donderdag 9 december 2021

donderdag 9 december 2021 Joel and the bots say their bedtime prayers. Midnight movie - MST3K: Catalina Caper. Amen.

KING 5 News: Omicron case in King County indicates local spread. The patient from King County reported a mild illness, they were fully vaccinated and recently received a booster shot. We need to increase lab capacity to detect new and existing variants of COVID. Get your vaccinations anyway! Just in case!

Today, my thoughts are on the War Against The Poor. On Democracy Now, they interview Astra Taylor of Strike Debt about her fantastic new film for The Intercept - Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset.

Across the globe, rental prices in cities are skyrocketing and long-term tenants are being driven out of their apartments. DW presents a documentary where Leilani Farha - UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing from 2014 to 2020 - travels around the world, trying to understand who’s being pushed out of the city and why. At the end of the day... HUMOR!!! Just a little Star Trek/Monty Python mushup. Thank you! Thank you, very much!