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Denver coroner raises concern on deaths among COVID cases

Danielle Chavira
4 CBS Denver
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:51 UTC
medical staff
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The Grand County coroner is calling attention to the way the state health department is classifying some deaths. The coroner, Brenda Bock, says two of their five deaths related to COVID-19 were people who died of gunshot wounds.

Bock says because they tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 30 days, they were classified as "deaths among cases."

"It's absurd that they would even put that on there," she said. "Would you want to go to a county that has really high death numbers? Would you want to go visit that county because they are contagious. You know I might get it, and I could die if all of a sudden one county has a high death count. We don't have it, and we don't need those numbers inflated."
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Arrow Down

Expect the most evictions in history as ban expires

Mike Shedlock
Mish Talk
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 20:34 UTC
evictions
The federal ban on evictions expires in January. For millions that's when huge problems start.

Prepare for a Wave of Evictions in January as Federal Ban Expires.
Millions of U.S. renters face the prospect of eviction in January unless federal officials extend protections put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic.

That month is when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ban on evictions is set to expire. The moratorium protects tenants who have missed monthly rent payments from being thrown out of their homes if they declare financial hardship. The CDC ordered the halt on evictions under the Public Health Service Act, which allows the federal government to enact regulations that help stop the spread of infectious diseases.

Between 2.4 million and 5 million American households are at risk of eviction in January alone, and millions more will be vulnerable in the months after, according to estimates from the investment bank and financial-advisory firm Stout Risius Ross.

Landlords have already filed more than 150,000 eviction petitions during the pandemic in the 27 cities tracked by Princeton University's Eviction Lab. Many of those tenants have lost their cases, and are now on the hook for all their back rent.
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Folder

Arizona lawmakers subpoena audits of ballots, Dominion voting machines; Michigan subpoenas election evidence

Mimi Nguyen Ly
The Epoch Times
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:15 UTC
Maricopa ballots
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Ballots are counted by Maricopa County Elections Department staff in Phoenix, Ariz., on Oct. 31, 2020.
The Arizona state Senate on Monday announced two subpoenas in the state's most populous county to audit scanned ballots, voting machines, and software.

Arizona state Senate President Karen Fann announced that state Sen. Eddie Farnsworth, a Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, served the subpoenas under her direction to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.

"One subpoena calls for a scanned ballot audit, to collect an electronic ballot image cast for all mail-in ballots counted in the November 2020 general election in Maricopa County, Arizona. The second subpoena calls for a full forensic audit of ballot tabulation equipment, the software for that equipment and the election management system used in the 2020 general election," Fann, a Republican, announced in a statement.

She added that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors were served the subpoenas on Tuesday afternoon. The subpoenas request that the information be delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman on or before 5 p.m. on Dec. 18, 2020.

"I appreciate Board Chairman Clint Hickman's commitment to the integrity of the Arizona election process, and I know he shares all of our concerns," Fann added.

Comment: Similar news out of Michigan:
Michigan's legislation bodies on Dec. 15 granted the state's Senate and House Oversight Committees power to issue subpoenas to Detroit and the Livonia suburb that would allow officials to further investigate allegations of voter fraud in the Nov. 3 election.
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The measure passed by the House and Senate, with one Senate Democrat reportedly crossing party lines in backing the subpoenas, which would require Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey and Livonia Clerk Susan Nash to produce documents about how they ran their elections, with a deadline of 5 p.m. Jan. 12.

According to subpoenas obtained by The Epoch Times, the clerks will have to surrender hard drives, emails, absentee voter counting board laptops, and other election-related material.


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Footprints

Fleeing New Yorkers resulted in an estimated $34 billion in lost income -study reveals

Jonnelle Marte
Reuters
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 08:40 UTC
New York City
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Millions of people have moved out of New York City during the pandemic, but at the same time, millions of others with lower incomes have taken their place, according to a study released on Tuesday.

All told, a net 70,000 people left the metropolitan region this year, resulting in roughly $34 billion in lost income, according to estimates from Unacast here, a location analytics company.

