newswars--2020-02-17--Earth climate models and the search for life on other planets

In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA ’ s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt , Maryland , thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching .
Day and night , they spit out 7 quadrillion calculations per second .
These machines collectively are known as NASA ’ s Discover supercomputer and they are tasked with running sophisticated climate models to predict Earth ’ s future climate .
But now , they ’ re also sussing out something much farther away : whether any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planets beyond our solar system discovered in the past two decades could support life .
Scientists are finding that the answer not only is yes , but that it ’ s yes under a range of surprising conditions compared to Earth .
This revelation has prompted many of them to grapple with a question vital to NASA ’ s search for life beyond Earth .
Is it possible that our notions of what makes a planet suitable for life are too limiting ?
The next generation of powerful telescopes and space observatories will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instruments will allow scientists for the first time to analyze the atmospheres of the most tantalizing planets out there : rocky ones , like Earth , that could have an essential ingredient for life—liquid water—flowing on their surfaces .
For the time being , it ’ s difficult to probe far-off atmospheres .
Sending a spacecraft to the closest planet outside our solar system , or exoplanet , would take 75,000 years with today ’ s technology .
Even with powerful telescopes nearby exoplanets are virtually impossible to study in detail .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ small and too drowned out by the light of their stars for scientists to make out the faint light signatures they reflect—signatures that could reveal the chemistry of life at the surface .
In other words , detecting the ingredients of the atmospheres around these phantom planets , as many scientists like to point out , is like standing in Washington , D.C. , and trying to glimpse a firefly next to a searchlight in Los Angeles .
This reality makes climate models critical to exploration , said chief exoplanetary scientist Karl Stapelfeldt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , California .
“ The models make specific , testable predictions of what we should see , ” he said .
“ These are very important for designing our future telescopes and observing strategies.
” In scanning the cosmos with large ground-based and space telescopes , astronomers have discovered an eclectic assortment of worlds that seem drawn from the imagination .
“ For a long time , scientists were really focused on finding sun- and Earth-like systems .
That ’ s all we knew , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ astrophysicist who led the 2014 discovery of Earth-sized planet Kepler-186f .
“ But we found out that there ’ s this whole crazy diversity in planets .
We found planets as small as the moon .
We found giant planets .
And we found some that orbit tiny stars , giant stars and multiple stars.
” Indeed , most of the planets detected by NASA ’ s Kepler space telescope and the new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite , as well as ground-based observations , don ’ t exist in our solar system .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ terrestrial Earth and a gaseous Uranus , which is four times bigger than this planet .
Planets closest in size to Earth , and most likely in theory to have habitable conditions , so far have been found only around “ red dwarf ” stars , which make up a vast majority of stars in the galaxy .
But that ’ s likely because red dwarfs are smaller and dimmer than the sun , so the signal from planets orbiting them is easier for telescopes to detect .
Because red dwarfs are small @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than Mercury is to the sun—to stay gravitationally attached to them .
And because red dwarfs are cool , compared to all other stars , planets have to be closer to them to draw enough heat to allow liquid water to pool on their surfaces .
Among the most alluring recent discoveries in red dwarf systems are planets like Proxima Centauri b , or simply Proxima b.
It ’ s the closest exoplanet .
There are also seven rocky planets in the nearby system TRAPPIST-1 .
Whether or not these planets could sustain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Scientists point out that red dwarfs can spew up to 500 times more harmful ultraviolet and X-ray radiation at their planets than the sun ejects into the solar system .
On the face of it , this environment would strip atmospheres , evaporate oceans and fry DNA on any planet close to a red dwarf .
Yet , maybe not .
Earth climate models are showing that rocky exoplanets around red dwarfs could be habitable despite the radiation .
The magic is in the clouds Anthony Del Genio is a recently retired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City .
During his career he simulated the climates of Earth and of other planets , including Proxima b. Del Genio ’ s team recently simulated possible climates on Proxima b to test how many would leave it warm and wet enough to host life .
This type of modeling work helps NASA scientists identify a handful of promising planets worthy of more rigorous study with NASA ’ s forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope .
“ While our work can ’ t tell observers if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we can tell them whether a planet is smack in the midrange of good candidates to search further , ” Del Genio said .
Proxima b orbits Proxima Centauri in a three-star system located just 4.2 light years from the sun .
Besides that , scientists don ’ t know much about it .
They believe it ’ s rocky , based on its estimated mass , which is slightly larger than Earth ’ s .
Scientists can infer mass by watching how much Proxima b tugs on its star as it orbits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that it ’ s 20 times closer to its star than Earth is to the sun .
Therefore , it takes the planet only 11.2 days to make one orbit ( Earth takes 365 days to orbit the sun once ) .
Physics tells scientists that this cozy arrangement could leave Proxima b gravitationally locked to its star , like the moon is gravitationally locked to Earth .
If true , one side of Proxima b faces the star ’ s intense radiation while the other one freezes in the darkness of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t bode well for life on either side .
But Del Genio ’ s simulations show that Proxima b , or any planet with similar characteristics , could be habitable despite the forces conspiring against it .
“ And the clouds and oceans play a fundamental role in that , ” Del Genio said .
Del Genio ’ s team upgraded an Earth climate model first developed in the 1970s to create a planetary simulator called ROCKE-3-D .
Whether Proxima b has an atmosphere is an open and critical question that will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But Del Genio ’ s team assumed that it does .
With each simulation Del Genio ’ s team varied the types and amounts of greenhouse gases in Proxima b ’ s air .
They also changed the depth , size , and salinity of its oceans and adjusted the ratio of land to water to see how these tweaks would influence the planet ’ s climate .
Models such as ROCKE-3-D begin with only grains of basic information about an exoplanet : its size , mass , and distance from its star @ @ @ @ @ @ @ watching the light from a star dip as a planet crosses in front of it , or by measuring the gravitational tugging on a star as a planet circles it .
These scant physical details inform equations that comprise up to a million lines of computer code needed to build the most sophisticated climate models .
The code instructs a computer like NASA ’ s Discover supercomputer to use established rules of nature to simulate global climate systems .
Among many other factors , climate models consider how clouds and oceans circulate and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interacts with a planet ’ s atmosphere and surface .
When Del Genio ’ s team ran ROCKE-3-D on Discover they saw that Proxima b ’ s hypothetical clouds acted like a massive sun umbrella by deflecting radiation .
This could lower the temperature on Proxima b ’ s sun-facing side from too hot to warm .
Other scientists have found that Proxima b could form clouds so massive they would blot out the entire sky if one were looking up from the surface .
“ If a planet is gravitationally locked and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of clouds forms in front of the star , always pointing towards it .
This is due to a force known as the Coriolis effect , which causes convection at the location where the star is heating the atmosphere , ” said Ravi Kopparapu , a NASA Goddard planetary scientist who also models the potential climates of exoplanets .
“ Our modeling shows that Proxima b could look like this.
” In addition to making Proxima b ’ s day side more temperate than expected , a combination of atmosphere and ocean circulation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the planet , thereby transporting heat to the cold side .
“ So you not only keep the atmosphere on the night side from freezing out , you create parts on the night side that actually maintain liquid water on the surface , even though those parts see no light , ” Del Genio said .
Taking a new look at an old role model Atmospheres are envelopes of molecules around planets .
Besides helping maintain and circulate heat , atmospheres distribute gases that nourish life or are produced by it .
These @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientists will look for in the atmospheres of exoplanets .
But what exactly they should be looking for is still undecided .
Earth ’ s is the only evidence scientists have of the chemistry of a life-sustaining atmosphere .
Yet , they have to be cautious when using Earth ’ s chemistry as a model for the rest of the galaxy .
Simulations from Goddard planetary scientist Giada Arney , for instance , show that even something as simple as oxygen—the quintessential sign of plant life and photosynthesis on modern Earth—could present a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ something interesting .
Had alien civilizations pointed their telescopes toward Earth billions of years ago hoping to find a blue planet swimming in oxygen , they would have been disappointed ; maybe they would have turned their telescopes toward another world .
But instead of oxygen , methane could have been the best biosignature to look for 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago .
This molecule was produced in abundance back then , likely by the microorganisms quietly flourishing in the oceans .
“ What is interesting about this phase of Earth ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alien compared to modern Earth , ” Arney said .
“ There was no oxygen yet , so it wasn ’ t even a pale blue dot .
It was a pale orange dot , ” she said , referencing the orange haze produced by the methane smog that may have shrouded early Earth .
Findings like this one , Arney said , “ have broadened our thinking about what ’ s possible among exoplanets , ” helping expand the list of biosignatures planetary scientists will look for in distant atmospheres .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theoretical—meaning scientists haven ’ t had an opportunity to test them in the real world—they offer a blueprint for future observations .
One major goal of simulating climates is to identify the most promising planets to turn to with the Webb telescope and other missions so that scientists can use limited and expensive telescope time most efficiently .
Additionally , these simulations are helping scientists create a catalog of potential chemical signatures that they will one day detect .
Having such a database to draw from will help them quickly determine the type @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and decide whether to keep probing or turn their telescopes elsewhere .
Discovering life on distant planets is a gamble , Del Genio noted : “ So if we want to observe most wisely , we have to take recommendations from climate models , because that ’ s just increasing the odds .
”

