veteranstoday--2020-07-29--VT Was Right: GOP Alters Photos of ‘Big Nosed Jews’ in Campaign ‘Schmear’

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The VT ‘Twitter Storm’ below has a purpose. Without proof this is reported elsewhere, VT would be accused of ‘Semitism.’ We don’t want that.
However, we did predict, over and over, that the Fascism of neo-conservatism and Trump’s ‘Nativism’ would manifest itself in childish Jew hating and photoshopping big noses on Democratic candidates.
Please note that the ADL is totally silent on this. It seems you can hate Jews but back Evangelical Armageddon nut cases and still be perfectly OK with the Mossad.


veteranstoday--2020-07-28--WaPo: Election Rigging Underway with Trump Abuses of Power

The Washington Post ’ s Missy Ryan and Paul Sonne report : President Trump ’ s refusal to commit to accepting the results of the November election , paired with his penchant for plunging the military into the partisan fray , has prompted scholars and legal experts to ask a once-unthinkable question : How would the armed forces respond if pulled into a disputed election ?
Speculation about whether the military could be asked to play a role in events following the 2020 presidential vote has intensified in the wake of the Pentagon ’ s involvement in the government ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police brutality .
• “ If the president is willing to thrust the military leadership into so damaging a set of circumstances during the protests , just imagine what he would be willing to do if he wants to prevent an electoral outcome that would be damaging to him , ” said Kori Schake , director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute .
“ So yes , they should be absolutely worried about it.
” • “ First there ’ s a president who seems totally willing and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in pursuit of his reelection and , second , a president who ’ s willing or indeed eager to utilize the military on domestic soil , ” said Joshua Geltzer , a former official in the Obama administration who serves as executive director of Georgetown Law ’ s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection .
“ We should be really worried if we see those things coming together.
” • “ If you look at history , it ’ s hard to think of an example where a president has given an order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ himself politically and that effort has succeeded .
It is not happening , ” [ Presidential historian Michael Beschloss ] said .
“ We have a democratic tradition , and we have a process , and even despite these times , those two things remain.
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The Washington Post’s Missy Ryan and Paul Sonne report: President Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the results of the November election, paired with his penchant for plunging the military into the partisan fray, has prompted scholars and legal experts to ask a once-unthinkable question: How would the armed forces respond if pulled into a disputed election?
Speculation about whether the military could be asked to play a role in events following the 2020 presidential vote has intensified in the wake of the Pentagon’s involvement in the government’s response to demonstrations against racism and police brutality.
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veteranstoday--2020-07-28--NEO – Will Trump be a Dead Man Walking before Election Day?

…by Jim W Dean , VT Editor , …with New Eastern Outlook , Moscow , …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences , a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa .
[ Editor ’ s Note : Since I sent this to NEO , VT has learned of extensive legal and other preparations being made by a Trump regime that has no plans on leaving the White House for 2021 .
As covered in Gordon ’ s expose this week , the Trumpers will declare the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s emergency powers which , with control of the Senate , would provide the initial tools to quash any successful resistance from Congress .
The test deployment of the Trump goons in Portland is gauging what public reaction is to these events , and how some of the initial district court rulings will go .
We are seeing what we expected , that the Trump people see an election loss as exposing them to prosecution , so they have nothing to lose by doing anything they can while still holding on to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be extremist at this point , but some would categorize what is going on as initial political civil war steps .
The move for the public is obvious , and that is to strike back in the courts while there is time to get to appeals before election day .
This would not be easy , but the effort would wise up any of the sleeping public and give the military time to ponder whose side they are going to come down on … Jim W. Dean ] Jim 's Editor ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jim 's work includes research , field trips , Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more .
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Click to donate > > Trump is having a bad week , and he knows it .
He grows more dangerous as his polls sink lower , and smart enough to know that only a ‘ big event ’ could possibly save him .
The stakes are way beyond his just losing elections .
Prosecutors have been preparing for years to bring cases not only against him , but possibly even his family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could go down with him , and this is no overzealous boast .
Ex-30 year criminal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner has been doing daily YouTube commentaries on current and past political events under a theme that if Trump loses in November , come January it will be kick off time to not only see some of his old cases in court like in the Southern district of New York , on his taxes for example , but also for his actions as president , starting with obstruction of justice .
Kirschner is not alone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prosecutors and Department of Justice people who have watched as the Trump administration has politicized the Justice Department with their man , AG Robert Barr viewed as serving as Donald Trump ’ s ‘ fixer ’ first , and the country second .
In response , the new Kirschner declared plan is to rebuild the Justice Department and institute reforms so that no President would ever be able to subvert it as Trump has done .
This would require Democratic control of both chambers , and the current political trend is making that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ announced that the Republican convention in Tallahassee , Florida has been cancelled due to the unfeasibility of holding it in the pandemic hot spot of Florida , a state competing with California for the faster growing virus surge due to opening too early and their respective publics not taking the spread of the virus seriously .
But two other things happened today that got Mr. Trump ’ s attention .
First , a district court ruled on his former lawyer Eliot Cohen ’ s habeas corpus petition .
The judge agreed that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s serving the rest of his sentence at home solely because he was writing a ‘ tell all ’ book on President Trump , with a publisher standing ready .
“ I ’ ve never seen such a clause in 21 years of being a judge , ” Judge Hellerstein said at a Manhattan federal court hearing , where he questioned the condition that Cohen not publish a book while in home confinement .
“ How can I take any other inference but that it was retaliatory ?
” the judge asked at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ response to Cohen suing to win his re-release from prison .
In another court room , a judge ordered most of the sealed deposition records be opened within a week regarding Jeffrey Epstein ’ s alleged teenage girl procurer Ghislaine Maxwell , who is sitting in jail on charges of aiding and abetting a pedophile ring operating out of Epstein ’ s mansion in New York City .
The case was settled in 2015 and the records sealed .
PedoGate watchers are expecting the files to contain a number of bombshells about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entrapment ring that was run to snare endless targets on video with underage teenage girls , a long time entrapment technique from Cold War espionage days that is alive and well today .
The names expected to be revealed are a “ Who ’ s Who ” of American and British society .
As these these political bombs are falling on Trump in slow motion , he is losing the Covid war with Red States and California registering record high new Covid infections , with death rates now reaching earlier peaks .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ told us that the virus was a hoax , that it would just all go away , and later that it was a Chinese virus unleashed on America as a biological weapon .
That claim never gained traction in any capital other than Washington and somewhat in Britain .
So what does an embattled president do when under siege by looming indictments banging on the door of his castle , with public and private parties seeking justice and retribution ?
We have seen Trump carefully preparing an election safety net for himself , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ballots were going to be used by Democrats to stuff mailboxes versus ballot boxes .
Former Vice President Joe Biden has been using a ‘ rope-a-dope ’ campaign tactic , laying back on the ropes and letting his opponent punch himself out via Trump ’ s endless charges that Biden is mentally impaired .
Trump has continued to shoot himself in the foot with his mishandling of the Covid pandemic which has driven his own poll numbers down while Biden just watches and smiles .
Trump has also been trying to cast himself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ’ initially with his using not only National Guard troops in Washington , but also federal forces under control of Attorney General Barr ’ s Justice Department .
This resulted in the famous revolt of the 4-star generals , when a number of them went public denouncing Trump for using troops against American protestors in the streets .
Trump deployed Justice Department federal forces to Portland , Oregon wearing military uniforms but with no identifying insignia .
This deployment was against protesters , and outside the command of the state governor .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a band of mothers trying to protect their children protesting .
The incident was well videoed , and included footage of an older Navy veteran who , while talking to a few of the unknown forces , had one of them go crazy and begin clubbing him and breaking his arm .
Retired prosecutors have reviewed the videos and seen numerous examples of criminal assaults against mostly peaceful protesters .
Veterans Today has been receiving information that malicious parties have been infiltrating these demonstrations to attack police , inciting them to fire on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump the video scenes of local mayors not being able to controls their cities , when they are being attacked by black ops professionals .
General Honore has his say The following day Lt. General Russell Honore , famous for having brought order to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina , was interview on MSNBC , one of Veterans Today ’ s network material providers .
The general , long known for his colorful language , had this to say after viewing some of the Portland footage .
“ What kind of bullshit is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wearing military uniforms , ” the general angrily noted .
“ That uniform represents the cloth of our nation , for people who don ’ t draw overtime , who serve around the world at the direction of the national command authority , and it ’ s not to be used as an instrument of protest suppression.
” General Honoré then noted , “ That uniform is designed to blend into terrain , not to make you look like a warrior , ” highlighting the tactical uselessness of wearing camouflage in an urban @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these uniforms as a function of intimidation , to look like warriors , ” he added .
“ Real soldiers just don ’ t walk up to people and start beating on ’ em .
Real police don ’ t do that .
The police have the authority to detain you , and then somebody else will decide whether you get charged or whether you go to jail for whatever offense you might have violated.
” “ They are acting like an uncontrolled mob on the street with uniforms and badges that they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pointed out , a tactic that the Portland mayor decried as “ very un-American.
” I have known General Honoré from my days in Atlanta where I videoed him as a guest speaker at my Military Order of World Wars chapter event , and then later at one of our major Memorial Day events when he was the key speaker .
General Honoré now has joined the ‘ Revolt of the Generals ’ , the 4-star ones that publicly denounced Trump , AG Barr , and Secretary of Defense Esper for being Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lafayette Park , next to the White house .
Trump was holding up a bible , with the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Milley and Esper , plus Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump all posing for the world press after Attorney General Barr had cleared the peaceful protesters out of the park with teargas , flash grenades , and nightsticks , all done to gain political points from his Christian Zionist religious supporters .
Trump watchers in the military and intel community sense he is using his favorite tool , diverting attention away @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , such as his having done the most horrible leadership job on Covid than any other leader in the world , but still claiming he has done a wonderful job .
He wants to show that he can clear the streets off ‘ anarchist ’ protesters in strong Democratic cities to show that the country needs a strong president to do what those mayors and governors could not do , protect America ’ s streets .
But his has a big problem with that pitch .
The military , the generals , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him .
They see Trump for what he is , a desperate president using any tool that he can to save himself , as he knows the end of his world could come in November .
In Britain , The Guardian ’ s historian Andrew Gawthorpe nailed Trump to the wall in an article entitled , “ Trump is unleashing authoritarianism on US cities- just in time for the election.
” “ Only the thirst for violent spectacle can explain the president ’ s decision in recent days to send federal security forces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this message is central to his case for re-election .
Between now and November , he can be expected to use and abuse his power over America ’ s paramilitary security forces to bolster this case .
It is clear that many conservative politicians and voters who claim to believe in individual rights and to fear abuses of federal power are now too deeply invested in authoritarianism , too convinced of the depravity of their opponents , to restrain him.
” I will close with my feeling that there is a trap door @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him wherever he goes .
He knows what he has done in his past , and what the price will be if the truth ever comes out .
I have made some calls to ask input on Trump ’ s name coming out in the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition , and the consensus was ‘ very likely ’ .
In 2015 no one , including Maxwell , could have feared Trump ever being President and having vast resources at his command to inflict retribution .
She has been widely reported to have stashed away @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the Epstein pedo-palace , saved for a rainy day .
If true , she is holding some major cards to negotiate with the prosecutors .
If those blackmail videos went to the Israelis , who are long known to have used such leverage , there will be pressure both on the US and Israel to keep that from coming out .
This is something that would put Ms. Maxwell in great danger .
Just ask Jeffrey Epstein next time you see him .
Oh , that ’ s right , we won @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will we ?
Jim W. Dean , managing editor for Veterans Today , producer/host of Heritage TV Atlanta , specially for the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook ” .

