That's when the government vaccinators or BLM mob will show up at your door, and no news will be getting out anywhere save for government propaganda.
This is pure Soviet textbook, folks, only this time it is on a global scale from the likes of the Davo$ crowd. I know I took my last gasp but I found this to be critically important as it was where I left off yesterday and as so often is the case, it was the last article I came across in the Globe:
"US takes steps to protect electric system from cyberattacks" by Eric Tucker Associated Press, April 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is taking steps to protect the country’s electricity system from cyberattacks through a new 100-day initiative combining federal government agencies and private industry.
The initiative, announced Tuesday by the Energy Department, includes concrete milestones for them to put technologies into use so they can spot and respond to intrusions in real time. The department is also soliciting recommendations from electric utilities, energy companies, government agencies, and others for how to safeguard the energy system supply chain.
The effort, which also involves the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, underscores the heightened concern about the prospects for cyberattacks that disrupt the power supply. Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, said in an interview this month that the administration was undertaking a new effort to help electric utilities, water districts, and other critical industries protect against potentially damaging cyberattacks.
Well, the WEF is due to hold a tabletop exercise this summer (just like Event 201 in October 2019), so expect the power outages to occur at the onset of the fall and into the winter -- unless the more important need to shut down the internet interferes.
A Government Accountability Office report last month found that the US grid’s distribution systems, which transport electricity from transmission systems to consumers, are increasingly at risk. It said hackers can use multiple techniques to gain access, including compromising the supply chain by manipulating software or hardware or exploiting virtual private network connections.
I'm starting to twitch.
The report recommended that the Energy Department, the primary federal agency for the energy sector, do more to address those risks.
Perhaps the most notable cyberattack on an electric supply in recent years was attributed to Russia and knocked parts of Ukraine’s power grid offline in 2015 and 2016. The Justice Department last October charged six Russian hackers, all suspected military intelligence officers, in connection with that attack and a spate of others.
The United States, meanwhile, “faces a well-documented and increasing cyber threat from malicious actors seeking to disrupt the electricity Americans rely on to power our homes and businesses,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement announcing the new effort.....
It's called pre-programming the agenda, and we have been warned.
What happened in Haverhill was just a harbinger, and power supplies may have to be rerouted through Maine.
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We also have a 21st-century Uncle Joe (along with the local commissar, who is as evil as they come):
"Biden aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by 2030" by Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin The Washington Post, April 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Biden this week will pledge to slash US greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by the end of the decade, according to two individuals briefed on the plan, as part of an aggressive push to combat climate change at home and persuade other major economies to follow suit.
The move comes as Biden convenes a virtual summit of more than three dozen world leaders on Thursday, aimed at ratcheting up international climate ambitions and reestablishing the United States as a leader in the effort to slow the planet's warming.
The planned US pledge represents a near-doubling of the target that the nation committed to under the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The administration probably will offer broad strokes rather than a detailed breakdown of how it will meet the more ambitious target, according to the individuals briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the plan had not been formally announced. Officials are considering a target range, they added, which could go above 50 percent at the higher end.
Still, the new pledge will offer the latest glimpse at the profound changes that Biden wants to set in motion, from decarbonizing the country's energy sector to phasing out gas-powered vehicles. Administration officials have made clear that they see the effort not only as a climate pursuit but as a massive investment in a new generation of jobs nationwide.
"We're going to do it in a way that's very deliberate," White House domestic climate adviser Gina McCarthy told reporters Monday in a call organized by the World Resources Institute. The administration wants to transition to a cleaner economy with well-paying occupations in communities that have been hardest hit by unemployment and underinvestment, she said. "It's intended to meet the moment we are in."
That moment is UN Agenda 2030, the New World Order, the Great Re$et, whatever. The devil goes by many names.
The forthcoming pledge also is meant to serve as a marker for the kind of scope and urgency the Biden administration wants other countries to embrace ahead of a critical United Nations climate gathering this fall in Scotland.
Some nations, including in the European Union, have locked in more aggressive emissions-cutting targets, and the United Kingdom on Tuesday announced a commitment to reducing its emissions by 78 percent by 2035 on the way toward reaching net zero by 2050, but other major emitters, including China, India, and Russia, have yet to spell out how they intend to help put the world on a more sustainable trajectory.
