thelibertybeacon--2020-12-20--2020: The Year of … BIG FRAUD

2020: The Year of … BIG FRAUD

2020 : The Year of the Big Fraud This was a year in which a number of frauds were exposed : Election fraud , media fraud , and public health fraud , among them .
Their exposure has stirred outrage and as the year ends , no relief seems in sight .
Many Americans — according to some surveys , a majority — believe that the presidential election was marred by massive fraud in five states without which the President would surely have been re-elected .
The short version of this disbelief in the integrity of the election results is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unrealistic belief that the frail , corrupt Joe Biden won : “ Evidence used to conduct this assessment includes more than 50 lawsuits and judicial rulings , thousands of affidavits and declarations , testimony in a variety of state venues , published analyses by think tanks and legal centers , videos and photos , public comments , and extensive press coverage , ” the report claims .
Additionally , the report cites affidavits alleging the exploitation of the elderly and the infirm by “ effectively hijacking their identities and votes ” and accuses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ relax voter ID requirements to the point that ballot harvesting and fraud could slip by unnoticed .
The report outlined incidents in the key states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania , where ballots allegedly were illegally harvested and dumped into drop boxes .
The election was marred with examples of dead people voting , according to the report .
“ In Pennsylvania , for example , a statistical analysis conducted by the Trump Campaign matching voter rolls to public obituaries found what appears to be over 8,000 confirmed dead voters successfully casting mail-in ballots @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In Georgia — underscoring the critical role any given category of election irregularities might play in determining the outcome — the estimated number of alleged deceased individuals casting votes almost exactly equals the Biden victory margin.
” The report concludes : “ The ballots in question because of the identified election irregularities are more than sufficient to swing the outcome in favor of President Trump should even a relatively small portion of these ballots be ruled illegal.
” None of this evidence has been rejected by any court ; all have refused to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hurdles .
Americans should know how perilous their democracy has become .
The majority of Donald Trump ’ s voters already believe the presidential election was rigged , and there is no doubt that suspect voting changes , attributed to the requirements of voting in a pandemic , have created large anomalies in five states that made a great many such votes impossible to authenticate .
Untold numbers of ballots arrived at a time and in a manner that incites the inference that they were substantially fraudulent .
The numbers of votes involved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pennsylvania , and Wisconsin are undoubtedly adequately numerous to have influenced the election .
The courts have failed to address the questions raised by this disturbing pattern of votes confined to only five states .
[ snip ] The refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the appeal from the state of Texas , joined by 18 other states , is an outright abdication .
Of course , Texas and its co-petitioners have perfectly adequate standing to demand that all states , in choosing a president , conduct their elections credibly enough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Constitution has been followed in filling the nation ’ s highest offices .
For the Supreme Court to take the position , as it did , that it could not hear the election challenge case because Texas and the others did not have the standing to challenge how another state conducts its presidential election is completely spurious in the circumstances .
Where the courts don ’ t exercise their jurisdiction , a vacuum arises which is likely to be filled by lawlessness , and potentially , even violent lawlessness .
The United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Americans—people of good will from both parties — believe presidential elections are not conducted honestly .
As Daniel Greenfield details , not only did the Supreme Court abdicate any judicial responsibility for hearing the contested election cases , so have lower courts .
When should you file a lawsuit over an election ?
If you are a Democrat , the answer is at any time .
But if you are a Republican the answer is never .
[ snip ] You can sue over how an election was handled in 2018 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but you can ’ t sue over an election in 2020 .
Not if you are a Republican.There ’ s no standing to sue over an election before it happens because then it ’ s speculative ; theories of potential future injury , nor can you sue while an election is underway .
Because , come on , it ’ s already underway.We ’ re not on the eve of an election ; we ’ re in the middle of it , noted Charlene S. McGowan , counsel for Georgia ’ s Office @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s too late to sue afterward .
But speaking of who gets to sue , here ’ s who gets to sue when it comes to the Democrats .
The federal lawsuit was initiated by freelance journalist Greg Palast along with Helen Butler , executive director of Georgia Coalition for the People ’ s Agenda.F reelance journalists can sue over 2018 elections , but Republicans , no matter how clearly they can show injury , can ’ t sue over the 2020 election .
This leaves the only remaining avenue to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Congress when it must vote on the selection of electors , a procedure clearly permitted by the Constitution .
Will they have the courage to do the right thing ?
If they don ’ t , we will see fraudulent elections forever with no judicial redress .
In almost none of the counties whose votes are disputed was the Dominion system examined .
In Maricopa County Arizona the vote officials are refusing to honor a subpoena to provide the machines for examination .
In the only county where they have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ analyst who audited the system reports that the machines flipped Trump votes to Biden .
It has been particularly galling to me that Facebook clipped hundreds of ” go vote ” messages on my page , while parking its fat finger on reliable articles on vote fraud , censoring them or warning readers away , citing fact checks written by youngsters who themselves dissembled and misrepresented .
This partisan fraud has been ongoing for at least two decades but is no longer escaping the attention of great deal of its erstwhile consumer base @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media disinformation and bias .
This year it was particularly evident in the media ’ s discrediting the accurate reports of Hunter Biden ’ s corruption ( and that of his father and uncle , who also benefited from it ) .
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 52 % of Likely U.S .
Voters think many news organizations ignored the Hunter Biden story to help his father ’ s presidential campaign .
Thirty-two percent ( 32 % ) disagree and say they ignored it because they felt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Seventeen percent ( 17 % ) are not sure .
( To see survey question wording , click here . )
Fifty-six percent ( 56 % ) believe it is likely Joe Biden was consulted about and perhaps profited from his son ’ s overseas business deals including at least one involving a company in mainland China .
This includes 43 % who say it ’ s Very Likely .
This is little changed from late October .
Thirty-eight percent ( 38 % ) still consider this connection unlikely , with 22 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ All Likely .
Now that Hunter Biden has acknowledged publicly that he is under criminal investigation for tax evasion , many major news organizations like the New York Times and CNN are covering his questionable overseas business dealings , first reported several weeks before Election Day by the New York Post .
Seventy percent ( 70 % ) of voters say they have been closely following news reports about Hunter Biden ’ s business dealings , with 38 % who have been following Very Closely .
Among those who have been following Very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deliberately ignored the story before Election Day to help Joe Biden , and 72 % think the president-elect is likely to have been consulted about and perhaps profited from his son ’ s overseas dealings .
Add to this the media ’ s refusal to accurately describe the months-long BLM/Antifa riots , looting , arson , and killing , calling it instead “ mostly peaceful protests , ” it ’ s no wonder people are tuning them out .
The heavy hand of the left wing played its part .
Internet giants like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ newspaper in the country , the NY Post , which broke the story of the Biden family corruption with China , Russia , and the Ukraine as well as the account of the White House press secretary , and you can understand why “ fewer than 15 percent of Americans trust the media.
” Treat your pen like a Democratic party weapon and be rewarded with pink slips to the unemployment line .
“ An estimated 28,637 job cuts were reported in the industry by late October , Variety , citing data from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , nearly as many as the record 28,803 reported in the media sector in 2008 .
By comparison , the sector saw just over 10,000 job losses in 2019 and 15,474 in 2018.
” The Hill attributes it to the China Virus .
I think the mendacity and patent bias also has a great deal to do with the shrinking media employment .
It was impossible to overlook the failures of the CDC ( Center for Disease Control ) to garner our respect .
The Center ’ s constant shifting of advice based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Between the CDC and Dr. Fauci , we had a year of Simon Says .
Worse was their obvious hypocrisy of condoning the “ mostly peaceful protests ” by thousands of people closely massed , often maskless , shouting and singing ( and spraying droplets all about ) while the rest of us who work and pay their salaries and unemployment benefits were in home confinement , deprived of normal entertainment , socialization , education , rent payments , work opportunities , and spiritual gatherings .