…by Jim W Dean, VT Editor, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa.
[ Editor’s Note: Since I sent this to NEO, VT has learned of extensive legal and other preparations being made by a Trump regime that has no plans on leaving the White House for 2021.
As covered in Gordon’s expose this week, the Trumpers will declare the election illegal and possibly trigger the president’s emergency powers which, with control of the Senate, would provide the initial tools to quash any successful resistance from Congress.
The test deployment of the Trump goons in Portland is gauging what public reaction is to these events, and how some of the initial district court rulings will go. We are seeing what we expected, that the Trump people see an election loss as exposing them to prosecution, so they have nothing to lose by doing anything they can while still holding on to power.
I don’t mean to be extremist at this point, but some would categorize what is going on as initial political civil war steps. The move for the public is obvious, and that is to strike back in the courts while there is time to get to appeals before election day.
This would not be easy, but the effort would wise up any of the sleeping public and give the military time to ponder whose side they are going to come down on … Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … July 27, 2020 –
Trump is having a bad week, and he knows it. He grows more dangerous as his polls sink lower, and smart enough to know that only a ‘big event’ could possibly save him. The stakes are way beyond his just losing elections.
Prosecutors have been preparing for years to bring cases not only against him, but possibly even his family. He has an Attorney General who could go down with him, and this is no overzealous boast.
Ex-30 year criminal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner has been doing daily YouTube commentaries on current and past political events under a theme that if Trump loses in November, come January it will be kick off time to not only see some of his old cases in court like in the Southern district of New York, on his taxes for example, but also for his actions as president, starting with obstruction of justice.
Kirschner is not alone. In theory, he represents ex-Federal prosecutors and Department of Justice people who have watched as the Trump administration has politicized the Justice Department with their man, AG Robert Barr viewed as serving as Donald Trump’s ‘fixer’ first, and the country second.
In response, the new Kirschner declared plan is to rebuild the Justice Department and institute reforms so that no President would ever be able to subvert it as Trump has done. This would require Democratic control of both chambers, and the current political trend is making that more likely every day.
Today Trump announced that the Republican convention in Tallahassee, Florida has been cancelled due to the unfeasibility of holding it in the pandemic hot spot of Florida, a state competing with California for the faster growing virus surge due to opening too early and their respective publics not taking the spread of the virus seriously.
But two other things happened today that got Mr. Trump’s attention. First, a district court ruled on his former lawyer Eliot Cohen’s habeas corpus petition. The judge agreed that the Bureau of Prisons had revoked Cohen’s serving the rest of his sentence at home solely because he was writing a ‘tell all’ book on President Trump, with a publisher standing ready.
“I’ve never seen such a clause in 21 years of being a judge,” Judge Hellerstein said at a Manhattan federal court hearing, where he questioned the condition that Cohen not publish a book while in home confinement. “How can I take any other inference but that it was retaliatory?” the judge asked at the hearing, which was held in response to Cohen suing to win his re-release from prison.
In another court room, a judge ordered most of the sealed deposition records be opened within a week regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged teenage girl procurer Ghislaine Maxwell, who is sitting in jail on charges of aiding and abetting a pedophile ring operating out of Epstein’s mansion in New York City. The case was settled in 2015 and the records sealed.
PedoGate watchers are expecting the files to contain a number of bombshells about the breadth and depth of the Epstein pedophile entrapment ring that was run to snare endless targets on video with underage teenage girls, a long time entrapment technique from Cold War espionage days that is alive and well today. The names expected to be revealed are a “Who’s Who” of American and British society.
As these these political bombs are falling on Trump in slow motion, he is losing the Covid war with Red States and California registering record high new Covid infections, with death rates now reaching earlier peaks.
This news comes after our genius president earlier told us that the virus was a hoax, that it would just all go away, and later that it was a Chinese virus unleashed on America as a biological weapon. That claim never gained traction in any capital other than Washington and somewhat in Britain.
So what does an embattled president do when under siege by looming indictments banging on the door of his castle, with public and private parties seeking justice and retribution? We have seen Trump carefully preparing an election safety net for himself, starting with his charges that mail in ballots were going to be used by Democrats to stuff mailboxes versus ballot boxes.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has been using a ‘rope-a-dope’ campaign tactic, laying back on the ropes and letting his opponent punch himself out via Trump’s endless charges that Biden is mentally impaired. Trump has continued to shoot himself in the foot with his mishandling of the Covid pandemic which has driven his own poll numbers down while Biden just watches and smiles.
Federal troop crackdown
Trump has also been trying to cast himself as ‘Mr. Law and Order,’ initially with his using not only National Guard troops in Washington, but also federal forces under control of Attorney General Barr’s Justice Department. This resulted in the famous revolt of the 4-star generals, when a number of them went public denouncing Trump for using troops against American protestors in the streets.
Trump deployed Justice Department federal forces to Portland, Oregon wearing military uniforms but with no identifying insignia. This deployment was against protesters, and outside the command of the state governor.
The federal forces attacked demonstrators, including a band of mothers trying to protect their children protesting. The incident was well videoed, and included footage of an older Navy veteran who, while talking to a few of the unknown forces, had one of them go crazy and begin clubbing him and breaking his arm. Retired prosecutors have reviewed the videos and seen numerous examples of criminal assaults against mostly peaceful protesters.
VT has been receiving information that malicious parties have been infiltrating these demonstrations to attack police, inciting them to fire on the crowds who then respond, giving Trump the video scenes of local mayors not being able to control their cities, when they are being attacked by black ops professionals.
General Honore has his say
The following day Lt. General Russell Honore, famous for having brought order to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, was interview on MSNBC, one of VT’s network material providers. The general, long known for his colorful language, had this to say after viewing some of the Portland footage.
“What kind of bullshit is this? Number one, they were wearing military uniforms,” the general angrily noted. “That uniform represents the cloth of our nation, for people who don’t draw overtime, who serve around the world at the direction of the national command authority, and it’s not to be used as an instrument of protest suppression.”
General Honoré then noted, “That uniform is designed to blend into terrain, not to make you look like a warrior,” highlighting the tactical uselessness of wearing camouflage in an urban environment.
“They’re wearing these uniforms as a function of intimidation, to look like warriors,” he added. “Real soldiers just don’t walk up to people and start beating on ’em. Real police don’t do that. The police have the authority to detain you, and then somebody else will decide whether you get charged or whether you go to jail for whatever offense you might have violated.”
“They are acting like an uncontrolled mob on the street with uniforms and badges that they don’t show,” he pointed out, a tactic that the Portland mayor decried as “very un-American.”
I have known General Honoré from my days in Atlanta where I videoed him as a guest speaker at my Military Order of World Wars chapter event, and then later at one of our major Memorial Day events when he was the key speaker.
General Honoré now has joined the ‘Revolt of the Generals’, the 4-star ones that publicly denounced Trump, AG Barr, and Secretary of Defense Esper for being Trump tools for his grandstanding photo op in Lafayette Park, next to the White house.
Trump was holding up a bible, with the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Milley and Esper, plus Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump all posing for the world press after Attorney General Barr had cleared the peaceful protesters out of the park with teargas, flash grenades, and nightsticks, all done to gain political points from his Christian Zionist religious supporters.
Trump watchers in the military and intel community sense he is using his favorite tool, diverting attention away from publicity that is killing him politically, such as his having done the most horrible leadership job on Covid than any other leader in the world, but still claiming he has done a wonderful job.
He wants to show that he can clear the streets of ‘anarchist’ protesters in strong Democratic cities to show that the country needs a strong president to do what those mayors and governors could not do, protect America’s streets.
But he has a big problem with that pitch. The military, the generals, and most of the veterans are not with him. They see Trump for what he is, a desperate president using any tool that he can to save himself, as he knows the end of his world could come in November.
In Britain, The Guardian’s historian Andrew Gawthorpe nailed Trump to the wall in an article entitled, “Trump is unleashing authoritarianism on US cities- just in time for the election.”
“Only the thirst for violent spectacle can explain the president’s decision in recent days to send federal security forces. As Trump has already revealed, this message is central to his case for re-election. Between now and November, he can be expected to use and abuse his power over America’s paramilitary security forces to bolster this case.
It is clear that many conservative politicians and voters who claim to believe in individual rights and to fear abuses of federal power are now too deeply invested in authoritarianism, too convinced of the depravity of their opponents, to restrain him.”
I will close with my feeling that there is a trap door under Trump’s feet that follows him wherever he goes. He knows what he has done in his past, and what the price will be if the truth ever comes out.
I have made some calls to ask input on Trump’s name coming out in the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition, and the consensus was ‘very likely’. In 2015 no one, including Maxwell, could have feared Trump ever being President and having vast resources at his command to inflict retribution.
She has been widely reported to have stashed away copies of some of the videos made at the Epstein pedo-palace, saved for a rainy day. If true, she is holding some major cards to negotiate with the prosecutors.
If those blackmail videos went to the Israelis, who are long known to have used such leverage, there will be pressure both on the US and Israel to keep that from coming out. This is something that would put Ms. Maxwell in great danger. Just ask Jeffrey Epstein next time you see him. Oh, that’s right, we won’t be seeing him again, will we?
Jim W. Dean, managing editor for VT, producer/host of Heritage TV Atlanta, specially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.


