Jobless claims fall almost 250,000 to 1.19 million to mark new pandemic low
Big drop in new jobless claims a surprise
The numbers: Initial jobless claims fell by 249,000 in early August to 1.19 million and touched the lowest level since the coronavirus pandemic began more than four months ago, a surprising decline that suggest some improvement in the labor market despite another surge in coronavirus cases in many U.S. states.
New applications for unemployment benefits, a rough gauge of layoffs, slipped for the first time in three weeks to 1.19 million from 1.44 million, the Labor Department said Thursday. It was the biggest one-week decline since early June.
Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast 1.4 million new claims in the seven days ended Aug. 1. These seasonally adjusted figures reflect applications filed the traditional way through state unemployment offices. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jobless-claims-fall-almost-250000-to-119-million-to-mark-new-pandemic-low-2020-08-06
Wow dumb fuck, you think those new collectors are happy the number has come down ?????? Or the 55 million are happy they are still not working????? BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!Yep... all those not working will be trump voters come November!!!!!
Now I know were Lil SCHITTY and his assholes got the notion of drugs killing Floyd.......another conspiracy theory aired by Fox Fake news reporting..... BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! You assholes believe everything that that subhuman piece of shit sadly says!!!!!
uote, murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. That certainly is a vivid image, but does it reflect what actually happened? The short answer is, we’re still not precisely sure how George Floyd died.”
Carlson, who once called the demonstrations over Floyd’s death a form of tyranny, suggested Floyd may have died as a result of the fentanyl that was found in his system. Carlson cited body cam footage of Floyd’s arrest recently leaked by The Daily Mail, though he admitted that the video proves nothing. And though the fentanyl in Floyd’s system was widely reported, Carlson accused the media of not digging deeper into Floyd’s death.
“The media, in the meantime, aren’t that curious about gathering further details,” Carlson said, “and they’re actively hostile to anyone who is. Ask too many inconvenient, unauthorized questions about George Floyd, and you’ll be banned from the internet.”
The level of support for Biden this year is much more stable than it was in 2016 vs Hillary Clinton
Unless the President can get an October surprise, he will be paying golf full time, unless the Southern district of New York file money laundering allegations against him!
AND YOU CULTIST TRUMPERS WILL FALL FOR ANOTHER BULLSHIT EXCUSE!!!!!! Lying is the bedrock of the GOP!!!!!!
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. said on Wednesday that he had apologized for posting a photo of him in unzipped pants and arm around a woman — but also defended the incident as a vacation “costume party” that was “just in good fun.”
The now-deleted photo showed Falwell, a leading evangelical supporter of President Donald Trump, with his pants unzipped and his underwear showing beneath, while he had one arm around a woman whose shorts also appeared to be unbuttoned and his other holding a glass with a dark-colored liquid. The photo appeared to be on board a yacht
A new ad from President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign uses a manipulated version of a news photo taken in Coralville by a Gazette photographer to falsely say it shows presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hiding in his Delaware basement.
The image, which was used without The Gazette’s permission, was taken by Photo Editor Liz Martin in December 2019 when Biden was visiting the home of Coralville Mayor John Lundell.
About three dozen supporters and journalists were at the event, Martin said, and Biden sat on the floor to give someone else his seat.
The Gazette’s policy forbids the use of Gazette news photos for any political advertising. Neither Martin nor Diana Pesek, who handles the newspaper’s licensing requests, gave the campaign permission to republish the image.
“It’s vital we maintain our editorial independence, especially as an independently owned media company covering the first-in-the-nation caucuses,” Martin said in an interview.
The image appears about five seconds into the ad, which was shared Wednesday by the Trump campaign’s Twitter and Facebook accounts. The campaign did not immediately respond Wednesday afternoon to a request for comment.
The Trump Administration's $765 Million Kodak Deal Is More Proof That 'Economic Nationalism' Is a Scam The Trump administration's "economic nationalist" agenda is little more than a cronyist attempt at propping up domestic companies with taxpayer cash. ERIC BOEHM | 8.5.2020 5:05 PM
abausaphotos656652 (Orban Thierry/ABACA/Newscom) The Trump administration's latest "economic nationalism" scheme involves having taxpayers underwrite a $765 million loan to Eastman Kodak, the long-struggling camera company, in the hopes of transforming it into a pharmaceutical manufacturer.
If that sounds like a far-fetched idea, well, give some credit to the lobbyists who apparently made it happen.
The Daily Beast's Lachlan Markay reports that Kodak restarted its shuttered D.C. lobbying team in April of this year and proceeded to spend $870,000 on influence-peddling in the months leading up to last week's announcement by the White House. That's twice as much as the company had ever spent in a single quarter, according to lobbying disclosures, and it appears to have paid off.
When the White House announced the massive loan to Kodak last week, Trump lauded it as a "breakthrough in bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States." Eastman Kodak will produce active pharmaceutical ingredients, or APIs, which are the chemical compounds used as the building blocks for many drugs. The loan to Eastman Kodak is supposed to be repaid within 25 years.
The White House is throwing all that taxpayer-backed cash at a company with no experience making pharmaceuticals as part of an overall effort to shift the global supply chains for pharmaceuticals. Some Republicans—including Peter Navarro, Trump's top trade advisor, and lawmakers like Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.)—fear that America is too dependant on imported drugs and APIs manufactured in China.
In reality, however, there is little cause for concern. The global supply chains for pharmaceuticals are diverse and resilient. And even though China's share of the market has been growing in recent years, the United States imports far more pharmaceuticals from Ireland and other countries than it does from China. Only 13 percent of the facilities used to make APIs that go into America's drug supply are in China, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
But corporate lobbyists aren't letting the opportunity go to waste. The deal with Eastman Kodak follows on the heels of the Trump administration's announcement in May that it was handing a $350 million contract to a relatively unknown Virginia-based pharmaceutical company, Phlow Corp., to compete with drugmakers in China.
That deal happened despite the fact that Phlow Corp. doesn't have any history of mass-producing pharmaceutical drugs, and appears to have been founded earlier this year for the purpose of cashing in on Trump's protectionist politics.
"They might lose this election because they are acting like Democrats now. I am very upset with my colleagues. They went 8 years. They should apologize now to President Obama for complaining he was spending and borrowing too much. He was a piker compared to their borrowing and what they're doing now."
So moochelle now suffers from depression. Probably because she can no longer live large on exotic vacations with 30 of her good friends and have taxpayers pay for it all.
About three dozen supporters and journalists were at the event, Martin said, and Biden sat on the floor playing with his blocks and holding his sippy cup to give someone else his seat.
Roger Amick said... Hydroxychloroquine has dangerous side effects and most importantly the doctors usually don't approve it
Actually doctors prescribe it all the time and has been in use for over 6o years. 100's of millions of doses over time, probably billions.
Very safe.
Only studies that questioned its safety or efficacy were done in very late stages. Those studies have either been pulled or discredited. Many studies have shown early use beneficial and anecdotally it shows a much better outcome in large populations of patients.
Political bullshit with the MSM is keeping it away from many doctors now.
The President of Brazil just got cleared after being put on it early after testing positive, and President Trump used it as a prophylactic.
Why is big tech censoring doctors on this issue ???
"My office filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association to dissolve the organization in its entirety," New York Attorney General Letitia James says at a news conference.
Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, with or without azithromycin or clarithromycin, offer no benefit in treating patients with COVID-19 and, instead, are associated with ventricular arrhythmias and higher rates of mortality, according to a major new international study.
In the largest observational study of its kind, including close to 100,000 people in 671 hospitals on six continents, investigators compared outcomes in 15,000 patients with COVID-19 treated with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine alone or in combination with a macrolide with 80,000 control patients with COVID-19 not receiving these agents.
NY attorney general sues to 'dissolve' the NRA 'in its entirety' New York's attorney general's office doesn't intend to simply slap the NRA on the wrist. It hopes to "dissolve the organization in its entirety."
I don't know what effect it will have on the campaign.
