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Monday, May 11, 2020
Cotton: Publicly Available Cell Phone Data Suggests Roads Around Wuhan Lab Were Closed in Mid-October
This is significant, as Cotton points out, that some believe the Wuhan facility is the origin of the COVID-19 virus.
“Reports emerged yesterday in the media that publicly available cell phone data suggests that roads around the lab in Wuhan was closed in the middle of October,” he said. “Again, this information is publicly available. American media has used it to analyze mobility patterns in states to see if our people are practicing social distancing. So the reports indicate that on major roads around these labs, Wuhan, you obviously had thousands and thousands of cell phones pinging towers day in and day out. And then, all of a sudden, it stopped. And it remained stopped for several days. That would suggest, without any further information, that those roads were blocked for some reason.”
“Now, we need to go confirm that,” Cotton continued. “We need to look at the data carefully. We also need to try to use other means to verify if there were, in fact, shutdowns of roads around those labs in the middle of October. The Chinese Communist Party could obviously help us with that if they would open up and allow us to investigate what happened in Wuhan. But if it is confirmed that roads around that lab were shut down for a number of days in mid-October, it is highly coincidental that there was a major shutdown of those roads at about the time one might have expected this virus to first get transmitted to humans, whatever the origins may have been. But this would be another piece of circumstantial evidence that there was some kind of accident or outbreak from those labs, not from the seafood market or anywhere else. That’s why it’s so important we get to the bottom of this data.”
As Cotton explains, Wuhan is larger than New York City, and closing roads as the government had would require a significant reason.
“Remember, Wuhan is a city that is larger than New York City. So, obviously, its roads are highly trafficked and heavily congested. So to shut down roads around the lab would suggest that they had...
HATE HOAX: Black Man 'Created Fake Profile' Of White Trump Supporter to Issue Threats Against Pro-Arbery Protesters
Rashawn Smith, 20, was arrested on Sunday for allegedly creating a fake Facebook profile of a racist white Trump supporter to issue "hoax" terroristic threats against pro-Ahmaud Arbery protesters, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations.
From Action News Jax, "Ahmaud Arbery: GBI arrests man for making online threats toward Arbery-related protests":
[Rashawn Smith] was taken into custody in Midway, Ga. and charged with dissemination of information relating to terroristic acts, which carries a punishment of up to ten years in prison, $100,000 fine, or both.
In a subsequent tweet, GBI said Smith created a Facebook account of someone else, which he used to post a hoax threat.
"The GBI has arrested Rashawn Smith, age 20, & charged him with Dissemination of Information Relating to Terroristic Acts for a Facebook post that contained a threat to future protests related to Ahmaud Arbery," the GBI said. "Smith created a Facebook User ID of an unwitting individual to post a hoax threat."
Smith created a Facebook User ID of an unwitting individual to post a hoax threat. twitter.com/gbi_ga/status/…
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The Georgia NAACP shared a screenshot of the threat and fake profile on Sunday and said they reported it to the GBI and Glynn County Sheriff.
The profile Smith allegedly used was a white man under the fake name of "John Hutto" holding a rifle with a "Trump-Pence Keep America Great 2020" banner prominently displayed.
Smith appears to have used this fake profile to call people "n****r lovers," sing the praises of the McMichaels and threaten to stage a mass shooting at a...
Thousands of People Are Dying at Home Due to the Lockdown
Excess deaths due to patients avoiding hospitals over coronavirus fears.
A Guardian analysis has found that there have been thousands of excess deaths of people at home in the UK due to the lockdown.
“The data shows 8,196 more deaths at home in England, Wales and Scotland compared with the five-year average for this time of year, including 6,546 non-Covid deaths,” reports the newspaper.
“It also indicates a drop in non-Covid deaths in hospital, however, leading experts to conclude that many who would ordinarily have been admitted to a ward and died there are instead dying at home.”
According to Jason Oke, a statistician with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, one explanation for the numbers is that, “People are dying of other causes that would not have happened under normal conditions – and are collateral damage of the lockdown.”
Another analysis suggests there could have already been around 10,000 excess deaths in the UK compared with previous years.
