veteranstoday--2020-11-15--Salon: Project Veritas, staffers, face sanctions, even prison in postal/vote perjury

Salon : A Pennsylvania postal worker who initially alleged that a postmaster had tampered with mail ballots — an accusation embraced by Republicans as evidence of an unfair election — told federal investigators in a recorded interview that his sworn affidavit had been written by Project Veritas , and that he could no longer stand by his statement .
After congressional investigators said on Tuesday that the postal worker , Richard Hopkins , had “ completely ” recanted his allegation , Project Veritas posted a video of Hopkins denying that he had done so .
“ I ’ m here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ statements , ” Hopkins said in the video .
“ That did not happen.
” The next day , Project Veritas posted a two-hour audio clip of Hopkins ’ interview with U.S .
Postal Service investigators , apparently in the belief that it would bolster Hopkins ’ case and show that investigators had manipulated him into confessing .
The audio recording , which Hopkins himself made secretly and Salon has reviewed , does not indicate that , however .
Hopkins repeatedly disavows any first-hand knowledge of misconduct by the postmaster , saying instead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , drawn from pieces of a conversation he overheard amid the noise of a mail processing facility .
“ I didn ’ t specifically overhear the whole story .
I just heard a part of it , ” Hopkins said in the recording .
“ And I could have missed a lot of it.
” “ My mind probably added the rest .
I understand that , ” he said at another point , adding : “ All it is is hearsay , and that ’ s the worst part.
” When an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he would still swear to the affidavit ’ s claim that the postmaster “ was back-dating ballots , ” he replied : “ At this point ?
No.
” Hopkins also told the federal agents that the affidavit , which he signed under penalty of law and which was later provided to the Trump campaign and Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C. , had been written by Project Veritas .
Because he had signed the document in a state of “ so much shock , ” Hopkins said , “ I wasn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Project Veritas ] were telling me.
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Salon: A Pennsylvania postal worker who initially alleged that a postmaster had tampered with mail ballots — an accusation embraced by Republicans as evidence of an unfair election — told federal investigators in a recorded interview that his sworn affidavit had been written by Project Veritas, and that he could no longer stand by his statement.
After congressional investigators said on Tuesday that the postal worker, Richard Hopkins, had “completely” recanted his allegation, Project Veritas posted a video of Hopkins denying that he had done so.
“I’m here to say I did not recant my statements,” Hopkins said in the video. “That did not happen.”
The next day, Project Veritas posted a two-hour audio clip of Hopkins’ interview with U.S. Postal Service investigators, apparently in the belief that it would bolster Hopkins’ case and show that investigators had manipulated him into confessing.
The audio recording, which Hopkins himself made secretly and Salon has reviewed, does not indicate that, however. Hopkins repeatedly disavows any first-hand knowledge of misconduct by the postmaster, saying instead that his allegation was largely an assumption, drawn from pieces of a conversation he overheard amid the noise of a mail processing facility.
“I didn’t specifically overhear the whole story. I just heard a part of it,” Hopkins said in the recording. “And I could have missed a lot of it.”
“My mind probably added the rest. I understand that,” he said at another point, adding: “All it is is hearsay, and that’s the worst part.”
When an agent asked Hopkins in the recording if he would still swear to the affidavit’s claim that the postmaster “was back-dating ballots,” he replied: “At this point? No.”
Hopkins also told the federal agents that the affidavit, which he signed under penalty of law and which was later provided to the Trump campaign and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., had been written by Project Veritas.
Because he had signed the document in a state of “so much shock,” Hopkins said, “I wasn’t paying that much attention to what [Project Veritas] were telling me.” read more..
NEW: Experts tell me Project Veritas could face legal liability for its role in the Pennsylvania postal worker ballot tampering fiasco. Also, Project Veritas sent me about a million litigious emails for this article, which I’ve included. @Salon https://t.co/73o5zj8JtQ — Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) November 14, 2020
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veteranstoday--2020-11-15--North Dakota: All Hospitals Full, Highest Death Rate in the World, Finally Locks down..

