thelibertybeacon--2020-11-17--The Will of The People: The deeper you look, The worse it gets [A Jon Rappoport Report]

The Election Vote : The deeper you look , The worse it gets In this article , I ’ m going to discuss two companies , Dominion , and ES & S .
I would advise investigators not to go to sleep on ES & S .
I ’ m not going to repeat all charges that have been leveled at Dominion Voting Systems .
But look at what happened in Texas , when the Secretary of State had an analysis done in the fall of 2019 .
The devil is in the details , so here they are : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In the [ prior ] January exam , during adjudication of the ballots in the test election , one of the Dominion representatives made a series of mistakes that caused the entire batch of adjudication results to be lost .
We did not see this problem again during this exam , but the adjudication system is unchanged , so this vulnerability is still present .
Recommendation : Certification [ approval of the Dominion system ] should be denied.
” “ Installation is complex , error prone , and tedious .
I counted 184 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to estimate the remaining steps .
I estimate a total of about 500 steps are required to install the software .
I did not count steps that merely said something like ‘ Click OK ’ or ‘ Click Next.
’ This installation manual is 412 pages long with an additional 23 pages of front matter — contents , lists of figures , and the like…Recommendation : Certification should be denied.
” “ Test Voting .
During our voting test , we discovered that some party names and proposition text were not displayed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ballots .
These all turned out to be errors Dominion made in setting up the standard test election used by the Secretary of State .
In the case of the scanner , it had accidently been configured not to accept machine-marked ballots .
The other problems were caused by leaving some fields empty during election setup , something that the EMS software should not allow , or at least highlight .
Recommendation : Certification should be denied.
” “ Misleading Message .
The ballot-marking devices incorrectly informed voters that they were casting their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only printing them .
The ballots are not be counted until they were scanned on a different device .
Recommendation : Certification should be denied.
” “ USB Port Vulnerability .
The ICX ballot-marking device has an indicator light on top to show poll workers when the station is in use .
That light is connected by a USB port .
When Brian Mechler ’ s phone was attached to the USB port , the ICX scanned the files on his phone and did not complain , although Dominion later showed that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drive with files was inserted , the ICX sometimes complained and sometimes did not , apparently according to the content of the USB drive and whether it was present when the ICX was first powered up or inserted later.
” The examiner ’ s final conclusion : “ I can not recommend certification .
Computer systems should be designed to prevent or detect human error whenever possible and minimize the consequences of both human mistakes and equipment failure .
Instead the Democracy Suite 5.5-A is fragile and error prone .
In my opinion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Texas.
” If that doesn ’ t give pause for thought , nothing will .
“ In Georgia , where the race for governor had drawn national interest amid concerns about election integrity , ES & S-owned technology was in use when more than 150,000 voters inexplicably did not cast a vote for lieutenant governor .
In part because the aged ES & S-managed machines did not produce paper backups , it wasn ’ t clear whether mechanical or human errors were to blame .
Litigation surrounding the vote endures to this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & S ’ systems were plagued by mishaps at the local level .
In Johnson County , for instance , the company ’ s brand-new machines faltered in ways that made it difficult to know whether some people had voted more than once.
” “ The vote in 2006 in Sarasota , Florida…There , ES & S machines lost around 18,000 votes ; it is still unclear why .
The loss was far more than the margin of victory , and a lawsuit followed that ultimately resolved little .
The company said in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ done on its machines supports its claim that the devices were not at fault , but the county wound up canceling its dealings with the firm shortly afterward.
” “ Despite such stumbles , ES & S — based in Omaha , Nebraska , and employing roughly 500 people — controls around 50 % of the country ’ s election system market , the company says , meaning that some 70 million Americans vote using the company ’ s equipment.
” “ A ProPublica examination of ES & S shows it has fought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ face of repeated controversies .
The company has a reputation among both its competitors and election officials for routinely going to court when it fails to win contracts or has them taken away , suing voting jurisdictions , rivals , advocates for greater election security and others.
” “ ES & S files many such suits .
In May 2016 , for instance , ES & S unsuccessfully sued Colorado over its decision to buy statewide uniform voting equipment after the state moved to a vote-by-mail system .
The company also sued Colorado @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lost these cases as well.
” “ In Wisconsin , after the 2016 national elections , ES & S sued to prevent Jill Stein , a Green Party candidate for president , from obtaining information about its machines that might have assisted her in her bid for a recount .
A judge rejected ES & S ’ argument that submitting to Stein ’ s request would compromise its proprietary technology.
” “ ES & S has also threatened lawsuits against voting rights activists .
In 2018 , it warned it would sue Audit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for election security — for posting the company ’ s manuals for scanners online ( it hasn ’ t done so ) .
The same year , the company repeatedly said it would initiate litigation against security researchers who bought old ES & S machines and attempted to hack them at a conference on cybersecurity .
The company also sent letters to its own customers , saying it would sue them if they participated in such conferences or provided ES & S equipment to the events.
” HOW DO YOU LIKE ALL THAT @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with excerpts from an American Thinker article by Jay Valentine , “ Big Data to the Rescue : The Electoral College Meets Data Pattern , ” [ 3 ] November 13 , 2020 : “ Here ’ s the summary : For the election returns in many precincts to happen the way they did , Biden would have to flip a coin 1,000 times and get heads every time .
We aren ’ t done here.
” “ He would also have to do it over and over again , in scores , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fraud is always discovered with statistical analysis… Industrial fraud is pretty cool because from the outside , it is invisible… ” “ When subject to statistical analysis against known patterns , industrial fraud stands out like a dinosaur walking through a field of peanut butter .
It is unmistakable.
” “ Yes , it is proof that there is an anomaly of such proportions that it must be investigated .
And this isn ’ t hard .
Remember , all the data you need to do the analysis is after-the-fact voting data .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ single ballot.
” “ …you just need to know that in precinct after precinct , there is an unmistakable pattern that the more people vote for Trump over Biden the greater the number of Trump votes the counting machines scoop from Trump to Biden.
” “ The pattern [ of vote-flipping ] is one that can only be done by machines , like a computer .
There are too many transactions , with too straight a line , across too many precincts , to be the guys with the ballot boxes arriving in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are extra fraud.
” BUT OF COURSE , NOTHING STRANGE HAPPENED IN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION .
NO REASON TO INVESTIGATE .
JUST WATCH THE NEWS NETWORKS .
THEY ’ LL TELL YOU BIDEN IS THE PRESIDENT .
EVERYTHING IS FINE .
GO BACK TO SLEEP .
YOUR MASTERS ARE IN CHARGE .
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The Election Vote: The deeper you look, The worse it gets
Jon Rappoport
In this article, I’m going to discuss two companies, Dominion, and ES&S. I would advise investigators not to go to sleep on ES&S.
I’m not going to repeat all charges that have been leveled at Dominion Voting Systems. But look at what happened in Texas, when the Secretary of State had an analysis done in the fall of 2019.
The report was titled, “Voting System Examination Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite 5.5-A.” [1] It was prepared by James Sneeringer, Ph.D. Designee of the Attorney General of Texas.
The devil is in the details, so here they are:
“Adjudication results can be lost. In the [prior] January exam, during adjudication of the ballots in the test election, one of the Dominion representatives made a series of mistakes that caused the entire batch of adjudication results to be lost. We did not see this problem again during this exam, but the adjudication system is unchanged, so this vulnerability is still present. Recommendation: Certification [approval of the Dominion system] should be denied.”
“Installation is complex, error prone, and tedious. I counted 184 steps in their installation manual before deciding to estimate the remaining steps. I estimate a total of about 500 steps are required to install the software. I did not count steps that merely said something like ‘Click OK’ or ‘Click Next.’ This installation manual is 412 pages long with an additional 23 pages of front matter — contents, lists of figures, and the like…Recommendation: Certification should be denied.”
