As Spain increases efforts to curb coronavirus cases, travelers headed to the country will soon be required to show proof of having received a COVID-19 booster dose.
The new regulation goes into effect starting Feb. 1 and will affect most international travelers, including those from the U.S. According to Spain’s tourism website, travelers must show proof of a booster dose if over 270 days have passed since their final initial vaccination series was administered. They must also have taken the booster shot at least 14 days before entering Spain. If less than 270 days have passed, travelers may enter without proof of a booster shot.
In addition to this new booster rule, travelers are still required to fill out the Spain Health Control form, which is available through the Spain Travel Health portal or on the Spain Travel Health app. Once in Spain, all visitors must comply with the country’s other safety protocols, which mandate the use of face coverings both inside and outdoors.
According to Reuters’ COVID-19 tracker, Spain averages about 78,561 cases per day or 1,168 infections per 100,000 people reported in the last seven days. This data places the country on the CDC’s “Level 4” travel advisory list, the highest warning possible. They classified destinations as “Level 4” if they reported over 500 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people over the last 28 days.
Requiring booster shots to access specific destinations or public places is becoming increasingly common. The Hawaiian island of Maui, for example, has already changed the definition of “fully vaccinated” to include a booster shot. The rest of the state considers adding a booster requirement to its Safe Travels program. Meanwhile, in New York City, the Metropolitan Opera now requires proof of a COVID-19 booster shot for all performers, employees, and audience members. Internationally, both Israel and France require booster shots for their country’s health passes, which allow people to access restaurants, public transportation, and other public areas.
The pandemic forced millions of people worldwide to work from home, and though that came with its challenges, it also has its perks. No commuting, a relaxed dress code, and remote working mean you can work from anywhere in the world.
To help remote workers get out of the house and enjoy a well-deserved work-cation, online travel agency KAYAK is hosting the Roam Remotely Sweepstakes, giving one lucky person $10,000 to go on a trip and work from anywhere in the world.
The winning remote worker will be given four AMEX cards, each worth $2,500, so they can pick their destination and spend their prize money as they see fit.
Entering the Roam Remotely Sweepstakes is easy. Interested remote workers only have to fill out their basic information (first name, last name, email address, and country of residence) on the contest’s webpage. Remote workers must be at least 18 years old and a U.S. resident to be eligible.
Submissions for the sweepstakes are open now through Feb. 4 at 11:59 a.m. EST. They will announce on Feb. 7.
The lucky person selected for the Roam Remotely Sweepstakes will have a world full of destinations to choose from for their work-cation. In the early days of the pandemic, several countries created new visa programs specifically with laptop-wielding employees and business owners in mind. These visas allow remote workers to spend extended periods in these countries—longer than the typical tourist visa—without registering as an official resident.
Countries with remote worker visas include Bali, Barbados, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dubai, Estonia, Germany, Iceland, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, and many more.
For your chance to win the Roam Remotely Sweepstakes, head to the contest webpage.
According to Broward Health Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer Brian Kozik, a cyber-breach of Broward Health’s patient medical records and other personal financial data were exposed to a hacker (s). The hackers gained access to the personal information of over one million patients — perhaps north of 1.5 million visitors who have — over the years, checked in as a patient at the hospital. In most cases, it is the practice of Broward Health personnel, when possible, to carry out a wallet (pocketbook) biopsy on patients before rendering treatment or service. They gather a slew of information that has everything to do with money — not medicine. Now, they have compromised that information.
Bad Financial Medicine
Broward Health Imperial Point, formerly known as Broward General Hospital, is a publicly funded hospital with many third-party vendors that have access to patient information. It is a web that beckons invaders to enter, view, take your information, and do with it as they please. The system operates in thirty locations in Broward County — five significant hospitals and twenty-seven satellite facilities. With COVID-19 and its never-ending variants, the hospitals are under a financial mandate to deal with COVID patients first, thus leaving other Emergency Room visitors sometimes to sit and wait for eight, nine hours to be seen by a “Provider.” Emergency Rooms have become waiting rooms. Hopefully, they become dying rooms for Emergency visitors.
The mammoth organization is the tenth-largest hospital in the nation, with 8,280 employees. Annually, they take in billions of dollars from the federal government in Medicare and Medicaid revenue and hundreds of millions of dollars from the state of Florida. Seven commissioners appointed by the Governor oversee the Hospital.
