Peruvian Pooh-Pooh

I'm nothing else if not regular:

"Left and right clash in Peru election, with an economic model at stake" by Mitra Taj and Julie Turkewitz New York Times, June 6, 2021

LIMA — On paper, the candidates on the presidential ballot in Peru on Sunday are a leftist former schoolteacher with no governing experience and the right-wing daughter of a jailed former president who ran the country with an iron fist, yet voters in Peru face an even more elemental choice: whether to stick with the neoliberal economic model that has dominated the country for the past three decades, delivering some earlier successes but ultimately failing, critics say, to provide meaningful support to millions of Peruvians during the pandemic.

“The model has failed a lot of people,” said Cesia Caballero, 24, a video producer. The virus, she said, “has been the last drop that tipped the glass.”

Peru has endured the worst economic contraction in the region during the pandemic, pushing nearly 10 percent of its population back into poverty. On May 31, the country announced that its virus death toll was nearly triple what had been previously reported, suddenly raising its per capita mortality rate to the highest in the world. Millions have been left jobless, and many others evicted.

The leftist candidate, Pedro Castillo, 51, a union activist, has promised to overhaul the political and economic system to address poverty and inequality, replacing the current constitution with one that will grant the state a larger role in the economy.

His opponent, Keiko Fujimori, 46, has vowed to uphold the free-market model built by her father, Alberto Fujimori, who was initially credited with beating back violent leftist insurgencies in the 1990s but who is now scorned by many as a corrupt autocrat.

Polls show the candidates in a near tie, but many voters are frustrated by their options.

Castillo, who has never held office before, partnered with a radical former governor convicted of corruption to launch his bid. Keiko Fujimori has been jailed three times in a money laundering investigation and faces 30 years in prison, accused of running a criminal organization that trafficked in illegal campaign donations during a previous presidential bid. She denies the charges.

“We’re between a precipice and the abyss,” said Augusto Chávez, 60, an artisanal jeweler in Lima who said he might cast a defaced ballot as a form of protest. Voting is mandatory in Peru. “I think extremes are bad for a country, and they represent two extremes.”

Castillo and Fujimori each won less than 20 percent of votes in a crowded first-round race in April that forced Sunday’s runoff election.

The election follows a rocky five-year period in which the country cycled through four presidents and two congresses, and it comes as the pandemic has pushed voter discontent to new levels, fueling anger over unequal access to public services and growing frustration with politicians ensnared in seemingly endless corruption scandals and political score settling.

[We are the same the world over as the $atanic globali$t cla$$ has utterly failed]

The hospital system has been so strained by the pandemic that many have died from lack of oxygen, while others have paid off doctors for spots in intensive care units, only to be turned away in agony.

[Sick of the lies yet?

Hospitals the world over were never overrun and neglected care in favor of the CVD fraud]

Whoever wins Sunday, said Peruvian sociologist Lucía Dammert, “the future of Peru is a very turbulent future.”

“The deep inequities and profound frustrations of the people have stirred, and there’s no organization or actor, whether private companies, the state, unions, to give voice to that.”

When Fujimori’s father swept to power in 1990 as a populist outsider, he quickly reneged on a campaign promise not to impose free-market “shock” policies pushed by his rival and Western economists.

The measures he used — deregulation, government spending cuts, privatization of industry — helped end years of hyperinflation and recession. The constitution he ushered through in 1993 limited the state’s ability to take part in business activities and break up monopolies, strengthened the autonomy of the central bank, and protected foreign investments.

[Some "populi$t" outsider, 'eh?]

Subsequent centrist and right-wing governments signed more than a dozen free trade agreements, and Peru’s pro-business policies were declared a success, credited with Peru’s record poverty reduction during the commodities boom of this century, but little was done to address Peru’s reliance on commodity exports and long-standing social inequalities, or to ensure health care, education, and public services for its people.

The pandemic exposed the weakness of Peru’s bureaucracy and the underfunding of its public health system. The country had just a small fraction of the intensive care unit beds its peers had, and the government was slow and inconsistent in providing even small cash assistance to the needy. Informal workers were left with no safety net, leading many to turn to high-interest loans from private banks.

“The pandemic showed that the underlying problem was the order of priorities,” said David Rivera, a Peruvian economist and political scientist. “Supposedly, we’d been saving money for so long to use in a crisis, and what we saw during the pandemic was that the priority continued to be macroeconomic stability, and not keeping people from dying and going hungry.”

[The web version kept campaigning]

Fujimori has blamed the country’s problems not on its economic model, but on the way past presidents and other leaders have used it. Even so, she said, some adjustments are needed, like raising the minimum wage and pension payments for the poor. She framed her campaign against Castillo as a battle between democracy and communism, sometimes using Venezuela’s socialist-inspired government, now mired in crisis, as a foil.

Castillo, who is from Peru’s northern highlands, gained national recognition by leading a teachers union strike in 2017. He campaigns wearing the wide-brimmed hat of Andean farmers and has appeared on horseback and dancing with supporters.

Castillo has revealed little about how to make good on vague promises to ensure the country’s copper, gold, and natural gas resources benefit Peruvians more broadly. He has promised not to seize companies’ assets but to renegotiate contracts instead.

He has said he wants to restrict imports of agricultural products to support local farmers, a policy that economists have warned would lead to higher food prices.

If he wins, it will be the clearest repudiation of the country’s political elite since Fujimori’s father took office in 1990.

[Then he is Peru's Trump?]

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I was told the runoff election was too close to call.

"With election fraud claims, Peru’s Keiko Fujimori takes a page from the Trump playbook" by Anthony Faiola, Claire Parker and Terrence McCoy Washington Post, June 16, 2021

LIMA, Peru — In the face of a deficit of tens of thousands of votes in a close count following Peru’s June 6 presidential election, Keiko Fujimori, the 46-year-old doyen of a right-wing political dynasty, declined to concede. Instead, she has appeared to a take page from former president Donald Trump’s playbook, levying unsubstantiated accusations of fraud.

She is not alone. While politicians the world over have long sought to contest election outcomes, with and without basis, some experts say Fujimori’s approach, following Trump’s effort to discredit the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election over false fraud claims, could signal the emergence of a trend.

[That's the new narrative regarding election thefts against conservatives worldwide, and if Republicans think they are winning control in 2022 they have a big surprise coming. We will now be told turnout is low because populi$ts are unpopular and the far right is faltering because of CVD.

There will be no voting your way out of tyranny, folks!]

In Peru, Pedro Castillo, Fujimori’s challenger, has claimed victory, but officials say the result could take days or weeks to certify. Citing little evidence, Fujimori has claimed large-scale election fraud, bringing in a small army of lawyers in an attempt to throw out more than 200,000 votes, mainly cast in impoverished, rural areas.

