Wednesday, March 24, 2021

This Post Will Leave Your Ears Ringing

It's not the bells at the middle school or the called signals from the football field, nor is it the recent fuselage of gunfire or the police $irens that came after and could never happen here.

Nor is it the silence of the jury box as the Globe seats you to a silence that is deafening when it comes to vote fraud and whose impeachment investigation could take months, not a week, making the ringing even louder.

"The suicide of Kent Taylor, the founder and chief executive of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain, has drawn attention to a possible link between Covid-19 and tinnitus, the medical term for a constant ringing in the ears. Taylor suffered from a variety of symptoms following his illness, including severe tinnitus, his family said in a statement, adding that his suffering had become “unbearable.” Whether tinnitus is linked to Covid-19 — and if so, how often it occurs — is an unanswered question. Neither the World Health Organization nor the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes tinnitus as a symptom, although auditory problems are common in other viral infections, but tinnitus is on the list of symptoms of long Covid published by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, along with fatigue, shortness of breath, dizziness and more, and a few recent case reports and studies have hinted at a potential link. A study published on Monday in the Journal of International Audiology that looked at nearly 60 case reports and studies found that 15 percent of adults with Covid-19 reported symptoms of tinnitus. The authors believe that the respondents were describing either a new condition or a worsening one, though they are following up with the 60 or so researchers to be certain about how the surveys were worded....."

That's when my print stopped ringing, thank God!

Every condition is now CVD-related, and it is enough to make you vomit.

Like this:


Rebecca Robbins, Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland of the New York Times say the letter by US officials is an extraordinary blow to the credibility of a company whose product has been seen as critical to the global fight against the pandemic after they "cherry-picked favorable data" and we are now ready to invade Iraq at a time and place of our choosing.

That's the reward for lying, and doesn't the bribe bother you?

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Here is a guy who knows all about bribes:

"Uncertainty hovered over the outcome of Israel’s parliamentary election Wednesday, with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sworn political rivals determined to depose him apparently lacking a clear path to a governing coalition. A fifth election also remains an option if neither camp can form a coalition, and in that case, Netanyahu would remain a caretaker prime minister heading for a corruption trial and a confrontation with U.S. President Joe Biden over Iran, but even then, much could still change under Israel’s whipsaw politics. The initial results showed the country as deeply divided as ever, with an array of small sectarian parties dominating the parliament. The results also signaled a continuing shift of the Israeli electorate toward the right wing, which supports West Bank settlements and opposes concessions in peace talks with the Palestinians....."

I'm sure some protest:

"As Europe’s lockdowns drag on, police and protesters clash more; From Spain and Denmark to Austria and Romania, frustrated people are lashing out at the restrictions on their daily lives" by Mark Landler and Stephen Castle New York Times, March 23, 2021

LONDON — A year after European leaders ordered people into their homes to curb a deadly pandemic, thousands are pouring into streets and squares. Often, they are met by batons and shields, raising questions about the tactics and role of police in societies where personal liberties have already given way to public health concerns.

From Spain and Denmark to Austria and Romania, frustrated people are lashing out at the restrictions on their daily lives. With much of Europe facing a third wave of coronavirus infections that could keep these stifling lockdowns in place weeks or even months longer, analysts warn that tensions on the streets are likely to escalate.

Or FOREVER EVEN, if the canary in the coal mine is correct!

In Britain, where the rapid pace of vaccinations has raised hopes for a faster opening of the economy than the government is willing to countenance, frustration over recent police conduct has swelled into a national debate over the legitimacy of the police — one that carries distant echoes of the US Black Lives Matter movement.

Then why are alleged case levels surging in those places?

“What we’re seeing is a growing level of discontent among members of our society who see a fundamental illegitimacy in law enforcement under the pandemic,” said Clifford Stott, a professor of social psychology at Keele University and a specialist in crowd behavior, “and it has created strange bedfellows.”

Right-wing politicians who bridle at lockdown restrictions are as angry as the left-wing climate protesters who regularly clog Trafalgar Square in London as part of the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations. The traffic snarls from those protests were one of the reasons authorities pushed for greater powers to restrict such gatherings.

Un-flipping-real when they encouraged you to go out there for Floyd, etc, for the greater good.

Adding to the sense of outrage is the case of Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old woman who was abducted and killed, allegedly by a police officer, while walking home in London. The Metropolitan Police then roughly broke up a vigil for Everard on the grounds that the participants were violating coronavirus rules on social distancing.

