Old Wives Tales, Superstition of any kind, Trumpism or Moralizing will result in a more dangerous virus.

September 19, 2021
By Kristen Jordan Shamus

Despite the widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines (click here) and easy access, the U.S. has fallen behind 40 other countries in getting its people fully vaccinated in a pandemic that is still raging.

About 55% of Americans have gotten at least two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or a single shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, according to Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center. That compares with top-ranked Malta, which has fully vaccinated 83% of its population. Our Canadian neighbors have a 70% vaccination rate. China is at 72%. The UK is at 66%.

And though the pace of vaccinations rose slightly in August, it has trended downward the last two weeks.

At this rate, "by the end of September, the U.S. will have the lowest vaccination level of all prosperous democracies, With the largest supply & the biggest head start," Andy Slavitt, who stepped down in June as senior adviser to the White House pandemic response team, said in a tweet last week....

The reason some health care workers resist being vaccinated is because they don't understand or CONSENT to the science.

14 September 2021
By Elie Dolgin

How mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Work (click here)

...Realizing that this discovery (click here) might have far-reaching potential in medicine, Malone, a graduate student at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, later jotted down some notes, which he signed and dated. If cells could create proteins from mRNA delivered into them, he wrote on 11 January 1988, it might be possible to “treat RNA as a drug”. Another member of the Salk lab signed the notes, too, for posterity. Later that year, Malone’s experiments showed that frog embryos absorbed such mRNA2. It was the first time anyone had used fatty droplets to ease mRNA’s passage into a living organism.

Those experiments were a stepping stone towards two of the most important and profitable vaccines in history: the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines given to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Global sales of these are expected to top US$50 billion in 2021 alone.

But the path to success was not direct. For many years after Malone’s experiments, which themselves had drawn on the work of other researchers, mRNA was seen as too unstable and expensive to be used as a drug or a vaccine. Dozens of academic labs and companies worked on the idea, struggling with finding the right formula of fats and nucleic acids — the building blocks of mRNA vaccines.

Today’s mRNA jabs have innovations that were invented years after Malone’s time in the lab, including chemically modified RNA and different types of fat bubble to ferry them into cells (see ‘Inside an mRNA COVID vaccine’). Still, Malone, who calls himself the “inventor of mRNA vaccines”, thinks his work hasn’t been given enough credit. “I’ve been written out of history,” he told Nature....

Any private detention facility and/or prision needs to be transitioned into publicly owned faciliites.

September 23, 2021

By Salvador Rivera

Community organizations (click here) are calling on the Biden administration to uphold its promise and commit to closing the Western Regional Detention Center in downtown San Diego.

It is operated by a private corporation called the GEO Group.

In January 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order directing the Attorney General to “not renew Department of Justice contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities.”

The order included the Western Region Detention Facility, which can hold up to 770 people.

Its contract was set to expire on Sept. 30.

But GEO announced yesterday that its contract with the U.S. Marshals has been extended for six months, allowing it to continue operating while it looks at ways of extending its operations despite the executive order.

“President Biden forbid the Department of Justice from renewing the contract,” said Bardis Vakili, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego.

According to Vakili, GEO has found a loophole to continue operating the detention facility....

Steve Scalise should check the facts before he boasts about Trump's job record.

"Oh, but, we shut down the country."

That is exactly correct.

And, why was the country shut down? Because Trump took all the scientists in China that monitored such events as a virus outbreak off the budget and brought the scientists home. The job losses are a direct result of that Trump policy.

A DIRECT RESULT OF A PRESIDENT PLACING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HARMS WAY.

January 8, 2021
By Andrew Van Dam

President Trump (click here) took office at the crest of the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. He leaves presiding over the worst labor market in modern U.S. history, as an already-sputtering economic recovery has turned negative.

Friday’s awful jobs report from the Labor Department showed there were still 3 million fewer jobs in the United States than there were on Inauguration Day 2017, when Trump stood in front of the Capitol and vowed to reverse the American carnage.