Daily Beast : North Dakota ’ s Republican governor issued a statewide mask mandate Saturday as coronavirus cases in his state and around the country surge to new levels .
Residents will be required to wear a face covering in all public indoor settings and outdoors when social distancing becomes unfeasible , effective Monday .
Doug Burgum wrote , “ Our situation has changed , and we must change with it.
” The governor ’ s order also limits restaurant and bar capacity to 50 percent , event venue capacity to 25 percent , and suspends extracurricular activities at schools @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leave mask-wearing to individuals : “ Masks work and you don ’ t need a mandate to wear one.
” The order comes after a newly elected member of the state legislature died of COVID-19 and Burgum sued to fill the empty seat .
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Daily Beast: North Dakota’s Republican governor issued a statewide mask mandate Saturday as coronavirus cases in his state and around the country surge to new levels.
After months of resisting, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has ordered a statewide mask mandate to stem a coronavirus surge that is among the worst in the U.S. As of Saturday, there were only 18 free ICU beds in North Dakota hospitals. https://t.co/i2oGyFgCv0
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1327486657650679811?s=20
Residents will be required to wear a face covering in all public indoor settings and outdoors when social distancing becomes unfeasible, effective Monday.
Option A: wear a mask. Option B: https://t.co/AEaEaTshnV — Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸 (@ASlavitt) November 11, 2020
Doug Burgum wrote, “Our situation has changed, and we must change with it.” The governor’s order also limits restaurant and bar capacity to 50 percent, event venue capacity to 25 percent, and suspends extracurricular activities at schools.
North Dakota won’t close bars but nurses with testing positive for covid can still work in hospitals and nursing homes because there is such a shortage of healthcare workers. I’m at a loss for words. https://t.co/fSzqkAvREA — Colleen Farrell, MD (@colleenmfarrell) November 11, 2020
His previous approach had been to leave mask-wearing to individuals: “Masks work and you don’t need a mandate to wear one.” The order comes after a newly elected member of the state legislature died of COVID-19 and Burgum sued to fill the empty seat.
Quite the development tonight in North Dakota: Gov. Doug Burgum, who has for weeks resisted a mask mandate while case numbers have surged to worst-in-the-nation levels, just issued a mandate at 10 p.m. on a Friday night. Plus dining restrictions + more.https://t.co/7Nvrbr7MsQ pic.twitter.com/rylLmwvGMT — Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) November 14, 2020
North Dakota had the lowest mask-wearing rate in the country in October, according to survey data. The state also has the highest per capita rate of Covid-19 any state in the county, according to the CDC as of November 6. https://t.co/jjG8VpBh4q — Vox (@voxdotcom) November 10, 2020
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veteranstoday--2020-11-14--Court Overturns DACA Suspension, Removes DHS Director

Daily Beast : A federal judge in New York ruled Saturday that the Department of Homeland Security ’ s suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ( DACA ) legislation was unlawful because acting Secretary Chad Wolf had not been confirmed by the Senate since his assumption of the office in November 2019 .
President Donald Trump formally nominated him to the post over the summer , and Wolf suspended the law in late July .
Judge Nicholas Garaufis wrote , “ Based on the plain text of the operative order of succession , neither [ former acting DHS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turn , Mr. Wolf , possessed statutory authority to serve as Acting Secretary .
Therefore the Wolf Memorandum was not an exercise of legal authority.
” Karen Tumlin , a lawyer for the plaintiff in the case arguing against Wolf , told NBC , “ This is really a hopeful day for a lot of young people across the country.
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Daily Beast: A federal judge in New York ruled Saturday that the Department of Homeland Security’s suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) legislation was unlawful because acting Secretary Chad Wolf had not been confirmed by the Senate since his assumption of the office in November 2019.
President Donald Trump formally nominated him to the post over the summer, and Wolf suspended the law in late July. Judge Nicholas Garaufis wrote, “Based on the plain text of the operative order of succession, neither [former acting DHS Secretary Kevin] McAleenan nor, in turn, Mr. Wolf, possessed statutory authority to serve as Acting Secretary.
Therefore the Wolf Memorandum was not an exercise of legal authority.” Karen Tumlin, a lawyer for the plaintiff in the case arguing against Wolf, told NBC, “This is really a hopeful day for a lot of young people across the country.”


veteranstoday--2020-11-14--How ‘Stop the Steal’, became a National Comedy Show of Losers

