Joe Kennedy wages fierce campaign to reach voters
Ed Markey defines self with digital strategy aimed at young voters
Those are the above the fold feature and lead, one to the left, one to the right, as the Globe gets it backwards again, and I can't help but notice the advertisement to the right.
In a way, the masked photos of the two are perfect for politicians have been muzzled regarding the COVID $cam and in terms of outing elite pedophiles in their midst, although I'm sure most of them are compromised as well.
COVID-19 plasma treatment gets emergency OK
Tell you what, I will get back to that later after the turn-in.
Next to that is a photo of literal tree-hugger, and when flipping below the fold we find it is due to ‘environmental racism’ -- as if the environment didn't affect us all no matter what gender, race, sex pref, age, you name it.
Justice Department is increasing attacks on affirmative action in college admissions
The charge is that Yale University discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants, and I must say the that the set-asides for discriminated against whites arrived a lot faster than I thought. I want my reparations!
Before continuing, I noticed a breaking story:
Kellyanne Conway to leave the White House at the end of the month, citing the need to focus on her family
By that she meant her four children and their remote learning, and her husband, George, an outspoken Trump critic, as her family is subject of Washington’s rumor mill. She is still slated to speak at the Republican National Convention this week as her husband is a member of the Lincoln Project, an outside group of Republicans devoted to defeating Trump, and her departure comes at an inopportune time for Trump -- especially with Bannon on the sidelines.
My reading on that beyond the standard more time with the family cover, is she was either going to be moved out or was worn down from the constant TV assaults. I watched her on on show about a month ago, and she looked tired, drawn, and haggard. Perhaps Kushner and the political team decided she was no longer useful and is being scapegoated for the failed presidency.
For the record, the pre$$ never gave her the proper amount of credit for being the first woman too lead a political campaign to the presidency, and they didn't believe her sexual assault stories, either. Total dissing the whole time of her service.
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I now fast forward to page A9 and begin working back to the front:
"Republicans rush to finalize convention (‘Apprentice’ producers are helping)" by Michael M. Grynbaum and Annie Karni New York Times, August 23, 2020
Democrats set a high bar last week for the pandemic-era political convention, dispensing with cheering crowds in favor of a virtual pageant that encompassed passionate speeches, a charming cross-country roll call vote, vignettes from an Oscar-winning filmmaker, and a low-fi fireworks display above a parking lot. A few hiccups aside, even jaded network executives conceded the party mostly pulled it off.
No offense, but that clown convention was a $hit $how!
At lest the Times starts it out with a laugh. Jaded network executives, ha-ha-ha-ha!
Now it’s the Republicans’ turn in the prime-time spotlight — and the party led by a former reality TV star is rushing to measure up. Republicans are working to finalize a week’s worth of events that can match the production put on for the Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden, while meeting the exacting — and frequently shifting — standards of President Trump.
They have hired two producers of “The Apprentice,” a longtime deputy to “Apprentice” creator Mark Burnett, who is also the creator of “Survivor,” -- the tribe has spoken -- and a former NBC entertainment executive who helped produce “The Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump.”
Oh, the secrets he must know from his time at NBC, 'eh?
I will be watching about as much of theirs as I did the last one, snd maybe even less. I'm not trying to downplay it, I'm just not interested in hollow words from irrelevant politicians as they do the bidding of their ma$ters anymore.
Whoever wins in November, I don't see the ultimate plan being changed in any way. The famine, the power outages, the mass transfer of citizens, the FEMA camps, the mandatory vaccinations, the exterminations, and the total global tyranny, it's all coming true.
It's no longer a conspiracy because bloggers are responsible for the lore before the storm and will metaphorically as well as literally be wiped from the face of this Earth in more ways than one. I never wanted to be right, but I am now prepared to die in self-defense.
Party officials say their convention — during which Trump is expected to speak every night in the 10 p.m. hour — will ultimately surpass the Democrats’ telethon-like show, which the president and his allies have repeatedly called “dark,” depressing, and thin on policy proposals. “We’re going to have more of it live than what they did,” Trump told Fox News on Thursday. “I think it’s pretty boring when you do tapes.”
I will be avoiding it then, not because I'm necessarily opposed but because the guy's speaking style is abrasive and grating, imo. I can't watch him.
Exactly what that looks like remains an open question.
As Monday’s kickoff looms, Republican officials were still deciding what segments to air live and what would be taped in advance. Those involved in the planning said Saturday that they were confident that a fully realized lineup was in place — and that voters could expect something more akin to a regular convention, with a focus on live moments featuring Trump, whom aides described as the week’s “talent in chief.”
Sucking up to him as they must, but I'm sure the live component will win votes out in the hustings and beyond.
Look, we are never going back to normal so does it really matter who wins the $election?
The fact is, EVERYTHING SHOULD COMPLETELY GO BACK TO NORMAL RIGHT NOW, and that is not happening. It is the politician's ultimate betrayal and treason, with appropriate punishment meted out.
Typically, the nominee makes a mundane appearance early in the convention — waving or watching from the wings — before a major speech at the end. Trump has dismissed that model and plans to directly address the nation in prime-time on each of the convention’s four nights. The president wants the opportunity to rebut charges made against him throughout the Democratic program.
Trump's instincts may serve him well because that is what Biden did and that was a flop, although the viewing public may be sick of Trump after four days. maybe he should only do Tuesday and Thursday.
The list of speakers is heavy on the president’s relatives and White House staff members, including Dan Scavino, Trump’s former caddie who is now deputy chief of staff for communications, and Larry Kudlow, the national economic adviser. Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, will also speak, according to a person involved in the planning. Kimberly Guilfoyle, a campaign fund-raising official and Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, is also a speaker.
The lineup also includes Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the Missouri couple that toted weapons at Black protesters and have since become right-wing media stars, and Nicholas Sandmann, the Kentucky teenager who sued news outlets over coverage of his encounter last year with a Native American protester in Washington.
The preliminary undercard doesn't hold much promise. Giuliani needs to be scrutinized for destruction of crime scene regarding 9/11. As a former US attorney, he should have known better. Of course, he was under orders from higher up and did you notice the story regarding his links with those Ukrainian Jews and illegal camping funds has vanished down the pre$$ rathole?
As for the rest, where those same descriptions used by the NYT last week with Democrats?
I don't recall them describing the celebrity-filled moralizing and lecturing as left-wing media stars, and if only Don and Kim would marry, 'eh? Democrats had plenty of wives speaking last weak, even if they were in name only and the marriages are those of political convenience.
So what else they got?
Each night’s events are expected to begin at 8:30 p.m., a half-hour earlier than the Democrats’ program, although the major broadcast networks do not start covering until 10 p.m.
A “Democrats For Trump” segment is planned, although the participants remain a secret. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the sole Black Republican in the Senate, will speak, along with three future potential presidential candidates: Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas; Nikki Haley, the former ambassador to the United Nations; and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Related:
"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday headed to the Middle East, the first of two senior US officials to travel to the region this week as the Trump administration presses an ambitious Arab-Israeli peace push that President Trump hopes will burnish his foreign policy credentials ahead of November’s election. Pompeo is traveling to Israel, several Gulf Arab states, and Sudan, and will be away when he is scheduled to speak on Tuesday to the Republican National Convention, which will nominate Trump for a second term. Should Pompeo appear by remote or recorded video, it will break a long tradition of secretaries of state declining to participate in the political nomination process. Previous secretaries of state have shunned overtly partisan rhetoric. If Pompeo’s planned speech to the convention goes ahead, he is likely to tout Trump’s Mideast policies and the recent agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations."
Let's face it, he is over there getting his marching orders and will be back to transmit them to the American people, and I'm sure Democrats will be listening closely. Maybe we will be in WWIII before November after all, or shortly thereafter.
As for the others, how suspenseful! A hidden token Democrat along with a Black senator, a Cotton-picking neocon war-monger, and the Israeli attack dog Haley.
I'm on the edge of my seat!
The president is set to accept his party’s nomination on Thursday from the White House, with fireworks above the South Lawn. Melania Trump will speak Tuesday from the Rose Garden, and Vice President Mike Pence will appear Wednesday from Fort McHenry in Maryland.....
