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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 5:49:00 GMT -6
Obama being Obama:
Former President Barack Obama took a veiled swipe at President Trump during a virtual commencement address for HBCU (historically black colleges and universities) on Saturday.
““More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge,”
Video clip of Obama’s remarks:
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 5:51:20 GMT -6
The number of deaths from coronavirus in the US has been plummeting since mid April. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) there were 78 coronavirus deaths in the United State in the 0 to 29-year-old age group this year. www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSexThe numbers were totaled from the week ending Feb. 1 2020 to May 9, 2020 during the current outbreak. Those coronavirus victims under age 60 are also likely to have at least one comorbidity. In the United States since 1999, an average of more than 815 children ages 14 and under have died as a result of unintentional drowning each year. Using these numbers it is safe to say a child or young adult under 29 is eight times more likely to die from drowning than die from the coronavirus in America. Advertisement - story continues below Luke Johnson, former chairman of Pizza Express and Channel 4, took it a step further this week arguing if you’re under 60 with no underlying health conditions you’re more likely to drown than die of COVID-19.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 5:52:23 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 5:54:59 GMT -6
A Colorado inmate released from jail early to ‘slow the spread of Coronavirus’ has been arrested and accused of first-degree murder. Thanks to policies enacted by Democrat Governor Jared Polis, Cornelius Haney, 40, was released from jail early and murdered a Denver woman. “The potential spread of COVID-19 in … prisons poses a significant threat to prisoners and staff who work in facilities and prisons, as well as the communities to which incarcerated persons will return,” Polis said in the order, signed March 25. Via the Colorado Sun: coloradosun.com/2020/05/15/cornelius-haney-colorado-prison-release-coronavirus-shooting/A man who was released from prison last month on parole following policies enacted by Gov. Jared Polis to prevent an outbreak of the new coronavirus among inmates has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a woman last weekend in Denver.
Cornelius Haney, 40, is accused of first-degree murder in the slaying of 21-year-old Heather Perry near the intersection of East Colfax Avenue and Verbena Street on May 9.
Haney was released on April 15, four months early, under an executive order by Polis before that allows inmates to be released on “special-needs parole.”Last month a Florida inmate released on March 19 to ‘slow the spread of the Coronavirus’ was arrested on a murder charge just one day after he got out of jail. Dangerous murderers and sex offenders are being released from prison while pastors, mothers and business owners are being threatened with fines and prison time for violating social distancing orders.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 5:57:30 GMT -6
Colorado admitted this week to over-counting coronavirus deaths in the state and lowered their state totals by 272 deaths. www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-lowers-coronavirus-death-count?fbclid=IwAR2QJfV-y6mv-yvj0DIEvgLo9FkbNAL6uQL0wZme-XvZaSf6UB05PukTU5IColorado amends coronavirus death count - says fewer have died of COVID-19 than previously reported Colorado has made a stunning and significant change to the way it counts COVID-19 deaths that reduced the statewide figure from more than 1,000 to 878, according to a report. The change came after Colorado’s Department of Public Health admitted that its COVID-19 death toll was counting those who tested positive for the coronavirus but had died of other causes, Fox 31 Denver reported late Friday. The department now says 1,150 Coloradoans who died had COVID-19 but only 878 of those deaths were “due to” COVID-19. “We have been reporting at the state, deaths among people who had COVID-19 at the time of death and the cause of that death may or may not have been COVID-19,” Dr. Eric France, the health department's chief medical officer told the station. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE “We started to hear stories about ‘are these correct or are these incorrect?'” France said. Fox News on Friday reported on one of those stories as part of a report that found that the hodgepodge way states counted COVID-19 deaths was a reason why some people believe the U.S. COVID-19 death figure was exaggerated. The story involved a 35-year-old man from Montezuma County who died May 4 of alcohol poisoning but whose death was counted in Colorado’s COVID-19 death toll. CDC CHIEF REDFIELD PREDICTS CORONAVIRUS DEATHS TO TOP 100,000 IN JUNE “The state is reporting that death as a COVID death, but our health department wanted to let people know that even though the person did have the virus, they did not die from it,” the Montezuma County Health Department said about the man's death. The national COVID-19 death toll climbed to 87,568 Saturday with the deaths of 1,662 more people due to the virus, John Hopkins University data showed. But that latest number does not take into account Colorado's amended figure, listing the death toll at 1,150. France blamed the confusion on the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System that states use to report COVID-19 deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. COLORADO MAN DIED OF ALCOHOL POISONING, BUT DEATH WAS LATER BLAMED ON CORONAVIRUS: REPORT Hours before the health department lowered the death count a somber Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, had told a coronavirus news briefing that the state had reached a “reflection point” as the number of COVID-19 deaths had surpassed 1,000. "It's important to remember that every number has a name," Polis said. "It's easy to say over 1,000 people. Each one of those is a person with friends, loved ones and family. If you’re fortunate enough not to have known someone who was lost, take a moment and remember why we all need to do our part." Fox 31 obtained a statement from Polis’ office after the death count was reduced that said the governor fully supported efforts by the health department to specify how many deaths were specifically due to COVID-19 “and not just specific to CDC guidelines that include people who died with Coronavirus but not necessarily from it.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “State epidemiologists believe that once the data is up to date then the number will, unfortunately, be higher,” the statement concluded. Polis will appear exclusively on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace Sunday morning.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 6:08:23 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/christie-sets-the-record-straight-after-joy-behar-says-she-doesnt-see-the-republican-party-helping-struggling-americansChristie Sets The Record Straight After Joy Behar Says She Doesn’t See The ‘Republican Party Helping’ Struggling Americans On Friday, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appeared on “The View,” and pushed back on claims made by co-host Joy Behar that Republican lawmakers only care about big business rather than helping the American people during the COVID-19 crisis. Watch this new video to find out more We wanted you to see this trending video Promoted by Sponsor See More First, co-host Sunny Hostin asked Christie about the dangers of opening “too soon,” and added: “Why aren’t Republicans trying to push through this stimulus bill that the Democrats have put forth if everyone’s so concerned about people?” Christie responded by noting that experts differ in their assessments of how long it will take to create a vaccine, and that the economy simply cannot remain closed indefinitely. “There are steps we can take with wearing masks, with social distancing, with cleaning surfaces, with washing hands that will lower the rate of infection that occurred before we had shut [in],” Christie said. The former governor continued, speaking about the latest stimulus package passed by Democrats in the House: I absolutely believe there will be a bill – this has been, every one of these bills, each side has pushed for the things that they want. We are still distributing hundreds of billions of dollars from the last bill that has not even [been] put out there yet, and so both sides are going to negotiate on this, it’s the typical legislative process. The Democrats want the things they want, the Republicans will want the things they want, and they will ultimately, I believe, come to a compromise as they have on the three bills before this. At this point in the segment, co-host Joy Behar jumped in, suggesting that Republicans have cash for the wealthy and the military, but not for “actually helping people.” “They always seem to have money to give tax breaks to rich people in this country or money to bolster the military, but when it comes to actually helping people, the Republicans don’t – all of a sudden, we don’t have any money! We don’t have any money!” Behar said. The co-host tried to move on, and asked another question, but Christie went back to her previous comment, and blasted her characterization of Republicans: Republicans voted overwhelmingly for all of the aid for small businesspeople across this country twice. Republicans voted overwhelmingly for the $1,200 checks that have gone to every one of the taxpayers out there who qualified under the program – the folks in our lower-middle class, middle class who needed that aid. Republicans have voted for aid to hospitals and frontline health care workers. So it’s unfair, Joy, to say that Republicans don’t support any of this stuff, and they only have money for big business. That’s a typical Democratic talking point. “Then why is everybody crying that they have no money, they have no job and they have no money? Why is everybody upset, running out into the streets and defying the rule?” Behar replied. “Why? Tell me.” Christie responded, saying that “people want their lives back.” Behar interrupted, saying that people “want their jobs back.” “They want their jobs back, not their lives. They’re saying they want their jobs back; they want food; they want to pay their rent; they want to pay their mortgages. They don’t have enough money for that. That’s what they’re crying about, and I don’t see the Republican Party helping them,” Behar said. “All they’re doing is blaming everybody else.” Christie pushed back, saying: That’s just wrong. I mean, it’s just absolutely wrong. You’re point of view, you’re welcome to it, but you’re not welcome to your own set of facts. The Republicans have voted to support all of those programs you just talked about – food programs, aid programs to people with direct checks to them, aid programs to small business, aid programs to frontline health workers and to hospitals. All of those things have gotten overwhelming, in fact unanimous, Republican support, as they’ve gotten unanimous Democratic support. What people want are their lives back, and their lives, part of their lives, are their jobs and the things that they do every day. Part of what’s making people go crazy here is just not the fear of the virus, but it is also that people have been locked their homes now for over two months and they want to have – for those who are not in the vulnerable population – elderly or underlying health problems like asthma or diabetes or other respiratory problems, those people are at much lower risk, and when they take precautions like wearing masks, like temperature checks, like multiple hand washing, like cleaning of surfaces, all of those things can be done and can help to make it safer for those who want to go back to work to be able to go back to work. The $3 trillion stimulus bill that was recently passed by House Democrats faces opposition from many Republicans because of some of its provisions, including but not limited to $1,200 payments to illegal immigrants who pay taxes, and $25 billion for the U.S. Postal Service.
