veteranstoday--2020-12-16--Sweden Reconsiders Failed Anti-COVID-19 Approach

Health Editor ’ s Note : Sweden has not heeded the way the rest of the world has tried to avoid the spread of COVID-19 .
Sweden in particular was working on herd immunity by allowing people to contract COVID-19 and thus would be immune to coronavirus , and not be able to spread it further , that is if they did not die .
Sweden has the highest death rate of all its Nordic neighbors .
All ICU beds are occupied in Stockholm and this is forcing tougher restrictions as emergency services are overrun with capacity for intensive care @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and decreasing the size of public gatherings are now in place , but restaurants and bars are still open .
Perhaps they should require some more restrictions ?
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Sweden Fails to Stop COVID-19
Sweden has been an outlier in the global pandemic: It eschewed lockdowns and kept restaurants, bars, schools, movie theaters and gyms mostly open. But now a second wave is forcing authorities to reconsider their approach. https://t.co/7bAqjh27Hp
Systemic shortcomings in Sweden's elderly care coupled with inadequate measures from the government and agencies contributed to the country's high death toll in nursing homes, an initial report by an official commission said on Tuesday. https://t.co/AhEmiWl2T3
Health Editor’s Note: Sweden has not heeded the way the rest of the world has tried to avoid the spread of COVID-19. Sweden in particular was working on herd immunity by allowing people to contract COVID-19 and thus would be immune to coronavirus, and not be able to spread it further, that is if they did not die.
Sweden has the highest death rate of all its Nordic neighbors. All ICU beds are occupied in Stockholm and this is forcing tougher restrictions as emergency services are overrun with capacity for intensive care beyond 100%. Closing some schools and decreasing the size of public gatherings are now in place, but restaurants and bars are still open. Perhaps they should require some more restrictions?…..Carol


veteranstoday--2020-12-16--Vaccination Campaign at Nursing Homes Faces Obstacles and Confusion

NY Times : In coming days , squads of CVS and Walgreens employees , clad in protective gear and carrying small coolers , will begin to arrive at tens of thousands of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities to vaccinate staff and residents against the coronavirus .
It promises to be a crucial milestone in America ’ s battle against a pandemic that has inflicted especially severe carnage on nursing homes .
At least 106,000 residents and staff of long-term care facilities have died from the virus , accounting for 38 percent of the country ’ s Covid-related fatalities .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ campaign is facing serious obstacles that are worrying nursing home executives , industry watchdogs , elder-care lawyers and medical experts .
They expect nursing homes to be the most challenging front in the mission to vaccinate Americans .
Some residents and staff are balking at taking the vaccine .
Short-staffed facilities are concerned about workers calling in sick with side effects , straining resources just as some frail residents are likely to experience fever and fatigue from the shot .
Most nursing home employees work in shifts ; will it be possible to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a few visits from CVS and Walgreens ?
With days to go before the vaccinations begin , there is also widespread confusion about how nursing homes will get consent to vaccinate residents who aren ’ t able to make their own medical decisions .
A CVS executive said such residents ’ legal representatives will be able to provide consent to nursing homes electronically or over the phone , but officials at multiple large nursing home chains said they weren ’ t aware of that .
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NY Times: In coming days, squads of CVS and Walgreens employees, clad in protective gear and carrying small coolers, will begin to arrive at tens of thousands of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities to vaccinate staff and residents against the coronavirus.
It promises to be a crucial milestone in America’s battle against a pandemic that has inflicted especially severe carnage on nursing homes. At least 106,000 residents and staff of long-term care facilities have died from the virus, accounting for 38 percent of the country’s Covid-related fatalities.
But even before it begins, the mass-vaccination campaign is facing serious obstacles that are worrying nursing home executives, industry watchdogs, elder-care lawyers and medical experts. They expect nursing homes to be the most challenging front in the mission to vaccinate Americans.


veteranstoday--2020-12-16--Did the Khazarian Cult Murder General George Patton?

