Military Intelligence Agency Says It Monitored U.S. Cellphone Movements Without Warrant

https://www.wsj.com/articles/military-intelligence-agency-says-it-monitored-u-s-cellphone-movements-without-warrant-11611350374

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British PM Says New Variant May Carry Higher Risk of Death

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/944558

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday the new English variant of COVID-19 may be associated with a higher level of mortality although he said evidence showed that both vaccines being used in the country are effective against it.

Johnson said that the impact of the new variant, which is already known to be more transmissable, was putting the health service under “intense pressure”.

“We’ve been informed today that in addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant – the variant that was first discovered in London and the southeast (of England) – may be associated with a higher degree of mortality,” he told a news briefing.

Johnson said however that all the current evidence showed both vaccines remained effective against old and new variants.

Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance said the evidence about mortality levels was “not yet strong”, and came from a “series of different bits of information”, stressing there was great uncertainty around the data.

He said that once people reached hospital, there was no greater risk, but there were signs that people who had the UK variant were at more risk overall.

“There’s no real evidence of an increase in mortality for those in hospital. However, when data are looked at in terms of those who’ve been tested positive… there is evidence that there’s an increased risk for those who have the new variant, compared to the old virus,” he said.

He said that for a man in his sixties, the average risk was that 10 in 1,000 people who got infected would be expected to die, but that this rose to roughly 13 or 14 people in 1,000 with the new variant.

“I want to stress that there’s a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it,” he said.

“But it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.”

Caution

The warning about the higher risk of death from the new variant, which was identified in England late last year, came as a fresh blow after the country had earlier been buoyed by news the number of new COVID-19 infections was estimated to be shrinking by as much as 4% a day.

Data published earlier on Friday showed that 5.38 million people had been given their first dose of a vaccine, with 409,855 receiving it in the past 24 hours, a record high so far.

England and Scotland announced new restrictions on Jan. 4 to stem a surge in the disease fuelled by the highly transmissible new variant of the coronavirus, which has led to record numbers of daily deaths and infections this month.

The latest estimates from the health ministry suggest that the number of new infections was shrinking by between 1% and 4% a day. Last week, it was thought cases were growing by much as 5%, and the turnaround gave hope that the spread of the virus was being curbed, although the ministry urged caution.

But the Office for National Statistics estimated that the prevalence overall remained high, with about one in 55 people having the virus.

Britain has recorded more than 3.5 million infections and nearly 96,000 deaths – the world’s fifth-highest toll – while the economy has been hammered. Figures on Friday showed public debt at its highest level as a proportion of GDP since 1962, and retailers had their worst year on record.

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It was announced today that yesterday (01/20/2021) at abt 12 noon – 12 minutes after our new President was sworn in… that they would be willing/happy to help distribute the COVID-19 vaccine in our country. The same day Amazon also announced that they have BANNED ONE PRIVATE CITIZEN Donald Trump from their service https://www.twitch.tv/

After Amazon – thru their Amazon Web Service (AWS) was going to “pull the plug” on a new competitor of Twitter called www.Parler.com 

Basically “killing” a company that was worth a estimated ONE BILLION DOLLAR value. This was apparently done because both Face Book and Twitter terminated then President Trump’s accounts and many of his followers had opened accounts on Parler.

It has been reported that just about all ancillary internet services that Parler needed to function cancelled their service provided to Parler, supposedly including the law firm that they had engaged to work for the company.

While we do have a FIRST AMENDMENT and FREEDOM OF SPEECH but that only applies to our government restricting speech, but we do have a law Sherman Antitrust Act that makes collusion to harm another business – ILLEGAL.   So far, the DOJ that is in charge of enforcing that law seems to be AWOL.  Of course, it has been reported that 90% of all the political donation for the 2020 election went to the Biden campaign.  You can do the math and come to your own conclusion.

I don’t like businesses that will conclude against other businesses..  especially when a handful or two “gang up” on a particular business…  Those “little boys” in Silicon Valley are nothing more than “school yard bullies”.

