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QUICK FACTS:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued an emergency authorization to use Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 through 11, just days after an advisory panel recommended it, reportsThe Epoch Times.
Emergency uses of the vaccine have not been approved or licensed by US FDA but have been authorized to prevent COVID-19 in ages 5+. See EUA Fact Sheets: https://t.co/z4TiGgVpgY & https://t.co/fBvr0S4yHx
The advising committee had recommended that regulators authorize Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds, The New York Times notes.
An expert committee advising the FDA on Tuesday recommended that regulators authorize Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds, bringing about 28 million children a major step closer to becoming eligible for shots https://t.co/Bz4WiRasgT
The recommendation and subsequent authorization come despite the fact that “COVID is not a huge threat to children,” as explained by Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and biostatistician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “I don’t think children should be vaccinated for COVID,” Dr. Kulldorff stated, “There is absolutely no scientific or medical justification for vaccinating children, in my opinion.”
“I’m a huge fan of vaccinating children for measles, for mumps,” the professor said. “But COVID is not a huge threat to children.”
The FDA authorization also comes despite the fact that “zero” children have died from Covid-19 without also having a pre-existing medical condition, according to Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. @MartyMakary’s team worked w/ the nonprofit FAIR Health to analyze ~ 48,000 children under 18 diagnosed w/COVID in health-insurance data from April-August 2020. They “found a mortality rate of 0 among children w/out a pre-existing medical condition.”https://t.co/fYXyxIsTS6
Moreover, the safety of the experimental Covid-19 vaccine among children is unknown until children begin receiving the jab, since to date there have been no long-term studies analyzing the drug’s effect on children. “We’re never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it [to children],” Dr. Eric Ruben of the FDA advisory committee admitted. “That’s just the way it goes.”
MORE – Dr. Ruben on the FDA panel: "We're never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it. That's the way it goes."pic.twitter.com/vMLFkObAKn
Nevertheless, FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS continue to publish content promoting the vaccination of American children.
But FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS are owned respectively by News Corp, AT&T, Disney, Comcast, and Viacom, which in turn are all owned by the same shareholders: The Vanguard Group, State Street Corp., and BlackRock Inc. (here, here, here, here, here).
One video compilation illustrating the financial connection between mainstream news networks and Pfizer recently went viral online and was even commented on by former Texas congressman Ron Paul. See the compilation below.
Such a relationship between mainstream media and vaccine manufacturers represents a conflict of interest, namely in that Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock increase profits among their pharmaceutical assets by advertising those pharmaceuticals through their media assets.
This relationship could also explain mainstream media’s lack of journalistic criticism and investigation into the negative aspects of child vaccination.
BACKGROUND:
Mainstream media pushes for vaccinating children while one yearlong study following over 600 individuals showed that vaccinated people still spread the Delta variant, Bloomberg recently reported. “People inoculated against Covid-19 are just as likely to spread the delta variant of the virus to contacts in their household as those who haven’t had shots,” Bloomberg notes of the U.K. study published in The Lancet.
Meanwhile, Dr. Brian Dressen—a chemist with an extensive background in researching and assessing the degree of efficacy in new technologies—told the FDA that Pfizer’s vaccine had “failed any reasonable risk-benefit calculus in connection with children.”
“Your decision is being rushed, based on incomplete data from underpowered trials, insufficient to predict rates of severe and long-lasting adverse reactions,” said Dr. Dressen. “I urge the committee to reject the EUA [Emergency Use Authorization] modification and direct Pfizer to perform trials that will decisively demonstrate that the benefits outweigh the risks for children.”
“Injured support groups are growing. Memberships number into at least the tens of thousands. We must do better. Those injured in a trial are a critical piece of vaccine safety data. They are being tossed aside and forgotten. The FDA has known first-hand about her case and thousands of others. The FDA has also stated that their own systems are not identifying this issue and that VAERS is not designed to identify any multi-symptom signals. The system is broken,” Dressen went on to say.
