Monday 28 November 2016

‘Stunning and troubling’: Election experts aghast at Trump’s baldfaced lie about people voting ‘illegally’

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign event in Miami,




















ON Sunday afternoon, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted the false assertion that “millions of people” voted illegally in the 2016 election, which was why he did not win the popular vote.
Politico spoke to election experts and historians who were flabbergasted at the claim, which appears to have originated in the right-wing fever swamp InfoWars.com and has no factual basis.
Hours after the first tweet, Trump launched another sensational claim without providing any evidence whatsoever.
“Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California — so why isn’t the media reporting on this? Serious bias — big problem!” the former reality TV star wrote.
Election law expert Rick Hasen of the University of California, Irvine said that Trump’s claims are absurd on their face.

“There’s no reason to believe this is true,” Hasen told Politico. “The level of fraud in US elections is quite low.”
“The problem of non-citizen voting is quite small — like we’re talking claims in the dozens, we’re not talking voting in the millions, or the thousands, or even the hundreds,” he said.
David Becker — executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research and a former attorney in the Voting Section of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division — said widespread vote fraud is highly unlikely.
“We know historically that this almost never happens,” Becker said. “You’re more likely to get eaten by a shark that simultaneously gets hit by lightning than to find a non-citizen voting.”
Trump aides spoke to Politico anonymously saying that the recount effort spearheaded by Green Party candidate Jill Stein has seriously gotten under the president-elect’s skin and he can’t let it go.
Another aide said that Trump believes that “the Democratic establishment will try to steal” his victory in the electoral college.
This round of reports of undocumented “illegal” voters seems to have its origin in a Nov. 14 post at InfoWars in which conspiracy monger Alex Jones featured Gregg Phillips — a former Newt Gingrich backer who says that widespread fraud took place in November’s balloting.
Phillips revealed no evidence for his claims, but said he will “release a comprehensive research study to the public, Attorney General [nominee Jeff] Sessions and all interested parties.”
“Radio host Alex Jones, who runs Infowars, has faced criticism for promoting unsubstantiated — and often bizarre — conspiracy theories, including that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which resulted in the death of 20 children, is a hoax, and that Hillary Clinton is a ‘demon from Hell,'” wrote Politico‘s Andrew Restuccia.
The looming specter of “vote fraud” has long formed the bedrock of the Republican push for voter ID laws, which don’t actually prevent vote fraud, but make it harder for traditionally Democratic constituencies like African-Americans, the poor and the elderly to vote.
Some experts believe that Republican efforts to suppress voting by minorities and others may actually have handed Trump his electoral college victory, if not the popular vote, which he lost by more than two million.
But as for Trump’s charges that vote fraud cost him the popular vote, York University history professor Timothy Naftali said the claims are unprecedented.
“Trump is the first winning candidate to question the legitimacy of the process that gave him the White House,” Naftali said.
Princeton historian Julian Zelizer said the only other claim of widespread vote fraud was in 1876, when both presidential candidates Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes alleged that the election had been marred by fraud.
“But in that case, there was evidence of fraud and corruption in certain areas,” he explained.
“In this case, we see the victor making blanket accusation of fraud to delegitimize 2.5 million votes,” said Zelizer. “Given there is no evidence to support the claim, this is simply stunning and troubling as a sign as to what he will do as president.”

Saturday 5 November 2016

Donald Trump is rushed off stage by Secret Service agents at rally in Nevada

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Republican nominee is shielded from crowd by two agents as a disturbance unfolds near the stage









Donald Trump was rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents on Saturday night while making a speech at a rally in Nevada, sparking panic in the crowd.
The Republican nominee shielded his eyes and looked into the crowd and was then suddenly removed from view by two agents as a disturbance unfolded near the stage.
Several witnesses said they heard shouts of “he’s got a gun”. The incident prompted the crowd to react in panic, with several hundred people surging towards the back of the hall in Reno.


Several witnesses said they heard shouts of “he’s got a gun”. The incident prompted the crowd to react in panic, with several hundred people surging towards the back of the hall in Reno.


However, none of those witnesses saw a weapon. One man said he believed a tightly folded poster had been misidentified as a firearm.
Several witnesses close to where the man in question was detained described him being wrestled to the ground by several Trump supporters, who lay on top of him.
“I saw a man to my right and then it looked like a fight broke out,” said Michael Newton, 45, who helped detain the man. “There were four or five guys on top of him. Then the people on top of him shouted ‘he’s got a gun, he’s got a gun’. That’s when I also jumped on top of him to help; we were all shouting to alert the Secret Service.”
The man, who was bald, and looked in his 30s or 40s, was attempting to wriggle free.
Amid the chaos, there were conflicting descriptions from witnesses, although most described seeing a man rushing toward the front of the stage before he was tackled to the ground.


