Wisconsin’s ‘Indefinitely Confined’ Voter Status Excludes Requirement for Voter IDs – 265,000 Ballots Cast in 2020 Election

Wisconsin’s Indefinitely Confined voter status is ripe for fraud – expect Democrats to promote this status in all 50 states soon.

The ‘Indefinitely Confined’ status available for Wisconsin voters excludes a requirement for providing an ID when applying. In 2020 the number of indefinitely confined individuals in the state exploded. According to the state’s own report that will be discussed at a Wisconsin Elections Commission being held today, the number of absentee votes exploded in 2020:

The numbers surrounding absentee ballots in Wisconsin are shocking. In 2016 less than 28% of all votes were absentee votes but in 2020 the number exploded to 60% of all votes. Nearly 2 million absentee ballots were cast in Wisconsin in 2020 compared to around 800,000 in 2016 – a 250% increase. Only 4,ooo or .2% of all absentee ballots were returned and rejected and only 85,000 absentee ballots or 4% were not returned. In 2016 2.5% of absentee ballots were rejected, the equivalent in 2020 would be around 50,000 ballots.

Of the absentee ballots, over 265,000 ballots were in an indefinitely confined status, compared to 67,000 in 2016. This was an increase of 200,000 indefinitely confined voters.

The Wisconsin Election Commission claims that a majority of indefinitely confined voters “have a photo ID on file or have otherwise previously presented photo ID to vote in a recent election. A review of election records found that approximately four fifths of the voters meet these criteria.” (However, it is unknown how many individuals were sampled and which locations this estimate came from. Although this estimate might be overstated based on the work they performed to obtain this estimate, that’s still 52,000 ballots in the 2020 election in Wisconsin with no photo ID provided.)

The Election Commission reports that 57% of voters voted by mail in Dane County (nearly 200,000 voters of the Madison located county) and almost 50% in Milwaukee (nearly 220,000 ballots). Nearly 60,000 of the Milwaukee ballots were in an indefinitely confined status.

Also note that on election night more than 100,000 ballots were dropped in Milwaukee early the next morning.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/wisconsins-indefinitely-confined-voter-status-excludes-requirement-voter-ids-265000-ballots-cast-2020-election/

Reddit's Silver Raid Sparked Highly Unusual Backwardation

Surveying the wreckage of WallStreetBets raid on the silver markets - which thankfully for many on both sides of the trade - never got as out of hand as the heavily-shorted stock malarkey, offers a few insights into just what happened below the surface as silver prices round-tripped up and down by around 12% from Friday's close.

So what happened?

Flows

The initial Reddit post gave instructions to focus on purchases in the iShares Silver Trust ETF.

SocGen's Commodities Research Group note monitored the inflow into this targeted ETF and other major silver ETFs and funds, and found counterintuitively that both saw outflows on 28 January, the first day of the rally.

Over the following two days, 29 January and 1 February, historically high inflows into the iShares ETFs were met by similarly sized outflows from other silver ETFs and funds.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/reddits-silver-raid-sparked-highly-unusual-backwardation

CEO Sentenced for $150 Million Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-sentenced-150-million-health-care-fraud-and-money-laundering-scheme

Oxford study: If you survive coronavirus, you’re mentally ill

People who test “positive” for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) and do not end up dying while “infected” have a one in three chance of developing either a mental or neurological illness following their “recovery,” a hilarious new “study” claims.

The University of Oxford, naturally, put out the paper, which claims that 33.6 percent of people who “survive” the Chinese virus are subsequently diagnosed with their first psychiatric or neurological disease within six months.

Since correlation always equals causation in the age of the novel coronavirus, the researchers involved with the study say that people should be really careful not to “catch” the disease because it could make them go crazy loco.

The non-peer-reviewed paper – because who could possibly take any of this seriously? – also claims that testing positive for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus is associated with a one in nine chance of also developing depression or suffering a stroke.

Depression and mental illness are caused by lockdowns, masks and the “new normal,” not coronavirus

Ordinary influenza was not determined to have any association with these conditions, probably because it has never come with mandatory “stay at home” orders, forced mask-wearing, and other “new normal” requirements that have done a number on people’s mental health.

As you might expect, the Oxford study does not even consider the health impacts of the government response to the plandemic, which has caused far more harm than the virus itself – unless, of course, you equate this response to be the virus.

The medical establishment is pretending that there is no connection, and that it is just one big mystery why many people “diagnosed” with COVID-19 are having a difficult time staying healthy following their “recovery.”

