Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Orange County fire threatens communities and evacuates 60,000 residents
Why do all of these fires start in California? Somebody must be setting them.
Monday, October 26, 2020
Drivers asked to be aware of, and patient with, farm equipment
From The Journal Times.com:
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Corn is harvested from a Rossi Farms field in Bristol on Wednesday. |
“Please be patient as we share the roads this time of year,” said Sue Crane, whose family owns a farm in Brighton.
Randall Rossi, of the Town of Paris, said road closures have pushed some farmers, like motorists, onto roads they typically do not use to access their fields.
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau, Department of Transportation, and Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection this week issued a reminder that agricultural equipment is allowed to operate on state roads.
“We must all remember that everyone on the roadway has family and friends they want to return home to,” said Wisconsin Farm Bureau President Joe Bragger. “Farmers and motorists need to respect each other and work together to keep Wisconsin’s roadways safe this fall.”
Know the law
There have been 1,714 crashes involving farm equipment during the last decade statewide that resulted in 834 injuries and 29 fatalities.
The following laws are in place regarding various scenarios when farm equipment and other motor vehicles share the road:
Passing: It’s illegal to pass any farm tractors and machinery in a no-passing zone. Farmers should not pull over or wave vehicles forward in a no-passing zone.
Left-hand turn: Farm equipment has two flashing yellow lights while in operation on roadways. Only one light will continue to flash in the direction the farmer wishes to turn. Farmers may use hand signals if they are operating equipment without turn signals.
Controlled intersection: Motorists should be aware when passing farm equipment within a short distance of a controlled intersection that it can impact reaction time and braking distance for the farm equipment operator.
KKK & the Courts
From Racine County Corruption:
KKK & the Courts
ILLUMINATING HIDDEN TRUTHS
SECRETS CONTINUE
IN THE SECRET COURTS
Weidner vs. City of Racine
17CV1644
BE OUTRAGED
VERY OUTRAGED
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| KKK Judge Chad Kerkman |
Judge Kerkman
KKK
KERKMAN'S KOURT OF KAOS
maintains secrets from the public!
Watch Talking Racine:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCd9xym75NCDGMaT2dEgT6Q?reload=9
From: http://racinecountycorruption.blogspot.com/2020/10/kkk-courts-illuminating-hidden-truths.html
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Censoring of Comments
Submitted by legal stranger:
FYI
Good afternoon Stephanie and Dee,
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FYI
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From: Harry Wait <harrytrex@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 4:37 PM
Subject: censoring of comments
To: Stephanie Jones <Stephanie.Jones@journaltimes.com>, <dee.holzel@journaltimes.com>
From: Harry Wait <harrytrex@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 4:37 PM
Subject: censoring of comments
To: Stephanie Jones <Stephanie.Jones@journaltimes.com>, <dee.holzel@journaltimes.com>
Reference: https://journaltimes.com/news/local/with-video-racine-municipal-judge-promotes-procedural-justice-in-his-department-budget/article_88bf9028-d4b7-5dc0-aadc-54a432dcf287.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
The above comment and one very similar to it was not posted, both were properly submitted into the comments.
Could someone please explain why the following comment was censored?
equity? pffft There is a reason why this judge is nicknamed "Robber" Weber. Within Weber's municipal court there lies a very troubling and cozy relationship between the city's attorney office and the judge. This relationship is so toxic and convoluted that court records were destroyed. When court files were requested for an appeal, appellant was informed that no records exist for the case. Weber in conjunction with city attorney Nhu Tran fined defendant over $50,000 for minor building code violations.. The appeal case was docketed as case Racine County Circuit Court case 2019CV001357 where the case was dismissed with prejudice. Weber is a special kind of "robber" for the city read more here: https://racinecountycorruption.blogspot.com/search?q=jim+mcclain
Would either of you like to respond why comments are being censored and the truth is not allowed to be commented in your newspaper?
Harry Wait
262-770-9796
Harry Wait
Friday, October 23, 2020
State budget office: Foxconn's facility 'may be better suited for demonstration' than as a factory
From JSOnline:
Days before the state declined to give the Foxconn Technology Group tax credits for work done in 2019, officials wrote that the Mount Pleasant facility "may be better suited for demonstration purposes rather than as a viable commercial glass fabrication facility."
The memo casting doubt on the project states the Foxconn facility "if operational, would be the smallest Generation 6 (factory) operating anywhere in the world. It is less than one-twentieth the size of the promised Generation 10.5 project and would employ, if it ever became fully operational, only a small fraction of the local residents who WEDC expected to be employed."
