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  • Arizona AG Threatens Legal Action Against Officials Who Hand-Count Ballots in 2024 Election

    The Arizona election in 2022 is still having negative consequences for election security in the Sun Belt state.

    The Arizona Attorney General, Kris Mayes, has threatened legal action against Mojave County officials if they dare to hand-count ballots in the 2024 election.

    “As Arizona’s chief law enforcement officer, I have an obligation to warn you that the legal consequences would be serious,” AG Mayes warns.

    In the AG’s letter to Mojave County, Mayes purports to be concerned that verifying the accuracy of ballots would ‘undermine Arizona’s democratic process.’

    No kidding. This is from the letter:

    Re: Counting ballots manually instead of by automatic tabulating equipment Dear Supervisors: I understand that you will be voting tomorrow on whether to direct the Mohave County Elections Department to count the ballots for the 2024 elections by hand, rather than automatic tabulating equipment. Before you take that vote, I want to make sure you know that a “yes” vote would direct your Elections Department to violate the law. As Arizona’s chief law enforcement officer, I have an obligation to warn you that the legal consequences would be serious.

    Equally important, I am concerned that this Board has received incorrect legal advice from bad-faith actors who are attempting to sow doubt in Arizona’s elections and ultimately undermine Arizona’s democratic process. Full hand counts are impracticable to perform within the time permitted to certify election results, less accurate than tabulating machines, and more importantly are illegal under Arizona law. The resulting delays, inaccurate results, and illegal procedures from hand counts will then be used to call into doubt valid election results. The Board should not endorse this attack on the democratic process.

    The Attorney General is clearly concerned that anyone would verify that the electronic voting machine equipment indeed accurately records the votes of Arizonans.

    Arizona law does not allow counties to make a blanket decision to count ballots by hand.

    Instead, the relevant statutes repeatedly provide that ballots shall be counted by automatic tabulating equipment. See, e.g., A.R.S. §§ 16-449, 16-468, 16-602, 16-621, 16-622. In particular, section 16-622(A) of the Arizona Revised Statutes provides that “[t]he result printed by the vote tabulating equipment, to which have been added write-in and early votes, shall, when certified by the board of supervisors or other officer in charge, constitute the official canvass of each precinct or election district.” Except when expressly allowed by statute, votes counted by hand do not constitute part of the official canvass. Thus, the proposed measure could end up disenfranchising your constituents.

    The officer in charge of elections may direct that ballots “be counted manually” only if “it becomes impracticable to count all or a part of the ballots with tabulating equipment.” A.R.S. § 16-621(C). No evidence supports a general finding that counting ballots with tabulating equipment is impracticable. Rather, as the recent analysis from the Mohave County Elections Department shows, manually counting all ballots would be impracticable in several ways. See Mohave County, Ballot Hand Tally Analysis, (explaining that a full manual count may compromise confidentiality, hurt the timeliness and accuracy of results, and significantly increase costs). Outside of a specific scenario in which counting ballots with tabulating equipment is impracticable, the Legislature has not provided counties with authority to count ballots by hand instead of via tabulating equipment, and counties may not independently choose to do so. See State v. Stapley, 227 Ariz. 61, 64–65, ¶ 15 (App. 2011) (“[T]he Board can exercise only those powers specifically granted to it by the legislature.”)

    The Elections Procedures Manual similarly makes clear that ballots shall be counted by machine.

    Arizona continues to hide behind opaque, private, unelected, and unaccountable voting machine companies to erect a wall between voters and their votes.

    The Arizona swing state, it should be added, has featured prominently in controversial elections for several years now.

    Prior to becoming governor, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs certified her own election victory over state-wide objections to the way the 2022 election was run.

    Cochise County voted to delay certifying the results of the midterm elections in order to more closely inspect the state’s voting machines.

    Mayes’ letter also notes, “In 2022, Cochise County engaged in a misguided and illegal effort to do a full hand-count audit of all ballots cast in the 2022 general election. The superior court concluded that this was unlawful. The Court of Appeals agreed.”

    In December 2022, following the reported defeat of Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, her attorney noted the election day chaos.

    “Is it your testimony that the printer set changes that led to the so-called ‘shrink to fit’ issue was that done on Election Day?” Kari Lake’s attorney Kurt Olson asked.

    “That’s correct,” Scott Jarrett replied.

    “Elections director Scott Jarrett confirms that the printer setting change that led to the mass disenfranchisement of Arizona voters DID occur the morning of election day,” the Kari Lake War Room reported.

    Also in testimony, election modeling expert Richard Baris said that his projections showed as many as 40,000 voters were disenfranchised over Election Day chaos in Arizona’s Maricopa County. Baris said he would “have no doubt” that she would’ve won the election had there been no issues at polling centers.

