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Dwayne Johnson Denounces Death Of George Floyd: ‘This Is Our Ongoing Disease’ The Rock demanded “HUMANITY code" for police officers in a passionate Instagram post lamenting Floyd's treatment by Minneapolis police. By Lee Moran, HuffPost US Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson decried the “ongoing disease” of racism and police violence as he became the latest high profile figure to express outrage over the death of George Floyd. The wrestler-turned-actor wrote on Instagram Thursday that he was “stunned trying to make sense” of Floyd’s death. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-george-floyd-post_n_5ed0f96bc5b6a2136472b8f4

GOP Senate candidate told black leaders it’s pointless to call out Trump racism Written by Igor Derysh / Salon May 29, 2020 John James, the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, privately told African-American leaders in the state that it was pointless to publicly call out President Donald Trump’s racist statements — shortly before he publicly criticized former Vice President Joe Biden for “hurtful” remarks he made about black voters. https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/leaked-video-gop-senate-candidate-told-black-leaders-its-pointless-to-call-out-trump-racism/

Did you know that "bar stool" was what Dan'l Boone stepped in when walking in the woods?

I have wondered that, if the financial settlements resulting from these incidents were paid out of the police retirement funds, there would be such outrages.

It should never have gotten to that. That cop ought to have been trained in proper restraint of force, and disciplined when he stepped over the time the other, prior times. Even so, the other police present should have intervened before it got to the point where the arrested man was gasping and dying. From the video, it looked like the officer was kneeling on the man's carotid artery, and that will kill if held long enough.

What we are seeing in the US is pent-up rage at the daily, thousands of incidents of stop-and-frisk, jump-outs and racial profiling that have gone on unchallenged by the vast majority of Americans and it has finally boiled over. There is no quick or easy fix.

Well, it sure as hell isn't Trump. All the time and energy a leader should be spending protecting and leading Trump is spending attacking critics, whining and playing golf.

A sign of the times in the USA:

Every country will act in its own best interests, and China is no different, so any communication technology we import would have to be handled with care. However, 5G is the future and is as far ahead of 4G as ADSL is ahead of dial-up, so the choice is either wait for several years for alternatives or proceed with Huawei using caution in an arms-length relationship.

More than insane, he is a sociopath. He will have no hesitation in causing the deaths of thousands or even millions of it makes him feel good. Trump is desperate — and encouraging violence from his superfans “This whole thing is a distraction, and you know it,” Chris Cuomo of CNN said on Wednesday night, adding that Trump stirs the pot with this hateful nonsense to distract “from the dead and the dire situation that [he’s] basically ignoring.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/trump-is-desperate-and-encouraging-violence-from-his-superfans/

Huawei does not build networks- it supplies components and software that is as much as a decade ahead of other systems. It is already in place in Europe for a while without apparent problems. There is a degree of concern about backdoor access being built into Huawei's 5G's components and software, but it has been generally accepted that the US has built similar accesses into Cisco servers as well as other components. The majority of the noise about Huawei has come from the US who has been badly beaten by Huawei's innovation and is desperate to slow Huawei down to maintain their stranglehold.

Up until the last 20 years or so, we didn't have the media infrastructure- like writers, directors, producers, and production staff and facilities to crank out the same level of professional productions. Now, we have Lionsgate Films and a lot of good people, but there are Canadians who get caught up in the idea that they have to compete in the US and leave to do that. The same applies to music performers.

Wasn't he on Miami Vice? Or Kojak?

Ah yes. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Euphoric recall is waaaay better.

We have made Popeye's chicken our go-to. KFC is gonna suffer for Popeye's presence.

The good news is that the two younger males identified are not in care, and two people have been discharged from care as cured.

Correction: Kenny is the most despised with Pallister a close second overall.

Trump is igniting a constitutional crisis — and it could doom the US to becoming a failed state There are no universally accepted definitions of either a “failed state” or a “constitutional crisis.” Good arguments can be advanced, however, that we are suffering from both disorders at the state and national levels in the midst of the lethal COVID-19 pandemic. In a May 19 article, Guardian columnist Nathan Robinson argues that Wisconsin is beginning to resemble a failed state, which he defines as “one that can no longer claim legitimacy or perform a government’s core function of protecting the people’s basic security.” The Wisconsin GOP, Robinson writes, is a minority party, but after years of extreme gerrymandering, it wields de facto dictatorial powers, enabling it to gut public-sector unions and advance the privileges of business interests and the wealthy. https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/trump-is-igniting-a-constitutional-crisis-and-it-could-doom-the-us-to-becoming-a-failed-state/

She decried how awful mail-in votes are, yet she has voted that way for years.

Trump will pardon every criminal who acted in his behalf and all of his friends- maybe even pardon himself, as he has claimed to have the power to do.

New Zealand epidemiologist: ‘We look at Trump’s behavior and we’re horrified’ https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/new-zealand-epidemiologist-we-look-at-trumps-behavior-and-were-horrified/

When Trump loses the lection, hopefully in a decisive landslide, there is no way he would attend Biden's inauguration- his bone spurs will flare up.

But in France, hydroxychloroquine has been removed from the national formulary- meaning doctors can no longer prescribe it.