“The election will be flipped, dear friends,” she told thousands of her supporters at a protest in Lima on Saturday.

Peruvian pundits were quick to cite Trump parallels.

Fujimori’s team has claimed that ballot tally sheets were improperly or falsely signed, and questioned tallies where the three-time presidential candidate received no votes. International observers have not raised significant issues with the vote, and have congratulated Peruvian authorities for holding a transparent and peaceful expression of democracy.

[They just confirmed the theft]

One political cartoon — published by Peru’s La Republica newspaper and widely shared on social media — depicts Fujimori in the face paint and buffalo horns of Jacob Anthony Chansley, the shirtless “QAnon Shaman” who took part in the post-election storming of the US Capitol.

Fujimori isn’t the only one to have leaned on fraud claims after a recent vote.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s long-standing prime minister until Sunday, cast a deal among opposition lawmakers to remove him from power as “the fraud of the century,” and himself as the victim of plots by Israel’s “deep state.” His supporters blasted right-wing parties that joined the winning coalition as traitors and threatened leading politicians, and in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro, who said before the 2018 presidential election that he would only lose if there was fraud, has repeatedly cast doubt on the integrity of Brazilian elections, drawing widespread comparisons to Trump.

[This is in no way a defense of Netanyahu; however, what do those leaders have in common with others?

They are nationalists first, and thus must be attacked and removed

Btw, the new Israeli government is worse than the last one -- as incredible as it may seem to Palestinians -- as Israeli officials are working to revive talks to deliver vaccine doses to the Palestinian Authority after a deal Friday was suddenly called off by authority officials, who said the doses were too close to their expiration date and did not meet their standards. Some 5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are still without sufficient vaccine supplies as shipments from other sources continue to lag, while Israel is mostly returning to pre-pandemic life. The announcement and cancellation of the deal has given rise to conspiracy theories and further damaged the low standing of the Palestinian Authority among its people. On Friday, Israeli officials celebrated the finalization of the three-way deal between the two governments and Pfizer in which Israel would ship more than 1 million doses of its vaccine to the Palestinian Authority in exchange for a similar number of doses to be delivered back to Israel later this year. Israeli officials said the move marked the beginning of a chapter of re-engagement between Israel and the Palestinians after a dozen years under right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Why did smallpox-infected blankets provided by Lord Jeffrey Amherst just come to mind?]

In countries with weak democratic institutions, baseless claims have been used to justify a military takeover, as in Myanmar, or to jail opposition figures. Freedom House, a pro-democracy think tank and watchdog, has warned that the world is undergoing “long-term democratic decline,” and analysts have previously cautioned that Trump’s behavior after the 2020 election will continue to embolden autocrats who manipulate electoral processes to hold onto power.

[Just like what Uncle Joe did!]

“This epidemic of claims of electoral fraud is just the next chapter in the autocrat’s handbook,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.

“Now that game is being played where the elections are usually very clean,” said Kenneth Roberts, a Latin American politics professor at Cornell University. “When the credibility is called into question the way it has been by Trump and the Republicans in the US, it creates a bad example that other leaders and countries can follow, providing a template to change results they don’t like.”

[So eat the fraud and stolen election. 

That's TYRANNY!]

The playbook that appears to be taking shape involves the use of false claims of fraud by right-wing leaders with fiercely loyal bases to discredit the outcome of elections. Such claims resonate especially well in highly polarized societies, political scientists say, and social media has played a key role in amplifying them.

[As they censor any adverse reactions and deaths from the poisonous gene-therapy vaccines]

In Peru, the rash of post-election disinformation has spanned the political spectrum, including photoshopped images of people at Fujimori rallies holding classist and racist signs and a fake tweet from Venezuela’s socialist autocratic President Nicolás Maduro celebrating Castillo’s victory.

“I’ve never seen such fake news, that there is a fraud unfolding, and the racist subtext, that the indigenous are going to march on Lima,” Peruvian journalist Marco Sifuentes said in a popular YouTube show. “They are trying to frighten you, trying to delegitimize the results and force Castillo out no matter what it takes.”

[CVD!!]

A shared predicament among the leaders of these efforts: personal legal jeopardy. Trump and his organization face multiple criminal probes. Netanyahu is on trial for corruption. Fujimori, meanwhile, had been counting on the presidency to shield her from prosecution on charges of money laundering and obstruction of justice.

[And pop goes the Weisselberg!]

She has been imprisoned three times, granted release most recently in April 2020, in an alleged money-laundering scandal connected to her first failed presidential bid. Peruvian prosecutors seek to put her in prison for more than 30 years on separate charges, including embezzlement and election fraud.

On Thursday, prosecutors again requested her arrest, alleging she had “systematically” violated her bail conditions by contacting witnesses.

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That's when the Globe flushed its coverage.

{@@##$$%%^^&&}

While in the neighborhood:

19 are killed in pandemic-related protests in Colombia

The world is indeed waking up and rising against the CVD scam.

"The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega arrested five opposition leaders during a major weekend round up, in what appears to be widespread detentions of anyone who might challenge his rule. The four arrests Sunday and one Saturday suggest Ortega has moved beyond arresting potential rival candidates in the Nov. 7 elections, and has begun arresting any prominent member of the opposition. The arrests bring to 12 the number of opponents detained since June 2. On Sunday, police also arrested prominent ex-Sandinista dissident Dora María Téllez, another opposition leader, Ana Margarita Vijil, and Suyen Barahona, leader of the political movement Unamos. Tellez’s arrest is a major step: she was a leading Sandinista militant who led an assault on the National Palace in 1978, taking hostage the congress of dictator Anastasio Somoza in exchange for the release of Sandinista prisoners. Following Somoza’s overthrow, Tellez served as health minister in the first Sandinista government which ruled from 1979 to 1990. Like many former guerrillas, she later split with Ortega. On Saturday, police arrested Tamara Dávila, who was active in Unamos, which was formed by former Sandinistas angered by Ortega’s autocratic ways, nepotism and perpetual re-elections. Julie Chung, the U.S. State Department’s acting assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, said via Twitter that the arrests “confirm without a doubt that Ortega is a dictator. The international community has no choice but to treat him as such.”

He must be a good man then.

When he is exiled to Haiti, the Globe will throw some candy in celebration.

Better Be CareFull

The Globe is full-on Great Re$et mode and it is literally making me sick:

"Tech startups pivot to solve new problems in the pandemic; This year's crop of MassChallenge companies is pursuing learning pods, restaurant safety, and remote work" by Scott Kirsner Globe Correspondent, August 24, 2020

The print version leads with "Looking for opportunity amid chaos."

