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Was this the end game all along - starting with Covid-19? The Great Reset? "In every crisis - there is an opportunity" https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/ Now is the time for a 'great reset' In every crisis, there is an opportunity Image: Space Uptopian/Unsplash Visit the Great Reset microsite here. Hear Klaus Schwab on these podcast episodes: the Great Reset launch and his book. We can emerge from this crisis a better world, if we act quickly and jointly, writes Schwab. The changes we have already seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible. This is our best chance to instigate stakeholder capitalism - and here's how it can be achieved. COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing, but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. There is good reason to worry: a sharp economic downturn has already begun, and we could be facing the worst depression since the 1930s. But, while this outcome is likely, it is not unavoidable. To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism. There are many reasons to pursue a Great Reset, but the most urgent is COVID-19. Having already led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, the pandemic represents one of the worst public-health crises in recent history. And, with casualties still mounting in many parts of the world, it is far from over. This will have serious long-term consequences for economic growth, public debt, employment, and human wellbeing. According to the Financial Times, global government debt has already reached its highest level in peacetime. Moreover, unemployment is skyrocketing in many countries: in the US, for example, one in four workers have filed for unemployment since mid-March, with new weekly claims far above historic highs. The International Monetary Fund expects the world economy to shrink by 3% this year – a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points in just four months. All of this will exacerbate the climate and social crises that were already underway. Some countries have already used the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and enforcement. And frustrations over social ills like rising inequality – US billionaires’ combined wealth has increased during the crisis – are intensifying. Left unaddressed, these crises, together with COVID-19, will deepen and leave the world even less sustainable, less equal, and more fragile. Incremental measures and ad hoc fixes will not suffice to prevent this scenario. We must build entirely new foundations for our economic and social systems. The level of cooperation and ambition this implies is unprecedented. But it is not some impossible dream. In fact, one silver lining of the pandemic is that it has shown how quickly we can make radical changes to our lifestyles. Almost instantly, the crisis forced businesses and individuals to abandon practices long claimed to be essential, from frequent air travel to working in an office. Likewise, populations have overwhelmingly shown a willingness to make sacrifices for the sake of health-care and other essential workers and vulnerable populations, such as the elderly. And many companies have stepped up to support their workers, customers, and local communities, in a shift toward the kind of stakeholder capitalism to which they had previously paid lip service. Clearly, the will to build a better society does exist. We must use it to secure the Great Reset that we so badly need. That will require stronger and more effective governments, though this does not imply an ideological push for bigger ones. And it will demand private-sector engagement every step of the way. The Great Reset agenda would have three main components. The first would steer the market toward fairer outcomes. To this end, governments should improve coordination (for example, in tax, regulatory, and fiscal policy), upgrade trade arrangements, and create the conditions for a “stakeholder economy.” At a time of diminishing tax bases and soaring public debt, governments have a powerful incentive to pursue such action. Moreover, governments should implement long-overdue reforms that promote more equitable outcomes. Depending on the country, these may include changes to wealth taxes, the withdrawal of fossil-fuel subsidies, and new rules governing intellectual property, trade, and competition. The second component of a Great Reset agenda would ensure that investments advance shared goals, such as equality and sustainability. Here, the large-scale spending programs that many governments are implementing represent a major opportunity for progress. The European Commission, for one, has unveiled plans for a €750 billion ($826 billion) recovery fund. The US, China, and Japan also have ambitious economic-stimulus plans. Rather than using these funds, as well as investments from private entities and pension funds, to fill cracks in the old system, we should use them to create a new one that is more resilient, equitable, and sustainable in the long run. This means, for example, building “green” urban infrastructure and creating incentives for industries to improve their track record on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics. The third and final priority of a Great Reset agenda is to harness the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to support the public good, especially by addressing health and social challenges. During the COVID-19 crisis, companies, universities, and others have joined forces to develop diagnostics, therapeutics, and possible vaccines; establish testing centers; create mechanisms for tracing infections; and deliver telemedicine. Imagine what could be possible if similar concerted efforts were made in every sector. The COVID-19 crisis is affecting every facet of people’s lives in every corner of the world. But tragedy need not be its only legacy. On the contrary, the pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future.