China, the largest greenhouse gas polluter, has said it plans to effectively erase its carbon footprint by 2060, though details remain unclear. Still, despite myriad diplomatic tensions between the two countries, the United States and China vowed Saturday to jointly combat climate change “with the seriousness and urgency that it demands.”
The world remains nowhere near meeting the central Paris aim of limiting Earth’s warming.
“We are on the verge of the abyss,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said Monday, as a new World Meteorological Organization report detailed the intensification of extreme weather events and underscored that 2020 was one of the hottest years recorded. “We are way off track,” Guterres said. “This must be the year for action — the make-it-or-break-it year.”
Then f**king jump, you genocidal $cum.
I must admit, this carries with it the whiff of desperation.
Their plans are falling apart on all levels!
The Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency are laying the groundwork to curb methane emissions from oil and natural gas drilling, in part by reviving Obama administration standards reversed under Trump, and the EPA is moving ahead to phase down the production and importing of hydrofluorocarbons, which are widely used as refrigerants and in air conditioning, by 85 percent over the next 15 years, as mandated by Congress.
Passage of Biden’s infrastructure plan, which includes generous federal support for climate priorities like electric vehicles, renewable projects and energy efficiency upgrades, could play a key role in helping the country meet its new climate pledge, but it remains unclear whether Congress will adopt the infrastructure proposal in its current form or scale it back.
To reach the 50 percent target, the administration will have to make difficult-to-guarantee assumptions about the future. For instance, that new regulations aimed at curbing emissions will not be reversed by a future administration or the courts, even though Trump furiously dismantled key Obama-era climate policies.
While allies are likely to embrace Biden’s push to aggressively cut emissions, some Republicans have insisted the far-reaching changes needed to cut greenhouse gas pollution so fast could harm an already struggling economy, particularly in communities that still depend on the fossil fuel industry.
Even as the White House manages that political balancing act at home, Biden’s new pledge is meant to serve as a tool to cajole other major economies that have yet to detail their updated plans. While the United States remains the world’s second-largest emitter, about 85 percent of emissions now come from other countries.
Persuading other nations to bolster the promises they made in Paris remains critical if the world is to meet its collective goal of slowing Earth’s warming. The targets set by countries such as China, India, Russia, and Brazil could affect whether the world can reach the goals set almost six years ago.....
That's making the assumption that the world is warming, when the real science says otherwise.
Related:
"An early Earth Day tweet from Logan International Airport recommending that people use its parking garage didn’t land quite as expected on Monday, leading officials to delete the message after a barrage of criticism from transportation advocates and local environmental groups. “For those traveling, parking at the airport brings you close to your terminal and reduces the impact on the environment,” read the tweet, which was taken down a few hours after it was posted. It included the hashtag “Earth Day,” which falls on Thursday. Followers of the airport’s account — and many others — were quick to point out that promoting driving to Logan seemed contrary to the essence of Earth Day, a decades-old movement for protecting the environment in ways big and small....."
They are outages about a tweet and not the big jump (or spike as it were) in passengers and flights spewing the allegedly fatal greenhouse gases, and never mind about the oil slick or two underground structures at the decommissioned Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state that have been stabilized after they were deemed at risk of collapsing and spreading radioactive contamination into the air.
At least you can take a nap on the plane:
"Could getting too little sleep increase your chances of developing dementia? For years, researchers have pondered this and other questions about how sleep relates to cognitive decline. Answers have been elusive because it is hard to know if insufficient sleep is a symptom of the brain changes that underlie dementia — or if it can actually help cause those changes. Now, a large new study reports some of the most persuasive findings yet to suggest that people who don’t get enough sleep in their 50s and 60s may be more likely to develop dementia when they are older. The research, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, has limitations but also several strengths....."
It isn't the poisons in the air, water, and soil, the chemicals in food, the GMO products, or the gene therapy masquerading as a vaccine, it's you not getting enough sleep!
They must be demented if they think we will believe such rubbish!
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Of course, the Globe's top story today was Derek Chauvin being found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.