Unlike the uncontrolled observational study roger brings up consider this with 67 studies (40 peer reviewed)
Global HCQ studies. PrEP, PEP, and early treatment studies show high effectiveness, while late treatment shows mixed results.
https://c19study.com/
And remember the recent Ford study, which included every patient admitted with Covid-19 (about 2,500) showed a 50% reduction in deaths with patients receiving HCQ. It was lambasted by the left because it was just an observational study, not controlled...
Tom Elliott @tomselliott Replying to @tomselliott and @JoeNBC
NYU’s Grossman school of Medicine study found patients given hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin at an early stage had a lower need for hospitalization than those who were not https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.02.20080036v1.full.pdf
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Why do you trust the President about serious medical issues, who has no experience with medical issues, instead of scientists who have years of experience,,???
Roger Amick said... Why do you trust the President about serious medical issues, who has no experience with medical issues, instead of scientists who have years of experience,,???
Why are you not trusting 40 peer reviewed scientific studies and only bring up an observational study the type of which you criticized just recently ???
The drug President Donald Trump revealed he has been taking for more than a week to prevent the coronavirus has been linked to an increased risk of death in COVID-19 patients, according to new research.
A study published Friday in The Lancet examined 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients on six continents and found that those who received hydroxychloroquine, or the closely related drug chloroquine, for virus treatment had decreased in-hospital survival and an increased frequency of ventricular arrhythmias, an abnormal heart rhythm that could be fatal
So Republicans stalled the second stimulus for almost four months now, because they believe Americans are lazy and want to sit around and collect unemployment rather than work? Yeah that's exactly what people want to do. It has nothing to do with a global pandemic and fear for our lives and sustainability. We just love to live in fear while we live it up, sitting on our butts getting"rich" off $600 a week. Fuck you and your right wing talking points. Dems passed the hero's act relief bill May. It is almost September. Let that sink in. That is why you must vote Blue in November. Our economy would be relatively ok if Republicans had passed this relief fund bill way back in May. Instead they want to blame it on Nancy Pelosi and lazy Americans.
An Arizona State University professor who posted on Twitter for years about social justice issues and recently detailed her fight with COVID-19 was said to have died last week — but she actually never existed.
BethAnn McLaughlin — who announced the made-up professor’s death on July 31 — admitted to The New York Times on Tuesday that she was behind the hoax.
“I take full responsibility for my involvement in creating the @sciencing_bi Twitter account,” she said in a statement through her lawyer.
“My actions are inexcusable. I apologize without reservation to all the people I hurt.”
Since 2016, the anonymous account @Sciencing_Bi had posted frequently about sexual harassment and diversity in science, making connections with other academics online.
The account claimed to be an anthropology professor who had grown up in Alabama and “fled the south because of their oppression of queer folk,” according to the Times.
It also made pointed references to being Native American and began to identify as Hopi earlier this year.
And it was active in the career of McLaughlin, a neuroscientist, even promoting a petition for her to receive tenure Vanderbilt University, which was ultimately unsuccessful.
In April, @Sciencing_Bi announced its coronavirus diagnosis and then documented the symptoms including a loss of language fluency, according to Buzzfeed News.
The account blamed ASU for her condition, tweeting in June that the school “forced me to teach 200 person lectures instead of closing” in April.
She also claimed the university cut her salary by 15 percent while she was in the hospital.
Then, a seemingly distraught McLaughlin wrote in a lengthy, mournful Twitter thread on Friday that the anonymous professor had died.
“Looking at her side of the bed and crying. Just a lot of crying. I literally can do nothing,” she wrote.
The supposed death spurred outrage from others in academia, with a professor saying: “This person was a scientist who got Covid because they’d been forced to teach.”
“@Sciencing_Bi is a Native American anthropology professor who first contracted #COVID19 April 11, likely from her college forcing her to teach well after the virus had established itself at her college,” another person posted on Facebook.
De Blasio fires back at Cuomo, defends NYC school reopening plan But suspicions then began to swirl on Twitter that the whole account had been a scam, according to Buzzfeed.
A few days later, on Sunday, Twitter suspended both @Sciencing_Bi and McLaughlin’s accounts for violating policies that, among other things, bar the coordination of fake accounts.
The same day, an ASU spokesperson, described the anonymous account as a hoax, saying it had posted bogus information about the school, which closed its campus in March and did not implement salary cuts.
“We also have had no one, such as a family member or friend, report a death to anyone at the university,” a statement said.
Authors retract hydroxychloroquine study that raised global concern about drug's use for coronavirus
The authors of two major medical studies on coronavirus patients— including one that raised global concerns about the use of the hydroxychloroquine — retracted their papers on Thursday. The journals that published the studies said the authors were unable to get full access to the database behind their work to verify the raw data.
The Lancet retracted an influential paper published in May that claimed to analyze data from nearly 96,000 coronavirus patients in six continents. The study found those who took hydroxychloroquine showed increased heart rhythm problems and had a higher mortality rate than those who didn't take it.
The New England Journal of Medicine then retracted a study from the same authors, also published in May, that said it analyzed 8,910 COVID-19 patients. That study suggested that widely-used blood pressure medicines did not raise the risk of death for COVID-19 patients.
The Lancet study influenced governments in several nations to ban the use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus, and also led to the suspension of some clinical trials of the drug's use, including tests overseen by the World Health Organization.
The anti-malaria drug has been especially controversial in the United States, as President Trump touted it as a coronavirus treatment and even said he took it himself for about two weeks. Mr. Trump's promotion of the drug contradicted warnings from his own government health experts, who cautioned against its widespread use in the pandemic.
Both of the now-retracted studies relied on data from Surgisphere Corporation, a Chicago-based data collection company. Dr. Sapan Desai, who owns the company, is one of four authors listed on the Lancet study. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-lancet-retracts-hydroxychloroquine-studies-covid-19/#:~:text=The%20Lancet%20retracted%20an%20influential%20paper%20published%20in,mortality%20rate%20than%20those%20who%20didn%27t%20take%20it.
Everyone sometimes mixes up dates, and Pence did not get the year right. In 2012, the most noteworthy voter fraud case in Indiana involved a Republican — when former secretary of state Charlie White was convicted of six Class D felony charges, including voter fraud, perjury and theft. “Prosecutors said he voted and took pay as a Fishers Town Council member of a district in which he no longer lived,” the Indianapolis Star reported.
Pence actually meant to say 2016. We have noted before that there are relatively few cases of voter fraud, not “case after case.” But for the purposes of this fact check, is Pence correct when he claims that people associated with a Democratic super PAC were prosecuted for “voter fraud” and “falsifying ballots”?
This case emerged when Pence was governor of Indiana and Donald Trump’s running mate in the 2016 election. One week before the state’s deadline to register to vote, state police raided the Indianapolis office of the Indiana Voter Registration Project (IVRP), seizing computers, cellphones and records.
IVRP was associated with Patriot Majority USA — which actually was not a super PAC — and had registered 45,000 people, many of whom were Black. The registrations were put on hold after election officials said at least 10 of the applications appeared to be amiss. The raid essentially shut down a project that was trying to boost minority registration in the state after Black turnout had declined significantly in 2014.
“The Indiana State Police has uncovered strong evidence of voter fraud by Patriot Majority USA,” a spokesman for the governor said at the time. Indiana State Police then announced that its investigation had expanded to 57 counties — more than half the counties in Indiana.
When a case was finally filed in 2017, eight months later, the announcement earned national headlines. Twelve IVRP employees, along with IVRP, were charged with submitting falsified voter registration applications. But the case was filed in only one county, Marion, which includes Indianapolis.
Moreover, Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry told reporters that officials did not find any evidence that the employees committed voter fraud or that any fraudulent ballots had been cast. Instead, a quota system requiring at least 10 registrations during every five-hour shift led some employees to cut corners, the probable cause affidavit said.
“We do not believe this was a widespread effort to infringe voters, intentionally register ineligible individuals, or to impact the election,” Curry said. “Instead we allege that a bad business practice led to illegal actions by the local association and these 12 individuals.”
