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Hi to all,
We hope again that everyone is in the pink. Apart from Chinese Virus stats, there is momentous news continuing to come out of the US with the entirely justified legal examination of a number of states' electoral results.
Note that Chinese Virus figures in brackets refer to comparative figures from August 21st. - 13 weeks ago. Except for active cases per million of population where the comparative figures date from 30/10/20.
MUNDO - World - note that the total world population is now estimated at 7,825,168,915 - weekly net increase of 1,557,692
Total cases - 53,441,082 (21,168,111) - up 32,272,971 or 152.5%
Deaths - 1,304,566 - 2.4% (759,328 - 3.6%) - up 545,238 or 71.8%
Recoveries - 37,388,719 - 70.0% (13,984,843 - 66.1%) - up 23,403,876 or 167.4%
Therefore active cases - 14,747,797 - 27.6% (6,425,939 - 30.3%) - up 8,321,858 or 129.5%. Of the total population of 7,825,168,915 (7,804,380,455), the percentage of active cases is 0.19% (0.082%) of the total world population.
Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 1,885 (1,437)
The virus is still with us and increasing since we began recording these statistics 13 weeks ago. Despite doubtless false reporting for all sorts of reasons, the overall trend is disquieting - yet again. Active cases as a percentage of the population, and active cases per 1 million of population are all up.
ESTADOS UNIDOS - United States
Total cases - 10,900,707 (5,429,115) - up 5,471,592 or 100.8%
Deaths - 248,778 - 2.3% (170,781 - 3.2%) - up 77,997 or 45.7%
Recoveries - 6,732,834 - 61.7% (2,844,535 - 52.4%) - up 3,888,299 or 136.7%
Therefore active cases - 3,919,095 - 36.0% (2,413,829 - 44.6%) - up 1,505,266 or 62.4%. Of the total population of 331,716,877 (331,236,184), the percentage of active cases is 1.18% (0.729%) of the total population.
Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 11,815 (9,043)
Apart from the continued misreporting which we've commented on before, the new figures are again disquieting, except that active cases as a percentage of total cases is down from 44.6% to 36.0%. Much of the reason is no doubt the very different approaches taken by various State governments over which the Federal government has almost no control. An example is in Michigan or Wisconsin - forget which - where the Governor has mandated mask wearing for inside gatherings of over 25 people. 24 or less don't need masks!! Utterly ridiculous. What planet do these people inhabit? Why would (say) 18 people not need masks, whereas 25 do? We support masks inside as an effective way of curbing the virus spread, and indeed the "science" is more and more agreeing with that. If that simple requirement was met for any number of people meeting inside, or in shops/malls, then we are sure that the spread would be very much curbed. Except of course for small gatherings of people who know each other.
It has been appalling over the past week to constantly hear that Biden has been anointed President - elect by the "fake news" media, including the NZ "toilet paper" Herald. This is a moniker given by Sean Hannity of Fox News to the NY "toilet paper" Times, so the Herald is in good company!! The NYT even denied the Holocaust for some time after WW2, so all par for the course.
Even the UK Government refers to Biden as President-Elect and offers their congratulations. There are going to be an awful lot of people who are going to look like the absolute premature fools that they are in the likely event that the Trump campaign succeeds in its various legal challenges. Maybe this perception on our part will change, but it will only be after the Electoral College, which is the only body capable of electing a US President, has rendered its verdict.
Suffice it to say that there are multiple legal challenges emerging in all the close states that one would have expected the Trump campaign to win in any case. These include:
* Arizona (11 EC votes) where Biden has a provisional lead of 0.3% - 10,988 votes. There are still 60,000 votes to count and it is expected that Trump will take the state. A recount may also be called if the Trump campaign is successful in proving that there were voting irregularities sufficient to trigger a recount where all individual ballots are examined for issues. It is also alleged that voting machines were improperly "instructed" to reject a substantial number of votes. A hand count has been requested by precinct - there are 748 precincts.
* Georgia (16 EC votes) where Biden has a provisional lead of 0.3% - 14,166 votes. A full hand recount has been ordered which is mandatory under state law when the provisional result is so close. There are still not enough observers to monitor the recount - only one monitor per 10 tables. So how is that going to work?
However, the Trump campaign has also filed a lawsuit alleging that late arriving ballots were improperly commingled with valid ballots and asked a judge to order that late arriving ballots be separated and not counted, but the case was dismissed. The case could still be taken further - possibly to the Supreme Court. There have also been late arriving ballots with either no signature or exactly the same signatures as many others! Up to 60%. Dead people voting here as well.