“It was like he was running forward to get to the front,” said a man who declined to give his name. “He was saying ‘excuse me, excuse me’, working his way to the front.” One woman, who gave her name as Lauren, said she saw the same man looking “wild eyed”.


The main in question has since been released, according to reports.
The US Secret Service said Trump’s security detail removed the Republican nominee from the stage after seeing a commotion in the crowd.
“Immediately in front of the stage, an unidentified individual shouted ‘gun’. Secret Service agents and Reno police officers immediately apprehended the subject. Upon a thorough search of the subject and the surrounding area, no weapon was found,” a spokesman said in a statement.
The Secret Service and Reno police are continuing their investigations.
Eventually, Trump returned to the stage and said: “Nobody said it was going to be easy but we will never be stopped. We will never be stopped.”
He added “I want to thank the Secret Service, those guys are fantastic.”


The Republican nominee then returned to his stump speech and finished reading it from a teleprompter.
His camp later thanked the Secret Service and police for their swift response.


This was the second time the Secret Service was forced to remove Trump from the stage. At a March rally in Ohio, Trump was escorted off after a man rushed the stage, saying he wanted to “bully the bully”.
At a June rally in Las Vegas, a British man, Michael Sandford, tried to grab a police officer’s gun in an attempt to use it to shoot Trump. He pled guilty in September and faces up to two years in prison and deportation from the US. Sandford’s attorney said the man was delusional at the time.





Roman Reigns Suspension Update: Reigns May Have Taken Amphetamines

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After failing a drug check, Roman Reigns can't participate in any WWE event for thirty days. (WWE.com)
New details have emerged concerning the suspension of Roman Reigns following the wrestler’s violation of the WWE’s eudaimonia policy.

According to seats News, a brand new rumor suggests that the drug found in Reigns’ system was some variety of upper, which implies it may are something from MBD medication to methylenedioxymethamphetamine. However, no matter Reigns was taking was for non-medical use; the WWE’s eudaimonia policy notes that “The non-medical use of associate degree upper, deoxyephedrine, Ectasy (MDMA), Eve (MDEA), MDA, PMA, Phentermine and different upper derivatives and connected compounds is prohibited.”

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don't have any text to check? don't have any text to check? Click "Select Samples".In The Wrestling Observer, Dave Meltzer reports that following his suspension, Reigns was forced to apologize to all or any of his coworkers within the room. it absolutely was obviously Mark Carrano, head of talent relations, that gave this order, so Meltzer noted that Vince McMahon himself wasn't concerned in this call.

Reigns’ forced apology was obviously met with mixed reactions among his coworkers, with several feeling it absolutely was unnecessarily cruel which there was no ought to create him embarrass himself like that. What’s unclear is that if Reigns was additionally forced to issue his Twitter apology, that was announce shortly once the suspension news poor, or if he did that on his own.

Another attention-grabbing note from Meltzer is that Reigns won't be receiving any pay throughout his 30-day suspension, and then considering the quantity of house shows he was regular to look at, Reigns is anticipated to lose concerning $100,000 throughout his month-long probation. Clearly, the WWE takes their eudaimonia policy terribly seriously, although it’s desecrated by the one who is arguably the face of the whole company.

But per Inquisitir, the WWE might not invariably are attending to go public with Reigns’ suspension. plain once Vince McMahon 1st detected concerning Reigns’ violation, he wished to comb it underneath the rug; he apparently knew of the failing drug take a look at before cash within the Bank, that is why Reigns lost his title to Seth Rollins.

Though Reigns are going to be absent for thirty days, he can come back in time for July’s field pay-per-view, despite the fact that Seth Rollins and several other others argued on Raw in the week that he ought to now not be allowed to participate. amazingly, the WWE created Reigns suspension into a significant plot instead of writing him off with some type of faux injury. On Raw, Seth Rollins same Roman Reigns’ drug violation was a humiliation, and he went as way on mock the performer’s apology, saying, “Roman Reigns has ne'er apologized for a issue in his life, therefore why begin currently, Roman?”

However, Dean Saint Ambrose defended Roman Reigns on the show, speech that everybody makes mistakes which Roman deserves another likelihood.

