thelibertybeacon--2020-03-21--US lawmakers using Coronavirus panic to quietly build Police State

US lawmakers bask in Coronavirus panic while quietly building the police state of their dreams As the coronavirus epidemic monopolizes the attention of the American people , government is taking the opportunity to sneak through all manner of restrictive legislation , including a law that could end the internet as we know it .
Killing the internet… to save the children ?
The ominously-named EARN IT Act ( short for “ Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act ” ) that quietly debuted in the Senate earlier this month is a carefully crafted weapon for crushing encryption without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
While this particular bill purports to be all about ending child sexual exploitation , the industry is concerned it will make their business model unsustainable – while doing nothing to protect children .
So are independent media producers , who fear their speech would be declared anathema .
It would in practice strip section 230 legal immunity – protection from liability for third party content – from any website that failed to comply with a set of “ best practices ” imposed on a supposedly voluntary basis by a 19-member “ commission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Platforms that persist in encrypting messages despite Barr ’ s commission ’ s heavy-handed “ recommendations ” could be sued out of existence over user-generated content , which they become liable for with section 230 gone .
This ingenious model keeps encryption itself legal – a crucial loophole for government agencies that rely on encrypted messaging to keep their own secrets , well , secret .
EARN IT is a nosy government agency ’ s wet dream , but it does more than just make encryption financially impossible .
The open-ended notion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for law enforcement agencies on the commission to draft far-reaching rules regarding what content can be transmitted over the platforms they control .
This isn ’ t mere speculation .
Present at the Senate hearing was the vice president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children , who called for online platforms to screen all content for “ abusive ” messages and be held legally responsible for any offending content .
Such a policy would incentivize preemptive banning of suspected “ problem ” users on a scale that makes YouTube ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” content falling within – but near the edge of – its rules look positively permissive .
Nor is there anything in the bill to stop overzealous law enforcement from expanding the definition of “ abusive ” and actionable speech to include political views outside the mainstream .
Indeed , similar outcomes have happened in Australia and New Zealand , whose governments ( also members of the US-led Five Eyes intelligence consortium ) have also adopted laws severely restricting internet freedom .
The bill was introduced by Republican Lindsey Graham ( South Carolina @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
With 52 years in government between them , the pair have weathered enough crises to know that peak coronavirus hysteria was the ideal time to introduce their noxious bill .
The civil liberties advocates who normally surface to oppose such draconian legislation were preoccupied with panic-buying toilet paper or watching the growing sea of red ink pooling in their stock portfolios .
Even the Electronic Frontier Foundation , whose bread and butter is opposing laws like EARN IT , only rolled out its own warning a week after Graham had unveiled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may have been former president Barack Obama ’ s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel who advised his boss to “ never let a good crisis go to waste , ” but the mantra has been embraced by both parties , in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic as ever .
Just as the September 11 terror attacks were quickly weaponized by the George W. Bush administration to impose unprecedented restrictions on Americans ’ civil liberties in the form of the Patriot Act and accompanying legislation , so is coronavirus becoming an excuse for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their police-state wish-lists and start crossing off items , taking advantage of the biggest distraction the country has seen in nearly two decades .
Bipartisan cooperation has flowered amidst the crisis , and not only in the bid to shut down the free internet that EARN IT represents .
As average Americans fretted over whether to risk infection by going out to vote in primaries , lawmakers were quietly passing an extension to some of the most intrusive NSA surveillance programs , trumpeting the initiative as a victory for privacy while hoping no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ renewal bill reportedly took months to hammer out , the decision to bring it to a vote just four days before the controversial provisions were set to expire had more than a whiff of misdirection about it .
And while the Trump administration and even the media that oppose him are excoriating China for “ abusing power , ” that same administration has joined together with a “ wide array of tech companies , ” working together on a program that would use location data from Americans ’ phones to “ combat ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Washington Post describes .
Apparently , the idea of remotely monitoring citizens via their phones to ensure they don ’ t break quarantine lost its totalitarian sheen when it crossed the Pacific Ocean .
While the anonymous sources cited by WaPo repeatedly insist the project is “ not seeking to collect and maintain a database of Americans ’ whereabouts , ” the involvement of Google – currently expanding a coronavirus testing website that debuted this past weekend into a national system that requires users to create an ID ( or use the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) – hints that it could easily become such a thing .
Be careful what you wish for Meanwhile , social media platforms have become home to the curious sight of Americans calling for more police state , confusing strict control with competent management .
Hashtags like # ShutdownNYC and # LockdownLA from city-dwellers panicking at the thought that their neighbors might be out spreading the virus are the product of a 24/7 news cycle of fear , the necessary fuel for the crisis mindset that has allowed lawmakers to get away with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out that China ’ s ( and Italy ’ s , and France ’ s ) heavy-handed emergency measures , restricting citizens to their homes and ( in the most extreme cases ) sending tanks through the streets are saving lives .
Unfortunately for Americans , police state powers adopted during a crisis are almost never relinquished – and never without a fight .
When the country makes it through this crisis , its people will have another long , hard battle to fight if they hope to claw back their lost civil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ article from RT-USA News with our gratitude for the availability and coverage .
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US lawmakers bask in Coronavirus panic while quietly building the police state of their dreams
Never let a crisis go to waste
Helen Buyniski
As the coronavirus epidemic monopolizes the attention of the American people, government is taking the opportunity to sneak through all manner of restrictive legislation, including a law that could end the internet as we know it.
Killing the internet… to save the children?
The ominously-named EARN IT Act (short for “Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act”) that quietly debuted in the Senate earlier this month is a carefully crafted weapon for crushing encryption without explicitly banning, industry professionals have warned. While this particular bill purports to be all about ending child sexual exploitation, the industry is concerned it will make their business model unsustainable – while doing nothing to protect children. So are independent media producers, who fear their speech would be declared anathema. It would in practice strip section 230 legal immunity – protection from liability for third party content – from any website that failed to comply with a set of “best practices” imposed on a supposedly voluntary basis by a 19-member “commission” run by Attorney General William Barr.