This week was the capper .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Vice-President , vaccines were developed to deal with the virus and are on their way .
One assumed that the first to be offered a chance to get it would be those most vulnerable to the virus — the elderly .
But , no — per the New York Times , the CDC wants the first shots to go to the frailest of the elderly and health care workers , but from there the allocation is being debated .
Is the vaccine to prevent deaths or to reduce transmission ?
Is it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the latter ?
The CDC chose to de-emphasize the elderly as a group because “ older populations are whiter… .
Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had them , we can start to level the playing field a bit.
” The authors of the article , Abby Goodnough and Jan Hoffman , acknowledge there is some disagreement with using the vaccine to “ level the playing field ” : Pesky of Mr. Ludlam to insist on medical reasons for providing priorities for limited supplies of medical aid .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some shocking admissions .
Marc Lipshits argues teachers should not be considered essential workers who would get priority for the vaccine .
“ Teachers have middle-class salaries , are very often white , and they have college degrees , ” he said .
“ Of course , they should be treated better , but they are not among the most mistreated of workers.
” Elise Gould says they should be , but only because they serve minorities : “ When you talk about disproportionate impact and you ’ re concerned about people getting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are mothers , and they will have a harder time if their children don ’ t have a reliable place to go , ” she said .
“ And if you think generally about people who have jobs where they can ’ t telework , they are disproportionately Black and Brown .
They ’ ll have more of a challenge when child care is an issue.
” Last I saw , children are not very high spreaders of the virus .
I should think that , not the racial makeup of the teaching @ @ @ @ @ @ @ determinant of whether teachers are essential workers .
But then again , it ’ s my understanding that the people most vulnerable to death from the virus are elderly black people , whom people like Gould would not give priority to .
Even lefty Matthew Iglesias thinks this is idiotic .
This week we also learned that in 1986 Uranus blasted a gas bubble 22 times as large as earth .
I think it might have landed here this year .

2020: The Year of the Big Fraud
By: Clarice Feldman
This was a year in which a number of frauds were exposed: Election fraud, media fraud, and public health fraud, among them. Their exposure has stirred outrage and as the year ends, no relief seems in sight.
Election Fraud With No Apparent Judicial Relief
Many Americans — according to some surveys, a majority — believe that the presidential election was marred by massive fraud in five states without which the President would surely have been re-elected.
The short version of this disbelief in the integrity of the election results is this by Kenekoa the Great on the unrealistic belief that the frail, corrupt Joe Biden won:
@KanekoaTheGreat When you win a record low 17% of counties, lose Black & Hispanic support, lose 18/19 Bellwether Counties, lose Ohio, Florida, & Iowa — and lose 27/27 House “Toss-Ups” — but you shatter the popular vote record
Peter Navarro has a longer version:
“Evidence used to conduct this assessment includes more than 50 lawsuits and judicial rulings, thousands of affidavits and declarations, testimony in a variety of state venues, published analyses by think tanks and legal centers, videos and photos, public comments, and extensive press coverage,” the report claims. Additionally, the report cites affidavits alleging the exploitation of the elderly and the infirm by “effectively hijacking their identities and votes” and accuses Democrats of using the coronavirus pandemic to relax voter ID requirements to the point that ballot harvesting and fraud could slip by unnoticed. The report outlined incidents in the key states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where ballots allegedly were illegally harvested and dumped into drop boxes. The election was marred with examples of dead people voting, according to the report. “In Pennsylvania, for example, a statistical analysis conducted by the Trump Campaign matching voter rolls to public obituaries found what appears to be over 8,000 confirmed dead voters successfully casting mail-in ballots,” the report claims. “In Georgia — underscoring the critical role any given category of election irregularities might play in determining the outcome — the estimated number of alleged deceased individuals casting votes almost exactly equals the Biden victory margin.” The report concludes: “The ballots in question because of the identified election irregularities are more than sufficient to swing the outcome in favor of President Trump should even a relatively small portion of these ballots be ruled illegal.”
None of this evidence has been rejected by any court; all have refused to consider it citing a variety of jurisdictional hurdles.
Americans should know how perilous their democracy has become. The majority of Donald Trump’s voters already believe the presidential election was rigged, and there is no doubt that suspect voting changes, attributed to the requirements of voting in a pandemic, have created large anomalies in five states that made a great many such votes impossible to authenticate. Untold numbers of ballots arrived at a time and in a manner that incites the inference that they were substantially fraudulent. The numbers of votes involved in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are undoubtedly adequately numerous to have influenced the election. The courts have failed to address the questions raised by this disturbing pattern of votes confined to only five states. [snip] The refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the appeal from the state of Texas, joined by 18 other states, is an outright abdication. Of course, Texas and its co-petitioners have perfectly adequate standing to demand that all states, in choosing a president, conduct their elections credibly enough to assure the whole country that the Constitution has been followed in filling the nation’s highest offices. For the Supreme Court to take the position, as it did, that it could not hear the election challenge case because Texas and the others did not have the standing to challenge how another state conducts its presidential election is completely spurious in the circumstances. Where the courts don’t exercise their jurisdiction, a vacuum arises which is likely to be filled by lawlessness, and potentially, even violent lawlessness. The United States has become a country where a majority of Americans—people of good will from both parties — believe presidential elections are not conducted honestly.
As Daniel Greenfield details, not only did the Supreme Court abdicate any judicial responsibility for hearing the contested election cases, so have lower courts.
When should you file a lawsuit over an election? If you are a Democrat, the answer is at any time. But if you are a Republican the answer is never. [snip] You can sue over how an election was handled in 2018, and get a decision in 2020, but you can’t sue over an election in 2020. Not if you are a Republican.There’s no standing to sue over an election before it happens because then it’s speculative; theories of potential future injury, nor can you sue while an election is underway. Because, come on, it’s already underway.We’re not on the eve of an election; we’re in the middle of it, noted Charlene S. McGowan, counsel for Georgia’s Office of the Attorney General. And then it’s too late to sue afterward. But speaking of who gets to sue, here’s who gets to sue when it comes to the Democrats. The federal lawsuit was initiated by freelance journalist Greg Palast along with Helen Butler, executive director of Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda.F reelance journalists can sue over 2018 elections, but Republicans, no matter how clearly they can show injury, can’t sue over the 2020 election.
This leaves the only remaining avenue to affect the genuine choice of the people to the Congress when it must vote on the selection of electors, a procedure clearly permitted by the Constitution. Will they have the courage to do the right thing? If they don’t, we will see fraudulent elections forever with no judicial redress. In almost none of the counties whose votes are disputed was the Dominion system examined. In Maricopa County Arizona the vote officials are refusing to honor a subpoena to provide the machines for examination. In the only county where they have been examined (Antrim, Michigan) the analyst who audited the system reports that the machines flipped Trump votes to Biden.
It has been particularly galling to me that Facebook clipped hundreds of ”go vote” messages on my page, while parking its fat finger on reliable articles on vote fraud, censoring them or warning readers away, citing fact checks written by youngsters who themselves dissembled and misrepresented.
Media Fraud
This partisan fraud has been ongoing for at least two decades but is no longer escaping the attention of great deal of its erstwhile consumer base. For years we have been examining media disinformation and bias. This year it was particularly evident in the media’s discrediting the accurate reports of Hunter Biden’s corruption (and that of his father and uncle, who also benefited from it).
