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June 26, 2020
(MarketWatch) The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t just hurt the U.S. economy — it’s also hurt America’s reputation abroad.
The European Council on Foreign Relations surveyed 10,000 Europeans in nine countries, which make up about two-thirds of the European Union, to get their opinions on how governments have responded to the COVID-19 outbreak that has infected 9.5 million and killed more than 484,000 and counting around the world.
And the report found what it called a “shocking” collapse of the image of the U.S. in the eyes of many Europeans. China suffered a drop in public opinion, as well.
“Each superpower has seen its reputation collapse in some of the countries that were its closest allies and partners,” the report notes. .............(more)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-chart-shows-just-how-badly-the-us-coronavirus-response-has-damaged-americas-reputation-in-europe-2020-06-25?mod=home-page
This chart shows just how badly the coronavirus response has damaged America's reputation in Europe
(MarketWatch) The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t just hurt the U.S. economy — it’s also hurt America’s reputation abroad.
The European Council on Foreign Relations surveyed 10,000 Europeans in nine countries, which make up about two-thirds of the European Union, to get their opinions on how governments have responded to the COVID-19 outbreak that has infected 9.5 million and killed more than 484,000 and counting around the world.
And the report found what it called a “shocking” collapse of the image of the U.S. in the eyes of many Europeans. China suffered a drop in public opinion, as well.
“Each superpower has seen its reputation collapse in some of the countries that were its closest allies and partners,” the report notes. .............(more)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-chart-shows-just-how-badly-the-us-coronavirus-response-has-damaged-americas-reputation-in-europe-2020-06-25?mod=home-page
June 26, 2020
Saying the Donald Trump “fears losing more than he cares about winning,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough suggested the president might step aside rather than go down in a historic defeat in November’s election.
With co-host Mika Brzezinski noting several normally Republican states showing the president losing to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, Scarborough and “Morning Joe” regular Donny Deutsch agreed that — for the moment — it appears that the President has given up on trying to win the election. ............(more)
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/morning-joe-suggests-trump-may-leave-the-stage-rather-than-suffer-400-electoral-vote-blowout-in-november/?fbclid=IwAR3ns7AJwNvgM0bzXkK51xo8kvGz9TKqaiTKtX8sDj91gIMMO5srSxNMp7I
Morning Joe suggests Trump may 'leave the stage' rather than suffer 400 electoral vote blowout
Saying the Donald Trump “fears losing more than he cares about winning,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough suggested the president might step aside rather than go down in a historic defeat in November’s election.
With co-host Mika Brzezinski noting several normally Republican states showing the president losing to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, Scarborough and “Morning Joe” regular Donny Deutsch agreed that — for the moment — it appears that the President has given up on trying to win the election. ............(more)
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/morning-joe-suggests-trump-may-leave-the-stage-rather-than-suffer-400-electoral-vote-blowout-in-november/?fbclid=IwAR3ns7AJwNvgM0bzXkK51xo8kvGz9TKqaiTKtX8sDj91gIMMO5srSxNMp7I
June 26, 2020
by John McNellis • Jun 25, 2020 •
We’ve lost half-dozen retailers — restaurants, clothing, massage… Tenants who in effect said, sue me, I’m taking a hike. And replacement shop tenants are just behind spotted owls on the endangered species list.
By John E. McNellis, Principal at McNellis Partners, for WOLF STREET:
This tenant’s sad bankruptcy threat sets the table for examining our retail—supermarket-anchored neighborhood shopping centers—in the Covid-19 era. Embellishing only slightly, we have two kinds of tenants: those that can’t pay and those that don’t wish to.
In short, bricks and mortar retail has been caught in a pincer movement, flanked on one side by Covid-19 itself, and on the other by its cure. You know this already: The virus separated us, the cure institutionalized that separation, forcing a societal shutdown that has driven us into our deepest recession in perhaps living memory, a recession that seems certain to run several years. The coronavirus means we will remain wary of one another until there’s a vaccine, perhaps longer; the cure means the majority of Americans will have little to spend.
What does this portend for our retailers? Putting aside kids swarming the beach towns, few of us wish to take more risks than necessary. Driving on a freeway entails an infinitesimal risk, but we do it to get somewhere; going shopping now involves a minute risk, but we accept it if the shopping is essential. (As an aside, we had no idea we were in the essential retail business until this year.)
