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"Looking for Signs of Economic Hope; Unemployment claims increased slightly last week, but remained near pandemic lows" by Ben Casselman New York Times, April 1, 2021
A year after they first rocketed upward, jobless claims may finally be returning to earth.
More than 714,000 people filed for state unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. That was up slightly from the week before, but still among the lowest weekly totals since the pandemic began.
In addition, 237,000 people filed for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, a federal program that covers people who don’t qualify for state benefits programs. That number, too, has been falling.
Jobless claims remain high by historical standards, and are far above the norm before the pandemic, when around 200,000 people a week were filing for benefits. Some 18 million people in total are receiving jobless assistance, many of them through programs that extend benefits beyond the 26 weeks that are offered in most states, but economists are optimistic that further improvement is ahead as the vaccine rollout accelerates and more states lift restrictions on business activity. Fewer companies are laying off workers, and hiring has picked up, meaning that people who lose their jobs are more likely to find new ones quickly.
I have been reading this same $hit for years, and there is no mention of restrictions and regulations via CVD or anything else!
The tone of this piece of $hit is like all's normal and how it used to be and should be, but isn't.
This article could be dated anytime in the last dozen years I've done this blog -- proving the propaganda pre$$ just shovels total slop every day and its getting beyond tolerable.
“We could actually finally see the jobless claims numbers come down because there’s enough job creation to offset the layoffs,” said Julia Pollak, a labor economist at the job site ZipRecruiter.
Economists will get a more complete, albeit less timely, picture of the job market on Friday, when the Labor Department releases data on hiring and unemployment in March. Forecasters surveyed by FactSet expect the report to show that U.S. employers added more than 600,000 jobs last month, the most since October.
Like we believe any of the lies this government spews through it's mouthpiece media.
Even better numbers probably lie ahead.
Probably?
Nothing like "qualifying" your "report!"
The March data was collected early in the month, before most states broadened vaccine access and before most Americans began receiving $1,400 checks from the federal government as part of the newly passed relief package. Those forces should lead to even faster job growth in April, said Jay Bryson, chief economist for Wells Fargo. “If you don’t get a barnburner in March, I think you’re probably going to get one in April,” he said.
It's you and I who are being torched in the 21st-century's Great Cull and Holocau$t™.
The biggest risk to the economy is as it has been for the last year: the coronavirus itself. Virus cases are rising again in much of the country as states have begun easing restrictions. If that upward trend turns into a full-blown new wave of infections, it could force some states to reverse course, which could act as a brake on the recovery, Bryson warned, but few economists expect a repeat of last winter, when a jump in Covid-19 cases pushed the recovery into reverse.
It wasn't the "viru$" that is a risk to the economy, it is state tyrants and their globali$t $tring-pullers.
More than a quarter of U.S. adults have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and more than two million people a day are being inoculated. That should allow economic activity to continue to rebound.
Still, Pollak cautioned that the job market would not return to normal overnight. Even as many companies resume normal operations, others are discovering that the pandemic has permanently disrupted their business model.
??????
Nothing is ever going to be normal again if the genocidal psychopaths of the pre$$ and their $tring-pullers are eliminated in any way possible.
It's sickeningly reached that point for we are dealing with pure evil that must be vanquished -- through the NONVIOLENT, NONCOOPERATION of us all -- a tall order given the divisive times we live in, mostly thanks to the pre$$ as the majority of Covid misinformation is conveyed by the media without question or correction and the same is true for any other issue and matter!
“There are still a lot of business closures and a lot of layoffs that have yet to happen,” she said. “The repercussions of this pandemic are still rippling through this economy.”
OMFG!!!!
Last two paragraphs totally blew away the thesis of the entire article!
That is the quintessential definition of shoveling shit!
Related:
"Wall Street kicked April off with a milestone Thursday, as a tech-company rally helped drive the S&P 500 past the 4,000 mark for the first time. The benchmark index finished 1.2% higher a day after closing out the first three months of the year with its fourth-straight quarterly gain. Microsoft rose 2.8%, Facebook gained 1.4%, Amazon.com added 2.2% and Google parent Alphabet closed 3.3% higher, among the winners, along with smaller companies, which stand to benefit from a quickly growing economy. The Russell 2000 index picked up 33.38 points, or 1.5%, to 2,253.90. Companies that would benefit from greater sales of electric vehicles also rose Thursday, a day after President Joe Biden outlined various measures to support their use as part of his infrastructure plan. Part of that plan includes installation of thousands of additional charging stations around the country. Electric-vehicle-charger operator ChargePoint gained 11.8%. Health care, household goods stocks and utilities were the only laggards. Technology stocks benefited from another drop in bond yields, which have been the driving force for the market for several weeks. The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell to 1.69% from 1.73% the day before. Higher bond yields make stocks seem more expensive by comparison, and tech stocks are among the most expensive after their significant rise last year. "What a great way to start the second quarter," said J.J. Kinahan, chief strategist with TD Ameritrade. "There's money out there looking to be put to work....."
We will get to blowhard Joe below, and that $$$ is concentrated in very few hands and in$titutions, not yours or mine!
CUI BONO from the mythical CVD!?
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At this point, I am flipping from the back of paper towards the front and this is what came up next:
"US manufacturing surges most since 1983, underscoring rebound" by Vince Golle Bloomberg, April 1, 2021
US manufacturing expanded in March at the fastest pace since 1983, catapulted by the firmest orders and production readings in 17 years. The data add to evidence of an economy poised to accelerate.