“Test Voting. During our voting test, we discovered that some party names and proposition text were not displayed, and one scanner was not accepting some ballots. These all turned out to be errors Dominion made in setting up the standard test election used by the Secretary of State. In the case of the scanner, it had accidently been configured not to accept machine-marked ballots. The other problems were caused by leaving some fields empty during election setup, something that the EMS software should not allow, or at least highlight. Recommendation: Certification should be denied.”
“Misleading Message. The ballot-marking devices incorrectly informed voters that they were casting their ballots, when in fact they were only printing them. The ballots are not be counted until they were scanned on a different device. Recommendation: Certification should be denied.”
“USB Port Vulnerability. The ICX ballot-marking device has an indicator light on top to show poll workers when the station is in use. That light is connected by a USB port. When Brian Mechler’s phone was attached to the USB port, the ICX scanned the files on his phone and did not complain, although Dominion later showed that the event was logged. When a USB drive with files was inserted, the ICX sometimes complained and sometimes did not, apparently according to the content of the USB drive and whether it was present when the ICX was first powered up or inserted later.”
The examiner’s final conclusion: “I cannot recommend certification. Computer systems should be designed to prevent or detect human error whenever possible and minimize the consequences of both human mistakes and equipment failure. Instead the Democracy Suite 5.5-A is fragile and error prone. In my opinion it should not be certified for use in Texas.”
If that doesn’t give pause for thought, nothing will.
Now we turn to ES&S, another voting machine company in use in the US. It has a long track record. The source here is a PROPUBLICA article, “The Market for Voting Machines Is Broken. This Company Has Thrived in It,” [2] dated October 28, 2019, by Jessica Huseman. Key excerpts:
“In Georgia, where the race for governor had drawn national interest amid concerns about election integrity, ES&S-owned technology was in use when more than 150,000 voters inexplicably did not cast a vote for lieutenant governor. In part because the aged ES&S-managed machines did not produce paper backups, it wasn’t clear whether mechanical or human errors were to blame. Litigation surrounding the vote endures to this day.”
“In Indiana, ES&S’ systems were plagued by mishaps at the local level. In Johnson County, for instance, the company’s brand-new machines faltered in ways that made it difficult to know whether some people had voted more than once.”
“The vote in 2006 in Sarasota, Florida…There, ES&S machines lost around 18,000 votes; it is still unclear why. The loss was far more than the margin of victory, and a lawsuit followed that ultimately resolved little. The company said in a statement that a variety of testing done on its machines supports its claim that the devices were not at fault, but the county wound up canceling its dealings with the firm shortly afterward.”
“Despite such stumbles, ES&S — based in Omaha, Nebraska, and employing roughly 500 people — controls around 50% of the country’s election system market, the company says, meaning that some 70 million Americans vote using the company’s equipment.”
“A ProPublica examination of ES&S shows it has fought hard to keep its dominance in the face of repeated controversies. The company has a reputation among both its competitors and election officials for routinely going to court when it fails to win contracts or has them taken away, suing voting jurisdictions, rivals, advocates for greater election security and others.”
“ES&S files many such suits. In May 2016, for instance, ES&S unsuccessfully sued Colorado over its decision to buy statewide uniform voting equipment after the state moved to a vote-by-mail system. The company also sued Colorado county over the issue, and it lost these cases as well.”
“In Wisconsin, after the 2016 national elections, ES&S sued to prevent Jill Stein, a Green Party candidate for president, from obtaining information about its machines that might have assisted her in her bid for a recount. A judge rejected ES&S’ argument that submitting to Stein’s request would compromise its proprietary technology.”
“ES&S has also threatened lawsuits against voting rights activists. In 2018, it warned it would sue Audit USA — a small nonprofit that advocates for election security — for posting the company’s manuals for scanners online (it hasn’t done so). The same year, the company repeatedly said it would initiate litigation against security researchers who bought old ES&S machines and attempted to hack them at a conference on cybersecurity. The company also sent letters to its own customers, saying it would sue them if they participated in such conferences or provided ES&S equipment to the events.”
HOW DO YOU LIKE ALL THAT?
I’ll close for now with excerpts from an American Thinker article by Jay Valentine, “Big Data to the Rescue: The Electoral College Meets Data Pattern,” [3] November 13, 2020:
“Here’s the summary: For the election returns in many precincts to happen the way they did, Biden would have to flip a coin 1,000 times and get heads every time. We aren’t done here.”
“He would also have to do it over and over again, in scores, perhaps hundreds of precincts.”
“Welcome to big data analysis.”
“Industrial fraud is always discovered with statistical analysis… Industrial fraud is pretty cool because from the outside, it is invisible…”
“When subject to statistical analysis against known patterns, industrial fraud stands out like a dinosaur walking through a field of peanut butter. It is unmistakable.”
“Is such analysis proof?”
“Yes, it is proof that there is an anomaly of such proportions that it must be investigated. And this isn’t hard. Remember, all the data you need to do the analysis is after-the-fact voting data. You do not need to see a single ballot.”
“…you just need to know that in precinct after precinct, there is an unmistakable pattern that the more people vote for Trump over Biden the greater the number of Trump votes the counting machines scoop from Trump to Biden.”
“The pattern [of vote-flipping] is one that can only be done by machines, like a computer. There are too many transactions, with too straight a line, across too many precincts, to be the guys with the ballot boxes arriving in the middle of the night. They are extra fraud.”
BUT OF COURSE, NOTHING STRANGE HAPPENED IN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. NO REASON TO INVESTIGATE. JUST WATCH THE NEWS NETWORKS. THEY’LL TELL YOU BIDEN IS THE PRESIDENT. EVERYTHING IS FINE. GO BACK TO SLEEP. YOUR MASTERS ARE IN CHARGE.
SOURCES:
[1] https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-sneeringer.pdf
[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-market-for-voting-machines-is-broken-this-company-has-thrived-in-it
[3] https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/big_data_to_the_rescue_the_electoral_college_meets_data_pattern_science.html
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-17--Trump legal team zeroes in on expulsion of election irregularities

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re : [ Trump campaign ’ s Pennsylvania lawsuit heads to court Tuesday ] , [ Voter discrepancies cause Nevada ’ s largest county to throw out one local race ] and [ Georgia discovers 2,600 previously uncounted votes in presidential recount ] .
Trump legal team zeroes in on expulsion of election observers , data irregularities President Trump ’ s campaign legal team has beefed up with several senior lawyers as it prepares to challenge hundreds of thousands of votes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Philadelphia without required GOP observers , arguing the expulsions created disparate treatment or unequal protection of voters in violation of the Constitution .
The team led by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and longtime Trump private lawyer Jay Sekulow has been expanded to include former Justice Department officials Victoria Toensing and Sidney Powell , former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova and trusted campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis .
Paul Clement ( Pictured here/credit AP ) , a George W. Bush administration solicitor general with a strong record of arguing in front of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any cases that reached the nine justices , officials told Just the News .
The lawyers are prepared to argue that votes that were counted on election night and the day after without GOP observers present in Democrat-led cities should be thrown out because they were tainted by a process that was left open to fraud and abuse and illegally treated voters differently in various jurisdictions .
The Trump campaign lawyers have identified 680,000-plus votes in Pennsylvania and about 250,000 in Michigan they believe fall into the category .
To augment the case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ declarations from citizens who allege : • they went to the polls to vote and were told they had already voted when they had not cast ballots • they are listed as voting in a state where they did not cast ballot • they witnessed fraudulent or improper vote counting activities as observers or election officials • extreme statistical anomalies uncovered in a handful of battleground states ’ vote totals are prima facie proof of fraudulent or untoward vote collection and counting activities Both cases involve mail-in ballots , which are at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arguments that rule changes by state officials — not approved by their legislatures as required by the Constitution — coupled with the exclusion of bipartisan vote count observers created election irregularities in parts of Michigan , Pennsylvania and other states that violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution .
“ The President ’ s election integrity efforts have always focused on guaranteeing that every legal vote is counted fairly , accurately , and according to the law .
This is what our system requires and demands .
The campaign has passionately advocated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans agreed the President deserves a second term .
