newswars--2020-08-04--Planet orbiting small, cool star discovered

Using the supersharp radio “ vision ” of the National Science Foundation ’ s continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array ( VLBA ) , astronomers have discovered a Saturn-sized planet closely orbiting a small , cool star 35 light-years from Earth .
This is the first discovery of an extrasolar planet with a radio telescope using a technique that requires extremely precise measurements of a star ’ s position in the sky , and only the second planet discovery for that technique and for radio telescopes .
The technique has long been known , but has proven difficult to use .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ actual motion in space , then detecting a minuscule “ wobble ” in that motion caused by the gravitational effect of the planet .
The star and the planet orbit a location that represents the center of mass for both combined .
The planet is revealed indirectly if that location , called the barycenter , is far enough from the star ’ s center to cause a wobble detectable by a telescope .
This technique , called the astrometric technique , is expected to be particularly good for detecting Jupiter-like planets in orbits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because when a massive planet orbits a star , the wobble produced in the star increases with a larger separation between the planet and the star , and at a given distance from the star , the more massive the planet , the larger the wobble produced .
Starting in June of 2018 and continuing for a year and a half , the astronomers tracked a star called TVLM 513-46546 , a cool dwarf with less than a tenth the mass of our Sun .
In addition , they used data from nine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ March 2010 and August 2011 .
Extensive analysis of the data from those time periods revealed a telltale wobble in the star ’ s motion indicating the presence of a planet comparable in mass to Saturn , orbiting the star once every 221 days .
This planet is closer to the star than Mercury is to the Sun .
Small , cool stars like TVLM 513-46546 are the most numerous stellar type in our Milky Way Galaxy , and many of them have been found to have smaller planets , comparable to Earth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like Jupiter and Saturn , are expected to be rare around small stars like this one , and the astrometric technique is best at finding Jupiter-like planets in wide orbits , so we were surprised to find a lower mass , Saturn-like planet in a relatively compact orbit .
We expected to find a more massive planet , similar to Jupiter , in a wider orbit , ” said Salvador Curiel , of the National Autonomous University of Mexico .
“ Detecting the orbital motions of this sub-Jupiter mass planetary companion in such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” he added .
More than 4,200 planets have been discovered orbiting stars other than the Sun , but the planet around TVLM 513-46546 is only the second to be found using the astrometric technique .
Another , very successful method , called the radial velocity technique , also relies on the gravitational effect of the planet upon the star .
That technique detects the slight acceleration of the star , either toward or away from Earth , caused by the star ’ s motion around the barycenter .
“ Our method @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more sensitive to planets orbiting in close orbits , while ours is more sensitive to massive planets in orbits further away from the star , ” said Gisela Ortiz-Leon of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany .
“ Indeed , these other techniques have found only a few planets with characteristics such as planet mass , orbital size , and host star mass , similar to the planet we found .
We believe that the VLBA , and the astrometry technique in general , could reveal many more similar planets.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ transit method , also very successful , detects the slight dimming of the star ’ s light when a planet passes in front of it , as seen from Earth .
The astrometric method has been successful for detecting nearby binary star systems , and was recognized as early as the 19th Century as a potential means of discovering extrasolar planets .
Over the years , a number of such discoveries were announced , then failed to survive further scrutiny .
The difficulty has been that the stellar wobble produced by a planet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it requires extraordinary precision in the positional measurements .
“ The VLBA , with antennas separated by as much as 5,000 miles , provided us with the great resolving power and extremely high precision needed for this discovery , ” said Amy Mioduszewski , of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory .
“ In addition , improvements that have been made to the VLBA ’ s sensitivity gave us the data quality that made it possible to do this work now , ” she added .
Curiel , Ortiz-Leon , Mioduszewski , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Mexico , reported their findings in the Astronomical Journal .

Using the supersharp radio “vision” of the National Science Foundation’s continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have discovered a Saturn-sized planet closely orbiting a small, cool star 35 light-years from Earth.
This is the first discovery of an extrasolar planet with a radio telescope using a technique that requires extremely precise measurements of a star’s position in the sky, and only the second planet discovery for that technique and for radio telescopes.
The technique has long been known, but has proven difficult to use. It involves tracking the star’s actual motion in space, then detecting a minuscule “wobble” in that motion caused by the gravitational effect of the planet. The star and the planet orbit a location that represents the center of mass for both combined. The planet is revealed indirectly if that location, called the barycenter, is far enough from the star’s center to cause a wobble detectable by a telescope.
This technique, called the astrometric technique, is expected to be particularly good for detecting Jupiter-like planets in orbits distant from the star. This is because when a massive planet orbits a star, the wobble produced in the star increases with a larger separation between the planet and the star, and at a given distance from the star, the more massive the planet, the larger the wobble produced.
Starting in June of 2018 and continuing for a year and a half, the astronomers tracked a star called TVLM 513-46546, a cool dwarf with less than a tenth the mass of our Sun. In addition, they used data from nine previous VLBA observations of the star between March 2010 and August 2011.
Extensive analysis of the data from those time periods revealed a telltale wobble in the star’s motion indicating the presence of a planet comparable in mass to Saturn, orbiting the star once every 221 days. This planet is closer to the star than Mercury is to the Sun.
Small, cool stars like TVLM 513-46546 are the most numerous stellar type in our Milky Way Galaxy, and many of them have been found to have smaller planets, comparable to Earth and Mars.
“Giant planets, like Jupiter and Saturn, are expected to be rare around small stars like this one, and the astrometric technique is best at finding Jupiter-like planets in wide orbits, so we were surprised to find a lower mass, Saturn-like planet in a relatively compact orbit. We expected to find a more massive planet, similar to Jupiter, in a wider orbit,” said Salvador Curiel, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. “Detecting the orbital motions of this sub-Jupiter mass planetary companion in such a compact orbit was a great challenge,” he added.
More than 4,200 planets have been discovered orbiting stars other than the Sun, but the planet around TVLM 513-46546 is only the second to be found using the astrometric technique. Another, very successful method, called the radial velocity technique, also relies on the gravitational effect of the planet upon the star. That technique detects the slight acceleration of the star, either toward or away from Earth, caused by the star’s motion around the barycenter.
“Our method complements the radial velocity method which is more sensitive to planets orbiting in close orbits, while ours is more sensitive to massive planets in orbits further away from the star,” said Gisela Ortiz-Leon of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany. “Indeed, these other techniques have found only a few planets with characteristics such as planet mass, orbital size, and host star mass, similar to the planet we found. We believe that the VLBA, and the astrometry technique in general, could reveal many more similar planets.”
A third technique, called the transit method, also very successful, detects the slight dimming of the star’s light when a planet passes in front of it, as seen from Earth.
The astrometric method has been successful for detecting nearby binary star systems, and was recognized as early as the 19th Century as a potential means of discovering extrasolar planets. Over the years, a number of such discoveries were announced, then failed to survive further scrutiny. The difficulty has been that the stellar wobble produced by a planet is so small when seen from Earth that it requires extraordinary precision in the positional measurements.
“The VLBA, with antennas separated by as much as 5,000 miles, provided us with the great resolving power and extremely high precision needed for this discovery,” said Amy Mioduszewski, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. “In addition, improvements that have been made to the VLBA’s sensitivity gave us the data quality that made it possible to do this work now,” she added.
Curiel, Ortiz-Leon, Mioduszewski, and Rosa Torres of the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, reported their findings in the Astronomical Journal.


newswars--2020-08-04--Study Raises Alarm Over Premature Deaths Linked to Arsenic Exposure From Rice-based Diets

Rice is the most widely consumed staple food source for a large part of the world ’ s population .
It has now been confirmed that rice can contribute to prolonged low-level arsenic exposure leading to thousands of avoidable premature deaths per year .
Arsenic is well known acute poison , but it can also contribute to health problems , including cancers and cardiovascular diseases , if consumed at even relatively low concentrations over an extended period of time .
Compared to other staple foods , rice tends to concentrate inorganic arsenic .
Across the globe , over three billion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the inorganic arsenic in that rice has been estimated by some to give rise to over 50,000 avoidable premature deaths per year .
A collaborating group of cross-Manchester researchers from The University of Manchester and The University of Salford have published new research exploring the relationship , in England and Wales , between the consumption of rice and cardiovascular diseases caused by arsenic exposure .
Their findings , published in the journal Science of the Total Environment , shows that — once corrected for the major factors known to contribute to cardiovascular @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , age , lack of income , lack of education ) there is a significant association between elevated cardiovascular mortality , recorded at a local authority level , and the consumption of inorganic arsenic bearing rice .
Professor David Polya from The University of Manchester said : “ The type of study undertaken , an ecological study , has many limitations , but is a relatively inexpensive way of determining if there is plausible link between increased consumption of inorganic arsenic bearing rice and increased risk of cardiovascular disease .
Professor Polya from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ study suggests that the highest 25 % of rice consumers in England and Wales may plausibly be at greater risks of cardiovascular mortality due to inorganic arsenic exposure compared to the lowest 25 % of rice consumers .
“ The modelled increased risk is around 6 % ( with a confidence interval for this figure of 2 % to 11 % ) .
The increased risk modelled might also reflect in part a combination of the susceptibility , behaviours and treatment of those communities in England and Wales with relatively high rice diets.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are required to confirm the result , given many of the beneficial effects otherwise of eating rice due to its high fibre content , the research team suggest that rather than avoid eating rice , people could consume rice varieties , such as basmati , and different types like polished rice ( rather whole grain rice ) which are known to typically have lower inorganic arsenic contents .
Other positive behaviours would be to eat a balanced variety of staples , not just predominately rice .
Alex Jones breaks down the claim that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being used to lockdown society under globalist control .