Personally, I have cancelled our Amazon Prime account… we are exploring our options with Target and Walmart.  One very enlightening situation, we have a 95 y/o neighbor and Barb had been ordering some things she need thru our Amazon account.  So she order one product thru Walmart.com – same product, same size, same free delivery and it was SIX DOLLARS LESS than what she was being charged via Amazon Prime.

The more troublesome question is how many more people could have received their COVID-19 vaccination if Amazon had stepped up a month ago to help distribution ?  I suspect that no one will hold Amazon responsible.

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Client Alert-Justice Department Releases Data on FY 2020 False Claims Act Recoveries: What to Expect in 2021 and Beyond

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=33eabeba-d6cb-4633-9cae-1a537c82567b&utm_source=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed&utm_medium=HTML+email+-+Body+-+General+section&utm_campaign=Lexology+subscriber+daily+feed&utm_content=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed+2021-01-21&utm_term=

A copy of this Client Alert can be found HERE .

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https://www.citizensforfreespeech.org/media

Date	Host	Station/media
1/5/21	Eric Gajewski	TradCatKnight
1/11/21	Bob Frantz	AM1420 Cleveland/Salem
1/11/21	Dom Giordano	AM1210 WPHT, Philadelphia
1/11/21	Joyce Kaufman	850WFTL, Florida
1/11/21	Andy Caldwell	KNNEWS 98.5, Santa Barbara
1/12/21	Jeff Crouere	AM990 WGSO, New Orleans
1/12/21	Lee Eici	94.9FM, Connecticut
1/12/21	Karen Kataline	AM1190 WSMN,
1/12/21	Jaime Umphenour	1230AM KPRL, California
1/13/21	Bruce Tria	1390AM WRIV, New York
1/13/21	Faune Riggin	960AM KXIM, Missouri
1/13/21	Shaun Kraisman and Emma Rechenberg	NEWSMAX
1/14/21	Nora Firestone	AM1110 WKQA, Virginia
1/14/21	Keith Hanson	99.7FM WNTK, New Hampshire
1/14/21	Richard Sachs	Podcast
1/14/21	Bob Bird	WSRM Regional, Alaska
1/15/21	Joshua Phillips	Epoch Times TV
1/15/21	John Loeffler	Steel on Steel
1/15/21	Keith Hanson	99.7FM WNTK, New Hampshire
1/16/21	Gary Goldman	AM680 WCRN, Boston
1/16/21	Darren Weeks	Governing America
1/17/21	Dan Happel	Connecting the Dots
1/19/21	Dave Hodges	The Common Sense Show
1/19/21	Dr. Carole Leiberman	Dr. Carol’s Couch
1/21/21	David Zere	America’s Voice

With citizens like you standing with us in this new era of massive censorship and attacks on Free Speech and the First Amendment, I want you to know how CFFS is racing forward to challenge Americans to STAND UP and be counted. 

Namely, with a national media blitz that is taking me into every corner of America. 

In 21 days, I have has 25 interviews and reached millions of ears with the message of free speech and what we can do to restore it. 

There is a new page on the CFFS site that will list every appearance from now on, and I invite you to check back frequently to judge the impact we are having. 

Some notable interviews have been with NEWSMAX, Epoch Times, Steel on Steel and America’s Voice… and we are just getting started.

My experience thus far shows me that there are millions of people just you who are hopping mad and understand that we must act now and in our local communities.

As a result, there is a steady stream of new CFFS members pouring in every day.

Please do not let up in telling everyone you know to come and join CFFS! 

United we stand, divided we fall. We MUST keep Free Speech and the First Amendment alive in America. 

For Liberty, 

Patrick Wood
Founder and Executive Director

http://www.citizensforfreespeech.org/

CFFS is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization and relies
exclusively on the donation of its members.

