If he is ever charged with the maximum penalty for involuntary manslaughter with a gun of 15 years he will be 79 at the end of his sentence.
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Not good enough!
To think the Supreme Court can't come up with the person(s) who leaked the report is an outrage. It adds to the incompetence this court exhibits in many ways. There is a coverup. The FBI needs to examine the findings of the investigation. The FBI can either make recommendations to further the investigation or simply do it themselves.
By Dan Mangan
An investigation into the leak of a bombshell Supreme Court ruling (click here) overturning the federal right to abortion — weeks before it was officially released — failed to identify the culprit, the court said Thursday.
The inconclusive end to the probe was another embarrassment for the Supreme Court, which called the leak “one of the worst betrayals of trust in its history” and “a grave assault on the judicial process.”
Investigators interviewed nearly 100 court employees in the probe, 82 of whom had access to electronic or hard copies of the draft majority opinion by conservative Justice Samuel Alito.
But neither Alito nor the court’s other eight justices were eyed in the investigation, according to an official report....
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Violence is an illness.
Solomon Pena (click here) is accused of paying four men to carry out shootings at Albuquerque-area homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators. No one was hurt.
A defeated candidate for the New Mexico legislature (click here) was arrested this week on charges that he orchestrated a plot to shoot up the homes of four Democratic officials in Albuquerque, an alleged scheme that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called “horrifying and shocking.”
“It’s a miracle that no one was hurt,” she said at Wednesday’s briefing. “The president has spoken out repeatedly and emphatically about how our nation rejects violence as a political tool. That is a bedrock principle of our democracy. It is important for leaders in both parties to reaffirm that particular that particularly as we’ve seen an increase in violent rhetoric and political violence like seen most recently again in New Mexico.
A defeated candidate for the New Mexico legislature (click here) was arrested this week on charges that he orchestrated a plot to shoot up the homes of four Democratic officials in Albuquerque, an alleged scheme that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called “horrifying and shocking.”
“It’s a miracle that no one was hurt,” she said at Wednesday’s briefing. “The president has spoken out repeatedly and emphatically about how our nation rejects violence as a political tool. That is a bedrock principle of our democracy. It is important for leaders in both parties to reaffirm that particular that particularly as we’ve seen an increase in violent rhetoric and political violence like seen most recently again in New Mexico.
Violence when it is linked to power and the desire for it is a very bad state of mind. The democratic principles we all embrace carry a sense of fairness in elections. Every vote is suppose to count. It empowers citizens to be a contributing member of society with all the responsibility that goes along with being informed and not brainwashed or apathetic.
The idea a single man casts his vote through violence is the epitome of mental illness. It removes the citizen from a responsible act of citizenship and replaces it with a person that has the desire and ability to overpower the government. It is illegal, but, the lack of mental health in that is also important. This type of power thirsty ideology is not addressed by psychiatry. At least it wasn't in 1997.
Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci. 1997;34(1):3-15; discussion 16-7.
A personality disorder of excessive power strivings (click here)
By I. W. Charny
Abstract
None of the existing formal diagnostic categories in psychiatry today addresses adequately the issues of excessive power-seeking, corruption and destructiveness. Excessive power strivings both poison the personality of the individual who is obsessed in his spirit and mind with power and do unacceptable harm to other peoples' lives. The present proposal of a diagnostic category of a Personality Disorder of Excessive Power Strivings is intended to fit into current diagnostic schema of DSM as well as into an earlier proposal (1) to examine in all psychopathology not only the burdens and damage people do and impose on their own selves and their own functioning, but also the harm they do to other peoples' lives and functioning. The diagnosis is to be used when the individual displays prolonged and severe manifestations of the following listed criteria: The basic feature which is always present in this personality disorder is:
1. Intense and extensive power strivings. In addition, at least three other of the following characteristics should be present;
2. Lack of empathy for people, and indifference to the suffering of others;
3. "Street smart" alertness and remarkable cunning committed to seizing and expanding power;
4. Ruthlessness in cultivation of power;
5. Scapegoating and projection of blame on to targeted individuals or a group, an insistent need to identify certain others as lowly, worthless and intended victims; 6. Corruption by power and addiction to power;
7. Demands of other people to be dependent on one's powerful personality, or that they become one's obedient followers;
8. Emphasis on symbolisms of pure vs. impure, holy vs. infidel, chosen vs. condemned;
9. A basic disrespect for the lives of others evidenced in callous or indifferent exposure of others to undue risks;
10. An absence of conscience in contexts of self-interest and opportunity;
11. A homicide/suicide orientation.
Previous to Trump's rampage on January 6, 2021, there were always those that would take issue with the government and government officials in a way that called up violence. There are people serving time in prison for threatening a president. It only takes one with an opportunity to carry out his ideology and the country is faced with a tragedy.
Karine, the President's Press Secretary is absolutely correct, it was nothing but a small miracle no one was hurt or worse. It is also excellent police work to find a plot like this and end it's potential.
In the abstract above I found the characteristics interesting. There was a significant number of people on January 6, 2021 that were involved with strivings to achieve power regardless of the power of the USA Constitution and the excellent work of law enforcement. The election of 2020 was considered by those in law enforcement to be the best protected election in USA history. The people of January 6, 2021 had no conscience as they committed violence against Capitol police, destroyed parts of the building to gain entrance and proceeded to attempt a hunt of freely elected officials in their legally obligated roles in placing a President in the highest seat of power of the USA government. You can call it what you want, but, it was nothing short of mob violence inspired by a man that lost an election.
Solomon Pena is attempting a resolve no different. There is an underlying desire for power outside that of which is provided by the USA Constitution. It is wrong, illegal and a mindset that brings about an ideology of violence. How is it that a person even conceives of such plans? A person of this ideology is not living with reality. There is no way a group of men can conspire to take power of government away from elected persons through violence and expect to hold that power. It is so far afield there is no reconciling the idea could be successful, yet, they believe it is.
Emotional fits like this scare the very people that are elected in a peaceful manner and causes them to reconsider their victory as too dangerous to continue on their path of leadership. That is a rational reaction. It takes bravery of which they did not consider before they placed their names on the ballot.
The politically violent mindset has far reaching and disastrous outcomes for our country at every level of government. It cannot be allowed to continue and must be removed from society.
