Elephants in Our Rooms ~ 09/17/20 ~ Hosts Janet Kira Lessin, Debra DeFranco ~ 8 to 10 PM EDT, 7 PM Central, 6 PM Mountain, 5 PM Pacific, 2 PM HST
TOPICS:
Fires & Global Earth Changes (global warming)
COVID-19
Trump Accused of Rape
Elections 2020
Presidential Coup – in America?
Teachers Dying
Racism
Hacking & Foreign Interference
Bob Woodward – New Book “Rage”
Masks
Roger Stone
Health, Wellness, Cures & Diseases
Criminal Justice
Yelp: 60 percent of US businesses closures since March are permanent
A Yelp report released Wednesday determined that about 60 percent of business closures across the country since March are permanent, a staggering statistic that shows the widespread economic
Read in The Hill: https://apple.news/AOT-pvcrqSXGiPQuRZQOh2w
BOB WOODWARD
Rage
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ROGER STONE
Roger Stone Calls For Trump To ‘Declare Martial Law’ To Seize Power If He Loses
TRUMP
Ex-model Amy Dorris alleges Trump sexually assaulted her in 1997 at U.S. Open tennis tournament
The president denies the allegations, made in an interview with The Guardian, of the then-24-year-old woman, a guest in his VIP box.
Read in NBC News: https://apple.news/AnuNrL_TvTsyt2oA3IIRnnA
‘I feel sick, violated’: former model alleges sexual assault by Donald Trump
Amy Dorris alleges she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump in 1997, when she was 24. Speaking publicly about the alleged incident for the first time, the former model claims Trump grabbed her as she came out of the bathroom of his VIP box at the US Open tennis event, forced his tongue down her throat and held her in a grip from which she could not escape. Trump’s lawyers said he denied in the strongest possible terms having ever harassed, abused or behaved improperly toward Dorris
Read in The Guardian: https://apple.news/AMRDeeoOwTxGI1fIerTkADw
Slate: Trump Endorses Extrajudicial Executions: Killing of Antifa Suspect Was “Retribution”
Back in the good old days before Hitler (oh Trump) took over the Republican Party and created the Trump party and started a global Trumpism (facism) movement, police used to arrest people and then they would later have a fair (or somewhat fair) trial. Now Trump encourages police to be judge, jury and executioner, thus shredding our constitution once again. How can anyone vote for such an evil being. Oh yeah, well Hitler didn’t do it alone and Trump has his Kool-Aid drinkers blindly following him as they destroy America. We are the generation who watched Democracy die at the hands of Hitler (oh, I mean Trump).
Trump Endorses Extrajudicial Executions: Killing of Antifa Suspect Was “Retribution”
The president was referring to the killing of Michael Forest Reinoehl, who was a suspect in the fatal shooting of a right-wing protester in Portland.
Read in Slate: https://apple.news/AL4Ibdh4zRb-0X-VNl1-ArA
Investigators work near a tarpaulin covering the body of a man who is reportedly Michael Forest Reinoehl after he was shot and killed by law enforcement on September 3, 2020 in Lacey, Washington
Shortly after that interview was published, law enforcement agents shot and killed Reinoehl as they moved to arrest him. Officers claimed Reinoehl was brandishing a weapon but it isn’t clear whether he fired at police. No law enforcement officers were injured. “Initial reports indicate the suspect produced a firearm, threatening the lives of law enforcement officers,” the Marshals Service said in a statement. “Task force members responded to the threat and struck the suspect who was pronounced dead at the scene.”
Doctor warns Trump’s Nevada rally is ‘negligent homicide’: ‘People will die’
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University and medical analyst for CNN, said on Sunday that President Trump‘s indoor rally in Nevada is “negligent homicide.”
“What else could you call an act that because of its negligence results in the death of others?” he said. “If you have a mass gathering now in the United States in a place like Nevada or just about any other place with hundreds of thousands of people, people will get infected and some of those people will die.”
“There has been a lot of talk about over whether the president played down the risks of this virus to his followers and the country as a whole. And you have to just look at what is going on now to understand that,” he continued.
