thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-10--Tomato Or Tomahto:  What’s The Difference Between Quarantine & Isolation?

Tomato or tomahto , potato or potahto ; what ’ s the difference ?
It ’ s all in the pronunciation .
No matter how you pronounce it , a potato is a root vegetable and a tomato is the edible fruit from the plant , Solanum lycopersicum , also known as a “ tomato plant ” .
What does this have to do with anything occurring today you might ask ?
Plenty .
It involves “ quarantine ” and “ isolation ” .
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services , “ isolation separates sick people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are not sick ” while “ quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.
” In the latter scenario , people designated for “ quarantine ” may have been exposed to a contagious disease and do not know it , or these people may have the disease but show no symptoms .
Of particular note , it wasn ’ t until the SARS outbreak in 2003 that “ severe acute respiratory syndromes ” were added to the quarantine list by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 2003 SARS outbreak , the Center for Disease Control “ did not compel isolation or quarantine for SARS.
” In fact , the last litigated case for involuntary quarantine occurred in 1963 of a suspected smallpox passenger arriving in the united States .
When it came to SARS , the Center for Disease Control ( CDC ) stated , “ In the absence of fever or respiratory symptoms , household contacts need not limit their activities outside the home , unless otherwise required by quarantine regulations.
” What other quarantine regulations required @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could mean local or State regulations .
But , the CDC statements indicated that asymptomatic individuals need not quarantine .
So , the previous SARS outbreak was not enough to implement quarantine and isolation and neither was the 2009 “ swine flu ” fake pandemic .
Yet , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) declared on March 11 , 2020 , that COVID-19 was a pandemic after 114 countries reported a total of 118,000 cases and 4,300 deaths .
Remember , cases do not equate to disease or illness .
And , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ majority of individuals have mild symptoms – so mild these individuals would not even know it was COVID-19 .
It has also been proven that the CDC issued guidelines for reporting COVID-19 deaths that included deaths from motor vehicle accidents as well as other conditions whether or not the individual had the illness .
Moreover , the WHO declared a pandemic without any isolation of the microorganism , which still has not been isolated to this day , and without any scientific proof that what is claimed to be “ parts of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rise to the designation CON-VID-19 .
Don ’ t forget where this all originated and the WHO taking that country ’ s government word on everything along with the skewing of information by the WHO and CDC .
And , tests for COVID-19 are still highly false positive .
So it was , the knee-jerk reaction began .
Eight days after the WHO declared the COVID-19 a “ pandemic ” , it issued “ Considerations for quarantine of individuals in the context of containment for coronavirus disease ( COVID-19 ) .
” But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 , the WHO issued its first interim guidance .
In both these documents , the WHO recommended “ quarantine facilities ” to include hotels , dormitories , other facilities that could cater to groups or the home of the individual .
According to this document , “ Regardless of the setting , an assessment must ensure that the appropriate conditions for safe and effective quarantine are being met.
” It included guidance for home quarantines .
What we now know is these “ interim guidance ” documents prepared by the WHO outline @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do we know that ?
Without a definitive isolated microorganism , no one really knows what is making individuals ill .
The hypothesis is a “ respiratory virus ” ; therefore , the method of transmission is hypothesized based on other “ respiratory viruses ” .
But , this assumes germ theory is not a theory .
The measures to combat spread are based on these guesses .
The WHO even warned , “ if not implemented properly , quarantine may also create additional sources of contamination and dissemination of the disease.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s “ interim guidance ” , Australia , particularly Victoria , implemented quarantine measures for returning travelers at hotels designated as “ quarantine facilities ” .
To understand the impact , watch this report from Sky News Australia , “ Deadly Decisions : Victoria ’ s Hotel Quarantine Catastrophe ” .
If anything , what happened in Victoria , Australia , is a contraindication for the quarantining of individuals who have zero symptoms and a presumption of exposure , not known exposure , and housing ill individuals with non-ill individuals in a hotel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to come and go freely at the hotel in Victoria , when those ill individuals should have been in isolation .
Ask yourself this , if quarantine was the way to go , why were some prisoners set free ?
You can ’ t get more quarantined than prison .
The rationale was close quarters spread the virus .
So , quarantining doesn ’ t work .
Oh wait , the logic was quarantining works everywhere except prison .
Yet , the WHO issued a new “ interim guidance ” on August 19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with an expansion for quarantining and isolating children .
As we know , the infection mortality rate for children might as well be zero .
Remember , the CDC updated its own website to indicate that only 6 % of all US deaths were from COVID-19 alone and those deaths were among the elderly and those with more than one co-morbidity .
In assessing the survival rate of this “ COVID-19 ” , it is not nearly as morbid as the world was led to believe , according to the CDC infection fatality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Scenario 5 in the table .
To convert infection fatality ratios to infection fatality rates , move the decimal two places to the right .
Therefore , in the age group 0-19 , the infection fatality rate is 0.003 % .
As you can see , the highest infection fatality rates are among those aged 70 and greater at 5.4 % .
Despite all of the information garnered since this outbreak of unidentifiable illness , governments across the world , including the various States in the united States , are continuing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killer .
Now , getting back to quarantine and isolation , it can be deduced that the simple solution was to quarantine the most vulnerable population – the elderly , those with multiple mordibities , and the immunocompromised , while isolating those who are ill early on until more information could be gathered and scientists learned about the so-called virus .
This is how things have usually been carried out in the face of respiratory illnesses , such as the flu .
Because of the unreliability of the tests , which were never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unreasonable to quarantine healthy individuals with healthy immune systems .
And , it was definitely unreasonable to continue to operate on old data , as many governments have .
It ’ s more than unreasonable – it is downright criminal .
Moreover , it is worse than irresponsible of the lamestream government-controlled propaganda entertainment enemedia to continue to report outdated information to the public .
Medical professionals who also continue to do this are guilty of malfeasance and malpractice .
In short , there is still no microorganism isolation or proof this illness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Despite proof of adequate treatments in the form of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin , the push is on for a vaccine for an unidentified , non-isolated microorganism with a very high survival rate among the general population .
Unfortunately , some in the medical community suffering from a “ god complex ” are willing to inflict harm upon the population in the form of quarantines that go against common sense and logic and promote an experimental form of vaccine or other vaccine – none proven safe or effective .
It took the discovery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Germany regime to coin a new term , crimes against humanity .
With what is trying to be implemented against the world ’ s population – an experimental vaccine against an unidentified microorganism that could alter DNA , what new term will need to be coined to describe this global crime being contrived against the world ’ s population by the various nations ’ governments at the behest of the urgings of a few elites ?
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

Tomato or tomahto, potato or potahto; what’s the difference? It’s all in the pronunciation. No matter how you pronounce it, a potato is a root vegetable and a tomato is the edible fruit from the plant, Solanum lycopersicum, also known as a “tomato plant”. What does this have to do with anything occurring today you might ask? Plenty. It involves “quarantine” and “isolation”.
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, “isolation separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick” while “quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.” In the latter scenario, people designated for “quarantine” may have been exposed to a contagious disease and do not know it, or these people may have the disease but show no symptoms. Of particular note, it wasn’t until the SARS outbreak in 2003 that “severe acute respiratory syndromes” were added to the quarantine list by executive order 13295. Yet, despite the 2003 SARS outbreak, the Center for Disease Control “did not compel isolation or quarantine for SARS.” In fact, the last litigated case for involuntary quarantine occurred in 1963 of a suspected smallpox passenger arriving in the united States. When it came to SARS, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) stated, “In the absence of fever or respiratory symptoms, household contacts need not limit their activities outside the home, unless otherwise required by quarantine regulations.” What other quarantine regulations required activity limitation was not mentioned. It could mean local or State regulations. But, the CDC statements indicated that asymptomatic individuals need not quarantine.
So, the previous SARS outbreak was not enough to implement quarantine and isolation and neither was the 2009 “swine flu” fake pandemic. Yet, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared on March 11, 2020, that COVID-19 was a pandemic after 114 countries reported a total of 118,000 cases and 4,300 deaths. Remember, cases do not equate to disease or illness. And, it has been proven that the vast majority of individuals have mild symptoms – so mild these individuals would not even know it was COVID-19. It has also been proven that the CDC issued guidelines for reporting COVID-19 deaths that included deaths from motor vehicle accidents as well as other conditions whether or not the individual had the illness.
Moreover, the WHO declared a pandemic without any isolation of the microorganism, which still has not been isolated to this day, and without any scientific proof that what is claimed to be “parts of the microorganism” causes this COVID-19 – giving rise to the designation CON-VID-19. Don’t forget where this all originated and the WHO taking that country’s government word on everything along with the skewing of information by the WHO and CDC. And, tests for COVID-19 are still highly false positive. So it was, the knee-jerk reaction began.
Eight days after the WHO declared the COVID-19 a “pandemic”, it issued “Considerations for quarantine of individuals in the context of containment for coronavirus disease (COVID-19).” But, as early as February 29, 2020, the WHO issued its first interim guidance. In both these documents, the WHO recommended “quarantine facilities” to include hotels, dormitories, other facilities that could cater to groups or the home of the individual.
According to this document, “Regardless of the setting, an assessment must ensure that the appropriate conditions for safe and effective quarantine are being met.” It included guidance for home quarantines. What we now know is these “interim guidance” documents prepared by the WHO outline measures that are largely ineffective. How do we know that? Without a definitive isolated microorganism, no one really knows what is making individuals ill. The hypothesis is a “respiratory virus”; therefore, the method of transmission is hypothesized based on other “respiratory viruses”. But, this assumes germ theory is not a theory. The measures to combat spread are based on these guesses.
The WHO even warned, “if not implemented properly, quarantine may also create additional sources of contamination and dissemination of the disease.”
As a result of the WHO’s “interim guidance”, Australia, particularly Victoria, implemented quarantine measures for returning travelers at hotels designated as “quarantine facilities”. To understand the impact, watch this report from Sky News Australia, “Deadly Decisions: Victoria’s Hotel Quarantine Catastrophe”.