A gauge of factory activity jumped, according to Institute for Supply Management data released Thursday. Stronger growth in new orders and output highlight accelerating household and business demand as increased vaccinations, fewer pandemic-related restrictions, and fiscal relief provide a clearer path for the economic recovery.
Well, we will be "back in lockdown" -- let's face it, we never came out of it and never will if these monsters have their way. May God smote them where they stand.
’'The manufacturing economy continued its recovery in March,’' Timothy Fiore, chair of ISM’s Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, said in a statement. At the same time, purchasing managers ’'reported that their companies and suppliers continue to struggle to meet increasing rates of demand due to coronavirus impacts limiting availability of parts and materials.’'
Yuh-huh.
That's cover for the INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION of SUPPLY LINES and the GLOBAL ECONOMY as we are returned to medieval times!
Only the ruling cla$$ will have the planet as a playground.
All but one of 18 ISM manufacturing industries reported growth in March, led by textiles, electrical equipment and appliances, machinery, and computers and electronic products.
The US data mirror results from around the world.
Shortages of semiconductors have been particularly disruptive to the auto industry, where production in recent months has been restrained due to the lack of supply. On Wednesday, Ford announced it was idling plants that make its best-selling F-150 pickup truck because of chip shortages.
OMG!!!
That is SO ODD because JUST YESTERDAY I was told that consumers, emboldened by signs the COVID-19 crisis may be waning and fearful of potential vehicle shortages, snapped up new autos at pre-pandemic rates in the first quarter as the US car market’s recovery likely gained momentum according to analysts’ estimates, and the projected gain was powered by higher demand in anticipation of a return to offices and everyday travel as vaccination rates exceeded one-quarter of the population and I must tell you I'm exhausted by the endless $pew of bull$hit.
On a call with reporters, Fiore said that while manufacturers previously anticipated the supply-chain challenges would be resolved in several months, ’'there’s a feeling now that we’ll go into the summer or into late summer. That struggle will continue as demand continues to grow, which is positive.’'
President Biden announced Wednesday a sweeping infrastructure proposal that calls on Congress to invest $50 billion in semiconductor manufacturing and research.
Growing order backlogs, increased production, and faster orders growth have encouraged manufacturers to beef up head counts. The government’s monthly jobs report on Friday is projected to show manufacturing payrolls increased by 35,000 in March, the strongest in four months. Overall employment is forecast to rise 650,000.
Yeah, never mind that “there are still a lot of business closures and a lot of layoffs that have yet to happen and that the repercussions of this pandemic are still rippling through this economy.”
Meanwhile, lean business inventories suggest robust output and orders to factories will be sustained in coming months. With demand seen picking up in the summer months as more of the nation gets vaccinated against the coronavirus, producers may expect to see order books and assembly lines staying full.....
I'm also told air travel is already back to normal in some places by Quoctrung Bui and Sarah Kliff of the New York Times, and I hope you can understand why I canceled the flight.
Related:
"The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld federal regulators’ decision to ease ownership limits on local media, rejecting a claim that the change would hurt minority and female ownership. The court said the Federal Communications Commission acted reasonably in 2017 when it modified rules that predated the Internet. The old rules prohibited a single entity from owning a radio or TV station and a daily newspaper in the same media market. They also limited how many radio and TV stations one company could own in a single market and restricted the number of TV stations a company could operate in one media market. The decision comes as newspaper and broadcasting industries say they need the changes to deal with growing competition from the Internet and cable companies....."
Who cares when basically 6 corporations control 90% of the content?
Btw, your phone is ringing.
Let's face it, the new$ indu$try is literally a joke anyway so..... I'm glad the MASK is OFF!
"A record share of US small-business owners reported unfilled positions in March, and firms are starting to boost wages to attract talent, a report by the National Federation of Independent Business showed Thursday. Some 42 percent of firms had job openings last month, and 56 percent of owners reported adding workers or trying to hire in March. Nearly a quarter of those surveyed are planning to create jobs in the next three months, the second-highest reading since 2018. The data, out a day before the government’s monthly employment report, underscore how a loosening of business restrictions and a pickup in economic activity are encouraging firms to hire. Even so, an overwhelming number of small businesses are having trouble finding qualified applicants to fill open positions. More than 90 percent of owners looking to hire reported few or no “qualified” applicants for the jobs they were trying to fill last month."
Yes, EVEN SO = CROCK OF SHIT and SPEAKING OFF $TENCH, construction spending fell in February after several months of steady gains, likely because of unseasonably cold weather and winter storms in the south, the Commerce Department said Thursday and it's the latest in a series of heat records that are disproportionately outpacing the occurrence of cold extremes, largely the product of a changing climate and a planet whose temperatures are skewed hot (sigh).
Also see:
"With summer’s heat approaching, California’s plan for avoiding a repeat of last year’s blackouts hinges on a humble savior — the battery. Giant versions of the same technology that powers smartphones and cars are being plugged into the state’s electrical grid at breakneck speed, with California set to add more battery capacity this year than all of China, according to BloombergNEF. It will be the biggest test yet of whether batteries are reliable enough to sustain a grid largely powered by renewables. Last year, when the worst heat wave in a generation taxed California’s power system and plunged millions into darkness in the first rolling blackouts since the Enron crisis, many blamed the state’s aggressive clean-energy push and its reliance on solar power."