The Oct. 7 memo was first reported by The Verge and confirmed by officials at the Department of Administration. The Verge is a technology news website operated by Vox Media.
Maricella’s Last Breath: She died alone in a cell at 16. Officials said they were devastated. They didn’t say they did anything wrong.
From JSOnline:
Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Maricella Chairez wanted to keep breathing.
In her cell at the Racine County Juvenile Detention Center, she drew the word “breath” big among clouds and stars on a poster she hung next to the calendar where she crossed off the days.
The drawing was next to her on the wall when she took her last breath sometime after 10:42 p.m. Dec. 10, 2017.
Nearby was a crumpled piece of paper. It said: “I’m going crazy in this place.”
On her desk were journals and poetry. “Everybody got a story that needs to be told,” she wrote. “So here I go with mine. Ready set and go.”
Maricella was 16. She never had the chance to share her story with the world, grow up with her little brother, frame her photography or fulfill her dream of helping other survivors of trafficking.
Five days after Maricella died by suicide, officials responsible for her care issued a brief news release.
“The juvenile was found unresponsive in her cell during the night,” they wrote. They said they were devastated. They said children in their care were like family.
They didn’t say what records would later reveal — that jail guards were late to check on Maricella the night she died, that she had been isolated despite national guidance against such a practice, and that her death involved a suicide hazard in her cell that staff knew was dangerous.
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel examination of hundreds of documents, including medical records, police reports and court transcripts, shows authorities repeatedly failed Maricella, not only in her final days but for years before that. County workers often didn’t find her proper mental health care. Police downplayed her reports of sexual assault. A judge ordered her jailed the night she escaped traffickers.
In jail, Maricella attempted suicide multiple times. During that time, she told officials she needed more help than she was getting in detention.
Even in death, Maricella didn’t get the full attention of authorities.
State corrections officials did not produce a full report on her death. Instead, a corrections inspector sent a two-page letter to jail officials 464 days after she died, praising them for doing an “excellent job” providing mental health care to jail workers who responded to the suicide. The report said nothing about the lack of mental health services for Maricella.
Maricella’s mother, Cynthia Casillas, shared medical and legal records with the Journal Sentinel, saying she hoped her daughter’s story could help others so that “another parent does not have to go through the tragedy we’re living."
Nine days before Maricella died, she had almost died the same way. She had tied clothing around her neck and through the holes in her bunk.
Even though some experts say bunks should be banned from cells because they pose a suicide risk, no one got Maricella a safer bed or removed the unused bed from her cell. She died tied to the upper bunk.
One of the last entries in her journal said: “I know a lot of people going through a harder struggle then me. So why am I trippin.”
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Monday, October 19, 2020
Mason brothers’ risky Racine COVID test lab
**This story has been updated to include comment from researcher Christopher Mason and to clarify information about the effects of heating coronaviruses.
Empower Wisconsin | Sept 15, 2020
MADISON — The City of Racine City Hall Annex has been transformed into a laboratory where city employees work with a highly contagious virus that has killed nearly 200,000 people in the U.S. — more than 1,200 in Wisconsin.
And Racine city officials don’t seem at all concerned about the potential safety and liability hazards.
Sources with backgrounds in biotech tell Empower Wisconsin city leaders and Racine citizens should be very wary of the dangers of a COVID-19 experiment they say has no business being conducted on city property.
Coming home
In July, mainstream media outlets began doing feature stories on Christopher Mason’s research. Mason, associate professor and systems biology wunderkind at Weill Cornell Medicine, is looking for a faster way to test for COVID-19. Mason also just happens to be the brother of Racine’s liberal Mayor Cory Mason, a fact that raises some conflict of interest questions. The scientist, the stories note, came home to turn his hometown into a cutting edge laboratory in the fight against a relentless and deadly pandemic.
Professor Mason is working alongside Alison Kriegel, PhD, associate professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
As Fox6 explained in late July, the researchers established a mobile lab in the Racine City Hall Annex. They have employed city firefighters to collect “a few milliliters of saliva from city employees taking part in the study.”
“We’re cooking the saliva at 95 degrees for 30 minutes to essentially kill the virus. And then from there, we’re testing it,” Chief Brian Wolf of the Racine Police Department, told the news outlet.
The idea, officials say, is to limit the chance for spread within the lab.