If anything, what happened in Victoria, Australia, is a contraindication for the quarantining of individuals who have zero symptoms and a presumption of exposure, not known exposure, and housing ill individuals with non-ill individuals in a hotel. Moreover, ill individuals were allowed to come and go freely at the hotel in Victoria, when those ill individuals should have been in isolation.
Ask yourself this, if quarantine was the way to go, why were some prisoners set free? You can’t get more quarantined than prison. The rationale was close quarters spread the virus. So, quarantining doesn’t work. Oh wait, the logic was quarantining works everywhere except prison.
Yet, the WHO issued a new “interim guidance” on August 19, 2020, advocating the same measures with an expansion for quarantining and isolating children. As we know, the infection mortality rate for children might as well be zero. Remember, the CDC updated its own website to indicate that only 6% of all US deaths were from COVID-19 alone and those deaths were among the elderly and those with more than one co-morbidity. In assessing the survival rate of this “COVID-19”, it is not nearly as morbid as the world was led to believe, according to the CDC infection fatality ratios. The latest data is indicated in Scenario 5 in the table. To convert infection fatality ratios to infection fatality rates, move the decimal two places to the right. Therefore, in the age group 0-19, the infection fatality rate is 0.003%. As you can see, the highest infection fatality rates are among those aged 70 and greater at 5.4%.
Despite all of the information garnered since this outbreak of unidentifiable illness, governments across the world, including the various States in the united States, are continuing to operate as if dealing with a global killer.
Now, getting back to quarantine and isolation, it can be deduced that the simple solution was to quarantine the most vulnerable population – the elderly, those with multiple mordibities, and the immunocompromised, while isolating those who are ill early on until more information could be gathered and scientists learned about the so-called virus. This is how things have usually been carried out in the face of respiratory illnesses, such as the flu. Because of the unreliability of the tests, which were never meant for diagnostic purposes, it was unreasonable to quarantine healthy individuals with healthy immune systems. And, it was definitely unreasonable to continue to operate on old data, as many governments have. It’s more than unreasonable – it is downright criminal. Moreover, it is worse than irresponsible of the lamestream government-controlled propaganda entertainment enemedia to continue to report outdated information to the public. Medical professionals who also continue to do this are guilty of malfeasance and malpractice.
In short, there is still no microorganism isolation or proof this illness is what is being labeled as COVID-19. Despite proof of adequate treatments in the form of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, the push is on for a vaccine for an unidentified, non-isolated microorganism with a very high survival rate among the general population. Unfortunately, some in the medical community suffering from a “god complex” are willing to inflict harm upon the population in the form of quarantines that go against common sense and logic and promote an experimental form of vaccine or other vaccine – none proven safe or effective.
It took the discovery of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi Germany regime to coin a new term, crimes against humanity. With what is trying to be implemented against the world’s population – an experimental vaccine against an unidentified microorganism that could alter DNA, what new term will need to be coined to describe this global crime being contrived against the world’s population by the various nations’ governments at the behest of the urgings of a few elites?
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-09--As Mainstream Media Panics Public Over Alleged Covid-19 Cases, Grocers Reinstate Purchase Limits

The mainstream media is continuing to be a good puppet of the ruling class by panicking the population into a frenzied state of fear .
As we have already seen , when people panic , they hoard toilet paper , and that ’ s happening again , causing grocers to reinstate purchase limits .
In a statement to USA Today , Kroger said they have “ proactively and temporarily set purchase limits to two per customer ” on items including toilet paper , paper towels , disinfecting wipes and hand soap .
The limits went into effect about a week @ @ @ @ @ @ @ These limits apply to both in store and online purchases on these items .
H-E-B , which manages more than 400 stores mostly in Texas , imposed limits as of Oct. 31 on toilet paper and paper towels to stores in Border , Central Texas , Gulf Coast and San Antonio regions , according to a link on its website tracking purchase limits .
The Giant Co. , headquartered in Carlisle , Pennsylvania , has about 190 stores across the U.S. , said on Oct. 29 it began limiting customers to buying one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ six rolls or larger and up to four single rolls or 4-roll packs of toilet paper and paper towels .
The limits were placed “ as the supply chain for these products remains challenged , ” the company said in a statement to USA TODAY .
“ To be clear , we are seeing little evidence of stockpiling , and there is no need to create panic , ” Giant said .
So , why are people afraid and hoarding paper products again ?
Because the mainstream media is panicking them over the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the COVID-19 .
This is apparent , and it ’ s easy to know why people have become scared again : the media told them to be .
Wegmans , a Rochester , New York-based supermarket chain , said in a statement they have had limits on purchasing toilet paper and paper towels since May and will continue to maintain them throughout all of scam waves of this plandemic .
Luckily , most readers of this site are already well prepared and stocked up on these things .
Keep in mind , most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ basic fundamental rules of preparedness .
Grocery Stores Are Prepping For a 2nd Wave Of COVID-19 Panic Buying

The mainstream media is continuing to be a good puppet of the ruling class by panicking the population into a frenzied state of fear. As we have already seen, when people panic, they hoard toilet paper, and that’s happening again, causing grocers to reinstate purchase limits.
In a statement to USA Today, Kroger said they have “proactively and temporarily set purchase limits to two per customer” on items including toilet paper, paper towels, disinfecting wipes and hand soap. The limits went into effect about a week ago, the grocer chain said. These limits apply to both in store and online purchases on these items.
H-E-B, which manages more than 400 stores mostly in Texas, imposed limits as of Oct. 31 on toilet paper and paper towels to stores in Border, Central Texas, Gulf Coast and San Antonio regions, according to a link on its website tracking purchase limits. The Giant Co., headquartered in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, has about 190 stores across the U.S., said on Oct. 29 it began limiting customers to buying one bundle of toilet paper and paper towels six rolls or larger and up to four single rolls or 4-roll packs of toilet paper and paper towels. The limits were placed “as the supply chain for these products remains challenged,” the company said in a statement to USA TODAY.
“To be clear, we are seeing little evidence of stockpiling, and there is no need to create panic,” Giant said. So, why are people afraid and hoarding paper products again? Because the mainstream media is panicking them over the scamdemic and the rise in cases of the COVID-19. This is apparent, and it’s easy to know why people have become scared again: the media told them to be.
Wegmans, a Rochester, New York-based supermarket chain, said in a statement they have had limits on purchasing toilet paper and paper towels since May and will continue to maintain them throughout all of scam waves of this plandemic.
Luckily, most readers of this site are already well prepared and stocked up on these things. Keep in mind, most people don’t understand the very basic fundamental rules of preparedness.
Grocery Stores Are Prepping For a 2nd Wave Of COVID-19 Panic Buying
Article posted with permission from Mac Slavo


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-09--Captured in Real Time: Moment in Virginia at 5:12 AM When 169,000 Votes Disappear Off the State Tota

Captured in Real Time : Moment in Virginia at 5:12 AM When 169,000 Votes Disappear Off the State Totals Remember @ @ @ @ @ in the night for Biden even though President Trump was leading by a large margin @ @ @ @ @ : That Moment in Virginia at 5:12 AM Where they Took 169,000 Votes Off the @ @ @ @ @ Eaglesfield was tracking the vote counts in Virginia in real-time on Election night and into @ @ @ @ @ 5:12 AM the state lost 169,000 votes from 5:07 AM to 5:12 AM in the @ @ @ @ @ smashing expectations and liberal media predictions in the state on Election night .
That was @ @ @ @ @ .
Isn ’ t that amazing how that worked out ?
And are we the @ @ @ @ @ the computer counting glitches ONLY favor Democrats and Sleepy Joe ?
Sarah Eaglesfield even tweeted @ @ @ @ @ at stake .
The media wants us to shut up and get in line .