JEA : The Daily Mail declared last December that “ Mystery over US war hero ’ s death in hospital 12 days after he was paralyzed in an apparent car accident still fuels conspiracy theory years later.
” [ 1 ] The funny thing is that by charging others of summoning conspiracy theory , the Daily Mail could not hide the fact that General George Patton was evidently assainated .
Listen to this very carefully here : “ Seventy- four years ago this month , General George S. Patton was en route to a Sunday afternoon hunting trip in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his Cadillac limousine collided with a military truck parked on the side of the road .
The two other passengers in the vehicle were unharmed except General Patton who was left with a massive head wound and paralyzed from the neck down .
“ Patton was swiftly taken to an Army hospital 20 miles away where he made rapid strides in recovery over the course of 12 days .
His presiding physician had given him the medical clearance to make the gruelling trans-Atlantic flight back home when suddenly on December 21 , 1945 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his nickname ‘ Old Blood and Guts ’ was pronounced dead .
“ No autopsy was ever performed .
All the reports and investigations into the accident have mysteriously disappeared .
In 1979 , an American spy with a sterling reputation named Douglas Bazata claimed that he was ordered by the Office of Strategic Services ( a precursor to the CIA ) to kill Patton and make his murder look like an accident .
“ Since Bazata ’ s confession a number of independent sources with circumstantial evidence have come forward to corroborate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; yet still – the untimely death of General Patton remains one of WWII ’ s most enduring mysteries.
” [ 2 ] Then we hear this : “ Under Patton ’ s decisive leadership , the Third Army drove retreating German forces out of occupied territories in an ‘ unprecedented display of military brilliance , enabling , among other feats , the liberation of Paris , ’ said Patton biographer , Robert Wilcox .
“ But toward the end of the war , General Eisenhower and other commanding officers had come to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unorthodox approach to warfare .
Patton had repeatedly defied authority , challenged orders and loudly disagreed with the United States ’ post-war foreign policy .
As a result , he was re-stationed to Bad Nauheim , a small German town near Frankfurt where his new assignment was a desk job commanding the Fifteenth Army – which was essentially a unit of historians that were given military status and assigned to write the history of the war .
This was the ultimate insult to Patton who was itching to continue the fight against the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Powers That Be certainly didn ’ t like the guy .
The point is supported by a massive evidence , and even during the car incidence , it was obvious to Patton and the passengers that they were targeted for assassination : “ The truck driver responsible for the fatal crash was a soldier from Camden , New Jersey named Robert Thompson .
He had stolen the army vehicle , or perhaps taken it out for a joyride with two other passengers that were never named or seen again but are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ image that exists from the accident scene .
Nobody has ever been able to explain why or what Thompson was doing 50 miles away from his base ; he had no order to be there and he was in violation of his rules… .
“ When asked if his father may have thought the collision was an assassination attempt , Woodring ’ s son said , ‘ Well , you know , he always had his thoughts possibly that it could have been.
’ “ Military Police and a number of unidentified investigators @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this alone is curious seeing as how the accident took place on a deserted road in a remote area .
The collision was said to have occurred around 11:45am , Patton was in an ambulance by 12:20 , which begs the questions : how were responding officers able to arrive so quickly ?
Had they known of a plot to assassinate Patton ahead of time ?
Were they just standing by waiting for it to happen ?
“ Inexplicably , Robert Thompson , the truck driver was quickly whisked away by the Army @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
Wilcox learned of this revelation from Thompson ’ s lawyer who said : ‘ …the CID got him out of Germany that night .
They flew him to England…He was incommunicado for a couple of days.
’ ” [ 4 ] The Daily Mail declares that Paton was “ one of America ’ s most decorated war heroes , ” and the fact that the Powers That Be exterminated him obviously tells us that nothing or no one is too precious for the Powers That Be .
If you stand against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about anything to eliminate you .
The fundamental question is simply this : who were the people who assassinated Patton ?
Douglas Bazata said he was hired to assassinate Paton .
But we ’ ll let Brother Nathanael Kapner answer that question for us .
BNK : GENERAL GEORGE PATTON ’ S MURDER on 21 December 1945 is one of the most concealed events in military history .
Although Patton ’ s military file at the National Archives in St Louis has over 1300 pages of documents , only a handful of pages @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Strangely , the 5 on-the-scene military reports of the incident disappeared shortly after archived .
Why ?
Patton ’ s end began on 9 December 1945 when after setting out on a pheasant hunting trip near Mannheim , Germany , a two-ton US Army truck collided into his Cadillac staff car .
Patton suffered neck injuries either from a bullet or less likely from impact but was not seriously hurt .
Yet his driver , Horace Woodring and his chief of staff , General Hap Gay , walked away with barely a scratch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Patton ’ s rescue vehicle was struck again by another two-ton Army truck .
This time he was injured more severely , but still clung to his life .
Neither of the truck drivers were arrested nor had their names disclosed although Patton ’ s driver stated that the first truck was waiting for them on the side of the road as they ’ d started up from a railroad track stop .
It was later reported by former intelligence agent Ladislas Farago , that the driver of the first truck , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whisked away to London before he could be questioned ) , was not authorized to drive the vehicle and had two mysterious passengers with him “ in violation of rules.
” Ladislas also pointed out that although the crash occurred on a remote road on a quiet , no-work Sunday morning , a large crowd of mostly military personnel quickly descended on the scene .
Once at the hospital , Patton was able to contact his wife in America urging her to remove him from the hospital because , “ They ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that they did .
On 21 December 1945 , Patton was pronounced dead due to an “ embolism , ” that is , a bubble of blood which is fatal when it reaches a vital organ .
It can be introduced into the bloodstream with a syringe by anyone with brief medical training .
Not only did the US army make no investigation into the “ accident ” – but no questions were raised about his “ embolism.
” The remains of this American hero were never brought to the United States and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PATTON ASSUMED COMMAND of occupied Germany in October 1945 , he came to a new understanding of the European conflagration .
The war hero expressed grave misgivings regarding the harsh treatment of Germans by the Allies and urged creating a strong Germany to counter the advance of Soviet Russia into Eastern Europe .
The more Patton saw of the Soviets , the stronger his conviction grew that the right course of action was to stifle communism while the opportunity was ripe .
But Patton was thwarted by Roosevelt ’ s Jewish advisers , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pursued a post-war bond with Jewish-Soviets .
The conflict between Jewry and Patton grew when he refused to remove German civilians from their homes so as to house “ Displaced Persons.
” Most of these were Jews who were never “ displaced ” but rather had swarmed into Germany from Poland and Russia .
“ The virus started by Morgenthau and Baruch against all Germans is Semitic revenge .
Now I ’ m being ordered to remove German civilians from their homes for the purpose of housing Displaced Persons .
“ It appears @ @ @ @ @ @ @ German race and not individual Germans .
It ’ s against my Anglo-Saxon conscience to remove a person from his house without due process of the law .
“ Those issuing these orders believe that the Displaced Person is a human being , which he is not .
This applies particularly to the Jews , who are lost to all decency , relieving themselves on the floors , showing themselves to be lower than animals.
” When Patton later linked Communists with Jews , his fate was sealed .
The Jewish-owned press in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as “ soft on Nazis.
” General Patton had always carried with him a special notebook .
It disappeared from his pocket upon his arrival at the hospital after the collisions .
“ I have a little black book in my pocket , ” Patton once said , “ and when I get back home I ’ m going to blow the hell out of everything.
” But Jewry made sure Patton would never see America again .
IN HIS BOOK , “ Target Patton , ” author Robert Wilcox describes his interviews @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Lebanese Jew , who died in 1999 .
Based on these interviews , ( Bazata , with declining health , was tormented by qualms of conscience ) , Wilcox details how the marksman staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton ’ s Cadillac .
He then arranged for the General to be shot with a low-velocity projectile which entered Patton ’ s neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch .
( The impact theory is less likely since the vehicles were advancing at only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hardly damaged . )
Bazata said that the order “ to silence Patton ” was given by the head of the OSS , ( forerunner to the CIA ) , General “ Wild Bill ” Donovan , who was pursuing close ties with Communist intelligence officers .
Donovan told Bazata , “ We ’ ve got a terrible situation with this great patriot , he ’ s out of control and we must save him from himself and from ruining everything the allies have done.
” The marksman gave similar testimony to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the Hilton Hotel in Washington on 25 September 1979 .
Bazata said , “ Many high-ranking military persons hated Patton .
I know who killed him because I was hired to set up the accident by General William Donovan for $ 10,000 .
But since Patton didn ’ t die in the accident , he was kept in isolation in the hospital where he was killed with an injection.
” General Bill Donovan is alleged to have been a crypto Jew , as his mother , Anna Letitia Donovan , was likely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anna Letitia , ” is typically Jewish but uncommon as an Irish name .
Donovan ’ s rise as a Wall Street lawyer , his intimacy with FDR ’ s Jewish inner circle , and his role as adjunct to Jewish Judge Samuel Rosenman at the Nuremberg trials , strengthens the premise of Donovan ’ s Jewish identity , or at least , his Jewish sympathies .
And those “ sympathies ” felled a great American hero through the intrigues of the dark forces of international Jewry now pervasive in our post WWII @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an anti-Semite for saying things like , “ Of course , I know the expression ‘ lost tribes of Israel ’ applied to the tribes which disappeared — not to the tribe of Judah from which the current sons of bitches are descended.
” [ 5 ] But there is no way to draw the antisemitic card from this phraseology alone because Patton used it all the time to just about anyone throughout his military career .
• [ 1 ] Tate Delloye , “ Was General Patton MURDERED ?
Mystery over US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 12 days after he was paralyzed in an apparent car accident still fuels conspiracy theory years later , ” Daily Mail , December 21 , 2019 .