Can she take another four years in that House?
She didn't think they would be living there and now faces four more years if not more?
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Right below that article was Trump swearing a blood oath upon the turn-in:
"COVID-19 plasma treatment gets emergency OK" by Jonathan Lemire and Mike Stobbe The Associated Press, August 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday displayed some rare discipline in the evening news conference, sticking to his talking points, deferring to the head of the FDA, Stephen Hahn, and only taking three questions from reporters.
Well, since he signed the COVID emergency order he is no longer in charge of the country, so..... not that he ever was, and I'm getting sick of the charade that fills my pre$$.
The White House had grown agitated with the pace of the plasma approval. The accusations of an FDA slowdown, which were presented without evidence, were just the latest assault from Trump’s team on what he refers to as the “deep state” bureaucracy. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, in an interview Sunday on “This Week” on ABC, said, “This president is about cutting red tape.”
Like he cuts corners on the vaccines?
The deep $tate stuff is all about phony opposition while supporting the agenda all along, a huckster con man and pied piper type leading his followers to ruin. It's an entirely controlled process and he had deferred to the experts. He can't do anything else. It's all out of his hands, and all he has left is the illusion and imagery of the show.
The push on Sunday came a day after Trump tweeted sharp criticism on the process to treat the virus, which has killed more than 175,000 Americans and imperiled his reelection chances. The White House has sunk vast resources into an expedited process to develop a vaccine, and Trump aides have been banking on it being an “October surprise” that could help the president make up ground in the polls.
“The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics,” Trump tweeted. “Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd. Must focus on speed, and saving lives!”
Let me tell you something, Mr. President. If you think vaxxing your base and strongest supporters, is a winner, you are getting the wrong advice and need to call Kellyanne back. This Warp Speed $hit is killing your chances, and in any event, we are all getting jabbed.
Earlier this month, Mayo Clinic researchers reported a strong hint that blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors helps other infected patients recover, but it wasn’t considered proof.
There’s been little data on how effective it is or whether it must be administered fairly early in an illness to make a significant difference, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University.
Aiming to ward off a possible a run on convalescent plasma after the announcement, government officials have been working to obtain plasma and to team with corporate partners and nonprofit organizations to generate interest among previously infected patients to donate.
Yeah, everything has to be vetted by corporate intere$ts that put the health of profits above you, and if this does indeed work then can't have people getting it -- all from the people who have ruined your life for their diabolical and evil agenda which Schaffner himself is promoting.
Hahn, who called the development “promising,” said Trump did not speak to him about the timing of the announcement. He said “this has been in the works for several weeks,” but some health experts were skeptical. Benjamin Corb, of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, called it “conspicuous timing. President Trump is once again putting his political goals ahead of the health and well-being of the American public,” Corb said.
You knew the agenda-pu$hing pre$$ would dig up a critic, and the onerous restrictions and ongoing shutdowns are doing far more damage than COVID-19 has -- yet they are still pushing the tyrannical fraud harder than ever, exposing their wicked evilne$$.
Rigorous studies are under way around the country, comparing similar patients randomly assigned to get plasma or a dummy infusion in addition to regular care, but those studies have been difficult to finish as the virus waxes and wanes in different cities. Also, some patients have requested plasma rather than agreeing to a study that might give them a placebo instead.
Are you SICK of the EXCUSES yet?
I know I am!
Former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb dismissed the suggestion of a slowdown.....
He was on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” and I stopped watching the Sunday morning shows over a decade ago, and I'm all for hitting the brakes and reversing this insane madness based on a total lie!
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Page A6:
"Republicans are aiming to use this week's national convention as a test bed for their efforts to reelect President Donald Trump, just weeks before the start of early voting. The Republican National Committee plans to hold more than 7,500 events across the country — the majority of them in person — as part of a “dry run” of their get-out-the-vote efforts. The party is putting its hope in its 2,000 field staffers and 1.9 million volunteers as it seeks to help Trump recover from a coronavirus-induced polling slump and edge out Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Nov. 3. The field events this week include volunteer training, as the GOP looks to surpass the 2.2 million volunteers that helped reelect President Barack Obama in 2012, and “MAGA-meetup watch parties," in which supporters will gather to watch the convention proceedings. Gatherings are planned in all 50 states for Thursday night, when Trump is set to deliver his acceptance speech....."
Related:
"Police have arrested five people in Charlotte, North Carolina, where protesters demonstrated against the Republican National Convention for a second night. The arrests happened late Saturday after a group of demonstrators left a park and began to peacefully march throughout uptown Charlotte, police said in a statement Sunday. Police used pepper spray after a demonstrator picked up a steel pipe that was being used for perimeter security fencing and aggressively approached officers, police said. One person was charged with possession of a weapon at a protest, when police seized a firearm after being alerted that a demonstrator riding a bicycle had a gun, authorities said....."
"More than 540,000 mail ballots were rejected during primaries across 23 states this year - nearly a quarter in key battlegrounds for the fall - illustrating how missed delivery deadlines, inadvertent mistakes and uneven enforcement of the rules could disenfranchise voters and affect the outcome of the presidential election. The rates of rejection, which in some states exceeded those of other recent elections, could make a difference in the fall if the White House contest is decided by a close margin, as it was in 2016, when Donald Trump won Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by roughly 80,000 votes. This year, according to a tally by The Washington Post, election officials in those three states tossed out more than 60,480 ballots just during primaries. The rejection figures include ballots that arrived too late to be counted or were invalidated for another reason, including voter error....."
Also see:
Parkland shooting survivors hit the road, target youth vote
The Globe changed the bolded part to "hope to improve," and I bet turnout will be way down amongst them due to the COVID craziness.
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Page A4:
Florida reports fewer than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases
The daily total peaked July 15 and hospitalizations due to COVID-19 have also been declining, so why has the pre$$ been downplaying that?
They are playing this up instead:
"The Trump administration tied billions of dollars in badly needed coronavirus medical funding this spring to hospitals’ cooperation with a private vendor collecting data for a new COVID-19 database that bypassed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The highly unusual demand, aimed at hospitals in coronavirus hot spots using funds passed by Congress with no preconditions, alarmed some hospital administrators and even some federal health officials. The office of the health secretary, Alex Azar, laid out the requirement in an April 21 e-mail obtained by The New York Times that instructed hospitals to make a one-time report of their COVID-19 admissions and intensive care unit beds to TeleTracking Technologies, a company in Pittsburgh whose $10.2 million, five-month government contract has drawn scrutiny on Capitol Hill. “Please be aware that submitting this data will inform the decision-making on targeted Relief Fund payments and is a prerequisite to payment,” the message read. The financial condition, which has not been previously reported, applied to money from a $100 billion “coronavirus provider relief fund” established by Congress as part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, signed by President Trump on March 27. Two days later, the administration instructed hospitals to make daily reports to the CDC, only to change course. The disclosure of the demand is the most striking example to surface of the department’s efforts to expand the role of private companies in health data collection. Last month, the federal health department moved beyond financial incentives and abruptly ordered hospitals to send daily coronavirus reports to TeleTracking, not the CDC, raising concerns about transparency and reliability of the data. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services say that the moves were necessary to improve and streamline data collection in a crisis, and that the one-time reports collected in April by TeleTracking were not available from any other source."
I'm sure it is an important issue and part of the total tyranny, but them worrying about protecting your privacy while totally violating it, does it matter which company?
We have been a fa$ci$t government in the true$t $en$e of the word for a long, long time now, long before Trump arrived.
The more immediate threat is the mass vaccination and extermination program and the threat to our children.
"A federal judge in Washington state temporarily blocked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from enforcing a controversial rule that directs states to give private schools a bigger share of federal coronavirus aid than Congress had intended. In a lawsuit filed by the state, US District Court Judge Barbara J. Rothstein on Friday issued a preliminary injunction and castigated the Education Department over the July 1 regulation about the distribution of federal funds. Rothstein slammed the Education Department for arguing that states would not suffer irreparable damage if forced to implement the rule and said there was cause to put a preliminary injunction on the rule while the broader issues are worked out. The Education Department did not respond to a request for comment about the decision. US legislators from both parties said that most of the funding was intended to be distributed to public and private elementary and secondary schools using a formula based on how many poor children they serve that had long been used for distributing federal aid, but in April, DeVos said she wanted money sent to private schools based on the total number of students in the school, not how many students from low-income families attended. That would have sent hundreds of millions of dollars more to private schools than Congress had intended....."
