I think the American people are ready for this mess. Vaccines, masks, social distancing and hand hygiene especially if touching the face and everyone should be good. I am surprised there is no current finding of Omicron in the USA, but, it might be contained.
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Monday, November 29, 2021
Happy Hanukkah. It started during the USA Thanksgiving weekend, November 28, 2021.
Chanukah (click here) is the Jewish eight-day, wintertime “festival of lights,” celebrated with a nightly menorah lighting, special prayers and fried foods.
The Hebrew word Chanukah means “dedication,” and is thus named because it celebrates the rededication of the Holy Temple (as you’ll read below). Also spelled Hanukkah (or variations of that spelling), the Hebrew word is actually pronounced with a guttural, “kh” sound, kha-nu-kah, not tcha-new-kah....
Yes! There is absolutely no doubt Bezos put his thumb on the scale.
November 29, 2021
By Anne D'Innocenzio
New York - The National Labor Relations Board (click here) has ordered a new union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama based on objections to the first vote that took place in April.
The move, announced Monday, is a major blow to Amazon, which had spent about a year aggressively campaigning for warehouse workers in Bessemer to reject the union, which they ultimately did by a wide margin.
The board has not yet determined the date for the second election and it hasn’t determined whether it will be conducted in person or by mail.
The rare call for a do-over was first announced Monday by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which spearheaded the union organizing movement....
The move, announced Monday, is a major blow to Amazon, which had spent about a year aggressively campaigning for warehouse workers in Bessemer to reject the union, which they ultimately did by a wide margin.
The board has not yet determined the date for the second election and it hasn’t determined whether it will be conducted in person or by mail.
The rare call for a do-over was first announced Monday by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which spearheaded the union organizing movement....
The truth is OSHA needs to step in and conduct some heavy duty inspections of Amazon facilities. It is a rough place to work. There is a reason why Bezos is a billionaire. He cuts corners and causes hardship for his employees.
Amazon was invaluable during the pandemic, but, the employees were at chronic risk and indirectly so were the customers.
October 25, 2021
By Jack Kelly
...“Turnover at Amazon (click here) is much higher than at many other companies—with an annual rate of roughly 150% for warehouse workers,” according to the New York Times. There have been many complaints from employees at Amazon’s fulfillment centers. Workers alleged that they are given back-breaking tasks in the warehouses. They also vent their dismay over intrusive surveillance technologies, including automated tracking systems and cameras that monitor their every move. There is a palpable fear that if workers don’t meet specified quotas, they’ll be fired. This has led to workers calling for a union. A union drive in Alabama was attempted, but was thwarted and didn’t succeed....
It is time to educate the public and medical providers to the best use of medical cannabis.
There is an opiod crisis. What is wrong with everyone?
November 24, 2021By A. J. Harrington
...An overwhelming majority (84%) of the health care providers (click here) surveyed said that their patients had requested or asked about cannabis for chronic pain, with 72% reporting that they had been asked in the previous 30 days. Dr. Daniele Piomelli, the director of the Institute for the Study of Cannabis at the University of California, Irvine and a member of the UCI Institutional Review Board that approved the research, said in a press release that the study “emphasizes both the public interest around cannabis as an analgesic and the lack of reliable data and/or medical education about its correct use.”...
Oh, yeah. Marijuana is a "gateway drug." True, if one is talking about alcohol and tobacco, but, it does not lend itself to addiction to other substances.
...These findings are consistent (click here) with the idea of marijuana as a "gateway drug." However, the majority of people who use marijuana do not go on to use other, "harder" substances. Also, cross-sensitization is not unique to marijuana. Alcohol and nicotine also prime the brain for a heightened response to other drugs51 and are, like marijuana, also typically used before a person progresses to other, more harmful substances....
Can we please move this along? Bah-humbug to the Republican Party.
KEEP TALKING, MICHAEL.
DON'T STOP NOW!
By Martin Pengelly
Prosecutors in New York (click here) could “indict Donald Trump tomorrow if they really wanted and be successful”, the ex-president’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said on Sunday, discussing investigations of Trump’s business affairs.
Asked if he was “confident you did help Donald Trump commit crimes”, Cohen told NBC’s Meet the Press: “I can assure you that Donald Trump is guilty of his own crimes. Was I involved in much of the inflation and deflation of his assets? The answer to that is yes.”
