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Post by soonernvolved on May 6, 2020 14:58:30 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 6, 2020 15:05:32 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/06/michelle-obama-having-children-a-concession-that-cost-me-dreams/Former first lady Michelle Obama said in her newly-released Netflix documentary Becoming that having children was a “concession” that cost her “aspirations and dreams.” Obama made the remarks while talking about her desire to become “equal” to her husband, President Barack Obama. My relationship with Barack was all about our equal partnership,” Obama recalled. “If I was going to have a unique voice with this very opinionated man, I had to get myself up and set myself off to a place where I was going to be his equal.” However, the birth of their two daughters, Malia and Sasha, “changed” the course of the couple’s relationship.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 6, 2020 15:13:25 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2020/05/06/politico-reporter-melts-down-over-conservative-media-citing-new-york-times-letter-from-politico-founder/Politico Reporter Melts Down Over Conservative Media Citing New York Times Letter From Politico ‘Founder’ Politico's Tim Alberta had an embarrassing temper tantrum after the New York Times published a letter from a 'founder of Politico' that said Biden winning was more important than justice for an alleged rape victim. Mollie Hemingway By Mollie Hemingway MAY 6, 2020 On Tuesday, the New York Times published a letter to the editor from Martin Tolchin, identifying him as “a former member of The Times’s Washington bureau and a founder of Politico.” The letter took issue with a Times editorial that said the media should stop digging into sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden from former employee Tara Reade. Instead, the Times argued, some papers of Biden’s should be investigated by “an unbiased, apolitical panel, put together by the DNC.” The editorial said calling for this friendly look was akin to its demand that Brett Kavanaugh face a thorough FBI investigation into unsubstantiated sexual assault claims. The editorial was beyond parody. Tolchin wrote that he “totally disagree(d)” with the editorial, which was a good start. But it turned out he disagreed with this editorial not because it was a laughable attempt to exonerate Biden without investigation, but because it was too harsh on Biden! “I don’t want an investigation. I want a coronation of Joe Biden,” he wrote, adding, “I don’t want justice, whatever that may be. I want a win, the removal of Donald Trump from office, and Mr. Biden is our best chance.” Because an investigation into Biden might reveal “damaging information concerning his relationship with Tara Reade or something else,” liberals can’t “risk the possibility” of hurting Biden’s chances. It was a fascinating response from a fascinating person. Because Tolchin spent 40 years at the Times before helping launch both The Hill and Politico, many keen observers highlighted the note. See, for example, “Politico Founder: ‘I Want A Coronation’ Of Joe Biden, Not An Investigation Of Rape Allegations.” And that’s when things got weird. Certainly it was embarrassing for Politico that Tolchin was saying the quiet part as loudly as he did. Obviously the entire media approach to the Tara Reade allegations has been to downplay them and do everything in their power to help Biden get past the problems caused by them. But the media are never supposed to acknowledge what they’re doing. When I called out CNN for writing 705 stories about Christine Blasey Ford and literally zero about Reade, the response was to get a few pieces up that acknowledged her existence. Everyone who has not lost their short-term memory knows that all media were all-hands-on-deck to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s life and reputation. And everyone knows that the media had to be dragged kicking and screaming to even pretend to cover the more substantiated Reade allegations. Unlike Blasey Ford, after all, Reade has evidence she met Biden. And unlike Blasey Ford, Reade has evidence that she told people about the alleged assault at the time she claimed it happened. That’s not to say that Biden should be denied due process, but that the media has no argument for downplaying the Reade allegations after hyping the Blasey Ford claim. What might have been expected would be for Politico to come out with a strong statement in defense of journalism over partisan activism. What might have been expected would be for all real journalists to condemn Torchin’s statement, even if just to pretend they disagree with it. What Politico did instead was attack people who noticed the letter to the editor. Really. It’s an utterly bizarre claim. For one thing, Dayspring should be addressing the Times, which explicitly characterized Tolchin as “a founder of Politico,” not people who read the Times. Here’s what the Times published: For another, Tolchin has been described as a founder of Politico for years on the jackets of his books, quite recently in the Washington Post, and on the pixelated pages of Politico itself. When Tolchin’s wife died in 2016, the Washington Post claimed he was a founder of Politico: The part of that news story about her death that said Tolchin was a founder of Politico was clipped in Politico’s flagship daily newsletter, which still appears on the website. On the day Politico went live, Tolchin was listed on the masthead as “senior publisher and editor” of Politico. On Politico’s own website it lists Tolchin as “helping launch Politico.” Barely two months ago, Politico referred to him as a member of its “founding editorial team.” While working for Politico, current New York Times reporter Ken Vogel identified Tolchin as having “started what became Politico.” The Knight Case Studies Initiative at Columbia Journalism School gives the details of Tolchin’s founding role. That includes that “Tolchin convinced Allbritton to try to recruit [co-founder Jim] VandeHei himself.” Popular D.C. bookstore Politics & Prose hosted an event for Tolchin in February of this year that described him as having “founded two publications,” one of which was Politico. The Woodrow Wilson Center describes Tolchin as “founding … the must-read political daily Politico.” It’s also on Tolchin’s books. Here his publisher describes him as “co-founder of Politico.” Confused? Well, apparently the response from Politico muckety mucks to Tolchin’s letter was to split hairs about whether he “launched” Politico or “founded” it. And then to get mad not at the dozens of people who made and printed the claim but only at those who cited it. Politico concedes he launched it but they say technically he didn’t found it, despite these many mentions over the years. It’s a fine distinction, though you would be forgiven for having some confusion about the real-world distinction between people “launching” businesses and “founding” them. Or why it would matter in relation to the letter to the editor. To be clear, when it comes to launching businesses, the term “founder” carries with it a certain weight and cache. It can open doors for new businesses that might not be available for someone who happened to be on of the first hires. But clearly conservatives did not invent the idea of Martin Tolchin being the “founder” of Politico. They got that idea explicitly from the New York Times and Washington Post and found support for it in the pages of Politico itself. Tolchin himself has been claiming this for years, and not without reason. All evidence points to Tolchin being a founder of Politico. That might explain why Politico approvingly quoted a Washington Post article that referred to him as a founder. And there is no evidence in the publications or institutions that named him as a founder that anyone ever had a problem with it until his remarks on Biden embarrassed the publication. Dayspring handles public relations for Politico and was doing his job. That their founder launcher made them look bad was a public relations problem and he had to clean it up. He’s doing his best. Less defensible is the tantrum thrown by Tim Alberta, formerly of National Review and now writing puff pieces on Democratic politicians. Despite his history at Politico of writing pieces such as this, the Democratic National Committee tried to remove him from moderating a debate because his previous work for National Review was disqualifying. NBC reported that the DNC and their copartisans at PBS and Politico itself were all upset at Alberta being a moderator. It is unclear what, if anything, they could have taken issue with from his writings there. Certainly not his election eve prediction that Clinton would win in a landslide against the Bad Orange Man he later wrote a book-length critique of. (Here’s the Federalist podcast in which he discussed his book “American Carnage.”) In any case, Alberta melted down at people who accurately quoted the New York Times. Full disclosure, Alberta was nothing but respectful toward me and my journalism when I served on a 3-judge panel that gave him a large grant for his book project. Admittedly, he pitched that project a bit differently than it turned out, but these things happen. It is interesting to note how deferential Alberta was to the liberals who impugned his journalistic chops and attempted to derail his big shot in the limelight compared to how hostile he was to non-leftist publications that repeated what countless other publications including his own had said over the years. In any case, after being roundly criticized for attacking people for reading the New York Times, he then claimed that he wasn’t actually angry at the people he had smeared but was actually angry at the New York Times and his publication’s founder launcher. He just forgot to mention it. But what’s really interesting about this entire situation is that liberal journalists have not denounced, much less strenuously, what their long-time colleague Tolchin said in his letter to the editor. The substance of the letter is what real journalists should be focused on, not having temper tantrums or hair-splitting about what the meaning of is really is.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 3:57:30 GMT -6
FYI, the Texas salon owner who was jailed for opening up her business, her gofundme page has hit over $456,000.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 3:58:54 GMT -6