There is no haleo over here, that's for sure.
What a coincidental manipulation of data and probable revising JIT, huh?
I have my doubts about this report, and if it is a faulty test that picked up COVID then there were other factors involved. The pre$$ certainly isn't going to tell me if there were.
"The University of Alabama has issued a temporary prohibition on student events, including off-campus parties and fraternity and sorority gatherings. The university says it’s issuing a 14-day moratorium on all in-person student events outside of classroom instruction. Social gatherings are prohibited both on and off campus, and the common areas of dormitories and fraternity and sorority houses are closed, according to the new guidelines. The announcement came less than a week after city and school officials raised the alarm about large crowds waiting outside bars."
That's verbatim from yesterday, and I guess the point has to be made twice in Gump world (up here, not down there).
Masks on!
"A Middleton coffee shop has lost its lease after violating Dane County’s mask mandate. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Helbachs Coffee Roasters and Kitchen will close on Aug. 31. The shop said in an Instagram post Thursday its landlord has refused to renew its lease and the decision to close comes on the heels of “enforcement action, negative public statements, and continued vindictive and hostile behavior” by county health officials toward the shop."
Look at the Globe hide tyrants at the bottom of the brief!
The Globe is literally playing up these briefs that were above:
"India’s coronavirus caseload topped 3 million on Sunday, with the country leading the world in new infections as the disease marched through impoverished rural areas in the north and the wealthier but older populations of the south. Health authorities reported 69,239 new cases and 912 deaths, bringing the total to 3,044,940. Cases have leveled off in India’s two largest cities, with serological surveys showing widespread prevalence among the residents of the capital, New Delhi, and financial center Mumbai. New hot spots continue to feed surges in cases in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states in India’s north, and in the southern states of Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh. India has the third-highest caseload after the United States and Brazil, and its 56,706 fatalities are the fourth-highest in the world."
Oh, India is reaching HERD IMMUNITY but the "hot spots continue to feed a surge in cases" and drop the death rates even further!
Remember back when all this was about saving hospitals and the health systems to prevent deaths?
Then it turned into cases and all this other mask-wearing, social-distancing crap and endless agendas being advance all at once towards a Great Re$et.
Time to start a stampede:
"Thirteen people died in a stampede at a disco in Lima after a police raid to enforce the country’s lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Sunday. The stampede happened at the Thomas disco, where about 120 people had gathered for a party on Saturday night, the Interior Ministry said. People tried to escape through the only door of the second-floor disco, trampling one another and becoming trapped in the confined space, according to authorities. After the stampede, police had to force open the door. “I feel sorry for the relatives . . . but also anger and indignation with the business people who organized the event,” Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra said. He urged judicial authorities to punish those who had broken the law. Some 23 people were arrested, and 15 of those tested positive for the coronavirus and will be quarantined, Claudio Ramírez, a Health Ministry official, told reporters. Night clubs have been prohibited from operating since March because of the pandemic. Peru started lifting quarantine restrictions on June 30 in an effort to get the economy moving again, and the daily reported number of virus infections has doubled to more than 9,000 in recent weeks. Peru has reported about 27,500 deaths from the virus."
Had the tyrannical forces not provoked the incident, no one dies in a stampeded or from COVID, and how is their $tock market doing?
Nice to see Peru hasn't changed much from the U.S. thug days; at least something is still normal in this world, and I sure hope no journali$ts died.
"Britain’s top medical officers say children are more likely to be harmed by staying away from school than from being exposed to the coronavirus. England’s chief medical officer on Sunday joined his counterparts in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales in saying that children are less likely to contract the virus than adults and have “an exceptionally low risk” of dying from COVID-19. By contrast, they said studies show that not going to school limits children’s ability to succeed in life and may worsen physical and mental health problems. “Very few, if any, children or teenagers will come to long-term harm from COVID-19 due solely to attending school,” they said in a statement. “This has to be set against a certainty of long-term harm to many children and young people from not attending school.” The statement comes as parents and teachers express concern about reopening schools next month amid fears that social distancing measures won’t keep children safe."
I'm told the teachers are wary of returning to classrooms, and the Globe doesn’t blame them.
Is it possible the political minions and puppets have realized they f**ked up, or is this part of the kidnap the kids scheme?
Whatever you do, don't travel to Pakistan or pray in South Korea:
"Pakistani authorities have closed about two dozen hotels in a scenic tourist destination in the country’s northwest after dozens of hotel employees tested positive for the coronavirus. According to Maqbool Hussain, a district government official, Sunday’s move to place high-risk areas of Shogran, Naran, and Kaghan under lockdown was aimed at containing the spread of the virus. He said as many as 47 hotel employees who tested positive were quarantined at the hotels where they worked. The measures came hours after Pakistan reported four new COVID-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours, the fewest deaths reported in a day since March. That announcement raised hopes that Pakistan is on the right path despite having a fragile health system. Pakistan has confirmed more than 275,000 coronavirus infections and nearly 6,300 deaths since reporting its first case in February."
COVID is a repressive, authoritarian, military government's fantasy, and there is the proof!
"Churches were closed and professional baseball games were played in empty stadiums on Sunday as South Korea stepped up measures nationwide to fight a resurgence in coronavirus cases that has raised concerns that the epidemic is getting out of control. The 397 new cases reported by South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention marked the 10th-straight day of triple-digit increases and indicated that the speed of the virus’s spread was nearing levels seen during the worst of the outbreak in the spring. The resurgence, which began in the densely populated Seoul area before reaching practically every major city and provincial town over the past week, is a major setback for a country that had been eager to tout its gains against the virus. After avoiding stringent social distancing measures because of concerns about hurting the economy, officials stepped up restrictions nationwide on Sunday. They banned gatherings of more than 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors and shut nightclubs, karaoke rooms, buffet restaurants, and computer-gaming cafes. Churches can hold online services only, while fans were removed from professional sports, just weeks after baseball and soccer teams had been allowed to sell limited portions of their seats. Agency director Jeong Eun-kyeong said things will probably get worse before they get better."
They were supposed to be the model to reopening and return to normalcy with their tyranny, and now we are told it's all gone wrong and going to get worse before better which is the same bullshit they shoveled in the spring!
Yet we are told the tyrant is in NORTH Korea!
That brings us to the birthplace of tyrants:
"With thousands of travelers being tested at Italy’s airports and some ports, the nation where Europe’s COVID-19 outbreak began registered a seventh-straight day of increasing new infections Sunday, mostly driven by returning vacationers. Sicily’s governor, meanwhile, ordered all migrant residences on the Italian island to be shut down by Monday, part of a pushback by Italian regions alarmed by a steady climb in COVID-19 cases a few weeks before schools are scheduled to reopen, but people coming in from Mediterranean Sea resorts abroad as well as from the Italian island of Sardinia have accounted for far more of Italy’s new coronavirus infections lately than have migrants. Italy registered 1,210 new cases Sunday, the highest daily number since May 12 and only weeks after it saw new infections plunge to about 200 a day. The Lazio region, which includes Rome, and the hard-hit Lombardy led the nation in regional new caseloads Sunday. Thousands of returning travelers got tested at Rome-area airports and a port north of the capital, as well as at airports that serve Lombardy’s main city, Milan. Other cities, like Turin, also have set up airport test facilities. People arriving from Spain, Malta, Greece and Croatia must be tested within 48 hours of entering Italy, after those nations saw worrisome upticks in infections."
More limiting of mobility with mandatory testing in service to total global tyranny.
I'm sure Mussolini would be humbled at this.
