newswars--2020-04-15--U.S. Oil Crashes Below $20 On Record Demand Plunge

WTI Crude prices tumbled early on Wednesday to below $ 20 a barrel , after the International Energy Agency warned of a record oil demand slump this year , adding additional bearish tilt to the market which is already digesting huge U.S. inventory builds and too-little-too-late OPEC++ actions to support prices .
At 8:55 a.m. EDT on Wednesday , WTI Crude was trading down 1.59 percent at $ 19.77 and Brent Crude was tumbling to below $ 30 a barrel—down by 3.72 percent on the day to $ 28.60 .
Following the Easter holiday weekend , oil prices were volatile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ think that Sunday ’ s OPEC+ decision to cut 9.7 million bpd in May and June would not go far to prevent a huge global inventory build amid crashing oil demand in the COVID-19 pandemic .
On Tuesday , oil prices were pressured again , by a report from the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) saying that the global economy will likely contract by 3 percent in 2020 , due to the coronavirus outbreak and the following “ Great Lockdown ” which will plunge many economies into recession .
Later on Tuesday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Institute ( API ) , which estimated another large crude oil inventory build of 13.143 million barrels for the week ending April 10 as demand destruction stemming from the coronavirus wears on .
On Wednesday , oil prices crumbled after the IEA issued its monthly report , saying that it expects global oil demand to plunge by a record 9.3 million barrels per day ( bpd ) in 2020 compared to last year .
Even if travel restrictions are lifted in the second half of this year , demand for the whole 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 9.3 million bpd , “ erasing almost a decade of growth , ” said the agency , also warning that the historic OPEC++ deal may not be able to prevent global storage from overflowing within weeks .
Three days after the global oil deal—described as historic by OPEC+ and the U.S.—the market has already forgotten the calculations of voluntary and forced cuts and has turned its attention again to the massive demand loss in the pandemic .
Saudi Arabia is looking to slash prices on oil to usurp market share , but in @ @ @ @ @ @ @

WTI Crude prices tumbled early on Wednesday to below $20 a barrel, after the International Energy Agency warned of a record oil demand slump this year, adding additional bearish tilt to the market which is already digesting huge U.S. inventory builds and too-little-too-late OPEC++ actions to support prices.
At 8:55 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, WTI Crude was trading down 1.59 percent at $19.77 and Brent Crude was tumbling to below $30 a barrel—down by 3.72 percent on the day to $28.60.
Following the Easter holiday weekend, oil prices were volatile on Monday as the market seemed to think that Sunday’s OPEC+ decision to cut 9.7 million bpd in May and June would not go far to prevent a huge global inventory build amid crashing oil demand in the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Tuesday, oil prices were pressured again, by a report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) saying that the global economy will likely contract by 3 percent in 2020, due to the coronavirus outbreak and the following “Great Lockdown” which will plunge many economies into recession.
Later on Tuesday came the report of the American Petroleum Institute (API), which estimated another large crude oil inventory build of 13.143 million barrels for the week ending April 10 as demand destruction stemming from the coronavirus wears on.
On Wednesday, oil prices crumbled after the IEA issued its monthly report, saying that it expects global oil demand to plunge by a record 9.3 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2020 compared to last year.
Even if travel restrictions are lifted in the second half of this year, demand for the whole 2020 would drop by a record level of 9.3 million bpd, “erasing almost a decade of growth,” said the agency, also warning that the historic OPEC++ deal may not be able to prevent global storage from overflowing within weeks.
Three days after the global oil deal—described as historic by OPEC+ and the U.S.—the market has already forgotten the calculations of voluntary and forced cuts and has turned its attention again to the massive demand loss in the pandemic.
By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com
Saudi Arabia is looking to slash prices on oil to usurp market share, but in doing so may behead the petro-dollar.


newswars--2020-04-15--Why Americans Don’t Have Any Savings

Why Americans Don’t Have Any Savings

In response to a likely worldwide recession , governments have turned on full blast the fiscal and monetary spigots .
A $ 2 trillion spending plan has just been approved in the USA , central banks are on a buying spree , and the $ 1200 stimulus payment is just helicopter money .
Since the government does not have a magical tree of plenty and can only redistribute from the left pocket to the right by taxing , borrowing , or printing money , how does this make any economic sense or make any country better off ?
Government and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s to protect us from the coming dangers of hoarding ; specifically , that banks will stop lending and just let funds sit .
Keynes brought hoarding to the forefront of economics in his The General Theory of Employment , Interest , and Money ; a concept that the classical economist considered to be irrelevant .
In a circular flow economy , the value of output must be equal to income .
Income represents an ability to purchase goods and services and can be divided into three categories : it can be consumed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is using income to obtain goods and services for current personal satisfaction .
Savings is ( correctly ) defined as a transfer of purchasing power from one group to another .
The saver is giving up his current access to goods and services to be able to consume more of them in the future .
These transfers allow investors to use these claims to purchase plants and equipment to produce goods and services in the future .
The last category is hoarding , which in the Keynesian view is the equivalent of stuffing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day .
It is the only claim on income that is not used to purchase currently produced goods and services .
This Keynesian nonsense about hoarding has been around for nearly a century and has led to some very bad economic decisions over the last eighty years .
In reality , hoarding is just saving , and a simple example will show how the fear of hoarding is grossly overblown .
Hoarding simply increases the value of dollars in circulation and is hardly anything to panic about .
Suppose there are ten pencils @ @ @ @ @ @ @ demand will ensure that the price of each pencil will be $ 1 each .
If the price of each pencil was $ 2 , you could only afford to buy half of the pencils , and the unsold pencils would drive the price down .
If the price was only 50 cents , then people would still have $ 5 looking for pencils to buy , driving their price up .
Now suppose that people hoard or stuff their mattresses with $ 2 and we only have $ 8 left to buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pencil will normally decline to eighty cents , putting us back in equilibrium .
The Keynesian fear , though , is that prices are rather inflexible or adjust poorly , such that the price remains at $ 1 and we are left with two unsold pencils .
There ’ s not enough demand at the old prices .
Keynesians advocate government spending to replace this lost demand .
Another Keynesian fear is that if input costs such as wages don ’ t adjust and the cost of each pencil is stuck at ninety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eighty cents , then businesses will be selling at a loss , leading to reductions in output , bankruptcies , more hoarding , and a downward spiral in the economy .
This is the Keynesian fear of deflation .
Hence , for a Keynesian either output prices don ’ t adjust or if they do , input prices don ’ t adjust fast enough .
Of course , this entire Keynesian nightmare scenario assumes that in a market economy both input and output prices adjust slowly or with a long lag .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ true in the real world—unless , of course , governments interfere—and we then might as well assume a world with negative gravity and suggest a policy of large nets to catch people from flying into outer space .
If we assume that the successful entrepreneurs are the ones who best forecast output prices and then bid for input prices , there is no real reason to believe that prices in a market economy won ’ t adjust quickly .
There is no empirical evidence that prices are sticky when governments allow them to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ example , just look at the recent steep dive in oil prices .
Although governments continue their war on cash for fear of hoarding , their real concern today is not individuals stuffing their mattresses , but bank lending .
When you put money in your checking account , you are expressing a desire to store purchasing power : otherwise , you would have put this cash in a savings account or purchased a bond .
You assume that this money is always there , but banks take this money and lend it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ practice known as fractional reserve banking .
This process creates money out of thin air when a bank credits a borrower ’ s account without debiting the same amount from someone else ’ s account .
It converts your desire to hoard—i.e.
, save—into spending by someone else with newly created money .
The government fear is that a recession will increase bankruptcies , nonperforming loans , and induce banks to cut back on lending , or essentially allow the money in checking accounts to revert to its intended function as a store @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The money supply will then contract , leading to the Keynesian nightmare scenarios described above .
But this money contraction results not from hoarding , but from fractional reserve banking .
It is this process which leads to swift contractions in the money supply when recessions strike .
This problem would be mitigated by more real saving , including the type of saving that Keynesians call “ hoarding .
”