Cohen also repeated his contention that Trump will not run for the White House in 2024, because his huge fundraising success while hinting at such a run is too profitable a “grift” to give up.
The Manhattan investigation of the Trump Organization, including whether Trump cheated on property valuations for tax purposes, is one of a number of sources of legal jeopardy for the former president....
I don't know what kind of nonsense is going on behind the scenes to prevent an obvious indictment, but, the games are over. Four years of the Oval office power bidding was a "no mercy" game for Trump. He and the Republicans who love to play "no mercy" on the American people, need a sincere reality check. Trump needs to be indicted already.
And the Attorney General needs to act on the attempted coup on January 6, 2021. Yes, Trump attempted to coup the sitting president.
Time to call a tow truck. Seriously. Drowning is not worth it.
If anyone owns a four wheel drive there is an absolute reason to have a front winch.
They make great Christmas presents. Cost about $1000.00 installed. Good investment.
They look like trees our families would have in their homes. I think the decorations are great.
The White House decorations are great. I think they add a string sense of home. Everyone who celebrates Christmas will identify with those decorations. Lovely.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Happy Thanksgiving
Monday is proving to be a real let down from what everyone expected, a vaccinated and happy Christmas season. That may still be the reality if the latest viral mutation is contained which means 5 South African nations isolate those infected and not export the virus.
Let’s hope the Biden Safety Blockade of South African travelers works. My initial thought is that if the UK has it, the USA isn’t far behind. But, hopefully measures were put in place soon enough to keep the virus out of the country.
This latest virus is going to put a lot of strain on our borders, especially if there is no additional virus mutations in the USA. This holiday season will be once again a challenge, but, I am convinced we still can manage a joyful season.
Vaccine inequality.
Africa has been doing the best of every continent on Earth. Did anyone except this?
This pandemic has little to nothing to do with the G20. I am sure there are measures made at the G20 to send more vaccine, but, in all honesty, economics and safety from a global pandemic is hardly an equivalent.
Equating government policy to a virus is exactly what has been the problem the entire time, especially in the USA where "Trump Denial Initative" caused a greater spread of the virus and geater number of deaths. The economy that was supposed to bring about jobs during the pandemic in the USA was the production of PPE and that never happened because Jared's buddy couldn't get the approvals of companies fast enough to stem the need.
Counting on business people during this pandemic has been the biggest mistake anyone ever made. Greed is what caused this pandemic when the USA pulled out of China's monitoring to reduce the federal budget under Trump.
Now, South Africa wants the entire world to live in denial. No one in South Africa deserves this outbreak. It happened and now we all have to deal with it. South Africa needs to stop exporting Omicron and hunker down for FOUR FULL WEEKS to end the virus spread. This is easier than anyone in South Africa cares to admit!
All flights from South Africa must stop.
These are people fleeing South Africa.
Amsterdam - Dutch health authorities (click here) said that 61 people who arrived in Amsterdam on two flights from South Africa on Friday tested positive for COVID-19, and they were conducting further testing early Saturday to see if any of the infections are with the recently discovered Omicron coronavirus variant....
The count in the Netherlands is now 61. Physicians in South Africa have no control over airport towers. The governments have to put a hold on all non-essential flights out of the country and into the country for that matter.
South Africans are best to be vaccinated and seek medical care as needed. That said, I am also confident medical facilities will be out of beds soon if not already. This is a problem for the international community. They need to respond with vaccines, COVID pills and any other needs of the people there. The people of South Africa must not be left isolated, alone and suffering.
Anytime a belief or behavior becomes obsessive and effects the wellness of a person, it enters into a mental health dominion. People are claiming religious exception for not taking the vaccine, that is a mental health issue. People are dying because of such mental health problems and it needs to be addressed so the illness and/or death of one person doesn't effect us all.
This is a virus and has potential for causing hardship to every person on Earth. This is not the mask of the devil. Idiots!
Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom, talks about Omicron exactly correct.
The government is supposed to protect the people. Placing travel bans and all sorts of quarantine measures is the correct way to think about Omicron. These measures "buy time" to be CERTAIN about the virility of this new virus mutation.
Omicron is exactly the virus all medical scientists have dreaded from the beginning and why people were told to get vaccinated and why shutdowns were incurred. Because a third level virus is dangerous. It can maneuver around immunity and infect anyway. Not only that but it will continue to mutate and could cause more problems.