[ Editor ’ s Note : We are getting leaks from inside the White House on the genesis and execution of “ The Real Steal ” .
It started out as a rational plan to be ready to challenge close elections in anticipation that there might be ‘ irregularities ’ .
With being behind in the polls , as Trump was , leading up to the election a lot of preparation work was been done to line up law firms that had to be ready to go for challenges .
Along came Rudi , the giant wrecking ball , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ early dementia .
Politico has a wonderful review of how it all went down via sources inside the White House meetings who leaked to Politico to put the monkey on Rudi ’ s back , which it should have been .
But they also to try to wash the stink off themselves so it won ’ t stain them on future political employability .
As for Trump , who has gotten away with probably the most lying that any head of state has managed , he is the last person in the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ a bit .
His response would be something like , “ What !
Are you crazy , or maybe jealous ?
…Look at where the lie has taken me.
” When he recently went to Arlington on Veterans Day , as a small step in breaking his isolation , I thought someone in media would write something about the irony of Trump paying homage to those he had deemed “ suckers and losers ” .
He did not formally speak , but he should have stayed home and let the soldiers handle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and brother lie a 100 yards apart from each other at Arlington .
I feel better that their tombs were not subjected to any Trump drivel .
The loser monkey will now be on his back , where it should be… Jim W. Dean ] Jim 's Editor ’ s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPal Jim 's work includes research , field trips , Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more .
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Click to donate > > The campaign spent months building a legal apparatus to contest close elections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ York City mayor .
President Donald Trump ’ s senior campaign aides were gathered in their headquarters Saturday morning when word emerged that Rudy Giuliani would be holding a news conference in the parking lot of a Philadelphia landscaping business .
..But Giuliani plowed ahead anyway , delivering a conspiracy-filled rant that undercut the legal strategy the president ’ s advisers had meticulously mapped out in the run-up to the election .
…Campaign officials described the episode as disastrous , saying it scared off many of the lawyers they spent months recruiting , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ involved .
… “ I can ’ t imagine that a rational person ” in the general public “ wouldn ’ t be adversely affected by the way he ( Giuliani ) conducts himself , ” said Barry Richard , who represented George W. Bush in the 2000 Florida recount .
…Republican officials said they viewed Trump ’ s decision to promote Giuliani as an implicit acknowledgment that his legal options are closing and a sign that he ’ s determined to go out guns blazing .

Giuliani wrecks the Trump campaign’s well-laid legal plans
…from Politico
[ Editor’s Note: We are getting leaks from inside the White House on the genesis and execution of “The Real Steal”. It started out as a rational plan to be ready to challenge close elections in anticipation that there might be ‘irregularities’.
With being behind in the polls, as Trump was, leading up to the election a lot of preparation work was been done to line up law firms that had to be ready to go for challenges. Along came Rudi, the giant wrecking ball, who I personally feel is showing signs of early dementia.
Rudi in drag…a complicated person
Politico has a wonderful review of how it all went down via sources inside the White House meetings who leaked to Politico to put the monkey on Rudi’s back, which it should have been. But they also to try to wash the stink off themselves so it won’t stain them on future political employability.
As for Trump, who has gotten away with probably the most lying that any head of state has managed, he is the last person in the world to approach on ‘toning it down’ a bit. His response would be something like, “What! Are you crazy, or maybe jealous?…Look at where the lie has taken me.”
When he recently went to Arlington on Veterans Day, as a small step in breaking his isolation, I thought someone in media would write something about the irony of Trump paying homage to those he had deemed “suckers and losers”.
He did not formally speak, but he should have stayed home and let the soldiers handle the ceremony by themselves. My mother and brother lie a 100 yards apart from each other at Arlington. I feel better that their tombs were not subjected to any Trump drivel. The loser monkey will now be on his back, where it should be… Jim W. Dean ]
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Trump – Defiling Arlington with his presence
First published … November 14, 2020
The campaign spent months building a legal apparatus to contest close elections. Then along came the former New York City mayor.
Rudi in drag…a complicated person
President Donald Trump’s senior campaign aides were gathered in their headquarters Saturday morning when word emerged that Rudy Giuliani would be holding a news conference in the parking lot of a Philadelphia landscaping business.
They knew that meant trouble.
..But Giuliani plowed ahead anyway, delivering a conspiracy-filled rant that undercut the legal strategy the president’s advisers had meticulously mapped out in the run-up to the election.
…Campaign officials described the episode as disastrous, saying it scared off many of the lawyers they spent months recruiting, who now no longer wanted to be involved.
…“I can’t imagine that a rational person” in the general public “wouldn’t be adversely affected by the way he (Giuliani) conducts himself,” said Barry Richard, who represented George W. Bush in the 2000 Florida recount.
…Republican officials said they viewed Trump’s decision to promote Giuliani as an implicit acknowledgment that his legal options are closing and a sign that he’s determined to go out guns blazing.


veteranstoday--2020-11-14--MAGA Dating Agency in Shocking Scandal

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veteranstoday--2020-11-14--Salon: Trump is going out the way he came in, A loser, a liar and a cheat