Captured in Real Time: Moment in Virginia at 5:12 AM When 169,000 Votes Disappear Off the State Totals
Gobsmacked.
Remember Virginia was called very early in the night for Biden even though President Trump was leading by a large margin.
SCROLL: Voter fraud
Captured in Real Time: That Moment in Virginia at 5:12 AM Where they Took 169,000 Votes Off the State Totals
Data scientist Sarah Eaglesfield was tracking the vote counts in Virginia in real-time on Election night and into the following morning.
By Jim Hoft, November 9, 2020:
Eaglesfield noticed a glitch in the Virginia vote counting.
At 5:12 AM the state lost 169,000 votes from 5:07 AM to 5:12 AM in the morning.
President Trump was smashing expectations and liberal media predictions in the state on Election night.
That was all solved at 5 AM.
Isn’t that amazing how that worked out?
And are we the only ones to notice that the computer counting glitches ONLY favor Democrats and Sleepy Joe?
Software glitch going on here in Virginia.
4.42am – "We've counted 3,368,181 votes!"
5.12am – "Wait, no, we've only counted 3,199,165 votes" pic.twitter.com/zuwsXWa8He — Sarah Eaglesfield (@zenxv) November 9, 2020
Sarah Eaglesfield even tweeted about Democracy in America being at stake.
Unpopular opinion round off. I've always loved @JoeBiden, but didn't feel he was the right pick this time. Not 100% convinced @realDonaldTrump is. Any party wanting democracy should be very concerned about what we've uncovered today. And please do fact check the data, @jack — Sarah Eaglesfield (@zenxv) November 9, 2020
The media wants us to shut up and get in line.
Sorry.
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-09--Biden Team Held Talks With Trump’s Operation Warp Speed Drug-Makers Before Election

Joe Biden ’ s team of political parasites supposedly held COVID-19 talks with drugmaker executives on the United States government ’ s Operation Warp Speed program to accelerate development of a possible COVID-19 treatment .
Biden ’ s spokesman Andrew Bates said in an emailed statement that Biden is committed to a vaccine just like Donald Trump has been .
The vaccine policy won ’ t change under Biden .
The U.S. government using the force of the military will attempt to vaccinate every living person in this country .
“ As we previously said in September , because President-Elect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ develop a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible , campaign medical advisers have received briefings from companies working to produce vaccines in order to be informed about the process , ” Bates said .
Vaccine Update : The Military Has A HEAVY-HANDED Involvement In Operation Warp Speed Biden ’ s advisers met with companies that have COVID-19 vaccines or therapies in late-stage clinical trials in September and October , Bloomberg News had reported earlier .
The report added that the meeting was aimed at gathering information about the development , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ off the novel coronavirus and therapies to treat the sick .
Biden has vowed to “ listen to the science ” , with his coronavirus plan calling for scaling up testing and contact tracing and promising to appoint a “ supply commander ” to oversee supply lines of critical equipment .
–Reuters This information may seem inconsequential , however , it is not .
Biden will make sure that he ’ s heavily involved in the same vaccine program Trump was pushing .
There is no change .
Do not expect Biden will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any sense of the word . )
The government and mainstream media may drop the charade that it ’ ll be voluntary , but in the end result is the same .
You will be coerced into getting this shot .
Medical Journal : Get The COVID-19 Vaccine , Or Be Punished HARSHLY

Joe Biden’s team of political parasites supposedly held COVID-19 talks with drugmaker executives on the United States government’s Operation Warp Speed program to accelerate development of a possible COVID-19 treatment. Biden’s spokesman Andrew Bates said in an emailed statement that Biden is committed to a vaccine just like Donald Trump has been.
The vaccine policy won’t change under Biden. The U.S. government using the force of the military will attempt to vaccinate every living person in this country. “As we previously said in September, because President-Elect Joe Biden is absolutely committed to helping develop a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible, campaign medical advisers have received briefings from companies working to produce vaccines in order to be informed about the process,” Bates said.
Vaccine Update: The Military Has A HEAVY-HANDED Involvement In Operation Warp Speed
Biden’s advisers met with companies that have COVID-19 vaccines or therapies in late-stage clinical trials in September and October, Bloomberg News had reported earlier. The report added that the meeting was aimed at gathering information about the development, manufacturing and distribution of shots to ward off the novel coronavirus and therapies to treat the sick. Biden has vowed to “listen to the science”, with his coronavirus plan calling for scaling up testing and contact tracing and promising to appoint a “supply commander” to oversee supply lines of critical equipment. –Reuters
This information may seem inconsequential, however, it is not. Biden will make sure that he’s heavily involved in the same vaccine program Trump was pushing. There is no change. Do not expect Biden will make this voluntary (at least by any sense of the word.) The government and mainstream media may drop the charade that it’ll be voluntary, but in the end result is the same. You will be coerced into getting this shot.
Medical Journal: Get The COVID-19 Vaccine, Or Be Punished HARSHLY
Article posted with permission from Mac Slavo


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-09--#CancelFoxNews – Agree You’ve Been Outfoxed By Fox News?

I have never seen conservatives more angry at Fox News than they are right now .
Fox News was launched on October 7th , 1996 and it immediately struck a chord with millions upon millions of conservatives that were deeply frustrated with the endless liberal bias of the mainstream media .
But over the years the network has changed .
Yes , they still have Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity , and both of them are excellent .
But the network as a whole has just continued to drift left , and at this point it is hard to distinguish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time .
Up until just recently , most conservatives were willing to overlook the decline of the network as a whole because they could still tune in to Tucker and Hannity at night .
But this election has changed everything .
Fox News didn ’ t just call Arizona for Biden a few hours before CNN and many other major networks .
It was literally days before CNN and most of the other networks finally followed suit , and this absolutely enraged many Trump supporters… Inexplicably , Fox News had a Democrat named @ @ @ @ @ @ @ desk , and many feared that he would be way too eager to call states for Biden .
That concern turned out to be well founded , and many will never trust Fox News again because of it .
And the truth is that Arizona should still not be in Biden ’ s column at this point , because there are a ton of votes still to count and it appears that the majority of those votes will go to Trump .
Conservatives were further enraged when it was reported that Judge Jeanine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the lineup Saturday night because she was going to report on all of the election fraud that is currently being discovered… Fox News is denying this report , but it is interesting to note that Pirro has not also come forward with any sort of a denial so far .
But what is undeniable is that there are some on Fox News that are now actually pushing President Trump to concede the election .
What in the world has happened to Laura ?
At one time she was such a firebrand , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really go soft , and that is truly sad .
Over the past few days , conservatives have been flooding social media with negative comments about Fox News .
For example , this is what David A. Clarke tweeted… If you are also sick and tired of Fox News drifting to the left , the good news is that there are alternatives .
The following are four networks that have programming that is very similar to what Fox News used to feature in the old days… And there are dozens of independent news @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deliver the news from a truly conservative perspective .
Here are 24 of my favorites… As for Fox News , I believe that they will continue to drift to the left because conservatives are no longer in control of the network .
In the end , it is just a matter of time before Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are forced out .
For the moment , they are bringing in enormous amounts of cash for the network , and so they are tolerated .
But eventually , they will be considered expendable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be ushered off the stage just like so many others have been .
As Fox News and other formerly conservative news outlets abandon their conservative principles , conservatives will be hunting for new outlets that are in line with their values .
I hope to fill part of that void with The Most Important News .
Throughout each day , I will be updating the site with the latest breaking news from a conservative perspective .
In addition to links to key news stories , I also want to show you what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ critical tweets , YouTube videos , photos and Facebook posts .
In this day and hour , people want news in rapid fire fashion , and they don ’ t just want to read stories .
If something important happens in the world , they also want to be able to see what is taking place .
We have reached such a critical juncture in our history , and there is so much uncertainty in the air right now .
I wish that Fox News had not chosen this time to go in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still lots of great conservative news sources out there , and we shall do our very best to keep you informed .