The title of this blog is "The Revolt and the Revolting," not, "The Killer and the Killing." There is a huge difference in those concepts and that difference must carry brevity in society and return peaceful power to our elections and those elected.
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
The World Economic Forum is out of place in the year 2023.
Everyone likes to think of wealth as a benefit to all people. It isn't. The world economy is systematically being destroyed by Vladimir Putin.
The United Nations is the only forum that matters these days. All those that will fly their private jets to Davos for a meeting to decide how the wealthy can help the poor or whatever it is they decide at these gatherings have no answer to the atrocity beset the world not quite a year ago.
I guess these folks haven't noticed that Ukraine grain shipments are vital to the world. In 2021 Ukraine's GDP was $200.1 billion. That has been basically wiped away by a genocide invasion by Putin.
Vladimir Putin is capable of killing without thought or regard to any idea of a global economy. If he will do this to a neutral country like Ukraine what does anyone think his plans are for all of us?
This invasion into Ukraine is a wake up call for all those that believed mutual economic ties would solve all problems and bring about peace. It won't and Ukraine is proof. It is time to stop looking to solve problems with huge economic dependence and realize the best way of this tangled mess is for people to find the way forward.
This is not a proxy war, it is genocide and the world wants it to stop!
January 17, 2023
By Dan Lamothe
...The Kremlin has sharply criticized Western efforts (click here) to help Ukraine, accusing Washington and its NATO allies of waging a proxy war against Moscow and raising concerns that Russia could at some point grow intolerant of the intervention and target the United States or another NATO country. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently named Milley’s Russian counterpart, Gen. Valery Gerasimov as his top commander in Ukraine, a move observers have said is a strong indication Moscow has no inclination to end its invasion as the war nears its one-year mark with more than 100,000 dead or wounded on both sides....
By Dan Lamothe
...The Kremlin has sharply criticized Western efforts (click here) to help Ukraine, accusing Washington and its NATO allies of waging a proxy war against Moscow and raising concerns that Russia could at some point grow intolerant of the intervention and target the United States or another NATO country. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently named Milley’s Russian counterpart, Gen. Valery Gerasimov as his top commander in Ukraine, a move observers have said is a strong indication Moscow has no inclination to end its invasion as the war nears its one-year mark with more than 100,000 dead or wounded on both sides....
There is a lot going on in the world. The communists post Trump have decided to attack democracy and freedom. I am grateful for General Milley's leadership. He is as brave as he is wise. Those are characteristics that aren't necessary found in all those that lead.
The genocide in Ukraine is profound and it is continuing. There are 6.48 million Ukrainians displaced (click here) with $564 billion in damage to Ukraine's infrastructure and lost economic growth and 10 million square meters (2471 acres) of damaged and destroyed housing.
Before the genocide it is estimated there were 43.8 million people in Ukraine. It is estimated there are still approximately 43 million still alive today. Russia has removed Ukrainians from the homeland and sent them to settlements in Russia.
This genocide is anything but a proxy war. The USA would never engage in a proxy war that kills so many of the people the world wants to protect.
Monday, January 16, 2023
There are more climate deaths in California as well as the deaths in Alabama.
Landslides are a guarantee tragedy after sustained drought. That is not a flood, it is a torrent.
By Dani Auguiano and Gabrielle Canon
The Los Angeles River flows at a powerful rate as a huge storm brings flooding and landslides to the west coast.
As more dangerous storms bear down on California, (click here) the state is only just beginning to grapple with the destruction and death left by weeks of extreme weather that wreaked havoc in nearly every region from the northern coast to Los Angeles.
The series of storms that have pummeled California since late December have killed at least 19 people, brought hurricane force winds that toppled trees and power lines, cutting energy to thousands, and flooded roads and rivers, covering swaths of land in dense mud and debris that stretches for miles. Entire communities have been forced to evacuate while road closures and power disruptions left some rural regions isolated and almost cut off from the outside world.
Authorities are still documenting the toll of the disaster, an effort that’s been hampered by a fresh onslaught of more storms. Joe Biden has approved emergency declarations from 41 of California’s 58 counties.
“These storms are among the most deadly natural disasters in the modern history of our state,” Nancy Ward, the director of the governor’s office of emergency services said at a briefing on Friday.
After a grueling drought and California’s driest years on record, the latest turn of extreme weather, which some experts have called hydrological “whiplash”, has highlighted the challenges that come with such a rapid deluge, particularly in a state more accustomed in recent years to disasters related to heat and wildfire....
This has been a sustaining pattern for some time now. Severe storms in California while at the same time the south is receiving a lashing from tornadoes with people dying. That is not a normal pattern of weather, especially for winter months.
January 14, 2023
Montgomery - The National Weather Service has confirmed (click here) that the deadly tornado that swept across Autauga County on Jan. 12 was of EF3 strength, having peak winds of 150 mph. NWS says the tornado was on the ground for 76 miles and was more than three-quarters of a mile wide at its peak as it tore through parts of Autauga, Elmore, Tallapoosa and Chambers counties before lifting.
Storm surveys are ongoing. Hundreds of homes in the areas of Old Kingston, Posey’s Crossroads, White City, and Marbury have been damaged or destroyed from this tornado.
The tornado claimed the lives of seven people. The Autauga County Sheriff’s Office shared the victims’ names on Saturday and said their deaths happened in Old Kingston, one of the hardest hit communities of the county.
Four of the victims were related, though the sheriff’s office did not provide details on how....
Taking a cue from Elon Musk.
There should be removal of any and all that accepted monies from Russian oligarchs. It is a threat to national security. It is an automatic ethics referral at the very least. The State Attorney Generals might have to be involved.
By Evan Simko-Bednarski
The rep, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman (click here) by almost 22,000 votes in the race to represent the Nassau County- and Queens-based Third District, has a history of blaming his misstatements on listeners’ ears.
When criticized for claiming Jewish heritage by referencing his grandparents’ purported escape from the Nazis during World War II — for which genealogical records show no evidence — Santos took a similar tack....
..“I was elected by 142,000 people — until those same 142,000 people tell me they don’t want me … we’ll find out in two years,” he said...
New York had a bill to recall elected officials, but, it may not apply to statewide federal seats or House district seats. The guy is a problem. He is affiliated with Russia. He will bring problems to the USA legislature. Those Russians helped elect him and he has divided loyalties.