“I don’t think we have an answer to that question yet,” says Dr. Max Taquet from Oxford’s psychiatry department.

“For diagnoses like a stroke or an intracranial bleed, the risk does tend to decrease quite dramatically within six months … but for a few neurological and psychiatric diagnoses, we don’t have the answer about when it’s going to stop,” he added.

The study admittedly does not conclusively prove that the novel virus is the direct cause of these horrific outcomes. As this writer stated earlier, though, the associated lockdowns and other restrictions more than likely are.

Another study out of Georgia claims that Chinese germs linger inside the brains of people who feel like they recovered from the illness. After entering the nasal passages of test rats, the virus went straight for the brain and triggered more problems.

“Our thinking that it’s more of a respiratory disease is not necessarily true,” stated Mukesh Kumar, a professor at Georgia State University and the lead author of this other study.

“Once it infects the brain, it can affect anything because the brain is controlling your lungs, the heart, everything. The brain is a very sensitive organ. It’s the central processor for everything.”

https://patriotrising.com/oxford-study-if-you-survive-coronavirus-youre-mentally-ill/

Tell Facebook: We need to be able to discuss Zionism

Israel is asking Facebook to add the word “Zionist” to its hate speech policy. Facebook is now reviewing this proposal.

If Facebook restricts the use of “Zionist” on its platforms, Palestinians will be blocked from describing our daily lives under Israeli apartheid, as well as our families’ histories of dispossession and military occupation.

We’re working with an international coalition including Jewish Voice for Peace, 7amleh, MPower Change, Independent Jewish Voices, American Muslims for Palestine, Palestine Legal, and many more to advocate with Facebook against making this policy change.

Social media companies should allow people to hold governments accountable, not shield governments from accountability.

Restricting criticism of Israel is a misguided response to a real and important problem of antisemitism. In falsely equating all Jewish people with the state of Israel, Facebook will only play into dangerous stereotypes.

Zionism claims that all people worldwide who identify themselves as Jewish belong to a “Jewish nation”, although these people are citizens of many countries, and that this “nation” has an inherent right to a supremacist “Jewish state” in Palestine, forcibly displacing the Indigenous Palestinian population and denying our basic rights.

The Zionist settler-colonial project continues to this day, through “incremental genocide” of two million in the Gaza ghetto; the ceaseless theft of our lands and forcible displacement of our communities; the endless colonial settlements; and the overarching apartheid system.

Social media platforms are powerful tools to help us share our stories, fight against all forms of racism and discrimination, and fight for our freedom.

https://israelpalestinenews.org/tell-facebook-we-need-to-be-able-to-discuss-zionism/

Gun Control’s Unholy Union With Hollywood Is Too Rich

Gun control groups are recruiting Hollywood elites to sell the reasons why more gun control is necessary. Never mind these same Tinseltowners live within gated, secure neighborhoods and often pay for private security details whenever they feel like it. They haven’t learned the lessons that nothing is more off-putting than Hollywood hypocrisy, so they’re going for a sequel.

The Giffords gun control group is putting on a press offensive to engage celebrities to help limit Second Amendment rights. That’s not reflective of the over 21 million background checks for the sale of a firearm that were run last year, including more than 8.4 million first-time buyers. Hollywood might want to sit this one out.

Ignoring Reality

Last year gave more than record-breaking background checks. The year 2020 saw more women and minorities joining the ranks of gun owners, diversifying the gun-owning population in America often caricatured as only old, white men. Buyers literally voted with their wallets when it came to owning guns.

This included women, who comprised forty percent of all firearm purchases last year. African-American men and women gun buyers grew by 58 percent from 2019-2020. All Americans saw violence and rioting erupt in their communities and politicians campaign on gun control platforms, literally shouting for gun confiscations and decimating the firearm industry from the campaign trail. These same politicians backed calls to “defund the police,” leaving folks to reconsider their personal safety.

Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) announced she’s even recruiting Hollywood elites to use their platforms to influence policy, even though voters rejected more gun control at the ballot box. Michael Bloomberg spent more than $1 billion to flip seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate and state legislatures and roundly failed. That includes his own short-lived presidential run.

Giffords recently told Variety magazine, “Part of our mission at Giffords is to change the culture around gun violence, and few industries play a larger role in shaping culture than the entertainment industry.”

