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WHY DOES AOC’S ABUELA LIVE IN SQUALOR?
Even before the BIG ONE hit the island, Puerto Rico was in on the road to disaster; a living example of the walking dead, a corpse in the making. Yes, truth be told, the island and all its beauty was drifting along in the sea of Big Government Liars, thieves and pillagers. In fact no one worked, 41% of those employed pushed papers from one side of the desk to the other; government workers; would you expect anything less? Now that is what we call “a hard day’s night.” I’ve been working like a dog was the call from the wilderness. Never really seen a dog work, have you? Seen them sleep, eat and play, but work? Especially in the likes of the Caribbean, not many dogs would take up the sport – too hot, they barked – “give me air conditioning.”
But for AOC’s Abuela, living in God’s heaven on earth, to live in squalor is another falsehood from the purveyor of “fire in the theater.” Check AOC’s pad for the Rich and Famous. Guess she doesn’t care about her Abuela! And Abuela’s casa grande is the envy of all American’s.
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HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED IN PUERTO RICO? – DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ASK – WHO WAS ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE
Did 65 die or was it 3000? And where are the bodies? Who is to blame for this? First of all Puerto Rico is a welfare sanctuary run to the ground by Democrats – a failed state. Their infrastructure was was comparable to those of third world countries – think South Africa, Iran and Iraq. Electricity was dole out by the hour, water systems in many cases were inoperable. But the failed state, 41% of the employed worked for the government, was an accident waiting to happen; and it did.
Most deaths after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico are blamed on interruptions in medical care due to power outages and blocked or washed out roads, said the report published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“Approximately one-third of post-hurricane deaths were reported by household members as being caused by delayed or prevented access to medical care,” said the report.”
The bottom line is two fold; Of those responsible for the majority of deaths were Puerto Rico’s the elected government officials; their obligation was to prepare and warn the people of the coming disaster; this they did not do.
Secondly, to blame Trump for his lack of empathy is insinuating that the President of the United States caused the problem. He did not. But we must remind those who place blame of the FACT that those who live in a Welfare State always depend on others to do their bidding. And so it was with Puerto Rico when hurricane Maria hit. The citizens waited for the Government to step in and lend a helping hand while they sat idly by, waiting for disaster to hit.
THEY TAKE AND TAKE AND TAKE – PUERTO RICO CORRUPTION AND WELFARE GONE WILD
SINK OR SWIM – ENOUGH ALREADY – NO MORE PAYMENTS FROM U.S. TAX PAYERS
Storm dealt Puerto Rico knockout blow after decades of fiscal failure, corruption
By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News
Hurricane Maria aftermath: Puerto Rico faces months without power
The entire island of Puerto Rico is without power, after Hurricane Maria slammed into the U.S. territory. Officials estimate that it could take months for the island to be restored. Check out these incredible images of the storm and its aftermath.
Six months after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, many leaders there are pointing the finger at Washington, but the scandal, corruption and waste that now plague the U.S. territory were around long before last summer’s storm.
Decades of dysfunction, mismanagement and embarrassing abuses of power left Puerto Rico reeling well before the storm delivered a knockout blow, say obervers. Enormous debt, absurd infrastructure projects and a tradition of corruption have hampered the commonwealth’s ability to get off the canvas.
“There’ve been so many problems that have built up year after year,” Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., told Fox News. “It’s a tough situation.”
“All these mayors were using borrowed money to build things that were underutilized.”– Emilio Pantojas-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico
Reckless spending sprees by a revolving door of politicians have turned the commonwealth into a bloated bureaucracy that can’t pay its bills and yet enjoys the benefits of a welfare society without any of the responsibilities attached to it.
Before Maria hit in September, Puerto Rico was already navigating the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. government history at a whopping $120 billion in combined bond and pension debt.
Should Puerto Rico be able to declare bankruptcy?
For years, the island blew through billions of dollars in borrowed money.
Pricey and impractical infrastructure projects almost always got the go-ahead.
“Every town in Puerto Rico has a new baseball park,” Emilio Pantojas-Garcia, a sociology professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, told Bloomberg News. “All these mayors were using borrowed money to build things that were underutilized.”