In response to a likely worldwide recession, governments have turned on full blast the fiscal and monetary spigots.
A $2 trillion spending plan has just been approved in the USA, central banks are on a buying spree, and the $1200 stimulus payment is just helicopter money. Since the government does not have a magical tree of plenty and can only redistribute from the left pocket to the right by taxing, borrowing, or printing money, how does this make any economic sense or make any country better off? Government and Keynesian economists will tell you it’s to protect us from the coming dangers of hoarding; specifically, that banks will stop lending and just let funds sit. Keynes brought hoarding to the forefront of economics in his The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money; a concept that the classical economist considered to be irrelevant.
In a circular flow economy, the value of output must be equal to income. Income represents an ability to purchase goods and services and can be divided into three categories: it can be consumed, saved, or hoarded. Consumption is using income to obtain goods and services for current personal satisfaction. Savings is (correctly) defined as a transfer of purchasing power from one group to another. The saver is giving up his current access to goods and services to be able to consume more of them in the future. These transfers allow investors to use these claims to purchase plants and equipment to produce goods and services in the future. The last category is hoarding, which in the Keynesian view is the equivalent of stuffing money in your mattress for a rainy day. It is the only claim on income that is not used to purchase currently produced goods and services.
This Keynesian nonsense about hoarding has been around for nearly a century and has led to some very bad economic decisions over the last eighty years. In reality, hoarding is just saving, and a simple example will show how the fear of hoarding is grossly overblown. Hoarding simply increases the value of dollars in circulation and is hardly anything to panic about.
Suppose there are ten pencils and only $10. Supply and demand will ensure that the price of each pencil will be $1 each. If the price of each pencil was $2, you could only afford to buy half of the pencils, and the unsold pencils would drive the price down. If the price was only 50 cents, then people would still have $5 looking for pencils to buy, driving their price up.
Now suppose that people hoard or stuff their mattresses with $2 and we only have $8 left to buy ten pencils. The price for each pencil will normally decline to eighty cents, putting us back in equilibrium. The Keynesian fear, though, is that prices are rather inflexible or adjust poorly, such that the price remains at $1 and we are left with two unsold pencils. There’s not enough demand at the old prices. Keynesians advocate government spending to replace this lost demand.
Another Keynesian fear is that if input costs such as wages don’t adjust and the cost of each pencil is stuck at ninety cents when the price has fallen to eighty cents, then businesses will be selling at a loss, leading to reductions in output, bankruptcies, more hoarding, and a downward spiral in the economy. This is the Keynesian fear of deflation. Hence, for a Keynesian either output prices don’t adjust or if they do, input prices don’t adjust fast enough. Of course, this entire Keynesian nightmare scenario assumes that in a market economy both input and output prices adjust slowly or with a long lag. This scenario has not been shown to be true in the real world—unless, of course, governments interfere—and we then might as well assume a world with negative gravity and suggest a policy of large nets to catch people from flying into outer space. If we assume that the successful entrepreneurs are the ones who best forecast output prices and then bid for input prices, there is no real reason to believe that prices in a market economy won’t adjust quickly. There is no empirical evidence that prices are sticky when governments allow them to adjust. If you need a current example, just look at the recent steep dive in oil prices.
Although governments continue their war on cash for fear of hoarding, their real concern today is not individuals stuffing their mattresses, but bank lending. When you put money in your checking account, you are expressing a desire to store purchasing power: otherwise, you would have put this cash in a savings account or purchased a bond. You assume that this money is always there, but banks take this money and lend it to other individuals and businesses in a practice known as fractional reserve banking. This process creates money out of thin air when a bank credits a borrower’s account without debiting the same amount from someone else’s account. It converts your desire to hoard—i.e., save—into spending by someone else with newly created money.
The government fear is that a recession will increase bankruptcies, nonperforming loans, and induce banks to cut back on lending, or essentially allow the money in checking accounts to revert to its intended function as a store (or reserve) of purchasing power. The money supply will then contract, leading to the Keynesian nightmare scenarios described above. But this money contraction results not from hoarding, but from fractional reserve banking. It is this process which leads to swift contractions in the money supply when recessions strike. This problem would be mitigated by more real saving, including the type of saving that Keynesians call “hoarding.”


newswars--2020-04-15--Dr. Deborah Birx: The WHO “Had to Know” There Was Human to Human Transmission

Dr. Deborah Birx , one of the faces of America ’ s response to the coronavirus outbreak , said that the WHO “ had to know ” that there had been human to human transmission despite them amplifying Chinese propaganda back in January that this hadn ’ t happened .
On January 14th , the World Health Organization tweeted , “ Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel # coronavirus ( 2019-nCoV ) identified in # Wuhan , # China.
” The organization , which has now had its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ amplified this fake news despite it being widely suspected even at the time that Beijing was covering up the true severity of the outbreak .
It later came to light that Chinese authorities knew about human to human transmission of COVID-19 as early as November , weeks before Beijing even told the WHO about a virus outbreak .
Dr. Deborah Birx was asked about the ‘ human to human transmission ’ statement and whether the WHO mishandled the pandemic .
“ Very early on in pandemics you have to increase your level of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s a new disease , every word and every experience becomes very critical for the global public , ” said Birx .
“ I think once this is over we ’ ll be able to look back and see – did China and the WHO say and do everything to alert the rest of the world to the nuances of this virus , because when it first explodes , someone had to have known that there was human to human transmission , ” she added .
Pointing to the rapid doubling of case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and noting that this was “ not subtle , ” Birx asked “ why wasn ’ t there this level of transparency when this virus exploded , I think people would have prepared differently if they had known the level of transmissibility of this virus.
” As we highlighted earlier , not only did the WHO help China cover-up the severity of the outbreak , they also silenced medical experts who tried to tell countries to impose border controls back in January but were blocked from doing so .
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Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the faces of America’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, said that the WHO “had to know” that there had been human to human transmission despite them amplifying Chinese propaganda back in January that this hadn’t happened.
On January 14th, the World Health Organization tweeted, “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.”
The organization, which has now had its funding cut by the Trump administration, amplified this fake news despite it being widely suspected even at the time that Beijing was covering up the true severity of the outbreak.
It later came to light that Chinese authorities knew about human to human transmission of COVID-19 as early as November, weeks before Beijing even told the WHO about a virus outbreak.
Dr. Deborah Birx was asked about the ‘human to human transmission’ statement and whether the WHO mishandled the pandemic.
Dr. Deborah Birx on China and W.H.O.: they “had to have known that there was human-to-human transmission…why wasn’t there this level of transparency when this virus exploded” pic.twitter.com/FI5TEEV017 — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 15, 2020
“Very early on in pandemics you have to increase your level of reporting and transparency, because it’s a new disease, every word and every experience becomes very critical for the global public,” said Birx.
“I think once this is over we’ll be able to look back and see – did China and the WHO say and do everything to alert the rest of the world to the nuances of this virus, because when it first explodes, someone had to have known that there was human to human transmission,” she added.
Pointing to the rapid doubling of case rates as the virus spread throughout America and noting that this was “not subtle,” Birx asked “why wasn’t there this level of transparency when this virus exploded, I think people would have prepared differently if they had known the level of transmissibility of this virus.”
As we highlighted earlier, not only did the WHO help China cover-up the severity of the outbreak, they also silenced medical experts who tried to tell countries to impose border controls back in January but were blocked from doing so.
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newswars--2020-04-15--This Isn’t Your Usual Demand-Shock Recession

In the last month , the coronavirus pandemic , known officially as COVID-19 , has caused social and economic havoc in the US and the rest of the world .
Last month , the US economy lost a total of 701,000 jobs while the unemployment rate shot up to 4.4 percent from 3.5 percent .
The decade-long trend of job gains has come to an end , but one question remains : are these signs of a typical recession ?
The answer is complicated , unfortunately .
Austrian economists have long warned that a recession has been inevitable ever since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ program following the 2008 financial crisis .
However , while we may be in the midst of a reduction in what mainstream economists call “ aggregate demand , ” we are also seeing a significant supply-side shock .
The former typically has deflationary tendencies , while the latter causes price inflation .
A supply shock is simply an event which impedes the ability for supply chains , or the structure of production , to maintain the allocation of capital and labor so that they can produce a given level of output .
What @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the US from China has developed into an even deeper supply-side issue , with government-enforced shutdowns for “ nonessential ” businesses , rising domestic unemployment , and reduced production as a record 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the last week of March .
Economists believe that when aggregate demand falls a central bank should lower interest rates and increase the supply of money to prevent unemployment from rising and a recession from occurring .
As Brendan Brown , senior fellow at the Hudson Institute said last month , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to central bankers is to counter supposed demand depression stemming from the original supply disruption.
” This is precisely what the Fed has done recently with a $ 2.2 trillion stimulus package to businesses and individuals .
Should the monetary authorities print money to offset rising unemployment due to the forced closure of businesses even though spending doesn ’ t necessarily fall alongside it ?
With the Federal Reserve ’ s current inflation target of 2 percent , this would pose a problem arguably worse than just a typical monetary response to an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illustrates this using an oil supply shock as an example : While not an Austrian model , the aggregate demand-aggregate supply ( AD-AS ) model demonstrates the nature of the problem .
On the left graph , a sudden and unexpected decrease in short-run aggregate supply ( SRAS ) causes the price level to rise and output to fall , requiring the Fed to lower it back to 2 percent in the graph on the right by tightening its monetary policy in accordance with its inflation target .
As Beckworth states in his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shock due to say a temporary disruption of the oil supply .
Given the temporary nature of the shock , the short run AS ( SRAS ) curve would shift left .
The negative AS shock causes inflation to increase to 3 % and slows down real growth to 2 % .
Under pure inflation targeting , Fed officials would see the pickup in inflation and respond by tightening monetary policy to bring inflation down to 2 % .
As the second figure above shows , though , such a response would slow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and only further weaken the economy .
In the current situation , if the central bank allows prices to adjust to the supply shock without using monetary stimulus , real GDP will fall and unemployment will continue to rise .
This is the natural outcome of a supply shock due to a natural disaster or a virus in this case .
As we can see , this is not a typical economic downturn like the one in 2008 .
Aggregate demand doesn ’ t seem to have fallen .
It is possible that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fall in spending in the short run due to pessimism and fear , but not necessarily so .
In fact , there have been reported shortages of food , toilet paper , and other essential goods all over the nation , which indicates that spending isn ’ t falling .
If this continues , the structure of production will flatten , and the economy will go into “ regression.
” Jesús Huerta de Soto gives a historic example : According to John Hicks , Giovanni Boccaccio , in an interesting passage in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year 1360 , was the first to describe , in rather precise terms , a process very similar to the one we have just analyzed when he related the impact the Great Plague of the fourteenth century had on the people of Florence .
In fact the epidemic caused people to anticipate a drastic reduction in life expectancy , and thus entrepreneurs and workers , instead of saving and “ lengthening ” the stages in their production process by working their lands and tending their livestock , devoted themselves to increasing their present @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economist to seriously consider the effects of a decline in saving and the resulting economic setback was Böhm-Bawerk in his book , Capital and Interest , where he explains in detail that a general decision by individuals to consume more and save less triggers a phenomenon of capital consumption , which ultimately lowers productive capacity and the production of consumer goods and services , giving rise to the generalized impoverishment of society .
A lack of real savings and resources means that increases in consumption from stimulus spending will reduce our living standards @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did nothing .
In other words , the Federal Reserve is damned if it does , and damned if it doesn ’ t .
It is now attempting to increase aggregate demand ( shifting it to the right in the graph above ) , which will only serve to further aggravate rising inflation .
With a dwindling supply of goods and services , rising unemployment , and the increased spending from the $ 2 trillion stimulus package , the economy will likely experience something akin to the stagflation of the 1970s .
Although @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a solution that could end the pain of unemployment and price inflation sooner rather than later : the productivity norm .
The Federal Reserve should not be trying to target inflation when the production structure changes .
George Selgin explains : in reality productivity is constantly changing , generally for the better .
In the real world , a little secular deflation , along with upward movements in the price level mirroring adverse supply shocks , would be better than zero inflation .
Thus , the solution here is twofold .
First @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be enforcing its will on businesses whose livelihoods depend on their willing consumer base to purchase their products .
Reducing this would at least partly ameliorate the supply-side problem .
Second , the trend of prices in the economy should be allowed to change with changes in demand and supply .
Prices will therefore reflect real-world scarcities , as they should .
Otherwise , the “ Corona Shock ” will become an afterthought in the event of an even worse crisis : severe stagflation .