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters think many news organizations ignored the Hunter Biden story to help his father’s presidential campaign. Thirty-two percent (32%) disagree and say they ignored it because they felt it was a partisan hit job. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Fifty-six percent (56%) believe it is likely Joe Biden was consulted about and perhaps profited from his son’s overseas business deals including at least one involving a company in mainland China. This includes 43% who say it’s Very Likely. This is little changed from late October. Thirty-eight percent (38%) still consider this connection unlikely, with 22% who say it’s Not At All Likely. Now that Hunter Biden has acknowledged publicly that he is under criminal investigation for tax evasion, many major news organizations like the New York Times and CNN are covering his questionable overseas business dealings, first reported several weeks before Election Day by the New York Post. Seventy percent (70%) of voters say they have been closely following news reports about Hunter Biden’s business dealings, with 38% who have been following Very Closely. Among those who have been following Very Closely, 76% say the media deliberately ignored the story before Election Day to help Joe Biden, and 72% think the president-elect is likely to have been consulted about and perhaps profited from his son’s overseas dealings.
Add to this the media’s refusal to accurately describe the months-long BLM/Antifa riots, looting, arson, and killing, calling it instead “mostly peaceful protests,” it’s no wonder people are tuning them out. The heavy hand of the left wing played its part. Internet giants like Twitter suspended the account of the oldest newspaper in the country, the NY Post, which broke the story of the Biden family corruption with China, Russia, and the Ukraine as well as the account of the White House press secretary, and you can understand why “fewer than 15 percent of Americans trust the media.”
Treat your pen like a Democratic party weapon and be rewarded with pink slips to the unemployment line. “An estimated 28,637 job cuts were reported in the industry by late October, Variety, citing data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, reported, nearly as many as the record 28,803 reported in the media sector in 2008. By comparison, the sector saw just over 10,000 job losses in 2019 and 15,474 in 2018.” The Hill attributes it to the China Virus. I think the mendacity and patent bias also has a great deal to do with the shrinking media employment.
2020: The Public Health Fraud
It was impossible to overlook the failures of the CDC (Center for Disease Control) to garner our respect. The Center’s constant shifting of advice based on little empirical evidence was maddening enough. Between the CDC and Dr. Fauci, we had a year of Simon Says. Worse was their obvious hypocrisy of condoning the “mostly peaceful protests” by thousands of people closely massed, often maskless, shouting and singing (and spraying droplets all about) while the rest of us who work and pay their salaries and unemployment benefits were in home confinement, deprived of normal entertainment, socialization, education, rent payments, work opportunities, and spiritual gatherings.
This week was the capper. Due to incredible management by the President and Vice-President, vaccines were developed to deal with the virus and are on their way. One assumed that the first to be offered a chance to get it would be those most vulnerable to the virus — the elderly. But, no — per the New York Times, the CDC wants the first shots to go to the frailest of the elderly and health care workers, but from there the allocation is being debated. Is the vaccine to prevent deaths or to reduce transmission? Is it to redress imagined privilege if we emphasize the latter? The CDC chose to de-emphasize the elderly as a group because “older populations are whiter…. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”
The authors of the article, Abby Goodnough and Jan Hoffman, acknowledge there is some disagreement with using the vaccine to “level the playing field”:
Still, some people believe it is wrong to give racial and socioeconomic equity more weight than who is most likely to die. “They need to have bombproof, fact-based, public-health-based reasons for why one group goes ahead of another,” said Chuck Ludlam, a former Senate aide and biotech industry lobbyist who protested putting essential workers ahead of older people in comments to the committee. “They have provided no explanation here that will withstand public scrutiny.”
Pesky of Mr. Ludlam to insist on medical reasons for providing priorities for limited supplies of medical aid.
The debate by those in the field provides some shocking admissions. Marc Lipshits argues teachers should not be considered essential workers who would get priority for the vaccine. “Teachers have middle-class salaries, are very often white, and they have college degrees,” he said. “Of course, they should be treated better, but they are not among the most mistreated of workers.”
Elise Gould says they should be, but only because they serve minorities: “When you talk about disproportionate impact and you’re concerned about people getting back into the labor force, many are mothers, and they will have a harder time if their children don’t have a reliable place to go,” she said. “And if you think generally about people who have jobs where they can’t telework, they are disproportionately Black and Brown. They’ll have more of a challenge when child care is an issue.”
Last I saw, children are not very high spreaders of the virus. I should think that, not the racial makeup of the teaching force or the students, should be determinant of whether teachers are essential workers. But then again, it’s my understanding that the people most vulnerable to death from the virus are elderly black people, whom people like Gould would not give priority to. Even lefty Matthew Iglesias thinks this is idiotic.
Last but by no means least, note the weird race craft here. We know the people who’ve been dying the most from Covid are black senior citizens. The decision here is to not prioritize them, but to instead vaccinate a different, less vulnerable group of people and then assert that this creates some kind of abstract collective racial benefit. There have been a lot of takes lately about woke liberals prioritizing symbolic racial issues over the concrete needs of non-white people, but this idea really takes the cake.
This week we also learned that in 1986 Uranus blasted a gas bubble 22 times as large as earth. I think it might have landed here this year.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-20--The Democratic Party machine, Mainstream Media and Big Tech Partisans [Video]

Based on the completely fictional narrative that the Russians installed Donald Trump in the White House in 2016 , the Democratic Party machine , mainstream media and their Big Tech partners in Silicon Valley – colluded to devise a new network of censorship teams whose primary function has been to police the internet and suppress any information which might be damaging to the Democratic establishment or its transnational corporate backers .
In 2020 , their strategy seems to have worked , as they managed to bury damning reports about the Biden family corruption which may have deterred millions of voters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the DNC-oriented mainstream media .
They call themselves the “ Fact-Checkers ” and they claim they are neutral and apolitical , only they are not .
However , the real danger is that this aggressive political censorship machine may have already damaged American democracy beyond repair .
An outspoken Twitter activist critical of Donald Trump who brags about being on “ team ” Hillary Clinton is a supposedly independent expert who approves and recommends organisations to become Facebook fact-checkers .
Facebook fact-checkers have extraordinary powers to censor news stories they disagree with , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entirely .
The process of becoming a fact-checker is described as “ non-partisan ” by Facebook but a Sky News Australia investigation has uncovered disturbing evidence of political bias and lack of accountability at the top levels of the certification process .
International Fact-Checking Network certifier and American University School of Communication professor Margot Susca is unashamedly politically biased but she was responsible for issuing 19 recommendations for organisations to become fact-checkers .
This includes the Associated Press , Check Your Fact , Decrypteurs , Lead Stories , Media Wise and The Dispatch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Ms Susca posted a happy snap with failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton where she admitted “ I ’ ve been on Team Hillary since 08 tbh ” and said she was disappointed her likability did not resonate with the public in 2016 .
“ My boyfriend was her nuclear policy fellow for a year when she was in the Senate , ” she wrote .
“ Says she ’ s the smartest , wittiest , most likeable person .
It just never came through I guess .
So f—ing sad.
” Ms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ A projected Joe Biden Win won ’ t erase the racism shown by Donald Trump and embraced by nearly half of the country ’ s electorate.
” ( … . )
“ It is hard for me to be an objective observer of this presidential administration when for years now they have continuously tried to delegitimise and marginalise news reporters for doing their constitutionally protected job , ” Ms Susca said .
However , despite her public political activism Ms Susca holds a key role within the International Fact-Checking Network process which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ licenses to the International Fact Checking Network Board which formally grants the licence .
Ms Susca was also the person who assessed and recommended the grant of a licence to become a fact checker to Australia ’ s left-wing opinion website The Conversation in May , 2018 .
( … . )
“ I ’ ve worked in journalism or media for decades so your accusation that I don ’ t take it seriously is egregious and you should be ashamed of yourself.
” Ms Susca said her tweets were not a display @ @ @ @ @ @ @ news organizations to do fact-based journalism to help average citizens govern themselves in a democracy ” .
“ I think you ’ re starting off from a place of bad faith and you are , quite frankly , missing the point of the tweets specifically and my work generally , ” she said .
Fact-checkers certified by the International Fact-Checking Network are not automatically allowed to police Facebook content but Facebook only subcontracts organisations recommended a certification by supposedly independent experts such as Ms Susca .
