Thursday, July 16, 2020

Isn't freedom great?

I think she is extremely brave. She is also very honest. She did the country a great service by helping tell the truth. 

I wish her happiness. She should enjoy her own celebrity. She has earned it.

Justice is important to a democracy. She stood on the side of justice through her life, why stop now?

Thank you, Ms. Trump. It was nice to listen to you speak.

McConnell is wrong!

The country should NOT be doing everything to get students back to school. The country has to vanquish SARS-CoV-2 BEFORE unwitting children are exposed to danger.

McConnell is pandering to Trump.

Parents are at wit's end realizing their children may be asked to return to school without health insurance.

The virus has to be eliminated in the USA IN ORDER to return parents to work and their employee benefits and then and only then will students be READY to return to school and be AMONG OTHER STUDENTS.

McConnell needs to address THE REAL ISSUES and not the dreamscape of Donald John Trump.

Setting the health insurance issue aside, the REGIME involved in returning students to their schools is ridiculous.

Example: A student becomes ill in school. What then? Of course, the parent(s) have to be called to take them to the doctor. Normally, that is where it ends when it comes to the school and staff being involved.

THAT IS NOT THE CASE WITH COVID-19.

When a student becomes ill in school, the others in the classroom and possibly gymnasium or auditorium have to be tested. If there are positive tests then the contact tracing has to occur as it has already begun with the ill student. That means teachers and possibly administrators have to be tested. If positives are found then more contact tracing will have to occur. Then there is the home environment of the ill student. Are parents positive and if not that means the school, bus or playground is the culprit? Now, parents may test positive after contact with their own students. Once the parent(s) is positive that means they are unable to work for at least two or three weeks while receiving medications to end COVID-19 in their lives.

So, the ill student is then tested and the student is negative and able to return to school. Is the school now SARS-CoV-2 free? Is the ill student going into school entering a school that has no virus? If not, the circus of a dangerous illness begins all over again.

THERE IS NO PLAN FOR SCHOOLS THAT ARE DISEASE PROOF and COVID-19 is too dangerous to risk it.

Enough of this madness and stress.

If this mess doesn't end soon, I see a country on a countrywide general strike UNTIL the country is free of COVID-19. The general strike can last 16 days and end this virus transmission. The people can take this on themselves without anyone's help except their own resources.

It is more than likely Russia hacked Twitter.

Russian currency is worthless. Russia covets cryptocurrency because of it. So, Putin played Twitter accounts for fools to build up their treasury.

Russia is a criminal rouge nation.

From steroid doping Olympic athletes to hacking elections and now attempting to contaminate virus research with false information. Russia has earned the title of Criminal Rogue Nation. It will never make it back to the G7. This is Putin.
July 16, 2020
By Julian E. Barnes

Washington - Russian hackers (click here) are attempting to steal coronavirus vaccine research, the U.S., British and Canadian governments said Thursday, opening a dangerous new front in the cyberwars and intelligence battles between Moscow and the West.

The National Security Agency said APT29, the hacking group known as Cozy Bear which is associated with Russian intelligence, has been taking advantage of the chaos created by the coronavirus pandemic and targeting health care organizations seeking to steal intelligence on vaccines.

The Russian hackers have been targeting British, Canadian and American organizations researching vaccines against Covid-19. The hackers have been using spear-phishing and malware to try to get access to the research.

“We condemn these despicable attacks against those doing vital work to combat the coronavirus pandemic,” said Paul Chichester, the director of operations for Britain’s National Cyber Security Center....

Not all Russians are enchanted by the idea of "Ruled by Putin Forever." This tells me the recent vote to place Putin in power for decades was rigged. There is no reason to believe anything else. Putin is an international criminal. He made no secret of it when he came out on media to back Trump for president (click here). From KGB to criminal president of Russia. He is nothing to be proud of.

July 16, 2020
By Matthew Bodner

Moscow - An unlikely protest movement (click here) has become the first major challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin after he secured his political future in a contentious vote this month — and it may spell more trouble in the days ahead.

Residents of Khabarovsk, a large city near Russia's border with China, have been up in arms for days protesting the arrest of their governor on 15-year-old murder charges.

The governor whom the protests are defending, Sergei Furgal, is himself no hero.

As a member of one of Russia's two Kremlin-sanctioned opposition parties — the Liberal-Democratic Party, a nationalist outfit that is neither liberal nor democratic — Furgal has spent most of his two years as governor more or less toeing Moscow's party line in the far east, not causing any trouble. He was, essentially, a loyalist.

But Furgal committed an unforgivable sin against the regime: In the 2018 gubernatorial elections, he rebuffed Kremlin calls to fold and allow the favored United Russia party candidate to win. He then went on to legitimately win a popular contest. Many residents of Khabarovsk say they see his arrest last week as punishment....