“Until we appropriately care for those already injured, acknowledge the full scope of injuries that are happening to adults, please do not give this to kids. You have a very clear responsibility to appropriately assess the risks and benefits to these vaccines. It is obvious that isn’t happening.”
“The suffering of thousands continues to repeatedly fall on deaf ears at the FDA. Each of you hold a significant responsibility today and know that without a doubt, when you approve this for the 5 to 11-year-old’s, you are signing innocent kids and uninformed parents to a fate that will undoubtedly rob some of them of their life.”
As of October 15, 2021, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports 818,042 Covid-19 vaccine adverse events in total, including 17,128 deaths. However, because a 2010 Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) report conducted by Harvard doctors concluded that only “1% of vaccine adverse events are reported” to VAERS in the first place, a more accurate number of people who have been killed by Covid-19 vaccines is 1,712,800. A more accurate number of people who have been injured by Covid-19 vaccines is 81,804,200.
Abortions dropped by about 50 percent in Texas in September after a new law prohibiting most abortionswent into effect, according to a new study.
The drop was ascertained (pdf) by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project. The group compared the number of abortions performed at Texas clinics this September (2,164) to the amount in September 2020 (4,313).
Researchers were able to gather statistics on abortions performed at 19 of the 24 Texas abortion facilities. Those facilities perform approximately 93 percent of all abortions in the state.
The law, which went into effect on Sept. 1, bars physicians from performing an abortion without first testing for a fetal heartbeat. If the heartbeat is detected, an abortion can only be done if the doctor determines a medical emergency exists.
The drop in abortions shows the law is working, Kimberlyn Schwartz, director of media and communication for the pro-life Texas Right to Life group, told The Epoch Times in an email.
“We’re encouraged by these findings! The Texas Heartbeat Act saves lives every day. The pro-life movement has spent decades serving pregnant women in difficult circumstances, and we are blessed to be able to walk with these women through their journeys,” she said.
The bill’s main sponsor, state Sen. Bryan Hughes, did not return a voicemail.
The Department of Justice is challenging the law and the Supreme Court is set to hear the case in November.
Data indicate that some Texas women are traveling to nearby states to get an abortion since the law took effect. Wait times at facilities in neighboring states like New Mexico have soared in recent weeks, researchers said. Longer wait times could make it more difficult for women to get abortions, as does spending time going to other states.
The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute estimated that the average one-way driving distance to an abortion clinic increased over 14 times, to 247 miles, with the passage of the law.
“For the vast majority of Texas women of reproductive age, their next nearest abortion clinic would be in states that also have policies hostile to abortion (Louisiana for 70 percent of them and Oklahoma for 23 percent ), where patients already struggle to receive care and are subjected to those states’ punitive and burdensome restrictions,” institute researchers said in a recent blog post.
“Due to the many barriers to abortion care in Oklahoma and Louisiana—including a two-visit requirement in Louisiana and the fact that each state has very limited capacity to absorb an influx of new patients—some people traveling from Texas likely would need to go even farther than one state away for care,” they added.
Joe Biden on Friday met with Pope Francis at the Vatican.
This is Biden’s fourth time meeting with Pope Francis, but his first time meeting him as president.
The Vatican abruptly canceled a live broadcast of Biden’s meeting with the Pontiff so they met in private for 75 minutes.
Joe Biden emerged from his unusually long meeting with the Pope and answered a few questions from reporters.
One reporter asked Joe Biden whether the issue of abortion came up during his meeting.
“No, it didn’t … We just talked about the fact he was happy I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving communion,” Biden said.