Given all the published cyberattacks on businesses, what director of security in his right mind would not take the precautions to secure such a treasure trove of patients’ personal, financial, and HIPAA-protected information of so many vulnerable people? In 2020, Broward Health North alone had over 52,000 admissions in its 1,579 Licensed Beds units and 246,000 emergency room visits. That is a lot of data to discard on the streets of the Internet Highway/world wide web.
What Patient Information Was Stolen?
According to Broward Health’s website, “Patients’ personal medical information that was accessed may have included your name, date of birth, address, phone number, financial or bank account number, social security number, insurance information and number, medical information that may include history, condition, treatment, and diagnoses, medical record number, driver’s license number, and email address. This information was ex-filtrated or removed from the Broward Health system. However, there is no evidence that the intruder has misused the information.” So far they have not misused the information.
Those whose information they have misused did not know where the cyber-criminal got their banking information because Broward Health waited for almost three months to inform the affected parties of the Breach in January 2022. The Breach took place on October 15, 2021.
The fiscal year 2022 should be “One less bell to answer, one less egg to fry, and one less sloppy Broward Health Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer to pick up after.”
Broward Health claims the district is hurting for money because of the COVID-19. They declared the year 2020 as the year of the pandemic. “The District experienced a loss of roughly eight thousand admissions, thirty-eight hundred elective surgical cases, and sixty-five thousand emergency cases in the fiscal year 2021.” Add those numbers up, and those are the people cyber-bandits did not capture their personal information.
After the breach, Broward Health hired a security firm to close the open door in the database. But that is like closing the barn door after the jackass has already fled the barn.
Broward Health is offering free credit monitoring service to those affected by the breach.
“You may also want to consider obtaining a free copy of your credit report from each of the three major credit reporting agencies once every 12 months by visiting www.annualcreditreport.com, calling 1-877-322-8228, or by completing an Annual Credit Request Form and mailing it to Annual Credit Report Request Service, P.O. Box 105281, Atlanta, GA 30348. You can print a copy of the request form at www.annualcreditreport.com/manualRequestForm.action.”
Equifax 1-866-640-2273 www.equifax.com P.O. Box 740241 Atlanta, GA 30374
TransUnion 1-855-681-3196 www.transunion.com P.O. Box 2000 Chester, PA 19016
You may also choose to contact the three national credit reporting agencies listed above for information about placing a “fraud alert” and/or a “security freeze” on your credit report to further detect any possible misuse of your personal information. Contact the Federal Trade Commission for additional information about “fraud alerts” and “security freezes,” and about how to monitor and protect your credit and finances.
AP-Australia. Like millions of others in the most locked-down place on the planet, Melbourne resident Rav Thomas dutifully spent 262 days confined to his home as the COVID-19 pandemic raged. He got vaccinated. And the single father of two found ways to pay the bills as Melbourne’s lockdowns battered his entertainment and events company.
Then in October, the city’s restrictions lifted, along with Thomas’ spirits. His company once again began booking events as Melbourne’s nightclubs and bars reopened.
And then, omicron arrived.
The coronavirus variant has swept across Australia despite its high vaccination rate and strict border policies that kept the country largely sealed off from the world for almost two years. Those measures, which turned Australia into a virtually COVID-19-free utopia early in the pandemic, have garnered fresh scrutiny as the government has battled to deport unvaccinated tennis star Novak Djokovic ahead of the Australian Open.
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Amid Djokovic backlash, Australia grapples with omicron wave Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in Britain, US Democrats try to stamp out school closures as omicron surges Omicron wave prompts media to rethink which data to report
They also have prompted questions from frustrated and fatigued Australians about why their country — which seemingly did everything to stop the spread of of the virus — now finds itself infested with it.
“Tell your population, ‘Stay in your houses, you can’t go past your letterbox after 8 p.m. for days and months on end.’ And then you’re told, ‘OK, we’ve put in the hard yards,’” says Thomas, whose company, Anthem Entertainment, is now facing its 23rd consecutive month of financial loss as bookings once again dry up. “But then here we go again. Again. Again!”
Officially, there are now more than 600,000 active cases across Australia’s population of 26 million, though experts believe the actual number is far higher. The surge, health experts say, is partly due to two factors: Politicians were reluctant to renege on pre-omicron promises that they would relax restrictions such as mask-wearing, and the emergence of the incredibly contagious variant.