Okay, so this wasn’t “falsifying ballots” or “voter fraud,” as Pence claimed. He appears to be going off memory of the original police statement, before there was any substantive investigation.
But the story does not end there. Amazingly, there was never a single news report on what happened after the charges were filed, even in the Indiana media.
So here’s what happened: Not a single person did any jail time.
First, the court on Nov. 3, 2017, dismissed all charges against Holiday Burke, 25, an IVRP staff member, after her attorney filed a motion saying the state had failed “to provide any material facts regarding the elements of the alleged crime,” including any specific individual registration forms, “which it claims Ms. Burke knew to be materially false, fictitious or fraudulent or which she submitted.”
“There was nothing there,” said her attorney, Karen Celestino-Horseman.
Moreover, nine of the defendants agreed to pretrial diversion deals, meaning they admitted wrongdoing, but the cases eventually were dismissed without prosecution, said Michael Leffler, communications director for the Marion County prosecutor’s office.
Two defendants, Claude Nash and Valerie Franklin, pleaded guilty to perjury but served no jail time. Nash received one year of probation and Franklin 1½ years of probation, Leffler said.
What was the perjury? The Indiana voter registration form requires the person taking possession of the form from the registrant to complete an affidavit affirming under penalty of perjury that he or she “accepted custody of this completed application from the applicant.” (If the workers had used the federal registration form, there would have been no basis for a perjury charge because it does not have the same affidavit.)
But, again, only a few examples of falsified registrations were uncovered. In the case of Nash, 13 registrations with made-up addresses or phone numbers were cited, as he had told police that he “had signed up ‘drunks and bums’ all day to get his quota for IVRP.” In the case of Franklin, eight registrations were found for people who had not asked to register again but which she had copied from a list of registered voters to meet her quota.
These numbers were a drop in the bucket, given the 45,000 voter registrations compiled by IVRP. Note also that these registrations were submitted on behalf of people who were not intending to vote.
“The whole thing shows the system worked,” said Celestino-Horseman, who is also a lawyer for the Indiana Democratic Party. “Clerks discovered the discrepancies in the registrations, which is what is supposed to happen. They check the information on the registration forms, and if there are no telephone numbers or the address is incomplete, they mail the registrant a letter.”
The Fact Checker sought comment from Pence’s office but did not receive much that was useful except for an assertion that fraudulently submitting voter registration forms is a form of voter fraud.
It is worth noting that the conservative Heritage Foundation does not list voter-registration fraud as one of its nine examples of voter fraud. Instead, it says voting under a false registration is a voter fraud. The FindLaw website also defines “voter fraud” as “the illegal behavior of individual voters.”
Submitting a false voter registration form is certainly illegal. But none of the registrations submitted by IVRP led to an illegal vote, and all were actually flagged and removed before they were processed.
The Pinocchio Test
To recap, Pence said that “there was a group of people that were prosecuted for falsifying ballots.” That is wrong.
They were charged with relatively minor infractions related to filing false registration forms, apparently the result of pressure to meet quotas. The prosecutor said they were not engaged in voter fraud or trying to affect the outcome of the election. Ultimately, charges were dropped against the supervisor and nine other people, while two people who admitted to perjury served no jail time.
Meanwhile, the state’s action also halted a successful effort to register minority voters in Indiana. That may have been the biggest outcome out of this case, not the hyped-up claims of voter fraud.
Pence will stand head-and-shoulders above anyone "he" announces.
Dems must be wondering what the hell they've got themselves in to. Probably thought they could do another "Mueller". Probably same players behind the scenes (Obama)
Stuart Stevens is a veteran Republican campaign operative from five presidential races. When he spoke to PBS’s Judy Woodruff Wednesday, he lamented the GOP failed the moral test it was presented with Donald Trump.
“Well, I think there’s been two strains in the party. Call it an Eisenhower strain going back to the ’50s and a McCarthy strain,” Stevens said, recalling when the GOP would talk about expanding their party and bringing in more African-American voters. “Now we don’t even hear any talk anymore of a big tent. And we seem to have settled into a very comfortable white grievance identity.”
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He said that he wanted to write the book to accept responsibility for his role in seeing Trump come to power.
“If you go back and you read the Pat Buchanan and Kevin Phillips memo that was written for Nixon which really outlined the Southern Strategy, the acknowledgment Republicans can’t get African Americans, therefore, the need is either to suppress them or to divert them from the Democratic Party, has been at the core of Republican electoral strategy,” he continued.
Woodruff noted that he also wrote about the hypocrisy around “Republican family values,” specifically citing Newt Gingrich and Jerry Falwell.
Retraction—Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis
After publication of our Lancet Article,1 several concerns were raised with respect to the veracity of the data and analyses conducted by Surgisphere Corporation and its founder and our co-author, Sapan Desai, in our publication. We launched an independent third-party peer review of Surgisphere with the consent of Sapan Desai to evaluate the origination of the database elements, to confirm the completeness of the database, and to replicate the analyses presented in the paper.
Our independent peer reviewers informed us that Surgisphere would not transfer the full dataset, client contracts, and the full ISO audit report to their servers for analysis as such transfer would violate client agreements and confidentiality requirements. As such, our reviewers were not able to conduct an independent and private peer review and therefore notified us of their withdrawal from the peer-review process.
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Stuart Stevens is a veteran Republican campaign operative from five presidential races.
ah yes. le bag o' tools who managed a very winnable romney presidential campaign into a devastating LOSS to an ACORN asshat marxist from cabrini green.
WASHINGTON — Dr. Brett Giroir, who coordinates the Trump administration's coronavirus testing response, said Sunday that there is no evidence that hydroxychloroquine is an "effective" treatment for COVID-19, despite President Donald Trump's repeated boosting of the drug over objections from experts.
In an interview on "Meet the Press," Giroir, the assistant secretary of health and human services for health, did not specifically mention the president, but he it made clear that the scientific consensus is that the drug does not help treat the disease.
"Most physicians and prescribers are evidence-based, and they're not influenced by whatever is on Twitter or anything else. And the evidence just does not show hydroxychloroquine is effective right now," he said.
"We need to move on from that and talk about what is effective," he added, pointing to public hygiene measures like hand-washing and mask-wearing, as well as treatments like the drug remdesivir and steroids.
"At this point in time, there has been five randomized controlled, placebo-controlled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine. So, at this point in time, we don't recommend that as a treatment."
Of course your doctor can prescribe it, but you probably shouldn't take it anymore.
you seem to be stepping, no, stomping, on many rakes today.
Sad fact is he was pounded on the Lancet study months ago. Same as when he breathlessly posted a Lancet during the Bush years saying we had killed like 600 million Iraqis or whatever made up number it was
“All of the studies that were rigorously done have pointed in the same direction, which is that the drug doesn't work. I think at this point, we can definitively say hydroxychloroquine doesn't work. I'm not sure what more we need to do." ~ @ScottGottliebMD
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays
Also true: Only the wrong applications of the drug have been "rigorously tested." That feels like important context. --- Also true, many of the people criticizing HCQ have financial ties to Gilead, which makes the highly costly treatment Remdesivir (1.6 billion just approved)
Corruption in The Medical Field: US Doctors Threatened Over Hydroxychloroquine Use. Dr. Fauci is Blocking HCQ
Gilead Sent Death Threats To Kill HCQ As COVID-19 Cure, French Dr Testifies In Parliament
After it was revealed in a shocking investigation that WHO policies on Hydroxychloroquine were based on a fake study by a pornstar and a science-fiction writer, now in an ongoing investigation, a French doctor has testified in parliament that Gilead sent him death threats after he started talking about HCQ as a cure for COVID-19.
Now during a shocking testimony before the parliament, Dr. Raoult told lawmakers under oath that the person who sent him death threats was a top recipient of Gilead Pharmaceuticals.
Professor Raoult testified that, shortly after he started to talk about HCQ as a treatment, in March, he received anonymous death threats. He filed a complaint with the police, and an enquiry was opened by the French judiciary.