    Baris testified that 25,000 to 40,000 voters were disenfranchised in the county due to his estimation that roughly one in five vote centers had problems ballot tabulator machines in the first hours of Election Day. That is a difficult number to verify, but it is indisputable that such disruption would tend to suppress the vote to an uncertain degree.

    “We’ve got about 20% of the locations out there where there’s an issue with the tabulator,” Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates said on election night. Election officials, however, told voters their ballots would still be counted as a result of redundancy protocols.

    The vote margin between Lake and Hobbs was 17,117 votes.

    As reported by Kari Lake’s War Room, the Arizona election contractor Runbeck played a decisive role in the Maricopa County chaos. Runbeck was also the ballot supply contractor for the dysfunctional Harris County election in 2022, and the Fulton County election in 2020.

    “Runbeck employees describe trucks coming in with no corresponding documentation,” KLWR reported. “No chain of custody was kept during this transport. When Runbeck reached out to Maricopa County they said it wasn’t ‘necessary.’ This is the complete breakdown of election law.”

    “Remember the participation of Runbeck in this process AT ALL is already in violation of Arizona State statute,” the account added. “Couple that with the fact that ballots were dropped off, counted(?), and taken out with NO documentation.”

    During the court hearing, the Maricopa County Recorder Steven Richer admitted that the county doesn’t even adhere to state law requiring a chain of custody for ballots. The county ‘deems’ the right amount at the central tabulation facility.

     

    Internal communications between top election officials in Maricopa County in the aftermath of Election Day reveal that they struggled to reconcile a discrepancy of almost 16,000 in outstanding ballot totals, as was reported by Just the News.

    “Unable to currently reconcile SOS listing with our estimates from yesterday,” Richer wrote. Maricopa County estimated having 392,000 ballots left to be counted, while the secretary of state’s website said there were 407,664 ballots left.

    “So there’s a 15,000 difference somewhere,” Richer said, but the discrepancy cited was closer to 16,000.

    In the 2022 race, Republican Abe Hamadeh also “lost” to Democrat Kris Mayes by 511 votes.

    Attorney Tim La Sota said that the general election was “afflicted with certain errors and inaccuracies” in how polling places were operated and how ballots were processed and tabulated.

    “The cumulative effect of these mistakes is material to the race for Arizona attorney general,” he said.

    Then, of course, there was the 2020 election debacle.

    The Election Day chaos and lack of integrity is actually what is causing people to lose confidence in the election results. Hand-counting paper ballots and signature-matching would go a long way to resolving this crisis of confidence issue. Instead, state officials are resisting oversight and hiding behind private voting machine companies, while attacking any county initiatives to second-check the election results.

    This is why Arizona’s elections have become a complete mockery of the democratic process.



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  • Man allegedly beat restaurant worker to death with fire extinguisher, covered her head with sandbag

    LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (TCD) — Prosecutors have revealed additional details about 27-year-old Tatum Goodwin’s death, alleging that a local bartender fatally struck her with a fire extinguisher and covered her head with a sandbag.

    According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, on Sunday, Nov. 12, shortly after 8 a.m., a construction worker discovered Goodwin’s remains underneath a chain link fence at a construction site in the 100 block of South Coast Highway in Laguna Beach.

    Prosecutors allege that 26-year-old Dino Rojas-Moreno of Laguna Hills assaulted Goodwin in a parking lot near her car at approximately 1 a.m. Investigators believe he then “forcefully dragged her” to an alley behind a movie theater and allegedly beat her to death with a fire extinguisher. She was reportedly discovered near the restaurant where she worked as an assistant manager for several years.

    The district attorney’s office said investigators do not know if Goodwin had a prior relationship with Rojas-Moreno. On the day of Goodwin’s death, he reportedly called off work, stating that he “had been jumped by several men in Santa Ana.”

    Laguna Beach Police Department detectives arrested Rojas-Moreno Nov. 15 on a murder charge.

    Prosecutors charged Rojas-Moreno with one felony count of murder, one felony enhancement of special circumstances of committing the murder in the commission of a kidnapping, and one felony enhancement for the personal use of a weapon.

    He remains held without bail and is scheduled for his arraignment on Nov. 20. If convicted, Rojas-Moreno is eligible for the death penalty.

    Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement, “It is heartbreaking that a young woman with her entire future ahead of her had her life ended in such a brutal way and then discarded like her life never matter. She mattered, and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office is committed to ensuring justice is served.”