They are celebrating the tragedy and calling Floyd a martyr for social change (must be tough being a Black journalist in New England) while saying the jury said George Floyd’s life mattered -- while Pelosi sickeningly called Floyd a sacrificial lamb for their evil goals when he was anything but with all due respect.
Biden said they came to the "right" decision, and at least the family is able to exhale after Trump didn't pursue the case. The Globe gives you a timeline and explanation of the charges against Chauvin while heaping praise on 17-year-old Darnella Frazier, who recorded on her cellphone Floyd gasping for air as former police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into the man’s neck, and "changed the world" after uploaded the footage on Facebook.
It's a small step toward accountability, but it was not sufficient to achieve justice in America and the cops got even for the conviction in Columbus, where a police officer fatally shot a teenage girl swinging knife, and the only way to get justice, activists say, is with a federal probe and we all know what is the end goal.
The Globe then takes the covers off when I flip below the fold, and buries the reaction in the back of the B-section.
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Time for a boycott:
"Georgia faith leaders urge boycott of Home Depot over voting law" by Nick Corasaniti New York Times, April 20, 2021
A major coalition of Black faith leaders in Georgia, representing more than 1,000 churches in the state, called Tuesday for a boycott of Home Depot, arguing that the company has abdicated its responsibility as a good corporate citizen by not pushing back on the state’s new voting law.
While boycotts can be challenging to carry out in ways that put meaningful financial pressure on large corporations, the call nonetheless represents a new phase in the battle over voting rights in Georgia, where many Democrats and civil rights groups have been reluctant to support boycotts, viewing them as risking unfair collateral damage for the companies’ workers, but the coalition of faith leaders pointed to the use of boycotts in the civil rights movement, when Black voters’ rights were also threatened, and said their call to action was meant as a “warning shot” for other state legislatures.
“This is not just a Georgia issue; we’re talking about democracy in America that is under threat,” said the Rev. Timothy McDonald III, pastor of the First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta. “We’ve got to use whatever leverage and power, spiritual fortitude that we have, including our dollars, to help people to understand that this is a national campaign.”
If you don't vote the right way!
Home Depot’s headquarters are in Georgia, and it is one of the largest employers in the state, but while other major Georgia corporations like Coca-Cola and Delta have spoken out against the state’s new voting law, Home Depot has not, offering only a statement this month that “the most appropriate approach for us to take is to continue to underscore our belief that all elections should be accessible, fair and secure.”
While not publicly wading into the fray, one of the company’s founders, Arthur Blank, said in a call with other business executives this month that he supported voting rights. Another founder, Ken Langone, is a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump.
Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, who oversees all 534 African Methodist Episcopal churches in Georgia and is leading the call for a boycott, said that the faith leaders were calling for four specific actions from Home Depot: speaking out against the Georgia voting law, publicly opposing similar bills in other states, offering support for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act in Congress, and backing litigation against the Georgia law.
Not all voting rights groups are on board with a boycott.
“I can’t fully support a boycott within Georgia,” said Aunna Dennis, executive director of the Georgia chapter of Common Cause. “The boycott hurts the working-class person, but corporations do need to be held accountable on where they put their dollars.”
Faith leaders acknowledged concerns from state leaders, both Democratic and Republican, about the impact of boycotts, but felt the stakes were high enough.
“It is unfortunate for those who will be impacted by this, but how many more million will be impacted if they don’t have the right to vote?” said Jamal H. Bryant, senior pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., “and so in weighing it out, we understand, tongue in cheek, that this is a necessary evil,” Bryant said, “but it has to happen in order for the good to happen.”
The only thing you can't boycott is Israel; everything else is fair game, and Blacks should be ashamed of themselves after what happened in South Africa!
If only we could all get along, and literally right below them in location:
"Florida voting restrictions bill heads to Legislature" by Nick Corasaniti New York Times, April 20, 2021
He must have hoped over the state line.
A bill that would impose a host of new restrictions on voting in Florida passed a key committee in the state Senate on Tuesday after a fiery debate among senators and hours of citizen testimony opposing the measure. The vote set the stage for a possible full floor vote in the Republican-controlled chamber in the coming weeks.