Rice is the most widely consumed staple food source for a large part of the world’s population.
It has now been confirmed that rice can contribute to prolonged low-level arsenic exposure leading to thousands of avoidable premature deaths per year.
Arsenic is well known acute poison, but it can also contribute to health problems, including cancers and cardiovascular diseases, if consumed at even relatively low concentrations over an extended period of time.
Compared to other staple foods, rice tends to concentrate inorganic arsenic. Across the globe, over three billion people consume rice as their major staple and the inorganic arsenic in that rice has been estimated by some to give rise to over 50,000 avoidable premature deaths per year.
A collaborating group of cross-Manchester researchers from The University of Manchester and The University of Salford have published new research exploring the relationship, in England and Wales, between the consumption of rice and cardiovascular diseases caused by arsenic exposure.
Their findings, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, shows that — once corrected for the major factors known to contribute to cardiovascular disease (for example obesity, smoking, age, lack of income, lack of education) there is a significant association between elevated cardiovascular mortality, recorded at a local authority level, and the consumption of inorganic arsenic bearing rice.
Professor David Polya from The University of Manchester said: “The type of study undertaken, an ecological study, has many limitations, but is a relatively inexpensive way of determining if there is plausible link between increased consumption of inorganic arsenic bearing rice and increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
Professor Polya from The University of Manchester said “The study suggests that the highest 25 % of rice consumers in England and Wales may plausibly be at greater risks of cardiovascular mortality due to inorganic arsenic exposure compared to the lowest 25 % of rice consumers.
“The modelled increased risk is around 6 % (with a confidence interval for this figure of 2 % to 11 %). The increased risk modelled might also reflect in part a combination of the susceptibility, behaviours and treatment of those communities in England and Wales with relatively high rice diets.”
While more robust types of study are required to confirm the result, given many of the beneficial effects otherwise of eating rice due to its high fibre content, the research team suggest that rather than avoid eating rice, people could consume rice varieties, such as basmati, and different types like polished rice (rather whole grain rice) which are known to typically have lower inorganic arsenic contents. Other positive behaviours would be to eat a balanced variety of staples, not just predominately rice.
Alex Jones breaks down the claim that Covid-19 is an alien virus that is being used to lockdown society under globalist control.


newswars--2020-08-04--How Central Banks Made the Covid Panic Worse

Historical events are complex phenomena , and monocausal explanations are therefore by definition wrong when explaining history .
Many factors go into explaining why people and the world ’ s governments reacted as they did to the coronavirus .
It is , however , my contention that examining the inflationary policies pursued by central banks and governments are fundamental to understanding how the current corona hysteria developed .
Calling it hysteria may sound harsh .
When the coronavirus first started to draw attention back in February , and when most Western countries instituted extremely restrictive measures in March , one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world was dealing with an unknown and seemingly catastrophic disease and that therefore extreme measures were justified .
To be sure , this does not mean that the measures implemented were in any way effective , nor that the sacrifices imposed were morally justified ; but there was at least an argument to be made .
At this point in time , however , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) has repeatedly cut the COVID-19 fatality rate , and it is now comparable to a bad year of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of studies and reports by Swiss Propaganda Research ) .
The glaring question therefore is : Why do governments across the West act as if they were still dealing with an unprecedented threat ?
It is no good to simply reply that what politicians really want is power and that they are just using coronavirus as an excuse for extending government control .
While a plausible claim , it does not explain why vast majorities in most countries support whatever policies their rulers have thought good .
Given the extreme restrictions placed on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ever shifting narrative used to justify them , one would think that there would be widespread opposition after four months .
So why is there practically none ?
Inflation in the Age of Corona We can better understand this strange phenomenon if we consider the inflationary policies pursued by central banks across the world .
I ’ ll here cleave to the old definition of the term inflation and the one still favored by Austrian school economists : an increase in the quantity of money .
The rise in prices which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the effect of such an increase .
While the complexities of modern central banking can sometimes obscure the realities of the process , there can be no doubt that the last couple of months have seen very high levels of inflation .
Modern central banks are no longer content with the classic role of lender of last resort .
As the financial system has evolved , central banks have assumed the role of market maker of last resort—that is , they have either implicitly or explicitly assumed the responsibility of making sure that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assets—and first of all government bonds .
Thus the Federal Reserve ’ s balance sheet has ballooned from just over $ 4 trillion at the beginning of March to now just below $ 7 trillion ; the Bank of England ’ s has increased from about £580 billion in March to about £780 billion ; and the European Central Bank has increased its holdings from about €4.6 trillion to about €6.3 trillion .
The balance sheets of the largest central banks thus expanded by between 35 and 75 percent in about five months @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inflation is coming , but actual inflation of the money supply naturally lags behind , since central bank purchases of bonds and securities do not necessarily result in an immediate expansion of the stock of money .
The American money stock ( measured by the monetary aggregate M2 ) grew from $ 15.5 trillion to $ 18.4 trillion ( March–July 13 ) , the British one from £2.45 trillion to about £2.67 trillion ( January–May ) and the euro area money stock from €12.4 trillion to almost €13.2 trillion ( January–June ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ major monetary areas during the corona episode is then between about 13 ( eurozone ) and about 50 ( USA ) percent , well above the norm .
If we look at the Austrian , “ true ” measure of the money supply ( TMS ) for the United States , we see a similar picture , as the TMS in June grew 34.5 percent year over year ( YOY ) .
The Effects of the Present Inflation Inflation is not an act of God ; it is the outcome of a determined @ @ @ @ @ @ @ central banks .
Such a policy has both long-run and short-run effects , which brings us to the first and most obvious way in which inflation has fueled corona hysteria : by essentially putting freshly printed money at the disposal of governments , these latter have been able to first shut down their countries and then pose as saviors as they distributed largesse to workers and businesses .
The states have often reimbursed the costs of furloughing employees , either directly or through ( sometimes forgivable ) loans to companies , or they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ workers .
This , and not any economic collapse , is the story behind the unprecedented spike in unemployment claims in the United States .
The central bank has also created facilities to lend to municipal governments and the Main Street Lending Program to “ support lending to small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofit organizations that were in sound financial condition before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
” The effect of these programs and policies and others like them in other countries has been to mitigate the direct impact of government-imposed shutdowns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but government aid and loans allow them to meet their contractual payments ; workers may be unemployed , but generous unemployment subsidies allow them to maintain themselves comfortably ; government support of furloughing schemes hides the true extent of unemployment caused by the shutdowns .
And all this seemingly at no cost , since no one notices the inevitable dilution of the purchasing power of the monetary unit .
In the absence of these inflationary policies , the consequences of the shutdown would be much more immediately apparent .
Workers would have to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liquidate their savings , while businesses earning no revenues would start to default on their contractual payments .
A drastic fall in the prices of real and financial assets would have resulted .
The pressure to end the restrictions would have been much stronger .
Instead , it looks to most people as if they can go on at their old standard of living indefinitely—or at least as long as they continue to receive their government checks .
The economic effects of the shutdown are still the same , however : dislocation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a vast scale , but these have been hidden—papered over by inflation and government support .
To the individual business owner and worker , the economic reality is hidden .
Inflation leads to a fundamental disconnect with reality .
Paul Cantor has previously described “ the web of illusions endemic to the era of paper money ” and how inflation destroys people ’ s sense of reality .
In our case , inflationary monetary policy has hidden the costs of engaging in pandemic hysteria , and hence people do not—indeed , can not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the coronavirus and the shutdowns .
Governments at all levels can continue to pose as saviors , inventing new mandates and restrictions to combat the nonexistent threat .
Germophobes and busybodies can obsess over other people trying to go about their normal lives , since both the costs to them personally and to society as a whole are completely hidden .
How many Karens would have the time to boss peaceful citizens around if they had to actually work to earn a living ?
Eventually and pretty quickly , these policies will result @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the standard of living .
Not only has production been severely restricted , as seen in the drastic fall in US GDP figures ; insofar as the newly printed money is used on unemployment compensation in different forms , it will quickly reach normal consumers and be spent on consumer goods .
If the programs go on much longer , consumer price inflation , as a result of the fiat money inflation , can not be far off .
Once that happens , only increased rates of inflation can keep the programs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Inflationary System The effects of the inflationary system as such are much more far-reaching than economic dislocation and destruction , however .
Fiat money produced out of thin air by central bankers leads to a long-run change in social attitudes and personal character .
Joseph Salerno in a stimulating paper discusses how hyperinflation leads to the destruction of personality , and following Guido Hülsmann , I would argue that fiat inflation entails the erosion of culture and character .
This is perhaps most fully in evidence in Japan , where people have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decades .
What are some of the consequences of an inflationary fiat standard and the culture it brings about , and what is the connection to the corona crisis ?
There is first of all a change in time preferences , as inflation leads to repressed interest rates and hence less incentive to save and invest .
People ’ s time horizons change , as they increasingly discount long-run value creation and instead focus on present enjoyments and short-run yields .
The changing role of central banks only intensifies this development .
Instead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” central banks are now “ market makers of last resort.
” That is to say , stock markets and bond prices can not be allowed to fall , and it is the role of the banks to make sure they don ’ t .
As a consequence , investors increasingly turn to the pursuit of short-run yields .
This change in time preference has effects beyond the market .
Since a premium is placed on short-term thinking in market affairs , naturally people transfer the same attitude to their nonmarket pursuits .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ emphasized at the expense of future costs and benefits , respectively .
It is not hard to see the connection to the virus : since there is a possibility that the virus may potentially be very dangerous , people get frightened and act to make the fear go away .
No matter the future consequences of their actions , the present danger of the virus trumps all .
Closely connected to this change in time preferences is a skewed perception of reality .
Inflation alters what constitutes successful action , since it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the source of inflation that determines the individual ’ s success in life .
Since the ability of the central banks to create paper wealth seems virtually boundless , naturally people come to have unrealistic expectations of what is possible .
Of course we can have a shutdown .
We ’ ll have a central bank–fueled “ v-shaped ” recovery once it ’ s over .
Of course governments can and should do whatever it takes to protect us from the virus .
They can just finance spending with paper money for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there are to these courses of action are hidden or far in the future .
There are many reasons for the corona crisis and the present almost total government control of the economy and society .
But if we want to understand why states across the Western world have met virtually no resistance in their quest for power , we need to understand the role of inflation in enabling governments : directly through hiding the real costs and pain of the shutdowns , but also more fundamentally by distorting culture and personal character @

