COVID Contact-Tracing Has Been A Monumental Failure

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COVID Contact-Tracing Has Been A Monumental Failure Tyler Durden Wed, 11/18/2020 - 04:15

We all know we are already in the midst of Covid's "second wave". But the real question remains the same as it was 10 months ago - where are people catching the virus? There's no doubt contact tracing, especially in the U.S., has been a monumental failure. The good news is that it means increased privacy for citizens. The bad news is that it will likely be used as a scapegoat to forego those privacies in the future - and that it'll result in broad lockdowns. 

This was the question explored in a new WSJ article that sought to try and find out where the record amount of new cases are coming from across the globe. In Germany, for instance, authorities say they don't know where 75% of people who test positive from the virus have gotten in. In Austria, that number is 77%. In Spain, the country was only able to identify 7% of cases. In France and Italy, that number is around 20%.

Here in the U.S., we only don't have much more in the way of detail. In New York, for example, a senior adviser for public health estimates 10% of cases came from travel, 5% came from gatherings and 5% came from "institutional settings".

The rest? We'll, there really isn't any visibility into where they came from.

Jay Varma, senior adviser for public health for NYC's Mayor's Office, said: “The vast majority of the remainder—somewhere probably around 50% or more—we don’t have a way to directly attribute their source of infection. And that’s a concern.”

While Asian nations interview about 10 people per case, for contact tracing purposes, the U.S., France and the U.K. generally only interview or identify fewer than four contacts per case. 

That data is then easily "skewed by statistical distortions", according to Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He said that cases in people's homes are probably overlooked: “We may be putting too much emphasis on what we can trace…and not acting on the types of establishments that are very likely contributing but for which data isn’t as compelling.”

Cue the "we need access to your homes" government line. "Trust us - it's for your own good," they'll say.

Restaurants, where diners are among strangers, also make contact tracing difficult. Only few European countries and U.S. states have required restaurants to take down contact information from their customers. In France, this requirement only started in early October. In Paris, local authorities said they "haven't conducted a single investigation" using customer data. 

Falko Liecke, city councilor for health and youth in Berlin’s popular Neukölln district, said they have a problem contact tracing because people either can't - or simply don't want to - remember where they were at, when and with whom. It's almost as if they don't want the government infringing on what they do in their own private time - imagine that. 

German cities have asked people to keep a "contact diary" of those they are in contact with, in case they test positive. 

Contact tracing is made even tougher by the fact that the virus takes 10 days to show its symptoms - if it shows symptoms at all. Again, up to 40% of cases are estimated to be asymptomatic at this point. 

So, as government does best, the baby will be thrown out with the bathwater: new lockdowns are being implemented both overseas and here in the U.S., where an incoming Biden administration is toying with the idea of a 4-6 week total shutdown.

So much for 15 days to slow the spread back in March, huh?

And again, we're sure this angle of not having visibility into contact tracing will result in new, Orwellian rules that'll be "for everybody's own good" at some point, despite the fact that we are just weeks out from having a vaccine in widespread distribution. 

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Forced Vaccination Law In Denmark Abandoned After Public Protests

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Forced Vaccination Law In Denmark Abandoned After Public Protests Tyler Durden Wed, 11/18/2020 - 05:00

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

A law in Denmark that would have given authorities the power to forcibly inject people with a coronavirus vaccine has been abandoned after nine days of public protests.

The ‘epidemic law’ would have handed the Danish government the power to enact mandatory quarantine measures against anyone infected with a dangerous disease, but it was the part about vaccinations that caused the biggest uproar.

In Denmark, the national government proposed a new epidemic law which includes the right to conduct forced physical exams, mandate isolation, and allows police-directed physically coerced vaccination.

The people resisted.

The proposal was dropped.

Well done, Denmark. https://t.co/qHxn0QCf6e

— AJ Kay (@AJKayWriter) November 15, 2020

“The Danish Health Authority would be able to define groups of people who must be vaccinated in order to contain and eliminate a dangerous disease,” reports the Local.

“People who refuse the above can – in some situations – be coerced through physical detainment, with police allowed to assist.”

However, after nine straight days of protests against the new law, it has now been scrapped.

DENMARK: 9 days of protests over a new law that "would be able to define groups of people who must be vaccinated. People who refuse the above can be coerced through physical detainment, with police allowed to assist."pic.twitter.com/LN0SBVKUE8

— Robin Monotti Graziadei (@robinmonotti) November 14, 2020

With a coronavirus vaccine within sight, governments across the world are mulling over what punitive measures to bring against those who refuse to take it.

Last week we highlighted how both Ticketmaster and airline companies are considering barring people from entering venues and flying if they cannot prove they have taken the vaccine.

So while public protests may be able to prevent authorities carrying out forced vaccinations, people who refuse to take the shot may find it virtually impossible to enjoy any kind of social life, use public transport, or even find employment.

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COVIDGATE: The corruption of clinical trials, Part 1

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"Truly striking." "Tremendous." "Extraordinary." "Miraculous." "A great day for science and humanity." Those are just a few of the hyperbolic responses from government health officials and Big Pharma cheerleaders to preliminary COVID vaccine trial data released by Pfizer and Moderna this past week.

If it all sounds too good to be true, then congratulations: Your B.S. detector is fully charged and operational.

Mask flip-flop-flipper Dr. Anthony Fauci proclaimed on Monday that COVID-19 vaccines are "the light at the end of the tunnel." Pffft. He has been promising a "light at the end of the tunnel" since April when Americans were told to endure lockdowns for just "15 days to stop the spread." Now, seven months later, Fauci tells us that we won't return to "relative normalcy" until April 2021 – only after face-diaper-wrapped citizens "do what you're told" and "we get most of the country vaccinated."

Yikes. Ticketmaster, Tokyo Olympics organizers and the travel industry are now exploring vaccine status verification systems based on the public health industrial complex's high, heavenly and hasty promises. Based on the press release write-ups of the uncompleted clinical trials, which have yet to be finalized or subjected to scientific peer review, Fauci assures us that "all the boxes have been checked" on vaccine safety and efficacy.