The CDC Director says 75% of Covid-19 deaths had 4 or more comorbidities..... (And NOBODY is asking her about this statement?) https://gazette.com/ap/cdc-director-says-75-of-covid-19-deaths-had-4-or-more-comorbidities/article_2c944302-7267-11ec-91c9-a3689650d909.html Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said 75% of people who died of COVID-19 had at least four comorbidities, sparking an outpouring of commentary from people surprised by her statement and others saying, “I told you so.” The top health official made the comment on ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday, days after Dr. Anthony Fauci said on TV that statistics on child hospitalizations are being overblown. Vaccine mandate skeptics have said the COVID-19 death toll was inflated by people who died with COVID-19 as opposed to dying of COVID-19, and some of them claimed they were made into pariahs or punished on social media for making these claims. “This is a stunning admission and one that is quite literally at the crux of my Facebook lawsuit against their fact-checkers,” conservative commentator Candace Owens tweeted. “I reported on the scam of them calculating deaths ‘with Covid’ years ago and fact-checkers called me a liar.” “The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities,” Walenksy said. She added that this was “encouraging news” considering the spread of the omicron variant, which health officials believe is more transmissible than other strains but causes less severe illness.

Nope - I was NOT there.......I was in Sebring with my fishing boat.....Not at a Drag Show further South...... SF wonders how a Supreme Court Justice can utter falsehoods from the bench in a case without repercussions. So does Rand Paul.... https://www.sarahpalin.com/2022/648499/far-left-supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-gets-brutally-fact-checked-after-claiming-100000-children-are-in-serious-condition-from-covid-2/?fbclid=IwAR0xOmBSX_eXrKG23Pslqmkyi9s3L85jUCIN6Ug_u1KJpMvuZ5x0epiUX_I

Why haven't we found the so called bomber that placed the "pipe bombs" the night before???? Oh and why hasn't the Speaker of the House had to turn over any of her communications with the Sargent of arms to answer why they turned down six requests for the national guard to be sent in before this happened??? In addition, if this was an insurrection, then why has no one been found guilty of or has been charged with insurrection or sedition?? . Just a few of the items that would be interesting to know. I get that there is jail time deserved by the idiots who actually broke the law and deserve what they get, but the real meat of the matter (insurrection) is no where to be found in any of the cases so far. Also - pretty sure the lumber 16' 4 x 4's or 6 x 6's that was needed to construct that gallows display in front of the Capital building didn't just "show up" there organically by the protesters carrying the pieces...... Does anyone really think that serious conservatives with insurrection actually on their minds would have entered the capital building un-armed and not brandishing weaponry?

After being on vacation for the past 3 weeks in Florida, I would like to make a few simple observations about Covid..... 1) The "explosion" of recent cases come pretty much in tandem with the "explosion" of testing and testing kits and sites that are now all the fad anytime anywhere anyone has so much as a sniffle...... 2) Why doesn't anyone follow the all-Covid-knowing great and mighty Fauci's recent advice to follow the death count, not the case count? Cases have nearly tripled, but deaths are down? https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-says-watch-covid-hospitalizations-as-infections-top-1m-2022-1 Covid Cases USA 704,369 1/5/2022 235,016 1/5/2021 Deaths USA 2,113 1/5/2022 3,689 1/5/2022 3) If vaccines are really working, then WHY are there so many "breakthrough" cases? It appears to be a fad to have the vaccine, then announce you have Covid and boosters, but now need to quarantine, like it's the latest "in" thing...... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10386631/Today-anchor-Savannah-Guthrie-reveals-COVID-days-Hoda-Kotb-tested-positive.html 4) Where is the real reporting of the long-term "side effects" from the vaccines especially for the elderly and the young kids relative to heart conditions? 5) Why isn't it concerning that it appears to be more than just the "redness or swelling at the vaccine needle site", and more kids (with comorbidities) have died from the vaccines than the virus itself. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/marty-makary/93029