One such project was a 1,000-seat performing-arts center in the small city of Humacao. The building was designed for big-budget Broadway-style performances. Instead, it was rarely used and ended up being the place where the occasional stand-up comic performs.
The territory’s towering debt and mismanagement also led to less money being available for schools and hospitals.
Then Maria hit and things on the island went from bad to catastrophic in the blink of an eye.
Multiple cases of corruption and greed by local leaders, government officials and inexperienced contractors surfaced, shedding light on the toxicity that is still very much a part of everyday life in Puerto Rico.
Those who can leave, often do.
The government of Puerto Rico now estimates that by the end of the year, another 200,000 residents will have moved to the mainland.
But for residents stuck in Puerto Rico, the future looks grim.
“We’re used to it by now but that doesn’t make it right or fair,” Sunita Howell, a waitress in Old San Juan, told Fox News. Howell’s family, who lives in the Hato Rey neighborhood of the city, struggles daily.
Howell says after Maria hit, her family was approached by someone offering to restore power to their home for $3,000.
“I don’t have that kind of money,” she said. “Who has that here? You are supposed to be helping us not taking our money.”Video
The entire island of Puerto Rico is without power
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority – PREPA- has already suspended three employees without pay and says it is looking into another 25 reported cases of possible bribery in the days and weeks after Maria.
PREPA confirmed to PBS that all of the cases involve field employees responsible for restoring power.
El Vocero, a San Juan-based newspaper, said that some employees demanded up to $5,000 to reconnect power.
PREPA’s director was forced out in November after the utility, the commonwealth’s sole electricity provider, failed to call for help from its mainland counterparts after the storm.
Instead, PREPA granted a power-restoration contract to Whitefish Energy Holdings. It was a disaster of a deal and PREPA was forced to rescind the contract after public pressure.Video
Puerto Rico to cancel controversial Whitefish contract
PREPA was also accused of stockpiling supplies badly needed to help with rebuilding after Maria.
“The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority has become a heavy burden on our people, who are now hostage to its poor service and high cost,” Governor Ricardo Rossello, who is planning to sell PREPA to the private sector, said in a statement. “What we know today as the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority does not work and cannot continue to operate like this.”
PREPA’s problems are just one of several crises slowing down recovery on the island.
The federal government recently awarded a $156 million contract to a one-person Atlanta-based company that was supposed to deliver 30 million meals to Puerto Rico. Owner Tiffany Brown, who had no disaster relief experience, got the gig but managed to deliver only 50,000 meals to the storm-ravaged island.
There have been problems with the housing situation too and now, the island’s largest restoration contractor says it will pull out of Puerto Rico in the next few weeks after maxing out its $746 million contract.
“It never ends,” Howell said. “Tomorrow I’ll wake up and there will be another scandal, another Whitefish.”
Who’s to Blame for the Mess in Puerto Rico?
Alex Witoslawski, American Renaissance, October 4, 2017 Not Donald Trump.
Puerto Ricans are blaming President Trump for the fact that two weeks after Hurricane Maria, their island is still a mess: power outages, flooding, fuel shortages, spotty cell service, washed out bridges, roads blocked by fallen trees. But who is really to blame for the island’s paralysis?
Consider this: Puerto Rico has a population of only 3.4 million but their elected government has run up a debt of over $70 billion and pension obligations of $50 billion. That’s more than $35,294 per resident and over 100 percent of GDP. Puerto Rico has already defaultedon a $58 million bond payment in 2016, due to its already-high taxes and unwillingness to cut government spending. It fell into crushing debt despite the $21 billion annually the island receives in aid from the United States, much of it spent on welfare programs such as Head Start, public housing, and food stamps. That’s over $6,000 per capita in federal welfare that the islanders consume. And due to the special status of the island, Puerto Ricans do not even pay federal income tax.
Borrowing and US handouts sustained the welfare habits of the people, but Puerto Rico left its infrastructure embarrassingly outdated. According to the Los Angeles Times, Puerto Rico’s electrical grid is so starved of physical and human capital that it suffers from power outages four-to-five times the average—even in good weather. Puerto Rico also failed to invest in infrastructure to protect against flooding. The island has few floodwalls and dangerously weak dams—a dam on the island cracked following the hurricane, forcing the evacuation of more than 70,000 people.