    MORE:

    • Man Charged with Special Circumstances Murder in Beating Death of 27-Year-Old Woman with Fire Extinguisher in Laguna Beach – Orange County District Attorney’s Office
    • Restaurant worker found dead in alley in upscale Laguna Beach, 11/14/2023 – TCD

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  • NEW White House Cocaine Scandal Details

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    Judicial Watch: Secret Service Photos of Cocaine Found inside the White House – Documents Suggest the Cocaine Evidence Was Set for ‘Destruction’

    Judicial Watch announced recently it received 112 pages of Secret Service records in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that show photos and communications regarding cocaine found inside the Biden White House in July. The DHS withheld 34 pages in their entirety under the “foreseeable harm” standard, which states “the agency reasonably foresees that disclosure would harm an interest protected by an exemption …” and/or the Privacy Act.

    Judicial Watch: FBI Records Show Top Officials Rushing to Craft a Response to Leaked Memo Revealing its Targeting of Catholics

    “The FBI launched a vicious spy effort against Catholics and sought to spy on parishioners as they sat in church pews,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “These records show top FBI officials were panicked in response about their domestic spying abuse leaking out.”

    Cost of Illegal Immigration Greater Than Annual Gross Domestic Product of 15 States

    Mass illegal immigration resulting from the Biden administration’s open border policies is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars to provide an unprecedented number of migrants with medical treatment, housing, education, and other welfare services, not to mention law enforcement. A new congressional report that includes federal and state figures reveals the shocking price of supporting an estimated 16.8 to 29 million illegal aliens currently living in the United States.

    Judicial Watch: Emails Show Communications Between Biden Surgeon General and Facebook on Covid Censorship

    Judicial Watch announced recently that it received 14 pages of emails between U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and top Facebook executives in 2021 regarding the censorship of user posts about Covid controversies. The emails show Facebook leadership seeking to “better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward.”

     

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    After-School Satan Club Targets Rural Connecticut School With Christian ‘Good News’ Club

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    Parents and faith leaders in Lebanon, Connecticut, are outraged that satanists are planning an after-school club for elementary school children in their town beginning December 1.

    A representative of The Satanic Temple’s (TST) After School Satan Club says Connecticut’s first such club was requested by a parent whose child attends Lebanon Elementary School as an alternative to the Bible-based Good News Club.

     

    What the FBI sent us

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    CatholicVote and our partners at Judicial Watch are prepared to litigate this matter to the end. We’re willing to play the long game, too. We believe Americans – and especially Catholics – have every right to know what led to the decision to authorize spying on Catholics in church!

    ‘Urban Combat in a Densely Populated Area is Hell on Earth’ — An Interview with Chris Farrell

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    This is a very schizophrenic situation: the Biden administration says all the right words and they even dispatched an aircraft carrier battle group, a huge navy force. But that’s largely a publicity stunt. That is not a real military threat to anyone. It’s just sort of a demonstration. But while they say things about protecting Israel, they’re frantically engaged in an effort to support Iran, who we know is trying to build a nuclear weapon.

     

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  • UK Govt Quietly Confirms It Will No Longer Publish ‘Deaths By Vaccination Status’

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    A British Government department known as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) quietly decided that it would no longer publish data on deaths by vaccination status.

    Could the reason possibly be that for the past two and half years, the data showed that the COVID-19 jabs really are deadly and responsible for reducing lifespan significantly?

    The data also shows that over 9 in 10 COVID deaths are among the vaccinated.

    Principia scientifica reports: The first dataset was published by the ONS in late 2021 and covered deaths by vaccination status between 1st January and 31st July 2021.

    Since then, there have been a further 8 reports produced with the final report covering deaths by COVID-19 vaccination status between 1st April 2021 and 31st May 2023.

    Each subsequent report has included less and less data, almost as if the UK Government had something to hide.

    For instance, the report published by the Office for National Statistics on 20th Dec 21 inadvertently revealed that COVID-19-vaccinated children were up to 52 times more likely to die of any cause than unvaccinated children.

    Here are the calculated mortality rates by vaccination status among 10-14-year-olds based on the ONS calculated person-years contained in the report published 20th Dec 21 –

    But the following report from the ONS published 4th Feb 22, failed to include any data on deaths among children whatsoever, suggesting authorities in the UK clearly had something to hide when it comes to the safety of children being given the Covid-19 vaccine.

    Then there’s the fact that the reports show COVID-19 vaccination takes approximately five months to kill.

    You’ve likely seen many headlines over the past few years on Doctors being baffled by an uptick in “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” (SADS).

    But the baffled doctors only had to look at the ‘Deaths by Vaccination Report’ published on 6th July 2022 by the ONS to find the answer.