No other modern president has left the U.S. with a smaller workforce than it had when they took office. Since the government started keeping track in 1939, no other president has even seen significant job losses during a single presidential term — though job growth during George W. Bush’s first four years in office was essentially flat....

This is interesting. Remember how Defunding the Police took such a beating in the right wing media?

That probably won't be the chant of the political right-wing by the next election in 2022. Defunding the Police was never about taking monies away from necessary police staffing. Defunding the Police was about changing the structure of LAW ENFORCEMENT.

There is change occurring, but, it isn't about funding shortages, it is about staffing shortages. That staffing shortage is now taking shape to bring 

September 26, 2021
By Tony Plohetski

Austin Police Department officials (click here) are finalizing plans to dispatch civilians instead of police officers to certain types of calls that do not involve emergencies as a way to maximize patrol staffing and respond to reformers' demands for change.

Interim Police Chief Joe Chacon hinted at his plan Wednesday during an announcement that he would step into the job permanently, pending City Council confirmation Thursday.

On Friday, the department released more information about the plan, which is likely to be announced this week.

"The Austin Police Department regularly reviews response policies and procedures to ensure APD prioritizes calls with an immediate threat to life or property over non-emergency calls for service," the department said in a statement. "As a result of a recent review ... recent staffing challenges and aligning with the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force patrol response recommendations, APD will change call routing and response for non-emergency calls for service effective Oct. 1."...

What is your mask efficacy? Seriously. There may be a difference enough to prevent "the spread."

Vaccination is the answer. I have heard complaints from people who received the J&J vaccine that they got the virus anyway. The J&J vaccine was never about PREVENTING any illness so much as PREVENTING hospitalization. So when I hear anyone state the vaccines don't work because they got the virus anyway, I ask what vaccine they received and when they state J&J, I simply state what they don't seem to remember. The J&J vaccine prevented hospitalization and not illness. Asked if they were hospitalized, the answer is always No.

There needs to be Mask Awareness for the country so they understand all masks are not alike.

September 21, 2021
By Kim Dacey

Baltimore - Wearing masks has become a part of life (click here) over the last year and a half, but with the more contagious delta variant, how can you be sure your cloth mask is still protecting you?

Many have been wearing some of the same cloth masks for the last year and a half, and while experts say there's no specific timeframe to replace them, it's a good idea to check certain key points to make sure they're still doing their job.

"The cloth mask that I wear is meant to protect you and the cloth mask you wear is meant to protect me," said Dr. Esti Schabelman, chief medical officer of Sinai Hospital.

But now that the delta variant is on the scene, can cloth masks protect you from getting sick? Doctors say it is the most contagious COVID-19 variant yet.

"People who are infected with the delta variant shed a lot more virus than other versions of this virus, so any mask is going to be less protective against, for example, the alpha variant," said Dr. Amesh Adalja of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health....

Why is Senator Krysten Sinema being difficult about an obviously affordable budget along with Manchen?

Because Sinema and Manchen have their funding interests elsewhere. Sinema's donors with the heaviest donations are Security and Investment with Goldman Sachs weighing in in that group of donors.

September 3, 2021
By Alex J. Rouhandeh

Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee (click here) are discussing proposals to implement a variety of new taxes in an effort to fund President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package.

According to a document circulated to a number of news outlets, the taxes could include a levy on stock buybacks where a company repurchases shares it originally placed on the market. The move could also reduce corporate deductions on the compensation of CEOs and impose further taxes on companies whose payment to executives exceeds the average worker pay by a certain ratio. The document also proposed raising taxes on carbon emitters....

That's all folks. It is called corruption and Manchen and Sinema are guilty of it. They want to protect Wall Street and there isn't anything else to understand.

July 21, 2021
By Lucia Mutikani

The U.S. economy (click here) likely gained steam in the second quarter, with the pace of growth probably the second fastest in 38 years, as massive government aid and vaccinations against COVID-19 fueled spending on travel-related services.