veteranstoday--2020-07-28--France begins assembly of Experimental Fusion Reactor

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[Editor’s note: I suspect this Tokomak-based ‘hot fusion’ reactor is nothing more than an expensive diversion to keep people looking the wrong way and prolonging the usage of hydrocarbon fuels.
You see, ‘cold fusion’ has been known to work in the lab for half a century, before the infamous Pons & Fleischmann discovery in the late 80s that was killed off.
The man who killed off the Pons & Fleischmann avenue of cold fusion research was none other other than Stephen Jones, who would later find infamy as the chief disinfo agent spreading lies to hide the nuclear truth of the 9-11 attacks.
Jones invented the ‘nanothermite’ myth to cover up the iron oxides found in the dust samples from the WTC, oxides he knew would be present in the dust because he had been deeply involved in designing the special demolition nukes used. Jones knew those nukes had a special iron oxide casing and that residue from it would be found in the dust, so he invented the nanothermite lie to explain this away.
A decade earlier, Jones had been similarly employed to destroy cold fusion research and he was selected for that role for the same reason – he had been involved in the development and design of advanced nuclear warheads and it was through that research that US scientists had already discovered cold fusion was possible. So when Pons & Fleischmann over in England announced to the world they had achieved cold fusion in their lab, Jones was the man they put on the job to stimy their efforts ASAP. There are two huge reasons why cold fusion has to be kept from us, hidden in the black worll. Firstly, the obvious – that it would give us clean, cheap energy and remove any need to burn hydrocarbons, hence destroying the current oil based economy. Secondly, research into cold fusion would inevitably lead to discovering that it was possible to build nuclear fission-fusion explosive devices simply and cheaply, meaning anyone with a fairly well equipped machine shop and the right ingredients can whip up a small nuke. You don’t need weapons grade plutonium or uranium either, spent reactor fuel rods can be used for one type of bomb, other metals like lithium, thorium and polonium are also used in more complex designs. But would they spend all those billions on a pointless project, going so far as to actually build a reactor, just to hide the truth about cold fusion from us? Maybe, some say NASA and all those big fireworks it plays with largely exists to hide the truth about anti-gravity, field propulsion a and host of other advanced tech they don’t want us to get our hands on for a while yet. Ian]


veteranstoday--2020-07-28--Revealed: Oil giants fund powerful police groups in top US cities

Some of America ’ s largest oil and gas companies , private utilities , and financial institutions that bankroll fossil @ @ @ @ @ – opaque private entities that raise money to pay for training , weapons , equipment @ @ @ @ @ departments across the US .
LittleSis , details how police foundations in cities such as @ @ @ @ @ , New Orleans and Salt Lake City are partially funded by household names such as @ @ @ @ @ Fargo .
The investigation by the Public Accountability Initiative , a nonprofit corporate and government @ @ @ @ @ its research database projectdetails how police foundations in cities such as Seattle , Chicago , @ @ @ @ @ Salt Lake City are partially funded by household names such as Chevron , Shell and @ @ @ @ @ are industry groups that provide substantial funds to local departments , yet , as nonprofits @ @ @ @ @ .
The investigation details how firms linked to fossil fuels also sponsor events and galas @ @ @ @ @ while some have senior staff serving as directors of police foundations .