In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching.
Day and night, they spit out 7 quadrillion calculations per second. These machines collectively are known as NASA’s Discover supercomputer and they are tasked with running sophisticated climate models to predict Earth’s future climate.
But now, they’re also sussing out something much farther away: whether any of the more than 4,000 curiously weird planets beyond our solar system discovered in the past two decades could support life.
Scientists are finding that the answer not only is yes, but that it’s yes under a range of surprising conditions compared to Earth. This revelation has prompted many of them to grapple with a question vital to NASA’s search for life beyond Earth. Is it possible that our notions of what makes a planet suitable for life are too limiting?
The next generation of powerful telescopes and space observatories will surely give us more clues. These instruments will allow scientists for the first time to analyze the atmospheres of the most tantalizing planets out there: rocky ones, like Earth, that could have an essential ingredient for life—liquid water—flowing on their surfaces.
For the time being, it’s difficult to probe far-off atmospheres. Sending a spacecraft to the closest planet outside our solar system, or exoplanet, would take 75,000 years with today’s technology. Even with powerful telescopes nearby exoplanets are virtually impossible to study in detail. The trouble is that they’re too small and too drowned out by the light of their stars for scientists to make out the faint light signatures they reflect—signatures that could reveal the chemistry of life at the surface.
In other words, detecting the ingredients of the atmospheres around these phantom planets, as many scientists like to point out, is like standing in Washington, D.C., and trying to glimpse a firefly next to a searchlight in Los Angeles. This reality makes climate models critical to exploration, said chief exoplanetary scientist Karl Stapelfeldt, who’s based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
“The models make specific, testable predictions of what we should see,” he said. “These are very important for designing our future telescopes and observing strategies.”
Is the solar system a good role model?
In scanning the cosmos with large ground-based and space telescopes, astronomers have discovered an eclectic assortment of worlds that seem drawn from the imagination.
“For a long time, scientists were really focused on finding sun- and Earth-like systems. That’s all we knew,” said Elisa Quintana, a NASA Goddard astrophysicist who led the 2014 discovery of Earth-sized planet Kepler-186f. “But we found out that there’s this whole crazy diversity in planets. We found planets as small as the moon. We found giant planets. And we found some that orbit tiny stars, giant stars and multiple stars.”
Indeed, most of the planets detected by NASA’s Kepler space telescope and the new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, as well as ground-based observations, don’t exist in our solar system. They fall between the size of a terrestrial Earth and a gaseous Uranus, which is four times bigger than this planet.
Planets closest in size to Earth, and most likely in theory to have habitable conditions, so far have been found only around “red dwarf” stars, which make up a vast majority of stars in the galaxy. But that’s likely because red dwarfs are smaller and dimmer than the sun, so the signal from planets orbiting them is easier for telescopes to detect.
Because red dwarfs are small, planets have to lap uncomfortably close—closer than Mercury is to the sun—to stay gravitationally attached to them. And because red dwarfs are cool, compared to all other stars, planets have to be closer to them to draw enough heat to allow liquid water to pool on their surfaces.
Among the most alluring recent discoveries in red dwarf systems are planets like Proxima Centauri b, or simply Proxima b. It’s the closest exoplanet. There are also seven rocky planets in the nearby system TRAPPIST-1. Whether or not these planets could sustain life is still a matter of debate. Scientists point out that red dwarfs can spew up to 500 times more harmful ultraviolet and X-ray radiation at their planets than the sun ejects into the solar system. On the face of it, this environment would strip atmospheres, evaporate oceans and fry DNA on any planet close to a red dwarf.
Yet, maybe not. Earth climate models are showing that rocky exoplanets around red dwarfs could be habitable despite the radiation.
The magic is in the clouds
Anthony Del Genio is a recently retired planetary climate scientist from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. During his career he simulated the climates of Earth and of other planets, including Proxima b.
Del Genio’s team recently simulated possible climates on Proxima b to test how many would leave it warm and wet enough to host life. This type of modeling work helps NASA scientists identify a handful of promising planets worthy of more rigorous study with NASA’s forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope.
“While our work can’t tell observers if any planet is habitable or not, we can tell them whether a planet is smack in the midrange of good candidates to search further,” Del Genio said.
Proxima b orbits Proxima Centauri in a three-star system located just 4.2 light years from the sun. Besides that, scientists don’t know much about it. They believe it’s rocky, based on its estimated mass, which is slightly larger than Earth’s. Scientists can infer mass by watching how much Proxima b tugs on its star as it orbits it.
The problem with Proxima b is that it’s 20 times closer to its star than Earth is to the sun. Therefore, it takes the planet only 11.2 days to make one orbit (Earth takes 365 days to orbit the sun once). Physics tells scientists that this cozy arrangement could leave Proxima b gravitationally locked to its star, like the moon is gravitationally locked to Earth. If true, one side of Proxima b faces the star’s intense radiation while the other one freezes in the darkness of space in a planetary recipe that doesn’t bode well for life on either side.
But Del Genio’s simulations show that Proxima b, or any planet with similar characteristics, could be habitable despite the forces conspiring against it. “And the clouds and oceans play a fundamental role in that,” Del Genio said.
Del Genio’s team upgraded an Earth climate model first developed in the 1970s to create a planetary simulator called ROCKE-3-D. Whether Proxima b has an atmosphere is an open and critical question that will hopefully be settled by future telescopes. But Del Genio’s team assumed that it does.
With each simulation Del Genio’s team varied the types and amounts of greenhouse gases in Proxima b’s air. They also changed the depth, size, and salinity of its oceans and adjusted the ratio of land to water to see how these tweaks would influence the planet’s climate.
Models such as ROCKE-3-D begin with only grains of basic information about an exoplanet: its size, mass, and distance from its star. Scientists can infer these things by watching the light from a star dip as a planet crosses in front of it, or by measuring the gravitational tugging on a star as a planet circles it.
These scant physical details inform equations that comprise up to a million lines of computer code needed to build the most sophisticated climate models. The code instructs a computer like NASA’s Discover supercomputer to use established rules of nature to simulate global climate systems. Among many other factors, climate models consider how clouds and oceans circulate and interact and how radiation from a sun interacts with a planet’s atmosphere and surface.
When Del Genio’s team ran ROCKE-3-D on Discover they saw that Proxima b’s hypothetical clouds acted like a massive sun umbrella by deflecting radiation. This could lower the temperature on Proxima b’s sun-facing side from too hot to warm.
Other scientists have found that Proxima b could form clouds so massive they would blot out the entire sky if one were looking up from the surface.
“If a planet is gravitationally locked and rotating slowly on its axis a circle of clouds forms in front of the star, always pointing towards it. This is due to a force known as the Coriolis effect, which causes convection at the location where the star is heating the atmosphere,” said Ravi Kopparapu, a NASA Goddard planetary scientist who also models the potential climates of exoplanets. “Our modeling shows that Proxima b could look like this.”
In addition to making Proxima b’s day side more temperate than expected, a combination of atmosphere and ocean circulation would move warm air and water around the planet, thereby transporting heat to the cold side. “So you not only keep the atmosphere on the night side from freezing out, you create parts on the night side that actually maintain liquid water on the surface, even though those parts see no light,” Del Genio said.
Taking a new look at an old role model
Atmospheres are envelopes of molecules around planets. Besides helping maintain and circulate heat, atmospheres distribute gases that nourish life or are produced by it.
These gases are the so-called “biosignatures” scientists will look for in the atmospheres of exoplanets. But what exactly they should be looking for is still undecided.
Earth’s is the only evidence scientists have of the chemistry of a life-sustaining atmosphere. Yet, they have to be cautious when using Earth’s chemistry as a model for the rest of the galaxy. Simulations from Goddard planetary scientist Giada Arney, for instance, show that even something as simple as oxygen—the quintessential sign of plant life and photosynthesis on modern Earth—could present a trap.
Arney’s work highlights something interesting. Had alien civilizations pointed their telescopes toward Earth billions of years ago hoping to find a blue planet swimming in oxygen, they would have been disappointed; maybe they would have turned their telescopes toward another world. But instead of oxygen, methane could have been the best biosignature to look for 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago. This molecule was produced in abundance back then, likely by the microorganisms quietly flourishing in the oceans.
“What is interesting about this phase of Earth’s history is that it was so alien compared to modern Earth,” Arney said. “There was no oxygen yet, so it wasn’t even a pale blue dot. It was a pale orange dot,” she said, referencing the orange haze produced by the methane smog that may have shrouded early Earth.
Findings like this one, Arney said, “have broadened our thinking about what’s possible among exoplanets,” helping expand the list of biosignatures planetary scientists will look for in distant atmospheres.
Building a blueprint for atmosphere hunters
While the lessons from planetary climate models are theoretical—meaning scientists haven’t had an opportunity to test them in the real world—they offer a blueprint for future observations.
One major goal of simulating climates is to identify the most promising planets to turn to with the Webb telescope and other missions so that scientists can use limited and expensive telescope time most efficiently. Additionally, these simulations are helping scientists create a catalog of potential chemical signatures that they will one day detect. Having such a database to draw from will help them quickly determine the type of planet they’re looking at and decide whether to keep probing or turn their telescopes elsewhere.
Discovering life on distant planets is a gamble, Del Genio noted: “So if we want to observe most wisely, we have to take recommendations from climate models, because that’s just increasing the odds.”


newswars--2020-02-17--Ron Paul – Trump’s Budget: More Warfare, Slightly Less Welfare

