John C Spies

Land acquisition, entitlement, permitting and project management; blues & live music addict; world news junkie; once decent ping pong player

John C Spies
flipped into WTF??
Melania Trump
Jan. 6 rally organizers had been on Trump campaign payroll, documents show
The Globe and Mail - Richard Lardner And Michelle R. Smith
Members of President Donald Trump’s failed presidential campaign played key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to an Associated Press...
7 hours ago
John C Spies
flipped into Health
Health (UK)
Covid UK: One-in-eight 'recovered' Covid patients DIE within 140 days
dailymail.co.uk - Elliot Mulligan and Jack Wright
Almost a third of recovered Covid patients are readmitted to hospital within five months and up to one in eight die of Covid-related …
2 hours ago
John C Spies
flipped into Politics
Melania Trump
Members of Trump’s 2020 campaign helped organize rally ahead of Capitol riot, records show
cleveland.com - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of President Donald Trump’s failed presidential campaign played key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that …
6 hours ago
John C Spies
flipped into Politics
Trump news update
Opinion: Trump's sordid pardons cement his corrupt legacy
CNN - Opinion by John Avlon
(CNN) — The Founding Fathers would have been disgusted by President Donald Trump's serial abuse of the pardon power. Nearly 90% of his pardons to date have gone to friends or politically connected allies...
2 hours ago
John C Spies
flipped into Politics
Racism
Leaked Parler Data Points to Users at Police Stations, U.S. Military Bases
Gizmodo Australia - Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra
Location data gleaned from thousands of videos posted on the social network Parler and extracted in the days before Amazon restricted access to app …
5 hours ago
John C Spies
flipped into WTF??
Australasia
'We got this': the top five things this leading economist thinks will happen in 2021
abc.net.au - Rachel Pupazzoni
Saying the year 2020 wasn't a great one for the economy is a bit of an understatement. Shops shuttered, businesses were forced to close or, worse, go …
7 hours ago