It's all about whipping up the panic — one wonders why
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Hospital had been claiming all beds were filled with COVID patients. I assume the British authorities got tips from China on how to maintain public order and quash resistance
Cuomo: "You think Canada's got scum pols? Hold my beer."
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Where there’s a want, there’s a way. If you’re the Gov
Well, he did it. Ten days after saying that he wanted to attend a Buffalo Bills playoff game even though he’s shut down all public sports events, and the Bills haven’t been allowed to admit a single fan during the season, Granny Killer Cuomo has found a way: open up the stadium to a select 7,000, among them the gov and his pals.
“Yeah, it’s a drag having to share the place with some of the unwashed”, Cuomo told FWIW, “but I needed cover, and besides, we all have to make sacrifices in these troubled times”.
It's reassuring to know that they have scum politicians north of the border, matching our own
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O Canada!
Well, maybe not reassuring — just confirms that the entire political class, worldwide, is corrupt.
Ontario’s Finance Minister urges citizens to stay home while he’s vacationing on St. Barts. Dig the sweater, and the Ontario Legislative Building he uses as a fake Zoom background.
UPDATE: Mr. Phillips has cut short his vacation and returned to the icy north, where he will meet with his boss “to discuss his political future”. I imagine that will be a very brief conversation.
UPDATE II: It was.
Not too little, but almost certainly too late
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Tech expert to Georgia: show me the paper
The man who invented and patented the technology that lets you scan items at the grocery store, create an airport boarding pass, and generate authentication codes just blew the doors off the Georgia State Senate subcommittee hearing on elections.
Tech expert Jovan Hutton Pulitzer claimed that to the extent there were election issues in Georgia, they could be explained by simply looking at the paper ballots. And he claimed to prove in real time that the system was susceptible to manipulation via WiFi because his team had broken in and were in it at the time of the hearing.
Pulitzer basically threw down, telling a Georgia Senate subcommittee looking into voter fraud to show him the ballots, give him two hours, and he’d show them if there was election fraud in Fulton County.
I only care what that piece of paper tells us. The paper, the paper. Verify the vote, verify the vote.
[…] I can determine where ink comes from, where paper comes from, whether it was mailed, whether it was folded, the difference of a duplicated press” and a mass copier.
In the nearly hour-long presentation at a special hearing with the subcommittee (see it below), Pulitzer demonstrated the differences between the paper ballots in two different areas of Fulton County that he claims clearly differentiated between Democrat and Republican Party ballots.
A bar code was put on Republican ballots while none was put on Democrat ballots, he claimed. Furthermore, he said, the alignment cues used by a scanner to read the ballot were out of alignment on the Republican ballots but not on the Democrat ones.
If the machine worked according to programming none of us would be standing here. We’re standing here because something broke. I don’t care about the machine. I don’t even care about the code that was written into the machine. What I care about is that physical artifact. That physical artifact has material differences from district to district that should not be there. Why are they there? I’m not talking about code. That’s how this gets derailed.
He said he could tell immediately if a ballot was real or counterfeit.
You could look at every section of the ballot count even the spike and tell if that was a real or counterfeit ballot.
We will tell you instantly what came out of a mass copier versus what came out of a printer. Did a human fill this out? Did a machine fill this out? Was it mailed or was it not mailed? It can be compared against spoilage or adjudicated by number or, last but not least, we will tell you have we seen this number before. Did we see it keep popping back up?
You will see what gets run over and over and over and over again. That is the problem of why we must see – the physical ballot is the Holy Grail, the second one is the digital scan.
I’ve spent the last 24 years studying the way paper and machines and internet react. I’ve spent the last six years studying the paper reading details at the nano level. I can tell you what paper came from China. I can tell you the person who handled it was a smoker. All of it is detectable with the physical ballot.
“Look,” he told them, “this is simple.”
“I’m the guy that told the world that that little bar code can talk to the internet. Making the physical world talk to the internet world. This is as simple as scanning a loaf of bread at a grocery store. That’s your vote. You’re handing it to the checker or scanning it yourself that’s basically the polling machine.
“What is sad about this is we’re not even performing at standards expected at grocery stores. … if you complained, [the store] would have to audit it and make it right. But we don’t do this in elections?
But they’re playing hide and seek with the ballots? Why?
Red Flag laws coming
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Red flag laws coming to a state near you
To your state, more likely.
A red flag law is a gun control law that permits police or family members, or anyone, really, to petition a state court to order the confiscation of firearms from a person who may present a danger to others or themselves. Second Amendment advocates warned against them, claiming that the same denial of due process exercised against gun owners could, and would, be applied to other causes. That’s being borne out, only now, detention of individuals, not just guns, will be allowed and imposed by the governor or the local health department, with no prior judicial approval.
