According to a presentation, “Mathematical Analysis of Trump-Biden 2020 Vote Counts in Four Counties in the State of Michigan,” by Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, Bennie Smith and Phil Evans, in a post on iceagenow.info taken from theconservativetreehouse.com, (https://www.iceagenow.info/mit-statistician-shows-certainty-of-massive-computer-vote-fraud-in-2020-presidential-election/, https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/12/mit-phd-and-statistician-outlines-algorithmic-fingerprint-within-vote-data/), there are built in features of all modern voting machines that easily lend themselves to cheating.

This option to cheat, the weighted race feature, could be found as early as 2001 in the source code in Diebolt machines. It allows votes for different candidates to be counted unfairly by algorithm.

It can remove votes from an unfavored candidate and grant them unfairly to a favored candidate by algorithm. It can bypass the normal expected requirement of one vote for every voter. It was an innovation that was immediately added to the next generation of voting machines after Diebolt’s source code became known to make them equally competitive in a voting market that valued the option to cheat. According to them, not only are Dominion Voting Machines capable of doing the wieghted race feature, but all modern voting machines are capable of it.

The presentation at the above listed websites shows scatterplot graphs that map votes where the action of an algorithm is clearly removing votes from President Trump in the 2020 Michigan election and giving those votes to Joe Biden. The greater the population of Republicans in a voter district, the more votes are removed and given inauthentically to the other candidate based on that percentage. Thousands of votes were reassigned inauthentically to Biden. The algorithm to reduce Trump votes and give to the Biden tally was not used in some predominantly Democrat precincts. In precincts where the algorithm wasn’t used the scatterplot graph looks more normal, but Trump still got a lot of votes in some of those precincts.

Dr. Ayyadurai, PhD, Fulbright Scholar, Candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, Benny Smith, Election Commissioner, Software Engineer, Data Analyst and Phil Evans, BSEE, have some suggestions to prevent this fraud. You should hear what they have to say at the addresses listed above. My heartfelt thanks goes out the these courageous men who have come forward with their information which took a lot of time and attention to produce. They didn’t produce the information to make money, but instead they generously have provided it to you so you can learn what you need to know. They have helped the cause of honest voting in America.

Their graphs make obvious what was at first invisible in the machine mediated vote count: a lot of votes that appeared on the Biden tally belong in Trump’s tally. Trump won the election in Michigan. I hope that this fact will become common knowledge. I also hope that similar graphic insights can be employed in other battleground states to show us if algorithms reassigned votes inauthentically there as well. I’m sorry to see such a huge effort to cheat our electoral system. I wonder if other races have been affected over our voting history since 2001.

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There’s already a lot riding on the outcome of the 2020 election. Two candidates each have their supporters, even though right now we don’t know how many of them there are.

More than a week after the election, the presidential race outcome has been deliberately forestalled by several voting scandals of different kinds. Just about every kind of voting fraud that a person can imagine has been used in the 2020 election in specific battleground districts. There are so many scandals that the appearance of impropriety has now been widely accepted across America.

It matters a great deal to our country who wins the presidential race. It matters to people whether American votes are correctly tabulated to reflect the one person one vote standard. It matters whether ballots are authentically cast by a living voter registered in that state where the vote is tabulated. It matters whether observers are able to confirm voter signatures, and accurate vote transcription when a ballot is recopied because it was stained or disfigured. It matters whether voting machines tally votes accurately.

The policy package of each candidate seems to be drastically different from the other candidate’s policies. The road to our American tomorrow in the U.S. is now overshadowed by this massive attempt to thwart an honest voter tally. And a deadline approaches that will lead to a conclusion that is presently unknown. It seems that the legal avenues of remedy are choked with obstacles and that resolving this election to a fair and true outcome may not be possible either because of time constraints or because only some categories of fraud are easy to prove.

People shopping at the grocery store or doing their jobs in their working places have worried expressions today and a sense of unease. But even though the presidential election outcome is a lot to worry about, there’s even more to worry about.

Think about the potential for mass voter fraud in Dominion Voting machines. That Dominion Voting machines have ties in their purchase to the Clinton Foundation might raise an eyebrow. Ownership in the Dominion business among Congress members or close relatives of Congress members would raise the potential specter of nationwide voter fraud on a massive scale and perhaps over a long period. There are on-line reports of Congress members being affiliated with the voting company through ownership of Dominion.

I have read statements made by programmers that the kind of error that switched 3000 votes from Trump to Biden would only happen with programming. A few days later I read that that mistake was caused by human error, but I still don’t believe that human error would cause that kind of error.

The story was that a clerk entered an update at the wrong time, that the results of that update lagged behind. But that explanation doesn’t say how the vote went over to the wrong candidate. That’s the crux of the matter. I keep hearing attempts to minimize problems with the Dominion machines. They worry me because I don’t want programming fraud to ruin free and fair elections.