The litigation , however , is not a political endeavor ; it is a legal one , ” Ellis told Just the News .
“ President Trump is fighting to ensure that the people can have confidence in the legitimacy of the results for this election and every election in the future .
Led by Mayor Giuliani , our legal team is aggressively pursuing the best legal remedies to stop the coordinated , systematic , pervasive irregularities , fraud , and outright disregard for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Our U.S. Constitution contemplates that our election system may be attacked through corruption and our founders provided the remedies to safeguard our free and fair elections through our Electoral College system .
The President will fight to preserve and protect our constitutional republic and our great nation.
” Alan Dershowitz , the famed Harvard law professor and successful appellate lawyer , told Just the News that the Trump campaign ’ s strategy appears aimed at throwing the results of three battleground states ’ elections where Biden leads into doubt and forcing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because neither candidate can lawfully claim he has the 270 electoral votes necessary to win .
“ Their goal is not to get Trump to 270 or more electoral votes , it ’ s to keep Biden from getting 270 electoral votes and throw the election to the House , ” he said in an interview Monday evening .
Dershowitz said the Trump team must go beyond sufficient legal arguments and also provide the courts evidence that the number of votes cast into question is enough to have swung each challenged state ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ news media and Democrats for attacking Trump ’ s lawyers for waging the court cases .
Some activists have even doxed certain lawyers , outing their contacts and addresses .
“ It ’ s abhorrent that his lawyers are being attacked , ” he said .
“ The lawyers are doing exactly what lawyers are supposed to do.
” Editor ’ s Note : The author , John Solomon , hired Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing as personal lawyers to represent him on matters in 2018 and 2019 .
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Trump legal team zeroes in on expulsion of election observers, data irregularities
Lawyers to ask the courts to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes cast without equal protection.
By John Solomon
President Trump’s campaign legal team has beefed up with several senior lawyers as it prepares to challenge hundreds of thousands of votes cast in Democratic stronghold cities like Detroit and Philadelphia without required GOP observers, arguing the expulsions created disparate treatment or unequal protection of voters in violation of the Constitution.
The team led by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and longtime Trump private lawyer Jay Sekulow has been expanded to include former Justice Department officials Victoria Toensing and Sidney Powell, former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova and trusted campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis.
Paul Clement (Pictured here/credit AP), a George W. Bush administration solicitor general with a strong record of arguing in front of the Supreme Court, would likely argue any cases that reached the nine justices, officials told Just the News.
The lawyers are prepared to argue that votes that were counted on election night and the day after without GOP observers present in Democrat-led cities should be thrown out because they were tainted by a process that was left open to fraud and abuse and illegally treated voters differently in various jurisdictions. The Trump campaign lawyers have identified 680,000-plus votes in Pennsylvania and about 250,000 in Michigan they believe fall into the category.
To augment the case, the lawyers are securing affidavits and declarations from citizens who allege:
they went to the polls to vote and were told they had already voted when they had not cast ballots
they are listed as voting in a state where they did not cast ballot
they witnessed fraudulent or improper vote counting activities as observers or election officials
extreme statistical anomalies uncovered in a handful of battleground states’ vote totals are prima facie proof of fraudulent or untoward vote collection and counting activities
The request to discount large numbers of votes is a high legal and political hurdle to surmount, but it is not without precedent. In the last year, North Carolina threw out an entire special congressional election in its 9th District after evidence emerged that mail-in ballots were tainted by a ballot harvesting scheme tied to a GOP operative. And in New Jersey, a state judge earlier this year ordered new municipal election in Patterson, N.J., after evidence of ballot fraud emerged.
Both cases involve mail-in ballots, which are at the heart of the Trump campaign’s arguments that rule changes by state officials — not approved by their legislatures as required by the Constitution — coupled with the exclusion of bipartisan vote count observers created election irregularities in parts of Michigan, Pennsylvania and other states that violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
“The President’s election integrity efforts have always focused on guaranteeing that every legal vote is counted fairly, accurately, and according to the law. This is what our system requires and demands. The campaign has passionately advocated for his re-election and over 73 million Americans agreed the President deserves a second term. The litigation, however, is not a political endeavor; it is a legal one,” Ellis told Just the News.
“President Trump is fighting to ensure that the people can have confidence in the legitimacy of the results for this election and every election in the future. Led by Mayor Giuliani, our legal team is aggressively pursuing the best legal remedies to stop the coordinated, systematic, pervasive irregularities, fraud, and outright disregard for the law that hijacked the 2020 election. Our U.S. Constitution contemplates that our election system may be attacked through corruption and our founders provided the remedies to safeguard our free and fair elections through our Electoral College system. The President will fight to preserve and protect our constitutional republic and our great nation.”
Alan Dershowitz. Photo: a katz/Shutterstock.com
Alan Dershowitz, the famed Harvard law professor and successful appellate lawyer, told Just the News that the Trump campaign’s strategy appears aimed at throwing the results of three battleground states’ elections where Biden leads into doubt and forcing the House of Representatives to choose a winner because neither candidate can lawfully claim he has the 270 electoral votes necessary to win.
“Their goal is not to get Trump to 270 or more electoral votes, it’s to keep Biden from getting 270 electoral votes and throw the election to the House,” he said in an interview Monday evening.
Dershowitz said the Trump team must go beyond sufficient legal arguments and also provide the courts evidence that the number of votes cast into question is enough to have swung each challenged state’s election.
He also sharply criticized news media and Democrats for attacking Trump’s lawyers for waging the court cases. Some activists have even doxed certain lawyers, outing their contacts and addresses. “It’s abhorrent that his lawyers are being attacked,” he said. “The lawyers are doing exactly what lawyers are supposed to do.”
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Editor’s Note: The author, John Solomon, hired Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing as personal lawyers to represent him on matters in 2018 and 2019.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-17--FDA Whitewashes Experts Warnings About Coronavirus Vaccine Trials

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) convened a panel of outside experts Oct. 22 to advise it on potential coronavirus vaccines , members of the advisory committee expressed several serious concerns about the testing and approval process .
One medical doctor warned of the potential for “ a total disaster.
” Another complained of “ hugely missed opportunities.
” What the FDA heard — or chose to hear — is another matter .
At the end of the daylong meeting , an FDA official summarized the discussion in a way that seemed to minimize , mischaracterize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outside experts ’ warnings .
“ I heard that the general … principles and the standards that we are applying are right on the money , and that there is really buy-in for that , ” the FDA official , Marion F. Gruber , said in part .
The acting chairman of the advisory committee — whose past relationships with companies developing coronavirus vaccines the Project On Government Oversight ( POGO ) documented in a recent report — endorsed the FDA official ’ s description .
“ I fully agree with your summary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The conclusion of the meeting left this reporter wondering : Did we just listen to the same discussion ?
“ If FDA officials like Gruber walk away from adcomms [ advisory committees ] just deciding in their own minds what they heard and not what was actually said , what ’ s the point ?
And what damage did her closing remarks just do ?
” Donna Young , who covers pharmaceuticals and biotech for S & P Global News , tweeted .
“ Many of us who watched the Oct. 22 [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FDA ’ s end-of-day summary that agency guidance was ‘ right on the money , ’ ” Jessica Adams , who works in pharmaceutical regulatory affairs , later tweeted .
The roster the FDA posted of experts participating in the meeting named a long list of doctors .
It didn ’ t say anything about spin doctors .
Both the FDA official and the acting chairman of the advisory committee offered a bit more nuance in their closing remarks on Oct. 22 .
But , as they framed what the FDA would or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neither seemed to do justice to feedback and advice committee members provided .
The public meeting , live-streamed on YouTube , came as the FDA was trying to restore public trust after appearing to bow to political pressure by issuing so-called Emergency Use Authorizations ( EUA ) for unproven coronavirus treatments .
At the meeting , some speakers presented research showing that members of the public are deeply skeptical about and disinclined to use potential vaccines .