The anticipated acceleration in gross domestic product last quarter would lift the level of GDP above its peak in the fourth quarter of 2019. Even with the second quarter likely marking the peak in growth this cycle, the economic expansion was expected to remain solid for the remainder of this year.

A resurgence in COVID-19 infections, driven by the Delta variant of the coronavirus, however, poses a risk to the outlook. Higher inflation, if sustained, as well as ongoing supply chain disruptions, could also slow the economy. The Commerce Department will publish its snapshot of second-quarter GDP growth on Thursday at 8:30 a.m EDT (1230 GMT)."

I already discussed the issue with the increase in products reflected in the Consumer Price Index (click here) which enters at about 6 percent. That is high, but, it isn't as though the cost of producing goods and services increased, it is just that the HIGHER DEMAND punished those newly empowered to be seeking goods they could not before the stimulus was awarded. The Republican Party prides itself on supply-side economics.

Well, this year is a clear illustration of greed as the driving factor in supply-side economics. It costs no more to produce the products by the increased cost is suppose to slow the demand to "fit" the supply chain and production. The demand is not going to slow down because the Lower Middle Class and impoverished in the USA have been empowered for upward movement. The reality of this new government policy, as illustrated in the child tax credit, is about empowerment. The demand is not going away. The idea product manufacturers could get away with all this greed in the face of empowerment is outrageous.

Consumers have plenty of income and wealth ammunition to support consumer spending, while business inventories remain lean and restocking efforts are poised to support business investment and overall GDP growth substantially in the second half of the year," said Sam Bullard, a senior economist at Wells Fargo in Charlotte, North Carolina....

To get back to the current federal budget, the US Senate needs to pass it.

STOP PLAYING POLITICS WITH THE LIVES OF AMERICANS TO BENEFIT WALL STRETT CRONIES!

I found this address by Rep. Steny Hoyer interesting.

Steve Scalise is a White Supremacist (click here) and I take what he has to say with a grain of salt.

I found Rep. Steny Hoyer to bring forth moral values and a real reason why Democrats in the US Senate should be a friend to the American people.

 

Huawei' CFO was released with "time served."

No, there was no trial. That is because the chance of Meng Wanzhou, getting more prison time after conviction of fraud is not likely. She was jailed in Canada in 2018. She would not have gotten that much more time in prison even after a trial.

Basically, it came down to does the USA continues to treat the Chinese CFO as someone that needs to stand trial or do we get the Canadians back home.

Why do business with China? There is no mutual respect. This sort of hostage diplomacy is common with communist countries. Russia does it, too. They will pick up Americans off the street for their own purposes.

Trevor Reed, (click here) who was detained in 2019 and accused of assaulting police officers, at a court hearing in Moscow.

Trevor Reed is a former USA Marine and was accused of assaulting a police officer in Russia. Really? 
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September 25, 2021
By Amanda Colletta

Toronto - Two Canadian men imprisoned in China for 1,020 days (click here) in what Western officials have decried as a blatant display of “hostage diplomacy” landed in Canada early Saturday.

The two men, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — known as the “two Michaels” — could be seen disembarking in the dark from a passenger plane in Calgary, hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that the pair were on their way home “after an unbelievably difficult ordeal.” He met them on the tarmac.

Spavor flashed a thumbs up and gave a wave to reporters as he left the airport. Kovrig continued on to Toronto to meet his family.

“It is overwhelming. I find myself at a loss for words because the moment is so, so incredible,” Vina Nadjibulla, Kovrig’s wife, told reporters as she headed into Pearson International Airport to meet him. “It’s finally here. After 1,020 days, it is finally here.”...

Both China and Russia are communist countries and they are bad actors on the world stage. This is just one example. They pick up innocent Americans and jail them because they can make up stories like, "They were spying." Mr. Whelan is a former Marine as well and went to Russia at the insistance of a friend for a wedding there and he gets picked up as an intelligence officer. 

