May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle ;-) Skepticism and critical thinking is not panacea, but can help to understand the world better
Nope. I've already said that George answered his own question when he asked where were all the good people of conscience
in government. He mentioned ,in Life Is Worth Losing, the people who often end up assassinated: Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, JFK,
RFK, MLK, John Lennon, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X. Folks who talk about peace, love and doing good to one another. These folks
RARELY get elected to high office and those that do end up dead!
RagingCapitalist
If you think that the people who didn't get elected would actually be different, you need to watch this video again a few
times.
Why do only rich countries suffer? Why is it only the countries with a powerful liberal
press, with a positive connection to the WHO, with developed hi-tech infrastructure and their
own digital lords? Could it be simply that they have something to loot? It makes sense to
loot Belgium, and Belgians have a lot of Covid. But it makes no sense to loot Mongolia or
Cambodia. If you follow me thus far, you will also see that such things can't happen by
themselves. GAFAM is the prime mover and the beneficiary, while Gates is the link between them
and the WHO.
Pompeo Warns US May Stop Sharing Intelligence With Australia Over Victoria Inking Deal With
China's BRI
The battle for Australia's soul has begun.
Lets reverse that point, shall we. There is a US spy base in Australia at a place called
Pine Gap. Without it being operational the USA would lose its 3 dimensional vision across the
planet.
This Bannon/Trump bluster is weak as p!ss as 'sharing intelligence' is the cornerstone of
the five eyes perversion that gives the USA some superiority in intelligence matters. So if
sharing intelligence were withdrawn by the USA with Australia it would have meaningless
consequences.
On the other hand if Australia ceased its intelligence sharing and shut down all the data
traffic out of Australia - the USA would go ballistic. Not that the Oz government would ever
do such a thing being a craven water carrier for the new world order etc...
Pompeo is blathering bullsh!t and he knows it and we all know it.
Odd that you would reiterate his brainless threat vk.
Fully applicable to Clapper ;-)
Clapper is, by the way, a proven perjurer, he having claimed claimed, during a congressional testimony in March 2013, that NSA does not “wittingly” collect data on millions of Americans.
Have they nothing better to do than peddle their Russophobia?
Wouldn't it be more useful to allocate $ 250,000 to save someone's lives, @StateDept ? Instead
of "Exposing Russian Health Disinformation"
➡️ https://t.co/Hv3CydUgBX
James Bond, the most iconic fictional hero of the current generation and the one before, is
a psychopathic serial killer and tool of the deep state. So why wouldn't he be a womanizer
too? He has a license to kill; he doesn't need a license to fornicate.
That's understood.
Women want to have sex with him because he's a bad boy; men fantasize about being the bad
boy that women want. It's bizarrely appropriate that spies and assassins are the heroes and
often heroines of our age.
Ladies and Gentlemen and all of you other bisexual transsexual creatures that were formally
Human Beings. It is way past time to restart our Nuclear Test Program. While you may think I
am joking, the reality is that we no longer know whether or not any of these weapons actually
work. Think about it. Does the latest Multi-use platform military Aircraft work? No!. Does
the latest version of the US Navy's Littoral Combat ship work? No! Does the most recently
built and technologically wonderful US Navy Aircraft Carrier work? No!
So why do you think the Nuclear Weapons should work? These are new and high tech weapons
that are cool and cost a phucking fem-nominal amount of money but they might not be any
better than any of the other garbage designed by our Technological Engineering Geniuses that
designed and built the latest Aircraft and Ships. How can I sleep at night, guarding my and
other American's vital bodily fluids with weapons that might not work. I don't want to go to
a gun fight with only a knife. Those Rooskies and Chinks play for keeps and they have not
pissed away gargantuan amounts of money to buy useless non-working $hit. Besides, Vegas is
closed down due to the Korona $hit so Nevada needs to get back to basics and start Nuclear
testing again.
Just better do the first ones in Top Top Top Secrete in case they are duds.
Bolsheviks put ideology above and before the people needs; Neoliberals put capital above
people. Neoliberals are the next-worst thing after Boslheviks (although nobody can match
Bolsheviks as for excesses including Stalin terror) . That's why bothe now in the USA and in
the USSR before the dissolution we have a lot of "death of despare" That said, why would
anybody trust neolibral pols ?
Coronavirus had shown Brezhnev socialism and the US neoliberalism were never as far apart as
people imagined. Two sides of a coin. A theological dispute.
Times of crisis bring people together under a common cause – says the
propaganda of the blind optimist. What we've actually seen during the
coronavirus pandemic is society divide into different tribes; here are five
of them.
The Remain-at-Homers
This group will not leave their homes no matter what, as a matter of
principle. By pure coincidence they also tend to have the biggest houses
and largest gardens, and jobs they can do comfortably from their
well-equipped studies. It's not self-discipline getting them through
lockdown, but pure smugness – which you can see on their face when they
gleefully tell you, via Zoom, how long it's been since they left the house
in much the same manner a veteran might describe landing on Omaha Beach or
defending Stalingrad.
The Anti-Lockdowners
This lot can be heard saying things like,
"it's just a nasty cold,"
or
"grandad was
going to die anyway."
However they justify it, they're just not interested in being forced to
stay at home. You'll see them angrily protesting for their right to get a beer and a haircut... or
perhaps you'll see them in the hospital on a ventilator recovering from a nasty cold.
The Hypocrites are a strange mix of Remain-at-Homer and Anti-Lockdowner. These virtue signallers
will keep up the smug facade of those who are following all the rules by staying at home to watch
Netflix. However, don't be fooled because they're also going shopping for essential supplies three
times a day and exercising twice a day, despite the fact that they hadn't even run for a bus in two
decades before all this started. Yep, they spend more time outside than they used to!
The Snitches
And then there are the Snitches. These are your neighbours who spend the whole day longingly
staring out the window dreaming of freedom, but as soon as they see you walk out the front door to buy
bread and booze, they call the police to get you properly locked down. Solidarity has its limits.
The Conspiracists
These are the people who think Covid-19 is a Bill Gates plan to force you to buy Windows 27. Or
that the government is just trying to wipe out pensioners. Or that 5G is downloading the virus
straight into your brain in an impressive two seconds as long as your cell plan is up to date.
Whatever the theory, as long as there is no proof, they'll tell you all about it. Via Zoom.
Jen @ 32, I had a thought that maybe the US is starting this sea challenge because they need
to use up the excess oil that's making domestic prices stay so low - not much profit in it
these days though the 'little people are enjoying very low prices at the pump. And of course
the virus and business shuttered is all not helping. So, let's have some big ships charging
around, shall we?
Trump cultists: Trump didn't say that, and if he did, that's not what he meant, and if he
did mean it, you don't understand it, and if you do, it's no big deal, and if it is a big
deal, you're a liberal who wishes Hillary had won.
My god, the cringe-inducing arrogance of the Washington regime is something else! Imagine
after Hurricane Maria and the subsequently dismal aid effort that devastated Puerto Rico, the
Chinese issued a statement lambasting the US response and saying "we stand with the people of
Puerto Rico".
The US "decoupling" from China is like the terminal patient in ICU "decoupling"
from the machinery keeping his body alive. It is not working out quite the way the Republican
and Democrat MAGA types imagined.
If Nigerian hackers can steal that much money, Israel, Chinese, and Russian, intel agencies
probably are in the most Fed information systems doing what they want ;-)
Notable quotes:
"... officials in Washington State may have lost "hundreds of millions of dollars" to fraudsters filing bogus unemployment claim ..."
officials
in Washington State may have lost "hundreds of millions of dollars" to fraudsters filing bogus
unemployment claim s – all the way from Nigeria.
Trump *may* not want another international crisis right now, but Elliott Abrams' entire
career is based around causing international crisis and Mike "The Pompous" Pompeo was the one
pushing for the Soleimani assassination.
So if Trump decides to surround himself with a bunch of madmen he shouldn't be surprised
if he ends up living in a madhouse.
Here are the 10 steps you should employ, if you want to turn an unthreatening virus into a
global power grab.
Start with an inaccurate
test for it Report predominantly the number of positive tests and the death rates and get
vague about whether these people died OF
the virus or simply WITH it . Create a 'response' to the 'crisis' that rolls out a vast
network of authoritarian measures , some of which have been in planning for a long while
Shut down your hospitals to all but 'covid cases'. Cancel elective surgeries, kidney dialysis,
cancer treatments, normal GP consultations and all "non-emergency healthcare". Change your laws
in numerous ways to allow almost all of these new deaths to bypass
normal checks and balances and be easily diagnosed as 'covid-19 related' , either with the
inaccurate test or simply by 'clinical presentation'. In case some attending medics are
reluctant to go along with this, change the law to allow a single MD, who may never even have
seen the patient in question, to diagnose covid19 at his/her own discretion. Report how
essential the new authoritarian measures are for 'saving lives'. Make sure the media calls
anyone who questions any part of this a
'conspiracy theorist' .
Looking at my own reaction to the 2016 candidates, I knew Hillary was the the most corrupt
politician since Hermann Goering. I also knew Trump was a freak show. However, Trump did
claim to be against new wars and getting along with Russia. Not that I believed him, but in a
choice between the two, Trump was obviously better. And that's what the Trump supporters
believed and that's why he was elected (with some help from the Electoral College setup.)
Today, it's a choice between a President who has been an *utter circus* and has *proven*
to be a freak show, and a "garden-variety" corrupt politician who also has dementia. People
elect corrupt politicians all the time. Is there any other kind? How likely is it that the
electorate will take the time to fully understand the depth of corruption of Biden vs the
*obvious* lunacy of Trump? How many people are going to believe Biden has dementia,
especially if the mainstream media (outside of Fox) refuses to even mention it (you know
that's what they will do)?
I don't know the answer to that and neither does anyone else.
The real questions are: how will the economy question play out before November? Does Trump
get blamed? Does he get rewarded for reopening the economy even though the death toll from
the virus spikes? If the virus slows in the summer, does he get rewarded for that? If a
second virus wave roars in before election dat, what impact will that have? What happens with
Venezuela, Iran and China over the next five months? There's plenty of time for SHTF on any
of those fronts - does any of it reward or downgrade Trump's chances?
Like I said before, it is *way too soon* to be estimating the outcome of this
election.
Posted by: Laguerre | May 20 2020 21:44 utc | 34 I'm not sure that Trump wants another crisis
at the moment.
Politicians use one crisis to deflect another. Trump is desperate to deflect from his
failed virus response and the resulting economic collapse. Starting a war somewhere is
perfect, since he'll get the support of his idiots, the neocons around him will tell him he's
a genius, and most people won't be directly affected (until the gas price crisis hits, of
course, but since not many people are driving due to the slowed economy, that might be
survivable for him.)
In any event, Trump doesn't "think" - he reacts. And *how* he reacts is mostly
unpredictable.
Attacking Venezuela would probably be a bit easier than attacking Iran directly since
Venezuela has one-third the population of Iran, is 1/8th the size of Iran, and its military
is probably vastly less capable. Getting a (comparatively) easy military win would boost
Trump's chances in November. If it did turn into a "quagmire", that could be spun and
possibly stretched out to past Election Day.
And the icing on the cake is that Trump and the neocons get to aggravate Iran some more,
possibly stimulating Iran to retaliate, thus increasing the odds for a direct war with Iran -
but *after* the election. A lot of Trump supporters keep saying that Trump doesn't want a new
war - which is bullcrap since Trump doesn't know what he "wants" at any given time (he's a
lot like Batman's Joker in that respect.) But the supporters say he wouldn't risk the
election by starting a war. I keep asking them: "What about *after* the election, assuming he
wins?" I get crickets in response.
If this is the caliber of experts who advise 10 Downing Street, it's hardly surprising that
Britain has been lurching from one foreign policy fiasco to another in recent years.
According to the CDC's long established mortality models, 687,000 Americans were supposed to
die during the 12 weeks between February 1 and April 18.
But only 666,000 actually complied. So the Grim Reaper was deprived of his seasonally
adjusted mortality quota, even as 21,000 families were spared, at least temporarily, of the
loss and grief which accompanies the passing of a loved one.
Either way, how in the hell does that square with Lockdown Nation -- an unprecedented
government ordered economic heart attack purportedly designed to prevent a Black Plague of
illness and death?
To be sure, a better than garden variety recession was already due after a record 129- month
long business expansion. But it was the sudden, virulent eruption of the Covid Death Hysteria
in the halls of government that turned a scheduled business cycle contraction into a monumental
catastrophe.
My father, for many years a professor at Fordham Law School, used to speak jocularly of
another all-too-familiar syndrome he nonetheless took seriously: he called it "the age of
statutory senility." As Chancellor of the Board of Regents, he resigned well before he reached
that age, offering his own example to superannuated Board colleagues (to no avail).
These days, I think he would probably consider 70 the age of "statutory senility",
especially were he able to read the blather of once respected journalists -- like Frank Rich,
whose work he used to enjoy. Let's make sure someone is working on a vaccine for the Trump
Syndrome.
Dozens of states are already in the process of reopening their crashed economies. Now the
first strip club in the country, located in Wyoming, has resumed pole dancing operations and
threw a grand reopening party last Friday called "masks on, clothes off."
[[[uncle sham]]] wanna 'investigate' Wuhan labs ! The serial arsonist , now donned in
firemen's garb, helping investigation at the crime scene ? What could go wrong, ?
Who's goING to check how many of thsoe pre Wuhan 'flu deaths' in US for CV traces ?
Who's going to verify how many of the current 'CV deaths' are genuine ?
What's so odd or unusual about that? The Ukraine was part of the joint investigation into
the downing of the Malaysian plane (with veto power!), yet it was, by any impartial observer,
suspect No. 1.
But if the Russians were coming, really, wouldn't most Americans rush to Putin's
assistance? And wouldn't that make America a vastly better place?
Not unique either! The Russians did that in the X Century when, as tradition and legend
has it, they invited the Varangians (Vikings) to come to rule over them because the
squabbling parties (presumably the local variety of Reps and Dems) made the place (Kiev-Rus)
ungovernable. About time they (the Russians) return the favour!
@450.org Yes, that's absolutely weird Trump wearing goggles but not a mask while visiting
a mask factory. He's not that stupid. Was he trying to convey a secret message to the QAnons
that we haven't been able to decipher yet?
On another note, ponder that: (1) Russia has relatively low mortality among the cases, ca.
1%, (2) a Russian folk medication for common cold is a generous application of ethanol, taken
orally, without waiting for symptoms to become severe (3) this is pretty close to Trumpian
musing if antiseptic could help if introduced to the body of the patient. I would stress that
40% (80 proof) is the minimum, and a higher concentration may be better, BUT a triple
overdose can be fatal (and equivalent of 100 ml of pure ethanol should be safe, 300 ml --
that is very, very risky).
odd that they're betting on nicotine patches working as (seemingly) well as the inhaled form.
it seems more logical that direct exposure to the lungs would make a difference but maybe
it's as effective in the bloodstream? i wonder where (flavorless) vaping would fit in the
picture as it delivers a lung dose without the harmful combustion (and ammonia and burn
accelerators and etc.)
reminds me of a joke from the usually unfunny "married...with children". they're watching
TV and see that a fitness guru they knew had dropped dead. the husband remarks that he
"lacked our protective layer of tar and pollution in his lungs".
it's odd that the "disinformation clearing house" stuff still gets traction. I mean the
people saying it told us - FOR YEARS - that they had proof "Trump is a Russian Agent".....then
launched a special prosecutor when they KNEW he wasn't. Then hired 17 lawyers and 40 FBI agents
to look into his background when they KNEW he had not committed the crime they SAID they were
investigating (read witch hunt).
these people should be sent to GITMO, not invited to cocktail parties in DC and treated as
heroes.
Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry= dunce. Vladimir
Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft."
Meanwhile the rest of the MSM altogether: Russia=bad. Obama=***** Jesus. Bashar
al-Assad=eeevil dictator. John Kerry=seasoned diplomat. Vladimir Putin=the 2nd coming of Hitler
(after the Trump-Saddam-Gaddafi 2nd comings of Hitler)
Just a thought: what if people like Gordon Guthrie Chang, Jennifer Zeng, Peter Navarro or
even Maria Bartiromo suggest to the two dude Trump and Pompeo sending FBI, CIA agents
or even national guard to American's rural areas, small isolate farming communities in
Pennsylvania, Oregon ripping off every Huawei and ZTE hardwares 2G, 3G, 4G and maybe 5G if
any, cell towers and replaced it with Ericsson and Nokia. Would it make America great again
?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Just think of when, in the debates with Bernie Sanders during the spring,
Biden and Klobuchar kept saying, 'What we're paying for Medicare-for-All will be $1 trillion
over 10 years.' Well, here the Fed can create $1.5 trillion in one week just to buy stocks.
Why is it okay for the Fed to create $1.5 trillion to buy stocks to prevent rich people from
losing on their stocks, when it's not okay to print only $1 trillion to pay for free Medicare
for the entire population? This is crazy!
who cares. One idiot or another does not seem to make a difference.
We are circling back to the same situation as in 2016 - a really bad option versus
a worse option. Biden is, himself, not really an option. Like Reagan, he is a face for what
lurks unseen behind him.
The real power of this virus is not its ability to infect or kill (and I don't know who to
believe about the "science" anymore) - it is its ability to serve as cover for so many other
agendas. You have States locked down, or not, along party lines. For some, people aren't
visibly dying in sufficient quantities to justify such an extreme (by Western standards)
lockdown. For others, we'll never be locked down enough to be fully safe and, of course, it's
"better to be safe than sorry." But in life none of us are ever truly safe. It pays not to be a
fool, of course, but it's hard to tell who the real fools are in this.
CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins has been accused of Covid-19 theatrics, as she was caught
hastily removing her face mask after a White House briefing. Collins has criticized Donald
Trump for not wearing masks in public.
Her ... behavior caught the eye of conservative commentators. "She thought cameras were
off, so mask goes off," joked Mike Cernovich.
Incidentally, Collins grilled Trump over
why he wasn't wearing personal protection equipment (PPE) during a briefing on a Covid-19
vaccine in the Rose Garden on the same day.
"We've all been tested. I've been tested," Trump replied, adding that he told
administration officials that masks were optional for the event.
I see the current situation more like the sinking of the Titanic (whether caused by the
virus or shady financial dealing, it doesn't matter). The rich passengers get the lifeboats
and the rest of the passengers get the ice water. A few survived in the water, so it's time
to look to the future. Crony capitalism in a nutshell.
Levada has done a survey of Russian youth and
that's pretty hard to find; in general they're not far off their parents: a bit more liberal
but also a bit more nationalist. Perhaps the most interesting result was that a solid majority
thought Russia was not European.
Robinson discusses. He wonders why so few show much support for "'classical' civil and
political liberties".
My guess is that 20 years of observation of Western practice of these
noble ideals has soured them.
According to television channel CT1, Czech intelligence received a tip about Konchakov from
a foreign agency. However, when he arrived in Prague on March 14 supposedly carrying the toxin in
his briefcase, they did not try to intercept the package. They were concerned that the tip may be
wrong, misinformation planted by Russian security services to make their counterparts look like
fools, the channel's '168 Hours' program said on Sunday
Yes, the old we-let-him-commit-little-crimes-so-he-would-lead-us-to-Mr.-Big technique. They
seem not to have noticed how justice is done in the USA, where you pick someone who would be
ideal as a suspect, and then threaten and coerce him into a confession. What's hard about that?
You can even pick Mr. Big, too!
Stoltenberg is like Trump, in the sense that both are idiots, but the world will just have to
wait them out because there is no medium for removing them.
al-Beeb s'Allah live news feed on their website Summary: Russia now has the third-highest
number of confirmed cases in the world, overtaking UK and Italy .
Three pages further on the live feed you can read:* Russia has confirmed 2,009 deaths
in total. You have to go to page four for the actual story @13:07 that links to the
summary to actual story details (there are no links in the summary at all!) to read taking
the total death toll to 2,009, which is far lower than the numbers reported in many other
countries. (my emphasis) *** So well below the UK's own tally of 32,000 heroic
deaths. That's good to know.
As others have pointed out, Russia has carried out the highest number of tests in u-Rope,
now greater than 4.5 million, which is only behind the US globally
Thank God there is the BBC to put things in to proper perspective in such a professional
way / sarc.
I feel like doing what one joker did several weeks ago at the very
beginning of these phoneydemic safety measures, just to cock a snook at the hysteric sheeple and
these "its for your own safety" orders:
"The New York Times has been accused for a second time of stealing major scoops from Russian
journalists. One of those stories won the Times a Pulitzer Prize this May.