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have each released statements calling for the immediate release of Shelley Luther, the Dallas salon owner who had the audacity to open her business. In the statement, Paxton heavily criticizes the judge, Obama devotee Eric Moye, who sentenced Luther to seven days in jail and ordered her to pay thousands in fines. dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/05/06/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-immediate-release-jailed-dallas-salon-owner-shelley-luther/?fbclid=IwAR3vkig1vmtWSJHacNFAoepuIyO3B4cK5JAqeJyKdF5jIv3ggmkyLtwEaSoPaxton said he believes the judge is abusing his authority and that her arrest seems like a “political stunt.” In a full statement, Paxton said: “I find it outrageous and out of touch that during this national pandemic, a judge, in a county that actually released hardened criminals for fear of contracting COVID-19, would jail a mother for operating her hair salon in an attempt to put food on her family’s table,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The trial judge did not need to lock up Shelley Luther. His order is a shameful abuse of judicial discretion, which seems like another political stunt in Dallas. He should release Ms. Luther immediately.” The attorney general sent a letter to Moye, saying her sentencing was “significantly overbroad.” He mentioned that Abbott’s new executive order will allow her to operate business starting on Friday. Paxton said jailing Luther for seven days, which overlaps with her being able to operate her business, is “unjustifiable.” Abbott also released a statement, saying he agrees with Paxton in asking for her release. “I join the Attorney General in disagreeing with the excessive action by the Dallas Judge, putting Shelley Luther in jail for seven days. As I have made clear through prior pronouncements, jailing Texans for non-compliance with executive orders should always be the last available option. Compliance with executive orders during this pandemic is important to ensure public safety; however, surely there are less restrictive means to achieving that goal than jailing a Texas mother.” Luther received a cease-and-desist letter last week from Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins to close her salon, but she publicly ripped it up. Luther and her salon were also fined $500 for each day it was open, which was seven in total as of Tuesday. Moye said her salon would continue to be fined every day it was open until the new order would allow it to reopen on Friday.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 3:59:50 GMT -6
www.theblaze.com/news/virtual-dinner-hillary-clinton-100k?utm_source=whatfingerDNC is asking people to pay upward of $100K for a ‘virtual dinner’ with Hillary Clinton Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to appear at a “virtual dinner” campaign event for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden later this month that could cost attendees up to $100,000. The event, put on by the Biden for President Victory Fund and the Democratic National Committee, will be hosted on Zoom and is scheduled for May 19, Politico reported Tuesday. A PDF of the flyer shows that the event will be extremely pricey to attend. “Hosts” are expected to pay $100,000 to attend the virtual dinner, while other tickets are available for $50,000, $41,100, $15,600, $5,600, and $2,800 at “limited availability.” As a bonus, attendees will be joined by DNC Chair Tom Perez for the one-hour dinner. Clinton endorsed the former vice president last week during a virtual town hall after largely staying out of the political spotlight during the Democratic primary.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 4:04:02 GMT -6
Max Baucus, former Ambassador to China under President Barack Obama and a former U.S. Senator from Montana, compared President Donald Trump to the 20th century Nazi leader Adolph Hitler for his rhetoric against China for the communist government’s unleashing of the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus on the U.S. and the world. Baucus also warned the U.S. will “pay a price” for criticizing China. Baucus was U.S. ambassador to China from 2014 until 2017. A Democrat, Baucus served in the Senate from 1978 until his appointment as ambassador in 2014 by Obama. Baucus currently sits on advisory boards to the Chinese company Alibaba Group and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Baucus made his comments in an interview Wednesday with CNN International anchor Hala Gorani who appeared stunned by Baucus comparing Trump to Hitler and stammered her way through her follow-up question. Transcript: Baucus: “The administration’s rhetoric is so strong against China, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s over the top. Very sad, we’re entering a kind of era which is similar to Joe McCarthy, uh, back when he was red-baiting the State Department and attacking communism. And a little bit like Hitler! In the Thirties, um that a lot of people knew what was going on was wrong. They knew it was wrong. But they didn’t stand up and say anything about it. They felt intimidated. And now in the United States if anybody says anything reasonable about China he or she feels intimidated. Afraid his head’s gonna be chopped off. And back in the Thirties in Germany there, it was very similar. People who were responsible uh, in the U.S. and especially responsible in Germany couldn’t speak up. And I worry that some of that is happening now. And it’s very dangerous. And I think it’s happening in part because the Republican administration of Donald Trump uh, realizes that the economy is not doing well probably because of the coronavirus. And, uh, they’ve therefore have to pivot. They have to blame somebody. And they’re blaming China. And it’s gonna be very difficult to get back on track after the election–whoever’s elected.” Gorani: “Okay, uh, uh, be-before I go, I mean the comparison you’re making here between the, the current U.S. uh, atmosphere in Washington and uh, Germany in the Thirties, I mean that, that’a a very, that’s a very sss, you know, kind of, is it, is it, are you being provocative? Or do you really believe that there are parallels?” Baucus: “I think we’re moving in that direction. Um, and I, it’s, I’m not saying we’re there yet. But there are a lot of very responsible people in America who know that this China bashing is irresponsible and we’re gonna pay a price the more it continues. That’s what I’m saying. But they’re afraid to speak up because they’re afraid that they’ll be criticized.” His bio: www.uschamber.com/ambassador-max-baucusIn 2014 U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Max Sieben Baucus to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Peoples Republic of China. He served as Ambassador from February 21, 2014 until January 19, 2017. Ambassador Baucus formerly served as the senior United States Senator from Montana. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1978 to 2014 and was Montana’s longest serving U.S. Senator as well as the third longest tenure among those serving in the U.S. Senate. While in the Senate, Ambassador Baucus was Chairman and Ranking Member of the powerful Senate Committee on Finance. While Chairman, he was the chief architect of the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) which was signed by President Barack Obama into law March 23, 2009. Ambassador Baucus has extensive experience in international trade. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, he led the passage and enactment of the Free Trade Agreements with 11 countries: Australia, Bahrain, Jordan, Chile, Colombia, Morocco, Oman, Panama, Peru, Singapore and South Korea. He also was deeply involved in orchestrating the congressional approval of permanent normal trade relations with China in 2000 and in facilitating China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization in 2001. Ambassador Baucus also served as Vice Chairman of the Senate Joint Committee on Taxation and as a member of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry where he led in the reauthorization of numerous Farm Bills. He was additionally selected as a member of the Senate Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (Super Committee) following the financial crisis of 2008. Ambassador Baucus was also a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and chaired its Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure where he managed numerous infrastructure legislative acts and Highway Bills. Before his election to the U.S. Senate, Ambassador Baucus represented Montana in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1978 and represented Missoula, Montana in the Montana House of Representatives from 1973 to 1974. Ambassador Baucus earned a bachelor’s and law degree from Stanford University. Ambassador Baucus currently lives in Bozeman, Montana, where he and his wife, Melodee Hanes, have formed a consulting firm, Baucus Group LLC. Ambassador Baucus provides consulting services to American and Chinese businesses and serves on the Board of Directors of Ingram Micro and the Board of Advisors to Alibaba Group. He additionally serves on the External Advisory Board to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency[/i][/u]
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 5:21:57 GMT -6