This is a email that I received … a 501(c)(3) that going after free speech and apparently able to get interviews with various media.  Is this something that the community should be looking into ?  All the <D> candidates stated that HEALTHCARE is a (human) RIGHT…  How many in the community has HEALTH INSURANCE but unable to get healthcare/treatment for some of their health issues ?  I suspect that contacting these media outlets with a list of questions that they can ask and the person representing the community was prepared for…. they may jump at the opportunity

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Dear Mr. Ariens,        Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding censorship and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (“Section 230”). Understanding your views helps me better represent Florida in the United States Senate, and I appreciate the opportunity to respond.      Section 230 provides internet companies with two avenues of legal immunity. The first ensures that companies are not treated as publishers or speakers for any content provided by their users or others on their platforms. The second protects certain content moderation decisions made in good faith. However, recent actions by social media companies, such as political censorship and the application of editorial decisions to content, call into question whether these legal carve-outs are still appropriate.      The once nascent, scrappy internet startups that benefited from the protections afforded by Section 230 in its early days have become Goliaths intent on twisting and manipulating America’s public square to their liking. While Section 230 can serve an important purpose, it should not protect platforms when they engage in unrelated activities such as political activism or editorial decision-making. It is time to take a fresh look at the statute and enact measures to protect free speech. As private companies, Big Tech can engage in partisan editorializing and politically motivated online speech policing, but they do not deserve special legal protection while they do.      You may be aware that on May 28, 2020, the Trump Administration issued Executive Order 13925 on Preventing Online Censorship directing the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to promulgate regulations that narrow the scope of Section 230’s immunity provisions by defining the statute’s “good faith” requirement and clarify whether protections apply when a service provider restricts access to content in a manner not specifically contemplated under the “good faith” requirement of this subsection.      On June 9, 2020, I led several of my colleagues in a letter to the FCC regarding the Commission’s vital role in Executive Order 13925 and urged the Commission to clarify Section 230 protections for social media companies by defining the criteria for which companies can receive protections under the statute. On October 15, 2020, I wrote again to the FCC, encouraging the Commission to engage proactively in the rulemaking process pursuant to Executive Order 13925 after social media companies actively censored a major news story about the family of a presidential candidate twenty days before the general election.      I am also an original cosponsor of the Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act (S.3983). This legislation was introduced on June 17, 2020, by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and was referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. This bill would empower Americans to hold Big Tech companies accountable for acting in bad faith by selectively censoring political speech and hiding content created by their competitors.      I will continue to look for ways to engage with my colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the administration, on workable solutions regarding this important matter.      It is an honor and a privilege to serve you as your United States Senator. I will keep your thoughts in mind as I consider these issues and continue working to ensure America remains a safe and prosperous nation.   Sincerely, Marco Rubio U.S. Senator Each week I provide a weekly update on issues in Washington and ways in which my office can assist the people of Florida. Sign up here for updates on my legislative efforts, schedule of events throughout Florida, constituent services and much more.

Is our members of Congress really paying attention to the wants/needs of our citizens ?

Is our members of Congress really paying attention to the wants/needs of our citizens ?

I sent the same email to both of my Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio… the above link is to a copy of Rick Scott’s reply and the above is Marco Rubio’s reply…  Rubio’s is DEAD ON…. Scott’s is not even a NEAR MISS.

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Politics not withstanding… the change of administration tomorrow will probably have a serious impact on the community.  Biden was part of the administration when the Decade of pain law expired in 2009 and was not renewed… and the war on pt/drugs accelerated.

A few interesting stats and facts that are coming out:

Executive orders on first day     Bush 43 – ZERO   Obama – ZERO     Trump – ONE    Biden – estimated 10-12

How many times have each of heard/read from a family member/friend state with someone close to them who is a addict or OD’s  “… No other family should go thru this …”

President Biden (Attorney) has a son who is at best a addict in recovery

VP Harris (Attorney) when AG of CALF put 1500 people in jail over MJ use and at the same time video interview saying that she used MJ

The proposed head of HHS is going to be another Attorney  the head of health and human services being an attorney ?