But what about these boxes:

• Big Pharma cannot tell you how long the alleged protection of COVID-19 vaccines will last.
• Big Pharma has zero data on young children's response to their warp speed-produced jabs, even as schools across the globe prepare to mandate it as a condition of access to education.
• Big Pharma can't tell you about the synergistic effects of the COVID-19 vaccine with other vaccines.
• Nor can Big Pharma tell you about the long-term side effects of its "miraculous" shots. (And don't forget the astonishing fact that vaccine makers are immune from lawsuits by vaccine-injured Americans.)

Here's what we do know: The Pfizer clinical trial enrolled 43,538 participants, of whom 94 (about two-tenths of 1%) were identified as having COVID-19. The Moderna clinical trial included more than 30,000 participants, of whom 95 (about three-tenths of 1%) were categorized as having COVID-19. In other words: The vaccine is being tested on people who are at incredibly low risk of COVID-19 – not only the vaccinated enrollees but also the unvaccinated.

When you read headlines touting the Pfizer jab as "more than 90 percent effective" and the Moderna jab as "94.5 percent effective" in protecting against the coronavirus, ask yourselves this: How did the vaccine trial officials define a positive COVID-19 case?

According to a highly critical article in the British Medical Journal, which reviewed the details of all the ongoing phase III COVID vaccine trials released to date, "laboratory confirmed infections even with only mild symptoms qualify as meeting the primary endpoint definition. In Pfizer and Moderna's trials, for example, people with only a cough and positive laboratory test" qualify as COVID-19 positive cases. Astra Zeneca's paused COVID-19 vaccine trial allowed a mere cough and fever with a positive PCR test to qualify as a positive case. Final efficacy analyses are planned after vaccine trial officials document a measly 150-160 "events" (positive indications of symptomatic COVID-19, regardless of illness severity).

The BMJ author, associate editor Peter Doshi, pointed out that none of the trials underway "are designed to detect a reduction in any serious outcome such as hospital admissions, use of intensive care, or deaths. Nor are the vaccines being studied to determine whether they can interrupt transmission of the virus." This is in stark contrast to how the trials have been marketed to the public as assessing the vaccine's impact on preventing severe COVID-19 illness, hospitalizations and deaths.

Moderna's own chief medical officer told the BMJ that the company's trial lacks adequate statistical power to assess severe COVID-19 outcomes. That's because hospital admissions and deaths from COVID-19 "are simply too uncommon in the population being studied for an effective vaccine to demonstrate statistically significant differences in a trial of 30,000 people. The same is true of its ability to save lives or prevent transmission: the trials are not designed to find out." Bottom line: COVID-19 is too rare and too benign to permit analysis of exactly the kind of serious health outcomes that most Americans believe the vaccine will "cure."

Vaccinating billions of people to prevent a disease with a 99% survival rate for people under 70 – all based on clinical trial efficacy analysis of less than 200 COVID-19 cases involving patients with coughs and unreliable PCR tests with significant false positive rates – is not the triumph of science. It's corruption, and it's the tip of the iceberg.

In Part Two of this series, I'll expose shocking revelations about the Moderna vaccine trials.

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National Election Fraud: Evidence of National Chicanery During America’s 2020 Presidential Election

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Election fraud in the 2020 presidential race on a national scale? We’ve compiled a litany of facts and data here so that you can decide for yourself.

Below we explore the details and the data of what happened across the nation on Election Day, with flagrant and often sloppy irregularities occurring from coast to coast. Elsewhere we explore similar efforts in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia

The General Landscape of American Election Fraud

The media is trying to weave a narrative with ever-shifting goalposts. They began by saying that not only did voter fraud not happen, but that it’s impossible. Now, they have shifted their story to saying that there is always minor fraud, but that it never really matters much.

The Heritage Foundation has identified 1,200 elections where voter fraud made the difference in recent decades long after the era of Jim Crow when election theft was de rigueur. Of these, fully 15 were thrown out specifically because of cheating by mail-in ballot.

Mail-in ballots are largely banned in Europe, where voter ID requirements are likewise the norm. Florida has been recognized specifically as an offender.

Another narrative in the controlled media is that illegal aliens and other non-citizens don’t vote. This is patently untrue. In fact, they vote at alarmingly high rates. A 2019 study found that approximately 2.2 percent of respondents admitted to voting illegally, which implies a little under a million ballots cast by non-citizens every year.

The counterargument is that respondents are either lying or misunderstood the question, but this is simply not true — those who conducted the study verified their votes.

So we can see that electoral fraud is not only impossible, it is common. It is not negligible, it has determined elections in living memory. With this as our backdrop, we will now investigate voter irregularities throughout the nation during the 2020 Presidential election.

What Constitutes Evidence of Electoral Fraud?

Before going further, it is worth discussing what constitutes evidence for electoral fraud. Well, the Carter Center has a set of standards that they use to determine whether or not there has been electoral fraud somewhere.

These are the standards used by globalists to determine whether or not elections they disapprove of have been conducted fraudulently. Several of them are present in the contested states:

• Counting procedures should be verifiable.
• Votes should be presented for independent review.
• Elections should be subject to recounts.

Additionally, the Carter Center states that it is the right of dissidents to challenge and question the results of an election that they believe to be fraudulent. Harassing dissidents is considered evidence of chicanery in and of itself.

“Effective redress” is the term they use and it is considered by the Carter Center to be vital for establishing an election as legitimate. The resistance of the Democratic Party to recounts and audits should be a red flag in and of itself.

There are also mathematical anomalies that are worth looking into because, regardless of turnout and outcome, elections will follow certain patterns. One of these is that, because of mail sorting, mail-in ballots will consistently show the same ratio of support for each candidate. We did not see that, however — there is a significant spike in support for Biden and fall off in support for President Trump as Election Night dragged on.

Indeed, in Wisconsin, this anomaly became massive around 4 a.m., the same time that the massive ballot drops without supervision began. The same phenomenon occurred in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, all four of these states with copious amounts of electoral chicanery and irregularity. Virginia was another state with similar mathematical irregularities.