alphanewsmn.com/barber-walz-shutdowns/Barber Who Attempted To Reopen During Walz Shutdown Faces Up To $25,000 In Fines A small barber who couldn't afford to keep the doors closed any longer was forced to close by St. Paul Police, Monday. A small barber who attempted to reopen his business was forced to close by St. Paul Police, Monday. When Milan Dennie, the owner of King Milan’s Barber Shop, was told to stop conducting business last month amidst the coronavirus, he complied. But once the twice extended shutdown left him “starving,” he enacted a plan to reopen his shop with an eye to sanitation. However, after serving just 16 customers, the police arrived, according to a local CBS affiliate. Although Dennie’s decision did violate Walz’s economic restrictions, the struggling small business owner insists that he has no malicious intent. “I’m not trying to be disrespectful in any way to his rules or laws,” Dennie said, per Twin Cities news. He also made sure to implement a number of stringent safety measures, limiting the number of customers in his shop, handing out free masks and putting extra emphasis on the hygiene protocols required of barbers. While Dennie and his patrons felt comfortable giving and receiving haircuts under these circumstances, the police disagreed, and chose to enforce Walz’s stay at home order. Dennie now faces up to $25,000 in fines. Despite this, he feels that reopening was the right thing to do, as staying closed any longer would have meant certain doom for King Milan’s. Image Milan Dennie gives a haircut to a young boy. Note: this photograph was taken before King Milan’s reopened amidst the coronavirus, thus the lack of masks. “We’re just behind by a lot. And it just seems like if we don’t start back working, we’re going to lose what we, you know, put everything into,” he said. “It’s [the shutdown] killing us,” he remarked after getting busted for giving haircuts. A GoFundMe set up to help Dennie afford his impending legal fees has raised over $2,800 as community members give back to a generous local business owner. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, King’s Barber Shop has strived to assist its community by handing out 2,000 rolls of toilet paper and 1,000 containers of hand soap. Dennie also runs a nonprofit to give haircuts to underprivileged youth in the Twin Cities.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 5:24:41 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/05/06/donald-trump-masks-coronavirus-nurse/Nurse Fires Back At White House Reporter Who Shamed Her For Not Wearing A Mask A nurse pushed back when a reporter asked President Donald Trump Wednesday why she and several other nurses gathered in the Oval Office during a press conference were not wearing masks or social distancing. “We’re all COVID-19 free. We were all tested,” said the nurse, identified by ABC News as American Association of Nurse Practitioners President Sophia Turner. The reporter had asked the president why the nurses who flanked him during the meeting were not keeping their distance. “We are not socially distancing because we are all negative … and we wouldn’t do anything to harm our president, obviously,” the nurse said before adding that she works at a center in Louisiana and frequently gets tested. WATCH: The nurses were at the briefing to talk about the country’s supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) like masks. (RELATED: Maskless Andrew Cuomo Says People Who Don’t Wear Masks ‘Could Literally Kill Someone’) The nurses said they have ample access to PPEs even after the Department of Homeland Security stated May 3 that the Chinese government lied to the World Health Organization about the significance of the pandemic to hoard personal protective equipment, among other medical supplies. Some officials have been critical of people who do not wear face masks. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a May 4 press conference that local officials should impose a “penalty” for “disrespectful” people not wearing masks. “And by the way, you don’t wear a mask for yourself,” an unmasked Cuomo said during the conference. “You wear a mask to protect me. I wear a mask to protect you. We owe each other a certain amount of reasonableness and respect in society, and I owe you that level of respect, that if I’m sick, I should wear a mask.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 5:26:01 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/activists-pressure-los-angeles-to-seize-hotels-for-the-homelessActivists Pressure Los Angeles To Seize Hotels For The Homeless Back in early April, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Project Roomkey, an initiative to use local and federal funds to check homeless people into empty hotels amidst the coronavirus pandemic. But over a month later, homeless activists in Los Angeles, the state’s largest city, have grown impatient with the city’s slow progress. According to the Los Angeles Times, advocates for the homeless have been pressuring officials to take over some of the hotels in the city, which has lagged behind its own goal of securing 15,000 rooms for about 25% of the area’s homeless population. “If you can tell the entire city of Los Angeles that we can shelter in place, then you can tell the hotels they are commandeered and they need to open their doors to the residents of skid row,” said Shayla Myers, attorney for the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. During a recent incident, a homeless man entered the Ritz-Carlton during a Democratic Socialist of America protest and then refused to leave, reports NBC Los Angeles. He was later arrested and released. The homeless man told the LA Times he planned on staying at the luxury hotel chain until government officials forced the city’s hotel industry to house the region’s entire homeless population. According to ABC-7, the units that occupy the top floor of the Ritz-Carlton are owned by individuals, and cost up to $42 million to purchase. Los Angeles county, which leads the nation in homelessness everywhere except New York City, currently has about 60,000 homeless people, according to the Los Angeles County Homeless Authority’s 2019 count. The county has approximately 98,000 hotel rooms. The Los Angeles Times reports that even local officials have balked at the idea of using an emergency order to seize the hotel industry, and might even delay the housing initiative by pressuring hotel owners into court battles. “Commandeering is very seldom used by government,” David Howard, the county executive in charge of the team that negotiates with hotel owners, told the news agency. “It’s only done in the event of disaster.” Even before the pandemic officially took hold in the United States, the governor had been advocating for stronger policies to help the state’s homeless population, and notably proposed a peculiar solution earlier this year. “Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics,” said Newsom during the state of the state address in February. After Newsom decided to also tweet his remarks, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed him for proposing solutions that require things to “magically appear.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 6:10:57 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/05/06/european-union-china-censorship-coronavirus-origins/EU Let China Censor Ambassador’s Op-Ed By Removing Reference To Coronavirus Originating In China The European Union allowed the Chinese government to censor part of an op-ed by the EU ambassador to China that was published in a state newspaper, China Daily. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) insisted on censoring an op-ed by the EU ambassador to China to remove a reference to COVID-19 originating in China, an EU spokesman said Wednesday, adding that the EU acquiesced to the censorship rather than withdrawing the op-ed. The EU’s ambassador to China and the ambassadors of the 27 EU member states co-authored a China Daily op-ed touting the EU’s relationship to China. The original version of the op-ed, which was published on the EU’s website, shows that the offending passage read “the outbreak of the coronavirus in China, and its subsequent spread to the rest of the world,” before it was removed. “The EU Delegation to China was informed that the publication could only take place with the agreement of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” an EU spokesman told BuzzFeed. (RELATED: Elite American Institutions Keep Bowing To Communist China… Over And Over Again) The EU delegation “made known its concerns” but still proceeded with the op-ed because they “considered it important to communicate very important messages on EU policy priorities, notably on climate change and sustainability, human rights, multilateralism and the global response to Coronavirus,” the spokesman added. The censorship of the China Daily op-ed isn’t the first time that the EU has apparently let China control the coronavirus narrative. The EU reportedly watered down a report on coronavirus disinformation following pressure from China last month. The EU reportedly nixed a reference to China’s “global disinformation campaign” from the report following the pressure from Chinese authorities. China has waged an aggressive propaganda campaign meant to absolve itself from blame for the coronavirus pandemic. A majority of the 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community believe that the novel coronavirus accidentally leaked from laboratory in Wuhan, China, a senior intelligence official previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation. China meanwhile has shut out other countries and the China-aligned World Health Organization from its investigation into coronavirus’s origins. China’s stonewalling on the investigation appears likely to continue. China’s ambassador to the United Nations said the communist nation won’t allow international experts to investigate the virus’s origins until after China has secured the “final victory” over COVID-19, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 6:13:46 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/05/06/bill-de-blasio-nyc-preparing-to-furlough-lay-off-essential-workers/Bill de Blasio: NYC Preparing to Furlough, Lay Off Essential Workers Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that he would have to begin to furlough or lay off essential New York City employees if the city does not receive federal stimulus funds to fill budget deficits caused by the coronavirus. “Right now what I’m staring down the barrel of, and cities and states all over the country, people are either acting on furloughs and layoffs or preparing for furloughs or layoffs of the exact people who have been the heroes in this crisis who we should be celebrating and supporting — first responders, the health care workers, the educators,” de Blasio said on CNN’s New Day. “How are we going to support these people who we need if we don’t have any money?” de Blasio asked. The New York Democrat has said in the past that cuts to the workforce would be used only as a last resort. President Donald Trump told the New York Post in an exclusive interview Monday that Democrat-run states like New York that are cash-strapped should not expect to be bailed out because it would be unfair to Republican states. De Blasio has had to change his expectations on other things related to the coronavirus as well. De Blasio recently announced that New York City’s public schools would be revising its grading system for most of its students for the duration of the pandemic. ...................................................................................... Blasio: "New York City needs a bailout because I told everyone to stay home." Trump: "Put them back to work." Blasio: "I can't do that." Trump; "Who said?" Blasio: "Gov. Cuomo." Trump: "Your problem."
