COVID-19 in 10 sentences

 American Thinker

As we approach the end of annus horribilis 2 (also known as 2021 A.D.), it seems worthwhile to to look back and summarize the events that have brought us where we are in the COVID-19 saga.

Here, in ten sentences, is how we got here. ...."

 

Walking in a Fauci Wonderland

 American Thinker

Why are public health officials, including the purported experts such as Dr Fauci, doubling down on the same ineffective measures that gave us our second COVID Christmas with highly vaccinated countries, cities, universities, cruise ships, and sports teams seeing COVID case spikes or setting new case records? The US, now almost two years into COVID, with vaccines and therapeutics, and ongoing restrictions, set a single day case record. What’s going on?

COVID vaccines pose 7 times higher death risk than COVID for young people, Japanese experts warn

 American Thinker

Concerns have been raised in Japan about the risks of myocarditis in young men following injection with the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines, and experts there have warned that the vaccines pose a seven-times-higher risk of death than the virus itself for people in their 20s.

Japan has also been more transparent about the content of the so-called vaccines than has been typical in other countries so far.  Instructions on vaccination with Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna products published on the health ministry's website include a warning that these products "contain an additive that has never been used in a vaccine before."

Meanwhile, reported cases of adverse events continue to rise dramatically, including in the U.S.

 

The COVID Aftermath and Lessons Learned

 American Thinker

The most extreme abridgments took the form of lockdowns, sometimes known as "stay at home" orders.  Under these lockdowns, people were prohibited from leaving their residences except under specific limited conditions.  They were presented as necessary measures to "flatten the curve" — that is, to reduce the spread of the disease and delay infections so as to keep health services from being overwhelmed.  A first lesson is that these lockdowns didn't work.  Numerous recent studies demonstrate that there was no significant change in the course of the epidemic attributable to a lockdown, and further, lockdowns actually seemed to increase infections and mortality in proportion to the severity of the lockdown.   ............This brings us to the second lesson: overreliance on certain "scientific" experts.  With the decline of religious authority, people have sought replacements.  Science has taken on much of the vacant role, with certain figures gaining credibility by speaking with certainty and authority.  Unfortunately, that isn't science.  Real science, especially under dynamic circumstances such as a pandemic, consists of many different viewpoints with much debate and disagreement.  ....A third lesson is that authorities were granted too much power under various "emergency" orders — powers that they used virtually without restraint for extended periods of time.  Many of the normal mechanisms that would restrain state power, such as legislative and judicial methods, as well as the ability of the people to demonstrate and petition, were prohibited or severely curtailed.  As a result, even though many objected to this arbitrary exercise of power, they were prevented from taking effective measures to oppose it.  ....A fourth lesson is to be found in the contemptuous dismissal of the competence of the general populace, coupled with massive disinformation campaigns by both government and media designed to manipulate rather than inform.  Too many saw the pandemic as an opportunity to exercise power and implement programs that would, under normal conditions, never be accepted. . ...."

 

It looks as if there was massive election fraud in Fulton County, Georgia

 American Thinker

 Garland Favorito founded VoterGA, an election integrity organization that has tenaciously followed the November election in Fulton County, including the ballot storage and recounts.  His organization now has irrefutable proof that there was election and recount fraud in Fulton County, Georgia. It's noteworthy that Biden "won" in Georgia by only 11,779 votes.   ......What happened in Fulton County wasn't an election; it was a joke, with a predetermined Democrat outcome."

So Much Evidence that January 6, 2021 was a Calculated Set-Up

 American Thinker

Political persecution and isolation of vast swaths of the citizenry by the Justice Department, the Intelligence Community, and the Judiciary in the wake of the January 6, 2021, Capitol incursion should bring a chill down the spine of every American. This same troika, but with different nomenclature, was mobilized by 20th Century despots to eliminate their political enemies and establish a police state.

Thanks to the intrepid reporting by Julie Kelly at the American Greatness website, we know the following: 

1) No one has been charged with sedition or using or possessing a lethal weapon, thus, no armed insurrection.  The most common charge filed against the more than 500 that have been arrested is trespassing, despite many being let into the Capitol by the police.

2) As bail was not granted, despite the minor charges and no prior convictions, numerous detainees are being held in a reopened jail in appalling third-world conditions and at times in solitary confinement subject to physical abuse.  All are awaiting trials that will not happen for nearly a year.  