Benford’s Law is another area where we see mathematical irregularities. Put simply: When we have large datasets of numbers, there is a pattern we can find with regard to the final and penultimate digit of each number in this data set.

Benford’s Law analysis is one of the first things run by forensic accountants looking for financial malfeasance or tax cheating.

Many of the electoral tallies in disputed states violate Benford’s Law — but only for Joe Biden, whose distribution more closely resembles the curve when people type “random” numbers in. President Trump, Jo Jorgensen, Howie Hawkins, and Kanye West’s numbers do not violate this law, but former Vice President Biden’s do in disputed areas.

The Wikipedia article about Benford’s Law was altered and locked after several enterprising Twitter users began investigating this strand of the 2020 election theft.

The Glitch From Coast to Coast

One recurring theme throughout the 2020 election is the glitch. There have been a number of glitches, many detailed in our series on irregularities in different states. This, in and of itself might not be cause for concern — however, in every case, these so-called “software glitches” favor former Vice President Biden at the expense of President Donald Trump.

Again, we have detailed these in our state series article, but we will mention some here just to give you a general idea of what has been going on with these “glitches.”

One in Michigan sent 6,000 votes to Biden that were meant for Donald Trump. Another in Wisconsin, robbed Donald Trump of 19,500 votes. Another similar glitch in Georgia saw an unspecified number of votes go to Biden that were, once again, meant for the President.

There appears to be a pattern here. Were these all bona fide mistakes, we would likely find votes that were meant to go for Joe Biden going to Donald Trump before the situation was corrected. But we are unaware of any such error in favor of the President.

The common denominator? The voting software used to calculate the vote made by a company with deep connections to the DNC.

The Turnout That Wasn’t

The DNC’s victory in the 2020 Presidential election relies heavily upon a massively increased turnout, again centered around a handful of large cities controlled by the Democratic Party. One example of this is 90 percent turnout in the entire State of Wisconsin, which would not only be the highest level of turnout in American history, but also comes close to the 92 percent average in Australia where voting is mandatory. In the city of Milwaukee alone, the turnout was 84 percent.

Compare this turnout to Cleveland, a culturally comparable city not in a swing state, which had a comparatively scant 51 percent turnout. This is an important city to draw a contrast with because, while it is a Democratic stronghold, as are most large cities, and it has a similar minority population, it was not in a state that was considered in play this election. Democrats attempted to steal the election by fabricating astronomical turnout in urban areas they control in swing states.

The turnout gambit becomes even more laughable when one considers that Biden is one of the least invigorating Democratic candidates since John Kerry or Mike Dukakis. Yet somehow this candidate was able to increase his vote above what Barack Obama enjoyed, with some districts in Milwaukee putting up more votes than there are registered voters in the area.

A broad study conducted by Judicial Watch found that 353 counties across 29 states had turnout exceeding 100 percent of registered voters. Eight of these had turnout exceeding 100 percent across the entire state: Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Perhaps more damning, the study was limited to 37 states publishing their voter registration data. This means that, of the 37 states that Judicial Watch had access to, 78 percent of them had turnout exceeding 100 percent.

Vetting of Mail-In Ballots

The American public was warned for months in advance that mail-in balloting, illegal throughout most of Europe, is inherently insecure and lends itself to the kind of mass voter fraud that we are seeing in action right now.

But the mail-in ballots that we are seeing in this election are not just nonspecifically “suspect.” They are rife with irregularities and a lack of accountability that should cause them to be closely investigated, audited and, where appropriate, thrown out entirely.

Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania are particularly questionable. This is a state where Biden enjoyed a 60.5 percent lead in mail-in voting. More damning is the fact that many of these ballots seem to have arrived before they were even sent, arrived the same day or arrived within one day of being sent. This is an abnormal amount of processing time, especially when we consider the surge in mail due to the election.

James O’Keefe found two whistleblowers at USPS, one of whom was willing to come forward, who told of backdating ballots. This whistleblower was intimidated by the feds and it was falsely reported that he recanted his report.

Vetting of mail-in ballots is particularly important because they are widely open to electoral fraud, as we have discussed above. So it is troubling that we have multiple reports, including in the form of sworn affidavits presented before the court, of poll watchers being thrown out, mocked, intimidated and even physically assaulted during the course of counting mail-in ballots.

Of special note is the strong resistance to poll workers in swing states to allow anyone to watch them. In Pennsylvania, poll workers were caught on video expelling poll watchers despite knowledge of a court order preventing them from doing so. Reports of expelled poll watchers were part of the lawsuit filed in Michigan and there were similar reports out of Georgia. This raises the obvious question — why don’t they want anyone watching them?

Biden Outperformed Obama

Biden’s turnout when compared with Barack Obama is another area warranting special investigation. It is worth noting that Biden was generally viewed as a less-than-ideal candidate in no small part because he generated very little enthusiasm among Democratic Party voters. In contrast, Obama was a rock star candidate who had just defeated the party’s presumptive nominee in a hard-fought primary. Biden, on the other hand, was largely foisted on the party through back room deals in an attempt to prevent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders from obtaining the nomination for President.

Biden also barely campaigned throughout the primary season. Most of the campaign was characterized by the candidate calling “lids,” a term meaning that he was home for the day and would be doing no more press, with the occasional teleconference. Not only did he start with an unethusiastic base who would have preferred nearly anyone else, he did little to motivate his base throughout the course of the election.

Yet somehow, he outperformed Hillary Clinton who won a hard-fought primary against Senator Sanders and kept pace with numbers from Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, being able to boast that he has received more votes than any other candidate for President in American history. In some cases — tellingly in areas crucial for winning the election — Biden was able to outperform Barack Obama.

For example, in Chester, Cumberland, and Montgomery Counties in Pennsylvania, he outperformed Obama by approximately 25 percent. In Montgomery County, he was able to double Barack Obama’s margin of victory. He increased the raw vote total there by fully 80,000 votes. The population of this county only increased by 22,000 in the years between Obama’s victory and Biden’s alleged one.