For many of us, the colliding crises of 2020 feel like daily chaos that must be trudged through.

Aww, poor f**k.

Entrepreneurs are different: Many of them see opportunity in the chaos, and among the 130 companies participating in the MassChallenge summer entrepreneurship programs in Boston and Providence, you can find plenty of evidence. The nonprofit programs usually bring together startups from around the world to share a large office space, learn from mentors, and rub shoulders with investors and executives from larger companies — but this summer, MassChallenge is trying to deliver all that programming virtually.

Everything is going to the Matrix, 'er virtual.

Many of these startups were created around one idea, but have quickly adapted their business plans to solve problems created by the coronavirus pandemic.

The goddamn f**king virus, if it even exists at all, is being used to redesign our entire way of life to serve sick, psychopathic, genocidal eugenist control freaks with government and the Globe pimping for them.

I better be careful, and I don't know how much longer I can do this.

California-based NurturePods.org was originally focused on matching single parents who live together in homes with other single parents — a “co-living” arrangement that would help address the high costs of housing in the San Francisco Bay Area, but the two working parents who started the company, Deborah Tu and Joey Jelenik, saw that the spring’s sudden shift to remote learning created a more urgent problem.

“Parents face a dilemma,” says Tu, who is currently on maternity leave from her full-time job at Google. “How do you watch children at home, make sure they’re learning, and also work? The answer is, they can’t.” She and Jelenik realized that the software they were using to match single parents into shared housing could also be applicable for setting up “pods” of kids who would learn together. NurturePods has a 14-point matching system, Tu explains, that takes into account criteria like children’s age, location, size of the group, and the families’ criteria for reducing health risks, like whether everyone needs to be socially distanced at all times, or whether all of the families need to agree to avoid airline travel for the duration of the school year.

Another key criteria: whether the parents plan to share responsibility for supervising the kids, or whether they plan to hire a “pod leader,” like a teacher or babysitter, to do that.

Tu says that NurturePods is building up a database of teachers looking for this kind of work. The company started matching families in the Bay Area over the summer, and is now planning to expand to Greater Boston.

The Globe is feigning concern about the further inequality it would breed while promoting the very idea.

That's like hugging you as a friend while stabbing you in the back.

Garrett Weinstein, a recent graduate of Tufts University, started a site called TravelEZ last year to collect information about how accessible restaurants were to people with mobility impairments, but over the summer, he realized another dimension was becoming important: What were restaurants doing to provide a safe dining experience, given concerns about COVID transmission in public spaces? So Weinstein is planning to launch a new mobile app, CareFull, next month. The app will let restaurant owners communicate what they’re doing, but will also gather reviews from diners. Are tables spaced six feet apart? Are patrons wearing masks when they’re not seated at a table? Is there a hands-free way to get in and out of the restroom?

So Weinstein is going to help promote the snitch society with his totalitarian app with Kirsner promoting it, huh?

I'm not only losing my appetite, I'm wrenching at this slop from you-know-joo.

Based on the data the app collects, Weinstein says, CareFull will categorize restaurants as “not compliant,” “compliant,” or “outstanding.” He says the app will have “over 100 reviewed venues” when it launches next month, and that the startup has plans to expand to New York, Washington, and Miami by the end of the year.

Like there is going to be any restaurants left, etc. 

More and more this feels like a worthless exercise, reading this $hit spew in the Globe that is not objective journalism but offensively insulting elitist agenda-pushing.

I suppose all these f**kers are talking about next year when we have all been either vaccinated nor exterminated, the sick evil f**ks!

Nitesh Mehrotra is a former manager at Cisco Systems, the networking and communications giant based in San Jose, Calif. After his family’s planned relocation from Boston to San Jose didn’t work out, he started a company that would help other workers moving to new cities find their ideal neighborhood to live in. The startup’s main customers were recruiting and relocation departments in large tech companies. As they suddenly stopped moving workers around the United States, “our business nearly went under due to COVID,” Mehrotra says.

To try and save it, he decided to adapt to the emerging “work from anywhere” model, and target individuals thinking about buying or renting a home further away from their company’s office — or moving to another city and becoming a fully remote worker. His site, NextBurb, can calculate a commute distance, if you need to get in to an office — or it can give you information about the quality of schools, the closest dog park, or the crime rate. The startup plans to make money by connecting people with real estate agents who can help them purchase or rent a home.

They mean a stay-at-home economy, wherever home may be, and I guess they haven't seen the unemployment figures or the rest, because they are acting like it's $ituation normal!

Like NextBurb, a startup called Generus was originally founded in a world where people worked together in offices. It would help companies arrange volunteer events for employees — things like helping to support 5K charity races, making sleeping mats for refugees, or preparing meals for community supper programs. By late spring, chief executive Jamie Larsen was noticing that companies were looking for ways to keep their work-from-home employees connected to one another.

“Companies can and did do online happy hours, but in volunteering together, you get all of the good brain chemicals — and you can really bond employees, helping them find that meaning and purpose,” she says.

God damn you all to hell for going along with this, you sick f**ks.

I need to be careful going forward because I'm ready to let rip with the swear words.

This insultingly elitist and offensive crap has me boiling.

Larsen says that running volunteering events as a video meeting, rather than in-person, is “five to ten times as hard. You have to be incredibly artful with facilitation” — especially since many people spend a good chunk of their day in video meetings.

What do participants in a virtual volunteering event actually do? They might read letters from prisoners and collect books to donate to the Quincy-based Prison Book Program, say, or take a painting lesson and donate the resulting artwork to Household Goods, an Acton nonprofit that helps people furnish their homes.

Generus has signed on four new clients in August. Larsen says she believes human resources executives at companies “want to make sure their employees are staying healthy and well in this work-from-home economy,” and that part of that will be by providing new kinds of programs, like online volunteering, that help employees stay connected with colleagues and do something positive for their community, and the work-from-home economy, Larsen says, “could be around for a long time.”

Or FOREVER if the Globe and the sick f**ks they front for have their way!

To some people, that may sound depressing. To entrepreneurs trying to grow businesses, it sounds like opportunity.

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What you are looking at there was PURE EVIL, and I should have Zoomed right past it:

"Zoom glitches, briefly grinding US schools to a halt" by Mae Anderson Associated Press, August 24, 2020

NEW YORK — Teachers and parents got a brief glimpse of a new kind of pandemic-era nightmare Monday when Zoom — the video-conferencing service that powers everything from distance learning to business meetings to casual, socially distant get-togethers — abruptly went dead.

They should be happy since the "service" is for pedophiles!

The problem still isn't fixed, and the Globe never brought it up again!