According to CNN, the bill “was approved by a vote of 208-199 despite opposition from Republicans as well as from some moderate and progressive Democrats.”
14 Democrats voted against it, and only one Republican voted for the bill.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 6:12:40 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/16/barack-obama-to-2020-graduates-the-old-ways-of-doing-things-just-dont-work/Barack Obama to 2020 Graduates: ‘The Old Ways of Doing Things Just Don’t Work’ Former President Barack Obama on Saturday advised 2020 graduates to give up on the adults currently in charge and chart a new way forward for the world. “The old ways of doing things just don’t work,” Obama said in his online commencement speech to 2020 high school graduates who could not attend ceremonies due to the coronavirus pandemic. The former president did not specifically criticize President Donald Trump but had a lot of criticism for adults and current people in power. “All those adults that you used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing, turns out they don’t have all the answers, a lot of them aren’t even asking the right questions,” he said. He added that adults with “fancy titles and important jobs” sometimes behaved like “little kids.” “Doing what feels good, what’s convenient, what’s easy, that’s what little kids think. Unfortunately, a lot of so-called grownups, including some with fancy titles and important jobs, still feel that way, which is why things are so screwed up,” he said. Obama said that the coronavirus pandemic only heightened the current divisions and social injustices like economic inequality, racial disparities, and the lack of universal health care. He sympathized with the graduates, noting that they were already struggling with the “added pressures of social media, reports of school shootings, and the specter of climate change.” Obma tried to cheer them up by noting that even though they were missing their graduation ceremonies, they would not have to sit through long speeches. “Not that many people look great in those caps, especially if you have big ears like me,” he said. The president offered a lot of advice, but not a lot of hope, particularly about attending college in the fall. “If you planned on going away to college, getting dropped off on campus in the fall, that’s no longer a given,” he said. He acknowledged that he was “one of the old guys” but urged them to leave the past behind and move the world forward. “With so much uncertainty, when everything is up for grabs, this is your generation’s world to shape,” he said, noting the past American struggles of slavery, civil war, famine, disease, the Great Depression, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. “Each time we came out stronger, usually because a new generation, people like you, learned from past mistakes and figured out how to make things better,” he said.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 6:19:07 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/13/mi-gov-whitmer-racist-misogynistic-lockdown-protesters-calling-for-violence/MI Gov. Whitmer: Racist, Misogynistic Lockdown Protesters ‘Calling for Violence’ Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) declared the “racist and misogynistic” lockdown protesters opposing her order were “calling for violence.” Whitmer said, “Well, I do think that the fact of the matter is these protests, you know, in a perverse way make it likelier that we’re going to have to stay in a stay-at-home posture. The whole point of them supposedly is they don’t want to be doing that, and that’s why I’m asking that everyone with a platform call on people to do the right thing. You know, these have been really political rallies where people come with Confederate flags and Nazi symbolism and calling for violence. This is not appropriate in a global pandemic, but it’s certainly not an exercise of democratic principles where we have free speech. This is calls to violence. This is racist and misogynistic, and I ask that everyone who has a platform uses it to call on people to observe the best practices by the CDC, and to stop encouraging this behavior because it only makes it that much more precarious for us to try to reengage our economy which is what everyone says they want us to be able to do.” When asked about threats to her, Whitmer said, “Well, I would be not truthful if I said it didn’t bother me. It certainly does. I’m fortunate that the Michigan State Police is an incredibly talented professional organization that oversees the security of myself and my family and I’m grateful for that, but the fact of the matter is the Michigan capitol is one of the few capitols in the country where people can come with bearing arms, and what we saw last week and what we anticipate seeing tomorrow is those arms being used to intimidate others, being brandished in a way that is to strike fear into others, and that is not legal activity. So this is a terribly concerning development in that we have legislators who are showing up to work wearing bulletproof vests. That is disenfranchising thousands of people in our state if their legislator doesn’t feel safe to go to work and do what their job is. No one should stand in our way of doing our jobs. I respect people’s right to dissent, but that does not extend to endangering other people’s lives and we take it very seriously.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 7:04:48 GMT -6
An Italian politician demanded the arrest of Bill Gates for “crimes against humanity” in a passionate speech on the parliament floor. Advertisement - story continues below Sara Cunial, the Member of Parliament for Rome, blasted Gates during her seven minute long speech on Thursday, claiming that he has been working on a depopulation policy and plans for dictatorial control over global politics.The lawmaker blasted the shut down orders, handling of the coronavirus pandemic, and vaccines. Cunial claimed that the “ real goal of all of this is total control. Absolute domination of human beings, transformed into guinea pigs and slaves, violating sovereignty and free will. All this thanks to tricks/hoax disguised as political compromises.”The politician also went off about vaccines, 5G, and facial recognition software — among other things. The speech wrapped up with Cunial addressing the Italian president saying “next time you receive a phone call from the philanthropist Bill Gates forward it directly to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.” Nationalist Review summed up her speech as “Bill Gates is a power-hungry elitist set on dominating the world through a campaign of genocide masked as charity—all in the hopes of controlling the population and preparing the world for slavery.” www.nationalistreview.net/2020/05/17/italian-parliamentarian-calls-for-arrest-of-bill-gates/Cunial studied industrial chemistry at the University of Padua and was elected in 2018. Since taking office, Cunial has caused quite a stir, even being temporarily removed from her party for her opposition to vaccines and comparing them to a “genocide” in a Facebook post. Just weeks later, she held a press conference on the dangers of vaccines in the Chamber of Deputies. In April, Cunial publicly ripped up coronavirus decrees of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government in the Chamber after she was pulled over for driving, despite having her parliamentary identification with her. Below is a full translation of Cunial’s speech: Hobbes said that absolute power does not come from an imposition from above but by the choice of individuals who feel more protected renouncing to their own freedom and granting it to a third party. With this, you are going on anesthetizing the minds with corrupted Mass Media with Amuchina (a brand of disinfectant promoted by Mass Media) and NLP, with words like “regime”, “to allow” and “to permit”, to the point of allowing you to regulate our emotional ties and feelings and certify our affects.
So, in this way, Phase 2 is nothing else than the persecution/continuation of Phase 1 – you just changed the name, as you did with the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). We have understood people, for sure, don’t die for the virus alone. So people will be allowed to die and suffer, thanks to you and your laws, for misery and poverty. And, as in the “best” regimes, the blame will be dropped only on citizens. You take away our freedom and say that we looked for it. Divide et Impera (Divide and Rule).
It is our children who will lose more, who are ‘raped souls’, with the help of the so-called “guarantor of their rights” and of CISMAI (Italian Coordination of Services against Child Abuse). In this way, the right to school will be granted only with a bracelet to get them used to probation, to get them used to slavery – involuntary treatment and to virtual lager. All this in exchange for a push-scooter and a tablet. All to satisfy the appetites of a financial capitalism whose driving force is the conflict of interest, conflict well represented by the WHO, whose main financier is the well-known “philanthropist and savior of the world” Bill Gates.
We all know it, now. Bill Gates, already in 2018, predicted a pandemic, simulated in October 2019 at the “Event 201”, together with Davos (Switzerland). For decades, Gates has been working on Depopulation policy and dictatorial control plans on global politics, aiming to obtain the primacy on agriculture, technology and energy.
Gates said, I quote exactly from his speech: “If we do a good job on vaccines, health and reproduction, we can reduce the world population by 10-15%. Only a genocide can save the world.”