I have never seen conservatives more angry at Fox News than they are right now. Fox News was launched on October 7th, 1996 and it immediately struck a chord with millions upon millions of conservatives that were deeply frustrated with the endless liberal bias of the mainstream media. But over the years the network has changed. Yes, they still have Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, and both of them are excellent. But the network as a whole has just continued to drift left, and at this point it is hard to distinguish Fox News from CNN most of the time.
Up until just recently, most conservatives were willing to overlook the decline of the network as a whole because they could still tune in to Tucker and Hannity at night.
But this election has changed everything. Fox News didn’t just call Arizona for Biden a few hours before CNN and many other major networks. It was literally days before CNN and most of the other networks finally followed suit, and this absolutely enraged many Trump supporters…
When Donald Trump supporters gathered outside a vote-counting centre in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday night, they had a simple and perhaps unexpected chant: “Fox News Sucks!” Although the channel has become synonymous with Trump’s rise to power, in the last two days Fox News has become the focus of the Trump campaign’s anger after it made an early call on Tuesday night that the state of Arizona was going to Joe Biden.
Inexplicably, Fox News had a Democrat named Arnon Mishkin in charge of their decision desk, and many feared that he would be way too eager to call states for Biden.
That concern turned out to be well founded, and many will never trust Fox News again because of it.
And the truth is that Arizona should still not be in Biden’s column at this point, because there are a ton of votes still to count and it appears that the majority of those votes will go to Trump.
Conservatives were further enraged when it was reported that Judge Jeanine Pirro’s show was pulled from the lineup Saturday night because she was going to report on all of the election fraud that is currently being discovered…
Jeanine Pirro, who hosts the popular “Justice with Judge Jeanine Pirro” was absent from the Fox News station’s lineup Saturday night. Multiple source claimed she had been suspended for her pro-Trump stance during election broadcasts and her support of the notion that election fraud played a role in the current ballot counts in several states.
Fox News is denying this report, but it is interesting to note that Pirro has not also come forward with any sort of a denial so far.
But what is undeniable is that there are some on Fox News that are now actually pushing President Trump to concede the election.
Shockingly, this even includes Laura Ingraham…
Fox News host Laura Ingraham has said Donald Trump should accept ‘the unfavorable outcome’ of the election with ‘grace and composure’, as several of Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing news outlets shifted tone to prepare for the president’s defeat. Ingraham appeared to send Trump advice Friday night to bow out of the White House race gracefully in order to preserve his ‘legacy’ and focus on ‘moving the country forward’.
What in the world has happened to Laura?
At one time she was such a firebrand, but over the years she has seemed to really go soft, and that is truly sad.
Over the past few days, conservatives have been flooding social media with negative comments about Fox News. For example, this is what David A. Clarke tweeted…
Time to let FOX News Ch know that WE TRUMP SUPPORTERS are in charge, not them, and we’re leaving for @newsmax Hannity, Tucker and Levin can follow us. Time for @realDonaldTrump supporters to abandon FOX News Ch. The RESISTANCE movement has started.
If you are also sick and tired of Fox News drifting to the left, the good news is that there are alternatives.
The following are four networks that have programming that is very similar to what Fox News used to feature in the old days…
Newsmax TV: https://www.youtube.com/user/NewsmaxTV
OAN: https://www.youtube.com/c/oann/videos
Right Side Broadcasting Network: https://www.youtube.com/c/RightSideBroadcastingNetwork/videos
Blaze TV: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlazeTV/videos
And there are dozens of independent news websites all over the Internet that regularly deliver the news from a truly conservative perspective.
Here are 24 of my favorites…
The Most Important News: http://themostimportantnews.com/
The Economic Collapse Blog: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/
End Of The American Dream: http://endoftheamericandream.com/
Infowars: https://www.infowars.com/
Summit News: https://summit.news/
Zero Hedge: https://www.zerohedge.com/
The Daily Wire: https://www.dailywire.com/
Breitbart: https://www.breitbart.com/
Charisma News: https://www.charismanews.com/
Steve Quayle: https://www.stevequayle.com/index.php
SkyWatchTV: https://www.skywatchtv.com/
WND: https://www.wnd.com/
The Blaze: https://www.theblaze.com/
The Gateway Pundit: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
Natural News: https://www.naturalnews.com/index.html
The Cutting Edge: https://www.cuttingedge.org/news_updates/newsupdatemain.html
End Time Headlines: https://endtimeheadlines.org/
All News Pipeline: https://allnewspipeline.com/
SHTFplan.com: http://www.shtfplan.com/
The Organic Prepper: https://www.theorganicprepper.com/
The Zach Drew Show: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZachDrewShow/videos
Faithwire: https://www.faithwire.com/
Daily Crow: http://www.dailycrow.com/
One America News Network: https://www.oann.com/
As for Fox News, I believe that they will continue to drift to the left because conservatives are no longer in control of the network.
In the end, it is just a matter of time before Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are forced out. For the moment, they are bringing in enormous amounts of cash for the network, and so they are tolerated.
But eventually, they will be considered expendable, and when that time comes they will be ushered off the stage just like so many others have been.
As Fox News and other formerly conservative news outlets abandon their conservative principles, conservatives will be hunting for new outlets that are in line with their values.
I hope to fill part of that void with The Most Important News. Throughout each day, I will be updating the site with the latest breaking news from a conservative perspective. In addition to links to key news stories, I also want to show you what is going on by posting the most critical tweets, YouTube videos, photos and Facebook posts.
In this day and hour, people want news in rapid fire fashion, and they don’t just want to read stories. If something important happens in the world, they also want to be able to see what is taking place.
We have reached such a critical juncture in our history, and there is so much uncertainty in the air right now.
I wish that Fox News had not chosen this time to go in a new direction, but there are still lots of great conservative news sources out there, and we shall do our very best to keep you informed.


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-09--Money Spent By Both Parties in 2020 Election Could’ve Nearly Ended Homelessness In US

Because Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the antitheses of what the supposed “ leader of the free world ” should look like , they had to spend billions of dollars to convince people to vote for them .
As a result of running who could be considered the two worst candidates in US history against each other , the total cost of the 2020 election nearly reached a historic $ 14 billion .
Running a child sniffer against a p***y grabber resulted in the most expensive election ever .
To put it into perspective , in 2016 , those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was spent this time .
To be clear , this is the total money spent by all elected positions , not just the presidential candidates .
However , the presidential campaigns accounted for a large portion of the spending .
“ Donors poured record amounts of money into the 2018 midterms , and 2020 appears to be a continuation of that trend — but magnified , ” said Sheila Krumholz , executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics .
“ Ten years ago , a billion-dollar presidential candidate would have been difficult @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ re likely to see two.
” According to OpenSecrets.org , a political funding watchdog , Democratic candidates and groups have spent $ 6.9 billion , compared to $ 3.8 billion for Republicans .
Democrats ’ spending falls to $ 5.5 billion when excluding spending by billionaire presidential candidates Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer .
As billions of dollars poured into campaigns for people to rule you , thanks to COVID-19 mandates , millions of Americans slid into poverty and the homeless population skyrocketed .
Instead of helping those in need , Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were told to kick rocks as tyrannical governors forced them out of work .
According to an estimate by the Department of Housing and Urban Development , or HUD , it would cost $ 20 billion to end homelessness .
Obviously , there are many facets to ending widespread homelessness like drug treatment programs and mental health rehabilitation , but $ 14 billion would have been a massive aid in that fight .
As there are currently around a half million homeless people in the country at any given time , the amount @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ve given every homeless person over $ 25,000 .
Perhaps the most ironic aspect of money spent on attaining your vote is the fact that when these elected officials make it to Washington , they will proceed to further the national debt by trillions over the next several years until the next election .
Both parties will continue to expand the US empire , the police state , and the military-industrial complex .
Both parties will oversee and approve hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into the Middle East in the form @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This money will make the money spent on campaigning look like a drop in the bucket .
This is why weapons companies like Lockheed Martin spent millions during the 2020 cycle , giving money to both parties to ensure their place in the US war machine .
While the $ 14 billion spent on elections could have nearly ended homelessness in the United States , the money Americans are forced to give the government to spend on war dwarfs that number .
As of 2019 , the annual Pentagon base budget , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Department of Energy , plus Homeland Security and other military spending totaled well over $ 1 trillion — not counting what ’ s “ lost.
” Those of us not blinded by the propaganda and false patriotism , see the inevitable results of such a propensity for spending on war .
We see domestic infrastructure crumbling , a national debt increasing by record amounts each year , more conflict around the globe , and countless veterans suffering from PTSD .
When will it all end ?
At this pace , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ falls .
And , no matter which puppet you put in the White House , unless something drastic changes , both parties will oversee and support this fall .
These numbers have been getting attention recently as there are people waging a campaign to prevent further war and subsequent deficit spending .
They are paying to put up billboards showing just how much of your money the US steals to blow up brown people in foreign countries .
The group is World Beyond War and their efforts are massive .
For the last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ putting up powerful billboards all over the country .
As TFTP reported , just 3 % of what the US spends annually on war , or $ 30 billion , could end starvation on earth .
Imagine that .
Sadly , the United States is so entrenched in the two party paradigm that they are blind to war devastation when it is their guy carrying it out .
Until Americans break free from the cognitive dissonance that controls their thoughts , we can only expect this problem to get worse .