For roughly 2½ hours Monday morning, many users were unable to load the Zoom website; others could neither host nor join scheduled meetings. Zoom fixed the problem by 11:30 a.m., the company reported on its status page.

The timing was less than ideal, since many schools across the United States were just starting online instruction after a summer surge in the coronavirus pandemic scotched many plans to reopen classes with students present in the flesh.

“Today was horrible,’’ said Jacqueline Donovan, a professor at Broward College in Broward County, Fla. Her 12-year-old daughter Michaela and 14-year-old son Jayden were trying to log onto Zoom classes, but unable to.

“They were both panic stricken and anxious,’’ she said. Meanwhile, Donovan herself was trying to hold her first class, an introduction to business, and getting frantic e-mails from her own students. Her class was eventually canceled.

Better make sure DCF knows.

“You become so accustomed to the software working, then (when it doesn’t) you realize how dependent you are on the software and it’s a little scary,’’ she said.

Imagine being dependent on government for food or a vaccine tattoo to buy and sell!

Zoom did not disclose the cause of the problem, which appeared to hit both coasts of the United States especially hard. Its shares fell less than 3 percent during regular trading.

Grade schools, high schools, and universities are relying on Zoom and competing technologies like Microsoft Teams to teach remotely and reduce the chance of infection during the pandemic.

Oh, so Billy G benefits from the remote learning $cam, huh?

C'mon, America, wake the fuck up!

Schools began opening over the past month with a wide array of in-person, hybrid, and online schooling plans. In 2019, during a normal school year, about 80 percent of elementary and secondary schools had opened by the last week of August, according to Pew Research.

Internet services from Facebook to Amazon go down all the time, but few have become so crucial to companies, government, and schools that their absence can spur brief moments of panic. These days, when Zoom goes down, it’s more like a power outage or phones going dead, making it a modern sort of utility for a nation still enduring the ravages of COVID-19.

Oh, God, I'm going to puke.

Zoom and similar services ‘‘have been elevated to what we call ‘mission critical applications,’’’ said technology analyst Tim Bajarin, president of consultancy Creative Strategies. “They’re no longer nice to have, they’re now must have.’’

Per the GREAT GODDAMN RESET that is ENRICHING the FABULOUSLY WEALTHY beyond their wildest dreams of avarice.

While Zoom has built up server farms and spent millions investing in its software, it was still a relatively nascent company when the coronavirus hit in March, Bajarin said. “The bottom line is, software glitches happen.’’

This is such a f**king crock of $hit! They had this thing ready to roll because the genocidal elite have planned this $camdemic for a long time. 

It's sad to see how far they have gotten away with it as they destroy all that is good in this world. 

TRUE EVIL, folks.

Bryan Grant in Crystal Lake, Ill., had just corralled his 3 1/2-year old twins and 5-year-old son in front of computers to start their first days at preschool and kindergarten. Then came an urgent message from their school, 30 minutes ahead of classes, to use Google instead.

He rushed to install the software and sign in, but the classes descended into semichaos as the children in the kindergarten class unmuted themselves, something they can’t do on Zoom. His 5-year-old was nearly in tears as he tried to follow the rules and raise his hand for a question, but was talked over by other kids who unmuted themselves.

Just wait until they start sticking the kids.

Grant, who also uses Zoom for his job as a financial aid specialist, thinks the country may be almost too dependent on one product.

“It actually does really show you how much we are all depending on Zoom,’’ he said. “It should be considered essential. Every effort needs to be made to make sure this is available for everyone.’’

So you can be monitored and data collected on your kids.

This shameless, sickening agenda promotion is f**king goddamn evil.

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Related:

"A Florida judge granted a temporary injunction Monday against the state’s executive order requiring school districts to reopen schools during the pandemic, the Florida teachers union said. According to the Florida Teachers Association, Circuit Court Judge Charles Dodson granted its request to put a hold on the order issued in July by state Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran compelling schools to reopen. The Florida Education Department said it could not immediately comment. Some districts in south Florida were given permission by the state to start the 2020-21 school year remotely because of high virus spread, but other districts had to begin in-person education, even if they did not want to. In one instance, the administration of Governor Ron DeSantis, a close ally of President Trump, threatened to withhold nearly $200 million from Hillsborough County if it carried out its plan to open remotely. The district changed its plan in light of the threat."

I'm actually glad he issued the injuction to keep the kids safe from an ambush.

"Millions of Mexican school children returned to classes, but not schools, on Monday as the government attempted to start a new school year despite the challenges of the pandemic. A system cobbling together online classes, instruction broadcast on television channels and radio programming in Indigenous languages is meant to keep students from missing out in a country already defined by deep inequalities. As other countries around the world have already discovered, there is no perfect replacement for in-person classes, and for some students it marked an early end to their academic careers. The Mexican government enlisted the country’s largest private television companies to dedicate channels to school programming around the clock. Education officials developed schedules giving students at each level multiple opportunities to watch their classes. Education Secretary Esteban Moctezuma said officials decided to rely on television because it has a far greater penetration that the internet. Still, questions abound about how families, especially those with multiple children, will juggle the classes along with jobs that could force both parents out of the home — often taking their children along with them. More than half of Mexicans work in the informal economy, jobs that often don’t allow them to work from home. There is a strong fear that the pandemic will spell the end of education for many students who will stop their studies. Many private schools have closed as cash-strapped parents stopped making tuition payments....."

The fear is well-founded, but we all; must sacrifice for the greater community as we re$et!

That is the OVERWHELMING PROPAGANDA PUSH I have seen in the ma$$ media lately, as they tie f**King climate change to COVOID -- for the greater good, of course!

So how is your life doing, reader?

Also see:

"Just as millions of children are heading back to school, the World Health Organization says those aged 6 to 11 should wear masks in some cases to help fight the spread of coronavirus. The recommendations presented Monday follow the widespread belief that children under 12 are not considered as likely to propagate the virus as much as adults. Children in general face less severe virus symptoms than do adults, with the elderly the most vulnerable to severe infection and death. Now WHO says decisions about whether children aged 6 to 11 should wear masks should consider factors like whether COVID-19 transmission is widespread in the area where the child lives; the child’s ability to safely use a mask; and adult supervision when taking the masks on or off. The shift comes as confirmed COVID-19 infections worldwide have surpassed 23 million and confirmed deaths have passed 809,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University....."

The science has proven kids really transmit and suffer least, and is there anyone left in the world that believes the evil, lying bastards over at the WHO and related appendages, as it looks like even the AP is engaged in facilitating sex traffic.