Omicron is PROOF that all measures instututed by medical professions were correct, absolutely correct and important.
The vaccines were to prevent mutation, not encourage it. The scientists are absolutely correct. There is no reason to ignore or OPPOSE the guidance of scientists and their knowledge. THEY DO KNOW WHAT IS BEST.
Secretary Javid states this virus can be gone in weeks. That is because ISOLATION, quarantine and other GOVERNING measures will contain it and remove it from society.
All people STILL need to be vaccinated.
When Omicron is erased from society for it's quarantine, the potential for mutation any further will be erased as well.
END THE VIRUS SPREAD!
Every unvaccinated person has the potential of creating a monster virus. No one should embrace that possibility as a reason to believe all the more in Jesus! That level of religious obsession is a mental illness. Everyone needs a vaccine without exception to religion. Truly, has America become this stupid!
Omicron
Thirteen cases out of South Africa to the Netherlands by plane. Two cases in Australia. Australia is reporting they are asymptotic and fully vaccinated, but, testing positive. It is a wait and see situation. They are quarantined.
They probably won’t be allowed out of quarantine until they test negative.
Google has started its holiday page.
And of all places, Elk Rapids, Michigan has hired a consultant to end community discourse. Honestly. The social fabric of the USA is in significant disrepair.
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Friday, November 26, 2021
Warning
The EU is shutting down travel from Africa for what appears to be a level three virus mutation that defies immunity.
This is a game changer. Ebola precautions are necessary. If that fails returning to shutdown necessary for at least 4 weeks.
Thursday, November 25, 2021
In the USA, Thanksgiving is in full swing.
It won't be Thanksgiving, a two day federal holiday, without the Thanksgiving meal, family (all those new faces and babies) and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
China has become a dangerous place for human beings.
By Alexander Smith and Tim Stellah
The head of the Women’s Tennis Association (click here) cast doubt Wednesday on the veracity of an email attributed to Peng Shuai, the Chinese athlete who hasn’t been seen publicly since a post on her social media account made allegations of sexual assault against a former top official in the Chinese Communist Party.
Association chairman Steve Simon said in a statement that the email, which was sent to his organization and published by a verified Twitter feed of China’s state-owned English-language satellite news channel, only raised his “concerns about her safety and whereabouts.”
“I have a hard time believing that Peng Shuai actually wrote the email we received or believes what is being attributed to her,” Simon said, adding that the world needs “independent and verifiable proof that she is safe.”...
China is sincerely entering a new phase of international presence. It is seeking prestige through technology to the moon rather than allowing free expression of it's people. Prestige is important to communist regimes. They believe they can wage war with iconic images of people to state it is not a hostile country to The West. Poorer countries accept China's communist economic expansion as a way to have cheaper goods. But, what all the iconic people and thrifty economics China provides gives way to a better image and reputation for international understanding while domestically it is still a human rights abuser (click here). China absolutely loves the word "dissident" as if it's regime is going to fall because of them.
China is beginning to close down it's relationships with The West, wants to own Taiwan and end it's relationship with The West to bring economic ruin with it's semi-conductor industry.
Communism is not a philosophy that is kind to people, it enslaves them and takes away the very essence of human nature that fights oppression and self-expression. Zhang Zhen is a clear demostration of the oppression of China and it's desperation in image making. If she is still alive today her spiritual distress needs to end with her release and her wellness addressed.
This is the second time a popular political figure within a communist regime's reach have entered into hunger strikes, the other Alexei Navalny (click here). The hunger strikes are a SYMPTOM and not a demonstration of "will." Their hunger strikes are brought on by extreme oppression as they are used as suffering icons to enforce the regime in power. It is enlightening to many that know these incredible people to realize the power that suffering under the regime proves it's eminent loss of support internationally. That international pressure is an extension of the human struggle felt within these communist regimes.
The United Nations (click here) has urged China to release a citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of the country’s Covid-19 response and who her family say is close to death after a hunger strike.
The UN rights office voiced alarm at reports that 38-year-old Zhang Zhan’s health was deteriorating rapidly and that her life was at serious risk from the hunger strike.