What kind of stakes and potential outcomes could erupt from massive voter fraud caused by rogue programming? Would Congressional races and Presidential races over several years in the past be proven to have been altered away from the will of the authentic vote? How much could this hurt the reputation of politicians in charge of the vote or in office now because of an inauthentic vote tally in the past? Would the courts or the legislature have the courage to be honest about rogue programming? Would steps be taken in remedy or would politicians prefer a cover-up? Would anyone go to jail? Where would the blame rest? Maybe elected politicians see it as a huge advantage that votes can be ignored so that they can have the power to pursue policies that harm their voting constituency without the voter having any recourse. If that advantage is held by some and not others, it would enhance the power of that political group.

What a tangled nest of problems.

If real votes are being manipulated by programming to steal elections, then voters don’t matter. That’s important because our nation supposes that votes matter in choosing the outcome of elections. Our system relies on the removal from office of representatives that don’t do the will of the people. That’s the system’s feedback loop to control bad governance. It is natural to assume that if a legislator or other elected person doesn’t serve their constituents then the electorate would replace them by voting for someone who would be a better representative of the will of the voting public in that district. If Dominion Machines can keep an inauthentic office holder in office without voter support, then there’s no way to remedy the problem of bad legislators and bad office holders.

Several states have been so unhappy with their legislators in Congress that don’t seem to do the will of the people in their state and yet that stay in office term after term that they have proposed amending state constitutions to limit Congressional terms of office. The Supreme Court has ruled that only by changing the U.S. Constitution can the terms of legislators become limited ones. Changing the U.S. Constitution is harder to do than changing a state constitution, so it hasn’t happened yet. The Supreme Court’s ruling assumes that voters can remove a bad legislator by voting them out of office. It has seemed completely inexplicable why our Congress with such a constantly low voter approval continues to field the same group of elected officials year after year. If it’s caused by a rogue algorithm, then the long tenures of Congress members who are disfavored by voters may be easily accounted for. That worries me.

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On November 6th, Sidney Powell gave an interview where she said that Dominion machines fidelity in tabulating votes is now in question. Sidney Powell is looking into it and I hope that she has a lot of help. Let’s all send positive wishes to her and carry on ourselves this week with this refrain…GoSidneyGoSidneyGoSidneyGoSidneyGoSidney………

Here’s a good source for more details about Dominion Voting Machines and why they have garnered so much suspicion:

Jeanne McKinney, Lawyer Sidney Powell: Democrats used Dominion Machines to Steal Votes,”Communities Digital News, https://www.commdiginews.com/patriot-profiles-jeanne-mckinney/trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-says-democrats-used-dominion-machines-to-steal-votes-133921/, 10 Nov 2020, accessed 12 Nov 2020.

Addendum: Apparently, there are two vote machine companies in the 2020 U.S. election that have been associated with voter fraud. One is Dominion and another is Scytl, a vote machine company headquartered in Spain that according to the following reference, has been associated with election frauds in Australia, Ecuador, Norway and Switzerland. Here’s the source:

Great Game India, “Why 2020 US Election Votes Were Counted By A Bankrupted Spanish Company Scytl,” Nov 13 2020, accessed Nov 13, 2020, https://greatgameindia.com/us-election-bankrupted-spanish-scytl/ .

Addendum: According to Patty McMurray, writing from 100PercentFedUp.com, Scytl counts Dominion collected votes. Also according to McMurray, at 100PercentFedUp.com, Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp’s previous chief of staff has worked as a lobbyist for Dominion, and according to McMurray, Rudi Juliani says that Dominion voting machines were designed to cheat elections in Venezuela. And finally, the Executive Board Member, William Kennard, who bought the company that supplies Dominion Voting Machines was a former EU ambassador in the Obama administration. Here’s the source: https://100percentfedup.com/exec-board–member-of-private-equity-firm-that-acquired-dominion-voting-systems-in-2018-is-barack-obamas-former-eu-ambassador/, Nov 13, 2020.

Addendum (13 Nov 2020): I just watched a long video on iceagenow.info with Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, and two others speaking about pattern analysis scatterplot graphs that demonstrate election fraud in thousands of votes in several counties in Michigan in 2020. That’s the state that he’s talking about in his presentation but there may be similar stories in other states. His presentation is long because he takes time to carefully explain the graphs. It is worth every minute because it can provide to you an opportunity to understand more about our election processes and their problems. Please set aside some time to watch this video where you can get into the nuts and bolts of our election voting system problems and discover his suggested solutions to those problems: https://www.iceagenow.info/mit-statistician-shows-certainty-of-massive-computer-vote-fraud-in-2020-presidential-election/, Nov 13, 2020.