"Angry, maskless spectators forced themselves into the Idaho House special session on the pandemic Monday, shattering a glass door, rushing into the gallery that had limited seating because of the virus and forcing lawmakers to ask for calm in a crowd that included a man carrying an assault-style weapon. After some people shoved their way past Idaho State Police, Republican House Speaker Scott Bedke allowed the gallery to fully open as long as the crowd stopped chanting and was respectful. “I want to always try to avoid violence,” he told the Associated Press later. “My initial reaction of course was to clear the fourth floor, but we had room for at least some more.” He said he was more disappointed than surprised at the violence. “I think we’re better than that,” he said. Several conservative lawmakers asked for calm and decorum from the gallery crowd that included a man armed with a semiautomatic weapon. The session started with a full gallery and few masks."

Look, you lying tyrants have left us no other choice and God bless the citizens of Idaho and the police who are on their side!

Related:

Virus cases in Netherlands nearly double week to week

I was told "coronavirus infections in the Netherlands have been on the rise since many restrictions that had successfully reined in the virus were lifted July 1," and  that's after Holland's top scientist came out and said masks don't work and they cause damage -- something that Google has scrubbed and which the Globe ignored.

They are also saying it Sweden, which never locked down, stay opened, and survived better than most.

"A resident of a Paris suburb says he was beaten with baseball bats because he asked a fellow laundromat patron to wear a face mask – a requirement in all indoor public places in France to fight resurgent coronavirus infections. Surveillance video of the attack published Tuesday by Le Parisien newspaper shows two people with bats and two others attacking a masked man inside the laundry facility then fleeing, leaving him face down on the floor....."

Sacre bleu!

Of course, the Globe completely ignored the hot coffee in the face or assault at Walmart by self-appointed social monitors that resemble the Stasi!

Now clean yourself up:

"Americans looking to purchase Clorox wipes may have to wait until next year until stores are fully restocked, according to the company’s chief executive. Demand for cleaning products and disinfectants has exploded since the pandemic began, and while Clorox officials had previously said consumers would find their cleaning supplies back on shelves this summer, the heightened demand continues to outpace the company’s ability to churn out more. Many disinfectant wipes are made from a material called polyester spunlace, which is in short supply because it is used to make personal protective equipment, such as masks and medical gowns, CEO Benno Dorer told Reuters. “We feel like it’s probably going to take until 2021 before we’re able to meet all the demand that we have,” he said....."

They want us dirty and unclean because it serves so many purpose, and they are just going by the book:

"Audible is rolling out a cheaper version of its popular audiobook service that includes original series fromHollywood talent, part of a drive to go beyond books and win over podcast listeners. The upcoming slate of new programs includes projects from musicians Common and St. Vincent, as well as actors Jesse Eisenberg and Kate Mara. The catalog was made available to existing Audible users Monday, and the new plan will go on sale later this week....."

I would rather suffer through the Globe than those elite $cum and frauds from the filth capital of the world.

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India’s virus infections top 50,000 for 7th-straight day

Ex-Colombian president tests positive for virus

Turkey initiates inspections, new measures to curb surge

Virus keeps tourists from Africa’s wildlife migration

Time for me to migrate to another post.

Where Were You When the Malls and Main Street Went Dark?

In a jazz club in Georgia:

"Amazon wins loyal Walmart shoppers as Americans stampede online" by Spencer Soper Bloomberg, August 12, 2020

Walmart shoppers are a pretty loyal bunch, but when virus-spooked Americans began avoiding stores earlier this year and shifting spending to online, far more Walmart customers went to Amazon.com than Walmart.com.

So even though Walmart too, has thrived amid the pandemic, Amazon is benefiting more.

When the coronavirus began spreading across the United States, Amazon stumbled at first. Shipping times lengthened and multiple products were out of stock. Some reports said the company’s vaunted customer service metrics were starting to slip. Amazon responded by hiring 175,000 people to keep its operations running as employees sickened or stayed away for fear of getting sick.

Amazon’s strategy, which included stepped-up safety measures in warehouses, eased investors’ fears, but few predicted the second-quarter earnings report that shattered Wall Street’s already optimistic expectations and forecast a continued surge in demand even as stores start to reopen. The shares have advanced more than 65 percent this year, compared with a 3 percent gain for the S&P 500.

Well, $omeone is getting rich beyond belief among$t the economic de$truction.

Turns out the online retail giant was perfectly situated to take advantage of a sudden shift in consumer behavior that, according to McKinsey, has compressed 10 years worth of online sales growth into three months.

A sudden shift, huh?

Amazon’s easily searchable website packed with hundreds of millions of products that can be delivered from warehouses scattered across the country stood out more than ever when the malls and Main Street went dark, and shoppers suddenly became quite forgiving of delivery delays. More than 8 in 10 thought holdups of a few days or longer were reasonable given the outbreak, according to a survey of 500 Amazon consumers conducted in June by Minneapolis-based Goat Consulting.

As always, consumers are mostly mission-shopping at Amazon, hitting the site with a list that now includes everything from hand wipes and masks to above-ground pools and home-office furniture, but another trend has emerged, too. People who once trolled the mall with no particular product in mind are starting to do the same on Amazon. Consider the surge in demand for shelves shaped like coffins and gigantic stuffed panthers — classic retail therapy for a panicked populace.

As for the first part of that, all I could think of was the disgusting jingle that is just what they need, while the second part is downright morbid and ghoulish with insult added to injury.

Coffin-shaped shelves are a therapy for the frightened populace?

Maybe it is time to put those advocating this evil and throwing it in your face to be put in a coffin forever.

Its website attracted 2.57 billion visitors in July, more than eBay, Walmart, Etsy, Home Depot, Target, and Best Buy combined, according to Marketplace Pulse.....

Bezos, owns WaPo, Bloomberg never mentions?

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Oh, look, the malls are already filling up again:

"Mall operator Simon Property Group has been in talks with Amazon about turning some empty mall spaces formerly occupied by anchor tenants like J.C. Penney and Sears into Amazon fulfillment centers, Dow Jones reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The discussions started before the pandemic, including the idea of buying out occupied space from retailers in some cases. Amazon has also been in talks with multiple mall landlords about putting its coming grocery-store chain in J.C. Penney locations, a person familiar with the matter told Dow Jones, though it couldn’t be determined if that included Simon malls. It wasn’t clear how many stores are under consideration by Amazon, and it’s possible an agreement won’t materialize, the newswire said. Simon’s stock has fallen 58 percent so far this year. It’s partnering with Brookfield Property Partners to bid jointly for J.C. Penney, which filed for bankruptcy protection in May. If Simon rents space as fulfillment centers, it would probably accept a considerable discount, Dow Jones said, but other tenants might not be pleased: Fulfillment centers don’t draw foot traffic to malls, and an agreement could help make Amazon even more competitive."

