shoebat--2020-04-20--Major Financial Analysts Declaring The Next 45 Days Are The ‘Most Critical’ In US History

According to Marketwatch , major financial analysts are declaring that the next 45 days will be the ‘ most critical ’ in US history due to the ongoing situation with the financial markets .
“ The next 45 days may just become the most critical period in U.S. financial history , ” he wrote in a newsletter published Wednesday .
“ While on average we may face a bear market every 10 years , this one is like no other , ” he said .
The contrarian money manager , who is a disciple of famed investor Sir John Templeton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the reawakening of the U.S. economy from its dormancy could be one of the biggest factors in determining how the market recovers from COVID-19 , which has forced swaths of businesses to shut down to help stem the spread of the deadly contagion that has infected more than 2 million people and claimed 137,000 lives , according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University as of Wednesday evening .
And even if the economic revival is executed flawlessly , the founder of the eponymous Toledo , Ohio-based investment advisory firm said the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , where a rebound in business and consumer activity from pre-crisis levels will be long and slow .
“ Even if we execute properly , the recovery will take time and a best-case scenario is a ‘ U ’ shaped recovery , ” he wrote .
“ The much talked about ‘ V ’ shaped recovery is no longer in the equation because of the unprecedented combination of negatives with this crisis , ” he said , referring to hope for a recovery that is sharp and fast .
( source ) I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as this , no recovery is going to happen because the issue is linked to the debt .
It does not have to do with what one is doing , but is a systematic problem that is manifesting as it inevitably was going to .
The US dollar is dying the death it was always going to .
I ’ m not saying it will die right now , but that the money printing that the government is doing is worsening it significantly , meaning there is a chance of a hyperinflationary scenario @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discounted as a mere conjecture .
There will likely be a short “ recovery ” , but certainly not a true one , and just long enough until the election cycle passes , which it likely can be delayed until .
It is after the election that one can expect to see serious problems , possibly to the point of a complete collapse in the currency itself .
The fundamental advice of the past is just as relevant today .
One needs to work as hard as possible , pay down as much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ready for the future .
The net 45 days will be important , but of greater relevance is the next four years as the political winds begin to turn and impoverished , angry , frustrated people look for revolutionary ideas as the solutions to their problems , and given the general decline in religion among Americans , may lead them to support very radical ideologies .
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According to Marketwatch, major financial analysts are declaring that the next 45 days will be the ‘most critical’ in US history due to the ongoing situation with the financial markets.
“The next 45 days may just become the most critical period in U.S. financial history,” he wrote in a newsletter published Wednesday. “While on average we may face a bear market every 10 years, this one is like no other,” he said. The contrarian money manager, who is a disciple of famed investor Sir John Templeton, said that the timing and execution of the reawakening of the U.S. economy from its dormancy could be one of the biggest factors in determining how the market recovers from COVID-19, which has forced swaths of businesses to shut down to help stem the spread of the deadly contagion that has infected more than 2 million people and claimed 137,000 lives, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University as of Wednesday evening. And even if the economic revival is executed flawlessly, the founder of the eponymous Toledo, Ohio-based investment advisory firm said the result will be a so-called U-shaped recovery, where a rebound in business and consumer activity from pre-crisis levels will be long and slow. “Even if we execute properly, the recovery will take time and a best-case scenario is a ‘U’ shaped recovery,” he wrote. “The much talked about ‘V’ shaped recovery is no longer in the equation because of the unprecedented combination of negatives with this crisis,” he said, referring to hope for a recovery that is sharp and fast. (source)
I have argued that in a situation such as this, no recovery is going to happen because the issue is linked to the debt. It does not have to do with what one is doing, but is a systematic problem that is manifesting as it inevitably was going to.
The US dollar is dying the death it was always going to. I’m not saying it will die right now, but that the money printing that the government is doing is worsening it significantly, meaning there is a chance of a hyperinflationary scenario in the future that should not be discounted as a mere conjecture.
There will likely be a short “recovery”, but certainly not a true one, and just long enough until the election cycle passes, which it likely can be delayed until. It is after the election that one can expect to see serious problems, possibly to the point of a complete collapse in the currency itself.
The fundamental advice of the past is just as relevant today. One needs to work as hard as possible, pay down as much debt as one can, and get ready for the future. The net 45 days will be important, but of greater relevance is the next four years as the political winds begin to turn and impoverished, angry, frustrated people look for revolutionary ideas as the solutions to their problems, and given the general decline in religion among Americans, may lead them to support very radical ideologies.
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shoebat--2020-04-20--US And Australia Bust International Pedophile Ring

The sexual exploitation of children has always been a problem and is often tied to very deep criminal networks because of the nature of the crime .
According to a recent report from Marie Claire , police in the US and Australia have worked together to break up an international pedophile ring , arresting sixteen people and charging them with 738 child exploitation offenses .
A two-year effort by Australian law enforcement and the United States Homeland Security Investigations has resulted in 16 people in Australia being charged with 738 child exploitation offences .
Police executed 18 search warrants and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , QLD , South Australia and Western Australia on 738 charges , 9 News reports .
Authorities also announced the removal of 4 Australian children from the alleged ring , 3 in NSW and 1 in Victoria .
( source ) A lot of the abuse that happens begins within families , but is not limited to them .
Many have pointed a finger at the abuse in the Catholic Church , but statistics ( beginning with the major and ground-breaking John Jay Study of 2004 ) show consistently that over 80 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and thus proves the well-known but seldom-discussed fact that sodomites are major perpetrators of abusing children , no matter what the nation or organization in question is .
Question that one must ask about this is the nature of the abuse , which is almost never discussed in a news story , and who it is tied to .
This is not to say that girls are not involved ( as they often are ) , but males are known to be sexually abused by other males , and it is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It is good that these rings get broken up .
However , the real issue involves when one goes into rings of more power .
Many of these types tend to be the “ lower ” hanging ones , which is made up of people who are not in power .
One only needs to look at the case of the infamous Jeffrey Epstein , who Alex Acosta openly said was told had ties to ‘ intelligence ’ and was not to be interfered with .
Shoebat.com has reported many times , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that the FBI and DoD are major sources of child sexual abuse material , so much that they are the arguably largest peddlers of it on the darkweb .
Given the history of blackmail operations , known as “ Brownstone operations , ” the open ties of Jeffrey Epstein to intelligence and how Ghislane Maxwell was the daughter of the founder of Israel ’ s intelligence service , one has to ask if perhaps while it is good to get the ‘ low hanging fruit ’ , those which are of more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their task is the ‘ defense ’ of the American common good and national ethos .
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The sexual exploitation of children has always been a problem and is often tied to very deep criminal networks because of the nature of the crime. According to a recent report from Marie Claire, police in the US and Australia have worked together to break up an international pedophile ring, arresting sixteen people and charging them with 738 child exploitation offenses.
A two-year effort by Australian law enforcement and the United States Homeland Security Investigations has resulted in 16 people in Australia being charged with 738 child exploitation offences. Police executed 18 search warrants and arrested 16 people across NSW, Victoria, QLD, South Australia and Western Australia on 738 charges, 9 News reports. Authorities also announced the removal of 4 Australian children from the alleged ring, 3 in NSW and 1 in Victoria. (source)
A lot of the abuse that happens begins within families, but is not limited to them. Many have pointed a finger at the abuse in the Catholic Church, but statistics (beginning with the major and ground-breaking John Jay Study of 2004) show consistently that over 80% of the abuse that happens is homosexual, and thus proves the well-known but seldom-discussed fact that sodomites are major perpetrators of abusing children, no matter what the nation or organization in question is.
Question that one must ask about this is the nature of the abuse, which is almost never discussed in a news story, and who it is tied to. This is not to say that girls are not involved (as they often are), but males are known to be sexually abused by other males, and it is a problem that is often not discussed.
It is good that these rings get broken up. However, the real issue involves when one goes into rings of more power. Many of these types tend to be the “lower” hanging ones, which is made up of people who are not in power. One only needs to look at the case of the infamous Jeffrey Epstein, who Alex Acosta openly said was told had ties to ‘intelligence’ and was not to be interfered with.
Shoebat.com has reported many times, as it can be read in our archives, that the FBI and DoD are major sources of child sexual abuse material, so much that they are the arguably largest peddlers of it on the darkweb. Given the history of blackmail operations, known as “Brownstone operations,” the open ties of Jeffrey Epstein to intelligence and how Ghislane Maxwell was the daughter of the founder of Israel’s intelligence service, one has to ask if perhaps while it is good to get the ‘low hanging fruit’, those which are of more interest are the same people who claim their task is the ‘defense’ of the American common good and national ethos.
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shoebat--2020-04-21--The Protestors Calling For The Quarantine Shutdown To End Do Not Care That Coronavirus Has Wiped Out

The Protestors Calling For The Quarantine Shutdown To End Do Not Care That Coronavirus Has Wiped Out Tens Of Thousands Of Americans In A Matter Of Weeks And Have Demonstrated That Conservatives Are Not Really Pro-Life