* Wisconsin (10 EC votes) could see a full recount if the Trump campaign requests it. Biden currently has a provisional lead of 20540 votes - 0.3%. Likely fraud could easily see Trump take the state.
* Pennsylvania (20 EC votes) where Biden has a provisional lead of 0.9% - 63,421 votes. The Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit alleging that the state's mail-in voting system "lacked all the hallmarks of transparency and verifiability that were present for in-person voters". The campaign has also been successful in barring mail-in votes that had missing information after Nov. 9th. In addition there are hundreds of affidavits from individuals alleging voter fraud mainly in preventing observation of the counting process. At least 21,000 deceased persons voted - probably many more and certainly in other states as well. These would be identified by hand recounts but not sure what can happen regarding this widespread fraud in other states. One such ballot had a birthdate sometime in 1900!!!!! In addition to all that, between 650,000 and 900,000 illegal votes have been counted in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia without observation being allowed as required by state law. Would-be observers were deliberately obstructed. When all of this fraud is finally tabulated and legally settled it is highly likely that Trump will take the state.
* Michigan (16 EC votes) where Biden has a provisional lead of 146,123 votes or 2.7%. There will not be a recount, but there are multiple legal challenges. These include questions surrounding vote counting machines provided by Dominion Voting Systems Inc. In one county 6,000 votes were incorrectly awarded to Biden instead of Trump. Dominion machines are widely used in Michigan as well as in 28 other states. Also multiple examples of ballots with identical signatures - the list goes on. These Dominion voting verification machines were rejected for use by the state of Texas because they were considered to be unreliable and far too easy to fraudulently alter, so that signatures, ages, and other irregularities could be simply accepted as valid votes and counted for the crooked Dems. This issue promises to have a massive effect on voting results if the related fraud proves to be as widespread as it seems it could be.
A chief monitor who has been checking on elections for 20 years said that this was the worst by far that he has experienced. Detroit has proved to be the worst and could trigger a recount there.
* Nevada (6 EC votes) - multiple examples of voter and observer harassment and voters being "coached" to vote for Biden. Provisional results are a 2.7% lead for Biden (35,453 votes). May not be possible to switch but with all the other widespread frauds, including a flawed signature verification system which has been rejected by a partisan judge so far, who knows what might ultimately happen? An appeal by the Trump campaign to higher courts is always a possibility with the stakes so high. Senator Lyndsey Graham of S Carolina and who is also a lawyer, including during stints in the Air Force on overseas deployment, said that the signature checking component of the counting machines was deliberately turned off and unable to approve or disprove anything relating to signatures.
It must also be borne in mind that apart from the specific frauds recounted above, it is likely that continued examination of voting records will uncover further fraud. It is difficult in all of this to escape the conclusion that President Trump will win sufficient EC votes to be president until 2024. These states above represent 69 EC votes plus Alaska not in contention with 3 EC votes which would lift Trump to well over the magic 270 which would mean he would win the presidency easily. WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!!!!!!! There has been so much fraud and dirty tricks that it's just unbelievable. The hope has to be that Trump's team can stay with it and if necessary take the legal fights higher in order to achieve justice.
At the time of writing President Trump has 232 EC votes. If he won the states of Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania, he would then have 279 EC votes - more than enough to win another 4 years. On top of that there are Nevada (6), and Wisconsin (10), which perhaps are less attainable but they are nevertheless further possibilities. So, all is most certainly not lost and in this unprecedented election with all the Democrats' fraud and cheating, anything can happen yet.
The Attorney-General, Bill Barr, has finally agreed to get involved and has instructed his legal staff to assist in ferreting out and prosecuting all these instances of fraud. That is good news in itself.
The active propaganda against President Trump is intensifying as the Dems sense that they could still lose and the NZ "toilet paper" Herald is a good example of that fake narrative. Not a day goes by without finding some outrageous lies being peddled as the truth. Just as during the campaign, big IT and the fake news so-called mainstream media are relentlessly pursuing their disgusting agenda. So reminiscent of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief in Nazi Germany. Deleting or "flagging" social media posts is no longer unusual. Jean had that experience on FB just the other day.
If Trump does not win, a Biden/Harris administration will do so much damage to America and the rest of the Free World, it doesn't bear thinking about.
COLOMBIA
Total cases 1,174,012 - (433,805) - up 740,207 or 170.6%
Deaths - 33,491 - 2.9% - (14,145 - 3.3%) - up 19,346 or 136.8%
Recoveries - 1,081,691 - 92.1% - (250,494 - 57.7%) - up 831,197 or 331.8%
Therefore active cases - 58,830 - 5.0% - (169,196 - 39.0%) - down 110,366 or 65.2%. Of the total population of 51,081,394 (50,948,628), the percentage of active cases is 0.115% (0.332%) of the total population.