With his vaccines, Gates managed to sterilize millions of women in Africa. Gates caused a polio epidemic that paralyzed 500,000 children in India and still today with DTP, Gates causes more deaths than the disease itself. And he does the same with GMOs designed by Monsanto and “generously donated” to needy populations. All this while he is already thinking about distributing the quantum tattoo for vaccination recognition and mRNA vaccines as tools for reprogramming our immune system. In addition, Gates also does business with several multinationals that own 5G facilities in the USA.
On this table there is the entire Deep State in Italian sauce: Sanofi, together with GlaxoSmithKline are friends of the Ranieri Guerra, Ricciardi, and of the well-known virologist that we pay 2000 Euro every 10 minutes for the presentations on Rai (Italian state TV. She’s probably talking about Burioni). Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline sign agreements with medical societies to indoctrinate future doctors, making fun of their autonomy of judgment and their oath.
Hi-Tech multinationals, like the Roman Engineering which is friend of the noble Mantoan, or Bending Spoons, of Pisano, which are there for control and manage our personal health datas in agreement with the European Agenda ID2020 of electronic identification, which aims to use mass vaccination to obtain a digital platform of digital ID. This is a continuation of the transfer of data started by Renzi to IBM. Renzi, in 2016, gave a plus 30% to Gates Global Fund.
On the Deep State table there are the people of Aspen, like the Saxon Colao, who with his 4-pages reports, paid 800 Euros/hour, with no scientific review, dictates its politics as a Bilderberg general as he is, staying away from the battlefield. The list is long. Very long. In the list there is also Mediatronic, by Arcuri and many more.
The Italian contribution to the International Alliance Against Coronavirus will be of 140 million Euros, of which 120 million Euros will be given to GAVI Alliance, the non-profit by Gates Foundation. They are just a part of the 7.4 billion Euro fund by the EU to find a vaccine against Coronavirus – vaccines which will be used as I said before.
No money, ofcourse for serotherapy, which has the collateral effect of being super cheap. No money for prevention, a real prevention, which includes our lifestyles, our food and our relationship with the environment.
The real goal of all of this is total control. Absolute domination of human beings, transformed into guinea pigs and slaves, violating sovereignty and free will. All this thanks to tricks/hoax disguised as political compromises. While you rip up the Nuremberg code with involuntary treatment, fines and deportation, facial recognition and intimidation, endorsed by dogmatic scientism – protected by our “Multi-President” of the Republic who is real cultural epidemic of this country.
We, with the people, will multiply the fires of resistance in a way that you won’t be able to repress all of us.
I ask you, President, to be the spokesperson and give an advice to our President Conte: Dear Mr. President Conte, next time you receive a phone call from the philanthropist Bill Gates forward it directly to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. If you won’t do this, tell us how we should define you, the “friend lawyer” who takes orders from a criminal.
Thank you.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 7:09:00 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/05/15/new-york-coronavirus-reporting-nursing-home-deaths-undercounting/EXCLUSIVE: New York Admits Knowingly Undercounting Nursing Home Deaths After Quietly Changing Reporting Rules The New York State Department of Health acknowledged that its recent reporting does not fully reflect the known carnage coronavirus has caused among nursing home and adult care residents. The revelation comes as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is under fire for his policies regarding nursing homes amid the coronavirus pandemic. New York is the only state with large coronavirus outbreaks among its long-term care facilities that doesn’t count residents who died at a hospital. New York quietly changed the way it reports long-term care fatalities around April 28. New York has omitted an unknown number of coronavirus deaths in recent reports regarding residents of nursing home and adult care facilities, the New York State Department of Health acknowledged in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation. In early May, those reports quietly began omitting long-term care residents who died of coronavirus in hospitals. Even so, New York still leads the nation with 5,433 reported deaths at nursing homes and adult care facilities as of Wednesday. The revelation comes as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faces criticism for ordering nursing homes and other long-term care facilities to accept patients from hospitals who had tested positive for coronavirus. Cuomo rescinded the March 25 order, which experts say led to higher levels of death among nursing home residents, on May 11 to allow such facilities to wait until a coronavirus patient tests negative before readmitting them. The NYSDOH confirmed to the DCNF that until around April 28, it was disclosing coronavirus deaths for all nursing home and adult care facility residents, regardless of whether the patient died at their long-term care facility or at a hospital. But the department made a subtle change to its disclosures beginning around May 3, according to web archives. The NYSDOH told the DCNF its disclosure now only reports coronavirus deaths for long-term care patients that died while physically present at their facility. New York’s coronavirus tracker “currently does not include out of facility deaths,” NYSDOH spokeswoman Jill Montag told the DCNF. “Deaths of nursing home and adult care facility residents that occurred at hospitals is accounted for in the overall fatality data on our COVID-19 tracker.” In other words, New York’s nursing home and adult care facility coronavirus deaths tracker omits any individuals who contracted coronavirus while living at a long-term care facility but died in a hospital. Montag told the DCNF that the state is opting to not disclose out of facility deaths “in order to maintain consistency and reliability in the data as presented, and to avoid any potential for double-counting.” But the reporting change has, in fact, resulted in inconsistencies in New York’s disclosure of long-term care coronavirus fatalities, particularly regarding deaths of residents of adult care facilities, which don’t typically don’t have the medical capacity of nursing homes or hospitals. New York reported on April 28 that there had been 644 deaths from residents of adult care facility residents who died at either the facility or at a hospital. Montag confirmed that the table “contained lab-confirmed and, in some cases, presumed COVID-19 deaths.” The New York State Department of Health reported 644 adult care facility residents who died from coronavirus at either their facility or at a hospital. Department spokeswoman Jill Montag confirmed that this chart “includes lab-confirmed and, in some cases, presumed COVID-19 deaths.” (NYSDOH/Screenshot) But on May 13, after the state ceased disclosing long-term care residents who died at hospitals, New York reported a total of 165 coronavirus-confirmed and presumed deaths at adult care facilities — a reduction of 479 deaths from its disclosure 16 days prior. Of the nine states with the largest coronavirus outbreaks at long-term care facilities, according to a New York Times tracker, New York is the only state that omits the deaths of residents who died at hospitals from its reporting. Spokespeople for the health departments of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts confirmed to the DCNF that their disclosures include coronavirus deaths of long-term care residents regardless of their place of death. The health departments of California, Connecticut and Georgia all make clear in their reporting that their disclosures of long-term care residents who died of coronavirus includes those who died in hospitals. Connecticut’s reporting of nursing home deaths, for example, specifically “includes residents currently in-house, in the hospital, or who are deceased.” The NYSDOH did not respond to the DCNF when asked if it disputes that the state is omitting at least 479 adult care facility residents that died from coronavirus at a hospital in its reporting on long-term care deaths. The department also did not respond when asked what the health benefits are of concealing the deaths of long-term care residents who died in hospitals from its reporting on long-term care coronavirus fatalities. (RELATED: REPORT: New York Allowed Coronavirus-Infected Nurses To Work In Nursing Home) New York ceased reporting deaths of long-term care residents who died in hospitals the same day it unveiled 1,700 previously undisclosed deaths that occurred on the grounds of long-term care facilities from residents presumed to have coronavirus. The change was made as Cuomo began facing increasing scrutiny from the media over his order forcing nursing homes to take in patients who had tested positive for coronavirus. The president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, Sally Aiken, told the DCNF that “from a public health point of view, tracking the possible location of exposure to COVID-19 is important.” “It is important to track possible exposures, and not doing so accurately interferes with appropriate public health response,” Aiken said. Betsy McCaughey, a former Republican lieutenant governor of New York and current chairman of the patient advocacy group Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, told the DNCF that New York should rejoin other states and resume disclosing the deaths of all long-term care patients, regardless of whether they died at a hospital. “It would be a more accurate reflection of the peril at nursing homes,” McCaughey said. “If you look at the more accurate figures reported by other states, it’s reasonable to conclude that half of all deaths in the United States are among nursing home residents and that rather than shutting down the economy they could have focused resources on nursing homes.” Indeed, of the nine states with the largest coronavirus outbreaks, New York has the lowest reported share of state deaths from long-term care residents at 20%, according to The Times. The share of long-term care resident fatalities reported by the other eight states ranges from 36% to 66%, according to The Times.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 8:21:46 GMT -6
Wearing a mask doesn’t protect people from catching COVID-19, and wearing them gives a “false sense of security,” the prime minister of Sweden says. Many countries across Europe are demanding citizens wear face masks in public areas, but Sweden has opted against that edict. “There is a risk of a false sense of security, that you believe that you can’t be infected if you wear a face mask,” Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said. “Face masks in public spaces do not provide any greater protection to the population,” the Nordic country’s Public Health Agency’s (PHA) general director Johan Carlson said at a press conference on Wednesday. Swedish health and other top government officials say that wearing a face mask could make people ignore social distancing rules. And they say that anyone infected with the virus can still transmit it, even with a mask on. Instead, officials say washing hands, not touching your face, staying at home if sick, and social distancing are the best ways to limit the spread of COVID-19. In fact, the PHA says wearing a face mask increases the odds of the wearer touching his or her face. “The virus can gather in the mask and when you take it off, the virus can be transferred to your hands and thereby spread further,” Sweden’s state epidemiologist Dr. Anders Tegnell told SVT. “Face masks can be effective against larger free-floating particles [connected to air pollution], but nothing suggests that they help protect you from airborne viruses,” Tegnell said. www.svt.se/