JEA: The Daily Mail declared last December that “Mystery over US war hero’s death in hospital 12 days after he was paralyzed in an apparent car accident still fuels conspiracy theory years later.”[1] The funny thing is that by charging others of summoning conspiracy theory, the Daily Mail could not hide the fact that General George Patton was evidently assainated. Listen to this very carefully here:
“Seventy- four years ago this month, General George S. Patton was en route to a Sunday afternoon hunting trip in the devastated region of Mannheim, Germany when his Cadillac limousine collided with a military truck parked on the side of the road. The two other passengers in the vehicle were unharmed except General Patton who was left with a massive head wound and paralyzed from the neck down.
“Patton was swiftly taken to an Army hospital 20 miles away where he made rapid strides in recovery over the course of 12 days. His presiding physician had given him the medical clearance to make the gruelling trans-Atlantic flight back home when suddenly on December 21, 1945, the indestructible general who revelled in his nickname ‘Old Blood and Guts’ was pronounced dead.
“No autopsy was ever performed. All the reports and investigations into the accident have mysteriously disappeared. In 1979, an American spy with a sterling reputation named Douglas Bazata claimed that he was ordered by the Office of Strategic Services (a precursor to the CIA) to kill Patton and make his murder look like an accident.
“Since Bazata’s confession a number of independent sources with circumstantial evidence have come forward to corroborate various parts of Bazata’s story; yet still – the untimely death of General Patton remains one of WWII’s most enduring mysteries.”[2]
Then we hear this:
“Under Patton’s decisive leadership, the Third Army drove retreating German forces out of occupied territories in an ‘unprecedented display of military brilliance, enabling, among other feats, the liberation of Paris,’ said Patton biographer, Robert Wilcox.
“But toward the end of the war, General Eisenhower and other commanding officers had come to consider General Patton a liability for his unorthodox approach to warfare. Patton had repeatedly defied authority, challenged orders and loudly disagreed with the United States’ post-war foreign policy. As a result, he was re-stationed to Bad Nauheim, a small German town near Frankfurt where his new assignment was a desk job commanding the Fifteenth Army – which was essentially a unit of historians that were given military status and assigned to write the history of the war. This was the ultimate insult to Patton who was itching to continue the fight against the Japanese.”[3]
In short, the Powers That Be certainly didn’t like the guy. The point is supported by a massive evidence, and even during the car incidence, it was obvious to Patton and the passengers that they were targeted for assassination:
“The truck driver responsible for the fatal crash was a soldier from Camden, New Jersey named Robert Thompson. He had stolen the army vehicle, or perhaps taken it out for a joyride with two other passengers that were never named or seen again but are pictured in the background of the only image that exists from the accident scene. Nobody has ever been able to explain why or what Thompson was doing 50 miles away from his base; he had no order to be there and he was in violation of his rules….
“When asked if his father may have thought the collision was an assassination attempt, Woodring’s son said, ‘Well, you know, he always had his thoughts possibly that it could have been.’
“Military Police and a number of unidentified investigators descended on the scene with unprecedented speed- this alone is curious seeing as how the accident took place on a deserted road in a remote area. The collision was said to have occurred around 11:45am, Patton was in an ambulance by 12:20, which begs the questions: how were responding officers able to arrive so quickly? Had they known of a plot to assassinate Patton ahead of time? Were they just standing by waiting for it to happen?
“Inexplicably, Robert Thompson, the truck driver was quickly whisked away by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID). Wilcox learned of this revelation from Thompson’s lawyer who said: ‘…the CID got him out of Germany that night. They flew him to England…He was incommunicado for a couple of days.’”[4]
The Daily Mail declares that Paton was “one of America’s most decorated war heroes,” and the fact that the Powers That Be exterminated him obviously tells us that nothing or no one is too precious for the Powers That Be. If you stand against them, then they will do just about anything to eliminate you. The fundamental question is simply this: who were the people who assassinated Patton? Douglas Bazata said he was hired to assassinate Paton. But we’ll let Brother Nathanael Kapner answer that question for us.
BNK: GENERAL GEORGE PATTON’S MURDER on 21 December 1945 is one of the most concealed events in military history.
Although Patton’s military file at the National Archives in St Louis has over 1300 pages of documents, only a handful of pages are devoted to the car crash. Strangely, the 5 on-the-scene military reports of the incident disappeared shortly after archived. Why?
Patton’s end began on 9 December 1945 when after setting out on a pheasant hunting trip near Mannheim, Germany, a two-ton US Army truck collided into his Cadillac staff car.
Patton suffered neck injuries either from a bullet or less likely from impact but was not seriously hurt. Yet his driver, Horace Woodring and his chief of staff, General Hap Gay, walked away with barely a scratch.
On the way to the hospital, Patton’s rescue vehicle was struck again by another two-ton Army truck. This time he was injured more severely, but still clung to his life.
Neither of the truck drivers were arrested nor had their names disclosed although Patton’s driver stated that the first truck was waiting for them on the side of the road as they’d started up from a railroad track stop.
It was later reported by former intelligence agent Ladislas Farago, that the driver of the first truck, Robert L Thompson, (who was whisked away to London before he could be questioned), was not authorized to drive the vehicle and had two mysterious passengers with him “in violation of rules.”
Ladislas also pointed out that although the crash occurred on a remote road on a quiet, no-work Sunday morning, a large crowd of mostly military personnel quickly descended on the scene.
Once at the hospital, Patton was able to contact his wife in America urging her to remove him from the hospital because, “They’re going to kill me here.” And that they did.
On 21 December 1945, Patton was pronounced dead due to an “embolism,” that is, a bubble of blood which is fatal when it reaches a vital organ. It can be introduced into the bloodstream with a syringe by anyone with brief medical training.
Not only did the US army make no investigation into the “accident” – but no questions were raised about his “embolism.” The remains of this American hero were never brought to the United States and no autopsy was ever performed.
PATTON ON THE KHAZARIAN HIT LIST
WHEN PATTON ASSUMED COMMAND of occupied Germany in October 1945, he came to a new understanding of the European conflagration.
The war hero expressed grave misgivings regarding the harsh treatment of Germans by the Allies and urged creating a strong Germany to counter the advance of Soviet Russia into Eastern Europe.
The more Patton saw of the Soviets, the stronger his conviction grew that the right course of action was to stifle communism while the opportunity was ripe.
But Patton was thwarted by Roosevelt’s Jewish advisers, Henry Morgenthau and Bernard Baruch, who pursued a post-war bond with Jewish-Soviets.
The conflict between Jewry and Patton grew when he refused to remove German civilians from their homes so as to house “Displaced Persons.” Most of these were Jews who were never “displaced” but rather had swarmed into Germany from Poland and Russia.
Patton’s diary entry for 17 September 1945 reads:
“The virus started by Morgenthau and Baruch against all Germans is Semitic revenge. Now I’m being ordered to remove German civilians from their homes for the purpose of housing Displaced Persons.
“It appears that this order is to punish the German race and not individual Germans. It’s against my Anglo-Saxon conscience to remove a person from his house without due process of the law.
“Those issuing these orders believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not. This applies particularly to the Jews, who are lost to all decency, relieving themselves on the floors, showing themselves to be lower than animals.”
When Patton later linked Communists with Jews, his fate was sealed. The Jewish-owned press in America began a smear campaign describing Patton as “soft on Nazis.”
General Patton had always carried with him a special notebook. It disappeared from his pocket upon his arrival at the hospital after the collisions.
“I have a little black book in my pocket,” Patton once said, “and when I get back home I’m going to blow the hell out of everything.” But Jewry made sure Patton would never see America again.
KHAZARIAN REVENGE
IN HIS BOOK, “Target Patton,” author Robert Wilcox describes his interviews with WWII sharpshooter, Douglas Bazata, a Lebanese Jew, who died in 1999.
Based on these interviews, (Bazata, with declining health, was tormented by qualms of conscience), Wilcox details how the marksman staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton’s Cadillac.
He then arranged for the General to be shot with a low-velocity projectile which entered Patton’s neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch. (The impact theory is less likely since the vehicles were advancing at only 20 miles per hour, both being hardly damaged.)
Bazata said that the order “to silence Patton” was given by the head of the OSS, (forerunner to the CIA), General “Wild Bill” Donovan, who was pursuing close ties with Communist intelligence officers.
Donovan told Bazata, “We’ve got a terrible situation with this great patriot, he’s out of control and we must save him from himself and from ruining everything the allies have done.”
The marksman gave similar testimony to a group of 450 ex-members of the OSS at the Hilton Hotel in Washington on 25 September 1979.
Bazata said, “Many high-ranking military persons hated Patton. I know who killed him because I was hired to set up the accident by General William Donovan for $10,000. But since Patton didn’t die in the accident, he was kept in isolation in the hospital where he was killed with an injection.”
General Bill Donovan is alleged to have been a crypto Jew, as his mother, Anna Letitia Donovan, was likely a Jewess. Her name, “Anna Letitia,” is typically Jewish but uncommon as an Irish name.
Donovan’s rise as a Wall Street lawyer, his intimacy with FDR’s Jewish inner circle, and his role as adjunct to Jewish Judge Samuel Rosenman at the Nuremberg trials, strengthens the premise of Donovan’s Jewish identity, or at least, his Jewish sympathies.
And those “sympathies” felled a great American hero through the intrigues of the dark forces of international Jewry now pervasive in our post WWII world.
JEA: Patton was called an anti-Semite for saying things like, “Of course, I know the expression ‘lost tribes of Israel’ applied to the tribes which disappeared — not to the tribe of Judah from which the current sons of bitches are descended.”[5] But there is no way to draw the antisemitic card from this phraseology alone because Patton used it all the time to just about anyone throughout his military career.