Listening to the howls from Democrats and the applause from Republicans , one would think President Trump ’ s proposed fiscal year 2021 budget is a radical assault on the welfare state .
The truth is the budget contains some minor spending cuts , most of which are not even real cuts .
Instead they are reductions in the “ projected rate of growth.
” This is equivalent of saying you are sticking to your diet because you ate five chocolate chip cookies when you wanted to eat ten .
President Trump ’ s plan reduces the Education Department ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leaving the department with “ only ” 66.6 billion dollars .
Cuts to other departments are similarly small , while reductions in entitlement spending consist mostly of reforms that will not affect most of those dependent on these programs .
President Trump deserves credit for proposing an 11.6 billion dollars cut in funding for the Department of State and the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) .
Foreign aid does little to help impoverished people overseas .
Instead , it benefits foreign government officials willing to do the US government ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ USAID are extensively involved in US intervention abroad , including efforts to overthrow governments .
President Trump ’ s budget proposes a number of increases in spending .
For example , his budget spends around 900 million additional dollars on vocational education .
It also includes additional spending on items including infrastructure and childcare .
Few in DC have expressed concern over the fact that President Trump ’ s 4.8 trillion dollars budget proposal is the largest budget in American history .
There is also little outcry from supposedly antiwar progressive Democrats over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of billions of dollars on militarism .
This is not surprising , as many progressives are happy to support increased warfare spending as long as conservatives go along with increased welfare spending .
Similarly , many conservatives are happy to support increased welfare spending as long as it means that progressives will vote for increased warfare spending .
So , Congress is unlikely to approve any of President Trump ’ s spending cuts , but Congress will gleefully agree to all of his spending increases .
Even if Congress agrees to all of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deficits will still be over one trillion dollars for the next several years .
However , President Trump claims the budget will balance in 15 years .
In order to show a balanced budget by 2035 , the administration assumes three percent economic growth for most of the next decade .
This level of growth is unlikely to come to pass .
Instead , the current boom will likely end soon , and the economy will experience another major recession .
Signs that we are on the verge of a downturn include rising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bailout of the repurchasing market .
The current economic boom is built on debt , and the debt-based economy is facilitated by the Federal Reserve ’ s easy money policies .
The massive amount of debt held by consumers , businesses , and especially government is the main reason the Fed feels compelled to maintain historically low interest rates .
If rates were to increase to market levels , government interest payments would be unstable .
This would cause the government debt bubble to burst , leading to a major crisis .
However @ @ @ @ @ @ @ low interest rates will inevitably lead to a dollar crisis and a collapse of the welfare-warfare Keynesian system .
Continuing to waste billions on wars abroad and failed programs at home while pretending that we can avoid a crisis via phony cuts and Fed-fueled growth will only make the inevitable collapse more painful .
The only way to avoid economic disaster is to cut spending and audit , then end , the Federal Reserve .
This article first appeared at RonPaulInstitute.org .
Syrian Girl joins The Alex Jones Show to give her analysis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

Listening to the howls from Democrats and the applause from Republicans, one would think President Trump’s proposed fiscal year 2021 budget is a radical assault on the welfare state. The truth is the budget contains some minor spending cuts, most of which are not even real cuts. Instead they are reductions in the “projected rate of growth.” This is equivalent of saying you are sticking to your diet because you ate five chocolate chip cookies when you wanted to eat ten.
President Trump’s plan reduces the Education Department’s budget by nearly eight percent, leaving the department with “only” 66.6 billion dollars. Cuts to other departments are similarly small, while reductions in entitlement spending consist mostly of reforms that will not affect most of those dependent on these programs.
President Trump deserves credit for proposing an 11.6 billion dollars cut in funding for the Department of State and the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Foreign aid does little to help impoverished people overseas. Instead, it benefits foreign government officials willing to do the US government’s bidding. The State Department and USAID are extensively involved in US intervention abroad, including efforts to overthrow governments.
President Trump’s budget proposes a number of increases in spending. For example, his budget spends around 900 million additional dollars on vocational education. It also includes additional spending on items including infrastructure and childcare.
Few in DC have expressed concern over the fact that President Trump’s 4.8 trillion dollars budget proposal is the largest budget in American history. There is also little outcry from supposedly antiwar progressive Democrats over Trump’s proposal to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on militarism. This is not surprising, as many progressives are happy to support increased warfare spending as long as conservatives go along with increased welfare spending. Similarly, many conservatives are happy to support increased welfare spending as long as it means that progressives will vote for increased warfare spending. So, Congress is unlikely to approve any of President Trump’s spending cuts, but Congress will gleefully agree to all of his spending increases.
Even if Congress agrees to all of President Trump’s cuts, federal deficits will still be over one trillion dollars for the next several years. However, President Trump claims the budget will balance in 15 years. In order to show a balanced budget by 2035, the administration assumes three percent economic growth for most of the next decade. This level of growth is unlikely to come to pass. Instead, the current boom will likely end soon, and the economy will experience another major recession. Signs that we are on the verge of a downturn include rising homelessness and the Federal Reserve’s bailout of the repurchasing market.
The current economic boom is built on debt, and the debt-based economy is facilitated by the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies. The massive amount of debt held by consumers, businesses, and especially government is the main reason the Fed feels compelled to maintain historically low interest rates. If rates were to increase to market levels, government interest payments would be unstable. This would cause the government debt bubble to burst, leading to a major crisis. However, continuing on the current path of low interest rates will inevitably lead to a dollar crisis and a collapse of the welfare-warfare Keynesian system.
Continuing to waste billions on wars abroad and failed programs at home while pretending that we can avoid a crisis via phony cuts and Fed-fueled growth will only make the inevitable collapse more painful. The only way to avoid economic disaster is to cut spending and audit, then end, the Federal Reserve.
This article first appeared at RonPaulInstitute.org.
Syrian Girl joins The Alex Jones Show to give her analysis of Trump’s actions against Iran.