The government is attempting to exploit anger at tech companies to pass a law that intentionally undermines digital security (https://t.co/up4cseuDD1), and censors speech. That such a law is even being considered by Congress is a national disgrace. — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) March 11, 2020
Platforms that persist in encrypting messages despite Barr’s commission’s heavy-handed “recommendations” could be sued out of existence over user-generated content, which they become liable for with section 230 gone. This ingenious model keeps encryption itself legal – a crucial loophole for government agencies that rely on encrypted messaging to keep their own secrets, well, secret.
End-to-end encryption is the best way to protect privacy online. It can’t co-exist with a requirement that online services scan everything. https://t.co/9K4BTdFKRb — EFF (@EFF) March 12, 2020
EARN IT is a nosy government agency’s wet dream, but it does more than just make encryption financially impossible. The open-ended notion of “best practices” leaves room for law enforcement agencies on the commission to draft far-reaching rules regarding what content can be transmitted over the platforms they control.
EFF sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee explaining how the EARN IT Act violates the First Amendment. https://t.co/446tmQ1Vqu pic.twitter.com/uRyvvujPcy — EFF (@EFF) March 11, 2020
This isn’t mere speculation. Present at the Senate hearing was the vice president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who called for online platforms to screen all content for “abusive” messages and be held legally responsible for any offending content. Such a policy would incentivize preemptive banning of suspected “problem” users on a scale that makes YouTube’s controversial decision to de-rank “borderline” content falling within – but near the edge of – its rules look positively permissive.
Nor is there anything in the bill to stop overzealous law enforcement from expanding the definition of “abusive” and actionable speech to include political views outside the mainstream. Indeed, similar outcomes have happened in Australia and New Zealand, whose governments (also members of the US-led Five Eyes intelligence consortium) have also adopted laws severely restricting internet freedom.
The bill was introduced by Republican Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) and Democrat Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut). With 52 years in government between them, the pair have weathered enough crises to know that peak coronavirus hysteria was the ideal time to introduce their noxious bill. The civil liberties advocates who normally surface to oppose such draconian legislation were preoccupied with panic-buying toilet paper or watching the growing sea of red ink pooling in their stock portfolios. Even the Electronic Frontier Foundation, whose bread and butter is opposing laws like EARN IT, only rolled out its own warning a week after Graham had unveiled the measure in the Senate.
A crisis of opportunity
It may have been former president Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel who advised his boss to “never let a good crisis go to waste,” but the mantra has been embraced by both parties, in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic as ever. Just as the September 11 terror attacks were quickly weaponized by the George W. Bush administration to impose unprecedented restrictions on Americans’ civil liberties in the form of the Patriot Act and accompanying legislation, so is coronavirus becoming an excuse for lawmakers of all levels to dig out their police-state wish-lists and start crossing off items, taking advantage of the biggest distraction the country has seen in nearly two decades.
Bipartisan cooperation has flowered amidst the crisis, and not only in the bid to shut down the free internet that EARN IT represents. As average Americans fretted over whether to risk infection by going out to vote in primaries, lawmakers were quietly passing an extension to some of the most intrusive NSA surveillance programs, trumpeting the initiative as a victory for privacy while hoping no one would look closer. While the renewal bill reportedly took months to hammer out, the decision to bring it to a vote just four days before the controversial provisions were set to expire had more than a whiff of misdirection about it.
And while the Trump administration and even the media that oppose him are excoriating China for “abusing power,” that same administration has joined together with a “wide array of tech companies,” working together on a program that would use location data from Americans’ phones to “combat” coronavirus, as a glowing article in the Washington Post describes. Apparently, the idea of remotely monitoring citizens via their phones to ensure they don’t break quarantine lost its totalitarian sheen when it crossed the Pacific Ocean.
While the anonymous sources cited by WaPo repeatedly insist the project is “not seeking to collect and maintain a database of Americans’ whereabouts,” the involvement of Google – currently expanding a coronavirus testing website that debuted this past weekend into a national system that requires users to create an ID (or use the Google account they use for everything else) – hints that it could easily become such a thing.
Be careful what you wish for
Meanwhile, social media platforms have become home to the curious sight of Americans calling for more police state, confusing strict control with competent management. Hashtags like #ShutdownNYC and #LockdownLA from city-dwellers panicking at the thought that their neighbors might be out spreading the virus are the product of a 24/7 news cycle of fear, the necessary fuel for the crisis mindset that has allowed lawmakers to get away with so much. One can certainly point out that China’s (and Italy’s, and France’s) heavy-handed emergency measures, restricting citizens to their homes and (in the most extreme cases) sending tanks through the streets are saving lives. Unfortunately for Americans, police state powers adopted during a crisis are almost never relinquished – and never without a fight. When the country makes it through this crisis, its people will have another long, hard battle to fight if they hope to claw back their lost civil liberties.
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Helen Buyniski is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter @velocirapture23
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thelibertybeacon--2020-03-21--All the Establishment Media’s Dangerous Coronavirus Lies

Watching the media spread lies and unnecessary panic over the last few weeks reminds me of the CNN Race Riots of 2014 .
After the George Zimmerman Hoax failed , after it was discovered that a white man had not hunted down and murdered a black teen ( Zimmerman is Hispanic and a jury ruled he killed in self-defense ) , the fake news media moved on to the Hands-Up-Don ’ t-Shoot Hoax , which was led primarily by far-left CNN and the far-left Washington Post .
The lies and hate spread by the corporate media resulted in multiple nights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predominantly black city of Ferguson , Missouri .
Then , like a plague of locusts , and apparently under the impression the city doesn ’ t already have enough problems , CNN moved on to Baltimore .
The reason the media ’ s coronavirus lies remind me of the CNN Race Riots of 2014 is because This Matters .
What I mean by that is that George Zimmerman , Ferguson , and Baltimore mattered .
This was our malevolent media behaving exactly like a Bond villain : pushing a political agenda and looking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real people .
Zimmerman , an innocent man , had his life and reputation ruined .
The homes and businesses destroyed by those race riots are homes and businesses owned by everyday Americans , not the wealthy and certainly not CNN chief Jeff Zucker or anti-Trump activist Jake Tapper , whose fancy homes are miles away from the devastation they caused .
You see , as awful as the media have been over the last three years , the Russia Hoax and the Impeachment Hoax were D.C. food fights .