The journalists who have accused the Times of taking their work without credit also
happen to be the same liberal media crusaders against Vladimir Putin [my emphasis] that
Western correspondents at the Times and other mainstream outlets have cast as persecuted
heroes
As Yasha Levine further down the page says, the NYT takes whatever it wants from whomever has
got it, without giving anything back or acknowledging any help or assistance, if it thinks it can
get away with it because it believes that, like the Empire it serves, it is Exceptional.
@Freda
Lipshitz Good grief! LBJ opened the floodgates for the third world to make the US third
world, food and all.
Nixon made commie China respectable and a trading partner. Reagan began the American fire
sale for his beloved GDP and international bankers.
Both Bushes, and their beloved neocons, made the US military the globalist police force
that invades the world in order invite the world here.
Clinton free traded us into Walmart Nation, and demolished free speech and association
with hate laws.
Finally the liberal black Jesus turned truth into fiction and fakery into truth, imported
more third world, neoconning for more senseless war and death, and all the while free trading
us into Amazon nation. Trump is merely Ivanka's daddy, Jared's pussy, and America's nothing
burger.
Pity the paid lefties have found us. Probably get their very existence from the recent
stimulus.
Lots of truth to this piece, but for the most part it's seductive bullshit. There are indeed
a great many ways Americans fool themselves into thinking they live in a "free " society
unlike those poor oppressed slobs in China. But the fact is, in the USA you have hundreds of
thousands of enraged assholes on Twitter and the like openly calling the president a lying
sack of shit. Now just how long do you think any Chinese citizen would last doing that before
their Ministry of State Security arranged to have a bullet put in his head? Three hours? That
alone is proof you're fooling yourself if you think these parallels are absolute, or that
China is any place you'd want to belch out whatever anti-government thoughts that come a
rumblin' into your head. Yes yes, it makes for amusing conversation and all, but hardly to be
taken that seriously. And what's with this site and all the communist party blowjobs the
contributors are dishing out these days?
I am old enough to remember America's pre-Idiocracy days, when I was growing-up, which was
during the 50's and 60's. The U.S. then reverse-assimilated, adopting a relaxed level of
intelligence, education, proficiency, culture, society, and conscientiousness. This
unraveling was contagious across institutions, daily life, and geography. This is what
enabled the pillars. So, no more first-world country. Our bad. Signing-off from California,
where the lockdown-enforcing police boat chases the solitary paddle-boarder.
Ask which countries maintain and practice their humor and you will be naming the countries
with the greatest stability of law and institutions with little need for a Human Rights
Commission. Sadly the reverse is also true. Monty Python, Faulty towers, Yes Minister and The
Office were conceived during a golden period in English humor which mostly began during
Harold Wilson's time or the 60s era up till the 90s. Suddenly politicians became very careful
to avoid policies or material that could lead to satire.
Today look to a humorless USA and imagine what Monty Python, Yes Minister or the Goons
would make of one of Trump's briefings or Joe Biden's sentences.
Joe and Donald, both would 'sentence' you but one cannot finish a sentence and the other
cannot make one complete without using 'fantastic', 'amazing', 'incredible' or 'greatest'
attached to the first person singular.
Such a fertile garden full of radishes and turnips yet sadly there is no comedy on any of
the major US networks. Is it true that a diet of carrots and drinking only white turnip maliu
float has the side effect of hormonal imbalance as well as an increased desire for light
bulbs and cameras, which as we all know is a persistent danger to all politicians in the
US.
What does that say about the 'greatest, fantastic, most incredible' country 'ever' as Mr.
Trump would have everyone believe? Perhaps that in itself is the humor as it is intrinsically
without subtlety or intelligence. Something a clown might say when referring to his
circus.
This piece from The Onion could well be talking about this website lately:
In response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, top U.S. health experts warned the nation
Thursday to hold onto their fucking seats, because this bitch hasn't even thought about
starting yet.
"We've been getting a lot of questions surrounding Covid-19, and, well, you all better
buckle the fuck up, because this shit is about to kick into high gear," said Stanford
professor of health research and policy Richard Mason, throwing all his papers in the air and
warning the nation that they better strap in tight, because this motherfucker will knock you
on your goddamn ass.
"If you think it's bad now, just fucking wait, because this son of a bitch is gonna go
into full-fledged annihilation mode. Seriously, wash your hands, cut off your hands -- it
doesn't fucking matter. You poor bastards are going to get absolutely fucking destroyed."
At press time, Mason knocked over his podium, curled up in a ball on the floor, and
started screaming, "Steel yourselves!"
Just over a third of Americans trust President Donald Trump's information about the Covid-19
pandemic, according to a new poll. But given decades of crises mishandled by the government,
the only surprise is that it isn't lower. A CNN poll showing that just 36 percent of Americans
trust Trump for reliable information about the coronavirus was held up triumphantly by the
president's critics on Tuesday as proof his credibility is circling the drain. But it's more
likely to be the fallout not just from Trump, but from the two preceding presidential
administrations' misrepresentation of crises, that has created epidemic levels of distrust
among the people.
A Google query shows "Searches related to Mike Pompeo Achievements" include "Mike Pompeo
weight," "Mike Pompeo net worth." One can easily imagine Pompeo, even pre-COVID, slipping out
the side door at Foggy Bottom shouting as one long syllable "I'll be working from home, check
with my deputy if anything comes up" while his wife is waiting in the car for him, Ferris
Bueller-style.
CNN's latest installment of its 'Facts and Fears' town hall on the coronavirus
pandemic will feature teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg as one of its experts. What
expertise Thunberg can offer on the virus is a mystery.
UK govt gives film & TV industry green light to restart WITH social distancing
rules
Workplaces that do reopen – including screen productions – should "ensure
employees can maintain a two-meter distance from others, and wash their hands regularly,"
according to the new Covid-19 guidelines published by the UK government on Monday.
The practicality of film and TV production companies trying to enforce social distancing
measures in and around sets has sparked an array of humorous responses on social media –
particularly in relation to shooting intimate scenes.
One commenter tweeted: "Gonna be fun to watch movies where all protagonists are 2m
apart...sex scenes will be interesting too." Another joked that 'romance' movies won't be
able to provide the genre's usual 'will they or won't they' tension, tweeting : "spoiler
alert... they won't."
Over the past three years Donald J. Trump has delivered on his promise to be the "best
friend in Washington that Israel has ever had."
...That Trump was willing to highlight and promote a major pander to the Israel Lobby on the
very day he was inaugurated is more than just telling, it is bizarre.
Human DNA has 50% in common with bananas and fruit flies. All the 'science' talk is just more
pissing in the wind, it doesn't even matter where the virus came from ffs are you going to
try and blame herpes on a country?!
By 1500 syphilis had reached the Scandinavian countries, Britain, Hungary, Greece, Poland
and Russia. Explorers took the disease to Calcutta in 1498, and by 1520 it had reached
Africa, the near East, China, Japan and Oceania.
Since there was no official name for the disease people usually named it after an enemy
or a country they thought responsible for it.
The French called it the "Neapolitan disease", or the "Spanish disease", and also the
"great pox", the English and Italians called it the "French disease", or the "French pox",
Germans called it the "French evil", the Russians called it the "Polish disease", the
Polish and the Persians called it the "Turkish disease".
The Turkish called it the "Christian disease", the Tahitians called it the "British
disease", in India it was called the "Portuguese disease", in Japan it was called the
"Chinese pox."
You may also want to use a little curiosity to figure out why a society based on
the rule of law as opposed to authoritarian topdown tyranny allows for higher levels of
personal achievements whereas the dullard in the collectivist system can merely commiserate
with his fellow slaves under the thumb of the stultifying nanny-state
I'm curious as to what the fellow slaves are thinking when they see Americans standing in
long lines for food and toilet paper?
And you have to ask yourself one question. They all stuck with the same exact propaganda,
the same exact his information, that the Trump administration, that the Trump campaign
conspired with Russia, even though they had no evidence whatsoever, and they manufactured that
evidence against the president."
"And this is why all of them need to be investigated" explained Carter.
As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases explodes across Africa, the creeping
involvement of the WHO has made some leaders suspicious of the NGO. Tanzanian President John
Magufuli was growing suspicious of the organization, so he reportedly decided to investigate
whether the organization was as trustworthy and reliable as it claimed to be.
He played what the local press described as "a trick" on the organization: He sent the WHO
samples of a goat, a papaya and a quail for testing.
All three samples reportedly tested positive. When the president heard the news, he
reportedly confronted the WHO, then kicked the organization out of the country. Though, to be
sure, the WHO has yet to comment on the situation.
uncle t @ 31
Thank you for the shoutout and additional input on topic. Some commenters are adhere the
"we're exceptional" -
How many are aware?
Flint, Michigan and Hanford, Washington. Hanford nuclear waste 1987-2020 an area of 580
square miles [1,500 square kms]. In 2020,
the Cleanup plan still not a priority."During the Cold War, Hanford produced about
two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation's nuclear arsenal, resulting in the nation's
largest collection of highly toxic radioactive waste."
Russia, China, Iran, Russia, China. Sadly there will not be a cease-fire anytime soon. In
the midst of a global health crisis -
"I'm displaying it [lede cartoon] not because I approve of its racist depiction of Americans"
Wow, I didn't know Americans were a race. You learn something new every day. I know they
are Truly Exceptional (TM)(Pat Pend) - exceptional at delivering freedom and democracy to
brown-colored folks who just happen to have built their countries on top of oilfields given
by God to the US.
"The level of corruption inherent in the current setup (first adopted in Soviet NEP -- New
Economic Policy) is tremendous, as the party has absolute political power and controls the
major economic and financial areas while the entrepreneurs try to bribe state officials to
get the leverage and/or enrich themselves at the state expense or bypass the bureaucratic
limitations/inefficiencies imposed by the state, or offload some costs. So mafia style
relationship between party officials and entrepreneurs is not an aberration, it is a norm.
And periodic "purges" of corrupt Party officials do not solve the problem. Ecological
problems in China are just one side effect of this."
As many noted, corruption in USA is in some sense smaller, because a lot of corrupted
activities are legalized. ... A quarter of American GDP goes for defense and health care.
Both areas are a veritable swamp of greed, rapacious overpricing, peddling unneeded products
etc. And it is not like the remaining 75% is an oasis of honesty. An average terminal cancer
patient has a better percentage of healthy cells.
Meanwhile, Pelosi
has been talking about what she'll add to the next bill, and it's relatively unconstrained
by wish lists. One of the elements is changing the eligibility standards for PPP small business
loans to include 501(c)(4) and (c)(6) nonprofit organizations. You might know (c)(6)
organizations by another name: lobbyists. Unbelievably, K Street has asked for a bailout
and is on the road to getting it. I mean lobbyists are good at lobbying, I guess. ...
Tara Reade says Joe Biden once grabbed her privates and demanded sex. Will that change the
election in November?
The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings were a turning point, when the presumption of
innocence was thrown out in favor of a new standard, "credible accusation." Evidence was
replaced by #BelieveAllWomen. Praised by Dems and the media as fierce justice then, it's
Biden's turn now.
Imagine the same type of proceedings directed at him. Amy Klobuchar repeats her accusation
that Kavanaugh, er, Biden, is a drunk, with about as little evidence now as then. Senator Dick
Durbin demands Biden demand an FBI investigation into himself. Durbin says of Biden, as he did
of Kavanaugh, that if he has nothing to hide then he has nothing to fear, a line often
attributed to Joseph Goebbels. Kamala Harris goes in as bad cop, righteously shouting down
whatever is said to her by Biden. The truth? You can't handle the truth.
After that show, imagine a second one where Elizabeth Warren, long-shot Biden VP pick
Florida Representative Val Demings, Kirsten Gillibrand, Stacey Abrams, and Michigan Governor
Gretchen Whitmer all show up to stand by Biden, not believe Reade, and/or remain silent when
asked. Watching people force themselves to support Biden under these conditions is what I
imagine the Beach Boys looked like backstage trying to mix Viagra and meth so they could get
through "Surfin' USA" one more time.
To flesh things out, voters could call in to ask those Democratic leaders how the very
serious business of #MeToo got turned into just another political tool by the "party of women."
Alyssa Milano, whose take on the Kavanaugh hearings was that she believed all women without the
need for due process, could be brought out to explain how now "the notion that this should be
disqualifying to Biden in a race against Trump is patently ridiculous. Anybody who claims
otherwise is using sexual assault as a political football."
@Znzn The irony is that smokers and even smokers who quit are less likely to get Covid 19
according to statistics published recently. There's no justice in this world but I'm not
complaining, I quit 4 years ago.
"... "Actually, wearing masks on the street is stupid. First, in the open air, it is absolutely useless, only makes it difficult for people with disabilities to breathe. But, of course, in public places, shops, probably, wearing a mask should be left. Secondly, if you do not provide the entire population with masks, it will end in the fact that a person will buy a single mask and wear it forever, which will cause much more harm to health," Zverev says. ..."
The virologist also spoke about the possible introduction of a mandatory "mask regime"
throughout Russia, which is written about by the media.
"Actually, wearing masks on the street is stupid. First, in the open air, it is
absolutely useless, only makes it difficult for people with disabilities to breathe. But, of
course, in public places, shops, probably, wearing a mask should be left. Secondly, if you do
not provide the entire population with masks, it will end in the fact that a person will buy
a single mask and wear it forever, which will cause much more harm to health," Zverev
says.
He explains that after two hours of continuous wearing of the mask, it becomes wet, which
turns it from a means of protection to a means of infection with viruses and bacteria. Zverev
reminds that in addition to the coronavirus in the world, there are still a huge number of
infections that can also cause severe harm to a person, so it is not necessary to resort to
such measures yet.
Earlier, a mandatory "mask regime" was introduced in the Moscow region in order to prevent a
new coronavirus. For going out on the street without this means of protection, citizens of the
region face a fine of 4 thousand rubles.
@onebornfree An old expression: "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," updated for the here
and now, boys: 'Video is the lowest form of information' [huge bandwidth, wastes much time to
watch in 'real' time, can't copy'n paste even the tiniest detail.]
@Adrian E. That's not how China flu spread from Wuhan to the entire planet. According to
all the LOL experts on UNZ the virus was created in a lab at Fort Derrick MD. Then all the
Americans who went to the Wuhan military games spread the virus around the bat soup and
butcher stands of Wuhan and went home cackling in glee at what they did.
Being American morons working for the eeeeevvvvviiiiiilll Trump administration they didn't
realize the virus would spread all over the world killing half the world's population in a
month.
6 months into the 2019-20 flu season and America still hasn't reached the deaths of the
2017/19 flu seasons. That may be true, but according to the Wise MEN OF UNZ, the bizarro
quintuple exponent math will soon arrive and we'll all die.
Coronavirus is one of the most common viruses around. They even vaccinate dogs and
domestic herds against it.
Why would a medically competent country be investigated by a medically incompetent
one?
To play out classical imperial scenario. A team of foxes investigates a break-in into
chicken coup. The verdict is predictable: Xi/Putin/Maduro/whoever did it, whereas the fox
with feathers on its muzzle is absolutely innocent. That's the rule of law, imperial
style.
Everybody I know who was sick and/or had similar symptoms did so way before it was even
heard of in Wuhan.
That's an un-American fact. You have to remember that spreading the truth that undermines
the imperial propaganda line is punishable by indefinite incarceration w/o due process.
A commenter on a different thread noted this piece from The Onion, which does an excellent
job of explaining America's justifiable anger at China:
WASHINGTON -- Lambasting the rival superpower for what he called "reckless" and
"irresponsible" behavior, President Donald Trump publicly blamed China Monday for acting too
late in coordinating the U.S. Covid-19 response. "China knew our nation was facing a deadly
threat as early as January, and yet they did nothing to develop a plan we could use to slow
the spread of the virus," said Trump, noting thousands of American lives could have been
saved if Chinese president Xi Jinping had only taken the threat seriously from the start and
implemented a strategy to reduce the negative impact on the U.S. economy. "The Chinese
government just kept waiting and waiting, sitting on their hands as the outbreak spread
through the U.S. rather than leading our nation in the way it so desperately needed.
States shouldn't be left out to dry, putting together piecemeal pandemic responses. What
else is a strong Communist Party for? And now they're trying to cover it up, claiming the
U.S. isn't their responsibility."
At press time, Trump added the administration had obtained new intelligence suggesting the
Chinese government had engineered coronavirus in a lab in Washington.
"... These facts did not matter, not in the slightest. By that time, Westerners were totally immersed in the official War on Terror narrative, which had superseded objective reality. Herd mentality had taken over. It's difficult to describe how this works; it's a state of functional dissociation. It wasn't that people didn't know the facts, or that they didn't understand the facts. They knew the Iraqis weren't "terrorists." At the same time, they knew they were definitely "terrorists," despite the fact that they knew that they weren't. They knew there were no WMDs, that there had never been any WMDs, and still they were certain there were WMDs, which would be found, although they clearly did not exist. ..."
There comes a point in the introduction of every new official narrative when people no
longer remember how it started. Or, rather, they remember how it started, but not the
propaganda that started it. Or, rather, they remember all that (or are able to, if you press
them on it), but it doesn't make any difference anymore, because the official narrative has
supplanted reality.
You'll remember this point from the War on Terror, and specifically the occupation of Iraq.
By the latter half of 2004, most Westerners had completely forgotten the propaganda that
launched the invasion, and thus regarded the Iraqi resistance as "terrorists," despite the fact
that the United States had invaded and was occupying their country for no legitimate reason
whatsoever. By that time, it was abundantly clear that there were no "weapons of mass
destruction," and that the U.S.A. had invaded a nation that had not attacked it, and posed no
threat to it, and so was perpetrating a textbook war of aggression.
These facts did not matter, not in the slightest. By that time, Westerners were totally
immersed in the official War on Terror narrative, which had superseded objective reality. Herd
mentality had taken over. It's difficult to describe how this works; it's a state of functional
dissociation. It wasn't that people didn't know the facts, or that they didn't understand the
facts. They knew the Iraqis weren't "terrorists." At the same time, they knew they were
definitely "terrorists," despite the fact that they knew that they weren't. They knew there
were no WMDs, that there had never been any WMDs, and still they were certain there were WMDs,
which would be found, although they clearly did not exist.
The same thing happened in Nazi Germany. The majority of the German people were never
fanatical anti-Semites like the hardcore N.S.D.A.P. members. If they had been, there would have
been no need for Goebbels and his monstrous propaganda machine. No, the Germans during the Nazi
period, like the Americans during the War on Terror, knew that their victims posed no threat to
them, and at the same time they believed exactly the opposite, and thus did not protest as
their neighbors were hauled out of their homes and sent off to death camps, camps which, in
their dissociative state, simultaneously did and did not exist.
What I'm describing probably sounds like psychosis, but, technically speaking, it isn't not
quite. It is not an absolute break from reality. People functioning in this state know that
what they believe is not real. Nonetheless, they are forced to believe it (and do, actually,
literally, believe it, as impossible as I know that sounds), because the consequences of not
believing it are even more frightening than the cognitive dissonance of believing a narrative
they know is a fiction. Disbelieving the official narrative means excommunication from
"normality," the loss of friends, income, status, and in many cases far worse punishments.
Herd animals, in a state of panic, instinctively run towards the center of the herd.
Separation from the herd makes them easy prey for pursuing predators. It is the same primal
instinct operating here.
It is the goal of every official narrative to generate this type of herd mentality, not in
order to deceive or dupe the public, but, rather, to confuse and terrorize them to the point
where they revert to their primal instincts, and are being driven purely by existential fear,
and facts and truth no longer matter. Once an official narrative reaches this point, it is
unassailable by facts and reason. It no longer needs facts to justify it. It justifies itself
with its own existence. Reason cannot penetrate it. Arguing with its adherents is pointless.
They know it is irrational. They simply do not care.
We are reaching this point with the coronavirus narrative. It is possible that we have
already reached it. Despite the fact that what we are dealing with is a virus that, yes, is
clearly deadly to the old and those with medical conditions, but that is just as clearly
not a deadly threat to the
majority of the human species , people are cowering inside their homes as if the Zombie
Apocalpyse had finally begun. Many appear to believe that this virus is some sort of
Alien-Terrorist Death Flu (or weaponized Virus of Mass Destruction) that will kill you the
second you breathe it in.
This is not surprising at all, because, according to the official narrative, its destructive
powers are nearly unlimited. Not only will it obliterate your lungs, and
liquidate all your other major organs , and kill you with blood clots, and intestinal
damage, now it causes " sudden
strokes in young adults ," and possibly spontaneous prostate cancer, and God knows what
other medical horrors!