The bill, known as S.B. 90, had significantly been revised last week by Dennis Baxley, the Republican state senator who introduced it, to roll back some of the more strident restrictions in the original bill, like banning drop boxes. It passed the Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday along a mostly party-line vote, with one Republican member of the committee, Jeff Brandes, voting against it.
The measure also bars outside groups from giving water to voters within 150 feet of a voting location; adds more identification requirements for absentee ballots; requires voters to request an absentee ballot every election rather than be on an absentee voting list; limits who can collect and drop off ballots; and empowers partisan observers during the ballot tabulating process.
Florida, a major political battleground, is one of a number of Republican-controlled states, including Georgia, Texas, and Arizona, that have marched forward with new bills seeking to limit access to voting. Republicans did well in Florida in 2020, with former President Donald Trump winning by more than 370,000 votes.
Baxley, in introducing the bill, said that Florida’s election last year was the “gold standard” for the country, but that the new voting law was necessary to avoid potential problems, but the successful election in Florida was the reason that Democrats, as well as at least one Republican, pushed back on a lot of the provisions in the law. The newly amended bill that was passed limits the availability of drop boxes to early voting hours, rather than the 24-hour option that existed last year.
Democratic senators, including Randolph Bracy, noted that there had been no evidence of any tampering with drop boxes, which was later confirmed in testimony by local election officials.....
That's when I dropped it.
I was also told the lengthy debate last Wednesday grew heated at times as Democrats grew frustrated, and that's how they roll when they can't win an argument and don't get their way.
That's why they are now pushing for statehood for D.C., something that the Wa$hington Compo$t is promoting despite the fact that it is clearly unconstitutional.
Related:
"A dozen megadonors and their spouses contributed a combined $3.4 billion to federal candidates and political groups since 2009, accounting for nearly one out of every 13 dollars raised, according to a new report. The report, produced by Issue One, a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce the influence of money in politics, shows the top 12 donors split equally between six Democrats and six Republicans. The list includes multiple Wall Street billionaires and investors, a Facebook co-founder, a shipping magnate and the heir to a family fortune dating back to the Gilded Age. The study quantifies the intensifying concentration and increasing role of the super rich in American politics following the loosening of restrictions on political spending by the U.S. Supreme Court more than a decade ago. “This is a stark illustration of our broken campaign finance system,” said Nick Penniman, the founder and chief executive of Issue One. “Today, a handful of megadonors wield outsized influence in our politics.” The growing influence of multimillion-dollar megadonors has been accompanied by another, competing trend: a surge of small online donations to politicians of both parties. Those contributions — in $5, $10 and $25 increments — have given Democrats and Republicans an alternate source of money beyond the super rich. Still, the study found that the top 100 ZIP codes for political giving in the United States, which hold less than 1 percent of the total population, accounted for roughly 20 percent of the $45 billion that federal candidates and political groups raised between January 2009 and December 2020. The study used data from the Center for Responsive Politics, which compiles figures from the Federal Election Commission. Some of the top ZIP codes for giving weren’t even populated by any people at all; instead, they were primarily associated with skyscrapers and post office boxes that were used as business addresses by the wealthy. The single biggest spender on federal campaigns from 2009 to 2020 was Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, who spent $1.4 billion. Of that, $1 billion went toward his own failed campaign for president in 2020 and $314 million went to other federal candidates, super PACs and political groups....."
That's interesting because his new$ $ervice has called BlackRock the “fourth branch of government”, because it’s the only private agency that closely works with the central banks. BlackRock lends money to the central bank but it’s also the advisor. It also develops the software the central bank uses. Many BlackRock employees were in the White House with Bush and Obama. Its CEO. Larry Fink can count on a warm welcome from leaders and politicians. Not so strange, if you know that he is the front man of the ruling company but Larry Fink does not pull the strings himself. BlackRock, itself is also owned by shareholders. Who are those shareholders? We come to a strange conclusion. The biggest shareholder is Vanguard. But now he gets murky. Vanguard is a private company and we cannot see who the shareholders are. The elite who own Vanguard apparently do not like being in the spotlight but of course they cannot hide from who is willing to dig -- this instance a Mr. Bill Sardi over at Lew Rockwell.