Sky News is not alleging Ms Susca @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , only that she may not meet the standards in the IFCN ’ s own Code of Principles which require fact-checkers themselves to be objective and not publicly support a political candidate .
The IFCN Code of Principles states a fact-checker must not be “ affiliated with nor declares or shows support for any party , any politician or political candidate , nor does it advocate for or against any policy positions on any issues save for transparency and accuracy in public debate.
” Facebook partnered with the International Fact-Checking Network after the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Zuckerberg complaining that the 2016 US election was influenced by misinformation on Facebook .
Update from source : This above article was amended to reflect the fact that grant of a licence is made by the IFCN Board following assessment and recommendations from external assessors such as Ms Susca .
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REVEALED: Facebook’s ‘Independent’ Fact-Checkers Are Political Partisans
Based on the completely fictional narrative that the Russians installed Donald Trump in the White House in 2016, the Democratic Party machine, mainstream media and their Big Tech partners in Silicon Valley – colluded to devise a new network of censorship teams whose primary function has been to police the internet and suppress any information which might be damaging to the Democratic establishment or its transnational corporate backers.
In 2020, their strategy seems to have worked, as they managed to bury damning reports about the Biden family corruption which may have deterred millions of voters had the story been reported factually by the DNC-oriented mainstream media.
They call themselves the “Fact-Checkers” and they claim they are neutral and apolitical, only they are not.
However, the real danger is that this aggressive political censorship machine may have already damaged American democracy beyond repair.
Sky News Australia reports….
An outspoken Twitter activist critical of Donald Trump who brags about being on “team” Hillary Clinton is a supposedly independent expert who approves and recommends organisations to become Facebook fact-checkers.
Facebook fact-checkers have extraordinary powers to censor news stories they disagree with, demonetize news organisations and ban news outlets entirely.
The process of becoming a fact-checker is described as “non-partisan” by Facebook but a Sky News Australia investigation has uncovered disturbing evidence of political bias and lack of accountability at the top levels of the certification process.
International Fact-Checking Network certifier and American University School of Communication professor Margot Susca is unashamedly politically biased but she was responsible for issuing 19 recommendations for organisations to become fact-checkers.
This includes the Associated Press, Check Your Fact, Decrypteurs, Lead Stories, Media Wise and The Dispatch.
(….) In 2019, Ms Susca posted a happy snap with failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton where she admitted “I’ve been on Team Hillary since 08 tbh” and said she was disappointed her likability did not resonate with the public in 2016.
“My boyfriend was her nuclear policy fellow for a year when she was in the Senate,” she wrote. “Says she’s the smartest, wittiest, most likeable person. It just never came through I guess. So f—ing sad.” Ms Susca also retweeted content that said: “A projected Joe Biden Win won’t erase the racism shown by Donald Trump and embraced by nearly half of the country’s electorate.” (….) “It is hard for me to be an objective observer of this presidential administration when for years now they have continuously tried to delegitimise and marginalise news reporters for doing their constitutionally protected job,” Ms Susca said.
However, despite her public political activism Ms Susca holds a key role within the International Fact-Checking Network process which allows her to approve and recommend fact-checking licenses to the International Fact Checking Network Board which formally grants the licence.
Ms Susca was also the person who assessed and recommended the grant of a licence to become a fact checker to Australia’s left-wing opinion website The Conversation in May, 2018.
(….) “I’ve worked in journalism or media for decades so your accusation that I don’t take it seriously is egregious and you should be ashamed of yourself.” Ms Susca said her tweets were not a display of bias but a “call for news organizations to do fact-based journalism to help average citizens govern themselves in a democracy”. “I think you’re starting off from a place of bad faith and you are, quite frankly, missing the point of the tweets specifically and my work generally,” she said.
Fact-checkers certified by the International Fact-Checking Network are not automatically allowed to police Facebook content but Facebook only subcontracts organisations recommended a certification by supposedly independent experts such as Ms Susca.
Sky News is not alleging Ms Susca acted improperly when assessing and recommending organisations, only that she may not meet the standards in the IFCN’s own Code of Principles which require fact-checkers themselves to be objective and not publicly support a political candidate.
The IFCN Code of Principles states a fact-checker must not be “affiliated with nor declares or shows support for any party, any politician or political candidate, nor does it advocate for or against any policy positions on any issues save for transparency and accuracy in public debate.”
Facebook partnered with the International Fact-Checking Network after the group wrote an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg complaining that the 2016 US election was influenced by misinformation on Facebook.
Watch this detailed report on Facebook’s allegedly ‘non-partisan” International Fact-Checking Network group:
Update from source: This above article was amended to reflect the fact that grant of a licence is made by the IFCN Board following assessment and recommendations from external assessors such as Ms Susca.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-20--LEARN 2 UNLEARN: Return to Health (E47) – Welcome Back (Health Update, Plus)

LEARN 2 UNLEARN : Return to Health ( E47 ) – Welcome Back ( Health Update , Plus ) Yes , it ’ s been a while since my show abruptly ‘ stopped ’ ( temporarily ) because of surgery that was needed for my cancer , and yes , WITHOUT chemotherapy/radiation , as my show states and is all about , simply because of my physical state at the time of surgery… They took out my bladder and my prostate , along with “ a lot of cancer ” , to quote the doctor , but were able to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , on the 18th of November ( 2020 ) … The result , as we see in the video , ( caution : may be graphic to some viewers ) are the two bags that will be attached to my stomach , the ‘ stomas ’ ( end of both the urinary tract and the intestine that they had to cauterize in order to get all of the cancer out .
That bag gets taken off in another operation , in which they will put the intestine back in place on Feb. 2nd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to explain to everyone the trauma and shock that my body has endured since the operation , going from 210 lbs to a now 155.5 this morning , complete with muscle loss in the process that physical therapy will be able to strengthen and ‘ bring back ’ after a while .
And so I did a short version of LEARN 2 UNLEARN , speaking about the elite and their obvious desire to sicken us and to depopulate , after an introduction of my health in the beginning , going deep down in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of things that most people will not… Hidden truths and murder to cover up the agenda , and that is just ONE example of many .
This was a presentation that I did for Ken Kaufman of The New Living Expo , a huge exposition of various booths and subjects… and his interest peaked from me speaking of truths that few if no one speaks of today , perhaps for fear of their lives or reputation… This is what we do .
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LEARN 2 UNLEARN: Return to Health (E47) – Welcome Back (Health Update, Plus)
Your Host: Luca Majno
Welcome back to LEARN 2 UNLEARN!
Yes, it’s been a while since my show abruptly ‘stopped’ (temporarily) because of surgery that was needed for my cancer, and yes, WITHOUT chemotherapy/radiation, as my show states and is all about, simply because of my physical state at the time of surgery…
They took out my bladder and my prostate, along with “a lot of cancer”, to quote the doctor, but were able to get it all when they went in, on the 18th of November (2020) …
The result, as we see in the video, (caution: may be graphic to some viewers) are the two bags that will be attached to my stomach, the ‘stomas’ (end of both the urinary tract and the intestine that they had to cauterize in order to get all of the cancer out. That bag gets taken off in another operation, in which they will put the intestine back in place on Feb. 2nd of next year.
All of this to explain to everyone the trauma and shock that my body has endured since the operation, going from 210 lbs to a now 155.5 this morning, complete with muscle loss in the process that physical therapy will be able to strengthen and ‘bring back’ after a while.
And so I did a short version of LEARN 2 UNLEARN, speaking about the elite and their obvious desire to sicken us and to depopulate, after an introduction of my health in the beginning, going deep down in The Oklahoma City Bombing, and speaking of things that most people will not… Hidden truths and murder to cover up the agenda, and that is just ONE example of many.
