Rich and poor countries paying workers, we get the shaft?
Impeach this MAGNA insanity by unanimous consent. Stand up for the people; don’t trade lives for profits.
Deliver the badly needed resources our healthcare community needs, yesterday.
Damn It!
In some countries, workers will have 90 percent of lost wages covered. In others, residents fear eviction. Nation to nation, rescue plans reflect conflicting ideas of government’s role in a crisis.
[...]
The Danish government has promised to cover 75 percent to 90 percent of salaries if businesses do not lay off their employees. Better to pay to keep people employed than to pay for the disruption caused by mass layoffs and unemployment, the government has said.
[...]
The Netherlands will pay up to 90 percent of wages for companies hit hard by the pandemic, with extra provisions being developed for restaurants.
[...]
the British chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, said last week. The plan, which is still being developed, will pay up to about $2,900 a month to workers who have lost hours but are not laid off.
The center-right government in Germany will spend more than $40 billion to help small businesses cover basic needs to stay afloat during the crisis. That is in addition to a program aimed at larger companies, called “kurzarbeit,” or “short-time working,” that covers lost wages for employees who are sent home, to avoid laying them off.
South Korea, Malaysia, Venezuela have similar pay worker plans.
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Italy Plans Debt Moratorium to Cope With Coronavirus Lockdown
Relieving consumers and business from repaying debt could cushion economy but complicates how fragile banking system copes
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Oh, take heart, fellows, BIDONE to the rescue
Damn, damn, damn.
wait a minute
taking care of the cure makes what problem worse?
the problem of paying for the cure?
or workers not getting paid?
I just don't get it.
no matter what
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Duh, this is what the voting block in the South bargained for?
I'm not so sure of that.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
a cure is worse than mass death?
THANK GAWD he has a good heart, otherwise I would have taken that to mean he is prefers the needless death of his fellow citizens to curing and saving them.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
He doesn't know what he means
It made absolutely no sense. Geez, how I long for the clusterfuck of the 2016 clusterfuck.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Yep
We had to destroy the village to save it.
Muther-fuckers attempting to stuff their pockets at
"lives"' expense. And not to worry, Trump will oversee who gets the money. And except for Bernie and a hand-full of courageous people, congress will play along.
Trump insists on support
Emoluments clause, anybody?
Next, it will be golf courses.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Sould be impeached for this shit by unanimous consent.
How about the new lab testing corporation Kushner set up early in the year and not accepting the WHO test which would of helped; a few countries are handing out quick do-it-yourself tests?
I just hate those fuckers.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Me, too, as i told Anja this morning,
i'm full of pent up steam wanting to explode; like Hank in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape.
No lab; health director website
Mother Jones did some investigative journalism on this: Kushner coronavirus website Most definitely attempting to cash in on COVID-19 by directing those that suspect they have COVID-19 to the nearest testing site. (Nearest for a fictitious MD resident was in Kansas.) There's a financial relationship between the Kushner venture capital operation and Alphabet (Google parent)
Whatever made the Kushner bros set up a health insurance company, Oscar, in 2013? Who purchases health insurance from Oscar? From MJ:
In earlier times, the NY insurance commissioner may have shut down Oscar as an insurance company.
@smiley7 Surely, you jest.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
His coronavirus team is working on a
plan for his golf courses. They will be enclosed within a giant Mylar bubble filled with oxygenated air from 2,500 ventilators that will also remove particulates down to 50 nm. DuPont is in the process of constructing several production lines to supply filter material.
Emoluments clause
The applicable Clause (Article I, Section 9, Clause 8):
That last bit -- "from any King, Prince, or foreign State" -- is why the Emoluments Clause doesn't apply to grants-in-aid from Congress. If Congress grants the funds, the funds are, by definition, American -- and therefore exempt from the Emoluments Clause.
And the Chumpster knows it, too!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Poor Joe
There is no way he should be expected to answer such a convoluted and complicated question. It’s a clear case of elder abuse. That woman needs to be fired, ASAP!!
I rest my case.