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"George W. Bush says the Republican Party he served as president has become “isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist” and says he’s especially concerned about anti-immigration rhetoric. “It’s a beautiful country we have and yet it’s not beautiful when we condemn, call people names and scare people about immigration,” Bush told NBC’s “Today” show on Tuesday. Bush, who was in New York to preside over a naturalization ceremony, said his new book, “Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants,” aims to ”elevate the discourse.”
What the former president did not mention was approving torture as he was interviewed by his daughter!
My first thought was WHY is that WAR CRIMINAL EXCREMENT still walking around free, and regarding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, he says he’s “deeply concerned about the plight of women and girls in that country” while -- get this -- saying he became “ill” after the January 6 MAGA riots at the Capitol and said he still had problems with the amount of false information.
This from a guy who LIED ABOUT WMD, yellowcake uranium, and implied Iraqi connections to 9/11 before launching a mass-murdering, war-criminal invasion and occupation over false pretenses -- and NOT a PEEP from the Globe about it (btw, the country is turning Republican in droves).
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Oddly enough, today's Globe would section led with a hanging Chad:
"President of Chad is killed as soldiers clash with rebels" by Mahamat Adamou and Ruth Maclean New York Times, April 20, 2021
NDJAMENA, Chad — President Idriss Déby of Chad died of wounds sustained in clashes between insurgents and government soldiers, the country’s armed forces said Tuesday, one day after he had claimed victory in his reelection campaign.
When I first heard about this I thought, wow, another Alexander or Degrelle, and then I began to ruminate on how unusual that is in the 21st-century.
I'm not going to color this article up, either. I am simply going to add common sense commentary when warranted.
A spokesman appeared on state television to inform the nation that Déby, who became feared by his own people over three decades of iron-fisted rule in Chad, was dead.
Déby had enjoyed the support of France and the United States, because his military forces were seen as key to battling Islamic extremism in the central Sahel region. His contribution to the fight against groups like Boko Haram in neighboring Nigeria was viewed as critical in the broader effort to combat terrorism. He therefore received robust Western support despite accusations of human rights violations and crackdowns on the opposition during his rule.
Oh, he received robu$t we$tern $upport in the War on Terror, which is why we are only hearing about it now and that begs the question, WHY are we ONLY HEARING ABOUT IT NOW?
There were many questions surrounding Déby’s death, including how exactly he was killed and what he was doing visiting an area where conflict was raging, if indeed he was.
YEAH, many questions indeed!!
What was his stand on COVID, and was he Magufulied?
The late president’s son, Mahamat Idriss Déby, will take over as the head of a new transitional military council that will rule for 18 months before new elections are held, the spokesman said. The government and National Assembly were suspended, borders closed, and a two-week mourning period announced.
The news was relayed to the country by a man who was identified as a spokesman for a transitional military council, General Azem Bermandoa.
“The president of the republic, head of state, supreme chief of the army, Idriss Déby Itno, just drew his last breath while defending the nation’s integrity on the battlefield,” the spokesman, surrounded by soldiers and wearing a red beret and army fatigues, said in the broadcast.
Something is starting to stink here.
On the same day as the presidential election, April 11, rebels crossed the northern border from Libya. Déby, 68, had been on the front lines in the north of the central African country, directing the fight against the rebel incursion, according to his campaign director, Mahamat Zen Bada.
What head of state goes to the front lines, really?
Those rebels, from a group called the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, moved southward in several columns and claimed to have “liberated” a province of the country last week.
They reportedly beat a retreat to the north Monday night, after reports of heavy losses on both rebel and government sides, but for the roughly 1.5 million residents of Ndjamena, the capital, solid information was hard to come by, with rumors spreading furiously.
Late into the night, gunshots rang out across the capital, though it was unclear why. Some residents theorized that the military had been celebrating victory after the rebels had fallen back.
This whole thing reads so weirdly that I am beginning to draw the conclusion that he was murdered by the military, who then transported the body and came up with this cockamamie story to explain it.
Déby had been scheduled to give a victory speech Monday to celebrate winning his sixth term in office, but his campaign director said that he had instead visited Chadian soldiers battling insurgents advancing on Ndjamena.
Again, odd as f**k.