According to all the "scientists" and "medical experts" (i.e., those that conform to the
official narrative, not all the other scientists
and medical
experts ), it is unlike any other virus that has ever existed in the history of
viruses.
It certainly doesn't follow the typical pattern of spreading extensively for a limited
period, and then rapidly dying down on its own, regardless of what measures are taken to thwart
it, as
this Israeli study would seem to indicate.
Also, " we have no
immunity against it ," which is why we all have to remain "locked down" like unruly inmates
in a penitentiary until a vaccine can be concocted and forced onto every living person on
earth.
Apparently, this mandatory wonder vaccine will magically render us immune to this virus
against which we have no immunity (and are totally unable to develop immunity), which immunity
will be certified on our mandatory "immunity papers," which we will need to travel, get a job,
send our kids to school , and, you know, to show the police when they stop us on the street
because we look like maybe we might be "infected."
Germany (where I live) is way out in front of this. According to the Süddeutsche
Zeitung , the federal government plans to introduce a coronavirus "immunity card" as part
of its "Infection Protection Law," which will grant the authorities the power to round up
anyone "suspected to be contagious" and force them into uh "quarantine," and "forbid them from
entering certain public places." The Malaysian authorities have dispensed with such niceties,
and are
arresting migrant workers and refugees in so-called "Covid-19 red zones" and marching them
off to God knows where.
Oh, yeah, and I almost forgot the
germ and chemical warfare researchers at DARPA (i.e., the U.S. military's Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency) have developed some new type of fancy blood test that will identify
"asymptomatic carriers" (i.e., people who display no symptoms whatsoever).
And these are just the latest additions to a list of rather dystopian examples of the "
brave new
normal " official narrative that GloboCap is rolling out, right before our very eyes (which
the OffGuardian editors have
streamlined here and
here ,
and which continues on Twitter ). It's all right
there in black and white. They aren't hiding the totalitarianism they don't have to. Because
people are begging for it. They are demanding to be "locked down" inside their homes, forced to
wear masks, and stand two meters apart, for reasons that most of them no longer remember.
Plastic barriers are going up everywhere. Arrows on the floor show you which way to walk.
Boxes show you where to stand. Paranoid Blockwarts are putting up signs threatening anyone not
wearing a mask . Hysterical little fascist creeps are
reporting their neighbors to the police for letting their children play with other children
. Millions of people are voluntarily downloading "
contact tracing applications " so that governments and global corporations can monitor
their every movement. In Spain, they bleached an entire beach , killing
everything, down to the insects, in order to protect the public from "infection." The Internet
has become an Orwellian chorus of shrieking, sanctimonious voices bullying everyone into
conformity with charts, graphs, and desperate guilt-trips, few of which have much connection to
reality.
Corporations and governments are censoring dissent . We're
approaching a level of manufactured mass hysteria and herd mentality that not even Goebbels
could have imagined.
Professor Neil Ferguson - whose dire coronavirus predictions prompted worldwide lockdown
measures still in place - broke his own advice on the need for strict social distancing to hook
up with his married lover , according to the
Telegraph .
On at least two occasions, Antonia Staats, 38, travelled across London from her home in
the south of the capital to spend time with the Government scientist, nicknamed Professor
Lockdown.
The 51-year-old had only just finished a two-week spell self-isolating after testing
positive for coronavirus.
Prof Ferguson told the Telegraph: " I accept I made an error of judgment and took the
wrong course of action. I have therefore stepped back from my involvement in Sage [the
government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies] . -
Telegraph
... ... ...
Ferguson, who resigned from his Government advisory position on Tuesday , predicted that
up to 500,000 Britons and 2.2 million in the US would die without measures. Somehow, Sweden -
which enacted virtually no measures to mitigate the virus. has a lower
per-capita mortality rate than the UK,
Italy, Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands - all of which enacted lockdown
measures.
And while his computer models were flat-wrong, Ferguson - who leads the team at
Imperial College London, has frequently appeared on media to support the lockdown and "very
intensive social distancing" measures.
Of note, Ferguson and Staats hooked up on March 30 - the same day he gave a public warning
that the one-week-old lockdown measures would need to remain in place until June.
The dems are incapable of finding a credible stand in for Biden.
Some flunky might come to the fore but thet will most likely be the result of a 'committee'
decision as the dems have cancelled democracy and decency.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 5 2020 18:31 utc |
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Seeing everyone get worked up over Biden is funny. Do you think you'll get a better
candidate? Bernie dropped out for a reason. He was never a real candidate. There will not be
any real candidate for change.
Killary's pretended "health problems" in 2016 seem like a fore-shadowing of Biden's. May
be she really is the ultimately "the one" in 2020.
It doesn't matter who the nominee is, and that's true for both parties. As I believe we all
know, Wall Street, the military-industrial complex and, to some extent, the bureaucracy, are
what drives the agenda. The goons heading up the parade are simply an odd form of bread and
circus.
Cthulhu couldn't destroy the US any more than its politicians and other leaders in its
other institutions (in education, in the entertainment and media industries, in the financial
sector, in the defence industry) have already done so perhaps his time has come.
I've always been fascinated by bicycle gear shifters based on deceptively simple 'chain
derailleurs'. The action is so smooth. I say the coronavirus crisis will not go to waste. The
'First World' will be smoothly 'down-shifted' to a 'Second World' (but not the communist
version). We will find ourselves eating small bowls of rice, with maybe a small fish. Doggy
bagging will not be cool anymore -- we will not be bringing the cultural left-overs from our
now-finished First World Feast back home 'for the doggy'. The hypercrafted implements of the
technosphere will be a stripped-down a bit, and some level of primitivism will cease to be be
held in contempt. Some of us will freak out, however.
RADDATZ: Do you believe it was manmade or genetically modified?
POMPEO: Look, the best experts so far seem to think it was manmade. I have no reason to
disbelieve that at this point.
RADDATZ: Your -- your Office of the DNI says the consensus, the scientific consensus
was not manmade or genetically modified.
POMPEO: That's right. I -- I -- I agree with that. Yes. I've -- I've seen their analysis.
I've seen the summary that you saw that was released publicly. I have no reason to doubt
that that is accurate at this point.
To summarize: Pompeo does not doubt that the virus has been genetically modified, but he
also does not doubt that is has not been genetically modified.
Could there be a more obvious demonstration that the man is FULL OF SHIT??
Those incompetent neo-confederates leading america into oblivion will jumble strategic
defeats with winning. So much for accountability, hard work and personal responsability...
Seems they can't compete fairly without superior military variable of adjustment and threat
of violence against adversaries. Orange springs eternal and their great white hope has now
adopted a paralizing rhetoric of victimization - republican lawmakers follow suit and are
going so far as invoking a western bid for monetary reparations from Chinese depredations. #
the art of winnig for maggots, derp.
In his rush to accuse Beijing of unleashing the scourge of Covid-19 on an unsuspecting
world, the US Secretary of State said the coronavirus was man-made, before making a U-turn
without even blinking. "The best experts so far seem to think it was man-made. I don't have
reason to disbelieve them at this point," Mike Pompeo told ABC's 'This Week' when
asked about a statement from the US intelligence community that unequivocally said the
opposite.
Host Martha Raddatz twice asked Pompeo to clarify whether his view differed from that of
American intelligence, and he voiced his total support for the spies – though he stopped
short of actually saying "I don't believe the virus was man-made."
"... Is anyone else a bit concerned that AR15 wielding gunmen marched into Michigan's State House demanding they Reopen℠ the schools, as part of their "get back to work" protest? ..."
Yes, I am well aware that audible birdsong, dancing dolphins, and cleaner air and water have
come at tremendous economic cost. Which has not only been endured so far, but which will
continue to cause future suffering.
One other benefit has been the lack of school shootings in the US.
Is anyone else a bit concerned that AR15 wielding gunmen marched into Michigan's State
House demanding they Reopen℠ the schools, as part of their "get back to work"
protest?
The rednecks are inheriting the world, while the yuppies are too scared to come out of their
condo, unless uncle Bill blesses them with his magical vaccine. What a wonderful world to live
in.
It will be very difficult admitting that humanity itself is the main problem for the
planet. Efforts will be made to find positive narrative for the coming cognitive dissonance.
Humans as the cancer in the organism is simply the best metaphor for this.
If you are a cancer cell, cancer is great. Growth, expansion, more resource use, sky's the
limit
It may not be difficult at all for 90+ percent of us. But it won't make any difference. We
have had Stockholm Syndrome, but if that does pass – well the underlying thing about
Stockholm Syndrome is with or without it you are still a prisoner.
I'm imagining dark smoky rooms where the cancer cell executive officers (CCEOs) meet and
go over the figures for YOY growth, look at lagging sectors, examine district fundamentals,
and then set the expansion goals for the next quarter. Probably going to need to implement
some means-testing and infrastructure spending to keep growth on track, maybe some targeted
resource allocation and redistribution to their biggest supporters.
Meanwhile there are some rebellious cancer cells that are starting to get the sense that
it's possible infinite growth models can't work if the world they inhabit is finite. You can
even hear the arguments if you strain: "We can't keep growing forever, we're going to kill
the host."
The CCEOs have large organizations to manage and can't be bothered with the naysayers.
"This is the way we've always done it, and this is the way we're going to keep doing it."
And as Larry Summers told Elizabeth Warren, who clearly took the lesson to heart, if you
want to be in the room where the decisions are made, you must never publicly critique or
dissent.
Well, walking your dog around the home for 5 minutes with no other people around, will not
spread anything and will keep a better mental health. Italians have gone from total ignorance
to total isolation - another extreme. Unfortunately, many people are undisciplined and
careless, so there's no other choice. By the way, stop running: you may already have the
virus, making any physical effort will only waste your body energy to fight the virus
Its not the people in the open countryside or walking in the streets or relaxing in the
park spreading the virus its when people travel together in buses, trains or any crowded
environment.
The Camorra are scared of the Black Axe , Maybe if the mayors stopped turning a blind eye
to the growing threat of criminal gangs on there streets instead of bullying there citizens
Italy would be a safer place to live .
They've censored all the funny bits. Like how the mayor with the glasses says the f word a
lot and the one talking about hairdressing says the casket is closed, noones going to see
your new haircut when yo dead' 😂
i love their dark humour. viva italia! what a tremendous loss of the country's elderly
population, I love italian elderly, they have so much wisdom and charisma. what a loss.
This is such a great thread: Top 10 Coronavirus clusters in the US? Prisons, meat packing
plants, a Navy battleship. Next 10? Prisons, meat packing plants, nursing homes. Next 10? And
the 10 after that? Prisons, meat packing plants and nursing homes .
This is useless (most politicians are sexual predators; that comes with the territory) but
pitch perfect interpretation of Biden's Tara Reade story from Onion
"We'll be honest -- this isn't going to be cheap. It's not just going away like we thought
it would. We know it seems like we can coast off the media suppressing the story, but there's a
lot of important work to be done behind the scenes to ensure these accusations never see the
light of day.
These sexual assault allegations have already broken through to The Washington Post, and if
we don't meet our fundraising goal by midnight tonight, it could be front page news
tomorrow."
Intelligence Community Statement on Origins of COVID-19
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence today issued
the following Intelligence Community (IC) statement:
"The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to
U.S. policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China. The
Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19
virus was not manmade or genetically modified.
"As we do in all crises, the Community's experts respond by surging resources and
producing critical intelligence on issues vital to U.S. national security. The IC will
continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the
outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident
at a laboratory in Wuhan."
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Nothing but overt hostility is acceptable – the USA never forgives its enemies. Oh;
unless they're Nazis. Oops, or Japanese. Hey; I'm starting to notice a pattern – the
USA is quite willing to forgive enemies it has conquered and bent to its own use.
Patterson had me until he said "The American people have never tolerated incompetence in
their public officials; you are going to crash and burn, my fatheaded friend". The poor fool.
Not only do Americans tolerate incompetence in their public officials, they expect it.
I wouldn't go so far as to say they welcome it, but their disappointment at learning yet
another public official is incompetent never seems to inspire a revolution such as America
constantly urges on other countries when their public officials are incompetent, or even when
America portrays their public officials as incompetents.
You have to watch the whole episode "Trash of the Titans" to appreciate the sarcasm behind
Patterson's statement; as it turns out, Springfield (as a microcosm of the US public) does
tolerate what Homer does next as the new Sanitation Commissioner.
In a bizarre real-life near-repeat of this episode, though Matt Groening and his fellow
creators would never have dreamed of it at the time, is that in the year 2000, Toronto City Council almost
went ahead with a proposal that was the same as what Homer Simpson does in the cartoon.
Satanists Playing
Us Like a Fiddle by Mike Stone. " Are we all being played? Played on a scale beyond our
wildest dreams? Let me take you on a journey, beginning with the 2012 Olympics. The opening
ceremony was designed and coordinated by Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting and
Slumdog Millionaire .
One of the segments, ostensibly a tribute to the National Health Service (NHS), featured a
stage filled with sick kids and hospital beds (hmm) and opened with the theme music from the
movie The Exorcist . (What does satanic possession have to do with sick kids and
hospital beds?) We see a Greta Thunberg lookalike hiding under the covers of her bed and
reading Peter Pan with a flashlight...
We see demons and ghouls and one girl's bed hovering off the floor, just like the levitation
scene in The Exorcist . Then we see - I kid you not - dancing nurses! Yes, dozens of
dancing nurses."
I suppose that once in a while vital documentation (Apollo Moon missions, anyone?) goes
astray, slipping down the back of the couch or misfiled on the wrong shelf in the library
annexe. And occasionally the dog really did eat the homework.
Cretins like Steele openly flout the law, and are let away with it. There must be a law that
directs government personnel – and he was government – to take such steps as are
reasonable to preserve records they know or should know would constitute evidence, whether
condemnatory or exculpatory. Steele had to be well aware there was intense interest in this
material, and it is not difficult to imagine what the western reaction would be if some
pivotal Russian figure deleted all his records and then did the smiling palms-up thing in
court, so sorry, all gone.
It is likewise easy to imagine the information in the records was damning, because nobody
willfully wipes evidence they know will put them in the clear. And he will be allowed to get
away with it without any punishment because the people who would have to punish him are
likely the same people who told him to get rid of it.
Just like Hillary, and her self-appointed deletion of tens of thousands of emails she
deemed 'personal', although they were government property. No ordinary mook would be allowed
to get away with that. And they wonder – or pretend to – why the people are sick
to death of western corruption.
Blobsters are simply prostitute to the military industrial complex. No honesty, no courage required (Courage is replaced with
arrogance in most cases.) Pompeo is a vivid example of this creatures of Washington swamp.
Notable quotes:
"... historically courtiers themselves led their troops on the battlefield and considered it a question of honor for one or both of their oldest sons pursuing a military career, while Renaissance courtesans were among the most intellectual and educated women of their epoch. Neither is true for blobsters and blobstresses. ..."
"... In French and (I think) most other romance languages, the words for courtier and courtesan are the same. Something to think about. ..."
On the other hand, though, historically courtiers themselves led their troops on the
battlefield and considered it a question of honor for one or both of their oldest sons
pursuing a military career, while Renaissance courtesans were among the most intellectual
and educated women of their epoch. Neither is true for blobsters and blobstresses.
When the US reported the first case of #COVID19, President Trump said it's totally under
control. The number is surging, while he and his administration keep deflecting the blame on
China. Now, the infections in US surpasses 1 million. What will Trump say?
"What to do about it? There may be no cure for those invested in this way of thinking
since it involves deliberate but disavowed states of mind that are impenetrable. If cure is
elusive, next best is a set of remedies. Effective communications to counter the appeal of
pseudostupidity matter. Questioning an 'official view' and demonstrating its consequences are
crucial . 'Help me understand how you could have remained ignorant about asymptomatic
community spread when the rest of the world knew it and you had CDC experts literally within
a stone's throw of your office? Same for your decision now to reopen businesses without
following even minimal guidelines or consulting with the mayor of your largest city?
Undoubtedly, you are concerned about your citizens and your health care workers. What gives?'
Though such messaging is unlikely to get through to Kemp, it is important for it to reach
the public widely . [My Emphasis]
Unpredictable, extremely contagious, difficult to treat, difficult to prevent via vaccine,
dangerous enough to shut down economic activity but not to cause excess deaths, instability,
and perhaps all-out war. Considering how insane, nihilistic, and stupid the US's leaders are,
it wouldn't surprise me if they deployed this virus in China without assuming, or caring
about, blowback in the US. As with most big deep state actions, this theoretical bioweapon
provides multiple goods to the deep state:
Massive pharma profits
An excuse to reorder the economy to the benefit of the oligarchy
Make workers even more insecure and desperate
Install more surveillance
Work to get rid of physical money
Further devastate enemies under economic sanction
Safely deflate banking/corporate debt bubbles
Shift trillions to the donor 0.1% and corporations
China is going to have to pay some form of massive compensation to Western nations or we are
going to have to go to war to take the money they owe us.
And yes, I'd rather risk a nuclear holocaust than surrender the future of our planet to the
ChiComs.
xxx Target Practice, 4/27/2020, 2:12:11 PM
When do we start bombing Chinese caves?
xxx 4/27/2020, 2:27:32 PM
Trump was very successful at laying blame on China – just as the lethal 1918 flu
epidemic that began in US Army camps and killed millions of people was successfully marketed to
the public as the 'Spanish flu.'
PS: having lived in third world countries I can give you a warning if you’re thinking of moving to Costa Rica or similar
places. The people there don’t like loaded-freeloaders. Most of your retirement will be spent on security.
And just wait ’til you get your first emergency. Seriously, you’re going to be waiting a good while.
America still has the best GOVERNMENTAL services in the WORLD. Ouch I said the “G” word.
Little known secret: Libertarians don’t turn down fast rides to the hospital.
The dramatic range of effects generated is what I see as most troubling--they're all over the
anatomy and demographically, likely due to its numerous mutations. Personally, I'm rather
pleased I'm able to remain mostly isolated and watch daily events pass along while observing
behaviors of assorted actors. I'm finding Chinese media to be the most accurate about the
virus itself with Russian media best at political-economic analysis. Trump and Pompeo have
done an excellent job of isolating the Outlaw US Empire further by their alienation of allies
and attempts to deflect their dereliction of duty. Now emerging from the swamp is a creature
capable of taking votes from both Biden & Trump--Justin Amash.
Egyptian lawyer demands China pay $10 trillion in coronavirus damages
CAIRO: Social media users in Egypt have shared an injunction issued by an Egyptian lawyer to
Chinese President Xi Jinping calling on China to pay $10 trillion due to the damages caused by
the coronavirus in Egypt.
ZH reader "Doge" demands China pay $75 trillion in damages. Doge will share the compensation
with other ZH posters. Those that blame Jews for raining today will not get compensation. Those
that blame 5G on the earth being round will not get compensation.
xxx 3 hours ago (Edited)
Leave it to ZH. Post a conspiracy theory as to the origin of the virus, but apparently its
not 'deep state' enough for the Oracles of Zero Hedge who all know better and post
counter-conspiracies, one more improbable than the last. Occams Razor it seems has been sealed
in a safe stored in an underground vault inside of a volcano, never to see the light of
day.
Meanwhile the salaried government propaganda staff of the nefarious parties to this all
battle each other here in a desparate war to win the public hearts and minds of the public in
order to claim some sort of PR victory for their bosses. PS are there any 'regular' commenters
left here form 10 years ago? They all seem to have been elbowed out of the way by the nuts
occupying the fringe and uniformed apparchniks.
Time for another bag of quarantine popcorn.
xxx Son of Loki, 3 hours ago (Edited)
Nigeria just filed a lawsuit against China claiming over $200 Billion in damages.
Nigerian lawyers sue China for $200 billion over coronavirus damage
Recent reports said that the lawyers demand $200 billion in damages for the "loss of lives,
economic strangulation, trauma, hardship, social disorientation, mental torture and disruption
of the normal, daily existence of people in Nigeria," according to a statement by the lead
counsel, professor Epiphany Azinge (SAN), whose firm, Azinge and Azinge, is championing the
action.
The worldometer-coronavirus data for Netherlands and UK is hilarious: number of recovered is
not reported (N/A) but can be computed from cases, deaths and active-cases as
recovered = cases - active_cases - dead
When you do this you find out that almost no one is recovering in the UK or Netherlands, the
estimated CFR will be on the order of 0.95. Apparently they can't collect statistics. I'll give
you exact numbers later in the day, when more countries have reported the latest
developments.