Paul Whelan, (click here) a US citizen who has been detained in Russia for more than two years, is sick and has struggled to reach the US Embassy, his brother said Wednesday.

"Paul has been able to speak to our parents by phone," David Whelan said in a statement. "Paul is sick - he's indicated he has a 102F temperature and that prisoners are sharing around any over-the-counter medications they can spare. Paul also said he was receiving antibiotics, although if he has the cold virus he thinks he has, it's not clear why the prison medical staff would prescribe them."...

The facts are ridiculous. Both of these men are former Marines and interrogated for information about the USA. These men were in Russia because they believed Russia was not an issue in any way and they could conduct themselves without any danger to themselves. Well, guess what? If you are a military ANYONE in Russia you are a target. GOT THAT. 

A TARGET!

The USA Justice Department did a great job in securing the release of Canadian prisoners in China that were taken for hostages. The Huawei CFO was jailed for about the length of time she would have recieved once a trial was held. 

The Estimated USD Federal Tax Revenue for FY 2021 is more than the $3.5 Trillion budget currently in reconciliation.

The U.S. government's total revenue is estimated to be $3.863 trillion for FY 2021. (click here)

THERE IS NO THERE THERE!

What is occurring in the US Senate is nothing but politics to portray the USA Democrats as "Tax and Spend Democrats." The current revenues for the USA exhibit a severe burden on the individual. The Corporate Income Taxes is an embarrassment to the cronyism of the Republican Party that slashed corporate taxes during the Trump stampede to end all taxes on the wealthy. 

There is no debate about the current budget in reconciliation. The US Senate needs to pass it. There is nothing in it that is wrong, there is a lot in it that is right.
 

This Flint water problem is due to the climate crisis.

Flint has to address the insufficiency in it's drainage capacity and/or the sewage treatment plan capacity. This is not the first time the overspill of sewage into the river has occurred.

September 23, 2021
By Ron Fonger

Flint - The city (click here) has reported three separate discharges of a sewage-rainwater mix into the Flint River following a three-day downpour that dumped 3.2 inches of rain on the area.

The first of the three incidents started at 6:45 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, when the city’s Water Pollution Control Facility discharged a mix of stormwater and sewage from its retention and treatment basin to the river.

Rainwater overwhelmed the plant’s capacity to treat it, a notice of the discharge says....

September 10, 2021

Flint - Two former top state officials charged (click here) after the second Flint water crisis criminal investigation are raising concerns with the evidence used against them.

Former Gov. Rick Snyder and former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon filed separate documents in Genesee County courts this week asking for hearings on whether evidence prosecutors used against them should be thrown out.

Snyder is facing two counts of misdemeanor misconduct in office for allegedly not supervising his staff adequately and allegedly failing to declare a State of Emergency as required of the governor.

Lyon is charged with nine counts of involuntary manslaughter related to the deaths of John Snyder, Debra Kidd, Brian McHugh, DuWayne Nelson, Nelda Hunt, Peter Derscha, Thomas Mulcahy, Arthur Percy and Patricia Schaffer in July and August 2015 from Legionnaires’ disease....

I asked myself, "Self, why would any defendant question the quality of the evidence?" Self replied, "Because they know they corrupted it while still in office? Yes? Yes,

What is this anyway, a case review to ask "Pretty please drop the charges." THERE ARE PEOPLE DEAD AND MAIMED. Maybe it is just BILLABLE HOURS for the lawyers supported by the people of the State of Michigan.

September 13, 2021

Lansing - Former Governor Rick Snyder’s legal team (click here) was back in court Monday for a case review.

Snyder is charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty for his role in the Flint water crisis. He pleaded not guilty to the charges in January.

If convicted, Snyder faces up to a year in jail, or a $1,000 dollar fine. Last week, Snyder’s lawyers argued his due process rights had been disregarded, and asked a judge to stop prosecutors from accessing more documents related to their probe that should have been protected.