Not only should we be skeptical of the numbers, we should be skeptical of them because of where they came in from. Such dubious numbers were not coming in from places that we could assume were Democratic Party strongholds like New York, Chicago and Miami where Biden actually saw a decrease in voters relative to Hillary Clinton. So why is he putting up these high totals only in a handful of cities (Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia) controlled by Democrats in swing states?

Biden-Only Ballots

Another area of suspicion are the Biden-only ballots. Tens or hundreds of thousands of voters marked their ballots only for Joe Biden, with presumably no interest in down ballot races. While it’s not unusual for people to take an outsized interest in the Presidential election, it is unusual for 450,000 people to have no interest in down ballot races and for this to be concentrated in a handful of swing states.

The strange dichotomy here is that people were far more likely to do this in alleged swing states with competitive Senate races like Georgia, while deep red states like Wyoming did not see a massive number of Biden-only ballots. In Georgia, there was only a difference of 818 votes between Trump and down ticket Senate races. 

Biden, on the other hand, received over 95,000 more votes than either Senate candidate on the ballot in Georgia. In Wyoming there were a mere 725 more votes for Biden than the Democratic Senate candidate in the state.

Raheem Kassam reports on five states with anomalous Biden-only voting, all of which keep coming up with various irregularities: Pennsylvania (98,000), Georgia (80-90,000), Arizona (42,000), Michigan (69-115,000) and Wisconsin (62,836).

All told, Republicans won 28 out of 29 competitive House races as of November 8 and flipped three state legislatures, but were somehow unable to deliver the White House to the President. So we are expected to believe that not only did Joe Biden receive more votes than Barack Obama and that these came largely on the back of massive inner-city turnout, but that this massive turnout for Joe Biden was unable to flip a single state legislature.

Biden-only ballots are a recurring theme in all of the states in question. While they are by no means a smoking gun, they do point toward significant irregularities that need to be investigated before Joe Biden can begin claiming victory.

Who Counts the Votes? Irregularities In Counting Systems

There is a quote often attributed to Joseph Stalin, but is probably apocryphal: It doesn’t who votes, it matters who counts the votes. It doesn’t really matter who, if anyone, actually said this. The point is that it doesn’t matter what votes actually say if the votes are ignored or altered by the person doing the counting.

In the 21st Century most of our vote counting is done by machines which use proprietary software. Most states used systems supplied by Dominion Voting Systems. What’s more, the irregularities in vote counting, in particular the “glitches” that universally favor Joe Biden, come from these voting systems.

First, we should note that there were 92 donations made by Dominion employees over the last year according to the FEC. Of these, 80 went to Democratic super PAC ActBlue, seven went to Senator Bernie Sanders, four to the Trump campaign and one went to the DNC. What’s more, Dominion Voting Systems has a partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative as well as former employees of the Clinton Growth Initiative on staff, according to One America News Network.

Rudy Giuliani claims that the legal campaign to protect the election has whistleblowers from Dominion ready to go on record.

A bit in the weeds, but worth mentioning, is the allegation that intelligence software was used to change vote counts. There is a video on this subject here. As we say, this is a bit in the weeds, but worth mentioning for those who wish to go down that rabbit hole.

NOQ Report has been kind enough to do a deep dive on the topic of Dominion’s role in the 2020 Presidential election. They found significant vote switching in Georgia (17,407, where Biden leads with 14,148 votes) and Pennsylvania (with over one million votes switched in favor of Joe Biden). The article is mostly just a list of switched votes and lost votes, but it bears reading because it sheds light on just how massive a role vote switching played in the 2020 election, further cementing the theory that Dominion played a role in the theft.

Fight Back to Save America

Don’t let any of this get you down, because the fight is far from over. Both President Trump and Congressional Republicans are working hard, both in the public sphere and in the courts to make sure that the 2020 election is fair and transparent.

So what can you do to join in the fight?

First, you should call your elected representatives. That means calling your state rep, your state senator, your House Rep and your U.S. Senator. You should do this be they friend or foe — either way, they need to know that you insist on having all legal votes counted. Insist on concrete steps to ensure the integrity of the vote. Do not settle for stock answers about the importance of democracy. A Twitter account has made what is actually a very good script for you to follow when you call in. Be firm, but polite.

If you want to take to the streets, there are opportunities. Stop The Steal is the movement dedicated to putting bodies in the streets of our nation’s state capitals to let our elected officials know that we are not going to stand for seeing our elections stolen in a manner befitting Zimbabwe. There are almost daily rallies at the state capitol building and the TFC Center in Detroit. What’s more, a nationwide rally in DC called the Million MAGA March is scheduled for November 14. The Democratic government of Washington, DC has responded with new COVID restrictions  designed to cripple the march.

What can you do? Quite a lot. Nothing less than the future of the country is at stake. If they can steal this election, don’t expect another one to be free and fair. But do expect a lot of gun grabs and speech laws.

National Election Fraud: Evidence of National Chicanery During America’s 2020 Presidential Election by Ammo.com‘s lead writer, Sam Jacobs, originally appeared in Thought Grenades, the blog at LibertasBella.com

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6 Factors Which Point To A Rigged Election

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6 Factors Which Point To A Rigged Election Tyler Durden Wed, 11/18/2020 - 00:00

Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,

The US Election is still a burning issue almost two weeks after the people went to the polls, and though the race has been called for Biden by every mainstream media outlet in the world, the recounts are ongoing and irregularities manifest.

Trump’s legal team, and many in the alternate media, are claiming the election was rigged. With one voice the mainstream media – and the entire political establishment – denounce these claims as “baseless”, and scream there is “no evidence”.

This is incorrect. There is plenty of evidence, both circumstantial and direct, which breaks down into six basic categories:

1. Precedent – It has happened before.

2. Motive – Deep State/Military dislike of Trump’s policies is widely known.

3. Foreknowledge – Establishment voices predicted this exact situation.

4. Opportunity – The voting system is highly susceptible to fraud.

5. Voting Irregularities – Known software “glitches” & irregularities in the reporting of the results.

6. Cover-up – Dishonesty in the reporting of the situation.

1. PRECEDENT

There is plenty of evidence that US elections have been rigged before.