In the last month, the coronavirus pandemic, known officially as COVID-19, has caused social and economic havoc in the US and the rest of the world.
Last month, the US economy lost a total of 701,000 jobs while the unemployment rate shot up to 4.4 percent from 3.5 percent. The decade-long trend of job gains has come to an end, but one question remains: are these signs of a typical recession? The answer is complicated, unfortunately.
Austrian economists have long warned that a recession has been inevitable ever since the Federal Reserve began its quantitative easing program following the 2008 financial crisis. However, while we may be in the midst of a reduction in what mainstream economists call “aggregate demand,” we are also seeing a significant supply-side shock. The former typically has deflationary tendencies, while the latter causes price inflation. A supply shock is simply an event which impedes the ability for supply chains, or the structure of production, to maintain the allocation of capital and labor so that they can produce a given level of output.
What began as a reduced supply of imports to the US from China has developed into an even deeper supply-side issue, with government-enforced shutdowns for “nonessential” businesses, rising domestic unemployment, and reduced production as a record 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the last week of March.
Economists believe that when aggregate demand falls a central bank should lower interest rates and increase the supply of money to prevent unemployment from rising and a recession from occurring. As Brendan Brown, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute said last month, “The rationale for a monetary response according to central bankers is to counter supposed demand depression stemming from the original supply disruption.” This is precisely what the Fed has done recently with a $2.2 trillion stimulus package to businesses and individuals. Should the monetary authorities print money to offset rising unemployment due to the forced closure of businesses even though spending doesn’t necessarily fall alongside it?
With the Federal Reserve’s current inflation target of 2 percent, this would pose a problem arguably worse than just a typical monetary response to an adverse demand shock. Economist David Beckworth illustrates this using an oil supply shock as an example:
While not an Austrian model, the aggregate demand-aggregate supply (AD-AS) model demonstrates the nature of the problem. On the left graph, a sudden and unexpected decrease in short-run aggregate supply (SRAS) causes the price level to rise and output to fall, requiring the Fed to lower it back to 2 percent in the graph on the right by tightening its monetary policy in accordance with its inflation target. As Beckworth states in his example,
Consider first a negative AS shock due to say a temporary disruption of the oil supply. Given the temporary nature of the shock, the short run AS (SRAS) curve would shift left.
The negative AS shock causes inflation to increase to 3% and slows down real growth to 2%. Under pure inflation targeting, Fed officials would see the pickup in inflation and respond by tightening monetary policy to bring inflation down to 2%. As the second figure above shows, though, such a response would slow AD to a 2.5% growth rate and only further weaken the economy.
In the current situation, if the central bank allows prices to adjust to the supply shock without using monetary stimulus, real GDP will fall and unemployment will continue to rise. This is the natural outcome of a supply shock due to a natural disaster or a virus in this case. As we can see, this is not a typical economic downturn like the one in 2008. Aggregate demand doesn’t seem to have fallen. It is possible that crises such as COVID-19 can cause a fall in spending in the short run due to pessimism and fear, but not necessarily so. In fact, there have been reported shortages of food, toilet paper, and other essential goods all over the nation, which indicates that spending isn’t falling. If this continues, the structure of production will flatten, and the economy will go into “regression.” Jesús Huerta de Soto gives a historic example:
According to John Hicks, Giovanni Boccaccio, in an interesting passage in the Introduction to Decameron, written around the year 1360, was the first to describe, in rather precise terms, a process very similar to the one we have just analyzed when he related the impact the Great Plague of the fourteenth century had on the people of Florence. In fact the epidemic caused people to anticipate a drastic reduction in life expectancy, and thus entrepreneurs and workers, instead of saving and “lengthening” the stages in their production process by working their lands and tending their livestock, devoted themselves to increasing their present consumption. After Boccaccio, the first economist to seriously consider the effects of a decline in saving and the resulting economic setback was Böhm-Bawerk in his book, Capital and Interest, where he explains in detail that a general decision by individuals to consume more and save less triggers a phenomenon of capital consumption, which ultimately lowers productive capacity and the production of consumer goods and services, giving rise to the generalized impoverishment of society.
A lack of real savings and resources means that increases in consumption from stimulus spending will reduce our living standards even further than if the monetary authorities did nothing. In other words, the Federal Reserve is damned if it does, and damned if it doesn’t. It is now attempting to increase aggregate demand (shifting it to the right in the graph above), which will only serve to further aggravate rising inflation. With a dwindling supply of goods and services, rising unemployment, and the increased spending from the $2 trillion stimulus package, the economy will likely experience something akin to the stagflation of the 1970s. Although the economic outlook seems bleak, there is a solution that could end the pain of unemployment and price inflation sooner rather than later: the productivity norm. The Federal Reserve should not be trying to target inflation when the production structure changes. George Selgin explains:
in reality productivity is constantly changing, generally for the better. In the real world, a little secular deflation, along with upward movements in the price level mirroring adverse supply shocks, would be better than zero inflation.
Thus, the solution here is twofold. First, the government should not so sloppily be enforcing its will on businesses whose livelihoods depend on their willing consumer base to purchase their products. Reducing this would at least partly ameliorate the supply-side problem. Second, the trend of prices in the economy should be allowed to change with changes in demand and supply. Prices will therefore reflect real-world scarcities, as they should. Otherwise, the “Corona Shock” will become an afterthought in the event of an even worse crisis: severe stagflation.


newswars--2020-04-15--Trump Was Warned About NIH Corruption In 2015

Presidential candidate Donald Trump was warned about corruption at the National Institute of Health in October 2015 by conservative radio host Michael Savage .
Trump , who had announced his candidacy for president a few months earlier , joined The Savage Nation to discuss his policy platform when Savage broached the corruption at the NIH , suggesting Trump appoint him to head the institute should he be elected .
“ We have such corruption right now in science itself , that ’ s there ’ s virtually almost no real honest science anymore , and the best evidence I have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ research , ” Savage told Trump .
“ Almost every study comes out that ’ s warped , it ’ s all corrupt.
” “ When you become President , I want you consider appointing me to head of the NIH , ” Savage continued .
“ I will make sure that America has real science and real medicine again in this country because I know the corruption .
I know how to clean it up and I know how to make real research work again.
” “ I hear so much about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beyond belief , ” Trump said .
The NIH has come under fire after documents surfaced showing the institute gave the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Communist China a $ 3.7 million grant to conduct gain-of-function coronavirus experimentation on bats in 2017 .
In other words , the NIH outsourced its coronavirus research to the Communist Chinese .
Additionally , the coronavirus mortality models touted by NIH Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx have turned out to be incredibly inaccurate and overblown as the pandemic rolled on , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ citizens obeying stay-at-home orders .
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai joins The Alex Jones Show to break down who is behind the criminal takeover of society .

