Good morning,
Colorado
10 dead and the gunman Ahmad Alissa is charged with first degree murder and he was apparently known to the FBI although we don’t yet know the details of that. What we do know is he used an assault rifle, and despite having some history of assault and mental illness issues he was not prevented from buying a rifle designed for killing people. Last night President Biden rightly, sensibly called for stricter gun control laws and Republicans immediately said they opposed any new laws. America and its love of guns ensures people can continue to own weapons no other society allows because its illogical and ends in tragedy over and over again.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, an outspoken voice on gun control, said that Congress’s inaction had made lawmakers “complicit” in allowing “completely predictable” violence go unchecked. He sounded a note of optimism, citing Mr. Biden’s personal commitment to the issue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/us/politics/biden-gun-control.html
Covid 19 - Europe
Yesterday marked one year since Britain entered its first lockdown, extremely late and the virus had already been allowed to begin its spread much too easily infecting the population and in particular nursing homes. At a news conference the Countries Chief Chief Medical Officer said the chances of now eradicating the virus are zero and it will be with us for years to come.
Notable is a leak from a Conservative Party meeting where the Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain got its vaccines rolling because of “greed” ands “capitalism”. An unfortunate comment just as the European Union is set to pass a law restricting vaccines from export and that will hit Britain, which has left the EU, the hardest.
Most of the UK vaccines are from Astra Zeneca factories in Europe.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/chances-of-eliminating-covid-from-uk-or-around-the-world-e2-80-98close-to-zero-e2-80-99-says-chris-whitty/ar-BB1eSX23?ocid=uxbndlbing
Israel
A fourth election and now a fifth looming because once again it appears Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party failed to get a clear majority in last nights election yet again. Netanyahu of course claimed a “huge victory”, who does that remind you of ? But it looks like he will need some kind of messy coalition with other parties and it may not be doable.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-elections/netanyahu-clinches-61-majority-on-right-on-way-to-victory-exit-polls-662919
Russia
President Putin likes to be photographed driving trucks and fishing and cuddling Tigers, in general being the tough guy, but is he frightened of needles? He claimed to have taken the Sputnik Covid vaccine yesterday, but wouldn’t allow anyone to photograph the event. Very odd and not altogether believable considering the Kremlin has pushed this Russia made vaccine all over the world and has confidence issues in Russias not to open science. Although The Lancet says the vaccine is 92% effective.
https://www.dw.com/en/putin-gets-his-covid-jab-as-russians-stay-away-from-sputnik-v/a-56963871
Stop The Steal or Stop The Law Suit?
Sydney Powell was Trumps lawyer who you may remember emotionally told Americans the election was a fraud and Dominion voting machines fake or highjacked or whatever she said now see’s her in front of a court being sued for a lot more money than she is worth. And as a lawyer doesn’t appear to be worth much at all now as she is saying “no reasonable person would have believed such statements as fact”.
These are the statements which helped fuel unrest and the storming of the Capitol, and were echoed across right wing media in America undermining one of the great democracies of the world. Now she says “no reasonable person would have believed such statements as fact”. Huh?
She had evidence of “the greatest crime of the century if not the life of the world”. WTF? And now it could be ‘the greatest case of bullshit in this century’ by Trump and his circus and Powell quotes an earlier court ruling referring to a “well recognized principle that political statements are inherently prone to exaggeration and hyperbole.”
Unbelievable crap from a lawyer who should be held to account along with Rudolph Guiliani who is also being sued by Dominion voting machines for 1 billion dollars. Thats billion with a B, like the bullshit that came from Trumps disinformation campaign dividing and igniting America, and what if he had been successful?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sidney-powell-does-an-about-face-on-her-stop-the-steal-claims/2021/03/23/148b6900-8c00-11eb-a730-1b4ed9656258_story.html
Have a good day!
Dana