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 8:23:16 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/05/17/chinese-official-laboratories-ordered-destroy-coronavirus-samples/Chinese Official Confirms That China Ordered Labs To Destroy Coronavirus Samples A senior Chinese government official confirmed Friday that authorities ordered laboratories to destroy samples of coronavirus in early January. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had accused Chinese officials of ordering the samples’ destruction as part of the regime’s cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in its early stages. Pompeo said on April 22 that China “censored those who tried to warn the world, it ordered a halt to testing of new samples, and it destroyed existing samples.” He offered more specificity on May 6, stating that China’s National Health Commission [NHC] ordered virus samples destroyed on Jan. 3. NHC official Liu Dengfeng conceded at a briefing on Friday that the agency had ordered the labs to destroy the samples, but said that the order was given for safety reasons. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The facility is among a handful of labs around the world cleared to handle dangerous viruses with a high risk of person-to-person transmission. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) “If the laboratory conditions cannot meet the requirements for the safe preservation of samples, the samples should be destroyed on the spot or transferred to a professional institution for safekeeping,” Dengfend said, according to The Wall Street Journal. “Based on comprehensive research and expert opinion, we decided to temporarily manage the pathogen causing the pneumonia as Class II — highly pathogenic — and imposed biosafety requirements on sample collection, transport and experimental activities, as well as destroying the samples,” Dengfeng said, according to the South China Morning Post. Chinese officials repeatedly suppressed the truth about coronavirus. Chinese authorities silenced doctors, whistleblowers and journalists who sought to warn the public about the virus. (RELATED: EU Let China Censor Ambassador’s Op-Ed By Removing Reference To Coronavirus Originating In China) The majority view among the U.S. intelligence community agencies is that COVID-19 is a naturally occurring virus that accidentally leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan, China, a senior intelligence official previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation. China has stonewalled the rest of the world, including the China-friendly World Health Organization, from its investigation into the virus’s origins.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 10:17:55 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/impeach-king-cuomo-angry-new-yorkers-demand-end-to-coronavirus-lockdown‘Impeach King Cuomo’: Angry New Yorkers Demand End To Coronavirus Lockdown You can’t keep New Yorkers down for long. While millions in the city have willingly locked down for the past two months to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the mood is quickly changing. On Saturday, several hundred people, mostly small business owners, gathered on Staten Island to protest Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s closure of businesses deemed “non-essential.” “Stand up to them! Do not lay down for them!” Staten Island business owner Steve Margarella yelled to a cheering crowd, The New York Post reported. “Who is going to stand with me, who is going to swing their doors open on Monday and say, ‘I’m going in? You want me? Come and get me. I’m feeding my men, I’m feeding my family. I’m paying my bills and I’m not gonna’ let you stop me.'” He said de Blasio “has had his boots on our throats” for the past four years. And he called Cuomo “Il Duce,” which was Mussolini’s nickname. The parking lot of Showplace Entertainment Center in Staten Island filled up with cars and motorcycles, many bearing American flags while tunes from Motley Crue and Billy Idol blared over the loudspeaker before the noon kick-off. “We want it all opened up so we can work,” said a sign company owner who didn’t want to give his name. “80,000 died so far. If we put down another 80,000 in the six months it would take to create a vaccine, at least we would have our country. [The 80,000 people] will go down as American heroes.” Cuomo, who has been widely praised by the mainstream media, is beginning to come under fire — for good reason. New York state has the most coronavirus cases in the United States. There have been 27,169 COVID-19 deaths in the state, the fourth most populous in the U.S. with more than 19 million people. But California, the most populous state at nearly 40 million residents, has had just 2,789 deaths. Texas, second-most populous at about 29 million, has had only 1,121 deaths. And Florida, No. 3 on the list at 21 million and home to many elderly residents, comes in between the two, at 1,779 COVID-19 deaths. New York state has seen more nursing home deaths from the coronavirus than any other state after Cuomo enacted a state directive that required nursing homes to take in any and all coronavirus patients. The virus then swept through the most vulnerable population. “New York has seen over 5,300 coronavirus-related deaths in nursing homes, which is about one-fifth of the nation’s total of nursing home deaths (about 26,000). The Associated Press reports an average of 20 to 25 nursing home deaths per day in the state of New York,” the Associated Press wrote Monday. And the governor has also come under fire for what he’s doing to all the health care workers who came to the city from across the country for help. He announced last week that he’ll be sending an income tax bill to every out-of-state health care worker, to collect income taxes on any money they made from other sources while serving as volunteers in New York. Under state law, anyone who works in New York for more than 14 days has to pay state income taxes — and Cuomo made clear he wouldn’t waive that provision.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 10:22:56 GMT -6
Icky and the rest, since you purchase false intel on President Trump all the time, here you go: www.dailywire.com/news/notorious-hacker-group-revil-claims-to-have-damaging-info-on-trump-demands-42-millionNotorious Hacker Group ‘REvil’ Claims To Have Damaging Info On Trump — Demands $42 Million Cyber hackers claim to have broken into computers at an A-list legal firm, where they say they gathered information on a slew of celebrities — and President Trump. The group, which calls itself REvil, is demanding $42 million in ransom. The hackers are threatening to publish “a ton of dirty laundry” on Trump, even though he’s never been a client of the New York City law firm Grubman, Shire, Meiselas and Sacks. The cyber-theft from the law firm reportedly involved 756 gigabytes of sensitive information. On Thursday, the hackers issued a new message. “The ransom is now [doubled to] $42,000,000 … The next person we’ll be publishing is Donald Trump. There’s an election going on, and we found a ton of dirty laundry on him.” They added, “Mr. Trump, if you want to stay president, poke a sharp stick at the guys, otherwise you may forget this ambition forever. And to you voters, we can let you know that after such a publication, you certainly don’t want to see him as president … The deadline is one week. Grubman, we will destroy your company down to the ground if we don’t see the money.” The law firm is refusing to pay, Fox News reported, which said “a trove of details of some of the biggest deals in showbiz history, including Bruce Springsteen’s Netflix deal and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ rumored $100 million vodka deal, will be laid bare on the internet.” The firm’s clients include Lady Gaga, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Priyanka Chopra and Bette Midler. A source with knowledge of the hack told the New York Post, “Grubman isn’t going to pay these cyber-terrorists a penny, so it is likely all his files will end up released by the hackers. The interesting details in there could include U2’s lucrative publishing deals with Universal, worth an estimated $300 million, as well as Springsteen’s deal with Netflix, estimated to be worth $20 million, as well as how much Diddy actually made in that Ciroc vodka deal.” The source added, “Often, the most damaging details are in the personal emails of the stars and the executives — which is what happened with the 2014 Sony hack. But it is not known how many personal emails have been stolen from the Grubman hackers.” The hackers have not specifically threatened to reveal details on these stars nor these specific deals. The U.S. Secret Service and the FBI are investigating REvil. In a statement to The Post, the law firm said: “Despite our substantial investment in state-of-the-art technology security, foreign cyberterrorists have hacked into our network and are demanding $42 million as ransom. We are working directly with federal law enforcement and continue to work around the clock with the world’s leading experts to address this situation. “The leaking of our clients’ documents is a despicable and illegal attack by these foreign cyberterrorists who make their living attempting to extort high-profile U.S. companies, government entities, entertainers, politicians, and others. Previously, the United States Department of Defense, HBO, Goldman Sachs, as well as numerous state and local governments, have been victims of similar cybercriminal attacks. “We have been informed by the experts and the FBI that negotiating with or paying ransom to terrorists is a violation of federal criminal law. Even when enormous ransoms have been paid, the criminals often leak the documents anyway,” the law firm said.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 11:14:40 GMT -6