newswars--2020-02-17--The Conquest of the US by Spain

The Conquest of the US by Spain

The year 1898 was a landmark in American history .
It was the year America went to war with Spain—our first engagement with a foreign enemy in the dawning age of modern warfare .
Aside from a few scant periods of retrenchment , we have been embroiled in foreign politics ever since .
Starting in the 1880s , a group of Cubans agitated for independence from Spain .
Like many revolutionaries before and after , they had little real support among the mass of the population .
Thus they resorted to terrorist tactics—devastating the countryside , dynamiting railroads , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Spanish authorities responded with harsh countermeasures .
Some American investors in Cuba grew restive , but the real forces pushing America toward intervention were not a handful of sugarcane planters .
The slogans the rebels used— ” freedom ” and “ independence ” —resonated with many Americans , who knew nothing of the real circumstances in Cuba .
Also playing a part was the “ black legend—the stereotype of the Spaniards as bloodthirsty despots that Americans had inherited from their English forebears .
It was easy for Americans to believe the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when the “ yellow ” press discovered that whipping up hysteria over largely concocted Spanish “ atrocities ” —while keeping quiet about those committed by the rebels—sold papers .
Politicians on the lookout for publicity and popular favor saw a gold mine in the Cuban issue .
Soon the American government was directing notes to Spain expressing its “ concern ” over “ events ” in Cuba .
In fact , the “ events ” were merely the tactics colonial powers typically used in fighting a guerrilla war .
As bad or worse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Germany , and others all over the globe in that age of imperialism .
Spain , aware of the immense superiority of American forces , responded to the interference from Washington by attempts at appeasement , while trying to preserve the shreds of its dignity as an ancient imperial power .
When William McKinley became president in 1897 , he was already planning to expand America ’ s role in the world .
Spain ’ s Cuban troubles provided the perfect opportunity .
Publicly , McKinley declared , “ We want no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the temptation of territorial aggression.
” But within the US government , the influential cabal that was seeking war and expansion knew they had found their man .
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge wrote to Theodore Roosevelt , now at the Navy Department , “ Unless I am profoundly mistaken , the Administration is now committed to the large policy we both desire.
” This “ large policy , ” also supported by Secretary of State John Hay and other key figures , aimed at breaking decisively with our tradition of nonintervention and neutrality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would at last assume its “ global responsibilities , ” and join the other great powers in the scramble for territory around the world .
The leaders of the war party camouflaged their plans by speaking of the need to procure markets for American industry , and were even able to convince a few business leaders to parrot their line .
But in reality none of this clique of haughty patricians— ” old money , ” for the most part—had any strong interest in business , or even much respect for it , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Like similar cliques in Britain , Germany , Russia , and elsewhere at the time , their aim was the enhancement of the power and glory of their state .
In order to escalate the pressure on Spain , the battleship USS Maine was dispatched to Havana ’ s harbor .
On the night of February 15 , the Maine exploded , killing 252 men .
Suspicion immediately focused on the Spaniards—although they had the least to gain from the destruction of the Maine .
It was much more likely that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rebels themselves had mined the ship , to draw America into a war the rebels could not win on their own .
The press screamed for vengeance against perfidious Spain , and interventionist politicians believed their hour had come .
McKinley , anxious to preserve his image as a cautious statesman , bided his time .
He pressed Spain to stop fighting the rebels and start negotiating with them for Cuban independence , hinting broadly that the alternative was war .
The Spaniards , averse to simply handing the island over to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ autonomy .
Finally , desperate to avoid war with America , Madrid did proclaim an armistice—a stunning concession for one sovereign state to make at the bidding of another .
But this was not enough for McKinley , who had his eyes set on bagging a few of Spain ’ s remaining possessions .
On April 11 , he delivered his war message to Congress , carefully omitting to mention the concession of an armistice .
A week later , Congress passed the war resolution McKinley wanted .
In the Far East , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to carry out a prearranged plan : proceed to the Philippines and secure control of Manila ’ s harbor .
This he did , bringing along Emilio Aguinaldo and his Filipino independence fighters .
In the Caribbean , American forces quickly subdued the Spaniards in Cuba , and then , after Spain sued for peace , went on to take over Puerto Rico as well .
In three months , the fighting was over .
It had been , as Secretary of State John Hay famously put it , “ a splendid little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decrepit Spain filled the American public with euphoria .
It was a victory , people believed , for American ideals and the American way of life against an Old World tyranny .
Our triumphant arms would guarantee Cuba a free and democratic future .
Against this tidal wave of public elation , one man spoke out .
He was William Graham Sumner—Yale professor , famed social scientist , and tireless fighter for private enterprise , free trade , and the gold standard .
Now he was about to enter his hardest fight of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Sumner addressed an overflow crowd of the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa .
He knew that the assembled Yalies and the rest of the audience were brimming with patriotic pride .
With studied irony , Sumner titled his talk “ The Conquest of the United States by Spain.
” Sumner proceeded to outline the original vision of America cherished by the Founding Fathers , radically different from what prevailed among the nations of Europe : This had been the American idea , our signature as a nation : “ It is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commonwealth that the United States has stood for something unique and grand in the history of mankind , and that its people have been happy.
” The system the Founders bequeathed to us , Sumner held , was a delicate one , providing for the division and balance of powers and aimed at keeping government small and local .
It was no accident that Washington , Jefferson , and the others who created the republic issued clear warnings against “ foreign entanglements.
” A policy of foreign adventurism would , in the nature @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ultimately shatter our original system .
As foreign affairs became more important , power would shift from communities and states to the federal government , and , within that , from Congress to the president .
An ever busy foreign policy could only be carried out by the president , often without the knowledge of the people .
Thus , the American system , based on local government , states ’ rights , and Congress as the voice of the people on the national level , would more and more give way to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presidency .
But now , with the war against Spain and the philosophy behind it , we were letting ourselves in for the old European way , Sumner declared— ” war , debt , taxation , diplomacy , a grand governmental system , pomp , glory , a big army and navy , lavish expenditures , political jobbery—in a word , imperialism.
” Already , it seems , the global meddlers had come up with what was to be their favorite smear word : “ isolationist.
” And already Sumner had the appropriate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against the terrors of ‘ isolation , ’ ” he said , but “ our ancestors all came here to isolate themselves ” from the burdens of the Old World .
“ When the others are all struggling under debt and taxes , who would not be isolated in the enjoyment of his own earnings for the benefit of his own family ?
” In abandoning our own system , there would be , Sumner freely admitted , compensations .
Immortal glory is not nothing , as the Spaniards well knew .
To @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in a mighty enterprise of armies and navies , to identify with great imperial power projected around the world , to see the flag raised on victorious battlefields—many peoples in history thought that game well worth the candle .
Only—only , it was not the American way .
That way had been more modest , more prosaic , parochial , and , yes , middle class .
It was based on the idea that we were here to live out our lives , minding our own business , enjoying our liberty , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , families , churches , and communities .
It had been the “ small policy.
” There is a logic in human affairs , Sumner the social scientist cautioned—once you make a certain decision , some paths that were open to you before are closed , and you are led , step-by-step , in a certain direction .
America was choosing the path of world power , and Sumner had little hope that his words could change that .
Why was he speaking out then ?
Simply because “ this scheme of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ glorious dream which demands more than a word of respect and affection before it passes away .
”

The year 1898 was a landmark in American history. It was the year America went to war with Spain—our first engagement with a foreign enemy in the dawning age of modern warfare. Aside from a few scant periods of retrenchment, we have been embroiled in foreign politics ever since.
Starting in the 1880s, a group of Cubans agitated for independence from Spain. Like many revolutionaries before and after, they had little real support among the mass of the population. Thus they resorted to terrorist tactics—devastating the countryside, dynamiting railroads, and killing those who stood in their way. The Spanish authorities responded with harsh countermeasures.
Some American investors in Cuba grew restive, but the real forces pushing America toward intervention were not a handful of sugarcane planters. The slogans the rebels used—”freedom” and “independence”—resonated with many Americans, who knew nothing of the real circumstances in Cuba. Also playing a part was the “black legend—the stereotype of the Spaniards as bloodthirsty despots that Americans had inherited from their English forebears. It was easy for Americans to believe the stories peddled by the insurgents, especially when the “yellow” press discovered that whipping up hysteria over largely concocted Spanish “atrocities”—while keeping quiet about those committed by the rebels—sold papers.
Politicians on the lookout for publicity and popular favor saw a gold mine in the Cuban issue. Soon the American government was directing notes to Spain expressing its “concern” over “events” in Cuba. In fact, the “events” were merely the tactics colonial powers typically used in fighting a guerrilla war. As bad or worse was being done by Britain, France, Germany, and others all over the globe in that age of imperialism. Spain, aware of the immense superiority of American forces, responded to the interference from Washington by attempts at appeasement, while trying to preserve the shreds of its dignity as an ancient imperial power.
When William McKinley became president in 1897, he was already planning to expand America’s role in the world. Spain’s Cuban troubles provided the perfect opportunity. Publicly, McKinley declared, “We want no wars of conquest; we must avoid the temptation of territorial aggression.” But within the US government, the influential cabal that was seeking war and expansion knew they had found their man. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge wrote to Theodore Roosevelt, now at the Navy Department, “Unless I am profoundly mistaken, the Administration is now committed to the large policy we both desire.” This “large policy,” also supported by Secretary of State John Hay and other key figures, aimed at breaking decisively with our tradition of nonintervention and neutrality in foreign affairs. The United States would at last assume its “global responsibilities,” and join the other great powers in the scramble for territory around the world.
The leaders of the war party camouflaged their plans by speaking of the need to procure markets for American industry, and were even able to convince a few business leaders to parrot their line. But in reality none of this clique of haughty patricians—”old money,” for the most part—had any strong interest in business, or even much respect for it, except as the source of national strength. Like similar cliques in Britain, Germany, Russia, and elsewhere at the time, their aim was the enhancement of the power and glory of their state.
In order to escalate the pressure on Spain, the battleship USS Maine was dispatched to Havana’s harbor. On the night of February 15, the Maine exploded, killing 252 men. Suspicion immediately focused on the Spaniards—although they had the least to gain from the destruction of the Maine. It was much more likely that the boilers had blown up—or even that the rebels themselves had mined the ship, to draw America into a war the rebels could not win on their own. The press screamed for vengeance against perfidious Spain, and interventionist politicians believed their hour had come.
McKinley, anxious to preserve his image as a cautious statesman, bided his time. He pressed Spain to stop fighting the rebels and start negotiating with them for Cuban independence, hinting broadly that the alternative was war. The Spaniards, averse to simply handing the island over to a terrorist junta, were willing to grant autonomy. Finally, desperate to avoid war with America, Madrid did proclaim an armistice—a stunning concession for one sovereign state to make at the bidding of another.
But this was not enough for McKinley, who had his eyes set on bagging a few of Spain’s remaining possessions. On April 11, he delivered his war message to Congress, carefully omitting to mention the concession of an armistice. A week later, Congress passed the war resolution McKinley wanted.
In the Far East, Commodore George Dewey was given the go-ahead to carry out a prearranged plan: proceed to the Philippines and secure control of Manila’s harbor. This he did, bringing along Emilio Aguinaldo and his Filipino independence fighters. In the Caribbean, American forces quickly subdued the Spaniards in Cuba, and then, after Spain sued for peace, went on to take over Puerto Rico as well. In three months, the fighting was over. It had been, as Secretary of State John Hay famously put it, “a splendid little war.”
The quick US trouncing of decrepit Spain filled the American public with euphoria. It was a victory, people believed, for American ideals and the American way of life against an Old World tyranny. Our triumphant arms would guarantee Cuba a free and democratic future.
Against this tidal wave of public elation, one man spoke out. He was William Graham Sumner—Yale professor, famed social scientist, and tireless fighter for private enterprise, free trade, and the gold standard. Now he was about to enter his hardest fight of all.
On January 16, 1899, Sumner addressed an overflow crowd of the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He knew that the assembled Yalies and the rest of the audience were brimming with patriotic pride. With studied irony, Sumner titled his talk “The Conquest of the United States by Spain.”
Sumner threw down the gauntlet:
We have beaten Spain in a military conflict, but we are submitting to be conquered by her on the field of ideas and policies. Expansionism and imperialism are nothing but the old philosophies of national prosperity which have brought Spain to where she is now.
Sumner proceeded to outline the original vision of America cherished by the Founding Fathers, radically different from what prevailed among the nations of Europe:
They would have no court and no pomp; nor orders, or ribbons, or decorations, or titles. They would have no public debt. There was to be no grand diplomacy, because they intended to mind their own business, and not be involved in any of the intrigues to which European statesmen were accustomed. There was to be no balance of power and no “reason of state” to cost the life and happiness of citizens.
This had been the American idea, our signature as a nation: “It is by virtue of this conception of a commonwealth that the United States has stood for something unique and grand in the history of mankind, and that its people have been happy.”
The system the Founders bequeathed to us, Sumner held, was a delicate one, providing for the division and balance of powers and aimed at keeping government small and local. It was no accident that Washington, Jefferson, and the others who created the republic issued clear warnings against “foreign entanglements.” A policy of foreign adventurism would, in the nature of things, bend and twist and ultimately shatter our original system.
As foreign affairs became more important, power would shift from communities and states to the federal government, and, within that, from Congress to the president. An ever busy foreign policy could only be carried out by the president, often without the knowledge of the people. Thus, the American system, based on local government, states’ rights, and Congress as the voice of the people on the national level, would more and more give way to a bloated bureaucracy headed by an imperial presidency.
But now, with the war against Spain and the philosophy behind it, we were letting ourselves in for the old European way, Sumner declared—”war, debt, taxation, diplomacy, a grand governmental system, pomp, glory, a big army and navy, lavish expenditures, political jobbery—in a word, imperialism.”
Already, it seems, the global meddlers had come up with what was to be their favorite smear word: “isolationist.” And already Sumner had the appropriate retort. The imperialists “warn us against the terrors of ‘isolation,’” he said, but “our ancestors all came here to isolate themselves” from the burdens of the Old World. “When the others are all struggling under debt and taxes, who would not be isolated in the enjoyment of his own earnings for the benefit of his own family?”
In abandoning our own system, there would be, Sumner freely admitted, compensations. Immortal glory is not nothing, as the Spaniards well knew. To be a part, even a pawn, in a mighty enterprise of armies and navies, to identify with great imperial power projected around the world, to see the flag raised on victorious battlefields—many peoples in history thought that game well worth the candle.
Only—only, it was not the American way. That way had been more modest, more prosaic, parochial, and, yes, middle class. It was based on the idea that we were here to live out our lives, minding our own business, enjoying our liberty, and pursuing our happiness in our work, families, churches, and communities. It had been the “small policy.”
There is a logic in human affairs, Sumner the social scientist cautioned—once you make a certain decision, some paths that were open to you before are closed, and you are led, step-by-step, in a certain direction. America was choosing the path of world power, and Sumner had little hope that his words could change that. Why was he speaking out then? Simply because “this scheme of a republic which our fathers formed was a glorious dream which demands more than a word of respect and affection before it passes away.”


