"They have us enslaved via these devices, via what we're putting on our phone, where we're putting our data, where we're trusting our private communications," he indicated.
>We would probably go around teraforming planets and telling the microbes there "I am the Alpha and the Omega"…
https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/cuomo-aide-admits-they-hid-nursing-home-data-from-feds/
Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn’t find out
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors, The Post has learned.
The stunning admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.
“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. “He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”
In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.”
“And basically, we froze,” she told the lawmakers on the call.
“Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.”
DeRosa added: “That played a very large role into this.”
After dropping the bombshell, DeRosa asked for “a little bit of appreciation of the context” and offered what appears to be the Cuomo administration’s first apology for its handling of nursing homes amid the pandemic.
But instead of a mea culpa to the grieving family members of more than 13,000 dead seniors or the critics who say the Health Department spread COVID-19 in the care facilities with a March 25 state Health Department directive that nursing homes admit infected patients, DeRosa tried to make amends with the fellow Democrats for the political inconvenience it caused them.
“So we do apologize,” she said. “I do understand the position that you were put in. I know that it is not fair. It was not our intention to put you in that political position with the Republicans.”
Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) immediately rejected DeRosa’s expression of remorse, according to the recording.
“I don’t have enough time today to explain all the reasons why I don’t give that any credit at all,” said Gottfried, one of the lawmakers who demanded the death-toll data in August.
State Senate Aging Committee Chairwoman Rachel May (D-Syracuse) — who was battered during her re-election bid last year over the issue of nursing home deaths — also ripped into DeRosa, saying her former opponent had launched another broadside earlier in the day.
“And the issue for me, the biggest issue of all is feeling like I needed to defend — or at least not attack — an administration that was appearing to be covering something up,” she said.
“And in a, in a pandemic, when you want the public to trust the public health officials, and there is this clear feeling that they’re not coming, being forthcoming with you, that is really hard and it remains difficult.”
Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens), who took part in the call, told The Post on Thursday that DeRosa’s remarks sounded “like they admitted that they were trying to dodge having any incriminating evidence that might put the administration or the [Health Department] in further trouble with the Department of Justice.”
“That’s how I understand their reasoning of why they were unable to share, in real time, the data,” Kim said.
“They had to first make sure that the state was protected against federal investigation.”
Kim, whose uncle is presumed to have died of COVID-19 in a nursing home in April, also said he wasn’t satisfied with DeRosa’s apology.
“It’s not enough how contrite they are with us,” he said. “They need to show that to the public and the families — and they haven’t done that.”
In addition to stonewalling lawmakers on the total number of nursing home residents killed by COVID-19, Cuomo’s administration refused requests from the news media — including The Post — and fought a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the Empire Center on Public Policy.
Instead, it only disclosed data on the numbers of residents who died in their nursing homes.
But after state Attorney General Letitia James last month released a damning report that estimated the deaths of nursing home residents in hospitals would boost the grim tally by more than 50 percent, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker finally released figures showing the combined total was 12,743 as of Jan. 19.
Just a day earlier, the DOH was only publicly acknowledging 8,711 deaths in nursing homes.
In a Wednesday letter to lawmakers, Zucker said the total number of nursing home residents killed by COVID-19 had increased to 13,297. That number jumps to 15,049 when assisted living/adult care facilities are factored in.
The controversy generated by James’ report led to an infamous news conference at which Cuomo callously dismissed the matter of where nursing home fatalities actually took place.
“Who cares [if they] died in the hospital, died in a nursing home? They died,” he said.
During Wednesday’s conference call, DeRosa said it appeared the DOJ was no longer focused on New York’s nursing home deaths.
“All signs point to they are not looking at this, they’ve dropped it,” she said.
“They never formally opened an investigation. They sent a letter asking a number of questions and then we satisfied those questions and it appears that they’re gone.”
In a prepared statement, Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said, “We explained that the Trump administration was in the midst of a politically motivated effort to blame democratic states for COVID deaths and that we were cooperating with Federal document productions and that was the priority and now that it is over we can address the state legislature.”
“That said, we were working simultaneously to complete the audit of information they were asking for,” he added.
The DOJ declined to comment.
“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes, He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”
In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us. And basically, we froze, Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation. That played a very large role into this.”
After dropping the bombshell, DeRosa asked for “a little bit of appreciation of the context” and offered what appears to be the Cuomo administration’s first apology for its handling of nursing homes amid the pandemic.
“So we do apologize, I do understand the position that you were put in. I know that it is not fair. It was not our intention to put you in that political position with the Republicans.
During Wednesday’s conference call, DeRosa said it appeared the DOJ was no longer focused on New York’s nursing home deaths.
“All signs point to they are not looking at this, they’ve dropped it, They never formally opened an investigation. They sent a letter asking a number of questions and then we satisfied those questions and it appears that they’re gone.”
In a prepared statement, Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said, “We explained that the Trump administration was in the midst of a politically motivated effort to blame democratic states for COVID deaths and that we were cooperating with Federal document productions and that was the priority and now that it is over we can address the state legislature. That said, we were working simultaneously to complete the audit of information they were asking for,” he added.
The DOJ declined to comment.
>deeply fraudulent terrorist exercise
https://nypost.com/2021/02/22/eric-schneidermans-ex-says-he-threatened-to-tap-her-phone-kill-her/
>https://nypost.com/2021/02/22/eric-schneidermans-ex-says-he-threatened-to-tap-her-phone-kill-her/
Former NY AG Eric Schneiderman’s ex alleges he threatened to kill her
One of former state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s sex accusers has written a memoir about their nightmare relationship — claiming he even threatened to kill her if she ever left him.
Publicly, Schneiderman championed women’s rights, Tanya Selvaratnam says in touting her new memoir, “Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence.”