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning. The New York City Mayor is asking President Trump for $7 billion to bail out his city following years of failed far left policy and the recent coronavirus pandemic. During the discussion Maria Bartiromo asked Comrade de Blasio about New York City’s illegal sanctuary city policies. De Blasio argued his sanctuary city policies are “Constitutional.” Mayor de Blasio: We follow the rule of law in this city and we respect the fact that there is a half-a-million people here who happen to be undocumented. And the US Supreme Court said in 2012 that the federal government does not have in a federal system that respects states and localities, does not have the ability because of its own policy preferences to penalize cities that are trying to provide security and safety. You know the funding that the funding the president originally threatened was for the NYPD and the terrorism efforts… So we’re going to stick with our policies that the Constitution protects. And we’re going to serve our people and create a place that is safe for everyone.It is well documented that sanctuary city laws are unconstitutional. De Blasio was just pushing his normal BS. www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/sanctuary-cities-thats-constitutional-hell-noSanctuary Cities? That's a Constitutional 'Hell No'Apr 18th, 2017 7 min read COMMENTARY BY Hans A. von Spakovsky @hvonspakovsky Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues – including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration. KEY TAKEAWAYSWhile there are many areas over which the states and the federal government share responsibility, immigration is not one of them. The sanctuary policies implemented by cities such as Seattle seek to nullify federal immigration law and obstruct its enforcement. Sanctuary states and cities want to “frustrate effectuation” of federal enforcement of our immigration laws. You may not have heard of the “Nullification Crisis” that President Andrew Jackson faced in 1832. But there are many unfortunate similarities between it and what is happening today on immigration. From the unjustified obstruction of immigration law by some activist federal judges to the defiance of the federal government on sanctuary policies by governors and city mayors such as Ed Murray of Seattle, there are some interesting parallels — and lessons. I was reminded of the Nullification Crisis recently on a tour of James Madison’s home, Montpelier, which is close to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. One of the docents related how President Jackson had visited Madison in the midst of his reelection campaign to get his advice. This crisis was about high tariffs which, before the implementation of the income tax in 1913 through the Sixteenth Amendment, was one of the main sources of income for the federal government. High tariff rates were resented throughout the South, particularly in South Carolina. While they benefited manufacturers in the northern states, they hurt the mostly agricultural southern states. Led by John Calhoun, South Carolina and other states asserted that they had the final authority to declare federal laws unconstitutional and thus null and void within their states. While Jackson was a moderate on tariffs and respectful of the rights states retained in our federal system, he was scornful of the nullification theory. He considered it an unconstitutional, “abominable doctrine” that “will dissolve the Union.” Get exclusive insider information from Heritage experts delivered straight to your inbox each week. Subscribe to The Agenda >> In 1832, the nullifiers took control of the South Carolina government and passed the infamous “Ordinance of Nullification.” They expressed the same type of virulent hostility and contempt for (and defiance of) the Jackson administration and the tariff system that we are seeing today towards the Trump administration over enforcement of federal immigration law, including provisions against certain sanctuary policies. Those states and cities are pushing the same concept of nullification of federal law, although they are doing it in federal court. As one would expect of Andrew Jackson, he reacted strongly to this threat from South Carolina, including issuing a Nullification Proclamation on Dec. 10, 1832. Nullification was “incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed,” He wrote. The crisis was resolved by a compromise bill on tariffs that Congress passed in 1833 after passing the Force Bill, which gave the president the power to use state militias and federal forces against the nullifiers. The similarity between these events and what is happening today are eerie. While there are many areas over which the states and the federal government share responsibility — or where the Tenth Amendment gives responsibility to the states — immigration is not one of them. Section 8 of Article I gives Congress exclusive authority to “establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization,” just as Section 8 gives Congress the exclusive authority to establish and collect all “Imposts and Excises” or tariffs. The states have no authority in these areas at all. They can no more dispute the immigration rules established by Congress than they could dispute the tariffs imposed by Congress back in 1832. This makes perfect sense. Any other rule would produce chaos. Think of the enormous problems that would be caused by border states such as Texas or California deciding that they would ignore federal law and apply their own immigration rules to individuals coming across the Mexican border into the United States — or if states decided that they would impose their own tariffs on foreign goods coming into their states in addition to those imposed by the federal government. In fact, it was that kind of behavior that was restricting trade under the Articles of Confederation between states such as Virginia and Maryland that helped lead to the call for a constitutional convention. When it comes to immigration and the entry of aliens into the U.S., Congress delegated to the president the extremely broad authority under 8 U.S.C. §1182 (f) to suspend the entry of any aliens or class of aliens into the U.S. if he believes it “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.” As five dissenting judges at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently pointed out, there are a long series of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the authority of prior presidents under this provision and severely limiting the ability of the courts to review the president’s decision. Unfortunately, at the urging of certain states, the courts have in large part ignored the Constitution, federal law, and prior precedents. They are instead substituting their judgment for that of the president, and enjoining the president’s executive order by implementing a temporary halt to entry from certain terrorist safe havens. In essence, states such as Hawaii and Washington are turning to activist federal judges to nullify the exclusive authority of the federal government over immigration and the security of our national border — and those judges are complying. The sanctuary policies implemented by cities such as San Francisco and Seattle also seek to nullify federal immigration law and obstruct its enforcement. 8 U.S.C. §1373 prohibits states and local jurisdictions from preventing their law enforcement officials from exchanging information with federal officials on the citizenship status of individuals they have arrested or detained. The Supreme Court upheld this provision in 2012 in Arizona v. United States. Quite appropriately, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that he will not award any discretionary federal grants from the Justice Department to cities that violate §1373. Seattle has filed suit, claiming that the federal government has no right to cut off its access to discretionary funding. The city also makes the meritless claims that its policy does not violate federal immigration law. Sanctuary cities are claiming that Sessions is trying to force them to enforce federal immigration law and that the loss of federal funds would violate the holding in NFIB v. Sebelius (2012). This is the Supreme Court decision that upheld Obamacare but found that the Medicaid portion of Obamacare, which required states to significantly expand their Medicaid coverage or risk losing all Medicaid funding, violated the Spending Clause of the Constitution. The federal government was “commandeering” the states by compelling them to “enact or administer a federal regulatory program.” But Sessions is simply trying to get states to not obstruct federal enforcement. That includes abiding by the ban contained in Section 1373. Sanctuary cities are trying to prevent federal officials from finding out about criminal alien murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals that these cities would apparently rather release than have picked up and deported so they cannot further victimize Americans. Section 1373 doesn’t force local law enforcement officials to notify federal officials when they detain an illegal alien; It simply says that local governments can’t ban law enforcement officials from doing so. The spurious legal argument that §1373 violates the anti-commandeering principle was raised by the City of New York in a lawsuit against the federal government only 11 days after the provision became federal law. New York also had a policy in place that forbade city officials from transmitting information on the immigration status of any individual to federal immigration authorities. In City of New York v. U.S. (1999), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the city’s case because the federal law was constitutional and well within congressional authority on immigration. As the court pointed out, §1373 does not compel “state and local governments to enact or administer any federal regulatory program. Nor has it affirmatively conscripted states, localities, or their employees into the federal government’s service.” The only thing the provision does is prohibit state and local governmental entities or officials from “directly restricting the voluntary exchange of immigration information with the INS.” A contrary holding would cause chaos: “If Congress may not forbid states from outlawing even voluntary cooperation with federal programs by state and local officials, states will at times have the power to frustrate effectuation of some programs.” We can only hope that the current nullification crisis will also be resolved once and for all when all of the lawsuits being filed by the states to prevent the enforcement of federal immigration law reach the Supreme Court. That is clearly what is happening here: sanctuary states and cities want to “frustrate effectuation” of federal enforcement of our immigration laws. The absence of such cooperation, as the Second Circuit said, would force federal officials to “resort to legal processes in every routine or trivial matter, often a practical impossibility.” This was the same type of resistance exhibited by local governments to Brown v. Board of Education: “a refusal by local government to cooperate until under a court order to do so.” Furthermore, refusing to award sanctuary cities funds that have to be applied for and that are entirely discretionary within the judgement of the attorney general does not come anywhere close to “commandeering” a “State’s legislative or administrative apparatus for federal purposes,” which was the key factor in the NFIB decision. The Supreme Court said that there is no violation of the Spending Clause “when a State has a legitimate choice whether to accept the federal conditions in exchange for federal funds.” States can make their own decisions on whether to apply for a portion of the $4.1 billion the Justice Department has available to local jurisdictions for improving their law enforcement programs. In fact, this situation raises even fewer concerns than a federal law that the Supreme Court upheld in South Dakota v. Dole (1987). That law provided that states would lose five percent of their federal highway funds if they did not raise the drinking age to 21. This was “relatively mild encouragement” compared to the Medicaid expansion in Obamacare, where the Court described the potential loss of all Medicaid funding as a “gun to the head.” Similarly, when it comes to sanctuary cities, the Justice Department isn’t threatening the cutoff of any major entitlement funds such as Medicaid or even state highway funds. What’s at stake are discretionary grants that the states may or may not decide to apply for, and which the Justice Department may or may not choose to grant. The Nullification Crisis was resolved when South Carolina rescinded its nullification ordinance after President Jackson issued his Nullification Proclamation. We can only hope that the current nullification crisis will also be resolved once and for all when all of the lawsuits being filed by the states to prevent the enforcement of federal immigration law reach the Supreme Court.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 11:18:56 GMT -6
About time www.dailywire.com/news/experts-finally-declare-imperial-college-coronavirus-model-that-predicted-2-2m-dead-in-u-s-totally-unreliableExperts Finally Declare Imperial College Coronavirus Model That Predicted 2.2M Dead In U.S. ‘Totally Unreliable’ The prediction was terrifying. The Imperial College London model from March showed that as many as 2.2 million Americans could die from COVID-19. But the model was off — way off. And now experts say it was “totally unreliable.”