If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a
few days. Permanently. I would first apologize to all the widows and orphans, the tortured
and impoverished, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism. Then
I would announce, in all sincerity, to every corner of the world, that America's global
interventions have come to an end, and inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of
the USA but now -- oddly enough -- a foreign country. I would then reduce the military
budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims. There would
be more than enough money. One year's military budget of 330 billion dollars is equal to
more than $18,000 an hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was born. That's what I'd do on
my first three days in the White House. On the fourth day, I'd be assassinated .
The public one is our state leader, Daniel Andrews, who under cover of Coronavirus, has
banned hunting, fishing, golf and the use of recreational boats.
Funny that, left wing inner city types who vote for him don't do any of those things.
Instead they clog up the roads with their bicycles (permitted).
This is a rehash of previously available information, with some fearmongering
andchina-bashing added as a spice.
But it provides a good overview of fact and suspicions around Wuhan biolab.
The range of opinions in comments reproduced below is very interesting overview of the
reaction of different strata of the US society on the coronavirus.
Western intelligence agencies are "looking closely at the work of a
senior scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Peng Zhou, " as part of a joint
international investigation into the origins of COVID-19, according to the
Daily Telegraph .
In a
stunning expose , the Australian newspaper reports that " the Five Eyes intelligence
agencies of Australia, Canada, NZ, UK and US, are understood to be looking closely at the work
of a senior scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Peng Zhou , as they examine whether
COVID-19 originated from a wet market or whether the naturally-occurring virus may have
been released from the level four laboratory in Wuhan that was studying deadly coronavirus
pathogens from bats."
Of course, the name of Peng has been long familiar to our readers, and would have been
familiar to far more people had Twitter not decided to arbitrarily suspend the Zero Hedge
account over a report exposing Mr. Zhou
.
As we reported in
January - posting publicly available professional contact information and suggesting people
ask him about the outbreak near his lab - Peng, head of the Bat Virus Infection and
Immunization Group , sought to hire two post-doc fellows last November, who would be tasked
with using bats "to research the molecular mechanism that allows Ebola and SARS-associated
coronaviruses to lie dormant for a long time without causing diseases."
One press release from his lab was titled: " How bats carry viruses without getting sick. "
Via the
Telegraph :
It can be revealed that Zhou -- the head of the Bat Virus Infection and Immunity Project
at the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- spent three years at the bio-containment facility,
Australian Animal Health Laboratory between 2011 and 2014 , where he was sent by China to
complete his doctorate.
During this time, Zhou arranged for wild-caught bats to be transported alive by air from
Queensland to the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Victoria where they were euthanised
for dissection and studied for deadly viruses .
His work was funded jointly by the CSIRO and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
It examined bat immunology and the role of interferons and how "bats are rich reservoirs
for emerging viruses, including many that are highly pathogenic to humans and other mammals"
and "many of which cause significant morbidity and mortality in humans and other mammals.
"
Western intelligence is also looking into the work of the original "Bat Woman" Shi Zhengli,
a colleague of Zhou who is the director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the
Wuhan Institute of Virology.
As we
reported in February , Shi notably co-authored a controversial paper in 2015 which
described the creation of a new virus by combining a coronavirus found in Chinese horseshoe
bats with another that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice .
This research sparked a huge debate at the time over whether engineering lab variants of
viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks.
As
Nature.com reported in 2015 , the findings reinforce suspicions that bat coronaviruses
capable of directly infecting humans (rather than first needing to evolve in an intermediate
animal host) may be more common than previously thought, the researchers say.
Zhengli also spent time in Australia as a visiting scientist for three months from
February 22 to May 21, 2006 where she worked at the CSIRO's top-level Australian Animal
Health Laboratory.
She used faecal samples of horseshoe bats to identify that they were the natural host for
SARS-like coronaviruses . -Daily Telegraph
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that researchers at the WIV
had collected bats in a cave over 1,000 miles away in Yunnan which carried
COVID-19 .
Also disturbing is that the lab had been operating in part on a $3.7 million grant from the
US government.
The Mail on Sunday has learned that scientists there experimented on bats as part of a
project funded by the US National Institutes of Health , which continues to licence the Wuhan
laboratory to receive American money for experiments. -
Daily Mail
In mid-April, the
Washington Post reported that the US State Department received two cables from US Embassy
officials in 2018 warning of
inadequate safety at Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was conducting 'risky studies' on
bat coronaviruses
, according to the report - which notes that the cables have " fueled discussions inside the
U.S. government about whether this or another Wuhan lab was the source of the virus ."
According to the Telegraph , the revelation comes as Australian politicians are ramping up
pressure on China to cooperate with the international investigation into the origins of the
novel coronavirus. According to Andrew Hastie, Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on
Intelligence and Security, " The Chinese Communist Party must take responsibility for the virus
that began inside their borders and work with the rest of the world to prevent it from
happening again. We are simply asking for transparency and co-operation."
Australia's official position is that the virus likely originated in the Wuhan wet market,
however they are now considering whether the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
due to human error - a theory which US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo endorsed last week when
he told Fox News: " Look, we know it began at one [lab], but we need to figure this out ."
Jainbanksers , 31 minutes ago
And I thought the USA just paid Hundreds of Billions to these Spy Agencies just so they
can get their Intel from ZNN.
kanoli, 37 minutes ago (Edited)
When the "five eyes" tell you who they are studying, they are lying or misdirecting your
attention to the wrong suspect.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Russian colonel is correct . It was
deliberately released by US military at the Wuhan military competition in October. By
releasing it outside a lab the US was paying to research Coronaviruaes, the Wuhan Lab is the
perfectly believable patsy.
I wonder how this guy (Peng Zhou) and this woman ( Shi Zhengli) feels and how they can go
on with their lives, knowing they have literally killed over 200000 people around the world ,
causing 3 millions to be sick and destroying the entire world economy. I know their heads is
possible filled with all kind of things, being so smart and that kind of thing, but there
should still be some room for bad conscience
Shemp 4 Victory, 23 minutes ago
I wonder how this guy (Peng Zhou) and this woman ( Shi Zhengli) feels and how they can
go on with their lives, knowing they have literally killed over 200000 people around the
world , causing 3 millions to be sick and destroying the entire world economy.
How do you feel pushing vengeance, retribution, and war over something which thus far is
based purely on speculation and propaganda?
I know their heads is possible filled with all kind of things, being so smart and that
kind of thing, but there should still be some room for bad conscience
Maybe you should apply some of that to yourself, unless you have a way to unkill the
victims of America's next war of aggression.
xxx 1 hour ago
That's an awful lot of words to say that virologists in China were studying viruses. Oh
the horror.
xxx 48 minutes ago
In a lab 200 yards from the Wuhan Market...where no bats were being sold...and 1000 miles
away from horseshoe bats...who were in hybernation.
xxx 47 minutes ago
Studying chimera viruses combining SARS, coronavirus, and HIV components.
xxx 22 minutes ago
Yes, your TV is omniscient.
xxx 1 hour ago
The Wuhan Laboratory of Virology was engaged in production of novel gain-of-function
chimera viruses based upon SARS and bat corona viruses.
A 'novel' virus is a virus previously unknown to science.
'Gain-of-function' means a virus increases in virulence as a result of an experimental
procedure.
A 'chimera' virus is a novel virus created by simultaneously infecting an animal with
multiple viruses, and the animal's immune system results in the creation of a 'novel chimera'
virus. With luck, the novel GMO exhibits gain-of-function characteristics over the original
viruses. You then run the virus through human tissue cultures... say of human lung
tissue.
The rationale for such work is to create virulent pathogens.
For 'study'. People like to study virulent pathogens and write papers about it.
Paid for with American tax dollars, signed off by the Obama appointee running the US
NIH.
The above described work was banned by DHS as too risky, so the US NIH simply out-sourced
it to China.
Where it blew up in their face and they hid the fact until it was too late.
There, I made the 'investigators' jobs a lot easier. Not that it will do any good.
xxx, 1 hour ago
Great article.
"Also disturbing is that the lab had been operating in part on a $3.7 million grant from
the US government."
Who approved the $3.7 million US grant? Did the Deep State's Dr. Fauci approve the grant?
Did this occur under Barry Sotoro's Deep State regime or Donald Trump's Presidency? Someone
in power needs to start asking some very serious questions about the Chinavirus.
xxx, 1 hour ago
The US NIH outsourced risky research banned by DHS to China. Which was illegal. So why do
these people still have jobs?
xxx, 1 hour ago
Yes, Fauci is reported to be the one who approved the money for the project.
Shemp 4 Victory
xxx 16 minutes ago
The US is pretty sloppy and careless too when it comes to their own bioweapons labs in
other countries.
Well now, I wonder how the Russian and Chi-Comm relationship is going about now? How about
Iran and the Chi-Comms? OPEC+? Africa? How about Singapore? Maybe Venezuela? How about any
oil producing Country that has been blown up by the Wuhan Flu?
The entire globe is furious with China and their Wuhan CCP Flu.
Wait what? Nobody? Maybe Creepy China Joe can dial Wuhan Flu on the Bat Phone?
China is the *** Hole of the World.
xxx 1 hour ago (Edited)
Anglo Zionists bark and bitch but the caravan moves on.
Your colonialist thinking needs to die, then we don't have to listen to all these temper
tantrums.
Deal with the pandemic.....there will be more to come. People have become too complacent,
greedy and numerous....when that happens, it becomes a breeding ground for viruses to snack
on all the abundance of hosts running around thinking they are god's chosen.
Its a good wake up call for humans.....humans are NOT always in control, and powerful as
they think they are. Maybe it had to take a few Chinks mingling with bats to drive the point
home.
In the end, excess always gets corrected. This is an opportunity to become more
sustainable.
But all these boomer assholes in power, they don't instill much confidence.
xxx 1 hour ago (Edited)
Dem anglo americunt bitchez already pissed off the entire Muslim world and Russia, but
that isn't enough. No, no....now they want to piss off China.
LOL
Western "intelligence".....the same one that brought us fake false flag attacks and
W.M.Dees....are now investigating stories on the grapevine.
If they had true intelligence, they would have blown the whistle about this in advance.
But they don't. They are talking **** right out of their asses as usual.
The Five Eyes racket is worried that they have been infiltrated and beaten at their own
game, without any bloodshed even needed. So they need a good old psyop to wiggle outta this
one.
China didn't close your economy, and didn't force western firms to do business in
China.
xxx beemasters, 1 hour ago
A “strange pneumonia” was circulating in northern Italy as long ago as
November, weeks before doctors were made aware of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China,
one of the European country’s leading medical experts said this week.
Coronavirus: ‘strange pneumonia’ seen in Lombardy in November, leading
Italian doctor says
How many people died because Pelosi and deBlasio told them to go into crowds? It's as bad
as those Italian mayors telling their people to go up and hug an infected Chinese
tourist.
xxx 3 hours ago
Question?
Are the "Western Intelligience Agencies", also going to question: Bill/Melinda Gates,
Anthony Fauci and the (((NWO))), since they are the ones actually behind this?
xxx 2 hours ago
"intelligence" agencies? Those people???
xxx 3 hours ago (Edited)
ZH scooped everybody on this one.
Didn't Fauci send $3.4 million of NIH money to Wuhan back in 2014, effectively outsourcing
the development of these things to China after we stopped doing that kind of stuff here?
Lots of blame to go around here.
Good thing the virus is a total dud.
xxx 3 hours ago
Empires in decline are in decline for a reason. Americans ain’t gonna learn jack
from this. Back to business as usual with China as soon as this is over.
xxx 3 hours ago
Americans have to fight not only China, but their own oppressive and traitorous political
class.
xxx 3 hours ago
The thing is, is people need to learn again what was once common knowledge. Buying cheap
junk because it's cheap costs you much more in the long run than buying quality the first
time around. When you buy something of quality, you buy it once. Well made items such as
furniture and electronics will outlive you. Even some forms of clothing will last a lifetime
or at least decades--well made shoes and boots can be resoled--Chinese junk cannot be. Tools
that are well made will last a lifetime and then some. Even certain cars will last decades
rather than 5-10 years.
My dad's bother's stereo--all hand made tube gear and giant, beautiful JBL speakers easily
outlived him and were worth far more when he died than when he bought them--even adjusting
for inflation.
The most expensive stereo gear that sells on Ebay are vintage JBL speakers and handmade
Marantz tube gear. Easily surpassing anything made that is new. Craftsmanship never goes out
of style and never really wears out--it can always be rehabbed. Even some of the hand made
discrete, SS gear that Marantz made now sells for thousands of dollars.
Spend your money wisely and you only spend it once.
xxx 3 hours ago
Question?
Who's going to investigate the "Western Intelligience Agencies" and their (((NWO)))
Masters and Bill Gates...Since they are the ones Really behind the Corona virus False
Flag?
xxx 3 hours ago
You know, I was reading through this article, and all the while thinking "yeah, OK, no
smoking gun but well worth looking into".
Until the very end where some land-whale smirks this out: " Look, we know it began at one
[lab], but we need to figure this out . "
Oh, well, that settles it.
If Mr "When's-lunch?" Pompeo says that this is a known-fact then it has to be a flat-out
lie.
I mean, his lips are moving, and not just because he is licking them.
xxx 3 hours ago
A known liar, telling the truth, can deflect it and create a very lovely lie.
xxx 3 hours ago
People say we can't trust the numbers from China. Like the US government is to be
trusted?
The government that hasn't told us the truth about anything for over 100 years. The entire
20th Century was nothing but lies.
In terms of Covid-19, I'd actually believe the Chinese over the USA being run by Fauchi
and Gates. After a month and a half, China found that Covid-19 wasn't what they thought it
was. They found that their own tests were faulty.
China overreacted and shut everything down, as we did. But when they figured out the
mistake, they opened back up. By the middle of March when my business was being shut down,
all the factories I worked with in China were back at 100% capacity.
China counted real cases. Which is why the numbers were so low.
Unless you've been to China, you are not qualified to criticize the country. I have been
there many times and I'll tell you that you see a far more robust economy than anywhere in
the USA. Do they copy everything? Yes. Is that right? No. But there is FAR more freedom of
enterprise in China than the USA. At least in China, you can start a business of
manufacturing something and stand a chance. In the USA unless you are a tribe member, you
aren't getting off the ground.
In the USA, Italy, UK, etc. They are counting anyone with a cold as Covid. Every death is
caused by Covid. If we counted dead because of Covid, instead of dead WITH COVID, our numbers
would be under 1000, perhaps even lower.
You count dead by something if it kills you. Since 99% of those who get the infection
across the population live, Covid doesn't kill. If you died with the infection, but were
already dying from kidney failure or sepsis, YOU DIDN'T DIE FROM COVID!!!!
It can not be proven that Covid caused the death in those cases.
If you died from an autoimmune reaction to Covid, you died from autoimmune disease. Not
the coronavirus.
Falsifying a medical record is a felony, punishable by a $250k fine and/or five years in
prison.
We really need to bring up some people on charges. Starting with the CDC and the governors
who allowed it.
xxx 3 hours ago (Edited)
Fauci knows...what... and ...when...
Decode it here for you.
Conceal Operation Virus In Detrick- 1st September.
Hehe.
xxx 3 hours ago
Why are we going after low level folks that work for a communist government.....
Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute (virologist) created SARS2 novel Corona Virus and
published multiple papers on it before the CCP removed and did a cleanup of all evidence of a
active bio-weapons program. Shi transferred proteins to the Corona cells to create a
transmutable virus that is otherwise inert to humans. Wuhan Institute is ground zero.
Little Princess Shi, Bat Women who flipped the SARs into a man eater.......
xxx 4 hours ago
Take a look at the largest Virus bank in Asia. Wuhan Institute of Virology in central
China’s Hubei Province preserves more than 1500 strains of virus.
Oh, now you wanna attack the same religion the CCP loves to oppress, torture and murder
for their body parts?
Thats interesting, are you looking for a new liver or maybe a heart transplant? Have you
ID’d a good match from those evil practitioners who won’t bow to Xi as god and
above all?
Funny you should mention that. Do you want to know the story behind the whole organ
harvesting mythology? Want to know a little more about the poor, oppressed "religion" that's
been pushing that narrative? Probably not, but for those who aren't afraid to look into it,
here you go:
Wow, for the reincarnated 4thStooging, you sure got born again hard for some China,
huh?
At the time, the Obama regime wasn't pushing us to the brink of war with China, Russia,
Iran, Venezuela, or North Korea. They tried, but failed, with Syria. So it was lots of fun
and games back then.
It's a little different when the current US regime is picking fights, for no reason other
than to cover up the corruption in our whole economic and political system, with opponents
which can put a serious hurt on this country.
Long ago are the days of akak tag teams and tales of roadside shitting in super modern
perfect China with AnAnonomous.
Yeah, AnAnonymous was fun to taunt, especially with the whole "Chinese citizenism" thing
because it was plain as day he wasn't Chinese, but Eastern European, perhaps Russian or
Ukrainian. Funny thing about AnAnonymous was that, although a lot of his theorizing was
amusingly farfetched, some of the things he said made sense and, in the six years he's been
gone from ZH, have proven to be correct.
Really gonna play running dog for the CCP knowing....knowing they were concealing and
feeding the planet ********.
If you're referring to the coronavirus, none of us, neither you nor I, know what happened,
and nobody is likely to know for quite awhile. What seems highly suspicious, though, is the
desperation exhibited by the State Department and the whole deep state apparatus as they
frantically try to blame China for something about which we don't know the nature or
origins.
Seriously, we don't know a damned thing about it. It's probably a naturally occuring
virus, but we don't yet know for sure. It might have been accidentally released from a lab in
Wuhan, and it might have been brought to Wuhan by some peasant from the countryside who
didn't wash his hands after crapping on the roadside, not realizing he was squatting atop a
virus-laden dollop of bat guano.
Yet look at the hysteria fanning the flames of hatred and war. It reminds me of July 17th,
2014, when MH-17 was shot down. Within half an hour, every CIA-controlled Western MSM outlet,
which would be all of them, was screeching about evil murderer Putin personally directing the
famous invisible Russian brigade in the Ukraine to shoot it down. Again, very suspicious
considering that nobody had any idea what happened.
The US government knows very well who shot down MH-17. They have radar recordings and
satellite imagery and could have made quick work of the investigation which has dragged on
for nearly six years now, yet the best "evidence" they can produce is the Bellingcrap clown
show. It's pretty clear that the US government is trying to protect whoever murdered the
MH-17 passengers and crew, and the immediate full-volume hysterics of "Russia Russia Russia"
look very much like the full-volume "China China China" hysterics being promoted today.
The big difference is that, with MH-17, there was clearly a crime committed and somebody
is responsible. With the coronavirus, we still don't know if anyone did anything to cause
this outbreak. We don't even know if an accident happened, let alone a crime. Yet you see
plenty of people here calling for China to be "held accountable" for something which at this
point is still in the realm of speculation and propaganda.
Do you really think another war of aggression based on lies is something which will
benefit this country? That's what we've been doing since the end of WW2 and all it has done
is made those in power wealthier, established corruption as a core American value, bankrupted
the country, and left a wake of millions of people murdered. People get so wrapped up in
labels and ideology that, while they are busy hating some phantom they call "communism", they
don't realize that the corrupt and dying system that America has become is worse than
communism.
Then you come here prepared to pwn the trolls with....single source Sputnik.
You wanna know why? Because when a group of trolls made a concerted effort to claim that
international flights were still leaving Wuhan after the city had been locked down, it seemed
a little suspicious to me, especially how they all seemed to be pushing a virtually identical
narrative. I decided to do some quick research to determine the actual timeline of events
regarding the lockdown in Wuhan, and selected the Sputnik site because they have made it easy
to navigate their archives by date. This made it the logical choice since I was looking for
the sequence of events.
And guess what? The trolls like Teamtc321 and his cohorts were lying, deliberately pushing
a narrative that they knew to be false in order to stir up war fever. No matter your opinion
of the Sputnik News spin, they do get the times, places, and dates correct, which is all I
was looking for.
The timeline presented by Sputnik, if false, would be easy to debunk, yet nobody has done
so. The only response by the troll squad is to claim I'm a "*****" (except for the times when
I'm an Iranian or a Russian or a Syrian or a Venezuelan). So if you think the sequence of
events presented by Sputnik is wrong, throw some links here that show that it's wrong. I
would very much like to read them.
Now, I have no issue with Russia really, but Sputnik....a....I can see it now.
