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December 3, 2020
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Welcome to today's top news.
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Leading the News . . .
Covid deaths exceed old record by 20 percent . . . The U.S. saw its highest single-day coronavirus death toll to date on Wednesday with 3,157. The number was 20 percent higher than the previous single-day high of 2,603 on April 15, and brings the total U.S. death toll to 273,799, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The record high came the same day new hospitalizations exceeded 100,000 for the first time ever and newly reported
infections hit 200,000 for only the second time, according to the COVID Tracking Project. Of those hospitalized, 19,396 were intensive care patients, another new high. The Hill
Los Angeles mayor: "Cancel everything" . . . Los Angeles residents are ordered to stay in their homes effective immediately as Mayor Eric Garcetti banned all travel including walking, closed non-essential businesses and threatened to arrest anyone breaking the new lockdown rules as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations surge. The city, where 4 million residents live, was told the new move was 'necessary for the
protection of life and property in the City of Los Angeles'. Garcetti urged residents to 'cancel everything'. He said no one should be hosting gatherings or going to gatherings. Daily Mail
Clinton, Bush and Obama would take vaccine on TV . . . America’s three most recent former presidents have reportedly all said they would publicly take a COVID-19 vaccine once one is approved to help promote the drug’s safety. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton told CNN of their intentions — while former President Barack Obama said in an interview set to air Thursday he may end up taking a COVID-19 vaccine on TV. New York Post
I thought we weren't supposed to trust the Trump vaccine for the China virus? Now that the election is over, it seems safe.
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CNN caught burying the Hunter Biden story . . . The collusion of mainstream media and Big Tech to censor The Post’s Hunter Biden story now is laid bare in leaked recordings of CNN’s news meetings from
the time. CNN boss Jeff Zucker is heard instructing his staff to downplay the bombshell story that implicated Joe Biden in a shady foreign influence-peddling scheme, according to audio released Tuesday by undercover news outlet Project Veritas. On the morning of Oct. 14, the day we published an email from Hunter’s abandoned laptop in which a top executive from corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma thanked Hunter for arranging a meeting with his then-VP father, CNN
political director David Chalian is heard telling Zucker and his underlings that the news network would not cover the story. New York Post
CNN discusses helping Biden by limiting coverage of Trump post-election comments . . . Project Veritas apparently got phoned into private high-level CNN meetings that included network president Jeff Zucker. In this one, ostensibly neutral CNN correspondent Jamie Gangel suggests NOT covering the president of the United States too much, lest it harm the Biden transition. Maybe she should be on the Biden transition instead of working to a
news organization. She indicates Republicans and Democrats worried about Trump not conceding the election are emphasizing that, “We have to be, you know, news organizations have to be very careful and very responsible about not giving Trump too much of a platform to not not-truth seeking.” She adds that people “just don’t want us to exaggerate that Trump isn’t leaving office.” White House Dossier
Georgia secretary of state probing Stacey Abrams group for signing up dead voters . . . Dying is sad, but it is at least comforting to know that if you’re a Democrat, you can still vote. I mean, I’m all for livening up the post-death experience. But I don’t think this is what the Founders had in mind. According to Fox News: “Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has launched investigations into several groups, including one
founded by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, for seeking to “aggressively” register “ineligible, out-of-state, or deceased voters” before the state’s Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections. White House Dossier
She just talks about a couple of cases of it, including one in which the ballot was marked for both candidates, but multiple poll workers were inclined to give it to Joe Biden. What she makes clear is that there was a generalized bias favoring Biden.