3) The FBI has used theatrical and unjustified SWAT team tactics in arresting suspects.  People who were not in the Capitol have been arrested, questioned, detained, and publicly humiliated.  After overtly insisting that friends, relatives, and neighbors must spy on their fellow citizens, the FBI is using uncorroborated information from virtually anyone as a pretext to arrest rally-goers. 

4) All those arrested and being detained will be tried in Washington, a city that voted against Trump by a margin of 17 to 1.   Federal Judges, who are supposed to be impartial, have openly sided with the government in virtually all their filings and bail requests and have not forced the prosecutors to release the exculpatory information requested by the defendants or shown a willingness to correct the abuses in prison.

5)  Meanwhile many thousands of rioters, looters, and arsonists that destroyed buildings, businesses, and injured police officers during the summer of 2020 have not been arrested or if arrested, the vast majority have been released or given suspended sentences."

 

TWA 800: 25 Years of Deep State Deception

 American Thinker

 On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Paris-bound 747 out of JFK, blew up off the coast of Long Island. It seemed somehow fitting that James Kallstrom, the public face of the FBI investigation into the plane's destruction, would die two weeks before the 25^th anniversary. As a patriot, a Vietnam vet, and an outspoken critic of all things Clinton, Kallstrom once held promise as the insider most likely to come clean. He never did.  ....... Reporting that the U.S. Navy had inadvertently shot down TWA 800—it went no deeper than that. .....At the time, I found it difficult to believe that major media reporters could miss a story as large as a missile strike on a 747. After three days chez Sanders, my only question was why they missed the story.

So began my deep dive into this doomed flight. One documentary and two books later, I can say with 100 percent confidence that missile fire destroyed TWA Flight 800. I can say with 95 percent confidence that the U.S. Navy fired those missiles. As James Sanders will attest, I resisted that latter conclusion until the evidence overwhelmed me. I did not want to believe it to be true. ......."While keeping her eyes on the aircraft," the FBI report continued, "she observed a 'red streak' moving up from the ground toward the aircraft at an approximately 45 degree angle. The 'red streak' was leaving a light gray colored smoke trail. The 'red streak' went passed [sic] the right side and above the aircraft before arcing back toward the aircraft's right wing."

You Know There Was Industrial-Scale Election Fraud. What Can Be Done?

 American Thinker

Don't believe your lyin' eyes, and certainly do not believe the scores of fellow citizens who, under oath, signed affidavits and testified about the fraud those lying eyes witnessed. 

Put this behind you.  Move on.  Just forget it.

But you can't.

......What's really different about the 2020 election fraud is that it has such profound ramifications.  It is not ending — the fraud is initiating the destruction of your worldview: of your faith and patriotism.  It doesn't have an endpoint....

Frustration is overwhelming, because you cannot prove a thing.  You cannot prove what you saw, you cannot prove what you know, because the institutions with the video hide it.  The institutions with the voting data change their websites so data are no longer visible, and nobody does a thing about it.

The FBI won't investigate because they are still hiding what they did to undermine the 2016 election!

Well, perhaps everything needed to prove 2020 election fraud is at hand.

OK, let's go there. .....

Here's a story.

In December, my team was contacted by some data geeks with official election data from one of the swing states.  It was a set of about 4 million records, mail-in and absentee ballots with all the supporting data.  They asked if we could do anything with it.

We are not election guys, and we have day jobs doing pretty cutting-edge stuff in technology, but we do love to play with data.  The bigger, the more complicated, the better.

We built a spreadsheet with about 4 million rows, one for each of the ballots.  We saw a video some teenager did counting how many ballots were received before they were mailed out.  That's not a typo...."

 

Donald J. Trump: On the Threshold of Greatness

 American Thinker

Despite the many ways in which he’s reviled today, I believe that history will record Trump as one of America’s greatest presidents. Looking at America’s most admired presidents, I was able to identify the four criteria needed to earn that accolade:

• First and foremost, the president led the country through a life and death struggle. 
• Second, the president suffered intense defamation, attack, pernicious plots, and even demonization both domestic and foreign but prevailed.
• Third, the president defended and supported our Republic’s foundational documents and institutions: the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, including all Amendments, especially the Bill of Rights.
• Fourth, he supported American liberty, prosperity, and social welfare. All the greats promoted the actualization of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights during their presidencies.