It's like what happened in Texas, and this where the world is headed, folks, if these psychopaths have their way.
See you in hell, you bastards!
"The amount of office space available in Manhattan is at the highest level in at least 30 years. The availability rate jumped to 17.2 percent in the first quarter, according to a report Thursday by Savills. Much of that was driven by a surge in sublease space, which reached 22 million square feet, 62 percent higher than before the pandemic, the real estate services firm said."
I was told they were heading back to the city until the rates went up and the cell is readied for Cuomo(?).
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Time to burn some oil:
"Heating oil industry fights effort to eliminate state’s rebates; Mass Save’s popular incentives, including no-interest loans, could end in January" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, April 1, 2021
The heating oil industry is fired up about a proposal to take away energy-efficiency rebates from its customers as part of a state-led effort to wean homeowners off fossil fuels.
At issue are priorities endorsed March 24 by the Energy Efficiency Advisory Council that include phasing out Mass Save rebates for new oil-fired systems for heat and hot water, as well as no-interest loans for homeowners to install them, as soon as January. Rebates for natural gas-fired and propane installations would be ratcheted back significantly.
“It’s simply not fair,” said Michael Ferrante, president of the Massachusetts Energy Marketers Association. “I wouldn’t say it’s going to cripple the industry, but it’s going to hurt us, and it’s going to hurt heating oil customers.”
That's the point.
It's all part of the Great Re$et, and the impotence of the oil indu$try to fight back and allow itself to be immolated proves there are higher powers that shouldn't be pulling strings, and it can only be one group: those who are in charge of the money supply, i.e. bank$ters.
The proposal from the council, which is chaired by the state energy resources commissioner, follows recommendations issued by the Baker administration in December for Massachusetts to reach “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050. The changes also line up with aggressive goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that were included in a sweeping climate law passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Charlie Baker last week. One provision allows municipalities to adopt net-zero building codes for new construction, which could effectively block fossil-fuel hookups in future projects.
The ONLY WAY YOU CAN DO THAT is ELIMATE 90-95% of the population, and they are INTENDED JUST THAT!
Don't take the shot!
Massachusetts electricity rates, meanwhile, are among the highest in the United States, nearly double the national average.
WHAT?
They will be skyrocketing under the net-zero plan, and all the elite plane rides for the likes of $cum Kerry must end.
It’s against this backdrop that the Massachusetts Energy Marketers Association, which represents about 400 heating oil dealers, finds itself about to lose Mass Save rebates, which range from $400 to $800 per installation, as well as access to the popular no-interest HEAT loans, to subsidize oil system installations. (The council recommends studying the impacts on low-income households before changing the incentives for those customers.)
Heating oil companies argue that their customers pay into Mass Save via electric bill surcharges and should be able to get rebates to upgrade their heating systems. Ferrante said he worries the utilities that work with state officials on the program have no incentive to support his industry. He said his association intends to challenge the changes in court if they are finalized.
“We’re under the microscope to be wiped off the map,” Ferrante said.
That is anti-semitic!
He noted that many heating oil suppliers have taken steps to address environmental impacts, by shifting to biofuel blends that have much lower carbon emissions. For example, nearly 80 dealers participate in a state-run program to encourage the use of biofuel, primarily discarded cooking oil, that can be blended with standard heating oil; they receive incentives funded by the penalties electric utilities pay for falling short of renewable energy goals.
Caitlin Peale Sloan, who heads Massachusetts policy efforts for the Conservation Law Foundation, said there isn’t enough discarded cooking oil from restaurants to go around for the heating oil industry to solely rely on it as a solution.
There will be even less if misanthropic psychopaths like her have their way.
“We are really scrutinizing all our fossil fuel incentives and will be careful about which fossil fuel incentives that will be retained in the next plan. This is not just about heating oil,” said Patrick Woodcock, the state energy resources commissioner. “We think that heat pumps should be integrated across the state . . . It’s a technological breakthrough that Massachusetts will seize. It’s just a matter of time. We do think that time is now.”
So what are they NOT $CRUTINIZING, 'eh, and are you SICK of the MEALY-MOUTHED EXCUSES YET?
Amy Boyd, a member of the efficiency council, said it and the utilities will hash out a final version by the end of October.....
They must $ubmit to the crime racket known as $tate government.
I gue$$ you will have to switch energy providers then:
"Attorney General Maura Healey ratcheted up the pressure on the retail electric supplier industry on Thursday, releasing a report showing that Massachusetts consumers who chose these suppliers over basic service with their electric utilities collectively ended up paying nearly $90 million more for electricity in each of the past two years. The study updates two previous reports issued by Healey’s office that showed similar levels of higher charges in earlier years. The newest report, written by utility consultant Susan M. Baldwin for Healey’s office, shows that many consumers who switched to competitive suppliers over the likes of Eversource and National Grid were billed at rates that were higher than what the utilities charged. The report also shows that low-income households still make up a disproportionately large share of the roughly 450,000 customers in the state’s individual competitive supply market, and pay particularly high prices in that market. Healey’s office said it has received more than 1,000 complaints in recent years about competitive suppliers engaging in aggressive sales tactics. A spokeswoman for the Retail Energy Supply Association said in an email that Healey’s office continues to rely on flawed data. Despite being told about the flaws, the spokeswoman said, the attorney general’s office “continues to release the same report with misleading and false information.”