Hollywood Fantasy vs. Reality

The same celebrities and entertainers in Hollywood Giffords wants to recruit are the same individuals who have little understanding of real American neighborhoods and Main Street businesses. Throughout the rioting and looting witnessed last summer, celebrities rushed to offer funds to bail out those criminals responsible for community destruction. Vice President Kamala Harris, who ran with President Joe Biden on the most antigun presidential ticket in history, even tweeted to solicit funds to help those arrested. Hollywood celebrities like Chrissy Teigen, Seth Rogen, Patton Oswalt, and more all joined in.

The reality was much different for law-abiding citizens who embraced gun rights to help protect their businesses, their homes, their neighbors, and their livelihoods.

https://patriotrising.com/gun-controls-unholy-union-with-hollywood-is-too-rich/

Rand Paul grills Biden's education secretary pick over biological males competing in girls' sports

'I wonder where feminists are on this?'

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) heavily pressed President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of Education on Wednesday, seeking a clear answer on Miguel Cardona's position on the topic of biologically male transgender athletes competing in girls' sports.

During a confirmation hearing, Paul began his questioning of Cardona by noting that last year, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights "sent a letter to Connecticut saying that boys can't compete with girls in sports." The senator asked, "If you're confirmed, will you enforce that Office of Civil Rights opinion?"

Mr. Cardona acknowledged that "there were concerns about that," and answered that if confirmed, "it's my responsibility and my privilege to make sure that we're following civil rights of all students, and that includes activities that they may engage in in high school or in athletics."

"What do you think in general about boys running in girls' track meets like they have been doing in Connecticut?" Paul asked.

The nominee replied, "I think that it's critically important to education systems and educators respect the rights of all students, including students who are transgender, and that they are afforded the opportunities that every other student has to participate in extracurricular activities."

Paul pressed, "Does it bother you that the top 20 percent of boys running in track meets beat all of the girls in the state and that it would, you know, completely destroy girls' athletics? That girls are being pushed out? [If] they don't make the finals in the state meet, they don't get college scholarships? That's it's really detrimental to girls' sports? Do you worry about having boys running girls' track meets?"

Cardona said that he "appreciate[d] the concerns" that Paul brought up and "the frustrations expressed," and the two engaged in a back-and-forth where Cardona insisted that he answered the question by reiterating that transgender students' civil rights must be protected.

Unsatisfied with Cardona's responses, Paul called it "completely bizarre and unfair" to allow biological males to compete against females, and voiced his concern over Cardona heading up the Department of Education. The senator asked, "I wonder where feminists are on this? I wonder where the people who supported women's sports are on this."

CBS News reported:

Little was known about Cardona's views on major education policy issues, since the former public school teacher only entered the national public eye in December when Biden announced his nomination to lead the Education Department. Cardona, who began his career as a fourth-grade teacher, quickly rose through the administrative ranks. In August 2019, he was appointed to lead Connecticut's Education Department, becoming the first Latino to hold the position.

Transgender athletes competing in girls' sports is a highly controversial issue that has seen lawsuits filed on both sides of the issue in different parts of the U.S. in recent years.

On President Biden's first day in office, he signed an executive order declaring that any school receiving federal funds must allow biological males who identify as females to compete in girls' sports.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/ready-rand-paul-grills-bidens-education-secretary-pick-over-biological-males-competing-in-girls-sports

Top DOJ Official’s Connection To Hunter Biden’s Lawyer Will Test Biden’s Commitment To Ethics, Expert Says

President Joe Biden’s commitment to ethics will be put to the test in how his Justice Department handles the connection one of its top officials shares with Hunter Biden’s lawyer, a government ethics expert told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Chris Clark, a partner at the law firm Latham & Watkins, is assisting Hunter Biden with the federal criminal investigation into his foreign business dealings. Clark had worked closely at the law firm with Nicholas McQuaid until the latter’s departure from the firm on Jan. 20 to lead the Justice Department criminal division, which is reportedly involved with the Hunter Biden investigation.

There’s no evidence suggesting that McQuaid had any involvement with the Hunter Biden matter while working at Latham & Watkins, but he and Clark were jointly representing at least one client, not Hunter Biden, before he left the firm, according to Axios.

“This is a great test of the administration’s commitment to ethics, both actual and appearances of conflicts of interest,” said Scott Amey, the General Counsel of the Project On Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group.

“While recusal isn’t required under the law, Mr. McQuaid should step away from any involvement in the Hunter Biden investigation and allow others at the agency to handle it,” Amey told the DCNF. “That advice holds true for President Biden and all White House staff as well — step aside and allow the investigation to proceed without any involvement or interference.”

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/03/biden-ethics-test-hunter-connection-justice-department/

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