These problems were foreseeable and preventable, but liberals and Puerto Rican officials are blaming Donald Trump. Perhaps he is being too nice. Puerto Rico created its own problems; why should we be on the hook for them?
(Credit Image: © Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
After acquisition by the United States following the Spanish-American War in 1898, the island’s residents never integrated with Americans culturally, linguistically, or racially. Puerto Ricans are culturally Hispanic, racially a mix of Spanish colonists, African slaves and Taino natives, and most of them don’t speak any English. They may technically be United States citizens but they share little common history or ancestry with Americans and are clearly a nation that developed separately from our own. And what could indicate a clearer sense of alienation from the United States than the fact that Puerto Rico has its own Olympic team?
Puerto Ricans, meanwhile, have many gripes with what they perceive as their American overlords. For example, even before this latest hurricane-induced crisis, a major problem for Puerto Rico was their inability to conduct trade independently. According to U.S. law, goods must travel between Puerto Rican and mainland American ports on American-made vessels before they are exported or imported. This weakens Puerto Rico’s economy.
The best solution would be to let Puerto Rico become an independent country, free to make its own decisions and responsible for its own problems. This could be done amicably and generously. Since we pay the island tens of billions of dollars every year in welfare payments, we could easily pay off their debt and give them post-hurricane humanitarian aid as incentives to independence.
We could also offer remigration cash incentives for Puerto Ricans living in America who are willing to give up their U.S. citizenship and move to the island. This would not only be an opportunity for the Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States to reunite with their people, but also a great way to reverse the brain-drain. Over the past century, many of the more intelligent and hard-working Puerto Ricans moved to the mainland for better opportunities. The 2010 U.S. Census counted the number of Puerto Ricans living in America at 4.6 million, making it America’s second-largest Hispanic group after Mexicans. This represents a tremendous loss in cultural, economic, and human capital for the island.
Finally, we could offer military protection and economic advice for a couple decades. Chile took economic advice from free-market economists from the University of Chicago and the economy boomed. With the right advice and incentives, Puerto Rico could experience a similar economic rebound.
Separation would come with an expensive up-front price tag for us, but it would save Americans money in the long run and would give Puerto Rico full control over its culture and destiny.
SET UP FOR ASSASSINATION
“TWEET THIS”
Nigeria has indefinitely suspended the operations of Twitter, the government said on Friday, two days after the social media giant suspended the account of the nation’s president for a tweet warning of a return to violence in a civil war that cost millions of lives in the 1960s.
Information minister Lai Mohammed cited “the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.” In his statement, he didn’t explain that reference, nor was it immediately clear what the minister meant by a suspension of operations or how the government would enforce it.
Twitter said the Nigerian government’s statement was deeply concerning. “We’re investigating and will provide updates when we know more,” the company said.
On Wednesday, Twitter removed a tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari, a former general and military junta leader, that appeared to threaten violent reprisals for separatists from the Independent Peoples’ Republic of Biafra in the nation’s southeast that the government has blamed for attacks on property and assassinations.
THE AVENGER RETURNS
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday returned to the political stage to demand China pay reparations over the pandemic — and rail against Big Tech over censorship and its alleged interference in the 2020 election, which he blasted as the “crime of the century.”
Speaking in Greenville, North Carolina, Trump called on China to pay $10 trillion in reparations to the US and the rest of the world for its handling of the virus, which has killed more than 3.7 million people worldwide.
“The time has come for America and the world to demand reparations and accountability from the Communist Party of China,” the former president said.
“We should all declare within one unified voice that China must pay.”
He said that nations across the world should also cancel their debt to Beijing.
“As a first step all countries should collectively cancel all debt they owe to China as a down payment on reparations,” he said.
PRESIDENT TRUMP TAKES OUR ADVICE
By now America knows WHO was responsible for the mass murder of almost, maybe even more because we will never know, 5 million people. Yesterday, Trump addressed the Republican crowd in North Carolina. Our previous posts indicated EXACTLY what (click)Trump put forth yesterday. Thank you President Trump for taking our advice.
“All nations should work together to present China a bill for a minimum of $10 trillion to compensate for the damage,” Trump said, adding that the figure was lower than it should be. “As a first step, all countries should collectively cancel any debt they owe to China as a down payment on reparations,” he said.