veteranstoday--2020-12-16--Hard hit southern California to receive 5,000 body bags and 60 morgue trucks

The precautions come from hospitalizations that now are double the summertime peak seen earlier in the pandemic , and which threaten to soon overwhelm the state ’ s already taxed hospital system .
Gavin Newsom , California ’ s governor , said Tuesday that the number of average daily deaths has quadrupled from a month ago .
The surge is forcing an urgent scramble for more staff and space , a crush that might not abate for two months despite the arrival of the first doses of vaccines this week .
The number of average daily deaths now stands at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to more than 32,500 each day .
Of those new cases , an anticipated 12 % will wind up in the hospital and 12 % of those hospitalized will crowd already stretched intensive care units .
That means one day ’ s worth of cases can be expected to produce a staggering 3,900 hospitalizations and nearly 500 ICU patients .
“ We are in the middle of the most acute peak , ” Newsom said , urging residents to take precautions to slow the spread .
In Orange county , health officials said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four hospitals to help handle their patient caseloads .
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The precautions come from hospitalizations that now are double the summertime peak seen earlier in the pandemic, and which threaten to soon overwhelm the state’s already taxed hospital system.
Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, said Tuesday that the number of average daily deaths has quadrupled from a month ago. The surge is forcing an urgent scramble for more staff and space, a crush that might not abate for two months despite the arrival of the first doses of vaccines this week.
The day after California began its Covid-19 vaccination rollout, the state activated its "mass fatality" program, including the purchase of 5,000 body bags https://t.co/N8ItJ14QAQ — CNN (@CNN) December 16, 2020
The number of average daily deaths now stands at 163, while positive cases have surged to more than 32,500 each day. Of those new cases, an anticipated 12% will wind up in the hospital and 12% of those hospitalized will crowd already stretched intensive care units.
California ordered 5,000 more body bags and has dozens of refrigerated trucks on standby as the state experiences its "most intense" COVID-19 surge to date, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday. https://t.co/rUkbEhepVx — ABC News (@ABC) December 15, 2020
That means one day’s worth of cases can be expected to produce a staggering 3,900 hospitalizations and nearly 500 ICU patients.
California orders 5,000 body bags and puts 60 refrigerated trucks on standby amid COVID surge https://t.co/airtiMvASR — Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) December 16, 2020
“We are in the middle of the most acute peak,” Newsom said, urging residents to take precautions to slow the spread.
California virus surge brings body bags, makeshift morgues https://t.co/HAo7Kj3nc2 — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) December 16, 2020
In Orange county, health officials said they plan to send large tents to four hospitals to help handle their patient caseloads. read more…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/california-coronavirus-deaths-body-bags-morgue


veteranstoday--2020-12-16--Death Witches:  Conway and Ivanka Skewed CDC Against Science, Killing Tens of Thousands

Daily Beast : Two top Trump appointees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have spoken out for the first time about how the White House meddled in the agency ’ s work throughout the coronavirus pandemic .
Kyle McGowan , a former chief of staff at the CDC , and his deputy , Amanda Campbell , both quit in August without explaining their reasons .
In interviews with The New York Times published Wednesday , they described how the White House demanded changes to CDC advice based on science .
They said Kellyanne Conway , the former White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ choirs and communion in religious communities , while Ivanka Trump offered suggestions for their guidance on schools .
“ Every time that the science clashed with the messaging , messaging won , ” McGowan said .
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Daily Beast: Two top Trump appointees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have spoken out for the first time about how the White House meddled in the agency’s work throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Hard to pick out just one part of this article to highlight, but Ivanka Trump reviewing/recommending changes to CDC guidance might be it. https://t.co/GsUY5omIzK
Ex-Trump officials reveal how Ivanka Trump and Kellyanne Conway meddled with CDC COVID guidelines https://t.co/cheapitQaX
Kyle McGowan, a former chief of staff at the CDC, and his deputy, Amanda Campbell, both quit in August without explaining their reasons. In interviews with The New York Times published Wednesday, they described how the White House demanded changes to CDC advice based on science.
Ex-Trump officials reveal how Ivanka and Kellyanne Conway meddled with CDC COVID guidelines #SmartNews https://t.co/0bVF2EI3dE — Vivian Porretto (@VCSP8) December 16, 2020
They said Kellyanne Conway, the former White House adviser, gave unwanted advice on choirs and communion in religious communities, while Ivanka Trump offered suggestions for their guidance on schools.
“Every time that the science clashed with the messaging, messaging won,” McGowan said.
Kyle McGowan, a former chief of staff at the CDC, and his deputy, Amanda Campbell, both quit their roles in August and have now broken their silence. “Every time that the science clashed with the messaging, messaging won,” McGowan said.
https://t.co/HkZktKq4l8 — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 16, 2020
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veteranstoday--2020-12-17--Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms ‘Trickle Down’ Theory Is an Absolute Sham

