18 in Canada, according to people familiar with the matter. Customers can exchange a Mac for credit toward a new computer or apply the trade-in value to an Apple gift card. Customers have previously been able to trade in their Macs via Apple’s website. Apple already offers trade-in programs at its stores for many other products, including the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The move could help boost sales of Macs by giving customers a way to get credit toward a new model at the point of purchase. However, the full impact of the program will likely take several more weeks because about 200 of Apple’s retail stores are still closed due to COVID-19 precautions. Mac sales generated about $25.7 billion in fiscal 2019, or almost 10 percent of the company’s total annual revenue."
What will the waste do to the environment?
"Environmental groups are urging the European Union to take drastic action to protect insects, saying in a report Tuesday that more than 40 percent of the world’s insect species are in decline because of pesticide use and industrial farming. Friends of the Earth Europe and the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, a think tank with close ties to the German Green Party, said the EU’s strategy to protect biodiversity and develop organic farming is not enough, as one-third of all inspect species are threatened with extinction. “The evidence is clear: pesticide use is wiping out insect populations and ecosystems around the world, and threatening food production,’’ said Mute Schimpf of Friends of the Earth Europe. The group said at least 1 in 10 bee and butterfly species in Europe is threatened with extinction, raising fears of an ensuing impact on crop production. According to figures released by the European Parliament, about 84 percent of crop species and 78 percent of wildflowers across the EU depend to some extent on animal pollination."
It's the SEVENTH TALKING POINT when it BELONGS on the FRONT PAGE!
More of a threat to human life than COVID!
"France’s government is pumping $16.9 billion in rescue money into the pandemic-battered aerospace industry, in hopes of saving its hundreds of thousands of jobs and keeping plane maker Airbus and national airline Air France globally competitive. In exchange for aid, companies will be required to invest more and faster in electric, hydrogen, or other lower-emission aircraft, as France aims to make its aviation industry the “cleanest in the world.” As travel restrictions grounded most flights to keep the virus contained, the fallout cascaded across the industry, from airlines to airports to engine makers, maintenance contracts, and spare parts suppliers. Airlines around the world have filed for bankruptcy or sought bailouts to survive the near-shutdown in their activity, and officials predict the industry will take years to recover. The French aid money includes direct government investment, subsidies, loans, and loan guarantees. It also includes a special fund jointly financed by the government, Airbus and other big manufacturers to support small suppliers. Among bailouts elsewhere, major US airlines reached agreements with the Treasury Department for billions of dollars in grants and loans, Lufthansa won a $10 billion German government rescue and Cathay Pacific announced Tuesday it’s seeking $5 billion from the Hong Kong government to survive."
The airlines get a bailout while the rest of French society is told to take hike, 'er, shelter at home.
I think Macron has lost them forever.