Guardian: Big corporations accused of driving environmental and health inequalities in black and brown communities through toxic and climate-changing pollution are also funding powerful police groups in major US cities, according to a new investigation.
Some of America’s largest oil and gas companies, private utilities, and financial institutions that bankroll fossil fuels also back police foundations – opaque private entities that raise money to pay for training, weapons, equipment, and surveillance technology for departments across the US.
The investigation by the Public Accountability Initiative, a nonprofit corporate and government accountability research institute, and its research database project LittleSis, details how police foundations in cities such as Seattle, Chicago, Washington, New Orleans and Salt Lake City are partially funded by household names such as Chevron, Shell and Wells Fargo. Police foundations are industry groups that provide substantial funds to local departments, yet, as nonprofits, avoid much public scrutiny. The investigation details how firms linked to fossil fuels also sponsor events and galas that celebrate the police, while some have senior staff serving as directors of police foundations.
Disappointing, but definitely not surprising: Big Oil has ties to militarized police. https://t.co/gCHzB4OzhZ — Lakota Law Project (@lakotalaw) July 28, 2020 The report portrays the fossil fuel industry as a common enemy in the struggle for racial and environmental justice. “Many powerful companies that drive environmental injustice are also backers of the same police departments that tyrannize the very communities these corporate actors pollute,” it states. Read Full Article on TheGuardian.com


veteranstoday--2020-07-28--Family Gathering Becomes COVID-19 Deadly

Health Editor ’ s Note : Someone did not believe that COVID-19 was real .
Read this story to see what happened…..Carol A harsh lesson in the reality of COVID-19 Imagine the sound and vibration of an old-fashioned electric heater going through your whole body .
Imagine gasping for air with every step you take .
Imagine rubbing Icy Hot all over your head to soothe a painful headache .
Imagine your eyes in a bowl of water while you ’ re still seeing through them .
Imagine collapsing and waking up in the ER only to find out COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the doctor had just saved you from a stroke .
If that were the worst of it , it would be bad enough .
But that ’ s not the worst of it .
This is the story of one family ’ s harrowing fight with COVID-19 .
And so , believing the pandemic to be a hoax , my partner and I hosted family members on Saturday , June 13 .
On Sunday , June 14 , I woke up sick .
By Monday , June 15 , my partner and my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Monday , my in-laws traveled to witness the birth of their first grandchild .
They took with them my father-in-law ’ s mother and one of my partner ’ s sisters .
That night my father-in-law became ill. Then my mother-in-law and their daughter began feeling sick .
So they cut their trip short .

Health Editor’s Note: Someone did not believe that COVID-19 was real. Read this story to see what happened…..Carol
A harsh lesson in the reality of COVID-19
by Tony Green/DallasVoice
Imagine the sound and vibration of an old-fashioned electric heater going through your whole body. Imagine gasping for air with every step you take. Imagine rubbing Icy Hot all over your head to soothe a painful headache. Imagine your eyes in a bowl of water while you’re still seeing through them. Imagine collapsing and waking up in the ER only to find out COVID-19 attacked your central nervous system, and the doctor had just saved you from a stroke.
If that were the worst of it, it would be bad enough. But that’s not the worst of it. This is the story of one family’s harrowing fight with COVID-19.
And so, believing the pandemic to be a hoax, my partner and I hosted family members on Saturday, June 13. On Sunday, June 14, I woke up sick.
By Monday, June 15, my partner and my parents were all sick. That same Monday, my in-laws traveled to witness the birth of their first grandchild. They took with them my father-in-law’s mother and one of my partner’s sisters. That night my father-in-law became ill. Then my mother-in-law and their daughter began feeling sick. So they cut their trip short.
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Turbulent 2020

The year 2020 upon which we had pinned high hopes for better days ahead is proving to be another difficult year .
The whole world is in a flux and hardly any corner is safe from troubles .
End of super power rivalry and the 45 years Cold War should have made the unipolar world under the USA peaceful .
Instead , initiation of destructive global war on terror by the crusaders after 9/11 to make the world safe made it more unsafe due to their insincerity of intentions and global ambitions .
Flames of terrorism have reached every nook @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two oldest disputes of Palestine and Kashmir remain unresolved due to lackadaisical approach of the US influenced UN , which has bred religious extremism .
While the US strives to retain its global hegemony through force and intrigue , Israel aspires for Greater Israel .
India is obsessed with Akhand Bharat and Hindutva .
The colluding trio have replaced grand wars with low intensity conflicts , covert war , proxies and trade war .
China wants to become the leading economic power through its peace oriented Belt & Road initiative , while the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trade war/sanctions/containment .
Russia is keen to reassert its authority in global affairs .
The Muslim world is a house divided and deeply enmeshed in internal imbroglios .
Melting down economies of targeted countries through hybrid war , blockades , sanctions and regime changes are preferred options of the US , Israel and India .
Never before has the world seen so much turbulence in one time .
There are so many flashpoints like the nuclearized Korean Peninsula , explosive South China Sea , Indo-Pakistan antagonism in nuclearized South Asia , volatile Af-Pak @ @ @ @ @ @ @ East and simmering Ukrainian conflict .
As if these troubles were not enough , Covid-19 having morphed into a global pandemic is damaging global economies .
With so many simmering lavas , and USA and Russia sitting over huge stockpiles of nukes and ICBMs , the world has become a powder keg .
1 % rich in USA controlling world resources favor continuation of aggressive policies to keep their war industry running .
Pakistan too has its own set of grave internal and external challenges .
It is faced with perpetual hostility from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hostile Afghanistan in league with India and USA has been bleeding Pakistan profusely .
Our southern backyard hasn ’ t been so secure due to US-Saudi standoff with Iran and Iran ’ s closeness to India .
Above all , Pakistan continues to remain under the US spell despite its double dealing and strategic alignment with India .
The grim situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir ( IOK ) and vulnerability of 200 million Indian Muslims in India , together with uncertain Afghan peace agreement which has begun to unravel , have serious ramifications @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under Modi is determined to completely absorb J & K including Gilgit-Baltistan and AJK into Indian Union and is fixated with its fascist ideology to make India a Hindu State .
The US and Israel support the goals of Modi .
Internally , the government faces political instability , economic crisis and governance problems .
Corona virus coupled with slowdown of CPEC have added to the woes of cash-strapped Pakistan .
Our inaction is allowing India to consolidate its gains in IOK , and might encourage it to embark on an adventure in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ framed any strategy to lessen the pains of 8 million Kashmiris languishing in the biggest open jail since August 5 last year and subjected to the worst abuses .
Instead of waiting for divine help , or for India to invade AJK-GB to respond , a wiser course is to fight covertly in IOK instead of fighting limited war on our soil .
Our wait and see policy is no policy and amounts to giving up two-third Kashmir to India .
Diplomatic front has not been mobilized the way it should have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prepared to accept the hard reality that India will never miss any opportunity to break up Pakistan and our unilateral efforts to befriend India will never be reciprocated by India .
We naively think that prosperity of Pakistan hinges upon friendship with India and promotion of trade and business between the two countries .
This myopic fixation must end and we should learn to look elsewhere to make the country prosperous .
India will accept the existence of Pakistan only if it forgets about Kashmir , disables its nukes and agrees to become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Kashmiris in the face of extreme odds , country-wide protests in India against discriminatory citizenship law and international backlash , resurgence in the Khalistan movement , China ’ s strategic gains in Galwan Valley , India ’ s domineering attitude being challenged by Nepal , Bhutan and Sikkim for the first time , strains in Indo-Bangladesh relations and the latter indicating interest to normalize relations with Pakistan , and Iran preferring China over India have provided a window of opportunity for Pakistan to put the heat on India .
Never before has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ internal disorder .
Inaction by Pakistan and silence of major power centres would enable India to overcome resistance in IOK and in India by using brute force and also change the demography of IOK .
Disruption of intra Afghan talks in Afghanistan suits the spoilers including the USA .
The US would resist the formation of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan .
Pakistan has no mechanism or capacity to resolve the current impasse in Afghanistan except to keep supporting both sides and further pressing the Taliban to be more accommodative by reconciling with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reconcile , which seem difficult , Dr. Abdullah and other northern warlords would not .
Failure of intra-Afghan dialogue would result in inter-tribal infighting for power .
Our effort should be on speedy exit of occupying forces , elimination of perverse influence of India , and success of intra-Afghan dialogue for the establishment of a broad based regime in Kabul friendly to Pakistan .
We should however , be prepared for another round of civil war in Afghanistan with fallout effects on Pakistan .
Pakistan should facilitate the growth of understanding between Iran @ @ @ @ @ @ @ help in mitigating the irritants between Iran and Pakistan .
With external geopolitical environments showing signs of improvement , the government must redouble its efforts to put its house in order by making visible improvements in governance , financial management , and above all alleviating the socio-economic issues of the poor .
Besides adopting a positive mentality by saying “ we can do irrespective of adversities ” , we should not focus only on tangibles , but also profitably exploit our human capital .
To enhance our national output , we should boost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technology to reduce poverty .
Sick state-owned enterprises must be made profitable .
Japan , Europe and the USA are beset with an aging population .
We are fortunate to have over 60 % of the population young , which if imparted higher education and specialized skills , and utilized properly , coud turn around our economy .
The three tiered education system should be replaced with a single unified system to provide equal social growth opportunities to all , and thus achieve national integration .
Tax culture should be built to broaden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ generation .
Merit based system must be evolved , and austerity should replace pomposity .
Critical reforms in education , politics , bureaucracy , judiciary , police , and other state institutions should be undertaken , because without reforms , no headway can be made .
To rid the society of social diseases , there is a need for moral and ideological re-armament .
All out efforts must be made to reinvigorate the CPEC , which is the economic lifeline of Pakistan .
Pakistan ’ s economy will remain in doldrums as long @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the USA , remains fearful of FATF and remains dependent upon the IMF .
We have to charter independent foreign and economic policies to make Pakistan self-reliant .
The writer is a retired Brig , war veteran , defence analyst , international columnist , author of 5 books , Chairman TFP .
[ email protected ]