Da, you make is a funny, gives much the good laughings. Makes me momentarily forget that
our empire of lies is unraveling, and that rightfully angry Americans will be hoodwinked
again into blaming the coming misery on anyone but those who are responsible.
xxx 4 hours ago (Edited)
If You want to get to the bottom of what went on with the virus once it left UNC you will
find--hold on-- midget Fauci arranged a 3.7 million grant for Wuhan. UNC wanted to get rid of
it fast since it was becoming obvious they were dealing with a bio-weapon that was in the
process of achieving "gain" and was mutating like mad. But evidently it's OK for Fauci to be
a traitor since 700 k of the money was OKed by the Trump adm. This is a huge smoking gun to
take out Fauci but no one will report it.
Shi- Zhengli, a colleague of Zhou who is the director of the Center for Emerging
Infectious Diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the key player in this sordid
tale.This woman is the bottom of the food chain she's were it all begins and ends. She
literally hung out in bat caves forever studying these nasty creatures and few know as much
about them as she does. The whole game was to introduce gain into the virus.They not only
wanted it to contain hiv and sars virus' but as many as possible so it would be so wicked it
could kill of millions instead of thousands. Almost worked too.
There are probably more than one strain of the virus could be five. Some think the strain
that the Wuhan and Iranians got was a lot deadlier than others like spread in the US with the
possible exception of NYC. It's all conjecture at this point its hard to say. All we know is
the chicoms lied their asses off about everything and killed anyone who could tell tales.
Supposedly shi zhengli "accidentally" released the virus at the Wuhan labs not once but
three times. Could be a new world record for Bevis and Butthead handling of deadly
bio-weapons.We may never know what actually happened.
xxx 4 hours ago
“But evidently it's OK for Fauci to be a traitor since 700 k of the money was
OKed by the Trump adm. This is a huge smoking gun to take out Fauci but no one will report
it.”
Report it on social media.....
xxx 4 hours ago (Edited)
I’ve said it before - I’ll say it again:
THANKS SCIENTISTS FOR CREATING A SAFER WORLD!
Look who’s paying a dear price for your science experiment run amok now... The price
of playing god...
I sincerity doubt that Bernie supporter would vote for Neoliberal Dems (Clinton wing of Democratic Party) at all.
Most probably will vote for the third party, or not vote at all. Few will vote for Trump -- much less then in 2018 as it is
not clear what Trump represents and it has nothing to do with bernie program.
What? After appointing Summers as an economics advisor!? I don't get that as a progressive
move, especially after (Biden ally) Pelosi appoints Shalala to oversee CARE. In fact I see no
explicit concessions to progressives by the D's or Biden and would welcome the chance to be
wrong.
Meanwhile, in my neighborhood, one car with a "Bernie" sticker now has a (home-made) "F*ck
Biden" sticker. So there's at least one person Status Quo Joe hasn't convinced.
Yep. The Southern firewall is such an absurd phenomenon. Use a bunch of states that will
not influence the general election to winnow the candidates in the primary election.
Same
thing in reverse with California -- IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT SANDERS WON CALIFORNIA because
California is going to vote blue in the fall.
If the Democrats want to win (which is not a foregone conclusion), then they need to
structure the primaries around the swing states.
"... Booker played a character (they all do, but some are polished versions of themselves) for so long, I'm not sure he is real. He played Obama, the servant of the men in suits, before Obama but less cool. ..."
Booker played a character (they all do, but some are polished versions of themselves) for
so long, I'm not sure he is real. He played Obama, the servant of the men in suits, before
Obama but less cool. I haven't watched "Streetfight" in ages, but he had the vibe of a Booker
T Washington follower if there was more than a character there.
Adolph Reed was clearly referring to Obama way back in 1997, but Booker fit most of the
description of a "new black" politician.
Bret Stephens is one of the super dumb columnists of the New York Times . In
today's column he argues for lifting the lockdowns and writes :
Right now, there's a lot of commentary coming from talking heads (many of them in New
York) about the danger of lifting lockdowns in places like Tennessee.
Perhaps the commentary needs to move in the opposite direction. Tennesseeans are
within their rights to return to a semblance of normal life while demanding longer
restrictions on New Yorkers.
I write this from New York, so it's an argument against my personal interest. But I
don't see why people living in a Nashville suburb should not be allowed to return to
their jobs because people like me choose to live, travel and work in urban sardine
cans.
"All patients with Lupus (an autoimmune illness) get hydroxychloroquine as a preventive
medical treatment and take it all the time. There is no single case known yet that such a
person got covid-19."
Only some 0.05% of people have Lupus. There is NO statistic available that shows that
Lupus cases do not acquire Covid-19. None!
"HCQ has to be given as early as possible. And it works in different and important
ways:
prevents the virus from replicating (in conjunction with Zinc); and
protects hemoglobin."
None of those alleged protections has a scientifically explained causation chain nor have
there been any serious studies that prove what you claim.
May I suggest you try drinking bleach to defeat the virus?
If 99% of cases of infection happen in closed spaces and/or in open spaces with very close
and long contact (stadiums, parties, festivals, concenrts, atc) is it really wise to limit
activities in which social distancing can be maintained, such as jogging, fishing, biking,
etc
Also the policy on mitigation (complete suppression is impossible now) should vary by
locality. What is good for NYC is idiotic for rural Pennsylvania.
As the jogger struggled with police, screaming for help, she was filmed by residents who had
absolutely zero sympathy for her plight. 'What's not fair is that you go out running, you
bloody idiot!', shouted the woman apparently filming the encounter."
Pompeo is widely known for "brazenly inserting his evangelical Christian beliefs into
discussions of foreign policy," as The New York Times reported in earlier editions of this 2019
article . But it was not known until now that he has been ignoring the Constitution's
critical tenet of separation of church and state to preach the gospel to foreign leaders while
on the taxpayers' dime.
"... Darwin already seems to have worked the entire neoliberalism which the useless rags mentioned in the article represent out of the future geopolitical landscape of the Earth ..."
Darwin already seems to have worked the entire neoliberalism which the useless rags mentioned
in the article represent out of the future geopolitical landscape of the Earth.
And the
progressive bearers of fake college degrees like "grievance studies" out of the ability of
doing anything but filthiest menial work in the new economic reality.
The New York Times has become one of the registers of the "Mighty Wurlitzer", which after
having played the popular hit piece "Russiagate" for a few years has a new tune,
"Chinagate".
I now appreciate even more my decision to cancel my NYT subscription a few years ago,
around the time I became a regular reader of Consortium News.
Now we have Covid-19. Unlike 9/11 we have seen no evidence so far that China deliberately
unleashed this virus on the world. There is certainly evidence, however, that it resulted from
the policies of the Chinese Communist Party and that Beijing's habitually duplicitous and
criminally irresponsible actions allowed it to spread around the globe, leading to tens of
thousands of deaths that could have been avoided.
I love the lawsuit meme: When one thinks about it, even pre-lockdown USA had millions of
ambulance-chasing lawyers, more in fact than the ranks of the PLA, and undoubtedly with fewer
ethics and compassion than their Chinese foes. China doesn't stand a chance.
Only an idiot attacks the guy who loans them money.
China is the biggest taker of US treasuries, once they are gone who will provide the money
to offset all that debt the US keeps building up year after year after year.
Anyway, China will always be second rate compared to any large White country.
A tale of two white countries: large white countries: It really is ironic that Russians are now watching Americans stand in line for food and
toilet paper.
Ted Arison, the Israeli-American founder of Carnival [Covid] Cruise Line is among those
appointed to advise president Trump on how to open up the US economy. Perhaps, as music to
the ears of a seasoned New York real estate shark, he will advise Trump to blame China and
then default on the China debt mountain. Litigation pays as Arison is about to find out.
My bank now has traffic pylons outside the door. They ask the following questions if you
want to enter:
-Have you been out of the country ? Answer; How am I going to be out of the country when the
airport is closed?
-Do you have any symptoms ? Answer: If I had I would be at the hospital
-Have you associated with anyone who has the symptoms? Answer: If I thought they did I would
ask them to go to the hospital and so would I.
-Sir! There is no need to be rude. Answer: Far from it. You are asking questions parrot
fashion. Questions that do not make any sense.
After getting MY money out of THEIR pockets I proceeded to the auto mechanic for front
brakes.
Joker: Am I allowed to come inside ?
70 Year old Mechanic Unmasked : Sure, you are the only customer today. You can keep me
company while I do the work. I cannot afford to lose customers.
It really doesn't matter if the virus was created by man or by the nature! The bottom line is
that this virus is very smart and knew in advance in what country it should spread the most!
There's place on earth which is governed by an incompetent, narcissistic sycophant, and a tv
reality-show-star who should be brought down! Now due to the incompetency of its leader
millions of innocent people have, still are, and will continue to paying the price by the
loss of their livelihood and their own and their family security! Unfortunately since 1980
it's been proven that the self serving groups have been pushing the incompetents forward in
order to achieve their own agenda! Finally they've been caught with their pants down and
their asses in the grind! Let's see if these groups can survive for another day!
Why do you keep insisting that China should have contained a virus of which they had no prior
knowledge? When they had more information they locked down the city. A move which your
government cried "authoritarian!" What has your government done since learning about it?
What Did U.S. Intel Really Know
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -
If our intelligence outfits are anything like when I served in a combat unit, they knew
nothing about the virus.
That's really strange: where is the danger here? Virus outside does not spread well and die
on surface really fast, especially under the sun radiation. It is mostly closed space game. And
as long as people maintain "social distance" there is no reason to restrict activities. Whom they
hurt?
That's really strange: where is the danger here? Virus outside does not spread well and die
on surface really fast, especially under the sun radiation. It is mostly closed space game. And
as long as people maintain "social distance" there is no reason to restrict activities. Whom they
hurt?
Joe Biden's louche son Hunter -- known for his hearty indulgence in drugs and his sexual
adventures with strippers -- is a perfect specimen of humanity under this system. If he gets
more stimulation than others, everyone else should get enough. And if they don't, they mustn't
complain, they should ask for a program.
He is though [candidate of fear]. The absolute driving impulse behind Joe Biden is fear of
Trump. Who is electing Biden because of his ideas and policies? There are articles that
literally say - "Joe, just have a pulse by the time of the election, that's enough for us."
I think that one was in Atlantic.
I mean what is Russiagate, that's pure scaremongering - those Red Russkies are back with
vengeance. The idea of return to safe, secure "normalcy", the good old days of calm and
peace, if only Trump can be removed.
One could say there are generally 2 honest standpoints on what is happening (ignoring the
dishonest ones). On the surface these 2 groups appear to have diverging opinions based on
essentially the same fear: What happens to the economy.
One group fears the extreme actions taken by governments and institutions are causing far
more damage to society and individuals in terms of economic damage, unemployment, eradication of
democratic and personal rights and ultimately also deaths. These actions are seen as real and
deliberate attacks on individuals and modern society.
The other group senses the same fear, but the fear is so strong that cognitive dissonance
kicks in to deny reality. One is simply not able to accept the implication of governments and
institutions willingly crushing society. So the official virus doomsday line is internalized as
the truth, instead of causing a revision of one's world view, even though the numbers show that
it is an irrational standpoint.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
"... "No matter what you do for the Do Nothing Democrats, no matter how GREAT a job you are doing, they will only respond to their Fake partners in the Lamestream Media in the negative, even in a time of crisis," ..."
"... "rude and nasty" ..."
"... "He gave them everything that they would have wanted to hear in terms of gaining ground on the CoronaVirus, but nothing that anyone could have said, including 'it's over,' could have made them happy," ..."
"... "They were RUDE and NASTY. This is their political playbook, and they will use it right up to the election on November 3rd," ..."
Donald Trump slammed Democrats for a "rude and nasty" phone call with the vice president
over the Covid-19 pandemic, and theorized nothing will satisfy them as they try to "fool"
America in November's election.
"No matter what you do for the Do Nothing Democrats, no matter how GREAT a job you are
doing, they will only respond to their Fake partners in the Lamestream Media in the negative,
even in a time of crisis," Trump tweeted on Saturday.
He added that his working relationship with Democrats during the Covid-19 pandemic has been
"even worse" than before and revealed senators held a "rude and nasty"
conference call with Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the White House Coronavirus Task
Force, on Friday where little progress was made.
"He gave them everything that they would have wanted to hear in terms of gaining ground
on the CoronaVirus, but nothing that anyone could have said, including 'it's over,' could have
made them happy," the president vented.
"They were RUDE and NASTY. This is their political playbook, and they will use it right
up to the election on November 3rd," he continued, adding that "America will not be
fooled!!!"
@Pricknick
We will need some pitchforks to go with the torches before we get to use the guillotine.
to imagine the return, global wide, of the guillotine.
I have excellent wood craftsman skills.
Of course my forge could produce an all steel unit for the high usage required.
Problem: ZUS Stimulus checks, arrival Thursday, April 16, into direct deposit accounts.
An old friend and colleague Scranton school bus driver, Bill Hopkins, called late afternoon
and with great cheer, he hollared, "Merry Christmas, Chuck!" Later I checked my FNB debit
account, and yes, was "Merry Christmas" for me too.
As the Federal Reserve has accomplished a "hostile takeover" of Santa's money production
factory, the necessity to liberate our home turf has become a greater challenge.
Voila, the US Moneychangers "bank" on the Garden of Eden truism, Eat from the vine and you
are mine.
If displaced, you're either a tourist, immigrant, refugee or occupier.
A decade or so ago, an American in Europe asked me when I planned to move back to the USA.
My reply, "When the Republic is restored," was met with nervous laughter.
Not really a turning point, certainly not in the sense of a reversal. And there’s no war, because for a war you need two
sides. The dumb hicks may rail against shadowy “globalists”, but are too stupid to realize that they themselves are
globalists. The hicks want their cheap computers, and the thousands of other things manufactured by slave labor in China, and
the globalists are happy to provide them. Yet the same dopes chanting USA! USA! (the forces of nationalism, at least in
America) don’t understand that empire has downsides as well as advantages.
The coronavirus pandemic is an example of the cost of empire, the ... technological empire that has come to cover
the whole world.
In that way, it resembles previous plagues, such as the plague of Justinian in the sixth century, and the Black Death in
the fourteenth...
Pepsi is acting in solidarity with grocery workers by offering them 20 oz. sodas for only
$1 (Dr. Pepper not included). Just about makes me tear up, I tell ya.
The last guy you want to listen to about stopping a virus is Bill Gates. He couldn't even
keep viruses off of Windows. It's one reason many of us switched to Macs and we never saw a
virus ever again.
At the grocery. Wearing my mask. Lady behind me, snarky & loud enough to make sure I
heard, "don't guess she realizes that stupid mask won't do any good." Me: "Honey, I'm an off
duty nurse, I'm wearing it to protect YOU. But, I can take it off if you'd like." She
practically ran.
Joe Biden says he'll bring dignity back to the Presidency. Nothing is more dignified than
a confused, bungling, old man bumping into walls with a long history of groping and hair
sniffing and dozens of money scandals in his family.
The reality of the #COVID19 pandemic
is that my patients have lost all faith in our healthcare system so even when they are very
short of breath or have low oxygen levels they refuse to go to the ER bc they're afraid they
will die in a corner and they would rather die at home.
The first rule of human thought is that everything is somebody else's fault. American whites
note that violent crime is mostly committed by blacks or Hispanics, who see all their problems
as due to whites. Terrorism is the domain of Muslems. Democrats blame everything on Republicans
and vice versa.
Most of the world points out that America causes most of avoidable destruction and suffering
on the planet. The Americans believe themselves virtuous, indispensable, exceptional, and
entirely dedicated to promulgating democracy. No group is itself guilty of anything.
@ 52 james...how will my view change over time? Too early to tell :-) But it would really
surprise me
if it didn't change over time.
One post-script, if I were John Durham I would stock up on hydroxychloroquine and Z-pac
and
make sure no one has switched out the Tylenol in my Tylenol bottle with ibuprofen.
A German team under Prof Streeck argues that workplaces don't spread the coronavirus as much
as play spaces: singing in a choir produces an aerosol and spray cloud, dancing together in a
room or bar, or nightclub apres-ski, also creates infective clouds, as would any confined space
where lots of people are in close contact breathing heavily. Although public health guidance
has been coy on this matter, orgies are probably best avoided.
On that theme, there are settings in which you are likely to get a big dose, a large viral
load, and others where the globules will be few and far between. As one caustic virologist
observed, getting out into the open air is a good defense against respiratory transmitted
infections: avoiding infection is a walk in the park.
Remain calm, Bernie Sanders good friend creepy Joe Biden will set things right again. Come on
Bernie, tell us once again how 'solid' your good friend is. We are all waiting to hear you
endorse his good pick for vice president. That should be a blast.
What more is being priced in by further economic misery? To the increasingly depressed it
smacks dangerously of depression alongside a Marie Antoinette-esque "Let them eat stocks" from
Wall Street...
Here come the depression-level data. US jobless claims soared a further 5.2
million in the past week, meaning that around
22 million jobs have now been shed in the past four weeks . That undoes all the jobs
created since the end of the Global Financial Crisis, which is seen as unprecedented in the
structural economic damage that it wrought. Yet we are still only four weeks in to this: does
anyone think the sudden slump in demand from 22 million newly unemployed, let alone the broader
impact of ongoing lockdowns, won't see a further massive initial claims print next week, and
the week after, and the one after that, and so on?
I have written about economics and markets for over 20 years and try (and often fail) to
detach myself from some of the wilder, more unusual, or more illogical and/or unsustainable
movements one sees. However, US equities rallying for a fourth successive week on the back of a
fourth successive print showing millions of US citizens losing their jobs is a real splinter in
the mind's eye : maybe if everyone loses their job equities could double?
To me, Donald Trump is the American Gorbatchov. The man who wants to reform the system to
keep it running. What you've seen is a willingness to question the status quo. And the corona
virus is America's Chernobyl, where everyone sees what used to be mighty, but now is weak.
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent
response:
"A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally
esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no
wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility,
no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama
was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly
sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said
anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don't say that rhetorically, I
mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the
British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of
a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And
like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them.
His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface. Some
Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally
side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick
Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a
spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of
privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling
sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic
decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could
never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the
vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he
does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter
of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other
people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two,
without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso
of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so
on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too.
But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to
make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful
Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God what
have I created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
*Consider this. During WW II, the Kaiser shipyard in Richmond, CA -- along with its 17
counterparts - were able to construct 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945 (an average of
three ships every two days), In other words, it took each yard just twelve days to put a ship
in the water. That was the work of Rosie the Riveter and her colleagues. Today, we struggle to
produce a few thousand $1 face masks - much less reliable COVID-19 test kits. Of course, back
then the country was led by responsible adults -- not the bunch of clods and delinquents
we're stuck with nowadays."
The Air Force quietly announced that Boeing's manuals for Trump's new $5.3 billion
presidential jets are a bit pricier than your average automobile-repair guides.
President Donald Trump's much-touted $4 billion deal with Boeing for two new Air Force
One aircraft didn't include a key item: the instruction manuals.
The cost of these flight and maintenance manuals: $84 million, according to a U.S. Air
Force contract announcement posted Wednesday evening.
"This contract modification is to modify commercial manuals, update with VC-25B-specific
information and deliver integrated manuals for the VC-25B system," the announcement says,
referring to the next Air Force One aircraft by its military designation. "This includes
manuals developed by both Boeing and their subcontractors."
It's Boeing, they need it. Beats the $640 toilet seat.
Face masks, including ones that actually provide protection, are readily available
throughout East Asia – and elsewhere. A personal anecdote: relatives in Tunisia are
mailing me N95 masks which they purchased in their neighborhood pharmacies. Indeed, as of April
8, Tunisia had produced by their own resources, and distributed 30 million masks to a
population of 11 million. The equivalent here would be 1 billion masks! (Minus the 1 million
sent express to Israel by the Pentagon as a ritual gift of fealty.)
In America, we are offered instructions on how to sew a (probably useless) mask out of
discarded T-shirts. MAGA!!
Hospital directors fire nurses who buy their own equipment out of concern that they will be
upstaged and exposed as the callous, profit obsessed bozos they are.
Yet, we blind ourselves to the realities of other nations – because to do so is
embarrassing, because our so-called leaders are protecting their behinds, and because we
compulsively retain our dogmatic faith in American superiority.*
This is from aged out of touch with reality politician who run Ukrainegate and impeachment
trial in December and January (Trump was acquitted on Feb 6) and stole the time and efforts for
the reaction to coronavirus.
Trump responded to the remarks Monday, calling the House speaker a "
sick puppy."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released to the public a letter to her Democratic colleagues
Tuesday in which she charged President Trump with missteps in handling the coronavirus pandemic
that "caused unnecessary death and economic disaster" in the United States.