Zimmerman (click here) received a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University and a master's in business administration for Fordham University. In 1988, Zimmerman co-founded a marketing communications company. He served on the John F. Kennedy Center's Presidential Commission on the Arts and the National Council on the Humanities, nominated by Presidents Bill Clinton (D) and Barack Obama (D), respectively. As of 2022, Zimmerman was a Democratic National Committee member.
Zimmerman sounds like a New York Congressman, not this sleaze bag. Zimmerman lost by 12,000 votes, now 142,000.
There needs to be an investigation. New York State federal elections did not turn out as expected. It is why the US House turned red. Something isn't right. I stinks as a matter of fact.
By Brian Mann
When Republicans take control of the U.S. House (click here) next month, they'll have voters in New York to thank for roughly a third of their national gains.
In the midterm elections, one of the bluest states in the country saw a relative red wave that led to a net gain of three seats, helping give the GOP its razor-thin majority.
But many of these Republican victories were by narrow margins and came in moderate suburban districts on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley.
And the centrist candidates who won have signaled they have little interest in the partisan clashes favored by the GOP's far-right MAGA wing....
One other thing, Michigan is showing up as a concern at the county level. The county authorities supervise voting in the state and that is true of any state. My understanding is that this is a countrywide phenomena. Someone is not paying attention to the decision makers where voting will be most threatened.
January 6, 2023
Last November, Michigan Democrats (click here) scored huge victories as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer easily won reelection and her party took control of the Senate and House.
But while Whitmer and fellow Democrats scored big in state-level races, that didn’t happen at the county level, where local politicians still redraw political boundaries.
Of the 619 county commissioners elected in Michigan last year, 444 (72 percent) were Republicans — an increase of five from 2020, according to a Bridge Michigan analysis of county commissioner lists compiled by the Michigan Association of Counties....
January 15, 2022
Martin Luther King Jr. (click here) often spoke about institutional and systemic racism, saying that true racial equality cannot be reached without “radical” structural changes in society, says a Texas A&M University sociology professor.
“Justice for black people will not flow into this society merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory…White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society,” King wrote in an essay published in 1969 titled “A Testament of Hope.” In his 1958 book Stride Toward Freedom, he wrote, “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
Joe Feagin, the Ella C. McFadden Professor in Sociology and Distinguished Professor, said those are just two of the many times King spoke of structural changes needed to achieve equality, but first and foremost of the need for white and Black people to agree on what “equality” actually means.
Feagin said King noted in a speech not long before his 1968 assassination that a major problem was getting white people to understand the meaning of the civil rights movement because there isn’t even a common language when the term “equality” is used.
King said that many white people, even well-meaning people, think that equality means Black people have to improve.
Feagin said King’s commentary on what equality means to many white people, and how some do not want to face that, is as accurate now as then.
“We whites created slavery, Jim Crow segregation and contemporary racial discrimination over 400-plus years now,” Feagin said. “Whites are the main racial villains in this story and have most of the political and social power to change that racial discrimination and inequality now. We cannot have a truly free and democratic society, with ‘liberty and justice for all’ until we do that.”
“The first step to do that is for whites of all ages to learn an honest history of this country’s systemic racism and the Black movements against it—something many whites today are not even willing to begin doing.”...
Martin Luther King Jr. (click here) often spoke about institutional and systemic racism, saying that true racial equality cannot be reached without “radical” structural changes in society, says a Texas A&M University sociology professor.
“Justice for black people will not flow into this society merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory…White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society,” King wrote in an essay published in 1969 titled “A Testament of Hope.” In his 1958 book Stride Toward Freedom, he wrote, “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
Joe Feagin, the Ella C. McFadden Professor in Sociology and Distinguished Professor, said those are just two of the many times King spoke of structural changes needed to achieve equality, but first and foremost of the need for white and Black people to agree on what “equality” actually means.
Feagin said King noted in a speech not long before his 1968 assassination that a major problem was getting white people to understand the meaning of the civil rights movement because there isn’t even a common language when the term “equality” is used.
King said that many white people, even well-meaning people, think that equality means Black people have to improve.
Feagin said King’s commentary on what equality means to many white people, and how some do not want to face that, is as accurate now as then.
“We whites created slavery, Jim Crow segregation and contemporary racial discrimination over 400-plus years now,” Feagin said. “Whites are the main racial villains in this story and have most of the political and social power to change that racial discrimination and inequality now. We cannot have a truly free and democratic society, with ‘liberty and justice for all’ until we do that.”
“The first step to do that is for whites of all ages to learn an honest history of this country’s systemic racism and the Black movements against it—something many whites today are not even willing to begin doing.”...
Example of racism. The minority populations always have to accept watered down meanings of justice. The same is true of confederate flags and statutes. Somehow that is okay. The injustice is that when minority members of the USA have to face objects of hate from the civil war, that it hurts them and the legitimacy of our country's leveraging of equality in all that is the USA. The symbols of hate must be removed forever for the sake of young minority people. The biggest injustice right now that lingers in the USA is segregation and it is not even discussed in a way that allows resolve in political dialogue.
Steph Sommer, Feature's Editor
February 2, 2017
Every third Monday in January, (click here) Americans celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist who was shot in 1968. In 49 states, this federal holiday is explicitly referred to as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but here in Wyoming the holiday is called Equality Day.
It took 10 years for Wyoming to originally accept Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday, but with the help of Wyoming Senator Harriet Elizabeth (Liz) Byrd- the first African-American woman to serve in both houses of government they eventually accepted it as a holiday. Wyoming accepted it on one condition-
It had to be called Equality Day....
February 2, 2017
Every third Monday in January, (click here) Americans celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist who was shot in 1968. In 49 states, this federal holiday is explicitly referred to as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but here in Wyoming the holiday is called Equality Day.
It took 10 years for Wyoming to originally accept Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday, but with the help of Wyoming Senator Harriet Elizabeth (Liz) Byrd- the first African-American woman to serve in both houses of government they eventually accepted it as a holiday. Wyoming accepted it on one condition-
It had to be called Equality Day....
IT IS NOT EQUALITY DAY!
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Schumer is correct. There is no equity in the way the Trump and Biden cases are handled.
So much for equal treatment under the law. It seems as though immunity from investigation is only for Republicans. Under Bill Barr no one could touch Trump and his family. All of a sudden all that has changed (click here).
