Clarice Feldman – For the first time in recent memory we will be unable to visit our son and his family in Hawaii for Thanksgiving. The quarantine requirements have been lifted if we take and get a negative result on a COVID test. (Something like 90% of the positive results on such tests are false positives.)
But it’s a very long flight during which we’d have to be masked in flight and at the airports and it’s more than we can endure. (Even if we assumed the masks were efficacious, which I don’t think they are — indeed, I think they are counterproductive — we find them physically uncomfortable.) Continue reading
Jim Hayek – A US tax court judge is allowing a whistleblower complaint to proceed against the Clinton Foundation after finding that the IRS “abused its discretion” when it attempted to dismiss allegations of wrongdoing by the nonprofit, according to Just The News.
Charles Ortel – James Comey is not an effective liar. He fooled only the gullible last week with his evasive testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Previously, Robert Mueller was also not effective deterring the Trump Administration from uncovering significant, far-reaching crimes that the former F.B.I. Director “missed” from September 2001 through September 2013.
Mike Adams – Do you trust the “organic” label to really be organic? A U.S. farmer named Randy Constant killed himself to avoid a 10-year prison sentence after being convicted of running a massive organic fraud scheme that produced millions of bushels of “organic” corn and soybeans which were sold into the U.S. marketplace.
Stephen Lendman – Enron Online became the first Internet-based commodities transaction system.