It’s alive
But is a city building where several departments are located — parks and recreation, water and wastewater among them — the best place to research a test for a virus that is considered at a risk level below Ebola?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised that SARS-COV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 “should be isolated and studied only in laboratories with advanced containment capabilities, meaning those with a biosafety level (BSL) of 3 or higher.”
So they are conducting a test on a virus that is considered at a risk level below Ebola. Organisms are classified on a Biosafety scale of 1 to 4 — 1 being fairly safe, 4 being, well, the deadly Ebola virus.
In an email response to Empower Wisconsin, Kriegel insists the lab is “not working with live virus.” She said samples are collected in a tube by subjects, capped and then “heat activated” in the closed collection container to kill the virus prior to handling.
A biotech expert who spoke to Empower Wisconsin on condition of anonymity said Kriegel’s explanation is absurd.
“So they aren’t working with the live virus. They are just collecting samples and heating them to, well, kill the live virus,” the source said. “Even accepting such an absurd statement, there is no published guideline for that treatment killing the virus.”
Studies show heat over certain durations can destroy coronaviruses, but there are variables, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes in a July summary of studies.
“Generally coronaviruses survive for shorter periods at higher temperatures and higher humidity than in cooler or dryer environments. However, we don’t have direct data for this virus, nor do we have direct data for a temperature‐based cutoff for inactivation at this point. The necessary temperature would also be based on the materials of the surface, the environment, etc.,” the CDC summary notes.
What if a tube containing samples cracks or shatters? Maybe it’s dropped during heating. The biotech expert who spoke to Empower Wisconsin said an aerosol will immediately form.
“This could enter the building ventilation system and contaminate work surfaces and the floors,” the source said. How are workers and the public being protected?
Professor Mason acknowledged the potential risks.
“In terms of the safety question, there’s always a chance you don’t collect a sample right … nothing is 100 percent risk-free,” he said. “But once it’s in the tube and you cap it and heat it, to my knowledge, there’s not a single piece of information that says the virus is still effective.” If so, the researcher added, ” you could just heat it longer.”
Not to worry, Kriegel says. “Everyone is wearing full PPE (personal protective equipment) and disposables were being treated as biohazardous waste.” That means the waste has been autoclaved and/or collected for biohazard disposal through the private company the health department uses, the researcher said.
She said first responders assisting in the research have received HAZMAT training. Besides, she added, they’re already at risk of encountering infected people while in the normal course of their public safety duties.
“Employees being tested (and it is only City employees being tested, who volunteer to participate in the study) are already (potentially) breathing into ventilation systems, using restrooms and touching surfaces in city buildings—as is everyone every time we go out in public,” Kriegel said.
That’s an interesting position to take, however, in a city run by Professor Mason’s brother — the mayor — who, alongside city council members, has done everything in his power (and outside of his power) to lock down or limit businesses and the liberties of citizens to save them from COVID-19.
Ethics and liability
The ethical use of human subjects, as in the Racine annex COVID test research, requires a thorough review by an established Institutional Review Board (IRB), according to federal regulations. The history of contemporary human subjects protections began in 1947 with the Nuremberg Code, developed for the Nuremberg Military Tribunal as standards by which to judge the human experimentation conducted by the Nazis, according to the federal Office for Human Research Protections.
Kriegel said the Medical College of Wisconsin’s IRB approved the COVID-19 test study, but she said she does not know which members in particular were involved. It would be inappropriate, the researcher said, for her to know the names of the board members or identify them.
The research would seem to raise myriad liability concerns for the city of Racine and its taxpayers.
City Attorney Scott Letteney said “direct funding” for the research project is coming from Cornell, while the Medical Center of Wisconsin is paying for the cost of its employees’ participation — in wages/benefits — for participation in the COVID-19 test experiments. Letteney said employees are covered under Racine’s workers compensation coverage.
Is the city indemnified in case of a an accident?
The city attorney said the question is “very nonspecific,” but added there are “liability-limiting provisions in the agreement and in the law.” He did not specify what the liability-limiting provisions are.
And what about employees’ Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rights? Are they being protected? Letteney claims there is no “HIPPA effect.”
“All screening, diagnostic, and any other health information is under the control of the research scientists. No screening, diagnostic, or any other health information about employees tested is being share(d) with the City of Racine as an employer,” the city attorney said.