Neoliberal gospel says that cutting taxes on the wealthy will eventually benefit everyone by boosting economic growth and reducing unemployment , but a new analysis of fiscal policies in 18 countries over the last 50 years reveals that progressive critics of “ trickle down ” theory have been right all along : supply-side economics fuels inequality , and the real beneficiaries of the right-wing approach to taxation are the super-rich .
“ Cutting taxes on the rich increases top income shares , but has little effect on economic performance.
” —David Hope and Julian Limberg The Economic Consequences of Major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , a working paper published this month by the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and written by LSE ’ s David Hope and Julian Limberg of King ’ s College London , examines data from nearly 20 OECD countries , including the U.K. and the U.S. , and finds that the past five decades have been characterized by “ falling taxes on the rich in the advanced economies , ” with “ major tax cuts… particularly clustered in the late 1980s.
” But , according to Hope and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ populations in those countries have little to show for it , as the benefits of slashing taxes on the wealthy are concentrated among a handful of super-rich individuals—not widely shared across society in the form of improved job creation or prosperity , as “ trickle down ” theorists alleged would happen .
“ Our research shows that the economic case for keeping taxes on the rich low is weak , ” Hope said Wednesday .
“ Major tax cuts for the rich since the 1980s have increased income inequality , with all the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gains in economic performance.
” read more…

Major tax cuts for the rich since the 1980s have increased income inequality, with all the problems that brings, without any offsetting gains in economic performance
Neoliberal gospel says that cutting taxes on the wealthy will eventually benefit everyone by boosting economic growth and reducing unemployment, but a new analysis of fiscal policies in 18 countries over the last 50 years reveals that progressive critics of “trickle down” theory have been right all along: supply-side economics fuels inequality, and the real beneficiaries of the right-wing approach to taxation are the super-rich.
No surprise that this argument by lobbyists for the rich proves bogus. Reduce taxes on rich and you get richer rich, not stronger growth. https://t.co/UXILu5O5wW — Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) December 16, 2020
“Cutting taxes on the rich increases top income shares, but has little effect on economic performance.”
—David Hope and Julian Limberg
The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich (pdf), a working paper published this month by the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and written by LSE’s David Hope and Julian Limberg of King’s College London, examines data from nearly 20 OECD countries, including the U.K. and the U.S., and finds that the past five decades have been characterized by “falling taxes on the rich in the advanced economies,” with “major tax cuts… particularly clustered in the late 1980s.”
According to RAND report, this is how much "richer rich" they've become.https://t.co/aXZetC24J5 — Grace van Thillo🌍 (@gvthillo) December 16, 2020 But, according to Hope and Limberg, the vast majority of the populations in those countries have little to show for it, as the benefits of slashing taxes on the wealthy are concentrated among a handful of super-rich individuals—not widely shared across society in the form of improved job creation or prosperity, as “trickle down” theorists alleged would happen. “Our research shows that the economic case for keeping taxes on the rich low is weak,” Hope said Wednesday. “Major tax cuts for the rich since the 1980s have increased income inequality, with all the problems that brings, without any offsetting gains in economic performance.” read more… https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/16/study-50-years-tax-cuts-rich-confirms-trickle-down-theory-absolute-sham


veteranstoday--2020-12-17--Swedish King: Our Wingnut-Approved COVID Strategy Was Deadly…Carlson-Rand Paul Criminally Wrong

When Swedes began dying off and the nation began collapsing under a failed COVID policy , it was the continual back slapping from Trump and his minions that pushed Sweden to wait it out…and follow the American example into chaos and destruction… Daily Beast : Remember in the early days of the pandemic , when people like Tucker Carlson and Sen. Rand Paul advocated for the U.S. following the Swedish model of avoiding strict lockdowns and letting life carry on largely as normal amid the highly contagious virus ?
Well , as the year ends , Sweden is coming to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that is approximately 10 times higher than neighboring Norway and Finland , and now its king has condemned political leaders for their experiment , branding the light-touch strategy a miserable and deadly failure .
“ The people of Sweden have suffered tremendously in difficult conditions , ” King Carl XVI Gustaf , who is traditionally tight-lipped on political matters , told the Swedish state broadcaster SVT .
He added : “ I think we have failed .
We have a large number who have died , and that is terrible.
” Although it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comment on policy , his actual comments were a statement of the obvious .
Anders Tegnell , the country ’ s top epidemiologist who designed its anti-lockdown strategy , has himself admitted that too many people have died and the country should have done more to prevent the spread of the disease from the outset .
Throughout the pandemic , Swedes have been allowed to go to restaurants and bars with no social-distancing measures in place and , until recently , were allowed to hit the gym and send their kids to school @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the near-universal guidance of recommending that protective face masks be worn in public , except in hospitals .
The sight of Swedes packing out restaurants and bars in the first wave of the pandemic led to some commentators in the U.S. urging leaders to follow Sweden ’ s example…many of whom are dead today….read more…

It wasn’t so long ago that U.S. Republican commentators were lauding the so-called Swedish model—but now it’s increasingly unpopular in the country it was created.
When Swedes began dying off and the nation began collapsing under a failed COVID policy, it was the continual back slapping from Trump and his minions that pushed Sweden to wait it out…and follow the American example into chaos and destruction…
Daily Beast: Remember in the early days of the pandemic, when people like Tucker Carlson and Sen. Rand Paul advocated for the U.S. following the Swedish model of avoiding strict lockdowns and letting life carry on largely as normal amid the highly contagious virus?
Stockholm’s ICU capacity hit 99% this week. Sweden 🇸🇪 is also completely out of ICU nursing staff because of high resignation rates. There are now fewer ICU healthcare staffers than in spring surge. #COVID19 burnout is real. Chasing herd ruins HC systems. https://t.co/TXEQyB7XXI — Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1339531858187587586?s=20
Well, as the year ends, Sweden is coming to terms with a death toll per million that is approximately 10 times higher than neighboring Norway and Finland, and now its king has condemned political leaders for their experiment, branding the light-touch strategy a miserable and deadly failure. “Sweden’s death numbers…stand in stark contrast to our Scandinavian neighbors who introduced lockdown measures: Per capita, we have nearly five times as many deaths as Denmark, nine times as many as Finland, and more than ten times as many as Norway.” https://t.co/7SIHbuYHVs — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 15, 2020 “The people of Sweden have suffered tremendously in difficult conditions,” King Carl XVI Gustaf, who is traditionally tight-lipped on political matters, told the Swedish state broadcaster SVT. He added: “I think we have failed. We have a large number who have died, and that is terrible.” Although it’s remarkable for a king to comment on policy, his actual comments were a statement of the obvious. Anders Tegnell, the country’s top epidemiologist who designed its anti-lockdown strategy, has himself admitted that too many people have died and the country should have done more to prevent the spread of the disease from the outset. Throughout the pandemic, Swedes have been allowed to go to restaurants and bars with no social-distancing measures in place and, until recently, were allowed to hit the gym and send their kids to school. The country has also broken with the near-universal guidance of recommending that protective face masks be worn in public, except in hospitals. The sight of Swedes packing out restaurants and bars in the first wave of the pandemic led to some commentators in the U.S. urging leaders to follow Sweden’s example…many of whom are dead today….read more… https://www.thedailybeast.com/swedish-king-brands-his-countrys-anti-lockdown-strategy-as-a-deadly-failure


veteranstoday--2020-12-17--Black Tuesday: Worst Ever 3,656 Deaths, 247,357 Infected, Where’s Donald?