Vote tampering to steal the 2020 election marks another step towards an unfree America. The globalists have struck blood in this assault on our freedom.

Part of what has caused a power imbalance in our nation is the advance of IT. The Clinton Foundation reportedly bought a lot of Dominion Voting machines that have been installed in many states, both before and after Hillary Clinton’s run for the Presidency. I have read reports that Dominion machines can connect to the internet and yesterday I read that an illegal router connecting Dominion machines to the internet was found in Detroit. A router connection would allow voter fraud to be carefully coordinated. Those machines have been shown to glitch in specific ways that favor the illegitimate candidate. It is through them that voter fraud may have advanced in America. Dominion Machines causing voting errors now show us that voter fraud may have been set up and in play for decades.

Many who want to prevent inaccurate vote counts are now calling for a change back to manual vote counting. That shows growing distrust for digital voting systems. It shows that people believe now that IT can be abused to steal an election. And of course, remedying the inaccuracies caused by Dominion machines in 2020 calls for a manual recount right now in every state that has Dominion machines.

Several kinds of election fraud have been identified in 2020. Examples of fraud include hundreds of thousands (I read over 450,000) of mostly blank ballots marked only with Joe Biden’s name dropped off in the middle of the night in Detroit. There were several instances where vote tally observers were banished from vote counting rooms so that they couldn’t verify vote authenticity. Another likely source of fraud, as already mentioned, is the use of Dominion Voting machines in several states. The state of Texas decided not to use Dominion Voting machines because they didn’t like the machine’s ability to connect to the internet. One of those machines has been found by a careful county clerk to have removed 3000 Trump votes and put them on the Biden side giving Biden a 6000 undeserved vote difference. Thanks to that vigilant county clerk, those inaccuracies were fixed to award Trump a win in that county. Where’s the follow-up with other Dominion Machines? There should be follow-up. Another voting fraud has been backdating late ballots at the post office which is being investigated where whistle-blowers sounded an alarm. But wait, there’s more. There were four arrests in Texas for false ballots being filed from retirement centers where caretakers were filling them out under the names of senile elderly residents. And of course much has been said of zombie votes by deceased people.

Numerous civil and criminal lawsuits are being filed today.

I’ve been an Independent voter most of my voting life. I decided long ago that picking a party wouldn’t be wise because neither party had a platform that I agreed with completely. For many years, I’ve been carefully reading what each Republican and Democrat candidate says that they favor in terms of policies that I can support. Then I pick the best one that suits my policy preferences. But how can anyone, any Democrat, any Republican or any Independent voter favor fraud in an election? How can I trust anyone in politics if this is the new way to play? Politicians that support this outcome without question and say that it’s already in the rearview mirror, betray us all.

What’s the take-away?

On the bright side, this felonious cheating shows me that most Americans want something different than the Totalitarian Democrats current program. The Totalitarian Democrats seem to see this election as their only chance to participate in politics of the sort they prefer…a political plan which deviates from American culture.

I have read that both Trump and Biden beat Obama’s voter turnout. That’s obviously false. We know from the level of cheating on the Biden side that he didn’t break Obama’s vote popularity record. Only Trump did. In fact, a huge amount of cheating was the only chance to advance the Democrat party agenda by getting Biden into office.

Cheating is how totalitarian systems advance to harm republics. It’s why people who’ve immigrated from socialist and communist countries to the U.S. are so frightened today in America. Anyone with sense should be frightened by this.

So even though the press has continued all year to describe a divided America with 50% on either side of the 2020 Presidential vote, that’s probably not a true representation. In fact, there are far fewer Americans that support the New Totalitarian Democrats. That’s why the Democratic Party is willing to commit fraud to stay in the game.

There’s another take away from the 2020 election’s rampant fraud that involves not just the hidden fraud of IT where digital voting machines have been inaccurately reporting votes, but also old obvious methods of filling out blank ballots illegitimately, backdating late and probably phony ballots, filling out ballots for senile retirement home residents and for the dead. That is this: Hillary Clinton’s failure to be installed as President in 2016 shows that Dominion machines aren’t always enough to phoney up an election. More cheating has been required in 2020 because so many don’t like the Democrat Party’s plan. And the notion that Hillary Clinton barely missed the Presidency because of the Electoral College isn’t true and she also didn’t win in terms of the 2016 popular vote. Her popular vote tally may have appeared large only bacause of Dominion Machine innaccuracies that affected the voting totals in 2016. No wonder Hillary Cinton was so surprised that she lost. Her Presidency was supposed to be in the bag!

We are waiting to see justice done in the courts to address the obvious frauds in the 2020 election. If they are addressed, I think it likely that the 2020 election result is Trump as the legitimate president by an overwhelming vote majority.