Trump said “he also thought the U.S. should put a 100% tariff on any goods imported from China.”
Following are previous posts that yelled for just action against the CCP murderers. And as proposed yesterday by Trump to do the same. Will Biden pick up the challenge and hold CCP responsible. Will he put into action Trump’s proposal, will Biden cave? We know what Biden will do. “WHO’s your daddy?”
To start with Trump should cancel without delay all Treasury bills that China holds, amounting to a trillion or so. Then he should immediately de-list all Chinese companies from our stock exchanges, then he should demand that all Chinese students go back to China and finally he should halt all imports from China. Hard times, hard decisions.
Let it be written, so let it be done.
WE WILL SEE YOU IN COURT – XI JINPING WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE FOR MASS MURDER
WE ASK BEIJING, “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?”
The Butchers of Beijing must be held accountable for murder. Countries, States and citizens have brought or will be bringing legal action individually and through class action against the Communist Regime. Most of these suits will be futile; they will fall on deaf ears due to the fact that suing a foreign government is all but impossible.
However, we propose the solution to the problem. Simply put, all nations that owe a debt to China, have assets belonging to China or in the case of third world countries that have signed infrastructure projects with China, DECLARE THEM NULL AND VOID. “FORCE MAJEURE“
For instance, China is believe to hold approximately THREE TRILLION DOLLARS ($3,000,000,000,000) IN TREASURY BILLS, DECLARING THEM “NULL AND VOID” IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. China will never pay otherwise, therefore to ZERO out the amount owed to China would effectively exact the debt they owe the world. But that is not all, the world must also take SIX other actions.
Demand that all Chinese enterprises leave their countries, demand all Chinese citizens leave their countries, demand that all Chinese education entities cease their operations and track down any other Chinese assets, such as building ownership, corporations or entities and nationalize them. Halt all Chinese owned companies on the stock exchanges. And do not allow any Chinese imports into their respective countries. THESE ARE NOT THREATS, THIS IS FRONTIER JUSTICE.
We must say that killing one person does not even come close to what we recommend, but it is a start. These actions may stimulate a revolution in China that will eventually overthrow the worlds MASS MURDERER.
The China Virus has killed close to 3 million people, yet the governments around the world have not taken any action to punish the CCP. China’s Silk road policy is meant to buy, harass and steal the life-blood of every country on earth – a world takeover. They must pay, the WHO must pay. Only one country has to step up to get the ball rolling.
DON’T FORGET THE “WHO HEAD” WAS COMPLICIT IN THIS MOTHER OF ALL COVER-UPS
The WHO chief’s subsequent lavish public praise of China’s leadership for its efforts to combat the disease came even as evidence mounted that Chinese officials had silenced whistleblowers and suppressed information about the outbreak. His remarks prompted criticism from some member states for being over the top. U.S. President Donald Trump has led the charge, accusing the WHO of being “China-centric” and suspending American funding of the health agency.
Tedros is “obviously frustrated” by Trump’s move and feels the WHO is being used as a “political football,” the person familiar with the discussions said.
Coronavirus Cases:
123,543,774
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Deaths:
2,723,669
The Chinese Government’s Cover-Up Killed Health Care Workers Worldwide
Bad advice based on false information led to fatal mistakes.
BY ANNIE SPARROW MARCH 18, 2021, 2:26 PM
It is widely known that when the new coronavirus emerged in December 2019, the Chinese government downplayed the pandemic threat for several critical weeks. Less commonly known is those same authorities deliberately sacrificed health workers to maintain their lies.
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) calculated cover-up enabled the coronavirus to go global. By silencing doctors, Beijing not only fueled this pandemic but also compromised the world’s ability to spot the next one.
Why the CCP decided to cover up the outbreak is unclear. It may have been a reluctance to cancel political meetings, a fear of public panic—especially around the Chinese New Year—the embarrassment of another pathogen being born on Chinese soil, or the simple instinct to squash bad news ingrained into officials in an authoritarian system.
This series looks at how many experts missed the mark in the early days of the pandemic—and what we can learn for next time.
Among experts: Social scientists thought they knew what impact the pandemic would have. They were very wrong.