Oh, she excels at that as she lays the groundwork for a run for governor with her grandstanding and the customers should have read the Fine Print (that's the price of blowhard Joe's printing of money called aid relief).
All of that was buried in the $ports section, and who cares?
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"Amid new evidence that Boston’s COVID positivity rate is continuing to climb, elected officials on Thursday urged residents to remain vigilant over the upcoming Easter and Passover weekend and acting mayor Kim Janey pleaded with residents to be cautious. “I want to take a moment to remind everyone that COVID-19 is still with us,” Janey said at a news conference. “We know everyone’s tired, but we’re really close. We just need everyone to hang in there a little bit longer.”
The carrot in front of the mule, and with “so much talk about the vaccine is providing a lot of hope for sure” so go get your shot as the company at the center of quality problems that led Johnson & Johnson to discard 15 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine has a string of citations from U.S. health officials for quality control problems. Emergent BioSolutions, a little-known company vital to the vaccine supply chain, was a key to Johnson & Johnson’s plan to deliver 100 million doses of its single-shot vaccine to the United States by the end of May, but the Food and Drug Administration repeatedly has cited Emergent for problems such as poorly trained employees, cracked vials and problems managing mold and other contamination around one of its facilities, according to records obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act. The records cover inspections at Emergent facilities since 2017. Johnson & Johnson said Wednesday that a batch of vaccine made by Emergent at its Baltimore factory, known as Bayview, cannot be used because it did not meet quality standards.
Better start ROLLING that SLEEVE BACK UP as the state remains in a struggle with the coronavirus more than a year after it arrived, and experts say fast-spreading coronavirus variants, pandemic fatigue and spring fever, and loosened restrictions could be behind a recent increase in cases with officials urging people to not let their guard down, while they try to vaccinate as quickly as possible.
Forget the mass murder in the nursing homes by the still popular tyrant that is now forgotten, and shame on him!
"Experts say ‘herd immunity’ could conquer COVID-19, but is it even possible?; Lively debate — and key unknowns — on how many people need to be vaccinated" by Adam Vaccaro Globe Staff, April 1, 2021
For months, the two words have been a beacon for a weary world, touted by public health experts and government officials: If we reach “herd immunity,” they say, we can stomp out the coronavirus, emerge safely from the pandemic, and return to normal life.
Well, a "new" normal as the Globe continues to peddle false hope.
The fact of the matter is WE HAVE ALREADY GAINED HERD IMMUNITY and NEVER NEEDED it for the seasonal cold and flu that was renamed CVD.
These fuckers are CRIMINALS now, ones who are continuously engaging in CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. They have gone too far and need to be punished.
The idea is a simple one: If enough people are vaccinated or otherwise become immune to the virus, it will run out of bodies to infect and eventually smolder out, but as the nationwide vaccine drive kicks into high gear, the concept of herd immunity is fraying under the scrutiny. Far from a clear target that we can aim for in vaccination programs, herd immunity has become a catch-all term that may mean different things to different people — and it’s not clear whether using the strategy to fully squelch the virus is even possible.
What is there left to say regarding true $cience and their credibility?
We ALL HAVE NATURAL IMMUNITY (for an alleged virus 97% of people survival and don't even know they had) if the hysterical fear-mongering and "undiagnosed, asymptomatic cases" are counted.
Public health specialists offer a wide range of estimates when suggesting the target number of people who must be protected from COVID-19 for herd immunity to stamp out the virus, ranging from 60 to 90 percent of the population. Massachusetts has set a goal of vaccinating about 75 percent of adults in the state — 4.1 million residents — but that’s only roughly 60 percent of its entire population, including children. It’s an ambitious goal, but no one is sure if it will be enough to reach the threshold.
The reason for all the uncertainty? There is still a lot that we don’t know about both the virus and the vaccines.
OMG!!!
Herd immunity itself is quite real, and we’ve seen it in action: Measles largely disappeared from the United States when about 95 percent of the population was immunized, according to the World Health Organization. Epidemiologists even have a formula to calculate how many people must be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity against any particular virus.
“It’s not hard to calculate if you knew all the numbers to put in,” said Dr. Marc Lipsitch, director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “What’s hard is to be sure about what numbers do go into it.”
They are still operating with flawed and faulty, $elf-$erving models is Lipshits.
Ever notice how your name is you?
Think about it: Dicks are, Colins are, as well as the old-fashioned Frank!
In interviews, public health experts explained why the concept is so tricky, but they also stressed that immunizing a high portion of the population is still crucial, even if it won’t fully eradicate the virus.
Then WHY GET THE TUBE of TOXINS that won't prevent transmission, won't prevent infection, won't let you discard the slave mask, and which most will survive?
Science is only "tricky" when you are spewing lies and propaganda, folks!
It's NOT COMPLICATED AT ALL!
Lipsitch and Pitzer both stressed that despite these hurdles, it remains highly important to vaccinate large portions of the population.
WHY, shitter?
Though the virus may not fully die out, a high uptake of vaccines would still substantially slow the spread — enough to potentially resume normal life, and if the virus will still circulate, protecting those most vulnerable would become especially critical.
POTENTIALLY, AND IF!