Nobody knows real death counts as CDC and HHS were censoring counts by thousands before the election .
Is yesterday ’ s massive die off real or are they simply adding back pre-election dead ?
How many more COVID dead are they hiding ?
Our estimates say about 40,000 .
Daily Beast : Wednesday was , by some distance , the worst day so far of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States .
According to Johns Hopkins University , the nation recorded 247,357 new COVID-19 infections during the 24-hour period and an additional 3,656 new virus-related deaths .
Worse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ highest number of hospitalizations seen across the country since the beginning of the pandemic , with 113,069 patients receiving care .
In California alone , new cases numbers surged past 51,000—a new record .
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will meet Thursday to discuss Moderna ’ s vaccine , with a speedy approval expected , but it ’ s likely to be months until the mass immunization effort makes a dent in the nation ’ s horrendous infection statistics .
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Nobody knows real death counts as CDC and HHS were censoring counts by thousands before the election. Is yesterday’s massive die off real or are they simply adding back pre-election dead? How many more COVID dead are they hiding? Our estimates say about 40,000.
Daily Beast: Wednesday was, by some distance, the worst day so far of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. According to Johns Hopkins University, the nation recorded 247,357 new COVID-19 infections during the 24-hour period and an additional 3,656 new virus-related deaths.
Worse still, the nation also recorded the highest number of hospitalizations seen across the country since the beginning of the pandemic, with 113,069 patients receiving care. In California alone, new cases numbers surged past 51,000—a new record.
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will meet Thursday to discuss Moderna’s vaccine, with a speedy approval expected, but it’s likely to be months until the mass immunization effort makes a dent in the nation’s horrendous infection statistics.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/america-suffers-worst-day-yet-of-entire-pandemic-with-247357-cases-and-3656-dead


veteranstoday--2020-12-17--Pence Plans to Confirm Trump’s Defeat Then Flee the Country, Says Report

Daily Beast : Mike Pence is in a tricky spot—as vice president , he has to oversee the session of Congress that will formalize Biden ’ s Electoral College victory on Jan. 6 , which will likely make Trumpworld extremely angry .
But , according to Politico , he ’ s hatched an ingenious plan .
The very same day that he affirms Trump ’ s defeat , he ’ s reportedly going to flee the country .
Politico states that the vice president is planning to leave Washington immediately after the session for the Middle East and Europe , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nearly a week while Trump ’ s allies unload their wrath .
A document seen by Politico shows Pence is expected in Bahrain , Israel , and Poland .
“ I suspect the timing is anything but coincidental , ” one Pence ally said .
But one Trump administration official said the trip isn ’ t confirmed yet , and is only planned for that date as it ’ s the first gap in his schedule .
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Daily Beast: Mike Pence is in a tricky spot—as vice president, he has to oversee the session of Congress that will formalize Biden’s Electoral College victory on Jan. 6, which will likely make Trumpworld extremely angry.
But, according to Politico, he’s hatched an ingenious plan. The very same day that he affirms Trump’s defeat, he’s reportedly going to flee the country.
Six months ago today, Mike Pence wrote that there isn't a coronavirus second wave. To date, more than 300,000 Americans have now died of COVID-19.https://t.co/qXXN8NHDx9 — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 17, 2020
Politico states that the vice president is planning to leave Washington immediately after the session for the Middle East and Europe, and he’ll stay overseas for nearly a week while Trump’s allies unload their wrath. A document seen by Politico shows Pence is expected in Bahrain, Israel, and Poland.
“I suspect the timing is anything but coincidental,” one Pence ally said. But one Trump administration official said the trip isn’t confirmed yet, and is only planned for that date as it’s the first gap in his schedule. https://www.thedailybeast.com/pence-plans-to-confirm-trumps-defeat-then-flee-the-country-says-report?ref=home


veteranstoday--2020-12-17--Scumbag: Dan Crenshaw in ethnics coverup of sexual assault of Navy vet

A government accountability watchdog group filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee on Tuesday , demanding Rep. Dan Crenshaw , R-Tx.
, be expelled from Congress for his alleged role in what a federal investigator described as a concerted effort on the part of top Veterans Affairs officials to smear a sexual assault victim .
The complaint , filed by the Campaign for Accountability ( CfA ) , draws on a recent report from the VA Office of Inspector General ( OIG ) describing efforts at the highest levels of the agency to undermine the department ’ s probe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a contractor had assaulted her in a VA hospital .
The report outlines a number of “ troubling ” issues , including allegations that VA Secretary Robert Wilkie disparaged the woman after personally looking into her background .
According to the report , Crenshaw told Wilkie that Andrea Goldstein , a former Democratic congressional staffer and Navy veteran who served in Crenshaw ’ s unit , frequently made frivolous complaints .
Goldstein and her legal counsel rejected that claim in testimony to the OIG , while Crenshaw ’ s office refused to cooperate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Representative Crenshaw would defame a fellow Navy veteran and employee of one of his colleagues in an attempt to interfere in a sexual assault investigation , ” CfA Executive Director Michelle Kuppersmith told Salon in a statement .
“ His conduct and his colleague ’ s lack of reaction are a black mark on the important work done in recent years by activists , Congress , the military , and the Department of Veterans Affairs to combat sexual assault in the military .
Representative Crenshaw ’ s actions described by Inspector General @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ethics committee should recommend his expulsion from Congress.
” House rules require the chamber to deal with members who commit “ flagrant ” ethical violations that reflect poorly on “ Congress as a whole.
” read more…