Nobody is talking about it much, but US elections have been rigged before. Everyone is more than familiar with the 2000 election, which was called for Al Gore before Florida flipped to Bush and swung the election. The controversy over “hanging chads” and misplaced votes was all people talked about for weeks.

One noteworthy “error” with electronic voting machines, switched over 10000 votes from Gore to an obscure third-party candidate.

After weeks of legal battles, Gore eventually conceded. Within a year the “attacks” of 9/11 had happened, and the US was at war in Afghanistan and planning six more wars within 3 years.

More recently, it was revealed the DNC had gone out of its way to hand Hillary the presidential nomination over Sanders in 2016. Then in the 2020 primaries, despite embarrassingly lopsided losses in the first few primaries, Biden’s presidential campaign had a “miraculous turnaround”, thanks largely to irregularities in postal ballots in Ohio, Wisconsin and New Jersey.

This is evidence of precedent.

2. MOTIVE

The US Deep State has clear and publicly known motives for wanting to remove Trump from office.

It is no secret that many members of the US’s political establishment oppose Trump and Trump’s policies. This includes neo-con warmongers and chiefs of the military and intelligence agencies.

“The Resistance”, billed as some voice of the progressive alternative, boasted former members of George Bush’s cabinet as members.

The most strident opposition to Trump was on foreign policy – most specifically in the Middle East. Trump was committed to withdrawing from Syria, in direct opposition to the “Assad Must Go” crowd at the Pentagon and State Dept.

Just last week it was revealed that Department of Defense actually lied to Trump about their troop numbers in Syria, claiming to have pulled out almost everyone whilst they actually kept their covert war going.

Conversely, Biden has always been firmly in the establishment camp on Syria, and many warmongers are already predicting that Biden will want to “restore some dignity” to the Syrian people.

The US Deep State has carried out coups all around the world, many of them bloody and violent, in order to maintain Imperial ambitions and keep wars-for-profit going. They have every motive to want to remove Trump and put Biden in his place.

This is evidence of motive.

3. FOREKNOWLEDGE

Establishment voices have been predicting, and planning for, this exact situation for almost a year.

In January of this year – well before anyone could have predicted the effect the “pandemic” would have on the world – legal scholars were Wargaming the outcome of a disputed Presidential election based on postal ballots in Pennsylvania.

In August a group naming themselves the Transition Integrity Project published a document predicting a “disputed” election, that the counting would take much longer than usual and that it would not be certain who was President until January.

More generally, the outcome of the election was widely “predicted”, with multiple press outlets claiming there would be a “red mirage” and a “blue shift”. Meaning it would look like Trump would win, and then suddenly Biden would win at the last minute.

This is evidence of foreknowledge.

4. OPPORTUNITY

There is plenty of evidence that the US voting system is open to potential corruption.

Voting machines, for example, are owned and distributed by private companies. Many of which have political ties. An article in the Guardian, of all places, went into great detail about this just last year, when they were suggesting that Trump may have stolen the 2016 election.

Likewise, postal ballots are known to be susceptible to fraud. William Barr, the Attorney General, summed it up in a television interview in September, and written reports in 2007 and earlier this year, have gone into great detail about historical cases of postal vote fraud and possibilities of future occurrences.

This is evidence of opportunity.

5. VOTING IRREGULARITIES

There are plenty of irregularities in the results which suggest the possibility of something strange going on.

The story of the election by the numbers doesn’t really make logical sense. The turnout is said to be 72%, the highest in 120 years, and the first over 60% for over 50 years.

In the process Joe Biden, we are told, shattered Barack Obama’s popular vote record by almost 10 million votes.

Joe Biden?

This Joe Biden?

…got more votes than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton?

Meanwhile Donald Trump increased his own popular vote by over 10 million, whilst increasing his vote share in almost every ethnic demographic, as well as with women and LGBT voters.

Making him the first incumbent president to increase his popular vote but still lose in over a century, and the only one since all 50 states were part of the union.

Even if you believe that narrative is possible, there’s more than enough evidence of voting irregularities to warrant at least questioning the result and investigating further.

In one Michigan county an error in the software configuration swung thousands of votes from Republican to Democrat and called a Congressional seat for the wrong party.

This error was only spotted because of the historically republican record of the county. In a more hotly disputed seat, this error could potentially never have been picked up.

Another Michigan county reported an error which switched 5,500 votes from Trump to Biden – a swing of 11,000 votes.

The software used in this county is used in 30 other states – including Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania, all of which were decided by less than 1% of the vote, and any two of which could swing the election to Trump.

In fact Dominion, the company which supplied the questionable voting software, was denied a contract by the state of Texas in 2019 when judges found there were “concerns” about “whether [it] is safe from fraudulent or unauthorized manipulation”.

A subsidiary of Dominion was kicked out of the Philippines for being too easy to hack.

This video clip appears to show CNN’s coverage switching over 19,000 votes from Trump to Biden in Pennsylvania.

The graphed results of both Michigan and Wisconsin show decidedly odd jumps in Biden’s vote.

The counting itself was also deeply suspect, with several states taking almost a week to count the last few percent of the vote, whilst managing to count over 90% of the vote on the first evening. In Wisconsin the National Guard were brought in to “transcribe” damaged ballots, whilst in Pennsylvania they were allowed to count postal votes with “no clear post mark”, fairly obviously

As Glen Greenwald wrote, the very fact the count was so arduous and complicated raises questions about the outcome.

6. THE COVER-UP

The media are engaging in lies and censorship.

To state there is “no evidence” of election rigging is a lie. There is plenty of evidence. Every news outlet, channel and website is singing from the same hymn sheet on this – even Fox News, so often Trump’s supposed favourite channel.

Even before the election, as discussed above, all the mainstream media were running articles defending mail-in ballots, and claiming that they are not historically weak to voter fraud. This is totally untrue, as anyone who cared to research the topic would tell you.

In fact many countries have incredibly rigid controls on postal voting for exactly that reason.