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"The Army Corps of Engineers will impose new demands for mitigating environmental damage from a vast proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska, potentially delaying approvals for the project beyond the presidential election, three people familiar with the corps’ plans said Saturday. The corps is expected to send a letter Monday to the developers of the Pebble Mine project, these people said, adding that it will not issue a permit until the company presents plans to protect an area in the surrounding watershed, a critical breeding ground for salmon, equal in size to the acreage that the mine would damage. That requirement could significantly slow a project that had been sailing toward approval until it incurred the opposition of President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., as well as Vice President Mike Pence’s former chief of staff, Nick Ayers. If Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, prevails in November, the project is likely to die. Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, has personally reassured Pebble Mine officials that the move will not scuttle the project....."
He thinks he has more heft than Junior and Tucker?
They are getting fired up in California:
"Three massive wildfires chewed through the parched Northern California landscape Sunday as firefighters raced to dig breaks and make other preparations ahead of a frightening weather system. That system was packing high winds and more of the lightning that sparked the huge blazes and scores of other fires around the state, putting nearly a quarter-million people under evacuation orders and warnings. At the CZU Lightning Complex fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains, authorities said their effort was hindered by people who refused to heed evacuation orders and those who were using the chaos to steal. Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said 100 officers were patrolling and anyone not authorized to be in an evacuation zone would be arrested. “What we’re hearing from the community is that there’s a lot of looting going on,’’ Hart said. He and county District Attorney Jeff Rosell expressed anger at what Rosell called the “absolutely soulless’’ people who seek to victimize those already victimized by the fire. Among the victims was a fire commander who was robbed. Someone entered the commander’s fire vehicle and stole personal items, including a wallet and “drained his bank account,” said Chief Mark Brunton of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection."
Lightning is the official explanation to what are likely some sort of drone laser weapons based on what happened last year, and don't worry, there wasn't much in the account.
See: California's Slave Labor
Based on the power and water shutdowns of party houses and now the evacuation orders ordering the mass movement of populations, all citizens of California are now slaves even if you are staying to protect your property. The tyrannical authorities of California then claim you are a looter, as they abide communi$t antifa! Better wake up out on the Left Coast!
With all due respect, I don't believe that ridiculous story from the fireman. It stinks of hot apple lie, and what we are looking at is the fulfillment of mass transfer of citizens, the FEMA camps, the mandatory vaccinations, the exterminations, and the total global tyranny, like I said. Seeing Trump on TV praising Governor Newsom as he approved a disaster declaration for California also exposed the fraud of politics. They are all working together as they fight in front of us.
Meanwhile, look who is getting doused in what will likely result another mass transfer of citizens as well as devastation to the heart of Trump country with consequential voter turnout likely to be low:
"Residents flee as Gulf Coast sees possible tandem hurricanes" by Rebecca Santana and Jeff Martin Associated Press, August 23, 2020
NEW ORLEANS — The Gulf Coast braced Sunday for a potentially devastating hit from twin hurricanes as two strong storms swirled toward the United States from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Officials feared a history-making onslaught of life-threatening winds and flooding along the coast, stretching from Texas to Alabama.
A storm dubbed Marco grew into a hurricane Sunday as it moved up the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana. Another potential hurricane, Tropical Storm Laura, lashed the Dominican Republic and Haiti and was targeting the same region of the US coast.
The prospect of piggybacked hurricanes was reviving all-too-fresh memories of damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005. The storm has been blamed for as many as 1,800 deaths and levee breaches in New Orleans led to catastrophic flooding.
“What we know is there’s going to be storm surge from Marco, we know that that water is not going to recede hardly at all before Laura hits, and so we’ve not seen this before and that’s why people need to be paying particular attention,” Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said at a Sunday briefing.
With the potential the storms could overlap, parts of Louisiana, especially in south-central portions of the state, could see rainfall up to 2 feet, said Benjamin Schott, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service’s Slidell, La., office.
“There has never been anything we’ve seen like this before, where you can have possibly two hurricanes hitting within miles of each over a 48-hour period,” Schott added at a Sunday briefing.
I need to say that for a long time I discounted weather weapons and geo-engineering, but this isn't climate change or global warming.
They got lasers that start fires, they have some new bomb they featured in Beirut, and now it appears that they have storm amplification methods with the strum a HAARP or whatever.
It's hard to believe, but as with COVID, the timing is too good for certain interest and agendas.
Along the main drag on the barrier island of Grand Isle, south of New Orleans, Starfish Restaurant manager Nicole Fantiny could see an exodus of people driving off the island. “They are all packing up and leaving,” she said, speaking of the many people who own homes on the island and come out for vacations and weekend trips.
Fantiny lives full time on the island and wasn’t planning to leave, at least for Marco, but she was anxious about the possible one-two punch of Marco followed quickly by Laura. Her husband works with the town’s Fire and Police Departments, so she said they are always among the last ones to leave. “My house was built in 1938, so I think we’re good,” she said hopefully.
I hoping for her, too. It breaks my heart to see my fellow citizens suffer.
While Hurricane Marco is likely to hit Louisiana first, hurricane specialists are more worried about the second potentially stronger smack from Laura.
They will think of Laura in the future.
Marco is expected to dance above and below hurricane status over the next day and a half after hitting the 75 miles-per-hour-wind mark Sunday afternoon.
That will keep you hopping in fear, too, as well as setting loose COVID again!
“The central Gulf could be really under the gun between Marco and Laura in back-to-back succession,’’ said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. “Certainly both of these storms can impact New Orleans significantly. It just remains to be seen if the track for Laura tracks a bit to the west.”
University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy said, “I would be very worried if I were there” in New Orleans. It’s not so much either storm as much as the long period of storm surge first from Marco and then from Laura and whether the levee system can withstand the stress, he said.
New Orleans resident Matthew Meloy and two friends loaded a van with cases of bottled water in the parking lot of a New Orleans Walmart Sunday. He said they still have a lot of storm prep ahead.
With Marco and its expected landfall in Louisiana Monday evening, the biggest worry is water, not wind. Forecasters expect up to 10 or more inches of rain and storm surges of 4 to 6 feet, with 2 to 4 feet around Lake Pontchartrain.
For Laura, add the wind hazard, bigger storm surge, and more heavy rain on top of the first rain to increase flooding on already saturated areas, McNoldy said.
Because of strong winds from the southwest, Marco may attain and then lose hurricane status before it hits land sometime Monday, meteorologists said, but those same decapitating winds are likely to be gone a couple days later when Laura ventures to the central Gulf, where the usually bathtub warm water is actually a degree or 2 warmer than normal, Klotzbach said.
The warmer the water, the stronger the fuel for a hurricane.
“It, unfortunately, might peak in intensity about landfall. That’s the one thing I worry about with this one,” MIT meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel said of Laura. His multiple computer simulations show a decent chance of winds of more than 110 miles per hour for Laura at landfall, as do other computer models.
OMFG, more goddamn models like the wild inaccurate COVID ones!
If these storms fizzle I will be angry yet relieved.
What a mind fuck they are doing on us all!
The key for Laura’s future is how it survives Cuba. The storm is forecast to rake across almost the entire length of the long island and the more it remains over land, the more it can weaken from lack of fuel, but if the storm keeps shifting a bit south, it is more likely to come out strong enough to power up over the favorable environment of the Gulf of Mexico, Klotzbach said. “Whether it goes south or north makes a big difference,” he said.
But if!
The further south, the more likely Laura is to hit further west in the Gulf, possibly into Texas instead of Louisiana, Klotzbach said. If it hits Louisiana that would break the record for two named storms hitting the state so close together. The current record is five days apart in 1885, Klotzbach said.
By Sunday afternoon, Laura was 55 miles south of the eastern tip of Cuba with winds of 50 miles per hour, moving west-northwest at 21 miles per hour. Marco was 280 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River with winds of 75 miles per hour, moving north-northwest at 14 miles per hour.
A few days ago, meteorologists warned of the possibility of two storms in the Gulf at the same time, possibly dancing or interacting with each other, but that’s looking less and likely, Klotzbach said. Marco has sped up and its track has moved further east, while Laura keeps moving further west, and with Laura there is one long-term possibility that adds to the risk. There’s a chance that as the storm moves north after landfall into Oklahoma, it will be caught up into the jet stream, travel east and emerge over North Carolina and return to tropical storm status, McNoldy and Klotzbach said.....