It ’ s one of the sad truths of the human experience that you can ’ t count tears .
Maybe the first few you might be able to , but then they just flow from your eyes , running down your cheeks until you can taste them on your lips , a flood of salty sorrow and pain and helplessness .
That is where we are : beyond counting , beyond being able to measure the tragedy and loss of COVID .
Statistics can ’ t do it for us anymore .
We ’ re reduced to comparisons , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Times on Thursday comparing 1,000 deaths a day to “ two jumbo jets dropping from the sky .
If every day , two jumbo jets would drop from the sky and kill everybody , don ’ t you think that everybody would be in a panic ?
” asked Dr. Carlos del Rio , an infectious disease specialist at Emory University .
Well , no , doctor .
Everybody is not in a panic , especially not our president , who with just over two months left in office played golf at his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that two jumbo jets dropped out of the sky with 1,007 dead of COVID , and Sunday , a day when only one jumbo jet dropped out of the sky with 464 dead .
Nearly 126,000 new cases were diagnosed on Saturday , and 103,416 more Americans came down with the disease as Trump piloted his presidential golf cart around the links the next day .
It ’ s an astounding fact that more than a million Americans have been diagnosed with the coronavirus since Trump lost to Joe Biden on Election Day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And what is he doing in the White House ?
This week , he was busy firing the secretary of defense , Mark Esper , and installing two acolytes of the execrable Rep. Devin Nunes in important positions in our national security infrastructure .
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Oh yes! Trump, is an Impeached LOSER, a Liar And a Cry-Baby. Trump won’t have the cojones to even show up President Biden’s inauguration https://t.co/fjQ3i5sDtA
It’s one of the sad truths of the human experience that you can’t count tears. Maybe the first few you might be able to, but then they just flow from your eyes, running down your cheeks until you can taste them on your lips, a flood of salty sorrow and pain and helplessness.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1324750895481978880?s=20
That is where we are: beyond counting, beyond being able to measure the tragedy and loss of COVID. Statistics can’t do it for us anymore. We’re reduced to comparisons, a doctor quoted in the New York Times on Thursday comparing 1,000 deaths a day to “two jumbo jets dropping from the sky.
If every day, two jumbo jets would drop from the sky and kill everybody, don’t you think that everybody would be in a panic?” asked Dr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease specialist at Emory University.
How did we get here and why is nothing being done about this criminal? Trump is going out the way he came in: A loser, a liar and a cheat https://t.co/KCHZQByd1g — Nancy Sinatra (@NancySinatra) November 14, 2020
Well, no, doctor. Everybody is not in a panic, especially not our president, who with just over two months left in office played golf at his Virginia course last Saturday, a day that two jumbo jets dropped out of the sky with 1,007 dead of COVID, and Sunday, a day when only one jumbo jet dropped out of the sky with 464 dead.
Nearly 126,000 new cases were diagnosed on Saturday, and 103,416 more Americans came down with the disease as Trump piloted his presidential golf cart around the links the next day.
Those idiots will end up losers like #Trump because the Lord listens to the righteous, and rebukes those that pray in public for liars, cheaters, racist, & philicalists, yet they never pick up a Bible & pray for forgiveness!?! pic.twitter.com/ZjgbwJzas2 — Olivia Rendon (@OliviaRendon5) November 6, 2020
“In the wake of last week’s defeat, Trump stands naked before us, revealed as the liar and loser he always was. His psychopathy is nude, his disconnect from reality is disrobed, his toxic narcissism stands bare-cheeked before us all.” My latest: https://t.co/bsdmLVZ5lU — Leonard Pitts, Jr. (@LeonardPittsJr1) November 10, 2020
It’s an astounding fact that more than a million Americans have been diagnosed with the coronavirus since Trump lost to Joe Biden on Election Day. More than 10,000 have died.
And what is he doing in the White House? This week, he was busy firing the secretary of defense, Mark Esper, and installing two acolytes of the execrable Rep. Devin Nunes in important positions in our national security infrastructure. read more..
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/14/trump-is-going-out-the-way-he-came-in-a-loser-a-liar-and-a-cheat/