The medical doctor behind the threats was found and happens to be from a Nantes university hospital. It happened to be the person who received the most money from Gilead over the past 6 years.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is racking up storms at breakneck speed. To date, the season is about two weeks ahead of record pace and it's only one third of the way through. On Wednesday, the news became more concerning as the research team at Colorado State University (CSU) — the standard bearer for seasonal forecasts — released the most dire forecast in their 37-year history.
Labeling the 2020 hurricane season "extremely active," the team is now predicting 24 named storms, including 12 total hurricanes and 5 major hurricanes — each figure about double that of a normal season. If the forecast proves accurate, 2020 would be the second most active Atlantic hurricane season, behind only the record-shattering 2005 season which brought Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma.
Only 21 storm names are allotted each year because the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are not used. As a result, if 24 tropical storms are indeed named, the National Hurricane Center will have to employ the Greek alphabet for overflow. This has only happened one time on record — in 2005 when the Atlantic experienced 28 named storms.
An overview of Colorado State University's 2020 hurricane season forecast as of August 5, 2020. / Credit: CSU An overview of Colorado State University's 2020 hurricane season forecast as of August 5, 2020. / Credit: CSU In addition, CSU is forecasting a 75% chance that the U.S. coast will be struck by a major hurricane — Category 3 or greater — during the 2020 season. This is significant because damage increases exponentially with wind speed. Category 3, 4 and 5 systems cause 85% of all hurricane damage.
"At this point in time, there has been five randomized controlled, placebo-controlled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine. So, at this point in time, we don't recommend that as a treatment."
Trump Says Biden Is ‘Against God’ August 6, 2020 at 2:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
President Trump claimed to a small crowd in Ohio that Joe Biden is “against God.”
Said Trump: “No religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt… God. He’s against God, he’s against guns.”
TRUMP SAYS BIDEN IS AGAINST GOD AMERICANS SAY THEY ARE AGAINST TRUMP
Trump Approval Near All-Time Low August 6, 2020 at 3:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
A new Pew Research poll finds President Trump’s approval at a dismal 38% to 59%.
Among Republicans and Republican leaners, 77% currently say they approve of Trump’s performance; only 5% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say the same.
Three Interesting Senate Races August 6, 2020 at 2:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
New Quinnipiac polls of some interesting U.S. Senate races:
South Carolina: Graham 44%, Harrison 44% Maine: Gideon 47%, Collins 43% Kentucky: McConnell 49%, McGrath 44%
Said pollster Tim Malloy: “Big political names. Huge political stakes. High anxiety for the GOP. Three GOP Senators who easily won their last reelection bids are looking over their shoulders less than three months from Election Day.”
Model Now Predicts 300,000 Deaths In U.S. August 6, 2020 at 5:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Researchers behind an influential model are projecting that the US death toll from coronavirus could reach nearly 300,000 by December 1 — but that can be changed if Americans consistently wear masks,” CNN reports. ___ Meanwhile, DeSantis is telling Floridians that they CAN hug elderly people in nursing homes.
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Whistling past the graveyard Lil Schitty.....I am sure those millions out of work will all support the trump economy ,,,,,,,BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Only 1.1 claims this week for a total of 55 million potential trump supporters out of work!!!!!!!!
Jobless claims fall almost 250,000 to 1.19 million to mark new pandemic low
Big drop in new jobless claims a surprise
The numbers: Initial jobless claims fell by 249,000 in early August to 1.19 million and touched the lowest level since the coronavirus pandemic began more than four months ago, a surprising decline that suggest some improvement in the labor market despite another surge in coronavirus cases in many U.S. states.
New applications for unemployment benefits, a rough gauge of layoffs, slipped for the first time in three weeks to 1.19 million from 1.44 million, the Labor Department said Thursday. It was the biggest one-week decline since early June.
Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast 1.4 million new claims in the seven days ended Aug. 1. These seasonally adjusted figures reflect applications filed the traditional way through state unemployment offices.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jobless-claims-fall-almost-250000-to-119-million-to-mark-new-pandemic-low-2020-08-06
FANTASTIC NEWS !!!
Wow dumb fuck, you think those new collectors are happy the number has come down ?????? Or the 55 million are happy they are still not working????? BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!Yep... all those not working will be trump voters come November!!!!!
Now I know were Lil SCHITTY and his assholes got the notion of drugs killing Floyd.......another conspiracy theory aired by Fox Fake news reporting..... BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! You assholes believe everything that that subhuman piece of shit sadly says!!!!!
uote, murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. That certainly is a vivid image, but does it reflect what actually happened? The short answer is, we’re still not precisely sure how George Floyd died.”
Carlson, who once called the demonstrations over Floyd’s death a form of tyranny, suggested Floyd may have died as a result of the fentanyl that was found in his system. Carlson cited body cam footage of Floyd’s arrest recently leaked by The Daily Mail, though he admitted that the video proves nothing. And though the fentanyl in Floyd’s system was widely reported, Carlson accused the media of not digging deeper into Floyd’s death.
“The media, in the meantime, aren’t that curious about gathering further details,” Carlson said, “and they’re actively hostile to anyone who is. Ask too many inconvenient, unauthorized questions about George Floyd, and you’ll be banned from the internet.”
The level of support for Biden this year is much more stable than it was in 2016 vs Hillary Clinton
Unless the President can get an October surprise, he will be paying golf full time, unless the Southern district of New York file money laundering allegations against him!
Nearly 1.2 Americans filed for unemployment for the 20th straight week
Over 159,000 Americans have died from the COVID-45 virus
for the 20th straight week is FANTASTIC NEWS ??????,
The 20 week total is 15 million Americans don't have a job
Mississippi has a record number of infections
AND YOU CULTIST TRUMPERS WILL FALL FOR ANOTHER BULLSHIT EXCUSE!!!!!! Lying is the bedrock of the GOP!!!!!!
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. said on Wednesday that he had apologized for posting a photo of him in unzipped pants and arm around a woman — but also defended the incident as a vacation “costume party” that was “just in good fun.”
The now-deleted photo showed Falwell, a leading evangelical supporter of President Donald Trump, with his pants unzipped and his underwear showing beneath, while he had one arm around a woman whose shorts also appeared to be unbuttoned and his other holding a glass with a dark-colored liquid. The photo appeared to be on board a yacht
Jackson Mississippi, the hospitals and full.
By Molly Duffy
A new ad from President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign uses a manipulated version of a news photo taken in Coralville by a Gazette photographer to falsely say it shows presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hiding in his Delaware basement.
The image, which was used without The Gazette’s permission, was taken by Photo Editor Liz Martin in December 2019 when Biden was visiting the home of Coralville Mayor John Lundell.
About three dozen supporters and journalists were at the event, Martin said, and Biden sat on the floor to give someone else his seat.
The Gazette’s policy forbids the use of Gazette news photos for any political advertising. Neither Martin nor Diana Pesek, who handles the newspaper’s licensing requests, gave the campaign permission to republish the image.
“It’s vital we maintain our editorial independence, especially as an independently owned media company covering the first-in-the-nation caucuses,” Martin said in an interview.
The image appears about five seconds into the ad, which was shared Wednesday by the Trump campaign’s Twitter and Facebook accounts. The campaign did not immediately respond Wednesday afternoon to a request for comment.
Typically behavior by this President.
ECONOMIC NATIONALISM
The Trump Administration's $765 Million Kodak Deal Is More Proof That 'Economic Nationalism' Is a Scam
The Trump administration's "economic nationalist" agenda is little more than a cronyist attempt at propping up domestic companies with taxpayer cash.
ERIC BOEHM | 8.5.2020 5:05 PM
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The Trump administration's latest "economic nationalism" scheme involves having taxpayers underwrite a $765 million loan to Eastman Kodak, the long-struggling camera company, in the hopes of transforming it into a pharmaceutical manufacturer.
If that sounds like a far-fetched idea, well, give some credit to the lobbyists who apparently made it happen.
The Daily Beast's Lachlan Markay reports that Kodak restarted its shuttered D.C. lobbying team in April of this year and proceeded to spend $870,000 on influence-peddling in the months leading up to last week's announcement by the White House. That's twice as much as the company had ever spent in a single quarter, according to lobbying disclosures, and it appears to have paid off.