VIDEO:
President Biden on whether the issue of abortion came up during his meeting with Pope Francis: "No, it didn't … We just talked about the fact he was happy I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving communion."https://t.co/opHdwuWcbjpic.twitter.com/8XWTGXv3ah
Brian Dressen, Ph.D., who is a chemist with an extensive background in researching and assessing the degree of efficacy in new technologies, told the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Pfizer’s vaccine “failed any reasonable risk-benefit calculus in connection with children.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) advisory committee on Tuesday endorsed Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, despite strong objections raised during the meeting by multiple scientists and physicians.
Brian Dressen, Ph.D., is one of the scientists who testified during the 8-hour hearing.
Dressen is also the husband of Brianne Dressen, who developed a severe neurological injury during the Utah-based portion of the U.S. AstraZeneca COVID vaccine trial in 2020. After being injured by the first dose, Brianne withdrew from the trial.
During his 3-minute testimony, Dressen, a chemist with an extensive background in researching and assessing the degree of efficacy in new technologies, told the FDA advisory panel Pfizer’s vaccine “failed any reasonable risk-benefit calculus in connection with children.”
Dressen said:
“Your decision is being rushed, based on incomplete data from underpowered trials, insufficient to predict rates of severe and long-lasting adverse reactions. I urge the committee to reject the EUA [Emergency Use Authorization] modification and direct Pfizer to perform trials that will decisively demonstrate that the benefits outweigh the risks for children. I understand firsthand the impact that you will or will not have with the decision you’re going to make today.”
Dressen told the FDA how his wife was severely injured last November by a single dose of a COVID vaccine administered during a clinical trial. He said:
“Because study protocol requires two doses, she was dropped from the trial, and her access to the study app deleted. Her reaction is not described in the recently released clinical trial report — 266 participants are described as having an adverse event leading to discontinuation, with 56 neurological reactions tallied.”
He said he and his wife have since met participants from other vaccination trials — including Pfizer’s trial for 12- to 15-year-olds — who suffered similar reactions and fate.
Dressen said:
“Injured support groups are growing. Memberships number into at least the tens of thousands. We must do better. Those injured in a trial are a critical piece of vaccine safety data. They are being tossed aside and forgotten. The FDA has known first-hand about her case and thousands of others. The FDA has also stated that their own systems are not identifying this issue and that VAERS is not designed to identify any multi-symptom signals. The system is broken.”
Dressen said his family’s lives have changed forever. “The clinical trials are not appropriately evaluating the data,” he said. “The FDA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the drug companies continue to deflect the persistent and repeated cries for help and acknowledgment, leaving the injured as collateral damage.”
He added:
“Until we appropriately care for those already injured, acknowledge the full scope of injuries that are happening to adults, please do not give this to kids. You have a very clear responsibility to appropriately assess the risks and benefits to these vaccines. It is obvious that isn’t happening.
“The suffering of thousands continues to repeatedly fall on deaf ears at the FDA. Each of you hold a significant responsibility today and know that without a doubt, when you approve this for the 5-11-year old’s, you are signing innocent kids and uninformed parents to a fate that will undoubtedly rob some of them of their life.”
In an interview with 2News on Tuesday, Brianne said her kids will not receive a COVID-19 vaccine if approved. “I will react to the vaccine regardless of the brand, and so if my kids have this same genetic makeup, there is the high potential now that the same thing could happen to them,” she said.
Since his wife’s injury — diagnosed by doctors at the National Institutes of Health — the Dressens have met with other trial participants and families with children who also believe they were injured by the COVID vaccines. They formed a support group and website called, C19 Vax Reactions, to share their stories of vaccine injuries.
On June 26, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) held a news conference to discuss adverse reactions related to the COVID vaccines — giving individuals, including Brianne, who have been “repeatedly ignored” by the medical community a platform to share their stories.
According to KUTV, the group continues to push the FDA and CDC for answers and help. Largely ignored, they reached out to Utah Senator Mike Lee, who wrote a letter to the CDC and FDA on their behalf.
Strong consumer demand and supply shortages test economy with rapid uptick in inflation
Consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in 30 years in September while workers saw their biggest compensation boosts in at least 20 years, according to new government data released Friday.