Because Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the antitheses of what the supposed “leader of the free world” should look like, they had to spend billions of dollars to convince people to vote for them. As a result of running who could be considered the two worst candidates in US history against each other, the total cost of the 2020 election nearly reached a historic $14 billion.
Running a child sniffer against a p***y grabber resulted in the most expensive election ever. To put it into perspective, in 2016, those terrible candidates spent just half of what was spent this time. To be clear, this is the total money spent by all elected positions, not just the presidential candidates. However, the presidential campaigns accounted for a large portion of the spending.
“Donors poured record amounts of money into the 2018 midterms, and 2020 appears to be a continuation of that trend — but magnified,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics. “Ten years ago, a billion-dollar presidential candidate would have been difficult to imagine. This cycle, we’re likely to see two.”
According to OpenSecrets.org, a political funding watchdog, Democratic candidates and groups have spent $6.9 billion, compared to $3.8 billion for Republicans. Democrats’ spending falls to $5.5 billion when excluding spending by billionaire presidential candidates Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer.
As billions of dollars poured into campaigns for people to rule you, thanks to COVID-19 mandates, millions of Americans slid into poverty and the homeless population skyrocketed. Instead of helping those in need, Americans got a one-time $1,200 check and were told to kick rocks as tyrannical governors forced them out of work.
According to an estimate by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness. Obviously, there are many facets to ending widespread homelessness like drug treatment programs and mental health rehabilitation, but $14 billion would have been a massive aid in that fight.
As there are currently around a half million homeless people in the country at any given time, the amount of money spent on 2020 elections could’ve given every homeless person over $25,000.
Perhaps the most ironic aspect of money spent on attaining your vote is the fact that when these elected officials make it to Washington, they will proceed to further the national debt by trillions over the next several years until the next election.
Both parties will continue to expand the US empire, the police state, and the military-industrial complex. Both parties will oversee and approve hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into the Middle East in the form of bombs, troops, and oppression. This money will make the money spent on campaigning look like a drop in the bucket.
This is why weapons companies like Lockheed Martin spent millions during the 2020 cycle, giving money to both parties to ensure their place in the US war machine.
While the $14 billion spent on elections could have nearly ended homelessness in the United States, the money Americans are forced to give the government to spend on war dwarfs that number.
As of 2019, the annual Pentagon base budget, plus war budget, plus nuclear weapons in the Department of Energy, plus Homeland Security and other military spending totaled well over $1 trillion — not counting what’s “lost.”
Those of us not blinded by the propaganda and false patriotism, see the inevitable results of such a propensity for spending on war. We see domestic infrastructure crumbling, a national debt increasing by record amounts each year, more conflict around the globe, and countless veterans suffering from PTSD. When will it all end? At this pace, it won’t end until the empire falls. And, no matter which puppet you put in the White House, unless something drastic changes, both parties will oversee and support this fall.
These numbers have been getting attention recently as there are people waging a campaign to prevent further war and subsequent deficit spending. They are paying to put up billboards showing just how much of your money the US steals to blow up brown people in foreign countries. The group is World Beyond War and their efforts are massive. For the last several years, they’ve been putting up powerful billboards all over the country.
As TFTP reported, just 3% of what the US spends annually on war, or $30 billion, could end starvation on earth. Imagine that.
Sadly, the United States is so entrenched in the two party paradigm that they are blind to war devastation when it is their guy carrying it out. Until Americans break free from the cognitive dissonance that controls their thoughts, we can only expect this problem to get worse.
Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-10--End the Government’s War on America’s Military Veterans

The 2020 presidential election may be over , but nothing has really changed .
The U.S. government still poses the threat to our freedoms .
More than terrorism , more than domestic extremism , more than gun violence and organized crime , even more than the perceived threat posed by any single politician , the U.S. government remains a greater menace to the life , liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us .
This threat is especially pronounced for America ’ s military veterans , especially that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ First Amendment right to speak out against government wrongdoing .
Consider : we raise our young people on a steady diet of militarism and war , sell them on the idea that defending freedom abroad by serving in the military is their patriotic duty , then when they return home , bruised and battle-scarred and committed to defending their freedoms at home , we often treat them like criminals merely for exercising those rights they risked their lives to defend .
The government even has a name for its war on America ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As first reported by the Wall Street Journal , this Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) program tracks military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and characterizes them as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “ disgruntled , disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.
” Coupled with the DHS ’ dual reports on Rightwing and Leftwing “ Extremism , ” which broadly define extremists as individuals , military veterans and groups “ that are mainly antigovernment , rejecting federal authority in favor of state or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entirely , ” these tactics bode ill for anyone seen as opposing the government .
Yet the government is not merely targeting individuals who are voicing their discontent so much as it is taking aim at individuals trained in military warfare .
Don ’ t be fooled by the fact that the DHS has gone extremely quiet about Operation Vigilant Eagle .
Where there ’ s smoke , there ’ s bound to be fire .
And the government ’ s efforts to target military veterans whose views may be perceived as “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ afoot .
In recent years , military servicemen and women have found themselves increasingly targeted for surveillance , censorship , threatened with incarceration or involuntary commitment , labeled as extremists and/or mentally ill , and stripped of their Second Amendment rights .
In light of the government ’ s efforts to lay the groundwork to weaponize the public ’ s biomedical data and predict who might pose a threat to public safety based on mental health sensor data ( a convenient means by which to penalize certain “ unacceptable ” social behaviors ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even more deadly , especially if those involved have a mental illness or disability coupled with a military background .
Incredibly , as part of a proposal being considered by the Trump Administration , a new government agency HARPA ( a healthcare counterpart to the Pentagon ’ s research and development arm DARPA ) will take the lead in identifying and targeting “ signs ” of mental illness or violent inclinations among the populace by using artificial intelligence to collect data from Apple Watches , Fitbits , Amazon Echo and Google Home .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Many times throughout history in totalitarian regimes , such governments have declared dissidents mentally ill and unfit for society as a means of rendering them disempowering them .
As Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum observes in Gulag : A History : “ The exile of prisoners to a distant place , where they can ‘ pay their debt to society , ’ make themselves useful , and not contaminate others with their ideas or their criminal acts , is a practice as old as civilization itself .
The rulers of ancient Rome and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ colonies .
Socrates chose death over the torment of exile from Athens .
The poet Ovid was exiled to a fetid port on the Black Sea.
” For example , government officials in the Cold War-era Soviet Union often used psychiatric hospitals as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners from the rest of society , discredit their ideas , and break them physically and mentally through the use of electric shocks , drugs and various medical procedures .
Insisting that “ ideas about a struggle for truth and justice are formed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the psychiatric community actually went so far as to provide the government with a diagnosis suitable for locking up such freedom-oriented activists .
In addition to declaring political dissidents mentally unsound , Russian officials also made use of an administrative process for dealing with individuals who were considered a bad influence on others or troublemakers .
This age-old practice by which despotic regimes eliminate their critics or potential adversaries by declaring them mentally ill and locking them up in psychiatric wards for extended periods of time is a common practice in present-day China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , is how this practice of eliminating or undermining potential critics , including military veterans , is happening with increasing frequency in the United States .
Remember , the National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA ) opened the door for the government to detain as a threat to national security anyone viewed as a troublemaker .
According to government guidelines for identifying domestic extremists—a word used interchangeably with terrorists—technically , anyone exercising their First Amendment rights in order to criticize the government qualifies .
It doesn ’ t take much anymore to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ database somewhere—Main Core , for example—that identifies and tracks individuals who aren ’ t inclined to march in lockstep to the government ’ s dictates .
In fact , as the Washington Post reports , communities are being mapped and residents assigned a color-coded threat score—green , yellow or red—so police are forewarned about a person ’ s potential inclination to be a troublemaker depending on whether they ’ ve had a career in the military , posted a comment perceived as threatening on Facebook , suffer from a particular medical condition , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might have committed a crime .
The case of Brandon Raub is a prime example of Operation Vigilant Eagle in action .
Raub , a 26-year-old decorated Marine , actually found himself interrogated by government agents about his views on government corruption , arrested with no warning , labeled mentally ill for subscribing to so-called “ conspiratorial ” views about the government , detained against his will in a psych ward for standing by his views , and isolated from his family , friends and attorneys .
On August 16 , 2012 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Service and FBI agents arrived at Raub ’ s Virginia home , asking to speak with him about posts he had made on his Facebook page made up of song lyrics , political opinions and dialogue used in a political thriller virtual card game .
Among the posts cited as troublesome were lyrics to a song by a rap group and Raub ’ s views , shared increasingly by a number of Americans , that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an inside job .
After a brief conversation and without providing any explanation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reading him his rights , Raub was then handcuffed and transported to police headquarters , then to a medical center , where he was held against his will due to alleged concerns that his Facebook posts were “ terrorist in nature.
” Outraged onlookers filmed the arrest and posted the footage to YouTube , where it quickly went viral .
Meanwhile , in a kangaroo court hearing that turned a deaf ear to Raub ’ s explanations about the fact that his Facebook posts were being read out of context , Raub was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ further confinement in a psychiatric ward .
Thankfully , The Rutherford Institute came to Raub ’ s assistance , which combined with heightened media attention , brought about his release and may have helped prevent Raub from being successfully “ disappeared ” by the government .
Even so , within days of Raub being seized and forcibly held in a VA psych ward , news reports started surfacing of other veterans having similar experiences .
“ Oppositional defiance disorder ” ( ODD ) is another diagnosis being used against veterans who challenge the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explains , an ODD diagnosis Frankly , based on how well my personality and my military service in the U.S. Armed Forces fit with this description of “ oppositional defiance disorder , ” I ’ m sure there ’ s a file somewhere with my name on it .
That the government is using the charge of mental illness as the means by which to immobilize ( and disarm ) these veterans is diabolical .
With one stroke of a magistrate ’ s pen , these veterans are being declared mentally ill , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stripped of their constitutional rights .
If it were just being classified as “ anti-government , ” that would be one thing .
Unfortunately , anyone with a military background and training is also now being viewed as a heightened security threat by police who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later .
Feeding this perception of veterans as ticking time bombs in need of intervention , the Justice Department launched a pilot program in 2012 aimed at training SWAT teams to deal with confrontations involving highly trained and often heavily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military veterans often escalate very quickly into an explosive and deadly situation , especially when SWAT teams are involved .
For example , Jose Guerena , a Marine who served in two tours in Iraq , was killed after an Arizona SWAT team kicked open the door of his home during a mistaken drug raid and opened fire .
Thinking his home was being invaded by criminals , Guerena told his wife and child to hide in a closet , grabbed a gun and waited in the hallway to confront the intruders .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact , the safety was still on his gun when he was killed .
The SWAT officers , however , not as restrained , fired 70 rounds of ammunition at Guerena—23 of those bullets made contact .
Apart from his military background , Guerena had had no prior criminal record , and the police found nothing illegal in his home .
John Edward Chesney , a 62-year-old Vietnam veteran , was killed by a SWAT team allegedly responding to a call that the Army veteran was standing in his San Diego apartment window @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
SWAT officers locked down Chesney ’ s street , took up positions around his home , and fired 12 rounds into Chesney ’ s apartment window .
It turned out that the gun Chesney reportedly pointed at police from three stories up was a “ realistic-looking mock assault rifle.
” Ramon Hooks ’ encounter with a Houston SWAT team did not end as tragically , but it very easily could have .
Hooks , a 25-year-old Iraq war veteran , was using an air rifle gun for target practice outside when a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the area , reported him as an active shooter .
It wasn ’ t long before the quiet neighborhood was transformed into a war zone , with dozens of cop cars , an armored vehicle and heavily armed police .
Hooks was arrested , his air rifle pellets and toy gun confiscated , and charges filed against him for “ criminal mischief.
” Given the government ’ s increasing view of veterans as potential domestic terrorists , it makes one think twice about government programs encouraging veterans to include a veterans designation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cards .
Hailed by politicians as a way to “ make it easier for military veterans to access discounts from retailers , restaurants , hotels and vendors across the state , ” it will also make it that much easier for the government to identify and target veterans who dare to challenge the status quo .
Remember : no one is spared in a police state .
Eventually , as I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , we all suffer the same fate .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ government can ’ t be bothered to abide by its constitutional mandate to respect the citizenry ’ s rights—whether it ’ s the right to be free from government surveillance and censorship , the right to due process and fair hearings , the right to be free from roadside strip searches and militarized police , or the right to peacefully assemble and protest and exercise our right to free speech—then why should anyone expect the government to treat our nation ’ s veterans with respect and dignity ?
It ’ s time to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the American people , and that includes military veterans .
Certainly , veterans have enough physical and psychological war wounds to overcome without adding the government to the mix .
Although the U.S. boasts more than 20 million veterans who have served in World War II through the present day , large numbers of veterans are impoverished , unemployed , traumatized mentally and physically , struggling with depression , suicide , and marital stress , homeless , subjected to sub-par treatment at clinics and hospitals , and left to molder while their paperwork @ @ @ @ @ @ @ At least 60,000 veterans died by suicide between 2008 and 2017 .
On average , 6,000 veterans kill themselves every year , and the numbers are on the rise .
The plight of veterans today—and their treatment at the hands of the U.S. government—remains America ’ s badge of shame .
So here ’ s a suggestion : if you really want to do something to show your respect and appreciation for the nation ’ s veterans , why not skip the parades and the flag-waving and instead go exercise your rights—the freedoms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back against the government ’ s tyranny .
It ’ s time the rest of the nation did its part to safeguard the freedoms we too often take for granted .