Presidential candidate Donald Trump was warned about corruption at the National Institute of Health in October 2015 by conservative radio host Michael Savage.
Trump, who had announced his candidacy for president a few months earlier, joined The Savage Nation to discuss his policy platform when Savage broached the corruption at the NIH, suggesting Trump appoint him to head the institute should he be elected.
“We have such corruption right now in science itself, that’s there’s virtually almost no real honest science anymore, and the best evidence I have for that is the fake global warming research,” Savage told Trump.
“Almost every study comes out that’s warped, it’s all corrupt.”
“When you become President, I want you consider appointing me to head of the NIH,” Savage continued. “I will make sure that America has real science and real medicine again in this country because I know the corruption. I know how to clean it up and I know how to make real research work again.”
“I hear so much about the NIH and it’s terrible beyond belief,” Trump said.
The NIH has come under fire after documents surfaced showing the institute gave the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Communist China a $3.7 million grant to conduct gain-of-function coronavirus experimentation on bats in 2017.
In other words, the NIH outsourced its coronavirus research to the Communist Chinese.
Additionally, the coronavirus mortality models touted by NIH Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx have turned out to be incredibly inaccurate and overblown as the pandemic rolled on, drawing criticism from many medical experts and citizens obeying stay-at-home orders.
How bad is IHME’s hospitalization model? If you had predicted two weeks ago that nobody in America would be hospitalized today because of the Wuhan coronavirus, you would have been closer to reality (approx. 50,000) than what IHME predicted (between 135,000 and 375,000). pic.twitter.com/HclLWv8U8i — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 13, 2020
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai joins The Alex Jones Show to break down who is behind the criminal takeover of society.