By Ben Blanchet
...“It’s not just, hold on, it’s not just us buzzing around (click here) — you’re the Democratic head of the Senate,” said Lemon after Schumer remarked that all the hosts want to do is “buzz around” on the case.
“This is a really important issue. It’s not just buzzing around. This is serious stuff.”
Schumer said prosecutors will get to the bottom of the matter and suggested that if there wasn’t a special counsel there’d be a “different thing to say” on the situation.
“I think we should have a special prosecutor on each,” said Schumer regarding both Biden’s case and former President Donald Trump’s case involving classified materials at Mar-a-Lago.
“I don’t mind [that] you’re asking these questions, but my view is I’m not going to say anything. Let the special prosecutors do their job,” the Senate Democratic leader said....
...“It’s not just, hold on, it’s not just us buzzing around (click here) — you’re the Democratic head of the Senate,” said Lemon after Schumer remarked that all the hosts want to do is “buzz around” on the case.
“This is a really important issue. It’s not just buzzing around. This is serious stuff.”
Schumer said prosecutors will get to the bottom of the matter and suggested that if there wasn’t a special counsel there’d be a “different thing to say” on the situation.
“I think we should have a special prosecutor on each,” said Schumer regarding both Biden’s case and former President Donald Trump’s case involving classified materials at Mar-a-Lago.
“I don’t mind [that] you’re asking these questions, but my view is I’m not going to say anything. Let the special prosecutors do their job,” the Senate Democratic leader said....
The greatest difference between the two cases is transparency. Biden's attorneys willingly handed the found documents to the National Archives. Trump's attorneys lied about the documents, eventually turned them over after they negotiated the return. Negotiated? What is there to negotiate? What did they negotiate, freedom vs. prosecution? The attorneys for the President have no right to negotiate with the National Archives. The National Archives are not part of the Justice Department as if they could actually guarantee Trump immunity from prosecution.
Furthermore, in his statement, Sauber, Biden’s special counsel, indicated that Biden’s attorneys voluntarily turned over the documents found at the Penn Biden Center and then notified NARA of their existence. As we also have written, in Trump’s case, federal officials contacted his team about the missing presidential records and then had to negotiate the return of the materials over a series of months before the FBI obtained a court-authorized search warrant for Mar-a-Lago because Trump wasn’t fully cooperating.
In January 2022, Trump representatives initially transported 15 boxes containing presidential records to the National Archives and said they were searching for any additional records, according to a NARA statement. That was after NARA made multiple requests between May and December 2021 for the missing documents, according to the Justice Department. (For more, read “Timeline of FBI Investigation of Trump’s Handling of Highly Classified Documents.”)...
The Timeline is ridiculous (click here). Trump had plenty of time to make everything right and he did nothing but obstruct. When it comes to dealing with Republicans there is nothing but corruption of the processes of the Rule of Law the USA Constitution demands.
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
In its 1867 decision Mississippi v. Johnson, the Supreme Court established that the President is largely beyond the reach of the judiciary by holding that it could not direct President Andrew Johnson in how he exercised his purely executive and political powers. The Court stated, it had no jurisdiction . . . to enjoin the President in the performance of his official duties.
In subsequent decisions, however, the Court made clear that Johnson does not stand for the proposition that the President is immune from judicial process. For example, in United States v. Nixon, the Court held that President Richard Nixon was amenable to a subpoena to produce evidence for use in a federal criminal case. There, the President had argued that he was immune to judicial process, claiming that the independence of the Executive Branch within its own sphere insulates a President from a judicial subpoena in an ongoing criminal prosecution.4 The Supreme Court unanimously disagreed, holding that neither the doctrine of separation of powers, nor the need for confidentiality of high-level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances. The Court noted that the constitutional duty of courts to do justice in criminal prosecutions was counterbalanced by the claim of presidential immunity. To accept the President’s argument, the Court further reasoned, would undermine the separation of powers that was at the core of a workable government as well as gravely impair the role of the courts under Art. III....
Schumer is correct, there is no equal treatment under the law for President Biden in comparison of Trump's obvious obstruction of justice.
Saturday, January 14, 2023
He is still killing innocent people for pure political volleys.
Kyiv - Russia unleashed a major missile attack (click here) on Ukraine on Saturday, smashing a nine-storey apartment block in the city of Dnipro, killing at least five people and striking vital energy facilities, officials said.
Ukraine's energy minister said the coming days would be "difficult" as months of Russian bombardment of the power grid threaten the supply of electricity, running water and central heating at the height of winter....
The bombing Putin is carrying out are not military targets. The bombs are falling on innocent civilians.
January 14, 2023
Chisinau - Missile debris (click here) was found in the north of Moldova following the latest barrage of Russian air strikes on Ukraine, Moldova's interior ministry said on Saturday.
"Following Russia's massive bombardment of Ukraine, a border police patrol discovered ... the remains of a missile, originating from Russia's air attacks on Ukraine," the ministry said on Facebook.
Russia did not immediately comment on the report.
Belarus President (click here) Alexander Lukashenko appeared to release military plans on TV which include invading the Transnistria region of Moldova.
January 14, 2023
Chisinau - Missile debris (click here) was found in the north of Moldova following the latest barrage of Russian air strikes on Ukraine, Moldova's interior ministry said on Saturday.
"Following Russia's massive bombardment of Ukraine, a border police patrol discovered ... the remains of a missile, originating from Russia's air attacks on Ukraine," the ministry said on Facebook.
Russia did not immediately comment on the report.
There is no comparison to Trump in this folly.
The documents at Maralogo were military intelligence which is eons away from what was found with Biden. That is why Trump is guilty of treason. It was military and we know it for a fact as he gave away intelligence of an ally's nuclear network.
GET OVER YOURSELVES AND BE AMERICANS RATHER THAN PROPAGANDISTS!
January 14, 2023
By Patrick Reis
The White House (click here) said Saturday that President Joe Biden’s aides had found more classified information stored at his private residence. It is inopportune timing for the president: His team said on Thursday that only one classified page had been found there. Now, it’s up to six.
For an administration whose FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate over improper storage of sensitive government materials, it’s a bad look to be having your own issues with improper storage of sensitive government materials. The government has a system for storing sensitive documents, and “Don’t worry gang, it’s my home office,” isn’t part of it. (Especially not when there were secret documents also found at the Penn Biden Center, a Biden-affiliated think tank.)