    Table 2 of the ONS dataset contains figures on the monthly age-standardised mortality rates by vaccination status for deaths between 1st Jan 21 and 31st May 22. The first COVID-19 injection was administered in England on 8th December 2020, and here are the figures on mortality rates by vaccination status in the following 4 months –

    The unvaccinated were substantially more likely to die of any cause other than Covid-19 than the vaccinated population in both January and February 2021, before the rates seemed to normalise by the end of April.

    But look at what happened from May 2021 onwards –

    All of a sudden, the vaccinated population as a whole were more likely to die than the unvaccinated of any cause other than COVID-19, and this trend has continued month after month since. It also turns out this trend tallies up with those who received the COVID-19 injections first., which went in order of age.

    The following chart shows the age-standardised mortality rates per 100,000 person-years by vaccination status and age-group for the month of May 2021 –

    The figures show that in May the three age groups who had a higher mortality rate among the vaccinated were the 70-79, 80-89, and 90+-year-olds. The trend continues into June with vaccinated 60-69-year-olds joining the highest mortality rate club.

    The ONS data contained in the published ‘Deaths by Vaccination Reports’ showed that this trend continues month after month until all age groups are more likely to die if they have been vaccinated.

    So much so, that their most recent, and apparently last-ever report reveals quadruple vaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds are up to 318 percent more likely to die than unvaccinated 18 to -39-year-olds.

    Between January and May 2023, four-dose vaccinated teenagers and young adults were significantly more likely to die than unvaccinated teenagers and young adults than the unvaccinated.

    The difference in mortality rates was so stark that the unvaccinated only managed to reach a mortality rate of 31.1 per 100,000 person-years in January, whereas the four-dose vaccinated managed to reach a shocking mortality rate of 106 per 100,000 person-years in the same month.

    These aren’t the kind of figures you would expect to see if the COVID-19 injections really are up to 95 percent effective at preventing death, are they?

    With 95 percent of Covid-19 deaths in the full 12 months up to May 2023 being among the vaccinated it would appear they are in fact only five percent effective, and even that number is extremely generous as we know from the UKHSA reports showing negative effectiveness,

    These are but a few findings from the 9 published ‘Deaths by Vaccination Status Reports’.

    And it should now be clear to you that the UK Government is not stopping publishing further datasets because they are no longer “a useful tool” but instead because they show the devastation COVID-19 vaccination has caused to the population.

    This is taken from a long document with many more images. See it here 2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com

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  • U.S. Spends $30 Mil to Counter Corruption in Foreign Programs that Get Billions

    Fraud and waste are so rampant in foreign programs that receive enormous amounts of money from American taxpayers that the U.S. government is spending $30 million to counter corruption in the projects it already funds. The new anti-corruption initiative will operate within the scandal-plagued United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has a massive budget to provide humanitarian assistance worldwide and annually doles out billions to causes like reducing global poverty and under nutrition, providing bicycles for rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, racial equality, and a national condom strategy in Eswatini.

    Programs funded by USAID have long been plagued with wrongdoing as has the agency, which has an imposing annual budget of nearly $30 billion and operates loosely under the State Department. Citing the “critical importance of development and humanitarian assistance in advancing US interests around the world,” the Biden administration increased USAID’s budget substantially last year by nearly $2 billion. Among the administration’s priorities for USAID are reinforcing global health leadership and addressing the root causes of “irregular migration,” an experiment led by Vice President Kamala Harris that is failing miserably despite receiving around $300 million. The goal, according to USAID, is that the money will improve conditions in impoverished countries like El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras enough to deter its citizens from coming to the U.S. illegally. Instead, the U.S. has been slammed with record-breaking illegal immigration since Joe Biden moved into the White House.

    Another fraud-infested USAID program that deserves scrutiny from its new anti-corruption division involves tens of millions of dollars in malaria drugs provided to Africa that are stolen annually and sold on the black market. The U.S. has spent billions of dollars in the last few years to treat malaria in Africa, where the disease is rampant and kills more than half a million annually. Years ago, a mainstream newspaper published a scandalous exposé documenting how organized networks steal large quantities of donated malaria drugs that end up for sale at street markets. More than 20% of the mostly American-funded malaria drugs are diverted annually with a street value of about $60 million, according to inside government sources cited in the news story. Uncle Sam provides the medication via a program called President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), which is led by USAID.

    The agency’s new multi-million-dollar anti-corruption project aims to systemically address pervasive governance weaknesses that corrupt actors commonly exploit, according to the press release announcing the initiative this month. “This funding will strengthen the systems and actors needed to close loopholes, detect illicit finance and dirty money, follow its movement across borders, and ultimately hold corrupt actors accountable,” the press release states, adding that the investment will boost high priority reforms such as countering pervasive money laundering and enhancing asset recovery. “At the regional and global levels, this award will fund multi-country efforts to enhance international cooperation in tracking and blocking transnational corruption; and test tools and approaches that move anti-corruption practice forward,” the agency writes in its announcement.