When the White House announced the massive loan to Kodak last week, Trump lauded it as a "breakthrough in bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States." Eastman Kodak will produce active pharmaceutical ingredients, or APIs, which are the chemical compounds used as the building blocks for many drugs. The loan to Eastman Kodak is supposed to be repaid within 25 years.
The White House is throwing all that taxpayer-backed cash at a company with no experience making pharmaceuticals as part of an overall effort to shift the global supply chains for pharmaceuticals. Some Republicans—including Peter Navarro, Trump's top trade advisor, and lawmakers like Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.)—fear that America is too dependant on imported drugs and APIs manufactured in China.
In reality, however, there is little cause for concern. The global supply chains for pharmaceuticals are diverse and resilient. And even though China's share of the market has been growing in recent years, the United States imports far more pharmaceuticals from Ireland and other countries than it does from China. Only 13 percent of the facilities used to make APIs that go into America's drug supply are in China, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
But corporate lobbyists aren't letting the opportunity go to waste. The deal with Eastman Kodak follows on the heels of the Trump administration's announcement in May that it was handing a $350 million contract to a relatively unknown Virginia-based pharmaceutical company, Phlow Corp., to compete with drugmakers in China.
That deal happened despite the fact that Phlow Corp. doesn't have any history of mass-producing pharmaceutical drugs, and appears to have been founded earlier this year for the purpose of cashing in on Trump's protectionist politics.
falsely say it shows presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hiding in his Delaware basement.
Sure... because nobody is going to believe that Joe Biden has spent the past few months hiding in his basement!
NRA OFFICERS CHARGED WITH MISMANAGEMENT OF MILLIONS OF $'S OF FUNDS....IOW'S USING THE MONEY FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT!!!!!YEAH!!!!!!!
NRA MAY BE DISOLVED!!!!!!!!
Unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community,' Biden said
All blacks are the same
He’s nucking futz
NV primary over 223K mail in ballots marked undeliverable. That's 17%.
Yeaj let's do this nationally. 17% of 130M is over 22M ballots undeliverable.
Senator Paul told Fox News.
"They might lose this election because they are acting like Democrats now. I am very upset with my colleagues. They went 8 years. They should apologize now to President Obama for complaining he was spending and borrowing too much. He was a piker compared to their borrowing and what they're doing now."
He’s nucking futz
YO SEMITES!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
So moochelle now suffers from depression. Probably because she can no longer live large on exotic vacations with 30 of her good friends and have taxpayers pay for it all.
Trump isn't going to address the convention in person because of the pandemic.
Biden is keeping healthy by staying at home.
The President has been damaging himself with his Twitter tirade for the White House.
There no difference between the two men
YO SEMITES
!!!
Myballs said...
NV primary over 223K mail in ballots marked undeliverable. That's 17%.
no worries. thanks to newly enacted ballot "harvesting" those ballots will be re-counted and discovered to be 110% democrat votes.
The NRA is in danger
About three dozen supporters and journalists were at the event, Martin said, and Biden sat on the floor playing with his blocks and holding his sippy cup to give someone else his seat.
The rally in Tulsa caused a Republican to get the COVID-45
Children are immune!
President Trump
He's not well
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1291368987536875520?s=09
Leaders lead...
They don't hide in their basement!
#BREAKING: I filed a lawsuit to dissolve the National Rifle Association for years of self-dealing and illegal conduct.
The @NRA is fraught with fraud and abuse.
No organization is above the law.
In normal circumstances you would have a point.
But we have lost over 160,000 American lives.
People like you who said that masks are Social distancing is not effective, that is a fucking lie.
Secretary Azar has a sign behind him saying that wearing a mask can beat the virus
Hydroxychloroquine has dangerous side effects and most importantly the doctors usually don't approve it
Trump said today that we will have a vaccine by November 3rd
He was optimistic
He's not sane
I'm beginning to wonder if he has a financial reason to promote Hydroxychloroquine,?
New York is putting a quarantine on people coming from other states and Puerto Rico
Roger Amick said...
Hydroxychloroquine has dangerous side effects and most importantly the doctors usually don't approve it
Actually doctors prescribe it all the time and has been in use for over 6o years. 100's of millions of doses over time, probably billions.
Very safe.
Only studies that questioned its safety or efficacy were done in very late stages. Those studies have either been pulled or discredited. Many studies have shown early use beneficial and anecdotally it shows a much better outcome in large populations of patients.
Political bullshit with the MSM is keeping it away from many doctors now.
The President of Brazil just got cleared after being put on it early after testing positive, and President Trump used it as a prophylactic.
Why is big tech censoring doctors on this issue ???
"My office filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association to dissolve the organization in its entirety," New York Attorney General Letitia James says at a news conference.
Roger Amick said...
Hydroxychloroquine has dangerous side effects and most importantly the doctors usually don't approve it
bullshit squared.
The governor of Ohio has been diagnosed with the COVID-19 infection and will be quarantined for two weeks.
The President is on the way to Ohio right now!
The lieutenant governor is African American
Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, with or without azithromycin or clarithromycin, offer no benefit in treating patients with COVID-19 and, instead, are associated with ventricular arrhythmias and higher rates of mortality, according to a major new international study.
In the largest observational study of its kind, including close to 100,000 people in 671 hospitals on six continents, investigators compared outcomes in 15,000 patients with COVID-19 treated with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine alone or in combination with a macrolide with 80,000 control patients with COVID-19 not receiving these agents.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/931061
Governor DeWine has tested positive for #COVID19. He has no symptoms at this time. Full statement below. https://t.co/WnkmoGxR2m
so laquishaniqua james filed a lawsuit against the NRA.
yawn... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
her lawsuits against the right in general have proven to be pointless and fruitless.
this will be no exception.
she's a race-baiting clown.
Why is big tech censoring doctors on this issue ???
orange man bad.
NY attorney general sues to 'dissolve' the NRA 'in its entirety'
New York's attorney general's office doesn't intend to simply slap the NRA on the wrist. It hopes to "dissolve the organization in its entirety."
I don't know what effect it will have on the campaign.
Unlike the uncontrolled observational study roger brings up consider this with 67 studies (40 peer reviewed)
Global HCQ studies. PrEP, PEP, and early treatment studies show high effectiveness, while late treatment shows mixed results.
https://c19study.com/
And remember the recent Ford study, which included every patient admitted with Covid-19 (about 2,500) showed a 50% reduction in deaths with patients receiving HCQ. It was lambasted by the left because it was just an observational study, not controlled...
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@JoeNBC
NYU’s Grossman school of Medicine study found patients given hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin at an early stage had a lower need for hospitalization than those who were not https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.02.20080036v1.full.pdf
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Why do you trust the President about serious medical issues, who has no experience with medical issues, instead of scientists who have years of experience,,???
Orange monster disease,,??,
Roger Amick said...
Why do you trust the President about serious medical issues, who has no experience with medical issues, instead of scientists who have years of experience,,???
Why are you not trusting 40 peer reviewed scientific studies and only bring up an observational study the type of which you criticized just recently ???
The drug President Donald Trump revealed he has been taking for more than a week to prevent the coronavirus has been linked to an increased risk of death in COVID-19 patients, according to new research.
A study published Friday in The Lancet examined 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients on six continents and found that those who received hydroxychloroquine, or the closely related drug chloroquine, for virus treatment had decreased in-hospital survival and an increased frequency of ventricular arrhythmias, an abnormal heart rhythm that could be fatal
.https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-05-22/trumps-hydroxychloroquine-associated-with-increased-death-in-coronavirus-patients-study-finds
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-05-22/trumps-hydroxychloroquine-associated-with-increased-death-in-coronavirus-patients-study-finds
That study was RETRACTED since it was just a political hit piece with falsified data.
Unbelievable you are so ignorant to bring that back up
GET HELP
and take Joe with you.