Other speakers warned that if the FDA approves a coronavirus vaccine that turns out to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus vaccines generally and undermine efforts to fight the pandemic .
In an interview with POGO , advisory committee member Dr. H. Cody Meissner said he thought Gruber ’ s intention was to express appreciation to people who participated in the meeting .
“ I don ’ t have any problem with her concluding remarks , ” said Meissner , who is chief of the division of pediatric infectious disease at Tufts Children ’ s Hospital in Boston .
“ I think it was a very robust , productive discussion that hopefully the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ I think they got a variety of opinions.
” During the meeting , members of the committee explained several reasons to worry about the clinical trials now underway to test potential coronavirus vaccines and how the FDA review process could unfold .
Some of the concerns related to the potential for the FDA to issue emergency use authorizations for experimental vaccines .
Such orders would allow distribution of vaccines before they qualify for formal approval .
The FDA has said it would consider granting an EUA for a vaccine if the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the vaccine have been followed for a median of at least two months after completing the dosing regimen .
The median is the midpoint in a set of data , meaning that , by the FDA ’ s standard , when an authorization is issued , almost half of the test subjects could have been followed for less than two months .
Two months is more than the White House wanted when it was hoping to get a vaccine authorized before election day .
But members of the advisory committee expressed concern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be enough to determine if the vaccine causes harmful side-effects or if whatever protection the vaccine provides wears off quickly .
Members also expressed concern that an EUA could undermine the ongoing clinical trial meant to gather critical data about the experimental vaccine over a longer period .
In the vaccine trials , some test subjects are given the experimental vaccine and others are given a placebo — a harmless fake .
To make the experiment as objective as possible , neither the test subjects nor the medical personnel interacting with them are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which group .
In other words , they are supposed to be “ blinded.
” One vaccine developer , Pfizer , has stated that if it received an EUA , it would have an ethical obligation to tell test subjects about it and allow those receiving the placebo to switch to the vaccine .
That could drain the clinical trial of placebo subjects and unblind all who remain involved in the study .
Some members said they opposed issuing EUAs , at least under certain scenarios .
Committee members also challenged the way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are setting goal lines , which are known as “ endpoints.
” Most of the trials are designed to declare a coronavirus vaccine effective if it reduces the number of mild cases of COVID-19 , whether or not it reduces severe or fatal cases .
Some committee members said it is more important to determine if a vaccine spares people from the worst effects of the virus .
One criticized key endpoints in company-sponsored trials as flawed because they reflect patients ’ subjective impressions of symptoms rather than items that are objectively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ focus on whether vaccines prevent people from getting infected in the first place , because preventing infection is essential to preventing the spread of infection .
Even people who show no symptoms can infect others .
Committee members said they were wary of using coronavirus vaccines on children .
They essentially argued that risks could outweigh benefits because COVID-19 is generally much less severe in children than in adults , and they called for strong evidence that a vaccine is safe before administering it to children .
At least one expressed concern about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effects on children from data on adults , as the FDA has contemplated .
Members urged the FDA to make sure minority populations such as Black Americans are well represented in clinical trials and warned of tragic consequences if they are not .
Dr. Luigi Notarangelo , a committee member who is a chief researcher at the National Institutes of Health , minced no words as he articulated several of the critiques .
Notarangelo said measures of vaccine effectiveness included in an FDA document the committee was asked to review have two problems @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really are biased — skewed towards mild disease , ” he said .
“ Mild disease may not mean very much.
” “ The other problem with those efficacy measures is that most of them are really subjective , ” he said .
“ And I think that ’ s a major concern .
I mean , we ’ re relying basically upon reporting from the subjects without any objective validation of what they ’ re reporting.
” “ I think children at this point should not be considered for use of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it ’ s safe for them , “ and what we ’ ve been presented today does not provide that , ” Notarangelo said .
Without sufficient racial minority representation in the clinical trials , “ the net effect will be that perhaps the white population might be protected , and we will only see cases of severe COVID among the Black [ population ] , which would be a total disaster , ” he added .
When an FDA official said the agency did not feel it had the power to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ severe disease , Dr. James Hildreth , president of Meharry Medical College , pushed back .
“ Since severe disease and death occur primarily among minorities with this virus , if we put a vaccine out there that does not address that issue it ’ s just going to perpetuate the perception that that population or that segment of our population does not matter much in … this town , ” Hildreth said .
“ You said you can not mandate what the drug companies might set as their primary endpoint .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ taxpayers of the United States of America are paying the tab for this , so maybe you might have more authority to mandate than you might think , ” Hildreth added .
The FDA recently appointed Hildreth to the advisory committee on a temporary basis , saying his expertise in virology , immunology , and health disparities affecting minority communities would make him indispensable .
Dr. Hayley Altman-Gans , a professor of pediatrics at Stanford University Medical Center , painted a picture of the clinical trials as deeply flawed .
She spoke of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ We really need to be thinking about this differently.
” “ I really feel like they haven ’ t gone far enough in terms of the safety outline ” and “ efficacy as well , ” she said .
What ’ s more , “ nobody ’ s collecting as far as I can tell ” certain important data .
“ One of the things I have not heard much about during this conversation is infection , ” said committee member Kathryn Holmes , a professor emerita at the University of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ d like to see how we could actually be measuring infection rather than just mild disease .
… We should be looking to see what can prevent infection because that is the rubric which would prevent spread through the community most effectively and that is what would protect our elderly as well.
” Dr. Michael Kurilla , an expert on infectious diseases and a director of clinical innovation at the National Institutes of Health , said a standard the FDA has set for coronavirus vaccine authorization — 50 % efficacy — doesn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
For health care workers and staff in long-term care facilities , a vaccine “ that would take them merely from a mild infection to potentially an asymptomatic infection where they still might be infectious doesn ’ t seem like it ’ s something worthy ” of an EUA , he said .
“ The minimum has to be much , much higher in terms of having a general overall public health impact , ” he said .
Under the proposed FDA standard , “ we could have a vaccine that seems to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ test , and it ’ s effective at avoiding mild cases but actually does very little to address what we really care about , which is serious disease and death , ” said Sheldon Toubman , a legal assistance attorney in New Haven , Connecticut , and the advisory committee ’ s consumer representative .
Toubman also challenged the FDA ’ s stated openness to granting an EUA based on two months of observations .
“ There could be adverse effects we don ’ t know about , and so isn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he asked .
Toubman recommended that the FDA not grant EUA for coronavirus vaccines .
FDA officials rebutted some of the committee members ’ concerns — saying , for example , that focusing on more severe cases would require enrolling an unrealistically large number of people in the clinical trials .
On some topics , FDA officials shared committee members ’ concerns .
On the issue of EUAs causing people to drop out of clinical trials , one official said , “ I don ’ t have any specific remedies to offer at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s acting chairman requesting comment .
We did not receive a response .
POGO also emailed Gruber asking how her summary of the meeting squared with committee members ’ remarks .
We received an email from an FDA spokesperson that largely repeated Gruber ’ s summary and added , “ As Dr. Gruber stated , the FDA appreciates the perspectives heard from the committee members and are carefully and thoughtfully considering them as we move forward.
” During the part of the meeting set aside for members of the public to comment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in medicine or health policy made some of the same points as committee members , sometimes in sharper and more forceful terms .
In her summary at the end of the meeting , Gruber , director of the FDA ’ s Office of Vaccines Research and Review , did not attempt to summarize the public comments .
She made no mention of them .
She acknowledged committee members ’ points about minority populations and , more obliquely , children .
“ I hear there were some concerns and suggestions made for some of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sure that minorities are included in clinical studies .
We had some discussions on endpoints , ” Gruber said .
She indicated it might be too late for the FDA to act on the advice for vaccines already in advanced or “ Phase III ” clinical trials .
“ We can take this forward as we have , you know , new vaccines entering clinical studies .
It may be a little bit difficult for those who are already in Phase III , ” Gruber said .