The protests calling for the end of the quarantine shutdown have come to the point where protestors have caused traffick jams in which medical workers are hindered from going to work to help patients infected with coronavirus , and in one case in Michigan even blocked a hospital .
What this movement reveals is truly a deep seeded apathy , an indifference towards human suffering , and a fickle and inept mentality entrenched within much of the conservative movement in the United States .
How can such people say that they want people to get back to work , when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are impeding medical workers from… actually getting to work ?
And how can such people claim to be pro-life when they are deliberately undermining the reality that tens of thousands of people in the US have been wiped out by covid-19 in a matter of weeks as these Right-wing types argue that “ its just a flue ” while pushing for the end of quarantine without which a tremendous amount of more people would be dead and still dying ?
Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer , who has been with the calls of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the protesters , recounted how “ The cars were blocking one of our hospitals , so an ambulance literally wasn ’ t able to get into the bay for ten minutes … This is the kind of behavior that extends the needs for stay-at-home orders ” .
Footage of the protestors allows me to not make the effort to demonstrate their ineptness : One Michigan health worker , who was blocked from getting to the hospital ( from getting to work ) because of the ‘ lets get back to work ’ protestors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” : More footage of these protestors clearly exhibits a lack of empathy .
In one video a woman screams at a nurse to “ Go to China if you want communism ” , and when she is told of how tens of thousands of people in the US have been wiped out by coronavirus , she responds with an emphatic “ Bullshit !
” You can watch this incarnation of freedom and liberty for yourself : Her asking a nurse why she should not go to work when he can go to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reality : the nurse is there to help sick people… in the middle of a pandemic .
These are the same types of people who do not hesitate to speak of how politicians are “ disconnected ” from ‘ real Americans.
’ The protests — which are under the banner of “ Operation Gridlock ” — were done deliberately to cause traffick jams .
An organizer for Operation Gridlock Arizona wrote on Facebook , “ Come prepared for a traffic jam in Phoenix !
We WANT gridlock !
” These protesters are the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the elites ” ( even though they can ’ t name one except for George Soros or Bill Gates ) , while at the same time their protest movement is funded by…elites ( conservative elites , of course ) .
The Michigan protest , which has been the inspiration for the rest of these rallies , was co-hosted by the Michigan Freedom Fund , which has received more than $ 500,000 from the DeVos family , regular donors to rightwing groups .
And while these protestors claim to hate “ the mainstream media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ubiquitous label of “ fake news , ” they don ’ t mind getting the praise of Fox News .
Hence why Jeanine Pirro told Sean Hannity that health officials “ overblew ” the numbers of how many people were going to die and praised the protestors by saying that the “ American spirit is too strong ” to stay at home .
Tucker Carlson gave out this message to the protestors : “ Thank you for exercising your constitutionally protected rights as an American .
Bless you.
” If coronavirus has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just a matter of weeks and during quarantine policy , imagine how many would be dead if everyone was allowed to live life as usual .
Also , another thing that these protestors demonstrate is an ahistorical mentality that is quite common in the United States .
They don ’ t know — and don ’ t care to know — that what we are seeing right now was exactly what our great grandparents went through during the 1918 influenza epidemic .
During the Spanish flu of 1918 , quarantine rules were imposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ buildings like churches and synagogues and any place where people gathered together that wasn ’ t hospital related was shut down .
In some places , this lockdown lasted for months .
While hundreds of thousands of Americans died — to some extent because there were those who disobeyed quarantine rules — social distancing did work to prevent way more deaths that would have happened otherwise .
Like today , churches were ordered to shutdown .
In fact , pastors in 1918 demanded that the government shut down the churches for the good @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In an article published on November 30th by Rocky Mountain News , a publication out of Denver , Colorado , it reads : Here , the pastors did not say that they were being persecuted , but were willing to keep the churches closed for the good of society .
For another example , on October 15th , 1918 , the city of Cleveland ’ s Department of Public Welfare issued a decree stating : From reading these rules , one can see that the current mitigation and quarantine policies that we are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as we keep hearing , but are actual policies that were imposed when the US was dealing with a dangerous virus over a hundred years ago .
When these policies were implemented in 1918 they were , in fact , unpopular .
John Grabowski , Case Western Reserve University associate professor of history , editor of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and historian at the Western Reserve Historical Society , noted that “ They were doing then exactly the same thing we ’ re doing now … It ’ s somewhat an eerily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s public health officials in 1918 closed down theaters , dance halls and churches .
But , due to people not social distancing , they were still many infections and deaths .
In Cleveland , between September and December , 23,600 people got infected and 3,600 people died .
In the end , 4,400 people in Cleveland died of the Spanish flu .
Worse than Cleveland was Philadelphia where social distancing measures were not done until two weeks after the first case .
Philadelphia allowed public events to go on for those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the last four months of 1918 , 13,000 people in Philadelphia died .
St. Louis implemented social distancing just two days after its first case and the deaths were a lot less than Philadelphia , having 2,900 deaths .
The initial response to the flu in Cleveland was similar to the general beginning reaction to coronavirus .
On September 22 , 1918 , Cleveland ’ s Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Rockwood warned Clevelanders of a Spanish flu outbreak .
The precautions that he recommended were lax , asking people to simply cover @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home .
Rockwood was quoted in a news article as pointing out that the Spanish flu was merely a seasonal flu and that it was not a threat .
It was not until October 4th when Rockwood began to take seriously the numbers of those getting infected with influenza across Cleveland and compiled a list of precautions to fight the flu .
Those who were infected were isolated in a Ward of the City Hospital .
If children showed symptoms they were sent home and employers were urged to permit sick employees to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ considered an extreme measure given that the US was in the middle of World War One and workers were leaving wartime factories .
Today , people are going frantic about how quarantine policy is going to destroy the economy .
But , if you open up the factories in the middle of a pandemic , and you have millions of people infected , this will not help the economy either .
During the Spanish flu quarantine policy in 1918 , people were told not to think that they were helping to serve their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they went to the factories they would only infect more people and thus weaken the workforce .
An influenza advisory panel advised against working while ill , stating : “ don ’ t think that by doing so you are helping the country in its war efforts .
You may have influenza and spread the disease and thus deprive the nation of many men ’ s work .
It is therefore your patriotic duty to stay at home if you feel indisposed.
” By October 7th it was estimated by officials that Cleveland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ next day , thirty-eight households in the city were quarantined .
Health officials in the city requested saloons and poolrooms to hang up posters with flu precautions that discouraged crowds.Theaters presented public health advisories about how to stop the spread of flu .
On October 9th , Rockwood ’ s concern was expressed when he told reporters , “ more radical steps are needed.
” The next day , Mayor Harry Davis , in the words of Mary Kilpatrick , “ ordered all theaters , movie houses , dance halls , night schools @ @ @ @ @ @ @ close within days .
In short order , so were art museums and libraries , cabarets , poolrooms and bowling alleys .
Public funeral and weddings were outlawed.
” It was a quarantine , and a massive measure of social distancing .
Schools were allowed to stay open as long as their rate of absent students did not drop below 10 % district wide .
Children began to ditch school and the schools had to close down .
Officials , seeing that youths were simply capitalizing on the situation to skip class , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hundreds of students were found to be infected and schools remained closed .
During this time , while all places of worship had to remain closed , some members of the Jewish community began to rebel against the quarantine rule and proceeded with synagogue services .
Two Jewish synagogues continued to have services outside of their temples and some were arrested .
Today not much has changed .
the Orthodox Jewish community in Israel and the US has had many examples of covid-19 infection due to their defiance to quarantine rules .
Not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some members of the Orthodox Jewish community in New York City did a funeral procession defying quarantine rule : Eventually , places of entertainment and churches largely reopened while school closures remained .
While some stayed home in fear of infection , Americans by and large left their homes en-masse to enjoy themselves .
Chicago was still gradually lifting quarantine restrictions , but metropolitan centers like Kanas City , New Orleans , Cleveland and Seattle saw an inundation of people wanting to enjoy entertainment like boxing matches , theaters and baseball games .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
What made crowds even bigger was the end of the First World War when Americans went to the theaters , the bowling alleys and sporting events to celebrate the end of the war .
But , it was not an astute decision to allow such crowding , since there would be eventually a second spike in influenza infection .
J. Alexander Navarro , assistant director of the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and the co-editor of the Influenza Encyclopedia , noted : What the quarantine rules that were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they worked .
According to a 2007 study done by PNAS , “ cities in which multiple interventions were implemented at an early phase of the epidemic had peak death rates ≈50 % lower than those that did not and had less-steep epidemic curves.
” Essentially , what these rules did was ‘ flatten the curve , ’ lowering the rate of infection so as to not overwhelm the medical infrastructure of the country .
Philadelphia had a devastatingly hight rate of infection because it did not follow protocol .