Four presidents have met all those criteria: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. One president, Donald Trump, is on the threshold of meeting those criteria. His place is reserved at Mt. Rushmore and history will tell if he is successful. If he is not successful, our nation may perish in the face of the life and death struggle we are now in.  .....President Trump nearly single-handedly brought the USA back as the world leader. We were prosperous, at peace, and growing in national unity. All in the face of the most vicious and hostile attacks domestic and foreign........The Deep State’s plans to rig the election got aid from billions of dollars from social media giants and anti-American agents. They manipulated state governments through courts to permit unmonitored mail-in ballots, bypassing the state legislatures in key swing states. Through that and other types of fraud, the Deep State engineered a stolen election. ..........The Deep State, working hand in glove with domestic terrorists, co-opted a huge, peaceful protest into a small assault on the Capitol buildings. The Deep State media (included social media), through prearranged statements, immediately characterized the protest as an “insurrection” that President Trump engineered. The media censored any view to the opposite and sought to shut down all free speech.

This is a life and death threat to the Republic unlike the life and death threats faced by other great presidents. This is an attack on American institutions and values from within and without. If President Trump can save the country from this attack, he will take his place in Mr. Rushmore. I believe that he will.

 

Stop the Steal

 American Thinker

There’s something about the title of this article that really rubs Democrat socialists the wrong way.  It incites a level of anger and irrational behavior not seen since the MAGA clothing line hit the shelves.  For the Democrat party and their media acolytes, this catchphrase has been stretched thin to wrap around the recent violent and unlawful breach of the U.S. Capitol, now used as the black swan event to drive a stake through the heart of Trump conservatives (Omitting Republicans here is deliberate, as the backbone and fealty of the Grand Old Party has been compromised in ways that are difficult to understand and painful to watch).

"Stop the Steal" is not a call to violence, nor does it narrow upon a disputed election that will put the worst possible nominee of any presidential race in American history behind the Resolute Desk.  It represents a civil but firm opposition to a Democrat policy platform that seeks to wrench the foundations of democracy out from under our feet.

In the past year, the crawl of socialism in this country has become a full-out sprint acted out in anarchistic nightly displays on our city streets.  Political scientists and Marxist apologists assuage concerns with claims that socialism can coexist with capitalism. At what price and for how long?  Our schools, language, media, and workplaces have already willfully or unwittingly permitted this Orwellian drift to greater government control over our lives.  Standing athwart complete capitulation is our Bill of Rights, against which beltway Democrats and blue state governors, hiding behind the pandemic, have leveled a crippling broadside.......Would the American government have accepted the legitimacy of a foreign election so contaminated?  When Nicolas Maduro won by a landslide against a massive populist movement, the United States and European Union said no.  Venezuela’s election irregularities bear semblance to our own, to include the omission of observers, and the manipulation of results."

 

Industrial-Scale Election Fraud – Did It Happen?

 American Thinker

I’ve read pieces from congresspeople, CEOs of tech companies, from hacks on television (like Karl Rove) that there was no election fraud, let’s move on. 

Wait just a minute. 

I led the team that built the fraud detection engine for the largest online auction house on the planet.  They were on the front page of USA Today because some mother never received that gift for her child after sending in her last dollar.  The auction house publicly said their multi-billion-dollar brand was in jeopardy.

I led industrial-scale fraud investigations in the biggest of the big leagues, and proved fraud.  .....

My team and I know industrial-level fraud and I can tell you with 100% certainty that the 2020 presidential election had massive, organized, discoverable fraud in most of the swing states.

How do I know this in the face of virtually every media company denying significant fraud?

Let’s do a fraud look-see, actually several, together...."

 

Joe Biden signs whatever's put in front of him

 American Thinker

M*A*S*H was an American television comedy that ran from 1972 through 1983.  .....For the first three seasons, the 4077th was commanded by the character Lt. Colonel Henry Blake.  Blake was a kindly, bumbling sort, who never quite knew what he was doing.....

Joe Biden is this country's Lt. Colonel Henry Blake.