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 6:19:04 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/06/facebook-supreme-court-packed-with-anti-trump-progressive-figures/Facebook ‘Supreme Court’ Packed with Anti-Trump, Progressive Figures Facebook has released a list of the first 20 members of its “Oversight Board,” a semi-independent body the social network is setting up that will have the power to decide whether content banned by Facebook stays banned or is restored on appeal. Members include the former editor-in-chief of the Guardian and a “human rights expert” who is part of George Soros’ Open Society project.www.oversightboard.com/news/announcing-the-first-members-of-the-oversight-board/Colloquially known as the “Facebook Supreme Court,” the idea for the body was hatched by Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman, a liberal academic and one of the Democrats’ “expert witnesses” during the impeachment hearings. Also involved in the body’s development was a progressive non-profit, BSR.The 20 members announced by Facebook today include progressive, left-wing, and mainstream media figures who have been highly critical of President Trump. One addition is Alan Rusbridger, formerly editor-in-chief of the Guardian, the U.K.’s leading left-wing newspaper. His appointment to Facebook’s Oversight Board — and the lack of any figures from conservative media — has already drawn condemnation from Conservative Party MPs in the U.K. Damian Green MP, a member of the U.K. Parliament’s committee on Culture, Media, and Sport, said that Facebook “fails miserably to provide confidence in its political balance.” “Globally, Facebook is much more important than any newspaper or broadcaster, so it has a consequent responsibility to demonstrate it is open to a range of views,” he continued. Alan Rusbridger and the Guardian are more infamous in Britain than the U.S., but the former editor-in-chief is no fan of Trump. In September 2017, he expressed his support for Robert Mueller’s “obstruction of justice” investigation against Trump. The Oversight Board also includes Nicolas Suzor, who once said he “loved” an article comparing President Trump to Adolf Hitler. (Side note: for reasons unknown, Suzor has this author blocked on Twitter — perhaps damaging expectations of a fair trial by the Oversight Board if ever banned on Facebook!) Other members of the Oversight Board include Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former Prime Minister of Denmark for the left-wing Social Democrat party, Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a “human rights expert” who is part of George Soros’ “Open Society” network, Pamela Karlan, who worked in the civil rights division of President Obama’s Justice Department, and Evelyn Aswad, who served as director of human rights in Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 6:20:09 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/06/california-sheriff-i-refuse-to-make-criminals-out-of-business-owners/California Sheriff: ‘I Refuse to Make Criminals Out of Business Owners’ Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco reaffirmed his stance on not enforcing stringent stay-at-home orders, telling the Riverside County Board of Supervisors this week that he refuses to “make criminals out of business owners, single moms, and otherwise healthy individuals for exercising their constitutional rights.” Eight weeks ago, officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) “participated in something never done before in our nation’s history,” Bianco began. Government “ordered residents into their homes, closed their businesses, made them wear masks, forbid them from going to church, and eliminated constitutional freedoms put in place over 200 years ago,” he explained. “In the name of a public health crisis, our civil liberties and constitutional protections were placed on hold,” he continued. Officials, Bianco said, have asked a lot of residents over the last two months as part of a greater effort to flatten the curve and prevent hospitals from being completely overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. “It worked,” he said, listing a series of statistics: What isn’t being emphasized is that 2,000 of the 4,300 people who have tested positive have already recovered and returned to work. What that means is that out of two and a half million people in Riverside County, we have only 2,300 residents positive with this virus. Statistically, that is less than a tenth of one percent. Forthcoming decisions from officials should be based on “facts and data, not protections and fear,” he continued, stressing that residents do not need to live in fear and noting that the risk remains low for people without serious medical conditions. However, he urged at-risk residents to remain at home. Bianco said he did not enforce the stay-at-home order from the beginning, partly because he “trusted our residents’ ability to do the right thing without fear of being arrested” and emphasized that he continues to hold that position: I knew they could be trusted to act as responsible adults, and I was correct. As we continue, I will reinforce my position. Not only do we not have the resources to enforce unreasonable orders, I refuse to make criminals out of business owners, single moms, and otherwise healthy individuals for exercising their constitutional rights. I believe Riverside County residents are responsible enough to proceed cautiously. The original projections and fears that caused orders to be put into place in the first place, he added, have been “proven wrong.” “There cannot be a new normal,” he warned, citing the country’s “fundamental freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” “Any new normal is a direct attack on the basic rights, which set us apart and make us the greatest country in the world,” he added. On Tuesday, Gov. Newsom warned that, despite the state gradually entering into the next phase of economic recovery, California will not return to normal until a vaccine is developed and available. “We’re not going back to normal. It’s a new normal with adaptations and modifications, until we get to immunity and a vaccine,” he said during Tuesday’s press briefing — something some experts caution may never come to fruition.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 6:54:16 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 6:56:08 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 7:05:06 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/health/2020/05/07/report-suicide-rise-from-lockdowns-to-kill-more-than-coronavirus-in-australia/Report: Suicide Rise from Lockdowns to Kill More than Coronavirus in Australia The rise in the suicide rate caused by lockdowns in Australia is predicted to exceed deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus by a factor of ten, the Australian reported Thursday. Researchers from Sydney University’s Brain and Mind Centre forecast a 50 percent rise in the national suicide rate because of the economic and social impact of government responses to the virus, which would drive deaths to as much as ten times higher than those causes by the coronavirus itself. Already this year global deaths by suicide are significantly higher than those attributed to the coronavirus. According to the respected Worldometers running tallies, there have already been 374,225 suicides since the start of 2020, whereas the Wuhan coronavirus has claimed 251,898 lives, Johns Hopkins University reveals. If the Australian research holds up for other nations as well, the global suicide rate could end up far outpacing the death toll from COVID-19. The uptick in Australian suicides will be felt over a number of years, the Australian scholars suggest, and the coronavirus response could produce “a generational mental health crisis” resulting in an extra 1500 deaths each year over the next five years. The university forecast has received backing from the Australian Medical Association, and Health Minister Greg Hunt is expected to present the results at the national cabinet next week. Along with the sharp rise in suicides, the research also foresees substantial economic fallout from reduced productivity from the mental health effects of unemployment, school dropouts, and family crises. According to Ian Hickie, Australia’s former mental health commissioner and the head of the Brain and Mind Centre, the annual rate of suicide could rise from 3000 to up to 4500, with youth suicides making up nearly half that figure. “We are facing a situation where between an extra 750 and 1500 suicides may occur annually, this in addition to the 3000-plus lives that are lost to suicide already every year,” Professor Hickie said. Deaths from mental health issues are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the long-term health impacts from the lockdowns, however, leading some observers to propose that “locking down whole populations in the hope of ‘flattening the curve’ was a catastrophic error, perhaps the worst policy mistake ever committed by Western governments during peacetime.” For instance, national lockdowns have forced countries across the globe to close down TB treatment programs, which reportedly could lead to 6.3 million additional cases of TB and 1.4 million deaths over the next five years.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 7:42:42 GMT -6