Here’s what’s pending in New York:
“2. UPON DETERMINING BY CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE THAT THE HEALTH
OF OTHERS IS OR MAY BE ENDANGERED BY A CASE, CONTACT OR CARRIER, OR
SUSPECTED CASE,CONTACT OR CARRIER OF A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE THAT, IN THE
OPINION OF THE GOVERNOR, AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER, MAY
POSE AN IMMINENT AND SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH RESULTING
IN SEVERE MORBIDITY OR HIGH MORTALITY, THE GOVERNOR OR HIS OR HER DELE-
GEE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE COMMISSIONER OR THE HEADS OF
LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS, MAY ORDER THE REMOVAL AND/OR DETENTION OF SUCH
A PERSON OR OF A GROUP OF SUCH PERSONS BY ISSUING A SINGLE ORDER, IDEN-
TIFYING SUCH PERSONS EITHER BY NAME OR BY A REASONABLY SPECIFIC
DESCRIPTION OF THE INDIVIDUALS OR GROUP BEING DETAINED. SUCH PERSON OR
GROUP OF PERSONS SHALL BE DETAINED IN A MEDICAL FACILITY OR OTHER APPRO-
PRIATE FACILITY OR PREMISES DESIGNATED BY THE GOVERNOR OR HIS OR HER
DELEGEE AND COMPLYING WITH SUBDIVISION FIVE OF THIS SECTION.”
Victory Girl summarizes:
Zero due process UNLESS the person being detained requests it
You will be ALLOWED to provide the state with contact information so family or friends can be notified…eventually
You can be detained only until you’ve been deemed non-contagious or after sixty days, whichever comes first
Those suspected of the disease will be released …eventually
Court hearings will be made available within three days of detention – even if detainee doesn’t have legal representation on board
The Governor (currently Cuomo) is the final determination regarding whether the court ruling is correct to allow release
Ordering entire populations to stay inside their homes and not come out until the state said they could was just a proof of concept exercise. We’re on to the next step.
Why our schools are hopeless
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After an uproar from the right, this National Teacher of the Year, the exemplar of the best our education system has to offer, figured out why he was being criticized for urging the beating of a 78-year-old man: Waaaysissm!
I made a Mitch McConnell joke today and the conservative bots are real [*] angry. It’s funny because the joke was made early today and no one said a thing until I promoted black medical awareness.
— Rodney Robinson (@RodRobinsonRVA) December 31, 2020
* (That should be “really”, not “real”, Mr. Teacher of the Year)
Mr. Robinson and his ilk are teaching this in our classrooms, everywhere, every day.
NYC residents are welcome to it
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Gang of 50 attack driver and his mother on 21st and 5th Avenue
Fifth Avenue!
The BMW driver whose ride was surrounded and trashed by a gang of bicyclists on Fifth Avenue was attacked in broad daylight while driving with his elderly mom — who screamed during their escape, “We’re going to die, they’re going to kill us!”
Max Torgovnick, 36, recounted the harrowing run-in to The Post one day after it unfolded around 4 p.m. Tuesday at 21st Street and Fifth Avenue.
“It’s something that I never expected to happen in New York City,” said Torgovnick, a lifelong city resident. “That’s something like you would see on the streets of a war zone. I never thought New York would get this bad.”
Torgovnick and his mom had just dropped off a donation to Housing Works — a nonprofit helping fight homelessness and the AIDS crisis — and were driving to his father’s neurology office when they encountered what he estimated to be about 50 teen bikers, Torgovnick said.
“I slowed down to let them go by, but then they started surrounding the car on either side, and one of the bikers did a wheelie and went into the back of my car,” said Torgovnick. “I stopped to make sure nobody was hurt.”
That’s when the group began pounding on the car with their fists, feet and even bikes, and trying to yank open the doors, while yelling, “Get out! Get out!,” according to Torgovnick and wild video of the incident.
Would the reaction had been different if she was wearing a Biden mask?
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To ask is to answer. This is about control of people, not disease.
When public health officials lie to us or just dispense bad information, who will listen?
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Scientists play a dangerous game when they tailor factual statements to promote policy goals
Fauci admits that he lied to the public about facemarks, herd immunity
An expert cannot distort the message to the public because too many in the public can directly interrogate the source material. In this case, that means: models estimating herd immunity thresholds or the data underlying community mask use, drawing their own conclusions. If an expert seeks to distort their view of the science to further a behavioral change amongst the public, the risk of detection is high — at least by some in the public. As such, it runs the risk of immediate backlash and the ensuing loss of credibility. . . .
Once it is revealed that any individual has presented information selectively to get the listener to change their behavior — that person will forever be viewed through that lens: a calculating person. Is Fauci telling me this because the science supports it, because he believes it, or because he thinks hearing it might motivate a behavioral change on my part?
Personally, I don’t see a way back from this situation. The moment the public believes that you might be withholding, selectively presenting, or distorting information to get them to behave a certain way, they will immediately put your comments through a translator. He might be saying this because it’s what he believes, but what if he is saying it to change my behavior. What might that look like? What does he want my behavior to be, and what would it be if he told me something else? If that’s the case, what might his real feelings be … and on and on. The moment you enter this state in a relationship, there is no path back, it is over. Trust is irrevocably broken. A new spokesperson is needed.
But it’s not just Fauci, nor is this a new phenomenon.
In California, everything you eat or drink: baked goods, fruit, coffee, is said by authorities to cause cancer. What are you supposed to do with that information, other than ignore it? And the distrust and skepticism bred by public health authorities over the past decades now infects everything those people say.
Why should you believe anything the government or media says (well, about anything)? when states shut down restaurants and schools, say, when the positive test results that can be traced to those two sources amount to 1.4%, compared to 74% from private residences? Or when positive test results are referred to as “cases” or “infections”, when almost all are either false or asymptomatic, with zero chance of transmitting the virus?
It’s all lies.