It's like that seen in V, except she was rescued.

In Bristol, the trigger for the clashes was sweeping new legislation that would empower police to sharply restrict demonstrations. A peaceful “Kill the Bill” rally on the city’s College Green turned violent when some of the demonstrators marched to a nearby police station and began hurling fireworks and projectiles at police officers.

The mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, harshly criticized the violence, blaming much of it on outsider agitators who he said seized on a peaceful demonstration as an excuse to pick a fight with the establishment, but Rees, a Labour Party politician, also staunchly opposes the legislation. He said it was rushed and ill-considered — a cynical bid by a Conservative-led government to “rally their base behind law and order” during a pandemic.

An earlier version of the government’s coronavirus regulations contained a provision that allowed nonviolent protests, but that was removed from a later version, leaving the right to peaceful assembly in a kind of legal limbo. Under the latest draft of the rules, issued Monday, protests would be allowed under limited circumstances, starting next Monday.

And they called that freedom as Orwell twirls at Warp Speed.

These emergency laws were rushed through Parliament without the scrutiny normally applied to legislation. Lacking a written constitution, Britons who want to take to the streets have had to rely on the less clear-cut protection of a human rights act.

“This pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of our unwritten constitution when it comes to certain rights,” said Adam Wagner, a human rights lawyer and expert on the coronavirus rules. “If you take representative democracy from the process of lawmaking, you miss out on key voices.”

By contrast, the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany last year upheld the right of its citizens to protest, provided that they adhere to social distancing rules, but even in Germany, which on Tuesday imposed a strict new lockdown over the Easter holiday amid a surge of cases, the rules of engagement can be murky.

Based on a faulty test process that doesn't detect infectiousness, and not even the Bog H cancelled Easter.

In the city of Kassel, police were criticized for allowing thousands of anti-lockdown demonstrators to gather, unmasked and packed closely together, on public squares. Only later, when some of the protesters attacked officers, did the police move against the crowd, using pepper spray, billy clubs, and water cannons.

That is a lot different than Miami Beach, where police provoked people.

Outrage surged after images emerged of an officer making a heart-shaped symbol at a protester carrying a banner opposing restrictions, while another officer smashed a woman’s head into her bicycle frame as he battled counterprotesters trying to block the rally. The episode raised questions about whom the police were trying to protect.....

Themselves of course, as evidenced by the Dutch thugs pushing a woman into a speeding police wagon that hits the brakes (h/t Max Igan) as goon police states are erected all across the world at the behests of globalists. Control your population by any means necessary and let us shoot 'em up with vaxxeens. as Kassel’s mayor tried unsuccessfully to ban the demonstration on the grounds that it would be a superspreader event.


Expect the coming conflagration to be great:


In the wake of the murder of the magnificent Magufuli, who was quickly buried by the pre$$, and now his opponent has been declared the winner?

Something stinks, but don't write about it:

"A popular Polish writer is facing a potential sentence of up to three years in prison for calling the nation’s president a “moron” on social media. Jakub Zulczyk had criticized the manner in which Polish President Andrzej Duda — a close ally of former President Donald Trump — had reacted to the electoral victory of President Joe Biden last year. Zulczyk said he believed that he is probably “the first writer in this country in a long time to be tried for what they wrote.” Zulczyk is best known for writing a novel that was turned into the HBO crime series “Blinded by the Lights.”

That's it?

He's just a dumb Polack, and I CAN SAY THAT upon further reflection on an island exile.

Here are some messages in bottles that were somehow lost at sea:


One batch had defective bottle lids, and whatever it takes to cancel the kill shots.


Well, that's what the White House says so take it with a grain of salt that they rubbed in the wound. 

Why would they fight to save a broken system, huh?

Because the land is all they have and it is rapidly disappearing as military invasion laps upon their shores?

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It's enough to make one scream, but that wouldn't put out the fire and who gives a hoot anyway when someone is knocking at the door?


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Does that mean the game has been cancelled?

"Fans will soon be filing into TD Garden and Fenway Park by the thousands, now that the Baker administration has started the fourth phase of the state’s economic reopening, but the cavernous Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in South Boston will remain quiet for now, and the throngs at the Hynes Convention Center this spring will be there for COVID-19 vaccinations, not trade shows. The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority is still awaiting its COVID comeback. A year ago, the pandemic wiped events of all shapes and sizes off the quasi-public authority’s calendar. Now, the MCCA is trying to put the pieces back together. The pandemic also prompted it to pause an ambitious plan to redevelop the Hynes and use the proceeds to expand the BCEC, although convention center chief David Gibbons hasn’t given up on it. The calendar from 2022 onward remains strong....."