Over the three decades since Déby seized power, he faced a number of challenges to his rule. Rebels reached the capital in 2006 and 2008. The president’s forces fought them off, with the “discreet” support of France, according to academics focused on Chad, but in 2019, when Chad asked the French force in the Sahel for help in dealing with another incursion, Paris was less discreet about the support and obliged by launching a series of airstrikes on the rebels.
Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French foreign minister, told Parliament at the time, “France intervened militarily to prevent a coup d’état.”
Those are the last guys you want to call for help!
Déby was reelected largely on the promise of restoring peace and security to a country gripped by years of violence instigated by insurgent groups. Tensions rose in the days before the latest elections, but officials had urged calm.
On Monday, security forces and armored vehicles were posted to Ndjamena’s streets, prompting residents of the capital to fill up their tanks with gas, pick up their children early from school and hunker down at home. Chad’s communications minister had called for calm and wrote on Twitter on Monday that the presence of the security personnel had been “misinterpreted.”
The minister, Chérif Mahamat Zene, added, “There is no special threat to be afraid of.”
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Meanwhile, reactions with Russia have now “hit the bottom” with the imprisonemnt of Navalny and the attempted assassination of Lukashenko -- most likely because of Syria, where a group of 46 nations called Tuesday on member states of the global chemical weapons watchdog to diplomatically rebuke Syria for using toxic gas and nerve agents in the country’s decade-long civil war, and French Ambassador Luis Vassy proposed stripping Syria of its voting rights at the annual meeting of members of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons because “we owe this to the Syrian people.”
He says Syria’s use of prohibited chemical weapons was “irrefutable” -- even after whistleblowers refuted it -- while Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for more equitable management of global affairs and, in an implicit rejection of U.S. dominance, said governments shouldn’t impose rules on others. Xi’s speech at an economic forum comes amid rising tension with China’s neighbors and Washington over its strategic ambitions and demands for a bigger role in making trade and other rules -- which will make leaving Afghanistan that much more difficult:
"General says Afghan withdrawal will make terror fight harder" by Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press, April 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — In a blunt assessment Tuesday, the top US general for the Middle East told Congress it will be extremely difficult but not impossible for the US to find, track, and take out counterterrorism threats in Afghanistan once all American troops are withdrawn.
General Frank McKenzie, head of US Central Command, said that armed drones, which can now get to a location within minutes from bases in Afghanistan, will have to be positioned much farther away, and he acknowledged that the US has no agreements yet with neighboring countries to base troops, but is working on a plan.
“I don’t want to make light of it, I don’t want to put on rose-colored glasses and say it’s going to be easy to do,” McKenzie told the House Armed Services Committee, adding that if the US needs to go back into Afghanistan because of a threat, it will require significant intelligence support. “It will be harder to do that, it is not impossible.”
Military leaders have consistently argued that pulling troops out by a certain date eliminates pressure on the Taliban and weakens US leverage in the peace talks with the group.
McKenzie told lawmakers that the US would have several options if it needs to hit a target, including a long-range strike or the use of manned aircraft or a raid by ground forces, which would be “inherently dangerous.”
Biden’s withdrawal date coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Al Qaeda terror attack on the US that had triggered the US-led invasion of Afghanistan. NATO announced it would follow the same timetable for withdrawing more than 7,000 allied forces.
The president’s decision defies a May 1 withdrawal deadline that was agreed to by the Trump administration as part of a peace agreement with the Taliban. Instead, Biden said the US withdrawal would begin on May 1.
McKenzie told lawmakers that terror groups in Afghanistan, including Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group, continue to aspire to attack the US.
He “thinks that’s a reasonable concern and shares that concern frankly.”
The Taliban have threatened to take action if the US does not comply with the May 1 deadline.
McKenzie said the US plans to aggressively protect the security of US troops in Afghanistan as the withdrawal of personnel and equipment goes on, and he said the US is prepared to take any action necessary.
Meanwhile, concerns are growing about one American who risks being left behind.
Mark Frerichs, a contractor from Lombard, Ill., believed held for more than a year by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network, was not mentioned in Biden’s address on Afghanistan last week. Nor was the troop withdrawal conditioned on his release from custody, fueling concerns that the US could lose bargaining power to get Frerichs home once its military presence is removed from the country.
What a joke!