https://nypost.com/2021/12/21/bette-midler-slammed-for-calling-west-virginia-poor-illiterate-and-strung-out/ Bette Midler has been forced to apologize after sparking mass outrage for branding the entire state of West Virginia as “poor, illiterate and strung out.” The 76-year-old diva used the less than divine choice of words for the Mountain State in a Twitter strop at rebel Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin torpedoing President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar spending plans. “What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out,” the “Beaches” legend tweeted Monday. “He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out,” she wrote. She was quickly ripped by followers and accused of being an out-of-touch elite. Perfect example of why Bette should stick with her role in show business. She can remain an elite there.

SF remembers back in 2005 when the South was hit by hurricane Katrina and the RV industry reacted faster than anything I had ever seen before and was able to deliver 200,000 RV's to FEMA in short order for disaster housing units in NOLA. A plan was then initiated by the Bush administration to purchase and inventory 200,000 FEMA trailers on a rotating basis to be able to react quickly when Americans needed temporary housing. These were the same units they had used since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. (without any complaints) The plan was running very successfully with FEMA storage lots spread out in various locations in the US with inventory ready to move whenever a hurricane approached.....until 2008...... Then the Sierra Club caught wind that there was Formaldehyde in the wood products used by manufacturers, (even though they were CARB compliant - and NOT TOXIC) and the rest is history. Even though the very halls of Congress had higher levels of formaldehyde than the "toxic trailer", (Democrat Joe Donnelly actually used the EXACT SAME device in Congress that we had used to test the trailers in question and told the committee this data) the Democrats in Congress (Harry Waxman in particular) called the manufacturers to testify before the House giving the lawsuit happy lawyers plenty of ammunition to hold the industry liable and extract $42.6 million (literally) from the industry of which the "victims" they "represented" received little or in most cases - none....... Thus ending the RV industry's relationship with FEMA, especially given the numerous hoops a manufacturer now has to jump through compliance-wise to produce a unit for FEMA that is literally nothing like the product consumers currently purchase and use. FEMA tried to bring the industry back to the table during the Trump Administration, and SF was involved in those meetings with both FEMA and HUD but the industry didn't want to further participate with FEMA after the Katrina debacle that finally closed in 2013. So today in 2021, the 33,000 homeless families (resulting from last weeks tornadoes) are left to fend for shelter themselves because FEMA hasn't come up with any effective plan like the FEMA trailer plan that was incredibly successful until 2005. Try to find an RV to purchase today and these folks will pay top dollar in today's RV market where units are in historically short supply and the manufacturers are producing at record levels. Sorry FEMA - you had your chance to defend an excellent and safe plan that the industry could help re-supply and keep Americans sheltered in their time of need, but nope - you failed. Would make a great story if any real journalists still existed today......

Klinger's ruse won't work anymore......

As we are nearing the 2 YEAR point of "2 weeks to flatten the curve" I am remembering when this thread started back in 2020. My tin foil hat remains firmly ensconced to this day as there is literally no other way to die in the US except by Covid. This thing came from a lab and is doing exactly what it was intended to do. According to the CDC, 61% of the US population has been vaccinated as of 12/14/21 (yesterday). The Northeast has the highest vax rate (70 - 75%) yet is leading in Covid cases. (Guess what - it's cold in the Northeast, viruses are going to spread at a higher rate - just they did in the South during the summer) Also, without fail - EVERY one of my relatives and friends that had past open heart surgery have ALL since getting the vaccine had re-occurring issues. 2 have had to have pacemakers put in, and 1 is waiting for a 2nd open heart surgery. I can't say with certainty the vaccine is the cause, but I can sure be suspicious. Again - The virus is real, but the orchestrated (over) reaction to this thing is so very obvious. Someone sneezes - they have to immediately go get tested for Covid. ANYONE can and does carry the vaccine regardless of vaccine status, but the unvaccinated are the cause of this outbreak today? Heading to Florida for a few weeks with the in-laws who are in their 80's now and fully, fully vaccinated as they should be. We are driving, towing a boat and not staying in a hotel while the 2 others (vaccinated) are flying in. I have to think that I should be more concerned of them than they should be of me? Okay - venting is over.....