That doesn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ damage or that innocent people weren ’ t hurt — like President Trump and his family — but politics is politics .
You know the risks going in… Coronavirus is not a D.C. food fight .
Like the CNN Race Riots of 2014 , it affects everyday people : we have shut down our economy .
The stock market is going insane .
People are scared , worried , stressed , and have reason to be .
Even if you remove the fear of the virus , no one can escape the fear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s blatant lies are only adding to this uncertainty and fear — and are doing so by design .
And for what ?
To what end.. ?
Well , for the exact same reasons the media ginned up those race riots : a depraved indifference to human life driven by nothing more than a political agenda and the naked greed that comes with ratings and clicks .
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All the Establishment Media’s Dangerous Coronavirus Lies
America’s deeply unserious but very corrupt and unreliable establishment media have no intention of changing their dangerous ways in the age of the Wuhan coronavirus.
JOHN NOLTE – Breitbart
Watching the media spread lies and unnecessary panic over the last few weeks reminds me of the CNN Race Riots of 2014.
After the George Zimmerman Hoax failed, after it was discovered that a white man had not hunted down and murdered a black teen (Zimmerman is Hispanic and a jury ruled he killed in self-defense), the fake news media moved on to the Hands-Up-Don’t-Shoot Hoax, which was led primarily by far-left CNN and the far-left Washington Post.
The lies and hate spread by the corporate media resulted in multiple nights of rioting in the working class, predominantly black city of Ferguson, Missouri.
Then, like a plague of locusts, and apparently under the impression the city doesn’t already have enough problems, CNN moved on to Baltimore.
The reason the media’s coronavirus lies remind me of the CNN Race Riots of 2014 is because This Matters.
What I mean by that is that George Zimmerman, Ferguson, and Baltimore mattered. This was our malevolent media behaving exactly like a Bond villain: pushing a political agenda and looking to juice ratings at the expense of real people. Zimmerman, an innocent man, had his life and reputation ruined. The homes and businesses destroyed by those race riots are homes and businesses owned by everyday Americans, not the wealthy and certainly not CNN chief Jeff Zucker or anti-Trump activist Jake Tapper, whose fancy homes are miles away from the devastation they caused.
You see, as awful as the media have been over the last three years, the Russia Hoax and the Impeachment Hoax were D.C. food fights. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t collateral damage or that innocent people weren’t hurt — like President Trump and his family — but politics is politics. You know the risks going in…
Coronavirus is not a D.C. food fight. Like the CNN Race Riots of 2014, it affects everyday people: we have shut down our economy. The stock market is going insane. People are scared, worried, stressed, and have reason to be. Even if you remove the fear of the virus, no one can escape the fear of the panic, and the media’s blatant lies are only adding to this uncertainty and fear — and are doing so by design.
And for what? To what end..? Well, for the exact same reasons the media ginned up those race riots: a depraved indifference to human life driven by nothing more than a political agenda and the naked greed that comes with ratings and clicks.
Don’t believe me?
Here’s the evidence… All the media’s coronavirus lies…
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thelibertybeacon--2020-03-21--New Clinton Emails: Benghazi & Classified Info [Video]

State Dept Gives Us More Clinton Emails “ Found ” by the FBI The FBI found more Hillary Clinton emails .
This is , of course , after the State Department assured us long ago it had produced all releasable Clinton emails , including emails recovered by the FBI that Clinton tried to destroy or withhold .
We released 80 pages of emails that further document how former Secretary of State Clinton used her unsecure , non-government email system to transmit classified and other sensitive government information .
There are 11 new Clinton emails .
The emails include one sent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ terrorist attack referencing a “ Benghazi security ” issue .
The emails also include talking points , which are redacted , for a meeting with President Obama .
This is the second release from the batch of Clinton emails the FBI inexplicably found late last year The State Department previously claimed it had produced all releasable Clinton emails , including emails recovered by the FBI that Clinton tried to destroy or withhold .
The State Department initially claimed all responsive emails had been produced in 2018 , but then found more emails , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ early this year .
The emails were produced to us in a FOIA lawsuit we filed seeking all of Clinton ’ s government emails sent or received on her non-government system ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State ( No .
1:15-cv-00687 ) ) .
The new emails include an October 13 , 2012 , message from Clinton telling private attorney Robert Barnett about a conversation with Jake Sullivan , Clinton ’ s senior advisor and deputy chief of staff , about Benghazi : “ Jake and I were discussing the Benghazi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ Redacted ] would be asked about it but they didn ’ t think so .
Might be good for you to call Jake too.
” Clinton also mentions then-candidate Mitt Romney ’ s “ 47 % remark , ” referring to his dismissal of Obama voters as irresponsible .
On August 29 , 2011 , Sullivan sends a “ cheat sheet ” with “ key issues ” to Clinton , Abedin and Clinton ’ s confidential assistant Monica Hanley including “ Talking Points for POTUS ” for a briefing that day .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ The new email cache includes an email dated August 31 , 2011 , that former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman sends to former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin , William Burns and others , which is heavily redacted as classified .
Burns forwards the email to Sullivan .
Sullivan forwards it to Clinton ’ s private email , and she responds : “ I called him [ redacted . ]
Didn ’ t you get memcon ?
” On December 22 , 2009 , former Ambassador Joseph @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than Sid [ likely Sidney Blumenthal ] ” about Afghanistan , disparaging “ cost plus contractors ” and promoting his company , Symbion Power .
Wilson includes a memo from his boss , an Inspector General audit of USAID in Afghanistan ’ s power sector activities and a memo of USAID management ’ s comments regarding the audit .
Clinton forwards the email to Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Jacob Lew , Mills and Sullivan with the following instructions : Please check out what Joe is saying here .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has a good track record building in Iraq and wants to do so in Afghanistan .
Let me know .
Thx .
On August 30 , 2011 , Melanne Verveer emails Clinton an article titled “ Family planning as a pro-life cause , ” and tells Clinton “ I know you are going off to France for the Libya meeting.
” Clinton forwards the message to Sullivan .
On August 28 , 2011 , Clinton aide Lona Valmoro sends Clinton , Abedin and Sullivan a copy of Clinton ’ s sensitive daily schedule @ @ @ @ @ @ @ November 1 , 2012 , Valmoro sends Clinton , Abedin and Hanley a copy of Clinton ’ s sensitive schedule that includes a briefing with President Obama and afterward a meeting with then-Special Envoy for Middle East Peace David Hale , Burns and Sullivan .