This was a presentation that I did for Ken Kaufman of The New Living Expo, a huge exposition of various booths and subjects… and his interest peaked from me speaking of truths that few if no one speaks of today, perhaps for fear of their lives or reputation…
This is what we do. So please join me in an half-hour of healing (motivational, because I love what I do) and ‘politics’, which Frank Zappa says is nothing more than the entertainment arm of the ‘military industrial complex’…
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-20--Dem memo: ‘rise of white Christian nationalism is a national security threat’

The Secular Democrats of America PAC prepared a report for Joe Biden and his transition team that outlines a roadmap to “ boldly restore a vision of constitutional secularism and respect in the land for religious and intellectual pluralism.
” The federal political action committee “ represents secular Democratic individuals and organizations ” and advocates for “ secular governance , promote respect and inclusion of nonreligious Americans , and mobilize nonreligious voters.
” The proposal was formally presented by Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin and Jared Huffman , co-chairs of the Congressional Freethought Caucus , and endorsed by Democratic Rep. Jerry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the new administration a roadmap to restore our basic constitutional values and protect science , reason and public health in American government , ” Raskin and Huffman said in a joint statement .
The proposal calls for Biden ’ s team to work with Congress and governors to “ advance a secular agenda at all levels of government , taking into account the current makeup of the federal courts and new , unfavorable precedents that your administration will have to contend with.
” In the document , the group argues that Trump has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no other administration has before , making significant advances in enacting their Christian nationalist agenda.
” The proposal outlines recommendations for reversing certain policies and “ proactively ” implementing new rules that would “ restore secularism to federal governance and disentangle entrenched religious interests from federal policy.
” Some of the recommendations in the document are related to Homeland Security policy .
“ The rise of white Christian nationalism is a national security threat , ” read the document .
“ We recommend you : encourage the Department of Homeland Security and Department @ @ @ @ @ @ @ programs aimed at hate groups , including , but not limited to , white nationalists ; increase monitoring of such groups , including the online environment , and take action to address increased hate crimes toward minority faith communities ; and shift rhetoric to label violent white nationalist extremists as terrorists.
” In the area of education policy , the document suggested that the U.S. Attorney General “ confer with the Department Office of Legal Counsel to issue a memorandum regarding enforcement of the Establishment Clause in public schools , including students ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , evidence-based , secular curriculum rather than creationism in the schools.
” The organization advocates for Biden to change adoption-related policies as well .
“ Reverse the Trump administration policies that have allowed faith-based government-funded contractors to provide adoption and foster care services to discriminate on the basis of religion and work with Congress to pass the Every Child Deserves a Family Act , ” the report urged .
In the report , the group also argues that “ taxpayer dollars should not be funneled either to contractors or grantees that discriminate on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ programs that promote a sectarian agenda , such as private religious schools , crisis pregnancy centers , and abstinence-only sex education.
” According to the document , the government “ should not do business with organizations or contractors that will use government funds to advance a sectarian agenda , or discriminate against its employees or program beneficiaries on the basis of religion.
” The proposal advises Biden that “ if performing the duties of a government contract comes into conflict with the requesting grantee or contractor ’ s sincerely held religious beliefs , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ( TLB ) published this article with permission of John Solomon at Just the News Some emphasis and pictorial content added by ( TLB ) Click Here to read about the staff at Just the News The Liberty Beacon Project is now expanding at a near exponential rate , and for this we are grateful and excited !
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Democratic memo: ‘rise of white Christian nationalism is a national security threat’
A Political Action Committee and a group of Democratic lawmakers want Joe Biden to pursue a ‘secular agenda’ that pushes back religious liberty gains made under Trump.
By Nicholas Ballasy
The Secular Democrats of America PAC prepared a report for Joe Biden and his transition team that outlines a roadmap to “boldly restore a vision of constitutional secularism and respect in the land for religious and intellectual pluralism.”
The federal political action committee “represents secular Democratic individuals and organizations” and advocates for “secular governance, promote respect and inclusion of nonreligious Americans, and mobilize nonreligious voters.”
The proposal was formally presented by Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin and Jared Huffman, co-chairs of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, and endorsed by Democratic Rep. Jerry McNerney.
“We’ve offered the new administration a roadmap to restore our basic constitutional values and protect science, reason and public health in American government,” Raskin and Huffman said in a joint statement.
The proposal calls for Biden’s team to work with Congress and governors to “advance a secular agenda at all levels of government, taking into account the current makeup of the federal courts and new, unfavorable precedents that your administration will have to contend with.”
In the document, the group argues that Trump has “empowered the religious right in ways no other administration has before, making significant advances in enacting their Christian nationalist agenda.” The proposal outlines recommendations for reversing certain policies and “proactively” implementing new rules that would “restore secularism to federal governance and disentangle entrenched religious interests from federal policy.”
Some of the recommendations in the document are related to Homeland Security policy.
“The rise of white Christian nationalism is a national security threat,” read the document. “We recommend you: encourage the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice to dedicate resources to de-radicalization programs aimed at hate groups, including, but not limited to, white nationalists; increase monitoring of such groups, including the online environment, and take action to address increased hate crimes toward minority faith communities; and shift rhetoric to label violent white nationalist extremists as terrorists.”
In the area of education policy, the document suggested that the U.S. Attorney General “confer with the Department Office of Legal Counsel to issue a memorandum regarding enforcement of the Establishment Clause in public schools, including students’ protection from school-sponsored proselytizing and teaching accurate, evidence-based, secular curriculum rather than creationism in the schools.”
The organization advocates for Biden to change adoption-related policies as well.
“Reverse the Trump administration policies that have allowed faith-based government-funded contractors to provide adoption and foster care services to discriminate on the basis of religion and work with Congress to pass the Every Child Deserves a Family Act,” the report urged.
In the report, the group also argues that “taxpayer dollars should not be funneled either to contractors or grantees that discriminate on the basis of religion, or to programs that promote a sectarian agenda, such as private religious schools, crisis pregnancy centers, and abstinence-only sex education.”
According to the document, the government “should not do business with organizations or contractors that will use government funds to advance a sectarian agenda, or discriminate against its employees or program beneficiaries on the basis of religion.”
The proposal advises Biden that “if performing the duties of a government contract comes into conflict with the requesting grantee or contractor’s sincerely held religious beliefs, it can and should seek funding elsewhere.”
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-20--ADAM SMITH’S INVISIBLE HAND IS AT OUR THROATS

ADAM SMITH ’ S INVISIBLE HAND IS AT OUR THROATS As everyone knows , Adam Smith invented the theory that individual self-interest is , and ought to be , the main motivating force of human economic activity , and that this , in effect , serves the wider social interest .
He put forward a detailed description of this concept in an immense book , “ The Wealth of Nations ” ( 1776 ) .
Adam Smith ( 1723-1790 ) had been Professor of Logic at the University of Glasgow , but in 1764 he withdrew from his position at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the young Duke of Buccleuch .
In those days a Grand Tour of Europe was considered to be an important part of the education of a young nobleman , and Smith accompanied Buccleuch to the Continent .
To while away the occasional dull intervals of the tour , Adam Smith began to write an enormous book on economics which he finally completed twelve years later .
He began his “ Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ” by praising division of labor .
As an example of its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , where ten men , each a specialist in his own set of operations , could produce 48,000 pins in a day .
In the most complex civilizations , Smith stated , division of labor has the greatest utility .
The second factor in prosperity , Adam Smith maintained , is a competitive market , free from monopolies and entirely free from governmental interference .
In such a system , he tells us , the natural forces of competition are able to organize even the most complex economic operations , and are able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this idea in the following words : “ As every individual , therefore , endeavors as much as he can , both to employ his capital in support of domestic industry , and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of greatest value , each individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the Society as great as he can .
“ He generally , indeed , neither intends to promote the public interest , nor knows how much he is promoting it .
By preferring the support of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of greatest value , he intends only his own gain ; and he is in this , as in many other cases , led by an invisible hand to promote an end that was no part of his intention .