apnews.com/bf685dcf52125be54e030834ab7062a8?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=APDHS report: China hid virus’ severity to hoard supplies By WILL WEISSERT May 4, 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it, intelligence documents show. Chinese leaders “intentionally concealed the severity” of the pandemic from the world in early January, according to a four-page Department of Homeland Security intelligence report dated May 1 and obtained by The Associated Press. The revelation comes as the Trump administration has intensified its criticism of China, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying Sunday that that country was responsible for the spread of disease and must be held accountable. ADVERTISEMENT The sharper rhetoric coincides with administration critics saying the government’s response to the virus was slow and inadequate. President Donald Trump’s political opponents have accused him of lashing out at China, a geopolitical foe but critical U.S. trade partner, in an attempt to deflect criticism at home. MORE ON THE PANDEMIC: – COVID-19 vaccine hunt heats up globally, still no guarantee – The Latest: Experts back Japan plan to extend virus measures – Italy lets millions back to work, US restrictions easing up Not classified but marked “for official use only,” the DHS analysis states that, while downplaying the severity of the coronavirus, China increased imports and decreased exports of medical supplies. It attempted to cover up doing so by “denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data,” the analysis states. The report also says China held off informing the World Health Organization that the coronavirus “was a contagion” for much of January so it could order medical supplies from abroad — and that its imports of face masks and surgical gowns and gloves increased sharply. Those conclusions are based on the 95% probability that China’s changes in imports and export behavior were not within normal range, according to the report. China informed the WHO of the outbreak on Dec. 31. It contacted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on Jan. 3 and publicly identified the pathogen as a novel coronavirus on Jan. 8. Chinese officials muffled doctors who warned about the virus early on and repeatedly downplayed the threat of the outbreak. However, many of the Chinese government’s missteps appear to have been due to bureaucratic hurdles, tight controls on information and officials hesitant to report bad news. There is no public evidence to suggest it was an intentional plot to buy up the world’s medical supplies. In a tweet on Sunday, the president appeared to blame U.S. intelligence officials for not making clearer sooner just how dangerous a potential coronavirus outbreak could be. Trump has been defensive over whether he failed to act after receiving early warnings from intelligence officials and others about the coronavirus and its potential impact. “Intelligence has just reported to me that I was correct, and that they did NOT bring up the CoronaVirus subject matter until late into January, just prior to my banning China from the U.S.,” Trump wrote without citing specifics. “Also, they only spoke of the Virus in a very non-threatening, or matter of fact, manner.” Trump had previously speculated that China may have unleashed the coronavirus due to some kind of horrible “mistake.” His intelligence agencies say they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab. Full Coverage: Virus Outbreak Speaking Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Pompeo said he had no reason to believe that the virus was deliberately spread. But he added, “Remember, China has a history of infecting the world, and they have a history of running substandard laboratories.” “These are not the first times that we’ve had a world exposed to viruses as a result of failures in a Chinese lab,” Pompeo said. “And so, while the intelligence community continues to do its work, they should continue to do that, and verify so that we are certain, I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan.” ADVERTISEMENT The secretary of state appeared to be referring to previous outbreaks of respiratory viruses, like SARS, which started in China. Pompeo repeated the same assertion hours later, via a tweet Sunday afternoon. On Monday, China’s official Global Times newspaper said Pompeo was making “groundless accusations” against Beijing by suggesting the coronavirus was released from a Chinese laboratory. The populist tabloid published by the ruling Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily said the claims were a politically-motivated attempt to preserve Donald Trump’s presidency and divert attention from the U.S. administration’s own failures in dealing with the outbreak. “As the U.S. presidential election campaigns are underway, the Trump administration has implemented a strategy designed to divert attention from the incompetence it has displayed in fighting the pandemic,” the paper said in an editorial. The paper has made the U.S. top diplomat a main target of its attacks, in recent weeks describing him as “despicable” and of having “evil intentions” by blaming China for having caused the pandemic. While the virus is believed to have originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, most scientists say it was most likely transmitted from bats to humans via an intermediary animal such as the armadillo-like pangolin. That has placed the focus on a wet market in the city where wildlife was sold for food. The theories about a possible human release have centered on the Wuhan Institute of Virology which undertook research into the transmission of pathogens from animals to people. Beijing has repeatedly pushed back on U.S. accusations that the outbreak was China’s fault, pointing to many missteps made by American officials in their own fight against the outbreak. China’s public announcement on Jan. 20 that the virus was transmissible from person to person left the U.S. nearly two months to prepare for the pandemic, during which the U.S. government failed to bolster medical supplies and deployed flawed testing kits.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 7:43:43 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/facing-coronavirus-fallout-chinese-leaders-told-to-be-ready-for-war-with-u-s-report-saysFacing Coronavirus Fallout, Chinese Leaders Told To Be Ready For War With U.S., Report Says A report that was presented by Chinese intelligence to top leaders in Beijing a month ago reportedly warned that the fallout from China’s scandalous handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China, was so bad that China needed to be prepared for an armed confrontation with the United States. “The report, presented early last month by the Ministry of State Security to top Beijing leaders including President Xi Jinping, concluded that global anti-China sentiment is at its highest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, the sources said,” Reuters reported. “As a result, Beijing faces a wave of anti-China sentiment led by the United States in the aftermath of the pandemic and needs to be prepared in a worst-case scenario for armed confrontation between the two global powers, according to people familiar with the report’s content, who declined to be identified given the sensitivity of the matter.” The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the history of which is completely censored in China, happened when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) murdered thousands upon thousands of Chinese citizens who were protesting for democratic reforms in the communist nation. The presentation that was given to China’s top leaders was prepared by “the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a think tank affiliated with the Ministry of State Security, China’s top intelligence body,” Reuters added. “The report described to Reuters warned that anti-China sentiment sparked by the coronavirus could fuel resistance to China’s Belt and Road infrastructure investment projects, and that Washington could step up financial and military support for regional allies, making the security situation in Asia more volatile.” China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a predatory investment project that provides “vital infrastructure funding to developing countries” while leaving those countries with “unsustainable debt,” according to the Center For Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). The International Monetary Fund (IMF) “has scrutinized multiple aspects of the BRI, repeatedly warning of unsustainable debt levels, predatory lending, and the lack of project transparency,” CSIS added. Reuters noted that one person who had knowledge of what was presented to Chinese leaders said that Chinese intelligence viewed the report as China’s version of the “Novikov Telegram,” a 1946 document from Soviet ambassador to the U.S., Nikolai Novikov, which warned that the U.S. was a threat to the USSR and thus the USSR needed to beef up its presence in Eastern Europe. China has rapidly ramped up their military capabilities thanks to their theft of U.S. intellectual property and military secrets, as well as other criminal activity. The Department of Defense reported: China uses a variety of methods to acquire foreign military and dual-use technologies, including targeted foreign direct investment, cyber theft, and exploitation of private Chinese nationals’ access to these technologies, as well as harnessing its intelligence services, computer intrusions, and other illicit approaches. China is responsible for the coronavirus pandemic as studies have found that had they acted three weeks earlier, which is still weeks after they learned that the virus was transmissible from human-to-human, the outbreak could have been 95% contained. The Daily Wire previously reported that China has falsely claimed that the coronavirus came from the United States Army; tried to cover it up by silencing doctors and journalists who were trying to warn the world; told the world that there was not evidence the coronavirus could be transmitted person to person when they knew for a fact that it could; intentionally lied about how bad the outbreak was to buy themselves time to hoard medical supplies and tried to cover up deaths; and is allegedly continuing to withhold critical information about the outbreak.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 8:41:29 GMT -6
While Democrat states attempt to use the China coronavirus crisis to pay off their massive debts after years of corruption and mismanagement, states like Florida maintain budget surpluses and are opening their states up for business again. Florida governor Ron DeSantis met with President Trump in the White House this past week and discussed his state’s actions related to the coronavirus. DeSantis said at the 23:30 mark in the following interview: Clearly, financially it’s [the coronavirus] an issue for Florida. Because anytime you want to come, they end up paying tax. You look at just the theme parks, the amount of the taxes that they contribute to the state. Now fortunately, we had billions of dollars in reserves but even with that you are facing a hit. There’s just no doubt about it. While Florida has a budget surplus, blue states like Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut are facing financial disaster and are basically bankrupt. Forbes wrote on April 22: www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2020/04/22/bankruptcy-or-bailout-mcconnell-and-pritzker-give-their-answers-for-illinois-pensions/#748d40095676Last week, Illinois, via its Senate President Don Harmon, called for a pension bailout, or, more specifically, asked its Congressional Delegation to secure $10 billion in federal funding for its state pension plans and nearly as much for municipalities.Blue Democrat run states are a disaster and the coronavirus is exacerbating their financial woes. These states don’t need bailouts, they need total overhauls to their socialist crazy far-left policies.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 8:44:38 GMT -6
Facebook announced its elite Oversight Board Members on Wednesday. The Oversight Board will determine what is true and untrue and what will and will not be allowed on Facebook.
One noteworthy choice on the elite board is Stanford Professor Pamela Karlan.
Many of you may remember Pamela Karlan from the Trump Impeachment hearings in December.
Democrats called in Karlan as a witness not because she knew anything about the Ukraine case but for legal expertise and absolute hatred of President Donald Trump.
Pamela Karlan is an angry Hillary Clinton donor who was on Crooked’s list for a potential Supreme Court nomination.
During the hearings Karlan took a cheap shot at 13-year-old (at the time) Barron Trump.
“I’ll just give you one example that shows you the difference between him and a king which is, the Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility. So while the President can name is son Barron, he can’t make him a baron,” Karlan angrily exclaimed during an exchange with Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.
Following her nasty attack on President Trump’s family Rep. Matt Gaetz delivered a much needed tongue lashing to this horrible “mean” woman.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 8:47:11 GMT -6
Illinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker told reporters on Wednesday churches in his state may not reopen for a year. Pritzker must believe the First Amendment is optional. As Cassandra Fairbanks previously reported an Illinois church filed a lawsuit against Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker in April for violating the First Amendment and the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The lawsuit, filed by the Thomas More Society on behalf of The Beloved Church in Lena, claims that the governor has a “hostility” towards religious faith. Pastor Steve Cassell is seeking a temporary restraining order to stop him from being arrested if he holds a service at the beginning of May. We now know that top US physicians based their COVID-19 plan based on garbage models from the UK. The Washington Examiner reported: www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/illinois-governor-says-churches-may-not-reopen-for-a-year-or-more-because-of-coronavirusIt could be more than a year before churches are allowed to resume their in-person gatherings, according to Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Pritzker announced a five-phase plan to reopen Illinois that gives guidance to schools, businesses, churches, and other religious centers about when they will be allowed to reopen. In phase three, gatherings of up to 10 people will be allowed. In phase four, gatherings of up to 50 people will be allowed. Gatherings of more than 50 people will not be allowed until phase five.
During a press conference on Wednesday, Pritzker confirmed that churches will be held to the same standards and not be allowed to hold in-person services of more than 50 people until phase five, even if it takes more than a year to get to that position.
“You know, that in phase three, there can be gatherings, church gatherings, of 10 or fewer. In phase four, 50 or fewer. So that’s the guidance that’s been given to me,” Pritzker said. “I’m not the one providing that guidance. It really is what the scientists and epidemiologists are recommending.”The Romanians who fled communism say they will open their churches.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 8:50:08 GMT -6
Ummm, anyone see anything wrong with this picture? www.dailywire.com/news/ca-state-agency-will-pay-assisted-living-facilities-to-house-coronavirus-infected-people-report-saysCA State Agency Will Pay Assisted Living Facilities To House Coronavirus-Infected People, Report Says Unbelievably, despite the fact that elderly people in senior care centers have been the hardest-hit demographic in the coronavirus crisis, the state of California, where Governor Gavin Newsom has instituted harsh lockdown measures, is asking assisted living facilities to house elderly patients infected with the coronavirus in exchange for money.
Patients and staff in senior care centers in California number roughly 40% of all COVID-19 deaths across the state, Mercury News reports, adding the state Department of Social Services (DSS) sent a letter to licensees of senior and adult care residential facilities last Friday offering up to $1,000 a day to take in coronavirus-stricken people. Facilities with six or fewer beds would receive an “all-inclusive rate” of $1,000 per day once the first resident is placed under the contract “in recognition of the need to fully staff the facility,” Mercury News stated. The ostensible reason is to ease the burden on hospitals needing rooms for critically ill patients. The letter reportedly stated:
There is an urgent need to provide housing and care for adult and senior care residents that, while positive for COVID-19, do not require hospitalization. In order to meet this need, the CDSS, Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), announces an opportunity for Adult and Senior Care licensees to assist in providing additional beds by entering into contracts with the State to temporarily house COVID19-positive individuals in their facility.