Historical events are complex phenomena, and monocausal explanations are therefore by definition wrong when explaining history.
Many factors go into explaining why people and the world’s governments reacted as they did to the coronavirus. It is, however, my contention that examining the inflationary policies pursued by central banks and governments are fundamental to understanding how the current corona hysteria developed.
Calling it hysteria may sound harsh. When the coronavirus first started to draw attention back in February, and when most Western countries instituted extremely restrictive measures in March, one could make a plausible argument that the world was dealing with an unknown and seemingly catastrophic disease and that therefore extreme measures were justified. To be sure, this does not mean that the measures implemented were in any way effective, nor that the sacrifices imposed were morally justified; but there was at least an argument to be made.
At this point in time, however, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has repeatedly cut the COVID-19 fatality rate, and it is now comparable to a bad year of the seasonal flu (see the useful aggregation of studies and reports by Swiss Propaganda Research). The glaring question therefore is: Why do governments across the West act as if they were still dealing with an unprecedented threat? It is no good to simply reply that what politicians really want is power and that they are just using coronavirus as an excuse for extending government control. While a plausible claim, it does not explain why vast majorities in most countries support whatever policies their rulers have thought good. Given the extreme restrictions placed on social and economic life and the mendacious, ever shifting narrative used to justify them, one would think that there would be widespread opposition after four months. So why is there practically none?
Inflation in the Age of Corona
We can better understand this strange phenomenon if we consider the inflationary policies pursued by central banks across the world. I’ll here cleave to the old definition of the term inflation and the one still favored by Austrian school economists: an increase in the quantity of money. The rise in prices which is commonly referred to as inflation is simply the effect of such an increase. While the complexities of modern central banking can sometimes obscure the realities of the process, there can be no doubt that the last couple of months have seen very high levels of inflation.
Modern central banks are no longer content with the classic role of lender of last resort. As the financial system has evolved, central banks have assumed the role of market maker of last resort—that is, they have either implicitly or explicitly assumed the responsibility of making sure that there is always a buyer for financial assets—and first of all government bonds. Thus the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet has ballooned from just over $4 trillion at the beginning of March to now just below $7 trillion; the Bank of England’s has increased from about £580 billion in March to about £780 billion; and the European Central Bank has increased its holdings from about €4.6 trillion to about €6.3 trillion. The balance sheets of the largest central banks thus expanded by between 35 and 75 percent in about five months.
Inflated central bank balance sheets suggest inflation is coming, but actual inflation of the money supply naturally lags behind, since central bank purchases of bonds and securities do not necessarily result in an immediate expansion of the stock of money. The American money stock (measured by the monetary aggregate M2) grew from $15.5 trillion to $18.4 trillion (March–July 13), the British one from £2.45 trillion to about £2.67 trillion (January–May) and the euro area money stock from €12.4 trillion to almost €13.2 trillion (January–June). The annualized rates of inflation in the major monetary areas during the corona episode is then between about 13 (eurozone) and about 50 (USA) percent, well above the norm. If we look at the Austrian, “true” measure of the money supply (TMS) for the United States, we see a similar picture, as the TMS in June grew 34.5 percent year over year (YOY).
The Effects of the Present Inflation
Inflation is not an act of God; it is the outcome of a determined policy on the part of governments and central banks. Such a policy has both long-run and short-run effects, which brings us to the first and most obvious way in which inflation has fueled corona hysteria: by essentially putting freshly printed money at the disposal of governments, these latter have been able to first shut down their countries and then pose as saviors as they distributed largesse to workers and businesses. The states have often reimbursed the costs of furloughing employees, either directly or through (sometimes forgivable) loans to companies, or they have distributed generous unemployment benefits to the workers. This, and not any economic collapse, is the story behind the unprecedented spike in unemployment claims in the United States. The central bank has also created facilities to lend to municipal governments and the Main Street Lending Program to “support lending to small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofit organizations that were in sound financial condition before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The effect of these programs and policies and others like them in other countries has been to mitigate the direct impact of government-imposed shutdowns. Businesses may have no revenues, but government aid and loans allow them to meet their contractual payments; workers may be unemployed, but generous unemployment subsidies allow them to maintain themselves comfortably; government support of furloughing schemes hides the true extent of unemployment caused by the shutdowns. And all this seemingly at no cost, since no one notices the inevitable dilution of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
In the absence of these inflationary policies, the consequences of the shutdown would be much more immediately apparent. Workers would have to spend out of their saved cash and liquidate their savings, while businesses earning no revenues would start to default on their contractual payments. A drastic fall in the prices of real and financial assets would have resulted. The pressure to end the restrictions would have been much stronger. Instead, it looks to most people as if they can go on at their old standard of living indefinitely—or at least as long as they continue to receive their government checks. The economic effects of the shutdown are still the same, however: dislocation of the production structure and capital consumption on a vast scale, but these have been hidden—papered over by inflation and government support.
To the individual business owner and worker, the economic reality is hidden. Inflation leads to a fundamental disconnect with reality. Paul Cantor has previously described “the web of illusions endemic to the era of paper money” and how inflation destroys people’s sense of reality. In our case, inflationary monetary policy has hidden the costs of engaging in pandemic hysteria, and hence people do not—indeed, cannot—take account of economic realities when assessing the coronavirus and the shutdowns. Governments at all levels can continue to pose as saviors, inventing new mandates and restrictions to combat the nonexistent threat. Germophobes and busybodies can obsess over other people trying to go about their normal lives, since both the costs to them personally and to society as a whole are completely hidden. How many Karens would have the time to boss peaceful citizens around if they had to actually work to earn a living?
Eventually and pretty quickly, these policies will result in price inflation and a hollowing out of the standard of living. Not only has production been severely restricted, as seen in the drastic fall in US GDP figures; insofar as the newly printed money is used on unemployment compensation in different forms, it will quickly reach normal consumers and be spent on consumer goods. If the programs go on much longer, consumer price inflation, as a result of the fiat money inflation, cannot be far off. Once that happens, only increased rates of inflation can keep the programs going—for a time.
The Effects of the Inflationary System
The effects of the inflationary system as such are much more far-reaching than economic dislocation and destruction, however. Fiat money produced out of thin air by central bankers leads to a long-run change in social attitudes and personal character. Joseph Salerno in a stimulating paper discusses how hyperinflation leads to the destruction of personality, and following Guido Hülsmann,
I would argue that fiat inflation entails the erosion of culture and character. This is perhaps most fully in evidence in Japan, where people have suffered under artificially low interest rates for decades. What are some of the consequences of an inflationary fiat standard and the culture it brings about, and what is the connection to the corona crisis? There is first of all a change in time preferences, as inflation leads to repressed interest rates and hence less incentive to save and invest. People’s time horizons change, as they increasingly discount long-run value creation and instead focus on present enjoyments and short-run yields. The changing role of central banks only intensifies this development. Instead of “lenders of last resort,” central banks are now “market makers of last resort.” That is to say, stock markets and bond prices cannot be allowed to fall, and it is the role of the banks to make sure they don’t. As a consequence, investors increasingly turn to the pursuit of short-run yields.
This change in time preference has effects beyond the market. Since a premium is placed on short-term thinking in market affairs, naturally people transfer the same attitude to their nonmarket pursuits. Present benefits and present dangers are both emphasized at the expense of future costs and benefits, respectively. It is not hard to see the connection to the virus: since there is a possibility that the virus may potentially be very dangerous, people get frightened and act to make the fear go away. No matter the future consequences of their actions, the present danger of the virus trumps all.
Closely connected to this change in time preferences is a skewed perception of reality. Inflation alters what constitutes successful action, since it is increasingly no longer productive endeavors but closeness to the source of inflation that determines the individual’s success in life. Since the ability of the central banks to create paper wealth seems virtually boundless, naturally people come to have unrealistic expectations of what is possible. Of course we can have a shutdown. We’ll have a central bank–fueled “v-shaped” recovery once it’s over. Of course governments can and should do whatever it takes to protect us from the virus. They can just finance spending with paper money for however long it takes. Whatever costs there are to these courses of action are hidden or far in the future.
Conclusion
There are many reasons for the corona crisis and the present almost total government control of the economy and society. But if we want to understand why states across the Western world have met virtually no resistance in their quest for power, we need to understand the role of inflation in enabling governments: directly through hiding the real costs and pain of the shutdowns, but also more fundamentally by distorting culture and personal character.