{edit} This senior meant this comment to be reply to smiley7’s video link. Ha!
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
Is the picture in your essay from an isolation ward
for coronavirus in the US?
Here's what isolation wards looked like in Wuhan:
Notice the use of ventilators in the following:
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Italy, i think,
Yes, and i saw the walk and drive through disinfectant tunnels in use last week.
Pretty sure it's an Italian ER ward dragooned into
service for lack of space in the actual ICUs.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
y'know, your China! China! Rah Rah Rah! thing
is beginning to feel a bit like an endless drip drip drip of water on my forehead.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Kinda like Chinese water torture?
I suppose that if one's witticisms must be explained to
the audience, it is better to have a volunteer take it in hand, rather than to undertake the matter oneself.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
I thought you'd enjoy the facetiousness of it
Well, it had the virtue of "metatude" (your mention of China),
buy it also carried the implication that I hadn't actually made the joke.
But then, who knows, maybe some folks hadn't picked up on it.
I once had a brief exchange of notes with A. Whitney Brown, back at dKos, when he wrote a very clever comment in which a joke that could have been left implicit was instead made explicit. When I asked him, he admitted that, as I had guessed, it was a difficult choice for him to make -- what with him being a Pro in these things. In the end he had chosen to sacrifice craft for accessibility.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
I'm impressed
I do enjoy a nice word salad!
Notice that American PPE comes no where near that
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
NYC hospital
The entire Mount Sinai health system has over 7,400 physicians, as well as 3,815 beds, and delivers over 16,000 babies a year. In 2019–20, the hospital was ranked 14th among the nearly 5,000 hospitals in the US by the U.S. News & World Report. So, nearly 4,986 US hospitals are worse than this:
We don’t turn the country off,” Trump said.
An especial fuck you to Jerry Falwell, jr, a personal
Morgoth Bauglir
Look on the bright side
This will result in fewer RWNJ's.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Promise?
They DO want to meet Jesus, don't they?
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Well, after six thousand years of living, they
may have qualified to meet their maker; but i wish not to "judge."
Pretty please!
Hope that yahoo catches the real
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
There are so many things wrong W the ptb
At this point I don’t even know where to start. No help whatsoever from the Fed. No help with getting supplies and equipment, hospital beds. No plan. Nada.
Purposeful obfuscation and choices to endanger people. Right? So how is it that so many people can go along with this stupidity. Join in and consciously choose to make things worse. Jump on the meme.
I am amazed that Gavin Newsom was the first to do a complete Statewide lockdown. And thankful. Why is this not happening everywhere? Cuomo wtf? Seriously?! Because of the stock exchange. No?
I am so pissed.
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Gov't by fiat and Trump is 'the' voice, magi, yes, indeed why?
Glad you and friends are here; as as you say, powers that be don't care for humanity only money.
pandemic could wipe out populations of chimpanzees, gorillas and
orangutans, The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2020/mar/24/coronavirus-...
Oh, this would be doubly sad.
Nobody knows yet if chimps & gorillas can get COVID-19
and those who work with them are doing their utmost to make sure they don't find out the hard way.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Sure hope all ends well.
While congress dithers on whether to help us or not
Trump is still coming for 700,000 on food stamps that a judge put a temporarily halt on. This is beyond evil!!
Even with this economic epidemic crisis his administration is still planning on doing what congress has long wanted to do. This is unconsionable but here we are. Plenty of money for the ones who least need it while none for those who do. Let's hope that the judiciary branch will stop their agenda, but IIRC the supreme court said that yes indeed Trump can do what he wants with money even if congress has said no you can't. This was on the ruling for Trump taking money out of other programs and putting in the wall slush fund. Gee how many banks are funding companies that are building the damn thing?
What Pandemic? Trump Administration Presses Forward With Long-Term Benefit Cuts.
Getting people off social security disability will be making people fill out long forms more often than they are now.
How nice that a black HUD dude is making it harder for people to file for racial discrimination. What civil rights era with lots of blood and tears that allowed him to rise to where he is today? I just do not get this.