Of course the AG will be an attorney

We have people from Central America heading for our southern border because Biden stated  “in my first 100 days no one will be deported…”…what he didn’t say… was that … that promise would only apply to anyone already in our country BEFORE Jan 1, 2021.

In general attorneys like to make sure our laws are enforced….  and we have the muddled mess of reported use/abuse/OD from opiates from the CDC – It is common knowledge that the vast amount of OD’s involve illegal opiates – mostly illegal fentanyl  and the drug alcohol  – average OD toxicology has 4-7 different substances show up.  In those few hundred of OD’s that has only a opiate that the pt has been legally prescribed would suggest a SUICIDE, but if a suicide note is left behind…. most seem to VANISH and the death is ruled as a accidental overdose.

Some have been discussing creating a “commercial” …  I remember one other advocate tried that with a 15 second commercial on one of the cable channels.. but I have not seen nor heard anything about those commercials for sometime …. maybe they didn’t produce some results or they got too expensive.

Someone who wishes to run a 30 second commercial locally on a single channel one time … ballpark cost is $5000.  Want to put that same commercial on one of the major channels at night… a single slot starts at about $13,000 and goes up dramatically.

I am been blogging for 9 yrs and have not seen the first incident/suggestion of anyone within the healthcare system displaying any fear of any chronic pain or pts dealing with chronic diseases requiring controlled substances. It would appear that the actions against the community by healthcare practitioners has no consequences.  They have no reasons to change the denial of care and discrimination against those in the community.

Imagine what could happen if a pt is told by their prescriber that they are going to experience a forced reduction in their meds.. and all similar pts in the practice will experience the same. What could happen if that first pt contacted a law firm to try to get the names of the other pts and collectively send a letter of complaint to the state medical board and the state AG… filing a complaint of civil rights discrimination, pt abandonment, pt abuse… and … on and on…  The attorney would not have to divulge the pts’ names… attorney/client privilege.  If the physician/practice is owned by a hospital system, maybe all the presribers working for the system is being forced to do the same to all similar pts.. 

successful outcome in one state, could turn into a template for pts/attorneys in other states. A dozen or two pts hiring a law firm to send out a few letters and costing a couple of hundred dollars.

Link below is a post I did a few weeks ago of other ways to “get even” and there is a link in this post to another post, be sure to read both

call their bluff with a letter from attorney ?

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CDC: Anaphylaxis Rate With COVID Vax 10 Times Greater Than for Flu Shots

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/90556

But events still rare and nonfatal, and benefits outweigh risks, officials say

While rare, the rate of anaphylaxis following COVID-19 mRNA vaccines appeared about 10 times that documented for flu shots, CDC officials said on Wednesday.

Overall, 21 cases of anaphylaxis following COVID vaccination were reported out of about 1.9 million doses given as of Dec. 23, according to an early Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report release. That amounts to 11.1 cases per million versus an estimated 1.3 cases per million following inactivated influenza vaccine, agency officials said on a call with the media.

They noted that, as of now, 29 confirmed cases of anaphylaxis are reported with the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. In addition, the officials said, the MMWR report from Dec. 14-23 focuses on the Pfizer vaccine, since the Moderna vaccine was not available until Dec. 21. Still, there is not enough data to see a difference in risk between vaccines.

No deaths from anaphylaxis have been seen to date.

Nancy Messonnier, MD, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, emphasized that these events were rare and that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweighed the risks. Moreover, comparing these to the numbers for flu “misses the point” when there are over 2,000 deaths from COVID-19 every day in the U.S.

“It’s still a good value proposition,” she said. “Even if the rate is higher than what we see after routine immunizations, anaphylaxis still remains rare.”

Of the 21 cases reviewed in MMWR, 18 had documented allergies or allergic reactions to drugs, medical products, food, or insect stings, and seven had experienced anaphylaxis in the past, including one following a rabies vaccine and one following an influenza A (H1N1) vaccine.

Messonnier acknowledged the millions of people who have allergies to food or insect stings, and stressed the difference between “someone who had a mild allergic reaction in their childhood versus someone with a severe allergic reaction next week.”