“ What I want to know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the median two months follow-up that we said on the EUA , I ’ ve heard people expressing some concerns with that being maybe not short enough , but you know if it then can not be longer by no means should it be shorter than two months of median follow up , ” she said .
“ That ’ s what I heard.
” That seemed to distort committee members ’ comments .
( In her statement to POGO recapping Gruber ’ s remarks , the FDA spokesperson did not repeat Gruber @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a median of two months of follow-up might not be short enough . )
Addressing the threat that an EUA would disrupt a clinical trial by unblinding it , Gruber seemed to assume committee members accepted that as inevitable .
She falsely implied that committee members all bought into the idea of issuing EUAs .
“ And in terms of the blind … even though you have an EUA , you said , even though we all would like for this to continue , but we have to realize that at some point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blind .
But do I hear you saying and do I hear the committee saying that the blind should be maintained for as long as feasible and it should not necessarily be an automatic crossover of the placebo recipients … getting the vaccine ?
” “ I think that is very clearly what you heard .
I don ’ t think there ’ s been any doubt about that one , ” Monto , the committee ’ s acting chairman , said .
“ I think there may be some questions about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outcomes that are being used , ” Monto said , apparently referring to measures companies are using to judge whether experimental vaccines are effective .
Monto proceeded to inject his own views into a summary of the committee members ’ comments .
“ And as somebody who ’ s worked with flu vaccines for a long time , what you are using as the outcome is standard for most respiratory vaccines , ” he said .
“ So I fully agree with your summary , ” he concluded .
Then , before other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adjourned the meeting .

FDA Whitewashes Warnings About Coronavirus Vaccine Trials
FDA officials ignored input from outside experts, including one doctor’s warning of the potential for “a total disaster.”
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) convened a panel of outside experts Oct. 22 to advise it on potential coronavirus vaccines, members of the advisory committee expressed several serious concerns about the testing and approval process.
One medical doctor warned of the potential for “a total disaster.” Another complained of “hugely missed opportunities.”
What the FDA heard — or chose to hear — is another matter.
At the end of the daylong meeting, an FDA official summarized the discussion in a way that seemed to minimize, mischaracterize, or gloss over some of the outside experts’ warnings.
“I heard that the general … principles and the standards that we are applying are right on the money, and that there is really buy-in for that,” the FDA official, Marion F. Gruber, said in part.
The acting chairman of the advisory committee — whose past relationships with companies developing coronavirus vaccines the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) documented in a recent report — endorsed the FDA official’s description.
“I fully agree with your summary,” Dr. Arnold Monto said.
The conclusion of the meeting left this reporter wondering: Did we just listen to the same discussion?
Other observers have reacted similarly.
“If FDA officials like Gruber walk away from adcomms [advisory committees] just deciding in their own minds what they heard and not what was actually said, what’s the point? And what damage did her closing remarks just do?” Donna Young, who covers pharmaceuticals and biotech for S&P Global News, tweeted.
The impact of the first companies getting #FDA emergency use authorization & unblinding studies expected to be among the topics debated over at today’s #FDA #VRBPAC
My Oct 20 story: https://t.co/mwQ2QYPcM7
Questions posted Oct. 21: https://t.co/Oib5N5PrFT #COVID19 #vaccines https://t.co/eenMTHjIjw — Donna Young (@DonnaYoungDC) October 22, 2020
“What planet was Gruber on today?” Young added.
“Many of us who watched the Oct. 22 [meeting] were scratching our heads at FDA’s end-of-day summary that agency guidance was ‘right on the money,’” Jessica Adams, who works in pharmaceutical regulatory affairs, later tweeted.
👀#VRBPAC development👇Many of us who watched the Oct 22 VRBPAC were scratching our heads at FDA’s end-of-day summary that agency guidance was “right on the money.” At the meeting, filings for emergency use authorizion based on guidance seemed inevitable. Getting more interesting https://t.co/bOfx4fdOJr — Jessica Adams (@RxRegA) October 27, 2020
The roster the FDA posted of experts participating in the meeting named a long list of doctors. It didn’t say anything about spin doctors.
Both the FDA official and the acting chairman of the advisory committee offered a bit more nuance in their closing remarks on Oct. 22. But, as they framed what the FDA would or should take away from the meeting, neither seemed to do justice to feedback and advice committee members provided.
The public meeting, live-streamed on YouTube, came as the FDA was trying to restore public trust after appearing to bow to political pressure by issuing so-called Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) for unproven coronavirus treatments.
At the meeting, some speakers presented research showing that members of the public are deeply skeptical about and disinclined to use potential vaccines. Other speakers warned that if the FDA approves a coronavirus vaccine that turns out to be dangerous, it could shatter faith in coronavirus vaccines generally and undermine efforts to fight the pandemic.
In an interview with POGO, advisory committee member Dr. H. Cody Meissner said he thought Gruber’s intention was to express appreciation to people who participated in the meeting.
“I don’t have any problem with her concluding remarks,” said Meissner, who is chief of the division of pediatric infectious disease at Tufts Children’s Hospital in Boston.
“I think it was a very robust, productive discussion that hopefully the FDA found useful,” he said. “I think they got a variety of opinions.”
During the meeting, members of the committee explained several reasons to worry about the clinical trials now underway to test potential coronavirus vaccines and how the FDA review process could unfold.
Some of the concerns related to the potential for the FDA to issue emergency use authorizations for experimental vaccines. Such orders would allow distribution of vaccines before they qualify for formal approval.
The FDA has said it would consider granting an EUA for a vaccine if the human test subjects in a clinical trial of the vaccine have been followed for a median of at least two months after completing the dosing regimen. The median is the midpoint in a set of data, meaning that, by the FDA’s standard, when an authorization is issued, almost half of the test subjects could have been followed for less than two months.
Two months is more than the White House wanted when it was hoping to get a vaccine authorized before election day. But members of the advisory committee expressed concern that two months of follow-up might not be enough to determine if the vaccine causes harmful side-effects or if whatever protection the vaccine provides wears off quickly.
Members also expressed concern that an EUA could undermine the ongoing clinical trial meant to gather critical data about the experimental vaccine over a longer period. In the vaccine trials, some test subjects are given the experimental vaccine and others are given a placebo — a harmless fake. To make the experiment as objective as possible, neither the test subjects nor the medical personnel interacting with them are supposed to be told who is in which group. In other words, they are supposed to be “blinded.”
One vaccine developer, Pfizer, has stated that if it received an EUA, it would have an ethical obligation to tell test subjects about it and allow those receiving the placebo to switch to the vaccine. That could drain the clinical trial of placebo subjects and unblind all who remain involved in the study.
Some members said they opposed issuing EUAs, at least under certain scenarios.
Committee members also challenged the way vaccine trials are measuring success — where they are setting goal lines, which are known as “endpoints.” Most of the trials are designed to declare a coronavirus vaccine effective if it reduces the number of mild cases of COVID-19, whether or not it reduces severe or fatal cases.
Some committee members said it is more important to determine if a vaccine spares people from the worst effects of the virus. One criticized key endpoints in company-sponsored trials as flawed because they reflect patients’ subjective impressions of symptoms rather than items that are objectively measurable. Another member called for greater focus on whether vaccines prevent people from getting infected in the first place, because preventing infection is essential to preventing the spread of infection. Even people who show no symptoms can infect others.
Committee members said they were wary of using coronavirus vaccines on children. They essentially argued that risks could outweigh benefits because COVID-19 is generally much less severe in children than in adults, and they called for strong evidence that a vaccine is safe before administering it to children. At least one expressed concern about inferring or extrapolating a vaccine’s effects on children from data on adults, as the FDA has contemplated.
Members urged the FDA to make sure minority populations such as Black Americans are well represented in clinical trials and warned of tragic consequences if they are not.

In this YouTube video, Dr. Luigi Notarangelo, a committee member and a chief researcher at the National Institutes of Health, said: “I mean, we’re relying basically upon reporting from the subjects without any objective validation of what they’re reporting.”
Dr. Luigi Notarangelo, a committee member who is a chief researcher at the National Institutes of Health, minced no words as he articulated several of the critiques.