I hope the courts do a better job this time than they did in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857 which precipitated the Civil War. Courts often choose wrongly and when they do that, tragedy sometimes follows.

America is bleeding now, but we are also waiting for this phony election to be restored to Trump, the real winner. December 8th is the deadline. That’s less than a month away. Will our courts deliver an honest election or will they favor the fakers?

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Addendum: According to Rose Taylor, writing for newrightnetwork.com, another ballot “glitch” , now in Wisconsin has been corrected. The correction moves 19,500 back onto Trump vote totals. Here’s the reference:

Rose Taylor, “Dominion voting systems, Hammer and Scorecard And the US General Election,” 11/dominion-voting-systems-hammer-scorecard.html, Nov 9th, 2020, accessed 10 November 2020.

Addendum: According to Sydney Powell, in an interview at conservativetreehouse.com, the pre-election digital count may have been altered in states using Dominion Voting Machine. The algorithm altering votes may have corrected votes to give Biden a 3% vote majority in some precincts resulting in numerous balloting errors. A full hand audit is now needed to suss out the real results of elections wherever Dominion Voting Machines have been used including all the key battleground states. Specific states mentioned included Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and North Carolina. According to Powell, specific programming is required to cause such balloting errors. It isn’t just a “glitch”; instead it’s part of a plan to steal the election. Here’s the reference:

theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/06/democracy-at-stake-powell-and-fitton-discuss-election-fraud-2020/comment/page-2/

Why is Congress unconcerned with fake ballot drops? Why isn’t every member of our nation’s Congress fighting tooth and nail to defend people’s right to vote in a fair election? They have defended the right to fair elections in foreign countries. What’s different now? Do Congress members who refuse to fight on behalf of fair elections deserve to remain in office?

Is it maybe the case that Congress wants to be done with Maverick Trump? Do they prefer a Biden presidency enough to ignore the fake ballot drops? How about the barring of Republican polling center observers in Detroit? An arrest should have already been made there of the county clerk. Those ballots should be processed again by a fresh group of poll observers and counters.

Many people have tried to revoke the 2016 election over the four years of the Trump Administration. The Steele Dossier was fake. Impeachment failed. And now even though Biden appears to have used his office as Vice President in the Obama Administration as an opportunity to rake in huge amounts of money from foreign governments for himself and his son, Congress prefers him to Donald Trump? What does that say about Congress?

How many nefarious money-making deals have been going on in Congress? Are Americans a captive people to a government that is totally corrupt? I hope not.

Why not support fairness in the 2020 election? Even if that means another Trump Administration over the next four years? Why not use those street cameras installed everywhere to identify and interview the drivers of cars delivering stacks of late and illegal election ballots? Why not recheck the names and addresses of people who voted in Detroit and Philadelphia. Why were activists allowed to dominate and bully Republican poll watchers? That shouldn’t have happened.

Free and fair elections are the standard under which all voting has value. With fake ballots being called real, the vote is undermined and the mandate of the people is gone.

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Addendum: According to a story at NaturalNews.com, listed below, a computer glitch changed some votes from Trump to Biden in the swing states. This would be in addition to problems in vote counting that were reported by poll watchers that were banned from the counting room in Detroit, for example. If this report is accurate, a manual ballot count of ballots by impartial counters will fix this problem and may lead to a Trump win. Without all of the other cheating this vote fraud may have gone undetected. Here’s the link:

Mike Adams, Natural News, “Breaking: “Operation Scorecard” CIA-run vote theft software was running in EVERY swing state…”glitches” switched votes from Trump to Biden, Nov 6, 2020, NaturalNews.com, accessed 7 Nov 2020.

Addendum: According to Rudi Juliani, several lawsuits will be filed on Monday in response to ballot drops and Republican poll watchers being prevented from validating ballots. A court order to allow access was circumvented and that’s illegal. Other lawsuits may also be filed at that time. Altering election results is a federal crime and that’s why the courts will have a say about it. According to Juliani, unvalidated ballots are invalidated ballots. Will the court agree? We shall see. Since Congress as a body hasn’t spoken out against fraud in the 2020 election, it may be that the courts can offer some remedy to Americans who expect fairness in American elections.

Addendum: Lindsay Graham Head of the Judiciary Committee says that “all credible threats of election fraud” will be investigated.

Addendum: The Dominion Voting Systems in 29 states have been implicated in vast errors crediting Republican votes to the Democratic contender. Two races have been reversed after these errors were discovered. Will there be more? Are these errors a crime?