For example , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ War One parade on September 28th in which around a quarter of a million people arrived to see the procession and hear the marching bands .
Within 72 hours of the parade , all of the beds in Philadelphia ’ s thirty one hospitals were filled .
By October 5th , about 2,600 people in Philadelphia died .
A week later , the number shot up to over 4,500 deaths .
Many of the city ’ s health professionals were serving in the war , and Philadelphia ’ s medical infrastructure did not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of infection and death .
On October 3rd , the city ’ s officials essentially shutdown Philadelphia , forcing almost all public places , including schools , churches , theaters and pool halls , to close down .
The death rate was so high that morgues were not able to keep up with the numbers of bodies .
It got so bad that families had to bury their dead on their own .
The prices of caskets surged .
The phrase “ bodies stacked like cordwood ” became a common saying .
Just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ covid-19 is a Chinese bio-weapon , there were even news reports about how influenza was a biological weapon of the Germans .
But the real cause of the problem was the initial carelessness of the city .
Philadelphia ’ s health director , Wilmer Krusen , publicly affirmed that influenza was not a threat , and belittled it as “ old-fashioned influenza or grip.
” Basically , Krusen was saying that it was ‘ just a flu ’ , which is what many have said and have been saying about covid-19 .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ threat that led to the parade being allowed and , in turn , the deaths of thousands .
Krusen belittled the situation knowing fully well that the country ’ s monthly draft call-up had been cancelled because army camps , such as the nearby Camp Dix in New Jersey and Camp Meade in Maryland , were full of infections from the deadly influenza .
Krusen did not want to tell the truth of the virus supposedly in fear that it would cause panic .
He was also pressured by corporate interests as he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quotas for the war .
As the contagion devastated the city , Krusen tried to implement proper measures , according to Smithsonian Magazine : When Philadelphia finally did shutdown , the city ’ s publication , the Inquirer , complained on March 5th : “ The authorities seem to be going daft .
What are they trying to do , scare everybody to death ?
” Sailers in Boston who were infected were sent to the Philadelphia Naval Yard because ‘ there was a war to fight ’ , and within days of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospital infected and two of them died .
The next day , 14 were infected , and the next day it was 20 infections .
Sailers , infected with influenza , were sent to New Orleans , Puget Sound Naval Yard in Washington State , the Great Lakes Training Station near Chicago , and to Quebec .
The virus traveled from base to base , from fleet to trains , and the war helped spread the disease that would kill 100 million people .
Howard Markel , director of the University of Michigan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Medicine , did a study on the role that quarantining had in containing 1918 influenza and showed how when St. Louis loosened up its social distancing measures flu deaths started to rise once again .
The study demonstrated how the second spike of deaths only appeared when cities got rid of their social distancing measures .
Markel stated : “ Among the 43 cities , we found no example of a city that had a second peak of influenza while the first set of nonpharmaceutical interventions were still in effect.
” The 2007 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ city in our analysis experienced a second wave while its main battery of [ nonpharmaceutical interventions ] was in place .
Second waves occurred only after the relaxation of interventions.
” Many Americans complied with social distancing laws for weeks and , in some places in the country , for months .
According to Markel , a potential explanation as to why Americans complied easily was because they were used to diseases , and pretty much everyone had a relative , be it parents , aunts and uncles , who died of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Markel , “ were all used to living through epidemics all the time .
There was a flu epidemic in the 1890s .
There was a bad polio epidemic in 1916 .
There were diphtheria , pertussis ( whooping cough ) , measles , chicken pox , and smallpox epidemics during that period … Contagious diseases and their deadly effects were part of people ’ s lives .
So they understood when the doctor quarantined them what that meant.
” Quarantine works .
And no , its not ‘ unprecedented , ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of anti-pandemic policy .
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By Theodore Shoebat
The protests calling for the end of the quarantine shutdown have come to the point where protestors have caused traffick jams in which medical workers are hindered from going to work to help patients infected with coronavirus, and in one case in Michigan even blocked a hospital. What this movement reveals is truly a deep seeded apathy, an indifference towards human suffering, and a fickle and inept mentality entrenched within much of the conservative movement in the United States. How can such people say that they want people to get back to work, when they are deliberately causing traffick jams that are impeding medical workers from… actually getting to work? And how can such people claim to be pro-life when they are deliberately undermining the reality that tens of thousands of people in the US have been wiped out by covid-19 in a matter of weeks as these Right-wing types argue that “its just a flue” while pushing for the end of quarantine without which a tremendous amount of more people would be dead and still dying?
Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer, who has been with the calls of “Lock her up!” from the protesters, recounted how “The cars were blocking one of our hospitals, so an ambulance literally wasn’t able to get into the bay for ten minutes … This is the kind of behavior that extends the needs for stay-at-home orders”. Footage of the protestors allows me to not make the effort to demonstrate their ineptness:
One Michigan health worker, who was blocked from getting to the hospital (from getting to work) because of the ‘lets get back to work’ protestors, rightfully called these people “idiots”:
More footage of these protestors clearly exhibits a lack of empathy. In one video a woman screams at a nurse to “Go to China if you want communism”, and when she is told of how tens of thousands of people in the US have been wiped out by coronavirus, she responds with an emphatic “Bullshit!” You can watch this incarnation of freedom and liberty for yourself:
Her asking a nurse why she should not go to work when he can go to work really reveals a true disconnect from reality: the nurse is there to help sick people… in the middle of a pandemic. These are the same types of people who do not hesitate to speak of how politicians are “disconnected” from ‘real Americans.’
The protests — which are under the banner of “Operation Gridlock” — were done deliberately to cause traffick jams. An organizer for Operation Gridlock Arizona wrote on Facebook, “Come prepared for a traffic jam in Phoenix! We WANT gridlock!”
These protesters are the types who will talk about fighting “the elites” (even though they can’t name one except for George Soros or Bill Gates), while at the same time their protest movement is funded by…elites (conservative elites, of course).
The Michigan protest, which has been the inspiration for the rest of these rallies, was co-hosted by the Michigan Freedom Fund, which has received more than $500,000 from the DeVos family, regular donors to rightwing groups. And while these protestors claim to hate “the mainstream media (MSM)” and give it the ubiquitous label of “fake news,” they don’t mind getting the praise of Fox News. Hence why Jeanine Pirro told Sean Hannity that health officials “overblew” the numbers of how many people were going to die and praised the protestors by saying that the “American spirit is too strong” to stay at home. Tucker Carlson gave out this message to the protestors: “Thank you for exercising your constitutionally protected rights as an American. Bless you.”
If coronavirus has killed over 42,000 people so far in just a matter of weeks and during quarantine policy, imagine how many would be dead if everyone was allowed to live life as usual.
Also, another thing that these protestors demonstrate is an ahistorical mentality that is quite common in the United States. They don’t know — and don’t care to know — that what we are seeing right now was exactly what our great grandparents went through during the 1918 influenza epidemic.
During the Spanish flu of 1918, quarantine rules were imposed; businesses, sporting events, religious buildings like churches and synagogues and any place where people gathered together that wasn’t hospital related was shut down. In some places, this lockdown lasted for months. While hundreds of thousands of Americans died — to some extent because there were those who disobeyed quarantine rules — social distancing did work to prevent way more deaths that would have happened otherwise. Like today, churches were ordered to shutdown. In fact, pastors in 1918 demanded that the government shut down the churches for the good of the public’s welfare. In an article published on November 30th by Rocky Mountain News, a publication out of Denver, Colorado, it reads:
“The quarantine regulations were made more stringent. No one but doctors and nurses will be allowed to enter sick rooms, and all houses must be placarded. A committee of ministers appearing for the entire clergy of the city have made representations to the mayor and bureau of health that the contagion is unchecked and that the strictest measures possible are demanded for the sake of public health. The ministers asked that all churches be closed until danger is passed. City officials have not given an answer to the request, but indications are that no further regulations will be imposed.”
Here, the pastors did not say that they were being persecuted, but were willing to keep the churches closed for the good of society.
For another example, on October 15th, 1918, the city of Cleveland’s Department of Public Welfare issued a decree stating:
“1. All places of public congregation including churches, theaters, moving picture houses, dance halls, lodge rooms, assembly rooms, public halls, pool rooms, bowling alleys, cabarets, and all other places used for general meetings whether public or private are hereby closed. 2. Public, parochial, and private schools, including night schools, also public libraries and art museums will close beginning midnight, Tuesday, October 15th 1918. 3. If there is an increase in the number of cases of Spanish Influenza in the city of Cleveland it will be necessary to issue additional restrictions covering all places where persons congregate. In order to avoid necessity for further restrictions to prevent the spread of this disease, it will be imperative for those operating stores, factories, and shops to prevent patrons and employees from loitering or congregating in groups. 4. All public funerals and weddings are prohibited. 5. Under instructions from the State Department of Health, special caution is hereby given to persons operating restaurants, saloons, and cafes that loitering in these places must be strictly prohibited. 6. The crowding of all elevators and all public conveyances must be avoided to the greatest possible degrees. During the prevalence of epidemic influenza all street cars, factories, offices, dining rooms, and rooms or places which must be occupied should be given the greatest amount of ventilation possible. 7. Special permission of the Commissioner of Health must be obtained for all open air meetings.”