newswars--2020-02-17--CNN Promotes “The Benefits of Being Single” as Birth Rates Plunge

CNN marked Valentines Day weekend by promoting “ the benefits of being single , ” even as birth rates across America and Europe continue to plunge .
In an article entitled ‘ Singles Awareness Day : The benefits of being single ’ – the news network highlights the fact that “ The number of American men and women who have never been married , are divorced or living alone has been on an upward trend for several years.
” The piece cites research by Dr. Elyakim Kislev , professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , who believes “ being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a source of agony.
” “ The fact is that many societies see tremendous growth in the single population and we need to change this image we have that being single means you are frustrated , less worthy or abandoned.
” said Kislev .
Presumably ‘ changing the image ’ will be achieved with the aid of CNN providing a sympathetic platform for such social engineering .
Since being single obviously greatly reduces the chances of people having children , the article serves as yet more anti-natal propaganda even as America ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s fertility rate currently stands at 1.8 births per woman .
From 2007 to 2011 the fertility rate in the U.S. declined 9 % in the space of just 4 years .
In 2016 , the U.S. fertility rate fell to 59.8 births per 1,000 women , the lowest since records began .
Fertility rates for white women were down in every US state in 2017 , while among black and Hispanic women , fertility rates were up in 12 and 29 states , respectively .
The article also highlights how “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the rise in many countries including Japan , Italy and Sweden , various studies have shown.
” All three of those countries have a below replacement birth rate ( although Sweden ’ s fertility rate is boosted thanks to mass immigration ) .
Italy has a 1.3 births per woman fertility rate , the 8th lowest in the world , while Japan isn ’ t doing much better at 1.4 births per woman .
While the supposed benefits of being single are routinely promoted by the media and the culture , marriage and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mother of four in Australia was recently publicly shamed on national television for the egregious crime of wanting to make her husband breakfast .
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CNN marked Valentines Day weekend by promoting “the benefits of being single,” even as birth rates across America and Europe continue to plunge.
In an article entitled ‘Singles Awareness Day: The benefits of being single’ – the news network highlights the fact that “The number of American men and women who have never been married, are divorced or living alone has been on an upward trend for several years.”
The piece cites research by Dr. Elyakim Kislev, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who believes “being single can be an advantage instead of a source of agony.”
“The fact is that many societies see tremendous growth in the single population and we need to change this image we have that being single means you are frustrated, less worthy or abandoned.” said Kislev.
Presumably ‘changing the image’ will be achieved with the aid of CNN providing a sympathetic platform for such social engineering.
Since being single obviously greatly reduces the chances of people having children, the article serves as yet more anti-natal propaganda even as America’s fertility rate continues to plummet.
Our #data measuring the #happiness levels of single people was analysed as part of a new study covered by @cnni 🇺🇸. The #research – undertaken by Elyakim Kislev (@HebrewU 🇮🇱) – also investigated data from the @uscensusbureau 🇺🇸.https://t.co/SNtR0iRtwb pic.twitter.com/zukj48Hu7L — European Social Survey (@ESS_Survey) February 17, 2020
America’s fertility rate currently stands at 1.8 births per woman.
From 2007 to 2011 the fertility rate in the U.S. declined 9% in the space of just 4 years.
In 2016, the U.S. fertility rate fell to 59.8 births per 1,000 women, the lowest since records began.
Fertility rates for white women were down in every US state in 2017, while among black and Hispanic women, fertility rates were up in 12 and 29 states, respectively.
The article also highlights how “Singlehood and living alone are also on the rise in many countries including Japan, Italy and Sweden, various studies have shown.”
All three of those countries have a below replacement birth rate (although Sweden’s fertility rate is boosted thanks to mass immigration).
Italy has a 1.3 births per woman fertility rate, the 8th lowest in the world, while Japan isn’t doing much better at 1.4 births per woman.
While the supposed benefits of being single are routinely promoted by the media and the culture, marriage and monogamy continue to be demeaned.
A mother of four in Australia was recently publicly shamed on national television for the egregious crime of wanting to make her husband breakfast.
A Brisbane mum has been SLAMMED after revealing online that she doesn’t go to bed until the house is clean and wakes up at 4:30am to make her husband breakfast and coffee. What do you think about this? #9Today pic.twitter.com/DX5NMQUszH — The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) February 5, 2020
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newswars--2020-02-17--Teen Fined, Under House Arrest for Asking Trans Police Officer’s Gender

A teenager with Asperger ’ s was handed a hefty fine and placed under house arrest for asking a trans police support officer , “ is it a boy or is it a girl ?
” Declan Armstrong , 19 , allegedly offended the transgender support officer , Connor Freel , who was reportedly left “ upset and embarrassed ” by the question .
Armstrong , who denied charges of violating the Welsh Public Order Act 1986 by “ using abusive or insulting words with intent to cause harassment , ” had his sentenced raised from “ a low level @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of its transphobic nature , ” in keeping with the British justice system ’ s tough stance on transphobia , emphasizing tolerance and inclusivity .
Armstrong was fined £590–around $ 800 USD–at Mold Magistrates ’ Court and given a strict 3-month curfew , according to Yahoo News .
The Crown Prosecution said , “ Comments deliberately targeting a person in this way have no place in modern society .
The CPS takes any hate crime allegation extremely seriously and we will robustly prosecute cases that meet the Code for Crown Prosecutors.
” Rhian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Due to his transgender , when Connor heard Declan say what he said , it left him feeling upset and embarrassed.
” The question posed by Armstrong reportedly left Freel uncomfortable and “ reluctant ” to work alone in the future .
According the victim ’ s counsel , Ms Jackson went onto say , “ To have something shouted at him that had such personal connotations whilst he was on his own in the middle of a public place that was rather busy due to market day footfall did leave him vulnerable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the incident , Freel was awarded $ 261 in damages .
Freel is an LGBT activist who has given TV interviews in the past , detailing experiences relating to bullying since the age of 15 when she began identifying as trans .
Part of Freel ’ s self-imposed role as a police support officer was to “ raise awareness of transphobic hate crime.
” Freel was also part of a campaign “ to show more vulnerable members of the community that being transgender was not something to hide.
” Sufferers of Asperger ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ social situations as well as lower levels of empathy .
Mike Adams joins The Alex Jones Show to deliver the latetest on the coronavirus outbreak .