In a September 1 , 2011 , email marked sensitive Abedin notifies Clinton that United Arab Emirates ’ money for the Transitional National Council of Libya is blocked in the U.S. financial system .
The assumption was that the money was actually frozen Libyan assets .
The UAE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The State Department did not provide information about where the emails were found ; why they were not previously produced ; or if additional records are anticipated .
In November 2019 , the State Department first disclosed to the court that the FBI had found this latest batch of emails .
In a December 2019 court hearing , a Justice Department attorney could not tell a federal court judge how and where the FBI discovered the new cache of Clinton emails .
In authorizing additional discovery , including the deposition testimony of Hillary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lawsuit , U.S. District Court Judge Lamberth specifically referenced the FBI ’ s recent discovery of Clinton emails : With each passing round of discovery , the Court is left with more questions than answers .
What ’ s more , during the December 19 , 2019 , status conference , Judicial Watch disclosed that the FBI recently produced approximately thirty previously undisclosed Clinton emails .
State failed to fully explain the new emails ’ origins when the Court directly questioned where they came from .
Even though many important questions remain unanswered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the position that the Court should close discovery and rule on dispositive motions .
The Court is especially troubled by this .
To argue that the Court now has enough information to determine whether State conducted an adequate search is preposterous , especially when considering State ’ s deficient representations regarding the existence of additional Clinton emails .
Magically , after years , the FBI finds more Clinton emails that are classified , involve Benghazi , and detail communications with President Obama .
This drip , drip game that the DOJ , FBI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ key reason a federal court authorized more discovery , including the sworn deposition of Hillary Clinton .
Last December we sued Representative Adam Schiff ( D-CA ) and the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for their controversial impeachment-related subpoenas for phone records , including those of Rudy Giuliani , President Trump ’ s lawyer .
This case raises very serious questions about personal privacy and the power of the federal government to violate it .
Schiff and the Committee , represented by the Office of General Counsel for the House of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss the lawsuit .
The phone records led to the publication of the private phone records of Giuliani , Congressman Devin Nunes , journalist John Solomon , Trump attorney Jay Sekulow , attorney Victoria Toensing , and other American citizens .
In their 14-page motion Schiff and the Committee claim “ sovereign immunity ; ” “ Speech or Debate Clause ” privilege ; immunity from FOIA and transparency law ; that the records are secret ; and that the public doesn ’ t need to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under the public ’ s common-law right of public access to examine government records after it received no response to a December 6 , 2019 , records request ( Judicial Watch v. v Adam Schiff and U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ( No .
1:19-03790 ) ) : • All subpoenas issued by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on or about September 30 , 2019 to any telecommunications provider including , but not limited to AT & T , Inc. , for all records of telephone calls of any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ above subpoenas .
Schiff is chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence .
He is being sued in his capacity as chairman of that committee .
The lawsuit argues : The records are of critical public importance as the subpoenas were issued without any lawful basis and violated the rights of numerous private citizens .
Disclosure of the requested records would serve the public interest by providing information about the unlawful issuance of the subpoenas .
The requested records fall within the scope of the public ’ s right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ matter of federal common law .
Schiff ’ s new court filing is an effort to try to avoid disclosing his abusive subpoenas of confidential phone records .
It suggests he and Congress can secretly subpoena and publish the phone records of any American with zero accountability under law or to the people .
Speaker Pelosi and every House member should be asked if they agree that they are above the law and can spy on any American .
I have watched with considerable concern as government at every level has asserted its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – closing schools and businesses and telling people to stay home .
These actions may be necessary to protect the public , but we have discovered one action that is beyond belief .
And it comes from the FBI , which marred its reputation in recent years through lies and obfuscation .
The FBI recently announced it is halting electronic processing of Freedom of Information Act requests .
This is more bad news for the FBI ’ s already tarnished image .
As you know , access to government records is critical to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Here , from our Corruption Chronicles blog , is the story : As mandatory social distancing forces Americans and federal government employees to telework , the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) is using coronavirus as an excuse to shut down its electronic public records operations .
Instead , the agency that dropped the ball on 9/11 and more than 20 terrorist attacks in the U.S. since then , is encouraging the public to send requests via standard mail .
Even for a famously inefficient government with a talent for keeping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a bit much .
Furthermore , it is a scary display of attitude and conduct by the same bloated entity that is supposed to save us all from the new pandemic .
The bizarre move comes amid a nationwide mandate to avoid the outside world and a maximum telework order for federal government employees .
Shutting its online Freedom of Information/Privacy Act ( FOIPA ) operation and accepting only standard mail makes no sense unless the law enforcement agency is simply trying to stop the flow of public records requests .
That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ least .
FOIPA is a valuable tool used by Judicial Watch to expose government corruption and it is essential that there be no disruption in the system .
Who will receive the mail with the new requests ?
When will the FOIPA requests get processed if employees are under a mandatory telework order ?
Judicial Watch reached out to the FBI , but never received a response .
Apparently , everyone is home teleworking , which means the requests could easily be accessed if the FBI didn ’ t shut down its electronic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that greets those wishing to obtain records from the FBI during the viral crisis : “ Due to the emerging COVID-19 situation , the FBI is not accepting electronic Freedom of Information/Privacy Act requests or sending out electronic responses through the eFOIPA portal at this time .
You may still submit a FOIPA request via standard mail .
We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.
” The print is in red , indicating a sense of urgency , and appears above the original eFOIPA submission portal , which was designed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ submit and receive responses electronically .
“ The eFOIPA portal ’ s normal operating hours are 24 hours a day seven days a week , ” according to the FBI website , which offers simple directions on how to proceed with public records requests .
“ The FBI would like to thank you in advance for your cooperation and looks forward to receiving and responding to your request , ” the agency writes .
“ If you have any additional questions or experience any issues while using the eFOIPA system , please e-mail @ @ @ @ @ @ @ report a matter concerning national security or another federal crime , submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov.
” Who benefits from a FOIA shutdown ?
