This time Los Angeles. What kind of bicycle violation results in a shooting? A bicycle violation? Like, what?

September 1, 2020

...The cyclist, 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee, (click here) was shot more than 20 times in the back on Monday afternoon after two sheriff's deputies tried to stop him for a bicycle code violation, said Benjamin Crump, who said he is representing Kizzee's family.

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said Kizzee, whose identity was confirmed by the county medical examiner-coroner, was shot fewer than 20 times after dropping a handgun he had been carrying and punching one of the deputies.

The killing renewed protests in the city by demonstrators angered at deadly violence against Black people by police. Such protests have become a near daily occurrence around the country after George Floyd, a Black man, was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer in May.

"You don't kill any race but us, and it don't make any sense," Fletcher Fair, Dijon Kizzee's aunt, told reporters at the site of the shooting on Tuesday where activists called for an independent investigation by California's attorney general. "Why us?"...

The shooting is not justified. The gun was on the ground and Dijon was not firing the gun at police. Was the gun loaded? He could have been carrying an empty gun.

What impresses me is the number of bullets Dijon was shot with, since when do police carry a high capacity magazines with 20 bullets?

Whether it is Mr. Blake or Dijon Kizzee, the police are emptying their magazines? That, to me, spells a profound lack of skills in using the gun. I can empty a gun magazine without training or practice, although the recoil might be worrisome in AIMING the gun. Emptying a gun of it's bullets is not good police work.

..."Our suspect (click here) was holding some items of clothing in his hands, punched one of the officers in the face and then dropped the items in his hands," Lt. Brandon Dean said. "The deputies noticed that inside the clothing items that he dropped was a black semiautomatic handgun, at which time a deputy-involved shooting occurred."...

Punching a police officer is serious, but, it seems as though they are losing their perspective when it comes to firing their guns. Seriously. I don't think they are emotionally stable if they are emptying their magazines into a person. Where are they getting the permission to simply unload their magazines into a person? How is it a 17 year old with a military style weapon walk through the streets with impunity while a black bicyclist is deemed a threat while owning a gun so police are motivated to the point of killing him?

It doesn't make sense anymore. Where is the sincere fear of a black man come from that unleashes this degree of fury?

It was the Russians. They are inside the perimeter!

 

fps in paintball is feet per second - Protesters do not have body armor to protect them from paintguns.

Link to picture (click here)

...Public (click here)

Many laws have been put into place limiting where a paintball gun can and cannot be used. It is prohibited to discharge a paintball gun by a street or road, sidewalk, highway, and in public land except for a target range....

An 18-year old boy suffered a liver rupture after playing paintball (click here)

Shooting plastic pellets (click here) at speeds of up to 200mph while traversing all sorts of obstacles and muddy terrain doesn’t sound like the safest of pursuits - so how safe is paintball?

There’s no denying those paintballs can sting, and may even leave a bruise if they hit any exposed skin, but in reality, you’re no more likely to pick up an injury paintballing as you are playing football, rugby or any other sport that can result in scrapes and bruises....

...While knee pads, elbow pads, and chest protectors can all help protect against injury, a pair of goggles is the only essential piece of paintball safety equipment that must be worn at all times...

...The speed of a paintball (click here) is measured in feet per second (fps) because of the short range of the markers. Most guns are measured in fps. The average paintball marker can shoot 300 fps, or slightly below this. Most paintball playing fields require a maximum of 280 fps for safety purposes.

With an effective range of 80 to 100 feet for the average 280-fps marker, a paintball can reach its target in about one-third of a second....

None of this is unexpected insight. The best place to survive COVID-19 is home.

May 26, 2020
By Roxana Baiceanu

Jonathan Woloshin, Head of U.S. Real Estate, UBS Global Wealth Management’s Chief Investment Office. Image courtesy of UBS

...Woloshin: (click here) So far, May rent collections are running ahead of April, although the month is not over yet. I believe it is explainable by several factors including:

• the direct funds from the CARES Act.
• the significant increase in unemployment benefits that the federal government added to state-level benefits.
• the willingness of landlords to work out payment plans with renters who have demonstrated their hardship arising from COVID-19.
• the desire for tenants to maintain good standing with their landlord and credit ratings.

Woloshin: The longer the lockdown is in place, the greater the risk of nonpayment. The federal unemployment benefits expire at the end of July. In addition, several states have extended eviction moratoriums, and California is debating a bill that would allow tenants to have a year to pay their rent with no penalties or eviction. The longer this crisis goes on, the more political pressure there will be at the state and local levels to protect tenants. In addition, the growing calls for rent strikes cannot be ignored....

The consumer credit available to Americans is being used to pay bills, not improve quality of life.

All Americans, according to this RAND study, have lost income during this period of COVID-19. The higher the income the less income lost. 

With government SUBSIDIES, lowest-income Americans did improve their outcomes. Working with percentages in this instance can be tricky because 4 percent of higher-income households may actually be the same amount of monies received by the lowest incomes receiving 12 percent.

...Households' methods of coping (click here) with these difficulties vary across the income spectrum. A widely cited survey question from the Federal Reserve asks how respondents would pay an emergency expense. To take into account the widespread, unexpected job losses and financial downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, we modified this question to ask people who are in the midst of an emergency—those who reported difficulty in paying their bills—how they are dealing with expenses.

Among households that are struggling to make ends meet, we found that approaches vary significantly across the income spectrum (Table 1). Unsurprisingly, low-income households have few options. They report borrowing from friends and family, selling possessions, and simply being unable to meet expenses. Consistent with these findings, evidence from other surveys reveals rising food insecurity among low-income households.