“If you took this virus seriously, you would never hold an indoor rally or almost any rally now and particularly one that doesn’t enforce very strict rules on masks. People will die as a consequence of this. I think that Nevada has a law right now limiting gatherings to more than 50 people. So, the president is defying that. Makes no sense.”
Debra DeFranco
https://percolate.blogtalkradio.com/offsiteplayer?hostId=366729&episodeId=11809600
More than half of all wrongful criminal convictions are caused by government misconduct, study finds
Many factors contribute to wrongful convictions of people, including withholding evidence or false identifications, but science and innocence advocates are making progress, the study says.
By Tom Jackman
Never Trumpers Janet Kira Lessin & Debra DeFranco address current political issues and news from a Democratic/Independent perspectives. These issues and the disinformation/lies around them shape our world and determine our fate. We live in perhaps the most important times ever as humanity faces the annihilation of our species and the massive destruction of Mother Gaia Earth herself as fires rage out of control around the planet.
HACKING & FOREIGN INTERFERENCE
College Board reportedly helped China gain ‘strategic access’ to US education system
College Board, one of the largest standardized testing organizations globally, worked closely with the Chinese Communist Party for almost two decades to help them gain “strategic access” to the US’ primary education system, according to a new report. The report, published this month by the National Association of Scholars, alleges that the organization has worked in partnership with Beijing since at least 2003 to develop the AP Chinese Language and culture exam and help them establish Confucius
Read in New York Post: https://apple.news/AbRJdGUeCQeWIH-ltPiZABw
HEALTH, WELLNESS, CURES & DISEASES
How This Nasdaq-U.K.-Listed Chinese Biotech Is Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment
Chi-Med has been granted three U.S. Food and Drug Administration Fast Track Designations for its cancer drugs.
Read in Barron’s: https://apple.news/AxRqDJJaXR_KIJ_NVzbttKQ
COVID
Trump Holds Indoor Nevada Rally as Wildfires and Pandemic Rage: A Closer Look
Coronavirus: scientists find a collision of pandemic and flu doubles Covid-19 transmission
Influenza could more than double the transmission rate of the coronavirus, according to new European research. A joint study by the Max Planck Institute in Germany and Pasteur Institute in France showed that on average, a patient infected with the SARS…
Read in South China Morning Post: https://apple.news/ARIVwDX87SfaSUwF0ezWHzQ
If You’ve Just Had Covid, Exercise Might Not Be Good for You
A growing number of studies are raising concerns about the coronavirus’ long-term effects on the heart. Athletes especially need to heed the warnings.
Read in WIRED: https://apple.news/Ag-rwkkTdQBKGN6mIfKeZ6g
Yelp: 60 percent of US businesses closures since March are permanent
A Yelp report released Wednesday determined that about 60 percent of business closures across the country since March are permanent, a staggering statistic that shows the widespread economic
Read in The Hill: https://apple.news/AOT-pvcrqSXGiPQuRZQOh2w
I just left the ER. Here’s what you need to know about testing:
| I just got done working a shift in the Emergency Department. I need to tell you what Trump won’t: Our testing protocols have now scaled back significantly. We cannot get rapid turn around tests on most patients. We have to send people home for a couple of days to wait for their test results. Frankly, it feels like we’re beating a dead horse that isn’t dead yet with this lack of testing availability. Just this weekend President Trump said anyone who wants a test can get a test. And now here we are. Six months into this crisis, nearly 200,000 people dead, and we still can’t get a test for everyone who needs one. I’ll be honest with you: it is tough to practice medicine under these conditions. We are reusing personal protective equipment again. We’re being told we may need to go back to re-using our N95 masks for weeks at a time. We’re being told that if we don’t scale back our testing, we may only have a week’s supply left. This President could have used the Defense Production Act to ensure a steady stream of PPE for frontline workers like myself. If it was in his interest, this would have been done by now. Instead, he is just banking on getting a vaccine developed before the election so that he can show people that he’s done something. His mantra is “the faster the better.” He doesn’t even care if it works. So this is where we are. We are utterly without leadership on the coronavirus because all Donald Trump cares about is getting reelected. |
College Professors Made Models Showing How Bad COVID-19 Would Be on Campus. Some Administrators Ignored Them
Students return to Notre Dame’s campus for the fall semester, in South Bend, Ind. on August 7, 2020. Who thought it would be a good idea to move thousands of teenagers and young adults across the country to college campuses, where, unencumbered by parental supervision, many college kids did what college kids do? Actually, Nigel Goldenfeld and Sergei Maslov, two University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign physics researchers, thought they had it figured out. They created a predictive model for the
Read in TIME: https://apple.news/Af6k3RKanTjaWYUg9e5c4kQ
Whistleblower makes shocking claim that coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab
A coronavirus whistleblower who fled Hong Kong in April to escape persecution from the Chinese government said in recent interviews that she has evidence China lied about human-to-human transmission as well as evidence that the virus was engineered in a lab. Dr. Li-Meng Yan and two of her colleagues published a report that explains the…
Read in BGR: https://apple.news/AZ9HYzbsISGOzoRF9B9XM2w
PROTESTS
Army National Guard major told Congress feds requested heat ray and stockpiled ammunition before clearing DC protest – CNNPolitics
These 25 mayors announced guaranteed income pilot programs around the country
The idea is being promoted as an extension of the public safety net.