What WEASEL WORDS -- with profuse apologies to weasels for the comparison -- for a "report" that would EARN YOU an F in Writing 101!
“If we can turn this into a disease that is harmful, but to a smaller number of people, and on a smaller scale in terms of the hospital system, we will then decide as a society, as we do with the flu . . . to try to reduce it, but not to disrupt life on the same scale we’ve disrupted life so far to control it,” Lipsitch said. “We should not despair.”
Oh, I'm not.
I'm furious!
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ALWAYS WAS!
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Time to find a new gig:
"Joe Biden has vowed to be “the most pro-union president” and helped back that up by choosing Martin J. Walsh, a former union leader, as labor secretary, but some progressives aren’t happy with Biden’s pick for another job — this one a labor policy position inside the White House — that is filled by a Washington veteran who they said brings troubling baggage on the key issue of expanding protections to gig economy workers. Seth Harris, who spent a dozen years in the Labor Department and served as acting secretary for six months in the Barack Obama administration, was named in February as deputy assistant to the president for labor and economy. He was the principal labor policy adviser to Biden’s campaign and reportedly was a leading candidate for labor secretary. Union leaders who’ve known Harris for years have publicly supported the choice, but the appointment has raised alarms in parts of the progressive community because of work by Harris in recent years that they consider unfriendly to organized labor, particularly coauthoring a 2015 paper that factored into a rollback by voters last fall of groundbreaking protections for gig economy workers in California. They worry that he might try to dissuade the White House from expanding labor rights for ride-sharing drivers and other contract workers in an issue that is playing out in Washington as well as states like Massachusetts, but expanding unions is a priority for Biden and Walsh, but some progressives were angry that Harris coauthored the paper, which was used as “a template for Proposition 22,” said Nelson Lichtenstein, director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the the University of California, Santa Barbara. Progressives also were upset that Harris worked for Dentons, a giant law firm that has represented Walmart in labor disputes, although but....."
There isn't enough room in the tent, and even so...... (SIGH!)
Related:
"The White House has directed the Interior Department’s chief of staff, Jennifer Van der Heide, to step away from her position after she tried to plan an indoor party with roughly 50 attendees to celebrate the confirmation of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, according to an administration official with knowledge of the matter. White House officials had initially expressed concerns last week about the planned party, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record. The White House officials worried that the party would spread the virus while undermining President Biden’s efforts to urge Americans to continue to practice social distancing to avoid a possible new surge. Van der Heide will remain at the Interior Department as a senior counselor to Ms. Haaland, while Larry Roberts, who served as the agency’s acting assistant director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Obama administration, will become Haaland’s new chief of staff....."
Really on the warpath is Joe!
"White House may attempt to advance $2 trillion infrastructure package without GOP votes" by Jeff Stein and Tony Romm Washington Post, April 1, 2021
WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Thursday suggested that the administration is willing to advance its $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan with no Republican support, setting the stage for another bruising spending battle in Washington.
They don't need your support, and never will. Wake up.
While stressing the White House hopes to secure GOP support, Klain signaled that the administration is willing to use the Democrats’ narrow majorities in the House and the Senate to approve legislation aimed at rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure and confronting climate change.
Republicans have balked at Biden’s sprawling initiative since its introduction on Wednesday, leveling particularly fierce criticism at proposed tax hikes on businesses that would reverse much of their 2017 tax law.
’'Let’s work together, and see if there’s a way for us to deliver this,’' Klain told Politico. ’'In the end, let me be clear, the president was elected to do a job, and part of that job is to get this country ready to win the future. That’s what he’s going to do. We intend to deliver.’'
The strain of the Great Cull and Great Re$et is telling because that demented and perverted fossil looked guilt-ridden yesterday in announcing the nation-destroying infra$tructure bill.
Lawmakers of both major political parties have traditionally supported infrastructure investments, but Republicans have never backed the extent of clean energy policies or tax hikes Biden’s new plan entails. If Republicans unify in opposing the measure, Democrats could pass it through the Senate with their narrow majority through a parliamentary procedure called budget reconciliation that allows them to avoid the 60-vote threshold necessary to end a filibuster. The 100-seat Senate is split 50-50 between Republicans and lawmakers who caucus with Democrats, though Vice President Kamala Harris can cast a tiebreaking vote.
The comments from Biden’s chief of staff mark the beginning of the legislative wrangling expected to ensue for months over the White House’s major domestic policy initiative. Biden’s American Jobs Plan would devote more than $600 billion to physical infrastructure, such as roads, bridges and highways; about $400 billion to clean-energy credits; more than $200 billion to housing; and hundreds of billions to fixing the nation’s electric grid, high-speed broadband, and lead water pipes.
Congressional Republicans have panned the White House plan, saying it is full of wasteful spending and would be damaging to American businesses. Biden’s proposal would raise at least $2 trillion in taxes, by increasing the corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 21 percent and bringing the global minimum tax to 21 percent, among other increases.
Speaking in Kentucky on Thursday, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, criticized the proposed tax increases as a ’'big mistake.’' While GOP lawmakers support infrastructure investments, McConnell said, Congress can’t afford to ’'whack the economy with major tax increases or run up the national debt even more.’'
Screw him. He's a traitor to this country.
Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, the senior Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, similarly criticized the president’s infrastructure proposal as a ’'clear attempt to transform the economy by advancing progressive priorities in an unprecedented way.’'