I wonder what they will look like the Day After Tomorrow.
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The Globe is not downplaying this destabilization and overthrow attempt as it is their Nation/World lead:
"Protests persist against Belarus’s leader" by Ivan Nechepurenko New York Times, August 23, 2020
MINSK, Belarus — One day after President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus promised to crush with an iron fist the protests that have broken out since his reelection this month, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the capital, Minsk, on Sunday to show their determination to force him out of office.
Every action has a reaction.
After a week of rallies and publicity stunts in support of Lukashenko, who has led Belarus, a former Soviet republic, since 1994, many expected the protests against him to ebb, but by late Sunday afternoon, a sea of people had filled the main Independence Avenue in central Minsk, blocking all traffic there and on side streets.
Some estimates put the number of demonstrators at well over 100,000, in what appeared to be a repeat of a similar rally a week earlier.
Enjoy it while it lasts, for it won't for long.
Although Lukashenko declared a landslide victory and 80 percent of the vote in the Aug. 9 election, protesters and international bodies, including the European Union, have called it fraudulent. The main opposition candidate, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, also declared victory and fled to neighboring Lithuania out of fear for her safety.
Is the Donald paying attention?
Initial protests over the results were met with a violent crackdown by Lukashenko’s robust law enforcement apparatus, including beatings and mass detentions. No arrests or clashes were reported on Sunday, despite the presence of riot police vans parked near the demonstrations, though Lukashenko told a rally of supporters in the city of Grodno this weekend that protesters had until Monday to calm down.
If they lock you up for COVID, that's okay!
That's why Lukashenko is under pressure; he is one of the few world leaders who didn't go along with and called out this COVID fraud!
Many at Sunday’s protest were wrapped in Belarus’s traditional white-and-red flag, which became an opposition symbol after Lukashenko replaced it with a more Soviet-looking emblem soon after coming to power. A few came with the one used by Lukashenko’s supporters — a bid to show that the country is united in a desire to see him gone from office.
“It doesn’t matter what flag it is; we just want him to leave,” said Darya O. Rolya, 28, an accountant.
It was unclear how the protesters could achieve that aim, with Lukashenko having indicated repeatedly that he has no intention of succumbing to pressure from the streets.
“We had elections,” he told a crowd of workers on Aug. 17. “Until you kill me, there will not be any more elections.”
He's really putting himself out there, and it is refreshing to see a leader do that for his people rather than hide away as he orders slaughter.
Later Sunday afternoon, a group of protesters moved toward the Independence Palace, Lukashenko’s vast official residence just outside the center of Minsk. The government deployed armored vehicles and armed army officers to protect the compound, which is surrounded by a tall fence. After approaching the first line of defense, the protesters made a U-turn and went back to the city center.
Like they would the White House, and may have to later in September from something I saw win line. The antifa's are going to bring the protests to the White House gates.
Lukashenko observed the protests from a helicopter, at one point calling the demonstrators “rats,” according to a video released by his news service.
Shortly after that, Lukashenko landed at the palace. A video published online by the news service showed him wearing body armor and holding an automatic rifle as he disembarked the helicopter with his 15-year-old son, Nikolai, in a commando uniform and bearing a rifle, too.
He has the right idea, and isn't going down without a fight!
Good for him!
Lukashenko approached riot police officers blocking a nearby street and thanked the men, who shouted, “We are with you until the end,” according to another video.
“We will deal with them,” Lukashenko told them, in an apparent reference to the protesters.
Oh, how cryptic.
In the past week, Lukashenko has pushed to rally his supporters around the flag. He made a flurry of statements about an imminent invasion from the West and an internal conspiracy to destabilize Belarus. He accused protesters of being against Russia — a key ally — and called them “rats” and “trash.” On Sunday, some protesters waved the Russian flag to show that they do not want their country to turn away from Moscow.
Think what you want of him, but Lukashenko is nothing if not lucid.
Some of Lukashenko’s assertions seemed directed at the attention of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who is leery of any anti-Russian protests in former Soviet republics. On Saturday, Lukashenko thanked Putin and called him a friend, one day after confirming having invited several Russian journalists to replace the Belarusian ones who resigned from state-run news media outlets in protest over censorship.
Like all Russian leaders, he knows from which direction the invasions have always come.
Far be it from a national leader to defend his people and territory, huh?
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Related:
Comatose Russian dissident visited by wife, aide in Germany
You know who is being blamed by my pre$$, so it couldn't have been them. They wouldn't be that stupid. It's another Skripal fraud!
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Now forward again:
Hospitals need a stronger prescription for keeping the public’s trust
The Globe says policies for conflict of interest should be updated so that patients don't have to question the loyalty of hospital executives as there is some $hit on our medical $aviors.
The only problem is, it's not just her it's all the re$t of them because the all potential for financial conflicts abound when nonprofit medicine and nitty-gritty capitalism mix.
Doesn't bother the Globe regarding the rushed vaccines as they literally make the case for a foreign-born president because they will follow words with actions and support America’s workers while Trump's obstructionism is a losing strategy.
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Speaking of losing strategies:
Candidates for Congress keep pitching as voters start casting ballots
The rest of the paper reads like fiction but it’s true according to Farragher and Tannenbaum:
Sculptor who put Black history in the public square dies at 71
That's odd considering the $y$temic raci$m we all $uffer under.
Family of missing Brockton soldier calls for congressional probe of Fort Hood
I'm told a Ms. Natalie Khawam, an attorney representing the family, said, “we need a congressional investigation. That base has to be turned upside down, everything has to be looked at, every person has to be interviewed. We want to know why [the base] is so toxic,” after the soldier was sexually assaulted in April inside a supply room at the base where a superior grabbed his buttocks."
So it's GAY SEXUAL HARASSMENT situation, and why no worry regarding all the missing soldiers?
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"Letter carriers rally for postal service in Cambridge" by Gal Tziperman Lotan Globe Staff, August 23, 2020
CAMBRIDGE — Letter carrier Bob Tremarche, a 38-year veteran of the US Postal Service, said he’s recently found himself trying to reassure people on his route through East Cambridge.
They’ve been worried, he said. Will their mail-in ballots get to the city on time? Will their medication be delivered quickly?
And amid a national conversation about the postal service, Tremarche said he and other letter carriers have their own concerns about the funding and support of their agency. So on Sunday morning, a few dozen letter carriers, union officials, and supporters stood in front of the ornate Post Office building near Central Square in Cambridge to rally for postal workers.
“We thought we need our voices to be heard,” Tremarche said. “We appreciate all the protests and rallies that have gone on around the country, but most of us here are postal employees who are working here in Cambridge, and around the Boston area. We’re here to rally for the Postal Service, and for us.”
The union is notoriously pro-Biden, thus they are allowed to protest!
The US Postal Service, traditionally an apolitical institution, has been swept into a partisan fight since more Americans have considered voting by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The new postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, announced and then temporarily rescinded a series of cost-cutting measures, including banning overtime pay and allowing some mail to be held in USPS facilities overnight instead of delivered immediately. Some of the changes, like removing mail sorting machines and blue mailboxes, have triggered a national outcry.
“This is a hell of a way to repay 600,000 dedicated letter carriers and postal workers,” US Representative Ayanna Pressley said on the House floor Saturday.
Passersby on Massachusetts Avenue honked their car horns or rang their bicycle bells in support.
“The immediate problem is obviously the election,” said Gail O’Hare of Somerville, a retired archivist who came to the protest with a homemade “Save our post office” sign. “They have to count every vote. The long-term problem is the Republican effort to privatize mail for everyone in the country. I mean, they’re arguing that it’s a business — it’s a service. Are they investigating the Defense Department to see if their budget is balanced?”
No, that audit seemed to end the day whatever crashed into there did, and there are likely tens of trillions that have gone mi$$ing down that rathole now.
As for the results of the election and it being the immediate problem, NOPE!