In a surprising development there’s a report of an illegal router that has been discovered by Patrick Colbeck, “a poll challenger”, connecting voting machines to the internet in Detroit. On the same page, there’s also a report that Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, is a majority stock holder of Dominion Voting systems. These two reports seem to connect some of the dots for our election fraud this 2020 election. I don’t know if these reports are true , but here’s the address: bobpowell.blogspot.com/2020/11/electron-fraud-illegal-router.html?m=1

I’m amazed to read several eyewitness accounts of ballot cheating. Cheating in elections has been noticed before over the span of American history but never before has cheating been so brazen in the method and in the quantity of fake ballots. One example of cheating that I heard from a woman poll watcher in Detroit was her observation of a white van, a Chrysler 300 and a red ferrari dropping off over 100,000 ballots at 4 am. That wasn’t the only irregularity she saw. There was also a state health worker ordering Republican poll watchers to leave the room at that time even though that order was not within the scope of his authority. Such shenanigans make me wonder why anyone would be so obvious in fraudulent election tampering except in order to deliberately create social unrest.

This election mess was organized for a reason and that reason may not be merely to cheat the election.

Guard yourself from accepting the simplest explanation: look deeper for the real motivation behind this kind of tampering. Why did it happen in this way?

Can we reasonably expect a re-election schedule to fix this 2020 tampering? Is a do-over necessary or can the fraud be identified and eliminated?

If we eliminate these middle of the night 100,000 in quantity ballot drops, has President Trump won the election? How can our nation restore fairness to the process of election 2020?

Here’s a great summary from another blog written by a former auditor, that lists several red flags that clearly indicate that this election has been illegally tampered with:

Larry Correia, The 2020 Election: Fuckery Is Afoot, monsterhunternation.com/2020/11/05/the-2020-election-fuckery-is-afoot, accessed 05 Nov 2020.

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When a political argument is being made to sway you to accept a belief or a political policy, listen carefully and pay attention to how the argument is meant to appeal to you.

Are you given a rational argument? That’s how political arguments were presented to the public in the earliest period of the American founding when classical liberalism was our ideology. You can read these kinds of arguments in the Federalist Papers. Rationalism was our modus operandi back then. There were also emotional appeals but an argument had to make sense. People wanted to accept policies that would work to make politics run smoothly–like a well oiled machine. Limited government would stop tyranny, they hoped. Natural rights were valued. People also wanted the government to protect private property. Americans expected the government to have a sound monetary system. They wanted freedom and tolerance in a low tax environment before income taxation and countless regulations. It was thought then that political freedom requires economic freedom.

Perhaps you are instead provided a purely emotional appeal, one based on faith without proof. Belief without proof became a political tool of argument and persuasion after Freud wrote about the unconscious mind. Hidden processes became a new way of looking at worldly events during the modern liberal period from the Civil War until the end of WWII. Marx wrote about historical materialism and inevitable processes. Governments were thought to progress through stages of growth, change and eventually decay. Income taxation helped the North win the Civil War. New transportation and communication connected people to a larger world of talk and travel. Darwin wrote about natural selection and small changes over long time periods suggested a world changing on a scale that is longer than a person could appreciate in a single lifetime or generation, with unknown potentials in the far future. Government was presented as an expanding bureaucratic service providing jobs to caring and newly empowered individuals that hoped to combine public resources and public power to shape a bright future. Modern liberals used public monies and built museums and schools and libraries and train stations. Modern liberals wanted to borrow from the future whenever there was an economic shortfall like a recession. They wanted to manage the economy with government regulations. They stopped giving much thought to having a sound money system. Government money was supposed to be made available in the hard times. In the good times, it was hoped that debt could be paid down.

Are you instead being fed a fantasy of fear or riches or endless entertainment or infinite power? That’s the kind of appeal that you get under neoliberalism. Neoliberals put together globalization with financialization. They have imagined that you can have whatever you want with easy money and global trade. They have increased the kinds and amounts of money in circulation. They imagine no end to government’s ability to create more money with the printing press or with transnational banking, uniting the whole world’s assets in trade. Everyone is encouraged to borrow more and more money. The government is imagined as being staffed by experts that have endless strategies, knowledge and tools to keep the wheels of government and the intensively managed economy in motion. The government is so powerful that it can pick economic winners and losers. There is no need to account for failures in policies because the future is always brighter than the present and we must hurry to embrace it. Externalizing costs to the public has been the easiest way to deal with problems as can be clearly seen during the 2008 Great Recession.

If you look at arguments about the covid scare, you can see that they are fantasy based. We live in the neoliberal era and fantasy based arguments are par for the course. But there are problems with relying on these arguments to make decisions that affect public health. The pcr testing used to detect covid infection doesn’t work. The inventor of pcr says that you can’t use it the way that public health officials are using it to detect covid becuase it causes inaccuracies. Public statements about covid infections aren’t based on a reliable standard. Sick or well, alive or dead, a positive covid test means nothing consistent. More hysteria is constantly spewed at you. Public service announcements about covid are meaninglessly telling you to stay at home, to wear a mask and wash your hands. You can see that covid restrictions limit your freedoms and enhance on-line shopping.