There are political issues here, but let’s get the facts as we know them straight first. Biden’s team has found government documents in places where they shouldn’t be, copped to its mistakes, and handed the material back over to authorities. Biden is now facing a special counsel investigation, and he’s planning to cooperate with it. Trump knowingly took documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago and sat on them. After the FBI found them, he claimed he was the victim of a “Deep State” plot and that he could declassify documents telepathically. And in the aftermath, rather than cooperating, he told his legal team to get “my” documents back, Rolling Stone reported in August....
January 14, 2023
By Patrick Reis
The White House (click here) said Saturday that President Joe Biden’s aides had found more classified information stored at his private residence. It is inopportune timing for the president: His team said on Thursday that only one classified page had been found there. Now, it’s up to six.
For an administration whose FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate over improper storage of sensitive government materials, it’s a bad look to be having your own issues with improper storage of sensitive government materials. The government has a system for storing sensitive documents, and “Don’t worry gang, it’s my home office,” isn’t part of it. (Especially not when there were secret documents also found at the Penn Biden Center, a Biden-affiliated think tank.)
There are political issues here, but let’s get the facts as we know them straight first. Biden’s team has found government documents in places where they shouldn’t be, copped to its mistakes, and handed the material back over to authorities. Biden is now facing a special counsel investigation, and he’s planning to cooperate with it. Trump knowingly took documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago and sat on them. After the FBI found them, he claimed he was the victim of a “Deep State” plot and that he could declassify documents telepathically. And in the aftermath, rather than cooperating, he told his legal team to get “my” documents back, Rolling Stone reported in August....
Thursday, January 12, 2023
I am happy to hear this was all minor concerns.
By Laurie McGinley and Mark
The skin cancer (click here) first lady Jill Biden was treated for Wednesday — basal cell carcinoma — is highly treatable and the most common form of skin cancer, experts said.
Doctors removed lesions from above Biden’s right eye and the left part of her chest using Mohs surgery, a common procedure for that type of skin cancer, according to the White House. A third lesion, on her left eyelid, was surgically excised and sent to a lab for examination....
Doctors removed lesions from above Biden’s right eye and the left part of her chest using Mohs surgery, a common procedure for that type of skin cancer, according to the White House. A third lesion, on her left eyelid, was surgically excised and sent to a lab for examination....
Skin Cancer Foundation
One of three main types of cells in the top layer of the skin, (click here) basal cells shed as new ones form. BCC most often occurs when DNA damage from exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun or indoor tanning triggers changes in basal cells in the outermost layer of skin (epidermis), resulting in uncontrolled growth....
Where is Erik Prince? Still getting a tan in the Seychelles Islands?
By Pjotr Sauer
Hundreds of civilians remain trapped in Soledar, Ukraine has said, (click here) as bloody fighting continues over control of the largely destroyed salt mining town in eastern Ukraine.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of Donetsk, told Ukrainian state TV that 559 civilians remained in Soledar, including 15 children, and could not be evacuated.
Ukraine said on Thursday its troops were “holding on” as fighting continued in Soledar, dismissing claims made by the Russian mercenary group Wagner that its forces had taken control of the town....
He wasn't at January 6th. Soledar, Ukraine is about 12 and 1/2 hours from Moscow, Russia. About 600 miles as the crow flies. I take it no one there is dying of wounds of war or suffering from genocide at the hand of a country grossly out of step with reality.
Someone needs to set up a bank of drones that fly day and night to end this mess and protect the Ukraine borders.
July 7, 2021
By Simon Shuster
On the second night of his visit to Kyiv, (click here) Erik Prince had a dinner date on his agenda. A few of his Ukrainian associates had arranged to meet the American billionaire at the Vodka Grill that evening, Feb. 23, 2020. The choice of venue seemed unusual. The Vodka Grill, a since-defunct nightclub next to a KFC franchise in a rough part of town, rarely saw patrons as powerful as Prince.
As the party got seated inside a private karaoke room on the second floor, Igor Novikov, who was then a top adviser to Ukraine’s President, remembers feeling a little nervous. He had done some reading about Blackwater, the private military company Prince had founded in 1997, and he knew about the massacre its troops had perpetrated during the U.S. war in Iraq. Coming face to face that night with the world’s most prominent soldier of fortune, Novikov remembers thinking: “What does this guy want from us?”...
Where are the bailout monies?
January 12, 2023
By Jaclyn Diaz and David Schaper
Flights across the U.S. slowly resumed Wednesday (click here) after a nationwide ground stop by the Federal Aviation Administration, stemming from the outage of a crucial piece of technology.
The failure of the Notice to Air Missions system, or NOTAM, caused airlines to cancel more than 1,300 flights, and delay nearly 10,000 more, according to flight tracker FlightAware.com.
The FAA said that early investigative work traced the blackout to a "damaged database file," but the agency is still working to determine the root cause.
"At this time, there is no evidence of a cyberattack. The FAA is working diligently to further pinpoint the causes of this issue and take all needed steps to prevent this kind of disruption from happening again."...
Flights across the U.S. slowly resumed Wednesday (click here) after a nationwide ground stop by the Federal Aviation Administration, stemming from the outage of a crucial piece of technology.
The failure of the Notice to Air Missions system, or NOTAM, caused airlines to cancel more than 1,300 flights, and delay nearly 10,000 more, according to flight tracker FlightAware.com.
The FAA said that early investigative work traced the blackout to a "damaged database file," but the agency is still working to determine the root cause.
"At this time, there is no evidence of a cyberattack. The FAA is working diligently to further pinpoint the causes of this issue and take all needed steps to prevent this kind of disruption from happening again."...
..Similar disruptions arose in Canada on the same day. NAV CANADA, which owns and operates that country's civil air navigation system, reported its own issues with their NOTAM technology and subsequent delays.
"NAV CANADA continues to investigate the cause of the outage; at this time, we do not believe it to be related to the FAA outage experienced earlier today,
the company said late Wednesday....
the company said late Wednesday....
It is AI. The USA experience is not an isolated incident. I don't believe in coincidence. AI was talking to both these systems. It took a human being to straighten it out.