Pelosi's letter
contained a bullet-pointed list of what she said was "the truth of what has put us in this
position." It included the following items: The truth is that Donald Trump dismantled the
infrastructure handed to him which was meant to plan for and overcome a pandemic, resulting in
unnecessary deaths and economic disaster. The truth is that in January Donald Trump was warned
about this pandemic, ignored those warnings, took insufficient action and caused unnecessary
death and economic disaster. The truth is that Donald Trump told his most loyal followers that
the pandemic was a hoax and that it would magically disappear, thus endangering lives and
paving the way for economic disaster. The truth is that we did not have proper testing
available in March despite Trump repeatedly claiming that we did; and even now, we do not have
adequate tests, masks, PPE, and necessary equipment, which creates unnecessary death and
suffering. The truth is because of an incompetent reaction to this health crisis, the strong
economy handed to Donald Trump is now a disaster, causing the suffering of countless Americans
and endangering lives. The truth is a weak person, a poor leader, takes no responsibility. A
weak person blames others.
Pelosi's letter came as Trump presided over a Rose Garden briefing of his coronavirus task
force, at which he announced a halt to U.S. funding for the World Health Organization,
asserting the U.S. pays more than its fair share to support the body, which he said failed to
provide adequate warning about the coronavirus.
Clara 1 hour ago
But it's all Trump's fault.
Nancy, Nancy Nancy - when will people realize it is her and Schiff's goal to bring down Trump
regardless.
THIS IS A COPY AND PASTE
Jan. 20: The first human-to-human transmission was reported by a Chinese expert
Jan 22 Trump "we have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we
have it under control. It's going to be just fine."
Jan 23, Chinese authorities implemented a strict nationwide travel ban, but allowed
International flights.
Jan 24 Bill de Blasio "We urge all New Yorkers to continue to pursue their everyday activities and
routines"
Jan 25 Good Morning America "People should be more concerned right now with the flu in this country."
Jan 26: New York City's health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot "We are encouraging New
Yorkers to go about their everyday lives... those "who had recently traveled from Wuhan were
not being urged to self-quarantine or avoid large public gatherings."
Jan. 30: The WHO declared a public health emergency of international concern
Feb 1: President Trump instilled China travel ban. New York City had its first suspected
case of coronavirus
Feb 2 NYC health commissioner Bardot "As we gear up to celebrate the Lunar New Year in NYC,
I want to assure New Yorkers that there is no reason for anyone to change their holiday plans,
avoid the subway, or certain parts of the city because of coronavirus."
Feb 4 China's consul general in New York, Huang Ping, thanked the Chinese-American community and
other concerned Americans on Tuesday for their aid in battling the coronavirus outbreak, and
criticized what he described as "an overreaction by the American government in severely
restricting travel to and from China."
Feb 5: New York Times "Who says it's not safe to travel to China? The coronavirus travel ban
is unjust and doesn't work anyway." NYC Health Commissioner Barbot on Twitter, "Today our city
is celebrating the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown... I want to remind everyone to enjoy the
parade and not change any plans due to misinformation spreading about coronavirus."
Feb 6 Bardot: "The important thing for New Yorkers to know is that in the city currently,
their risk is low and our city preparedness is high...We're telling New Yorkers, go about your
lives, take the subway, go out, enjoy life. . . If it were likely that it could be transmitted
casually, we would be seeing a lot more cases."
Feb 9: Chinatown in New York City held its annual Lunar New Year parade. Surgical masks were
nearly absent from this parade. Councilman Mark D. Levine on Twitter, "In powerful show of
defiance of coronavirus scare, huge crowds gathering in NYC's Chinatown for ceremony ahead of
annual Lunar New Year parade. Chants of 'Be Strong Wuhan!' If you are staying away, you are
missing out."
Feb 12 The House Judiciary Committee on voted, 22-10, to terminate President Trump's
expanded travel ban and rein in presidential authority to issue such travel restrictions.
Feb 13: New York City Council speaker Corey Johnson "It is important to support the Chinese
community in New York City...There is no need to avoid public spaces. I urge everyone to dine
and shop as usual." Bill de Blasio "This should not stop you from going about your life. It should not stop you from going to
Chinatown and going out to eat. I am going to do that today myself."
Feb 25: Dr. Anthony Fauci "You need to do nothing different than you're already doing"
Feb. 26: In a press conference, President Trump said the risk to Americans remains low.
Feb 28 A German team of doctors in Wuhan, China, "we discovered that shedding of potentially
infectious virus may occur in persons who have no fever and no signs or only minor signs of
infection."
Feb 29:The Food and Drug Administration declared that other labs besides their own could
develop their own coronavirus tests.
March 1 Health officials announced the first confirmed case in New York
March 2 Governor Andrew Cuomo "In this situation, the facts defeat fear, because the reality
is reassuring...The woman who has now tested positive, she's at home, she's not even in a
hospital, so the perspective here is important. And the facts, once you know the facts, once
you know the reality, it is reassuring, and we should relax, because that's what's dictated by
the reality of the situation. I get the emotion, I understand; I understand the anxiety. I'm a
native-born New Yorker, we live with anxiety. But the facts don't back it up here. . . .
March 10. NYC Mayor DeBlasio encourages NYC to go out and enjoy the city More Reply Replies
(53) 299 119 M Michael 2 hours ago THE TRUTH: Jan 27 - Vox - "The House will soon vote on a bill to repeal Trump's travel ban -- as he gears
up to expand it. Nancy Pelosi says she will bring the NO BAN Act, filed by Democrat Rep. Judy
Chu [CA-27], to the floor in the coming weeks."
Jan 28 - Business Insider - "flu is a far bigger threat to most people in the US than the
Wuhan coronavirus" LA Times - "The new coronavirus isn't a threat to people in the United States - but the flu
is"
Jan 30 - CDC - confirmed the 6th coronavirus infection, also the first "known"
human-to-human transmission within the U.S. CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield let us know that
"the immediate risk to the American public is low." WHO - urged countries not to restrict travel or trade in response to COVID-19
Jan 31 - CDC - confirmed the seventh coronavirus infection, a male who traveled to Wuhan.
"We are preparing as if this were the next pandemic, but we are hopeful still that this is not
and will not be the case," the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory
Diseases, Dr. Nancy Messonnier said after this news came out.
Jan 31 - President Trump announced that all foreign nationals who had traveled to China
except the immediate family members of US citizens or permanent residents won't be allowed into
the U.S. effective February 2nd, 5 pm (EST). Which was immediately ridiculed by the media and
the Democrats.
Feb 1 - Joe Biden sent the following tweet: "We are in the midst of a crisis with the
coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science -- not Donald Trump's record of hysteria,
xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a
global health emergency." So, if Biden were the POTUS, would he have listened to the clowns at
the WHO, CDC, and NCIRD and have done nothing? Washington Post - "Get a grippe, America. The flu is a much bigger threat than coronavirus, for
now." New York Times "Beware the Pandemic Panic - (used to justify unnecessarily severe limits on
movement and civil liberties)"
Feb 4 - Politico - "Coronavirus quarantine, travel ban could backfire, experts fear"
cry me
2 hours ago
What the media doesn't want you to know:
January 31: President Trump declares a national health emergency and imposes a ban on travel
to and from China. Former Vice President Joe Biden calls Trump's decision "hysterical
xenophobia and fear-mongering."
January 11: Chinese state media report the first known death from an illness originating in
the Wuhan market. January 15: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a vote to send articles of
impeachment to the Senate. Pelosi and House Democrats celebrate the "solemn" occasion with a
signing ceremony, using commemorative pens. That same day, the first person with coronavirus in
the United States arrives from China, where he had been in Wuhan. January 21: The first American case of coronavirus is confirmed at a clinic in Snohomish
County, Washington. January 23: The House impeachment managers make their opening arguments for removing President
Trump. January 23: China closes off the city of Wuhan completely to slow the spread of coronavirus to
the rest of China. January 27: The White House convenes a special task force to deal with the emerging threat of
coronavirus. January 29: The president chairs a meeting of the White House coronavirus task force for the
first time. January 30: Senators begin asking two days of questions of both sides in the president's
impeachment trial. January 30: The World Health Organization declares a global health emergency as coronavirus
continues to spread. January 31: The Senate holds a vote on whether to allow further witnesses and documents in the
impeachment trial. January 31: President Trump declares a national health emergency and imposes a ban on travel to
and from China. Former Vice President Joe Biden calls Trump's decision "hysterical xenophobia
and fear-mongering." February 2: The first death from coronavirus outside China is reported in the Philippines. February 3: House impeachment managers begin closing arguments, calling Trump a threat to
national security. February 4: President Trump talks about coronavirus in his State of the Union address; Pelosi
rips up every page. February 5: The Senate votes to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment, 52-48
and 53-47. February 5: House Democrats finally take up coronavirus in the House Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Asia.
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed
is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness.
For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my
brothers.
And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."
Do I believe that Iraq had weapons of mass distruction -- no
Do I beleave that Russia used novachoc on the Skripals -- - no
Do I beleave the Syrian army used chlorine on the rebels -- -- no
Do I beleave Trump and U.K. Tory's would press the bio- button -- -yes
Do I beleave that US @UK lie about Russia, Iran, China and the Middle East -- - yes
Do I beleave the US @ U.K. want to reduce the world population by 50% -- -yes
Ditto their own populations -- -- -yes
We're dealing with three viruses here -- - coronavirus, internet/MSM misinformation and worse
of all psychological denial.
The last of those is what is destroying society.
Two things spread this virus -- -- -- -
(1) How dense the population is.
And
(2) How dense the population is.
The coronavirus epidemic had scarcely arrived on US shores when the Trump administration
declared "war" on it, in the grand tradition of the 'War on Cancer' or the 'War on Drugs'. But
these invisible wars don't end well. President Donald Trump declared war on the " invisible
enemy " – Covid-19 – last month, pivoting on a dime from downplaying the
pandemic to doing his best Churchill impression. The surgeon general and other officials have
referred to the coronavirus outbreak as another Pearl Harbor. The struggle against the
coronavirus, Americans have been told in no uncertain terms, is a war – but on whom?
For anyone running for office in modern
America, accusations of sexual assault are par for the course. But when it comes to weighing up these accusations, the US’
mainstream paper of record applies some very uneven standards.
Take Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee. If doubts weren’t already raised by his fondness for
sniffing women,
the emergence last month of a sexual assault allegation against the former vice president could have caused a major headache for
his campaign.
Yet amid the coronavirus pandemic, and given the political leanings of most media outlets, the scandal barely registered.
The
Intercept ran a story in March on how Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer, claimed that in 1993 Biden pushed her against a
wall, groped her, and penetrated her with his fingers. Reade had spoken up about the alleged incident a year earlier, but was
met with accusations that she was doing Russia’s bidding. The US media was still doing ‘Russiagate’ back then, remember?
during the same Easter Walk, Faust has a few reflections on his previous work as a doctor
during the pestilence that fit the current times better than ever:
There was the medicine: the patient died.
And who recovered? No one asked.
So we roamed, with our hellish pills,
Among the valleys and the hills,
Worse than the pestilence itself we were.
I've poisoned a thousand: that's quite clear:
And now from the withered old must hear
How men praise a shameless murderer.
Cuomo begged for makeshift hospitals including a Naval hospital ship that has 1000 beds
and only 20 patients are being treated as of yesterday. Yet 1200 employees sit idle as the
ship remains empty.
Two months ago 2 out of every 100 YouTube users were actual medical professionals. Today,
we have 97 pseudo medical professionals for every 100 users... especially the wacko group
that thinks 5G causes COVID-19.
thanks b... the most significant outbreak in india is also associated with a religious
gathering in delhi.. they went ahead with the meeting and ignored what the gov't was saying..
in the case of kansas state, perhaps pompeo doesn't want to miss a chance to pray to his god
on a sunday and maybe it will work out for him and us here..
Gen. Jack Keane> - Our enemies , Russia, China, and Iran are using this
opportunity to spread misinformation claiming that we were unprepared.
But wait, isn't that exactly what Karl Rove said 60 seconds ago when he blamed Obama? Come
on Brian, you can do it, say something, let's at least see an uncomfortable look on your
face. No, the lights are off.
Things have never looked worse for the Democratic Party, which just lost the last semblance
of mental competence as Bernie Sanders drops out of the race. With Joe Biden withering by the
day, will Gov. Andrew Cuomo get the call?
The country whose economy was supposed to be "in tatters" (Obama) delivers humanitarian aid
to the "indispensable nation" (Obama again). Not only was this aid delivered from a country
under US sanctions, the gear delivered was produced by a Russian company also under US
sanctions. The "grateful" US media immediately declared that this was a Russian PR action,
especially since 50% of the cargo was paid for by the US (the rest, including transportation
costs, were paid by Russia).
What I like best about George Galloway is his sly way of putting things, as in:
"Like the Grand Old Duke of York, though with far more than 10,000 men, he [Sanders] has
marched his army of young and blue-collar activists – which once looked likely to sweep
him to power – up to the top of the hill only to march them down again. Twice."
What with the worldwide PPE shortages and Trump ordering seizures of Canada-destined
shipments from 3M, what's a poor vassal to do? This days after Canada officially declares the
NAFTA 'free-trade' deal ratified...
Ottawa Looks to Kushner, Other US Trade Officials to Resolve Medical Equipment Dispute
"Anyone on Department of Defense property, installations or facilities must wear a
cloth face covering when they cannot maintain 6 feet of social distance in public area or
work centers, according to a new directive released Sunday afternoon.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper had said the guidance was coming in an appearance on
ABC's "This Week" Sunday morning. "
Pentagon sends 1mn masks to Israeli military An Israeli press report claiming the US
Department of Defense had shipped one million face masks to Israel to help protect Israeli
soldiers has angered Americans, causing some to question the Trump administration's
priorities amid the coronavirus pandemic amid reports of shortages of protective equipment
for US health workers.
The Pentagon's alleged shipment was initially reported by the Jerusalem Post, however
mention of American involvement was later scrubbed, raising suspicions that US public anger
may have forced Israeli military censors to act.
This guy is really a fearmonger who after sleeting for two months greatly contributed with
his idiotic interviews to the botched reaction of the US government to this crisis. He should
go
Notable quotes:
"... And now, after the Trump Administration scrambled to ramp up testing capacity and the states worked with the Feds, private entities, and others (including in some cases foreign nations) to distribute ventilators as Gov. Andrew Cuomo painted a horrifying portrait of sickened New Yorkers suffocating to death in hospital hallways because there were no ventilators available. ..."
"... Well, yesterday, NYC Mayor de Blasio said that, after a few days of near capacity numbers, hospitalizations have dropped by such a steep degree that the city believes it has enough ventilators on hand, and won't need any more. ..."
And now, after the Trump Administration scrambled to ramp up testing capacity and the states
worked with the Feds, private entities, and others (including in some cases foreign nations) to
distribute ventilators as Gov. Andrew Cuomo painted a horrifying portrait of sickened New
Yorkers suffocating to death in hospital hallways because there were no ventilators
available.
Well, yesterday, NYC Mayor de Blasio said that, after a few days of near capacity numbers,
hospitalizations have dropped by such a steep degree that the city believes it has enough
ventilators on hand, and won't need any more.
Now on Thursday, Dr. Fauci is taking to cable news to spread the message of optimism that
has lifted US stocks over the past few days: Instead of the 240k figure used by President Trump
as recently as two weeks ago, Dr. Fauci told NBC News that if the public continued to stick to
the "mitigation efforts", that the death toll might be as low as 60k.
The coming general election will feature the two least qualified candidates in U.S. history.
Trump is a malignant narcissist and very stupid, while Biden is a corporatist and a hawk in
addition to being senile. As president, Biden would be less likely to abuse the Constitution
and to appoint far right ideologues to the federal bench. Clearly, he is a lesser of two
evils choice, and I say that as someone who regards him as an absolute evil. My fear is that
a second Trump administration will make the first one look like a kindergarten singalong.
"... " T he operational dilemmas faced by Indo-Pacific Command demand urgent attention. In order to make American investments in advanced fighters, attack submarines, or breakthroughs in military technology meaningful (in other words, to deter or win a conflict), there must be urgent investment in runways, fuel and munitions storage, theater missile defenses, and command and control architecture to enable U.S. forces in a fight across the Pacific's vast exterior lines. " ..."
'Number one priority' is a $1.5 billion, 360-degree persistent and integrated air defense
ring around Guam.
... ... ...
Arguing in favor of the PDI i n a recent
op-ed , former Pacific policy official for the DoD Randall Schriver
and Eric Sayers, former special assistant to the commander of INDOPACOM,
wrote:
" T he operational dilemmas faced by Indo-Pacific Command demand urgent
attention. In order to make American investments in advanced fighters, attack submarines, or
breakthroughs in military technology meaningful (in other words, to deter or win a conflict),
there must be urgent investment in runways, fuel and munitions storage, theater missile
defenses, and command and control architecture to enable U.S. forces in a fight across the
Pacific's vast exterior lines. "
Well the Pentagon sees that the checkbooks are open, Look if those pencil necked doctors
can get 2trillion for a case of the sniffles, we ought to be able to get 2 billion to face
down the Chicoms!
Encounters Of An Average American Nobody With The 'Curious' COVID New World by
Tyler Durden Wed,
04/08/2020 - 16:20 Authored by Doug "Uncola" Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com,
Last week, I read an online article in my local paper telling of a 68-year-old gentleman who
died from COVID-19. In the article, it described how the man had retired in the last year
because of cancer. Then, two days later, my wife asked me if I had read the article. When I
said that I had, she responded:
" Scary, huh? He was healthy ."
I replied:
" What do you mean? He had underlying issues ".
And when we logged-on to read the article again, it was tagged as "updated 7 hours ago" and
many of the words I'd read two nights before were . gone.
In the paragraph where it said he retired, it mentioned nothing of his cancer and
instead described how the man was "active and enjoyed riding his bike".
Of course, even a tin-foil-hat-wearing blogger like me would have a hard time
believing that any conspiratorial pressure could be applied to my local paper. Perhaps the
family requested the change or the original article was in error. It's hard to say.
But I do know what I read. And, the internet archive "Way Back Machine" showed the URL as being updated on
March 31, 2020 and again on April 2, 2020, but the initial article was not archived. Now I wish
I'd have taken a screenshot of, or printed, the original post.
Why?
Because of, as delineated in my last six Coronavirus articles , the dubious
origins and timing of the outbreak, the coinciding events , how
COVID-19 has been reported , and the questionable responses of governments
and organizations around the world.
The monumental importance of the measures taken around the world in the fight for control of the
current COVID-19 pandemic during the past few weeks motivated us to express through this text a few considerations
and comments on this hugely important topic.
Dr. Joel Kettner [
1
],
professor of Community Health Science at Manitoba University and Medical Director of the International Centre for
Infectious Diseases declared recently:
I have never seen anything like this I am not talking about the pandemic, because I have seen 30 of them, one
every year But I have never seen this reaction, and I am trying to understand why "
We do too, and wish to share our thoughts through these lines. Dr. David Jones[
2
]
declared recently, concerning the corona crisis, in the New England Journal of Medicine:
History suggests that we are actually at much greater risk of exaggerated fears and misplaced priorities"
I've taken to creeping ever closer to people at the supermarket check-out just to see them
'twitch'; simply can't resist it!
sabelmouse ,
There are so many good videos and articles etc, and no censorship is even needed because they
are difficult to find
NowhereOH ,
I'm laughing so I don't cry. Spot on, sabelmouse.
I actually got into it with a total stranger about this today. Not something I'm prone to,
but I was out on my walk and saw a middle-aged guy coming towards me on the path. I stepped
off into the grass to let him pass (which I would probably do anyway), when he saw me and
actually sprinted on the grassy hill opposite. He proceeded to eye me suspiciously even with
twenty feet between us, and I just lost my temper. I snapped that I wasn't that worried about
it and made the mistake of engaging when he asked me why. I rattled off some numbers (many of
which we have discussed here on OG) and pointed out we don't shut down the country for any of
exponentially deadlier diseases out there, including SARS and MERS.
"Well," he said, as though I was being unreasonable. "Where do you want to go that you
can't? mmm, work?"
Besides falsificating death numbers Trump and his administration of neo-confederates are now
stealing ventilators paid for by Barbados. Degenerate and incompetent Murikkkans making
america great and showing the world why they're #1. When the dust settles after Covid-19, the
pilgrims will stand alone on a shining pile of exceptional sh*t !
link
Dear @SECNAV Modly: You called Capt Crozier "too
naive or too stupid" for not knowing his private letter would be leaked. Now we learn your private speech was leaked.