Our essential retailers—supermarkets, drug stores, banks, convenience stores and gas stations—are doing fine; in fact, groceries and gas are killing it. Someone’s idea of essential, liquor stores and cigarette shops, are not complaining either. ...............(more)
https://wolfstreet.com/2020/06/25/plagued-retail-my-view-from-the-trenches/
Plagued Retail: View from the Trenches
Plagued Retail: My View from the Trenchesby John McNellis • Jun 25, 2020 •
We’ve lost half-dozen retailers — restaurants, clothing, massage… Tenants who in effect said, sue me, I’m taking a hike. And replacement shop tenants are just behind spotted owls on the endangered species list.
By John E. McNellis, Principal at McNellis Partners, for WOLF STREET:
“I have 2 options that are non-negotiable. I’m going bankrupt (chapter 7). Covid happened and I cannot survive. I’d rather not go through bankruptcy because it ruins my credit, but if I have no choice, I won’t think twice. The second option is to let you keep my deposit, and take what I have in the bank which is around 10k. Again this is non-negotiable. That is all I freakin have.”
This tenant’s sad bankruptcy threat sets the table for examining our retail—supermarket-anchored neighborhood shopping centers—in the Covid-19 era. Embellishing only slightly, we have two kinds of tenants: those that can’t pay and those that don’t wish to.
In short, bricks and mortar retail has been caught in a pincer movement, flanked on one side by Covid-19 itself, and on the other by its cure. You know this already: The virus separated us, the cure institutionalized that separation, forcing a societal shutdown that has driven us into our deepest recession in perhaps living memory, a recession that seems certain to run several years. The coronavirus means we will remain wary of one another until there’s a vaccine, perhaps longer; the cure means the majority of Americans will have little to spend.
What does this portend for our retailers? Putting aside kids swarming the beach towns, few of us wish to take more risks than necessary. Driving on a freeway entails an infinitesimal risk, but we do it to get somewhere; going shopping now involves a minute risk, but we accept it if the shopping is essential. (As an aside, we had no idea we were in the essential retail business until this year.)
Our essential retailers—supermarkets, drug stores, banks, convenience stores and gas stations—are doing fine; in fact, groceries and gas are killing it. Someone’s idea of essential, liquor stores and cigarette shops, are not complaining either. ...............(more)
https://wolfstreet.com/2020/06/25/plagued-retail-my-view-from-the-trenches/
June 26, 2020
The FBI has a history of targeting black activists. That's still true today
Mike German
The FBI has long disrupted and discredited civil rights leaders. It should put its authorities to better use by holding officers accountable
Fri 26 Jun 2020 05.41 EDT
(Guardian UK) Throughout its history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has viewed Black activism as a potential national security threat. It has used its ample investigative powers not to suppress violence, but to inhibit the speech and association rights of Black activists. And its reaction to the protests following the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd shows little has changed.
In October 1919, a young J Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation’s general intelligence division, targeted “Black Moses” Marcus Garvey for investigation and harassment because of his alleged association with “radical elements” that were “agitating the Negro movement”. Hoover admitted Garvey had violated no federal laws. But the bureau, the precursor organization to the FBI, infiltrated Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association with informant provocateurs and undercover agents who searched for years for any charge that could justify his deportation.
The justice department ultimately won a conviction against Garvey on a dubious mail fraud charge in 1923. Meanwhile, white vigilantes, police and soldiers targeted Black communities with violence during this period, which included the Red Summer of 1919, the Tulsa massacre of 1921 and scores of lynchings, did not receive the same focused attention from Hoover’s agents.
The FBI used similar tactics to disrupt, discredit and neutralize leaders of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s. The FBI’s Cointelpro program targeting civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael was specifically designed to “[p]revent the rise of a ‘messiah’ who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement” rather than to prevent any violent acts they might perpetrate. The methods included informant-driven disinformation campaigns designed to spark conflict within the movement, discourage donors and supporters, and even break up marriages. Overt investigative activity was also used, as one stated goal of the Cointelpro program was to inspire fear among activists by convincing them that an FBI agent lurked behind every mailbox. .........(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/26/fbi-black-activism-protests-history
The FBI has a history of targeting black activists. That's still true today
The FBI has a history of targeting black activists. That's still true today
Mike German
The FBI has long disrupted and discredited civil rights leaders. It should put its authorities to better use by holding officers accountable
Fri 26 Jun 2020 05.41 EDT
(Guardian UK) Throughout its history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has viewed Black activism as a potential national security threat. It has used its ample investigative powers not to suppress violence, but to inhibit the speech and association rights of Black activists. And its reaction to the protests following the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd shows little has changed.