Why is it always Navy SEALs that go bad?
A government accountability watchdog group filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee on Tuesday, demanding Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Tx., be expelled from Congress for his alleged role in what a federal investigator described as a concerted effort on the part of top Veterans Affairs officials to smear a sexual assault victim.
New-2 vet groups calling on @DanCrenshawTX to resign over alleged role in giving @SecWilkie dirt on a female vet who was sexually assaulted at a VA facility. Hundreds of other vets led by @ElisaCardnell also calling for his resignation w/@NaveedAJamalihttps://t.co/njwbSrdrXq — Ramsey Touchberry (@ramsberry1) December 16, 2020
The complaint, filed by the Campaign for Accountability (CfA), draws on a recent report from the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) describing efforts at the highest levels of the agency to undermine the department’s probe into a woman’s allegation that a contractor had assaulted her in a VA hospital. The report outlines a number of “troubling” issues, including allegations that VA Secretary Robert Wilkie disparaged the woman after personally looking into her background.
https://twitter.com/ElisaCardnell/status/1339022432607367168?s=20
According to the report, Crenshaw told Wilkie that Andrea Goldstein, a former Democratic congressional staffer and Navy veteran who served in Crenshaw’s unit, frequently made frivolous complaints. Goldstein and her legal counsel rejected that claim in testimony to the OIG, while Crenshaw’s office refused to cooperate with investigators. NEW: A government watchdog has filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee calling for @DanCrenshawTX to be expelled from Congress for his role in smearing a sexual assault accuser. Me, @Salon https://t.co/MdHEC1XSuk — Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) December 16, 2020 “It is shocking that Representative Crenshaw would defame a fellow Navy veteran and employee of one of his colleagues in an attempt to interfere in a sexual assault investigation,” CfA Executive Director Michelle Kuppersmith told Salon in a statement. “His conduct and his colleague’s lack of reaction are a black mark on the important work done in recent years by activists, Congress, the military, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to combat sexual assault in the military. Representative Crenshaw’s actions described by Inspector General report appear so egregious that the House ethics committee should recommend his expulsion from Congress.” This isn't one of your fake Hollywood action movie ads, @DanCrenshawTX. No scripting or narrative writing. This is an IG report. In it, the Secretary says in an email that you fed him (false) information on an alleged victim –a veteran — to smear her. We support Elisa. https://t.co/3DP3MJeTsZ — VoteVets (Text VOTEVETS to 88424) (@votevets) December 16, 2020 House rules require the chamber to deal with members who commit “flagrant” ethical violations that reflect poorly on “Congress as a whole.” read more… Dan Crenshaw hit with ethics complaint following report he worked to smear fellow veteran ttt


veteranstoday--2020-12-17--New Covid strain has ‘striking’ amount of mutations

• COG-UK group investigating new Covid strain described 17 mutations as ‘ a lot ’ • Many changes occurred on virus ’ s spike protein , which it uses to latch onto cells • Most vaccines , including Pfizer ’ s , work by targeting this but first this… Daily Mail : The new strain of coronavirus spreading through Britain has a ‘ striking ’ amount of mutations , scientists have claimed .
Members of the UK ’ s Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium ( COG-UK ) , who have been investigating the evolved strain , say they have uncovered 17 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lot ’ .
Many of the changes have occurred on the virus ’ s spike protein , which it uses to latch onto human cells and cause illness .
Alterations to the spike are significant because most Covid vaccines in the works , including Pfizer/BioNTech ’ s approved jab , work by targeting this protein .
It is feared these changes could also stop people from becoming immune if they have been infected with a different strain previously .
But scientists , including England ’ s chief medical officer Chris Whitty , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evidence ’ the mutation — which has been spotted in Wales , Scotland , Denmark and Australia — will have any impact on vaccines .
Professor Nick Loman , from the Institute of Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham and COG-UK member , said : ‘ There is actually 17 changes that would affect the protein structure in some way that distinguish this variant from its kind of common ancestor of other variants that are circulating , which is a lot .
‘ It ’ s striking .
There ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the common ancestor , and it ’ s a matter of great interest as to why that is the case .
read more…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
Daily Mail: The new strain of coronavirus spreading through Britain has a ‘striking’ amount of mutations, scientists have claimed.
Members of the UK’s Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK), who have been investigating the evolved strain, say they have uncovered 17 alterations, which they described as ‘a lot’.
Many of the changes have occurred on the virus’s spike protein, which it uses to latch onto human cells and cause illness.
Alterations to the spike are significant because most Covid vaccines in the works, including Pfizer/BioNTech’s approved jab, work by targeting this protein.
It is feared these changes could also stop people from becoming immune if they have been infected with a different strain previously.
But scientists, including England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty, have said there is ‘currently no evidence’ the mutation — which has been spotted in Wales, Scotland, Denmark and Australia — will have any impact on vaccines.
Professor Nick Loman, from the Institute of Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham and COG-UK member, said: ‘There is actually 17 changes that would affect the protein structure in some way that distinguish this variant from its kind of common ancestor of other variants that are circulating, which is a lot.
‘It’s striking. There’s a really long branch going back to the common ancestor, and it’s a matter of great interest as to why that is the case. read more…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9058923/New-Covid-strain-17-mutations-scientist-say.html


veteranstoday--2020-12-18--Kirschner: Trump, Alexander and Others Face Murder Prosecution Over ‘Herd Immunity’

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veteranstoday--2020-12-18--Antrim Machines by Dominion Perfect, according to certified hand recount, Trump lied, forensic repor

Antrim Machines by Dominion Perfect, according to certified hand recount, Trump lied, forensic report faked

VT : Dominion voting machines used in Antrim County , Michigan , after a hand tally by state officials yielded a result of ( 7.517854905400326e-4 ) in accuracy .
For those unfamiliar with scientific notation , the variance is so small that it can ’ t be expressed using percentages .
The Trump financed totally fake forensics report may now be submitted for review that could yield a criminal prosecution for election fraud .
The Antrim count is , by standards , evidence of the most accurate machine vote tabulation ever in any election .
The entire count was livestreamed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ County , Michigan | Dominion CEO Statement to Michigan Senate ( PDF ) – Watch Hearing Video FACTS ABOUT DOMINION AND THE DEBUNKED ANTRIM COUNTY “ FORENSIC AUDIT ” REPORT This week , Russ Ramsland ’ s Allied Security Operations Group—a biased , non-independent organization—released a severely flawed “ forensic audit report ” that further contributes to the continuing malicious and widespread disinformation campaign aimed at eroding confidence in the integrity of the 2020 presidential election .
Ramsland is a notorious conspiracy theorist , and gave a presentation in 2018 in which he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ formed when the Muslim Brotherhood , President George H.W .
Bush ’ s father , leftists , and George Soros came together in Nazi Germany in the 1930s—although Soros was born in 1930 .
He also falsely claimed in an affidavit that in Detroit , voter turnout was 139.29 % and that turnout in North Muskegon was an eye-popping 781.97 % ; in reality , the turnout in those places was 50.88 % and 78.11 % , respectively .
His group was not hired by any court or government body , but instead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evidence ” across the country .
These cases have been roundly debunked in courts from coast-to-coast .
U.S. Election Assistance Commission-sanctioned , third-party , independent test labs are best positioned to conduct fair , non-partisan analyses .
The claims made in the report are technologically impossible .
Dominion machines did not—and could not have— ” switched ” or enabled the “ switching ” of any votes .
A hand count of the paper ballots as well as a review by any independent , federally accredited Voting System Test Laboratory ( VSTL ) will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ General and Secretary of State responded to the report , stating that it is “ critically flawed , filled with dramatic conclusions without any evidence to support them ” and that the group that drafted the report “ has no apparent expertise in election administration and technology.
” Further , a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of State said , “ Unless the authors explicitly shared the data and methods by which they arrived at their conclusions—a standard used by all actual experts in election administration and technology—they must be assumed to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in response to the report , the Michigan Director of Elections stated that , “ the report makes a series of unsupported conclusions , ascribes motives of fraud and obfuscation to processes that are easily explained as routine election procedures or error corrections , and suggests without explanation that elements of election software not used in Michigan are somehow responsible for tabulation or reporting errors that are either nonexistent or easily explained.
” Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos refuted the report ’ s findings under oath before the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testimony : • Michigan doesn ’ t use Ranked Choice Voting .
“ A simple review of Antrim ’ s ballots easily confirms this .
More importantly , an independent review by an EAC certified test lab—any of them—could easily verify this.
” • Antrim County does not use modems .
“ None of Antrim ’ s tabulators were connected to the internet .
Although some Michigan counties require that tabulation systems transmit unofficial election results from the precincts via modems on closed networks , Antrim County does not use modems.
” • @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Antrim County .
“ The adjudication claims are entirely false… In Antrim County , ballots are reconciled manually .
What the report is alleging is impossible because Antrim County does not license nor use digital adjudication .
Furthermore , digital adjudication requires the use of ballot images .
Antrim County did not record absentee ballot images.
” • There were no software “ glitches ” that “ switched ” votes in Antrim County .
“ The reason we are now talking about Antrim County has to do with a series of human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ updated as per procedure , there wouldn ’ t have been any error in the unofficial reporting.
” • Antrim County ( and all of Michigan ) has a paper ballot record for every vote cast on a Dominion machine .
“ Because our systems in Michigan use paper ballots , the accuracy of tabulation machines can be proven by hand counts and audits .
As the Michigan Secretary of State office has already announced , this week , the Bureau of Elections and Antrim County will conduct a hand count of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This will verify that our system counted votes accurately.
” Get more facts about Dominion here , including our work in swing states like Michigan .