newswars--2020-04-15--The Remarkable Doctor A. Fauci

The Remarkable Doctor A. Fauci

Dramatic political and social decisions are being made across the United States and around the world on what emergency quarantine measures and other steps must be taken .
In many cases the radical and severe measures , such as shutting down the world economy , are being justified by COVID-19 case projections of morbidity into the future .
If there is one person who is the face of the current strategy of dealing with the coronavirus in Washington it is the Director of the US National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases ( NIAID ) of the NIH , Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leave out in discussing Fauci ’ s role is his highly controversial and conflicted history since he first joined NIAID in 1984 during the beginnings of the AIDS panic .
His role then sheds valuable light on his remarkable and highly controversial actions today .
Tony Fauci , a leading member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force , is being promoted by major US media such as CNN , MSNBC or the New York Times as the great expert on all related to the Covid19 outbreak .
He had dismissed the President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ malaria medication as treatment for severe corona patients as “ anecdotal , ” even though seven years before he backed the same drug .
He has publicly taken projections from an institute created in Washington State by the Gates Foundation , the same foundation that virtually owns the WHO and owns major stakes in the leading vaccine makers , to claim that up to 200,000 Americans could die from COVID19 .
Fauci stated that COVID19 is “ probably about 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu , ” which would mean 300-600,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same time in a respected medical journal he compared Covid-19 as similar to seasonal flu in morbidity .
When questioned how long the shutdown of much of the US economy must last , Fauci replied only when there is zero new covid19 positive tested cases , something impossible given the defective testing .
He has also backed direct human tests of novel vaccines with no prior animal tests , including with radical non-tested mRNA gene-edited vaccines .
Fauci has more influence over US national policy on the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic than anyone , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treats him with awe as an unimpeachable scientist , one of the world ’ s finest .
A closer look at Anthony Fauci ’ s career gives a starkly different picture , a very alarming one in fact .
Tony Fauci has held the top post at the NIAID in Washington for an astonishing 36 years .
Today he is well past retirement age at 79 , and holds the funds to determine which drug companies or university researchers will get precious government funds or not from NIAID ’ s annual $ 5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back to 1984 when Fauci was named head of NIAID during the Reagan era .
That year an AIDS researcher , Robert Gallo , working under Fauci , held a press conference to announce that he had “ discovered ” the AIDS virus .
He said it was HIV– human immunodeficiency virus .
The shocking announcement which went around the world , was in complete disregard of scientific procedures of prior peer-reviewed published scientific evidence , including the required electron microscope analyses .
It was a case of “ science by press conference @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Peter H. Duesberg described it .
Duesberg was an award-winning researcher at Berkeley who isolated the first cancer gene through his work on retroviruses in 1970 , and mapped the genetic structure of these viruses .
For Gallo and Fauci , that was unimportant as millions in research funds flowed into NIAID to research the new virus , HIV .
Fauci and Gallo claimed that AIDS was highly contagious , also by sexual transmission , especially among homosexual men .
Notably , before the Gallo claim to have found the HIV AIDS virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the role of drugs , poppers or nitrites , proven immune-suppressants , in the deaths of the earliest AIDS patients .
That was quickly dropped in favor of researching a “ cure ” for AIDS .
Media was told that AIDS was the “ public health threat of the Century.
” Gallo went on to make millions on his patented blood test for HIV , despite the fact that the test was often giving false positives and did not test directly for the alleged virus but for active antibodies , something immunology practice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ merely suggested a past infection response and not necessarily presence of AHIV .
At this time in the 1980 ’ S Fauci was responsible for AIDS research at NIAID , a post he still holds .
The issue of HIV/AIDS tests is central .
While a frightened world was clamoring for a test , Gallo and Fauci promoted their deeply flawed tests of antibodies .
In 2006 Gallo claimed , “ HIV tests were highly accurate from the time they were developed in 1984 and have become much more accurate over time… ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than highly over time ?
Gallo added in response to criticism , “ A PCR test for the presence of the virus itself can accurately determine a child ’ s HIV status.
” In a sharp rebuttal of the Gallo claims , claims endorsed by Fauci and the NIAID as well as CDC , Roberto A. Giraldo , MD and Etienne de Harven , MD , the scientist who produced the first electron micrograph of a retrovirus , pointed out that both the ELISA and Western blot , and a genetic test , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ test , ” the two major tests used to determine if one has AIDS , are invalid .
“ None of these tests detect the HIV virus itself , nor do they detect HIV particles.
” They add that there are “ more than 70 different documented conditions that can cause the antibody tests to react positive without an HIV infection.
” Among the false positive cases are influenza , the common cold , leprosy or the existence of pregnancy .
The same tests are used today to determine SARS-CoV-2-positive .
They concluded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years of intense research HIV has been neither isolated nor purified in terms of classical virology indicates to us that the infectious view of AIDS as a contagious viral disease is based on an apparently non-existent microbe !
” Giraldo and de Harven declared , “ The alleged existence of HIV was asserted from the study of proteins , reverse transcriptase activity ( RT ) , and RNA fragments that were found in culture supernatants , not from the direct analysis of purified viral particles.
” The CDC requires a positive antibody test @ @ @ @ @ @ @ USA .
Yet in Africa since 1985 the WHO requires no HIV test or any other laboratory test .
Merely the patient ’ s symptoms that can include weight loss , chronic diarrhea , prolonged fever , persistent cough and such , symptoms endemic to chronic poverty , malnutrition and lack of sanitation .
Yet this fraud has shaped the career of Tony Fauci for more than 35 years .
Fauci as head of NIAID has taken millions from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the Clinton Foundation along with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this bogus research .
Suspiciously , the 2006 article by Giraldo and de Harven was suddenly retracted by the journal in 2019 just before the coronavirus Wuhan outbreak .
Despite the fact that he knew the established rules of virology , Fauci , as head of NIAID , recommended the Burroughs Wellcome chemotherapy drug , AZT as a “ preventive drug ” for HIV diagnosed patients even without symptoms !
Burroughs Wellcome gave NIAID the study that was deliberately biased for AZT .
Fauci even backed AZT for pregnant women despite the grave @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of pregnancy in all women is a higher level of antigens as the natural immune system fights any infection to protect the fetus .
AZT or Retrovir , a failed leukemia drug , has been proven to be a highly toxic drug .
It was approved for AIDS testing in a record 5 days by Fauci and the US Government in 1987 .
Today despite more than thirty years funded research and billions of dollars , no effective vaccine for HIV/AIDS exists .
According to people who have studied the role of Tony @ @ @ @ @ @ @ focus has been what is called scientific reductivism , described as “ a 19 Century-style , single-germ theory for a complex web of factors that collapsed the immune systems of a subset of gay men in the early 1980s.
” He has refused to explore the documentation that a variety of lethal drugs and other toxins such as nitrites could play a role .
As a result he has wasted tens of billions of taxpayer dollars since 1984 on dead end experiments .
One of his most nefarious was his collaboration with Gilead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a false positive test for AIDS and having gained FDA fast-track approval for AZT to treat HIV-positive patients with serious illness symptoms , Fauci decided to collaborate with Gilead ( as in the Biblical “ balm of Gilead ” ) on what came to be called PrEP experiments .
Fauci in 2007 began to finance clinical trials of the AZT drugs in HIV “ negatives , ” on the theory the chemotherapy would “ protect ” them from becoming “ positive.
” That is , testing toxic HIV drugs on otherwise healthy persons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ AIDS .
If it sounds mad , it was .
Gilead supplied the drug , Truvada , to NIAID between 2007-2012 for Phase III human tests on HIV negative subjects .
Four tests of at least 2,000 and up to 5,000 test subjects each , were done .
The project was called “ pre-exposure prophylaxis ” or “ PrEP.
” Healthy subjects were given doses of chemotherapy drug Truvada on the thesis it could prevent them from one day getting HIV-positive .
CDC , in its May 2014 recommendation urged physicians to prescribe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ risk groups , ” an official government imprimatur for an extremely profitable drug .
The FDA ignored two of the four Truvada tests that had failed and been halted .
Despite that and owing to data manipulation by Fauci ’ s NIAID and Gilead , the FDA approved the dangerous Truvada for PrEP .
Today Gilead lists the side effects of Truvada : Kidney problems , including kidney failure ; worsening Hepatitis B ; too much lactic acid in your blood ( lactic acidosis ) , which can lead to death ; severe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death ; bone problems .
They state that Truvada “ can help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 through sex , when taken every day and used together with safer sex practices.
” The Fauci-Gilead scam of promoting Truvada for healthy people to “ reduce risk ” of HIV is a marker for the level of medical malpractice and in some cases evident criminal abuse of human health that the current White House coronavirus guru , A. Fauci , represents .
In October , 2019 Fauci and his NIAID got $ 100 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gene-based ” therapies for HIV and sickle cell disease .
That means Fauci still to the time of the first claims of novel coronavirus in Wuhan China , Fauci was still promoting a 35-year fraud around HIV .
Fauci is also part of the Gates Foundation cabal .
In 2012 Fauci was named one of the five Leadership Council of the Gates Foundation-created Global Vaccine Action Plan .
This is highly relevant to his role today as the Trump Administration coronavirus “ pope.
” Has his NIAID or any other laboratory in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ isolated and purified samples of patients tested SARS-CoV-2 positive for Covid-19 ?
Or are the virus proofs as faulty as Fauci and the AIDS clique have made for HIV ?
In addition NIAID is working with Gilead to conduct Phase II human trials on Gilead ’ s drug , remdesivir , as a potential treatment for hospitalized adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19 .
Relevant also is the fact that all top scientific advisers to the US President ’ s Task Force on COVID-19 are tied since decades to the bogus and destructive HIV/AIDS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alongside Tony Fauci of NIAID stands Deborah L. Birx , M.D.
, Obama appointee as US Global AIDS Coordinator who worked under Tony Fauci at NIAID from 1983-1986 .
Robert Redfield is the current Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , center of the recent coronavirus testing scandal .
Redfield cofounded with the discredited Robert Gallo , former Fauci colleague in the AIDS scandals of the early 1980 ’ s at NIH , the Institute of Human Virology based at University of Maryland .
Redfield and Birx also coauthored numerous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ none of which have been effective .
Fauci , Birx and Redfield , all incestuously complicit in the HIV/AIDS frauds and malpractice , today hold the future of not only American public health , but also of the entire world economy in their hands .
Not a good situation .
As their work on the proved HIV=IDS fraud shows , the coronavirus tests do not at all prove presence of a deadly virus in any patient .
If this is so , it is perhaps the greatest criminal fraud in medical history .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and lecturer , he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics , exclusively for the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook .
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Dramatic political and social decisions are being made across the United States and around the world on what emergency quarantine measures and other steps must be taken. In many cases the radical and severe measures, such as shutting down the world economy, are being justified by COVID-19 case projections of morbidity into the future. If there is one person who is the face of the current strategy of dealing with the coronavirus in Washington it is the Director of the US National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the NIH, Dr. Tony Fauci. What major media conveniently leave out in discussing Fauci’s role is his highly controversial and conflicted history since he first joined NIAID in 1984 during the beginnings of the AIDS panic. His role then sheds valuable light on his remarkable and highly controversial actions today.
Tony Fauci, a leading member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, is being promoted by major US media such as CNN, MSNBC or the New York Times as the great expert on all related to the Covid19 outbreak. He had dismissed the President’s efforts to promote a known malaria medication as treatment for severe corona patients as “anecdotal,” even though seven years before he backed the same drug. He has publicly taken projections from an institute created in Washington State by the Gates Foundation, the same foundation that virtually owns the WHO and owns major stakes in the leading vaccine makers, to claim that up to 200,000 Americans could die from COVID19. Fauci stated that COVID19 is “probably about 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu,” which would mean 300-600,000 coronavirus deaths this year, at the same time in a respected medical journal he compared Covid-19 as similar to seasonal flu in morbidity. When questioned how long the shutdown of much of the US economy must last, Fauci replied only when there is zero new covid19 positive tested cases, something impossible given the defective testing. He has also backed direct human tests of novel vaccines with no prior animal tests, including with radical non-tested mRNA gene-edited vaccines.
Fauci has more influence over US national policy on the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic than anyone, including the President. Much of media treats him with awe as an unimpeachable scientist, one of the world’s finest. A closer look at Anthony Fauci’s career gives a starkly different picture, a very alarming one in fact.
America’s AIDS Czar
Tony Fauci has held the top post at the NIAID in Washington for an astonishing 36 years. Today he is well past retirement age at 79, and holds the funds to determine which drug companies or university researchers will get precious government funds or not from NIAID’s annual $5 billion budget.
Let’s go back to 1984 when Fauci was named head of NIAID during the Reagan era. That year an AIDS researcher, Robert Gallo, working under Fauci, held a press conference to announce that he had “discovered” the AIDS virus. He said it was HIV– human immunodeficiency virus. The shocking announcement which went around the world, was in complete disregard of scientific procedures of prior peer-reviewed published scientific evidence, including the required electron microscope analyses. It was a case of “science by press conference” as a critical scientist, Prof. Peter H. Duesberg described it. Duesberg was an award-winning researcher at Berkeley who isolated the first cancer gene through his work on retroviruses in 1970, and mapped the genetic structure of these viruses.
For Gallo and Fauci, that was unimportant as millions in research funds flowed into NIAID to research the new virus, HIV. Fauci and Gallo claimed that AIDS was highly contagious, also by sexual transmission, especially among homosexual men. Notably, before the Gallo claim to have found the HIV AIDS virus, NIAID had been doing research on the role of drugs, poppers or nitrites, proven immune-suppressants, in the deaths of the earliest AIDS patients. That was quickly dropped in favor of researching a “cure” for AIDS. Media was told that AIDS was the “public health threat of the Century.” Gallo went on to make millions on his patented blood test for HIV, despite the fact that the test was often giving false positives and did not test directly for the alleged virus but for active antibodies, something immunology practice said was not valid, as antibodies merely suggested a past infection response and not necessarily presence of AHIV. At this time in the 1980’S Fauci was responsible for AIDS research at NIAID, a post he still holds.
False Tests?
The issue of HIV/AIDS tests is central. While a frightened world was clamoring for a test, Gallo and Fauci promoted their deeply flawed tests of antibodies. In 2006 Gallo claimed, “HIV tests were highly accurate from the time they were developed in 1984 and have become much more accurate over time…” Highly accurate in 1984 but more accurate than highly over time? Gallo added in response to criticism, “A PCR test for the presence of the virus itself can accurately determine a child’s HIV status.”
In a sharp rebuttal of the Gallo claims, claims endorsed by Fauci and the NIAID as well as CDC, Roberto A. Giraldo, MD and Etienne de Harven, MD, the scientist who produced the first electron micrograph of a retrovirus, pointed out that both the ELISA and Western blot, and a genetic test, the PCR or ‘Viral Load’ test,” the two major tests used to determine if one has AIDS, are invalid. “None of these tests detect the HIV virus itself, nor do they detect HIV particles.” They add that there are “more than 70 different documented conditions that can cause the antibody tests to react positive without an HIV infection.” Among the false positive cases are influenza, the common cold, leprosy or the existence of pregnancy. The same tests are used today to determine SARS-CoV-2-positive.
They concluded, “The fact that after 25 years of intense research HIV has been neither isolated nor purified in terms of classical virology indicates to us that the infectious view of AIDS as a contagious viral disease is based on an apparently non-existent microbe!”
Giraldo and de Harven declared, “The alleged existence of HIV was asserted from the study of proteins, reverse transcriptase activity (RT), and RNA fragments that were found in culture supernatants, not from the direct analysis of purified viral particles.” The CDC requires a positive antibody test for HIV to determine AIDS in the USA. Yet in Africa since 1985 the WHO requires no HIV test or any other laboratory test. Merely the patient’s symptoms that can include weight loss, chronic diarrhea, prolonged fever, persistent cough and such, symptoms endemic to chronic poverty, malnutrition and lack of sanitation.
Yet this fraud has shaped the career of Tony Fauci for more than 35 years. Fauci as head of NIAID has taken millions from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the Clinton Foundation along with tens of billions from US taxpayers for this bogus research. Suspiciously, the 2006 article by Giraldo and de Harven was suddenly retracted by the journal in 2019 just before the coronavirus Wuhan outbreak.
Despite the fact that he knew the established rules of virology, Fauci, as head of NIAID, recommended the Burroughs Wellcome chemotherapy drug, AZT as a “preventive drug” for HIV diagnosed patients even without symptoms! Burroughs Wellcome gave NIAID the study that was deliberately biased for AZT. Fauci even backed AZT for pregnant women despite the grave risk to the fetus. One mark of pregnancy in all women is a higher level of antigens as the natural immune system fights any infection to protect the fetus. AZT or Retrovir, a failed leukemia drug, has been proven to be a highly toxic drug. It was approved for AIDS testing in a record 5 days by Fauci and the US Government in 1987. Today despite more than thirty years funded research and billions of dollars, no effective vaccine for HIV/AIDS exists.
Fauci and Gilead
According to people who have studied the role of Tony Fauci as head of NIAID, his focus has been what is called scientific reductivism, described as “a 19 Century-style, single-germ theory for a complex web of factors that collapsed the immune systems of a subset of gay men in the early 1980s.” He has refused to explore the documentation that a variety of lethal drugs and other toxins such as nitrites could play a role. As a result he has wasted tens of billions of taxpayer dollars since 1984 on dead end experiments. One of his most nefarious was his collaboration with Gilead Sciences.
Not satisfied with having developed a false positive test for AIDS and having gained FDA fast-track approval for AZT to treat HIV-positive patients with serious illness symptoms, Fauci decided to collaborate with Gilead (as in the Biblical “balm of Gilead”) on what came to be called PrEP experiments.
Fauci in 2007 began to finance clinical trials of the AZT drugs in HIV “negatives,” on the theory the chemotherapy would “protect” them from becoming “positive.” That is, testing toxic HIV drugs on otherwise healthy persons to “insure” they never got AIDS. If it sounds mad, it was. Gilead supplied the drug, Truvada, to NIAID between 2007-2012 for Phase III human tests on HIV negative subjects. Four tests of at least 2,000 and up to 5,000 test subjects each, were done. The project was called “pre-exposure prophylaxis” or “PrEP.” Healthy subjects were given doses of chemotherapy drug Truvada on the thesis it could prevent them from one day getting HIV-positive. CDC, in its May 2014 recommendation urged physicians to prescribe Truvada for negatives in the so-called “risk groups,” an official government imprimatur for an extremely profitable drug.
The FDA ignored two of the four Truvada tests that had failed and been halted. Despite that and owing to data manipulation by Fauci’s NIAID and Gilead, the FDA approved the dangerous Truvada for PrEP. Today Gilead lists the side effects of Truvada: Kidney problems, including kidney failure; worsening Hepatitis B; too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which can lead to death; severe liver problems, which can lead to death; bone problems. They state that Truvada “can help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 through sex, when taken every day and used together with safer sex practices.”
The Fauci-Gilead scam of promoting Truvada for healthy people to “reduce risk” of HIV is a marker for the level of medical malpractice and in some cases evident criminal abuse of human health that the current White House coronavirus guru, A. Fauci, represents.
Fauci and COVID-19
In October, 2019 Fauci and his NIAID got $100 million from the Gates Foundation to develop “gene-based” therapies for HIV and sickle cell disease. That means Fauci still to the time of the first claims of novel coronavirus in Wuhan China, Fauci was still promoting a 35-year fraud around HIV. Fauci is also part of the Gates Foundation cabal. In 2012 Fauci was named one of the five Leadership Council of the Gates Foundation-created Global Vaccine Action Plan.
This is highly relevant to his role today as the Trump Administration coronavirus “pope.” Has his NIAID or any other laboratory in the world rigorously, with electron microscopy, isolated and purified samples of patients tested SARS-CoV-2 positive for Covid-19? Or are the virus proofs as faulty as Fauci and the AIDS clique have made for HIV?
In addition NIAID is working with Gilead to conduct Phase II human trials on Gilead’s drug, remdesivir, as a potential treatment for hospitalized adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
A coincidence?
Relevant also is the fact that all top scientific advisers to the US President’s Task Force on COVID-19 are tied since decades to the bogus and destructive HIV/AIDS research and propagation of false theories. Alongside Tony Fauci of NIAID stands Deborah L. Birx, M.D., Obama appointee as US Global AIDS Coordinator who worked under Tony Fauci at NIAID from 1983-1986.
Robert Redfield is the current Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, center of the recent coronavirus testing scandal. Redfield cofounded with the discredited Robert Gallo, former Fauci colleague in the AIDS scandals of the early 1980’s at NIH, the Institute of Human Virology based at University of Maryland. Redfield and Birx also coauthored numerous scientific articles on purported HIV vaccines, none of which have been effective.
Fauci, Birx and Redfield, all incestuously complicit in the HIV/AIDS frauds and malpractice, today hold the future of not only American public health, but also of the entire world economy in their hands. Not a good situation. As their work on the proved HIV=IDS fraud shows, the coronavirus tests do not at all prove presence of a deadly virus in any patient. If this is so, it is perhaps the greatest criminal fraud in medical history.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”