Total active cases per 1 million of total population - 1,152 (1,367).
A much better result as far as active cases go - a 21% reduction in fact in just 7 days???? We hope that it's true, but as always we entertain serious doubts about these "official" Colombian figures.
More hair raising news via Colombiareports.com:
Nov. 7th. Colombia's former president indicted for fraud and bribery again
Nov. 7th. Colombia congratulates US President-elect, Joe Biden (note that as at this date he was NOT the US President-elect - fake news)
Nov. 8th. How Biden's election may affect Colombia (see comments above)
Nov. 9th. DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) all but destroyed Colombia's peace process for no apparent reason
Nov. 9th. If not public security, Colombia's civilian informant network serves who?
Nov.9th. Duque is not a tyrant, says Colombia's Defence Minister who oversaw a massacre.
Nov. 9th. Will Colombia finally appoint a diplomat to Washington DC?
Nov. 10th. Colombia bans and unbans tourists from countries with Coronavirus restrictions
Nov. 11th. Fury and confusion over DEA plot that all but sunk Colombia's peace process
Nov. 12th. Colombia pursues 5-year coronavirus recovery plan
Nov. 12th. Banking moguls all but destroy Colombia's leading news magazine
Nov. 13th. The five families who own the news in Colombia
We recently bought a Paques board game. Paques is part of a family of games similar to Ludo. However, it is much more involved than Ludo and requires quite a degree of strategic thinking, apart from just pure luck at throwing the 2 dice. Jim remembers playing Ludo during school holidays when the weather was bad at Paroa Bay in the Bay of Islands!! The origin of this family of games is in India in the 6th. century where it is known as Pachisi. It is not played in any Latin American country outside Colombia where it is played with passion! It is thought that the British and/or their indentured Indian labourers brought the game to the Caribbean and it spread and developed from there. The British version of the game is known as Ludo and the Royal Navy adopted it and called it Uckers. It is played under various names in a number of European countries and the USA as well.
We were introduced to Paques in a small town called Jerico when we visited there last year with Linda on our motoring tour of Santa Fe, Concordia, Jardin, and Jerico. Jean and Linda went on to the coffee triangle after that and Jim returned to Medellin. Since then we have played Paques a couple of times with our friends, Clara and Memo, who told us the rules are variable, depending on who is playing - and how the game is going! Each family has their own take on the basic rules!! We must develop our own too. That's where the passion and arguments come from.
We are playing Clara and Memo this Saturday night - you might be able to hear the arguments from Godszone!!
AUSTRALIA
Total cases 27,702 (23,035) - up 4,667 or 20.3%
Deaths 907 - 3.3% (370 - 1.7%) - up 537 or 145.14%
Recoveries - 25,468 - 91.9% (13,634 - 59.2%) - up 11,834 or 86.8%
Therefore active cases 1,327 - 4.8% (9,022 - 39.2%) - down 7,695 or or 85.3%. Of the total population of 25,608,058 (25,536,804), the percentage of active cases is 0.0052% (0.04%) of the total population.
Total active cases per 1 million of population - 52 (56).
No more deaths, but active cases showing a small increase. Let's hope they've learnt a lesson from the economic and social damage in Melbourne in particular from the recent draconian lockdown.
There has been as regards lockdowns, a consistent pattern of socialist governments everywhere favouring lockdowns and personal freedom restrictions, whereas conservative regimes allow societies to just get on with their lives, albeit with strong advice to wear masks inside for example.Go figure.
NUEVA ZELANDA - New Zealand
Total cases 1,995 (1,714) - up 281 or 16.4%
Deaths - 25 - 1.3% (22 - 1.4%) - up 3 or 13.6%
Recoveries - 1,917 - 96.1% (1,531 - 95.6%) - up 386 or 25.2%
Therefore active cases 53- 2.7% (49- 3.0%) - up 4 or 8.2%. Of the total population of 5,002,100 , the percentage of active cases is 0.001% (0.001%) of the total population.
Total active cases per 1 million of population - 11 (14).
As usual not much to say, except that there has been a small spike in active cases - mostly border related but worryingly (for NZ!) a small number of community transmissions which also as usual have been exacerbated by incompetence in tracing and dealing with premises where they have occurred.
Read last week's comments again, but apart from that for NZ's sake, just PRAY FOR A TRUMP WIN!!!
With that little homily, we send lotsaluv to all our friends and family stay well,
Jim and Jean
Medellin (the City of Eternal Spring)
Colombia
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