Nor is it always the worse for Society that it was no part of it .
By pursuing his own interest , he frequently promotes that of Society more effectively than when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In other words , Smith maintained that self-interest ( even greed ) is a sufficient guide to human economic actions .
The passage of time has shown that he was right in many respects .
The free market , which he advocated , has turned out to be the optimum prescription for economic growth .
However , history has also shown that there is something horribly wrong or incomplete about the idea that individual self-interest alone , uninfluenced by ethical and ecological considerations , and totally free from governmental intervention , can be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and just society .
There has also proved to be something terribly wrong with the concept of unlimited economic growth .
Here is what actually happened : In pre-industrial Europe , peasant farmers held a low but nevertheless secure position , protected by a web of traditional rights and duties .
Their low dirt-floored and thatched cottages were humble but safe refuges .
If a peasant owned a cow , it could be pastured on common land .
With the invention of the steam engine and the introduction of spinning and weaving machines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the pattern changed , at first in England , and afterwards in other European countries .
Land-owners in Scotland and Northern England realized that sheep were more profitable to have on the land than “ crofters ” ( i.e.
, small tenant farmers ) , and families that had farmed land for generations were violently driven from their homes with almost no warning .
The cottages were afterwards burned to prevent the return of their owners .
The following account of the Highland Clearances has been left by Donald McLeod , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ The consternation and confusion were extreme .
Little or no time was given for the removal of persons or property ; the people striving to remove the sick or helpless before the fire should reach them ; next struggling to save the most valuable of their effects .
The cries of the women and children ; the roaring of the affrighted cattle , hunted at the same time by the yelling dogs of the shepherds amid the smoke and fire , altogether presented a scene that completely baffles description – it required @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conflagration lasted for six days , until the whole of the dwellings were reduced to ashes and smoking ruins.
” Between 1750 and 1860 , the English Parliament passed a large number of “ Enclosure Acts ” , abolishing the rights of small farmers to pasture their animals on common land that was not under cultivation .
The fabric of traditional rights and duties that once had protected the lives of small tenant farmers was torn to pieces .
Driven from the land , poor families flocked to the towns and cities , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that seemed to be springing up everywhere .
According to the new rules by which industrial society began to be governed , traditions were forgotten and replaced by purely economic laws .
Labor was viewed as a commodity , like coal or grain , and wages were paid according to the laws of supply and demand , without regard for the needs of the workers .
Wages fell to starvation levels , hours of work increased , and working conditions deteriorated .
John Fielden ’ s book , “ The Curse of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and it describes the condition of young children working in the cotton mills .
“ The small nimble fingers of children being by far the most in request , the custom instantly sprang up of procuring ‘ apprentices ’ from the different parish workhouses of London , Birmingham and elsewhere… Overseers were appointed to see to the works , whose interest it was to work the children to the utmost , because their pay was in proportion to the quantity of pay that they could exact.
” “ Cruelty was , of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is abundant evidence on record to show that in many of the manufacturing districts , the most heart-rending cruelties were practiced on the unoffending and friendless creatures… that they were flogged , fettered and tortured in the most exquisite refinements of cruelty , that they were in many cases starved to the bone while flogged to their work , and that they were even in some instances driven to commit suicide… The profits of manufacture were enormous , but this only whetted the appetite that it should have satisfied.
” Dr. Peter Gaskell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ condition of the English mill workers as follows : “ The vast deterioration in personal form which has been brought about in the manufacturing population during the last thirty years… is singularly impressive , and fills the mind with contemplations of a very painful character… Their complexion is sallow and pallid , with a peculiar flatness of feature caused by the want of a proper quantity of adipose substance to cushion out the cheeks .
Their stature is low – the average height of men being five feet , six inches… Great numbers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or awkwardly… Many of the men have but little beard , and that in patches of a few hairs… ( They have ) a spiritless and dejected air , a sprawling and wide action of the legs… “ Rising at or before daybreak , between four and five o ’ clock the year round , they swallow a hasty meal or hurry to the mill without taking any food whatever… At twelve o ’ clock the engine stops , and an hour is given for dinner… Again they are closely immured from one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , with the exception of twenty minutes , this being allowed for tea .
During the whole of this long period , they are actively and unremittingly engaged in a crowded room at an elevated temperature.
” Dr. Gaskell described the housing of the workers as follows : “ One of the circumstances in which they are especially defective is that of drainage and water-closets .
Whole ranges of these houses are either totally undrained , or very partially… The whole of the washings and filth from these consequently are thrown into the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ often being unpaved and cut into deep ruts , allows them to collect into stinking and stagnant pools ; while fifty , or even more than that number , having only a single convenience common to them all , it is in a very short time choked with excrementous matter .
No alternative is left to the inhabitants but adding this to the already defiled street .
“ It frequently happens that one tenement is held by several families… The demoralizing effects of this utter absence of domestic privacy must be seen before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ laying bare all the wants and actions of the sexes , it strips them of outward regard for decency – modesty is annihilated – the father and the mother , the brother and the sister , the male and female lodger , do not scruple to commit acts in front of each other which even the savage keeps hid from his fellows.
” The landowners of Scotland were unquestionably following self-interest as they burned the cottages of their crofters ; and self-interest motivated overseers as they whipped half-starved child workers in England ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ invisible hand ” no doubt guided their actions in such a way as to maximize production .
But whether a happy and just society was created in this way is questionable .
Certainly it was a society with large areas of unhappiness and injustice .
Self-interest alone was not enough .
A society following purely economic laws – a society where selfishness is exalted as the mainspring for action – lacks both the ethical and ecological dimensions needed for social justice , widespread happiness , and sustainability Today our greed-based , war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even greater threats than it did during the early phases of the Industrial Revolution .
Today it threatens to destroy human civilization and much of the biosphere .
According to a recently-published study by Oxfam , just 1 percent of the world ’ s population controls nearly half of the planet ’ s wealth .
The study says that this tiny slice of humanity controls 110 trillion US dollars , or 65 times the total wealth of the poorest 3.5 billion people .
The world ’ s 85 richest people own as much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
70 percent of the world ’ s people live in a country where income inequality has increased in the past three decades .
This shocking disparity in wealth has lead to the decay of democracy in many countries , because the very rich have used their money to control governments , and also to control the mass media and hence to control public opinion .
The actions of many governments today tend not to reflect what is good for the people ( or more crucially , what is good for the future @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what is good for special interest groups , for example , the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial complex .
An excellent description of the military-industrial complex was given by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower .
When he retired , he made a memorable farewell address , containing the following words : “ …We have been compelled to create an armaments industry of vast proportions .
Added to this , three and a half million men are directly engaged in the defense establishment….In the councils of government , we must guard against the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or unsought , by the military-industrial complex .
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist .
“ In another speech , Eisenhower said : “ Every gun that is made , every warship launched , every rocket fired , signifies in a final sense , a theft from those who hunger and are not fed , those who are cold and are not clothed .
The world in arms is not spending money alone .
It is spending the sweat of its laborers , the genius of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its children.
” Today the world spends roughly 1,800,000,000,000 US dollars on armaments , almost 2 trillion .
This vast river of money , almost too great to be imagined , flows into the pockets of arms manufacturers , and is used by them to control governments , which in turn vote for bloated military budgets and aggressive foreign policies which provoke the endless crises and conflicts that are necessary to justify the diversion of such vast sums of money from urgently-needed social goals into the bottomless pit of war .
The reelection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the huge sums made available for their campaigns by the military-industrial complex .
This pernicious circular flow of money , driving endless crises , has sometimes been called “ The Devil ’ s Dynamo ” .
Thus the world is continually driven to the brink of thermonuclear war by highly dangerous interventions such as the recent ones in North Africa , the Middle East , Ukraine , South and Central America , and the Korean Peninsula .