The immediate problem is what they are ignoring or promoting, and that is the mass vaccination $cheme and Great Re$et that will bring total global tyranny.
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Meanwhile, this was at the bottom 2 inches of the page:
"Trump graffiti removed from South Boston street; Also, two Trump boat rallies on the water took place in New England this weekend" by Lucas Phillips Globe Correspondent August 23, 2020
Graffiti in South Boston promoting the campaign of President Trump was removed over the weekend, according to State Police.
The phrase “Trump 2020″ had been painted in large letters on the street in two locations on William J. Day Boulevard, according to spokesman David Procopio.
“The decision to paint over the graffiti was based solely on the illegality of the act, not the content or message of the graffiti,” he said in an e-mail Sunday.
I guess it is easier to lie in an e-mail!
Not political as they leave BLM and other murals up all over the place!
C'mon, copper, at least be straight with us!
Procopio said similar graffiti also had been found on East Broadway, which is maintained by the City of Boston, but Boston police did not have a record of it Sunday, a police spokeswoman said.
????? WTF ?????
Separately on Saturday, Trump supporters held a “boat parade,” traveling from Newburyport Harbor to Salisbury Beach, according to published reports and the Coast Guard.
An organizer said the event was designed to support the president, police officers, and military personnel, but also just to enjoy a day out during the pandemic. “It didn’t get tied to any one thing,” said James Hayes, 58, of Danvers.
“It was a beautiful summer afternoon and boating season,” said Hayes, who said nearly 400 boats participated. A spokeswoman for the Coast Guard, Petty Officer Briana Carter, said she could not confirm the number of participants.
The event was one of a number of flotillas organized around the country in the past several weeks supporting the president, who faces reelection in November. The Republican National Convention is scheduled to begin on Monday.
According to Carter, another such event took place in Narragansett Bay off Rhode Island on Sunday.....
Can you believe that was the first I've seen of such things in the Globe as they literally sunk the story!
What else are they telling us as voters sail to Trump's rescue?
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Related:
"A 63-day strike at Bath Iron Works — against the backdrop of a pandemic in an election year — came to an end Sunday with shipbuilders voting to return to their jobs producing warships for the United States Navy....."
Nothing can stop the U.S. war machine!
Nothing can stop the U.S. war machine!
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Ironically, two by sea is safer than one by land:
"Victim of horrific Natick crash still ‘fighting for her life'; No one has been arrested in connection with the hit-and-run" by Lucas Phillips Globe Correspondent, August 23, 2020
A Natick woman was still hospitalized Sunday, recovering from traumatic injuries after a truck allegedly hit her and her husband as they were out for an evening walk, then fled the scene, according to her family and authorities.
An awful tragedy, and it reinforces the stay-home lockdown, doesn't it?
“[Doctors] say she’s not out of the woods and is still fighting for her life,” said Tony Catlin, 58, of Natick, a cousin speaking Sunday on behalf of the family of Kimberly Gunner.
My sincerest wishes that she pulls through.
Gunner, 51, was walking on the sidewalk with her husband, 39-year-old Andrew Colbert, when the truck allegedly jumped the curb on Washington Avenue in the area of Summer Street at about 6:24 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Middlesex district attorney’s office.
The two were identified by family members. No charges had been filed in connection with the crash as of Sunday evening.
Colbert suffered broken ribs and collarbones, according to Gunner’s family, and was hospitalized but released that night, but Gunner’s family said her injuries were more severe, including multiple broken limbs, and said she has been under heavy sedation since the incident.
“Her body shattered almost like a glass bottle,” Catlin said in a brief phone interview Saturday afternoon. “It’s a miracle she’s still alive.”
Karen Miscia, 63, a nurse who lives near the crash site, said Sunday “it was the most devastating scene I’ve seen in my entire career.”
Gunner’s legs had been shattered and a piece of fence had gone through her chest, Miscia said in a phone interview. The couple had been hit so hard, Colbert’s wedding ring had been knocked off his finger and bone fragments were scattered in the yard, she said.
“You can’t get it out of your head,” Miscia said. “I haven’t been able to sleep.”
Another neighbor, Ann Lentell, 37, was outside having dinner when she heard a loud crash up the street, where she said a new sidewalk had recently been installed.
“We looked over to see what was going on and saw a blue pickup truck back up and then peel out,” she said. “Clearly they fled afterwards; that’s the horrible part about it,” she said.
On Wednesday, Natick Police Chief James Hicks said authorities have a person of interest in the case, who he urged to come forward. “You don’t drive down a roadway and strike two people and leave. That’s not what human beings do to each other,” he told TV crews outside the police station.
The district attorney’s office said Wednesday that police had located a “possible involved vehicle,” but said Sunday that there were no further developments in the case.
Wendy Catlin, 56, of Sudbury, another cousin of Gunner and Tony Catlin’s sister, said she was more focused on helping the couple recover than about the search for the driver. The family is devastated by the crash, she said.
“Don’t put energy into feeling vindictive about the driver; put energy into helping Kimberly and Andy fully recover,” she said. The fund-raiser she started to support them had raised more than $90,000 as of Sunday evening.
We all need support these days, and that's a strange reaction regarding the driver.
Catlin said the couple had married about a year ago, but had been together for at least five years and had recently gotten enough money together to buy a home in Natick.
“One of their favorite things to do is to go out walking together,” she said in a phone interview, noting the couple would often walk for miles.
“Most of all, they just love being together,” she said.
Colbert suffered less serious injuries in the crash, but he has been deeply traumatized by the event, she said. “He’s in a world of hurt and in emotional agony over what happened to his wife,” she said.
Perfectly natural reaction.
According to Tony Catlin, Colbert visited his wife at Tufts Medical Center for the first time on Friday. “He never thought he’d see his wife’s face again,” Catlin said.
At least three more surgeries are scheduled for the coming week to reconstruct her arms and legs, and she may need amputations, he said in a text Sunday.
Oooh!
“It’s a tragedy for everybody all around,” Wendy Catlin said. “It’s horrendous, but it’s also tragic for the person who was driving. Their life is never going to be the same, whether they come forward or not.”
I don't know the details, and they are technically right, but there is no sympathy here for a murderer.
The aftermath of the crash has also continued to reverberate in the neighborhood where it happened, where residents worry about speeding drivers on a cut-through street that provides access to walking trails and a playground.
“It’s a very common … sidewalk for kids and families to go for walks and access the playground,” said Lentell, one of the neighbors. “We were really shook about it: That could have been us.”
Miscia said with cars traveling down the road at high speed, she worries another devastating crash could take place by the playground.
“Something has got to be done because I can’t run that fast anymore over to the playground,” she said, grimly.
“Whoever saw this is going to be devastated for a while,” she said. “This woman almost lost her life. She’s going to be crippled for life. She’s got a long, long road to recovery if she’s even able to keep both her legs.”
Miscia and her neighbors are now left to wonder about the many what-ifs of the terrible crash and parse rumors about who was behind the wheel Tuesday evening.
“You ruined someone’s life — and for what reason?” she asked, thinking of the driver. “Careless driving? I don’t know.”
They are angry at the driver for ruining lives, but not at the tyrannical government and governor that has ruined so many with worse to come!
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"Two women were killed after a wrong-way driver crashed head-on into their vehicle on Route 27 in Brockton early Sunday morning, according to the Plymouth district attorney’s office. The two women were traveling in a a gray 2004 Hyundai Santa Fe in the northbound lane when they collided with a blue 2009 Volkswagen Jetta that was traveling southbound in the wrong direction on Route 27 near the overpass to Route 24 at about 3:08 a.m., the district attorney’s office said in a statement. A 31-year-old man driving a 2000 red Chevy Tahoe also collided with the Jetta after the initial crash. He was not injured and refused medical treatment at the scene. The 66-year-old driver of the Hundai Santa Fe was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where she died, the Plymouth district attorney’s office said. Her 39-year-old passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. The 30-year-old driver of the Jetta was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital and then transferred to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston with life-threatening injuries, the district attorney’s office said. No charges have been filed, Beth Stone, a spokeswoman for the Plymouth district attorney’s office, said in an e-mail. The crash is under investigation....."