You can see that the economy isn’t healthy. On-line shopping has grown while the brick and mortars have been shut. Was this a growth strategy for one part of the economy at the expense of millions of jobs? You hear about mandatory vaccines (“an idea so good that it’s mandatory” used to be a joke). Maybe you are without employment because of covid restrictions. Even people with jobs are worried about jobless Americans and you hope that they can get enough to eat and some worthy shelter. You wonder when economic opportunities might improve. If you get covid you wonder if you can get effective drugs to treat it soon after diagnosis. You have lost confidence in doctors and hospitals that seem to be prohibited from giving the cheapest and most effective care quickly.

You worry when you hear about a mandatory vaccine because that isn’t informed consent. And our other mandatory vaccines might be causing serious problems already, at least according to some who worry about massive increases in auto-immune disorders since 1989 when more children’s vaccines became mandatory. You may wonder why our Courts have let this kind of tyranny continue. Some courts have ruled that covid restrictions are unconstitutional while others have ruled that a state of quarantine allows for a temporary suspension of some freedoms. But a policy of quarantine is by definition completely inappropriate for an agent that can’t be contained by a quarantine. Covid can’t be contained by quarantine as the world can clearly see. You wonder when this tyranny will end.

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My neighbors had a problem with their house siding. Some of it had rotted and needed to be replaced. They couldn’t find a contractor to do the work. They did it themselves even though they are senior citizens. Thank goodness they knew what to do and had the tools and time to do it. I noticed that they also took out a balcony staircase while they were at it. Perhaps it was a consideration to benefit their home security by reducing egress. I haven’t had a chance to ask them.
All the U.S. outsourcing and hiring of imported labor through Visa tricks has reduced the pay that American laborers get compensated. The pace of Mergers and Acquisitions has never let up and under the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies it is expected to continue at a steady rate. The rate of M&A erodes the job market and puts people in the U.S. out of a job pretty often. The unavailability of good jobs for college graduates has also put a dent in the pay that people who want to work can collect for doing work. And now, with people staying at home more under covid restrictions, there’s a shortage of workers who can do needed repair work in the home environment.
My neighbor and I live in Spokane which is pretty far from South Carolina. A friend of ours in South Carolina who does construction contracting told us that there’s a shortage of labor for repairs there too. Panicky people have been trying desperately to hire help him to get needed repairs or remodeling accomplished. There aren’t enough people trained in that to do the work that is needed right now. What a surprising development–construction labor shortages in this economy of 2020.
Most of the on-line complaints that I’ve heard about worker shortages have been complaints in technical fields. But when I check the Bureau of Labor Statistics for growth in computer related jobs, I see modest ups and downs routinely of about 1%. The demand for repair work must be in excess of that, I would think.
I wonder if many people will have to fix their own leaky faucets, or repair their own siding, or remodel their kitchen with DIY. How many skills do we Americans need to learn with the price of wages and labor falling in an economy that is primed for inflation?
What will you learn how to do so that you can take care of your house, your clothes, your cooking, yourself?
As our economy has become hollowed out with cheap money at low interest rates, and as money printing has harmed the actual power of currency, as people have lost trust in organizations and institutions that have become more and more desperate for money in a system where money can do less all the time, the complexity of our economy and the number of professions that are supported by money exchanges is in decline.
This is something to notice and plan for. Now instead of specializing, we all need to learn how to do whatever needs doing for ourselves by ourselves. Skill building will only help you.
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On September 18th, 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died of pancreatic cancer that had spread throughout her body. She stubbornly fought that cancer for many years before it ended her life. Several summaries of Ruth Bader Ginsburg are available in print on-line and elsewhere. I encourage you to read at least one of them.

What I have felt as I read about her life is that she was an important contributor to our legal system by fighting to protect economic opportunities in the age of neoliberalism. She fought for equality under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. She fought to protect the opportunity for fathers after their spouse dies to get benefits in support of the family, for women as they seek employment and for disabled people whom Justice Ginsburg believed should have opportunities too. There are many other examples.

She believed that the government shouldn’t be able to restrict a woman’s right to chose an abortion if a woman wanted one. This opinion has angered some people, and some connect Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court’s continued support for Roe v. Wade (1973). Some blame her with others for the number of abortions that have happened in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade (1973). I don’t think that she deserves to be blamed for what some people have chosen to do because they had liberty to do what they wanted to do. Free choice has been a part of American tolerance since the founding of our nation. Perhaps instead of blaming Ruth Bader Ginsburg it would be better to examine changes in our economic and political system that have created new obstacles to family formation and to family prosperity.