Consumer spending also rose in September despite the expiration of enhanced unemployment benefits, the data showed.
Persistently high inflation could offset the increase in wages and make households worse off
It could also force the central bank to raise interest rates to keep prices in check. Such a move also risks slowing the economic recovery when the unemployment rate remains higher than it was before the pandemic.
Officials say they expect the recent burst of inflation will be temporary, but they have also raised the possibility they could pull back support for the economy more rapidly than anticipated.
“This is a really rough ride for the next few months,” said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the personal-consumption-expenditures price index, rose 4.4% in September from the previous year, the fastest pace since 1991, the Commerce Department said Friday. The index was up 0.3% in September from the previous month.
Excluding food and energy categories, which tend to be more volatile, the index rose 0.2% over the month and 3.6% over the year.
The employment-cost index, a measure of worker compensation that includes both wages and benefits, rose 1.3% in the third quarter from the second, the fastest pace since at least 2001, the Labor Department reported.
Workers in the leisure, hospitality and retail sectors saw particularly high compensation boosts, as employers struggled to fill open positions.
An index of consumer sentiment also released Friday by the University of Michigan showed Americans remain in a glum mood. The index fell to 71.7 in October from 72.8 in September. It remains well below the level of 101 registered in February 2020, before the pandemic hit.
Consumers in October also anticipated the highest year-ahead inflation rate since 2008 at 4.8%, according to the sentiment survey. Higher consumer inflation expectations are a concern for policy makers because they could prompt firms and workers to raise prices and salary demands in the future, making the expectations self-fulfilling.
Constrained global supply chains have made it difficult for businesses and consumers to find the products they want to buy. Continued fears of the Covid-19 virus and difficulty finding child care have kept workers out of the labor force, despite rapidly rising wages.
About 62% of American adults are either working or looking for work, the lowest rate since the 1970s.
Those factors have combined to push inflation well above the Fed’s 2% target. Economists say they expect inflation to remain elevated until the pandemic-related disruptions settle down, perhaps sometime next year.
“This is a really rough ride for the next few months,” said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.Each passing month of rapidly rising consumer prices puts added pressure on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, he said.
“It lays out the possibility that the Fed has to move earlier, not because they’re walking away from their central view but because the risks of being wrong have gone up,” he said.
The central bank is expected to announce next week that it will begin paring back its asset purchases in November. Officials have penciled in an interest-rate increase next year once that tapering is complete.
“The Fed now has to navigate that very difficult transition from accommodation to tightening,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM US LLC.
The biggest concern right now, he said, is the persistent supply problems, which could keep prices elevated.
In Madison, Wis., Benjamin Wellington has seen his appliance-repair business suffer from a shortage of parts. Those parts that are available cost more, he said. He passes on what he can to his customers.
Although he is getting more calls from customers, the shortages have prevented him from taking on as much work as he would like.
“My profits are way down because I’m not getting those completed jobs anymore,” he said.
Consumer spending rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.6% in September, down from 0.8% in August, the Commerce Department said, as higher prices, product shortages and a surge of new Covid-19 cases caused by the Delta variant tempered buying.
Personal incomes fell 1% last month, driven by a 72% decline in unemployment insurance benefits that offset a 0.7% increase in wages and benefits, the report said.
The expiration of enhanced jobless aid at the start of September forced people to rely on the savings they had built up thanks to multiple waves of government stimulus during the pandemic. The savings rate—the share of disposable income unspent every month—fell to 7.5% in September from 9.2% in August, bringing it to a level last seen at the end of 2019, before the state of the pandemic.
Economists say the spending slowdown will be short-lived. The decline in new Covid-19 caseloads and rising wages should keep demand elevated heading into the holiday season.
“If Delta was a net negative for the third quarter and for September, then I think it should be a net positive for the fourth quarter,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “We should see some revival.”