Turns out it WAS staged......

https://nypost.com/2021/12/08/white-house-working-with-media-to-get-positive-biden-coverage/ White House ‘working behind the scenes’ with media to get positive coverage The White House has been secretly begging news organizations to give “favorable” coverage to President Biden rather than focusing on his failings, according to a report. The administration is “not happy” with the unflattering headlines and coverage of the supply-chain disaster and handling of the economy — and so “has been working behind the scenes trying to reshape coverage in its favor,” CNN’s Reliable Sources said. Senior White House and administration officials “have been briefing major newsrooms over the past week,” a source told the outlet’s media reporter Oliver Darcy. The meetings have been led by a trio of administration officials: National Economic Council deputy directors David Kamin and Bharat Ramamurti, as well as ports envoy John Porcari, Darcy wrote in his newsletter. “I’m told the conversations have been productive, with anchors and reporters and producers getting to talk with the officials,” Darcy wrote. Reliable Sources has itself been leading the way, with its latest tweet on Monday about how the White House is “absolutely right” to have grievances about brutal coverage of Biden’s time in office. Darcy’s report about the secret talks also linked to the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, who recently wrote an op-ed titled, “The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here’s proof.” In it, he pointed to data analysis reportedly showing that “Biden’s press for the past four months has been as bad as — and for a time worse than — the coverage Trump received for the same four months of 2020.” He said that the findings during a time when Biden’s approval ratings have plummeted “confirmed my fear: My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy.” Milbank admitted that “Biden has had his troubles,” mentioning the Delta variant, Afghanistan and inflation, but not numerous other scandals that have seen the president’s ratings plummet. The columnist appeared on CNN Monday to further push his theories — admitting that the negative press was bipartisan, having ramped up from the spectacular failings of the doomed withdrawal from Afghanistan. “The left-wing media is tough on him … He has no real support,” Milbank said of Biden, showing his own feelings as he hailed the commander-in-chief as a leader “trying to restore the organs of democracy.” His views knocking the media were — unsurprisingly — shared by the White House, with chief of staff Ron Klain sharing the Washington paper’s op-ed, writing, “Submitted for your consideration.” Reports of the secret PR mission quickly had the administration roasted online. “Biden’s policies are so popular that he’s begging the MSM to do a better job at lying about it,” one person wrote on Twitter. Another wrote, “BIDEN’S HANDLERS MEETING WITH THE MSM ASKING FOR A BETTER SPIN ON HIS POLICIES AND A MORE POSITIVE IMAGE OF HIM. ALL THEY DO IS LIE.” Others suggested that the spin was “the opposite” by being favorable to the president, noting the lack of media coverage of The Post’s numerous scoops on first son Hunter Biden. “Had they not protected [Biden] and his con artiste son for months we wouldn’t be here now,” one person complained, while another urged the media to “strap their balls back on and show this pathetic president for exactly what he is.” Really? Does anyone have any sympathy for the current President considering the unrelenting negative press the former President had for 4 solid years?