Middle-income households report using formal credit: putting expenses on credit cards with the hopes of paying the debt off over time, using bank loans and lines of credit, and, in some cases, taking on payday loans. We found fewer reports of payday loans among the low-income group than among the middle-income group. Although this difference was not statistically significant, it might reflect the higher rates of job loss among low-income workers, as documented in other surveys; without a job, a payday loan is not an option....

In Table 1 of this RAND study, it is very obvious all levels of income in the USA are using credit to pay their bills. So, while the Fed is creating a better financial environment for the use of credit in the USA, the consumers of credit are using it at this time to pay bills and not to improve their quality of life. That is a concern for the future. If there is significant credit building up with consumers that means they may be using bankruptcy to protect their financial position in times to come. That SURVIVAL STATUS will effect their spending behavior now.

After Wall Street panicked and crashed, they realized COVID-19 is a new economy with new opportunity.

January 31, 2020

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II (click here) declared a public health emergency for the entire United States to aid the nation’s healthcare community in responding to 2019 novel coronavirus....

The stock price of Apple, the computer company, feel to a low on March 23, 2020 of $224.36 US. 

As of August the stock price of Apple, Inc. to $500.04 US. There is only one reason for the increase and that is the application of IT across the business and public venues due to COVID-19.

If Trump is bragging about this being his Wall Street, then is he bragging about the fear in the country and rising numbers of victims in the USA to the virus? A reactive Wall Street is supposed to happen, but, the real question is should this have happened at all. If the strategy of closing down for 2 weeks to end the spread of the virus and contain it worked rather than squandered this dynamic would not be so stark.

The current stock markets are definitely reacting to the fact the USA has an active COVID-19 economy and is the largest such economy in the world. I don't really think that is something to brag about, but, Trump is mostly disconnected from reality and simply plays with propaganda.

There are seismic changes at the Federal Reserve. The Fed is now monitoring small amounts of inflation rather than simply inflation that can cause major economic damage. It is a significant change that reacts to a stronger labor market while controlling inflation in the face of GOOD WAGES. The change is to benefit consumers and keeps their interest rates lower. The less interest consumers pay, the more money in their pockets which improves their ability to improve their quality of life and ultimately purchase a home and enter into the American Dream.

Such good news to the markets means there will be less turbulence to stocks and more stability to long term outcomes. The COVID-19 market is likely temporary as the virus is conquered. Let's hope the USA will find it important to end the rampage of the virus under Trump and can join the rest of the world to return to normal. There is every reason for the American people to elect a new administration that is capable of ending the impact of COVID-19 on their lives so they can enjoy the new policies of the Federal Reserve and a more hopeful future.

September 1, 2020

By Jacob Passy

...The Fed (click here) is now officially less concerned about high inflation. Moving forward, central bankers will target inflation that averages 2% over time. This means that following a stretch with low inflation, the Fed might allow inflation to run above 2% for a period of time.

Along these lines, the Fed will concern itself less with the strength of the labor market. “A tight labor market is no longer correlated to inflation,” said Dan Geller, a behavioral economist and founder of consulting firm Analyticom.

In the past, the Fed’s official view was that a strong labor market could cause inflation to jump — as a result, the central bank would move to raise rates even if higher levels of inflation had yet to materialize when the job market was especially strong.

The new policy will allow the Fed to keep rates low even if the job market rebounds and inflation picks up. As a result, some have suggested that it may be many, many years before the central bank hikes rates again....

I took the flu shot 3 days ago. Sore arm, but, now soreness gone and I feel fine.

Everyone, especially health care workers, needs to take the flu shot so long as they are not allergic to it's components. Health care workers need to protect their health this season because they are desperately needed by their country when and if SARS-CoV-2 spikes with more and more indoor activity by Americans.

Real simple.

Florida, under DeSantis, is a super spreader economy. People contract the virus in Florida and bring it back home to contaminate local economies and spawn hot spots all over again.

It is a human rights violation.

Don't listen to what they say, judge them on what they do.

Atlas is another Trump liar. He is as much a human rights violater as DeSantis is by encouraging children to return to schools. Children are at risk BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE and lack of sophistication in understanding what COVID-19 does to their bodies. Asking a Kindergartener to wear a mask will only last as long as their attention span.

The Washington Post is correct in stating Atlas is pandering to Trump and campaigning for herd immunity. Atlas's actual words push for denying herd immunity is an attempt to engage Trump's demands and not a valid public policy. The Trump administration has not cared about the American people from the beginning of this administration.

Lying to the public is a favored Trump political strategy. Atlas is no different. In visiting Florida to promote airline travel and tourism is recognizing the fact most visitors are in the state for less than two weeks which is the normal quarantine duration.

Basically, Atlas is a trick on the public and another idea that the Deep State is wrong about a very dangerous virus. SARS-CoV-2 will have immediate impacts on an American, but, also in the future as they age and have incurred microscopic injuries from the initial infection. SARS-CoV-2 attacks LONGEVITY, be it immediate or in the long view.

Atlas is nothing more than a "Trump Clown" in the Trump Circus.

August 31, 2020

By Arek Sarkissian and Andrew Atterbury

Tallahassee - President Donald Trump’s newest Covid-19 adviser (click here) on Monday traveled to the swing state of Florida, where he said there is no need to test healthy people for infection and urged the state not to fear the virus, which has killed more than 182,000 people nationwide and infected more than 6 million.

Scott Atlas, who Trump named to the White House coronavirus task force this month, said people who are asymptomatic don’t require testing for Covid-19. Backing the Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis at a briefing in Tallahassee, Atlas said schools should be open to classroom instruction and college athletes should take the field....