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riversedge's JournalHere are the CDC guidelines the White House doesn't want you to see
Source: Business Insider
Rhea Mahbubani 11 hours ago
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In the document, the US's top disease experts provided detailed recommendations on reopening schools, restaurants, mass transit systems, churches, and more.
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The White House buried a comprehensive report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advising state and local officials on how to safely reopen public spaces while the United States remains in the clutches of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Associated Press reported on Thursday that the 17-page document contained advice from the nation's leading disease experts on when and how to reopen schools and day camps, workplaces, restaurants and bars, mass transit systems, religious facilities, and childcare centers.
Titled "Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again Framework," the report, which includes suggestions for religious leaders, business owners, and academic professionals, was due to be published last Friday. The AP published that report and another CDC document with flowcharts for each sector to follow.
But an unnamed CDC official told the AP reporters Jason Dearen and Mike Stobbe that scientists were told it "would never see the light of day."
The news service said it got a copy of the report from another federal official who wasn't permitted to release it. The AP also published a story on April 28 describing the guidelines before the Trump administration chose to put the document aside.
What the CDC guidelines said............
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Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-shelves-cdc-report-safely-reopening-country-2020-5
People eating lunch on Wednesday in a noodle restaurant in Bangkok that reopened after the easing of coronavirus restrictions. Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
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More Canadian troops deployed to senior homes
Source: cnn.com
4 hr 52 min ago
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Despite efforts to shore up staffing and improve conditions, there are still hundreds of outbreaks at seniors’ centers across Canada with dozens of deaths reported daily.
Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan said more than 1,600 soldiers would be deployed by next week, the majority to centers in the Montreal area..........................
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"This is not a typical Canadian Armed Forces operation," Sajjan added, echoing the words of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who last month said soldiers should not be taking care of seniors.
But Trudeau added that for now, Canada has no choice but to do just that as the crisis in seniors’ homes continues. Nearly four in every five Canadians who have died of Covid-19 have been residents of long-term care facilities. ................................
As of Thursday, Canada has reported about 65,000 cases of the virus and more than 4,500 deaths. ...............................................................
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-07-20-intl/h_c6692a9e4877368469e234280ff10d56?utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2020-05-08T01%3A00%3A38
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https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1258562419791716353?s=20
Just sayin'
there is a semblance............
https://twitter.com/cclovephd/status/1258461517877411842?s=20
Sen. Martha McSally: Next coronavirus relief package should not be a 'cash cow' for mismanaged citie
Source: azcentral.com
Sen. Martha McSally: Next coronavirus relief package should not be a 'cash cow' for mismanaged cities
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Arizona Republic Published 5:55 p.m. MT May 7, 2020
Sen. Martha McSally won’t commit to backing additional financial support for state and local governments during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying taxpayers should not bail them out for years of mismanagement.
During a recent virtual town hall hosted by the mayor of Surprise, McSally, R-Ariz., reiterated her call for increased flexibility in how funds can be used, but made clear she sees big, blue-state cities as trying to fleece red states.
“I’m just going to be frank with you guys, OK,” she said in an hourlong videotaped event. “This is not the time for states and cities — unlike Arizona, unlike Surprise — who have mismanaged their budgets over the course of many decades, for them to use this as an opportunity to see you, as a taxpayer in Arizona, as a cash cow for them in whatever city you want to talk about, whether it’s Chicago or New York or whatever."
McSally said some officials want to use the pandemic as their opportunity "to bail out states and cities that have nothing to do with coronavirus" but are financially struggling because failed budgeting and debt.
"This is not the time for us in Arizona and you in Surprise to be paying for mismanagement in Chicago," McSally said. "That’s what, actually, the left is advocating for right now. What we’re advocating for is we provide specific relief.”
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Her remarks, first reported by the AZ Mirror, were not intended to be made public, said a spokeswoman for her office.
In a written statement Thursday afternoon to The Arizona Republic, McSally said she was working hard to make sure cities, towns and cities have the money and support they need during the pandemic..................
Read more: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2020/05/07/mcsally-next-coronavirus-bill-cant-cash-cow-mismanaged-cities-covid-19/3090548001/
ha ha. McSally was stupid enough to talk about cities in this manner when the talk was videotaped. te he. Cat is out of the bag!
https://twitter.com/JesseFFerguson/status/1258568921768243208?s=20
Sen. Martha McSally is a Republican representing Arizona. (Photo: Martha McSally)
Selfish stupid idiots!!
https://twitter.com/ShirlAAdams/status/1257781554497142790?s=20
READ IT: Adam Schiff releases all declassified transcripts related to investigation into Trump's Rus
Source: raw story
READ IT: Adam Schiff releases all declassified transcripts related to investigation into Trump’s Russia scandal
Published 1 min ago on May 7, 2020
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) has wanted to release all of the information heard in a classified setting about President Donald Trump’s involvement in the Russia scandal, but the director of national intelligence had been dragging their feet on declassifying it.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) went on Fox News Thursday, to blame Schiff for the slow release. Schiff, along with the staff, have been off of Capitol Hill due to the Washington, D.C. stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus. Schiff advocated for the release of the transcripts, but that wasn’t enough for Nunes, who whined about it taking too long.