Faced with the explosion of infections, the government of the most populous state, New South Wales, ultimately backtracked and reimposed mask mandates last month. But by then, epidemiologists say, it was too late.
While deaths and hospitalizations remain relatively low, the vaccines have not stopped the spread of the virus. Australia’s vaccine program — under which around 80% of the total population has received at least one jab — also began later than many other Western countries, leaving much of its population yet to qualify for a booster.
“Vaccination alone isn’t good enough,” says epidemiologist Adrian Esterman, chair of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of South Australia. “We were doing so well, until New South Wales decided it didn’t want to go into lockdown.”
Esterman has urged politicians to enforce mask-wearing and social distancing, and to improve ventilation in schools, particularly as students prepare to return after the southern hemisphere summer break. Children between the ages of 5 and 11 only became eligible for the vaccines this month.
“We haven’t got enough vaccines for youngsters,” says Esterman, who previously worked for the World Health Organization. “We know how to keep schools safe: First, get kids and teachers vaccinated, make sure ventilation is very good and you get the kids to wear masks. Do we do that in Australia? No.”
Though Australia’s high vaccine uptake has prevented an even worse crisis at stressed hospitals, Australian Medical Association President Dr. Omar Khorshid acknowledged it was difficult to watch Australia plummet from its position as a poster child for COVID-19 containment.
“It is certainly frustrating to see our case per head of population rate sort of getting toward the highest in the world in New South Wales, for instance, when we were at the lowest in the world not that long ago,” he said. “It’s a little unfortunate that the opening up of the country coincided almost perfectly with the omicron outbreak starting around the world.”
In recent months, the government has pivoted from its longstanding “COVID-zero” approach to a “live with it” approach, leaving many Australians confused.
“Omicron has changed everything,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said this week. “My government is for keeping Australia open and pushing through.”
The policy whiplash also caught the health system off guard. Lines for PCR tests are often hours long, results take days, and a lack of rapid antigen tests has left sick Australians scurrying from store to store hunting for the kits.
Sydney resident Rodney Swan recently found himself among the hordes hunting for rapid tests. The 77-year-old’s granddaughter is ill and her family has been isolating at home for days as they await the results of their PCR tests.
“If you do get a test that’s a PCR test, then you wait ages,” Swan says. “You can’t get a rapid antigen test. My daughter can’t get boosters for her children.”
Swan is frustrated by what he views as the government’s jumbled messaging, and is stunned by the skyrocketing case numbers.
“These are numbers that you get in England,” he says. “I’ve got friends in London, because I lived in London, and I sense the smirk that they have now looking at Australia.”
Australia’s slow start to its booster program has left the population vulnerable to omicron, and has also increased the chances that its omicron wave will not decline as rapidly as other countries, says epidemiologist Dr. Nancy Baxter, head of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at Melbourne University.
Australia’s politicians appear worried that any new restrictions will anger the public, Baxter says. But they can still help slow the spread by providing Australians with a limited number of free N95 masks and rapid tests, she says.
“We could manage the wave, but there’s no political will to do so,” Baxter says. Djokovic, the world’s top-ranked male tennis player and prominent vaccine skeptic, arrived in Australia as COVID-19 cases were rising across the country. He was denied entry last week at Melbourne’s airport after officials canceled his visa because he was not vaccinated, an entry requirement for non-citizens. A judge reinstated the visa and ordered him released from immigration detention, but he continues to face possible deportation by the immigration minister. Fury and fear prompted former Australian human rights commissioner Chris Sidoti to pen an opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald this week, detailing the terror he felt when his two immunocompromised grandchildren become ill with COVID-19 after Christmas, two weeks before they were eligible for the vaccine. Both children have been in and out of the hospital since then.
Sidoti blames his grandchildren’s plight on the government. Why, he asks, wasn’t it prepared with adequate supplies of rapid tests before the PCR system became inevitably overwhelmed? And why did the New South Wales premier roll back restrictions such as mask-wearing in November, before young children were eligible for vaccines and before most adults were eligible for boosters?
“We have gone wrong from day one because our politicians are not prepared to learn and to prepare,” Sidoti said in an interview. “People have stopped listening because there’s no consistency, there’s no credibility and there are no answers.”