veteranstoday--2020-11-14--Russian vaccine news finally comes out of the closet

With Sputnik V , Russia takes on Western Big Pharma giants in fight for multi-billion-dollar global Covid-19 vaccine business [ Editor ’ s Note : I had of course been suspicious of the dearth of news in Western media on how the Russian vaccine testing was going , which included not seeing much in RT or Sputnik .
I was in the ‘ what ’ s up wid dat ’ mode .
The lack of press on the Russian vaccine had the strong smell of Intel Agency psyops all over it .
Why ?
There had never been any mention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ market .
Nor was there any real rush involved , as proven by the mention below of their being in stage three testing process , when back in the good ole ’ USA we are seeing emergency use permission .
This is nothing more than different strokes for different folks , with competitive pharmaceutical companies picking a development and marketing plan that they feel is best for them and their initial target markets .
Also , left out of the media buzz is that this competition is a win , win for all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which one in most effective .
Why ?
Because different vaccines might be better for different people , age groups , and ethnicities .
And to make things even better , because next year where we will have multiple vaccines available with more safety data and even the ability to take two different ones that pushes our safety closer to 100 % .
That is the line I will be standing in .
The big difference now is the Pfizer vaccine has distribution issues based on its needing to be kept as below @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the less developed countries and caring for people out in the boonies .
And then there is the issue of price .
For financially stressed countries , which are now in worse shape than ever , a lower priced vaccine that works will help them a lot , and allow donations those countries could be getting from entities like the Gates Foundation cover more people more quickly .
And later in 2021 we might have a good low cost , home testing kit .
That will be critical in the future , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they can be discovered quickly and nipped in the bud .
Hopefully by then our horrible failure on contact tracing , mostly due to Trump not giving a crap , will be fixed .
Next February 2021 , we will be a year into this , and it looks like we will have a light at the end of the tunnel .
That means that the next virus economic package has to get us through the Spring where vaccine production will be up to full speed .
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Click to donate > > Russia was widely criticized when it became the first country in the world to register a coronavirus vaccine in August .
It was accused of rushing through the approval of the ‘ Sputnik V ’ formula for political or propaganda gain .
Since then the whole @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Schadenfreude as the press leapt on signs of impropriety in the data , and Russia has even been accused of stealing the technology .
But the markets jumped when US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer , together with the German research company BioNtech , announced that their offering has shown 90 percent efficacy in Phase III trials .
Investment banks immediately upgraded their 2021 outlooks for a scenario in which some sort of normalcy returns .
In the meantime , Sputnik V ’ s clinical Phase III trials are halfway through and no major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yet .
About half of the 40,000 volunteers in the research have been given both shots to no major ill effect .
And the day after Pfizer ’ s announcement , the producers released preliminary results that suggests Sputnik V has 92 percent efficacy .
“ Everyone is sick and tired of all the COVID news flow in recent months but there has already been a lot of progress already made in the vaccine – and I ’ m not talking about the US vaccine , ” said Sofya Donets , Renaissance Capital @ @ @ @ @ @ @ States ( CIS ) economist said during the bank ’ s 25th anniversary investment summit last week .
“ In Russia we already have two vaccines that are registered : one back in August and then again in October .
They will be ready soon for large-scale production.
” Donets is already including a scenario in which mass vaccination takes place and the pandemic fades away in the first half of next year .
“ 40,000 volunteers were already vaccinated during the testing period .
By the end of this year producers are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and by spring officials report that will go up to 15mn per month : enough to vaccinate all Russians over the age of 60 in two months , ” says Donets .
Russia Inc goes up against Big Pharma Put aside for a moment the political one-upmanship that has dogged the global search for medicine to deal with a killer illness .
Once the hype ends , the business will begin .
And this is going to be a very big business indeed .
Estimates of the value of the coronavirus vaccine market @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to $ 100bn being bandied about .
But clearly it will be worth multiple billions of dollars .
And whoever gets a working vaccine to market first will capture a large slice of that money .
Kirill Dmitriev , the CEO of the sovereign wealth fund called the Russian Direct Investment Fund ( RDIF ) , which financed much of the Sputnik V research , says he thinks Russia will control about a third of the eventual three billion to five billion dose-market .
If that is true , then coronavirus vaccine exports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ receives from exporting grain or arms – and Russia is a global leader in both of those export categories .
Russia Inc as a Big Pharma concern is not exactly an image that we are used to , but given its prowess in the other sciences , it certainly has the intellectual capital that could produce a working vaccine .
The problems Russia will face going forward will be business problems .
Production is already proving to be a major headache .
Donets ’ estimate for 5-6 million doses a month is already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doses would be produced by Christmas , and the 15 million doses a month that could be produced in the first half of next year is half the earlier forecasts .
Last month , the RDIF said that it is currently investing in production facilities and will be able to produce 30 million doses by the end of this year and up to 200 million a year starting in 2021 , but clearly it ’ s not going as fast as the sovereign wealth fund had hoped for .
In mid-October , Industry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Bloomberg , called these promises “ nonsense.
” “ The main challenge now is to scale production , ” he said .
“ It is impossible to produce 30mn doses by the end of the year.
” The updated forecast of RDIF is 7-10 million doses of vaccine in December-January – and even this estimate is in doubt .
Nevertheless , millions of doses will be produced and the volume will rise rapidly as the problems are ironed out .
With $ 10 billion of assets under management and the power of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ RDIF is not short of money or resources .
But Russia is .
It doesn ’ t have the well-developed and diversified pharmaceutical industry like that in the US that can be raided for resources and manpower .
However , Russia is doing a lot better on the distribution and marketing fronts .
One of the big problems with the Pfizer vaccine is that it needs to be kept very cold .
Anthony Fauci , director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , said on November 11 that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ based technology in developing countries is going to be “ difficult ” because it needs to be kept at -70C ( -94F ) .
“ It does have cold-chain challenges as it were .
In a country like the UK and the United States we can address them and it still would be challenging .
But , probably much more challenging in countries in the developing world , ” Fauci said at a Financial Times ’ global pharmaceutical and biotechnology conference .
The Russian version has none of these problems as it can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extreme cold storage will also make the Pfizer drug a lot more expensive .
Russian investment bank BCS Global Markets estimates that possible pricing of the vaccine for sales abroad could vary at about RUB300-1,000/dose ( $ 4-14 ) , which is a fraction of estimates by the Financial Times of planned vaccine prices by foreign pharma majors ’ leading candidates : Moderna $ 25-30/dose and Pfizer/ BioNTtech , at $ 19.5 .
Russia is also well ahead on the marketing and sales .
In August , almost immediately after Sputnik V was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Kazakhstan to supply several million doses as soon as the clinical trials are over .
Uzbekistan has also signed a deal with Russia for 30 million doses , as have several BRIC countries .
In all , some 50 countries have reportedly signed some sort of deal with Russia to buy its vaccine .
For countries like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan , driving formula around their huge countries that have to be kept at -70C is a non-starter .
Plus , following its ‘ Moscow consensus ’ ideology , the Kremlin will package @ @ @ @ @ @ @ things like energy and politics to make up an offer that appeals to countries like these that a commercial entity like Pfizer can ’ t match .
In recent weeks , the RDIF has announced plans to sell 100 million doses to India , 50 million to Brazil , and 32 million to Mexico , as well as 25 million to Nepal and Egypt each .
All states outside the post-Soviet world .
“ We expect that Russia will move on domestic vaccine and will already start exporting the vaccine in the first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in discussion with Russian producers , ” says Donets .
“ The India potential contract is for 100mn doses as well as LatAm countries as well as Russia ’ s regional neighbours.
” Just these named deals add up to something around $ 950 million , which is a profitable start for a product many in the West may eventually regret underestimating , or completely dismissing .