One computer data modeling expert said the Imperial model coding, done by professor Neil Ferguson, is a “buggy mess that looks more like a bowl of angel hair pasta than a finely tuned piece of programming,” The Daily Telegraph reported.
“In our commercial reality, we would fire anyone for developing code like this and any business that relied on it to produce software for sale would likely go bust,” David Richards, co-founder of British data technology company WANdisco, told the Telegraph.The model has been a key part of recommendations from the White House Coronavirus Task Force and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Ferguson was also a scientific adviser to the British government, and he warned in mid-March that 500,000 people could die from the pandemic. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson responded to the report by imposing a national lockdown. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh say that the findings in Ferguson’s model were impossible to reproduce using the same data. The team got different results when they used different machines, and even different results from the same machines.
“There appears to be a bug in either the creation or re-use of the network file. If we attempt two completely identical runs, only varying in that the second should use the network file produced by the first, the results are quite different,” the Edinburgh researchers wrote.
“Models must be capable of passing the basic scientific test of producing the same results given the same initial set of parameters … otherwise, there is simply no way of knowing whether they will be reliable,” said Michael Bonsall, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Oxford University.The Imperial College COVID19 Response Team defended itself. “The U.K. Government has never relied on a single disease model to inform decision-making. As has been repeatedly stated, decision-making around lockdown was based on a consensus view of the scientific evidence, including several modelling studies by different academic groups.” “Epidemiology is not a branch of computer science and the conclusions around lockdown rely not on any mathematical model but on the scientific consensus that COVID-19 is a highly transmissible virus with an infection fatality ratio exceeding 0.5pc in the UK,” the college said in a statement. Ferguson resigned from his advisory role earlier this month after it was revealed that he defied his own lockdown advice by meeting his married lover twice. “Professor Neil Ferguson allowed the woman to visit him at home during the lockdown while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancing in order to reduce the spread of coronavirus. The woman lives with her husband and their children in another house,” The Telegraph reported.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 11:34:20 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 11:36:22 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/17/columbia-u-professor-tells-trump-supporting-student-to-drop-dead/Columbia University professor and Deputy Chair of the political science department Jeffrey Lax called a conservative student a “neo-Nazi murderer lover” and told him to “drop dead” on social media over his support for President Donald Trump. Columbia University professor and Deputy Chair of the school’s political science department Jeffrey Lax told a conservative student to “drop dead,” and called him a “neo-nazi murderer lover” on social media for agreeing with the president’s efforts in handling the Chinese virus, according to a report by the New York Post. “Why don’t you just drop dead, you neo-nazi enabler,” said professor Lax to student Gabriel Montalvo during an argument on Facebook. “I’m too educated to think you are honest,” added Lax in another comment to Montalvo. “I know someone defending the indefensible. Neo-nazi murderer lover. That’s all you are.” Soon after, Montalvo took to Twitter to share Lax’s remarks and ask Columbia University if the professor’s comments were reflective of the college’s views. “Libel or stupidity?” asked the student in his Twitter post. “[Columbia,] is this behavior reflective of the college’s views? A Deputy Chair at your university is telling a supporter of [President Trump] to go die over a difference of opinion?” “He then has the gall to call a U.S. Soldier a Nazi!?” added Montalvo, who serves with the New York Army National Guard, according to the student’s Facebook page. “Professors and higher education establishments should be examples of the exchange of civil discussion, not cyber harassment & perverting a historic tragedy to push an agenda,” added Montalvo in a follow-up tweet. Montalvo, who is a student at CUNY Queensborough Community College, told New York Post that the argument started over a comment that he had left on a political cartoon that one of his former high school teachers had posted on Facebook. “I commented on a political cartoon, where I defended President Trump on how he’s handled the pandemic,” said Montalvo. “Mr. Lax then attacked me — he responded very belligerently.” The student added that he has filed a formal complaint with the university via email, and that a representative for Columbia President Lee Bollinger told him they would review the matter — but the student has not yet heard anything back from them. Lax received his Ph.D. from New York University in 2001, according to his biography on the university’s website. The biography goes on to state that the professor also studies “responsiveness to public opinion, with projects on the efficacy of majoritarian institutions, the effects of public opinion on the civil rights of gays and lesbians, and the confirmation of Supreme Court justices.” Columbia University did not respond to Breitbart News’ request for comment.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 12:31:47 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/contractors-hired-to-clean-nyc-subways-say-they-were-given-dirty-rags-no-ppeContractors Hired To Clean NYC Subways Say They Were Given Dirty Rags, No PPE A group of contractors, who say they were hired to clean and disinfect New York City public transportation earlier this month, as a way of slowing the spread of coronavirus on the “super-spreader” subway, claimed, in a video posted to social media late last week that they were given only dirty rags and mops to work with and little to no personal protective equipment. Local NYC news outlet, NY1, reports that “contract workers cleaning the subways of COVID-19 say in cellphone video the supplies they use are dirty and the personal protective equipment (PPE) they’re given is inadequate. One of the workers claims their lives are in danger while they’re not even able to make the subways safer.” One worker, who spoke to NY1 said that “she is fed up with being scared of working in conditions she claims are dangerous. She cleans the subways for the MTA, working for contractor LN Pro Services LLC.” “She claims the company gives out the same old rags each day for an entire shift, and mops which are not cleaned properly after each shift, nor are they able to clean them during shifts,” the outlet said Friday. Just a week ago, for the first time since the pandemic started, New York City’s mayor Bill de Blasio ordered the subways, which many believe are responsible for NYC’s high number of coronavirus cases, shut down overnight and deep cleaned. Workers, CNN said, tackled the job of deep cleaning and disinfecting more than 500 individual subway stations and hundreds of train cars, trying to make New Yorkers’ daily commutes safer. New York, of course, has been the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, with nearly half of all infections in the United States, and a large percentage of COVID-19 deaths. An MIT study from last month called the subway a “major disseminator” of coronavirus, though it may still be too early to know precisely why New York City was hit so hard by the novel disease, which originated in China. At the very least, though, the study’s author says, “we know that close contact in subways is fully consistent with the spread of coronavirus, either by inhalable droplets or residual fomites left on railings, pivoted grab handles, and those smooth, metallic, vertical poles that everyone shares.” New York is trying to mitigate that spread — a task that is made markedly harder, subway workers say, when they lack necessary, clean equipment. “The mop ends as you see it: black. We started using it since this morning,” one worker is shown saying in the cellphone video. “We are supposedly disinfecting, and that is a lie. We are not disinfecting. If you clean your house with a dirty mop the whole day, you are not cleaning your house; you are simply spreading the same dirt inside your house.” The city has yet to comment on the report and the worker’s claims have not been independently verified.