And then, after the election, social media companies and mainstream media outlets censor the President of the United States.

So, why are all the media telling the same lies? Why are people being denied a platform?

This is evidence of a cover-up.

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Ask yourself:

• If, in 2016, some voting software used in 30 states had flipped 5500 from Hillary to Trump, and later been revealed to be financially tied to the Republican party, would that have been “just a glitch”, or evidence of cheating?

• If the Brexit referendum had swung violently to Leave after dumps of suspect postal ballots were permitted into the count by a judge who was a known Brexit supporter, would the media have kept quiet?

• If, in Russia, the media denied a platform to the opposition to accuse Putin of voter fraud, would that be “responsible media practice”, or evidence of bias and censorship?

We don’t know exactly what happened, or how the election was result was controlled, but as of right now the specifics do not matter.

The point is there is plenty of evidence suggesting something happened, more than enough to warrant asking rational questions and expecting reasonable answers.

Every time the media ignores the evidence, or censors those seeking it, they only display further that there must be some fire behind all of this smoke.

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UK Citizens 'Could Be Banned From Going Into Work' Without Proof Of COVID Vaccination

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UK Citizens 'Could Be Banned From Going Into Work' Without Proof Of COVID Vaccination Tyler Durden Tue, 11/17/2020 - 04:15

UK workers could find themselves banned from pubs, restaurants, and possibly even the workplace if they refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a senior MP.

Speaking with HuffPost UK's Commons People podcast, as noted by Metro, Conservative Tom Tugendhat has warned that he could 'certainly see the day' when proof of vaccination was required to return to normal life.

'If vaccination works and if we’re confident it’s safe, and all indications so far are good, then I can certainly see the day when businesses say: "Look, you’ve got to return to the office and if you’re not vaccinated you’re not coming in,"' he added.

"And I can certainly see social venues asking for vaccination certificates." That said, a government mandate over the vaccine is reportedly not on the immediate horizon, per Health Minister Matt Hancock.

The MP was speaking in the week Pfizer’s vaccine candidate was proven to be 90% effective.  Preparations are now being made to administer the jab, and potentially others that are still in development.

The Government has outlined its strategy for getting people vaccinated as quickly as possible, starting with those who are most vulnerable or are working on the frontline of the pandemic. Despite some experts urging the Government to make getting the vaccine mandatory, Health Minister Matt Hancock has previously stressed that this will not be the case. -Metro

As we noted last week, US-based Ticketmaster is planning to verify concertgoers' vaccination status or whether they've tested negative for COVID-19 within a 24-72 hour window.

MP Tugendhat, who chairs the foreign affairs committee, also pointed to foreign travel as another example industries which already require proof of vaccinations for visitors trying to enter certain countries.

"I remember when I used to travel rather more than I do now – when you go into certain countries you had to show a yellow fever certificate and if you did not have a yellow fever certificate you weren’t allowed in the country and that was that," said Tugendhat, adding "There was no debates, no appeals and no further requests. And I can see a situation where yes, of course you’re free not to have the vaccine, but there are consequences."

When asked whether he thought public transport and similar services might follow suit in requiring 'immunity passports', he replied "It would depend what the public services were, and who and when, so I wouldn't want to start predicting."

But I do think that if things are shown to be safe then rejecting them when they have a wider effect on the whole of society is going to have consequences.

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Popular conservative site gets deplatformed by internet giant

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The popular blog Conservative Treehouse has been kicked off the web-hosting platform WordPress.

The site posted a notice over the weekend.

"Most CTH readers are likely aware of the term 'deplatforming.' Unfortunately, the big tech control mechanism to shut down speech & assembly has now arrived on our doorstep," the site said. "One week after the 2020 presidential election, The Conservative Treehouse received the following notification: '…given the incompatibility between your site’s content and our terms, you need to find a new hosting provider and must migrate the site by Wednesday, December 2nd.'

"It means CTH is being kicked-off the WordPress website hosting platform because the content of our research and discussion does not align with the ideology of those who define what is acceptable speech and what is not.

"What was our violation? After 10 years of brutally honest discussion, opinion, deep research and crowdsourcing work – with undeniable citations on the events we outline – there is no cited violation of any term of service because CTH has never violated one."

Further, WordPress "is not explaining the reason for deplatforming because there is no justifiable reason for it.

"At the same time, they are bold in their position. Perhaps this is the most alarming part; and everyone should pay attention. They don’t care," CTH said.

"Truthful assembly is now the risk. CTH is now too big; with a site reach of 500,000 to a million unique readers each day; and with well over 200,000 subscribers; our assembly is too large, too influential, and presents a risk… we guard the flickering flame."

The site describes itself as "a Last Refuge for each of us for different reasons. … Perhaps you’ve had some truly shockingly cruel things said to you purely because you believe in limited government and fiscal conservatism. Perhaps you not only believe that we should be self-reliant and personally responsible, but also believe that when we are allowed to depend on ourselves, we are stronger, more successful, take greater pride in ourselves and our work, and are more likely to make positive contributions to society. And then we are happier people, or at least more likely to be happier."

CTH explained that is supports the concept that fear "is at the core of liberalism, and love/trust is at the core of conservatism."

"Liberalism is about control. Conservatism is about self-empowerment," CTH said.

"The conservative believes man is born free and will be who he is, no matter what arbitrary limitations or rules are put on him. The liberal believes man is perfectible, and by extension, believes a society at large is perfectible, and command and control is justified in the quest to a 'perfect' utopian society."

It explained the latest reaction from the establishment.

"Accepting – at its core – this move is all about politics, this is yet another reference point in the tenuous nature of where we stand. There’s no hate-speech on this website; there’s no graphic, violent, foul or abusive speech here. The ‘content‘ of the Treehouse is the same discussion that happens around your kitchen table or back porch discussion with friends. We would never cheapen or insult that conversation with vulgarity because that’s not who we are… because that’s not who our nation is. So consider this next part very carefully.

"The ‘content’ is not compatible with WordPress, the world’s largest website and blog hosting service. The content within the largest blog on that global platform is what has become troublesome."