    USAID launched the new initiative to meet the criteria set by an overdue anti-corruption policy created about a year ago to address a crisis of fraud and waste in the agency’s programs. Embedded in the 45-page document is a section that indicates what inspired the Biden administration to craft the new policy. “While corruption inflicts grave damage on political systems and societies, it is also a profound personal injustice,” USAID’s anti-corruption policy states. “Women, marginalized communities, and the extreme poor bear the brunt of these harms, as corruption exacerbates unequal power relations and reinforces political, social, and cultural exclusion, which in turn makes it harder for these populations to hold corrupt officials accountable. Corruption often accompanies discrimination against women, LGBTQI+ individuals, indigenous persons, and other marginalized populations. These groups are regularly targeted for extortion – including sexual exploitation (“sextortion”) – and other egregious forms of abuse due to their perceived status in society. Understanding the linkages among corruption, discrimination, and exclusion is essential for ensuring that no one is left behind in our efforts to counter corruption.”

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  • Argentina: Is President Javier Milei What He Said He Is

    Javier Milei, a 53-year-old far-right economist and former television pundit with no governing experience, claimed nearly 56 percent of the vote, with more than 80 percent of votes tallied. It was a stunning upset over Sergio Massa, the center-left economy minister who has struggled to resolve the country’s worst economic crisis in two decades.

    Voters in this nation of 46 million demanded a drastic change from a government that has sent the peso tumbling, inflation skyrocketing and more than 40 percent of the population into poverty. And with Milei, Argentina takes a leap into the unknown — with a leader promising to shatter the entire system, which the locals now correctly realize, is broken.

    Milei, who two months ago was interviewed by Tucker Carlson, has promised to fix Argentina’s perennial economic problems by making drastic budget cuts, replacing the battered peso with the US dollar and shutting down the central bank. He will take office on Dec. 10.

    Massa, from the ruling Peronist coalition, placed first in October’s first round, a remarkable comeback after losing a primary election two months previously. But the dire state of Argentina’s economy, plagued by 143% hyperinflation and a looming recession, posed a challenge too far to his presidential bid.

    “Argentines chose another path,” Massa said in a speech to supporters. Polls before the vote showed Milei with a slight edge over his rival.

    For those unfamiliar with Milei’s unique style, the following clip should be rather informative:

    Commenting on Milei’s victory, Elon Musk predicted that “Prosperity is ahead for Argentina.”

    A Milei presidency will have profound implications for not only the third-largest economy in Latin America, but also the region and the world. In a continent dominated by leftist leaders, Milei could create tensions with governments he has attacked, including crucial trading partner and neighbor Brazil. In an era of growing Chinese influence in Latin America, Milei could become the region’s most vocal antagonist to a country he once called “an assassin.”

    Milei made a name for himself as a television pundit who insulted other guests, and has shown a tendency to fight with the news media. In presidential debates, he has cast doubt on the widely accepted tally of murders during the country’s Dirty War from 1976 to 1983.

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    He has branded Argentine Pope Francis an “evil” leftist, called climate change a “socialist lie” and said he would hold a referendum to undo the three-year-old law that legalized abortion.

    Wielding chain saws on the campaign trail, the wild-haired Milei vowed to slash public spending in a country heavily dependent on government subsidies. He pledged to dollarize the economy, shut down the central bank and cut the number of government ministries from 18 to eight. His rallying campaign cry was a takedown of the country’s political “caste” — an Argentine version of Trump’s “drain the swamp.”

    Massa was emblematic of that ruling elite — “the king of the caste,” said political analyst Pablo Touzón. The career politician attempted to distance himself from the leftist government of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the heirs to the populist dynasty first launched by Juan and Eva “Evita” Peron in the 1940s. Along with a grassroots campaign of activists, Massa sought to stoke fear over a Milei presidency they argued could threaten Argentina’s democracy and way of life.

    But ultimately, anger won over fear. For many Argentines, the bigger risk was more of the same.

    “We don’t have anything to lose,” Tomás Limodio, a 36-year-old business owner who voted for Milei in Buenos Aires on Sunday. “We’ve had this type of government for so many years, and things are only getting worse.”

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  • Childhood Vaccine Exemptions Reach Highest Level Ever in US

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    The United States has now hit its highest-ever childhood vaccine exemption rate in history, according to the CDC.

    The number of children whose caregivers are opting them out of routine childhood vaccines has reached an all-time high, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on November 10.

    Experts believe that the findings clearly reflect Americans growing unease about vaccinations in particular and medicine in general.