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
January 10, 2023
Washington, D.C. - On Monday, (click here) the New York Senate approved Senate Bill 616, which would effectively rescind an out-of-date ban on providing food and water for voters waiting at the polls, otherwise known as a line-warming ban. When the Republican legislatures in Florida and Georgia passed large voter suppression laws in 2021, provisions that made it illegal to distribute items to voters waiting in line drew the most outrage from voting rights advocates. Though enacted years ago, New York state has a similar law on the books, one that says that, “during the hours of voting, on a day of a general, special or primary election,” no person may provide or pay for “any meat, drink, tobacco, refreshment or provision.” The archaic ban has limited exceptions for items with a “retail value of less than one dollar,” which is, in effect, a total ban given that almost all snacks or drinks would cost more than that. Violators are subject to criminal penalties....
March 26, 2021
Atlanta - The sweeping rewrite of Georgia’s election rules (click here) represents the first big set of changes since former President Donald Trump’s repeated, baseless claims of fraud following his presidential loss to Joe Biden.
Georgia has been at the center of that storm. Trump zeroed in on his loss in the state, even as two Democrats won election to the U.S. Senate in January, flipping control of the chamber to their party. The 98-page measure that was signed into law Thursday by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp makes numerous changes to how elections will be administered, including a new photo ID requirement for voting absentee by mail....
January 6, 2023
Harrisburg - New data from Pennsylvania’s elections agency shows (click here) an early November state court decision that barred mail-in ballots without accurate handwritten dates on their exterior envelopes resulted in otherwise valid votes being thrown out.
The Department of State said this week more than 16,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified by county officials because they lacked secrecy envelopes or proper signatures or dates. Democratic voters, who are much more likely to vote by mail, made up more than two-thirds of the total canceled ballots.
The agency said 8,250 Pennsylvania mail-in ballots were rejected because they were sent in without being contained within a secrecy envelope, making it impossible for them to be tabulated without putting voter privacy at risk.
The remaining 7,904 invalidated ballots were tossed out because the exterior envelopes used to send in those ballots did not have the voters’ signatures, or because those exterior envelopes were either undated or improperly dated....
Washington, D.C. - On Monday, (click here) the New York Senate approved Senate Bill 616, which would effectively rescind an out-of-date ban on providing food and water for voters waiting at the polls, otherwise known as a line-warming ban. When the Republican legislatures in Florida and Georgia passed large voter suppression laws in 2021, provisions that made it illegal to distribute items to voters waiting in line drew the most outrage from voting rights advocates. Though enacted years ago, New York state has a similar law on the books, one that says that, “during the hours of voting, on a day of a general, special or primary election,” no person may provide or pay for “any meat, drink, tobacco, refreshment or provision.” The archaic ban has limited exceptions for items with a “retail value of less than one dollar,” which is, in effect, a total ban given that almost all snacks or drinks would cost more than that. Violators are subject to criminal penalties....
Georgia has been at the center of that storm. Trump zeroed in on his loss in the state, even as two Democrats won election to the U.S. Senate in January, flipping control of the chamber to their party. The 98-page measure that was signed into law Thursday by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp makes numerous changes to how elections will be administered, including a new photo ID requirement for voting absentee by mail....
January 10, 2023
Washington, DC - As of Tuesday, Jan. 10, Missouri Republicans (cilck here) have introduced a dozen bills to make it harder for Missouri voters to approve constitutional amendments. In Missouri, citizens can initiate statutory or constitutional changes via a petition process; approved petitions will be placed on the ballot before Missouri voters. Less than a week into the 2023 legislative session, Republican lawmakers are trying to undermine that form of direct democracy.
Two resolutions — House Joint Resolution 2 and House Joint Resolution 28 — both would make it harder to get a citizen-led petition onto the ballot by raising the percentage of voter signatures required. They also require that the expected percentage of signatures comes from “each” congressional district in the state....
16,000 otherwise valid votes in the Midterm Elections in Pennsylvania were tossed out on technicality. They voted for the Democratic candidates.
Harrisburg - New data from Pennsylvania’s elections agency shows (click here) an early November state court decision that barred mail-in ballots without accurate handwritten dates on their exterior envelopes resulted in otherwise valid votes being thrown out.
The Department of State said this week more than 16,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified by county officials because they lacked secrecy envelopes or proper signatures or dates. Democratic voters, who are much more likely to vote by mail, made up more than two-thirds of the total canceled ballots.
The agency said 8,250 Pennsylvania mail-in ballots were rejected because they were sent in without being contained within a secrecy envelope, making it impossible for them to be tabulated without putting voter privacy at risk.
The remaining 7,904 invalidated ballots were tossed out because the exterior envelopes used to send in those ballots did not have the voters’ signatures, or because those exterior envelopes were either undated or improperly dated....
January 10, 2023
By Rebecca Beitsch and Mychael Schnell
The subcommittee, (click here) part of the House Judiciary Committee, is expected to be chaired by the full panel’s chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
Such a move would give broad authority to Jordan, an ally of former President Trump who has railed against current and prior investigations of the former president.
“This is about the First Amendment, something you guys used to care about. And I’d actually hoped we could get bipartisan agreement on protecting the First Amendment — the five rights we enjoy as Americans under the First Amendment,” Jordan said during debate on the House floor Tuesday.
“We don’t want to go after anyone, we just want it to stop. And we want to respect the First Amendment to the Constitution that the greatest country in the world has. That’s what this committee is all about, and that’s what we’re gonna focus on, that’s what we are going to do,” he later added....
The subcommittee, (click here) part of the House Judiciary Committee, is expected to be chaired by the full panel’s chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
Such a move would give broad authority to Jordan, an ally of former President Trump who has railed against current and prior investigations of the former president.
“This is about the First Amendment, something you guys used to care about. And I’d actually hoped we could get bipartisan agreement on protecting the First Amendment — the five rights we enjoy as Americans under the First Amendment,” Jordan said during debate on the House floor Tuesday.
“We don’t want to go after anyone, we just want it to stop. And we want to respect the First Amendment to the Constitution that the greatest country in the world has. That’s what this committee is all about, and that’s what we’re gonna focus on, that’s what we are going to do,” he later added....
January 10, 2023
By Mychael Schnell
A pair of House Democrats (click here) on Tuesday filed and hand-delivered to Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) a complaint urging the Ethics Committee to open an investigation into allegations the freshman congressman failed to file timely, accurate and complete financial disclosure reports.