With Sputnik V, Russia takes on Western Big Pharma giants in fight for multi-billion-dollar global Covid-19 vaccine business
…by Ben Aris, editor-in-chief of business news publication bne IntelliNews…via Russia Today
[ Editor’s Note: I had of course been suspicious of the dearth of news in Western media on how the Russian vaccine testing was going, which included not seeing much in RT or Sputnik. I was in the ‘what’s up wid dat’ mode.
The lack of press on the Russian vaccine had the strong smell of Intel Agency psyops all over it. Why? There had never been any mention of the Russians wanting to dominate the market.
Nor was there any real rush involved, as proven by the mention below of their being in stage three testing process, when back in the good ole’ USA we are seeing emergency use permission.
This is nothing more than different strokes for different folks, with competitive pharmaceutical companies picking a development and marketing plan that they feel is best for them and their initial target markets.
Also, left out of the media buzz is that this competition is a win, win for all of us, and not just on which one in most effective. Why? Because different vaccines might be better for different people, age groups, and ethnicities.
And to make things even better, because next year where we will have multiple vaccines available with more safety data and even the ability to take two different ones that pushes our safety closer to 100%. That is the line I will be standing in.
The big difference now is the Pfizer vaccine has distribution issues based on its needing to be kept as below zero prior to use, a hurdle for the less developed countries and caring for people out in the boonies.
And then there is the issue of price. For financially stressed countries, which are now in worse shape than ever, a lower priced vaccine that works will help them a lot, and allow donations those countries could be getting from entities like the Gates Foundation cover more people more quickly.
And later in 2021 we might have a good low cost, home testing kit. That will be critical in the future, when new clusters are popping up so they can be discovered quickly and nipped in the bud.
Hopefully by then our horrible failure on contact tracing, mostly due to Trump not giving a crap, will be fixed. Next February 2021, we will be a year into this, and it looks like we will have a light at the end of the tunnel.
That means that the next virus economic package has to get us through the Spring where vaccine production will be up to full speed. That will fuel our opening up prospects, saving more business closures and mass bankruptcies crashing real estate markets … Jim W. Dean ]
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First published … November 14, 2020
Russia was widely criticized when it became the first country in the world to register a coronavirus vaccine in August. It was accused of rushing through the approval of the ‘Sputnik V’ formula for political or propaganda gain.
Since then the whole development of the vaccine has been dogged by Schadenfreude as the press leapt on signs of impropriety in the data, and Russia has even been accused of stealing the technology.
But the markets jumped when US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, together with the German research company BioNtech, announced that their offering has shown 90 percent efficacy in Phase III trials. Investment banks immediately upgraded their 2021 outlooks for a scenario in which some sort of normalcy returns.
In the meantime, Sputnik V’s clinical Phase III trials are halfway through and no major problems with the formula have come up yet. About half of the 40,000 volunteers in the research have been given both shots to no major ill effect. And the day after Pfizer’s announcement, the producers released preliminary results that suggests Sputnik V has 92 percent efficacy.
“Everyone is sick and tired of all the COVID news flow in recent months but there has already been a lot of progress already made in the vaccine – and I’m not talking about the US vaccine,” said Sofya Donets, Renaissance Capital’s Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) economist said during the bank’s 25th anniversary investment summit last week.
“In Russia we already have two vaccines that are registered: one back in August and then again in October. They will be ready soon for large-scale production.”
Donets is already including a scenario in which mass vaccination takes place and the pandemic fades away in the first half of next year.
“40,000 volunteers were already vaccinated during the testing period. By the end of this year producers are ready to supply 5-6mn doses per month and by spring officials report that will go up to 15mn per month: enough to vaccinate all Russians over the age of 60 in two months,” says Donets.
Russia Inc goes up against Big Pharma
Put aside for a moment the political one-upmanship that has dogged the global search for medicine to deal with a killer illness. Once the hype ends, the business will begin. And this is going to be a very big business indeed.