Ohr , Strzok , Page , Comey , McCabe , Obama , Hillary Clinton , and the whole Spygate Gang .
Who loses ?
Americans who want accountable government under law .
Another Illegal Immigrant Caravan Leaves Honduras for the U.S. President Trump declared that people who cross our southern border illegally will be removed because of the Coronavirus .
Now comes word that yet another caravan is forming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ encroaching on the United States .
Here are the details from our Corruption Chronicles blog : While the world is absorbed in the Coronavirus drama , yet another caravan of illegal immigrants is heading north to the United States from Central America .
The group departed recently from the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula and is making its way to Guatemala en route to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas .
The final destination is the U.S. , according to a Mexican news report that reveals the caravan has some 500 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ along the way .
“ They left their country due to a lack of work opportunities and prevailing violence , ” according to the Spanish-language article published a few days ago .
The illegal immigrants are expected to arrive late this week in the Guatemalan city of Tecún Umán , a heavily transited border crossing into Mexico .
Earlier this month a Guatemalan newspaper reported that , despite the global Coronavirus pandemic , cross border travel between Mexico and Guatemala continues full throttle without any sort of health screenings .
It is very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be monitored for health issues as it makes its way north .
This marks the third organized Central American caravan that tries to enter Mexico .
The most recent one , with about 2,000 Central Americans , took off earlier this year and was largely intercepted by Mexican authorities in Hidalgo .
At the time Honduran authorities disclosed that four Iranian nationals had been arrested after entering the crime-infested nation illegally .
The men were heading north to the United States , according to a Honduran newspaper article that attributed the information @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Iranians were transported to the capital , Tegucigalpa , and officials reportedly launched an investigation .
The worrisome incident coincided with a U.S. alert warning Mexico of armed Iranians planning to enter the country through the southern border , further illustrating the national security dangers of unmonitored human caravans .
The bulletin , issued by the Border Patrol ’ s regional intelligence operation center in Arizona , said that a Guatemalan national may try to smuggle five Middle Easterners—including a suicide bomber—into the U.S. through Mexico .
The smuggler and four @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Guatemala and Belize before reaching Veracruz , Mexico , according to the bulletin .
The Guatemalan , whose name is redacted in the government document , was deported from California a year ago .
U.S. authorities received the threat after picking up recordings distributed via social media , according to a Spanish-language news story published by a Latin American outlet .
The scariest part is that the U.S. alert didn ’ t faze a busy Mexican border city ’ s police chief , who confirmed at the time that the region is full @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trekking north .
In a Latin American news report published shortly after the U.S. issued the bulletin , Mexicali Police Chief María Elena Andrade Ramírez matter-of-factly said the arrival of people from the Middle East , Africa and Asia as well as the rest of the Americas is “ normal ” in her California border city of about a million residents .
In a separate article published in a Mexicali paper , authorities downplayed the situation by assuring citizens that the arrival of people from the Middle East , Africa , Europe , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is “ something normal.
” Central America has long been a popular route for illegal immigrants from terrorist nations who want to reach the U.S.
There ’ s no doubt many will infiltrate all of the organized caravans that take off from Honduras .
When the first Central American caravan launched from San Pedro Sula in the fall of 2018 , then Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales confirmed that nearly 100 ISIS terrorists had been apprehended in Guatemala .
Like its Honduran neighbor , Guatemala too is a major smuggling corridor for foreigners from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the U.S .
In 2017 , Guatemala ’ s largest paper , Prensa Libra , published an in-depth piece on the inner workings of an international human smuggling network that moves migrants from Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Nepal and Bangladesh to the U.S .
It will be interesting to see if the mania for open borders survives this global health threat .
( TLB ) published this article/report from Judicial Watch as compiled by Tom Fitton .

State Dept Gives Us More Clinton Emails “Found” by the FBI
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New Clinton Emails Include Benghazi and Classified Information
The FBI found more Hillary Clinton emails. This is, of course, after the State Department assured us long ago it had produced all releasable Clinton emails, including emails recovered by the FBI that Clinton tried to destroy or withhold.
We released 80 pages of emails that further document how former Secretary of State Clinton used her unsecure, non-government email system to transmit classified and other sensitive government information.
There are 11 new Clinton emails. The emails include one sent by Clinton a month after the Benghazi terrorist attack referencing a “Benghazi security” issue. The emails also include talking points, which are redacted, for a meeting with President Obama.
This is the second release from the batch of Clinton emails the FBI inexplicably found late last year
The State Department previously claimed it had produced all releasable Clinton emails, including emails recovered by the FBI that Clinton tried to destroy or withhold. The State Department initially claimed all responsive emails had been produced in 2018, but then found more emails, which were produced for the first time early this year.
The emails were produced to us in a FOIA lawsuit we filed seeking all of Clinton’s government emails sent or received on her non-government system (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)).
The new emails include an October 13, 2012, message from Clinton telling private attorney Robert Barnett about a conversation with Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s senior advisor and deputy chief of staff, about Benghazi: “Jake and I were discussing the Benghazi security issue since he tried to tell [Redacted] would be asked about it but they didn’t think so. Might be good for you to call Jake too.” Clinton also mentions then-candidate Mitt Romney’s “47% remark,” referring to his dismissal of Obama voters as irresponsible.
On August 29, 2011, Sullivan sends a “cheat sheet” with “key issues” to Clinton, Abedin and Clinton’s confidential assistant Monica Hanley including “Talking Points for POTUS” for a briefing that day. The talking points are completely redacted.
The new email cache includes an email dated August 31, 2011, that former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman sends to former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, William Burns and others, which is heavily redacted as classified. Burns forwards the email to Sullivan. Sullivan forwards it to Clinton’s private email, and she responds: “I called him [redacted.] Didn’t you get memcon?”
On December 22, 2009, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson emails Clinton “directly … rather than Sid [likely Sidney Blumenthal]” about Afghanistan, disparaging “cost plus contractors” and promoting his company, Symbion Power. Wilson includes a memo from his boss, an Inspector General audit of USAID in Afghanistan’s power sector activities and a memo of USAID management’s comments regarding the audit. Clinton forwards the email to Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Jacob Lew, Mills and Sullivan with the following instructions:
Please check out what Joe is saying here. He is now working for a company that has a good track record building in Iraq and wants to do so in Afghanistan. Let me know. Thx.