From reading these rules, one can see that the current mitigation and quarantine policies that we are going through are not ‘unprecedented’ as we keep hearing, but are actual policies that were imposed when the US was dealing with a dangerous virus over a hundred years ago. When these policies were implemented in 1918 they were, in fact, unpopular. John Grabowski, Case Western Reserve University associate professor of history, editor of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and historian at the Western Reserve Historical Society, noted that “They were doing then exactly the same thing we’re doing now … It’s somewhat an eerily similar situation.” Like today, Cleveland’s public health officials in 1918 closed down theaters, dance halls and churches. But, due to people not social distancing, they were still many infections and deaths. In Cleveland, between September and December, 23,600 people got infected and 3,600 people died. In the end, 4,400 people in Cleveland died of the Spanish flu.
Worse than Cleveland was Philadelphia where social distancing measures were not done until two weeks after the first case. Philadelphia allowed public events to go on for those two weeks. The result was that in the last four months of 1918, 13,000 people in Philadelphia died. St. Louis implemented social distancing just two days after its first case and the deaths were a lot less than Philadelphia, having 2,900 deaths.
The initial response to the flu in Cleveland was similar to the general beginning reaction to coronavirus. On September 22, 1918, Cleveland’s Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Rockwood warned Clevelanders of a Spanish flu outbreak. The precautions that he recommended were lax, asking people to simply cover their cough and that sick people stay home. Rockwood was quoted in a news article as pointing out that the Spanish flu was merely a seasonal flu and that it was not a threat.
It was not until October 4th when Rockwood began to take seriously the numbers of those getting infected with influenza across Cleveland and compiled a list of precautions to fight the flu. Those who were infected were isolated in a Ward of the City Hospital. If children showed symptoms they were sent home and employers were urged to permit sick employees to stay home to recover, which was considered an extreme measure given that the US was in the middle of World War One and workers were leaving wartime factories. Today, people are going frantic about how quarantine policy is going to destroy the economy. But, if you open up the factories in the middle of a pandemic, and you have millions of people infected, this will not help the economy either. During the Spanish flu quarantine policy in 1918, people were told not to think that they were helping to serve their country during the war, because if they went to the factories they would only infect more people and thus weaken the workforce. An influenza advisory panel advised against working while ill, stating: “don’t think that by doing so you are helping the country in its war efforts. You may have influenza and spread the disease and thus deprive the nation of many men’s work. It is therefore your patriotic duty to stay at home if you feel indisposed.”
By October 7th it was estimated by officials that Cleveland had 500 cases of flu. The next day, thirty-eight households in the city were quarantined.
Health officials in the city requested saloons and poolrooms to hang up posters with flu precautions that discouraged crowds.Theaters presented public health advisories about how to stop the spread of flu. On October 9th, Rockwood’s concern was expressed when he told reporters, “more radical steps are needed.” The next day, Mayor Harry Davis, in the words of Mary Kilpatrick, “ordered all theaters, movie houses, dance halls, night schools, churches, and Sunday schools to close within days. In short order, so were art museums and libraries, cabarets, poolrooms and bowling alleys. Public funeral and weddings were outlawed.” It was a quarantine, and a massive measure of social distancing.
Schools were allowed to stay open as long as their rate of absent students did not drop below 10% district wide. Children began to ditch school and the schools had to close down. Officials, seeing that youths were simply capitalizing on the situation to skip class, planned to reopen campuses. But, hundreds of students were found to be infected and schools remained closed.
During this time, while all places of worship had to remain closed, some members of the Jewish community began to rebel against the quarantine rule and proceeded with synagogue services. Two Jewish synagogues continued to have services outside of their temples and some were arrested. Today not much has changed. the Orthodox Jewish community in Israel and the US has had many examples of covid-19 infection due to their defiance to quarantine rules. Not much has changed. Just days ago some members of the Orthodox Jewish community in New York City did a funeral procession defying quarantine rule:
Eventually, places of entertainment and churches largely reopened while school closures remained. While some stayed home in fear of infection, Americans by and large left their homes en-masse to enjoy themselves. Chicago was still gradually lifting quarantine restrictions, but metropolitan centers like Kanas City, New Orleans, Cleveland and Seattle saw an inundation of people wanting to enjoy entertainment like boxing matches, theaters and baseball games. The seats were crowded for these spectacles. What made crowds even bigger was the end of the First World War when Americans went to the theaters, the bowling alleys and sporting events to celebrate the end of the war. But, it was not an astute decision to allow such crowding, since there would be eventually a second spike in influenza infection. J. Alexander Navarro, assistant director of the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and the co-editor of the Influenza Encyclopedia, noted:
“The cautionary tale is that these measures have to be kept in place a lot longer than people think. When you think you’re on the other side of that peak, really you’re just still flattening the curve … You haven’t really crested yet. We still have a population that is susceptible until you can get vaccines or until you get enough people who have gotten sick and recovered and have immunity, you still have a population of people who are susceptible to this novel strain.”
What the quarantine rules that were implemented in 1918 teach us is that they worked. According to a 2007 study done by PNAS, “cities in which multiple interventions were implemented at an early phase of the epidemic had peak death rates ≈50% lower than those that did not and had less-steep epidemic curves.” Essentially, what these rules did was ‘flatten the curve,’ lowering the rate of infection so as to not overwhelm the medical infrastructure of the country. Philadelphia had a devastatingly hight rate of infection because it did not follow protocol. For example, the city did not cancel a World War One parade on September 28th in which around a quarter of a million people arrived to see the procession and hear the marching bands. Within 72 hours of the parade, all of the beds in Philadelphia’s thirty one hospitals were filled. By October 5th, about 2,600 people in Philadelphia died.
A week later, the number shot up to over 4,500 deaths. Many of the city’s health professionals were serving in the war, and Philadelphia’s medical infrastructure did not have the capacity for such a level of infection and death. On October 3rd, the city’s officials essentially shutdown Philadelphia, forcing almost all public places, including schools, churches, theaters and pool halls, to close down. The death rate was so high that morgues were not able to keep up with the numbers of bodies. It got so bad that families had to bury their dead on their own. The prices of caskets surged.
The phrase “bodies stacked like cordwood” became a common saying. Just as some today have been saying that covid-19 is a Chinese bio-weapon, there were even news reports about how influenza was a biological weapon of the Germans. But the real cause of the problem was the initial carelessness of the city. Philadelphia’s health director, Wilmer Krusen, publicly affirmed that influenza was not a threat, and belittled it as “old-fashioned influenza or grip.” Basically, Krusen was saying that it was ‘just a flu’, which is what many have said and have been saying about covid-19. It was Krusen’s trivializing of the threat that led to the parade being allowed and, in turn, the deaths of thousands.
Krusen belittled the situation knowing fully well that the country’s monthly draft call-up had been cancelled because army camps, such as the nearby Camp Dix in New Jersey and Camp Meade in Maryland, were full of infections from the deadly influenza. Krusen did not want to tell the truth of the virus supposedly in fear that it would cause panic. He was also pressured by corporate interests as he was under extreme pressure to meet bond quotas for the war. As the contagion devastated the city, Krusen tried to implement proper measures, according to Smithsonian Magazine:
“After his initial failure to prevent the epidemic from exploding, Wilmer Krusen had attempted to address the crisis, largely in vain. He asked the U.S. army to stop drafting local doctors, appropriated funds to hire more medical workers, mobilized the sanitation department to clean the city, and perhaps most important, clear bodies from the street. It was too little too late. On a single October day, 759 people died in the city and more than 12,000 Philadelphians would die in a matter of weeks.”
When Philadelphia finally did shutdown, the city’s publication, the Inquirer, complained on March 5th: “The authorities seem to be going daft. What are they trying to do, scare everybody to death?” Sailers in Boston who were infected were sent to the Philadelphia Naval Yard because ‘there was a war to fight’, and within days of their arrival 600 men were in the hospital infected and two of them died. The next day, 14 were infected, and the next day it was 20 infections. Sailers, infected with influenza, were sent to New Orleans, Puget Sound Naval Yard in Washington State, the Great Lakes Training Station near Chicago, and to Quebec. The virus traveled from base to base, from fleet to trains, and the war helped spread the disease that would kill 100 million people.
Howard Markel, director of the University of Michigan’s Center for the History of Medicine, did a study on the role that quarantining had in containing 1918 influenza and showed how when St. Louis loosened up its social distancing measures flu deaths started to rise once again. The study demonstrated how the second spike of deaths only appeared when cities got rid of their social distancing measures. Markel stated: “Among the 43 cities, we found no example of a city that had a second peak of influenza while the first set of nonpharmaceutical interventions were still in effect.” The 2007 study by PNAS concluded that “no city in our analysis experienced a second wave while its main battery of [nonpharmaceutical interventions] was in place. Second waves occurred only after the relaxation of interventions.”
Many Americans complied with social distancing laws for weeks and, in some places in the country, for months. According to Markel, a potential explanation as to why Americans complied easily was because they were used to diseases, and pretty much everyone had a relative, be it parents, aunts and uncles, who died of a disease. People, in the words of Markel, “were all used to living through epidemics all the time. There was a flu epidemic in the 1890s. There was a bad polio epidemic in 1916. There were diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), measles, chicken pox, and smallpox epidemics during that period … Contagious diseases and their deadly effects were part of people’s lives. So they understood when the doctor quarantined them what that meant.”
Quarantine works. And no, its not ‘unprecedented,’ but was done before and is part of anti-pandemic policy.
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shoebat--2020-04-21--Trump Is Going To Suspend Immigration Because Of Covid-19 And Conservatives Will Agree