Though policymakers seem averse to further lockdowns, the omicron outbreak has prompted many Australians to stay home anyway, leaving small business owners worried about their companies’ survival.
“People are quite broken,” says Zara Madrusan, who owns several bars and restaurants in Melbourne. “We are basically in some kind of self-imposed lockdown. No one is going out, but there’s no protection for us, there’s no advice for us, there’s no financial support available. So we’re just supposed to muddle through.”
For Thomas, whose company is facing a deluge of event cancellations, the state’s decision this week to shut down indoor dance floors in hospitality and entertainment venues was another gut punch. He wonders what of his once-vibrant city will be left when this all ends.
“What is our objective now?” he says. “What is our finish line?”
By KRISTEN GELINEAU
This Article Is An Associated Press Reprint: The Run Down.
AirlineRatings.com, a safety review site for the airline industry, officially released its annual ratings, showing travelers which companies will keep them safest in the skies. For 2022, it’s Air New Zealand that tops this coveted list of the world’s safest airlines.
The site considers several factors when creating its annual rankings, with pandemic-era protocol and health policies playing a significant role in this year’s evaluations.
Dubai
“Air New Zealand is a standout airline focusing firmly on safety and its customers, and over the past 18 months, COVID-19 has brought another new dimension to the challenges the industry faces,” the website’s editor said when revealing the list of World’s Safest Airlines for 2022. “Air New Zealand has excelled across the broad safety spectrum, never losing sight of the smallest detail while caring for its flight crews who have worked under significant stress.”
Abu Dhabi
Air New Zealand was also the first airline in the world to require vaccinations or a negative COVID-19 test for domestic passengers. On Feb. 1, the airline will take things a step further by requiring all international passengers also to be vaccinated.
“The Air New Zealand promise is to take manaaki (care) further. To do that, we have to take our approach to safety further. For us, it’s not about safety first—it’s about safety always. We want everyone to go home safely every day,” Air New Zealand CEO Greg Foran said in a statement shared by AirlineRatings.com.
An Australian carrier that often tops the AirlinesRatings.com list, Qantas lost its number one spot because of a near collision on an airport runway in Perth.
Beyond COVID-related protocol, AirlineRating.com’s annual list examines data from 385 airlines, including several factors such as crash records, safety programs, and results of government and industry safety audits. Though Air New Zealand took top honors, it’s important to note that all 20 airlines on the list are exceptionally safe and constantly innovating to enhance both safety and customer experience.
Here’s the complete list of the Top 20 World’s Safest Airlines:
The attorney that uttered the most vile statement about a murdered victim, in the presence of his grieving mother.
“Son, I love you as much today as I did the day you were born.” Ms. Wanda Cooper-Jones said during her impact statement to the court. My youngest son was born on Mother’s Day of 1994. She continues, these men deserve the maximum sentence for their crimes. “Ahmaud never said a word to them — they were fully committed to committing their crimes.”
Then speaking on behalf of Ahmaud directly to America’s most vile attorney Laura D. Hog, Ms. Copper-Jones said, “He was messy. He sometimes refused to wear socks or take care of his clothing. I wish he would have cut and cleaned his toenails before going out for a jog that day. I guess he would have if he knew he would have been murdered,” Ms. Cooper-Jones states. My family is going to miss Ahmaud. “We are going to miss his jokes, his impersonations, and his warm smiles.”
Wanda Cooper-Jones With Her Son Ahmaud Arbery. The Safest Place For A Black Boy Is the Nine Months He Spends Living In His Mother’s Womb. Once He Comes Out Into The Wilderness, The Eagles Come In Search.
Judge Timothy Wamsley carefully listened to the statements of Ahmaud father, sister, his mother, and the prosecuting attorney. Judge Wamsley sentenced all three men to life in prison. Both McMichaels, Travis, and Gregory will “die in prison” unless they escape or a future president with a mindset like Donald J. Trump pardons them. The third defendant William Bryant will be 82-years-old when he becomes eligible for parole.
Most attorneys are intelligent people, and a defense attorney does all that s/he can do to get his client off for allegedly behaving. When Attorneys try a case — prosecutor or defense — they deal in facts related to the victim(s) and defendant(s) and surrounding circumstances that may have contributed to the crime, not fiction. And a few attorneys will fabricate evidence. Usually, their words are calculative and reflective of what they’re thinking.