They aren't "competitive" enough even thought they dominate like a Goliath??

What was even more troubling on the Globe website was the advertisements for children's toys and masks gave me the creeps.

Even with light, there would be no paper to read:

"The Daily News is now a newspaper without a newsroom" by Marc Tracy New York Times, August 12, 2020

NEW YORK — In a move that was unthinkable before the coronavirus pandemic, Tribune Publishing said Wednesday that The Daily News, once the largest-circulation newspaper in the country, was permanently closing its newsroom at 4 New York Plaza in lower Manhattan.

Join the exodus as de Blasio and Cuomo will forever be known as the men who destroyed the greatest city in the history of mankind.

The tabloid will continue to be published and The Daily News was not the only Tribune Publishing paper to lose its office space Wednesday. A Tribune Publishing spokesman confirmed that the Annapolis, Md., newsroom of The Capital Gazette would also be shutting down.

The company also said that three other newspapers — the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., and the Carroll County Times in Maryland — will lose their newsrooms as well. They will continue to be published with employees working from home as they have been during the coronavirus pandemic.

Look, you can write some pretty good novels or poems looking out a window, but how do you actually do real reporting sitting in front of keyboard? By sending emails to contact people so you can to write your stories and.... wait a minute..... that's what we bloggers do!

You fools are now bloggers. 

Good luck making money at it!

I'm $ure you all have $pon$ors, but who will go there knowing it's all made up?! 

No real reporting going on because you are surfing a couch like the rest of us!

In its 20th-century heyday, The Daily News was a brawny tabloid that thrived when it dug into crime and corruption. It served as a model for The Daily Planet, the paper that counted Clark Kent and Lois Lane among its reporters, and for the tabloid depicted in the 1994 movie “The Paper.”

It has been in financial trouble for decades. Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the New York real estate developer and media mogul, bought the paper out of bankruptcy in 1993. He sold it to Tribune Publishing, then known as Tronc, in 2017 for $1. (That is not a misprint.)

Two years ago, the new owner slashed the newsroom staff in half and ousted its top editor, Jim Rich, who had reinvigorated the tabloid as an anti-Trump answer to The New York Post, the rival paper owned by Rupert Murdoch. The company replaced Rich with Robert York, a media executive who has spent most of his career in San Diego.

The longtime home of columnists Jimmy Breslin, Dick Young, and Liz Smith, The Daily News reveled in its role as the voice of the average New Yorker. Etched into the stone above the entrance of its former home, the Daily News Building on East 42nd Street, is a phrase attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “God must have loved the common man, he made so many of them.”

The paper moved downtown in 2011. With fewer readers buying copies from newsstands, The Daily News, under Tribune Publishing, has emphasized its website, and now its New York Plaza office is up for grabs.

“We have determined that we do not need to reopen this office in order to maintain our current operations,” Toni Martinez, a human resources executive at Tribune Publishing, wrote in an e-mail to the staff, which was reviewed by The New York Times. “With this announcement, we are also beginning to look at strategic opportunities and alternatives for future occupancy.”

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Looks like the Globe has the upper-hand when it comes to the contract negotiations.

Goodbye, Globe employees. Welcome to our ranks.

Did your employer and you wittingly know you were going to $elf-immolate your entire indu$try? 

Was this part of the Great Global Cull that they bargained for, or will the Globe -- $uch a$ it i$ -- survive?


You can go get your shot as the recession may linger because the antiviru$ efforts are failing, and funny(in a devili$h way) how $ome $ectors remain untouched after all these months despite the jockeying for po$ition.

Can be your own boss now:

"Americans Rush to Be Their Own Bosses as Covid Hits Job Market" by Michael Sasso Bloomberg News, August 12, 2020

Whether out of necessity or a fondness for working in one’s pajama bottoms, Americans are filing paperwork to become their own bosses at a clip one economist calls “off the charts.”

No dress code?

The number of people applying for Employer Identification Numbers, which new businesses file with the IRS, has doubled in recent weeks over year-ago levels and has outpaced the rate seen during the Great Recession. Most are so-called nonemployers such as sole proprietors, although economists have spotted a surprisingly strong increase in applications for businesses likely to hire staff.

Among the new entrepreneurs is Angie Bledsoe, a 43-year-old digital analytics professional in Kansas City, Mo., who was earning close to $150,000 a year until she lost her job in the pandemic’s economic shock. She initially hoped to return to her former employer when the economy rebounded, but she started calling contacts for job leads when that looked unlikely.

Eventually, the pandemic led her to reassess things. Why not start her own digital marketing firm and spend more time at home with her kids? she thought. “After exploring all of that, I went, ‘I really have this draw toward entrepreneurship, and maybe this is the opportunity I need to do that,’ ” Bledsoe said.

Been lockdown with lemons, make lemonade (have to drink it yourself, though).

Recessions often see an increase in people starting their own ventures as jobs evaporate, said John Haltiwanger, a University of Maryland economics professor who studies business formations. It happens at the same time that existing businesses are going bankrupt or quietly folding — in the pandemic downturn, thousands of small businesses have already disappeared across the country; however, “individuals are thinking, ‘What am I going to do?’ ” Haltiwanger said. “Particularly, ‘What am I going to do in this new normal?’ ”

The piece of $hit pre$$ profe$$or then makes a false comparison to the Great Recession of 2008-09.

Huiyu Li, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said applications for nonemployer businesses have grown strongly over the last few years, so the recent growth spurt is less surprising in that context; however, the increase in the past few weeks “has been off the charts,” she said.

It’s possible some are filing with the IRS to claim benefits under the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, which helps independent contractors and other self-employed people, but states typically require people to show income from 2019 to claim the assistance benefits.....

Is there theft or fraud going on?

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Related:

"National discount department store chain Stein Mart filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday after 112 years in business, and announced that it will close most, if not all, of its 280 stores....."

Other things the Globe is talking about:

"Tesla is splitting its richly valued shares in a 5-for-1 exchange, a move designed to make the stock less expensive for individual investors after the company become the world’s most valuable automaker. Each stockholder of record on Aug. 21 will receive a dividend of four additional shares of common stock for each one they own, the electric-car maker said in a statement. The shares, which have more than quadrupled since March to close above $1,600 last month, rose 7 percent before the start of regular trading Wednesday."

Musk is a cowboy of the modern day.

Related:

Lyft lost more than $437m in the second quarter

The coronavirus outbreak meant few people were looking to use its ride-hailing service (not what I was told yesterday), and it is your love that is lifting me higher, readers.