A teenager with Asperger’s was handed a hefty fine and placed under house arrest for asking a trans police support officer, “is it a boy or is it a girl?”
Declan Armstrong, 19, allegedly offended the transgender support officer, Connor Freel, who was reportedly left “upset and embarrassed” by the question.
Armstrong, who denied charges of violating the Welsh Public Order Act 1986 by “using abusive or insulting words with intent to cause harassment,” had his sentenced raised from “a low level to a medium level community order because of its transphobic nature,” in keeping with the British justice system’s tough stance on transphobia, emphasizing tolerance and inclusivity.
Armstrong was fined £590–around $800 USD–at Mold Magistrates’ Court and given a strict 3-month curfew, according to Yahoo News.
The Crown Prosecution said, “Comments deliberately targeting a person in this way have no place in modern society. The CPS takes any hate crime allegation extremely seriously and we will robustly prosecute cases that meet the Code for Crown Prosecutors.”
Rhian Jackson, prosecuting, said: “Due to his transgender, when Connor heard Declan say what he said, it left him feeling upset and embarrassed.”
The question posed by Armstrong reportedly left Freel uncomfortable and “reluctant” to work alone in the future.
According the victim’s counsel, Ms Jackson went onto say, “To have something shouted at him that had such personal connotations whilst he was on his own in the middle of a public place that was rather busy due to market day footfall did leave him vulnerable, distressed, and embarrassed.”
Following the incident, Freel was awarded $261 in damages.
Freel is an LGBT activist who has given TV interviews in the past, detailing experiences relating to bullying since the age of 15 when she began identifying as trans.
Part of Freel’s self-imposed role as a police support officer was to “raise awareness of transphobic hate crime.”
Freel was also part of a campaign “to show more vulnerable members of the community that being transgender was not something to hide.”
Sufferers of Asperger’s can report greater difficulty in interpreting social situations as well as lower levels of empathy.
Mike Adams joins The Alex Jones Show to deliver the latetest on the coronavirus outbreak.


newswars--2020-02-17--Coronavirus Deals Major Blow to German Car Factories in China

Volkswagen has postponed the start of production by a week at all the Chinese plants that it runs in partnership with China ’ s SAIC , citing supply-chain and logistical issues caused by the coronavirus outbreak .
The German carmaker now expects to resume production on February 24 .
However , production at some of the plants that VW runs with the Chinese FAW Group resumed on Monday with the remaining plants expected to be operational in the coming days .
“ We are working hard on getting back to our normal production schedule , while facing delays due to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well as limited travel options for production employees , ” Nikolas Thorke , spokesman for Volkswagen ’ s China operation , told DW .
Volkswagen ’ s Chinese JVs delivered 4.21 million vehicles , or about 40 % of total VW global sales , to buyers on the Chinese mainland and in Hong Kong in 2018 .
VW rival Mercedes-Benz ’ s Chinese joint venture Beijing Benz re-started production of luxury passenger cars last Monday ( February 10 ) , about a week later than otherwise scheduled .
The JV is also reported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus outbreak in China is expected to hurt car sales in the world ’ s biggest auto market , dealing a major blow to German carmakers , which depend on the Asian economic powerhouse for a bulk of their sales .
Analysts at Swiss investment bank UBS expect car sales in China to fall by more than 50 % in February and a loss in production capacity of about 20 % in the ongoing quarter as carmakers struggle with extended factory shutdowns , supply-chain disruptions and a drop in demand .
The virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ auto industry , already reeling from pollution concerns , exacerbated by the “ Dieselgate ” emissions scandal , waning global demand amid weakening economic growth , higher tariffs caused by US-China trade tensions and a costly transition to electric and self-driving cars .
Mercedes Benz-owner Daimler and Volkswagen ’ s Audi unit have announced nearly 20,000 job cuts in the past few months as they look to save costs to fund their electric car drive .
Car parts suppliers Continental and Robert Bosch also plan to cut thousands of jobs .
“ German @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Europe [ to the coronavirus ] , ” Emmanuel Bulle , senior director at Fitch Ratings , told DW .
“ The risk for German manufacturers comes chiefly from lost sales rather than immediate disrupted production , since BMW , Daimler and VW have no factories in Hubei , ” he said referring to the Chinese province — an auto-production hub — at the heart of the outbreak that has claimed more than 1,700 lives .
German automakers , unlike Chinese and US makers , have been increasing their market share in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Asian country witnesses its worst slump in over two decades .
China accounts for 4 out of every 10 Volkswagen cars sold worldwide and almost 3 out of every 10 BMW or Mercedes cars delivered globally .
BMW ’ s and Daimler ’ s shares of earnings coming from China are even higher .
Majority of car showrooms in China remain closed as the country slowly returns to work after an extended New Year break .
Even the 20-30 % dealerships that are open are hardly witnessing any footfalls , according to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ analyst Paul Gong says while first-time buyers may have a stronger desire to own a private transportation vehicle to shield themselves from a virus , as happened during the SARS outbreak in 2003 , replacement buyers — which account for two thirds of the market — may delay their purchases for the time being , mainly hurting the premium German car brands .
Replacement buyers are existing car owners who are looking to upgrade to a more premium brand .
“ For the replacement buyers who would have perhaps opted for German brands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to replace their cars at this moment because that is obviously not a priority , ” Gong told DW .
“ So , you would probably see some delay effect.
” Volkswagen and Daimler told DW that while it was too early to gauge the full impact of the virus crisis , they do expect it to hit their sales .
“ Facing the current challenge , we know that purchasing new cars is not a priority for most people , ” said Thorke .
Volkswagen has tweaked its marketing strategy with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ transaction with customers via online showrooms .
The company did not provide any data on the response to its online showrooms , but Gong said the online showrooms in general were not attracting much traffic .
Gong said so far , it ’ s been a gradual ramp-up in production by the automakers , with many facilities working at just 20 % of their full capacity .
He said Daimler was also struggling to ramp-up production , with its suppliers unable to provide enough components .
While German carmakers may have , so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disruptions thanks to them not having factories in the auto production hub of Hubei , automakers elsewhere are bracing for a major fallout from the virus outbreak .
Fiat Chrysler has warned that it may have to shut a European plant in the coming weeks if Chinese parts suppliers can not resume work .
Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors shut down plants in Korea due to harness supply constraints from plants in China ’ s Shandong Province .
Auto analysts say some lost sales have only been postponed and that orders will rebound @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , new car sales could even go up in the longer term as the experience of disrupted public transportation and ride-hailing services during the crisis may prompt more people to buy their own cars .
But , there is a caveat : Experts say if the crisis lingers for a few more months , then it would start hurting the broader economy and result in a loss in consumer confidence , hurting auto sales .
“ It will be interesting to see whether or not the potential customers for the more premium products @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are more resilient in terms of their spending power , ” Mark Fulthorpe from IHS Markit told DW .
“ I think you can probably suggest that they will be .
They probably have more savings .
They are probably better employed .
So , there may be a greater resilience there.
” Mike Adams joins The Alex Jones Show to deliver the latetest on the coronavirus outbreak .

Volkswagen has postponed the start of production by a week at all the Chinese plants that it runs in partnership with China’s SAIC, citing supply-chain and logistical issues caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
The German carmaker now expects to resume production on February 24. However, production at some of the plants that VW runs with the Chinese FAW Group resumed on Monday with the remaining plants expected to be operational in the coming days.
“We are working hard on getting back to our normal production schedule, while facing delays due to national supply chain and logistics challenges as well as limited travel options for production employees,” Nikolas Thorke, spokesman for Volkswagen’s China operation, told DW.
Volkswagen’s Chinese JVs delivered 4.21 million vehicles, or about 40% of total VW global sales, to buyers on the Chinese mainland and in Hong Kong in 2018.
VW rival Mercedes-Benz’s Chinese joint venture Beijing Benz re-started production of luxury passenger cars last Monday (February 10), about a week later than otherwise scheduled. The JV is also reported to be facing supply-chain issues.
Fresh woes
The coronavirus outbreak in China is expected to hurt car sales in the world’s biggest auto market, dealing a major blow to German carmakers, which depend on the Asian economic powerhouse for a bulk of their sales.
Analysts at Swiss investment bank UBS expect car sales in China to fall by more than 50% in February and a loss in production capacity of about 20% in the ongoing quarter as carmakers struggle with extended factory shutdowns, supply-chain disruptions and a drop in demand.
The virus is the latest headache for the German auto industry, already reeling from pollution concerns, exacerbated by the “Dieselgate” emissions scandal, waning global demand amid weakening economic growth, higher tariffs caused by US-China trade tensions and a costly transition to electric and self-driving cars.
Mercedes Benz-owner Daimler and Volkswagen’s Audi unit have announced nearly 20,000 job cuts in the past few months as they look to save costs to fund their electric car drive. Car parts suppliers Continental and Robert Bosch also plan to cut thousands of jobs.
“German automakers and suppliers are the most exposed in Europe [to the coronavirus],” Emmanuel Bulle, senior director at Fitch Ratings, told DW. “The risk for German manufacturers comes chiefly from lost sales rather than immediate disrupted production, since BMW, Daimler and VW have no factories in Hubei,” he said referring to the Chinese province — an auto-production hub — at the heart of the outbreak that has claimed more than 1,700 lives.
German automakers, unlike Chinese and US makers, have been increasing their market share in China even as the auto industry in the Asian country witnesses its worst slump in over two decades. China accounts for 4 out of every 10 Volkswagen cars sold worldwide and almost 3 out of every 10 BMW or Mercedes cars delivered globally. BMW’s and Daimler’s shares of earnings coming from China are even higher.
Empty showrooms
Majority of car showrooms in China remain closed as the country slowly returns to work after an extended New Year break. Even the 20-30% dealerships that are open are hardly witnessing any footfalls, according to the China Automobile Dealers Association.
UBS analyst Paul Gong says while first-time buyers may have a stronger desire to own a private transportation vehicle to shield themselves from a virus, as happened during the SARS outbreak in 2003, replacement buyers — which account for two thirds of the market — may delay their purchases for the time being, mainly hurting the premium German car brands.
Replacement buyers are existing car owners who are looking to upgrade to a more premium brand.
“For the replacement buyers who would have perhaps opted for German brands, they would not be too eager to replace their cars at this moment because that is obviously not a priority,” Gong told DW. “So, you would probably see some delay effect.”
Volkswagen and Daimler told DW that while it was too early to gauge the full impact of the virus crisis, they do expect it to hit their sales.
“Facing the current challenge, we know that purchasing new cars is not a priority for most people,” said Thorke.
Volkswagen has tweaked its marketing strategy with a greater focus now on online interaction and transaction with customers via online showrooms. The company did not provide any data on the response to its online showrooms, but Gong said the online showrooms in general were not attracting much traffic.
Extended factory shutdowns
Gong said so far, it’s been a gradual ramp-up in production by the automakers, with many facilities working at just 20% of their full capacity. He said Daimler was also struggling to ramp-up production, with its suppliers unable to provide enough components.
While German carmakers may have, so far, escaped the worst of supply-related disruptions thanks to them not having factories in the auto production hub of Hubei, automakers elsewhere are bracing for a major fallout from the virus outbreak.
Fiat Chrysler has warned that it may have to shut a European plant in the coming weeks if Chinese parts suppliers cannot resume work. Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors shut down plants in Korea due to harness supply constraints from plants in China’s Shandong Province.
Brighter long-term prospects?
Auto analysts say some lost sales have only been postponed and that orders will rebound in the coming months. In fact, new car sales could even go up in the longer term as the experience of disrupted public transportation and ride-hailing services during the crisis may prompt more people to buy their own cars.
But, there is a caveat: Experts say if the crisis lingers for a few more months, then it would start hurting the broader economy and result in a loss in consumer confidence, hurting auto sales.
“It will be interesting to see whether or not the potential customers for the more premium products offered by Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler are more resilient in terms of their spending power,” Mark Fulthorpe from IHS Markit told DW. “I think you can probably suggest that they will be. They probably have more savings. They are probably better employed. So, there may be a greater resilience there.”
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newswars--2020-02-17--Senator Cotton: China Refusing to Hand Over Evidence About Wuhan BioLab