While conservatives are saying that government policies against coronavirus spread are not necessary because the virus is “ overblown , @ @ @ @ @ to agree with Trump using Covid-19 to justify suspending immigration :

By Theodore Shoebat
While conservatives are saying that government policies against coronavirus spread are not necessary because the virus is “overblown,” the will not hesitate to agree with Trump using Covid-19 to justify suspending immigration:
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shoebat--2020-04-21--Major Russian Media Outlet Reports There Are At Least Eight Million Migrants In Russia Doing Jobs Th

Major Russian Media Outlet Reports There Are At Least Eight Million Migrants In Russia Doing Jobs That Russians Won’t Do

Migration in Russia is similar to the US , where it is used as a political football by nationalist types .
However , it has a slightly different tone in Russia due to her history with her neighbors .
In modern times , Russia is facing an unprecedented crisis of mass migration in combination with a massive population drop off .
However , according to Pravda , Russia has at least eight million labor migrants , who do the jobs that Russian do not do .
[ Q : ] Alexander Lvovich , how large is the number of labor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ A : ] It can be assumed that in total we have up to 8 million migrants on our territory .
These are those that can more or less be taken into account .
[ Q : ] Still , they will somehow strive to find a job .
Will Russian citizens lose their jobs ?
Migrants are cheaper , but it is difficult for business now .
How to solve this ?
[ A : ] The Russians , I believe , should not be worried .
Migrants have always worked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go .
The proportions that have developed in terms of the distribution of the employment structure among Russian citizens and migrants will remain .
They can slightly change , as it was during the crisis of 2008-2009 , 2015 , but then all this comes to its balance again .
Migrants work in unskilled jobs , in difficult conditions , with difficult working conditions , poorly paid , where high qualifications are not needed .
Imagine that all bodybuilders – specialists in physical education and weight lifting will go to the construction sites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course , is a utopia .
So migrants will not become competitors to our citizens .
( source ) This answer is basically the situation that the US has .
Indeed , Russia and the US are mirrors of each other in many ways .
The migration issue overseas is not significantly different in its essence than that in the US , and its end is generally the same .
While it is criticized , it is also needed , and without it such is highly unlikely for either nation to have reached @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they both have attained .
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Migration in Russia is similar to the US, where it is used as a political football by nationalist types. However, it has a slightly different tone in Russia due to her history with her neighbors. In modern times, Russia is facing an unprecedented crisis of mass migration in combination with a massive population drop off. However, according to Pravda, Russia has at least eight million labor migrants, who do the jobs that Russian do not do.
[Q:] Alexander Lvovich, how large is the number of labor migrants who have not left Russia? [A:] It can be assumed that in total we have up to 8 million migrants on our territory. These are those that can more or less be taken into account. … [Q:] Still, they will somehow strive to find a job. Will Russian citizens lose their jobs? Migrants are cheaper, but it is difficult for business now. How to solve this? [A:] The Russians, I believe, should not be worried. Migrants have always worked in sectors where our citizens did not go. The proportions that have developed in terms of the distribution of the employment structure among Russian citizens and migrants will remain. They can slightly change, as it was during the crisis of 2008-2009, 2015, but then all this comes to its balance again. Migrants work in unskilled jobs, in difficult conditions, with difficult working conditions, poorly paid, where high qualifications are not needed. Imagine that all bodybuilders – specialists in physical education and weight lifting will go to the construction sites of the country, this, of course, is a utopia. So migrants will not become competitors to our citizens. (source)
This answer is basically the situation that the US has. Indeed, Russia and the US are mirrors of each other in many ways. The migration issue overseas is not significantly different in its essence than that in the US, and its end is generally the same. While it is criticized, it is also needed, and without it such is highly unlikely for either nation to have reached the levels of power and influence which they both have attained.
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shoebat--2020-04-22--Covid-19 Has Wiped Out Over 17,000 People In The UK So Far

Before you say “ its just a flue , ” over 17,000 people have been wiped out by covid-19 in @ @ @ @ @ , while the flue kills thousands in a year .
As we read in a @ @ @ @ @ total of 17,337 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospitals in Britain @ @ @ @ @ on the figure published 24 hours earlier , health ministry data showed on Tuesday .
@ @ @ @ @ of the new coronavirus has risen to 129,044 .
The UK daily hospital death toll @ @ @ @ @ 980 on April 9 , but then oscillated between 717 and around 917 before falling @ @ @ @ @ and 449 on April 19 .

By Theodore Shoebat
Before you say “its just a flue,” over 17,000 people have been wiped out by covid-19 in just a matter of weeks, while the flue kills thousands in a year. As we read in a report from Reuters:
A total of 17,337 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospitals in Britain, an increase of 828 on the figure published 24 hours earlier, health ministry data showed on Tuesday.
The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus has risen to 129,044.
The UK daily hospital death toll rose to a peak of 980 on April 9, but then oscillated between 717 and around 917 before falling to 596 on April 18 and 449 on April 19.


shoebat--2020-04-22--Seven People Get Infected With Coronavirus While Taking Part In Wisconsin’s Primary Election

At least seven people got infected with coronavirus while partaking in Wisconsin ’ s primary election , as we read @ @ @ @ @ seven people contracted the coronavirus during Wisconsin ’ s primary election on April 7 , @ @ @ @ @ Tuesday , confirming fears that holding in-person voting during the health crisis put people at @ @ @ @ @ include six voters and one poll worker in Milwaukee , the state ’ s largest @ @ @ @ @ voting locations were pared back to five and there were hours-long lines to cast ballots @ @ @ @ @ Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik confirmed .
The number of election-related infections could grow as the @ @ @ @ @ Wednesday , health officials said .

By Theodore Shoebat
At least seven people got infected with coronavirus while partaking in Wisconsin’s primary election, as we read in Reuters:
At least seven people contracted the coronavirus during Wisconsin’s primary election on April 7, Milwaukee health officials said on Tuesday, confirming fears that holding in-person voting during the health crisis put people at risk.
The seven cases include six voters and one poll worker in Milwaukee, the state’s largest city, where nearly 200 voting locations were pared back to five and there were hours-long lines to cast ballots, the office of Milwaukee Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik confirmed.
The number of election-related infections could grow as the 14-day incubation period ends on Wednesday, health officials said.


shoebat--2020-04-22--Islamic Terrorists Tell People To Join Their Cause Of Jihad, The People Refuse. The Islamic Terroris

Islamic Terrorists Tell People To Join Their Cause Of Jihad, The People Refuse. The Islamic Terrorists Then Take Fifty Two People And Slaughter Them All

Islamic terrorists in Mozambique demanded that people join their cause and when they refused they slaughtered 52 people .
In @ @ @ @ @ , remember that the virus of human evil is the greatest of all viruses .
@ @ @ @ @ report from Reuters : About 52 villagers in Mozambique ’ s troubled northernmost province were @ @ @ @ @ April 7 after they refused to be recruited to their ranks , police said on @ @ @ @ @ men were about to be recruited but they resisted , which provoked the ire of @ @ @ @ @ 52 indiscriminately , ” police spokesman Orlando Modumane said .
The killings took place in @ @ @ @ @ Muidumbe district in the province of Cabo Delgado , home to multi-billion-dollar gas projects led @ @ @ @ @ Total .

By Theodore Shoebat
Islamic terrorists in Mozambique demanded that people join their cause and when they refused they slaughtered 52 people. In the midst of this coronavirus, remember that the virus of human evil is the greatest of all viruses. As we read in a report from Reuters:
About 52 villagers in Mozambique’s troubled northernmost province were killed by Islamist insurgents on April 7 after they refused to be recruited to their ranks, police said on Tuesday.
“The young men were about to be recruited but they resisted, which provoked the ire of the bandits that killed the 52 indiscriminately,” police spokesman Orlando Modumane said.
The killings took place in the village of Xitaxi in Muidumbe district in the province of Cabo Delgado, home to multi-billion-dollar gas projects led by oil majors such as Total.


shoebat--2020-04-21--WHO Declares That Lifting The Quarantine Now Will Cause A Worse Spread Of The Virus In The Future