Not so fast, and that means the CVD $CAMDEMIC is to LAST ANOTHER YEAR AT LEAST, 'eh?

Hope you can hang on until then as the “future of the operating room is digital” and they Zoom through your surgery!

"Fed chair, treasury secretary’s message to Congress: Recovery has a long way to go" by Rachel Siegel Washington Post, March 23, 2021

WASHINGTON — A year into the coronavirus pandemic, after the loss of millions of jobs and the closure of thousands of small businesses, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department have a message for Congress: It could have been worse, and there’s still a long way to go.

Testifying before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told lawmakers that the economy is slated for booming growth this year, but their sunny forecast was paired with reminders that at least 9.5 million jobs are still missing from the labor force and that fully healing the economy depends on getting the pandemic under control.

Still, there are plenty of challenges to getting the elements of the sprawling stimulus law out the door, along with many unresolved questions about how hundreds of billions of dollars allocated by the American Rescue Plan will actually be dispersed. On Tuesday, a number of lawmakers pushed for more regular oversight of the $1.9 trillion bill, noting mechanisms put in place after Congress passed the Cares Act last spring.

Biden said he was going to be all over it to make sure it went where it was supposed to, but who really CARES?

Yellen agreed to work with the committee and other oversight groups, and laid out some of the challenges to implementing Biden’s bill. Yellen said earlier rounds of the Paycheck Protection Program often didn’t reach the country’s smallest businesses, especially those in rural and low-income areas. Rental assistance was frequently tied up in red tape. Many Americans still haven’t received their stimulus checks, ’'and all this is just a fraction of Treasury’s work,’' Yellen told the committee. ’'There are so many more relief programs, including one that will provide $350 billion in aid to state and local governments. Implementing all of it is more complicated than it sounds.’'

Are you $eeing this poor excu$e for looting from that $ad $ack of $hit?

Lawdy, someone ring the church bells!

Meanwhile, many Republican lawmakers, Wall Street investors, and prominent economists are worried that the economy won’t be able to absorb a massive stimulus package and postpandemic consumer spending, pushing prices rapidly upward. Their worry is that dangerous cycles of inflation will force the Fed to hike interest rates, triggering a new recession.

’'Economic projections are increasingly positive,’' said Representative Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, but ’'with the addition of $1.9 trillion, there’s been a great deal of debate about what will happen with this amount of liquidity in financial markets,’' but the Fed and White House argue that inflation is not a pressing concern. Powell says that there would have to be substantial progress in the labor market before the Fed considers raising rates. Any price increases resulting from the economy reopening and people spending big on vacations or concert tickets will be temporary, he has said.

What world is he living in?

’'We’ve been living in a world of strong disinflationary pressures around the world really for a quarter of a century. We don’t think a one-time surge in spending leading to temporary price increase would disrupt that,’' Powell said Tuesday. 

Oh, that world.

Lawmakers pressed Powell and Yellen on a range of other issues, from the regulators’ research on digital currencies to banking regulations. Of particular focus was climate policy, which the Biden White House has made core to its agenda. The Fed increasingly points to climate risk as a threat to the financial system and financial stability.

As Powell and Yellen testified on Tuesday, Fed governor Lael Brainard said that the central bank is launching a Financial Stability Climate Committee, which will work closely with another Fed team focused on banks’ resilience to climate change.

They $eem to be re$ilient to ju$t about everything while always making a few billion dollars per quarter!

Republicans in Congress have warned the Fed against delving too deeply into climate issues. They argue that climate policy is part of progressives political agenda and not the purview of the central bank.

Their warning no longer carries any weight seeing as they are an impotent minority.

Yellen and Powell will appear before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday.....


Time to PLAY BALL!

"The City of Boston reversed course Tuesday morning and decided to allow Fenway Park street vendors to sell food from their pushcarts as of Opening Day, April 1. The vendors were devastated last Friday when they received a two-sentence e-mail from the permitting office of the Boston Public Works Department, informing them they couldn’t reopen until at least June due to “COVID concerns.” The vendors quickly sought legal action....."

Oh, and here I thought it was my barking about the $au$age $ubs with peppers and onions.

Can take in a show after the game:


Time to leave and pass over the rest of the act and head back to the ranch until tomorrow.

I wonder if Baylor got the shot like Hagler and Aaron.