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Congressional Investigation Called For

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It is becoming clearer that important information about the risk of a pandemic in the US. was kept from the American people by its own government.  An earlier post here related to this.

Why is this important?  It is important so we can avoid the next pandemic or a resurgence of this one.

Understanding Covid-19: Starting with Some Simple Science

Noted Epidemiologist Has the Scoop on Coronavirus

A literally Brilliant epidemiologist tells the truth about where we are now.

Warning: contains profanity.  [PG 13]
Smallpox Epidemiologist on Covid-19

Corona Virus Pricks the Bubble: Expert

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The corona virus has simply pricked the economic bubble says well-known expert.



Corona Virus But a Pin Prick

A Call to Help Restore America's Public Health System

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Below is the hyper-link to a plan calling for the restoration of America's public health system, and her place of leadership on health in the world.

It is fine to want to shower money directly on Americans -- even at the risk of inflation.  But far better to couple this kind of aid with a plan and program to re-establish America's formerly vaunted public health system, so something like the covid-19 fiasco can never happen again.

Re-building our health system will take years, but what a better time to start than now.   


https://www.healthandcommunications.com/blog/theplan

The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming

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Below is a link to an interview with noted researcher Dennis Prager, who predicted the coming of new and deadly pandemics years ago.  This interview has important and interesting facts about the corona viruses and others.

Note:  be prepared for the term zoonetics.   

Highly recommended. 


http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-pandemic-coming 

Greg Palast’s Success in Georgia

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Here is a good link to an interview with investigative reporter Greg Palast about his efforts to combat voter suppression. Spanning years, Palast’s work is beginning to yield fruit.




A Short History of Greg Palast’s Efforts in Georgia

The Cult of OML

Strong language:  a "cult."  Yet study shows -- and many have said -- the Republican Party has become largely a cult of personality surrounding OML.  Now comes further proof by way of a new book purchase.

In When a Church Becomes a Cult, Anglican priest Stephen Wookey describes in clear terms how cults work.  My use of this book here is not to lambast churches but rather to shame all cults.  In chapter 5, Wookey describes how cults and their leaders use language.  Speaking of cults he says:

     Words are used not to communicate truth, but to obscure and confuse so that you abandon your rational senses and simply receive an experience.  Put another way, words have been rendered obsolete.  This is, of course, incredibly dangerous.   Words are the most basic and accurate means of communication that we have.   We can communicate by body language, or picture, or music, to some degree.   But they are inevitably flawed and can easily confuse....

     Words, on the other hand, are designed to clarify, to explain as precisely as possible.   If ever we want to make something clear, we have ultimately to use words....When we use words to confuse, or we use words loosely, we are no longer able to communicate in a meaningful sense.*

Here we have the essence of OML's use of words.  We are indeed in dangerous territory.   If, as Wookey says, our culture is reliant on language -- and surely we are -- the loose and seriously inaccurate use of words at the highest level of the federal government has become a danger to the people, a clear and present danger.  Examples can and have been given. 

Thus, all due speed and effort must be used to call out this cultic use of language for what it is -- a means of manipulation and control.  For when confronted with such verbiage, one is tempted to give up in simple exhaustion, proclaim to oneself, "What's the use," and then succumb to torpor and silent acceptance. 

By now in this short essay it should be clear that the people of the United States are in grave danger of coming under the sway of a vast conspiracy of deceit.  As I continue in the book, I hope to find suggestions of a way out of such a morass.  When I do, you will be the first to know. 




*pp. 90-91

A Quick Suggestion

To All Americans:

Do something constructive every day to advance the cause of democracy.  Call a legislator to support the independence of the judiciary, the rights of the under-privileged, or the rule of law.   Call or write to protest interference by the Executive in the courts, lying from the Oval Office, unwarranted firings of patriotic Americans.

This is our time;  this is our moment.   Let us reflect the light of liberty and justice for all.  We are in an emergency.   We can and must act now to preserve our democracy. 

In Surprise Move, Judge Decides Kemp Defense So Weak No Trial Is Needed

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Kemp Loses Vote Purge Suit
Brought by Reporter Palast
By Nicole Powers for the Palast Investigative Fund

[Atlanta-Feb 9] In an extraordinary and unexpected move, Federal Judge Eleanor Ross has declared Gov. Brian Kemp the loser in a lawsuit brought by investigative journalist Greg Palast for the State of Georgia to open up its complete files on the mass purge of over half a million voters from the rolls.

Surprising all parties, the judge ruled that Kemp’s defense was so weak that no trial is needed.  The judge acted "sua sponte"—on her own initiative, unrequested by Palast’s attorneys.