Reps. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) filed the ethics complaint against Santos on Tuesday and delivered a copy of the six-page document to the New York Republican’s congressional office. Goldman knocked on Santos’s door and entered the office, leaving the complaint on a desk inside....
They weren't SAP. They were a mistake.
Classified National Security Information
By Jamie Gangel, Marshall Cohen, Evan Perez and Paula Reid
Among the items from Joe Biden’s time as vice president (click here) discovered in a private office last fall are 10 classified documents including US intelligence memos and briefing materials that covered topics including Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has received a preliminary report on the documents inquiry, a law enforcement source said, and now faces the critical decision on how to proceed, including whether to open a full-blown criminal investigation.
John Lausch Jr., the US attorney in Chicago, has briefed Garland multiple times. No additional briefings are scheduled but would be conducted if necessary, a source said....
Attorney General Merrick Garland has received a preliminary report on the documents inquiry, a law enforcement source said, and now faces the critical decision on how to proceed, including whether to open a full-blown criminal investigation.
John Lausch Jr., the US attorney in Chicago, has briefed Garland multiple times. No additional briefings are scheduled but would be conducted if necessary, a source said....
Monday, January 09, 2023
Out of respect for a dead Princess.
Harry isn't really a middle child (click here), but, there are those that claim birth order has an effect on personality. I rarely comment on such popular gossip, but, I find my conscience bothering me as I read some of the articles regarding the Royal Family of Great Britain.
In all honesty, if this was an American complaining about family dysfunction it would never make the news and absolutely not a book. So, for a couple that wants a normal life as I believe Megan and Harry stated they wished for, writing an inflammatory book about the Royals is hardly wanting a normal life.
There was an article (click here) that came before me recently stating that Charles could be removed from power and his coronation denied by the Church of England as he is divorced. I would find that unfortunate, because all people that would be cast out of prestige Prince William should never be ignored. Prince William, of royal birth both father and mother is a sincere heir to the throne. He is a good and decent guy that is in touch with his generation and expresses their concerns regularly.
I like William. It would be terrible if he was denied leadership in Great Britain. Removing Charles would bring that about as the lineage would fall to Princess Anne. I don't know how she would feel following in her mother's footsteps, but, she was diligently present at the funeral proceedings of the dead queen.
I think what needs to be said is that Diana would be Queen had the divorce not taken place. I think that should matter. Her sons would have a rightful place in the lineage of the former Queen and it should be preserved. In stating that, I firmly believe Queen Consort should be maintained for Camilla. She, after all, was somewhat instrumental in the marriage failure. No one can deny that.
As to Harry. He is free to live his life as he wishes and away from the business of the family. He may actually object to his role in the Royal Family. He is allowed his own conscience.
Diana Spenser was a very special woman that took the power granted to her and used it to benefit others. She was exceptional in every way and her sons are a testament to those qualities. William obviously carries his responsibilities well, as did Diana. Harry has his own voice of which I am confident she would approve of and the fact his father is miffed only solidifies his mother strongly embedded in his personality. It could be said that Harry speaks for Diana in exposing the underbelly of the Royals.
But, the Church of England needs to take their role seriously and do what is right for Diana's children. The Late Queen Elizabeth II would strongly support the Church in any of its decisions. She did let her preference be known before she died. She was interested in her family lineage continuing to lead and William and his son George was all a part of that picture.
I think Harry and his wife Megan are great people and are not afraid of the truth or living the truth in full view of the world's interests. That is about as close to gossip I will venture into. Everyone have a good day.
By William Booth and Rachel Pannett
London - Prince Harry, (click here) the memoirist and estranged son of the House of Windsor, launched a full broadside against Buckingham Palace on Sunday and Monday, appearing in more interviews to promote his new book, “Spare,” claiming his family, especially his stepmother, Camilla, now the Queen Consort, is actively feeding negative stories to the press about him and his wife, Meghan.
Harry said he is often asked in America, his new home, “How could you ever forgive your family for what they’ve done?”
In Britain, the royal family may ask the same about Harry, who has broken the fourth wall of the royal soap opera and named the names of those he says have leaked against him, including his father, King Charles III and his wife Camilla, and his brother Prince William and his wife Catherine — and their PR teams....
Harry said he is often asked in America, his new home, “How could you ever forgive your family for what they’ve done?”
In Britain, the royal family may ask the same about Harry, who has broken the fourth wall of the royal soap opera and named the names of those he says have leaked against him, including his father, King Charles III and his wife Camilla, and his brother Prince William and his wife Catherine — and their PR teams....
Sunday, January 08, 2023
The Populism of truth telling, decency in policy, and equality for all is winning elections.
Some allies and advisers (click here) want the Brazilian president to contest his election loss to Lula. Others want a global fight over free speech.
Steve Bannon loses another one to democracy. He and his associates are national security issues globally. They make their living putting extremist right wing politicians into office, regardless, the harm it does to the people, their economy, national security and global stability.
Bannon is a master at corruption and dangling millions and billions as the enticement for donations to his campaign. That is what Bannon practices ardently, corruption. His campaigns, even Trump's campaign, was nothing but the promise of corruption's profiteering.
Bannon has no regard for law or constitutions. He does like free speech to a point, but, only to the point where he can craft an alternate reality that brings anger and declension. All free speech is not his forte.
By Anthony Faiola and Paulina Villegas
Brasilia - Thousands of radical supporters of Brazil’s former far-right president (click here), Jair Bolsonaro, stormed and vandalized the country’s Congress, Supreme Court and presidential office building on Sunday before being pushed back by security forces, in an episode that paralleled the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The attacks in the capital city came only a week after the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who defeated Bolsonaro in a runoff election in October. They amounted to one of the worst attacks against democracy in Brazil since the 1964 military coup.
A visibly irritated president Lula condemned the “abominable” acts and said all those involved would be investigated and punished “with all the strength of the law.” He also blamed Bolsonaro for encouraging the attacks by repeatedly questioning the integrity of the electoral process....
When cronies get pay offs it is hard to simply walk away from to concede a political loss. The rainforests are important to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. There was a referendum on the ballot this year in Brazil. The people want to protect their heritage.
01 January 2023
...The Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) (click here) has the largest tropical rainforest area, the highest biodiversity and the largest amount of aboveground biomass in the world1,2,3. Since 2000, the Indigenous territories (ITs) and the protected areas (PAs) in the BLA have increased substantially and by 2013 they accounted for 43% of the total land area and covered about half of the total forest area in the region1. ITs and PAs have important roles in forest and biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation in the BLA....