Next for the site, the article said, will be to secure its content and find another platform.

"We will take this challenge head-on and we will use this attack against our freedom as fuel to launch CTH 2.0, a new version of The Conservative Treehouse," the site said.

"The rebel alliance is strong ... and we are angry," the site said.

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U.S. official admits to 'shell games' that kept Trump in dark about real troop levels

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President Donald Trump's envoy to Syria has revealed that the White House never really knew how many American troops were in Syria even after Trump ordered an almost complete withdrawal in 2019.

James Jeffrey, State Department special representative for Syria engagement and special envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, admitted the subterfuge in an interview with Defense One published Thursday.

“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey said.

In fact, he said, the number of U.S. troops in Syria is “a lot more than” the approximately 200 the president agreed should remain when he announced a withdrawal of U.S. forces in 2019.

“What Syria withdrawal? There was never a Syria withdrawal,” Jeffrey said.

“When the situation in northeast Syria had been fairly stable after we defeated ISIS, [Trump] was inclined to pull out. In each case, we then decided to come up with five better arguments for why we needed to stay. And we succeeded both times. That’s the story.”

Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana was livid at Jeffrey's revelation, according to Yahoo News.

"Intentionally misrepresenting a matter of national security to the commander-in-chief is a dereliction of duty and should be punished,” said Banks, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. “I can’t think of anything more dishonorable.”

Jeffrey called Trump's withdrawal order “the most controversial thing in my fifty years in government” but acknowledged that the Trump doctrine in the Middle East has been successful.

He said the president’s “modest” approach produced more stability than the grander visions of past presidents. He singled out a 2009 speech from former President Barack Obama that proclaimed a “new beginning” in the Middle East as an approach that “made things worse” and “weakened us.”

The envoy said Trump achieved a stalemate, which he considered no mean feat.

“Stalemate and blocking advances and containing is not a bad thing,” Jeffrey said. “That’s what powerful countries -- France, Britain, the United States -- failed to do in the 1930s, and then they discovered they had to fight for their lives in really important places like Paris and the South China Sea and North Africa.”

“That’s the nature of realpolitik and great power foreign policy," he said.

Jeffrey said Trump is popular among Middle East allies and that he tried “to build up our alliance system and basically stop nagging at them, show that Washington has their back including their domestic situations -- they can do pretty much what they want, but they’re going to have to step up and do things.”

"Nobody really wants to see President Trump go, among all our allies,” he said. “The truth is President Trump and his policies are quite popular among all of our popular states in the region. Name me one that’s not happy.”

Jeffrey said if the existing election results are confirmed and Democrat Joe Biden succeeds Trump, the Middle East could benefit from a continued realism-centered approach.

“If [U.S. allies in the Middle East] had to pick somebody else to come, it would be Joe Biden,” he said. “I can’t predict how Joe Biden would act, [but] of all of his decisions that I was involved in, and there were many, he is more of a transactional guy by his nature."

“I think the stalemate we’ve put together is a step forward and I would advocate it,” Jeffrey said. “I’m just telling you the reality as I saw it. I’m not trying to do favors to anybody. Because it’s very important when the new team comes in, they don’t say, if it was made by Trump it has to be bad.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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The election was stolen: Is this America?

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There was no "attempted" voter fraud nor was there any "attempt" to steal the election from President Trump, because there was voter fraud and the election was stolen. That is the factual reality. If there were an "attempt" we wouldn't be having this conversation.

That which I have just said is of paramount importance to understand, because it happened in America, not some Third World banana republic with a GDP lower than the value of the shoes in my wife's closet.

This took place in America. It was perpetrated by Americans, and it was perpetrated against the duly elected occupant of the highest office in America and the most powerful office in the world. Let the gravity of that sink in for a moment.

Election skullduggery isn't new in America; after all, the Teddy Roosevelt election wasn't the first or the last as Kennedy v. Nixon proved.

In this instance it wasn't a couple robber barons sitting around their club drinking Scotch and cognac deciding how to continue their unethical machinations. It was not a mobster bootlegger trying to seal the legacy of his family name as with the late Joe Kennedy. This was the unparalleled weaponization of the United States' secretive assets – intended for use to destabilize foreign governments, neutralize threats abroad and protect America against terrorists – successfully deployed against We the People, at the specific behest of those who occupied and occupy the highest offices in the United States. This includes Obama, the courts, et al. who have placed their hand on a Bible and pledged unwavering loyalty to America and the citizens of same.

Institutions heretofore regarded as bastions worthy of trust and respect have proven themselves distributors of pure agitprop and the industrialized centers of systematic brainwashing. I speak of course, of the national media and schools.

This was an assault upon the most sacred of our constitutional rights – the uncontested right to fair elections of the person(s) of our choice.

This goes beyond those hiding behind the curtains who worked against Ross Perot. It goes beyond Karl Rove's sabotage of Herman Cain and Rove's involvement in getting the crayon color groups led by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the NAACP to brand the tea party racist, so as to prevent conservatives from having another political alternative. Those machinations, as evil as they were, pale in comparison to weaponized digital terrorism that was perpetrated against We the People in the outright theft of this election.

If this can happen in America, where else in the world can we truly be free to live the constitutional dream of our Founding Fathers?

This was a plan that was hatched and given trial runs going back to the moment Obama took office. In fact, should we be surprised to find out just how Obama garnered the votes to defeat Hillary? On what level was it the similar weaponization of cyber-warfare as used against President Trump?

The Patriot Act was always going to be a threat to civilian America. I remember having conversations with persons in positions to know the facts, regarding the threat its implementation posed to a free citizenry. I specifically recall a military officer giving me an in-depth lesson regarding what the Patriot Act portended domestically if an individual like Obama ever had access to it. The evolution of the software and programming that could be militarized was something out of science fiction – only it isn't.

People ask today: How could this happen? It happened because the purveyors of anti-Americanism and adherents to Marxism entered institutions of so-called higher learning and developed protocols for the systematic inculcation of malleable minds with hatred for America and belief in communism. I recall reading manifestos of domestic terrorist groups organizing in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, in the late 1960s.