Notarangelo said measures of vaccine effectiveness included in an FDA document the committee was asked to review have two problems.
“First of all, they really are biased — skewed towards mild disease,” he said. “Mild disease may not mean very much.”
“The other problem with those efficacy measures is that most of them are really subjective,” he said. “And I think that’s a major concern. I mean, we’re relying basically upon reporting from the subjects without any objective validation of what they’re reporting.”
“I think children at this point should not be considered for use of this vaccine until there is sufficient evidence” that it’s safe for them, “and what we’ve been presented today does not provide that,” Notarangelo said.
Without sufficient racial minority representation in the clinical trials, “the net effect will be that perhaps the white population might be protected, and we will only see cases of severe COVID among the Black [population], which would be a total disaster,” he added.
When an FDA official said the agency did not feel it had the power to dictate a primary endpoint that focused on severe disease, Dr. James Hildreth, president of Meharry Medical College, pushed back.

In this YouTube video, Dr. James Hildreth, president of Meharry Medical College, said: “Since severe disease and death occur primarily among minorities with this virus, if we put a vaccine out there that does not address that issue it’s just going to perpetuate the perception that that population or that segment of our population does not matter much in … this town.”
“Since severe disease and death occur primarily among minorities with this virus, if we put a vaccine out there that does not address that issue it’s just going to perpetuate the perception that that population or that segment of our population does not matter much in … this town,” Hildreth said.
“You said you cannot mandate what the drug companies might set as their primary endpoint. If I’m not mistaken, the taxpayers of the United States of America are paying the tab for this, so maybe you might have more authority to mandate than you might think,” Hildreth added.
The FDA recently appointed Hildreth to the advisory committee on a temporary basis, saying his expertise in virology, immunology, and health disparities affecting minority communities would make him indispensable.
Dr. Hayley Altman-Gans, a professor of pediatrics at Stanford University Medical Center, painted a picture of the clinical trials as deeply flawed. She spoke of “hugely missed opportunities” and said, “We really need to be thinking about this differently.”
“I really feel like they haven’t gone far enough in terms of the safety outline” and “efficacy as well,” she said. What’s more, “nobody’s collecting as far as I can tell” certain important data.
“One of the things I have not heard much about during this conversation is infection,” said committee member Kathryn Holmes, a professor emerita at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “I’d like to see how we could actually be measuring infection rather than just mild disease. … We should be looking to see what can prevent infection because that is the rubric which would prevent spread through the community most effectively and that is what would protect our elderly as well.”
Dr. Michael Kurilla, an expert on infectious diseases and a director of clinical innovation at the National Institutes of Health, said a standard the FDA has set for coronavirus vaccine authorization — 50% efficacy — doesn’t make sense in all situations. For health care workers and staff in long-term care facilities, a vaccine “that would take them merely from a mild infection to potentially an asymptomatic infection where they still might be infectious doesn’t seem like it’s something worthy” of an EUA, he said.
“The minimum has to be much, much higher in terms of having a general overall public health impact,” he said.
Under the proposed FDA standard, “we could have a vaccine that seems to do well, meets the 50% test, and it’s effective at avoiding mild cases but actually does very little to address what we really care about, which is serious disease and death,” said Sheldon Toubman, a legal assistance attorney in New Haven, Connecticut, and the advisory committee’s consumer representative.
Toubman also challenged the FDA’s stated openness to granting an EUA based on two months of observations.
“There could be adverse effects we don’t know about, and so isn’t two months a little short?” he asked.
Toubman recommended that the FDA not grant EUA for coronavirus vaccines.
FDA officials rebutted some of the committee members’ concerns — saying, for example, that focusing on more severe cases would require enrolling an unrealistically large number of people in the clinical trials.
On some topics, FDA officials shared committee members’ concerns. On the issue of EUAs causing people to drop out of clinical trials, one official said, “I don’t have any specific remedies to offer at this time.”
POGO emailed the committee’s acting chairman requesting comment. We did not receive a response.
POGO also emailed Gruber asking how her summary of the meeting squared with committee members’ remarks. We received an email from an FDA spokesperson that largely repeated Gruber’s summary and added, “As Dr. Gruber stated, the FDA appreciates the perspectives heard from the committee members and are carefully and thoughtfully considering them as we move forward.”
During the part of the meeting set aside for members of the public to comment, a series of speakers with backgrounds in medicine or health policy made some of the same points as committee members, sometimes in sharper and more forceful terms.
In her summary at the end of the meeting, Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review, did not attempt to summarize the public comments. She made no mention of them.
She acknowledged committee members’ points about minority populations and, more obliquely, children.
“I hear there were some concerns and suggestions made for some of the details, the importance of making sure that minorities are included in clinical studies. We had some discussions on endpoints,” Gruber said. She indicated it might be too late for the FDA to act on the advice for vaccines already in advanced or “Phase III” clinical trials.
“We can take this forward as we have, you know, new vaccines entering clinical studies. It may be a little bit difficult for those who are already in Phase III,” Gruber said.
“What I want to know from you, the two months, the median two months follow-up that we said on the EUA, I’ve heard people expressing some concerns with that being maybe not short enough, but you know if it then cannot be longer by no means should it be shorter than two months of median follow up,” she said. “That’s what I heard.”
That seemed to distort committee members’ comments. (In her statement to POGO recapping Gruber’s remarks, the FDA spokesperson did not repeat Gruber’s observation that some people thought a median of two months of follow-up might not be short enough.)
Addressing the threat that an EUA would disrupt a clinical trial by unblinding it, Gruber seemed to assume committee members accepted that as inevitable. She falsely implied that committee members all bought into the idea of issuing EUAs.
“And in terms of the blind … even though you have an EUA, you said, even though we all would like for this to continue, but we have to realize that at some point we can’t really maintain the blind. But do I hear you saying and do I hear the committee saying that the blind should be maintained for as long as feasible and it should not necessarily be an automatic crossover of the placebo recipients … getting the vaccine?”
“I think that is very clearly what you heard. I don’t think there’s been any doubt about that one,” Monto, the committee’s acting chairman, said.
“I think there may be some questions about the two months and also some of the outcomes that are being used,” Monto said, apparently referring to measures companies are using to judge whether experimental vaccines are effective.
Monto proceeded to inject his own views into a summary of the committee members’ comments.
“And as somebody who’s worked with flu vaccines for a long time, what you are using as the outcome is standard for most respiratory vaccines,” he said. “So I fully agree with your summary,” he concluded.
Then, before other committee members could weigh in, he adjourned the meeting.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-17--Mask Mandate – Fighting for Our Rights & Freedoms

For those of you who don ’ t know , my name is Allie French , I am the co-founder of MMAMV ( Millions March Against Mandatory Vaccinations ) , Nebraskans Against Government Overreach and No Mask Omaha .
We have been actively fighting the local mask mandate here in Omaha , NE .
For the past 3 months our City Council members have listened to our testimony – only to be dismissed by the majority .
This was only the beginning .
I have spent every Tuesday at our Civic Center holding a peaceful demonstration for an hour prior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this time , we hand out information cards that discuss the risks that come from wearing masks and speak with anyone with desire to have a discussion .
This was the final public hearing before the city council voted 4-1 ( 2 of our City Council members were absent from this meeting ) they have now extended our mandate until our positive test rate is under 5 % for 2 consecutive weeks AND we have less than 10 cases for every 100,000 people in the city in a 7-day rolling average for 2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 570,000 people , they are asking for less than 57 cases in a 2 week period !
With everything we know about false positives and the testing of healthy individuals – this mandate will NEVER end .
There is a 90-day cap ( Feb 24th ) at which point we have no doubt the mandate will be revisited and extended yet again “ … until there ’ s a vaccine… ” As the city council members and UNMC doctors like to say .
The real kicker is that this mandate places the responsibility @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data in the hands of Adi Pour , PhD – the unelected county health director with zero training or experience as a medical physician .