On August 30, 2011, Melanne Verveer emails Clinton an article titled “Family planning as a pro-life cause,” and tells Clinton “I know you are going off to France for the Libya meeting.” Clinton forwards the message to Sullivan.
On August 28, 2011, Clinton aide Lona Valmoro sends Clinton, Abedin and Sullivan a copy of Clinton’s sensitive daily schedule, which is fully redacted.
On November 1, 2012, Valmoro sends Clinton, Abedin and Hanley a copy of Clinton’s sensitive schedule that includes a briefing with President Obama and afterward a meeting with then-Special Envoy for Middle East Peace David Hale, Burns and Sullivan.
In a September 1, 2011, email marked sensitive Abedin notifies Clinton that United Arab Emirates’ money for the Transitional National Council of Libya is blocked in the U.S. financial system. The assumption was that the money was actually frozen Libyan assets. The UAE claimed it was not Libyan money.
The State Department did not provide information about where the emails were found; why they were not previously produced; or if additional records are anticipated. In November 2019, the State Department first disclosed to the court that the FBI had found this latest batch of emails. In a December 2019 court hearing, a Justice Department attorney could not tell a federal court judge how and where the FBI discovered the new cache of Clinton emails. In authorizing additional discovery, including the deposition testimony of Hillary Clinton, in this separate Judicial Watch lawsuit, U.S. District Court Judge Lamberth specifically referenced the FBI’s recent discovery of Clinton emails:
With each passing round of discovery, the Court is left with more questions than answers. What’s more, during the December 19, 2019, status conference, Judicial Watch disclosed that the FBI recently produced approximately thirty previously undisclosed Clinton emails. State failed to fully explain the new emails’ origins when the Court directly questioned where they came from.
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Even though many important questions remain unanswered, the Justice Department inexplicably still takes the position that the Court should close discovery and rule on dispositive motions. The Court is especially troubled by this. To argue that the Court now has enough information to determine whether State conducted an adequate search is preposterous, especially when considering State’s deficient representations regarding the existence of additional Clinton emails.
Magically, after years, the FBI finds more Clinton emails that are classified, involve Benghazi, and detail communications with President Obama. This drip, drip game that the DOJ, FBI, and State are playing is a key reason a federal court authorized more discovery, including the sworn deposition of Hillary Clinton.
Schiff Asserts Privilege over His Impeachment Phone Record Subpoenas
Last December we sued Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for their controversial impeachment-related subpoenas for phone records, including those of Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer.
This case raises very serious questions about personal privacy and the power of the federal government to violate it.
Schiff and the Committee, represented by the Office of General Counsel for the House of Representatives, have now asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss the lawsuit.
The phone records led to the publication of the private phone records of Giuliani, Congressman Devin Nunes, journalist John Solomon, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow, attorney Victoria Toensing, and other American citizens.
In their 14-page motion Schiff and the Committee claim “sovereign immunity;” “Speech or Debate Clause” privilege; immunity from FOIA and transparency law; that the records are secret; and that the public doesn’t need to see them.
We filed our lawsuit under the public’s common-law right of public access to examine government records after it received no response to a December 6, 2019, records request (Judicial Watch v. v Adam Schiff and U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (No. 1:19-03790)):
All subpoenas issued by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on or about September 30, 2019 to any telecommunications provider including, but not limited to AT&T, Inc., for all records of telephone calls of any individuals
All responses received to the above subpoenas.
Schiff is chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is being sued in his capacity as chairman of that committee. The lawsuit argues:
The records are of critical public importance as the subpoenas were issued without any lawful basis and violated the rights of numerous private citizens.
Disclosure of the requested records would serve the public interest by providing information about the unlawful issuance of the subpoenas.
The requested records fall within the scope of the public’s right of access to governmental records as a matter of federal common law.
Schiff’s new court filing is an effort to try to avoid disclosing his abusive subpoenas of confidential phone records. It suggests he and Congress can secretly subpoena and publish the phone records of any American with zero accountability under law or to the people. Speaker Pelosi and every House member should be asked if they agree that they are above the law and can spy on any American.
FBI Shuts Online Public Records Operation over Coronavirus
I have watched with considerable concern as government at every level has asserted its authority in the wake of the coronavirus – closing schools and businesses and telling people to stay home. These actions may be necessary to protect the public, but we have discovered one action that is beyond belief. And it comes from the FBI, which marred its reputation in recent years through lies and obfuscation. The FBI recently announced it is halting electronic processing of Freedom of Information Act requests. This is more bad news for the FBI’s already tarnished image.
As you know, access to government records is critical to exposing and controlling the abuses of government. Here, from our Corruption Chronicles blog, is the story:
As mandatory social distancing forces Americans and federal government employees to telework, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using coronavirus as an excuse to shut down its electronic public records operations. Instead, the agency that dropped the ball on 9/11 and more than 20 terrorist attacks in the U.S. since then, is encouraging the public to send requests via standard mail. Even for a famously inefficient government with a talent for keeping the public in the dark, this is a bit much. Furthermore, it is a scary display of attitude and conduct by the same bloated entity that is supposed to save us all from the new pandemic.
The bizarre move comes amid a nationwide mandate to avoid the outside world and a maximum telework order for federal government employees. Shutting its online Freedom of Information/Privacy Act (FOIPA) operation and accepting only standard mail makes no sense unless the law enforcement agency is simply trying to stop the flow of public records requests. That would be unethical, to say the least. FOIPA is a valuable tool used by Judicial Watch to expose government corruption and it is essential that there be no disruption in the system. Who will receive the mail with the new requests? When will the FOIPA requests get processed if employees are under a mandatory telework order? Judicial Watch reached out to the FBI, but never received a response. Apparently, everyone is home teleworking, which means the requests could easily be accessed if the FBI didn’t shut down its electronic system.