Asif Haroon Raja
The year 2020 upon which we had pinned high hopes for better days ahead is proving to be another difficult year. The whole world is in a flux and hardly any corner is safe from troubles. End of super power rivalry and the 45 years Cold War should have made the unipolar world under the USA peaceful.
Instead, initiation of destructive global war on terror by the crusaders after 9/11 to make the world safe made it more unsafe due to their insincerity of intentions and global ambitions. Flames of terrorism have reached every nook and corner of the world.
The two oldest disputes of Palestine and Kashmir remain unresolved due to lackadaisical approach of the US influenced UN, which has bred religious extremism.
While the US strives to retain its global hegemony through force and intrigue, Israel aspires for Greater Israel. India is obsessed with Akhand Bharat and Hindutva. The colluding trio have replaced grand wars with low intensity conflicts, covert war, proxies and trade war.
China wants to become the leading economic power through its peace oriented Belt & Road initiative, while the US wants to curtail its growth through trade war/sanctions/containment. Russia is keen to reassert its authority in global affairs. The Muslim world is a house divided and deeply enmeshed in internal imbroglios.
Melting down economies of targeted countries through hybrid war, blockades, sanctions and regime changes are preferred options of the US, Israel and India.
Never before has the world seen so much turbulence in one time. There are so many flashpoints like the nuclearized Korean Peninsula, explosive South China Sea, Indo-Pakistan antagonism in nuclearized South Asia, volatile Af-Pak region, Sino-India flare-up, chaotic Middle East and simmering Ukrainian conflict. As if these troubles were not enough, Covid-19 having morphed into a global pandemic is damaging global economies.
With so many simmering lavas, and USA and Russia sitting over huge stockpiles of nukes and ICBMs, the world has become a powder keg. 1% rich in USA controlling world resources favor continuation of aggressive policies to keep their war industry running.
Pakistan too has its own set of grave internal and external challenges. It is faced with perpetual hostility from India which wants to balkanize Pakistan. Hostile Afghanistan in league with India and USA has been bleeding Pakistan profusely. Our southern backyard hasn’t been so secure due to US-Saudi standoff with Iran and Iran’s closeness to India.
Above all, Pakistan continues to remain under the US spell despite its double dealing and strategic alignment with India.
The grim situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) and vulnerability of 200 million Indian Muslims in India, together with uncertain Afghan peace agreement which has begun to unravel, have serious ramifications for Pakistan’s security.
India under Modi is determined to completely absorb J&K including Gilgit-Baltistan and AJK into Indian Union and is fixated with its fascist ideology to make India a Hindu State. The US and Israel support the goals of Modi.
Internally, the government faces political instability, economic crisis and governance problems. Corona virus coupled with slowdown of CPEC have added to the woes of cash-strapped Pakistan.
Our inaction is allowing India to consolidate its gains in IOK, and might encourage it to embark on an adventure in AJK-GB.
So far we have not framed any strategy to lessen the pains of 8 million Kashmiris languishing in the biggest open jail since August 5 last year and subjected to the worst abuses.
Instead of waiting for divine help, or for India to invade AJK-GB to respond, a wiser course is to fight covertly in IOK instead of fighting limited war on our soil.
Our wait and see policy is no policy and amounts to giving up two-third Kashmir to India. Diplomatic front has not been mobilized the way it should have been done.
Our leaders are still not prepared to accept the hard reality that India will never miss any opportunity to break up Pakistan and our unilateral efforts to befriend India will never be reciprocated by India. We naively think that prosperity of Pakistan hinges upon friendship with India and promotion of trade and business between the two countries. This myopic fixation must end and we should learn to look elsewhere to make the country prosperous.
India will accept the existence of Pakistan only if it forgets about Kashmir, disables its nukes and agrees to become a secular compliant state.
Continued resistance of Kashmiris in the face of extreme odds, country-wide protests in India against discriminatory citizenship law and international backlash, resurgence in the Khalistan movement, China’s strategic gains in Galwan Valley, India’s domineering attitude being challenged by Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim for the first time, strains in Indo-Bangladesh relations and the latter indicating interest to normalize relations with Pakistan, and Iran preferring China over India have provided a window of opportunity for Pakistan to put the heat on India. Never before has India faced such a diplomatic isolation and internal disorder.
Inaction by Pakistan and silence of major power centres would enable India to overcome resistance in IOK and in India by using brute force and also change the demography of IOK.
Disruption of intra Afghan talks in Afghanistan suits the spoilers including the USA. The US would resist the formation of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Pakistan has no mechanism or capacity to resolve the current impasse in Afghanistan except to keep supporting both sides and further pressing the Taliban to be more accommodative by reconciling with the Ghani regime. Even if the two reconcile, which seem difficult, Dr. Abdullah and other northern warlords would not. Failure of intra-Afghan dialogue would result in inter-tribal infighting for power.
Our effort should be on speedy exit of occupying forces, elimination of perverse influence of India, and success of intra-Afghan dialogue for the establishment of a broad based regime in Kabul friendly to Pakistan. We should however, be prepared for another round of civil war in Afghanistan with fallout effects on Pakistan.
Pakistan should facilitate the growth of understanding between Iran and China. Correspondingly, China can help in mitigating the irritants between Iran and Pakistan.
With external geopolitical environments showing signs of improvement, the government must redouble its efforts to put its house in order by making visible improvements in governance, financial management, and above all alleviating the socio-economic issues of the poor.
Besides adopting a positive mentality by saying “we can do irrespective of adversities”, we should not focus only on tangibles, but also profitably exploit our human capital. To enhance our national output, we should boost our agriculture, technical skills and use technology to reduce poverty. Sick state-owned enterprises must be made profitable.
Japan, Europe and the USA are beset with an aging population. We are fortunate to have over 60% of the population young, which if imparted higher education and specialized skills, and utilized properly, coud turn around our economy.
The three tiered education system should be replaced with a single unified system to provide equal social growth opportunities to all, and thus achieve national integration.
Tax culture should be built to broaden the tax base and to improve revenue generation.
Merit based system must be evolved, and austerity should replace pomposity.
Critical reforms in education, politics, bureaucracy, judiciary, police, and other state institutions should be undertaken, because without reforms, no headway can be made.
To rid the society of social diseases, there is a need for moral and ideological re-armament.
All out efforts must be made to reinvigorate the CPEC, which is the economic lifeline of Pakistan.
Pakistan’s economy will remain in doldrums as long as Pakistan remains under the sway of the USA, remains fearful of FATF and remains dependent upon the IMF. We have to charter independent foreign and economic policies to make Pakistan self-reliant.
The writer is a retired Brig, war veteran, defence analyst, international columnist, author of 5 books, Chairman TFP. asifharoonraja@gmail.com