’'The proposal would aggressively drive down the use of traditional energy resources and eliminate good-paying jobs in West Virginia and across the country,’' she added in a statement. ’'Perhaps worst of all, it would burden the American economy with tax increases as our country attempts to recover from economic hardship.’'
’'We know it has bipartisan support in the country, so we’ll try our best to get bipartisan support in Washington,’' Klain said. He added: ’'You can go any given week to any Rotary Club in America and find elected leaders at every level of government’' who support replacing lead pipes and rebuilding other infrastructure.....
That's not all it is, far from it, and remember managing water is the government’s “most important policy challenge,” and I know he ate lead as child, but ‘‘I'm sure when [he] was 2 years old [he] was somewhere eating a paint chip,’’ he said with a chuckle, and he encouraged parents to get medical checkups for their children and ‘‘they will be fine . . . as long as we’re looking after them’’ -- except they WON'T because the DAMAGE is PERMANENT!
Isn't it great to have the Demorats back in charge again?
I'd say call a cop, but as sad as that story is, it has absolutely nothing to do with the charges and events in question and it shows how weak is the case.
It's almost as if the trial is being designed for acquittal so that the cities will burn again and a race war can be started -- and thus advancing the calls for more totalitarian tyranny and police state.
Don't mess with Texas, though, and with all due respect, I am sick of the whining of the pre$$ after all the insults. Fuck them.
Related:
"President Biden held his first Cabinet meeting Thursday, a day after rolling out his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, with the socially distanced participants gathering in the East Room of the White House — a less cramped space than the Cabinet Room. The meeting came just over 10 weeks into Biden’s presidency, a period in which the Senate confirmed all of his Cabinet secretaries and almost all of his nominees to other Cabinet-level positions. Biden began by delegating five secretaries — Pete Buttigieg at Transportation, Marcia L. Fudge, at Housing, Gina Raimondo at Commerce, Jennifer Granholm at Energy, and Marty Walsh, at Labor — as his emissaries on infrastructure. “These Cabinet secretaries will represent me in dealing with Congress, engage the public in selling the plan, and help work out the details as we refine it and move forward,” said Biden. The president, seeking to cement the inroads he made among Midwestern voters last fall, reiterated his intention to enact a governmentwide “Buy American” initiative to encourage the use of domestic vendors and suppliers on federal projects....."
He REALLY is MR GREEN SCREEN, and when is he delivering the State of the Union?!
Oh, he will be throwing the first pitch instead, got it.
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Let the DESTRUCTION BEGIN:
"Addressing a ‘racist highway’ in New Orleans is part of Biden’s infrastructure plan" by Ian Duncan Washington Post, April 1, 2021
Since she moved back home to Tremé almost a decade ago, Amy Stelly has waged a campaign for the removal of a highway that cuts through her New Orleans neighborhood.
She struggled to get support from local leaders. Neighbors considered the quest to be wishful thinking.
“Nobody thinks you can get rid of a highway,” she said.
On Wednesday, Stelly’s effort gained a considerable boost when the White House named the highway, the Claiborne Expressway, an example of a historic inequity that President Biden’s new infrastructure plan would seek to address through billions in new spending.
Stelly didn’t know the road had been singled out until a reporter called.
“I’m floored,” she said. “I’m thrilled to hear President Biden would call out the Claiborne Expressway as a racist highway.”
This has reached the point of such absurdity it is incomprehensible.
Related:
"They are calling the interstates racist, and will be ripping them out for that reason alone. this is not an april fools joke. For starters, once the interstate in Baltimore is ripped out, there will be no interstate between Washington DC and New York. They'll be ripping one out in New York also, to kill traffic worse. Several others in absolutely key areas are also already slated for death. I am not making this up, it is happening. This is not april fools. I am not making this up. The actual total transit outlay is a little over 300 billion with some of that going to dead end rail projects and other assorted busy work. The remainder of the 2.5 trillion goes to paying off corrupted officials. Of the 300 billion actually going into supposed infrastructure, 120 billion is going into rail, and a starter amount of $20 billion is going directly into destroying roads. My guess is that ALL 180 billionwill go into destroying roads and $0 will get spent putting new infrastructure in, the infrastructure bill is probably about destroying the United States manually so they don't have to drop bombs to get it done. REPEAT: Biden's infrastructure bill is not about building new infrastructure, it is instead a budget to destroy what we already have. They are not brave enough to say this yet and have only admitted to a portion of the money going to nothing but destruction, but just watch, here is what will happen: "Racist" interstates will be destroyed because they are "racist" and no replacements will actually be built because "three toed tree frogs" are in the way. 100 percent of the money that is being hoaxed as actually for putting in new infrastructure will be dissolved into the 2.2 trillion they are stealing outright. If 90 percent of the infrastructure buget is theft, graft and pork barrel, expect 95 percent of it to be that instead, and 5 percent of 2.3 trillion can pay for the total destruction of everything if it is all focused on key locations, a trillion is a LOT. An Enemy took over America via a stolen election, and is promptly proceeding to destroy the country as rapidly as they possibly can. Only your worst enemies bomb roads and bridges, and that's exactly what these people are And the snowflakes will never see it, because the "bombs" will be planned demolitions and jack hammers, - they will not be dropping them from the sky. In today's America, they don't have to. They'll give an AMERICAN a fat paycheck to destroy his own country, and he'll do it." -- Jim Stone
I thought he was off the rails yesterday, but it turns out he is right.