“For soldiers … coming home is more lethal than being in combat.” ― Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston
The 2020 presidential election may be over, but nothing has really changed.
The U.S. government still poses the greatest threat to our freedoms.
More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime, even more than the perceived threat posed by any single politician, the U.S. government remains a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.
This threat is especially pronounced for America’s military veterans, especially that portion of the population that exercises their First Amendment right to speak out against government wrongdoing.
Consider: we raise our young people on a steady diet of militarism and war, sell them on the idea that defending freedom abroad by serving in the military is their patriotic duty, then when they return home, bruised and battle-scarred and committed to defending their freedoms at home, we often treat them like criminals merely for exercising those rights they risked their lives to defend.
The government even has a name for its war on America’s veterans: Operation Vigilant Eagle.
As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, this Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program tracks military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and characterizes them as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.”
Coupled with the DHS’ dual reports on Rightwing and Leftwing “Extremism,” which broadly define extremists as individuals, military veterans and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” these tactics bode ill for anyone seen as opposing the government.
Yet the government is not merely targeting individuals who are voicing their discontent so much as it is taking aim at individuals trained in military warfare.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that the DHS has gone extremely quiet about Operation Vigilant Eagle.
Where there’s smoke, there’s bound to be fire.
And the government’s efforts to target military veterans whose views may be perceived as “anti-government” make clear that something is afoot.
In recent years, military servicemen and women have found themselves increasingly targeted for surveillance, censorship, threatened with incarceration or involuntary commitment, labeled as extremists and/or mentally ill, and stripped of their Second Amendment rights.
In light of the government’s efforts to lay the groundwork to weaponize the public’s biomedical data and predict who might pose a threat to public safety based on mental health sensor data (a convenient means by which to penalize certain “unacceptable” social behaviors), encounters with the police could get even more deadly, especially if those involved have a mental illness or disability coupled with a military background.
Incredibly, as part of a proposal being considered by the Trump Administration, a new government agency HARPA (a healthcare counterpart to the Pentagon’s research and development arm DARPA) will take the lead in identifying and targeting “signs” of mental illness or violent inclinations among the populace by using artificial intelligence to collect data from Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo and Google Home.
These tactics are not really new.
Many times throughout history in totalitarian regimes, such governments have declared dissidents mentally ill and unfit for society as a means of rendering them disempowering them.
As Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum observes in Gulag: A History: “The exile of prisoners to a distant place, where they can ‘pay their debt to society,’ make themselves useful, and not contaminate others with their ideas or their criminal acts, is a practice as old as civilization itself. The rulers of ancient Rome and Greece sent their dissidents off to distant colonies. Socrates chose death over the torment of exile from Athens. The poet Ovid was exiled to a fetid port on the Black Sea.”
For example, government officials in the Cold War-era Soviet Union often used psychiatric hospitals as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally through the use of electric shocks, drugs and various medical procedures.
Insisting that “ideas about a struggle for truth and justice are formed by personalities with a paranoid structure,” the psychiatric community actually went so far as to provide the government with a diagnosis suitable for locking up such freedom-oriented activists.
In addition to declaring political dissidents mentally unsound, Russian officials also made use of an administrative process for dealing with individuals who were considered a bad influence on others or troublemakers.
Author George Kennan describes a process in which:
The obnoxious person may not be guilty of any crime . . . but if, in the opinion of the local authorities, his presence in a particular place is “prejudicial to public order” or “incompatible with public tranquility,” he may be arrested without warrant, may be held from two weeks to two years in prison, and may then be removed by force to any other place within the limits of the empire and there be put under police surveillance for a period of from one to ten years. Administrative exile–which required no trial and no sentencing procedure–was an ideal punishment not only for troublemakers as such, but also for political opponents of the regime.
Sound familiar?
This age-old practice by which despotic regimes eliminate their critics or potential adversaries by declaring them mentally ill and locking them up in psychiatric wards for extended periods of time is a common practice in present-day China.
What is particularly unnerving, however, is how this practice of eliminating or undermining potential critics, including military veterans, is happening with increasing frequency in the United States.
Remember, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) opened the door for the government to detain as a threat to national security anyone viewed as a troublemaker. According to government guidelines for identifying domestic extremists—a word used interchangeably with terrorists—technically, anyone exercising their First Amendment rights in order to criticize the government qualifies.
It doesn’t take much anymore to be flagged as potentially anti-government in a government database somewhere—Main Core, for example—that identifies and tracks individuals who aren’t inclined to march in lockstep to the government’s dictates.
In fact, as the Washington Post reports, communities are being mapped and residents assigned a color-coded threat score—green, yellow or red—so police are forewarned about a person’s potential inclination to be a troublemaker depending on whether they’ve had a career in the military, posted a comment perceived as threatening on Facebook, suffer from a particular medical condition, or know someone who knows someone who might have committed a crime.
The case of Brandon Raub is a prime example of Operation Vigilant Eagle in action.
Raub, a 26-year-old decorated Marine, actually found himself interrogated by government agents about his views on government corruption, arrested with no warning, labeled mentally ill for subscribing to so-called “conspiratorial” views about the government, detained against his will in a psych ward for standing by his views, and isolated from his family, friends and attorneys.
On August 16, 2012, a swarm of local police, Secret Service and FBI agents arrived at Raub’s Virginia home, asking to speak with him about posts he had made on his Facebook page made up of song lyrics, political opinions and dialogue used in a political thriller virtual card game.
Among the posts cited as troublesome were lyrics to a song by a rap group and Raub’s views, shared increasingly by a number of Americans, that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an inside job.
After a brief conversation and without providing any explanation, levying any charges against Raub or reading him his rights, Raub was then handcuffed and transported to police headquarters, then to a medical center, where he was held against his will due to alleged concerns that his Facebook posts were “terrorist in nature.”
Outraged onlookers filmed the arrest and posted the footage to YouTube, where it quickly went viral. Meanwhile, in a kangaroo court hearing that turned a deaf ear to Raub’s explanations about the fact that his Facebook posts were being read out of context, Raub was sentenced to up to 30 days’ further confinement in a psychiatric ward.
Thankfully, The Rutherford Institute came to Raub’s assistance, which combined with heightened media attention, brought about his release and may have helped prevent Raub from being successfully “disappeared” by the government.
Even so, within days of Raub being seized and forcibly held in a VA psych ward, news reports started surfacing of other veterans having similar experiences.
“Oppositional defiance disorder” (ODD) is another diagnosis being used against veterans who challenge the status quo. As journalist Anthony Martin explains, an ODD diagnosis
“denotes that the person exhibits ‘symptoms’ such as the questioning of authority, the refusal to follow directions, stubbornness, the unwillingness to go along with the crowd, and the practice of disobeying or ignoring orders. Persons may also receive such a label if they are considered free thinkers, nonconformists, or individuals who are suspicious of large, centralized government… At one time the accepted protocol among mental health professionals was to reserve the diagnosis of oppositional defiance disorder for children or adolescents who exhibited uncontrollable defiance toward their parents and teachers.”
Frankly, based on how well my personality and my military service in the U.S. Armed Forces fit with this description of “oppositional defiance disorder,” I’m sure there’s a file somewhere with my name on it.
That the government is using the charge of mental illness as the means by which to immobilize (and disarm) these veterans is diabolical. With one stroke of a magistrate’s pen, these veterans are being declared mentally ill, locked away against their will, and stripped of their constitutional rights.
If it were just being classified as “anti-government,” that would be one thing.
Unfortunately, anyone with a military background and training is also now being viewed as a heightened security threat by police who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later.
Feeding this perception of veterans as ticking time bombs in need of intervention, the Justice Department launched a pilot program in 2012 aimed at training SWAT teams to deal with confrontations involving highly trained and often heavily armed combat veterans.
The result?
Police encounters with military veterans often escalate very quickly into an explosive and deadly situation, especially when SWAT teams are involved.
For example, Jose Guerena, a Marine who served in two tours in Iraq, was killed after an Arizona SWAT team kicked open the door of his home during a mistaken drug raid and opened fire. Thinking his home was being invaded by criminals, Guerena told his wife and child to hide in a closet, grabbed a gun and waited in the hallway to confront the intruders. He never fired his weapon. In fact, the safety was still on his gun when he was killed. The SWAT officers, however, not as restrained, fired 70 rounds of ammunition at Guerena—23 of those bullets made contact. Apart from his military background, Guerena had had no prior criminal record, and the police found nothing illegal in his home.
John Edward Chesney, a 62-year-old Vietnam veteran, was killed by a SWAT team allegedly responding to a call that the Army veteran was standing in his San Diego apartment window waving what looked like a semi-automatic rifle. SWAT officers locked down Chesney’s street, took up positions around his home, and fired 12 rounds into Chesney’s apartment window. It turned out that the gun Chesney reportedly pointed at police from three stories up was a “realistic-looking mock assault rifle.”
Ramon Hooks’ encounter with a Houston SWAT team did not end as tragically, but it very easily could have. Hooks, a 25-year-old Iraq war veteran, was using an air rifle gun for target practice outside when a Homeland Security Agent, allegedly house shopping in the area, reported him as an active shooter. It wasn’t long before the quiet neighborhood was transformed into a war zone, with dozens of cop cars, an armored vehicle and heavily armed police. Hooks was arrested, his air rifle pellets and toy gun confiscated, and charges filed against him for “criminal mischief.”
Given the government’s increasing view of veterans as potential domestic terrorists, it makes one think twice about government programs encouraging veterans to include a veterans designation on their drivers’ licenses and ID cards.
Hailed by politicians as a way to “make it easier for military veterans to access discounts from retailers, restaurants, hotels and vendors across the state,” it will also make it that much easier for the government to identify and target veterans who dare to challenge the status quo.
Remember: no one is spared in a police state.
Eventually, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People , we all suffer the same fate.
It stands to reason that if the government can’t be bothered to abide by its constitutional mandate to respect the citizenry’s rights—whether it’s the right to be free from government surveillance and censorship, the right to due process and fair hearings, the right to be free from roadside strip searches and militarized police, or the right to peacefully assemble and protest and exercise our right to free speech—then why should anyone expect the government to treat our nation’s veterans with respect and dignity?
It’s time to end the government’s war on the American people, and that includes military veterans.
Certainly, veterans have enough physical and psychological war wounds to overcome without adding the government to the mix. Although the U.S. boasts more than 20 million veterans who have served in World War II through the present day, large numbers of veterans are impoverished, unemployed, traumatized mentally and physically, struggling with depression, suicide, and marital stress, homeless, subjected to sub-par treatment at clinics and hospitals, and left to molder while their paperwork piles up within Veterans Administration offices.
At least 60,000 veterans died by suicide between 2008 and 2017.
On average, 6,000 veterans kill themselves every year, and the numbers are on the rise.
The plight of veterans today—and their treatment at the hands of the U.S. government—remains America’s badge of shame.
So here’s a suggestion: if you really want to do something to show your respect and appreciation for the nation’s veterans, why not skip the parades and the flag-waving and instead go exercise your rights—the freedoms that those veterans swore to protect—by pushing back against the government’s tyranny.
It’s time the rest of the nation did its part to safeguard the freedoms we too often take for granted.
Freedom is not free.
Article posted with permission from John Whitehead