newswars--2020-04-15--COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society?

Cash may well become a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic .
As these COVID-19 lockdowns drag out , more and more individuals and businesses are going cashless ( for convenience and in a so-called effort to avoid spreading coronavirus germs ) , engaging in online commerce or using digital forms of currency ( bank cards , digital wallets , etc. )
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As a result , physical cash is no longer king .
Yet there are other , more devious , reasons for this re-engineering of society away from physical cash : a cashless society—easily monitored , controlled , manipulated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the hands of the government ( and its corporate partners ) .
To this end , the government and its corporate partners-in-crime have been waging a subtle war on cash for some time now .
What is this war on cash ?
It ’ s a concerted campaign to shift consumers towards a digital mode of commerce that can easily be monitored , tracked , tabulated , mined for data , hacked , hijacked and confiscated when convenient .
According to economist Steve Forbes , “ The real reason for this war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then work your way down—is an ugly power grab by Big Government .
People will have less privacy : Electronic commerce makes it easier for Big Brother to see what we ’ re doing , thereby making it simpler to bar activities it doesn ’ t like , such as purchasing salt , sugar , big bottles of soda and Big Macs.
” Much like the war on drugs and the war on terror , this so-called “ war on cash ” is being sold to the public as a means of fighting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and now COVID-19 germs .
Digital currency provides the government and its corporate partners with the ultimate method to track , control you and punish you .
In recent years , just the mere possession of significant amounts of cash could implicate you in suspicious activity and label you a criminal .
The rationale ( by police ) is that cash is the currency for illegal transactions given that it ’ s harder to track , can be used to pay illegal immigrants , and denies the government its share of the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paper money will help law enforcement fight crime and help the government realize more revenue .
Despite what we know about the government and its history of corruption , bumbling , fumbling and data breaches , not to mention how easily technology can be used against us , the campaign to do away with cash is really not a hard sell .
It ’ s not a hard sell , that is , if you know the right buttons to push , and the government has become a grand master in the art @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what it wants .
Remember , this is the same government that plans to use behavioral science tactics to “ nudge ” citizens to comply with the government ’ s public policy and program initiatives .
It ’ s also not a hard sell if you belong to the Digital Generation , that segment of the population for whom technology is second nature and “ the first generation born into a world that has never not known digital life.
” And it ’ s certainly not a hard sell if you belong to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their cell phones to pay bills , purchase goods , and transfer funds .
In much the same way that Americans have opted into government surveillance through the convenience of GPS devices and cell phones , digital cash—the means of paying with one ’ s debit card , credit card or cell phone—is becoming the de facto commerce of the American police state .
Not too long ago , it was estimated that smart phones would replace cash and credit cards altogether by 2020 .
Right on schedule , a growing number of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ certain airlines , hotels , rental car companies , restaurants and retail stores .
In Sweden , even the homeless and churches accept digital cash .
Making the case for “ never , ever carrying cash ” in lieu of a digital wallet , journalist Lisa Rabasca Roepe argues that cash is inconvenient , ATM access is costly , and it ’ s now possible to reimburse people using digital apps such as Venmo .
Thus , there ’ s no longer a need for cash .
“ More and more retailers and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Google Wallet , Samsung Pay , and Android Pay , ” notes Roepe .
“ PayPal ’ s app is now accepted at many chain stores including Barnes & Noble , Foot Locker , Home Depot , and Office Depot .
Walmart and CVS have both developed their own payment apps while their competitors Target and RiteAid are working on their own apps.
” It ’ s not just cash that is going digital , either .
A growing number of states are looking to adopt digital driver ’ s licenses that would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ licenses would include all of the information contained on your printed license , along with a few “ extras ” such as real-time data downloaded directly from your state ’ s Department of Motor Vehicles .
Of course , reading between the lines , having a digital driver ’ s license will open you up to much the same jeopardy as digital cash : it will make it possible for the government to better track your movements , monitor your activities and communications and ultimately shut you down .
So what ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the advantages that go along with living in a digital age—namely , convenience—it ’ s hard to imagine how a cashless world navigated by way of a digital wallet doesn ’ t signal the beginning of the end for what little privacy we have left and leave us vulnerable to the likes of government thieves and data hackers .
First , when I say privacy , I ’ m not just referring to the things that you don ’ t want people to know about , those little things you do behind closed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but embarrassing or intimate .
I am also referring to the things that are deeply personal and which no one need know about , certainly not the government and its constabulary of busybodies , nannies , Peeping Toms , jail wardens and petty bureaucrats .
Second , we ’ re already witnessing how easy it will be for government agents to manipulate digital wallets for their own gain .
For example , civil asset forfeiture schemes are becoming even more profitable for police agencies thanks to ERAD ( Electronic Recovery and Access to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Homeland Security that allow police to not only determine the balance of any magnetic-stripe card ( i.e.
, debit , credit and gift cards ) but also freeze and seize any funds on pre-paid money cards .
In fact , the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it does not violate the Fourth Amendment for police to scan or swipe your credit card .
Third , as commentator Paul Craig Roberts observed , while Americans have been distracted by the government ’ s costly war on terror , “ the financial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has done more damage to Americans than terrorists could possibly inflict.
” Ultimately , as Roberts—who served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Ronald Reagan—makes clear , the war on cash is about giving the government the ultimate control of the economy and complete access to the citizenry ’ s pocketbook .
Fourth , if there ’ s a will , there ’ s a way .
So far , every technological convenience that has made our lives easier has also become our Achilles ’ heel , opening us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government agents alike .
In recent years , the U.S. government has been repeatedly hacked .
In 2015 , the Office of Personnel Management had more than 20 million personnel files stolen , everything from Social Security numbers to birth dates and fingerprint records .
In 2014 , it was the White House , the State Department , the Post Office and other government agencies , along with a host of financial institutions , retailers and entertainment giants that had their files breached .
And these are the people in charge of protecting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there ’ s one entity that will not stop using cash for its own nefarious purposes , it ’ s the U.S. government .
Cash is the currency used by the government to pay off its foreign “ associates.
” For instance , the Obama administration flew more than $ 400 million in cash to Iran , reportedly as part of a financial settlement with the country .
Critics claim the money was ransom paid for the return of American hostages .
And then there was the $ 12 billion in shrink-wrapped $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iraq only to claim it had no record of what happened to the money .
It just disappeared , we were told .
So when government economists tell you that two-thirds of all $ 100 bills in circulation are overseas—more than half a trillion dollars ’ worth—it ’ s a pretty good bet that the government played a significant part in their export .
Sixth , this drive to do away with cash is part of a larger global trend driven by international financial institutions and the United Nations that is transforming nations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nation to the biggest , most advanced economies .
Finally , short of returning to a pre-technological , Luddite age , there ’ s really no way to pull this horse back now that it ’ s left the gate .
While doing so is near impossible , it would also mean doing without the many conveniences and advantages that are the better angels , if you will , of technology ’ s totalitarian tendencies : the internet , medical advances , etc .
To our detriment , we have virtually no control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how it is stored , or how it is used .
Whether we ever had much control remains up for debate .
However , in terms of our bargaining power over digital privacy rights , we have been reduced to a pitiful , unenviable position in which we can only hope and trust that those in power will treat our information with respect .
Clearly , as I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , we have come full circle , back to a pre-revolutionary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Unemployment is already higher than peak Great Depression levels in days , not years .
But how does this Stock Market Crash compare with 1929 ?
What is happening to cash & bitcoin ?