Was he given a sobriety test and breathalyzer (even though those don't really work), because it sure looks like a drunk driving incident.
They did identify one victim:
Was he given a sobriety test and breathalyzer (even though those don't really work), because it sure looks like a drunk driving incident.
They did identify one victim:
"The victim of a fatal multi-vehicle Dorchester accident Saturday evening was identified as 39-year-old Ashley Rose Jimenez of Dennis, according to State Police. A preliminary investigation suggests that a Nissan Altima, driven by Jimenez, struck a traffic barrier attenuator on Interstate 93 near Exit 14, went out of control around 7:40 p.m. and hit a Brewster ambulance that was transporting a patient, Massachusetts State Police said in a statement. Three other vehicles were also involved in the crash after the initial collision, the statement said. Jimenez suffered severe injuries and was declared dead at the scene, the statement said. She was the only person in the Nissan, according to police. Two Brewster EMS medics, the patient they were transporting, and a man from one of the other involved vehicles were transported to Boston Medical Center with minor injuries, State Police said. Troopers found small open and closed bottles of alcohol inside the Nissan, the statement said. State Police had received reports of a vehicle matching the description of the Nissan Altima being driven erratically on Route 3 earlier Saturday, the statement said. The crash remains under investigation....."
How much more do you need?
The rest of the briefs, one at the top of the column, the other at the bottom:
How much more do you need?
The rest of the briefs, one at the top of the column, the other at the bottom:
"Thunderstorms with heavy rain and flooding tore through much of Massachusetts late Sunday afternoon and evening, leaving nearly 31,000 people temporarily without power and damaging several buildings in the eastern part of the state. Severe storm and flood warnings were issued for several areas in central and eastern Massachusetts throughout Sunday evening. Forecasters predicted late Sunday that the rain would dissipate overnight, ushering in muggy weather with low temperatures in the mid-60s. The severe storms damaged homes in parts of Middlesex and Essex counties. Somerville fire officials responded to a two-alarm fire on Munroe Street shortly after 5 p.m. A lightning strike that hit the roof ignited a fire in the ceiling of the home’s third floor, according to deputy chief Frank Lee. The building had no current occupants and no one was injured, he said. Fire officials from surrounding communities helped put out the fire, and the scene was clear by 7:20 p.m. Another small fire was reported on Gale Road in Belmont after lightning struck a building around 5:30 p.m. A dispatcher said early Sunday evening that the fire had been extinguished. About 31,000 people had lost power around 6:45 p.m., though that number dwindled to about 18,00 by 11 p.m., according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. Residents in Saugus also posted pictures and videos online of trees down in the middle of roads and appeared to be pea-sized hail....."
Given all that came before, why is that a page B5 brief?
Given all that came before, why is that a page B5 brief?
"President Trump will hold a rally in Manchester, N.H., on Friday night — a month after he canceled a planned rally in Portsmouth. Trump will speak at the PeriCohas Hangar near Manchester-Boston Regional Airport at 6 p.m., his campaign team said in a statement. “In accordance with State of New Hampshire Emergency Order 63, masks are required and will be provided to all attendees,” the statement said. The rally will take place a day after Trump speaks during the 2020 Republican National Convention. Trump was initially scheduled to hold a rally in Portsmouth, N.H., July 11. His campaign abruptly postponed the event the day before, citing concerns over Tropical Storm Fay....."
So not only did the Globe sink the flotilla, they also sunk his rally!
So not only did the Globe sink the flotilla, they also sunk his rally!
It would comfort the Globe (and Meredith) if Trump would disappear under the next hot pandemic purchase ... a heat lamp while the rooftop restaurants and patios are still safe to enjoy with passes to all cardholders.
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"TikTok plans to file a lawsuit against President Trump’s administration as soon as Monday over an executive order banning transactions with the Chinese app in the United States, the company has said. The move would come on the first day of the Republican National Convention, four days of celebrating a president who’s made “tough on China” a centerpiece of his reelection bid. TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance Ltd., said Saturday it would challenge the order banning transactions with the popular social media app. The company said it “strongly disagreed” with concerns raised by Trump. He subsequently gave it a 90-day deadline to divest its US operations. The skirmish is the latest between the Trump administration and China as November’s vote approaches and Trump makes his case for a second term."
I hope you kids didn't talk with your mouths full.
Speaking of talking:
I hope you kids didn't talk with your mouths full.
Speaking of talking:
"Leon Black, the billionaire chairman, CEO, and co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management, will be subpoenaed by the US Virgin Islands’ attorney general for information about his decades-long business ties with Jeffrey Epstein, the New York Times reported Sunday. The territory’s attorney general, Denise N. George, informed a local court on Thursday that she would issue civil subpoenas to Black and several entities connected to him. The subpoenas will seek financial statements and tax returns for a number of entities, including ones that manage some of Black’s $9 billion wealth. They will also go to Apollo and entities that help manage his art collection, the New York Times said. “Apollo never did any business with Mr. Epstein at any point in time,” according to a spokesperson for the New York-based private equity firm. After Epstein’s arrest last year, Black also assured investors in Apollo’s funds that his relationship with Epstein didn’t extend to the private equity company. He said that Epstein provided certain services to his family partnership and entities relating to tax, estate planning, and philanthropic advice. Epstein died in jail while facing sex-trafficking charges last August. His death was ruled a suicide."
Yeah, the Globe doesn't want to talk about it as they bury it in a brief way back in the bu$ine$$ $ection with a racy ad.
Here is another guy who knew him:
Yeah, the Globe doesn't want to talk about it as they bury it in a brief way back in the bu$ine$$ $ection with a racy ad.
Here is another guy who knew him:
"Microsoft Corp. is backing Epic Games Inc. in its fight with Apple Inc. Epic, a game developer, is set to ask a federal court on Monday to force Apple to restore the Fortnite app to the App Store, and block the iPhone maker from cutting off Epic’s developer tools and limiting its ability to provide key graphics technology to other apps. The graphics technology, known as Unreal Engine, is a suite of software used by millions of developers to build 3-D games and other products. Cutting off Epic from Apple’s iOS and Mac developer tools would mean the gaming company can no longer distribute Unreal Engine to other developers, Epic said in its legal filing. Microsoft, which makes the Xbox, uses the technology for games developed for consoles, PCs, and mobile devices. Apple has urged a judge in Oakland, Calif., to reject Epic’s request."
Isn't that the $ame $hit the ruthless Billy G pulled on the software creators to solidify his monopoly and fortune, and has he finally bitten of more than he can chew?
Time to close this all down:
"E-mails show businesses held sway over state reopening plans" by David A. Lieb Associated Press, August 23, 2020
Isn't that the $ame $hit the ruthless Billy G pulled on the software creators to solidify his monopoly and fortune, and has he finally bitten of more than he can chew?
Time to close this all down:
"E-mails show businesses held sway over state reopening plans" by David A. Lieb Associated Press, August 23, 2020
As South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster prepared to announce the end of a coronavirus stay-at-home order, his top staff received an e-mail from the state health department.
The message, highlighted in bold, was clear: Wait longer before allowing customers back inside restaurants, hair salons, and other businesses where people will be in close contact.
Instead, McMaster pressed ahead with a plan written by the state restaurant association to resume inside dining on May 11. The guidelines made masks optional for employees and allowed more customers inside than the health agency had advised.
A few days later, the Republican governor opened the doors to salons, fitness centers, and swimming pools. He did not wait to gauge the effect of the restaurant reopening on the virus, as public health officials had suggested. Like many states, South Carolina later experienced a surge in infections that forced McMaster to dial back his reopening plan.
If it was up the the health officials, we would be locked down forever.
If it was up the the health officials, we would be locked down forever.
He was hardly alone. Thousands of pages of e-mails provided to the Associated Press under open-records laws show that governors across the country were inundated with reopening advice from a wide range of industries — from campgrounds in New Hampshire to car washes in Washington. Some governors put economic interests ahead of public health guidance, and certain businesses were allowed to write the rules that would govern their own operations.
That's the way federal regulators have worked for years, but now it's a problem?