Confirmed cluster of polio-like ‘mystery illness’ in Washington State

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Eight of nine children exhibiting symptoms of a mysterious illness have been confirmed to
be suffering from acute flaccid myelitis, a highly infectious polio-like disease that primarily strikes children, the Washington State Department of Health announced Friday. However, the ninth case, a 6-year old boy who died last Sunday, did not have the disease.
The department announced the results following an analysis of the blood, stool and respiratory samples by the Centers for Disease Control.
“There has been no confirmed infection or any obvious commonalities among these eight children, said Dr. Scott Lindquist, who serves as state epidemiologist for communicable diseases. “We are in the process of doing an in-depth interview with these children and their families to look at what they ate, any medications…to see if there are any clues to how they got the disease.”
Like polio, AFM affects the body’s nervous system — specifically the spinal cord — and can cause lifelong paralysis. But unlike with polio, there is no vaccine.
Five of the eight children, ranging in age from 3 to 14 years of age, have been released and are home with their families, say officials. Three are still being treated at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Cause of death unknown
The death of 6-year-old Daniel Ramirez on Sunday was thought to be the very first to be linked to the cluster of cases in five Washington counties.
Daniel’s parents, Marijo De Guzman and Jose Ramirez, told KOMO that they first took their son to the hospital because he had symptoms of a cold and was feeling dizzy. Within hours, they said, he was paralyzed, and never recovered.
However, CDC tests show that the child did not have AFM. Officials refused to speculate on what may have caused his death.
On Tuesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the national AFM case count from September, which indicates a sharp increase in the confirmed cases this year. From January 1 to September 30, 89 people in 33 states were diagnosed with AFM, 37 of them in September.
AFM cases first spiked in August 2014. By the end of that year, 120 people had been diagnosed in 34 states. In 2015, 21 people were diagnosed in 16 states.
The exact cause of the illness is unknown, though scientists think it is most likely the result of a viral infection. Other potential culprits include environmental toxins, genetic disorders and Guillain-Barré syndrome, according to the CDC. AFM itself is not contagious.
What is acute flaccid myelitis?
“This is a very rare condition, but I think it’s important that we take it seriously, because it does have long-term and potentially disabling consequences,” said Dr. Kevin Messacar, a pediatric infectious disease physician and researcher at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
“The key with AFM is that it’s sudden onset,” said Dr. Manisha Patel, AFM team lead at the CDC and a practicing pediatrician. “Symptoms include limb weakness, facial drooping and difficulty swallowing and talking.
“AFM is an illness that can be seen with a variety of different causes. The most famous one is polio, but there are also enteroviruses, which are circulating very broadly in the US and other countries.”
Sure enough, when the initial cases of AFM were reported in 2014, many doctors believed it was linked to an outbreak of enterovirus D68, a respiratory virus that sent hundreds of children to the hospital.
“What we saw … is that the majority of children had a fever and a respiratory illness,” said Messacar. “Five days later, they would develop pain in the arms and legs, and weakness followed.”
Messacar and his colleagues have followed their hospital’s 12 AFM patients since 2014. Most are doing better than when they first came into the emergency room, but the majority continue to have some level of disability.
“It’s important to understand that there’s a wide spectrum of severity of this disease,” Messacar said. On one end, you see mild weakness in one extremity, he said. On the other, you’ve got children who have lost the ability to breathe on their own and exhibit complete paralysis in their arms and legs.
Patel and Messacar agree: There are no known proven, effective therapies. Both doctors stress the importance of recognizing the early signs of AFM and seeking care as soon as possible.
“A doctor can tell the difference between AFM and other diseases with a careful examination of the nervous system, looking at the location of the weakness, muscle tone and reflexes,” according to the CDC’s website. “Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be very helpful in diagnosing cases of AFM.
“Finally, by testing the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF, the fluid bathing the brain and spinal cord), clinicians can look for findings suggestive of AFM,” according to the CDC.
How worried should you be?
“CDC is always concerned when there is a serious illness that is affecting the public, especially when it’s affecting children,” Patel said. “We’re looking closely at what might be causing this and what might put someone at risk for AFM.”
In the meantime, Patel encourages practicing “general prevention strategies”: washing your hands with soap and water, getting vaccinated and preventing mosquito bites.
AFM has also been liked to West Nile virus and other viruses in that family, according to the CDC: in particular, Japanese encephalitis and St. Louis encephalitis. No link has been established between AFM and the Zika virus.
There is some good news, however. “Enteroviruses tend to appear in the late summer and early fall and go away in the winter,” Messacar said. “So we expect to see (AFM cases) decrease based on the epidemiology of enteroviruses.
“We understand this condition better than we did in 2014, but there’s still a lot to learn,” he said. “The process is slow, but progress is being made.”
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