“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.”—Lysander Spooner, American abolitionist and legal theorist
Cash may well become a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As these COVID-19 lockdowns drag out, more and more individuals and businesses are going cashless (for convenience and in a so-called effort to avoid spreading coronavirus germs), engaging in online commerce or using digital forms of currency (bank cards, digital wallets, etc.). As a result, physical cash is no longer king.
Yet there are other, more devious, reasons for this re-engineering of society away from physical cash: a cashless society—easily monitored, controlled, manipulated, weaponized and locked down—would play right into the hands of the government (and its corporate partners).
To this end, the government and its corporate partners-in-crime have been waging a subtle war on cash for some time now.
What is this war on cash?
It’s a concerted campaign to shift consumers towards a digital mode of commerce that can easily be monitored, tracked, tabulated, mined for data, hacked, hijacked and confiscated when convenient.
According to economist Steve Forbes, “The real reason for this war on cash—start with the big bills and then work your way down—is an ugly power grab by Big Government. People will have less privacy: Electronic commerce makes it easier for Big Brother to see what we’re doing, thereby making it simpler to bar activities it doesn’t like, such as purchasing salt, sugar, big bottles of soda and Big Macs.”
Much like the war on drugs and the war on terror, this so-called “war on cash” is being sold to the public as a means of fighting terrorists, drug dealers, tax evaders and now COVID-19 germs.
Digital currency provides the government and its corporate partners with the ultimate method to track, control you and punish you.
In recent years, just the mere possession of significant amounts of cash could implicate you in suspicious activity and label you a criminal. The rationale (by police) is that cash is the currency for illegal transactions given that it’s harder to track, can be used to pay illegal immigrants, and denies the government its share of the “take,” so doing away with paper money will help law enforcement fight crime and help the government realize more revenue.
Despite what we know about the government and its history of corruption, bumbling, fumbling and data breaches, not to mention how easily technology can be used against us, the campaign to do away with cash is really not a hard sell.
It’s not a hard sell, that is, if you know the right buttons to push, and the government has become a grand master in the art of getting the citizenry to do exactly what it wants. Remember, this is the same government that plans to use behavioral science tactics to “nudge” citizens to comply with the government’s public policy and program initiatives.
It’s also not a hard sell if you belong to the Digital Generation, that segment of the population for whom technology is second nature and “the first generation born into a world that has never not known digital life.”
And it’s certainly not a hard sell if you belong to the growing class of Americans who use their cell phones to pay bills, purchase goods, and transfer funds.
In much the same way that Americans have opted into government surveillance through the convenience of GPS devices and cell phones, digital cash—the means of paying with one’s debit card, credit card or cell phone—is becoming the de facto commerce of the American police state.
Not too long ago, it was estimated that smart phones would replace cash and credit cards altogether by 2020. Right on schedule, a growing number of businesses are adopting no-cash policies, including certain airlines, hotels, rental car companies, restaurants and retail stores. In Sweden, even the homeless and churches accept digital cash.
Making the case for “never, ever carrying cash” in lieu of a digital wallet, journalist Lisa Rabasca Roepe argues that cash is inconvenient, ATM access is costly, and it’s now possible to reimburse people using digital apps such as Venmo. Thus, there’s no longer a need for cash. “More and more retailers and grocery stores are embracing Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Samsung Pay, and Android Pay,” notes Roepe. “PayPal’s app is now accepted at many chain stores including Barnes & Noble, Foot Locker, Home Depot, and Office Depot. Walmart and CVS have both developed their own payment apps while their competitors Target and RiteAid are working on their own apps.”
It’s not just cash that is going digital, either.
A growing number of states are looking to adopt digital driver’s licenses that would reside on your mobile phone. These licenses would include all of the information contained on your printed license, along with a few “extras” such as real-time data downloaded directly from your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles.
Of course, reading between the lines, having a digital driver’s license will open you up to much the same jeopardy as digital cash: it will make it possible for the government to better track your movements, monitor your activities and communications and ultimately shut you down.
So what’s the deal here?
Despite all of the advantages that go along with living in a digital age—namely, convenience—it’s hard to imagine how a cashless world navigated by way of a digital wallet doesn’t signal the beginning of the end for what little privacy we have left and leave us vulnerable to the likes of government thieves and data hackers.
First, when I say privacy, I’m not just referring to the things that you don’t want people to know about, those little things you do behind closed doors that are neither illegal nor harmful but embarrassing or intimate. I am also referring to the things that are deeply personal and which no one need know about, certainly not the government and its constabulary of busybodies, nannies, Peeping Toms, jail wardens and petty bureaucrats.
Second, we’re already witnessing how easy it will be for government agents to manipulate digital wallets for their own gain. For example, civil asset forfeiture schemes are becoming even more profitable for police agencies thanks to ERAD (Electronic Recovery and Access to Data) devices supplied by the Department of Homeland Security that allow police to not only determine the balance of any magnetic-stripe card (i.e., debit, credit and gift cards) but also freeze and seize any funds on pre-paid money cards. In fact, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it does not violate the Fourth Amendment for police to scan or swipe your credit card.
Third, as commentator Paul Craig Roberts observed, while Americans have been distracted by the government’s costly war on terror, “the financial system, working hand-in-hand with policymakers, has done more damage to Americans than terrorists could possibly inflict.” Ultimately, as Roberts—who served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Ronald Reagan—makes clear, the war on cash is about giving the government the ultimate control of the economy and complete access to the citizenry’s pocketbook.
Fourth, if there’s a will, there’s a way. So far, every technological convenience that has made our lives easier has also become our Achilles’ heel, opening us up to greater vulnerabilities from hackers and government agents alike. In recent years, the U.S. government has been repeatedly hacked. In 2015, the Office of Personnel Management had more than 20 million personnel files stolen, everything from Social Security numbers to birth dates and fingerprint records. In 2014, it was the White House, the State Department, the Post Office and other government agencies, along with a host of financial institutions, retailers and entertainment giants that had their files breached. And these are the people in charge of protecting our sensitive information?
Fifth, if there’s one entity that will not stop using cash for its own nefarious purposes, it’s the U.S. government. Cash is the currency used by the government to pay off its foreign “associates.” For instance, the Obama administration flew more than $400 million in cash to Iran, reportedly as part of a financial settlement with the country. Critics claim the money was ransom paid for the return of American hostages. And then there was the $12 billion in shrink-wrapped $100 bills that the U.S. flew to Iraq only to claim it had no record of what happened to the money. It just disappeared, we were told. So when government economists tell you that two-thirds of all $100 bills in circulation are overseas—more than half a trillion dollars’ worth—it’s a pretty good bet that the government played a significant part in their export.
Sixth, this drive to do away with cash is part of a larger global trend driven by international financial institutions and the United Nations that is transforming nations of all sizes, from the smallest nation to the biggest, most advanced economies.
Finally, short of returning to a pre-technological, Luddite age, there’s really no way to pull this horse back now that it’s left the gate. While doing so is near impossible, it would also mean doing without the many conveniences and advantages that are the better angels, if you will, of technology’s totalitarian tendencies: the internet, medical advances, etc.
To our detriment, we have virtually no control over who accesses our private information, how it is stored, or how it is used. Whether we ever had much control remains up for debate. However, in terms of our bargaining power over digital privacy rights, we have been reduced to a pitiful, unenviable position in which we can only hope and trust that those in power will treat our information with respect.
Clearly, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we have come full circle, back to a pre-revolutionary era of taxation without any real representation.
Unemployment is already higher than peak Great Depression levels in days, not years. But how does this Stock Market Crash compare with 1929? What is happening to cash & bitcoin?