So Republicans stalled the second stimulus for almost four months now, because they believe Americans are lazy and want to sit around and collect unemployment rather than work? Yeah that's exactly what people want to do. It has nothing to do with a global pandemic and fear for our lives and sustainability. We just love to live in fear while we live it up, sitting on our butts getting"rich" off $600 a week. Fuck you and your right wing talking points. Dems passed the hero's act relief bill May. It is almost September. Let that sink in. That is why you must vote Blue in November. Our economy would be relatively ok if Republicans had passed this relief fund bill way back in May. Instead they want to blame it on Nancy Pelosi and lazy Americans.
An Arizona State University professor who posted on Twitter for years about social justice issues and recently detailed her fight with COVID-19 was said to have died last week — but she actually never existed.
BethAnn McLaughlin — who announced the made-up professor’s death on July 31 — admitted to The New York Times on Tuesday that she was behind the hoax.
“I take full responsibility for my involvement in creating the @sciencing_bi Twitter account,” she said in a statement through her lawyer.
“My actions are inexcusable. I apologize without reservation to all the people I hurt.”
Since 2016, the anonymous account @Sciencing_Bi had posted frequently about sexual harassment and diversity in science, making connections with other academics online.
The account claimed to be an anthropology professor who had grown up in Alabama and “fled the south because of their oppression of queer folk,” according to the Times.
It also made pointed references to being Native American and began to identify as Hopi earlier this year.
And it was active in the career of McLaughlin, a neuroscientist, even promoting a petition for her to receive tenure Vanderbilt University, which was ultimately unsuccessful.
In April, @Sciencing_Bi announced its coronavirus diagnosis and then documented the symptoms including a loss of language fluency, according to Buzzfeed News.
The account blamed ASU for her condition, tweeting in June that the school “forced me to teach 200 person lectures instead of closing” in April.
She also claimed the university cut her salary by 15 percent while she was in the hospital.
Then, a seemingly distraught McLaughlin wrote in a lengthy, mournful Twitter thread on Friday that the anonymous professor had died.
“Looking at her side of the bed and crying. Just a lot of crying. I literally can do nothing,” she wrote.
The supposed death spurred outrage from others in academia, with a professor saying: “This person was a scientist who got Covid because they’d been forced to teach.”
“@Sciencing_Bi is a Native American anthropology professor who first contracted #COVID19 April 11, likely from her college forcing her to teach well after the virus had established itself at her college,” another person posted on Facebook.
De Blasio fires back at Cuomo, defends NYC school reopening plan
But suspicions then began to swirl on Twitter that the whole account had been a scam, according to Buzzfeed.
A few days later, on Sunday, Twitter suspended both @Sciencing_Bi and McLaughlin’s accounts for violating policies that, among other things, bar the coordination of fake accounts.
The same day, an ASU spokesperson, described the anonymous account as a hoax, saying it had posted bogus information about the school, which closed its campus in March and did not implement salary cuts.
“We also have had no one, such as a family member or friend, report a death to anyone at the university,” a statement said.
https://nypost.com/2020/08/04/scientist-says-she-made-up-asu-professor-who-died-of-covid-19/?utm_campaign=applenews&utm_medium=inline&utm_source=applenews
It's still there
Get help from the racist rodent bastard
Irrelevant bullshit again
“My actions are inexcusable. I apologize without reservation to all the people I hurt.”
that should said by all democrats
Fuck you and your right wing talking points.
A study published Friday in The Lancet examined 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients
God you’re tedious and stupid
The Lancet
Retraction—Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis
Retracted 2 months ago
Authors retract hydroxychloroquine study that raised global concern about drug's use for coronavirus
The authors of two major medical studies on coronavirus patients— including one that raised global concerns about the use of the hydroxychloroquine — retracted their papers on Thursday. The journals that published the studies said the authors were unable to get full access to the database behind their work to verify the raw data.
The Lancet retracted an influential paper published in May that claimed to analyze data from nearly 96,000 coronavirus patients in six continents. The study found those who took hydroxychloroquine showed increased heart rhythm problems and had a higher mortality rate than those who didn't take it.
The New England Journal of Medicine then retracted a study from the same authors, also published in May, that said it analyzed 8,910 COVID-19 patients. That study suggested that widely-used blood pressure medicines did not raise the risk of death for COVID-19 patients.
The Lancet study influenced governments in several nations to ban the use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus, and also led to the suspension of some clinical trials of the drug's use, including tests overseen by the World Health Organization.
The anti-malaria drug has been especially controversial in the United States, as President Trump touted it as a coronavirus treatment and even said he took it himself for about two weeks. Mr. Trump's promotion of the drug contradicted warnings from his own government health experts, who cautioned against its widespread use in the pandemic.
Both of the now-retracted studies relied on data from Surgisphere Corporation, a Chicago-based data collection company. Dr. Sapan Desai, who owns the company, is one of four authors listed on the Lancet study.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-lancet-retracts-hydroxychloroquine-studies-covid-19/#:~:text=The%20Lancet%20retracted%20an%20influential%20paper%20published%20in,mortality%20rate%20than%20those%20who%20didn%27t%20take%20it.
Everyone sometimes mixes up dates, and Pence did not get the year right. In 2012, the most noteworthy voter fraud case in Indiana involved a Republican — when former secretary of state Charlie White was convicted of six Class D felony charges, including voter fraud, perjury and theft. “Prosecutors said he voted and took pay as a Fishers Town Council member of a district in which he no longer lived,” the Indianapolis Star reported.
Pence actually meant to say 2016. We have noted before that there are relatively few cases of voter fraud, not “case after case.” But for the purposes of this fact check, is Pence correct when he claims that people associated with a Democratic super PAC were prosecuted for “voter fraud” and “falsifying ballots”?
The Facts
This case emerged when Pence was governor of Indiana and Donald Trump’s running mate in the 2016 election. One week before the state’s deadline to register to vote, state police raided the Indianapolis office of the Indiana Voter Registration Project (IVRP), seizing computers, cellphones and records.
IVRP was associated with Patriot Majority USA — which actually was not a super PAC — and had registered 45,000 people, many of whom were Black. The registrations were put on hold after election officials said at least 10 of the applications appeared to be amiss. The raid essentially shut down a project that was trying to boost minority registration in the state after Black turnout had declined significantly in 2014.
“The Indiana State Police has uncovered strong evidence of voter fraud by Patriot Majority USA,” a spokesman for the governor said at the time. Indiana State Police then announced that its investigation had expanded to 57 counties — more than half the counties in Indiana.
When a case was finally filed in 2017, eight months later, the announcement earned national headlines. Twelve IVRP employees, along with IVRP, were charged with submitting falsified voter registration applications. But the case was filed in only one county, Marion, which includes Indianapolis.
Moreover, Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry told reporters that officials did not find any evidence that the employees committed voter fraud or that any fraudulent ballots had been cast. Instead, a quota system requiring at least 10 registrations during every five-hour shift led some employees to cut corners, the probable cause affidavit said.
“We do not believe this was a widespread effort to infringe voters, intentionally register ineligible individuals, or to impact the election,” Curry said. “Instead we allege that a bad business practice led to illegal actions by the local association and these 12 individuals.”
Okay, so this wasn’t “falsifying ballots” or “voter fraud,” as Pence claimed. He appears to be going off memory of the original police statement, before there was any substantive investigation.
I repeat:
That study was RETRACTED since it was just a political hit piece with falsified data.
Unbelievable you are so ignorant to bring that back up
GET HELP
and take Joe with you.
But the story does not end there. Amazingly, there was never a single news report on what happened after the charges were filed, even in the Indiana media.
So here’s what happened: Not a single person did any jail time.
First, the court on Nov. 3, 2017, dismissed all charges against Holiday Burke, 25, an IVRP staff member, after her attorney filed a motion saying the state had failed “to provide any material facts regarding the elements of the alleged crime,” including any specific individual registration forms, “which it claims Ms. Burke knew to be materially false, fictitious or fraudulent or which she submitted.”
“There was nothing there,” said her attorney, Karen Celestino-Horseman.