    Prior to the so called Covid pandemic, the US had maintained nearly 95 percent nationwide vaccination coverage for 10 years.

    The Epoch Times reports: Yet between 2020 and 2021, vaccine coverage in kindergarten-aged children fell to 94 percent; between 2021 and 2022, it dropped to 93 percent.

    Vaccine exemption rates have also increased to 3 percent.

    “It is not clear whether this reflects a true increase in opposition to vaccination, or if parents are opting for nonmedical [vaccine] exemptions because of barriers to vaccination or out of convenience,” the report authors concluded.

    “Whether because of an increase in hesitancy or barriers to vaccination, the COVID-19 pandemic affected childhood routine vaccination,” they continued.

    Post-COVID Skepticism Spilling Into Vaccine Skepticism

    Dr. Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics at the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, was concerned that people’s skepticism toward the current COVID-19 vaccines may have also affected their attitude toward conventional vaccines, leading to the decline in CDC-recommended and state-required vaccinations, as recently reported by the CDC.

    He suggested that the CDC’s initial delayed recognition of myocarditis as a COVID vaccine side effect in adolescents and young adults, coupled with the agency’s encouragement to vaccinate, as one example of what may be contributing to people’s distrust.

    “I think those [vaccination] recommendations were well-intentioned,” he said, but the slow acknowledgment of side effects may have left some people with a perception that the CDC was “not completely forthcoming.”

    Pediatrician Dr. Mark Barrett said that the current trend is likely caused by people distrusting recommendations from the CDC, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and even their doctors.

    “I feel parents are doing their own research,” he wrote to The Epoch Times via email.

    Pediatrician Dr. Derek Husmann said that children having the lowest risk of severe COVID-19 gave parents and pediatricians a unique perspective, making them question the broad need for vaccines.

    “The pediatricians’ perspective is pretty significantly different—in reference to the COVID pandemic—than a physician who takes care of adults,” Dr. Husmann said, “because the pediatric population was at essentially zero risk of death or serious complications from COVID infection.”

    According to the CDC website dashboard, deaths from COVID-19 make up about 3 percent of all deaths, but the percentage is even smaller in children.

    “There was a perceived conflict between the information that COVID was less serious in children, yet the vaccine was recommended for them. This was never satisfactorily explained or resolved,” Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and health policy in the Infectious Disease Division at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, wrote to The Epoch Times.

    California pediatrician Dr. Samara Cardenas said that the public slowly came to realize the COVID-19 vaccines were not safe nor effective as initially promised, and this may have also prompted parents to question the need for routine vaccinations.

    “[In California], if you’re not vaccinated, they won’t even take a medical exemption. So I have quite a few patients asking about homeschooling rather than vaccinating their children,” she said.

    “There has been this incredible increase in homeschooling since the COVID pandemic, and so that may have falsely inflated the vaccine rates in the [report],” added Dr. Husmann, who is based in rural Texas.

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  • VR Expert Says ‘Metaverse Sex’ Will Soon Become The ‘Norm’

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    A virtual reality (VR) expert has predicted that ‘metaverse sex’ will replace porn apps and websites within the next 10 years.

    Sam Hall, managing director of Mixed Reality Rooms, believes people will ‘lean into convenience,’ like they did with dating apps, saying that in the next decade people from all walks of life will chose to strap on their VR headsets to avoid the effort or the risk that can be associated with in-person sex.

    He added that people will be able to live out all their sexua fantasies as “the metaverse has no limit”.

    The Mail Online reports: He also suggested that VR headesets will be more accessible n the next decade, phasing out pornography apps and websites just like the two did to magazines.

    And when this happens, we will reach a point where VR sex toys and ‘multi-sensory’ VR with smells will become a ‘new normal,’ Hall said.

    ’Immersive experiences are compelling, simulating the visuals exceptionally well, which, when combined with haptic technology, like sex toys that respond to inputs and produce physical outcomes, will provide an experience close enough to the real thing,’ said Hall.

    ‘Connected sex toys will make VR sex ‘real’

    Hall has suggested that with the rise in VR headsets will come accessories – like connected sex toys. 

    ‘I expect there will be more of an integrated link between Bluetooth sex toys that use haptic technology and VR headsets,’ he said,

    The technology carries ‘huge ethical concerns’ in terms of consent, Hall warned.

    This is due to the threat of using people’s images or virtual versions of them without consent, among other things.

    A 2017 report shared similar concerns, noting that VR porn could lead to unrealistic expectations for the sexual experience or could even have more extreme effects by allowing some to ‘push the boundaries’ and delve into violent and abusive content.