Greg Palast & Helen Butler, co-plaintiffs in Kemp lawsuit Palast has been fighting Kemp to release his hidden purge lists and methods for six years, for Rolling Stone, al Jazeera, Salon, Democracy Now and currently, The Guardian. Palast said, "Kemp and the new Sec. of State of Georgia want to keep the lid on their methods for removing literally hundreds of thousands of low-income, young and minority voters on the basis of false information.  They cannot hide any more.  This is a huge win and precedent for reporters trying to pry information from the hands of guilty officials." A key issue at stake are the "Interstate Crosscheck" purge lists secretly provided to Georgia by the Kansas Secretary of State in 2015 and 2017.  Kemp had turned over Georgia’s voter rolls to Kansas official Kris Kobach, who worked closely with Donald Trump, and is known for his racially biased vote suppression techniques. "Kemp tried to hide the Crosscheck lists which he got from his crony Kobach. The lists are at least 99.9% wrong.  Kemp’s office claimed he did not use the lists to purge voters, an assertion contradicted by his GOP predecessor.  Moreover,  Zach D. Reports of the Palast investigative team obtained the Georgia 2013 purge list provided by Kobach through (legal) investigative techniques—so we know, and the judge knows, he has more squirreled away. "Kemp finally turned over evidence that he purged 106,000 voters, overwhelmingly voters of color, that were on the Crosscheck list.  But that’s just the tip of the purge-berg." Palast’s co-plaintiff Helen Butler is the Executive Director of the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda, a non-partisan group founded by civil rights legend Rev. Joseph Lowery.  Lowery, commenting on the Crosscheck purge system, told Palast, "It’s Jim Crow all over again." Oddly, one of Kemp’s defenses was that he turned over Georgia’s confidential voter information to Kobach so it could be used to purge voters in 29 other states, but not Georgia.  Kobach’s list showed thousands of Michigan voters supposedly also registered or voted in Georgia.  Michigan removed tens of thousands of voters with names like "James Brown" and "Mohammed Mohammed"—almost all with mis-matched middle names. The Michigan purge of Georgia voters was key to Trump’s official victory margin of 10,700 in Michigan, putting Trump over the top in the electoral college. While Palast says, "The evidence is overwhelming that Kemp used the Crosscheck list in some way to purge Georgians — 106,000 is not a ‘coincidence’— I do want to find out why Kemp was using Georgia voter rolls to remove voters in other states." The Crosscheck list identifies over half a million Georgians — including one in seven African-Americans in the state — as having moved out of Georgia, according to an investigative report on Kemp and Kobach published by Palast in Rolling Stone in 2016. "My job as an investigative journalist is not to change laws or affect elections, but to expose official shenanigans.  I thank my lawyers Brian Spears of Atlanta and Jeanne Mirer of New York for taking this case pro bono to rip the cover off Kemp's and the state of Georgia’s racially poisonous undermining of democracy." The Palast team is providing investigative reports to The Guardian’s "Fight for the Vote" series.   *     *     *     *     * The Palast team is completing work on our short film of how exactly Brian Kemp illegally eliminated 340,134 voters from the rolls, stealing the election from Stacey Abrams.   The Palast film then takes us to Wisconsin where the "Kemp" techniques are the center of a push block 247,000 voters, mostly Democrats and thereby keep Wisconsin, the swing state of swing states, in the Trump column. Help us complete our investigation, dig into the purge lists and finish this film?   It’s not about candidates, it’s about democracy.  Donate $1,000 and you’ll be listed in the credits as a producer, $500 as a co-producer,  $100 as a supporter or simply donate what you can. And you’ll get a signed copy of the film!  We have a team of 15 digging into the heist of 2020—there is nothing like it in US journalism.     Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, now out as major motion non-fiction movie: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election, now available on Amazon and Amazon Prime. Stay informed, get the signed DVD, a signed copy of the book companion or better still - get the Book & DVD combo.   Support The Palast Investigative Fund and keep our work alive. Become a monthly Contributor. Or support us by shopping with Amazon Smile. 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Coast-to-Coast Protests Follow Senate Impeachment Acquittal

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Protestors across the country on Wednesday night protested the Senate's acquittal of D. Trump.  


Protests Target Acquittal Vote

TV News Producer Explains Danger of Television Campaigning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmw7hH0kawA&feature=share

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Adam Schiff Gives His Strongest Speech in Favor of Conviction Yet

What a Difference Twenty-four Hours Can Make

With the release of the John Bolton document, events suddenly seem uncertain -- and in a good way.  For now we have a situation in which there are cracks in the stone wall of resistance to the truth which Trump-supporting Republicans have erected.

There are reports tonight of a new willingness on the part of Republicans in the Senate to at least discuss the possibility of witnesses in the impeachment trial.  This is a matter which should never have been in dispute in the first place -- whether witnesses are appropriate in such an important undertaking.

Yesterday at noon it seemed that there was little hope the truth could break through.  Now, little more than twenty-four hours later, there is at least a sliver of light escaping from that fortress wall of defiance. 

First published on Patriot in Exigency