In Raleigh, N.C., Paul Warren, a music teacher, has seen more students willing to take in-person guitar and drum lessons despite lingering fears of the virus.“The demand is picking up but it’s slow. Slow and steady,” he said.
Mr. Warren used to run a music school but shut it down when pandemic-related lockdowns kept students away. Since then, he has been teaching classes online and, increasingly, face to face.
Why do so many members of the FDA Panel that just approved the covid shot for young children seem to have ongoing ties to Pfizer? Is the panel’s objectivity compromised? Also today: Danish authorities threaten more lockdowns, Ireland’s most-jabbed are also most new cases, and Biden threatens vax refusers with “re-education.” Watch today’s Liberty Report:
A group of people photographed in front of a Glenn Youngkin bus holding tiki torches are alleged to be a part of a pro-McAuliffe hoax.
A group of people holding tiki torches were photographed at a Glenn Youngkin campaign event in Virginia. The situation has been alleged to be a “pathetic” pro-Terry McAuliffe hoax, as one of the supposed “white supremacists” is in fact, black.
A strange occurrence made waves across the internet today, as photographs circulated on Twitter featuring a group of individuals wearing Glenn Youngkin merchandise, holding tiki torches, and all wearing a white button up shirt, standing in front of a Glenn Youngkin bus during a campaign event in Virginia.
Leftists and media figures online were quick to draw the comparison to the attire brandished by the Unite The Right protesters in Charlottesville, who have been vilified by the left over the years due to their clash with leftist groups in 2017.
Wow. At a campaign stop for Glenn Youngkin this morning, people were holding tiki torches and chanting "we're all in for Glenn." Disgusting reference to the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville. pic.twitter.com/AfKcBt5DwK
However upon further examination, many people noticed something strange about the group. While initial reports had claimed that the group of “men” seemed to look like “white supremacists,” the photographs actually depict a black man and a white woman, leading many to believe that it is a pro-McAuliffe hoax attempting to tie the Youngkin campaign to white supremacy.
Further criticism of the group’s sincerity included questions as to why they would bother bringing tiki torches to the event because it was actually raining heavily outside.
The black man featured in the photos has been comically referred to the character once portrayed by comedian Dave Chappelle known as “Clayton Bigsby,” a prominent white supremacist who doesn’t know that he’s actually black because he is blind.
Did you ask Clayton Bigsby over here what he's doing at a Glenn Youngkin rally pic.twitter.com/KZlMQjPzU3
This comes as Youngkin’s poll numbers continue to climb the race for Governor of Virginia. According to reports, the Republican is leading McAuliffe by as high as 8 points.
Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers Lawrence W. Doyle and John F. Moynihan on 26 October revealed that they were interviewed by Special Counsel John Durham, who has been investigating the origins and handling of the Trump-Russia probe since 2019. Still, they provided no details about the reported conversation. What could they have discussed?
Doyle and Moynihan, independent expert forensic investigators, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in December 2018, alleging that the Clinton Foundation owes the US government between $400 million and $2.5 billion in taxes. According to them, the charity did not operate as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organisation but acted as nothing short of a foreign agent. The two Jesuit College alumni said that they had collected approximately 100 exhibits in excess of 6,000 pages to back their claims.
The two forensic investigators filed whistleblower submissions with the IRS over the charity’s suspected misdeeds as early as in August 2017. After their request was finally denied by the IRS in February 2019, they filed a lawsuit with the US Tax Court.
Following question was posed on separate thread: "Have you seen anything that would suggest that Durham has interviewed the Clinton Foundation whistleblowers?"
W/o going into details, answer is YES . . !!
Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers Doyle, Moynihan v IRS (US Tax Court)
It is not the first time that Special Counsel Durham has been reported allegedly looked into the Clinton Foundation. On 24 September, The New York Times broke the story that Durham sought information about the FBI’s Clinton Foundation inquiry within the framework of his “investigation into investigators.”