“We call on the Chinese authorities to consider Zhang’s immediate and unconditional release, at the very least, on humanitarian grounds, and to make urgent life-saving medical care available, respecting both her will and her dignity,” UN spokeswoman Marta Hurtado said....
I also find it alarming that two women are the subject of communist oppression at a time in The West when women are flourishing. That translates inside China as a reason to be cautious as women as to how they address "their place" within the country.
China was a hope by Wall Street to become another huge economic engine as is the USA. That is becoming less and less the case and only proves that China was interested in the wealth it could find to make it's regime stronger. China is deteriorating because it no longer has the ability to reach into USA corporate intelligence to carry out faux claims and seeks only to be a military power with it's reach into space as a method of tempering that image.
Joe Machin is going to lose his election. He is begging for money now.
Machin receives his election funding from oil & gas and other GOP sources. He isn't a Democrat, but, in saying so West Virginians believe their federal interests are balanced between the two parties, hence, Machin's boat and his claims of bipartisan influence.
By asking Biden to restore the XL pipeline he is looking for money from the GOP and his petroleum industry buddies. It is all quid pro quo and the Democrats have two years to find someone that can primary Machin and hope the people will back a new candidate that isn't as deceitful as Machin.
Machin can be viewed as a "Snyder Democrat," in one that doesn't care about potable water.
Nearly every corner of the world has opposed this pipeline and it is necessary to end the idea it is possible. Machin's petroleum buddies want him to hit back with the pipeline after COP26 and the emergence of the urgency of seeking the end of greenhouse gas emissions.
Machin is their puppet in quid pro quo.
The Democrats need to run real candidate that reflects hope to the people of West Virginia. Machin is nothing but more of the same corruption that has always existed.
President Biden is releasing oil from the national reserves. Every other president has done the same thing when prices were high. The prices locally have already dropped 24 cents. It is working. The people won't have this issue if they purchase electric vehicles and the sooner the better. Electricity is a stable price that can be counted on to increase job opportunity as well as stable energy costs. There won't be problems with a families budget day to day because of fossil fuel energy profiteers. Enough is enough. The American family needs safe and efficient transportation.
The computer chip/semi-conductor industry is becoming more dependable, even in difficult times caused by the pandemic. There is plant being planned by Samsung outside of Austin, Texas (click here). There isn't a Wall Street company involved with semi-conductors happy about sourcing Taiwan, now that China is being a real jerk about communism imposition. Communication companies that provide for social media are leaving China because of growing regulations and danger to their own people. It is time to make the USA completely self-contained in the needs that really are that of national security. I think Samsung is doing the right thing for their company as well as a more secure USA and it's economic engine.
August 7, 2020
In the West Virginia coalfields (click here) — on the edge of which my aunt and uncle live, and where I spent holidays and vacations as a kid — the economic mood ranges from depressed to apocalyptic. At one point, more than 100,000 West Virginians worked in the mines that produced well-paying jobs and gave people money to spend. That money spilled over into other sectors: retail, construction, and education, to name a few, and was the backbone of the state’s economy. Now, fewer than 20,000 locals work in these mines, and the jobs that do exist pay far less than they used to, thanks to successful anti-union actions by coal companies. As a result, a region that once boomed along with human consumption of fossil fuels is now littered with shuttered mines, shuttered storefronts, and shuttered dreams....
West Virginians need to realize their needss are best filled by sincere Democrats that want to actually provide real jobs rather than the sparce number of coal jobs. Machin's corruption needs to be displayed and allow for a successful primary to elect a person that sincerely cares about West Virginian people.
Opposition to Keystone XL centered on the devastating environmental consequences (click here) of the project. The pipeline faced more than a decade of sustained protests from environmental activists and organizations; Indigenous communities; religious leaders; and the farmers, ranchers, and business owners along its proposed route. One such protest, a historic act of civil disobedience outside the White House in August 2011, resulted in the arrest of more than 1,200 demonstrators. “This is not a pipeline to America,” said the late civil rights activist Julian Bond, among the many arrested. “It’s a pipeline through America, and it threatens to be a disaster for us if it leaks poisons on the way.” Leading scientists and economists came out in opposition to the project, in addition to unions and world leaders such as the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and former president Jimmy Carter (together, these and other Nobel laureates have written letters against the project). In 2014, more than two million comments urging a rejection of the pipeline were submitted to the U.S. Department of State during a 30-day public comment period.
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