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-10--A Stolen Presidential Election in the Nation’s Election Fraud Capital

In October , someone got away with a laptop and USB drives full of encrypted data at the warehouse where Philadelphia ’ s voting machines are stored .
Philadelphia city officials swiftly assured voters that there was nothing to worry about because all the data was encrypted .
Meanwhile , a local reporter was able to enter the warehouse and stroll around the voting machines without anyone in the warehouse stopping him .
Others had noted that accessing the USB slot for the voting machines was surprisingly easy .
But there were bigger problems at the warehouse than that .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ didn ’ t match election records .
In a familiar story , officials blamed clerical errors .
And there were a whole lot of errors .
The new voting machines had been incorrectly recording votes .
In a previous election , Northampton County voters who voted Republican suffered a “ weird technical glitch ” in which votes cast for Republicans instead went to the “ instructional text box ” .
The manufacturer blamed the problem on “ human error ” and claimed that it only affected some 30 % of machines .
Northampton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , was said to have flipped for Biden .
The margins in some key precincts were between “ a handful to hundreds of votes.
” There were problems with 366 of the same model of voting machines in Philly .
According to the manufacturer , voting machines only accept “ certified and approved USB flash drives containing encrypted data ” , which had apparently been stolen before Election Day .
The same month that the laptop and USB drives were stolen , elsewhere in the state , an elections judge in Allentown was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of entries in documents , and prying into ballots ” .
The judge , the Reverend Everett E. Bickford , or Erika , who now wears flowers in his hair and heavy makeup , along with a clerical collar , was hauled into court , but went on working as an election judge .
Officials promised to watch him closely on Nov 3 .
The current numbers claim that Biden beat Trump in the Reverend ’ s 3rd Ward by 522 to 173 .
The media amplified stories about election fraud in Pennsylvania @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That same media is vocally denying that there could be any fraud now .
Why would anyone think there could be any fraud in the nation ’ s election fraud capital ?
In ’ 86 , Councilman Lee Beloff , the son of a judge , was charged alongside his legislative aide , and mob boss “ Little Nicky ” Scarfo , with extorting $ 1 million and an apartment for his mistress .
Less glamorously , Beloff was also indicted , along with his wife and two Democratic committee members for ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ giving false information on voter registrations to elderly people living in a nursing home.
” Beloff had previously received a gubernatorial pardon for interfering with a poll watcher so he could run for public office .
After serving 6 years of his 10 year sentence , Beloff got out and became a Democrat ward chairman .
“ We stay loyal to our people , ” a local Democratic ward leader said .
A photo last year from the Philly Public Record shows a meeting of the “ combined 39th Ward Democratic organizations ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ A South Philly Classic ” and features Lee Beloff and Ozzie Myers .
Ozzie Meyers , a former Democrat Congressman who had been convicted of bribery and conspiracy , and spent three years in prison in the Abscam scandal , was indicted again this year for “ conspiring to violate voting rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for specific candidates in the 2014 , 2015 , and 2016 primary elections , bribery of an election official , falsification of records , voting more than once in federal elections.
” Domenick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 39th Ward , pled guilty to having “ accepted bribes in the form of money and other things of value in exchange for adding ballots to increase the vote totals for certain candidates on the voting machines in his jurisdiction and for certifying tallies of all the ballots , including the fraudulent ballots.
” Why wouldn ’ t you trust these guys ?
As Judge Scirica noted in his ruling , voter fraud , “ including the practice of voting dead or non-resident citizens , is no stranger to Pennsylvania , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hispanics would sign anything , ” Democrat campaign workers joked in the case that would lead to the state ’ s biggest absentee ballot fraud case .
So of course it came out of Philly in the 90s .
William Stinson , an assistant Deputy Mayor to Mayor Ed Rendell , was running for a State Senate seat with Democrat control of the Senate at stake .
A poll showed him 4 % behind his Republican opponent and he allegedly ordered campaign workers to get black and Latino voters to sign absentee ballots @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for every ballot , which they “ helped ” voters fill in .
Not satisfied to settle for actual voters , evidence was heard in court that workers had filled in the names of dead people and prison inmates .
When the votes were counted , Stinson had won a staggering 80 % of the absentee ballots .
The Republicans smelled a rat and The Philadelphia Inquirer interviewed voters and found 220 irregularities and 24 instances where documents were forged .
Mostly minority voters were told to check boxes , vote on behalf @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voting for the wrong man .
In one investigation of the 37th Ward , only 15 % of the absentee ballots had been legally cast .
“ There were probably mistakes made by workers not understanding the rules of absentee ballots , ” Rick Bloomingdale , the executive director of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party and future AFL-CIO boss , argued .
“ It was all intended to increase voter participation.
” A federal judge removed Stinson and replaced him with his Republican opponent , who had been winning before the absentee ballots arrived @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Philadelphia County Board of Elections of a “ massive scheme ” A state investigation led to charges against Stinson and two Democrat campaign workers .
Stinson admitted to unlocking voting machines and opening absentee ballots , but claimed he never actually looked at them .
A judge took mere minutes to acquit him .
How could anyone possibly believe that there ’ s anything rotten in Philly ?
Multiple trials , indictments , and judicial rulings , decade after decade , don ’ t prove a damn thing .
Except that there ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election in Philly .
Some Democrat municipalities at least take pains not to look crooked .
That ’ s not the sort of thing they go for in Philly .
That ’ s why you can see that photo of Beloff and Myers in the Public Record , whose motto is , “ The Good Things We Do Must Be Made a Part of the Public Record.
” There ’ s a third man in the photo next to Beloff , who had been convicted of voter fraud , and Ozzie Myers , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for election fraud , and that man is Bob Brady .
Bob Brady is the Chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic Party .
Brady is famous for two things , winning every election with over 80 % of the vote , and stealing the Pope ’ s cup .
“ Like I ’ m not gon na take that cup ?
” he replied .
After spending 20 years as a House Democrat , including as a ranking member of the Committee on House Administration and on the Subcommittee on Elections , he stepped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 90,000 payment made by his campaign to get his opponent to drop out by disguising it as a payment for a poll .
Two of Brady ’ s aides were sent to jail in the case , but neither of the politicians were .
After getting out of prison , Ken Smukler , one of those aides , was back working together with Brady and other Democrat leaders on the fight to help Biden win Pennsylvania .
The Biden campaign denied knowing him .