The letter stated that DSS would prefer to send the coronavirus-infected people to empty facilities or places that only have infected patients already or even places where separate structures exist for infected and non-infected residents, but did not jettison the idea that infected and non-infected patients could reside in the same facility if they were “unable to locate contracted beds in facilities that would house solely COVID-19 positive residents.” Mercury News also notes that “as of May 3, nearly 10,000 patients and staff in long-term care facilities in the state of California have tested positive for the virus, and 926 of them have died.” Those numbers were gleaned from the DSS and the California Department of Public Health. Dr. Michael Wasserman, the president of the California Association of Long Term Medicine, said, “Any guidance from the government that opens the door to send more COVID-19 into a nursing home or assisted living facility, to me, is medically unsound … The assisted living industry is a real estate industry — it is not a health care business.” Mike Dark, attorney for watchdog group California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said the idea of housing coronavirus patients in assisted living facilities was “awful and stupid.” Wasserman concluded, “It’s becoming clearer that the worst outbreaks — the worst situations — have occurred where the virus is allowed to grow unfettered. If you have a facility that has a couple of cases and you contain them … even in some cases where we’ve seen fairly large outbreaks and lots of good infection control is applied, we’re seeing better outcomes. So, the least amount of virus you have in your facility, the better.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 9:34:31 GMT -6
And here we thought Democrats were against internment camps? Guess not. Ventura County officials in California announced plans to remove infected residents with the Wuhan virus from their homes and place them in quarantine centers. On Wednesday, Ventura County Health Director Robert Levin announced that the forcible quarantines are underway and will continue. pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2020/05/06/every-one-of-them-california-begins-forcibly-quarantining-people-separating-families-over-covid-19-n388732'Every One of Them': California Begins Forcibly Quarantining People – Separating Families – Over COVID-19 As I reported at PJMedia, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he was raising up an “army” of contact tracers – as many as 20,000 people – to track down everyone with COVID-19 and quarantine them. The number of deaths has begun going down in the state, but Newsom has only doubled down, announcing Monday he was training as many as 20,000 people – “an army and a workforce” – to begin tracking down COVID-19 cases. Newsom announced that the “army” – his word – will start with a deployment of 3,000 and grow to the 20,000 mark to chase down who, what, where, and with whom COVID positive people have had connections. To what end? Newsom said, “the tracing component requires workforce and to identify individuals who tested positive…to ID their contacts (with privacy) and maybe quarantine individuals to stop the spread of the disease.” He means forcible quarantine. On Wednesday, the soft voice of Ventura County Health Director Robert Levin confirmed that the forcible quarantines are underway. He announced a “pilot program that will grow into a larger program” and “we will find everyone with COVID-19 and we will isolate every one of them and we will make sure that they stay quarantined and we will check in with them every day. In other words, what this program means is we’re going to do a more complete job, we’re going to do a more meticulous job of making it less and less possible for others in the county to run into someone with COVID-19 infection.” Ventura County has hardly been overwhelmed with the virus. Out of its 846,000-person population, Ventura County has had 19 deaths from COVID-19. Most of them occurred in hospitals. Levin attempted to put a happy face on removing people from their homes because, after all, everybody’s doing it. This is occurring in many, many other states as well and perhaps all the states in our country. But other states aren’t doing this. There are 19 deaths in the county since this outbreak visited itself upon us from Wuhan. But back to the contact “investigators,” as Levin called them. Levin said that we also realize that as we get more contacts, “some of the people are going to have trouble with being isolated, for instance, if they live in a home where there’s only one bathroom, and there are three or four other people living there and those people don’t have COVID infection we’re not going to be able to keep the person in that home. Every person whom we’re isolating, for instance, needs to have, uh, their own bathroom. And so we’ll be moving people like this into other kinds of housing that we have available. They’ll also have other needs perhaps – food, whatever it’s going to be – the county will be there to back them up and to support them.” They’re also being given “sensitivity” training to be able to respond to the understandable outrage one would feel if ripped from their mom, dad, and kids. There is a legal basis for this according to the CDC, but, one must ask if this curve is flattened – as the mantra goes – why are we now resorting to locking people up? Isolation and Quarantine The Centers for Disease Control says there is precedent for forcibly removing people and locking them up in quarantine: Isolation and quarantine help protect the public by preventing exposure to people who have or may have a contagious disease. Isolation separates sick people with a quarantinable communicable disease from people who are not sick. Quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick. In addition to serving as medical functions, isolation and quarantine also are “police power” functions, derived from the right of the state to take action affecting individuals for the benefit of society. Federal Law The federal government derives its authority for isolation and quarantine from the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Under section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S. Code § 264), the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to take measures to prevent the entry and spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States and between states. The authority for carrying out these functions on a daily basis has been delegated to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The path to destruction apparently isn’t paved with good intentions, but instead with the Commerce Clause. Why is it that we’re freeing prisoners and locking up innocents? Where are all the Leftists who decry “family separation” with those dubious fake “families” at the border? Now that governments are caging Americans, will any of them give a squat? One more thing. Watch the sign language interpreter when Levin talks about locking people up. Watch this for yourself. And then ask yourself, why is this happening now after the curve is flattened?
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 9:38:47 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-schumer-set-to-unveil-multi-trillion-dollar-rooseveltian-coronavirus-relief-packageSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spent their extended recess working on a “multi-trillion dollar” “Rooseveltian” fourth coronavirus relief package that they’re set to unveil as early as next week, signaling the start of a major battle between Democrats and Republicans over yet another massive government spending bill. Pelosi commanded Democratic leadership to submit “wish lists” to her office earlier this week, telling House committee leaders and other key lawmakers to “think big” on relief projects. As a result, she and Schumer have, Fox News reports, compiled the “most far-reaching effort yet to address the economic fallout of the pandemic” — a “legislative laundry list” that will likely dwarf the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, which passed back in March. “We’re looking at a multitrillion-dollar bill,” one legislator told the network. Schumer expanded on that assessment, comparing the draft bill to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, designed to address the massive economic fallout of the Great Depression. “We need big, bold action,” Schumer told MSNBC Thursday, adding that Democrats “are working very closely together on putting together a very strong plan, which you will hear shortly.” “We need Franklin Rooseveltian-type action and we hope to take that in the House and Senate in a very big and bold way,” he added. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been clear that he will not support the passage of yet another mega-spending bill, at least until he and others can be sure that such a bill will not have a disparate impact on the already shaky American economy. He’s also flat-out refused to allow Democrats to include bailouts for states like Illinois, whose financial difficulties long predate the novel coronavirus. Democrats say they intend to make “relief funds” for states and municipalities a key feature of the next package and Fox News says “just the aid alone to hard-hit states and local governments could reach nearly $1 trillion,” based on statements Pelosi made to her caucus last week. Roll Call reports that there are some key details beginning to emerge about the bill, even though Pelosi and Schumer say they won’t make the text available until at least next week. In its current state, the bill expands greatly on the Paycheck Protection Program that provides forgivable- and low-interest loans to qualifying small businesses, but eliminates the requirement that companies spend 75% of the loan funds on payroll. The bill also reportedly sets aside a whopping $25 billion to bail out the United States Postal Service, and creates a fund for handouts to theaters, museums, landmarks, and others cultural services — a controversial part of Pelosi’s last draft relief package — that could total more than $10.5 billion. Other Dems, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are pushing for a minimum $2,000-per-person monthly living stipend for most Americans. The full bill is expected to be made public next week.