At that time, NYT suggested that the US attorney’s focus on the Clintons raises questions about the scope of the prosecutor’s review: “The approach is highly unusual, according to people briefed on the investigation,” the media outlet remarked.
In September, the special counsel indicted Michael Sussmann, a Perkins Coie lawyer with ties to the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign over an apparently false statement made to the FBI. According to the indictment, the lawyer provided the agency with research about “secret communications” between the Trump Organisation and Russia’s Alfa Bank, which was later debunked as not holding water. Sussmann misled the FBI by stating that he had not been acting on behalf of any client, while in reality he was working for and billing the Hillary Clinton campaign.
The unusual length of Durham’s indictment and accompanying documents prompted journalists and legal observers to suggest that the special counsel is building a far broader case. Some legal experts even went as far as to allege that the special counsel is “circling” current national security adviser and former Hillary Clinton aide Jake Sullivan.
Trump-Russia ‘Collusion’ & Hillary’s Emailgate
Durham’s apparent interest in the Clinton Foundation is adding to the assumption that he is digging deeper than it was previously imagined, believes Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist Charles Ortel.
Assuming that Durham was interviewing Doyle and Moynihan on the Clinton Foundation case, it appears unlikely that it was limited to the ongoing Trump-Alfa Bank episode, believes Ortel. Apparently, the special counsel is looking as to why Hillary Clinton and her team were vigorously peddling the Trump-Russia “collusion” hoax, according to him.
In the final months of Donald Trump presidency, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe provided Durham with at least a thousand documents and released a handwritten memo by then-CIA chief John Brennan which cited intercepted Russian intelligence. According to this information, Hillary Clinton was advised by her team members to vilify Donald Trump by linking him to the Kremlin in order to distract public opinion from her emailgate scandal.
From Emailgate to Clinton Foundation’s Alleged Fraud
However, it’s not just the emailgate scandal that was eating away at Hillary Clinton and her entourage at the time, but an alleged “pay-to-play” scheme, involving both domestic and foreign players, which supposedly prompted the then-secretary of state to use a private email server to keep the whole thing secret, the analyst presumes.
The Clinton Foundation supposedly played a central part in this scheme, according to Ortel, who has been conducting a private investigation into the Clintons’ charities over the past several years. He suggests that the foundation was used for influence trading, adding that apparently therefore the Clinton Foundation’s donations have dropped dramatically since the Clintons lost their political power.
“At this stage serious questions about the legal status, solicitation practices and financial reports of ‘The Clinton Foundation’ (all names used and all affiliates) have been publicly raised for decades,” Ortel says. “Though the public records demonstrate, beyond any reasonable doubt, that The William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation was not lawfully organised on 23 October 1997 or lawfully operated ever since, the FBI, Department of Justice and state and foreign regulators have given these charity frauds passes for nearly 25 years.”
What’s more, the same individuals who went after Donald Trump starting from 2016 – Robert Mueller, James Comey and Rod Rosenstein – had turned a blind eye to the Clinton Foundation’s alleged fraud for years, according to the investigative journalist.
Ortel believes that Doyle has summarised the type of information he and Moynihan have collected that should assist Durham and his team. According to him, the two Jesuit College alumni understand the intricacies of unprosecuted charity crimes intimately that so many in both parties likely wish to continue covering up.
“At this moment, America is trapped in partisan rancor believing we can always finance record government deficits and escalating debts because our currency remains less risky than others,” Ortel says. “One way to reframe the debate and to unify the nation is to enforce strict charity laws particularly as these apply to large, ineffectively-managed charities which claim the right to pursue foreign activities in the guise of philanthropy.”
Evidence grows of election mismanagement, illegal acts and some fraud in several states.
Cognitively impaired nursing home residents in Wisconsin and Michigan cynically exploited for votes. Election mismanagement in Atlanta. Unlawful election instructions in Wisconsin. And 50,000 questionable ballots in Arizona, plus several criminal cases for illegal ballot harvesting and inmate voting.