Prior to the passing of the mask mandate , Adi Pour had attempted to implement a mandate at which point she was told by the Governor that she did not have the legal grounds to do so .
The city council found their loophole .
After the final passing of the amended ordinance the founder of our local group No Mask Omaha had raised the funds to purchase @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about a ‘ Virus ’ !
It ’ s about Control !
” was vividly displayed by 2 of the busiest streets in town during rush hour .
Unfortunately , the billboard company was forced to remove the signs due to public outrage caused by MSM attention .
A reporter with our local KMTV news station leapt at the opportunity to stir the pot .
She made a post in search of the people/person responsible for purchasing the billboards .
The founder of No Mask Omaha , Kelly Jensen , did reach out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the reporter later filled the article with pleas from healthcare professionals begging the community to just get with the program and not listen to misinformation .
Now this is when things got weird !
Suddenly , in the midst of the craziness and as I walked into my chiropractor ’ s office , the Facebook settings in our No Mask Omaha group changed and the group began automatically approving members .
And no , I ’ m not mistaken… I ’ m what some might refer to as a techy person , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I know that it changed , but not by any of the other admins in the group .
Of course it was not just anybody and everybody that was suddenly infiltrating our group .
The only profiles being approved were proud BLM and Antifa members .
If I had not had my phone in my hand our group would have been a goner .
The first and only 5 members to get through began reporting all of the posts in attempt to get the group shut down .
Fortunately for us , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it shut down with only 3 reported posts .
Unfortunately !
In that short period of time our planned event for a mask-less group shopping scheduled for 11/14/2020 was leaked and the local extremists began attacking , harassing , and reporting on as many people as they could .
Some even were going so far as to wish death and sickness , threatening to show up and confront people , and fantasizing about putting snipers on the buildings to take us out when we showed up .
The most frustrating part was that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ words .
Of course , this was by design – if they ’ d taken my words it would not have looked intimidating or like the plans of crazed , irrational people .
I had explicitly stated that we were not going to ruffles feathers , we were going to support each other and an engage in a positive activity while also getting our needed groceries .
Too often we hear stories of people being attacked , harassed and bullied for not wearing a mask – even though there are legitimate exemptions as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We ’ ve actually even done this event a few times , and no one has been any the wiser because we aren ’ t trying to cause a scene .
We shop as if everything is NORMAL .
We do not infiltrate en masse .
That is the tactics of those that attack us .
At this point it became quite apparent that for our groups safety we needed to cancel the event .
We discussed going to a different location all together to do our shopping .
We then discussed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to attack people of my group on a personal level .
They threatened to call the police , they called the store , it was a very long night .
All this being said , it was quite clear that we could not allow them to silence us and scare us into a corner .
Not only did we have people attacking us on Facebook , but with the media attention that our billboards and shopping event had drawn in our county health board director – Adi Pour , PhD , instructed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us , “ Enough !
” .
Despite the numerous times city council member Harding has expressed that people should leave those whom can not or chose not to wear a mask alone and the city website specifically states in their Q & A section of the mandate that if you see someone without a mask you should leave them alone , now we hear from the unelected official that she is encouraging people to tell us enough and just get with the program .
I decided that rather than go shopping indoors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make a more impactful statement holding a peaceful demonstration outside of the store we intended on shopping at .
Of course , with the continuing attacks from the local fanatics I took the appropriate steps of making sure that we had both permission and protection for the members of our group .
I contacted our local law enforcement , the grocery store and the high school at which we intended to meet up .
I was pleased with the positive feedback and support that I received from taking the appropriate action of giving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the media .
Now , we ran into the issue of spreading the word .
Our groups had been compromised and while I had spent all hours of the day prior cleaning out the group and re-vetting as many of the members as possible it was best to err on the side of caution .
I opted for making vague posts hyping up our members and asking them to send me a private message to obtain our plans .
Still it was necessary to vet any members that we didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all but one troll who ’ d guised himself as a big Trump fan .
When our plan was leaked the screenshot they shared contained enough of the message for me to know exactly which person it was – that won ’ t happen again !
All in all , with the one minor leak , we successfully spread the word to the members of our groups .
Saturday , 14th , at about 4pm in the afternoon about 35 members of our group and several of our kids met up at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grocery store we had intended to shop at .
Now I have to admit , I ’ m really quite disappointed that only 35 of the several hundred people I messaged managed to show up .
Especially on a weekend .
We are so often told that people can ’ t make it every Tuesday to the city council meetings because of work .
That if it were in the evening or on a weekend they could be there .
…And yet… We have only 35 people willing and determined to stand up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – guys !
This is not going to get better unless we , across the land , unite .
Come out from behind our keyboards and take actual physical action .
We are already witnessing a shift in society where people who demand their freedoms are labeled crazy , a danger to society , selfish and so-on , much like the Nazis once convinced people of about the Jews and gays .
We know where this path leads .
If we do not stand up now , it will be that much harder @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of law-abiding citizens are stripped .
None-the-less , we had 35 Patriots strong enough to withstand the harsh and cruel actions of the opposition .
While a vast majority of our encounters with the public as they left the plaza in their vehicles was positive – the loudest of our encounters came from opposition shouting crude and vulgar slurs at us .
As our plans laid out for our members , we did not engage with negative feedback but rather responded with joy and truth .
I had a live feed on Facebook @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both media and security purposes .
We sang American songs .
We talked amongst each other .
A vast majority of the time I spent using the oppositions arguments in the comments to spread truth and common sense to the viewers .
It really could not have worked out better , a. I am always down for a verbal spanking and b .
It gave me continuous content to discuss with the viewers and say loud enough that the cars passing by at 2 mi .
an hour with their windows down might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we had an extremely successful event .
Our local newspaper put out an article covering the event within an hour of its end – if it ’ d been any better it would have been too obviously in our favor .
With that in mind it was a good article .
Some portion of our event apparently aired on TV , however , as I do not watch live TV or the MSM , and at this point have been unable to locate it , I have yet to see it .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lot of clean up of trolls as their attacks continued to poor in .
Some-days that simple push of the block button feels real , real , good .
This is far from over for us .
Today was about standing up for our freedom of choice .
To choose our own methods of prevention and treatment , and our freedom to live as healthy individuals free of the restrictions of the sick .
It was also in effort to stand up to the bullies and censorship our group experienced when they removed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This is not the America I grew up in .
We do NOT accept the ‘ new normal ’ .
We may be small , but we are not to be underestimated .
We have recently discovered a promising plan to correct the unconstitutional mandate implemented by a corrupt group of city council members , health director and medical institution .
A common scenario we see playing out across the country and even around the world .
While many are awaiting the outcome of the election of our President – the left @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the local governments in every state .
It has never been more imperative that we break through the constant censorship and reach our community with honest , verifiable evidence .
For it is by the People that we can correct this government overreach and corruption afflicting too many of our public servants and medical professionals .
We will continue to stand up for our Freedoms and not comply with unjust restrictions .
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Mask Mandate – Fighting for Our Rights & Freedoms
By TLB Contributor: Allie French
For those of you who don’t know, my name is Allie French, I am the co-founder of MMAMV (Millions March Against Mandatory Vaccinations), Nebraskans Against Government Overreach and No Mask Omaha. We have been actively fighting the local mask mandate here in Omaha, NE. For the past 3 months our City Council members have listened to our testimony – only to be dismissed by the majority.
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Aug 13th public hearing:

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This was only the beginning. I have spent every Tuesday at our Civic Center holding a peaceful demonstration for an hour prior to the city council meeting. During this time, we hand out information cards that discuss the risks that come from wearing masks and speak with anyone with desire to have a discussion.
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Oct 27th public hearing:

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This was the final public hearing before the city council voted 4-1 (2 of our City Council members were absent from this meeting) they have now extended our mandate until our positive test rate is under 5% for 2 consecutive weeks AND we have less than 10 cases for every 100,000 people in the city in a 7-day rolling average for 2 consecutive weeks. With a population around 570,000 people, they are asking for less than 57 cases in a 2 week period! With everything we know about false positives and the testing of healthy individuals – this mandate will NEVER end. There is a 90-day cap (Feb 24th) at which point we have no doubt the mandate will be revisited and extended yet again “… until there’s a vaccine…” As the city council members and UNMC doctors like to say.