newswars--2020-08-04--Why Keynes Was Wrong about Consumer Spending

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic , most experts are of the view that it is the role of the government and central bank to minimize the damage inflicted by the virus—and the policy response to it—on the economy .
The logic behind this reasoning is that increases in the demand for goods and services are the heart of economic growth .
It is held that increases or decreases in demand are behind the rises and declines in the economy ’ s production of goods and services .
It is also held that the overall economy ’ s output @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in expenditure by government , consumers , or businesses .
An example will illustrate how an initial bout of spending raises the overall output by a multiple of this spending .
Let us assume that of an additional dollar received individuals spend $ 0.9 and save $ 0.1 .
Let us also assume that consumers have increased their expenditure by $ 100 million .
Because of this , retailers ’ revenue rises by $ 100 million .
Retailers , in response to this increase in their income , also consume 90 percent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they raise their expenditure on goods and services by $ 90 million .
The recipients of these $ 90 million in turn spend 90 percent of the $ 90 million , i.e.
, $ 81 million .
Then the recipients of the $ 81 million spend 90 percent of this sum , which is $ 72.9 million , and so on ( note that the key in this way of thinking is that expenditure by one person becomes the income of another person ) .
At each stage in the spending chain , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ income they receive .
This process eventually ends , so it is held , with total output higher by $ 1 billion ( 10 x $ 100 million ) than it was before consumers increased their initial expenditure by $ 100 million ( the multiplier here is 10 ) .
Observe that the more is being spent from additional income , the greater the multiplier is and therefore the larger the impact of the initial spending on overall output is .
For instance , if people change their habits and spend 95 percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become 20 .
Conversely , if they decide to spend only 80 percent and save 20 percent , then the multiplier will be 5 .
All this means that the less that is being saved , the larger will be the impact of an increase in overall demand on overall output .
The popularizer of the magical power of the multiplier , John Maynard Keynes , wrote , If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes , bury them at suitable depths in disused coal mines which are then filled up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again ( the right to do so being obtained , of course by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory ) , there need be no more unemployment and with the help of the repercussions , the real income of the community , and its capital wealth also , would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is .
Observe that in the example above the initial boost to consumption had to originate somewhere .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ normally the monetary pumping of the central bank .
Money , however , can not set in motion a real economic boost .
If this were the case , all third world economies would have erased poverty a long time ago .
Money enables the exchange of something for money and then the exchange of money for something else .
In this sense , it is a medium of exchange , not the medium of payments .
Paraphrasing Jean Baptiste Say , Mises argued that , Commodities , says Say , are ultimately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by other commodities .
Money is merely the commonly used medium of exchange ; it plays only an intermediary role .
What the seller wants ultimately to receive in exchange for the commodities sold is other commodities .
When an individual increases his spending by $ 100 all it means is that he has lowered his demand for money by $ 100 .
The seller of goods has now acquired $ 100 , which he can employ when he deems necessary .
We can also say that the seller ’ s demand for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Likewise , if the seller then spent 90 percent of $ 100 , all that we would have is a situation wherein his demand for money has fallen by $ 90 while somebody else ’ s demand for money has risen by $ 90 .
In addition , all other things being equal , if individuals have increased their expenditure on some goods , they will be forced to spend less on other goods .
This means that the overall spending in an economy remains unchanged .
Only if the amount of money @ @ @ @ @ @ @ things being equal , will spending in monetary terms follow suit .
The increase in monetary expenditure as a result of an increase in money supply can not , however , produce an expansion in real output , as the popular story has it .
All that it will generate is a reshuffling of the existent pool of real savings .
It will enrich the early receivers of the new money at the expense of the last receivers , or those who do not receive it at all .
Obviously , then , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consumers ’ demand can not boost real output by a multiple of the initial increase in consumer demand .
Not only will easy money policy not lift production , but , on the contrary , it will impoverish wealth generators .
Are More Savings Bad for the Economy ?
Can more savings be bad for the economy as Keynesian economics suggests ?
Take , for instance , Bob the farmer , who has produced twenty tomatoes and consumes five .
Fifteen saved tomatoes are left at his disposal—these are his real savings .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Bob can now secure various other goods .
For instance , he secures one loaf of bread from John the baker by paying him five tomatoes .
Bob also buys a pair of shoes from Paul the shoemaker for ten tomatoes .
Note that it is the real savings at his disposal that limit the amount of consumer goods Bob can secure for himself .
Bob ’ s purchasing power is constrained by the amount of real savings—the tomatoes at his disposal—all other things being equal .
( Likewise , John the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and consumes two , making eight loaves his real savings .
Equally , if out of the production of two pairs of shoes Paul keeps one pair for himself , then his real savings is one pair of shoes . )
When Bob the farmer exercises his demand for one loaf of bread and one pair of shoes , he is transferring five tomatoes to John the baker and ten tomatoes to Paul the shoemaker .
Bob ’ s saved tomatoes maintain and enhance the baker ’ s and shoemaker ’ s lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ loaf of bread and the saved pair of shoes maintain Bob the farmer ’ s life and well-being .
Note that it is saved final consumer goods that sustain the baker , the farmer , and the shoemaker .
They are what makes it possible to keep the flow of production going .
The owners of final consumer goods , rather than exchanging them for other consumer goods , could decide to invest them to secure better tools and machinery .
Better tools and machinery can improve their productivity , leading to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ goods that will be produced sometime in the future .
By exchanging a portion of their saved consumer goods for tools and machinery , the owners of consumer goods are in fact transferring their real savings to individuals who specialize in making them .
These individuals ’ own real savings sustain them while they are busy manufacturing tools and machinery .
Once these tools and machinery are built , they permit an increase in the production of consumer goods .
As the flow of production expands , it permits more savings , all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turn permit a further increase in the production of tools and machinery .
This , in tur , n makes it possible to further increase the production of consumer goods , i.e.
, raise the purchasing power in the economy .
So , contrary to popular thinking , more savings actually expand , not contract , the production flow of consumer goods .
Can an increase in the demand for consumer goods lead to an increase in the overall output by the multiple of the increase in demand ?
To be able to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the baker must have a means of payment—bread to pay for goods and services that he desires .
Once the supply of consumer goods has increased , this permits an increase in demand for goods .
The baker ’ s increase in bread production permits him to increase his demand for other goods .
In this sense , the increase in production gives rise to more demand for goods .
People are engaged in production in order to be able to exercise demand for goods to maintain their well-being .
What enables the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ goods is an increase in capital goods , or tools and machinery , and it is real savings that permit the increase in tools and machinery .
We can thus infer that an increase in consumption must be in line with the increase in the production of final consumer goods .
From this we can also deduce that consumption does not cause the production to increase by the multiple of the increase in consumption .
Increases in production are in accordance with what the pool of real savings permits and are not constrained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not expand without support from the pool of real savings , i.e.
, something can not emerge out of nothing .
Let us examine the effect of an increase in the government ’ s demand on an economy ’ s overall output .
In an economy that is comprised of a baker , a shoemaker , and a tomato grower , another individual enters the scene .
This individual is an enforcer who is exercising his demand for goods by means of force .
Can such demand give rise to more output , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the contrary , it will impoverish the producers .
The baker , the shoemaker , and the farmer will be forced to part with their products in for nothing and this in turn will weaken the production of final consumer goods .
Again , as one can see , not only does the increase in government outlays not raise overall output by a positive multiple .
On the contrary , it leads to the weakening of the process of wealth generation in general .
According to Mises , there is need to emphasize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or invest only what it takes away from its citizens and that its additional spending and investment curtails the citizens ’ spending and investment to the full extent of its quantity .
John Maynard Keynes ’ s writings remain as influential today as they were ninety years ago .
His ideas remain the driving force of economic policymakers at the Fed and government institutions .
These ideas permeate the thinking and writings of the most influential economists on Wall Street and in academia .
The heart of the Keynesian philosophy is that what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Economic recessions are predominantly the result of insufficient demand .
In the Keynesian framework , an increase in demand not only lifts overall output , but increases it by the multiple of the initial increase in demand .
Something can be created out of nothing .
In the real world , an artificial boost in demand that is not supported by production leads to the dilution of the pool of real savings and , contrary to the Keynesian view , to a shrinking in the flow of real wealth .
It results @ @ @ @