Estimates of the value of the coronavirus vaccine market vary wildly with estimates from $25bn to $100bn being bandied about. But clearly it will be worth multiple billions of dollars. And whoever gets a working vaccine to market first will capture a large slice of that money.
Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of the sovereign wealth fund called the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which financed much of the Sputnik V research, says he thinks Russia will control about a third of the eventual three billion to five billion dose-market. If that is true, then coronavirus vaccine exports will earn Russia as much as it receives from exporting grain or arms – and Russia is a global leader in both of those export categories.
Russia Inc as a Big Pharma concern is not exactly an image that we are used to, but given its prowess in the other sciences, it certainly has the intellectual capital that could produce a working vaccine.
The problems Russia will face going forward will be business problems. Production is already proving to be a major headache. Donets’ estimate for 5-6 million doses a month is already down on earlier predictions that 10 million doses would be produced by Christmas, and the 15 million doses a month that could be produced in the first half of next year is half the earlier forecasts.
Last month, the RDIF said that it is currently investing in production facilities and will be able to produce 30 million doses by the end of this year and up to 200 million a year starting in 2021, but clearly it’s not going as fast as the sovereign wealth fund had hoped for.
In mid-October, Industry Minister Denis Manturov, in an interview with Bloomberg, called these promises “nonsense.”
“The main challenge now is to scale production,” he said. “It is impossible to produce 30mn doses by the end of the year.” The updated forecast of RDIF is 7-10 million doses of vaccine in December-January – and even this estimate is in doubt.
Nevertheless, millions of doses will be produced and the volume will rise rapidly as the problems are ironed out. With $10 billion of assets under management and the power of the Kremlin at its back, the RDIF is not short of money or resources.
But Russia is. It doesn’t have the well-developed and diversified pharmaceutical industry like that in the US that can be raided for resources and manpower.
However, Russia is doing a lot better on the distribution and marketing fronts. One of the big problems with the Pfizer vaccine is that it needs to be kept very cold.
Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on November 11 that the distribution of Pfizer’s messenger RNA based technology in developing countries is going to be “difficult” because it needs to be kept at -70C (-94F).
“It does have cold-chain challenges as it were. In a country like the UK and the United States we can address them and it still would be challenging. But, probably much more challenging in countries in the developing world,” Fauci said at a Financial Times’ global pharmaceutical and biotechnology conference.
The Russian version has none of these problems as it can be kept at room temperature. The extreme cold storage will also make the Pfizer drug a lot more expensive.
Russian investment bank BCS Global Markets estimates that possible pricing of the vaccine for sales abroad could vary at about RUB300-1,000/dose ($4-14), which is a fraction of estimates by the Financial Times of planned vaccine prices by foreign pharma majors’ leading candidates: Moderna $25-30/dose and Pfizer/ BioNTtech, at $19.5.
Russia is also well ahead on the marketing and sales. In August, almost immediately after Sputnik V was registered, the producers signed a deal with Kazakhstan to supply several million doses as soon as the clinical trials are over.
Uzbekistan has also signed a deal with Russia for 30 million doses, as have several BRIC countries. In all, some 50 countries have reportedly signed some sort of deal with Russia to buy its vaccine. For countries like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, driving formula around their huge countries that have to be kept at -70C is a non-starter.
Plus, following its ‘Moscow consensus’ ideology, the Kremlin will package sales of vaccine doses together with other things like energy and politics to make up an offer that appeals to countries like these that a commercial entity like Pfizer can’t match.
In recent weeks, the RDIF has announced plans to sell 100 million doses to India, 50 million to Brazil, and 32 million to Mexico, as well as 25 million to Nepal and Egypt each. All states outside the post-Soviet world.
“We expect that Russia will move on domestic vaccine and will already start exporting the vaccine in the first half of 2021. 20 countries are in discussion with Russian producers,” says Donets. “The India potential contract is for 100mn doses as well as LatAm countries as well as Russia’s regional neighbours.”
Just these named deals add up to something around $950 million, which is a profitable start for a product many in the West may eventually regret underestimating, or completely dismissing.