Thus, the urgency to deconstruct America as a free country comprised of free individuals able to determine their own destinies became a matrix-type illusion. The enemies of America have been trained in the most elite indoctrination centers, e.g., Harvard, Princeton, Yale the California university and college system, Northwestern, Columbia, ad nauseam. It's repulsive to watch parents gush with pride that their child has been accepted into some cesspool of Marxism, believing this will help them achieve the American dream.

The elements of this cultural and institutional indoctrination have spread like spores into classrooms, grades K-12, courts, medicine, media, the legal system, military etc. Some of the indoctrinated return to academia to become the next generation of professors and teachers to perpetuate the the process. The elites are chosen/permitted and/or encouraged to run for public office.

As I said, there was no attempt to steal this election. This election was in fact stolen. But that isn't the end of the story. Be it God's will, the mass national support and rebellion of We the People will prevail in the battle to claim the victory that was stolen from us.

We can no longer deny the painfully obvious. We live in an America that people refused to believe could come into being. We live in an America where the enemies terrorize our communities while citizens cower in corners, terrified to fight back.

You have been played for suckers. I say you because I've been warning about Fox News and so-called conservatives. I was excoriated when I warned about the late John McCain, Karl Rove, George Bush and Mitt Romney to mention but four.

The magnitude of what has happened should enrage you; it should also make you assess where we send our children to school and what we involve them in. It should make Americans realize if this can be done with impunity here, is there anything they won't or cannot do wherever they please?

America needs a man like President Trump. Let's join him in fighting to take what the thieves have stolen. It's ours, and we have the right to claim what is ours.

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The Corporate Media Gaslighting Campaign That Failed

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The Corporate Media Gaslighting Campaign That Failed Tyler Durden Mon, 11/16/2020 - 20:40

Authored by Brain Cates via The Epoch Times,

If you’re making the mistake of getting all your news from the six corporations that control most of the American mainstream media, then you’ve heard that the 2020 presidential election ended days ago, Joe Biden was declared the winner, and the transition period between the incoming Biden administration and the outgoing Trump White House has already begun.

And you’d be wrong about that, because the corporate news media is deliberately misleading you.

The truth is that, as I write this column on Friday, Nov. 13, despite what the media is claiming, the actual results of the presidential election are still undecided.

A hotly contested race for the White House ended with no clear winner on election night, and indeed there might not be a clear winner for some weeks yet.

As troubling as that is all by itself, the corporate media using it as an opportunity to launch one of the most brazen gaslighting campaigns ever is infuriating to me.

The News Media Has No Power to Declare Who Wins an Election

First, corporate media outlets pretended they had the authority to declare who had won the election. The U.S. Constitution quite clearly states how the winner of a presidential election is decided, and the news media isn’t mentioned there.

All media outlets are limited to doing is predicting who they believe has won an election. That’s not what the U.S. news media did here. They’re claiming it’s their job to “declare” the winner.

After awarding themselves the magical ability to declare who had won the presidential race, the national news media quickly set about loudly claiming that the transition phase between the supposedly outgoing Trump administration and the incoming Biden administration had already begun.

Story after story has appeared over the past week about how “troubling” it is that the Trump administration is refusing to “work with” the Biden transition team.

Trump’s White House is completely correct in rebuffing attempts by Biden’s transition team to assert its authority, because the transition from one administration to another hasn’t started yet, as I will now explain.

The Media Has Created, and Then Sought to Take Advantage of, Transition Confusion

After Biden and his running-mate Kamala Harris came out for their victory speeches on the Friday night following the election, the major networks timed their own announcements that the presidential race was over for the beginning of the Saturday morning college football games. This is when these networks knew millions of American sports fans would be tuning in to watch.

And so the corporate media has stridently insisted for the past week that the election is over because they said it was over, even as states were not yet called, votes were still being counted in closely contested states, and President Donald Trump was pursuing legal action in multiple state and federal courts as he sought recounts and audits.

But a transition can’t begin until one of the parties concedes to the other. And that hasn’t happened yet.

The History of Past Transitions

In 2016, Hillary Clinton conceded to Donald Trump on the night of the election. This meant the very next day the transition period between the departing Obama administration and the incoming Trump administration began.

In the 2000 presidential contest, Albert Gore Jr. lost a very close race that came down to a razor thin margin of victory for George W. Bush in the state of Florida.

Gore initially conceded to Bush, but then later withdrew his concession and demanded a recount of the votes in Florida. Lawsuits were filed in state and federal courts and multiple recounts were held, all of which Bush won.

After these numerous recounts, it became clear that the Democrat strategy was to keep suing for recounts until Gore managed to win one, at which point the Democrats would demand the recounts stop.

Much to the Democratic Party’s chagrin, the Supreme Court finally ruled in Bush’s favor and stopped the recounts, leading Gore to reluctantly concede to Bush on Dec. 13, 2000.

Only at that point did the transition phase between the Clinton administration and the incoming Bush administration officially begin.

During those 30+ days of limbo in 2000, nobody in either party or campaign or the media went around loudly claiming the election was over and that the transition period had already begun, or that Bush or Gore was the “president-elect.” It would have been absurd.

If Trump had conceded and not sought recounts and audits in the courts, that would have signaled the beginning of the transition period.

But that’s not what has happened.

So the mainstream media has spent over a week brazenly insisting a transition period has begun and is now underway when this is simply not the case.

Abusing the Public Trust

The mainstream media has been willingly and deliberately playing a role in coordination with the Democratic Party and the political elite class to mislead the American public about how presidential elections are decided and when a presidential transition begins.

Fox New’s self-sabotage is the most crass example of a media outlet determined to do its part in the propagandistic charade.

The leftward tilt of Fox News has been apparent for some time, but the blatant partisan behavior of the network on election night still managed to stun its audience.

Fox will now reap what it has sown, as millions of former viewers change the channel to far more honest network competitors, such as OAN and Newsmax.

This kind of behavior is not serving the public trust; it’s abuse of that trust. Plenty of Americans have had enough of this abuse, and are seeking out alternative news outlets.

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