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, most experts are of the view that it is the role of the government and central bank to minimize the damage inflicted by the virus—and the policy response to it—on the economy.
The logic behind this reasoning is that increases in the demand for goods and services are the heart of economic growth. It is held that increases or decreases in demand are behind the rises and declines in the economy’s production of goods and services. It is also held that the overall economy’s output increases by a multiple of the increase in expenditure by government, consumers, or businesses.
An example will illustrate how an initial bout of spending raises the overall output by a multiple of this spending. Let us assume that of an additional dollar received individuals spend $0.9 and save $0.1. Let us also assume that consumers have increased their expenditure by $100 million. Because of this, retailers’ revenue rises by $100 million. Retailers, in response to this increase in their income, also consume 90 percent of the $100 million, i.e., they raise their expenditure on goods and services by $90 million. The recipients of these $90 million in turn spend 90 percent of the $90 million, i.e., $81 million. Then the recipients of the $81 million spend 90 percent of this sum, which is $72.9 million, and so on (note that the key in this way of thinking is that expenditure by one person becomes the income of another person). At each stage in the spending chain, people spend 90 percent of the additional income they receive. This process eventually ends, so it is held, with total output higher by $1 billion (10 x $100 million) than it was before consumers increased their initial expenditure by $100 million (the multiplier here is 10).
Observe that the more is being spent from additional income, the greater the multiplier is and therefore the larger the impact of the initial spending on overall output is. For instance, if people change their habits and spend 95 percent of each dollar, the multiplier will become 20. Conversely, if they decide to spend only 80 percent and save 20 percent, then the multiplier will be 5. All this means that the less that is being saved, the larger will be the impact of an increase in overall demand on overall output.
The popularizer of the magical power of the multiplier, John Maynard Keynes, wrote,
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.
Money and the Multiplier
Observe that in the example above the initial boost to consumption had to originate somewhere. As a rule, the source is normally the monetary pumping of the central bank. Money, however, cannot set in motion a real economic boost. If this were the case, all third world economies would have erased poverty a long time ago.
Money enables the exchange of something for money and then the exchange of money for something else. In this sense, it is a medium of exchange, not the medium of payments. Paraphrasing Jean Baptiste Say, Mises argued that,
Commodities, says Say, are ultimately paid for not by money, but by other commodities. Money is merely the commonly used medium of exchange; it plays only an intermediary role. What the seller wants ultimately to receive in exchange for the commodities sold is other commodities.
When an individual increases his spending by $100 all it means is that he has lowered his demand for money by $100. The seller of goods has now acquired $100, which he can employ when he deems necessary. We can also say that the seller’s demand for money has increased by $100. Likewise, if the seller then spent 90 percent of $100, all that we would have is a situation wherein his demand for money has fallen by $90 while somebody else’s demand for money has risen by $90.
In addition, all other things being equal, if individuals have increased their expenditure on some goods, they will be forced to spend less on other goods. This means that the overall spending in an economy remains unchanged.
Only if the amount of money in the economy increases, all other things being equal, will spending in monetary terms follow suit. The increase in monetary expenditure as a result of an increase in money supply cannot, however, produce an expansion in real output, as the popular story has it.
All that it will generate is a reshuffling of the existent pool of real savings. It will enrich the early receivers of the new money at the expense of the last receivers, or those who do not receive it at all. Obviously, then, a loose monetary policy aimed at boosting consumers’ demand cannot boost real output by a multiple of the initial increase in consumer demand. Not only will easy money policy not lift production, but, on the contrary, it will impoverish wealth generators.
Are More Savings Bad for the Economy?
Can more savings be bad for the economy as Keynesian economics suggests? Take, for instance, Bob the farmer, who has produced twenty tomatoes and consumes five. Fifteen saved tomatoes are left at his disposal—these are his real savings. With the help of the saved tomatoes, Bob can now secure various other goods. For instance, he secures one loaf of bread from John the baker by paying him five tomatoes. Bob also buys a pair of shoes from Paul the shoemaker for ten tomatoes. Note that it is the real savings at his disposal that limit the amount of consumer goods Bob can secure for himself. Bob’s purchasing power is constrained by the amount of real savings—the tomatoes at his disposal—all other things being equal. (Likewise, John the baker has produced ten loaves of bread and consumes two, making eight loaves his real savings. Equally, if out of the production of two pairs of shoes Paul keeps one pair for himself, then his real savings is one pair of shoes.)
When Bob the farmer exercises his demand for one loaf of bread and one pair of shoes, he is transferring five tomatoes to John the baker and ten tomatoes to Paul the shoemaker. Bob’s saved tomatoes maintain and enhance the baker’s and shoemaker’s lives and well-being. Likewise, the saved loaf of bread and the saved pair of shoes maintain Bob the farmer’s life and well-being. Note that it is saved final consumer goods that sustain the baker, the farmer, and the shoemaker. They are what makes it possible to keep the flow of production going.
The owners of final consumer goods, rather than exchanging them for other consumer goods, could decide to invest them to secure better tools and machinery. Better tools and machinery can improve their productivity, leading to a greater output and better quality of consumer goods that will be produced sometime in the future.
By exchanging a portion of their saved consumer goods for tools and machinery, the owners of consumer goods are in fact transferring their real savings to individuals who specialize in making them. These individuals’ own real savings sustain them while they are busy manufacturing tools and machinery.
Once these tools and machinery are built, they permit an increase in the production of consumer goods. As the flow of production expands, it permits more savings, all other things being equal, which in turn permit a further increase in the production of tools and machinery. This, in tur,n makes it possible to further increase the production of consumer goods, i.e., raise the purchasing power in the economy. So, contrary to popular thinking, more savings actually expand, not contract, the production flow of consumer goods.
Can an increase in the demand for consumer goods lead to an increase in the overall output by the multiple of the increase in demand? To be able to accommodate his increased demand for goods, the baker must have a means of payment—bread to pay for goods and services that he desires. Once the supply of consumer goods has increased, this permits an increase in demand for goods. The baker’s increase in bread production permits him to increase his demand for other goods. In this sense, the increase in production gives rise to more demand for goods. People are engaged in production in order to be able to exercise demand for goods to maintain their well-being.
What enables the expansion in the supply of final consumer goods is an increase in capital goods, or tools and machinery, and it is real savings that permit the increase in tools and machinery. We can thus infer that an increase in consumption must be in line with the increase in the production of final consumer goods. From this we can also deduce that consumption does not cause the production to increase by the multiple of the increase in consumption. Increases in production are in accordance with what the pool of real savings permits and are not constrained by consumers’ demand. Production cannot expand without support from the pool of real savings, i.e., something cannot emerge out of nothing.
Increased Government Demand and Economic Growth
Let us examine the effect of an increase in the government’s demand on an economy’s overall output. In an economy that is comprised of a baker, a shoemaker, and a tomato grower, another individual enters the scene. This individual is an enforcer who is exercising his demand for goods by means of force.
Can such demand give rise to more output, as popular thinking has it? On the contrary, it will impoverish the producers. The baker, the shoemaker, and the farmer will be forced to part with their products in for nothing and this in turn will weaken the production of final consumer goods. Again, as one can see, not only does the increase in government outlays not raise overall output by a positive multiple. On the contrary, it leads to the weakening of the process of wealth generation in general. According to Mises,
there is need to emphasize the truism that a government can spend or invest only what it takes away from its citizens and that its additional spending and investment curtails the citizens’ spending and investment to the full extent of its quantity.
Summary and Conclusion
John Maynard Keynes’s writings remain as influential today as they were ninety years ago. His ideas remain the driving force of economic policymakers at the Fed and government institutions. These ideas permeate the thinking and writings of the most influential economists on Wall Street and in academia.
The heart of the Keynesian philosophy is that what drives the economy is demand for goods. Economic recessions are predominantly the result of insufficient demand. In the Keynesian framework, an increase in demand not only lifts overall output, but increases it by the multiple of the initial increase in demand. Something can be created out of nothing.
In the real world, an artificial boost in demand that is not supported by production leads to the dilution of the pool of real savings and, contrary to the Keynesian view, to a shrinking in the flow of real wealth. It results in economic impoverishment.