Why is nobody talking about the jump in NON-Covid related deaths? ONS data confirms lockdown is killing people. Over 10,000 Non-covid excess deaths in April!@BBC @bbclaurak @BethRigby @KayBurley @adamboultonSKY @SkyNews @Channel4News @afneil @toadmeister
“Data from other countries has shown delayed presentation in patients with heart attacks during the pandemic, either because people don’t want to burden the health service at the current time, or because of fear of catching Covid-19,” said Prof Andrew Goddard. “It is critical that patients who are worried they may be having a heart attack or stroke should call 999.”
As we previously highlighted, a data analyst consortium in South Africa found that the economic consequences of the country’s lockdown will lead to 29 times more people dying than the coronavirus itself.
Professor Richard Sullivan also warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths in the UK than total coronavirus deaths due to people’s access to screenings and treatment being restricted as a result of...
Newly declassified evidence undercuts former DNI Clapper's testimony to Congress
Newly declassified evidence undermines James Clapper's testimony to Congress, raising questions about whether the former Director of National Intelligence misled lawmakers about briefing former President Obama on former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s telephone conversations with a Russian diplomat.FBI records released late last week show that senior Justice Department officials were surprised to find in early January, 2017 that Obama already knew details of Flynn’s Dec. 29, 2016 phone call with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak before they had briefed the president.
Senior Republicans want to know what Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, knew about the call and how they knew it.
Interviews declassified by the House Intelligence Committee may provide answers.
Starting in early 2017, the committee interviewed dozens of witnesses for its investigation into Russian election interference. In a July 2017 interview with Clapper, Republican members asked if he had briefed Obama on the Flynn-Kislyak phone calls.
“No,” Clapper answered.
Clapper’s denial conflicts with earlier congressional testimony provided by former FBI Director James Comey. According to Comey’s March 2017 account, he briefed Clapper on the Flynn-Kislyak calls and then gave the former DNI copies of the transcripts, as he requested.
“In the first week of January,” said Comey, Clapper “briefed the President and the Vice President and then President Obama's senior team about what we had found.”
Comey’s testimony squares with the account of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. In his 2019 book “The Threat,” McCabe writes that after an analyst shared the information with him, he “shared it with Comey; Comey shared it with the director of national intelligence, James Clapper; and Clapper verbally briefed it to President Obama.”
Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Sunday said his team has referred several people to the Justice Department for possible false testimony based on the evidence in the newly released transcripts.
"You will begin to see where some of our criminal referrals are based out of, some of the false testimony that was given to Congress," Nunes told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
Interest in Clapper's testimony and Obama role in the Flynn matter is growing. On Sunday morning, President Trump retweeted a thread of anonymous Twitter user “Undercover Huber,” who noted the discrepancy between Clapper and...
Surveillance Videos Show Ahmaud Arbery Trespassed Into Man's Home Before Shooting
Newly released surveillance videos show Ahmaud Arbery trespassed into a home -- which the homeowner says was robbed of $2,500 worth of fishing gear earlier this year -- before running away down the street after a neighbor called 911.
WATCH:
[Embed starts 13:30. Arbery exits the front door at 14:37. Video is clearly sped up at parts as can be seen in the timestamp.]
Arbery can be seen walking down the street -- not jogging -- then stopping on homeowner Larry English's lawn and looking around. After seeing no one was in the area, he then trespassed into the house at around 2:09 p.m. on the timestamp, which is actually most likely around 1:08 p.m as police said the first neighbor to call 911 did so at 1:08 p.m. Arbery is seen exiting the building around 5 minutes later and took off running or "jogging" after 911 had been called on him (possibly by the onlooking man who is seen standing next to a tree across the street that appears to be holding a phone up to his left ear and likely would have been in Arbery's view).
The first 911 caller can be heard telling police about the trespassing incident and saying the suspect was "caught on camera a bunch before at night" and it's "kind of an ongoing thing out here."
He told the dispatcher in real time that he was witnessing the suspect leaving the house and "running down the street" (which suggests he was the onlooker seen on the video).
The second 911 caller, who reportedly made his call at 1:14 p.m., can be heard yelling at a man to "stop," which was presumably Arbery.
Homeowner Larry English, told The Daily Beast that his house was robbed of $2,500 worth of fishing equipment earlier this year but he did not report it to the police. The Daily Beast said that a 9mm handgun was also reportedly stolen out of Travis McMichael's unlocked...
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