When the military budget keeps going up every year because the defense industries won't get off the government teat let's let more people including the 19 million children on SNAP starve. Boy so much for family values. Which has just been a talking point for decades.
Nancy is doing her part to keep us from getting any relief. She is wanting funding for the JFK center, the IRS that mainly goes after the 99% and not the rich where the real money would be, NOAA and lots of other industries with just a measly amount to we the peons with a one time check of $600-1,2000 while the banks and other industries will get billions. This on top of the Trump, Obama, Bush, Reagan tax cuts that have seen the working class get constantly screwed. We should have saved for a rainy day, but not the corporations that used their tax cuts for stock buybacks and not to raise workers wages.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imOrbZIv-xY&list=TLPQMjQwMzIwMjAohneRaKW...
Saagar has a video of how this time is getting ripe for a populist uprising. If millions of people again lose their ability to take care of their families I think we will see this. We are having an unplanned general strike right now. When people have no money to buy anything then how will the sociopaths like Bezos get their money from us? Poor planning folks.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Thanks snoopy, in this environment,
Martial Law will prevent uprisings, i fear.
edit for sp.
I think it's going to go beyond martial law
Politico posted an article on how the justice department is going to suspend habeous corpus for the duration of the epidemic and people are freaking out that it's Trump who is doing it. Guess what? This law has been in place since 2012 when Obama was president. It was just waiting for an event to trigger it.
Hey what is the woman who isn't president saying?
She along with Neera and other DNC'rs have been all over the Twit griping about the things that Trump is doing wrong. However not one of them are offering advice or saying what they would be doing. Even Biden's 'press conference' was about all the things Trump is doing wrong, but nothing for what he would do if he or when he becomes president. Go figure huh?
Ya think?
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ZIl6twxIM&list=TLPQMjQwMzIwMjAohneRaKW...
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Highest approval ratings of Trump's presidency, Gallup.
Noted the spelling mistake, thanks.
Sixty percent approve of Trump's handling of crisis, same Gallup poll. Damn, we are so screwed.
Neera deserves having this virus named after her, imo.
Echoes of GWB right after 9/11
GWB and his team that let 9/11 happen while chimpy was on vacation and the others were engaged in war gaming and how to shovel more money to the owners of this country.
It's that rally around the POTUS (or king) effect in all national crises. Doesn't matter if they are ignoramus nincompoops that that created and/or worsened the crisis. Well as long as they don't don't do fly-ins to play air guitar while people are drowning.
Watching his press conferences has to make one thinkl
The rightwing nut job propaganda is out in force.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Hey, Bidone just told Nicolle Wallace, "He's so proud to be an
American.
Thinking on that, can't say i have thought that way past the first grade or so, if then even.
Platitudes instead of answers and they win.
FRightwing nut job propaganda
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
[Edited] Actually, it's the MSM
and Dems who're mostly pushing more severe restrictions of movement and freedom--regarding social media, full quarantines in states barely-affected by CR (to date), etc.
My deepest concern, right now, is that the recommendations for self-quarantine--by the public, in general--will be loosened by the Administration. Not tightened.
In TN, they're considering (or, were) temporarily lifting the need to be licensed to "conceal carry." If you can believe that! Definitely, not imposing more restrictions of movement.
[Edit: To clarify--they are some restrictions 'recommended' by many TN localities--city and county, and, the other day, a 'weak tea' proclamation was put out by TN Gov Bill Lee. Not to say that I endorse this extreme--I don't. We were totally freaked out by the move to loosen 'conceal carry.' May be so that folks can better protect property. Don't know, and can't imagine 'why.']
There's appears to be quite a distinctive disconnect between the handling of 'personal freedoms' in red and blue states from what I'm hearing on Cable and reading. And I mean, stark.
Also, I 'think' that most policy regarding the CR crisis are made by other lawmakers--Pence, for instance--and staff/experts from various agencies. From my observation, DT is simply too detached to be intimately involved in any serious decision-making. And, when he does try to insert himself, he is mostly ignored.