It is doubtful that any of the political or military figures involved with this arrogant risking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have any imaginative idea of what a thermonuclear war would be like .
In fact it would be an ecological catastrophe of huge proportions , making large areas of the world permanently uninhabitable through long-lived radioactive contamination .
The damage to global agriculture would be so great as to produce famine leading to a billion or more deaths from starvation .
All the nations of the earth would suffer , neutrals as well as belligerents .
Besides supporting the appalling war machine , our bought-and-paid-for politicians also fail to take the actions that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effects of climate change .
The owners of the fossil fuel industries have even mounted advertising campaigns to convince the public that the threat of anthropogenic climate change is not real .
Sadly , the threat of catastrophic climate change is all too real , as 99 percent the worlds climate scientists have warned .
The world has recently passed a dangerous landmark in atmospheric CO2 concentration , 400 ppm .
The last time that the earth experienced such high concentrations of this greenhouse gas were several million years ago .
At that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and sea levels were 40 meters higher than they are today .
Global warming is a slow and long-term effect , so such high sea levels will be slow in arriving , but ultimately we must expect that coastal cities and much of the world ’ s low-lying land will be under water .
We must also expect many tropical regions of the world to become uninhabitable because of high temperatures .
Finally there is a threat of famine because agriculture will be hit by high temperatures and aridity .
There are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cause the earth ’ s temperatures to rise much faster than has been predicted by the International Panel on Climate Change .
By far the most dangerous of these comes from the melting of methane hydrate crystals that are currently trapped in frozen tundra and on the floor of seabeds .
At high pressures , methane combines with water to form crystals called hydrates or clathrates .
These crystals are stable at the temperatures currently existing on ocean floors , but whenever the water temperature rises sufficiently , the crystals become unstable and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This effect has already been observed in the Arctic seas north of Russia .
The total amount of methane clathrates on ocean floors is not precisely known , but it is estimated to be very large indeed , corresponding to between 3,000 and 11,000 gigatons of carbon .
The release of even a small fraction of this amount of methane into our atmosphere would greatly accelerate rising temperatures , leading to the release of still more methane , in a highly dangerous feedback loop .
We must at all costs avoid global temperatures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trigger in earnest .
Human motivations were not always so selfish For the reasons mentioned above , we can see that an economic system where selfishness and greed are exalted as the mainspring for human actions lacks both a social conscience and an ecological conscience .
Both these dimensions are needed for the long-term survival of human civilization and the biosphere .
We must remember , however , that the worship of the free market and the exaltation of selfishness are relatively recent developments in human history .
During most of their million-year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , not in great cities or nations , and sharing was part of their lifestyle .
Perhaps that lifestyle is the one to which we should return if we wish the human future to stretch out for another million years .

ADAM SMITH’S INVISIBLE HAND IS AT OUR THROATS
By TLB Contributing Author: John Scales Avery
The invisible hand
As everyone knows, Adam Smith invented the theory that individual self-interest is, and ought to be, the main motivating force of human economic activity, and that this, in effect, serves the wider social interest. He put forward a detailed description of this concept in an immense book, “The Wealth of Nations” (1776).
Adam Smith (1723-1790) had been Professor of Logic at the University of Glasgow, but in 1764 he withdrew from his position at the university to become the tutor of the young Duke of Buccleuch. In those days a Grand Tour of Europe was considered to be an important part of the education of a young nobleman, and Smith accompanied Buccleuch to the Continent. To while away the occasional dull intervals of the tour, Adam Smith began to write an enormous book on economics which he finally completed twelve years later. He began his “Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” by praising division of labor. As an example of its benefits, he cited a pin factory, where ten men, each a specialist in his own set of operations, could produce 48,000 pins in a day. In the most complex civilizations, Smith stated, division of labor has the greatest utility.
The second factor in prosperity, Adam Smith maintained, is a competitive market, free from monopolies and entirely free from governmental interference. In such a system, he tells us, the natural forces of competition are able to organize even the most complex economic operations, and are able also to maximize productivity. He expressed this idea in the following words:
“As every individual, therefore, endeavors as much as he can, both to employ his capital in support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of greatest value, each individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the Society as great as he can.
“He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end that was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for Society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of Society more effectively than when he really intends to promote it.”
In other words, Smith maintained that self-interest (even greed) is a sufficient guide to human economic actions. The passage of time has shown that he was right in many respects. The free market, which he advocated, has turned out to be the optimum prescription for economic growth. However, history has also shown that there is something horribly wrong or incomplete about the idea that individual self-interest alone, uninfluenced by ethical and ecological considerations, and totally free from governmental intervention, can be the main motivating force of a happy and just society. There has also proved to be something terribly wrong with the concept of unlimited economic growth. Here is what actually happened:
In pre-industrial Europe, peasant farmers held a low but nevertheless secure position, protected by a web of traditional rights and duties. Their low dirt-floored and thatched cottages were humble but safe refuges. If a peasant owned a cow, it could be pastured on common land.
With the invention of the steam engine and the introduction of spinning and weaving machines towards the end of the 18th Century, the pattern changed, at first in England, and afterwards in other European countries. Land-owners in Scotland and Northern England realized that sheep were more profitable to have on the land than “crofters” (i.e., small tenant farmers), and families that had farmed land for generations were violently driven from their homes with almost no warning. The cottages were afterwards burned to prevent the return of their owners.
The following account of the Highland Clearances has been left by Donald McLeod, a crofter in the district of Sutherland: “The consternation and confusion were extreme. Little or no time was given for the removal of persons or property; the people striving to remove the sick or helpless before the fire should reach them; next struggling to save the most valuable of their effects. The cries of the women and children; the roaring of the affrighted cattle, hunted at the same time by the yelling dogs of the shepherds amid the smoke and fire, altogether presented a scene that completely baffles description – it required to be seen to be believed… The conflagration lasted for six days, until the whole of the dwellings were reduced to ashes and smoking ruins.”
Between 1750 and 1860, the English Parliament passed a large number of “Enclosure Acts”, abolishing the rights of small farmers to pasture their animals on common land that was not under cultivation. The fabric of traditional rights and duties that once had protected the lives of small tenant farmers was torn to pieces. Driven from the land, poor families flocked to the towns and cities, hoping for employment in the textile mills that seemed to be springing up everywhere.
According to the new rules by which industrial society began to be governed, traditions were forgotten and replaced by purely economic laws. Labor was viewed as a commodity, like coal or grain, and wages were paid according to the laws of supply and demand, without regard for the needs of the workers. Wages fell to starvation levels, hours of work increased, and working conditions deteriorated.
John Fielden’s book, “The Curse of the Factory System” was written in 1836, and it describes the condition of young children working in the cotton mills. “The small nimble fingers of children being by far the most in request, the custom instantly sprang up of procuring ‘apprentices’ from the different parish workhouses of London, Birmingham and elsewhere… Overseers were appointed to see to the works, whose interest it was to work the children to the utmost, because their pay was in proportion to the quantity of pay that they could exact.”
“Cruelty was, of course, the consequence; and there is abundant evidence on record to show that in many of the manufacturing districts, the most heart-rending cruelties were practiced on the unoffending and friendless creatures… that they were flogged, fettered and tortured in the most exquisite refinements of cruelty, that they were in many cases starved to the bone while flogged to their work, and that they were even in some instances driven to commit suicide… The profits of manufacture were enormous, but this only whetted the appetite that it should have satisfied.”