My husband read aloud a couple of paragraphs that the Justice wrote about the end of WWII when she was only 13 years old (https://democraticunderground.com/100214102557). When I listened to the words that Justice Ginsburg wrote as a young child, I was amazed at her wish that everyone in our society should be connected by bonds of affection. Inclusiveness is so needed in our society today.

Some will complain about this or that when they see what Justice Ginsburg did. She continued all the way to the end of her life in a long legal career that gave generously and lovingly to whatever Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed would be the right thing to do under the law. She was a great writer and couldn’t have influenced our legal system so well without knowing the law very well. So few examples are there for us to see nowadays of that kind of generosity: generosity in learning and applying knowledge and sharing that knowledge to make a huge difference over a lifetime career. She must have been both tired and ill during her treatments for 5 bouts of cancer but she found a way to contribute throughout her life in a way that shined a caring light on issues involving individual opportunity. I don’t expect more than that from anyone.

As we go forward without her it is fitting that we remember her as a champion of fairness in people’s lives under the law. She battled for all of us in a way that made a difference for how Americans live their day-to-day lives, now. She concentrated on one area under the law and fought individual cases where her written legal opinions could carve new standards into our nation’s practice of the law. Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t contribute to every area of the law. She couldn’t make our system perfect. But she made it better according to what she believed was fair. She supported liberty.

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Did Fascist dreamers ever imagine our government owning 1/3 of the U.S. mortgage market?

Two trillion dollars of mortgage backed securities are now owned by the Federal Reserve.

I’ve been using the internet to keep an eye on real estate prices all across our nation since about 2016. After the Great Recession, U.S. real estate lost around 30% of its value. To stem that deflation, investors started buying and trading properties, increasing the property price each time. Since then, some markets have tripled their prices. Real estate values are inflated more than anyone would expect if you consider the declining number of Americans who can afford to buy a house because of insecure employment and falling wages.

The absence of bargains and the missing deflation after numerous foreclosures in real estate assets has happened because investors have purchased properties with low interest loans, treating America’s home portfolio as just another capital asset. They’ve done cosmetic improvements and resold that property at an inflated price: often double the price before improvements were made. The whole real estate market has been inflated into a bubble.

If you look at foreclosure real estate online, there’s a suggested price that is usually significantly higher than what should be expected for properties that sometimes need significant repairs. How can “As is” properties be sold at such a high price?

This seems like a crime to me. How can the American monetary system be used for low interest loans to investors AND be cycled into real estate mortgage backed securities in order to maintain those same high prices? Is it any wonder that there are so many homeless Americans? Property taxes are kept at higher rates because of this. Americans can’t get an affordable real estate price in this rigged market that ignores the market mechanisms of supply and demand. A real market, unlike our current real estate market, is affected by what people want and by what they can afford.

Shame on the Federal Reserve. It’s time to close it down. It’s time to make derivatives like mortgage backed securities illegal. It’s time to restore interest rates to around 5%, their historical average. Higher interest rates would end casino stock market gambling and allow people to save for retirement.

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Here’s the source citation on mortgage backed securities owned by the Federal Reserve: Mish Shedlock, The Street, http://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/the-fed-now-owns-nearly-one-third-of-all-us-mortgages, accessed 14 September 2020.

This is a longer post because what I’m talking about is complicated. I hope that you will stay with me to the end.

What stands between you and getting ahead with a good job? Here’s a list that may seem familiar to you:

(1) The U.S. has a tax structure that undermines small businesses as compared with large corporations.
(2) An expiration date has now been added to your college degree. If you got it ten years ago, it’s expired.
(3) Covid-19 mandates now elevate on-line buying over in-person shopping.
(4) HR algorithms can disqualify you for an unknown reason.
(5) There’s an economic demand gap so that people have less disposable income to buy a product if you should try to sell them one.
(6) Long-term unemployed people need not apply because they are disqualified; a small business owner may be seen as similar to the long-term unemployed.
(7) Universities in the U.S. have expensive inflated tuition as compared with your last degree’s cost and some people with new degrees also can’t get work.
(8) Volatility in the workplace means that mergers and acquisitions can displace you after you find a job–getting another one is your problem.
(9) Unfair labor discrimination can happen because employers don’t have to tell you why they don’t want to hire you when they post an overly specific job description.
(10) Real earnings continue to fall in the atmosphere of dollar overprinting by the Federal Reserve.

During my life so far, I’ve watched computers become more important. Every business has to use them from a mechanic that fixes your car and his diagnostic tool to a computer data base that holds medical records or criminal records. Computers have changed the way stocks are traded and how banking transactions happen from automatic check readers to digital transfers of money. Computers have affected how pilots fly their planes. Computers are essential to communications that happen in e-mails, in text messaging and now having a cell phone is becoming an essential requirement “for security reasons” when you apply for a job.