veteranstoday--2020-07-28--Drugmakers Refuse to Meet With Trump

Drugmakers Refuse to Meet With Trump

Drugmakers refuse to attend White House meeting after Trump issues executive orders on costs A White House meeting with top pharmaceutical executives that President Donald Trump promised for Tuesday is off , five industry sources familiar with discussions told POLITICO .
Three said the drug-pricing discussion was canceled because the major drug lobbies , reeling from Friday ’ s cluster of executive orders on the topic , refused to send any members .
Drugmakers and Trump were slated to discuss an executive order , signed Friday but not yet released , that would order health officials to release a plan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lower costs paid abroad .
The provision , known as a most-favored-nations rule , has been lambasted by the drug industry and some patient groups that say it would curb innovation and reduce drug access .
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Drugmakers refuse to attend White House meeting after Trump issues executive orders on costs
by Sarah Owermohle/Politico
A White House meeting with top pharmaceutical executives that President Donald Trump promised for Tuesday is off, five industry sources familiar with discussions told POLITICO. Three said the drug-pricing discussion was canceled because the major drug lobbies, reeling from Friday’s cluster of executive orders on the topic, refused to send any members.
Drugmakers and Trump were slated to discuss an executive order, signed Friday but not yet released, that would order health officials to release a plan linking Medicare payments for certain medicines to lower costs paid abroad. The provision, known as a most-favored-nations rule, has been lambasted by the drug industry and some patient groups that say it would curb innovation and reduce drug access.
Trump said Friday that drugmakers would have a month to present a better option to the rule. The drug lobbies PhRMA and BIO were reluctant to send representatives from their member companies — many of them multibillion-dollar manufacturers of the world’s best-selling medicines and vaccines — after conflicting reports last week about whether the White House would include the rule and little information to date about what the new rule would look like, three people familiar with the discussions said. Read More:
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veteranstoday--2020-07-29--Vital: Current Hard/Real Stats on US Covid and What they Mean (two minute read)

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War .
He is a disabled veteran and has worked @ @ @ @ @ for decades .
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of @ @ @ @ @ .
He manages the world ’ s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with @ @ @ @ @ has traveled extensively , is published around the world and is a regular guest on @ @ @ @ @ than “ several ” countries .
He is also a trained chef , wine enthusiast @ @ @ @ @ specializing in historical weapons and restoration .
Business experience and interests are in energy and @ @ @

Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.


veteranstoday--2020-07-29--France begins assembly of Experimental Fusion Reactor

[ Editor ’ s note : I suspect this Tokomak-based ‘ hot fusion ’ reactor is nothing more than an expensive diversion to keep people looking the wrong way and prolonging the usage of hydrocarbon fuels .
You see , ‘ cold fusion ’ has been known to work in the lab for half a century , before the infamous Pons & Fleischmann discovery in the late 80s that was killed off .
The man who killed off the Pons & Fleischmann avenue of cold fusion research was none other other than Stephen Jones , who would later find infamy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to hide the nuclear truth of the 9-11 attacks .
Jones invented the ‘ nanothermite ’ myth to cover up the iron oxides found in the dust samples from the WTC , oxides he knew would be present in the dust because he had been deeply involved in designing the special demolition nukes used .
Jones knew those nukes had a special iron oxide casing and that residue from it would be found in the dust , so he invented the nanothermite lie to explain this away .
A decade earlier , Jones @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fusion research and he was selected for that role for the same reason – he had been involved in the development and design of advanced nuclear warheads and it was through that research that US scientists had already discovered cold fusion was possible .
So when Pons & Fleischmann over in England announced to the world they had achieved cold fusion in their lab , Jones was the man they put on the job to stimy their efforts ASAP .
There are two huge reasons why cold fusion has to be kept from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Firstly , the obvious – that it would give us clean , cheap energy and remove any need to burn hydrocarbons , hence destroying the current oil based economy .
Secondly , research into cold fusion would inevitably lead to discovering that it was possible to build nuclear fission-fusion explosive devices simply and cheaply , meaning anyone with a fairly well equipped machine shop and the right ingredients can whip up a small nuke .
You don ’ t need weapons grade plutonium or uranium either , spent reactor fuel rods can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , other metals like lithium , thorium and polonium are also used in more complex designs .
But would they spend all those billions on a pointless project , going so far as to actually build a reactor , just to hide the truth about cold fusion from us ?
Maybe , some say NASA and all those big fireworks it plays with largely exists to hide the truth about anti-gravity , field propulsion a and host of other advanced tech they don ’ t want us to get our hands on for @ @ @ @ @ @


veteranstoday--2020-07-30--Demonic Sperm did it: Trump turning to witchcraft as VT exposes the massive fraud behind our COVID D

Demonic Sperm did it: Trump turning to witchcraft as VT exposes the massive fraud behind our COVID Disaster (updated)

We conducted this three-group trial at 55 hospitals in Brazil .
The trial was designed by the executive committee ( see the Supplementary Appendix , available with the full text of this article at NEJM.org ) and approved by the Brazilian National Commission for Research Ethics , the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency ( ANVISA ) , and ethics committees at the participating sites .
The trial was funded by the hospitals and research institutes participating in Coalition Covid-19 Brazil ( see the Supplementary Appendix ) .
EMS Pharma provided additional funding and logistic support for the trial and also donated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pharma had no role in the conduct of the trial , the analysis , or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication .
The trial was overseen by an independent international data and safety monitoring committee .
The executive committee vouches for the completeness and accuracy of the data and for the fidelity of the trial to the protocol ( available at NEJM.org ) .
The trial included consecutive patients who were 18 years of age or older and who had been hospitalized with suspected or confirmed Covid-19 with 14 or fewer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reasons for exclusion from the trial were the use of supplemental oxygen at a rate of more than 4 liters per minute as administered by a nasal cannula or at a level of at least 40 % as administered by a Venturi mask ; the use of supplemental oxygen administered by a high-flow nasal cannula or invasive or noninvasive ventilation ; previous use of chloroquine , hydroxychloroquine , azithromycin , or any other macrolide for more than 24 hours before enrollment ( and since the onset of symptoms ) ; and a history @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a corrected QT interval ( QTc ) of at least 480 msec .
Complete information on the inclusion and exclusion criteria is provided in the Supplementary Appendix .
All the patients provided written or electronic informed consent before randomization .
Patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1:1 ratio to receive standard care ( control group ) , standard care plus hydroxychloroquine at a dose of 400 mg twice daily for 7 days ( hydroxychloroquine-alone group ) , or standard care plus hydroxychloroquine at a dose of 400 mg twice daily plus azithromycin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a day for 7 days .
Randomization was performed in blocks of six and was stratified according to the use or nonuse of supplemental oxygen at the time of randomization .
Randomization was performed centrally by means of an electronic case-report form system ( RedCap ) as described in the Supplementary Appendix.12 The current standard care for Covid-19 was at the discretion of the treating physicians .
The use of glucocorticoids , other immunomodulators , antibiotic agents , and antiviral agents was allowed ( see the Supplementary Appendix ) .
The administration of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the control group , and the use of macrolides was not allowed in the control group or the hydroxychloroquine-alone group .
Guidance was provided to the investigators about how to adjust or interrupt treatment according to side effects and laboratory abnormalities .
Data were collected daily , from randomization until day 15 , in the electronic case-report form .
For patients who were discharged before day 15 , a structured telephone call to the patient or the patient ’ s family was conducted on or after day 15 by an interviewer who was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order to assess vital status and return to routine activities .
The primary outcome was clinical status at 15 days , evaluated with the use of a seven-level ordinal scale .
Scores on the scale were defined as follows : a score of 1 indicated not hospitalized with no limitations on activities ; 2 , not hospitalized but with limitations on activities ; 3 , hospitalized and not receiving supplemental oxygen ; 4 , hospitalized and receiving supplemental oxygen ; 5 , hospitalized and receiving oxygen supplementation administered by a high-flow nasal cannula @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and receiving mechanical ventilation ; and 7 , death .
Secondary outcomes included clinical status at 7 days , evaluated with the use of a six-level ordinal scale ( see below and see the Supplementary Appendix ) ; an indication for intubation within 15 days ; the receipt of supplemental oxygen administered by a high-flow nasal cannula or noninvasive ventilation between randomization and 15 days ; duration of hospital stay ; in-hospital death ; thromboembolic complications ; acute kidney injury ; and the number of days alive and free from respiratory support up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and free from respiratory support was defined as any day in which the patient did not receive supplemental oxygen or invasive or noninvasive mechanical ventilation , from randomization to day 15 .
Patients who died during the 15-day window were assigned a value of 0 days alive and free from respiratory support in this assessment .
Safety outcomes are listed in the Supplementary Appendix .
All the trial outcomes were assessed by the site investigators , who were aware of the trial-group assignments ( except as noted above for patients who had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assessed for the primary outcome by means of a blinded telephone interview ) .
No formal adjudication of trial outcomes was performed .
We had originally planned for the trial to include 630 patients , using the intention-to-treat analysis population , with a six-level ordinal outcome as the primary outcome , as described in the Supplementary Appendix .
However , before the first interim analysis was conducted , we changed the primary-outcome assessment to the seven-level ordinal scale and the main analysis population from the intention-to-treat population to a modified intention-to-treat population that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 that had been confirmed by reverse-transcriptase–polymerase-chain-reaction ( RT-PCR ) testing ( using the test available at each site ) .
The change to the use of the seven-level ordinal scale was adopted because on April 10 , 2020 ( before the first enrolled patient had reached 15 days of follow-up ) , we established the capability to obtain 15-day information on limitations on activities with the use of blinded telephone interviews .
We therefore added another level to the six-level ordinal outcome , dividing the first level ( not hospitalized ) into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospitalized and with no limitations on activities ; and level 2 , not hospitalized but with limitations on activities ) .
The change to the modified intention-to-treat population was adopted because , under the hypothesis that treatment would have beneficial effects on the primary outcome only for patients who had a confirmed diagnosis , the inclusion of unconfirmed cases would decrease the estimated effect size and power .
s a related change , we added external adjudication of unconfirmed cases , which were classified as probable , possible , or probably not Covid-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The sample size was revised with the use of the overall distribution of the seven-level ordinal outcome at day 15 observed among the first 120 patients , with the levels 1 through 7 having the following proportions of patients : 60 % , 19 % , 7 % , 1 % , 1 % , 5 % , and 7 % , respectively .
With 630 patients who had undergone randomization and 510 patients included in the modified intention-to-treat analysis , we calculated that the trial would have 80 % power to detect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( two-by-two comparisons ) , at a significance level of 5 % and with Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons ( α=5 % , divided by 3 for each comparison ) .13 The primary outcome was analyzed by mixed ordinal logistic regression with random intercept according to site , assuming proportional odds .
We report all two-by-two comparisons .
Binary outcomes were assessed with the use of a mixed logistic-regression model , except for in-hospital mortality , which was assessed with a Cox proportional-hazards model .
Continuous outcomes were evaluated by means of generalized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ variables , as appropriate .
All models were adjusted for age and the use of supplemental oxygen at admission .
We also performed sensitivity analyses that included all the patients who had undergone randomization ( intention-to-treat population ) and sensitivity analyses for the primary outcome for the following groups : patients with definitive , probable , or possible Covid-19 ; and patients with definitive or probable Covid-19 .
Two additional populations were considered .
An efficacy population included patients with a confirmed diagnosis who received at least one dose of the assigned trial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ according to the medications received , regardless of the assigned trial group or the result of Covid-19 testing .
We planned three interim analyses , to be conducted when 120 patients , 315 patients , and 504 patients had completed 15 days of follow-up .
However , only the first interim analysis was conducted .
Owing to faster-than-expected enrollment , primary-outcome data for the second and third interim analyses were available only after trial recruitment was finished .
After discussion with the data and safety monitoring committee , the second and third interim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safety monitoring committee used Haybittle–Peto14 stopping boundaries , with a P-value threshold of less than 0.001 to interrupt the trial for safety and a P-value threshold of less than 0.0001 to interrupt the trial for efficacy .
We did not adjust the final values of the hypothesis test for sequential analyses .
Analyses were performed with the use of R software ( R Core Team ) .15 P values for the primary outcome were adjusted with the use of Bonferroni correction .
No P values are reported for secondary outcomes ; the widths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outcomes have not been adjusted for multiple comparisons , so the intervals should not be used to infer definitive treatment effects .
P values for the safety analyses were not adjusted given the importance of identifying potential signals of harm .
Additional details about the statistical analyses are provided in the Supplementary Appendix .