About 3.57 million people left New York City this year between Jan. 1 and Dec. 7, according to Unacast, which analyzed anonymized cell phone location data. Some 3.5 million people earning lower average incomes moved into the city during that same period, the report showed.

"The exodus isn't as big as people have been talking about," said Thomas Walle, chief executive and co-founder of Unacast. "Maybe the greater impact is how the population is changing and how the demographics are changing."

Comment: New Yorkers can thank Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio for their ego-supporting edicts that made life in NYC fundamentally intolerable while tanking its economy.

See also:

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Briefcase

Michigan legislature committees subpoena election evidence from Detroit and Livonia, a nearby suburb

Carrie Sheffield
Just the News
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:53 UTC
Cases of ballots
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Uncounted ballots in Michigan
Concerned about possible election evidence being destroyed, members of a joint session of the Michigan Legislature's House and Senate oversight committees on Tuesday voted to issue subpoenas to Detroit and the nearby suburb of Livonia demanding they surrender hard drives, emails, absentee voter counting board laptops and other election-related materials. One Senate Democrat reportedly joined his Republican colleagues in supporting the subpoenas.

A Nov. 28 order memo from the State Bureau of Elections had followed the same protocol as prior elections and ordered the deletion by November 30 of
"E-Pollbook laptops and flash drives ... unless a petition for recount has been filed and the recount has not been completed, a post-election audit is planned but has not yet been completed, or the deletion of the data has been stayed by an order of the court or the Secretary of State."
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California tourist town refuses to comply with lockdown order

Julia Musto
Fox Business
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Solvang, CA
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Solvang, California - a "Danish-theme" town where tourism is its livelihood.
A popular California tourist destination is saying thanks, but no thanks to the state's recent stay-at-home order as coronavirus cases continue to surge. The almost 6,000-person city defied Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's orders, which took effect on Tuesday and extend through Jan. 4.

The restrictions mandate that in-person dining cease... as well as bars, museums, family entertainment centers, and personal care services also close up shop.

Last week, Solvang's one-term Mayor Ryan Toussaint filed an emergency motion in a city council meeting that the town would not follow the lockdown order. The motion passed unanimously 5-0. In a December 7 letter to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, Touissant previously wrote that business owners and residents had expressed "significant concerns" about shutdowns to the council.
"The community of Solvang has done a great job at being mindful, safe and responsible while keeping our local economy going during these challenging times. The current order by the State is ill-conceived, unnecessary and quite frankly negligent when it comes to protecting our community in a safe, balanced and sane manner."
Two days later, Touissant penned a letter to the city calling Newsom's actions "nothing short of disastrous."
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Stock Up

Fraud analyst finds average of 2 to 3 percent shift for Biden in counties that used Dominion

Petr Svab
The Epoch Times
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:47 UTC
County election worker
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A Clark County election worker checks a voting machine among others that are boxed up at the Clark County Election Department in Las Vegas, Nev., on Nov. 6.
A man who's made a living developing fraud detection algorithms has discovered a curious phenomenon: Counties that started using Dominion Voting Systems machines have on average moved by 2 to 3 points to the Democrat presidential candidate from the Republican compared to counties that didn't adopt the machines.

The difference persisted even after he controlled for a number of factors, including county population and various demographic characteristics.

"I recommend we audit the machines," he concluded.

The man is Ben Turner, who used to be the chief actuary at Texas Mutual Workers' Compensation Insurance. He now runs Fraud Spotters, a consultancy specializing in detecting insurance fraud.

The Epoch Times replicated his initial analysis using the same data he used and arrived at the same results.

Turner told The Epoch Times that he's not making any specific allegation against Dominion; he's simply reporting what he found.

Dominion didn't immediately respond to a request by The Epoch Times for comment. The company has for years been criticized over alleged vulnerabilities in its system. It has previously denied that its machines can be used to switch votes from one candidate to another.

Turner reached his conclusion despite being initially incredulous about claims that the Dominion machines affected the election outcome.

Comment: Dominion's CEO testified yesterday to the Michigan state legislature, and lied his face off.



Carone responded:


She gave Patrick Colbeck permission to release the hour-long recording of her training session with Dominion, which directly contradicts Poulos's testimony.