Eleven months after Donald Trump was ousted from office, the narrative that the 2020 election was clean and secure has frayed like a well-worn shoelace. The challenges of the COVID pandemic, the aggressive new tactics of voting activists and the desire of Democrats to make the collection and delivery of ballots by third parties legal in states where harvesting is expressly forbidden has muddied the establishment portrait and awakened the nation to the painful reality its election system — particularly in big urban areas — is far from perfection.
Nowhere has that story become more clear than the battleground state of Wisconsin, where a local sheriff on Thursday dramatically held a nationally televised news conference alleging he had found evidence of felony crimes involving ballots sent to nursing home residents.
Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said his investigators have secured evidence that eight out of 42 residents at a local nursing home had been recorded as casting absentee ballots that their families said was not possible because the residents didn’t possess the cognitive ability to vote.
The probe was prompted by one family who discovered their loved one had voted in the November 2020 election despite having died a month earlier after a long period of mental decline, authorities said.
Schmaling dramatically accused the Wisconsin Elections Commission, the state’s election bureaucracy, of creating the conditions for such voting by mailing absentee ballots to nursing home residents who didn’t request them and empowering nursing home staff to fill out ballots on behalf of the residents.
The “election statute was in fact not just broken, but shattered,” he said.
The nursing home scheme alleged by Schmaling was also found in neighboring Michigan, where Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel earlier this month announced three women were charged with voting fraud, including one who fraudulently filled out ballots in the names of nursing home residents without their permission.
But the nursing home case is far from the only concern that has rocked Wisconsin, where Joe Biden was certified the winner over Trump with a razor-thin margin of about 20,000 votes. The non-partisan Legislative Audit Bureau released a sweeping report last month that accused election officials of engaging in “inconsistent administration” of election laws, troublesome management of new drop boxes used to collect ballots during the pandemic, ineffective investigation of fraud complaints, and other problems.
While it did not offer evidence of systemic fraud, it flagged more than 30 problems as well as many more issues that lawmakers should resolve for future elections. You can read that report here:
The report prompted the GOP leader of the Wisconsin Senate to launch an investigation into the November election, augmenting a separate probe already authorized by the Wisconsin Assembly that is being led by former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman.
And those developments follow a ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court that concluded state election officials wrongly allowed tens of thousands of Wisconsin voters to skip voter ID requirements and file absentee ballots by declaring their concerns about COVID made them “indefinitely confined.” While the court ruled the advice was illegal, it noted there was no penalty and said it was up to voters to decide if they had an infirmity or disability that made them confined. Lawmakers are now looking to change the weaknesses in that law.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) the former chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which oversees elections, said the dizzying revelations coming from his own state were a clear sign that lawmakers have far more work ahead of them to improve election administration and ensure voters are treated more evenly.
Following the LAB report, what Sheriff Schmaling has uncovered + disclosed might only be tip of the iceberg of fraud in the 2020 election. The Legislature must be given the time, resources, and cooperation of election officials to conduct a complete investigation of allegations. https://t.co/GNLBNwSJ6n
“Following the LAB report, what Sheriff Schmaling has uncovered + disclosed might only be tip of the iceberg of fraud in the 2020 election,” Johnson tweeted. “The Legislature must be given the time, resources, and cooperation of election officials to conduct a complete investigation of allegations.”
Similarly, state officials in Georgia, where Trump lost by a slim margin, have found evidence that its major urban voting center of Fulton County had significant problems administering the November election, so much so that state officials have begun the process of taking the county’s election management into receivership, removing local control for the 2022 election and beyond.
That dramatic move came after Just the News unearthed a 29-page memo from a state observer that found officials in Futon County engaged in all sorts of misconduct and mistakes, including insecure transport of ballots, double scanning of ballots and possible invasions of voter privacy.