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 10:13:46 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 10:29:52 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-texas-salon-owner-shelley-luther-released-from-prisonBREAKING: Texas Salon Owner Shelley Luther Released From Prison A Dallas salon owner who broke a lockdown order to open her business was released from prison on Thursday. “Texas Supreme Court orders Shelley Luther, imprisoned for contempt for violating order to close her Dallas salon, RELEASED from prison,” posted Austin American-Statesman reporter Chuck Lindell. “Release from JAIL ordered under request for emergency relief while Supreme Court considers Luther’s petition,” he reported. “Response due by 4 p.m. Monday.” Luther was sentenced Tuesday to a week in jail and a $7,000 fine for opening her salon in defiance of state orders, The Daily Wire reported. The salon owner gained national attention when she gave Dallas Judge Eric Moye a poignant message after he accused her of being “selfish” for opening her salon in defiance of the stay-at-home order. “Judge, I would like to say that I have much respect for this court and laws and that I have never been in this position before and it’s not someplace that I want to be,” Luther said. “But I have to disagree with you, sir, when you say that I’m selfish because feeding my kids — is not selfish.” “I have hair stylists that are going hungry because they’d rather feed their kids,” she continued. “So, sir, if you think the law is more important than kids getting fed, then please go ahead with your decision, but I am not going to shut the salon.” Warren Norred, a lawyer representing Luther, said her client was “unlawfully arrested and jailed.” “I’m concerned that the judicial system in Dallas is more concerned for one perspective on the rule of law than it is the plight of working people trying to make a living,” Norred said, as noted by The Daily Wire. “Though the rule of law is cited by the court, there exists no exception for cities to the general rule that an injunction must be supported by a bond. Without an enforceable injunction, no contempt can be found. Our position is that Ms. Luther has been unlawfully arrested and jailed. I hope to obtain a writ of habeas corpus very soon. ” Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick reacted to Luther’s situation on Wednesday, announcing he’d pay the $7,000 fine and would volunteer to serve her 7-day jail sentence. “7 days in jail, no bail and a $7K fine is outrageous,” he posted via Twitter. “No surprise Texans are responding. I’m covering the $7K fine she had to pay and I volunteer to be placed under House Arrest so she can go to work and feed her kids.” Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) on Wednesday also ripped the actions taken against Luther. “I join the Attorney General in disagreeing with the excessive action by the Dallas Judge, putting Shelley Luther in jail for seven days,” he said in a statement. “As I have made clear through prior pronouncements, jailing Texans for non-compliance with executive orders should always be the last available option. Compliance with executive orders during this pandemic is important to ensure public safety; however, surely there are less restrictive means to achieving that goal than jailing a Texas mother.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 11:47:36 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/education/2020/05/07/yale-scientist-reopening-america-is-awfully-close-to-genocide/Yale Scientist: Reopening America Is ‘Awfully Close to Genocide’ A Yale University scientist argued in a social media post published on Wednesday that the United States government’s plan to reopen American after the Chinese virus pandemic amounts to “genocide” of “African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color.” Yale epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves criticized the U.S. government’s response to the Chinese virus pandemic and its plan to reopen the country in a tweet that was published on Wednesday, suggesting that it would be “genocide by default” to lift “shelter in place” restrictions. Gonsalves also suggested that the government’s response would disproportionately impact “people of color.” How many people will die this summer, before Election Day? What proportion of the deaths will be among African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color?” Gonsalves wrote in the tweet. “This is getting awfully close to genocide by default. What else do you call mass death by public policy?” In another tweet, Gonsalves argued that government officials should face consequences for their response to the pandemic under international law. “So, what does it mean to let thousands die by negligence, omission, failure to act, in a legal sense under international law?” Gonsalves wrote in a follow-up tweet. Gonsalves tweet was highlighted this week in a report by China’s state-run communist publication, the People’s Daily. “An epidemiologist at Yale University on Wednesday launched one of the harshest attacks on the U.S. administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying it was ‘close to genocide by default,'” the report read. In a tweet on Thursday morning, Gonsalves said he was receiving criticism from the “right-wing mob-machine” for his comments on the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic. “The right-wing mob-machine is upset with me. Getting threatening emails again,” Gonsalves said. “Guess I should get with the program and say what a wonderful job the White House is doing on #COVID19, #coronavirus. Nope. Not a chance.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 11:53:42 GMT -6
www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-cuomo-coronavirus-stats-20200506-eyqui4b5lfdn7g6cqswkf6otly-story.htmlShocking’: 66% of new coronavirus patients in N.Y. stayed home: Cuomo ALBANY — The majority of recently hospitalized coronavirus patients in New York are people who have followed the precaution of staying home, Gov. Cuomo said Wednesday. The governor said it was “shocking" that 66% of new coronavirus hospitalizations are people who are either retired or unemployed and not commuting to work on a regular basis. The statistic comes from a preliminary survey of 113 hospitals, done over three days, that included 1,269 responses as the state seeks more information about how COVID-19 spreads. According to the data, 18% of new cases came from nursing homes, 4% from assisted-living facilities, 2% from congregate-care facilities, 2% were homeless, less than 1% from prisons and 8% were marked as “other." “This is a surprise: Overwhelmingly, the people were at home,” Cuomo said during a briefing on Long Island. “We thought maybe they were taking public transportation, and we’ve taken special precautions on public transportation, but actually no, because these people were literally at home.” A total of 46% of new cases were unemployed and 37% were retired. Age also played a factor, the data shows that 73% of people being hospitalized were 51 and older, the survey found.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2020 14:41:53 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/border/2020/05/07/watch-texas-hair-salon-owner-released-from-jail-breaks-down-in-tears/The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office released the Texas hair salon owner who spent two days in jail for re-opening her business and ignoring Coronavirus lockdown orders. Subsequent to an order from the Supreme Court of Texas, the Dallas sheriff released Shelley Luther on Thursday afternoon. During a brief appearance before news cameras gathered outside the jail, Luther broke down in tears. Supporters gathered outside the Dallas County jail shouted “Shellie’s Free, Shellie’s Free” while Luther tried to gather her composure. Choking back tears, Luther told the gathered crowd, “Thank you guys, so much. I’m a little overwhelmed,” as she assured children she was okay despite wearing a facemask. “I just want to thank all of you who I just met and now you’re all my friends,” Luther said. “You mean so much to me and this would have been nothing without you.” She told the crowd she would have more to say after she had time to gather her emotions. Her release followed an order from the Supreme Court of Texas who ordered her release without bond after Dallas attorney Warren Norred filed a writ of habeas corpus on her behalf. The order from the state’s highest court comes after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called the jailing of the Dallas hair salon owner by District Court Judge Eric Moyé a misguided “abuse” of power, Breitbart Texas reported Wednesday. “I find it outrageous and out of touch that during this national pandemic, a judge, in a county that actually released hardened criminals for fear of contracting COVID-19, would jail a mother for operating her hair salon in an attempt to put food on her family’s table,” Attorney General Paxton said in a written statement on Wednesday. “The trial judge did not need to lock up Shelley Luther. His order is a shameful abuse of judicial discretion, which seems like another political stunt in Dallas. He should release Ms. Luther immediately.” Earlier in the day, Governor Greg Abbott amended his executive order on essential businesses and removed the provision allowing for violators to be punished by up to 180-days in jail. “I join the Attorney General in disagreeing with the excessive action by the Dallas Judge, putting Shelley Luther in jail for seven days,” Abbott said in a statement on Wednesday. “As I have made clear through prior pronouncements, jailing Texans for non-compliance with executive orders should always be the last available option. Compliance with executive orders during this pandemic is important to ensure public safety; however, surely there are less restrictive means to achieving that goal than jailing a Texas mother.”
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