Stelly, an architectural designer, is part of a growing movement across the country to take down highways bored through neighborhoods predominantly home to people of color. Most were created as the federal government worked to connect the nation after the birth of the interstate highway system. Many such highways are reaching the end of their 50-year life span, raising the question of whether they should be rebuilt or reimagined.
Just like the statutes of our history because THAT is what COMMUNI$TS DO!
Mao called it the Cultural Revolution, and murdered 25 million people, and then there is the Khmer Rouge experience that is now lost to history and minimized.
“It’s the same in many Black communities, not only in Louisiana,” Stelly said. “It’s great the federal government and this administration is recognizing that this is something that must be corrected if we are to be fair and just in America.”
By being unjust towards others.
The elevated Claiborne Expressway was built atop Claiborne Avenue and completed in 1968. From her second-floor porch, Stelly can see a ramp to the highway rising up from the street. She said air pollutants stick to her home.
Beneath the highway, the wide median of the old Claiborne Avenue is still largely intact. It used to be a busy thoroughfare. Stelly wants it restored to something like its former condition.
All that traffic going through a city street?
One can see the deaths already, and are there stoplights and stuff because that will back up the spew she is compiling about!
She CAN'T BE THAT STUPID, can she?
A spokesman for New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said she appreciated the Biden administration’s acknowledgment of “the devastation to surrounding African American businesses” the highway construction has caused.
Biden’s plan calls for a $20 billion fund to “reconnect” neighborhoods cut off by old transportation projects. Documents released Wednesday by the White House provided little detail about how the money could be used, but the projected cost of taking down highways varies from a few hundred million dollars to billions.
And there it is.
Conspiracy theorists?
BAH!
“This plan is important not only for what and how it builds, but [it’s] also important to where we build,” Biden said Wednesday. “It includes everyone, regardless of your race or your ZIP code. Too often, economic growth and recovery is concentrated on the coast. Too often, investments have failed to meet the needs of marginalized communities left behind.”
Yeah, they care about flyover country.
I suppose there is no amount of idiocy they don't expect you to believe, or just don't care!
Support in Washington for taking down highways or mitigating problems they caused has grown in recent years. Senate Democrats, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, included $10 billion for highway removal in an economic justice bill introduced late last year. During the Obama administration, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx launched a program that encouraged communities to rethink highways and design ways to cross them.
How about FIXING the ONES we have, and WHERE DID ALL THE MONEY GO ALL THESE DECADES?
The White House plan is part of an effort by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to advance racial equity alongside work on the environment and safety. Communities of color often suffer most from highway pollution.....
Using race as a cover (like CVD) and they are literally going to destroy country and turn it into a medieval hellhole (think Gaza, folks) with the planet the playground of the uber-elite.
Oh, yeah, they also want to rename it (what an insult to all Americans), according to the buzz from Neil Vigdor of the New York Times.
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$peaking of pests:
"The Biden administration on Thursday morning announced an ambitious advertising campaign intended to encourage as many Americans as possible to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The campaign, with ads in English and Spanish that will air throughout April on network TV and cable channels nationwide, as well as online, comes as the administration is rapidly expanding access to coronavirus vaccines but skepticism about the vaccines also remains high. President Biden announced last week a new goal of administering 200 million doses by his 100th day in office, doubling his initial goal of “100 million shots in the arms” of Americans that he set when he was inaugurated. And last month, in an address to the nation, he announced a goal of making all adults in the United States eligible for a vaccine by May 1. Governors and public health officials in more than 40 states have said that they will meet or beat that deadline, but deep skepticism about the vaccine remains a problem, particularly among Black people, Latinos, Republicans and white evangelicals, and an episode at a plant in Baltimore manufacturing two coronavirus vaccines, where workers accidentally conflated the ingredients, could also increase anxiety. Administration officials still expect to soon face the possibility of supply exceeding demand if many Americans remain reluctant to be vaccinated. With cases rising in some parts of the country again and variants spreading, getting as many people as possible vaccinated will be critical to containing the pandemic and allowing a return to a more normal way of life.
There they go again with the false promises of a "more normal," not normal way of life as they endlessly jab at us, and it looks like a diverse population that is suspect, 'eh?
All in the boat rowing against the genocidal tide, huh?
Two hundred and seventy-five organizations will participate in the administration’s new public awareness push — including NASCAR, the Catholic Health Association of the United States and the North American Meat Institute — that is aimed at communities where vaccine hesitancy remains high. Among the organizations are many Catholic and evangelical groups that are expected to help address religious concerns about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which uses abortion-derived fetal cell lines. The group is collectively called the Covid-19 Community Corps, administration officials said, and participating organizations are able to reach millions of Americans who trust those individual groups. A new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation this week found that the number of Black adults willing to be vaccinated had increased substantially since February, but 13 percent of respondents over all said that they would “definitely not” get a vaccine. Among Republicans and white evangelical Christians, almost 30 percent of each group said that they would “definitely not” get a shot....."
Stay strong and prepare to meet you maker after the persecution because they are “not always the best messengers,” and the full list of participating organizations includes health professionals, scientists, community organizations, faith leaders, businesses, rural stakeholders, civil rights organizations, sports leagues and athletes and to press that point even more, the Department of Health and Human Services has separately bought a multimillion-dollar ad in Black and Spanish-language media, as well as in outlets that reach Asian-Americans and tribal communities, reinforcing the message about the safety and efficacy of coronavirus vaccines.