Here is the absurd message that greets those wishing to obtain records from the FBI during the viral crisis: “Due to the emerging COVID-19 situation, the FBI is not accepting electronic Freedom of Information/Privacy Act requests or sending out electronic responses through the eFOIPA portal at this time. You may still submit a FOIPA request via standard mail. We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.” The print is in red, indicating a sense of urgency, and appears above the original eFOIPA submission portal, which was designed to facilitate the process by allowing requesters to submit and receive responses electronically. “The eFOIPA portal’s normal operating hours are 24 hours a day seven days a week,” according to the FBI website, which offers simple directions on how to proceed with public records requests. “The FBI would like to thank you in advance for your cooperation and looks forward to receiving and responding to your request,” the agency writes. “If you have any additional questions or experience any issues while using the eFOIPA system, please e-mail [email protected] for assistance. To report a matter concerning national security or another federal crime, submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov.”
Who benefits from a FOIA shutdown? Ohr, Strzok, Page, Comey, McCabe, Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the whole Spygate Gang. Who loses? Americans who want accountable government under law.
Another Illegal Immigrant Caravan Leaves Honduras for the U.S.
President Trump declared that people who cross our southern border illegally will be removed because of the Coronavirus. Now comes word that yet another caravan is forming, no doubt with the intent of encroaching on the United States. Here are the details from our Corruption Chronicles blog:
While the world is absorbed in the Coronavirus drama, yet another caravan of illegal immigrants is heading north to the United States from Central America. The group departed recently from the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula and is making its way to Guatemala en route to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The final destination is the U.S., according to a Mexican news report that reveals the caravan has some 500 Central Americans but is expected to grow along the way. “They left their country due to a lack of work opportunities and prevailing violence,” according to the Spanish-language article published a few days ago.
The illegal immigrants are expected to arrive late this week in the Guatemalan city of Tecún Umán, a heavily transited border crossing into Mexico. Earlier this month a Guatemalan newspaper reported that, despite the global Coronavirus pandemic, cross border travel between Mexico and Guatemala continues full throttle without any sort of health screenings. It is very unlikely the new group of illegal immigrants will be monitored for health issues as it makes its way north. This marks the third organized Central American caravan that tries to enter Mexico. The most recent one, with about 2,000 Central Americans, took off earlier this year and was largely intercepted by Mexican authorities in Hidalgo.
At the time Honduran authorities disclosed that four Iranian nationals had been arrested after entering the crime-infested nation illegally. The men were heading north to the United States, according to a Honduran newspaper article that attributed the information to the president, Juan Orlando Hernández. The Iranians were transported to the capital, Tegucigalpa, and officials reportedly launched an investigation. The worrisome incident coincided with a U.S. alert warning Mexico of armed Iranians planning to enter the country through the southern border, further illustrating the national security dangers of unmonitored human caravans. The bulletin, issued by the Border Patrol’s regional intelligence operation center in Arizona, said that a Guatemalan national may try to smuggle five Middle Easterners—including a suicide bomber—into the U.S. through Mexico. The smuggler and four other men and a woman transited through Guatemala and Belize before reaching Veracruz, Mexico, according to the bulletin. The Guatemalan, whose name is redacted in the government document, was deported from California a year ago. U.S. authorities received the threat after picking up recordings distributed via social media, according to a Spanish-language news story published by a Latin American outlet.
The scariest part is that the U.S. alert didn’t faze a busy Mexican border city’s police chief, who confirmed at the time that the region is full of Middle Easterners, Africans and Asians trekking north. In a Latin American news report published shortly after the U.S. issued the bulletin, Mexicali Police Chief María Elena Andrade Ramírez matter-of-factly said the arrival of people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia as well as the rest of the Americas is “normal” in her California border city of about a million residents. In a separate article published in a Mexicali paper, authorities downplayed the situation by assuring citizens that the arrival of people from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia and the rest of the Americas is “something normal.”
Central America has long been a popular route for illegal immigrants from terrorist nations who want to reach the U.S. There’s no doubt many will infiltrate all of the organized caravans that take off from Honduras. When the first Central American caravan launched from San Pedro Sula in the fall of 2018, then Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales confirmed that nearly 100 ISIS terrorists had been apprehended in Guatemala. Like its Honduran neighbor, Guatemala too is a major smuggling corridor for foreigners from African and Asian countries making their way into the U.S. In 2017, Guatemala’s largest paper, Prensa Libra, published an in-depth piece on the inner workings of an international human smuggling network that moves migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh to the U.S.
It will be interesting to see if the mania for open borders survives this global health threat.
Until next week …
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thelibertybeacon--2020-03-21--Is There a Future for the Global Financial System Beyond Coronavirus?

Is There a Future for Global Financial System beyond Coronavirus ?
COVID-19 epidemic is justifying changes in global economy Coronavirus is a geopolitical issue .
This reality is undeniable .
Being or not a biological weapon , as recently suggested by experts from China , Russia , and Iran , the pandemic works as a real war mean , justifying changes and maneuvers in the international scenario and conducting a great global economic crisis when the industrial production of China and Europe are stopped and the world ’ s main Stock Exchanges are preparing for a possible trading floor closure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thought the coronavirus as an “ Asian problem ” or a crisis restricted to the Chinese and that would affect only this country .
However , the scenario was quickly reversed .
China controlled its crisis with strong state action and the West became the biggest victim , with Europe being the scene of a major humanitarian catastrophe with hundreds of deaths per day .
With a brief analysis , we can already see how the global pandemic revealed an axiological war .
China , being a strong and illiberal state , managed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liberal democracies , in their state omission , are not being able to deal with the same crisis due to their own principles , which are the values of globalization : open society and open borders .
To contain the virus , the West is having to deny its own principles , closing its borders and intervening with the State in society .
And the longer it takes to self-deny , the faster it is destroyed .
In a world of extreme speed in the movement of people , with travel and migration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very easy to imagine how any local evil can quickly become global .
The media coverage of the global pandemic is very strong .
At all times , in all the major media outlets around the world – mainly in the western hemisphere – the crisis is remembered , producing an alarming state of collective panic that , despite the seriousness of the situation , far exceeds the real dangers of the virus .
Above COVID-19 , the world is dealing with the “ virus ” of fear , with programmed panic and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Whether or not it is a biological weapon , COVID-19 is an emotional weapon , used to cause hysteria and instability .
Compared to the 2009 swine flu pandemic , which infected almost 20 % of the world population and killed 500 thousand people , we see an incongruity in terms of media coverage and economic loss .