In October 1919, a young J Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation’s general intelligence division, targeted “Black Moses” Marcus Garvey for investigation and harassment because of his alleged association with “radical elements” that were “agitating the Negro movement”. Hoover admitted Garvey had violated no federal laws. But the bureau, the precursor organization to the FBI, infiltrated Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association with informant provocateurs and undercover agents who searched for years for any charge that could justify his deportation.
The justice department ultimately won a conviction against Garvey on a dubious mail fraud charge in 1923. Meanwhile, white vigilantes, police and soldiers targeted Black communities with violence during this period, which included the Red Summer of 1919, the Tulsa massacre of 1921 and scores of lynchings, did not receive the same focused attention from Hoover’s agents.
The FBI used similar tactics to disrupt, discredit and neutralize leaders of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s. The FBI’s Cointelpro program targeting civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael was specifically designed to “[p]revent the rise of a ‘messiah’ who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement” rather than to prevent any violent acts they might perpetrate. The methods included informant-driven disinformation campaigns designed to spark conflict within the movement, discourage donors and supporters, and even break up marriages. Overt investigative activity was also used, as one stated goal of the Cointelpro program was to inspire fear among activists by convincing them that an FBI agent lurked behind every mailbox. .........(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/26/fbi-black-activism-protests-history
June 26, 2020
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(CNN) — Officials in southern England have declared a "major incident" after thousands of people flocked to local beaches.
Bournemouth and Sandbanks, in Dorset, were hit particularly hard as crowds came to enjoy the hottest day of the year so far, according to a statement released Thursday by local authority Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council.
Despite advice to stay away from the area, it was overrun with cars and sunbathers, leading to gridlock, illegal parking and anti-social behavior. By Thursday morning, more than 40 tons of waste had been removed from the coastline.
Council leader Vikki Slade said she was "absolutely appalled" by the scenes.
"The irresponsible behavior and actions of so many people is just shocking and our services are stretched to the absolute hilt trying to keep everyone safe," said Slade in the statement. "We have had no choice now but to declare a major incident and initiate an emergency response." ...............(more)
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/bournemouth-major-incident-beaches-scli-intl-gbr/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1VfGPEB7mRwBdXWNUfixwTcmWQQZWHWbY9xAirTtq8BSKncAvXRlnaeMs
Major incident declared after thousands flock to UK beaches in sweltering heat
https://m.
(CNN) — Officials in southern England have declared a "major incident" after thousands of people flocked to local beaches.
Bournemouth and Sandbanks, in Dorset, were hit particularly hard as crowds came to enjoy the hottest day of the year so far, according to a statement released Thursday by local authority Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council.
Despite advice to stay away from the area, it was overrun with cars and sunbathers, leading to gridlock, illegal parking and anti-social behavior. By Thursday morning, more than 40 tons of waste had been removed from the coastline.
Council leader Vikki Slade said she was "absolutely appalled" by the scenes.
"The irresponsible behavior and actions of so many people is just shocking and our services are stretched to the absolute hilt trying to keep everyone safe," said Slade in the statement. "We have had no choice now but to declare a major incident and initiate an emergency response." ...............(more)
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/bournemouth-major-incident-beaches-scli-intl-gbr/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1VfGPEB7mRwBdXWNUfixwTcmWQQZWHWbY9xAirTtq8BSKncAvXRlnaeMs
June 25, 2020
Police: Florida man stole, crashed and abandoned $1M yacht
LARGO, Fla. – A Florida man stole a yacht worth nearly $1 million dollars, then quickly abandoned it after accidentally ramming into some pilings, deputies said.
Donnovan Russell Jester, 28, was charged with grand theft of a vessel on Thursday. Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies say Jester stole the 46-foot 2019 Jeanneau Leader with a value of $899,179.
According to an arrest report, he cruised off, but slammed into four channel-marker pilings and quickly abandoned the boat, leaving it to drift into an oyster bed in March. Deputies later found a thumbprint on the cabin door that matched Jester.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida/2020/06/24/police-florida-man-stole-crashed-and-abandoned-1m-yacht/
Joyride, Florida Man-style
Police: Florida man stole, crashed and abandoned $1M yacht
LARGO, Fla. – A Florida man stole a yacht worth nearly $1 million dollars, then quickly abandoned it after accidentally ramming into some pilings, deputies said.
