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More States Lockdown as All 50 States See Increase in Cases

by Mac Slavo
SHTF Plan

Apparently, if you buy the COVID-19 official narrative, all 50 states are seeing a rise in cases. But the most important news is that more are also locking down in an attempt to finish off what’s left of the middle class.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz plans to announce new COVID-19 restrictions today amid a “surge in statewide infections”, possibly including stricter rules for bars and restaurants. In Illinois, stricter coronavirus restrictions will go into effect Wednesday for some suburban counties. “The virus is winning right now,” Governor J.B. Pritzker said on Twitter. The governor also hinted at a possible stay-at-home order as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches.

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Minneapolis Seeking Outside Police Help After City Council Vowed to Dismantle Police Department

Region surging with crime, officer shortage

by Dan Lyman
News Wars

A surge of crime has prompted officials in Minneapolis to explore the possibility of bolstering the city’s shrinking police force with officers from outside departments, according to local media.

Under the new plan, which could go into effect on Nov. 15th, cops from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and Metro Transit Police would be brought in to help deal with violent crimes as part of Joint Enforcement Teams with city officers.

“We’re not gonna be having these people out taking bicycle theft reports. These are going to be people out combating crime issues,” Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder told the Star Tribune.

The move comes months after the Minneapolis City Council announced plans to “dismantle” the police department in the wake of ‘George Floyd’ riots that rocked the city in May.

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Stocks Finally Bending to the Weight of News

by Rick Ackerman
RickAckerman.com

Tech stocks hit a wall Tuesday, unable to remain afloat on a tide of stressful news. Although Wall Street would have us believe investors shouldn’t care who wins the election, the idea is preposterous. There is simply no way that a takeover of Capitol Hill by the Democrats could be perceived as good for business and the economy. But there’s a Catch-22 if Trump succeeds in reversing Biden’s ostensible victory, since a court decision paving the way for a second term could gravely unsettle America for years to come. A vaccine remains a bullish wild card, as the mindless herd demonstrated on Monday. Pfizer announced a drug that has been 90% effective in trials, touching off the most powerful one-day rally in stock-market history. The clinical basis for the drugmaker’s claim went largely unexplored initially, presumably because the stock market’s canny masters had every reason to avoid hard questions. But they surfaced on Tuesday nonetheless, causing shares to extend Monday’s retreat with big tech leading the way.

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This Time is Different, Bond Bull, and a Look at the Gold Sector

from King World News

On the heels of the Dow surging along with crude oil and the mining stocks continuing to struggle, it appears this time is different, plus a look at the bond bull and the gold sector.

Bond Bull

November 10 (King World News) – Albert Edwards, Former Global Strategist at Société Générale: Is the bull market in bonds over? I’ve heard that many times before, especially in Japan with the widow-maker trade. I started work as an economist in 1982 right at the start of the bull market and my ‘official’ retirement age at 60 will be April next year. Maybe just a coincidence!

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The Media Should Not Have ‘Called’ This Election

by Andy Puzder
Real Clear Politics

Joe Biden has made it clear that he will do his best to “unify” the country following an election in which more than 71 million Americans – nearly half the electorate – voted for Donald Trump. It is an admirable goal. But any chance of that happening depends on the American people having confidence that the election outcome resulted from a fair and honest process. Though never perfect, our electoral system has generally instilled confidence for the past 231 years, which is why it has worked so well.

Under the contentious circumstances of this election, the traditional media’s decision to declare a victor before the official process had run its course has diminished the confidence of Trump voters in the announced result. Even if the declaration of a Biden victory is found to be accurate, the call was premature, and it will make the effort to unify our nation far more difficult.

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Fauci Admitted the Truth About Covid-19 Tests in July and Has Misled the Public Since

from Zero Hedge

Authored by Stacey Lennox via PJMedia.com,

One of the most frustrating aspects of COVID-19 coverage has been the emphasis on “cases,” reinforced by the Mendacious Midget™, Dr. Anthony Fauci. In fact, he was wringing his hands about rising “case” numbers on CNN in early October. These numbers are actually positive tests. The New York Times and several experts admitted in late August that up to 90% of positive PCR tests were not indicative of the active illness that could be transmitted to others.

As it turns out, Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed a similar opinion in July. As I have reported several times before, the cycle threshold (Ct), or the number of times the test sample is amplified, is too high. According to Just the News, Dr. Fauci acknowledged this in an interview with “This Week in Virology”:

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Obama Security Adviser Admits Biden is Already Talking with Foreign Leaders; a Breach of the Logan Act

This is the exact same scenario that Obama advisers accused Gen. Flynn of being in

by Steve Watson
Summit News

Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes admitted Monday that Joe Biden is already speaking with foreign leaders as if he is the next President, a move that some believe to be a breach of the Logan Act, the same law that President Trump’s former national security adviser Gen. Mike Flynn was prosecuted under.

Rhodes made the comments during an MSNBC interview in which he slammed Trump for contesting the election:

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Barr Authorizes Election Fraud Investigations. Why Not?

Plus: Obamacare and qualified immunity before SCOTUS, Uber can acquire Postmates, and more…

by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Reason.com

Attorney General Bill Barr instructed U.S. prosecutors to look into any credible claims of election irregularities in their districts. A Monday letter from Barr is spawning a lot of worries that the Department of Justice (DOJ) backs President Donald Trump’s spurious allegations of voter fraud or is at least attempting to lend credence to them. And yesterday’s protest resignation of Richard Pilger, head of the DOJ branch that oversees election crimes, only added to that effect.

But Barr’s letter doesn’t give the impression that he’s trying to help Trump hijack the election. Rather, he seems to be trying to walk a very fine line and perhaps even stamp out his boss’s conspiracy claims.

There’s no simply ignoring them at this point; not just Trump but other prominent Republicans have backed these claims of fraud, despite the total lack of evidence and the sheer scale that would’ve had to take place for it to have affected the election outcome.

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The Tide is Already Turning for President Trump

by Ed Timperlake
American Thinker

Attorney General Barr just mobilized the Department of Justice to engage as appropriate to investigate election fraud throughout America. He is on very solid legal grounds. ?It is a very simple means of addressing the greatest attempted political theft in American history and I would rather be us, Trump Nation, than them, the Democrat party’s illegal operatives.

This is because President Trump and his team laid the legal ground work for identifying and prosecuting such criminal behavior in 2017:

Federal Prosecution of Election Offensives

Eight Edition 2017

“Our constitutional system of representative government only works when the worth of honest ballots is not diluted by invalid ballots procured by corruption.

The actual fact that AG late last night triggered the use of the DOJ legal handbook bodes very ill for those who are involved in electoral cheating.

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JPMorgan Chase is Under a New Federal Investigation, One Month After Getting Slapped with Its 4th and 5th Criminal Felony Count

by Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade

Each quarter publicly traded companies file a form known as the 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 10-Q filed by the largest bank in the United States, JPMorgan Chase, on November 2 carried a very disturbing paragraph that had not appeared in the 10-Q the bank filed on August 3. The paragraph reads as follows:

“JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. has been advised by one of its U.S. regulators of a potential civil money penalty action against the Bank related to historical deficiencies in internal controls and internal audit over certain advisory and other activities. The Bank already has controls in place to address the deficiencies related to the proposed penalty. The Firm is currently engaged in resolution discussions with the U.S. regulator. There is no assurance that such discussions will result in resolution.”

Why is this paragraph so disturbing? First of all, the words “deficiencies” and “audit” are not two words that one wants to read in the same sentence pertaining to any Wall Street bank. But they are particularly frightening when it comes to the largest bank in the United States that has racked up an unprecedented five criminal felony counts – to which it admitted guilt – in the past six years. That’s five more felony counts than the bank racked up in the prior 100 years of its existence.

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Zoom and Other ‘Stay-at-Home’ Stocks Got Crushed on the Positive Vaccine News

Zoom Video stock fell as names benefitting from people staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic came under pressure by the vaccine news.

by Fred Imbert
CNBC.com

Shares of Zoom Video fell sharply Monday as names benefitting from people staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic lost their appeal following the release of positive coronavirus vaccine data.

Zoom Video closed 17.4% lower. Fellow “stay-at-home” stocks Amazon and Netflix dropped 5.1% and 8.6%, respectively. Teladoc Health slid 13.7% and Shopify declined by 13.6%.

The losses came after Pfizer and BioNTech reported that their coronavirus vaccine candidate showed a 90% efficacy rate in preventing infections during a late-stage trial. Scientists were hoping for a vaccine that was at least 75% effective. White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci had said a vaccine that is 50% or 60% effective would be acceptable.

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Powerful Presidents Are Incompatible with Liberty

by Dr. Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute

The mainstream media has declared former Vice President Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election. However, this does not mean the 2020 Presidential campaign has come to an end. President Donald Trump is continuing his legal challenges to the vote counts in some key states.

The emotional investment of many Americans into the race between Trump and Biden would have shocked the drafters of the Constitution. The Constitution’s authors intended the presidency to be an office of strictly limited powers that would not impact most Americans.

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All Heck Broke Loose in the Markets on Vaccine Monday. Stocks Split in Two: Some Soared, Others Plunged

by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street

Indexes backed off sharply into the close. Dow gave up 800 points of its 1,600-point spike. Nasdaq -1.5%. Oil soared. Gold & silver dropped. 10-Year Treasury went rogue.

Upon the announcement this morning of some tidbits on a preliminary study of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine, all heck broke loose in the financial markets, with investors piling into in various things and fleeing other things, and wholesale-abandoning certain things, amid reports of outages at online brokers Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood, TD Ameritrade, Vanguard, and others, where traders couldn’t log into their apps, and couldn’t make the trade of their lifetime.

And that might have saved them some money, because after the surge in the morning, stocks gave up much of it, and the Nasdaq ended up 1.5% in the red.

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Georgia Senators Loeffler, Perdue Release Joint Statement Calling on Georgia Secretary of State to Resign

by Penka Arsova
LaCorte News

Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue (R-GA) on Monday called on Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to resign.

Why? The Senators, in a joint statement, cited the election and how the process was handled by the state. They argued there was a lack of transparency about the vote-counting process.

“The management of Georgia elections has become an embarrassment for our state. Georgians are outraged, and rightly so. We have been clear from the beginning: every legal vote cast should be counted. Any illegal vote must not. And there must be transparency and uniformity in the counting process. This isn’t hard. This isn’t partisan. This is American. We believe when there are failures, they need to be called out — even when it’s in your own party,” the statement reads.

“While blame certainly lies elsewhere as well, the buck ultimately stops with the Secretary of State … The Secretary of State has failed to deliver honest and transparent elections. He has failed the people of Georgia, and he should step down immediately.”

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U.S. Still Faces Possible Default Wave, Asset Declines Due to Pandemic: Fed

by Reuters Staff
Reuters.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States may still face a wave of debt defaults and “significant declines” in asset prices because of the coronavirus pandemic and recession, the Federal Reserve warned on Monday, in a stark reminder the economy is far from out of the woods.

“As many households continue to struggle, loan defaults may rise, leading to material losses” for lenders, the Fed said in its latest biannual Financial Stability Report. Business debt “has risen sharply as businesses increased borrowing to weather the period of weak earnings. The general decline in revenues associated with the severe reduction in economic activity has weakened the ability of businesses to services these obligations.”

Asset prices “remain vulnerable to significant declines should investor risk sentiment fall or the economic recovery weaken.”

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Life is Not a Dress Rehearsal

by Southern Sage
The Burning Platform

It is now obvious that massive voter fraud took place inn the so-called “swing states”. The Democrats knew which states would be problematic and carefully prepared a plan to steal them. Not that they did not do it elsewhere. Of course they did, as they always have. But the big guns were brought up for Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada. I suspect that sophisticated computer operations were used alongside old-fashioned ballot-box stuffing.

The truth-teller in this was the Democratic panic on the night of 3 November. They really did not expect the size of Trump’s victory in those states, as they were high on their own supply. They let their guard down and didn’t set the wheels in motion in time. When they realized what was happening they had to put their plans into play with undue haste. This, combined with the fact that most Democratic political operatives are either low IQ drones or neurotic urban dwellers, led to something of a voter fraud train wreck, with evidence lying all over the place.

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