Pandemics are fun for no one , but political will can not change the nature of them .
As Shoebat.com has warned , very little is understood about COVID-19 , and the tremendous amount of disinformation is a serious threat to getting a proper understanding of the virus and being able to help people .
As always , caution is encouraged before action .
However , many people do not understand , agree with , or appreciate this , and as a result many are upset and want to ‘ get back to work ’ when there is much more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the World Health Organization , which Trump has heavily criticized , is warning that if quarantine procedures are not followed , a future outbreak of this disease could be worse than the current one .
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , the director-general of the World Health Organization , warned on Monday that “ the worst is yet ahead of us ” if the world doesn ’ t unite to fight the coronavirus pandemic .
“ Without national unity and global solidarity , trust us , the worst is yet ahead of us , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tedros compared the virus to the 1918 flu that killed 675,000 people in the US and tens of millions of people around the world .
But he argued that the world now has the technology to prevent “ that kind of crisis.
” “ Let ’ s prevent this tragedy , ” he said .
“ It ’ s a virus that many people still don ’ t understand.
” ( source ) Unfortunately , many people are not willing to wait .
Instead , people have been protesting and even going so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to advocate for their cause , such as what happened recently in Pennsylvania .
There are a lot of upset people .
It is very understandable .
However , one can not rush pandemics lest one make them worse , and unfortunately , there are many , especially in the American right , who are trying to forcibly “ rush ” through this .
Perhaps instead of getting mad at the WHO and doctors , people could get angry with corporations who forced policies whereby reducing wages and creating unsustainable supply chains for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the average man to save money and plan for future issues .
Perhaps some of that rage would be better directed at the particular individuals in finance , business , industry , and information services who have been robbing the public in the name of patriotism and have been able to acquire billions of dollars .
Perhaps some of that rage would be better spent looking at who is encouraging these protests and who pays them , and seeing if names or groups tied to these same individuals in finance , business @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But that will not be encouraged , because that might lead to a real change .
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Pandemics are fun for no one, but political will cannot change the nature of them. As Shoebat.com has warned, very little is understood about COVID-19, and the tremendous amount of disinformation is a serious threat to getting a proper understanding of the virus and being able to help people. As always, caution is encouraged before action. However, many people do not understand, agree with, or appreciate this, and as a result many are upset and want to ‘get back to work’ when there is much more happening here. Business Insider reports that the World Health Organization, which Trump has heavily criticized, is warning that if quarantine procedures are not followed, a future outbreak of this disease could be worse than the current one.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, warned on Monday that “the worst is yet ahead of us” if the world doesn’t unite to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “Without national unity and global solidarity, trust us, the worst is yet ahead of us,” he said during a press briefing. Tedros compared the virus to the 1918 flu that killed 675,000 people in the US and tens of millions of people around the world. But he argued that the world now has the technology to prevent “that kind of crisis.” “Let’s prevent this tragedy,” he said. “It’s a virus that many people still don’t understand.” (source)
Unfortunately, many people are not willing to wait. Instead, people have been protesting and even going so far as to wave guns in public to advocate for their cause, such as what happened recently in Pennsylvania.
There are a lot of upset people. It is very understandable. However, one cannot rush pandemics lest one make them worse, and unfortunately, there are many, especially in the American right, who are trying to forcibly “rush” through this.
Perhaps instead of getting mad at the WHO and doctors, people could get angry with corporations who forced policies whereby reducing wages and creating unsustainable supply chains for short-term profit, they destroyed the ability of the average man to save money and plan for future issues.
Perhaps some of that rage would be better directed at the particular individuals in finance, business, industry, and information services who have been robbing the public in the name of patriotism and have been able to acquire billions of dollars.
Perhaps some of that rage would be better spent looking at who is encouraging these protests and who pays them, and seeing if names or groups tied to these same individuals in finance, business, industry, and information services overlap.
But that will not be encouraged, because that might lead to a real change.
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shoebat--2020-04-21--Bank Of America Expects Gold Prices To Nearly Double Because “The Fed Can’t Print Gold”

I have emphasized in my writings that in troubled times , one needs to seek out the use of “ hard ” assets as a means of wealth preservation .
Paper money of any kind can drop to a value of nothing , but gold and silver can not because the value they have is contained in their nature as metals .
Therefore , it is why they are historically considered to be strong ways of preserving value , especially during troubled times .
In a report from Zero Hedge , the Bank of America has just said that amid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see gold prices nearly double to $ 3000 for one ounce .
Back in April 2011 , just before gold exploded to a record above $ 1,900 following the US credit rating downgrade , we first said – and Kyle Bass echoed – that the main reason behind our long-running , bullish view on gold is that the Fed can ’ t print gold , unlike every other asset .
Today , with a 9 year delay , Bank of America has caught up with where we were at the start of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have said – consistently each day for over 11 years – says that while “ the size of major central bank balance sheets has been stable at 21 to 28 % of GDP in the past decade just like the gold price ” things are changing rapidly and “ as central banks & governments double their balance sheets & fiscal deficits we up our 18m gold target from $ 2000 to $ 3000/oz.
” And while it ’ s not all smooth sailing , with the bank warning that “ a strong USD @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and weak jewelry demand in India & China may remain headwinds ” , it is now clear that even Wall Street ’ s agenda is aligned with that of all those who have been calling that the biggest beneficiary of central bank lunacy will be the “ barbarous relic ” , one which according to the most clueless person of the 21st century only had value because it was “ tradition.
” And yet here we are , when one of the biggest US banks just said that gold is the “ ultimate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : a pathological liar ( i.e.
, a central banker ) or someone who finally sees the light ?
Incidentally , the name of the BofA report was “ The Fed can ’ t print gold ” , which was a delightful flashback to what we said some nine years ago .
( source ) The Federal Reserve Bank can print as much money as she wants , but gold can not be printed .
Alchemists have tried to do this for centuries and failed , and central banks today can suppress the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ silver , but not the actual price .
As more money printing happens , which it will , the US dollar will continue to decline in value .
However , those in hard assets , one of these forms being metals , will be able to have one preserve his value over time .
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I have emphasized in my writings that in troubled times, one needs to seek out the use of “hard” assets as a means of wealth preservation. Paper money of any kind can drop to a value of nothing, but gold and silver cannot because the value they have is contained in their nature as metals. Therefore, it is why they are historically considered to be strong ways of preserving value, especially during troubled times.
In a report from Zero Hedge, the Bank of America has just said that amid the COVID-19 crisis, she expects to see gold prices nearly double to $3000 for one ounce.
Back in April 2011, just before gold exploded to a record above $1,900 following the US credit rating downgrade, we first said – and Kyle Bass echoed – that the main reason behind our long-running, bullish view on gold is that the Fed can’t print gold , unlike every other asset. Today, with a 9 year delay, Bank of America has caught up with where we were at the start of the decade, and repeating virtually everything we have said – consistently each day for over 11 years – says that while “the size of major central bank balance sheets has been stable at 21 to 28% of GDP in the past decade just like the gold price” things are changing rapidly and “as central banks & governments double their balance sheets & fiscal deficits we up our 18m gold target from $2000 to $3000/oz.” And while it’s not all smooth sailing, with the bank warning that “a strong USD backdrop, falling equity market volatility, and weak jewelry demand in India & China may remain headwinds”, it is now clear that even Wall Street’s agenda is aligned with that of all those who have been calling that the biggest beneficiary of central bank lunacy will be the “barbarous relic”, one which according to the most clueless person of the 21st century only had value because it was “tradition.” And yet here we are, when one of the biggest US banks just said that gold is the “ultimate store of value.” Who to believe: a pathological liar (i.e., a central banker) or someone who finally sees the light? Incidentally, the name of the BofA report was “The Fed can’t print gold”, which was a delightful flashback to what we said some nine years ago. (source)
The Federal Reserve Bank can print as much money as she wants, but gold cannot be printed. Alchemists have tried to do this for centuries and failed, and central banks today can suppress the price using paper contracts for gold or silver, but not the actual price.
As more money printing happens, which it will, the US dollar will continue to decline in value. However, those in hard assets, one of these forms being metals, will be able to have one preserve his value over time.
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shoebat--2020-04-21--Kim Jong Un May Be Very Sick

Kim Jong Un May Be Very Sick

The infamous leader of North Korea , Kim Jong Un , is reportedly very ill. With limited sources available to provide details , Foreign Policy magazine is asking if the reclusive dictator is still alive .
Whether or not the North Korean leader is dead , gravely ill , recovering , or perfectly fine is still unknown and most likely will be until anything official is released from Pyongyang .
The only thing we can say for certain is that Kim failed to show up for “ The Day of the Sun , ” on April 15 , which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the country ’ s founder and eternal president .
And something like that is noteworthy since it ’ s arguably the nation ’ s single-most important day .
“ It ’ s difficult to interpret North Korea , and they have certain patterns that create expectations in our part , ” said John Delury , a professor of East Asian studies at Yonsei University in Seoul .
“ The pattern that we expect is that Kim Jong Un would appear on the anniversary of his grandfather ’ s birth , so when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kind of opened the door to a lot of speculation.
” “ It would be a major shock to the system if he really died , and North Korea would go through a transition period .
Not an unstable one , it ’ s going to be a stable transition period , ” Go said .
( source )

The infamous leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, is reportedly very ill. With limited sources available to provide details, Foreign Policy magazine is asking if the reclusive dictator is still alive.
Whether or not the North Korean leader is dead, gravely ill, recovering, or perfectly fine is still unknown and most likely will be until anything official is released from Pyongyang. The only thing we can say for certain is that Kim failed to show up for “The Day of the Sun,” on April 15, which is the birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country’s founder and eternal president. And something like that is noteworthy since it’s arguably the nation’s single-most important day. “It’s difficult to interpret North Korea, and they have certain patterns that create expectations in our part,” said John Delury, a professor of East Asian studies at Yonsei University in Seoul. “The pattern that we expect is that Kim Jong Un would appear on the anniversary of his grandfather’s birth, so when that didn’t happen, that kind of opened the door to a lot of speculation.” … “It would be a major shock to the system if he really died, and North Korea would go through a transition period. Not an unstable one, it’s going to be a stable transition period,” Go said. (source)
It would be interesting to see what happens to North Korea if Kim Jong Un is dead. The nation is very small and weak, but is in a critical location between China, Russia, Japan, and US influence in East Asia, and anything which happens in that nation could have major effects on the stability of the region. It also could not come at a more tense period, when the US has been loosening the post-World War II shackles imposed upon Japan, China has been attempting to take a more aggressive world posture along with Russia, and China is suffering from a serious public relations problem with her handling of the COVID-19 issue as well as many problems pertaining to agriculture and economy.
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shoebat--2020-04-21--Home Sales Take Serious Drop, Houses Fall Off Of The Market