TRIAL DESIGN AND OVERSIGHT
We conducted this three-group trial at 55 hospitals in Brazil. The trial was designed by the executive committee (see the Supplementary Appendix, available with the full text of this article at NEJM.org) and approved by the Brazilian National Commission for Research Ethics, the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA), and ethics committees at the participating sites. The trial was funded by the hospitals and research institutes participating in Coalition Covid-19 Brazil (see the Supplementary Appendix).
EMS Pharma provided additional funding and logistic support for the trial and also donated and supplied the trial drugs. EMS Pharma had no role in the conduct of the trial, the analysis, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
The trial was overseen by an independent international data and safety monitoring committee. The executive committee vouches for the completeness and accuracy of the data and for the fidelity of the trial to the protocol (available at NEJM.org).
PARTICIPANTS
The trial included consecutive patients who were 18 years of age or older and who had been hospitalized with suspected or confirmed Covid-19 with 14 or fewer days since symptom onset.
Among the reasons for exclusion from the trial were the use of supplemental oxygen at a rate of more than 4 liters per minute as administered by a nasal cannula or at a level of at least 40% as administered by a Venturi mask; the use of supplemental oxygen administered by a high-flow nasal cannula or invasive or noninvasive ventilation; previous use of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, or any other macrolide for more than 24 hours before enrollment (and since the onset of symptoms); and a history of severe ventricular tachycardia or electrocardiographic findings with a corrected QT interval (QTc) of at least 480 msec.
Complete information on the inclusion and exclusion criteria is provided in the Supplementary Appendix. All the patients provided written or electronic informed consent before randomization.
RANDOMIZATION, INTERVENTIONS, AND FOLLOW-UP
Patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1:1 ratio to receive standard care (control group), standard care plus hydroxychloroquine at a dose of 400 mg twice daily for 7 days (hydroxychloroquine-alone group), or standard care plus hydroxychloroquine at a dose of 400 mg twice daily plus azithromycin at a dose of 500 mg once a day for 7 days.
Randomization was performed in blocks of six and was stratified according to the use or nonuse of supplemental oxygen at the time of randomization. Randomization was performed centrally by means of an electronic case-report form system (RedCap) as described in the Supplementary Appendix.12
The current standard care for Covid-19 was at the discretion of the treating physicians. The use of glucocorticoids, other immunomodulators, antibiotic agents, and antiviral agents was allowed (see the Supplementary Appendix).
The administration of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine was not allowed in the control group, and the use of macrolides was not allowed in the control group or the hydroxychloroquine-alone group. Guidance was provided to the investigators about how to adjust or interrupt treatment according to side effects and laboratory abnormalities.
Data were collected daily, from randomization until day 15, in the electronic case-report form. For patients who were discharged before day 15, a structured telephone call to the patient or the patient’s family was conducted on or after day 15 by an interviewer who was unaware of the assigned trial group in order to assess vital status and return to routine activities.
OUTCOMES
The primary outcome was clinical status at 15 days, evaluated with the use of a seven-level ordinal scale. Scores on the scale were defined as follows: a score of 1 indicated not hospitalized with no limitations on activities; 2, not hospitalized but with limitations on activities; 3, hospitalized and not receiving supplemental oxygen; 4, hospitalized and receiving supplemental oxygen; 5, hospitalized and receiving oxygen supplementation administered by a high-flow nasal cannula or noninvasive ventilation; 6, hospitalized and receiving mechanical ventilation; and 7, death.
Secondary outcomes included clinical status at 7 days, evaluated with the use of a six-level ordinal scale (see below and see the Supplementary Appendix); an indication for intubation within 15 days; the receipt of supplemental oxygen administered by a high-flow nasal cannula or noninvasive ventilation between randomization and 15 days; duration of hospital stay; in-hospital death; thromboembolic complications; acute kidney injury; and the number of days alive and free from respiratory support up to 15 days.
A day alive and free from respiratory support was defined as any day in which the patient did not receive supplemental oxygen or invasive or noninvasive mechanical ventilation, from randomization to day 15. Patients who died during the 15-day window were assigned a value of 0 days alive and free from respiratory support in this assessment.
Safety outcomes are listed in the Supplementary Appendix. All the trial outcomes were assessed by the site investigators, who were aware of the trial-group assignments (except as noted above for patients who had been discharged before day 15 and who were assessed for the primary outcome by means of a blinded telephone interview). No formal adjudication of trial outcomes was performed.
SAMPLE-SIZE CALCULATION AND PROTOCOL CHANGES
We had originally planned for the trial to include 630 patients, using the intention-to-treat analysis population, with a six-level ordinal outcome as the primary outcome, as described in the Supplementary Appendix.
However, before the first interim analysis was conducted, we changed the primary-outcome assessment to the seven-level ordinal scale and the main analysis population from the intention-to-treat population to a modified intention-to-treat population that included only patients with a diagnosis of Covid-19 that had been confirmed by reverse-transcriptase–polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) testing (using the test available at each site).
The change to the use of the seven-level ordinal scale was adopted because on April 10, 2020 (before the first enrolled patient had reached 15 days of follow-up), we established the capability to obtain 15-day information on limitations on activities with the use of blinded telephone interviews.
We therefore added another level to the six-level ordinal outcome, dividing the first level (not hospitalized) into two levels (level 1, not hospitalized and with no limitations on activities; and level 2, not hospitalized but with limitations on activities).
The change to the modified intention-to-treat population was adopted because, under the hypothesis that treatment would have beneficial effects on the primary outcome only for patients who had a confirmed diagnosis, the inclusion of unconfirmed cases would decrease the estimated effect size and power.
s a related change, we added external adjudication of unconfirmed cases, which were classified as probable, possible, or probably not Covid-19 (see the Supplementary Appendix).
The sample size was revised with the use of the overall distribution of the seven-level ordinal outcome at day 15 observed among the first 120 patients, with the levels 1 through 7 having the following proportions of patients: 60%, 19%, 7%, 1%, 1%, 5%, and 7%, respectively.
With 630 patients who had undergone randomization and 510 patients included in the modified intention-to-treat analysis, we calculated that the trial would have 80% power to detect an odds ratio of 0.5 between groups (two-by-two comparisons), at a significance level of 5% and with Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons (α=5%, divided by 3 for each comparison).13
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
The primary outcome was analyzed by mixed ordinal logistic regression with random intercept according to site, assuming proportional odds. We report all two-by-two comparisons. Binary outcomes were assessed with the use of a mixed logistic-regression model, except for in-hospital mortality, which was assessed with a Cox proportional-hazards model.
Continuous outcomes were evaluated by means of generalized linear regression or mixed models for repeated variables, as appropriate. All models were adjusted for age and the use of supplemental oxygen at admission.
We also performed sensitivity analyses that included all the patients who had undergone randomization (intention-to-treat population) and sensitivity analyses for the primary outcome for the following groups: patients with definitive, probable, or possible Covid-19; and patients with definitive or probable Covid-19.
Two additional populations were considered. An efficacy population included patients with a confirmed diagnosis who received at least one dose of the assigned trial drug. The safety population included patients according to the medications received, regardless of the assigned trial group or the result of Covid-19 testing.
We planned three interim analyses, to be conducted when 120 patients, 315 patients, and 504 patients had completed 15 days of follow-up. However, only the first interim analysis was conducted. Owing to faster-than-expected enrollment, primary-outcome data for the second and third interim analyses were available only after trial recruitment was finished. After discussion with the data and safety monitoring committee, the second and third interim analyses were cancelled.
The data and safety monitoring committee used Haybittle–Peto14 stopping boundaries, with a P-value threshold of less than 0.001 to interrupt the trial for safety and a P-value threshold of less than 0.0001 to interrupt the trial for efficacy. We did not adjust the final values of the hypothesis test for sequential analyses.
Analyses were performed with the use of R software (R Core Team).15 P values for the primary outcome were adjusted with the use of Bonferroni correction. No P values are reported for secondary outcomes; the widths of the confidence intervals for the secondary outcomes have not been adjusted for multiple comparisons, so the intervals should not be used to infer definitive treatment effects.
P values for the safety analyses were not adjusted given the importance of identifying potential signals of harm. Additional details about the statistical analyses are provided in the Supplementary Appendix.