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In a statement released Thursday, Schiff released everything that had been declassified by the DNI about the investigation into President Donald Trump’s collusion with Russia.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/read-it-adam-schiff-releases-all-declassified-transcripts-related-to-investigation-into-trumps-russia-scandal/
Lot to go through.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1258511374327492609?s=20
Russia Investigation Transcripts and Documents
Materials from the Committee's Investigation into Russian Active Measures
In 2017 and 2018, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) undertook an investigation into Russia’s interference campaign targeting the 2016 U.S. election. The Committee’s investigation came on the heels of an Intelligence Community assessment, which found:
“Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.”
Democrats on the Committee affirmed that judgement, as did Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee. Throughout its investigation, the Committee uncovered significant evidence of Trump campaign efforts to seek, make use of, and cover up Russian help in the 2016 presidential election. To date, two witnesses have been convicted and sentenced to prison terms for lying and attempting to obstruct the Committee’s investigation.
Ultimately, this pattern of misconduct and deceit continued when President Trump once again sought to coerce a foreign government into providing him illicit assistance with his reelection campaign, this time from Ukraine. For his efforts, President Trump was impeached in the House and became the first ever U.S. President to to receive bipartisan votes to convict in the Senate.
As part of its commitment to transparency, today the Committee is releasing fifty-seven transcripts of witness interviews during the course of the Russia inquiry, as well as additional relevant material, so that every American can see the facts and decide for themselves:
Is this conduct ok?
After releasing the transcripts, Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) stated:
“From 2017 to 2018, the House Intelligence Committee conducted an investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Despite the many barriers put in our way by the then-Republican Majority, and attempts by some key witnesses to lie to us and obstruct our investigation, the transcripts that we are releasing today show precisely what Special Counsel Robert Mueller also revealed: That the Trump campaign, and Donald Trump himself, invited illicit Russian help, made full use of that help, and then lied and obstructed the investigations in order to cover up this misconduct.
Unfortunately, the President’s misconduct did not end with his election in 2016 or his attempts to cover up that effort. Rather, in the course of his presidency, he continued to seek illicit foreign help in his campaign by coercing another nation, Ukraine, to smear his opponent. After making use of Russia’s help with his first presidential campaign, President Trump pressed the Ukrainian president to help him in 2020 by withholding critical military aid to that country and a coveted head of state meeting.
These acts ultimately led to the President’s impeachment in the House of Representatives and the first bipartisan vote in the Senate in our history in support of a conviction of a President of the United States. The President’s efforts to make use of the help of a foreign power to win an election, and then to extort yet another foreign power to try to win again, represent a grave threat to the health of our democracy now and in the future.
The transcripts released today richly detail evidence of the Trump campaign’s efforts to invite, make use of, and cover up Russia’s help in the 2016 presidential election. Special Counsel Robert Mueller identified in his report similar, and even more extensive, evidence of improper links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government. A bipartisan Senate investigation also found that Russia sought to help the candidacy of Donald Trump in 2016.
While Special Counsel Mueller found insufficient evidence to prove the crime of criminal conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt, he refused to draw any conclusion on the issue of collusion — contrary to false representations made by Attorney General Bill Barr and others. There is ample evidence of the corrupt interactions between the Trump campaign and Russia, both direct and circumstantial, in the record:
In June of 2016, a Russian delegation offered dirt on Donald Trump’s rival—presidential candidate Hillary Clinton—to the highest levels of the Trump campaign, and did so in writing. Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., accepted that offer, and then set up a secret meeting between the Russian delegation, himself, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to discuss that illicit help. When news of the meeting was about to break, Trump and his son drafted a false statement for the press together in order to cover up the true purpose of the meeting. This written offer of illegal help by the Russians and its acceptance by the President’s campaign, and the secret meeting that followed, provide some of the most damning and direct evidence of the President’s to make use of Russia’s assistance in the election.
Throughout the summer of 2016, the Trump campaign and candidate Trump himself repeatedly sought damaging information on Clinton from Russia. In July of 2016, Trump publicly called on Russia to hack Clinton’s emails, and – as the Special Counsel found – that night, Russian military intelligence officers did precisely that. Our transcripts show that numerous individuals affiliated with or working for the Trump campaign were in communication with individuals offering help to set up private backchannels with the Russian government.