Stay with ABC12 News for updates on the case....

I guess it is called liberty to deal in invisible coins.

September 23, 2021
By Isabelle Lee

Twitter on Thursday (click here) rolled out its bitcoin tipping feature that will allow anyone using the platform to send and receive tips in the cryptocurrency.

It is also looking to authenticate non-fungible tokens displayed on people's profiles to determine if the user actually owns them.

The bitcoin tipping feature, which was made available to select users earlier this year, will first be available to iOS users before launching in Android.

The company is also adding more payment services apart from the seven it currently has, which include PayPal and Venmo. As for bitcoin, Twitter will be using payment application Strike that is built on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. This allows users to send and receive bitcoin free and instantly, the company said....

However.

September 24, ,2021

By Shalini Nagarajan

China's central bank (click here) declared all cryptocurrency-related transactions illegal on Friday, and said foreign exchanges are banned from providing services to Chinese residents, in its strongest crackdown move yet on the digital asset industry.

Coins such as bitcoin and ether "are not legal and should not and cannot be used as currency in the market," the People's Bank of China said in a statement.

Virtual currencies do not have the same legal standing as fiat currency as they are issued by non-monetary authorities and use encryption technology, it said.

Bitcoin dropped 5.7% to about $41,110 in the wake of the announcement, according to data from CoinDesk. Ether lost 9% to hit $2,788, ada declined 3% to $2.16 and Ripple's XRP moved 7% lower to 92 cents. Dogecoin fell 8% to 20 cents....

In Russia, it's own cryptocurrency is sanctioned due to ransomware. It is the perfect crime. Completely outside the parameters of standard financial markets and banks. Is Russia's cryptocurrency for ransomware terrorism? It operates outside the definition of the civil world and uses infrastructure against itself. That is terrorism.

September 21, 2021

The United States (click here) has imposed sanctions on a Russian-based cryptocurrency exchange over its alleged role in facilitating illegal payments from ransomware attacks.

The Treasury Department action on September 21 targeted SUEX, in what officials said was the first sanctions leveled against a cryptocurrency exchange laundering money for cybercriminals.

This year, ransomware attacks have targeted companies and critical infrastructure, including a major U.S. pipeline and a meatpacker. There was also an attack on the software firm Kaseya that impacted some 1,500 businesses.

Ransomware payments surged last year to over $400 million, more than four times their level in 2019, according to the U.S. government.

But those payments represent only a fraction of economic harm caused by cyberattacks, which have disrupted critical sectors, including financial services, health care, and energy.

“Ransomware and cyberattacks are victimizing businesses large and small across America and are a direct threat to our economy,” said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen....

Russia earned the first in history sanctions against a cryptocurrency. Will the perpetrators ever be brought to trial? No. Russia does not cooperate with extradition. 

September 21, 2021
By Issabelle Lee

The US Department of the Treasury (click here) on Tuesday revealed it will sanction Russian-owned Suex for its role in laundering financial transactions for ransomware actors, marking the first time the agency has ever blacklisted a cryptocurrency exchange.

An analysis of transactions of Suex showed that over 40% were associated with illicit actors, according to a department announcement, adding that the crypto exchange also facilitated illicit funds from at least eight ransomware variants.

Tuesday's designation would generally ban all US citizens from engaging in transactions with Suex, a private company based in the Czech Republic.

The agency's Office of Foreign Assets Control warned players in the space that it "has imposed, and will continue to impose, sanctions on these actors and others who materially assist, sponsor, or provide financial, material, or technological support for these activities."...

The Russian crypto is actually breaking Russian law with what would seem impunity.

August 10, 2020

By Roger Huang

Russia recently signed a new cryptocurrency law (click here) that while stopping short of the previous ban on cryptocurrencies, still imposed stringent restrictions on its use in as form of monetary currency. This followed an earlier regulatory filing that essentially associated any activities involving cryptocurrencies as criminal, and placed them under the lens of anti-money laundering regulations.