veteranstoday--2020-11-15--Iran: Claim Senior al Qaeda leader killed fake, totally fabricated by Israel

Press TV : Iran has categorically dismissed a US media report that one of the top leaders of the al-Qaeda terrorist group had been secretly killed by Washington-directed Israeli agents in the capital , Tehran .
Citing unnamed intelligence officials , The New York Times claimed on Friday that Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah , the al-Qaeda ’ s second-in-command who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri , had been gunned down by two armed assassins on a motorcycle in the streets of Tehran in August .
The paper said al-Masri , who was charged with helping to mastermind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Africa , had been killed in Iran by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States .
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Saturday that the Times ’ report was based on “ false information , ” vehemently rejecting the presence of any of the terrorist group ’ s members in the country .
Underlining that the al-Qaeda has been the brainchild of the United States and its allies ’ wrong policies , Khatibzadeh said , “ From time to time , Iran ’ s foes — the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shirk responsibility for the criminal acts of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups in the region and link Iran to such outfits by lying and leaking false information to the media.
” Advising the American media not to fall into the trap of what he referred to as Hollywood scenarios of American and the Zionist regime ’ s officials , the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said such accusations are undoubtedly made in the context of an all-out economic , intelligence and psychological warfare against the Iranian people , and that the media should not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ House lies against Tehran .
“ Although the United States has in the past spared no effort to level false accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran , this approach has become a routine in the current US administration and the White House has tried to take further steps to implement its scare-mongering tactic against Iran by repeating such accusations , ” Khatibzadeh noted .
According to the Times , al-Masri , who was on the FBI ’ s list of most wanted terrorists , was killed on August 7 along with his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ’ s son Hamza bin Laden .
A highly classified document provided by the US National Counterterrorism Center in 2008 described 58-year-old al-Masri as the “ most experienced and capable operational planner.
” US federal authorities had offered a $ 10 million reward for any information leading to the senior leader ’ s capture .
The bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 claimed the lives of at least 224 people and left more than 5,000 injured .
Al-Masri was indicted by a US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his role .

Press TV: Iran has categorically dismissed a US media report that one of the top leaders of the al-Qaeda terrorist group had been secretly killed by Washington-directed Israeli agents in the capital, Tehran.
Citing unnamed intelligence officials, The New York Times claimed on Friday that Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, the al-Qaeda’s second-in-command who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, had been gunned down by two armed assassins on a motorcycle in the streets of Tehran in August.
The paper said al-Masri, who was charged with helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa, had been killed in Iran by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Saturday that the Times’ report was based on “false information,” vehemently rejecting the presence of any of the terrorist group’s members in the country.
Underlining that the al-Qaeda has been the brainchild of the United States and its allies’ wrong policies, Khatibzadeh said, “From time to time, Iran’s foes — the United States and Israel — try to shirk responsibility for the criminal acts of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups in the region and link Iran to such outfits by lying and leaking false information to the media.”
Advising the American media not to fall into the trap of what he referred to as Hollywood scenarios of American and the Zionist regime’s officials, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said such accusations are undoubtedly made in the context of an all-out economic, intelligence and psychological warfare against the Iranian people, and that the media should not be a platform for spreading agenda-driven White House lies against Tehran.
“Although the United States has in the past spared no effort to level false accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, this approach has become a routine in the current US administration and the White House has tried to take further steps to implement its scare-mongering tactic against Iran by repeating such accusations,” Khatibzadeh noted.
Al-Qaeda and Iran: The bond that does not exist A political expert says despite frequent claims by US about covert ties between Iran and al-Qaeda, documents obtained during the raid on Bin Laden’s residence in Pakistan prove otherwise.
According to the Times, al-Masri, who was on the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists, was killed on August 7 along with his daughter, Miriam, the widow of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza bin Laden.
A highly classified document provided by the US National Counterterrorism Center in 2008 described 58-year-old al-Masri as the “most experienced and capable operational planner.”
US federal authorities had offered a $10 million reward for any information leading to the senior leader’s capture.
The bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 claimed the lives of at least 224 people and left more than 5,000 injured.
Al-Masri was indicted by a US federal grand jury later that year for his role.


veteranstoday--2020-11-15--Russian vaccine news finally comes out of the closet