newswars--2020-08-04--Robot Uses Face Scanning AI to Ask People to Wear a Mask

A robot normally used to provide customer service now has a new mission ; Scanning your face with AI technology to check whether you ’ re wearing a mask and asking you to put one on .
With masks now becoming mandatory in many countries inside supermarkets , public buildings and transport systems , SoftBank Robotics Europe has reprogrammed its “ cutesy ” Pepper android to help enforce the new rules .
A video demonstration shows the robot scanning people ’ s faces and then telling individuals not wearing a mask to put one on , while thanking those who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an image recognition AI and Single Shot Detector , Pepper can scan the faces of up to five people at once , ” reports Engadget .
“ On Pepper ’ s tablet , a green circle will appear around an image of anyone wearing a mask , and a red circle will appear around the image of anyone without a mask .
Pepper can thank people for wearing masks or remind someone to put a face covering on.
” The company asserts that no personal data is used or stored , although face @ @ @ @ @ @ @ companies and governments in dictatorial states like China to enforce compliance and punish social credit score dissenters .
The efficacy of masks continues to be hotly debated , with experts in both the Netherlands and Sweden saying they are pointless while others arguing that they may even help spread the disease because wearers touch them often and are more likely to ignore social distancing .
In a wider context , the mask has become a symbol of compliance while also facilitating many to virtue signal and express righteously indignant and sometimes violent vitriol @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on free speech .
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A robot normally used to provide customer service now has a new mission; Scanning your face with AI technology to check whether you’re wearing a mask and asking you to put one on.
With masks now becoming mandatory in many countries inside supermarkets, public buildings and transport systems, SoftBank Robotics Europe has reprogrammed its “cutesy” Pepper android to help enforce the new rules.
A video demonstration shows the robot scanning people’s faces and then telling individuals not wearing a mask to put one on, while thanking those who are already wearing them.
“Using an image recognition AI and Single Shot Detector, Pepper can scan the faces of up to five people at once,” reports Engadget.
“On Pepper’s tablet, a green circle will appear around an image of anyone wearing a mask, and a red circle will appear around the image of anyone without a mask. Pepper can thank people for wearing masks or remind someone to put a face covering on.”
The company asserts that no personal data is used or stored, although face scanning technology is widely used by both companies and governments in dictatorial states like China to enforce compliance and punish social credit score dissenters.
The efficacy of masks continues to be hotly debated, with experts in both the Netherlands and Sweden saying they are pointless while others arguing that they may even help spread the disease because wearers touch them often and are more likely to ignore social distancing.
In a wider context, the mask has become a symbol of compliance while also facilitating many to virtue signal and express righteously indignant and sometimes violent vitriol towards refusniks.
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newswars--2020-08-04--Video: Portland’s “Antifa Sheriff” Stabbed In The Breast

A viral video out of Portland , Oregon shows the self-proclaimed “ Antifa Sheriff ” bleeding out of her left breast after a woman allegedly stabbed her during an argument .
Posted to Twitter on Monday , footage shows the Antifa member pulling her shirt down to reveal the bloody wound , saying , “ Get that.
” The woman filming repeatedly yelled out , “ Call the police !
” as the Antifa woman and a man in a Black Lives Matter shirt went after the lady holding the knife .
The man in the BLM shirt screamed at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agitator , shouting , “ I ’ ll slap the fuck out of you !
Fuck you bitch !
You stabbed her !
I ’ ll fuck you up !
” While the BLM guy and Antifa woman harassed the lady with the knife , the person filming did a good job of shoving them away to prevent further violence .
According to a statement from the Portland Police Department , the stabbing took place “ when an adult female suspect entered the park taking photos and/or video .
An argument ensued between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ park .
During the argument , the female produced a knife and stabbed another female in the chest.
” The victim ’ s injury was not life-threatening and she is being treated in a local hospital .
In a Twitter post , the Antifa activist whose Twitter handle is Antifa Sheriff wrote , “ Fuck fascists , ” alongside a picture of her in a medical center .
The stabbing suspect left the scene initially , but later returned and was interviewed by police .
According to police , “ During the initial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and additional police resources were summoned to try to conduct an investigation .
Officers initially located the knife used in the stabbing , however as the officers were trying to secure a crime scene someone picked it up and ran off with it.
” “ Officers were unable to safely conduct an investigation due to the hostile crowd , and supervisors made the decision to disengage , ” the PPD statement continues .
“ As the knife is evidence , it should be returned to police custody.
” The person who snatched the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the group is known for refusing to cooperate with law enforcement even if they are the victim of a crime .
In a tweet posted Tuesday morning , the injured “ Antifa Sheriff ” bragged , “ Fuck the police , I didn ’ t press charges , ” adding the hashtag “ All Cops Are Bastards.
” While it ’ s still unclear as to who started the physical confrontation , it ’ s worth noting the pinned tweet on the Antifa woman ’ s page reads , “ THIS IS NOT @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
”

A viral video out of Portland, Oregon shows the self-proclaimed “Antifa Sheriff” bleeding out of her left breast after a woman allegedly stabbed her during an argument.
CW: blood A protester was stabbed near the federal courthouse earlier today. PPB says no arrests have been made at this time. pic.twitter.com/zHCX76KeJ5 — PDX Frontline Alerts (@pdxfrontline) August 4, 2020
Posted to Twitter on Monday, footage shows the Antifa member pulling her shirt down to reveal the bloody wound, saying, “Get that.”
The woman filming repeatedly yelled out, “Call the police!” as the Antifa woman and a man in a Black Lives Matter shirt went after the lady holding the knife.
The man in the BLM shirt screamed at the terrified woman who stabbed the communist agitator, shouting, “I’ll slap the fuck out of you! Fuck you bitch! You stabbed her! I’ll fuck you up!”
While the BLM guy and Antifa woman harassed the lady with the knife, the person filming did a good job of shoving them away to prevent further violence.
According to a statement from the Portland Police Department, the stabbing took place “when an adult female suspect entered the park taking photos and/or video. An argument ensued between the female and other people in the park. During the argument, the female produced a knife and stabbed another female in the chest.”
The victim’s injury was not life-threatening and she is being treated in a local hospital.
In a Twitter post, the Antifa activist whose Twitter handle is Antifa Sheriff wrote, “Fuck fascists,” alongside a picture of her in a medical center.
The stabbing suspect left the scene initially, but later returned and was interviewed by police.
According to police, “During the initial response, officers encountered a hostile crowd and additional police resources were summoned to try to conduct an investigation. Officers initially located the knife used in the stabbing, however as the officers were trying to secure a crime scene someone picked it up and ran off with it.”
“Officers were unable to safely conduct an investigation due to the hostile crowd, and supervisors made the decision to disengage,” the PPD statement continues. “As the knife is evidence, it should be returned to police custody.”
The person who snatched the knife is likely associated with Antifa as the group is known for refusing to cooperate with law enforcement even if they are the victim of a crime.
In a tweet posted Tuesday morning, the injured “Antifa Sheriff” bragged, “Fuck the police, I didn’t press charges,” adding the hashtag “All Cops Are Bastards.”
Shit is funny, actually. Perfect aim for my heart, but no strength to follow through! Fuck the police, I didn’t press charges. #ACAB https://t.co/AWfyNcrP2D — SingulⒶr🔥💣😷🏴They (@AntifaSheriff) August 4, 2020
Actually, I declined pressing charges. I had no interest in their “help” https://t.co/O5B3H8f3LV — SingulⒶr🔥💣😷🏴They (@AntifaSheriff) August 4, 2020
While it’s still unclear as to who started the physical confrontation, it’s worth noting the pinned tweet on the Antifa woman’s page reads, “THIS IS NOT A PEACEFUL PROTEST REVOLUTIONS ARE INHERENTLY VIOLENT.”