Starting January 1st, 2021, cryptocurrencies will be allowed in Russia, though they will not be allowed to be used in exchange for any goods or services. There may be more regulation coming in upcoming sessions, but as of now, it seems that Russians can mine, trade cryptocurrencies for other cryptocurrencies on exchanges, and own cryptocurrencies without any legal issues — so long as they don’t spend it on other goods and services within the domestic economy....

Governor Whitmer please don't let these important vaccines be wasted.

To find the expiration date for Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine (click here) released to the United States Government, locate the lot number, printed on the carton and vial. Enter the lot number in the field below and press "Submit."

Most health care workers check expirations dates chronically as they administer medications to patients including IVs.

These vaccines could be used for the booster doses, a need of the elderly after the FDA approved its use. However, it would be remiss to allow these doses to be set aside for booster administration when there is such a new directive at nearly the same time as the expiration date.

September 23, 2021
By Hayley Harding

More than 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines (click here) are on the verge of expiring in Michigan as demand for shots wane right as the state stares down what appears to be a fourth surge of cases.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services estimates that about 161,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and between 143,000 and 146,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine expire near the end of this month, said Lynn Sutfin, a spokeswoman for the health department.

Eighteen months into the pandemic, 1 in 10 Michiganians have tested positive for COVID-19. One in 485 have died. And for months now, the number of people getting first doses of a vaccine has been dropping to a trickle.

The number of shots getting into people’s arms has been below 100,000 since the weekend of June 26, down from an April peak of 679,409 doses administered. Excluding this week, for which numbers are not yet completed, providers have been administering an average of 70,000 doses a week for three months, according to state data....

Hiding in plain sight.

Ethics is what occurs as a profession carries out it's legal rights. I don't know how long the Republican party spurned ethics, but, they don't carry legal weight so much as moral weight, so why bother. As long as the Republican Party is overwhelmingly viewed as righteous in a religious dogma then there would be no question about their high ethical standards.

8 hours ago, September 24, 2021

After months of toiling away in secret, (click here) Arizona's election audit has come to a close. Cyber Ninjas, the group leading the audit, is set to announce its findings on Friday and Insider obtained a draft copy of the audit results. They show no significant discrepancies between the official Maricopa County tally and Cyber Ninjas' recount....

Below is rather intensely clarifying journalism by Chris Hayes. It strikes at the heart of many of the confusingly dangerous agendas of the right-wing. All Republicans that cooperate with Trump and carry his agenda are equally as guilty of having designs to end the USA democracy and quite possibly democracy in any country.

When states are demanded to recount they need to fight back and sue the very entity that requested it for attempting to defraud the election process with false claims to an audit. I might also state while demanding these audits entities like Cyber Ninja are making money. This is their sick and demented way of making a living, by attacking democracy.

Besides the Secretaries of State fighting back against the FRAUD of organizations such as Cyber Ninjas, there is the issue of defamation of character of political figures such as President Biden. For as long as I can remember political assaults on a candidate's character such as a ballooning head of Speaker Pelosi that demonizes her and assaults her character when she is recognized as a highly respected Catholic as well as a political leader was viewed as "All in the name of politics." That is an interesting way of coping with defamation of character far beyond what is ethically acceptable. It needs to stop and unfortunately, elected officials need to have their own attorney on retainer to be able to refer such issues appropriately. It would be a campaign expense assigned to campaign funds.

The defamation of character that Sky News pulled off in manipulating the news reporting of the Boris-Joe meeting in the Oval Office is NOT "All in the name of politics." It was well-thought-out defamation of character for the purpose of not only unseating a duly elected president but, also bringing to question the idea that democracy itself is toxic to the people. If a freely elected President is incompetent and there is no sincere method of removing him, then democracy has failed the people.

While this all seems laughable to the people involved and they get on with their day, it is highly toxic to the ELECTION PROCESS and to democracy itself. Political leaders and freely elected officials need to fight back and demand the courts' rule in favor of such defamation and bring an end to this hideous allowance in our political environment.