Donnovan Russell Jester, 28, was charged with grand theft of a vessel on Thursday. Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies say Jester stole the 46-foot 2019 Jeanneau Leader with a value of $899,179.
According to an arrest report, he cruised off, but slammed into four channel-marker pilings and quickly abandoned the boat, leaving it to drift into an oyster bed in March. Deputies later found a thumbprint on the cabin door that matched Jester.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida/2020/06/24/police-florida-man-stole-crashed-and-abandoned-1m-yacht/
June 25, 2020
(Raw Story) On Wednesday, the Port City Daily reported that three police officers in Wilmington, North Carolina, have been fired after dash-cam footage recorded a profane and racist rant in which they fantasized about “slaughtering” Black people and used the N-word.
“Michael ‘Kevin’ Piner, James ‘Brian’ Gilmore, and Jessie E. Moore II were all terminated from the force. The announcement came from the new Chief of Police Donny Williams — not even 24-hours into his first day as chief,” reported Michael Praats. “[Piner], along with two other officers have been fired from the department after dash-cam footage recorded two phone conversations — accidentally — and a supervisor conducting a routine audit of the videos found the disturbing content.”
“We are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them f**king n****rs,” said Piner in the footage. “I can’t wait. God, I can’t wait.” .............(more)
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/i-cant-wait-to-go-out-and-start-slaughtering-black-people-three-north-carolina-cops-fired-after-racist-rant/
'I can't wait' to 'go out and start slaughtering' Black people: 3 NC cops fired after racist rant
(Raw Story) On Wednesday, the Port City Daily reported that three police officers in Wilmington, North Carolina, have been fired after dash-cam footage recorded a profane and racist rant in which they fantasized about “slaughtering” Black people and used the N-word.
“Michael ‘Kevin’ Piner, James ‘Brian’ Gilmore, and Jessie E. Moore II were all terminated from the force. The announcement came from the new Chief of Police Donny Williams — not even 24-hours into his first day as chief,” reported Michael Praats. “[Piner], along with two other officers have been fired from the department after dash-cam footage recorded two phone conversations — accidentally — and a supervisor conducting a routine audit of the videos found the disturbing content.”
“We are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them f**king n****rs,” said Piner in the footage. “I can’t wait. God, I can’t wait.” .............(more)
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/i-cant-wait-to-go-out-and-start-slaughtering-black-people-three-north-carolina-cops-fired-after-racist-rant/
June 24, 2020
On Wednesday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) implored President Donald Trump to reconsider his administration’s move to pull federal funding from coronavirus tests in Texas.
https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1275886329440669696?s=20
You know things are bad in Texas when John Cornyn starts sounding sensible
On Wednesday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) implored President Donald Trump to reconsider his administration’s move to pull federal funding from coronavirus tests in Texas.
https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1275886329440669696?s=20
June 24, 2020
New York (CNN Business) President Donald Trump's latest economic policies are the opposite of the emergency aid that Corporate America and Wall Street are clamoring for.
Trump may be calculating that tougher stances on immigration and trade could score him points in November. But they could backfire by making it harder for the economy to recover from this historic recession.
Trump is suddenly ramping up trade fights with two of the nation's biggest trading partners -- threatening to slap tariffs on goods from Europe like chocolate, butter and beer made with malt, and reportedly pushing to reimpose tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada. Meanwhile, Trump this week also extended immigration restrictions, which could make it harder for businesses to find the skilled foreign workers they rely on.
All of this is happening during a drumbeat of bad coronavirus news, as infections surge in several areas. .............(more)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/business/recession-tariffs-europe-immigration-trump/index.html
Trump's latest moves aren't exactly a winning economic -- or reelection -- strategy
New York (CNN Business) President Donald Trump's latest economic policies are the opposite of the emergency aid that Corporate America and Wall Street are clamoring for.
Trump may be calculating that tougher stances on immigration and trade could score him points in November. But they could backfire by making it harder for the economy to recover from this historic recession.
Trump is suddenly ramping up trade fights with two of the nation's biggest trading partners -- threatening to slap tariffs on goods from Europe like chocolate, butter and beer made with malt, and reportedly pushing to reimpose tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada. Meanwhile, Trump this week also extended immigration restrictions, which could make it harder for businesses to find the skilled foreign workers they rely on.
All of this is happening during a drumbeat of bad coronavirus news, as infections surge in several areas. .............(more)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/business/recession-tariffs-europe-immigration-trump/index.html
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