To begin his largely symbolic, retribution-based term of office, "President" Biden issued 17 executive orders on his first day.  There can't be any real doubt in peoples' minds that Biden didn't write or conceive any of these.  The 17 E.O.s presented to him in a painfully choreographed, ostentatiously grandiose fashion on his opening day in office were quite obviously prepared by his Progressive-minded operatives well in advance, his group of unelected, unaccountable sycophants who will control the puppet strings for as long as Biden is able to sit upright and remain awake behind the desk. "

Back to the Obama’s Failed Policies and Blinkered Personnel

 American Thinker

Donald J. Trump has been the most consequential President in my lifetime since Ronald Reagan. Issues & Insights counts some of the ways, listing the 10 most significant.

From the beginning, Biden sends the message that by executive fiat and personnel choices he plans to double down on policies that will undo Trump’s achievements and weaken our nation while further restricting American  liberties. Democrats found COVID so convenient a means to open the gates for election fraud and population control and now they plan to use this example as a governing principle, demonizing their opponents while mouthing  calls for “unity.”  ....It’s not just the abhorrent beliefs and records of his selection that raises eyebrows. It’s the utter incompetence that shines through. " 

The Night of the Tech Long Knives

 American Thinker

In 1934 Hitler executed members of his paramilitary organization (the SA – Sturmabteilung or Storm Troopers) to consolidate his power, claiming it was to prevent a planned coup. In like fashion, using the incursion into the Capitol building, the Lords of Silicon Valley used this is a cover to muzzle those whose views with which they disagree. 

The Speech They Claim Caused an Insurrection

The President, before a group described as mostly law-abiding people from all over the country with no plan or desire to cause damage, reiterated his belief that the election was tampered with, and said:

We’re going to have to fight much harder and Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us. If he doesn’t, that will be a sad day for our country because you’re sworn to uphold our Constitution. Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. After this, we’re going to walk down and I’ll be there with you. We’re going to walk down. We’re going to walk down any one you want, but I think right here. We’re going walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.

We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country, our country. Our country has been under siege for a long time, far longer than this four-year period. We’ve set it on a much straighter course.... [emphasis added] ..."

 

Democrats close in for the kill – not just Trump, but all Republicans

 American Thinker

In 2020, Democrat riots caused billions of dollars in property damage, destroyed historic sites, and assaulted and murdered dozens of people. Meanwhile, on January 6, President Trump asked patriots to walk peacefully to the Capitol to cheer politicians who, copying Democrats, objected to Electoral College votes. Some hotheads (encouraged by Antifa plants?) entered the Capitol, as Democrat protesters have done many times before. This time, though, Democrats demanded that Trump leave office immediately under the 25th Amendment or be impeached and that all Trump-supporting politicians across America be expelled from office.......Take note, though, that impeaching Trump cannot prevent him from running for office again because Art. I, Section 3 of the Constitution does not extend to elected offices. Just ask Alcee Hastings. In any event, Trump cannot be impeached once he’s out of office. .......The reality is that Pelosi’s laptop disappeared on January 7 and Trump probably has it in front of him. She is desperate to remove him from power before he does something with it.

Georgia had even more vanishing votes than I realized

 American Thinker

There are a lot of theories floating around about election fraud.  I should know because I've written about some of them.  Generally, proving affirmative fraud is difficult to impossible because Democrats hold all the information.  The one indicator that there may be election fraud that's impossible to disguise is vanishing votes.  More of them turned up in the wee hours of Tuesday night.  Additionally, a mathematically inclined friend walked me through other ways in which those numbers don't add up.

Briefly, when it comes to vanishing votes, votes should always be additive.  You can get fewer votes than your opponent, but no voter walks in and casts a negative vote for you (taking away a vote) or a "transfer vote" (transferring your vote to your opponent).  When the numbers start walking backward, something is amiss.

On November 3, multiple screen captures of vanishing vote counts on television and subsequent data analysis by the Data Integrity Group have shown Trump losing votes already cast in all of the contested states.  Some disappeared entirely; some ended up in the Biden column.

Significantly, this is the one claim that Democrats, NeverTrumps, and quislings of all sorts have failed to challenge.  It's out there.

In my last post about vanishing votes in Georgia, I wrote about 5,000 vanishing Perdue votes.  I woke up Wednesday to discover that according to live video fees on CNN, Perdue lost 32,400 votes.  Much as I hate to rely on YouTube (we conservatives really need to start uploading to Rumble), here's the evidence:"