Key Takeaways:
  • Tech support provided instructions on connecting equipment to internet
  • Vote tally reporting methods varied based upon municipality equipment profile
  • Detroit equipment featured 684 modems, "Listener Module" which features a dedicated server with encrypted TCP/IP protocol (internet connectivity). Both tabulators and "Results Transfer Manager" communicate with the ImageCast Listener Server
  • "Warehouse" with election equipment referenced multiple times was staffed with Texas-based personnel (other employees referred to it as the "Chicago Warehouse"...in Detroit)
  • "Rovers" would provide hardware swaps (ICP) but were encouraged to do so discretely so as to avoid any "bad perception"



He also wrote a WSJ article debunking "fake claims" about Dominion. He lied there too.

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Black Cat

So Stalin: Whitmer has Michigan Republican electors blocked from entering capitol for vote

Kyle Olson
Breitbart
Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:25 UTC
Michigan republican blocked electoral college
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MI State Police blocked GOP electors from getting inside the capitol building where electors were meeting to vote on December 14, 2020
Michigan Republican electors were blocked from entering the state capitol by state police and prevented from casting alternative ballots for president.

State Rep. Daire Rendon (R) told Breitbart News she attempted to escort the Republican electors into the building, but they were prevented entry by a State Police trooper, who is at the direction of the governor.

Comment: And yet Mid-Michigan NOW reports:
Mid-Michigan NOW reporter Rachel Louise Just has learned that the Michigan State Police did not recommend the closure of legislative offices ahead of the Electoral College meeting and they were not aware of "any credible threats of violence related to Michigan," a contrast to what we've heard from lawmakers.


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Yellow Vest

'Stop lockdown!': Thousands protest in Kiev, 40 police officers suffer chemical burns during clashes


RT
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:00 UTC
ukraine lockdown protest
© REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
A large rally against coronavirus restrictions, organized by Ukrainian entrepreneurs and small businessmen in the country's capital Kiev, grew out of control on Tuesday, with clashes erupting between police and protesters.

The action, named 'Stop lockdown!' by its organizers, started outside the country's parliament building and drew thousands of attendees. The crowd briefly chanted slogans outside the office of President Volodymyr Zelensky, before moving to Kiev's traditional protest spot, the Maidan, or Independence Square.

According to local media, clashes began at the Maidan after police tried to prevent the demonstrators from erecting tents on the square.

Comment: In what appears to be a suspiciously coordinated move, numerous countries throughout Europe have recently introduced much harsher lockdown restrictions: Except for Switzerland: Switzerland defies EU pressure to lockdown, ski resorts stay open much to the chagrin of neighbors

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Eye 1

City of spies? Moscow's City Hall creates app for snitching on lockdown rule-breakers


RT
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:45 UTC
masks Moscow
© Sputnik / Sergey Guneev
Passengers wearing protective face masks ride an escalator at the Moscow Underground, in Moscow, Russia.
Citizens, stay vigilant! Moscow residents will soon be asked to do their duty by reporting scruffy subway stations, poorly parked bicycles and coronavirus-defying crowds through a new super-snooping mobile app.

The capital's City Hall announced on Wednesday that it will splash more than 75 million roubles ($1 million) on the new downloadable software, named 'Moscow Assistant'. It will enable users to upload pictures of civic misdeeds, like dodgy car parking, and beam them straight to the authorities for a speedy resolution. It will also be an outlet for Muscovites with an axe to grind about the state of public infrastructure, allowing them to report broken bicycle parking and problems with transport services.


Comment: Note how they've combined the act of snitching on fellow citizens with appeals for improving public services and infrastructure. One can guess which issues will get the most attention from the authorities...


The new project will also play a role in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, offering the ability to report crowds and public gatherings, many of which are currently prohibited under emergency laws. According to the Kommersant newspaper, authorities will be able to "patrol parks and squares, transmitting signals to the City Hall about crowd sizes. A Dark Red command will mean that there are too many people in the park, and it needs to be closed, while a Green code will signal the opening of the path."

Comment: One would hope that Russians will be more wary of this slide towards totalitarianism than most other nations:

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