For example, on Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz, AKA lying Ted, is a Harvard “educated” lawyer said, the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol was “a violent terrorist attack.” Cruz immediately came under attack from a prime-time machine of disinformation. One of the director’s misinformation invited Ted Cruz on his platform to discuss him temporarily switching from being Lying Ted to speaking the truth.
A Chief Propagandist and a Minister of Misinformation, Also Known As, Lying Ted.
The Minister of Disinformation and Propaganda hailed Cruz, then said, “Senator, they are a lot of dumb people in Congress — you’re not one of them. You never use words carelessly, and yet you called this a terror attack.” When by no definition of what happened is a terror attack. That’s a lie.” The point is Cruz is a lawyer, and most lawyers, when speaking publicly and professionally, say what they mean and mean what they say.
So when defense attorney Laura the Hog stood in a pristine courtroom and tried to justify the murder of Ahmaud Arbery because his toenails were un-kept or manicured. Do dirty toenails qualify a person for a death sentence? So do we round up about eighty percent of the homeless and shoot them? This Philistine Laura D. Hogue would justify the murder of Jesus the Christ because he wore sandals in the desert and ten to one did not have well-manicured toenails.
Most people aren’t perfect. Strip Laura D. Hog naked and let’s count her many imperfections. Using dirty toenails as a defense for murder makes attorney Laura D. Hogue America’s most vile attorney.
After several recent COVID-19 outbreaks aboard cruise ships, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have officially changed its guidance towards this specific form of travel. The agency is warning all people not to go on cruises, regardless of their vaccination status.
The warning came last week as the CDC has over 90 cruise ships under investigation or observation because of COVID-19 cases on board. The agency did not mention the number of patients on board, but several vessels with outbreaks are from cruise lines with vaccination requirements.
“Washed Ashore, On A lonely Island In The Sun”
“The virus that causes COVID-19 spreads easily between people in close quarters on board ships, and the chance of getting COVID-19 on cruise ships is very high, even if you are fully vaccinated and have received a COIVD-19 vaccine booster dose,” the CDC said in its advisory.
Though the CDC now sees cruise travel as a “high risk” activity, the agency is still offering guidance for those who choose to go forward with their vacation at sea. The CDC encourages cruisers to “make sure” they are fully vaccinated and boosted before sailing, besides testing for COVID-19 before and after their trip. The CDC also recommended quarantining for five days after docking, even with symptoms.
The advisory also mentioned the CDC’s Framework for Conditional Sailing Order, which allows cruise lines to operate according to specific guidelines. The order was extended and will remain in effect until Jan. 15. It is unclear whether it will be extended or modified again at that point.
The cruise lines with recent outbreaks are Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean, prompting both companies to reinstate mask rules for passengers while onboard. Carnival Cruises also revved its mask policy while implementing a no smoking policy and a “sip and cover” rule for drinking in the casinos.
The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), which has long disapproved of the CDC’s approach to the cruise industry, issued a statement saying they disappointed it with the new recommendations. CLIA believes it’s unfair that the cruises are being singled out when they are already subjected to stricter health protocols than other travel industry sectors.
The decision “is perplexing considering that cases identified on cruise ships consistently make up a very slim minority of the total population on board,” a statement said. “Most of those cases are asymptomatic or mild, posing little to no burden on medical resources onboard or onshore.”
Royal Caribbean recently stopped last-minute bookings from helping ensure social distancing on future sailings, but itineraries will continue as scheduled. So far, no U.S. cruise line has announced plans to cancel sailings, though some vessels have been denied entry at foreign ports.
Public pressure sends Colorado Judge A. Bruce Jones and First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King, the prosecutor of a case that has garnered national attention — looking for the key to Pandor’s Box. A set of Colorado’s state sentencing guidelines that they should have amended years ago before the trial and harsh sentencing a tractor-trailer truck driver now hang in the balance of retrofitting by Judge A. Bruce Jones and prosecutor Alexis King — not the state’s legislators.
On April 25, 2019, 24-year-old Rogel Aguilera-Mederos drove his big rig, they believe it, unintentionally into several parked vehicles that were waiting in heavy traffic because of another crash. The accident caused the death of four motorists and contributed to the injuries of several others. Prosecutors say Aguilera-Mederos traveled at twice the speed limit when the accident occurred. While the defendant and his attorneys contend that the brakes to Rogel Aguilera-Mederos tractor failed, thus he wasn’t able to stop.