Speaker Pelosi can speak to the incredible expense that goes along with these free for all defamation of character issues. Her campaign budget ballooned along with the opponent's cartoonish defamation of character ads. This level of HATE cannot and should not be tolerated. These highly defaming issues STICK to cause problems later on as in an insurrection whereby Speaker Pelosi was a target of the hate carried that day. 

The USA democracy is precious to many citizens and needs to be treated as such. 

 

An earlier entry today on this blog stated "Sky News" was treating President Biden harshly. That still stands.

President Biden is more than agreeable to taking questions at the spur of the moment at the request of his guest in the Oval Office, Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

This is the entire meeting with the press in the Oval Office and it went quite well until the end when the press corps couldn't contain themselves and began shouting.

On a regular basis, the foreign media is taking snippets of video and PRETENDING  as though it is a factual event to PROVE President Biden is old, frail, and incompetent. THEY ARE LYING.

I take issue with the way some foreign media is promoting the idea that President Biden is not a candidate for future office and in fact, should be replaced ASAP and perhaps Trump was the actual winner in 2020. 

KNOCK IT OFF.

I have no problem bringing these issues to this blog and have the INJUSTICE of it all aired here.

President Joseph Biden is the legitimate president of the USA and if that FACT results in poorer ratings to "infotainment" media such as Sky News, then that is unfortunate. Boo-hoo, boo-hoo. Need a crying towel?

I am curious and might have to research it a bit, but, was Sky News purchased by Murdoch? If it was, it is all too OBVIOUS that Murdoch simply hates the USA democracy and will undermine it even from afar. 

IDIOTS ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

In watching that video in the previous entry nothing should be lost on the content of the information the three men gave to the press.

The COVID-19 virus has wreaked havoc on the UK. Their NHS was overwhelmed by the invasion of the virus and the fact the country is made up of nearly 67 million people dependent on good care. I think the medical professional stated clearly that in order to ADDRESS THE BACKLOG of needed procedures the country has to invest in updating and purchasing state-of-the-art equipment to move it along.

I read a very heart-rendering article that addressed a man that was struggling to combat a severe threat to his life and the NHS was literally prioritizing people in treatment outside of the COVID-19 deadly intent on people of all ages. He was brought to tears in his condition because while he has received good service from the NHS, he was finding it difficult to sustain some of the delays. At the time this interview took place he was receiving treatment. The point is that while the press corp is carrying urgent messages that are preceived as political rather than real, their purpose is to carry such tragedy to the highest levels of alertness and have it addressed. 

That responsibility of the press is a noble one and also presents quite falsely as a method of promoting one political agenda. In the UK, the press must carry the message of the people and they do quite successfully. I think the Prime Minister has come to terms with that fact and openly reassures the press that they are heard. There are fewer adversarial relationships with the press and what is perceived as such by the Prime Minister, is met with a smile.

I do not believe the public has come to complete terms with the COVID-19 tragedy in the USA. The virus and its outcomes including vaccines are still part of a political dogma that is hurting the country and quite frankly businesses as well. The method the press uses in carrying information to the people and then emphasizing their response sometimes as front-page information is vital to democracy and is not a preference for one political party or another. Newspapers and news media is about dialogue and impacting what is important to the country to survive and move forward. Those media sources that choose an agenda vs. a dialogue should be ridiculed because it is a violation of ethics.

In this news conference with Boris and others.

The technique Boris uses is more than fascinating. The degree the UK uses USA jargon is interesting, including President Biden's "Build Back Better" is more than interesting.

That said, the technique Boris Johnson uses with the press is a new twist on Passive-Aggressiveness. It might work for him. He is after all Prime Minister.

It is easy to tell during the press conference it is hardly a chummy relationship with the press that is shared with Prime Minister Johnson. However, his approach is one of friendliness and flattery. He attempts to bond with them by first knowing the names of the newspapers they work for and the current engagement by the paper in social issues that sparked the question. it is hardly adversarial and more socially balanced. It provides an interesting and I think productive relationship on both sides of the question.