Why not?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/1/omicron-prompts-new-virus-origin-worries/ The emergence of the omicron strain of COVID-19 is raising new questions about the still undetermined origin of the coronavirus outbreak and whether it leaked from a Chinese research laboratory in Wuhan in 2019. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief Biden administration pandemic response official, said the virus mutations in the omicron variant indicate an unusual, rapid evolution. The mutations are “very different” from earlier virus offshoots, although some of the mutations can be found in the delta variant and are linked to increased transmissibility and immune evasion, he said. “There’s a very unusual constellation of changes across the SARS-CoV-2 genome, with greater than 30 of them in the important spike protein which is the business end of the virus, particularly in its receptor-binding domain where there are about 10 mutations there,” Dr. Fauci told reporters on Tuesday. SARS-CoV-2 is the formal name of the virus that causes COVID-19. The large number of mutations is raising new concerns about whether the virus was laboratory-derived or spread naturally from infected animals. According to a former military medical doctor, there are significant mutations close to what is called the “furin cleavage site,” the area that can increase the virulence of the virus, that are sparking new concerns among public health officials. An article from August in the journal Lancet Microbe states: “The presence of a furin cleavage motif at the SARS-CoV-2 S1–S2 interface is therefore highly unusual, leading to the smoking-gun hypothesis of manipulation that has recently gained considerable attention as a possible origin” of COVID-19. Viruses, according to medical experts, tend to evolve from existing viruses that are already circulating, such as the delta variant, not from the first virus strain that emerged in China. Beijing has thwarted efforts by U.S. and international investigators to obtain details of the original strain. However, the omicron variant appears to have derived directly from the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, one that has not been observed in the wild in months. The online outlet Science: The Wire stated in a post on Monday that “the omicron variant has virologists in particular worried because it seems to be very different from the ‘original’ strain of the virus — the strain that the current COVID-19 vaccines were designed to fight.” The report said omicron has 50 mutations in all and 32 are linked to the spike protein that allows it to gain entry into host cells. The spike protein is the target of most current vaccines. This has raised worries that the strain will have an extraordinary ability to infect humans, although reports so far say that most cases of the omicron strain of COVID-19 have been mild. “Omicron’s genetic profile has raised legitimate concerns – but at the same time there is a marked shortage of real-world data to make sure. As a result, nobody has the complete picture of what the omicron variant is and isn’t capable of. We don’t know the magnitude of the threat posed by omicron,” the Science post said. The unusual evolution of omicron and the timing of its emergence — just as the world is coming to grips with the delta variant — should fuel new investigations of whether the virus was manufactured in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. U.S. intelligence agencies remain divided over whether the virus originated in a laboratory or emerged naturally from an infected animal carrier such as a bat or a pangolin. FTA - However, the omicron variant appears to have derived directly from the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, one that has not been observed in the wild in months. The latest & greatest variant coming directly from the original that was introduced almost 2 years ago? Does anyone still think this virus is a "natural" event? Does Dr. Fauci really think we are that stupid? Or does he feel the walls of evidence closing tighter on him?