Dr. Peter Gaskell, writing in 1833, described the condition of the English mill workers as follows: “The vast deterioration in personal form which has been brought about in the manufacturing population during the last thirty years… is singularly impressive, and fills the mind with contemplations of a very painful character… Their complexion is sallow and pallid, with a peculiar flatness of feature caused by the want of a proper quantity of adipose substance to cushion out the cheeks. Their stature is low – the average height of men being five feet, six inches… Great numbers of the girls and women walk lamely or awkwardly… Many of the men have but little beard, and that in patches of a few hairs… (They have) a spiritless and dejected air, a sprawling and wide action of the legs…
“Rising at or before daybreak, between four and five o’clock the year round, they swallow a hasty meal or hurry to the mill without taking any food whatever… At twelve o’clock the engine stops, and an hour is given for dinner… Again they are closely immured from one o’clock till eight or nine, with the exception of twenty minutes, this being allowed for tea. During the whole of this long period, they are actively and unremittingly engaged in a crowded room at an elevated temperature.”
Dr. Gaskell described the housing of the workers as follows: “One of the circumstances in which they are especially defective is that of drainage and water-closets. Whole ranges of these houses are either totally undrained, or very partially… The whole of the washings and filth from these consequently are thrown into the front or back street, which, often being unpaved and cut into deep ruts, allows them to collect into stinking and stagnant pools; while fifty, or even more than that number, having only a single convenience common to them all, it is in a very short time choked with excrementous matter. No alternative is left to the inhabitants but adding this to the already defiled street.
“It frequently happens that one tenement is held by several families… The demoralizing effects of this utter absence of domestic privacy must be seen before they can be thoroughly appreciated. By laying bare all the wants and actions of the sexes, it strips them of outward regard for decency – modesty is annihilated – the father and the mother, the brother and the sister, the male and female lodger, do not scruple to commit acts in front of each other which even the savage keeps hid from his fellows.”
The landowners of Scotland were unquestionably following self-interest as they burned the cottages of their crofters; and self-interest motivated overseers as they whipped half-starved child workers in England’s mills. Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” no doubt guided their actions in such a way as to maximize production. But whether a happy and just society was created in this way is questionable. Certainly it was a society with large areas of unhappiness and injustice. Self-interest alone was not enough. A society following purely economic laws – a society where selfishness is exalted as the mainspring for action – lacks both the ethical and ecological dimensions needed for social justice, widespread happiness, and sustainability
Our greed-based economic system today
Today our greed-based, war addicted, and growth-obsessed economic system poses even greater threats than it did during the early phases of the Industrial Revolution. Today it threatens to destroy human civilization and much of the biosphere.
According to a recently-published study by Oxfam, just 1 percent of the world’s population controls nearly half of the planet’s wealth. The study says that this tiny slice of humanity controls 110 trillion US dollars, or 65 times the total wealth of the poorest 3.5 billion people. The world’s 85 richest people own as much as the poorest 50 percent of humanity. 70 percent of the world’s people live in a country where income inequality has increased in the past three decades.
This shocking disparity in wealth has lead to the decay of democracy in many countries, because the very rich have used their money to control governments, and also to control the mass media and hence to control public opinion. The actions of many governments today tend not to reflect what is good for the people (or more crucially, what is good for the future of our planet), but rather what is good for special interest groups, for example, the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial complex.
An excellent description of the military-industrial complex was given by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower. When he retired, he made a memorable farewell address, containing the following words: “…We have been compelled to create an armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men are directly engaged in the defense establishment….In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. “
In another speech, Eisenhower said: “Every gun that is made,every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children.”
Today the world spends roughly 1,800,000,000,000 US dollars on armaments, almost 2 trillion. This vast river of money, almost too great to be imagined, flows into the pockets of arms manufacturers, and is used by them to control governments, which in turn vote for bloated military budgets and aggressive foreign policies which provoke the endless crises and conflicts that are necessary to justify the diversion of such vast sums of money from urgently-needed social goals into the bottomless pit of war.
The reelection of the slave-like politicians is ensured by the huge sums made available for their campaigns by the military-industrial complex. This pernicious circular flow of money, driving endless crises, has sometimes been called “The Devil’s Dynamo”. Thus the world is continually driven to the brink of thermonuclear war by highly dangerous interventions such as the recent ones in North Africa, the Middle East, Ukraine, South and Central America, and the Korean Peninsula.
It is doubtful that any of the political or military figures involved with this arrogant risking of human lives and the human future have any imaginative idea of what a thermonuclear war would be like. In fact it would be an ecological catastrophe of huge proportions, making large areas of the world permanently uninhabitable through long-lived radioactive contamination. The damage to global agriculture would be so great as to produce famine leading to a billion or more deaths from starvation. All the nations of the earth would suffer, neutrals as well as belligerents.
Besides supporting the appalling war machine, our bought-and-paid-for politicians also fail to take the actions that would be needed to prevent the worst effects of climate change. The owners of the fossil fuel industries have even mounted advertising campaigns to convince the public that the threat of anthropogenic climate change is not real. Sadly, the threat of catastrophic climate change is all too real, as 99 percent the worlds climate scientists have warned.
The world has recently passed a dangerous landmark in atmospheric CO2 concentration, 400 ppm. The last time that the earth experienced such high concentrations of this greenhouse gas were several million years ago. At that time the Arctic was free from ice, and sea levels were 40 meters higher than they are today.
Global warming is a slow and long-term effect, so such high sea levels will be slow in arriving, but ultimately we must expect that coastal cities and much of the world’s low-lying land will be under water. We must also expect many tropical regions of the world to become uninhabitable because of high temperatures. Finally there is a threat of famine because agriculture will be hit by high temperatures and aridity.
There are several very dangerous feedback loops that may cause the earth’s temperatures to rise much faster than has been predicted by the International Panel on Climate Change. By far the most dangerous of these comes from the melting of methane hydrate crystals that are currently trapped in frozen tundra and on the floor of seabeds.
At high pressures, methane combines with water to form crystals called hydrates or clathrates. These crystals are stable at the temperatures currently existing on ocean floors, but whenever the water temperature rises sufficiently, the crystals become unstable and methane gas bubbles to the surface. This effect has already been observed in the Arctic seas north of Russia.
The total amount of methane clathrates on ocean floors is not precisely known, but it is estimated to be very large indeed, corresponding to between 3,000 and 11,000 gigatons of carbon. The release of even a small fraction of this amount of methane into our atmosphere would greatly accelerate rising temperatures, leading to the release of still more methane, in a highly dangerous feedback loop. We must at all costs avoid global temperatures which will cause this feedback loop to trigger in earnest.
Human motivations were not always so selfish
For the reasons mentioned above, we can see that an economic system where selfishness and greed are exalted as the mainspring for human actions lacks both a social conscience and an ecological conscience. Both these dimensions are needed for the long-term survival of human civilization and the biosphere.
We must remember, however, that the worship of the free market and the exaltation of selfishness are relatively recent developments in human history. During most of their million-year history, humans lived in small groups, not in great cities or nations, and sharing was part of their lifestyle. Perhaps that lifestyle is the one to which we should return if we wish the human future to stretch out for another million years.
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From The Author: A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the social and ecological damage produced by neoliberalism and corporate rule. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link: http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Adam-Smiths-Invisible-Hand-is-at-Our-Throats-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf Other books and articles about global problems are on these links http://eacpe.org/about-john-scales-avery/ https://wsimag.com/authors/716-john-scales-avery https://www.transcend.org/tms/2020/11/free-online-books-on-serious-global-problems/ I hope that you will circulate the links in this article to friends and contacts who might be interested.
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About the Author: John Scales Avery is a theoretical chemist at the University of Copenhagen. He is noted for his books and research publications in quantum chemistry, thermodynamics, evolution, and history of science. His 2003 book Information Theory and Evolution set forth the view that the phenomenon of life, including its origin, evolution, as well as human cultural evolution, has its background situated in the fields of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory. Since 1990 he has been the Chairman of the Danish National Group of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Between 2004 and 2015 he also served as Chairman of the Danish Peace Academy. He founded the Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes, and was for many years its Managing Editor. He also served as Technical Advisor to the World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe (1988-1997). Continue reading HERE.
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