In October, someone got away with a laptop and USB drives full of encrypted data at the warehouse where Philadelphia’s voting machines are stored.
Philadelphia city officials swiftly assured voters that there was nothing to worry about because all the data was encrypted. Meanwhile, a local reporter was able to enter the warehouse and stroll around the voting machines without anyone in the warehouse stopping him. Others had noted that accessing the USB slot for the voting machines was surprisingly easy.
But there were bigger problems at the warehouse than that. The serial numbers on the voting machines didn’t match election records. In a familiar story, officials blamed clerical errors.
And there were a whole lot of errors.
The new voting machines had been incorrectly recording votes. In a previous election, Northampton County voters who voted Republican suffered a “weird technical glitch” in which votes cast for Republicans instead went to the “instructional text box”. The manufacturer blamed the problem on “human error” and claimed that it only affected some 30% of machines.
Northampton County, one of the bellwether counties, was said to have flipped for Biden. The margins in some key precincts were between “a handful to hundreds of votes.”
There were problems with 366 of the same model of voting machines in Philly.
According to the manufacturer, voting machines only accept “certified and approved USB flash drives containing encrypted data”, which had apparently been stolen before Election Day.
The same month that the laptop and USB drives were stolen, elsewhere in the state, an elections judge in Allentown was charged with, “insertion and alteration of entries in documents, and prying into ballots”.
The judge, the Reverend Everett E. Bickford, or Erika, who now wears flowers in his hair and heavy makeup, along with a clerical collar, was hauled into court, but went on working as an election judge. Officials promised to watch him closely on Nov 3.
The current numbers claim that Biden beat Trump in the Reverend’s 3rd Ward by 522 to 173.
The media amplified stories about election fraud in Pennsylvania largely when it affected Democrat primaries. That same media is vocally denying that there could be any fraud now.
Why would anyone think there could be any fraud in the nation’s election fraud capital?
In ’86, Councilman Lee Beloff, the son of a judge, was charged alongside his legislative aide, and mob boss “Little Nicky” Scarfo, with extorting $1 million and an apartment for his mistress.
Less glamorously, Beloff was also indicted, along with his wife and two Democratic committee members for ” conspiracy, voting more than once and giving false information on voter registrations to elderly people living in a nursing home.”
Beloff had previously received a gubernatorial pardon for interfering with a poll watcher so he could run for public office.
After serving 6 years of his 10 year sentence, Beloff got out and became a Democrat ward chairman.
“We stay loyal to our people,” a local Democratic ward leader said.
A photo last year from the Philly Public Record shows a meeting of the “combined 39th Ward Democratic organizations”.
One of the photos is titled, “A South Philly Classic” and features Lee Beloff and Ozzie Myers.
Ozzie Meyers, a former Democrat Congressman who had been convicted of bribery and conspiracy, and spent three years in prison in the Abscam scandal, was indicted again this year for “conspiring to violate voting rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for specific candidates in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections, bribery of an election official, falsification of records, voting more than once in federal elections.”
Domenick J. Demuro, an election judge in the 39th Ward, pled guilty to having “accepted bribes in the form of money and other things of value in exchange for adding ballots to increase the vote totals for certain candidates on the voting machines in his jurisdiction and for certifying tallies of all the ballots, including the fraudulent ballots.”
Why wouldn’t you trust these guys?
As Judge Scirica noted in his ruling, voter fraud, “including the practice of voting dead or non-resident citizens, is no stranger to Pennsylvania, especially to the City of Philadelphia.”
“Hispanics would sign anything,” Democrat campaign workers joked in the case that would lead to the state’s biggest absentee ballot fraud case. So of course it came out of Philly in the 90s.
William Stinson, an assistant Deputy Mayor to Mayor Ed Rendell, was running for a State Senate seat with Democrat control of the Senate at stake. A poll showed him 4% behind his Republican opponent and he allegedly ordered campaign workers to get black and Latino voters to sign absentee ballots.
Campaign workers were given a buck for every ballot, which they “helped” voters fill in.
Not satisfied to settle for actual voters, evidence was heard in court that workers had filled in the names of dead people and prison inmates.
When the votes were counted, Stinson had won a staggering 80% of the absentee ballots. The Republicans smelled a rat and The Philadelphia Inquirer interviewed voters and found 220 irregularities and 24 instances where documents were forged. Mostly minority voters were told to check boxes, vote on behalf of family members, and misled into voting for the wrong man.
In one investigation of the 37th Ward, only 15% of the absentee ballots had been legally cast.
“There were probably mistakes made by workers not understanding the rules of absentee ballots,” Rick Bloomingdale, the executive director of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party and future AFL-CIO boss, argued. “It was all intended to increase voter participation.”
A federal judge removed Stinson and replaced him with his Republican opponent, who had been winning before the absentee ballots arrived, accusing the Democrat candidate and the Philadelphia County Board of Elections of a “massive scheme”
A state investigation led to charges against Stinson and two Democrat campaign workers. Stinson admitted to unlocking voting machines and opening absentee ballots, but claimed he never actually looked at them.
A judge took mere minutes to acquit him.
How could anyone possibly believe that there’s anything rotten in Philly? Multiple trials, indictments, and judicial rulings, decade after decade, don’t prove a damn thing.
Except that there’s no such thing as an honest election in Philly.
Some Democrat municipalities at least take pains not to look crooked. That’s not the sort of thing they go for in Philly. That’s why you can see that photo of Beloff and Myers in the Public Record, whose motto is, “The Good Things We Do Must Be Made a Part of the Public Record.”
There’s a third man in the photo next to Beloff, who had been convicted of voter fraud, and Ozzie Myers, who would go on to be indicted for election fraud, and that man is Bob Brady.
Bob Brady is the Chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic Party.
Brady is famous for two things, winning every election with over 80% of the vote, and stealing the Pope’s cup.
“Like I’m not gonna take that cup?” he replied.
After spending 20 years as a House Democrat, including as a ranking member of the Committee on House Administration and on the Subcommittee on Elections, he stepped down after an FBI investigation into a $90,000 payment made by his campaign to get his opponent to drop out by disguising it as a payment for a poll.
Two of Brady’s aides were sent to jail in the case, but neither of the politicians were. After getting out of prison, Ken Smukler, one of those aides, was back working together with Brady and other Democrat leaders on the fight to help Biden win Pennsylvania.
The Biden campaign denied knowing him.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield