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BigmanPigman's JournalTrump Associates Said to Have Been Scrutinized in Suspected Pardon Scheme
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/pardon-elliott-broidy-abbe-lowell.html"A billionaire from San Francisco sought clemency for a psychologist convicted of monetary crimes. The Republican donor Elliott Broidy and a lawyer for Jared Kushner were enlisted."
The Justice Department investigated as recently as this past summer the roles of a top fund-raiser for President Trump and a lawyer for his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in a suspected scheme to offer a bribe in exchange for clemency for a tax crimes convict, according to two people familiar with the inquiry.
A federal judge in Washington unsealed heavily redacted court documents on Tuesday that disclosed the existence of the investigation into possible unregistered lobbying and bribery. The people said it concerned efforts by the lawyer for Mr. Kushner, Abbe Lowell, and the fund-raiser, Elliott Broidy, who pleaded guilty in October to a charge related to a different scheme to lobby the Trump administration.
The filings unsealed this week by Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, set off a flurry of intense speculation in Washington and theories involving high-profile convicts.
New daily highs in US Covid deaths and new cases...
New cases...218,400
New Deaths...2,918
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Keith's latest video...from his own studio.
MARTIAL LAW? Flynn calling for Trump to suspend the constitution? The Farting Rudy and Drunk Karen tour? Stealing stuff from the DOJ? We are asked how WE are going to "accommodate" these seditious insurrectionists?
Here's how: F THEM.
My latest Olbermann Vs. Trump video, below: https://t.co/0r5USpEofL https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1334656153087864833?s=20
**BTW bear with me on the studio change to the al fresco site. Just doing my bit by not making unnecessary trips into other buildings and cars and subways as Covid surges, I’m using my home CityScape studio TFN.
CA will begin new Covid lockdown as wild fires burn S. Cal.
California issues new regional stay-at-home order:
https://www.kron4.com/news/california/today-newsom-to-give-covid-update/
California health officials on Thursday announced details for a regional stay-at-home order that is triggered by ICU capacities as COVID-19 case rates and hospitalizations continue to rise.
California will be divided into five regions: Northern California, Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley, and Southern California.
The order will be triggered in a region if ICU capacity drops below 15%, and the region will have 48 hours to adopt the new order.
Regions that fall under the stay-at-home order mandate will be on lockdown for at least three weeks.
CA hits over 20,000 new cases in a single day
Newsom said the Bay Area may enact the stay-at-home order by mid-to-late December.
*Enforcement will be left up to cities and if they refuse the state will withhold PPP funds.
Newsom orders new lockdown in most of CA...
Regional Stay Home Order:
The Regional Stay Home Order, announced December 3, will go into effect promptly in regions with less than 15% ICU availability. It prohibits private gatherings of any size, closes sector operations except for critical infrastructure and retail, and requires 100% masking and physical distancing in all others.
The order will remain in effect for at least 3 weeks and, after that period, will be lifted when a region’s projected ICU capacity meets or exceeds 15%. This will be assessed on a weekly basis after the initial 3 week period. Learn more about this order.
The state released a map of five regions and their current ICU capacity, as well as projected dates when regions will fall below the 15 percent threshold. The regions are:
Northern California: Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity
Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma
Greater Sacramento: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Sierra, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba
San Joaquin Valley: Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Benito, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne
Southern California: Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura
https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/
Record high New Cases today...21,800
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/
Wild fires are burning in S. California right now too.
When will your city go into lockdown again? Remember this.....
LA starts their lockdown tomorrow.
"JUST IN: Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti orders residents to stay home and businesses that require in-person work to cease operations as the city comes “close to a devastating tipping point" on Covid-19 https://trib.al/WTeIWwN"
California Coronavirus Update: Daily Cases Explode, Set Record; Gov. Newsom On Verge Of Issuing
California Coronavirus Update: Daily Cases Explode, Set Record; Gov. Newsom On Verge Of Issuing Strict Shutdown Order As Numbers Skyrocket
https://deadline.com/2020/12/california-coronavirus-daily-case-record-newsom-issuing-shutdown-order-1234636607/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/
On Wednesday, the state’s Covid-19 dashboard indicated that 20,759 new cases had been reported over the past 24 hours. That’s nearly 2,500 more cases than the previous high of 18,350. Even worse, as testing numbers have generally trended upward, the state’s test positivity rate has skyrocketed, as well. (More tests usually mean a declining positivity rate.)
On Tuesday, the California Covid-19 dashboard indicated that, while the state had actually seen a decrease in infected ICU patients, the line tracing the number of hospitalizations was nearly straight up, with the state reporting a record 9,365 people hospitalized with the virus. See hospitalization chart below.
On Monday, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer and Dr. Anthony Fauci both warned of “a surge on top of a surge,” meaning the county’s already record number of cases would be joined by a wave of infections caused by Thanksgiving activities. “We anticipate,” said Newsom on Monday, “given Thanksgiving gatherings, that we will see another surge in cases.” Sources familiar with the discussions said late Tuesday that the plan — reminiscent of an earlier crackdown during the spring — evolved amid reports of a dramatic increase in infections and a spike in overcrowding at hospitals’ intensive care units.
The administration believes a “blanket order” may be forthcoming and likely would affect areas of the state representing most of areas of the state representing most of California’s population, sources said. Sources said the announcement was expected Wednesday, but this morning administration sources said that no announcement was likely today.
CDC warns Jan and Feb 2021 will be the worst months for Covid.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/02/cdcs-redfield-says-the-most-difficult-months-in-health-history-loom.html"CDC director warns the next few months could be ‘the most difficult in the public health history of this nation’"
The next few months of the Covid-19 pandemic will be among “the most difficult in the public health history of this nation,” Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday.
The reality is December and January and February are going to be rough times. I actually believe they’re going to be the most difficult in the public health history of this nation, largely because of the stress that’s going to be put on our health-care system.”
Redfield added that deaths caused by Covid-19 are already rising. He said the country is now in the range of reporting between 1,500 and 2,500 deaths everyday. The U.S. reported more than 1,500 deaths on Tuesday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. And Covid-19 hospitalizations stand at an all-time high 98,600 across the country, according to data from the Covid Tracking Project, which is run by journalists at The Atlantic. Epidemiologists, emergency room physicians and public health specialists have warned for weeks that the latest surge of the virus could prove to be the deadliest yet.
One factor that makes this virus so dangerous, Redfield said, is that it spreads largely through people who don’t have symptoms, or spreads before patients develop symptoms. That makes it difficult to control what he called “the silent epidemic” without testing broadly throughout the population, including people without symptoms but who might have been exposed to the virus. The CDC is working on guidance for institutions and workplaces that will help them strategically deploy testing, he said.
US daily Covid numbers: New Cases...182,000 and New Deaths...2,600
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/We will be at 200,000 and 3,000 very quickly. The "new deaths" is skyrocketing in states and the new Thanksgiving cases aren't being seen by health officals yet.
Today is going to have very high Covid numbers in the US
Worldometers has been showing really high numbers so far today and at least 3 hours are left.
Right now New Cases In US....... 125,000
New Deaths in US.........2,000
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
I can see it hitting 3,000 dead and 175,000 new cases by 6PM.
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