But privately, he horribly abused her, says Selvaratnum — who the ex-AG allegedly called his “brown slave” — in a video promotion for the book shared with The Post.
“He was the Attorney General of New York State, and was getting national recognition as a progressive hero and a key ally of the ‘Me Too’ movement,” Selvaratnum wrote, referring to when their relationship started in 2017.
“I was scared to come forward because he had told me he could have me followed. He could have my phone tapped.
“On some occasions, he said if we broke up he would have to kill me.
“But when I found out that I was not the first woman he had abused, and realized that I would not be the last, I knew that I had to come forward,” Selvaratnum wrote in her tome, which is published by HarperCollins and comes out Tuesday.
Selvaratnam is one of four women to allege sexual harassment and physical abuse by Schneiderman, who abruptly resigned as state Attorney General in May 2018, just hours after the women’s bombshells dropped in The New Yorker.
Selvaratnam describes her experiences as Schneiderman’s girlfriend in the book, saying that at first, she was smitten by his committment to feminism and social justice — and to his fight against then-president’s Donald Trump’s “attacks on civil liberties and vulnerable communities.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-white-house-exclusive-idINKBN2AK0HP
White House working with Facebook and Twitter to tackle anti-vaxxers
>Former NY AG Eric Schneiderman’s ex alleges he threatened to kill her
He spoke to her of hoping to run for governor, implying that she would be his first lady, she said.
Soon, though, the fairy tale romance turned dark, she wrote.
Sevalratnum realized her powerful beau’s pals included Harvey Weinstein and that he was, in her words, an alcoholic who abused sleeping pills and anti-anxiety meds.
She’d find the then-AG “staggering around the apartment” on some nights, she wrote. In January of 2017, Schneiderman got so drunk he fell in his bathroom and needed facial stitches — and told her to say he had fallen while jogging, she said.
In bed, he was violent, physically and verbally, the accuser has recounted. He would allegedly choke her, spit at her and slap her until she called him “Master” or “Daddy.”
The first slap in the face during sex happened just six weeks into the relationship, she wrote.
“Over time, the slaps got harder and began to be accompanied by demands,” Sevalratnum wrote.
“In bed, he would slap me until I agreed to find him a young girl for a three-way,” she said.
She repeatedly pretended to him that she would, she wrote.
The Sri-Lanka-born Selvaratnam well remembers her own mother’s abuse at the eye-blackening hands of her father.
She herself stayed with Schneiderman for nearly a year, feeling trapped and intimidated like many domestic violence victims, she said.
He could be “charming and charismatic,” she conceded, and “often supportive,”
But she was terrified that “he and his people [would] try to crush me” if she went public, and left the relationship only with the help of a domestic violence expert, she wrote.
“Writing ‘Assume Nothing’ was painful and emotional, but it was also liberating,” she said.
The book ends with a lengthy appendix listing organizations that aim to help women who are victims of intimate partner violence find the courage and resources to leave.
“I wrote my way out of the darkness,” Sevaratnum wrote. “A victim looks like all of us. Even fierce women get abused.”
The book is being hailed as “courageous and compelling” by Kirkus Reviews, and as a “searing, yet sensitive account of vulnerability and redemption that will find a wide audience,” by Library Journal.
Schneiderman, 66, was last heard of in January of 2019, when he completed his training at a Manhattan based school that certified him as a meditation teacher.
He has been pursuing therapy and meditation practice “as part of his recovery program,” a rep told The Post at the time. He could not be immediately reached for comment.
But in 2018, he told the New Yorker in a statement, “In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”
Selvaratnam’s film producing credits include the 2014, Emmy-nominated “Born to Fly;” her previous books include “The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism and the Reality of the Biological Clock.”
https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton
>https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton
Implosion of Trump hotel in Atlantic City
A legend. But also a lovely, warm, utterly grounded human being. Thank you, Cicely, for the art you made, the path you forged, and the lives you changed.
https://twitter.com/ClimateEnvoy/status/1363645959058685954
At @MunSecConf, @POTUS said: "We can no longer delay or do the bare minimum to address climate change. This is a global existential crisis, and we’ll all suffer the consequences if we fail." Our message to the world is clear: America is back in this fight.
https://twitter.com/ClimateEnvoy/status/1363141193002070018
Deeply grateful to have such a strong partner in @UN Secretary General @AntonioGuterres. Thank you for welcoming the United States back into the Paris Agreement and continuing to encourage countries around the world to work toward net zero emissions by 2050.
>noose
>deranged conspiracy theories
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome
Central to the formation of the club was Peccei's concept of the problematic. It was his opinion that viewing the problems of mankind—environmental deterioration, poverty, endemic ill-health, urban blight, criminality—individually, in isolation or as "problems capable of being solved in their own terms", was doomed to failure. All are interrelated. "It is this generalized meta-problem (or meta-system of problems) which we have called and shall continue to call the "problematic" that inheres in our situation." In 1970, Peccei's vision was laid out in a document written by Hasan Özbekhan, Erich Jantsch, and Alexander Christakis. Entitled, The Predicament of Mankind; Quest for Structured Responses to Growing Worldwide Complexities and Uncertainties: A PROPOSAL. The document would serve as the roadmap for the LTG project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2052:_A_Global_Forecast_for_the_Next_Forty_Years
Concretely, in order to create a better world for our grandchildren, we should:
Have fewer children, especially in the rich world.
Reduce the ecological footprint, first by slowing the use of coal, oil and gas in the rich world.
Construct a low-carbon energy system in the poor world, paid for by the rich.
Create institutions that counter national short-termism.
But most importantly, the coming crisis should be used to develop new goals for modern society. To remind us all that the purpose of society is to increase a total life satisfaction, not (only) to have each person contribute to the gross domestic product.