newswars--2020-04-15--Live: Michigan Patriots Descend On Capitol To Protest Governor’s Executive Order

Demonstrators are lined up in their vehicles outside the Michigan Capitol Building and some are holding signs on the Capitol @ @ @ @ @ Gretchen Whitmer ’ s executive order .
The protest , Operation Gridlock , calls for @ @ @ @ @ Capitol and “ honk horns , paint cars or bring signs ” in defiance of @ @ @ @ @ Operation Gridlock protest hasn ’ t even officially started but the streets around the Capitol @ @ @ @ @ honking their horns and locking up the streets .
This is Allegan Street just on @ @ @ @ @ Capitol .
Nobody ’ s moving anywhere .
@ 9and10News pic.twitter.com/eAqMmiXA4t

Demonstrators are lined up in their vehicles outside the Michigan Capitol Building and some are holding signs on the Capitol grounds to protest Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order.
The protest, Operation Gridlock, calls for citizens to drive to the Capitol and “honk horns, paint cars or bring signs” in defiance of the stay-at-home order.
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newswars--2020-04-15--German Lawyer Who Criticized Lockdown Arrested, Taken to Psych Ward

A German medical lawyer who criticized the coronavirus lockdown law was arrested and taken to a psychiatric ward , where she says she was violently abused by authorities .
Beate Bahner published a press release on April 3rd decrying the German lockdown laws as “ flagrantly unconstitutional , infringing to an unprecedented extent many of the fundamental rights of citizens.
” “ These measures are not justified by the Infection Prevention Act , hurriedly amended just a few days ago , ” she asserted .
“ Long-term restrictions on leaving home and meeting others , based on high-death-rate modelled scenarios @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actual critical expert opinions , and the complete shutdown of businesses and shops with no proof that they pose any risk of infection , are thoroughly unlawful.
” Bahner called for a nationwide protest on Easter Sunday to “ end the tyranny at once , ” before Heidelberg Police announced that they would seek to prosecute her for inciting Germans to break the law .
On April 13th , Bahner called her sister from Heidelberg ’ s Klinik fur Allgemeine Psychiatrie describing what happened to her .
After claiming she was “ suspiciously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ says she asked another motorist to call the police only for the police to show up , handcuff her and push her to the ground “ with massive force.
” After being driven to the psychiatric facility , Bahner says she was treated like a terrorist .
“ I asked to be allowed to sit down and was shown to a bench .
Then I asked to have the handcuffs taken off , since it was actually I who had requested police protection , ” she recounted .
“ But instead , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ having my head hurled onto the stone floor from a meter height , which nobody reacted to.Then I was forced to spend the night lying on the floor in some high-security Guantanamo psychiatric clinic…there was no toilet , no sink , though they did allow me water , and there was a bell I could ring , though they ignored it after the third time I pressed it.
” The lawyer was charged for incitement yesterday , with her attorney sounding the alarm bell over her treatment .
“ I shouldn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of very grave abuse have untoward connotations of the darkest chapters of German history , ” he said .
“ The mere fact she claimed to have been so badly abused was what prompted me to write to you .
Bahner is in the company of over 50 well-known experts in criticising the nationwide lockdown ; I would be glad to furnish you with a list of their names .
If it really is the case lawyers critical of government measures can now be intimidated using the state legal apparatus or psychiatry , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , then it is five minutes to midnight in this country.
” Bahner has won three cases in the Federal Constitutional Court and written five books on German medical law .
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A German medical lawyer who criticized the coronavirus lockdown law was arrested and taken to a psychiatric ward, where she says she was violently abused by authorities.
Beate Bahner published a press release on April 3rd decrying the German lockdown laws as “flagrantly unconstitutional, infringing to an unprecedented extent many of the fundamental rights of citizens.”
“These measures are not justified by the Infection Prevention Act, hurriedly amended just a few days ago,” she asserted. “Long-term restrictions on leaving home and meeting others, based on high-death-rate modelled scenarios, which fail to take account of actual critical expert opinions, and the complete shutdown of businesses and shops with no proof that they pose any risk of infection, are thoroughly unlawful.”
Bahner called for a nationwide protest on Easter Sunday to “end the tyranny at once,” before Heidelberg Police announced that they would seek to prosecute her for inciting Germans to break the law.
On April 13th, Bahner called her sister from Heidelberg’s Klinik fur Allgemeine Psychiatrie describing what happened to her.
After claiming she was “suspiciously” followed by a car, Bahner says she asked another motorist to call the police only for the police to show up, handcuff her and push her to the ground “with massive force.”
Actually, Ms Bahner only called for legal protests against the German Government’s extra-legal violation of the German constitution. It is the Govt breaking State laws, not the lawyer exposing them. pic.twitter.com/dSefGkAQ7j — Phil Greaves (@PhilGreaves01) April 15, 2020
After being driven to the psychiatric facility, Bahner says she was treated like a terrorist.
“I asked to be allowed to sit down and was shown to a bench. Then I asked to have the handcuffs taken off, since it was actually I who had requested police protection,” she recounted. “But instead, I was thrown to the floor again, having my head hurled onto the stone floor from a meter height, which nobody reacted to.Then I was forced to spend the night lying on the floor in some high-security Guantanamo psychiatric clinic…there was no toilet, no sink, though they did allow me water, and there was a bell I could ring, though they ignored it after the third time I pressed it.”
The lawyer was charged for incitement yesterday, with her attorney sounding the alarm bell over her treatment.
“I shouldn’t have to add Bahner’s claims of very grave abuse have untoward connotations of the darkest chapters of German history,” he said.
“The mere fact she claimed to have been so badly abused was what prompted me to write to you. Bahner is in the company of over 50 well-known experts in criticising the nationwide lockdown; I would be glad to furnish you with a list of their names. If it really is the case lawyers critical of government measures can now be intimidated using the state legal apparatus or psychiatry, and can be professionally and socially destroyed, then it is five minutes to midnight in this country.”
Bahner has won three cases in the Federal Constitutional Court and written five books on German medical law.
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newswars--2020-04-16--Elon Musk: “What I Find Most Surprising is That CNN Still Exists”

Elon Musk called out CNN for erroneously reporting that more than 1,000 ventilators sent by Tesla to California hospitals hadn ’ t been received while expressing his surprise that CNN “ still exists.
” Last month , Musk said in a tweet that he had obtained the ventilators due to China having an oversupply and would be shipping them free to hospitals that required them .
CNN published a story claiming that “ none of the promised ventilators have been received by hospitals , ” citing Gov .
Gavin Newsom ’ s office .
Musk responded by tweeting , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CNN still exists.
” He then posted an email exchange which shows a Los Angeles County Department of Health Services official thanking Tesla for receiving the ventilators .
“ Hey Phillip , do you know if these ventilators went into use ?
” asks Tesla ’ s Omead Afshar .
“ They worked great during testing today , ” responded Phillip Franks , who is Director of System Operations and Support Services at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services .
“ We will put these to use tomorrow .
Thanks !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gov .
Gavin Newsom in one of the tweets , asking him to “ please fix this misunderstanding.
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Elon Musk called out CNN for erroneously reporting that more than 1,000 ventilators sent by Tesla to California hospitals hadn’t been received while expressing his surprise that CNN “still exists.”
Last month, Musk said in a tweet that he had obtained the ventilators due to China having an oversupply and would be shipping them free to hospitals that required them.
CNN published a story claiming that “none of the promised ventilators have been received by hospitals,” citing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office.
Musk responded by tweeting, “What I find most surprising is that CNN still exists.”
What I find most surprising is that CNN still exists — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2020
He then posted an email exchange which shows a Los Angeles County Department of Health Services official thanking Tesla for receiving the ventilators.
“Hey Phillip, do you know if these ventilators went into use?” asks Tesla’s Omead Afshar.
“They worked great during testing today,” responded Phillip Franks, who is Director of System Operations and Support Services at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. “We will put these to use tomorrow. Thanks!” he adds.
Musk also tagged Gov. Gavin Newsom in one of the tweets, asking him to “please fix this misunderstanding.”
We await to see if CNN will fix their totally inaccurate reporting.
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