CNBC reports that the housing market has suffered a serious decline due to the COVID-19 crisis , with a 8.5 % decline and possibly a 30 % to 40 % decline later this year .
Sales of existing homes fell a wider-than-expected 8.5 % in March compared with February to an annualized pace of 5.27 million units , according to the National Association of Realtors ’ seasonally adjusted index .
Sales were just 0.8 % higher than in March 2019 .
These sales figures are based on closings that represent contracts signed mostly in late January and February , before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the economy .
“ We saw the stock market correction in late February , ” said Lawrence Yun , chief economist at the NAR .
“ The first half of March held on reasonably well , but it was the second half of March where we saw a measurable decline in sales activity.
” Yun indicated sales could fall as much as 30 % to 40 % in the coming months .
( source ) The housing market is oversupplied and overpriced .
It needs badly a market adjustment .
However , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about a strong currency because as I have stated before , the issue is one of currency and debt .
The US dollar is being overprinted intentionally .
It was in a bad position before , and historically on the way to needing to be discarded and revived under a “ new dollar ” , but the virus has been used as an excuse to expedite this process .
The housing market should be expected to continue to suffer as long as the currency declines because if people do not have jobs and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ value of their money continues to be destroyed , it is not possible or is a foolish decision for most to invest in a home .
Expect to see renting continue to rise as a trend .
However , this does not necessarily mean income for renters , since there is talk of orders from the government of demanding that renters provide their tenants with a year of free rent , although no such law has yet to pass .
What is happening right now is a giant , spiraling economic mess that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being exposed for what is really is .
There is going to be a lot more hardship in the years to come , and as the situation worsens , a lot of people will be forced into poverty .
If anything , one should expect to see a lot more empty , half-constructed , or rotting houses as those who can not live there any more are forced to leave , and with no one to purchase them , leaving them to return to nature .
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CNBC reports that the housing market has suffered a serious decline due to the COVID-19 crisis, with a 8.5% decline and possibly a 30% to 40% decline later this year.
Sales of existing homes fell a wider-than-expected 8.5% in March compared with February to an annualized pace of 5.27 million units, according to the National Association of Realtors’ seasonally adjusted index.
Sales were just 0.8% higher than in March 2019. These sales figures are based on closings that represent contracts signed mostly in late January and February, before the coronavirus shut down so much of the economy. “We saw the stock market correction in late February,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the NAR. “The first half of March held on reasonably well, but it was the second half of March where we saw a measurable decline in sales activity.” Yun indicated sales could fall as much as 30% to 40% in the coming months. (source)
The housing market is oversupplied and overpriced. It needs badly a market adjustment. However, the current economic realignment will not help bring about a strong currency because as I have stated before, the issue is one of currency and debt.
The US dollar is being overprinted intentionally. It was in a bad position before, and historically on the way to needing to be discarded and revived under a “new dollar”, but the virus has been used as an excuse to expedite this process. The housing market should be expected to continue to suffer as long as the currency declines because if people do not have jobs and for those who have jobs, the value of their money continues to be destroyed, it is not possible or is a foolish decision for most to invest in a home.
Expect to see renting continue to rise as a trend. However, this does not necessarily mean income for renters, since there is talk of orders from the government of demanding that renters provide their tenants with a year of free rent, although no such law has yet to pass.
What is happening right now is a giant, spiraling economic mess that has built up for decades and is being exposed for what is really is. There is going to be a lot more hardship in the years to come, and as the situation worsens, a lot of people will be forced into poverty.
If anything, one should expect to see a lot more empty, half-constructed, or rotting houses as those who cannot live there any more are forced to leave, and with no one to purchase them, leaving them to return to nature.
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shoebat--2020-04-22--Get Ready Because CDC Admits The Second Wave Of COVID-19 Will Likely Be Worse

A lot of people have been criticizing the WHO , but what about the CDC ?
They are American , and obviously would seem to want to support American interests .
According to a recent report by way of ThompsonReuters , the CDC is declaring that the second wave of COVID-19 will likely be deadlier than the first .
A second wave of the coronavirus is expected to hit the United States next winter and could strike much harder than the first because it would likely arrive at the start of influenza season , the director of the Centers for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ There ’ s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through , ” CDC Director Robert Redfield told the Washington Post in an interview .
As the current outbreak continues to taper off , as shown by a recent decline in hospitalization rates and other indicators , authorities need to prepare for a probable resurgence in the months ahead .
“ We ’ re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he said , and the combination would put even greater strain on the nation ’ s healthcare system than the first outbreak .
( source ) Is the CDC lying ?
Or are they part of an anti-American conspiracy as well ?
What interest does the CDC have to lie to the public ?
What economic benefit would it serve ?
And before saying “ the elite want this ” or “ Bill Gates wants this ” , ask yourself , who are “ the elite ” , and what would Bill Gates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it be that perhaps certain strains of COVID-19 ( not all strains , but absolutely certain ones ) are actually very serious and can kill you ?
Could it be that the people supposedly who want to “ shut down ” the economy really want it to open up again , and the negative attention focused on them is meant to get a man to support the opposite view ?
Perhaps instead of rushing towards a nationalistic approach , one might consider if this is the avenue that is desired for the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is being offered to get people to support something that is not good .
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A lot of people have been criticizing the WHO, but what about the CDC? They are American, and obviously would seem to want to support American interests. According to a recent report by way of ThompsonReuters, the CDC is declaring that the second wave of COVID-19 will likely be deadlier than the first.
A second wave of the coronavirus is expected to hit the United States next winter and could strike much harder than the first because it would likely arrive at the start of influenza season, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Tuesday. “There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” CDC Director Robert Redfield told the Washington Post in an interview. As the current outbreak continues to taper off, as shown by a recent decline in hospitalization rates and other indicators, authorities need to prepare for a probable resurgence in the months ahead. “We’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time,” he said, and the combination would put even greater strain on the nation’s healthcare system than the first outbreak. (source)
Is the CDC lying? Or are they part of an anti-American conspiracy as well?
What interest does the CDC have to lie to the public? What economic benefit would it serve? And before saying “the elite want this” or “Bill Gates wants this”, ask yourself, who are “the elite”, and what would Bill Gates serve to benefit from this?
Could it be that perhaps certain strains of COVID-19 (not all strains, but absolutely certain ones) are actually very serious and can kill you?
Could it be that the people supposedly who want to “shut down” the economy really want it to open up again, and the negative attention focused on them is meant to get a man to support the opposite view?
Perhaps instead of rushing towards a nationalistic approach, one might consider if this is the avenue that is desired for the world to choose and the illusion of choice is being offered to get people to support something that is not good.
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shoebat--2020-04-22--Georgia Decides Amid A Spreading Disease Crisis, It Is A Good Time To “Re-Open”

When disease spreads , is it a good thing to allow for the conditions to enable its spread ?
It appears that the State of Georgia may think so , as she is preparing to “ re-open ” even while the threat of COVID-19 continues to grow as ThompsonReuters points out .
A handful of mostly southern U.S. states will begin loosening economic restrictions this week in the midst of a still virulent pandemic , providing a live-fire test of whether America ’ s communities can start to reopen without triggering a surge that may force them to close again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ South Carolina , Tennessee and Ohio all announced on Monday they would begin peeling back the curbs on commerce and social activity aimed at stopping the coronavirus outbreak over the next two weeks .
Colorado ’ s Democratic governor said on Tuesday he would open retail stores on May 1 .
Georgia has been hardest-hit of these states , with 19,000 cases and nearly 800 deaths , including a dense cluster in the state ’ s southwest .
Amid a national debate over how to fight the virus while mitigating the deep economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to test the borders of resuming “ normal ” life .
None of the states have met basic White House guidelines unveiled last week of two weeks of declining cases before a state should reopen .
Most are weeks away from the timing suggested in modeling by the influential Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ( IHME ) , based on the virus ’ s spread and social distancing .
With farmers , small business owners , and larger industries teetering on the edge , “ I see the terrible impact on public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said .
( source )

When disease spreads, is it a good thing to allow for the conditions to enable its spread? It appears that the State of Georgia may think so, as she is preparing to “re-open” even while the threat of COVID-19 continues to grow as ThompsonReuters points out.
A handful of mostly southern U.S. states will begin loosening economic restrictions this week in the midst of a still virulent pandemic, providing a live-fire test of whether America’s communities can start to reopen without triggering a surge that may force them to close again.
The Republican governors of Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Ohio all announced on Monday they would begin peeling back the curbs on commerce and social activity aimed at stopping the coronavirus outbreak over the next two weeks. Colorado’s Democratic governor said on Tuesday he would open retail stores on May 1.
Georgia has been hardest-hit of these states, with 19,000 cases and nearly 800 deaths, including a dense cluster in the state’s southwest. Amid a national debate over how to fight the virus while mitigating the deep economic toll, these moves are the first to test the borders of resuming “normal” life.
None of the states have met basic White House guidelines unveiled last week of two weeks of declining cases before a state should reopen. Most are weeks away from the timing suggested in modeling by the influential Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), based on the virus’s spread and social distancing.
With farmers, small business owners, and larger industries teetering on the edge, “I see the terrible impact on public health as well as the pocketbook,” Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said. (source)


shoebat--2020-04-22--Saudi Arabia Is NOT Crushing The US Energy Sector, This Is What America Wants