“A lot of people have some history of allergy to bee sting or food and the fact that people in this group had anaphylaxis … may not mean allergic reactions put them at higher risk, but it might,” she added.

Messonnier noted that CDC guidance indicates that anyone with a history of anaphylaxis for any reason should talk to their healthcare provider prior to vaccination and clinicians should exercise their judgment.

CDC officials said anyone with a history of anaphylaxis who gets the vaccine should be observed for 30 minutes afterwards, as people who previously had anaphylaxis are at risk of having it again.

The agency recently updated its interim guidance for clinicians about contraindications to the vaccine, adding that those with an immediate allergic reaction to the first vaccine should not receive a second dose.

Seventeen of the 21 cases were among those with a history of anaphylaxis, and median time from vaccination to symptom onset was 13 minutes, although around 70% of patients had symptom onset within 15 minutes. The median age of patients was 40, and 19 were women.

The MMWR report noted that female predominance had been seen earlier for immediate hypersensitivity reactions to influenza A (H1N1) vaccine. But the disproportion with COVID vaccination could simply be due to more women than men receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the authors said.

Nineteen patients were treated with epinephrine, 17 were treated in the emergency department, and four were hospitalized, including three in intensive care. Among 20 with available information, all were discharged home.

Also, Messonnier briefly addressed reports of healthcare workers electing not to get vaccinated, saying she was “definitely concerned” about it.

“It makes it exceedingly important that we get the correct information to healthcare workers and we quickly dispense with misinformation,” she said. “We need them not only to protect themselves, but to educate their patients so everyone understands these vaccines … have a good safety profile, they are working, and they … can help us end this pandemic.”

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Norway Warns Against Vaccinating Frail and Terminally Ill People After Reported Deaths

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/norway-warns-against-vaccinating-frail-and-terminally-ill-people-after-reported-deaths_3661390.html

Officials in Norway said they are investigating the deaths of about two dozen elderly patients who received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and are looking into the prospect that adverse reactions to the vaccine “may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients.”

Reports of adverse reactions with a fatal outcome “suggest that common adverse reactions to mRNA vaccines, such as fever and nausea, may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients,” said Sigurd Hortemo, chief physician at the Norwegian Medicines Agency, in a statement on Monday.

A spokesperson for the agency told CBS News that the “patients died from their underlying disease.” Of 13 cases analyzed so far, “they are people of advanced age, are frail, and have serious illnesses, all of them,” said Camilla Stoltenberg, the director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, according to CBS News.

“It is important to remember that on average about 45 people die every day at nursing homes in Norway, so it’s not given that this represents any excess mortality or that they are related to the vaccines,” she said.

In its update on Monday, the Norwegian Medicines Agency said that all deaths that occur within days of the vaccination will be investigated.

“We cannot rule out that adverse reactions to the vaccine occurring within the first days following vaccination (such as fever and nausea) may contribute to more serious course and fatal outcome in patients with severe underlying disease,” the statement read.

“We have now repeated our existing advice not to give the vaccine to terminally ill patients,” a spokeswoman for the agency told the Wall Street Journal.

The spokeswoman attempted to allay fears of links between the deaths and the vaccine, saying that there is no evidence the shot is unsafe.

On Jan. 14, Norwegian officials changed the country’s CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccination guide and said “very frail” people should not receive the shot.

“If you are very frail, you should probably not be vaccinated,” Steinar Madsen at the Norwegian Medicines Agency told reporters last week.

As of Jan. 14, more than 42,000 people in Norway received the CCP virus vaccine. Authorities have reported 23 cases of elderly recipients suffering from serious medical conditions dying after receiving the vaccine.

Pfizer and BioNTech told news outlets on Monday that the two firms are now “working with the Norwegian Medicines Agency to gather all the relevant information” following the deaths. “Our immediate thoughts are with the bereaved families,” Pfizer said.

Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Iceland have all reported post-vaccination deaths. Fifty-five people in the United States have died post-vaccination, according to reports filed to a passive system.

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