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 12:36:13 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/17/ca-gov-newsom-federal-government-has-moral-and-ethical-obligation-to-financially-support-states/CA Gov. Newsom: Federal Government Has ‘Moral’ And ‘Ethical’ Obligation to Financially Support States Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said federal lawmakers have a “moral” and “ethical” obligation to provide emergency relief to states amid the coronavirus pandemic. Partial transcript as follows: TAPPER: So, the position of the White House seems to be that any money for states would be premature. What’s your response, sir? NEWSOM: Well, it’s not charity. I mean, a year ago, Jake, we were running a $21.5 billion surplus. And here we are at $54.3 billion budget deficit that is directly COVID- induced. We have been managing our budget effectively, efficiently, paying down our long-term pension obligations. We had a bond rating that went up twice last year, the highest in decades. So, we’re not looking for charity. We’re not looking for handouts. It’s social responsibility, at a time when states not just California, large and small, all across this country, cities, and counties, large and small, all across this country are facing unprecedented budgetary stress. It is incumbent upon the federal government to help support these states through this difficult time. TAPPER: Well, the House passed a bill on Friday night with money for states, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has suggested it’s dead on arrival. Can you explain what you think will happen to California if the federal government doesn’t give you money to help you out? NEWSOM: Well, these same folks that say it’s dead on arrival, I hope they will consider this. The next time they want to salute and celebrate our heroes, our first responders, our police officers, and firefighters, consider the fact that they are the first ones that will be laid off by cities and counties. The folks that are out there, the true heroes of this pandemic are health care workers and nurses. Those county health systems have been ravaged. Their budgets have been devastated and depleted. Their budget counts depleted since this pandemic. They’re the first ones to be laid off. So, we have got to square our rhetoric with the reality. Twenty percent of Americans are unemployed. In a few weeks, over 100,000 Americans will have lost their lives. These are Depression-era unemployment numbers, and we have to own up to that. So, I’m not looking to score cheap political points, but I do want to make this point, Jake. We have an obligation, a moral, an ethical obligation to American citizens all across this country to help support cities, states and counties.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 12:42:13 GMT -6
This did not go the way Jake Tapper thought it would lol. www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/05/17/cnn-jake-tapper-blasted-for-hypocrisy-after-accusing-trump-of-smear-campaign-against-rivals/CNN’s Jake Tapper Blasted for Hypocrisy After Accusing Trump of ‘Smear Campaign’ Against Rivals CNN’s Jake Tapper was hit by a wave of criticism on social media Sunday after he accused President Donald Trump of “launching an unprecedented smear campaign against any rival,” with many accusing him and CNN of hypocrisy. Tapper, commenting on former President Barack Obama’s recent criticism of Trump’s leadership during the coronavirus pandemic, added during a monologue on his show: The criticism from Obama comes at a time when President Trump and his team are launching an unprecedented smear campaign against any rival. Leveling wild and false allegations against critics in the media and political rivals that range from bizarre false conspiracy theories to spreading false allegations of pedophilia to even suggesting one TV anchor committed murder. These smear campaigns are unmoored from reality. They’re deranged and indecent and seem designed to distract from us from this horrific health and economic crisis. Tapper made similar comments on Twitter: Tapper did not mention specific examples, though the “murder” claim appears to refer to an intern who died in MSNBC host Joe Scarborough’s office when he was a congressman. The death was ruled accidental, caused by a heart condition that had previously been undiagnosed. Trump has ribbed Scarborough over the incident, referring to it as a “cold case.” But critics were not having it, noting that Tapper and CNN had relentlessly pushed a variety of smears against Trump and his administration, including the false claim of Russia “collusion”; the uncorroborated claims of sexual assault against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and many more besides — without ever offering any sort of apology. Last week, CNN’s media reporter, Brian Stelter, complained that conservative media were emphasizing the Michael Flynn story — in his view, at the expense of coronavirus coverage. Stelter showed no concern for the role CNN and other networks played in hyping Flynn’s supposed role in a Russia “collusion” conspiracy that never actually existed.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 13:42:36 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/05/17/cnn-jake-tapper-ron-johnson-russia-hoax/CNN Anchor Accuses GOP Senator Of Calling Russian Interference A ‘Hoax,’ But That’s Not What The Tape Shows CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Sen. Ron Johnson suggested that Russian interference in the 2016 election was a “hoax” in an interview Sunday with the Wisconsin Republican. But a tape of the interview shows that Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, instead told Tapper that the now-debunked theory of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign was the hoax. The exchange highlighted a common occurrence in the media’s coverage of the Russia probe. Lawmakers and others who dispute the theory of collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign have been accused of also denying that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 contest. But the issues are separate. While the Russian government orchestrated email hacking and social media disinformation campaigns to meddle in the 2016 election, nobody affiliated with the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin, the special counsel’s office found. Johnson asserted in the interview that leaks to the media fueled “this entire Russian collusion hoax.” “And it was a hoax.” “I don’t know what you mean by a hoax,” Tapper replied. “Senator, it’s not a hoax that the Russians attempted to interfere in the 2016 election. You know that. It’s not a hoax,” Tapper continued. “You’re suggesting the entire Russia interference campaign was a hoax, and it was not,” Tapper added later in the interview, noting that the Senate Intelligence Committee and other investigators have found that the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 election. After a contentious back-and-forth, Johnson told Tapper that he was not denying that Russia interfered in the election. “The hoax was that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia,” Johnson said. “The disinformation that Russia put into the 2016 campaign flowed through the Steele dossier and Hillary Clinton. I’m not trying to deny Russia tried to intervene with our election.” “That’s what they do,” he added. Tapper did not acknowledge his apparent misinterpretation of which aspect of Russiagate Johnson believed was a hoax. Instead, he moved on to another topic. “Can we get back to unmasking?” he asked. WATCH: The special counsel’s office found that the Russian government meddled in the election, but uncovered no evidence that any Trump associates conspired with Russia during the campaign. The collusion allegation originated largely with Christopher Steele, a former British spy who investigated the Trump campaign on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC. Steele alleged that the Trump campaign was involved in a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” with the Kremlin. (RELATED: FLASHBACK: CNN’s Jim Sciutto Defended Steele Dossier More Than Anybody) CNN hyped the Steele dossier for several years after it was published in January 2017, asserting in news reports that the FBI had corroborated some of Steele’s allegations. But those stories, and the dossier, have turned out to be a bust. The Justice Department inspector general released a report that said the FBI was unable to verify key allegations in the dossier. Some of Steele’s claims were debunked, and his primary source of information for the Trump investigation disputed aspects of the dossier. The FBI also received evidence in 2017 that Russian intelligence operatives might have fed disinformation to Steele, who is based in London. “They put Russian disinformation into the Steele dossier that was bought and paid for through cutouts for the Hillary Clinton campaign,” Johnson told Tapper. A spokesperson for CNN responded to a request for comment but declined to offer a statement on the record.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2020 15:58:03 GMT -6
D. A. Henderson was an American medical doctor, educator, and epidemiologist who directed a 10-year international effort (1967–1977) that eradicated smallpox throughout the world. Dr. Henderson was later the Dean of John Hopkins School of Public Health. Before his death in 2016 Dr. Henderson authored a report on pandemics and the value of lockdowns. According to Dr. Henderson and a team of esteemed epidemiologists lockdowns were found to be “ineffective and destructive.” citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.552.1109&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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Post by kcrufnek on May 17, 2020 23:59:52 GMT -6
Who didn’t see this one coming? losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/05/14/coronavirus-santa-ana-robberies-increase-suspects-face-covering-orders/Santa Ana PD: Robberies Increase By 50%, Suspects Using Face Covering Orders To Their Advantage SANTA ANA (CBSLA) — Pointing a gun right at a gas station clerk, a man in a traffic vest and a ball cap demanded money as his accomplice, wearing a mask, grabbed the cash. “We’re sitting here not knowing who’s going to walk through that door,” Elias Khawan, the owner, said. ADVERTISING The thieves, who did not initially raise the clerk’s suspicion due to local orders for face coverings in light of the coronavirus pandemic, took off in a silver Nissan Altima last Friday at 2 a.m. Khawan said he has never seen anything like it the 17 years he’s run his Santa Ana gas station and convenience store. He said local face covering requirements put his staff in danger. “It’s horrible,” he said. “I mean, I know we have to take certain measures because of what’s happening with COVID-19, but it’s the perfect script or manual for a robber — the mask, the sunshade and a hoodie. You don’t know who’s coming, who’s walking in.” Khawan and his staff feel so unsafe that he has cut his hours from being open all night to closing at 10 p.m., a 25% hit to his bottom line. He has also added signs at his store prohibiting hoodies, backpacks and handbags. “They’re very scared,” he said. “I have two employees who said, ‘No, we don’t want to work at nighttime.'” Live PD did a segment on a guy that at the time had pulled six bank robberies wearing a medical mask.