Read in The Hill: https://apple.news/A-I80fDozSICKOveDJ2UCbg
DAILY KOS
- Conservative pastor in a whole lot of hot water after sending gross email to journalist
- Doctor claimed his daughter was attacked by BLM activists and cops refused to help. He was lying
- More DeJoy corruption exposed, along with the extent of damage he’s done to the Postal Service
- Coronavirus has upended how states run elections. Every voter needs to know if and how rules have changed in their area. Please chip in $5 to support our GOTV campaign.
- Oklahoma officials were certain Trump’s Tulsa rally would lead to pandemic deaths. Nobody cared
- Deadly Maine wedding offers another reminder of the danger of COVID-19 superspreader events
- Evidence from white bar owner himself undermines self-defense claim in Black protester’s murder
- In 2 minutes flat, CNN’s fact checker dismantled nearly ever Trump town hall talking point
- Record unemployment and evictions—and still no action from Senate Republicans on coronavirus relief. Make them pay: Give $1 right now to flip the Senate
- Trump’s most stunning whopper: ‘I already have a plan’ protecting preexisting conditions
- Trump tries to turn his polling around with a last-minute flurry of presidential-type actions
- McConnell and the GOP Senate must be scared about something
- Trump gleefully takes to Twitter as Big Ten announces restored football season amid pandemic
- Cancel Donald Trump’s blatant voter suppression. Get on the phones with Turnout2020, and help walk swing state voters through the process of getting an absentee ballot now. It’s one of the most effective phone banking work you can do.
- Pelosi’s pressure on COVID-19 relief might kickstart negotiations, as Trump pushes Senate GOP
- Progressives once again oust a bunch of incumbent lawmakers, this time in Delaware
- Biden campaigns in Florida, unveils plan for Puerto Rico … and plays ‘Despacito’ on his phone
- Desperate Donald, losing Latino support, spews lies by tweeting manipulated Biden video
- Pennsylvania is a must-win state for Joe Biden, and state Republicans are rushing to make vote-by-mail more difficult. Call Pennsylvania voters on Thursday with Turnout2020, and help walk them through the process of requesting an absentee ballot while they still can.
- Barr tells U.S. attorneys to ‘get aggressive’ and charge protesters with sedition
- Brimming with fresh ideas, House GOP unveils 1-page ‘Commitment to America’ to grow the debt
- CDC director says vaccines are not coming until ‘late 2021,’ but masks can stop COVID-19 today
ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:
- Calls for CNBC host’s resignation after he used a misogynistic slur live on-air to Nancy Pelosi
- Armed vigilantes set up rural checkpoints in Oregon as ‘antifa fires’ hoax inflames social media
- Trump says extrajudicial killing is alright: ‘There has to be retribution’
- Top Trump ally urges Trump to impose martial law, ‘seize’ Election Day votes
- “Mr. President, you’ve done enough.” A call for resignation after Woodward’s Rage…
- Daily Kos has recruited over 55,000 volunteers to help Get Out The Vote—and we’re just getting started. Chip in $5 right now to support our work.