https://nypost.com/2021/12/03/alec-baldwin-blames-victim-in-sickening-interview/ Just when you think Alec Baldwin can’t go any lower, he blames Halyna Hutchins, the woman he shot to death, for getting shot to death. “Everything is at her direction,” Baldwin told a sycophantic George Stephanopoulos during a jaw-dropping, hourlong interview that aired Thursday night. “I’m holding the gun where she told me to hold it,” Baldwin said, “which ended up right below her armpit. Which is what I was told — I don’t know.” There was so much Baldwin claimed not to know. And Stephanopoulos, his longtime friend from the Hamptons — not that the average viewer would know that — was only too eager to pitch softball after softball. Yes, one of ABC’s leading journalists — I use that term loosely — hardly challenged Baldwin when he claimed, repeatedly, that he never pulled the trigger, that the gun just went rogue. “I would never point a gun at anyone,” Baldwin said — despite his earlier assertion that Hutchins had told him to point the gun at her, so he did — “and pull the trigger at them. Never.” “The bullet striking and killing that woman came out of the barrel of the gun pointed directly at her,” says retired FBI Agent Bobby Chacon, who now works as a writer and on-set consultant in Hollywood. “Bullets don’t curve. He isn’t in ‘The Matrix.’ The trigger would still have to be pulled.” “I’m not aware of any gun firing itself,” says Steve Wolf, a Hollywood firearms and special-effects expert since 1994. “I’ve never seen a gun self-discharge. A single action revolver like this” — the Colt that Baldwin fired — “can be discharged very easily, with minimal input required . . . The trigger still must have been pressed.” Wolf is also outraged by a larger concern. “It’s really important to discredit anyone who claims that guns fire themselves,” he says. “If this becomes an acceptable defense, there goes any accountability when it comes to shooting people. We can’t have this kind of ‘guns shoot themselves’ thing. They don’t.” Perhaps — perhaps — Baldwin is in denial. That’s the generous interpretation, but it’s hard to feel generous toward him when he and his wife have been behaving so deplorably. There was the jaunt to Vermont immediately after the shooting, shopping at Ralph Lauren and buying out a local tavern, sitting right in front of the window where paparazzi could get unobstructed pictures. Then came the bizarre roadside press conference in which Hilaria yelled self-righteously at the press while angling to get in every camera frame. All quickly followed by the gross Instagram posts on Halloween and after, raving about how happy their children are, while Hutchins’ son, only 9 when she died, was so traumatized he couldn’t speak for two days after her death. On Thursday morning, hours before this interview aired, Baldwin was photographed going for coffee and loading up his car — en route to the Hamptons, no doubt — while his gross fraud of a wife, Hilaria, strutted around in metallic leggings, four-inch heels and a gold $1,900 Moncler vest. Thursday’s little gambit, Baldwin attempting to elicit sympathy while pointing the finger at everyone else, was an epic miscalculation. He truly believes we’ll feel sorry for him — Alec Baldwin, one of Hollywood’s biggest bullies and rage monsters, attempting to squeeze out tears as he laments how this has ruined his love of moviemaking. Stephanopoulos is equally to blame here. This was an embarrassing line of questioning. “What was it that drew you to this project in the first place,” Stephanopoulos asked, “to ‘Rust’?” Who cares? What is this — an episode of “Access Hollywood”? “People who are watching this show,” Baldwin said — meaning people like you and me, the little people — “you have no idea how unique a motion-picture set is … the amount of care …” Care? That’s rich given what we know about this set, the seven crew members who walked that very morning over documented safety concerns, at least two accidental gun discharges, one accidental special-effects explosion and a young, inexperienced armorer — but, hey, sure, let’s go with “care.” “I looked at all these people, and I see how hard they worked and they’re so conscientious” — unbelievable — “and you’re part of one of the great collaborative processes in the world: moviemaking.” Here’s the essence of this tragedy: It was just a movie. A fast, cheap and out-of-control production that cost a young wife and mother her life. Ignore Baldwin’s excuses. Everyone from Chacon to Wolf to George Clooney and others has said safety protocols on set are specific, simple, exact, rigorous and to be followed to the letter every time. Every. Single. Time. In speaking to me a few weeks ago, Wolf presented an interesting hypothetical: “If that scene required [Baldwin] to put the gun to his head and pull the trigger, I’m sure he would have taken a look inside the gun. Wouldn’t you?” If only Stephanopoulos had asked that question. Instead, we learned that Baldwin now has nightmares (poor him!), feels no guilt, and fully expects Hutchins’ widower, Matthew, to sue — but is feeling pretty confident that he won’t be charged criminally and that Matthew won’t come after him personally. “Someone is responsible for what happened,” Baldwin said, “and I know it’s not me.” After this interview — and Baldwin’s callous demeanor these past few weeks — Matthew Hutchins, especially, might feel differently. Mr. Baldwin is trying to point blame everywhere except at the guy holding the gun that fired the shot......