Moreover, nine of the defendants agreed to pretrial diversion deals, meaning they admitted wrongdoing, but the cases eventually were dismissed without prosecution, said Michael Leffler, communications director for the Marion County prosecutor’s office.
Two defendants, Claude Nash and Valerie Franklin, pleaded guilty to perjury but served no jail time. Nash received one year of probation and Franklin 1½ years of probation, Leffler said.
What was the perjury? The Indiana voter registration form requires the person taking possession of the form from the registrant to complete an affidavit affirming under penalty of perjury that he or she “accepted custody of this completed application from the applicant.” (If the workers had used the federal registration form, there would have been no basis for a perjury charge because it does not have the same affidavit.)
But, again, only a few examples of falsified registrations were uncovered. In the case of Nash, 13 registrations with made-up addresses or phone numbers were cited, as he had told police that he “had signed up ‘drunks and bums’ all day to get his quota for IVRP.” In the case of Franklin, eight registrations were found for people who had not asked to register again but which she had copied from a list of registered voters to meet her quota.
These numbers were a drop in the bucket, given the 45,000 voter registrations compiled by IVRP. Note also that these registrations were submitted on behalf of people who were not intending to vote.
“The whole thing shows the system worked,” said Celestino-Horseman, who is also a lawyer for the Indiana Democratic Party. “Clerks discovered the discrepancies in the registrations, which is what is supposed to happen. They check the information on the registration forms, and if there are no telephone numbers or the address is incomplete, they mail the registrant a letter.”
The Fact Checker sought comment from Pence’s office but did not receive much that was useful except for an assertion that fraudulently submitting voter registration forms is a form of voter fraud.
It is worth noting that the conservative Heritage Foundation does not list voter-registration fraud as one of its nine examples of voter fraud. Instead, it says voting under a false registration is a voter fraud. The FindLaw website also defines “voter fraud” as “the illegal behavior of individual voters.”
Submitting a false voter registration form is certainly illegal. But none of the registrations submitted by IVRP led to an illegal vote, and all were actually flagged and removed before they were processed.
The Pinocchio Test
To recap, Pence said that “there was a group of people that were prosecuted for falsifying ballots.” That is wrong.
They were charged with relatively minor infractions related to filing false registration forms, apparently the result of pressure to meet quotas. The prosecutor said they were not engaged in voter fraud or trying to affect the outcome of the election. Ultimately, charges were dropped against the supervisor and nine other people, while two people who admitted to perjury served no jail time.
Meanwhile, the state’s action also halted a successful effort to register minority voters in Indiana. That may have been the biggest outcome out of this case, not the hyped-up claims of voter fraud.
Pence earns Four Pinocchios.
Four Pinocchios
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/05/pences-hyped-up-claims-voter-fraud-that-took-place-indiana/
Has Biden announced his VP mate yet??
He said he would by around the first of August.
Pence will stand head-and-shoulders above anyone "he" announces.
Dems must be wondering what the hell they've got themselves in to. Probably thought they could do another "Mueller". Probably same players behind the scenes (Obama)
Won't work this time...
Anonymous cowardly king obama said...
I repeat:
That study was RETRACTED since it was just a political hit piece with falsified data.
Unbelievable you are so ignorant to bring that back up
GET HELP
and take Joe with you.
He’ll post the same lie next month
A study published Friday in The Lancet ...
will they be RETRACTING this one TOO, alky?
LOL.
Stuart Stevens is a veteran Republican campaign operative from five presidential races. When he spoke to PBS’s Judy Woodruff Wednesday, he lamented the GOP failed the moral test it was presented with Donald Trump.
“Well, I think there’s been two strains in the party. Call it an Eisenhower strain going back to the ’50s and a McCarthy strain,” Stevens said, recalling when the GOP would talk about expanding their party and bringing in more African-American voters. “Now we don’t even hear any talk anymore of a big tent. And we seem to have settled into a very comfortable white grievance identity.”
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He said that he wanted to write the book to accept responsibility for his role in seeing Trump come to power.
“If you go back and you read the Pat Buchanan and Kevin Phillips memo that was written for Nixon which really outlined the Southern Strategy, the acknowledgment Republicans can’t get African Americans, therefore, the need is either to suppress them or to divert them from the Democratic Party, has been at the core of Republican electoral strategy,” he continued.
Woodruff noted that he also wrote about the hypocrisy around “Republican family values,” specifically citing Newt Gingrich and Jerry Falwell.
Retraction—Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis
After publication of our Lancet Article,1 several concerns were raised with respect to the veracity of the data and analyses conducted by Surgisphere Corporation and its founder and our co-author, Sapan Desai, in our publication. We launched an independent third-party peer review of Surgisphere with the consent of Sapan Desai to evaluate the origination of the database elements, to confirm the completeness of the database, and to replicate the analyses presented in the paper.
Our independent peer reviewers informed us that Surgisphere would not transfer the full dataset, client contracts, and the full ISO audit report to their servers for analysis as such transfer would violate client agreements and confidentiality requirements. As such, our reviewers were not able to conduct an independent and private peer review and therefore notified us of their withdrawal from the peer-review process.
• View related content for this article
We always aspire to perform our research in accordance with the highest ethical and professional guidelines. We can never forget the responsibility we have as researchers to scrupulously ensure that we rely on data sources that adhere to our high standards. Based on this development, we can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources. Due to this unfortunate development, the authors request that the paper be retracted.
We all entered this collaboration to contribute in good faith and at a time of great need during the COVID-19 pandemic. We deeply apologise to you, the editors, and the journal readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience that this may have caused.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31324-6/fulltext
Stuart Stevens is a veteran Republican campaign operative from five presidential races.
ah yes. le bag o' tools who managed a very winnable romney presidential campaign into a devastating LOSS to an ACORN asshat marxist from cabrini green.
is he a lincoln project grifter now too alky?
alky,
you seem to be stepping, no, stomping, on many rakes today.
WASHINGTON — Dr. Brett Giroir, who coordinates the Trump administration's coronavirus testing response, said Sunday that there is no evidence that hydroxychloroquine is an "effective" treatment for COVID-19, despite President Donald Trump's repeated boosting of the drug over objections from experts.
In an interview on "Meet the Press," Giroir, the assistant secretary of health and human services for health, did not specifically mention the president, but he it made clear that the scientific consensus is that the drug does not help treat the disease.
"Most physicians and prescribers are evidence-based, and they're not influenced by whatever is on Twitter or anything else. And the evidence just does not show hydroxychloroquine is effective right now," he said.
"We need to move on from that and talk about what is effective," he added, pointing to public hygiene measures like hand-washing and mask-wearing, as well as treatments like the drug remdesivir and steroids.
"At this point in time, there has been five randomized controlled, placebo-controlled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine. So, at this point in time, we don't recommend that as a treatment."
Of course your doctor can prescribe it, but you probably shouldn't take it anymore.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nation-s-testing-czar-it-s-time-move-talk-about-n1235600
Incoherent saucemeister
ah yes. le bag o' tools who managed a very winnable romney presidential campaign into a devastating LOSS to an ACO
rrb
alky,
you seem to be stepping, no, stomping, on many rakes today.
Sad fact is he was pounded on the Lancet study months ago. Same as when he breathlessly posted a Lancet during the Bush years saying we had killed like 600 million Iraqis or whatever made up number it was
Joe Scarborough
@JoeNBC
“All of the studies that were rigorously done have pointed in the same direction, which is that the drug doesn't work. I think at this point, we can definitively say hydroxychloroquine doesn't work. I'm not sure what more we need to do."
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@ScottGottliebMD
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
Also true: Only the wrong applications of the drug have been "rigorously tested." That feels like important context.
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Also true, many of the people criticizing HCQ have financial ties to Gilead, which makes the highly costly treatment Remdesivir (1.6 billion just approved)
Corruption in The Medical Field: US Doctors Threatened Over Hydroxychloroquine Use. Dr. Fauci is Blocking HCQ
https://www.globalresearch.ca/corruption-in-the-medical-field-us-doctors-threatened-over-hydroxychlorquine-use-dr-fauci-is-blocking-hcq/5719094
Follow the money and the politics...