And earlier this month, two Fulton County workers were fired for allegedly shredding ballot applications in violation of state law. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger even asked the U.S. Justice Department to assist in the investigation.
And in nearby DeKalb County, Raffensperger has initiated a separate probe into whether ballots cast in “drop boxes” were properly handled and logged.
Meanwhile, the fallout from the Arizona Senate’s audit continues to be felt, as more than 50,000 ballots have been called into question and several matters referred to Attorney General Mark Brnovich for possible prosecution. Even before those referrals, Brnovich’s office has brought several criminal prosecutions, including prison inmates who illegally voted as well as some people accused of harvesting ballots from third parties.
The harvesting cases in Arizona as well as the nursing home cases in the Midwest are opening up a new line of inquiry thatcould drive the election integrity debate well into 2022. The emerging question: Is it possible that residents legally allowed to vote had their votes illegally gathered and delivered by third parties?
It’s a question several state officials told Just the News they have begun investigating, meaning the term “ballot harvesting” may become more familiar to Americans in the weeks and months ahead.
Meanwhile, the news media and state officials may have to grapple with a more difficulty reality: It doesn’t require widespread fraud for Americans to lose faith in the election system. Mismanagement, uneven application of the laws and plain old carelessness can sow deep distrust.
Earlier this week, Facebook announced that it would be changing its company name to “Meta.” The social media giant was quickly mocked online after it was pointed out that the new name sounds like the Hebrew word for “dead.”
Specifically, Meta is pronounced like the feminine form of the Hebrew word for “dead.”
Some even used the hashtag, “FacebookDead,” on Twitter.
In Hebrew, *Meta* means *Dead* The Jewish community will ridicule this name for years to come.
According to the BBC, “The emergency rescue volunteers Zaka even got involved, telling their followers on Twitter: ‘Don’t worry, we’re on it.’”
As the BBC noted, this isn’t the first time a company has faced ridicule over a rebranding choice.
In the 1980s, KFC’s “finger-lickin’ good” translated to Mandarin as “eat your fingers off.” Rolls-Royce had to change the name of its “Silver Mist” model, as “mist” translates to “excrement” in German. And Nokia’s “Lumia” phone is also a synonym for “prostitute” in Spanish.
“Announcing [Meta] — the Facebook company’s new name,” Facebook announced on Twitter. “Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we’ll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection.”
Announcing @Meta — the Facebook company’s new name. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we’ll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection. pic.twitter.com/ywSJPLsCoD
The name change was formally announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the company’s virtual reality and augmented reality conference, Facebook Connect.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about our identity as we begin this next chapter. Facebook is one of the most used products in the history of the world,” Zuckerberg said, according to CNN. “It is an iconic social media brand, but increasingly it just doesn’t encompass everything that we do.
“Today we’re seen as a social media company,” he added, “but in our DNA, we are a company that builds technology to connect people. And the metaverse is the next frontier just like social networking was when we got started.”
“I know that some people will say that this isn’t a time to focus on the future, and I want to acknowledge that there are important issues to work on in the present. There always will be,” Zuckerberg said. “So for many people, I’m just not sure there ever will be a good time to focus on the future. But I also know that there are a lot of you who feel the same way that I do.”
“We live for what we’re building,” Zuckerberg added. “And while we make mistakes, we keep learning and building and moving forward.”
“Your devices won’t be the focal point of your attention anymore,” he said. “We’re starting to see a lot of these technologies coming together in the next five or 10 years. A lot of this is going to be mainstream and a lot of us will be creating and inhabiting worlds that are just as detailed and convincing as this one, on a daily basis.”
In September, in a blog post titled, “Building the Metaverse Responsibly,” Facebook announced a “$50 million investment in global research and program partners to ensure these products are developed responsibly.”
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Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith and author of “An American Revival: Why American Christianity Is Failing & How to Fix It.”