Will Racine’s taxpayers benefit from the proceeds of a successful and marketable COVID-19 rapid test? Will they be rewarded for their risk? Does Cory Mason stand to profit from his brother’s research on taxpayer time? The mayor did not respond to Empower Wisconsin’s request for comment.
The researchers see big things for their test, and they told Fox6 that they would move forward as fast as they could to “try to validate this test.”
“…(H)opefully, we’ll be able to open it up to a broader community once we are able to get the validation completed, Kriegel said.
But have the researchers put lives on the line in their rapid quest for a rapid COVID-19 test built on cozy political relationships?
Listen to more:
Racine budget proposal cuts 12 police officers, 9 firefighters
From Fox6Now:
How about cutting Butterball's many assistants? Can he even lift a Big Mac to his lips without aid?
How about cutting Butterball's many assistants? Can he even lift a Big Mac to his lips without aid?
Next time you need a cop, call Butterball.
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Friday, October 16, 2020
KENOSHA STRONG WRONG
From Racine County Corruption:
Korrupt Kerkman Kourt
Take notice of the CONFIDENTIAL watermark.
Judge Kerkman
and the KKK
Kerkman’s Kourt of Konfusion
UPDATED
Sandy Weidner again trapped
in alleged secret court proceedings conducted by
Korrupt Kerkman Kourt
ILLUMINATING HIDDEN TRUTHS
Kerkman Kauses Khaos
Judge Chad Kerkman Kreated Khaos and konfusion on October 7th, 2020
by having a dedicated YouTube channel available for the interested public to safely oversee live court proceedings. Kerkman knowingly and willingly choose not to not to broadcast (live stream) the court proceedings.
Kerkman pulled the Kurtains and blacked out kourt proceeding to the interested public via You Tube.
Korrupt Kerkman Kenosha
(His other KKK wardrobe is in the closet)
On October 7th, 2020, Sandy Weidner was again a victim of a scam within the Korrupt Kourts Konducted by Judge Kerkman.
Zoom and You Tube platforms were established and implemented for use for the Circuit Courts by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the spring of 2020.
6 months later, Kerkman continues to remain in defiance of Wisconsin Supreme Court requests to broadcast (livestream) court proceedings.
There lacks any consistency, uniformity or repeatability of conducting court proceedings concerning public oversight within the Wisconsin Circuit Court system.
How is the public to know whether they can attend court proceedings in person or must use
video live streaming?
So, did Korrupt Kerkman violate the
First Amendment Rights
of all 5.82 million Wisconsin citizens
making the State of Wisconsin and
Kerkman personally ripe for class action in Federal court by not live streaming the courts hearing?
Korrupt Kerkman provided Zoom codes to the litigants to participate during the court proceedings but failed to
provide any video participation to the public.
Take notice of the CONFIDENTIAL watermark.
Judge Kerkman is in a most vile and despicable way,
a pompous ass, scofflaw and deviant judge
unworthy of public service.
So again Sandy Weidner is a victim of
korruption
committed by members of the kourt
KKK
KORRUPT KERKMAN KOURT
Lets face it, It was a tossup comparing Kerkman to the KKK or the Nazi's
being they both enjoyed conducting secret court
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For more information, click on the following:
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/24/secret-open-records-case-racine-seeks-sanctions-against-alderwoman/1410143002/
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/25/judge-delays-contempt-hearing-secret-racine-open-records-case/1421017002/
Sandra Weidner vs. City of Racine
Racine County Circuit Court case # 17CV1644
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Pro-Biden artwork from the 'Father of Crop Art' chiseled into hay field in Racine County
From JSOnline:
Believe it or not, Stan Herd said finding the right plot of land is just as time-consuming as the artwork itself.
The 70-year-old Kansas artist, once called the "Father of Crop Art" by CBS news anchor Dan Rather, has been crafting massive designs into fields since the early 1980s. But he's on a new mission now, engineering messages promoting the Joe Biden campaign, not coincidentally in swing states Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
In Wisconsin, Herd wanted a property large enough for a pro-farmer message and close enough to air traffic patterns where travelers will see the work from above. With that in mind, he reached out to Neil and Jennifer Young about their 180-acre property in the Village of Yorkville in Racine County.
"We've done some work with the local Democratic Party and had some fundraisers for Tammy Baldwin on our farm," Jennifer said. "We got a call that there's a crop artist interested in finding a place about 2 to 3 acres, and they explained what they wanted to do. We walked over to some places that we thought would be good, and the perfect place is in our hay field.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
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