IOW, from where I stand, he appears to be too busy attending to his Twitter account, to be overly concerned with mapping out a course of action to fight CR.
We're super concerned that it'll be flat-out catastrophic, if the recommended self-quarantine period is prematurely lifted.
Heh, a WH Briefing just started. (4:45 pm) Sounds like he's wanting to lift self-quarantine by Easter.
How ridiculous!
Over and out . . .
Mollie
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
I'm talking about arresting people
and not allowing any trials. As I said this legislation was put in the 2012 NDAA. I've written about this quite a bit but it's been a few years.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Okay, got it, SD. Still searching
for the article you're referring to. Will read, if I can find it.
BTW, the author is nothing short of a blithering idiot (IMO). I can't bear to listen to her, anymore. If you get a chance, watch her on Cable teevee, sometime. Just sayin'.
Again, will read her Politico piece. Thanks for pointing this out. I hadn't heard anything about this.
BTW, the article below claims that Congress has to approve this measure.
[BTW, don't know anything about the source--New American.]
Mollie
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Obama's NDAA
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/01/ndaa-2018-aumf-detention/
I've said in previous comments and essays how this has already been used on some veterans who got arrested and sent to psychiatric hospitals. I don't have time to dig it up right now.
ICYMI Joe posted this one tonight.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/23/coronavirus-civil-...
Barr is also talking about implementing it so I think it's just a matter of time unless we put up a big enough stink. But so far we haven't been able to stop them, but not for lack of trying. And trying...
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
But but but but
The people want Biden, not a revolution!
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Yep
And that's why it was so hard for them to vote. People keep saying that young people didn't show up to vote. Only if you ignore the long lines people had to wait in is that true.
How many here just waltzed in and voted? You can believe that rich people didn't wait hours to vote.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Actually, I did
Around 11:00AM before the lunch rush. that's when I always go. I learned the deadest time from working as an election judge. We were #32 and 33. Not much turnout, but official results were big and Biden crushed Bernie. Kim Foxx won her primary with 38%.
I might as well have stayed home.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Paper ballots, optical scan, or touch voting?
That's in ascending order of the ease of crocking the results. (Touch machines are notoriously cheaters' delights.)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
optical scan
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Nancy is a Botoxed, Braindead, wealthy
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Projected unemployment numbers
Holy shit indeed.
Democrats are talking about pouring more money into UE benefits and raising the rate by $600. One thing that would help is make it non taxable. They are offering $10,000 cut on student loans, but the government will be making that payment for them so the banks get paid back either way. SO why no throw an extra bone to the people?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Fed has already pledged to offer Banks $1 trillion a day
in overnight repo loans.
Bidone just touted cutting student loans by $10,000 on NBC. Read not to long ago that a previous one day move of the Fed was more money than all student loans combined and no one voted for any of these fed moves.
Thanks for essay and phone number, Smiley;
thanks for pointing out Miss Nancy's part in trying to defeat one-time/two-time checks to many American adults and children, SD.
Been listening to all the official CR Briefings, all the Leadership briefings--Schumer, Nance, O'Connell, McCarthy--we're totally scr*wed if DT ends the recommended quarantine period. Can't imagine that even an idiot like Kudlow would actually thing that's a great idea. Phew!
I'm concentrating on calling Dem Leadership (regarding 'checks') since they're much more in favor of targeting only 'workers'--excluding seniors/retirees, children, and full-time students since they aren't in the workforce. Sorta figure that Repubs will insist that this benefit is included, since seniors are one of their strongest constituencies, and 'R' lawmakers need to kowtow to this cohort.
From what I've read, those who qualify for a check, will receive the funds via auto-deposit--if that's how they received a refund in 2018. That's cool.
Sounds as though some of the cuts to Unemployment Insurance (under 'O' in February 2012) will be restored. Posted the CNN piece (here) yesterday. May put it in sig line for a bit, since so many Dems seemed to have missed it at the time. It's amazing how much 'O' got away with during his 8 years in office--had an excellent 'spin machine,' I suppose.