Investigators work the scene of Mederos April 25,2019, fiery crash
Family members of the victims who died, including 69-year-old Stanley Politano, 67-year-old William Bailey, 61-year-old Doyle Harrison, and 24-year-old Miguel Angel Lamas Arellano, are demanding justice for their loved ones. However, they don’t believe the 110-year prison sentence is necessary.
Accidents happen, they’re not planned or pre-meditated.
According to Aguilera-Mederos’ attorney Leonard Martinez, the accident happened because of mechanical extenuating circumstances — brake failure.
In response to the harsh prison sentence, supporters of Aguilera-Mederos circulated an online petition that roughly six million people signed asking the judge to reconsider the 110-year sentence. The pressured Prosecutor is asking Judge A Bruce to lower the sentence to 20 to 30 years. Colorado state legislators should allow judges the discretion to order sentences served either concurrently or consecutively depending on how egregious the crime is of the defendant.
A statement released by Aguilera-Mederos’ support team reads in part, “Rogel has said several times that he wishes he had the courage to crash and take his own life that day; this tragic accident wasn’t done with intent, it wasn’t a criminal act, it was an accident.” “Anita Bailey, the sister of William Bailey who was killed in the crash, believes Aguilera-Mederos needs to serve time.” But not 110 years.
Mederos I-70 Fiery Crash Scene
“A Jefferson County jury convicted Mederos of four counts of vehicular homicide and 23 other charges, including:
Six counts of Assault in the First Degree – Extreme Indifference
10 counts of Attempt to Commit Assault in the First Degree – Extreme Indifference
Two counts of Vehicular Assault—Reckless
One count of Reckless Driving
Four counts of Careless Driving Causing Death”
Colorado law that allows modification of sentences in cases with “unusual and extenuating circumstances” can only be used after the defendant served at least 119 days in prison.
Defense Attorney Leonard Martinez said that the prosecution’s offer of a 20 to 30-year sentence “is not acceptable.” Martinez showed he will get Colorado “Governor Jared Polis to grant Aguilera-Mederos clemency.”
Play is Iceland’s newest low-cost airline, and it’s kicking off U.S. service with a mega sale, offering flights to Europe for under $150.
The airline will offer Boston and the Washington, D.C. area to 11 European destinations, including Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Paris, and Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital city. Though the flights won’t launch until the spring, travelers can start booking now through December 24 to take advantage of Play’s sale, with prices starting at $109 for a round-trip ticket, including taxes and fees.
A New Player Has Arrived
Worked Hard, Make Time For Play
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There is a bit of a catch to the ultra-low prices. Travelers purchasing flights at these bargain rates will have to lose onboard Wi-Fi and curated in-flight entertainment—a small trade-off for these unbelievably low prices for European spring and summer travel.
Play’s first U.S. flights will take off from Baltimore to Washington International Airport on April 20 and Boston Logan International Airport on May 11.
Like all other budget airlines, Play plans to charge its passengers for checking a bag or bringing a carry-on suitcase that requires overhead bin space. Carry-on bags will cost anywhere from $26 to $37 if purchased at the time of booking or between $30 and $43 if bought later. Pricing for checked bags varies widely—from $32 to $93—depending on the size of your bag and the timing of your booking.
Even after the sale ends, travelers can still expect to find relatively low prices with this new carrier. Play’s regular fares for transatlantic flights will be around $300 to $400. Play already launched its services in Europe in June, with the airline’s CEO, Birgir Jónsson, telling Travel + Leisure that numbers were substantial despite challenges posed by COVID-19.
For more information about Play and to book your next flight to Europe, check out the airline’s official website.
Society’s “dominant” members tolerate but never entirely accept most “minority” groups. Social divisions occur as racism, classism, culturalism, sexism, genderism or ethnic-ism and schisms. Not since the late Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, in modern times has any American politician used bigotry for financial and political gains as Donald J. Trump. Former Louisiana House of Representatives and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, pales next to Trump when wielding bigotry for financial gains.
The diseased-minded ex-President Donald Trump has an unblemished published record of hate for Black people. So when actor Jussie Smollett was about to lose his job on the television series “Empire,” he used President Trump and his bigoted supporters as scapegoats for his downfall. Smollett formed a conspiracy with two Nigerian small-time drug dealers — living in Chicago to blame MAGA supporters of Trump as the people who attacked and beat him.