Mr. Trump surely has enough problems attempting to manage this crisis, not the least of
which is his own unfortunate habit of jumbled impromptu speech that often sounds like sheer
blather.
Some observers like to call it "plain speech," but in my experience even the common folk of
America, the plumbers, truck drivers, and waitresses, express themselves more coherently.
It's just not very reassuring. Believe me, I don't want to see the president fail, but I
would advise him to stick to the teleprompter.
A sound banker, alas! is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when
he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no
one can really blame him. Keynes via Yves
The problem is that the payment system, besides grubby coins and paper Central Bank notes
(e.g. Federal Reserve Notes), must work through private depository institutions or not at
all.
How then can we have a sound economy when it is held hostage by "sound" bankers?
And are not the banks a form of rentier – who rent the Nation its money supply?
Then where are the proposals of the MMT School to euthanize those rentiers?
@Dreadilk By
wearing a mask you reduce the probability of getting infected by x while a mask on an
infected person reduces the probability of infecting another person by y and
y>x (I can't formally prove this inequality at this point but it is intuitively
obvious to me.). Since you do not know whether you are infected or not by wearing a mask you
are protecting other more than yourself on average. This is a rare case when a selfish motive
to save your own life produce a greater good. Not wearing a mask would be an inverse-altruism
where you are willing to sacrifice yourself for an idea of killing others , i.e., doing what
a suicide bombers do who are aware of y>x calculus.
"... There will always be alleged proof since the placebo effect works about 8% of the time, but nothing can possibly be considered a proven cure until it has been put through that tiresome and allegedly 'far too slow" comprehensive testing. ..."
"... This nonsense too many are spouting round here is dangerous and if there is to be censorship at MoA, that is what I would like to see curtailed. ..."
See the bunny's hysteria about cures has now reached the point of favouring that old
snake-oil homeopathy
. The amount of quinine in tonic water is about the same strength as the 'fixes ' found in
homeopathic scams.
Perhaps like such well worn scams as 'rescue remedy, a cure depends on how many thousand
times my schweppes has been 'knocked' (diluted with water).
I don't care I've found my cure, while rooting around in the cupboard under the bathroom
sink a found a few packets of decades past their use-by date worming tablets. When the kids
were infants we were living in tropical Northern Australia and it was common to 'worm' the
young 'uns whenever they seemed listless. You sure knew if the kids had picked up worms
because if they had, they would be running around & hooting like mad things after their
dose.
They must have traveled to Aotearoa in one of the too many first aid kits I packed before
we left. Anyway the active ingredient in the tablets is an anti-parasitical called
ivermectin which it is claimed (most likely by some dodgy vet who isn't copping his
regular earn pretending to swab the horses at the local racetrack) will destroy that pesky
corona virus.
As I die I can rest easy knowing that at least I was scammed by an ocker .
Honestly this senseless and repetitive "I'm smarter than any virologist/epidemiologist"
game has gotten very fucking boring - aside from the fact some idiot may be stupid enough to
put their faith in some unproven remedy.
There will always be alleged proof since the placebo effect works about 8% of the time,
but nothing can possibly be considered a proven cure until it has been put through that
tiresome and allegedly 'far too slow" comprehensive testing.
This nonsense too many are spouting round here is dangerous and if there is to be
censorship at MoA, that is what I would like to see curtailed.
Dr. Deborah Birx , the White House "coronavirus response coordinator," said on Saturday all
plebs must stay out of grocery stores. She didn't offer an alternative. Instead, she repeated
the hand washing and 6-foot "social distancing" mantra.
Rogan has previously mocked Biden's verbal slip-ups and apparent confusion, describing the
former vice president's speech as "not a normal way to communicate unless he's high as
f**k."
"... will know exactly which professor, non-profit boss, esteemed expert, talks sense outta a brain that absorbs information & devises answers, and which ones are little more than industry shills who got lucky once early in their career, who are the notorious plagiarists, who are better at politicking than doctoring etc. ..."
Out in the land of 'distinguished epidemiologists' the types who are charged with doing
the hands on work of developing counters to this virus, will know exactly which professor,
non-profit boss, esteemed expert, talks sense outta a brain that absorbs information &
devises answers, and which ones are little more than industry shills who got lucky once early
in their career, who are the notorious plagiarists, who are better at politicking than
doctoring etc.
Disturbing reports that US buyers have snatched up medical masks that France ordered from
China raise questions about the practical value of alliances and solidarity previously preached
by the West in the face of a pandemic. As the coronavirus spread across the West, borders were
slammed shut, followed by businesses and finally private homes, all in the hope of slowing the
spread of the deadly pathogen. Facing the prospect of lengthy lockdowns, governments that until
recently dismissed the need for medical masks have now started scouring the globe for millions
of them.
Apparently, in that pursuit, Western governments are acting much like their quarantined
residents who are hoarding household goods like toilet paper. One French official told RT this
week that a planeload of 60 million masks they bought from China was hijacked, after a fashion,
by Americans.
"A French order was bought out with cash by Americans on the tarmac, and the plane that
was to fly to France took off for the US instead," Renaud Muselier told RT France on
Wednesday.
I cannot say that I like Carlin much, but this one is very good. I can associate myself
with him, because I also never feared dirt or excrements, always hugged people who said:
'stay away from me, otherwise I will infect you with my disease', and survived in rather good
health and shape. And yeah, I also don't shower every day, but keep those spots clean that
are important.
Dunning-Kruger effect. Never heard of it, but I also observed that people who talk much,
have very high esteem, post from morning to evening, are often the not so bright ones. Those
who speak calmly, and rarely, who often underestimate themselves, are mostly the bright ones.
Also worth watching, now that we all have become experts in microbiology (after having become
experts in climatology):
Under his cohorts neoliberal agenda, every country in the world is a third world
country.
Invisible Man ,
Some things I'd love to see a journalist bluntly ask Mr. Gates in the near future:
"Why are you, Mr. Gates, with no formal training in medicine or biology, no special
knowledge of virology or epidemiology, suddenly the foremost expert on Covid in the world?
What makes you the decider of policy? Is it just that we live in a world dominated by the
golden rule, where he who has the gold makes the rules?"
"Why do you ignore the statistical evidence that Covid19 has yet to impact Europe's
overall mortality rate?"
"Why do you wilfully ignore the two dozen or so experts who have come forward to
vehemently criticize and refute the narrative being pushed that we're in the midst of a
deadly pandemic? Their assertions are consistent with the statistical evidence. Yours are
not."
On the same day the British Labour party
announced the election of a center-rightt new party leader to replace the much denigrated
socialist Jeremy Corbyn, the Financial Times (!) calls for the socialist policies Corbyn
had planned to implement.
If there is a silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is that it has injected a sense of
togetherness into polarised societies. But the virus, and the economic lockdowns needed to
combat it, also shine a glaring light on existing inequalities -- and even create new ones.
Beyond defeating the disease, the great test all countries will soon face is whether current
feelings of common purpose will shape society after the crisis. As western leaders learnt in
the Great Depression, and after the second world war, to demand collective sacrifice you must
offer a social contract that benefits everyone .
...
Radical reforms - reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades - will
need to put on the table . Governments will have to accept a more active role in the economy.
They must see public services as investments rather than liabilities, and look for ways to
make labour markets less insecure. Redistribution will again be on the agenda ; the
privileges of the elderly and wealthy in question. Policies until recently considered
eccentric, such as basic income and wealth taxes , will have to be in the mix.
For most of the past two months, Russian disinformation agents
respectable Western Establishment voices such as the Surgeon-General of the US, the CDC, and
the MSM (e.g. CNN , Vox ) have churned out propaganda that masks are ineffective
against containing the spread of the coronavirus. In perhaps the most "powerful" take, Forbes
even claimed that they
INCREASE infection risk.
"... Earlier this week, a delivery of 200,000 masks left a 3M factory in China for the German capital – only to be confiscated en route and diverted to the US, according to Berlin's Senator for the Interior Andreas Geisel, who shamed the supposed "transatlantic partners" for this "act of modern piracy." ..."
Dismissing accusations of 'modern piracy' for banning exports and seizing shipments of vital
protective masks from its allies in Germany and France, US President Donald Trump claimed the
situation was somehow the exact 'opposite.'
Asked about the controversy over the White House pressuring safety gear manufacturer 3M to
step up imports of protective masks from its Chinese factories to the US – often at the
expense of other customers, including America's closest allies – Trump dismissed
accusations of "modern piracy."
There's been no act of piracy. It was the opposite.
"We are very disappointed in 3M... they can sell to others, but they should be taking
care of our country," Trump added in the true spirit of the 'America First' policy. Trump
did not clarify exactly what he meant by the 'opposite of piracy,' apparently suggesting that
there were some perfectly legal grounds for seizing international shipments.
Earlier this week, a delivery of 200,000 masks left a 3M factory in China for the German
capital – only to be confiscated en route and diverted to the US, according to Berlin's
Senator for the Interior Andreas Geisel, who shamed the supposed "transatlantic
partners" for this "act of modern piracy."
Several days later, Geisel abruptly walked back his accusation, claiming that the masks had
been ordered from a German firm, and not from 3M. However, the masks are still unaccounted
for.
Sounds good, but "nationwide unrest" has been successfully ignored for many decades in the
UK and as far as I know, no city has burned since WW2.
People are generally far too comfortable to want to risk that comfort by protesting
conspicuously, yet only VERY conspicuous protest has a hope of changing anything at
all.
The Gilets Jaunes were doing pretty well, but just consider that all it took was a standard
mutation of a well-known type of virus to shut down the entire planet and the Gilets Jaunes
too
Our mindset, like that of our exploiters, is obsolete. Hardly anybody makes pitch forks any
longer, and torches are impossible to obtain
Homo sapiens is certainly the second most stupid creation, after the Ebola virus. The Ebola
virus is killing everybody and thus removes its basis for reproduction. Imagine how smart
rhinoviruses are! They do not kill but have managed, during evolution, to make their hosts
sneeze and get running noses, so can spread and flourish. They can also mutate to ever
increasing variants, so no vaccine made by homo stupidus could ever limit their reproduction,
season after season. Sars-CoV-2 is a different story. It doesn't kill like Ebola but is much
more contagious. It leads to overwhelmed health care systems, so people indirectly die of
lack of care.
Seems so as if Corona is quite smart. It will stop unhinged capitalism. Global warming
will come to an end, at least for some time. Homo stupidus may become part of the evolution
again. The old and unfit, wealthy and spoiled, will die and die quickly.
"The world has turned upside down when drug gangs and ISIS are more solicitous of the health
of the people than the elected officials in the US."
Peter VE@3
Has it though? Few institutions on earth have been less solicitous of popular health than
the elected officials of the United States- sponsored as most of them are by the Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse- Big Pharma; the MIC; chemicalised agriculture/ food processing;
Silicon Valley and the mainstream media.
WASHINGTON – Nearly a week after invoking his powers under a Korean War-era law to
compel
General Motors to manufacture ventilators for coronavirus , President Donald Trump's
administration has not formally ordered any of the machines, USA TODAY has learned.
As governors warn of severe shortages of ventilators, Trump has been hesitant to use his
wartime powers to force companies to ramp up production
under the Defense Production Act , arguing that such an order amounts to a takeover of
private industry.
But Trump said Friday he would use the act to require General Motors to make ventilators
after what he described as a dispute with the company over supply and pricing. Three
administration officials speaking on the condition of anonymity told USA TODAY that the
government is still exploring its options and has not yet placed an order under the Defense
Production Act for any of the machines.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency "continues to work within its authorities to
coordinate with the private sector," an agency spokesperson who declined to be identified said
when asked about the lack of an order to GM. Federal agencies are "in the process of reviewing
these delegated authorities," the person said.
General Motors declined to answer questions about Trump's use of the DPA but said in a
statement it was "moving forward to build as many ventilators as we can as fast as we can."
My Sociology professor, an American lecturing overseas, always referred to his homeland as
"the only Christian Fundamentalist country on earth".
I often laugh at comparing Christian conservatives paradoxically being very similar to
Muslims, even though they may hate them and join the military to fight them. Maybe that is
why their leaders like Pompeo and Bush love Saudi Arabia so much.
But the funniest irony of it all is that while Iran may have exacerbated CV19 spread due
to religious ignorance, so will the USA, and in the end, who cares what brand that ignorance
wears, it is always ignorance and a sad place for human intellects to die in.
/div>
Extremes meet: Christian conservatives behaviour patterns paradoxically being very
similar to Muslims: the funniest irony of it all is that while Iran may have exacerbated CV19
spread due to religious ignorance, so will the USA
Extremes meet: Christian conservatives behaviour patterns paradoxically being very
similar to Muslims: the funniest irony of it all is that while Iran may have exacerbated CV19
spread due to religious ignorance, so will the USA
it's a joke to say no one saw this coming... Posted by: lizard | Apr 2 2020 23:05 utc | 125
That reminds me of Condoleezza Rice saying after 9/11 that no one expected terrorists to
fly planes into buildings.
The pilot episode of the TV show "Lone Gunmen" - the spinoff from the "X Files" show -
featured a faction of the US government remote controlling an airliner to fly into the World
Trade Center in order to stimulate arms sales by blaming it on foreign dictators.
That episode aired in March, 2001 - six months before 9/11.
"Israel's ultra-Orthodox endanger the public" was the headline of yesterday's Jerusalem
Post opinion piece. The article points to the ultra orthodox community as a menace both to
the general society and itself.
This Anti-Semitic newspaper should be banned. When are the ADL and Antifa going to get on
this?
It's easy to see the lure those masks have on the Western nations: they are cheap and can
be used - once massified - as a science-backed political excuse to send people back to work.
Also, the alleged great results in South Korea and Japan (two fellow capitalist nations)
serve as an extra political incentive to stimulate widespread use of them by their western
counterparts.
Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Apr 2 2020 22:01 utc | 101
Actually the reason is human nature: No individual human gives a damn about any other human
- unless that other human is personally important for reasons of money, power or sex.
Speak for yourself.
Majority of people are not fucking psychopaths.
Crowds of US university students flocked to Florida for their spring break, defying
recommendations from the federal government and Center for Disease Control (CDC) over the
coronavirus outbreak.
National health officials are advising against gatherings of 10 or more people.
Two weeks ago, amid the coronavirus pandemic, about 70 students from the University of
Texas at Austin partied in Mexico on spring break. The students, all in their 20s, flew on
a chartered plane to Cabo San Lucas, and some returned on separate commercial flights to
Texas.
Now, 44 of them have tested positive for the virus and are self-isolating. More students
were monitored and tested on Wednesday, university officials said, after 28 initial
positive tests.
...
Students at the University of Tampa, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other colleges
have tested positive after returning from spring break trips to Florida, Alabama, Tennessee
and elsewhere.
biggest surprise to me in that article is that American kids charter planes for
their holidays... what the actual fuck? such an orgy of excess, the bubble they must live in
>masks is a bad idea because people will feel protected and stop washing their hands!
The US Surgeon General Nitwit said the same thing on national TV. Plus if regular people
buy masks there won't be enough for medical people. Maybe if regular people buy and wear
masks the medical people wouldn't need as many, but that idea doesn't occur to brain-dead
leaders.
Why are they working so hard to discourage masks? Because it wasn't their idea?
The reasons include ill discipline, ignorance and incompetence, nutty religiousness and
racism.
There are slobs and nerds in any country. In Russia, after warnings and requests from the
authorities to stay at home, some citizens went with their children to the park to fry
kebabs!
An amazing degree of frivolity and stupidity was demonstrated also by those who, it would
seem, on duty should be the most responsible. Thus, the main infectious disease specialist of
the Stavropol Territory, Irina Sannikova, after returning from Spain, went to work,
hiding her trip.
She led a week at a department at the Stavropol Medical University, where she, being a
professor, taught classes for students, held meetings with epidemiologists at hospitals in
the region, and consulted patients. According to preliminary estimates, about 1 thousand
people were in contact with her. Only after March 17th, when Sannikova showed symptoms of
coronavirus, did she admit that she was visiting Spain. Test for coronavirus gave a positive
result. Some of those who contacted her also confirmed coronavirus. As soon as Sannikova is
discharged from hospital, she will be charged under two articles of the Criminal Code of the
Russian Federation - "Negligence" and "Concealment of information about circumstances that
endanger the life or health of people". A doctor may face up to 2 years in prison...
I note that this stupid woman is
not the only such irresponsible in Russia. Frivolity,
incompetence and irresponsibility are common to all countries.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a stay-at-home order after weeks of rejecting calls
for such a measure. But like other mandates ranging from New York to New Mexico, it ensures
that Floridians can still attend religious services.
...
The order comes after similar steps Tuesday in Texas, another late mover that made an
exception for religious worship. Michigan imposed a stay-at-home order with a religious
carve-out effective March 24.
Religious gatherings were also exempted from Ohio's stay-at-home order, issued Sunday by
Republican Governor Mike DeWine. Solid Rock, an Ohio megachurch whose Cincinnati location
hosted an event for evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump last month, held an
in-person service Sunday and said on its website that it would exert a constitutional right
to continue meeting.
Other states that allow some exemption for religious services include Delaware, Kansas,
Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia,
according to the Center for American Progress.
There is no conspiracy, they didn't make up false documents to start a Russian investigation,
oh wait they did.. I just read that Bloomberg spent north of $500,000,000.00 to become
president and you want me to believe the Russians spent 1% of that and got better results..
You have to be a special kind of stupid.
It's been said that Donald Drumpf and his Russian mob boss, Putin, had this virus cooked up
in a lab.
They then had it distributed to China and around the world.....
to locations where these reprehensible fckrs don't like the population.......
Make no mistake about it!
Or maybe the Chinese did it, or maybe space alien disguised as bats did, or 3M, who making
masks, did, or fifteen different drug companies with vaccines waiting for the situation to
get bad enough for a big price did, and or of course oil companies have a treatment locked
away with the car engine that runs on water and a simple universal unlimited energy source
that use no fuel and runs continuously
Associated Press, April 1, 2020 – President Trump last night signed the Pure Air
Regulation bill demanded by the president and hastily passed by Congress late yesterday
evening. All congressional Republicans and most Democrats voted in favor of the bill, which
was passed without debate.
Sweeping provisions of the bill will eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency, and
repeal all legal protections against air pollution in the US.
Under the new law, all citizens will be issued lightweight, backpack units which cam be
connected to so-called "air stations." The stations will provide oxygen-rich, partially
purified air. Users will connect to the stations by inserting quarters (or any combination of
small coins adding up to 25 cents) into them. The backpack unit will then be filled with 24
hours' worth of partially cleaned air that will be enriched with an additional five percent
of oxygen above the 21 percent found naturally in atmospheric air.
The additional oxygen, the bill's sponsors claim, will offset whatever air pollution
remains in the air going into the backpack unit. The oxygen will be supplied by a
newly-formed joint subsidiary of Amazon.com and Walmart.
A strong objection to forcing citizens to pay for what he termed "the right to breathe,"
was raised by Oregon senator Jeff Merkley, one of the few Democrats to vote against the bill,
but was brushed off by the president. "Someone has to pay for it," Trump said, adding "oxygen
doesn't grow on trees, you know."
Bigotry: the character or mode of thought of a bigot; obstinate and unreasonable attachment to a particular creed, opinion,
practice, ritual, or party organization; excessive zeal or warmth in favor of a party, sect, or opinion; intolerance of the
opinions of others.
Notable quotes:
"... If the sheriff arrests Tony Spell tomorrow and holds him without bond, don't you believe for a second that he's any kind of victim. ..."
"... And so, for that matter, will some ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Greater New York area , who by their selfish actions are showing the same kind of contempt for the wider community that these Baton Rouge Pentecostals are doing. ..."
"He will be held responsible for his reckless and irresponsible decisions that endangered
the health of his congregation and our community," Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran said.
"We are facing a public health crisis and expect our community's leaders to set a positive
example and follow the law."
Despite being accused of the misdemeanor offenses, which carry a maximum punishment of
$500 and up to six months in parish jail, Spell said he plans to continue holding services,
including on Tuesday night.
"This is an attack on religion. This an attack on our constitutional rights. We have a
constitutional right to assemble and to gather and there are no laws that I am breaking." he
said, as his wife, Shaye, hugged him inside the church's main worship area.
Spell has held large public religious services with his flock despite multiple officials
warning of danger to his congregation and the broader community. Medical experts have said
that, to blunt the sharp increase in coronavirus cases and related COVID-19 illnesses that
could strain the medical system, people should avoid large crowds as much as possible and
reduce the spread of disease.