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Post by kcrufnek on May 18, 2020 0:03:39 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/contractors-hired-to-clean-nyc-subways-say-they-were-given-dirty-rags-no-ppeContractors Hired To Clean NYC Subways Say They Were Given Dirty Rags, No PPE A group of contractors, who say they were hired to clean and disinfect New York City public transportation earlier this month, as a way of slowing the spread of coronavirus on the “super-spreader” subway, claimed, in a video posted to social media late last week that they were given only dirty rags and mops to work with and little to no personal protective equipment. Local NYC news outlet, NY1, reports that “contract workers cleaning the subways of COVID-19 say in cellphone video the supplies they use are dirty and the personal protective equipment (PPE) they’re given is inadequate. One of the workers claims their lives are in danger while they’re not even able to make the subways safer.” One worker, who spoke to NY1 said that “she is fed up with being scared of working in conditions she claims are dangerous. She cleans the subways for the MTA, working for contractor LN Pro Services LLC.” “She claims the company gives out the same old rags each day for an entire shift, and mops which are not cleaned properly after each shift, nor are they able to clean them during shifts,” the outlet said Friday. Just a week ago, for the first time since the pandemic started, New York City’s mayor Bill de Blasio ordered the subways, which many believe are responsible for NYC’s high number of coronavirus cases, shut down overnight and deep cleaned. Workers, CNN said, tackled the job of deep cleaning and disinfecting more than 500 individual subway stations and hundreds of train cars, trying to make New Yorkers’ daily commutes safer. New York, of course, has been the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, with nearly half of all infections in the United States, and a large percentage of COVID-19 deaths. An MIT study from last month called the subway a “major disseminator” of coronavirus, though it may still be too early to know precisely why New York City was hit so hard by the novel disease, which originated in China. At the very least, though, the study’s author says, “we know that close contact in subways is fully consistent with the spread of coronavirus, either by inhalable droplets or residual fomites left on railings, pivoted grab handles, and those smooth, metallic, vertical poles that everyone shares.” New York is trying to mitigate that spread — a task that is made markedly harder, subway workers say, when they lack necessary, clean equipment. “The mop ends as you see it: black. We started using it since this morning,” one worker is shown saying in the cellphone video. “We are supposedly disinfecting, and that is a lie. We are not disinfecting. If you clean your house with a dirty mop the whole day, you are not cleaning your house; you are simply spreading the same dirt inside your house.” The city has yet to comment on the report and the worker’s claims have not been independently verified. Trump's fault.
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Post by kcrufnek on May 18, 2020 0:05:36 GMT -6
I'm all for small business owners standing up for their rights. Having said that this "hero barber" needs to stop talking. I've heard 2 different interviews where he talks about us being "led to the train cars". Please stop with that shit. Now.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 18, 2020 3:58:35 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/contractors-hired-to-clean-nyc-subways-say-they-were-given-dirty-rags-no-ppeContractors Hired To Clean NYC Subways Say They Were Given Dirty Rags, No PPE A group of contractors, who say they were hired to clean and disinfect New York City public transportation earlier this month, as a way of slowing the spread of coronavirus on the “super-spreader” subway, claimed, in a video posted to social media late last week that they were given only dirty rags and mops to work with and little to no personal protective equipment. Local NYC news outlet, NY1, reports that “contract workers cleaning the subways of COVID-19 say in cellphone video the supplies they use are dirty and the personal protective equipment (PPE) they’re given is inadequate. One of the workers claims their lives are in danger while they’re not even able to make the subways safer.” One worker, who spoke to NY1 said that “she is fed up with being scared of working in conditions she claims are dangerous. She cleans the subways for the MTA, working for contractor LN Pro Services LLC.” “She claims the company gives out the same old rags each day for an entire shift, and mops which are not cleaned properly after each shift, nor are they able to clean them during shifts,” the outlet said Friday. Just a week ago, for the first time since the pandemic started, New York City’s mayor Bill de Blasio ordered the subways, which many believe are responsible for NYC’s high number of coronavirus cases, shut down overnight and deep cleaned. Workers, CNN said, tackled the job of deep cleaning and disinfecting more than 500 individual subway stations and hundreds of train cars, trying to make New Yorkers’ daily commutes safer. New York, of course, has been the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, with nearly half of all infections in the United States, and a large percentage of COVID-19 deaths. An MIT study from last month called the subway a “major disseminator” of coronavirus, though it may still be too early to know precisely why New York City was hit so hard by the novel disease, which originated in China. At the very least, though, the study’s author says, “we know that close contact in subways is fully consistent with the spread of coronavirus, either by inhalable droplets or residual fomites left on railings, pivoted grab handles, and those smooth, metallic, vertical poles that everyone shares.” New York is trying to mitigate that spread — a task that is made markedly harder, subway workers say, when they lack necessary, clean equipment. “The mop ends as you see it: black. We started using it since this morning,” one worker is shown saying in the cellphone video. “We are supposedly disinfecting, and that is a lie. We are not disinfecting. If you clean your house with a dirty mop the whole day, you are not cleaning your house; you are simply spreading the same dirt inside your house.” The city has yet to comment on the report and the worker’s claims have not been independently verified. Trump's fault. Lol. I can see Cuomo, etc spin it that way.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 18, 2020 4:09:09 GMT -6
Governor Cuomo launched his defense plan on Sunday. New York Governor Cuomo was asked about the tragic number of deaths in New York nursing homes due to the coronavirus. New York state under Cuomo’s leadership forced nursing homes to take in sick coronavirus patients. The policy resulted in at least 4,900 coronavirus deaths in New York state nursing homes. It took 4,900 deaths before they corrected their coronavirus nursing home policy. On Sunday Governor Cuomo was asked about the huge number of deaths in New York nursing homes. Governor Cuomo replied — “nobody should be prosecuted” — for the deaths caused by coronavirus. Translation: “Don’t prosecute me because I forced COVID patients into nursing homes.”[/b]
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Post by soonernvolved on May 18, 2020 4:13:08 GMT -6
After giving nearly $80 Million to illegal aliens from the cornovirus emergency funds, California governor Gavin Newsom doesn’t have the funds to keep a veterans nursing home up and running in the town of Barstow, in San Bernardino county. Shuttering the home will save the state $2.6 Million, as the state government searches for ways to close a multi billion dollar budget gap. www.vvdailypress.com/news/20200514/newsomrsquos-revised-budget-puts-barstow-veterans-home-on-chopping-block?fbclid=IwAR2zXyLxCrD9mb3OhWZqwrEpA7QuSJlu2zYL4pKU97G-L0hoy-oNKc9jJGQReleased on Thursday, Newsom’s revised budget proposed to “initiate the closure” of the Veterans Home of California-Barstow and a one-year delay for realignment at VHC-Chula Vista and Yountville. If approved, the changes would net state General Fund savings in Fiscal Year 2020-21 of $2.6 million, according to the revised budget. Long-term savings that would result from the Barstow facility’s closure are expected to be $14 million annually. In total, the governor’s revisions would slash $6.1 billion from the state’s budget. The cuts are part of a plan to cover a $54.3 billion budget deficit caused by plummeting state revenues after a mandatory, statewide stay-at-home order forced most businesses to close and put more than 4.7 million people out of work. Overall, the $203 billion spending plan is about 5% lower than what lawmakers approved last year. City officials in Barstow, meanwhile, aren’t ready to give up the facility that was founded in 1996 as the second home for veterans in California and, at the time, the first built in more than 100 years. “The City of Barstow will write a letter to Gov. Newsom pointing out the necessity of the Barstow Veterans Home,” Barstow Mayor Julie Hackbarth-McIntyre told the Daily Press. “We’ll also encourage our surrounding cities, the County of San Bernardino and local citizens to do the same.” But a Department of Veterans Affairs letter sent to the “Barstow Veterans Home Family” on Thursday discusses the closure as if it were a foregone conclusion. In the letter, which was obtained by the Daily Press, CalVet Secretary Vito Imbasciani said, “While this closure will be difficult for all of us, it is not entirely unexpected.” “The Veterans Home of California Master Plan 2020 detailed that Barstow does not meet the criteria for an ideal veterans home location,” Imbasciani wrote. “The area does not have a large veteran population and the Home routinely has critical vacancies; the home is 90 minutes away from the nearest VA medical center; and among other issues, the lack of local nursing programs or a sizeable workforce makes it difficult to recruit for many positions ......... Assemblyman Jay Obernolte came out firing against the proposal to shut down the nursing home
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Post by soonernvolved on May 18, 2020 4:15:35 GMT -6
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