The real kicker is that this mandate places the responsibility of collecting, analyzing and interpreting the data in the hands of Adi Pour, PhD – the unelected county health director with zero training or experience as a medical physician. Prior to the passing of the mask mandate, Adi Pour had attempted to implement a mandate at which point she was told by the Governor that she did not have the legal grounds to do so. The city council found their loophole.
After the final passing of the amended ordinance the founder of our local group No Mask Omaha had raised the funds to purchase 2 billboards. “This is NOT about a ‘Virus’! It’s about Control!” was vividly displayed by 2 of the busiest streets in town during rush hour. Unfortunately, the billboard company was forced to remove the signs due to public outrage caused by MSM attention.
A reporter with our local KMTV news station leapt at the opportunity to stir the pot. She made a post in search of the people/person responsible for purchasing the billboards. The founder of No Mask Omaha, Kelly Jensen, did reach out for a phone interview – of which the reporter later filled the article with pleas from healthcare professionals begging the community to just get with the program and not listen to misinformation.
Now this is when things got weird! Suddenly, in the midst of the craziness and as I walked into my chiropractor’s office, the Facebook settings in our No Mask Omaha group changed and the group began automatically approving members. And no, I’m not mistaken… I’m what some might refer to as a techy person, I know my social media platforms – so I know that it changed, but not by any of the other admins in the group.
Of course it was not just anybody and everybody that was suddenly infiltrating our group. The only profiles being approved were proud BLM and Antifa members. If I had not had my phone in my hand our group would have been a goner. The first and only 5 members to get through began reporting all of the posts in attempt to get the group shut down. Fortunately for us, I am much faster than them and got it shut down with only 3 reported posts.
Unfortunately! In that short period of time our planned event for a mask-less group shopping scheduled for 11/14/2020 was leaked and the local extremists began attacking, harassing, and reporting on as many people as they could. Some even were going so far as to wish death and sickness, threatening to show up and confront people, and fantasizing about putting snipers on the buildings to take us out when we showed up. The most frustrating part was that they took our image but not my words. Of course, this was by design – if they’d taken my words it would not have looked intimidating or like the plans of crazed, irrational people. I had explicitly stated that we were not going to ruffles feathers, we were going to support each other and an engage in a positive activity while also getting our needed groceries. Too often we hear stories of people being attacked, harassed and bullied for not wearing a mask – even though there are legitimate exemptions as is stated in the local mask mandate. We’ve actually even done this event a few times, and no one has been any the wiser because we aren’t trying to cause a scene. We shop as if everything is NORMAL. We do not infiltrate en masse. That is the tactics of those that attack us.
At this point it became quite apparent that for our groups safety we needed to cancel the event. We discussed going to a different location all together to do our shopping. We then discussed our alternate options as the extremists continued to attack people of my group on a personal level. They threatened to call the police, they called the store, it was a very long night.
All this being said, it was quite clear that we could not allow them to silence us and scare us into a corner. Not only did we have people attacking us on Facebook, but with the media attention that our billboards and shopping event had drawn in our county health board director – Adi Pour, PhD, instructed the community to come to us and tell us, “Enough!”. Despite the numerous times city council member Harding has expressed that people should leave those whom cannot or chose not to wear a mask alone and the city website specifically states in their Q&A section of the mandate that if you see someone without a mask you should leave them alone, now we hear from the unelected official that she is encouraging people to tell us enough and just get with the program.
I decided that rather than go shopping indoors and cause a ruckus that we would make a more impactful statement holding a peaceful demonstration outside of the store we intended on shopping at. Of course, with the continuing attacks from the local fanatics I took the appropriate steps of making sure that we had both permission and protection for the members of our group. I contacted our local law enforcement, the grocery store and the high school at which we intended to meet up.
I was pleased with the positive feedback and support that I received from taking the appropriate action of giving forewarning and apologies for the blowout caused by the media.
Now, we ran into the issue of spreading the word. Our groups had been compromised and while I had spent all hours of the day prior cleaning out the group and re-vetting as many of the members as possible it was best to err on the side of caution. I opted for making vague posts hyping up our members and asking them to send me a private message to obtain our plans. Still it was necessary to vet any members that we didn’t know personally. I managed to avoid all but one troll who’d guised himself as a big Trump fan. When our plan was leaked the screenshot they shared contained enough of the message for me to know exactly which person it was – that won’t happen again! All in all, with the one minor leak, we successfully spread the word to the members of our groups.
Saturday, 14th, at about 4pm in the afternoon about 35 members of our group and several of our kids met up at the high school across the street from the grocery store we had intended to shop at. Now I have to admit, I’m really quite disappointed that only 35 of the several hundred people I messaged managed to show up. Especially on a weekend. We are so often told that people can’t make it every Tuesday to the city council meetings because of work. That if it were in the evening or on a weekend they could be there. …And yet… We have only 35 people willing and determined to stand up for our freedoms.
Insert tangent rant – guys! This is not going to get better unless we, across the land, unite. Come out from behind our keyboards and take actual physical action. We are already witnessing a shift in society where people who demand their freedoms are labeled crazy, a danger to society, selfish and so-on, much like the Nazis once convinced people of about the Jews and gays. We know where this path leads. If we do not stand up now, it will be that much harder as more restrictions are implemented and rights of law-abiding citizens are stripped.
None-the-less, we had 35 Patriots strong enough to withstand the harsh and cruel actions of the opposition. While a vast majority of our encounters with the public as they left the plaza in their vehicles was positive – the loudest of our encounters came from opposition shouting crude and vulgar slurs at us. As our plans laid out for our members, we did not engage with negative feedback but rather responded with joy and truth.
NoMaskOmaha – March Nov. 14th

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I had a live feed on Facebook going during the entire event – for both media and security purposes. We sang American songs. We talked amongst each other. A vast majority of the time I spent using the oppositions arguments in the comments to spread truth and common sense to the viewers. It really could not have worked out better, a. I am always down for a verbal spanking and b. It gave me continuous content to discuss with the viewers and say loud enough that the cars passing by at 2 mi. an hour with their windows down might hear me as well.
NoMaskOmaha March Nov14th parts 1-3:

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Ultimately, we had an extremely successful event. Our local newspaper put out an article covering the event within an hour of its end – if it’d been any better it would have been too obviously in our favor. With that in mind it was a good article. Some portion of our event apparently aired on TV, however, as I do not watch live TV or the MSM, and at this point have been unable to locate it, I have yet to see it.
When I finally reached home there was a lot of clean up of trolls as their attacks continued to poor in. Some-days that simple push of the block button feels real, real, good. This is far from over for us. Today was about standing up for our freedom of choice. To choose our own methods of prevention and treatment, and our freedom to live as healthy individuals free of the restrictions of the sick. It was also in effort to stand up to the bullies and censorship our group experienced when they removed our billboard and shutdown our grocery shopping.
This is not the America I grew up in. We do NOT accept the ‘new normal’. We may be small, but we are not to be underestimated. We have recently discovered a promising plan to correct the unconstitutional mandate implemented by a corrupt group of city council members, health director and medical institution. A common scenario we see playing out across the country and even around the world. While many are awaiting the outcome of the election of our President – the left is pushing an agenda to control through the local governments in every state. It has never been more imperative that we break through the constant censorship and reach our community with honest, verifiable evidence.
For it is by the People that we can correct this government overreach and corruption afflicting too many of our public servants and medical professionals. We will continue to stand up for our Freedoms and not comply with unjust restrictions.
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More about Allie:
United Wellness Council Co-Founder/Board Member · November 19, 2019 to present
MMAMV Co-Founder · June 15, 2019 to present Medical Freedom Activist
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