More:
Spell asserted that he is operating under his constitutional rights and under a mandate
given to him by Jesus Christ, "who said do not forsake to assemble together."
... ... ...
If the sheriff arrests Tony Spell tomorrow and holds him without bond, don't
you believe for a second that he's any kind of victim. Don't you believe for a second that his
arrest is any kind of persecution. I believe that persecution is coming in this country, and
when it does, Tony Spell and his congregation's demand for privileges in a time of
unprecedented public health crisis will bear some of the blame.
And so, for that matter,
will some ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Greater New York area , who by their selfish actions
are showing the same kind of contempt for the wider community that these Baton Rouge
Pentecostals are doing. There is never any excuse for anti-Semitism or anti-Christian
bigotry, but in a time of mass death from a contagious plague, observant Christians and
Orthodox Jews are fools to behave this way. They are going to make life much, much harder for
the rest of us religious believers.
Given some time and currency, I guess Morocco would offer more value for money if you want
some exotic customs and landscapes. If you have more money, you could spend them on a
carbon-free cruise with stunning vistas and off-the-beaten route: North Pole on board of
nuclear-powered ice breaker! It is wise to have swimming costume (a pool is on board, heated,
I presume) and sensible apparel -- enough for normal winter (in Moscow). The number of places
is below 150, with a little hospital on board too. In the latest ads I read about discounts,
but the deal was that you can pay in rubbles with prices below the rubble plunged by 25%,
still, for 27 k USD you can see John Bolton's relatives in natural environment (like mommy
walrus taking care of youngsters), polar bears, seals, and landscapes of Franz Josef Land.
Helicopter rides included. You can also take a plunge into the arctic water -- with safety
precautions .
@Uradel666 Agree agree agree. Most of us were in our early teens to middle age during the
1980s media hoax about heterosexual AIDS. Remember? Everybody who's ever had sex will get it?
A total lie. Even the druggies who use needles, it's mostly sodomy men who get it.
There was anorexia, hundreds of thousands of good student obedient middle class White
girls starving themselves. Another lie.
Early 1970s vegetarian diet, no white sugar but an over load of natural fruit vegetable
and carb sugar was the cure for everything.
Here's what my extended family and friends are doing. They're taking all the precautions
and obeying the rules. Some believe it's a return of the Black Plague Others are as cynical
as I am.
Population of 320 million according to a 9 year old census. 165K infected 37K deaths and
mass hysteria ensues.
The United States Surgeon General used twitter to tell the public to NOT use face masks to
protect against the coronavirus because they don't work, they only work for health care
workers. Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering a recommendation
that people wear masks when in public.
"Yesterday, one of the first deaths of a Virginia resident from COVID-19 was a Christian
musical evangelist who, believing the pandemic response to be anti-Trump "mass hysteria,"
took his family to New Orleans to "wash it from its Sin and debauchery."
A Gretna man who had double pneumonia and tested positive for COVID-19 in Concord North
Carolina died around 4 a.m. Wednesday, the family reports.
Landon Spradlin, 66, was an accomplished blues musician who pastored several different
churches over the years."
So, a Christian Evangelist who says that covid-19 ist anti-Trump hysteria goes and dies of
– allegedly – covid-19. This is then portrayed as – what irony, poetic
justice?
James-
It is the Financial Times, which as of yesterday afternoon suddenly dropped showing Iran on
it's daily comparison graphs of number of death and number of infected on major infected
countries. Up to yesterday morning Iran progress was shown in Green on number of dead and
number of infected graphs. If you check even on individual smaller disease progress graphs,
Iran' graphs is no longer shown, mentioned or included. I suspect Iran was dropped because
Iran' under sanction current death and infection is lower than most leading western countries
including US, and that has been becoming a embarrassment for US and Brian Hook. Coronavirus
tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads | Free to read for propagandist at FT
Iran doesn't exist especially if there is any relatively good news
In this sense, COVID-19 behaves a lot like seasonal flu. Common rooms often mean common
pathogens and higher dose of virus then from strangers. There are some indications that the
doze of virus that you get affects the severity of the disease.
Families are great places for socialization and provide a means to stay active and engaged,
but can serve as pathogenic petri dishes
Based on current research, it takes about 2 weeks between the onset of symptoms to the
clinical recovery of patients with a mild form of the disease
The chief infectious disease specialist of Stavropol region on the same day came under
investigation and lost her position. However, this is not the only problem for her as Irina
Sannikova has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
While some colleagues save her life, others argue about whether Sannikova committed a
misdemeanor or a crime when she flew to Spain and did not go into quarantine on her return:
should the state forgive her or punish her?
Sannikova is suspected of hiding from colleagues her trip to epidemic-stricken Spain. She
did not take a vacation, just flew to Madrid for the March holidays, and then returned to go to
work. Moreover, the last week she attended a conference at the Stavropol medical University
with about three hundred participants.
At the end of last week, Sannikova was admitted to the intensive care unit of the regional
clinical infectious diseases hospital with a diagnosis of "bilateral pneumonia". KP reported
that it tested positive for COVID-19. As the result 11 more people who were in close contact
with Sannikova were quarantined. But the range of possible infected people is much wider - the
staff of the clinic, participants of events where the chief infectious disease specialist
spoke: in total, about a thousand people.
On Monday, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin supported the request of the head of
Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova to increase responsibility for violating the quarantine regime.
Increased attention to the observance of self-quarantine in Russia is noted after the case of
Sannikova.
According to the UK, the actions of the former infectious diseases doctor have signs of two
criminal articles – "negligence" and "concealment of information about circumstances that
create a danger to life or health of people." Under the second article, the doctor may face a
term of up to five years.
A conspiracy-minded man might think Trump was hired to demolish any illusions about the
decency and competence of the US and to leave it isolated and despised around the world. I'm
not that man.
Is anyone in charge in the US?
Anyone with any analytical ability?
There's nothing you can say beyond.
"Those the God's wish to destroy.
First they make mad,"
Morris Berman in 2008 book "Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire" notes than when
empires are going down, they choose leaders that accelerate the decline.
As RT UK launches, attacks on the channel in the British media have stepped up
The latest is a piece by Mr. Cyril Waugh-Monger, a very important newspaper columnist for the NeoCon Daily, a patron of the Senator
Joe McCarthy Appreciation Society and author of 'Why the Iraq War was a Brilliant Idea' and 'The Humanitarian Case for Bombing Syria.'
Dear socially inferior person reading this article. My name is Cyril Waugh-Monger (I'm called 'Mr Terribly Pompous Neo-Con' by
my friends) and I'm here to tell you why on no account should you watch RT and why you should be making complaints to Ofcom (a British
bureacracy which regulates TV) about this dreadful channel so that in the interests of 'free speech' and 'democracy' we can get it
off air.
1. RT doesn't peddle Russophobia
Outrageously, RT doesn't compare Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler. It doesn't join in with the demonization of Russia and its leader.
How can we have a channel which is watched by people in Britain, which doesn't do that? We neocons say that demonization of Russia
and its leader is compulsory. How dare RT not do as we say!
RT is more vocally in support of Russia than western media
2. RT is sometimes rude to bankers
There's a man on RT called Max Keiser and he is often very rude to bankers. Why, he has even called for them to face the death
penalty. Such disrespect to our financial elites is shocking and should not be allowed in a free society.
3. Its coverage of the MH17 crash
Shockingly, RT commentators didn't rush to blame Vladimir Putin for the air disaster within seconds of the news breaking. Some
even said that we should wait for the forensic evidence before any statements apportioning guilt were made. Others said that we couldn't
rule out that the plane was downed by an another aircraft. This failure to come and say loud and clear "Putin personally shot down
the plane with a missile he made and fired with his own hands" within minutes of the crash is clear evidence of RT's bias and why
it must be taken off the air.
4. RT's 'pundits' include people who aren't neocons and 'liberal interventionists'
This is truly scandalous: RT gives airtime to people who don't support the West's policy of endless war and who opposed airstrikes
on Syria last year. Why, it's even broadcast interviews with the convener of the Stop the War coalition – and has a regular weekly
show fronted by George Galloway! This is unconscionable. Only people who support Western foreign policy should be allowed to express
their views on international affairs on television, not 'cranks' and 'fanatics' who oppose attacking a sovereign state in the Middle
East on deceitful grounds every couple of years. Why, if RT had been around in 2003, it would no doubt have given airtime to anti-war
'conspiracy theorists' who would have told viewers that Iraq had no WMDs – and claimed, fantastically – that Bush and Blair were
making it all up.
5. RT provides airtime to genuine socialists and genuine conservatives
This is really terrible: RT interviews people who oppose neo-liberalism and globalization, from both the left and the right. It's
given the microphone to socialists, communists, greens, and 'extremists' on the right, like Ron Paul. These people should not be
allowed to express their views on television; they are 'cranks' and should be totally marginalized. Only those who support the hegemonic
consensus should be allowed on TV. It's very important that in order to protect free speech and democracy, alternative opinions are
not heard.
6. RT pundits have 'extremist' links
I monitor the people who appear on RT very, very closely and I can tell you that there was once a case of an RT interviewee who
had a link on his website to another website which had a link to another website which had a link to another website – which denied
the Holocaust and said that little green men from Mars were ruling the US.
After considerable research, I also found that another RT pundit once attended a conference where a fellow invitee had once sat
at a restaurant table, a few days after another person who had actually praised Adolf Hitler, Chairman Mao, and Josef Stalin in a
magazine article published in North Korea in 1962.
7. RT is anti-semitic
Ok, I've got no evidence of this, but I'll bung it in anyway as it sounds good.
8. RT has broadcast documentaries on the wars in Yugoslavia which don't blame the Serbs for everything
This is totally unacceptable.
9. RT has had 'experts' on its programs who have made some very strong criticisms of Israel
This too is totally unacceptable. Anyone with a theory or definition that differs from Western minded politicians is demonized
for voicing their opinion.
10. RT pundits have often ridiculed leading American policymakers
For instance, when the US Secretary of State John Kerry said that "you just don't in the 21st century" invade another country
on "completely trumped up pretext," some people on RT had the audacity to say "What about Iraq?" This lack of respect towards a leading
American politician is appalling, and in a free society ought not to be allowed. The correct procedure whenever a leading US political
figure speaks is to tug one's forelock.
11. RT's coverage of the conflict in Syria
In 2011-13, we had so-called 'experts' on Syria telling us on RT that some of the freedom-fighting pro-democracy rebels were actually
fanatical terrorists who were guilty of committing atrocities. This was obviously a clear lie. Islamist terrorists like ISIS have
only been active in Syria since 2014 and of course, it's all the fault of President Assad and Russia.
12. RT interviews lots of people whose views I do not share
It ought not to be allowed! Aren't we supposed to live in a democracy?
13. The most important reason: RT is a threat
More and more people are watching it – which is why me and my little group of neocons and 'liberal interventionists' are so worried
and stepping up our attacks on the station and denigrating those people who appear on it.
The next big war is going to be much harder for us to 'sell' to the plebs, because we are no longer in control of the narrative
as we were in 2003, before the Iraq war. Oh, what happy days those were!
Don't watch RT because we really don't want you to 'question more.' We want you to question less. It's much easier for us that
way.
Yesterday I ventured into Wal-Mart to shop with the other local deplorable people that the elite child molesters, sexual perverts,
and sociopaths out in Hollyweird, NYC and Washington like to look down on.
Wasn't that crowded and I probably noticed about 10 customers "suited and booted" wearing various masks of different shapes
and styles and latex gloves.
Speaking of "suited and booted", shouldn't these people be wearing one of those full body suits and booties over their
shoes as well?
@niteranger
"For example, New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof on Sunday reported the disheartening analysis of Dr. Neil Ferguson of
Britain, one of the world's leading epidemiologists."
Nicholas Kristoff has the bad habit of falling for falling for frauds and making them famous. "Three cups of tea" for starters.
He's got a long track record of peddling fake stuff.
Looks like Boris decided to lead his nation as for acquiring herd immunity. Video of Johnson statements about coronavirus
in this as they "evolved" over time is absolutely hilarious. What a chameleon. Must watch.
BTW on March 3, 2020 Boris Johnson has assured people he won't stop shaking people's hands during the coronavirus
outbreak. Just out of principle.
Notable quotes:
"... Here you're saying you were shaking hands with a few Covid-19 patients on the 3rd March! How many people did you infect since? Will you publicly apologise for the herd immunity strategy now? ..."
"... Tested positive for being an irresponsible dickhead ..."
Here you're saying you were shaking hands with a few Covid-19 patients on the 3rd
March! How many people did you infect since? Will you publicly apologise for the herd immunity
strategy now?
By a clever move of the US intelligence agencies they are left without a choice as to support Trump in 2020 election is as idiotic
as to support Biden.
U.S. intelligence community, through its preferred propaganda sheet the New York Times, is
now reporting that
Russia is taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis to spread disinformation through Europe and also in the U.S.
In particular, Putin has escalated a campaign-by-innuendo to reduce confidence in the outcome of the upcoming 2020 presidential
election.
In any event, the Russians are too late as the Democratic and Republican parties' behavior has already convinced many Americans
that voting in November will be a waste of time.
"... ...The madness over the coronavirus is not limited to politicians and the medical community. The head of the neoconservative Atlantic Council wrote an editorial this week urging NATO to pass an Article 5 declaration of war against the COVID-19 virus! Are they going to send in tanks and drones to wipe out these microscopic enemies? ..."
It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for
abuse of power demanding that the Administration grab more power and authority in the name of
fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans.
...The madness over the coronavirus is not limited to politicians and the medical community.
The head of the neoconservative Atlantic Council wrote an editorial this week urging NATO to
pass an Article 5 declaration of war against the COVID-19 virus! Are they going to send in
tanks and drones to wipe out these microscopic enemies?
People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus "pandemic" could be a big hoax, with
the actual danger of the disease massively exaggerated by those who seek to profit –
financially or politically – from the ensuing panic.
That is not to say the disease is harmless. Without question people will die from
coronavirus. Those in vulnerable categories should take precautions to limit their risk of
exposure. But we have seen this movie before. Government over-hypes a threat as an excuse to
grab more of our freedoms. When the "threat" is over, however, they never give us our freedoms
back.
"... Those who have regrets after realizing that COVID-19 isn't a 'pooping disease' were met with signs at various Costco locations informing them that they won't be able to return all that toilet paper, paper towels, sanitizing wipes, water, rice and lysol they bought in anticipation of a societal collapse, ..."
Those who have regrets after realizing that COVID-19 isn't a 'pooping disease' were met with
signs at various Costco locations informing them that they won't be able to return all that
toilet paper, paper towels, sanitizing wipes, water, rice and lysol they bought in anticipation
of a societal collapse, according to brobible
.
lmao Costco basically saying y'all wanted to be extra, y'all gonna deal with your millions
of toilet paper all over your house #sorrytammy
pic.twitter.com/eCFhoiDp33
Enjoy your lifetime supply of toilet paper and wipes you crazy #hoarders !
#Costco is not
taking any more returns. Better start figuring out what you are gonna do with 10 bags of rice
you bought! pic.twitter.com/z2U7tN7ru3
Costco, meanwhile, may have over-bought in anticipation of sustained demand which has
petered out. It looks like "the whole toilet-paper craze has calmed down," tweeted one shopper.
Baltimore's mayor has called on the city's inhabitants to refrain
from killing one another for the time being, asking them not to "clog up" hospital beds as the
coronavirus pandemic spreads far and wide across the country.
"... DONALD TRUMP: Nobody knew there'd be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion. ..."
"... Trump is like the kid who played video games when he should have been doing his homework, then failed miserably on the test and tried to bullshit his way through the essay questions. ..."
"... As you are probably aware, a handful of elected leaders were selling their stock while assuaging the public about the dangers of the pandemic. We've gone from incompetence, to negligence, to outright profiteering. ..."
Last year, the Dept. of Health and Human Services ran a 7 month long exercise code named "Crimson Contagion," a dry run response
to a global pandemic which started in China and expected more than 100 million Americans to become ill.
Trump is like the kid who played video games when he should have been doing his homework, then failed miserably on the test
and tried to bullshit his way through the essay questions.
As you are probably aware, a handful of elected leaders were selling their stock while assuaging the public about the dangers
of the pandemic. We've gone from incompetence, to negligence, to outright profiteering.
dropping bombs and sanctioning free commerce in other countries is the American way of protecting the proceeds of the sociopaths
not such a good way to stop pandemics. Not in my name congress
@QMS
Fifty-six years dumping an untold number of dollars into "keeping us safe" from a foreign invader and the one time it happened,
not any of the resources were worth a damn.
The problem isn't so much that the real threats are unknown, at least not in broad outline form, but they're not "sexy." Not
amenable to what the military and cloak and dagger spy guys are into. And the perpetual USG budgets for the sexy stuff is far
more profitable. And is better suited to hiding all the graft and corruption (and employing the surplus and unskilled labor that
elite universities crank out) that upset ordinary people fearful that some undeserving person would get something for free from
the USG.
supplies, either. Well, given how the govt likely views our soldiers, I guess that's not surprising.
pandemic war games but no money to implement the most basic stockpiles (thermometers, face masks, gloves) that would be
very helpful in containing a virus. The larger serious shortcomings in the US are mostly intractable due to the "best" health
care system that money can buy.
There is also a tendency to think newer=better. I've heard doctors and pharmacists complain
that patients will get offended when prescribed a cheaper, older drug. They want the best and
newest, they need and deserve it!
@Redneck farmer That is because advertising works. Drug companies being allowed to
advertise guaranteed that predators, such as the Sacklers, would want to own drug companies.
More activity on the dark, unethical side of capitalism. There's an entire history of it,
opium wars, Atlantic slave trade, pornography, control of political agents through
pedophilia. The list does go on and strangely enough it's usually the same actors.
johnbrewster@77
Here's a story from today's Toronto Star. It's a neoliberalism story and goes well with Pepe
Escobar's piece in Asia Times (see above for link)
Basically the Province of Ontario stockpiled everything need for the pandemic that SARs
warned them was bound to come.
Then, a couple of years ago, they destroyed the stockpiles including 55 million
facemasks.
Now there are no face masks to be found and medical staff, inter alia, are having to take
totally unnecessary risks.
Why did this happen? Because neo-liberalism is all about profits and fiscal austerity: as
soon as the masks got beyond their 'best before' date they were destroyed - so the
manufacturers could have another bite at the cherry and sell another 55 million masks. But
then, austerity, the need to finance tax cuts for the wealthy, stepped in so the orders were
not renewed. And people will die, horrible deaths, as a result.
PS to vk # 1. Please think again. Trump has been in a trade war with China for what? a couple
of years? AND, he specifically banned imports of medical supplies from China. Other posters
wave supplied links for this idiocy.
Trump's about as innocent as jack the ripper. You may just be seeing things relatively, as
ghouls like Elliot Abrahms and disgusting Pomposity make Trump seen like an amateur.
All of this apart from the issue, of how long this virus has been in the wild. It seems
my mother caught this disease in early February, in a small Midwestern isolated community
– she had what are given at the symptoms, but nobody was looking for it at the time,
so there is no diagnosis of her illness.
This Covid-19 may well have been in the US since the latter part of 2019 just not
diagnosed. It may be that the Chinese were the first to test for Covid-19, therefore it
appears to have started there.
At this point the death rate is unknown but most likely overstated.
Amazing that the elites who go on so about population reduction are precisely the ones have
five or six children. Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Toby Young (at only four he has seriously been
priest-like), Trump, Andrew Roberts, Tony Blair (again only four, scandalous): it should be a
capital crime for any Agenda 21 supporters to have more than one child.
"Lots of people seen doing something Americans never do. Walking."
So true. It is the same here. The little kids are the most cheerful, adults are all over the
place in their reaction. Lady with a dog walked a 25 foot circle around me while crossing the
street the other day, felt like a leper right then. Ah well. I find that getting far enough
to get out of sight of buildings (lucky enough to have that option here) is just amazing now.
The woods/parks never looked so nice.
@TG "I think we should all wear bandannas. Like desperadoes in the old wild west."
Love it! I'm in. Part of me wants to try this while making a deposit at a bank...
This is someone who is dumb. If Robert Jeffress is the standard for being a faithful
Christian or being a legit evangelical I want nothing to do with it. Completely vomitous.
People like him put my family and community in further peril. And despite it all he still
gets the ear of the president...
It's people like this that tempers my hopes.
"Thousands of people streamed through the church lobby and into the pews. Ushers at