- Calls to boycott Disney’s ‘Mulan’ increase after viewers learn where the movie was filmed
- Cartoon: So many hoaxes
- Watch Naomi Osaka flip the script when asked about the message she wants to send with her face masks
- Senate Republicans walked away from coronavirus relief talks, leaving millions to fend for themselves. It’s payback time: Chip in $1 to each of these Daily Kos-endorsed Democrats right now.
- Brilliant Meidas Touch ad has rare truth from ImPOTUS & graph every American should internalize
- Adults with COVID-19 twice as likely to report having dined at a restaurant, says new CDC study
- Watch as North Dakota councilwoman shuts down a room of whining anti-LGBTQ bigots
- We will win, if we can get young people out to vote in this election. Volunteer with NextGen America to send text messages to young voters in 11 swing states, helping them get absentee ballots. With text banking, you don’t need to talk to anyone!
- Trump holds first indoor rally since Tulsa humiliation
- That free COVID-19 testing isn’t free to many, and Trump isn’t going to fix that
- It’s time to disband campus police departments
- Looking to do effective phone banking? Here’s a great strategy with Turnout Tuesday: calling Democratic-leaning swing states voters to help them request absentee ballots. Sign up to volunteer..
- Massachusetts is locking up more Black and Latino people, for longer, and yes, it’s about race
- To fight forest fires, we may need … more forests. And much better data about the changing climate
- In 50 days we’ll have a new president. Buckle up for turbulent weather.
ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:
- Trump rally in the key state of Michigan wasn’t accompanied by the best local headlines
- Trump levels racist, misogynist attacks on Harris, but this time the traditional media is calling it
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
Armed vigilantes set up rural checkpoints in Oregon as ‘antifa fires’ hoax inflames social media- DeJoy donated big bucks to Trump, Republicans right after Postmaster job opened, before nomination
- Biden assembles the legal firepower needed to fight Trump’s efforts to undermine the elections
- Trump administration proposes collecting DNA data from migrants and even some U.S. citizens
- Trump is scared of big turnout. Make his fears a reality: Chip in $5 right now to help Daily Kos recruit 100,000 volunteers to Get Out The Vote.
- White suburban women continue their stampede away from Trump
- Whistleblower reveals how Trump has unleashed another plague: white-supremacist terrorism
- Utah anti-mask rally goes viral after attendees spout conspiracies and comparisons to George Floyd
- American parents are realizing that Donald Trump is the reason their kids can’t go back to school
- Trump team sought to water down, block CDC warnings of pandemic’s danger to U.S. children
- When Trump and Biden talk climate change, it’s exploding trees vs. science and jobs
- Cancel voter suppression by signing up to become a poll worker with Power the Polls!
- Cartoon: Fake news
- Trump is ‘not at all concerned’ about indoor rally during COVID-19—because he personally is safe
- Old Postal Service audit surfaces, shows DeJoy’s company may have gouged taxpayers for $53 million
- Cancel Donald Trump’s blatant voter suppression. Get on the phones with Turnout2020, and help walk swing state voters through the process of getting an absentee ballot now. It’s one of the most effective phone banking work you can do.
- Cartoon: Conservative vibes only
- With McConnell’s Senate abdicating, Pelosi has to figure out how to save the country
- Mitch McConell is still not negotiating new coronavirus relief. Chip in $1 to end McConnell’s majority right now.
- New Arkansas poll finds an unexpectedly tight House race
- Whistleblower complaint charges ICE center with performing mass hysterectomies on prisoners
- Canada reported zero COVID-19 deaths on Friday; the U.S.? 1,094
ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:
- OUCH! Chuck Todd destroys Trump with his own words & that of his experts. And no whataboutism?
- Trump says extrajudicial killing is alright: ‘There has to be retribution’
- Top Trump ally urges Trump to impose martial law, ‘seize’ Election Day votes
Pennsylvania teacher who voted for Trump in 2016 takes her regrets very public
Trump administration secretly siphoned millions out of New York Firefighters’ health program
Three reasons why Woodward’s revelations about Trump and COVID-19 are so devastating for him
If anything, Trump’s ‘law and order’ fearmongering is backfiring
Teachers in 5 states have died of COVID-19. Trump is still demanding all schools open their doors
New poll finds Darrell Issa locked in a surprisingly tight race
Trump confesses to lying in ways that denied Americans basic information for surviving COVID-19
DHS whistleblower: Wolf ordered intelligence findings altered to support Trump claims
States put in position of deciding whether to save restaurants and economy or lives in pandemic
Cancel Trump’s voter suppression by signing up to become a poll worker with Power the Polls!
‘Chad Wolf has no legal authority’: Unlawfully appointed DHS secretary sued over DACA slashes
This Week in Statehouse Action: Statehouse of Cards edition
Are you sick and tired of Republican gerrymandering? This right here is how we fight it
Sign the petition: Demand Congress save the U.S. Postal Service!
How to help LGBTQ youth? Use the correct pronouns, let trans folks use the right bathrooms, and more
https://www.youtube.com/embed/4Wa3VwU12Bo?feature=oembedhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/v9Oj38-8TTA?feature=oembed
At Least 6 American Teachers—Some In Their 20s And 30s—Dead From Covid-19 ~ It’s been around a month since some schools across the country reopened.
Read in Forbes: https://apple.news/AwCPOyt4VSWOPhWCchT3kEw
Trump knew COVID “dangerous, highly contagious, airborne, deadly” in January – did nothing
Trump knew and is responsible for the Trumpism attitude that has infiltrated the world resulting in millions infected and hundreds of thousands dead. Before this is over millions will die because of Trumpism, promoted by Trump and COVID infections delivered by Trump’s Jim Jones, mind-controlled, Zombie followers. Trump’s a dictator, like Putin and Hitler and will go down in history as the world ever. Vote red you’re dead. Vote blue for authentic Truth and planetary healing.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-coup-elections-gop/
Is Trump Planning a Coup d’État?
Many observers—including Republicans—worry that he is. They’re organizing now to stop him.
By Sasha AbramskyTwitter
Fox Is So Rattled By Trump Military Story That It Confirms, Debunks, Then Reconfirms It
The blow from the Trump-supporting cable news operation hits particularly hard.
Read in HuffPost: https://apple.news/AME_by3X9RviWsPOr4mutpA
[The Washington Post] Coronavirus update: New York’s infection rate has been below one percent for 30 days
Coronavirus update: New York’s infection rate has been below one percent for 30 days
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) encouraged New Yorkers to continue mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing.
By Lateshia Beachum
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/07/coronavirus-covid-updates/
Trump’s attempts to deny his attacks on veterans now has him at war with Fox News
Trump’s losing on all sides with WE THE PEOPLE who no longer will tolerate a dictator, a liar in chief who has no respect for anyone. We are tired of being used as pawns, seen only as VOTERS for him to keep him in POWER. We now take back our power and vote for leadership that honors all individuals, respects life and the Earth herself and looks for solutions that serve humanity and Earth and all peoples, brings us to a planet of peace, united in love. Feeling oneness and our connection to one another and this Planet is the only way we can survive and meet the needs of all the globe’s citizens. Needs met, solutions found, we eliminate global destruction and end all wars.
Fwd: The Post Most: Trump says he deliberately played down the threat of pandemic in a recorded interview with Bob Woodward
Trump’s QAnon ‘star’ posts violent threat to Democratic lawmakers on Facebook
Americans are finished with HATERS and hating and need to establish firm boundaries against such racist haters. We have no room for haters anymore in the USA, which is the home of the brave and generations of IMMIGRANTS. Few of us are native here. Most have mixed blood with many races in our own bodies. This racist hatred is insanity, a disease that must be eradicated from this planet, not by violence but with peace, love, cooperation, compassion and understanding.
Why fear our oneness so intensely that we threaten with violence and guns? Love your brothers and sisters who hate with such passion. Pray for their healing. And please stay out of their way. We need each and every one of you. You are all precious, children of GodSource/Universal Consciousness. You are a piece of a giant, human puzzle and without each and every one of you/us, we are not whole.
