Federal judge reinstates New York Democratic presidential primary
A federal court judge has ordered New York Democrats to reinstate the presidential primary election for June 23 after one-time candidate Andrew Yang challenged its cancellation. Judge Analisa Torres in her decision Tuesday ruled that the New York Board of Elections’ decision to cancel the vote was unconstitutional and that all qualified candidates as of April 26 must be on the ballot.
“[T]he removal of presidential contenders from the primary ballot not only deprived those candidates of the chance to garner votes for the Democratic Party’s nomination,” Torres wrote in her opinion. “…but also deprived their pledged delegates of the opportunity to run for a position where they could influence the party platform, vote on party governance issues, pressure the eventual nominee on matters of personnel or policy, and react to unexpected developments at the Convention.” Yang sued the New York State Board of Elections last week, claiming the cancellation “fundamentally denie[d] [voters] the right to choose our next candidate for the office of President of the United States.”
Arthur Schwartz, an attorney for plaintiffs in the case, called the decision an “extraordinary victory for the democratic process.” “This decision is not a win for Andrew Yang or Bernie Sanders. It is a win for democracy,” Schwartz said in a statement. “And it is also a warning to President Trump not to mess around with our right to vote him out in November.” Schwartz and other counsel called on Jay Jacobs, the Chair of the New York State Democratic Committee, to not appeal the decision. “I saw the opinion came down. I haven’t read it yet and obviously from a policy point of view I disagree on it,” Jacobs told The Post. “I’ll have to review it.” A spokesman for the BOE declined to comment, saying its lawyers are reviewing the decision and considering options. “I hope that the New York Board of Elections takes from this ruling a newfound appreciation of their role in safeguarding our democracy,” Yang said in a statement.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/federal-judge-reinstates-ny-democratic-primary-for-june-23/
Sounds like it..thinking the expected nominee won't be the nominee at all. He'll have to bow out due to "health issues" "mentally incapacitated"
Matt Gaetz calls on AG Barr to ban use of Chinese drones in U.S. law enforcement
The Florida congressman cites a DHS report indicating Chinese drones may be used to collect U.S. infrastructure data to transmit back to the Chinese government
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is calling on Attorney General William Barr to order the grounding of all China-connected DJI drones used by law enforcement across the U.S. – including state and local agencies. DJI (Dà-Jiāng Innovations) is a Chinese technology company that is suspected of using information from the drones used by U.S. law enforcement to feed sensitive data back to the Chinese government. In 2017, the Department of Homeland Security released a report, in which they determined that DJI had specifically marketed their product to local law enforcement agencies, and as a result, China is able to “provide DJI information to terrorist organizations … to coordinate attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure.”
The findings of DHS’s report prompted the U.S. Army and the Department of the Interior to end their use of DJI drones. However, law enforcement agencies across the country continue to use them, and several dozen local agencies recently accepted a donation of the drones from DJI, despite the national security risk they pose. On a Fox News "Tucker Carlson Tonight" appearance, Gaetz spoke about his letter sent Monday to Barr and called the DJI drones a “Trojan horse spying operation in our country” that local police departments may unwittingly be helping.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/matt-gaetz-calls-ag-barr-ban-use-chinese-drones-local-police-departments
Architect of COVID-19 lockdowns resigns after flouting social distancing rules
British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson's predictions of 550,000 coronavirus deaths in the U.K. and 2.2 million in the U.S. led to highly restrictive stay-at-home rules in both countries.
Dr. Neil Ferguson, director of the prestigious MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London, published an explosive report on March 16 predicting that without intervention coronavirus deaths in the U.K. could reach 550,000 and American fatalities could be as high as 2.2 million. Alarmed by Dr. Ferguson’s predictions, the British government scrapped its original plan of allowing its population to acquire "herd immunity" to the virus naturally in favor of a strict lockdown. The U.S. government fell into line with similar guidelines shortly thereafter.
On Monday, the epidemiologist whose projections guided the imposition of strict stay-home measures resigned his position when it was reported that his married lover visited him at his home — twice — in defiance of social distancing rules. Ferguson issued a statement accepting blame. "I accept I made an error of judgement and took the wrong course of action," he said. "…I deeply regret any undermining of the clear messages around the continued need for social distancing." Ferguson had been recovering after having himself contracted the very virus he had been modeling, but he claims he was no longer infectious. However, Ferguson has admitted that he may have been infectious while attending a crucial press conference with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street on March 17. Johnson soon after came down with a severe case of COVID-19 that required a stay in intensive care, during which the prime minister narrowly escaped death, according to widespread reports.
The day after release of the Imperial College report, the New York Times wrote, “With ties to the World Health Organization and a team of 50 scientists led by a prominent epidemiologist, Neil Ferguson, Imperial is treated as a sort of gold standard, its mathematical models feeding directly into government policies.” Ferguson’s department is staffed with 200 researchers, but it turned out that his COVID-19 predictions relied on an old model he first created to plot the spread of an influenza outbreak in Thailand back in 2005. Within a week of his report’s release, questions were being asked about Ferguson’s methodology. His response only rang more alarm bells: “I wrote the code (thousands of lines of undocumented C) 13+ years ago to model flu pandemics.” Ferguson then claimed he was unable to publish his model until Microsoft began helping him sort out his code, in the last days before Bill Gates stepped down from the software giant’s board.
So far, all that has been published, according to Breitbart’s James Delingpole, is a reconstruction by Github, rather than the original source code, which raises troubling questions about its initial accuracy. Computer predictions are only as good as the data they are fed, combined with their ability to account for all the variables involved. Ferguson’s influential COVID-19 model was driven by little more than very unreliable numbers coming out of China, plus the early figures from South Korea, Italy, and Spain. He seasoned his proprietary mix with numbers from the “Spanish Flu” pandemic after World War I. Using his 15-year-old code, Ferguson concluded, “Based on our estimates and other teams’, there’s really no option but to follow in China’s footsteps and suppress.” Ferguson has a history of vastly overestimating projected death tolls.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/architect-covid-19-lockdowns-resigns-after-flouting-social-distancing#article
Will The Real Dr. Neil Ferguson Please Stand UP
Interesting information regarding Dr. Neil Ferguson, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London
Decided to do a tineye..because this story doesn't make sense, why would a scientist risk reputation using out dated systems. Further digging shows this guy is not the real Dr. Neil Ferguson. Search of his name shows he is employed at Imperial College, but rather than being director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London, he is Professor Neil Ferguson, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Vice-Dean (Academic Development)
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/neil.ferguson
Why is the real identity of the Architect being hidden..
In addition: Wiki appears to have been constructed in February here:
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