Recently , the Conservative news site Big League Politics put out a piece saying that Saudi Arabia is attempting to destroy American energy independence .
Saudi Arabia is sending more than a dozen oil tankers to unload a massive supply of cheap oil into the American natural gas market , in what some are calling an attempt to seriously cripple the American energy industry .
Oil went ‘ negative ’ for the first time , meaning that traders were paying buyers to take the fuel supply off their hands .
Demand for fuel has decreased significantly as a result of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s state-run oil company Aramco has sent a fleet of twenty oil tankers to the United States following a refusal by the Russian Federation to ramp down on oil production .
This is around seven times the monthly standard export supply of oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States , and it ’ s peculiar that it ’ s arriving at a moment where the demand from fuel is lower from ever .
( source ) Stories like this are a good time to examine how various attempts at propaganda work .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The obvious proof is ARAMCO- the Arab American oil company -that all Saudi oil flows through .
Saudi Arabia gets a steady flow of oil selling to the US , and in exchange the US provides political , economic , social , and food stability for Saudi Arabia as well as lets her get away with whatever she wants in the Arabian Peninsula , such as the genocide of Yeminis while she sells Saudi Arabia cheap weapons ( one can thank Trump for this ) .
The Saudis need the US .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be immediately invaded , most likely by Turkey and backed by Iran , as both nations would look with sadistic glee at the opportunity to khazouk the entire House of Saud .
The fear of the Turkish khazouk is more than enough to make the Saudis quickly submit to American assistance .
America ’ s energy sector is truly being forced out of production for the time , but the US doesn ’ t care because she buys most of her oil from Saudi Arabia .
This is not going to change @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US .
The existence of that country in its current form is because of the American influence in her .
The country that actually is getting crushed is Russia .
Since the nation has no economy save for the export of raw materials and making cheap weapons , of which the majority is the former and in than constitutes primarily exporting crude oil , Russia is the biggest loser .
She is the world ’ s largest oil holder , one of the world ’ s largest producers , and because her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she can not sell oil , the worse her economy becomes .
It really is that simple .
Ignor distractions such as “ look at what Saudi Arabia did ” , because she is just a puppet in the American patriotic show meant to distract the world and her people .
The real issue are the policies , and the one being targeted is Russia .
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Recently, the Conservative news site Big League Politics put out a piece saying that Saudi Arabia is attempting to destroy American energy independence.
Saudi Arabia is sending more than a dozen oil tankers to unload a massive supply of cheap oil into the American natural gas market, in what some are calling an attempt to seriously cripple the American energy industry.
Oil went ‘negative’ for the first time, meaning that traders were paying buyers to take the fuel supply off their hands. Demand for fuel has decreased significantly as a result of the coronavirus recession. Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil company Aramco has sent a fleet of twenty oil tankers to the United States following a refusal by the Russian Federation to ramp down on oil production. This is around seven times the monthly standard export supply of oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States, and it’s peculiar that it’s arriving at a moment where the demand from fuel is lower from ever. (source)
Stories like this are a good time to examine how various attempts at propaganda work.
Saudi Arabia and America are best friends. The obvious proof is ARAMCO- the Arab American oil company -that all Saudi oil flows through.
Saudi Arabia gets a steady flow of oil selling to the US, and in exchange the US provides political, economic, social, and food stability for Saudi Arabia as well as lets her get away with whatever she wants in the Arabian Peninsula, such as the genocide of Yeminis while she sells Saudi Arabia cheap weapons (one can thank Trump for this).
The Saudis need the US. If the US pulled out, she would be immediately invaded, most likely by Turkey and backed by Iran, as both nations would look with sadistic glee at the opportunity to khazouk the entire House of Saud. The fear of the Turkish khazouk is more than enough to make the Saudis quickly submit to American assistance.
America’s energy sector is truly being forced out of production for the time, but the US doesn’t care because she buys most of her oil from Saudi Arabia. This is not going to change.
Saudi Arabia could not survive without the US. The existence of that country in its current form is because of the American influence in her.
The country that actually is getting crushed is Russia. Since the nation has no economy save for the export of raw materials and making cheap weapons, of which the majority is the former and in than constitutes primarily exporting crude oil, Russia is the biggest loser. She is the world’s largest oil holder, one of the world’s largest producers, and because her economy depends on it, the longer she cannot sell oil, the worse her economy becomes.
It really is that simple.
Ignor distractions such as “look at what Saudi Arabia did”, because she is just a puppet in the American patriotic show meant to distract the world and her people. The real issue are the policies, and the one being targeted is Russia.
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shoebat--2020-04-22--Oil Price Slaughter Continues, May Drop To -$100 Per Barrel

Oil futures contracts are being absolutely destroyed in a price war right now whose main target is Russia .
Following historically unprecedented events , Bloomberg reports by way of Zero Hedge that oil contracts on a per-barrel basis may drop to - $ 100 per barrel .
What also proven correct , just one month later , was Sankey ’ s apocryphal forecast when the May WTI contract crashed to negative $ 40 when it “ suddenly ” emerged that there is no place to store the hundreds of thousands of barrels of deliverable oil ( held mostly by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ correct , was Sankey content and does he now think that Monday ’ s insane price action ws the bottom ?
Oh no , not even close , because while sooner or later oil will soar – just as soon as the oil market shifts to a demand imbalance after millions of bpd in production has been indefinitely shut down and the global economy start to recover – in the meantime there is much more pain to come .
“ We have clearly gone to a full-scale , day-to-day market management crisis , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ victory lap , and then , talking to Bloomberg , he went a step further on Tuesday , saying : “ Will we hit negative $ 100 a barrel next month ?
Quite possibly.
” The reason : the ( lack of ) oil storage situation is going from bad to worse – something Reuters details so vividly in “ Ships , trains , caves : Oil traders chase storage space in world awash with fuel ” ( source )

Oil futures contracts are being absolutely destroyed in a price war right now whose main target is Russia. Following historically unprecedented events, Bloomberg reports by way of Zero Hedge that oil contracts on a per-barrel basis may drop to -$100 per barrel.
What also proven correct, just one month later, was Sankey’s apocryphal forecast when the May WTI contract crashed to negative $40 when it “suddenly” emerged that there is no place to store the hundreds of thousands of barrels of deliverable oil (held mostly by the USO ETF)…
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Having been proven correct, was Sankey content and does he now think that Monday’s insane price action ws the bottom?
Oh no, not even close, because while sooner or later oil will soar – just as soon as the oil market shifts to a demand imbalance after millions of bpd in production has been indefinitely shut down and the global economy start to recover – in the meantime there is much more pain to come.
“We have clearly gone to a full-scale, day-to-day market management crisis,” said Paul Sankey taking a modest victory lap, and then, talking to Bloomberg, he went a step further on Tuesday, saying: “Will we hit negative $100 a barrel next month? Quite possibly.”
The reason: the (lack of) oil storage situation is going from bad to worse – something Reuters details so vividly in “Ships, trains, caves: Oil traders chase storage space in world awash with fuel” (source)


shoebat--2020-04-22--COVID-19 Stops People From Bringing Home The Bacon As Tyson Foods Shuts Down Major Pork Plant

As COVID-19 continues to spread , it is causing more economic disruptions .
Meat processing is a serious one because meat packing plants are great areas where disease can spread easily due to the conditions .
As a result , following an outbreak of the current pandemic , another major pork plant is going to shut down as WAFF reports .
Tyson Foods suspended operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation ’ s pork supply but had been blamed for fueling a massive coronavirus outbreak in the community .
It had been running at reduced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but will stop production until further notice this week , KCRG reported .
The company said the indefinite closure of the Waterloo , Iowa , plant would deny a vital market to hog farmers and further disrupt the nation ’ s meat supply .
Tyson had kept the facility , its largest pork plant , open in recent days over the objections of local officials .
The plant can process 19,500 hogs per day , accounting for nearly 4 % of U.S. pork processing capacity , according to the National Pork Board @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that such things have to happen , but it is also necessary for public health .
It is important to try to “ stay open ” , but not at the cost of endangering a lot of people .
Pork prices will go up , but this is just an inconvenience for Americans .
Rather , considering that China depends on US pork imports , a topic I have covered before in the Shoebat archives , things should get very interesting .
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As COVID-19 continues to spread, it is causing more economic disruptions. Meat processing is a serious one because meat packing plants are great areas where disease can spread easily due to the conditions. As a result, following an outbreak of the current pandemic, another major pork plant is going to shut down as WAFF reports.
Tyson Foods suspended operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation’s pork supply but had been blamed for fueling a massive coronavirus outbreak in the community. It had been running at reduced levels of production due to worker absenteeism, but will stop production until further notice this week, KCRG reported. The company said the indefinite closure of the Waterloo, Iowa, plant would deny a vital market to hog farmers and further disrupt the nation’s meat supply. Tyson had kept the facility, its largest pork plant, open in recent days over the objections of local officials. The plant can process 19,500 hogs per day, accounting for nearly 4% of U.S. pork processing capacity, according to the National Pork Board. (source)
It is unfortunate that such things have to happen, but it is also necessary for public health. It is important to try to “stay open”, but not at the cost of endangering a lot of people.
Pork prices will go up, but this is just an inconvenience for Americans. Rather, considering that China depends on US pork imports, a topic I have covered before in the Shoebat archives, things should get very interesting.
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