"Airbus is stepping up development of its newest plane, pouring resources into the A321XLR even as it pulls back spending on other projects to save cash. The jet, dubbed XLR for ‘‘extra long range,’’ would be the longest-distance version yet of Airbus’s top-selling A320-series narrow-body. It has racked up more than 450 orders since its launch last year, and the European planemaker sees it as resistant to the historic collapse in demand for aircraft brought on by the coronavirus. The model has proved attractive to carriers eager to fly further with the economics of a single-aisle plane, and now has 24 customers, including American Airlines, JetBlue, and United. Its range of 4,700 nautical miles is 15 percent more than the existing A321 LR."

That big old jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. oh, oh big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.

"Airbnb Inc. reported tumbling revenue and mounting losses in the second quarter, but the home-sharing startup is still eyeing a stock market debut before year’s end, according to people familiar with the matter. Revenue is down at least 67 percent from the more than $1 billion the company reported in the same period last year, a shift that reflects the magnitude of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global travel....."

"Microsoft began taking orders for its dual-screen Surface device in the United States on Wednesday, an attempt to re-enter the mobile handset market with a product that blends the features of a tablet with those of a phone. The Android-powered Surface Duo starts at $1,399 and will be available Sept. 10, said Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay. The device will be sold on Microsoft.com as well as by AT&T Inc. and Best Buy Co. It is the thinnest Surface ever, with screens that unfold completely to serve as a phone or act like a book to provide more space for different apps."

Who the hell is going to be able to afford another BG pos?

"Producers of maple syrup, a major agricultural product in northern US states, are now eligible for financial relief to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Maple syrup is an economic driver in states such as Vermont, New York, and Maine, which are the top three producers in the United States. The industry, like many sectors of agriculture, has taken a hit from the pandemic, which canceled events such as Maine Maple Sunday."

Oh, pour some sugar on me (in the name of love).

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Now raise your glass and cheer:

"Boston Licensing Board to host ‘emergency’ hearings following complaints about COVID-19 rule-breaking; The virtual hearings will take place this week with beer garden operators, and licensees in Allston, Brighton, the Seaport, and South Boston" by Steve Annear Globe Staff, August 12, 2020

When out on the town, people are apparently getting too close for the city’s comfort.

The Boston Licensing Board is holding a series of online hearings this week with liquor license holders across the city to address “numerous complaints” lodged against bars and restaurants for failing to comply with certain COVID-19 regulations.

Wow, when did Bo$ton turn into East Berlin?

The mandatory emergency meetings are being held with all businesses with a liquor license for on-premises alcohol consumption in the Seaport and South Boston, and all establishments in Allston and Brighton with a liquor license, officials said.

Officials said the board and the Inspectional Services Department have received complaints about people not practicing social distancing, business owners not monitoring patrons who are waiting in line, and not adhering to rules around smoking and pets on patios and other areas where food is served, among other issues.

The five hearings to address each group will take place via Zoom on Thursday and Friday.

I'll bet their $tock has done ju$t that.

Those who fail to attend their hearing this week could be subject to disciplinary action, officials warned in a public notice.

They need the tax revenue after unconstitutionally and criminally shutting the economy.

A board spokesperson said in a statement that the information hearings are meant to “engage in a dialogue with licensees, discuss complaints received, and also answer any questions. The vast majority of licensees in the city are good operators and are working hard to adapt their policies and procedures based on the incoming public health metrics and advisories,” the statement said.

Do you understand this?

The virtual hearings are similar to one held in June for North End restaurant owners. At that time, the city said it had received dozens of complaints about safety violations in the densely packed neighborhood, specifically about new outdoor dining spots along the streets and sidewalks.

The city said it would not tolerate any further violations of the rules because  “your right to occupy a city space is a privilege” as they do random inspections, and if a restaurant is found to be in violation of the rules, guests will be asked to leave immediately and the restaurant's license will be revoked on the spot.

Feel free to throw bottles and boo the tyranny.

During the hearing, officials said they planned to crack down on COVID-19 violations by conducting random checks.

Like a GE$TAPO -- except they let you party in the beer houses!

“Your right to occupy a city space for outdoor dining is a privilege,” said Kathleen Joyce, chairwoman of the Licensing Board, at the time. “With that privilege comes responsibility, and the responsibility includes following our rules and regulations — and not just some of them.”

I heard you the first time, bee-ach.

The hearings follow Governor Charlie Baker’s announcement last week that the state would delay its reopening plans and implement a series of steps to curb the spread of coronavirus, including reducing the limit on outdoor gatherings from 100 people to 50.

The cowardly tyrant dropped that decree late Friday evening before leaving for the weekend.

Baker also said officials will focus on ensuring that bars aren’t “masquerading” as restaurants by serving light snacks with alcoholic beverages. Several breweries temporarily closed their patio spaces this week in order to comply with Baker’s new rules on food and drinks.

Shove the witty pun where the sun don't shine, tyrant!

On Monday, the Licensing Board sent a letter with guidance about the state’s new rules.

The letter advised restaurant and bar owners to avoid the formation of lines and to “ensure that patrons waiting to be seated are wearing masks and social distancing.”

The letter, sent by Lesley Delaney Hawkins, the board’s general counsel, said the rules “will be strictly enforced by the Board and the Boston Police Department.”

Is that why they let all the murders and rapists out of the jails? 

To make room for those exercising their God-given freedoms?

“Claims of ignorance of the law, the Legislation, or the advisory are not a defense,” the letter said.

I warned you back in May that the soft police state would get rigidly hard!

Complaints on the BOS:311 online reporting service that date back a month show people filing grievances about a long line at a Seaport beer garden.

“ZERO social distancing at the line outside,” the complaint said. “At least 100 people crowded together.”

How about minding your own goddamn business, Ma$$hole?!

Nothing better to do in your wretched, pathetic life?

Another complaint last month said people were “all jammed up on one another with no social distancing” while waiting in line at a Seaport beer garden. The complaint included a picture of people standing close together without wearing masks.

In other neighborhoods cited in the Licensing Board’s hearing notices, people reported businesses not following social distancing rules and positioning outdoor tables “right on the sidewalk where people try to walk,” or allowing “drinking outside of patio space, people at bar and crowding.”

HOW DARE THEY!!??!!

Of course, race riot protests and the sacking of cities is just fine!

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Looks like no more hooking up, kids.

Related:

Mass. reports 229 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 18 new deaths

Yeah,  “RESPECT the VIRU$,” -- or el$e!