veteranstoday--2020-07-29--Found: 10,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Soft Tissue

Reindeer herders in northern Siberia have discovered the skeleton of a woolly mammoth whose ligaments remain intact at least 10,000 years after its death , reports the Associated Press .
Scientists pulled parts of the mammoth ’ s skull , ribs and foot—some still held together by soft tissue—from the muck of Pechevalavato Lake in the Yamalo-Nenets district of Russia on July 23 , according to Reuters .
The team is currently searching the site in hopes of uncovering more of the region ’ s extinct fauna .
Based on initial findings , “ the whole skeleton is there , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arctic Research Centre , tells the Siberian Times ’ Anna Liesowska , who was the first to report on the discovery .
“ Judging by the pictures this was a young mammoth , but we ’ ll have to wait for tests to give the exact age.
” The mammoth—documented in Siberian Times photographs of a foot ’ s well-preserved soft tissue , as well as enormous bones strewn on the lake ’ s shores—is the latest prehistoric creature to emerge from the region ’ s rapidly thawing permafrost after spending millennia locked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , researchers have identified a 42,000-year-old foal with no signs of external damage , a 32,000-year-old wolf head and an extinct cave lion cub , among other ... read more : ATTENTION READERS Due to the nature of independent content , VT can not guarantee content validity .
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Woolly Mammoth Skeleton With Intact Ligaments Found in Siberian Lake
by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com
Reindeer herders in northern Siberia have discovered the skeleton of a woolly mammoth whose ligaments remain intact at least 10,000 years after its death, reports the Associated Press.
Scientists pulled parts of the mammoth’s skull, ribs and foot—some still held together by soft tissue—from the muck of Pechevalavato Lake in the Yamalo-Nenets district of Russia on July 23, according to Reuters. The team is currently searching the site in hopes of uncovering more of the region’s extinct fauna.
Based on initial findings, “the whole skeleton is there,” Dmitry Frolov, director of the Arctic Research Centre, tells the Siberian Times’ Anna Liesowska, who was the first to report on the discovery. “Judging by the pictures this was a young mammoth, but we’ll have to wait for tests to give the exact age.”
The mammoth—documented in Siberian Times photographs of a foot’s well-preserved soft tissue, as well as enormous bones strewn on the lake’s shores—is the latest prehistoric creature to emerge from the region’s rapidly thawing permafrost after spending millennia locked in frozen soil. In recent years, researchers have identified a 42,000-year-old foal with no signs of external damage, a 32,000-year-old wolf head and an extinct cave lion cub, among other ...read more:


veteranstoday--2020-07-29--National Teacher Union Supports Strikes Over Unsafe School Reopening Plans

One of the nation ’ s largest teachers unions is authorizing its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without proper safety measures in the middle of the global pandemic .
The American Federation of Teachers , which represents 1.7 million school employees , issued a resolution on Tuesday saying it will support any local chapter that decides to strike over reopening plans .
In providing its blessing , the union is also offering local chapters access to its financial and legal resources as they navigate a return to the classroom .
Union officials said they will provide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to local chapters that vote to strike .
Although the measure says strikes should be considered only as a “ last resort , ” it lists conditions the organization wants met for schools to reopen .
It says buildings should reopen only in areas with lower virus rates , and only if schools require masks , update ventilation systems and make changes to space students apart .
In announcing the measure , the union ’ s president blasted President Donald Trump for pressuring schools to reopen even as the virus continues to surge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ response “ chaotic and catastrophic , ” saying it has left teachers afraid .
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National teacher union supports strikes over reopening plans
by Collin Binkely/AP education writer/abcnews
One of the nation’s largest teachers unions is authorizing its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without proper safety measures in the middle of the global pandemic.
The American Federation of Teachers, which represents 1.7 million school employees, issued a resolution on Tuesday saying it will support any local chapter that decides to strike over reopening plans.
In providing its blessing, the union is also offering local chapters access to its financial and legal resources as they navigate a return to the classroom. Union officials said they will provide legal support, communications support and staffing to local chapters that vote to strike.
Although the measure says strikes should be considered only as a “last resort,” it lists conditions the organization wants met for schools to reopen. It says buildings should reopen only in areas with lower virus rates, and only if schools require masks, update ventilation systems and make changes to space students apart.
In announcing the measure, the union’s president blasted President Donald Trump for pressuring schools to reopen even as the virus continues to surge. Randi Weingarten called Trump’s response “chaotic and catastrophic,” saying it has left teachers afraid.
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