    Multi-sensory VR will add smells and touch

    Multi-sensory VR, which uses technology to immerse people in metaverse experiences complete with sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste, will make metaverse sex ‘the norm,’ Hall said. 

    ‘We can expect that multi-sensory VR will see sex in the metaverse become the norm for most people in technologically advanced areas,’ he continued.

    ‘We believe the future of metaverse sex will be a mix of VR headsets combined with sex toys that can be linked using technology that already exists, like Bluetooth, to help create a fully immersive experience.’

    While ‘smelling’ in a virtual world sounds like science fiction at the moment, researchers in Sweden developed a device in 2022 that sends aromas up your nose while you play video games in virtual reality.

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  • Doctors Who Tried To Save President JFK’s Life Say There Was More Than One Shooter

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    Unseen footage shows doctors who treated President John F Kennedy after his 1963 assassination challenging official narrative that Lee Harvey Oswald was lone gunman

    In interviews that have been shown for the first time, the doctors say that hey believed there was “more than one shooter”

    The documentary JFK Assassination: What Happened in the Trauma Room?, was aired Sunday on Channel 5.

    The medics had spoken out in 2013 but the footage had been kept under wraps for a decade.

    The Mail Online reports: Kennedy was shot during an official visit to Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963 and pronounced dead after arriving at the Parkland Memorial Hospital. 

    Official investigations concluded that he was assassinated by lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald from a sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.

    But numerous books and documentaries have challenged that conclusion in the six decades since the killing.

    The seven doctors who spoke out treated Kennedy at Parkland, where he was taken to in his open-top limousine after being shot in the head.

    Dr Robert McClelland, who died aged 89 in 2019 and was the assistant professor of surgery at the hospital in 1963, said: ‘In all probability there was a conspiracy. There was more than one shooter’.

    The official Warren Commission investigation concluded that Kennedy was shot from behind after his motorcade passed the depository, where Oswald was an employee.

    But the doctors questioned this based on his horrifying injuries and the fact the bullet appeared to enter the front of his head.

    Dr Ronald Jones, a senior doctor at Parkland, asked: ‘The issue in retrospect is if Oswald was in the sixth floor depository, how could he have been shot from the front then? And so was there more than assailant?’

    Dr Joe Goldstrich, who was a fourth-year medical student at the time, asked: ‘How could a gunshot from the rear peel the scalp from the front back?’ 

    The Parkland doctors were gathered by filmmaker Jacque Leuth in 2013 after research indicated some of them had seen what they thought was a bullet hole in the front of Kennedy’s neck.

    They also examined photos from Kennedy’s autopsy, which they had never looked at as a group.

    They all concluded that the images looked different to what they had seen in the Parkland trauma room.

    This could mean that the President’s body was tampered with. 

    The footage of the doctors’ recollections was not released until now because Ms Leuth had wanted to interview Jim Jenkins, the only surviving member of the autopsy team.

    This was not possible until 2021. 

    She also wanted to speak with government medical pathologist Michael Baden and lawyer Robert Tannenbaum.

    He was deputy counsel to the House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations, which investigated both Kennedy’s killing and the assassination of Martin Luther King. 

    Dr Kenneth Salyer, who was then a first-year resident at the hospital and died in 2020, said: ‘When I saw the autopsy pictures, I thought somebody had tampered with the whole thing and it made me very suspicious.’

    Dr Lawrence Klein, a third-year medical student at the time, recalled his memories of being in the operating theatre where Kennedy was treated.

    ‘Dr [Malcolm] Perry and Dr [Charles] Baxter had just walked into that room ahead of me,’ he said. 

    ‘And Dr Perry was standing on the right side of the cart the Preisdent was lying on. Dr Baxter [was] on the left side.’

    He added: ‘It was a lie, they really didn’t tell the truth about it.’ 

    The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald fired there bullets from a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.

    One bullet missed and is believed to have hit a sign.

    The second – the so-called ‘magic’ bullet – hit Kennedy near the base of the back his neck.

    The commission concluded that it then passed into Texas governor John Connally, who was sitting in front of the President and First Lady Jackie Kennedy with his wife Nellie. 

    Connally was injured in the back, chest, wrist and thigh.

    The magic bullet theory made sense because the inquiry concluded that Oswald would not have been able to reload his weapon in time to shoot again.

    The third bullet hit President Kennedy in the head. 

    A bullet – believed to be the one that had killed the President – was later found next to Governor Connally on his hospital stretcher and was assumed to have come from his body.  

    But theories that a second shooter was involved have persisted since the shocking killing.

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  • US Army Begs Troops Fired Due to Biden’s Vaccine Mandate To Re-Enlist


    Three years after the Army fired thousands of service members due to Biden’s vaccine mandate, the Army is begging the same troops to re-enlist, according to a letter from the Army several former soldiers posted online.