However.

At the same time, Prime Minister Johnson is bonding with the press and flattering their content of social conscience he also links it to the tax increases he is proposing. So, in other words, "Get your act together press corp., we are finally addressing all the pressing issues of the day and it is going to cost money, so promote the tax increases or change/abandon your agenda."

Fascinating.

This is not the approach of President Biden. He is more direct, a matter of fact, and somewhat casual. President Biden has always prided himself, as a legislator and Vice President, in being easy to approach and a bit casual as Middle-Class people often are in their demeanors. President Biden has never and continues to never "put on airs" of any superior entity, so much as a man of the people. Most unions would find President Biden to be exactly that. A man that not only understands the Middle Class but, actually identifies with them.

I might add, it seems as though this hesitancy to return to work is also evident in the UK. Prime Minister Johnson toward the end of the speech talks about jobs and their availability and how the focus is to give an opportunity to young people.

 

There is no one to blame for the disastrous press briefing.

I will comment on this further this afternoon when I have time on my hands.

What was witnessed at a press opportunity between Boris and Joe was because the press is very unstructured at the White House. There was nothing but yelling.

Sky News also needs to find manners when it comes to their chronic harassment of President Biden.

The two NATO leaders have been conditioned differing regard to their approach. Boris engages the press with flattery and friendship while Joe rather not deal with it at all. That is what was witnessed Ms. Sky News and nothing else. 

It also would seem that everyone who has a chance is attempting to ignite President Biden’s shuddering handicap. So, yelling has become a real blood sport with the press or any hostiles in the room.

Joe Biden is the legitimate President of the USA and he is completely capable and competent. The Haitian refugees need to get attention and the beginning is an increase in the number of refugees allowed in the USA. President Biden signed the order for that to happen several days ago. The responsibility for carrying out assessment of the Haitian refugee problem now falls to the State Department and its processes. 

There are two peoples stressed for refugee status, the Afghans and Haitians. I think the USA has already taken its full complement of Afghans. Haitian refugees need to be addressed. 

A new emergency in nuclear power, financial stability of companies that dismantle them.

The US House Representative and the Senators need to take this mess to the floor for an emergency provision to end the use of this reactor. Lake Michigan has not been kind to the shoreline and there is sincere danger at the center of this dismantling.

The reactor must be removed. There is no sense in anything nuclear where this is located. 

At one time decades ago the reactor was a very distant energy source and pollution in the lakes was common and still dangerous. But, since this reactor was built the character of the shoreline has changed and provides a significant GDP to the states surrounding them. The reactor is now considered a huge mistake with little insight into the potential of the Great Lakes to be tourist havens. The reactor must come down sooner than later and that is a fact. The federal government needs to step in to end this disaster of an energy source.

September 22, 2021

By Carol Thompson

Covert Township - A blockade of I-beams sunk deep into the beach (click here) serve as a stark barrier between industry and recreation along Lake Michigan's southern shore.

On one side is Van Buren State Park, where visitors swim, boat and sunbathe on the stretch of Great Lakes sand. On the other is Palisades Power Plant, a nuclear energy facility that has produced electricity for decades and has become a new source of controversy.

Palisades is slated for closure in the spring. Its owner, New Orleans-based Entergy Nuclear, seeks to transfer Palisades to a New Jersey company that is gobbling up shuttered nuclear plants, promising to decommission them swiftly and on a strict budget.

But environmental groups and Michigan's top law enforcement official doubt the company can fulfill those promises. Holtec International's plans raise "significant health, safety, environmental, and financial concerns for residents of the state," Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel wrote to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a February petition.

As part of decommissioning Palisades, Holtec intends to let nuclear waste sit in storage on the site abutting Lake Michigan. And if the company gets approval to build an interim storage facility in the southwest United States, it could ship that waste on barges over the storied Great Lake.