newswars--2020-08-04--Study: Sleep Protects Us From Forgetting Old Memories

From lowering your risk of obesity and cardiovascular disease to improving your concentration and overall daily performance , sleep has been proven to play a critical role in our health .
In a new study , researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that sleep may also help people to learn continuously through their lifetime .
Writing in the August 4 , 2020 online issue of eLife , researchers used computational models capable of simulating different brain states , such as sleep and awake , to examine how sleep consolidates newly encoded memories and prevents damage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is very busy when we sleep , repeating what we have learned during the day .
Sleep helps reorganize memories and presents them in the most efficient way .
Our findings suggest that memories are dynamic , not static .
In other words , memories , even old memories , are not final .
Sleep constantly updates them , ” said Maksim Bazhenov , PhD , lead author of the study and professor of medicine at UC San Diego .
“ We predict that during the sleep cycle , both old and new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forgetting and increases recall performance.
” Bazhenov said that memory replay during sleep plays a protective role against forgetting by allowing the same populations of neurons to store multiple interfering memories .
“ We learn many new things on a daily basis and those memories compete with old memories .
To accommodate all memories , we need sleep.
” For example , imagine learning how to navigate to a parking lot by going left at one stop sign and right at one traffic light .
The next day , you have to learn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lot using different directions .
Bazhenov said sleep consolidates those memories to allow recollection of both .
“ When you play tennis , you have a certain muscle memory .
If you then learn how to play golf , you have to learn how to move the same muscles in a different way .
Sleep makes sure that learning golf does not erase how to play tennis and makes it possible for different memories to coexist in the brain , ” said Bazhenov .
The authors suggest that the restorative value of sleep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state-of-the-art computer systems that power self-driving cars and recognize images with performances that far exceed humans .
However , these artificial intelligence systems lack the ability to learn continuously and will forget old knowledge when new information is learned .
“ We may need to add a sleep-like state to computer and robotic systems to prevent forgetting after new learning and to make them able to learn continuously , ” said Bazhenov .
Bazhenov said the study results could lead to developing new stimulation techniques during sleep to improve memory and learning .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ adults or persons suffering from learning disabilities .
“ While sleep is certainly involved in many important brain and body functions , it may be critical for making possible what we call human intelligence — the ability to learn continuously from experience , to create new knowledge and to adapt as the world changes around us , ” said Bazhenov .
Alex Jones and Reporter Savanah Hernandez discuss what she witnessed during the failed Antifa occupation of downtown Austin .

From lowering your risk of obesity and cardiovascular disease to improving your concentration and overall daily performance, sleep has been proven to play a critical role in our health.
In a new study, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that sleep may also help people to learn continuously through their lifetime.
Writing in the August 4, 2020 online issue of eLife, researchers used computational models capable of simulating different brain states, such as sleep and awake, to examine how sleep consolidates newly encoded memories and prevents damage to old memories.
“The brain is very busy when we sleep, repeating what we have learned during the day. Sleep helps reorganize memories and presents them in the most efficient way. Our findings suggest that memories are dynamic, not static. In other words, memories, even old memories, are not final. Sleep constantly updates them,” said Maksim Bazhenov, PhD, lead author of the study and professor of medicine at UC San Diego. “We predict that during the sleep cycle, both old and new memories are spontaneously replayed, which prevents forgetting and increases recall performance.”
Bazhenov said that memory replay during sleep plays a protective role against forgetting by allowing the same populations of neurons to store multiple interfering memories. “We learn many new things on a daily basis and those memories compete with old memories. To accommodate all memories, we need sleep.”
For example, imagine learning how to navigate to a parking lot by going left at one stop sign and right at one traffic light. The next day, you have to learn how to get to a different parking lot using different directions. Bazhenov said sleep consolidates those memories to allow recollection of both.
“When you play tennis, you have a certain muscle memory. If you then learn how to play golf, you have to learn how to move the same muscles in a different way. Sleep makes sure that learning golf does not erase how to play tennis and makes it possible for different memories to coexist in the brain,” said Bazhenov.
The authors suggest that the restorative value of sleep may be what is lacking in current state-of-the-art computer systems that power self-driving cars and recognize images with performances that far exceed humans. However, these artificial intelligence systems lack the ability to learn continuously and will forget old knowledge when new information is learned. “We may need to add a sleep-like state to computer and robotic systems to prevent forgetting after new learning and to make them able to learn continuously,” said Bazhenov.
Bazhenov said the study results could lead to developing new stimulation techniques during sleep to improve memory and learning. This may be particularly important in older adults or persons suffering from learning disabilities.
“While sleep is certainly involved in many important brain and body functions, it may be critical for making possible what we call human intelligence — the ability to learn continuously from experience, to create new knowledge and to adapt as the world changes around us,” said Bazhenov.
Alex Jones and Reporter Savanah Hernandez discuss what she witnessed during the failed Antifa occupation of downtown Austin.


newswars--2020-08-04--China Steps Up Massive ‘Combat Readiness’ Aerial Drills Over South China Sea

China has conducted massive aerial drills over the South China Sea at a moment of all-time high tensions with the United States .
Described as air combat readiness exercises , regional media details that three of China ’ s five main military regions are active as part of the drills .
It comes on the heels of even larger exercises off the Leizhou Peninsula in southern China which wrapped up days ago .
“ Our aim is not to push the limit or break a record .
All our exercises are aimed at [ preparing for ] actual combat , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the drills , which lasted over ten hours .
The aircraft made use of some of its man-made islands which have been at center of controversy with regional allies of the US , given the artificial land masses have been used to expand China ’ s maritime claims over the whole area .
South China Sea detailed of the new drills that “ the Southern Theatre Command sent various aircraft , including an Su-30 fighter and an aerial refuelling tanker , to Subi Reef , a South China Sea atoll that China expanded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exercise , one foreign aircraft was said to be chased away from the area , but it ’ s unclear whether it was military or what nation it belonged to .
Subi Reef is in the Spratly Islands — lately an area where tensions run high , also given the significant uptick in US overhead military overflights of the past months , and especially the fact that Vietnam is locked in a territorial dispute with Beijing over the island chain .
Meanwhile , the Pentagon has plans for its own future drills in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , some allies like the Philippines have said of late that they don ’ t plan to participate for fear of sparking inadvertent military conflict .
Alex Jones and Reporter Savanah Hernandez discuss what she witnessed during the failed Antifa occupation of downtown Austin .

China has conducted massive aerial drills over the South China Sea at a moment of all-time high tensions with the United States.
Described as air combat readiness exercises, regional media details that three of China’s five main military regions are active as part of the drills. It comes on the heels of even larger exercises off the Leizhou Peninsula in southern China which wrapped up days ago.
“Our aim is not to push the limit or break a record. All our exercises are aimed at [preparing for] actual combat,” a state media video said of the drills, which lasted over ten hours.
The aircraft made use of some of its man-made islands which have been at center of controversy with regional allies of the US, given the artificial land masses have been used to expand China’s maritime claims over the whole area.
South China Sea detailed of the new drills that “the Southern Theatre Command sent various aircraft, including an Su-30 fighter and an aerial refuelling tanker, to Subi Reef, a South China Sea atoll that China expanded into an artificial island.”
During the exercise, one foreign aircraft was said to be chased away from the area, but it’s unclear whether it was military or what nation it belonged to.
Subi Reef is in the Spratly Islands — lately an area where tensions run high, also given the significant uptick in US overhead military overflights of the past months, and especially the fact that Vietnam is locked in a territorial dispute with Beijing over the island chain.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has plans for its own future drills in the contested South China Sea; however, some allies like the Philippines have said of late that they don’t plan to participate for fear of sparking inadvertent military conflict.
Alex Jones and Reporter Savanah Hernandez discuss what she witnessed during the failed Antifa occupation of downtown Austin.


newswars--2020-08-04--Corporate Media Completely Ignored Story of Mother Killed by Black Lives Matter Supporters

The corporate and left-wing media completely ignored the story last month about a 24-year old mother , Jessica Whitaker , @ @ @ @ @ Lives Matter supporters in Indianapolis , Indiana after an alleged argument over the term “ @ @ @ @ @ by the nonpartisan bias-checker Ground News , which tracks coverage of news stories and assigns @ @ @ @ @ to stories based on coverage or lack of coverage from partisan media , found that @ @ @ @ @ came nearly exclusively from right-wing or center-right publications .
As Breitbart News reported , the @ @ @ @ @ local media , but went largely ignored by the national press until it was picked @ @ @ @ @ .

The corporate and left-wing media completely ignored the story last month about a 24-year old mother, Jessica Whitaker, who was killed by Black Lives Matter supporters in Indianapolis, Indiana after an alleged argument over the term “All Lives Matter.”
Analysis by the nonpartisan bias-checker Ground News, which tracks coverage of news stories and assigns a “bias rating” to stories based on coverage or lack of coverage from partisan media, found that national coverage of the story came nearly exclusively from right-wing or center-right publications.
As Breitbart News reported, the story was originally reported by local media, but went largely ignored by the national press until it was picked up by the Gateway Pundit.
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newswars--2020-08-04--Watch: White House Updates Nation on TikTok, Drug Price Transparency

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany hosts a White House press conference Tuesday to provide the latest on the Trump administration ’ @ @ @ @ @ app TikTok and the fostering of competition in America ’ s healthcare .

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany hosts a White House press conference Tuesday to provide the latest on the Trump administration’s handling of the Chinese app TikTok and the fostering of competition in America’s healthcare.


newswars--2020-08-04--Comedy: The “Wokest” Company In Silicon Valley

A sketch released by comedian Ryan Long on Monday mocks Big Tech companies for their over-the-top virtue signaling and attempting @ @ @ @ @ opinions .
It turns out , social media companies care about the diversity of ethnicity @ @ @ @ @ .