    The letter, addressed to “Former Service Member,” states that there is “new Army guidance” that would correct military records of those who were unceremoniously fired, which would enable those who were removed and had their DD-214s marked with a code barring them from re-entering service to be able to re-enlist.

    The letter instructed former soldiers on how they could get their records corrected, then added:

    Individuals who desire to apply to return to service should contact their local Army, US Army Reserve (USAR) or Army National Guard (ARNG) recruiter for more information. Individuals may locate an Army recruiter by visiting a USAR recruiter by visiting or an ARNG recruiter by visiting

    Sam Shoemate, a retired Army chief warrant officer who fought the mandate, and one of the administrations of military watchdog website Terminal CWO, posted a copy of the letter on X:

    Breitbart report: The Biden administration imposed a vaccine mandate on the military in August 2021, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin then issued a policy that said any service member who did not follow the mandate by December 2020 would be kicked out.

    As a result, more than 8,000 troops were, in fact, kicked out, tens of thousands of National Guard members were sidelined and lost drill time and pay, and a number simply decided not to re-enlist.

    Thousands more sought a religious, administrative, or medical exemption, and most were either denied or were waiting for a decision when House Republicans forced the Pentagon to rescind the mandate via the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. The mandate and decision to kick out thousands of servicemembers came at the same time as a historic recruitment crisis.

    Brad Miller, a former soldier who was punished over the mandate and resigned from the Army, also said he received a letter and called on the Army to compensate soldiers who were punished and kicked out or otherwise resigned due to the mandate. He wrote:

    Many have seen this letter. I just got mine. When I resigned from the Army, it was clear DoD was breaking the law (and senior leaders were likely engaged in treason).

    Why doesn’t the Army ask me if I want my resignation converted into a retirement dated with the release date of this new policy, and along with it offer compensation for the command I was wrongly relieved of, compensation for the remainder of whatever my career might have been, and then offer me my adjusted pension from this month forward? Then offer the same to all others similarly wronged.

    DoD can’t fix itself. It’s run by officers whose loyalty is in question, and they’re in turned [sic] led by Cabinet & Administration level officials whose loyalty is assuredly un-American.

    Recently retired Army Maj. Chase Spears suggested in a piece on American Mind that the recent measures were tied to the Army’s abysmal recruiting numbers. He wrote:

    One might be curious why the Army is doing an about face on this now, given that its top official clearly has a different perspective from the policy change she’s authorizing. Last month the Army missed its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goals by 10,000, the third consecutive year to have a significant shortfall. In fiscal year 2021, the Army missed its recruiting goal by 25 percent, even after lowering its initial goal for the year and reducing enlistment standards. If this trend holds, the force will have no choice but to cut units, and the heavy load already borne by those currently serving will increase accordingly. As top military officials continue to deny the impact of dragging the Army into progressive social policy advocacy, reality remains unmoved.

    Spears discussed the persecution that soldiers who did not wish to receive the vaccine faced from overzealous commanders eager to implement the Biden administration’s mandate. He wrote:

    The Army requires several immunizations and checkups throughout the year to maintain one’s medical readiness. Not one of those came with the coercive force of the Covid mandate. Late on your flu shot? You just get told to take one at your next convenience. Late on a vision check? The same applied. But in 2021 on Fort Leavenworth, proof of the Covid shot was the only path to being able to live an existence that in any way might reflect normal. It became the primary marker of human worth on that base, and at many others.

    …

    Under the management of Maj. Gen. Douglas Sims, some base facilities were set aside only for the vaccinated. I traveled to Fort Riley for a warfighter exercise in late 2021. First Infantry Division Policy limited unvaccinated visitors to hotel rooms and workplaces. It also restricted access to base morale facilities and the commissary (the base grocery store) to those who had a vaccine card. Friends of mine on Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty) told me of similar policies at their location. A two-class system among military service members was established across much of the force. Hearkening back to biblical language, you were clean or unclean based on your shot status.

    “Major General Sims’s performance, however, was rewarded. He has since been promoted to lieutenant general and is currently the Director of Operations for the Joint Staff,” Spears wrote, adding, “Would he treat an unvaccinated officer who re-enters the Army with respect in the days to come, or would such a uniformed citizen still be worthy of segregation?”

    Spears discussed how other Army leaders punished unvaccinated soldiers harshly and were rewarded.

    He called on senior Army officials to apologize for the conduct.

    “Though this policy reversal is a step toward sanity, it is far from enough. As I have said before, senior Army officials should apologize for their Covid-related misconduct. Beyond that, they owe a deep reservoir of amends to subordinates whose trust was so casually broken,” he wrote.

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