In the U.S.: Public health experts thought they had a world-beating pandemic response in place. That overconfidence doomed 500,000 Americans.
Pandemics are like wars. The first casualty is truth.
Instead of notifying the World Health Organization (WHO) about the outbreak of atypical pneumonia and evidence of human spread, the authorities censored information, concealed the virus, and silenced doctors who tried to warn their colleagues. Hospital leaders refused to authorize masks or other personal protective equipment (PPE) on the grounds that it would cause panic. As patients infected health care workers and health care workers infected one another, hospital leaders insisted that spread among humans was impossible—that no staff members were infected—even altering diagnoses that suggested otherwise.
Beijing’s official line through Jan. 19, 2020 was that the outbreak began in late December 2019, that all cases had been infected by an unidentified animal source at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, and that no health care workers were infected. But even when the government conceded human spread on Jan. 20, it reported only a fraction of the real numbers.
These falsehoods influenced the WHO’s decision not to immediately declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, a step it had previously taken over Ebola, Zika, and the H1N1 virus. It also informed the widespread belief that COVID-19 spread in a similar manner to influenza—by large droplets landing on surfaces and transferred by touching rather than through airborne microdroplets. That misdirection contributed to the early and persistent focus in the West on surface disinfection and hand hygiene rather than masks—considerably more effective.
“TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER”
IMPORTANT VACCINE INFORMATION
CHINA – COME CLEAN – PAY UP COMMIES
China Joe is being chop sticked by Xi and the CCP. If they have nothing to hide the CCP would allow our forensic scientists to do a thorough investigation of the Wuhan Lab. Additionally, we need to have access to all of those Doctors and Scientists who have been employed in the lab going back three years. But this won’t happen. Although our government continues the line that we need to get to the bottom of this, it is all window dressing; all talk but no action.
Medical records
Fauci told the paper that the medical records of the three workers who were said to have become sick at the Wuhan lab in late 2019 would be beneficial in the probe of the virus’ origin.
“Did they really get sick, and if so, what did they get sick with?” he asked.
NEW INTEL LENDS MORE CREDENCE TO WUHAN LAB THEORY AS WHO PRESSURED
“The same with the miners who got ill years ago. … What do the medical records of those people say? Was there [a] virus in those people? What was it? It is entirely conceivable that the origins of Sars-Cov-2 was in that cave and either started spreading naturally or went through the lab,” he said.
Fauci was referring to 2012, when miners became sick after they entered a bat cave, the report said. Three of them died. The paper pointed out that Fauci still believes the virus jumped to humans through animals.
David Asher, the former State Department investigator, told the paper that he respected Fauci, but was “stunned” that he would only now request the records. Asher pointed out that the Trump administration mentioned the reports of sick scientists in January.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/pompeo-nih-suppress-state-dept-virus-probe
UPDATE – THE WUHAN COVER-UPFUMBLIN, MUMBLIN TUMBLIN FAUCI – CALLED OUT BY TUCKER CARLSON AS A FRAUD – THROW THE MAN IN JAIL
(CLICK) STATE DEPARTEMENT HOLDING THE GUN, NOT SMOKING BUT ON FIRE – WUHAN COVER-UP
(CLICK HERE FOR A 4 MINUTE NARRATIVE) https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-is-dr-fauci-under-criminal-investigation
If there was ever a duplicitous fraudster, his name would be Fauci. For over a year he has mumbled back and forth, lips moving, stroking the cameras but saying nothing. He belongs in the Big Top, a Circus act, Fauci’s House of Horrors. Rand Paul does a Fauci on Fauci.
Sen. Rand Paul is saying he’s vindicated by a newly released trove of emails sent to and by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious diseases expert, during the early days of the pandemic.
He fired off a short-and-sweet pair of tweets about it Wednesday morning: “Told you…Can’t wait to see the media try to spin the Fauci FOIA emails.”
He’s fundraising off this latest twist in the news cycle, too.
“It’s time to fire Fauci! Emails that have been released now under Freedom of Information Act show two very important things: 1. FAUCI has been lying 2. I’ve been right all along,” Paul tweeted Wednesday afternoon.
“Stand with me today while we keep showing the way,” he added, along with a link to a fundraising website.
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