https://nypost.com/2021/12/01/alec-baldwin-weeps-in-first-interview-since-rust-set-shooting/ Alec Baldwin is insisting he “didn’t pull the trigger” on the gun that killed a cinematographer and wounded the director on the New Mexico set of his film “Rust.” In his first interview since the deadly Oct. 21 shooting, a tearful Baldwin told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos he has “no idea” how the live bullet ended up in the firearm. “The trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin said in a preview clip of the interview released on Wednesday. “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them, never,” he said. Authorities have previously said Baldwin was holding the prop gun while rehearsing a scene at the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe when it accidentally discharged. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured after they were struck by the live round. “Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property,” Baldwin said in the ABC interview, which is set to air in full on Thursday. At one point during the hour-long interview, Baldwin could be seen sobbing and placing his head in his hands. Asked if the film set shooting was the worst thing that has ever happened to him, the Hollywood star said, “Yes.” Baldwin also paid tribute to the slain cinematographer, saying it “doesn’t seem real” that Hutchins is dead. “I think back and I think of what could I have done?” Baldwin said. “She was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with [her] and liked by everyone who worked with [her], and admired…,” he said. “I mean, even now I find it hard to believe that [she’s gone]. It doesn’t seem real to me.” His interview comes after a new search warrant approved by a judge on Tuesday revealed the live round may have been left in the gun from a previous film production. Investigators revealed the developments in the case as they sought permission to search PDQ Arm & Prop, LLC — an ammunition store in an Albuquerque strip mall that supplied the ill-fated Western with props. No charges have been brought in the film set shooting, but authorities haven’t yet ruled them out. Baldwin’s claims are in direct contrast with what Mamie Mitchell, the film’s script supervisor, stated in a lawsuit filed last month. She said the actor “intentionally … cocked and fired” the gun. Baldwin’s full interview will air at 8 p.m. ET Thursday on ABC. His wife, Hilaria Baldwin, said on social media that she has had difficulty talking to the couple’s children about the fatal shooting. “I’ve had to have some conversations, explaining recent events to my oldest children recently,” she said in an Instagram story on Tuesday. “You can imagine how heart-wrenching it has been.” Wait - How does Mr. Baldwin explain the gun discharging if he didn't pull the trigger. Methinks he just figured out he may actually be charged here..... "I didn't pull the trigger!" Yet there he is on film..... Yes, a tragic accident, but we're all pretty sure you pulled the trigger Skippy.....

Will this be the variant (stick) that finally breaks the camel's back?

SF has found that most gas stations have those stickers removed within a day or so. Make sure you have more than just a couple on you........

https://gazette.com/news/looting-deemed-racist-term-california-experiencing-organized-robbery/article_0c801ee8-0793-5718-9ab7-2052b8101fa8.html 'Looting' deemed racist term, California experiencing 'organized robbery' Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner 21 hrs ago What happened in California this weekend when over $1 million in luxury goods were stolen was not "looting," authorities said. Calling it "looting" might be racist, they said. Instead, what happened was "organized robbery," according to a spokesperson for the San Diego Police Department. San Diego officials are not alone in this sentiment. "As the Bay Area grapples with a wave of seemingly organized smash and grab robberies this weekend, policing and journalism analysts are cautioning against the use of the term looting," a report said. In San Francisco, Louis Vuitton and Burberry stores were burglarized and lost a significant amount of their product, the report said. Similar incidents occurred in San Jose, Santana Row, Hayward, and Walnut Creek, with waves of people storming into stores, causing extreme losses. However, these events are not considered looting, according to the California Penal Code, which defines looting as "theft or burglary ... during a 'state of emergency,' 'local emergency,' or 'evacuation order' resulting from an earthquake, fire, flood, riot or other natural or manmade disaster." Calling the events in California looting carries a racist sentiment, said Lorenzo Boyd, a professor of criminal justice and community policing at the University of New Haven and a former police officer. "Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something," he said. "We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing." The public should also be wary of drawing a political connection between this weekend's "smash-and-grabs" and the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, Boyd said. "These types of massive, organized smash-and-grabs were happening before the Rittenhouse situation because it happens cyclically," he said. "It's a false equivalency. It's people trying to politicize crime." Martin Reynolds, co-executive director of the Robert C. Maynard Institute of Journalism Education, echoed Boyd's notion that proper media literacy is essential to address the complicated issues facing society. "People draw their own conclusions if the terminologies that you use are tethered to people's understanding of how they have been used in the past," he said. So the term "Looting" is now racist? When SF hears "organized robbery" he is thinking of an Al Capone type or a mobster...... I guess they are probably right that this was not "looting" per se, but linking the term looting to racism is quite a stretch. (IMHO) AND - Stop using the Rittenhouse verdict as a racist basis for criminal activity........Just an FYI - the Rittenhouse charges and verdict had NOTHING to do with race. A WHITE guy was found innocent when he shot 3 WHITE guys previously convicted criminals in self-defence.