A sketch released by comedian Ryan Long on Monday mocks Big Tech companies for their over-the-top virtue signaling and attempting to always have the right opinions.
It turns out, social media companies care about the diversity of ethnicity, not diversity of thought.


newswars--2020-08-04--Media TV Veteran Admits “We Are a Cancer and There is No Cure”

MSNBC producer Ariana Pekary explained that the reason for her deciding to quit her job was that the mainstream media blocks “ diversity of thought ” in favor of promoting hysterical voices for ratings and that a TV veteran admitted to her “ we are a cancer and there is no cure.
” Pekary , who was an “ integral member ” of Lawrence O ’ Donnell ’ s primetime show , says that the media ’ s obsession with Trump is actually costing lives because it is preventing reasoned discussions about how to fight the coronavirus pandemic .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the middle of a pandemic .
The primary focus quickly became what Donald Trump was doing ( poorly ) to address the crisis , rather than the science itself .
As new details have become available about antibodies , a vaccine , or how COVID actually spreads , producers still want to focus on the politics .
Important facts or studies get buried , ” Pekary explained .
The former producer also revealed that a “ successful and insightful TV veteran ” acknowledged to her that , “ We are a cancer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adding , “ But if you could find a cure , it would change the world.
” Pekary also highlighted how the very model by which the corporate press is structured guarantees that voices of dissent are silenced in favor of hysterical political extremists , something that has come to fore over the last two months with the media ’ s relentless promotion of Black Lives Matter narratives .
“ The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events , at the expense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ratings , ” she wrote .
Pekary ’ s resignation follows that of former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss , who said she was smeared by her own colleagues as a racist and a Nazi for daring to engage in “ wrongthink ” by not echoing fringe social justice rhetoric .
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MSNBC producer Ariana Pekary explained that the reason for her deciding to quit her job was that the mainstream media blocks “diversity of thought” in favor of promoting hysterical voices for ratings and that a TV veteran admitted to her “we are a cancer and there is no cure.”
Pekary, who was an “integral member” of Lawrence O’Donnell’s primetime show, says that the media’s obsession with Trump is actually costing lives because it is preventing reasoned discussions about how to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
“This cancer risks human lives, even in the middle of a pandemic. The primary focus quickly became what Donald Trump was doing (poorly) to address the crisis, rather than the science itself. As new details have become available about antibodies, a vaccine, or how COVID actually spreads, producers still want to focus on the politics. Important facts or studies get buried,” Pekary explained.
The former producer also revealed that a “successful and insightful TV veteran” acknowledged to her that, “We are a cancer and there is no cure,” adding, “But if you could find a cure, it would change the world.”
Pekary also highlighted how the very model by which the corporate press is structured guarantees that voices of dissent are silenced in favor of hysterical political extremists, something that has come to fore over the last two months with the media’s relentless promotion of Black Lives Matter narratives.
“The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings,” she wrote.
Pekary’s resignation follows that of former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss, who said she was smeared by her own colleagues as a racist and a Nazi for daring to engage in “wrongthink” by not echoing fringe social justice rhetoric.
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newswars--2020-08-04--Here’s Why Liberals Are Now Buying Guns

Here’s Why Liberals Are Now Buying Guns

Gun sales are exploding , with July sales up nearly 135 % compared to a year ago , which is expected because now even anti-gun liberals are starting to stockpile for personal defense .
“ U.S .
firearms unit sales are at 2.0 million units , a year-over-year increase of 134.6 % from July 2019 , ” estimated Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting ( SAAF ) , an industry analyst .
“ Likely single handgun sales ( 1.2 million ) increased year-over-year by 152.0 % whereas single long-gun sales ( 0.6 million ) increased year-over-year by 108.2 % .
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only be explained by demand from first-time buyers , namely liberals who were formerly more anti-gun than they are now .
Case in point , a Seattle radio host who once defended the city ’ s riots now says he “ needs to buy a firearm ” after rioters looted his apartment complex .
“ Why the change in attitude ?
Perhaps it was because rioters in his city trashed and looted the downstairs to his apartment complex .
Gallant arrived back at his apartment this weekend to find it vandalized and looted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liberals who weren ’ t personally affected by the riots are starting to think about their own safety after reports of police standing down during rioting , which has been featured by exhaustive news footage such as this : You can watch more at Banned.video .

Gun sales are exploding, with July sales up nearly 135% compared to a year ago, which is expected because now even anti-gun liberals are starting to stockpile for personal defense.
“U.S. firearms unit sales are at 2.0 million units, a year-over-year increase of 134.6% from July 2019,” estimated Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF), an industry analyst. “Likely single handgun sales (1.2 million) increased year-over-year by 152.0% whereas single long-gun sales (0.6 million) increased year-over-year by 108.2%.”
This sudden surge in gun sales can only be explained by demand from first-time buyers, namely liberals who were formerly more anti-gun than they are now.
Case in point, a Seattle radio host who once defended the city’s riots now says he “needs to buy a firearm” after rioters looted his apartment complex.
“Why the change in attitude? Perhaps it was because rioters in his city trashed and looted the downstairs to his apartment complex. Gallant arrived back at his apartment this weekend to find it vandalized and looted,” reported Zero Hedge.
Trump wanted to help in June but you trolled him that he should stay out because you don’t see any problem. You cared less when someone else’s street was in anarchy a few weeks back. Now it’s your place. Sad but this is how it always workse. Good luck buying a firearm. pic.twitter.com/0cKwQASgWa — Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) July 26, 2020
Even liberals who weren’t personally affected by the riots are starting to think about their own safety after reports of police standing down during rioting, which has been featured by exhaustive news footage such as this:
You can watch more at Banned.video.


newswars--2020-08-04--Epic: Gun Shop Owner Wears Communist News Network Shirt During CNN Interview

An Arizona gun shop owner knew the perfect shirt to wear during his interview with far-left fake news outlet CNN .
In a segment on Arizona ’ s controversial face mask orders , Against All Enemies Armory owner Patrick Baughman appeared on-camera wearing a mock CNN t-shirt – with a hammer and sickle communist symbol substituted for the letter “ C. ” Baughman did not acknowledge his shirt during the exchange , but explained he makes customers remove masks before entering his store .
“ We make any member , or any customer that ’ s walking through our doors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ’ s our pride , “ Baughman said .
“ So you make people remove the mask when they come in ?
” reporter Miguel Marquez asked .
“ Absolutely .
You do not shop my store without — with a mask on , period , ” Baughman replied .
Baughman explained he also disagrees with the coronavirus numbers being reported by health authorities .
“ I definitely , definitely , don ’ t agree with that number that you just threw out there .
I think there is… There are so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as how they ’ re reporting numbers , ” he tells the reporter .
After the segment , CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota commented on Baughman ’ s shirt , claiming it sent a mixed message .
“ I couldn ’ t help but notice the t-shirt that Patrick was wearing , I guess for the very occasion of being interviewed on CNN .
He–it was a mixed message , is all I can say , ” Camerota said .
Marquez responded that he actually liked the shirt – because of course he did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there in the Communist News Network t-shirt , ” Marquez confirmed .
“ We ’ ve heard that quite a bit out here in Arizona .
And it was impressive .
It was good colors , great shirt .
I actually kind of thought it was cool .
”

An Arizona gun shop owner knew the perfect shirt to wear during his interview with far-left fake news outlet CNN.
In a segment on Arizona’s controversial face mask orders, Against All Enemies Armory owner Patrick Baughman appeared on-camera wearing a mock CNN t-shirt – with a hammer and sickle communist symbol substituted for the letter “C.”
Baughman did not acknowledge his shirt during the exchange, but explained he makes customers remove masks before entering his store.
“We make any member, or any customer that’s walking through our doors remove their face mask. Again, that’s our pride,“ Baughman said.
“So you make people remove the mask when they come in?” reporter Miguel Marquez asked.
“Absolutely. You do not shop my store without — with a mask on, period,” Baughman replied.
Baughman explained he also disagrees with the coronavirus numbers being reported by health authorities.
“But 150,000 people are dead! Over 150,000,” Marquez told Baughman.
“I definitely, definitely, don’t agree with that number that you just threw out there. I think there is… There are so many cases of fraudulent claims as far as how they’re reporting numbers,” he tells the reporter.
After the segment, CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota commented on Baughman’s shirt, claiming it sent a mixed message.
“I couldn’t help but notice the t-shirt that Patrick was wearing, I guess for the very occasion of being interviewed on CNN. He–it was a mixed message, is all I can say,” Camerota said.
Marquez responded that he actually liked the shirt – because of course he did.
“Yeah. He came out there in the Communist News Network t-shirt,” Marquez confirmed. “We’ve heard that quite a bit out here in Arizona. And it was impressive. It was good colors, great shirt. I actually kind of thought it was cool.”
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