The Biden administration has said it regards the return of hostages to be a top priority. Despite this, the fate of a single captive is unlikely to sway the broader policy interest in ending a 20-year war that began in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It’s not uncommon for detainee issues to be eclipsed by other foreign policy matters, as appeared to happen last week when the administration didn’t mention Russia’s detention of two Americans, even as it announced reasons for taking punitive action against Moscow.....
The Globe says it will be Biden’s blunder if we leave, so prepare for another false flag attack by the "terrorists."
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One silver lining to the Chauvin trial has been the knocking of COVID from the headlines:
"Most Americans who haven’t received a coronavirus vaccination say they’re unlikely to get the shot, according to an Axios-Ipsos poll released Monday, indicating the US mass immunization campaign could soon reach its peak. Of the unvaccinated adults, two in three told pollsters they were either “not likely at all” or “not very likely” to get a vaccine. In total, 44 percent of respondents said they hadn’t received a vaccine, while 56 percent reported receiving at least one shot. If the figures don’t significantly change, immunizations could top out at around 70 percent of the adult population. Early in the pandemic, health experts said herd immunity would require at least 70 percent of the population to develop resistance to the virus, but that target has become less clear as new, more transmissible coronavirus variants have emerged and cases have become more widespread....."
Then what?
COVID CAMPS for the unvaccinated?
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OH, NO!
He is one of the handful of world leaders to stand up against lockdowns, etc.
A congressional panel has opened an investigation into Emergent BioSolutions, whoop-de-doo, and now it turns out that SOME FULLY VACCINATED PEOPLE are CATCHING COVID-19 -- but it's RARE!
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Meanwhile, the kids continue to get dumbed down while the playground is a mess, and the Globe bu$ine$$ $ection is literally garbage as they brew up one of the “dirty secrets about the brewing industry: it’s not the most environmentally friendly undertaking and the fermentation process generates significant amounts of carbon emissions, which contribute to climate change.
I'm told it's the nature of the beast as house prices continued their surge in Greater Boston last month, with the typical single-family house now costing nearly $725,000 — the highest on record — and the supply of properties for sale remaining at rock-bottom levels. It’s a microcosm of the supply-and-demand story that has defined Boston’s housing market since it emerged from last summer’s pandemic lockdowns. Buyers looking for more space flocked to suburban towns, but found little there to buy, prompting bidding wars that have driven prices skyward. In more urban pockets of the region, such as central Boston, the number of listings is higher ― mostly condos ― and price increases have been less dramatic. That’s providing opportunities for would-be buyers who want a home in the city, said Dino Confalone, an agent with Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty in Cambridge. Still there are signs the market could be starting to loosen up.
The “market is just frozen,” and there is "little available," so if you are “cashing out, you’re golden, but you might have to stay put” -- in more ways than one!
I know Bo$ton thinks of itself as a city in the clouds, but it's no $tretch to $ay it wouldn't be that way were it not for the high end of Boston’s real estate market that can often function as a vault for global wealth, disconnected from the city as a whole, “reaffirming the idea that luxury real estate is a wealth storage system, and whether you earned it virtuously or stole it from your people, this is a good place to bring your money.”
COVID has changed the texture of urban life and had a permanent effect on the labor market as cities and neighborhoods find the drug industry is booming, with life-sciences firms signing leases at a healthy clip and billions of dollars in venture capital pumping things up even more as they bring the Great Re$et to fruition.
It's an ups and down process, and all part of the pitch to help the community combat the spread of deadly contagion despite the stalling, with everything to drop by 2024. Once we are all gone, they Fed can focus on a more inclusive economy. You can bet on it after Bank of America held a conference last week to connect minority-run banks with companies that borrow in bond markets in an effort to increase diversity in debt market underwriting.
They are one of the good guys even as their third-quarter profit declined 15.6 percent from a year earlier, but they more than made up for it with a record windfall this year so they are cutting checks of $1 million apiece to 21 universities and community colleges across the nation to help advance racial and economic equality and investing in three more minority lenders -- unlike AIG, which lost four senior Black managers in recent weeks, including two who were tasked with improving the diversity of the insurer’s ranks.