Idiots looking for something to do: Rebels without a cause.
The Liberal news media believed Jussie Smollett’s story and jumped on it with cries for justice for Smollett. And some people labeled the “attack” as racist and homophobic. But the average man in the street did not buy Jussie’s story.
The word on the street was they wrote Jussie Smollett out of the show because he allegedly refused to polish Lee Daniels’ knob. Lee Daniels is the producer and director of the Fox Television series Empire. Jussie would be better off polishing Daniels’ knob to keep his job. Quid pro quo: a job for a job? Is it not like he’s never polished dozens of knobs before — allegedly?
On January 29, 2019, 37-year-old Actor Jussie Smollett made a police report with the Chicago Police Department. He claimed that Trump supporters beat and bleached him while making racist and homophobic comments. Soon after Smollett made his claim, it fell apart, and eventually, Chicago police arrested him for filing a false police report. Police also arrested two African Mandingoes (the Osundairo brothers); they claim Jussie put them up to staging the ruse.
Conspirators Obabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo who plotted with Jussie Smollett to fake his 01/29/2021 assault.
The Osundairo boys are real Africans with natural African teeth; they look like they could bite the hell out of a lion and wrestle an elephant to the ground then eat his lunch. Piss them off, and they’ll pull a blow dart from their back pocket — by the time you feel the sting of the dart in the side of your neck, you’re taking a dirt nap and pushing up daisies. You bet they’d fetch a pretty penny on the slave block: back in the day.
February 02, 2019, Smollett tweeted, “The outpouring of love and support from my village has meant more than I will ever be able to put into words truly.” What village is this clown talking about: The Village People? Then he said, “I’m the gay Tupac.”
First, Tupac never faked shit. In his Ode to his mother Afeni Shakur, “Dear Mama,” the Rapper said, We’d blame Mama when things went wrong. (Tupac never tried to drag down the Black Community with lies) “I reminisced on the stress I caused; it was hell, now; who’d thought you’d be hugging on your momma from a jail cell?” “Hey, and who’d thought in elementary, one day you’d see the penitentiary? There are no words that can express how I feel, and you never kept a secret — always stayed real.” Tupac Shakur never faked crimes to bring the Black Community down—you FAKE ASS N-Word. Get the Frock out of here.
Tawana Brawley (In 1988) Looking @ The Camera Sideways: A Picture Paints A Thousand Words.
In November 1987, 15-year-old Tawana Brawley claimed four white men abducted and raped her. The alleged culprits included two police officers and a prosecuting attorney. Like the Jussie Smollett story, the case gained national attention. Only to be proved later on to be a hoax. The young Ms. Brawley ran away from home to spend four days with her boyfriend getting thrashed, then claimed four men raped and trashed her. The story goes Brawley was afraid to go home thinking her parents would put a whooping on her backside for leaving home without their permission. 39-year-old Jussie Smollett was only seven-years-old when Tawana pulled her deliberative stunt.
Taking a victory lap of concoction
Sharpton with doubt in his eyes
Brawley in the hospital
There are some who still believe the Tawana Brawley story today. In their minds, they swept the case under the rug because the accused were amongst New York’s elites. Perhaps, one day, Ms. Brawley will give a deathbed confession or the othe wa around.
On February 14, 2019, police arrested Obabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, originally from Nigeria. The Osundairo brothers sang their hearts out to the police; like the black Canaries, they almost got booked on America’s Got Talent and a spot on Empire as recording artists. When the two Mandingoes got through singing, the police and prosecutor forgot that the “brothers” were drug dealers.
Empires Rise and Empires Fall, Jussie Your Back is Against The Wall — Fake Ass N-Word.
The gig was up by February 20, 2019: Chicago Police charged Jussie Smollett with “disorderly conduct,” filing a false police report (a Class 4 felony). The Osundario boys who worked as extras on Empire’s set and worked out with Jussie at the gym had turned Jussie the liar over to the police like wicked Africans of five hundred years ago sold out the people now dispersed throughout the African diaspora.
The made-up story of Jussie Smollett is a white mark, and it is not suitable for the genuine struggles that Black people face in America just for being Black — where they’re judged by the color of their skin and not their character or as individuals. Someone once said: When a Black person walks into a building/room, he takes the entire race with him — if they do terrible things, but never the good things.