Senator Tom Cotton says that China is refusing to hand over evidence concerning the bio-safety level 4 research lab in Wuhan despite a new report from biological scientists at the South China University of Technology saying it may have been the source of the coronavirus outbreak .
During an appearance on Fox News , Cotton told Maria Bartiromo that new evidence confirmed the source of the virus was not the meat market in Wuhan .
“ Here is what we do know .
This virus did not originate in the Wuhan animal market , ” said Cotton .
“ Epidemiologists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a study in the international journal Lancet have demonstrated that several of the original cases did NOT have any contact with that food market .
The virus went into that food market before it came out of that food market .
So we don ’ t know where it originated… We also know that only a few miles away from that market is China ’ s only bio-safety Level Four Super Laboratory that researches human infectious diseases.
” Cotton said that China ’ s “ duplicity and dishonesty ” meant that questions needed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ China right now is not giving any evidence on that question at all ” and Beijing was being “ very secretive ” on what happens at the lab .
Cotton also accused China of consistently blocking American scientists from traveling to Wuhan to assist in discovering the origins of the virus .
A new report by scientists at the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou , China concludes that “ the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.
” One of the laboratories named in the report which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ located just 280 meters from the site of the Wuhan meat market .
For weeks , the media has demonized anyone who suggested the lab could have been responsible for the coronavirus outbreak as a dangerous conspiracy theorist peddling fake news .
However , now that CNN/NY Times journalist Ezra Cheung tweeted precisely that yesterday , one wonders whether they will begin to change their tune .
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Senator Tom Cotton says that China is refusing to hand over evidence concerning the bio-safety level 4 research lab in Wuhan despite a new report from biological scientists at the South China University of Technology saying it may have been the source of the coronavirus outbreak.
During an appearance on Fox News, Cotton told Maria Bartiromo that new evidence confirmed the source of the virus was not the meat market in Wuhan.
“Here is what we do know. This virus did not originate in the Wuhan animal market,” said Cotton. “Epidemiologists who are widely respected from China published a study in the international journal Lancet have demonstrated that several of the original cases did NOT have any contact with that food market. The virus went into that food market before it came out of that food market. So we don’t know where it originated… We also know that only a few miles away from that market is China’s only bio-safety Level Four Super Laboratory that researches human infectious diseases.”
Cotton said that China’s “duplicity and dishonesty” meant that questions needed to be asked about the lab but that “China right now is not giving any evidence on that question at all” and Beijing was being “very secretive” on what happens at the lab.
Cotton also accused China of consistently blocking American scientists from traveling to Wuhan to assist in discovering the origins of the virus.
A new report by scientists at the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China concludes that “the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.”
One of the laboratories named in the report which was conducting research on bat coronavirus was located just 280 meters from the site of the Wuhan meat market.
For weeks, the media has demonized anyone who suggested the lab could have been responsible for the coronavirus outbreak as a dangerous conspiracy theorist peddling fake news.
However, now that CNN/NY Times journalist Ezra Cheung tweeted precisely that yesterday, one wonders whether they will begin to change their tune.
#BREAKING: South China University of Technology biologist Xiao Botao exposed that the #COVID19 might have originated from an animal research lab 280m away from the epicentre of the outbreak. The scientists were reportedly bitten by bats used for a test on louse. H/T: @mantaichow pic.twitter.com/uZEXHmvbTU — Ezra Cheung (@ezracheungtoto) February 15, 2020
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newswars--2020-02-17--US Ambassador Warns Against “Untrustworthy” 5G Vendors as Huawei Row Flares Up

Although the US has tried to sway its allies to block the Chinese technology giant Huawei from developing the next-generation 5G network , citing security threats , the UK and Germany have decided not to follow in the footsteps of its key partner .
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell has taken to Twitter to warn his country ’ s allies about President Donald Trump ’ s hard stance on cooperation with “ an untrustworthy 5G vendor ” .
“ Donald Trump just called me from AF1 and instructed me to make clear that any nation who chooses to use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ability to share intelligence and information at the highest level ” , the envoy tweeted .
Although Grenell , who earlier came under fire for interfering in European countries ’ policies over his warnings about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project , did not mention any vendor in particular , his remark came amid an escalating row regarding Huawei .
Following the menacing tweet , Grenell reinforced his statement with earlier comments by Attorney General William Barr on the matter .
The ambassador cited Barr ’ s address at the Department of Justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ Allowing China to establish dominance in 5G [ presents an ] immediate security concern of using communications networks that China can monitor and surveil .
That is , in fact , a monumental danger ” .
Grenell also brought up National Security Advisor Robert O ’ Brien ’ s warning that if US allies are going to have Huawei “ in their system ” , Washington will “ go to carrier pigeons or use couriers with locked briefcases or something if we have to ” .
The US ambassador ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of key US officials ’ heated rhetoric on European countries ’ possible cooperation with Huawei and China ’ s advanced IT and communications industries that went as far as to warn about a threat to NATO .
Defence Secretary Mark Esper said in Munich , where an security conference took place over the weekend : “ If you don ’ t understand the threat and we don ’ t do something about it , at the end of the day , it could compromise what is the most successful military alliance in history @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , echoed his stance and expressed concerns over using the Huawei kit .
Pelosi , who has clashed with Trump on several occasions , was this time in tune with the US president , telling the audience that “ China is seeking to export its digital autocracy through its telecommunication giant Huawei ” .
Bloomberg cites the officials as warning that allowing Huawei to take part in developing 5G networks could undermine cooperation with Washington ’ s allies .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s intervention signaled that even if her Democratic Party candidate manages to win the upcoming presidential elections , the position on Huawei might remain the same .
Her stance coincides with the Republicans on the issue .
“ Republicans and Democrats agree on this .
If you go down the Huawei road you are going to burn a lot of bridges ” , Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said .
Although the US has called on its allies to block Huawei from participating in their countries ’ 5G projects for months , citing security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bow to this demand .
The UK courted the US amid Brexit but , in January , Boris Johnson allowed Huawei to supply non-sensitive infrastructure ( such as radio masts and antennas ) for the nation ’ s fledgling 5G networks .
Germany ’ s governing Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union also reportedly approved a strategy paper concerning the development of the nation ’ s next-generation network that opened up a path for Huawei ’ s participation in a rebuff to Washington ’ s demands to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ list of potential contractors .
This demarche came shortly before the US Justice Department slapped new criminal charges on Huawei and two of the Chinese tech giant ’ s US subsidiaries , accusing the multinational corporation of conspiring “ to misappropriate intellectual property ” from six US companies , in an attempt to expand its global business .
Huawei refuted the claims , declaring that the US government had no evidence to back its claims .
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Although the US has tried to sway its allies to block the Chinese technology giant Huawei from developing the next-generation 5G network, citing security threats, the UK and Germany have decided not to follow in the footsteps of its key partner.
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell has taken to Twitter to warn his country’s allies about President Donald Trump’s hard stance on cooperation with “an untrustworthy 5G vendor”.
“Donald Trump just called me from AF1 and instructed me to make clear that any nation who chooses to use an untrustworthy 5G vendor will jeopardize our ability to share intelligence and information at the highest level”, the envoy tweeted.
Although Grenell, who earlier came under fire for interfering in European countries’ policies over his warnings about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, did not mention any vendor in particular, his remark came amid an escalating row regarding Huawei. Following the menacing tweet, Grenell reinforced his statement with earlier comments by Attorney General William Barr on the matter.
The ambassador cited Barr’s address at the Department of Justice’s China Initiative Conference as saying: “Allowing China to establish dominance in 5G [presents an] immediate security concern of using communications networks that China can monitor and surveil. That is, in fact, a monumental danger”.
Grenell also brought up National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien’s warning that if US allies are going to have Huawei “in their system”, Washington will “go to carrier pigeons or use couriers with locked briefcases or something if we have to”.
Bi-Partisan Alliance Against Huawei
The US ambassador’s Twitter offensive has come against the backdrop of key US officials’ heated rhetoric on European countries’ possible cooperation with Huawei and China’s advanced IT and communications industries that went as far as to warn about a threat to NATO.
Defence Secretary Mark Esper said in Munich, where an security conference took place over the weekend: “If you don’t understand the threat and we don’t do something about it, at the end of the day, it could compromise what is the most successful military alliance in history: NATO”.
The bi-partisan delegation, led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, echoed his stance and expressed concerns over using the Huawei kit. Pelosi, who has clashed with Trump on several occasions, was this time in tune with the US president, telling the audience that “China is seeking to export its digital autocracy through its telecommunication giant Huawei”.
Bloomberg cites the officials as warning that allowing Huawei to take part in developing 5G networks could undermine cooperation with Washington’s allies. As the outlet points out, Pelosi’s intervention signaled that even if her Democratic Party candidate manages to win the upcoming presidential elections, the position on Huawei might remain the same. Her stance coincides with the Republicans on the issue.
“Republicans and Democrats agree on this. If you go down the Huawei road you are going to burn a lot of bridges”, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said.
Although the US has called on its allies to block Huawei from participating in their countries’ 5G projects for months, citing security risks, several countries have refused to bow to this demand. The UK courted the US amid Brexit but, in January, Boris Johnson allowed Huawei to supply non-sensitive infrastructure (such as radio masts and antennas) for the nation’s fledgling 5G networks.
Germany’s governing Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union also reportedly approved a strategy paper concerning the development of the nation’s next-generation network that opened up a path for Huawei’s participation in a rebuff to Washington’s demands to specifically exclude the Chinese company from the list of potential contractors.
This demarche came shortly before the US Justice Department slapped new criminal charges on Huawei and two of the Chinese tech giant’s US subsidiaries, accusing the multinational corporation of conspiring “to misappropriate intellectual property” from six US companies, in an attempt to expand its global business. Huawei refuted the claims, declaring that the US government had no evidence to back its claims. The new indictment added to charges unsealed in January 2019 that accuse Huawei of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile.
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newswars--2020-02-18--Leftists Celebrate Ryan Newman Crash Because He Supported Trump