(Mr M read that 'O' was on the phone with Uncle Joe over the weekend. Would like to have been a fly on the wall.)
Have a good one, All.![Pleasantry](https://caucus99percent.com/sites/all/modules/smiley/packs/kolobok/pleasantry.gif)
Mollie
FYI
and,
Gotta put an end to this Congressional Perk, if we hope to ever have a decent healthcare program.
(IOW, their current excellent OAP healthcare program allows them to be exempt from any austerity/managed care tools that they impose on the masses.)
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Molly, be safe out there, Tenn. virus numbers growing,
though small at present, appear to be growing at a fast pace, outstripping us in NC.
We may, in time, see this happen in red states not taking good precautions; would not doubt or bet against this thinking, almost expected.
Can't easily ignore or stop a virus that apparently can live on hard surfaces for 17 days per the Center for Disease Control.
Thank you, Smiley, for the best
wishes. My apologies for not replying sooner--now, got a bum elbow. Seems I'm getting accident-prone in my old age!
Didn't know that CV could live 17 days on hard surfaces. Yikes! Will try to do better wiping down stuff that's mailed to us--got a FedEx package this morning. Pretty much everything is delivered to us--except for grocery pickup items.
Here's stats as of today (TN),
So, to date, regarding the number of cases in our area, a large number of the 81 positive cases occurred in an institutional setting (a skilled nursing facility). Not to say it can't/won't spread from that point--notice that '16' were employees who live in the greater community, not to mention, as stated above, they were "symptom-free." Bad news, indeed.
Hope to catch up with you Guys, Saturday. Hope to have a screenshot (of a Golden) that I think you'll very much appreciate. BTW, hope new Pup is settling in better with Son and Family. Sometimes they come to us a bit traumatized, unfortunately.
Think it's wise that you're avoiding medical facilities right now (as much as possible). So are we.
Take good care. And stay safe.![Pleasantry](https://caucus99percent.com/sites/all/modules/smiley/packs/kolobok/pleasantry.gif)
Mollie
THANK YOU America's Physicians & Nurses, All Medical Personnel, First Responders, To Include Medical (EMT/Paramedics/Ambulance), Pharmacy Personnel, Fire Depts, Police Depts, Retailers/Grocers--Especially, To Marginally-Paid Frontline Retail Cashiers & Clerks.
Last, but not least,
THANKS to America's Truckers/Delivery Persons, Especially, To Over-The-Road/Long Haul Truckers, Who Obviously Have The Capacity To Shut Down The Entire Country, If They Should Choose To Sit Out The Current Health Crisis.
You are all truly heroes. Godspeed.
FYI
and,
Gotta put an end to this Congressional Perk, if we hope to ever have a decent healthcare program.
(IOW, their current excellent OAP healthcare program allows them to be exempt from any austerity/managed care tools that they impose on the masses.)
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Thanks for the OAP info
It’s good that we are getting crumbs I guess. But that’s all we get. I’m just trying to figure out what the advantage of having a bunch of people die is. Are they really that lacking in critical thinking? There must be some method to their madness. Maybe it’s sheer greed and they just don’t want to lose one thin dime. (Yes, without question it’s greed). But it seems like there must be more to it. Or they just got caught unawares and now have to figure out how to take advantage. FuckifIknow. Have a good one Mollie.
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Hiya, Magi! You're quite welcome. Thanks for
reading my OAP blurb.
Apologies for delay in replying--got a bad elbow, to match my already bum ankle--so been laying low much of this week.
Couldn't agree more. Apparently, in the minds of our 'overlords,' only the richest and most powerful deserve decent healthcare.
Well, I don't plan to accept that dictate and/or attitude, lying down.![Aggressive](https://caucus99percent.com/sites/all/modules/smiley/packs/kolobok/aggressive.gif)
I know how hard you worked on Bernie's behalf, and, imagine that the news of him stepping out of the race has to be a rather bitter pill to swallow. IMO, Bernie's a very fine man, but, maybe too much a part of the power structure to really want to rebel against it--with full force. Of course, he has brought many important and powerful ideas to the forefront--for that, we can all be quite thankful.