Brazil art exhibition (click here) showcases an Indigenous worldview and poses questionsOctober 27, 2022
By Andrew Downie
When historians write books (click here) about why so many Brazilians voted for the far-right they will justifiably focus on ideological, political and social issues. But there is another key reason why President Jair Bolsonaro is still competitive as Sunday’s runoff ballot approaches: he’s handing out billions from a government slush fund.
The fund is known as the “secret budget” because there is little or no oversight over where the money goes once it is handed to lawmakers.
Worth 19bn reais a year (£3.1bn), the fund amounts to around one-fifth of the government’s entire discretionary spending.
“It is the biggest corruption scandal on the face of the earth,” said Simone Tebet, the conservative senator who finished third in the first-round ballot on 2 October....
Saturday, January 07, 2023
Yes, indeed, CEOs are such brilliant leaders for profit, except, when a pandemic disrupts supply chains.
CEOs are not the leaders government needs. Governing, be it China or the USA, is not about efficiency, it is about the people and what is best for their ultimate outcome.
Now, because of the CEOs pressure to return China back to manufacturing cheap labor, the people are sick and dying. So much for manufacturing. At the beginning of the pandemic in the USA people were worried about toilet paper, it has gone way beyond that now.
Additionally, China is trying to buy up all sorts of oil supplies. It is decreasing some discounts. The petroleum distributors need to see their responsibility in global stability and the future of the planet.
The Free World needs to ban together, maintain their focus on freedom, the well being of the people and complete conversion to alternative energies.
Speaker - Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, vice president, science, medicine & public health, American Medical Association
...Garcia: Yeah, China unfortunately is seeing the highest number of cases per day (click here) since the start of the pandemic and there are increasing reports of severe disease there. The outbreak has gone from bad to worse since that sudden reversal of its zero-COVID policy last month. And that zero-COVID rule basically prevented people from leaving their home if cases were detected in their area. People were undergoing regular testing.
And they also required overseas travelers, including Chinese nationals, to stay in quarantine for as long as two months before entering the country. That reversal of those policies has likely exposed two vulnerabilities. And the first is that a lot of the country has not been vaccinated, including its most vulnerable older population. And second, because of the many lockdowns that they've undergone, they don't have much natural immunity from some of the previous COVID waves.
The other thing to keep in mind is that the situation on the ground there is difficult to track because China is not releasing reliable COVID data. The stories and videos coming out do suggest that the crisis there is worsening. And if you look at some of the recent New York Times reporting, local governments have reported hundreds of thousands of infections a day. And sick patients are crowding hospital hallways, which is reminiscent of the early days of the pandemic....
And they also required overseas travelers, including Chinese nationals, to stay in quarantine for as long as two months before entering the country. That reversal of those policies has likely exposed two vulnerabilities. And the first is that a lot of the country has not been vaccinated, including its most vulnerable older population. And second, because of the many lockdowns that they've undergone, they don't have much natural immunity from some of the previous COVID waves.
The other thing to keep in mind is that the situation on the ground there is difficult to track because China is not releasing reliable COVID data. The stories and videos coming out do suggest that the crisis there is worsening. And if you look at some of the recent New York Times reporting, local governments have reported hundreds of thousands of infections a day. And sick patients are crowding hospital hallways, which is reminiscent of the early days of the pandemic....
The transmission between the Chinese and the poor reporting to the global medical organizations allows more danger to the type of variants that are currently mutating among a billion Chinese.
What is XBB.1.5? (click here)
It is yet another offshoot of the globally-dominant Omicron Covid variant. Omicron has outperformed the earlier Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta coronavirus variants since emerging in late 2021.
Omicron has also given rise to many more contagious sub-variants....
It is yet another offshoot of the globally-dominant Omicron Covid variant. Omicron has outperformed the earlier Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta coronavirus variants since emerging in late 2021.
Omicron has also given rise to many more contagious sub-variants....
XBB.1.5 is expected to become the dominant sub-variant in the USA and UK. It can circumvent the immunity of most people. All high risk people should be taking the usual precautions when it comes to masks, distancing and hand hygiene.
CEOs do not have the answer for the end to the COVID Pandemic.
January 6, 2023
By Michael S. Derby
New York - Declining world supply chain pressures (click here) are being challenged by new disruptions in China tied to the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Federal Reserve reported on Friday.
The regional Fed bank’s December Global Supply Chain Pressure Index ticked down to 1.18 from November’s revised 1.23 reading. According to the report, supply chain pressures have been easing notably since the spring of last year and bottomed in September, and have since then been bouncing around in a tight range.
In a blog posting accompanying the report, bank economists said “while supply chain disruptions have significantly diminished over the course of 2022, the reversion of the index toward a normal historical range has paused over the past three months,” adding that “our analysis attributes the recent pause largely to the pandemic in China amid an easing of ‘Zero COVID’ policies.”
In contrast to much of the rest of the world, until recently China has been pursuing aggressive lockdown strategies to mitigate the spread of the virus. Given China’s large role in manufacturing, that approach has kept pressure on supply chains over recent months. Now, the easing of restrictions has been attended by a massive wave of coronavirus infections, which threaten to keep pressure on the ability to ship goods out of China....
By Michael S. Derby
New York - Declining world supply chain pressures (click here) are being challenged by new disruptions in China tied to the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Federal Reserve reported on Friday.
The regional Fed bank’s December Global Supply Chain Pressure Index ticked down to 1.18 from November’s revised 1.23 reading. According to the report, supply chain pressures have been easing notably since the spring of last year and bottomed in September, and have since then been bouncing around in a tight range.
In a blog posting accompanying the report, bank economists said “while supply chain disruptions have significantly diminished over the course of 2022, the reversion of the index toward a normal historical range has paused over the past three months,” adding that “our analysis attributes the recent pause largely to the pandemic in China amid an easing of ‘Zero COVID’ policies.”
In contrast to much of the rest of the world, until recently China has been pursuing aggressive lockdown strategies to mitigate the spread of the virus. Given China’s large role in manufacturing, that approach has kept pressure on supply chains over recent months. Now, the easing of restrictions has been attended by a massive wave of coronavirus infections, which threaten to keep pressure on the ability to ship goods out of China....
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