That's the way federal regulators have worked for years, but now it's a problem?
As job losses accelerated, the pressure to reopen intensified.
“Attraction folks are on me like white on rice,” McMaster’s tourism director wrote to the head of the governor’s reopening task force, describing lobbying from amusement parks, bingo halls and other entertainment venues.
OMG, he's a racist!
Rice is also brown!
OMG, he's a racist!
Rice is also brown!
Though governors often work with business leaders to craft policy, the e-mails offer a new window into their decisions during a critical early juncture in the nation’s battle against the pandemic. Many governors chose to reopen before their states met all the nationally recommended health guidelines, which include a sustained downward rate of infection and robust testing and contact tracing.
Those must have been the bad governors.
Those must have been the bad governors.
“The interest in trying to reopen and restart economic activity had a much greater pull at the time ... than did public health concerns or question marks about how it would go,” said Anita Cicero, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.
What a crock of shit coming out of the mouth of an agenda-pushing collaborator!
Many states were forced to halt or roll back their reopening plans as COVID-19 cases spiked across the country this summer, and the number of infections and deaths in the U.S. far outpaced those of any other country.
Many states were forced to halt or roll back their reopening plans as COVID-19 cases spiked across the country this summer, and the number of infections and deaths in the U.S. far outpaced those of any other country.
In early August, McMaster transformed his restaurant guidelines into requirements, including a mandate that all diners and employees wear masks. The governor’s spokesman, Brian Symmes, said “some restaurants weren’t doing what they needed to do.”
Would you like this one?
Would you like this one?
Symmes also defended the spring reopening, saying the governor ‘‘has a wider scope of responsibility and focus than our public health officials. It simply isn’t the government’s job to put its thumb on the scale by shuttering these small businesses for an undefined and indefinite period of time,” Symmes said.
Two weeks after North Dakota reopened, Republican Governor Doug Burgum received a report showing a single-day spike of 69 new COVID-19 cases in one county. Burgum fired off an e-mail to several of his top officials complaining that the outbreak — combined with lower-than-promised daily COVID-19 testing — was “driving our state numbers in the wrong direction. Our house is on fire,” Burgum wrote, accompanied by a fire emoji. “Need to drive a much greater sense of urgency and action.”
Your neighbor to the south never shut down and survived Sturgis.
Your neighbor to the south never shut down and survived Sturgis.
North Dakota was among at least 15 states that provided records to the AP at no cost. A few states wanted hundreds or thousands of dollars to supply copies of the communications that could reveal how governors were making decisions — and which voices influenced them the most.
Ma$$achu$etts has onerous charges and fees for such, but the Globe quit complaining.
Ma$$achu$etts has onerous charges and fees for such, but the Globe quit complaining.
Some states suspended or slowed responses to open-records requests because of the coronavirus. Three months after submitting its request, the AP is still awaiting records from many states, including California, Texas, and Florida, which have the greatest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases.
“In a pandemic, you need more transparency, more information — not less of either one of those,” said Dan Bevarly, executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition.
That flies in the face of the pre$$ narrative!
That flies in the face of the pre$$ narrative!
As she was putting the finishing touches on a reopening plan in May, Oregon Governor Kate Brown received a letter from a coalition of business groups pressing for more say in the process. Two hours later, the head of the state hospital association wrote urging the Democrat to mandate masks as “foundational to any business opening where people will be gathered, indoors or out.”
At first, Brown required masks only for employees of certain businesses, but she had to reverse course as COVID-19 cases rose over the summer. She became one of 34 governors to impose statewide mask mandates.
How is Portland these days?
Now for the tyrant next door:
How is Portland these days?
Now for the tyrant next door:
In Washington state, landscapers, dog walkers and car wash operators all had a role in the rules affecting their businesses, according to the e-mails provided by Democratic Governor Jay Inslee’s administration.
Lance Odermat, vice president of Brown Bear Car Wash in Seattle, said he was frustrated that car washes were not exempt from Inslee’s order shutting down many businesses in March, but Odermat continued to plead his case. He was included in a car-wash reopening group and sent the administration the company’s internal plan for reopening with coronavirus precautions. When the governor released his reopening strategy, ‘‘it seemed like a lot of those guidelines were taken directly from our operating plan,” Odermat said.
In North Carolina, the head of a restaurant association sent a copy of the group’s reopening plan to Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s chief of staff on April 24 and warned in a letter the following week that the outlook for restaurants “becomes more dire’’ with each passing day. She also served on a state task force that helped shape the guidelines Cooper eventually issued, which allowed in-person dining to resume with up to 50 percent of fire-code capacity and tables spaced at least 6 feet apart.
The tensions between economic and health interests were evident in New Hampshire in a decision allowing campgrounds to open with restricted capacities.
Margaret Byrnes, executive director of the New Hampshire Municipal Association, urged Republican Governor Chris Sununu’s administration to keep campgrounds closed because of concerns they could attract visitors from areas with higher coronavirus caseloads. She also wanted cities to have a greater voice on the governor’s reopening task force.
“There was a lot of business and industry representation, which is really important in the reopening process, but it needed to be balanced with some local municipal representation,” Byrnes said.
Sununu’s policy director, D.J. Bettencourt, said municipalities were represented on the task force through lawmakers who doubled as local officials. He said opening campgrounds on May 1 was “an essential aspect of ensuring housing” for some health care workers and guarding against homelessness.
I hear it's a great place but I have my doubts about the governor.
I hear it's a great place but I have my doubts about the governor.
Back in South Carolina, the director of the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism said in an April 27 e-mail that he had asked the restaurant association to ‘‘create a plan for the ‘new dining room’’’ guidelines. The association proposed to resume indoor dining May 11, according to the e-mail.
On May 1, the health department chief of staff e-mailed the governor’s top staff saying the agency recommended waiting until May 18 to resume indoor dining. The agency also recommended a 25 percent capacity limit for restaurants, with no more than six people per table and mandatory masks for employees, but the governor’s final plan, announced a week later, stuck with the May 11 start date, a 50 percent capacity guideline and up to eight people per table. There were no mandates, and the entire policy was only a suggestion.
That's all they are in every state!
That's all they are in every state!
How closely did McMaster’s restaurant guidelines mirror the industry’s plan?
“Oh, it was exactly,’’ said Douglas OFlaherty, vice president of the restaurant organization. ‘‘He basically said, ‘What the South Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association’s recommendations are, you should follow.’”
They agreed too slowly starve themselves to death.
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If we have lost South Carolina, we have lost the country.
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If we have lost South Carolina, we have lost the country.
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Oddly enough, I took a peak at the $port$ $ection and what did I find:
"Several NFL teams interrupted their practice schedules Sunday while the league said it was investigating positive test results for the novel coronavirus processed by a New Jersey lab, BioReference. The Chicago Bears announced they had nine “false positives” in their testing results and postponed a training camp practice scheduled for Sunday morning. The Buffalo Bills said they delayed their practice by an hour. The Cleveland Browns delayed football activities until Sunday afternoon. The New York Jets, Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers also said they had positive tests. ”Saturday’s daily COVID testing returned several [positive] tests from each of the clubs serviced by the same laboratory in New Jersey,” the NFL said in a written statement. “We are working with our testing partner, BioReference, to investigate these results, while the clubs work to confirm or rule out the positive tests. Clubs are taking immediate precautionary measures as outlined in the NFL-NFLPA’s health and safety protocols to include contact tracing, isolation of individuals and temporarily adjusting the schedule, where appropriate. The other laboratories used for NFL testing have not had similar results.” NFL players, coaches and certain team staff members are being tested daily through at least Sept. 5, under the testing program implemented by the league and the NFL Players Association. The league’s testing is handled by a single company, BioReference Laboratories."
Say what?
FALSE POSITIVES?
Finally some movement off the ball regarding the COVID fraud?
Think of the false results as a home room, 'er, home field advantage due to the onerous restrictions on the road.
FALSE POSITIVES?
Finally some movement off the ball regarding the COVID fraud?
Think of the false results as a home room, 'er, home field advantage due to the onerous restrictions on the road.