My 'hope' is that many progressives will stay engaged enough to fight another day against a 'managed care'-like so-called "public option" if, by a fluke, Uncle Joe is actually elected Prez. If he wins, I'm convinced that the PtB will go after the Traditional/Original Medicare program in order to reduce it to a MA- or Medicare Advantage-like plan. Which would very likely mean--using 'primary physician gatekeepers' to reduce access to physician specialists, heavy doses of PA's (Prior Authorizations) and, other so-called UM (Utilization Management) tools, designed to deny folks medical services, in order to flatten the cost curve.
Hope to catch up with you Guys at your OT, by late tomorrow. In the meantime, take good care of yourself. And, stay well.![Pleasantry](https://caucus99percent.com/sites/all/modules/smiley/packs/kolobok/pleasantry.gif)
Mollie
FYI
and,
Gotta put an end to this Congressional Perk, if we hope to ever have a decent single-payer healthcare program.
(IOW, our lawmakers' current excellent OAP healthcare program allows them to be exempt from any austerity/managed care tools that they seek to impose on the masses, as evidenced by several Dem Party MFA/public option proposals.)
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
profits before people
The American reaction is to first figure out how to position oneself to profit from the disaster (like Jared's new company), and seize more power whilst at it. These things take time. I am sure we will have a response like civilized countries soon. Almost all of the gov response at fed level has been to protect profits. Before people. When we get done dying and over it, they will go down in history and it will not be pretty.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
In all this, over time, a new
awareness of what it is to be human may arise.
In the meantime, fight the powers that be relentlessly.
Meant to also say,
agreed; history is our guide.
Those are Socialist countries.
We don't want that. We want Biden and his neoliberalism. /s
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
I ventured out of the house today - laptop caught corona virus
and needed life support. A very old lady with her bike stood in front of a store, around 2 m apart from me, shouting that she wants to kill and shoot her doctor for having asked her to take a certain medication that caused her joint pains more than before. She claimed the doctor had wanted to kill her and now she wants to just chops his head off. Now she had to die.
I guess the fear to get infected with the virus in combination with other medical conditions, elderly people have to take other medication for, causes huge problems. Add to that more or less severe dementia, is a real difficult problem to solve for the community of doctors and nurses and caretakers.
The coverage of the corona crisis in the German media is not bad, but way too much. Unfortunately I have no idea how to translate the various TV video productions and then change the narrators voice into an English speaking one. I wished I could.
I was verbally harassed by a lady which should give customers help to find their way through a big store. Because I touched my nose while standing at least 2.5 m apart from her. Very rude. I just turned around and left the large store. People are more ready to not only verbally be more rude, but also potentially physically aggressive. And this was only the first day of "movement restrictions" for everybody in Germany.
Tough times ahead of us.
Ok, I think it doesn't make sense to talk about it further...
Sorry mimi, you endured bad reactions, short fuses
abound and it's going to get worse. Last week our streets were full of people who shouldn't have been out, now, very few stir.
Be safe, good friend.
Bernie rountable at 8 PM
Fed has hired the world's largest asset manager BlackRock .
For gawd's sake
Blackrock again? Asset manager is right. I commented on this in the EBs about how Obama let them buy homes for pennies and they took and kept them off the market and that's why housing prices exploded as well as rents.
A government for, by and with the people has ....never mind. I'm sure everyone is thinking the same thing.
"Those who make peaceful...."
It's coming.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Yep, same company, as if we wouldn't notice
the fleecing. But that's the newest America isn't it, the great one, where stealing is transparent. Okay, cause, as Trump says, who's going to stop them.
According to Richard
Wolff, the French workers held a general strike in December or January to show their opposition to Macron's plans to gut their pension program. Macron backed down after the strike but now is at it again and is going to force legislation through without discussion or a vote to gut the pension program. This is the playbook of TPTB. Sometime it's easier to recognize the hammer coming down in other places than it is at home.