I would give JPMorgan a break except they just had their best quarter on record and are putting $30b toward aiding Black and Latino homeownership while giving $7m to career program for Boston Public Schools and a Boston Medical Center-led initiative wins a $5 million grant.
Of course, no amount of makeup can cover up the corruption at Goldman Sachs, who said Wednesday that its profits jumped sharply in the third quarter when they earned $3.62 billion and then saw its profits nearly quintuple in the first quarter as they developed investment products for Black-owned banks.
Then there is Wells Fargo, who says they earned $2 billion in the third quarter, less than half of what it made in the same period last year but a significant improvement from this year’s second quarter, when it posted a loss as the coronavirus swept through the United States -- although they did sell an asset-management business to make equity investments in six Black-owned banks as part of a broader $50 million pledge to support minority-focused lenders.
They will not want to hitch their future to Morgan Stanley after the two most senior commodities executives at Morgan Stanley left after compliance breaches linked to the use of communications tools and racist e-mails.
Meanwhile, PNC expands its footprint with purchase with its aggressive Boston-area expansion and Eastern chief executive Bob Rivers has made no secret of his desire to buy up smaller banks in order to put Boston back on the banking map as it has nearly doubled the size of its charitable foundation and it's shares soared in their first day of trading, and as BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings appoints Bob Eddy as president and chief executive, and no, you're not seeing things.
They are both white guys as businesses and philanthropy unite to fight racial wealth gap, but they are going to promote businesses owned by people of color using the world’s largest network and fleeing the city for the suburbs as major US corporations release data on makeup of their workforces.
Boston got off to a $low $tart, but the new racial equity fund gave out its first $1m to nonprofits, a groundbreaking mission to change philanthropic and corporate giving by creating a more equitable funding process and steering more money to nonprofits helmed by Black and brown leaders (why does brown not get capitalized?) and they now rank better than most with these people of color some of the most influential leaders in Boston’s suburbs (the portraits are in the works).
That's the $pin, anyway, according to the accounting as they fall head over heels and Nest with Mike Render, better known as Killer Mike the rapper, political activist, and restaurateur, who has a new project: launching a digital bank, called Greenwood, aimed at Black people and Latinos. He hopes the hyperloop will become a center of gravity and the next Hollywood (notice how you don't see much about 5G anymore?).
Yes, a tipping point has arrived:
"A global tipping point for reining in tech has arrived" by Paul Mozur, Cecilia Kang, Adam Satariano and David McCabe New York Times, April 20, 2021
(Blog editor laughed out loud when he saw that headline)
Around the world, governments are moving simultaneously to limit the power of tech companies with an urgency and breadth that no single industry had experienced before. Their motivation varies, yet while governments agree that tech clout has grown too expansive, there has been little coordination on solutions. Competing policies have led to geopolitical friction. Last month, the Biden administration said it could put tariffs on countries that imposed new taxes on American tech companies.
The result is that the Internet as it was originally conceived — a borderless digital space where ideas of all stripes contend freely — may not survive, researchers said. Even in parts of the world that do not censor their digital spaces, they said, a patchwork of rules would give people different access to content, privacy protections, and freedoms online depending on where they logged on.
“The idea of an open and interoperable Internet is being exposed as incredibly fragile,” said Quinn McKew, executive director of Article 19, a digital rights advocacy group.....
I suspect that is why they are allowing us all to continue to publish until they pull the plug!
Also see:
"U.S. stocks fell for a second day as rising virus cases around the world led to renewed concern over the continued economic impact, overshadowing a batch of solid corporate results. The S&P 500 extended its slide from an all-time high, with investors showing caution ahead of the brunt of the earnings season. All eyes will be on whether an anticipated rise in profits will bring with it forecasts for stronger growth. One of their biggest concerns is whether companies are equipped to handle mounting inflation pressures as the economic recovery gains momentum....."
Yeah, bankruptcies and gas prices are up as they fudge the numbers, and they never $ee the crash that is coming and when it does it is a $hock to my pre$$ as they have the $ame old excu$es at the ready!
You can go ask Alyce, I think she'll know.
I hope this book advertisement gives you food for thought as the severe drought out West (thank God a storm is headed this way) heralds food shortages and riots in America soon in what is a carbon copy of the Bolshevik playbook from 90 years ago.