But somehow, with all these computer aids, people are losing their ability to trust each other. They are also losing their ability to get ahead by finding a good job. The whole job application process has been changed with computers so that you don’t get to meet anyone at the company where you apply, and you may never hear from them after you apply for a job. Sometimes it looks like unfair decisions are being made that affect your employment. The person who made an algorithm that is excluding you is someone you will never meet. If you can’t get work, you are just invisible in the job hunting process and your desire for work is easy to ignore. There’s no appeal or any kind of a remedy as your opportunities are going from bad to worse.

Some say that the long-term unemployed will never work again. What a waste. And now, the economy has come to a mandated stop. Why is that?

Back in the 1990’s when people told me that computers were taking over and becoming essential, I had doubts that it was possible for computers to do that. Why? Because of Moore’s Law. According to Moore’s Law, computer processing capacity and processing speed had been and would continue to double every two years. This is an exponential rate of growth. But human beings are not capable of sustaining prolonged exponenial growth. Even when you can hire the cheapest labor in the world.

A while ago, the rate of processing speed growth started to slow down. Some say that because of physics-based processor limitations computers are now reaching their processing expansion limit. But I think that our society went past our biological and societal limits a while ago.

If you look at my list of obstacles to finding a good job some of them are related to computers causing an increase in complexity. Politicians have been willing to embrace that growing complexity. The idea of limitlessness was once so appealing.

Global trading policies that once provided more generous tax advantages for doing business abroad are still hurting American workers who can’t find a job at home because our labor landscape has been so altered by outsourcing policies. President Trump changed our global trading policies in order to help American workers during his first term in office, but corporations have grown accustomed to large profits from low labor costs abroad; they don’t want to invest in American labor. There’s a lot of complexity in global trade and knowing how Americans will come out in the end is and has always been pretty impossible to do. Potential profits in the short-term motivated Congress’s policies to enhance global trade opportunities. The long-term consequences haven’t been and aren’t being addressed.

What about the talk that all of us have heard about the value of an on-going education? When your degree is disqualified after 10 years, it undermines its value and your value as an employee and this devaluation of you makes computers seem more valuable in comparison. Wages keep falling. New algorithms have come into play for your job applications, “Apply on-line, it’s easy,” we heard, and now there’s new cell phone security protocols. Doesn’t all of that ease of application make you blame yourself as you face day after day without the prospect of a gainful job? But who is really to blame for the number of unemployed Americans? There certainly aren’t enough good jobs in the U.S. for the number of people who want a good job. And there are obstacles to “pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps.”

Why did media and governments around the world engineer a global panic over covid-19 when we have effective drugs to treat it? Was the purpose to transfer more money to a centralized global banking system and simultaneously stimulate on-line purchasing while people stay at home with not enough to do? Who is winning from that strategy and where will it lead us? We should find out.

Why is it ok to replace an HR person with an algorithm? Is it to save the salary you would otherwise pay to a person while also circumventing the rules of hiring? I think that long-term unemployed people shouldn’t be blamed for being unemployed in an atmosphere where people are commonly displaced from employment by mergers and acquisitions. And job descriptions list so many qualifications that even well educated people can’t qualify. Someone with two university degrees, suddenly isn’t qualified to be a shop keeper at a manufacturing facility. Are they really unqualified? Has it become possible only to hire people for exactly the same job over and again or nothing? What exclusion protocols are in play? Is there no prospect for a worker to try a new challenge of their abilities in a brand new area? I hear that credentials are less important, but job descriptions don’t show that.

If computers are too expensive for society to afford their constant need for processor evolution and they’ve now reached their processing limit it doesn’t prove that people are worthless. I’m sick of hearing that people’s jobs are all going to be replaced by a robot. Maybe the computer revolution has just hit the wall and its constant improvements in processing have stopped for now.

Recently, I was trying to discern if there are any new manufacturing jobs coming our way. For a long time, I’ve hoped that fusion energy could revolutionize our economy by providing cheaper energy. When I checked on government expenditures for fusion energy research, it was seriously outpaced by government research into artificial intelligence. I wonder, has our government decided to let the computer finally save our economy? With a room temperature superconductor, processing speeds could increase and actually, LENR fusion technology may be able to create a room temperature superconductor. Is LENR providing the change needed for a faster processor? Shhh….if that’s happening, it’s probably a big secret. Even if there were a super-processor, I’m not sure that computers can save us. Maybe we have to save ourselves with more accountability in politics. Vote. We also need more accountability in hiring and transparency in the use of hiring algorithms. It’s easier sometimes to see what isn’t working and stop that before you know what else to try. Computers have circumvented oversight and that’s damaging the people who make up our society.

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