VT: Dominion voting machines used in Antrim County, Michigan, after a hand tally by state officials yielded a result of (7.517854905400326e-4) in accuracy. For those unfamiliar with scientific notation, the variance is so small that it can’t be expressed using percentages.
The Trump financed totally fake forensics report may now be submitted for review that could yield a criminal prosecution for election fraud.
The Antrim count is, by standards, evidence of the most accurate machine vote tabulation ever in any election. The entire count was livestreamed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz-gRqZ4-sQ&feature=youtu.be
New: The Antrim County hand tally affirms certified election results. Total change after recounting nearly 16,000 votes? Trump netted 12 more votes. https://t.co/Bkw0SGA9Tp via @clarajanehen and @paulegan4 — Dave Boucher (@Dave_Boucher1) December 17, 2020
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: FACTS & RUMORS
Get The Facts On Antrim County, Michigan | Dominion CEO Statement to Michigan Senate (PDF) – Watch Hearing Video
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FACTS ABOUT DOMINION AND THE DEBUNKED ANTRIM COUNTY “FORENSIC AUDIT” REPORT
This week, Russ Ramsland’s Allied Security Operations Group—a biased, non-independent organization—released a severely flawed “forensic audit report” that further contributes to the continuing malicious and widespread disinformation campaign aimed at eroding confidence in the integrity of the 2020 presidential election.
Ramsland is a notorious conspiracy theorist, and gave a presentation in 2018 in which he claimed the “Deep State” was formed when the Muslim Brotherhood, President George H.W. Bush’s father, leftists, and George Soros came together in Nazi Germany in the 1930s—although Soros was born in 1930.
He also falsely claimed in an affidavit that in Detroit, voter turnout was 139.29% and that turnout in North Muskegon was an eye-popping 781.97%; in reality, the turnout in those places was 50.88% and 78.11%, respectively.
His group was not hired by any court or government body, but instead by plaintiffs that have submitted sham “evidence” across the country. These cases have been roundly debunked in courts from coast-to-coast. U.S. Election Assistance Commission-sanctioned, third-party, independent test labs are best positioned to conduct fair, non-partisan analyses.
The claims made in the report are technologically impossible. Dominion machines did not—and could not have—”switched” or enabled the “switching” of any votes. A hand count of the paper ballots as well as a review by any independent, federally accredited Voting System Test Laboratory (VSTL) will confirm this fact.
The Michigan Attorney General and Secretary of State responded to the report, stating that it is “critically flawed, filled with dramatic conclusions without any evidence to support them” and that the group that drafted the report “has no apparent expertise in election administration and technology.”
Further, a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of State said, “Unless the authors explicitly shared the data and methods by which they arrived at their conclusions—a standard used by all actual experts in election administration and technology—they must be assumed to be completely false.”
In a court filing in response to the report, the Michigan Director of Elections stated that, “the report makes a series of unsupported conclusions, ascribes motives of fraud and obfuscation to processes that are easily explained as routine election procedures or error corrections, and suggests without explanation that elements of election software not used in Michigan are somehow responsible for tabulation or reporting errors that are either nonexistent or easily explained.”
Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos refuted the report’s findings under oath before the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee. Here are the facts from his testimony:
Michigan doesn’t use Ranked Choice Voting. “A simple review of Antrim’s ballots easily confirms this. More importantly, an independent review by an EAC certified test lab—any of them—could easily verify this.”
“A simple review of Antrim’s ballots easily confirms this. More importantly, an independent review by an EAC certified test lab—any of them—could easily verify this.” Antrim County does not use modems. “None of Antrim’s tabulators were connected to the internet. Although some Michigan counties require that tabulation systems transmit unofficial election results from the precincts via modems on closed networks, Antrim County does not use modems.”
“None of Antrim’s tabulators were connected to the internet. Although some Michigan counties require that tabulation systems transmit unofficial election results from the precincts via modems on closed networks, Antrim County does not use modems.” There was no digital adjudication of votes in Antrim County. “The adjudication claims are entirely false… In Antrim County, ballots are reconciled manually. What the report is alleging is impossible because Antrim County does not license nor use digital adjudication. Furthermore, digital adjudication requires the use of ballot images. Antrim County did not record absentee ballot images.”
“The adjudication claims are entirely false… In Antrim County, ballots are reconciled manually. What the report is alleging is impossible because Antrim County does not license nor use digital adjudication. Furthermore, digital adjudication requires the use of ballot images. Antrim County did not record absentee ballot images.” There were no software “glitches” that “switched” votes in Antrim County. “The reason we are now talking about Antrim County has to do with a series of human errors…If all of the tabulators had been updated as per procedure, there wouldn’t have been any error in the unofficial reporting.”
“The reason we are now talking about Antrim County has to do with a series of human errors…If all of the tabulators had been updated as per procedure, there wouldn’t have been any error in the unofficial reporting.” Antrim County (and all of Michigan) has a paper ballot record for every vote cast on a Dominion machine. “Because our systems in Michigan use paper ballots, the accuracy of tabulation machines can be proven by hand counts and audits. As the Michigan Secretary of State office has already announced, this week, the Bureau of Elections and Antrim County will conduct a hand count of all ballots cast in the presidential election. This will verify that our system counted votes accurately.”
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