With the swine flu , stock exchanges practically did not fall , even in the context of financial restructuring after the 2008 Crisis .
In contrast , we currently see a much smaller pandemic , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % of mild cases , and which has paralyzed economies around the world , plummeting global growth expectations .
Closed factories , interrupted product circulation and exponentially declining stock exchanges around the world : is it really COVID-19 or fear responsible for this – or is there something bigger behind the crisis ?
We must remember that financial capitalism is in its final moments .
The current system , born in the capitalist stability of the 1980s , found its consolidation in the American victory in the Cold War , which inserted the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The speed with which events have been going on since then is overwhelming and the result could not be anything other than the end of the myth of universal progress .
In a world with scarcity of natural resources where the point of no return has already been reached in environmental matters , how can we continue with the belief that progress can be eternal ?
The financial-speculative era of capitalism brought with it the obsolescence of the industrial model , providing passive and unproductive profit to global oligarchs .
This model @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but a degradation .
If in the industrial era , natural exploitation had as its main element the search for raw materials , now the struggle for resources may take on the central role in the war between capital and nature .
This new face of liberalism is increasingly clear with the emergence of ” green capitalism ” .
Finally , what will be the future of globalization , whose pillar was the financial model ?
We can only contemplate two scenarios : its end or its upsurge .
After the coronavirus , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or a new form of liberalism , tougher and more exclusive , in which the oil-finance economic axis will be transferred to a falsely ecological model and more centered on economic ( resource ) materiality .
In a world where the old “ we are the 99 % ” slogan of the Occupy Wall Street can be upgraded to “ we are the 0.1 % ” , certainly , the global financial oligarchy is no longer interested in saving a mass of billions of workers , who are now thrown into famine and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ green .
Perhaps this is why they want to spread the effects of the coronavirus so much .
The Liberty Beacon Project is now expanding at a near exponential rate , and for this we are grateful and excited !
But we must also be practical .
For 7 years we have not asked for any donations , and have built this project with our own funds as we grew .
We are now experiencing ever increasing growing pains due to the large number of websites and projects we represent .
So we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ websites and ask that you consider this when you visit them .
Nothing is too small .
We thank you for all your support and your considerations … ( TLB ) Disclaimer : TLB websites contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner .
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Is There a Future for Global Financial System beyond Coronavirus?
COVID-19 epidemic is justifying changes in global economy
By: Lucas Leiroz
Coronavirus is a geopolitical issue. This reality is undeniable. Being or not a biological weapon, as recently suggested by experts from China, Russia, and Iran, the pandemic works as a real war mean, justifying changes and maneuvers in the international scenario and conducting a great global economic crisis when the industrial production of China and Europe are stopped and the world’s main Stock Exchanges are preparing for a possible trading floor closure.
At first, the western world thought the coronavirus as an “Asian problem” or a crisis restricted to the Chinese and that would affect only this country. However, the scenario was quickly reversed. China controlled its crisis with strong state action and the West became the biggest victim, with Europe being the scene of a major humanitarian catastrophe with hundreds of deaths per day.
With a brief analysis, we can already see how the global pandemic revealed an axiological war. China, being a strong and illiberal state, managed to contain the national epidemic, while liberal democracies, in their state omission, are not being able to deal with the same crisis due to their own principles, which are the values of globalization: open society and open borders. To contain the virus, the West is having to deny its own principles, closing its borders and intervening with the State in society. And the longer it takes to self-deny, the faster it is destroyed. In a world of extreme speed in the movement of people, with travel and migration on an uncontrollable scale, it is very easy to imagine how any local evil can quickly become global.
The media coverage of the global pandemic is very strong. At all times, in all the major media outlets around the world – mainly in the western hemisphere – the crisis is remembered, producing an alarming state of collective panic that, despite the seriousness of the situation, far exceeds the real dangers of the virus. Above COVID-19, the world is dealing with the “virus” of fear, with programmed panic and despair intentionally instilled in the masses.
Whether or not it is a biological weapon, COVID-19 is an emotional weapon, used to cause hysteria and instability. Compared to the 2009 swine flu pandemic, which infected almost 20% of the world population and killed 500 thousand people, we see an incongruity in terms of media coverage and economic loss. With the swine flu, stock exchanges practically did not fall, even in the context of financial restructuring after the 2008 Crisis. In contrast, we currently see a much smaller pandemic, with a statistic of more than 80% of mild cases, and which has paralyzed economies around the world, plummeting global growth expectations. Closed factories, interrupted product circulation and exponentially declining stock exchanges around the world: is it really COVID-19 or fear responsible for this – or is there something bigger behind the crisis?
We must remember that financial capitalism is in its final moments. The current system, born in the capitalist stability of the 1980s, found its consolidation in the American victory in the Cold War, which inserted the socialist bloc into the global financial system. The speed with which events have been going on since then is overwhelming and the result could not be anything other than the end of the myth of universal progress. In a world with scarcity of natural resources where the point of no return has already been reached in environmental matters, how can we continue with the belief that progress can be eternal?
The financial-speculative era of capitalism brought with it the obsolescence of the industrial model, providing passive and unproductive profit to global oligarchs. This model did not represent an environmental improvement, but a degradation. If in the industrial era, natural exploitation had as its main element the search for raw materials, now the struggle for resources may take on the central role in the war between capital and nature. This new face of liberalism is increasingly clear with the emergence of”green capitalism”.
Finally, what will be the future of globalization, whose pillar was the financial model? We can only contemplate two scenarios: its end or its upsurge. After the coronavirus, we will see either a multipolar world or a new form of liberalism, tougher and more exclusive, in which the oil-finance economic axis will be transferred to a falsely ecological model and more centered on economic (resource) materiality. In a world where the old “we are the 99%” slogan of the Occupy Wall Street can be upgraded to “we are the 0.1%”, certainly, the global financial oligarchy is no longer interested in saving a mass of billions of workers, who are now thrown into famine and epidemics while capitalists paint their electronic money green. Perhaps this is why they want to spread the effects of the coronavirus so much.
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About the articles writer: Lucas Leiroz is a Research Fellow in International Law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is also an independent journalist and a political activist. His interests include International Law, International Relations, Geopolitics, Space Law and Public Security.
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