That's right, YOUR TAX LOOT is going to be used to propagandize you to take their poison, and those participating in the program make me even more adamant about politely dealing their offer.
TAX LOOT!
Incredibly, the New York Times says declines in testing may be masking real spread of virus in parts of U.S., but IF SO then we ALL HAVE NATURAL HERD IMMUNITY and there is NO NEED for SHOTS!
"An updated analysis of clinical trial data shows that the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine continues to offer strong protection without serious safety concerns, the companies said on Thursday. The new data also suggested that the vaccine works against a worrisome virus variant in South Africa, although more studies are needed, experts said. Pfizer and BioNTech made the announcement in a news release. The data have not been peer-reviewed nor published in a scientific journal. Dr. Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s chief executive, said in a statement that the new data “confirm the favorable efficacy and safety profile of the vaccine” and will allow the companies to submit an application to the Food and Drug Administration for full approval....."
I'll bet the $tock price rose on the $elf-$erving announcement, and do you have your new staple: a small white vaccine card?
I suggest burning it like the draft notices, and MAY THESE MONSTERS BURN in HELL for ALL ETERNITY:
"The think tank behind the annual gathering of world leaders in Davos, Switzerland, says the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting gender parity in the workplace, but time will tell whether the damage to women’s roles in the economy proves permanent. The World Economic Forum predicted Wednesday that gender parity -- already not expected for a century -- will have to wait dozens more years to come about because of the coronavirus’ impact. It said the hard-hit consumer, retail, travel and tourism industries tend to be large employers of women. “The pandemic has already begun to show partial impact on the data, and it’s not looking like great news for gender equality in the future,” said forum managing director Saadia Zahidi in an interview. “It remains to be seen if some of this is permanent scarring in the labor market,” she added. The forum says that when some care-industry workplaces closed, “housework, childcare and elder care responsibilities fell disproportionately on women,” and data shows hiring rates for women, particularly in leadership roles, were lower than for men, Zahidi said. Meanwhile, fast-growing sectors in technology, computing and engineering have disproportionately low representation of women, the forum said. The forum said countries can work to close their gender gaps with strategies like investing in the care sector, ensuring equal work-leave time for men and women, and setting policies that can help improve unbiased hiring and promotion practices....."
They are like a BATTERER HUSBAND since that group of mon$ters is primarily responsible for the CVD $CAM and are benefitting the most!
They are the SAME PEOPLE that are calling for all of us to eat insects because it is GOOD GRUB!
Open wide, you f**kers!!!
That goes for the Globe communi$ts, er, columnists, and FOR PURPOSES of CLARIFICATION that is IN NO WAY a THREAT or INCITEMENT.
I would advise anyone to NOT WASTE YOUR TIME HARMING THEM.
SHUN THEM INSTEAD, and STOP LISTENING TO THEM!
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Now for the final test (open book, right?):
"Last week, a 24/7 video feed of scofflaws blowing through the red sign became a must-watch event on the livestreaming website Twitch. Soon after it rippled through the Internet, thousands of viewers poured onto the video channel, “StopSignCam,” with some watching for hours to see which cars would choose to obey the law as they approached. The camera is now broadcasting a different intersection in the city, after neighbors had privacy concerns, but the original feed gained so much attention, city officials are now taking a hard look at how they might fix the traffic issue, said David Kucharsky, director of traffic and parking in Salem. “We’ve already started looking at it,” said Kucharsky, who briefly watched the video feed and called the lack of compliance concerning....."
Traffic is way down because of CVD, so this is simply MORE TOTALITARIAN SURVEILLANCE with the ADDED BONUS of TURNING a MOB AGAINST PEOPLE!
You wonder then why I don't care how Rhode Island’s takeover of Providence schools unraveled before it really got started, or the untold story of Rhode Island’s first lady (wow, nice outfit, and even showing a little bit of leg?).
What the hell is going on over there anyway?
I mean, if I didn't know any better, I would say the Globe ad service is a pimp.
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"An alleged serial rapist has been charged with assaulting a ninth woman after Boston police discovered he recorded a sexual assault on an “unconscious or semi-conscious or unresponsive” woman in 2018 that lasted at least 46 minutes, authorities said Thursday. Alvin R. Campbell Jr., of Cumberland, R.I., allegedly posed as an Uber driver to target intoxicated women leaving nightspots in downtown Boston between 2017 and 2019, according to the Suffolk District Attorney’s office. Campbell, 39, was first charged in 2019 with raping a 26-year-old woman, an assault he allegedly recorded on his cellphone. After that arrest, detectives found video recordings of attacks on seven other women, prosecutors said. Campbell has been held in custody without bail since he was indicted last year. Detectives obtained a search warrant to investigate the cloud storage linked to Campbell’s cellphone, authorities said. Campbell is the brother of Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell, who previously told the Globe she’s “extremely heartbroken and saddened and devastated by these allegations.”
That explains the placement on page B2, and they weren't close, so..... it's all history now.
He's now on thin ice (even though the Canadiens won the next two games to take the championship, 4-2) and will have to take his shot in court and I just want to apologize to any and all readers who made it this far and had to put up with that unpleasant experience -- and say thank you for your time.