Multiple witnesses sought to hide and cover up illicit activity related to Russia during the presidential campaign. One-time campaign advisor and close confidant to Trump, Roger Stone, has been sentenced to prison for lying to the Committee about his advanced knowledge of impending WikiLeaks releases of Clinton campaign information. Former personal attorney to Trump, Michael Cohen, was imprisoned in part on charges that he lied to the Committee about Trump’s role in arranging a lucrative business deal in Russia during the course of his campaign and early presidency. The President’s pursuit of Trump Tower Moscow — potentially the most lucrative deal of his life — while lying to the American people about his business interests in Russia, provided the most serious counterintelligence risk to the United States.
Another associate of Trump, Erik Prince, misled our Committee about his efforts to take part in a secret backchannel with a senior Russian government official while he was unofficially supporting the Trump campaign.
And the transcripts also show that during the transition period in late 2016, the incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn undertook efforts to undermine U.S. sanctions on Russia imposed by the previous administration over Russia’s interference in the election on Trump’s behalf. Flynn would later lie to the FBI about these efforts, and the President would try to pressure then-FBI Director Comey to shut down any investigation into Flynn. It would take the firing of then Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the later appointment of an unscrupulous Attorney General, Bill Barr, for the President to achieve his aim of seeking dismissal of the case against Flynn, and only after Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI.
Despite taking part in this investigation and hearing these facts first-hand, the transcripts reveal how House Republicans used witness interviews not to gain the facts, but to press President Trump’s false narrative of ‘no collusion, no obstruction.’ It would be a pattern they would follow throughout the Russia investigation and into the President’s subsequent Ukraine misconduct. To that end, House Republicans sought to use the Committee’s Russia investigation to undermine the Intelligence Community’s assessment that Russia sought to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. That assessment has been affirmed by this Committee’s Democrats, the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, and Special Counsel Mueller.
These transcripts should have been released long before now, but the White House held up their release to the public by refusing to allow the Intelligence Community to make redactions on the basis of classified information, rather than White House political interests. Only now, and during a deadly pandemic, has the President released his hold on this damning information and evidence.
Like the Ukraine investigation that would follow it, the investigation into the Trump campaign’s effort to seek and utilize Russian help in 2016 and to obstruct justice, reveal a President who believes that he is above the law. But we are a country where the truth still matters and where right still matters. Our investigation into the Trump campaign, and the evidence we uncovered despite formidable obstruction, affirms that.”
Read the full statement here.
Correspondence
Letter from HPSCI to Acting Director of Intelligence Richard Grenell (May 7, 2020)
Correspondence between HPSCI and Office of Director of National Intelligence and White House (November 2018 - May 2020)
Interview Transcripts
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Woman who accused Fauci of sex assault now says Trump supporters paid her to lie
Source: raw story
Published 1 min ago on May 7, 2020
A woman who had accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of sexual assault now claims she was paid to lie about the public health expert by a pair of President Donald Trump’s supporters.
The woman says right-wing provocateur Jacob Wohl and his frequent accomplice Jack Burkman persuaded her to cast Fauci as the assailant using details from an actual sexual assault she survived just after high school, and they paid her to do it, reported Reason.
“The reality is that I’ve known Jacob since 2018 and that he charmed me into taking money to do this (see attached picture of us together),” said Diana Andrade in an email to the website. “[They also] had me do something like this…back in January.”
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Andrade said she decided to abandon her claims and try to record incriminating evidence against the pair after Wohl asked her to find another woman to accuse Fauci of sexual assault — as they’ve done to former special counsel Robert Mueller and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)...............
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/woman-who-accused-fauci-of-sex-assault-now-says-trump-supporters-paid-her-to-lie/
so, seems like Jacob Wohl--the vile creep, can just continue with all his fraud. on and on.
https://twitter.com/CheriJacobus/status/1258426577982853121?s=20
'The #coronavirus had already got on a plane from China and went to Europe, then to East Coast" says
@govCuomo.-- He talked of this yesterday also--that we--Trump always talk of how virus came from China and how effective the china travel ban was! Nope, the sneaky virus had already traveled to Europe by the time put down his China ban.
Mitt Romney left the senators' @GOP weekly lunch carrying a giant poster with a graph on it. It read
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Mitt Romney left the Republican senators' weekly lunch carrying a giant poster with a graph on it.
It read: "Blue states aren't the only ones getting screwed."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1258011127889432577?s=20
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The Hoarse Whisperer @HoarseWisperer There is so much dumb everywhere................
as someone said---there are no words anymore.
The Hoarse Whisperer @HoarseWisperer
There is so much dumb everywhere.
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1258122700922519552?s=20
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