"Across the United States this summer, restaurants and bars, reeling from mandatory lockdowns and steep financial declines, opened their doors to customers, thousands of whom had been craving deep bowls of farro, frothy margaritas, and juicy burgers smothered in glistening onions, but the short-term gains have led to broader losses. Data from states and cities show that many community outbreaks of the coronavirus this summer have centered on restaurants and bars, often the largest settings to infect Americans. It is unclear overall what percentage of workers transmitted the virus among themselves or to patrons or whether customers brought in the virus. Since late June, scores of popular restaurants throughout the country, including in Nashville, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Milwaukee had to close temporarily because of cases among employees. Texas and Florida also had to close bars this summer after a surge of new cases hobbled those states....."

One thing I will say for the American people, they get pretty creative:

"The group crowded into the bus and began dancing, sipping drinks, and blowing hookah smoke into the air. For about a half-hour early Sunday, requisite masks and social distancing were nowhere in sight on board New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus #7239. It had been taken over for a pop-up party. Now, authorities are investigating the group of revelers, saying they broke multiple health and safety laws put in place amid the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s really an egregious, unfortunate incident that not only breaks the law, but also violates transit rules and puts our bus operator at risk, as well as putting the group at risk,” MTA bus president Craig Cipriano told reporters. It happened around 3:30 a.m. Sunday in Queens, according to CBS New York. By the time MTA supervisors showed up, the group had vanished. Noting drivers have encountered assault in recent months as they enforce coronavirus-related rules, Cirpriano said the transportation authority is “working with our NYPD partners to get more policing on buses.”

You are looking at the 21st-century speak-easy! 

Bravo!

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At least you can still go to the pub overseas:

"The British government on Wednesday changed the way it compiles coronavirus deaths, a move that reduced the country’s official death toll by more than 5,000. The Department of Health said the new total is 41,329, down from 46,706. That is still Europe’s highest death toll. The government announced last month that it was reviewing the way death statistics were compiled, after academics pointed out that in England the tally included anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19 and later died, with no cut-off point between positive test and death. That means some people recorded as coronavirus deaths may have died of other causes — and the proportion would increase over time. That could explain why England has been showing far higher daily death tolls than Scotland, which only counts deaths that occur within 28 days of a positive test. Public Health England said Wednesday that it will also adopt a 28-day cut-off date, bringing it into line with the rest of the UK. People who die more than 28 days after testing positive, but fewer than 60 days, will be added to the total only if COVID-19 appears on their death certificate."

They lowered it by more than that and it was reported a week ago, so WTF Bo$ton Globe?

Burying the overcounts while inflating the death totals?

Fooled again, huh?

The Globe should be ashamed of itself, except it is a shameless piece of $hit.

If they bought you an ice cream would it make everything all right?

"Relations between the British government and ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s chilled Wednesday in a spat over the treatment of migrants. The feud began Tuesday when the Vermont-based dessert brand directed a tweet at Britain’s interior minister, Home Secretary Priti Patel, who has vowed to stop asylum seekers crossing the English Channel from France to England in small boats. Hundreds of people have made the dangerous crossing in the past weeks of calm summer weather. The company tweeted: “Hey @PritiPatel we think the real crisis is our lack of humanity for people fleeing war, climate change and torture.”

Well, two out of three ain't bad and I'm grateful they are dead.

"Three people were killed and six others injured Wednesday when a passenger train derailed in northeast Scotland after heavy rain and flooding hit the area. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a police investigation will aim to find out what caused the derailment and ensure “nothing like this happens again. As I understand there was about a month’s worth of rainfall in a very short period, which undoubtedly aggravated the problem there,” he added....."

They were on the midnight train to Georgia that was the last train to Clarksville.

You can take your mask off at the station:

"On Tuesday, as Florida set a daily record for COVID-19 deaths, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods prohibited his deputies from wearing masks at work. His order, which also applies to visitors to the sheriff’s office, carves out an exception for officers in some locations, including hospitals, and when dealing with people who are high-risk or suspected of having the novel coronavirus. In an e-mail to the sheriff’s department obtained by the Ocala Star-Banner, Woods disputed the idea that masks are a consensus approach to battling the pandemic. ‘‘We can debate and argue all day of why and why not. The fact is, the amount of professionals that give the reason why we should, I can find the exact same amount of professionals that say why we shouldn’t,’’ Woods wrote in the e-mail. A majority of epidemiologists and other health experts say face masks and social distancing are key to slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has ravaged Florida. The state has recorded more than 542,000 cases and more than 8,600 deaths. Police nationwide have faced scrutiny over inconsistent use of masks by officers, even in large cities such as New York and Philadelphia where face coverings are mandatory. Many large departments only suggest that officers wear masks, ABC News recently found, while those that require them, including the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, make exceptions for incidents where masks might impede officers in the line of duty. Woods is among the first law enforcement officials to outright ban masks for his deputies, though. Meanwhile, in Miami, officials have issued more than $14,000 in fines to people who refuse to wear masks, though most of that has not been collected, The Miami Herald reported on Tuesday. Fines under the mask rule, which took effect last month, start at $50 per infraction but can reach $500 if left unpaid, and the state of Illinois, where coronavirus cases have been rising, enacted a measure on Friday making it a felony to assault a retail worker who is enforcing a mask-wearing policy....."

How do you expect them to replace all the lost tax revenue, and I'll bet he and his office come down with positive COVID test. 

The dissenters always do, as they empower retail workers to act like little Stasi enforcers. 

I hope they are prepared to have their ass beaten.

Also see:

"Colombian officials say they have arrested two Florida men wanted in the United States on charges they illegally sold a bleachlike chemical as a miracle cure for the coronavirus and other diseases. The Colombian prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that seven Americans had died from using the substance. Mark Grennon is the archbishop of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, based in Bradenton, Fla., which is centered on use of the toxic chemical as a supposed sacrament it claims can cure a variety of illnesses from cancer to autism to malaria and now COVID-19. A Miami federal judge in April ordered the self-styled church to stop selling the substance, but it was ignored. The organization also has operated in Mexico, Australia, and other countries....."

He should;d have gotten into the va¢¢one biz, and with all due respect, it looks like cover for a child-trafficking operation.

What do you think he was bringing back from Taiwan?

"A Chinese official lashed out at Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday for visiting Taiwan amid an ongoing pandemic back home, accusing him of putting politics ahead of the lives of the Americans. The comments came a day after Azar accused China of failing to warn the rest of the world about the coronavirus. “He abandoned the millions of people who are struggling with illness and visited Taiwan instead to stage a political show,” Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a daily briefing. The Trump administration has repeatedly accused China of withholding information from the World Health Organization and the international community as the virus began to take hold. China denies the charge, saying it communicated information as soon as it had it. On Wednesday, Azar visited a face mask factory and paid respect to the recently deceased former Taiwanese president, Lee Teng-hui, before leaving Taiwan."

Time for a moment of silence.