Trump delivers speech detailing election fraud claims . . . Trump has released a 46-minute video calling for the election result to be 'overturned' and repeating a long series of his claims alleging widespread voter fraud. The address from the White House came a day after Attorney General Bill Barr said there was not enough evidence of fraud to overturn the result. Trump posted the video on Facebook and on Twitter,
calling it 'the most important speech' he'd ever made. But within minutes, both of the websites had flagged it as untrustworthy. Daily Mail
Sidney Powell gets expedited appeal to inspect Dominion voting machines in Georgia . . . A federal appeals court in Georgia will hear an expedited appeal of former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell's request to gain a temporary restraining order forcing audits and a forensic examination of
Dominion voting machines used by the state in the 2020 election. Dominion is a voting-machine manufacturer, and its products have been alleged to be used as part of a widespread scheme to defraud President Trump of the 2020 election in several key battleground states, including Georgia. Washington
Examiner
Omar and Tlaib headline anti-Israel hatefest . . . Democratic representatives Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), and Betty McCollum (Minn.) headlined a conference this weekend run by one of the nation's most prolific anti-Israel advocacy groups, lending their support to an
organization that champions boycotts of Israel and has partnered with individuals tied to terrorism. The lawmakers, known for their anti-Israel rhetoric and promotion of anti-Semitic materials, appeared at the American Muslims for Palestine's annual conference, which was held virtually over Thanksgiving weekend. The conference featured outspoken critics of Israel, including those with reported ties to the Hamas terror group. Washington Free Beacon
Firm founded by Biden secretary of state nominee scrubs China work from website . . . The Washington, D.C., consulting firm cofounded by President-elect Joe Biden’s secretary of state nominee, Antony Blinken, has removed from its website details of its China-related business. As
recently as late July, WestExec Advisors touted its work helping major American universities court donations in China without jeopardizing Pentagon-funded research grants. Biden is eyeing Blinken’s WestExec cofounder, the former Pentagon official Michèle Flournoy, as a potential secretary of defense. His nominee to be the intelligence chief, Avril Haines, and incoming press secretary Jen Psaki have also done work for the firm. Washington Free Beacon
Pelosi drops stimulus offer to $908 billion . . . House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday threw their support behind using a bipartisan, compromise plan as the basis for COVID-19 relief talks. The
move to put a $908 billion compromise bill at the center of talks is a significant retreat from the $2.2 trillion HEROES Act that Democrats have been pushing in recent months, and will add pressure on McConnell to respond in kind. Prior to November’s election, Pelosi turned down a $1.8 trillion offer from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. McConnell has insisted on a “targeted,” $500 billion approach. The Hill
The master negotiator has dropped her offer by more than $3 trillion.
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DHS blocks cotton imports from Chinese slave labor camps . . . Cotton products manufactured through slave labor in China will be detained upon entering the U.S., officials announced Wednesday. The Nov. 30 withhold release order targets Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps following recent information that the company used forced labor from internment camps in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The order
says the Chinese government is committing systemic human rights abuses against the Uyghurs and other religious and ethnic minority groups, according to CBP. Daily Caller
Don't worry, the MyPillow guy gets his cotton from Egypt.
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Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews flown to Israel . . . Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews have been airlifted to Israel - the first of several thousand waiting to emigrate there in a long-running saga. Most of their community has lived in transit camps in Ethiopia for years as questions over their eligibility has dogged the process. The immigrants are related to Ethiopian Jews brought to Israel decades ago in a series of secret
operations. Israel had been accused of delaying bringing the remaining group in. The issue gained greater urgency in recent weeks as fighting between the Ethiopian government and local forces in the Tigray region threatened to spread south to Gondar city, where most of the Jews are now housed. BBC
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Biden wants to raise top income tax rate to 39.6 percent . . . President-elect Joe Biden said in a new interview that he wants to hike tax rates back to their highest levels under the George W. Bush administration — undercutting his promise not to increase taxes for Americans earning less than $400,000 a year. Biden outlined his economic platform in an interview with New York Times’ columnist Thomas Friedman, and
said he would ensure long-term growth by ensuring “everybody pays their fair share, for God’s sake.” “And by that fair share, I mean there’s no reason why the top tax rate shouldn’t be 39.6 percent, which it was in the beginning of the Bush administration,” he said. New York Post
Add in state taxes and sure, fair share, take half of people's earnings. That will certainly spur economic growth.
North Americans gobbling up Bitcoin . . . Bitcoin has grabbed headlines this week with its dizzying ascent to an all-time high. Yet, under the radar, a trend has been playing out that could change the face of the cryptocurrency market: a massive flow of coin to North America from East Asia. Bitcoin, the biggest and original cryptocurrency, soared to a record $19,918 on Tuesday, buoyed by demand from investors who variously view the virtual currency
as a “risk-on” asset, a hedge against inflation and a payment method gaining mainstream acceptance. It is North American investors who have been the bigger winners in the 165% rally this year. Reuters
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Valery Giscard d'Estaing dead of Covid at 94 . . . Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the modern-minded conservative who became president of France in 1974 vowing to transform his tradition-bound, politically polarized country, only to be turned out of office seven years later after failing to accomplish his goals or to shed his imperious image, died on Wednesday at his family home in the Loir-et-Cher area of central France. He was 94.
His foundation said the cause was complications of Covid-19. The scion of families that traced their lineage to French nobility and a polished product of France’s best schools, Mr. Giscard d’Estaing had been encouraged to believe that it was his destiny to rise to the pinnacle of government. And he did, swiftly. New York Times
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Ohio urges residents not to travel to Ohio . . . Ohio health officials are cautioning state residents to avoid traveling to … Ohio. The Buckeye State has just added itself to the state’s COVID-19 travel restriction map amid a resurgence of the global pandemic, WEWS-TV reported Wednesday. That means Ohio is among 14 states the health department says should be avoided by Ohioans. New York Post
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