Some leftists on Twitter reacted to Ryan Newman ’ s horrific crash at the Daytona 500 in Florida by celebrating the accident because Newman is a Trump supporter .
The NASCAR driver is hospitalized in a serious condition after his car flipped and burst into flames in a 190mph crash .
Newman was leading the race when the accident happened .
While most normal people reacted to the crash by expressing concern for Newman ’ s health , some leftists on Twitter immediately rushed to politicize the tragedy .
“ # ryannewman is a huge Trump supporter .
Shit like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
No what I mean ?
” commented one individual.
” In one instance , Twitter even suspended someone who reacted negatively to a leftist celebrating the crash .
Another user tweeted “ Ryan Newman is a Trump supporter ” alongside an emoji of someone holding their arms to their side .
A user called @ Trump_Is_A_Turd said she hoped Newman would die if he was a Republican .
“ i do hope ryan newman is ok but it ’ s hilarious how it ’ s only NOT ok to bring politics into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supporter .
give me a fucking break , ” tweeted another individual who was presumably keen to “ bring politics ” into a life threatening accident .
Others blamed Trump ’ s presence at the race for the crash .
“ @ realdonaldtrump put a curse on the # Daytona500 # NASCAR race track .
Evil follows him wherever he goes and whatever he touches , ” tweeted one .
“ Trump brought the Black Clouds of rain yesterday & those Black Clouds stayed to the end , ” said another .
However @ @ @ @ @ @ @ insensitive tweets by urging leftists not to politicize the accident .
Of course , none of this is shocking .
As we highlighted last week , countless leftists reacted to Rush Limbaugh ’ s announcement that he had lung cancer by expressing joy and gratitude .
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Some leftists on Twitter reacted to Ryan Newman’s horrific crash at the Daytona 500 in Florida by celebrating the accident because Newman is a Trump supporter.
The NASCAR driver is hospitalized in a serious condition after his car flipped and burst into flames in a 190mph crash. Newman was leading the race when the accident happened.
While most normal people reacted to the crash by expressing concern for Newman’s health, some leftists on Twitter immediately rushed to politicize the tragedy.
“#ryannewman is a huge Trump supporter. Shit like this happens when one supports the anti-Christ. No what I mean?” commented one individual.”
⚠ #ryannewman is a huge Trump supporter. Shit like this happens when one supports the anti-Christ. No what I mean? #Karma #Dayton500 https://t.co/emo5pHmKrR — Cool Blue Persuasion 🆒💙🇺🇸 (@SonOfAlgos) February 18, 2020
In one instance, Twitter even suspended someone who reacted negatively to a leftist celebrating the crash.
@TwitterSupport This loser can tweet that Ryan Newman had some bad karma and deserved to potentially die in an accident because he is a Trump supporter?! But I can’t tweet what I did in response?! Liberalism is a DISEASE of the mind. Twitter should be ashamed of themselves!! pic.twitter.com/ABuHIfOWj0 — Matt Bortis (@MattBortis) February 18, 2020
Another user tweeted “Ryan Newman is a Trump supporter” alongside an emoji of someone holding their arms to their side.
A user called @Trump_Is_A_Turd said she hoped Newman would die if he was a Republican.
Wow. Praying for Ryan Newman. That was a horrible crash at #Daytona500. It’s really sickening to see some leftists use Ryan’s endorsement of @realDonaldTrump to say that he deserved the crash or worse yet possible death. This insanity is out of control. Please pray for Ryan. pic.twitter.com/zOiGtWTU4v — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 18, 2020
“i do hope ryan newman is ok but it’s hilarious how it’s only NOT ok to bring politics into it when it’s a trump supporter. give me a fucking break,” tweeted another individual who was presumably keen to “bring politics” into a life threatening accident.
i do hope ryan newman is ok but it’s hilarious how it’s only NOT ok to bring politics into it when it’s a trump supporter. give me a fucking break. — Daltemsz (@ddot_____) February 18, 2020
Others blamed Trump’s presence at the race for the crash.
“@realdonaldtrump put a curse on the #Daytona500 #NASCAR race track. Evil follows him wherever he goes and whatever he touches,” tweeted one.
@realdonaldtrump put a curse on the #Daytona500 #NASCAR race track. Evil follows him wherever he goes and whatever he touches. — ike ♒ (@bklynike) February 18, 2020
“Trump brought the Black Clouds of rain yesterday & those Black Clouds stayed to the end,” said another.
“Ryan Newman” Trump brought the Black Clouds of rain yesterday & those Black Clouds stayed to the end . — tomar84stevedock (@tomar84) February 18, 2020
However, numerous other people reacted to the insensitive tweets by urging leftists not to politicize the accident.
Of course, none of this is shocking. As we highlighted last week, countless leftists reacted to Rush Limbaugh’s announcement that he had lung cancer by expressing joy and gratitude.
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newswars--2020-02-18--Pete Buttigieg: Legal Immigration Not Letting Enough People in the United States

Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg complained on Monday that America ’ s legal immigration system was not allowing enough immigrants into @ @ @ @ @ This county needs more people than its immigration system is willing to allow , ” @ @ @ @ @ what happens ?
The people come , but then they are endangered of all of @ @ @ @ @ in this country.
” Buttigieg argued that the current legal immigration system was “ outdated @ @ @ @ @ the country failing to pass any serious immigration reform since the 1980s .
The former @ @ @ @ @ about immigration as he campaigned in Carson City , Nevada .
He argued that his @ @ @ @ @ finally growing in population , thanks to illegal immigration .
“ That is almost entirely @ @ @ @ @ … and many of them are undocumented , ” he said .
Buttigieg expressed the @ @ @ @ @ sympathizing with living with the uncertainty of getting deported .
Gerald Celente guest hosts The @ @ @ @ @ the deep state ties and origin of Pete Buttigieg .

Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg complained on Monday that America’s legal immigration system was not allowing enough immigrants into the United States.
“This county needs more people than its immigration system is willing to allow,” Buttigieg said. “So what happens? The people come, but then they are endangered of all of the uncertainties of being undocumented in this country.”
Buttigieg argued that the current legal immigration system was “outdated” as a result of the country failing to pass any serious immigration reform since the 1980s.
The former mayor of South Bend spoke about immigration as he campaigned in Carson City, Nevada. He argued that his city of South Bend was finally growing in population, thanks to illegal immigration.
“That is almost entirely as a result of immigration … and many of them are undocumented,” he said.
Buttigieg expressed the struggle of illegal immigrants – sympathizing with living with the uncertainty of getting deported.
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