Vice President Pence just admitted that the President will steal the election.
By immediately following the election day, they will file a lawsuit against the states that have mail in ballots.
He doesn't realize that the state of Utah has been using mail in ballots for decades.
This is the biggest threat ever since the civil war began!
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/08/pence-brags-about-plan-to-fight-mail-in-votes-trump-will-head-straight-to-the-courthouse-hints-at-using-scotus-to-win/
Gilead Sent Death Threats To Kill HCQ As COVID-19 Cure, French Dr Testifies In Parliament
After it was revealed in a shocking investigation that WHO policies on Hydroxychloroquine were based on a fake study by a pornstar and a science-fiction writer, now in an ongoing investigation, a French doctor has testified in parliament that Gilead sent him death threats after he started talking about HCQ as a cure for COVID-19.
Now during a shocking testimony before the parliament, Dr. Raoult told lawmakers under oath that the person who sent him death threats was a top recipient of Gilead Pharmaceuticals.
Professor Raoult testified that, shortly after he started to talk about HCQ as a treatment, in March, he received anonymous death threats. He filed a complaint with the police, and an enquiry was opened by the French judiciary.
The medical doctor behind the threats was found and happens to be from a Nantes university hospital. It happened to be the person who received the most money from Gilead over the past 6 years.
https://greatgameindia.com/gilead-death-threats-hcq/
NY is imposing check points.
You must show your Identification to "freely" move about the State.
You don't need one to vote however.
LOL
A year ago, I was the most important person wearing a uniform in the United States, serving in a critical position on the National Security Council. I wrote memos. I coordinated the process of writing memos with other people in the memo-writing community. I distributed memos (both my own memos and other people’s memos) to people who were supposed to read those memos. I helped develop the interagency memo-writing consensus by organizing meetings about writing memos, and summarizing people’s notes from those meetings in separate memos. I made sure that NSC staff had coffee and bagels in the morning, for the daily NSC briefing. I was in charge of the Ukraine desk at the NSC—and, by extension, given Ukraine’s overwhelming importance to America, in charge of the entire U.S. foreign policy.
It would be fair to say that I was U.S. foreign policy.
In recognition of my unparalleled diplomatic, military, and foreign policy achievements, I was on the cusp of a promotion to general of the Army, skipping a few ranks. It was, in fact, no less than I deserved, after repeatedly turning down a position as Ukraine’s minister of defense when I was still a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
And yet, a year ago, unknown to me, my concerns over the president’s conduct and the president’s efforts to undermine my attempts to conduct and direct our foreign policy were precipitating tremors that would ultimately shake loose the façade of good governance and publicly expose the corruption of the Trump administration. (I don’t know what this sentence means, to be honest—my lawyer wrote it, and it sure sounds good!)
Our nation’s values are under threat and in peril at this moment—and this is why I felt it was critical for me to get together with my friend Eric, and leak the Trump-Zelensky phone call to him so that he could immediately leak it to others. I would have done it myself, but I needed plausible deniability.
Without my leaking, today our national government has become reminiscent of the authoritarian regime my family fled more than 40 years ago. This is why I am planning to move to Moscow in the near future. I am currently in ongoing discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s representatives about becoming Russia’s minister of defense, or, failing that, a Washington lobbyist for RosTech, a Moscow-based umbrella corporation that produces virtually all of Russia’s weapons. Those weapons work some of the time, let me tell you! And I look forward to helping sell those weapons to the Pentagon when the time comes.
And if things don’t work out, I’ll move to Gibraltar.
Chief Justice Roberts will not let them destroy the country from Donald Trump and his pathological supporters
Climate change is a Democratic Hoax!
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is racking up storms at breakneck speed. To date, the season is about two weeks ahead of record pace and it's only one third of the way through. On Wednesday, the news became more concerning as the research team at Colorado State University (CSU) — the standard bearer for seasonal forecasts — released the most dire forecast in their 37-year history.
Labeling the 2020 hurricane season "extremely active," the team is now predicting 24 named storms, including 12 total hurricanes and 5 major hurricanes — each figure about double that of a normal season. If the forecast proves accurate, 2020 would be the second most active Atlantic hurricane season, behind only the record-shattering 2005 season which brought Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma.
Only 21 storm names are allotted each year because the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are not used. As a result, if 24 tropical storms are indeed named, the National Hurricane Center will have to employ the Greek alphabet for overflow. This has only happened one time on record — in 2005 when the Atlantic experienced 28 named storms.
An overview of Colorado State University's 2020 hurricane season forecast as of August 5, 2020. / Credit: CSU
An overview of Colorado State University's 2020 hurricane season forecast as of August 5, 2020. / Credit: CSU
In addition, CSU is forecasting a 75% chance that the U.S. coast will be struck by a major hurricane — Category 3 or greater — during the 2020 season. This is significant because damage increases exponentially with wind speed. Category 3, 4 and 5 systems cause 85% of all hurricane damage.
Weather experts issue most threatening hurricane forecast yet
https://news.yahoo.com/weather-experts-issue-most-threatening-024100977.html
Roger bored his 2 ex-wives into divorcing him.
"Caliphate4vrAugust 6, 2020 at 12:24 PM
A study published Friday in The Lancet examined 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients
God you’re tedious and stupid
The Lancet
Retraction—Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis"
I have to provide identification to get my mail ballot in California
Oh goodie Roger wants to chat about the 8 years his party said is all the Earth has until it all ends.
"At this point in time, there has been five randomized controlled, placebo-controlled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine. So, at this point in time, we don't recommend that as a treatment."
Giroir, the assistant secretary of health
So, at this point in time, we don't recommend that as a treatment."
so at this point in time i'll rely on my personal physician and leave cap'n crunch to entertain the alky.
😀
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/08/pence-brags-about-plan-to-fight-mail-in-votes-trump-will-head-straight-to-the-courthouse-hints-at-using-scotus-to-win/
that's a pretty impressive freak show line up you have there, alky.
when i was a kid you had to pay money at the county fair to see weirdo shit shit like that.
Biden Leads In Midwestern Battlegrounds
August 6, 2020 at 1:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
New polls from the Focus on Rural America:
Iowa: Biden 49%, Trump 43%
Michigan: Biden 51%, Trump 41%
Minnesota: Biden 54%, Trump 36%
Wisconsin: Biden 53%, Trump 42%
ALL BUT ONE BY DOUBLE DIGITS
Trump Says Biden Is ‘Against God’
August 6, 2020 at 2:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
President Trump claimed to a small crowd in Ohio that Joe Biden is “against God.”
Said Trump: “No religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt… God. He’s against God, he’s against guns.”
TRUMP SAYS BIDEN IS AGAINST GOD
AMERICANS SAY THEY ARE AGAINST TRUMP
Trump Approval Near All-Time Low
August 6, 2020 at 3:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
A new Pew Research poll finds President Trump’s approval at a dismal 38% to 59%.
Among Republicans and Republican leaners, 77% currently say they approve of Trump’s performance; only 5% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say the same.
Three Interesting Senate Races
August 6, 2020 at 2:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
New Quinnipiac polls of some interesting U.S. Senate races:
South Carolina: Graham 44%, Harrison 44%
Maine: Gideon 47%, Collins 43%
Kentucky: McConnell 49%, McGrath 44%
Said pollster Tim Malloy:
“Big political names.
Huge political stakes.
High anxiety for the GOP.
Three GOP Senators who easily won their last reelection bids are looking over their shoulders less than three months from Election Day.”
And the pederast slinks back in with nothing but copy and pastes that no one will read
Model Now Predicts 300,000 Deaths In U.S.
August 6, 2020 at 5:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Researchers behind an influential model are projecting that the US death toll from coronavirus could reach nearly 300,000 by December 1 — but that can be changed if Americans consistently wear masks,” CNN reports.
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Meanwhile, DeSantis is telling Floridians that they CAN hug elderly people in nursing homes.
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
And the pederast slinks back in with nothing but copy and pastes that no one will read
like you and the sick Babylon bee. asshole??????
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